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Friday night, the US Supreme Court booted the Texas case against the swing state election janksters, the citation of “standing” likely a cover story for another reason that isn’t strictly legal doctrine but rather a sentiment, namely, that a presidential election dispute belongs more properly in the elected House of Representatives than in the unelected SCOTUS — at least for now, with more cases probably coming at them. The justices didn’t explain their decision.

This wasn’t so with Bush v. Gore in 2000, by the way, but we are a different country now, one mired in institutional paralysis and failure, thanks to the bureaucratic “resistance.” Anyway, the Supremes wouldn’t hear the evidence of ballot fraud, nor has any state court yet, so ignore the plaintive cries from the seditionist news media that claims of gross election irregularities are “baseless.”

Today, Dec 14, the fifty state electoral college slates meet to cast their votes. This used to be significant back when a discernible consensus about reality existed across this land. But now that E pluribus unum has been replaced by anything goes and nothing matters, the more consequential action will be shifting offstage and backstage.

For instance, President Trump’s 2018 Executive Order 13848 requires the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), John Ratcliffe, to report forty-five days after the election on foreign election interference. That’s this Friday. What might Mr. Ratcliffe know? Well, supposedly everything. Except both the CIA and the FBI must be considered undependable now, with RussiaGate prankster Gina Haspel in charge of the CIA, and Christopher Wray slow-walking every requested declassified FBI document for years. So, Mr. Ratcliffe must be receiving more dependable intelligence from others, most likely Defense Intelligence.

Many readers may have heard about a supposed raid on the CIA cyber-warfare station in Frankfurt, Germany, and the seizure there of the Dominion computer servers by US Army special ops personnel. Forty-five days was probably enough time for Defense Intelligence to run forensic analysis on those servers, if, in fact, they existed and the raid actually happened. Standing by on that. We just don’t know. But if so, then Mr. Ratcliffe must have some results by now.

What nobody has asked is: in the first place, what on earth would the Dominion servers be doing in Frankfurt, outside the USA, in possession of the CIA? Is the CIA monitoring the vote tabulation… or assisting in it? This raises another question no one has addressed: Servers serve computer networks, which operate via the Internet. If Dominion vote tabulation machines all over America are not allowed to be hooked up to the Internet, how can they be a network? And why would they need a server? If I’m missing something there, please discuss in the comments section.

Which raises another question: Is there not sufficient evidence to see that the use of computers has completely screwed up our election process? Is this not a classic Joseph Tainter style quandary of overinvestments in complexity producing diminishing returns — which, when enough of them pile up, gets you to the collapse of civilizations? Are we going to allow further screw-ups by letting the State of Georgia conduct their January 5 senate run-off election on the same Dominion machines that they used on November 3?  Apparently, that’s exactly what Georgia intends to do.

All right, let’s return to next Friday’s report by DNI Ratcliffe. There’s a lot of talk of strange intersections between the Dominion company and foreign countries, starting with Dominion’s ownership being based in Canada (on the same floor of a Toronto office building as a George Soros-linked non-profit, the Make Way Foundation). Attorney Sidney Powell has current court cases alleging nefarious connections between Dominion, Venezuela, and China. (Note: nearly all of Venezuela’s oil exports go to China, and Iran has helped Venezuela develop capacity of its difficult-to-produce Orinoco oil sands.) Does Mr. Ratcliffe have the same information that Miz Powell has, and perhaps a whole lot more? Might China have any interest in favoring the election of Joe Biden over Donald Trump?

Well, plenty of evidence has already been made public that Joe Biden is a bought-and-paid-for asset of China — for example, a 2017 $5 milion unsecured, interest-free, forgivable loan from China’s intel service managed CEFC energy company advanced to son Hunter Biden’s Hudson West III front company, and emails stating how the split worked between Biden family members and a few outside partners. I would suppose that Mr. Ratcliffe knows a whole lot more detail about this and other Biden family business ventures in foreign lands, and that we may hear more about that on Friday — perhaps even a declaration that Joe Biden is a security threat to the USA and as such disqualified from holding high office. That would kind of throw a monkey wrench into America’s election proceedings, don’tcha think?  I can’t imagine that investigators have not been tracing the money trail through the various shell companies and laundromat banks that lead to Joe Biden’s own accounts.

What if the news media refuses to report on DNI Ratcliffe’s Friday report? I have an idea: We have an asset called National Public Radio, NPR. Lately, it has been a hostage to Democratic Wokesters who refuse to report news that is unfavorable to the Woke Democratic cause of destroying the republic. In fact, when the Biden family crime story broke in late October, NPR’s managing editor, Terence Samuel, tweeted out: “We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”  In a national emergency, perhaps President Trump might fire Terence Samuel’s ass, along with the rest of NPRs top management, and use the network to bypass the seditious media and social networks to get actual news out to the American people? Just an idea.


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792 Responses to “Offstage Noises”

  1. Jeremy December 14, 2020 at 9:56 am #

    Look what just $2 gets you in India – a complete Covid treatment kit that’ll keep you out of hospital.

    It’s first line treatment there.

    Good luck America – with your genetically engineered vaccine.

    https://www.rxindia.com/medicines/medicines-by-therapeutic-class/covid-19/ziverdo-kit/

    • thirdcoastlegend December 14, 2020 at 9:58 am #

      Big Pharma hates India’s treatment – no profit in it.

      Big Gov/Tech hate it because it doesn’t provide cover to track humans like cattle.

    • Jeremy December 14, 2020 at 9:58 am #

      American hero – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq8SXOBy-4w

    • Beryl of Oyl December 14, 2020 at 10:07 am #

      I read somewhere that the NIAID budget for the COVID 1984 was 70% for vaccine development and 30% for research, from the get-go.

      Fauci and Birx’ areas of ‘expertise’ were in failed vaccine development. A couple of not has-beens but never-wases pushing somebody’s crazy idea that you could stop a virus in its tracks long enough to come up with a vaccine that has never been successfully developed for a coronavirus before, by having the world hide indoors.

      Notice it was after that deranged shutdown idea failed, they all changed their tune and told us it was our fault because we needed to wear those worse than useless diapers on our faces.

      This is a virus that makes people stupid.

      • benr December 14, 2020 at 10:35 am #

        Correction people are already stupid and crazy.
        The response to this virus simply confirms it.

      • elysianfield December 14, 2020 at 11:52 am #

        This is a virus that makes people stupid.

        Beryl,
        This might also be considered a virus that makes public policy, and presidents….

    • Bob12065 December 15, 2020 at 1:04 am #

      i just ordered a batch of Hydroxy and Azithromycin from my indian pharmacy. Hydroxy = 11 cents a tablet, Az = 40 cents a tablet. i can only get 30 Hydroxys per shipment, but no limit on the Az. Zinc, i get at walmart.

      • benr December 15, 2020 at 9:21 am #

        Be careful with the zpacs they can really mess you up.

      • ThorsHammer December 17, 2020 at 10:57 am #

        Bob

        Your shipment of HCQ from India will be intercepted by US Customs if it shows any sign of containing pharmaceutical items. At least mine was.

        Best estimate of the number of excess deaths in the USA caused by the War on HCQ:: 50-100 thousand. Fauci makes the “Doctor of Death” Dr. Melenge seem like a kindly grandfather by comparison as he does the bidding of the Vaccine Pushers.

        The full history of the War on HCQ: https://filiperafaeli.substack.com/p/yes-hydroxychloroquine-is-scientifically

        Little known fact: The majority of US patented medicines are manufactured under contract in India, loaded in 50 gallon drums, and shipped to Big Pharma companies in the US. They then label and bottle them, increase the price by ten thousand fold, and sell them under their exclusive patent.

        • Q. Shtik December 17, 2020 at 2:06 pm #

          Dr. Melenge – Thors

          =======

          It’s Mengele

    • rube-i-con December 16, 2020 at 11:15 am #

    • xxzzy999 December 16, 2020 at 1:45 pm #

      URGENT: The political hysteria in the United States surrounding COVID-19 has taken away critical focus on the “early treatment” of this disease, and will go down in medical history as an incredible blunder.

      Imagine not treating patients at home with proven prescription medications but instead forcing them to wait until they are sick enough to be admitted to a hospital for real medications.

      While we argue about masks, social distancing, testing, shutdowns and vaccines, several other countries, notably India, have focused on distributing “Home Treatments Kits” to their populations. These kits include proven drugs like Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin as well as over the counter meds which dramatically reduce the severity and length of recovery of COVID-19. It’s crucial to take this protocol at the onset of COVID-19 so you don’t end up in a hospital fighting for your life.

      If your doctor doesn’t agree with using Hydroxychloroquine, then find another doctor or install the MEDICI “phone app” to speak with an on-line doctor immediately. These doctors will take a brief medical history, then prescribe Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin as well as detail which over the counter meds to take. You will then have these meds on hand BEFORE you come down with COVID-19. The MEDICI on-line doctors are also available 24/7 and can provide ongoing support if you come down with COVID-19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNZdWQCfTqc&feature=youtu.

  2. Rodster December 14, 2020 at 9:57 am #

    Yes the Empire is dying but the bigger question was raised by Paul Craig Roberts who was Asst Treasury Sec under Ronald Reagan. He raised the point that Donald Trump did not understand Washington. He came into Office because of two outsiders Steve Bannon and Gen Flynn. Both were escorted out by the Swamp.

    Then Trump made the fatal mistake of embracing Swamp creatures into his Cabinet. Trump had NO chance.

    Joe Biden will be elected President of the Evil Empire and Trump will possibly be prosecuted by the Swamp. That’s how it goes, the Deep State is too big to overcome. You first have to kill the Host before it dies because the Deep State is a cancer.

    • JohnAZ December 14, 2020 at 11:37 am #

      See Hapman

      I am not the only folk that acknowledges the Deep State and its evil.

  3. Beryl of Oyl December 14, 2020 at 9:59 am #

    Good morning. So many good questions being raised, and going unanswered.

    The truly scary part, to me, is how many people are entirely oblivious to what is going on. They don’t know that we are standing on a precipice here.

    I still get lectures about “droplets” and vectors”. Bill Gates boldly goes on television and tells us that yes, we will have to destroy all our remaining restaurants, it is, in his esteemed opinion, necessary.

    At the same time, Amazon facilities are hiring, and have an increasing need for cafeterias, which look suspiciously like indoor dining.

    Another question I am seeing raised: why hasn’t Mitch McConnell gotten on the phone with recalcitrant public officials in Georgia, and straightened them out?

    NPR. Publicly owned. That’s a good idea, using the public airways to inform the public.

    • SW December 14, 2020 at 10:19 am #

      I watched the PBS newshour for years and seen it grow increasingly one-sided in opinion and what stories were shown. No dissenting voices have been heard for a long time and NPR is even worse. At this point firing everyone and replacing them would only look like a desperate attempt to to change the narrative.

      It’s pretty amazing the SCOTUS would refuse to hear the evidence when petitioned by 17 states. On the NBC news Lester Holt, every time he says “election” or “Trump” says “no evidence of fraud” or “accusations completely unfounded”. One night last week, he said it 3x in less than 30 minutes. It is relentless propaganda presented as news.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 14, 2020 at 10:28 am #

        During the 2016 election, every time Lester spoke of something Donald Trump said, he used the term “rhetoric”.

        How do these people live with themselves?

        • SW December 14, 2020 at 10:37 am #

          Quite nicely actually. They have lots of money, celebrity status and are True Believers. Every fact or action that contradicts their image of themselves as righteous warriors is Russian disinformation, outright lies or something to be ignored. The response of this corrupt media to Jeffery Toobin’s masturbation on a Zoom call says it all, doesn’t it? He didn’t even get fired.

        • rainmaker December 14, 2020 at 11:30 am #

          ABC “News” used the word “lies” to describe any statement from Trump, so there!

          • SW December 14, 2020 at 11:43 am #

            Thanks for the update — I hadn’t read he had been fired.

      • thirdcoastlegend December 14, 2020 at 10:42 am #

        NBC News’ recent informercial with the bubbly young Asian gal telling us how amazing vax passports will be was nauseatingly amusing.

        I wonder if the young lady is related to Fang Fang.

        • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 12:03 pm #

          I saw that too. But I only felt disgust and contempt, no amusement. You can easily see where it goes from here. What if you lose your phone or forget to charge it? You won’t be able to do anything! What the solution? Get a chip! Or at least a dye put under the skin that proves you have been vaccinated.

          • draupnir December 14, 2020 at 7:52 pm #

            Isn’t that called a tattoo? Such was widely used to identify the prisoners in Nazi death camps who didn’t immediately go to the showers. Oh, yes, I want one of those.

      • Sean Coleman December 14, 2020 at 11:11 am #

        I used to listen fairly regularly to Deutschwelle, FranceRadio and Sveriges Radio and they have all turned out the same. BBC likewise. Ireland’s RTE is even worse. I have seen others too. They are all the same.

      • ThorsHammer December 15, 2020 at 10:00 am #

        Greater Texas wasn’t my first choice for the first New Nation to emerge from the breakup of the American Empire, but hey, we have to work with with political reality. I do like their new flag though. Solid Orange, with an unusual mushroom shaped ” toadstool” on it’s surface.

        Next up, Californicia where English will be outlawed as the spoken language, South Bay (SF) where only homosexuals will be allowed to vote,, and the New Confederacy where the black majority will vote that only blacks can own slaves.. Will they remain separate or re-unite with the other elements of Orwellandia?

    • JohnAZ December 14, 2020 at 11:39 am #

      Because the Deep State spends a lot of its financial and political capital hiding its extent. Quiet conspiracies work so much better.

    • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 12:48 pm #

      McConnell congratulated Biden on his win today, signaling, I suppose, that he is also part of the swamp and needs to pledge his allegiance to the dark forces.

  4. NickelthroweR December 14, 2020 at 10:00 am #

    Greetings,

    I was rather shocked that the SCOTUS refused to hear any of the evidence. The only way that makes sense is if they received a backdoor promise that there will be no court packing.

    I know court packing was an implied campaign promise but all you have to do is listen to the zoom call between Biden and Civil Rights leaders to hear for yourself how Biden plans to honor his commitments – hint, he’s not going to do anything for anyone other than his Chinese masters.

    That zoom call should be mandatory listening for “the resistance” so they can see what they’ve achieved.

    • oilie December 14, 2020 at 10:09 am #

      It wasn’t so much a back door promise as an out front guarantee that taking the Texas case would be followed by court packing the instant the Dems gain control of the Senate.

    • Peter VE December 14, 2020 at 12:33 pm #

      OTOH, all the Justices will still be able to get restaurant reservations, so there’s that.

    • 4014HAMPHEDGE December 14, 2020 at 12:59 pm #

      The old Sicilian formula is threat of harm to immediate or distant relatives to bring stubborn business owners or police chiefs or judges into conformance. This dynamic is already evident.

      We have reached the point of needing Vigilance Committees. In government law enforcement from Federal to County Sheriff level, a form of counter-espionage units are called for. Sworn members will have family protections, etc. Call it Islamophobic: suggestion to keep Muslims in distinct channels separate from covert operations units. The inscrutable ones may also be on the restricted list?

      Famine Hedge food district railway rebuild is a needed feature to separate food distribution from cyberattack concerns against all-trucking mode reliance now the rule.

      • Soul Forensics December 14, 2020 at 1:49 pm #

        “The old Sicilian formula is threat of harm to immediate or distant relatives to bring stubborn business owners or police chiefs or judges into conformance. This dynamic is already evident.” — Hamphedge

        Closer to the particulars at hand, this was also Mao’s formula. But he didn’t even have to threaten them with physical “harm”. Simply remove wives and daughters and sons from the husband for ten years, shipping them to a different city, with no communication possible. Worked perfectly, even though the husband (in this scenario) often didn’t have anything to confess.

    • messianicdruid December 14, 2020 at 1:03 pm #

      Is this a “zoom call” ? Maybe just a wake up call.

      https://populist.press/leaked-biden-audio-admits-dems-got-their-butts-kicked-across-the-country/

    • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 12:49 pm #

      I have been told by people who claim insider connections that only Thomas and Alito are not part of the swamp. The rest are compromised.This was already apparent with Roberts, but now we know that only 2 will defy the deep state.

  5. BuckeyeDoug December 14, 2020 at 10:03 am #

    Per the server question – it is worse than that. According to a story on TGP, wireless modems are connected to the voting machines, making them accessible for remote access (by whom we should ask!). The company providing these devices were bought a few years ago by a Chinese company. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/breaking-huge-major-national-security-issue-identified-related-chinas-connection-dominion-voting-machines/

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  6. bukowskisghost December 14, 2020 at 10:04 am #

    NPR: soft spoken voices spewing propaganda. The twenty first century version of fascism.

    • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 12:05 pm #

      Fascism is right wing by definition. The word you want is totalitarian. Or Communism.

      • 100th Avatar December 14, 2020 at 5:03 pm #

        is it?

        the fasces present the power of the bound, the unified, the collective, the authority, the power to back it

        Lincoln’s limestone arms rest on them

        Today the rods of the CIA, FBI, the DNC, the MSM, etc, etc, are bound.. just waiting for that axe come january.

        Besides, Janos, you remember when racism meant one’s feelings of contempt towards another’s color, creed, ethnicity, etc?
        One feeling superior in the face of their inferiority?

        Before it meant ignorance, awkward language, lazy stereotypes, trope jokes?

        I bet you do.

        • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 6:02 pm #

          Yes. Fascism is philosophy of government, one not taught since it makes too much sense and is against the Liberal Globalism of the Elite.

          It reveres the Traditions of the Nation, but surprisingly, it is not racial per se. That is the difference between Fascism and National Socialism. Needless to say though, it would eschew hating one’s own people as the Elite have taught Whites to do though.

          • hardykiwi December 15, 2020 at 2:10 pm #

            Fasce translates to a bundle of sticks. No need to use some foreign word to describe your political preference though. In English one would call a bundle of sticks a faggot. Perhaps you and Kim would like to start your own glorious White Faggot Party? A corporate totalitarian theocracy where you can eat all the ethnic American food you want, hot dogs, twinkies, tater tots, schlitz lager and enjoy top notch bonifide ethnic entertainment like WWF Smackdown or get your hands dirty noodlin for that prize catfish yer Daddy told you bout when you was just an ankle biter.

      • sophia December 14, 2020 at 5:58 pm #

        I disagree. What we have is fascist because the corporations have control of govt. Left or right seems irrelevant to me. Like you say, it’s totalitarianism.

        • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 6:06 pm #

          By definition, Fascism is the opposite: government control of the corporations. What we have now is Plutocracy, private control of the government. Things that are opposite often seems the same, but it is important to differentiate them. One could be righteous, while the other can never be since it is focused only on prophet and the people have no recourse since no oaths of service have been taken.

          In any case, the idea that the two spheres can remain separate in the modern industrial state is fatuous. They are connected. The question is: Which one will lead?

          • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 10:44 pm #

            profit not prophet

      • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 12:50 pm #

        Fascism isn’t left or right.

      • Pat Ormsby December 16, 2020 at 2:26 am #

        Since when has the Democratic Party upper echelon been left wing?

    • SvrzoH December 14, 2020 at 2:10 pm #

      Long commute on 405 with exhausted taste for any station stumbled on NPR one early morning. Their “official astrology reader” predicting with certainty John Kerry’s win – all with nasal, self assured voice.
      Other, fund raising, day they entirely dedicated to “spiritual teachers”,
      former hippies who, after wasting their best years, woke to become peddlers of magic living in which “is OK to be spiritual and love the money too”.
      Hosts, required to read commercials handed to them – boy were they good, better than Obama.
      Major societal frictions narrated in friendly soft voice (you noticed too) manner soon to be resolved with giggly hug and kisses.

      • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 12:51 pm #

        Nicely articulated. This is exactly what NPR is.

    • malthuss December 14, 2020 at 3:00 pm #

      NPR–feeding at the government trough.

      No ‘Fascism’ just ultra left.

    • ThorsHammer December 15, 2020 at 10:07 am #

      NPR used to have a regular program called “Small Things Matter” How far they’ve progressed. Now they have only one program called “Animal Farm1984”

  7. HH December 14, 2020 at 10:14 am #

    Jim, I don’t know why you keep seeing the election struggle as a Manichaean contest between good and evil, when all the characters are badly soiled. The sad fact is that America is a plutocracy, and the plutocrats don’t give a damn about the propaganda and hot button issues, like guns and wokesterism. What they insist on is a safe pair of hands to protect their wealth and power. That is how Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and now Biden serve them.

    You imagine that, as in a good detective story, the truth is just one level of concealment away from the surface of things. There is a server in Germany or a cabal in the CIA that when revealed will tie together all the loose plot strings and give us a neat resolution. The reality is that we are watching the net effects of the Brownian motion of thousands of political players with conflicting and aligning motivations. Thus the day-to-day outcomes are more random than what any conspiracy theory would dictate.

    It is the long-term trends that reveal the main engines of change in America, and the dominant trend since the Reagan era has been the steady strengthening of the power of the wealthy through their manipulation of the institutions of what was once a democratic republic.

    • Uncle Bob December 14, 2020 at 11:18 am #

      Trump, as flawed as he may be, at least has tried to stand up to the grifters who have purposely screwed things up. The last guy who really did that was undercut by CIA ops in Central America in the Iran-Contra fiasco. The last one before that was shot in Dallas. In both of the previous instances, Deep State insiders replaced the outsiders. We see this again with Biden’s stolen election allowing him to oust Trump. Indeed, Biden plans to replace the White House doorknobs that Trump provided as a way of saying “Fuck off, Don! You were never here, and I’m erasing your ass!”

      • Beryl of Oyl December 14, 2020 at 11:42 am #

        The official White House Christmas ornament this year features JFK.

        • Uncle Bob December 14, 2020 at 11:49 am #

          I usually receive the WH ornament as a Christmas present. Hopefully I’ll get one this year.

        • abbybwood December 14, 2020 at 2:48 pm #

          I would like one of those.

      • abbybwood December 14, 2020 at 1:23 pm #

        Who was the guy in Iran Contra that got offed by CIA??

        Not Barry Seal? He was offed but near his home in Arkansas I think.

        Thanks.

        • shabbaranks December 14, 2020 at 4:20 pm #

          Barry Seal was shot to death on the evening of Wednesday, February 19, 1986, in front of the Salvation Army Community Treatment Center, located in Baton Rouge, LA. He was shot at multiple times with a suppressed MAC-10 submachine gun and hit six times. He died at the scene.

      • taoistonthecross December 16, 2020 at 1:54 am #

        trump is no more flawed the average american who won’t come to his defense. insipid, lukewarm and deserving of their fate.

  8. Vadrosaul December 14, 2020 at 10:14 am #

    I was more entertained by Biden’s recent smackdown of top Black activists, which amounted to telling them that he doesn’t care about them over the impending demographic glut of Hispanics, and that they should be happy with any scraps he throws them.

    Loved it. Black America was infected by neoMarxist useful idiots and converted en masse into useful idiots themselves. They had no idea how successful Trump was making Black go-getters. Now they have to lie in the bed they made and unconsciously hope for a 2024 Republican victory that’ll give them another demon to faux slay.

    • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 12:10 pm #

      Yes both sides are obsessed with minorities. Trump was going full Lyndon Johnson with his “platinum plan” for Blacks. Both sides ignore Whites as much as possible. The forgotten man remains forgotten.

      Mark Steyn just now: William Barr said, Trump is a deposed king ranting.

      Deposed? Interesting choice of words.

      • hardykiwi December 14, 2020 at 1:43 pm #

        You must have a supremely comfortable chair Yoho. Have you thought of opening your very own sperm bank?

        • benr December 14, 2020 at 5:32 pm #

          Gross.

        • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 6:09 pm #

          You’re weird. I suppose you want to be a Maori, right? Anything but a “white” colonizer….

    • abbybwood December 14, 2020 at 1:25 pm #

      Like Jack Reacher said: “Remember. You wanted this.”

    • Amman December 14, 2020 at 1:52 pm #

      Too general a portrayal of blacks. For me, the best position to take/have when it comes to Black Americans is to see and understand they have always been an indispensable American Auxiliary i.e. a group that provides supplementary and additional help/support to common sense ideas and national ideals and goals despite the injustices. (Sorry, no, the dumb’ed down public in America includes everyone, – white,black and what have you.) The Auxiliary has been around since Day 1.

  9. oilie December 14, 2020 at 10:16 am #

    The voice of DNI Ratcliffe has already been lost in the noise of the fifty intel folks, including five former CIA directors, who have decreed that the Hunter Biden story is Russian disinformation. If Ratcliffe had any clout at all, Gina Haspell and Chris Wray would already be gone. What’s worse is that Bill Barr is not the man we thought. Recall that he sat on the knowledge of Hunter’s laptop throughout a shameful partisan impeachment in which Biden lawbreaking was the front and center part of the story. I am afraid that this goose was fully cooked long ago.

    • redrock December 14, 2020 at 10:21 am #

      Cooked goose with NPR dressing? Yum. I have watched NPR turn listeners into mindless liberal zombies for ever.

      • 100th Avatar December 14, 2020 at 10:50 am #

        NPR
        LOL

        Where commercials are called “words”

        These words are not from companies trying to sell you something, nah..

        … they’re from “underwriters.”

        Words from their underwriters.
        See, it’s all in the nuance.

        Don’t forget the Open Society donations.

        Don’t forget that they classify heaps of employees as temps to avoid benis.

        Don’t forget the enormous money they made… go ahead look into it.

        The only thing NPR has been quite good at is cornering the market on Dunning-Kruger sufferers.

        “Radio IQ” “Smart” “Ideas”

        Imagine, making a lot of stupid people who think that they are smart believe that they are smart

        just by listening

        “brilliant”

        • bluekayak December 14, 2020 at 11:29 am #

          NPR has sucked buckets for as long as I can remember — simpering sanctimonious lefty limousine liberals engaging in one self-congratulatory echo-chambering circle-jerk after another.

          Even their supposed non-news shows are puke inducing: “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me!” What, that you’re NOT a man-bun wearing little woke wuss??

          “This American Life” – Usually some profile of some loser for whom the condescending host can demonstrate some bogus empathy.

          Even “Car Talk” was friggin’ annoying.

          • BackRowHeckler December 14, 2020 at 11:51 am #

            Amanpour’s segment is a special case.

            Every single guest and interviewee for 4 years displayed some facet of Trump hate; Trump the rapist, Trump the traitor, Trump is mentally ill the 25th amendment should be invoked, Trump is a Russian spy, Trump is a criminal … just about every distinguished guest was promoting a book, which at its core was denouncing Trump in some fashion.

            Yeah I know why bother watching? That’s a good question.

            Brh

    • jimbo December 14, 2020 at 10:29 am #

      I believe Barr actually woke up and looked and listened and watched the horror show that the past year with Trump as the main character and said good riddance when the votes were tabulated. Just a thought.

      • SW December 14, 2020 at 10:50 am #

        My guess is Barr knows it’s a losing game at this point. The clock is running out and no amount of evidence will change the outcome and I think he’s right. My last hope is Trump will pressure England into releasing Assange so he’s free to go wherever he wants before the Biden administration begins. I don’t want to see this poor man fall into Kamala’s open arms.

        • Sean Coleman December 14, 2020 at 11:19 am #

          Yes, Assange should be released. The two Swedish women had not even accused him of assault, I hear. They went tot he police to get him to take a HIV test. I am pretty sure I do not share Assange’s political opinions however.

          • Beryl of Oyl December 14, 2020 at 11:46 am #

            The claims made against Edward Snowden look more and more dubious.

            Look who’s calling him a traitor- Liz Cheney.

        • abbybwood December 14, 2020 at 1:39 pm #

          Covid or no Covid, we were promised that Durham would be wrapping up his report on the Obama Administration spying on the Trump campaign and then his administration in the summer.

          He should have released even a preliminary report at least six weeks BEFORE any early voting started.

          The American taxpayers PAID his salary to deliver his findings.

          At least he could have released what friggin’ Sean Hannity and John Solomon and Peter Schweitzer had already discovered!

          Outside of being able to prove that China had direct influence on our election, it is in all our faces that the MSM and Big Tech DID interfere in the election with their blatant censorship. Millions of voters would not have voted for Biden if they understood the Bobulinski “The Big Guy” capers.

          Those airwaves belong to ALL the American people.

          Jerk their licenses and jerk Section 230 protections from Twitter and Facebook and Google, like TODAY!

  10. Pete December 14, 2020 at 10:27 am #

    Paralysis.

    “We just don’t know”

    We don’t act because we don’t know what the right thing to do is. We are paralyzed by disinformation.

    The democrats have accused the Trump Administration of everything they themselves are doing. The biggest accusation has been that Trump is in cahoots with the Russians. And that accusation has made cleared the decks for Biden’s actually being in cahoots with the Chinese.

    To hell with Joe Biden, To hell with you who voted for him. To hell with anyone professing support for the Democrats. The die is cast. May God have mercy on your souls.

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    • thirdcoastlegend December 14, 2020 at 10:48 am #

      “If you like your Communism, you can keep your Communism!”

      Well, it looks like half the US is just fine with the reality Obamao has spent the past four yearsrunning a shadow government to implement communism.

      • EnterpriseSpaceship December 15, 2020 at 7:52 am #

        Many think the inner system of our civilisation is actually Communism disguised Capitalism already – owing to fossil fuels being traded not on the basis they are finite but rather on the basis of ‘supply and demand’.

        The fear is that when finite fossil fuels shrink, due to depletion, the system might need to shrink, too – and that might force it to play desperate hunger games!

        Wail.

    • Uncle Bob December 14, 2020 at 10:56 pm #

      What’s ironically funny is, a large segment of the Democrat Party has been in bed with the Russians/Soviets for a hundred years, yet they get to pass judgment on anyone who opposes the Russians. For example, the traitorous bastards who sold uranium to “our Russian friends” got off without any punishment, and hammered Trump for being in bed with “those evil Russians” for five years. Just astounding, until you remember these Dems are part of the internationalist Uniparty who will destroy any threat to their hegemony. And we Americans are stupid enough to go along with it every damn time.

  11. teddyboy46 December 14, 2020 at 10:32 am #

    This is the End, my only friend the End. [Jim Morrison] Retail Politics is an insiders slang for Politics that sell to the voters. Like any sales person, Politicians sell what they are given. They Rouse the Rabble get the people angry and outraged so they vote they way they are supposed to.

    Then the Politician’s go back to business as usual and are surprised when the voters are still angry and outraged. Didn’t the Rubes know it was all hustle?

    • farmgal December 14, 2020 at 4:42 pm #

      Today is one of the saddest days in my 67 year old life. Today I held my nose and voted for Loeffler and Perdue in the Georgia Senate election. Never mind that the same machines are being used that were used in the general election, it’s all fine, really fine. I’ve seen a lot of political shenanigans in Georgia politics having lived here my entire life. I’ve seen the corrupt Talmadge years of the KKK, and Lester Maddox. I’ve seen the state do a complete 180 and thankfully change over to red but never could I have imagined the corruption that has permeated the office of our Governor. It’s beyond belief.

      My sadness emanates not from the knowledge that my vote is superfluous at this moment in time – it stems from the fact that I know without a doubt I will never vote in another election in my life and that our beloved republic and rule of law no longer exists.

      • benr December 14, 2020 at 5:34 pm #

        Indeed voting is all but useless now.
        They rampant cheating and flagrant fuck you on display has caused wars in the past.

        • farmgal December 14, 2020 at 6:11 pm #

          If we weren’t so damned civilized heads would roll!

      • Uncle Bob December 14, 2020 at 11:02 pm #

        Has there been any news about the explosion that incinerated three cars on a highway, including the one carrying the governor’s daughter’s boyfriend who was working for Loeffler? I wonder if that was a warning to the governor to keep quiet or it’ll be him next time.

        • farmgal December 15, 2020 at 9:38 am #

          Most of what I have heard is speculation. Something about the engine being found 300 feet from the accident site, Kemp’s daughter is a diehard liberal, etc.

  12. 100th Avatar December 14, 2020 at 10:35 am #

    “This used to be significant back when a discernable consensus about reality existed across this land. But now that E pluribus unum has been replaced by anything goes and nothing matters… ”

    And the 4th estate has also been replaced with a massive PSYOP scheme coordinated by the infotainment media complex. A consortium of corporations that run “news” programs as a side-business.

    Are Americans too dim to notice the uptick in anti-Russia propaganda?
    Already it has begun.
    Spying and hacking stories. The seeds are being sewn.
    Remember those seeds. They are the same ones planted that laid the groundwork for “Trump won’t concede”.

    They’re getting you dummies ready to accept aggressions towards Russia. By the time it happens you won’t even question why, and if even if you or anyone else did you have nowhere to turn to, and no outside institution to pressure for an answer because your investigative journalism sector is more concerned with Trump’s tie not being ironed or something of equal import.

    The rapprochement with China. Here’s another one. The real story is the chickens coming home to roost, the Chinese getting the payoff from their efforts.

    E pluribus unum

    A videogame was recently released.
    Cyberpunk 2077.

    It is said it explains the US, or whatever name this fictional near-future entity goes by, is just a corporate-bureaucratic leviathan maintained by a few corporations in conjunction with the CIA, FBI, and the NSA.

    Near future?
    I don’t think so, it’s a present. Hoho.
    Keep the change you filthy animals.

  13. BackRowHeckler December 14, 2020 at 10:36 am #

    Joe Biden, a bought and paid for asset of China?

    Alrighty then, a new sobriquet is in order; from here on in it is no longer ‘Sleepy Joe’, but ‘Beijing’ Biden’, which at this point, knowing what we now know, is a better fit.

    Nothing like calling a spade, a spade, that’s my motto.

    Brh

    • Pete December 14, 2020 at 10:39 am #

      China Joe

      • benr December 14, 2020 at 10:41 am #

        China joe and the ugly ho.

        • Rain Waters December 14, 2020 at 10:43 am #

          Traitor Joe

        • hmuller December 14, 2020 at 11:03 am #

          Safety Joe, both ends secured by a diaper.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 11:13 am #

        Heard one I liked the other day: “Joey No Pulse”

    • stelmosfire December 14, 2020 at 11:27 am #

      Bumblin’ Biden,
      Bejing’ Joe,
      Heels up Harris,
      Cacklin’ Ho

    • Billingsgate December 14, 2020 at 11:34 am #

      It’s actually Xiden, as one commenter on Don Surber’s blog noted.

  14. Brabantian December 14, 2020 at 10:42 am #

    Interesting article tells of an alleged leak by a USA Supreme Court law clerk – link below – telling of the tantrum of USA Chief Justice John Roberts last week, screaming at and intimidating the newer Justices, so they would join him in not allowing a hearing of the vote fraud case

    Roberts is said to have gone off the rails about ‘riots in the streets’ they would be responsible for, if they allowed Trump his deserved day in court

    Black intellectual and longest-serving Justice Clarence Thomas is quoted as lamenting, “This is the end of democracy”

    Thomas & Alito were the only brave ones (7-2 vote) upholding the classic view that ‘Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall’, Thomas & Alito said to be visibly shaken after the Roberts intimidation succeeded on the others

    Regarding Trump ‘firing’ people, mysteries and concerns abound … Giuliani has dozens of alleged witnesses which the FBI and Bill Barr at the US Justice Dept, are refusing to interview … So why doesn’t Giuliani publicly demand that Trump fire Barr?

    Trump is tweeting spite at ‘do-nothing’ Bill Barr, but doesn’t fire him … Why not? Is Trump blackmailed so badly he is only allowed to tweet?

    US Chief Justice Roberts, is long understood to be double-blackmailed:
    – First for his 1990s ‘international child trafficking’, Roberts getting an Irish mother to violate Irish law, and illegally take her kids to South America so Roberts could adopt (buy?) them, and
    – Secondly with Roberts’ name prominently on the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs, presumably videos to match now also in the Deep State ‘Chief Justice Roberts control file’

    Article on the US Supreme Court law clerk leaker
    https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/loud-arguments-in-us-supreme-court-chambers-over-texas-lawsuit-court-intimidated

    • Rain Waters December 14, 2020 at 10:47 am #

      As media casts Trump irrelevant, masses accept whatever theyre fed.

      Democracy has a new face.

    • rainmaker December 14, 2020 at 11:44 am #

      Ha! I knew “Chief Justice Roberts” was just another compromised tool in the service of our overlords.

    • Soloview December 14, 2020 at 12:18 pm #

      I doubt this report very much. Alito’s dissent which Thomas joined was only to the narrow technical point of constitutional obligation of the SC to hear the case. One would think, if both judges agreed that the high court could provide no relief in the complaint, there was not a large gulf separating them from the other justices.

    • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:04 pm #

      Hal Turner is churning out some dubious stuff these days – I don’t trust him. However, this may have a kernel of truth, and Roberts is definitely compromised. So this is a very likely scenario.

    • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:05 pm #

      Also – from your lips (keyboard?) to God’s ear – Barr’s been disposed of as of yesterday afternoon!

  15. Zoltar December 14, 2020 at 10:50 am #

    I love Jim’s proposal to requisition NPR for the purpose of breaking the corporate media boycott of news that is not in Biden’s best interests.

    I was program director of an NPR affiliate forty years ago. At that time, with a comparatively tiny budget, NPR had distinguished broadcast journalists stationed all over the world to report on situations in which they actually lived. Now with benefit of a quarter billion dollar gift from Joan McCroc, NPR gets a few talking heads on the phone to opine about political situations that they, in turn, have only read about.

    NPR used to present highly-produced features that took award-winning correspondents months to create. Now they spend the public’s money on what – lattes?

    I used to be proud to be part of the NPR ecosystem. Now I am ashamed for people to know I was ever associated with the network. NPR has betrayed the public trust, and should be given an opportunity to sink or swim without public funding.

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    • SW December 14, 2020 at 11:04 am #

      Amen, Zoltar. There are only a few honest voices left as far as I can tell and NPR would rather go off the air before they had an uncensored interview with Taibbi or Greenwald or even a blue-collar worker from Oklahoma (automatic deplorable).

    • 100th Avatar December 14, 2020 at 11:07 am #

      All due respect, but what’s the point?

      The country has stepped past the point of no return.

      We are now in an era where people do not hold government to a standard. Where people are not skeptical of extremely problematic espionage and national police agencies (CIA, NSA, FBI).
      Where people are reticent about placing blind trust in sociopathic attorneys.. uh, politicians.

      The present and former heads of these agencies have been lionized.
      Guests of honor on editorial boards. Panel experts on punditry programs.
      Comey Hayden Brennan.

      We have the society we deserve

      • SW December 14, 2020 at 11:21 am #

        I don’t think we completely deserve what we’ve got. We have to live with decisions that our so-called elected officials made and many of these were voted into office on false promises. And never confronted on their betrayal once they were there and the media played a big part in this smokescreen.

        ObamaCare is the perfect example — he said he would fight for a public option, for drugs to be imported from Canada and lower overall healthcare costs. Before the debate even began, he stated the public option was not on the table, met with drug companies and assured them there would be no drugs from Canada and costs have skyrocketed. But has he ever been confronted? No.

        • abbybwood December 14, 2020 at 2:04 pm #

          It’s worse than that.

          There used to be a speech Obama gave to a group of veterans on YouTube when he was running for Senate where he proclaimed:

          I am a big proponent of single payer health care. Everybody in and nobody out. But we need to control the House and the Senate and The White House to get it done.”

          Then once in The White House, with the House and Senate in control, when ABC did it’s special on healthcare options Obama would not allow any discussion of Medicare for All. He even made sure his personal physician from Chicago was dis-invited because as a board member of Physicians for a National Healthcare Plan, he intended to bring it up.

          Right now Jimmy Dore is trying to get 15 members of The Progressive Caucus to tell Pelosi they will not vote for her as a Speaker unless she promises in writing a floor vote on Medicare for All. By doing this the American people would see who supports Medicare for All during a pandemic. Can’t have that!!

          But they’re running scared. Afraid of Momma Bear and some jagoff comedian broadcasting from his garage. Ha!

          • ThorsHammer December 15, 2020 at 10:31 am #

            Abby

            Speaking of the Magic half-black Trojan Horse,

            Remember when the HO was running her well-funded campaign for the Democratic nomination but only won the “Most Hated Candidate prize?” Who was her one and only supporter? Team Obama.

            Why did the HO emerge as the only possible choice for Vice President that combined all the necessary Wokester characteristics of ovaries, Black but not noticeably so, a lifetime of hatred of her politically progressive father, and a love for imprisoning people? The perfect president-in-waiting for the New Orwell era.

            Having stood by the HO in hard times, who will sit in the Dick Cheney seat pulling the background strings but our Magic Trojan Horse? The Audacity of Hope indeed.

          • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:07 pm #

            I loved seeing that dust-up that Dore caused. It’s unfortunate that he still supports Democrats at all though.

        • Zoltar December 14, 2020 at 6:00 pm #

          SW: True.

          But Liberals, in their unprincipled, tribal loyalty, decided to pretend during Obama’s eight years of betrayals that he was actually a great man and a fine president.

          Do we “deserve what we’ve got?” Those of us who made a strenuous effort to call bullshit on Obama don’t; his liberal supporters do.

      • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 12:20 pm #

        This is what you always wanted. A Jonah to the last. You want to die inside the whale, but you are going be vomited up, naked and afraid on the beach.

        • hardykiwi December 14, 2020 at 1:56 pm #

          Drumpf’s dying consciousness;

          Icy Mountain, here I come.

          I stand at the summit of the icy mountain,

          watching over the puny world as I suffer

          the abomination of centuries.

          Things kill me from inside,

          as slowly my agony gets magnified

          like a big darned tumour.

          My mind is like tainted meat,

          as thoughts, rapidly fire like guns

          in a world war battlefield,

          as I fall wondering what goes through

          others minds, the control that they own.

          The ability to control envies me,

          because I’m now crippled and irreparable.

          Countless thoughts burst through the

          stained neurons in my now-lost brain,

          where thoughts are caught up,

          finding no way out, finding no end.

          As my mind simulates the maze that

          is mighty and hazardous in its own

          continuable pathway of fire,

          my heart beats like a dying guitar.

          One that screams while being tightened,

          one that bursts with too much of

          sorcery on its miserable neck.

          I can’t look for help,

          I’m on the top frozen like

          tuna fish in a tin can.

          My body is still and holding,

          as thoughts rage my impure mind,

          ridding of their worthless celibacy

          and engorging new modules that suck

          more of the air out of my brain,

          that is turning into a fired brick.

          I’m trying to speak, as words

          make dying efforts to pry open my

          mouth that is now a rotting cell.

          Countless ways failed to deprive me

          of the magical struggle that kept me

          in my freezing asphyxia that started

          burning the ends of my drained neurons.

          I want to die now,

          as the sky starts to form a mass of

          destructive clouds and plundered minds.

          The reality is strangling my chords,

          conjuring zombies from thoughts that

          fled my impeccable collection of entangled

          hopes and dreams of all stature, until I

          realised there was nothing more in this

          damned world that remotely stops us from

          • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 6:12 pm #

            The lawnmower method of poetry. Don’t quit you day job as the personal driver of Madam Maori. What’s her name? The horse face lockdown queen.

          • Zoltar December 14, 2020 at 7:39 pm #

            hardykiwi: ZZZZzzzz….

        • 100th Avatar December 14, 2020 at 4:54 pm #

          who?
          me?

          this is where angst comes from
          despair

          inability to separate what you want from what it is

          dissonance

          i never had that problem

          but you had a problem with that.

      • Wxtwxtr December 14, 2020 at 12:27 pm #

        “We have the society we deserve”

        I’m glad you are so powerful you could have prevented it.
        But didn’t.

        • 100th Avatar December 14, 2020 at 4:51 pm #

          There’s only so much any of us can do with this collective consciousness, this hard old caliche

          https://youtu.be/d1U3MyX0pmE

          Ain’t nothing new

          This country is hard on people

    • SpeedyBB December 17, 2020 at 4:33 pm #

      Yes Zoltar, I remember that news item. Miz Croc was getting eaten up real bad by the cancer and decided to dish out an unexpected two and a half points (Texas mathematics) to NPR – which was reportedly flabbergasted by the shower of dough. They came right out and stated that they didn’t know what they were going to do with it. Buy a lot of lattes I guess.

      When I was a kid I snuck my big black Hallicrafters short-wave under the covers with me after being ordered to go to bed (lucky I didn’t electrocute myself). I liked to listen in to the dour voice intoning “This is the North American service of Radio Moscow”.

      My pleasure was in listening to their stale agitprop, convinced of the “fair & balanced” media reportage in the USA.

      Well come on, I was fourteen years old, an Air Force brat, brainwashed by “our side’s agitprop”, so cut me some slack.

      Meanwhile the sinister Dulles brothers were working to ensure the sweet-faced tyranny of “our side” would prevail over theirs. At what cost …

  16. catharsis December 14, 2020 at 10:59 am #

    At least there are a few points that JHK and I agree on:

    Computers should never be used in an election. The early Diebold machines owned by Republican financiers created a suspicion that continues today with the Dominion machines. Plus there are no systems that can’t be hacked sooner or later.

    Donald Trump was elected as a finger in the eyes of both parties and their plutocratic enablers. The parties deserved this.

    Now if only JFK would admit that the symbolic election of Trump has made its point, and that having a narcissistic sociopath, psychopathic liar and lifelong grifter as President is not a solution, maybe there would be some common ground for moving forward.

    • 100th Avatar December 14, 2020 at 11:10 am #

      “a finger in the eyes”

      (SIC)

      SeaDolt’n

    • rainmaker December 14, 2020 at 11:52 am #

      Sorry, there will be no “moving forward”, as you put it. Are you one of those people who think we Americans are heading for some kind of progressive Utopia, and Trump was just an unpleasant pothole in the Yellow Brick Road? In what reality do you exist? Out here in the heartland things have been getting worse for years, nay decades.

    • Zoltar December 14, 2020 at 12:44 pm #

      Catharsis: And a senile lecher with a despicable record and a family history of corruption IS the solution?

      If that’s your idea of common ground upon which to move forward, there is no hope at all.

      • FreddieMars December 14, 2020 at 5:32 pm #

        To which Candidate are you referring, Zoltar? I trust you realize it can apply equally to either.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 8:07 pm #

          Have to agree with you there, Fred.

    • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:10 pm #

      You haven’t realized that ALL presidents have been narcissistic sociopath psychopathic liars?

  17. JustSaying December 14, 2020 at 11:01 am #

    Uncle Joe is being set up to go down. Obama will run the country through Harris since he now runs the DNC. Prepare for a return to the Middle East, confrontation with Russia and China, destruction of the “progressives,” and a return to austerity programs.

    My chief concern right now is avoiding the vaccine.

    • hmuller December 14, 2020 at 11:13 am #

      Avoiding the vaccine is also my concern. It appears air travel will be the first “privilege” they’ll deny us. Followed by being banned from the work space, schools, finally all stores and public places in general. Total house arrest will become a reality.

      I expect receiving stimulus checks will depend on being vaccinated. They may even withhold social security payments and other government benefits from us – the crazy vaccine deniers.

      • MiddlePeninsula December 14, 2020 at 11:40 am #

        Yes, the vaccine passport. Hmmm, how will that work for me? My body makes no antibodies (a genetic condition). In fact, I have to take a drug made from human plasma to get antibodies from other folks. I generally don’t get vaccines because they don’t work for me. Why are they pushing this vaccine so darn hard? It’s not been adequately tested and is a made differently than other vaccines. This vaccine is not about a disease; it is about control.

      • abbybwood December 14, 2020 at 2:18 pm #

        Looks like the only way to avoid the mRNA jab is to catch the damn virus and develop antibodies against it, therefore a self-immunization. If antibodies can be shown in a blood test, that should be enough to get their fucking passport.

        I would gladly take one of those Covid kits from India containing Ivermectin, zinc, C and I think erythromycin. Cost: $150.

        If the United States had a conscience as a country Ivermectin would have already been approved with the kits being made and distributed here and paid for through Medicare etc.

    • thirdcoastlegend December 14, 2020 at 11:17 am #

      I believe the US will be used by China and the globalists to engage in a massive war with Russia.

      After both sides are spent, the Chicoms will be able to start settling all that empty land in Siberia unopposed.

      • stelmosfire December 14, 2020 at 11:38 am #

        Siberia? lots of resources, but who wants to live there?

        https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/ru/yakutsk/62.027,129.732

        • hank55 December 14, 2020 at 11:51 am #

          Climate range of Siberia is very similar to the same of Canada.

        • Wxtwxtr December 14, 2020 at 12:31 pm #

          My sentiments exactly, but I would have included the Wikipedia link.:
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakutsk

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 12:34 pm #

          Lol. Why even produce a forecast there?

          “Huh…would you look at that. Today it’s stil a high of -45, low of -55 and partly sunny. Who would’ve thought?”

      • SW December 14, 2020 at 11:38 am #

        Russia has one of the largest fresh water reservoirs in the world. Here’s some interesting information that bears watching:

        New York (CNN Business)There’s a new commodity in town for investors to trade: water.

        Futures tied to the Nasdaq Veles California Water Index, which measures the volume-weighted average price of water, began trading under the ticker NQH2O on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Monday.
        Water has never been traded this way before.
        Before the futures came along, the buying and selling of water rights, which allow the holder to pump water from the ground or reservoirs, only happened in the spot market.

        • rainmaker December 14, 2020 at 11:56 am #

          I read somewhere that the Bush clan is busy buying up South American water rights…

          • Jeremy December 14, 2020 at 1:15 pm #

            True.

            “According to Paraguayan newspapers, Bush?s father, the first President Bush, recently bought an enormous estate in Paraguay?between 100,000 and 175,000 acres, depending on which report you believe. The estate falls right inside the watershed of the Guarani Aquifer, one of the planet?s largest freshwater reserves.”

            https://theweek.com/articles/523013/no-haven-criminal-bush-family

        • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 1:22 pm #

          Yes, and the land around Lake Baikal is heavily forested, not frozen Tundra.

    • feralandroid December 14, 2020 at 12:14 pm #

      Like most government documents, I bet it will be easy to produce a false document stating you have received your dose.

      Could be a lucrative black market developing.

    • ThorsHammer December 15, 2020 at 10:41 am #

      You have no need for the vaccine. Just a certificate saying that you have been vaccinated.

      I’ve chosen a mailbox in Gran Cayman as my business headquarters.

    • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:11 pm #

      Same here. But there is no way I’m taking that garbage. Sadly I think it’s going to kill and maim a lot of people.

  18. oldtech December 14, 2020 at 11:18 am #

    Is it just me or did AG Barr revel his loyalties when he is quoted as saying:

    “Bill Barr ‘not intimidated’ by Trump’s ‘deposed king ranting’ on Twitter as pressure mounts over Hunter Biden probe”

    This kind of attitude seems almost a confession that removes all doubt from my mind that the fix was in – Trump would not allowed to be reelected. That helps to also explains all the other falling dominoes.

    And the deep state – it’s in plain view and under our noses. The party tag makes no difference. It is now in full control of our government.

  19. hank55 December 14, 2020 at 11:30 am #

    In our small country in Central Europe (area like South Carolina, population like Michigan or Georgia) we have a very similar experience with the Chinese CEFC as well. The boss of the local CEFC subsidiary is an advisor to our president. Certain people at the local intelligence community consider the president (since 2013, now in his 2nd term to be finished 2023) and some people close to him a national security threat due to their links to China and Russia; that has caused a long-term silent backstage war between the president and the domestic counterintelligence agency. Unfortunately nobody can influence the president’s choice of the advisors; on the other hand, the office is only a formal and representative one w/o a real executive power so we believe that the real caused damage would not be much too serious.

  20. pdog December 14, 2020 at 12:00 pm #

    Dear Mr. Kunstler:

    Your article seems to parallel revelations pursuant Mike Adams, Michael Jaco, Jeffrey Prather, Charlie Ward, and Monkey Werx.

    Coincidence?

    Gods Speed John Glenn,

    Pdog

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  21. Soloview December 14, 2020 at 12:06 pm #

    The problem with the US today is not just the “woke” cretenism of the Democrats. People who would have wanted SC to entertain the Texas “complaint” are just as flipped-out insane as the Left. Of course, the SC was going to ditch pronto the pathetic lawsuit by Ken Paxton, the Texas AG under investigation for abuse of office. Thank God it was 9 – 0 ! The “original jurisdiction” under which the SC settles disputes between states was meant to solve real state-to-state disputes over jurisdiction, obstruction of state commerce, extradition and such. It was never meant to impose political will of one state over another. Evidently, the self-validated right to interpret the Constitution by reading into it its own political agenda du jour, is not limited to the loony Left.

    • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 12:30 pm #

      No it was 7-2, idiot. And if the Supreme Court isn’t willing to rule whether the Election was fair, then they have proven themselves useless and corrupt.

      • FreddieMars December 14, 2020 at 5:45 pm #

        SCOTUS…they have proven themselves useless and corrupt

        There ya go. I’ve been waiting for this, though I thought it would be Kimmie or Night Bot. Go, Janos!

        Who’s next to be slammed as corrupt? All the Electoral College Representatives, of course, and then..?

        What happens when Loeffler & Perdue lose on January 5th because 20% of MAGA supporters don’t show up?

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 8:06 pm #

          “What happens when Loeffler & Perdue lose on January 5th because 20% of MAGA supporters don’t show up?”

          Dunno. Probably a lot of barbeque and beer involved on both sides though.

    • Soul Forensics December 14, 2020 at 2:39 pm #

      This is a very strange report in two ways:

      1) It exactly matches the prediction of a prominent constitutional lawyer Ed Pazzuoli, who said that John Roberts would intimidate the three Trump-appointed newbie judges, and that he thought Trump wouldn’t get the hearing.

      2) I find it hard to believe that the walls of the super-secret Supreme Court chamber would be thin enough for those down the hall to hear the distinct, verbatim-copy utterances of the judges.

      • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:13 pm #

        Hal Turner has been caught lying so many times I can’t imagine why anyone believes him.

    • FreddieMars December 14, 2020 at 5:59 pm #

      Isn’t this one of those “unnamed sources in the know” report of which the MSM is constantly being accused?

      Yes, it may be true, but it’s impossible to say for sure, and I don’t think Hal Turner Radio Show is actual ‘journalism’ with sources confirmed and corroborated.

      “Harold Charles “Hal” Turner (born March 15, 1962) is an American far-right political commentator and convicted felon from North Bergen, New Jersey.

      Turner’s viewpoints typically encompass Holocaust denial, conspiracy theory, white supremacy, and have included calls for assassination of government officials. In August 2010, he was convicted for making threats against three federal judges with the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, for which he spent two years in prison.

      Turner has sporadically hosted The Hal Turner Show, usually on shortwave radio station WBCQ, since 2002, as well as a corresponding blog, which has changed URLs frequently and has spread hoaxes and fake news.”

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 6:26 pm #

        Hmm. Err…that wouldn’t happen to be from Wikipedia would it?

        lol

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 6:29 pm #

        cuz we all know that information is a lock…especially when they start with “far-right” and then branch out from there to every other name that they can come up with that may be “potentially considered to be be almost loosely affiliated with someone else who may consider themselves to be far-right”.

        That said, I have no idea who Hal Turner is, but based on that description and the reaction he appears to get from left-of-center, he’s probably guaranteed to be onto something.

      • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:14 pm #

        I almost believe Hal Turner is controlled opposition, because his claims end up being false half the time, and gives credence to critics of so-called ‘conspiracy theorists.’

  22. wm5135 December 14, 2020 at 12:09 pm #

    Truman abdicated the responsibility of Foreign Policy to the CIA.
    The Congress abdicated the War Power to the Executive.
    The Court has now abdicated it’s duty Under Article III. (No dissent, no abstention, by total majority)

    Those who will save the Republic need one word and one phrase on their lips, NO. I withhold my consent.

    They also have a singular course of action – Civil Disobedience.

    For an example of the cost that must and will be paid see The Salt March for what we must be prepared to accept and how we must conduct ourselves.

    “A good fighter is not angry” Lao Tzu

    Steeled determination resting on a foundation of Intellect and Reason is the path forward.

    Let us return to 1955 and once again voice our purpose, E Pluribus Unum.

    • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 6:14 pm #

      Didn’t Thomas and Alito dissent? Or were they just airing private misgivings?

  23. James Kuehl December 14, 2020 at 12:10 pm #

    “If Dominion vote tabulation machines all over America are not allowed to be hooked up to the Internet, how can they be a network? And why would they need a server? If I’m missing something there, please discuss in the comments section.”

    Having worked with confidential data that is then transferred via Internet server, this is how it was explained to me. These systems are not connected to the Internet. They are closed systems, which may be on a LAN (local area network). When data is sent over the Internet via a server it is first encrypted. Anyone who hacked the data would have mountains of indecipherable code unless they had the key. Keys are updated frequently so that on the extremely remote possibility that one had the key one minute, it would be useless by the time they tried to use it. All that said, anything can be hacked. But the probability of someone knowing what to hack, having the key, altering data, and replacing it re-encrypted with alterations is infinitesimally miniscule. Happy to hear from any computer techies who can shed more light on this.

    • Soloview December 14, 2020 at 1:18 pm #

      I have had a discussion on this with a former colleague from the Big Blue who is an SME in Enterprise Security. We agreed that a well-designed centralized computing voting system would actually be more credible than the hybrid disconnected systems used today or manual systems. The optimal architecture would be multiprocessor, where the only communication with the central vote registry allowed would be an independent module provisioning user authentication, and, on completion, vote registration. Security would be maximized by having the machines transmit in short bursts using blockchain or other hashing technology. Best use microwave point-to-point transmitter channels with multiple frequencies, and agreed-on handshake. Each burst with voting results would have a checksum, that would be confirmed by the receiving center before being stored.
      Any communication system is theoretically hackable, but there certainly a powerful ways how to protect to a degree where the danger of intrusion, penetration and data manipulation is miniscule, and their potential effect is close to nil. The advantages of such system would be reliable identification (in any number of ways), elimination of counting errors, real-time result verification, and maximum auditability (assuming that the voter gets a printed copy and agrees on lifting of ballot secrecy).

      • James Kuehl December 14, 2020 at 1:36 pm #

        Thanks, Soloview. It sounds like Dominion might be behind the curve. We better get something in place that people trust or we’ll never overcome the lack of confidence in the system.

  24. MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 12:24 pm #

    Michigan forensic audit of Dominion machines used in the election made public by judge:

    “We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results,” Ramsland said. “The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election fraud. Based on our study, we conclude that the Dominion Voting System should not be used in Michigan. We further conclude that the results of Antrim County should not have been certified.”

    Interesting. That said, it will be dismissed by the woke because the guy that started Allied Security Operations Group (that performed the software audit) is a Republican.

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    • FreddieMars December 14, 2020 at 6:03 pm #

      “Michigan forensic audit of Dominion machines used in the election made public by judge

      Which Judge released this? Was it offered in a lawsuit? What was the Judge’s decision?

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 6:23 pm #

        FYI – I’m not implying anything about overall legal value here or smoking gun material in terms of overturning squat. Just think the method they laid out is pretty smart if one wanted to cheat.

        I don’t believe it was introduced as part of a lawsuit, merely that the state ordered the forensic audit and the results were then ordered made public.

  25. Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 12:25 pm #

    In other words, Joe Biden is the most honest and wonderful man you ever met. And you met him in Manchuria, right?

  26. helm December 14, 2020 at 12:45 pm #

    I believe that the CIA and Seal Team Six had a firefight in Europe’s financial capital to seize servers that never existed because I am a doddering 80 year old man with severe lead poisoning and a declining grip on reality.

  27. Billingsgate December 14, 2020 at 12:57 pm #

    And now I see you referring to “President” Trump. One less thing for me to be troubled about today. Thank you, James.

  28. Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 12:59 pm #

    The Professor who wrote an op-ed on how Jill Biden shouldn’t be using the honorific “Dr” has been disassociated from by his university. He never existed.

    A family was kicked off a flight because their two year old “wouldn’t comply” with a mask was savaged on twitter, with calls for them to be investigated for “Munchausen’s by Proxy”.

    Madness stalks the Land. As Mark Steyn just said, Culture is upstream of politics – and the new culture has driven America mad; the “culture” (as in bacteria) created by the mass media. The Supreme Court was no better in the end. They voted for gay marriage because the pop bacteria culture wanted it. They votes against the electoral fraud case because the culture creators wanted them to. They weren’t willing to take the heat. Amy Double Names showed this when she apologized for being behind the curve in gay studies.

    • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:18 pm #

      Well said.

  29. Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 1:10 pm #

    Financial war is a form of non-military warfare which is just as terribly destructive as a bloody war, but in which no blood is actually shed. Financial warfare has now officially come to war’s center stage—a stage that for thousands of years has been occupied only by soldiers and weapons, with blood and death everywhere. We believe that before long, “financial warfare” will undoubtedly be an entry in the various types of dictionaries of official military jargon. Moreover, when people revise the history books on twentieth-century warfare in the early 21st century, the section on financial warfare will command the reader’s utmost attention.

    – Unrestricted Warfare, Qiao Lang and Wang Xiangsui

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  30. beantownbill. December 14, 2020 at 1:13 pm #

    Bottom line: We are all guilty of letting things get to where they are today. Whining about it serves no purpose. We could institute a national strike. If truckers stopped delivering, if consumers stopped buying, if the public withdrew all their cash from banks and investment accounts, and more, then the powers that be would fail. Ultimately, power resides with the people. We just haven’t taken advantage of that because we’ve been brainwashed to think we have no power.

    • SW December 14, 2020 at 1:44 pm #

      I understand your point but the minute truckers stop deliveries and we don’t have the money to buy even the most basic necessities it would be over for most of us. Joe Bageant (an author who’s been dead for 15 years but I highly recommend if you’re interested) grew up in a rural community and made the valid point none of us know how to grow anything, raise anything or fix anything anymore. One bad winter and we could rename USA “Jamestown”.

      • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 2:20 pm #

        Nay, Roanoke. We’d all go to Crotoan.

        • BackRowHeckler December 14, 2020 at 2:41 pm #

          I’ve got a copy of Lee Miller’s book about Raleigh’s Roanoke Colony, really fascinating. I understand a more recent volume on the lost colony has appeared which I have to pick up.

          One thing I’ve learned is those English in NCarolina wasn’t the 1st group of Europeans to go missing in the new world, nor were they the last. There were the French Protestants in the 1550s where St. Augusin, Fla is now, what happened to them? And Christopher Columbus’ brother dropped off at Hispanola with 100 Spaniards in 1496, not a sign of them. The soldiers and construction workers stationed at the Magellan Straits to build a fort, nobody seen hide nor hair of the since. And so on. There were many Lost Colonies.

          • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 10:47 pm #

            Apparently the local Indians might have taken them in – or the woman at least…..

            The “Lumbees” (sp?) have always seemed to produce a lot of blondes…..

      • abbybwood December 14, 2020 at 3:21 pm #

        I was at CVS in Manhattan Beach a few days ago and now there is a sign saying: Due to a severe shortage of coins at The Federal Reserve, we can no longer make change. Exact amount of cash needed or debit/credit card. We are sorry for any inconvenience.

        Covid is how the cashless society is being ushered in. Part of The Great Reset that Biden, Harris, Kerry (Biden’s new climate change czar) and many others have signed on to.

        Their oath should now be, “….to preserve, protect and defend The Great Global Reset (New World Order re-branded) against all enemies…you know the thing.”

        • BackRowHeckler December 14, 2020 at 4:32 pm #

          You ain’t seen nothing yet.

          Wait until John Kerry, Commissar of Climate Police, orders climate shutdowns. Similar to Covid Shutdowns, but enforced by Antifa Red Guards, dressed in their newly issued, snappy green uniforms.

          Brh

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 4:51 pm #

          @ abby – “Covid is how the cashless society is being ushered in. Part of The Great Reset that Biden, Harris, Kerry (Biden’s new climate change czar) and many others have signed on to.”

          That is one of a long list of things have have been/are being ushered in due to Covid. Essentially 50-80 years of “conspiracy theories” rolled into one event.

          I was concerned about the virus at first, say the first few weeks back in Feb/March. Then I just got mad as I saw everything else fall into place as so many “crazy people” had laid out before over decades. They finally found their grand premise/delivery platform/excuse, and it’s working…big time.

          • benr December 15, 2020 at 9:38 am #

            Yep Texe Marrs and Alex Jones were sort of right all along.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 5:00 pm #

          Off the top of my head, Covid has opened the door for the following:

          – Cashless society

          – Loss of the right to assemble

          – Loss of the right to travel

          – Orwellian surveillance grid (all transactions/associations/preferences/conversations recorded)

          – Fear/distrust of everything in society from the top (“the system”) on down (family/friends)

          – Forced vaccinations (not to mention potential sterilization/population control)

          – Destruction of the middle class

          – Dependence on the government for necessities

          – Destruction of history/connection with the past

          – Loss of connection to/wisdom from our elders (locked in nursing homes behind glass, or fear of even visiting mom and dad at the family home)

          – Loss of right to private property (foreclosure/rural crackdown/shutting down farms and meat plants, etc on a whim)

          – Destruction of the nuclear family (well that’s BLM and Antifa, but they got their time in the sun this year as an “accepted outlet” during the lockdowns)

          – Destruction of religion/loss of connection to any higher power (can’t go to church or even hold community benefit events)

          Not to mention complete takeover of the business world (as if all those company Zoom calls now being conducted don’t yield any valuable information for Microsoft et al’s business choices/trends)

        • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:22 pm #

          Back in April, I was in a Molly Stone’s in San Mateo, CA, and they were refusing to let a man pay cash for his groceries. I was actually heartened to hear him exclaim LOUDLY that he’d never set foot in the store again, and “COVID19 IS A HOAX!” Sadly now more people believe it isn’t after 6 ensuing months of torture and propaganda and gaslighting.

      • beantownbill. December 14, 2020 at 4:52 pm #

        It doesn’t have to include food staples.

  31. beantownbill. December 14, 2020 at 1:21 pm #

    A strike doesn’t need to have 100% participation to be successful. The systems in our society are so shaky that only a relatively small drop in economic production would collapse most everything; so saying, “ I’m just one person, what can I do?” is just a lame excuse. All we need is a good organizer.

    • rainmaker December 14, 2020 at 1:52 pm #

      We don’t need an organizer, organizers get co-opted into the Borg hive mind. Witness what happened to Occupy Wall St. Just Do It – and set a good example for others.

      • beantownbill. December 14, 2020 at 4:50 pm #

        Very few, if any, would boycott. Average people would think they were the only ones striking. Some kind of strike meme needs to be started and circulated through society, whether through an organizer or many different people, like a lens focusing the sun’s rays on gathered leaves or branches until they catch fire, then fed until a blaze occurs.

    • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:22 pm #

      SOme say all we need is 10%

  32. Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 1:27 pm #

    from the Wiki, Unrestricted Warfare

    Defense against unrestricted warfare
    The authors note that an old-fashioned mentality that considers military action the only offensive action is inadequate given the new range of threats. Instead, the authors advocate forming a “composite force in all aspects related to national interest. Moreover, given this type of composite force, it is also necessary to have this type of composite force to become the means which can be utilized for actual operations. This should be a “grand warfare method” which combines all of the dimensions and methods in the two major areas of military and non-military affairs so as to carry out warfare. This is opposite of the formula for warfare methods brought forth in past wars.”

    Yoho: Fascism or Nationalism is the “composite force”, a complete culture of pride in one’s history and traditions. In other words, MAGA!

    • 100th Avatar December 14, 2020 at 5:29 pm #

      And who’s joining this imperialistic police force?

      Johnnie Biblethumper from the farm belt?

      How ’bout Billy Ray Reb from the southern terminus of appalachia?

      Sam Evan Gelical from Tejas?

      Nah, you see, the jingoist flag-waving hillbillies need to smarten up, stop signing-up.Starve the beast.
      Many of them did.

      It’s not what they thought. Protecting freedoms? ‘Murica?
      National interest?
      What nation? Wolfowitz’s favorite?
      My *ss.
      Corporate force. Keeping the manufacturer in line.

      Even the dullards from Trump country have learned that.

      That’s why the military now has Juan, Guillermo… the ranks are chocked full of permanent residents with something to prove, to earn.
      conscription for a gateway passport
      Code 46

      Why not? It’s a fast track.

      • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 6:18 pm #

        You will do well in the new America. Contempt for rural Whites is in your blood.

        They hate you too.

  33. Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 1:50 pm #

    “There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America. Only law ensures that we never fall into that abyss—the abyss from which there is no return.”

    ? James Bamford, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

    Yoho: And now the law has failed us. Dupes of the culture monitors and the hidden masters behind them. But how relatively few seem to care. They hoot as “the orange man” is deposed. That’s all they care about. Why did we let people like this vote? The Left understands human nature far better than the Right does.

    It’s something horrible by and large. So how did the Right ever hope to protect itself? By only allowing the qualified to vote. And of course having a very strong moral culture and homogenous population.

    • rainmaker December 14, 2020 at 1:58 pm #

      Letting Welfarians vote has brought down the nation. Welfarians are the people who make their living being bought off.

      • BackRowHeckler December 14, 2020 at 2:26 pm #

        A coalition between ‘Welfarians’ as you call them, and Public Sector Union employees who administer The Welfare System, in states like Ct, Cal., Ill., and NY, has proven to be an unbeatable political force … they play for keeps and win every time.

        Brh

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 5:39 pm #

        Don’t discount the tens of millions that are new and temporary (hopefully?) folks thrust into being “Welfarians” at the moment as a result of covid and the rug being pulled out from under them to reveal freefall.

        They likely don’t all of a sudden think that’s the way they want to live. And there are probably just as many of them as the maligned collection of sadsacks that have been purposefully living that way for 60 years.

  34. tucsonspur December 14, 2020 at 2:31 pm #

    Maybe we can blame Trump’s demise on Richard Nixon and his “week that changed the world” in 1972. Better relations with the US were established, Mao died in’76, and then Deng Xiaoping began reforms and cleared the path for Chinese products to pour into global markets. In addition, the door opened to Western capital and technology (the Menshen notwithstanding).

    In 1992, Clinton called the Chinese the “butchers of Beijing”, but then welcomed them into the WTO. G. W. Bush was worried about their ability to be a powerful rival, and Obama accused them of currency manipulation. None of these presidents ever really called China out , however. Then came Trump.

    In 2011, Trump said, “You motherfuckers, we’re going to tax you 25%”. China bashing became the thing to do, and later on as president, Trump appointed anti-China people like Peter Navarro and trade rep Lighthizer who previously opposed China’s entry into the WTO. Navarro wrote the book, “Death by China”. Bannon considered China similar to Nazi Germany. And then of course, there’s Pompeo.

    The tariff wars began and barriers were put in place on technology transfer. Sanctions on companies like ZTE and Huawei were imposed. So we have Nixon opening China up, and Trump trying to close China down, or at least slow it down, along with negative effects here in the US also.

    Now what are the globalists and Xi Jinping expected to make of all this after four years? How might they deal with this brash, ‘it’s the CHINESE virus’, pussy grabbing, bashibazouk China molester? After all, the man has been plaguing them for quite some time.

    Joe Biden, ‘my old friend’, as Xi Jinping called him back in 2013, then pops out of the fortune cookie. Biden first visited China as a Senator back in 1979, meeting with Deng pong ping (ping pong?). Later on, he boasted that he “spent more time in private meetings with Xi Jinping than any world leader, and that the encounters amounted to twenty-five hours of private dinners”. Holy chop sticks.

    It then so happened that Hunter lost his laptop and one named Tony Bobulinski bombed the Bidens with some really bad bang bang chicken. Things were getting a bit iffy, what with an election coming up and all. It was time to call in the diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu and make some mischief with the voting machines. Mischief that could not be detected by even the most conspiracy theorizing Charlie Chan.

    It does seem that the Chinese and the globalists had more than enough reason to stop Trump by any means necessary, and that ‘old friend’ Biden just had to be the guy. So can we really blame Nixon for Trump’s demise and all of this flooey, funky chop suey? Why not, wasn’t it he who opened Pandora’s Box and woke up the Chinese dragon?

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  35. Roundball Shaman December 14, 2020 at 2:44 pm #

    “…the US Supreme Court booted the Texas case against the swing state election janksters, the citation of “standing” likely a cover story for another reason that isn’t strictly legal doctrine but rather a sentiment, namely, that a presidential election dispute belongs more properly in the elected House of Representatives… Is the CIA monitoring the vote tabulation…

    We just don’t know the sympathies and loyalties of the various members of the Embedded Bureaucracy and Bog Creatures that occupy the DC Swamp and its connective waterways. Agency or Group “X” may be “doing” this or that, but are they really doing it and if they are… do they already have a preconceived notion of how “it” is going to come out? All trust has been broken between We the People and those who laughingly refer to themselves as Public Servants. This seems all like pro wrestling or a point-shaving basketball game where the outward appearance is real conflict but the real truth is that the story line was pre-written by Hidden Hands for agendas unknown.

    “…perhaps President Trump might fire Terence Samuel’s ass, along with the rest of NPRs top management, and use the network to bypass the seditious media and social networks to get actual news out to the American people?”

    This could be a good or a terrible idea. That is, if used for “good” it would be a way to get the “truth” out to the public and work around an obstructionist media. However, it could also be a way for a ruler with less-than-honorable intentions to seize control and pump out nothing but self-serving horse manure at any time or maybe forever. Once again, it’s all about the “Nut behind the wheel”.

    In any event, may it be so that in the spirit of the Holiday season, that all the Swamp Monsters get everything that They so richly deserve. Hope they have a fondness for Coal and lots of it.

    • tucsonspur December 14, 2020 at 2:57 pm #

      Yes, trust has been broken and what, pray tell, is the truth?

  36. BackRowHeckler December 14, 2020 at 2:45 pm #

    You mean ‘Beijing’ Biden.

    In 2016 Xi JingPing presented Hunter with a ‘priceless diamond ring. Where’s that ring now?

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 5:50 pm #

      Pawn shop in Scranton

  37. tucsonspur December 14, 2020 at 2:49 pm #

    On the supposed special ops in Frankfurt:

    https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/12/army-rejects-claims-us-troops-killed-raiding-cia-election-server-facility-in-germany/

    Also on Dominion, statements that should be fairly easy to verify:

    https://www.dominionvoting.com/election2020-setting-the-record-straight/

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 5:53 pm #

      Interestingly (in regards to your first link above), the military did not deny the operation in any way. Just that losses were taken.

    • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:28 pm #

      DOminion voting dot com? What a surprise that they want to set the record ‘straight’ about themselves. Fox/Henhouse.

  38. malthuss December 14, 2020 at 3:03 pm #

    An ‘artist’ just made 500,000 dollars [more really] in seconds, with Trump hate.

    SEE JOE B PISS ON DT-

    https://decrypt.co/50922/beeple-ethereum-nft-art-sale

  39. My Point of View December 14, 2020 at 3:31 pm #

    This was fun …. Biden’s in, Trump’s out. Goodbye Red States. Womp Womp

    We will form our own country. It will include Hawaii, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, and all of the Northeast, to name a few.

    You get Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Dakotas and shithole deep south states.

    We get stem cell research and the Statue of Liberty.

    You get Branson, Missouri.

    We get Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, CISCO, Netflix, Microsoft, et al.

    You get Mississippi.

    We get 85% of America’s venture capital and entrepreneurs. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue.

    Please be aware we will be pro-choice and anti-war. If you need people to fight, send your evangelicals.

    We will have firm control of 80% of the country’s fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of the nation’s fresh fruit, 95% of America’s quality wines, 90% of all cheese, 90% of high tech industry, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy League and Seven Sister schools, plus Stanford, Cal Tech, Cal Poly, University of Chicago and MIT.

    Red States get 88% of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92% of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99 % of Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists.

    And as a bonus: Red states get Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, and Rand Paul. 62% of you believe life is sacred UNLESS we’re discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44%say that evolution is only a theory, and 61% think you are morally higher then we lefties. Well, fine.

    We get Hollywood, Yosemite, Costco, Amazon, the Grand Canyon …

    You can have all the new Coronavirus cases since you’re too self-centered to wear a mask.

    Peace out, Red States.

    We get Tony Fauci.

    You get Eric Trump.

    Or, you can reject Trump, Trumpism, racism, misogyny, xenophobia and embrace science, education, equality and move forward with us into a bright future.

    The choice is yours.

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    • Soul Forensics December 14, 2020 at 3:39 pm #

      Have fun powering up your Google without Texas and Oklahoma oil. Oh, wait! Your new friend China’s flush with the stuff .. er, kind of. Maybe they’ll sell some redirected crude from Nigeria for a thousand percent mark-up!

      Hahahahahahhaa!

      • My Point of View December 14, 2020 at 3:45 pm #

        Solar is rapidly becoming cheaper than coal or oil, if not already so.

        Join the future, it’s a great place, but you gotta get on the train.

        • Soul Forensics December 14, 2020 at 3:53 pm #

          “Solar is rapidly becoming cheaper than coal or oil, if not already so.”

          You’re funny.

        • SW December 14, 2020 at 4:02 pm #

          You also get Gavin Newsome, the World’s Capital of Sidewalk Poo (formerly known as San Francisco), the Clintons, and, just to be fair — we’ll throw in D.C. and all the spray paint your little heart desires to “decorate” national statues. Deal? 🙂

          But we get to keep our sense of humor since I’ve noticed many in these woke-up territories seem to have misplaced theirs.

        • BackRowHeckler December 14, 2020 at 4:22 pm #

          Solar accounts for 2% of electric power production, windmills 6%.

          Global Warming Cultists who think these science project alt energy schemes will keep the show going when coal, oil and natgas enter depletion, or Climate Commissar Kerry bans them, have their heads up their ass.

          Brh

          • messianicdruid December 14, 2020 at 5:20 pm #

            Your hatred will not allow you to leave us alone.

            We can change our minds [ then our ways ]. You can’t.

          • messianicdruid December 14, 2020 at 5:22 pm #

            Sorry BRH, replying to MPOV.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 6:12 pm #

          “but you gotta get on the train”…nothing historically obvious about that turn of phrase.

          • Kim December 15, 2020 at 9:03 pm #

            It is like Erdogan famously said:

            “Democracy is like a train; you get off once you have reached your destination.”

        • feralandroid December 14, 2020 at 6:48 pm #

          I think this wins the stupidest comment I have read on this site, and that is saying a lot.

          Does the left actually believe they can power even the few google server farms with solar? I thought they liked Science.

    • abbybwood December 14, 2020 at 4:58 pm #

      Biden and Harris are proving by their cabinet choices that they are NOT “anti-war”.

      Nice try.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 5:25 pm #

      Haha. Your new undeservedly condescendent horror show fake country doesn’t get Minnesota or Wisconsin. You clearly have never been. Well, you can have most of Madison. Other than that, enjoy unlimited Black Mirror, self-flagellation and free porn (one in the same?).

    • benr December 14, 2020 at 5:51 pm #

      You get a finger in the eye because everything you state is a lie.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 5:54 pm #

      Nah. It’s likely copy/pasted from someone else on FB.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 5:55 pm #

        But yes benr – I agree this guy warrants a little classic Stooge justice (twosies)

    • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 6:21 pm #

      Your terms are acceptable.

    • feralandroid December 14, 2020 at 6:50 pm #

      Can Idaho, Utah, Montana and Wyoming form a 3rd country? We like to keep to ourselves up here anyway.

    • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:34 pm #

      How delusional does one have to be to imagine Democrats are anti-war? Get ready for WWIII the second Biden stumbles into office. Harris is champing at the bit, with her CLinton handlers – recall HRC wanted to invade Iran on day 1. Now that dream will become a reality!

      And the China-owned new administration will usher in the same social credit system that plagues the Chinese now. Forced vaccination and 24/7 surveillance, and no paper money. Also? Forget about free speech. The demand to eliminate ‘hate speech’ is the Democrat version of getting rid of the First Amendment. Instead, those unelected Silicon Valley billionaires you worship will continue tightening the screws on what you are allowed to see, hear, read and type, until you end up in jail for proffering the wrong opinion. That’s what the liberal cancel culture wokiness has brought. And you won’t have shining modern cities, you’ll have garbage piles like the one your beloved BLM/Antifa just left in Portland. The blue shitties oops cities will continue to degrade into the big piles of offal they have been for the past 20 years.

      But delusions are nice huh?

  40. Tate December 14, 2020 at 3:39 pm #

    Ya think that Lenin was wrong when he said that the capitalists “will sell us the rope that we’ll use to hang them?” Look no further than Dominion Voting Systems, which none other than the ‘rag-of-record’ in 2019 said costs 3 times as much as manual systems. Always looking for the outsize margins, our “free-enterprise” boosters did indeed sell them “rope”. Selling We the People out in the process. But I believe there was an even bigger scam going on (one of 3) which I’ll talk about in a later comment.

  41. edpell December 14, 2020 at 4:10 pm #

    The national government will have to use the emergency broadcast system to inform the people that the traitors are being arrested by the military.

    • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:35 pm #

      Remember that country-wide texting test that they ran early on in the Trump administration? That may come in handy. 😉

  42. edpell December 14, 2020 at 4:13 pm #

    Both sides have taken this so far it can only end in blood. Lots and lots of blood. I am not encouraging anything nor doing anything I am just commenting on the social environment.

  43. Pucker December 14, 2020 at 4:18 pm #

    The various State Election Boards literally spent hundreds of millions of dollars buying “Fractional Decimal Voting Machines” and the elected “Representatives” responsible for oversight were so brain dead that no one saw anything unusual about that?

    The Society is insane…. The voting machines literally calculate votes according to fractional decimals. They literally bought Fractional Decimal Voting Machines. Half of a vote, three-quarters of a vote, a quarter of a vote – No one seemed to notice. Butt-Fuck Dumb….

    Fractional Decimal Voting Machines….

    https://x22report.com/aiovg_videos/dr-shiva-the-elite-have-enslaved-us-in-their-illusion-its-time-to-back-the-country/

  44. miatadon December 14, 2020 at 4:53 pm #

    The way Jim Kunstler’s thinking is devolving, I soon expect him to become a Proud Boy, mount-up that big 4×4 pickup, gather his guns and ammo, and go hunting those damn election-stealing libtards.

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    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 5:18 pm #

      I do not, nor does any other thinking individual. But enjoy your opinion.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 5:21 pm #

      I’d have suggested you take your “debate” to the Yahoo comments section. But they discontinued comments six months ago because their “stories” began being destroyed so heavily in the comments that they cut their losses in advance of the election/ramped-up covid mania.

      • benr December 14, 2020 at 5:52 pm #

        Exactly what MSNBC did they were getting creamed in the court of public opinion.

        Look at this very site the leftist trolls ignore reality and spew the same nonsense over and over.

        • cbeard December 14, 2020 at 6:04 pm #

          Add NPR to the list that removed comments a long time ago, as they were overwhelmed with truth. Actually, no liberal media of any consequence allows comments anymore.

        • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:37 pm #

          Just like they’ve been taught by their cult leaders. Repeat repeat repeat and then it is true.

      • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 6:24 pm #

        They’ve started up again, at least on some stuff. Not politics, but Black Santas get political really fast.

        • Kim December 15, 2020 at 9:06 pm #

          Black Santas.

          What does Kwanza have? Witch doctors?

  45. Mike Roberts December 14, 2020 at 5:26 pm #

    Why do we continue to see claims that judges have refused to look at evidence? Perhaps because Trump made the claim? I posted a ruling previously about a judge who made scathing comments about an affidavit being evidence. And this was mention in a judicial opinion co-authored by several conservative circuit judges:

    “In Pennsylvania, the responses have been particularly scathing. A recent opinion authored by Stephanos Bibas, a Trump-appointed judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and an apparent member of the Federalist Society, a conservative judicial organization, sharply criticized the campaign’s bid to prevent Pennsylvania officials from certifying the election results, which has since occurred in the state.

    “Bibas, in his opinion rendered Nov. 27, seemed to pinpoint the central flaw of the Trump campaign’s overall crusade, noting that its attorneys are making multiple conclusory allegations, such as the accusation that county boards conspired to exclude Republican poll watchers from the ballot-counting process, but aren’t presenting sufficient facts to back up those claims.

    “He also pointed out that Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, said during an oral argument that the campaign isn’t alleging fraud.

    “Charges of unfairness are serious,” Bibas said. “But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here.”

    “Bibas’s opinion was cosigned by two other circuit judges: Chief Judge D. Brooks Smith, who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001, and Judge Michael A. Chagares, who was also nominated by Bush, in 2006.”

    Not presenting sufficient facts implies that what evidence Trump’s campaign has is being presented but that it is flimsy at best.

    Yet JHK and others here continuously claim that the US legal system is against them by not allowing the evidence to be heard. Some even claim this is normal until it reaches the Supreme Court. As far as I can tell, this is nonsense. In any case, now all avenues have been exhausted, the Trump Campaign could now publish all of its evidence so that the people can see whether the cases had sufficient cause for the accusations.

    • Sagesse December 14, 2020 at 5:59 pm #

      Thank you for your lucid viewpoint Mike.

      I concur wholeheartedly. So far the courts have seen no evidence of any mass voter fraud that could change the results of the election. The courts have stated this repeatedly and unequivocally.

      If such evidence exists present it already. We keep hearing about all these grand fraud theories from Trump and his lawyers and all his other sycophants in public, only to find they have nothing when they show up in court.

      Tell me again why we should not be laughing at all these credulous rubes?

      • Ishabaka December 17, 2020 at 9:31 am #

        “Mass voter fraud” is a MSM media shibboleth. There is absolutely no need for mass fraud to steal an election. Targeted fraud in swing states is what is necessary, and what is alleged. Did it occur? Since it appears no court is willing to try the evidence, I doubt we will ever know. One thing is for sure – everyone who claims to know their either was significant fraud or not is delusional or lying.

    • jimbo December 14, 2020 at 6:12 pm #

      JHK is actually wrong . Gee uh wow :)))

      • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 7:53 pm #

        You are the new JHK, right? Wrong.

  46. Rulo Deschamps December 14, 2020 at 5:28 pm #

    Despite Mr Kunstler’s faith and reasoning, the overwhelming odds are against the president. With all his flaws, the president has come to represent the US Republic and Constitution (capitalized because they were genius, capital ideas). Uncharted waters after the new admin takes control (bah, they never lost it really, did they), but one (almost) certainty. Everything will be worse.
    Just like NPR has gotten worse every year and is now utterly a part of the cacophony of propaganda.
    Points in the comments I can agree with and see as well-reasoned and likely (but not certain, as nothing is):
    – a re-stoking of war drums against Russia. A renewed cold war, but not a nuclear war. Scenarios ME, Ukraine, Baltic countries, etc. Benefits defense & intel contractors & the CCP. China’s strategy could well be to pit the US against Russia and have them bleed each other dry. Maybe to swallow Siberia, maybe to acquire more complete control over the US, maybe because they feel the time is ripe for them to be the global hegemon. Maybe all 3.
    – it’s clear and becoming clearer every day that covid is a front for an assault on liberty, a fig leaf for what was coming anyway and has been coming a long time. Any covid passport will not be as easy to counterfeit as some here believe, what with barcodes and chips. A piece of paper? That doesn’t exist. The future is digital, and the time is coming when you will have to be digitally-approved to function in society. Most will say yes. I hope many others say no. The only way to get out of the conundrum seems to be to catch the virus and survive it. Prove you have the antibodies. It’s all very foggy though. The mandarins may decide you need a chip anyway, a vaccine, anything. And who’s going to question them? The media? Right. Under cover of covid, dissent is ignored and demonized.
    – a video game about the future of America was mentioned. Disclaimer, the last video game I played was pacman in an arcade sometime in the 80’s, so I don’t know much about them. But the poster explains that the backstory to the game is a dystopia where we are run by a handful of corporations and intel agencies. Highly likely. Far more likely than other dystopias, say, M Atwood’s theocracy. Religion is dead. Woke is the new religion. The actors in the game, corps & intel, have already stated where their sympathies lie. Hell, my countryman the fucking pope is all for BLM & the CCP & open borders. He’s the future of religion.
    – corps & intel, then. I can’t fathom how the corps keep making $ off of an exhausted planet in lockdown, but they do. New records every week. Smarter minds may understand it, and surely the fact that $ keeps being created has to have something to do w it. $ has to go somewhere. But desperation’s here, and making water a “market” is a sign. As timber, fisheries, rare minerals and everything else except $ disappear, $ has to find ways to multiply magically. Yes, the older Bushes own much of the Guarani. CNN founder Turner owns a big chunk of pristine Patagonia, lakes included, and so on (China has a base there too, under pretense of “space exploration”). I’ll say this though. I was in Bolivia during la guerra del agua, a huge popular uprising when water was privatized and rates went through the roof, leaving many effectively without water at all. A few days of intense mayhem was all it took for the water corp to collapse and run. I daresay that would be the universal reaction. And don’t think it’s just the Third World that can be plundered of water, as it has been plundered of everything else. N Fl’s springs are in the crosshairs of lovely corps like Nestle. Once water is $, all water everywhere becomes a target.
    – the winners in all this: communism & fascism (same damn thing, no matter the byzantine explanations of some long time posters here). Corporatism & greed. War. Stupidity. Surveillance. The losers: The United States Constitution and the American Republic. White people and the Western Canon. The Earth.
    The days are full of rage and grief, but one has to be strong and think of all the ways of a mouse hiding from a hungry cat. The mouse resists just by existing. We are the mice.

    • messianicdruid December 14, 2020 at 5:53 pm #

      ” Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. We have given the hand to the Egyptians [ foreigners ] and to the Assyrians [ strangers ] to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. “

      • Rulo Deschamps December 14, 2020 at 6:01 pm #

        Druid, Old Testament I suppose? Very apropos.

        • messianicdruid December 14, 2020 at 6:48 pm #

          Lamentations 5 – Could have posted the whole chapter.

      • Q. Shtik December 14, 2020 at 7:11 pm #

        ” Our inheritance…………………………………..of their hand. “ – messi

        ===========

        Do NOT put a space after an initial quote mark nor before a final quote mark. It causes the quote marks to be turned in the wrong direction (i.e. ass backwards).

        As to the actual content of your comment….. a bunch of religious mumbo jumbo. Also, you forgot to give us chapter and verse numbers.

        • Rulo Deschamps December 14, 2020 at 7:34 pm #

          Q, nobody writes perfectly. I make my own share of mistakes, as we all do. I guess the point of any writing is to make yourself understood. The biblical quote was powerful, as so much in the Bible is. Religious mumbo jumbo, you think. Maybe. But I understood and thought the quote was well-placed. As for the Messi reference… the Hand of God was Maradona’s infamous first goal against England back in Mexico 86, when Messi was 5 or so. And to put it in mumbo jumbo language, he redeemed himself a few minutes later with the most beautiful and outrageous goal in World Cup history. He took us to Glory and to Heaven that year, and he was an illiterate slum kid. Another thing to ponder. Writing well is nothing. It is what you do. Like this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=maradonas+second+goal+england&t=newext&atb=v251-4__&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D1wVho3I0NtU&ia=videos

        • messianicdruid December 14, 2020 at 7:42 pm #

          Is there any significance to backward quotation marks? Also wondering if it is this site or ubiquitous.

          • Rulo Deschamps December 14, 2020 at 8:52 pm #

            Druid, it has to do with the extra space you’ve been adding, that’s all. If you omit it they should show allright: “si vis pacem, para bellum”

          • messianicdruid December 14, 2020 at 10:12 pm #

            Got it.

            Some more mumbo- jumbo for Q : “On His last trip to Jerusalem, Jesus spoke at length about life under the oppressive reign of the Pharisees. The religious leaders tested Him continually “and plotted how to entangle him in his words” (Matthew 22:15). In Matthew 23, Jesus pronounced seven woes against the scribes and Pharisees, accusing them of hypocrisy, laying heavy burdens on the people, exalting themselves, and preventing people from entering God’s kingdom. He was especially harsh in His assessment of their strict adherence to the laws of tithing while they “neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness” (Matthew 23:23). He concludes by saying, “You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel” (verse 24).”

          • Kim December 15, 2020 at 9:08 pm #

            Thankyou, messianic druid.

  47. stelmosfire December 14, 2020 at 6:09 pm #

    I’m 265,000,000th in line for the vaccine boot. Yippee. Sign me up.

    • jimbo December 14, 2020 at 6:10 pm #

      May 1st .

    • Disaffected December 14, 2020 at 8:17 pm #

      I’m somewhere in the same neighborhood. Probably won’t have a choice in the matter either. Employer mandated. But who knows? Maybe I can slip between the cracks. Avoided getting a clearance for the longest time.

  48. jimbo December 14, 2020 at 6:09 pm #

    Barr just told Trump to go …. himself. That is what happened ya know .

  49. sophia December 14, 2020 at 6:14 pm #

    Taking over NPR or some such move is essential if a Trump win or swamp drainage is to occur. Without that, the brainwashed faction will just increase in hatred and think it justified.
    Why didn’t Trump overturn Obama’s law allowing domestic propaganda years ago?

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  50. PeteAtomic December 14, 2020 at 6:16 pm #

    This election was the biggest pile of fuckery I’ve ever seen politically in the US. Just blatant lying, fraud & corruption for the control of government.

    Our new appointed leader (notice how I don’t say elected), will speak tonight. I use the word “speaking” very loosely, because words will be coming out of his mouth, but it will be apparent from the vacant look in his eyes, that he is a human teleprompter.

    Things are getting back to normal, indeed. Biden’s cabinet & departmental heads are all familiar faces who were responsible for decades of institutional failure. It’s a coterie of monopolists, war mongers, corporatists, with a splattering of neo-marxist SJW as the sprinkle on top of this shit sandwich that will represent the US polity.

    A good part of the appointed new leader’s family will likely be going to federal prison for fraud & extortion.

    Oh boy, things are ‘getting back to normal’… that is, if normal is like a 6 year old tied up naked and gagged in a closet by their alcoholic mother.

    normal…

    • City_of_76 December 14, 2020 at 6:26 pm #

      Except the election wasn’t a pile of fuckery. In state after state, the efforts of thousands of people to make sure the election was fair & free & secure, paid off. There were no significant problems — let alone the kind of massive fraud that Trump has been crowing about. Trump is selling a lie, like the rest of his shit life that has turned him into the world’s biggest twat.

      When you’re ready to re-join the reality community, rest assured we welcome all honest hard working people.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 6:44 pm #

        I’m not sure I understand what point you are trying to make.

        It’s too veiled in artistic wordsmithing and classical flair. Perhaps you could be more specific to make it clear to others here that may not understand your bent either. (TWSS)

        For example, when you say “Trump is selling a lie, like the rest of his shit life that has turned him into the world’s biggest twat.” I sense winking sarcasm. Was that intended otherwise? By “shit life”, you surely refer to being wealthy, famous and, well, holder of the highest public office in the land. That *would* suck, indeed, no? It’s not obvious to me. Is twat a direct reference to his or someone else’s genitalia? Perhaps yours? Dunno. I’m stumped.

        Or when you say “In state after state, the efforts of thousands of people to make sure the election was fair & free & secure, paid off. There were no significant problems”…was that meant to be tongue-in-cheek, or is that just how I read it?

        I’m confused. Either way, thanks for your comment. You really opened up my eyes, personally, that much can be said for sure.

        • benr December 14, 2020 at 6:53 pm #

          @ mmams

          He is just an asshole trying to troll like always.
          He is actually looking in the mirror as he drools out words like loser and twat.

          A contemptable little antifa type nothing more.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 7:11 pm #

            But the wording was so well-crafted and poetic I guess I just got lost in the magic.

        • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:49 pm #

          Hahahhahaa!

      • LagingRunatic December 14, 2020 at 8:54 pm #

        “When you’re ready to re-join the reality community, rest assured we welcome all honest hard working people.”

        Of course you do. Someone has to do the hard work.

        Now fuck off.

      • Night Owl December 15, 2020 at 3:59 am #

        The hard evidence tells a different story.

        Too bad, so sad.

      • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:50 pm #

        Do you get warm fuzzies when you regurgitate NPR hushed toned assigned talking points?

  51. City_of_76 December 14, 2020 at 6:22 pm #

    Trump is a loser. And those of you who support him are doing yourselves no favors.

    • benr December 14, 2020 at 6:49 pm #

      Says the guy who supports out right theft and cheating of elections.
      Meanwhile back on the plantation Joe Biden is utterly owned by the Chinese but hey your pathetic guy won right? It does not matter how or why or who drug his weekend at bernies ass over the finish line and now they will expose him for the lying prick he is and you get a complete loser and unlikeable Resident Harris.

      Not my President period end of story except we have the truth and reality on our side.

      All the shit you accused Trump of your side really did just insert China and you have treason all the way.
      And insert China will till your butthole is bleeding and it will be your fault.

      You do this nation no favors by being a shill and douche.

    • messianicdruid December 14, 2020 at 7:16 pm #

      Quit trying to distract. It won’t fly.

      https://godskingdom.org/studies/books/secrets-of-time/appendix-e-the-biblical-meanings-of-numbers

    • Disaffected December 14, 2020 at 8:14 pm #

      Whether Trump is a loser or not is totally beside the point. The point is, have we now descended completely into gangster politics, where – to borrow Jim’s favorite phrase – “anything goes and nothing matters.” Because if we have, that means both/all sides will be doing it next, and elections will come down to nothing more than who has the most powerful vote manipulation machine, even more so than it already is right now. I think “Banana Republic” is the operable term for such a society; and yes, it appears that we’re there right now.

      • Night Owl December 15, 2020 at 3:57 am #

        Indeed. This has nothing to do with candidate preference. The system has and is being willfully subverted at a level few could have imagined.

        The only individuals cheering this are either low IQ, or those who want to see it fail for their own pleasure/benefit.

    • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 1:51 pm #

      I saw an 8 year old write that the other day. He also thought it was effective.

  52. MiddlePeninsula December 14, 2020 at 6:34 pm #

    The good news is the NFL is having some financial issues. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of whiny-ass millionaires. The best part is as the ad revenue dries up, what will they pay those salaries with? Bahahaha.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 7:14 pm #

      MLB owners are attempting to sue the insurance companies to cover their losses this year as well. Lol. Like they shouldn’t have to take a haircut with the rest of us. They have a product that can’t be exploited per usual, they can deal with it just the same as a barber shop, movie theater or restaurant.

      It is comical though, the attempt to circumvent that reality.

  53. beantownbill. December 14, 2020 at 6:45 pm #

    I’ve always said, both here and in the outside world, that we are at a fork in the road. One branch leads to a world of wonder, and the other to death, destruction and devolution.

    When I first signed on to CFN around 12 or 13 years ago, I thought we would probably travel onto the first branch. I was pretty optimistic, and disagreed in general with JHK. Unfortunately for me, I was naive. Now I think we are on the second branch, the one with a bad ending for our civilization and for us.

    To me, it’s ironic that It appears JHK was the optimist, what with his survivors eating roasted rat stew around the fireplace. He believes we will endure albeit at a much lower level.

    It’s nearly impossible for me to accept that this is happening. I always thought we would advance to ridiculous heights. I’m angry at losing what might have been. We are getting a nor’easter on Wednesday or Thursday. How apropos, as we’ve been experiencing a civilizational one for a long time.

    • benr December 14, 2020 at 6:50 pm #

      The lunatic left is going to have you sitting in a cave eating rat stew if you are lucky.
      Chances are your Chinese overlords will have you digging ditches for their latrines in the next decade.

      • SW December 14, 2020 at 8:25 pm #

        If you’d like to see what happens when China comes to the US then watch the documentary An American Factory. Blue collar Americans and imported Chinese workers are together on the same jobs. Some get along fine but in an open forum with only Chinese workers present, they say how they really view Americans and how to manipulate them. It’s very eye opening. What’s also revealing is how the Chinese view themselves and their own lives.

      • beantownbill. December 15, 2020 at 12:04 am #

        I’m not sure I’ll be around then. And don’t knock rat stew if you haven’t tried it.

    • gustafson.robert.22 December 14, 2020 at 7:29 pm #

      The bias created by civilizational accomplishments is so blinding.. historically.. right now.

    • Disaffected December 14, 2020 at 8:08 pm #

      Jim has always seen it right in general terms. The specifics are almost always impossible to predict accurately, but kudos to Jim for trying anyway. I never take his predictions literally anyway; just as highly plausible possibilities. They help get the adrenaline flowing for what’s ahead.

    • Rulo Deschamps December 14, 2020 at 9:14 pm #

      Beantown, long time reader here too. What you say is interesting. He despaired of this wasteful society putting fossil resources in the crack pipe at Hunter’s rates, but he offered solutions: smart urban planning, a revival of the rail network. He advocated old “choo choo trains” could have more immediate and effective impact than all the newfangled technologies put together. I think he knew it would not happen, but you’re right… he was the optimist. Now we’re not even talking about that anymore. It seems quaint, un-important, in view of the collapse and march towards totalitarianism we experience now. I know he was right about depletion and environmental issues. But things have gotten so bad, he had to talk about the urgent, as opposed to the important.

      Rulo— Honestly, do you fault me for writing about the compelling and fraught politics of the Trump years? Urban design is just not the matter at hand, which is the survival of our country.— JHK Admin

      • Rulo Deschamps December 15, 2020 at 7:59 pm #

        No, sir, I don’t. I appreciate you writing about the Trump years, and about the end of the Republic. I appreciated also reading about parking lagoons, human whales, the madness of it all, the possible solutions, the hydro dynamos and laundries, the barges using minimal energy to move loads of grain, the trains, the greengrocer and the flats upstairs verboten by the stupid zoning laws that give us the soul-less stew we live in, complete with yards full of plastic Chinese junk, no meaningful jobs, drug & TV & porn addictions, and the relentless burning of energy reserves that took millenia to build for stupid reasons like driving Bratleigh to soccer in the Hummer.
        I went into sustainable farming because of your writing, and I’m now in my 2nd decade doing it and I’ll die doing it.
        You were the clearest voice back in the day, and you still are. You are forced to talk nonstop about politics because it is a 1789 moment. Bastille, guillotine, the woke Rousseau, Robespierre, Bonaparte (the “corn pone nazi” to come?). No more time for urban planning discussions when civil war and the end of the Constitution and the Nation loom. I get it. Besides, you can write about anything you damn want and who are we to tell you what to do? Read it or don’t read it.
        I appreciate having you still. I’m sorry if I was misunderstood. I’m not one of those clowns, “you used to be great, now you’re a Trumpista”, that appear on the blog periodically. Thank you for writing and please keep up the good work.

    • stelmosfire December 14, 2020 at 9:33 pm #

      BTB, no despair, there will always be men out in the tempest toiling for the masses. As has always been the case. It is what we do..

  54. MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 7:06 pm #

    AG Barr stepping down. Is Jackie Chiles available?

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    • Kim December 14, 2020 at 7:31 pm #

      Excellent character.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpcEietIoxk

    • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 8:00 pm #

      Why not Jackie Chan?

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 8:15 pm #

        Or Jackie Mason?

        • stelmosfire December 15, 2020 at 8:01 am #

          Or Ralph Kramden

  55. Kim December 14, 2020 at 7:13 pm #

    State legislatures in Nevada, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania have selected republican electors to the US Congress, which will make the ultimate determination. This will also preserve cases and lawsuits of election fraud in each state.

    If the outstanding court cases are successfully argued the republican electors would be able to cast votes for President Donald Trump.

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/12/14/republican-legislatures-choose-alternate-electors-in-nv-wi-ga-pa-to-preserve-election-challenge-options/

    • Tate December 14, 2020 at 7:39 pm #

      So the RINOs in Lansing closed the statehouse for “safety & security” reasons, LOL. That’s airtight, right? That was the reason given for mail-in balloting, iirc. The sheep won’t notice (although counter-argument: there has been a distressing dropoff in NFL ratings, haha.)

  56. Kim December 14, 2020 at 7:13 pm #

    This morning, during an emergency hearing, MI 13th Circuit Court Judge Kevin A Elsenheimer granted permission to Attorney Matthew Deperno to release the findings from their forensic examination of 16 Dominion Voting machines in Antrim County, MI where thousands of votes flipped from President Trump to Joe Biden on November 3, 2020.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/breaking-bombshell-mi-judge-grants-attorney-matt-deperno-permission-release-results-forensic-examination-16-dominion-voting-machines-antrim-co-video/

    • beantownbill. December 14, 2020 at 8:51 pm #

      Yeah, but can you trust what he says? After all, he has Elsenheimers.

    • benr December 15, 2020 at 9:48 am #

      They said there was a 68% failure in the voting machine to assign the right vote meaning up to 68% of the votes went to the wrong guy.

  57. Tate December 14, 2020 at 7:14 pm #

    Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., says that cancelling student loan debt for borrowers is a “matter of racial and economic justice.”
    “Student Loan cancellation is a matter of racial and economic justice. Across our country, black student borrowers are forced to borrow more than their white peers, and are five times more likely to default on a student loan,” Pressley said at the Consumer Federation of America’s annual financial services conference last week.

    Pressley sponsored the House-passed Student Borrower Credit Improvement Act, which would “establish a credit rehabilitation process for private student loan borrowers facing hardship, making students eligible to have all associated derogatory marks removed from their credit reports, which can otherwise stay on for 7 years.” It has not passed the Senate yet.

    Say, that bolded portion sounds like it would be discretionary which students get their loans forgiven, doesn’t it? Could it be that those student borrowers who are “five times more likely to default on their student loan(s)” would get preferential treatment in their application for debt relief?

    What about mortgages & HELOCs? What about auto loans? Isn’t it only fair that those borrowers who are historically “forced to borrow more than their white peers” should be the prime beneficiaries of debt forgiveness, especially if they’ve defaulted on their loans already? What do you think, Brh?

    • Kim December 14, 2020 at 7:18 pm #

      “Isn’t it only fair that…”

      Residents of clownworld are impervious to arguments reductio ad absurdum.

      I am afraid that they understand only the whip and the knout.

      • Tate December 14, 2020 at 8:12 pm #

        1560s, clowne, also cloyne, “man of rustic or coarse manners, boor, peasant,” a word of obscure origin; the original form and pronunciation are uncertain. Perhaps it is from Scandinavian dialect (compare Icelandic klunni “clumsy, boorish fellow;” Swedish kluns “a hard knob; a clumsy fellow,” Danish klunt “log, block”), or from Low German (compare North Frisian klönne “clumsy person,” Dutch kloen). OED describes it as “a word meaning originally ‘clod, clot, lump’, which like those words themselves …, has been applied in various langs. to a clumsy boor, a lout.”

        I’ll go with North Frisian klönne, it’s closest to English.

        All alone in a crowded room
        He tries to force a smile
        The smile it beamed or so it seemed

        [Atomized, alienated, deracinated; alone in a crowded room of others just like himself.]

        But never reached the eyes, disguise
        Masquerading as the funny man do they despise

        [a non-Duchenne smile, i.e., a forced smile]

        The false smile maketh of the man
        Glass empty or half full
        Try to make some sense or sorrows drown

        [Tries to rationalize his purposeless existence.]

        All looks well on the outside
        Underneath the solemn truth
        There’s something that inside has died

        [The living death; another zombie clod controlled by forces he’s afraid to try to plumb.]

        Tomorrow comes tomorrow goes
        But the cloud remains the same
        Wonder why he’s feeling down
        Tears of a clown

        [Life got you down, clown? Cheer up, you’re not alone.]

        Maybe it’s all just for the best
        Lay his weary head to rest
        Was forever feeling drowned
        Tears of a clown

        [This could suggest a resolution.]

        Who motivates the motivator
        Facade it has to go
        He knows it sooner or later
        Smile for cameras all OK
        But tomorrow is another day he must get through

        [Clowns only responsive to the whip & the knout. Or ?]

        He had a longer way to run
        Or so the story goes
        Life full of fun where did it go

        [Ran out his “line of credit.”]

        We saw the sadness in his eyes
        It came as no surprise
        And now of course we’ll never know

        [This does suggest a resolution.]

        Tomorrow comes tomorrow goes
        But the cloud remains the same
        Wonder why he’s feeling down
        Tears of a clown

        Maybe it’s all just for the best
        Lay his weary head to rest
        Was forever feeling drowned
        Tears of a clown

    • Rulo Deschamps December 14, 2020 at 8:47 pm #

      Tate, I just told my dear blond, green-eyed wife, I have good & bad news for her: good, student debt will be canceled (she carries some, on predatory terms). Bad, only for POC. We’re on genealogy.com right now, trying to find a Swahili or Sikh great-great-great grandmother for her!

  58. Kim December 14, 2020 at 7:14 pm #

    A lot of counting of as-yet-unhatched chickens going on here.

    Barr’s last day is December 23rd.

    • Kim December 14, 2020 at 7:29 pm #

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNCL7ZlUFe8

      “Stephen Miller: We have more than enough time to right the wrong of this fraudulent election result”

      The only date that is mentioned in the Constitution is January 20th.

      • Soul Forensics December 14, 2020 at 7:49 pm #

        Even Jan 20th isn’t “set”, in the larger sense. The election result could still be disputed or delayed, at which point Hallowe’en-face Pelosi (or whoever is Speaker at the time) would be an impotent placeholder until further investigations are completed and assessed.

        • Kim December 14, 2020 at 8:20 pm #

          Yep. But I expect it to be thoroughly cooked by the 20th. All of the pieces are almost in place. That all of the battleground states have sent in alternative slates is very good.

          • FreddieMars December 14, 2020 at 8:38 pm #

            Your indomitable optimism is a thing to behold.

          • Kim December 14, 2020 at 8:43 pm #

            It’s the Stockdale Principles.

  59. James Kuehl December 14, 2020 at 7:52 pm #

    When asked during the Thanksgiving holiday if he would concede if the Electoral College voted to certify Biden as the winner Trump said, “Certainly I will. And you know that.” But then, he has a history of letting his mouth write checks his ass can’t cash.

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    • Kim December 14, 2020 at 8:16 pm #

      https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-biden-hunter-laptop-emails-ny-post

      Biden denies family profited from his name, says ‘no basis’ to Hunter Biden story

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 8:19 pm #

      Joey NoPulse made the same pledge, yet declared victory a week after the election, despite no certification at the time.

      Sucks all around, but they’re both playing the same game.

    • benr December 15, 2020 at 9:50 am #

      Odd Biden said he would not concede so there is that being soundly ignored.

  60. Kim December 14, 2020 at 7:55 pm #

    https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1338568092750843907

    State Police Block GOP Electors From Entering Michigan Capitol to Cast Votes For President Trump – No Reason Given!

    • Kim December 14, 2020 at 7:58 pm #

      I look forward to all of the media complaints about “rule of law” in the coming weeks.

  61. Kim December 14, 2020 at 8:12 pm #

    https://uncoverdc.com/2020/12/14/antrim-county-forensic-report-shows-manipulation-of-votes/

    Ramsland’s team also confirms that the DVS machine errors are not glitches but, rather, the machines and software are designed to create fraud and affect election results:

    “The system intentionally generates an enormously high number of ballot errors. The electronic ballots are then transferred for adjudication. The intentional errors lead to bulk adjudication of ballots with no oversight, no transparency, and no audit trail. This leads to voter or election fraud.” Based on the study, the group concluded that the machines should not be used in Michigan nor should the election results in Antrim County be certified.

    The team of seven investigators spent eight hours on Dec. 6 performing a forensic audit on the machines. The findings seem to be both damning and significant. One such finding focused on error rates that demonstrated a “significant and fatal error in security and election integrity.” The “allowable election error rate established by the Federal Election Commission guidelines is of 1 in 250,000 ballots (.0008 percent).” The team, however, observed an “error rate of 68.05 percent. This demonstrated a significant and fatal error in security and election integrity.” The team makes it clear that the errors were due to machine not human error as Jocelyn Benson said in early November.

    • Kim December 14, 2020 at 8:14 pm #

      Dominion machines were used in 47 counties in Michigan.

      EO13848 and the Insurrection Act should cover this very, very nicely.

  62. Redneck Liberal December 14, 2020 at 8:18 pm #

    As a reader for some time now, I’m feeling a little hesitant in finally posting (given the general tenor of responses when someone feels their toes have been tread on) but here goes:

    Re: the election schmozzle: I’ve read about and heard about ballots with watermarks, double-counting of ballots, ballot-stuffing with blanks (or completed ballots?) being trucked across state lines, ballots being taken away and subsequently ‘lost’, CIA-held servers and the Army seizing them in Germany, tabulators & other machines being hacked and so on. It’s all very confusing.

    Could someone here please take just a little time to actually list all the various threads of the election theft argument? Is there a coherent narrative to all this?

    • FreddieMars December 14, 2020 at 8:23 pm #

      Agree – it’s a bit of a dog’s breakfast, for sure. I’d also like a ‘coherent narrative’ from one of the Trumpians.

      • Soul Forensics December 14, 2020 at 8:29 pm #

        The coherent narrative is good vs evil.

        • Kim December 14, 2020 at 8:41 pm #

          Ha ha.

        • Tate December 14, 2020 at 9:07 pm #

          Soul,

          That’s what we call ‘pattern recognition’.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 9:15 pm #

        Okay, Fred. A narrative? It’s been laid out by JHK quite clearly, albeit a bit late to the game compared to some other more “traditional” writers/bloggers on the conservative side.

        And I really don’t like what-aboutisms…but half the country has waited four years for a coherent narrative of RussiaWhateverTFThatWasGate. Doesn’t exist in milkshake form.

        I think what it comes down to is they (“them”, the “royal they”, the “elites”) have realized all they have to do is make everything as murky as possible from all angles, and no one (no matter how potentially correct in their assertions) can possible satisfy all sides with what the truth may actually be. And “the royal they” are now taking advantage of that in full, nuts-out in your face form. All they’ve gotta do is deny, scoff and wait until people are tired of caring anymore.

        Works on both sides. And it sucks.

        Trump and his people weren’t talking months in advance about the likelihood of pending election fraud to be petulant dicks (though they may be). They knew the game just as well as anyone, and it turns out things, while not necessarily proven, are just as murky as expected and they’re playing the only cards they have.

    • Kim December 14, 2020 at 8:38 pm #

      @ Redneck Liberal

      The statement “As a reader for some time now, …”

      +

      Implication that it has not been explained and shown many times with perfect clarity that fraud took place and that many and various methods were used, most of them blatant.

      = Disingenuous troll

      However, I have a spare minute:

      The methods and the evidence have been described, demonstrated or provided here on this site hundreds of times.

      I just provided a link above to the way the Dominon machines are used to commit fraud in Michigan.

      The Georgia consent decree wrt signature verification has been explained time and again.

      The Georgia fraud-before-your-eyes video from State Farm Arena provides undeniable proof that a fraud took place that night involving at last 24,000 ballots.

      The use of Zuckerberg’s $350 million to place illegal and unconstitutional ballot drop boxes in Democrat-dense counties but not in Republican counties and the fact that he illegally provided funding and training to election commissions and workers.

      The Wisconsin case where they have 220,000 “indefinitely confined” absentee ballots but no applications, pictures, or signatures, as required by state law.

      It goes on and on and on.

      Overall, the basic threads, however, are two:

      1. Fraud involving traditional methods such as out of state voting, felons votng, miscounts, vote changing, etc, often involving the use of programmed fraud tabulators

      2. Blatant US constitutional infringements involving the right of only legislatures to make election law, equal treatment under the law, and due process.

      • Kim December 14, 2020 at 8:52 pm #

        @ Redneck Liberal

        Here is a nice illustrative example of how thorough-going and blatant the fraud was:

        https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/one-joe-bidens-wisconsin-electors-broke-state-election-law-falsely-claiming-indefinite-confinement/

        One of Joe Biden’s Wisconsin Electors Broke State Election Law by Falsely Claiming Indefinite Confinement

        One of Joe Biden’s Wisconsin electors falsely claimed she was “indefinitely confined” to her home leading up to Election Day, but pictures on her social media show her out and about campaigning.

        Wisconsin Democrat state senator Patricia Schachtner will cast one of her state’s 10 electoral votes for Joe Biden on Monday.

        • FreddieMars December 14, 2020 at 8:59 pm #

          Thanks, Kim…I think.

          “= Disingenuous troll” – that’s precisely what gave me trepidation.

      • Kim December 14, 2020 at 9:03 pm #

        https://electionwiz.com/2020/12/14/breaking-wisconsin-supreme-court-says-election-officials-were-wrong-ballots-may-not-be-counted/amp/

        BREAKING: Wisconsin Supreme Court says election officials were wrong; ballots may not be counted

        The opinion, which was released this morning, says local elections officials were wrong to suggest that voters could claim the status of “indefinitely confined” based on COVID-19. The majority decision also held that if voters falsely claimed they were indefinitely confined “their ballots would not count.”
        ………………………………………………………………………………………

        The important point to note here now is that this does not mean that all of the 215,000 votes in question will be wiped out. Rather, the ruling is that each “indefinitely confined” vote must be challenged and examined individually.

        This may sound arduous, but the margin of victory is just 20,608 votes.

        Based on this, it appears that Wisconsin may be overturned.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 14, 2020 at 9:18 pm #

      Also, welcome to the show, Redneck Liberal.

      Your apprehension is understandable, but most of the hardball you see is long-time commenters calling shit on other commenters they know are here to make waves, often just for them. Waves are fine. But expect to be knocked a bit if you decide to push buttons for no reason. I waited a few years to jump in…and I admit I find it part of the fun…but I think you’ll be fine.

      • benr December 15, 2020 at 9:52 am #

        No the people getting knocked are likely paid propagandists or are here just to be assholes.

    • Night Owl December 15, 2020 at 3:54 am #

      Yes, visit Sidney Powell’s Twitter, where you will find multiple videos (interviews) in which she explains the 3-4 methods employed, and how they discovered said methods

      It is not confusing to individuals with medium to high IQs. Your results may vary.

  63. tom clark December 14, 2020 at 8:36 pm #

    With apologies to the First Edition (and Kenny Rogers, if anyone remembers him), “I just dropped in to see what condition my condition is in?”

    The answer? Not all that great, but hangin’ in.

    Good nite, Kim.

  64. Kim December 14, 2020 at 9:29 pm #

    @ HH

    Hey, HH, are you there?

    https://thenationalpulse.com/commentary/celebrating-the-death-penalty-for-pedophile-murderers/

    Alfred Bourgeois, 55 at the time of his execution this week, was convicted in 2004 for physically and emotionally torturing, sexually molesting, and beating his daughter to death.

    …Bourgeois whipped the girl with an electrical cord, burned her feet with a cigarette lighter and hit her in the head with a plastic baseball bat so hard that her head swelled, then refused to seek medical treatment for her, court documents say. Prosecutors also said he sexually abused her.

    Her toilet training allegedly enraged Bourgeois and he would sometimes force her to sleep on a training toilet.

    It was during a trucking run to Corpus Christi, Texas, that he ended up killing the toddler. Again angered by her toilet training, he grabbed her inside the truck by her shoulders and slammed her head on the windows and dashboard four times, court filings say.

    It took 18 years and millions of dollars to execute this vile piece of shit. Thanks commies.

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  65. scrooge December 14, 2020 at 10:02 pm #

    Well we pulled it off. Hillary did not get locked up. The wall is falling down into the Rio Grande. Billionaires scooped a juicy tax cut. China’s trade surplus is the highest it’s ever been. No industrial policy, e-verify not instituted. All trumps glorious executive orders soon to be reversed.

    All that cctv out there nobody caught on tape doing nefarious deep state things. Q is dead. Man we are good. Hunter leaves laptops everywhere with kiddie porn and complete plans for total chinese world domination and not a peep from Billie Barr. The kraken drowned in a wading pool in front of 4 seasons landscaping and dildo store.

    I hope old George Soros sends us a good Christmas bonus. Bye Don, Have a glorious Christmas.

    • Tate December 14, 2020 at 10:35 pm #

      Man, you live up to your screen name.

    • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 11:07 pm #

      The kraken drowned in a wading pool in front of 4 seasons landscaping and dildo store.

      Great line. And truth be told, I am feeling kind of deflated. The Trump team seems to have lost all momentum. Or is this just the quiet before they hit the beach at Normandy – the Kraken screaming and its lashing tentacles raising up huge waves as it storms onshore? I’m losing faith but I soldier on, operating on primacy of the Will.

      No doubt the Blitz will coincide with an Emergency Broadcast repeated every fifteen minutes ordering people to stay calm and calling Patriots to arms. Special forces will parachute into minority neighborhoods to frighten them into not rioting. The parachutes will be seen as Klan Robes. The Antifa will be met by the National Guard and will soon flee the field. Perfect Peace Profound will reign within 24 hours as the President appears on all screens throughout the world to announce the commencement of America 2.0, or what the Hindus call Raj Ram, the Reign of Righteousness. If only Trump had a first dog. He could be shown sitting with the dog, watching the sunset as he fondled its head. On occasion he could say a few words. Or perhaps have fireside chats like Carter used to do. I guess we’ll have to go with videos of him golfing or eating freedom fries with a coke, or even a slice of pizza.

      • Kim December 14, 2020 at 11:30 pm #

        I’m sending over a cyber-Patton to give you a slap in the face.

        Pull yourself together.

      • scrooge December 14, 2020 at 11:35 pm #

        Cheer up you guys finished a very strong second. Meet your adversaries:

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PsotfzGpby8

        • rube-i-con December 15, 2020 at 11:02 am #

          nothings’s finished though, can’t you feel it?

          it’s only gotten increasingly acrimonious since 2000, the dam’s busted now

          the Right is ready to take to the streets with *it’s* No Justice No Peace

          how’s that for irony?

          gotta laff

      • Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 12:01 am #

        I don’t know the news sites you visited today, Yohannon, but it was a yuuuuge day of winning for Team Trump and the deplorables.

        MSM didn’t report (of course) that WI Supreme Court upheld constitutional law that states Indefinite Confinement rewrites mean votes cannot be certified, which, alone, would nullify a Biden win with what we already know.

        MI report detailing that error rates in that State’s Dominion shenanigans were 68% – 80%. Stated laws say that any error rate of over .0008% is cause for recount with strict oversight as to certification. A staggering statistical contrast.

        Stephen Miller outlines multiple plans for upcoming dates — Dec 18 , Jan 5, Jan 20, and, if needed, beyond, should further investigations be warranted.

        Huge news in Georgia where Raffensperger finally had to cave to deplorable pressure (and some from Loeffler and Purdue) whereby fully audited ballot counts will happen in a few counties. There’ll be enough ballots scrutinized so that — if the inevitable happens — anything over even 5% of problems on ballots (and there’ll probably be much more) will necessitate a total verification, including every piece of info that was missing from so many of already-sussed-out ballots (addresses, dead or alive, out of state, multiple ballots, dead postal boxes, etc. — ALL terms must comply for verification).

        And Bill Barr, the guy who talked the talk but couldn’t even limp the walk, resigned.

        Praise Jesus and open the beer!

        • Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 12:06 am #

          Addendum: when, not if, the limited Georgia audit produces unverifiable votes of 5% — maybe even less — I meant to emphasize that this means all votes in the entire State will have to be verified. And again, these so-called hard dates — Dec 8 & Dec 14 — mean nothing. There’s lots of time.

          • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 12:27 am #

            They’ll just pronounce you don’t have standing (whatever that really means) and not even bother to look. The Electors have cast their votes and Biden is all but in.

            We await the King on the White Horse. If he falters in his duty, America, the West, and the World are lost.

          • Kim December 15, 2020 at 12:35 am #

            @ Soul Forensics

            1. It is absolutely a problem if people insist on going to drink at the poisoned well of the legacy media. I don’t know why people do it. It is all lies, all day long.

            2. Anent the signature audit in Georgia

            Georgia’s secretary of state on Monday announced an audit of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in one county, but the outcome of the presidential race in Georgia will not change as a result of the audit.

            The shitbag has waited until he believes it is too late to change the result. And it is just one county. Of course, the result shoud be overwhelming – as ithas been in Antrim county – but it will take two weeks he says, which means much longer for sure.

            And he is still denying access to the Dominion machines, which is what he is really worried about and they will still be used on Jan 5.

            The consent decree he doesn’t care about it being challenged. He has been paid for that.

            He is also involving the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Not comforting.

            But none of this is what matters now. We already have all the evidence in the world. Everybody has played his or her hand. All faces and players are identified.

            From now on it is about EO13848, the revelations of the ODNI report, the Insurrection Act, and about the next meeting of the Electoral College.

            In that connection, the current Solar Winds story is very interesting.

          • Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 1:17 am #

            Kim,

            Raffesperger, of course, wants to keep delaying, but Trump, as Chief Magistrate, can order a special prosecutor tomorrow, if he so chooses, to investigate all evidence and get it out to the American people. JHK’s suggestion of opening up NPR and PBS for this avenue is interesting in that respect.

            Under the prosecutor’s aegis, Trump could also order all Dominion voting machines to be seized and inspected, with further public revelation. This could be completed long before Jan 5th.

            I believe it was mentioned on this board last thread, as well, that Trump could declassify all documents. Except for weapons assembly and plans, not much of it truly needs to be classified anyway. It’s just an ass-covering protection excuse to do so. Pick your own favorite two or three person back-and-forth conversation stream under that scenario.

            Another prosecutor can be immediately appointed by Trump to hammer the Bidens. Joe Biden would immediately be ineligible to assume the Presidency based on even the most junior level clearance check.

          • rube-i-con December 15, 2020 at 11:04 am #

            hey lemme tell ya a story ’bout a man named Sou…

            why not

            Souly, they’ll just hand pick which votes to audit

            problem solved for them

            it’s how the party of Cain rolls, death and deceit and all manner of wickedness

          • rube-i-con December 15, 2020 at 11:42 am #

            the ballots to be audited have been pre-selected for purity

            just as useless and conniving as the recounts of tainted ballot pools

          • rube-i-con December 15, 2020 at 12:05 pm #

            pre-sanitized ballots, don’t waste your time

            fix is in, only EO1348 or an unexpected revelation can save the situation now

        • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 12:20 am #

          We will not win in the Courts, that’s clear. Maybe a battle here and there, but that’s it. Valuable in a twofold sense: as distraction from what Trump is really doing and for educational purposes. But if we’re going to win, it has to be the Insurrection Act at this point. The Supreme Court said No, and that’s final.

          But these victories lift the hearts of the faithful and cast doubts into the hearts of the unbelievers – healthy doubt. If Trump crosses the Rubicon, there’s going to have to be classes held on TV about what really happened for starters, and about American History and Politics in general.

          • Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 12:34 am #

            A battle here and there is all it will take. Because then the narrative shifts irrevocably. Once, say, Wisconsin flips, it’ll put extreme pressure on the other swing states. We saw this in a smaller but still significant way today when the seemingly bulletproof Raffensperger had to give in.

            Many ways to victory. The Supreme Court’s denial of the Texas case is separate from any other case or cases that are brought before them by Team Trump. And evidence and pressure mounts. Even that door is not closed.

          • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 1:13 am #

            A flip would be good, but it’s a little late in the game. Time isn’t on our side and we’re not dealing with honest brokers here needless to say. But as I said education is important for after the Legions lock things down. We’ve shown good will and we can keep showing it, right up until the the Marshalls take over the TV networks. And even after. It’s important to make a case to the more reasonable Democrats, about how the election really was stolen.

            Many know but don’t care that much. Anyone but Trump! Heart before head. But we have to try. If it doesn’t work, we’ll have to separate from them – but they can’t say we didn’t try.

            In any case, you have to accept that Satan is King of this World. Force and Fraud rule here. You can set up your telescope but you can’t make them look thru it. You can bring a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. You can bring a case to the Supreme Court, but you can’t make them accept it or look at it. We have to Win – since the Republic is probably over with. That means force against their fraud.

            Wisconsin would be sweet though – after those two bitches got on their high horses, one making a prepared speech about “racism”.

            Note: It’s amazing how few intelligent people really like to think, at least not outside their profession or hobbies or special interests. Trying to make them do so will earn you their hatred – just like with regular IQ folks. The “point of their pentagram” is not pointing straight upwards to True North, you see. Ripeness is all!

          • Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 1:42 am #

            “It’s amazing how few intelligent people really like to think, at least not outside their profession or hobbies or special interests. Trying to make them do so will earn you their hatred – just like with regular IQ folks.” — Yohannon

            Verily and alas.

            Most Blacks, many Hispanics, all SJWs, and almost all women (they’re just not, in general, interested in abstract thought, ideas that transcend the personal as it affects their day-to-day lives), and, as you say, anyone who is otherwise intelligent and who just wants to come home from a boring day crunching numbers in a cubicle and watch sports. Sharing thoughts with others about political reality, and human nature in general, is as welcome as a rabid wolverine at a picnic.

            The depressing thing is that most people don’t WANT to think. Becase to do so requires effort, persistence, discomfort, juggling paradoxes, solving puzzles. Much easier to receive the consensus thoughts of others. That way lies comfort. History teaches us, in many ways, the overwhelming human weakness for mental inertia, cowardice, and conformity. Anyone who thinks differently is automatically dangerous because it disrupts, even a bit, the comforting paradigmatic lies they’ve told themselves all their lives.

          • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 8:14 pm #

            Unless there is truly a Big Reveal, which means, declassifying the horrors the Clintons, Obama, et al., are guilty of, including their roles in child trafficking and other horrors, there will be a civil war. People who support the evil Democrats really have to have their crimes shoved in their faces until they get it.

          • benr December 16, 2020 at 11:44 am #

            @maryv

            Truth is no matter how much you show these people they will never one believe nor two care.

      • kendar667 December 16, 2020 at 4:42 pm #

        You’ve got to listen to Bannon’s war room a bit. He will get you fired up for sure. So many good things happening and the big show is just getting started. There are literally tons of positive developments in every contested state.

        No way in hell China Joe and the Ho step foot in the oval. This is the quiet before the beach as you said. What I’m hearing is something Yuge is coming down that is on nobody’s radar but mums the word for now. Supposedly when it hits, everyone will just laugh and say “Genius!”

        For now, there are just whispers from Lin Wood and Dan Scavino and others.

  66. Kim December 14, 2020 at 10:55 pm #

    People may already know that CISA has announced that there are big security issues anent the China-based Solar Winds Internet management suite, widely used by all kinds of federal agencies, including Treasury, Commerce and the Pentagon (wtf!):

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/huge-update-dominion-voting-systems-uses-solarwinds-company-just-shut-cisa-govt-found-breached/

    “Last night the The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a rare Emergency Directive 21-01, in response to a KNOWN COMPROMISE involving SolarWinds Orion products.”

    and

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/breaking-fbi-texas-rangers-us-marshals-raid-solarwinds-hq-austin/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons

    BREAKING REPORT: FBI, Texas Rangers and US Marshals Raid SolarWinds HQ in Austin — More News Coming on CEO and Executive Vice President

    “This Emergency Directive called on all federal civilian agencies to review their networks for indicators of compromise and disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion products immediately.”

    People who are interested might like to visit codemonkeyz at Twitter to see the notes provided by a network specialist – NetworkSecurityMonkey – who describes what Solar Winds does, how it may have been compromised, and perhaps even why.

    https://twitter.com/codemonkeyz

    Finally, @seanhannity’s radio show:

    “The FBI, Texas Rangers & US Marshals are all at the SolarWinds HQ in Austin, TX” looking at their systems. Notes the Executive VP sold 57k shares [$1.2M] on 11/9. The CEO, Kevin Thompson, had sold 700k shares [$15M] 10 days later.

    So that raises the question, when exactly did the hacking occur?

    And that brings us back to the notes provided by Network Security Monkey, referenced above.

    • Yohannon December 14, 2020 at 11:20 pm #

      I won’t be a slave on no Chinese wind farm. I’s free!

  67. Kim December 14, 2020 at 11:07 pm #

    Watch: Michigan Electoral College Begins with ‘Black National Anthem’

    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/12/14/watch-michigan-electoral-college-begins-black-national-anthem/

    Oh, say can you see,
    Bananas on that tree…,

    Shakin’ my damn haid.

    • Kim December 14, 2020 at 11:28 pm #

      Of the many, many ludicrosities apparent in this situation is the fact that their Black National Anthem (they are a separate nation now?) shows no sign sof black culture at all but merely apes (so to speak) every other national anthem in the world with all of their constipated uber-19th C musical conventions.

      Do they now also have their own military? Are its officers weighed down with music-hall levels of gold braid, ceremonial swords, bearskin hats or other types of bizarre, colonial haberashery?

      But musially, what can black-identity proclaimers do in this situation? If these people had composed a genuinely historical African American product, the first task would have to be to bring in a jewish lyricist.

      Or to go further back in black musical history, they might have used a hollowed out log and coconut shell shakers. Then they might have approached more closely the sources of their cultural pride. But no, not at all…

      Instead, there they are, – the clowns – mimicking – to the best of their abilities- every artefact and value of the culture that they so often tell us denies and oppresses them.

      It is, yet another example – like toddlers being urged into sexual confusion, the claim that anal assault is somehow “sex”, or the claim that CO2 is killing us – the apotheosis of retarded leftism.

      • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 12:11 am #

        Like when scholars create dictionaries for native languages, they create all kinds of words for concepts that the natives simply don’t have. Forced equality. Ever do we project ourselves onto them and worse, them onto ourselves. They end up hating us. We accept their hate as justified since we have already glorified them by projecting on to them. Thus we hate ourselves along with them. They can do everything we can do – their dictionary proves it. But can we start a fire by rubbing stick together? Shrink a head? Put a disk in our lower lip and look gorgeous?

      • Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 12:15 am #

        “If these people had composed a genuinely historical African American product, the first task would have to be to bring in a jewish lyricist.” — Kim

        “Sail Away”, the greatest U.S. Black freedom song, was written by a Jew, Randy Newman.

        • Kim December 15, 2020 at 12:38 am #

          What can you say? Good with words.

        • malthuss December 15, 2020 at 10:50 am #

          12? years ago he also sang, ‘Im dreaming of a White President’,

          To mock Whites, while it was Blacks who voted for Barry
          due to racial solidarity.

          He lives or lived in Brentwood [very White or Jewish] and I have a few stories I wont share.

          • Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 1:30 pm #

            His singing’s so bad he’d get booed at a church bazaar. And of course he’s Woke as hell. “Baltimore” is a great tune, but he conveniently neglects WHY it’s “hard to live” there.

      • BackRowHeckler December 15, 2020 at 3:46 am #

        Black National Anthem?

        A few years ago Trinity College in Hartford — not quite Ivy League — at the graduation ceremony, college officials appeared with leopard skins draped over their shoulders, and during the program Watusi dancers appeared in native costumes. This is a place where tuition including room and board is $75000 per year, and upper class woke white students are regularly mugged by members of the vaunted ‘Community’ … in fact at a graduation party that season a gang showed up and robbed everybody at gunpoint ha!

        Brh

        • stelmosfire December 15, 2020 at 10:29 am #

          Trinity College in Hartford, my brother went there. Waste of money. When something breaks who gets the call? Me and the school of hard knocks with no steenkin’ college degree.

      • MaryV December 15, 2020 at 8:16 pm #

        Brava!!

  68. Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 12:05 am #

    https://freedomman.org/doctors-unite-against-covid-19-vaccine/

    No animal tests have been done with this vaccine – so WE are the guinea pigs this time. That should alarm you since previous attempts to develop a corona (or cold) vaccine have ended in many animal deaths, and some say, even human ones.

    The virus hasn’t been isolated so how could they really have a vaccine against it? Instead they’re just trying for a big immune response – which is very dangerous in the long term.

    Some wonder if there even is a new disease. Perhaps we can infer that there is since symptoms have differed from other colds or flus. But that is only concession I can logically make. The vaccine is a bad idea in general. Forcing it on us all is criminal, all the more so since it hasn’t been tested.

  69. Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 12:26 am #

    Did anyone catch the Hologram’s performance on TV tonight?

    Addled, querulous, exasperated, defensive, and coughing up a lung, he nailed every cliche in the High School valediction playbook, with, ironic and inverse accusation.

    He was as inspirational as a Doc delivering news of stage four pancreatic cancer to a grieving wife.

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    • BackRowHeckler December 15, 2020 at 4:36 am #

      Beijing Biden not looking well … and the weight of being president hasn’t even descended upon him yet.

      You can only cover up so much truth with facelifts, hairplugs, capped teeth and skin jobs, eventually reality seeps thru. For example, what shape is Beijing’s immune system in? That’s what counts.

      Brh

      • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 1:01 pm #

        Boycott China completely. They will collapse. What could be more justified than destroying this enemy?

  70. SoftStarLight December 15, 2020 at 12:57 am #

    What do you make of Bill Barr’s resignation letter? It leaves more questions than answers? The opening paragraph is perhaps the most important for the current moment..

    “I appreciate the opportunity to update you this afternoon on the Department’s review of voter fraud allegations in the 2020 election and how these allegations will continue to be pursued. At a time when the country is so deeply divided, it is incumbent on all levels of government, and all agencies acting within their purview, to do all we can to assure the integrity of elections and promote public confidence in their outcome.”

    Then he goes on to praise the Trump administration on its accomplishments in many different areas and makes note of the coordinated effort to not only cripple the administration but overthrow it. And then he closes the brief letter with.

    “As discussed, I will spend the next week wrapping up a few remaining matters important to the administration and depart on December 23rd.”

    • SoftStarLight December 15, 2020 at 1:04 am #

      This is what Lin Wood said about it which I thought was unusual

      https://mobile.twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1338623862486020096

      • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 1:17 am #

        Lin Wood is hardcore and IS a great patriot. He knows more than we do. So color me utterly confused. Maybe that’s a good sign. Maybe our disgust with Barr camoflaged what he was really doing? Wheels within wheels. Deep inside the Qanon woods again.

        • Disaffected December 15, 2020 at 7:25 am #

          I doubt it. All of these people are dependent on the DC consensus for their livelihoods and well-being. The DC consensus decided that Trump was out, the word when out, everyone fell in line, and that’s that. Facts have little or nothing to do with it at this point. It’s a big club and Trump has had his membership revoked. He’s not the first and he definitely won’t be the last.

          Change will never come from working within the system. Only from without by other means. Unless he’s willing to go that route, he should probably give it up peacefully right now or risk losing everything.

          • SoftStarLight December 15, 2020 at 10:17 am #

            This is exactly where they want you to be. What I mean is that they want you to lose all hope and give in to their appearance of inevitability and invincibility. But humans are humans and the best plans can fall through in a heartbeat. Throughout the course of history all “inevitable” and “invincible” tyrannies have eventually expired. This one will too. It seems that it is certainly possible to dismantle the system from the outside but that also appears to be more of an uphill battle than dismantling the system from within and without at the same time.

        • cbeard December 16, 2020 at 10:47 pm #

          I still think Barr was/is a deep state shill. Also, Lin Wood doesn’t sit right with me either. I am certain Barr is not to be trusted.

  71. trypillian December 15, 2020 at 1:03 am #

    The Great One should couple the notion of radio with his very own cable channel [after being forced away]. That would drive the pedantic jackass gang nuts.

  72. Kim December 15, 2020 at 1:10 am #

    @ Yohannon

    Watch Steve Bannon’s war room here:

    https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/watch-live-steve-bannon-war-room-evening-edition/

    Better than a tot of rum on a winter’s day.

    • 5.56 December 15, 2020 at 1:21 am #

      Trump will win.

    • Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 1:28 am #

      Steve Bannon is a must-watch every day since the election. The morning edition was even better.

  73. Kim December 15, 2020 at 2:04 am #

    People can change their minds.

    Who knows who it happens. But it happens.

    https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/young-woman-undergoes-great-awakening/

  74. Night Owl December 15, 2020 at 4:16 am #

    Perhaps of interest:

    “Are you willing to say under oath, that you’ve seen the connection to the internet, that you’ve seen it gone offshore to Frankfurt, Germany?”

    Col. Waldron: “Yes, our “White” hat hackers, they have that traffic and the packets.”

    https://twitter.com/NatyLiy/status/1333500580287950849

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    • Kim December 15, 2020 at 4:49 am #

      The “packets” are interesting. My understanding is that they contain a lot of information, metadata like times and routes but also instructions for specific applications.

  75. ghost of freedom December 15, 2020 at 7:44 am #

    “Offstage Noises” ?

    Here’s a noise you better hear, loud and clear.

    You take on the most ruthless, cunning, devious, resourceful thugs in a criminal organization not seen since the Sanhedrin at the time of Christ, and can’t or won’t do what’s necessary to take them down…you can be sure they will be coming after you with a collective meat clever to finish the job. And that’s exactly what they are going to do Jan 21 with Donald J Trump, “friends” and family.

    • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 11:30 am #

      Yes, what does he have to lose? Attack! No doubt Melania has a private jet on speed dial so she and Baron can get to Slovenia any time of the day or night.

    • stelmosfire December 15, 2020 at 8:26 am #

      KEEP YOUR VACCINATION CARD! When you get your first dose, you will get a vaccination card to show you when to return for your second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. Remember to bring your card when you return

      • stelmosfire December 15, 2020 at 8:42 am #

        You have now been entered into the ” Immunization Information System (IIS)”

        The Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine includes the following ingredients: mRNA, lipids ((4-hydroxybutyl)azanediyl)bis(hexane-6,1-diyl)bis(2-hexyldecanoate), 2 [(polyethylene glycol)-2000]-N,N-ditetradecylacetamide, 1,2-Distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, and cholesterol), potassium chloride, monobasic potassium phosphate, sodium chloride, dibasic sodium phosphate dihydrate, and sucrose.

        So now I’m getting NACL, sugar, and cholesterol! I thought I was supposed to cut down on that shit.

        • stelmosfire December 15, 2020 at 9:03 am #

          “mRNA”, the first and only mystery ingredient

        • Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 1:45 pm #

          Polyethylene glycol is pure poison. It’s anti-freeze. Yes, it’s also in widespread exogenous laxative formulas, but it’s the dose that’s important. Up that dose twenty times (easy enough to do), and it’s death by oxalate poisoning. And they want to inject you multiple times with it.

          Hmm. But who would do such a thing? Errrr …

      • BackRowHeckler December 15, 2020 at 8:44 am #

        There won’t be an electronic record of your compliance, easily accessible by nanny state govt officials and police?

        “This is going on your permanent record” — my elementary school principal when he caught you breaking this or that rule (there were many)

        • stelmosfire December 15, 2020 at 9:05 am #

          Sho me yo papers pleez!

  76. dilbert113 December 15, 2020 at 8:31 am #

    Kunstler references a supposed mysterious raid on secret servers in Germany holding key election info but then admits that this only matter if “those servers, if, in fact, they existed and the raid actually happened.” In other words, this appears to be just another wild internet rumor that has captured some people’s imagination. I am pro-Trump, but also look at things realistically. And from a reality-based perspective, this is just nonsense.

    • Wizard of the Saddle December 15, 2020 at 11:12 pm #

      The alleged raid by the military on a CIA server farm in the former Third Reich was “a bridge too far” for me too. It is entertaining, as in Tom Clancy style fictional fun, but I find this wild tale difficult to embrace as anything remotely resembling reality. I sense that JHK is taking it with a big grain of salt as well.

      The only real chance Trump has left is if some brave GOP Senator will buck Cocaine Mitch and throw in with Mo Brooks, (my Congressman BTW), to object to the Biden slates of electors from each state with substantial incidences of election fraud and irregularities. Then this thing can finally be corrected by the House voting under the one delegate per state rule based on which party dominates in each state.

  77. jimbo December 15, 2020 at 9:28 am #

    So this farce of voter fraud is only in urban centers and states that Trump won in 2016 . Tell me how this is nothing more than racist BS . Wisconsin only complaining about Milwaukee, Michigan, Detroit, Arizona , Phoenix, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Parts of Pittsburgh. Georgia, Atlanta. See the pattern ?? Trump is actually mentally unstable. If you had a crazy uncle that acted like him you would take away his guns and keys to his car . But because it is Trump and he was elected President in 2016 no matter what he says you stick with him and his idiotic fraud complaining with no basis and say yea he won . It’s nuts that the Republicans still stay with him . Tell me the downside to be done with him across the board for Republicans? Cotton , Cruz ?? They don’t need Trump for anything. Heck when Trump is indicted in the next few months how does that help any ??

    • SoftStarLight December 15, 2020 at 10:05 am #

      The vote switching algorithms were running everywhere there were Dominion machines which is all across the country according to those closer to the investigations. The issue in the big cities you listed more specifically surrounds massive mail in voting fraud and bringing in massive pallets of printed ballots shipped in from other states and countries. Biden stated that he and Obama had created the most massive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics. Why would you disbelieve him when he was very open and honest about it?

      • jimbo December 15, 2020 at 10:13 am #

        Need to get past the internet nonsense. Biden said He and Obama did …. really . Look we need to get past Trump as a nation. He is an old white guy that really does not have our best interests as a nation. We can agree to disagree but I would love to see all these fossils be gone from the political stage . Trump is a symptom of the rot in our culture. Hey I get it that you hate Biden, but we lived through 4 years of Trump. 300000 are dead and we can add another 50000 before January 20 . I do not foresee that happening with Biden by 2024 . D you ? Don’t you want fresh Republican blood to lead in 2024 ? I do and the same with the democrats. I am sick of Pelosi, Shumer as much as McConnell and Graham.

        • rube-i-con December 15, 2020 at 10:18 am #

          lol “an old white guy”

          nothing RACIST about that huh mr. inclusivity !!! you only cite his skin colour as a defect!

          you people are nothing short of deranged, and rational folks want nothing to do with you.

        • SoftStarLight December 15, 2020 at 10:28 am #

          If Biden gets into office the covid death reporting will be changed to reflect a supposed improving picture that corresponds with the artificial narrative the media will be putting forth of rainbows, unicorns and utopia. It will all be coordinated just as the covid death reporting under Trump has been intentionally inflated to create a dire picture. Republicans and Democrats cannot save us. That is why both hate Trump. Both Republicans and Democrats are by and large only concerned about politics and profits. Only a complete overhaul and reform of the system would provide a possibility for something better. But more likely we simply need to start over with something completely new.

          • jimbo December 15, 2020 at 10:36 am #

            Term limits , SCOTUS never positions for life . Get rid of electoral college. Your ideas . Yea Old white guys I said it because that is what 90+ % runs America . Not racist just factual. Again my 86 YO father in law ran big business for year extremely successful, he should not be in charge of anything anymore. Just saying. Time catching up with all . Young smart people of any gender or race .

          • SoftStarLight December 15, 2020 at 11:00 am #

            I agree that there should be no positions “for life” in a Republic. But I also believe that we should respect our elders and the wisdom they have accumulated in their lives. Our society, unlike traditional societies, seems to really denigrate and debase our elders. The young will all become old too. And I don’t believe that diversity has any value to a society other than creating divisiveness and ultimately destruction. Does China celebrate diversity? And so they have existed for thousands of years as a unique people and nation. I see no issue whatsoever with racial groups being able to have their own independent nations. In fact it seems to be a basic human right. Diversity like so many modern movements is meant to take away rights and impose conditions conducive for globalist oligarchs to maximize profits and resource stripping.

          • SoftStarLight December 15, 2020 at 11:16 am #

            And just to clarify. Diversity in and of itself is an amazing thing. Diversity however for a country and nation is a very bad thing.

        • SoftStarLight December 15, 2020 at 10:34 am #

          https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1338851758819389441

          • jimbo December 15, 2020 at 10:39 am #

            Sorry but he is like the village idiot yelling nonsense in the town square. Again he needs to just go play golf . He has checked out . The fact that you all still worship him is odd . I see Trump flags on poles flying above American Flags . It’s wrong and offensive.

          • JohnAZ December 15, 2020 at 10:52 am #

            Jumbo

            You Lefties just do not get it. Trump’s followers are unified by a desire to block the progress of Marxism in the US. Bernie admitted he is a Communist. The Progressive group want global control of Amerika. Trump’s personal traits have been talked about ad infinitum. But his beliefs fit the belief systems of 73 million of traditional Americans.

            I hope DJT has the energy to resist this Leftist group that have succeeded in cheating their way into power. I hope secession does not happen, but I do not believe that traditional patriotic Americans can tolerate being in the same room with the Leftist element let alone in the same country.

          • benr December 15, 2020 at 10:54 am #

            @jimbo

            No what offends the likes of you is that he has exposed something many already knew.
            Voting is full of fraud and Democrats cheat and have always done so.
            Our government is controlled by monied interests not the least of which is the Chinese and they don’t like Donald for him taking them to task.
            He has proven Russia is not the current enemy and that China is a very real threat.

            What is offensive is people like you who are so clueless you can’t and won’t see the truth.
            Trump was a messenger a harbinger of a dying and hollowed out America if drastic changes are not enacted.
            What we got in response was spasmatic shrill screams from a demonic possessed system and four years of parasitic posters with one agenda a return to the destruction of America.

        • BackRowHeckler December 15, 2020 at 1:31 pm #

          An old white guy Ahahahahaha

          What’s Bedpan Biden? A young stud?

    • rube-i-con December 15, 2020 at 10:14 am #

      yes everything is racist

      can we just file the divorce papers and go our separate way?

    • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 11:22 am #

      The voter fraud is focused in the swing states and in the big cities that are ferociously Democratic. The foot soldiers are Blacks who want more gibs. They may have cut their own throats since the pie is going to get cut in half with all the new citizens, but they performed their allotted task with great energy. Trump was planning to put them above Whites without taking away the pie. The poor dummies screwed themselves.

      And these large urban areas got all kinds of ballot concessions that Old White racist areas did not. Isn’t that racism too, “genius”?

    • Wizard of the Saddle December 15, 2020 at 11:16 pm #

      In the former Confederacy we have a word to describe black people:

      “Democrats”

      There. Pattern explained. No racism required. Just candid observation of voting history and inherent partisanship.

  78. JohnAZ December 15, 2020 at 10:40 am #

    All of these GOP folks that are involved in the election coverup, like SOS and Governor of Georgia, are they by any chance members of the Lincoln group. Are they never Trumpers?

    If so, I hope the new GOP throws them out with all the other RINOs.

    BTW, acceptance of mail in ballots is the end of the GOP anyway. Uniparty, arise! After the borders are opened, the GOP will never win the presidency again, and Congress will be Uniparty too.

    Unfortunately, the Uniparty is nuts, Marxist and anti-American. Will it expand to include elements from the Right? Will the waste of time that the two party system represents cease? Or will the continued Leftist drift condemn the Amerikan future to Communist, socialist mediocrity.

    If the latter, the creative entrepreneurial folks are going to jump ship and quickly. Being successful in Amerika will just put a target on your back for the Deep State leeches.

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    • JohnAZ December 15, 2020 at 10:57 am #

      A question. Why does the GOP leadership in Georgia want to block all investigations of Dominion? Are their butts in a sling, does prison await these RINOs if the truth comes out? Just their over reaction hints that all is not kosher in Atlanta.

    • jimbo December 15, 2020 at 11:04 am #

      What is your true beliefs when it comes to who is a republican? Mail in ballots means the end of the Republican Party? Borders open ? My very right wing republican BIL owns a landscaping business in a southern red state would be in trouble if he didn’t get his guys from El Salvador, Mexico and Guatemala. Yea republicans talk about closing the border …. but but but . How about real control with who can come to America?? Heck I have enough money .. I think … to go live anywhere in the world but I cannot legally do it as an American older one . Most countries have real immigration laws . Both republicans and democrats want open borders for vastly different reasons. It’s nuts .

      • SoftStarLight December 15, 2020 at 11:13 am #

        “Both republicans and democrats want open borders for vastly different reasons.” Exactly!!!! That is why the system hates Trump and will do anything to get rid of him.

        • jimbo December 15, 2020 at 11:20 am #

          No, they want to get rid of Trump because everyone who over the years had contact with Trump either lost money or was cheated by him . He is and was never a good fit to lead the country. Sorry but supporters of him were snowed . There are better Americans to lead .

          • BackRowHeckler December 15, 2020 at 1:28 pm #

            Anybody ever get scammed by the Biden’s? Just heard today Hunter was gifted $4 million by the Xi JingPing himself. What for, you think? Just because Hunter is a good guy, and Xi was feeling generous.

            It’s not for nothing they call the President Elect ‘Beijing’ Biden.

            Brh

      • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 11:26 am #

        Yet in the few remaining White areas, the leaves get picked up, the beds made, and the coffee poured. More to the point, Whites need those jobs now since so many of our jobs have been offshored or automated.

        I admit that even in White areas, Mexicans are largely the agricultural workers now. But it didn’t have to be that way and it shouldn’t be that way in the future.

        • jimbo December 15, 2020 at 11:32 am #

          Would your high school kid work on a farm picking fruit or vegetables during summer?? Most would not . Why ? We did in the early 1970s

          • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 11:46 am #

            Yes, we need to go back to that time. Maybe there is hope for you after all. Just can it with the “old white stuff” since that is simply anti-White racism. And capitalize White of course since Black gets capitalized now. Or don’t capitalize either one.

      • JohnAZ December 15, 2020 at 11:37 am #

        Open borders

        What does it do?

        1. It imports Democratic voters! People coming here are arriving from socialistic nations that have failed to support their people. They have no means of support, most are economically illiterate, they were dependent on the nations they left, and they will be dependent on the Federal and state governments. The problem is, as many of them find out, the US is in worse shape economically than where they came from. They move into enclaves that teach them that Democrats will take care of them. I am actually looking forward to Phony Biden and the crew when they have to actually have responsibility to pay all the welfare that their immigration policy promotes. If you ever hear a Democrat speak of fiscal integrity, do not respond, just laugh to yourself.

        2. It increases the browning of America. Why the Left wants to destroy White America is beyond me. When the Browns take over, Whites better find a new home, because they are coming for you. The Whites will create a new nation, the Browns will create a new welfare state.

        3. A healthy economy produces jobs at a high enough rate that higher salaries respond to supply and demand. Not with a constant supply of international immigrants willing to undercut American workers. Long term Mexican American citizens understand this and are very opposed to the acceptance of illegals. A new class of low income serfs will develop here, just what the elite wants.

        • JohnAZ December 15, 2020 at 11:42 am #

          4. La Raza. One of the goals of La Raza zealots is the reversal of the Mexican Cession and return of SW America to Mexico. I am sure the Cartels would love this. Popular control by Hispanics could make this a reality when they control the voting booth. I wonder what the Biden response to this would be?

          5. Ascent of the Cartels in America. This is happening now. The very apparent lack of law and order is being driven by gangs, MS 13 and others. The cartels are gangs. The Capone days were minor compared to what is coming.

      • malthuss December 16, 2020 at 7:16 pm #

        Oh please. wake up.

  79. stelmosfire December 15, 2020 at 11:04 am #

    Another one. 32 YO OD , a young friend, not the VID but will probably go in that column.Fuck this crap.

    • malthuss December 16, 2020 at 7:17 pm #

      whats that line mean? VID? column?

  80. MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 15, 2020 at 11:06 am #

    Gov Kemp and SOS Raffensperger in Georgia have now ordered a signature verification audit…

    …for the county NEXT to the heavily populated one we all saw in the the suitcase video (and naturally not for the one in question that actually mattered)…

    …and they also decided to wait until certification by the Electoral College, instead of three weeks ago when the video came to light.

    They say they’re doing this (cherry-picked, irrelevant) audit to make sure citizens know they can trust the election system going forward. Ooookay.

    Those guys are tip-toeing on the edge. But they’ll pull it off anyway, and then hopefully be voted out at the first opportunity.

    Simple logic is now not only unnecessary to half of the country, it’s actually frowned upon as nitpicking.

  81. grochef December 15, 2020 at 11:26 am #

    James, you provide such wonderful insight and possible solutions to the shenanigans of the day. But, when I read your marvelous posts, I can only wish that we lived in a country where law and order reigned and everything mattered. After years of “anything goes and nothing matters” (my favorite quote of yours), I expect that no justice will ever come to politicians, only to we proles who get tossed in the slammer for J-walking.

  82. Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 11:44 am #

    https://news.yahoo.com/black-students-mother-complained-fences-134256939.html

    Black student thrown out of elite school because of his trouble making mother. The school has a pro-Black curriculum yet the mother complained that the work in question didn’t portray Blacks as the gods she thinks they are. Given more than an inch, she tried to take far more than a yard, in fact, tried to take the whole school down. They were wise to separate from this monster, though she will continue her jihad now that the situation has gone national.

    • rube-i-con December 15, 2020 at 11:59 am #

      yes we need incessantly to “have a conversation” about race

      and non-existent racism

      all other races can get ahead, except the one that refuses to work hard and study and obey the law

      • BackRowHeckler December 15, 2020 at 2:33 pm #

        Conservation about Race are usually pretty One Way.

        As soon as you point out a few uncomfortable truths, conservation is over.

        Conservation about race means they talk, you genuflect, grovel, and apologize.

        Brh

        • Tate December 15, 2020 at 4:59 pm #

          “Conservation” about race is a very good thing. Conserving the White race, for example. But a frank conversation about said conservation sucks the air out of the room every time.

    • malthuss December 15, 2020 at 6:43 pm #

      Elite? how so?

    • Kim December 15, 2020 at 8:27 pm #

      We went through this with Obama complaining that negroes were being over-disciplined.

  83. Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 1:20 pm #

    https://www.captainsjournal.com/2020/12/14/william-barr-is-a-deep-state-hack-and-coverup-artist/

    This is conclusive. Lin Wood’s credibility is in question and of course Trump’s judgement in hiring this pos.

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    • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 1:23 pm #

      He was directly involved in the Ruby Ridge horror. He denied but it is confirmed. And he is also a gun grabber.

      • SoftStarLight December 16, 2020 at 2:31 am #

        And so basically hiding behind that big fat smile is a psychotic monster who barely hides his monstrosities but with solid sounding hollow support of the “rule of law” and little religious liberty crumbs. I guess we can only hope that he wanted to absolve hinself of the sins of his atrocities and will give Trump all the goods on his way out the door. But I do note and take into account your cautions.

  84. Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 2:10 pm #

    https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tom-cruise-sending-cake-holiday-years-bakery-kept-us-business-170557159.html

    Maybe it’s some kind of Scientology thing.

  85. Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 2:14 pm #

    Rush: Bars and Restaurants account for only 1.4% of “new cases” in New York.

    So why the plan the plan to close them completely or almost so? It’s madness and malice.

  86. LegendoftheFall December 15, 2020 at 2:29 pm #

    It seems to me with all the congratulations given to The Exumed Body, it must mean we’re all going forward with this circus. But there’s a big elephant in the room(voter fraud), and it’s taking a huge crap.
    Looks like Barr’s out and Rosen’s in with Donahue, a Military Judge. Hmmm.
    Lin Wood tweets about those red masked Georgia boy’s, Kemp and
    Raffensperger, having their chance to fix things, but now both “will soon be Going to jail.” The President retweeted it.
    And Michigan audits of voting machines reveal serious fraud for Biden.
    Some of you must be asleep or drunk if you think Trump wasn’t aware when he wrote that E.O. over two years ago. Our host is awake and it seems to me there’s a storm gathering over the swamp and The Donald might just be a little pissed and ready to pull the plu and poke ’em down the drain like scraps in a a garburator. 80-100 million voters hope so. We’re pissed and some of us are dealing with dwindling funds and empty shelves in our pantries.
    Again, Make Gitmo Great Again.

    • jimbo December 15, 2020 at 2:38 pm #

      Not sure why you think Trump got 80 to 100 million votes . Trump telling odd stuff about putting a governor in jail when he might face it . Oh and dwindling supplies? Happened on Trumps Watch . No leadership during the past 11 months . He knew about Covid early but ignored and talked idiotic rants about how it would disappear like a miracle. He should disappear. It would serve us well .

      • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 2:45 pm #

        The testing is complete nonsense and the Pandemic is an illusion – just like you. When are you going to become a real?

        • jimbo December 15, 2020 at 2:48 pm #

          RU for real ? Have you been to an ICU ? You are wrong.

          • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 3:46 pm #

            ICU’s are always like that – places of death and near death, of miracles and ruthless natural law, of calculation and grace. What is new are the “Hero Nurses” performing on camera. Notice how they go to women not men. Every women has a secret Tammy Faye Baker inside, who wants to make her mascara run down her face in order to virtue signal.

            Nurses in other hospitals amuse themselves with tik tok dance routines. Nothing to do. The “press” only to go Covid hospitals though.

          • Kim December 15, 2020 at 8:33 pm #

            @ jimbo

            RU for real ? Have you been to an ICU ? You are wrong.

            https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/amid-fears-overwhelmed-medical-systems-us-appears-have-ample-hospital

            Amid fears of overwhelmed medical systems, data shows ample hospital capacity nationwide

            The country is “managing pretty well,” says major hospital network official.

            As fears persist of overwhelmed medical systems and at-capacity hospitals nationwide, data indicate that ample hospital space remains available for both COVID-19 patients and other medical needs, with one official at a major hospital network stating that the country is “managing pretty well” the latest surge of COVID-19.
            …………………………………………………………………………

            Give it up you, hysterical clown.

      • LegendoftheFall December 15, 2020 at 3:39 pm #

        “Some of you must be asleep or drunk.”
        We have a winner.
        You’re obviously all bought into the MSM narratives like that woman, whatever her name is, in Screw York threatening a sitting President with crimes. This crap went on for 4 yrs. He keeps beating you guys. Now he’s got you guys on election fraud, treason and what else?

        • jimbo December 15, 2020 at 4:11 pm #

          Yohan , you are so wrong . Don’t belittle any nurse . You know very little .

          • Tate December 15, 2020 at 4:56 pm #

            Who’s next in line to beatify as “front-line” workers? Cafeteria ladies?

      • benr December 15, 2020 at 7:42 pm #

        Still pushing a ridiculous narrative and blaming Trump for state failures?
        Jimbo you really are a clueless propagandist douche.

        • Kim December 15, 2020 at 8:37 pm #

          99 point something fatality rate for people over 75 years of age.

          Terrifying.

  87. LegendoftheFall December 15, 2020 at 2:50 pm #

    Oh and btw way, regarding this aforementioned little E.O.13848 PresidentvTrump had jotted down. I sat down with a whiskey the other noon and read that through. It might interest many disenfranchised, unemployed, pissed-off-and-tired-of-corruption Americans to know that anyone participating in election fraud will have their shit taken. I wonder if China or Russia, if involved, knew all their holdings here on our soil could be impounded? What about Fox calling Arizona early? What about Big Tech, FB, Google, Dominion, Soros, all the politicians who participated. What a payday. Heads would explode when all the bad boysx and girls commies realize Donnie was playing dumb and plundered ’em.
    The 45 days are up on December 18. Then it could be 30 days of shock like our republic has never seen.
    I’m getting more whiskey and I’m planning on having a few whilec watching the show. Cheers, bitches.

    • Kim December 15, 2020 at 9:22 pm #

      I want to seee all of the farmland ad food production companies they have bought seized.

      And they still ower $1.2 trillion in sovereign debt that they long ago reneged on.

      https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/02/china-sovereign-debt-bondholders-american/

      And declare the CCP a transnational criminal organization ffs.

      In China, average wait for an organ transplant – any organ at all – is less than seven days and it is an international fly-in, get-it-done process like getting veneers in tijuana.

      Think about how they manage that.

  88. Tate December 15, 2020 at 3:01 pm #

    Putin has finally congratulated Biden as the president-elect. It might be all over. What happened was Putin has judged that Trump won’t do anything like activate the Insurrection Act to stay in power. He’s a pretty smart guy so he’s probably right.

    Of course, Trump being the Orange man, he might surprise everybody. Has he spotted the writing on the wall yet? Once he understands the lefties will be hounding him & his family & their various business interests for the rest of his life, maybe he will “get religion.”

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    • Kim December 15, 2020 at 9:30 pm #

      The plan has been in place for four years. That is why he was brought in. I expect to see him act.

      This week’s Solar Wind activity is part of it. He warned the EC about criminally certifying fraud. He relased Barr. He removed the foreign affairs advisory body (Kissinger and cronies) and has already started to restock it – like a man who think she not going away. He has just last month ordered for special forces to now report directly to his man.

      Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller announced on Wednesday morning that special operations civilian leadership will report directly to his role for the first time instead of “current bureaucratic channels.”

      The change will “put Special Operations Command on par with military services for the first time,” Miller said during his announcement at the Special Operations Memorial Plaza, Fort Bragg, N.C.

      https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/11/new-military-change-civilian-special-ops-leaders-to-report-to-secdef-for-first-time-ever-miller-announces/

      He is taking the steps.

      And as you say, they could approach him and tell him that he’ll be left alone if he forbears and let’s it all slide.

      Maybe these actions are all just his bargaining chips.

      But – again – I don’t believe that at all.

  89. Pucker December 15, 2020 at 3:07 pm #

    Fractional Digital Voting Machines….

    That’s all that you need to know….

    Elephant in the living room.

    They’re Insane….

    • Pucker December 15, 2020 at 3:14 pm #

      Too bad Rocky wasn’t a Poll Observer during the election in Philadelphia.

      Of course, Rocky so Fuck’n dumb, he might not have noticed that Apollo Creed had the Dominion voting machines connected to the Internet?

      Tell Rocky that the Dominion voting machines count votes as digital fractions and then see if the significance of that fact registers in Rocky’s punched, pummeled, and pounded brain?

      • SoftStarLight December 16, 2020 at 2:45 am #

        Lol this has all been such an emotional roller coaster that I really do appreciate the humor and lightheatedness. This in particular just made me lol quite literally. Would Rocky tape up pizza boxes on the windows so nobody could see the questionable mail in ballots beng counted?

  90. Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 3:21 pm #

    As per AZ Chairman of the Judiciary, All Dominion machines (including software) to be seized in Maricopa County (Phoenix), and will undergo a full forensic audit. 60% of the total vote. State Rep Finchem expects Biden “win” to be (at least) decertified, and possibly overturned.

    • rube-i-con December 15, 2020 at 4:16 pm #

      yep and it~s only 5 weeks after the machines were used to vote

      i~ll send you $10 if it~s true, plus a barrel of whisky

      • Q. Shtik December 15, 2020 at 6:04 pm #

        i~ll send you $10 if it~s true – rube-i-con

        ============

        Rube, why are you using a tilde as an apostrophe? I’ve done a Google search but cannot find a legitimate reason. Is this something you like to do just for the hell of it?

        • rube-i-con December 15, 2020 at 7:21 pm #

          i~ll be throwing in the odd interrobang for you soon

          let’s sparkle up the grammar shall we?

          • rube-i-con December 15, 2020 at 7:22 pm #

          • rube-i-con December 15, 2020 at 7:22 pm #

            er, the punctuation

        • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 10:03 pm #

          A tilde! These are mysteries indeed. Dare you proceed? Will you not draw back before it is too late?

  91. Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 3:39 pm #

    “Claremont church depicts Black Lives Matter protest in Nativity scene.” — LATimes

    Nothing says “Merry Christmas!” like Black protestors surrounding Mary and baby Jesus with placards and threats.

    No mention of the Three Wise Men, who, I assume, were offed offstage, their gifts of gold, myrrh, frankincense replaced by a pipe bomb, shiv, and brick.

    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-15/claremont-church-depicts-black-lives-matter-protest-in-nativity-scene

    • John1945 December 15, 2020 at 4:10 pm #

      Jeez…
      Looks like you still live in the ’50 in NC town of Mayberry 🙂

      Three Wise Men are Big Homies now.

      “On the day I was born
      Homies all gathered ’round
      And they gazed in wide wonder
      At the joy they had found
      Big Homie spoke up
      Said “leave this one alone”
      He could tell right away
      That I was bad to the bone”
      (The Nativity Song,2020)

      Then Baby Jesus was properly initiated after he gave John the Baptist “buck fifty” meaning slashing John the Baptist’ face with box cutter requiring 150 stitches.

      • Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 4:17 pm #

        Ha!

        Lyrics repurposed from White George Thorogood’s popular song.

        • John1945 December 15, 2020 at 4:30 pm #

          George will not mind.
          Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

    • Tate December 15, 2020 at 4:51 pm #

      >>Above their heads, a banner lists the names of more than 30 Black people who have been killed, including Emmett Till, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.<<

      Emmitt Till, died 1955. That's an "old chestnut."

      • BackRowHeckler December 15, 2020 at 7:58 pm #

        Breonna Taylor, ha!

        Fired from EMT job after police found a dead body in her car, which she couldn’t explain.

        A real girl scout.

        Brh

        • Mike Roberts December 15, 2020 at 8:47 pm #

          So, BRH, are you saying that Breonna Taylor deserved to be murdered? If so, you’re effectively saying that there should be no laws for a society.

          • Kim December 15, 2020 at 9:00 pm #

            Mike Roberts style of argument:

            “Are you saying…?”

            “…you’re effectively saying…”

            Why doesn’t he just reply to what you actually said?

          • rube-i-con December 16, 2020 at 11:20 am #

            All we are saying….
            Is give the police a chance….

            is there *any* black martyr to police brutality that doesn~t have a 10-page rap sheet‽

            (what an ironic thing – a rap sheet for these swart thugs)

        • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 8:56 pm #

          It could have happened to anyone. Haven’t you ever found a dead person in your car?

  92. Disaffected December 15, 2020 at 4:09 pm #

    This just in: Biden to name Pete the Buttgigger as Secretary of Trans(portation).

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/15/politics/pete-buttigieg-transportation-secretary/index.html

    Buttgigger is expected to head up a NE corridor
    “Belt and Road” style development initiative, tentatively dubbed the “Hershey Highway.” Conservative support for what they term as Buttgigger’s “radical agenda” is predictably mixed. Biden has countered that liberal support for this type of activity has never been stronger and that he thinks the time is right for all Americans to embrace alternative forms of economic and other unspecified activity.

    • Sagesse December 15, 2020 at 4:28 pm #

      Wow. At least three instances of anti-gay inuendo in just one small paragraph.

      Disinfected all the gay right the fu@# out of this chatroom…..

      Kudos on your bigotry.

      • Disaffected December 15, 2020 at 5:07 pm #

        When you bring it into the public square you must be prepared for the rough and tumble. Why should gays get special treatment? I see it more as a humorous commentary on the times. Get ready for a lot more in the coming years.

      • jimbo December 15, 2020 at 6:30 pm #

        A whole lotta of that here . A strange place this JHK thing is .

        • Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 6:37 pm #

          Yet you keep coming back. Strange, that.

      • rube-i-con December 15, 2020 at 7:15 pm #

        no one is obligated to like anyone else

        keep trying to stifle free speech, it appeals to you wannabe stalinists’ violent urge to snuff out human freedoms

      • JohnAZ December 15, 2020 at 8:30 pm #

        Let’s see. He doesn’t like gays and you do not like White people.

        Who is the bigot?

        • Disaffected December 16, 2020 at 6:39 am #

          I didn’t even say I don’t like gays. I just said that gays who get appointed to office solely because they’re gay (I didn’t even mention that he’s a past and possibly current CIA plant) are fair game for a little satirical roasting. And then – right on cue – the SJW’s rolled in with their usual sanctimonious bullshit.

        • rube-i-con December 16, 2020 at 7:27 am #

          he~s not obligated to like them, just treat them with respect

          live and let live, something leftists cannot permit, they need to satiate their satanic desire to múrdér

      • Kim December 15, 2020 at 8:58 pm #

        People who put their dicks on other people’s rectums are mentally ill.

      • Disaffected December 16, 2020 at 6:40 am #

        Wow. At least three instances of anti-gay inuendo in just one small paragraph.

        I’m slipping. I’ll shoot for a half dozen next time. Thanks.

    • HapMan December 15, 2020 at 4:40 pm #

      Pathetic.

      • kbird December 15, 2020 at 4:47 pm #

        Hapman,
        Agreed, completely Pathetic….But doesn’t surprise me coming from this Blog

      • Disaffected December 15, 2020 at 5:20 pm #

        Says the self-righteous social justice warrior. If you were honest, you’d admit that the only reason Buttgigger is a household name at all is that he represents the gay wing of the Democrat Party. He really has no other qualifications than that, so he and Biden both are essentially trading on his gayness in giving him this position. I call that fair game all day long. A political payoff based on sexual preference. Imagine that!

        • Sagesse December 15, 2020 at 5:49 pm #

          Disaffected – “He really has no other qualifications than that..”

          Hmmm. Buttigieg was an officer in the navy and he graduated from Harvard College and Oxford University, the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship….

          What were Trump’s credentials again…..

          • jimbo December 15, 2020 at 6:29 pm #

            Trump had daddy money that he lost . Played hard was a prick was into so much with banks that they propped him up . Only to get that TV show and well … the rest is history.

          • Not_GeorgeT December 15, 2020 at 6:35 pm #

            New York Military Academy

            Fordham University

            UPenn Wharton School of Business

            Take a seat at the back of the room.

          • JohnAZ December 15, 2020 at 8:40 pm #

            Okay you two. Trump achieved all his educational goals through Wharton . What did you two do? He also lost one fortune and made it all back and more. He also has his name on hotels, other real estate and golf courses which he has bailed out and made profitable. He even saved the US Post Office in DC,

            I have not seen any buildings with Sagesse or Jimbo on them. I also have not seen your name in contention for the presidency, beating out 16 GOP contenders and the most corrupt, now second most corrupt politician in the Deep State. I have not seen you two putting up with the most crime infested opposition ever, the Swamp, with more lies per day than any other group I can remember.

          • JohnAZ December 15, 2020 at 8:42 pm #

            Are you both ex-military? If so, thank you for your service.

            If not, STFU!

          • Sagesse December 15, 2020 at 8:57 pm #

            JohnAZ – You have lost the point of this thread. Disaffected went on a homophobic tirade, after which he claimed Pete Buddigieg did not have the qualifications to be the Secretary of Transportation.

            We then went on to compare Buddigieg’s qualifications to that of Donald (bonespurs) Trump.

            Keep up AZ…

          • JohnAZ December 15, 2020 at 9:22 pm #

            Well, let’s see.

            Buttigieg could not convince the Democratic voters or leadership that he could outperform a dod

          • JohnAZ December 15, 2020 at 9:31 pm #

            Doddering old man. The academic
            Elite is not what is going to save this country, they are working hard to destroy it. How many payrolls has Buttigieg met? How many businesses has he run? How many street smarts has he got compared to Trump?

            Trying to run a broken down country like the US, Trump is vastly superior in qualifications. He almost licked a few of the denizens of the Swamp, then Covid hit.

            BTW, what creds does Buttigieg have to run the Transportation dept? Expand please? He screwed up South Bend pretty bad.

          • HapMan December 16, 2020 at 12:01 am #

            John- well he isn’t Elaine Chao, the current Secretary of Transportation, who is married to Mitch McConnell and is also the heir to a Chinese-financed shipping conglomerate that she happens to regulate, so I would count that as a step up. Less swampy, you might say.

            Also, Biden seems to be serious about infrastructure (again, a step up) and Buttigieg knows the Midwest well, where the transportation infrastructure needs are arguably the most pronounced.

            And he is smart as hell.

            And he is an honorable man who served and loves his country.

          • bluekayak December 16, 2020 at 11:10 am #

            Mayor Pete was an “Intel weenie”, not a ship-driver or line officer…

          • benr December 16, 2020 at 11:59 am #

            @leftist troll

            Mayor buttgag is pretty well reviled by his town for how poorly he performed as mayor.

            The line that we are getting people that know what they are doing seems to be used often with leftist Democrat turds and yet people flee Democrat controlled cities and now states!
            So yeah they know how to destroy vibrant economies, force people that can to run and destroy areas they control.
            Worse even the leftist turds flee and start destroying areas that were doing well.
            Take note of all the places Californians/New Yorkers flee to and how wildly unpopular most are.

            So your narrative is not only wrong but flat out stupid and as far as buttgag being an honorable man you don’t or can’t know that so that is propaganda as well.

        • Q. Shtik December 15, 2020 at 9:22 pm #

          he represents the gay wing of the Democrat Party. He really has no other qualifications than that, – Disaff

          ===========

          Sec of Transportation… well, he has a driver’s license, there’s that.

    • rube-i-con December 16, 2020 at 11:29 am #

      ~corridor~ ‽

      ~belt and road~ ‽

      ~head up~ ‽

      ~embrace~ ‽

      just trying to help Conservative Re-education Camp guard ‘jimbo’ police the racist language being used here

      he~ll be given an extra tin of ham above normal rations for sending those guilty of wrongthink to their slow deaths

      • rube-i-con December 16, 2020 at 11:30 am #

        er, homophobic language

  93. malthuss December 15, 2020 at 6:45 pm #

    what might happen to fixed rate, unsecured, contractual debt
    (ie, student loan debt)- will it be inflated away, debt forgiveness as a stimulus to fight deflation, etc.

    I have about 500k in student debt that I can not service, and am very seriously contemplating leaving the country in the next 12 months to start over.

    [I found the above as a you tube comment at Liberty Finance channel].

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    • Soul Forensics December 15, 2020 at 6:57 pm #

      500K? Unreal. Is that the premium plan with hookers and blow add-ons, and an autographed pic of Chairman Mao?

    • benr December 15, 2020 at 7:37 pm #

      Inflation destroys savings so there is that.

      • Kim December 15, 2020 at 8:42 pm #

        Saving demonstrates prudence, planning and a future orientation.

        Dat’s rayciss!

    • rube-i-con December 16, 2020 at 11:30 am #

      what in hades did you study, and for how long? 26 semesters?

  94. michael December 15, 2020 at 7:02 pm #

    There are times when you do not want to be president. The next four years may be just such a time.

    • Kim December 15, 2020 at 8:41 pm #

      Relax, Trump is going to face down every challenge.

      • Sagesse December 15, 2020 at 9:03 pm #

        I used to take some of the posts you made seriously Kim. Many a time I even looked up some of the information you shared with interest.

        But in the end it turns out that you are just a common troll with loads of free time on your hands.

        • Night Owl December 16, 2020 at 4:08 am #

          Reminder: Sagesse is on his 15th handle.

          • malthuss December 16, 2020 at 11:08 am #

            what are the previous ones?

          • benr December 16, 2020 at 12:00 pm #

            kakadu
            cargill
            he has had so many its hard to keep track anymore.

          • Night Owl December 16, 2020 at 5:36 pm #

            Honey Process was my favorite.

            Just the right amount of pretension.

  95. Kim December 15, 2020 at 8:40 pm #

    This is the type of person that has grabbed with both hands this opportunity to tell other people, random strangers, what to do.

    This is 100% worth watching. It says it all on this topic.

    And compare it with the clip of the imam in Iran further down the same page.

    The authoritarian personality in action.

    https://twitter.com/SaraGonzalesTX/status/1338888227277709312

  96. tom clark December 15, 2020 at 8:56 pm #

    Goodnight Mr. Trump and goodnight Kim.

    https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/goodnight-mr-trump

  97. Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 9:52 pm #

    Good Glen Beck segment anent Bill Barr’s resignation.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXEFgDsMG-E

    Uh Bill, before you go, could we have that report you promised us? That’s one of things that you meant by “wrapping things up”, right?

    Not a big fan of Beck, but something he hits the mark.

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    • Yohannon December 15, 2020 at 9:55 pm #

      Or is the report just two sentences on one page, directly beneath the letterhead: After a full investigation, we found no evidence of wrong doing. Suck it, Trumpkins.

      • JohnAZ December 15, 2020 at 10:31 pm #

        Wow, Yohannon.

        Think about it. Four years of everybody investigating Trump, result zero. Four years of investigating the Democrats making up stuff to attack Trump. Result zero. Impeachment attempt result zero. Biden investigation result zero. Election fraud Zero investigation result zero.

        What the heck. Let us save the taxpayer some bucks. Let’s eliminate the SCOTUS and the AG office, they do not seem to do much of anything.

        One question. If the AG is supposed to be an independent office, apolitical, why is it a member of the presidents cabinet. The two AGs Trump appointed were his worst enemies, by omitting themselves from the fray.

        • Night Owl December 16, 2020 at 3:58 am #

          It is incredible. 2+ years of Mueller alone would have sunk anyone else.

          I don’t even think my own records would survive that sort of inquiry, and I have done nothing wrong.

          But it isn’t really about whether any crime was actually committed, but rather if one can/could be manufactured.

  98. Kim December 15, 2020 at 10:26 pm #

    For the convenience of commenters, here is what I think is Bannon’s most recent War Room.

    https://rumble.com/vbwvqy-bannons-warroom-ep-585-fire-in-maricopa-w-vandenberghe-finchem-fredericks-k.html

  99. Kim December 15, 2020 at 10:34 pm #

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/dominion-ceo-john-poulos-says-dominion-not-linked-solarwinds-orion-denies-votes-sent-off-site-manipulated-video/

    On Tuesday Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos testified before the Michigan State Oversight Committee.

    Poulos claims Dominon does not use Solar Wind.

    https://thedonald.win/p/11R4bvCBnN/dominion-ceo-states-in-mi-hearin/c/

    They have removed the logo from the site but Solar Winds still appears in their source code.

    https://media.thedonald.win/post/54XBibmI.png

    He is going to have to learn to lie better than that.

  100. Kim December 15, 2020 at 10:41 pm #

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/michigan-legislature-committees-subpoena-election-hard-drives-laptops

    Michigan legislature committees subpoena election evidence from Detroit and nearby suburb

    Concerned about possible election evidence being destroyed, members of a joint session of the Michigan Legislature’s House and Senate oversight committees on Tuesday voted to issue subpoenas to Detroit and the nearby suburb of Livonia demanding they surrender hard drives, emails, absentee voter counting board laptops and other election-related materials.

    One Senate Democrat reportedly joined his Republican colleagues in supporting the subpoenas.
    ………………………………………………………………………………………

    At this point we should all remember that on Jan 6 Congress wil be faced with alternative slates of electors in all seven contested states.

  101. Kim December 15, 2020 at 10:59 pm #

    “Murray” is an interesting guy to follow on Twitter and has an interesting thread today about the news from AZGOP.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/Rothbard1776/status/1339008396259897344

    NEWS per @AZGOP

    “Both subpoenas were served today and they call for the information to be delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman on or before 5 PM on December 18.”

    “Today, under my direction as Senate President, Judiciary Committee Chairman Eddie Farnsworth issued subpoenas to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. One subpoena calls for a scanned ballot audit, to collect an electronic ballot image cast for all mail-in ballots counted in the November 2020 general election in Maricopa County, Arizona. The second subpoena calls for a FULL forensic audit of ballot tabulation equipment, the software for that equipment and the election management system used in the 2020 general election.”

    Hmmm.

  102. Kim December 15, 2020 at 11:09 pm #

    If I understand correctly, images of every cast ballot should still exist inside the machines.

    According to the fellow in this video – Jovan Hutton Pulitzer – the images can easily and in an automated way be examined to see whether the images retain human-visible artefacts showing whether they have ever been folded, as postal votes must have been.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UgeqGmvQXKs

    BREAKING: Technology Expert Can Determine If Ballots are Legitimate or Fake in Seconds

    This guy has an absolutely extraordinary background and is supposedly an incredible genius and polymath. In fact, he claims such an amazing background that one is very sceptical.

    However, it is very easy to look into this guy’s claims and background and, guess what, he isn’t lying. He is a freak.

    https://wikipedia.jovanhuttonpulitzer.org/

    Everything that he claims about himself is true. Wow.

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    • SoftStarLight December 16, 2020 at 3:03 am #

      Did you notice Trump’s tweet yesterday saying law enforcement is shielding the machines and not to tamper with them? I thought it was interesting he said the machines are being shielded. It certainly doesn’t seem like many if any of the voting machines have been impounded so I wonder if they are all being surveilled and if so how long that has been going on.

    • rube-i-con December 16, 2020 at 1:05 pm #

      he didn~t invent the qr code, as one site claimed

  103. Kim December 15, 2020 at 11:25 pm #

    Here is a very interesting, brief account of the history of the Insurrection Act.

    I did not know that it takes the power of the National Guard away from governors and places it in the hands of the president.

    That could be useful.

    • Yohannon December 16, 2020 at 11:58 am #

      Ah, good news indeed. Very useful!

      Does Bannon believe that the fire fight in Germany happened?

      • Soul Forensics December 16, 2020 at 12:58 pm #

        He just reported the news when it happened. Hasn’t come back to it.

    • elysianfield December 16, 2020 at 3:24 pm #

      Kim,
      There are facilities wherein the Federal Government can, has, and probably will again, nationalize the guard…this is the entire purpose of the institution.

  104. SoftStarLight December 16, 2020 at 3:36 am #

    Mitch McConnell’s family has business ties with the Bank of China and his Taiwanese wife’s family’s shipping company Foremost does business primarily in Asia with a large share of business being done with CCP owned companies. President Trump’s trade deals with China threatened Mitch’s bottomline but an incoming Biden administration will be China First, but maybe more appropriately, America Always Last. Mitch stands to cash in big and so it really is no surprise he is willing to legitimate a fraudulent election. Notice how suddenly Democrats love and respect Mitch and Vlad Putin?

    • Disaffected December 16, 2020 at 11:50 am #

      Well, but Mitch has that adorable looking turkey wattle hanging down now below his MIA chin, so who could possibly resist that? Throw in that foghorn baritone voice of his and I mean, who wouldn’t just melt? The combined effect – especially after a few complementary Kentucky bourbons – is both downhome Kentucky folksy and DC lewd and lascivious at once! A real heartbreaker, that Mitch!

    • rube-i-con December 16, 2020 at 12:30 pm #

      it~s one big club and you ain~t in it

      pay your taxes and haltu kjafti

      • rube-i-con December 16, 2020 at 12:41 pm #

        – that~s for draupnir

  105. SoftStarLight December 16, 2020 at 3:53 am #

    That’s because the Russian Collusion hoax was a grand distraction from their actual and proven collusion, collaboration, and fornication with CCP spies and operatives planted throughout the country. The China Collusion reality is the real breaking news. Its not even a secret anymore. China essentially owns us and the elites are openly coordinating with them for a price. China is thus imposing its narratives and messages within our own universities and school systems, corporations, media, and our local level governments on up to the federal government. These are all totally illegitimate and thoroughly corrupted institutions and organizations and only becoming moreso with each new revelation of betrayal and treason.

    • Disaffected December 16, 2020 at 6:32 am #

      Owned and infiltrated. Corruption being a relative term these days. The more relevant question being: corrupted by whom and/or what? The main question now is whether the Chinese are more dangerous than the Zionist cabal currently in charge in DC, or whether the two are part and parcel of the same nefarious agenda? I think it might at least appear to be the latter, but the jury’s still deliberating that one. If the Chinese were smart – and they are – they’d work with the Zionists for as long as it benefited them and then curb stomp the rat bastards just as soon as it didn’t. I think that’s probably the longer range play.

      • Yohannon December 16, 2020 at 12:01 pm #

        A man after my own heart.

  106. SoftStarLight December 16, 2020 at 4:12 am #

    Though China isn’t really to blame if you think about it. The Chinese are simply using clever strategies to gather as much power and influence as possible for their nation and for the CCP. They tend to act collectively in their national interests bcause they apparently believe they have a nation. It isn’t their fault our elites are total sellouts and national security risks. And then again, if a country is stupid enough to allow open borders and unlimited migration it should come as no surprise that foreign spies are all over the place. This is now why the media is trying to push an aggressive agenda against China. Another distraction while they quietly complete the heist. At least that is their plan.

    • Disaffected December 16, 2020 at 6:24 am #

      Excellent analysis. Less a heist than a corporate takeover, and no need to wonder where they learned the art of that deal from. Their thieving American capitalist masters, of course. But hey, we’ve got ID pols, social justice warriors, and rumors of foreign boogeymen under every bed, so we’ll turn it around in no time with a real life, soon to be 80 year old Walking Dead zombie at the helm.

      • JohnAZ December 16, 2020 at 11:40 am #

        Take down the dysfunctional Deep State and replace it with a totalitarian oligarchy and what do you have.

        China! Here in the US.

        I am not surprised that China has capitalism as it economic engine. Call it Directed Capitalism. Make a plan, get the best group to complete it. Use competition to drum up ambition.

        A thought. With all the crises occurring today due to overpopulation, which is just about everything, is China’s directed capitalism a more competitive model of government?

        Nation first, directed activity, multi corporation competition?

        Fascism? National socialism?

        Is the world morphing into a place where emphasis on the individual is secondary and cannot compete with alternative forms of government that are autocratic. Is more direct control necessary to keep up? Can the US compete any more without its military?

        It may be a mute point. The US is morphing to a Uniparty oligarchy right now in front of our faces. Are we going to end up being a clone of China?

        I sure hope not. I continue to hope that individual responsibility and entrepreneurship beat out “Communism” anytime.

        The good ship America is starting to sink. Dems in control will stop the pumps. Chinese inspired Dems may just fire a death shot right through the bowels of the ship.

        Come on investigators, all you have to do is find one place where Dominion has purposely altered votes.

        Then it is Katy bar the door. Cheating in an election should fire off the Insurrection Act and stop this sham of an election. Trump is the only person that can stop these Democratic autocrats.

        • Yohannon December 16, 2020 at 12:07 pm #

          I’d call them National Socialism, where the Government directs the private sphere.

          National Socialism and not Fascism because they value Race – their own to be exact! Other East Asia ethnes are lesser versions of their own Divine prototype. Whites a distant “second”.

        • rube-i-con December 16, 2020 at 12:26 pm #

          the oligarchy you fear is just george carlin~s ‘big club and you ain’t in it’

          ccp leader has a $50 million apartment in nyc, no doubt the top rinos and dems know its interiors well

          why not feather your nest extravagantly when you have easy access to trillions to just siphon off a bit here and there, hand to your kids (pelosi, kerry, biden)

          it~s all just a game to them – read Fowle~s The Magus. Also see Gilligan~s Island episode The Hunter

      • SoftStarLight December 17, 2020 at 2:48 am #

        It’s hard to even countenance such a wicked and loathsome thought. Some people think its more likely he gets arrested than actually make it into the oval office. Time will tell and believe it or not time doesn’t seem to be on their side.

    • Yohannon December 16, 2020 at 12:05 pm #

      But they do consider it warfare – and it may have already included the use of a virus.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare

      • SoftStarLight December 17, 2020 at 2:39 am #

        After seeing how our own Mandarins took advantage of peoples’ fears of sickness and death to institute literal tyranny and economic terrorism I do think covid was actually a psychological and social attack brought on by the Chinese and their globalist allies like our fifth column here. They likely modeled and gamed out Western societies’ potential reactions to covid and found that one of Western culture’s weaknesses is that it has become driven by episodic popular hysterias. And thinking along those lines, such peoples could easily be convinced in large part to defy reality itself if the popular opinion supported it and if the ratio of state sponsored social and moral rewards versus punishments is just right. And if Western countries commit economic suicide to stop the evil thing, the better for the globalist factions generally.

  107. BackRowHeckler December 16, 2020 at 8:12 am #

    “80 year old walking dead zombie.”

    Good description.

    And we should endeavor to treat this M#@tgrf@kjer just like Pres Trump was treated for 4 years … give Beijng Biden the same consideration and regard.

    At least we know now how it is done. We have been shown the way, in spades.

    Brh

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    • Disaffected December 16, 2020 at 11:34 am #

      Almost feel sorry for the old coot. Almost. I know he’s just a stooge for a much larger plan, but then again that’s pretty much been his role for his entire ignominious political career. You make your bed with rats and you end up living in shit.

      • Soul Forensics December 16, 2020 at 1:29 pm #

        Disagree. He knew exactly what he was doing, dementia be damned, when he took 50% cuts of his bagman son’s dirty CCP loot, destroying his country’s long-term sovereignty in the process. Fuck him.

        • Disaffected December 16, 2020 at 4:00 pm #

          OK, you’ve convinced me. Fuck the old bastard!

    • jimbo December 16, 2020 at 11:50 am #

      And Trump? Look if this is as good as it gets for American leadership we might as well end it as a nation. We need term limits . We need good people to lead . Not crazy about Biden but he ain’t Trump. Like I said to some friends. All Trump needed to do was tell Americans the truth in February, wear the mask . Pay middle Americans enough to stay home and he would have been a hero . Instead he verified what many thought, he was just like the rest of the political class .

      • benr December 16, 2020 at 12:02 pm #

        @jimbo

        No he is far worse than Trump.
        That is the point.

      • rube-i-con December 16, 2020 at 12:14 pm #

        People are wearing masks and the virus is “worse than ever”

        Fauci/Pelosi/Cuomo all said no need to worry, as did the CDC in Jan/Feb/March

        You have selective memory

        Maybe Pelosi should~ve “paid people to stay home”

  108. wm5135 December 16, 2020 at 10:03 am #

    “…..One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
    One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them…..” Tolkien

    Discipline, target identification, target acquisition, engagement.

    A shotgun increases the odds of success, it does not guarantee success.

  109. Sagesse December 16, 2020 at 12:14 pm #

    I wonder if JHK is embarrassed by what he reads in the comment section of his blogs…

    I certainly hope he is.

    Sagesse– I’m banning you as soon as I send this in. — JHK Admin

    • BackRowHeckler December 16, 2020 at 12:40 pm #

      Jim has been known to kick you off this roll if you piss him off bad enough.

      • Sagesse December 16, 2020 at 1:49 pm #

        My point exactly.

        Curious how some posters manage to avoid censorship or expulsion.

        • benr December 16, 2020 at 2:38 pm #

          Did you ever think its just…YOU?

          • Sagesse December 16, 2020 at 2:52 pm #

            Always so clever benr. Do you do pull my finger too?

          • benr December 16, 2020 at 3:09 pm #

            So you don’t understand that it really is just you!

            Interesting how out of it your ilk really are.
            Trust me when I say it is just you Jim is good about giving warnings when you over step.

          • benr December 16, 2020 at 3:13 pm #

            by what he reads in the comment section of his blogs -legion

            Honestly he is probably just tired of reading your uncouth comments and watching you mouth off.

            As far as embarrassed he named his blog clusterfuck nation I suspect he has a pretty good thick skin so again its just you.

            While we are on question and answer phase.

            No I don’t do the pull the finger gag in your case it would be a straight up crop dusting and then blame you for it.
            Blaming the dog no longer works since she just runs away at the first whiff of a fart.
            Meanwhile that smell you smell is most likely your own upper lip and nose since you have them both firmly implanted in Democrat butt cheeks.

    • QAintel December 16, 2020 at 5:37 pm #

      Wow. I didn’t agree politically with Sagesse, but I gotta say banning him for this comment, or any of the others I read from him, seems more like cancel culture than… well cancel culture.

      • jeremystoltzfus December 16, 2020 at 9:05 pm #

        The thing is that Jim seems to enjoy pushing other people around within his sphere of influence. It his own little brand of cancel culture curated by him alone. It is that thing where you hate something or someone or a group of people so much that you become like that thing you hate. I found it happening to me with Donald Trump for instance because of the environmental destruction he was wreaking and the war in Yemen for no reason, etc. I had to check myself and let it go. I don’t want to be like that. The wokesters dinged Jim in the universities because he lacks tact and talked some non poc shit just because he can and thought it wouldn’t hurt him. Well it did and now he hates them with every fiber of his living being. Read the last book of The World Made by Hand to see Jim playing out his unbridled fantasies of letting wokesters have it so to speak. Jim reminds me of my older brother (also named Jim) who also thinks he is larger than life and must be tiptoed around at all times or else. All while asserting that it is other people who behave like that. He loves to talk shit about other people’s appearance and make a value judgement about people based on whether they have tattooes or not for instance. That is no better in my opinion than Hillary’s “basket of deplorables” comment. That part is a stupid aspect of the work of an otherwise amazing writer and insightful social critic in a lot of ways.

  110. BackRowHeckler December 16, 2020 at 12:39 pm #

    Benr

    To change the subject up a little …

    I had a few questions for you.

    In Southern Cal where you’re at, can you surf year round? Or is it too cold and too rough in winter months? Out in Matunuck RI, I’ve seen surfers late into the season — October — but they were wearing wet suits. I was wondering if it’s the same where you are.

    Also, upstream you had an interesting back and forth with a poster who claimed to be a SoCal surfer as well. I was surprised to see the subject of violence and fights between surfers come up. From what I could tell it was about territory. I always thought of surfing as a pretty laid back sport with a lot of camaraderie and sense of community amongst all you surfer dudes. But from what you’se guys were saying that might not be the case. Are there fights on the beach?

    Brh

    • benr December 16, 2020 at 2:08 pm #

      @BRH

      The time of year dictates what part of the coast lights up.
      Summer is typically southerly swells winter the swells come from west and north mostly.
      So southern facing beaches work best for summer and fall.
      The cold has never bothered me until it drops into the 40’s.
      I have a spring suit 2mm thick cut off at the knees and elbows and two full suits a 3/2mm and a 4/3mm no booties gloves or hood.

      Localism is just part of it some beaches are notorious for it some are more laid back but every beach has its enforcers even crazy ones like Malibu and rincon.
      Oxnard area has some pretty intense locals as does Lunada bay, Wind and Sea and Mission beach, and a couple of breaks on Sunset cliffs in San Diego.
      Seaside in Oregon as well.
      Malibu was notorious for Micky Dora in the 50’s or 60’s.

      To many people and not enough waves.
      Also to many people don’t know the rules, don’t wait their turn or even put in time to get to know the regulars so they tend to get weeded out pretty quick.
      As far as fighting goes on the beach you typically lose even when you win as law enforcement gets called.
      Most of the altercations involve a dunking or a slap in the face busted off fins on your board or flat tires on your car.

      I have a three strikes rule unless the unwanted visitor hurts someone or starts mouthing off.
      I take the time to educate when it appears they just don’t understand the rules of the road so to speak but there are those that feel entitled to just show up mouth off run people over and drop in on people.

      https://swellsurfcamp.com/surf-etiquette-the-golden-rules/

      https://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/the-basic-rules-of-surf-etiquette

      • benr December 16, 2020 at 2:31 pm #

        In fact North shore of Hawaii is one of the worst for localism and violence.
        Da’Hui a hawaiin surfing gang has been terrorizing people for forty years.

        https://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/the-most-feared-surf-gangs-in-the-world

        • kbird December 17, 2020 at 12:18 pm #

          Benr,
          Is Eddie Rothman part of the Da’Hui gang? That guy is terrifying,

      • BackRowHeckler December 16, 2020 at 2:36 pm #

        Wow, interesting.

        A whole way of life, with it’s own rules and customs. I had no idea.

        Thanks Ben

        Brh

        • benr December 16, 2020 at 2:48 pm #

          No worries I always like to educate and inform.

          Worst place I ever surfed was aropador in Rio two guys got into it over a wave.
          http://surf-rio.com/

          About ten minutes later one came back with a gun and shot the other guy dead right in front of me.
          That same trip a bunch of us stumbling around in the dark drunk on ipanema beach tripped over a dead black guy who was robbed and beat to death with a coconut and left buck naked.

          • BackRowHeckler December 16, 2020 at 5:25 pm #

            Never been to Brazil but I’ve read it can be pretty brutal.

          • kbird December 17, 2020 at 12:20 pm #

            Benr,
            Holy shit, that is an intense story!! Never been to Brazil, I have heard similar stories. I spent some time in Costa and was never a fan of the packs of Brazilian’s in the water.

        • kbird December 17, 2020 at 12:15 pm #

          Hey BackRowHeckler,
          That was me who was chatting with Benr about surfing. It is pretty interesting, the localism deal. Before I surfed I used to think the same thing, surfers all seemed so laid back etc…but surfing is a self regulated sport, there’s no ref out in the water. In general, considering that, things go pretty well. But there are always the assholes. Like Benr said, there is an order in the water, you wait your turn, you don’t drop in on someone, be respectful, learn the rules. There are never enough waves to go around. I did for the first time get to experience Kelly’s wave pool, Benr, have you had the chance yet? I was against that pool for awhile, but wow, what an experience. No localism there, they line you up and there is an order so no dropping in, etc…it was nice to not have to worry about that!

  111. Yohannon December 16, 2020 at 1:54 pm #

    After we defeat the Communists and the Covidians, then it’s the Feminist’s turn.

    https://www.euronews.com/2020/12/15/paris-fined-90-000-for-breaching-gender-parity-law-by-appointing-too-many-women-in-senior-

    Like any other “ethnic group” (except Whites), women only want to hire their own.

    • rube-i-con December 16, 2020 at 2:44 pm #

      rap sheet

      no´m sayin´

      (fist thrust into the air for justice)

      • rube-i-con December 16, 2020 at 2:45 pm #

        ^^^^for the ´rapper´ who got rap rap rapped by a privileged window^^^

        they can~t obey the law, study, or work hard

        they can~t even succeed in africa

  112. Yohannon December 16, 2020 at 2:16 pm #

    A Real tragedy. A rapper headed for the big time was killed during a home break in when the racist window came down on his head. He was found just hanging there. A go fund me has been set up if you want to contribute. Father of five. He had bills to pay and shit. The big times didn’t come quick enough. It’s not his fault. Probably some kind of White “attack window”.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-rapper-died-trying-rob-173201271.html

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    • bluekayak December 16, 2020 at 2:30 pm #

      “father of five”… just wonderful.

    • jimbo December 16, 2020 at 4:21 pm #

      But white people never rob or steal or kill . Your racist comments are really ……

      • Yohannon December 16, 2020 at 5:06 pm #

        The homeowner should be arrested, right? For lynching…..

        The wife wants an investigation! She wants that ghetto lottery, know what I’m sayin’?

      • Yohannon December 16, 2020 at 5:37 pm #

        They do, Jimbo – just at a much lower rate. I don’t expect you to understand percentages though.

    • BackRowHeckler December 17, 2020 at 3:30 am #

      It appears every Young Community Member is an aspiring Hip Hop artist and star rapper. Every ‘Youth’ shot to death on the streets of New Haven or Hartford, or arrested in this or that violent crime, is described by sympathetic local media as a talented Rapper on the cusp of Big Time Stardom.

      Brh

  113. messianicdruid December 16, 2020 at 3:42 pm #

    “If humanity wants to have a future, we have to beat the suicidal impulse behind civilizations.”

    Debate any of the numerous symbols above –

    • messianicdruid December 16, 2020 at 3:48 pm #

      Why? [ question everything ]

      • messianicdruid December 16, 2020 at 3:51 pm #

        Debate [ seems obvious ]

        • messianicdruid December 16, 2020 at 3:53 pm #

          Define “civilization”

          • messianicdruid December 16, 2020 at 3:59 pm #

            Conglomeration

            “One of the main motivations for conglomeration in creating something new from the combined energies of multiple companies to produce independent goods and services under one parent company’s management. Another reason for conglomeration is executing on the concept of diversification by combining two smaller firms. The union allows the larger, newly formed parent company to diversify its product offering, which helps it reach a new and wider base of customers. Ultimately, it all comes down to productivity and revenue.”

  114. John1945 December 16, 2020 at 3:54 pm #

    Dear Mr.Kunstler
    Please accept my apologies for my last comment which was intended as a joke.
    Regards

    • Disaffected December 16, 2020 at 4:26 pm #

      he gave John the Baptist “buck fifty”

      I think the accepted pronunciation is “a buck fitty.” But I got the point.

  115. Disaffected December 16, 2020 at 3:57 pm #

    Apparently there was a competition for who would be the first openly gay cabinet member while we were all asleep. Media outlets are apparently anointing Trans Sec Petey the B as the first, because, you know, that’s such a key qualification for the job, completely ignoring previous flamer Richard Grenell, who had the great misfortune to be someone who absolutely no one’s ever heard of. Insufficient gayness on his part?

    https://www.foxnews.com/media/pete-buttigieg-first-openly-gay-cabinet-member-grenell

    As for young master Petey, apparently he a had a little pothole filling problem as mayor of South Bend, which is directly relevant to his current job. Too focused on filling the wrong kinds of holes, possibly? Understandable, I guess. Lots of cute young eligible Fighting Irish bachelors down that a way needing some emergency “road maintenance,” I hear.

    • Disaffected December 16, 2020 at 5:56 pm #

      It just keeps getting better:

      ***********
      Thanks to Pete Buttigieg, O’Hare Airport is now calling itself a ‘place of romance’

      Maureen Groppe
      USA TODAY

      O’Hare Airport knows how to ingratiate itself with Joe Biden’s choice for transportation secretary, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

      At his formal introduction Wednesday, Buttigieg recounted how he’d proposed to his husband, Chasten, at the airport.

      “Don’t let anybody tell you that O’Hare isn’t romantic,” Buttigieg added.

      The Chicago airport is leaning into that declaration.

      Its official twitter bio now describes O’Hare as a “Place of romance.”

      “Thank you for appreciating all the connections we make possible @PeteButtigieg,” the airport tweeted. “Looking forward to working with you as we continue to make our airport lovable for decades to come.”
      ***********

      So, tell me again that there’s no not-so-hidden agenda here.

    • jimbo December 16, 2020 at 4:18 pm #

      Only Trump can be believed??

      • benr December 16, 2020 at 4:22 pm #

        Actually NO but he has been right about many things.
        Russia russia russia and spying on him and his campaign as well as the rampant voter fraud so there is that.
        He is certainly right more than the negative reports about him and most of the TDS afflicted posters here on this very board.

        • benr December 16, 2020 at 4:23 pm #

          Interestiong podcast from NoAgenda redneck red herring.

        • jimbo December 16, 2020 at 6:35 pm #

          Covid …. it will be a miracle it will disappear. Tell that to the families of 300000+ . Trump is an utter failure. Hey I get it you hate democrats and liberals. Trump ain’t no conservative.

          • benr December 16, 2020 at 7:11 pm #

            In your opinion and let me tell you your opinion reeks like TDS afflicted pond scum water mixed with leaky septic tank and a healthy dose of covid infected phlegm.

            I don’t hate liberals some of my best friends are classic liberals I hate the mind numbing wokesterdom bullshit being piped into the minds of people.

            You are correct in that Trump is not a conservative not even close but hey no one is perfect he how ever has struck a cord with putting America before other countries.
            He has also NOT put covid infected people into old folks homes to take out over half the fatalities.
            Why don’t you tell the rest of that sordid story?
            Be truthful tell the rest of the story and stop ignoring the inconvenient parts!
            Jimbo you simply are a propagandist you only tell partial truths and point blame at the wrong place!

    • Night Owl December 16, 2020 at 5:32 pm #

      Simple statements for the simple of mind.

      The parallel construct does not make all or any of the items true.

      But you may have a low IQ.

      • jimbo December 16, 2020 at 7:40 pm #

        No Benr , Trump said it would disappear like a miracle. He knew it was bad in February. He decided to do nothing. Screw your liberal BS . You have no damn idea . No Trump put Trump and his nepotism family first and BSited you and the rest of America’s fools . He is a failure and lost . Next .

        • benr December 16, 2020 at 9:41 pm #

          Nope your flat out wrong.
          Then why did he stop flights from China and Europe?
          Why did he push for a vaccine calling it operation warp speed?
          Why has Joe Bidens promise to do exactly what Trump is already doing?
          Your like that clueless kid with your fingers in your ears kicking your feet and screaming lalala because you don’t want to see or hear something.
          No wonder you took such exception to the term Tard ever been checked for a learning disability sunshine?

          We can put up with spelling and grammar issues but being willfully ignorant after being shown the way does not fly around here.

          Poor guy time to wake up.

          • Mike Roberts December 16, 2020 at 11:07 pm #

            He stopped some flights from China, not all. He stopped some flights from Europe, much later, and didn’t include some hard hit countries. He did nothing for the whole of Feb. Pfizer claim that they received little funding from Warp Speed and didn’t attend the vaccine summit.

          • benr December 17, 2020 at 9:48 am #

            And when he did what did the other side do?
            In fact what did Nancy Pelosi do right after he stopped all Flights from China?
            What did the then and now clueless Joe Biden say and do?

            You guys love to leave out key points and forget what the ridiculous Democrats did and said on everything he tried to do.

            Come on Mike you can do it what did the irrational virtue signaling leftist commie loving left do?

  116. BackRowHeckler December 16, 2020 at 5:20 pm #

    14″-18″ snowfall on the way tonite.

    Madness at the grocery stores, everybody in a panic to get ‘bread and milk’ and who knows what else, and stern warnings from the governor to ‘stay off the roads.”

    The 1st storm of the season always kind of a shocker, the whole world transformed.

    Brh

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    • beantownbill. December 16, 2020 at 5:40 pm #

      Yeah, we’re supposed to get 8-14 inches. I hope we don’t have a power outage as our heat is electric-based, and we don’t have a back-up gas generator. We should be ok because our electric lines are underground. Our problems can come from poles blowing down from lines outside our
      property, or some asshole crashing into one of the poles. In the 28 years I’ve lived here our longest outage was 3 hours, so we’ll be ok. Oh, well, I should get our fireplace and battery-operated lanterns ready.

      I know you’ll be ok.

      • snagglepuss December 16, 2020 at 11:12 pm #

        In my present role I look at sources of heating in all kinds of properties in the eastern part of the northern hemisphere. I find it kind of shocking. Propane, electric baseboard heat, Holy shit, I think there are still even some oil tanks around.
        It’s kind of surprising given the modern age.
        Thank god I live where natural gas heats every home, cleanly and safely.
        More and more I begin to see that while many things bind us together, so much says the opposite. Tribes still exist, so does incompatibility. Why on earth did we ever feel there was some common sense of thought or purpose that would guide our direction in life? I look around and see aliens and alien behaviours. Baseboard heat. Propane heat? Seems like such a primitive culture.

        • beantownbill. December 17, 2020 at 11:10 am #

          There is a story behind the heat pumps in my condo complex when it was being built. I won’t go into that now, but l do agree with you in general.

    • Night Owl December 16, 2020 at 5:46 pm #

      The hot stuff here among all of our friends here in Germany is that over the past few weeks, every school has told them that there was a COVID case in their child’s class, and that the kid now has to quarantine. This has occured across several states. All at the same time. Same story. We got a call today.

      Rather strange, given the general timing of other related events.

      IMO, the big push is coming, everywhere. Prepare for a shitstorm.

      On the plus side, I just ordered a 500l reef tank and a shitload of gear. Lots of online sales in the New Normal.

  117. Yohannon December 16, 2020 at 5:35 pm #

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/jill-biden-doctorate-garbage-because-212259558.html

    because her dissertation is garbage. But she has ferocity, body slamming a female protestor who tried to get near her frail Joe. If I was Joe Biden, I’d want Dr Jill Biden to be my Jill too.

  118. kbird December 16, 2020 at 5:48 pm #

    Just wanted to say this, as I’ve seen it on this blog and wanted to share my thoughts.,I will say this here because it applies to MANY of my good friends (dozens over time, at least three this week). I don’t want to be the PC Police. But also, I don’t want to leave it up to the parents of kids with developmental disabilities to say this: Please don’t use the word “libtard” or other words with ‘tard – even satirically or sarcastically.
    I know right-wing types sometimes call liberals that. But I see it even more in memes and posts by liberals mocking the way MAGA folks talk about them. And it may seem to be a way of calling out their ugliness, but I think it actually just spreads and repeats that ugliness. I have a child with Down Syndrome and have multiple friends whose children have Down syndrome and they have expressed this, but multiple other friends – friends who I know would never call someone “the R word” – throw around the word “libtard” pretty freely. I trust they don’t mean it to be hurtful, but it is. So, there, I said it. Thank you for considering. Now feel free to call me a Snowflake, I don’t mind that:)
    PS the word “dotard,” like Kim Jong Un called Donald Trump, is not pronounced “?d?-tärd” (similar to go-cart). It’s not a ‘tard word, but people make it into one by assuming it’s pronounced like one. It’s “?d?-t?rd” (like motored).

    • Disaffected December 16, 2020 at 6:03 pm #

      Ahem… The fact that it offends some people is the reason that some other people use such words in the first place. Offensive being in the eye of the beholder.

      A quote from some new-agey crapola I read back in the pre-historic 70’s or 80’s applies here:

      It’s as great a sin to take offense as is it is to give it.

      I’d call you a snowflake, but that’s obviously not offensive enough, so why bother? Any other words we should stamp out of the lexicon today?

      • kbird December 16, 2020 at 6:15 pm #

        Disaffected,
        Did you even read what I wrote? It offends people who have children with Down Syndrome. Are you that just plain mean? You have no idea what it’s like to care for someone with a disability like Downs? Obviously you have NEVER cared for someone like that and are just an asshole.

        • kbird December 16, 2020 at 6:28 pm #

          Disaffected also has zero empathy and compassion.

          • Night Owl December 17, 2020 at 3:34 am #

            Disaffected knows you are a troll.

        • Soul Forensics December 16, 2020 at 6:39 pm #

          “It offends people who have children with Down Syndrome.” — kbird

          What a disingenuous argument.

          No reasonable person, without malice, is gonna call a Down Syndrome kid a ‘retard’ to his or her face, especially in the presence of the kid’s mom.

          But that’s not what’s happening in the power plays we witness every day, one drip at a time in a (now) ocean full of victimhood aggressions against faux problems from ‘insensitive’ Whites. Minority groups are simply using bogus ‘microaggressions’ against White, able-bodied, heteronormative, paternal, colonial, cisgendered men (Gawd, how can one use their terms without choking, and did I forget any key accusatory tags?)

          More succinctly, someone will get upset with another someone for a stupid remark online, reflexively call them a “retard”, and then get accused of active hostility against kids with learning disabilities.

          Fuck that. And fuck your misplaced sensitivities, real or juiced up by insincere SJW party-affiliated, dreary horseshit.

          • kbird December 16, 2020 at 6:46 pm #

            Soul Forensics,
            Wow, so reactive. Is anybody reading what I wrote, or just reading into what I wrote? AGAIN, I WILL REPEAT, to us mothers who have children with Downs, it hurts us when we hear that. Instead of being completely insensitive, try to show a teeny bit of compassion. Like I said above, I don’t believe that everyone is doing it to be mean, but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt. Why is it my liberal friends who I had this same discussion with, listened, and said they totally understood. Yet here on this sight, you all get offended, defensive, think that I’m trying to censor you etc….I’m just trying to bring light to something that means a lot to myself, and many many others. This has nothing to do with being over sensitive as you said, try to have somewhat of a heart, I know it must be in there somewhere.

          • Soul Forensics December 16, 2020 at 7:15 pm #

            kbird,

            Either you didn’t read what I wrote, or failed to understand the simple message contained therein. I don’t really care which category you fit, but your persistence on this matter is such that you’re either a retard, a sincere SJW, a passive-aggressive troll, or all three.

            But you’ve now pissed me off.

            It’s a trick of the ‘good cop’ SJW to try to ‘convince’ their opponent of their insensitivities. The duped antagonist then tries to reason in likeminded, polite tones, with arguments showing the SJW the error of his or her ways. When that inevitably fails — the SJW always has a rote response from their Marxist University playbook — the SJW will subtly up the exchange to accuse, ever-so-gently but insidiously threatening, the rational person of “not doing enough” to further help (in this case) kids with learning difficulties.

            So the rational person has now gone from being insensitive to someone who actively refuses to ‘help’ the afflicted kid. One is accused for just living one’s life.

            Here, let me try this one out on you, kbird. Have you ever helped out by volunteering to befriend and read to an aged, ill, lonely old person in a nursing home? If not, why not? Do you hate old people? Are you that insensitive about their well-being?

            And just to follow up, not that it needs it. When you ignorantly ‘suggested’ (oh how subtle) that I volunteer at a Special Olympics, you don’t know the first fucking thing about me. For several years, my wife and I (my wife was paid by the child’s guardian) drove a Down Syndrome 16-18 year old girl to a swimming pool 35 miles away (we live in a rural area) every week to practise for the Olympics (she ended up winning medals in her category).

            In a separate case, over a decade ago, I had a two week fling with a woman in South Dakota. I flew there. She has a daughter, whose third child, a son, has Down Syndrome. Nice kid. At no time would it have crossed my mind to call that kid a ‘retard’. If I had, my flame, and her daughter, would have thrown me out on the December sub-zero street.

            The arrogance, ignorance, and assumptive insanity your kind bring to discussions that any reasonable set of people can navigate successfully never fails to astound me.

          • kbird December 16, 2020 at 7:52 pm #

            Soul Forensics,
            I’m going to try this again, as what you write has nothing to do with what I said. I never said that you or anyone was calling children with downs Retarded…please re read. I said using the term Libtard is hurtful to families that care for DD children and to those kids who hear it online as well. I was far from disingenuous, quite the opposite. I was being open and honest. You have every right to say what you want, this isn’t about free speech. I see it all over the web and hear it on a daily basis and myself and other mothers feel a twinge of pain when we hear it. I’m sorry if me saying that hurts your feelings.
            Now onto you and the things I didn’t know about you that I know now, and thank you for sharing. I am a big proponent of giving back. And you do that I see, which is amazing and more people should do that. Your question to me about if I have ever volunteered and helped old people. Well, for the last year I have been living with my mother who has alzheimers, I take care of her and my DD son. I also am a Nurse Practitioner at a wound clinic. My mother lives in a seniors community and on a daily basis I visit with her neighbors and tend to there wounds as well, which is predominately bed sores. SO yes, I give back too. Look, this doesn’t have to be such a big issue. You definitely don’t know me and have accused me to be someone that I am not. I am an open person, and I just learned that you are generous with your time and care for others. We need to all find some common ground even if were on opposing sides. And this topic had nothing to do with sides either.

        • Disaffected December 17, 2020 at 7:33 am #

          Did you even read what I wrote?

          I did. You are apparently deeply offended by words that end in -tard. My sympathies. Caring for a Downs Syndrome afflicted kid is also apparently a bitch. I’ll take your word for it, but that’s really an entirely different subject from whether or not I like to use the word “retard,” which I do. Words have meanings, but even more importantly, they have effects on people who hear them, which is why I, like most people – even you – use them to great effect from time to time to get the attention of others who aren’t listening.

          You don’t even know me and yet you label me an asshole. Am I? Probably, at least to some people. I’ve certainly heard that accusation before, just as I’ve slung it at others as well. I don’t really view it as an insult, but rather, just as an indication that the slinger is pissed off at me. If I care enough and have the power to do something about it, I will. If not, I won’t. So I’ll just reiterate:

          It’s as great a sin to take offense as is it is to give it.

          and add…

          I recognize that you are offended by something I said or did, but if I was acting in good faith and had no egregious ill-intent to gratuitously offend you, then the problem is yours and not mine, and I have no ability to help you with that.

          Words to live by, there.

          and two pet peeves…

          I am offended by people who constantly take offense at things. It’s irritating as hell! If we all constantly take offense at everything we hear, where does it all end? A non-stop, 24/7 bitch fest? Or a completely sanitized society where no one says anything at all for fear of offending someone else?

          I’m even more offended by “Language Police” for the same reasons. Language is a terrible thing to waste. If the word served a purpose good enough to be created in the first place, then why should I be restricted from using it within “reasonable” (slippery term, that) social norms?

      • Soul Forensics December 16, 2020 at 6:27 pm #

        “The fact that it offends some people is the reason that some other people use such words in the first place. Offensive being in the eye of the beholder.” –Disaffected

        Exactly, though there’s also another element to it.

        The dreaded N word was fine until the narrative changed. Ditto ‘colored’ and ‘negro’. Why were they initially OK, even promoted before becoming off-limits? Shifting Woke narratives.

        Libtard and retard were fine when I was growing up. We used the latter term ‘liberally’ during elementary school. It was de rigeur with adults in respectable publications. Then the disabilities victimhood orgs came along and unilaterally decided it was offensive. That’s not how language works. Without censorship, it’s grassroots and dynamic, with ever-shifting replacement, addition, or maintenance of words and phrases.

        So go scold yourself, Libtard snowflake kbird.

        • kbird December 16, 2020 at 6:35 pm #

          Soul Forensics,
          You completely misunderstand and like Disaffected have just gotten defensive instead of opening your mind. I know those words were fine. I used the word retarded all of the time growing up, but it changed and soon became an insult to people with disabilities. I know it’s hard for you to have compassion and empathy for people, I’m not sure if you even know what that is, but maybe you could try. Maybe you could volunteer at the Special Olympics, talk to other mothers with kids who have disabilities and see what they say. Obviously the fact that my son has Downs and I’m telling you it’s hurtful to myself and my son when people use those words doesn’t seem to change your mind. Avoiding language and actions that insult, exclude or harm people who are already experiencing disadvantage and discrimination…Is that so hard to understand?

          • Disaffected December 17, 2020 at 7:35 am #

            No offense taken, and I understand you as well as I am able. But this really has nothing to do with Down’s Syndrome kids in the first place. No one is suggesting that we single them out for verbal abuse.

          • kbird December 17, 2020 at 10:44 am #

            Disaffected,
            You said “No one is suggesting that we single them out for verbal abuse.”
            Someone else said something similar. Please highlight where in my post that I said you or people using that word are verbally abusing them? You won’t find it anywhere. What you will find is that I said even my friends use that word, freely, not meaning to cause harm. But it does. Not deliberately, I know that. You think my son has never heard or seen the word Libtard before? He has, and it upsets him, and it upsets families who have children with downs. My whole point was just to think a little bit about it, it’s not a ridiculous thing to ask. To think about how your words effect people. Yes people are overly sensitive about words I agree fully with that. But what you and everyone else who commented on this are telling me is you don’t care, you don’t care that the word Libtard is hurtful when a Downs child or adult see’s that word or over hears. You want to be able to say whatever you want, you don’t care if it hurts anyone. I’m just repeating what you have said. Am I wrong? People are mean, you might not go around calling kids Retards, but if you dont have a downs child, you wouldn’t understand the horrible things that have been said to my son and to me about his disability. So let me spell it out again real clear, my Downs child has expressed repeatedly to me that when he hears the word Libtard it hurts him, he feels like nothing. I am telling you that many other mothers feel the exact same way, that we wish people would find a different word to use, as it fuels the ugliness that we experience with that word. You have twisted my words to mean what you want them to mean, that I am policing your words, that I am saying you are calling kids names to there faces etc…It’s clear that there is no point in contributing to a medium whose tone is the antithesis of kindness and empathy. But instead, is simply an outlet for vitriol.

          • Soul Forensics December 17, 2020 at 1:33 pm #

            “You think my son has never heard or seen the word Libtard before? He has, and it upsets him, and it upsets families who have children with downs.” — kbird

            Then it’s up to you to raise your Down kid better. How’s that for insensitivity? You can’t police thoughts and behaviour, unless you want to become East Germany or the U.S.S.R. 1920s-1930s, or the beginnings of the censor society here. Those spoken thoughts just go underground, creating resentment, much of it justified.

            It’s a tough world. I’m sure you’ve heard that before but it’s true. People gonna do what they do. Get over it. This is a general problem with all overly-sensitive people. Everyone gets insulted. I’m insulted by your attempt to control my behaviour, but I’d never dream of telling you to stop it, or, as is happening more often these days, to silence me, fire me, ostracize me, and doxx me and my family. It’s not just about you and your kid.

            “You have twisted my words to mean what you want them to mean, that I am policing your words, that I am saying you are calling kids names to there faces etc” — kbird

            Then what the hell is the problem? He hears third-hand that someone said ‘libtard’, which doesn’t even refer to him? Jesus. Unbelievable.

            It’s true. I’m offended by all those Mr. Clean commercials! That pure White, Aryan, aggressively smirking skinhead with crossed arms. Naughtzi scum!

        • kbird December 17, 2020 at 2:08 pm #

          Soul Forensics,
          Useless trying to have an open conversation with someone like you, and everyone else who commented. Your response to me is ignorant and not surprising coming from a DEPLORABLE.

          • Soul Forensics December 17, 2020 at 2:21 pm #

            “An open conversation.” –kbird

            Ahahaha!

            “Open.” As in, I talk, you listen.

          • kbird December 17, 2020 at 2:36 pm #

            Soul Forensics,
            Open conversation, ya, you can’t do that. It means listening and trying to see the other side, that is what empathy is. Putting yourself in other’s shoes, the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. Again, you have shown none. I listened to you, responded to your stories and commended you for your volunteer work. You can’t even try to put yourself in my shoes, my son’s shoes, or anyone else for that matter.

          • kbird December 17, 2020 at 2:37 pm #

            Soul Forensics,
            Yes, I did call you a Deplorable. And Yes I did say i don’t use that because it offends people. But, I have changed my mind. You don’t deserve my respect, your responses to me are Deplorable and I’ll say it again, you are an ignorant Deplorable.

          • Soul Forensics December 17, 2020 at 3:46 pm #

            Aw. You hurt my feelings. That’s not nice.

      • malthuss December 16, 2020 at 7:14 pm #

        Welcome back. How is the weather back east?

    • Night Owl December 16, 2020 at 6:04 pm #

      Well, the problem is the uniparty.

      Unitard ok?

      For example: “Shut up, you fucking unitard.”

      • kbird December 16, 2020 at 6:18 pm #

        Nightowl,
        Like I said, I’m just trying to shed some light and this goes for Democrats and Republicans as I said in my post above. I don’t believe people are always saying it to be hurtful, but it is hurtful to use any word with Tard in it if you have a child with Down’s or any other developmental Disability.

        • Night Owl December 17, 2020 at 10:09 am #

          I have a disabled younger brother and have no issue with it.

          • kbird December 17, 2020 at 11:00 am #

            That’s great Nightowl. I didn’t say it offended everyone. Just like the word Deplorable, that word seems to really offend many people on this blog, but then others not so much. You just never know. As much as I would like to use the word Deplorable on here I don’t, because I know it really offends people.

          • stelmosfire December 17, 2020 at 11:25 am #

            I’m just glad my plow truck is not suffering Spark Retardation.

            https://itstillruns.com/symptoms-retarded-ignition-timing-12229315.html

            It’s probably not funny but when I here the world retard I think of spark plugs.

          • Soul Forensics December 17, 2020 at 2:26 pm #

            “As much as I would like to use the word Deplorable on here I don’t, because I know it really offends people” –kbird

            You just called me a deplorable, in all caps.

            You’re retarded.

          • Night Owl December 17, 2020 at 3:06 pm #

            Assuming you are actually serious, you should break out of that world.

            The world of mind control. Word wizardry.

  119. Night Owl December 16, 2020 at 6:02 pm #

    “REPORT:
    @realDonaldTrump
    WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG!
    #AmericanMedicalAssociation QUIETLY REVERSED Position On #Hydroxychloroquine In LATE Oct. They RESCINDED THEIR REQUEST THAT DOCTORS STOP PRESCRIBING #HCQ! Now Admit Benefits FAR OUTWEIGH The Extremely Low Risk! https://ama-assn.org/system/files/2020-10/nov20-handbook-addendum.pdf

    https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1339033856696070148

    LOL. Every fucking institution is all in on this shit. The fucking AMA now.

    Ahahahahahaha!

    • Disaffected December 16, 2020 at 6:04 pm #

      Full court press. Quite impressive actually.

      • jimbo December 16, 2020 at 7:12 pm #

        Ya all can flush Rush . A waste .

        • Night Owl December 17, 2020 at 3:31 am #

          No one was talking about Rush.

          LOL.

    • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 11:54 am #

      Yahoo comments have come back too, except for the overtly political stories. But with stronger guidelines and asking you to think about certain word choices.

      • kbird December 17, 2020 at 12:01 pm #

        Deplorable is my favorite word, Janos, don’t you love it too!

  120. messianicdruid December 16, 2020 at 6:44 pm #

    I’m tardy to this discussion.

    “Tardigrades give us a lot to think about. An animal’s genome is far from sacred, and the tree of life is pretty darn tangled up.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/11/25/the-invincible-tardigrade-already-a-weird-animal-is-full-of-dna-stolen-from-bacteria/

    • Disaffected December 17, 2020 at 7:38 am #

      I’m tardy to this discussion.

      Thin ice there, md!

  121. sprawlcapital December 16, 2020 at 9:09 pm #

    By now you have all probably heard the news that the report from the Director of National Intelligence on foreign interference in the Nov. 3 election will be delayed. The 2018 Executive order mandating that report stated that it was to be transmitted to the President within 45 days of the election, which would have been this Friday.

    Fox reported that there was major disagreement among those preparing the report as to whether or not foreign interference was a severe problem with this election. Some think that China influenced the election; others apparently do not. At least, this is what I got from the Fox report.

    I am speculating as to what this delay means in terms of what actions are possible for the President, under the wording of the EO, without the DNI report. Could Trump unilaterally declare that certain persons, including of course corporations, acted to rig the election, and then move against those persons?

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    • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 11:57 am #

      More bullshit. If Trump is waiting for that to do anything, he might as well give up.

  122. KesaAnna December 16, 2020 at 9:36 pm #

    ” Tell that to the families of 300000+ . ”

    I HAVE told them that three hundred thousand in a country of three hundred and fifty million by no stretch of the imagination adds up to a moral and ethical mandate for them to start writing new rules for me.

    My conscience is entirely clear in telling them that every fucking body dies , one way or another , sooner or later , and in no way does the math on this thing add up to Smallpox or the Bubonic plague.

    It doesn’t bother my conscience in the slightest to tell them to

    FUCK OFF.

    And . by the way , this is now about the 6th time that I have pointed out that this three hundred thousand number is by no yardstick significant.

    Maybe it should bother your fucking conscience that you keep ignoring the math.

    • benr December 16, 2020 at 9:48 pm #

      Kesa its probably the same propagandist saying the same tired crap and getting banned just to repeat the same talking points.
      I agree 100% with your assessment fuck off with your nonsense.

      • KesaAnna December 16, 2020 at 10:12 pm #

        Perhaps so.

        But it seems like once upon a time you had to kill somebody , rape somebody , or rob a bank.

        Now , every time you turn around , it’s a fucking truckload of documents you must have , and the services of a 500 – dollar – an – hour lawyer ,

        every fucking time some asshole becomes concerned about something ,

        or CLAIMS to be concerned about something.

        And how the fuck does this add up to anything but serfdom by another name ?

        I’M the one who is supposed to feel guilty !

        When THEY are the ones with fifty thousand fucking demands !

  123. KesaAnna December 16, 2020 at 9:52 pm #

    Speaking of simple fucking math …….

    The Spanish flu of 1917 – 18 was a genuine pandemic , and pretty damn serious.

    Funny thing though ; when you compare total population of the US before the pandemic , to total population after the pandemic ,

    the population wasn’t lower.

    It was higher.

    Life went on , asshole.

    • benr December 17, 2020 at 9:51 am #

      Well they did not have netflix and the internet.
      You can only drink so much booze so what else you going to do?

      Good thing fertility is plummeting or we would have 500 million americans before this nonsense is put to rest.

  124. tom clark December 16, 2020 at 9:58 pm #

    Gnite Kim

  125. KesaAnna December 16, 2020 at 10:55 pm #

    ” Is the world morphing into a place where emphasis on the individual is secondary and cannot compete with alternative forms of government that are autocratic. ”

    Yes —

    — IF global warming is bullshit.

    — IF Malthusian population bombs are bullshit.

    — IF we can actually find equivalent alternatives to cheap oil and coal. ( I suspect the documentary , ” Planet of the humans ” is correct , that Green Energy is the contemporary equivalent of a Cargo Cult , or a Witchcraft hysteria. )

    — IF the planet doesn’t get hit by a giant rock tomorrow.

    — IF a volcano doesn’t blow up , causing five to ten years of non – stop winter and no spring or summer.

    etc , etc.

    The bad news is that if we dodge all these bullets , then what we most likely have to look forward to is not Star Trek ,

    but a future more like Blade Runner , except the reality would be something that nobody would want to make a sci – fi movie about , because the result would be both too boring and too grim.

    Sort of like , lots of people talk atheism , but nobody actually ever makes a movie consistent with atheist premises * , because even an atheist would walk out of the theater after maybe five minutes of such enervating bleakness.

    ( * Except maybe Franz Kafka’s , ” The Trial ” . )

    IF Global warming , population bombs , peak oil , etc , are not bullshit ,

    then most likely what you will see then is a return to a heavily theocratic form of feudalism —

    — which , for the most part , is very little involved in peoples daily lives.

    The possible good news there is that the lowest peasant can’t remember the last time he actually filled out a form.

    The last time the lowest peasant actually saw — ONE — police officer was four weeks ago.

    The lowest peasant mother actually sees her own child more than two hours a day , and not only has some genuine say in the raising of that child , but has virtually the only say.

    Shit like that , possibly , that the Bolsheviks and the Jacobin’s , and the Americans never went to any great pains to emphasize , while they pushed a degree of Imperialism that would make a Roman blush in the guise of , ” You are so much better off now than you were then ! ”

    ^ Said claim being , by the way , unfalsifiable.

  126. KesaAnna December 16, 2020 at 11:08 pm #

    To put it another way ,

    is totalitarianism inevitable ?

    Yes , if free energy , and the proverbial bottomless well of plenty , are not the equivalent of fairies and unicorns.

    If , however , energy , money , and time are finite ,

    then , sooner or later , you can safely bet that control freaks are going to tank as badly as drunks or coke fiends .

    If energy , money , and time are finite , then the world has never seen an era more bat – shit superstitious than the present era.

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    • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 12:05 pm #

      One could (I’d say better) argue it the other way: infinite energy (if made available to all) would end totalitarianism or the threat of it. Of course the crux is in the “if made available”. The Rich may well need the poor to feel good about themselves. What is a Lord with no one to lord over?

      One powerful argument is that the Elite love closed systems and work against new innovations – unless they can get control over them. Vienna is said to have known about the New World but their dominance depended on their control of the Mediterranean so they squelched it. Only when Genoa (Columbus) attained access to the information, funded by Spain, did their monopoly end. They then moved their headquarters to the Netherlands and then later, to England to capitalize on the new lands.

      The same people are holding back new technology today, unless and until they can monopolize it.

  127. bukowskisghost December 16, 2020 at 11:28 pm #

    Is this a record for the CFN comment section going on after one of Jim’s blogs?

    This ain’t no party
    This ain’t no disco
    This ain’t no foolin around

    • malthuss December 17, 2020 at 12:20 am #

      ?

    • benr December 17, 2020 at 9:55 am #

      No several have hit 1k comments.

  128. malthuss December 17, 2020 at 12:19 am #

    ?

    • KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 1:07 am #

      I don’t wonder Malthuss.

      Typically , I would rather watch insurance company TV commercials , than to bother pondering comments that took all of six seconds to write.

      On the other hand , on the other end of the spectrum ;

      I would rather have my cervix removed with a rusty kitchen knife , than read the walls of texts thrown up by fake Western Buddhists who , despite the wall of text , never answer a simple , direct , question like ;
      ” Do you believe in God ? ”

      When an actual , genuine , East Asian Buddhist has no trouble telling you , in five seconds flat , that they are polytheists.

      Or Western Protestants , or Western wanna – be Protestants , or atheists , who throw up walls of texts regarding interpretations of the Bible…….

      …. when we already knew , by the 2nd Century AD , at the very latest , that the Bible can be interpreted any which way you please.

      * Sigh. *

      Bullshit that took all of six seconds to write ,

      and walls of texts whose very purpose seems to be to obfuscate , rather than clarify , are nine – tenths of the internet.

      • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 12:11 pm #

        You’re talking God. The Buddhists are talking gods. You actually think they don’t believe in an ultimate reality?

        The difference is in the nature of that Ultimate Reality. They say impersonal. You (probably) say otherwise.

        The Abrahamic religions are problematic and their adherents are masters of misunderstanding other people. The Orthodox treated the Copts so horribly that the latter (at first) welcomed the Muslims. All because the Copts emphasized the Unity of God and not the Trinity – in which they also believed. Some 1800 years later the two groups sat down and talked about it – the Orthodox admitted they got it wrong.

  129. KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 1:33 am #

    ” But now that E pluribus unum has been replaced by anything goes and nothing matters… ”

    ” But now that E pluribus unum has been replaced … ”

    Again , I’ll point out that this is either —

    — a version of American history you could just as well have served up in a Soviet classroom , circa 1970 ,

    Or —

    — as your own premises would seem to suggest , a version of American history that was only perhaps true for a period of maybe 70 years , and likely entirely underwritten and propped up by ridiculously cheap coal an oil.

    Otherwise , E pluribus unum never described American history.

    Not in 1561 ,

    not in 1661 ,

    not in 1761 ,

    not in 1861.

    Otherwise , the only E pluribus unum you are ever going to have in a nation of several hundred millions , and covering multiple time zones , is an E pluribus unum of the Russian , Chinese , or Brazilian type.

    An E pluribus unum of the miserable polyglot , where the real and only values are money and power , exclusively , and in , and of themselves entire.

    It sure as fuck isn’t going to be Switzerland.

    ” …anything goes and nothing matters… ”

    A popular phrase around here .

    But my actual experience of , first , the Sexual Revolution , then the Reagan Revolution , then 911 , and finally this Covid bullshit ,

    is that NOTHING goes.

    ( unless you mean the porn industry )

    ( unless swatting flies with machine guns adds up to a fucking master plan )

    and EVERYTHING matters.

    The dumbest , most insignificant , most trivial , shit , matters.

    Like , I’m some kind of asshole if I don’t trot out my resume for every hamburger – flipper that demands it , just because .

    But , yeah , I hang out here anyway.

    So you are doing something right.

    • KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 1:36 am #

      ( * The dumbest , most insignificant , most trivial , shit , matters.

      For example , a year or so ago there was a big dust up over who gets to use which public outhouse .

      WTF ?!

      WHO THE HELL

      LOITERS AROUND

      A PUBLIC SHITTER ANYWAY ?? )

      • KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 1:59 am #

        I would think that people would be more concerned about the fact that in many parts of the country now the very door handle to the public toilet is so filthy you can practically SEE the microscopic organisms crawling around on it.

        So , yeah , I really cannot imagine why anyone would be particularly concerned about the identity of the person you happen to share this veritable pest house with for all of five minutes and twenty three seconds.

        I seem to vaguely remember there once existed a trope that suggested that it was perverts who lingered in a public toilet.

        • KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 2:00 am #

          I mean , even low – rent prostitutes won’t hang around such a place. geez !

        • benr December 17, 2020 at 10:00 am #

          Well here in San Diego it is perverts hanging around public toilets typically low rent gay guys looking for some strange or Nambla types.
          The entire premise about what toilet to use matters to a degree of does the bathroom have stalls with doors and are the urinals shielded from the meat gazer next to you?

        • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 12:18 pm #

          Yup, Kesa, they do. Women are different than men, you see. Low life women are different than low life men.

          You got it wrong again. You get a lot of things wrong.

          And why we’re on the subject (this isn’t about your comment per se), not all trannies are would be transsexuals. Some are straight weirdos who would love to go inside women’s rest rooms. That’s also a real discussion – no matter how desperately the Gay and Freak lobbies abuse us for bringing it up.

  130. KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 3:39 am #

    ” I know it’s hard for you to have compassion and empathy for people ”

    I strongly suspect that it is the other way around.

    ” I’m not sure if you even know what that is ”

    I strongly suspect that you either haven’t the faintest fucking clue what that is , or you are simply lieing.

    In the Middle Ages , the surest way to become a saint
    was very straight forward , direct , absolutely simple :

    You moved into a tent , or even just slept out under the open sky , dressed in rags you found in a garbage dump , ate out of garbage cans , or ate what you could beg ,

    and the typical lifespan , near as we can figure , for one of these mendicants * or starets , was five years.

    ( * I mean the real mendicants , not to be confused with the religious orders of mendicants , like the Franciscans , which , then as now , are for well – heeled pussies. )

    Your utter ruin and / or death proved your bona fides.

    Of course this sainthood stuff doesn’t seem to mean much these days , even to the so – called religious.

    So let’s just say that if you really wanted to reduce your carbon footprint to a genuine minimum ,

    then go sleep on a park bench in the rain , eat out of garbage cans , and when the police arrest you for vagrancy and throw you in a cage with psychotics , you can tell yourself to turn the other cheek , and they know not what they do , the godless atheist low – lifes and whores they actually are.

    And when you are dead in five years , believe it or not , I will shed a genuine tear for you.

    By the way , another thing these genuine mendicants gave up was the consolation of companionship , sex , marriage , and all that jazz.

    ” Obviously the fact that my son has Downs …. ”

    I don’t know about ” obviously ” , but I strongly suspect , precisely because you have a son with Downs , that you are aware , however indirectly or vaguely ,

    that right here , right now , in the year AD 2020 , millions of people live as celibates whether they fucking like it or not.

    They don’t have families .

    They don’t have companions.

    They don’t fuck.

    They don’t have anyone to wake them up , or cook for them , or remind them of appointments , or wish them a nice day , or tuck their shirt in , or any of that nice shit , at least not anyone who would do it except to be grossly over – compensated for the service.

    They must actually live in terror of growing old , because , as I said , there are none who will lift a finger in their behalf except for those who are paid to do so.

    So what the hell is to become of them if they DO get old , and can no longer make their quota ?

    And , when they do die , they will not leave descendants.

    Right down the street from where I live , a mere 60 years ago , there stood a literal palace.

    But , today , unless you were a history buff , a mere 60 years later , where that palace stood is now a nondescript and anonymous rural field and some unremarkable trees.

    Such is the fate of the typical celibate , like unto the fate of that palace that soon enough even history buffs won’t recall.

    ” it’s hurtful to myself and my son ”

    The salient point to me is that you have a son.

    If you had really been so god damned virtuous and all , you could just as well have not had one , and saved me your bitching and your claims.

    To me , you look only like yet another rich person getting your panties in a twist over crumbs you couldn’t eat and don’t want anyway.

    Rather like veterans who did not get their head blown off for their country , but did get the G I Bill , and yet still have the temerity to claim I owe them for their service as a warehouse clerk in a pretty costume.

    • KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 3:47 am #

      Personally , I rarely or never use the word retard because that would be , perhaps , giving you too much ….. credit ?

    • rube-i-con December 17, 2020 at 9:08 am #

      “You can~t come here dressed like that! These men are celibates, like their fathers and forefathers before them.”

    • kbird December 17, 2020 at 11:47 am #

      KesaAnna,
      Wow, you need medication.

    • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 12:21 pm #

      She don’t have a chip on her shoulder, but rather the whole fucking woodpile.

      • kbird December 17, 2020 at 12:43 pm #

        LOL that is true!

  131. wm5135 December 17, 2020 at 8:39 am #

    Community Outreach:

    “We can put up with spelling and grammar issues but being willfully ignorant after being shown the way does not fly around here.” benr

    “I agree 100% with your assessment fuck off with your nonsense.” benr

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  132. BackRowHeckler December 17, 2020 at 9:43 am #

    Well, about 15″ of snow, and it’s still snowing pretty hard.

    Temp., with windchill factored in, stands about 0°F.

    THE WORLD IS ON FIRE – Greta

    “How dare you?” LoL

    I wonder if it’s cold at Climate Czar John Kerry’s seaside mansion out in the Vineyard, about 200 miles due east of here. Or is the Climate Czar in Aspen skiing? Or maybe he just said F##k this cold weather and flew down to his place in the Caribbean, where it’s nice and sunny. The Climate Czar is boning up for the International Climate Conference in Glascow next year, where Elitists and Globalists from around the world will be forming up plans for The Great Reset. It will be interesting to see how the Climate Czar sells us out. Meanwhile, I’m reading gleeful articles every day in the Guardian — mouthpiece of the EU Elite — about defunding oil and coal companies, coal fields abandoned, nuclear plants decommissioned, gas pipeline projects discontinued, and the Brave New Energy Future provided by Hydrogen and Windmills that awaits. Its hydrogen, especially, that’s the real knee slapper.

    Brh

    • jimbo December 17, 2020 at 10:06 am #

      It’s called weather . The climate has gotten warmer. But keep the ignorant comments coming . You look like a genius…

      • rube-i-con December 17, 2020 at 10:14 am #

        let us know when the maldives are underwater, supposed to happen by 1988

    • rube-i-con December 17, 2020 at 10:07 am #

      guess which families will own all the new energy companies and get the guaranteed-upfront-profit government contracts?

      why, the kerrys and the bidens, of course.

      hunter ~s got all that energy expertise gained while sitting on the board of burisma.

      plus, biden’s brother jim — who got a billion $ contract to build houses in the middle east though he knows nothing about it LOL! — can help him build “energy compliant” homes

      ….so jim biden will get a huge contract too

      and joe~s sister has this great big PR firm — so does bernie’s sister — so the government will select them to get the word out, and sis ‘n company will take 15% off the top for “salaries and administrative expenses”

      kerry’s daughter and pelosi’s son will also be hired, and chelsea will get $600K a year to ‘report’ on it for cnnnbc

      it~s how DC rolls, folks, you just keep paying your taxes and shut up or the irs will do a crash-barrier waltzer thru your front door.

      • benr December 17, 2020 at 11:03 am #

        Just saw a write on Chelsea is 40 and is now beautiful.
        First thing I thought of was did she get a face transplant?
        That kid is butt ugly and that is insult butts everywhere.
        She looks nothing like “daddy” Bill Clinton and everything like Webster Hubbell!
        Hillary you got some splaining to do!

        • rube-i-con December 17, 2020 at 2:17 pm #

          “Chelsea! What~s your favourite colour?!”

          — the objective media

    • SoftStarLight December 17, 2020 at 10:26 am #

      Well it probably won’t be a very good year for John Kerry and his friends. Just an inkling. But it is really funny that it’s snowing so much up there in the Northeast and again I thought Al Gore or one of those sociopaths or psychopaths? said snow and ice would completely disappear from the Earth in 2013 or something like that.

      And btw, don’t be so haughty. 🙂 You do know that the world is literally on fire don’t you? Did you know that most of the volcanoes in the world are under the ocean and the number of them is crazy. I think it was estimated to be as many as ten million!

      • benr December 17, 2020 at 11:31 am #

        @SSL
        And that is the true controller of climate.
        Several types of Volcanoes control weather patterns.
        Some cause cooling some cause warming.
        The earth is still molten in the middle and thank god if it was not it would got really cold really fast.

        • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 12:28 pm #

          So how is that not the solution to our energy crisis right there?

          Hawaii has natural geothermal available but the natives won’t let Whitey use it because it might offend the Goddess, Pele. It is also the most racist state in the Nation, but it is never mentioned because Whites are the victims. Can’t risk those tourist bucks.

          • benr December 17, 2020 at 1:50 pm #

            Kill hoale day is a real thing in school.
            Real thing in surfing some Oahu south shore and north shore spots as well. Forget west shore bruddah dem Mokes like make beef brah.

          • kbird December 17, 2020 at 5:37 pm #

            Benr,
            Nice pidgin! You’re right about Kill Hoale day, A friend of mine moved to Oahu in the 60s and it got so bad for him in school with the locals his Dad put him in a Catholic Private school for safety reason… and he wasn’t Catholic.

          • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 5:53 pm #

            We’re faced with a choice: We either take the islands back from the mongrel Polynesian/Portuguese (themselves mongrelized with Blacks) or we cede it to Japan who will protect the lives and property of White citizens.

        • SoftStarLight December 17, 2020 at 2:17 pm #

          Oh wow I never thought about that before. But it does make sense since outer space is like -450 degrees and we are millions of miles from the Sun. So it does seem like we would need more sources of heat. And I didn’t know that some volcanoes can cause warming while others cause cooling! That is interesting.

    • BackRowHeckler December 17, 2020 at 11:59 am #

      I think Jim’s area in NY State got hammered pretty good by this storm; heard on local weather one town out there 43″ of snow fell.

      I enjoy these storms to be honest with you. We got a pretty good snowpack now, which should help local ski areas; also, we were in somewhat of a drought last summer (which Climate Alarm Cultists played up to the hilt) but with this storm and steady, plentiful rain in Sept and Oct, the reservoirs are full, and the rivers running strong, cold and fast (perfect for our brown and rainbow trout)

      Brh

      • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 12:32 pm #

        You are a natural pagan just like me. Odin sends his wrath – which is a blessing to those who appreciate beauty and power. The merely practical or little men curse in petulant rage.

  133. wm5135 December 17, 2020 at 10:00 am #

    Unfettered Capitalism – anything goes

    Massive economic inequality – nothing matters

    The current state of affairs was purchased in “the market place of ideas”. Do you remember that the Republican Party was the “Party of Ideas”? Do you remember the soulful laments in 1988 that H.W. lacked the “vision thing”? Do you remember, “in June 2017 longtime Republican policy advisor Bruce Bartlett wrote, “Trump is what happens when a political party abandons ideas.”? Might I offer you a nice slice of “yellow cake”?

    In fairness, do you remember “Hope and Change”? Did you understand the phrase to mean, “go ahead and hope it will change”? How about a nice cookie.

    When the phrase turns from they are lying to YOU to They Are Lying to Me there will be hope. When the phrase turns to “They Are Lying to US” the Truth might resume nation building.

    How do you judge middle class affluence? Two climate controlled cubicles in a climate controlled self storage facility. Each of the cubicles filled with shiny trash, that to some degree is still producing interest income for some credit card issuer.

    Do you want to save what is slipping through our fingers or piss and moan about the color of our neighbor’s house?

    • SoftStarLight December 17, 2020 at 10:32 am #

      Hmmm what color is their house? Lol, just kidding!

      They are Lying to US.

  134. volodya December 17, 2020 at 10:10 am #

    America, but especially its ruling class of billionaires and their attendant managerial clerisy, will resolutely keep doing what manifestly does not work.

    You see it all the time. Biden talks about America re-taking its global “leadership” role. Forgive me, but somehow this doesn’t register. What is he talking about? Because it looks to me that since at least WW2, America has been falling face-first into one calamity after another. Is this leadership? Is the enactment of ludicrously badly conceived and unworkable global trade and investment arrangements “leadership”? 

    Do Biden and his gang of fools seriously think that Xi over in Beijing or Putin (to take just two examples) are in any way amenable to taking orders from Washington? Let’s first of all don’t be ridiculous. Are the multi-decade farces in Afghanistan and Iraq in any way justifiable by the results obtained? Is this leadership?

    Obama said don’t do stupid shit. But he did absurdly stupid shit all the time and in a big way, the examples filling a multi-volume encyclopedia of Obama administration stupid shit, much of which was just a repetition of decades long practices of egregiously stupid shit. Biden seems set on redoing all of it. 

    Your eyes do not deceive, believe what you see; this was a bent election. The many tentacled unelected bureaucracy that undermined Trump since he announced his candidacy, and then tried to remove him from office after he beat Hillary, will commit any fraud and bend any rule it has to to prevent Trump from staying. That said, Trump didn’t help himself, and in fact, seemed to go out of his way to undermine his own chances, especially by his failure to act quickly on intel from China about this nasty bug that’s now making a mess of things. It may not have been totally avoidable, but early on some stout action might have blunted the spread. Too late.

    • SoftStarLight December 17, 2020 at 10:41 am #

      The problem is that many conservatives and centrists never forgive mistakes or allow anyone to be human. So Trump made some mistakes here and there. Ok, it is what it is. I would like to meet someone who doesn’t make mistakes. But there is mistakes and then there is treason. And they don’t really compare much. And I am tired of blaming the Elite. The People must be blamed too for their stupidity and cowardice. The fact that anyone other than blind progressives who would have voted for Joe Biden if he killed someone are accepting Biden as the “President-Elect” given the massive fraud that took place shows how a large section of the general public enables liars, cheaters, thieves, murderers, etc. No one should be accepting a Biden “victory” given that the election was clearly stolen. The fact that people can just accept that knowing that it is based on a sheer lie means they are part and parcel of the problem. Given how idiotic the general public can be it is clear to see why the elites feel like they can and do get away with murder.

      • jimbo December 17, 2020 at 11:01 am #

        He is not Trump. A true charlatan.

        • benr December 17, 2020 at 11:07 am #

          Says the new and improved troll 2.0 or is this 15.0, 16.0?
          Lost track of people with a one track agenda of blame Trump for everything.
          I blame Obama he is the one that help funding to setup the very lab that did this to the world!
          No one an convince me otherwise that this was the plan to take down Trump and anything he did or said the opposition party would say was wrong followed up with the 4th rail media in lockstep with getting orangeman bad out of the Whitehouse.
          The art of war ie fighting a war without firing a shot.
          So Jimbo are you Iranian or Chinese?

          • QAintel December 17, 2020 at 3:11 pm #

            The pandemic was a softball that should have seen Trump cruise to an easy victory. All trump had to do was look into the camera and say, “We are facing tough times but we will get through this together. We are working hard to do everything we can to end this pandemic. Stay safe and God bless America.”, and his polls would have spiked 5 points.

            We shouldn’t even be in this situation where WE need to prove that the Democrats cheated.

            If Trump had not screwed up he would have had 400 electoral college votes.

        • rube-i-con December 17, 2020 at 11:23 am #

          a charlatan who gave you the best economy in 100 years, energy independence, jobs falling off trees – and not shyte shovel-ready nonsense and solyndra

          yeah a charlatan

          …and literally hitler, and a tyrant

          • volodya December 17, 2020 at 11:32 am #

            Witlessness is referring to Trump as a fascist or Hitler or a tyrant. You weren’t doing that, were you? Did I get you wrong? I did, didn’t I? Yeah… I got you all wrong. Right?

          • jimbo December 17, 2020 at 12:27 pm #

            Nope a side hustle economy, went into the toilet in 6 weeks because Trump had no federal plan . Nope nothing. Had Kushner and clan as his go to people. Gimme a break . Again if you believe everyone is not telling the truth except DTrump you are part of the problem.

          • rube-i-con December 17, 2020 at 3:26 pm #

            i forgot he~s a nazi too

            and a fascist

            ask anyone shouting “fascist!” to define what a fascist is.

        • benr December 17, 2020 at 11:27 am #

          You are of course right Biden actually is owned by a foreign power namely China while Trump was incessantly accused of such and was not.
          Biden is a true fraud and grifter.
          Now we get to listen to 3 months to four years of Biden/harris connections to China and how they are puppets which is proven by Hunter the bagman Bidens forgotten laptop.
          Chinese have latched on to all sorts of Democrats and now some Republicans are also being outed.
          Traitors in need of a complete house cleaning.
          All of them should be tossed from the house and Senate and new people voted into office using a system of proven one vote one person style voting.
          Voter ID is needed period end of story.

          • messianicdruid December 17, 2020 at 1:10 pm #

            “All of them should be tossed from the house and Senate…” roof.

      • volodya December 17, 2020 at 11:19 am #

        You’re right, blame aplenty.

        That said, the ruling class are a much smaller contingent than those they rule over and therefore are much more able to co-ordinate their actions.

        The coterie of billionaires that call the shots (the Donor Class, the Davos Class or whatever handle you want) number in the dozens, legislators at the national level number in the hundreds, the shmucks they lord it over, in the hundreds of millions.

        As the Marxists and Bolshies showed, it can take decades for a movement to take a coherent enough shape to have any effect. I know these are modern times with much better communications etc. But any move to change basic national policy away from those with money to benefit those at the opposite end of the wealth and income scale will take time. And those with money and power will fight tooth and nail.

        And, that said, as you point out, there are multitudes of willfully blind, which will slow things down. Too bad about that too.

        • benr December 17, 2020 at 11:28 am #

          Willfully blind are also called useful idiots.
          We have several on this forum in a never ending parade of new names saying the same bullshit.

          • volodya December 17, 2020 at 11:41 am #

            Useful idiots, sure. People spend their entire lives not seeing what’s right under their noses. You’ve seen it, so have I. But there are also a lot of people whose paychecks depend on their not seeing. Maybe different classes of useful idiot.

          • jimbo December 17, 2020 at 12:30 pm #

            But you who still support blindly …. I never said Biden was the answer to the country’s problems. I just know Trump 4 more years was not the answer. Look toward 2024 . I do wish a guy like McRaven would have run . Maybe in 4 years people with some real leadership will step forward .

        • SoftStarLight December 17, 2020 at 2:26 pm #

          Agree! And hopefully since we have the numbers advantage by far we can get past the zombie problem. I do think that more ordinary people are aware than ever before due to instant communication and information. The public relations aspect and slow walking of the masses to the light is the most important front in the war?

      • beantownbill. December 17, 2020 at 12:16 pm #

        Finally, SSL, you have identified the basic problem! I’m proud of you.

        • SoftStarLight December 17, 2020 at 2:27 pm #

          Thank you Bill

      • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 12:52 pm #

        Yes, Democracy is fatally flawed. Just a “nice” way of saying mob rule. The Founding Fathers loathed it as being the lowest form of government.

        The Communists make a great show of being Democrats, but they’re not going to let everyone vote either. That might get in the way of their agenda.

        It is in any case, a short lived phenomena. The people quickly vote their rights away in the form of a charismatic tyrant – like AOC for example.

        The Real Elite love “our” system as it will be once amended by Schumer and Pelosi. The illusions of freedom must be kept in place and the fanatics like AOC kept down. She really believes in all this global warming green energy crap! How stupid is that?

        • SoftStarLight December 17, 2020 at 2:35 pm #

          I wonder at what point she will realize that the whole purpose of the “green energy” movement is depopulation and the continued concentration of wealth into the hands of the most powerful? I can’t imagine that she hasn’t been acquainted with the “Great Reset” plans! In any case I can’t imagine how humans completely hacking into and manipulating dna, biology, and ecosystems can lead to anything considered to be pristine and/or unpolluted.

          • beantownbill. December 17, 2020 at 3:36 pm #

            As a technophile myself, I can tell you tech is great. The problem is people. People misusing tech. Society has to separate the idea of tech from people. They are 2 different things – at least until AI evolves beyond humans, then it becomes mankind’s rulers. All because we don’t have wisdom, only technical skills.

            Tech didn’t kill the environment, people did. Tech is only a tool, albeit misused. Don’t dislike tech because of stupid humans.

          • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 7:18 pm #

            ?dittapariy?ya Sutta: The Fire Sermon, SN 35.28

            “Monks, the All is aflame. What All is aflame? The eye is aflame. Forms are aflame. Consciousness at the eye is aflame. Contact at the eye is aflame. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the eye—experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain—that too is aflame. Aflame with what? Aflame with the fire of passion, the fire of aversion, the fire of delusion. Aflame, I tell you, with birth, aging & death, with sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs.

            “The ear is aflame. Sounds are aflame…

            “The nose is aflame. Aromas are aflame…

            “The tongue is aflame. Flavors are aflame…

            “The body is aflame. Tactile sensations are aflame…

            “The intellect is aflame. Ideas are aflame. Consciousness at the intellect is aflame. Contact at the intellect is aflame. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the intellect—experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain—that too is aflame. Aflame with what? Aflame with the fire of passion, the fire of aversion, the fire of delusion. Aflame, I say, with birth, aging & death, with sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, & despairs.

            “Seeing thus, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones grows disenchanted with the eye, disenchanted with forms, disenchanted with consciousness at the eye, disenchanted with contact at the eye. And whatever there is that arises in dependence on contact at the eye, experienced as pleasure, pain or neither-pleasure-nor-pain: With that, too, he grows disenchanted.”

            Yogo: We really need to cool down. Wisdom is cool. AOC is too heated. She can never be cool. Too much hate!

      • dorn December 17, 2020 at 2:29 pm #

        “But none of the founders had the day Benjamin Franklin had. As the story was told and retold on the House floor, Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”

        To which Franklin supposedly responded, with a rejoinder at once witty and ominous: “A republic, if you can keep it.”’

        Obviously, we could not.

    • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 12:36 pm #

      He dithered this way and that. But his casual approach was the correct one. When he got serious about it, he fell into the Trap planned by China and the Global Elite. As a reasonable man, he can NEVER be serious enough about it to satisfy the Schemers or their dupes, the terrified Covidian Cultists.

      If we did nothing, we’d be fine by now. I mean you realize the testing is completely fraudulent right? As Fauci himself indicated since it’s over 35 cycles.

  135. elysianfield December 17, 2020 at 1:11 pm #

    A bit of wisdom;

    I have heard it said that, even if you are too old to “cut the mustard”, you ain’t too old to lick the jar….

  136. Soul Forensics December 17, 2020 at 1:47 pm #

    Hahaha!

    Some MSNBC tool whining to Rand Paul that he’s firing up the Proud Boys. Yeah, they’re the ones burning, killing, and destroying cities all right. Got yer pulse on that one! Then he slides effortlessly from Proud Boys to “your constituents”. Got that? It’s not just the Proud Boys we have to fear, it’s the entire movement of deplorables, all 74 million of them. Why, I’m shocked that the entire righteous population hasn’t been slaughtered yet!

    Does anyone from the shrinking MSM viewer base actually believe this hilarious hysteria, other than mouth-breathers and psychotics?

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    • benr December 17, 2020 at 2:06 pm #

      Why yes just look around.
      They have said we are the enemy we being anyone not in lockstep with the wokesterdom talking point de jour!
      Finally people are listening and even understanding anyone not with them is by default against them.
      AOC said it very plainly they are coming to get you.

      • rube-i-con December 17, 2020 at 3:20 pm #

        molon labe

        “come and take them”

        lefties are pussies by nature who need a mob to act

    • BackRowHeckler December 17, 2020 at 2:47 pm #

      Hey SF

      I think there might be a pretty good story behind the 2 week, midwinter fling in SDakota you hinted at upstream, ha! I don’t know why but when I read that I thought of the movie Fargo.

      About 5 years ago my company opened a small web printing plant in a small city west of here, asked me if I’d work out there till it got going, I said sure. One of the guys we hired was a local hick (like I am) I noticed he limped around when he walked. He was in his 30s, one day I asked him what the hell is wrong with your leg? He told me got shot in the knee with a .22. Shot in the knee? Yes, shot in the knee, then he went on to tell me a long story of madness, deception, betrayal and bloodshed. Turns out he had been married, the marriage wasn’t going too well, and he met pretty young thing on the computer who was looking for a man just like him. One day he told his wife he was going out and never went back, instead making trail for the babe, who lived in West Virginia. That should have been a warning right there. Surprise, she was a middle aged woman with 5 kids who lived in a trailer. Having burned his bridges he ended up staying, for awhile. He even got a job there, fabricating aluminum parts for a mobile home manufacturer. The honeymoon didn’t last long to say the least; there were fights, and during one of the fights she shot him in the knee with the .22 pistol, which ended the West Va. romantic interlude. He was gone about 21/2 months apparently, needless to say his wife didn’t take him back and he went to his mother’s house, where he was living when he came to work for us.

      He related the story in a matter of fact way, with no embarrassment on his part at all. A lot of other stuff happened too, but getting shot in the knee was the high point. It was a good story, and I congratulated him on it.

      Brh

      • beantownbill. December 17, 2020 at 3:26 pm #

        Now that’s a good story, Marlin. Reminds me of a Q story. Keep ‘em coming.

        • BackRowHeckler December 17, 2020 at 3:39 pm #

          Well, I’m still waiting for the details from when you got collared in Buffalo, like Jack London, in the wild days of your youth, Bill.

      • Soul Forensics December 17, 2020 at 3:27 pm #

        BRH,

        Great story. Can’t imagine the pain of having your kneecap blown off.

        Ha! I should clarify, though. “Fling” might’ve been the wrong word. I wasn’t married at the time. Met my wife a year later.

        And “Fargo” was set in North Dakota. Apparently, there’s quite a rivalry between S and N Dakota. The North thinks the South are all hicks and morons, the South thinks the North have sticks up their collective asses.

        I was surprised Mount Rushmore wasn’t bigger. But then I come from an area with actual mountains!

      • Disaffected December 17, 2020 at 4:29 pm #

        LOL! All the makings of a first rate C&W song, right chere!

        • rube-i-con December 17, 2020 at 5:52 pm #

          “Got ma teeth an’ muh knee both capped”

      • Q. Shtik December 17, 2020 at 8:13 pm #

        but getting shot in the knee was the high point. – BRH

        ===========

        That must have hurt like a bitch!

    • Night Owl December 17, 2020 at 3:05 pm #

      Ah, yes. Proud Boys. The white power gang that just happens to be run by a latino.

      Another voyage into the 1984esque world the globalist machine would like to create.

      • rube-i-con December 17, 2020 at 3:18 pm #

        leader is half-swart too, i believe

        real scary guy who waves a flag

      • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 7:10 pm #

        How do you think America was won? Just by the officials without posses? Without the minute men? Without groups like the Paxton Mountain boys?

        Yes, unfortunately they’re not pro-White per se, just not anti-White. And that makes them dangerous criminals in the eyes of the Establishment, so low have we fallen.

    • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 5:02 pm #

      Proud Boys burn a few BLM signs leaning against a Church? That’s burning Black Churches.

      Meanwhile they Left does vandalize Churches and statues outside them. White Churches that is.

      • benr December 17, 2020 at 6:14 pm #

        Better a BLM rag than our precious American flag!

  137. Tate December 17, 2020 at 2:00 pm #

    Mongos can be nasty little pieces of sh*te too, especially if they’re spics. If they belong to spic gangs, they can be nasty little dufi, even if they’re acting like ineffective tards. Spics coddle their mongos, like pet monkeys.

  138. Night Owl December 17, 2020 at 4:23 pm #

    Floodgates may be opening on Justice Roberts now.

    Staffer testifies that Roberts told courts to stand down.

    From Lin Wood in the thread:

    “In discussing @realDonaldTrump in phone conversation in 8/19, Justice John Roberts stated that he would make sure “the mother f#*ker would never be re-elected.”

    Roberts engaged in phone conversations with Justice Stephen Breyer discussing how to work to get Trump voted out.”

    And, as a bonus, the thread contains the photo I mentioned last week in which a guy who looks very much like Roberts is pictured with Clinton, Podesta, and known pedophile Nader in a tropical location that looks very much like Lolita Island. There is a John Roberts on the Lolita Express flight log.

    Juicy.

    https://twitter.com/AOECOIN/status/1339633830123081730

    • Soul Forensics December 17, 2020 at 4:55 pm #

      Owl,

      I don’t understand a few things here.

      Are we to believe that the Supreme Court chamber, where they hold this top-secret discussion before their important vote, has walls that resemble a dilapidated low-rent apartment? And even if true, it would be a he-said charge that would be thrown out of a whistle-stop Court run by Judge Roy Bean, to say nothing of trying to overthrow a Supreme Court judge in Court.

      Another puzzler. I can see where Roberts could scare brand new Amy Coney Barrett, but why would most of the others cower under his threats, unless they too are implicated, either directly by the CCP, or indirectly by U.S. internal Deep State forces.

      I get Roberts’ motivation — the photos and flight logs — but the accuser needs hard evidence.

      That said, noted constitutional lawyer Ed Pazzuoli predicted this event almost exactly, saying that Roberts would attempt — and successfully — to intimidate the three recent Trump-appointed judges.

      • Night Owl December 17, 2020 at 5:56 pm #

        I make no concrete statements. The only thing I have said in the past is that the guy in that photo looks a hell of a lot like Roberts, that photo is usually cropped, and there is a Roberts on the flight log.

        But as my adopted countrymen say, “Ich schließe nichts aus.” Lin Wood is also a credible source, IMO, so his post is most interesting.

  139. roccofire December 17, 2020 at 4:50 pm #

    Season Greetings JHK

    Several of our providers have gotten the covid vaccine on Monday, no side effects yet. I am speculating that the chips in the vaccine are not from Bill Gates but from Keebler or Hershey. I am eagerly waiting for my turn. Remember masks, washing hands all work.

    • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 5:45 pm #

      No long term animal testing has been done. You’re the guinea pig here! And don’t dream of suing them for your ruined health – they’re “immune”.

      • Night Owl December 17, 2020 at 5:59 pm #

        One would have to be nuts to take this. COVID deaths miniscule, even with the grabbled stats; vaccines rushed to the point that one must question if they already existed, or if they even do what they say; and the vaccines are from Big Pharma.

        The fact that the frog-in-pot approach continues with chatter of making vaccinations mandatory to participate in society is also a major red flag.

        Get fucked, Rocco.

        • KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 7:18 pm #

          ” Several of our providers have gotten the covid vaccine on Monday, no side effects yet. ”

          ” Remember masks, washing hands all work. ”

          As Night owl points out with ;

          ” COVID deaths miniscule, even with the grabbled stats; vaccines rushed to the point that one must question if they already existed ”

          and ;

          ” The fact that the frog-in-pot approach continues with chatter of making vaccinations mandatory to participate in society is also a major red flag. ”

          EVEN IF EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID IS 100% TRUE

          It’s beside the fucking point.

          It’s about power.

          But then I strongly suspect you already know that Mr. Snake – in – the – Grass,

          • Night Owl December 18, 2020 at 5:44 am #

            Yes, I suspect we have hit the point of no return.

    • QAintel December 17, 2020 at 6:52 pm #

      Ahoy Rocco!

      Don’t be offended. “Get fucked” is the high water mark for the level of conversation you will find on this forum.

      Odd that no homophobic or libtard jabs were thrown in. Obviously, these trolls must be infused with the Christmas Spirit to show such decorum.

      • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 7:22 pm #

        Guinea Pig and proud of it, eh? And enraged that other people aren’t….

      • KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 7:27 pm #

        I would say that saying what you mean , and meaning what you say , is a hell of a lot more reflective of the Christmas spirit , and some kind of decorum , than someone who smiles at you and plays friendly with you while they stab you in the back and cut you off at the knees.

        • Soul Forensics December 17, 2020 at 7:42 pm #

          Exactly, KesaAnna.

          “The Devil is a gentleman.” — Shakespeare

  140. beantownbill. December 17, 2020 at 6:32 pm #

    Marlin, you asked for it, so here’s the story(ies).

    In March 1964, I decided to hitchhike home from the midwest instead of flying. I went with a classmate who also lived near my home. I brought no food, almost no money, and since it was mid-March, I was only wearing a spring jacket – a thin windbreaker. So we get on Rte 90 and almost immediately get a ride all the way to Erie, PA. The driver was a little scary because he was talking about how he likes to drive over 100 mph and outrun the police. But he didn’t with us. Things were going very well. It usually took 12 hours to drive home, and we were on schedule.

    We got a second ride all the way to Buffalo, no problem. Then it all went to hell. So we’re on the NY Thruway and nobody picked us up. You know how cold and windy it is in Buffalo. Two hours went by. By then I was shivering uncontrollably and the wind was howling.

    Finally, some kind-hearted guy picked us up. The heat in the car was heavenly and I almost stopped shivering. We drove maybe 3 miles, and the guy had to get off, so he left us off at his exit. About 2 seconds after we got out of the car, we hear a siren and a state trooper gets out. He says to the driver it’s illegal to pick up hitchhikers on the NY Thruway. He lectures us for about 5 minutes, tells the driver to not pick up hitchhikers and drives off. Shit, we’re in the cold again.

    The guy doesn’t drive away; he knows how cold we are and tells us to get in. I say the statie told us not to get in a car. The guy says, it’ll be ok, the statie is gone. So we get in the car and drive off. We drive down another exit and the driver takes off. So we start thumbing. About 10 minutes later, we see red flashing lights. Yeah, it was the statie. He’s pissed.

    ( part 2 coming)

    • Tate December 17, 2020 at 6:54 pm #

      That’s the last time you’ll be able to make that trip. If you try you’ll have to submit your papers every few miles, especialty at state borders. See how you like that. When you get home to Rhode Island, you’ll be virtually confined in a outdoor prison. On the other hand, if you live in Texas, you won’t be able to get out of Harris county into the red areas. No carpetbaggers.

      • beantownbill. December 17, 2020 at 7:12 pm #

        No, I wouldn’t like that. I live in Massachusetts, which is just as bad, maybe worse. I really don’t plan on hitchhiking again, especially to Buffalo.

  141. KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 6:36 pm #

    ” One could (I’d say better) argue it the other way: infinite energy (if made available to all) would end totalitarianism or the threat of it. Of course the crux is in the “if made available”. The Rich may well need the poor to feel good about themselves. What is a Lord with no one to lord over? ”

    I’m not sure how this amounts to saying it better , since , as YOU SAY YOURSELF ( and to your credit ;

    ” Of course the crux is in the “if made available”. The Rich may well need the poor to feel good about themselves. What is a Lord with no one to lord over? ”

    I have said more than once that I strongly suspect that if we discovered tomorrow that the moon was a giant ball of petroleum , many of the things that Mr. Kunstler is suggesting would still bare out.

    In this case , even if we returned to 25 cents a gallon gasoline tomorrow , the trends toward authoritarianism or totalitarianism would continue.

    As Alexsandyr Solzhenitsyn and many others have pointed out , crop yields in the decade before the Bolshevik Revolution had never been higher , the peasants never richer , and the Russian economy as a whole , well , the 20 years prior to the Bolshevik Revolution practically constituted a Russian golden age.

    Characters like Lenin and Trotsky WERE POSSIBLE because times were so good. At any previous time , a strictly minor nobleman like Lenin simply wouldn’t have been able to afford to traipse around England and Switzerland , hobb – nobbing with the avante garde , for example.

    The trends toward authoritarianism or totalitarianism will continue because , as 911 and this Covid bullshit amply and obviously demonstrate , in his heart the average American does not want liberty for his neighbor , does not want for his neighbor a nobility of situation or character , but instead begrudges and resents such things for his neighbor.

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    • Tate December 17, 2020 at 7:09 pm #

      Trotsky (born Lev Bronstein) wanted to start a communist revolution in the U.S. That’s why he went to Mexico, just one train ride away from the U.S. border. They always over-reach in their pride & arrogance. He thought he was cucking Diego Rivera to get a train pass into every Union station in the U.S. But he didn’t even know basic English.

  142. Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 7:03 pm #

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/bad-omen-catholic-relics-blood-135040089.html

    Saint’s blood didn’t liquefy. Disaster imminent.

    • Tate December 17, 2020 at 7:16 pm #

      The Lord can’t keep His finger in every pot. Or maybe He’s sending a sign. Either way, the way for Harris is being prepped. That’s what the whole “Dr.” Jill controversy is all about.

  143. beantownbill. December 17, 2020 at 7:09 pm #

    Part 2:

    He makes us get in his car. He turns on his siren and flashing lights, and zooms down the highway. He’s going over 100 mph. It was like being in a movie. We huddled in the back seat, and the trooper finally caught up the driver, and pulled him over. He told us we were all busted. He got out of the car and went over to the driver’s car and started talking to him. The driver was busted, too. The cop radioed for backup, and within two minutes another state police car pulls up. Our statie drives off and takes us to the court house. We’re busted. We appear before a magistrate soon afterward. We were arrested for hitchhiking. They fined us 10 dollars. We pooled our money and counted $10.71, so we were released. We had no money, no food, no place to stay. We decided not to call our parents because they’d kill us.

    The statie did one nice thing – he drove us to an exit ramp on the Thruway and told us that as long as we weren’t on the highway itself, he could thumb. So there we were thumbing. No one picked us up. It was now about 5:30 pm. We decided to walk back to downtown. We were done thumbing. We found a bakery, and for, I don’t know, 50 cents, we each got a muffin or something like that. We were down to our last $.21. We didn’t have any more energy, so we asked around if there was a YMCA. We found one and asked if they had any rooms for a night.. They did, but they cost $3 each. I told them ok, we’ll pay you in the morning, we really needed to sleep

    I don’t know if you’ve ever slept in a Y. It was not the Ritz. It was not even a Motel 6. The room was a cubicle with walls that didn’t go all the way up. We went to bed, but I found it difficult to sleep because of all the snoring. Snoring to the left of me, snoring to the right. Loud. Surrounded by derelicts.

    We had no money to pay for our rooms.so we got up at 5 am and sneaked out without paying, all the time hoping there wasn’t a desk clerk. There wasn’t. It wasn’t one of my prouder moments, but what could we do.

    Finally, we gave up, went to a Western Union and wired our parents for money. Luckily, they just added the wire costs to the bill. Both sets of parents wired us the money. When we finally got home, I made up a ridiculous story as to why they had to wire money, but they bought it.

    With our newfound riches, we got train tickets, and we were home by around 7 pm on the 2nd day of our Journey. Remember, this was before cell phones.

    Now you know why I hate Buffalo.

    • elysianfield December 17, 2020 at 8:18 pm #

      ” Surrounded by derelicts”

      Bill,
      Interesting that you considered the other unfortunates as “derelicts”…. I wonder what they thought of you two?

      Interesting story, otherwise. It is the beginning of wisdom.

      • beantownbill. December 17, 2020 at 9:52 pm #

        They were derelicts, shabby, dirty, etc. But I did learn a lot from the experience. I was only 19 at the time.

        • benr December 18, 2020 at 9:09 am #

          Bill did you ever go back and pay the $3 dollars?

          • beantownbill. December 18, 2020 at 9:52 am #

            First of all, I wouldn’t go back to Buffalo. Second, I more than made up for the $3 with many charitable donations over the years, particularly for the poor in my local area. My daughter volunteers at a local food bank.

    • BackRowHeckler December 17, 2020 at 10:15 pm #

      Excellent story, well told, my friend.

      Bill, I always figured you had a streak of Desparado in ya!

      You fought the law, and the law won!

  144. Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 7:34 pm #

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/health/covid-pfizer-vaccine-allergic-reaction.html

    144 people given shot in Alaska – two hospitalized. It’s madness.

    • elysianfield December 17, 2020 at 8:21 pm #

      Yo,
      Piffle!

      In Chicago, 27 shot…four died!

      • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 10:08 pm #

        Yeah, but that’s what a gun is supposed to do. The needle is supposed to heal.

    • beantownbill. December 17, 2020 at 9:57 pm #

      Let’s see. 330,000,000 divided by 72. That’s only about 4 1/2 million people that need to be hospitalized – so far, using just a tiny sample. It could be more. Don’t take the vaccine if you have any kind of allergy, supposedly. There’re more side effects.

  145. KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 7:39 pm #

    ” KesaAnna,
    Wow, you need medication. ”

    And you just undercut your own song and dance in the most glaring and blatant of ways.

    You’re crazy / you’re a retard = mean basically the same thing.

    So , supposedly , you find the word ” retard ” hurtful , and potentially detrimental to your son .

    But then you basically call me a retard when I have shredded your argument , and you don’t really have a valid counter – argument.

    I said before that I SUSPECTED your claim of hurt feelings was a fraud and a lie.

    Now , I damn well KNOW it was.

    • KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 7:46 pm #

      In future you might jut start with the plain and honest truth.

      But , perhaps , I am a bit too idealistic in thinking such.

    • kbird December 17, 2020 at 7:58 pm #

      LOL good one KesaAnna,
      I said you need medication, I didn’t say you were crazy. Nice try with your argument tho. You’ve said “Fuck You” to me on this blog befire so ya, sorry, but you lost any respect you get from me. Shredded my argument?? That is hilarious. In what world? Inside your head, it’s a mystery what goes on in there with your constant non sensical ramblings…..

      • KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 8:43 pm #

        ” I said you need medication ”

        For what exactly ? You didn’t say for some other reason.

        I didn’t say you were crazy.

        A manifest lie.

        If you meant I needed medication for arthritis , say , you would have said so. But you didn’t.

        At this point I rather doubt you even have a Downs Syndrome kid.

        Since it’s pretty obvious you don’t actually mind at all using words like ” retard ” yourself .

        ” That is hilarious. ”

        That’s not a counter – argument.

        ” In what world? ”

        In worlds where you have things like debating clubs.

        ” you lost any respect you get from me. ”

        I don’t demand it. It’s would – be Lady Fontleroy’s like you who do.

        ” Inside your head, it’s a mystery what goes on in there with your constant non sensical ramblings….. ”

        Again , for someone presumably so sensitive to the feelings and needs of the intellectually disabled , you don’t seem to mind at all using terms like retard as a club , yourself.

        • kbird December 17, 2020 at 9:01 pm #

          KesaAnna,
          We can go back and forth all night if you like. You interpreted me saying that you need medication, as you are crazy. I never said you were crazy, i keep re reading what I wrote and I don’t see the word crazy in there!! Did I hurt your feelings? KesaAnna, You are not kind on here, you can spew vitriol at others, I don’t give a crap if you believe I have a son with Downs. Have a wonderful night KesaAnna and a fabulous day tomorrow!! xx

          • KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 9:11 pm #

            ” You interpreted me saying that you need medication, as you are crazy. ”

            And you STILL have NOT said otherwise, clarified otherwise.

            If you indeed meant something else , it would have taken you all of say one minute to write out such.

            But , no , you spend two minutes writing out the dodge above instead.

            ” We can go back and forth all night if you like ”

            Sure.

            Somehow I doubt it hurts my cause when you keep repeatedly stressing in one breathe how terrible it is to call people retards ,

            and then in the next breathe proceed to label all and sundry as precisely that.

            So talk all you want.

            I don’t mind at all when you do my work for me.

    • benr December 18, 2020 at 9:11 am #

      @kesa

      No crazy is different than retarded.
      Crazy often can be treated retarded is forever.

  146. Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 8:05 pm #

    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/can-the-covid-19-vaccine-cause-bells-palsy-expert-says-its-unlikely-200015850.html

    “unlikely”! Not caused by the vaccine. Just a coincidence, huh? Temporary. Not always…. Not serious – having a droopy face isn’t serious. Even though it sometimes correlates with brain damage?

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    • kbird December 17, 2020 at 8:13 pm #

      Sketchy, lots of side effects happening..some serious allergic reactions requiring a stay in the ICU

  147. Tate December 17, 2020 at 8:19 pm #

    Took a black (Chanda Chisala) to call out the emperor. This is what I was hinting at earlier. Pride? Spilling too many beans?

    Did the Democrats rig the 2020 presidential election? Any objective person should at least have some nagging suspicions of possible malfeasance, especially when one listens to the testimonies of the many poll watchers placed in battleground locations: the coincidental events that necessitated conveniently long counting pauses and brazen efforts to restrict their ability to “watch.”

    But, but… who did it… & how?

    In one of his usual gaffe-laden speeches on the campaign trail, Joe Biden may have given the most Freudian of his many slips of the tongue in his career when he said: “We have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” As the many stories of fraud allegations keep unfolding, it is incredible how true Biden’s statement might turn out to be: the operation to steal the US elections were indeed possibly the most extensive and inclusive operation the Democrats have achieved, involving just about all minority groups in this mother of all electoral schemes.

    Sorry bro (Kim), if you’re off licking your wounds. A few more tidbits:

    The strongest demands by far for Cabinet positions are coming from the black community. But could blacks have pulled it off? It seems the stuff of Hollywood. See the real-life story of Frank Lucas in the movie American Gangster:

    Using a close trusted network of black Americans in the US army, Lucas had devised a way of transporting the drugs from Vietnam through the coffins of deceased servicemen that were regularly repatriated to American soil. In short, the US government did not know that they were the ones transporting the drugs of one of the biggest criminals they were investigating!

    [Ed. They didn’t know the blacks were the masterminds. The black IQ distribution is much wider than the White majority. Many many blacks on the right side of the IQ distribution, though numerically & statistically fewer, are capable of executing whatever they wish through their mobilized muscle.]

    More:

    In 2020, the FBI reported that wide scale electoral fraud, enough to shift a general election, is practically impossible. They could not imagine any method by which this can be accomplished on a large scale without the systems put in place by the government detecting it easily, especially since it would have to involve a large network of people working together with a high level of trust.

    See where this is going?

    In 2020, the FBI reported that wide scale electoral fraud, enough to shift a general election, is practically impossible. They could not imagine any method by which this can be accomplished on a large scale without the systems put in place by the government detecting it easily, especially since it would have to involve a large network of people working together with a high level of trust.

    Money quote:

    What makes blacks more able to pull off such large-scale ballot harvesting operations is the ready supply of the one asset required for all organized crime: a large network of trust. I think groups like the Italian mafia and the Jewish mafia may have almost disappeared precisely because of a dwindling supply of people among them who still see themselves as surviving outside the mainstream American community that despises them while belonging to an ethnic “family” that values them. Blacks, on the other hand, still largely see themselves as part of such an outsider “family” that is expected to trust each other, as they collectively figure out how to survive that common enemy who has all the power and wants to “systemically” harm them with it. At least this is what they grow up hearing every day from schools, colleges, news media, music, uncles, [aunts], and even church leaders.

    What’s it all about? Well, we have a large informally organized group of over 30million subversives in this country self-identified by skin color. That’s part 2 of the fraud (by far the biggest part).

    • JohnAZ December 17, 2020 at 8:42 pm #

      These subversives are so pathetic. They bitch and moan, they push their revolution against “White” America, they riot and destroy.

      Yet, let us say they win. They do not have a clue what to substitute for what they now hate. No ideas, no alternative government format.

      Do you think they will invite the CCP in for a massive reorganization? They could start right now on the West Coast.

      I sincerely hope Biden has some clue of what a hornet’s nest he has attached to him. He, not Trump, will be remembered as the president that destroyed America. Along with the group of losers he is gathering around himself.

      America First is soon to become Amerika, last. Enjoy the ride, you loser Leftists.

  148. KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 8:32 pm #

    ” She don’t have a chip on her shoulder, but rather the whole fucking woodpile. ”

    Oh ?

    Let’s review things a bit , shall we ?

    If you want to go out and buy an AK – 47 , even if only to out it in a glass case and admire it ,

    am I the one who would begrudge you that liberty ?

    Am I the one who , instead of stating outright and honestly that I begrudge you that liberty , instead tries to paint you as a moron ( patently not true ) or Schizophrenic ( patently not true ) and so , like a 4 year old , can’t be trusted with an AK – 47 ( the great big cherry-on – top lie ) ?

    If you want to tend your own garden , keep to your side of the street , even go off and do your own thing , am I the one who insists , no , you must forever remain stuck up my ass ? ( Even though I don’t even want you , don’t like you , and wouldn’t miss you if you were gone , anyway ? )

    Am I the one who is forever and a day trying to sort out the world into sheep and goats , and not uncommonly to a degree that amounts to shear hair – splitting ?

    If one were to write out lists of the cultures that have , and have not , used the swastika at one time or another , for one purpose or another , then the list of cultures that never used it would be much easier to work up. Whereas the list of cultures that have used the swastika runs as long as your arm , then down the table , then out the door , and around the block.

    Never mind that history though , some folks would stigmatize or even criminalize the swastika on account of some political party that was only founded in 1919 which happened to borrow the swastika .

    Am I one of those power – tripping control – freak bozos ?

    Well, I don’t want this review to extend to a thousand pages .

    So , suffice to say that you seem here to come to the defense of some woman who , I have no doubt , would be perfectly willing to stigmatize or even criminalize your swastika , and just for fucking jollies really.

    And label me as resentful ? That person for whom throwing you in a cage is the absolute last resort , not my go – to desire ?

    At the risk of self – flattery , it wouldn’t surprise me if it turned out that I am the least resentful person you know.

    And I venture to say that , as one of those folks forever trying to divide the world up into sheep and goats , you can scarcely identify or recognize resentment , because despite whatever wealth , love , good fortune you might even be practically swimming in , your entire world view is cast in terms of resentment.

    Like I said earlier , like a rich person , who , though he cannot eat the crumbs , and doesn’t want them , yet begrudges the dogs the crumbs from his or any table.

    On a personal note ; You have a great deal of potential . And yet you pathetically waste it all in pandering to people who wouldn’t piss on you , and for advantages you will never live to enjoy. You could do better .

    • Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 10:14 pm #

      There is none righteous, no, not one. It’s hard to bear the bitterness of this world, but we have to try. Obviously a good class and caste system would help.

      Thank you for defending the Swastika or Sun Wheel – the symbol of Cosmic evolution. It is not opposed to the cross, but rather spins around it. Obviously evolution calls for sacrifice too, personal and social.

  149. Yohannon December 17, 2020 at 10:16 pm #

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/vice-president-pence-will-receive-abortion-tainted-covid-vaccine-tomorrow-in-live-broadcast

    Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. If only Trump had fought against these people harder. Instead he ended up boasting about how fast he sent out the death shots.

  150. KesaAnna December 17, 2020 at 11:05 pm #

    ” You’re talking God. The Buddhists are talking gods. ”

    Uh …… yeah ….. I’m pretty sure the term , ” polytheist ” means a belief in multiple gods.

    I can’t help but think that if you weren’t so bound and determined to prove me your stupid inferior ,

    I wouldn’t have had to spend two minutes pointing out that trivial clarification , for example.

    ” You actually think they don’t believe in an ultimate reality? ”

    ” Ultimate reality ” ?

    Like I said earlier , I would rather talk to a bona fide Japanese or Chinese , or Burmese Buddhist .

    They don’t use terms like , ” ultimate reality ” .

    They just go ahead and say what the fuck they plainly mean .

    Like , ” Yes , we are pagans. Like Zeus or Horus . That sort of thing. ”

    I would rather dig out my own eye with a spoon , than try to talk to some Westerner faking the whole thing.

    Why does the Westerner go to such lengths to avoid saying outright that he is a theist , and specifically a polytheist ?

    My guess would be because he is afraid his trendy hipster fancy – pants McMansion fellows might look down on him for suggesting an equivalent of Isis , Osiris , and Sobek.

    So it turns out that we aren’t really talking about religion at all , but about status and popularity after all .

    Well , I dare admit that 30 – odd years later , I still feel a stab of envy for the cool girls on the High school cheerleading squad.

    But , otherwise , I have better fucking things to do , Like reading the latest newspaper grocery store circular.

    ” Yay ! Peaches for 75 cents a can ! Great ! ”

    ” The difference is in the nature of that Ultimate Reality. They say impersonal. You (probably) say otherwise. ”

    I say it is irrelevant .

    If by ” impersonal ” you mean that god , or the gods , are indifferent , or ambivalent toward , mankind , or to me personally.

    In my view that is not one jot better than atheism.

    What child gives a flying fuck about the coke whore mother that abandoned her 30 years ago , and hasn’t bothered to visit her , or even send her a birthday card , since ?

    Do tell me why I should give a fuck about a god of the same basic type ?

    Ooooh , because he’s got a BETTER TITLE than , ” Crack Whore ” !?

    I suppose being a Knight of the Order of the Garter is nice and all ….

    ….but ….

    How , in what way , would that be remotely relevant to my life ?

    I might as well get my panties in a twist over the goings – on in Nepal .

    By ” impersonal ” perhaps you mean no afterlife ?

    In that case , we are certainly back to the atheist thing , whether you call it religion , or whatever , not withstanding.

    If there is not a loving god , and an afterlife , then why not go out and kill and rape people for the fun of it ?

    Because that is bad ?

    ” Bad ” according to WHO ??

    ” Bad ” according to the mud people you look down on ?

    ” Bad ” according to those fake liberal / actual would – be despots who voted for Biden ?

    Certainly not bad according to a god that doesn’t exist.

    Nor particularly relevant if god exists , but god doesn’t give a shit.

    But , OK , let’s assume there is never the less an objective standard of bad.

    It’s not like , a split second after you quit breathing , a split second after you cease to exist , that you are going to give a fuck that you were a bad person.

    And in a mere hundred years , when everyone around you has likewise ceased to exist , they aren’t going to care either.

    We know , indirectly , of the existence of several hundred classic , landmark , books of the ancient world.

    Like , for example , we know from other sources that the Roman Emperor Claudius was quite the history buff , and wrote a monumental history of the Carthaginian empire.

    — AND THAT IS ALL WE KNOW OF THOSE BOOKS.

    Even the most reverenced and important of records eventually rot away.

    So , the point being ; rob rape and steal , and never mind , because eventually even history buffs won’t even know about it.

    ( Assuming you really even give a fuck what some anonymous person five hundred years from now would think of you ? )

    I’m reminded of a scene I saw in a movie recently ;

    A guy is being led away to be executed , and he says to his tormentor , ” I’ll be a martyr . People will remember me. ”

    And his tormentor smiles devilishly and replies , ” No , they will forget. ”

    Well , it’s subjective , so , no , I cannot prove it .

    But I suspect that European paganism ebbed away and finally vanished completely not just because it turned out that Jesus Christ had more armored tank divisions than Caesar.

    But because , as , or more importantly , the idea of indifferent gods and no afterlife is a dead – end idea.

    ” Dead -end ” meaning , I dare say , lacking in truth.

    Why must the truth always be the worst of negatives ?

    Are you so sure that assumption is valid ?

    Christianity and Islam triumphed because , at least in that part of the world , paganism and atheism were already on life support anyway.

    • Yohannon December 18, 2020 at 1:37 am #

      “Pagan” is a Abrahamic smear word. The old Jewish word for God giving Moses the Ten Commandments is called “the descent of hatred”. Incredible but true. As if the Babylonians, Egyptians, etc didn’t have their own versions of the these things.

      The Pagans had higher and lower mysteries. The Greek religion seems to have gone awry, certainly in later periods. Plato wanted to rewrite all the myths to make the gods more like the moral ones of Egypt.

      But you prefer the idea that you have the Truth and no one else does. As I said (quoting Hirshi Ali), this is problematic. And it craps on the doctrine of Providence, that God is taking care of Humanity – all of Humanity. Your Old and New Testament alone revelations would leave many out in the cold in terms of the total expanse of time and space, both now and in the past. But thankfully God has given Us fare more than that.

      Impersonal means no afterlife? Huh? They believe in many lives, life after life. So you’re as wrong as you can be there. They believe in the Void, Buddha Mind, the City of Peace, the Other Shore, etc. This is equivalent to the Godhead of Eckhart, above the Trinity per se. Or perhaps even the most austere idea of God the Father.

    • SoftStarLight December 18, 2020 at 1:55 am #

      “because eventually even history buffs won’t even know about it.”

      True. But God will know and does know. Jesus asked, what does it profit a man to gain the whole world only to lose his soul?

  151. tom clark December 17, 2020 at 11:53 pm #

    I love losers. Makes me bleed. Gnite Kim

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  152. Night Owl December 18, 2020 at 5:40 am #

    Vaccination theater.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScQKr9xweVg

    All that matters is the show.

    Reminds me of when Barack pretended to drink polluted Flint, MI water.

  153. MickfrmDelhi February 1, 2021 at 3:19 pm #

    “What nobody has asked is: in the first place, what on earth would the Dominion servers be doing in Frankfurt, outside the USA, in possession of the CIA? Is the CIA monitoring the vote tabulation… or assisting in it? This raises another question no one has addressed: Servers serve computer networks, which operate via the Internet. If Dominion vote tabulation machines all over America are not allowed to be hooked up to the Internet, how can they be a network? And why would they need a server? If I’m missing something there, please discuss in the comments section.”

    Exactly, there is no server in Frankfort for vote tabulation. The vote tabulation happens at each polling place. Can be printed out or transferred to portable media, like a flash drive. If there are servers for software updates and maintenance, then these machines would be connected to a network, prior to being deployed as voting machines.

    Except in the fever dreams of some Trump supporters and Qanon loons, these “theories” should probably not be mentioned, because there isn’t any fact to go along with them. Your Kraken needs a wipe, it’s starting to reek of desperation.

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