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That financial shock has been coiling and coiling in the fantasyland that banking has become in the new zero interest rate regime where notions that pretend to be money get levered into new ways of destroying life on earth and the human project with it. At some cognitive level the people of this land sense what is coming and the wait for it is driving them crazy. Tom Petty was right: the waiting is the hardest part, and a hard way to learn that a virtual life is not an adequate substitute for an authentic one.


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953 Responses to “Tom Petty was Right”

  1. Neon Vincent April 29, 2019 at 10:12 am #

    That was an impressive list of avoidances of reality, but it failed to include the actual fantasies on screens, particularly the big silver ones. The superhero fantasy “Avengers: Endgame” had the best opening weekend box office ever with more than $350 million in North America and $1 billion worldwide. While Marvel’s superheroes were saving the world, 6,000 stores have already announced they are closing in 2019, more than all of 2018. Welcome to the Retail Apocalypse, where Thanos doesn’t have to snap his fingers to make things disappear.

    • 100th Avatar April 29, 2019 at 1:10 pm #

      This is rather scary. Millions upon millions the world over convinced that the umpteenth super heroes movie in a canon of tens of dozens of silly, childish, and absurd is a must-see.

      If this does not reveal the power of media and social media programming, of group-think, in today’s culture… I’m not sure what does?

      A coup against a president?

      This isn’t melodrama, but reality: a country of imbeciles.

      • Elrond Hubbard April 29, 2019 at 3:58 pm #

        As if people would be attending lectures about Proust if it weren’t for those dastardly Hollywood profiteers? I rather doubt it. There are worse things than lots of people having time and money to spend on a few hours’ entertainment, especially when they have little power and few options when it comes to their own lives.

        • OccamsBeard April 29, 2019 at 4:36 pm #

          It’s not that Proust would replace Avengers, it’s that a Madeleine would replace Madonna.

          TraffickingInDivinity.com

        • Ishabaka April 29, 2019 at 5:33 pm #

          At most points in history, and in most cultures, public torture and execution were the amusements of the day.
          We should be happy millions now prefer a movie. It’s a sign humanity is progressing.

          • gonetohell April 30, 2019 at 6:58 am #

            Kuntsler spews whatever nonsense comes to his jaded mind. He is one of many perpetual doom and gloomers that make a living painting horror scenes. He speaks as though Americans haven’t been losing themselves in Hollywood fare to escape reality till only recently. He should remember a little girl named Shirley Temple. She diverted the attention of America away from one of the worst times in our history.

            Kunstler defends Trump because he feels a kinship to his style of fraud. He sells a conjured narrative that for some sad and sick reason has following. Very little of what he offers has bases in fact. It’s merely personal opinion. He asserts that those on the left roundly support free everything. Medicare for all is not free, as Bernie Sanders has mentioned on many occasions. Bernie has admitted taxes will go up. But there will be offsets in that there are no more continuous and relentless insurance premium increases. Increases that largely benefit Health insurance CEOs. Profit above all else. Above humanity and above morality.

            But Kunstler has proven time and again in his blathering that he is not a particularly moral man. His views on free higher education are short sighted as well. As he rails often that higher education and health care have become rackets benefiting CEOs and administrators, but gives the middle finger to proposals that would benefit the majority. Free higher ed means a more competitive workforce and logically fewer requiring the welfare state he so detests.

          • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 10:16 am #

            Well I think Mr. K has simply pointed out how the proposed solutions for free healthcare and free education are nearly an impossible feat for a society that is nearly bankrupt and immersed totally in pervasive accounting fraud, as well as general fraud across the board. Such costly proposals as you admit yourself may very well be effective but would be impossible to implement within a fragmented society where there is a complete lack of honesty and integrity. Also the sole focus on profits does not help. Great social welfare systems require honesty, transparency, and a system that creates new capital. Plus everyone must contribute which means everyone must put into the system to get out benefit. In today’s society a lot of people want to take but don’t want to give. How do you fix all of that pray tell?

          • 100th Avatar April 30, 2019 at 11:22 am #

            Seadolt has gone to hell

          • Robert White April 30, 2019 at 3:47 pm #

            Freud thought that civilization was at advance if people burned his books instead of him. He thought that civilization was also advanced if people hurled epithets instead of spears. JHK is an extremely well versed writer that I follow for his tactical ability and knowledge of historiography & writing. You, on the other hand, are just flatulence in an elevator.

            RW

          • gonetohell May 1, 2019 at 12:52 am #

            To Robert White;

            So being the connoisseur of flatulence, that I’m sure you are, you prefer to sniff JHK’s emissions. All you require is some flowery phraseology to cover up the stink you long to inhale.

          • Robert White May 1, 2019 at 3:59 pm #

            JHK is fully entitled to hold the political stance that he holds whilst lending thoughtful perspective on the current state of affairs to readership that extends to other website domains like ZH. When I first started reading JHK’s stuff I realized he was a gifted writer that could easily push my buttons to make me react in opposition to his well thought out arguments. After reading his articles a few times I quickly realized that his politics were nothing like my politics as the Grumpy Marxist that I am would never abide someone like The Duck. What I realized was that while JHK was in fact a polar opposite politically, he was well versed & highly articulate.

            At that juncture I was pretty well convinced that even though I would likely never agree with his politics there was certainly the very real possibility that I could become a better writer if I watched how he writes week-by-week so that I might learn to write professionally as he does. Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery as they say but in this case JHK is pretty well one of the best political bloggers on Internet to emulate when it comes to writing style.

            Back in university my last English course was _Writing, Style, & Immagination_ which was a full credit course and third year level. My professor for that class was an edifying old gentleman with a profound sense of the wordsmith industry. He recommended emulating writers that we liked so that we could learn the trade. JHK is exactly the type of writer that I have chosen to emulate for writing style & composition along structural lines. Furthermore, I have never written one book whereas JHK has written multiple.

            If you could settle down a bit and realize that JHK is likely a better writer than you are you might be able to settle down enough to learn from his ability and thoughtful approach to understanding Clusterfuck Nation and the bugaboos that encircle it.

            You probably have some redeeming qualities but being angst ridden & angry will get you nowhere in life believe me.

            RW

          • gonetohell May 1, 2019 at 9:34 pm #

            Too funny. You’ve actually written several paragraphs to validate the perception I had of you. Ease back eager beaver, your hero will be flatulating again in just a couple of days. And at the ryhthm and pitch you so enjoy.

          • Farmer Joe May 2, 2019 at 9:18 am #

            GTH,

            It seems to me that you don’t understand that a college degree has no more value today than a high school diploma, and that socialised medicine currently means sub par procedures performed by kids fresh out of school. This isn’t going to change because people wish for it to, and it’s definitely not going to change because you vote for it to. Reality doesn’t care what you wish for, it cares what works and what doesn’t. What we have now, as I’m sure you would agree, does not work very well. Why would you think piling on more of what doesn’t work would change things? That seems like the definition of insanity to me, and exactly what Mr. K is right to be railing against.

            Do you have a fact based response that doesn’t involve name calling? I don’t care for verbal flatulance either.

          • Robert White May 2, 2019 at 11:59 am #

            When I was a small kid growing up in Toronto in the 60s I knew I was going to be the finest drummer in the world when I grew up. I knew that if I continued watching & listening to Gene Krupa I was sure to become untouchable eventually.
            When I would see Krupa on the tube I knew that he was the guy to watch above all the wannabes.

            After suffering myriad humilities like my brother throwing the Hoover Upright vacuum cleaner down a flight of stairs straight into my face & drum set, I soon realized that I was correct and that my brother would eventually be eating his words of defeatism. As he threw the vacuum cleaner directly at me he stated that ‘I sucked on drums’ but just as that Hoover vacuum cleaner was approaching my face I realized in that instant that I was going to be a really great drummer sooner than I had ever imagined.

            RW

          • Exscotticus May 2, 2019 at 10:50 pm #

            >>> Medicare for all is not free, as Bernie Sanders has mentioned on many occasions. Bernie has admitted taxes will go up. But there will be offsets in that there are no more continuous and relentless insurance premium increases.

            LOL. Reminds me of: “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.”

            So instead of “continuous and relentless insurance premium increases” we’ll get continuous and relentless tax increases?

            The bottom line is this: if you want to pay for illegal immigrant health care, be our guest! Let us know how that works out for you.

        • 100th Avatar April 29, 2019 at 7:48 pm #

          Missing the plot, and inserting a host of logical fallacies along the way. As always.

          The point is that so many people are so easily convinced.
          “A must-see film”

          Where tens of millions of people are duped into handing over money to see a ridiculous CGI comic book story.

          It’s viral marketing. Implanted, like your suggestion that they have little power and few options.

          Untrue.

          • messianicdruid April 29, 2019 at 8:29 pm #

            I guess you won’t be giving us a review of “Hellboy”.

      • OccamsBeard April 29, 2019 at 4:39 pm #

        We are on the way down on this pendulum we call culture; the other side will swing up…..for those who make it!

        TraffickingInDivinity.com

      • Squeeky Fromm Girl Reporter April 29, 2019 at 5:18 pm #

        Coincidentally, this is what was going on in “literate” Spain at the time of the writing of Don Quixote – which is why Cervantes wrote the book. An absurd, but fun, worship of Super Heroes.

        I thought I should mention that to give the place some class!

        Squeeky Fromm
        Girl Reporter

      • wwg1wga April 30, 2019 at 12:18 am #

        Because it’s summer!
        http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Because%20its%20summer.pdf

        #oathkeepers

        Q.

  2. Jeremy April 29, 2019 at 10:14 am #

    You are, no doubt, referring to this:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/americans-are-some-most-stressed-out-people-world-reporting-negative-emotions-highest-rates-decade-180972047/

    My US inlaws are visiting me here in the UK soon.
    God help us – they suffer from severe Trump Derangement Syndrome and can’t wait to vote for Biden or Beto or some other corporate whore.

    In conversation, and when I have a contradictory comment to add, I have to do as advised by a very smart friend – “Hold it in like a fart”!

    • hmuller April 29, 2019 at 10:42 am #

      There’s one thing worse than holding in a fart. – Lighting one when your home is a meth lab.

      https://thevalleyreport.com/2016/02/13/florida-man-dies-in-meth-lab-explosion-after-lighting-farts-on-fire/

      • BackRowHeckler April 29, 2019 at 3:33 pm #

        Sounds like a class act.

        Check out the ‘Florida Man’ site.

        Brh

    • Exscotticus April 29, 2019 at 10:43 am #

      How Dems manage to TDS over Trump’s character deficiencies while ignoring Biden’s wins this year’s cognitive dissonance award.

      If character is all that matters, I’ll take a boorish Trump over creepy child-groping Biden any day.

    • rackslope April 29, 2019 at 10:43 am #

      LOL!

      I’m with ya. I live in a place infested with TDS-infected Canucks and Pacific Northwesterners. My sphincter muscles are getting buff and cut!

      • hmuller April 29, 2019 at 11:46 am #

        Don’t let Anderson Cooper hear you talking like that.

    • Anon1970 April 29, 2019 at 11:51 am #

      I am happy to report that I am not suffering from TDS, although I may have suffered from BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) starting with his 2004 State of the Union address, the one that dealt with the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment. I was particularly upset that many religious Jews had forgotten what it must have been like to be Jewish in 1930’s Nazi Germany.

      • Mountain gal April 29, 2019 at 1:06 pm #

        In what way had they forgotten?

        • Anon1970 April 29, 2019 at 3:03 pm #

          The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 included marriage restrictions on Jews, specifically on their ability to marry or even to have sex with non-Jews (i.e. Aryans) of the opposite sex. Of course in 1935, most if not all countries criminalized same sex encounters and none recognized same sex marriages.

          In 2019, lots of Americans have reason to be insecure and stressed out. Many young people with only a high school diploma face a rather grim financial future. College graduates burdened with tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt and low wage jobs aren’t in a much better position or maybe they are actually worse off. The country’s government debt (Federal, state and local) and unfunded liabilities are in the tens of trillions of dollars. But these issues don’t especially bother me. This isn’t 1942 and I am not worried about being deported to an American version of Belzec. At the age of 70+, I have been out of the labor force for over a decade.

          If life ever becomes really grim and I am left with no good choices, there is always the way out taken by the grandparents in the 1978 TV mini series “Holocaust”. You can watch it for free on YouTube.

          • hmuller April 29, 2019 at 7:50 pm #

            No disrespect intended, but I’m not sure what your point is. Are you saying you support same sex marriage and denying it would be a Nazi attitude?

          • Anon1970 April 29, 2019 at 10:28 pm #

            hmuller @ 7:50pm: The Republican war against gay Americans was never as brutal as Hitler’s war against the Jews. No American gays were rounded up and shipped off to a slave labor camp or marked for extermination. But a number of years ago, I did meet an American who had fallen in love with a Japanese man while he was teaching in Japan. When the American returned to the US, his Japanese partner was able to join him using a student visa. When the visa expired, the couple faced some very unpleasant choices. The American was able to find a job in Canada, where the couple married under Canadian law. I don’t know whether the couple ever returned to the US after gay marriage was legalized in all 50 states under a US Supreme Court ruling.

            As the old saying goes, those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it.

          • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 1:43 am #

            OK Thank you for clarifying that. You’re entitled to your opinion. I suspect there may be some orthodox rabbi’s who would not see the issues as parallel, but they can speak for themselves.

          • Exscotticus April 30, 2019 at 12:31 pm #

            @Anon, formalized legalized same-sex unions have been possible for some time. But that wasn’t good enough; gays wanted “marriage”.

            That term has a very specific etymology and usage that simply doesn’t apply to gays. And obviously it’s against Western religion.

            Now once you’re willing to throw out culture and religion and history and just let the state decide these things, I think it’s fair to ask why polygamy is unlawful. If three people want to share their lives together, why can’t this union be formally and legally recognized? And why can’t we call that a “marriage”?

  3. Jeremy April 29, 2019 at 10:18 am #

    “Biden is a Fraud”:

    https://www.truthdig.com/articles/joe-biden-is-a-phony-plain-and-simple/

    Who would’a guessed!

  4. shotho April 29, 2019 at 10:18 am #

    The forms of financial manipulation are so many and so varied that it really is staggering, the worst being derivatives that amount to trillions of dollars.
    All of this financialization of the economy is waiting to be destroyed as it is supported by no collateral worth anything.
    This is an extremely well-considered essay, Mr. Kuntsler.

    • shotho April 29, 2019 at 10:21 am #

      Excuse me, Mr. Kunstler.

    • hmuller April 29, 2019 at 11:05 am #

      The problems of 2008 were papered over but never fixed. Gradually the governments and central banks have become more manipulative of markets, until we no longer have the mechanisms to determine “free market value” for financial assets and much else.

      Long ago, no one ever envisioned permanently suppressed interest rates; and negative interest rates were considered impossible.

      Look at what happened to the stock market since December 2018. It fell a little (maybe trying to reach its fair value). Trump and Powell opened the money spigots, the Treasury’s Exchange Stabilization Fund bought shares, the equity indexes bounced back; and there was much rejoicing throughout the land.

      A lot of people love government intervention when it props up their portfolios or puts food on their table. Socialism for the rich and for the poor. Meanwhile, the shrinking middle class carries the burden in ways both open and hidden. It goes on until it can’t.

      • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 11:53 am #

        So the middle class needs some socialism.

        • venuspluto67 April 29, 2019 at 1:24 pm #

          I’ll vote for Bernie Sanders in next year’s prez-primary, of course, but I fully expect him to be blocked from winning again. The Democratic Party has always been far more interested in being a compliant partner in empire than it has been in winning. The problem with that is, this will turn them into an irrelevant regional rump-party because Americans by and large don’t respect losers.

          • hmuller April 29, 2019 at 7:54 pm #

            Maybe Bernie can at least say a few nice words about Seth Rich, murdered by the DNC because he opposed the dirty tricks of one Debbie Wasserman Schultz.to deny Bernie the 2016 nomination.

          • Anon1970 April 29, 2019 at 10:33 pm #

            Having been a victim of a mugging myself many years ago, I am more inclined to believe that Seth Rich was also a victim of a mugging that went horribly bad and left him dead on the mean streets of DC.

          • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 12:32 am #

            I may join you Venus if Bernie changes his positions on border enforcement and immigration. If he were to support the Wall, ending illegal immigration and reducing legal immigration then I would vote for him too.

          • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 12:42 am #

            Anon, do you find it strange that the muggers didn’t take anything? John Podesta believed in making examples of leakers. We know that courtesy of Julian. So sure, it is possible that Seth was simply mugged but again nothing was taken. So then it is a murder. Was it then just a random act of barbarity or something more?

          • Nightowl April 30, 2019 at 4:08 am #

            Except nothing was stolen from Seth Rich. The police bodycam footage was erased and DC police were given a stand-down order on furhter investigation.

            then we have Donna Brasile saying Seth’s murder made her fear for her own life and that she kept the blinds closed in her office out of fear of being shot. All media inquiries on the case have been handled by a DNC lawyer.

            Not fishy at all. Nothing to see here, move along.

          • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 9:37 am #

            Anon, You really are a hoot, you make me chuckle because….

            Having been a victim of a splinter myself many years ago, I am more inclined to believe that Jesus Christ was also a victim of a wood shop project that went horribly bad and left him dead on the mean streets of Jerusalem.

    • Anon1970 April 29, 2019 at 3:08 pm #

      One day, the whole financial system as we know it may come tumbling done. The Weimar Republic in Germany lasted less than 14 years.

  5. K-Dog April 29, 2019 at 10:22 am #

    There is never going to be a driverless car that works.
    America is never going to be energy independent.
    Robots are never going to replace humans anywhere.
    Artificial intelligence is always going to be artificial.

    Oh don’t let it kill you baby, don’t let it get to you
    Don’t let it kill you baby, don’t let it get to you
    I’ll be your bleedin’ heart, I’ll be your cryin’ fool
    Don’t let this go too far
    Don’t let it get to you
    <– T. Petty

    Babylon, with president Molock, and the cocophany of babble reaches to 5G cel networks, the skies and beyond.

    Meanwhile back at my Doomstead, more playing with balls.

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    • malthuss April 29, 2019 at 10:33 am #

      what of G5?

      • K-Dog April 29, 2019 at 10:47 am #

        I was to have been fully deployed by next year and the consumer economy depends on you buying new equipment every two years or the foundations of our society rests upon crumble to dust don’t you know! Yet G5 is behind schedule as the insanity of endless growth is encounters blowback.

        • K-Dog April 29, 2019 at 10:49 am #

          the foundations our society rests upon crumble to dust <– An extraneous 'of'.

        • K-Dog April 29, 2019 at 10:51 am #

          the insanity of endless growth encounters blowback

          Dogs make mistakes too.

          • Farmer McGregor April 29, 2019 at 1:36 pm #

            Dog, “I was to be deployed…” or “It was…” ???

            Bad Doggy?

          • K-Dog April 30, 2019 at 12:56 am #

            It was

        • malthuss April 29, 2019 at 11:07 am #

          iT was? how much radiation?
          when I walk into a department store, how much am I zapped by scanner?

        • elysianfield April 29, 2019 at 5:20 pm #

          Dog,
          5G…I can’t wait!

          I can’t wait until I get cell phone service….

      • venuspluto67 April 29, 2019 at 1:25 pm #

        For G5 to work, there would need to be a transmission tower every 1000 feet. I don’t see that happening.

    • hmuller April 29, 2019 at 10:47 am #

      All this time I thought Tom Petty was some NASCAR driver.

      • K-Dog April 29, 2019 at 10:54 am #

        You are thinking Richard Petty.

        • Sam Stone April 29, 2019 at 12:25 pm #

          Didn’t Richard Petty write the song “Breakdown” after he lost a race? Damn I just crack myself up.

    • Janos Skorenzy April 29, 2019 at 12:40 pm #

      When is Doomsday? Or as the Muslims call it, the Hour? Because automation has already taken many jobs. I don’t know if we want to call such machines, “robots”, but it has in any case. And unless you know the Hour, its bids fair to take many more if this Age continues.

    • City_of_76 April 29, 2019 at 1:29 pm #

      Mr. K-Dog,

      Sounds like you read Tom Lewis’ latest post, Anti-Predictions You Can Rely On.

  6. fugeguy April 29, 2019 at 10:22 am #

    Good post Jim.

    At this point it does seem that in terms of finance, energy and culture we have cross the Rubicon, event horizon- pick your metaphor.

    All we are doing now is increasing the potential energy into the thing to come.

    Not sure what will happen or when.

    But the chances for a long emergency or slow decline are diminishing.

    As we add more potential energy the chances for chaos and something spectacular increase.

    Not yet though.

    But closer every day.

    Avoidance and course correction are most likely no longer an option so for me- at least I’m enjoying the ride.

  7. izzy April 29, 2019 at 10:28 am #

    Whether the Great Reckoning of financial affairs hits first, or as a consequence of the collapsing understructure of a livable environment, what we’re doing now is obviously not going to last forever. Or even half that long. The retreat into one form of denial or another is presently a common phenomenon.
    It’s a real-time demonstration of the power of belief, focused in the wrong place.

  8. BackRowHeckler April 29, 2019 at 10:29 am #

    Yeah, at some point reality is going to slap us in the face, and it might come from a direction we least suspect.

    For example, a relatively cheap, land based, Exocet style missile slamming into one or two of our aircraft carriers (in the Persian Gulf, the Med?) sending them to the bottom. That would be a wake up call like no other.

    Brh

    • peakfuture April 29, 2019 at 10:31 am #

      JMG’s Twilight’s Last Gleaming! I think that could be a trigger; the non-nuclear destruction of a carrier (or two) would be a shock to the system, for sure.

      • BC_EE April 29, 2019 at 11:25 am #

        Hit it on the head there and my thoughts also watching 60 MInutes Sunday evening. JMG may have been prophetic. A land based supersonic cruise missile transported in a typical 40-foot shipping container. Nearly undetectable and ubiquitous.

        Novel’s summary point, aircraft carriers are now obsolete.

        • lateStarter April 29, 2019 at 12:05 pm #

          And who would the US choose to blame for this event? Would it be like 9/11?

          • Pat Ormsby April 30, 2019 at 7:43 am #

            I think we can tell whether it is a false flag or a real one by how quickly the narrative falls into place and whom it benefits.

    • montsegur May 1, 2019 at 6:02 am #

      My guess is that it will be a dirty bomb detonated in a large port city.

      Cheers

  9. peakfuture April 29, 2019 at 10:30 am #

    Yep. Everyone who sees all of this wonders how the hell this has gone on for so long.

    The sad part is that if the failure (i.e. bankruptcy, instead of extend-and-pretend) had happened earlier, we might have had enough time to rebuild or stabilize things.

    The next questions are what will be the spark, and how fast will things go. Events in the Middle East unraveled when food prices spiked; what will it take in the US?

    • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 11:49 am #

      And food prices are rising…

    • draupnir April 29, 2019 at 12:08 pm #

      Probably the same thing. The flooding and the wet spring has covered a good portion of arable land and it’s going to hit us right in the breadbasket. It drowned a lot of future meat on the hoof too. Inflation in foodstuffs is baked into the cake.It might be a good idea to stock up on dried beans, rice and vitamins. Canned tuna, chicken and Spam might also be nice for Christmas dinner or birthday celebrations.

      • Farmer McGregor April 29, 2019 at 1:57 pm #

        Better yet. Stock up on the SEEDS necessary to GROW beans, rice, and vitamin rich foods, and learn how to grow more seeds. Learn to milk a cow (talk about lots of rich food — milk, cream, cheese, butter…). Spam is a great long-term storage protein and fat source.
        But then, so is the steer calf you got from your milk cow.

        • draupnir April 29, 2019 at 2:55 pm #

          Let’s be realistic here. That’s for the young. My knowledge of such activities is academic, and I wonder how far a lot of book learning will take you in such an endeavor. Besides that, I’m too damn old and out of shape. I don’t expect to survive if things go really bad. I have the equipment and rudimentary experience in canning and preserving. I could butcher and preserve meat, Pulling something edible out of the ground by brute force is probably beyond my capabilities. Animal husbandry is tricky. I think goats would be a better bet, they’re probably hardier than cows and lower maintenance.

          • Farmer McGregor April 29, 2019 at 3:26 pm #

            Wrongo on the ‘low maintenance’ part. On that account, I’ll take my sedate little Jersey cows over any goat on the planet; they’re a pain in the arse. Cow is more productive as well.

            Book learning is a good start, and you no doubt have valuable skills that could well be put to use in a communal (community) effort to strive toward self-sufficiency. It’ll take community efforts to get there — I know this well as I push in that direction. I’m learning, but simply can’t do it all.

          • draupnir April 29, 2019 at 3:54 pm #

            Isn’t there an old joke about curing a friend’s boredom by giving him a goat?

          • Farmer McGregor April 29, 2019 at 4:35 pm #

            Not sure about a goat, but my brother-in-law from Casper, Wyoming calls that town “the armpit of the west, where men are men and sheep are nervous.”

          • draupnir April 29, 2019 at 6:07 pm #

            A guy I used to know said that of Wisconsin.

          • Farmer Joe April 30, 2019 at 9:12 am #

            I second you FM. I’d take cattle over goats in a doomstead survival situation any day of the week.

    • peakfuture April 29, 2019 at 10:44 pm #

      https://peakfuture.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/the-wait/

      David Collum on Jim’s podcast, Chris Martenson, and a few other folks have been saying similar things.

      The wait is tiring, for sure…

  10. Ol' Scratch April 29, 2019 at 10:32 am #

    Maximum abstraction has arrived! Theoretically, we should all live joyfully and peacefully together forever, as the earth’s bounty overfloweth and sustains us. In reality, we won’t and it doesn’t, Green New Deal and other such flights of fancy notwithstanding.

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  11. malthuss April 29, 2019 at 10:33 am #

    B A L T I M O R E

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqxDmnM_g5Q

    • Exscotticus April 29, 2019 at 11:04 am #

      I asked a liberal friend of mine to explain why Baltimore isn’t thriving given that it’s everything the Left wants: majority-minority, a sanctuary city, thoroughly Democrat, and thoroughly under minority leadership. I mean how can you blame racism when minorities control everything?

      The answer was that it’s suffering due to racist banks and corporations who refuse to invest, and racist fleeing whites.

      • malthuss April 29, 2019 at 11:08 am #

        I was told [by a man with a 140? IQ] Blacks are they was they are due to slavery.
        i kid you not.

      • BackRowHeckler April 29, 2019 at 11:46 am #

        Same with New Haven, Ex.

        By lefty standards it should be a paradise.

        Instead its dystopic, Hell on Earth.

        Brh

        • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 11:48 am #

          That is too bad Brh!!! I was thinking of migrating North when times get real tough.

          • malthuss April 29, 2019 at 12:43 pm #

            Did you ask me a question, last week?

          • BackRowHeckler April 29, 2019 at 7:32 pm #

            SSL winters can be brutal here.

            And they last forever. On Nov 15 we had about a half a foot of snow, the other night, 51/2 months later, it was sleeting.

            You’re better off in the southland, SSL, on a piece of fertile land away from the city, AR15 strapped to your back … a country girl will survive.

            brh

          • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 1:05 am #

            Yikes that is a whole lot of time to be cold! I don’t know if I can handle that lol. But I bet your summers are not quite as hot and maybe less humid? It seems like its 100 here from May to September and like 100% humidity. But the flip side is that fall-winter-spring is basically awesome with some cold here and there.

          • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 1:07 am #

            I am not sure malthuss. I probably did ask you a question. I feel like I ask you something at least once every thread :-).

          • Sam Stone April 30, 2019 at 12:49 pm #

            Tuesday Apr 30 @ 1047 Snowing as I type this. Woodstove is going; hopefully for the last day until sometime in September/October.

          • Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 1:43 pm #

            North America is very extreme in its conditions. More so than Europe or South America for the most part. Much of Asia can get very hot and cold too. Continental Climate

        • Sam Stone April 29, 2019 at 12:47 pm #

          Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, St. Louis, East St. Louis Illinois, Gary, In, Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma, NYC, LA, Frisco, Seattle, Baltimore, D.C., Portland… the list goes on and on. All are Dem Progressive run and every single one are shitholes.

          Any of the progressives that post here want to know what real racism looks like? As a white person go to Memphis or St. Louis, or Chicago’s south side. Go there at night by yourself, I dare any of you progressives to do so. Please do it. You can find out what racism truly is. Of course your chances of living through the experience will be slim.

      • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 11:47 am #

        Sure why not? Any excuse to excuse the inexcusable. That is so much easier than taking responsibility and holding people accountable for their actions. Some people exist to create and some people exist to blame others for their lack of creativity.

      • Janos Skorenzy April 29, 2019 at 12:45 pm #

        It’s a backhanded way of saying Blacks are incompetent and Whites are superior. Such people want the high to be the slaves of the low, metaphorically if not literally. The Low will take all such pronouncements literally though, have no doubt.

        And of course the High should take care of the Low – but on their terms and staring with their own poor relations. Such arrangements (social contract) used to be called States or Nations….

        • Exscotticus April 29, 2019 at 1:12 pm #

          >>> It’s a backhanded way of saying Blacks are incompetent and Whites are superior.

          That’s your interpretation and not what I intended.

          What I would say is that black culture and lefty ideology don’t appear to be helping blacks achieve success.

          • Janos Skorenzy April 29, 2019 at 1:22 pm #

            So you think all races are the same and therefore equal? Prove it. And the burden is on you since all the evidence goes the other way.

          • Exscotticus April 29, 2019 at 1:50 pm #

            >>> So you think all races are the same and therefore equal?

            I’m guessing here that you mean with regard to innate intelligence or something along those lines?

            There are plenty of blacks both smarter and more successful than both of us put together. The burden is on you to explain how this is possible given their allegedly inferior genes.

            Meanwhile, have you ever been to West Virginia?

          • Janos Skorenzy April 29, 2019 at 6:42 pm #

            13% of Blacks are above the White average IQ of 100. You haven’t studied this at all, have you? You actually think all races are equal. How many medals did Whites win in sprinting in the last Olympics? Or in the Marathon? The best in those two classes of sports being the West African Blacks and East African Blacks respectively.

          • Exscotticus April 29, 2019 at 7:53 pm #

            >>> How many medals did Whites win in sprinting in the last Olympics? Or in the Marathon?

            The fact that blacks dominate many sports could simply be a cultural phenomenon. I’ll wait while you explain how the same genes responsible for skin color are also responsible for all the other traits you want to infer…

          • 100th Avatar April 29, 2019 at 8:30 pm #

            Many elephants in the house. In every room.
            What is being avoided, or at least until very recently is the neanderthal/denisovan factor in modern humanity.
            And its effects.

            The human progeny of these species in the genus homo kept a few genes along and for good reason.

            We didn’t land on the Horn of Africa.
            The horn landed on us.

          • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 12:46 am #

            Culture indicates success in sports?

            janos has mentioned ‘race is not just skin color’–thats the deal.
            Libs want to get me to believe a yellow is just a black w a paint job.
            Not so.

          • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 1:23 am #

            Well whatever the case in terms of IQ, athletic ability, etc., it does appear that racial groups are different. Certainly culturally and behaviorally speaking there are sometimes dramatic differences. Nature or nurture? Well, IMO it seems like these differences that we notice outright are enough to justify the idea that groups adapt to their environments differently based on varied capabilities. Also, notice how people will naturally segregate if there is no interference. There is no reason that we should expect equal outcomes for the various racial groups like we don’t expect equal outcomes for individuals.

          • Farmer Joe April 30, 2019 at 8:44 am #

            If Harvard admissions standards are any measure then it’s Asians that are the superior race.

          • Farmer Joe April 30, 2019 at 8:46 am #

            I could also make that argument using homelessness stats in Seattle. Asians are the vast minority in terms of the Seattle homeless racial dynamic.

          • Exscotticus April 30, 2019 at 10:09 am #

            >>> Culture indicates success in sports?

            Why not? Perhaps if I spent my entire youth shooting hoops instead of reading books…

            >>> race is not just skin color

            Sure. Hair, eyes, noses, etc. But intelligence? Even Janos claims that “13% of Blacks are above the White average IQ of 100”. So what good is claiming that they’re “incompetent” as a race, when there’s a 13% chance (according to Janos) that they’ll have above-average IQ?

          • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 10:28 am #

            Well but what I get from what he is saying is that there is an 87% chance you will interact with a Black person whose IQ is less than 100. So the majority of interactions will be with those of lesser intelligence. Unless you happen to live in a pocket of high IQ Blacks which may be possible if they choose to live around one another. There are on average differences between the various racial groups that is all. Humans are very adaptable and can be trained over time to do things that may traditionally fall outside of their capabilities. Thus a White man can practice and train his way to be an awesome basket ball player even if he can’t jump quite as high as his Black peers. Alternatively, a Black man can practice and train to be a nuclear physicist even though most of his peers are Whites and Asians and he never had the grades they did without lots of trial and error.

          • Exscotticus April 30, 2019 at 11:07 am #

            >>> Well but what I get from what he is saying is that there is an 87% chance you will interact with a Black person whose IQ is less than 100.

            No it’s a bell curve (normal distribution). So if we accept Janos’s stats, there’s a 13% chance that IQ will be higher, 13% that it will be lower, and 77% that it will be average.

          • Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 1:48 pm #

            Yeah, Blacks are on a Bell Curve too – their own, not ours. Their dome is at IQ 85.

            Will you please read the Bell Curve? I hate to see an intelligent man talk like a moron. And yeah, I never said race was just skin color. Many Dravidians are blacker than our American Blacks but are very different in every other way. And Blacks have many physical traits that allow them to excel in many sports. Thicker skulls, heavier bones, low fat, high degree of fast twitch muscle good for explosive force, long legs, an elongated achilles heel that makes for speed, etc.

            The East African distance men all stem from on people, the Kalenjin. Very different from the above. Different kind of muscles. Likewise our Blacks aren’t typically good at distance running.

          • Exscotticus April 30, 2019 at 3:20 pm #

            >>> Their dome is at IQ 85.

            And this is why I don’t put too much faith in IQ scores. 85 is the threshold for legal mental retardation. Congratulations, you’ve just given blacks another excuse to avoid personal responsibility.

            If IQ is a measure of innate intelligence, then it shouldn’t be influenced by cultural factors such as wealth and education. Guess what? It is. There’s a correlation between national development and national IQ averages. Oops!

            >>> And Blacks have many physical traits that allow them to excel in many sports.

            Some blacks do; some blacks don’t. Meanwhile, someone should tell Larry Bird that he violated Janos’s race rules!

            Next you’re going to qualify and say “most” or “on average”, which may indeed be true from a statistical viewpoint. But correlation does not imply causation. As I said, the reasons could be cultural or environmental.

            >>> Likewise our Blacks aren’t typically good at distance running.

            LOL. So now we have two races of blacks? If “our” blacks differ from “their” blacks, then that’s a sure sign of cultural influence—not race.

          • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 3:49 pm #

            ExScot:

            Hypothetically speaking, let’s say a scientific research survey showed that Swedish adult men were on average 2 inches taller than Greek adult men

            Would you.rant and rave about the racism of such a survey? Would you mock it with specious arguments? Would you be deeply, morally, personally outraged?

            People who normally believe in science, stop believing when the hot button issue of IQ comes up. But you have to use science to refute science, not emotion.

          • Exscotticus April 30, 2019 at 6:12 pm #

            >>> Would you.rant and rave about the racism of such a survey?

            Is that your interpretation? That I’m ranting and raving? Did I call Janos a moron as he called me? Show me where I even used the word: “racism”.

            I’m not even disputing Janos’s stats—merely his conclusions.

            >>> let’s say a scientific research survey showed that Swedish adult men were on average 2 inches taller than Greek adult men

            So would you then conclude that Swedes are a race of giants? And Greeks are a race of midgets? And that it’s all due to genetics? Are you certain it’s not environmental? Did you test for that?

            Did you know that Chinese used to be shorter and now they’re taller? Do you know why? Nutrition has improved a great deal since Mao’s time…

          • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 7:26 am #

            hmuller

            When I last read about such things (a decade or two ago) Australian, Scottish and Irish men were all shorter than English men.

            Human beings became shorter and sicker for a quite long period after the transition to agriculture from hunting and gathering.

            Neither of these phenomena has anything to do with race, but a lot to do with how long it takes a population group to recover from the effects of poor nutrition and living conditions.

            Japanese people, including first-generation immigrants to the US, were the subject of many medical studies because of their extremely low cancer rates. They mostly ate fish, vegetables and rice. Once they started eating what other Americans ate their cancer rates joined everyone else’s.

            “People who normally believe in science, stop believing when the hot button issue of IQ comes up. But you have to use science to refute science, not emotion.”

            I take it you’ve forgotten how emotionally bothered you became when I pointed out the reverse correlation between IQ and religious belief? You became extremely defensive and accused me of all sorts, when I was merely repeating the results that studies have shown, time after time.

            He who lives by IQ dies by IQ. I find myself, unusually, with Exscotticus on this one.

            You don’t need a high IQ to live a decent life and take care of those for whom you are responsible. Although if there’s no decent-paying work available and the housing market has been turned into yet another money spinner for wealthy people, you’re going to have an uphill struggle forever, no matter what colour you are.

          • hmuller May 1, 2019 at 12:32 pm #

            Green Alba,

            That IQ study you referenced was bogus. The “researchers” declared the people of Japan, South Korea, and Singapore unreligious. Then noted their higher than world average IQ’s. Gee notice anything else? Like they are East Asians.

            Then they classifiied Africans as very religious people. Then they discovered that, lo and behold, Africans had lower IQ’s. Do you see a pattern here?

            I believe IQ is the result of both environmental factors (like nutrition, culture) and heredity. Much scientific research has been devoted to trying to determine how big a role various factors play. But all the best minds of left wing academia have been unable to dismiss the hereditary (tribal racial) component as irrelevant. And believe me, they have wanted to do so. But respect for truth and science still has some adherents.

            I am not saying IQ makes anyone a better person or deserving or more rights and privileges – same with good looks, musical talent, leadership abilities, athletic and artistic talents, or a high ancestral Celtic name. Though the last may merit a song from Enya.

          • Exscotticus May 1, 2019 at 1:07 pm #

            >>> I believe IQ is the result of both environmental factors (like nutrition, culture) and heredity.

            I agree, which is why we can’t make the kind of racial inferences that Janos makes.

            The reality is that we have genes and natural selection. The degree to which one group of people or another exhibit some trait is likely due to that trait being the most successful for their environment over looooong periods of time.

            But given that we now have civilizations and welfare states and globalism, does any of this even matter anymore? Maybe we’re beyond the point where the glacially slow process of natural selection is significant.

          • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 1:20 pm #

            hmuller

            Why do you think there is only one study?

            https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/01/26/are-religious-people-really-less-smart-on-average-than-atheists/

            This one was done by researchers from Imperial College. I would assume, since the same tests were done by all 63,000 people, that they’d have to be at least people whose first language was English, otherwise it simply wouldn’t work. I’m guessing the people were actually British.

            And assumptions weren’t made about people in Sg or anywhere else – the people themselves were asked to say if they were religious or not.

            To investigate, Daws and Hampshire surveyed more than 63,000 people online, and had them complete a 30-minute set of 12 cognitive tasks that measured planning, reasoning, attention and working memory. The participants also indicated whether they were religious, agnostic or atheist.

            So I guess you’re thinking of another study. There are many, and they all say the same thing.

            Not that I care, as I don’t judge people by their IQ anyway.

          • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 1:26 pm #

            My husband once told me – a couple of decades ago – that that song (by Enya) was his mother’s favourite song (although presumably before Enya’s time).

            Now he can’t remember ever saying that. Men eh! 🙂

            I have a lowly name and it appears my genes are Scandinavian… maybe I should arrange for them to push my funeral pyre out on a longship.

          • Exscotticus May 1, 2019 at 4:48 pm #

            When a man tells you that his favorite singer is Enya, it’s a sure sign that he just wants to get in ya.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 2, 2019 at 5:48 pm #

            Cliches get to be cliches typically because they have much truth in them. I figured that out in high school. But you, X, still seem to be struggling with the Obvious.

            Some breeds of dogs are better at certain things, have certain traits, look a certain way, etc. They are enough alike to be called x or y. They’re a thing. Race is like that. Don’t fight your own commonsense. There’s more to know, but don’t bother if you can’t even admit there’s a there there. That makes you a Liberal. And from the broader perspective, Libertarians are Liberals, denying basic realities and identities just as they do in favor of some demented Idealism.

          • Exscotticus May 2, 2019 at 6:31 pm #

            “Look before you leap,” is a cliche. But so is “He who hesitates is lost.”

            So much for finding truth in cliches.

            Before you make extraordinary claims, you need extraordinary proof. And when it comes to claiming all these racial qualities, you lack the proof. True you have all kinds of metrics on the generally poor academic performance of blacks. But correlation is not causation. You haven’t ruled out environmental factors. All you have are cliches.

            And every time you see an example of someone who doesn’t fit your racial rules, your mind does a little dance…

          • Janos Skorenzy May 3, 2019 at 12:10 am #

            Not sure you’re right about that – in Whites that called dull normal I think – and in most of the World 85-90 is the normal. Seventy is considered retarded in Whites but it is the norm for pure Negroes. And note – they exhibit none of the emotional or physical disabilities associated with retardation in Whites at that IQ. For them, it is Normal. Needless to say, such semi-tards have no business in our Society. Seventy IQ means a much lower level of morality. So they may not be spastic or silly, but they may well be cunning – and they Will be brutal.

      • snarkmatic9000 April 30, 2019 at 12:10 pm #

        As one born & bred in Baltimore and who lived there (the Northern and NW ‘burbs) from 1950 to 1998 until decamping to VT and NY, I can tell you: political corruption, fear of the underclass and crime by the older middle and wealthy class, and, yes, there most certainly is institutional racism of the type mentioned. Baltimore has always been, in it’s essence, more of a southern than northern city, but it does thrive, selectively, and it is a city of great character and unique charm in many ways, to those who know it well. After all, a city known for such diverse characters as Babe Ruth, Frank Zappa, Poe, and the great HL Mencken, would have to be one-of-a-kind.

        • Majella April 30, 2019 at 6:22 pm #

          snarkmatic9000 – …and David Simon, who gave us a chilling insight to the town through “The Wire” and on whose work “Homicide: Life on the Street” was based.

    • Anon1970 April 29, 2019 at 10:42 pm #

      It makes one wonder why Republicans would want to force young black unmarried girls and women to carry their pregnancies to full term when the baby was unplanned, is unwanted and there is no father around to help support the child.

      • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 11:23 am #

        Maybe because they have traditional values and are not genocidally racist as are liberal Democrats (who will of course deny it.) Research Margaret Sanger’s express wish to eliminate as many people of color as possible.

  12. malthuss April 29, 2019 at 10:42 am #

    Tate–‘they didnt want too much anarchy’\
    \Oh, yes, they wanted their anarchy. Which reminds me \of a protest that happened near Lydons home.
    I went to see an anti Google protest. by the Google[ front for CIA] building.
    There was none.
    Instead 100? 200? antifa types marched main street in Venice screaming

    no borders
    no nation
    no mass deportations.

    I thought, if any of them had their car stolen, they would go to police.
    If any of them were threatened by a wetback neighbor, they would go to police.

    • Tate April 29, 2019 at 1:58 pm #

      They wanted Anarchy, but they didn’t want too much Anarchy.

      IOW, they wanted ‘Controlled Anarchy’ LOL. This is the furry sigil of the Left, LARPing through life as if it were a style, never serious.

      • Tate April 29, 2019 at 1:59 pm #

        But serious men are going to respond.

  13. malthuss April 29, 2019 at 10:44 am #

    Why, Green Alba, why?
    Why did IRA attack?
    Why do muslims attack?

    with regard to,
    Sadiq Khan said terror attacks were ‘part and parcel’ of living in London.
    Terror attacks are indeed part and parcel of living in London.
    If someone wants to attack somewhere symbolic of England or Britain, they will first attack London, then Manchester and Birmingham. Just as the IRA did.
    Londoners are used to it. It never becomes ‘no big deal’. But it remains part and parcel of their lives.

  14. neon sky April 29, 2019 at 10:45 am #

    The idea of inclusion is to exclude me. Why? Because I’m a white man.

    Last week a millennial nearly ran me off the road. He was angry even before he came speeding up to my tail. As he illegally passed me he flipped me off and yelled, “Old man.” He had a “Love the Earth” bumper sticker.

    • malthuss April 29, 2019 at 11:03 am #

      wow–thanks for sharing.

      I was at the beach. On a walk way. someone [young] wanted to bike across the walk way and told me to get out of his way.
      The walkway is ‘no bikes allowed’.

      I know an old guy who was biking on the bike path. A mexican? smiles as he pushed the guys bike over. The old guy broke his hip.
      The attacker smiled and walked away.

      • venuspluto67 April 29, 2019 at 12:21 pm #

        OMG. When an old person breaks their hip, they usually die within about a year. 🙁

        • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 12:47 am #

          He is about 60. He said the latino smiled and walked away. I think the broken bone was hip, may have been leg.

    • Janos Skorenzy April 29, 2019 at 1:25 pm #

      Go to the East South Central Florida coast. Gangs of elderly roam around, many in souped up motorized wheelchairs, harassing and attacking the Young and Beautiful. It’s a ghetto….

    • Tate April 29, 2019 at 2:06 pm #

      I never yell “Get off my lawn!” because I want this to be a ‘kid-friendly’ cul-de-sac because that’s how you keep the property values high. The little ones & their millennial parents & their free-range dogs run amok. Mrs. Tate did yell “Get out of our rocks!” few months back & I could tell the millennial ‘helicopter’ Mom didn’t take it too well.

  15. lateStarter April 29, 2019 at 10:45 am #

    JHK said: What if an existence mediated by pixel screens large and small presents a virtual world more compelling than the real world and turns out to be a kind of contagious avoidance behavior — until reality is so fugitive that we can barely discern its colors and outlines beyond the screens?

    I haven’t owned a TV for several years or bothered to stream anything online. But, I had a few minutes to kill the other day waiting for my wife, and I wandered into one of the big chain stores in Poland that sells anything and everything media related, and I have to admit I was impressed as I strolled down the TV aisle (do they still call it TV?). Huge screens with sports action/battle action/cartoons/nature shows. It was actually better than lifelike. There was something very artificial about it. I can only imagine what porn would look like. Why even bother to go outside when you can see nature in all its glory with such high resolution?

    TV and marketing. End game. How many hours/day are people spending in front of a screen? I’m sure just before I die, I’ll mutter something like: I wish I had watched Game of Thrones…

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  16. jdhines April 29, 2019 at 10:48 am #

    Jim,

    Bravo! What an excellent piece you have put together for your CFN readers. Insightful, well written (as always) and spot on. You still have the chops, my friend. What you have written rings so true, but it also shows the depths to which we have fallen. We are all denizens of a clouded and dark virtual reality now. Clearly, it will not end well.

    JDH

  17. City_of_76 April 29, 2019 at 10:50 am #

    Here in San Francisco, black cars, usually SUVs, project the “fuck it” attitude of their drivers, who contend with soul-crushing traffic as perfectly healthy young people opt for private car rides (driven by Uber and Lyft gig workers) to get them to their ass-fattening laptop jobs. In this rather walkable and bikable city, the reliable presence of zombie-drugged street denizens makes walking into downtown a questionable proposition, especially for the hoards of inexperienced under-30 kids who just got off the boat to shoot for the stars on the economic rocket-ship of San Francisco and nearby Silicon Valley.

    Recently, a “green” and “Certified B-corporation” “startup” business recently moved their offices, and in the process sent vast amounts of barely-used office equipment to the dump, apparently calculating it was cheaper to re-buy everything they needed instead of trucking it 2 miles down the road. Their whole business proposition is predicated on the fake reality that buying your household consumables (walnut scrubber sponge, anti-bacterial hand soap, soy candle, and related bullshit) in small amounts, shipped to your door, is not part of the same hyper-consumerist death-rattle that buying a 48-pack of Ivory Soap at Walmart is. The new business that moved in had a party at which they found it too troublesome to separate the empty beer cans and bottles from the rest of their garbage, and sent everything to the landfill. Recycling is for poor people, right? And those youngsters, who I confronted, didn’t want to consider that the shit world they were striving to survive in was being made all the shittier by their thoughtless actions. Each generation contends with the world they’re born into, and each would sacrifice it to secure their position and keep the party going.

    • malthuss April 29, 2019 at 11:05 am #

      are cities really walk able?
      what of air pollution and crime.

      dodging jump motorized bikes and scooters and old style bikes.
      and meth heads.

      I walk. I know. I hope I am not injured by the free spirits.

    • Exscotticus April 29, 2019 at 11:08 am #

      >>> Here in San Francisco…

      Hey at least you don’t have to contend with falling cranes. Also I heard your bums are better than their bums. Always consider the upside!

    • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 11:43 am #

      And that is exactly the attitude that needs elimination. Unregulated individualism is one of the most pernicious ideas to have ever come about.

      • fugeguy April 29, 2019 at 12:00 pm #

        “Unregulated individualism”

        Coffee out the nose on that one 🙂

        Code named UI henceforth.

        • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 12:08 pm #

          Sorry about that but glad you enjoyed it at the same time :-). UI is killing us. Moving past the ego to realize one is part of a greater whole is a must if we are actually to be a real community again IMHO.

          • Janos Skorenzy April 29, 2019 at 1:29 pm #

            You are my Heir Apparent. All shall bow to you or face the Consequences. In the meantime, U and I shall rule together.

          • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 5:05 pm #

            I am simply humbled. If it is your wish then it is my command.

          • Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 12:29 am #

            They (the Elohim) don’t make them like you anymore. Maybe they are on strike?

          • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 10:35 am #

            Well I am a limited deluxe edition and I took up a lot of their special ingredients when They made me ;-). They made others like me too but I think I am the most talkative one lol.

      • Exscotticus April 29, 2019 at 12:38 pm #

        >>> Unregulated individualism

        Clever!

        • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 10:35 am #

          Thanks!

      • Majella April 30, 2019 at 6:37 pm #

        Hive mind? Communism-Social Rating PRC-style?

        Doesn’t really sound like your thing really, unless, of course, you (and Janos) get to decide what the regulations are, I guess.

        • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 7:32 am #

          Yep, the adoption of ‘unregulated individualism’ as a bad thing surprised me as well. On other days they’d want to call it ‘freedom’. What is free speech if it isn’t unregulated individualism?

    • debt April 29, 2019 at 11:54 am #

      If you want to indulge in some nostalgia go watch “Dirty Harry”.
      San Francisco circa 1971. A nice place to live. The junkies in the Haight were civil and didn’t shit on the streets.

    • malthuss April 29, 2019 at 1:53 pm #

      In LA, one Black bought a million dollars of furniture for his city job.

      I cant find it on duckduck, sorry.

    • Tate April 29, 2019 at 2:22 pm #

      Recycling should be enforced by municipal codes. But it never will be. See, in a Democracy, the ‘people’ decide.

      It’s the highest form of government, democracy, LOL. That means the lowest common denominator of people are in charge. We recycled all our cans, bottles, plastic & paper up until about 8 months ago. Then, our trash company eliminated the option. Oh well, in a democracy, you take the bad with the good.

      In a better world — there is no such thing as a perfect world — the broad franchise would be narrowed down to patriarchal property owners of sound mind & good character.

    • Robert White April 30, 2019 at 12:25 pm #

      Given how well you write & articulate angst you are welcome to leave that shitpit called SF and become a Canadian. We need more smart writers in Canada. Please defect from the USA pronto.

      If you move to our nation’s capital I will buy you a beer.

      RW

    • EvelynV May 1, 2019 at 4:43 am #

      Just another one of the many fuck ups by the boomer generation. They raised shitty kids because they were such shitty parents. Don’t blame the kids.

  18. Rodster April 29, 2019 at 10:52 am #

    JHK asked, “Are we too far gone now? ”

    The answer unfortunately is yes, hell yes. As Gail Tverberg has written on many occasions, there are NO solutions to our problems. The Gov’t knows it, which is why it’s ‘pedal to the metal’ because they know the end result will be the Wile E. Coyote moment for not just the USA but for the entire World.

    Meanwhile China is building it’s Silk Road in Asia and building Ghost Cities and Factories and tearing them down just to make their GDP look good. Eventually the music is going to stop and the Titanic will sink for good. That’s just the reality where we are all at.

    • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 11:40 am #

      I have heard about these Chinese ghost cities. It’s also true in regards to North Korea no? Now how is that for a gigantic misallocation of resources!!!

  19. FincaInTheMountains April 29, 2019 at 10:54 am #

    This post, despite my personal convictions, in its first part is an attempt to assess the real state of affairs from a secular point of view.

    This is due to the fact that futurism and globalism are obviously not Christian concepts.

    The only possible Christian futurism is called “Apocalypse” and the mystical nature of Globalism is also described there. Nevertheless, both futurism and Globalism are undoubtedly the basis for decision-making by the leaders of the largest states, including Russia.

    Paradoxically, the consideration of this contradiction makes it possible to clearly identify Orthodox Christian philosophy and ethics as an invaluable resource for overcoming the global economic crisis.

    Over the past 200 years, after Malthus articulated the problem of the contradiction between the limited planetary resources and the number of humanity growing exponentially, 3 fundamentally different futurological concepts have stood the test of time:

    1. Humanity is divided into two biologically different types – “supermen” and “subhumans”. Supermen destroy subhumans as competitors for exhausted natural resources, providing the remaining few gentlemen to a high standard of living.

    2. Humanity continues to evolve and multiply, compensating for the exhausted natural resources by the achievements of scientific and technological progress.

    3. Humanity uses the remaining resources to enter the Space and gain access to the unlimited resources of the Solar System and the Galaxy. And the Earth turns into a resort for the brave explorers of the Cosmos.

    These concepts appeared especially strongly after 1945, during the Cold War. This is most likely due to the fact that at that time the concept #1, hereinafter referred to as pessimistic, lost its relevance in the first place due to its obvious connection with Nazism, and secondly because the use of nuclear weapons made those resources that was supposed to conquer, unavailable.

    After the geopolitical catastrophe of the collapse of the USSR, humanity lost an alternative to the madness of financial capitalism and the contradiction between the limited resources of the Earth and the unlimited ability to print dollars came to the fore.

    Moreover, honest attempts by the US government to limit and take control of its own printing press, in the absence of external restraining power, which was the USSR until 1990, reminds me of Baron Munchausen, who was pulling himself out of the swamp by his own hair, and were objectively doomed to failure.

    As a result, the concept of postmodern has emerged, essentially identical to the futurological concept No. 1, and in its most presentable form, formulated by Francis Fukuyama.

    Moreover, it should be noted that, apparently, the administration of Bill Clinton put an end to futurological concepts #2 and #3, hereinafter named optimistic. This conclusion follows from the fact that funding for research in the field of energy (thermonuclear) and space, which are key to these concepts, has ceased.

    The only sign of the existence of these optimistic concepts #2 and #3 in the postmodern world is the EU Hadron Collider project. Unfortunately, the postmodern crisis has affected not only morality (I consider it obvious that concept #1 is immoral), but also the scientific method as the basis of Western civilization, which manifested itself in the failure of this project.

    Western science has lost the criterion of truth and became a victim of the collapse of the concept of “reality” as a philosophical category.

    In the economic field, this was manifested in the separation of economic indicators from material production and in de-industrialization of the most developed countries. In the field of physics, the emergence of theories of the so-called gauge invariance fields, that can not be compared with experiment due to an arbitrary number of adjustable parameters and “world constants”.

    Based on this, in the next 20 years, the hadron colider will be busy searching for the Higgs boson and adjusting the “world constants” to the fact of its absence. It cannot even be ruled out that the Higgs boson and the corresponding Nobel Prizes will be discovered several times.

    Most likely with their subsequent disappearance into the black holes of the Colider’s enormous budget.

    Even in the field of mathematics, the crisis of the scientific method manifested itself in the lack of interest in the study of the correspondence of exact and numerical solutions of partial differential equations.

    This crisis of scientific thinking is associated not so much with the development of science as such, but with the Western European mentality formed by the Great Schism.

    To be continued…

    • robert magill April 29, 2019 at 11:12 am #

      The Purpose of Life …is Life, amen.

      The sole purpose of life, and therefore our only human purpose may simply be, life itself. That, upon reflection, would appear to be quite enough. The life force does have its urges though, lots of them, it would appear. After countless eons of self-replication along came sexual reproduction, life had apparently gotten to be in somewhat more of a hurry. Life then pursued bigger and better forms of itself as mobility, size, vision etc. ensued over time.

      Vision was very unique and a promising end in itself, but life appeared to desire a different platform with which to fully employ this new sense. Many prototypes came and went, and eventually on the scene appeared humankind complete with a newly acquired awareness. Did life, with this move, express desire for an ego to admire itself or, more positively, to express itself? Why else create a platform embellished with consciousness? Then, alas, something went very wrong with life’s dedicated pursuit of life? Human behavior. We know large portions of the recent history of our species and it’s not very good. Considering our known history, can we begin to significantly amend our ways if life demands a timely accounting?

      So if and when life decides we have exhausted all possibility of further usefulness, and our excesses overwhelm life’s other vital interests, do we then risk severance of the thread with life? Should not we begin to tug ever more gently at this tether to lessen our risk? Does life even care about the fate of us, its creature? Probably not, countless other species have traveled along on life’s quest, prospered to a degree and vanished. Will we join them?

      Whence came then, this thing, this awareness, this brightness in the void, so cherished by life our very species could be made forfeit to preserve it? Perhaps it was the animal curiosity of some lumbering hominid possessed of sufficient cranial matter that chanced upon a source. The menu of vegetable suspects is quite large. The plants, cacti, mushrooms and vines that possess the chemical soups that have the ability, and perhaps desire to exert themselves aggressively when combined with suitable host brain, is legion. We currently regard these substances as “mind altering” but could they perhaps have been “mind creating” at some remote point in time?

      Students of psychedelic phenomenon have reported a tendency among this family of substances to exhibit a strong urge to promote its own agenda over the host consciousness at times. Life, in this way, may have introduced the initial spark of awareness in receptive hominid brains with suitable vegetable matter containing psychedelic chemical ingredients. Imagine the wonder this revelation surely produced in a previously unconscious world. The binges and quest for more light shows that followed in the still only partially illuminated minds of these creatures must have been incredible.

      Perhaps this initial visitation of consciousness onto a receptive human brain and the incredible awakening produced therein is responsible for the ongoing human quest for enlightenment. Our species has demonstrated a universal affinity for various visions, ecstasies and raptures and they have been zealously sought for millennia. Perhaps then, a racial memory of, and longing for a return to that original staggering event gives impetus to the universal spiritual quests we humans faithfully follow to this day.

      Of course it is possible life may now be providing itself with a non-life fallback to the dilemma posed by our misuse of awareness and consciousness. If humankind becomes suspect of probable catastrophic losses to many of its other progeny, life then may seek to substitute Artificial Intelligence for flawed human intelligence. We, ourselves, may rapidly be creating the instruments for our future replacement with life’s resigned encouragement. Life may value this tediously acquired awareness beyond all measure. More the pity for humankind.

      These phenomena are unique on the planet; life, the life force and the awareness/consciousness of one primate species. What we regard as ultimate reality is simply the stories we tell ourselves and others combined with whatever actions humans are capable of accomplishing. Humanity must now learn to live with 5 Gigabit technology becoming a reality and should perhaps begin to wonder which future Gigabit number will be the one to provide the artificial intelligence and awareness deemed sufficient by the life force to render our kind redundant if it chooses to do so?

      • hmuller April 29, 2019 at 11:41 am #

        Aren’t you worried about 5G radiation giving everyone cancer?

      • Tate April 29, 2019 at 2:40 pm #

        Be careful if you’re in the market for a new home. The 5G antennas are everywhere, even buried in the street right out front of your house. Some of them vibrate at high-pitched frequencies, causing people to lose sleep. It can be as irritating as tinnitus.

      • EvelynV May 1, 2019 at 12:37 pm #

        A nice read Robert Magill

        My own belief is that consciousness pervades the entire universe or multi-verse if you want to lean that way. People often conflate mind and consciousness but they are not interchangeable words. Mind is consciousness attached to matter. Perception is creation, the overwhelming sensation of a visionary experience is not a sense or realization of a new experience but rather a profound vast remembering. We’ve deliberately stuck ourselves here with amnesia and our mission is to discover the way back again. We’ve planted clues to the simple answer but so far haven’t advanced enough to realize we are even playing a game we made up ourselves. One of the clues meant to point the way is how dogs behave towards their masters. Unconditional love.

        • hmuller May 1, 2019 at 1:04 pm #

          Evelyn,

          I hold similar beliefs. Maybe there’s a worldwide awakening going on as to our true metaphysical condition, which we’ve forgotten.

          Putting it into metaphors we understand: are we amnesiac voluntary players of a video game or prisoners of a malevolent power?

          I recently read “The Simulation Hypothesis” by Rizwan Virk. He presents evidence that the universe is pixelated in time and space (thus digitally manageable). And the results of quantum experiments could mean storage space is conserved by just putting reality where we are looking at the moment.

    • hmuller April 29, 2019 at 11:39 am #

      Fincaln,

      If the Hadron Collider creates a black hole that tears the Earth apart and sucks it in…..will it happen so fast we feel no pain? I worry about that.

      Also, I think your points 2 and 3 are really parts of the same process.

    • messianicdruid April 29, 2019 at 9:03 pm #

      “…the real state of affairs from a secular point of view.”

      An impossibility, in my ostentatious opinion.

  20. lateStarter April 29, 2019 at 10:57 am #

    If you haven’t seen it already some of you may enjoy a short story by Paolo Bacigalupi include in of all places the latest edition of the MIT Technology review: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613349/a-full-life/

    Short but sweet.

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    • K-Dog April 29, 2019 at 11:12 am #

      But then came a summer night when the electric grid went down. A hundred and ten degrees at 3 a.m. Everyone already on water restrictions. Pitch-dark in the middle of a city. Everyone out on the streets, desperate to catch a breeze.

  21. K-Dog April 29, 2019 at 11:02 am #

    Many good comments today.

    • BackRowHeckler April 29, 2019 at 11:40 am #

      Your post upstream about driverless cars was especially good, KDog.

      Brh

  22. Mountain gal April 29, 2019 at 11:04 am #

    Hmmm. What if “Make America Great Again” wasn’t just relegated to the scrap heap of inanity as it only referred to the desire to regain the manufacturing base and world dominance the US had in the 50’s and 60’s? What if we looked at that slogan as more than just pure economics but rather, to a desire to regain the stable family structure, communities, volunteerism, and “class” that we once had?

    What if we looked upon this slogan as a desire to return to a time when the nuclear family was the norm, when men were men and women were women and gender wasn’t optional or multiple choice? When black Americans were more likely to have stable families and not the current 80% or so out-of-wedlock birthrate? When you really could raise a family on one income if you wanted to do that. When people dressed appropriately for a trip to the store, church, to take the kids to school,travel etc; wearing your PJ’s to Walmart, cut-offs to church or anything with your underwear exposed wasn’t considered acceptable. When getting a college degree meant that you really were equipped for a good professional job and that you hadn’t just spent the equivalent of a mortgage to acquire it?

    So perhaps, instead of mocking the MAGA folks, what if we embraced them instead?

    • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 11:38 am #

      I agree but I am afraid that isn’t going to happen. The old fashioned morality and cultural norms are entirely associated with White Supremacy now. All of the behaviors and ideals you list out are racism. I don’t believe this. But let’s say that one half of the country believes it. The styles of behavior and dress that you see as undesirable are in fact desirable for much of the population. There was far more agreement about who and what we were in the 50’s and 60’s from everything I have read and heard. There are simply too many competing subcultures now to form a working whole. Unfortunately, I think fragmentation and separation are the future.

      • Mountain gal April 29, 2019 at 12:44 pm #

        I read an interesting article the other day about a school principal in Houston Texas who put out a notice to the parents that the school was going to have a parental dress code. Essentially, there was a level of decency that parents were expected to adhere to when they came to the school. Huge uproar and to-do from the parents plus all of the defenders who thought this was so terribly unfair and classist. The interesting thing of course was that this school was majority black and so is the principal. Yet she was being attacked for demanding that the parents provide a good example to their children and dress appropriately. The Houston Teacher’s Organization head attacked her for this too(white guy); guess they don’t want to see blacks demand that other blacks behave and dress in accordance with middle-class norms or something. So yeah, I suppose my ideas are just hopelessly white or something(although I expect that school principal would agree with me!)

        And yeah, I see pics from the 50’s and such and people definitely dressed nicer. I just think this is a big part perhaps of what the MAGA crowd is trying to regain.

        • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 10:47 am #

          Oh yes I heard about the Houston incident as well. Thank you for bringing that up actually because it is a good point. When there are people within the Black community who see that fatherlessness, lack of a proper upbringing, non-existent manners, etc., are terrible maladies that need remedying they are utterly savaged by other Blacks and White leftists. The left, and really it is the Marxist left benefits from the Black community being at odds with the rest of society. What better way to tear society apart then to mix groups together and ensure that the various groups do not assimilate to common norms. That is the Marxist playbook for creating chaos in order to fill the power vacuum with Marxism. It is also the folly of the Capitalist system to believe these groups will ever be able to assimilate to common norms when natural group tendencies are to self segregate.

    • ozone April 29, 2019 at 12:18 pm #

      Mountain gal,
      I believe that brand-name slogan has the Trip G’s fingerprints all over it… and I guess we all now know how “genuine” *that* guy is.
      Just call it “besmirched” and have done with it. (This acronym bullshit has got to stop as well; it’s purpose is only to dilute meaning and destroy understanding, and I think we’ve gone quite far enough down that road, thanks very much.)

    • Janos Skorenzy April 29, 2019 at 1:39 pm #

      The Old Guard Revolutionaries (like you) always get shouldered aside by the Young Guard as per China’s Cultural Revolution or the Bolsheviks, the Menshavics. Ditto the French Revolution. Phillip Egalitaire (a made up name), lost his head. He was helping to fund the Revolution and he just didn’t seem authentic enough, somehow. In other words, they found out he was rich and had his own Agenda, just like the rest of the Revolutionary Aristocrats.

      If you had done your homework you would have realized that this would happen. But how many young idealists really think things through?

    • EvelynV April 29, 2019 at 5:50 pm #

      I like you speculations about the intent/motive behind the “G” but you left out a few.

      I would include striving for a time when presidential adultery, fornication, and obscenity was instant disqualification for having any chance of respect from the electorate.

      Also, a time when leaders were expected not to behave towards their loyal opposition like a baboon mimicking itself in a mirror.

      And of course a time when hypocrisy wasn’t portrayed as a virtue simply because you knew your supporters were too addled to recognize it as such.

      Things like that.

      Sad indeed your other post about the Texas principal seeking to elevate social norms of self presentation. What’s truly sad also is that any squawking objector to anything either on the right or left is falsely portrayed as a person or persons wielding a megaphone speaking for more than just a tiny agitated sliver of an otherwise approving or indifferent population.

      One of the things admirable in a place like Italy, nicely dressed people who make it seem like you’ve returned to a cattle feed lot when you get back to the states again.

      • Mountain gal April 30, 2019 at 1:22 am #

        Yes indeed. Spent a fair amount of time in France, Italy etc and I could always pick out the Americans by how they dressed. Sad.

        • Nightowl April 30, 2019 at 4:25 am #

          So much nonsense and arrogance rolled up in one post.

          Your list of disqualifiying criteria would have served to disqualify every US president in history.

          Here in Europe I see just as many members of the bovine masses walking around in track suits and sweat pants. The only difference is that Europeans buy clothes that fit.

          • Mountain gal May 1, 2019 at 11:30 pm #

            You’e rather rude. Would you speak to me this way if we were sitting together at the table?

          • Nightowl May 2, 2019 at 10:49 am #

            Only when called for. The post was intended for Evelyn. The software used here makes it rather difficult to respond directly as part of a thread.

            My apologies for the mix-up.

      • benr May 2, 2019 at 12:03 pm #

        Hmm Lyndon Johnson was by all accounts rude, crass and couldn’t keep it in his pants.
        He was by all accounts fond of whipping out his Johnson and showing people as well as making people talk to him while he took a dump with the door open.
        He was a racist and a bigot the essence of what you describe and best of all a DEMOCRAT!
        Once again you prove to have zero grasp of history or reality.
        We could look at John F. Kennedy and his affair with Miss Monroe with his brother probably at the same time!
        Wanna talk about Truman he had plenty of scandals and left office with a 22% rating.
        The list is endless since we are dealing with human beings imagine if they had the internet back then!

    • messianicdruid April 29, 2019 at 9:06 pm #

      “What if we looked at that slogan as more than just pure economics but rather, to a desire to regain the stable family structure, communities, volunteerism, and “class” that we once had?”

      This would be “Make America Free Again”.

    • Linda April 30, 2019 at 12:48 am #

      When I was growing up in my small city in Oregon, what you listed, Mountain Gal, was a given. One knew how to dress for school, for church, for special occasions, for play. No one ever wore their pajamas out in public. People didn’t name call constantly. We were a polite society. JFK said it very well: “So let us begin anew–remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

      Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.”

      From his inauguration address.

      Males who attended college were called college men and were respected. Women who attended were role models for those of us watching.

      I grew up in a time when we had a common culture. When we started each day at school with the Pledge of Allegiance and then sang a patriotic song. We revered Kate Smith for singing “God Bless America” and we agreed with the sentiment in the song. We were a mostly united nation. But this, of course, was right after WWII.

      Now so much diversity is our undoing. We have few common or shared values, and we have very little civil discourse. Free speech is threatened especially on campus and college attendees demand safe spaces.

      Hat tip to SSL and her “unregulated individualism” which I also fear is tearing our nation apart.

      I voted for Trump because underneath his bloviating exterior he seemed to reflect a lot of my values. Love of country. Love of the Constitution and respect for it. It has certainly been a long journey from my youth and our shared and common values to our present day predicament.

      • Mountain gal April 30, 2019 at 1:27 am #

        Yes. Sadly, I mostly missed much of that but am old enough to notice a difference. And we did recite the Pledge of Allegiance in school which I suspect now might not be looked upon favorably now? Had college students of mine come to class in jammies……. We dressed like slobs in college by the time I got there but even we didn’t wear our PJ’s!

      • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 10:55 am #

        Thank you Linda! In addition to having little in the way of common values anymore we also now have a situation where we no longer share a common language. And many newcomers have made it clear they have no intention of assimilating “American” values. They will be recreating our country for their purposes and needs. So ultimately our country has become a buffet for foreigners.

        One day soon (actually maybe it has already happened?) the Constitution itself is going to be condemned for being a White Supremacist document. Just wait for it.

  23. fred April 29, 2019 at 11:10 am #

    Great essay, Jim.

    This part pretty much sums up the whole problem;

    “There is no coherent consensus about what is happening and no coherent proposals to do anything about it. Bad ideas flourish in this nutrient medium of unresolved crisis.”

    I’m afraid we’re in a trap from which escape is impossible.

  24. notbob April 29, 2019 at 11:10 am #

    Thought the Tom Petty reference was going to be the song; Running Down a Dream. But, the one chosen was even more germane.

    • It was fun guessing though. I was leaning toward “Even the Losers”

    • fugeguy April 29, 2019 at 12:09 pm #

      “Don’t come around here no more”

      Lyrics
      Don’t come around here no more
      Don’t come around here no more
      Whatever you’re looking for
      (Hey)
      Don’t come around here no more
      I’ve given up
      (Stop!)
      I’ve given up
      (Stop! Ahh, ahh, ahh, ooh, ooh)
      I’ve given up
      (Stop!)
      On waiting any longer
      I’ve given up
      On this love getting stronger
      I don’t feel you anymore
      You darken my door
      Whatever you’re lookin’ for
      (Hey)
      Don’t come around here no more
      I’ve given up
      (Stop! Waah-hoo-ooh)
      I’ve given up
      (Stop! Ahh, ahh, ahh, ooh, ooh)
      I’ve given up
      (Stop!)
      You tangled my emotions
      I’ve given up
      Honey please, admit it’s over
      Lady
      (Don’t come around here no more)
      Stop walking down my street
      (Don’t come around here no more)
      Who do you expect to meet?
      (Don’t come around here no more)
      And whatever you’re lookin’ for
      (Hey)
      Don’t come around here no more
      (Hey)
      Honey please
      (Honey please)
      Don’t come around here no more
      Whatever you’re lookin’ for
      Ah, oh, ah, ah
      (Aahh, ahh, ahh, ohh)
      Don’t come around here no more
      Oh, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
      Songwriters: TOM PETTY / DAVID ALLAN STEWART

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0JvF9vpqx8

      The alice in wonderland theme of the video fits the current US mentality well.

      • Janos Skorenzy April 29, 2019 at 1:42 pm #

        If you don’t live here, don’t surf here. And if you don’t surf here, don’t live here. Stasis. Peace profound. Prosperity. Whites on the beach at the end of creation as it begins again.

    • S M Tenneshaw April 29, 2019 at 1:19 pm #

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4vJM4L2D2U

      Well, she was standing by the highway
      In her boots and silver spurs
      Gonna hitchhike to the yellow moon
      When a Cadillac stopped for her
      And she said, “Hey, nice to meet you, are you goin’ my way?”
      Yeah, that’s when it happened
      The world caught fire that day

      And she went down swingin’
      Yeah, she went down swingin’

      Well, she was over twenty-one
      In trouble with the law
      And it didn’t faze her none
      She called her mother-in-law
      And said I need a little money
      I knew I could count on you
      After that night in Vegas
      And the hell that we went through

      We went down swingin’
      Like Benny Goodman
      Yeah, we went down swingin’

      Moonlight on the interstate
      She was ‘cross the Georgia line
      Looked out the window feeling great
      Yeah, it had to come in time
      And she said I’m never goin’ back
      She said at last I’m free
      I wish ma could see me now, she’d be so proud of me

      She went down swingin’
      Like Glenn Miller
      Yeah, she went down swingin’
      Like Tommy Dorsey
      Yeah, she went down swingin’
      Like Sammy Davis
      She went down swingin’
      Like Sonny Liston

  25. PeteAtomic April 29, 2019 at 11:12 am #

    “Tom Petty was right: the waiting is the hardest part, and a hard way to learn that a virtual life is not an adequate substitute for an authentic one.”

    yeah, that’s why I try to work on something productive outside right now, and listen to robin redbreast as he comes back after the winter.

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  26. Walter B April 29, 2019 at 11:16 am #

    You make an interesting point once again Jim. For just as you have stated, the way out of the debacle of 2008 was for those with the power to control the herd to go into full blown damage and then mind control over the masses to convince them all that everything was just fine and was only going to get better. No bad guys were removed from the corrupt systems. In fact they were rewarded and the few who paid fines, (or shared the take with the government), were forgiven and promoted. Buy, buy, buy, fed by borrow, borrow, borrow have exacerbated the problem which once gain appears to be on the hairy edge.

    Almost every one of the sheep I know are all expressing fears and anxieties over something they can sense but that none can put their fingers on (not that fingering it would help). The sheep dog that I know, and am one of them, understand that TS is close to hitting TF, and that a low or no debt profile is the best posture to maintain to even have a chance of getting through the Big One. The shepherds, well there are a few and I include you among them that are seeking higher ground on which to drive the flock, but far too many of those that are supposed to care for the flock are wearing their best hip boots and are using the sheep for unholy entertainment. When it all goes South, they will feed upon the flock you can be sure.

    In the meanwhile let us do what we can to enlighten and protect the few that will hear and wait as patiently as we can for the inevitable. Coming to an economy near you soon, and yes, waiting IS the hardest part.

    • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 11:29 am #

      I know it sounds terrible but many times I think to myself, “Just get it over with already!” I feel bad though because it means that there will be a great deal of suffering but it almost feels like this slow walk to the cliff edge is just as destructive. It just comes in increments. But it is also difficult to be as productive as possible knowing that disaster awaits and is lurking right around the corner.

    • Farmer Joe April 29, 2019 at 11:57 am #

      I am becoming cynical about the whole enlightening and protecting part. For example, the other day I was waiting in line at the store and the woman behind me was talking about a problem she was having with her garden. A little background: I have been gardening since I was a kid. I studied horticulture in college. I have relied on a garden for food every year for the last ten years. I know how to garden. So when I turned around and told her I could help her with her problem I should have known to keep my mouth shut. What I got back was an obvious “I don’t want to hear you” coming out of her mouth in a stream of incoherent babble. I sighed, explained, “Lady, I have been where you are and I am really just trying to help you.” She stopped, and seemed to be listening, and so I explained how to solve her problem. When I was done I stopped and looked her in the eye to see that she understood. She looked me right back in the eye and said one word, “No.” I look at her in bewilderment, I then look at the man she is with who is looking at me like I’m an idiot. That’s when I turned around and shut up

      I think if people want protecting they do it themselves. I also think that something freely given has no value, even if it is golden. My advice is don’t be in a rush to rescue anyone. I know that’s not nice or what people want to hear, but my experience is that most people, once they find themselves in a rut, don’t get themselves out of it. No, they furnish the thing and call it home.

      • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 12:16 pm #

        I hope you don’t become a cynic. People will benefit from the knowledge you have. A lot of people are weird now because they don’t even have common manners or know how to interact pleasantly with strangers. Think about how that will all change once people realize they need one another to survive. We don’t have problems like that quite yet so people take other people for granted as they do most things. People will change with the times or they just want make it. And those with knowledge and skills will get the upper hand. So be happy :-).

      • Walter B April 29, 2019 at 12:27 pm #

        Absolutely right Farmer Joe, and I do not reach out any hand to those that clearly do not want to see one extended in their direction. Natural selection must be allowed to take place you know if we are to have any hope to go on. The most common response I see to anything anymore is the same “NO” that you mentioned. By taking the “no” approach, those who refuse to acknowledge solutions or courses of action that might lead to solution are clearly stating that “there is nothing that they want to do themselves”. Far too many are inclined to inaction, to doing nothing and hoping that someone else will do the hard work for them so that they can do as little as possible. That is what those people do best, nothing.

        In the end, doing as little as possible will solve at least their problems for them, I assure you. In the meanwhile if and when you find at least a slightly receptive listener or two, it fulfills our responsibility to at least give it the old college try. That’s the “Old” college try, NOT the new one.

        • Robert White April 29, 2019 at 3:42 pm #

          The Gipper sure gave it the ‘the old college try’ when he launched the asset inflation era & Trickledown Economics, eh.
          Notice how well that worked out for the millennial cohort of shiftless lazy bums that never knew what it meant to give something ‘the old college try’ too, eh.

          During the Nixon era my father often said the hippies should be lined up against a wall & shot whenever their shiftless lazy images appeared on the boob tube. He started to reform around the time Archie Bunker because a household name.

          I very much appreciate how the older generations had to walk uphill for ten or twenty miles into blizzards of snow in -50F temperatures with holes in their shoes and Cornflakes cardboard box liners but what does that have to do with the victims of your generation that lined their pocketbooks with the futures of the millennial generation so that they were eliminated from the workforce entirely as intended by the planners of your incompetent generation?

          I think ‘the old college try’ rhetoric is more about ego dystonia occurring in the minds of generations lost to old memories & bygone eras that offered them hope towards a future. The millennials you disparage are merely a product of their generation as all are including you.

          Smoke some marijuana, Walter. Buy some hash & a bong, buddy.

          RW

          • Walter B April 29, 2019 at 10:29 pm #

            I was only joking with the “got any extra” comment Jim, sorry.

          • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 4:29 pm #

            Jim…

            Jim…

            Jim, I said I was only joking,

            please tell me I’m forgiven Jim…

            Oh Jim, I’m so so sorry…!

          • Walter B April 30, 2019 at 4:47 pm #

            I love you too Evee.

      • Skylark April 29, 2019 at 1:17 pm #

        I agree Farmer Joe, most people don’t value things they get for free, they just don’t/can’t realize what is going on, and they abuse it.

        I learned the hard way about human nature working on people’s cars- if you fix a problem that you know will later on cause them to break down on the road, they resent having to spend the money. Let them break down on the road, and then go help them (which costs more than preventing the problem in the first place), and you’re a hero…

        • Janos Skorenzy April 29, 2019 at 2:03 pm #

          They have a right to be asked though before you just fix it and charge them, right? Right?

      • Janos Skorenzy April 29, 2019 at 2:01 pm #

        Yes, we need a subservient peasantry again. People must know their place and recognize their betters. I’m putting in baldly here and thus unpleasantly – but it remains true nonetheless. By one theory, the Elite got too much of this attitude and washed their hands of us long ago. Noblesse Oblige cannot work if the lower classes have a niggerish attitude. And since it cannot work, they will not bother to try.

        I don’t say this is the whole truth of course. The Elite have turned to Evil in any case.

        • Farmer Joe April 29, 2019 at 2:30 pm #

          “we need a subservient peasantry”

          Isn’t that what we already have in the USA, by and large? Or maybe you consider the Resistance to actually be something other than a media inspired ploy by the democrats to do everything in their power to undermine the president. It seems to me the only time Americans “rise up” is in service of their masters. Or maybe you’d argue that occupying wall street did something other than foreshadow the coming of Tent City, USA. How are we not a subservient peasantry?

          • Farmer McGregor April 29, 2019 at 4:23 pm #

            I have to wonder if the ‘subservient peasantry’ he is suggesting contains an element of realistic humility that is largely absent from the great bulk of the sheeple in this society.

            The peasants of past eras knew their ‘place’ and had to submit themselves to it in order to survive. In our day, the complete institutionalization of the processes that provide our necessities allows us — that is, the bulk of our society — to carry on in a state of arrogant delusion without the threat of perishing from it. Until that system which eliminates the need for personal inter-dependence finally collapses, leaving ‘us’ on our own to survive by providing our own necessities, ‘we’ can continue on in our belligerent self-aggrandizing fantasy.

            A subservient peasant is, perhaps, a person whose survival is dependent on honesty, hard work, humility, and civility; since you are inter-dependent with others, getting along well with others is another survival necessity.

            Interestingly, these traits were once known as “virtues”.

          • Janos Skorenzy April 29, 2019 at 6:48 pm #

            Yes, surrendered to Natural Law and their human superiors who embody it. In return, such an Elite would give them protection and guidance. But as of now, obviously the social contract is in tatters and all interest, care, and compassion go to minorities instead of poor White Americans.

            And yeah, there’s no reason to surrender to Elites like this. The opposite is called for.

        • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 4:58 pm #

          That is true. See! Sometimes attitude is all that matters. You can definitely get very far with a simple smile and sweet disposition. Alot of people are going to need to learn their place very quickly. Another problem with our allegedly egalitarian society is that we are not all equal but we have been trained to feel that we are equal. And then some people have just not been raised with the right manners. So therefore many difficult attitudes prevail.

          • messianicdruid April 29, 2019 at 9:16 pm #

            We were considered equal “before the law”. Not any more.

        • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 4:33 pm #

          Hey! If yer lookin’ for subservient check out Walter’s petulanty winsome posts to “Jim”.

      • EvelynV May 1, 2019 at 4:32 am #

        Farmer Joe

        Your tale of the spurned good Samaritan suggests to me you probably reek of corn likker and have the appearance of someone who has escaped from a detention facility for the criminally insane.

        No doubt the woman had good reason to think that if she wanted to keep on living she’d best no be providing any encouragement for you to continue glowering at her. Were you able to keep your eyes from looking at her breasts or straying down to where you know the jelly donut was hidden?

        • Farmer Joe May 2, 2019 at 9:36 am #

          Wow, that’s a hell of an assumption. 1. I hardly ever drink. 2. She was easily 20 years older than me, and not attractive.

          Now, Evelyn, you can go fuck yourself, you crazy old bat.

          • Farmer Joe May 2, 2019 at 10:35 am #

            Ev, based on your other comments here I would guess that you reacted this way to my story because you can relate to the woman. Have you ever heard the saying, “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink”? I have seen you on numerous occasions make arguments that sounds like they were fed to you by Rachel Maddow. Others have pointed you in the direction of facts and you have refused. Just like this woman. So while I would never think to lower to your ranks a prize winning thoroughbred, I would definitely say that you are nothing but a stubborn, angry, and therefore untrustworthy old mare.

    • ozone April 29, 2019 at 12:28 pm #

      Thanks for that comment, Walter.
      Personally, I’ll aid those it is within my meager power to aid and leave the deluded to their own devices. As one of Clint Eastwood’s movie characters was known to pithily opine: “A man’s got to know his limitations.” I certainly agree and attempt to keep them firmly in mind.

      (Yes, the scent of The Shit is getting stronger as it gets nearer The Fan. It’s my belief that the malefactors appearing from behind their curtains to support the status quo narrative is a prime factor in the increasing anxiety-producing stench.)

      • EvelynV April 29, 2019 at 6:05 pm #

        Ozone that is cliche ridden drivel.

        Please try harder, you written some readable stuff now and then 🙂

        • ozone April 29, 2019 at 7:30 pm #

          Evelyn,
          Although I’m certain your critique is well-intentioned, I don’t really give enough of a shit to try harder at anything that doesn’t tend to give me “return on investment”. …And I’m not referring to filthy lucre.
          Thanks for the encouragement, but I’ve turned to a simple pragmatism that doesn’t allow for much people pleasing or the meeting of previous expectations.
          Have fun!

          • Farmer Joe April 30, 2019 at 9:06 am #

            *clap clap clap*

    • EvelynV April 29, 2019 at 6:01 pm #

      Walter B, I hope you don’t take this wrong, I mean it in a nice way.

      Having read many of your posts reaching out with heartfelt man-love for “Jim” and how his writing stirs you, I’ve sort of come to a conclusion…

      …you sound like a bit of an ass-kisser.

      * * *

      To show my nice intention I’ve included a few ways you could have sweetened up this post I’m responding to.

      “… and Jim, and I include you, yes you Jim, among them that are seeking higher ground on which to drive the flock…”

      “…In the meanwhile, Jim, let us do what we, yes you and me Jim, can to enlighten…”

      • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 11:33 am #

        Maybe we should all run our posts by you first, Evelyn. LOL I can see why you chose to become a far left-wingers; you’re all control freaks.

        • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 4:39 pm #

          You just aren’t a very astute guy are you hmuller? There is enough room for the wing of a B-52 bomber between me and the far left wing.

          • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 5:09 pm #

            OK, You tell us what kind of control freak you are.

          • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 5:52 pm #

            Well, first of all I want to note that is so often with the folks on your side of the bell curve, you either unwittingly or wittingly rely on framing or trying to frame the topic.

            For example a typical right wing christian hypocrite who expresses admiration for the golden cockatoo will answer a question about the fornicating factor while his wife was giving birth to another at least half potential disastrous cockatoo by trying to frame the question to include bubba’s marital infidelities.

            Now that I re-read all that I see it is a mistake. The issue I’m trying to get at isn’t framing. It’s more along the lines of begging the question. Assuming from the start that a premise is true. I’m not a control freak.

            However I do have a strong need to interfere with people trying to assert false information.

            In my personal life it often gets me into social difficulties. I would be better off keeping my mouth shut.

          • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 11:20 pm #

            Oh Evelyn, you know I just love busting your balls (figuratively) because you’re a woman of such strong and misdirected convictions. No animosity.

  27. venuspluto67 April 29, 2019 at 11:23 am #

    Funny you should mention an old eighties song. I often catch myself wishing it could be the eighties again on account of the laundry-list of anxieties you mentioned in this post, even though I know full well that’s when so many of the problems we’re experiencing now really began. 🙂

  28. SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 11:23 am #

    Short and sweet and completely to the point. A mass of delusions cloud the netscape and real consensus and community have been shattered. The sense that there is no consensus on how to move forward or even what path to go down has also fed into the urgency of creating consensus, through coercion if necessary in the estimation of some. Perhaps there is nothing that can fully bring our culture back together as one? And perhaps that was intended and not just an unintended consequence of “modernity”. Add to that the fact that cultural patchworks never really work for long. Case in point, Rome. I guess the jury is still out and we will all find out one way or another. It is certain that there won’t be much productive dialogue about this issue from the political classes.

    • venuspluto67 April 29, 2019 at 11:53 am #

      If by “there won’t be much”, you mean “less than zero”, then yes.

      • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 12:03 pm #

        Ok well then less than zero. Perhaps I still had a speck of hope in me ;-).

    • EvelynV April 29, 2019 at 6:14 pm #

      SSL

      I’ve changed my thoughts about you some over time.

      In a place like this heads are what draw me first. Most of the time the hearts are right along there with the heads (Green Alba, K-Dog et al) so no conflicts.

      Your heart is mostly in the right place, but your head not so much. I blame it for having to use the qualifier “mostly”.

  29. wm5135 April 29, 2019 at 11:24 am #

    With Pompeo in the wheelhouse and Abrams and Bolton navigating the waiting, while the hardest part, may not be indefinite.

    How many here can identify the flight of an F-35 from the sound profile? Keep your ears tuned. Targeting a carrier is a kidney punch, The S-AA systems relieving the sky of a few aircraft is a more likely slap in the face. I wonder how many volunteers are lined up to fly sorties into Venezuela from Brazil? Windows 10 is not the only thing to have received a Spring Update.

    Hey Dog – Braced for Impact?

    best text from the tubes last couple of weeks – Rachel Madcow

    • Farmer Joe April 29, 2019 at 11:39 am #

      “Rachel Madcow”

      Is she still on tv? I don’t know why anyone would lend her credibility.

      • hmuller April 29, 2019 at 11:44 am #

        I just want to shave her head and send her to Parris Island.

        • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 4:42 pm #

          Farmer Joe,

          It is kind of odd. She has more than she needs already. And there are so many on faux news that could use it by the bucket load.

        • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 4:45 pm #

          Just come out and say it, you lust to run your hands over her smooth skin and go someplace you can show her your masculinity.

          Your fantasies tend to make other want to gag.

          • hmuller May 1, 2019 at 11:39 am #

            Were you talking to Farmer Joe or me? Because you have pierced my dirty little secret – I want to teach Rachel Maddow how to be a real woman again.

          • Farmer Joe May 2, 2019 at 9:39 am #

            I think you’ve gone off the deep end, Evelyn.

      • venuspluto67 April 29, 2019 at 11:54 am #

        Probably for the very same reasons some people still find Alex Jones at all credible.

        • benr April 29, 2019 at 2:45 pm #

          I always find it funny hos worst critics have never listened to him.
          Alex is entertaining.

          • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 4:50 pm #

            Benr,

            What does “always” mean? Are you saying you are in a constant state of reflection on something that – how could you possibly be so definitive about? “Never” implies a degree of absolute knowledge I could only marvel at if you can provide any proof it is true.

          • benr May 2, 2019 at 12:14 pm #

            @evilyn
            Come on admit it you HAVE never listened to the man except as a carefully massaged sound bite.
            Go and have a listen it will get you angry I promise but you will also hear some truths that you WILL not hear anywhere else.

          • EvelynV May 2, 2019 at 9:06 pm #

            Jezusss benr, don’t get yourself into a lather.

            I’ve never listened, probably never will. I’ve seen in writing enough to know he’s a fruitcake. I’ve heard enough to know hitching your wagon to his star would be enough to make you an eligible candidate to have your brain sucked out and used for fertilizer in a more just world.

    • K-Dog April 29, 2019 at 12:53 pm #

      Yes wm5135. Tom wrote something new. You spotted the rhyme. More though went into it than just ‘repackaging it’ though.

      http://www.dailyimpact.net/2019/04/28/anti-predictions-you-can-rely-on/

      Perhaps I should have given Tom credit but I am an expert in these areas and I really have though to these things myself. As you can see in my response to malthuss. I have:

      New Information

      It is all a remix.

  30. Beryl of Oyl April 29, 2019 at 11:26 am #

    Speaking of a virtual world, I’ve recently been reminded of an old Peter Sellers movie, Being There.
    We have our own Chauncey Gardiner of sorts right now, as the New Face of the Democrats is a simpleminded but visually appealing girl.

    It is not a true parallel, as the girl isn’t making her own remarks which are being mistaken for wisdom. She has been scripted, much like the ‘reality” TV genre that appeals so much to younger Americans.
    On the occasions when she speaks her on mind, she makes really foolish and nonsensical remarks. That being, because she is a fool.

    Don’t take my word for it, the evidence is there, from her own mouth.She has admitted as much, without being aware of what she was saying.

    The old faces of the Democrats, the Chucks, The Nancys, the Diannes, were becoming so hideous, that they were beginning to remind one of a picture Dorian Gray in reverse, to bring another novel turned film into it.

    Another problem with the old faces, they have records to run on, and although you won’t hear it in the media, people do notice that the accomplishments for the people they allegedly represent are conspicuously nonexistent.

    Cher has pointed out the lack of wisdom of importing more needy people into areas that are already collapsing under the weight of the needs of the current residents.
    Cher is not exactly a rocket scientist, but if she can recognize this, surely San Fran Nan can.
    Yet Nancy persists in her love for these people, over her legitimate responsibilities to the people who pay her salary.
    I sais pay her salary, you notice I did not say “made her wealthy”.
    That’s another story, one that ties into the major racket we know as The Border.
    Chuck and Dianne also have a little problem with spies, as in they employed them.
    Whatever the New Face does or doesn’t do, she doesn’t bear any responsibility for any of the spies; she just got here.

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    • malthuss April 29, 2019 at 12:46 pm #

      Chauncey Gardiner –Peter Sellers.
      so 1980s.

    • hmuller April 29, 2019 at 6:58 pm #

      I’m still trying to figure out how a cocktail waitress with nice tits and a 90 IQ (I’m being generous) can be the Democrats’ Wunderkind. Where is the talent, the intelligence, the vision?

      • messianicdruid April 29, 2019 at 9:24 pm #

        “…women and children shall rule over them.”

        • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 1:54 am #

          Good catch, Messianicdruid. I hadn’t thought about Isaiah Chapter 3 verses 11-12

          11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.
          12 Youths oppress my people, women rule over them. My people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path.

      • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 12:52 am #

        identity politics, Identity politician.

        she is

        non White
        young
        cute [at least no visible tattoos]
        leftist
        soros backed

        what more is needed to know?

        • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 11:03 am #

          She is an agent of change that can be utilized so I judge her from that standpoint now. But let’s do all be honest and realize that she was chosen via a casting call.

          • Majella May 1, 2019 at 6:22 pm #

            What utter crap.

            You, and many of the other nut-jobs righties in here, suffer from a serious case of cognitive dissonance, underlying your delusions that:

            1) The ‘liberals’ are out to destroy Western Civilisation,
            2) ‘Socialism’ will destroy the US,
            3) Healthcare, as currently delivered by the corrupt insurance cabal, is ‘freedom’.
            4) Trump actually gives a shit about ANYTHING but Trump
            5) The Deep State (whatever that actually IS, if it exists at all) corruptly harrassed Trump with the SP Enquiry and
            6) Trump & some obscure Fed Prosecutor, holed up in the middle of Flyoverstan, are about to turn the tables on these evil nasty liberal left-wing conspirators and deliver MAGA to the keening masses
            7) Trump is in cahoots with an internet meme called ‘Q’ (hahahahaaaa!)
            and to cap it all off
            8) George Soros runs everything

            Laughable, and deluded. You’re all really entertaining!

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 12:50 am #

            What a bizarre post Majella. It’s as if you had a prepared list of grievances that you were eager to toss at me at the earliest opportunity. None of them relate to my contention regarding AOC. Sorry but you’ll have to try again haha!

      • Majella May 1, 2019 at 6:10 pm #

        Cheap shot, hmuller – “90 IQ (I’m being generous)”

        She’d run rings around you, fella. Here she is exposing the corruption of the US Congress. Yes, we all KNOW that it is corrupt, but she’s digging out the specifics and it’s frightening:

        https://youtu.be/lFhgXP2lze4

        But I guess you won’t bother to watch it. You’re way clever and already know all the answers, and can simply dismiss a smart. motivated young woman because…(insert reason here).

        • hmuller May 2, 2019 at 11:10 am #

          I want to drain the swamp, too. But I don’t think Pelosi, Schumer and the other dinosaurs of both parties share that aspiration. And we’ll see what AOC and her merry band of milleniums can do on their own.

          By the way, Majella, is it too much to expect a Congress woman,(a smart motivated young woman) to know the three branches of government? LOL

    • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 4:55 pm #

      “Don’t take my word for it…”

      Bery of Oly, not something to concern yourself about. I’m guessing no one ever has and unless you improve your communication skills, no one ever will.

  31. JustSaying April 29, 2019 at 11:32 am #

    Great post today!

    …A species of wishful thinking that resembles a primitive cargo cult grips the technocratic class, awaiting magical rescue remedies to extend the regime of Happy Motoring, consumerism, and suburbia that make up the crumbling armature of “normal” life in the USA. The political Right seeks to Make America Great Again, as though we might return to a 1962 heyday of industrial mass production by wishing hard enough. The Left seeks the equivalent of an extended childhood for all, lived out in a universal safe space, where all goods and services come magically free from a kindly parent-like government, and the sunny days are spent training unicorns to find rainbows…

    Everybody I know seems so unhinged and in dire need of anti-depressants.

    • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 11:59 am #

      Are you the lone sane one? Be careful :-)! You just might get drafted to be a leader.

    • venuspluto67 April 29, 2019 at 12:09 pm #

      I try not to get caught up in the madness, but I’ve been having terrible problems sleeping properly the past few years because I really do believe that I’m absorbing all this anomie into my subconscious through psychic osmosis. Part of me wants the next big {kaboom} to happen because then maybe I’ll be able to sleep better. (But then again, it could be a literal {kaboom}, as in bright flashes of light and mushroom clouds!)

      • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 12:13 pm #

        I have trouble sleeping too. I always have a lot on my mind, including worrying about the bigger world in addition to my smaller world, as well as thinking of all the things I could get done if I wasn’t laying in bed thinking lol. The quandaries of modern life!!!

      • JustSaying April 29, 2019 at 1:06 pm #

        I am having problems sleeping as well. We are all caught in the Matrix I suppose. But according to some, it IS just a computer simulation!

        • EvelynV April 29, 2019 at 6:38 pm #

          “But according to some, it IS just a computer simulation?”

          Not a very meaningful statement. After the words “according to some…”, there is nothing you could insert that wouldn’t be true. e.g. the earth is flat, the world was created 6000 years ago, lizards are controlling mankind and the word, fat men in red suits squeeze down chimneys loaded with packages not made in China,

          Anyway I’m not mocking you, I’m just being arrogant mistakenly and narcissistically thinking somebody might be amused, amused by what you ask

          So, getting back to my point,

          Instead you could have written

          “But according to some writers about physics (and the true nature of reality), it IS considered by credible physicist to possibly be just a computer simulation?”

          If you take that a certain way, I’m thinking, our brains are the computer. Each computer taking what it chooses from the aether we all share together, to put together the private picture show we are all watching. Inside every one of those picture shows anxiety builds in the watchers. Most don’t know its even happening. Which makes harder to know how to quell the anxieties. Others who don’t know nevertheless gravitate in a direction that quells anxiety. In its place they feel a much higher measure of Love. It’s directly proportional. Love goes up Fear goes down. Ironclad rule that can’t be changed.

          • JustSaying April 29, 2019 at 8:14 pm #

            You obviously have more time on your hands than I do.

          • Nightowl April 30, 2019 at 1:39 pm #

            Sounds like Brooklyn hipster describing her latest work of modern art — where the art is the result of some cooked spaghetti doused in paint and dragged across a canvas.

            Word salad.

      • S M Tenneshaw April 29, 2019 at 1:54 pm #

        I’m a lucky one. Back in ’71 an industrial accident injured my back and caused residual nerve damage in my right leg, resulting in tingling and sleeplessness. Eventually I connected with a doctor who prescribed amitriptyline.

        Amitriptyline suppressed the pain. It also caused drowsiness. So I kept cutting the dose until I could stay awake most of the day. At such a trace (2 1/2 mg) dose it also serves as a sleeping pill – one with very mild side effects.

        Most of the internet info on this drug refers to it as an antidepressant, but I have seen assertions that it is also prescribed as a sleep aid. Something to try if you’re so inclined.

        • Ol' Scratch April 29, 2019 at 4:31 pm #

          Maybe that’s it! I’m doing 10 or 20 mg (can’t remember which without looking at the bottle) of that stuff and I can barely stay awake at work all day. I initially tried it for phantom arthritic hip pain, as I heard it was useful for that, but turned out the pain was real and not amenable to a pill. The hip is now due for a ball joint replacement as soon as I can work it in the schedule. Won’t THAT be fun!

          Can’t sleep either now, largely due to the damn CPAP mask leaking all night, so I’m thinking of going cold turkey on both now for a while to see how that shakes out. The damn sleep doctor has evidently extracted all the revenue from me that he deems worth collecting, so the mask replacements have gradually become intermittent to non-existent of late. Took a full year to get used to wearing the damn thing, but I’ll bet I can get unused to it in just a night or two. Getting old is just one damn humiliation after another!

          • JustSaying April 29, 2019 at 8:18 pm #

            The Italians say: La vechhiaia e brutta – old age is ugly.

          • Robert White April 30, 2019 at 12:09 am #

            The last line you wrote is very apt. “Getting old is just one damn humiliation after another’ is even better than that line of Bette Davis…’getting old isn’t for sissies’. If you have an inflammatory response to tissue injury the best medicine would be an anti-inflammatory med. Pain is described subjectively and treated objectively by limiting receptivity of pain receptors in the brain. If you have been prescribed medication by an MD it would not be rational to not take the prescribed advice and switch unilaterally to another type of medication without first consulting with your MD.

            Stay away from any caffeinated drinks if you are having trouble sleeping.

            Hope you get well soon.

            RW

      • debt April 29, 2019 at 2:17 pm #

        I sleep very well, thank you. It helps to have a spiritual practice or connection of some kind. And it can be healthy to take a media fast for a few days if not more. Get out in the wilderness for a few days or a week. Life in the American West…

      • benr April 29, 2019 at 2:46 pm #

        Its either old age or a guilty conscious you decide which.

      • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 5:06 pm #

        venuspluto

        likely a widespread and common phenomenon. Everyone of us weirdlings who spent so much time on doomer-ish websites and even more so the ones who direct their mental energies into keeping the dialogue going probably have an inner wish to be vindicated for what clearly is regarded disdainfully by a large segment of the population as odd-ball fascination.

        Probably it shares something in common with young testosterone throbbing males who yearn to become a warrior on a battlefield.

        Total unfamiliarity due to lack of experience with the unalterable fact that war is utter hell.

        The big kaboom to worry about most is the blood vessel that keeps your brain alive.

    • Greg April 29, 2019 at 12:46 pm #

      I think this phase of financial capitalism is to keep the exponential growth going: only it’s the exponential growth of claims upon stagnant or diminishing stores of wealth, whether supplied by human effort (e.g.,buildings) or the biosphere (e.g., topsoil production.) The 2020’s are shaping up to be the Decade of Doom.

      • hmuller April 29, 2019 at 7:42 pm #

        In a few words, you nailed it, Greg.

        Others can explain it better than I do, but here’s how I see our situation:

        Our money is not wealth. It is a claim upon wealth,and it is born as someone’s debt obligation. Student loans, home mortgages, credit card debt – they all represent getting something real now in return for a promised share of our future income stream.

        It takes ever growing amounts of debt to keep the beast fed.
        If we as a society ever tried to live within our means, we’d have to cut back spending and live more austere lives. This would set off the cascading bankruptcies of businesses not equipped to survive economic shrinkage (being highly in debt themselves). Businesses close, job layoffs follow.

        People who have no jobs can’t pay today’s rent, much less their accumulated debt. Most forms of debt become unpayable and the economy collapses like dominoes – sucked into a black hole. Printing quadrillions of dollars only ensures a different kind of collapse – one where the currency becomes worthless..

  32. Beryl of Oyl April 29, 2019 at 11:37 am #

    Climate Change or Global Warming was/is a major con job.
    How many times do you have to see the lies and frauds the government is willing to perpetrate on the people (us), before you get that they would do this too?

    A consensus, a percentage, of scientists say it is so?
    Do we do science by vote, now?
    Who are these people? How do we know what percentage agrees, if we don’t know who or how many they are?

    If you look, you will see that the New Face of that movement is too young to realize that the goalposts have been moved numerous times already, that the “twelve years” we have been given to save the planet from extinction is merely the latest extension.

    Sixty Minutes, that bastion of credibility, recently did a segment with actual children presenting their “evidence”.
    I kid you not. Pun unintended.

    • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 11:57 am #

      Thank you for this post. Now be prepared to be quickly labeled a “denier”. I remember my indoctrination into global warming during school. Like most other PCisms this indoctrination begins as soon as you are able to think and speak. Via education of course but also all forms of media content developed for children. How else to develop an inevitable consensus than to raise all children up to believe these things as self-evident truth.

      • And the alternative is… ?

        “Hey kids, atmospheric carbon is not a real big deal at all…. scientists worldwide are worried, about absolutely nothing… They’re a bunch of morons, controlled by Globalist Deep State Wokesters… ”

        “Field trip everybody! We’re going to ‘The Ark’ in Kentucky… to learn about God’s plan for all y’all.”

        (Except young Gertie who was born with half a brain and wears a bike helmet and sits in the back of class on Thursdays and drools- God has other plans for her.)

        Wishful thinking is an cause and result of unending chains of rationalization.

        You believe in Globalist domination… therefore climate change is a hoax… therefore scientists are lying money-grubbers… therefore children are being indoctrinated… the teachers are corrupted too… the temperature gauges are corrupted… the meteorologist is lying to you… the grass isn’t dead… these bugs have been in the area forever… its was just as dry last year… etc.

        Fertile ground for a feverish imagination.

        • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 4:50 pm #

          Well I have a big imagination period if you haven’t noticed :-). Climate change is not a hoax. The climate definitely changes. But we start getting into arguments once it comes down to what and who may be causing the changes. I did already tell you I am very open to lowering energy usage. You can tell me it is because of climate change but I want to believe we are doing to cut down on our entire footprint not just carbon footprint.

          • EvelynV April 29, 2019 at 6:55 pm #

            SSL – nice, heart and head working together (for a change, snuk snuk:)

            Too bad we can’t look at our world resource supply and figure out a way to best economize such that it sustains people’s living conditions everywhere.

            No country in history has tried as hard as the US to make that happen in terms of setting forth to make it happen politically. At the same time no country had at the same time powerful interests at work to “unfairly” exploit resource rich countries.

            Our good angel and simultaneously our bad angel competing on the same landscape. The bad angel seized so much it took over everything from the good angels.

            Anyway in the ideal world we’d find a way to avoid all the agony and suffering and get on with “what the hell is really going on? WHAT IS CONSCIOUSESS?! Physics does not yet have an answer.

          • Nightowl May 3, 2019 at 6:25 am #

            I wonder if the New York Times informs its woke readers that China’s CO2 output is greater than all of the EU and US combined. Climate warrior Obama greenlighted unlimited CO2 output through 2030.

            The climate issue would be taken more seriously if it’s most ardent supporters actually seemed to care.

      • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 3:39 am #

        SSL, I take back anything favorable I said about you recently. Beryl of Oyl is an idiot. Your slobbering reply to it makes you an idiot.

        • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 11:07 am #

          You are amazing Evelyn lol! You were becoming ok with me then you determine soon thereafter that I am an idiot again. I change my mind about things too, sometimes several times a day so I get it. I try not to think out loud though too much though lol.

          Now anytime you want to talk about the nature of consciousness I would be interested to hear your opinions.

          • Majella May 1, 2019 at 6:34 pm #

            Start by offering yours.

    • Blame da left

      Blame da left

      Blame da left

      • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 12:02 pm #

        Don’t worry!!!! The right has given consent to all of this so they are not part of it and have just as much blame on their shoulders.

        • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 12:02 pm #

          are part of it….

        • Walter B April 29, 2019 at 2:56 pm #

          It is easy and appropriate to blame the Loony Left for they are upon the stump making the most noise and aggravation. The right remains relatively quiet yet still fundamentally wrong and useless. It is from the thinkers and the doers in the middle that any hope for salvation remains, and that is why Mr. Trump has the degree of popularity that he enjoys. He is neither one of the entrenched party-goer sellouts.

          • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 4:42 pm #

            Yes, silence and inaction are ultimately consent. The political right has let us down too. Just in a different way than the political left. Both ultimately report to the same bosses. IMO President Trump is starting to look an awful lot like a George Bush 2.0 with illegal immigration on steroids. His abandonment of his most important campaign promises has disillusioned me. But pickings are slim so what to do?

          • EvelynV April 29, 2019 at 6:58 pm #

            yer funny walter blah blah blah

          • Walter B April 30, 2019 at 8:33 pm #

            You funny too!

      • Exscotticus April 29, 2019 at 12:34 pm #

        >>> Blame da left 3x

        Is that the latest magical charm for warding off reason and logic? Sorry dude but incanting “blame da left” three times from your book of spells doesn’t counter any arguments and doesn’t make you the superior NYT-reading liberal you think you are.

    • Sean Coleman April 30, 2019 at 9:32 am #

      Beryl

      I had not read your post before I posted mine (a little further down thread) yesterday.

      I assume your New Face of global warming is little Greta from Sweden.

      There have been a number of studies purporting to prove an overwhelming consenus among the scientist. The most well-known, the one quoted by Obama, is Cook’s 97% paper.

      Dutch economist Richard Tol is a believer in AGW but he is not afraid to call a spade a spade and a fool a fool. He discusses Cook’s paper in this article in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/jun/06/97-consensus-global-warming

      A few extracts to give the flavour of the piece:

      “Cook’s sample is not representative. Any conclusion they draw is not about “the literature” but rather about the papers they happened to find.

      “Most of the papers they studied are not about climate change and its causes, but many were taken as evidence nonetheless. Papers on carbon taxes naturally assume that carbon dioxide emissions cause global warming – but assumptions are not conclusions. Cook’s claim of an increasing consensus over time is entirely due to an increase of the number of irrelevant papers that Cook and co mistook for evidence.

      “The abstracts of the 12,000 papers were rated, twice, by 24 volunteers. Twelve rapidly dropped out, leaving an enormous task for the rest. This shows. There are patterns in the data that suggest that raters may have fallen asleep with their nose on the keyboard. In July 2013, Mr Cook claimed to have data that showed this is not the case. In May 2014, he claimed that data never existed.

      “The data is also ridden with error. By Cook’s own calculations, 7% of the ratings are wrong. Spot checks suggest a much larger number of errors, up to one-third.

      “Cook tried to validate the results by having authors rate their own papers. In almost two out of three cases, the author disagreed with Cook’s team about the message of the paper in question.

      “Attempts to obtain Cook’s data for independent verification have been in vain. Cook sometimes claims that the raters are interviewees who are entitled to privacy – but the raters were never asked any personal detail. At other times, Cook claims that the raters are not interviewees but interviewers…

      “The theologist Michael Rosenberger has described climate protection as a new religion, based on a fear for the apocalypse, with dogmas, heretics and inquisitors like Nuccitelli. I prefer my politics secular and my science sound.”

    • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 5:28 pm #

      Bery of Oyl

      Everytime I stumble across this post of yours I want to scream that you are a infuriatingly ignorant person.

      But really, that in itself is a self degrading way to react as well. It’s only because I know you represent so many other similarly self deluded folks that I give a whit about what one particular misguided under educated person thinks.

      You would have to truly be an oaf to watch this Nat’l Geographic documentary and still cling to the words you wrote like an ape clinging to its own chunks of feces due to the boredom of being trapped in a cage. You of course being trapped in your own mental cage.

      Do yourself a favor and take the time to get a little education by watching this.

      https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/global-dimming/

  33. bukowskisghost April 29, 2019 at 11:39 am #

    JDH… my sentiments exactly, a brilliant post by Jim today

    • Beryl of Oyl April 29, 2019 at 11:40 am #

      I thought it was pretty good too.
      He’s kind of been on fire lately.

  34. Beryl of Oyl April 29, 2019 at 11:58 am #

    Oh, and one more thing (while we’re on the topic of make believe), did anyone get a load of Sally and Andrea just making it up as they went along?
    Andrea forewent her usual signature sleeveless look, in favor of the look her pal Hillary pioneered during the 2016 campaign, of wearing some sort of house attire in public.
    I say pioneered of Hillary, because although the Walmart base has been wearing pajamas in there for decades (but can they really be said to be in public?), Hillary was the first in her class to show up in a housecoat. That’s fashion-forward.
    In Andrea’s case it was some kind of fluffy pink bathrobe.

    Anyway, Andrea was helping Sally “get out in front” of the fallout over the Russia hoax, and Sally was explaining her position and expounding on the concept that Mueller also adheres to, that there are people in government who reserve the right to examine decisions made by our elected president, decide whether the ‘intent’ by the man passes their secret PC test, and then take it upon themselves to put a stop to his actions based on their personal judgement.

    Ann Coulter has written about this:
    http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2019-04-24.html
    You can’t tell me those in the profession of “journalism” today don’t understand it.
    No wonder they won’t allow Ann to speak on campuses. Can’t have any future reporters exposed to ideas or opposing points of view or anything.

    • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 12:24 pm #

      They know exactly what they are doing. They receive the scripts to read aloud daily. They get the memos and the emails detailing the appropriate narratives to convey. Most media outlets are simply extensions of the Democrat Party. Some could say Fox is an extension of the Republican Party but I would actually say that with their more recent changes and shakeups they are actually an arm of the old Democrat Party now. All other voices are being de-platformed and censored as we type.

      • Majella May 1, 2019 at 8:20 pm #

        More utter bullshit…

        “Some could say Fox is an extension of the Republican Party but I would actually say that with their more recent changes and shakeups they are actually an arm of the old Democrat Party now”

        Really, what has happened at Fox is that Shep Smith, Judge Napolitano and Chris Matthews (who were always skeptical) have recently turned feral on Trump and his pathetic lies & prevarications and calling him on them more & more vociferously. More power to them.

        As well, Fox is now inviting liberal politicians on – those courageous enough to front up – to espouse their views and hopefully inject a microgram of common sense into its otherwise brainwashed audience. You can sometimes see the penny dropping in the mind of the interviewer.

        The only hold-out seems to be “The President’s Show”, aka Fox & Friends…

        Then we have just had a repeat performance of Trump ranting & raving without taking a breath, much to the discomfort of the Fox presenter(s), in the most recent case, poor hapless Maria Bartiromo.

        • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 12:57 am #

          What a bizarre post Majella. It’s as if you had a prepared list of grievances that you were eager to toss at me at the earliest opportunity. None of them relate to my contention regarding AOC. Sorry but you’ll have to try again haha!

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 1:03 am #

            Accidental double post from upthread re your cray cray list. Anyway you are so slanted when it comes to Fox. Murdochs sons are major SJWs and thus Fox is careening towards unfettered PC mania. Hiring Donna Brazile was a new and unexpected low but when you’re dealing with cuckservatives what can you expect?!

        • benr May 2, 2019 at 12:26 pm #

          My goodness you are a goof a second the only utter bullshit I see is your vacuous and vicious posts!
          Not a truth in any of them.
          Typical leftist turd.

  35. SomeoneInAsia April 29, 2019 at 12:15 pm #

    Great song by Tom Petty.

    Another favorite of mine is Meja’s ‘It’s all About the Money’.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcXMhwF4EtQ

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  36. sauerkraut April 29, 2019 at 12:19 pm #

    What is really heartening is how everyone here admits to personal responsibility for this mess.

    You know:
    – “I never give the Dems (Repubs) their due;”
    – “I never get involved in politics;”
    – “I bank where it’s easy;”
    – “I’ve never studied logic or rhetoric and so I’m conned too easily;”

    “AND THIS IS WHERE IT GETS ME.”

  37. Opie April 29, 2019 at 12:29 pm #

    Great column today James, plus a nod to my hometown hero. Bottom line, world population is double what it was when I finished High School, and there were too many people then. TPTB are clueless as is the population in general. Get ready, it’s fix’in to get real.

    • Mountain gal April 30, 2019 at 1:35 am #

      Especially given that so many are dependent on meds to survive, taking illegal drugs etc. Most have no clue how to feed themselves other than eating out, getting take-out or going to the grocery store. Most people in the US would “starve to death with a field full of wheat and a fresh cow in the barn” as the saying goes. Should the power go out long-term, an epidemic hit or whatever, good luck to all. Between outright starvation and the attacks by brutal gangs intent on ruling their “territory” and taking all they find, most of the US would go down pretty fast. Ditto for much of the rest of the world. Maybe the Inuit would be fine? And those isolated hunter-gatherer tribes in Brazil’s rain forest?

      • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 7:59 am #

        “And those isolated hunter-gatherer tribes in Brazil’s rain forest?”

        I’m afraid Sr Bolsonaro is going to make quick work of Brazil’s indigenous peoples.

        https://www.survivalinternational.org/news/12060

  38. capt spaulding April 29, 2019 at 12:33 pm #

    There should be no mystery when trying to understand the state of things on our globe. There’s a reason that history repeats itself, it’s because humans keep on insisting on acting like humans. It’s why things move in cycles, from economics to the fates of empires. It’s human nature to react in certain ways to various stimuli. This is why the US is going down now, and the cycle of power is happening at a faster rate, because technology makes everything happen at a faster pace than it ever has before. It’s the reason why the cycle of power of the Empire of the US only lasted about 50 years ie: roughly since the end of WWII.

    It’s also the reason that climate change is gonna kick our ass. Human nature doesn’t welcome change, it generally doesn’t change, especially if it’s an unpleasant change, until it is forced to by circumstances. It’s also the reason the Republican party won’t change it’s tune about deregulation and cutting taxes for the wealthy, You would have thought the message was received when we tanked in 2008, but noooooo, it was not to be. I am absolutely not counting on humans to do much of anything, because they still want to live in the past. Hell, JHK as much as says the same things when he writes about people’s reluctance to do the things necessary to sustain any sort of decent life. Am I a cynic? Hell yes, but it wasn’t by choice. I don’t necessarily agree with some of JHK’s current opinions, but in his earlier writings, “The Long Emergency”, etc, he was prophetic, and the stuff he said back then is still true today. I’m trying to keep this short, so people don’t skip over it like I do Fincain’s stuff.

    • Mountain gal April 29, 2019 at 12:54 pm #

      I think that for the most part people don’t even understand much of anything in their lives anymore. They get how to go online or use their smartphone but how it really all works is beyond them. They have no clue how the banking system works. No clue whatsoever about how to grow food or, for many, cook from scratch. No clue how to live without electricity, central AC, electronics etc. Kids have no clue how to entertain themselves without video games, phones, TV’s etc.

      All of this has sped up to a great degree in recent years. Contrast how we live now compared to how people lived in the 40’s or 50’s even. I think a lot of people sense that technology has gotten out of hand and that they have little understanding or control over the most essential things needed to keep them alive. So people are nervous and anxious.

      • messianicdruid April 29, 2019 at 9:48 pm #

        “They get how to go online or use their smartphone but how it really all works is beyond them.”

        The collected wisdom of the ages available on a device we carry in our pockets, so we send our friends pictures of kittens.

        • Mountain gal April 30, 2019 at 1:36 am #

          😉

        • Majella May 1, 2019 at 9:02 pm #

          *lol*!

      • benr May 2, 2019 at 12:32 pm #

        I think the real issue is everyone wants everything now at microwave speeds instead of cooking over an open flame.
        Everyone is impatient stressed out and refuse to slow down even a little.
        Now add in ridiculous politics of I want everything for FREE at least to me screw the guy that actually has to work for all the crap I feel I am entitled too!
        The further down the progressive maw America descends the worse the attitude of everyone involved.

      • Nightowl May 3, 2019 at 6:35 am #

        This is more of a US/UK phenomenon than anything else, IMO. Many of my neighbors here in Germany (and in my experience much of mainland Europe) build their own additions to their houses; have very impressive veggie gardens; keep chickens, pigs, etc.; make their own wine; and more.

        We live in a med-sized city between two major cities in NRW, so not like we are out in the sticks.

    • ozone April 29, 2019 at 1:01 pm #

      Cap’n.,
      Our perspectives of wha’happen? and wha’now? align perfectly.
      As I am less and less inclined to expound upon my own views or counter omnipresent bullshittery, I thank you very much.

  39. ozone April 29, 2019 at 12:38 pm #

    Great post, Jim.
    Some delusions can be “cured” by adversity, while others are [counter-intuitively] strengthened. It’s a conundrum that will only be revealed by the severe degradation of the current American “lifestyle” (and the destruction of its false promises to the rest of the world).

    Regarding a never-quiet portion of the deluded herd:

    “To darkness they are doomed
    who worship only the body, and
    to greater darkness they who
    worship only the spirit”

    • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 4:28 pm #

      You are so esoteric. But I think I know what you are communicating and whom you intend to communicate it too. Mysteries are so exciting and clues are always fun!!!! Scooby dooby doo where are you :-)…….

      “never quiet-portion” – Hey! Some people like to talk. And obviously some are of very few words too. It takes all kinds right.

      • EvelynV April 29, 2019 at 7:11 pm #

        Hearing the word “esoteric” right there was like someone hit a cowbell by mistake in the orchestra pit.

        SSL – every fool who spends time on this board “like to hear themselves talk”.

        Except me of course.

        • Farmer Joe May 2, 2019 at 9:41 am #

          Wow, you’re definitely not crazy at all, Eve.

    • Janos Skorenzy April 29, 2019 at 6:52 pm #

      We worship the Spirit. But if your eye is single, the body will be full of light. Thus Christianity is body positive in the deepest sense.

      • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 3:40 am #

        The christian religion in its many forms is toxic waste.

        • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 11:17 am #

          Well it’s all about perspective.

          Cockroaches in a dark room scurry and hide when light is shined upon them. They consider the light to be sort of like toxic waste and flee accordingly.

          But the light helps to guide in the sweet young couple who are going to thoroughly clean and totally revamp the room to become a nursery for their soon to be born bundle of joy.

          The Light can be Death for some and is Life for others. What do you want the Light to be for you?

          • EvelynV May 1, 2019 at 4:15 am #

            SSL – that is some really really sappy drool and what a pathetic metaphor. You think cockroaches consider things?

            You do have some potential if you re-work your material though I’ll give you that much. I’m pretty sure you can work up some sort of analogy having to do with breeders producing too many cockroach-like bundles or, breeding like coachroachs with the room is dark, or so much coachroach like breeding their bundles are like toxic waste. Hell I don’t know but keep working on it, it reads like goo-goo talk the way it is right now.

          • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 8:14 am #

            “What do you want the Light to be for you?”

            Personally I like natural daylight much more than an invented lightbulb to cope with a dark room. You get a better perspective on things if you look at them from the outside in the clear light of day. It’s much less limiting.

          • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 8:16 am #

            Although artificial light can be a support when you perceive the need for artificial support. As long as you realise it’s an invention and don’t stop appreciating the natural light.

          • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 10:12 am #

            Evelyn and Alba – please develop some more imagination and creativity. Simple analogies put together on the fly. No literary masterpieces were intended here but I will take the advice to continue working on my writing skills. Let’s not read too much into them. But clearly you both received the most important kernels of information that were being conveyed. I encourage both of you to come into the Light. Clearly both of you are attracted to it but are not yet ready to take the leap of faith. It’s coming though so continue to prepare yourselves. Trust me, once you make it you will never ever want to go back.

        • Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 1:51 pm #

          Eat dirt, Squaw.

          • Q. Shtik April 30, 2019 at 2:44 pm #

            Janos, have you read Fred Reed’s latest essay? It concerns Christianity and it’s none too flattering.

        • S M Tenneshaw May 1, 2019 at 2:00 am #

          Hey, that’s no way to talk about the Reformation.

      • Q. Shtik April 30, 2019 at 2:37 pm #

        in the deepest sense. – Janos

        ============

        I’d like to have a count on how many times you’ve used this phrase over the years.

        Into the compendium it goes.

      • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 5:30 pm #

        Christianity is mental excrement in any sense.

        • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 11:29 pm #

          “Christianity is mental excrement in any sense”

          If you said or wrote that about Islam, you could be jailed in some countries. And I’m not talking about Islamic countries, but European ones.

          But you are free to denounce Christianity in the most vulgar terms because of Christian tolerance.

          • EvelynV May 1, 2019 at 4:05 am #

            I’m not sure I get your point. Any religion that thinks deities exist is fucked up. No thanks to christians I’m not prevented from saying it in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

            If they had their way we’d still be getting the Galileo treatment, don’t kid yourself.

          • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 10:16 am #

            So the belief in boha and the teaching of the boha gande are presumably included in in all of this mental excrement?

            So you have no reverence for your ancestors then?

          • EvelynV May 1, 2019 at 11:57 am #

            SSL – I said “deities” – believing there is a superman in the sky.

            A supreme being who watches what is going on and slaps the ones around who it/he/she disapproves of.

            I believe there is a supreme being but only when you realize “being” is a verb and not a noun. Capisch?

            Enlightened beings is a totally different subject.

            I have no reverence for much of anything. A lot of appreciation for maybe some things here and there but reverence not so much.

            As I’ve suggested before, we are all just watching a movie that we have the starring role in.

        • Nightowl May 3, 2019 at 6:39 am #

          If you really believe that, why spend so much time telling us about it?

    • EvelynV April 29, 2019 at 7:05 pm #

      “Regarding a never-quiet portion of the deluded herd:”

      “To darkness they are doomed
      who worship only the body, and
      to greater darkness they who
      worship only the spirit”

      I detect a note of self-exclusion in that first sentence.

      It includes for all practical purposes, everyone.

  40. Sean Coleman April 29, 2019 at 12:47 pm #

    JHK’s recent articles have been excellent but I have not had time to post anything. This one gets close to nailing it. I have been arguing something similar for a good while now. We are living in a collective fantasy, more specifically a collective media fantasy. The Russian conspiracy was just the latest example. The educated fools of the Resistance swallow it and never to think to fact-check the fantasy against the evidence, of which there is no lack. The Deplorables are not taken in by this nonsense but too many of them believe in absurd conspiracies involving imaginary paedophile rings, the Vatican and the Royal Family (in England the chase has moved on, in recent years, from workers in ‘children’s’ homes to elderly male light entertainers and dead disc jockeys). Or it is all blamed on the One Per Cent or the ‘Corporations’.

    I don’t believe anything will bring them to their senses as it is too far gone. In his book about the collective fantasy that is mass immigration, The Diversity Illusion, Ed West compares it to a millenial cult which, when the alien saviours from outer space fail to turn up on cue, rather than losing its followers instead doubles in size. I expect this applies across the board to all of our many weird and wonderful fantasies. I include AGW in that: it has all the characteristics. Currently I hear there is an undersized bossy Swedish schoolgirl travelling the world lecturing governments.

    Has anyone noticed the amnesia, that nobody seems able to remember what happened before last Thursday? Anyone in England remember the school pupils’ strike of the 1970s?

    What about AIDS? Remember when the Pope (John Paul II) as I recall was blamed for the deaths of millions of Africans? Well, what happened to it. I had just been musing on this when I came across an E Michael Jones video where he mentioned in passing that he had been in Nairobi 17 years ago and had told people there was no epidemic and, indeed, there was no AIDs either. He has just come back from another visit where he spoke in the same room as earlier. How many of you are worried about dying of AIDS?, he asked. Not one hand was raised. So where did it go? I will need to follow this up but my hunch is that Jones is right. (The reason I had been musing about this is because I had just posted a comment on YT about the curious way Pope Pius was blamed for covering up the Holocaust. Like the BBC covering up for Jimmy Savile it is a nonsense, not least because there was not anything to cover up).

    Oh yes, in the same video, two minutes earlier, he mentioned that he thought Harvey Weinstein was a scape goat. Well, that is exactly what I have always believed, based on no more than that it fits the existing pattern and (what else?), oh yeah, no evidence whatsoever. What Jones said made me laugh though. The Weinstein accusers he looked up had all apparently made, at some stage in their useful lives, sex videos, and posted them onto the internet. Given a choice between ‘Ibelieveher’ and ‘IbelieveEMJ’ I choose the latter.

    Any looked into the Michael Jackson claims? I have. More nonsense.

    What did I read in the newspaper last week that made me laugh? Some British MP (a minister I think) claiming in all seriousness that the Russians had been conspiring to stop the West getting vaccinated. Perhaps I got that wrong. Perhaps I just dreamt that bit.

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    • I don’t necessarily disbelieve the premise that the Russians conspire to undermine western society given the track record. In high and low ways. They’re unredeemable as currently organized.

      As for mass immigration, I think the non-plan is to absorb them. I’ve come to some comfortable realization by simply imagining North America without borders. Not hard to do.

      • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 6:17 pm #

        Saying the Russians are unredeemable is utter bullshit.

        The willingly sacrificed themselves to save the West from Germany at the start of WWI.

        The unquestionably saved the West during WWII albeit not willingly.

        They have certainly behaved competitively throughout the world but sure as hell motivated more by self preservation necessitate by US hostility than any other factor beyond protecting their own territory. The Polish after WWII might disagree but every attack on Russia came through Poland and the US certainly wasted no time abandoning the Poles to work it out for themselves.

        Russia and the US as friends makes a lot more sense than Russia and China as friends against a implacable common threat who is for all practical purposes now, the biggest threat to the American people – the Frankenstein corporate-military oligarchy we grew in our own social laborartory.

        • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 11:36 pm #

          So then logically, Evelyn, you would oppose those trying to poison US-Russian relations with a lot of invented or exaggerated stories of election interference. You should support Trump against the Democratic Party propagandists and their MSM lapdogs who invent anti-Russian narratives.

          • EvelynV May 1, 2019 at 3:48 am #

            I’m opposed to any kind of poisoning of US-Russian relations. I’ve scoffed at the foolish claim that the Russians have somehow interfered in our elections by 1) pointing out that compared to the way we’ve interfered in elections everywhere else in the world it makes us ludicrous hypocrites to whine about anything Russians could have done 2) that in all likelihood infinitely more damage to our so called democracy could be laid at the feet of the Koch brothers 3) rage at the fact that the worst thing the Russians might have done is reveal what the DNC and Hillary did to foist Trump on us.

            I blame Hillary for Trump, that corrupt self-entitled bitch brought upon us the worst of all presidencies in the history of the US.

            Like all of his other promises, he has failed on his promise to put her away.

          • EvelynV May 1, 2019 at 3:58 am #

            Going after Trump for whatever interactions he’s had with Putin is analogous to some family slob (trump) coming into your house tracking the pig shit he’s covered in all over the brand new carpets, drunkenly crashing into furniture breaking things, slurring words so badly he’s barely understandable and then the house owner standing aside shaking their finger at the guy scolding him for wearing a polka dot shirt with striped pants.

            We probably could have got along with Russia just fine when they were Communists even, so we sure as hell should be able to accept them as friends now that they’ve embraced our own corrupt ideology.

          • Q. Shtik May 1, 2019 at 4:21 pm #

            is analogous to some family slob (trump) coming into your house tracking the pig shit he’s covered in all over the brand new carpets, drunkenly crashing into furniture breaking things, slurring words so badly he’s barely understandable and then… – Eve

            ===========

            Damn, this sounds sooo much like my b-i-l, Peter who, if I’ve failed to mention it before, has been living on the third floor of my home since mid January. Somehow he was able to finally sell his house out in Washington, NJ which raised enough money for him to pay off umpteen thousands of long past due bills. As we speak, in fact, Peter is back in the area of his former home meeting with the lawyer (to argue over yet more fees) who helped mitigate the fines and penalties that resulted when he resisted arrest when a cop pulled him over for failure to come to a full stop at a four-way stop sign. The tab for this stupidity — fines, penalties, higher car insurance, a state license surcharge, lawyers fees — has already cost him between 5 and 10K. And he is on probation until sometime in June and can’t leave the state without special permission. If it had not been for yours truly loaning him thousands at the last second the house would have been foreclosed on.

        • Majella May 1, 2019 at 9:21 pm #

          Technical observations:

          “The willingly sacrificed themselves to save the West from Germany at the start of WWI.”

          I’m pretty sure most of the plebs on the front line were not willingly sacrificing themselves. The Head Honcho was one of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty, that somehow or other, was sitting in most of the European monarchic thrones at the time.

          “The unquestionably saved the West during WWII albeit not willingly.”

          Firstly, the Soviet hierarchy abandoned the West when it signed the German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact (aka Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) in 1939, weeks before the first move against Poland.

          Then once attacked despite their deal with Herr Hitler, they were forced to defend themselves.

          When they prevailed in their defense, the Soviet elite then took advantage of the German collapse and sought to extend a new hegemony, which they successfully did for all of 45 years.

          This was not ‘saving the West’. That required the Brits & US allies to stand firm or the USSR would have continued on a march to the Atlantic.

          • EvelynV May 2, 2019 at 1:06 pm #

            As for the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, my take is that Stalin felt he had no choice. He’d skimmed off the top of his military leadership and knew Russia was in a bad way in terms of being able to cope with the invasion from Germany he knew was coming. Russia made a number of near desperate attempts to get France and the Brits to agree to an alliance to defend Czechoslovakia who at the time have a very robust military of their own. The Bolsheviks were so despised Stalin was rebuffed in every attempt he made.

            Signing the non-aggression pact was merely to buy time for Russia to get their own act together.

            There isn’t any doubt Stalin was a wily old bear looking out strictly for the interests of Russia. The allies were fortunate someone by the name of Winston was running the war effort from our side because without him Germany would have conquered Europe and probably most of the rest of the world before the US would have bestirred themselves to come to the rescue.

          • Nightowl May 3, 2019 at 6:58 am #

            The US and UK could never have stopped the march of the Axis powers without Russia. The UK got pummeled by the Germans on nearly all fronts and there was no real turnaround until the Russians stepped in. In aggregate, US contribution was miniscule.

            The body counts (both civilian and military deaths) bear this out, too, and will absolutely shock anyone who has never checked.

        • Majella May 1, 2019 at 9:25 pm #

          Brilliant! What a gloriously succinct & poignant analogy. Thanks, EvelynV!

          “Going after Trump for whatever interactions he’s had with Putin is analogous to some family slob (trump) coming into your house tracking the pig shit he’s covered in all over the brand new carpets, drunkenly crashing into furniture breaking things, slurring words so badly he’s barely understandable and then the house owner standing aside shaking their finger at the guy scolding him for wearing a polka dot shirt with striped pants.”

          • hmuller May 2, 2019 at 11:20 am #

            I guess that makes the DNC leadership and their media lapdogs the stupid house owner who focuses on the irrelevant fashion issues. (Russiagate)

            Why do you suppose that is? Why don’t they see the important issues like Evelyn and Majella? Maybe you should write and remind them of the important issues!

        • SpeedyBB May 5, 2019 at 5:48 pm #

          Amen, Evelyn. While I grew up a Cold War liberal (Air Force brat) and was brainwashed to fear and despise the USSR it was clearly a monstrous swindle, mostly on our side but also by the Russian version of the MIC.

          Today there are no major conflicts of interest between the Russian Federation and the West. Gas sales? Come on. Crimea? Excuse me: they’ve been speaking Russian there for hundreds of years. The Russians have more rights to Crimea than the USA has to Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands (or Hawaii, for that matter).

          Mutual interests? Oh boy you betcha, and number one is standing against resurgent Islam. Mix in energy and the ‘useless fools’ arguing for unlimited immigration and borderless states and Putin can be seen as clear-headed and a natural ally. He could even help save Eurabia from itself.

  41. I don’t know if they’re all that clueless.

    The bill to ban sanctuary cities in FL?

    “Leaders from more than 120 state businesses signed an open letter to the governor and lawmakers cautioning them that the legislation could hurt numerous sectors of the state economy.

    “‘There goes agriculture,’ said Mike Fernandez, a billionaire healthcare executive who helped organize the opposition. “There goes construction. There goes home health service.”

    The New York Times, 04/26/2019

    “According to an analysis of American Community Survey data by the Institute for Family Studies, only 17 percent of mothers with children 3 or younger say they prefer to work full time. Many career moms manage their stressful work-life balance thanks only to low-wage immigrant labor to take care of their children, clean their houses and deliver their takeout.”

    The New York Times, 04/28/19

    The political establishment is hoping to steer around the chaos of recognizing the huge problem that reliance on immigration has created for steering the country toward a sustainable future. In the meantime there are class issues about who profits from these economic and social developments.

    At first, the immigration distortions were held in sectors like agriculture, low-paid services, manufacturing, etc. Now, they’ve metastasized into other, more integral industries including high tech and health care.

    Immigration became a primary source of economic power through ability of corporations to capitalize on its open borders. Everyone was sucked into the undertow of its leveraging effect on profits in all industries. You may have not been an immigration supporter, but you still have to buy food, cheap food, picked by immigrants. You still have to find shelter and you did so buying homes built with immigrant labor. The economy is something that, thanks to Republicans, we don’t control. The means justify the ends.

    What you will not see is any sort of self-sacrifice. Modern people do not even know what it means. They aren’t going to pay a marginally higher cost for food. They aren’t going to agitate to take profits from their neighbor’s pockets. They aren’t going to change their behavior if it means sweat and effort. They are not going to “downgrade”…. only forever, up, up, up.

    The genesis of Wishful Thinking is really grounded in clearly self-interested rationality. You prefer to believe one thing but not the other based on personal motivations, which at a basic level can be as low-level as (A) makes me feel bad and (B) makes me feel better.

    • Exscotticus April 29, 2019 at 2:26 pm #

      >>> The economy is something that, thanks to Republicans, we don’t control.

      You mean thanks to RINOs and open-border Dems. You conveniently forgot Dems, who exploit immigrants for votes and the political power it confers.

      >>> They aren’t going to pay a marginally higher cost for food.

      They can and they do. Clearly you’ve never been to Whole Foods.

      The idea that Americans survive on the margins provided by illegal immigrants is laughable. In fact it’s quite the opposite; immigrants are storming are borders for economic opportunities they can’t get from home. In the process, they lower wages, steal opportunities from Americans, cost us billions in social welfare, and degrade our shared national values and culture.

      • I’m uninterested in blaming the Dems, because they have not been in control for a very long time. The political axis has crept steadily to the right for over 3 decades.

        The Republicans played a great filibuster game across three decades. There were only 2 stretches of 2 years, 1992-94 and 2008-2010 where Dems were in ostensible control. And during those eras the Dem’s center of political gravity was right of center.

        Under the aegis of fiscal responsibility, or defense, or austerity, or shrinking government, vast amounts of debt were created, industries were granted exemption for innumerable regulations, and certain individuals and businesses were granted de facto public welfare. In respect to Agriculture, the amnesties for what we could refer to as H2-A temporary agricultural workers came at pivotal times during Republican administrations, whose constituent powerbases tended to rural, agricultural economies. Those constituencies were serviced by the 6 year, annual Farm Bill, an omnibus bill full of various corporate welfare giveaways and insurance and debt obligations that drove the general development of industrial agriculture to what it is today.

        Meanwhile the trade deficit exploded under Republican-led efforts to liberalize global trade. As other types of exports fell, agriculture became a more and more important export sector.

        Agriculture is not a sector a lot of people know much about. Few people realize they are subsidizing farmers at the fuel pump and in the grocery store. Few realize they are subsidizing climate change. Few realize their food supply is 5000 miles long. Few realize there is nothing at all like a “free market”.

        And fewer still realize our agricultural system is an outgrowth of plantation slavery. You don’t pay the real cost of your food. Not even remotely. Its all subsidized. The cost savings went into someone’s pocket. Around here, into the pockets of various interests stemming from the development of fertile bottomlands into real estate.

        You can get into agriculture, too, at the deadened level of the status quo. Just mow your lawn, sprinkle chemicals (subsidize the Middle East and DuPont). Plant your starts (plastic, fossil peat moss, maybe some mined elemental SuperGro). Maybe even hire a Central American to do it for you (No one checking the H1-A).

        Nothing different between these two systems except for the scale. They are totally compatible.

        I know only a few people who know the farmers who they get their food from. The rest pay that guy less than 0.10 of the dollar. Those farmers use fossil fuels and non-national labor. They mine fossil water supplies. They ship product on fully subsidized end-to-end delivery systems. Thats where you get the 9 kcal of fossil fuels to 1 kcal of food calorie production disparity.

        The consumer could make an effort to pay a premium price and find more sustainable food produced without immigrant labor- but they do not, by and large, care.

        Needless to say, its complicated, but the bottom line is it is the Republicans’ fault. If you’re fully gaslit on the issue, and you’re a Republican who thought he was supporting the anti-immigration, anti-deficit party… I’m sorry but “Blame da left” is your campfire song not a description of reality.

        Anyway it all metastasizes from Agriculture into the other areas, these quotes I showed nakedly reveal. Health care, services, hospitality, there really isn’t any industry that isn’t affected now by this model of, bring ’em in, keep wages low, corporate profits up. And Republicans have every intention of keeping this status quo going.

        • Exscotticus April 29, 2019 at 6:27 pm #

          >>> The political axis has crept steadily to the right for over 3 decades.

          No it hasn’t. It swings back and forth. Meanwhile, despite the periodic 180s in American politics, the Left thoroughly dominates the USA. They’ve taken over the judiciary, the MSM, education, and most government bureaucracy. Even when a so-called Conservative Republican gets elected, chances are it’s another RINO with a largely liberal agenda. Bush, for example, expanded Medicare!

          Gay marriage is a done deal. Pot is now essentially legalized. Our first black President. Muslims elected to Congress. Socialists coming right out into the open and getting elected. You want to keep arguing that the nation has moved to the right?

          >>> but the bottom line is it is the Republicans’ fault

          Blame da right? Oh that’s right; the spell only works if I say it three times…

          • Over the last 3 decades we’ve had very conservative administrations, including Clinton and Obama. They had to track center right to win swing states.

            Republicans have been waging a war of attrition for decades. Filibusters are the strategy. Being unreasonable, and forcing compromise is their game.

            The core issues for the Right have ostensibly been dismantling government, limiting regulation, increasing war power, increasing trade liberalization, and for the sake of constituencies, social conservatism which means grotesque displays of religious piety including the occasional shame-making

            Dismantling government with the influence of think tanks, Gerrymandering voting districts, asylum for immigration, sweetheart deals for developers, bailouts for congress.

            Deregulation of the banks, housing market, lending standards, ecological oversight, industry oversight, etc. AEI, Heartland, and the army of lobbyists writing all their legislation. Why the national debt? They systematically dismantled the balance between revenue and expenditure over successive administrations by weakening enforcement.

            Religion has made huge inroads into the legislative infrastructure and continues to chew like a termite at reproductive rights. The impetus for all political religiosity is pandering to conservative blocs.

            Pot as an issue was just red meat for keeping blacks in jail, White boys in uniform, Cash in prison development, and of course, assuming the posture of moral superiority. (Now that it is big agriculture, allowances are made).

            Gay marriage is not a done deal. They are going to fight it as long as they have to answer to the religious demographic. States’ Rights, remember?

            War is big business for Republicans, I don’t think you can make the argument there are more hawks on the Democratic side.

            In respect to immigration, Republicans are clearly at fault. The Bushes (Texas) and Reagan (California) were never going to say no to big agriculture lobbies. The rural scene is dominated by Republican conservatives. That whole economy is propped up on Ag subsidy, illegal labor, and free trade agreements.

            Blame da Right… might be a refreshing change of tune for so-called moderate CFNers.

            Being unreasonable, un-rational, un-scientific, and unbelievably stupid… these are the province and capital of the Right.

          • Exscotticus April 29, 2019 at 9:04 pm #

            >>> They had to track center right to win swing states.

            Track center right? Can we agree that means: a bit to the right of center.

            Give us an examples of Clinton and Obama campaigning “a bit to the right of center”.

            They didn’t promise to strengthen gun rights, reduce abortions, promote small business, etc. They promised massive government health care and education initiatives.

            Now I agree that what they promised and what they delivered are certainly different. I agree that when we examine their actual policies, we have a mixed bag that could be construed as moderate.

            >>> Republicans have been waging a war of attrition for decades. Filibusters are the strategy. Being unreasonable, and forcing compromise is their game.

            You ignorant slut. It was Harry Reid who triggered the “nuclear option” to get Obamacare passed. Not a single Republican vote! Sorry dude but your liberal NYT education is failing you.

            >>> War is big business for Republicans, I don’t think you can make the argument there are more hawks on the Democratic side.

            The argument I would make is that Republicans are just more honest. While “doves” like Obama promise one-world kumbaya, they wage secret drone army wars that kill women and children in droves. Obama has the distinction of being the first Prez to kill a 15-year-old American citizen with a drone strike. Congrats, Obama!

            >>> In respect to immigration, Republicans are clearly at fault.

            LOL. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re talking pre-Trump ancient history? I’ve already agreed that both RINOs and Dems are responsible for our nation’s 25+ million illegals. But if you try to pin this on Trump, you’re in the terminal stages of TDS.

            >>> Being unreasonable, un-rational, un-scientific, and unbelievably stupid… these are the province and capital of the Right.

            Now that’s the sort of arrogance one expects from the Left. Thanks for staying true to form and not disappointing.

          • messianicdruid April 29, 2019 at 10:03 pm #

            BAM!

        • Mountain gal April 30, 2019 at 1:41 am #

          I was a farmer for quite some time. I gave it up due to the impossibly long hours and inability to support myself beyond basic subsistence. People are more willing to pay insane amounts of money on a per/lb basis for french fries or chips but balk at paying a local organic farmer a decent price for potatoes. I couldn’t compete with buy 1, get 2 free blueberry specials at the chain grocery. Those were generally “loss leaders” to get the customers in who then bought soda and snacks which is where the store made their money.

          • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 8:26 am #

            It’s depressing, Mountain Gal. When you look at the time, effort and investment that goes into producing a pint of milk (on a real farm, not a cow factory) and people expect it to be cheaper than coloured, fizzy, sugary muck in a plastic bottle.

        • Majella May 1, 2019 at 9:45 pm #

          L’il Debbie

          Exscotticus appears to have stereotyped you as female with that egregious ‘slut’ remark…

          Exscotticus – you make the case that the RINOs were “pre-Trump ancient history”..? Are you seriously saying that, in fundamental reality, anything has changed?

          Trump MIGHT last another 18 months, but he’ll be unceremoniously dumped on 3 November 2020. It’ll have been a brutal but mercifully short lesson.

          • Exscotticus May 2, 2019 at 10:42 am #

            >>> that egregious ‘slut’ remark…

            LOL and I thought the left likes SNL.

            >>> Are you seriously saying that, in fundamental reality, anything has changed?

            Yes I am. Before Trump, our open border wasn’t even on the national agenda. Now it is.

            >>> Trump MIGHT last another 18 months

            Riiiight. Just like the Mueller report was going to reveal shocking collusion. Just like Hillary’s victory was a foregone conclusion.

            You don’t have enough votes to impeach. So all this grandstanding by Dems just gives them something to do. Virtue-signalling for their base. It’s not like they’re passing any actual legislation…

            Meanwhile, while you try to convince yourself that Trump has changed nothing, the fact is that SCOTUS is now conservative. That change is already paying dividends, and will continue to pay long after Trump is gone.

    • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 4:13 pm #

      Please ban immigration. I know you want to stop immigration for environmental reasons and I agree in all of that with you. But immigration is shifting jobs from the native to the foreign born as your are pointing out. And what better way of getting Americans who aren’t doing their fair share in terms of contribution into the workplace than having empty seats that need to be filled in the labor market? People will have to go to school or trade school. Then the education level of the population can be lifted altogether. There would be so many benefits to ending immigration. I urge you to reconsider. Oh well if things cost more for a while. It’s called a “getting your country back” tax. Republicans should love it right. We need major and drastic actions now. These business owners and billionaires are always going to be for whatever makes their bottom line better.

      • Mountain gal April 30, 2019 at 1:50 am #

        Unfortunately I think the Democrats love immigration in general as they think many of those(Hispanics, etc) will become Democratic voters should they become citizens.

        Agreed though. Many areas of the country where it’s hopeless to even think one could get a reasonable wage now for work such as gardening, construction, etc as the wages are severely depressed by both legal and illegal immigrants from our south.

        Our unemployment rate is theoretically very low but many US adults are still not working or only working p/t. Some of this is that they look at the prospect of earning Fed minimum wage and assess they are better off relying on benefits.

        • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 11:21 am #

          Yep you are right. The Democrats want new voters and a large class of people who are largely dependent on government. Republicans want the cheap labor, depressed wages, and any votes they can eek out too (not very many). Both want to replace the traditional American White Middle Class.

  42. mow April 29, 2019 at 1:01 pm #

    Unfortunately , Tom Petty’s best friend was Jack Daniels .

    • BackRowHeckler April 29, 2019 at 9:49 pm #

      8 different substances — few of them legal — were found in Tom Pettys blood at his autopsy. i think JD was one of them.

      brh

      • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 12:56 am #

        supposedly due to pain from a fracture.

  43. JackStraw April 29, 2019 at 1:02 pm #

    These stress levels are already destroying the young, who are being endlessly inundated with information that paints a very bleak future.

    My daughter, currently in the 8th grade, is already stressed out over the end of the world. Her social studies is more like social just warrior training, and science is mainly illustrating the coming apocalypse in its many possible forms. Even her literature classes are promoting nothing but dystopian novels.

    Only her math classes provide a break from a bleak and terrible picture being planted in her head.

    Is it any wonder kids are so confused about themselves and life, and acting in such bizarre manners?

    • Mountain gal April 29, 2019 at 1:12 pm #

      Yeah, but plenty of kids went to school during the days of “duck and cover drills”, hiding under the desks in case the Russians dropped a bomb on them. They managed to deal with this and move on to adulthood. And hey, if math class is a relief then maybe your daughter will excel in math!

      • GreenAlba April 29, 2019 at 2:07 pm #

        Did you get to see Raymond Briggs’ (of The Snowman fame) When the Wind Blows back then, Mountain Gal, or was it a bit too British?

        Jim and Hilda Bloggs are a middle-aged couple who put their faith in the government as they prepare for nuclear war. When the countdown begins, they roll up their sleeves and follow the advice contained in the real-life official booklet of the time, ‘Protect and Survive’. They whitewash their windows, build a shelter out of doors and cushions, take the washing in and put away packets of ginger nuts, a tin of pineapple chunks and a good supply of tea’.

        Title song sung by David Bowie!

        • Mountain gal April 30, 2019 at 1:07 am #

          Never heard of it. Sorry.

        • Majella May 1, 2019 at 9:51 pm #

          Hi GA – Yes, I remember “When the Wind Blows” very well.. still have a copy.

          I was a teacher in the 70s-80s and introduced many children from those generations to this frightening tale. I don’t think it did them any harm – it was still an issue, though less so, by then. More importantly, it did ask children to question authority.

          • benr May 2, 2019 at 2:09 pm #

            My God I can only imagine the damage you did to children with your leftist nonsense.

      • JackStraw April 29, 2019 at 2:20 pm #

        Except when we were kids, that was pretty much a single idea, and it wasn’t slammed in to our heads every single day, and it was quickly forgotten by minds preoccupied with more childish thoughts.

        In today’s classes, it’s an endless barrage on a daily basis, so the comparison is not applicable.

        • Elrond Hubbard April 29, 2019 at 3:02 pm #

          What selective-memory BS this is. The threat of nuclear annihilation was real, palpable, dominated the culture for over four decades, and came within a hair of being realized in October 1962.

          Children are quite capable of understanding the difference between dystopian fiction and a real threat to their lives, especially when it’s being drilled into their heads on a daily basis. The problem these days isn’t The Hunger Games, it’s active-shooter drills.

          • Tate April 29, 2019 at 4:08 pm #

            They’re training them young for their Crisis Actor roles. Some even have a chance at stardom, such as the lantern-jawed David Hogg, a hog of a ‘man.’

          • Mountain gal April 30, 2019 at 1:55 am #

            Yes. I’ve looked into the Cuban missile crisis and realize what a serious threat this was. But yes, I don’t think kids had to worry back then that a crazed guy with a AK whatever would come crashing into their kindergarten and blow them all away. It was more of a fear that a missile or nuke would wipe them all out.

            Still, reality is that we have to prepare kids for whatever may conceivably happen. I was recently at a school when they had an earthquake/tsunami drill.

          • Walter B April 30, 2019 at 11:27 am #

            No we did not have to worry Mountain Gal, because we were not playing gore filled violent video games, or watching violent murders and destruction in Hollywood movies or TV shows about satanic and zombie apocalypses. Anyone who wonders why the kids of today are acting so badly cannot have much in the way of thought process, can they? Oh yes, and our parents were home for us, not shipping us off to pre-care, day care, after care or our grandparent so that they could “afford” to make the huge payments on all of their stuff.

          • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 6:28 pm #

            You know Walter, you make a good point. I don’t remember hearing Ike suggesting that maybe the 2nd Amendment folks would take care of his Adlai Stevenson problem either.

            Also, I’m pretty sure back in the day the men elected has enough class they didn’t have to rely on paid whor…sex workers to find some place to plant their unworthy seeds.

          • Walter B April 30, 2019 at 8:36 pm #

            Men have engaged in less then discretionary entanglements with women since the dawn of time and there has never been a lack of willing females to go with it. Our human sexuality can be a joy as well as a curse unfortunately.

          • EvelynV May 1, 2019 at 12:07 pm #

            Sure Walter sure.

            I’ll bet you were out there front and center defending Bubba when your party of cohorts were chasing him with torches and pitchforks.

          • JackStraw May 1, 2019 at 4:49 pm #

            The threat of nuclear annihilation has never left, so I’m not sure what you think has changed. It’s just another item on an ever expanding list.

            Sorry, but I think my point went over your head.

          • benr May 2, 2019 at 2:16 pm #

            @evilyn

            -Also, I’m pretty sure back in the day the men elected has enough class they didn’t have to rely on paid whor…sex workers to find some place to plant their unworthy seeds.-

            First you come off as jealous as hell everyone is getting some but you and as nasty as your attitude is I can see why.

            Second off I reference Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy brothers!

        • EvelynV May 2, 2019 at 8:57 pm #

          Sure I do benr (what is that? short for BENd oveR?)

          You do realize when a guy claims his Conestoga covered wagon was a chick magnet he’s talking about chicks who probably wear the same brand of Depends as him don’t you?

  44. FincaInTheMountains April 29, 2019 at 1:04 pm #

    This crisis of scientific thinking is associated not so much with the development of science as such, but with the Western European mentality formed by the Great Schism.

    This is manifested in the fact that since the time of Barlaam of Calabria and William of Ockham in the West, the individual (private) and / or material is considered real.

    Within the Eastern European mentality formed by Orthodoxy, “reality” as a philosophical category is derived from the so-called ontological reality (as created from nothing by the Lord God) within the framework of the Abrahamic tradition of pre-Christian Judaism and received final confirmation by the fact of God-incarnation.

    Russian science, spawned by Peter the Great and Mikhail Lomonosov, initially took technical competition with Western science, without taking Western European mentality as a basis.

    Moreover, it successfully withstood this competition, which was manifested in particular in the works of Nikolai Lobachevsky, Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolai Vavilov, Alexander Friedman, Igor Tamm, etc. The works of these scientists not only accounted for the glory of Russian science and demonstrated the advantages of the Eastern European mentality as a philosophical basis of science, but also show ways to overcome the current crisis of the scientific method, thereby allowing you to breathe a new life into the secular optimism of futurological concepts #2 and # 3.

    Moreover, the fact that for Christian morality the pessimistic scenario is categorically unacceptable, since the hypothesis of the collapse of mankind into two biologically different species makes the incarnation of God into man absurd, means that it is possible to use a powerful resource of Orthodox ethics in Russia as a source of social optimism and socially conservative synthesis.

    Indeed, only Orthodoxy makes it possible to combine the history of the Russian Empire and the history of the Soviet Union from the confrontation with the Livonian Order to the Red Banner on the roof of the Reichstag and form the concept of Katechon as the “Restraining Power”.

    If we proceed from the Abrahamist concept of “In the beginning was the Word,” Russia cannot emerge from an almost hundred-year crisis without restoring the “the time which out of joint” and not overcoming the concept imposed by the West on Russia as a completely new state that has no connection with the destroyed “Empire of Evil” and pre-revolutionary Russia.

    Indeed, it is quite obvious that modern Russia, having assumed the role of the successor of the historic Russia, denies itself, and this cannot but affect the consciousness of Russian citizens.

    The restoration of the unity of consciousness of the Russians, expressed by the words of St. Alexander Nevsky “God is not in strength, but in Truth” and Stalin’s words “Our cause is Right – Victory will be Ours” can not only prevent the pessimistic scenario (futurological concept #1) and minimize negative effects of the global crisis on the Russian economy, but also turn Russia into a leader in building a post-crisis economy.

  45. MiddlePeninsula April 29, 2019 at 1:13 pm #

    While I am waiting for all the catastrophes to arrive, I have moved to horror of all horrors, a golf community. It is out in the willy wags and alas, my car score is “zero”. I grew up in the sixties in suburbia and unfortunately, I don’t have the bandwidth to deal with city life. High taxes, poor services, bad schools, cars being broken into ….no thanks. If the City of Baltimore wants to blame me for its ills, go for it. Of course in S.F., I could spend my time chasing the poopers off my block. How special is that?

    Oh, and I see the stars at night and if I am very lucky, I can hear a train in the distance.

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    • Exscotticus April 29, 2019 at 2:39 pm #

      Sadly, we’re quickly running out of places to escape to.

      I visited friends at a golf community. Few drove cars, as everyone just did their shopping using their electric golf carts. It allowed the elderly to be extremely mobile. Better for the environment, too.

      And for those who think that a golf course is an environmental disaster, I would ask: compared to what? Being paved over for a parking lot? Being developed into tract housing? Wildlife seems to adapt to golf courses pretty well. I’ll take open green spaces over many other competing alternatives.

      • Mountain gal April 30, 2019 at 1:10 am #

        “Sadly, we’re quickly running out of places to escape to.” And yet they keep admitting more immigrants to the US which keeps growing. I can’t stand being around lots of people, concrete, noise, traffic. Hard to find a place like that anymore if you don’t want to live in the middle of a desert or something.

      • benr May 2, 2019 at 2:20 pm #

        Is an electric golf car really better?
        I seriously doubt it that electricity is produced using “dirty perto-tech or bird murdering wind power or worse Nuclear power the very dirtiest and hardest to clean up when it all goes wrong.
        If its solar cells they are toxic as hell to make with a limited life cycle some would have us believe there is such a thing as green energy the very concept at this point is a joke they all have their toxic by products!
        Lest we forgot the very batteries themselves are toxic and dirty.

  46. Robert White April 29, 2019 at 1:22 pm #

    Mature writers are great for getting into that which is existential & sociological. I’m a big fan of the existentialist era of writing and kept thinking about Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock & The Third Wave as I was reading today’s article. And I agree with the totality of today’s lecture as we are all living in somewhat of a depersonalized lifestyle via metadata collected whilst we surf.

    When we analyse our current illusory civilization it is easy to see that it is hierarchically driven top down both economically & socially to a point of a great divide between those that control the so-called ‘matrix’ and those that don’t. In Mechanical Engineering we have driver gears driving the driven gears for machine work in applications like lathes. In society the driver gears & driven gears are highly worn leading to systemic breakdown of the overall mechanistic ‘machine’ world view that the lion’s share of the population has towards our current existential conundrum.

    The ghost in the machine is the haunting specter of the breakdown of the glue that binds civilization cohesively and allows it to be productive with some semblance of growth whether micro or macro.
    Today we have a parasitic class reaping the whirlwind off of the indentured into servitude class which promulgates a class consciousness that seems to be simmering along the lines of overthrow of the elite class that are driving us into mass conflagration with the driving lash of the tyrannous corporate elite that care not for our worldview or that of civilization.

    As human beings we are tasked to live life as a unified whole in terms of population. As citizens we are obligated to be fair and show compassion for our fellow human beings whereas the corporate citizen is fully permitted to undermine our collective social safety & economic safety by becoming predatory towards us instead of helpful & compassionate as we have all been raised to be towards others as part of a shared social structure we call civilization.

    The corporatist elite are a predatory class of individuals that need to be removed from our midst and replaced with some semblance of order that is less destructive towards civilization and the people it houses. The corporatist class has victimized us all to a point of the breakdown of vast proportions of our populations worldwide and it looks as though there is going to be no let up in their agenda to grind us all down to dust or Soylent Green if they can profit from it.

    The time is ripe for revolution when the systemic suffering is never addressed or ameliorated by the elite scumbaggery that are currently doing everything they can do to undermine the power that the population has towards its own future. We all know how we got here on the path set since Bretton Woods was instituted. We all know that William Jefferson Clinton, Republican Senator Phil Gramm, & the Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan conspired to repeal Glass-Steagall Act so that the Securities & Exchange Commission could extend their leverage limits to the wholly insolvent Wall Street marquee banks and allow incompetent investment bankers like Richard ‘the gorilla of Wall Street’ Fuld to leverage the fourth largest investment bank in the world 44:1 and blow trillions of US taxpayer dollars up the butts of American taxpayers in the form of smoke just for the profit & bonus that was due to the executive class of predators & parasites.

    I’m all for bringing the entire predator class under complete control before they annihilate us all systemically by their collective incompetence which is obviously fueling the normlessness or anomie that is prevailing in terms of our current modern day culture of depersonalization & discontent of most that are consciously aware of what is manifesting social & politically since the GFC woke us all up from our illusory consumerist cultural death in 08.

    RW

  47. KarlDehrmann April 29, 2019 at 1:31 pm #

    Look at the bright side, Jim. You spent the bulk of your time on this Earth riding the waive at the very pinnacle of energy extraction, progress, and human achievement. With the pace at which the collapse has been unfolding, you’re likely to join Jay Hanson in the safety of the grave before the schumer really hits the fan. At 40, I’m afraid I’m likely to be well into my dotage right when the need for physical stamina and strength is greatest. I’m betting my way out of this world is likely to be by way of violence or privation.

    Also, my children are still young. 10 or 20 more years of extend and pretend would be fine by me as our bellies are still full each night, and our beds warm. I’ll take that with the accompanying cultural circus over the long emergency every time.

  48. doggersize April 29, 2019 at 1:38 pm #

    the Model T had about 20 horsepower, 45 miles per hour, and 21 miles per gallon. Aside from the warmongering and financial crackups, America has plenty of wiggle room to produce most of the comforts and conventions Americans produce and that that Americans like to produce and consume.

    • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 3:59 pm #

      I have always had that suspicion too. I know that economically from a profit and cost perspective it doesn’t make sense for us to produce most everything here at home but shouldn’t we do so for national security reasons if anything else? We have the resources and capacity for it. What better way to bring manufacturing back once and for all. And we could keep every able bodied adult busy in one form or another. The system we have now does not make any sense but as others here suggest we are simply in a safe and comfortable rut. Well I should say the people making all of the profits because of the current arrangements are comfortable and the peasants with pitchforks are still at home being good boys and girls.

      • doggersize April 29, 2019 at 4:36 pm #

        most of the money is in advertising!

    • Farmer McGregor April 29, 2019 at 8:46 pm #

      Gotta jump on that Model T info: Yes, about 20 HP with a young engine hitting well on all cylinders — each cylinder had its own spark coil, and they could be finicky if not tuned correctly or had iffy connections in the ‘coil box’. And the spark advance was manually controlled so it took some skill to trim it just right to avoid overheating and engine knock.

      21 MPG? Not so much, maybe in optimal highway conditions. Maybe. Super inefficient carburetor (the one on your lawn mower is much more sophisticated) combined with a crude engine put it closer to 10 to 15 MPG. Maybe.

      I’ve put a fair number of miles on a “T”, and I can tell you that if you got one up to 45 MPH it was going downhill with a tail wind. And then it would scare the bejeezus outa ya’ cuz you’d think it was gonna fly into pieces. The steering gearbox ratio was such that a slight turn of the steering wheel had a large impact on the aspect of the front tires which were around 30 inches in diameter with wooden spokes and definitely not balanced or well aligned — not difficult to collapse if hit with much lateral force. At 45 that clunky engine was way over red line.

      I won’t even go into the problems with the brakes which were actuated within the transmission, acting only on the drive train and rear wheels. It was virtually impossible to lock the brakes without tearing something up, and if they were not kept properly adjusted they might not work at all.

      Helluva lot of fun to drive, though. A total chick magnet in a college town. Used to use the crank to start the engine when in public even though the 1922 and up models had electric starters.

      • EvelynV May 2, 2019 at 1:17 pm #

        And yet Farmer McGregor you claim the woman terrorized by your leering at the grocery story was 20 years older than you? If you were a BMOC with a model “T” she must have been a hottie in a buckboard.

      • benr May 2, 2019 at 3:36 pm #

        You do realize there are people who own history cars that were not alive when said car was in production?
        Honestly why are you always so nasty?

        • EvelynV May 2, 2019 at 8:52 pm #

          Sure I do benr (what is that? short for BENd oveR?)

          You do realize when a guy claims his Conestoga covered wagon was a chick magnet he’s talking about chicks who probably wear the same brand of Depends as him don’t you?

  49. Q. Shtik April 29, 2019 at 1:43 pm #

    Green Alba,

    Just want to tie up a loose end from earlier this month:

    Google says: Putting periods after abbreviations (or not) is a little-known difference between British English and American English. … British writers, however, make a distinction: abbreviations that are written with the first and last letter of the word (as in Dr. for Doctor and Mr. for Mister) do not get a period.

    So it’s one of those British vs (vs.) American English things.

    • malthuss April 29, 2019 at 1:47 pm #

      I was in Asia. Were you?

    • GreenAlba April 29, 2019 at 1:52 pm #

      I think that’s what I said, Q, when I said ‘we’ don’t use etc. etc. 🙂

      That’s what I meant anyway, that it was a ‘tomahtoes/tomaytoes’ thing.

      I think our way is logical, though (well, I would…) because the full stop stands for something truncated and there’s nothing truncated after the ‘r’ in ‘Dr’ or ‘Mr’.

      But I’m sure you’ll remember it now and not think we’ve just lazily left off the period! And it’s not one to fall out about.

  50. finuch April 29, 2019 at 2:18 pm #

    lateStarter … thanks for the Paolo Bacigalupi article. It’s brilliant, sobering, and dovetails nicely with JHK’s post today.

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  51. Soloview April 29, 2019 at 2:25 pm #

    Interesting, as always. I am not sure whether Jim is aware of the debate between Ray Kurzweil and Kevin Driscoll over the future of AI. Ray holds that we are on our way even better and more reliable future super-complex AI systems, whereas Kevin believes that IT systems have already maxed out, are beginning to break down, and will continue to slide. The two opposing views are an important as – unbeknowst to most people – trading on world financial markets is now almost fully controlled by machine algorithms which are not controlled by humans. In fact, as Andrew Smart has pointed out (in “Beyond Zero and One”), humans simply take cues from machines, because no one individual is capable of understanding the complexity of the calculations. So, the take-home point is that the post-2008 calibrations of the markets with its fast-corrected “corrections” projecting upward are machine designed and procured. This, on the hand explains Kurzweil’s optimism – as he imagines the upward trend can be sustained forever – as it is built into the logic that humans slavishly follow, but on the other hand, makes Driscoll’s grasp of Heisenberg ever more scary because in it the overall structural stability of the systems eventually crashes under its own weight. But, and there is a pointer to Jim Kunstler, it is not the weight of the immorality in the racket, but technological issues with boards and chips that if they get even little unstable will, in the humungous complexity easily cascade to a complete system shutdown. Driscoll gives an example of a 2008 Space Shuttle incident in which the mission had to be aborted because of a failure of a single resistor on a single board. There have been already crashes on the NYSE, with NASDAQ down because of a technical glitch, in 2013 and a mysterious “Flash Crash” in 2010 in which DJIA went down and up 600 points within minutes! As someone put it Smart’s book, the big crash will most likely come because the probability of an event occuring will not be as negligible, as the machines told humans it would be.

    • Tate April 29, 2019 at 2:50 pm #

      These technical glitches cause ‘flash crashes’, which are ephemeral events. It’s when trend uniformity breaks that major events happen, that is to say, when real people intervene due to value considerations. Someone said that business cycles have been replaced by credit cycles. Tail wagging the dog kind of thing.

      • malthuss May 1, 2019 at 12:22 am #

        business cycles have been replaced by credit cycles.

        I guess, when industry is in China and Banks are in London.

        Globalism.

    • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 3:53 pm #

      So basically the current status quo is even more flimsy than we thought. We have put ourselves in such a corner that a small little chip could cause Armageddon, or an errant algorithm could herald the Apocalypse. More miracles from wolves in sheep’s clothing I guess.

    • “Artificial Intelligence” is an euphemism for “Statistical Inference from Large Data Sets” which is less sexy, and less intelligent, according to one expert recently interviewed for Sam Harris’s podcast.

      These same techniques are being used to patch the problems of outlier Black Swans in the financial system, though. So prior incidents don’t necessarily mean the system is more sensitive to freak accidents going forward as long as technical issues are resolved. If there is a “Big Crash” I expect it will have relatively mundane as opposed to esoteric causes. All that is required is overvaluation and a cascade of liquidation.

      • Soloview April 30, 2019 at 12:13 am #

        I have heard that AI is no more than turbocharged “statistical inference”. I don’t subscribe to that notion, especially since in the last twenty years the AI greatest thrust has been in Machine Learning. ML assumes discrete strategies in data selection and pattern recognition which go way beyond “mere” inferences. There are active operations of creating “fuzzy” and “focused” algorithmic concepts which are then tested against general and specific data. In many functions AI is by definition “meta-statistical” as it assumes purposeful (or quasi-purposeful) selection and targeting of data. IIUC, this has especially played out of the Artificial Neuronal Network research.
        The problem with all this is that at some point the machine’s “thinking” will (or actually already has) become too complex to read for a single human or even a group of smart humans. On a rudimentary level one can describe it as Kasparov’s headache. So, I don’t believe in Black Swans in financial systems “glitches” for the same reason I don’t believe two Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed because of a “mundane” software bug. It was a multi-level systemic error in the MCAS automation. And this is a plane design which was run through exhaustive battery of tests before launch. It did not “manifest” itself before it killed hundreds of people. Now imagine thousands of robot traders optimizing yields and cutting losses against each other based on quadrillion calculations. Incidentally, I don’t know how the programs hedge against overvaluation and cascading liquidation. Do you?

    • Robert White April 29, 2019 at 7:57 pm #

      All Automated Intelligence-AI software is programmed & coded logic that simply executes order buy & sell side trading of whatever commodities the programmers want to program trades in. The written code is simply directing computer computation of ‘if & ‘then’ decision rules that direct either ‘0’ or ‘1’ digital ASCII Machine Language to perform high frequency trading within nanoseconds of trade executions so that the high frequency traders can front-run order buying & selling just before orders are cleared on exchanges.
      High Frequency Trading is simple machine language that is all traceable whereby any gumshoe could follow the paper trail from analysis of the trading exchange tape. It is no mystery to anyone with any knowledge of machine language.

      You can’t blame the machines when the profits go to the bankers that own the machines and the losses go to the poor sot taxpayers as socialized financial loss that bankers only profit from when they lose their bets. Heads the bankers win & tails the bankers win again, eh.

      RW

      • Soloview April 30, 2019 at 12:21 am #

        Dear Robert, the AI software is anything but “simple”. It is looking at huge amounts of data and compares different outcomes of similar trends before buying and selling. BTW, I am not blaming the machines for anything. Actually, even blaming the bankers strikes me like blaming dogs for having fleas.

        • Robert White April 30, 2019 at 9:08 am #

          I learned to programme very early in life with Computerized Numerical Control-CNC & Computer Aided Manufacture-CAM.
          Previous to that I was programming Numerical Control-NC Machines for metalwork. Programming is extremely easy and simple most of the time. High Frequency Trading is by no means more difficult than circular interpolation on computerized numerical control with a five axis capability.

          Machine Language is so simple that even Gomer Pile could do it. Reading the tape is not difficult if one knows how to read the tape. And anything controlled by a machine is programmed with ‘0’s & ‘1’s in ASCII code. Digital binary evidence cannot be erased or manipulated. The software either works or it doesn’t.

          Lastly, bankers are responsible for their underlings & subordinates. Criminal Intent laws & plausible deniability allow the bankster class of predators to fleece at will with impunity.

          In the case of Wall Street the bankers are both the fleas & dogs as well as tape worms and any other parasites you can think of off the top of your head.

          Bankers should be put on a leash just like a dog too. Frankly, we should fit them with muzzles & electronic shock collars for good measure. And we should get them neutered so that they can’t procreate. That ought to fix the little bastards.

          RW

    • K-Dog April 30, 2019 at 3:47 am #

      Kurzweil, like a lucky dog, had his day.

  52. BuckP April 29, 2019 at 2:59 pm #

    Brilliant essay today Jim!

    The following is excerpted from a March 8, 2019, essay on the Epsilon Theory webpage entitled “Fiat World” written by Ben Hunt.

    “So it struck me … OF COURSE we borrow record sums to live a daily life beyond our means. OF COURSE we swallow (literally) the inflation that engulfs us with our $4.99 per lb. chicken breasts and our $1000 smartphones.
    THIS is the cave in which inflation hides … our Fiat Lifestyle, where we simply declare into existence the manner in which we deserve to live. Declared into existence exactly like everything else in the Fiat World.
    Pulled into the present from our future selves and our children. Without a second thought.”

    https://www.epsilontheory.com/fiat-world/

  53. Tate April 29, 2019 at 3:23 pm #

    On April 28, Tate said:

    “No big deal if it’s [a terrorist attack] meted out to Christians. If the target is a mosque or synagogue, for some reason, it becomes a very big deal.”

    On April 29, GreenAlba replied:

    “No big deal? You people keep coming out with this grotesque nonsense, as if you were totally unaware of the reaction all over the world to Bataclan, Charlie Hebdo, Nice, London, Manchester or Sri Lanka. I haven’t seen the New Zealand flag superimposed on buildings and on pictures everywhere online the way the French one was. Or everyone saying the equivalent of ‘Je suis Charlie’ – everywhere.

    ‘Someone else’ did this the other day, claiming the reaction to the Sri Lankan attack was nothing about the victims and all about the poor Muslims who risked reprisals. To which I offered three articles within the very same day all about the victims from the pretty liberal Guardian – no mention about the Muslim population until a couple of days later when it was mentioned that 800 ordinary Muslims had had to be hidden for their own safety, which was justified news too but didn’t get any more than that mention, as far as I could see.

    It’s pathetic – why don’t you give it up.

    I didn’t put a question mark at the end of that question because it’s not really a question. We know why you won’t give it up.”

    Tate comment:

    A couple of weeks back I was watching a Netflix 3-part documentary on the Paris attacks culminating with Bataclan. It was in French with English subtitles. Not one mention during the entire three hour production of the religious/ethnic background of the attackers, as if their crimes were completely without motive. The viewer is left to assume some free-floating angst on the Terrorists’ part.

    This is how the globalist corporatist media shape the narrative & is key to the difference in treatment, which you seek to obscure. Obviously, the media can’t completely ignore a large-scale outrage such as this. But when it’s a mosque or synagogue, it’s always because of “white nationalism” or some such handy label (this is true, hilariously, even when it’s discovered much later after the hasty judgement is rushed to the public what the actual motives of the attacker is — who is usually a Lone Wolf by the way. Often it has nothing to do with white identity or supremacy or anything of the sort.) But when the attackerS are Islamists, their identity & motives are downplayed, because, you know, we can’t rush to judgement & risk offending the delicate sensibilities of the Muslim squatters who have taken up residence in our lands.

    Furthermore, who is “we” & how do YOU know why I won’t “give it up?”

    • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 3:46 pm #

      Oh dear, this is going to be a rough one so buckle up lol. We all know the general consensus of the Western MSM masters and the political establishment is to always genuflect to Islam. I mean look, after Christchurch all of New Zealand was supposed to don the hijab and probably profess the shahada too (yes exaggeration on my part!). Not one political figure that I am aware of said that we all have to wear crucifixes to remember those killed in Sri Lanka. I mean it is so in your face it isn’t funny. It is actually angering and its insulting to non-Muslims (most people in the world). But heaven forbid you recognize their psychological games. Then you are just becoming a far-right nut job who can’t put together sentences or think logically.

    • Exscotticus April 29, 2019 at 3:57 pm #

      >>> I was watching a Netflix 3-part documentary

      I made the mistake of watching Netflix’s “The Silence”. This idiotic film is what every city-dwelling liberal thinks is going to happen when calamity strikes, the restaurants close, and even the Korean deli on the corner shutters its doors.

      First, they’ll use their superior intelligence to egress the dense urban areas where they live, somehow bypassing all traffic jams, and make it out to the countryside where all the deplorable Trump voters live.

      Then they’ll use their city-privilege and superior intelligence to commandeer resources from the country-bumpkin morons, who will mostly be dead already. The rural areas will be vast swathes of empty homesteads fully stocked with food and firearms just waiting for superior liberals to take over!

      Although they despise firearms, have never owned or used them, and vote against their lawful ownership every chance they get, these liberals will somehow be completely familiar with firearm operation and use, and will depend on firearms for their survival.

      Naturally, they’ll encounter a few rural holdouts who refuse to let social Darwinism win. These will be religious nutters of course. And despite the fact that these local yokels know the area and have all the advantages, they’ll be easily defeated because they lack liberal intelligence, values, and social media (which liberals invented right after Al Gore invented the Internet).

      With the power of social media, which will remarkably still work even after entire cities are laid to waste, they’ll be able to find a safe haven and ultimately adopt the ways of the very country-bumpkin morons they once despised. Only they’ll have the aforementioned social media. Which makes them human.

      • elysianfield April 29, 2019 at 9:42 pm #

        “Then they’ll use their city-privilege and superior intelligence to commandeer resources from the country-bumpkin morons,”

        Exscott,

        “…Why sure, we can put you up for the night…but you’ll have to sleep with my daughter….”

        • Exscotticus April 30, 2019 at 10:21 am #

          Oh liberals know all about that, too! The mountain folk are desperate for new genes after generations of inbreeding

        • S M Tenneshaw May 1, 2019 at 2:31 am #

          Anti-white racism really isn’t any better than any other kinda racism.

    • GreenAlba April 29, 2019 at 5:24 pm #

      Tate

      “A couple of weeks back I was watching a Netflix 3-part documentary on the Paris attacks culminating with Bataclan. It was in French with English subtitles. Not one mention during the entire three hour production of the religious/ethnic background of the attackers, as if their crimes were completely without motive. The viewer is left to assume some free-floating angst on the Terrorists’ part.”

      Sadly (owing to your dishonest and inaccurate ‘quotes’ from ‘Call the Midwife’ on a previous occasion – which I was able to verify for myself) I don’t entirely trust you enough to believe that without seeing it myself and I don’t have access to Netflix.

      But let’s give you the benefit of the doubt. Why would you think one Netflix documentary would wipe out the experience of all the people who held vigils after Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan. Who stated and re-stated their refusal to give in to the forces of anti-liberalism and the values of true secularism. Who marched and held vigils to re-iterate their commitment to free speech and expression even in in the form of ‘offensive’ cartoons?

      All of which was extensively covered in the media, where I personally viewed it all.

      I haven’t read so much about the attacks on synagogues in San Diego and Pittsburgh, for example, but that’s entirely my fault.

      • Tate April 29, 2019 at 6:15 pm #

        I assure you there was absolutely no mention of the terrorists’ ethnicity or beliefs, although their ethnic identities were suggested by their names as they addressed one another as overheard by their hostages.

        I have only a vague recollection of ‘Call the Midwife.’ Can you give me a date where I made that comment? I can’t recall ever watching that show.

        • GreenAlba April 29, 2019 at 6:51 pm #

          No I can’t. And the comment won’t be there any more. It wasn’t from the show, you quoted an incident from the original book, which wasn’t what actually happened. I googled it and, unusually, found the full text of the book online so I found the incident and it wasn’t the same at all, as I told you at the time.

          From memory you said that the (black or other ‘foreign’) owners of a cafe had made an innocent young girl (white, naturally) dance on a table then service the clients in the cafe, when what actually happened was that the girl was only in the cafe – no-one harmed her – and she was there while a prostitute came in, by agreement and for a fee, to dance on the table and all the rest.

          Then you entirely missed out the bit where she was taken (by an innocent priest who was genuinely concerned with her care) to a Catholic institution where the Reverend Mother sold her child without her permission. So what harm was actually done to her wasn’t done by anyone black but by a white religious order. None of it mentioned by you, naturally. Probably because you were repeating someone else’s propaganda from some grubby corner of the internet, unless you prefer to take responsibility for the dishonesty entirely on yourself.

          But I’m happy to take your word for the Netflix programme, although it sounds highly unlikely. As I said it’s one documentary and doesn’t negate what I said.

          I followed all of these Islamist attacks closely. You’ll remember I was in Paris the weekend of the Bataclan attack and I take a close interest anyway because I have strong French connections – and the idea that the identify of the perpetrators, their motives, the horror of what they did or anything else to do with them was glossed over is ridiculous. The individuals were mostly identified in very short order – one of them was in my friend’s daughter’s class at school.

          Here they all are having their identity entirely ignored by the media:

          https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34832512

          • Tate April 29, 2019 at 10:17 pm #

            So next you’ll claim that the Muslim rape gangs of numerous towns in Britain are a figment of the febrile imaginations of us ‘far right-wingers’, I suppose. Despite the fact that many of the Paki scum have been duly convicted in courts of law & sent to prison.

            And then you make a low-down accusation against a nun that she sold a white girl into slavery. Have you no shame?

            Anyone who witnessed that Netflix program knows that I speak the truth. The most innocent interpretation is that the producers of the show thought that since everyone knew the identities of the terrorists, there was no point in dwelling on it.

            You can assign any motive you want to the omission, but I think it’s of a piece with the whole, the whole being a certain mindset among the wokester brigades that by shaping the narrative to downplay the threat until it’s impossible to be resisted, the takeover will become a fait accompli. Their goal: the complete dissolution of Western civilization. So far, right on schedule & according to plan.

          • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 12:58 am #

            Tate, she is Cleo, Queen of Denial.
            UK is ruined.

          • GreenAlba April 30, 2019 at 7:31 am #

            Tate

            “Anyone who witnessed that Netflix program knows that I speak the truth. “

            I agreed to take your word for it, Tate, even though you previously demonstrated that your word should not be taken at face value. Put it down to unjustified magnanimity on my part.

            The most innocent interpretation is that the producers of the show thought that since everyone knew the identities of the terrorists, there was no point in dwelling on it.”

            I would have thought that was an entirely obvious conclusion. It was certainly mine. If they didn’t want to attract attention to the phenomenon of Islamist terrorism, why make the programme at all?

            So next you’ll claim that the Muslim rape gangs of numerous towns in Britain are a figment of the febrile imaginations of us ‘far right-wingers’, I suppose. Despite the fact that many of the Paki scum have been duly convicted in courts of law & sent to prison.

            Since you have entirely made that up, you merely remind me, yet again, of previous instances where you have shown yourself to be a nasty, shameless old man who is quite happy to engage in slander and calumny. I find you worse than Janos and that’s saying something. You ‘suppose’? Don’t suppose, nasty old man, read my posts on the matter.

            And then you make a low-down accusation against a nun that she sold a white girl into slavery. Have you no shame?

            You, Tate, were the person who directed me to the book. It is not a novel, it is the memoirs of a midwife and her experiences in the East End of London. I have it on my Kindle, since the bits I read (thanks to your shameless lies) put me in the mood to read it, not that I have yet, my Kindle being rather full of such impulse purchases. But I shall.

            Please point to the part in my post where I said the child was sold into slavery? Is this how you process information? Don’t bother to answer that…

            The child – a baby – was sold to adoptive parents. The child’s mother (the one you were so concerned about that you posted your comment in the first place) was not consulted, as was the way. The child was stolen. The author of the book – the midwife – went to seethe mother because she was concerned at the heartbroken letter the young women wrote to her – and discovered that the Reverend Mother had stolen her child for adoption.

            Since the story comes from the author of the book, I would say please do feel free to take the matter up with her, but unfortunately she died in 2011.

          • Tate April 30, 2019 at 3:44 pm #

            You say you agree to take my word for it, & then everything else you say undercuts that statement. But that’s not being dishonest, no.

            You say I “have entirely made” up a provable fact, that the Pakis who belonged to these rape gangs, many of them, have been convicted in courts of law for their abuses & sent to prison. Really? None of that happened? Can you point me to sources to prove that I made it all up?

            I do enjoy seeing your facade of civility slip occasionally so that you reveal the person behind the mask, so if that makes me a “nasty, shameless old man,” then it’s worth the price.

            As for adoption by persons biologically unrelated to the child, to my mind, that is the equivalent of slavery, although I know this isn’t a common opinion. But the nun who sold the child is guilty of an unconscionable act to be sure.

          • GreenAlba April 30, 2019 at 8:44 pm #

            Tate

            Let’s take this slowly…

            “You say you agree to take my word for it, & then everything else you say undercuts that statement. But that’s not being dishonest, no.

            I said already that I’d take your word for what was in your Netflix documentary, even though it seemed unlikely. Put it the other way round if you prefer – it seems unlikely but I nevertheless take your word for it. I don’t see what’s unfair or dishonest about that. Maybe I’m missing something. I then agreed that the likeliest reason was the one you described as the most innocent option, thereby implicitly agreeing yet again that I took your word for what was – or rather wasn’t – in the documentary. I don’t know what your problem is with that.

            You say I “have entirely made” up a provable fact, that the Pakis who belonged to these rape gangs, many of them, have been convicted in courts of law for their abuses & sent to prison. Really? None of that happened? Can you point me to sources to prove that I made it all up?

            Oh dear. If you’d bothered to pay attention to what I actually said (e.g. where I indicated that you should read my posts on the subject, of which have been quite a few), that would have helped. I didn’t accuse you of making up the story about the grooming gangs, but of gratuitously inventing my supposed denial of it, which I consider a quite disgraceful calumny. That is why I said ‘don’t suppose’, since what you supposed, somewhat bizarrely, is that I’d deny the existence of grooming gangs which I have repeatedly denounced on this very site, as any decent person would.

            I hope we are now clear.

            And yes, I still have the same opinion of you, in part because of the above gratuitous invention, and in part because of the lies you made up regarding the East End story, which bore no resemblance to what was actually in the book, for your own propagandist purposes.

            What happened to ‘thou shalt not bear false witness’?

            As for adoption by persons biologically unrelated to the child, to my mind, that is the equivalent of slavery, although I know this isn’t a common opinion. But the nun who sold the child is guilty of an unconscionable act to be sure.

            Well I don’t know anyone who thinks adoption by persons biologically unrelated to a child, given that that’s the case in practically all adoptions, has anything to do with slavery, but you’re entitled to your unusual opinion.

            However, I’m glad we agree that the practice of taking young women’s babies and giving them to third parties without the permission of the mother is indeed unconscionable. It appears nevertheless not to have been an isolated incident.

    • Sam Harris’s latest podcast on “What do Jihadists want” is a literal reading of the ISIS publication “Dabiq”, which neatly demonstrates that you literally cannot separate the ideology from the doctrine and touches on the phenomenon of avoiding any attribution for responsibility on Islam itself… Rigorous religious liberalism means capitulation to the idea that the Koran not just equivalent to the Bible, but on a higher plateau, and must be immune from criticism.

      • GreenAlba April 29, 2019 at 7:03 pm #

        Christopher Hitchens, who doesn’t have many friends on this site, describes in God is not Great the process by which the Koran was actually cobbled together. The idiocy of it actually defies belief.

        The fact remains that most everyday Muslims in Western countries do distance themselves from the unpalatable bits of it, just as neither you nor I have ever met a Christian who cut of his hand or poked out his eye as exhorted to in the Bible if either of these ‘offend’. If they took the Bible literally there would be hordes of men going about both handless and eyeless after a session on Pornhub.

        “And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and
        cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee
        that one of thy members should perish, and not
        that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”

        “And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out,
        and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for
        thee that one of thy members should perish, and
        not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”

        And that doesn’t even have the excuse of being in the Old Testament. But I guess it is at least your own eye you’ve to pluck out and your own hand you’ve to cut off if you’ve been thinking naughty thoughts about your friend’s missus.

        Islam would probably prefer to blame the missus first.

        • GreenAlba April 29, 2019 at 7:04 pm #

          cut *off*

        • debt April 29, 2019 at 9:34 pm #

          Islam would beat the missus first. Sanctioned in the Koran.

          • GreenAlba April 30, 2019 at 7:40 am #

            Beating the missus was sanctioned in Western ‘Christian’ societies until relatively recently. Now it still goes on, though less pervasively (in all strata of society) but the evil b*****ds can at least be sent to jail.

        • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 1:00 am #

          Peter Hitchens, yes.

          C H was a fat, drunken, hateful disgusting person.
          Maybe someone could write a long [or short] book titled,
          Chistopher Hitchens was not great.

          followed by,

          Hitchens is now in the missionary position, praise God.

          • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 2:22 am #

            I remember Christopher Hitchens as one of the few people to denounce Mother Theresa.

            Christopher Hitchens called Mother Teresa “a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud,” arguing that “even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed.

            I have to chuckle at the audacity of the scamp. I wonder if he put kittens into blenders as a hangover remedy.

          • Ol' Scratch April 30, 2019 at 10:32 am #

            Don’t be silly. Everyone knows you have to microwave them first (just until they pop, not a second longer), THEN they go into the blender afterward. Mmm mmm good!

          • GreenAlba April 30, 2019 at 10:47 am #

            malthuss

            “Maybe someone could write a long [or short] book titled,
            Chistopher Hitchens was not great.”

            I think you’d have found Mr Hitchens would have been happy to write a (short) book with that title. He did not seem to consider himself ‘great’. He considered himself a mere mortal with all the faults that come with that, of which he was entirely aware.

            hmuller:

            Mother Theresa was far from universally admired, although the church did its best to make her so.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Mother_Teresa

            In 2013, in a comprehensive review covering 96% of the literature on Mother Teresa, a group of Université de Montréal academics reinforced the foregoing criticism [which you can read in the article], detailing, among other issues, the missionary’s practice of “caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it, … her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce”.

            Questioning the Vatican’s motivations for ignoring the mass of criticism, the study concluded that Mother Teresa’s “hallowed image—which does not stand up to analysis of the facts—was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media relations campaign” engineered by the Catholic convert and anti-abortion BBC journalist Malcolm Muggeridge.

            People will make their own minds up, presumably, according to taste, if they don’t wish to look into it. The use, for her canonisation, of a patient claimed to have been cured by having a locket containing her picture, while the patient’s own doctor confirmed that the patient had been cured by traditional medical treatment, was quite shocking, but not surprising, given the context.

            And she confided to Hitchens himself that she wasn’t doing her ‘work’ for the patients, as she wasn’t a ‘social worker’, but for the church.

            He then noted that when she needed treatment for herself for a heart condition, she chose to avail herself of the best that modern medicine could offer. Nice.

          • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 12:06 pm #

            Green Alba,

            I don’t really care much about Mother Teresa one way or the other. But you have to recognize that if someone wanted to do a hatchet job – oh say ,on you – they could probably dig up much juicier material than they did on the old nun.

            It’s not really fair to condemn her for “her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce”. She’s simply subscribing to the views of her church. Attack those fat guys with the big hats who set policy, not some simple believer.

            As far as “mismanaging funds”, cite something concrete and specific, don’t just drop innuendos all over the place. Anybody catch her sneaking off to Swiss spas with pilfered money? Renting boy toys? Anything?

            .

          • Elrond Hubbard April 30, 2019 at 1:04 pm #

            hmuller, according to this article, “doctors visiting many of the 517 ‘homes for the dying’ run by Mother Teresa observed unhygienic conditions and a shortage of actual care, food and painkillers. Lack of funds were no explanation, since Mother Teresa’s order of the Missionaries of Charity had raised hundreds of millions in aid money“.

            Presumably, those who donated the hundreds of millions had in mind that it would be used to care for the sick and dying. Since it apparently wasn’t, then what other use do you have in mind that amounts to proper management? I can’t think of one off the top of my head.

            For what it’s worth, the actual study by the UM scholars is paywalled, but here’s a link to the abstract:

            https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0008429812469894

          • Tate April 30, 2019 at 3:50 pm #

            “Christopher Hitchens… one of the few people to denounce Mother Theresa.”

            Add Green Alba to the list. It’s a short list & she’s on it. She denounced MT right here in this comment section not long ago as I recall.

          • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 4:19 pm #

            Thanks for your input, Elrond. But auditing the finances of a nun dead for 22 years is not how i want to spend my time.

            517 homes for the dying – you say. How many people per home times 50 years. That’s a lot of people. I think there were also orphanages, soup kitchens, houses for the poor, all kinds of work going on.

            If Mother Teresa was skimming money like a mafia casino mogul, what did she do with it? Play the ponies? Slip away to Macau for some fast table action? Collect rosaries like Imelda stockpiled shoes? Maybe she bought Indian politicians as part of her power games of intrigue.

            Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised if she had to grease some local palms in order to be allowed to operate. Ask any international charity about local pay outs to corrupt authorities.

            I’m not surprised conditions in her facilities were shabby by Western standards. It was India.

          • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 7:37 pm #

            “Mother” (fcker) Theresa was a hag who believed in the spirituality of suffering…other people’s suffering that is. Here own, not so much. When it came time for her dirt nap it was full steam ahead to get the best of everything she could to soften the transition.

          • GreenAlba April 30, 2019 at 8:13 pm #

            hmuller

            I don’t have that great an interest in the topic. I mentioned Christopher Hitchens in relation to the compilation of the Koran. In response you brought up his his alleged audacity in being one of the few people to denounce Mother Theresa, to which I responded that there were rather more than a few people who had cast aspersions on the integrity of her career.

            India, by the way, has excellent hospitals for those who can access them. It’s a medical tourism destination – if you need a new hip and don’t want to pay a fortune for it, India is an excellent place to get it done.

            But you have to recognize that if someone wanted to do a hatchet job – oh say ,on you – they could probably dig up much juicier material than they did on the old nun.

            If only, hm, if only… I’m afraid you’d be sadly disappointed with anything anyone could dig up on me. Even I’d be pleased to find something juicy 🙂 .

  54. Q. Shtik April 29, 2019 at 3:30 pm #

    as though we might return to a 1962 heyday – JHK

    ==============

    By chance I happened to have graduated college in 1962 when a semester’s tuition was about $400 and you could finish in 4 years, not 5, 6, or 7. I have always felt that I grew up in the sweet spot of American history.

    • SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 3:38 pm #

      And in some ways you have just never grown up :-).

      • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 11:44 am #

        compliment?

    • K-Dog April 30, 2019 at 3:33 am #

      As nice as basking in a nostalgic sun can be, back then there were a lot of chances but were there any second chances? Thinking was in a box with a pretty tight lid on it.

      Like catching a bus, if you did not get on when you were supposed to you were left behind. Finish in that four years or else. Wasn’t that the way it was?

  55. SoftStarLight April 29, 2019 at 3:34 pm #

    Well the choo choo train may have stopped before it got up to full speed for this one and I have to say it’s pretty awesome :-)! It looks like Pete Buttigieg is being accused of sexual assault. Who will the morphed #metoo take down next? I assume we need no real evidence and must believe the accuser. So hopefully his campaign ends like now. Maybe the Russians are setting him up? Or the accuser could be a Deep State agent? The conspiracies are always fun to consider. OR…will he get a big fat pass like Uncle Joe? After all I thought Pete was supposed to be super real and genuinely affectionate too.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/democrat-darling-pete-buttigieg-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-21-year-old-from-michigan/

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    • Tate April 29, 2019 at 3:49 pm #

      Another Kevin Spacey scenario, har-har. The #MeToo movement is no respecter of gender, Mayor Butt-itch-itch.

    • I’ll suspend judgement until Pucker hs posted 20 rhetorical questions about this gay episode.

      • Pucker April 29, 2019 at 7:09 pm #

        Latest Chasten Buttigieg tweet:

        “Bored on the flight so I started working on Buttijams: Pride Edition
        Recommendations?”

      • Majella May 1, 2019 at 10:28 pm #

        “A Facebook user Hunter Kelly says that the sexual assault allegations levied against Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a 2020 presidential candidate, are a hoax perpetrated by conservative hoaxer Jacob Wohl”

        • Majella May 1, 2019 at 10:29 pm #

          That’s from the link YOU posted, SSL…did you not even READ it?

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 1:08 am #

            Look below Mama Yella. I said it was fake news after the story was updated hours later. Your constant gotchyas make me yawn by the way.

    • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 11:40 am #

      I am pretty sure this story has been debunked as FAKE NEWS so I wanted to throw that in since I was responsible for the original post. Hah see, I admit when I am wrong :-P!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      • EvelynV May 2, 2019 at 1:32 pm #

        SSL-
        No, you don’t! You are wrong most of the time yet admit nothing!

        What you meant to say – “I admit I am wrong when the proof is so overwhelmingly in plain sight I have no choice if I don’t want to appear to be an even bigger fool.”

  56. Tate April 29, 2019 at 4:17 pm #

    According to Colin Flaherty, we’ve had eight mass shootings within the last 24 hours. Not one of them perped by a white man.

    https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/969451619612667904

    So wypipo have to give up our guns just because of the nogs’ poor impulse control & high time preferences? Sure it might go a long way to solving their problems but wouldn’t it exacerbate ours?

    Evolution is both local & recent.

    • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 1:02 am #

      really? i saw a flatscreen today,
      CNBC, if I recall,
      Concern about White Supremacists, synagogue shooting

      and
      LA wanna be bomber arrested.

      • BackRowHeckler April 30, 2019 at 3:39 am #

        There’s a madness loose across the land, like in 1860 Kansas.

        brh

        • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 11:46 am #

          I ignore much of it as I see too many odd connections. Sandyhook killers shrink was in NZ, as was J Podesta.
          Michelle in France, etc..too odd for me.

          • Majella May 1, 2019 at 10:38 pm #

            For Fuck’s Sake!

            “Sandyhook killers shrink was in NZ”.

            Such bald, misleading & salacious statements are simply designed to conjure up connections in the fevered minds of the likes of SSL, who will then repeat such BS without even checking the FACTS.

            “The former psychiatrist who treated the Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza, before moving to New Zealand has been arrested in his hometown in the United States.

            Paul Fox, who was employed by the Waikato District Health Board in 2012, was arrested at his home in Peaks Island, Maine, on April 20 in relation to an alleged sexual relationship with a former patient.

            US media have reported the woman, aged 18 or 19 at the time, claimed she’d had sex with him in his office, they’d gone out for dinner together and spent time on his boat.

            It is the same allegation that led to him voluntarily surrendering his US psychiatry license and that later led to public scrutiny over his credibility in New Zealand.”

            Nothing to do with Sandy Hook, or are you saying that the shrink is responsible for Lanza’s actions?

            https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11631987

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 1:14 am #

            Lol wow – a fevered mind eh? Well you know, I did hear that Michelle was happy and laughing as the cathedral burned. I also heard through the grapevine that Michelle and O’s daughters were rented. Joan Rivers messed up and said Michelle was Michael. Then she died a week later in strange circumstances….

  57. FincaInTheMountains April 29, 2019 at 6:23 pm #

    Representatives of newly proclaimed Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) were not allowed to attend the Easter service in the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Well, they didn’t give them the badges, confirming that they can serve together with the rest of Orthodox priests.

    Could just stand with the rest of the laity, listen. On the street. There is no harm from this.

    They say the check was very thorough. The Patriarch of Jerusalem is a strict shepherd; he will never let any schismatics into the Temple.

    And that the representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will try to take part in the service was known.

    As it turned out, the omnipotent Tomos, granting autocephaly to UOC, acts only on the territory of Ukraine. And even then, frankly, not everywhere.

  58. Pucker April 29, 2019 at 7:06 pm #

    The “Avengers: Endgame” is a 3 hour movie. I left during the third hour to get a cup of coffee, returning for the last 10 minutes. The popular preoccupation with cartoon hero movies may be a kind of societal psychosis? The Overton Window may be so narrow that people are fleeing Reality and quadrupling down on psychosis? James Howard Kunstler posits that society is now in a “liminal State” between a previous known condition moving towards something new which contours are not yet apparent. I suspect that the accelerating pace of technological change may mean a permanently unmoored social condition of perpetual rapid social and economic change such that society will go bonkers? Perpetual uncertainty and anxiety will create a mass neurosis. One can already see the ubiquitous angst in the society. Living around people going forward may become challenging because of the pervasive angst?

    • tucsonspur April 29, 2019 at 7:36 pm #

      Could be, it’s already kind of like that. My take is a sort of low level, simmering angst at this point. Technology and terrorism. Mass shootings, work place and road rage shootings, etc. The unsettling political divide. The absence of honesty and truth.

      So where are we going? Does the phrase “Per aspera ad astra” have any current relevance?

      Auden is again appropriate here:

      “We would rather be ruined than changed
      We would rather die in our dread
      Than climb the cross of the moment
      And let our illusions die.”

      “For the others, like me, there is only the flash
      Of negative knowledge, the night when, drunk, one
      Staggers to the bathroom and stares in the glass
      To meet one’s madness”

    • elysianfield April 29, 2019 at 9:50 pm #

      ” I suspect that the accelerating pace of technological change may mean a permanently unmoored social condition of perpetual rapid social and economic change such that society will go bonkers? Perpetual uncertainty and anxiety will create a mass neurosis. One can already see the ubiquitous angst in the society. Living around people going forward may become challenging because of the pervasive angst?”

      Puck,
      …Uhh, Yeah….

    • EvelynV April 30, 2019 at 7:42 pm #

      Pucker, well said ( I think) but beware the asymptote.

  59. Chris at Fernglade Farm April 29, 2019 at 7:06 pm #

    HI Jim,

    Hear! Hear! Yup, it sure does look weird to me too.

    Interestingly, your ‘Lefts’ talk of diversity looks to me to be a discussion of sexual preferences and poses. I’m old fashioned and don’t much care who sleeps with whom, as long as I don’t have to hear about it.

    Anyway, actual diversity of life choices is not something that your Left, or the Right for that matter, is willing to consider. There is loss of control and the ability to intermediate people should they move outside the accepted narrative – thus the pressure to lose oneself in the accepted narratives or opiates on offer such as all that free porn that people indulge in.

    I live in a rural area and manage to produce a lot of the food that I consume (not to mention energy and water) using old school methods, but this one example is a life choice which is met by fear from the population at large – and difficulty with intermediation by you know who. What the people are reflecting is umbrage at eschewing the limited choices on offer, and such fear is really about the choices that they themselves have made.

    Another one is being straight and choosing not to have kids. Try that choice for size if you want to experience societal pressure. What a nice bunch of people we all are.

    What I’ve been coming around to considering lately is that all of the very recent acceptance of the Left’s diversity (as previously mentioned as a sexualised set of choices and poses) and approved narrative is perhaps an outcome of successful political movements such as the win for the Marriage Equality movement. It was a bi-partisan group that won that political round of football, they showed their strength, and now they’ve allowed themselves to become a captured constituency politically – or at least that is what your Left is aiming for. I dunno, if I were them I’d concern myself with more practical matters and concerns and try to offer a reason for people to vote for them. It might be too much to ask for though.

    It sure will be a strange day when reality finally meets the synthetic and artificial reality. That would make for a truly interesting super hero movie.

    Hope you are keeping well and that the soil in your garden is warming up in readiness for a bounteous harvest later in the season.

    Chris

  60. Pucker April 29, 2019 at 7:22 pm #

    “That debacle was only one manifestation of an array of accumulating threats to the postmodern order, including the burdens of empire, onerous global debt, population overshoot, fracturing globalism, worries about energy, disruptive technologies, ecological havoc, and the specter of climate change — things that hurt to think about.”

    The business model of the big Private Equity Funds is to invest in “Disruptive Technologies”. All of the money will go into things that drive people crazy….

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  61. BackRowHeckler April 29, 2019 at 7:45 pm #

    Malthus, to pick up an earlier thread …

    Yes I was curious about LA, the vagrant camps, are they all over the city, or confined to certain neighborhoods? Are they hard to avoid, and what about the infectious diseases they are incubating? We know they’re in Venice Beach because of the article on Johnny Rotten. It seems almost apocalyptic.

    How much further down do we have to go before lefties are satisfied their utopias are complete, and their work is done?

    brh

  62. tucsonspur April 29, 2019 at 7:57 pm #

    I see more and more of those T shirts that simply state, “Stay Calm”.

    So let’s chill and freefall:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3phscjgc_A

    Back in the day it was board games, hula hoops, slinkys and yo yos for distraction or escape. Hobbies. Sports too.

    Now it’s the phone. Still a lot of people engaged with reality, however, then as now.

    We’re not nuts yet!

  63. 100th Avatar April 29, 2019 at 8:09 pm #

    “You end up in a virtual world of advertising and agit-prop where manipulation is the primary driver of human activity. That is, a world where the idea of personal liberty (including any act of free thought) becomes a philosophical sick joke, whether you believe in the possibility of free will or not. ”

    And it is manifesting in our society at an exponential rate.
    From manufactured rage in the form of BLM to tranny restrooms to me-too movements, to Russia-gate and to manufactured hype from Obama Nobels to Katelynne Jenners to formulaic and lowbrow entertainment (Game of Thrones and Marvel superheroes). Conform. Join or die.

    And for the young people, the immature, the, naive, growing up all seems so one-sided as opinions all provided, the future pre-decided, detached and subdivided, in the mass-production zone, and nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone. Subdivisions in the high school halls, in the shopping malls
    Conform or be cast out and any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth that the suburbs have no charms to soothe
    the restless dreams of youth

  64. Kevvia Knack April 29, 2019 at 8:25 pm #

    Hello Back Row. I live in Hollywood. Have all my life. I’m 57. Hollywood is turning into Manhattan. Entire blocks are being rebuilt as 10 story mixed use unaffordable housing blocks. It’s awful. You cannot even see the Hollywood Hills from Santa Monica Blvd. Skyscrapers are going up all along the major Hollywood corridors. Homelessness has tripled the past four years is my guess. There are tents and homeless people just about everywhere even the Westside. Under most freeway underpasses. Lots of mentally ill everywhere. And snotty 20-something New Yorkers trying to make it in the movie business. Traffic is getting worse and worse. Venice has the highest rents 3K for a one bedroom apt but Hollywood and West Hollywood have gotten just as expensive. A good portion of the new luxury apartments are being rented out illegally as AirBnB hotel units because few people can afford to rent the units as apartments. The entire city of L.A. seems to be under construction. Big monster things going up everywhere. Dear New Yorkers: Welcome to L.A. now please go home…./

    • Enough with the small talk. Who do you blame, the Left or the Right?

      • Kevvia Knack April 29, 2019 at 8:56 pm #

        I blame the greedy real estate developers and finance pigs. I imagine a good number of them are Republican. I also blame the West Hollywood City Planners and housing commission for green lighting overdevelopment in WeHo. . I imagine many of them are Democrat but not all. West Hollywood is getting totally unaffordable. McMansions are popping up everywhere

        • Exscotticus April 29, 2019 at 9:20 pm #

          >>> McMansions with WALLS. Imagine that. No “open borders” policy in that area!

          • Kevvia Knack April 29, 2019 at 9:37 pm #

            I am a progressive person but when it comes to immigration and border control I am in Donald Trump’s corner. I find it amusing that Liberals and Progressives think it is totally fine to have an open border with Mexico because Latinx are anything but progressive. They are Catholic and generally conservative concerning social issues. They are anti gay and they are opposed to abortion. I hate to disparage an entire ethnic group but there is a lot of validity to what I am saying. The Catholic Church will have a lot of power in the U.S. if we don’t control immigration at the southern border. Be careful what you wish for Guys

          • 100th Avatar April 29, 2019 at 9:46 pm #

            Remember the never-Trump campaign?

            Where did the entertainment people threaten to flee to?

            Canada.

            When Mexico would be an easy move, a reasonable commute, and shares the same climate.

            Not in my neighborhood and certainly not in theirs

          • Janos Skorenzy April 29, 2019 at 9:59 pm #

            Bravo, Kev, on noticing the Supernatural Stupidity. They never notice the nature of the people they advocate for – as if doesn’t even matter. The Hispanics are just pawns in their War against Traditional America and Americans. Most of them don’t even know any real Hispanics, as in ones just in from down below.

          • Sean Coleman April 30, 2019 at 12:20 pm #

            Kevvia

            I came across abortion figures recently purporting to show that by far the highest abortion rate is among blacks, with the next highest (and far higher than other groups) among Latinos.

        • S M Tenneshaw May 1, 2019 at 2:48 am #

          Kevvia,

          “The Catholic Church will have a lot of power in the U.S. if we don’t control immigration at the southern border.”

          It already does. Six out of nine Supreme Court justices are Catholics. No Protestants. Passing strange…

      • BackRowHeckler April 29, 2019 at 9:04 pm #

        You’re right Snacks.

        Just too simple to blame ‘lefties’, who, after all, being in charge, have to deal with the situation the best that they can. As KK post shows there’s a lot going into creating the decaying situation in LA (and Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Portland and so on)

        Excuse my lame attempt to be provocative.

        brh

        • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 1:08 am #

          1965 immigration act.

          R Reagan, first amnesty.

          Population explosion outside USA.

          USA destabilizing 3rd world, or some of it.

          etc

    • 100th Avatar April 29, 2019 at 8:57 pm #

      Hollywood has been a veritable sh*thole for a very long time.
      With auto part yards on the north side and seedy hotels all over.
      Venice ran the gamut of middle-class to working class for most of its existence. Only in the late 90’s did gentrification really seep in.
      Now it’s just yuppies.
      Gone are the skaters, surfers, muscle heads and weirdos.
      Well, houseless (it’s a choice after all)people are weirdos, but not in a charismatic way.

      • Kevvia Knack April 29, 2019 at 9:08 pm #

        i do not disparage houseless people. I know many nice people who are one or two paychecks away from being houseless.

        • 100th Avatar April 29, 2019 at 9:32 pm #

          You’re lost.
          Homeless people are in Ohio, Indiana, Mississippi.
          Families that lost jobs.
          And a home.

          LA is the western terminus for the houseless set.
          A lifestyle choice mostly involving substance abuse and the ensuing mental incapacitation in the sun and sand.

          This is very clear to any bona fide Californian.
          And yes, I disparage people for repeated poor lifestyle choices that become my problem.

    • BackRowHeckler April 29, 2019 at 11:20 pm #

      Now there’s a bit of irony for you

      The more ‘luxury’ apartments built, the worse the homeless crisis becomes.

      Sounds like LA is headed for the dystopian future portrayed in ‘Soylent Green’. ‘The Golden State’ not so golden anymore.

      brh

      • tucsonspur April 29, 2019 at 11:44 pm #

        Right. High rises being built all across the globe, and they’re not being built for you and me. In American cities, the ME, the coasts of Uruguay, etc., etc.

        The Jeddah Tower in SA is supposed to be over 3 thousand feet high. Will it be completed?

        “Rambling out of the wild west
        Leaving the towns I love best
        Thought I’d seen some ups and down
        ‘Till I come into New York town
        People going down to the ground
        Building going up to the sky” Dylan

        Which skyscraper will have the best view of the Apocalypse?

    • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 1:06 am #

      The buildings are called ‘stack and pack’–I blame immigration.
      Why else are all the tiny apartments needed?

      you tube–fullerton informer.

    • benr May 2, 2019 at 4:34 pm #

      Same in San Diego.
      Rent is out of control and the homeless population is exploding.
      It’s all greed nothing more!

  65. Pucker April 29, 2019 at 9:48 pm #

    Joe Biden is trying to run as some clock-punching, lunch box, working class Dude…. During my high school summer jobs, I used to have punch a time clock every morning before work and in the afternoon before going home to jerk off.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=soGNIATFDvs

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    • K-Dog April 30, 2019 at 3:46 am #

      So.

      Did you enjoy punching the clock because you would soon be home thinking pleasant thoughts as you rubbed one out. Or were you so eager to get home punching the time clock was an irritation, an obstacle, a barrier in your way?

      Which is it. Is the time clock a pleasant memory for you or not?

      • Pucker April 30, 2019 at 6:46 am #

        Everybody had to punch the clock regardless of race, creed, or color, gender, or national origin. One Summer there were some “underprivileged” black teenagers who came to get an “opportunity”. They were a mixed bag. One skinny black kid got fired for stealing batteries and smoking weed in the Men’s Room. But another fat black kid named “Sampson” later got a job offer. Sampson was alright.

        • K-Dog May 1, 2019 at 12:55 pm #

          “Everybody had to punch the clock regardless of race, creed, or color

          A pleasant memory then. And unlike some guys you are not a one trick pony. When some guys got home the women in their porn collections would have all have looked the same. The same kind of women these men lose their minds over. We have all met men like them. They only like their ‘type’. Poor bastards.

          Not you, you like variety and I agree. The world is a far more interesting place with a variety of breeds.

  66. 100th Avatar April 29, 2019 at 9:54 pm #

    “What if the dreaming part is actually driving us insane? What if we have engineered a society in which fantasy has so grotesquely over-run reality that coping with daily life is nearly impossible.”

    What if they made coping very possible and very easy?

    Cheap entertainment and easy narcotics?

    Smartphone manufacturers pushed banks to offer loans so that people can buy the latest smart phone which serves as many people’s only computer, TV, and phone all rolled into one.

    Just as many physicians pushed opioids to kill the pain.

    You still need to supply the sofa, but then again, there’s Rent-a-center.

    Comfy

    • tucsonspur April 29, 2019 at 11:29 pm #

      Yeah, take a ‘Soma Holiday’. Why ‘gargle in the rat race choir’?

      • elysianfield April 30, 2019 at 11:16 am #

        “Why ‘gargle in the rat race choir’?”

        “…It’s all right, Ma, I’m only bleedin’….”

        • tucsonspur April 30, 2019 at 8:21 pm #

          One of his greatest. Deserved the Nobel for this alone.

          Darkness at the break of noon
          Shadows even the silver spoon
          The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
          Eclipses both the sun and moon
          To understand you know too soon
          There is no sense in trying

          Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
          Suicide remarks are torn
          From the fool’s gold mouthpiece
          The hollow horn plays wasted words
          Proves to warn that he not busy being born
          Is busy dying

          Temptation’s page flies out the door
          You follow, find yourself at war
          Watch waterfalls of pity roar
          You feel to moan but unlike before
          You discover that you’d just be
          One more person crying

          So don’t fear if you hear
          A foreign sound to your ear
          It’s alright, Ma, I’m only sighing

          As some warn victory, some downfall
          Private reasons great or small
          Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
          To make all that should be killed to crawl
          While others say don’t hate nothing at all
          Except hatred

          Disillusioned words like bullets bark
          As human gods aim for their mark
          Made everything from toy guns that spark
          To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
          It’s easy to see without looking too far
          That not much is really sacred

          While preachers preach of evil fates
          Teachers teach that knowledge waits
          Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
          Goodness hides behind its gates
          But even the president of the United States
          Sometimes must have to stand naked

          An’ though the rules of the road have been lodged
          It’s only people’s games that you got to dodge
          And it’s alright, Ma, I can make it

          Advertising signs that con you
          Into thinking you’re the one
          That can do what’s never been done
          That can win what’s never been won
          Meantime life outside goes on
          All around you

          You lose yourself, you reappear
          You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
          Alone you stand with nobody near
          When a trembling distant voice, unclear
          Startles your sleeping ears to hear
          That somebody thinks they really found you

          A question in your nerves is lit
          Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
          Insure you not to quit
          To keep it in your mind and not fergit
          That it is not he or she or them or it
          That you belong to

          Although the masters make the rules
          For the wise men and the fools
          I got nothing, Ma, to live up to

          For them that must obey authority
          That they do not respect in any degree
          Who despise their jobs, their destinies
          Speak jealously of them that are free
          Do what they do just to be nothing more than something they invest in

          While some on principles baptized
          To strict party platform ties
          Social clubs in drag disguise
          Outsiders they can freely criticize
          Tell nothing except who to idolize
          And then say God bless him

          While one who sings with his tongue on fire
          Gargles in the rat race choir
          Bent out of shape from society’s pliers
          Cares not to come up any higher
          But rather get you down in the hole that he’s in

          But I mean no harm nor put fault
          On anyone that lives in a vault
          But it’s alright, Ma, if I can’t please him

          Old lady judges watch people in pairs
          Limited in sex, they dare
          To push fake morals, insult and stare
          While money doesn’t talk, it swears
          Obscenity, who really cares
          Propaganda, all is phony

          While them that defend what they cannot see
          With a killer’s pride, security
          It blows the minds most bitterly
          For them that think death’s honesty
          Won’t fall upon them naturally
          Life sometimes must get lonely

          My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
          False gods, I scuff
          At pettiness which plays so rough
          Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
          Kick my legs to crash it off
          Say okay, I have had enough
          What else can you show me

          And if my thought-dreams could be seen
          They’d probably put my head in a guillotine
          But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only

  67. Janos Skorenzy April 29, 2019 at 10:06 pm #

    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/restaurant-slammed-controversial-bumper-sticker-212634478.html

    “If you can’t read this – some Arabic writing – thank a Marine”. Some chick noticed after going there for awhile and freaked out. Gross Burgers (!) told her to pound sand, they weren’t taking it down. It’s Marine operated and some fucking Marine asked if he could put it up, and by God it’s going to stay up.

    I love Gross Burgers – even though I would hate the guys who worked there and they would hate me. I love them philosophically and from a distance. An Elitist attitude? Of course. I loved my dog and cats but I wouldn’t get down on all fours because of it. Now and then I would of course. After all, an adult can play with a child without becoming a child. I could probably go in there and have a burger once in awhile without indigestion or causing offense too.

    • Tate April 29, 2019 at 10:31 pm #

      Ali Hugh’s Snack Bar

      the writing

    • tucsonspur April 30, 2019 at 12:03 am #

      Fuckin’ A, Semper Fi, Do or Die!

      Feed Baghdadi Burgers to the Muzzies!

    • Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 12:44 am #

      The pure Warrior type – fairly rare – were called Ksyatrias in Ancient India, and they are another story. They are a high caste and I would revere them. Most soldiers in modern times are blue collar or sudra types unfortunately. They follow orders and bite who they are told to bite and kill who they are told to kill. It is otherwise with real Warriors. There isn’t much place for Warriors in modern life. They don’t even rise up in the ranks in the Armed Forces anymore. Brenton Tarrant comes to mind, a man of immense idealism and capacity, and by thus utterly alienated from a corrupt society.

      • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 1:10 am #

        you and yr heros.
        Hitler.
        Krishna.
        Rama.
        the Sikhs [fighting the muslim hordes] etc.

        • Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 12:00 pm #

          So you don’t think heroes are necessary? Or is this just more of your bitter bullshit and resentment against me?

          Your silly pop Christian morality is one of the factors leading to our destruction. You don’t even believe in Christ yet you believe what these hucksters say He said.

      • Majella May 1, 2019 at 11:05 pm #

        Can anyone please explain why it is currently all but MANDATORY, on meeting a military person or a vet, to say “Thank you for your service” ?

        I mean, s/he probably joined up for the vocational training, the camaraderie and the money, and because it’s a dead-end world in Buttfuck, TX when you have no qualification aside from a highly devalued HS Diploma?

        Then, after a couple of tours in the Middle East where there’s a good chance s/he will have a shitty/scary experience if not a severe wound or dismemberment and probably some level of PTSD, s/he comes ‘home’ and ends up unemployable, living in a tent, suffering mental illness effects because the cost of the anti-psychotic meds is obscene (even the co-pay at the VA).

        And all s/he gets is ‘Thank you for your service’. Great deal.

    • hmuller May 1, 2019 at 3:37 pm #

      In case you wanted to know, the Arabic writing says “Allahu Akbar” “God is Greater”, a phrase often repeated during Islamic worship, and regrettably by warring jihadi’s.

      So I guess I can’t thank a Marine. I can thank the US Army for sending me to school for 47 weeks to study Arabic full time at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California many years ago.

      “Know your enemy” is a better approach than celebrating ignorance. And we even had Marines at language school, so the Corps must think so, too.

      • elysianfield May 1, 2019 at 6:34 pm #

        “I can thank the US Army for sending me to school for 47 weeks to study Arabic full time at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California many years ago.”

        Hmuller,
        I am envious…. A question. Did the institute in Monterey also teach how to speak in an accent? Specifically a heavy Irish Brogue?

        • hmuller May 2, 2019 at 11:28 am #

          No, you would do better looking for a “dialect coach” in Hollywood if you life’s dream is to speak with a heavy Irish Brogue. I’m not sure of the joke behind the question? Did you want to infiltrate the Irish Republican Army?

          • elysianfield May 2, 2019 at 5:08 pm #

            “Did you want to infiltrate the Irish Republican Army?”

            hmuller,
            No, no joke. I had a friend who might have infiltrated, however. He was a Captain in the Army,…Army Intelligence. He attended the Monterrey School, learned Spanish, and was posted in Panama…dealt with Noriega, etc.

            The Captain is dead now, possibly by his own hand. He used to phone me up late night, drunk and sometimes threatening suicide. Occasionally, he would call and affect the Brogue…”…I told you I was in the Army, but I didn’t say which army, now did I?” This affectation was so dead-on that it brought the hair up on the back of my neck. I should also mention that he had flaming red hair….

            He said he was posted in Germany for several years, but I have my doubts that is where he worked. He would never admit to being involved in the Troubles.

  68. hortonz April 30, 2019 at 1:17 am #

    Who was it that wrote about nationalism being nothing more than the desire for a fairy tale? The desire to live out a fantasy has become so entrenched in our culture that no one is sale from homicidal psychopaths, whether it be in the workplace, our educational institutions or even our houses of worship. JHK made a number or excellent points on the link between the worship of fakery and the desire for self-annihilation. I hope to hear more from you on this subject and the coming crisis in crypto currencies like Bitcoin that offer salvation in the virtual world.

    • Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 12:02 pm #

      Probably the same lowlife who said Patriotism was the last refuge of a scoundrel. But only when it comes to Whites, right? Black Nationalism is sacred, right? Ditto Jewish, Muslim, Hispanic, etc.

      Come back when you understand yourself.

      • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 9:14 am #

        The lowlife was Samuel Johnson, allegedly.

        Edith Cavell, who said “Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.” gets a pass over you, having been executed by a German firing squad for helping soldiers escape occupied Belgian territory, a feat which you have not yet equalled, to my admittedly restricted knowledge.

      • Majella May 1, 2019 at 11:08 pm #

        JHK himself, no less, has predicted that the US’s first cornpone dictator will come wrapped in a flag…Trump likes to be televised giving the flag a hicky.

        • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 1:22 am #

          And that would tatter your cosmopolitan sensibilities now wouldn’t it. I saw the vile post about how horrible America is. What a spectacular fail. Sure there are numerous and devastating problems we face. Could that be because of your treasured Marxists and Cuckservatives? Who knew you were gravitating to Fox News. Now I know they are a den of serpents too.

  69. Pucker April 30, 2019 at 4:05 am #

    On Chasten Buttigieg’s Twitter site there’s a photo of young Millennial Pete Buttigieg supporters picking up trash for Pete on a San Diego beach. One bloke picking up empty beer bottles, cigarette and joint butts, and used condoms has on a Captain America T Shirt made in Honduras.

    • Pucker April 30, 2019 at 4:18 am #

      Is Beto the politician who’s proposing partial student loan debt forgiveness in exchange for forced labor “Community Service”?

  70. K-Dog April 30, 2019 at 4:09 am #

    Today’s offering was PACKED!

    The sense of gathering crisis persists. It is systemic and existential.

    It is difficult to develop a personal narrative when the frame work in which you live shifts beneath your paws.

    It calls into question our ability to carry on “normal” life much farther into this century, and all the anxiety that attends it is so hard for the public to process that a dismaying number of citizens opt for suicide.

    If people would stay out of your way and let you carry on a “normal” life that would be one thing but no, lost sheep have a bad habit of blocking roads.

    There is no coherent consensus about what is happening and no coherent proposals to do anything about it.

    That is the reality and so many different agendas are involved this ship will sink before anyone agrees to bail water.

    Bad ideas flourish in this nutrient medium of unresolved crisis. Lately, they dominate the scene on every side.

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    • K-Dog April 30, 2019 at 4:12 am #

      That last one. Nature abhors a vacum. In the absents of good ideas there will be bad ideas.

    • fugeguy April 30, 2019 at 8:53 am #

      “That is the reality and so many different agendas are involved this ship will sink before anyone agrees to bail water.”

      Based on your site, you should know, it is worse than that…

      … we have people so dumbed down that they are proposing, no actually drilling new holes in the hull so the water can drain out!

      • fugeguy April 30, 2019 at 8:54 am #

        and calling it factual or scientific in the process.

      • K-Dog May 1, 2019 at 12:58 pm #

        … we have people so dumbed down that they are proposing, no actually drilling new holes in the hull so the water can drain out!

        That is a bitter kibble, but true!

  71. K-Dog April 30, 2019 at 4:30 am #

    What if the dreaming part is actually driving us insane? What if we have engineered a society in which fantasy has so grotesquely over-run reality that coping with daily life is nearly impossible. What if an existence mediated by pixel screens large and small presents a virtual world more compelling than the real world and turns out to be a kind of contagious avoidance behavior — until reality is so fugitive that we can barely discern its colors and outlines beyond the screens? – JHK

    What if? Then the wheel turns and the stories of fall and destruction play out. But there is no what if! People like comfort too much to say no to it and the comfortable avoidance of all of life’s dirty truths by escape in daytime dreams is irresistible and endless childhood results.

    In Homers tale wise Odysseus, ordered his crew to plug their ears with the wax of bees and to tie him firmly to their ship’s mast. Later he screamed and pleaded to be untied so to swim with the Siren and to be be one with their song. But his foresight saved him.

    We have no mast, no rope, no beeswax and some of our crew already sings the Siren’s song. We have no chance.

  72. Pucker April 30, 2019 at 4:55 am #

    Petticoat Junction is an extermination camp!!!!

    Come ride the little train that is rolling down the tracks to the junction.
    Forget about your cares, it is time to relax at the junction.
    Lotsa curves, you bet
    Even more, when you get
    To the junction
    (Petticoat Junction)

    • Ol' Scratch April 30, 2019 at 8:32 am #

      Imagine that show updated for 2019. Uncle Joe is a peeping Tom pervert on work release from the local prison. Aunt Kate is the Shady Rest’s Madam in residence and the three girls are her top earners. Hi-jinx ensue. Gradually, Lisa and Oliver from Green Acres cross over into the show. Lisa educates and liberates the girls, after which Oliver leads a ground-breaking investigation and prosecution uncovering the shady goings on at the hotel and exposing Uncle Joe, Sam Drucker, and Kate as the heads of a child prostitution ring run aboard the Hooterville Cannonball with the complicity of the two engineers Charley and Floyd, along with Green Acres regulars Mr Haney (who smuggles illegals across the border in his junk truck) and Ed (who is revealed to be a pornstar and hung like the proverbial horse). Ralph, the masculine female painter on Green Acres, is revealed to be one of it’s earliest victims, who has since embraced his/her trans status. Friday’s at 8:00 on your local CBS station!

      • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 9:25 am #

        You really know those shows! I remember watching them as a kid. I shudder to think of what the 2019 Beverly Hill Billies would be into. Let’s just say that ain’t possum Granny’s cooking up all day.

        • Ol' Scratch April 30, 2019 at 10:14 am #

          Oh the possibilities!

      • K-Dog May 1, 2019 at 12:59 pm #

        Mr Haney has the best Oxy.

  73. K-Dog April 30, 2019 at 5:04 am #

    Check out Chomsky chomping up Russia-gate.

    https://youtu.be/llzoItQgLOQ?t=408

    He explains how the Democrats have helped Trump. How they are totally divorced from reality and how they have probably handed Trump the next election.

    • Ol' Scratch April 30, 2019 at 8:14 am #

      With Biden as the Dem frontrunner now, it should make for a most entertaining slimefest. Trump will send Biden – who even the stupid-assed Dems know can’t win – to the showers in a first round knockout.

      • Exscotticus April 30, 2019 at 10:56 am #

        Lots of voters don’t read any news whatsoever. The only way they get info is via prime time TV. But once those attack ads of Creepy Biden’s groping hit the airwaves, looping over and over every evening, I just can’t imagine he’ll survive. Even a retired Dem who still thinks the party is about union labor is going to have a tough time accepting that.

        • K-Dog April 30, 2019 at 11:10 am #

          If Biden is the best they can do ………………………………………!

          • K-Dog April 30, 2019 at 11:19 am #

            Then we are all going to have to live like a refugee.

          • Exscotticus April 30, 2019 at 11:43 am #

            Oh I see what you did there. A Tom Petty reference!

          • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 11:45 am #

            That is clever :-).

  74. edpell April 30, 2019 at 7:23 am #

    Right on brother, a classic.

  75. Pucker April 30, 2019 at 8:59 am #

    Free Bill Cosby!

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    • Ol' Scratch April 30, 2019 at 10:16 am #

      I’ll bet Bill’s got some juicy prison stories to be told now. I wonder if the networks would be interested?

    • hmuller April 30, 2019 at 11:53 pm #

      Think about all those years Bill Cosby was offering to the public – big, juicy, chocolate, phallic shaped, pudding pops. Was art imitating life in a fashion so hidden and surreal – Jung would be amazed.

  76. PeteAtomic April 30, 2019 at 9:12 am #

    There is a lot of stuff going on today around the world that is going to have repercussions to the world economy & geopolitics.

    Guaido is making his move this morning in oil rich Venezuala, claiming military intervention to out Maduro. Guaido seems to me like a classic CIA installed actor. I don’t know.

    Ukraine has a new anti-establishment, populist President in the form of Zelensky– as about an hour ago. He is a complete political novice, and the Ukraine/Russia 5 year war has the possibility of dragging in any number of regional powers.

    • ozone April 30, 2019 at 12:14 pm #

      PeteAtomic,
      I’m not sure you really want to know where Juan “Guanito” (Little Shit) came from, but if you do…….

      https://thegrayzone.com/2019/01/29/the-making-of-juan-guaido-how-the-us-regime-change-laboratory-created-venezuelas-coup-leader/

      • PeteAtomic April 30, 2019 at 1:21 pm #

        Thanks, good article

      • Majella May 1, 2019 at 11:25 pm #

        Hey Ozone

        Thanks for the link – it’s yet another thread in what is a truly fascinating story of the age-old corrupt US-influence agenda.

        I’m gobsmacked at the way the influential newspapers (viz the NYT, and would like to know L’il Debbie’s views on the Venezuela crisis, given his fulsome admiration of that organ) have swallowed the propaganda without really looking at how the Chavez/Maduro government in the most demonstrable & transparent democratic way possible.

        Yes, Maduro won by a large margin – 67.8%. The fact that most opposition parties chose to boycott the last election doesn’t seem to factor in Maduro’s ‘legitimacy’ equation.

        Only two parties stood against him, and neither of them featured Guaido. The only ‘legitimacy’ he can claim is the support of a horrible little nut-job right-wing, Mike Pence.

    • Ol' Scratch April 30, 2019 at 2:34 pm #

      Yep, the CIA boys are back at it again.

      • PeteAtomic April 30, 2019 at 3:26 pm #

        I’ve been watching the coup live on tv broadcast from Caracas. So far the pro maduro police seem rather unconcerned. No guaido forces in sight yet. Just a lot of people milling around, occasionally throwing a rock at the cops, and the police firing gas back. The police look bored.
        Who knows, maybe the coup fizzled already.

        • Majella May 1, 2019 at 11:27 pm #

          Will there be any shame from Pence or his other boosters? Hell no. The next step will be a US invasion.

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 1:28 am #

            Delusion. The public is basically anti-intervention so anything of importance that goes on will be the work of black ops and will happen behind closed doors. Don’t you think?

  77. lbs April 30, 2019 at 9:45 am #

    Man, it is hard enough to cope with the insanity that surrounds us as a retired guy with a good enough retirement nest egg to last my remaining 10 or so years as a functioning human and even enough for the additional years in assisted living when my mind has gone and minimum wage workers are helping me take a dump.

    And most likely I will be dead before the scourge of anarcho-authoritarian wokester hoaxsterism will wipe out human civilization, or Peak Oil a couple decades down the road if the wokesters’ AR-15s don’t happen to hit their target.

    I pity people who have to actually deal with real life issues like finding a job or getting the grades they need in school, or dealing with living in one of our feces-infested inner cities, while knowing that the political insanity of our times lurks like a menacing cloud over all those traditional challenges of life.

    • Ol' Scratch April 30, 2019 at 10:21 am #

      Three words: inert gas (usually nitrogen) asphyxiation. Go to sleep quickly and peacefully and don’t wake up. Ready to box or burn in less than five minutes.

      • SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 11:45 am #

        This makes me sad. We need a path that offers life.

        • Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 12:56 pm #

          As I said to Walt (and he agreed), as the sun of this life sets, the Sun of Life rises. It’s a process – not one to be monkeyed with so cheaply. Putting yourself down like a rabid dog or taking yourself out like you were so much garbage is an abomination.

          • Walter B April 30, 2019 at 1:45 pm #

            And I still do. There is only one form of suicide that is acceptable as far as I know and that would be taking on the Clinton Crime Cartel.

          • Walter B April 30, 2019 at 2:06 pm #

            And on a more serious note, while how we live our lives is of the utmost importance, how we die sets the course for the boat once it leaves the dock, at least IMHO.

          • Ol' Scratch April 30, 2019 at 2:33 pm #

            Even when you’re being kept alive by modern medical science for the sole purpose of keeping a revenue stream going? Don’t be so sure. A whole lot of people of the boomer persuasion will be checking out at their own hand. Sure beats drinking or medicating yourself to death slowly or starving to death like a mutt in the street.

          • Walter B April 30, 2019 at 4:51 pm #

            I don’t know about drinking yourself to death being so bad scratch, certainly not if you do it with dignity.

          • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 7:45 am #

            Believe me Ol’ Walt, there’s no dignity at all in drinking yourself to death. Been there, tried that. Stone cold sober for me from here on out, no matter what that brings.

          • Walter B May 1, 2019 at 11:18 am #

            You are absolutely correct Scratch and I do not want to be too glib about it but I shall always look forward to my end of the day beers even if they keep me 20 pounds overweight. Must be the German in me.

          • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 12:08 pm #

            Me too, Ol’ Walt. German lineage all the way (Baden-Baden) and I LOVED my beer! Until I graduated to the 7% IPAs that is. They quit loving me back after a few years with a vengeance!

        • Ol' Scratch April 30, 2019 at 4:00 pm #

          I’m guessing you’re still young. Trust me, your views will change when you get older and unremitting pain makes its entrance into your life. It ain’t fun anymore after that.

          • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 10:26 am #

            I don’t have experience first hand with that Ol’ Scratch but have elders who are going through various iterations of what you are talking about. Persistent chronic pain is a real downer from everything I see and I totally empathize with what you are saying. Opioids are good for something!!! Just not for the young and healthy. It also helps when those in need have younger loved ones around them to help them with day to day life. Those things may not make life 100% but seem to certainly help. And thank you for the reminder. The young must always be vigilant when it comes to diet and exercise to hopefully stave off such a fate or perhaps make it less severe. Either way I do realize it is not all fairy tales and roses.

          • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 12:19 pm #

            My 84 year old mother has given me preview of things to come. Arthritis completely taken over now. Both hips and both knees completely gone from years and years of carrying too much weight, it’s moved into her hands and fingers now. Has near constant tremors and involuntary vocalizations. A complete shut in who lives and sleeps in a specially designed chair, but who in spite of all that is still relatively lucid. Sits and stares at inane bullshit on TV all day, as what’s left of her faculties (never great to begin with) wither and die along with the rest of her. Refuses to be institutionalized, although this outcome has been plainly foreseeable for the past 20 years, at least. Just recently gave up her driver’s license, for crying out loud! No thanks, not for me.

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 1:37 am #

            So Ol’ Scratch then you are definitely embracing euthanasia as a potential solution to this issue?

  78. messianicdruid April 30, 2019 at 9:53 am #

    GA quoted,

    “And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and
    cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee
    that one of thy members should perish, and not
    that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”

    “And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out,
    and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for
    thee that one of thy members should perish, and
    not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”

    Jesus is very good at getting people to think. The more time you do it, the more understanding you will get. Christians have not cornered the market on it. This part is the work of the Spirit.

    The hard part is recognizing an offense. Many are offended by being told they are sinners [ offenders ?]. Whether or not you take this literally is a straw man. The issue is – we are accountable

    What if your brain offends?

    • messianicdruid April 30, 2019 at 9:56 am #

      “Whether or not you take this literally is a straw man.”

      And whether or not most Christians “look for meaning in everything” is also.

    • Walter B April 30, 2019 at 1:43 pm #

      Most brains do not generate enough power to offend.

  79. K-Dog April 30, 2019 at 10:27 am #

    Life in America. It’s a heartbreaker.

    • K-Dog April 30, 2019 at 11:20 am #

      But I Won’t Back Down.

    • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 12:04 pm #

      do you know of a better place?

      • K-Dog April 30, 2019 at 3:50 pm #

        Do yo know a Tom Petty song title when you see one?

        • K-Dog April 30, 2019 at 3:51 pm #

          Youz

        • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 9:14 pm #

          yawn–yes I got it.

          • K-Dog May 1, 2019 at 1:00 pm #

            Took you long enough.

      • Majella May 1, 2019 at 11:34 pm #

        …better than the USA? Have you not traveled at all, malthuss?

        The world is brimming with ‘better places’ than the USA:

        1) New Zealand
        2) Australia (if you need heat)
        3) Sweden/Norway/Denmark
        4) Argentina/Uruguay
        5)The Maldives
        6) Hong Kong!
        7) Vietnam (believe it or not…)

        I could go on…

        • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 1:40 am #

          Then fly fly way and buh bye little birdie boo.

  80. SoftStarLight April 30, 2019 at 11:37 am #

    Someone is trying to say that all of New Zealand was not encouraged to wear the hijab in support of the Christchurch mosque attack victims. Kiwis were also encouraged to partake in Friday prayers.

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/03/all-kiwis-men-and-women-invited-to-wear-a-headscarf-on-friday.html

    https://www.sheila.media/all-men-and-women-urged-to-wear-muslim-hijab-and-partake-in-muslim-call-to-prayer/

    Yet, I haven’t heard any suggestions whatsoever for Sri Lankans to wear crucifixes are attend mass to honor the victims of the Easter attacks. Try a search online. Let me know if you find anything. I didn’t.

    But apparently, questioning this and noticing this means that I have no critical thinking skills. I don’t think right is what I think you really meant?

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    • Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 11:57 am #

      Yes, that someone embodies the Spirit of the Lie.

    • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 11:58 am #

      Nothing good lasts forever. Janos has warned us of the defilement of White Lands.
      I saw CNBC, yesterday. ‘danger of White Nationalists.’
      Shooting in SD, terror plot in LA.

    • GreenAlba April 30, 2019 at 2:30 pm #

      SSL

      Maybe it’s my bad memory, but it seems to me that you were the one who said you were totally exaggerating when you said it.

      So, people were ‘invited’ to don a scarf, if they wanted to, to show solidarity. It wouldn’t be for me, but it they felt inclined, fair enough.

      But if I were a Buddhist, or Hindu, or Muslim in Sri Lanka I don’t know how easy it would be for me to find a cross in my house to wear. Still they could make a cruciform ‘badge’ of some sort I suppose. That’s already getting a bit more complicated than throwing a scarf over your head.

      And in any case Sri Lanka is 70% Buddhist and I’m not sure what that majority feels about either its tiny Christian or tiny Muslim minorities, in terms of solidarity. Since the tiny Muslim minority were at direct threat of reprisals, I don’t imagine donning a cross was their highest priority. I don’t recall reading anything about the majority population of NZ feeling it had anything at all to fear from vengeful Muslims.

      In any case, I don’t speak enough Tamil or Sinhalese to be able to say anything about what local or regional gestures of solidarity people were invited to make.

      And I would suggest that whatever show of hijabs was made locally in NZ, it was fantastically outdone by the international shows of solidarity that we saw after Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan – the tricolore projected on to prestigious buildings worldwide, solidarity expressed in all the media, and ‘Je suis Charlie’ placards carried in multiple countries. Even people overlaying the bleu-blanc-rouge on to their Facebook photos – for weeks.

      Yep, I’d say that was a fair show of solidarity and that donning a hijab, for those who did it, was a reasonable local response. Like I said, not for me, but if people felt inclined, fair enough.

      • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 1:45 am #

        ….So, people were ‘invited’ to don a scarf, if they wanted to, to show solidarity. It wouldn’t be for me, but it they felt inclined, fair enough…..

        Yes fair enough Alba. But to me the bigger question is how does wearing a scarf demonstrate solidarity? It isn’t something you would be inclined to do to indicate your support for the victims. I feel the same way. Perhaps moments of silence and candlelight vigils are more appropriate responses? Wearing the scarf is an important component of religious worship within Islam. It is again also a requirement for any actual practicing female devotee of the religion. In this way, the scarf or hijab serves as an important symbol of Islam. Islam means submission. To godless Western eyes “inviting” people to wear a sanctioned as acceptable religious symbol has very little if any real meaning other than possibly a virtue signaling opportunity. But to the devout, meaning is communicated through the symbol. Wearing a hijab is symbolic submission to the principles of Allah. Devout Muslims understand this as not a show of solidarity but an admission and acceptance of the will of Allah. The embrace of dhimmitude.

      • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 9:25 am #

        “It is again also a requirement for any actual practicing female devotee of the religion.”

        No it isn’t. We had this discussion before. We have several Muslim reporters and journalists who are well known and only one of whom wears a hijab.

        This lady wears a scarf over her head a lot too and nobody thinks anything of it 🙂 .

        https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=queen+in+headscarf+images&tbm=isch&source=hp&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-4ae1tfrhAhXWWhUIHXU0B2sQsAR6BAgJEAE&biw=1920&bih=969

        Devout Muslims understand this as not a show of solidarity but an admission and acceptance of the will of Allah. The embrace of dhimmitude.

        Sorry, but that’s just in your head, be-hijab-ed or not!

        Just as the people with ‘Je suis Charlie’ placards weren’t unanimously fans of really provocative cartoons of Mohammed – or Christ – just to make a point, although they agreed with the right to do it, which is not the same thing.

        • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 10:43 am #

          …..We have several Muslim reporters and journalists who are well known and only one of whom wears a hijab…..

          Yes Alba, I do understand. You have Muslims in name only who do not wear the hijab. As you are fully aware there are many Christians in name only as well. But this does not take away from the fact that a solid majority of Islamic scholars agree that the headscarf is a religious obligation for women. These renegade individuals are simply living in various states of heresy in regards to their own faith according to the scholars. To settle this matter please take a look at what the trusted BBC reports….

          http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/beliefs/niqab_1.shtml

          You want to believe that the importance of this symbolism is simply in my head. I wish it were. I would prefer it to be but it is not. You should find out from Muslim women yourself how they feel about it. Many of them are in the minority of believing the hijab is not obligatory and they beg Western women not to virtue signal about it so you are incorrect about the importance of the symbolism here. Janos is right about this. These women are considered by the vast majority of Islamic scholars as heretics and as Erdogan said something to the effect that there is only one Islam and we already know his Islam means you better put your hijab on.

          https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/12/21/as-muslim-women-we-actually-ask-you-not-to-wear-the-hijab-in-the-name-of-interfaith-solidarity/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.15bb03ef3d78

          • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 12:40 pm #

            “Yes Alba, I do understand. You have Muslims in name only who do not wear the hijab. “

            What gives you the right to call a person who says they’re a practising Muslim a liar exactly? I’ve worked with Muslim women in France – I remember one sweet little thing I thought was going to pass out during Ramadan as she was tiny and looked as if day-long starvation wouldn’t do her any good, but she dressed just like everyone else in the office, as did the others.

            If they consider themselves Muslims they don’t need to care what Erdogan or ‘the majority of scholars’ say. I know perfectly well how important the hijab is to many other Muslim women.

            What I actually said was in your head, though, was the conclusion that devout Muslims believe the wearing of the hijab for half an hour by non-Muslim women means ‘an admission and acceptance of the will of Allah. The embrace of dhimmitude.’

            You may continue to believe that if you wish. Maybe you think they’re really that stupid.

          • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 12:47 pm #

            Likewise, Sadiq Khan, who’s a practising Muslim says that Islam isn’t defined by a lot of angry old men with beards. Good for him. Long may his type flourish.

            Here he is with his wife:

            https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/ap_217750294370.jpg

            I don’t see a hijab. Nor on the women behind who I believe are members of his family. It’s not up to you to tell them they’re not Muslims.

          • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 12:49 pm #

            And I still wouldn’t wear one, so we have that in common 🙂 .

            Even though my mother wouldn’t go to church without a hat, for the exact same reason as them.

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 1:57 am #

            You can wiggle and you can squirm Alba but there is no way around it. You simply can’t bear it that these apparently well-adjusted and Western appearing nominal Muslims are either heretics in the eyes of their religious cohorts or worse..willing participants of the fifth columns that are designed to destroy from within (Look up Holy Land Foundation). Do you know what Taqiyya yes or no? Misdirection and lying are permissible and acceptable to Allah in the service of the destruction of the infidels. I fear you have fallen into willfull blindness and your rose colored shades are not just some interesting and cool accessory for a carefree summer day in safe White enough spaces. Your blinders are dangerous and must be removed.

          • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 1:58 pm #

            SSL

            Give it a rest, please. It’s not up to you to tell more enlightened Muslms they are not Muslims. You may continue to believe whatever you like. You didn’t even know there were no seats in a mosque – seriously!! At least I’ve been in one (Umayyad mosque in Damascus, since you ask, but I’ve glimpsed the inside of the one round the corner too – and another similar one when I dropped off old duvets for an appeal after an earthquake somewhere I can’t remember, for which they were very grateful).

            Had to wear a daft long green thing to go into the Umayyad mosque and have a wander round. But if you think our hosts thought we were embracing dhimmitude you’re dafter than I thought. They had tourists back then – probably not so many now.

            The women in the mosque wore hijabs (even when they were wearing skin-tight jeans), just as my mother wore a hat to church. In the souk, though, some didn’t. Imagine that. In a Muslim country and no-one bothered them. What next!

  81. malthuss April 30, 2019 at 11:50 am #

    I think you’d have found Mr Hitchens would have been happy to write a (short) book with that title.

    –If he was paid to do so. Was his humility real or imagined?
    Is he your hero?
    I realize Ms Theresa was not the greatest person and I know only a little of her work.
    What I did see is the Hindoos of Kalkutta give her a loving send off, which is more than they offered the British author.

  82. malthuss April 30, 2019 at 11:56 am #

    Ms Theresa bashing,
    Mother Theresa was far from universally admired,
    / Here you reveal yourself. No one is ‘universally admired’ to quote yr idiotic term.
    The Buddha statues were destroyed, by Muslims. They Hate Buddha.

    the study concluded that Mother Teresa’s “hallowed image—which does not stand up to analysis of the facts
    / offer me some facts. What facts? What misuse of funds? The Pope gave her a Mercedes, she sold it for cash. Lincoln Savings guy gave her money. She refused to return it. So what?

    • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 12:00 pm #

      Buddha is not ‘universally admired’
      NO ONE is.

      A lot of Catholic bashing in the media. Who owns the media?
      Not the RCC.

      [in interest in full disclosure, I am not Catholic].

    • GreenAlba April 30, 2019 at 12:13 pm #

      “So what?”

      So, nothing, malthuss. Make of it what you will. Read some of the books – no-one is stopping you. Likewise books containing rebuttals. I didn’t bring up the subject of MT, just of Christopher Hitchens and his description of how ahem…content…was selected for inclusion in the Koran, an issue with more longlasting significance than Mother T. and her phony canonisation.

      • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 3:14 pm #

        phony canonization [fixed that, thanks spell chicks].–unless you are

        1] RCC
        or
        2] a Theresa hater, why would you care?

        • GreenAlba April 30, 2019 at 8:56 pm #

          malthuss

          No-one has to hate Mother Theresa to find the dishonest hocus pocus involved in the supposed justification of her canonisation/canonization (au choix) nefarious.

          If you disbelieve the doctor who confirmed that he achieved his patient’s return to health by perfectly conventional means, then feel free to take it up with him.

  83. Elrond Hubbard April 30, 2019 at 12:52 pm #

    Minecraft creator Notch unwelcome at 10th anniversary due to online conduct
    Transphobia, homophobia, and racism aren’t Microsoft’s core values.

    https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/online-conduct-leaves-markus-notch-persson-out-of-minecraft-10th-anniversary/

    “Blocky sandbox game Minecraft is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and Microsoft is planning to celebrate with a press event at the Mojang studio in Stockholm on May 17. But according to Variety, one notable person won’t be there: Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, who sold the game he created and the company he built to Microsoft in 2014 for $2.5 billion.

    “This is no accident. A Microsoft spokesperson told Variety that the reason for his exclusion is the ‘comments and opinions’ Persson has expressed on Twitter, saying that they ‘do not reflect those of Microsoft or Mojang, and are not representative of Minecraft.’

    “Back in March, a number of references to Persson were removed from the game. Microsoft made no statement at the time, but it’s believed to be for the same reason.

    “Since becoming a billionaire, Persson has earned something of a bad reputation. Shortly before the in-game references were removed, he made such family-friendly tweets as ‘I’d rather be a fascist cunt than have a feminine dick’ (though this was subsequently deleted), and he has tweeted endorsements of both the Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories. He has propagated the false claim that people face fines for ‘using the wrong pronouns’ to refer to trans people. Persson has also tweeted right-wing slogans such as ‘It’s OK to be white,’ and he’s said that anyone who recognizes systemic racial biases and imbalance within Western society is racist. In 2017, he tweeted, ‘If you’re against the concept of a #HeterosexualPrideDay, you’re a complete fucking cunt and deserve to be shot,’ though this, too, was subsequently deleted.

    “Persson’s name can still be found within the credits of the game, but this appears to be the full extent of the association Microsoft wishes to have with him.”

    All the money in the world won’t buy you respect. (You have to get down in the dirt and beg for it.)

    • Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 1:17 pm #

      So you are against Whites having any pride? Surely you must know, unless you are dense or simply lying, that such an unnatural psychological state will result in our eventual extinction? All the more so if it is enforced by all the power of the Culture and State from birth to turf.

      • Elrond Hubbard April 30, 2019 at 3:57 pm #

        $10 bill featuring Viola Desmond named world’s best new banknote

        https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/canada/2019/4/29/1_4400878.html

        “For the first time in nearly 15 years, a Canadian banknote has been named the best in the world.

        “The International Bank Note Society has recognized our new $10 bill as the winner of the 2018 Bank Note of the Year Award.

        “It was selected from a list of 15 finalists, including entries from Argentina, Armenia, Australia and Bolivia. The award is voted on by members of the IBNS.

        “The bill features human rights icon Viola Desmond on its front and the exterior of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights on its back. Desmond, who is considered a civil rights hero because she refused to leave a whites-only section of a theatre in Nova Scotia in 1946, is the first woman outside the Royal Family to be featured on Canadian currency.”

        Sorry, what was that you asked, Janos? I was paying attention to something else.

        • Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 6:19 pm #

          I’ll that at as a Yes, you don’t want Whites to have any pride. But you’re not going to come out and say that because you know it would sound wrong. You should listen to that small voice inside you, Elrond – instead of just projecting it outward in the form of “what would they think”. Why would it sound wrong? Because it IS.

          • 100th Avatar May 1, 2019 at 9:32 am #

            Lorne is the perfect kind of eunuch.
            Self-satisfied, priggish, and constantly cutting away at the nub.

        • hmuller May 1, 2019 at 3:57 pm #

          During Obama’s last year in office, there was talk of replacing Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. I guess Jackson was an especially odious white man because of that whole Cherokee “trail of tears” brouhaha.

          Then Trump got into office and Harriet will just have to wait until the day President Ocasio-Cortez elevates her.

    • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 2:06 am #

      Preacher Elrond, your anti-White posts will never be enough to save you from your own White Supremacist reality. There is no amount of penance that you can do to wipe away your own White iniquity. Once the Others wax in the power that you have so willfully ceded to them they will come for you too. Until then you serve them well and you will receive the feel good awards meted to all committed and woke do gooders. Enjoy these moments. Your White skin will testify against you in the day when the accusers come forward and the judges gather.

  84. Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 12:53 pm #

    Rush: Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, divorced his wife of some years and some kids, to marry his brother’s widow. During the divorce battle, he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on prostitutes and intoxication and other personal matters out of their shared estate.

    Has the media said a peep? Imagine if it was one of the Trump kids.

    JS: Ol’ Hunt must have realized he was going to get taken to the cleaners so he might as well live it up before he lost most of that money. Doesn’t sound like a very advanced human being. Maybe if we had polygamy, this whole sordid tale could have been avoided. In any case, in many cultures a brother was encouraged or even required to marry a sibling’s widow.

    I love you Rush.

    • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 3:18 pm #

      Rush likes immigration and out sourcing. I gave up on him, long ago.
      He does understand the lefts machinations and has ‘Pretenders’ music [a song about the rust belt].
      Ms Hynde doesnt mind. ‘My folks like his show’ BUT EMI tried to ban its use by him.

      • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 2:09 am #

        Rush likes immigration and out sourcing…..

        Can you link to this?

    • 100th Avatar May 1, 2019 at 12:07 pm #

      More importantly: Old Joe raised a bunch of crooks and f***-ups for children. Drug abusing and womanizing lowlifes, but he feels he can oversee a country. Low class nouveau riche workingclass trash.
      Botox, dental veneers, glad handing and bullshit artistry.
      The perfect American leader.

  85. Sean Coleman April 30, 2019 at 12:57 pm #

    I have never visited the USA and probably never will at this stage. I distrust the picture the cinema gives of the country and anyway I don’t watch films any more. I have various impressions from books but I don’t know how to assemble them into anything coherent. I see a fair few American visitors around here in Killarney, which I find reassuring. (We have a lot of strangers here, far more than when I arrived just over ten years ago. The only foreigners who seem to relate to the Irish in any meaningful sense are the English. The Poles are polite but their is very little interaction with the natives. All the rest (and there are lots) are as if they are from another planet.) If you look at a crowd at a gaelic football or hurling final or semi it is as if nothing has changed. If you pop out to the supermarket during the game you will encounter the ‘New Irish’ in droves.)

    De Toqueville noticed something about America in the 1840s which seems to describe very well our soft totalitarianism. Well-fed people and minutely regulated. And yet America has a lingering reputation for rugged individualism and mistrust of the state. So what does that say about how Europe must have changed in the last 170 years? I also think of Céline’s weird Journey To The End Of The Night. The protagonist comes to NY and is at a loose end. He is surprised by the underground toilets and spends much of his time in the dream world of the cinema.

    I was born in 1958 and grew up in the London of the Swinging Sixties. The excitement was confined to the West End. On our council estate in Mottingham SE9 the changes were reflected in petty crime like vandalized public phone boxes. The insane football hooliganism arrived at the end of the decade. I was surprised as a six year old to hear a neighbouring boy boast of telling his teacher to fuck off. (I went to the Catholic primary school on the estate which had a different ethos and used to attract middle class dummies from the posh, leafy suburb of next-door Chislehurst. Our teacher in the ‘top class’ had driven a tank through France and Belgium in 1940 – the return journey was at speed and without the cheering crowds – and he loathed the long hair and everything ‘modern’.) As Booker wrote in The Neophiliacs (1969) the decade was characterized by chaotic and unbridled sensation-seeking. I remember everything being described as New! and Modern! New books and films were Challenging! It was childish. I loathed the wanna-be hippy generation, about ten years older than me: moody and querulous, self-pitying creatures in the bodies of young adults, they were sullen and spiteful towards young children like me. I despised the students I found at university a decade later who aped these morons. There were demonstrations for the university to ‘disinvest’ in S. Africa which I refused to attend. It was clear that they knew so little. If you want to know why the world is in such a mess then just consider that this is the cohort who are in charge now.

    I heard that Keith Joseph once spoke at the university and the students turned out to heckle him. After all, he was one of the henchmen of the hated Margaret Thatcher. I heard that he engaged these geniuses in debate and made a show of them.

    Anyway, what I had intended recounting was standing in the empty kitchen of our council house one early evening, probably towards the end of 1964, and it was getting dark outside. Petula Clarke’s Downtown was playing on the radio and I had a strange feeling that somehow the veil of reality had torn a little. What did this exciting but melancholy music mean? The Neophiliacs is clearly inspired by Jung’s work and Booker described the comings and goings in terms of two turns of ‘fantasy cycles’, the second climaxing and ending in 1963 (notably JFK’s assassination). The classic dream figures of the new cycle were the Beatles.

    I commented on the song on YouTube and other posters agreed with me (one was from California). Another poster, close by, said that the song always reminded him of passenger jets crashing (Booker mentions these crashes too).

    The fantasy cycles did not end in 1969 (if there really are such cycles) but the fantasy, the Great Fantasy, has clearly deepened, to the extent that all is unreality. The media are central to it. All of the planks of our progressive pc ideology are based on fantasy. All of them. And the strange thing is that it is so easy to show it, the evidence is there, hiding (like Jimmy Savile) In Plain Sight. But the power of the Dream is so strong that nobody wants to look at it. Those who do are dismissed as oddballs or bigots. For example, Peter Hitchens has mentioned more than once that it is not his fault if people will not see what is right there under their nose.

    JHK says (I think) here that everyone is aware of this at some level and I agree.

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    • BackRowHeckler April 30, 2019 at 1:00 pm #

      Celine also had some interesting things to say about Detroit as well.

    • Tate April 30, 2019 at 4:18 pm #

      The current meme for the Great Fantasy is called Clown World.

    • Robert White April 30, 2019 at 4:39 pm #

      I went to the USA to see The Rolling Stones back in the late 70s. It was a nice place to visit back then and no passport was required. The last concert I saw was Johnny Winter in Potsdam NY. The cigarettes are terrible but the alcohol is cheap & available on every corner it seemed. The state highways were nice and the drive was great. The people of New York State seemed to be just like Canadians at all the concert venues except for the naked woman that was walking around Rich Stadium in Buffalo New York for The Rolling Stones 1978 gig Some Girls Tour. The naked woman was being followed by Hell’s Angels bikers who were making sure she was not bothered or accosted by anyone so that she could freely walk stark naked throughout the concert floor and all the crowds of people standing about.

      The USA was probably at the best before date in the 70s. Today it is monoculture just as it is everywhere with the transnational department store & restaurant franchise monopolies scattered about.
      The EU has evidenced their own best before date too. Post-08 UK Brexit and breakaway from Brussels is going to cause friction.

      RW

      • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 7:42 am #

        That seems about right. The 80’s began the great transformation under Ronnie and gang.

        • Robert White May 1, 2019 at 4:21 pm #

          Nancy & Ronald came to Ottawa Canada soon after they entered the White House and told us all to ‘just say no to drugs’.
          A few weeks after they had left I noticed the local Outlaws Motorcycle Gang were sporting black t-shirts with ‘just say no to drugs’ written on the back so that when they were on their Harley Davidsons everyone in Ottawa could see that they too were in full agreement with the First Lady.

          Eventually the Outlaws were supplanted by the Hell’s Angles but they sure had a sense of humour when it came to politics.

          RW

    • montsegur May 1, 2019 at 1:31 am #

      Sean, interesting comments on your part.

      Regarding European perceptions of America. In my experience, they are badly distorted. Too many Europeans seem to think the USA is nothing but New York City, California, and Florida, and, of those who actually vacation in the USA … that is where they go.

      Well and fine, but there is so much more to any country than its famous spots.

      Enjoy life in Killarney!

      Cheers

      • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 9:38 am #

        We’ve seen The Last Picture Show too, montsegur 🙂 .

        And Lone Star.

        • montsegur May 1, 2019 at 10:39 am #

          Och! GreenAlba, one of the things I’ve “heard” about Scotland is how miserably stingy the people there are.

          Thankfully, I’ve been around the international mulberry bush enough to take such assertions with a healthy grain of salt.

          I need to get up to Scotland at some point. I’d like to see from where one group of the ancestors came.

          Cheers

          • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 12:23 pm #

            Well I’d offer to buy you a drink when you’re up, montsegur, but er…ya know… 🙂

            Sláinte

  86. BackRowHeckler April 30, 2019 at 12:57 pm #

    So based upon what I’ve read upstream, I’m assuming in LA and Orange counties the fragrant Orange Groves are gone, replaced by steel re enforced concrete bridge abutments.

    Is that about the size of it?

    Really what’s more charming than a 24 lane limited acces highway with bumber to bumper and door to door traffic moving at 75 mph over it?

    brh

    • Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 1:01 pm #

      The Container Highways they want to build, off limits to normal traffic, bringing in containers from China via Mexico. All the drivers would be Mexican – but only until the robot trucks arrive. Maybe the robots will be Mexican too…..

      • Exscotticus April 30, 2019 at 1:35 pm #

        It will be a damn shame when Mexican immigrants can no longer compete with Mexican immigrant robots.

    • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 3:27 pm #

      In the 1990s, I saw a few Citrus groves or grove still ‘hanging on’–while I saw–out toward San Bernadino, by cow pastures, a new mega development with countless new homes…The people can come from abroad, but what jobs are out there?

      The Valley was citrus, even in the 1950s.

  87. Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 12:58 pm #

    An American back Coup is on in Venezuela. Pray for Nicholas Maduro. I don’t know if he’s that good, but he can’t be worse than anyone America wants.

    • BackRowHeckler April 30, 2019 at 1:01 pm #

      Oh yeah, Maduro is a regular Thomas Jefferson.

      • Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 1:06 pm #

        Tell me more. Is he Catholic? The Pope just donated 500,000 to support the invasion of America.

        • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 3:29 pm #

          see EMS News on wordpress..read the article and comments.

    • BackRowHeckler April 30, 2019 at 1:03 pm #

      Anyway WTF do you care about Maduro? Maybe once he’s dead the people in Venezuela can get something too eat.

      brh

      • Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 1:14 pm #

        You may be right. Ozone said it was a rich land and any famine could only come from serious fuckery and theft. I’m all ears if have more to say. I’m against American foreign involvement as a principle a la Adams and Washington, what to speak of our horrendous modern history.

    • Exscotticus April 30, 2019 at 1:53 pm #

      >>> An American back Coup is on in Venezuela.

      Some might even call it collusion.

      But since it’s the USA involving itself in the internal affairs of another nation, and not the other way around, it’s perfectly OK.

      I mean we’re only giving the opposition arms and logistics; it’s not like we’re crossing the line by running FaceBook ads…

      • messianicdruid May 1, 2019 at 12:34 pm #

        The old “line-drawing game” cannot be won.

  88. BackRowHeckler April 30, 2019 at 2:41 pm #

    What did Pedro Buttplug and Rev Al Sharpton talk about?

    From the photo it looks like Sharpton was sizing up that cracker to see if any future use could be made of him.

    brh

    • montsegur May 1, 2019 at 11:03 am #

      “Buttplug” … yeah, that guy has an unfortunate surname.

      Cheers

  89. BackRowHeckler April 30, 2019 at 2:57 pm #

    Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious, chewing the fat at Johnny’s beach house in Venice, sipping Wild Turkey on ice, sitting on lawn chairs, wearily eyeing vagrants massing on the beach front just across the property line. Resting up against the wall is a Kalasnikov assault rifle, right next to Johnny’s Remington Shotgun.

    “Me and Tom Petty were partying the night before he died”, Says Johnny, gesturing toward Pettys house up the road.

    “He was a good bloke” says Sid.

    “Pass me my shotgun, Sid” says Johhny, as one of the vagrants, a tall man in sandles dressed up like Jesus, crosses over onto Johnny Rotten’s property.

    brh

    • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 3:30 pm #

      Petty had a mansion in Malibu, on a hill.

      • BackRowHeckler April 30, 2019 at 7:50 pm #

        Really? Well, I guess the Heartbreakers cashed in better than the Sex Pistols. You couldn’t say the Sex Pistols were a commercial boys band, like Boyz in the Hood. Sex Pistols weren’t groomed for long term appeal either, like say Tony Bennet or the Rolling Stones.

        brh

    • Tate April 30, 2019 at 4:03 pm #

      Wearily or warily? Could be either (or both).

    • Sean Coleman May 1, 2019 at 9:40 am #

      A friend was very enthusiastic about the Punk movement. I never saw the Sex Pistols but I took the train up to the centre of London one night, to the Roundhouse, to watch similar ‘bands’ performing. They were all tuneless and without talent and came from places like Guildford, and the audience (I don’t remember any girls) were jumping up and down on the spot (‘pogoing’) and spitting up at the stage. My friend was in ecstasy all the way home.

      Punk made ugliness fashionable.

      The previous summer, in August 1976, so a year before the above I think, I was coming back from a holiday in Ireland with friends and bought an evening newspaper. On an inside page it announced a forthcoming fashion sensation called ‘Punk’, dreamt up by the owner of a clothes shop on the Kings Road in Chelsea. (By the way, all I know about that road is a story recounted by Edith Wharton. She was in a carriage along with Henry James heading for the Kings Road but were lost so James asks an old man standing on the road nearby, in the fog and gloom. His question is phrased in about three long paragraphs full of clauses and verbiage and the old man does not understand a word. Wharton intervenes and asks where the Kings Road is. ‘Yer in it’ he replies.)

      Punk was presented as a spontaneous uprising, a reckless challenge of stifling social conventions and authority (there was little of it left by then anyway after the Sixties), a new broom to sweep away all the rock dinosaurs. All it did was make ugly people look even uglier. I think Lydon had some kind of medical condition that made his eyes bulge like that.

      • montsegur May 1, 2019 at 10:35 am #

        The concerning part is that so many people latch onto movements like that. Something must be badly wrong with ‘ordinary’ life if so many opt for lifestyles that are, purportedly at least, in opposition to it.

        Cheers

      • Q. Shtik May 1, 2019 at 6:03 pm #

        She was in a carriage along with Henry James heading for the Kings Road but were lost so James asks an old man standing on the road nearby, in the fog and gloom. His question is phrased in about three long paragraphs full of clauses and verbiage and the old man does not understand a word. Wharton intervenes and asks where the Kings Road is. ‘Yer in it’ he replies.) – Sean C.

        ===============

        Thanks for bringing this up. I’ve been meaning to mention Henry James for the past several weeks. He’s driving me crazy! I’m near the end of a book (page 662 of 678, to be precise) containing 9 of his tales. I have never seen anyone use so many words to say almost nothing yet the Franklin Library chose several of his works to publish among what they consider to be the 100 Greatest Books.

        You may wonder why do I torture myself like this? Well, it’s because I’m an unusually persistent person. I bought this collection at the rate of one per month for 100 months with the idea that if I read them all I would have self-acquired a pretty good liberal education. I believe I’ve read maybe 80 of them thus far (even read every word of War and Peace). If I can work up the stamina maybe tonight I’ll finally finish the last 16 pages of this James book of Tales.

        • Sean Coleman May 2, 2019 at 5:39 pm #

          Q, I am the same with books, although in recent years I sometimes abandon them. I once bought one of James’s and gave up after one page. From the age of 19 to 23 I read tons of good novels and I got a lot of them from a selection of his own ‘best one hundred novels’ by Anthony Burgess.

          I found the Wharton story. I think it may be a different Kings Road but it is very amusingly told by her.

          ‘First of all, while “motoring in the west country”, Wharton and her husband are entreated by James to let him guide them into Malvern, as he once spent a summer there and believes he will be able to find his way to their hotel.

          ‘”For an hour we circulated about above the outspread city, while James vainly tried to remember which particular street led down most directly to our hotel. At each corner (literally) he stopped the motor, and we heard a muttering, first confident and then anguished. ‘This – this, my dear Cook, yes … this certainly is the right corner. But no; stay! A moment longer, please – in this light it’s so difficult … appearances are so misleading … It may be …yes! I think it IS the next turn … a little farther lend thy guiding hand …that is, drive on; but slowly, please, my dear Cook; VERY slowly!’ And at the next corner the same agitated monologue would be repeated; till at length Cook, the mildest of men, interrupted gently: ‘I guess any turn’ll get us down into the town, Mr James, and after that I can ask–’ and late, hungry and exhausted we arrived at length at our destination, James still convinced that the next turn would have been the right one, if only we had been more patient.”

          ‘Later, James and Wharton arrive in Windsor at night, and are unsure of how to direct their chauffeur to the King’s Road. James, fortunately, spots an “ancient doddering man who had stopped in the rain to gaze at us”, and asks him for help.

          ‘Wharton relates what he said. “My good man, if you’ll be good enough to come here, please; a little nearer – so,” and as the old man came up: “My friend, to put it to you in two words, this lady and I have just arrived here from SLOUGH; that is to say, to be more strictly accurate, we have recently PASSED THROUGH Slough on our way here, having actually motored to Windsor from Rye, which was our point of departure; and the darkness having overtaken us, we should be much obliged if you would tell us where we now are in relation, say, to the High Street, which, as you of course know, leads to the Castle, after leaving on the left hand the turn down to the railway station.”

          ‘The old man is, obviously, stunned, or as Wharton puts it, “I was not surprised to have this extraordinary appeal met by silence, and a dazed expression on the old wrinkled face at the window.”

          ‘James continues. “In short” (his invariable prelude to a fresh series of explanatory ramifications), “in short, my good man, what I want to put to you in a word is this: supposing we have already (as I have reason to think we have) driven past the turn down to the railway station (which, in that case, by the way, would probably not have been on our left hand, but on our right), where are we now in relation to …”

          ‘”Oh, please,” I interrupted, feeling myself utterly unable to sit through another parenthesis, “do ask him where the King’s Road is.”

          ‘”Ah–? The King’s Road? Just so! Quite right! Can you, as a matter of fact, my good man, tell us where, in relation to our present position, the King’s Road exactly IS?”

          ‘”Ye’re in it,” said the aged face at the window.”‘

          • Q. Shtik May 2, 2019 at 6:44 pm #

            Yes Sean, ^this^ neatly captures the essence of Henry James although I don’t think it goes far enough.

            Among the tales in the previously mentioned book was one (the longest of the nine) titled The Turning of the Screw. This title is probably familiar to everyone here, though they may not have read it, while the other eight are likely unfamiliar. Well, I finished the Screw story a couple of weeks ago and I, honest to God, could not tell you what it was about.

            Similarly, several years ago I read what is probably his most famous novel (406 pages in dense small font) and again I could not tell you what it was about. I’ll have to Google it to remind myself. Often during my reading of it I would grind my teeth and mumble “get to the freaking POINT!!”

          • Q. Shtik May 2, 2019 at 6:46 pm #

            Correction:

            The Turn of the Screw

  90. PeteAtomic April 30, 2019 at 3:32 pm #

    Oh!
    There is a guy with an unlit Molotov cocktail

    This oughta be good

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  91. FincaInTheMountains April 30, 2019 at 4:31 pm #

    Anyway WTF do you care about Maduro? Maybe once he’s dead the people in Venezuela can get something too eat. == brh

    Russia supports President Maduro, and she does this not because his policy is flawless, but because in this way, as is currently happening in Venezuela, the issue of power should not be decided in principle – only through constitutional methods.

    All other american-sponsored regime changes just lead to even more suffering of the people and the failed states, like Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Siria and many more.

    Whether for Maduro and his supporters will be enough support from Russia in the volumes in which Russia can afford it, time will tell.

    Most significantly, Russia could block any threat of military intervention – direct or through third-party, like ISIS.

    Yes, Venezuela is far away, and the Kremlin, as I understand it, does not mean to act in this country by the methods that the US and its NATO allies operate in Ukraine.

    Russia’s task is the opposite: it is not aimed in principle against any US allies. Russia responds only to specific manifestations of hostility.

    At the same time, international law, the inadmissibility of the change of government by “color” revolutions must be upheld.

    And Washington should be made to understand that it is no longer the sovereign master in the world.

  92. Trumped again.

    Guess what? Front page of The New York Times.

    Trump’s labor force is high-fiving.

    High fiving.

    Why?

    The labor force will now have a couple of “classes” of labor. One will be regular employees. The other will be contractors, the kind exempt from minimum wage, social security, etc.

    This caste (oops, sorry) “class” of labor costs “employers” up to 30% in labor costs.

    The prcedent setting case concerned a company that “cleaned residences” (name withheld).

    I think you can see where this is going. A fully legitimate labor class for new unskilled foreigners, cost savings for their bosses, and the second class citizen “fit” for the kind of jobs this economy creates.

    • Exscotticus April 30, 2019 at 6:23 pm #

      >>> Blame da left… when there’s no one else to blame… blame da left. Always and forever, Blame de left.

      Blame da Trump… when there’s no one else to blame… blame da Trump. Always and forever, Blame de Trump.

    • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 2:29 am #

      I am so sick of immigration. It is only exacerbating income inequality and encouraging chattel slavery. It is immoral. As are all of those who profit from such a betrayal and travesty. How can we ever have any real form of socialism when its so clear the current State would rather replace its citizens then invest in them? All of the fake socialists and conservatives involved in this are one big, fat, traitorous, repulsive blob.

      • Tate May 1, 2019 at 2:55 am #

        Blacks were the only chattel slaves belonging to the Europeans, pretty much only for export to the Western Hemisphere for the plantation economy. Among the Arabs, white europeans & bush blacks were enslaved as chattel (derived from the same root as ‘cattle’) indiscriminately in large numbers up until modern times. The African males were usually castrated before export to the Levant. They didn’t want them breeding illicitly with their womens, a wise precaution. Though it’s been conclusively demonstrated through DNA analysis that the Ancient Egyptians were as white as the Celts (Ramses II had red hair) the Egyptians aren’t so white anymore, maybe because of the slave trade.

        We’ve become interchangeable parts. You don’t refurbish capital goods that can be written off on a three-year schedule. You buy new & send the old to the scrap heap.

        • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 10:08 am #

          “Blacks were the only chattel slaves belonging to the Europeans, pretty much only for export to the Western Hemisphere for the plantation economy.”

          Not entirely true. This book tells the story of white (British) slaves sent to the Americas by their own governing classes.

          https://www.amazon.co.uk/White-Cargo-Forgotten-History-Britains/dp/0814742963/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2ZTMH2XPGYIR4&keywords=white+cargo&qid=1556719291&s=gateway&sprefix=white+cargo%2Caps%2C191&sr=8-1

          White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain’s American colonies.

          In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London’s streets to labor in the tobacco fields, where life expectancy was no more than two years. Brothels were raided to provide “breeders” for Virginia. Hopeful migrants were duped into signing as indentured servants, unaware they would become personal property who could be bought, sold, and even gambled away. Transported convicts were paraded for sale like livestock.

          Drawing on letters crying for help, diaries, and court and government archives, Don Jordan and Michael Walsh demonstrate that the brutalities usually associated with black slavery alone were perpetrated on whites throughout British rule. The trade ended with American independence, but the British still tried to sell convicts in their former colonies, which prompted one of the most audacious plots in Anglo-American history.

          Nasty bunch, the British elite back then.

          • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 10:10 am #

            Don’t know what the ‘audacious plot’ was yet, but I’m sure I’ll finish it some time.

          • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 10:53 am #

            Yet the history of Whites in slavery is never discussed with such frequency and fervor so thank you for posting! Alba received several White Nationalist points today!!!!!!

          • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 11:30 am #

            Well thank you for noting that my reading is broad and not partial, SSL, but I’ll pass on the WN points, thanks. You’ll have more use for them. It was nothing whatever to do with white nationalism anyway – just the way the riff-raff were treated by the nobs. Class, not colour.

            (For Q:
            https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nob)

            Some of us just read because we like to know. Not having a go, just sayin…

            Barbary pirates once lifted the entire population of a village on the West Coast of Ireland – took the lot of them.

            I’ll pass on the points for that too. I don’t need points as I don’t have patrons or political saviours to suck up to. There’s just me for as long as I’m here, which won’t be that long.

          • Tate May 1, 2019 at 2:17 pm #

            The distinction between chattel slavery & indentured servitude was often honored more in the breach than the observance. Whites weren’t considered chattel from a legal perspective though they were often treated as such. The system developed over time. Chattel slavery allowed for families to be broken up for sale of individuals just as one would livestock, under the color of law & according to the color of skin, as the laws became more explicit regarding race. That was the spoiler as occasionally “white” is “black” & “black” is “white.” There was the well-known case of a “white” girl who was a chattel slave in New Orleans, but was she “white” or was she “black?” To all appearances she was “white” & that caused a minor scandal as, just as today, changing mores suddenly called into question what had been taken for granted before that time.

          • Q. Shtik May 1, 2019 at 9:15 pm #

            For Q: nob – Green Alba

            ===========

            Over here it’s breast or, more frequently, breasts as in ‘check the pair of (k)nobs on that chick!’

          • malthuss May 2, 2019 at 12:15 am #

            ‘Fatal Shore’–the tale of early australia.

          • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 1:42 pm #

            Q – in English slang there is a difference between ‘nob’ and ‘knob’. The former is someone from the monied (usually ‘old’-monied) classes; the latter is a dick, or a person being rudely described as such).

        • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 10:58 am #

          Tate I have also read that the original Libyans were White. And actually, it seems like most of North Africa may have been White at the end of the last ice age. But then archeology indicates the demographics of the region shifted. I suppose that could have been when the White inhabitants moved into Europe by crossing the Mediterranean? Apparently that is also around the time when Blacks begin their migrations north out of sub-Sahara Africa, along with other movements of people into North Africa from the Horn of Africa region.

          • Tate May 1, 2019 at 3:54 pm #

            Have you ever seen a white Negro? Only albinos to my knowledge. Or maybe Yaqub (NOI) scattered his seed through the will of Allah to mock YT. In any event, the black Bantu race originated in West Africa & they’re as different from us after 70,000 years of separation as night & day. They’re as different from us as coyotes are different from wolves.

            Fst or Fixation Index is a measure of population differentiation due to genetic structure.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation_index

            Notice that the difference between Sub-Saharan Africans (Yoruba) & Europeans (CEU) is 0.153. The difference is even greater between Africans & Chinese.

            Coincidentally, this 0.153 is also the difference that separates the North American Gray Wolf & the Coyote.

            https://www.fws.gov/southeast/pdf/publication/red-wolf-genetics-research-von-holdt.pdf

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 2:21 am #

            Very interesting. So while the difference appears small, in reality it represents something more fundamental. Perhaps the Bantu are a separate subspecies of humans altogether?

        • Janos Skorenzy May 1, 2019 at 12:10 pm #

          No browns? In that part of the world? Most unlikely. The Pharaohs were probably descended from a conquering White Elite. Or at least the early ones or early dynasties were. Later no doubt they darkened, especially as the population did.

          Egypt had a very long history. Many peoples must have been drawn into her over the ages, either as migrants or conquerors. I assume the early natives were brown Caucasians like the rest of North Africa and the Levant.

      • messianicdruid May 1, 2019 at 12:48 pm #

        “…the current State would rather replace its citizens then [ sic ] invest in them?”

        Invest stolen resources in those it was stolen from?

    • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 7:40 am #

      Since when is this news? This has been going on in earnest for at least twenty years now.

  93. Tate April 30, 2019 at 7:26 pm #

    AFTER VENEZUELA FAILURE, UNCLE SAM TO PUT FUTURE COUP ATTEMPTS OUT TO PRIVATE TENDER
    April 30, 2019

    With the CIA’s latest attempt to interfere in the political processes of another country failing badly in Venezuela, Uncle Sam is now considering “privatising” all future overseas coup attempts by putting them out to tender to the private sector.

    The CIA, as part of the public sector, has become increasingly bloated, wasteful, and inefficient over the years, and has been unable to carry out a successful overthrow of a foreign government for several decades. (In fact, they even failed to overthrow a domestic one in the shape of Trump recently.)

    The debacle in Venezuela, where the Maduro government easily shut down the coup fronted by US-puppet politician Juan Guaido on Tuesday (30th April), is believed to have been the last straw, pushing the US government to look to the private sector.

    Support had already been growing for the idea before the latest coup attempt, with Erik Prince, the founder of private security firm Blackwater, pushing the idea of deposing Maduro with a “private army,” rather than relying on inefficient spooks on the government payroll.

    As Reported by Reuters:

    Over the last several months…Prince has sought investment and political support for such an operation from influential Trump supporters and wealthy Venezuelan exiles. In private meetings in the United States and Europe, Prince sketched out a plan to field up to 5,000 soldiers-for-hire on behalf of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, according to two sources with direct knowledge of Prince’s pitch.

    One source said Prince has conducted meetings about the issue as recently as mid-April.

    White House National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis declined to comment when asked whether Prince had proposed his plan to the government and whether it would be considered…

    The two sources with direct knowledge of Prince’s pitch said it calls for starting with intelligence operations and later deploying 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers-for-hire from Colombia and other Latin American nations to conduct combat and stabilization operations.

    For Prince, the unlikely gambit represents the latest effort in a long campaign to privatize warfare. The wealthy son of an auto-parts tycoon has fielded private security contractors in conflict zones from Central Asia to Africa to the Middle East.

    A more efficient privatised coup represents the best chance of Uncle Sam removing Maduro and seizing Venezuela’s oil riches. But there is a danger that such an attempt would fail against the 420,000-man Venezuelan army and its Russian, Cuban, and Chinese backers.

    Such a failure would also have the unfortunate effect of discrediting further free market efforts to overhaul the espionage and political destablisation sectors, allowing the CIA to maintain its deathlike grip on these vital areas of US imperialism.

    — from Trad News

    • Tate April 30, 2019 at 7:33 pm #

      I like wealthy exiles. They are so much nicer than refugees. And they can’t be accused of being disloyal to Israel.

    • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 7:38 am #

      The CIA’s dark ops branch has always been a public/private venture, so this just signals a change of degree, not of kind. The fact that it’s available for public consumption also means that it might be disinformation. Caveat emptor!

  94. FincaInTheMountains April 30, 2019 at 7:31 pm #

    I do not think it is unequivocally proven that the USSR was defeated in the Cold War. Nevertheless, the overwhelming majority of Americans are confident in this, and this is a big problem for the American government – how to explain the current state of affairs to its population and electorate.

    But for the Russian government, this is not a problem, since the majority of Russians, regardless of their political convictions (with the exception of 3% marginal and moral Quasimodos), believe that there was no defeat in the Cold War, that in the USSR there was a change of government and political orientation due to the decision of the Russian = Soviet people, and the Americans here, by and large, have nothing to do with.

    The fact that the Americans took advantage of the difficulties of transition from the communist empire to a democratic state to declare themselves victorious in the cold war calls into question their motivation in the cold war and negates their victory in the ideological war, which cannot be denied.

    But the fact of the matter is that the ideological war is not over and these were victories in battles, not in war. And now, in an ideological war, Americans really lose because of the above reasons, since modern Russia cannot be considered a country that upholds the principles of equality and justice. On the contrary, the United States defends these principles, and Russia tramples them in dirt.

    The transition from socialism to capitalism meant the transfer of vast property into the hands of a small number of persons, as if this property remained scattered between a large number of persons, it would mean automatic disorganization and the collapse of the economy. Modern capitalism cannot exist without big capital.

    How could such a transition happen legally?

    That is, on legal grounds, all property should have passed into the hands of foreigners – winners in the Cold War and owners of the Philosopher’s stone(the FED Printing Press).

    This is actually the main idea of a book written in the 11th century after the conquest of England by Wilhelm the Bastard, which was called the Domesday Book, which, by the way, was reprinted in 1986.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book

    • FincaInTheMountains April 30, 2019 at 7:49 pm #

      That is, on legal grounds, all property should have passed into the hands of foreigners

      And Hillary Clinton main occupation during the 90s, aside from arranging genocide of the Orthodox Serbs in Yugoslavia and Christian children in Waco, Texas. was managing the privatization process in Russia, which resulted in demographic losses comparable to Great Patriotic War.

      And it PISSES ME OFF when the next American asks a STUPID question – did Russians Really preferred Trump to Hillary Clinton?!

    • elysianfield April 30, 2019 at 8:20 pm #

      “in the USSR there was a change of government and political orientation due to the decision of the Russian = Soviet people, and the Americans here, by and large, have nothing to do with”

      Komaraden Finc!

      So, the USA gets no credit for the ultimate failure of the Soviet System? We freely admit that the USSR “assisted” the USA in its great victory over the Germans, yet you give us no credit?

      Everyone should get a trophy, at least, for participation.

      • FincaInTheMountains April 30, 2019 at 8:22 pm #

        So you insist of being liable for the privatization of the 90s?

        Good to know.

        • BackRowHeckler April 30, 2019 at 10:39 pm #

          Biggest mistake the West made was pushing NATO right up to Russia’s border after 1991; totally unnecessary, provocative, and destabilizing, and the source of all kinds of international problems since.

          I can’t understand why it was done, unless it was simply to humiliate a former enemy and show who now was boss.

          brh

          • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 7:31 am #

            It was done for the same reason that the Wall St shysters moved in on Russian markets and enabled a generation of mafioso oligarchs to dismantle and sell off the country. That’s just the way full spectrum globalist crony capitalism works. The humiliation aspect was, of course, a rather delicious icing on the cake for the ever opportunistic pols. Picking on a drunken and delirious Boris Yeltsin was just too easy to take a pass on.

          • montsegur May 1, 2019 at 10:57 am #

            It is an error to consider that decision solely something to be decided by ‘the West’ and Russia.

            There is a brace of sovereign states involved who very much preferred to associate themselves with the West (and its problems) vice those of Russia, with whom they had had far too much experience in the 50 years preceding.

            From their standpoint, they joined NATO in the hope it would prevent them from becoming Russian colonies again.

            Russia, like the West, is stuck in ruts as far as how they conduct their foreign policy.

            Cheers

        • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 7:35 am #

          That was the great untold story of it all. The collapse and subsequent rape of Russia allowed the same thing to happen in the US and the world over with nary a peep, so great was the triumphalism myth in the aftermath. Those chickens would come home to roost a decade later under Shrub and Cheney and their great 9-11 hoax.

        • elysianfield May 1, 2019 at 6:37 pm #

          “So you insist of being liable”

          Komaraden Finc!

          …Well, partially responsible, but not liable.

  95. tucsonspur April 30, 2019 at 8:48 pm #

    From the NYT:

    “Splat! Bam! It’s the Federal Reserve to the Rescue!”

    Did you know that the Fed puts out comic books? That’s right, stuff like “Once Upon a Dime” on the origins of money or “The Story of Monetary Policy”, where monetary experts land on Alpha Numerica, voted 3,675,927th best place to live(Galaxy?), and suffering from a severe recession.

    “…. the little comic book’s enthusiastic embrace of diversity seemed particularly welcome. The latest Fed comics suggest that with education and imagination-along with sound monetary policy- gloriously varied societies can flourish in an infinite rainbow of colors.”

    Lord have Mercy. Dollars to donuts yeah, but dollars to diversity? Hell no.

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  96. Janos Skorenzy April 30, 2019 at 8:54 pm #

    https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2019/04/29/the-war-against-white-people/

    Good introduction for Ozone and other newbies. He has no excuse not to know of course, since he has had the benefit of years of my preaching, but what the hell. Allah is recreating the universe every moment. Thus ours is not a Caravan of Despair. He is as innocent as any from this pov. A deep one too I must admit. As much as I’d like to convict him, I must bow to the Will of the Judge.

    • malthuss April 30, 2019 at 9:19 pm #

      Janos–break down IQ– Whites—

      100= 50% Whites
      110= ?
      120=?
      125=?
      130=?
      135=?
      140=?
      140 + =?

      • Janos Skorenzy May 1, 2019 at 12:17 am #

        Don’t know offhand – the decline accelerates the further you go away from the median – as the geometrical figure shows. And it may not be perfectly symmetrical – there are more idiots than geniuses. And women have their own bell curve – with a higher dome and few extremes. Each race has its own too of course. Blacks peter out pretty much completely in the 120’s.

        • malthuss May 1, 2019 at 12:54 am #

          5%–iq 70

          5%–iq–80

          Iq–90—-15%

          100—1 in 2

          110—1 in 10

          120–1 in 20

          130–1 in 30

          135=? some small %

          140=?

          140 + =?

          Just guessing.

          Oh, in 1960, USA was 90% white, Id guess most collegians
          were Male and Id read, IQ 110…people had to study.

          BILL CLINTON–Everybody should go to college.

        • malthuss May 1, 2019 at 12:57 am #

          120 is high.
          130 is PhD average recipient.
          I think the PhD is the biggest joke.

          • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 8:19 am #

            High IQ (=> 140) is greatly overrated. The only relevant aspect for most of us is whether you’re above or below average. Very high IQs – just like the PhD degrees they often attain – are usually highly specialized, which means they’re very, very smart in a single, often largely irrelevant area, and not very smart at all in all others. Thus the popular stories of bumbling idiot geniuses – idiot savants – who I can personally assure do indeed exist, as I work with a number of them daily. Quite frustrating people to deal with until you get to know them and figure out their individual quirks. They really like their egos stroked when they feel like talking at all (many don’t!), but you have to do it very discreetly. They tend to take and give offense quite easily (albeit usually unintentionally), as their social skills are often stunted. Color them flighty and ethereal.

            Engineers, who are usually a notch or two below on the IQ scale, are much more down to earth and relatable on all counts. A simple greeting of the day to an engineer will often completely befuddle them and elicit a simple,”Huh?”. Matter of fact and businesslike (just the facts!), color them utterly pragmatic.

            Successful managers, on the other hand, are usually several notches below both, and rely on cunning and deception to rule the roost. Managers are the proverbial foxes in the henhouse when it come to working with very smart people, completely undoing and jiu-jitsu-ing the IQ advantages of their much smarter coworkers against them. Quite a sight to behold when done artfully. Shape shifting and opportunistic, color them translucent with pronounced shades of avarice.

          • Tate May 1, 2019 at 10:09 am #

            They figured it out by high school, scratch.

          • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 11:01 am #

            I hate math.

          • malthuss May 1, 2019 at 11:14 am #

            Thanks OS…what does IQ test measure? Intelligence.
            What is intelligence? what the IQ test measures.

          • Exscotticus May 1, 2019 at 11:14 am #

            >>> I think the PhD is the biggest joke.

            PhD = time + money. Not necessarily intelligence. And you hardly need an original idea for your dissertation. Also, many get PhD’s in the “hate whitey” sciences. The entire field of study is of dubious value…

          • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 11:22 am #

            They figured it out by high school, scratch.

            That’s been my experience as well. The student council and various jock and/or academic clique movers and shakers back then are the same ones that eventually rose to the top of the dung heap later in life. They’re the ones who figured out the various largely unwritten social rules that actually rule the world early on. As I said, high IQ is greatly overrated and often borders on a hindrance.

          • elysianfield May 1, 2019 at 12:07 pm #

            Nick-O-Demus,

            “High IQ (=> 140) is greatly overrated”

            …And so are large Johnsons…or so I’m told….

          • Janos Skorenzy May 1, 2019 at 12:16 pm #

            What freaks me out? I think many people are born knowing all kinds of emotional tricks. The learning you guys mention is mostly the honing thereof. I had to learn this stuff by observation and practice – to defend myself against them.

            We are a fallen species. But some are born far more fallen than others. And some are born trailing clouds of glory….

            How many of you are at work right now, ripping off your employers by posting here instead of working? I thoroughly approve…..

          • Tate May 1, 2019 at 12:37 pm #

            My uncle (by marriage) earned a bachelors degree from a midwestern state university. He was a pretty smart guy but no genius although he effected/affected? genius attributes such as smoking a pipe & playing chess. What was striking about him was he made you feel like you were somebody important. He had a special talent with people.

            He rose to become an executive vice-president of one of the major oil companies back in the day, one of the “seven sisters” as they were then known,

            https://www.revolvy.com/page/Seven-Sisters-(oil-companies)

            His title was vice-president of research & development. He was in charge of hundreds of PhDs in the hard sciences. He retired after the company was absorbed by a larger company but from all accounts had a very successful career.

          • Exscotticus May 1, 2019 at 1:29 pm #

            One has only to hang out around Wall Street to realize that intelligence and success are two different things.

          • K-Dog May 2, 2019 at 1:26 am #

            I’ve been giving this some thought. Have you guys considered dropping some acid?

  97. Pucker April 30, 2019 at 9:12 pm #

    Did Hi Tyler abort Operation Sea Lion because of the Spitfire, or did Churchill cut a Secret Deal with Hi Tyler to Get British cooperation on Operation Barbarossa? Did Churchill and Perfidious Albion double cross Hi Tyler, like Perfidious Albion double crossed the Confederacy during the US Civil War?

  98. malthuss May 1, 2019 at 12:47 am #

    There was absolutely no mention of the terrorists’ ethnicity or beliefs..

    Why, Tate?

    • Tate May 1, 2019 at 2:08 am #

      The subject couldn’t be avoided.
      But the narrative can be shaped.

      • malthuss May 1, 2019 at 11:12 am #

        shaping a narrative..false flag?

        • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 11:17 am #

          Yes, malthuss, it was M16 wot dun it.

          • malthuss May 1, 2019 at 1:01 pm #

            M16? Never heard of them.

          • Robert White May 1, 2019 at 7:29 pm #

            They worked for MI6 as a subgroup called M16.

            RW

          • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 1:37 pm #

            malthuss

            MI5 is the domestic lot.

            MI6 is the er…’foreign affairs’ section.

      • GreenAlba May 1, 2019 at 11:18 am #

        Why can the subject not be avoided? I thought it was a Netflix documentary, not the 10 o’clock news?

        Want to avoid the subject? Don’t make the documentary?

        • Tate May 1, 2019 at 12:44 pm #

          The subject can be avoided by one but it can’t be avoided by all. Netflix’s stock is publicly traded, isn’t it?

  99. montsegur May 1, 2019 at 1:22 am #

    What if the dreaming part is actually driving us insane? What if we have engineered a society in which fantasy has so grotesquely over-run reality that coping with daily life is nearly impossible. What if an existence mediated by pixel screens large and small presents a virtual world more compelling than the real world and turns out to be a kind of contagious avoidance behavior — until reality is so fugitive that we can barely discern its colors and outlines beyond the screens?

    Jim,

    Brilliant commentary, and thank you for addressing our struggle with unreality.

    I have said for years — Between Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and Disney, postwar America never had a chance of establishing anything like a firm connection with reality.

    It took decades for the influence of these agencies to seriously erode the country’s grasp of what worked, and what made sense. But the inroads were made and the damage is now done.

    Cheers

    • Tate May 1, 2019 at 2:29 am #

      Sure, the damage only took a few generations. With the aid of advanced technologies & pharmaceutical engineering you’d think the outcomes would have been graver, the degradation swifter, but that appears not to have been the case at all, at least so far. Our Masters plan on a zombie-like stasis for the docile masses, leaching out a steady flow of nutrients from the Matrix through debt bondage. If things go seriously nonlinear, they can helicopter to their appointed discrete locations for the duration.

      • montsegur May 1, 2019 at 5:48 am #

        Interesting comment on technology and its apparent lack of expected effect on social change. Social change seems to move at a slower pace, although it may have quickened under the weight of the postwar information / propaganda / marketing onslaught.

        Cheers

    • 100th Avatar May 1, 2019 at 9:49 am #

      Addicted to programming.

      Can’t quit it.

      • montsegur May 1, 2019 at 10:49 am #

        The programming suggests that we need only eat a Clark bar and smoke a Kent cigarette . . . and we’ll be able to fly back to reality, faster than a speeding bullet.

        Cheers

    • zetatai May 2, 2019 at 1:20 am #

      bread and circuses in extremis

  100. FincaInTheMountains May 1, 2019 at 6:36 am #

    Happy First of May!

    Happy International Day of Solidarity of workers around the globe!

    By the way, Trump, as a spokesman for the interests of American working class, on this day could also congratulate Putin, as the head of state – the legal successor of the USSR, especially since this holiday came to Russia from the United States.

    And I suddenly thought – what if he does congratulate?! Imagine how the “democratic” press will scream!

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    • FincaInTheMountains May 1, 2019 at 6:41 am #

      And congratulations that the Venezuelan coup did not work for Pence, who would take Trump’s place if he is impeached.

      • FincaInTheMountains May 1, 2019 at 6:42 am #

        Venezuela crisis: Maduro claims victory over ‘deranged’ coup attempt

        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/01/venezuela-crisis-maduro-claims-victory-over-deranged-us-backed-coup-attempt

        • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 7:24 am #

          The boys at Langley must be fuming. Their track record’s completely gone to shit lately. Just another sign of empire not just in decline, but total disarray. Best government money can buy? Tells you all you need to know about the worth of the petrodollar.

          • montsegur May 1, 2019 at 10:28 am #

            Their work in other countries would be more effective if they stopped committing so many resources to the manipulation of domestic politics. Brennan should be publicly horsewhipped, the old communist.

            Cheers

          • Janos Skorenzy May 1, 2019 at 12:22 pm #

            Thank God for President Putin standing behind the hapless Teddy Bear with Teeth who was ready to flee to Cuba.

            And bravo Cuba. Who can forget Castro’s brothers lifting Obama’s floppy arm in “triumph”? They didn’t like each other and the old Communism is dead, but Nationalism lives! The virulent PC form of Communism is of course more alive thane ever. Castro’s Cuba is Nationalist now not Communist (Ditto Putin’s Russia) and Obama represents the unspeakable Evil of Political Correctness or homegrown modern Western Communism.

          • BackRowHeckler May 1, 2019 at 2:26 pm #

            What empire, Scratch?

            Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands? Its a pretty measley empire.

            Do you think its a good situation for the people in Venezuela right now?

            Brh

  101. FincaInTheMountains May 1, 2019 at 9:14 am #

    Newt Gingrich: Russia has a penchant for death by poison

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gingrich-russia-poison

    I even didn’t know that Newt was such a jerk. He should know better.

    • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 10:25 am #

      Newt has a penchant for death by bullshit.

      • montsegur May 1, 2019 at 10:30 am #

        Another one of the far too many oddballs in American politics the last four decades or so.

        Cheers

  102. FincaInTheMountains May 1, 2019 at 9:39 am #

    I already wrote about how the disappearance of the USSR – the geopolitical and, more importantly, the US ideological rival – led to the disappearance of the party philosophy and demoralization of the party struggle.

    This was manifested in the use by the establishment of the democratic party of the spoiler – Ross Perot, who took almost 20% of the vote of George Bush Sr. in 1992 with (2 times more than the third candidate had ever won), which led to Bush Sr. loss.

    This, of course, infuriated the Republican establishment, having canceled all the gentlemen’s agreements, and led to the fact that from the first moment of the Clinton Presidency, the Republicans immediately began a bunch of investigations, the purpose of which was not only impeachment, but also the imprisonment of the Clintons.

    Moreover, the commander in chief of these attacks and investigations was the hero of the Sunday political programs, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich.

    And the first dragon killed by this knight was the health care reform program, called Hillary-care, because it was headed by President Clinton’s wife Hillary Clinton.

    It all ended with a series of suicides in the immediate vicinity of the Clintons and the lengthy clarification in Congress of the meaning of the phrase “sexual relationship”.

    Moreover, the degree of demoralization of the political struggle in the United States manifested itself when the Republicans used such an unworthy and shameful cause for the country to impeach, and a large part of the democratic party, knowing full well that Bill Clinton, without having to refuse to answer rather vile questions, committed the gravest crime – perjury under oath, – nevertheless, they considered it necessary to support their leader.

    But a genuine apotheosis of this demoralization and the corresponding political crisis manifested itself in the elections of 2000, when the center of power, represented by the Clintons, decided to transfer power over the world to its vice-president Al Gore.

    As a result of the fight without rules, which included Ralph Nader’s spoiler, butterfly ballots, pregnant chads and a manual vote recount in Florida, where the governor was the brother of presidential candidate George W. Bush, the world didn’t know who the president of the only superpower would be and essentially the decision was made by the judge of the Supreme Court of Florida.

    And it is one-to-one resembles what is happening in the USA and in the world today.

    Full déjà vu.

  103. fugeguy May 1, 2019 at 10:01 am #

    Ahhh whats another 2 trillion?

    Why not 20?

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/schumer-pelosi-strike-deal-trump-move-forward-infrastructure-n1000171

    There is doubt the whole world is in a race to see who can spend the most money before the whole thing blows up.

    Let’s build that bridge to Europe! Or how about one to Mars.

    • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 11:06 am #

      But still no Wall and over 100,000 illegally entering (that we even know of) every month. America is over and the dream is dead. It’s only White Nationalism, Narco-Hispania, Islam or China from here on out. Take your pick. I know where my loyalty is.

      • malthuss May 1, 2019 at 11:13 am #

        IF only USA would stop the free stuff to non citizens and cut back on welfare programs…will it be forced to?

        • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 11:33 am #

          Well Trump is clearly not up to the task and the uniparty will never allow that to happen if they have anything to say about. In other words, yes, we will be forced into it but only after the entire country goes through bankruptcy or unless a revolution occurs. One is inevitable and one is totally within the realm of possibility and becomes more likely with every slap in the face we receive.

    • FincaInTheMountains May 1, 2019 at 11:22 am #

      Let’s build that bridge to Europe! Or how about one to Mars

      How about one over the Bering Strait straight to Russia. And over to Europe through trans-Siberian railway.

      Would make so much easier to send over the tank armies to take the Boeing factories. Just kidding 🙂

  104. volodya May 1, 2019 at 10:48 am #

    Mania – defined by an on-line dictionary as mental illness characterized by periods of great excitement, or euphoria or delusions.

    Which sounds like what regularly makes the rounds of our elite classes be they financial or political or intellectual. You see it in financial and real estate markets regularly, periods of great hustle and optimism with asset prices that can’t go anywhere but up. And you see it on campus with years of great agitation like what we’re seeing nowadays and like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution under Mao, true believers utterly convinced of their cause, ready to enact life-wrecking or lethal measures against anyone not sharing the manic head-space or having the temerity to voice doubts or objections. And you see it in the scientific community among people whose business it is to be impartial and objective, who are supposed to just get to the truth of the matter.

    When the mania passes and the euphoria and agitation dissipate and a measure of calm descends, there’s typically some questioning, like how could this have happened? Well, goes the answer, we all got caught up in it, it’s so hard to see a “bubble” when you’re in the middle of it, the regulators were “captured” by interested parties and stopped regulating. Which I suppose is another way of saying we were all out of our fucking minds.

    Today’s – cough – “thinking classes” could not believe that Hillary could have lost fair and square given that she hired consummate political professionals and embodied everything right and just. And, when Hillary lost, they went out of their fucking minds and what we got was a three year bout of lunacy over Russians conniving with Trump, or, absent any evidence of Trumpists conniving with Russians, Russians swinging the election in Trump’s favor. And Trump was Putin’s man, anyone who knew anything said so, the former top brass in “intelligence” and law “enforcement” were convinced of it.

    But it wasn’t so. During the Russia mania,none of the manic delusionists gave us a coherent reason of why the likes of Putin would have wanted the likes of Trump in power. It was a given, that’s it, everyone knew it, no more argument.

    I suppose that it escaped the notice of the great and towering intellectuals, the people that tell it like it is, that what the USA has been in the middle of – for 150 years since the shooting stopped in 1865 – is a Cold War between North and South, two ethnicities contending for power and advantage. I suppose that a fish doesn’t know that it’s wet never having gotten out of the water, likewise American intellectuals, who were telling us that Russians interfered to get Americans at one another’s throats. I guess it was because American intellectuals don’t know they’re wet never having gotten out of the water, and that Americans have been at one another’s throats for centuries and that no help is needed from Russia or anybody else.

    But I guess that when everyone thinks alike and everyone is nuts, nobody realizes that everybody’s nuts.

    • montsegur May 1, 2019 at 11:01 am #

      Which I suppose is another way of saying we were all out of our fucking minds.

      Or too intellectually weak to think in a disciplined manner and see through the smoke, mirrors, and agitation.

      Cheers

      • volodya May 1, 2019 at 1:53 pm #

        Or too intellectually weak to think in a disciplined manner and see through the smoke, mirrors, and agitation.

        That too.

        And maybe not having the strength of character. But, when livelihood is at stake, the pressure to conform is considerable. Losing your job or maybe career is no small matter especially of you have a family to support.

    • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 11:12 am #

      I imagine Putin was like the rest of us and imagined Trump as the lesser of two evils, but it’s just silly to imagine him to be so naive and gauche as to leave his fingerprints on an American election tampering scheme. That’s just the Dems employing one of the oldest and most tried and true plays in the book: accusing their enemies of something that they themselves are guilty of. Utterly childish, when you think about it. Meanwhile Putin, former KGB guy that he is, laughs at the gross incompetence of his comedic adversaries and thanks his lucky stars for his most fortunate place in history.

      The REAL story of 2016 was the Dems own interference in their own primaries to deny Sanders the nomination, which turned out to be not only criminal, but doubly stupid as well, going so far as to incriminate their own sitting president during the effort as well. The effort’s apparently still alive and well in 2020, with the zombie stiff Biden giving it another go (he should have made an appearance on GOT as the Night King), and likely to get the same or even worse results. I’d like to think that even the snowflake Dems aren’t that damn stupid, but reality seems to indicate otherwise.

      What a fucking country!

      • volodya May 1, 2019 at 12:15 pm #

        Plus the very existence of the Steele dossier. If that wasn’t Democrats colluding with Russians then what was it? You have evidence in black and white – the Dossier itself – plus a clear money trail.

        If the “information” in the dossier was sourced to Russian intelligence, then a tip of the hat to GRU humorists, they’re a gang of real funny guys. It’s probably a laugh a minute working there.

        But was it from Russian intel? Barr just said he’s not ruling it out. So what could have been the Russian motive? Maybe they were in a pranky mood. Maybe it was just a bit of fun. Maybe some day, if Putin writes a memoir, he’ll tell us.

        • malthuss May 2, 2019 at 12:19 am #

          I am amazed that with Diebold [?] that HRC lost.
          How could she lose?

          • Ol' Scratch May 2, 2019 at 10:37 am #

            They weren’t widely used enough. Plus HRC honestly thought she had it in the bag without resorting to subterfuge. In short: hubris.

    • FincaInTheMountains May 1, 2019 at 11:14 am #

      I suppose that it escaped the notice of the great and towering intellectuals, the people that tell it like it is, that what the USA has been in the middle of – for 150 years since the shooting stopped in 1865 – is a Cold War between North and South

      Close, but no cigar.

      It’s been a religious struggle between Three World Projects – Black, represented by Truman and Clinton, Red represented by FDR and Trump and White represented by Bushes, Obama and Eisenhauer.

      • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 11:59 am #

        I dunno, Finc, I think you might be overstating your case here. The North vs. South divide (really metropolitan vs. country, federal vs. state and local, and corporate oligarchic vs. entrepreneurial proprietorship) is real and growing larger everyday.

      • Janos Skorenzy May 1, 2019 at 12:41 pm #

        The White being overtly Zionist. Just a coincidence of course.

        No one was more Zionist in the good sense than St Bernard who created the Knights of the Temple. One of the Whitest or Goodest Guys of all time.

    • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 11:23 am #

      Demographics are destiny. The steadily decreasing populations of the secular and liberal enclaves, urban centers, corridors and coasts will be replaced by growing religiously conservative populations (led by the Amish no less!!!!). Hispanic Catholics now flooding the southern border also add to the liberal demographic woes. The future will not be secular and it will not be liberal. The days of this secular tyrannical misery are numbered and coming to an end. This is happening around the world. Listen to Dr. Turley.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqvi5kozc6Q

      • Exscotticus May 1, 2019 at 12:14 pm #

        >>> Demographics are destiny.

        Think of demographics as a cold war between cultures, ethnicities, and races. Each group is trying to dominate the other in accordance with the rules (even if those rules are self-destructive and reward parasitism and cheating).

        But there are also hot wars. For example the Balkan wars of the 1990s. It’s considered a military stalemate, but Bosniaks suffered the most. And that’s why demographics are NOT destiny.

        • Janos Skorenzy May 1, 2019 at 12:34 pm #

          Yes, only hot War can save us now. Democracy insures the Victory of the R’s (fast breeders) over the K’s (maximal parental investment). Wish the East Asians would figure this out and stop voting D. But they see us as the opponents and want to be on the perceived winning side. So it makes sense – until it doesn’t.

          • Exscotticus May 1, 2019 at 12:50 pm #

            For those who want more context…

            r/K selection theory

          • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 1:00 pm #

            So the winning strategy then will be to marry fast breeding with maximal parental investment? It seems like this can only be achieved by tight knit communities with strong extended family relationships. The sharing of child-rearing duties and responsibilities increases investment in the children and serves as a feedback for communal cohesiveness. This of course being a strategy for populations that have fallen behind and have become minorities in their traditional homelands. At least that is what I am envisioning.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 1, 2019 at 1:37 pm #

            Yes, exactly. Whites can breed fast and must be encouraged to do so. But of course we can never breed as fast as people who are breeding on our dime. Welfare Whites could, but of course they are race mixers so it doesn’t matter. Thus we would lose any protracted baby race as long as we are being occupied. They main thing is to get away from them and establish borders beyond which they cannot go. I don’t see a way to do that, really, not until after some great disaster that brings down the Federal Government.

            If and when we are free again, we can go back to small families with high parental involvement – and enjoying life with the aid of high technology. High level Women should be encouraged to marry young, have a couple or a few, and then they can be free in later life for a career, divorce, or a second marriage. Very high level people should be given tax breaks, etc to marry and have lots of kids. Positive eugenics. Very low level people should be likewise encouraged to have none. Negative eugenics. People who insist on breeding on the public’s dime past one or two should be sterilized, even against their will. But hopefully most of the strong arm stuff can be avoided by strong incentives. Culture is upstream of politics after all – and Women are eager to be respectable or what is now called “cool” or “hip”. Most will follow what society dictates – even as they consider themselves non-conformists and revolutionaries. That’s one cognitive absurdity we need to get rid of.

          • Exscotticus May 1, 2019 at 1:44 pm #

            >>> So the winning strategy then will be to marry fast breeding with maximal parental investment?

            They’re competing strategies. The more of one, the less of the other. Given finite resources, you can’t breed like crazy AND dote on every single child.

            Breeder cultures are now overflowing their geographic boundaries and pouring into the USA, where their lack of social responsibility is rewarded and even celebrated by Dems as a virtue.

            Who are the genuises now? The illiterate peasants whose broods we’re raising, whose “low-IQ” genes are being selected for at the expense of our own? Or the so-called “high-IQ” RINOs and Dems that facilitate open borders?

            Don’t talk to me about high IQs and intelligence. It’s a pointless metric so far as I can see.

          • Q. Shtik May 1, 2019 at 2:08 pm #

            But hopefully most of the strong arm stuff can be avoided – Janos

            ===========

            I actually laughed out loud at how blithely Janos wrote these words…a real whiff of the Third Reich.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 1, 2019 at 3:36 pm #

            I don’t want war, only victory – Bismarck.

        • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 12:53 pm #

          Please make a better connection for me as I missed your point. Are you suggesting that the Bosniaks were more populous prior to hot war and then declined due to the war thus negating any prior demographic advantage?

          Also in the demographic cold war what is self-destructive? The possibility of overpopulation? I am not sure I see how parasitism and cheating come in. You mean via welfare?

      • volodya May 1, 2019 at 12:38 pm #

        Plus, it’s not entirely clear to me that Hispanic people are necessarily with the nut’s ‘n sluts agenda of the progressive left.

        Does anyone think that Mr and Mrs Lopez spend any time pondering gender fluidity or encouraging tranny-istic tendencies in their kids? No, I think that given the calamitous financial situation that a lot of Hispanics find themselves in, I think they’re rather more concerned with material matters and needs. You know, like decent paying work.

        Any politician – never mind whether Democrat or Republican – with the common sense to address those material needs will win Hispanic votes.

        Same with the Black vote. If anything their condition is more disastrous than that of Hispanics or rural Whites or Whites in formerly industrial centers.

        Shout-outs and posturing don’t cut it. People need decent paying and long-term employment with a discernible path-way in life, women want husbands that can support a family. And none of this “gig” baloney. Gigs don’t pay a family’s bills.

        Democrats think they have a hammer-lock on Hispanic and Black votes. I think they’re terribly deluded.

        • Janos Skorenzy May 1, 2019 at 12:49 pm #

          And taking everything that we have. They will continue to vote Democrat. And sure some will want to infiltrate the Republican Party. And those that do will favor their own – the Hispanics. Race is everything to these mutts, these raceless ones.

          Of course you could say they are new race, born from a mixture of Whites and Indians. They certainly act as if it is so. Thus? Thus you are as wrong as wrong can be.

          • volodya May 1, 2019 at 12:58 pm #

            They’ve got bigger problems than pondering whether they’re some racial amalgam. Nothing focuses the mind like not being able to pay the rent or the prospect of the repo man seizing the car. Plus you forget that as time passes more and more US Hispanics identify as White and speak English ie they’ve forgotten Spanish. I guess that pisses off a lot of race hustlers, and maybe it gives you and Jorge Ramos fits. But people vote their interests and no interest is more important than eating every day and paying the rent. Oh, and the American Dream, a house and a car.

          • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 1:07 pm #

            V there are some inaccuracies there that I can’t get past. First of all many Hispanic immigrants retain their language and culture and have no real interest in speaking English or learning about the real history of America or about actual American values/culture. They have their own values and culture and they are not like at least half of Whites. They don’t view themselves as identity-less, generic humans who only care for other humans identified as different from them. You are wrong believing that they simply melt into Anglo-America. It doesn’t work like that. Please visit any barrio near you. Every state has em now so it shouldn’t be a difficult task. Hispanics address their economic disadvantages by living 20 to one house. They depend upon extended family networks. In other words they receive official welfare and unofficial welfare. If you fancy that they are going to relinquish identity I really think you must reconsider. Remember, there is no encouragement to assimilate into what used to be American culture because that is considered White supremacy by the entire establishment including in all forms of education.

          • volodya May 1, 2019 at 1:22 pm #

            SSL, what I’m saying is that people will do what their interests dictate. You gotta eat. People that speak English eat better than people that don’t. Hispanics, not being completely stupid, will tune in on that important fact of life in America, that if you want to eat, it is to your great advantage to speak English.

            Yes, you can live in a Spanish-speaking enclave and never learn a word of it, and yes, such enclaves exist, but what’s been the path for every ethnic group until now, including some stubbornly inward-looking people like the Italians, is that each succeeding generation leaves behind the original tribe and joins the new one. While Hispanics have got their age-old ways and lingos, they’re not so completely idiotic that they’re unaware that the old ways didn’t serve them well, that they’re in the USA because of that very fact.

            But, you;re right, these realizations take time, and the rate of immigration can out-pace the rate of assimilation, and that won’t be to the advantage of anyone except maybe the Koch Bros.

            The very fact of Hispanic immigration is because of economics, and not only that, but some extremely dangerous conditions in the old country. These original motivations do not bode well for the preservation of the old cultures and identities.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 2, 2019 at 5:51 pm #

            No, Race comes first since one must determine who is in and who is out in terms of spoils – or just getting to live there or live at all in the case of War to the Knife. Pretty basic. Is your Jewish identity a small thing that comes after other things? I doubt it.

  105. Janos Skorenzy May 1, 2019 at 12:31 pm #

    Joy Behar on the View: There are a lot of poor White guys who don’t think they have privilege. And that’s something we need to work.

    JS: Yes, ideally White bums should feel like they are oppressing any well dressed minority who walks by them. And of course the minorities should be encouraged to feel this. Certainly the White upper class feels oppressed by the White underclass. Thus the Upper Class and the lower Classes unite against the lowest Class of untouchables.

    They did the same thing in the Old South: Negro slaves were encouraged to feel superior to poor White crackers. Ditto the Australian Aborigines, encouraged to feel superior to the poor Irish slaves or indentured servants. Luckily the Irish gradually gained power in the Out Back and had much revenge against the savages. Less so against the British Elite but their very existence and freedom was an insult and a rebuke to them, so at least there is that. Of course Australia put much of this behind them in time, and it’s all water under the bridge now since White Australia has been slated for death with open borders.

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    • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 1:12 pm #

      Joyless Behar obviously received Bernie’s memo. There is no such thing as poor Whites. The poorest Whites are still undeserving of any attention and concern in other words. I wish these old people would go away. God forgive me for speaking against the elders but these have no wisdom and thus offer the children no food for the Spirit.

      • malthuss May 1, 2019 at 1:21 pm #

        joyless..haha.

  106. FincaInTheMountains May 1, 2019 at 1:05 pm #

    Demographics are destiny == SSL

    American Amish are somewhat similar to Russian Old Believers :

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Believers

    Now it is a fast-growing segment of Russian population:

    http://s.mediasole.ru/images/480/480492/original.jpg

    https://mediasole.ru/data/images/480/480498/original.jpg

    • FincaInTheMountains May 1, 2019 at 1:10 pm #

      Putin visits with Old Believer Patriarch:

      https://tsarizm.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/putin-1.jpg

    • SoftStarLight May 1, 2019 at 1:20 pm #

      Interesting Finca! Russia continues to fascinate me. It appears the Old Believers are a testimony to the trend that demographers are noting around the globe. All things the same (and let’s pretend the borders were under control) the Amish and Mormons would by vast measure completely control the United States in a century.

    • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 3:27 pm #

      Those young ladies certainly looked like a bountiful bunch. And not an I-phone to be found anywhere in sight – imagine that! The world will be inherited by the great unconnected, while robocalls will continue to go out unheard to discarded phones lying in the ruins for centuries. Ozymandias indeed!

  107. malthuss May 1, 2019 at 1:20 pm #

    Also, many get PhD’s in the “hate whitey” sciences.

    The entire field of study is of dubious value…which field?

    • Exscotticus May 1, 2019 at 1:57 pm #

      The fringes of the social sciences. Take your pick: Critical Race Theory, Social Justice, Multiculturalism, etc.

      • BackRowHeckler May 1, 2019 at 3:14 pm #

        Is there a Hate Whitey major yet?

        Soon that will be the only major.

        Brh

        • Exscotticus May 1, 2019 at 4:43 pm #

          I would guess that any “Black Studies” major is close enough. There, you will take courses such as…

          The Problem of Whiteness

          …or…

          The Abolition of Whiteness

          Actual course names. They don’t even try to hide their agenda anymore.

  108. wwg1wga May 1, 2019 at 1:50 pm #

    Change Agents.
    http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Change%20Agents.pdf

    #oathkeepers

    Q.

  109. elysianfield May 1, 2019 at 2:18 pm #

    Well, ladies and germs;

    I am currently reading Michio Kaku’s (KAKU!) book “The future of humanity”, and have found something disturbing. Kaku states that in space travel, ambient radiation, if suffered for only a few years, will cause irreversible brain damage, with concomitant behavioral issues, along with irritability and dysfunctional social behavior. (pp70). This was noted using rats as subjects in a recent UC study.

    But it then occurred to me that we have, in the United States, a demographic that mimics the results of that study.

    Now bear with me…might it be possible…just possible that the demographic in question were once kings and space travelers as they claim? I believe there is a documentary on this subject…their claims may be valid.

    #Wakanda

    • stelmosfire May 1, 2019 at 2:41 pm #

      Silly Goose, that’s what tin foil hats are for!

    • Exscotticus May 1, 2019 at 9:17 pm #

      Take a Geiger counter with you the next time you fly. You’ll be amazed. Be careless not to alarm the other passengers and staff…

  110. BackRowHeckler May 1, 2019 at 3:11 pm #

    “Remember the gig in Manchester back in 76, Sid?”

    “I can’t remember much from those days, Johnny”.

    Johnny had an assortment of pills on a tray in front of him, Metformin for sugar, Atorvastatin for cholesterol, Losartin for blood pressure. He swallowed all three, washing them down with a tumbler of milk.

    Johhny Rotten and Sid Vicious looked out over Venice Beach and watched the sun set over the Pacific Ocean. “This is better then London”, said Sid. The tall bearded man in sandals who had encroached on Johnny’s property backed off when Johnny levelled his shotgun at him. But the crowds of vagrants on the beach had grown larger; once pristine, it was now littered with trash, human feces, and IV needles. Bad smells wafted in off the beach over Johnnys house.

    “We need to keep watch, port and starboard. You take 6 to midnight, I’ll take the midwatch, 12 to 6 am”.

    About 1:00 am Johnny found himself on a lawn chair outside his house, a union jack blanket over his back, cradling his Remington. From the beach on the other side of the property line all was quiet except for an occassional curse, groan, and laughter. He waited for morning.

    Brh

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    • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 3:33 pm #

      Saw JR on one of the car enthusiast shows a few months back. A real piece of work these days, he is. He’d have been better off taking the early out option back in his heyday before he totally embarrasses himself.

      • BackRowHeckler May 1, 2019 at 3:53 pm #

        OS i got that beat.

        This morning at the local deli

        This old guy standing next to me, I noticed he had a tattoo on his neck. This is kind of a hoity toity place and you dont often see neck tatts on old people; I had to see what it said. I angled around to get a view.

        “Old Scratch”, in script.

        It reminded me of seeing a crude message painted on the back of a van in 2012 at Bradley Airport.

        “KDog for President.”

        Brh

        • K-Dog May 2, 2019 at 12:58 am #

          Yeah, that escapade sure got me into a load of shit. Makes some of the stuff I write about like computers turning on when you walk into a room real easy to write. That it does.

          I’ve had second thoughts; at this point I’d have to ask what’s in it for me. You saw me written in road dirt it when I wanted to fix things. I still could, but nobody gives a rip, so fuck it.

          The funny thing now is that between Trump. K-Dog in his real identity would look way way, paws down better in the history books. And LOL it could still happen! I am younger. But people would have to start giving a rip.

          Did you Know: (fun facts)

          One way an FBI agent can let you know they are an FBI agent without outright telling you online is to show you ‘their resume,‘ if you are exchanging emails. When it is exactly like yours with only the schools and dates changed right down to your Mana Cum Laude and the oddball graduate degree itself, you might get a clue. You were actually smart enough to get that degree, this is true so you should get the picture.

          Ah my deep state darlings, what could have been. You picked the wrong horse. Now we shall have pain, much pain, much toil, and much trouble.

          • K-Dog May 2, 2019 at 1:10 am #

            Magna cum laude one of the Latin honors, and the resume writer made sure the institution was Jesuit. I misspell things when it gets personal. I’m sure Q has noticed. The paws seem to just bang on the keyboard.

          • K-Dog May 2, 2019 at 1:12 am #

            Critter was probably Secret Service. These things are a team effort you may someday find out.

        • K-Dog May 2, 2019 at 1:19 am #

          I bet you knew if I stopped by you were dropping a quarter in the slot and pressing play BackRow.

          • K-Dog May 2, 2019 at 1:23 am #

            Think what I could have done with a budget!

        • Ol' Scratch May 2, 2019 at 10:34 am #

          This old guy standing next to me, I noticed he had a tattoo on his neck. This is kind of a hoity toity place and you dont often see neck tatts on old people; I had to see what it said. I angled around to get a view.

          “Old Scratch”, in script.

          LOL! Maybe I should look him up?

          • K-Dog May 2, 2019 at 11:55 am #

            I think you already have.

    • Q. Shtik May 1, 2019 at 4:43 pm #

      “This is better then London”, said Sid. – BRH

      =============

      Seriously Heckler, did Johnny actually say …better then London? If so Johnny goes on my shit list with oh so many others.

      • Q. Shtik May 1, 2019 at 4:53 pm #

        Correction: did Sid actually say…

      • BackRowHeckler May 1, 2019 at 5:45 pm #

        Just a typo

  111. malthuss May 1, 2019 at 3:29 pm #

    the strong arm stuff how strong is strong?
    The song ‘Macho Man’ was by a group that refused to speak their sex preferences and marketed to that wild gay disco 1970s scene.

    • Janos Skorenzy May 1, 2019 at 3:38 pm #

      Queen? Apparently they’ve made a comeback with young a young Gay as the new Freddie.

      • malthuss May 2, 2019 at 12:22 am #

        pop recycled.

        the old music was better.

      • Ol' Scratch May 2, 2019 at 12:04 pm #

        With the same old guys filling out the band? That should be quite the geriatric sight to behold! Hopefully there won’t be any embarrassing on stage potty issues for the old geezers. Nobody – straight, gay, or indeterminate – wants to see any of that shit! What’s that bulge you’ve got in your trousers, Brian May? Oh, just Depends, that’s all.

        • BackRowHeckler May 2, 2019 at 10:17 pm #

          Rolling Stones set for another tour.

          F-kkers could drop dead right on stage, in the middle of ‘Street fightin Man’.

          Brh

  112. FincaInTheMountains May 1, 2019 at 3:41 pm #

    Symbolism of the Cathedral Fire and World Projects in Israel 4

    This post is the conclusion of a series of posts about the symbolic connection of the fire in Notre Dame de Paris with the theory of world projects and with the elections in Israel.

    And I will begin by saying that as a result of the processes I began writing about more than a year ago, the union of Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia to ensure re-election of Netanyahu became an indisputable fact, and the US Democratic Party, which has long been considered the “Jewish” party, cast off its camouflage and showed off its naked Nazi mug of the Jerusalem Mufti and his loyal disciple Adolph Hitler.

    Suffice it to say that two days ago, the New York Times published an anti-Semitic caricature worthy of Dr. Goebbels, and, apologizing in response to a wave of indignation, immediately, I would even say pointedly, printed another one.

    https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2019/04/adsadasdsadsd-1-e1556383284568.png

    And this will undoubtedly affect the European policy of the so-called “United States” in general and the policy towards Russia in particular. The so-called because this policy is not the policy of the United States, headed by Trump, but is the policy of the Hillary Clinton group, which still controls the State Department and other US special services, which are actually the special services of a supranational entity created after the Second World War by the union of Black and White world projects to fight the Stalinist USSR, which defeated Nazi Germany, declared its civilization otherness and unwillingness to participate in any of the Western European world projects.

    And the Yalta agreements were proposed by Roosevelt to prevent conflicts of the West precisely with this USSR and with the Orthodox International, created by Stalin in stead of the Communist International (Comintern).

    The latter was dissolved on May 15, 1943, allegedly at the insistence of the same Roosevelt, including because of the increasingly anti-Christian position of this organization, and three and a half months later, on September 4, 1943, Stalin received Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky), Alexy (Simansky) and Nikolai (Yarushevich), and as a result of their conversation, a decision was made to elect the Patriarch, open religious schools, and agreed to create a body for the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) to interact with the government – in fact, the Holy Synod of the USSR.

    Between these events, the Battle of Kursk took place, as a result of which the strategic initiative in the Great Patriotic War passed to the USSR and the defeat of Nazi Germany became a matter of time, regardless of the opening of the Second Front by Anglo Saxons, Stalin, who understood a lot about symbolic actions, ordered the Central Front command post (of Marshal Rokossovsky) to be located in the Kursk Root Hermitage, and it was there that a truly fateful decision was made about a preemptive artillery strike an hour before the onset of the Nazi offensive during this decisive battle of the Great Patriotic and the Second World War.

    So Stalin made the decision to create Israel within the framework of the Orthodox World Project, and this is the same indisputable historical fact as the fact that three days ago the Holy Fire descended in Israel and the order in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ on Great Saturday was provided by the Israeli police.

    Moreover, it ensured order precisely on Saturday, and precisely in order to prevent incidents such as those that took place on Easter of 2005, when the “Orthodox” Palestinians came to the conclusion that “Paris is worth a mass” and hating Jews justifies any abomination of desolation, including beating up their own Patriarch on Easter.

    And the Patriarch of Jerusalem Irenaios Skopelitis, whose whole crime was that he leased a church hotel to the Israelis for a long time, was beaten by his parishioners during the descent of the Holy Fire, and in a couple of weeks on May 24, 2005, the Pan-Orthodox Council of Bartholomew approved the deposition of the patriarch, not bothering to condemn “Orthodox Christians” who beat him on Easter.

    Moreover, the liberal missionary of All Russia who took an active part in it, strongly hinted then that the Descent of the Holy Fire was provided by a butane lighter hidden on the body of Philotheus I of Constantinople, and the real reason for these events was the active opposition of Patriarch Irenaios to attempts of Bartholomew to subjugate the Estonian Orthodox Church, which he tried to take away from the Moscow Patriarchate using the same templates, or if you want instructions, as the presentation of the notorious Tomos to Ukraine.

    I can throw on you, my dear readers, the details of this story for a very long time, in which crossed Ostrogoths who accepted Judaism and religious Jews who served in the Crimean Gestapo with Aryan blood in their veins and Jewish blood on their hands, whose fate in connection with the demands of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to hand over to them Crimea was discussed between Stalin with Roosevelt, mentioning during these conversations both Notre Dame Cathedral, and the creation of the State of Israel in Israel as part of the Orthodox world project, and even that this project kicked the bucket along with Stalin on Purim on March 5, 1953.

    But since I caught a cold again, I have no strength for the artistic truth about these events, similar to the one I told in this post, but it’s still necessary to finish this series, especially considering that according to New York rumors these intersections will play the dominant role in the events of the near future.

    Therefore, now I will have to limit myself to bare facts and a reminder of well-known facts that everyone tries to ignore, just as today’s Russian Whites manage to ignore the fact of the February revolution in 1917, and the conclusion from it that they are not White in the framework of the theory of world projects, but Black.

    To be continued…

    • BackRowHeckler May 1, 2019 at 3:54 pm #

      WTF?

      • stelmosfire May 1, 2019 at 4:19 pm #

        Hey Backrow, off topic but have have you heard about this:
        http://ddaysquadron.org/1422-2/
        leaving May 18th from Oxford, CT. airport not to far from you. I know your kind of into the old military stuff. The sight and sound of those “Gonney Birds” circling the airfield and forming up should be pretty cool. Just the drone of all those 14 cyl. Pratt Twin Wasps will be something. I guess they’re headed around the Statue of Liberty before heading out for Normandy.

        • Q. Shtik May 1, 2019 at 4:58 pm #

          Gooney

          • stelmosfire May 1, 2019 at 5:11 pm #

            Right as always Q! I stand corrected. I should have just writeen C-47.

        • BackRowHeckler May 2, 2019 at 5:03 am #

          Thanks for the tip, Rip. Maybe Ill take a ride down there.

          P&W hasnt mfg Wasp engines since the early 1940s, unbelievable they still work.

          Brh

  113. Sam Stone May 1, 2019 at 4:11 pm #

    The biggest story concerning the recent goings on in Venezuela is the fact that Maduro had a plane on the tarmac ready to take him to Cuba and Putin talked him out of going. This is huge news. It can only mean Putin is going balls to the wall in VZ. Russia and possibly China have thrown down the gauntlet on the Monroe Doctrine. In other words, they are not going to cave to the CIA. They are in VZ with their military and that is how it will be.

    Next move belongs to The USA. There are no good options for the boys in Langley at this point. None that I can see at any rate. Who knows what those bozos will do? Hopefully, the USA will stop meddling in other people’s affairs and start to protect our borders and Constitution. Figure the odds of that happening.

    • FincaInTheMountains May 1, 2019 at 4:22 pm #

      There is no doubt that Venezuela is the answer of Russia to Maidan and Ukraine Über Alles, which makes you look at the Monroe Doctrine with some humor: it was originally introduced to counteract the penetration of the Russian Empire into the American continents, but at least back then it had a rational grain, because at the same time, this doctrine proclaimed US non-interference in European affairs.

      Now the United States is not only interfering in European affairs, not only running around in the backyard of Russia, but already climbing into the bedroom without taking off dirty boots.

      In this situation, recalling the Monroe Doctrine as applied to Venezuela can only be a joke of humor, and therefore no invasion of the American Special Forces into the territory of Venezuela has occurred. And not only because there is a rather powerful Russian-Cuban troops grouping gathered there, but also because Donald Trump understands that the anti-Venezuela campaign of Rubio, Pence and the European Union that joined them was not really against Maduro, but against him.

      • Sam Stone May 1, 2019 at 6:11 pm #

        You could be right about the tit for tat on the US nut job politics in The Ukraine. But it could just be more of Russian meddling. They have no business there either. They seen an opening and grabbed it.

        If this mess was a Gambit by Pence/Rubio et al is against Trump as you say I doubt Trump realizes it. I personally think Trump knows what is going on and is part of it. What he doesn’t know is that he is stepping on his dick. Hopefully he’ll drop this mess and walk away. The common American people could give two shits about Venezuela. We’ve more problems in the country than we can deal with. Let the Venezuelan people solve their own problems.

        • Ol' Scratch May 2, 2019 at 8:00 am #

          Trouble is, the global capitalist class that rules DC could not give two shits about the common American people either. The message will be massaged later to make it fit a favorable narrative. I’m sure focus groups are ongoing as we speak.

      • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 6:28 pm #

        Barbarians at the gates – OH MY! It won’t be long now.

    • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 4:41 pm #

      You’re not keeping up. That report’s been completely discredited. The attempted “coup” was little more than a botched media event on a highway overpass in a well to do suburb of Caracas. Maduro’s doing just fine, while the two ass-clowns who would be kings are reportedly holing up in a local embassy.

      Meanwhile, the US intel idiots will sheepishly return to their favorite posture of deep cover their ass mode for the foreseeable future. Even their own US citizens are laughing their asses off at their utter ineptitude now.

      • PeteAtomic May 1, 2019 at 4:56 pm #

        US military intervention possible, says Pompeo. With what, and by whom is beyond me, unless there will be ‘targeted’ air strikes at pro maduro military installations.

        I’m watching the ongoing disturbance in Caracas, live. It’s really more like street theatre, with a mob throwing Molotov cocktails at a riot vehicle, and the police scattering the crowd with a burst of rifle fire.

        • PeteAtomic May 1, 2019 at 5:16 pm #

          as soon as I post that, the police just came in heavy and smashed up the protest. People are surrendering, amidst scenes of crushed motorcycles and the fake news media scuttling down the street, woebegone for their failed coup leader.

          Well, that was short lived.

        • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 6:23 pm #

          If what Pompeo’s saying is true, then we know that this little prelude charade was nothing more than cover for the US to come in and do its usual thing. Not going anywhere near as planned so far, though. Trust the US deep state to turn this into a three ring cluster fuck, which Trump will rightfully own. But I wouldn’t believe anything coming from official American sources right now. The only thing we know for sure is that this is mostly heavily propagandized theater for now.

      • fugeguy May 1, 2019 at 5:03 pm #

        The Trump collusion crew strikes again!

        The CIA must really stop recruiting from Ivy League colleges and special forces drop outs.

        Few of credibility even think about serving in Langley now.

        Ever since the Vietnam.

        Should rename them CFLIA (cluster fook lacking intelligence agency) or maybe the SIA for special intelligence agency.

        They are capable of targeting unarmed small groups of civies though. All that’s really needed in the soon to be third world US of A.

        Almost time to buy that rural cottage in the south of Ireland.

      • Sam Stone May 1, 2019 at 5:54 pm #

        Maybe. It is hard to keep up when one doesn’t know what is true or false. What was true five minutes ago could actually have been a lie… or maybe not. You might have actually have seen a recording of an event that later turns out wasn’t an event. Or that is what govt A. says while some of govt B. agrees while other news agencies belonging to govt B. say something else entirely. It’s a mixed up shook up world.

        Mixed up shook up girl. Great tune YouTube it.

        • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 6:25 pm #

          All true. Fog of the information wars and all that. Should make for good fodder in Jim’s Friday post.

          • Ol' Scratch May 1, 2019 at 6:41 pm #

            Prelude to war? Would be imperialist hegemons just hate eating shit after failed coup attempts of their own design. Could they even possibly be that stupid? Well, this is Trump and the neo-con company he keeps we’re talking about here.

            https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/05/venezuela-guaid%C3%B3-got-snookered-white-house-starts-beating-war-drums.html

          • Sam Stone May 1, 2019 at 7:42 pm #

            Yeah that Ol’ Alabamy Moon gots his finger on the pulse of world events like our host here. Well what ever happens the USA sure stepped in a pile of shit. Once again. A pile we created I might add.

            As things get more and more screwed up look for war to take hold. Seems that creating debt and then going to war as a way out is the way of the world. You know that old saw, those who don’t study history… yada yada yada.

          • Ol' Scratch May 2, 2019 at 7:55 am #

            The rumor is that Venezuela was a necessary prelude to an Iran family adventure, as access to oil needed to be buffed up to ensure no major market disruptions occur – at least for the US – when that misadventure inevitably goes sour. Both countries are safaris that the depleted and thoroughly crapified US armed forces are in no shape, manner, or form ready or able to handle without creating an extended shit storm of death, destruction, instability, and most importantly, a never ending source of corruption and graft at the expense of the American treasury. On the plus side, instability, corruption, and graft is the lifeblood of the global capitalist class who profits so handsomely from such stupidity. It appears that Trump has now been brought into the fold of such thinking – whether willingly or under duress – so this speaks well of his chances to avoid impeachment and even gain reelection in 2020, as resistance to empire was his only major distinction from the Dems in 2016. IOW, the MICC sleeps well in their beltway beds tonight and all is right and well in Ol’ DC once more!

  114. Pucker May 1, 2019 at 6:31 pm #

    is Pete Buttigieg “Naval” Intelligence, or “Navel” Intelligence?

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aKC51CZ6sKc

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    • elysianfield May 1, 2019 at 6:47 pm #

      Puck,
      Leave Buttigieg alone…his eyes are on the stars, the planets, Uranus….

      • Pucker May 1, 2019 at 7:23 pm #

        Pete Buttigieg’s “Husband”, Chasten, on his Twitter Account is always in-your-face with the exponential Queer lifestyle and talking about his 2 dogs, ice cream, and his favorite book “Harry Potter”. This is interspersed with photos of Chasten and/ or other Millennial Pete Buttigieg supporters in virtue signaling photos of them doing one-off “Community Service” photo ops either working in LGBTQ homeless soup kitchens or picking up empty beer bottles, cigarette butts, joint butts, used condoms, and used hypodermic needles on a California beach.

        • BackRowHeckler May 1, 2019 at 8:07 pm #

          The beach Johnny Rotten lives on?

        • malthuss May 2, 2019 at 12:26 am #

          Someone told me that in the 1970s, Fire Island was THE place to summer.
          The guys like perrier water and yogurt.

  115. Pucker May 1, 2019 at 7:09 pm #

    Next Great Idea: They’ll blast everybody with 5G radiation and link up all of the “Smart” devices. Fry everyone….

  116. beantownbill. May 1, 2019 at 7:34 pm #

    Maybe it’s the rain and cloudiness that’s been pervasive here in the Boston area for 14 months or so, or maybe JHK is correct in stating that unreality has conquered sanity. Whatever, even I who is naturally optimistic, sense a sort of dark miasma of doom hovering over us. Call it the Sword of Damocles, the shoe on the other foot dropping, or Sauron’s minions approaching. But whatever is in the air is coming for us. Now is a good time to read classic Poe, e.g., As I ponder weak and weary upon a midnight dark and dreary…

    Yet I am not depressed, for I feel the future is ultimately bright. It’s just that we’ve been tasked for some reason to go through the fire, then come out the other side.

    How, when and what will happen is unknown, but it feels like standing at the shore, watching the ocean roll back and then seeing a monstrously huge wall on the horizon getting closer and closer, and not being able to turn away and run. Sorry for all the mixed metaphors.

    • BackRowHeckler May 1, 2019 at 8:04 pm #

      Bill, day upon day of grey skies, cold temps, and rain, plus the Red Sox bad start, has made you excessively gloomy. Myself, I’m hoping the sun will make an appearance within the next 2 weeks or so. I should have been out working the garden today, but weather overcast and temp in the 40s, I said why bother?

      Brh

      • beantownbill. May 1, 2019 at 10:03 pm #

        Marlin, the weather report for next week is much better – as of this morning – 4 days of sun and temps in the 60’s. I’ll believe it when I see it. I need to trim some of my outdoor plants. I said why bother, too.

        I don’t feel gloomy, and I do think something’s coming down the road. Maybe if the sun comes out, that feeling will pass. I love spring and look forward to when the weather changes.

    • elysianfield May 2, 2019 at 11:23 am #

      ” Whatever, even I who is naturally optimistic, sense a sort of dark miasma of doom hovering over us. Call it the Sword of Damocles, the shoe on the other foot dropping, or Sauron’s minions approaching. But whatever is in the air is coming for us.”

      …On we?

  117. I only know one Venezuelan ex-pat.

    He lives in Peru since 2018 when he left with his wife.

    He is embarrassed for the stupidity of the 17% bloc that believes the official party line that the government is viable. He’s seen the economy implode and society break down under heavy corruption and civil incompetence.

    • Ol' Scratch May 2, 2019 at 7:42 am #

      He’s seen the economy implode and society break down under heavy corruption and civil incompetence.

      And US deep state influence. Guess he chose to ignore that. Granted. they’re pretty good at covering their tracks most of the time. Attempted coups? Not so much.

      Chances are he was wealthier than average as well. Hence his expat status. The working poor don’t usually have that luxury.

  118. FincaInTheMountains May 1, 2019 at 9:46 pm #

    Symbolism of the Cathedral Fire and World Projects in Israel 4

    Therefore, now I will have to limit myself to bare facts and a reminder of well-known facts that everyone tries to ignore, just as today’s Russian Whites manage to ignore the fact of the February revolution in 1917, and the conclusion from it that they are not White in the framework of the theory of world projects, but Black.

    1. Political Zionism is a movement to build a national Jewish state in the historic homeland of the Jews – in Palestine, and building a Jewish state in Crimea is not Zionism by definition and even anti-Zionism.

    2. Political Zionism has always been and is in conflict with any religious Zionism, since the latter has always believed and believes now that Israel can only be a theocracy.

    But the different “courts” of Judaism during the years in exile have diverged so much that it is impossible to consider them as belonging to the same religion, and an attempt to create Israel on a secular basis as a nation-state uniting different confessions ala Western Europe is a sin from the point of view of any court: Israel can only be restored by Moshiach.

    And before his arrival and the unification of the “courts” under his beneficial influence, any state of Israel is the enemy of any Judaism, incompatible with its existence. With the exception of Christians, for whom the Messiah has already come, if Christianity is considered one of the forms of Judaism, and from this point of view, the restoration of the state of Israel is an indirect recognition by Jews of the mission of Christ.

    3. Political Zionism arose in the 19th century in response to the outbreak of racial anti-Semitism in France (the Dreyfus case), that is, hatred of people of Jewish origin, who had nothing to do with Judaism. And the copyright on this hatred = racial anti-Semitism belongs to the “holy” Bernard of Clairvaux, who voiced it in letters to the sovereigns of Europe, urging them not to recognize as Roman Pope Anacletus II, who was the grandson of one of the richest Jewish bankers of that time, and was baptized in the wake of a massive transition Jews of France to Christianity on the eve of the Great Schism.

    And it may well be that the legends about saving the Jews from religious anti-Semitism by the “holy” Bernard of Clairvaux on the eve of the Second Crusade are true, not propaganda of his followers who are trying in every way to whitewash the organizer of the anti-Slavic, anti-Orthodox Crusade.

    But this means that racial anti-Semitism is not a goal, but a convenient tool by anti-Christians, who used this technique in the 12th century to place on the papal throne a fanatical and not too clever follower of “saint” Bernard, who, without too much thought, pushed his call for an anti-Slavic crusade by turning it into a papal bull.

    And as recent researches have shown, this call of the “holy” Bernard was announced on the very spot where the pagan temple was located during the Roman Empire, apparently associated with the cult of the Black Madonna, and where, apparently, Saint Dionysius Areopagite was beheaded, also known as Saint Denis of Paris.

    Subsequently, it was on this place that the recently burnt Notre-Dame de Paris was built, among the priors of which followers of the “holy” Bernard and Pierre Abelard alternated with the regularity of bald and hairy leaders on the Soviet-Russian throne, until one of them decorated this cathedral with hellish monsters, showing the true nature of the post-Napoleonic restoration in France, not too different from the restoration, which is now trying to produce in Russia.

    4. The indignation of the Jewish community by the “Deutschland” video is not caused by Rammstein’s use of “symbolic images of the Holocaust for entertainment purposes”, but because the aforementioned Black Madonna, who became the center of this video, is a reminder that the rulers of Israel in the first century AD (including the rebuilder of the second Temple Herod the Great) were Edomites – the descendants of Esau and the worst, I would say the existential enemies of all descendants of Jacob-Israel.

    King John Hyrcanus one hundred years before Christ forcibly converted them to Judaism, and the Roman general Pompey made the Edomites spiritual and secular leaders of Israel. And no matter what Titus Flavius Josephus write about this, who was also some “historian”, but the story of the Black Madonna in the Rammstein video quite obviously indicates that the Edomites abandoned Judaism as soon as Judaism ceased to be a state religion in Israel and adjacent territories.

    And while the slave Jews built the Colosseum and dug the Roman catacombs, the Edomites divided into two groups, one of which remained in the Roman province of Arabia, and the other took part in the war against Julius Caesar along with the troops of Brutus and Pompey, who gave them power over Israel, went through the great Phoenician path and ended up in Galia, around the city of Laon, where the descendants of the Edomites not only built the Laon cathedral, but also, thanks to Charibert de Laon, became one of the main beneficiaries of the Carolingian plot against the Merovingians.

    In addition, these illustrations remind us that the temporary closeness of the German uprisings against Rome with the Judean war was not accidental, and Gaul, won by the Franks, not only became the main counterweight to the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, but also the birthplace of the darkest and even chimerical (according to Lev Gumilyov) manifestations of the Dark German Genius, presented in the Rammstein “Deutschland” video not only by the Black Madonna, but also by a group of gentlemen parading against the background of the burning Hindenburg airship. And this airship in fact symbolizes the collapse in the 30s of the 20th century, not only the airship, but also the whole of Hindenburg Germany, and the whole of burning Europe as well.

    5. Without any doubt, all these circumstances were well known to Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, when in 1946 he made the decision to establish the state of Israel. It is enough to recall his acquaintance with Lion Feuchtwanger, who also did not come to Moscow as a tourist, and also because Ilya Ehrenburg, who personally knew the aforementioned gentlemen against the background of the airship and described in the novel “Trust D.E.” their original plan, according to which France, and not Germany, was to become the Great Nazi State and Notre-Dame de Paris should once again become a symbol of the genocide of European peoples, also on May 19, 1182, when the main altar of the cathedral was solemnly consecrated by the Legate of the Papal throne and one of the most talented followers of “saint” Bernard of Clairvaux, Cardinal Bishop of Albano, named Henri de Marcy, who was one of the main organizers of the Fourth Crusade, part of which became Wendish and Albigensian Crusades.

    Of course, Stalin wanted to use the former prisoners of concentration camps to create the 16th republic of the Soviet Union in the vicinity of the Suez Canal, which Israel was to become, and also to cancel promises to the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to create a Jewish national center in the Crimea.

    To be continued…

    • Janos Skorenzy May 2, 2019 at 12:28 am #

      St Bernard was a Nazi! “Slave Jews” built the Colloseum! The Pyramids too, right? Maybe that’s why America is in the state it’s in – the Jews got their Freedom and won’t build anymore? What say you, Freedman?

    • elysianfield May 2, 2019 at 11:28 am #

      “1. Political Zionism is a movement to build a national Jewish state in the historic homeland of the Jews – in Palestine…”

      Komaraden Finc!

      And was not Political National Socialism a movement to build a national German state in the future homeland of the Germans-in Paris…?

  119. Blocking traffic soon.

    Going to make Yellow vests seem like a day in the park

    Sell your fossil cars and trucks

    Join us

    rebellion.earth

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    • Janos Skorenzy May 2, 2019 at 12:36 am #

      Saw a great video of Muslims praying in the street in Paris. They block everything on purpose since there are plenty of Mosques for them to go to. They all converge on one, there aren’t enough seats, so they end up bowing and scraping outside. A Frenchwoman with her shopping bags was trying to get home and would not be deterred – going thru them and almost stepping on their heads with every step.

      • Q. Shtik May 2, 2019 at 11:09 am #

        They all converge on one, there aren’t enough seats – Janos

        ==============

        There are no seats in mosques.

        • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 11:54 am #

          Wow interesting that you know. Do you bow to Mecca five times a day?

        • Exscotticus May 2, 2019 at 6:17 pm #

          >>> There are no seats in mosques.

          Ain’t no women either.

      • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 11:52 am #

        She should have “accidentally” dropped pork chops on the genuflectors lol. Oops sorry haha I mean sorta…like not really…

    • BackRowHeckler May 2, 2019 at 7:21 am #

      Let’s hope 3rd world illegals are fully vaccinated and checked out by medical personnel before they are released — by the thousands — into Tucson and Gallup.

      Brh

  120. measles is spreading.

    Science denial kills

    News at 11:30

    • malthuss May 2, 2019 at 12:27 am #

      How many deaths from medical iatrogenesis, a year, in USA?

      • BackRowHeckler May 2, 2019 at 7:25 am #

        What could be the reasons for parents not getting their kids vaccinated? Ignorance? Superstition? Malice?

        Brh

        • malthuss May 2, 2019 at 11:34 am #

          too many vaccines. too soon. fetal cells in vax.

          —–autism or death.

    • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 11:48 am #

      Science denial…sure in pockets but certainly not pervasive.

      You fail to mention the diseases pouring over the border and the unregulated entry of thousands of infected migrants who are being released into town and cities throughout the country. More evidence that our entire government is owned and operated by the cartels.

    • Exscotticus May 2, 2019 at 6:13 pm #

      >>> measles is spreading

      …from immigrants.

      >>> News at 11:30

      …but it won’t mention immigrants.

  121. malthuss May 2, 2019 at 12:31 am #


    wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/19018

    Laura, I consider ice cream, its purchase, and its consumption a rather serious business.
    We can’t just willy-nilly toss it out and about in casual references, especially linked with the word “free”.

    • malthuss May 2, 2019 at 12:34 am #

      If I recall, FBI says the code words in 500-600 of JPs emails have code for kiddie porn, etc.

      JPs art work is also revolting, celebrating child torture and cannibalism.

      Thats the FBI, not me noting this.

  122. KesaAnna May 2, 2019 at 12:45 am #

    ” Yes, we need a subservient peasantry again. People must know their place ”

    I agree.

    ” and recognize their betters. ”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhcHNR-3R0Q

    ^ The relevant part of the video as regards my take on things is at 2:15 to 2:25

    THAT is what our betters used to do FOR SPORT.

    A sport that routinely crippled , maimed , and killed its fat cat participants.

    Unfortunately I cannot show you a real life video of one of our betters beating another one of our betters to death with a mace.

    But maybe the above video will give you at least a vague idea.

    Today EVERYONE would vote themselves as one of the better sort.

    ” Leadership ” invariably means first in line at the feeding trough , it invariably means getting into the cushiest spot .

    Way too many chiefs nowadays , and not anywhere near enough Indians.

    That’s why the barbarians will curb stomp you in the end.

    What I’m afraid that Social Darwinists like You and GreenWitch will never appreciate or understand is that you were better people when you were white trash.

    • Janos Skorenzy May 2, 2019 at 1:05 am #

      I’m not sure I deserve to be put in with the Green Witch. I fully endorse Medieval Tournament Culture. A good Tourny is right up there with Symposium and the Love Feast itself. Whites are driven to live dangerously and challenge themselves. In the Tournament, a wonderful balance is achieved between Paganism and Christianity, and the Masculine and the Feminine – but favoring the Masculine as really feminine women truly desire, if they could but be honest enough to admit it. And the winner offers his prize up to the Lady he would win. What could be more appealing to a true Woman?

      Kesa, you are Black, but Beautiful. I was going to post this for Finc, but since appeared, I dedicate it to you. One of Bernard’s sermons on the Song of Songs.

      https://hymnsandchants.com/Texts/Sermons/SongOfSongs/Sermon25/Sermon25.htm

      • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 5:35 am #

        I’m not sure I deserve to be put in with the Green Witch.

        Damn right you don’t, Sonny Boy. 🙂

        And at least I have a Royal Observatory, and an urban village named after me.

        But you know what I love? It’s when you do that thing where Taser Anna whips you with her fucking this and fucking, fucking that, and you get down on all fours like one of those blokes with studded dog chains round their neck before their Dominatrix, begging for favour and saying I’m not bad boy really, I’m not like him or . Hoping for Taser Favour. It’s only the men that do it. Funny that.

        #NotAllMen, natch.

        • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 5:37 am #

          him or her

        • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 11:07 am #

          And the Taser thinks I’m a social darwinist, so she doesn’t even have the insight to justify your needy grovelling.

      • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 5:42 am #

        “Kesa, you are Black, but Beautiful. I was going to post this for Finc, but since appeared, I dedicate it to you. “

        See what I mean? Time for walkies. Fetch your lead.

        • Janos Skorenzy May 2, 2019 at 1:22 pm #

          You are truly modern British, that is to say truly vile, to turn a moment of gallantry against an opponent, into some kind of sado-masochistic affair, expressed in loving detail and imagery.

          But I will be gallant with you as well. Knowing your deep love of France (a combination of snobbery and being a gourmand) I concede you may be right: Only the Muslims may be capable of dealing with the “Franco-Israelies” who perpetrated a gigantic scam against the nation of France.

          https://www.france24.com/en/20180129-france-trial-carbon-credits-fraud-paris-crime-emissions-scam-melgrani-marseille

          A new movie on Netflix, entitled “Carbon” is about this sordid affair, one level of chicanery piled atop of another into a leaning tower of Pisa that is Western Civilization.

          • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 2:21 pm #

            Who was it said Nazis have no sense of humour?

            Oh, yes, I remember – everybody 🙂 .

            And just to emphasise my snobbery, as you call it, you might be a gourmand but I’d be a gourmande. You’re welcome.

            Actually my deep love of France just comes from being fluent in the language and actually, you know, living there for years. My kids are technically half French, although you wouldn’t know it.

            Snobbery has sweet FA to do with it. It’s a beautiful country and it does a lot of things better than your country or mine.

  123. malthuss May 2, 2019 at 1:13 am #

    By Robert Lee Hotz
    May 1, 2019 1:00 p.m. ET

    A fossil jaw found in the Himalayan highlands of Tibet belongs to a vanished human species called Denisovans, deepening the mystery of human evolution in Asia, scientists said Wednesday in a new study probing the roots of humankind.

    Discovered by a local Buddhist monk, the fossil shows these archaic human relatives lived on the roof of the world in the rarefied air at almost 11,000 feet—an altitude that would leave many people today starved for oxygen. They settled at these frigid heights at least 160,000 years ago, more than 120,000 years before modern humankind arrived, said the scientists, who published their work on the fossil in the journal Nature.

    • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 5:47 am #

      “But then everyone EXCEPT YOU MODERNS seems to know the ecclesiastical courts were a joke . ” Bleeding hearts , soft on crime ” as you might say today.”

      Taser, I would respectfully suggest a visit to the Museum of Torture in Carcassonne. As I said in a previous post, I only saw a few items through the window. I was more taken with the English translation of its advertising poster on the window which promised to ‘make you feel in Middle Age’, which I naturally found amusing, being there already.

      Anyway, you might have especially liked the hardware I described already which was a bit like a traffic cone, except pointy, rusty metal. It was designed for the ‘woman on top’ position – very liberated for the day, I’m sure.

      Bleeding hearts? Well, maybe a bleeding uterus, a nasty infection and a grisly death, but what’s an anatomical distinction between friends?

      • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 5:48 am #

        Sorry Malthuss, that should have gone below the Taser’s post.

        • malthuss May 2, 2019 at 11:35 am #

          no problem. I enjoy the juxtaposing.

    • Janos Skorenzy May 2, 2019 at 1:26 pm #

      It would explain much. The people of the Andes have lungs (and chests) half again as big as other peoples. But the Tibetans do not even though living at even higher altitudes. Scientists concluded that it must be a matter of having more red blood cells, but when studied, they turn out to have less. Somehow the ones that they have just function with far greater efficiency than those of other people.

      They have a Legend of being descended from a Monkey, sometimes conflated with Yeti.

  124. KesaAnna May 2, 2019 at 1:45 am #

    ” If they had their way we’d still be getting the Galileo treatment, don’t kid yourself. ”

    Ok , I’ll point out these fucking facts , fucking again ;

    Galileo’s employer was the Pope.

    The only fucking reason you ever heard of the guy or read his books was because the Vatican printing press was also his publisher.

    The subject of his trial was ; Are you a loyal son of the Church , or are you an agent provocateur , a wolf in sheeps clothing ?

    Astronomy , or his writings , were not the subject of the trial.

    His punishment after conviction was house arrest. That is , he could still do his work , he could still eat steak , his friends and loved ones were free to come and go at will.
    — Note , this was at a time when secular humanists and atheists were drawing and quartering people routinely and habitually.

    But then everyone EXCEPT YOU MODERNS seems to know the ecclesiastical courts were a joke . ” Bleeding hearts , soft on crime ” as you might say today.

    And Galileo quit the Church , right ?

    Nope , he never did.

    I’m guessing of course , but my guess would be he trusted those religious kooks a hell of a lot more than he would trust your rational thirst for justice. 😛

    I know that I trust my Santa Claus in the sky , and my Candy land afterlife , a hell of a lot more than any of you sons of bitches .

    ” No thanks to christians I’m not prevented from saying it in the land of the free and the home of the brave. ”

    Without religion , SAYING it would be the full extent of it.

    Whether it is Japan , or Germany , Mexico or New England , the state , 90% of the time , got into education only very late in the game.

    Typically , no earlier than the mid 19th century , and commonly not until the 20th century.

    If you can read and write , you have some religion to thank for it , plain and simple.

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  125. FincaInTheMountains May 2, 2019 at 7:23 am #

    Symbolism of the Cathedral Fire and World Projects in Israel 4

    Of course, Stalin wanted to use the prisoners of concentration camps to create the 16th republic of the Soviet Union in the vicinity of the Suez Canal, which Israel was to become, and also to cancel promises to the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to create a Jewish national center in the Crimea, but facing a joint resistance to these plans by the British Empire, International Jewry and almost all types of Judaism, to implement these plans he had to understand the mystical basis of his decision and its connection with the general strategy of the USSR and the Orthodox International, which he wanted to put in the service of the USSR together with the State of Israel.

    And he almost succeeded, but on June 22, 1948, Ben-Gurion, formally leftist and even in some sense a Marxist, arranged an anti-Soviet and I would even say an anti-Stalin coup, sinking in the port of Tel Aviv “Altalena” with weapons for Irgun, an organization headed by Menachem Begin, who bore the brunt of the struggle with Great Britain for the emigration to Israel of the remnants of European Jewry who had accidentally survived in concentration camps, reinforced by the Jews, who had served in the Soviet SMERSH counter-intelligence and the Red Army special forces.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altalena_Affair

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMERSH

    And it was not by chance that this ship arrived from France, and Ben Gurion chose June 22 for his rebellion. I’ll sometime write about these circumstances, but for now I’ll only note that immediately after the coup in the Arab countries, as if by a command of that supranational entity that Putin and Trump are fighting against, there were Jewish pogroms and 800,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries arrived in Israel who did not care about the Holocaust and who believed that the creation of the State of Israel deprived them of shelter and livelihood, and European Jews themselves brought the Holocaust upon themselves by creating a national hearth in the heart of the Arab civilizations and attempts to assimilate into the Christian culture of Europe.

    It must be said that the legend of the assimilation of European Jews on the eve of the Holocaust, which has been very popular among the Sephardic people so far, has centuries-old roots. In particular, it is associated with the tradition founded by the Jewish scholar and historian Maimonides, who himself was not Ashkenazi, but his books played a prominent role both in shaping Jewish rationalism in Europe, which rejected Caballa as a heresy, and in attempts by Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus to restore Christian theology in Europe, practically destroyed by the Fourth Crusade.

    It is this Sephardic and Gnostic Jews who blame European Jews, and in our time this assimilation, imaginary or true, creates an ideological conflict in Israel, which has become the essence of the recent elections, forcing Trump and Putin to save Netanyahu from the Black World Project in Israel.

    The fact is that in 1948 the need to provide housing for Jews from Arab countries Ben Gurion used to justify the need to accept the money of Adenauer, which was a very small part of the golden teeth of their relatives, pulled out of their mouths in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and Dachau.

    Naturally, after that, for Jews from Arab countries, Israel is not directly connected with the experience of the Holocaust, and the decision to liquidate Israel, written between the lines in the Oslo agreements imposed by the Clintons, does not cause them to protest if they are allowed to be safely evacuate to the United States.

    Unfortunately in this election, they were joined by many Jews from Ukraine, who, in addition to the American passport, Clintons promised citizenship of the island of Crimea.

    It is this conglomerate that constitutes the electorate of the Black World Project in Israel, and only Sabrs and Russian Israelis (and not all!) remember about Auschwitz and Babi Yar and are ready to fight for Israel until the end, in particular, voting in Jerusalem and New York for Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, which, in fact, causes the appearance of the aforementioned anti-Semitic caricatures in the New York Times the day after the fire in Notre-Dame-de-Paris.

    I suggest you look at this video, perfectly illustrating these circumstances and determine the colors of the respective world projects and their connection with the War of Roses, which determined the date of the fire in Notre Dame de Paris, and the Fourth Crusade, which cultural consequences determined the place of this fire.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4GVKymQu8Q

    • Ol' Scratch May 2, 2019 at 10:28 am #

      Hmm… What does it say about Zionist Jews that they refuse to assimilate in the cultures that will have them and that almost all such cultures that do eventually want them gone once they’re in? The US apparently being a glaring exception now that they own and run the place anyway. Not sure your Color Projects Theory adequately addresses that. Trump has certainly become quite chummy with them, all the more so after embracing his inner warrior and getting into bed with the MICC. What’s that saying about lying down with dogs? More like pit vipers in this case.

      • FincaInTheMountains May 2, 2019 at 10:46 am #

        Yes, thank you, it is the exact position of the New York Times.

        • Ol' Scratch May 2, 2019 at 10:54 am #

          That’s pretty hard to believe. No major liberal rag would dare take on the Zionists in print for long.

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 11:36 am #

            Freedom of speech for me but not for thee. Is this the Zionist creed? You literally have college courses extoling the need to exterminate the White race and no one even bats an eyelash. But if one thing is said of a Jew we must all have like a day of mourning and legislation has to be passed to ensure that all criticism of Jews and Israel is banned. And then you really try to tell us that ZOG is not real.

          • FincaInTheMountains May 2, 2019 at 12:07 pm #

            Not one but two anti-Semitic “political cartoons” in three days, with the second after an alleged “apology”?!

          • Janos Skorenzy May 2, 2019 at 1:29 pm #

            They’re coming out against themselves. Calling themselves Anti-Semitic! They love shit like this – reveling in absolute control over the American Mind.

          • Exscotticus May 2, 2019 at 1:37 pm #

            >>> Not one but two anti-Semitic “political cartoons” in three days

            Let us agree that they weren’t antisemitic. They were entirely political.

            How would you draw a cartoon—in which you wish to show that Trump is being led by Israel—that wouldn’t be considered antisemitic?

            Take a look at this cartoon. It seems to depict Obama being led by a nuclear-armed Iran. No hue and cry there.

            It’s the political message they’re objecting over. They want to make it impossible to even raise this as an issue by invoking an ism that isn’t there. It’s the same strategy that’s been used by the Left for decades to avoid a national discussion on immigration, Affirmative Action, etc.

          • Exscotticus May 2, 2019 at 1:59 pm #

            Note how different the Left reacts when one of their own makes outright racist comments.

            Here’s Obama answering a question: “Do you believe that Bill Clinton was [America’s] first black president?”

            Obama: “I would have to investigate more… Bill’s dancing abilities… before I accurately judge whether he was in fact a brother.”

            Funny!—and the crowd loved it. But also a racist stereotype that no white candidate would have been permitted to say.

            And so the double standards and hypocrisy are clear. isms are a weapon to be used against whites and no one else.

            Trump is the first President to change the rules of the game, having ignored and survived every ism in the book.

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 4:38 pm #

            Yes that is correct! The only racial group that is unprotected from open discrimination and hostility are Whites and the only religious group that is unprotected from open discrimination and hostility are Christians. One small but very important example in a list that could cross this continent.

          • Ol' Scratch May 2, 2019 at 5:54 pm #

            Not one but two anti-Semitic “political cartoons” in three days, with the second after an alleged “apology”?!

            Hard to believe now, but there was a time when 1.) neither one of those cartoons would have been (rightly so) considered as “anti-Semitic,” (the most overused word in their lexicon) and 2.) both would have been considered totally appropriate, if somewhat cutting and controversial (as such cartoons should be if they are to be effective) for a self-professed “newspaper of record,” thus requiring no apology whatsoever.

            Yeah, I know that’s hard to believe now in the current environment of Zionist thought police patrolling our every thought and action, but believe it or not, that time actually existed. I note that the cartoon publisher’s contract got terminated in the aftermath, so rest assured that Zionist censorship is still alive and well here in the “Land of the Free and the Home of the Knaves.”

  126. BackRowHeckler May 2, 2019 at 7:41 am #

    Al Sharpton is the new Dem kingmaker; pres candidates must make a pilgrimage to HQ in NYC and pay homage and hope for the great man’s blessing. Meanwhile, Sharpton enjoys making them grovel, at the same time checking out these crackers, probing for weakness, trying to determine what future they could be put to. Next up: Beto. He seems like the type that wouldn’t mind crawling.

    Brh

    • Exscotticus May 2, 2019 at 10:47 am #

      Al Sharpton: first man to turn the race-card into a lifelong career.

    • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 11:26 am #

      If we had right thinking in this country and people in charge with backbones Al Sharpton would be in prison for his criminal gangland life. He is the epitome of the great racial double standard. But he is also a perfect example to point to in proving the existence of Black and Brown privilege and institutional racism.

  127. SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 11:19 am #

    Wow, it looks like Austria has real leaders that care. Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache said that his party The Freedom Party will fight against population exchange. No more of The Great Replacement in Austria! He said, “That is a concept of reality. We do not want to become a minority in our own homeland. That is legitimate and honest and deeply democratic. Those who are not left today are automatically defamed as right-wing extremists.” (Pulled from Breitbart). He is also working behind the scenes to ban Islam in Austria. And (yes there is more and its better every time!!!)! He also said that activists who assist migrants must be held responsible for the murders and crimes committed by the migrants.

    So needless to say I am smitten and somewhat overwhelmed :-). And I heard this morning that “far-right” nationalist parties are becoming major players at the EU level. We do need a great replacement indeed. It’s time to replace all worthless and wicked politicians and bureaucrats…so basically at this point most of the entire political establishment in the West needs to be dumped into the trash heap. And real leaders like this can help us and want to help us and we must elevate them!

  128. SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 12:00 pm #

    Haha someone was totally defeated on the subject of Islam. In the end insisting that there is equivalency never works when you are dealing with apples and oranges. Glad we had the discussion. Thank you come again lol :-).

    • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 2:01 pm #

      “Thank you come again lol :-).”

      I did. Thank you.

      • Janos Skorenzy May 2, 2019 at 2:05 pm #

        Do you dress up like a Nazi when you go out to the Leather Clubs? Like JK Rowling does?

        • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 2:09 pm #

          I don’t know what a leather club is, Janos, but at least I’d have to dress up as one – some people don’t need to.

          How’s the studded collar feeling? I guess if it’s uncomfortable that’s good anyway?

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 4:11 pm #

            So we know what a studded collar is in reference to this whole masochism thing (leashing, walking and crawling) but we don’t know what a leather club is? LOL you ain’t foolin no one Alba. The Taser is in fact fully charged and totally shocking lol!

          • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 5:01 pm #

            Janos mentioned it in relation to JK Rowling so I assumed it was something different from an S&M club – but if that’s what is, fine. Not sure what the Nazi connection is although I’m not knowledgeable on that front. You seem to be more so.

            I remain baffled by what the JKR connection is.

            I suppose I can see how the Nazi thing would meld with the kinky dressing up, though – with those uniforms they were always as camp as a row of pink tents. Not funny though, unfortunately.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 2, 2019 at 6:00 pm #

            SSL: We’re dealing with a rouee’ here, a debauchee.

            https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rou%C3%A9

            The punishment is given is given in the definition. All very French in the Old, the True and the Catholic sense.

      • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 2:07 pm #

        And I didn’t argue equivalency. You did, though, wanting equivalency between a country with 49% nominal Christians and 41% ‘no-religion’, and another with 70% Buddhists, where hundreds of innocent Muslims were having to hide because of a fear of reprisals from those turn-the-other-cheek Christians. I didn’t see any Muslims in NZ committing reprisals.

        Apples and oranges, as you say. All terrorists are evil. It’s not a competition of my-martyrs-are-better-than-your-martyrs except for the kind of people who will never be any kind of solution to anything.

        • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 2:11 pm #

          Not that donning hijabs in ‘solidarity’ is anything but daft and misguided anyway, in my view. Just as daft as thinking people who do for half an hour are ’embracing dhimmitude’.

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 4:24 pm #

            I know you don’t want to believe it but visual symbols are powerful and symbology is critical when discussing religious and spiritual practices. Islam means submission. Submission is expected from those conquered by Islam. Acts of submission are required to show that the memo has been received. Within Islam the wearing of the scarf is an appropriate and required act of submission to the will of Allah as well as submission to the menfolk. So do with it what you wish. I can’t force you to see what I am saying but it’s real. In the Islamic Republic of Iran should a woman choose to walk in public without a scarf it is lawful to consider her a prostitute and treat her accordingly. Since the Islamic Republic attempts to follow the rigors of Islam to the letter it becomes clear that this is real Islam. Especially since we know Western women have been attacked in places like Egypt and Pakistan for not wearing the veil and thus automatically indicating their availability for sex work. Actually this is happening in Europe too.

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 4:27 pm #

            And when I say “their availability for sex work” that is referring to the lightbulb that pops into the Muslim male minds as they see an uncovered woman. Not the intentionality of the women themselves.

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 4:31 pm #

            Here is a fun sample of the primitive mind….and this is a female primitive mind….so just imagine what the man thinks….No offense guys :-)…

            https://www.dailywire.com/news/2696/female-islamic-scholar-says-muslims-can-rape-non-michael-qazvini

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 4:46 pm #

            And Alba I do this out of love not to constantly bicker with you. You and your family live closer to the epicenter of all of this and I just hope that you will wake up. I am afraid this is only going to get worse before it gets better….if it does ever get better. You have occasionally scolded Western Men and yet what do they really do on the whole? Don’t you think we practically have it made in the shade compared to the real brutality that exists elsewhere? I don’t think you can expect these savages to be gentlemen though…unless they are employing Taqiyya…I much prefer the Chivalrous Knights of our heritage and culture and am terrified of this.

          • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 4:51 pm #

            God Almighty, SSL, how many times?

            Don’t tell me what I don’t want to see. Really, don’t.

            I am fully aware of what the hijab means. I am fully aware of what goes on in Iran – I have been receiving mailings from an Iranian freedom group for years. I’m fully aware of what goes on in Egypt. I know a Scottish doctor married to an Egyptian who spends time in Egypt. We get it.

            And I know what goes on elsewhere. Please stop insulting my intelligence by suggesting I am some sort of apologist for Islam or am unaware of how it works.

            AND please stop telling me you know that practising Muslims in my country who don’t wear the hijab or any other such accoutrements aren’t Muslims. They’re practising Muslims just the same as you’re a practising Christian even though you don’t cover your head the way the Bible tells you to.

            They don’t care what the old beardy guys say. They’re still practising and they will continue to do so. And they will still go to work without hijabs if they want to and nobody seems to be stopping them.

            Please, move on…

          • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 4:52 pm #

            And I’m sorry you’re terrified. Really I am.

          • SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 5:22 pm #

            Fine!!!! I will simply go off the deep end then anytime I hear you come to the defense of them in the future. Until then I will shut up about it since you are so ruffled and tired and can’t be bothered.

          • Janos Skorenzy May 2, 2019 at 6:06 pm #

            You know, yet you defend them. The ones who don’t cover up are falling away in their piety. Being influenced by the West. The Brothers will deal with them in time. No? It’s happened before in Islam – many times. An Islamic Culture begins to shine, become prosperous and less fanatical, and before too long there is a theistic revolution – or an invasion from another part of Islam to bring them back in line.

            I don’t know what Mohammad thought about the Hijab per se. But Islam has been practiced this way for a long time – and the Pious are very, very insistent on it. They will Win unless the Few Liberal Muslims choose to ask for help from Western Liberals against them. And that would be utterly forbidden in Islam.

  129. K-Dog May 2, 2019 at 12:01 pm #

    ‘What can you do? You don’t matter. Your vote doesn’t matter. Your protests don’t matter. Go ahead, march in the streets and chant your little slogans. The political sophisticates and media elites will smirk at your naivete, your misguided nostalgia for the sixties, and then they will steer the conversation back to the stock market or the fabulous new restaurant they’ve recently discovered. They’re not worried about you. <— Tom Tomorrow

    Or they will say Julian will be fine. Who needs fingernails anyway.

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    • Janos Skorenzy May 2, 2019 at 1:32 pm #

      I went to a May Day rally: Mexican Indians were doing a Sun Ritual. Thank God there was no Pyramid around…..

      I enjoyed the drumming and dancing, but what the hell are the Leftists thinking being allied with people like this? Such utter foolishness – they obviously aren’t thinking just feeling.

      • K-Dog May 3, 2019 at 1:04 am #

        Those are not real leftists. That’s identity politics and that is something else. There is no real connection between the two other than what was artfully put there by the skilled use of ‘useful idiots’. Identity politics in its pure form winds up being politics which excludes everyone rather than something from the left which in its pure form is all inclusive. The magnitude of this dialectic is so extreme that identity politics winds up being far more similar to plutocracy rather than anything of the people.

      • K-Dog May 3, 2019 at 1:27 am #

        You mean you were glad they did not have the flint knives. If they had the knives they might improvise and figure they don’t really need a pyramid at all. It could be the Latin equivalent of a Civil War reenactment. Not the real thing but close enough.

        They might make like Tom Petty and be heartbreakers. Break your heart free and hold it up beating before the shining sun shouting we don’t need no stinking pyramid.

        ‘ they obviously aren’t thinking just feeling ‘

        I totally agree. And you know the dancers were not the problem, you enjoyed them, you say so. The reasons the dancers were there are complicated having nothing to do with good governance or sound philosophy, and everything to do with politics.

  130. SoftStarLight May 2, 2019 at 12:23 pm #

    For you V,

    So you had mentioned yesterday that immigrants, in particular we were discussing Hispanics, must learn English if they want to make money and eat. Well I couldn’t disagree with you more. And the NYT of all doesn’t agree either.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/nyregion/immigrant-entrepreneurs-succeed-without-english.html

    The old idea of assimilating into an English speaking Anglo-America is dead and has been for some time. We need to dispense with this and move forward. What we know as America is hopelessly balkanized and this is irreversible.

    • malthuss May 2, 2019 at 9:24 pm #

      How many people in USA die because of immigrants–

      Murders
      die at hospital because the emergency room was over crowded
      Car crashes etc??

      huh?

  131. wwg1wga May 2, 2019 at 12:35 pm #

    This nation will rise up, and live out the true meaning of it’s creed.
    http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Change%20Agents.pdf

    #oathkeepers

    Q.

  132. K-Dog May 2, 2019 at 12:51 pm #

    Julian was in the embassy so long that something deep in the common psyche which will not hang with mental dissonance flipped a switch so an unfocused belief that Julian is hiding in the Embassy for good reason emerged sans any evidence.

    The fear and clear understanding that the state is without soul, has infinite patience and that it can and will jack you up anytime it wants, the common mind will not abide. So shapeless things of an emotional kind have taken root and the farmers of this game knew seven years in was time for the harvest of a ripe dissonant.

    • K-Dog May 2, 2019 at 1:03 pm #

      The dissonant screech of unpleasant truth will be silenced, the nail which sticks up must be pounded down.

      Note I do not use the word dissident. That is because Julian is a journalist.

  133. elysianfield May 2, 2019 at 4:57 pm #

    A riddle for the readership;

    What do Roger Moore and Elvis Presley have in common?

    • GreenAlba May 2, 2019 at 5:14 pm #

      They’re both dead?

      • malthuss May 2, 2019 at 5:33 pm #

        Who is RM? I will check.

        singer, actor.

        • elysianfield May 2, 2019 at 10:30 pm #

          “Who is RM?”

          Bond…James Bond.

      • elysianfield May 2, 2019 at 10:32 pm #

        Alba,
        Yes, both have been reported as dead. However, I think I saw Elvis at a local 7-11 ordering a slurpee, just last week.

        • K-Dog May 3, 2019 at 12:31 am #

          I think they were both hound dogs. I know Elvis was nothing but!

  134. malthuss May 2, 2019 at 5:32 pm #

    SBPDL.com

    Black woman is unhappy,

    The merging of the black and white high schools in Mississippi

    I doubt the trial will be fair, but I would be interested to read about the proceedings if it went forth.
    To avoid the inevitable outrage, the school system probably should have awarded separate valedictorian/salutatorian awards to former members of both of the segregated schools until a class came together through the same school for at least three years.

    While the white high school probably reserved honors credit for advanced placement classes and the like, the black high school was likely handing out honors credit for gym class and study hall.

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  135. wm5135 May 2, 2019 at 6:21 pm #

    You can fool some of the people all of the time, case in point

    Sam Stone

  136. FincaInTheMountains May 2, 2019 at 10:02 pm #

    It turns out that New Pogrom Times lifted its idea of anti-Semitic cartoon of Netanyahu and Donald Trump directly from the Nazi publication of 1940, depicting Wandering Jew (an obvious allusion to Ahasver) dragging behind him away from Europe, that has already sworn allegiance to National Socialism, submissive Churchill (almost blind) looking down at his feet.

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5MtQ4-WsAEDYjA.jpg

  137. seawolf77 May 2, 2019 at 10:06 pm #

    Well let’s see… did this guy obsdtruct justice?

  138. seawolf77 May 2, 2019 at 10:09 pm #

    Bill Barr. Lips super glued to Trump’s ass.

    • elysianfield May 2, 2019 at 10:29 pm #

      Wolfie!

      The reports of your death were exaggerated.

      • FincaInTheMountains May 2, 2019 at 10:41 pm #

        Wolfie is an AI algorithm toilet-trained to react at Finca’s posts.

        • K-Dog May 3, 2019 at 1:33 am #

          Two bots running code at each other could result in endless drama!

  139. BackRowHeckler May 2, 2019 at 10:42 pm #

    Meanwhile, on Venice Beach, Johnny Rotten sits outside his house, 2:00 am, cradling his shotgun while standing watch, worried about hundreds of vagrants suddenly camped on the beach, one of whom recently threw a brick thru the bedroom window of his sick wife.

    A little bored, Johnny punches up youtube video of his former band, The Sex Pistols. Its black and white film of a show in Brighton in ’75. Phew, there Sid, urinating on the Union Jack. There’s Johnny, shouting unflattering things about the queen. “What the hell were we thinking?”, mutters Johnny.

    Suddenly he hears footsteps, and sees figures moving up from the beach, toward him.

    Brh

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    • K-Dog May 3, 2019 at 12:38 am #

      John Lydon, who became a US citizen in 2013 because he “believed in Barack Obama” and his health care reform, referred to the Republicans in 2017 as “a crazy loony monster party” who were looking to dismantle health care under Trump. <– Wiki P

  140. BackRowHeckler May 3, 2019 at 7:47 am #

    Well, it looks like the coup attempt in Venezuela failed. It was pretty lame to begin with. Maduro is backed by the Cuban secret police, the 1000 officers promoted to the rank of general in the army by Maduro, and special forces troops from Russia and China. The opposition had some national guard soldiers and a emaciated population literally starving to death.

    I’ve read that living conditions inside Venezuela are worse than what exists in Haiti. I know, I know, its John Bolton’s fault.

    At any rate the fact that Maduro will stay should make many posters on this site — both left and right — happy.

    Brh

    • FincaInTheMountains May 3, 2019 at 8:07 am #

      Would the slave markets, like they have in Libya after Western intervention, be better for the Venezuelan people?

      Before rushing heads down to the hell of the jungles, would be nice to demonstrate a successful track record of “humanitarian interventions”.

    • FincaInTheMountains May 3, 2019 at 8:10 am #

      And then again. since Hillary is still at large, where is the guarantee she will not repeat the “success” of the humanitarian help to Haiti?

  141. seawolf77 May 3, 2019 at 9:48 am #

    Kamala Harris surgically de-nutted Bill Barr. It was beautiful. A strong black woman emasculating a big, fat powerful white guy. Guts Barr like a fish and leaves him flopping on the deck.

  142. seawolf77 May 3, 2019 at 9:58 am #

    “If the president believes he is falsely accused, he does not have to sit idly by. He can fire the special counsel and there is no corrupt intent.” AG Bill Barr. Really? Really? Now why didn’t John Gotti think of that? Gangsters are just really stupid I guess.

  143. seawolf77 May 3, 2019 at 10:18 am #

    Bill Barr reminds me of the sheriff in “Open Range,” when Annette Benning’s character in the middle of a gunfight slaps him in the face and says “You’re a disgrace Marshall. You always have been.” And he looks at her cooly and says “I know. That’s just the way things are.”

  144. wwg1wga May 14, 2019 at 7:56 am #

    Constitutionalism….is the new counterculture.
    https://www.got-truth.com/docs/Constitutionalism%20is%20the%20new%20counterculture.pdf

    #oathkeepers

    Q.

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