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Now that everyone and everything not “woke” is a racist, a white supremacist, and a domestic terrorist, the mau-mauing of America is complete. The mug of strong English tea on my desk (a beverage from the worst modern colonialist nation) happens to be white. It is ashamed and disgusted by its privilege of holding captive eight ounces of a beverage-of-color. The beverage’s final indignity, of course, is to be ingested in my white body, and turned into countless chemical reactions there that benefit me while annihilating the beverage’s existence, which surely amounts to cultural appropriation, a kind of servitude, and ultimately murder! My wickedness will never be forgiven. Ironically, I drink strong English tea at 6:50 a.m. in order to get “woke.” Maybe I should switch to Yogi Detox Tea. (Warm milk would only accentuate my loathsome privilege and put me back to sleep.)

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Speaking of “stabbing motherfuckers in the heart,” why are the “progressives” who moiled outside Senator Mitch McConnell’s house the other night not cooling their heels in a federal lock-up for threatening to assassinate a public official? That’s the usual procedure. How difficult would it be to locate them? Nobody has even asked — a peculiar development.

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey took the predictable “progressive” action of banning Senator McConnell’s election campaign account for posting a video of the very mob looking to “stab motherfuckers in the heart” outside his house. That should be good, at least, for a hearty lawsuit against Twitter that might raise the consciousness of the 23-year-old wokester myrmidons Jack Dorsey hired to pretend that their diligent bannings of non-woke Tweeters are the work of supposed “algorithms” — as well as Mr. Dorsey himself, the arrogant prick behind it all.

Any decent psychological detective can conclude why the Left, including especially the Democratic Party — formerly a pillar of our political system — has gone insane. Losing a national election two and half years ago traumatized the base. In the process, the party made the rueful discovery that it was devoid of reality-based political ideas. This prompted the adoption of reality-optional excuses for failure masquerading as political ideas: Russia did it! Trump was “Putin’s puppet.” That clinically paranoid meme, and the massive investigatory activity it provoked, ended in more failure, so profound that the party still can’t face it.

But the Democratic Party must sense that it is about to be held accountable for all that. The Deep State officials who acted out that shadow-play on its behalf, with all its seditious overtones, are about to be frog-marched into the grand juries any week now. The party itself, or at least its executive gang, the DNC, may be included in the clean-up operation. It’s really hard to see how the party survives that. Its loyal historians will probably say that some motherfucker stabbed it in the heart. More factually, the Democratic Party first lost its mind, and then committed suicide.


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581 Responses to “Rude Awakening”

  1. John of the West August 9, 2019 at 10:06 am #

    The two sides in America have diverged from being contentious, but still cooperative at times, into fully divided and isolated and radicalized, even though they don’t see it happening. This is not a state of affairs that can survive in a healthy economy and nation, much less a sick and failing one. See https://darkageprep.com/2019/08/09/another-broken-week/ for more on this topic.

    • TraffickingInDivinity August 9, 2019 at 10:09 am #

      As a wise man once said,

      “Moderation is the ability to see the relative nature of one’s position and to appreciate the attraction of the unbalanced extremes on either side to which we may be predisposed.”

      Let’s hope wisdom prevails.

      • K-Dog August 9, 2019 at 10:40 am #

        If he was wiser he could have said it better. Seems confusing to me.

        • toktomi August 9, 2019 at 8:23 pm #

          @K-Dog

          Is this your wild Left parody?

          ~toktomi~

          • K-Dog August 9, 2019 at 11:47 pm #

            When I have to draw a diagram to understand the wise, the wise is not wise.

      • abbybwood August 9, 2019 at 12:41 pm #

        I hate to be the Debbie-Downer here, but I seriously doubt that there is a drop of “wisdom” at the thoroughly corrupted DNC.

        Apparently Pete Buttigieg is already busy courting “The Superdelegates” even though the DNC voted to ONLY allow them to vote on a “Second Ballot” at the convention. (After the 2016 screwing Sanders got by the DNC, they HAD to throw his base a tiny bone).

        Of course, with twenty candidates in the running and completely foggy Uncle Joe and Kamala Harris being forced down our collective throats by the MSM, it seems to me that stacking the field with so many candidates will be a good way to be sure NOBODY can possibly win the nomination on the “first ballot”, thus allowing (AGAIN!) the Superdelegates to choose the nominee.

        It worked so well last time, I guess they’re figuring, why not?!

        Jimmy Dore explains it all better than I:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6E5zXiZsdE

        Just like with Elvis, any “wisdom” the DNC might have had has “left the building”.

        • gonetohell August 9, 2019 at 7:40 pm #

          Tis true that if you want the unvarnished truth, you’d have to go to independent news sources like Jimmy Dore and a few others. With Kunstler, you get biased rants as viewed from the right rather than from the left. The reader is still left with a lopsided account of reality. Kunstler won’t let himself admit that the country, like the planet it spins upon, has changed since he was a wee tyke. Decades of unmitigated illegal immigration, unrestrained use of H-1B visas, and job offshoring have changed our social dynamic forever. The country is a tad browner these days, because of these actions that have been allowed to happen by BOTH parties. This undermining of the near extinct middle class, to do the bidding of the donor class, has led us to where we are today. It’s apparent that Kunstler believes our political left is completely psychotic, and the political right completely sane in dealing with our current challenges. That in itself should give one pause.

          • Count Pete August 9, 2019 at 10:47 pm #

            He certainly does not think the political right is completely sane! You ought to try reading his stuff–it’s quite good and toes no line.

      • Majella August 10, 2019 at 8:09 am #

        Weird. Using Google (that evil left-wing ‘fuck you’ machine with access to virtually all wisdom, from anywhere and ant time), the only reference it can find to these words is this blog. Is it a misquote or are YOU the ‘purported ‘wise man’?

    • Neon Vincent August 9, 2019 at 10:53 am #

      Thanks for the link to your post, which you conclude with “But don’t worry, we’re in for another 15 months of sound bites, empty promises, and flash commercials until the current presidential campaign concludes.” One of those promises is canceling student loan debt. Vox looked at the idea and came to the conclusion that it wasn’t a bad idea, but it wasn’t as good as it was made out and was too dependent on cooperation from the states and their university systems. So it’s not a completely hollow idea, but it’s not as solid as one might think.

      • K-Dog August 9, 2019 at 11:12 am #

        It is a campaign promise. You can’t get more hollow than that.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 9, 2019 at 11:30 am #

        I think the student loan scam needs a real investigation, is what I think.
        Cancelling it just lets the scammers off the hook.

        I’m wondering why, when we see the low low interest people in the same time period were making on their savings and investments, people who took out say 30k in loans are expected to pay back nearly 50k in penalties and accrued interest.

        Also, where is the information from the universities, as to just where a student’s tuition dollars go?
        People like Liz Warren and Bernie, who directly benefitted from those high tuition rates, aren’t the best people to solve the problem.
        They want to pass the cost on to the American public.

        • toktomi August 9, 2019 at 8:34 pm #

          @B of O

          What objective might be realistically achieved by investigating a $Trillion economic stimulus crime? This thing was planned and executed perfectly. There never was any plan for repayment of the bulk of the loans any more than there is any plan to repay the US federal debt or any number of other debt crimes.

          So, whadya looking for?

          ~toktomi~

    • Roggie August 9, 2019 at 12:20 pm #

      From a European perspective the American situation involves some serious head scratching. The label “Left” used in the US has no parallel with the European Social Democratic tradition, tied up as it is was with populism, organised Labour and Post-War welfarism. The term “Socialism” is used in the US as almost a term of term of abuse and for most post-war Americans is a something that is not discussed openly. Vacuous Wokesterism is what an old style Marxist would call a “Bourgeois Preoccupation”.

      • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 1:47 pm #

        Check out the DSA Convention – the hits. These silly fokkers and vacuities interrupt themselves literally every minute with points of order and “personal privilege” – such as complaints about using the 2nd person plural “guys” from the podium. When each person comes to the podium, they give their name and their personal pronoun, for example John Smith, he, him. Misgendering is a huge no no, if not a crime.

        https://www.barnhardt.biz/2019/08/07/when-i-watch-this-all-i-can-think-is-why-havent-the-chinese-invaded-yet/

        Point of Interest: the South’s y’all is clearly a valuable addition to the English Language. It beats calling groups of women, “you guys” or becoming irate at the same.

  2. TraffickingInDivinity August 9, 2019 at 10:07 am #

    The political left has clearly lost its sanity and this loss is contagious. We see this more and more with the PC crowd. All we can do is vote and rail against it.

    • Elrond Hubbard August 9, 2019 at 10:13 am #

      Self-appointed spokesman for the left here.

      No, we haven’t.

      So there. Nyaahh.

      • benr August 9, 2019 at 10:22 am #

        The crazy people simply don’t know they are crazy.

        • TraffickingInDivinity August 9, 2019 at 10:38 am #

          Well said, benr. Another way to express this is,

          “As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, as a finger-tip cannot touch itself, so a thought cannot see itself.” Sikshasamuccaya

          • K-Dog August 9, 2019 at 10:42 am #

            or:

            Our Overton window looks out a view of a garbage-dump on fire.

          • Ol' Scratch August 9, 2019 at 11:01 am #

            That’s pretty good K-Pup. Ahh, the sweet smell of a dumpster fire in the morning!

        • lbs August 9, 2019 at 2:27 pm #

          To me the most obvious evidence is that today’s leftists can go on an epithet laden rant against even the most mild mannered and moderate person and show zero self awareness that they have engaged in hate speech.

      • Neon Vincent August 9, 2019 at 10:44 am #

        My dear neighbor across the Detroit River, I agree with you, but you’re in Canada, where the Left is more gauche than sinister, although I wouldn’t call either Justin Trudeau gauche or sinister. At least you can be an impartial observer of American politics there. On that note, I can trust your opinion.

        • Elrond Hubbard August 9, 2019 at 11:02 am #

          Thank you, Neon Vincent. I no longer live in Windsor, so I missed the opportunity come out and cheer Bernie when he visited along with the insulin caravan last week. Hope things are going well in southeastern lower Michigan.

          Oh, and be skeptical of the branding of Justin Trudeau as in any way of the left. He represents the Liberal party, aka Centrism Central. Canada has two left-of-centre parties, the New Democratic Party and the Green Party, the latter of which I’m a member of. Trudeau’s veneer of open-minded multiculturalism is camouflage for a corporatist who identifies with privilege, and will smack down those who uphold principle in the face of power. His former Justice Minister learned that the hard way.

          • Nightowl August 9, 2019 at 6:17 pm #

            Elrond calls out Trudeau as a globalist. Has hell frozen over?

      • Ol' Scratch August 9, 2019 at 10:51 am #

        It’s hard to imagine anyone actually speaking for the left, as “the left” (whatever in the hell that term means anymore) is no longer a coherent entity. Fractured identity politics will do that for you. A party that’s chosen to be about identities is a party that can no longer win elections, and even more importantly, actually get anything done, in the odd chance that they do.

      • Walter B August 9, 2019 at 11:38 am #

        Indeed, it is painfully obvious that they never had any sanity in the first place. It is why they spend their time criticizing others rather than solving their own problems.

      • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 1:48 pm #

        I can clearly imagine you at the DSA Convention podium, giving your name and then becoming confused about your pronouns.

  3. Elrond Hubbard August 9, 2019 at 10:12 am #

    Global Human Rights Movement Issues Travel Warning for the U.S. due to Rampant Gun Violence

    https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/global-human-rights-movement-issues-travel-warning-for-the-u-s-due-to-rampant-gun-violence/

    “Amnesty International today issued a travel warning calling for possible travelers and visitors to the United States to exercise extreme caution when traveling throughout the country due to rampant gun violence, which has become so prevalent in the United States that it amounts to a human rights crisis. It aims to hold up a mirror to the U.S. using the model of the United States Department of State’s travel advice for U.S. travelers to other countries.

    “‘Travelers to the United States should remain cautious that the country does not adequately protect people’s right to be safe, regardless of who they might be. People in the United States cannot reasonably expect to be free from harm – a guarantee of not being shot is impossible,’ said Ernest Coverson, campaign manager for the End Gun Violence Campaign at Amnesty International USA. ‘Once again, it is chillingly clear that the U.S. government is unwilling to ensure protection against gun violence.’

    “The travel advisory addressed growing gun violence, mostly hate crimes, including racism and discrimination, highlighting that the traveler’s race, country of origin, ethnic background, sexual orientation or gender identity may place them at higher risk after recent attacks linked to white supremacist ideology.

    “The action called attention to the extent to which all aspects of life in the United States have been compromised in some way by unfettered access to guns, without comprehensive and uniform regulation of their acquisition and use. By prioritizing gun ownership over basic human rights, the U.S. government is willfully and systematically failing on multiple levels and ignoring its international obligations to protect people’s rights and safety.”

    For the record, I am against stabbing motherfuckers in the heart. Be safe out there, people. Some parts of this planet are really dangerous.

    • Walter B August 9, 2019 at 10:25 am #

      They should expand the warning to Canada too:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Canada

      • Elrond Hubbard August 9, 2019 at 10:33 am #

        It’s generous of you to offer to play, Walter B, but we both know Canada just isn’t in the U.S.’s league. The breadth and depth of your bench leaves us in the dust.

        • BackRowHeckler August 9, 2019 at 11:19 am #

          Weren’t a few tourists just murdered in BC, an Australian and a woman from S Carolina?

        • Walter B August 9, 2019 at 11:39 am #

          More like the frozen tundra.

          • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 1:53 pm #

            Looks like the two aberrant yet manly Canuck Teens were gunned down by the Mounties who won’t take credit for it. Either that or a posse of locals.

      • Cavepainter August 9, 2019 at 9:56 pm #

        No Walter, you should know that Canada has no sociopaths, psychotics or terrorist of any sort, and RMCP show up immediately when anyone’s well being is threatened. That’s why guns aren’t necessary for personal protection.

    • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 10:26 am #

      Yeah, like Mexico, Venezuela, Columbia, France, Sweden, Germany, England, Chechnya, Pakistan, India, Malaysia, Philippines, etc, etc.

      Why doesn’t Amnesty International identify these countries as dangerous with all the shooting and riots that occur there.

      Because , like you, the USA is and will always be the whipping boy for every globalist organization in the world. I wonder how much of AI revenue stream is associated with Soros et al. What a surprise that would be!

      • Elrond Hubbard August 9, 2019 at 10:46 am #

        Nice grab bag of countries there, JohnAZ. Why doesn’t Amnesty International identify them as dangerous? Well, have you looked?

        https://www.amnestyusa.org/tools-and-reports/reports/

        Fully indexed and searchable. Just click the “Countries” dropdown and you’ll get a comprehensive listing of all the countries where they report on dangers and abuses of human rights:

        – Mexico (17 reports)
        – Venezuela (8 reports)
        – Colombia (10)
        – France (10)
        – Sweden (7)
        – Germany (9)
        – United Kingdom (8)
        – Russian Federation* (11)
        – Pakistan (10)
        – India (16)
        – Malaysia (8)
        – Philippines (8)

        Et cetera. All there for the reading, if you’re not lazy. By the way, Canada’s in there too, with 11 reports, while the USA has 88. You guys get all the attention! Must be because you have Hollywood.

        * Chechnya is not an independent country.

        • JustSaying August 9, 2019 at 10:56 am #

          I work in Baltimore and I’m still breathing. My parents went thru the war, so my life is not so bad.

        • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 11:34 am #

          Right on Chechnya, I just did not want to bring up Russia.

          The international community is using every tool they have to put down the US and you know it, AI here, the UN there, IMF here, Davos there. King of the Mountain.

          And you are right, Hollywood in its fantasy world aggravates everything.

          • Elrond Hubbard August 9, 2019 at 1:45 pm #

            Every tool they have to put you down — that’s some vintage narcissism right there. You know what they say: if all the people you deal with all day are nothing but assholes, you’re the asshole.

            If/when China takes over, they probably won’t have that attitude, not at first. These pathologies take time to develop.

    • Ol' Scratch August 9, 2019 at 10:26 am #

      Wild, wild, west, motherfuckers!

    • Tate August 9, 2019 at 10:56 am #

      a publicity stunt.

      • Elrond Hubbard August 9, 2019 at 11:03 am #

        Seems to be working.

        • Tate August 9, 2019 at 11:39 am #

          Yes, you know just how to troll this crowd.

    • Anon1970 August 9, 2019 at 12:35 pm #

      Amnesty International is a little late with its travel warning, at least 50 years late. Chicago’s homicides peaked in 1974 at 970 after experiencing a sharp rise in the late 1960’s.

      • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 2:33 pm #

        They were all in favor of the destruction of South Africa and have nothing to say about the murder of Whites there. They fell to the Darkness long ago, if indeed they weren’t born from It (the Left).

    • scoubidou123 August 9, 2019 at 10:22 pm #

      I used to volunteer for Amnesty in my youth, back when it was an organization solely devoted to freedom of expression, and suppression of torture. Those days are long gone, and I now despise the new Amnesty that has replaced it, that is just another screaming woke leftist outlet.

      Yes the US is a rather violent place by western world standards. But it is not the worst place on Earth, not by an order of magnitude. If you look at homicide rates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate, you will see that it is below the homicide rate for mankind. Yes, most of the world lives in a country more dangerous than the USA. And then of course, you need to realize that american whites homicide rate is markedly below american homicide rate. It is the american blacks of the ghetto, whose murder rate is 8 times that of whites, who really pull the american average to the level it is. If Amnesty were honest, it would say in its travel advisory: look around you and if you see most people around you are black, get out! Find a place where everyone is white, and you’ll be much, much safer.

  4. venuspluto67 August 9, 2019 at 10:21 am #

    Well, just in case you’re laboring under the delusion that Trump doesn’t have some pretty demented supporters of his own: Man brutally assaults boy for ‘disrespecting’ national anthem, his lawyer says man believes Trump would have wanted him to do it (I changed the wording of the headline somewhat.)

    • venuspluto67 August 9, 2019 at 10:23 am #

      Really, It think at least half the people in this country need to seriously check themselves right now.

    • John of the West August 9, 2019 at 10:40 am #

      You know you’re living in an asylum when reality outdoes parody.

    • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 11:44 am #

      >>> “The mug of strong English tea on my desk (a beverage from the worst modern colonialist nation) happens to be white. It is ashamed and disgusted by its privilege of holding captive eight ounces of a beverage-of-color. The beverage’s final indignity, of course, is to be ingested in my white body, and turned into countless chemical reactions there that benefit me while annihilating the beverage’s existence, which surely amounts to cultural appropriation, a kind of servitude, and ultimately murder!”

      The white mug (person) may or may not feel shame. Should he or she fail shame? I posit that the El Paso shooter should feel shame for his despicable acts, as should any killer of any race. In this particular case, I think a distinction must be made between a generic killer (all shameful) and one who kills because of race alone, which is particularly heinous, in my view.

      For example, in Rwanda the Tutsis were slaughtered by Hutus because they were Tutsi (aka as “cockroaches”) and it was therefore “OK” to eradicate the infestation. Note: This could not be classified as an invasion, as the vermin were already in the country. This is a much more egregious type of killing than say, a robbery gone bad, a financial dispute, or heated love triangle as the reason for the killing applied indiscriminately to many individuals through no fault of their own, other than birth/ancestry/dna, etc.

      Now, I believe that White Supremacists / White Nationalists / KKK, etc. should be ashamed for their abhorrent beliefs and in may cases, their abhorrent acts. Of course, I am aware that many of the White Supremacists cloak their beliefs in the language of “culture,” “values”, “community” and “ethnic pride.” Well, talk is cheap and actions speak much louder than hollow words.

      Supremacists of any stripe are not just about color. They’re about language as well, e.g. “this is an English speaking nation!” Well, yes and no. Go to many suburbs of Atlanta and you will believe you are in South Korea. The signs are in Korean, the shop-keepers speak Korean as do the majority of the customers. The menus aren’t even in English in many cases. You can find a lot of Mandarin in Little Chinas all over the USA.

      The same is true of Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, etc. The English “country” believers assert that all immigrants should learn English. Of course, that is easier said than done. How many Americans do you know that are bilingual? Have you yourself tried to study and learn a foreign language fluently? If you didn’t start very young, you will find it VERY difficult to get to the level of near native fluency. Anyway, it may not be practical to learn English with work and all, etc.

      The White Supremacists are also very attuned to religion. Muslims and Jews need not apply. And Papists (Catholics) are hardly at the top of the list. Hindus are, of course brown, so their membership is not welcome, despite their claims of true Aryan ancestry (nolo contendere).

      They pretty much like English speaking Protestants of European ancestry. As of late many Eastern Europeans & Russians have been welcomed into the fold IF their religion is Papist, Greek or Russian Orthodox and not Jewish or Muslim. The language and Catholic differences can be overlooked in these case for practical reasons.

      An interesting dilemma is that of the Jew. While those of the jewish faith can, many times, pass as “white,” are they in fact caucasian or semitic (i.e. related to Muslims, in some way) due to their religious beliefs, and sometimes their skin tone? Many avowed White Supremacists would argue, no, that a member of the “white” race cannot abide a jew, muslim or hindu, no matter what. A minority may be more flexible on this question, especially the political leaders of the self-identified white race, which, it must be said, is the party of Trump, the GOP.

      This area is particularly problematic with the Right Wing / Republican politicos affection for the state of Israel and indeed Saudi Arabia. It doesn’t play real well with true White Supremist base, but is vitally important to the political class, so it is overlooked. In time membership may be available to Jews, just as Russians are not welcomed into the White Supremist fold purely for expedient reasons. We will have to watch closely to see what happens on this issue.

      As you can see, it is a varied and quickly changing mosaic of white supremacy worldwide and indeed in the USA, however the basis for shame seems to be fairly well established, not with whites in general, but white supremacists in particular. The problem is, is that modern day white supremacists often look like “normal, everyday” white people. Whiteness the “Jews will not replace us!” chanters in Charlottesville sans robes, cone hats, etc. They were wearing khakis and polo shirts for g_d’s sake! How are we supposed to tell the KKK from the ordinary, run-of-the mill whites? Well those tiki torches were a dead giveaway, I suppose, but really….

      • Tate August 9, 2019 at 11:48 am #

        What was that all about?

        • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 12:14 pm #

          It is about the changing face of America, it’s political parties, the white supremacist movement and how difficult it is to keep up with the various alliances, nuances, internal politics, etc.

        • Nightowl August 9, 2019 at 5:20 pm #

          He was hoping no one would mention the Dayton shooter, a leftist ANTIFA member and supporter of Liz “Pochahontas” Warren.

          It destroys his narrative. Not that the narrative was convincing anyways.

      • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 11:48 am #

        correction “…. just as Russians are NOW welcomed….” my apologies.

      • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 12:42 pm #

        Uh, just a reminder.

        It was the Democrats and the Southern Baptist Church that fostered the creation of the KKK, the father of the White Supremacists.

        It was the Democrats that fought the civil rights movement of the sixties. It was the Democrats that passed the Jim Crow laws.

        LBJ had to pass the civil rights laws in opposition to the Democrats.

        George Wallace was a Democrat. Most of the KKK leaders were Democrats. Byrd was a KKK card holder and a Democrat.

        The Clintons were Southern Democrats until it became necessary to butter up the Blacks to maintain power.

        Even Obama did very little to advance the cause of the central cities, the bastion of the problem Black.

        The Deep States disregard for the Blacks is bi partisan.

        • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 12:58 pm #

          Hi John,

          >>> It was the Democrats and the Southern Baptist Church that fostered the creation of the KKK, the father of the White Supremacists.

          Close, but no cigar. The Democrats were just as bad as today’s Trumpist in that era. The Republican’s actually were the party of Lincoln back then. Today, Lincoln could not get elected dog catcher in Red ‘Murica.

          In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the “Ku Klux Klan.” The KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government’s progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population.

          Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the KKK’s first grand wizard; in 1869, he unsuccessfully tried to disband it after he grew critical of the Klan’s excessive violence.

          Most prominent in counties where the races were relatively balanced, the KKK engaged in terrorist raids against African Americans and white Republicans at night, employing intimidation, destruction of property, assault, and murder to achieve its aims and influence upcoming elections. In a few Southern states, Republicans organized militia units to break up the Klan. In 1871, the Ku Klux Act passed Congress, authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to use military force to suppress the KKK. The Ku Klux Act resulted in nine South Carolina counties being placed under martial law and thousands of arrests. In 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Ku Klux Act unconstitutional, but by that time Reconstruction had ended and the KKK had faded away.

          The 20th century witnessed two revivals of the KKK: one in response to immigration in the 1910s and ’20s, and another in response to the African American civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s.

          • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 1:00 pm #

            John, Funny how the sides change, isn’t it? Hard to keep up with who’s who historically, Up is down and down is up…. and then it switches back……

          • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 1:39 pm #

            While Lincoln couldn’t get elected dog catcher in Red ‘Murica, Ronnie RayGun, of the 1980s, couldn’t even get through a dog catcher primary to face a Socialist!

            On the other hand, Nathan Bedford Forrest, former slave trader and Confederate General, now there’s a guy who would absolutely EXCEL in a Red state primary. Good lord, there would be no holding him back!

            I can see it now. Hannity AND Carlson exchange chit chat with N.B. Forrest AND he’ll be on Fox and Friends tomorrow. Fox Noise, Fair and Balanced!

            That’s a white supremacist’s wet dream, is it not?

          • Tate August 9, 2019 at 2:28 pm #

            You’re probably right, if Lincoln came back & ran in Red State America, he wouldn’t be electable. He would be considered a White Supremacist according to his views on the negroes.

            In Blue State America he would need an armed escort from the crazies threatening to “stab him in the heart, muthafucker!”

        • Tate August 9, 2019 at 2:07 pm #

          JohnAR, that’s a tired old chestnut, & time it’s retired, it doesn’t change anybody’s mind. It’s derisively referred to as ‘DR3’ among the Dissident Right — “Democrats aRe the Real Racists.” Give it up.

      • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 1:58 pm #

        So what do you want to do with these cockroaches – who founded this Nation? Think you and your black/brown/yellow/gay/Muslim coalition will ever do half as well? That everyone will get along once the cockroaches are gassed and gone?

        If so, you’re a fool.

        • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 2:20 pm #

          The Native American Indians? I don’t want to do anything with them, as they have already suffered enough! Let them be and allow them to open as many casinos and tobacco shops as they wish! It’s the only white thing to do!

          • Nightowl August 9, 2019 at 6:02 pm #

            Which Native American tribe most deserved the resources on the Great Plains? They slaughtered each other for those resoures, and I am curious how a wokester would determine who was right and who was wrong in that situation? Given that they all had brown skin, this would seem to be a most perplexing situation.

            Please indulge me.

      • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 2:36 pm #

        Why put it all on us? Many Jews do not identify with Whites at all – even if they look like us and can “pass”. Mike Wallace famously said as much. His interviewer referred to him as White as part of a question and Wallace corrected him.

        • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 4:18 pm #

          I am not suggesting that the average white person is an aficionado of jews or jewish culture and certainly not the average white supremist. I am asserting that the Republican, GOP, Right Wingers love Israel and, to a lesser degree, Saudi Arabia. Go figure, when you hear the base talk; It’s a puzzlement? Maybe it is all about the Benjamins, I don’t know?

          • Janos Skorenzy August 10, 2019 at 1:58 am #

            That wasn’t my point at all, you obnoxious insect. Watch the movie “The Fly” again. That’s you.

            The Indians founded America? A Nation is just a geographic locale? What ignorance!

      • JimInFlorida August 9, 2019 at 6:39 pm #

        jdhines, you are a particularly odious little kosher quisling. Let’s hear you dismiss the HOLOCAUST HOAX as easily as you dismiss White grievances against the The Tribe’s malicious anti-White agenda!

        The deep psychological id of your comment is to tell Whites to just shut up and accept The Tribe’s miscegenation agenda for America. That includes rewriting our history into a Jewish fable that portrays us as a mosaic America where Whites are merely bit players in the national tale. Where Whites have no social, residential, cultural, or professional space to call their own; nor any right to.

        Whites are sick and goddamn tired of this Jewish control over the Overton Window. The first order of business is to call out the offenders by name and root out their perversions of the English language to where it has become an Orwellian tool of brainwashing.

        “Racism” is Jew-code for White push-back against their social engineering. “White Supremacy” is Jew-code for the clumsy and overdue violent reactions to the unwanted immigrants that Jewish and Catholic NGO’s have brought in by the trainload. Clumsy because Whites are slowly coming out of the fog caused by a bad hangover from decades of drinking spiked Manischewitz. When the winds of racial awakening finally clear our heads, Rudyard Kipling’s, “Wrath of the Awakened Saxon,” will commence!

        When due process, judicial remedy, and political access are thwarted, then violence is a Holy and Sanctified Act against the quislings and traitors. I don’t support our martyrs hitting soft targets i.e. random people. I do support them going after hard and high value targets. Particularly the wealthy parasites and their ambitious orbiters who do the dirty work for them i.e. bringing in 3rd World immigrants, quelling White reaction to the invaders, and running anti-White propaganda 24/7.

        Andrew Joseph Stack (RIP) was my favorite freedom fighter, even though his enemy was the IRS. He had the right idea. That being to hit the source of his oppression and not shoot up random people.

        • GreenAlba August 11, 2019 at 9:17 am #

          Oh, look, a white-jihadi mayfly.

          Too late, it laid its eggs and is gone…

          ‘Holocaust hoax’, it croaks, as it chokes. Martyred by its biology, A sort target of evolution.

          But its spawn will return to fly another day.

        • S M Tenneshaw August 12, 2019 at 11:50 pm #

          It takes a speshul kinda stooooopid for a jooooo-hater to be livin’ in Floriduh. Goddamn bozo.

  5. Walter B August 9, 2019 at 10:24 am #

    Yes Jim, the behavior of these miscreants defies any logical explanation except that they are intentionally trying to drive the herd in the opposite direction. We have been seeing it up close and personal right here in local politics, but after fighting it successfully for a couple of years now, I will tell you what we believe to be the root cause.

    After being raised from birth to believe that they are the center of the universe, those so afflicted migrate into Cyber-World (social media) where they can set up fiefdoms that are mostly under their total control. They receive enough “likes” and few criticisms (those that they do get can be deleted) and pretty soon their “my way or the highway” attitude is firmly entrenched. The old sellout politicians like Nancy, Hillary, and Chuck realize this and lead their lemmings ever closer to the shore. If this keeps up the way it is headed, that shoreline is going to rush forward to engulf them before they get to it and solve the problem for them. Perhaps that is the game plan.

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    • Elrond Hubbard August 9, 2019 at 11:08 am #

      I think you are correct, Walter B, in that online communities tend to breed insularity. They drive away people with dissenting points of view by being disagreeable, so that those who remain do nothing except agree with one another. This turns into a downward spiral of cultish thinking, as confirmation bias kicks in and the most extreme opinions rise to the top. Explains a lot, really.

      • Walter B August 9, 2019 at 11:42 am #

        And in a place like this where we continue to disagree yet still maintain a degree of civility I can only hope that our example is noted and perhaps emulated. The only thing that is scarier than everyone disagreeing, is everyone agreeing without question.

      • benr August 10, 2019 at 10:09 am #

        You describe the echo chamber.
        My views are hardly expressed by most of the posters here and yet here

        • benr August 10, 2019 at 10:10 am #

          I am.

    • pokercat August 9, 2019 at 11:31 am #

      Interesting, the three persons named are not considered progressives and are center left at most and probably are actually fully center by traditional standards although calling them “old sellouts” is accurate for them and about 90% of the full congress.

      An off topic note; after following him for a few years now, I think HK is getting crazier or certainly over stressed and ready for commitment to an institution that may provide some relief. I sincerely hope he gets the needed help.

  6. Exscotticus August 9, 2019 at 10:24 am #

    Someone help me out. Where does the “stab motherfuckers in the heart” reference come from?

    • sanspeur August 9, 2019 at 10:28 am #

      The group outside Mitch McConnell’s house were recorded saying that.

      • benr August 10, 2019 at 10:11 am #

        But if you listen close they were talking about a voodoo doll and not the turtle aka mitch.

    • Exscotticus August 9, 2019 at 10:31 am #

      Thanks. Can anyone link to the video? All we seem to have left is its shadow.

      • Elrond Hubbard August 9, 2019 at 1:51 pm #

        I haven’t seen the video, but the descriptions I’ve heard of it are pretty shameful. Here’s an article about it, if that helps:

        Republicans suspend Twitter ad spending after boneheaded video takedown
        Republicans say Twitter video takedown is latest evidence of bias.

        ‘Twitter is locked in an escalating feud with the Republican Party after locking the campaign Twitter account of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Republicans accused Twitter of anti-conservative bias and vowed to stop spending ad money on Twitter until the company relented and restored the @team_mitch Twitter account.

        ‘The controversy began after the McConnell campaign posted a video on Twitter showing protestors shouting violent threats at a Monday rally outside the McConnell family home.

        ‘”Just stab the motherfucker in the heart please,” shouted one woman in a video that was also aired on Fox News. Another protestor mocked McConnell’s recent shoulder surgery, saying that the senator “should have broken his little, raggedy, wrinkled-ass neck.”

        ‘A man in the video expressed hope that “some motherfucker out there” had “some voodoo dolls of these bitches.” Protestors chanted “murder turtle”—a reference to jokes that McConnell has both the physical appearance and the slow cadence of a turtle.

        ‘McConnell was understandably concerned about these threats and posted the video to his campaign’s Twitter account to demonstrate the threatening tone of the protest.

        ‘But Twitter has a blanket policy against posting content containing violent threats, regardless of the context. Bizarrely, Twitter’s policies don’t seem to distinguish videos posted by people making threats from videos posted by targets of those threats. Both types of videos are banned. So Twitter hid the tweet and locked McConnell’s account, preventing his campaign from posting new tweets.

        ‘”The user was temporarily locked out of their account for a tweet that violated our violent threats policy, specifically threats involving physical safety,” Twitter said in a statement to The Washington Post.’

        Like I said, shameful. Sorry I don’t know where to find the video, Ex.

  7. Ol' Scratch August 9, 2019 at 10:25 am #

    Wonderful meme play this morning, Jim! The Dems are flopping around like a fish out of water now because they’ve completely betrayed their one true political base (although, admittedly, it’s hard to remember now exactly when it was they last represented them), the working class rank and file of the former solidly middle class of this country. You remember them, the people that used to actually buy things (imagine that!) with their money, rather than stash it in thinly disguised gambling instruments, otherwise known as the stock market. Having done so, they now find themselves in direct competition with the current owners of their newly adopted constituency, the Republican right; who, say what you want about them, suffer no confusion about whose interests they serve and don’t mince any words about it whatsoever. And in the current political landscape of universal dissembling and/or downright misrepresentation, that one thing alone is enough to guarantee that the Dem brand will from this point forward be permanently tarnished and likely soon be defunct altogether. Not that they were serving any useful purpose in continuing on anyway. Better the Devil you know…

    • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 10:45 am #

      The Democratic Party ult-Left is going to go away hopefully. Something still needs to represent the real Middle and lower class in its battle against the Elite. The Left should be helping us avoid the foibles of feudalism. Instead, under Clintonism, they have joined the Elite and the middle and lower class have adopted Trump as their political voice. The Dems are losing their base, and the polity needs a new start both sides.

      • Elrond Hubbard August 9, 2019 at 11:12 am #

        May I suggest…

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-iLk1G_ng

        Bernie Sanders is doing exactly what you say someone should be doing, JohnAZ. He is rejecting SuperPACs and other big money, and building his entire campaign on small-dollar donations from large numbers of people. This has the possibility to completely change how the Democrat party raises funds, and opens up space for it to be the party of working people, like it used to be. And he’s out there with plans to make real change for the better in the lives of real working people.

        • Ol' Scratch August 9, 2019 at 11:23 am #

          IF he gets elected, IF he follows through on his promises, IF he can martial an actual coalition to bring some of his ideas to fruition, and IF the Deep State doesn’t totally neutralize him, THEN I’ll be a Bernie believer. But that’s A LOT of IFs!

          • pokercat August 9, 2019 at 11:38 am #

            Your “IFs” make no sense. They apply to everyone, you have no idea what any pol will actually do IF selected, regardless of promises made. The ifs will only be answered after the selection by corporations, the real “deep state”.

            Bernie or Warren can’t win in a corporate controlled election/country.

          • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 11:39 am #

            And if he can figure out how to finance all those gimme programs of his. Just printing money only works to a point.

          • Ol' Scratch August 9, 2019 at 11:49 am #

            Sorry, Bernie’s got A LOT more IFs attached to him than the rest. As to money printing, it’s supporting the banks and the MICC as we speak, so why is it that it couldn’t support anything else as well? Funny how there’s always money for another war or bailout, but never enough to handle common sense social needs here at home among the rank and file.

        • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 2:39 pm #

          The guy who said, “Whites don’t know what it means to be poor”? He’s going to represent us? No he doesn’t.

          As the Bible says, the Heart speaks out of its fullness. In an unguarded moment, he revealed himself. He can deny his own words as much as he likes, but he is as he said.

  8. Beryl of Oyl August 9, 2019 at 10:28 am #

    Where on Earth did you get strong English tea in this day and age?
    The stuff the global corporations sell has nothing to do with tea as we knew it.

    • James Howard Kunstler August 9, 2019 at 10:42 am #

      PG Tips brand — JHK admin

      • K-Dog August 9, 2019 at 10:59 am #

        As a young dog I worked in a high end hotel as a bellhop for a while.

        Once a Mr. Thomas Twinings flew into Seattle to be on TV to talk about tea. Then he flew home.

        My job paid a buck fifty-five an hour or something, the minimum wage for tipped work at the time. Tips were how I really got paid.

        Thomas arrived with a ton of luggage. I am not exaggerating. Dripping sweat I worked for forty five minutes moving this motherfuckers luggage. At the end Thomas said thank you and gave me 50 cents. I was not on shift when he checked out the next day.

        Thank you for choosing PG Tips.

        • Elrond Hubbard August 9, 2019 at 11:16 am #

          A friend and I went to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame a few years back. We drove in and stayed overnight in a hotel in downtown Cleveland. By the time we were ready to leave the next day, we had just walked back from spending hours at the HoF and still had the drive back to look forward to. The parking valets were lined up to bring up people’s cars from wherever they were parked, and this youngster went and brought up mine. I didn’t have a five on me, and was too tired to think to ask my friend, so we drove away and I stiffed the kid. I’ve felt bad about it ever since — bad enough that I still remember it, anyway.

          Long story short: tipping sucks and should be abolished. Pay a living wage.

          • Tate August 9, 2019 at 11:37 am #

            Loads of white people in the U.K. are dropping the BBC & listening to classical FM instead. Back to their heritage music. It’s showing in the numbers.

          • pokercat August 9, 2019 at 11:47 am #

            Speaking of a living wage. Let’s replace the minimum wage with a maximum wage for any corporation that does business in the U.S..

            As a start 12 times the lowest paid worker including contractors would be the MOST any employee or contractor could make including all benefits and anything of value received from the corporation. Private employers not seeking corporate status (LLC) would be exempt.

            Guess what the lowest paid worker would make then?

            No more bullshit $2.50 an hour because you get tips.

          • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 2:42 pm #

            I like how you think Poker. Echoes of the Kingfish, Huey Long. Real Socialism. National Socialism. Not this Marxist crap secretly funded by the International Bankers.

          • Majella August 10, 2019 at 8:47 am #

            Tate – that’ll be BBC 3, huh.

          • GreenAlba August 10, 2019 at 11:42 am #

            In which case, Majella, we’re talking about dumbing down. 🙂

            For some of us lost souls, BBC3 is a bit too ‘high church’ some of the time, culturally speaking, while Classic FM can sometimes be a bit too much like elevator music.

          • GreenAlba August 10, 2019 at 11:47 am #

            I should say BBC Radio 3, since anyone watching BBC3 on telly has not far to go in terms of dumbing down or is about 19.

            That’s probably unfair as I’ve never watched it – I only see the programmes being advertised and they don’t seem to be aiming at my demographic!

          • GreenAlba August 10, 2019 at 11:48 am #

            And my judgements are from quite some time ago 🙂

          • Tate August 10, 2019 at 1:06 pm #

            Wouldn’t know Majella, I picked it up 2nd-hand from Morgoth Penguin, famous “neo-nazi” blogger from the north of England.

          • Majella August 10, 2019 at 6:14 pm #

            GA yes, yes, I meant BBC Radio 3…I haven’t been in England since 1991. I guess Ol’ Blighty has changed some? Though still grimy overcast & damp 75% of the time?

      • Beryl of Oyl August 9, 2019 at 11:07 am #

        Not the same since acquired by Unilever.

        • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 1:52 pm #

          Pokercat,

          >>> Let’s replace the minimum wage with a maximum wage for any corporation that does business in the U.S.

          That my friend, is an EXCELLENT IDEA!! Now that’s thinking outside the box CFNers!! Bravo!!

          • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 2:45 pm #

            Yes the factor of 12 was the average ratio between worker and executive when America was at its supposed or economic prime in the post WW2 era. Whatever my reservations about this criterion, I endorse it as an economic policy.

            But Man does not live by bread alone, but every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Father.

          • pokercat August 9, 2019 at 3:33 pm #

            For instance let’s imagine that Mr. CEO wants to make only $2,000,000.00 annually. That’s a pittance compared to today’s overpaid vermin, but under my plan that would make the lowest paid employee of the corporation $166,666.66 annual salary an actual middle class wage.
            Note the average annual compensation for a CEO of a company listed on the S & P is $11,000,000.00 the lowest paid worker in that corporation is most likely about $16,640.00 giving the CEO a 661 to 1 advantage this is the AVERAGE (in 2017 stats). Figuring 40 hours a week times 52 weeks the AVERAGE CEO makes about $5,288.46 per hour….if he actually works at all.

            Why do we allow this? These are companies that permit the owners to hide behind the skirts of the government in the form of a invented unnatural entity that now has the distinction of being HUMAN by no less an authority that the USSC, another group of vermin.

            Exempting private enterprises that don’t protect themselves with LLC or other Corporate structure from wage restrictions allows the individual entrepreneur the space to start that garage startup that turns into Microsoft.

            Another thought, What has Trump taught us? Being a CEO or POTUS is such an easy job that ANY idiot can do it. That said why is the CEO the highest paid employee when he has the easiest job in the company? From experience routine rank and file workers work much harder both mentally and physically and with much more stress than any CEO, and receive much less compensation.
            This thought first came to me as a private in the US Army in 1972. I was much more likely to die in battle than a high ranking officer but received much lower compensation for the risk. This had nothing to do with rank or who was in command and who would give orders and who would follow those orders but the value of my hide compared to those of high rank. My question was why should they get so much more in compensation and have a much better (materiel) lifestyle than me when it was my ass on the line, notwithstanding that I was a better decision maker and later a better leader of men than many of them.

            Enough, I’m off to play poker, gotta make some tax free cash.

            Everyone have a good weekend and think outside that box you are in.

      • Tate August 9, 2019 at 11:14 am #

        Do you mean Proctor & Gamble? Maker of Gillete razors?

        Ugh!

  9. JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 10:36 am #

    Why do you CFNers think JHK has gone from being a loyal Democrat to a blogger attacking the far Left and its influence on the Democrats.

    Maybe because the country itself has gone insane, and carried the radicals of both sides with it. JHK has not changed , as evidenced by his writings, the country has changed around him. This place is nuts.

    The real problem is mob violence. Tons of studies have shown that the mob increases violent reaction and creates Lynch mobs from just folks. The instigators of the mob mentality are increasing in number and are predominately Ult-Left wing. And globalist. One characteristic of them all is a desire to destroy the strength of the USA, which is firing off JHK also.

    I hope I am not misrepresenting JHK, but it is what I feel.

    • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 10:52 am #

      Mob violence stems from the anonymity of the group. Think masks on Antifa. Think KKK. There is no difference, just different excuses to be violent.

    • Elrond Hubbard August 9, 2019 at 11:36 am #

      My thoughts, JohnAZ: the problem is the absence of an authentic left to counterbalance the right. Especially the right as it has come to be since the 1980s.

      The last significant big left-wing policies to get traction were LBJ’s Great Society initiatives in the 1960s. The one that really deserved to prosper and expand was Medicare, which was expected by its designers to be the opening shot to bringing full universal health care to the USA. If that had happened, the vicious economic pressures of supply-side economics likely would have been greatly mitigated. The vast profligacy and inefficiency of America’s health-care system as it exists now would have been greatly reduced, and tens of millions of people would be living without the kind of ceaseless existential anxiety for their futures that provokes political unrest.

      Unlike its counterparts on the right, the serious left in the USA was largely crushed and removed from proximity to power with the red scares of the 1940s and 1950s. This was very much intentional on the part of right-wing political and business elites. This included intellectuals like William F. Buckley, who saw the New Deal not as a necessary accommodation to reality that rescued capitalism from socialist overthrow, but as a historical aberration that needed to be rolled back. What remained of the left was confined to places like universities, where it was subjected to further demonization that made any pursuit of genuine left-wing policies feel politically untenable.

      Once left-wing economic policies were driven off the spectrum, what remained as ostensibly ‘left-wing’ was the example of the civil rights movement, which achieved real change. Meanwhile, as time moved forward the Democratic Party moved further to the extreme center. It ceased being the party of working people, and cozied up to big business with its deep pockets in order to fund its campaigns. Voters, it was felt, would follow them even though they had nothing to offer — because the voters had nowhere else to go. What was necessary was some ideological camouflage to show that no matter how little the new Democratic party had to offer, it still wasn’t as bad as them. This was the birth of the virtue-signalling Democrat moderate who spoke in ‘feel your pain’ language, while helping big business to pick your pockets.

      That string finally played out with Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016. People are now talking about socialism again, because the need for something like it has never been more obvious. And because everyone can see that the Democrats’ fakery for the past 30-40 years is finally losing the last shreds of credibility.

      • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 11:54 am #

        Yeah, the second debate dichotomy showed what you are saying. I think the Dem split is wider than the moderate Trump split which may indicate the way things will swing in the future.

        Trump made change in his first two years. The Deep State hates change. The Left hates change. The Left is bereft of ideas to try to control the deepening myriad of problems that are occurring because of overpopulation. Competition for diminishing resources will be the watch word of the 21st century and the polity of the US, or anywhere else have not got a clue what to do about it. So we go into a BS mode, which we are witnessing.

        Even Trump is only trying to remove restrictions on an adaptable economy to make it more resilient to the changes and competition coming. And trying to level the trade playing field with our competition as they are draining our capital base. Both are necessary to competing in the future. But as far as attacking the real basic problems, no one is doing much of anything.

        Because they can’t. Individual change is the only thing that will make a difference. Socialistic attempts to control the public will end up in revolution. Especially in the US, and a few Yellow Jackets in France.

      • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 2:53 pm #

        When Jared Taylor was manhandled and prevented from speaking in Halifax, Canadian authorities showed very little interest in apprehending the culprits, despite abundant video evidence and helpful calls from White Nationalists about who they were. Yet you talk as if these people are just an American problem.

      • Exscotticus August 9, 2019 at 4:35 pm #

        >>> and tens of millions of people would be living without the kind of ceaseless existential anxiety for their futures that provokes political unrest.

        At its height (2016), total enrollment in Obamacare was less than 13 million.

        To put this another way, there are far more illegal aliens in the USA than there are (or ever were) enrollees in Obamacare.

  10. K-Dog August 9, 2019 at 10:38 am #

    Once upon a time.

    There was a dog who attended a Democratic precinct caucus in WA state. This dog became a delegate who represented votes for a Mr. Bernie Sanders at a district level caucus a week later. This same dog could have continued on to the county Democratic caucus but let another dog spend their gas money to do that.

    But had the dog continued and had the dog been living in a swing state the dog would have had their vote ultimately nullified by a super-delegate. The trouble other dogs took to participate in ‘the process’ was wasted and stolen by the Hillary motherfucker who has no heart.

    This dog will not forget what happened and can have no more future loyalty to the Democratic party than a stray cat with diarrhea. Trump used Cambridge Analytica to steal the election from Hillary but Hillary had already stolen it from Bernie. Then theft being the lingua franca of American politics, everyone but the dog forgot.

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    • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 10:48 am #

      Ha. Great analogy!

      • Beryl of Oyl August 9, 2019 at 11:10 am #

        And Obama stole the primary from Hillary, but no one seems to remember that.
        https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/11/down_the_memory_hole_obama_stole_the_2008_primary_with_help_of_dnc_.html

        • K-Dog August 9, 2019 at 11:15 am #

          But Oprah helped so it was all good.

          • capt spaulding August 9, 2019 at 12:58 pm #

            Super delegates are among the reasons I won’t support the Democrats anymore. They call me & ask for my support, and I tell them “sure, as soon as you get rid of the super delegates.” Their reply is something like: “We don’t have super delegates anymore.” , and I have to remind them that that only applies to the first round of voting, and after that, the super delegates are back in the game, and the fix is in. I’ve gotten so I hate all of these pricks, regardless of their parties. All of this corruption on all sides will only lead to disaster in the future, as I’m sure most people here already know. The only problem is, once the rot sets in, all you can do is throw away all of it. Therein lies the problem, trying to find parties to replace the ones we currently have. Just remember, the one percenters ain’t gonna let go, now that they have the power.

          • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 2:00 pm #

            Capt. Spaulding,

            >>> I’ve gotten so I hate all of these pricks, regardless of their parties. All of this corruption on all sides will only lead to disaster in the future, as I’m sure most people here already know.

            Of course, you are absolutely correct, Captain. What puzzles me is how many on this forum think that the Republicans or Trump / Trumpists are going to save us.

            Now there are a few, ‘Ol Scratch, for example, who realize both parties are no earthly good, but believe that Trump may bring about the final collapse sooner than anyone else. (I hope I got that correct Scratch!). He may be right about that, but the others who think that the GOP is helpful and will save the day are smokin’ something funny, in my estimation! They are tripping on acid too.

          • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 2:56 pm #

            Let me guess, hines, you’re a Bob Avakian acolyte? And you only drink lite beer and like light reading?

          • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 3:56 pm #

            >>> Let me guess, hines, you’re a Bob Avakian acolyte? And you only drink lite beer and like light reading?

            Janos, I am not a Marxist of any stripe. You are correct about light beer, but I’ve been know to enjoy dry red wine as well as a dram of Scotch now and again. As for light reading, probably not – a lot of philosophy, physics, literature (English, Russian, French, German) biographies and history. But what’s your point? No religious reading if you must know.

          • Nightowl August 9, 2019 at 5:39 pm #

            Janos,

            To me, it sounds more like Morris Berman, who has been wrong in nearly every prediction he’s made and is obsessed with the downfall of the United States.

            I disliked life in the US enough to leave, but I am under no illusions that there are worse places (Mexico where MB resides being one), and that the US is far from done as a nation. Trump has slowed the destruction, IMO.

          • K-Dog August 9, 2019 at 11:52 pm #

            Well, the capt has it right!

            @Janos Do you know if Bob Avakian ever had an action figure? If he did is it collectable?

  11. malthuss August 9, 2019 at 10:39 am #

    JHK once predicted a collapse in the DJIA.
    His timing was wrong but time may be on his side.

    • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 10:47 am #

      Yep, but remember in TLE his predictions were aimed by the end of the century. If anything, things are speeding up.

      • malthuss August 9, 2019 at 10:58 am #

        TLE was published or written about 15 years ago.
        A few years back, here, he predicted the DJIA would collapse that particular year.

        • Elrond Hubbard August 9, 2019 at 11:39 am #

          JHK is a stopped clock with its hands set to doomsday. Just because he’ll eventually be right is no reason not to enjoy the moment.

          • capt spaulding August 9, 2019 at 1:02 pm #

            I agree, Elrond. He sees through the bullshit, his only mistake is trying to set a time for it. Other than that, he can see what’s coming.

          • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 2:12 pm #

            Elrond,

            >>> JHK is a stopped clock with its hands set to doomsday. Just because he’ll eventually be right is no reason not to enjoy the moment.

            No question. Jim’s “end game” state is spot on, but the timing is a huge variable. 60 years before the final collapse of Rome (The Sacking), the ruler was making speeches about the virtues of Roman culture and other assorted BS. Everyone in Rome acted as if it was business as usual, until it wasn’t.

            We are all having a nice walk in the park, whistling along… Little do we realize that there are unseen, deep and wide crevices on either side of our little path. We may continue our stroll for quite some time, but it is increasingly likely that we will end up in the crevice before too awful long.

            At least many of us on this forum have had a pretty good run, which nobody can take from us, but the under 5 years old set, I’m not sure they have clue what’s in store for them. Of course, they don’t, but I feel very concerned for them.

          • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 2:58 pm #

            Remember when the young scion of the Gods went down to the ground floor and saw the beautiful young woman with the drones? He asked, Who are they? She replied, They are your brothers and sisters. In Metropolis? Before that had a gay connotation?

    • K-Dog August 9, 2019 at 11:53 pm #

      Yes Indeed!

  12. FincaInTheMountains August 9, 2019 at 10:41 am #

    Cinema mythology of the 20th century, and the old English song that goes back millennium

    Watching the films of my youth, I am amazed at how true the creators of these movies-warnings predicted not only the future, but also the past, which no one knew back then.

    Or may be they did know, and Allan Price didn’t accidentally come to “Oh, Lucky Man!”, namely because in his youth, performing the “House of the Rising Sun” with the Animals, he knew about its genealogy going back centuries to William the Conqueror and Robert the Devil.

    The Animals – House of the Rising Sun (1964)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS90B4sZf7U

    O, lucky man! / Alan Price
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK3P97RfVaI

    Alan Price – Poor People
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpDwybFBU5o

    Alan Price – Look Over Your Shoulder
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8OOCDjmmRE

    Alan Price – Changes
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVI0cLEYFzw

  13. malthuss August 9, 2019 at 10:41 am #

    HECKLER

    I am listening/watching at youtube. The ad is for ‘Coffeebean’–It was race mixing.
    THEN, after I noticed that, 2 men lip kiss. one black, one white.

    • K-Dog August 9, 2019 at 11:17 am #

      ‘Coffeebean’ as a lesbian descriptor would make more sense.

      • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 2:59 pm #

        The blacker the bean, the balker at the bean.

  14. Helix August 9, 2019 at 10:44 am #

    I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for these folks to be held accountable. This is power politics, not criminal or civil law. Prosecuting Mueller & co would simply set a political tit-for-tat in motion that would cripple the Federal government for the remainder of its existence — which may thereby be rather short in its present form — and both parties know that. Bashing your political opponents is one thing. Prosecuting them is something else again.

    This is all theater. All of it.

    • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 10:55 am #

      And

      Both sides are guilty as hell of corruption. The Dems are finding out right now that when you try the nail the other side, your butt is soon in the wringer. Hillary knew this when she lost.

    • Elrond Hubbard August 9, 2019 at 11:59 am #

      Helix gets it. The Republicans got where they are today by being scornfully dismissive of the legitimacy of their opposition. The Dems tried to do that in reverse with the RussiaRussiaRussia nonsense, but it was too transparently (a) personally directed at Trump and (b) a deluded exercise in ass-covering for the unexpected loss in 2016.

      Now that the Mueller bubble has popped, the Dems won’t go whole hog again trying to use the Republicans’ own tactics against them. Mainly, that’s because the Dems at least understand that the society can’t survive more than one party abandoning all civility and all ideological restraint, and the Republicans have already done so. The Democrats pushed as close to the line as they dared and failed. But they still have enough juice left to paint anything the Trump administration tries to do as simple retaliation, regardless of the actual merits.

      JHK, meanwhile, isn’t yearning for a return to civility; what he wants is retribution, the main characteristic of a reactionary. It does not help his analysis.

    • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 3:01 pm #

      Never forget what they did to James Watson, co-discoverer of the Double Helix. That alone condemns these people to Ignomity in this world and Hell in the next.

      • Majella August 10, 2019 at 6:21 pm #

        Who did what to Watson?

        And what about what Watson did to Wilkins & Franklin?

        • Majella August 10, 2019 at 6:25 pm #

          Rather, Gosling & Franklin…

  15. Doctor Freckles August 9, 2019 at 10:45 am #

    CHIP – the Boston Robotics automated human chip’ing dog and vaccination dog …

    (it sniffs out those who haven’t had their shots)

    https://soundcloud.com/daniel-sullivan-505714723/little-saigon-report-143-chip

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  16. Beryl of Oyl August 9, 2019 at 10:46 am #

    Here is a glimmer of hope.
    I noticed recently that almost all the local churches, and at least one synagogue, have fallen all over themselves to show how “welcoming to all” they are, by prominent displays of a gay pride banner.

    I couldn’t help but think, if they really knew what they were supporting, they might not be so “welcoming”, because I have never seen a house of worship go out of the way to express their support of various heterosexual types of sexual behavior, such as bondage, swinger clubs, etc.

    What those flags are really saying, to me, is that if they show their willingness to comply with government imposed religion (PC) perhaps the government will allow their continued existence. It may as well be a white flag.

    Oddly enough, no such banner was displayed at the local Islamic Center. They seem to be exempt from government interference in their religious practices.

    Getting to the hope part- as a feminist, I have been rather dismayed by the erosion of women’s rights in favor of men that I have seen gaining ground.
    I felt alone.
    Come to find out, there ARE other women like me.
    They’ve just had to go underground, is all.
    This woman has the same thoughts about that stupid flag as I do. I hear she’s gotten in trouble for talking about it, too:
    https://www.feministcurrent.com/2019/08/03/pride-is-no-longer-about-fighting-discrimination-its-no-wonder-people-are-choosing-not-to-raise-the-flag/

    • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 3:04 pm #

      Tranny’s are stronger than Terfs. Cuz they men, sort of. It comes down to just that – and the ultimate silliness of feminists throwing in with the Left to begin with. But Feminism was never a humanism, and always a Marxism. Thus no person or group matters, only the Revolution and its need of the moment as per the dialectic or moving line. What a poor ally that is, eh?

  17. goldpen August 9, 2019 at 10:47 am #

    Caitlyn Johnstone of Australia correctly points out the real danger here. While so many are distracted by the gun control debate and whether Trump is a White Nationalist or not, here is what is most likely going to happen as a result of the El Paso multiple murder event….

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/08/05/americans-should-be-very-skeptical-of-calls-for-new-terrorism-laws/

    “Indeed, it is an established fact that the US government will use the narrative about the need to fight terrorism to advance pre-existing agendas. The first draft of the massive USA Patriot Act was introduced a week after the 9/11 attacks, far too fast for anyone to have gathered the necessary information from all the relevant government bodies about what changes were necessary and typed out the hundreds of pages of the bill. Legislators later admitted that they didn’t even have time to read through the densely worded bill before passing it the next month, so to believe that it could have been written in a week would be childish.”

    • Beryl of Oyl August 9, 2019 at 11:18 am #

      It should be remembered that there was bipartisan support for Bush’s Act.

      I often wonder, the excuse for not doing something for these people showing signs of being dangerous to themselves and others, is that they have rights, and you can’t make tem go into hospitals if they don’t want to (actually the lack of appropriate care is about money, rights are just the excuse).
      How come we are more worried about the “rights” of the mentally ill showing clear signs of a tendency to violence, but the rights of everybody else in America to be left alone to enjoy their Constitutional
      freedoms isn’t as sacrosanct?

      • goldpen August 9, 2019 at 12:04 pm #

        Uhhhh……yes of course there was bipartisan support for “Bush’s Act”. Just like there will be bipartisan support for the next “Terrorism Act”. That’s the point of Ms. Johnstone’s article. You know, the one you didn’t read. Obviously.

        • Beryl of Oyl August 9, 2019 at 12:47 pm #

          I didn’t think I needed to read it to make the comment about bipartisan support.
          It was just a reminder, it’s true, and it doesn’t negate the woman’s article at all, so why so touchy?

          • goldpen August 9, 2019 at 1:08 pm #

            As the young’uns say today, “No worries.” And you’re right, I was touchy.

    • Majella August 10, 2019 at 9:12 am #

      Has anyone here ever read any part of the Patriot Act? It’s incomprehensible because it’s for the most part amendments to existing law, so most clauses refer to a line in an Act and say “substitute ‘or’ with ‘and’ (to put it simply). A lawyer’s nirvana!

      There’s no way it was written in a week, either. It was on a shelf, awaiting the opportunity to implement it.

  18. Beryl of Oyl August 9, 2019 at 10:48 am #

    I know for a fact that Twitter is run like a clique and your popular with the in crowd, connected types (like Lena Dunham, for example) can have people they don’t like kicked off for no reason.

    • Tate August 9, 2019 at 11:32 am #

      And yet Trump wants social media platforms to engage in even more spying on their users!

      Is there no hope for this Golden Golem of Greatness, i.e. Cheeto Man, i.e., Orange Man Bad, i.e., tiny fingers, etc?

  19. JustSaying August 9, 2019 at 10:51 am #

    But last week they were Russian assets and now they are white supremacists. Which is more impeachable?

    JHK, you failed to mention the new blockbuster – The Hunt, where the elite get to hunt deplorables.

  20. sprawlcapital August 9, 2019 at 10:51 am #

    The genius of George Orwell was best expressed in his identifying several dysfunctions of society including thoughtcrime, newspeak, and worst of all, groupthink.

    This last one is actually the loss of the ability to think at all, and it afflicts millions, including the PC, open-borders, pronoun-conformist, Democratic Party.

    Groupthink is extremely alienating to those of us who remain free of it. We feel alone; we seek refuge at sites like CFN where thinking is still allowed.

    Writing from the urban sprawl capital of the world, Des Moines, Iowa, where the finest farmland in the world is being “developed” into cheap hosaing, office parks, strip malls, and free parking, to the delight of the groupthinking news media.

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    • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 11:00 am #

      The drive of high tech marketing is to make people self sufficient in their homes, every thing can be delivered there. People do not need to interface any more. Anonymity prevails.

    • K-Dog August 9, 2019 at 11:25 am #

      As a group, we do think!

      I learned that before Iowa became the finest farmland in the world (until it wasn’t any more) that that Iowa had been something else. Iowa had been where forest met prairie, that place on the North American Continent where there had been more wild animals than anywhere else. A wellspring of biodiversity in a land of lost riches.

      • sprawlcapital August 9, 2019 at 11:53 am #

        Farmland can be restored to prairie or forest. At the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in central Iowa, farms have been restored back to prairie, complete with a herd of bison. The Refuge was established in fall 1993, just 26 years ago. This type of restoration would be nearly impossible on land that has been paved over by sprawl “development”.

        • K-Dog August 9, 2019 at 11:58 pm #

          There was topsoil 26 years ago. How much is left on working farms?

          • sprawlcapital August 11, 2019 at 11:07 am #

            Our favorite canine once again makes a valid point. The loss of topsoil resulting from industrial-scale farming is the other half of the tragedy of Iowa’s incomparable land. There is still about half of the topsoil left of the some six feet that was here around 1850, when the first sod-buster farmers began putting the tall-grass prairie to the plow.

            Neither of these twin tragedies–urban sprawl development and industrial agriculture–would be ignored by citizens still able to think independently. Yet they are ignored, when they are not being celebrated.

            Ironically, a concept much needed in Iowa, The Land Ethic, was originated by an Iowa native, Aldo Leopold, in his book A Sand County Almanac.

  21. Robert White August 9, 2019 at 10:53 am #

    Carbon based taxation is part of the Democratic platform in that Climate Evolution has precipitated necessity to ameliorate climate disaster & resulting environmental damage. The Hobbesian Brutes in the Republican Party have no such plank in their platform and are actually opposing the global movement towards a Carbon Based System of Taxation that will enable governance to manage climate disasters much more favourably & efficiently than the knuckle-draggers that reside in the ranks of the Hobbesian Brutes et al. in the Republican Party.

    The Left is the cat’s pajamas and the Right is drunk on the souls of the poor. At least the Left is Marxian enough to see what the knuckle-draggers are up to for the next electoral outcome that will undoubtedly manifest.

    Grumpy Marxists rule!

    :|’

    RW

    • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 11:16 am #

      Carbon taxed taxation is baloney. It is just another way of bleeding the public of more capital and giving it to the government, especially the globalists. Individual behavior is what has to change, people need to drive less, drive electric, go nuclear for electricity, switch to renewables where feasible, decrease water usage on landscaping, turn off coal or clean it up, convert all lighting to LED, turn off lighting at night when not used, make RR competitive with airlines and switch, meatless days and others.

      Remember though, all the above have very serious economic effects that need to be accounted for. And you are trying to get folks to change which is very difficult. As the Yellow Jackets in France have shown, government control to effect individual change does not work. The PTB have to convince folks to change, convince them rationally on half and emotionally on the other half. Trying to force the changes down the public’s throat is going to end up getting shoved up their own butts.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 9, 2019 at 11:22 am #

        Isn’t there some sort of Wall Street involvement in the carbon scam?
        I mean, they lost a major source of money when the mortgage scam went bust, the sub-prime auto loans can’t replace that.

      • K-Dog August 9, 2019 at 11:35 am #

        You have to give people something worth changing behavior over. The facts of climate change/ P.O. by themselves are not enough.

        Power does not yet understand that in the new world order to take one must also give. The reasons for this are as crystal clear as a solved math problem; but hard to explain in ways people can understand. Explaining what to give people must be a task for another day.

        • Majella August 10, 2019 at 9:33 am #

          K-dog:
          Abksolutely. But however attractive the carrot is, there needs to be stick of somekind…’pour encourage les autres’. A carbon tax is such a stick.

          However, unlike other taxes, like income for example, it’ (largely if not completely) avoidable simply by getting the freaking message.

          In my homeland (New Zealand) the current ‘scary’ socialist government has introduced a ‘feebate’ scheme on new vehicle imports. It amounts to a sizeable discount (subsidy) on electric vehicles, offset and paid for by a new surcharge of gas-guzzlers (particularly the 3.0 litre+ SUVs as produced by American-brand auto manufacturers.

          This in line with successful Swedish & Norwegian initiatives, both countries that have a similarly high rate of renewable (mainly hydro) electricity production. With the approaching international carbon price expected to be around US$100 per tonne, which could add $1 a gallon to gas, who wouldn’t be better off NOT having to fill a tank every week?

      • Dunewalker August 9, 2019 at 3:12 pm #

        It’s pointless for anyone to put effort into consuming less, using cleaner energy, etc, without addressing population reduction. Otherwise Jevon’s Paradox kicks in & someone else uses the resources you left on the table, so no net improvement.

        • K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 12:02 am #

          That is not exactly Jevon’s Paradox, just more exponential growth or a prolonged drawdown in the static state on no population reduction. There is more than one way to be fucked, but no matter how it goes down; it is going to be a mother.

    • Ol' Scratch August 9, 2019 at 11:17 am #

      C’mon now RW, you know in your heart of hearts that the damn “Marxist” (ha!) Dems won’t ever actually do any of that. They’re all show and no go. To wit: their current front runner is none other than Joltin’ Joe Biden, a natural born career equivocator and bagman if there ever was one. His nose is so far up Wall Street’s ass he’s taken to stuffing suppositories in his nostrils at night to sleep.

      • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 12:02 pm #

        China’s too. A gutsy GOP will pull the same s**t on the Biden family regarding China as the Dems have pulled on Trump regarding Russia.

      • Robert White August 9, 2019 at 12:06 pm #

        Never ever forget hope & change, Scratch. Democrats have a long term plan & they are the naturally governing party statistically, empirically, and in terms of historical fact.

        Trump is a financial disaster in the making due to his lack of education with respect to Macroeconomics & Macroprudential Policy. He is the kind of twat that thinks he can play with the PhD maff nerds in the Federal Reserve. Chair Powell has to babysit the motherfucker in order to mollycoddle the petulant SOB & appease his narcissism run amok.

        Motherfucker indeed!

        P.S. Orange Cheeto is bagman for Deutsche Bank, Scratch, and you know it, buddy.

        ;)’

        RW

        • benr August 11, 2019 at 2:07 pm #

          So here we sit over two years into the Trump Presidency and he has been under attack even more than the last feckless dolt that sat in the Whitehouse. One does not need to know everything when President except how to take advise listen to your advisers and last but most important make decisions even those that might not be popular. President Trump is far better at leading then Barry Soetoro ever was.
          One must have a type of personality in order to be President all the qualities you call out as negative are exactly what most Presidents have had so nothing new there.
          Without a doubt you could not shine even a candle at what Trump has done and is doing you would wither into nothingness and sit in the corner sucking your thumb and most of his detractors fall into the same camp.
          Trump is arrogant, loud, a troll, thin skinned and yes petulant while we are at it those are probably his good qualities.

    • Tate August 9, 2019 at 11:23 am #

      This “Carbon Based System of Taxation” is just a grift for the globalist oligarchs to skim more billions of wealth from the rank-&-file.

    • BackRowHeckler August 9, 2019 at 11:26 am #

      Carbon based tax, another lefty grift to scam some swag from whitey.

      • Majella August 10, 2019 at 9:35 am #

        Not so. Why do you live your life in a sad paranoid ‘hell’ of your own making?

        • benr August 11, 2019 at 2:10 pm #

          Yet that is the truth why even respond with the above you have not refuted anything nor shed any light into the reality that is another heavy grift upon we the people of the world!

          • Majella August 11, 2019 at 6:33 pm #

            Benr – your punctuation still needs some attention.

            I had to read it twice to try and get some ‘sense’ of what you’re trying to say.

            How can anyone refute what is simply a fevered conspiracy-theory mindset, with the very tired old meme of “everyone is out to get me”…a sad paranoid ‘hell’ if ever there was one.

            Besides, you’ve reacted to I don’t know what exactly, but for your edification, I had just previously posted both refutation & enlightenment on the question, which I’ll repost for you here.

            “Absolutely. But however attractive the carrot is, there needs to be a stick of some kind…’pour encourage les autres’. A carbon tax is such a stick.

            However, unlike other taxes, like income, for example, it’s (largely if not completely) avoidable simply by getting the freaking message.

            In my homeland (New Zealand) the current ‘scary’ socialist government has introduced a ‘feebate’ scheme on new vehicle imports. It amounts to a sizeable discount (subsidy) on electric vehicles, offset and paid for by a new surcharge of gas-guzzlers (particularly the 3.0 litre+ SUVs as produced by American-brand auto manufacturers.

            This in line with successful Swedish & Norwegian initiatives, both countries that have a similarly high rate of renewable (mainly hydro) electricity production. With the approaching international carbon price expected to be around US$100 per tonne, which could add $1 a gallon to gas, who wouldn’t be better off NOT having to fill a tank every week?”

    • elysianfield August 10, 2019 at 7:24 pm #

      “a Carbon Based System of Taxation that will enable governance to manage climate disasters much more favourably & efficiently…”

      RW,
      I am surprised that you did not spontaneously combust having written THAT bit of inflammatory rhetoric.

      Anyone currently reading that truly believes that the purpose of a Carbon Tax has ANY value re: Climate Change…raise your hand….

      • benr August 11, 2019 at 2:15 pm #

        Another Marxist scam to steal money and funnel more wealth to the elite nothing more!
        It also places a heavy burden upon the entire supply chain driving prices through the stratosphere!
        Once could say it is yet another form of artificial scarcity!
        In this case it’s more about slowing down the means of production and lowering the living standards of all to some predisposed level.
        Probably all of us living in caves or the few of us allowed to exist to serve.

        • Majella August 11, 2019 at 6:34 pm #

          You forgot your exclamation marks on your last two points…!!

  22. Loneranger August 9, 2019 at 10:54 am #

    Aren’t the Dems saying the same thing the German soldiers said in 1919, that they had been stabbed in the back by the (German) polititions? And then what happened?

    Where can I get a cup like that in the photo?

  23. wm5135 August 9, 2019 at 11:02 am #

    Follow the money, no responsibility to to anyone but the share holders.

    and pahdner you ain’t got no shares

    both parties are pyramid schemes

    broad base exceptionally small capstone

    and ole Mitch is a MF you just do not stand in a man’s front yard and threaten his life and his family. Some of you just do not realize you are a mother.

  24. Exscotticus August 9, 2019 at 11:03 am #

    If Twitter’s banning of video evidence of Lefty violence against a sitting Senator is Exhibit A, then surely AOC’s most recent racist anti-white comments must be Exhibit B.

    True, she concedes, not all whites are white supremacists. But there’s this “virus” called “white supremacy” that lies “dormant” within every white person. It’s there at birth—like “origin sin” and cannot be purged. All the rest of us non-white people can do is “innoculate” ourselves against it (against white people, that is).

    I hesitate to imagine what form this “innoculation” would ultimately take? Perhaps AOC has a solution? Perhaps a final solution?

    I think it’s fair to say that AOC’s parroting of the latest “scholarly research” by Leftist academics is right up there with “Mein Kampf” as a scientific theory.

    She Tweeted out a thinly veiled call for white persecution and possibly genocide, and the Tweets remain.

    • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 11:22 am #

      Ethnocentrism is a human trait that stems from kids reacting to their parents reactions to folks of a different ethnicity, Who knows, it might be inborn as a trait to prevent populations from getting too numerous in a geographic area, sort of like personal space.

      Who knows, maybe violation of innate personal space rules, ie city living, might be responsible for the rush to the suburbs and the violence in the cities.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 9, 2019 at 11:46 am #

        I think a couple of factors, one of which was the automobile, had to do with the rush to the suburbs.
        When we had plenty of hard work at a living wage to go around, in my city at least, the poorest neighborhood still stood at statistical zero, crime wise.
        I see a connection between the encroaching globalism and violent behavior.
        That’s one of the reasons I supported Donald Trump, and still do.
        He was the only candidate who thought about these things in a serious way, and understood the real causes.
        That’s why he’s been acting the way he has with regard to trade bills.
        See? I’m not a knuckle-dragging White Supremacist; I’m a petite formerly liberal feminist who just happens to love her home and country.

        • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 12:03 pm #

          Yup!

          • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 12:24 pm #

            Right on the Automoble. Technological “advancement” has caused as much misery in humans as war.

            A perfect example is another gas powered advance, the tractor. It alone shoved millions off the farm during the late 1920s and early thirties, forcing dislocations to the cities that had no opportunities at the time. The result 25% unemployment and the Great Depression. The tractors did a great job plowing up the Great Plains creating fertile land for the 1930’s dust bowl. Read the Grapes of Wrath and the effects on the Joan family. How did we get out of the mess the Tractor created? We reinvented the US economy into the corporate centered entity is is today?

            How? World War 2, manufacturing expendables and killing a lot of the surplus city populations. Cruel, but true.

            Then we invented the PC and wireless technology.

      • Dunewalker August 9, 2019 at 3:29 pm #

        JohnAZ that makes perfect sense. Cultures using primitive tools were probably at carrying capacity, so strangers would be seen as a threat to that resource base. Rural folks even today have a keen sense of personal space, whereas urbanites seem not to value that attribute, having bred it out long ago. Where I live folks target shoot off their front porches but the neighbors don’t complain because they don’t even notice. Of course urbanites are freaked out by guns, which were invented by folks with a sense of personal space to protect that personal space. Guns need space, people need space, otherwise they go crazy…

    • Majella August 10, 2019 at 9:39 am #

      Sounds no worse than Janos and his cohort.

      • Exscotticus August 10, 2019 at 6:02 pm #

        And if AOC was merely a member of this forum then your comment might make sense. But somehow I’d doubt you’d accept a white supremacist as an elected member of Congress. Of course you do accept a white-hating racist as one.

        • Majella August 11, 2019 at 6:21 pm #

          Ex

          You’ve got a real nasty attitude.

          In post after post responding to someone you’ve taken a disliking to, you consistently impute views or positions (“Of course you do accept a white-hating racist as one.”) to the poster that are simply unfounded, just as you take the position that AOC is a ‘white-hating racist’ without the necessary ‘IMO’.

          I sit here in quiet anticipation of the blasting you’re about to give me, which will simply prove my point.

        • Majella August 11, 2019 at 6:24 pm #

          I also find this ‘white-hating racist’ meme that has got a grip on the white supremacist cohort in here quite amusing, especially as most of you claim NOT to ‘hate’ other-colored peoples, but simply want to be left alone! Hahahaa…

        • Exscotticus August 11, 2019 at 8:10 pm #

          >>> I also find this ‘white-hating racist’ meme that has got a grip on the white supremacist cohort in here quite amusing, especially as most of you claim…

          You can’t even make two posts in a row without demonstrating your hypocrisy. You lecture me about “imputing views or positions that are simply unfounded” and then go on to do just that.

          So now I’m a white supremacist? Prove it. Link to my posts where I argue or even hint that white people are superior to others.

          And my proof of your white-hating racim? Here we have AOC spouting white-hating racist crap, and all you can think to do is DEFEND and EXCUSE it with, “Sounds no worse than Janos…” Gosh I thought you were against “whataboutisms”. Now you’re for them? Hint: it works much better when the two people you’re comparing are equivalent.

          >>> Hahahaa…

          Glad you’re laughing, moron. Now laugh while you look up “syllogism”.

          Majella: AOC is no more racist than Janos.
          Majella: Janos is a racist.
          Majella: Ergo…

          • Majella August 14, 2019 at 9:14 pm #

            Ah, you didn’t disappoint!

  25. BackRowHeckler August 9, 2019 at 11:10 am #

    President Trump is a busy guy, a Russian agent, Grand Kleagle of the KKK, chief honcho of the American Nazi party … how does one man handle it all?

    Brh

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    • Ol' Scratch August 9, 2019 at 11:27 am #

      He’s a true Renaissance Man!

      • Robert White August 9, 2019 at 11:58 am #

        Bigly yuuuge Renaissance Man, yup!

        RW

    • Tate August 9, 2019 at 11:34 am #

      Why isn’t David Duke in his cabinet???

      • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 12:07 pm #

        Because contrary to Leftist BS propaganda, he is not a White Supremacist. Right here, roll the video of him receiving the award for advancing Black progress in New York City. Oh yeah, we forgot about that,

        Conveniently.

      • Exscotticus August 9, 2019 at 4:39 pm #

        Why wasn’t Louis Farrakhan part of Obama’s?

        • Tate August 9, 2019 at 4:55 pm #

          No, I’m serious. I think David Duke would make a great HUD secretary. Wouldn’t be good optics of course, especially since Ben Carson would have to go.

          • BackRowHeckler August 9, 2019 at 5:00 pm #

            Is Duke still around? I remember hearing about that guy back in the day, I mean way back, but he faded. Why are we hearing his name now?

            Brh

          • Janos Skorenzy August 10, 2019 at 2:09 am #

            He teaches in Ukraine I believe. He ran for office a few years ago in Louisiana but didn’t get anywhere.

            He is very active online with his own blog and is well respected by Anglin and many younger White Nationalists.

  26. FincaInTheMountains August 9, 2019 at 11:13 am #

    This is an assault on America comparable only to assault of William the Conqueror on Good Old England.

    • Ol' Scratch August 9, 2019 at 11:29 am #

      I think “Jolly Old England” is the preferred term.

      • Majella August 10, 2019 at 9:44 am #

        …only it wasn’t ‘Jolly Old England’ when the Normans took over. I suspect you’ll find the term first used in Henry VII & Elizabethan times…just saying.

        • Majella August 10, 2019 at 6:37 pm #

          Harry VIII ofourse

    • Exscotticus August 9, 2019 at 4:46 pm #

      That was a hot war.

      A better historical analogy would be the Hyksos’ conquering of Ancient Egypt’s Nile delta.

      Yet, others refer to a “creeping conquest”, that is, a gradual infiltration of migrating nomads or semi-nomads who either slowly took over control of the country piecemeal, or by a swift coup d’état put themselves at the head of the existing government.

  27. BackRowHeckler August 9, 2019 at 11:13 am #

    The stately George Rogers Clark monument at UVA has been identified as ‘problematic’ and ‘racist’; most certainly it will be vandalized, whether it will be scrapped or not is yet to be seen.

    Brh

  28. volodya August 9, 2019 at 11:58 am #

    The Democratic Party calls itself “progressive”, telling us they’re dedicated to improving the human condition. But, like everyone else, I have eyes and ears and so I agree with JHK, it’s nothing of the sort, not even remotely.

    What do I see? I see a party of wealth and privilege, committed to making life better for the rich and well-connected, making shit up as they go along, pretending to be advocates for the afflicted.

    I’ll give them credit for though. Just when you think their latest kick couldn’t be more irrelevant, and you think, what else have they got up their sleeve, they come up with something else. Gender fluidity, non-binary pronouns, tranny pissoirs, drag queen story-time for kids, these are just some of the more laughable, so you wonder where does this crap come from.

    They apparently take their cue from bastions of higher learning, those campus folk apparently having gotten bored with imparting knowledge of science, history, language, literature, philosophy, you know, that stuff that formerly made civilization run, turning themselves into bottomless wells of absurdity.

    How on earth did this happen, places that eat so much in time and resources, peopled by individuals that tell us they’re all about facts and evidence, becoming dedicated to nonsense, a national political party following the latest diktats, half the country’s population likewise?

    Are these people mad? Are the Democratic faithful all gone nuts? Well, Democrats more than anyone else, even more than Republicans, will tell you to not believe yer lyin’ eyes, rather to listen to the “experts” class. Maybe that’s the problem, a population more and more detached from the real world of action and consequence, disregarding what they see, relying less and less on their own observation and reason and more and more on a gang of mendacious, self-dealing incompetents.

    More than anything else I believe in the common sense of the common man and being one of those common men, I trust my own common sense. I trust my own eyes and I’ll make the call as to what to believe and if something looks insane, then that’s what it is. Orwell was right, people will spend a lifetime not seeing what’s right under their nose.

    Ideology has to be about reality because woe betide if it’s not. And nowadays it’s not. And so the ideologists quacking about tax cuts or deregulation or those on the other side of the divide, mewling endlessly about concentration camps or the evils of whiteness or some sexual deviance or other, whether they know it or not, will get swallowed by the sinkhole of history.

    They’ve been stinkin’ the place up for too long and it can’t come soon enough. Bye-bye and good riddance.

    • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 12:12 pm #

      Outstanding!

      • volodya August 9, 2019 at 12:37 pm #

        Thanks.

    • Tate August 9, 2019 at 12:35 pm #

      What if we had a revolution of common sense in this country?!

      It would be called a takeover by white supremacists bolstered by a mass genocide of the fringes of society, all a fantasy of course in the heads of the Woke brigades.

      • Tate August 9, 2019 at 12:37 pm #

        Oh, I forgot… & a giant interference by Russia in our electoral process.

        • volodya August 9, 2019 at 12:38 pm #

          That too. Can’t forget the Russians.

    • Dunewalker August 9, 2019 at 3:41 pm #

      Volodya: “More than anything else I believe in the common sense of the common man and being one of those common men, I trust my own common sense. I trust my own eyes and I’ll make the call as to what to believe and if something looks insane, then that’s what it is.”

      Pure wisdom!

  29. Luhrenloup August 9, 2019 at 11:59 am #

    skip the grand jury, McConnell et al needs to file a complaint and get these people arrested.

    • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 12:11 pm #

      Grand juries, special investigators

      Just excuses for a polity whose main goal is to avoid any responsibility for anything but be able to BS the public enough to maintain power.

      I think I just defined The Deep State!

  30. Soloview August 9, 2019 at 12:07 pm #

    We hold these truths to self-evident, that there is no fuckin’ Creator who endowed us with anything, and that it is totally our right to stab motherfuckers in the heart.

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    • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 12:12 pm #

      Now define who are the MFs.

      • Luhrenloup August 9, 2019 at 3:07 pm #

        top of the list:

        MSM

  31. Skylark August 9, 2019 at 12:13 pm #

    Hi Jim, just viewed your video about Patreon.

    Don’t always agree with you, but love the CFN blog and look forward to it. Every Monday and Friday I say to myself, let’s see what Jim Kunstler has to say (and “Scratch”, Green Alba and some of the other commentators).
    It’s a refreshing alternative view to the MSM, and you say a lot of things that others don’t touch, namely about peak oil, and the coming lifestyle changes that will be forced upon us….keep up the good work, and I hope more folks will realize the work you put into it and support the blog.

    *To others: I’m an actual reader and not a shill…

  32. JackStraw August 9, 2019 at 12:28 pm #

    I hope you’re right about the Deep State being brought to justice, but as a hopeless pessimist, I can only look back at the extremely short list of government officials that have ever seen a courtroom, let alone a jail cell.

    • volodya August 9, 2019 at 12:48 pm #

      Add Comey to that list.

  33. volodya August 9, 2019 at 12:45 pm #

    SoftStarLight,

    As to your reply from last week, if we’re about “facts and evidence” well, there’s gobs of it from all over the world, and it tells us that societies made up of different ethnic, linguistic, or religious groups tend to start fighting.

    The USA has two founding peoples. This ain’t news and neither is the Civil War that followed and neither is the 150 year Cold War between those two dominant American ethnicities that you see playing out even today.

    Just to the north you see preening delusionists calling themselves “multicultural” when all indications are that they can’t even manage a bi-lingual, bi-cultural country. The Brits can barely handle that multi-century Protestant-Catholic squabble in Ireland, nor the Scots-English divide. Belgian Flems cordially detest their Walloon countrymen, Yugoslavs went to the mattresses and so did Sri Lankans and the Burmese are still busy cleaning out their Muslim minority.

    You can go on and on. The list of civil wars between contending and incompatible societies goes to the moon and back.

    The question is why oh why, given the plethora of examples, and even the history on one’s own soil, do some Americans of a “progressive” bent go advocating for what most manifestly does not work? The people that tell us they’re about facts and evidence seem to be most averse to those very things.

    As to history, it sticks America with those very facts to which so many are opposed. Slavery happened and there’s no getting around a large racial minority descended from those slaves. Amerindians got screwed out of a continent. The wars of 1848 happened too and there’s no getting around the descendants of those people that were conquered. These are simple facts. You’re going to have to share space with people you may not want to share with. This goes not only for Whites but also for Blacks and Indians and Hispanics. In my view, there’s no percentage in exacerbating divisions because the alternatives are hideous as history shows us, just as there’s no percentage in ignoring injustices that came in the aftermath. These things have to be lived with fairly and reasonably. I suppose what I’m saying is don’t bloody go looking for trouble, because if you look for it, you will find it.

    • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 2:10 pm #

      You admit she’s right and then deny it. We’re not going to get along. The Blacks will never forgive us. Nor the Indians. Nor the Mexicans. The first two have real claims, the last not so much. But no matter: it’s their narrative and they’re sticking to it. They see the blood in the water and feel their own strength. And yes, they are far stronger than the other two and have many Hispanic allies, particularly from Central America. Don’t know how well the Mestizos get along with the Caribbean and Mulatto Hispanics though. But no matter: they don’t really need them if they don’t.

      Israel failed to get rid of its Arabic minority and that’s going to really hurt them in the end – maybe end them. Ditto America. Jefferson was right: America is White or it will come to nothing.

      A weak post. You don’t know what you’re saying because you refuse to face the Fact: multi-ethnic states, Empires or “little empires” are too fragile to last.

      • volodya August 9, 2019 at 2:27 pm #

        So do you advocate mass murder? Whose going to do it? You?

        • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 3:08 pm #

          Thank you. So you admit the future of America is Bosnia times Rwanda? And it’s my fault for pointing it out?

          Diversity + Proximity = Conflict.
          Diversity + Proximity + Scarcity = War
          D + P + S + Manipulation by Shadowy Forces via the Media = BxR.

          • volodya August 9, 2019 at 3:15 pm #

            If the idiots that think they’re so enlightened don’t keep inciting maybe things will be ok. But if they keep with up like they’ve been it might not be, the only consolation being that the inciters will find out just like everyone else that they’re not bullet proof. If they think they’ll stay above it all and direct the hostilities and then come out unscathed I think they’re in for a surprise.

          • volodya August 9, 2019 at 3:16 pm #

            So, you didn’t answer the question. Are you going to do it?

    • GreenAlba August 9, 2019 at 2:34 pm #

      “The Brits can barely handle that multi-century Protestant-Catholic squabble in Ireland, nor the Scots-English divide.”

      (1) The ‘squabble’ in Ireland is not primarily protestant-catholic – those are just useful identifiers to wear on your sleeve. It’s about colonialism v. nationalism, which is why it’s intractable, not because people argue about transubstantiation, which most trouble-makers of either side couldn’t even spell.

      (2) I wouldn’t get carried away too much about the differences between the Scots and the English. They are not existential and pale into insignificance compared to the differences between London city slickers and unemployed Liverpudlians in the same country.

  34. fugeguy August 9, 2019 at 1:00 pm #

    Boom.

    Even better Jim than your normally strong posts.

    People (of all flavors) better start to listen and think more often.

    Twice in the last couple of months I have had to tell people to stand back- over nothing and completely escalated by them. Thankfully, they did. Once because the person knew me well enough that there would not be a second request and in the other case, well most of these folks are pretty much mostly talk.

    We must become more tolerant and listen more. This ghosting, banning and generally seeking to destroy people who disagree with us or say things that one’s sensitive ears cannot tolerate must end.

    Self defense, unlike say free education, housing, etc is a fundamental right.

    The reaction/ distortion the first time a few of the wokesters get blown away while harassing (really assaulting) someone will be interesting.

    If a large group of these nimrods approach say myself chanting, “stab motherfuckers in the heart”, there will be a body count and rightfully so.

    • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 2:33 pm #

      Fuseguy,

      What’s your take on this (below)? By the way, his attorney says he did it because he thought he was under the direction of the Commander in Chief, GGG.

      A 39-year-old man has been charged with felony assault of a minor in Montana after he allegedly slammed a 13-year-old boy to the ground for not taking his hat off during the national anthem. The incident took place Saturday at the Mineral County Fair and Rodeo in western Montana. Witnesses told a local CBS affiliate that as the anthem began, Curt Brockway grabbed the teen, picked him up, and then slammed him headfirst to the ground. As people nearby approached, Brockway said he slammed the boy to the ground because of his hat. “He said (the boy) was disrespecting the national anthem so he had every right to do that,” eyewitness Taylor Hennick said. Brockway told a sheriff’s deputy that he had asked the boy to remove his hat for the anthem and that the boy cursed in response, though eyewitnesses did not corroborate that portion of Brockway’s retelling.

      • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 2:34 pm #

        Where would the body count be in this case? Would the kid be the count or the perp?

  35. volodya August 9, 2019 at 1:08 pm #

    Democracy dies in darkness? That’s what the Washington Post tells us. Democracy dies in the shit that America’s and other global elites spew via the cloaca maxima msm.

    Knowing keeps us free sez the Washington Post ad. Yeah, so don’t let other people do your thinking for you. Use your own eyes and ears. Big G endowed you with a brain. Use that too.

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    • jdhines August 9, 2019 at 4:12 pm #

      V’dya, Big Government didn’t give us our brains, evolution did!

  36. wm5135 August 9, 2019 at 1:17 pm #

    if you live in the South and like chicken you might be in for a …..

    Rude Awakening

    first he came for the soybean farmers and then he came for the chicken ranchers, brilliant

  37. capt spaulding August 9, 2019 at 1:33 pm #

    Big jump in gun sales at Wal mart. People are buying them when they first come in, just in case, you know.

    • Walter B August 9, 2019 at 1:44 pm #

      I am starting to think that these shooting incidents may be staged to boost the economy by spurring the sales of firearms and are probably resulting in too many people that should not own them in the first place making the mistake of buying them.

      • EvelynV August 10, 2019 at 1:21 am #

        Walter, if that is what you think passes for thinking, you must have a skull full of cabbage.

        Staged to spur sales of firearms…!?!?!? I nominate this for being the imbecilic speculation of the day, probably the week, possibly for the year 2019.

        • Majella August 10, 2019 at 9:57 am #

          Surely a joke! Is irony isn’t over your head, Evelyn?

          • elysianfield August 10, 2019 at 7:31 pm #

            “Surely a joke!”

            Majella,
            …And don’t call me S… Christ! I can’t do this anymore….

    • Majella August 11, 2019 at 6:38 pm #

      Capt – where can I catch your stand-up act? Do you do the open-mic circuit?

  38. Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 2:02 pm #

    Where is Ozone these days? I can only hope he is engaged in repentance and soul searching for his years of rabid discounting of the importance of race in American life – and his overt contempt for those of us trying to save the White Race. We’ve been right about everything. We saw it first and they refused to see. We tried to tell them and they spat in our faces.

    • BackRowHeckler August 9, 2019 at 2:14 pm #

      I’ll be running into Ozone Sunday, Aug 18. Should I give him warm greetings on your behalf?

      Brh

      • volodya August 9, 2019 at 2:21 pm #

        Please say hi for me if you remember.

        • BackRowHeckler August 9, 2019 at 2:44 pm #

          Will do, V.

          Actually Im a little worried about Ozone. His wife wasn’t well a short time ago, maybe that’s wht he hasn’t signed on here for awhile.

          Brh

          • volodya August 9, 2019 at 3:10 pm #

            Hopefully things are ok. Maybe he ‘s just busy. I guess we’ll know soon enough.

      • Janos Skorenzy August 9, 2019 at 3:13 pm #

        Well not if his wife is ill and that’s the reason. Let the Conflict stay on one level.

        • BackRowHeckler August 9, 2019 at 3:26 pm #

          Janos there are many points we do not agree on but you are an honorable person. I surmise that’s one of the reasons JHK keeps you here.

          Brh

          • Janos Skorenzy August 10, 2019 at 1:46 am #

            Tanks.

  39. NoLongerHuman August 9, 2019 at 2:02 pm #

    Jim,

    Wokesters have no impact on America, or namely the direction of the US. This is a massive distraction.

    God in one of the most topsy, turvy weeks affecting US Treasuries, stocks, global trade, and the confidence in Central Banks, you post about Liberals.

    Liberals are a smoke screen, big fish using brown people for over 40 years. Since Nixon broke the southern democrats.

    Money (or is that Debt) and Oil rule Jim. All others are crushed like an ocean wave breaking pretty sea shells on the shoreline

    • toktomi August 9, 2019 at 9:06 pm #

      @NLH

      Ya, he understands all of that completely. He’s just a amusing himself. There’s no one who gets a bigger kick out his prose than the author.

      What else ya gonna do on sinking ship with no lifeboats, play deck shuffleboard?

      ~toktomi~

  40. NoLongerHuman August 9, 2019 at 2:08 pm #

    China has stopped buying all US agriculture, Next up may be Oil. China buys the most Oil in the world.

    The US has been implicated in coaching Hong Kong protest leaders. Just like Maiden, Ukraine.

    Remember based on the Fourth Turning its 1939 and we still need to go full tilt crisis.

    Trust me the cause will not be wokesters.

    80% of Americans ignore information that doesn’t fit their narrative of sports, celebrities, shopping, gossip. There will be no Civil War unless the FED makes sure there is one.

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    • Walter B August 9, 2019 at 2:17 pm #

      And China is the next World Superpower. The only question is when.

      • Nightowl August 9, 2019 at 5:50 pm #

        I wrote a paper on this in college some 20 years ago. I hope it doesn’t come to pass. I’ve got a kid and China as a lone global hegemon is a terrifying thought.

      • toktomi August 9, 2019 at 9:09 pm #

        @WB

        Oh, here, Walter B, let me help you out with a hint of an answer for that question.

        The world’s last superpower is about to eat shit and die.

        ~toktomi~

        • Walter B August 9, 2019 at 11:30 pm #

          It does seem that way, does it not?

    • GreenAlba August 9, 2019 at 2:38 pm #

      “The US has been implicated in coaching Hong Kong protest leaders.”

      The Hong Kong protesters have a just cause, with or without outside interference. They were promised, by treaty, 50 years of their democratic rights being respected and they didn’t get it.

      • Tate August 9, 2019 at 2:51 pm #

        You expect the CCP to keep their word?

        That’s why we’re suspicious of the ‘Red Flag’ laws they’re proposing in this country. They’re ‘Red Flag’ all right. The Red Commie flag.

        • GreenAlba August 9, 2019 at 5:22 pm #

          “You expect the CCP to keep their word?”

          I expect them to do whatever they want because they can.

          I’m merely stating that the Hong Kong Chinese have just cause. China has pretty much said the treaty is just an endearing little historical document.

          But (a) the UK had no leverage whatsoever – it was just handing back a territory it had no rights over and did its best to protect the interests of the citizens, and (b) the view back then, when the Chinese economy wasn’t the powerhouse it is now, was that the capitalist-facing economy of Hong Kong would be an asset to China that it would be foolish to jeopardise.

          That was then, obviously.

    • Dunewalker August 9, 2019 at 3:55 pm #

      NoLongerHuman: “China has stopped buying all US agriculture, Next up may be Oil. China buys the most Oil in the world.”

      So? The US is a net importer of oil.

      • BuckP August 9, 2019 at 6:19 pm #

        That is hard to say! The following is excerpted from an articke by Robert Rapier dated 12/9/18 in Forbes:
        “The U.S. also exports crude oil. President Obama repealed the 40-year old crude oil export ban in 2015, and crude oil exports have soared since. As an aside, the reason the U.S. simultaneously imports and exports crude is that some of what we produce isn’t a good match for our domestic refineries. So we export some domestic crude and import crude that is a better match for our refineries.”
        Our refineries were equiped to handle medium and heavy crude from conventional sources, whereas, the US tight (shale) oil is light crude .American refineries, like those owned by the Kochs in Texas are equiped for heavier crude. Suprise! Venezuela sits atop the world’s largest reserve of conventional heavy crude. Therefore our aggression towards Venezuela via sanctions, makes perfect sense.

        • Dunewalker August 9, 2019 at 7:30 pm #

          I understand about the import/exporting shuffling due to logistics & pricing, but bottom line is that the US produces around 12MBPD of various versions of oil, and the US uses around 20MBPD of oil products, so it’s not even close.

          • BackRowHeckler August 9, 2019 at 8:51 pm #

            Good point, Dunewalker.

            But I’ll bet 9 out of every 10 people, if you asked them, would say the US is a net exporter of oil. Except perhaps in the WSJ and a few specialty publications, energy markets are not covered very well in the MSM.

            Brh

          • BuckP August 10, 2019 at 12:15 am #

            How many innocent people have we killed directly or indirectly through sanctions or proxies (mostly poor people in Iran, Iraq, Libya, and now Venezuela) to keep us supplied with the gooey, brown, smelly SHIT that keeps the perpetual American Dream Machine alive and kicking!
            Yeah Suburbia!
            Yeah plastic crap!
            Yeah Happy Motoring!
            See the USA in Your Chevrolet!
            Yeah War!

  41. NoLongerHuman August 9, 2019 at 2:58 pm #

    The Extradition Bill was dropped now their demands are becoming radicalized. Hong Kong is growing less special.

    Hong Kong’s portion of China’s overall GDP has dropped from over 18 percent at the 1997 handover to less than 3 percent today, and just this year it’s fallen below even that of neighbor and rival Shenzhen.

  42. NoLongerHuman August 9, 2019 at 3:05 pm #

    Americans never see this point of view

    Photos published of Hong Kong protest activists Joshua Wong Chi-fung seen meeting Julie Eadeh, political chief of US Consulate.

    … we can imaging how US officials would react if Chinese or Russian diplomats were photographed meeting with American anti-government protesters at a moment of serious unrest in US cities.

    $5 Billion dollars was spent openly to overthrow the government of Ukraine. Openly

    And we go hysteric about 100 face book accounts during the 2016 election

    • FincaInTheMountains August 9, 2019 at 4:13 pm #

      Policemen, who brought down protests in Moscow few days ago are actually Ukrainian policemen – the so called Berkut, who never got an order from Yanukovich to bring down protests in Kiev.

      I think that protests in Moscow will NOT happen again any time soon.

      That how a few busted heads and broken noses of street scumbags could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the long run.

  43. BackRowHeckler August 9, 2019 at 3:10 pm #

    Xi is losing patience, specially now that police stations are getting torched.

    Chicom leadership cannot afford to look weak.

    The 5 million strong PLA is more than impressive, but I don’t think China’s power could be projected much beyond Hong Kong. For example, if they move on Taiwan, they will be defeated.

    Brh

    • Exscotticus August 9, 2019 at 5:45 pm #

      >>> For example, if they move on Taiwan, they will be defeated.

      Nah they could take it—but not without destroying everything and killing too many. Their best option is a “non violent” blockade. Try to destroy the Taiwanese economy or starve them out. But if America decides to land cargo planes ladened with food aid, then what? Shooting down such planes would likely bring the entire world against China.

    • toktomi August 9, 2019 at 9:15 pm #

      @BRH

      I must have missed that little episode when Xi took over running China from the central bankers. got a link?

      ~toktomi~

  44. BackRowHeckler August 9, 2019 at 3:53 pm #

    The illegal alien gang member in LA who hacked up 6 people the other day, 4 fatally, is much being made of it? I haven’t been watching the news much, here sitting under a shade tree on the property drinking a Sam Adams, listening to Howie Carr out of Boston, who mentioned it in passing.

    The air is soft, the sky is azure blue with a few billowy cumulus clouds floating by. No worries here.

    It seems this particular instance of mass murder doesn’t fit the current ‘white people bad, Trump bad, guns bad’, zeitgeist. I’n wondering how CNN is reporting the story, or if they reported if at all.

    Brh

    • toktomi August 9, 2019 at 9:22 pm #

      @BRH

      Okay. It seems you have a live handle on identifying goofy shit.

      Now, if you could tease out exactly, or even remotely what that goofy shit portends for human life on planet, Earth then impressive for sure you would be. Otherwise, how’s the weather where you are?

      ~toktomi~

      • BackRowHeckler August 10, 2019 at 6:32 am #

        Ok, well, I didn’t realize there were any private bankers inside China, a communist country after all, and that they ran the show. Is Xi just a figurehead?

        Brh

      • BackRowHeckler August 10, 2019 at 6:33 am #

        Don’t know, have no snswers, just observations

  45. FincaInTheMountains August 9, 2019 at 4:04 pm #

    The United States Congress silently passed a law that, in full accordance with Hillary’s campaign promises, essentially outlaws any Christian churches.

    Nevertheless, until it passes the Senate, no one pays attention to it, although three years ago the Great Trump Revolution began with a reaction to the corresponding statement of Bastinda, the Great and Terrible.

    ‘Equality Act’ Passed in US House Attempts to Use Federal Civil Rights Law to Eliminate Rights of Christians

    https://christiannews.net/2019/05/18/equality-act-passed-in-us-house-attempts-to-use-federal-civil-rights-law-to-eliminate-rights-of-christians/

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    • toktomi August 9, 2019 at 9:30 pm #

      @FTM

      “essentially outlaws any Christian churches”

      Oh, christ, man, just get hysterical! Cluster fuck.

      It’s against my religion to eat christians on friday.

      ~toktomi~

    • Majella August 11, 2019 at 6:44 pm #

      “H.R. 5, also known as the “Equality Act,” passed mostly along party lines with a vote of 236 -173, and with no Democrats voting against it. Eight Republicans voted in favor of the measure, with three being from New York: Reps. Susan Brooks of Indiana, Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Will Hurd of Texas, Greg Walden of Oregon, and John Katko, Tom Reed and Elise Stefanik, all of New York.”

      There you go – your 8 Republican gender-traitors. Get them primaried, why don’t you?

  46. BuckP August 9, 2019 at 4:18 pm #

    Republican Party + Democratic Party = Wall Street Party
    Everything else is theatre, it seems!. .

    Being kind of a weird duck but probably representative of those who vote with their backside, I like certain positions in both parties and abhor others. For instance, I agree with Trump that neoliberal economics, which precipitated the mass exodus of manufacturing jobs to offshore entities and hollowed out the middle class, needed addressed and remedied. I also agreed with his position that the swamp needed draining. However, I’m disappointed that he let the rabid warmongering neocons, like Bolton, back in the White House.

    Unless one is a psycho far-right or far left violent revolutionary, most of us Americans, whether a snowflake, deplorable, conservative, or liberal, can get along. In my experience, at first, we might rant and rave to push our beliefs and viewpoints, but after about five minutes things settle down, the craft brews come to the table, rational conversation ensues and everybody starts having a good time realizing that we have alot in common.

    Oh hell, maybe living in Vegas, a 24 hr/day, 365 days/yr Party, has rubbed off by making me less of a pissed off old Baby Boomer!

  47. FincaInTheMountains August 9, 2019 at 6:19 pm #

    World Civil War by Bird Eye View

    I will start this post by reminding that the World Civil War is part of the World War of the Roses, that is, the crypto-religious war of the Red and White World Projects, provoked by the anti-Christian Black World Project to physically destroy Christianity on the planet.

    Red and White World Projects, unlike Black, recognize their historical and genetic connection with Christianity, and in the absence of an Orthodox world project, their cooperation is a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a katechon or a Restraining Power in our world.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katechon

    Well, what will happen when the Restraining Power is removed from our world, I hope everyone knows.

    But in this post I want to confine myself to the purely secular aspect of this war, since it unexpectedly acquired a situational complexity, the connection of which with the religious factor remains unclear, if we forget that while citizens of different countries are watching the upheavals of the civil war, everyone in their own country, in the USA silently was passed a law which, in full accordance with Hillary’s campaign promises, essentially outlaws any Christian churches.

    https://christiannews.net/2019/05/18/equality-act-passed-in-us-house-attempts-to-use-federal-civil-rights-law-to-eliminate-rights-of-christians/

    Nevertheless, until it passed the Senate, no one pays attention to it, although three years ago the Great Trump Revolution began with a reaction to the corresponding statement of Hillary. That is, people still believe in the possibility of solving religious problems using purely secular methods, and therefore I called this post “World Civil War by Bird Eye View”, and not “World War of the Roses”.

    And in order to simplify the situation under consideration, I want to recall that in December 2018, after the attack on the Crimean Bridge, Russia very quickly and for the first time since the Chernobyl accident closed the last hole in its early warning system of a nuclear attack, and the death of President George H. W. Bush did not allow the Clintonoids to turn G-20 meeting in Buenos Aires to demonstration of the anti-Russian and anti-Trump unity of the West.

    Thus, George H. W. Bush’s funeral became a demonstration of not only Trump’s unity with the Bush clan, but also the refusal of this unity to participate in the anti-Russian Crusade. Moreover, the first and main result of this unity, even before it was formalized, was the appointment of Judge Kavanaugh to Justice of the Supreme Court, and William Barr to the position of Attorney General of the United States.

    Barr was already the US Attorney General, becoming him in the early 90s under George H. W. Bush, but then he failed to put the Clintons in jail on time, and this had extremely bad consequences for the Bush clan and all of humanity.

    Therefore, Barr opening case on forgery of documents which became the basis of the Mueller investigation was not a surprise to anyone.

    But the appointment of John Durham as the federal prosecutor in the case of the start of the Mueller investigation was a surprise in connection with the reputation of John Durham, which means that those who committed this crime really could not only go to jail, but also to the electric chair in full accordance with the law on treason.

    But while John Durham methodically conducted his investigation, carefully hiding its progress, the former head of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, no less methodically published the results of his investigation, which he conducted while the majority in the House of Representatives belonged to the Republicans, and which he failed to complete due to Hillary’s methodical resistance.

    Obviously, she ordered her flying monkeys in the House of Representatives to sabotage this investigation, and if you remember that at that time the media regularly announced the upcoming arrest of the president, it is not surprising that the most consistent Trump advocate in the US Congress failed to bring this investigation to an end when he headed the House Intelligence Committee, but now that the Republicans are in the minority, he regularly publishes the results of this investigation in the media immediately after they are transferred to Attorney General for institution of appropriate investigations in response to the next Hillary’s steps.

    Meanwhile, until mid-June, these actions of Hillary were preparations for the World Coup, which she openly proclaimed on television on May 5 in response to the appointment of John Durham as prosecutor in the case of the start of the Mueller investigation.

    This coup was supposed to begin with Netanyahu losing the elections in Israel and his arrest after that, and then this coup should have spread to Russia to Yekaterinburg and Siberia, and finally end up in the United States with the arrest of Trump.

    But something went wrong and despite Madonna’s spells at the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel, where she called Lilith herself to help candidate Hans (it’s good that at least his name is not Adolph), Netanyahu won the election, though with a minimal advantage!

    And the fact that despite the truly geopolitical assistance to Netanyahu from Trump America and Putin’s Russia, Netanyahu managed to win the elections with only a minimal advantage, shows how bad the situation was on this front.

    Indeed, this assistance included the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the return of the remains of an Israeli soldier by Russia, kidnapped in Syria many years ago.

    I will definitely return to this topic in the next post, devoted to the religious or if you want a meta-realistic examination of those events, the secular aspect of which I describe in this post. And I will begin with the fact that, having won the elections with a minimal advantage, Netanyahu failed to form a government in connection with the sabotage of the head of the Russian party of Lieberman, who was dismissed by him from the post of Minister of Defense after the notorious crash of Russian IL-20 in Syria.

    And since the President of Israel was preparing to take advantage of this situation in order to present the victory to Hans without any elections, Netanyahu, realizing that Lieberman was just biding time, announced for the first time in the history of Israel that the government would dissolve itself and the new snap elections to be held on September 17.

    And even if you forget about the Israeli lobby in the United States, which has confirmed its existence in full accordance with anti-Semitic theories in the United States and not only in the United States, but has mortally offended Russian anti-Semites, this time appearing in the War of the Roses on the side of Putin’s Russia and I will not be afraid of this word on the side of Orthodox Christianity, Netanyahu losing on September 17 will have the most sad consequences, since behind Netanyahu rivals from the party Kakhol Lavan Beni Hans and Yair Lapid stands Moshe Yaalon, who publicly and very convincingly claims that Islamic State in Syria is more profitable for Israel than Hezbollah and the Iranian Republican Guard in Syria.

    To be continued…

  48. SW August 9, 2019 at 6:20 pm #

    Excellent post — we’ve shot far past absurdity and have entered deep space. I had lunch with a friend recently who was lecturing me on my white privilege which she assures me she does not resent. She owns three homes and has a retirement fund worth north of a million dollars — but she’s of Mexican descent therefore, an object of discrimination. She honestly doesn’t realize she herself is living proof that “white privilege” is not all that determines success in this country.

    • BackRowHeckler August 9, 2019 at 7:11 pm #

      In 1931, in the Soviet Union, there was a loud campaign against ‘Kulak Privilege’, and it didn’t go well for the ‘blood sucking kulaks”.

      Brh

  49. Pucker August 9, 2019 at 7:09 pm #

    I’m now reading about what Cenk Uygur and The Young Turks did to the Christian Armenians. The Young Turks’ genocide of the Armenians began with taking away the Armenians’ guns. I understand that at the time many Christian Armenians went to fight for Russia. Should American whites consider going to fight for Russia which now seems to be the Defender of Western Civilization against the barbarian hordes?

    “The Young Turks found here all the justification they needed for actions that in peacetime probably would have been unimaginable. They began in comparatively innocuous fashion, disarming their Armenian soldiers and assigning them to labor battalions. Then they proceeded to work, and starve, those battalions to death. Next, having eliminated the part of the population most capable of defending itself, they sent an army onto the plateau that had long been home to most of Turkey’s Armenians. In town after town and city after city, all males over the age of twelve were gathered up and shot or hacked to death en masse. Women were raped and mutilated, and those who were not killed were sold into slavery. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were marched off to the deserts of Syria and Mesopotamia. Many died of exposure, starvation, or exhaustion along the way, and others were murdered by their Kurdish escorts. The pogrom spread across all of Turkey. In Constantinople thousands of convicted criminals were organized into death squads whose only assignment was to kill every Armenian they could find, giving first priority to those intellectuals, professionals, and religious and political leaders who might have the potential to serve as leaders. The families of Turkish officials took the choicest booty; the death squads and rabble took the rest. It is estimated that more than half a million Armenians were killed in 1915, and that was far from the end of it. The massacre would continue through 1916, with further death marches in Syria. Still later, when the Russian armies withdrew from the Caucasus, the Armenians whose shield they had been fell prey to the Turks in their turn. The final convulsion would not come until 1922, when a new Turkish government took possession of Smyrna, set the city afire, and systematically slaughtered its tens of thousands of Armenian and Greek inhabitants. No one would ever be punished.“

    G. J. Meyer
    A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918

  50. Pucker August 9, 2019 at 7:24 pm #

    White Privilege.

    Why do you suppose that the VD rate for French soldiers was lower than for British soldiers, but the Germans had the highest rate of venereal disease? I think that the French soldiers were issued wine; the British soldiers were issued Rum; and the German soldiers drank Brandy.

    “And so the men were rotated. After no more than a week at the front, they would be pulled back to the support line, then to the reserve line, and finally to the rear. Even there, however, conditions were primitive. Shells still came roaring in, and exhausted, nerve-shattered troops would be drilled and harassed by officers eager to demonstrate their diligence. The men were supposed to be given regular leave—a week every four months, in the case of the French—but often it didn’t happen. When it did, the congestion of the railways and the low priority given to soldiers traveling alone could make it impossible for them to get home. Men returned to duty with venereal disease, contracted by eighty of every thousand men in the BEF. (The German rate was worse, the French somewhat lower.)”.

    G. J. Meyer
    A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918

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    • Pucker August 9, 2019 at 7:58 pm #

      I read that in the British Royal Navy that “Grog” was 1 part Rum, 2 parts water, brown sugar, and lime juice. I’ve never ordered one at the bar.

      • elysianfield August 10, 2019 at 7:46 pm #

        Puck

        Ask for several fingers of Pussers, when available.

  51. Pucker August 9, 2019 at 7:50 pm #

    August 10, 1519 – Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Seville, Spain embarking upon his odyssey in search of the Spice Islands in what is now Indonesia. At the time, the basis of the burgeoning globalized economy was the spice trade (cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg) which was controlled by the A-rabs (like oil today.). The crew is initially divided on ethnic grounds pitting Magellan who was ethnic Portuguese against the Spanish, who where Magellan’s sponsors. In addition to confronting the prospect of mutiny, Magellan is also concerned about homosexual proclivities amongst the diverse crew. Of the 260 crew members leaving Seville that day, only 18 return to Seville several years later. Magellan was killed by a bunch of crazy Filipino’s in the Philippines, and the surviving crew smears Magellan’s name in Spain to largely cover their asses (“RussiaGate”).

  52. CancelMyCard August 9, 2019 at 8:45 pm #

    As Tate says above about Elrond:

    “Yes, you know just how to troll this crowd.”

    And he does.

    And you all just take his garbage in the ass.

    Pity.

    • elysianfield August 10, 2019 at 7:48 pm #

      “And you all just take his garbage in the ass.”

      CMC,
      Well, that’s legal now in Canada…Or so I’m told….

  53. capt spaulding August 9, 2019 at 8:49 pm #

    Just saw a photo of Donald and Melania, with Melania holding the baby of the couple shot down at Walmart. It was touching and uplifting at the same time, and Donald was standing there giving the thumbs up sign while they were both smiling. It’s really gratifying to see the efforts they make to help keep people’s spirits up. I don’t think the Trump haters have any concept of what that couple has to go through in their efforts to help America heal. I also read that Trump has authorized Twitter to attempt to expand their tweets to 280 characters, which would not only allow Germans to put two words at a time in a tweet, but would give Trump a new resource to use to combat terrorism.

    • toktomi August 9, 2019 at 9:36 pm #

      @cs

      seriously? That’s too funny if true. Is he hawking any hair products?

      ~toktomi~

  54. FincaInTheMountains August 9, 2019 at 8:51 pm #

    World Civil War by Bird Eye View

    Netanyahu win at first caused a panic among the flying monkeys and the abandonment of the policy of Trump’s displacement as a result of the manipulation of the law in combination with armed violence, colloquially called the coup.

    Moreover, the corrupt judges who were supposed to carry out this manipulation of the law are clearly afraid of the Israeli lobby in the United States and have become very quiet after Netanyahu win.

    Therefore, the leadership of the Democratic Party headed for Trump’s removal as a result of the 2020 elections, and this provoked a conflict between the radical socialist and anti-Semitic part of the Democratic Party, colloquially called The Squad, which requires impeachment today and now, and the Speaker of the House Pelosi, behind whom is common sense, saying that after the democratic impeachment in the House of Representatives, which won’t be approved in the Republican Senate, Trump’s victory in the year 2020 is guaranteed.

    And behind the Squad led by Ocasio Cortez, apparently, looms Hillary Clinton, who needs impeachment as an excuse and a cover for a coup, and this plan revived sharply in July, after the Israeli government dissolved itself and early elections were called.

    Moreover, personally, I see behind the revitalization of this plan the information from its creators about the upcoming visit of Vladimir Putin to Losharik and about the successful preparations for his assassination.

    And Trump is also interested in his impeachment by the Democratic House of Representatives, and not only because such impeachment sharply increases his chances of success in 2020, but also because the failure of the impeachment of the Democratic House of Representatives in the US Senate, controlled by Republicans, makes it extremely difficult to make him liable on the basis of Mueller’s investigation after the end of his presidential term or terms.

    And given the strength that the Black World Project and the Deep State have demonstrated over these two years, these considerations are by no means superfluous, especially considering that Mueller said about the possibility of such persecution during his interrogation in the US House of Representatives, and I’m almost sure that exactly for the sake of this statement the democrats pulled him out for questioning.

    And they brought it on their own head, since during this interrogation it turned out by chance that Mueller not only did not write his report on the results of the investigation into the ties of the Trump election campaign with Russia, but also did not read it. Moreover, all week after the interrogation of Mueller, republican commentators on FOX5 discussed the fact that Mueller was initially chosen as a figurehead of the commission, but in fact it was led by someone else.

    But the worst thing for the Democrats happened during television debates when Tulsi Gabbard tore off the mask from Kamala Harris, who in the first debate simply lynched Biden, officially supported by Hillary. As a result of this incident, it turned out that the Democrats do not have candidates who could at least theoretically defeat Trump in 2020 and that all of Pelosi’s thoughts about impeachment have nothing to do with reality.

    And just as Hillary Clinton responded on May 5 to John Durham’s appointments with an appeal to prepare for a coup in connection with the inability to remove Trump from the White House by constitutional methods, so this time she responded with a fire on Losharik.

    It became clear that the US Attorney General Barr may simply not have enough time to prepare cases for trial and the Flying Monkeys will provoke a nuclear war before the arrest of the conspirators.

    Trump in response to this threat asked his supporters in the New York prosecutor’s office to arrest Jeffrey Epstein, as the crimes of this pedophile are stretched all the way to London, to the owners of Theresa May and Bastinda, as well as to the leadership of the special services, which could not but have been related to the fire on Losharik.

    And Hillary, who, without a doubt, read republican forums like I did on the night Russia announced that at least half of the elite of the Russian Submarine Fleet had died on Losharik and the United States declared a state of emergency and ordered Vice President Pence’s plane to urgently return to Washington, making Trump’s supporters believe that their beloved president was murdered, she realized that she and her flying monkeys might not survive until the end of Durham’s investigation and the trial, and responded to this threat with an El Paso shooting to deprive Trump supporters of firearms and the right to resist the Iron Heel using well-organized and armed Militia guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution.

    And a few days before, William Barr refused to indict the former FBI director Comey, throwing Nunez and Gaudi into despondency, which was exacerbated by the removal of the candidature of Republican congressman Ratcliffe to head of all US intelligence.

    The grounds for the refusal to indict Comey, uttered by Barr, practically repeated the arguments of the previous Attorney General Sessions, who refused to limit the Deep State in its desire to impeach Trump, after which he lived for two years under the threat of arrest by the flying monkeys of Bastinda.

    So a week ago, everything looked very sad, until someone overdid it and organized a mass shooting in El Paso, since comparing the TV programs that the killer in El Paso and the murderer in Dayton watched allowed the Trump supporters in response to the president’s accusations in the vocabulary that provoked the mass shooting in El Paso, hint that the shooting in Dayton and the shooting of republican whip Scalise two years ago were very similar attacks.

    And this, in turn, allowed Trump to formulate laws on the so-called Red Flag in response to Democrats’ demands and appoint an investigation in which the investigation of 3 attacks of the past weekend will be combined with the search for the mysterious leader of the Mueller commission, who used a really deserved officer to cover his intrigues.

    And the pieces of this puzzle fit so well together that there is very little doubt about the final conclusions, but the story of the connection of the fire on Losharik with pedophiles in New York and Orthodox realty requires the involvement of Shakespeare, who spoke about the true meaning of the War of the Roses 1.0, and takes into account religious factor in the War of the Roses 2.0, which is beyond the scope of this post.

    To be continued…

    • Majella August 11, 2019 at 10:03 pm #

      sorry, Finca…Hillary caused the fire on the Losharik? Huh? Can you PLEASE, just ONCE, actually EXPLAIN yourself?

  55. 100th Avatar August 9, 2019 at 9:00 pm #

    Yet you all tune them in. Tune them out!
    Ear-worms planted via TV, MSM, (un)social-media.
    Gripe, bitch, moan, triggered.
    Comment, vent, argue, shoot people.

    Ignore them and they
    die.

    Live YOUR life.

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    • toktomi August 9, 2019 at 9:38 pm #

      @100th

      Simple; the no-swallow red pill.

      ~toktomi~

    • JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 10:32 pm #

      Damn good advice!

    • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 5:15 am #

      Sounds great! But burying ones’ head in the sand can have negative repercussions too so just make sure not to be caught off guard.

  56. Pucker August 9, 2019 at 9:20 pm #

    Trench Culture…. White Privilege….

    There was probably a lot of sodomy in the trenches?

    I was good with a rifle when I was a kid. A few years ago, I earned the respect of the retired NVA soldier at the target range at the Cu Chih Tunnels near Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam (“NAM”). Most tourists are fuck ups who can’t hit the target. I hated our “Gook” guide who made me crawl through 100 yards of those dark, narrow, claustrophobic tunnels without much air. It’s a good thing that nobody farted in the tunnels.

    “A trench culture emerged, with its own hierarchy, language, and rituals. Stretcher-bearers, many of them conscientious objectors, were admired for the courage with which they went out to rescue the wounded. Runners (Adolf Hitler was one of them, and he ended the war with two Iron Crosses) were constantly exposed to fire as they delivered messages and scouted ahead when their units prepared to move. The setting was ideal for snipers, who became a professional elite. Sniper schools were established. Their products worked in pairs, a rifleman and an observer, firing high-powered rifles equipped with telescopic sights through holes in sheets of steel. Antisniper snipers came next. They were not always welcomed by the other troops, however; when snipers’ positions became known, they drew enemy artillery fire.”

    G. J. Meyer
    A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918

    • Pucker August 9, 2019 at 10:27 pm #

      I emerged from the Cu Chih Tunnels covered in dirt and half insane from claustrophobia to see our sadistic Gook guide standing there with his sardonic smile. I stared at him and said: “You Little Fucker… You did that on purpose!”

  57. toktomi August 9, 2019 at 9:39 pm #

    @JHK

    This has been a dry Friday. I had to scroll all the way to the bottom -1 before I found a pulse.

    ~toktomi~

  58. Exscotticus August 9, 2019 at 10:27 pm #

    So, GreenAlba, did your chooks survive the power outage?

    • GreenAlba August 10, 2019 at 5:53 am #

      I came across neither chooks not power outages, Exscotticus. I fear you are confusing us with out larger southern neighbour.

      But don’t feel bad about it – many Americans do the same. Mind you, so did the French when I lived there – we were all lumped together as les Anglais no matter from where we hailed. When we were not referred to as les rosbifs, that is.

      Even in England I believe the outages were localised. My ‘English’ brothers in Norfolk and West Yorkshire were spared any inconvenience, as far as I’m aware.

      My only chagrin (while blissfully unaware of the downtime chez les voisins) was being late for a rendezvous in town due to the almost-gridlock caused by a deluge from the skies unhelpfully combined with a deluge of tourists here for the Festival and Fringe. Other people’s cars, eh…

      • Elrond Hubbard August 10, 2019 at 2:00 pm #

        GreenAlba, if you have the taste for it and you get a chance, I suggest checking out the show Mythos by the comedienne Alice Fraser while she’s in town. Just my opinion, but she’s whip-smart and I find her hilarious.

        • GreenAlba August 11, 2019 at 9:27 am #

          Thanks for the tip, Elrond!

  59. JohnAZ August 9, 2019 at 10:31 pm #

    Everyone wants to give the crown to China for Superpower.

    I would like to remind everyone that the people of China are impoverished compared to the people of the US.

    China has to import most of its oil, unlike the US.

    China’s economy depends on them exporting to us. Their people derive little benefit. Tariffs hurt them much worse than us.

    China has two aircraft carriers and a small fleet of ships. There is no comparison. We patrol the world.

    China’s economy depends on US Corporations, or at least they used to be, doing their manufacturing there. If something untoward happens, China will suffer.

    China has a huge population of folks to feed with little arable land.

    The US still has more resources, convertible to capital than anyone else in the world and more cheap transportation capability than anywhere.

    China will never catch up with us, unless we allow them to do it by our stupidity.

    • GreenAlba August 10, 2019 at 6:50 am #

      JAZ

      I don’t think anyone wants to give the crown to China. I think we anticipate their coronation-by-default with some justified trepidation, which is not the same thing, and don’t think they will be too sentimental with us.

      “The US still has more resources”

      It does, but it also has more debt. A lot of it owned by China, crowned or uncrowned. China that also has most of the rare earth minerals we all need too.

      • JohnAZ August 10, 2019 at 12:06 pm #

        Until debt is called in, it is inconsequential. China and the US are both feeding off one another with debt.

        China’s debt to GDP is 55%, ours is 109%. Ready for this, current debt in the US is 22 trillion, unfounded future liabilities are 120 trillion, and that is just the government. China’s debt is 10 trillion, and they have the same problem now we do. The obligations to the people is higher than the economy’s ability to tax itself. So, like us, spend spend spend.

        And by the way, the Dems proposals are insane, but if you just ignore debt, which the world has to do now, I guess you can just keep on spending to buy those votes.

      • elysianfield August 10, 2019 at 12:49 pm #

        ““The US still has more resources”

        It does, but it also has more debt. A lot of it owned by China, crowned or uncrowned. China that also has most of the rare earth minerals we all need too.

        Alba,
        I have often referred to that China’s debts eclipse ours by a wide margin as a percentage of GDP and otherwise. Rare earths are abundant in the US, but it is a dirty business and the EPA objects!

          • elysianfield August 10, 2019 at 12:58 pm #

            And…the rare earth link;

            https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nmic/rare-earths-statistics-and-information

            The US has an abundance of all rare earth materials available to be mined and processed…all but one…;

            The only rare earth the US cannot obtain readily is unobtanium, found, it seems, only in the former USSR, as Komaraden Finc! might tell us….

          • Majella August 11, 2019 at 7:59 pm #

            EF

            Re: Rare Earths – yes, the US has an abundance of rare earth rec=sources, but almost all of it is shipped to China for processing…why is that? Is it proximity to demand (electronics manufacturing)? Is it too costly to process in the US?

        • GreenAlba August 10, 2019 at 1:21 pm #

          Thank you for all of that, EF. I will peruse it in the fullness of time, when tonight’s babysitting duties are fulfilled.

          You amaze me that the EPA has retained any teeth under the current administration – all hope is not yet lost. 🙂

          • JohnAZ August 10, 2019 at 1:46 pm #

            GA

            I am sympathetic as you know.

            Reality is though, if something is a necessary resource, like oil, no entity will block its acquisition. Fracking is a really dirty business, but it will continue. Medical care will break the bank around the world, but it will continue. Rare earths enable the advance of high tech, it will continue. Why does China or anywhere have to dirty itself with the mining of rare earths?

            By the way, sites in Texas are starting to mine rare earths.

    • Walter B August 10, 2019 at 9:15 am #

      Sorry John, but your whole post here falls apart under the weight of its last sentence.

      • JohnAZ August 10, 2019 at 12:09 pm #

        Nope, the stupidity referred to is the balance of trade deficit and the cross debt purchasing going on. If we continue to send our capital to China, we will screw ourselves. We could be causing them to catch up.

        • Walter B August 10, 2019 at 2:55 pm #

          How about the stupidity of sending our manufacturing there and our jobs? I knew a very well paid pharmaceutical executive that sent tons of these from NJ to Beijing and got paid very well to do so. Such a shame that he got screwed too once he got the job done. Our corporate masters are far too infected with greed for US(A) to ever come back. There’s no profit in that you know.

  60. KesaAnna August 9, 2019 at 11:39 pm #

    ” Today, Lincoln could not get elected dog catcher in Red ‘Murica. ”

    Hey , he presided over the second worst war of the 19th century , torched nearly an entire geographic region , built concentration camps , and lots of wonderful shit like that.

    Red or blue , what’s not to like about Lincoln ?

    I have no hope for your country.

    You can’t even do a simple or trivial thing like admit that this hundred years – dead guy was a total fucking asshole.

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    • Pucker August 9, 2019 at 11:54 pm #

      I believe that they are now putting dogs in cages?

      • Pucker August 9, 2019 at 11:56 pm #

        Would Lincoln, as Dog Catcher, be excoriated by the Left for putting dogs in cages?

        • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 4:41 am #

          Yes! White people like dogs now since they can’t have slaves anymore. Didn’t you know!!!??? And since evil Whites routinely lock Brown children in cages they will most certainly lock dogs in cages too.

    • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 5:11 am #

      His unconstitutional actions set the stage for the present day political and corporate tyranny and taxation without representation was the ultimate result. Esentially 1776 was nullified and so America became a corporation for oligarchs and robber barons. And the foundation of the Nation was removed and replaced by Mammon and Empire.

      • Majella August 11, 2019 at 8:04 pm #

        Wow. “Esentially 1776 was nullified and so America became a corporation for oligarchs and robber barons.”

        Which particular conspiracy peddler are you quoting here?

        Is it the school that says Habeus Corpus has been suspended since 1861?
        The school that claims the US is still technically ‘at war’ since 1861 as evidenced by the yellow fringe on the Flag in the Oval or any government office?
        The school that claims the Eagle’s Head is facing towards the claw holding arrows?

        Crazy BS. Nutjob stuff, for sure.

    • elysianfield August 10, 2019 at 1:02 pm #

      “I have no hope for your country. ”

      Kesa,
      After today’s…unfortunate passing of J Epstein, I am in full agreement with you.

      I would also like to comment my angst regarding Epstein’s unfortunate suicide…

      “…What the hell is this…Russia?”

      • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 4:21 pm #

        I know! I mean can somebody please dispatch the Russia conspiracy theories!!!!!!?????? The effing country barely has an economy the size of Texas. But some people believe they control the universe down to the level of dark matter.

    • goldpen August 11, 2019 at 11:05 am #

      Yeah it’s too bad Lincoln was ever elected to anything back then. I suppose the legislative branch was okay, since his power was diluted there. But President? Well we see the fruits of that don’t we.

      Total fucking asshole indeed.

  61. Pucker August 9, 2019 at 11:53 pm #

    Do you remember when as a teenager that you could never quite get sexually attracted to store mannequins? I guess that with the new Sexbot models that they’ve surmounted this problem? The Sexbots are probably programmed to say things like: “I want to have your baby.”

    • capt spaulding August 10, 2019 at 9:19 am #

      Just curious, would the sexbots then give birth to dolls?

    • elysianfield August 10, 2019 at 12:44 pm #

      “when as a teenager that you could never quite get sexually attracted to store mannequins….

      Puck,
      …Speak for yourself….

  62. Pucker August 10, 2019 at 12:00 am #

    What do you make of fake books on the bookshelves in rich peoples houses? That’s weird….

    • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 4:37 am #

      Why would you find it strange? For many people, especially the wealthy and snooty, appearances are everything.

      • Kevvia Knack August 10, 2019 at 9:44 am #

        My local book store in Los Angeles categorizes it’s books by the color of its cover (blue, red, green etc)

        • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 4:16 pm #

          Does it seem like any specific color gets preferential treatment in terms of placement/display? I’m thinking of that real estate cliche’ “location, location, location”.

        • Tate August 10, 2019 at 6:28 pm #

          Makes total sense. One near me goes by height. Tall books next to tall books, short books next to short books.

  63. K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 12:21 am #

    But the Democratic Party must sense that it is about to be held accountable for all that. The Deep State officials who acted out that shadow-play on its behalf, with all its seditious overtones, are about to be frog-marched into the grand juries any week now.

    Not going to happen. The reason is:

    Cambridge Analytica

    The truth of what really tipped the scales is very complex but it really puts to pale any Rooooshhhan borscht. You have to watch the movie to understand, but the truth is surveillance capitalism bought the election not state surveillance.

    RUSSIAGATE IT TURNS OUT IS A HOAX. a HOAX TO HIDE THE TRUTH OF 5000 DATA POINTS ON EVERY AMERICAN VOTER.

    From these data points ‘persuadables’ were identified in swing states and everywhere these persuadables went on the web targeted ads followed them until they changed their minds. It was not Russia. It was a private firm in the land of John Bull. The 5000 data points were obtained and used illegally. All would have been good but Cambridge Analytica worked on Brexit and that caused the whole stinking pile of shit to come up the pipe.

    Russia-Gate has been as phony as UFO stories hatched by the Pentagon. Which some of you know happened.

    • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 4:35 am #

      Yes, this type of survelliance capitalism surfaced during and has since been modeled off of the Obama presidential campaigns. It appears both “parties” will be at it again in 2020 too. Just think of how many data points Google is collecting on us to ensure Trump loses. Recently several ex employees have stated that it’s their policy to get Trump out of office in 2020 essentially. And since Google might as well be a direct report to the CCP it makes sense. I can also see why the Chinese would want Biden in since he would be a smiling, gaffe filled, pretend awww shucks puppet for his Beijing friends. Maybe Hunter will get to make more big hedge fund deals with the Bank of China once daddy is in office?

      • Majella August 11, 2019 at 8:11 pm #

        SSL, you don’t get it.

        Google/Facebook collect data in an agnostic way, purely for the purpose of on-sale to the likes of private, for-hire corporations such as Cambridge Analytica.

        I very much doubt all the hoopla- paranoia about Google/Twitter/Facebook having any ‘agenda’ in the political realm – who would be making such decisions?

        Their goal is profit, however they can make it (just as with any other business).

        • GreenAlba August 12, 2019 at 7:42 am #

          Well put, I’d say, Majella. Lots of people and organisations are not at all particular about who they whore for, as long as it pays well.

          “It’s not personal – it’s just business…”

          Corporations that want to be ‘persons’, except when being a ‘person’ would entail having a conscience.

    • FincaInTheMountains August 10, 2019 at 5:58 am #

      And how do you turn your 500 Data Points into a nuclear war with Russia?

      And for those of you who still think that MAD – Mutual Assured Destruction – is some kind of a restraining factor, it is, but only for sane governments of Putin, Bush, Obama or Trump, but not for insane Iron Heel of Hillary Clinton, who simply does not give a damn of what would happen to 300 million American Deplorables, especially after them having an audacity of not electing Bastinda, the Great and Terrible, as their President.

  64. Pucker August 10, 2019 at 12:58 am #

    Do you remember when, rather than shooting up a Walmart, People used to take their frustrations out on the dance floor?

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_JoZS6LgqYI

    • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 4:09 am #

      Do you often suffer from Saturday Night Fever?

  65. Pucker August 10, 2019 at 3:01 am #

    A white prisoner gave the community prison Sexbot a shiner again. Punched her in the face and messed up the latex. The Sexbot now looks like a skank.

    The white prisoners are refusing to share the white skankbot with the black, Mexican, and Samoan prisoners.

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    • K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 9:31 am #

      They must be afraid she will be niggarized and won’t find them satisfying any more.

      • elysianfield August 10, 2019 at 1:09 pm #

        “They must be afraid she will be niggarized and won’t find them satisfying any more.”

        Dog,
        What an uncouth thing to say. I expected something like this from Puck…but you?

        Not only is the comment offensive on several levels, it perpetuates a stereotype that blacks are well endowed.

        It has now been objectively* determined that Canadians are the best endowed of the “races”, and further reason that we should keep them away from our women.

        *…Or so I have heard….

        • K-Dog August 11, 2019 at 5:50 pm #

          Read up and you will find one of my comments where I say:

          “As a young dog I worked in a high end hotel as a bellhop for a while.”

          Lots of 20ish young women used to fly down from Vancouver to Seattle on weekends a few decades ago.

          Mostly blonde they would come down in threes or fours and rent a room. Checking into the hotel about 4PM. The young ladies would then dress to the nines and head out to the clubs from which they would return one by one with a black guy to use the room. As they were checking out I’d ride the elevator down to the lobby with them and they would talk like I was not there. I think a bit of daddy guilt on their part helped me be invisible.

          I was struck by how racist they were. The two seemed to go together. They could be good Vancouver girls all week but fly down to Seattle on Weekends for some good deep dicking by men they really did not see as human. They could put it all in a nice little box that was divorced from their day to day identities. The word brothers used about white bitches who like black cock to my face is that ‘these bitches want to be niggarized’.

          It is a real word that is used by real people. Perhaps not in any demographic which you are familiar with but this dog is a bit more street wise than average. It belongs in the racist bitch lexicon.

          You say offensive at several levels. Be specific. Perhaps that will persuade me to tell you what I learned from some sisters on a more intimate level. But don’t count on any of that. Some things are private but will tell you this. The sisters were not fond of the girls from Vancouver. At all.

          • K-Dog August 11, 2019 at 5:58 pm #

            And I do know brothers still use the word. It is a real phenomena.

          • elysianfield August 12, 2019 at 7:57 pm #

            ” niggarized ”

            Dog,

            I, personally, am not offended, and I have heard that term and it’s derivatives freely used. It is just not heard in polite company. Further, and God help me for saying so, it might give further credence to enemies of this blogosphere further reason to single out or Host and his site for…special handling. Ditto “Mud Wrestling, Coal burners etc. as referencing the women of loose morals and poor judgment that you describe.

            If effect, they can be called the fucking skanks they are, but with a veneer of appropriate civility. Appropriate civility will also further enrage those who would otherwise use the cudgel of “racism” and dismiss any argument out of hand.

            I, personally am serially guilty of outrageous comments, not to say lack of judgment on this site…just not in using such racial invective.

            …What do you think “Ghetto Culture” means?

  66. SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 4:03 am #

    I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion that no matter what people may say there really has never been equal application of rules or laws in any time or place nor will there ever be it seems like. So this whole belief that somehow someway we’ll all be equal and equally accountable under the law is a little far fetched IMO. And so some people can basically freely make threats against people, dox people, destroy property, among many other things and yet absolutely nothing happens. And then on the other hand there are people being censored and removed online simply for saying things like maybe its best not to let toddlers choose their gender, or perhaps its best if we didn’t let people overstay their visas. And where to even begin with the my mass shooter isn’t as evil as your mass shooter arguments? After all that is it then all that surprising that keeping a civil society seems impossible now? I think the people who think they are so smart have made a big mistake by making it so open and clear that there isn’t any such thing, not even in feigning and pretense, as “justice for all”.

    • BackRowHeckler August 10, 2019 at 6:24 am #

      SSL

      Re: law not fairly applied and enforced

      You are correct SSL, and its not a good thing.

      Indeed, in Chicago, Baltimore, Boston and St louis, DAs have run for the office on the platform they WOULD NOT enforce the law against certain segments of the population, and you know what segment that is.

      It will lead to people taking the law into their own hands, resulting in chaos and the eventual end of (western) civilization, which might be the goal to begin with.

      Brh

      • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 4:10 pm #

        Yeah I think you summed it up well Brh. I do believe their goal is to end Western Civilization as we know it. The people who are pulling the strings on all of this are attempting to shelter themselves from all of the fallout of their games by setting up fortresses and hideouts in far off places. That’s why they don’t care if laws or anarchy reigns in Anytown, USA. And most likely they want anarchy so the demise will be sooner than later and they will be that much closer to their NWO utopia.

  67. Pucker August 10, 2019 at 5:01 am #

    To the Moon

    Loaded question for Owen Benjamin: “How many Rastafarians have been “To the Moon”?

    Do you remember the instant beverage that the Astronauts drank called “Tang”? The Jamaicans had their own beverage called “Ting”. The Jamaicans call marijuana “Ganja”. What do the Astronauts call it?

    • K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 9:33 am #

      Ar you saying astronauts like to get high?

  68. Chris at Fernglade Farm August 10, 2019 at 7:54 am #

    Hi Jim,

    Many thanks for writing this piece. I do hope the cup of tea is not offended in any way? 🙂

    Being awake, I felt it somewhat necessary to look up the definition of the term ‘woke’ as used in the context in your fine essay.

    Well the definition was a surprise. Apparently people who are woke are: ‘alert to injustice in society, especially racism.’ So I’m guessing wokesters are people who indulge in that state of alertness.

    The thing is, injustice is a bit like tragedy in that it stalks through all of our lives – even those who pretend otherwise. Dunno.

    I wonder what these woke-folk hope to achieve other than alienation?

    Cheers

    Chris

    • capt spaulding August 10, 2019 at 9:27 am #

      Chris, I’ve met “woke” people before. They appear to walk around perpetually waiting to be offended. They also have no problem correcting your behavior or word usage if they find it unacceptable. They would be perfectly happy to run your life for you. They are the civilian branch of the Thought Police, and I don’t like them any more than i like Trumpsters.

      • K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 9:44 am #

        Sort of like some dogs who ‘get into’ collapse just so they can lord their knowledge over the ignorance of everyone else. Canines like these have no intention of encouraging any change, nor would they realy want a better world. They live to bitch and that is their sole raison d’être.

        The contradiction of being very well off and being able to rant about the same patriarchy which put pennies in your pocket must be a very satisfying rush. Heroin for the ego. Positively Oedipan.

        • Janos Skorenzy August 10, 2019 at 1:47 pm #

          Ditto the White Race Hucksters (they are legion) who rave about taking America from the Indians, but then refuse to leave – as if they aren’t also benificiaries of the Conquest too. Their vain is hope is Human Sacrifice or the procuring enough White victims to be sacrificed that they will be overlooked – and also get to feel “morally great”.

          • K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 5:15 pm #

            Things are sure going too far when white race hucksters want to give polar bears equal rights and government cheese.

          • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 6:14 pm #

            So what you are really saying, and in a derogatory way too, is let the sacrifices commence?

    • K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 9:57 am #

      He shall dominate and oppress that cup of tea until there is nothing left to say it was ever here. A trail of sips but nothing to cry about. A world transformed to a reality of choice but this time, so what.

      I wonder what these woke-folk hope to achieve other than alienation?

      They successfully achieve ignoring that for every finger they point at anyone else, three point back at their âne pompeux rentier.

      • Janos Skorenzy August 10, 2019 at 1:51 pm #

        White robots are also threatening. Why do the make them White? Is it code?

        • K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 5:12 pm #

          It is the Japanese influence.

  69. stelmosfire August 10, 2019 at 9:45 am #

    Add another one to the Clinton body count. Epstein is dead. How can they manage this when the guy is locked down under suicide watch?

    • K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 10:03 am #

      I d-i-d n-o-t h-a-v-e s-e-x o-n h-i-s j-e-t

      What are ‘friends’ for. Epstein had plenty and I’m sure more than a few would have been happy to help him cash the big check. I wonder what story will be concocted. Hollow tooth?

    • BackRowHeckler August 10, 2019 at 10:07 am #

      Just when names were starting to be revealed — George Mitchell, Bill Richardson, Prince Andrew — Epstein checks out in the nick of time.

      Brh

      • stelmosfire August 10, 2019 at 10:16 am #

        Somebody at that jail has some serious ‘splainin to do. Sheets ? You gotta be kiddin me. Why would there be anything in his rubber room to hang a noose from?

    • benr August 10, 2019 at 10:13 am #

      You just can’t make this crap up!

      • K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 10:15 am #

        Somebody better do DNA testing to make sure it was him.

        • stelmosfire August 10, 2019 at 10:19 am #

          An autopsy will obviously show a run of the mill heart attack or cerebral hemorrhage.

          • JohnAZ August 10, 2019 at 10:45 am #

            Shades of the Count of Monte Christo.

    • JohnAZ August 10, 2019 at 10:13 am #

      Clintons are the American wing of the globalist group that is trying to tear down the power of the USA. His “suicide” is certainly convenient to the PTB all over the world. It is interesting that just about all the powers involved are Democrats associated with the Clintons at one point. You can bet that the jail personnel are all beholden to the Dems either politically, financially or just plain fear.

      Too bad, this guy could have blown the lid off the entire cesspool that is Washington, DC. There was a report that yesterday he had agreed to start talking about people who are affected. George Mitchell and Bill Richardson came up yesterday.

      This guy was found almost dead two weeks ago with fingerprints on his neck. They called that a suicide attempt. How the heck does one choke himself to death? Put him on suicide watch and it took two weeks for the PTB to get to him again. No one is safe in the country that oppose the Liberal onslaught. No one, I hope the Secret Service is not impregnated with Libs. The Intelligence agencies certainly were.

      I wonder if fear of the global machine is what is corrupting the country.

      • K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 10:19 am #

        The only people who know why Macellus Wallace pushed Tony out of the window is Tony and Marcellus. <– Mia Wallace (pulp fiction)

      • JohnAZ August 10, 2019 at 10:20 am #

        A vote for a progressive Democrat in 2020 is a vote for the power that made this assassination possible. The Democratic candidates need to address this debacle, if they have the guts. The MSM may not be able to put this one into a can. You can bet there are many meetings this AM trying to figure out how to squelch this story.

        • stelmosfire August 10, 2019 at 10:24 am #

          Autopsy results will be fudged.

          • stelmosfire August 10, 2019 at 10:34 am #

            My theory: Guard did a routine check and found him not breathing and in cardiac arrest. Poor fella died peaceably in his sleep like my 90 YO Grandmother.

          • JohnAZ August 10, 2019 at 10:44 am #

            Uh-huh.

        • Janos Skorenzy August 10, 2019 at 1:54 pm #

          Yes. Well said. One remembers Chelsea Clinton’s cheerful, Now that Scalia is dead we can get the guns.

          Pizzagate emails talked of “wet work” on the eve of Scalia’s demise.

  70. JohnAZ August 10, 2019 at 10:43 am #

    What was in Epstein’s mind must be super significant if the PTB that have killed him are risking the potential damage that may occur. If this affects the election on one side, it could make Trump a shoo-in. That is how important it could be.

    If the MSM doesn’t squelch it.

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    • volodya August 10, 2019 at 1:57 pm #

      For how long did the msm keep up a steady drumbeat, every damn night pretty much, telling us it’s over, it’s done, the walls are closing in, this is the turning point, bombshell, bombshell, bombshell, as if saying shit makes it so. Point is that the msm couldn’t make it so not even with a special prosecutor and partisan investigators dedicated to overturning the election.

      So, the question is this, how effective are they gonna be going forward? Trump didn’t just beat the Democrats, he beat the Republicans, the msm, the Deep State, the whole damn power structure.

      This whole thing stinks of rub-out, the pedo-pimp to the power elite gets busted and then commits suicide? Sure, and I got a bridge I’d like to sell ya. But that’s not the point, the PTB, the msm included, are looking pretty damn wobbly right now.

      If this really was a rubout, which is really how it looks, can they keep a lid on it?

    • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 4:02 pm #

      They openly attempted to overturn a national election and nothing has happened so why would they worry about this? Maybe I am just to skeptical but it just seems strange if justice suddenly happens after everything.

  71. dorn August 10, 2019 at 11:31 am #

    “He may be dead, we do not know.” – Mr. Spock on the apparent killing of Chekov by Morgan Earp, “Spectre of the Gun”

    • Janos Skorenzy August 10, 2019 at 1:57 pm #

      Also a good point. He was well liked by some of the powerful, obviously. Maybe he will just be secreted away and given a new identity.
      He was trying to do right by his clients by taking the fifth on everything.

  72. malthuss August 10, 2019 at 12:19 pm #

    Some guy [Sean Buchanan] in Colorado liked illegals.
    Now he is dead by illegal.

    What will his 2 adopted Black sons do without their White daddy?

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7341273/Immigration-advocate-killed-crash-Salvadoran-living-illegally.html

    • Tate August 10, 2019 at 12:37 pm #

      Ironic. Of course his beautiful young wife won’t change her opinion in the slightest. In fact, she will double-down, raising up her three beautiful young daughters to feed the beast.

      Why does this madness persist? It has become a virus, infecting everything good. Christians have no obligation to invite aliens into our home.

      • malthuss August 10, 2019 at 9:22 pm #

        Did you check? he was ‘Evangelical.’

    • neon sky August 10, 2019 at 1:30 pm #

      Karma

    • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 3:41 pm #

      What a sad story which could have been prevented just by the enforcement of laws already on the book. This should be a cautionary tale about the dangers of the sickening modern day, generic, milquetoast, middle class virtues of fake and phony Churchianity, and nauseating and stifling political correctness and ethnomasochism.

  73. Tate August 10, 2019 at 12:23 pm #

    Add another entry to the Clinton body count. J. Epstein somehow commits suicide in the New York Detention Facility while on ‘suicide watch’? It was sadly predictable even though you keep hoping the criminal cartels that run this country will surprise you.

    • BackRowHeckler August 10, 2019 at 12:48 pm #

      Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s associate and alleged madame, is the one that’s doing the talking. (Singing like a canary) If I were her I’d lay low.

      Until the heat is off.

      That’s what Ma Barker did, until the feds caught up with her in Florida, and she died in a hail of bullets.

      Brh

      • BornToKillPeace August 10, 2019 at 1:10 pm #

        If Maxwell is already singing, she is already dead.

        • BornToKillPeace August 10, 2019 at 1:12 pm #

          This morning I woke up to a text image from my buddy.

          It was a picture of Epstein and Clinton together looking at the camera. Under Epstein it said, “Radio Star”. Under Bill, “Video”.

        • JohnAZ August 10, 2019 at 1:58 pm #

          If she is smart, she realizes the only way she is going to survive is to spill all the beans and go on the witness protection program That is if the US Marshall’s office is not contaminated by Clintonmania.

          • BackRowHeckler August 10, 2019 at 2:30 pm #

            Holy Sh#t!

            If US Marshalls are in on the conspiracy we’re all f#kkd. No two ways about it.

          • BornToKillPeace August 10, 2019 at 2:36 pm #

            I agree JohnAZ. Then again, how much does she value her own life when she obviously doesn’t value the life of others?

            Likely there is not a single place on this planet she could hide before being snuffed out.

            Hey, have you seen the trailer for “The Hunt” ? The trailer came out between the Dayton far left shooting and El Paso false flag shooting. The working title was “Red States vs. Blue States”. In the film the hunted are called “Deplorables”.

            trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8IifEu67yU

          • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 3:27 pm #

            Hey BTKP, the upcoming release of The Hunt has been cancelled due to massive backlash. But we know what makes em tick anyway so really it doesn’t matter whether its cancelled or not. Deplorables, or really might as well say Whites on the poorer side of life, are animals to be hunted down and killed for sport. Kinda jives with all the university and media chatter about abolishing Whiteness and evil White DNA.

  74. K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 1:09 pm #

    I d-i-d n-o-t h-a-v-e s-e-x o-n h-i-s j-e-t

    I used in another location. A place where google censors go. It lasted a minute before it was popped it into oblivion. I know the owner of the you-tube channel and he would not have burned it. We have each others email and I know he’d have liked it. Further I assume You -Tube censors are overwhelmed and would have let it pass anyway so I favor another explanation. An explanation I tested and verified a few weeks ago in my Home Land. I had a clever test and it was swallowed hook line and sinker.

    • Janos Skorenzy August 10, 2019 at 2:07 pm #

      You are in touch with Epstein or his shade? Or you were before his demise via “morse code” of some kind via his fillings or the app in his gulliver?

    • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 3:20 pm #

      Didn’t you say that they control the sites that pop up in your searches as a means of controlling what you perceive as reality and the boundaries of acceptable thoughts?

      • JohnAZ August 10, 2019 at 4:33 pm #

        Yeah, known as Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. Social media is a high tech propaganda mill. Goebbels would have loved this modern capability.

        • K-Dog August 11, 2019 at 5:15 pm #

          “Social Justice and a happy future”

          From Goebbels last speech

          Brought to you sanitized as a legitimate mainstream offering on YouTube which is owned by Google. Rated ‘MC’ (Mainstream Content) by Google this video does not violate policies of the corporate/surveillance state.

  75. BackRowHeckler August 10, 2019 at 3:03 pm #

    15 FBI agents in 3 Hudson Terraplanes decended on a house outside Orlando Florida on a cool sunny day, Jan 1935, inside was Ma Barker and her son Fred, in sunny Florida for a little R & R after a solid year of cross country mayhem and bank robbery. Fred and Ma didn’t come out with their hands up, didn’t immediately surrender, didn’t talk with any ‘negotiator’, no, they stuffed 50 round drums of .45 cal ammo into their Thompsons and engaged the FBI in a 4 hour gun battle, absorbing 2000 thousand rounds and returning fire with hot smoking tommy guns. When all was said and done Fred and Ma Barker were found inside clutching their weapons, perforated with many holes, $14000 in stolen swag packed inside a bowling ball bag. This is back in the day before Triggly Puff and billionaire pedophiles flying around in private jets accompanied by Senators and Governors. Those were the days.

    Brh

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  76. SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 3:14 pm #

    Isn’t it really curious that like 2,000 documents in the Epstein case were unsealed yesterday implicating people like Al Gore, Heidi Klum, Naomi Campbell, Prince Andrew, Bill Richardson, Bill Gates and dozens of other super rich Elitists as being Epstein’s friends and associates and suddenly Epstein supposedly commits suicide? And now there are calls for a thorough and complete investigation into Epstein’s “suicide”. LOL – you mean like that Clinton Foundation investigation, or the emails, or the murder of Seth Rich to name a few? Naw, I betcha lots of uber rich Devil worshippers are doing celebratory rituals today.

  77. wm5135 August 10, 2019 at 3:29 pm #

    “DAs have run for the office on the platform they WOULD NOT enforce the law against certain segments of the population, and you know what segment that is……

    Yes the F… I do!

    …..It will lead to people taking the law into their own hands, resulting in chaos and the eventual end of (western) civilization, which might be the goal to begin with.”

    Heckler your dumb ass is obviously not from the Southern United States.

    “Indeed, in Chicago, Baltimore, Boston and St louis”

    Heckler, add some names to your Rolodex – Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, Evers, Beckwith. Maybe add some geography to round out the day, 16th Street Baptist Church.

    Heckler you may be many things but an erudite historian you are not.

    Justice is blind, not color blinded. Catch a striper, have a craft beer and revel in your hateful ignorance.

    • BackRowHeckler August 10, 2019 at 4:29 pm #

      Wm5135

      You are referring to events 50 years ago. Fair enough. Im talking about municipal elections in 2016.

      There’s a reason Jesse Smollet was not prosecuted in Chicago, why in St Louis failure to pay child support will no longer get you arrested, why in NYC police officers are having buckets of water dumped on their heads, why in Hartford auto theft is no longer a felony.

      What do you think that reason is, wm5135?

      Brh

      • JohnAZ August 10, 2019 at 4:36 pm #

        The Left is in control in the cities and are getting blatant about it.

        Sorry about the interception, could not resist.

    • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 4:34 pm #

      But those days are over and its in the reverse now. They say Orange is the new Black but you don’t really believe that do you? Real, truthful, actual Justice is blind I do believe that. But there isn’t much real justice to go around now or then. And in those days people took justice into their hands and burned cities and it was lauded and it was a big beautiful civil rights movement. Do you believe the same support would be given to today’s Indians if they took justice into their own hands and burned cities? I speculate that quite the opposite would be the case. In the current circumstance without any change of course Western Civilization will be done for. Actually, it kinda already is dead.

    • Tate August 10, 2019 at 5:24 pm #

      a silverback narrative it appears.

  78. FincaInTheMountains August 10, 2019 at 4:04 pm #

    Epstein’s “suicide” and the War of the Roses

    Consider this post a continuation of the previous post and an introduction to the “World Civil War by Bird Eye View”, which will describe the meta-realistic aspect of the previous post.

    So I wrote many times that Epstein’s arrest is Trump’s response to the fire on Losharik, after which it became clear that Barr and Durham might not have time to indict the organizers of the Donald Trump persecution campaign before these organizers provoke a nuclear war.

    The fact of the matter is that Epstein could have testified against people who participated in acts of pedophilia, not because they like it, but because these acts were ritual in nature.

    But I never explained what kind of religion it is, that it has such rituals, and how these rituals are associated with the fire on Losharik.

    And in this post I will not do it, including because this religion has more than 3.5 thousand years and it is simply impossible to describe it within the framework of one post, especially when you consider that the meta-realistic aspect of the War of the Roses requires analysis of such serious texts as Shakespeare’s plays “Henry VI” and “Richard III”.

    But in advance I will allow myself to note that I already discussed this religion in connection with Madonna’s performance in Israel and Rammstein’s video “Deutschland”, so that a lot of people discuss this topic as applied to modern times, and there is a lot written in the Holy Scripture about it.

    Moreover, archaeological excavations of the city of Jericho and the city of Ugarit confirm the Holy Scripture.

    Nevertheless, the death of Epstein makes me remind you that according to Shakespeare, the War of the Roses begins at the London Templar headquarters, whose charter was written by the “saint” Bernard of Clairvaux, with the news of the victories of Joan of Arc who, according to Shakespeare, was an evil Satanic witch, which raised doubts about the divine support of the British army.

    The Catholic Church subsequently recognized her as a saint, but in the 15th century, King Charles VII of France, whom Joan of Arc saved from defeat, English captivity and most likely death, had arrested her closest assistant and the most likely organizer of her victories, Gilles de Rais on charges of ritual pedophilia and the killing of more than 200 children in order to call the demons who brought victory to the “saint” Joan and preserved the crown of Charles VII.

    • BornToKillPeace August 10, 2019 at 4:39 pm #

      the same fucks who make a replica of the arch of the Temple of Baal and tour it about NYC, London, DC, etc (chem-trails are said to be predominantly composed of Barium and Aluminium, Ba-Al); the opening ceremony of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, etc..

      • BornToKillPeace August 10, 2019 at 4:43 pm #

        …The Superstars of Greenwich Meantime

    • BackRowHeckler August 10, 2019 at 4:41 pm #

      Finca, is there anything ‘The War of the Roses’ is not linked to?

      Altho, its pretty interesting history.

      One observation I read, is there could be a battle raging in a field somewhere involving 50 or 60 thousand people, and in the next village and the rest of England nobody would even know about it.

      Also, the Tudors, the Lancasters, the Plantagenets, they were all related, cousins, in laws, uncles, one big family affair.

      Brh

      • BackRowHeckler August 10, 2019 at 5:34 pm #

        How could I forget the venerable House of York.

  79. JohnAZ August 10, 2019 at 4:15 pm #

    The absolute best thing that could come out of the Epstein killing is for Barr to continue the investigation of the deviates that were associated with Epstein and root out all of them. I expect the PTB to come out very soon and call for an end to the investigation now that he is dead. I hope Barr is “clean” enough to actually push forward and rip the perverted heart out of the Deep State.

    Remember Pizzagate? The tip of the iceberg.

    The arrogance of these people, to think they will escape from their transgressions. But maybe they are right, maybe they are in control and the country is already lost to their rottenness.

    • Walter B August 10, 2019 at 4:25 pm #

      If it waddles like a duck, and quacks like a duck, and flies like a duck, well then it damn well HAS TO BE A DUCK!. It may not be the Mafia, or the Cozza Nostra, or the Coreleone Crime Family, but clearly America is now officially led by Organized Crime. Jack and Bobby Kennedy were wise indeed to understand that the US government in bed with organized crime would eventually lead to organized crime as a form of government.

      Shut Up and Pay!

      • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 4:40 pm #

        Isn’t government for the most part organized crime? I think the Founders knew this type of outcome was possible. That’s why they believed our system as originally founded was solely by and for a moral and religious people. And to believe something like that now is like totally racist and xenophobic.

        • BackRowHeckler August 10, 2019 at 4:48 pm #

          That’s what John Adams said

          The constitution was written for a religious and moral people, no other.

          John Adams never attended a ‘Pride’ parade.

          Brh

          • tucsonspur August 10, 2019 at 7:39 pm #

            Even basic ideas in the Preamble to the Constitution itself have been undermined.

            “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

            “….insure domestic Tranquility….” Diversity and Multiculturalism violate, mock the Preamble.

            “…a more perfect Union…, ….promote the general welfare….” Again, the words mocked and made hollow.

  80. JohnAZ August 10, 2019 at 4:29 pm #

    I have been trying to figure out the Progressive mind for a while now, what motivates them, what do they want?

    I believe I have a piece of it. They want no limits, no boundaries , anything goes, all beliefs, any perversion, no rules, no laws, and it will all be possible by the largesse of the omnipotent government. They need the government to have unlimited wealth production capability to finance their needs. Or at least the appearance of unlimited resources.

    They do not want to compete, they want everything given to them so they do not have to compete. That way they are all equal with each other. Just like when they all got participation trophy while playing athletics. Everybody gets stuff according to their need. Sound familiar?

    Karl Marx

    Reality in going to destroy this group when TLE hits. They are the guarantee that TLE is coming.

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    • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 4:46 pm #

      Well yes and no in my humble opinion. They don’t believe in most of this crap themselves. Their foot soldiers do but not the shape shifters at the higher levels. They want total control and power by any means necessary. The current order must be toppled so they can finally rule openly and without any restraint or pretense. And they feign Right or Left depending on their audience and goals. Basically they are brilliant and cunning psychopaths and predators but all you see are sweet smiles and all you hear are virtuous and feel good platitudes. Its part of their mind control and mass hypnosis.

    • K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 5:39 pm #

      Well yes and no in my humble opinion as well and to both of you. You are both guilty of the crime of putting thoughts in their head. You are wrong, they are not thinking.

      The simple act of thought is recognition of limits, but being able to defy the universe and make your own rules in spite of reality, shows lack of thought. Toddlers also experiment with defiance to get their way and really it never really stops. It just gets older until and if the transformative experience molds childish soft clay into solid character.

      Transformation is not guaranteed and despite mankinds’ apparent fascination with technology, people do not experiment with technology unless there is a need to do so. There must be a problem to be solved. Left to their own devices people simple don’t self-motivate in general. Hot pockets, cheese doodles, big macs and 24/7 digital entertainment. Nowhere in this scenario lurks a mother of invention. The fourth turning is at full grind.

      It is hard to admit that we are now a culture of adult children so I understand why someone would want to drag in the K Marx scapegoat. The truth is hard to take.

      • SoftStarLight August 10, 2019 at 6:35 pm #

        I wonder why you discount and discredit them? I mean, I agree with you that they appear to have impulse issues and apparent childish concepts of limits and boundaries. But I feel that it’s dangerous not to take the scheming and conniving seriously. Maybe most people don’t self motivate? Not even sure I buy that, though it may be that for most their motives are simple and self serving. Seems like this type of thinking could actually empower such people. After all, if you never knew something existed, how would you know it was about to consume you and couldn’t it be a little too late when you found out?

        • JohnAZ August 10, 2019 at 7:26 pm #

          You both are hitting balls near the hole.

          There are stages of maturation in humans. The final stage includes reasoning, empathy, right and wrong, planning, emotional control, a front lobe panoply.

          These folks never made it through this stage. Recognize the lack of the above characteristics. The words I associate with the last stage are honor, self-esteem and self control. All three plus empathy are missing in these folks, and the power people are hideous.

          Notice that the focus of the Democratic Party today are kids, and immigrants. The final stage occurs around age 21 or so and emigrants usually leave their lands for a reason, non compliance.

          No wonder they are so emotional and violent.

          • malthuss August 11, 2019 at 12:14 pm #

            thanks

  81. FincaInTheMountains August 10, 2019 at 5:03 pm #

    Finca, is there anything ‘The War of the Roses’ is not linked to? == brh

    The War of the Roses begins at the London Templar headquarters, whose charter was written by the “saint” Bernard of Clairvaux. And it begins with the news of the victories of Joan of Arc, who, according to Shakespeare, was an evil Satanic witch, and her victories raised doubts about the divine support of the British army, which, according to Shakespeare, was the reason for picking roses in London Temple, which created the party of York and the party of Lancaster.

    Subsequently, the Catholic Church recognized Joan d’Arc as a saint, but in the 15th century not only the Joan herself was burnt at the stake by the British, but also the King of France Charles VII, whom Joan of Arc saved from defeat, English captivity and most likely death, under pressure from the people, outraged by the orgies at the Montmorency estate, arrested her closest assistant and the most likely organizer of her victories, Gilles de Montmorency-Laval, Baron de Re, on charges of ritual pedophilia and the killing of more than 200 children with the aim of summoning demons who, in retrospect, brought victory to “holy” Joan and saved the crown of Charles VII.

    Moreover, not only the protocols of the Inquisition, but the English version of the “fairy tale” of Bluebeard testifies that from 1433 to 1440 a whole sect of pedophiles walked in the castle of Gilles de Re, and 5 years after the end of this banquet, a certain number of the members of this “knighthood” and their descendants ended up in England in the retinue of Queen of England Margarita of Anjou who arrived from France, and who in 1455 actually provoked the War of the Roses, destroying the Plantagenet dynasty.

    And in 1457, her adhérent chamberlain Pierre de Bresse, also often appearing on the estate de Montmorency, landed in England and staged a small genocide in the city of Sandwich.

    • K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 5:19 pm #

      Is this War of the Roses thing a vortex like in Sedona but a place in time as opposed to a time in space?

      • FincaInTheMountains August 10, 2019 at 5:26 pm #

        As I already wrote, the War of the Roses in England of the 15th century is a religious war between two quasi-Christian parties, provoked by the party consistently anti-Christian, and, following in the footsteps of Shakespeare, I called the religious philosophies that formed during this war and are VERY ACTIVE TODAY as “world projects” and assigned them colors in accordance with traditional colors of white York, red Lancaster and black Templars.

    • BackRowHeckler August 10, 2019 at 5:21 pm #

      Well Finca, if nothing else, you got me interested in that era. And it is interesting.

    • GreenAlba August 11, 2019 at 2:28 pm #

      “Subsequently, the Catholic Church recognized Joan d’Arc as a saint, but in the 15th century not only the Joan herself was burnt at the stake by the British,”

      Logically impossible, as you should know, Finca.

  82. BackRowHeckler August 10, 2019 at 5:18 pm #

    And Jeffrey Epstien tried to cruise a young Bonnie Parker at a Greyhound bus station in a dusty little town outside Dallas … and the response was the burst of a smoking Tommy Gun.

    I often think of time travel, and mixing of historical figures. For example, suppose the Barker/Karpis gang was knocking off a bank in Minneapolis, the action was red hot, Ma Barker was carrying her beloved Browning A5 12 guage semi auto, and she was accosted on the street by an SJW activist, demanding to know if Ma Barker was ‘Woke’. Ma Barker, not one to suffer fools gladly, might squeeze squeeze off a few rounds of double 00 buck, and leave it at that.

    Brh

    • K-Dog August 10, 2019 at 5:21 pm #

      The gang had the guns and technology could not keep up with them. Their time and ours have something in common. That being:

      Anything goes and nothing matters.

  83. Tate August 10, 2019 at 5:28 pm #

    The latest is that Epstein’s suicide was faked & that he’s now on a plane to Israel.

    Things are really getting weird when you get the latest conspiracy theories from your local nextdoordotcom website.

    • Walter B August 10, 2019 at 5:50 pm #

      Between anything being possible and everything being subject to fraud, it is no wonder that our host was so successful with his catchphrase of, “anything goes and nothing really matters”. Yup, says it all neatly and succinctly.

    • S M Tenneshaw August 13, 2019 at 12:07 am #

      A crack team of Mossad plastic surgeons is being sent to perform a nose job that will remove all superficial evidence that Epstein was a jooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

  84. FincaInTheMountains August 10, 2019 at 6:01 pm #

    If we take the Russian history of the 20th century, we get the following:

    The February Revolution of 1917 was an analogue of the invasion of William the Conqueror;

    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who deceived those who financed his subversive activities in the Russian Empire, and then in the Russian Republic, is an analogue of the founder of the Plantagenet dynasty, Henry I Beauclerc, who, having married the granddaughter of Yaroslav the Wise, betrayed those who organized the anti-Orthodox campaign of William the Conqueror;

    the analogue of the Plantagenet Empire, also known as the Angevin Empire, is the Soviet Union;

    the analogue of the Church of England, founded by Joseph of Arimathea, undoubtedly are the so-called Old Believers in Russia;

    The Russian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate, recreated by Patriarch Sergius and Joseph Stalin, is an analogue of the red (Celtic) Church of Wales and Lancaster and at the same time the Anglican Church, recreated by Henry VIII Tudor;

    The followers of Eulogius are an analogue of the white Church of York;

    and Russian Orthodox Church Abroad is an analogue of the Cistercians who founded the Order of the Templars-globalists.

    • Majella August 12, 2019 at 3:31 am #

      The CoE founded by Joseph of Arimethea? That’s a bit before Henry VIII….

  85. FincaInTheMountains August 10, 2019 at 6:59 pm #

    The popularity of the TV series “Game Of Thrones”, which actually depicts the War of the Roses in 15 century England, but if the Christianity had never happened, is fully explained by Dr. Martin Lings Resonance Theory, according to which a work of art, any art, “resonates” with a book reader or spectator in a theater only if the perceived work of art contains a hint of certain truths that we know about due to our stay in the World Above before birth, but about which we forget with the first cry at birth and remember again only breathing our last.

    We forget, but not entirely, and when we are faced with an analogue of some events in the heavenly world in the earthly work of art, our soul trembles and weeps, and it is this state that Aristotle calls catharsis.

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  86. FincaInTheMountains August 10, 2019 at 7:21 pm #

    Where is Jon to help her go?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTWQ21Naok

  87. goldpen August 10, 2019 at 7:40 pm #

    I’m just now finding out about Epstein’s death, and I along with so many of you and others throughout the fruited plain find myself not one bit shocked. I just knew this was going to happen.

    It just shows how truly scared The Clinton Crime Syndicate and so many others were of Epstein rolling over on them. They are willing to go ahead and deal with the PR flap of his death rather than deal with serious jail time.

    • goldpen August 10, 2019 at 8:53 pm #

      “…..Epstein’s death comes just 24 hours after more than 2,000 pages of documents detailing the lurid allegations of his sexual abuse of underage girls were unsealed to the public.

      On Friday morning, a federal appeals court published explosive documents pertaining to a 2015 lawsuit that Virginia Roberts Giuffre had filed against Epstein’s associate, socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.

      Giuffre claimed Epstein and Maxwell kept her as a ‘sex slave’ in the early 2000s, whilst she was underage.

      The unsealed papers – which made international news on Friday – implicated a number of high-profile men in sex scandals.

      They include transcripts of a May 3, 2016 deposition made by Giuffre, in which she alleged that she was trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell to have sex with and provide erotic massages for politicians and affluent businessmen.

      Giuffre claimed that she was ‘instructed’ by Maxwell to have sex with two high powered Democrats – former Senate Majority George Mitchell and former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.

      Both Richardson and Mitchell have denied the allegations.

      According to the documents, Giuffre claimed she also had sex with Epstein’s friend Prince Andrew when she was 17 years of age……”

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7344181/Billionaire-Jeffrey-Epstein-dies-suicide-inside-Manhattan-jail-cell.html

      Wow! If the very dull and staid George Mitchell got it on down on Orgy Island then I guess just about every one did.

      Earlier I blamed the Clintons for Epstein’s death. Of course they very much wanted him dead, but in reality some folks much higher up did it. I’m thinking……oh I don’t know……a certain rogue element within a certain Intelligence Agency that is very cooperative with the very Kosher Intelligence Agency?

      Talk among yourselves…….I’m all vaklempt right now.

      • malthuss August 11, 2019 at 12:15 pm #

        Both Richardson and Mitchell have denied the allegations.

        I NEVER HAD SEX WITH THAT WOMAN

        WHEN YOU DRAG A 20 DOLLAR BILL THRU A TRAILER PARK.

        ETC

  88. Elrond Hubbard August 10, 2019 at 7:42 pm #

    Roseau feels the strain as Minnesota-Canada border hassles take a toll

    https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/08/09/roseau-minnesota-canada-border-hassles

    “Nurse Darcy Wakefield crosses from Canada into Minnesota four days a week to help deliver babies. It’s a job she loves — and one she says she’ll soon have to quit.

    “The babies haven’t slowed, but the border has.

    “Minnesota-Canada crossings have become a nightmare for Wakefield and others since January 2018, when the Roseau station cut its hours as U.S. Customs and Border Protection shifted officers to the Mexican border.

    “The Roseau station, which ran for years from 8 a.m. until midnight began closing at 8 p.m. The nearby Lancaster, Minn., crossing, which was once open until 10 p.m., now closes at 8 p.m. in the summer and 6 p.m. in the winter. The shorter hours have played havoc with people who built their lives around the old order. …

    “Communities in Minnesota’s far north are intertwined with Canada. Canadians buy gas and groceries in Roseau, and many bank there. Most people who fly American flags in their front yards fly Canadian flags just below them.

    “Local businesses rely heavily on Canadians. It’s barely a different country.

    “The depth and value of those ties came up constantly at the town hall meetings. The Canadian border officials listened. The Canadian side of the crossing is still open until midnight. U.S. officials cut the hours anyway.”

    I feel so… so taken for granted. C’mon, you guys! We’re barely a different country!

    • malthuss August 11, 2019 at 12:25 pm #

      no fool like an old fool.

  89. Pucker August 10, 2019 at 7:53 pm #

    I get the feeling that a lot of these “Physicians” now are a bit corrupt, and they work-the-system to try to get the patient to do borderline questionable tests, procedures, and surgeries to run up the bill? It looks like there are very egregious conflicts of interests with the doctors referring patients to clinics in which the referring doctors have an equity interest and the referring doctors get paid commissions and kickbacks for the referrals and for prescribed medications, etc,

    I’m thinking of opening up a Sperm Bank and then start printing money and doing some Quantitative Easing…. There are a lot of very crazy people out there now. There’s probably a big demand particularly if you can figure out how to Bill it to the government? I could promise to pay interest on people’s sperm deposits? Or I could start an underground Sperm Bank? People could cum to my Sperm Bank to borrow sperm at an extortionist interest rate and if they don’t pay me back with a kid, then I send out some goons to beat the crap out of them. You’d have to do a bit of quality control so that you didn’t mix up the white sperm, black sperm, and the yellow sperm. You could freeze it in ice cube trays in the freezer. Drop the ice in a glass and make whiskey sour high balls for the patients. Walk around in a white lab coat with a balding head and a stethoscope.

    • Pucker August 10, 2019 at 7:55 pm #

      Do you remember those Dr. Fu Manchu movies?

      • Pucker August 10, 2019 at 8:02 pm #

        I’m thinking of getting myself a white lab coat and a stethoscope. Wear it in the supermarket, or in an expensive Italian restaurant, a Trump Rally, at the rifle range, or while going through Customs at the airport. Refuse to take it off while you’re having sex because you’re “On Call”,

      • malthuss August 11, 2019 at 12:26 pm #

        I recall the tale of 2 women. They met at a park or play ground.
        their children looked so much alike.

        they both got their sperm from a certain MD.
        he had sired 100s? of children.

    • Majella August 12, 2019 at 3:35 am #

      I understand that doctors’ exorbitant liability insurance negligence clauses all but REQUIRE them to do tests they know are (probably) pointless. It’s all part of the horrendous grift-machine called ‘insurance-based sickness industry’.

  90. Pucker August 10, 2019 at 8:12 pm #

    Have you ever seen an obese Formula 1 race car driver? Or an obese “High Jumper” on ski’s? Or an obese transgender pole vaulter? I have seen obese wrestlers and obese boxers, and obese American football players.

    Follow Chaz Buttigieg’s advice and tell obese Walmart Shoppers that they’re “Awesome”.

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    • Pucker August 10, 2019 at 8:38 pm #

      Tell Jeffrey Epstein that he’s “Awesome”.

      Are they trying to blame the Russians for Epstein’s death?!

      What does the videotape of Epstein’s cell show?

  91. tucsonspur August 10, 2019 at 8:26 pm #

    Remember the state of affairs in England around 1450, the War of the Roses starting shortly after the debilitating Hundred Years War between England and France. English nobles had lost much of their holdings in France. A lot of turmoil leading to the Rose Wars.

    Joan of Arc, Agincourt, and the battle of Castillon, where guns and gunpowder came into play in a major engagement.

    All this leading to the Pink and Purple Projects of today, along with Yellow ribbons.

    • Tate August 10, 2019 at 8:49 pm #

      Now they’re filing books by different colors in book stores. Segregation. It’s what’s for harmony.

      • tucsonspur August 10, 2019 at 11:59 pm #

        Too awkward to go to a Benny Binary or Huey Hexadecimal system. Harmony is best.

  92. Pucker August 10, 2019 at 8:49 pm #

    The other suspicious hit in prison that went dark was the recent hit on Whitey Bulger in prison. Bulger appears to have been a partner of the FBI years ago in Boston and when Robert Mueller was running the FBI. Speculation has it that Whitey Bulger was going to rat on Mueller and others at the FBI, so they whacked Bulger in prison.

  93. tucsonspur August 10, 2019 at 8:58 pm #

    Did I miss something here? Seems fucked up to me. Will Melania or Ivanka take care of the little bundle?

    https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/president-trump-melania-trump-photo-orphaned-baby-texas-143334266.html

  94. Pucker August 10, 2019 at 9:21 pm #

    Mid-way through WWI, the Entente (Britain, France, Russia) thought that they had the upper hand vis-a-vis the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary; Turkey) because in an industrial meat grinder war of attrition eventually the Germans would run out of warm bodies to fight since the Germans lacked colonies overseas (like the Tommies and the Frogs) that they could draw upon for reserve manpower using their fleets. This was a big problem for the Germans. As a counter strategy, the Germans devised a plan to draw the French into a big mousetrap using the Germans superior machine guns and artillery. The plan was called “Verdun”.

    I think the Germans are Big Sausage Eaters, right?

    • Pucker August 10, 2019 at 9:35 pm #

      White Privilege….

  95. Pucker August 10, 2019 at 9:47 pm #

    Question: “Can you think of a situation in which a bloke is both undaunted and nonplussed at the same time? “

    Answer: “Gallipoli”.

    White Privilege….

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  96. Pucker August 10, 2019 at 10:06 pm #

    I read somewhere that they’ve repealed the meat labeling requirement to show where the meat purchased in the supermarket comes from as they’re planning to start growing artificial Lab-grown meat in China. Jesus….

    They’re also now engineering human-animal hybrids. I guess that insects (like flies) have a much faster metabolism than humans and animals so that they could theoretically grow an insect -animal meat hybrid creature in just a couple of hours, which would be very profitable?

    • Pucker August 10, 2019 at 10:12 pm #

      White Privilege

  97. malthuss August 10, 2019 at 10:10 pm #

    Got Milk? ad has black, white parents and ugly mixed race kid…
    but she doesnt drink chocolate milk.

    • tucsonspur August 11, 2019 at 12:32 am #

      I’m still waiting for that black dude in the armchair, in the middle of the intersection, the one who verbally subsumes the little white girl, to be run over and grotesquely maimed and killed by a Kenworth sounding his knell.

  98. Pucker August 10, 2019 at 10:16 pm #

    Have you ever noticed that the racist, Whoopi Goldberg, always wears a sardonic smile?

    • KesaAnna August 11, 2019 at 12:16 am #

      Like with Abraham Lincoln , I really cannot fathom how anyone could think she is a nice person .

      Isn’t the reality pretty fucking obvious ?????

      But , no.

      So it goes.

      • goldpen August 11, 2019 at 10:41 am #

        Ha! I like that line: “Like with Abraham Lincoln, I really cannot fathom who anyone could think she is a nice person”.

        Agree with it too.

  99. KesaAnna August 11, 2019 at 12:13 am #

    Pedophile scandals ……..

    Let’s start with the Catholic Church.

    For the sake of simplicity , let us assume every accusation is true.

    ( Wait a minute Sean Coleman , before blowing a gasket , and hear me out. )

    Three out of four of these cases do not involve a girl under the age of ten.

    No , three out of four of these cases involve a boy , whose median age is fourteen.

    Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this picture ?

    A phenomena is consistently characterized as pedophile , which as a basic matter of fact has scarce anything to do with pedophilia.

    To be generous you could call it an issue of pederasty .

    But why bother to even go to that trouble ?

    Why not just call it a homosexual issue ?

    But , interestingly , NEITHER the Catholic Church , nor its enemies , seem the least interested in using the much more accurate word , ” homosexual ” .

    NEITHER SIDE seems to be particularly interested in the three out of four , but it seems would rather focus on the one out of four.

    Curious.

    Remember how once upon a time ( once upon a time —- i.e. last week. ) the conventional wisdom was that the Catholic Church wound up in this mess due to its Backward Medieval dogmas on sexuality and family ?

    Well , what the Hell do Bill Clinton , or this Eppstein guy , have to do with these Backward Medieval dogmas on sexuality and family ?

    They aren’t subscribers , are they ?

    Very curious.

    Outside the Church , and commonly enough within it , it was commonly assumed that the celibacy rule for clergy presented something of a problem for heterosexuals.

    But today , within the Church , and despite having learned that three out of four of these cases involve homosexual activity , it appears that the celibacy rule for clergy is not viewed as any particular problem for homosexuals.

    It all reminds me of an occasion when I was fifteen years old , ( I can’t remember the precise nature of the occasion , that was a long time ago ) it occurred to me that if a heterosexual man wanted to become a cheerleading coach , he might have a serious problem.

    But , generally , if a gay man wants to become a cheerleading coach , nobody seems to think much of it.

    Despite the fact that , in those days , it was not at all unpopular to characterize homosexuals as creepy deviants.

    A creepy deviant as instructor to your twelve year old daughter is no big deal ?

    But , apparently so.

    Curious-er and curious-er .

    I have long not cared much for sex scandals.

    I rarely find ANYTHING in them but a weirdly macabre and titillating entertainment masquerading as something else.

    • tucsonspur August 11, 2019 at 1:18 am #

      Remember, there is a big difference between the young and the older when it comes to ANY sexual relations, homo or hetero.

      And it’s a question of the Perceived sexual threat, homo on hetero cheerleaders posing less of a threat. IOW, yes, the creepy deviant is no big deal, no threat as of ‘common’ perception.

      “Why not just call it a homosexual issue ?” Simply because it’s a lot more than that. The person is also underage. But some other terminology may be better. Something incorporating homo-pedo or the like.

      What about the female coaches in women’s sports and the lesbians mentoring the straights? What about nuns?

      It was wonderful to see Jason Statham get it on with Agata Buzek in the movie “Redemption.” Daring but discreet. Buzek plays the nun, defiled by her coach for years as a young gymnast aspiring to be a ballerina. Statham is an all around nasty brute, fucked up with ptsd and alcohol. Two wounded heteros making the best of it.

      Homo priest and a young boy? Pedohomocide?

      • KesaAnna August 11, 2019 at 3:34 am #

        ” Remember, there is a big difference between the young and the older ”

        When it comes to memory , I think the shoe is on the other foot.

        And yours presumably sucks.

        Because you just read here that we are primarily talking about fourteen year olds , not four year olds.

        I have no problem conceding there is a big difference when we are talking about a four year old.

        Trouble is , we aren’t.

        As for the difference , on the other hand , between , for example , my fourteen year old sexuality , and my fifty year old sexuality , the ” big difference ” is such as to be impossible to quantify or qualify coherently.

        A pretty strong hint , I think , that the difference is tissue thin , trivial , or just plain non-existent.

        That , or I was a fourteen year old freak of nature.

        Except , as commonly so , I lived commonly among other fourteen year olds , who , if anything , were randier or more deviant than I .

        Maybe there was something in the water in piedmont North Carolina 1979 – 1985 ?

        But then as I have pointed out before in this venue , another curious aspect of this whole thing is how childhood keeps creeping upwards , though already in the past – tense.

        I have ALREADY lived to see a TWENTY YEAR OLD , ludicrously , described as a “child “.

        ” And it’s a question of the Perceived sexual threat ”

        In other words , never mind the reality. I have a feeling in my big toe. That’s the main thing.

        ” Percieved ” ?

        well , shit and fried eggs.

        ” What about the female coaches in women’s sports and the lesbians mentoring the straights? What about nuns? ”

        Yes , what about it ? And without the added wrinkle of the underage bit to add complexity to your ponderings.

        How about actually asking yourself that question , rather than asking me merely rhetorically ?

        ” But some other terminology may be better. ”

        No maybe about it. I’m sure it would be a great deal better if you folks talked about whatever it is you are actually talking about.

        • tucsonspur August 11, 2019 at 5:14 am #

          WTF, If they’re old enough to bleed they’re old enough to butcher, right? Is that it? Stop with the mumbo jumbo already.

          Now I’m gonna chill with some Dee Clark:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF5r-qmzQSs

          That’s what I’m talkin’ about!

        • goldpen August 11, 2019 at 9:54 am #

          Couldn’t agree with you more KesaAnna on this and your prior post.

          • tucsonspur August 11, 2019 at 3:51 pm #

            Clear up your thinking. A priest having sex with a fourteen year old boy is at least borderline pedophilia and also a homosexual act. Calling it just a homosexual issue dismisses the significant underage aspect. There’s a major difference between sex with an adult male and sex with an underage minor. I won’t blur the distinction. Neither should either of you.

          • goldpen August 11, 2019 at 5:33 pm #

            tusconspur it is a matter of defining words and terms, both biological and legal.

            A boy or girl before puberty is prepubescent. Go ahead….look up that word. It’s true. After puberty they become post-pubescent.

            Right after puberty a human isn’t regarded as a legal adult yet, although he or she can partake of the reproductive process obviously. High School Biology 101. And up until WW2 it was quite common in rural parts of this country for females to get married and start families at the age of 14. Some 15. Some 16. The rest a bit older. While males would usually get married at 17 and older. So yes often 14 year old females married guys 4 to 10 or even more years older.

            Legally if an adult has sex with a boy or girl who is prepubescent then that is pedophilia. After puberty it is pederasty. Pederasty is NOT okay with me. I don’t have to clear up my thinking. You need to clear up some definitions to words. By calling it what it truly is by definition does NOT minimize it. And fully mature adult Priests who have sex with teen boys are usually both pederasts and homosexual. Any former Priest will tell you that the homosexual culture in the Catholic Church is massive. Well, any former Priest who’s willing to talk, that is. But plenty have.

          • GreenAlba August 11, 2019 at 7:40 pm #

            “Any former Priest will tell you that the homosexual culture in the Catholic Church is massive. Well, any former Priest who’s willing to talk, that is. But plenty have.”

            And if you talk to people of a certain age in Ireland, for instance, they’ll be able to tell you why. Because of those who haven’t been able to resign themselves to the FACT that homosexuality, in a minority of men and women, is a biological reality.

            I’m not talking about what you might call the lifestyle casual lesbianism, for example, that pertains among the luvvies of the big screen or the music scene as self-publicity, just the normal ones – men and women – who were born to be something they didn’t ask to be.

            In addition to that, pious families in Catholic Ireland, back in the day, liked to produce at least one priest. It had tremendous kudos, to the point where your mother could persuade you you had a vocation.

            Put those two things together and where did the young man find refuge who knew he didn’t want to get married, couldn’t get married, and needed to find an excuse for why he couldn’t get married that wouldn’t destroy his pious family? Because people damn well weren’t going to stop asking why he wasn’t ‘courting’. Bingo, you’ve got yourself a ‘vocation’.

            If the church had wanted to minimise the number of homosexual priests within its ranks, all it had to do was to accept the reality of those men outside its ranks who didn’t happen to fit the norm, leave them be to live their lives, and even tell them the priesthood wasn’t the best place for them, in case they were wondering. (Not insisting on a celibate priesthood would clearly have helped too, because the default would have been family men.)

            But it couldn’t accept reality and still can’t. Because it wrote its own reality, like Karl Rove said some people can.

            Thankfully, such young men now have plenty of other options. But the damage has been done.

            Not that any of that excuses the ones who went on to harm underage youngsters. But it stands to reason that if men are joining the priesthood for the wrong reasons, even if they’ve been encouraged to lie to themselves about those reasons, a proportion of them will do bad things.

          • GreenAlba August 11, 2019 at 7:43 pm #

            And I agree with tusconspur – the homo/hetero aspect is a separate issue from the age aspect, whatever you think about the sexuality of 14-year-old girls. Or 14-year-old boys.

          • tucsonspur August 11, 2019 at 7:51 pm #

            I get your point. But I have to repeat mine. This sentence,
            “Why not just call it a homosexual issue ?”, is easily answered logically.

            Again, because It’s more than that, regarding a fourteen year old. In this case, as you point out, it’s pederasty. Which makes it NOT just a homosexual issue.

            Also, I did say borderline pedophilia. But you’re right, pederasty is the better term.

          • tucsonspur August 11, 2019 at 7:57 pm #

            Hey GA, thanks for chiming in and elaborating.

          • GreenAlba August 11, 2019 at 8:03 pm #

            “Legally if an adult has sex with a boy or girl who is prepubescent then that is pedophilia. After puberty it is pederasty.”

            Pederasty is sex between a man and a boy. Sex between a man and an underage girl is er… statutory rape. I presume pederasty is that too, but I don’t know.

            The attraction to underage girls is either hebephilia or ephebophilia (details on the World Health Organisation site if anyone is interested), if the object of their attraction is too old for it to be paedophilia.

            No matter what we think or know about the sexuality of 14-year-old girls, we tend not to like the idea of older men taking advantage of them before they’re old enough to know their own minds as opposed to their urges. Especially since the consequences will likely be greater for them than for the men.

            Except that if you look round the world, you’ll find that the more religious the society, the more likely you are to find older men married to young girls. Because it’s not the girls who get to choose and it’s not the girls who have the opportunities to do other things until they’re of a reasonable age to tie themselves down.

    • malthuss August 11, 2019 at 12:17 pm #

      GAY is not a 4 letter word.

      It was a gay scandal. Media ((())) spun it differently.

      But , interestingly , NEITHER the Catholic Church , nor its
      ((( enemies ,)))

      seem the least interested in using the much more accurate word , ” homosexual ” .

  100. KesaAnna August 11, 2019 at 2:51 am #

    “Witch Hunt ” has been so commonly applied to pedophile scandals that it has become cliche.

    A damn shame I think , because I think there is a strong parallel.

    A damn shame that no one ever seems to bother to sit down and explain what the strong parallel is.

    There were witchcraft prosecutions in the Middle Ages , true enough.

    But , the documentary evidence clearly points to them being rare , unusual , singular affairs.

    Not uncommonly you could count the number of such cases in one country over a 500 year period on one hand , could memorize the name of every notorious witch.

    In the , ” Age of Faith ” there is a disappointing lack of such dirt to display.

    when the terrible Catholic Church had a lock on Western Europe , there is precious little material for your school project.

    No , the great heyday of witch hunts , where as many as 300 people in an incident were executed , and the prosecutions were so many that you are inclined to wonder how the courts had time for anything else , was the 17th Century .

    That is , when the power of the Church had effectively been broken , presumably just as , ” Freedom of religion and conscience ” had prevailed.

    Ignorance ?

    Well , the witchcraft hysteria broke out not before the advent of the printing press , when all books were handmade , and cost hundreds of dollars , and so were necessarily the preserve of a very few.

    No , the witchcraft hysteria breaks out seemingly just as the printing press is hitting its stride.

    Indeed , the witchcraft hysteria is the first great media blitz hype I’m personally aware of.

    The first instance , I’m aware of , of tabloid – like journalism apparently directed at pretty much anybody ; from ten year olds to sixty year olds , rich or poor , enemies no less than allies.

    Religion ?

    I get the distinct impression myself that it had scarce ANYTHING TO DO with religion , given when I ask myself , ” Who profits ? ”

    Who has the most to gain from it ?

    Well , I don’t know the exact numbers , but clearly as often as not these prosecutions were orchestrated by the secular state , not by church authorities.

    The famous Salem Witchcraft trials in North America , for example , came about not when Massachusetts was a Congregationalist Church theocracy , but rather after that theocracy had been dismantled and replaced by a British Royal administration.

    It seems decidedly odd to me that those who presumably had the most to gain were so often not in the drivers seat , but at best were only riding shotgun.

    As i said , previously the Catholic Church pretty much had a lock on Western Europe. Among other things , one thing this basically meant was that every locale or country had not one government , but two governments , a church government and a secular government , with the church government actually being the senior partner.

    But , again , as I pointed out , in this period witchcraft prosecutions were rare as hens teeth.

    I think it is no coincidence that the witchcraft hysteria appears when religious authority is actually being ushered out , and for the first time in history the secular state is not only in the ascendant , but even seeks to eclipse the religious authority entirely.

    In other words , it wasn’t about religion at all.

    And who profited ?

    The party nobody wanted to point a finger at ; The secular state.

    To put it another way , there was a witch in the courtroom , but it wasn’t the person in the dock.

    There was witchcraft going on there , but the spells weren’t being cast by either Satanists or Christians.

    To put it another way ; Witchcraft trials were not about witchcraft.

    Something else was going on there that nobody wanted to talk about.

    Roughly a hundred years after Martin Luther presumably gave Europe religious freedom , the fruit of that vine was an orgy of pointless bloodletting.

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    • Pucker August 11, 2019 at 7:41 am #

      I’m rather interested in the topic of Witchcraft as well.

      It seems that Witches have a proclivity for mating with certain types of men (demons?) and producing bastard kids? Why they do this is a bit odd, but it may have a spiritual dimension?

      Ted Bundy was a bastard. Morton Stanley was a bastard. I suspect that Bill Clinton is a bastard. Chelsea Clinton is definitely a bastard.

      I’m not sure what they were doing to those young girls on Jeffrey Epstein’s Island, or if any of them had any kids?

      I read somewhere that around 10% of kids born in the US are bastards. The epidemic of single parent mothers and feminism has probably produced a plethora of bastards?

      • goldpen August 11, 2019 at 10:04 am #

        Bill Clinton wasn’t technically a bastard. His real father’s name was Blythe, who was killed in a car wreck before he was born. Much of his childhood his name was therefore ‘Billy Blythe’. His mother got remarried to a guy named ‘Clinton’, who was a drunk and often beat his mother.

        Bill hated his step father and when he was about 15 or 16 was big enough to beat him off his mother while he was drunkingly beating her again one night. If memory serves the guy left for good soon after.

        Even though Bill hated his stepfather he nevertheless legally changed his name to ‘Clinton’ when he was 17 or 18. Whenever Arkansas lets you legally do it. That’s because he knew that he was going to go into politics even then and Bill Clinton had a much nicer ring to it than Billy Blythe.

        So isn’t it interesting that Hillary has chosen to adopt the ‘Clinton’ name too for political expediency. A drunken wife beating misogynist’s name chosen by a feminist. Well she’s always been a hypocrite. The woman who in 1992 made fun of women who “stand by their man”, yet that is all she has ever done in her adult life. She wouldn’t be anything without her man.

        As for “witches” mating with “demons”? Well that’s just the kind of nonsense that is typical for you to believe.

        • Pucker August 11, 2019 at 9:01 pm #

          “His real father’s name was Blythe, who was killed in a car wreck before he was born. ”

          Ted Bundy’s mother made up a story about how Ted’s father died. They think that Bundy’s father was a “Sailor”.

          Actually, I think that Ted grew up thinking that his mom was his “sister”.

          • Q. Shtik August 12, 2019 at 10:44 am #

            Blythe, who was killed in a car wreck before he was born. – Puck

            ==========

            Reminds me of what someone said about Lincoln: He was born in a log cabin he helped his father build.

      • malthuss August 11, 2019 at 12:28 pm #

        CC looks so much like her half sis and they both look like daddy.

        Someone quoted Hillarys book, where she gave it away……

        The baby was in the arms of the football player, [I forget the rest].

        • SoftStarLight August 11, 2019 at 3:05 pm #

          Wow I didn’t realize Chelsea had a half sister!

          • Majella August 11, 2019 at 9:26 pm #

            Do you just immediately BELIEVE any and every half-baked conspiracy, SSL?

    • FincaInTheMountains August 11, 2019 at 9:33 am #

      The famous Salem Witchcraft trials in North America may be need to be repeated, and start with with gang of four young, and still inexperienced, witches in the House of Representatives, behind whom looms WW-3 – Wicked Witch of the West.

    • SoftStarLight August 11, 2019 at 3:30 pm #

      Yeah it pretty much seems like it was a way for society to get rid of the women they didn’t want to deal with anymore for various reasons since around 75% of those killed were women. They were typically single or widowed and almost always on the poorer side. But there were also still thousands of men killed for being witches and it seems like they were often lower class sheperds, farmers, blacksmiths, etc. I think it was a way for society to get rid of people collectively determined to be undesirable in many respects. All cloaked in the culture of that time. This type of phenomenon could very easily happen again.

      • GreenAlba August 11, 2019 at 6:03 pm #

        “They were typically single or widowed and almost always on the poorer side. ”

        Yep, well spotted. Same as with those widows who ‘religiously’ had themselves immolated with their dead husbands under suttee/sati in India. Cheaper for the in-laws than keeping an economic burden around.

        So do expedient practices grow sacred clothing.

        It’s cheaper for the Catholic Church not to have to maintain priests’ wives and widows too, even though you’d think that, in a religious context, the best person to give you advice on family matters would be a family man (or woman).

        • Majella August 11, 2019 at 9:45 pm #

          GA

          Oh, come on! Celibacy as a financially motivated thing?

          I’d be surprised if you didn’t know that the priest(s) of any Catholic parish is maintained solely by the donations of the congregation, plus any personal (family) resources they can access (among the secular priests, anyway, in NZ). There’s no call on the vast Vatican purse.

          But aside from that, we couldn’t be more in agreement.

          I’m a born-into-it Catholic and was raised/educated by a plantation convent from County Kerry, nuns of the Presentation Order. They arrived in the year of my birth (1957) and set up a school for the Green Island parish, a newly developed subdivision brimming with Dutch refugees in need of a Catholic option.

          There were a couple of mature ‘Mothers (Aidan & Celine) who ran the show but the rest of the cohort (6 if I recall) were very young women – girls, in fact, perhaps 18 to 22 y/o (though to us they were ‘old ladies’). They spoke Gaelic on occasion, so the children could not know what they were discussing.

          I’m guessing, in retrospect that many of these girls’ vocations were also an escape from intolerable alternatives – family violence, abuse, poverty and no doubt in some cases, from a realization that marriage & a horde of under-fed children would not be up their alley.

          Thee’s now some pretty horrendous stories of nun-abuse coming out in my old-town’s news…things not quite as horrendous as the Magdalena Laundries, but pretty nasty. Even among these apparently beatific women, there were some twisted creatures.

          My mother (now 83) still corresponds with a couple of those young nuns, now repatriated to Eire, who taught my brothers & I. I would love an opportunity to talk with one of them now and explore their motivation for joining.

          • GreenAlba August 12, 2019 at 6:38 am #

            “I’d be surprised if you didn’t know that the priest(s) of any Catholic parish is maintained solely by the donations of the congregation, plus any personal (family) resources they can access (among the secular priests, anyway, in NZ). There’s no call on the vast Vatican purse.”

            Actually, I didn’t now that, Majella – in the Church of Scotland, ministers are paid a ‘stipend’, financed from central funds, as far as I’m aware, although obviously those central funds are partly made up of contributions from congregations. ‘Socialism’ gets everywhere, eh!! The Assembly decides from one year to the next if the church can afford to pay them an increase, as it obviously has other obligations, such as care homes and the like, as well as its ministries.

            It was my in-laws in Ireland who passed on to me their opinion (from reading, I presume) that the widows of priests – especially those who died young – were a financial liability (celibacy was introduced in the 11th century of course, so current arrangements were not the context). In today’s context, I don’t know for how many decades the donations of the congregation would easily maintain a widow and her possibly large brood, for the time they were dependent, as well as a new priest.

            Leaving that aside, yes, the whole ‘vocation’ thing is unclear. We know from literature that many women from poor backgrounds, especially if their face was not their fortune, ended up nuns, sometimes by ‘choice’, sometimes with none.

            In fact, reading the aspirations of one person on this very blog to have young women assigned by ‘top alpha males’ to men they might not even like, I can personally see the attraction of a life that at least allowed you to escape one kind of bondage, even if it kept you in another.

            I read an interesting book a few years ago, by John Lanchester: Family Romance: A Memoir (he of the excellent Whoops, a layman’s guide to the financial crisis of 2007/8).

            Family Romance is a book about his parents. His father had been a banker, in the days when such people were mostly sober, suited gents, a large part of whose remit was to stop you borrowing more money than you could afford to pay back.

            His (Irish) mother, as no-one in the family knew until after she’d died, had been a nun! And had had considerable achievements, having spend a number of years in India managing a school (which she may even have founded). WIthin the convent she’d been quite prestigious. But she’d left, having decided she didn’t have a religious vocation at all, and got married. And told no-one about her past.

            It’s a while since I read the book, so I can’t remember if it was her or her sister (also a nun) who left her convent at an earlier stage, then returned. Anyway, this young nun, whichever one it was, realised her ‘vocation’ was a fantasy, and she returned home to her parents, hoping to pick up a normal life.

            But the parents refused to acknowledge her existence, such was the shame of her situation, to them. She lived in their house and they refused to look at her or talk to her. I think she eventually re-entered the order or another one – if it was the mother, rather than her sister, I think that was why she escaped to India before giving it up altogether.

    • BackRowHeckler August 11, 2019 at 3:38 pm #

      The real, big league Witch Hunts occurred in central Europe during the 30 years War, 1618 – 1648. About 40,000 ‘Witches’ burned at the stake and otherwise liquidated in those dark German Forests. The 30 Years War was the largest bloodletting in history — about 7 million dead — until WW1 came along and broke the record. Its a good example of what Europeans are capable of when they get riled up. I know it was a long time ago but human nature does not change.

      Brh

  101. BackRowHeckler August 11, 2019 at 11:20 am #

    Machine Gun Kelly was just your run of the mill bootlegger before he met Katherine Thorne and married her. She’s the one who bought him his Tommy Gun and changed his name from George to ‘Machine Gun’. Here’s a case of a woman stepping up and taking charge.

    “Don’t shoot, G man, don’t shoot” — Machine Gun Kelly when he was captured at his hideout in Memphis, TN.

    Oddly enough, the man called Machine Gun went quietly to prison. In Alcatraz they called him ‘Pop Gun Kelly’. He was a model prisoner.

    Whereas Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd and the Barker gang went down is a blaze of glory, with bursts from blazing Tommy Guns and hot smoking lead slamming into their bodies,

    Brh

  102. FincaInTheMountains August 11, 2019 at 1:25 pm #

    In continuation of the previous post or Trump vs Clinton

    The next post, “World Civil War by Bird Eye View” is so overloaded with meanings, some of which will act on the victims of anti-Semitism as a red rag on a bull that I just have to describe Trump’s reaction to the “suicide” of registered pedophile Epstein in a separate post.

    So, 20 hours ago, Trump retweeted some African-American comedian who wonders if Jeffrey Epstein’s “suicide” is the work of Hillary Clinton, and he uses such famous hashtag as “#ClintonBodyCount” in this post, and the Attorney General Barr makes a statement that Epstein’s “suicide” is suspicious and will be investigated.

    https://twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1160256105399967744

    And these very moderate statements caused such a panic among Clintonoids, as if Trump declared the need for martial law and the immediate arrest of all who can help the remaining witnesses in the Epstein case to kill themselves, which, in my opinion, after the fire on Losharik, became a threat and a rein thrown by Trump on American leaders of intelligence services, whose activity began to pose a mortal threat to all of humanity.

    Moreover, at the beginning of the panic, these pro-Clinton mass media let slip that 7 years ago, Epstein was blacklisted in all Trump casinos and stopped being allowed to go there after he attacked an underage girl in one of the casinos.

    https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/10/trump-retweets-epstein-conspiracy-theories-1456305

    Moreover, they indirectly confirmed the reports of anti-Clinton bloggers that the first case of Epstein, as a result of which the latter became a registered pedophile, having served 13 months in prison, was initiated by Trump precisely after this incident, and Trump made quite significant efforts and contributed no less significant funds.

    And I will add to this the artistic truth, based on stylistic analysis and very, very indirect signs that this youngster, who was attacked by Epstein, was a relative of Trump and this incident occurred after Trump refused to participate in the outrages ala Eyes Wide Shut, and Bastinda made him become Ross Perot 2.0 for his reprisal against Epstein.

    For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” Corinthians 1:19

    • FincaInTheMountains August 11, 2019 at 1:44 pm #

      victims of anti-Semitism should read as

      Victims of fascination with anti-Semitism

      My apologies to all anti-Semites of the Kunstler Blog.

      • SoftStarLight August 11, 2019 at 2:55 pm #

        Ah thank you for the confirmation Ivan. The Semite connection is a bit far fetched at this point in time. Khazars would probably be a more appropriate description.

        • FincaInTheMountains August 11, 2019 at 3:38 pm #

          The Khazar Khaganate, in which Judaism already enjoyed considerable influence, was the main ally of Byzantium in opposing the Islamic invasion, the main victim of which was Sassanian Iran and Tang China, which is now considered the direct predecessor of modern China, which stands not only on quotes from Mao Zedong and Confucius, but also on Taoism, which is not appropriate to quote.

          Moreover, the Chinese, who had excellent intelligence along the entire Silk Road, believe that it was the Khazars (Judaism?) that enabled Byzantium to defend its independence in the 7th century and overcome the consequences of iconoclasm.

          And the main conflict of our time, threatening rivalry to life and death between China and the USA, is the clash of business interests of Chinese companies that produce rare earths metals in China, and the 5th generation industry, which needs rare earths and which first Obama and now Trump are trying to return to the USA.

          Therefore, Trump is trying to force the Phoenicians to unfreeze mythical tin islands where the rare earth deposit is not inferior to the Chinese, especially after China had already declared war to Trump, banning the export of rare earths six months ago, and now they can leave China only inside the batteries made in China, but necessary for example for Tesla cars in the USA.

          This puts a question mark next to Trump’s plan for the reindustrialization of America, and makes Clinton America a potential ally of China, but the Clintonoids and Phoenicians are the Opium Wars and the Nanking Massacre, and the Chinese, unlike many other peoples, love their true history, and not the propaganda on it basis.

          Indeed, tin islands are located under or near the English Channel, and Ukraine sold rocket technology to North Korea, making peace on the Korean Peninsula a decisive factor in the struggle between the East India and West India companies in the United States.

          And the alignment of forces now most closely resembles precisely the 7th century, when the union of Byzantium and the Khazar Khaganate stopped the Islamic invasion, ensuring the existence of the Katechon for at least one more Great Indiction.

  103. JohnAZ August 11, 2019 at 2:22 pm #

    White Supremacist. Black Supremacist. Zionist. Islamic Fundamentalist. Ethnocentrism at its finest.

    This country has all the above. But what about the other 98% of us that really do not give a damn.

    Blacks looking for White Supremacists better take a long look within because Supremacism is staring right back at them.

    • SoftStarLight August 11, 2019 at 2:43 pm #

      John when are you going to get comfortable with the reality that ethnocentrism is perfectly normal and healthy? Not every expression of it is. But in a general sense its actually an instinct. So the other 98% do care to greatly varying degrees of course. And due to the extreme and profound indoctrination that has so clearly seeped into every little corner of life here its unfortunately many White Americans that dismiss their distinct ethnic existence. Its a fascinating and frightening pathology. Needless to say, healthier populations in terms of this characteristic are poised and positioning to replace the unhealthy. And an Ethnocentrist viewpoint can be very unrelated to a Supremacist viewpoint btw.

      • JohnAZ August 11, 2019 at 5:48 pm #

        Ethnocentrism is what makes idealistic dreams like the US seemingly impossible. You are right, it is an instinct. It is responsible for the spread of mankind over the earth, as each family or ethnic group wanted their personal space, they moved.

        Ethnocentrism kept a buildup of humans in any one area from happening I guess. In today’s world, where there is no new horizons, ethnocentrism is counterproductive to folks just getting along. When competition for space and resources occurs, it is just another source of excuses to go to war.

        The real problem though takes form when another “sin” comes into play, power. Power is another instinct in some people that has its place in history. Humanity would still be hunter gatherers if some power dude or dudette hadn’t led them out of the past.

        Combine extreme power and ethnocentrism and the making of disaster happens. That combination has caused more human death and misery than any other. Every leader that has taken his ethnic followers “to conquer” the world is an example.

        Power and ethnocentrism are two components of original sin when overdone, the definition of evil. Add on vengeance and you have a real potential for havoc.

        The US currently is not, not a melting pot nor can it be. It is a tossed salad, with very little mixing. Even after the laws were passed in the sixties, little mixing of the ethnic groups has occurred. The reason is obvious, because they prefer to stay separate. How can different groups blend cultures to form a common culture when they prefer to stay apart. IMHO, this is the way of nature and will not change, so get ready for eventual separation of the US as forced integration, like the Civil War is no longer possible.

        And yes. Evil ethnocentrism is at the heart of it.

  104. BackRowHeckler August 11, 2019 at 3:04 pm #

    Was Ma Barker a first wave feminist? Her real name was ‘Arizona’, not Ma, which should be a clue. She fiercely loved her four sons, but she also loved her Thompson sub machinegun, which they found lying by her side on Jan 16, 1935, after a fierce shootout with 15 FBI agents.

    Before the assault on the Barker hideout, agents reconoiterred at a restaurant called ‘Gator Joes’.

    Next up, was Alvin Karpas ‘Woke’? Yes, yes, he spent 27 years inside Alcataz, but what was in his heart? A young Charlie Manson tried to befriend him in prison, but Karpis didn’t think much of the kid. Strictly a small timer. Its Alvin Karpis who taught Manson how to play guitar.

    Brh

    • FincaInTheMountains August 11, 2019 at 3:51 pm #

      Sex with children is not necessarily pleasure and sexual perversion, that is, pedophilia, but very often it is part of a spell that evokes a very specific spirit, the worship history of which goes back many millennia and that this cult is considered by Shakespeare to be the cause of the War of the Roses, the beginning of which he in his play “Henry VII” places at the London headquarters of the Knights Templar.

      The Temple Church is a church in the City of London located between Fleet Street and the River Thames, built by the Knights Templar as their English headquarters.

      And as Green Alba confirmed multiple times. the City of London is not the part of the United Kingdom, and the King of England could enter to the City only accompanied by the Lord Mayor (not to be confused with some Pakistani)

      • SoftStarLight August 11, 2019 at 4:06 pm #

        You know, you can be really strange sometimes Ivan.

        • FincaInTheMountains August 11, 2019 at 4:09 pm #

          Is Wikipedia too strange for you, missy?

          All my facts check out there.

          • SoftStarLight August 12, 2019 at 9:09 am #

            It’s just funny how Brh was talking about the Barker gang and then you go full tilt into the War of the Roses and the Knights Templar. That’s all.

      • GreenAlba August 11, 2019 at 5:43 pm #

        “And as Green Alba confirmed multiple times. the City of London is not the part of the United Kingdom…”

        You’re as bad as Janos, Finca.

        Put ‘City of London’ into a Wikipedia search box and the subtitle shown immediately beside your search term will be ‘city and county within the United Kingdom’.

        If the fancy takes you, you can even put in City of London Corporation’, in which case the entry includes:

        “The City of London Corporation, officially and legally the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, is the municipal governing body of the City of London, the historic centre of London and the location of much of the United Kingdom’s financial sector.”

        Now, I’m trying to figure out why the City of London would be the location of much of the United Kingdom’s financial sector if it isn’t in the United Kingdom.

        But I’m getting nowhere, which tells me that you’ll just say anything, like when you said the British burned Joan of Arc in the 15th century when even less well read people than your good self know there was no such place as Great Britain in the 15th century.

        • goldpen August 11, 2019 at 6:59 pm #

          Well GA a few days ago K-Dog corrected Finca about something regarding Russian history that any good Russian such as Finca should know. I don’t remember the details because I don’t care to remember. I just know that K-Dog started to doubt that he’s truly Russian. It was that bad.

          And he said that the Epstein arrest was somehow related to that recent Russian nuclear sub mishap.

          And he says that Hillary played a very large role in getting Nixon to resign. And that she was either the Deep Throat, or a Deep Throat, I can’t remember which. It’s hard to keep up with his inane babbling.

          The “Great Britain killed Joan of Arc” is a new one for me though. I missed that one. LOL… Classic Finca. Classic.

          • GreenAlba August 11, 2019 at 8:25 pm #

            Apparently the Queen (have you seen her recently? She’s 93!) sits up with her Privy Council and plots all this modern-day Wars of the Roses stuff.

            I was going to say you couldn’t make it up, but clearly…

          • SoftStarLight August 12, 2019 at 9:24 am #

            Yeah he accuses pretty much everyone of that at some point and time though so you have to take that with a grain of salt.

          • GreenAlba August 12, 2019 at 10:20 am #

            FincaInTheSaltmine?

    • SoftStarLight August 11, 2019 at 4:00 pm #

      I kinda like this one for a small timer and all.

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-qMFBqCeAc8

      • BackRowHeckler August 11, 2019 at 4:16 pm #

        I detect a hint of Alvin Karpis style guitar playing in that song, SSL.

        Actually, Karpis knew Manson when he was a penny ante criminal in the early 60s, before Manson became notorious.

        Brh

    • tucsonspur August 11, 2019 at 4:19 pm #

      I believe he taught him at McNeil Island prison in Wash. St.

      Even if it wasn’t the Depression, these guys would have a tough time taking to the prison of 9 to 5. Hard boiled with guns well oiled.

      So many of them checked out in 1934. Dillinger only two months after Bonnie and Clyde. Remember when they got Dillinger in Tucson?

      • tucsonspur August 11, 2019 at 4:25 pm #

        Did Manson ever kill anyone himself?

        • BackRowHeckler August 11, 2019 at 4:47 pm #

          I think there were a few neighbors near their movie ranch hideout that Manson himself had a hand in murdering.

          Even the hardest of cases in the 1930s — Dillinger in Chicago, Legs Diamond and Dutch Schultz in NYC — wouldn’t in their wildest criminal imagination think of sending assasins to innocent people’s houses in the middle of the night to murder them.

          Brh

    • BackRowHeckler August 11, 2019 at 4:37 pm #

      We used to have a lot of greasy spoon diners around here, every town had at least one. Like ‘Gator Joes’ must have been. Burger, fries, cup of coffee, that’s about what you’d order, maybe followed up by a slice of carrot cake. There were no calorie counts or gluten warnings on the menu, in fact there wasn’t a menu. What do you need a menu for when you’re ordering burgers and fries? The name of the place I’m talking about was Christys.

      Brh

    • malthuss August 11, 2019 at 7:26 pm #

      gawd, yr tales.

  105. FincaInTheMountains August 11, 2019 at 4:43 pm #

    How is it even possible that they “suicided” Epstein on the second try only?

    What a joke.

    A billion-dollar account in the Swiss bank opened in the name of every single goddamned member of the prison shift and they couldn’t do it on the first try!

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  106. FincaInTheMountains August 11, 2019 at 5:49 pm #

    Russia Is Finished

    The unstoppable descent of a once great power into social catastrophe and strategic irrelevance

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/05/russia-is-finished/302220/

    Oops, sorry. That was Atlantic hit piece from 18 years ago.

    Wonder, what do they think now?

  107. JohnAZ August 11, 2019 at 6:00 pm #

    Watching the initial reaction of Epstein’s suicide.

    How can somebody be taken off suicide watch who was still suicidal?

    Why was his cell mate taken out violating prison regulations?

    Why was the 30 minute guard patrol skipped just at the time he killed himself?

    You know, this miscarriage carries enormous import. The PTB that enabled this debacle will have again gotten away with murder, if they do get away with it. The public is fully aware of the situation and if they pull this one off in broad daylight, it could be the end of Lady Justice in the US. The fall into chaos is not far away and the Rule of Law is just about the only thing left that binds this country together. Destroy the Rule of Law and this country is kaput.

    What Jeff Epstein et al had in his knowledge base must have been horrendous against the Elite, as they are taking the chance of national dissociation to rub him out. Nice place we live in.

    Reality is starting to hit me.

    • pkrugman August 11, 2019 at 6:47 pm #

      “What Epstein had in his knowledge base …” —johnAZ

      More incriminating are the 14 names in Epstein’s black book of 14 child molesting white members of the Trump administration who used Epstein’s underage child sex trafficking “services”.

      The Trump guys in Epstein’s black book are criminals and sick child rapists paying Epstein for under age girls, but Trump chose them, so who knows… some of them may be fine people.

      Just as some of the employers who break the law by recruiting and hiring “illegals” … ICE finds thousands of hard working people to be handcuffed and deported, leaving children behind to starve.

      But who knows, maybe some of the criminal CEO’s who illegally employ immigrants are good people, too. Strange the CEO’s are not arrested for their crimes of illegally recruiting, transporting, hiring, and hiding immigrants from ICE. Maybe billionaire Trump has an “understanding” with the CEOs.

      After all Trump hires illegals, too, in his businesses, golf courses, etc. and Trump knew Epstein and knew Epstein “liked them young” when Trump hired 14 of Epstein’s clients to work in the Trump administration. The US people have been conned.

      The con ends in 2020 and citizen Trump will eventually have to do hard time for his crimes. State evidence is mounting and state indictments will flow down like a mighty river. No federal pardon can cover Trump’s state crimes.

      • malthuss August 11, 2019 at 7:28 pm #

        How many names were in JE book? 500? more than that?
        and 14 of DTs crew…like gosh damnnnnnn.

        • pkrugman August 11, 2019 at 8:36 pm #

          92. Do the math.

    • Walter B August 11, 2019 at 7:00 pm #

      Isn’t it amazing that the MSM is now posting pictures of Epstein together with Donald Trump and almost covering up the relationship that Epstein had with the Clintons? I wonder how effective this will be as a tactic and perhaps even a secondary attack to remove Mr. Trump from office. In a country of idiots, anything goes and nothing really matters..

      • malthuss August 11, 2019 at 7:27 pm #

        yes

      • JohnAZ August 11, 2019 at 7:29 pm #

        Clinton is documented going to the Pedophile Isle many times. How come Trump is not recorded doing that. How come Trump threw Epstein out of Maralago when he found out what he was up to. I do have a problem with the PTB tendency to protect each other, but that comes from that amount of crap they are all involved in. I was hoping that Epstein would have the cojones to rip that place apart but so much for that.

        Pkrugman, you need help with your TDS and maybe ophthalmologist so you can see things clearly and realize that your hero Leftists are corrupt and are anarchists. But then, maybe you are an anarchist.

        • pkrugman August 11, 2019 at 9:20 pm #

          Yes, Trump is Deranged. It is not a syndrome. Trump is a classic deranged narcissist. Good call!

  108. BackRowHeckler August 11, 2019 at 7:00 pm #

    Little Jane, Janet, Asoka et al …

    I thought Ghislaine Maxwell stated specifically Donald Trump was not involved with Epstiens activities in Florida, NY or in the Caribbean.
    The names we’ve heard so far — Mitchell, Richardson — are Dem Pols.

    Brh

  109. Pucker August 11, 2019 at 7:08 pm #

    Who was the Dutch Fokker who invented the airplane machine gun that could shoot between the rotating blades of the aircraft propeller: Anthony Fokker, or his brother Matther Fokker?

  110. Pucker August 11, 2019 at 7:35 pm #

    Was Jeffrey Epstein Je…,,ish?

    Epstein’s Sex Temple on Little St. James where he took Kevin Spacy, Prince Andrew, George Michel, and Bill Clinton is weird-looking….

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    • FincaInTheMountains August 12, 2019 at 5:21 am #

      Was Jeffrey Epstein Jewish?

      No, he was an obvious Mongoloid.

      • SoftStarLight August 12, 2019 at 9:07 am #

        LOL

  111. JohnAZ August 11, 2019 at 7:47 pm #

    Interesting article I just read. Evidently the magnetic poles are shifting positions and some think they may be ready to reverse. Hmmm?

    Is it possible that they may be involved in the weird weather changes we are seeing on earth? We do know that the magnetic field protects us from the majority of the solar wind. Could it be that the seeming shifting of the weather belts and zones might be tied into where the magnetic field is allowing solar radiation intensity to change position on the earth’s surface? Just supposing, I have not seen this conjectured before.

    What happens if they do flip? Another variable we do not understand very well.

    • BackRowHeckler August 11, 2019 at 7:54 pm #

      Is that something that can be blamed on the President or white nationalists? Can it be taxed?

      If the answer to both is no, who cares?

      Brh

      • GreenAlba August 11, 2019 at 8:18 pm #

        Finca knows, brh, it’s Hillary. Those flying monkeys get everywhere.

      • Exscotticus August 11, 2019 at 8:31 pm #

        >>> Is that something that can be blamed on the President or white nationalists? Can it be taxed?

        For Dems—clearly a rhetorical question.

        • pkrugman August 11, 2019 at 8:45 pm #

          Taxation is a cost of civilization. You don’t want to pay taxes? Somalia is for you. No regulation. No taxes. A libertarian anarchist paradise, Exscotticus. Freedom! No government! Just your kind of “civilization” … run by pirates with corrupt capitalist entrepreneurial spirit and corrupt free market terrorists. Might makes right rules. Why are you still here?

          • Exscotticus August 11, 2019 at 11:41 pm #

            >>> Taxation is a cost of civilization.

            So you won’t mind if Dems tax you by the letter? Maybe it will encourage you to shorten your posts and make them more “civilized”.

          • Majella August 12, 2019 at 3:43 am #

            Ex – yet another off-point & typical caustic and pointless response from you. What an arsehole.

          • Exscotticus August 12, 2019 at 10:06 am #

            >>> Ex – yet another off-point & typical caustic and pointless response from you. What an arsehole.

            As opposed to your post above? Yet another example of your hypocrisy.

            Off-point? I’m not against taxation as a general principle, but at some point taxes become too high and too ridiculous—such as taxing the letters in the words we use in our speech. But I understand why this example may have gone over your head; likely you’d find nothing objectionable about it at all.

    • benr August 11, 2019 at 9:08 pm #

      That has been happening for some time.

      This could account for the bizarre behavior on display so often in America now.

  112. goldpen August 11, 2019 at 8:51 pm #

    Well this didn’t take long…..MSNBC host is blaming the Epstein prison death on Russia.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLTT9OIH-m4

    Oh, it was Joe Scarborough. Surprise! It wasn’t Maddow.

    • pkrugman August 11, 2019 at 8:57 pm #

      Joe was a Republican Florida congressperson where Trump has Mar Lago. Scarborough knows Trump better than anyone.

      • goldpen August 11, 2019 at 9:03 pm #

        Yes he was a Republican congressMAN from Florida. But to say he knows Trump better than anyone is hyperbole. Okay it’s bullshit. That’s better.

        • pkrugman August 11, 2019 at 9:16 pm #

          Do you know anything about how things happen in Florida? CongressPERSONS are useful. Joe knows.

          If you listened to Joe’s confessions about his and Trump’s corrupt activities on his morning show, you would know, too.

          But you don’t because you think MSNBC is “fake news” … you have been conned by Trump. In 18 months things will be clearer for you. Relax and enjoy Trump’s downfall.

  113. BackRowHeckler August 12, 2019 at 5:57 am #

    There are many people across the political spectrum who hope this Epstein story is a gift that keeps on giving, obviously to shame political opponents as names and salacious details are revealed, but I don’t think the story will be around too long. Epstein just wasn’t that important. It will be interesting to find out just how much money he had, and where it came from. What it will be about from here on in is lawsuits by the purported victims against the Epstein estate. The estate itself has been frozen. Many, many ‘victims’, and their lawyers will be looking for a big payday as a result of this whole sordid affair.

    Brh

  114. FincaInTheMountains August 12, 2019 at 6:01 am #

    The “Great Britain killed Joan of Arc” is a new one for me though. I missed that one. LOL… Classic Finca. Classic.

    Wikipedia to the rescue of Finca’s reputation:

    Joan of Arc was a young French woman who said she had been sent to help Charles VII during the Hundred Years’ War, which led to her capture by the English-allied Burgundians during the siege of Compiègne in 1430, followed by a trial and execution conducted by a pro-English church court overseen by English commanders at Rouen, Normandy in 1431.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Joan_of_Arc

    • GreenAlba August 12, 2019 at 6:56 am #

      The point, Finca, is not the circumstances of Joan of Arc’s death, with which I and everyone else are perfectly aware, but your assertion that it was the ‘British’ who killed her.

      There were no ‘British’ in the 15th Century. As you have just demonstrated above, it was the ‘English’.

      I could overlook this from some numpty telling me stories in a French bar, but not in someone who claims to be some sort of amateur historian.

      • FincaInTheMountains August 12, 2019 at 7:16 am #

        Britain was the name made popular by the Romans when they came to the British islands – way before the 100 year war and the war of the roses.

        England used to be known as Engla land, meaning the land of the Angles, people from continental Germany, who began to invade Britain in the late 5th century, along with the Saxons and Jute.

        • GreenAlba August 12, 2019 at 8:02 am #

          It was the English who killed Joan of Arc, no matter what sophistries you come up with.

          From Wiki:

          “In English, the terms “Briton” and British for many centuries originally denoted only the ancient Celtic Britons and their descendants, most particularly the Welsh, Cornish and Bretons, who were seen as heirs to the ancient British people. After the Acts of Union 1707, the terms British and Briton gradually came to be applied to all inhabitants of the Kingdom of Great Britain, including the English, Scottish and some Northern Irish.”

          You’re welcome.

      • Q. Shtik August 12, 2019 at 10:57 am #

        nump·ty
        /?n?m(p)t?/
        Learn to pronounce
        nounINFORMAL•BRITISH
        a stupid or ineffectual person.

  115. BackRowHeckler August 12, 2019 at 6:07 am #

    The scandalous behavior, titillating details, young girls violated by older wealthy men leading to violent death, this Epstein case reminds one of the Stanford White — Elizabeth Nesbit case in NYC in the early 1900s.

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  116. tucsonspur August 12, 2019 at 6:12 am #

    CRUDE AWAKENING

    The Dinocars are still gulping from the Black Lagoons
    Drinking them down ’till the last teaspoon
    Tasting dead life that was there for the taking
    The Dinocars came alive with the great Crude Awakening

    • BackRowHeckler August 12, 2019 at 7:24 am #

      Quite good, TS.

      Is that your own creation?

      Brh

  117. FincaInTheMountains August 12, 2019 at 6:25 am #

    Just a little reminder:

    I’ll have to lift the veil of secrecy over Madonna’s performance, but the interpretation of a work of art is quite complicated matter, and I didn’t have time to research on the Internet and test the hypotheses that connected Madonna’s performance with the Rammstein video “Deutschland” and the family of Herods, who seized power in Judea on the eve of the Nativity of Christ.

    The performance of Madonna in Israel was not a work of art, and not even as a certain ritual or even an act of black magic, but a call for the revitalization of certain religious and political forces in Europe and Israel, which I, as a Jew, is ready to drench in the shithouse anywhere in the world and in any religious affiliation, including because half of my family died in Ukraine, and my grandfather, having survived near Rzhev, was crippled during the crossing of the Dnepr.

    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/prelude-to-a-fiasco/#comment-419677

    • SoftStarLight August 12, 2019 at 9:15 am #

      So the Phoenicians are the British?

      • FincaInTheMountains August 12, 2019 at 9:47 am #

        What made you think such a crazy thing? If anything, Phoenicians are anti-British.

        All I can say now is that their religion requiring human (and specifically children) sacrifice, was a major factor of the Punic wars between the Romans and Carthaginians.

  118. SoftStarLight August 12, 2019 at 9:32 am #

    The autopsy on Epstein was supposedly completed but no results released. The mystery continues!

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