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A Different Sort of Warrant

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It should be pretty obvious that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was an attempt to seize evidence likely to be used in former President Donald Trump’s civil lawsuit in the Southern Florida Federal District Court against Hillary Clinton and associated defendants in and out of government for the defamation and racketeering operation known as RussiaGate — AND in any future criminal proceedings that might grow out of congressional investigations-to-come against officials past and present in the DOJ and FBI. The idea is to tie up all those documents in a legal dispute about declassification so they can’t be entered in any proceeding.

Over the weekend, independent journalist Paul Sperry reported that many of the same FBI officers involved in the Mar-a-Lago raid happen to be subjects of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of RussiaGate. Have some of them already been hauled into grand juries? We don’t know. But, with the Mar-a-Lago caper, it looks like the law enforcement apparatus of the federal government is seeking to suppress evidence of its own long-running criminal enterprise.

The parallel purpose of the raid was to find — or perhaps plant — documents that might be used in a scheme to disqualify Mr. Trump from running for office again. The January 6th show-trial in Congress has failed to galvanize the country’s attention, and may have foundered in its attempt to find grounds for a criminal referral against the former president that would take him off the playing field. So, now this.

Momentous legal quarrels that arise out of the Mar-a-Lago raid may evolve into a constitutional crisis that the captive news media can use as a smokescreen to divert the public’s attention from any balloting shenanigans going into the November election. At least it will shove any other issues off-stage in the run-up to the midterm. Is it a miscalculation?

The choice of going to federal magistrate Bruce Reinhart for the Mar-a-Lago warrant sure looks crude and desperate. Only weeks ago, he was presiding over the Trump v Clinton lawsuit. How did that even happen, given Mr. Reinhart’s role defending Jeffrey Epstein’s associates — many of them Clinton-connected — in the 2007 sex-trafficking case? And only after the spectacularly weird act of switching sides from the federal prosecution team to Epstein’s defense team. Not to mention Mr. Reinhart’s record of public statements denouncing Mr. Trump. There are twenty-five other magistrates who rotate their duties in the Southern District of Florida, why pick him?

It all shapes up as a systematic effort to obstruct justice by the US Department of Justice. They’ve been doing it consistently since 2016 in all matters pertaining to Mr. Trump, and it is a big reason that the country is now viciously coming apart. This is just a continuation of the same seditious treachery that went on with James Comey releasing his classified interview memo concerning Mr. Trump to The New York Times via his attorney friend from Columbia University, Daniel Richman; and the ensuing dishonest Mueller investigation the leak provoked; and the Crossfire Hurricane operation run by Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, and Rod Rosenstein; and the illegal entrapment and prosecution of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn; and the serial misrepresentations to the FISA court; and the illegal coordinated maneuvers in impeachment #1 between Rep. Adam Schiff, ICIG Michael Atkinson, the National Security Council, and CIA-agent Eric Ciaramella posing as a “whistleblower”; and more recently, the mischief around the FBI’s conjured-up Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping scheme; and the FBI’s role in turning the January 6, 2020, election protests into a riot at the US Capitol.

Former president Trump is not without resources and recourse in all this. Though the news media does not follow it, the Trump v Clinton lawsuit trial continues, and it might not go so well for Mrs. Clinton and her friends. Criticism and doubts about Special Counsel John Durham aside for a moment, realize that evidence introduced during the March trial of DNC lawyer Michael Sussman has firmly established that the Hillary Clinton campaign, the DNC, the Perkins Coie law firm, and various private contractors created the Russian collusion narrative that evolved into the FBI/DOJ crimes of RussiaGate. It won’t be difficult to prove these parties’ intentions in all that, namely to drive Mr. Trump from office or disable him in the process. Do you think Mr. Trump can’t make that case against his antagonists? This is not being tried in the pliant DC federal district court. A Florida jury may see exactly what happened.

Let’s also suppose that Mr. Trump and his aides were pretty scrupulous about collecting documentary evidence about these shenanigans over the years they took place. Mr. Trump did indeed order the declassification and de-redaction of reams of pertaining documents before leaving office. Do you suppose that the Supreme Court would not adjudicate any quarrels over them with dispatch? The effrontery (and gross stupidity) of Attorney General Merrick Garland stands in luridly full display. In signing off on the Mar-a-Lago raid warrant, Mr. Garland signed the death warrant on his own reputation and career.


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1,129 Responses to “A Different Sort of Warrant”

  1. MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 9:45 am #

    Another excellent article, James, thank you. I completely agree that the Mar-A-Lago raid has to do with building a public consensus for election interference.

    It’s unfortunate many still can’t detect the set up, even though they do it over and over again. Distract, distract, distract.

    • Walter B August 15, 2022 at 10:08 am #

      One of the many frustrating things I experienced first-hand as mayor was that even after proving on paper, through the prosecutor’s office, the Department of Community Affairs, and the NJ State Department, the corrupt, guilty former mayor was able to play social media as the victim. He somehow managed to gather enough support from enough online idiots that ignored the published proofs to get me thrown out of office instead of him. Too many Americans have become too stupid, too lazy, and too corrupt to be able to participate in government, even in the simple role of casting votes.

      Of course, it helps when the criminal politicians throw lavish parties and entertainment events, and post lots of pictures of themselves petting puppies and pandering to school children on social media. If the true power really does come from the people, which I believe to be the case, we are all screwed because so many of them only care about eating, drinking, and fornicating. They actuality opened a swinger’s club not far from here, not that there’s anything wrong with that. It is an interesting indicator, however, of where the people’s priorities lie.

      • thirdcoastlegend August 15, 2022 at 10:22 am #

        Well, we don’t have anything quite as exciting in western NY, but all the normies seem to care about is grilling, back to school shopping, NFL training camp, and drafting their fantasy football team.

        Based on this, I figure the Dems should be able to steal a blue supermajority without much trouble in November.

        • Walter B August 15, 2022 at 10:25 am #

          Anything goes, nothing really matters, and no one really cares. Bingo!

        • Uncle Bob August 15, 2022 at 11:08 am #

          As Beck had said this morning, a) the polls are getting closer, and b) if Republicans win and do their normal lousy job when they have a majority, there won’t be another election. Comforting (if probably accurate) thought.

          • UN OUT OF USA August 15, 2022 at 9:02 pm #

            As long as Mitch McConnell remains the Senate Leader for the Republicans, nothing will happen. There is no way in hell that that he would seriously “go after” any Dems. He is as corrupt as they come so he will not open Pandora’s box. The Republican party (the Stupid and spineless party) will talk a big game and then will do nothing! Just like they talked big about repealing Obamacare and then did nothing. They told voters what they wanted to hear in order to get (re)elected and then once they got in office, they went right back to “going along to get along”. Uniparty scum.

        • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 12:07 pm #

          Yes, that is that they care about. In Vedic terms, they are the Sudras, the vocal majority who populate the base of the Pyramid. By definition, they deserve little or no voice. They are not qualified to be citizens.

          Thus Democracy and Universal Education are vicious frauds, pushed by the Slave Master to destroy our Republic.

        • Anthea August 16, 2022 at 9:41 am #

          I think the degradation of the general public goes well beyond mere shallowness and triviality. We’re over the line into active evil. Around half the people in this country get their livelihoods by stealing from the other half, using government as their intermediary for this purpose. They are deep-dyed statists. Anything that gives the government more power is to their advantage. They take this as a sign that they can steal more. Everything form a militarized IRS to civil asset forfeiture is, to them, security for their pensions and benefits–or welfare check and food stamps.

          Government and media have also promoted the idea that all things that were formerly viewed as sinful, evil, and even criminal are behaviors that should not only be supported, by subsidized. If you’re George Floyd’s family, you can be handsomely rewarded for having a criminal family member. Being a trannie can land you a well paid government job. Rewarding crime, evil, and insanity is public policy. Rewarding merit is against public policy, and all things meritorius are treated as evils–qualities that oppress or disadvantage others, things to be ashamed of.

      • Merkwurdiglieb August 15, 2022 at 10:27 am #

        “Too many Americans have become too stupid, too lazy, and too corrupt to be able to participate in government, even in the simple role of casting votes.”

        Walter, not all non-voting Americans have become “lazy, corrupt or stupid.” Some have just resigned their hope in human institutions altogether. No offense to your prior office, but I’ll only participate again in the electoral process once I’m satisfied that true justice has been served, heads have rolled, and the nation’s sanity has been restored. Until then…..

        • Walter B August 15, 2022 at 10:35 am #

          Your point is valid Strangelove, I did the same thing years ago and will probably return to the practice myself again soon, although I will be voting for myself again in November (but no one else).

          • Merkwurdiglieb August 15, 2022 at 10:42 am #

            Best of luck Mr Mayor.

        • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 11:15 am #

          I saw statistics back in around 2015 that showed that FORTY-SIX percent of Americans do not vote.

          Nearly half the country.

          As Tony Benn famously said, “A demoralized people don’t vote.”

          Why would we waste our time? They fix the elections right in front of us now, and shame us when we point it out.

          • Merkwurdiglieb August 15, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

            Right. So Election Day becomes now an absurd pageant of sorts. And don’t I volunteer to play the fool?

          • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

            And arrest us, and freeze bank accounts.

        • JackStraw August 15, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

          I’m in the same situation as you, Merk.

          I’ve never missed a vote since I turned 18, but after the blatant theft that we all know happened in 2020, and the fact that nothing was done about it, I have completely withdrawn from the process.

          I have absolutely no faith in our election system, nor the government, nor the drooling morons we call fellow citizens, or more aptly, consumers.

          I simply refuse to participate in this charade anymore.

      • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 10:31 am #

        Have you watched Ozark or House of Cards?

        There are elements of Hollywood who understand and display what is going on in this country.

        • Merkwurdiglieb August 15, 2022 at 12:08 pm #

          No John, I haven’t. I’ve been under a rock these days. But you’re the third or fourth petson who has exhorted me to watch (Ozark). I’ll get on it. Thanx.

      • Paul August 15, 2022 at 10:49 am #

        If so many of Americans are interested only in eating, drinking and fornicating, (and I would add fighting to this list), my friendly advice would be to pursue one of these as a specialty and to drop the other two. At the end of the game it’s better to be remembered as a champion glutton, piss tank or libertine rather than a hot, sloppy, disgusting mess who couldn’t get their priorities straight.

      • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 11:17 am #

        Well said, Walter B.

        People care more about what they watch on social media or TV news or their programming shows (sex sex sex, drink drink drink, gossip, get plastic surgery, etc) than they do actual facts.

        It does feel like we are in the final days of Rome with all the debauchery, doesn’t it?

        I think all collapsing civilizations must be like this.

        • UN OUT OF USA August 15, 2022 at 9:12 pm #

          So true MQ. Until America is either invaded or we all begin starving to death, too many of us are still fast asleep. I live in a large retirement community in Texas (!) with a lot of ex-military. And even they are asleep. They refuse to believe that our government, the one they served in and lost countless friends who also served and made the ultimate sacrifice for, would lie to us or want to harm us! Most of these folks won’t go online and try to find alternate resources for info. They simply “download” whatever CNN, CBS, ABC, FOX tells them. It’s so sad. These are great folks but, sadly, they are a large part of the problem.

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 4:21 pm #

            Until people understand the psychos in charge enjoy our suffering and laugh when we die, there probably won’t be any change.

      • sanspeur August 15, 2022 at 11:46 am #

        As long as the majority of sleepers have access to a shower,3 hots and a cot nothing will change.

        Its a 3 legged stool, knock any one leg off and the entire society will collapse back to law and order, where if you lie for personal gain at the expense of others and are caught, your typical outcome will be a rope around your neck.

        Soft fat people die slowly from infection and rot. That is America today.

      • cbeard August 15, 2022 at 12:21 pm #

        Still no one is talking about election reforms. First and foremost the elimination of the electronic voting machines, using only paper ballots, no mail in ballots except for the military and then only with proper safeguards. One national election day and no ballots counted after midnight. Voter ID and proof of citizenship.

        • Q. Shtik August 15, 2022 at 1:56 pm #

          I agree 1001% with your comment.

        • Hereward the Woke August 15, 2022 at 2:48 pm #

          Correct, Cbeard. You would have thought that the GOP would be screaming about this every day. Crickets!

          • UN OUT OF USA August 15, 2022 at 9:15 pm #

            The GOP are a spineless bunch. They TALK big and then DO nothing. Remember they were going to repeal Obamacare and reduce spending? Yeah, right. They tell us what they think we want to hear in order to get (re) elected and then they forget about us and all their promises. They’re disgusting.

      • cbeard August 15, 2022 at 12:29 pm #

        They actuality opened a swinger’s club not far from here, not that there’s anything wrong with that. If the definition of a swinger’s club is what I think it is, such as wife swapping and such. Then people should have a problem with that and the associated broken homes and motherless, fatherless children to come from such selfish acts.

        • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 4:23 pm #

          Remember when that was illegal? Anything goes now. I don’t see how ‘swinging’ helps a family unit, either. Yuck.

      • Islander August 16, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

        It is a disaster that junk that appears on Twitterstan has come to be viewed by so many as some kind of evidence.

        As in a court of justice.

        But lying in a court of justice is a crime, perjury.

        Lying on Twitter is . . . nothing. The name of the game, one that can bring rich rewards.

        Twitter has contributed NOTHING to our society, our “civilization,” the quality of our lives.

        It is a gigantic distraction.

    • MontanaMan August 15, 2022 at 11:58 am #

      I could not agree more with you my friend! It was without a doubt, another excellent, absolutely outstanding article put out by Howard Kunstler!!!!

  2. malthuss August 15, 2022 at 9:46 am #

    Meanwhile, there is ‘trouble’ near the southern border. Why?

    Also the wars drag on.

    • Disaffected August 15, 2022 at 10:14 am #

      What’s going on down there?

      • thirdcoastlegend August 15, 2022 at 10:18 am #

        Mexican government is in open conflict with cartels.

        Looks like martial law will be declared in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez.

        • SpeedyBB August 15, 2022 at 10:27 am #

          B-b-b-but those two starlets plan to go down to see their “Tijuana dentist”.

          (Ya gotta be old to catch this one.)

          • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 10:32 am #

            Im old n i didnt catch it.

            weed? roids?

          • Alzaebo August 16, 2022 at 11:57 am #

            TJ dentist: abortions for starlets that caught the casting couch

        • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 10:31 am #

          I have been to TJ. Its no wonder millions of mexicans moved here.

        • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 10:35 am #

          What is the government of Mexico? Mexico City or the Cartels?

          Uh, the same question could be asked of this country except the DC crowd is the leadership of the cartels here.

          • tresho August 15, 2022 at 12:48 pm #

            “What is the government of Mexico? Mexico City or the Cartels?

            Uh, the same question could be asked of this country except the DC crowd is the leadership of the cartels here.”

            Answer: Both the USA and Mexico are run by organized criminal syndicates.

        • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 3:13 pm #

          I guess Eric Holder is going to have to restart Fast and Furious to give the US-backed cartels a better chance.

          Maybe also some Javelins and Himars? It seems only fair that if the Nazis get them the drug lords should get them too.

          • UN OUT OF USA August 15, 2022 at 9:19 pm #

            Don’t be too surprised when the cartels use a Javelin. With all the corruption in Ukraine and supposedly only about 30% of the weapons provided by the West making it to the front lines, I am certain many of those weapons will come to haunt us sooner or later. And with all the money at the cartel’s disposal, you gotta believe that they have acquired a fair number of those weapons on the dark web (probably for Bitcoin).

    • happiface August 15, 2022 at 12:33 pm #

      the prez of mexico is going to have the army take everything over,they are the least corrupt of all insitutions there….i have had excellent dental work in TJ–got to go to the right place,check ratings online–and hospital fixed my broken elbow,very nice job-the hospital is nice,modern,a-1—

  3. Walter B August 15, 2022 at 9:47 am #

    Seize evidence Jim? How about create evidence? People seem to be oblivious to the fact that once the bad guys have your technology devices, they can simply add anything they want to them, creating any kind of incriminating garbage right out of thin air.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if they claim there was kiddie porn shot in the oval office itself and I am sure that they have the ability to create that.

    And another thing to keep in mind, as I believe that you do, it is not a conspiracy anymore, it is THE PLAN!

    • Walter B August 15, 2022 at 9:50 am #

      In re-reading your post Jim I was reminded that you DID note the possibility of planting evidence and clearly these dirt bags are more than capable of doing so.

      You are one smart cookie and I thank you for being our eyes and ears on the world and its downfall.

    • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 10:42 am #

      Think about Trump for a second. He is the sole and primary enemy of the Deep State, in their eyes. If he was just a plant, as others on the blog think, why are they spending so much time and effort trying to tear him down.

      They hate him!!

      He is trying to undo sixty years of power accumulation promoted by the Mob through the Left and during the last thirty years by a substantial portion of the Right.

      This is a war between the public and its government. That is why the Trump Deplorables are Populists.

      A lame duck Trump is the primary nightmare of the Mob and they will do ANYTHING to prevent it from happening. Nothing is off the table.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 11:00 am #

        Related to fear of Trump, the evidence is mounting that Vice President Pence played an active role in creating that horrible covid task force that was about anything but a virus. Not just a wooden Indian, but an actual villain.

        That Pottinger guy, who has been identified as the reason the nutty Birx and her voodoo showed up, is also the national security guy who performed the fluent Mandarin parlor trick, remember?

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp5h6n6fbUg

        What business did he have on a task force allegedly about a disease?

        • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 11:19 am #

          Pence is about as evil as they come.

          • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 11:41 am #

            Pence was a con artist. We watched him being the stalwart Trump supporter for 4 years. Trump, in the closing moments of the second impeachment. gave him the responsibility of handling the Covid situation, and he turned to the Deep State for his answer.

            He is a creature of the night, a phantom of the Deep State Opera. His true nature is currently coming to light.

            Think about this. Jan. 6, a huge riotous crowd welling up, heading toward the Capitol, pissed off at a government that just destroyed their hero. Then Pence, instead of putting off the election results until things quieted down, rubbed the crowds noses in the farce by conducting the count.

            Could it be the real cause of Jan.6 was Pence?

          • cbeard August 15, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

            In my opinion anyone who wears religion on their sleeve such as Pence is one to keep a close eye on.

          • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 6:50 pm #

            JAZ, I recall having similar suspicions back around the time it happened, yes.

          • Redneck Liberal August 15, 2022 at 8:45 pm #

            Yeah…”Hang Mike Pence!”

          • benr August 18, 2022 at 9:58 am #

            @rl

            That might be a really stupid statement to say even in jest.

            A simple tar and feathering would be more appropriate.

            Or a couple of days on the stocks getting pelted with rotten tomatoes and fruit?

            Got to say medieval man had some ingenious ways of dealing with troublemakers.

      • Walter B August 15, 2022 at 11:02 am #

        In the political arena I was Donald Trump before Donald was, and now I am in the same exact spot that he finds himself in as well. You are absolutely correct, even out of power, those who are willing (or dumb enough) to stand up against corruption are dangerous to the criminals in power and will continue to be tortured, even long after they are out of the arena or even dead.

        Heck, I didn’t even take a salary for my time in office either. Hey Donald, did you ever look in the mirror and see me staring back at you?

        If Donald Trump was despised by so many because he pissed people off, how come angry Dopey Joe has not been arrested yet? He’s just Biden his time as the nation’s angriest and most incompetent puppet to ever be planted in the anal, I mean Oval Office.

      • Lyndy33 August 15, 2022 at 11:15 am #

        I fear for President Trump that the possibility for assassination is very real as the 2024 elections get near.

        • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 11:42 am #

          Yes, and remember the Secret Service works for the Deep State.

        • cbeard August 15, 2022 at 12:39 pm #

          Ditto.

          • tresho August 15, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

            “Yes, and remember the Secret Service works for the Deep State.”
            Remember ancient Rome’s old Praetorian Guard & how they wound up operating.

      • happiface August 15, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

        any person in the usa can be speaker of the house,anybody,do not have to be member of CONgress.trump might be next january–he as speaker would wreak havoc!!

        • TPTB-USA August 15, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

          At this point, there are so many things that “they” can’t allow to happen.

        • UN OUT OF USA August 15, 2022 at 9:26 pm #

          That won’t happen as long as there are more “establishment” Republicans than true “conservative/constitutionalist” Republicans. The overwhelming majority of spineless establishment Republicans will NEVER vote Trump in for any office. Not gonna happen.

      • Rowdypiglet August 15, 2022 at 3:05 pm #

        All questions of what he did do, or didn’t do, or could have done aside, my affection for Trump is based largely on the fact that the deep state wants so desperately to be rid of him. I’m fairly sure that he was more effective than he appeared, and had more things in the works than any of us realize. Again – solely based on the lengths they’ve gone to in pursuing him. Maybe it’s only because he’s persistent and has a level of courage that I didn’t at all expect. Whatever has gone on behind the scenes, they really really hate him. They’re willing to hurt themelves in order to hurt him. It only makes sense if they believe he’s a serious threat. In this case, I guess they know something I don’t.

        • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 3:17 pm #

          When Trump started running for president the only previous knowledge I had of him was that he was a rich man who had a reality show where he fired people.
          Ordinarily those things would predispose me to disliking him.
          But the media! It was so unhingedly and rabidly against him that I drew the conclusion there must be something OK about him.
          I voted for Jill Stein, but I was happy that if she didn’t win, he did, even if it meant that we had to listen to TDS bullshit for 6 more years and counting.
          If our ruling overlords hate him so much, I refuse to.

    • Hereward the Woke August 15, 2022 at 2:50 pm #

      Spot on, Walter. Does anyone really think the American Gestapo are going to raid Chez Trump and risk coming out with nothing? Plant, plant, Plant!

  4. Armenio Pereira August 15, 2022 at 9:48 am #

    We’re on our way to become the fossil fuels of the future; some may even become future diamonds.
    Carbon-based lifeforms.
    Still beauty or relentless motion, biochemistry and geology working within the confines of rules set not by us.

    And what about the fabled 21 grams?<

    Light matter and dense matter parting their ways, until life brings them together.
    Dense matter descends into the katabolic mysteries.
    Light matter joins the ether to become the sound
    of wind through the reeds; the eerie, quiet whisper
    heard in those dark, lonely hours; the soundtrack to
    oneiric portents.
    The voice of things left unsaid.

    • John K August 15, 2022 at 9:56 am #

      My thoughts exactly in relation to today’s post. (Cough.)

    • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

      Well said. Prose more beautiful than almost any poem.

      We must evolve into Sound since we were created thru it. Thus we must only speak the truth since lies throw us into the muck and mire.

      Buddha tied a series of knots. He asked his students, How would you untie them? The first one, first? No, Lord. Last one first. In reverse order.

  5. dplainview August 15, 2022 at 9:58 am #

    Sadly, the long standing strategy in litigation of “running out the clock” appears to be in play: Deny, Study, Stall.

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    • Walter B August 15, 2022 at 10:12 am #

      Although most of the good people here already know that the gears of government move at a glacier like pace, they may not fully grasp the reason why and the simple fact of the matter is because lawyers not only bill by the hour, they have unbridled control over how many hours they wind up billing for.

      We call it “Billing By The Pound”!

      • redrock August 15, 2022 at 11:35 am #

        Lawyers can only be conceived thru anal intercourse. Explains a lot.

      • cbeard August 15, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

        Maybe banning lawyers from elected office would be a good thing.

        • Walter B August 15, 2022 at 9:04 pm #

          Maybe Shakespeare was right:

          The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
          (2 Henry VI, 4.2.59), Dick the Butcher to Jack Cade

          Disclaimer: I do not advocate violence of any kind, not even to lawyers for if we allow them to live, they will surely find ways to continue to corrupt their souls (if they even have them) and in the end find suitable judgement from the only One who can meter out true judgement and punishment. I am confident that payment due for crimes committed will be far more suitable than anything we can do to these scumbags here in life.

        • UN OUT OF USA August 15, 2022 at 9:31 pm #

          cbeard, spot on. From an email I just received:

          an excellent explanation of why our political system has difficulty working together!

          “As an attorney, I hesitated to forward this as it can be considered to be an indictment against my profession. But I believe there is much truth to the article below. Very thought provoking. Lawyers are adversarial and are trained to try to win at all costs. May work in litigation —– but does not work well when governing our nation in Congress. Trying to win at any costs creates the polarization and hatred that now fills our country….Leaves no room for common sense or legitimate debate.”

          Every Democrat presidential nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate – Biden (no surprise) was at the bottom of his class). Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Barack Obama was a lawyer. Michelle Obama was a lawyer. Hillary Clinton was a lawyer. Bill Clinton was a lawyer. John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer. Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer is a lawyer. Former Senator Harry Reid was a lawyer.

          The Republican Party is different. President Trump is a businessman. President Bush 1 and 2 were businessmen. Vice President Cheney was a businessman. President Eisenhower was a 5 star General. The leaders of the Republican Revolution: Newt Gingrich was a history professor. Dick Armey was an economist. Ex-House Minority Leader John Boehner was a plastics manufacturer. The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon. Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer? Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against actor Ronald Reagan in 1976. The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers. This is very interesting. I had never thought about it this way before.

          The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers. Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Trump, Bush, and Cheney, or who heal the sick like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history like Gingrich. The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America . And, so, in the eyes of the Lawyers Party, we have seen the procession of official enemies grow. Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail? Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.

          This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers. Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, which, in this case should be the American people. Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side. Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine. But it is an awful way to govern a great nation.

          When politicians, as lawyers, begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming. Some Americans become adverse parties of our very government. We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit. We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.

          Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives. America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked. When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big. When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing

          Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business. Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work. Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.

          The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 66% of the world’s lawyers! Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits. This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party. When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association go to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high.

  6. malthuss August 15, 2022 at 10:04 am #

    Is anyone else spending $20 for 2 eggs, eaten ‘out’?

    A vlogger who goes by ‘I allegedly’ on Utube noted ‘a few bagels, delivered was $50 or $60’.

    • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 10:11 am #

      Breakfast $12 – 20

      Lunch sandwich $15 – 20

      Dinner pasta $20 – 30

      Dinner meat $30 – ?

      Wine $10 – ? 6 oz.

      Beer $7 – 12

      Mixed $15 – ?

      Food production supply down

      Oil up

      Labor at minimum wage $15/hr.

      All caused by Ol’ Joe and his Mob.

      • Walter B August 15, 2022 at 10:20 am #

        Most of those items can be avoided as I am sure you know John. I have a packet of instant oatmeal for breakfast at a cost of $0.25, a cup of chili for lunch at $3.98, and a steak dinner for less than $10.00. Why so many people feel that it is so much better to dine out so frequently at hundreds of dollars a day baffles me. It all comes out the same in the end, doesn’t it?

        The day is coming when eating at all is going to be disappearing luxury if Bill Gates and Herr Schlob have their way and the fact that the impoverished will be the first to die off does not make me feel any better about it. They want us dead, plain and simple, and the sooner you understand that someone is trying to kill you, the better off you will be.

        It ain’t no accident.

        • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 10:33 am #

          14×30 is a lot of money.

          • Walter B August 15, 2022 at 10:40 am #

            Sorry, the steak, potatoes, and a veggie feeds the four of us, although if we do go out to eat it is horrifying even if we try to be frugal. Dining out is clearly not going to have a rosy future for a lot of people, especially the ones making $15.00 and hour.

          • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 1:32 pm #

            FOR ONE PERSON

        • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 10:47 am #

          Remember JHK in The Long Emergency talking about the loss of skill sets being a big problem in the WMBH?

          Cooking may be one of those skill sets. One big loss from the feminist movement is the loss of household cooking skills.

          OG and Jarek’s fruit pies are now bought in restaurants or Safeways.

          • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

            Stove top cooking is easy.

            Baking not so easy. What gets to me is the home delivery of dinner.

            im like wth. not only does someone else make the meal but
            people want it delivered.

          • Blackbird August 15, 2022 at 7:05 pm #

            Seeing where this madness is going (at least in the short term), I have come up with a brilliant business idea – one that I am sure many citizens of Clusterfuck Nation would like to invest in.

            Not sure what to call it yet, but you order online (or over the phone if you are old-fashioned). I prepare your meal. I deliver your meal. I eat your meal! (Delivery costs reduced if I eat at home.) You don’t have to do anything!

            This thing’s gonna go crazy, get in on the ground floor!.

          • Anthea August 16, 2022 at 12:51 pm #

            A lot of women who grew up during the Depression were not very good cooks, for the simple reason that they never had the opportunity to cook anything but beans and cornbread or biscuits and gravy. The fruit pies were for people whose farms had fruit trees or berries. (You could afford the flour and lard for the crust and the sugar for the filling, even if you couldn’t afford the fruit.)

            That’s always been my theory about my mother’s uninspired cooking efforts–though she could turn out a nice Sunday dinner or holiday meal, and she also canned vegetables from the garden and made grape jelly from out grapevine. She also baked popovers occasionally and made pies with store-bought canned pie filling. (You had to make your own pie crust back then, as they had not yet invented frozen pie crusts.)

            As a working single mom, I got to be a master at making a from-scratch meal in about 20 minutes and had a large collection of suitable recipes. There are many very good meals that take very little time to prepare. Broiled fish takes only a few minutes, and you can broil it while it’s still frozen. Lamb chops (if you can afford them) are pan-fried in four minutes to each side. Stir-fries take only a few minutes. (Get a rice cooker for the rice.) Spaghetti or any pasta dish takes little time, especially if the marinara or Alfredo sauce comes in a jar. Other fast meals are quesadillas and bruschetta. Steak is one of the quickest of all meals. A favorite dessert involved dumping a large can of peaches in a pie pan and putting a pile of crumb topping on it and baking till hot. This is not so much a pie as goo in a pie pan, but it always got demolished. They used to have the crumb topping recipe on the Bisquick box, but now I think you have to look it up online. Bread pudding is a cheap dessert that’s very little trouble. Sausage and peppers is a great recipe to make over a campfire.

            If you want to bake great bread, get a bread machine.

            My daughters (millennials) all turned out to be good cooks. One of them tends to one-up me at times. Our customary Christmas eve meal was brie and almonds warmed in the oven and served with crusty French bread and Spumante. So the one daughter had to start making brie en croute instead.

            Every recipe for anything you could ever want to cook is online. One of my old friends recently discovered this, after spending years collecting cookbooks. He told me this last night–positively gushing with delight at the wonder of it all.

            Want to make deli-style half-sour pickles? Roasted poblanos? Roasted vegetables? English pub-style pickled onions? Baked leg of lamb? Wilted lettuce? Borscht? Posole? It’s all literally at your fingertips.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 10:30 am #

        A flour processing plant caught fire. Twice. Nothing to see there.

        • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 10:33 am #

          oregon, huge plant.

          who dunnit? russians? insurance scam? starvation plan?

        • GreenAlba August 16, 2022 at 7:41 am #

          New Normal flour is to be sustainable flour – made with crickets. Yum. Think of the fruit pies.

    • Disaffected August 15, 2022 at 10:13 am #

      I never eat out anymore.

      • Freddie August 15, 2022 at 10:28 am #

        As a lifelong bachelor, dining out has never been a regular part of my lifestyle.
        And for decades I have only bought a take-out meal once a week (<$10, Chinese, or only very occasionally, a small pizza now and then).

        I splurged last night and bought a $14 turkey club sandwich for dinner. I might do that twice a year.

      • Frank Buttitch August 15, 2022 at 10:38 am #

        Amen!
        Eating out is a sure way to get a good case of diarrhea. Sanitation is a low priority in the food service industry.
        Why pay big bucks for shitty food.

        • Walter B August 15, 2022 at 10:47 am #

          Why pay big bucks for tomorrow morning’s deposit on the porcelain throne? Throwing money down the toilet, literally.

          We also realized that we could cook far cheaper meals that are prepared to our own idea of perfection at home that include meat, poultry, and seafood and the size portions are precise as well. I believe that the big draw in dining out is in avoiding the preparation before and the clean up afterward. I have never minded either and still do all our dishes by hand. Beats the heck out of watching TV, a waste of time that I gave up a long time ago.

          • Rowdypiglet August 15, 2022 at 11:29 am #

            I’m not sure how many of you live in small towns or rural places, but the local diner or truck stop is where a lot of socializing takes place. When that no longer exists, it will be a serious loss. We have a tiny country store down the street, with a small attached lunchroom at the back. The food is not the draw. No one even cares if you sit with a cup of coffee for an hour, or eat the lunch you packed and just buy a drink. Between noon and 2:00 it’s full of working men – the people who fix your plumbing, plow your drive, work on the road crew. As soon as you open the door, you can hear men laughing in the back, razzing each other, and gossiping. You can stick your head in the room and find out what’s happening around town, who went to the hospital, where a tree fell across the road, whose dog ran off. Or you can just say “hi” to neighbors and ask if they need anything. Nothing will take the place of this once it’s gone, and it will be just another thing – but an important thing – that nourished us and is now denied us.

          • Disaffected August 15, 2022 at 12:00 pm #

            Good points all, piglet.

          • tresho August 15, 2022 at 12:53 pm #

            “Beats the heck out of watching TV, a waste of time that I gave up a long time ago.” It’s far worse than a simple waste of time. The more you watch, the less you know and the worse your ability to think.

          • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

            rowdy, in L A people sit at a table with heads down.

            not in prayer but praying to each ones phone.

          • Anthea August 16, 2022 at 5:01 pm #

            @ Rowdypiglet:

            Only one of the restaurants in our little town–which is big enough to have several–functioned as the town’s “labor ready.” All the independent contractors went there first thing in the morning, every morning, at opening time and nursed a cup of coffee for an hour or two and chatted.

            Everyone who needed a job done or needed to hire a few workers knew where to find them.

            This was also a good place to find out other useful information, such as who had a house or car for sale. I was seldom there, but I’ll bet it also was a major clearinghouse for local gossip.

        • happiface August 15, 2022 at 12:56 pm #

          i go to the local dont nut shop in the morning twice a week–about 10 of us park in the resturant parking lot across the street–we get our donut,coffee and sit in the starbucks patio next door,nobody cares,small town–i am taking my ’94 jag convertible up the mountain for lunch today,meet some friends,we are all retired,sit outside in the patio with the sierras in the backround–it does not get any better than this other than the kids,grand kids at san diego zoo on the 26th(with my favorite girl,the wife!) …worked for 48 years as a trucker(my own truck,local) and saved our pennies so 50+ bucks a week for crappy resturant food means nothing–anybody could have done the same thing in the usa,i know 3 turckers in our small town,retired millionares–that is what makes america the greatest place in the world in spite of the maggots in DC…..

          • Rowdypiglet August 15, 2022 at 3:02 pm #

            I’m sad for people who don’t have this kind of socializing in their lives. I wouldn’t live in LA for any reason other than a gun held to the heads of my loved ones. Even the local McDonald’s in the small town where I used to live had regulars who met at the same table every morning, retired men who got together for a few hours to gossip, drink coffee, and discuss what their grandchildren were doing. The kids behind the counter knew them and occasionally took a five minute break to sit and chat with them and look at the latest picture of the grandkids. It was a warm and caring atmosphere, even in a crappy corporate fast food place. This can only happen in a small town. I wish it was available to everyone.

          • Anthea August 16, 2022 at 5:26 pm #

            In farming communities, there is always one little restaurant where the farm men eat breakfast or lunch almost every day, in the winter, if they don’t have a non-farm job. There’s very little farm work to be done in the off season, and it’s a place to get out of the house.

        • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 6:47 pm #

          That’s a great point.

          I rarely watch TV but got pulled in by a few episodes of “nightmare kitchens” with that chef Ramsey guy.

          OMG every restaurant was so disgusting, I nearly barfed.

          That really put a damper on me ever wanting to go to a restaurant again.

          And these were not cheap restaurants, some were ‘fine dining’ enterprises.

          • Redneck Liberal August 15, 2022 at 8:53 pm #

            Ahh…so you do watch TV. And, of course, you believe the ‘reality’ tv shows are real. Explains a lot…

          • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 9:32 pm #

            I live rent free in your otherwise empty noggin.

      • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 10:50 am #

        Only on special occasions and it takes a huge chunk out of a monthly budget.

        What do you think, could it be that women being forced back into the kitchen could be a big thing in upcoming politics?

      • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 11:24 am #

        Same. I love to cook though and eat healthy. The very few times I have been out recently were bad experiences. The food sucked, and was fattening and oversalted etc.

        I consider dining out to be more of a social thing and not even about the food. And now that it’s grotesquely expensive for food that is worse than what I can make, forget it.

        • Not_GeorgeT August 15, 2022 at 8:06 pm #

          Once in a while it is nice to go dining out and have someone else do the work. In some ways a luxury. Mostly, it’s prepare all the meals at home. Choose in the healthy direction when shopping, and have a couple of ‘splurge’ items as treats.

          Been living this way for a while.

        • Anthea August 16, 2022 at 6:31 pm #

          Few restaurants will take the care in selecting ingredients that you will. Most restaurants have been skimping, one way or another, for ten years or more, as food costs have increased. Twenty years ago our local Mexican restaurant served chiles rellenos smothered in cheese, but for many years now, they’ve been served with sauce only. You used to be able to get a good taco at a fast-food place, but the last time I ordered tacos, they were unspeakably horrible. It was kind of like dog food in a taco shell (and not much of this “meat” to begin with), topped with a little shredded lettuce. The “meat” had no seasoning in it. No cheese, onion, or tomatoes on it.

          Sometimes I wonder if the younger people even know what a taco is supposed to be.

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 4:48 pm #

            Sounds terrible. This is also my experience the few times I venture out.

            It’s just not worth it to go to restaurants any more. Even the ambiance is shitty, and that’s what I used to like. Now it’s just people strapping on feedbags in chain restaurants. Depressing.

    • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 11:25 am #

      I’m amazed that any restaurants are able to stay open now. I do see a lot closing, and the ones that are open don’t have enough staff, and the service and food quality suffer.

      • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 1:41 pm #

        costs of rent etc. increased cost of food stocks.

        less diners to buy.

        squeezed on both ends so prices go up.

    • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

      Only a fool eats out, unless very rich. Still plenty of food around – at least for now. Obviously this may not continue.

      • BackRowHeckler August 15, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

        Even for breakfast? Nothing better than a couple of fried eggs over easy, home fries, bacon, a side of pancakes and a cup of Joe at the local Silver Diner.

        • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 1:27 pm #

          I couldn’t digest that anyway. You probably can. You have more appetite for what is glibly called “life” than I do.

          And that’s both good and bad. Don’t forget lots of fake maple syrup on the flap jacks – that will really help you digest the bacon and eggs. Also one full glass of OJ to start with and then a mug of coffee with a refill to finish up.

          • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

            the master cynic has ‘spoken’.

          • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 5:19 pm #

            If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

            Jesus Christ

            If you still love this world, you are unworthy of eternal life, malthus.

          • Blackbird August 15, 2022 at 7:30 pm #

            Same here Jars. I like to start the day on an empty stomach – after sleeping in as long as possible.

          • Anthea August 16, 2022 at 6:41 pm #

            There’s company called Walden Farms that sells an excellent sugar-free pancake syrup, and also several other kinds of sugar-free syrup. You can use it to sweeten other things. I would like to come up with a sugar-free barbeque sauce, and I think this stuff will work.

  7. Alfred August 15, 2022 at 10:05 am #

    The threads of Jeffrey Epstein are woven throughout the tapestry that tells the story of this coup.

    Over the years we have witnessed countless, seemingly nonsensical, acts of malfeasance and we’ve heard the testimony of bold in-your-face liars and ‘whistle-blowers.’

    Nonsensical until you consider the enormous leverage a Jeffery Epstein tape or accusation could bring to bear.

    Makes one wonder if Bill Clinton traveled to Epstein’s island to sate his appetite for young flesh, or to manage the progress of ensnaring the persons who would be of most use to them when they needed them.

    Where is the client list?

    Seriously, where is the client list?

    #FJB

    • SW August 15, 2022 at 10:37 am #

      The corruption surrounding Epstein goes back a long way & also involves the Bushes. Bush 2 was president & Jeb was governor of Florida when Epstein got his wrist slapped for exploiting underage girls. The Feds took over the local police investigation & did a plea bargain without consulting them. The chief of police was furious but could do nothing. Epstein was obviously running a blackmail scheme with videos of powerful men & underage girls — maybe boys too. Bill Clinton was on the flight manifest 26 times & Trump, never.

      The client list is in a safe in Israel & Epstein is most likely on a yacht in the Mediterranean.

      • Frank Buttitch August 15, 2022 at 10:41 am #

        Epstein is quite dead, the Clintons made sure of that.

        • justanotherguy August 15, 2022 at 11:03 am #

          we little people can only be sure of nothing. i never saw a body, and neither did you.

          epstein still alive is both possible and helpful.

          the monsters making blackmail handles have demonstrated the degree of power they possess, and absolute amoral willingness to do anything with it.

          on the other hand, they shield every insider from any form of justice, while they maintain terror with a sword of damocles over each one – one slipup there, and somebody breaks ranks, or several evildoers realize they are not safe, or some needed new recruit won’t risk it…

          they protect their own, and have the ability to present and maintain most illusions.

          epstein is not dead.

          • R Montanari August 15, 2022 at 3:00 pm #

            Yep. Just ask Elliot Spitzer.

          • justanotherguy August 16, 2022 at 11:25 am #

            did you work for a glue company in the past b. mont.?

        • SW August 15, 2022 at 11:06 am #

          You make a good point (about the Clintons) & the only reason I question it is because Epstein’s body was incinerated so quickly but we’ll never know. Ashes all look alike & his faithful flunkey Ghisalaine was still free with the list & where all the tapes were stashed. Who knows? Maybe he & Prince Andrew are delivering pizzas.

          • Anthea August 16, 2022 at 6:52 pm #

            My theory is that Epstein never left Paris to return to the US for his arrest, and that the guy in the prison cell was not Epstein.

      • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 11:01 am #

        Get It?

        There is no difference between the Bush GOP and the Clintons. Nada!

        The Deep State, the group that believes that the Federal Government is supreme, has both sides inside of it.

        Liz Cheney is a big cog in this now. Her allegiance to the Bush GOP comes through her Dad. Even after her removal from the Wyoming GOP tomorrow, she will be used by the Deep State to continue trying to shut down Trump. She is a creature of the Deep State after tomorrow. Borrowing from another title and paraphrasing:

        A woman without a Party!

        She will be cast aside by the Left, too, after her diatribes prove fruitless.

      • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 12:22 pm #

        Trump is in with the Kushner crime family. That may seriously limit what he can do. Some decisions are irreversible, except in actions that result in death.

        • SpeedyBB August 16, 2022 at 5:38 pm #

          Janos, I read this, carefully, several times, and ended up still puzzled:

          “Some decisions are irreversible, except in actions that result in death.”

          Does this imply that “…actions that result in death…” are “reversible”? Or did you do a booboo once again, Vlad, as you seem to have a thing for typos? I don’t get it.

          (We all indulge in errors, but weeding them out is how I manage to keep the lights on, so I become hypersensitive to them.) (Comments on this site cannot be edited – big diff.)

          I would imagine the reverse to be true enough, particularly if it is the wrong person who gets whacked. Mobsters have had to pay with their lives for such an error.

    • justanotherguy August 15, 2022 at 10:50 am #

      “Makes one wonder if Bill Clinton traveled to Epstein’s island to sate his appetite for young flesh, or to manage the progress of ensnaring the persons who would be of most use to them when they needed them.”

      very likely the operative work in you speculation is “and”.

      there has to be so much blackmail in this government that blackmail factories are hidden all over.

      as walter b pointed out above, we’re at the point with tech that manipulation of emails, video, calls – anything, is straightforward for anyone with $ to hire the talent.

      but these fools think manipulating the stupid public while carrying their outrages further will never reach any limit. meanwhile, in the quiet fly over mind, the outrage is building.

      they have no idea that they are not in charge of a crystallizing event that can come along any time. they are stupid enough that something very large will escape from their captivity – a black swan, an earthquake, huge publicly visible cognitive dissonance shattering meteor, and the fourth turning will roar.

    • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 11:26 am #

      Virginia Giiuffre says Clinton was doing the nasty there on Epstein island.

      • SW August 15, 2022 at 11:41 am #

        I imagine he mixed business with pleasure. What a sleasebag that guy turned out to be. I’m glad he had to spend his entire adult life chained to Hillary.

        • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 6:45 pm #

          And she was underage at the time.

          • justanotherguy August 16, 2022 at 11:27 am #

            imagining shrillary underage just gives me a crick in my neck. does not compute.

        • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 5:17 pm #

          I was referring to Virginia.

    • Sean Coleman August 15, 2022 at 11:36 am #

      Alfred

      I am in a tiny minority in being an Epstein sceptic. Perhaps it is the exception that proved the rule and the fact that he made a deal is hard to get over. But even so.

      What did Epstein do? Leaving aside the dodginess of the claimants, the shadiness of at least one of their lawyers and the obvious attraction of his wealth, what exactly are the charges? Abuse of minors or a blackmail ring? (It is a bit like the Holocaust, where opinion is still – it seems split – between the intentionalists, who argue that it was all planned in advance and the (whatever the hell they call them) who maintain it was made up as they went along. Both cannot be right yet that does not seem to bother anybody.)

      Then there is the evidence, of course. When I looked into it (a few hours over a weekend) I saw a familiar pattern. For example, a French discussion said that the initial complaint was made by one of the girls who said Epstein had made her strip to her underwear so he could massage her.
      “Don’t you mean the other way round, that she massaged him?”
      “Well, yes, that too. It is not clear. Nothing in this is clear.”

      Then there is there is the blackmail ring. E Michael Jones was keen on this and I do have sympathy. But I read that the Florida (I think) police had indeed suspected that the cctv cameras might have been used for something like this, but later dropped the idea.

      And here is another thing. Where exactly were the crimes committed? On the island, in Florida or in his NY mansion? Do people give any thought to this? (I doubt it.) I know what my sister would say:
      “EVERYWHERE! They’re ALL in on it!!”

      The French investigators had not set out to defend Epstein but found that nothing added up. There was one incident they recounted, however, where they did not seem to discount it. I think it was a guest at Mar a Lago complained about Epstein trying it on with his teenage daugher. The French lads laughed. One commented (in English), “Smart move!” So I had a little look into it (5 o5 10 mins max). Yes, the story was reported but (guess what) no names were named. So worthless as evidence.

      Like all of these things the list is endless. What about the Roberts girl being “trafficked”. My understanding is that the term was invented by feminists who could not accept that women could practise prostitution of their own free will, there must be some ‘power relation’ involved. She met her future husband when she flew to Australia to look for girls to recruit as masseuses. On her own. Some trafficking!

      No, I don’t believe a word of it. I expect regular readers, who know me by now, will just skip this post.’ As David from Imagination Blindness (the Bates Method of eyesight healing) once remarked to all of us, “You like your bad vision habits too much.” People are reluctant to ditch their favourite fantasies.

      Now Epstein is interesting. Why was he singled out and backed and where did his money come from. A smart girl on the alternative scene (I forget her name but it is alliterative) has just published a big book about him and his links to the usual suspects and more. And he was interested in transhumanism (whatever the hell that means) and gave a lot of money to its research.

      • SW August 15, 2022 at 11:48 am #

        How do you account for the women who testified at Maxwell’s trial — are they liars too? And why were powerful & rich men flying so frequently to Epstein’s island? How did he make all that money? There’s a lot of smoke to be no fire.

        • justanotherguy August 16, 2022 at 11:38 am #

          how to account that his partner maxwell is daughter to a known mossad spy who disappeared under questionable circumstances, and whose father was honored by a state funeral in israhell?

          person of interest to mi6 – smuggler of munitions to same, loyal to one place only, on and on…

          graphcommons(dit)com/nodes/b12e8b09-6318-030f-6bb4-564d4df37575

          selective reading s.c., will get you one side of the story, as useful to you as that might be among the uninformed.

          • Sean Coleman August 16, 2022 at 2:57 pm #

            The Mossad thing seems plausible. The man who gave him (or whatever) his mansion in NY, Waxner? What exactly was that about? His interrupted academic carrer. Teaching maths at a private school (despite being unqualified, from memory) run by William Barr’s father. Bears Stern, gets out before they collapse. Is set up with enormous capital to run his own investment firm for th esuper-rich.. Yet I get the feeling this is the rule rather than the exception among “that lot”.

            I recall a newspaper article a few years ago (long before she was charged) which painted the Maxwell girl in a shocking light. A real hit piece.

            I am kind of familiar with the Mossad angle and I would say there is something to it, at the least. But those who maintain that this one or that one are guilty of the vilest (often unspecified) abuse of minors without giving any indication of ever looking into the question as to whether there is a crowd psychology dynamic at play, well they are simply showing that they lack judgment. And when they persist in doing so in the full knowledge that they are simply refusing to look at it squarely – well, that just maks it worse, doesn’t it?

          • justanotherguy August 17, 2022 at 10:18 pm #

            some people, not the majority, are lazy and hateful.

            cynics are a common product of the times – no need for truth, since knowing it confers no benefit… /s

          • Sean Coleman August 18, 2022 at 5:23 pm #

            Cynicism has nothing to do with it. My proposition is simple and it should be very easy to disprove with evidence. I don’t think I have to dig very far into any case by now as the pattern is clear. Perhaps the Epstein case is the exception that proves the rule but I doubt it.

            Even so, I am actually quite careful about all this. When the ‘pandemic; broke I waited a full day, perhaps two, before sounding off. Even a week later or so. I found an old post on YT where I hedged my position saying the perhaps it (the pandemic) was the exception that proved the rule. I had to search quite hard to find anyone who agreed with me. The first one I found was, I think, DrWolfgang Wodarg.

        • Sean Coleman August 16, 2022 at 2:41 pm #

          I don’t know anything about the Maxwell trial I am afraid. I remember when Cosby was convicted, a news camera showed a long shot into the room where the ‘victims’ (a sorry looking crew) kind of half-heartedly broke down and hugged each other. I wonder if they thought they were fooling each other. It was most unconvincing.

          Powerful rich men flying to his island. I expect they are always meeting up like this. Epstein was extremely rich. I expect Prince Andrew was looking to borrow a few bob to bail out his ex-wife, who was always in debt. I couldn’t see any of them flying out to meet the likes of you or me.

          Yes, how he made his money is very dodgy but that does not mean he did what he did which was – before I forget – exactly what exactly?).

          • Sean Coleman August 16, 2022 at 3:07 pm #

            Thanks. I knew it was alliterative.

          • Sean Coleman August 16, 2022 at 3:14 pm #

            They remind me of Christine Blasey Ford.

      • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 12:26 pm #

        Aldous Huxley was a fanatical Bates Man who believed it had cured his myopia. In an agonizing public humiliation, he was asked to read a sign some feet away and couldn’t.

        He was too in love with the idea of health and the fantasy that he had been cured.

        Are you a Bates man too, Sean? Literally and/or metaphorically?

        • Sean Coleman August 16, 2022 at 3:04 pm #

          You read widely, Janos. Yes, this was the story that occupied a full 50% of the Wiki article when I read it back in 2007. Do you believe everything you read in Wikipedia? Anything? If you relax your eyes and get a ‘clear flash’, where you see perfectly for a brief few seconds, you are faced with a choice. Do you believe your own eyes or ‘the science’? Looking back, this really put me on the sceptical side, although I was always like that. When I was twelve I challenged a elderly, rather kindly, optician to explain why my prescription was going up. Why had this not happened in earlier times? People like you, he told me, would sit in a corner mending shoes and such. I asked my mother and father (I don’t like the word ‘parents’) if they remembered this from their youth. No. So it was all a load of cobblers (forgive the pun).

        • Sean Coleman August 16, 2022 at 3:06 pm #

          by the way, the story went that he was reading his notes, or attempting to read them, without glasses and failing embarrassingly. Probably reported by the NYT or the WaPo.

      • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

        That smart girl is named Whitney Webb.

        • Sean Coleman August 16, 2022 at 3:07 pm #

          Thanks, I knew it was alliterative.

      • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 1:44 pm #

        What did Epstein do?

        pimped teen girls?

        human sacrifice at the temple?

        one woman said she swam or wanted to swim away from the isle.

        • BackRowHeckler August 15, 2022 at 9:40 pm #

          Swim away from the Isle? The next Island over is owned by the Biden family. Hunter would be on the Beach, waiting.

        • Sean Coleman August 16, 2022 at 3:29 pm #

          She should have asked for a plane ticket to Australia like Virginia Roberts.

          So what did he do? Here are some options.

          1. Forced or encouraged teenage girls to have sex with his friends. (‘Teenage’ being a flexible concept, sometimes under age sometimes not.)

          2. The above, but with hidden cameras as part of a Mossad blackmail scheme.

          3 Get the girls to collaborate in setting up the victims in compromising photos for blackmail.

          Online comments that read showed a split. Most saw them as innocents who had been violated. A minority denounced them as grasping young prostitutes. Me? ;I think they were giving massages.

          Another part of the story, as I recall, was the police finding stacks of photos of underage girls in one of his homes. But then it turned out that it was not stacks, just a few photos, one of which ‘may’ have shown an underage girl (and then again, may not).

          It seems to happen quite a lot. Rolf Harris, as I recall. And police found child pornography in Michael Jackson’s gaff that turned out to be a mainstream ‘style’ publication that sold in tens of thousands or more.

          Do you believe what you see in the media? I don’t. Not a bit of it.

          When you ask people what Savile was supposed to have done exactly, more often as not they point to the Top Of The Pops episode on BBC Television where he he is said to have interfered with a young girl (about 18) In Plain Sight. He was surrounded by dozens of youngsters and she turned round. He had a mischievous grin on his face. It turns out it ruined her life. I don’t know if he pinched her backside or not. But this is the best most people can come up with for Britain’s Most Evil Paedophile Of All Time.

          Don’t you get it?

      • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 6:44 pm #

        It’s a real flaw of yours (IMHO) that you swing right back to trusting the people screwing you over about everything else when it comes to child trafficking.

        It’s really strange actually. You seem to just buy the establishment narrative 100% without questioning it.

        • Sean Coleman August 16, 2022 at 3:36 pm #

          No. I buy no establishment narrative. I believe people’s judgement has declined over the ages. I suppose it was ever since The Fall, but now it has reached rock bottom.

          The Establishment believe all this nonsense just as much as everyone else. They are of course the most deluded of all.

          You have to look into the subject for y ourself. Take any one of them, while the internet is still relatively open. Just look for any evidence backing up the lurid stories. If you actually do this the penny should drop. There will be none, there never is. That is the point.

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 5:18 pm #

            There is tons of evidence, there is lack of people who will do something about it.

            So you just blame the victims because their voices aren’t being heard.

          • Sean Coleman August 17, 2022 at 5:23 pm #

            The evidence is all from witnesses and is not believable. I gave a few examples in posts above and there are many more where they come from.
            Even the death of murder of Epstein is questionable. He shared a cell with a murder suspect, but there is a fair chance that will happen in prison.

            The cctv camera failed at the time he died. I looked into it but could only go so far without going around tracing those involved and interviewing them and those around them But I recall more than one camera failed, by one account. Now, I would not be surprised if all the cameras int hat prison were out of order, not just that night but all the others too. And that the guards or wardens took a nap not only that night but every night.

            Prince Andrew gave an interview where he produced alibis for both dates Roberts said he was with her. But media comment afterwards talked about his ‘sense of entitlement’ and missed the point entirely!

            Then the butler who wanted to make easy money from Epstein’s address book.

            Mary, in this case as in all the others without exception the ‘the tons of evidence’ evaporates before your eyes when you go looking for it.

            It is an extraordinary phenomenon of mass psychology and, it seems, quite impossible to break down. It does not matter who I talk to, however intelligent or reasonable they appear, they will never so much as look at it but rather dismiss it out of hand.

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 4:56 pm #

            I’m sure all of the people quoted in this article – one of thousands – are just lying because why not:

            https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/sickening-extent-jimmy-saviles-sex-7337595

          • Sean Coleman August 18, 2022 at 5:31 pm #

            I am afraid the numbers prove nothing. If you made up a scandal for an experiment and arranged for a nominated celebrity or ‘powerful’ man to be revealed as a serial paedophile you can be sure that hundreds of people would step forward to give their own story.

            The problem is the man would end up in prison experiment or no experiment because, to paraphrase Richard Webster, these collective fantasies are so powerful. Reason would count for little. And if you were to confront one of those who were in on it and remind him that it was all just make believe and an experiment, he would reply that be that as it may the victims deserved justice.

            Another way to counter it would be to point to the thousands, millions, of scientists, doctors, journalists and leaders of society who all say that the virus is real and that the vaccine is safe and effective. They couldn’t possibly all be wrong, could they?

          • Sean Coleman August 18, 2022 at 5:39 pm #

            The article you linked to was written in 2014 when the hysteria was at its height. It was just as strong the next year. In Feb 2015 the Guardian ran a leading article speculating that the reason Jimmy got away with his horrific crimes was that they were so blatant that, although he commited them In Plain Sight, nobody actually saw them. It also suggested digging up his corpse to allow the public to vent its fury on it, as happened with the body of Oliver Cromwell.

            We are dealing with mass insanity here. And it has not got any better as we can see with what is going on now.

      • Alfred August 19, 2022 at 9:03 am #

        I can’t get past your statement, “What did Epstein do?”

        Your application of nuance leaves me sickened.

        Jeffery Epstein probably wasn’t his real name. He wasn’t acting on his own accord, he was a tool of the geopolitical trade.

    • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 1:20 pm #

      I find it hard to believe that Epstein was blackmailing anyone.
      I think the girls were party favors, not blackmail tools.
      FFS, Hunter Biden’s tapes are all over the place. So what? If your ruling overlords don’t want you prosecuted, you won’t be prosecuted, it doesn’t matter what evidence is on tape.
      They used to say that the only thing that would bring down a politician was being found with a live boy or a dead girl, but clearly that has been outdated since the Franklin days and then the dead woman in Joe Scarborough’s office.
      Not to mention that if Epstein had been blackmailing the powerful he would have been suicided a long, long time before he was in jail.

      Move into the 21st century, dudes.

      • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

        I am more interested in where his money came from than who came to his parties, although we should know both.
        Instead, we know neither.
        Some blackmail.

        • justanotherguy August 16, 2022 at 11:43 am #

          if they reveal his client list, the usefulness of the blackmail goes away.

          i am aware of the logical problems that statement presents, but the fact that *nothing* except flight manifests came out, and that nobody has been able to dig any deeper (i’m very certain many have tried) speaks volumes.

          sometimes the dark shape can only be inferred by the absence of even dim background light.

          nothing proven, but that and the fact that the corrupt elite, by its actions, has been shown to be corrupt in an almost hermetically sealed way – that’s difficult even in wartime.

          • Paula D August 16, 2022 at 12:35 pm #

            Like I said, I don’t believe he was blackmailing people.
            Look at it this way, if he was the one blackmailing people, then now that he is gone there is no reason to cover up the names.
            It’s a big club and anyone in it is unblackmailable.
            The fact that the names are still secret is proof of that.

          • farmgal August 16, 2022 at 1:56 pm #

            @just another – came across this interesting tidbit at JR Nyquist’s blog. Blackmail is an ancient art. Hope this link works as I have heard of others having trouble.

            fitzinfo.net/2020/07/08/soviets-created-child-trafficking-rings-in-the-west-for-blackmail-scholar/amp/

          • Paula D August 16, 2022 at 3:54 pm #

            Sure, farmgirl. Ignore the evidence, then try to finger someone else for it.
            Sounds like the US Deep State at work there.

          • justanotherguy August 17, 2022 at 10:29 pm #

            farmgirl – thanks for the link, interesting read, plausible.

            i’ve read a fair bit by nyquist, and he stacks his hierarchy with the communists on top – he comes across consistently as having a barely concealed, but absolutely certain conviction that they are the source of all the ills in the world.

            i tend to hold the opinions of polemicists at arms length. who knows about this – maybe he’s got it right.

            yuri bezmenov told plenty of tales out of school, but everybody just yawns.

            what actually happens is consistently more informative that speculation about who was behind it or what might be their motivations.

      • SW August 15, 2022 at 1:56 pm #

        As bad as Hunter Biden’s tapes are, the women are not underage.

        But that’s the point of blackmail — the evidence to ruin someone is on tap & there is some — not much, but some — leverage in exposing sexual misconduct with minors.

        • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 3:24 pm #

          I heard that some are.
          Anyway, my point stands. The Franklin boys were also underage, and so were the victims of Dennis Haskert. It is all covered up. The media is no doubt involved. We know about Stephen Colbert going to the island, right?

          There is no way, imo, that Jeffrey Epstein was blackmailing the rich and powerful.
          Number one, there is no such thing as a sex scandal anymore.
          Number two, if they could kill him in jail does anyone really think they couldn’t kill him when he was out?

          • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 6:39 pm #

            Well, there is such a thing as a sex scandal, if they want to get rid of you.
            Hence, Al Franken kicked out of the Senate because when he was a comedian he held his hands over a sleeping woman’s breasts. Without actually touching her.
            Omigod, the horror!
            But have sex with teenagers as a reward for a requested vote?
            No problem.

          • justanotherguy August 16, 2022 at 11:53 am #

            you mean dennis hastert – former speaker?

            the point of killing him in jail is to end the story cold. nobody with a normie view of the world would say much beyond – “justice served”.

            simple question – is the world too far gone to blackmail anybody? if not, what do you suppose would be a lever?

            the media complex, as you point out regarding franken, is still taking down anybody given the right evidence.

            the ability to do blackmail depends more on the fear on the one being blackmailed – i doubt franken is afraid of losing his reputation any more – that stick was swung.

            blackmail – and i believe it is possible to do it en mass – is a stick best not swung.

            i have not seen anyone in power, real power, who has not been corrupted in some way, and not the metaphysical corruption, but corrupted to others who wield power.

            so, from our point of view, it probably looks like a continuum, with shades of gray. to the insiders, it might be an amoral “proof of worthiness” to advance up the pyramid.

            tricky dick was famously invited to bohemian grove, and afterwords shared pubic utterances of revulsion.

            there is something out there.

            where is epstein’s client list?

          • Paula D August 16, 2022 at 12:43 pm #

            There was a banker, I think in Belgium, who testified that there was a hierarchy in the ruling elite and the higher you got the more perverted it was.
            It wasn’t blackmail, it was group debauchery, including the murder of children when you got high enough.
            He got to a certain point, then refused to participate further. I think they killed him when he talked.
            Half the country of Belgium erupted in anger back in the 90s, when it was revealed that the ruling elite were raping, torturing and murdering children.
            They went on strike, they marched, they called for heads to roll.
            And then they went home and the elite stayed in place.
            There was frigging evidence. They found 2 little girls chained in basement who had starved to death.
            But nothing was done.
            Enough evidence, my ass. Al Franken was offed with a 10 year photo showing nothing, but little kidnapped girls starving to death?
            Nothing.
            And the cops had gone to that house and said they found nothing, while the girls were probably alive.

          • Paula D August 16, 2022 at 12:56 pm #

            Damn. I used ecosia and yandex to search for these events and got pretty much nothing.
            The coverup remains. I did find this…

            euronews .com/my-europe/2019/10/27/explainer-paedophile-marc-dutroux-and-the-horror-case-that-united-a-divided-belgium

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 5:19 pm #

            I think that banker is still alive.

          • justanotherguy August 17, 2022 at 10:34 pm #

            paula – wow, that is a crazy story. hadn’t heard it before now. who knows how many horrors are hidden in the shadows.

            i suppose if one is that corrupt, and money helped get you there, a normal world to you looks like a warped cabal of monsters to anyone on the outside…

          • Paula D August 18, 2022 at 1:41 pm #

            Yes, justanotherguy, I don’t remember anything about it at the time, and I subscribed to multiple magazines and a newspaper back then.
            Complete and total blackout over a story that should have been headline news for weeks, if the narrative they tell us about ”if it bleeds it leads” were true. But it’s not.
            That is how the Mighty Wurltizer protects the rich and powerful.
            This is why I don’t believe that Epstein was blackmailing anyone.

        • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 6:41 pm #

          How do you know they are not underage?

        • justanotherguy August 16, 2022 at 11:58 am #

          there are pictures of hunter biden nearly nude guiding a little girl no more than 9 or 10, she wearing adult lingerie, made up to look older. that picture reeks of wrong. i’ve seen it, i forced myself to remember details, to understand that there was no benign way to interpret what that picture showed.

          i’d wager my left arm there are worse.

      • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 6:42 pm #

        Agree with you there, Paula.

      • Alfred August 19, 2022 at 9:08 am #

        No. He was not blackmailing anyone. He was selling or producing blackmailable content on behalf of whatever power structure he could sell into, or be compelled to work for.

        Jefferey Epstein, if indeed his real name was a tool.

        This is why I asked my question, where is the client list?

        Let’s take that list out and examine their actions for the past 6 years.

        There’s no reason to apply 21st century logic where people, shame, and blackmail intersect, old school es’plains that perfectly.

        #FJB

  8. JC Penny August 15, 2022 at 10:09 am #

    My guess is that one of the zealots below Garland ran that op without telling the HQ. Unless…. the current strategy is to foment a national emergency in time for a civil lockdown for the midterms. Hmmmm.

    Half the population approves of lockdowns. Could work.

    • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 10:15 am #

      Half the population is too stupid to realize how badly they have been had, half the population are incapable of understanding what our host and his bloggers are even talking about.

      That is why they get away with this stuff over and over.

      Add on the fact that the entire power structure of the national government is so corrupted by the Left, information from the Right is first ignored then buried never to be seen again.

      • Walter B August 15, 2022 at 10:24 am #

        Because those that side with the criminally corrupt leadership have convinced themselves that if they bow down to corruption, they will be spared and even taken care of. They are not smart enough to remember that once the criminals obtain total control, they turn on even those that bow down to them because in bowing down they have proven that they may be harmless, but they are also worthless.

        • SW August 15, 2022 at 10:43 am #

          The corrupt have made a devil’s bargain—power & riches & the illusion of invincibility & protection from prosecution. But the Biden family will face prosecution the day Joe is no longer of use to them.

          • Walter B August 15, 2022 at 10:48 am #

            And Satan keeps them alive as long as possible to minimize the time that he has to spend with them later.

        • Hereward the Woke August 15, 2022 at 2:56 pm #

          They just get to be shot last.

      • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 10:35 am #

        half USA population is non white. or close to half.

        • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 11:04 am #

          Yes, homogeniety is being proven to be necessary for stable politics. China, Japan and India have found this to be a fact.

          • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 1:46 pm #

            IQ is important.

            also the afros are very violent. BLM not to them.

            400,000 murdered by their own in USA.
            Look at south africa. murder inc.

        • benr August 18, 2022 at 7:13 pm #

          almost half the population also don’t like the Constitution or Bill of rights and want everything for “free.”

          wage slaves through and through OR beholden to ever larger government input into their daily life and living situation aka free money and obama phones

      • Rowdypiglet August 15, 2022 at 11:36 am #

        “Half the population is too stupid to realize how badly they have been had, half the population are incapable of understanding what our host and his bloggers are even talking about.”

        JohnAZ, I’m familiar with this half of the population. I can say with certainty that they could read everything our host has blogged in the last six months and not comprehend a single bit of it. They know what the words mean, but they’re like someone who has tuned in to a long running soap opera with many characters and a complicated back story. They’re completely at a loss and have not a hope in hell of catching up, nor any motivation to try.

      • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 12:28 pm #

        Are you guys finally ready to ditch Democracy for America 2.0?

        Only the qualified will get to vote. And the process of qualification will be anything but easy.

        • Rowdypiglet August 15, 2022 at 2:57 pm #

          If such a thing were implemented now, in order to “qualify” you’d have to know and recite the woke version of history and endorse their bizarre beliefs as to the purpose of government, meaning of the Constitution, etc. It would be a woke loyalty test set up to disqualify anyone not sufficiently indoctrinated. I’m imagining something like the questioning of Supreme Court nominees, except that you’d be required to state that the definition of a woman is whatever anyone “feels”.

          I’d love to see a process of qualification that required the applicant to have a vigorous understanding of history, law, and how our government is intended to function. But, in order to get there, you’d have to first win the bigger battle and, if you did that, the need for qualification would no longer be urgent and would probably not be on the agenda until such time as you were again under threat.

          • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 5:22 pm #

            “A Republic if you can keep it.

            Ben Franklin

            The above is how you keep it. Also financial solvency and a history of service, military in most cases.

          • justanotherguy August 16, 2022 at 12:02 pm #

            jarek – i recall the FF were uniformly against democracy – in my younger days they either did not fetishize it, or it wasn’t such a catch word.

            now, whenever i hear or read someone using that word, i conclude they are either ignorant or the enemey.

            tinwtvowoot

      • Not_GeorgeT August 15, 2022 at 8:22 pm #

        Consider for a moment there is no left, no right. It’s a fantasy. People believe the fantasy. The next-in-line fantasy becomes easier to sell. The next even easier, on and on….

        Creating labels such as left and right confuses and obfuscates the issues.

        Separating issues from positions is important to arrive at solutions.

        If positions keep getting hammered into the general mindset of the country (as an example), positions become the default setting. This is the current situation.

        The issues are never identified, confronted, and resolved.

        The populace is too preoccupied with positions.

        • justanotherguy August 16, 2022 at 12:03 pm #

          simpler – watch and record what is done – not what is said.

          assume stupidity first, avarice next, and evil next.

          usually in accord with the actor’s place on the pyramid.

    • thirdcoastlegend August 15, 2022 at 10:24 am #

      WW3 would give them more than enough cover to cancel all remaining rights and freedoms.

      This is why we have another surprise Congresscritter trip to Taiwan.

      • Hereward the Woke August 15, 2022 at 2:57 pm #

        How many more “live firing” exercises can the Chinese crank out without things sparking off?

        • Not_GeorgeT August 15, 2022 at 8:31 pm #

          Probably quite a few, to some extent it is theatre.

          As this Taiwan/Pelosi thing was developing a short while back a commentator in alternative opinion and news mentioned there were 3 carrier groups near Taiwan. This caught my attention. It is serious business if this occurs.

          It is also something the US Navy doesn’t do around countries which the US can’t bully.

          I went online to look at a few sources for where the groups were located on the planet. I tried the math but could not match 3 carrier groups in proximity to Taiwan.

          Which is why I think it is still at the theatre stage.

    • EdD August 15, 2022 at 10:45 am #

      That “half the population” crap comes from polls tailored for the purpose of making nonsensical claims for support of the most ridiculous of ideas.

      Making claims such as “half the population agrees to shove lima beans up their noses” reveals a tendency to watch way too much TV.

      No offense intended, of course.

      • Sean Coleman August 15, 2022 at 11:06 am #

        That point cannot be made often enough. A related issue, something I have been wondering about in the last couple of days: is there an obesity problem in America? is it created or exaggerated by the media? My guess is that it does exist but is exaggerated but I have never set foot in the USA.

        • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 11:28 am #

          Oh it is not exaggerated at all.

          Most people are fat now whereas 70 years ago to be obese was rare.

          • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 11:37 am #

            I see young women with a really pneumatic appearance, that fat girls just didn’t have when I was in school.

            Those rolls of flab like the Michelin Man come from some kind of hormonal issue, not from simply overeating.

            Of course, our “public health” dollars went to fund a disease that kills fat people, instead of discovering why this is happening.

          • JC Penny August 15, 2022 at 12:02 pm #

            36% of the US is clinically obese [BMI > 30].

          • Q. Shtik August 15, 2022 at 12:16 pm #

            @ MQ

            Unrelated to your comment…

            What time zone do you live in?

            Or, if you are not good at time zones, what time is it where you live when it in 12 noon in NY City?

          • tresho August 15, 2022 at 12:59 pm #

            “Those rolls of flab like the Michelin Man come from some kind of hormonal issue” You omitted environmental toxins and infectious agents from your list of possible causes.

          • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

            Tresho, something is triggering the hormonal issues, that’s where the toxins, etc. come in.

          • Soul Forensics August 15, 2022 at 1:39 pm #

            The “hormonal issue” excuse is just as bogus as the “I just have big bones” deflection. Or the “genetic predisposition” issue.

            The overwhelming majority of people who are fat are so because of an unbalanced CICO (Calories In, Calories Out). To be more blunt, they stuff their faces and sit in chairs all day.

          • SW August 15, 2022 at 2:03 pm #

            I agree with Beryl. They look unhealthy & something more is going on than just overeating. People can be fat & still be undernourished but why this is happening isn’t always clear. My vote is for soft drinks, antibiotics added to animal feed (known to cause obesity), hormone additives to dairy & destruction of gut flora with all the chemicals.

          • Soul Forensics August 15, 2022 at 3:18 pm #

            Soft drinks, and densely caloric animal fats in which those hormones and chemicals are housed, are hyperpalatable, meaning they taste so good that gluttons won’t stop. Even if they wanted to, the fat and salt and sugar makes the glutton eat quickly, thereby overriding signals of fullness until after the grub has been scarfed down.

            Fast food is also convenient. Fat people become lazy, and so the vicious cycle continues. Why cook when you can just grab 1,500 calories from McD’s and wait three minutes for it to cook and eat?

            It’s not complicated. Our caloric input has increased year-by-year — and that’s worldwide, BTW — as our physical expenditure has correspondingly decreased.

          • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 3:32 pm #

            Even 40 years ago it was rare.
            Then the factory farms started, along with the destruction of the FDR Farm Bill, the destruction of family farms and the rise of agribusiness.
            Now 9.76 BILLION animals a year in the USA are raised in inhumane conditions, slaughtered in filthy slaughterhouses, chopped up and deep fried by ubiquitous fast food joints, eaten by the bucket by obese Americans who drive through to pick it up, because getting out and walking to the counter is beyond them.

            But why Americans are overweight and obese is a complete mystery.

            Maybe Fauci could do a study.

          • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 6:00 pm #

            Q Schtik I am in Mountain Time so if it’s 12:00 p.m. in NY, it’s 10:00 a.m. here.

          • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 6:42 pm #

            Mary, why does Q think that if you’re not good at time zones you will still somehow know what the time difference between Central and East Coast is?

          • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 6:42 pm #

            Oops, I meant Mountain.

          • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 7:32 pm #

            Q is off his rocker.

            LOL.

          • Blackbird August 15, 2022 at 7:45 pm #

            Yeah, watch old episodes of Adam 12 (ca. 50 years ago). Not a fat cop, criminal, or innocent bystander to be seen.

            Spent a week in Japan 8 years ago. Saw 3 fat people. Pretty sure 2 were Korean.

            Processed food. Lazy people who want to eat out of a box. A 20 oz. bottle of Mountain Dew has enough sugar for more than 2 days – but only enough caffeine to get you through about 4 hours.

          • Not_GeorgeT August 15, 2022 at 8:39 pm #

            Waiting rooms have extra wide chairs for extra wide butts.

            Hospitals have extra-wide wheel chairs for the same reason.

          • studejack August 15, 2022 at 8:52 pm #

            Folks, remember three things that are very different from that time when we were children 50 years ago and there were few fat people: (1) everybody smoked, (2) foods like spaghetti sauce had no high fructose corn syrup, and (3) apropos some posts elsewhere herein, people didn’t eat out all the time. My mother cooked excellent, flavorful, nutritious suppers every night, we all sat together and ate. You could eat all the cookies you wanted after school but if you “spoiled your dinner” in so doing, you were still expected to “clean your plate” at supper.

          • SW August 16, 2022 at 10:40 am #

            All of you make good points and are right how much things have changed (for the worse) in the last 50 years in our eating habits and the corruption of the raw materials in our diet.

            A woman in Walmart a couple of days ago had two preschool girls with her and her cart was loaded with gatorade which she probably in all honesty thinks of as a healthy drink for her little girls. In ten years, they’ll be overweight, pasty teenagers through no fault of their own.

          • Alzaebo August 16, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

            Nobody can figure out Mountain time.
            Or what time it is in Phoenix or Indianapolis, either.

          • Paula D August 18, 2022 at 1:43 pm #

            Phoenix is especially hard because Arizona doesn’t do daylight saving time.
            So you have to factor that in as well.

        • Anthea August 16, 2022 at 7:43 pm #

          All you have to do is look at old family photos, old photos in general, and old high school yearbooks to see that almost everyone used to be very trim.

          The men in my old family photos from the 50s all look like toothpicks, and the women are reasonably slim, considering the number of kids in the pictures. One of my aunts, who was considered the family fatty, would be considered to be of a fairly normal weight nowadays.

      • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 11:07 am #

        No, the half the population crap, your words, comes from the fact that national election results are less than 2% difference in most critical states. And exit polls show that the difference is ethnic in nature, ie demographics.

      • JC Penny August 15, 2022 at 11:25 am #

        Hay, Mr Ed. I don’t watch TV.

        My statement had nothing to with polls ‘as seen on TV’ that you presume. It’s a statement of fact that the majority in the US approved of the panicked recommendations to hide under the bed – and still do.

        Case in point 1: The military has been conducting CBRNE training in one way shape for form for better than 100 years. For the past 50 years the focus was on the proper removal of PPE so as to not cross-contaminate.

        Case in point 2: The medical profession has been conducting rigorous PPE instruction with a similar focus of correct doffing and treatment of exposed equipment. 90% of the Ebola cases in the US were inappropriate PPE doffing, per CDC.

        Both these organizations continue to use facemasks as fashion statements, using their bare hands to pull them down to talk, using them more than once, and disposing of them as regular trash as opposed to biological waste. Far more than half of the population sees no problem with this… in fact admires them for their “professional” judgement.

        That being said… I understated the ratio.

        jcp

  9. Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 10:10 am #

    Don’t know if this will post right or not:

    https://i.postimg.cc/WbCQFpxr/FZ-p-Lb-AX0-AE-mgi-1.jpg

    • Disaffected August 15, 2022 at 10:12 am #

      LOL! Such pretty boys!

      • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 10:32 am #

        My favorite meme so far. They deserve it.

      • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 10:37 am #

        I didnt pay much attention to the raid nor to January 6.

        its a circus created by the democrats. sick.

        • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 11:08 am #

          Malthuss

          No, the Deep State. The biggest mouths are RINOs.

    • Hereward the Woke August 15, 2022 at 2:59 pm #

      Excellent! Probably the only weapon we have left is humour. And the lefties hate being laughed at.

  10. Disaffected August 15, 2022 at 10:10 am #

    The plot(s) continues to thicken. Should be a full blown hearty stew before you know it. Too bad most Americans can’t digest it, never mind savor the duplicitous complexity of it all. Can you say final days of the Soviet Union redux?

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    • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 10:24 am #

      Dis

      Totalitarian states must have stupid populations. The FF here understood from an early date that education, ie smart people, guarantee the success of their Constitution as they observe and understand the world around them.

      Hence the continuing drive of the Progressive Left, no, the entire Deep State to control education to create indoctrination serfs and to introduce almost exclusively socialistic immigration subject. To succeed they must destroy thinking subjects and produce unthinking nebbishes.

      AS before mentioned. IT IS A PLAN. They will be after the thinking members of society after consolidating their power.

      Think Russia, think Iran!!!

      • thirdcoastlegend August 15, 2022 at 10:38 am #

        JAZ-

        Very much so.

        I will only add that the defector Yuri Bezmenov tried to warn us about the need to reinstitute patriotic education in the early 80s.

        This was something Trump got right, but unfortunately he was far too little and too late with his efforts.

      • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 11:30 am #

        Most people here care more about superficial crap, yes. That is how we have been engineered since the 1970s.

        • Hereward the Woke August 15, 2022 at 3:01 pm #

          And yet, there are some signs for hope. Homeschooling is growing thanks to the lockdowns revealing what a bunch of leftist nutjobs run our schools.

          • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 5:05 pm #

            Yes, they let the schools get so over the top crazy that people are yanking their kids out of there. Between the grooming and the forced pronouns and horrible teachers and rotten curriculum, and now forced masking and other tortures, why would anyone NOT homeschool their child? I would.

    • Not_GeorgeT August 15, 2022 at 8:46 pm #

      “Can you say final days of the Soviet Union redux?”

      I’d expand it to both the beginning and the end. 1917 has a lot of similarities to the ‘fall of the Wall’ period.

      Toss the Jacobins in a century+ earlier and it begins to be a rhyme.

  11. Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 10:13 am #

    Good, hard reporting.

  12. Bill of Rights August 15, 2022 at 10:13 am #

    “It should be pretty obvious that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago…”

    No, it isn’t obvious to me. That’s why I subscribe to this blog…to get insights that don’t appear elsewhere.

    Keep up the good work Jim!

  13. Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 10:16 am #

    This is blowing up friendships. Someone in my family who uses a lot of social media noticed that someone bashing Trump and chortling over the FBI raid sounded familiar, and it turned out to be a close friend of hers.

    She would never have let something like politics interfere in a friendship before, but it’s not that, it’s the willingness to blindly follow prejudices that someone told you it was okay to have.

    • Rowdypiglet August 15, 2022 at 11:50 am #

      Beryl, this has been the most painful aspect of the whole debacle. Seeing people you once respected, those close to you and a few public figures, turn into angry zombies who cannot be reasoned with, is a shock that will never fade away. They have nothing with which to counter facts and reasoned arguments, and they simply become enraged. I’ve received real, intense, demonic hatred from people I love and whom I thought loved me back. I use the word “demonic” advisedly, but nothing else adequately describes the feeling that something alien and utterly malignant is looking out from behind familiar eyes, and desires my annihilation. There’s very much a spiritual component at work. This is something I wouldn’t have believed possible a few years back, but it’s so blatant now that it can’t be denied.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 12:12 pm #

        It hurts her, because she would never have thought of attacking these friends for their beliefs, but she now knows that any of them would not hesitate to attack her for hers.

        Speaking of things demonic, I was referred to this article that has been up for a while, but I don’t think it was posted about here before:

        The Anti-Christ now rules us all

        The age of progress has turned everything into machines and money

        https://unherd.com/2022/05/the-anti-christ-now-rules-us-all/

        I have written about some of these themes before, how everything since the 80s has been becoming about money, and also about how adopting SJW values was a religion, and the easiest one, because all you had to do was agree with those who hated the right people.

        The writer of this piece goes deeply in philosophy and the classics to make his points.

        “But the rise of science did not lead to the end of religion, however much Richard Dawkins might like it to be so. Instead — as noted by Illich — religion responded to the challenge by becoming immanent itself. Western Christianity progressively abandoned its commitment to transcendence and was “resolved into philosophy”, allowing itself to be brought down to Earth, into the realm of social activism, politics and ideas. “The conversion of a large part of the religious world to the idea of modernity”, said Del Noce, “accelerated the process of disintegration” that the modern revolution had unleashed.

        What Progress wants is the death of God.”

        • Hereward the Woke August 15, 2022 at 3:02 pm #

          Progress can no more kill God than it can Reality. And both are totting up the final bill.

          • farmgal August 16, 2022 at 2:46 pm #

            HTW does your brother “Wake” post at Zero Hedge?

        • Rowdypiglet August 15, 2022 at 3:28 pm #

          Thanks for posting the Paul Kingsnorth article. He’s on substack as well, and is always worth reading. He never fails to set me to pondering the bigger questions.

        • anmariwakaranai August 15, 2022 at 4:53 pm #

          Gr8 article Beryl. I didn’t know Ginsberg of all people, a beat poet thought this way.

      • AmericanObserver August 15, 2022 at 12:30 pm #

        A zealot cannot argue for their beliefs because they have no reason to. It’s their way or you’re wrong. That’s why those types of people explode when asked for a simple answer to a question. They have no answer that wouldn’t be in opposition to their own views, so they blame you for asking.

        Kind of how a child is treated. Ask once, and you’re told “because I said so”. Ask again and you’re asked if you heard what you were just told. Temerity to ask again? Threats and punishment are next.

      • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 12:35 pm #

        Yes, the Pure Bloods must never forget that they wanted us to be denied health care and access to Supermarkets. They wanted us to die out on the streets.

        Alas your friends and family are often your worst enemies. The battle lines run right through ever heart. Friends and family are just people who have access to the chinks in your armor – unless consciously chosen in light of the current situation.

        • Night Owl August 15, 2022 at 4:08 pm #

          Lots of truth here, sadly.

        • Redneck Liberal August 16, 2022 at 7:05 pm #

          Within my close family, I have three brothers and my mother who are in the Rabbit Hole.

          However, the potential conflict between them and the rest of the family (seven sane people) about their crazy ideas is managed by ring-fencing all discussions about this bullshit to a Messenger group chat.

          In that way, none of us have any need to mention this difference in world-views. The familial love is not diminished. We all recognise that neither camp is going to change anyone’s mind.

          Time will show that the sky is, indeed, not falling.

          • justanotherguy August 17, 2022 at 11:13 pm #

            be great if they would join us here.

            maybe explain why you’re such a precious.

          • GreenAlba August 18, 2022 at 6:07 am #

            So how many more covid shots are you planning to get, Redneck? Currently you’re about twice as likely to die of covid if you’re triple vaxxed than if you’re not vaxxed at all. By the time you get to shot number 5, if you’re still around, you might be able to make that 4 times.

            And have you and your family discussed Doctor Chetty’s 100% success rate in treating 7000 patients without recourse to hospital or a single incidence of long covid? Seems to me any rational, inquiring mind would want to know about that.

            Silly question. Your mother and three brothers are obviously adept at humouring you and the brainwashed cohort of your family. Perhaps you could introduce the Brainwashed Bunch to my tiny WhatsApp group that has seen 5 heart attacks, including 4 fatal, since the vaxx rollout, the 4 deaths all being since the booster. Although it probably wouldn’t make any difference. When people are that deep into psychosis, they can’t see what’s right in front of their eyes.

      • Redneck Liberal August 15, 2022 at 9:09 pm #

        Piglet – same here…but from people with YOUR perspective. No reasoning, no logic, just right-wing ‘talking points’ and constant, CONSTANT victimhood & conspiracy-mongering.

        • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 5:00 pm #

          I’m not a rightwinger. So how are my talking points ‘right wing’?

          • benr August 18, 2022 at 7:09 pm #

            Mary it’s not what you think you are its always what other people like rednut lunatic think you are.

            If you don’t believe in any or all of the following you are an evil rightwing nut.
            Open borders
            Federally funded abortions at any time up to birth for any reason.
            Every need should be “free” and funded by the gubermint.
            Love is love regardless of gender and age.
            All white people are racist and no one of color ever is.
            Print more money and tax people into oblivion.
            Jail is unfair no matter what landed the person there.
            Trump is Satan
            Hillary is always right
            Obama was the bestestier President ever
            Biden is not a demented pos.
            It takes a village to raise a child and the child should be taught leftist ideology at all costs with zero parental oversight.
            There was zero election fraud and the fact the courts refused to even look at the evidence proves the claims are rightwing lies.
            The list is endless and most of the ideas lack common sense.

            The Star Trek borg are paupers compared to the America Progressives aka communists.

    • Not_GeorgeT August 15, 2022 at 8:48 pm #

      It might be blowing up friendships. Alternatively, it might be identifying those who are true friends (and there will be very few of those).

  14. Opie August 15, 2022 at 10:20 am #

    Oh please let me be picked for jury duty if this goes to trial in Florida.

  15. elysianfield August 15, 2022 at 10:26 am #

    “It won’t be difficult to prove these parties’ intentions in all that, namely to drive Mr. Trump from office or disable him in the proces”

    Well, if the judge were Roland Freisler, or perhaps Torquemada, proof might become…elusive, or not even an issue.

    I would suggest that the fix is in, and the panic is on….

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    • AmericanObserver August 15, 2022 at 12:39 pm #

      Good mention of Friesler. He was an ardent communist who changed political sides in the early 1930’s. Then he became a fanatical Nazi known for ridiculing and humiliating defendants in his court, making the “trial” an afterthought.

      Those kind of people are the Bush era Neocons who managed to integrate into the deep state to the point where the (D) are now the party of war, force and coercion.

      • Hereward the Woke August 15, 2022 at 3:04 pm #

        Yes. He was a fanatical personality and chose the top dogs. Rather like Goebbels, in fact.

      • Alzaebo August 16, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

        Weird. Almost as if somebody has their people on both sides in a conflict, so that no matter who wins, they win. To be able to pull that off, also, is a deep, as in genetic, loyalty.

        • Alzaebo August 16, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

          And no, I am so not pointing out the 35,000 soldiers and 1500 high officers who, per the narrative, should’ve been in in transit camps.

    • elysianfield August 16, 2022 at 2:21 pm #

      …And I DO mean the panic is on…

      https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xojj3k

  16. JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 10:29 am #

    The continuing moving of immigrants from Texas to the cities on the East Coast is a deliberate thumbing of the nose at the Biden administration, ie the East Coast Mob. Some how, they have to stop it.

    Hahahahaha. That may bring on the great rebellion, we can only hope. Keep your eyes on this story, especially if other Red states join in support.

    • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 10:33 am #

      They are busing them to places that declared themselves sanctuary cities.

      • SW August 15, 2022 at 10:54 am #

        That’s right & the mayors of these cities are up in arms by Texas’ “inhumane action” & quite annoyed at being exposed for the hypocrites they are. Abbot is mincing no words in pointing out their sanctimonious demand that Texas stop it are very convenient for them. And what’s even more hilarious is they’re trying to sound virtuous at the same time!

    • Not_GeorgeT August 15, 2022 at 9:05 pm #

      Being on the East Coast, there’s been an illegal immigrant problem here for years. Decades. Accelerating the problem to critical mass will hasten resolution of the problem.

      A little pain now (relatively) is a better idea than greater pain later because the problem, like any infection, was allowed to fester and spread.

  17. Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 10:36 am #

    I’m waiting for Alex Berenson to elaborate on his discovery that some of his fellow reporters were in on getting Twitter to ban him.

    • EdD August 15, 2022 at 10:50 am #

      I’m waiting for people to realize that Alex Berenson is still the same deluded libtard ringmeat he was when he wrote for the NYT. Just because Lew Rockwell features Berenson’s articles doesn’t mean that Alex isn’t controlled opposition.

      Lew seems to love him some libtards for some unfathomable reason.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 11:11 am #

        Alex’s work on the vaccines has been spot on. He set out to do a job of work and he did it.

        The vaccine narrative has collapsed. It would not have happened without his honest and accurate reporting.

        Put some respect on his name.

        https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1558804544020250625?s=20&t=guHmATzO8vHhdPPklm9lSw

      • Night Owl August 15, 2022 at 3:42 pm #

        Agreed.

        • Night Owl August 15, 2022 at 3:50 pm #

          Should add, he is still claiming that they are just bad, and implying they were simply poor, rushed products put out to make quick cash.

          He doesnt touch the meat of the story, and he spends half his time declaring how he hates Alex Jones, so that his prog friends won’t attack him on the half-backed clot shot stuff.

          He’s riding in Taibbi style late in the game, trying to tell everyone that he always knew, now that he knows there is no real risk to his reputation

          And he still has that pathetic profile pic on Twatter with that fucking face diaper on his chin.

          He can eat shit.

          • spaingaroo August 15, 2022 at 5:34 pm #

            I second that, I have read him and agree he is not really much of an addition, just better known.
            He has rampant TDS which disqualifies him from consideration as a thinker.
            He is a react-er, not a mover

        • Islander August 16, 2022 at 10:07 pm #

          Whom are you agreeing with?

  18. elysianfield August 15, 2022 at 10:45 am #

    Well, ladies and germs;

    The daily Situational Awareness this AM reports;

    Taiwan’s outer island residents and government officials fear they will likely be the first military objective of its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in any future armed conflict with China. The islands, Kinmen and Matsu, are only about 3 miles from the Chinese city of Xiamen, yet 124 miles from Taiwan. Taiwan’s Pratas Islands are also a likely initial military objective, located only 160 miles southeast of Hong Kong but 276 miles from the southern end of Taiwan. Both sets of Islands are claimed by China but have been under the control of Taiwan since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949. (AC: The Pelosi visit to Taiwan has put China’s President Xi Jinping in a position of weakness only months prior to the Chinese Communist Party Congress in November. The Pelosi visit was also watched live via state-backed news feeds by a considerable portion of the Chinese population, and China’s unwillingness to stop her from reaching Taiwan has been a source of nationalist disappointment on Chinese social media. To win a third term as Party Chairman, Xi may need to conduct some type of face-saving maneuver, in addition to the large-scale PLA exercises of the past two weeks. The islands are lightly defended, and militarily speaking, they are low-hanging fruit. Either way, China cannot allow the islands to remain under Taiwan’s control if it seeks to force a reunification, whether that be by a coercive embargo or outright invasion. – M.M.)

    Kinmen island…doesn’t ring a bell, does it? Well, it was formerly known as Quemoy. The Nationalists and Commies have been fighting over these two islands, Quemoy and Matsu since 1949. I remember the Commies shelling the island while I was on Okinawa in 1957.

    We currently have two “battle groups”…two Aircraft Carrier Strike Forces, preparing to transit the Formosa Straights in a “freedom of navigation” exercise.

    Sporty times.

    • BackRowHeckler August 15, 2022 at 11:11 am #

      Without much fanfare, another Congressional Delegaton showed up in Tiawan yesterday.

      Just to rub Xi Jinping’s nose in it.

      Meanwhile, as of yesterday rocket artillery is still falling around the nuclear power plant in Z. No direct hits as of yet.

      • Hereward the Woke August 15, 2022 at 3:05 pm #

        They are doing everything they can to provoke world war, aren’t they? What madmen do things like that? Do they really believe they will still be around and in charge if they succeed?

        • Night Owl August 15, 2022 at 4:37 pm #

          Well, I would suggest that when you have WEF agents installed via fraud running a country, who are following a plan of semi-controlled chaos to bring about conditions that would have people accept CBDCs and digital passports to live one’s life, then I would say it is all normal.

          Vlad’s actions were unexpected. And the Great Reset crowd is shaping the timeline in such a way that things all dovetail in the end.

          Think of it this way: regardless of how they get there, the CBDCs and digital panopticon are the answer.

          • Redneck Liberal August 15, 2022 at 9:15 pm #

            …also, don’t forget, Trump will be your president, and Michelle & Jacinda have cocks. Yep. All highly credible stuff, Night Howler.

          • Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 9:08 am #

            If I am not mistaken, Nut, you are the only one on this site (including the host) who thinks the election was not stolen.

            As to the cocks, I don’t know. But there is something swinging between Big Mike and Ms. Ed’s legs in more than one video.

            You are all alone with your opinions here, so I understand your outrage. When your third ban arrives, we will miss you.

            LOL.

          • Alzaebo August 16, 2022 at 12:21 pm #

            100 bucks, RedLib, if you can find me a pic of Michelle pregnant.

          • Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 5:37 pm #

            He has pulled his disappaering act again.

            LOL.

    • SW August 15, 2022 at 11:21 am #

      Rattling China’s cage is more dangerous I think than Russia’s. Visiting Taiwan against their wishes is a deliberate provocation. I don’t understand why the US is willing to destroy Taiwan by luring the Chinese into war. We can’t honestly say we’re bringing democracy to Taiwan since we have none to spare at home.

      What is the goal?

      • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 12:18 pm #

        Xi must be smart enough to realize he could just off a few of our Representatives plus Nancy Pelosi and the majority of Americans would not care.

        • AmericanObserver August 15, 2022 at 12:44 pm #

          Xi is smart enough to know a live Pelosi running Congress does far more damage to America than anything he could do.

        • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 1:36 pm #

          Indeed, Beryl, half of this country was cheering him on.

      • elysianfield August 15, 2022 at 12:28 pm #

        “What is the goal?”

        SW

        …containment.

        • SW August 16, 2022 at 10:46 am #

          And perhaps, business. Did you know Pelosi’s son went with her as her “escort”? And he has business dealings in Taiwan?

          “According to information obtained by DailyMail, Nancy Pelosi’s son is the second-largest investor in a $22 million Chinese company whose top executive was detained in connection with a fraud probe. This raises concerns regarding his covert trip to Taiwan with his mother.

          Paul Pelosi Jr, 53, worked for the telecom firm Borqs Technologies in a board or consulting capacity in addition to investing, according to Securities and Exchange Commission records.

          As compensation for his services, he received 700,000 shares, leaving him the fifth-largest shareholder in the business. He surpassed one of the company’s two co-founders in stock ownership when other insiders sold shares in June 2021, and was only surpassed by CEO Pat Sek Yuen Chan.

          In connection with a reported fraud probe, Chinese law enforcement detained the president of one of Borq’s subsidiaries in September 2019 and took copies of contracts and accounting data.”

          And following in Joe/Hunter footsteps:

          “The role Pelosi Jr. played in the Beijing-based business was only recently made public, following a trip to Taiwan by him and his influential mother to demonstrate support for the country that China controvertibly claims as a section of its own territory.

          The formal delegation that the Speaker’s office sent out did not include Pelosi Jr. The Speaker acknowledged in a statement this week that when questioned by the press, her son served as her “escort” on the trip instead of her husband.

          The House Speaker’s current drive to combat Chinese government aggression abroad and its corporate influence in the United States may be complicated by Nancy’s son’s connections to the Chinese company.”

          • Islander August 16, 2022 at 10:12 pm #

            Maybe the son’s business interests were the real reason for the trip.

            There certainly didn’t seem to be any other . . .

      • U R IntheVillage August 17, 2022 at 9:42 am #

        My theory: Pelosi (and son) are clearly on China’s payroll. The visit to Taiwan was a staged affront to China, allowing them the pretext for a blockade of Taiwan. Ditto the Congressional delegation that followed. Pelosi can posture as “standing up to China,” providing cover for her own family’s corruption, while giving China the excuse to express outrage and increase their military presence around Taiwan.

        In a way, it’s reassuring; the CCP is worried about the upcoming election and they need to get things done before November. The fact that they and the Dems are worried about the election indicates that it is possible the election won’t be stolen.

    • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

      I have no idea if the Chinese are like Americans in that starting a war boosts popularity.
      I did ask a Chinese friend why the Chinese government made such a fuss over Pelosi and then backed down (in American eyes).
      She didn’t see it that way.
      She said that the Chinese government had to show the Chinese people that they objected to Pelosi’s provocation, but it was not the government that made the noise about shooting down her plane, it was the ex-editor of the Global Times.

      To her, the Chinese government response was ”taking the moral high ground” not losing face.
      Everyone knows that America kills at the drop of a hat, so she thought that China not killing anyone made them look better in the eyes of the world.
      She says that China will not invade Taiwan. She says they have enough other problems to deal with at the Party Conference that is coming up.
      She made no predictions on Xi, but I’m guessing that he will be re-elected.
      If he started a war though? Maybe that only plays well in Peoria, I don’t know.

      • Blackbird August 15, 2022 at 7:59 pm #

        Americans seem to think that the rest of the world thinks like Americans. A quick and violent war (that somehow lasts forever and achieves no obvious goals) solves everything.

        I don’t think China will invade Taiwan. As the Tree of Fake Liberty (the U$) dies, its ripe fruit (like Taiwan, and Asia… Africa… Latin America…) will fall into China’s lap. No need to bust everything up just to rebuild it.

        • Paula D August 16, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

          Yep. All that China has to do is get the American NGOs out of Taiwan.
          The propaganda stops, public opinion comes to its senses, the provocations stop.
          I think that they kicked them out of Hong Kong. In any case, the riots have not reoccurred.

        • Paula D August 16, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

          I got this from an article on the Saker.
          ”The tiny recent event, amongst many throughout the long history of the world, in which an insignificant, vapid figure named Nancy Pelosi hailing from a callow, self-proclaimed “indispensable nation” visited an island named Taiwan in order to flaunt a delusional sense of magnitude in an attempt to humiliate the time-honoured People’s Republic of China, displays a flawless example of a fool of a farce.”

          And she added some quotes from Sun Tzu:
          “The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”
          “Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.”
          “He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.”
          “He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.”
          “It is more important to out-think your enemy than to outfight him”

  19. thirdcoastlegend August 15, 2022 at 10:48 am #

    Mexico Update:

    Zerohedge just posted a story confirming the Mexican National Guard has been deployed in response to the violence.

    US Consulate employees in Tijuana have been ordered to shelter in place.

    • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 11:12 am #

      Any reports on the conditions of the US Expats in Mexico?

      • cowbell81 August 15, 2022 at 11:42 am #

        What Trump said was true, many of these Mexicans are simply drug cartel, murderers, and rapists. It is a shame, because there are also so many good native Mexicans that are overshadowed by the bad apples (or manzanitas, if you will).

        Mexico would be such a great place to get away to if their country was simply under control. The same could be said of the USA in general.

        Everything was better 70-100 years ago.

        • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 2:03 pm #

          except cell coverage

        • U R IntheVillage August 17, 2022 at 10:03 am #

          Everything was better 2 years ago.

          In general, I submit, the further back you go, the better things were, depending on your metrics.

          The line goes monotonically down, beginning in November 1963. Various increases in downward slope in 1971, 1973, 1975, 1979, 1994, 2000, 2001, and continuing since except for a brief uptick 2016-2019. The splatter from hitting the pavement started in 2020, and continues to this day.*

          *Appendix
          1971 Nixon closes gold window
          1973 Nixon eliminates gold standard
          1975 Fall of Saigon
          1979 Iran Hostage crisis
          1994 Nafta
          2000 China granted most favored nation status
          2001 Patriot Act

  20. wwg1wga August 15, 2022 at 10:55 am #

    The wise create their own reality, independent of the prevailing forces of civilization, space, and time, with the attaining and sustaining of love, joy, gratitude, and peace, and the creation, sharing, and extending of halcyon moments, for the many, at peace, over an earth-lifetime, as the moral imperative.

    ….and return to the INFINITE source.

    When the doors of perception are cleansed, ALL appears to man as it TRULY is….INFINITE! ?

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J-fFPjjMxtc&list=PLl55Zh3U2VW60XfXP-Hy2IOSGmRt5Db1b&index=1

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  21. BackRowHeckler August 15, 2022 at 11:06 am #

    Wow, a combination of Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ & Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ playing out on the American Stage.

    Cross, Double Cross, & Triple Cross!

  22. neurodoc August 15, 2022 at 11:11 am #

    Everyone needs to wake up and realize that we are now living in 3rd World, Banana Republic Amerika (NOT mis-spelled). There is corruption in every town, city, county, state, and obviously throughout DC. The mayors are corrupt, the judges are corrupt, CEOs are corrupt, most lawyers are obviously corrupt, and, now we see that most doctors are corrupt.

    Dr. Andrew Lubazeski, in his brilliant book, Political Ponerology (a study of psychopaths in government) showed strong evidence that in every culture the vast majority of people that seek political office are psychopaths; not the kind you typically find in prisons, but socially adept psychopaths that range from bill clinton to the lowest hick town mayor (that everyone loves) on the take. These are psychopaths who feign normal emotions such as empathy and concern, despite having none, and who are highly socially skilled in terms of sensing other’s issues and manipulating them.

    We live in a time when money is the god of most people, and, thus, no one would seek public office for any reason other than to get money. Look at the extremely large number of millionaires in congress making $150K per year; not possible without criminality. Lubazewski shows that psychopaths are attracted to politics for the money and the power; hence the situation we have now in this country.

    My father in law once proudly showed me the mansion of his small town’s police chief (whom he knew personally). I asked him how much did the mayor make, and at that time, he told me around $40K per year. The mansion cost at least $2mil at that time. My father in law just assumed that the fat hick mayor was a ‘good investor.’ Right!!! He was shocked that I would think that the po po chief might have been a crook. 🙂

    This corruption is everywhere and can never be stopped until this system collapses completely.

    • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 11:16 am #

      Even the best maintained septic system has to be pumped out now and then.

      • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 11:24 am #

        Beryl

        That is exactly what the Deep State has been doing for fifty years, removing the septic pumping equipment so that the bastards cannot be touched.

    • JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 11:22 am #

      If it collapses, Neurodoc, it will not resurrect. Too many bad guys out there that will stomp on its bones, including many domestic types.

      It makes for easy pickings for the globalists.

      I would like to add onto your description that politicians are career failures that use politics as a way to make a living as a last resort.

      They are power hungry, pathetic, money hungry (a form of power), psychopathic, sociopathic, egomaniacal, spiritually empty people who do not give a rat’s ass about anyone else. Their true gift is being able to bullshit people better than others.

      To think, we are run by these miscreants.

      I hate name calling, but politicians are so ripe.

      • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 8:46 am #

        @ JohnAZ:

        “politicians are career failures that use politics as a way to make a living as a last resort.”

        Actually, I think the way it works is that, among the wealthy elites, the family retards and layabouts are provided with positions in politics. If you have ever worked for a company with the owners’ relatives (or other connected people) on the payroll, especially in management positions, you will see the wisdom of that.

        Among the more well-to-do, it is customary to provide the kids with a decent living. If employing them in your own business is sure to be disastrous, you may try to get well-to-do friends to employ them in their businesses. If said friends are too wise to employ them, you pull some strings and get them a government job.

        These are the people who are often in charge of critical infrastructure in city government or are administrators or teachers in the public schools.

        People who are very powerful and very wealthy place their retarded kids in high public office or in high positions in public administration at the national level.

        Government is pretty much of a dumping ground for the lazy, the incompent, and the grifters.

        One of the little towns near me has been nearly economicallly destroyed over the past 20 years by this kind of nepotism: morons put in charge of critical infrastructure.

    • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 11:39 am #

      Spot on neurodoc.

      We are run by absolute psychopaths and their narcissistic toadies.

      Even down to the small business or nonprofit level! Everyone is powerhungry and corrupt. It’s a very bad time.

    • Rowdypiglet August 15, 2022 at 11:59 am #

      In defense of your father in law, some people – especially honest ones – just can’t believe that anyone could be that dishonest. Among my relatives, a couple of the very elderly simply could not believe that pharma companies and doctors would participate in anything that harmed people. Their response was: “That’s monstrous! No one would do that!” They haven’t ever encountered people like this in their ordinary lives, and can’t imagine that they exist. After a certain point, they begin to protect their naivete because it would be too devastating to discover that they live among people who are monstrous.

      • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 9:31 am #

        @ Rowdypiglet:

        “They haven’t ever encountered people like this in their ordinary lives.”

        Actually, IMHO, they have. Certainly most people have. There is a tendency to refuse to acknowledge it. I could give many examples of dishonesty among doctors and dentists, going all the way back to my 1950s childhood. Most people know of gross misconduct and abuses by law enforcement and the courts. They can go online and see that there are quite a surprising number of convicted child molesters in their town. They probably know some of them or are even related to some of them. (Or married to one of them.)

        An unwillingness to acknowledge evil is a very common human trait. They’ll block out unsavory behavior of family members, or make excuses for it.

        Having a goody-goody mentality helps you get along with people. It also makes you look like a nice person.

        When I was in our local writers’ club, I noticed that everyone wanted to write stories about “nice” things. No one wanted to write a story with an actual conflict or problem, leading to a resolution. As a result, most of the material they wrote lacked dramatic tension. They could not acknowledge that “bad things” happen. It’s like a psychological block.

    • Rowdypiglet August 15, 2022 at 11:59 am #

      In defense of your father in law, some people – especially honest ones – just can’t believe that anyone could be that dishonest. Among my relatives, a couple of the very elderly simply could not believe that pharma companies and doctors would participate in anything that harmed people. Their response was: “That’s monstrous! No one would do that!” They haven’t ever encountered people like this in their ordinary lives, and can’t imagine that they exist. After a certain point, they begin to protect their naivete because it would be too devastating to discover that they live among people who are monstrous.

      • Rowdypiglet August 15, 2022 at 12:01 pm #

        Sorry this posted twice! I’m not sure why, since I don’t think I clicked on “submit” more than once.

    • BackRowHeckler August 15, 2022 at 12:55 pm #

      My father in law (now deceased) was a high govt official in one of the midsized cities here — non elected. I was shocked (at first) by the number of shady characters and outright gangsters he consorted with. A known mafiosa was a golf partner. We had access to a beautiful beachfront summer cottage, gratis, on LI Sound belonging to who knows who. The gentlemen who hosted and paid for my FILs lavish retirement party were later convicted for fraud and racketeering in a $5 billion real estate scheme. But when the arrests of city officials commenced, my FIL was not on the list. Phew, what a relief that was! We were sweating bullets for awhile.

      • Rowdypiglet August 15, 2022 at 3:12 pm #

        Sounds as if your father in law knew what was happening but somehow managed to benefit from it without being sufficiently involved to be prosecuted himself. Sad.

    • wwg1wga August 15, 2022 at 1:51 pm #

      When the power of love exceeds the love of power, the human-earth experiment shall know durable peace!

      The Western Civilization experiment STILL stands a greater chance of succeeding at durable peace, versus its despotic counterparts; however, the odds of succeeding are the increasingly negative.

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CsgaFKwUA6g&list=PLl55Zh3U2VW7YD-JKHT0vYIk1ZCrK7c4-&index=131

    • Night Owl August 15, 2022 at 4:39 pm #

      You don’t want it to collapse completely. No one does, nor should they.

      And it does not need to. Parts of the system need to function. The question is, how do the new and old come together.

      • Alzaebo August 16, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

        Amen, amen, amen, Nightowl.

        These good people have never lived without a/c or running water. My toilet and shower were 2 buckets- for 17 years.

        • Night Owl August 17, 2022 at 1:57 am #

          Indeed, Alzaebo.

          I got a small taste of it in Nepal with rolling blackouts and crapping in a hole.

          Don’t need that to be normal over here.

        • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 9:53 am #

          I’ve lived without running water–for about two years at one point. It’s quite do-able, but it costs you many hours in labor. I had a submersible pump, so at least I wasn’t pulling up water from the cistern one bucket at a time.

          • Night Owl August 18, 2022 at 5:23 am #

            Respect.

  23. TPTB-USA August 15, 2022 at 11:43 am #

    If a person of authority is involved in a coup to alter the format for life, there comes a point where the soft coup curtain no longer hides their intentions, and at that point they are fully committed because they have nothing to loose.

    Jim, you and others have exposed the corruption in our law enforcement agencies, couple that with all the nonsense that has been orchestrated by Biden and his cohorts, until proven otherwise, the population should assume that Biden and his cohorts no longer represent them.

    The current administration, MSM, and big business condemn Russia for all kinds of atrocities, but nary a peep about the atrocities that Xi is committing. There is no denying that they are all onboard with a One World Government, and if one views the situation from a world perspective, they will see that the actions of Biden and his domestic and international cohorts are structured to destroy their respective countries existing format for life. Should one assume that they are counting on Xi’s support to deal with the “Uyghurs” in their respective countries?

    One could argue that a US coup could not happen with a polarized population, but history would suggest that the citizens of the US should be very concerned about that which is happening with the IRS.

    If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, …

    • beantownbill. August 15, 2022 at 11:53 am #

      Sorry to ‘Q’ you, but it’s lose, not loose. That mistake is starting to annoy me. If someone can’t spell, how can I take their posts seriously?

      • Disaffected August 15, 2022 at 12:05 pm #

        Excellent observation, Bill. That’s becoming a really common mistake these days on every blog I read. Wonder why that is? I’ve got a few little mental brain-farters of my own, most notably, ‘license’ (spell check just corrected me on this again!), which throws me absolutely every time.

        • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

          lose & loose
          chose & choose
          advise & advice

          The English language is triky.

          • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

            Pedant & Pendant

          • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 1:23 pm #

            Prostrate and tate. Did Q said Peter only uses one, the wrong one?

            Prolly.

          • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 1:56 pm #

            Peter may have learned the difference the hard way… after Q examined his -tate

          • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 9:59 am #

            Tenet versus tenant irritates me. Also ensure versus insure. Don’t get me started on the which/that distinction.

        • Islander August 16, 2022 at 10:28 pm #

          The most common mistake I notice these days is “lead” instead of “led.”

          One sees it everywhere.

          Another very common error is “incidence” instead of “incident” or “Incidents.”

      • Nigel Tufnel August 15, 2022 at 2:17 pm #

        I can still remember my shock at learning that “ust” was not a word! It ust to be when I was a kid! What do you mean ‘used’ to be? That doesn’t make sense. I still think they should be two separate words.

        • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 3:40 pm #

          Ha, ha, Nigel, I never thought of that, but you are right.

    • TPTB-USA August 15, 2022 at 12:20 pm #

      Mar-a-Lago is the excuse the US has been waiting for to demand transparency.

      The question is: Who is the authority that is in a position to do it?

      • TPTB-USA August 15, 2022 at 5:16 pm #

        Is there no authority to challenge the establishment?

        Is Trump our only hope for salvation? If so, this is going to get ugly.

  24. beantownbill. August 15, 2022 at 11:48 am #

    Jim, do you think a desperate opposition will allow Trump to live? I don’t (I hope I’m wrong). All of our days are numbered, but his more so. He’s overweight and not in good physical condition. A doctor on the take could easily say the heart attack or stroke was natural and did him in.

    • neurodoc August 15, 2022 at 12:02 pm #

      And after the covid farce, we all know that there are many doctors ‘on the take,’ unfortunately.

      • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

        Please.

        They have been on the take since Pharma reps have comped expensive dinners, shows, vacays (seminars), concerts, court-side seats.

        On the take for decades.

        • Soul Forensics August 15, 2022 at 1:16 pm #

          Indeed, Edge Lord.

          Those Big Pharma reps are often perky, cutesi-pie babes in sleek business attire and stilettos offering not just dinners and concert tix, but under-the-radar cash comp. That’s why the white-coat sawbones reach for their script pad after vaguely listening to a patient for three minutes.

          But neurodoc, who certainly knows more about the situation than us, is also correct. The ‘Pandemic’ has ratcheted up the profit. Pfizer is now the third richest company in the U.S., and the extra $$ plus the promise of continuing $$ from a gullible public, means marketing departments and ad revenue is through the roof. Compensation increases, meaning more incentive for doctors on the fence to cave in to corruption.

          Michael Yeadon said that the research and development arm are next to non-existent now at the major Pharmas. They let others do the research, any needed trials (ha ha!), and wait for the “pass” status, then they just throw money at them and buy the drug patents.

          It’s all marketing. Not many companies can afford those slick TV ads every ten minutes, with the hyper-speedy novelistic disclaimers scrolling at ad end.

          • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 1:30 pm #

            Pfizer:

            Our research proves that this virus was engineered

            Government:

            So how many liability waived vaccines do you want to sell us and for how many years would you like your research sealed?

          • Redneck Liberal August 16, 2022 at 10:46 pm #

            “Michael Yeadon said that the research and development arm are next to non-existent now at the major Pharmas. They let others do the research, any needed trials (ha ha!), and wait for the “pass” status, then they just throw money at them and buy the drug patents.

            When was it ever any different? That’s how it works.

          • GreenAlba August 18, 2022 at 5:49 am #

            It was different when Yeadon was spending his working life in R&D. By definition. How dense are you?

        • thirdcoastlegend August 15, 2022 at 3:00 pm #

          Edge-

          I read a good book written by a physician on this exact topic ten years ago.

          What really beggared belief was his constant insistence that medical practicioners were oh-so ethical they’d NEVER be swayed by Big Pharma’s endless largesse.

          Uh huh.

          I rolled my eyes so hard that by the end of the book they were nearly permanently reversed.

    • BackRowHeckler August 15, 2022 at 2:24 pm #

      Many potential assassins out there stalking the land, Bill.

      I remember an article by beat author John Clellon Holmes about Lee Oswald, to paraphrase “America produces thousands like him every year.”

      Political cranks with an axe to grind, mutterers nursing a grudge, True Believers looking to even the score, the lost, TDS sufferers, the bitter, the bankrupt, deranged lunatics, products of bad families — millions of candidates out across the fruited plain.

      • beantownbill. August 15, 2022 at 3:51 pm #

        Yeah, ain’t that a pisser!

  25. Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 12:28 pm #

    Description of Useful Idiots from 1971, not present day:

    “The street rioters are pawns, puppets for an oligarchy of elitist conspirators working above to turn American’s limited government into an unlimited government with total control over our lives and property.

    Members of these groups believe they are fighting the establishment. In reality they are an indispensable ally of the establishment in fastening Socialism on all of us. The naive radicals think that under Socialism the “people” will run everything. Actually it will be a clique of Insiders in total control, consolidating and controlling all the wealth.

    We know that these radicals are not going to take over the government. What they are going to do is provide the excuse for the government to take over the people by passing more and more repressive laws to ‘keep things under control’.

    The radicals make a commotion in the streets while the limousine Liberals at the top in New York and Washington are Socializing us.

    We are going to have a dictatorship of the elite disguised as a dictatorship of the proletariat”.

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    • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

      Wow! 51 years later, it reads like fulfilled prophecy.

      • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 1:05 pm #

        The few pages dedicated to the squeeze that will be applied to the middle-class reads like it was ripped from current events.

    • BackRowHeckler August 15, 2022 at 1:23 pm #

      Wait until those 87,000 new IRS agents are turned loose on middle class America; Diversity & Inclusion hires, barely literate, armed, self important, indoctrinated in left wing political ideology, aggressive, and eager to get even with Whitey by MAKING WHITEY PAY HIS FAIR SHARE!

      • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 1:38 pm #

        All those that swindled billions from the CARES Act are suddenly sweating bullets

      • Bob Polecat August 15, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

        Well-armed and psychologically prepared to use deadly force on their fellow Americans.

        Many, no doubt, chomping at the bit.

        • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 1:50 pm #

          Champing

          • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 2:43 pm #

            From Google:

            “The original phrase is, indeed, champing at the bit, but chomping at the bit emerged in America in the 1930s according to the Oxford English Dictionary and chomp has overtaken champ in common use. A Google web search for chomping at the bit returns about twice as many results as a search for champing at the bit.”

            We are both right.

          • Edge Lord August 16, 2022 at 5:26 pm #

            No, you’re not

        • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 1:52 pm #

          All those ***who*** swindled billions from the CARES Act are suddenly sweating bullets

          • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 6:47 pm #

            Swatting bullets.
            (Just kidding)

      • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 1:51 pm #

        hired over 10 years?

  26. BillRI August 15, 2022 at 12:33 pm #

    Good point, JHK, about the connection between the raid on Mar-a-Lago and Trump’s suit against Hillary, et al.

    It would be interesting to see how Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart came to be appointed to his present position. A step below Federal District judges, the public (especially local attorneys) is invited to comment before such appointments. Query whether there were other applicants for the position at the time of his appointment.

    As far as Epstein goes, Whitney Webb has written extensively about his many connections, especially those with the intelligence agencies. She has an interesting site called Unlimited Hangout.

  27. Nigel Tufnel August 15, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

    For those who refuse to vote, remember that Ed Abbey recommended that we vote for the worst candidate, thinking that the sooner this sucker goes down, the easier it will be for us to rebuild in a saner fashion.

    If Donald would come out and admit that the covid shots were a scam and a culling device, that would get him some votes. The fact that he’s still actually bragging about having implemented “vaccine warp speed” makes him seem either retarded or part of the scam.

    The fact that he pardoned politicians and rappers and left Julian Assange to rot in prison …?? Unforgivable.

    The repubs have had since 2016 to come up with a candidate. Crickets. But nothing will change as long as both parties benefit from arms sales and big pharma kickbacks.
    The thing that could save us would be for multiple parties to be allowed in the debates and on the ballots. That’s what we should be working on.

    • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 12:42 pm #

      Broken systems return broken results no matter the inputs.

      -Term limits
      -Personal donation limits
      -Corporate donation bans
      -Mandatory annual IRS auditing of elected politicians
      -Exponentially increased capital-gains taxes on elected politicians windfall market transactions

      • AmericanObserver August 15, 2022 at 12:49 pm #

        Sorry to tell you this, but this country is way past those ideas (and they are good) fixing our society.

        • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

          Agreed.

          Bot it’s not for this country.

          It’s for whatever (hopefully) may emerge after it’s gone.

      • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 1:04 pm #

        “I know! We can fix this broken, corrupt system with a couple of tweaks and a strong turnout in November.”

        Ya think?

        —–

        “You say you’ll change the constitution
        Well, you know
        We’d all love to change your head
        You tell me it’s the institution
        Well, you know
        You better free your mind instead
        But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
        You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
        Don’t you know it’s gonna be
        All right?”

      • tresho August 15, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

        “Exponentially increased capital-gains taxes on elected politicians windfall market transactions” How about exponentially increased real estate taxes on non-resident & corporate owners of farmland?

        • Bob Polecat August 15, 2022 at 1:48 pm #

          How about torches & pitchforks?

          • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 2:13 pm #

            How about a pair of pliers and a blowtorch?

  28. wm5135 August 15, 2022 at 12:48 pm #

    “The parallel purpose of the raid was to find — or perhaps plant” JHK

    a narrative that would sell raw sewage at a waste water treatment plant

    “We’ll Know Our Disinformation Program Is Complete When Everything the American Public Believes Is False.” (William Casey-public domain)

    “But, with the Mar-a-Lago caper, it looks like the law enforcement apparatus of the federal government is seeking to suppress evidence of its own long-running criminal enterprise.” JHK

    wasn’t anyone here on a university campus from ’65 to -’72? The federal govenment has been using the evidence of crimes as a recruiting tool for field agents, you know the best and the brightest.

    got to sell Russian missles destroy nuclear power plant and we forced the Russian’s to surrender under threat of a nuclear attack

    • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

      Imagine if Trump did this to Obama.

      The usual suspect cities would be smoldering ash heaps

      The New York Times would be offering complimentary benzos in the cafeteria

      The ICC would be issuing warrants for Trump down through the White House groundskeeper.

      Sean Penn would take a quick flight to DC and be whining that other people need to go to war against the establishment regime

  29. BackRowHeckler August 15, 2022 at 1:16 pm #

    Meanwhile in Waterbury, Ct, once an industrial American powerhouse called The Brass City because that’s where every artillery and bullet shell was manufactured from the Civil War onward — now a Caribbean outpost, Puerto Ricans and Jamaicans are engaged in some kind of beef; two dead business owners last night, one PR, one Jamaican. It’s almost as if the 17th century Spanish/English Colonial Wars rage to this day.

    As you can imagine Waterbury is no longer an Industrial City but a strange tropical Caribbean village superimposed on 19th and 20th century New England redbrick industrial ruins. I’m sure the cultural markers of an earlier time, the Civil War and remarkable WW1 monuments, Columbus statue, stately public buildings, and parks named after the City’s 17th century Yankee founders, mean very little to the distinguished Caribbs who occupy the city today.

    • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

      The war rages on but the people of those nations are long gone. Fitting, somehow.

      Tell us more about the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame, why don’t you. Mostly Black Irish like Sean Coleman, perhaps?

      • Sean Coleman August 17, 2022 at 5:26 pm #

        This Black Irish nonsense. I have never heard of it here. I meant to ask you, did you look up William Bates after my post above or did you remember it from earlier reading? I am just interested.

  30. Ed Haskell August 15, 2022 at 1:20 pm #

    Mr. Kunstler,

    Your phraseology is Just Right:
    “…a systematic effort to obstruct justice by the US Department of Justice.”
    “…seditious treachery…James Comey…Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, and Rod Rosenstein”
    “…illegal coordinated maneuvers…Rep. Adam Schiff, ICIG Michael Atkinson, the National Security Council, and CIA-agent Eric Ciaramella…”

    Yup. Those descriptors ring true.

    A sad state when the trusted cannot be trusted.
    The WW2 generation would have treated them as enemy, you can guess how that’d turn out.

    Cheers

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  31. richsob August 15, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

    Some of my friends won’t stop complaining about how Trump is an a-hole. Of course he is; I wouldn’t want to have him around me every day pulling the BS he is famous for. But on policy I support the guy. Anyone the U.S. government hates/fears as much as Trump is fine in my books.

    • Bob Polecat August 15, 2022 at 1:37 pm #

      As our world feminized, being nice has become more important than being right.

      • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

        *Appearing to be nice, as the cattiness has multiplied

    • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 1:43 pm #

      Other than the obvious, what is wrong with being an a-hole?

      • Bob Polecat August 15, 2022 at 1:49 pm #

        A-holes get shit done.

        • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 1:58 pm #

          They also know when to cut the shit and finish business

    • thirdcoastlegend August 15, 2022 at 3:04 pm #

      This take is quite close to ny own feelings about Trump.

      I’ve never understood the hysterical opposition to his personal affect and manner of speech. I’ve never really seen anyone in opposition provide solid reasoning for their attitudes.

      • Bob Polecat August 15, 2022 at 5:41 pm #

        “Orange man bad!”

        What more do you need?

    • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 10:29 am #

      Nothing is easier to criticize than someone’s “personality.” If you’re outspoken or plain spoken, you’re a asshole. If you’re tactful, you’re “slick” or mealy-mouthed. If you come to the point, you’re too abrupt. If you’re forceful, you’re abrasive. If you’re well groomed, you are “obsessed with your looks.” If you have a hair out of place, you’re a slob. This is a favorite game because it’s a game no one can win.

  32. Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 1:29 pm #

    “You didn’t read one other word I wrote, did you? And there were several hundred, all detailing those thoughts further. But you heard “sexy” and that was the end of all respect for my thoughts. Why?

    By the way, Misogyny is literally the “dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.”

    Misogyny is NOT finding women “indispensible, fun and sexy”. And then marrying them and raising a family with them.

    Jeezus, people need to stop trying to change the definitions of words because they think it suits them today.

    I don’t care if you like men. Stop telling me that I’m wrong for trying to be one of the good ones. Tired of this shit.”
    – MrMango

    It is my contention that it is actually misandry that is the real problem today.

    50+ years of Women’s Lib has morphed from allowing smart females to become doctors into dumb females bullying our way to Hell in a hand-basket.

    “Tired of this shit” indeed!

    —–

    Have you ever noticed that the women most opposed to men finding women sexy are all butt-ugly? Coincidence? I think not.

    • tresho August 15, 2022 at 1:43 pm #

      “Have you ever noticed that the women most opposed to men finding women sexy are all butt-ugly?” No, but I did notice the reaction of a beautiful blonde lady when I referred to her as “skinny”. The reason I didn’t say she had a beautiful body was that I didn’t want her to hold it against me.

      • Islander August 16, 2022 at 10:29 pm #

        You wouldn’t want a beautiful body held against you?

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 10:20 am #

          Ha

    • Hereward the Woke August 15, 2022 at 3:14 pm #

      FFS, are you going to ruin another thread with your antediluvian comments on a topic no-one but you is raising? And it was going so well!

      • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 3:47 pm #

        1) Actually, if you read my post, it was MrMango who raised this issue on the Gestapo thread late last night.

        2) If nobody cares about the Battle of the Sexes, how could it possibly ruin a thread? That does not even make sense.

        3) You do know how to scroll, right?

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 15, 2022 at 6:35 pm #

          My fault, Hereward.

          I woke up this morning to find out that I was being told that saying I like women actually means that I hate women.

          How could I not comment?

      • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 6:33 pm #

        I agree with Night Owl. He’s mentally ill.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 15, 2022 at 6:48 pm #

          Sigh.

          I don’t even know who you’re referring to, but it’d better not be me, Mary.

          “I very much like hamburgers” does not equal “I hate and disrespect hamburgers”.

          I know you know this.

          If we worked together in an office, I’d imagine we’d get along just fine. After all, we seem to agree on most things. Until I found out what you were saying about be behind my back at the snack machine because…I’m not even sure what.

          This has been the stupidest argument here in a long time.

          You sucked me into some crap that I normally don’t wade into (Janos was the last one to do so, and you have even referenced and bolstered my arguments with his previous misuse of my words).

          You went 180 on logic and suddenly made no sense, arguing against someone else (Janos and OG) while condemning the legitimate thoughts of a guy you’ve never met and never will, who means you no harm…and accused me of woman-hating because I said I like women (well, my woman at least, curated, tested and approved).

          I don’t request an apology, I merely request an immediate end to this nonsense.

          • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 6:58 pm #

            You can clearly see that my response is to Hereward, yes? It’s underneath his comment.

            I don’t know why you think it’s about you.

          • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 11:27 pm #

            Mango: Willing or unwillingly, you will trod the path, the Via Dolorosa, that Og and I have already trod.

            She said, Women are life. Men are death. I’m not making that up. Men who amuse her, agree with her, and cater to her whims have a place as inferiors and courtiers. That’s what I meant by Hag Fags.

          • Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 9:10 am #

            I was referring to “Rhett.” Not sure how that could be any less obvious.

            You are one of my favorite posters, Mango.

          • Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 9:10 am #

            “more”

            🙂

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 15, 2022 at 6:51 pm #

          And what in the actual fock does this have to do with JHK’s article?

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 15, 2022 at 6:55 pm #

          You’ve also not responded to anything else I wrote.

        • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 6:57 pm #

          Wow, of course it isn’t you, Mr. Mango.

          I am referring to Rhett.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 15, 2022 at 6:58 pm #

          (But I did request an immediate end to this, so no response would exhibit some respect…)

          • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 7:00 pm #

            I have absolutely no problem with you and enjoy your posts.

            You asked me a question and I answered it honestly, and you you didn’t like my answer.

            Let’s just leave it at that, shall we?

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 15, 2022 at 7:16 pm #

            Deal.

        • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 11:24 pm #

          Night Owl is your last male supporter and victim on this this site.

          • Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 9:11 am #

            Yes, Mary is a good one.

          • Alzaebo August 16, 2022 at 12:54 pm #

            She is.

            Now picture this: a woman wearing a proper hat, earrings, a proper dress, full stockings, and the calf-length boots everyone, even childen, wore in the 1920’s.

            That woman is reroofing a house, because women didn’t dress like men in 1929.

            Granma remodeled old railroad tarpaper shacks. Ma was her hod-carrier.

            I kind of like gals with a “take-no-shinola” attitude. It runs in the family.

            (And the gals in my family were famously beautiful. I’ve heard an entire casino go silent when my niece walked in, so the mugly defense ain’t gonna fly. She got that from Ma.)

          • Jarek August 16, 2022 at 4:01 pm #

            Yes, she believes that Women are Life and Men are Death. If she’s one of the good ones, I’d hate to meet one of the bad ones.

            You boys glory in your subjugation. Sad!

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 5:28 pm #

            I think the men up here are just as aware that you make up quotes I never said and repeat them over and over, because you do it to some of them, too.

            You have like maybe 3 fans up here and have been banned for racist links, that’s about as low as anyone can get here.

          • Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 5:30 pm #

            “Klaus Schwab affiliated candidates have never lost an election. Shouldn’t that turn a few heads?”

            https://twitter.com/TheGreatRESlST/status/1558301607229628416?cxt=HHwWgIC9_cbDmaArAAAA

            You don’t say!

    • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 6:54 pm #

      Have you ever noticed that men who say they are staunchly opposed to having themselves judged on a social credit score and who are incensed by having Big Brother watch their every move, think that women should be thrilled and flattered by having random strange men judge them (on their personal scale), and loudly announce the results to them while the women are going about their own business?

      I find that odd and hypocritical.

      • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 7:00 pm #

        It is both odd and hypocritical, yes.

      • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 11:28 pm #

        And women never judge men, right? Oh Paula!

        • Paula D August 16, 2022 at 1:11 pm #

          Are you implying that men are thrilled and flattered when women judge them?
          I haven’t noticed you preening yourself when you are judged.

          • Jarek August 16, 2022 at 4:02 pm #

            So you admit that women judge men?

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 5:30 pm #

            I absolutely judge everyone. So does every other human. The second you see a person and form any opinion that is judgment. To imply it’s a bad thing or flaw is just weird.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 10:26 am #

            Of course we all judge.

            But we’re supposed to judge actions and words, not people. That said, we do anyway. But it doesn’t make it a good thing, or not wrong. It’s just…a thing.

      • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 10:41 am #

        It seems to me that it is bad manners for men to commenting on the appearance of women they see on the street. It is worse than bad manners to accost strange women on the street.

        Women desire these attentions exactly as much as you are flattered when a gay man in a public restroom admires your dick and inquires, “How’d you like that thing sucked?”

        You would find this offensive, right? You’d like the guy to be arrested, right?

        But you expect women to be flattered by such attentions.

        • Paula D August 17, 2022 at 11:37 am #

          Exactly, Anthea. Why can’t they understand that?

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 17, 2022 at 4:55 pm #

            Because we’re not saying what she said.

        • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 6:22 pm #

          Zing!!

  33. Q. Shtik August 15, 2022 at 1:48 pm #

    I posted this late last night under the prior thread and since it involved so much work I didn’t want it to be missed, thus this re-post.

    Following are the number of comments and times of day that MaryQueen commented at the point at which her total comment count was 86. Total word count was 2416 (avg 28.1 words per comment). I found most comments to be juvenile sniping, nothing I would deem profound. Of course she will say the same of my comments.

    This study was very tedious and likely the only one I’ll do.

    Note that MQ is not “a morning person.” Only 3 comments were posted in the AM.

    12:00 – 12:09 am
    12:10 – 12:19 am
    12:20 – 12:29 am
    12:30 – 12:39 am
    12:40 – 12:49 am
    12:50 – 12:59 am
    1:00 – 1:09 am
    1:10 – 1:19 am
    1:20 – 1:29 am
    1:30 – 1:39 am … 1
    1:40 – 1:49 am
    1:50 – 1:59 am
    2:00 – 2:09 am
    2:10 – 2:19 am
    2:20 – 2:29 am
    2:30 – 2:39 am
    2:40 – 2:49 am
    2:50 – 2:59 am
    3:00 – 3:09 am
    3:10 – 3:19 am
    3:20 – 3:29 am
    3:30 – 3:39 am
    3:40 – 3:49 am
    3:50 – 3:59 am
    4:00 – 4:09 am
    4:10 – 4:19 am
    4:20 – 4:29 am
    4:30 – 4:39 am
    4:40 – 4:49 am
    4:50 – 4:59 am
    5:00 – 5:09 am
    5:10 – 5:19 am
    5:20 – 5:29 am
    5:30 – 5:39 am
    5:40 – 5:49 am
    5:50 – 5:59 am
    6:00 – 6:09 am
    6:10 – 6:19 am
    6:20 – 6:29 am
    6:30 – 6:39 am
    6:40 – 6:49 am
    6:50 – 6:59 am
    7:00 – 7:09 am
    7:10 – 7:19 am
    7:20 – 7:29 am
    7:30 – 7:39 am
    7:40 – 7:49 am
    7:50 – 7:59 am
    8:00 – 8:09 am
    8:10 – 8:19 am
    8:20 – 8:29 am
    8:30 – 8:39 am
    8:40 – 8:49 am
    8:50 – 8:59 am
    9:00 – 9:09 am
    9:10 – 9:19 am
    9:20 – 9:29 am
    9:30 – 9:39 am
    9:40 – 9:49 am
    9:50 – 9:59 am
    10:00 – 10:09 am
    10:10 – 10:19 am
    10:20 – 10:29 am
    10:30 – 10:39 am
    10:40 – 10:49 am
    10:50 – 10:59 am
    11:00 – 11:09 am
    11:10 – 11:19 am
    11:20 – 11:29 am … 1
    11:30 – 11:39 am … 1
    11:40 – 11:49 am
    11:50 – 11:59 am
    12:00 – 12:09 pm … 1
    12:10 – 12:19 pm … 6
    12:20 – 12:29 pm … 1
    12:30 – 12:39 pm … 2
    12:40 – 12:49 pm
    12:50 – 12:59 pm … 3
    1:00 – 1:09 pm … 2
    1:10 – 1:19 pm … 2
    1:20 – 1:29 pm
    1:30 – 1:39 pm … 2
    1:40 – 1:49 pm … 4
    1:50 – 1:59 pm … 1
    2:00 – 2:09 pm … 1
    2:10 – 2:19 pm
    2:20 – 2:29 pm
    2:30 – 2:39 pm
    2:40 – 2:49 pm
    2:50 – 2:59 pm
    3:00 – 3:09 pm … 9
    3:10 – 3:19 pm … 3
    3:20 – 3:29 pm
    3:30 – 3:39 pm
    3:40 – 3:49 pm
    3:50 – 3:59 pm
    4:00 – 4:09 pm
    4:10 – 4:19 pm
    4:20 – 4:29 pm
    4:30 – 4:39 pm
    4:40 – 4:49 pm
    4:50 – 4:59 pm … 6
    5:00 – 5:09 pm … 6
    5:10 – 5:19 pm … 3
    5:20 – 5:29 pm … 3
    5:30 – 5:39 pm
    5:40 – 5:49 pm
    5:50 – 5:59 pm
    6:00 – 6:09 pm
    6:10 – 6:19 pm … 1
    6:20 – 6:29 pm
    6:30 – 6:39 pm
    6:40 – 6:49 pm
    6:50 – 6:59 pm
    7:00 – 7:09 pm
    7:10 – 7:19 pm … 2
    7:20 – 7:29 pm … 2
    7:30 – 7:39 pm
    7:40 – 7:49 pm
    7:50 – 7:59 pm … 2
    8:00 – 8:09 pm
    8:10 – 8:19 pm
    8:20 – 8:29 pm … 1
    8:30 – 8:39 pm … 2
    8:40 – 8:49 pm
    8:50 – 8:59 pm
    9:00 – 9:09 pm … 1
    9:10 – 9:19 pm … 1
    9:20 – 9:29 pm
    9:30 – 9:39 pm
    9:40 – 9:49 pm
    9:50 – 9:59 pm
    10:00 – 10:09 pm
    10:10 – 10:19 pm
    10:20 – 10:29 pm
    10:30 – 10:39 pm
    10:40 – 10:49 pm
    10:50 – 10:59 pm
    11:00 – 11:09 pm
    11:10 – 11:19 pm … 6
    11:20 – 11:29 pm … 4
    11:30 – 11:39 pm
    11:40 – 11:49 pm … 3
    11:50 – 11:59 pm … 3

    • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 1:49 pm #

      yikes

      • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 11:12 am #

        All I’m getting out of this is that a large number of posts occur during the traditional workday and most of those from noon to about 5:30 pm.

        Does this mean we have a lot of people posting from work? I’ve seen it mentioned on other blogs that most posts seem to be made during the workday.

    • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 1:50 pm #

      You know you’re a weirdo, right?

      • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 1:58 pm #

        It has been my experience that people skilled in statistical analysis combine intelligence with dogged determination and a never-say-die work ethic.

        Then, after pouring their hearts into successfully completing yet another hard-earned, unappreciated statistical analysis, they are dismissively called “weird” by someone who could have never accomplished the same.

        Yes, Q, you are “weird” in the sense that it is very rare for a man to combine your intelligence and your work ethic to accomplish these results.

        Well done, Sir!

        • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 2:04 pm #

          Having said that, I do have some thoughts.

          Your 10-minute time periods create too much minutiae to properly assess your data at a glance. 24x 1-hour time periods would make this data more interesting and more telling, imho.

          Please accept this suggestion in the way that it is offered:

          Another “weirdo” who has much experience developing and maintaining statistical products for upper-management (who fed me crumbs and thought me weird).

          • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 2:08 pm #

            And, yes, Mary is indeed the CFN Queen of juvenile sniping and zero profound contributions.

            This brings to mind something that I posted late last night on the Gestapo thread:

            “Most stupid people know that they are stupid and they are, therefore, mainly harmless.

            Some stupid people, however, fancy themselves smart. Those ones are dangerous.”

          • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 2:11 pm #

            And so what of it?!

            A retiree or spinster that sleeps in or gardens in the morning before posting?

            Uhh.. wow?

            Profound? From a guy that maintains a blog of his brother-in-law on another’s blog?

            How rich

          • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 2:23 pm #

            It is like a really good drummer, EL. Really good drummers appreciate Bonham or Moon or Peart WAY more than do you or I. They know the skill and effort required to achieve the result.

            I appreciate Q’s skills and efforts because I know what I would do on my PC to achieve his results … and it would be a ton of work.

            —–

            Agreed, Q’s findings are not profound. But I do not believe that profoundness was the goal.

            Rather, CFN would be a much better place if Mary would simply fu(k off and his stats quantify that commonly held opinion.

          • Night Owl August 15, 2022 at 4:47 pm #

            Please.

            Shut the fuck up.

        • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 2:08 pm #

          The statistical analysis served no purpose. You don’t know what I can and can’t accomplish, but I do not consider online stalking for purposes of harassment to be an accomplishment.

          • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 2:13 pm #

            Q’s statistical analysis did serve a purpose, Beryl. I found it very telling. You are not the arbitrator and what is and is not purposeful. You are merely one person.

            —–

            You stalk Q and call him a “weirdo” and then jump to conclusions that I was referring to you when sharing my personal experience and we have never even met?

            “Go to your room, Little Missy! This is grown-up talk here.”

          • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 2:47 pm #

            You talk about those who call Q weird, and I just called him weird, so yes you were referring to me.

            I know creepy stalking when I see it.

          • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 3:31 pm #

            You calling Q a “weirdo” reminded me of my own personal experiences. That is how conversation works, Little Missy.

            Your idea of “stalking” is anyone who calls you on your bull-shit. We all know that. In fact, we all know dozens and and even hundreds with the exact same corrupt m.o.

            Now … either shut-up (go to your room) or accept the fact that in the grown-ups room, bull shit will be challenged.

          • Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 9:12 am #

            Rhett’s poo-flinging is reaching Rednut Liberal levels.

            This is highly entertaining.

          • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 11:47 am #

            I’m not sure Rhett is OG with a new handle, as the style is a little different. The main thing that’s missing is the calls for repentance. But that would be a give-away, wouldn’t it?

      • Q. Shtik August 16, 2022 at 10:46 am #

        You know you’re a weirdo, right? – Beryl

        ===========

        Weird is in the eye of the beholder.

    • BackRowHeckler August 15, 2022 at 2:11 pm #

      Phew! Lot of minutia in that post.

    • Nigel Tufnel August 15, 2022 at 2:27 pm #

      Yeah, okay. But what is your point?

      • Nigel Tufnel August 15, 2022 at 2:33 pm #

        My take is that you, Q, apparently have lots of time on your hands. This blog’s comment thread is your little world.

        • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 3:37 pm #

          1) It is my understanding that Q worked very hard and saved very smart for his entire life to now have the time on his hands to pursue whatever projects that he likes. That is not a bad thing. That is an inspiration.

          2) I believe that Q’s points can be found in his text introducing his data dump. I believe that Q’s point is one that I strongly endorse: CFN would be a much better, intellectually-stimulating venue if Mary would kindly fu(k off.

          • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 4:29 pm #

            I think it would be better without the targeted harassment and sick freaks like you.

            Like it was until you showed up.

          • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 5:02 pm #

            Are you still jabberin’, Little Missy? I thought that I told you to go to your room and think about your own corruption.

          • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 6:29 pm #

            Thanks, BoO, I concur.

          • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 11:30 pm #

            That’s not Beryl talking, it’s the Big Macs talking, the hormones, the chemicals!

            And Mary likes…..

          • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 11:53 am #

            People seem to take things rather personally here, considering that none of the people here even know each other. In fact, we know each other so little that no one can even take revenge by unfriending you on Facebook.

        • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 11:33 pm #

          Q has come out against Mary, thus, at least in a de facto sense, joining the party of Truth, Justice and the American Way. What a guy!

    • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 3:10 pm #

      Here is what we can deduce about Q.
      His wife never complains that he is around her too much, because he is able to amuse himself for hours.

    • Hereward the Woke August 15, 2022 at 3:14 pm #

      Okay, okay, you can stick to grammar and spelling!

      • Night Owl August 15, 2022 at 4:21 pm #

        Please no. He at least demonstrates a modicum of competence with his new hobby.

    • PeteAtomic August 15, 2022 at 3:15 pm #

      This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen yet on the Clusterfuck!

      thanks Q!

      hilarity…

    • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 6:31 pm #

      OCD + stalker behavior.

      Why not go back to torturing your poor nearly-dead BIL?

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 15, 2022 at 7:22 pm #

      Excellent work, Q. Worth the time? That remains to be seen. But not bad at all for an old bastard with time to spare.

    • Blackbird August 15, 2022 at 8:28 pm #

      Keep up the tedious work Q!

      Numbers don’t lie, words do. (Although the story told by numbers is often not obvious. And the story told by words is often more entertaining.)

      However, an appropriate analysis of this data set requires context and non is provided – yet easily (ok, fairly easily) could be. In your spare time – or just to get away from Peter – head back into the garage and connect strings between Mary’s comments and comments on her comments, as well as her comments on the comments of others (I use different colors of string for upstream and downstream – but I’m sure you have your methods). Then we can move into the analysis phase.

      You crank out the scatter plots, and I’ll look at ’em. It’s called “division of labor”.

      • Islander August 16, 2022 at 10:35 pm #

        Multilmariate analysis ?

        • Blackbird August 17, 2022 at 12:22 am #

          Good one!

    • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 11:37 pm #

      Remember Mary’s morning is not your morning. She is on mountain time while you and Mr Kunstler are on EST.

      • Q. Shtik August 16, 2022 at 12:42 am #

        Yes, I acknowledge that in a comment down below.

  34. Frankenstein Government August 15, 2022 at 2:04 pm #

    Only the government can come up with stupid fucking names like “Crossfire Hurricane.”

    So profoundly stupid.

    Reminds one of the “affordable care act” and the “inflation reduction act.”

    They really do think we are fucking idiots. Perhaps we are.

    • Edge Lord August 15, 2022 at 2:07 pm #

      Have you seen how many comic book films have been made the last 10-15 years?

      So yes, yes we are

    • Beryl of Oyl August 15, 2022 at 2:12 pm #

      OMG paying thousands per year for “access” when you could just walk into an urgent care center and pay a couple of hundred, tops, for what you actually need.

      People thought that was a good idea.

    • AllenR August 15, 2022 at 4:54 pm #

      The government did not come up with that name. Mick Jagger did. But it’s all right now. In fact it’s a gas.

      • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 5:22 pm #

        Ha! Well-played.

      • Blackbird August 15, 2022 at 8:31 pm #

        He probably gets royalties every time the phrase is mentioned. Well, beats playing the casino circuit.

        Mick, I’ll never save you from a paparazzi again…

      • Soul Forensics August 16, 2022 at 2:04 am #

        Jagger and the Stones announced about a year ago that they’d no longer perform “Brown Sugar” live. Of course, they’ve already made a bundle off it the past 50 years, so no big deal. But they’re now in the good books (temporarily) with their Woke feminist harassers and busybodies. Yeah, some “rebels” they turned out to be.

        • Soul Forensics August 16, 2022 at 2:07 am #

          BIPOC feminists, that is. The worst.

        • Blackbird August 16, 2022 at 11:28 am #

          Sir Mick the Rebel. Anybody remember last year’s Eazy Sleazy? Maybe Mick can get Eric Clapton on guitar for the concert tour.

          No more Brown Sugar? But it’s about miscegenation – isn’t that supposed to be good? Maybe just update the pronouns…

        • Redneck Liberal August 16, 2022 at 10:41 pm #

          Huh? “Brown Sugar” relates to Mexican heroin.

          • Soul Forensics August 16, 2022 at 11:39 pm #

            “Brown Sugar, you know you taste so good,
            just like a Black girl should.”

            You gonna tell us now that “Black girl” is another euphemism for heroin?

          • benr August 18, 2022 at 10:09 pm #

            The lyric is about slaves from Africa who were sold in New Orleans and raped by their white masters. The subject matter is quite serious, but the way the song is structured, it comes off as a fun rocker about a white guy having sex with a black girl. songfacts.com

  35. Roundball Shaman August 15, 2022 at 2:12 pm #

    We – the lucky and ‘privileged’ Americans – are living through a great social and political experiment.

    We have transitioned from a governmental-social contract purportedly based upon government by and for The People (OK, we know that didn’t happen)… to a Contract of Contentious Conflict by a government-by-occupation that is waging multiple wars against parts of itself… a former President… and most of all, We the People, the very ones upon whom government was theoretically based and from which it was to have draw its fundamental legitimacy.

    This Occupying Force does not draw its existence from a contract with The People but from raw thuggery and shameless abuses of power.

    ‘The People’ vs. The Government. The Blue Team against the Red Team. The Normies against the People Who Really Know Things. The young against the elders. People of divergent lifestyles and relationships at war with anyone who believes in what is now called traditional values. The People based in sanity against those Who Are Not. The People with Money waging war against All Those Without Money. There are so many damn wars and conflicts going on it’s no wonder no one wants to work anymore. There’s just no time for that kind of thing any more.

    So, let’s look to history to see where all this might be headed. Let’s list all of the societies on Planet Earth that devolved into institutionalized conflict and chaos and ended up righting the ship and living on in peace and harmony. There was… uh… um…
    well… ahh… let’s give this a while.

    One simply cannot have a true functioning society worth living in without fundamental respect and cooperation among all of its parts. When that spirit no longer exists… that Society is finished. Sort of like when we all agree to stop at red lights. When respect is no longer given to the color of the light and to other travelers, everything is crossing the intersection at the same time and a colossal mess of chaos and injury is created. Like what is going on now in The Indispensable Nation.

    None of this is to say that Mr. Trump does not have valid reasons to go against the Arkansas Deep Staters or anyone else. This is about the general climate of anger, distrust, hatred, and god-forbid-anything-like-cooperation-and-mutual respect going on today.

    The Government seriously began to be weaponized after World War Two, and became fully functionally weaponized after 1963.

    And We – the lucky and ‘privileged’ Americans – get to live through all these rotten fruits that are being harvested today from all the rotten seeds that have been planted in The Indispensable Nation for the past 80 years if not longer.

    And nothing that happens in any court room is going to change the stench in the air that exists from Sea-To-Shining-Sea.

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  36. Rowdypiglet August 15, 2022 at 2:13 pm #

    All questions of what he did do, or didn’t do, or could have done aside, my affection for Trump is based largely on the fact that the deep state wants so desperately to be rid of him. I’m fairly sure that he was more effective than he appeared, and had more things in the works than any of us realize. Again – solely based on the lengths they’ve gone to in pursuing him. Maybe it’s only because he’s persistent and has a level of courage that I didn’t at all expect. Whatever has gone on behind the scenes, they really really hate him. They’re willing to hurt themelves in order to hurt him. It only makes sense if they believe he’s a serious threat. In this case, I guess they know something I don’t.

    • Blackbird August 15, 2022 at 8:40 pm #

      Maybe the Deep State want us to think they are desperate to get rid of Trump so that We the Deplorables will cling to him like iron filings to a magnet. Part of the whole polarizing process going on right now.

      My Repuglitard frenemies berate me for being anti-Trump, while my Dumbocrap frenemies berate me for being pro-Trump. Fortunately they are beating up on, and throwing matches at, Strawman me, the Real Me having wandered off in disgust.

  37. Paula D August 15, 2022 at 3:02 pm #

    This tactic of using the rubric of a trial to hide public evidence from the public reminds me of the long trial of Zacarias Moussaoui to keep
    9-11 evidence from the public for years.

    Gotta make sure he has a ”fair trial” doncha know!

    I’m glad that JHK is keeping the evidence in front of the public anyway.

    • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 7:38 pm #

      Yes, if it wasn’t for JHK, I would not be up on any of this as it’s not where my attention is these days.

      I really enjoy how deep down the rabbit hole he’s gone and that he keeps track of the timeline of events. It’s great.

  38. PeteAtomic August 15, 2022 at 3:20 pm #

    I’d like to hear Jim’s opinion on this “anti-Trump at all costs” phenomena, in regards to the Long Emergency.

    Is this a reaction to the permanent bureaucracy to its own slow demise during the Long Emergency? As resources & political power & US empire unwinds– is this like the actions of a cornered, dying apex predator? .. with the anti-war, populist figure of Trump acting as the population’s rejection how government has been run during the Cold War?

    Thanks again for your blog and very educated insights, Jim. Another very incise one today.

    • Islander August 16, 2022 at 10:37 pm #

      this . . . phenomenon

  39. SoftStarLight August 15, 2022 at 3:46 pm #

    Thank you so much Mr. K for diligently providing us with your prescient analysis of the ongoing saga of President Trump versus GAE. It appears that a good deal of the documents that the FBI snagged from Mar-a-Lago were documents covered by attorney-client privilege. So it seems very certain that the FBI is trying to reconstruct President Trump’s case being made against them and their owners for all of the egregious wrongs heaped upon him over these past few tumultuous years. The FBI’s actions are also another instance of election interference and election rigging that GAE is so good at and orchestrates in a continual fashion at a global level. No doubt there must be damning information about the Big Steal operations in those documents as well. Are they seriously stupid enough to believe that there are no backups to all of this information elsewhere? So thankful for your information rich, positive updates!

  40. tom clark August 15, 2022 at 4:11 pm #

    CFN…have fun posting to what has become this goofy blog, but I’d be careful…your identity might be stolen.

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    • cowbell81 August 15, 2022 at 4:26 pm #

      Do I detect a threat interlaced with that message? 😉

  41. JohnAZ August 15, 2022 at 4:39 pm #

    I vote Q be put in charge of the Covid multitude of investigations and put Fauci in jail.

    All in favor, say aye.

    BTW, if you are paying attention on You Tube, the damning of the vaxx is getting closer.

  42. tom clark August 15, 2022 at 4:54 pm #

    Cowbell…not a threat at all. Just, shall we say, precautionary advice.

    • Disaffected August 15, 2022 at 6:14 pm #

      Why this blog more or less than any other?

    • Redneck Liberal August 16, 2022 at 5:58 pm #

      That’s the second time you’ve given spooky-sounding “precautionary advice”. Are you in fact JHK in drag?

  43. Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 4:58 pm #

    Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla tests positive for Covid, says he is experiencing very mild symptoms

    Bourla, 60, said he had started a course of the company’s oral Covid-19 antiviral treatment, Paxlovid, and was isolating and following all public health precautions.

    www_nbcnews_com/health/health-news/pfizer-ceo-albert-bourla-tests-positive-covid-rcna43134

    Bourla has received four doses of the Covid vaccine developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.

    • cowbell81 August 15, 2022 at 5:10 pm #

      “Bourla has received four doses of the Covid vaccine developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.”

      Muahahahahaha!!!!!!!

      • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 5:17 pm #

        I know, right? I am struggling between trying to be a good Christian and hoping that Bourla has a vent tube jammed down his lying throat.

      • Blackbird August 16, 2022 at 11:33 am #

        It just shows how dangerous “Covid” is, and how effective the “vaccines” are. Bourla would be miserably, painfully dead many times over if not for his multi-vaxxing.

        • cbeard August 17, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

          BS. He probably took a placebo. That said, even if he did take the real thing, it won’t stop you from catching covid.

  44. Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 5:15 pm #

    Film academy apologizes to Littlefeather for 1973 Oscars

    www_msn_com/en-ca/entertainment/movies/film-academy-apologizes-to-littlefeather-for-1973-oscars/ar-AA10GO2m?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=a1348a8badab4df3a434df81a50c10a2

    NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 50 years after Sacheen Littlefeather stood on the Academy Awards stage on behalf of Marlon Brando to speak about the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences apologized to her for the abuse she endured.

    —–

    Times sure have changed. I guess that Marlon Brando can be viewed as a pioneer for more than just his acting now.

    —–

    Pocahontas

    Aurora borealis
    The icy sky at night
    Paddles cut the water
    In a long and hurried flight
    From the white man
    To the fields of green
    And the homeland
    We’ve never seen

    They killed us in our tepee
    And they cut our women down
    They might have left some babies
    Cryin’ on the ground
    But the firesticks
    And the wagons come
    And the night falls
    On the setting sun

    They massacred the buffalo
    Kitty corner from the bank
    The taxis run across my feet
    And my eyes have turned to blanks
    In my little box
    At the top of the stairs
    With my Indian rug
    And a pipe to share

    I wish a was a trapper
    I would give thousand pelts
    To sleep with Pocahontas
    And find out how she felt
    In the mornin’
    On the fields of green
    In the homeland
    We’ve never seen

    And maybe Marlon Brando
    Will be there by the fire
    We’ll sit and talk of Hollywood
    And the good things there for hire
    And the Astrodome
    And the first tepee
    Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me
    Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me
    Pocahontas

    – Neil Young

    • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 5:31 pm #

      he can move to europe. he lives on stolen land.

      According to Taki Mag,

      The irony about Neil Young’s “protest” is that Young himself has a history of spreading medical disinfo. In the 1980s, he went on a bizarre crusade against gays working in public places, because he thought you could get AIDS by touching something a gay person had touched.
      “You go to the supermarket, and you see a faggot behind the fucking cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.”

      quote according to Taki.

      NY did sell his 1000+ songs to a company partnered with Blackrock (who employs former Chaiman & CEO of Pfizer Jeffrey B Kindler as Senior Advisor).

      • Rhett Dawson August 15, 2022 at 5:38 pm #

        Yes, malt. There is little doubt as to who Neiler views as Number One.

        As is often the case, the most talented are also greedy, selfish pricks.

      • Lance Boyle August 15, 2022 at 11:50 pm #

        Call me old-fashioned but I don’t want a faggot behind the fucking cash register handling my potatoes!

        • Q. Shtik August 16, 2022 at 12:50 am #

          Hahaha, I have never heard of testicles being referred to as potatoes before 😉

          • malthuss August 16, 2022 at 11:11 am #

            I didnt get the joke until I read yr comment.

  45. cowbell81 August 15, 2022 at 5:16 pm #

    Well, looks like things aren’t so rosy in Biden’s palatial holiday retreat after all. Couldn’t think of a better suited place for him! The condition of the house seems symbolic for the state of our country at large, largely thanks to Biden himself.

    Article summary:

    Joe Biden’s $20million freebie vacation retreat has been plagued with leaks, mold, mildew, termites, fungi, drafts, stains and cracks according to court filings.

    Major Democrat donor and political VIP Maria Allwin has been hosting the first family free of charge in her 9-bed Kiawah Island, South Carolina mansion since 2009. They are currently vacationing there.

    The beachfront home may seem like a palatial, unblemished jewel on the tiny golfing island. But in a lawsuit against her builders, Allwin revealed the property has been plagued with pests and defects – including during the Bidens’ stays.

    Contractors she hired told her that many of the problems were likely due to botched original construction.

    Dan Buffington of Buffington Homes told Allwin in 2004 that ‘the roof was so poorly installed the only way to properly repair the roof is to replace it’ at a cost of ‘over $500,000’ and recommended she hire a lawyer.

    The judgment said that Allwin, the widow of New York hedge fund mogul James Allwin, instead forged ahead with piecemeal repairs, but still spent hundreds of thousands of dollars patching up the house.

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    • Disaffected August 15, 2022 at 6:12 pm #

      Some kind of insurance and/or tax scam involved, I’ll bet.

    • Paula D August 15, 2022 at 7:08 pm #

      She’s a Democrat. Probably hired illegals for the construction.

      • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 7:39 pm #

        Zing!

        • Alzaebo August 16, 2022 at 1:10 pm #

          *Oof!*

    • Redneck Liberal August 16, 2022 at 5:56 pm #

      “Joe Biden’s $20million freebie vacation retreat has been plagued with leaks, mold, mildew, termites, fungi, drafts, stains and cracks according to court filings

      Sounds a lot like Trump’s joke “Doral Golf Resort, where he tried to hold a global summit a few years back. Hoots!

  46. Bob Polecat August 15, 2022 at 5:50 pm #

    Germany Warns: There Will Be Draconian Energy Regulations
    by Mac Slavo | Aug 15, 2022 | Headline News

    www_shtfplan_com/headline-news/germany-warns-there-will-be-draconian-energy-regulations

    German officials have warned the public that there will be extreme and draconian energy rationing measures put in place. They also warned their enforcers to expect mass civil unrest and riots over the extreme rationing measures.

    Queries for “firewood” have exploded on Google in Germany, as Deutsche Bank predicts that “wood will be used for heating purposes where possible.” German officials are now warning their slaves of extreme energy rationing measures, along with the potential for “extremists” to fuel national unrest over the deteriorating situation.

    Because it’s so extreme to want to be able to heat your home over winter.

    —–

    I remember President Biden warning of a “dark winter” less than one year ago.

    • Night Owl August 15, 2022 at 6:15 pm #

      That isn’t what Dark Winter was. Lots more to learn there.

      • Bob Polecat August 15, 2022 at 6:33 pm #

        Learning is exactly what I am doing here, NO. Please explain ‘Dark Winter’ since you know and I do not.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 15, 2022 at 9:23 pm #

          It’s a covid reference made by Biden. I believe the term has been used before each of the last two winters by “world leaders” to scare the thought into people that life is going to get worse (and in most cases they were spot on).

          • Bob Polecat August 15, 2022 at 9:36 pm #

            Thx Mr M.

            Perhaps I was not all that far off taking the threatening phrase to its literal meaning: rolling blackouts during a freezing winter.

            Regardless of the phrase or of my lack of context thereof, Germans could be in for a very Dark Winter in a few months.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 15, 2022 at 10:13 pm #

            Yes. I can’t speak for the Germans in particular, but Europe has put itself in a corner by siding with the Biden cranks with the Ukraine situation. It’s pretty much trying to start a disaster.

          • Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 9:15 am #

            Dark Winter was a bioterrorism drill.

          • Blackbird August 16, 2022 at 11:40 am #

            And “Covid” is bioterrorism without the drill.

            Part of a package deal called “The Great Reset”, of which the Ukraine War – and fighting evil Putin-Hitler by freezing this winter – is another part.

            I expect this winter, following the Blue Tsunami!, to be quite dark, and subsequent winters to be even more so.

        • Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 9:22 am #

          I posted further down thread, Bob. But I came across this link just now.

          https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/all-roads-lead-dark-winter/

          “The leaders of two controversial pandemic simulations that took place just months before the Coronavirus crisis – Event 201 and Crimson Contagion – share a common history, the 2001 biowarfare simulation Dark Winter. Dark Winter not only predicted the 2001 anthrax attacks, but some of its participants had clear foreknowledge of those attacks.”

          LAV has some great researchers, including Whitney Webb, who I highly recommend.

          As so often, the criminals involved in the present scams and efforts to control us are just building on many past (and often failed) efforts.

          • malthuss August 16, 2022 at 11:13 am #

            color us surprised. the guidestones action plan.

  47. anmariwakaranai August 15, 2022 at 6:28 pm #

    Soul said yesterday meditation is about understanding there is no meditator, there is nothing.

    Nothing but love Soul. No matter, just those fragile strings vibrating in time to the one discipline, one law, one potentiality or as I like to call it, God.

    • Jarek August 15, 2022 at 11:47 pm #

      Totally different paths. Each is fatal to the psychology of the other. Christianity teaches that the soul was created by God and is eternal.

      Does Soul know that there are other kinds of Vedanta, namely the Dvaita or qualified and unqualified dualists who believe much as Christians do?

      The qualified believe in Unity too, but that includes the Universe and Souls, just as the ocean includes waves and currents.

      The Advaitans are the weird ones who try to deny multiplicity, seeing as some kind of taint or threat to unity. So they create a metaphysical category of Illusion. So now you have Truth and Illusion – that’s Oneness? Their school is the most famous in the West, but it is not the best.

      • Soul Forensics August 16, 2022 at 2:29 am #

        No, Jarek. The Advaita Vedandists in the West are — most of them — phony Neo-Advaitists. Those that think there is no effort or point in doing anything in seeking. Hence, responsibility goes out the window, and you get the justification of perversion and criminality in a long list of Eastern and Western based ‘teachers’. So you have a crook and sexual abuser in Mooji who’s all the rage, making big bucks (telling the selfish and good-time seekers what they want to hear) next to a traditional, non-sensational Advaita Master like Francis Lucille who gets a small following.

        This is a huge, dangerous misunderstanding of original, traditional Advaita Vedanta, misleading almost all Western seekers (who are naive and uneducated about it.)

        There are many ancient texts which make a clear distinction between enlightenment and character. In fact, those old-timers didn’t at all value the former without the latter, which can certainly happen with premature awakenings or (most of the time) with aborted or partial awakenings.

        Advaita is very specific in making a distinction between the relative and the absolute, and always says that both are necessary, and in any case, impossible to separate or eliminate. The spiritual paradox of spiritual paradoxes. (But only for those stuck in relativity!)

        • malthuss August 16, 2022 at 11:16 am #

          Blame Poonjaji…his are the grifts or gifts that keep on taking.
          andrew cohen, gaganji, others. I dont know their names.

          and lets give byron katie an honorable mention.
          and the woman making big money channeling, in an irish accent. whats her name?

          • Soul Forensics August 16, 2022 at 1:51 pm #

            malth,

            Indeed. Poonja told them they were all enlightened just to get the ambitious leeches off his back. Tony Parsons, who didn’t come through that line, is particularly obnoxious.

        • Jarek August 16, 2022 at 12:00 pm #

          Pop-Advaita is ruinous to Westerners. And for Easterners? Only a small number can engage in it with advantage. Krishna himself said so in Bhagavad Gita. It’s too steep for most. It uses an unbalanced metaphysic as a form of pedagogy. Yes Shankara knew that world was real (part of God). But he spends all of his time saying the opposite.

          • Soul Forensics August 16, 2022 at 1:55 pm #

            “Yes Shankara knew that world was real (part of God). But he spends all of his time saying the opposite.”

            It’s matter of emphasis. The teacher needs to know who they’re instructing. As some Zen adept said (paraphrasing): “if someone’s tilting to the left, I yell: “go right! go right!”. If they tilt to the right, I yell “go left! go left”.

            (Not to be taken in a political context, hah!)

          • Jarek August 16, 2022 at 8:41 pm #

            Yes, after all the wave will disappear and people attached to it will suffer agony. Then they will attack themselves to a another one and the same thing will happen.

            Ocean! Ocean! Ocean!

    • Soul Forensics August 16, 2022 at 2:35 am #

      Bless you, anmari.

      • Jarek August 16, 2022 at 12:01 pm #

        To please you she denied her own faith, denying that souls existed but rather, “only love”.

      • anmariwakaranai August 16, 2022 at 4:08 pm #

        Bless you right back! Bless you all, for we are the collective soul. Jar

        Remember the final vision just before, ‘All will be well.’ The wounded soul before God is Christ, and is us all.

        • anmariwakaranai August 16, 2022 at 4:09 pm #

          For. We. Are. The. Body. Of. Christ.

        • Jarek August 16, 2022 at 8:42 pm #

          Yet at the same time:

          Souls are not saved in bundles – Emerson as he resigned his ministry. That’s also true. You are responsible for your own salvation in a deep sense.

          • anmariwakaranai August 17, 2022 at 3:56 pm #

            Yes jar. But maybe only in our ‘yes’ in the eternal moment, by grace I presume.

  48. MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 7:50 pm #

    Rudy Giuliani now a ‘target’ in the Georgia election interference investigation

    “Rudy Giuliani, the personal attorney to former president Donald Trump, is now a “target of the widening election interference investigation” led by the Fulton County district attorney, Georgia prosecutors announced in Atlanta on Monday. The former New York City mayor, who has made various claims regarding voting systems in the state, is scheduled to testify before a special grand jury later this week.”

    https://twitter.com/i/events/1559244096715141120

    Got no love for Rudy but this is another example of how desperate they are.

    • Bob Polecat August 15, 2022 at 8:25 pm #

      America’s two-party system has become a farce.

    • Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 9:16 am #

      Classic inversion.

      It is all they have.

  49. Kornado August 15, 2022 at 8:57 pm #

    Seeing people covering their faces again in a grocery store today, I thought this quote, whether it’s clever or not:

    Mask Wearing Can’t Melt Steel Beams.

  50. tom clark August 15, 2022 at 9:12 pm #

    MQ…Rudy Giuliani is a drunk. Of course, so is Nancy Pelosi (and her hubby). Just sayin’

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    • MaryQueen August 15, 2022 at 9:31 pm #

      That’s beside the point. Like I said, I got no love for Rudy. But it’s yet more evidence that they are desperate not to let the stolen election info get out – or whatever else they are hanging onto.

      • Redneck Liberal August 15, 2022 at 11:15 pm #

        Hahaha….aaaahhhh… all speculation, zero evidence.

        • Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 9:23 am #

          Paul’s mugshot was classic, Nut.

          I can forward it to you if you like.

        • Alzaebo August 16, 2022 at 2:58 pm #

          RedLib: “Link! Link!”

          Liñker, please

        • cbeard August 18, 2022 at 11:46 am #

          There is plenty of evidence. Everyone with a brain, eyes and ears knows it. Wait for it. It is coming.

  51. tom clark August 15, 2022 at 9:48 pm #

    Lotso paranoia on this beautiful, beautiful Mar-a-Laga…er…website.
    (Written from a homeless tent somewhere in this crazy ol’ world).

    • Bob Polecat August 15, 2022 at 10:28 pm #

      Where we go one, we go all.

  52. tom clark August 15, 2022 at 11:39 pm #

    The negativity on this blog is spellbinding.

    Hey Q, wherz yer daily tally?

    • malthuss August 15, 2022 at 11:48 pm #

      and you are Polly anna?

    • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 10:24 am #

      Stop carping, tc. You’re embarrassing yourself.

    • JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 11:00 am #

      It is because the relatively astute folks on this blog do not buy the BS that this East Coast Mob continues to put out.

      One of the victims of the Deep State’s continuing power grabs is one of America’s most prized characteristics, its optimism.

    • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

      @ tom clark:

      Sounds like you need to start your own blog. I don’t believe you have yet attempted a poem, but you could write about butterflies and rainbows and such.

      You pretty little butterfly
      Your colors make my heart sigh
      You make my toes twinkle
      You make the stars winkle
      You are like a nice, wonderful thing
      Making all the birds to sing.

      It’s easy! I’m sure you’ve got it in you.

  53. Q. Shtik August 15, 2022 at 11:51 pm #

    Q Schtik I am in Mountain Time so if it’s 12:00 p.m. in NY, it’s 10:00 a.m. here. – MQ

    ===========

    All the time stamps on the comments are Eastern Daylight Saving time at present. My statement that you are “not a morning person” is not accurate. All the comment times need to be shifted back two hours to reflect what time it was when you posted where you live. Thus there were a slew of your posts made in the AM hours in Mountain time areas.

    So what? you may legitimately ask. I hope to be able to answer that question at some future time.

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 5:46 pm #

      No, I don’t ask.

  54. Q. Shtik August 16, 2022 at 12:23 am #

    Mary, why does Q think that if you’re not good at time zones you will still somehow know what the time difference between Mountain and East Coast is? – Paula D

    ==============

    Paula, I don’t think you were posting here 4 years ago when I made my big motorcycle trip (3080 miles) up into Canada, over to Duluth, back down around Chicago, and eastward to home in NJ over a 13 day time period. I kept copious notes and wrote up a travel log which I presented in increments over a several day period on this blog. If you had read that travel log you would understand what I meant by implying that maybe MaryQ “is not good at time zones” as so many are not these days.

    One day as I was heading west from Westmeath Ont Canada I was wondering if I had passed from the Eastern TZ into the Central TZ. At a rest stop for coffee I asked a female barista “what time zone am I in here? and she responded “Oh, geez, I’m not very good at time zones” and I commented how scary it was to me that someone in their mid-20s would not know what time zone they lived in. And that they implied it was something difficult to know, like quantum mechanics, or how to juggle 5 balls.

    Several days later on my return trip I encountered this same phenomenon when I asked a 40 something year old male bartender “hey, can you tell me what time zone I’m in here?” He replied, “I don’t know about time zones but (as he looked at his watch) I can tell you it’s 8:10. Whew!!!! I thought to myself, “what is WRONG with these people.”

    This is why I asked MQ the time zone question the way I did.

    • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 10:21 am #

      How old were you when you embarked in your 13 day version of “On the Road,” Q.?

      I recommend you see the movie “Nebraska,” with Bruce Dern, Will Forte, Bob Odenkirk, and Stacy Keach. So good I watched it twice recently. It really captures the small town great plains where I grew up zeitgeist to my mind. Things move s-l-o-w-l-y out thar’ on the Great Plains and people are stubbornly resistant to change.

      • Q. Shtik August 16, 2022 at 11:25 am #

        77.5 y/o

        • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 1:04 pm #

          A mere pup!

    • Paula D August 16, 2022 at 1:33 pm #

      I understand that some people may not know what time zone they live in, scary as that may be to contemplate.
      (But I see people who believe that Russia is bombing its own troops in a nuclear power plant in a Russia-controlled area, so I have no illusions about the intelligence of the average person).

      I was questioning your assumption that she might not know her time zone, but that she would be able to figure out the difference between your time zone and hers without knowing either, if I am making myself clear.

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 5:47 pm #

      I have worked remotely for 3 years with people across all US timezones so yeah I do ‘get’ timezones, thanks.

      • Paula D August 16, 2022 at 9:23 pm #

        I have family across the country, so I have to deal with time zones also.

      • Paula D August 16, 2022 at 9:25 pm #

        My nephew’s uncle took him to England for his 16th birthday and it worked out that they flew back over all those time zones and so his 16th birthday was extended by hours, which we all thought was pretty cool.

      • Q. Shtik August 16, 2022 at 9:46 pm #

        so yeah I do ‘get’ timezones – MQ

        ===========

        I’m glad you DO ‘get’ time zones and I would guess that 9 out of 10 CFN commenters (if not more) who live in the contiguous 48 U.S. states could tell me what time zone they are in because I believe we CFN commenters are intellectually a cut above the average. BUT, doesn’t it surprise you that on my big motorcycle trip I asked that question of two adults and neither could give me a correct answer?

        Somehow information we once considered normal and stored in everyone’s brain is not there. Is this a failure of the school system or is this type of information considered pedantic and unnecessary?

        BTW, I notice that a squiggly line appears under timezones as a single word but if I break it into two words the squiggly line disappears. So tuck that tidbit away in your noodle. Time zones is two words, not one.

        • SpeedyBB August 17, 2022 at 12:27 am #

          Q, just ask your average voter, his wheels emblazoned with a I STAND WITH UKRAINE sticker, what countries border that sorry Mittel-Europa relic.

  55. Q. Shtik August 16, 2022 at 12:36 am #

    Waiting rooms have extra wide chairs for extra wide butts. – Not_GeorgeT

    ===========

    You have reminded me of something I experienced last Thursday. I had a Dr. appt with an eye surgeon. I’m going to be having cataract surgery performed in October.

    As I waited in the waiting area (the place was mobbed, I counted 19 people) and I noticed all the chair seats were covered with a blue leather or some similar material and when people sat down, or shifted in their seats, it produced a loud fart-like noise. It was rather amusing.

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    • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 10:15 am #

      Who says the Q. Man doesn’t have a sense of humor? Let us know how the cataracts go. I’m going to need them soon as well.

      • JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 10:54 am #

        I have had astigmatism correction cataract surgery a year or so ago.

        It is a miracle with very little risk. Your color perception will explode, your far vision will be perfect. Even up close gets better.

        Here is an idea for you. When you get your next up close glasses, get a prescription for computer distance and reading distance. Then put them into graduated bifocals. Everything is in focus with a slight tilt of your head.

        Good luck andI am positive you will be super pleased.

        You will get tired of putting in eye drops.

        • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 5:10 pm #

          Thanks. I’m going to look into it sooner rather than later. I hate wearing glasses and for the most part just don’t.

          Lids are doing well now. Uppers 100%, lowers still have some reduced amount of swelling over a much smaller area in the morning that goes down throughout the day. Doc says that’s normal and will likely take 6 months to a year to completely work itself out. No matter, they’re still 100% better than they were beforehand.

    • elysianfield August 16, 2022 at 11:17 am #

      Q

      Again, the arrested development of the average man.

      …The 16 year old never dies….

      • Q. Shtik August 16, 2022 at 11:41 am #

        Yeah, farts are still funny no matter how old we get. If I feel a huge fart coming on I will reach over and squeeze my wife’s arm as I simultaneously release the fart. Then we both laugh hilariously.

        • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 1:07 pm #

          I’ll bet you’ve got a Ruckers fart cushion or two for the football games, don’t you?

    • Mac August 17, 2022 at 9:22 am #

      At least Q’s ears work.

  56. SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 1:57 am #

    Moderna says it will trash 30 million doses of its rona wax because! Nobody wants it. So where does 30 million doses of anything go? Municipal water supplies? Oh wow no wait, i wouldn’t want to be paranoid! I’m sure it will be disposed of in a super safe manner

    • gustafson.robert.22 August 16, 2022 at 7:39 am #

      lol, yikes

    • GreenAlba August 16, 2022 at 7:45 am #

      I wondered about that too, SSL, as soon as I heard about it.

      Or perhaps Bll Gates will feed it to his lettuces.

    • JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 10:48 am #

      They will have labels changed. From COVID to

      Flu. Maybe senior flu.

      You cannot tell the difference anyway! Right?

      • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

        Great point! Just another reason to avoid the flu vaccines from here on out as well.

        • GreenAlba August 16, 2022 at 1:41 pm #

          Mike Yeadon went back to the Cochrane Review documentation recently on the flu vaccines and discovered they were only ever 9% effective, so they were a big lie as well. I’ve had four of them altogether, I think, since I hit 65. Needless to say, didn’t take one last time. Some NHS bod called me to point out that I hadn’t taken up the offer. They’re so concerned, in case you miss out.

      • SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 1:24 pm #

        Ah that is a great point! Haven’t they been talking about a single, combined vaccine for covid and the flu?

    • Islander August 16, 2022 at 1:34 pm #

      In a safe and effective manner!

      • SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 1:36 pm #

        Haha that’s clever of you! 🙂

  57. SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 2:21 am #

    twitter.com/RealMacReport/status/1558918212833755137

    Dr. Biden is simply not Melania lol. No wonder the WH is so cray cray

    • stelmosfire August 16, 2022 at 8:35 am #

      SSL, that’s a funny pic. She looks like Alice Cooper in a tube top with bleached hair. Also she is carrying a spare “Depends” for Potatohead in her left hand. These people are a joke.

      • Bob Polecat August 16, 2022 at 12:52 pm #

        Ha! Alice Cooper in a tube top. Perfect.

      • SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 1:29 pm #

        LOL – I just figure her handlers don’t have a great deal of respect for her. Otherwise someone would have spoke up and said “ma’am that dress is horrendous, for the good of the country let’s find something else for you”

    • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 10:22 am #

      That’s just hideous! What a pair of cadavers!

    • Islander August 16, 2022 at 1:33 pm #

      That is just plain weird!

      Don’t let any Frenchies see this!

      They will cancel any weapons sales in favor of this new secret weapon that turns adversaries who view it to stone!!
      Call it the Medusa.

      • SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 1:38 pm #

        LOL yeah just give her snakes for dreads and she’s good to go to start a statue creating binge 😛

  58. SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 3:00 am #

    Ezra Miller would better portray a newly armed woked up IRS agent than The Flash. I could’ve saved them millions with just that quick quip. Oh well, its simply impossible to do everything

  59. wwg1wga August 16, 2022 at 10:05 am #

    It is the parasitic divergence of the elite from the macro human-earth project, who own the destructive technologies and the implementing sycophants, who represent clear and present danger.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VTNp3K_80JE

    Same as it ever was, only the technology of catapults and swords has advanced in capability to destroying 90% of planetary inhabitants within 9 minutes.

    • wwg1wga August 16, 2022 at 10:09 am #

      ….the good news is ALL the human wailing and gnashing of teeth is subject to an accelerating shortened duration.

  60. Htruth August 16, 2022 at 10:34 am #

    What’s this about? Ask Ghislane Maxwell? https://americanyellowvest.wpcomstaging.com/2022/08/16/trump-maxwell-kushner-box-a-17/

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  61. Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 11:06 am #

    “A Department of Justice official tells me passports belonging to former Pres. Trump are NOT in the possession of the FBI and have been returned.”

    https://twitter.com/KellyO/status/1559320510990880768

    So they were indeed in their possession.

    These people are so fucking stupid.

    • Rhett Dawson August 16, 2022 at 12:39 pm #

      No, they are not.

      • Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 5:35 pm #

        Yes, they are.

        The intent behind that Tweet was to manipulate, but was done so hamfistedly, that even the cud-chewers would get it.

        • Rhett Dawson August 16, 2022 at 11:02 pm #

          And, yet, they are taking over the world.

          They are many things, NO, but “fu(king stupid” is not one of them.

          • Night Owl August 17, 2022 at 1:55 am #

            The “they” I am referring to are not strictly the “they” you are referring to.

            This news minion isn’t taking over anything.

  62. JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 11:11 am #

    Good morning.

    Jill has got it.

    Is Ol’ Joe still spreading it? Would he test positive again now after the Paxlovid has worn off?

  63. JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 11:16 am #

    87000 to conduct audits on rich people?

    Are you kidding me?

    No one under $400000 being affected?

    This gives you a pretty good idea of what the Democratic, not Deep State, party thinks of the intelligence of Joe Everyman.

    The strength of the Deep State derives from the bureaucracy, hence the desire to expand it.

    The Dems believe in big government, hope all you Biden voters enjoy the ride.

    • malthuss August 16, 2022 at 11:20 am #

      and the republicans also love big govment$.

      war, debt, more laws.

      • JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 11:46 am #

        Half of the GOP in the Deep State, you are right.

        The real deal is that when folks go to DC, they become Deep Staters.

        Government over people, Deep State before party.

        Deep State, esp, MIC makes war, both sides spend, spend but on different things, wrong on laws, Dems love regulation, expanding Fed power, some GOP join in, the RINOs, but Trumpers spent four years getting rid of regulations.

        Goodbye, Liz. You are history. No one trusts a traitor, either side.

        • Jarek August 16, 2022 at 11:55 am #

          Half? Oh far more than half at the higher levels. Six high level Republicans stood up for Trump at the very end. Six.

        • malthuss August 18, 2022 at 3:05 pm #

          in DC there are private parties. honey pots. thats how.

  64. Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 11:24 am #

    For anyone still unsure about what WEF and the BIS have in store for us (anyone aside from our resident village idiot, ofc), I present

    “Richard Werner – German banking & development economist and 2003 World Economic Forum , ‘Global Leader for Tomorrow'”

    in a speech where he describes how globocap is creating a crisis to impoverish you, offer you some dough in the form of CBDC and use that to usher the world into the digital panopticon, where the accounts of “dissenters can be switched off,” preventing them from purchasing even basic necessities.

    https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1559194154068021248?cxt=HHwWgMC4kc-0r6MrAAAA

    Conspiracy goes reality again. Strange that!

    • GreenAlba August 16, 2022 at 1:17 pm #

      I got a bit of a chill from hearing (from that clip) that the Bank of England has already got implantable chips ready and waiting. And here’s me writing to my MP to ask what his position is on digital ID and removing our remaining liberties. What a joke.

      I’m curious to know what they will do with politicians. Will they continue the theatre for years yet or will they dispense with them? Technocracy doesn’t require politics.

      I like the idea of the pols losing their jobs and having to roll up their sleeves to get their social credit. I actually warned my MP about that – told him that if the WHO Pandemic Treaty went through, Bill Gates would decide what his little girl had to have injected into her to be allowed to participate in society and go to school. I got no reply, but I wasn’t expecting one. Sometimes you just want the spineless clowns to know that it’s coming to them too. Or I do anyway.

      • SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

        Ya! We should be able to watch them get injected with the real rona wax! Or eat waxinated tomatoes? I agree Alba. Based on how ultra tyrannical the WEF agenda is and how open they have become about their intentions what is with the continued charade of politics/elections? I suppose we are awake but many are still essentially clueless so I assume this is why the charade goes on. They don’t won’t the cattle stirring until they are all already fully in the pen?

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 5:53 pm #

        They need ‘personalities’ to keep goading us into place, much like shepherds with their sheep. Someone to prod and poke us into place whenever our minds (or what’s left) attempt to stray.

      • Night Owl August 17, 2022 at 5:11 pm #

        No worries, RL will soon be along to assure you that the Bank of England are a gaggle of tinfoilers.

        Just float off to Woke World, where nothing is happening that might upset you.

  65. JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 11:39 am #

    The Biden toll

    Inflation. 8.5%

    2 million registered immigrants in 2022, estimate just released.

    Who knows how many escapees.

    GDP down 2 quarters, stagflation is official.

    Almost all economists say that things are going to get worse and soon.

    CEOs are getting ready to RIF millions.

    The Muslim zealots are increasing in number in Afghanistan. Rushdie just got stabbed with Iranian approval. Trump is in the crosshairs. Yet Biden’s Mob wants to make a nuke deal with Iran, who announced a month ago that they have the bomb.

    Saudi Arabia told him to F off and disclosed they are close to peak oil. Any one that thinks this oil price decrease is going to sustain is wrong.

    At least five states are talking secession. Hurry please.

    Just about everything that the Deep State has told us about the Crud is being proven to be wrong. Trump included but Biden intensified, hitting the panic button gave us Pence, Fauci and Birx. Our current solution? Distance, vaxx and masks. What are we paying these people for? The vaxx does not work and kills and maims people, masks are a joke unless you have the crud, if you do, you should not be in public anyway. Distance works, but people in our culture do not work that way. So really, no plan, no cure after two years.

    Inflation raging, what do we do? Start spending more money. Recession pending in response to interest rates increasing, what do they do? Raise taxes on the capital generators and job creators, the corporations. This is the biggest test of the intelligence of America. Do we realize that the tax on corporations is a tax on every one of us? Can you hear the boardrooms?

    “Well, The Mob is going to tax us 15%, so we will just eat it and not charge anyone for the increase in cost.” Uh huh. More like, “Check out which countries have low tax rates, we are moving. In the meantime, get those prices up.”

    Stand by. I hope it happens before November.

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    • JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 11:50 am #

      Continuing

      China is pushing the limits. Stupid America pushing the limits putting everyone in peril. Pelosi should be jailed. Same with the group there now.

      Did the same thing in Ukraine.

      How many damn times are we going to stab enemies in the eye before they react?

      Who exactly do we think we are?

      • JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 11:53 am #

        White House is planning a tour to tout all of the Mobs accomplishments.

        Hahahahahahahaha!

        Shortest speeches in history.

        I did not even mention oil.

    • Q. Shtik August 16, 2022 at 12:03 pm #

      Rushdie just got stabbed – JAZ

      ==========

      Just read an article in the NYT about the Rushdie stabbing. He received 10 stab wounds. One damaged his liver and he is also likely to lose one of his eyes. Somebody (I forget the name) blamed Rushdie himself for the stabbing. This is the crazy kind of shit that religious fanaticism can result in. The fatwa put out on Rushdie more than 30 years ago was largely forgotten about as the years went on but the Iranian poobahs actually never cancelled the fatwa.

      • cowbell81 August 16, 2022 at 12:51 pm #

        Yes, be always wary of the fatwa the Arabs have declared. Decades might pass without any event, but trust me, they have not forgotten and will act. The cells are always there, like a cancer, fulminating and bubbling beneath the surface, until one day…….POW!!!

    • Islander August 16, 2022 at 1:25 pm #

      “so we will just eat it and not charge anyone for the increase in cost.”

      This doesn’t sound right.

      It is profits that are taxed.

      Profits are calculated after all other costs have been calculated and deducted.

      Taxes are not a “cost.”

      • cowbell81 August 16, 2022 at 1:36 pm #

        Don’t they build estimated taxes due into the final cost of the product? Much like stores use protected shrinkage (theft) to determine costs too. It is all simply built into the system ahead of time, before it even happens.

        • SpeedyBB August 17, 2022 at 12:49 am #

          Do you mean “projected shrinkage”?

        • JohnAZ August 17, 2022 at 11:05 am #

          Yes! The increased taxes goes into an increased price to us, the consumer.

          Does any one believe that a corporation is going to eat a cost increase for the good of the people? Decrease profit to take a stock hit to be a nice guy?

          If you do, you are a good economic candidate for the Democratic Party.

      • JohnAZ August 17, 2022 at 10:59 am #

        Islander

        Cost of a product is

        Mfg + shipping + profit equals price.

        So add on 15% of profits to the mfg. portion with higher tax on profits. If the price remains the same, one of the three components must take a hit, right?

        The stock tanks if the corp. just takes the hit, charges the same and decreases profits. It will never happen.

        So to keep profits the same with higher mfg. cost, the price goes up.

        We eat Biden’s 15% corporate income tax.

        The consumer ALWAYS pays the price, always.

        This damned Deep State will always try to point to scapegoats, in this case, the rich and corporations to hide their tax increases on US!

        The consumer ultimately pays the freight on any tax increase.

        Remember too that the government produces nothing. So every job, every dollar they print is backed by

        NOTHING! Every dollar they “create” is inflationary. Every government job they create is inflationary. Stand by for inflation to take off.

        The DeepState has been very successful in labeling “bad guys” to tax. The American people are stupid enough to buy their baloney.

        Until that changes, the Liberal Deep State is in control.

  66. Jarek August 16, 2022 at 11:51 am #

    Breitbart

    A harrowing video from the Boston Children’s Hospital claims that children can know that they are transgender “from the minute they were born, practically.”

    The video was made by Dr. Jeremi Carswell, the Director of the Gender Multispeciality Service at the Boston Children’s Hospital.

    The Boston Children’s Hospital is associated with Harvard University and was the first to establish a clinic that specifically focused on “transgender health” in a pediatric setting.

    In the video, Carswell makes the startling claim that “A child will often know that they are transgender from the moment that they have any ability to express themselves.” She continues and doubles down, remarking, “They knew from the minute they were born, practically.”

    Anglin: This is the same bitch, here lying that puberty blockers are reversible

    Breitbart News previously revealed that Carswell has received thousands of dollars in compensation for consulting on behalf of Endo Pharmaceuticals, a company that makes a drug that is used off-label as a puberty blocker for children who are considered to be transgender.

    An academic paper, authored in part by Carswell, had to be corrected after it was incorrectly asserted that the researchers had no conflict of interest.

    Carswell is just one of many doctors to have received significant compensation from the companies that manufacture puberty blockers.

    Carswell’s consultation regarded the drug Supprelin LA, which is used as a puberty blocker. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently warned that Supprelin LA can cause swelling of the brain and loss of vision.

    In the video, Carswell cites a number of different behaviors that supposedly provide evidence that a child is transgender and may be suitable to undergo permanent, life-altering surgery or medical intervention, including playing with “opposite gender toys,” refusing to get a haircut, or trying on a sibling’s clothing.

    Jarek: No joke. In one famous case, a mother said her campaign to turn her son into a girl began when she saw how “bright and shiny” he was as an infant. Boys are just sludge in other words. And her intuition was confirmed when he started playing with a female McDonald’s toy. That was it. He had to become what he really was, a girl.

    The Father has fought a long and hard battle against him being put on drugs, but he may well yet lose.

    • JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 11:55 am #

      Jarek

      Just another indicator of the mental state of America.

    • Blackbird August 16, 2022 at 12:00 pm #

      So new-borns are refusing to get haircuts and trying on sibling’s clothing? Kids sure grow up fast these days, don’t they? Even as their parents regress toward infancy.

      • JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 12:07 pm #

        Each generation is becoming less mature and dumber as a consequence.

        We are at the point that children are raising children today.

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 5:55 pm #

      Follow LibsOfTikTok on Twitter.

      She did a fantastic expose of this. Then Politifact tried to call her a liar. Thus proving that Politifact is bogus.

      I absolutely love it. Huge public square flogging.

  67. Jarek August 16, 2022 at 11:54 am #

    Mother Goose

    What are little boys made of?
    What are little boys made of?
    Frogs and snails,
    And puppy-dogs’ tails;
    That’s what little boys are made of.
    What are little girls made of?
    What are little girls made of?
    Sugar and spice,
    And all that’s nice;
    That’s what little girls are made of.

    Jarek: Just innocent fun? Not really. It reveals a deep feminine animus against the masculine on the part of many women. Can they be trusted with raising boys apart from men?

    Of course not. And girls without fathers? How well does that set them up for a good life? Not very well at all.

    • JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 12:01 pm #

      You are absolutely right.

      Sociological and psychological studies of kids without both parents’ influence show the kids to be maladjusted and incapable of understanding both sides sexual roles. These studies from last century are largely ignored in today’s F-ed up US.

      LBGTQ parents raising kids is a time bomb.

      • cowbell81 August 16, 2022 at 1:34 pm #

        Either that or they abuse the kids physically and emotionally, much like that article I referenced last week of the two gay guys in Georgia who adopted some kids and then used them for kiddie porn pictures. Absolutely vile, disgusting, despicable. There are not enough words to use to deplore them.

        • malthuss August 16, 2022 at 2:08 pm #

          most child illegal porn is watched by men.
          are gay men more statistically likely to watch it?

          • elysianfield August 16, 2022 at 7:07 pm #

            Malthuss,
            I would not argue your premise if you stated that virtually ALL child porn is watched by men.

            “Most” in this case is a classic understatement.

    • Q. Shtik August 16, 2022 at 4:52 pm #

      Re the Mother Goose rhyme Jarek said: Just innocent fun? Not really.

      ============

      I disagree. I think this little poem serves the purpose of pointing out that boys and girls (men and women) are VERY different. I once opined to a co-worker who seemingly was always having woman problems. I told Chris “what you don’t seem to realize is that men and women are sooo different they might as well be different species.”

      • Jarek August 16, 2022 at 7:05 pm #

        Yes, but the writer favors one species over the other – the one that needs to be subjugated by the other.

        • Q. Shtik August 17, 2022 at 12:07 am #

          No Jarek, this subjugation you see in that poem is all in your head. There is nothing in the words themselves that suggests subjugation.

          • Jarek August 17, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

            Yeah, saying boys and men are ugly is fine, right?

            Shame on you.

          • Q. Shtik August 17, 2022 at 1:25 pm #

            Yeah, saying boys and men are ugly is fine, right? – Jarek

            ==========

            I don’t see the word ugly in the poem or even any word that could be considered a synonym of ugly.

          • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 1:41 pm #

            @ Jarek:

            Yeah! Why can’t men wear pretty shoes? Why is men’s underwear so boring?

            Reminds me of that song “My Conviction” in “Hair”:

            I would just like to say
            That it is my conviction
            That longer hair and other flamboyant affectations
            Of appearance are nothing more
            Than the male’s emergence
            From his drab camouflage
            Into the gaudy plumage
            Which is the birthright of his sex

            There is a peculiar notion that elegant plumage
            And fine feathers are not proper for the male
            When aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…
            …ctually
            That is the way things are
            In most
            Species!

          • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 12:02 pm #

            That’s going too far the other way, into feminizing boys. That goes along with your envy (penis envy) and hatred of men.

  68. cowbell81 August 16, 2022 at 12:53 pm #

    www(dot)the-sun(dot)com/health/6011050/photo-timeline-monkeypox-patients-symptoms-by-day/

    Silver Steele was covered in agonising blisters around his mouth that took around 20 days to worsen before getting better.

    Silver Steele, the patient’s professional name as a porn actor, bravely used social media to share the picture to spread awareness.

    Although monkeypox can infect anybody, it has almost exclusively been spreading in men who have sex with men since outbreaks started globally in the spring.

    It is spreading via sexual activity, from close skin-to-skin contact and potentially via semen, but is not considered an STI.

    A doctor confirmed that Silver had monkeypox, with the rash now inside his throat and on his gums.

    Describing the doctor examining him, Silver said: “He took the tongue depressor away and all of a sudden it was like: oh my gosh! And everything started to go black [from the pain].”

    He said he was grateful he didn’t suffer genital lesions, which have become a feature more common in this monkeypox outbreak.

    “My heart goes out to those people,” he said. “When they go to the bathroom, they say it feels like they’re passing hot needles.”

    • Islander August 16, 2022 at 1:20 pm #

      ““My heart goes out to those people,” ”

      Yeah, and pity the dog, too.

      Zero Hedge:
      “First Dog Infected With Monkeypox After “Sharing Bed” With Gay Couple”

      • cowbell81 August 16, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

        Geez, what were the doing with that dog? On second thought, I would rather not know. They should be brought up with animal abuse charges.

      • SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

        Ewww!! Saw that last night. Never saw anything about the couple being arrested for animal cruelty?

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 5:56 pm #

      Perhaps Monkey Pox is the new name for syphillus?

      • Redneck Liberal August 16, 2022 at 10:36 pm #

        Trump Pox has a better ring to it.

  69. Islander August 16, 2022 at 1:17 pm #

    An Unwarranted Warrant.

    Great essay. Glad JHK has X-ray-visioned through the ‘unclassified” “nuclear secrets” BS.

    Probably he is right about the Russiagage evidence.

    My first thought was that he had taken some Dallas or Watergate of 9/11 or Seth Rich docs with him—and maybe had them copied.

    But Hillary-related docs make more immediate sense.

    Working backward up the pyramid of mendacity and . Start with Hillary, end with JFK. A girl can dream!! Unfortunately the main reason this is a dream is that very soon Trump encounters the Jewish/Israeli factor, both domestically and internationally. Then, because of his besottedness with Ivanka, things grind to a halt.

    Unless Trump himself is seriously red-pilled.

    I am sure that any documents he was holding has been copied.
    Or scanned and saved on a secure location. Outside Mar-a-Lago..

    • cowbell81 August 16, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

      Everything should be photographed/copied and kept on a flash drive. The flash drive could easily be hidden or buried in any little out of the way place. Very easy, problem solved. Nobody would ever be the wiser, and this is infinitely better for evidence than something like Hunter’s laptop.

    • SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

      He went to Jared. Now you know the rest of the story.. I still enjoy dreaming too though. What else can we do at this point? My main remaining and undying point of contention is that he has never reversed himself on the clot shots. At its base it is totally unforgivable.

  70. cowbell81 August 16, 2022 at 1:46 pm #

    This is why it doesn’t pay to work hard and build your small business or be self employed. RIP American Dream.

    Article snippet:

    Texas cattle ranchers David and Deborah Hajda issued a dire warning to America’s middle class after Democrats’ spending bill passed both houses of Congress allowing provisions for approximately $80 billion in IRS funding, a majority of which is dedicated to enforcement.

    The Raising Five Cattle Company ranchers spoke with Dana Perino on “America’s Newsroom” Tuesday, where they recounted the grueling tax audit they experienced 13 years ago.

    “We got audited over basically a $7,800 engine rebuild on a very old tractor,” Deborah said.

    “They just basically said this was a red flag, and we’re going to audit you, and we’re coming to your house,” she added.

    Hajda said she asked if she could fax her bank records to the IRS, but they refused to give her the option. Instead, they came to her house and demanded all of her financial records in-person.

    “I took out our box of receipts… and we handed it to him, and I said ‘Here’s your receipts’… we weren’t hiding anything,” she said.

    Perino asked if the IRS agent sought out the ranchers simply to fill a quota.

    “Probably. They said they flagged it because our expenses were high that year, and it was because of this repair,” David responded.

    The Hajdas said, while they could not afford to replace the tractor, they kept all records of expenses for the necessary repairs. However, the auditor would not give up so easily.

    “He wasn’t satisfied. He kept digging, and he ended up nailing us. Our tax person was giving us 80% on our work vehicles, and he said you can only do 50%,” David said.

    “I was very naive about the situation. I had no idea of the power, the scope [of the audit] going in three years of my life… and me having no control over that, no control over the information he was given,” Deborah said.

    “It was very invasive. You feel very attacked because that guy wanted to go back and say, ‘I got her.’”

    She went on to issue a warning to other middle-class Americans who could soon endure the same process.

    “They want to get you. If they’re coming after you for an audit, they don’t want to see your receipt… they want to nitpick your life apart, and that’s not what the American dream is for self-employment, small business…”

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    • elysianfield August 16, 2022 at 2:09 pm #

      Well

      If you studied the IRS methods and reasons for tax auditing, you would find the stated reason for the auditing process is…to make good records keepers of taxpayers.

      I studied the process extensively when I was audited in 1998…read every book I could find, and they were usually written by former IRS auditors.

      I was audited for Business, Corporate and Personal.

      • elysianfield August 16, 2022 at 7:06 pm #

        And I would tell you the outcome, but it would probably make Q’s head explode….

      • Disaffected August 17, 2022 at 1:56 pm #

        Yes. The whole thrust of modern life is to make everyone view themselves and their families as small businesses to be managed ruthlessly according to the diktats of the all knowing, all wise, market place.

    • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2022 at 5:40 pm #

      Shaquille & Rashad will be showing up to audit you — 6 months ago they were Gangster Disciples, now they’re part of the IRS ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ program, new hires, out to shake down Whitey — “Whitey be paying reparations whether he like it or not, that Maga Mtherf#kkr”. Go ahead and give them any lip, Rashad especially knows how to use his govt issued Sig Sauer — and he’ll use it on you. Sure he holds it sideways, so what? That’s the way they be trained in de hood. Got a problem with it? Write a letter of complaint to the Commissioner of Revebue, who be my Cousin.

      Jamal Brown
      Commissioner, IRS
      c/o Gangster Disciple Headquarters
      15 Malcolm X Lane
      Chicago, Ill.

  71. tom clark August 16, 2022 at 1:58 pm #

    Rand Paul to the rescue in 2024.

    • SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 2:03 pm #

      You’re so thoughtful tom 😉

      • SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 5:33 pm #

        Though I do plan on voting for President Trump should he run in 2024. Rand Paul is maybe less likely to fight GAE than DJT. The current crop in Congress seem to love investigating and questioning but little else. Did you hear me? I’m effing voting LOL. You know their gonna come for us tom and we won’t then. The walls are closing in. Like I don’t know what ya’ll are doing

    • Redneck Liberal August 16, 2022 at 5:32 pm #

      Rand Paul – ffs. Another election denier, which is, of course, now utterly compulsory in the GOP if you don’t want to get primaried.

      • SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 5:35 pm #

        Joe Biden is not a real President. He is a fake installed puppet. Steve Bannon says you can suck on that LOL

        • Redneck Liberal August 16, 2022 at 10:35 pm #

          Whatever Steve Bannon says is a damned lie. Do you recall the statement he made in October 2020, regarding what Trump would do, when he lost the election? He PLANNED to simply declare he’d won, which is Bannon-style shit-storming, and look how well it’s worked. Even you’ve swallowed it.

          From 0:30 to 1:12…

          w w w youtube.com/watch?v=09jjIi88Sa8

  72. Kornado August 16, 2022 at 2:28 pm #

    I’ve felt like being in the death-drive years ago, about to turn 50, waiting with dread for the long emergency to arrive, interesting though how this planned future is now revealing itself…

    I live in south city STL, and it’s already dangerous and filled with drug zombies, so I know it wouldn’t be long into true chaos that I’d have to escape or die..

    But the thing that mostly keeps me depressed and trapped, is the fact that no one around me I love/like seems to notice that any of this is going on.  Some of them know things are fucked up, but they are stuck in the 2 party thinking, so it’s always the other side’s fault. 

    Then of course, any comprehension beyond that is ‘conspiracy’.

    By the end of Trump’s term, I kept imagining two fists punching each other.  I’ve learned to zoom out and see the bigger picture, and you see just how demonstrative the 2 side schism is by design.  Once one can fully comprehend this fact, then it all appears like Pro Wrestling.

    I just feel so alone though with this conscious awareness, like discovering you’re in the Matrix, or in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

    It’s like Chris Martenson said about the WEF, etc., their plan and the application of it is so BORING.  The banality of evil, just more bureaucracy rubber stamped, and constant spin and lies from psychopaths as we eventually starve.

    I think of this term the PIVOT, as how every topic and incident is pivoted by the media.  Just a 90 degree corner, you have to turn either way.  It all lacks such nuance and curiosity.  Humor just becomes spite.

    In Robert Pirsig’s weird follow up book to “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” he tried to condense, I guess, the totality of life experience to one word, QUALITY.

    That’s what feels so despondent to me, that we’ve lost the value of aesthetics, the education from it, the spirituality.  When is real art and beauty celebrated anymore? 

    That was the revelation I got out of JHK’s ‘Geography of Nowhere’ too.  Nevermind the collapse of society, why does it have to get so ugly and stupid on the way?

    I crave meaning but all I get is anxiety.

    • cowbell81 August 16, 2022 at 2:49 pm #

      Trump tried to bring back the beauty in architecture. He was making any mandatory federal building designs look like classic architecture, think Greek and Roman, instead of the new age monoliths that look like prisons. If you are going to spend millions of dollars on something, you may as well have it look good and provide a positive inspiration for people. But oh, that would probably be deemed racist in some way.

      • Kornado August 16, 2022 at 3:50 pm #

        I lived in Chicago and I thought his tower complimented the skyline, and I liked the way it looked positioned on the river…until later when he put his name on it big letters!

        T A C K Y

      • Redneck Liberal August 16, 2022 at 5:30 pm #

        “Trump tried to bring back the beauty in architecture.

        Hahaha.

      • Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 5:33 pm #

        Yes, he did. He was the first president (in my lifetime) to even comment on the issue.

        Architecture has long been used by governments to influence populations.

        • Islander August 17, 2022 at 7:17 am #

          Cue Albert Speer.

          Unfortunately it seems like mediocre architects with huge egos are now the rule. Or one of the rules.

          We can all see how the natural beauty of North America has been destroyed by the forms taken by American economic and social development.

          We all need beauty to inspire us.

          This is one reason that Americans become ex-pats.

          They cannot stand the ugliness of their surroundings.

          • Night Owl August 17, 2022 at 9:06 am #

            Regarding leaving the States, I agree, but I can’t say Germany is better.

            The traditional architecture is all very nice, comforting, and scaled in a way that enhances daily life both psychologically and in a utilitarian sense, but much of Germany (particularly NRW) is ugly.

            Many parts of Germany seemed to have lost all sense of history and identity and created structures that are either purely functional and hideous to look at, or they have invested billions in producing monuments to globocap.

            I enjoy Southern Germany and parts of the East (where some areas look like the Shire out of LOTR), but many German housing developments and urban areas are far from beautiful.

          • Jarek August 17, 2022 at 12:16 pm #

            Classical architecture IS beautiful. But the only association that you can come up with is Albert Speer? Maybe that speaks well for Albert Speer. It certainly doesn’t say much for you though.

    • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2022 at 5:49 pm #

      Buck Up, Kornado,

      All you need is a sense of humor and the ability to tell everybody to F#kk Off”. It works for me and that’s how I keep my cheerful outlook.

      • Lance Boyle August 16, 2022 at 11:43 pm #

        Atta boy, Heckler! You’re not prejudice – you tell everybody to fuck off.

    • Blackbird August 17, 2022 at 1:17 am #

      You are alone Korn. At the bottom of the rabbit hole with no way to turn around. And the rest of us are all sophisticated (well, not all of us…) AI.

      The meaning you crave is bound up in the matrix of your anxiety. Squeeze the meaning out of that anxiety then throw the empty husk away.

      • Kornado August 17, 2022 at 6:59 pm #

        By squeeze, you mean continue to smoke and ingest weed daily and drink 99 singles…ok i will.

  73. cowbell81 August 16, 2022 at 3:52 pm #

    So are they going to change the name of Faneuil Hall because Peter Faneuil owned slaves 300 years ago? Well, if they do, that should certainly make people feel better and right a whole lot of wrongs!

    Good luck with that. I will still be referring to “Squaw” for many of the place names that have recently been changed. And the Cleveland Indians will always be the Indians. (**big tomahawk chop**)

    • Soul Forensics August 16, 2022 at 4:04 pm #

      Even Indians (real Indians, not the players) didn’t want the name to be changed. It was just the White virtue-signalers that were up in arms over the “racist” moniker. But the Woke don’t care what their “victims” really want either. The irony escapes them.

    • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 5:01 pm #

      I’m surprised they haven’t gone after the Atlanta Braves, then.

      • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2022 at 6:17 pm #

        They have.

        • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 6:31 pm #

          Atlanta Pickaninnies?

          • elysianfield August 16, 2022 at 7:00 pm #

            Dis,
            Jesus, how insensitive you are…

            Atlanta Pickers….

            Or Atlanta Cotton Ginnies,

            …Or the Atlanta Gentle Giants….

          • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 7:35 pm #

            Too risqué, eh? I take it Squaws, Papooses, Darkies, and House Negroes are out of the question too, then? Plantation Owners, Slave Traders, Crackers or Massa’s, maybe? Personally, I like Crackers, with or without the ‘White’ prefix (White is generally understood). It shows humility, contrition, and is just plain fun, to boot. Plus, it could be construed as referring to the crack of the bat.

          • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 7:44 pm #

            … or as an old school reference to a great player: “Man oh man, that new kid they just brought up is a real cracker!”

            The fact that that new kid would be statistically likely to be either Hispanic or Black would add some much needed irony to the whole thing. I can just hear the white boys (authentic Crackers) grumbling in the dugout now.

      • Soul Forensics August 16, 2022 at 11:22 pm #

        The Atlanta Braves were shamed a long time ago. They banned the tomahawk chop. (Entire crowd — 30,000 + used to do it when there was a rally.) Jane Fonda chop-chopped, standing next to her hubby Ted Turner, then repented when the heat got turned up, and shamed others who still did it.

    • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2022 at 5:55 pm #

      Well, they took the name of former Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey off a street sign in Boston because it is suspected he made a racist comment 75 years ago. Boston is funny that way; the Mayor is a Chinese lady who seems to harbor a special resentment toward Boston, its history, its founders and Whitey in general.

      • Rhett Dawson August 16, 2022 at 11:30 pm #

        Beantowners are renowned for their strong anti-racism stance.

  74. Q. Shtik August 16, 2022 at 4:13 pm #

    On Monday August 8 around 9:30ish AM Jim published his essay titled The Sickening Quickening. The first comment (by Malthuss) arrived at 9:43. Comments poured in at a quick pace so that by Tuesday evening (perhaps 9pm) about 600 had been posted. I thought “wow, I wonder who should be credited with all these comments?” So, using Ctrl+F I began to do a ‘find’ search on each commenters name. I am familiar with all the ‘regulars’ on the CFN board so those were the ones I was interested in. Then there were the unfamiliar or less familiar handles who I knew would have very low comment counts so I did not include them in the list I produced and published in a comment on Aug 9 at 9:58 pm. These folks I referred to as infrequent commenters. The first sentence of my comment said “Make of this what you will” which was followed by the data itself.

    Little did I know that this list would stir up so much interest. People not on the list seemed genuinely disappointed, e.g. tom clark who wanted me to know that he had commented twice and SSL (SoftStarLight) who was genuinely pissed off for being left off the list althouh having commented 10 times. She even got pissed at Jarek for not having come to her defense. Someone else suggested printing the list and having it laminated and taped to their refrigerator.

    MaryQueen had the most comments at 77 and Jarek had the second most at 58. I knew that the comment counts would be off slightly* as a result of someone’s handle being included in the text of someone else’s comment. This would happen in particular with a short name like Jarek. If a comment made reference to BackRowHeckler it was highly unlikely the commenter would type out all those letters. Rather, they would type BRH. Likewise, if you were doing a Ctrl+F search to discover the number of comments posted by GreenAlba you would not get the correct answer if you typed Green Alba (i.e. inserting a space). The search function does not care about capitalization but it does care about punctuation. Therefore in searching my own handle I had to type Q. Shtik. It will not give a correct answer if I were to leave off the period following Q.

    I also knew that presenting the number of comments posted by an individual told less about a persons posts than if I had been able to determine the word count of all a person’s comments. Determining word count is not easy. To do it I ‘d have to copy each comment and paste it into a Word-type document (I use Open Office Writer). This means I have to have the CFN Blog open and next to it Open Office Writer (OOW). Once I have copied all the comments into OOW I can now execute a word count which appears under Tools. This is all very tedious. Imagine trying to determine the word count for each of those commenters who appeared on the list I published on Aug 9 at 9:58 pm.

    Maybe one of you tech Wizards can tell me a way of getting a word count directly from the CFN comment section rather than having to involve OOW?????

    BTW, a proper link will count as one word. Writing haha will count as one word and so will hahahaha.

    * About an hour ago I did a Ctrl+F on Jarek in the current blog essay and it told me he had made 103 comments. I clicked through all of these and it turned out that 29 were not comments but rather mentions of Jarek’s name by other commenters. Thus only 74 of the 103 were actual comments by Jarek.

    • cowbell81 August 16, 2022 at 4:21 pm #

      Wow, amazing, absolutely amazing. Thank you Q. for all of the work you have been doing on this issue. Seriously, I honestly mean this, no sarcasm intended at all. I have always been interested in stats of this sort, and trying to read into what the underlying meaning is behind the stats. All very interesting so again, thank you.

    • Q. Shtik August 16, 2022 at 4:32 pm #

      I did a Ctrl+F on Jarek in the current blog essay – Q,

      ===========

      Correction: that 103 figure was NOT in the current blog essay but rather the previous one titled “Gestapo the Steal.”

      BTW, I am aware I left out the letter g in the word although… no need to bust my chops.

    • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 4:59 pm #

      The Q. Man. The Bill James of blogging.

      Overheard in the locker room:

      “Did I tell you, Jim’s sending me down to Pawtucket and bringing up a hot young phenom for a late season run. Kid throws some mean off speed adjective junk, which sets you up for his wicked high speed invective smoke that’ll put you on your ass every time. Even hits .436 with previous comments in scoring position, to boot! Jim said my Q. numbers have been so bad since Labor Day that he really didn’t have any choice. At this stage of my career I might be done. I can still take the bush leagues alright – typing out endless drunken late night screeds over cheap macro brews on shitty liberal blogs, taking down those lame asses and their half-baked political darlings – but my wife has had it. Says she and the kids don’t deserve this kid of shit at this point in their lives, so I dunno. Might be time to hang up the keyboard; which marks me now anyway, what with all the kids posting from their fancy new smart phones. It’s been a good run while it lasted, but the damn game has changed. Damn that Q. and his blogger stats! He’s going to be the end of me and an entire era of blog commenting!”

      • cowbell81 August 16, 2022 at 5:13 pm #

        OMG, so classic, you definitely hit it out of the ballpark on that one!!!

      • Q. Shtik August 17, 2022 at 12:58 am #

        Ahh haha.

    • GreenAlba August 16, 2022 at 5:14 pm #

      You forgot to mention that if you’re logged in yourself, your own count will have two extra iterations that it won’t have if you’re not logged in. Not that that matters if you’ve made 80 comments, but if you’re Tom and you made two, it will double it. 🙂

      • Q. Shtik August 17, 2022 at 12:29 pm #

        I know exactly what you mean.

    • SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 5:38 pm #

      How DARE you highlight me in this manner Q. And your lack of context that would be helpful for anyone trying to understand my plight was completely left out so that I’m made to look unreasonable and outrageous. I know exactly what you’re doing. Classic masculine tactics. You damn mooncalf how could you. I’m weeping so I hope that thrills you you monster

      • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 6:29 pm #

        “Damn mooncalf.” New one on me. Great invective! Might have to put you in the starting rotation.

        • GreenAlba August 16, 2022 at 7:37 pm #

          It appears to date from 1565. 🙂

          Found it in Wikipedia! Count me impressed too, SSL.

          ” Shakespeare, for instance, used the term to describe Caliban, the deformed servant of Prospero, in The Tempest.”

          Q, you’re really in the doghouse.

          • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 7:39 pm #

            Damn! All the way back to Shakespeare! I thought she just made it up when I first read it.

      • Redneck Liberal August 16, 2022 at 10:30 pm #

        Is anyone else tempted to punctuate that rant?

        • malthuss August 17, 2022 at 2:52 pm #

          not eye

          • benr August 19, 2022 at 8:11 am #

            mAybe if you’re a weirdo or control freak

    • Jarek August 16, 2022 at 7:16 pm #

      Q is providing life saving knowledge. The blog cannot continue without it.

      • Q. Shtik August 16, 2022 at 10:32 pm #

        You forgot sarc on/ and sarc off/

        • Blackbird August 17, 2022 at 12:46 am #

          Jars don’t wear no sarc tag. He’s as serious as burnt toast.

          • Jarek August 17, 2022 at 12:13 pm #

            Yes, all jokes must be prefixed with the statement, “I’m about to make a joke.” And all passes at girls must be prefixed with requests for permission.

            Carbon is a drug. Some people like their toast burned to separate da carbon so as to enjoy it more.

    • Rhett Dawson August 16, 2022 at 10:57 pm #

      “Maybe one of you tech Wizards can tell me a way of getting a word count directly from the CFN comment section rather than having to involve OOW?????”

      If this were my project, I’d copy the entire Comments section into Notepad, save it as a text file, import that text file into Excel and then write formulae to tally each new comment to the commentator as well as each line’s word-count to the comment and commentator. Once a fella had that raw data, summing up the comments by commentator and the total words by commentator would be child’s play.

      Like I say, that’s what I would do if it were my project. I am glad that it is not my project.

      • Blackbird August 17, 2022 at 12:52 am #

        It’s a team project, and like it or not, you’re part of the team.

        But let’s be careful that when we extract the data, we do not strip it of its context – like a farmer plowing down a burial mound.

        Words, like people, are not created equal.

      • Disaffected August 17, 2022 at 8:02 am #

        I actually gave it a quick run through. You can copy/paste directly from the blog into Excel, but it’s kind of messy to start with. Commenter names end up in separate cells from the comments themselves to start with, so that needs to be cleaned up. Excel doesn’t do a word count that I’m aware of, but a better approach might be to do a simple string character counter [=len()] and then divide that by average word length (I would say 6, 7, or 8, keeping in mind that len() counts spaces and all special characters too) to get a “normalized” word count. Get all that arranged in a tabular format and then sum it up with a Pivot Table. Not sure how much value all that work would add and it would be a ton of work to keep up with, but far be it from me to fully fathom the mind of Q.

        • Q. Shtik August 17, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

          I will take both your’s and Rhett’s suggestions under advisement but I am very technically challenged so…………..

          • Disaffected August 17, 2022 at 1:51 pm #

            It probably wouldn’t be much fun for you then. And at the end of it all, you still wouldn’t have any qualitative analysis, just a bunch of statistics about who posted when and how much. Qualitative analysis would require reading all the posts and scoring them, an entirely subjective measure that might well vary even with the same scorer depending on mood, time of day, reading fatigue, etc. I don’t think it would tell you much.

            Excel’s really good for some things, but pretty damn lousy at others.

  75. Night Owl August 16, 2022 at 5:30 pm #

    “Klaus Schwab affiliated candidates have never lost an election. Shouldn’t that turn a few heads?”

    https://twitter.com/TheGreatRESlST/status/1558301607229628416?cxt=HHwWgIC9_cbDmaArAAAA

    You don’t say!

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    • SoftStarLight August 16, 2022 at 5:44 pm #

      Hah very interesting! Justin Trudeau still looks silly. A silly, awkward dictator

      • Q. Shtik August 16, 2022 at 9:15 pm #

        A silly, awkward dictator – SSL

        ==========

        I notice you’ve got a new thing going. When the last sentence of a comment requires a period at the end you are not typing that period. If the last sentence requires a question mark or an exclamation mark you ARE typing those punctuations. Among your last batch of comments you only correctly ended a final sentence with a period once where a period was called for. All other final sentences ended punctuationless. If you were trying to get my attention with this ploy you have achieved it.

        Note this: Not only do I disapprove of starting a sentence with a lower case letter but I also disapprove of ending a sentence without a punctuation mark.

        Capisce?

        • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 9:40 pm #

          I hope JHK cracks down on you again, you’re getting way out of control.

          • Q. Shtik August 17, 2022 at 12:42 am #

            You’re a killjoy.

          • Blackbird August 17, 2022 at 12:42 am #

            I, for one, appreciate it when the Shtik smacks around other common-taters for abuse of the English language (American version). Helps me improve my grammar without the shame of public humiliation. I might not even get too mad if he attempted to improve my flawless word-smithery. Might not…

          • Night Owl August 17, 2022 at 7:11 am #

            You appreciate it? Most of the time his corrections contain more errors than the post he was trying to correct.

            He is slowly learning how to use a comma though, so we are seeing progress.

          • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 2:14 pm #

            I think Q’s corrections are a good thing. Bad English irritates me almost as it does him. It especially irritates me in professional writers or bloggers.

            People don’t seem to appreciate it, though. If you pull someone’s car out of a ditch, they might offer to pay you, but if you correct someone’s grammar they never say, “Gee, thanks! Here’s five bucks!” That’s how you know the market value of your English degree.

          • malthuss August 17, 2022 at 2:54 pm #

            this is for Qshtik

            killjoy
            k?l?joi?
            noun
            One who spoils the enthusiasm or fun of others.
            A person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun
            The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

          • Blackbird August 18, 2022 at 9:16 pm #

            Owl, Shtik’s errors make his corrections more humorous than they otherwise would be.

            Commas, on the other hand, are a very subjective thing, and yet, one that pretty much everyone gets wrong.

        • Islander August 16, 2022 at 10:03 pm #

          Spinnst Du?

        • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 2:44 am #

          Is that so? I am unaware of a ploy. Perhaps you were thinking of bok choy. 🙂

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 6:00 pm #

      They are installed, not elected. Thanks for the backup.

  76. tom clark August 16, 2022 at 6:57 pm #

    Q…I take meds for OCD. Maybe you should consider a trip to a psychotherapist. I hear they’re busy nowadays.

    • Disaffected August 16, 2022 at 7:37 pm #

      I thought you were on ayahuasca now, tc? It’s da’ bomb, or so I’ve heard.

  77. mitchellc August 16, 2022 at 7:12 pm #

    JohnAZ, you’re making amazing progress. So, so close to inversion aka full understanding

    The journey from serfdom to enlightenment is long and difficult. Even among the few with suitable intellect, it seems the majority still fall far short

    They key is to relinquish all expectations of rights and demands; the false beliefs instilled through intentional and deliberate brain washing

    Dial back to just the 50s (even though reality goes back eons). The population already stands at billions, energy surplus allows for incredible levels of sophisticated productive output.

    But you, as a thinker, know it’s a one way street, a box canyon with absolutely no feasible way for civilization to retreat. So, what to do?

    Well, priority #1 is to break the masses who have developed impossible expectations and entitlements. Destroy the unions, send the factories overseas. Break the mono culture, replace them with more malleable peons.

    Done & done. Now we see the introduction of the next phase, the hard recasting of long held habits insofar as personal mobility. AGW, like covid, WMD, and so many other cover stories before, provides the impetus, the appeal to positive, group action.

    If you’re a player, whether it’s the state, politics, MIC, media, finance or industry, you know the horrible truth, the impossible predicament facing all.

    Will you allow trogloditic mouth breathers to take you down with them, or free yourself from their deadly embrace by shoving them down so that you can breath free?

    John, you’re so close to seeing this; the mob cum parties act as gatekeepers for their respective dupes. But you’re still complaining, still feeling betrayed. Why? Can’t you see the perfect logic of what’s transporting?

    Rise above and win, free yourself from the tyrannical – diabolical – methods designed to prevent you from seeing and playing.

    • GreenAlba August 16, 2022 at 7:29 pm #

      “Will you allow trogloditic mouth breathers to take you down with them, or free yourself from their deadly embrace by shoving them down so that you can breath free?”

      Your horns and pointy tail are showing again.

      “They key is to relinquish all expectations of rights and demands […]”

      That rather depends on where you think your rights originate. Demands are more debatable.

      “[…] free yourself from the tyrannical – diabolical – methods designed to prevent you from seeing and playing.”

      ‘Diabolical’ is a strange word to use in this context. It looks like inversion, oh, horn-ed one.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 7:33 pm #

        Any idea why he’s targeting JAZ as his ‘example’?

        • GreenAlba August 16, 2022 at 8:41 pm #

          No idea, but he’s pretty flippin’ patronising. Almost offered JohnAZ a gold star for progress.

          I’m not devious enough to figure out Mr Mitchell’s game, but what he claims to be doing makes no sense. And he spends a lot of time doing it. Over and over.

          If he took his own advice he wouldn’t be here. He’d be keeping his smart arse plans to himself, leaving the rest to sink or swim (and preparing to push down a few heads that get anywhere near him).

          So, he despises humanity but he cares about the people on this site – well the ones that aren’t at the remedial table anyway. That’ll be right.

          • mitchellc August 16, 2022 at 9:12 pm #

            I feel sorry for jim. He puts out this amazing content, but then trolls take over, essentially destroying the entire platform.

            A few insights here and there; why bother wasting time? Ah, a glimmer of someone making progress.

            Organic or premeditated? Always implicit, now obvious, some established channels with oddly deep state approved talking points are/were compromised not just from financial support, but most likely blackmail.

            It’s like the air superiority doctrine established during WW2: gain complete media control from which all information flows.

            I do follow my own advice. I browse by noting another information site destroyed, I’ve got my exit plans in play.

            But at some point the chief complainers should make a move: get assets into a bank or institution from which they can access via some of the southern Russian provinces.

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 9:42 pm #

            Agree completely. Not only smug and condescending, but circular logic. Do nothing. Sit back and be subjugated.

            So why bother commenting if he’s given up?

            I suppose he’s a fan of AI and the technofeudalism. In that regard he’s hardly unique as our populace has been brainwashed into thinking pharmaceuticals and tech guarantee a long happy life – lol.

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 9:43 pm #

            Everyone’s a dummy except mitchellc.

            Life must be a laugh riot for him.

          • JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 10:29 pm #

            A gold star!

            Wow!

            Mitchellc thinks he is going to escape what is coming.

            Hahahahaha!

          • gustafson.robert.22 August 16, 2022 at 11:11 pm #

            “… get assets into a bank or institution from which they can access via some of the southern Russian provinces.”

            I really doubt any American is going to show up in Russia with a bank account and make a life there as shit goes down. (“Take me to your southerliest province please.”)

            People are better off balancing viability with familiarity when choosing a place to hole up or weather coming decades… my opinion..

          • Rhett Dawson August 16, 2022 at 11:21 pm #

            “Take me to your southerliest province please.”

            Hahahaha!

          • Night Owl August 17, 2022 at 9:16 am #

            “I really doubt any American is going to show up in Russia with a bank account and make a life there as shit goes down. (‘Take me to your southerliest province please.’)”

            It is also more or less impossible without connections. Europe is no different. You need papers, languge skills, money, and the ability to deal with a steep learning curve — especially from a psychological standpoint

            I always chuckle at fellow Americans who think they can just pack up and reopen shop in a foreign country, as though it is as easy as just buying a plane ticket.

            Utterly clueless. Most would break within a year.

          • Jarek August 17, 2022 at 12:05 pm #

            John is being invited to move up the Pyramid – but just one step.

      • anmariwakaranai August 16, 2022 at 7:34 pm #

        The good news here is in the end all things work in Gods favour.

        The end may take awhile.

        • MaryQueen August 16, 2022 at 9:43 pm #

          Mother Nature bats last!

          • Rhett Dawson August 16, 2022 at 11:19 pm #

            There are no atheists in Hell.

    • JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 10:23 pm #

      My reaction.

      You are an elitist. No two ways about it.

      You think because you are astute and understand the box canyon you describe you are somehow going to escape what is coming.

      You won’t.

      This country has been strong and a vibrant economy because of the participation of all levels of folks. The upward mobility has been a positive for generations. Immigrants have a tough time assimilating but their kids fit right in.

      That is what the Mob in DC is destroying. For example, bringing in millions of immigrants in short order makes it tough for second and third generation immigrants to compete. Causing inflation does the same.

      The Dems idea is that the government can just spend more money and support all these folks that have no purpose here. California and it’s homeless is what will transpire. The mayors of NYC and DC are incensed at Abbott and Ducey for passing some of the immigrants along to the cities.

      They know what is coming.

      Their main fault is looking in the wrong direction to avoid the oncoming problems. I do not know where they think all the immigrants their Mob partners in DC are supposed to go. It is enlightening that they are setting off alarms at this early stage of the invasion. Their problems are being caused by their own party.

      Leave the party if you must, it will not make any difference.

      • JohnAZ August 16, 2022 at 10:25 pm #

        To mitchellc

      • Jarek August 17, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

        What about Arizona being denied water? Is this the beginning of the end?

  78. KesaAnna August 16, 2022 at 11:07 pm #

    ” If I am not mistaken, Nut, you are the only one on this site (including the host) who thinks the election was not stolen. ”

    As I have said before, I think American elections have been rigged for over a hundred years , to ensure that only Democratics and Republicans win .

    I don’t suppose any of that precludes an election , in particular cases , from being sort – of stolen.

    But even if true , I wouldn’t consider it particularly meaningful.

    • gustafson.robert.22 August 16, 2022 at 11:14 pm #

      Was just discussing this with a horde of democrats on twitter. Said, “What confuses me is how anyone can think any recent elections are legitimate.”

    • Bob Polecat August 16, 2022 at 11:15 pm #

      Frick v Frack.

      Tweedledum & Tweedledee.

      Heads: I win. Tails: you lose.

      Six of one, a half-dozen of the other.

    • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 2:52 am #

      And thus the persecution of Trump. Because he is neither a Republican or a Democrat. For him party politics is simply a means to an end. The ultimate end run around their performative and rigged election scheme.

      • Redneck Liberal August 17, 2022 at 8:31 pm #

        So, All-Knowing SSL, what IS (or was) Trump’s intended “end”?

  79. Rhett Dawson August 16, 2022 at 11:07 pm #

    “I believe we CFN commenters are intellectually a cut above the average” – Q

    —–

    Yeesh!

  80. KesaAnna August 16, 2022 at 11:14 pm #

    Let’s say that Trump is a genuine outsider , a genuine alternative, and the election really was stolen ?

    He would in that case he would be far , far, far from some sort of exception to the rule.

    He would be a long way from the first outsider , or alternative, to be effectively frozen out by lawfare if he does enjoy any success.

    Indeed , in all the cases I know of , stolen elections simply weren’t necessary.

    The target had already been effectively neutralized by lawfare.

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    • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 3:02 am #

      Yep that is a good point. He has been fighting lawfare and neverending audits for years and decades. And they continue unceasing to this moment. That he is a billionaire is likely the only reason he is still in the arena fighting.

    • Night Owl August 17, 2022 at 7:16 am #

      You fail to understand the greater issue: When Trump is president, the globocap agenda is stalled. They instead spend all of their time holding him back, moving pieces around the proverbial chess board, and trying to contain what they need to contain.

      Furthermore, if you pay attention to what their minions say and do, it isn’t Trump himself they fear so much, it is the movement behind him — which consists of people who understand that the binary system is corrupt beyond saving, and exists to serve only two cheeks on the same arse.

      It is no coincidence that the Covid Hoax was rolled out right as populism was sweeping the West.

  81. tom clark August 16, 2022 at 11:27 pm #

    If nothing else, JAZ is persistent and relentless. He da boss…don’t argue w/ the king of the JHK blog.

  82. KesaAnna August 16, 2022 at 11:53 pm #

    ” There are no atheists in Hell ”

    I can never help rolling my eyes whenever I hear the term , ” Satanist ” , and the totally far – fetched stuff invariably supposedly connected to it.

    I’m sure Satan’s not – a – religion is Atheism.

    • Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 12:06 am #

      Not only are Satanists real, Satan is real.

      Honest to God.

      • KesaAnna August 17, 2022 at 12:52 am #

        No doubt.

        I’m a 45 minute drive from Oak Ridge TN.

        No doubt that Satanic church of genocide exists.

      • Redneck Liberal August 17, 2022 at 8:28 pm #

        TruStory?

    • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 3:11 am #

      I would say that is mostly true. Many people who call themselves Satanists actually worship nothing and believe in nothing. However, there are people who worship Satan quite literally as well. And yes there are bizarre practices like ritual sacrifices that occur.

    • Paula D August 18, 2022 at 2:00 pm #

      If by atheist you mean disbelief in God, I suppose that a disbeliever finding themselves in Hell would then believe that someone put them there.
      But if someone ends up in hell because of a disbelief in God, I highly doubt that they would be impressed with, or inclined to worship, such a vindictive being.
      Especially if they look around and see Dick Cheney is not there but they are.

  83. KesaAnna August 17, 2022 at 12:36 am #

    ” These studies from last century are largely ignored in today’s F-ed up US. ”

    ” … studies from last century… ” should , by itself , be a red flag.

    Once upon a time , whether it was kings or the meanest peasants , marriages were arranged by families for mutual group benefit , over mundane things like who gets to claim ownership/ inheritance of five acres or a cow.

    Most children who survived would lose at least one parent , usually well before adulthood.

    So a basic problem with scientific studies of the past hundred years is that they have been conducted in a laboratory that is itself an aberration and an exception.

  84. SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 3:28 am #

    In her concession speech Liz Cheney literally compared herself to Abraham Lincoln. Like the sitch with Jill Biden I truly believe the handlers disrespect these people and therefore allow them to live in these embarrassing delusions for live tv. If someone truly cared Liz would have received a bit of advice while rehearsing her concession speech along the lines of “sweetie you’ll wanna nix the Abe Lincoln comparison, I mean really, for one you live in Northern Virginia and pretend you’re from Wyoming”.

    • Disaffected August 17, 2022 at 8:05 am #

      If someone truly cared Liz would have received a bit of advice while rehearsing her concession speech along the lines of “sweetie you’ll wanna nix the Abe Lincoln comparison, I mean really, for one you live in Northern Virginia and pretend you’re from Wyoming”.

      ZING!!!

      She’s a sanctimonious prick just like her old man. Apple, tree, far, and all that.

      • Jarek August 17, 2022 at 12:48 pm #

        All the main Democrats need to have muppets made of them. Mockery a la Alinsky. Beyond that, Voodoo.

  85. Redneck Liberal August 17, 2022 at 4:55 am #

    Integrity.

    Youtu.be/4R1Nu23nx2o

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  86. Redneck Liberal August 17, 2022 at 5:01 am #

    More

    youtu.be/RhGLrprDGTs

  87. Redneck Liberal August 17, 2022 at 5:36 am #

    Ooh! Another congress member who remains sane, despite the toxicity in the House

    youtu.be/qsiC3x5QhCg

  88. MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 17, 2022 at 8:05 am #

    Ha. You actually believe that Liz Cheney “lost”, RL?

    No, she merely retired so she can try to move up. And she will, no matter how stupid it sounds to the rest of us. She also did it in a way that makes her “Trump-backed rival” the villain, so that’s the story going forward.

    Her dad is also Satan incarnate, so that definitely means we should listen to her and stuff now that she’s a fake martyr. ?

    • Disaffected August 17, 2022 at 8:36 am #

      Very true. She’ll be in for a major promotion now thanks to her stubborn resistance. As I recall, daddy was written off prematurely a few times as well. Then he learned that taking the public lead on oligarch agenda items wasn’t really the preferred way to go. They’ve got big name patsies like GWB for that kind of stuff. Much preferable to wield real power from the shadows. Paid political hacks are just minnows in the pond. The Cheneys are Killer Whales roaming the world’s oceans.

      • stelmosfire August 17, 2022 at 10:07 am #

        Lizzy is getting tons of free air time out of her huge loss in Wyoming, a state with more cattle than people. For the past few weeks I have seen several ads on the tube for her reelection campaign and I live in New England. Why spend millions on ads in a market that has no influence whatsoever on her campaign in Wyoming. She wants national exposure and she would get tons of support from the blue Massholes if she goes for the big pie in the sky.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 17, 2022 at 10:59 am #

          And yet RL says she’s exhibiting integrity. He understands nothing.

          • Redneck Liberal August 17, 2022 at 9:33 pm #

            See below, smartarse.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 10:18 am #

            I did look, but don’t find anything that counters my comment. Which Rachel Maddow blind talking point would you like me to be finding below?

            And you can’t vote in the US? Why do you care about politics here then? While also taking cable news’ word for what the reality is?

            Methinks you’re on payroll.

        • Bob Polecat August 17, 2022 at 11:50 am #

          “in Wyoming, a state with more cattle than people”

          Says the guy condescendingly from one of the many states where the people consume far more beef than they have cattle.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 17, 2022 at 12:44 pm #

            What’s wrong with beef?

          • Bob Polecat August 17, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

            My beef isn’t with beef.

            My beef is the condescension displayed of people living in States that produce the beef for your consumption.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 17, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

            But…we all like cows. And their beef.

            I think the Wyoming comment was just referring to their having the second-lowest population per square mile than any other state (after Alaska).

          • stelmosfire August 17, 2022 at 2:14 pm #

            Condescending? Just a simple fact Polecat. More cattle than people. Am I wrong? I don’t think so. I love Wyoming and the people there. I lived and worked the oil fields out of Rawlins years back around the Wamsutter area. I spent a month driving around and camping in the state in 2017 and watched the Great American Eclipse from Boyson State Park outside of Shoshoni. My point being cattle don’t vote so Lizzy doesn’t give a shit about Wyoming or the people there. The TDS transplants from Blue states are fucking up Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho and I’m sure they donate plenty to the likes of A-hole Liz.

        • JohnAZ August 17, 2022 at 12:25 pm #

          Who exactly is she going to run with?

          She is a traitor to her party! Trump is the leader of the GOP, only two reps that voted against him in the impeachment survived the primaries or resigned.

          It is why she has been removed from GOP rolls in Wyoming, not just censured, removed.

          She is going to find the Dems will not support her either, no one trusts a traitor. She tried to get Dems to vote for her in Wyoming, and they refused.

          As I said earlier, She is

          A woman without a party.

          • BackRowHeckler August 17, 2022 at 1:56 pm #

            Cheney will run with a snake from the Lincoln Project, who also most likely will fund her campaign as well.

          • Redneck Liberal August 17, 2022 at 8:25 pm #

            “She is a traitor to her party! Trump is the leader of the GOP, only two reps that voted against him in the impeachment survived the primaries or resigned.

            Huh? It looks to me like the GOP left her, not the other way around. Seriously, JohnAZ, I gather you’ve been a rabid conservative for a good few years now – what is the fascinating appeal to you of a third-rate TV ‘personality’ and a minor private property investor, who is a proven liar and grifter? What makes him “leader of the GOP”?

            How is such a thing determined? He’s nobody now, a private citizen in desperate straits, calling all the lawyers he can find (at least, the ones who don’t hang up when his name is invoked because they know he never pays – ask Rudy!) to keep him out of he Federal slammer.

          • benr August 19, 2022 at 10:17 am #

            @rl

            My goodness you sure have a hard on for Trump.
            You asked.
            One Hundred And Twenty One Accomplishments By President Trump And His Cabinet.

            Here you go. Easy to Google and double check. Checking for yourself is always best. This list is not all inclusive. There are more to add to this list every week.

            Trump recently signed 3 bills to benefit Native people. One gives compensation to the Spokane tribe for loss of their lands in the mid-1900s, one funds Native language programs, and the third gives federal recognition to the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Montana.
            Trump finalized the creation of Space Force as our 6th Military branch.
            Trump signed a law to make cruelty to animals a federal felony so that animal abusers face tougher consequences.
            Prior to the recent violent Antifa protests, violent crime has fallen every year he’s been in office after rising during the 2 years before he was elected.
            Trump signed a bill making CBD and Hemp legal.
            Trump’s EPA gave $100 million to fix the water infrastructure problem in Flint, Michigan.
            Under Trump’s leadership, in 2018 the U.S. surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest producer of crude oil.
            Trump signed a law ending the gag orders on Pharmacists that prevented them from sharing money-saving information.
            Trump signed the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA), which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” (SESTA) which both give law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking.
            Trump signed a bill to require airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding Moms.
            The 25% lowest-paid Americans enjoyed a 4.5% income boost in November 2019, which outpaces a 2.9% gain in earnings for the country’s highest-paid workers.
            Low-wage workers are benefiting from higher minimum wages and from corporations that are increasing entry-level pay.
            Trump signed the biggest wilderness protection & conservation bill in a decade and designated 375,000 acres as protected land.
            Trump signed the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.
            He signed a bill this year allowing some drug imports from Canada so that prescription prices would go down.
            Trump signed an executive order this year that forces all healthcare providers to disclose the cost of their services so that Americans can comparison shop and know how much less providers charge insurance companies. When signing that bill, he said no American should be blindsided by bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance.
            Hospitals will now be required to post their standard charges for services, which include the discounted price a hospital is willing to accept.
            In the eight years prior to President Trump’s inauguration, prescription drug prices increased by an average of 3.6% per year. Under Trump, drug prices have seen year-over-year declines in nine of the last ten months, with a 1.1% drop as of the most recent month.
            He created a White House VA Hotline to help veterans and principally staffed it with veterans and direct family members of veterans. VA employees are being held accountable for poor performance, with more than 4,000 VA employees removed, demoted, and suspended so far.
            Issued an executive order requiring the Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health treatment as they transition to civilian life.
            Because of a bill signed and championed by Trump, In 2020, most federal employees will see their pay increase by an average of 3.1% — the largest raise in more than 10 years.
            Trump signed into a law up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for millions of federal workers.
            Trump administration will provide HIV prevention drugs for free to 200,000 uninsured patients per year for 11 years.
            All-time record sales during the 2019 holidays.
            Trump signed an order allowing small businesses to group together when buying insurance to get a better price.
            President Trump signed the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act that provides funding for states to develop maternal mortality reviews to better understand maternal complications and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher mortality rates for Black Americans.
            In 2018, President Trump signed the groundbreaking First Step Act, a criminal justice bill which enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and help former inmates successfully return to society.
            The First Step Act’s reforms addressed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes.
            The First Step Act expanded judicial discretion in sentencing of non-violent crimes.
            Over 90% of those benefitting from the retroactive sentencing reductions in the First Step Act are Black Americans.
            The First Step Act provides rehabilitative programs to inmates, helping them successfully rejoin society and not return to crime.
            Trump increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by more than 14%.
            Trump signed legislation forgiving Hurricane Katrina debt that threatened HBCUs.
            New single-family home sales are up 31.6% in October 2019 compared to just one year ago.
            Made HBCUs a priority by creating the position of executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs.
            Trump received the Bipartisan Justice Award at a historically black college for his criminal justice reform accomplishments.
            The poverty rate fell to a 17-year low of 11.8% under the Trump administration as a result of a jobs-rich environment.
            Poverty rates for African Americans and Hispanic-Americans have reached their lowest levels since the U.S. began collecting such data.
            President Trump signed a bill that creates five national monuments, expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of wilderness, and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
            Trump’s USDA committed $124 Million to rebuild rural water infrastructure.
            Consumer confidence & small business confidence is at an all-time high.
            Prior to the COVID shut down more than 7 million jobs created since election.
            More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
            More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs created since his election.
            Trump appointed 5 openly gay ambassadors.
            Trump ordered Ric Grenell, his openly gay ambassador to Germany, to lead a global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality across the globe.
            Through Trump’s Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team (ACTeam) initiative, Federal law enforcement more than doubled convictions of human traffickers and increased the number of defendants charged by 75% in ACTeam districts.
            In 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismantled an organization that was the internet’s leading source of prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking.
            Trump’s OMB published new anti-trafficking guidance for government procurement officials to combat human trafficking more effectively.
            Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations arrested 1,588 criminals associated with Human Trafficking.
            Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to support the National Human Trafficking Hotline to identify perpetrators and give victims the help they need.
            The hotline identified 16,862 potential human trafficking cases.
            Trump’s DOJ provided grants to organizations that support human trafficking victims – serving nearly 9,000 cases from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018.
            The Department of Homeland Security has hired more victim assistance specialists, helping victims get resources and support.
            President Trump has called on Congress to pass school choice legislation so that no child is trapped in a failing school because of his or her zip code.
            The President signed funding legislation in September 2018 that increased funding for school choice by $42 million.
            The tax cuts signed into law by President Trump promote school choice by allowing families to use 529 college savings plans for elementary and secondary education.
            Under his leadership ISIS has lost most of their territory and been largely dismantled.
            ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed.
            Signed the first Perkins CTE reauthorization since 2006, authorizing more than $1 billion for states each year to fund vocational and career education programs.
            Executive order expanding apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.
            Trump issued an Executive Order prohibiting the U.S. government from discriminating against Christians or punishing expressions of faith.
            Signed an executive order that allows the government to withhold money from college campuses deemed to be anti-Semitic and who fail to combat anti-Semitism.
            President Trump ordered a halt to U.S. tax money going to international organizations that fund or perform abortions.
            Trump imposed sanctions on the socialists in Venezuela who have killed their citizens.
            Finalized new trade agreement with South Korea.
            Made a deal with the European Union to increase U.S. energy exports to Europe.
            Withdrew the U.S. from the job killing TPP deal.
            Secured $250 billion in new trade and investment deals in China and $12 billion in Vietnam.
            Approved up to $12 billion in aid for farmers affected by unfair trade retaliation.
            Has had over a dozen US hostages freed, including those Obama could not get freed.
            Trump signed the Music Modernization Act, the biggest change to copyright law in decades.
            Trump secured Billions that will fund the building of a wall at our southern border.
            The Trump Administration is promoting second chance hiring to give former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find meaningful employment.
            Trump’s DOJ and the Board Of Prisons launched a new “Ready to Work Initiative” to help connect employers directly with former prisoners.
            President Trump’s historic tax cut legislation included new Opportunity Zone Incentives to promote investment in low-income communities across the country.
            8,764 communities across the country have been designated as Opportunity Zones.
            Opportunity Zones are expected to spur $100 billion in long-term private capital investment in economically distressed communities across the country.
            Trump directed the Education Secretary to end Common Core.
            Trump signed the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund into law.
            Trump signed measure funding prevention programs for Veteran suicide.
            Companies have brought back over a TRILLION dollars from overseas because of the TCJA bill that Trump signed.
            Manufacturing jobs are growing at the fastest rate in more than 30 years.
            Stock Market has reached record highs.
            Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
            African American unemployment is at an all-time low.
            Hispanic-American unemployment is at an all-time low.
            Asian-American unemployment is at an all-time low.
            Women’s unemployment rate is at a 65-year low.
            Youth unemployment is at a 50-year low.
            Prior to the COVID shutdown we have the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded.
            The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans.
            95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future— the highest ever.
            As a result of the Republican tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
            Record number of regulations eliminated that hurt small businesses.
            Signed welfare reform requiring able-bodied adults who don’t have children to work or look for work if they’re on welfare.
            Under Trump, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history.
            Reformed Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors 100’s of millions of $$$ this year alone.
            Signed Right-To-Try legislation allowing terminally ill patients to try experimental treatment that wasn’t allowed before.
            Secured $6 billion in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
            Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
            S. oil production recently reached all-time high so we are less dependent on oil from the Middle East.
            The U.S. is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
            NATO allies increased their defense spending because of his pressure campaign.
            Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord in 2017 and that same year the U.S. still led the world by having the largest reduction in Carbon emissions.
            Has his circuit court judge nominees being confirmed faster than any other new administration.
            Had his Supreme Court Justice’s Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmed.
            Moved U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
            Agreed to a new trade deal with Mexico & Canada that will increase jobs here and $$$ coming in.
            Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
            Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices, has agreed to a Part One trade deal with China.
            Signed legislation to improve the National Suicide Hotline.
            Signed the most comprehensive childhood cancer legislation ever into law, which will advance childhood cancer research and improve treatments.
            The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by Trump doubled the maximum amount of the child tax credit available to parents and lifted the income limits so more people could claim it.
            It also created a new tax credit for other dependents.
            In 2018, President Trump signed into law a $2.4 billion funding increase for the Child Care and Development Fund, providing a total of $8.1 billion to States to fund childcare for low-income families.
            The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) signed into law by Trump provides a tax credit equal to 20-35% of child care expenses, $3,000 per child & $6,000 per family + Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) allow you to set aside up to $5,000 in pre-tax $ to use for child care.
            In 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) into law which allocates $1.8 billion in funding over the next five years to help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families.
            In 2019 President Trump signed into law two funding packages providing nearly $19 million in new funding for Lupus specific research and education programs, as well an additional $41.7 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the most Lupus funding EVER.
            Another upcoming accomplishment to add: Trump signed the first major anti-robocall law in decades called the TRACED Act (Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence.) TRACED Act will extend the period of time the FCC has to catch & punish those who intentionally break telemarketing restrictions. The bill also requires voice service providers to develop a framework to verify calls are legitimate before they reach your phone.
            US stock market continually hits record highs.
            *Trump did all of this while fighting flagrant abuse and impeachment charges and a 97% negativity reporting by major media.

      • Redneck Liberal August 17, 2022 at 8:27 pm #

        Who will ‘promote’ her, Dis?

    • MaryQueen August 17, 2022 at 1:59 pm #

      Agree completely, she’s not going anywhere but up.

    • Night Owl August 17, 2022 at 5:06 pm #

      The Rednut loves the Cheneys.

      All modern progressive liberals now support Bloody Bill Kristol, Dick, Wolfie and the whole bloodthirsty gang.

      It’s liberal now.

      • Redneck Liberal August 17, 2022 at 8:19 pm #

        No. Nit so, but you do your usual extrapolation jig and have some fun, Narcissistic Howler

        The remark is entirely relating to her testicular fortitude in standing up to President DumpsterFire’s ongoing destruction of the rule of law.

        She voted for Drumpf in 2020 and her House voting record was 93% with that side. She voted against every major piece of legislation introduced by Biden these last 18 months (all of which have passed, thankfully). She even pretends that “live birth abortions” are an actual thing. If I could vote in the US, she’d never get mine.

        However, there is a ray of hope that she can do two things:
        1) “Lock Him Up!”
        2) Start a viable right-wing party that will save the US (and JohnAZ) from Trumpism, which is a viral cancer spreading faster than monkeypox.

        • benr August 19, 2022 at 10:22 am #

          The fool and his wrong opinions bloviate about nothing he understands using canned msm talking points as if he is an authority on the US its policies and government.

      • PeteAtomic August 17, 2022 at 10:02 pm #

        The “progressives” have had too much of populism. They miss the warmongering, secret police, globalist, corporatist Ole GOP.

        It’s tough to rule by uniparty when one half of that party doesn’t want the bullshit anymore.

  89. mitchellc August 17, 2022 at 10:05 am #

    Some good comments about elections always being fixed. I’ve brought this up before: why would elites relinquish power?

    The answer of course is that they didn’t. Similar in tone to the observations being made out Cheney, it is more effective to indulge children to belive they’re driving the car.

    That’s what I meant about inversion = enlightenment. If you can finally break through the mental prison about how/who/what the US/West is actually constructed, you’re free to finally see is has *always* been this way.

    Once there, now you’re in clean air with zero turbulence. No more complaining, no outrage, no surprises; all perfect clarity and logic.

    • JohnAZ August 17, 2022 at 12:29 pm #

      No more complaining, no outrage, no surprises

      1984, Brave New World

      Compliance!

      If that is your thing, it is your privilege.

      China is a good place to practice that mindset.

  90. MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 17, 2022 at 10:05 am #

    Lol. “Integrity”.

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  91. BackRowHeckler August 17, 2022 at 11:22 am #

    Huh, we learn that a 34 year old local RN died on Monday … from a heart attack! She was described as a ‘Covid Hero’, going above and beyond during the Pandemic 2020-2021. Why would a healthy 34 year old have a heart attack? Nobody can explain it; it’s a mystery.

    Last week an 18 year old HS football star from the New Haven area also died from a heart attack. Sounds like it’s something that’s going around — State health authorities are investigating the matter. Stand by.

    • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 11:43 am #

      A paramedic in England had a heart attack while he was in the middle of treating a patient suffering cardiac arrest. I guess he was lucky he was already in an ambulance or with the rest of his team.

      In other news, a Scottish singer who lives in the US, age 41, just died of that sudden death thing.

      tyla.com/celebrity/darius-campbell-danesh-near-death-experiences-20220817

      This article tries very hard to deflect interest from why a 41-year-old would just drop dead for no reason to all the things that happened to him prior to that so that it looks like just one of those things. And yet people are still falling for this crap.

      • kbird August 17, 2022 at 12:40 pm #

        GA,

        Wouldn’t it be a good thing to wait and see what the cause of death is once the autopsy is done? I’m well aware of how you feel about the Covid Vax, but every time someone dies, it doesn’t always mean it is from the Vax.

        I was curious, are you against all vaccines in general, or is it just the Covid vaccine?

        • Soul Forensics August 17, 2022 at 12:47 pm #

          Preponderance of evidence. Comparative stats vaxxed vs non-vaxxed. Time after vaxx shot(s) till major symptoms and death.

          It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure it out. Unless, of course, you’re an evil ideologue or just a garden variety idiot.

        • Soul Forensics August 17, 2022 at 12:49 pm #

          Speaking of autopsies, birdy, why don’t they perform them on the vaxxed dead to show what’s been circulating in their bodies? They can’t wait to stuff those bodies in boxes or incinerate them instead.

          • kbird August 17, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

            Wooah settle down Soul Forensics…
            My question was valid, I didn’t say that the Vax wasn’t the cause, I just said shouldn’t we wait until all the information comes out before saying what the cause of death was.

          • JohnAZ August 17, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

            Yes!

            As long as Fauci et al are in power, never going to happen.

            They just stuck 150 million people with a potential toxin.

          • kbird August 17, 2022 at 2:06 pm #

            No shit soul forensics, I know the quote was yours. My point being, if someone didn’t read the article, by what you said, they would believe that they are linking the two together. Which they are not. YOU are the one linking the traffic accident from years ago to the death now. And seriously, this article is on a trashy entertainment site as well, so who gives a shit what they say. Good to know your sources!

          • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 2:14 pm #

            “I was curious, are you against all vaccines in general, or is it just the Covid vaccine?”

            I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you still are curious. I have had all my normal vaccines, mostly as a child plus one as a student against cholera. As I actually said on this very thread that I’ve had four flu vaccines since age 65 until last winter when I pretty obviously declined.

            My kids are also vaccinated against the usual stuff, although what they had was positively parsimonious compared to what’s inflicted on American kids currently.

            So, I’ve never been anti-vaccines. But since I’ve learned a lot over the past couple of years my mind is quite open to appreciating that vaccination in general is not all it seems.

            But mostly I don’t like ‘vaccines’ that kill people. I’ve seen the excess death statistics since the rollout of the vaxxes and the various reporting systems on adverse effects and deaths.

            “I just said shouldn’t we wait until all the information comes out before saying what the cause of death was.”

            Well that would make you rather silly, because ‘all the information’ coming out is the last thing that’s going to happen.

            Just seen another headline on yer manL

            “How Darius Campbell Danesh survived coma and broken neck before being found dead aged 41”

            Are you really telling me you don’t have the critical reading skills to interpret a headline like that? It’s almost comical.

        • Soul Forensics August 17, 2022 at 1:00 pm #

          Also, I just read GA’s link. The vaxx apologist(s) responsible for this tripe actually conjectured that Danesh’s death wasn’t surprising because he’d had a few near-death experiences before, including being in a car crash 10 years ago. Hilarious! Yet people will and do believe this shit.

          • kbird August 17, 2022 at 1:07 pm #

            Soul Forensics,
            I just read the link as well, LOL, your comment about the link is hilarious. Nowhere in that article did it say “Danesh’s death wasn’t surprising because he’d had a few near-death experiences before, including being in a car crash 10 years ago.

            The article stated his other near death experiences but that is it, you added in the being surprised part. Way to twist the story, takes away any morsel of credibility you ever had.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 17, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

            Wait…is K-Dog back?

          • Soul Forensics August 17, 2022 at 1:53 pm #

            birdy,

            Oops! Your reasonable, concern approach facade lasted all of two minutes, haha!!

            The quote was mine, you idiot. Obvious to any honest reader. Why would they bring up a traffic accident as a suspicious link between that and a mysterious death ten years later?

            (BRH, it could be tekapo.)

          • Soul Forensics August 17, 2022 at 1:54 pm #

            I meant that last address to Mango.

          • MaryQueen August 17, 2022 at 2:06 pm #

            Can you imagine… “My son died of a heart attack. The official cause is Climate Change.” Shakes his head and goes on his way.

          • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 2:18 pm #

            “Nowhere in that article did it say “Danesh’s death wasn’t surprising because he’d had a few near-death experiences before, including being in a car crash 10 years ago.”

            Good grief – do you understand anything about how propaganda works?

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 17, 2022 at 4:59 pm #

            Soul – after reading more comments, I think you may be correct (tekapo). Sigh.

        • Soul Forensics August 17, 2022 at 1:04 pm #

          Wait for what evidence, exactly? You’re not deluded enough to think they’re going to perform an autopsy, do you? No, you’re a concern troll. Even were that the case, do you actually believe they’d reveal the technical and biochemical sci-fi materials in the dead body?

          It’s all a mystery. But they’re working hard getting to the bottom of all those “cause of death unknown” cases, (which are now the leading cause of death in Alberta and major hospitals in Indonesia).

          • kbird August 17, 2022 at 1:13 pm #

            Soul Forensics,
            Yes, I do believe the family would want an autopsy. Wouldn’t you? Just as everyone who died with Covid, even when the actual cause of death wasn’t covid but because they tested positive they called it Covid death…which is wrong to do. So is saying anyone who has died it must be from the vaccine. You don’t even know if he got the vaccination. Just wait for more information before making assumptions.

          • Soul Forensics August 17, 2022 at 1:49 pm #

            Can you possibly be this obtuse? Vaxx deaths have happened since the jab rollouts two years ago, ramped up now because of accumulated damage from jabs #3 and #4. But there’s still no autopsies.

            You’re making my point for me.

          • MaryQueen August 17, 2022 at 2:04 pm #

            kbird/Tekapo – do you honestly think people are paying thousands of dollars for autopsies? They do not do them unless people pay.

          • kbird August 17, 2022 at 2:09 pm #

            Soul Forensics and Ding bat Mary,
            I know plenty of people who over the last couple years have had autopsies on family members after Covid death, they wanted to know if they really died of Covid. So yes, people do pay for autopsies.

          • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 5:25 pm #

            @ MaryQueen:

            Hospitals used to fight tooth and nail to get the relatives of the deceased to permit autopsies. I remember reading and article in Esquire Magazine back in the 70s, which I think was titled “The Battle for the Dead.” The author was a doctor who was complaining about how uncooperative the deceased’s relatives were about agreeing to autopsies, and how invaluable autopsies were to medical research.

            I was left with the impression that hospitals back then would do autopsies on just about everyone, if they were allowed to, and the only thing standing in the way was getting permission.

            Apparently things have changed since then. Autopsies are, of course, another expense that hospitals (or their insurance companies) may be reluctant to bear. But to hear the guy in the article tell it, their value to doctors was immense.

          • Redneck Liberal August 17, 2022 at 8:07 pm #

            “Even were that the case, do you actually believe they’d reveal the technical and biochemical sci-fi materials in the dead body?

            There’s a real problem, right there.

            What you appear to be saying is “If the autopsy report comes back saying the subject died from xyzitis, brought on by (an identifiable external environmental factor)”, you would simply choose not to believe it because you require it to say “VAXX! VAXX! VAXX! ” and would choose to believe that the truth is being deliberately, even maliciously, hidden from you.

            That’s the issue down the Rabbit Hole…there’s no escaping the delusional thinking.

          • GreenAlba August 18, 2022 at 5:55 am #

            Talking of delusional thinking, Redneck, do you have that Chetty debunk ready for us? It’s well over time and the interview is only half an hour. Should be a cakewalk for you.

          • Anthea August 18, 2022 at 9:14 am #

            @ Redneck Liberal:

            It is perhaps not unreasonable “to believe that the truth is being deliberately, even maliciously, hidden from you,” when lying about all matters of importance has been public policy for decades. This policy (obviously) pre-dates covid. It is probably–nay, certainly–older than you are. I estimate that this has been public policy for about 5,000 years. Yet this fact has escaped your notice, or–more likely–you approve of it.

            While, either way, this implies very serious intellectual and/or moral deficits, one does wonder why you would approve of it, why you would have embraced a very firm and settled belief in deliberate and malicious lies. Why have you decided (and this is entirely a matter of your own agency) to support lies and the deliberate injury and murder of the innocent?

            One assumes too that you have, in connection with all things covid, supported many other evils: locking up whole populations, effectively placing them under house arrest, without due processs; the revocation of freedom to travel and freedom of assembly; the siezure of private property without compensation; imposing experimental medical procedures on whole populations by force and without even the pretext of informed consent.

            Maybe you should think this over.

          • Anthea August 18, 2022 at 10:02 am #

            @ Redneck Liberal:

            You might further ask yourself why you don’t “think this over,” and why you never did think it over.

            The reason is fairly obvious: you’re not allowed to. You have internalized this taboo. No thinking allowed. (I am of course assuming that at some level you are a person of good will.)

            I raise this possibility because I know some sweet old ladies who are like that. They would never permit themselves to think, or think about, things that are not allowed. I can’t call them friends, since it is difficult to be friends with someone who is lacking a core self to which they are, or attempt to be, faithful.

      • kbird August 17, 2022 at 2:29 pm #

        GA,
        Thanks for answering my vaccine question, I truly was just curious if it was Covid Vax or all types of vaccinations.

        I do disagree with your repeated argument about the article. We see that differently. All I am saying is, what if it comes out that he never had the covid vaccination? There are other reasons that people die young aside from the vax. I’m not arguing with you that people haven’t died from it, but you don’t have all the info and you are going off of an article and “interpreting” it to align with your beliefs.

        • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 2:42 pm #

          Whatever makes you happy, kbird.

          What makes me laugh is your real or pretend confidence in ‘what comes out’.

          FFS they’re still calling it ‘safe and effective’ and pretending the tens of thousands of dead people on VAERS aren’t even a thing.

          If it hasn’t ‘come out’ that it’s effing lethal, why would you think anything would ‘come out’?

          Note that ‘come out’ in the MSM and ‘come out’ on honest sources are two different things.

          Why I am wasting my time on this nonsense?

          • kbird August 17, 2022 at 2:54 pm #

            I’ll ask one more time GA, what if it comes out, that he never had the Covid vaccination?? Then what?? Did he stand too close to someone that had the vaccination? My point is you don’t even know the answer to that,.

          • Night Owl August 17, 2022 at 4:59 pm #

            You are wasting time on it because deep down the stupidity of kbird’s spoon-fed belief system infuriates you.

            I understand.

        • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 2:44 pm #

          “to align with your beliefs”

          I don’t have ‘beliefs’ on the matter. I peruse evidence.

          Go and have a flippin’ Chardonnay.

          • kbird August 17, 2022 at 2:52 pm #

            GA,
            I was honestly trying to have a civil conversation with you. I asked questions and was polite because I’ve always thought you were intelligent and even though I disagree with some things you say, I still like to hear what other people have to say even though I disagree, as I might just learn something knew. But you have now turned unfortunately and joined the likes of the rest of the scum on this blog who spew nastiness. “Go have a flippin Chardonnay?” Whatever.

          • Soul Forensics August 17, 2022 at 3:35 pm #

            “I was honestly trying to have a civil conversation with you.”

            Fuck off. You’re a concern troll.

          • kbird August 17, 2022 at 4:01 pm #

            Soul Forensics,
            You’re a little cunt so you can fuck off too.

          • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 4:47 pm #

            ” Did he stand too close to someone that had the vaccination?”

            How do you know Soul Forensics is little? Maybe he just stood too close to someone who was big?

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 17, 2022 at 5:00 pm #

            And I presume kbird’s banning is forthcoming.

            Can’t drop the c-bomb for no reason, brother.

      • kbird August 17, 2022 at 5:50 pm #

        GA,
        You still can’t answer a very simple question. What if it comes out that he is anti vax, and he’s never had the vaccination? Then what? You presume that every sudden death of a young person is related to the vaccine. That’s it, done, now going to have that Chardonnay you suggested.

        • kbird August 17, 2022 at 5:54 pm #

          MrMango,
          So Soul Forensics telling me to Fuck off is ok? I used to be offended by the word cunt, it made my skin crawl hearing that word. Then i watched the show the Afterlife…Changed my thoughts on the word, it’s a great word used for describing many things, like the fact that soul forensics is a giant cunt (Stupid), and GA is having a cunty attitude today. Shouldn’t let words have that much power over you. it’s just a great descriptive word.

          • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 8:12 pm #

            Georges Brassens wrote a whole song about it.

            youtube.com/watch?v=zMALuEYxK6U

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 17, 2022 at 9:31 pm #

            Okay, kbird. I’m a tad indifferent.

          • benr August 18, 2022 at 10:52 am #

            @KBIRD

            Grow up wanna be.

    • Soul Forensics August 17, 2022 at 12:43 pm #

      BRH,

      Luckily, the mystery has been solved!

      Sources (from different articles) you can trust say that heart attacks can occur because of gardening, climate change, taking a shower, watching TV, watching TV with your pets, falling asleep in front of the TV, moving around suddenly, becoming too cold or too hot suddenly, getting diagnosed with Covid, shaking duvets too vigorously, skipping breakfast, eating too much at breakfast, alcohol, dope (weed, not the media reporting all this), stressing over losses by your fave sports team, energy bill increases …

      All the wonderful, informative discoveries being made these days … amazing!

      • MaryQueen August 17, 2022 at 2:04 pm #

        You forgot SITTING!

  92. BackRowHeckler August 17, 2022 at 11:44 am #

    That rascal called ‘Climate Change’ could be to blame, as it is for so many other maladies that afflict us nowadays.

    Now that the Inflation Reduction Act has been signed how long before prices for common & essential items begin to go down? A few weeks? 6 months? Never? The day the bill was passed in the Senate granting a $7,500 tax credit for EVs, Ford Motor Company jacked up the price of its F-150 EV $8,500 lol.

    Hey I picked up a fairly unworn copy of Adam Hochschild’s ‘King Leopold’s Ghost’ at a used bookfare for $1.99, and at an old junk store/antique shop at the shore I found an ancient Martini-Henry Rifle — the kind used in the Zulu Wars — for $250. That’s the way you fight inflation, not print up another $1 trillion.

    Right now I’m laying low waiting for the Inflation Reduction Act to kick in so we can start going wild again, burning up gasoline and grilling Sirloin Steaks.

  93. Jarek August 17, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

    Barnhardt

    Nicolás Gómez Dávila was a Colombian man who casually wrote down his thoughts, which were later discovered and published by admirers. His Wiki article begins thusly:

    Nicolás Gómez Dávila (18 May 1913 – 17 May 1994) was a Colombian writer and thinker who is considered one of the most intransigent political theoreticians of the twentieth century. His fame began to spread only in the last few years before his death, particularly by way of German translations of his works. Gómez Dávila was one of the most radical critics of modernity whose work consists almost entirely of aphorisms which he called “escolios” (that is, “glosses” or “annotations”).

    Other sources describe him as a Radical Traditionalist. Sigh. A man after our own hearts, I daresay.

    For the edification of all, a few quotes:

    The criterion of “progress” between two cultures or two eras consists of a greater capacity to kill.

    The word “modern” no longer has an automatic prestige except among fools.

    One of my personal favorites…:

    Clarity of text is the sole incontrovertible sign of the maturity of an idea.

    From strength to strength…

    To tolerate does not mean to forget that what we tolerate does not deserve anything more.

    The left claims that the guilty party in a conflict is not the one who covets another’s goods but the one who defends his own.

    Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

    Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
    And finally….

    The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.

    Jarek: Good stuff. I vehemently disagree with this one though:

    Clarity of text is the sole incontrovertible sign of the maturity of an idea.

    Absurd. Is Mitch not clear? Can evil not be clear in its expression? Evidently he came to maturity when it was still hiding and hinting. That is no longer the case. Last night Tucker talked about the book, The Last White Man, a paen to White genocide. How many of you are still denying it? Fool every one of you.

    • mitchellc August 17, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

      Good stuff

      I guess I haven’t been entirely clear. Moving past outrage isnt compliance, it’s more like “were not in Kansas anymore”

      Recall the scene in Schindler were the complainer was summarily shot. Did the survivors obediently wilt, or did they finally reach a point of clarity?

      GA reminds me of that character; a fool who still doesn’t get it. A serious person, one who really understood our situation, would keep their mouth shut and quietly prepare to exit.

      • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 1:15 pm #

        Or perhaps you are simply here to ensure as you say no one complains and every one just shuts up to ultimately accept their fate. Exit? Exactly where to? Sounds like a perfect ploy. How do most living things go extinct? They lose their habitat.

      • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 1:49 pm #

        GA gets it perfectly well, you arrogant cockwomble. Where the actual fuck would you like me to exit to? I live in a city, in a flat and my husband works here, not to mention that he’s totally brainwashed so wouldn’t be exiting anywhere. Not to mention that I’m 70.

        So I choose to go down speaking the truth. Because the truth matters. And not least because when I go down, I’ll be going up. Unlike you. I wouldn’t be you for the world. All of it, on its knees to me.

        ‘Moving past outrage’ signifies the death of the soul.

        But it’s nice to know that I triggered you. So that’s good. Condescending fuckwit. I hope I triggered my MP too.

        • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 1:58 pm #

          And I’d be fine with the shot in the head. It would make the fuckers do something honest. You understand nothing, But you will.

        • Soul Forensics August 17, 2022 at 2:01 pm #

          GA,

          mitchellc thinks nuclear war is inevitable, yet his ‘knowledge’ will somehow preclude the direct and after effects from visiting him and his small coterie of followers.

          I originally thought he was a Schwab groupie, now I’m leaning more towards Jim Jones.

          • Islander August 17, 2022 at 4:16 pm #

            Jim Jones minus correct punctuation . . .

        • Q. Shtik August 17, 2022 at 2:34 pm #

          cockwomble – GA

          ===========

          A foolish or obnoxious person; someone possessing properties of striking idiocy.

          I love brit slang.

          • Night Owl August 17, 2022 at 4:49 pm #

            No, you love Brit slang — unless you are referring to small marine crustaceans.

        • Q. Shtik August 17, 2022 at 2:38 pm #

          Not to mention that I’m 70. – GA

          ===========

          So you’ve had your 3 score and 10. Anything more is the gravy.

          • Lance Boyle August 17, 2022 at 2:48 pm #

            Gravy. Ha!

            Youth is wasted on the young.

          • Night Owl August 17, 2022 at 4:51 pm #

            “So you have had your 3 score and 10”

            Recompose. Syntax error.

          • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 5:41 pm #

            @ Night Owl:

            I’m not seeing a syntax error. Perhaps you could be specific.

        • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 2:40 pm #

          Cockwomble LOL!! Hey, that is as good as mooncalf no?

          • Disaffected August 17, 2022 at 10:15 pm #

            I think you two have been conspiring!

        • Night Owl August 17, 2022 at 4:54 pm #

          Mitchell has been deployed from Langley to get us ruffians to stop talking about the Great Reset.

          Being quiet is key you see.

          If they roll out the control system with little to no opposition, then we win!

          Don’t you see?

          • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 6:07 pm #

            My feeling too. ‘Gray man’ who pretends not to know that you lose social credit points just for logging on to the site, no matter what you say, doesn’t compute for me.

          • Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 10:38 pm #

            Ha! Langley would surely have matters well in hand if they’re down to monitoring whether Peter shit the bed again last night. (No offence, Q.)

    • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 1:18 pm #

      This is how nature works. If one is unwilling to protect what is theirs it will be taken. Perhaps whites are destined for extinction because they have no natural will to survive?

      • Jarek August 17, 2022 at 2:03 pm #

        Yes, it is so. Fake Christianity is partly to blame. As Aquinas said, the purpose of grace is to perfect nature, not eliminate it. Racism or “like unto like” is as natural as robins dating robins and not crows.

        • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 2:39 pm #

          So you don’t think there is any remedy or the potential of a turnaround in that regard?

          • Jarek August 17, 2022 at 2:50 pm #

            There is a remnant. That is all. Hopefully with supernatural aid, we can repopulate parts of the Earth. I assume other races will be aided in similar fashion if need be.

            Most Whites will like a Black better if the Black follows football. Do such people deserve to survive and pass on their crap culture?

          • Jarek August 17, 2022 at 3:10 pm #

            Better than a fellow White who does not like football.

          • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 4:33 pm #

            Lol that is a funny example. But I do see your point. We need sophistication and discernment, not a return to the lowest common denominator type stuff.

    • messianicdruid August 17, 2022 at 1:33 pm #

      “Clarity of text is the sole incontrovertible sign of the maturity of an idea.”

      Jesus taught in parables.

      • Anthea August 17, 2022 at 6:00 pm #

        @ messianicdruid:

        That is one of my big gripes about Jesus. Seems like he might just as easily have said what he meant, instead of playing, “Guess what I mean.”

        • Soul Forensics August 17, 2022 at 6:53 pm #

          In other words, the hell with poetry, complexity, and beauty of expression.

          Also, opaque or at least slightly difficult rendering is a time-honoured way of circumventing potential oppression of free speech.

  94. Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 2:00 pm #

    Post Count on this thread (as of 1:15pm Eastern):

    MaryQueen: 35
    JohnAZ: 31
    Disaffected: 24
    Jarek: 24
    Rhett Dawson: 22
    SoftStarLight: 22
    malthuss: 20
    Paula D: 20
    Q. Shtik: 20
    Night Owl: 19
    Beryl of Oyl: 17
    Edge Lord: 15
    Redneck Liberal: 15
    BackRowHeckler: 14
    cowbell81: 14
    Bob Polecat: 13
    Walter B: 12
    Blackbird: 11
    Islander: 11
    Hereward the Woke: 10
    MrMangoOnMyShoulder: 10
    Rowdypiglet: 10
    Soul Forensics: 10
    Anthea: 9
    elysianfield: 9
    GreenAlba: 9
    Sean Coleman: 9
    tom clark: 8
    justanotherguy: 7
    SW: 6
    thirdcoastlegend: 6
    UN OUT OF USA: 6
    Alzaebo: 5
    KesaAnna: 5
    AmericanObserver: 4
    anmariwakaranai: 4
    kbird: 4
    Merkwurdiglieb: 4
    mitchellc: 4
    Nigel Tufnel: 4
    Not_GeorgeT: 4
    SpeedyBB: 4
    TPTB-USA: 4
    tresho: 4
    wwg1wga: 4
    beantownbill.: 3
    cbeard: 3
    Kornado: 3
    EdD: 2
    Frank Buttitch: 2
    gustafson.robert.22: 2
    JC Penny: 2
    Lance Boyle: 2
    neurodoc: 2
    PeteAtomic: 2
    stelmosfire: 2
    AllenR: 1
    Armenio Pereira: 1
    Bill of Rights: 1
    BillRI: 1
    dplainview: 1
    Ed Haskell: 1
    farmgal: 1
    Frankenstein Government: 1
    Freddie: 1
    Htruth: 1
    John K: 1
    Lyndy33: 1
    Mac: 1
    MontanaMan: 1
    Opie: 1
    Paul: 1
    R Montanari: 1
    redrock: 1
    richsob: 1
    spaingaroo: 1
    U R IntheVillage: 1
    Uncle Bob: 1

    —–

    I will look at WORD COUNT next … but have to make lunch before Orioles @ Blue Jays in an hour.

    • Islander August 17, 2022 at 2:15 pm #

      Wow!
      Just wow!
      Evidence for the existence of a communicable disease spread by commenting at CFN.

      • Jarek August 17, 2022 at 3:11 pm #

        He’s the new Albert Speer or Pike.

    • Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 2:17 pm #

      I assumed that Dis is right (that there is no Word Count) function in Excel and thought that character count will be every bit as illustrative. Again these stats are for this thread and as of 11:15am Eastern:

      Q. Shtik: 12,875
      Jarek: 12,404
      JohnAZ: 12,090
      Rhett Dawson: 10,802
      Beryl of Oyl: 10,439
      malthuss: 9,974
      Sean Coleman: 9,266
      Rowdypiglet: 9,074
      Paula D: 9,032
      UN OUT OF USA: 8,510
      Soul Forensics: 7,771
      MaryQueen: 7,330
      Night Owl: 7,049
      Anthea: 6,573
      mitchellc: 5,880
      Walter B: 5,598
      cowbell81: 5,557
      BackRowHeckler: 5,369
      SoftStarLight: 5,307
      Disaffected: 5,242
      Edge Lord: 4,872
      elysianfield: 4,821
      GreenAlba: 3,846
      Redneck Liberal: 3,471
      Bob Polecat: 3,394
      justanotherguy: 3,392
      SW: 3,391
      Islander: 3,191
      kbird: 3,165
      Blackbird: 2,958
      MrMangoOnMyShoulder: 2,944
      Kornado: 2,461
      neurodoc: 1,951
      KesaAnna: 1,901
      Merkwurdiglieb: 1,688
      TPTB-USA: 1,673
      wwg1wga: 1,408
      tresho: 1,359
      JC Penny: 1,343
      Not_GeorgeT: 1,321
      thirdcoastlegend: 1,281
      Nigel Tufnel: 1,267
      Hereward the Woke: 1,141
      AmericanObserver: 1,125
      SpeedyBB: 970
      tom clark: 734
      PeteAtomic: 644
      stelmosfire: 636
      BillRI: 631
      EdD: 625
      U R IntheVillage: 601
      Armenio Pereira: 599
      Ed Haskell: 537
      Alzaebo: 507
      R Montanari: 487
      beantownbill.: 470
      Paul: 398
      cbeard: 393
      anmariwakaranai: 388
      Freddie: 316
      richsob: 283
      spaingaroo: 264
      farmgal: 255
      Frankenstein Government: 252
      Uncle Bob: 221
      Bill of Rights: 210
      Frank Buttitch: 208
      Lance Boyle: 181
      gustafson.robert.22: 162
      MontanaMan: 147
      Htruth: 129
      dplainview: 121
      AllenR: 111
      Lyndy33: 110
      Opie: 74
      redrock: 68
      John K: 57
      Mac: 25

      —–

      “Let’s go, Blue Jays!”

      • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 2:41 pm #

        What a thorough and inclusive list! Awesome job!

        • Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 3:26 pm #

          Thank you.

          • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 4:41 pm #

            Perhaps a couple of entries could be combined as either Rhett Polecat or Bob Dawson? It would change the order. 🙂

          • Bob Polecat August 17, 2022 at 6:46 pm #

            Good point, Ms Alba.

      • Jarek August 17, 2022 at 2:44 pm #

        It’s hard to believe that I’ve said that much (12,404) in this thread alone. Or did you want to rephrase that, laddy (what Scotty said to the Klingon before he clocked him)?

        • malthuss August 17, 2022 at 2:58 pm #

          he must be wrong. 9000 for me. wrong.

          Jarek: 12,404
          JohnAZ: 12,090
          Rhett Dawson: 10,802
          Beryl of Oyl: 10,439
          malthuss: 9,974
          0

          • Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 3:23 pm #

            Jar & malt – I will check my work later (after Orioles @ Blue Jays). I cannot imagine how your character counts could be inflated with how I handled the raw data but will investigate in approx. 3 hours …

        • Q. Shtik August 18, 2022 at 3:44 pm #

          (what Scotty said to the Klingon before he clocked him)? – Jar

          =============

          Who clocked who (or is it whom?)? Did Scotty clock the Klingon or did the Klingon clock Scotty?

      • Q. Shtik August 17, 2022 at 3:31 pm #

        and thought that character count will be every bit as illustrative. – Rhett

        ============

        Do me a favor, using the exact same methodology you used to come up with these character count numbers, please tell me the number of characters in just one single comment posted by MaryQueen at 2:08pm today.

        I want to see if it agrees with the numbers I get using MY methodology.

        • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 4:35 pm #

          OMG lol, ya’ll are funny

      • Islander August 17, 2022 at 4:20 pm #

        Only original material counts.

        Quoted material doesn’t count.

        Back to the drawing board!

        • Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 5:20 pm #

          No. The whole point is to measure how much everybody posts – both the number of posts and the total content. There is no need whatsoever in differentiating original verbiage versus quoted verbiage (beyond that of being a completely difficult asshole).

      • Paula D August 18, 2022 at 2:15 pm #

        Just on one post.
        No wonder the letter characters on my computer keys are mostly worn off.

    • Q. Shtik August 17, 2022 at 3:12 pm #

      Great job on the comment numbers and the character numbers below… even have them in descending order which tells me you used Excel in some way and were able to sort them.

      What about the extraneous mentions of someone’s screen name that are not comments in and of themselves. I just did a quick run-through on Jarek with data as of 2:45pm and found 24 that were mentions but not comments.

      Does your 24 Jarek comments reflect removal of mentions?

      • Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 3:20 pm #

        Hey Q.

        In Excel, I used the text string “Log in to Reply” trigger the counting of a new post. Therefore, mentions in a comment are not counted.

        Cheers!

        • Q. Shtik August 17, 2022 at 4:00 pm #

          In Excel, I used the text string “Log in to Reply” trigger – RD

          ===========

          Sorry, I’m not understanding this. Nowhere in my entire comments section do I see the words “Log in to Reply.”

          • Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 4:17 pm #

            I copied all text to a text file on my Mac.
            I was not logged into CFN on my Mac at the time which resulted in a nice, clean “Log in to Reply” immediately proceeding each new posting …

            Oooops! I now see my error!

            Replies only nest so deep. My methodology would have resulted in accumulating all characters in deeply nested posts to one poster rather than the multiple posters involved.

            I will take another stab at it after the ball game (0-0 halfway through the 5th),

          • Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 4:30 pm #

            After the ball game, I will trigger on:

            =IF(RIGHT(CellReference,3)=”m #”,NewCommentLogic,NotNewCommentLogic)

            Thanks!

    • Blackbird August 18, 2022 at 9:21 pm #

      I think the needle we are looking for in this haystack is connections, and spin-offs from those connections. I think word count would take us in the direction of spinning straw.

  95. MaryQueen August 17, 2022 at 2:08 pm #

    On the horizon: Childhood Alzheimer’s.

    https://downthechupacabrahole.com/2022/08/16/is-childhood-dementia-a-cover-story-for-vaccine-induced-brain-prions/

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    • mitchellc August 17, 2022 at 2:49 pm #

      Jarek, you and some others get it, but apparently cannot take the next logical step.

      Consider the draft horse; for what purpose were whites favored during surplus? Because they were capable. But they bring baggage as well, harboring resentment and possibly rebellion at the prospect of having their “rights” taken away.

      From an elites perspective, there may be some element of residual racial resentment, but ultimately it’s just a pragmatic, utilitarian decision: they don’t need Clydesdales any longer. Besides, what if horses had claws and the potential to attack?

      So, super easy decision. Where humanity is going, whether anyone likes it, is WMBH. WEF has their ideas, others who have a clue theirs.

      Astute, cunning, clever, realists – they know enough to keep their mouths shut, blend in, become the grey man, and prepare. Whether that means stand or flee is a matter of personal calculation

      But complaining, either online or much much worse in public, is just plain stupid. Pointing out political parties are a gang, or that whites are a target, that they are unfair/evil, simply elicits a ‘duh’ response from those who caught a clue long ago.

      • Lance Boyle August 17, 2022 at 3:15 pm #

        Did you get punched a lot as a young boy?

        • Disaffected August 17, 2022 at 10:12 pm #

          LOL! Best reply yet!

      • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 4:43 pm #

        So then answer GreenAlba’s original question. If everything is written in stone and the elites are gods who have already determined the fate of the universe then really what does any of what you say matter in the end and why are you here in an online forum speaking about this when your advice is to not say anything and just blend in and disappear so that you can keep “yours”? Obviously judging from your own statements you are not a realist. I think everyone here understands your points about the entrenched powers and the direction they would like to take things. It’s like there is an argument being created but none of us are actually arguing. No, we are in agreement. I more so think that you would like for us to join into one mind on things with no deviating tints or shades. You want us to be a hive mind which is interesting but not so sure it can be feasibly achieved within this setting.

        • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 5:29 pm #

          Maybe mitchellc sees his posts as his job application.

          If only he knew that the psychos managing the agenda will get even more pleasure from disappointing the ‘astute, cunning, clever’ quislings than from ruining the plebs who went on demonstrations.

          • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 6:40 pm #

            And if he’s from Langley, it still stands. Langley quislings are still just messenger boys. Everyone becomes a useless eater eventually, except *them*.

          • SoftStarLight August 18, 2022 at 12:07 am #

            Yeah, who knows, actually his comments have had a good deal of coherence at least in my view until recently. I am not sure what to make of it. He seems to have a very low opinion of people so I’m not clear as to why he is in a sense evangelizing for his views but then also saying that one should not evangelize and should simply enjoy what they have and theirs and so forth. If he does work for them then he isn’t simply speaking for them. He is actually whispering some of their secrets to the peasants. That’s likely very unacceptable to them so like I said I’m just not sure about any of it.

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 10:02 am #

            Yes.

            The more you give into the psychos, the more they will punish you.

            He doesn’t seem to get that in his efforts to suck up to the WEF.

      • MaryQueen August 17, 2022 at 6:06 pm #

        While all you do is complain online.

        Seriously, dude, read yourself.

  96. malthuss August 17, 2022 at 2:59 pm #

    theres so many ‘he said she replies here’, I cannot figure out who commenters are responding to. at least some times.

    • Jarek August 17, 2022 at 3:22 pm #

      When I am at the height of my powers like I am now, I can respond to every single post if I choose. They all feed my all encompassing flame.

      • Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 3:25 pm #

        Thus the character count, perhaps?

      • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 4:46 pm #

        Jarek is a Sun, and we orbit round about him 😉

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2022 at 6:07 pm #

          Please do not make me puke.

        • Disaffected August 17, 2022 at 10:11 pm #

          I think you’re just thinking of the many moons of uranus. Honest mistake.

          • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 11:55 pm #

            Don’t make my light hearted fun comment gross you nasty cruel glue trap using barbarian

          • Disaffected August 18, 2022 at 8:16 am #

            You forgot the period again. Glue traps for you!

          • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

            Punctuation would only tamp down her divine emotion here.

          • SoftStarLight August 18, 2022 at 2:31 pm #

            Oh, it was a little ole simple comment lol. I’m not really sure why Dis got under my skin with his little comment.

  97. Jarek August 17, 2022 at 3:20 pm #

    With the publication of “The Last White Man” to much acclaim in the media, is Q finally ready to admit that White Nationalists have been right about everything?

    • Q. Shtik August 17, 2022 at 4:15 pm #

      is Q finally ready to admit that White Nationalists have been right about everything? – Jar

      =============

      WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

      When have I ever affirmed or denied anything about White Nationalists being right or wrong about anything?

      • SoftStarLight August 17, 2022 at 4:49 pm #

        The solar rays engulfing you will peel back the layers of your protective atmosphere so that we may know the true contents of your core. Will iron be found or will it be quick sand?

      • Night Owl August 17, 2022 at 4:55 pm #

        Why is “white nationalists” capitalized?

        • malthuss August 17, 2022 at 5:53 pm #

          Why Not?

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2022 at 6:17 pm #

          I think he was quoting Jarek.

          • Night Owl August 18, 2022 at 5:22 am #

            I was quoting the Q man. I would think such a master of language would have caught the mistake, rather than repeat it.

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 10:01 am #

            Ah, yes. Got it. He makes more fumbles and mistakes below while critiquing Kesa’s posting style.

        • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 11:31 am #

          Because it’s a proper noun, or should be at least.

          Do you believe the “Fighting Irish” of Notre Dame has any meaning at this point? They’re all Black thugs. And when Ireland ceases to be Irish, with the natives thoroughly blended with the Congolese, will the term “Irish” still mean anything?

          About as much as an Italian restaurant bought by a Chinaman, serving fast Chinese food.

          Thus we get to the crux of it: Language must serve reality. Philosophy is deeper than grammar. The latter must bend to the former not vice versa. And let’s face it: You have issues with reality. You think Mary “is one of the good ones”. And you don’t believe Whites exist per se. That we aren’t any different than Turks, or perhaps any one at all.

          • Soul Forensics August 18, 2022 at 1:07 pm #

            I agree with Jarek on several fronts.

            Language used in comment streams are held to a different standard or different ‘rules’ than language used in an academic or generalized public essay. Here, norms can be challenged. It’s a revolutionary (I don’t used the word lightly) tactic and approach not taken nearly enough. Shakespeare created hundreds of (in his day) neologisms that have now become part of the common lexicon. He did this not just for aesthetic purposes (a good enough reason in itself) but to bring out deeper meanings not available with the stale, limited word choices available to that time.

            Dictionaries have become Woke, one reason I don’t use the non-word “Omicron”. I like the anagram “moronic”, but if the ‘original’ Woke term got any traction, people would still have to battle it out as to the correct choice — that’s how language works: from the ground up.

            And that brings us to the capitalization of “White” and other words that the Woke try to diminish by using lower-case. But it’s using lower-case only as a contrast to the upper-case “Black” that the Woke now mostly use to identify their ideological colleagues and ‘victimized’ pawns. I say go for it and knock yourself out. But then I just capitalize everything now. Most who grouse about capitalizing “White” don’t realize the new double standard, or, worse, don’t care about it or actively encourage it.

            How long before the upper-to-lower case use of White becomes an outright pejorative. I’m not talking about the ideological buzz words now used as common put-downs (“patriarchal”, “colonial”, etc), but about genuinely crude, belittling terms. I’m sure you can think of a few already that they’re ready to unleash.

          • SpeedyBB August 18, 2022 at 11:49 pm #

            SF: Let us not neglect to include the use of capitalization for irony.

            “There was no lack of disappointment and chagrin on the part of She Who Would Be Queen.”

            Capitalization of “black” (my family name, not lightly chosen) for a non-homogenous ethnic group whose shades range from tan to purple, and whose customs / lifestyle range from carjacking thug to Secretary of Defense, is simply silly.

            Wokedom is a Silly Season. See?

      • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 11:34 am #

        Thus my long feud with Q anent White Nationalism comes to an end. Senior doesn’t remember it anymore.

        • Q. Shtik August 18, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

          Thus my long feud with Q anent White Nationalism comes to an end. – Jarek

          ============

          To any newly arrived commenters, be advised that ‘anent’ means about. That word is kind of a signature for Jarek that he likes to pull out of his vocabulary hat every so often.

          As to some alleged feud over White Nationalism… I don’t know what he’s talking about.

          • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

            Go back, Q, go back. Back to when I first arrived here and our early conversations. You will See and then Know what you have forgotten.

          • Q. Shtik August 18, 2022 at 2:35 pm #

            Q, go back. Back to when I first arrived here – Jar

            ===========

            That was in the summer of 2008, 14 years ago. We both arrived about the same time. To my knowledge accessible archives don’t go back that far. I wish they did.

  98. MaryQueen August 17, 2022 at 6:04 pm #

    For shame, Scotland!

    Green Alba do you know about her?

    https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/edinburgh-fringe-comic-spat-shunned-27762754

    I think I posted an interview of her up here awhile back but I’m not sure. I was posting it lots of places.

    • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 6:32 pm #

      Yes, you posted a link to her before – I think it was a comedy gig but with some serious healthcare stuff in it.

      If I were 20 years younger and with no ties, I’d move, and I never thought I’d say that. Although, as Night Owl says, it’s not that easy – and where would you move to?

      Which, for some reason, made me think of Ireland and an upcoming talk in September that might interest you. Sean Coleman might be interested too.

      There’s an all-day event on 4 September called the Alternative View Conference. I’ve bought tickets to watch it online and/or for 3 or 4 weeks afterwards on demand.

      “Gemma O’Doherty: Ireland Has Fallen Into The Depths Of Tyranny Again After Its 800 Year Fight For Freedom
      Sunday 4th September 11.15am

      “The New World Order Has Captured Ireland. The Irish People Will Pay The Heaviest Price.

      “Few countries have fallen harder for globalism than Ireland, the most corrupt country in the West which only a few decades ago bore the title ‘Land Of Saints And Scholars’. But there is hope on the horizon.”

      Other speakers here: alternativeview.co.uk/

      • MaryQueen August 17, 2022 at 6:54 pm #

        OH thanks for the heads-up on the conference info, GA.That sounds amazing.

        As you know, I am heartbroken over Ireland’s fall. My grandparents came here in the last 1920s from there, so I’m only 2d gen American. And I always wanted to have dual citizenship. But I stopped working on it during covid when I saw the direction they were going.

        🙁

        • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 7:53 pm #

          I was going to try for an Irish passport at one time, after Brexit. My mother’s father was from Ulster – born in the 1880s – and you can get an Irish passport even if you have a grandparent from the North. However it turned out it was only if the grandparent had eventually taken Irish citizenship themselves, so it didn’t work out! Even with an Irish husband I can’t get an Irish passport without living there for a year. Not that I’d want to now anyway, obviously.

          Re the conference, I don’t know why I said ‘tickets’ – I only bought one. 🙂

      • Sean Coleman August 18, 2022 at 5:14 pm #

        Thanks GreenAlba, I will keep an eye out for it. I was listening to the Tim Truth Bitchute channel just now and he said that there is so much happening it is very hard to keep up with it. I sometimes find that when I step back and try to make sense of it all I not only have not made any progress but understand less than before.

        I am a big fan of Gemma O’Doherty, not something to admit to in polite society, but she has been shown to be likely right about a few things that I first thought were silly. I admire her courage. She was memorably shown back in 2020 being stopped by the police on the way to court with John Waters for their legal challenge to the ‘lockdown’. She would have drfiven through them if John Waters had not restrained her. There is another clip of her, some years ago, being harassed by Ch4 reporter Paraic O’Brien.

        While the extravert John Waters always retained fairly widespread popularity Gemma (introvert) cheerfully acknowledges that her own brand is the most toxic of anyone’s in the country.

  99. tom clark August 17, 2022 at 6:15 pm #

    Lotso OCD on this blog. I take meds. It helps.

    • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 6:34 pm #

      Take them while you can, Tom. The supply of conventional meds is going to dry up eventually. All part of the plan. Whatever ails you, it will be mRNA or nothing.

    • Bob Polecat August 17, 2022 at 6:42 pm #

      Psyche meds don’t help. They just make you think that they do.

      • Soul Forensics August 17, 2022 at 7:02 pm #

        True, BP.

        Meta-analyses show that a slight benefit may accrue, but only as a placebo. Straight-up placebo (sugar pill) is just as effective. And plenty of inter-studies within the meta which show no effect or a worse outcome on meds, quite apart from the direct (not side) effects short- and long-term.

        Big Pharma wants you to start SSRIs, and they want you hooked. They’re street corner drug dealers, but with Armani suits in a spacious office.

      • GreenAlba August 17, 2022 at 7:55 pm #

        I thought Tom was kidding.

    • MaryQueen August 17, 2022 at 6:55 pm #

      Meds are not the way to address a disorder of this sort. IMHO.

      • Redneck Liberal August 17, 2022 at 8:35 pm #

        Electro-shock therapy, perhaps?

    • Disaffected August 17, 2022 at 10:09 pm #

      Or you can just embrace the insanity. It’s better that way.

      • Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 10:30 pm #

        Doctor: How long have you suffered from insanity?
        Patient: Suffer? I rather enjoy it.

  100. Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 6:40 pm #

    Top 10 in Posts and Characters.
    This thread as of 6pm Eastern.

    Posts:
    MaryQueen: 54
    Jarek: 44
    JohnAZ: 39
    Night Owl: 37
    Rhett Dawson: 36
    SoftStarLight: 31
    Paula D: 30
    Q. Shtik: 30
    Disaffected: 29
    malthuss: 29

    Characters:
    Q. Shtik: 14,598
    JohnAZ: 14,152
    Anthea: 13,110
    Jarek: 12,761
    Rhett Dawson: 12,759
    Sean Coleman: 10,427
    Paula D: 9,071
    cowbell81: 8,133
    Soul Forensics: 7,919
    Night Owl: 7,892

    Of course, Q & I have our stats inflated on account of the published stats.

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    • Redneck Liberal August 17, 2022 at 8:34 pm #

      Does “characters” include spaces?

      • Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 8:45 pm #

        Yes. I am using Excel’s LEN() function which measures a line of text. It sums all the characters in that line, including the spaces and the punctuation marks.

      • Jarek August 17, 2022 at 11:58 pm #

        12,761? I haven’t typed that many characters since Monday. It must be recording the 0’s and 1’s of the binary code, the machine language.

    • Disaffected August 17, 2022 at 10:06 pm #

      Cool! I can see weekly rankings and holiday season Bowl games coming from this.

      Tune in to the Capital One Holiday Bowl, where it will be Jarek vs. Mary Q, in a hotly contested matchup of wits and sharp innuendos (no knives, please!). In the night cap it will be John AZ vs. the Q. Shtick (representing the Ruckers Scarlet Knights) in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl!

      • Rhett Dawson August 17, 2022 at 10:28 pm #

        Kesa Anna can come swooping in and take first place on Characters on any night that she so chooses.

        • KesaAnna August 17, 2022 at 11:06 pm #

          I’m no professional.

          I have to be inspired/ interested/ provoked ,

          Else I’m hard pressed to write three sentences.

          Some weeks I post nothing , or very little.

          I suspect that when I do write it often appears to be more than it actually is ,

          On account of my use of generous spacing .

          Not everyone has 20- year – old , 20 / 20 eyes .

          I reckon generous spacing makes anything easier to read.

          But it makes for very long articles even when the content is actually more like a single page , than 500 pages.

          I borrowed the idea from children’s books.

          I have borrowed , or tried to borrow , several ideas from children’s books.

          • Q. Shtik August 17, 2022 at 11:41 pm #

            This is a test:

            ” Infinite Jest “

          • Q. Shtik August 18, 2022 at 12:08 am #

            I reckon generous spacing makes anything easier to read. – Kesa

            ===========

            I disagree. I think adherence to the way we were taught to write from grades K thru 12 makes things easier to read. Your practice of putting a space both before and after commas screws up comprehension for me. Same thing goes for putting a space before and after the dash when hyphenating a word. Also, look at my comment below. Do you see what happens to quote marks when you use spaces. The quotes are supposed to “enclose” the words being quoted but the spaces cause them to be turned outward.

            I’m OK with separating whole sentences as you have done in your post at 11:06 pm above. I would also be OK with the use of larger font size but we are not able to do that on this board. If we want to emphasize a word we can type it in ALL CAPS or we can bold it or italicize it but not everyone knows how to do this.

          • Q. Shtik August 18, 2022 at 12:14 am #

            Also, look at my comment below above.

          • benr August 18, 2022 at 9:56 am #

            @KesaAnna

            Don’t change a thing it is easier to read.

            q lighten up just because you have moved beyond the ability to deal with anything out of what you consider the norm is your problem

            language evolved and devolved according to its uses change or rust

  101. tom clark August 17, 2022 at 11:18 pm #

    This blog has gotten really weird. Things are outta control. Jimbo, where are you?

    • Anthea August 18, 2022 at 12:27 am #

      You’re the one on psych meds. I’m surprised I didn’t realize that without being told.

    • Disaffected August 18, 2022 at 8:15 am #

      Weird is a state of mind. When the going gets weird, the weird go pro.

    • SoftStarLight August 18, 2022 at 11:47 am #

      I’ve been far too nice for far too long. Everything changes today

      • Disaffected August 18, 2022 at 3:42 pm #

        We’ve been warned! I assume this means you’re dropping your objections to glue traps and will be employing them as required from here on out?

  102. KesaAnna August 17, 2022 at 11:33 pm #

    ” Ireland Has Fallen Into The Depths Of Tyranny Again After Its 800 Year Fight For Freedom ”

    I got really , really , really, really suspicious when Republican propaganda NEVER seemed to get around to pointing out that if Ireland were united the Ulster Protestants would predictably be out – voted at every turn ,

    with predictable outcomes coming from that .

    If you are really on the level , why not at least mention that occasionally?

    So , actually , this is one case where I have always been on the Protestant side.

    My motto that of a George Wallace transposed to Ulster ;

    ” Segregation ( separation) forever ! ”

    Anyway , I never trusted the Republic on that account.

    • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 12:02 am #

      Sinn Fein, which means “For ourselves, ourselves alone.”

      Or as I have put it, We matter. They don’t.

      Who is they? Who do you have? Any of them. ALL of them!

      • KesaAnna August 18, 2022 at 1:14 am #

        I would say that , with albeit one exception, my loyalties or sympathies are decided on a case by case basis.

        Women were consistently 51 to 54% of the voting strength of the NSDAP.

        Without women , the NSDAP couldn’t have gotten a dog – catcher elected.

        If past world’s – made – by – hand are any clue , then in a future world – made – by – hand your sentiments or personal choices may have some significance in trips to the Red Light District ,

        But typically in matters of marriage , property , and inheritance , as vital as they ever were , meritocratic clap – trap not withstanding ,

        arranged marriage will be the order of the day.

        The good news is that LGBT and the pedo fixation will have scarce any relevance. ( except in the Red Light District. )

        The bad news is that about 90% of the shit talked by heterosexual moderns now will have scarce any relevance either. ( except mabye in the Red Light District again. )

        But most , whether of the left or the right , male or female , on a blog where presumably a world – made – by – hand is on the radar ,

        would rather indulge a pointless war between the sexes that leads nowhere , and an exaltation of personal sentiment bound to be archaic or even unintelligible in a hundred years.

        Syria is a coalition dictatorship , made up of Alawites , Yazidizi , Druze , and 2,000 year resident Marianite Christians who would almost certainly get a royal screwing if the majority Sunni ever got a democratic vote.

        But Americans consistently support Jews in an Israel that has seen a 75% exodus of Christians out of Palastine since the Jews took over.

        They will vote against dictatorship even if dictatorship protects their own minority from destruction,

        and will vote for a democracy of folks who hate your guts , a democracy that means dictatorship.

        Politics are ever opaque ,

        and those who make it out to be simple blacks and whites invariably have questionable motives.

        • GreenAlba August 18, 2022 at 6:50 am #

          Arranged marriages + trips to the red light district + no antibiotics.

          What could possibly go wrong?

        • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 11:39 am #

          As Rabbi Hillel said, If I am not for myself, who will be? The Jews always put themselves first. If you can’t do that, you and/or your group are on your way out. Nothing opaque about that. There are fierce debates as to strategy and tactics. But objective? No.

          In contrast, We can’t even decide if we want to survive, nay, if we even exist at all. They’re triumphed over us with their cognitive attack.

  103. KesaAnna August 18, 2022 at 12:09 am #

    BRING BACK THE BLACK AND TANS !

    Ulster Loyalist song

    Now you’ve heard about great armies who conquered far and near ,

    You’ve heard about the 36th ,

    the glorious Volunteers .

    But here’s a little history we’re trying to repeat ,

    It’s heard in every Loyalist town , in every Loyalist street ;

    Oh ,

    Bring back , bring back , bring back the Black and Tans !

    Bring back , bring back , bring back the Black and Tans!

    We’ll get the IRA on the run from Belfast to Strabane !

    With the U.D.A. , and the U.D.F. , and the boys with the Black and Tans !

    From the famous walls of Derry to Belfast City Hall ,

    From Antrim , Fermanagh , Tyrone and County Down ,

    and even in Armagh boys where the rebels might be strong ,

    If there’s only one big Loyalist left you’ll hear them sing this song ;

    Oh ,

    Bring back , bring back , bring back the Black and Tans !

    Bring back , bring back , bring back the Black and Tans!

    We’ll get the IRA on the run from Belfast to Strabane !

    With the U.D.A. , and the U.D.F. , and the boys with the Black and Tans !

    From the famous walls of Derry to Belfast City Hall ,

    From Antrim , Fermanagh , Tyrone and County Down,

    and even in Armagh boys where the rebels might be strong ,

    If there’s only one big Loyalist left you’ll hear them sing this song ;

    Oh ,

    Bring back , bring back , bring back the Black and Tans !

    Bring back , bring back , bring back the Black and Tans!

    We’ll get the IRA on the run from Belfast to Strabane,

    With the U.D.A. , and the U.D.F. , and the boys with the Black and Tans !

    • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 11:41 am #

      They were the scum of Liverpool and Manchester. The IRA killed many of them, thank God.

  104. Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 4:33 am #

    OK. Everyone. Be Honest.

    Is it a pure happenstance that Q and I are both men?

    That is, who here thinks that the pulling, analyzing, collating and publishing of the poster stats here on CFN was just as likely to be done by a woman as by a man?

    Also, to be fair, women make fantastic fruit pies, imho.

    • Night Owl August 18, 2022 at 5:29 am #

      I would suggest that if we are to take this point seriously, we would also deduce from it that women are more intelligent than men.

      • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 1:12 pm #

        First of all, NO, I never made a point. I simply asked a couple of questions.

        I suggest that it is your denying of the reality in the obvious answers that is a point that you are making in your own head and that you do not like the result. Much like “Normies” on other topics, right?

        Exactly like, in fact. We all know that.

        “[W]omen are more intelligent than men.” Hahahaha! Clearly.

        • Night Owl August 18, 2022 at 3:25 pm #

          The statement was part of a joke, Rhett.

          Let me assist further:

          The joke being that if what you said was true, then women must be pretty goddamn fucking smart to not waste days of their valuable lives microanalyzing character counts on a random Interwebz message board.

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 3:52 pm #

            Ha! Brilliant.

            I guess that I am at a disadvantage vis-a-vis “getting” your joke on account of I do not feel that the 15 minutes it now takes me to update CFN publish stats whenever I like is not wasting my valuable life. Instead, I rather enjoy pulling, collating and publishing data reports, feel that the mental exercise is good for my valuable life and note that my work has spawned much CFN discussion.

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 8:47 pm #

            Hahahahahahahaha!!!

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 6:34 pm #

        I wonder why he feels the need to always add:

        “We all know that” as a qualifier for things no one else probably agrees with.

        Bonkers.

        • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 8:06 pm #

          Ad hom ad naseum.

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 8:48 pm #

            Are you planning to throw up in a museum?

            The term is ‘ad nauseam’.

            You are welcome.

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 9:13 pm #

            Ya I am! Big ole welcome!

    • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 10:08 am #

      In half the time it took you to do useless tracking of comments (which then changes the second someone comments again), I built an entire website.

      • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

        I am confused, Mary.

        You built “an entire website” that tracks CFN posts (Post Count & Character Count) in real-time in less than half an hour (i.e. Apples v Apples)?

        Or you built “an entire website” that tracks absolutely nothing at all in real-time (i.e. Apples v Dog Shit)?

        If the former, please provide us with the URL so that I may validate my publish stats against yours.

        If the former, what method(s) are you using to trigger a comment count incrementation, character count recalculation, resort and updated page refresh?

        If the latter, does it have any pretty pictures of doggies?

        • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 2:23 pm #

          So you know nothing about building a website. LMAO.

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 3:39 pm #

            No. That sure was a weird bad assumption.

        • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 2:25 pm #

          Why would I build a site to do something useless?

          That would contradict all my UX training.

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 3:46 pm #

            It is not a matter of the usefulness of the published data statistical results, Mary. That is merely deflection and sour grapes.

            The fact of the matter is: you couldn’t because you are not capable, Mary, to pull, collate and publish these stats in any fashion whatsoever – whether that be “snapshot” data and deploying MS-Excel as I have done or via your red-herring real-time website bizarre false claims.

            We all know that.

            Typical woman logic:

            Don’t answer the original question
            Throw out a red-herring
            Have the red-herring proven invalid
            Baselessly ridicule the original questioner
            Claim victory

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 6:31 pm #

            No deflection at all, just an observation. I was able to do something constructive that serves a purpose in the same time you are making stats out of useless info.

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 7:40 pm #

            1) Again: Please provide the URL to the “entire website” that you built in less than half an hour. You are either completely full of shit or it ain’t much of an “entire website” or both. We all know that, Little Missy.

            2) Why are you throwing this red-herring into my question regarding the percentage of women capable of accomplishing the data analysis that Q and I have performed?

            3) Back to the original, completely ignored question: Be Honest: Most men are not capable of pulling, collating and publishing these stats while anyone who does accomplish it is almost undoubtedly a man (i.e. virtually ZERO women are capable of pulling, collating & publishing these stats), That is the original question while you keep bizarrely tossing us your putrid red-herring salad, Little Missy,

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 8:49 pm #

            Oh I don’t have to provide anything.

            I am satisfied in my knowledge that I did it.

            You can go on raging, knock yourself out.

    • SoftStarLight August 18, 2022 at 11:45 am #

      Why don’t you shove the fruit pie up your arse lol

      • Q. Shtik August 18, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

        shove the fruit pie up your arse lol – SSL

        ==========

        You wanted to come on tough but you spoiled it, first by saying arse rather than ass and then, even worse, ending with “lol.” When you’re telling someone off you can’t soften up your message with an lol.

        • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 1:53 pm #

          Perhaps we’d all be better off if SSL got her cute little behind back in the kitchen where it belongs.

          I don’t know. Just sayin’.

          • SoftStarLight August 18, 2022 at 2:21 pm #

            You must be hungry Jack LOL

            It actually sounds like you need a more well rounded diet tbh.

        • SoftStarLight August 18, 2022 at 2:15 pm #

          I guess my big plan to be tough today fell through huh Q. You just know everything don’t you

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 8:12 pm #

        This is a question I can get behind.

        No pun intended.

      • benr August 19, 2022 at 8:54 am #

        What a waste of a fruit pie.
        But in this insane weird world I am sure someone somewhere has tried it.

        It could be the next tidepod challenge!
        Or the next tablespoon of cinnamon challenge!

        Shove a fruit pie right up that keester!

    • Islander August 18, 2022 at 11:27 pm #

      Happenstance or not, it is irrelevant because you and Q are not the first individuals to do this.

      But you are the first to invest so much time and ego on this pointless activity and to take so much pride in the incredible intellectual achievement.

      Congratulatoins!

      And congratulations to me, for not being a male with much too much time on his hands.

      • Q. Shtik August 19, 2022 at 12:40 am #

        this pointless activity – Islander

        ==========

        There is a point to this activity (at least for me) which I have not yet explained, and may or may not explain in the future.

        • benr August 19, 2022 at 8:51 am #

          You got nothing better to do and you’re weird.

          We all understand.

          How about adding up the collective spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors?
          That sounds like a glorious and tedious exercise into nothing worth anything.

  105. Night Owl August 18, 2022 at 5:19 am #

    German “health minister” Lauterbach speaks of the 7th and 8th “booster shots.”

    https://twitter.com/impfstofffrei/status/1560134369620230145

    Hahahahahaha. Just one more shot, kiddies.

    Oh, man.

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    • GreenAlba August 18, 2022 at 6:42 am #

      The new shots just being ‘approved’ are doubleplusgood. Literally. You get more than one kind of spike protein, to deal with different versions of the lurgi. And you get a flu shot along with it. Yum.

      • GreenAlba August 18, 2022 at 6:43 am #

        Paxlovid or molnupiravier for dessert, once you’ve got one of those ‘breakthrough’ infections.

        • GreenAlba August 18, 2022 at 6:46 am #

          *molnupiravir*

  106. gustafson.robert.22 August 18, 2022 at 9:33 am #

    Israeli medical person (high up, I guess) canceled on twitter (oh no) for saying monkey pox outbreaks caused by covid-vax immune-weakening.

    kanekoa.substack.com /p/twitter-censors-pfizer-injured-israeli?r=6a3x3&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct

  107. benr August 18, 2022 at 10:07 am #

    Why is it the gubberment uses propaganda even in the naming of its ridiculous porkulus bills?
    msn.com/en-us/news/politics/msnbc-abc-cnn-realize-inflation-reduction-act-doesn-t-reduce-inflation-after-bill-is-passed-marketing/ar-AA10MVfH?ocid=msnews

    We all know this is nothing but sleight of hand into everyone wallets for ever more theft of peoples hard earned money.
    A pox upon everyone who signed this bill and voted yes on it.

    I am reading they have also finally made good on federalizing peoples 401k’s this has not worked anywhere it has been tried.

    They simply rejiggered the failed green new deal and packaged it up again under another name.

    My loathing for this reckless, feckless, corrupt regime continues to grow the ghastly ghoul of grifting doubles down.

    Your comment is awaiting moderation.

    Oh yeah well there are ways around your stupid freedom of speech infringement!
    I think it’s time for another platform for hosting blogs.

    • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2022 at 10:36 am #

      They have a trillion dollars to play with now; prepare to be up to your eyeballs in ‘Climate Commissars’ on every level of govt regulating everything we do, what we drive, what we eat, how warm or cool we keep our house — all the while driving around in $135,000 luxury EVs and and commanding a brutal police agency to enforce their Climate diktats.

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 11:16 am #

        That’s the plan, alright.

        Will we just roll over and allow it to happen?

        My neighbors have already said they’re fine with eating crickets for the good of the planet.

        Utter insanity.

  108. benr August 18, 2022 at 10:12 am #

    SAY WHAT?
    According to everything I have been reading Monkeypox is an STD.

    msn.com/en-us/news/us/first-known-case-of-human-to-animal-monkeypox-transmission-reported/ar-AA10NKD4?ocid=msnews

    That begs the question what are these people doing to their dog?
    Never mind I don’t want to know the idea infuriates me.

    Go MSM push that narrative distraction, lies and propaganda.
    Quietly print a retraction on page 48 in 1 point type!

  109. BackRowHeckler August 18, 2022 at 10:15 am #

    Make no mistake about it, Folks, Climate Change Cranks are fully in charge, and on their march to “Net 0 by 2030”, the main ‘Carbon Entity’ elitists will find it necessary to eliminate is me & you. They want their World squeaky clean as they see it, and that means seeing us gone. Some people seem to think that dismantling the power grid, banning ICE vehicles, or introducing insects into the diet will be the end of it. I’m here to tell you it’s just the beginning. What do you think the ceaseless anti white rhetoric is all about? Not for nothing is Whitey cast as the devil in movies, TV commercials, in academia and in popular culture. No, that’s simply to soften us up before they bring down the hammer, begin the Climate Crackdowns, and open the Camps.

    • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 11:15 am #

      Great minds – see the article by Jordan Peterson I just posted below your comment. 🙂

      • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 1:33 pm #

        “Great minds …”

        Go on …

        • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 2:26 pm #

          It’s a saying: “Great minds think alike.” Or one could perhaps say “Jinx”.

          Sad I have to explain this to any grownup but there you have it.

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 3:38 pm #

            D’uh!

            My point was that you obviously do not possess a great mind, Mary, and that you should not be using that well-known expression when referring to yourself.

            Whooooosh!

            Now go to your room, Little Missy, and think about your ill-founded belief in your perceived intelligence.

            —–

            “Most stupid people know that they are stupid are are, therefore, mainly harmless.

            Some stupid people fancy themselves smart. Those ones are dangerous.”

            – Rhett Dawson

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 3:38 pm #

            There ya have it.

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 8:13 pm #

            All I know is you have a garbage mind, destroyed by booze, and you live life trying to win the Oppression Olympics along with the trannies.

            Kinda pathetic there, “Rhett”.

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 8:24 pm #

            Whoosh!

            Dumber than half a sack of hammers.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 11:19 am #

      They’ll get there, I believe you are correct.

      If they have to force this, it will not be pretty along the way though, when push comes to shove, for either side.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 11:28 am #

      But at the end, they’ll probably get their Georgia Guidestones. Or they’ll end up on display on the way into town. Not sure we’re really capable of the latter anymore. Most don’t care either way.

      Speaking of…Kind of wondering if that being blown up and removed was a sign to certain folks to implement and move forward? Or maybe it was just some guy who thought it would be funny. Conflicting stories on whether anyone was arrested for it make it notably suspect.

    • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 11:46 am #

      So they don’t hate Whites, it’s just about climate change? Google the Kalergi Plan to genocide Whites. It’s a century old now.

      You accepted all of it and fought for an anti-White regime. So they naturally believe you’ll accept anything. Why wouldn’t they?

      In terms of issues, nothing is more fundamental than race after all. There are no nations without it. And without any nations, the Globalists win. Too simple (profound) for most to understand.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

        Every time I google the Kalergi plan (and I have several times), the debunk is just as believable as the veracity. As a “sensible pessimist”, I presume it’s likely to be real, but the official narrative does not show an ironclad chain of custody to provide proof. Perhaps you have one, I don’t know (?).

        It’s like whether or not Albert Pike actually wrote what he’s credited as writing regarding freemasonry and the planned world wars, or whether or not the Protocols Of The Elders of Zion was a real document in government library, or was “planted there” at some point to skew opinion.

    • Woodchuck August 18, 2022 at 12:04 pm #

      That’s not going to work. According to sunspot counts, and according to solar physics we are entering a grand solar minimum. These happen every 200 years or so, the last one was the Dalton Minimum. A much colder one happened a few centuries before the Dalton, and that’s the Maunder Minimum. Grand solar minimums have been accompanied by famine in the past, due to the temporary and possibly extreme climate shifts that happen. The jet stream changes, it gets noticably colder, and farmers experience crop failures. This winter is forecast to be a bad one, possibly bad enough so that global warming malarky may not fly too well.

      Anyone interested in current science news about this topic use a search engine to find a site called electroverse.co/ You’ll find links to information as well as up to date climate news coming from relatively reliable sources like NASA or NOAH. The last solar minimum created problems with horse powered transport, there was no extra food available for the horses. So one fellow was motivated to invent the first bicycle. Ironically it will very likely be back to bicycles again after we’re in the bad part of a grand minimum. Earthquakes and volcanic activity noticeably increases during solar minimums. This is due to slight changes in pressure on the planet being brought about by changes in solar radiation output. Volcanic activity can worsen cold temperatures by blocking sunlight via dust in the stratosphere.

      • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2022 at 1:55 pm #

        Yes a bad winter is predicted for here in New England but that too is a symptom of the Climate Crisis.

        • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 3:32 pm #

          Up here on the Canadian Prairies, not only does the climate change each day, it is changing constantly throughout each day!

  110. MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 11:14 am #

    I suppose now Jordan Peterson is a kwazy konspiracy theorist. Nails it in this article:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/15/peddlers-environmental-doom-have-shown-true-totalitarian-colours/

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      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 11:45 am #

        Thanks for the link, Mary. I know a woman that works for Deloitte. PhD, psych. For some reason works in “hiring strategies”. Great gal, wife of an old friend. Deloitte is impenetrable no matter how many lawsuits are leveled against them, and she just keeps being offered more and more money each year for continuing to toe the company line. Good for her. Quite the impressive model they have set up.

        Annoying mindset to those of us who work for ourselves and have to generate our own income from our own clients. Well, at least it is to me. Perhaps I could have become a corporate stooge if I’d made different moves in my twenties. But alas, probably too late to make that shift now at 45.

        That said, I could theoretically grow my business to that level, if I just applied myself enough. Lol. But I doubt I’ll ever be in the club with the right people (with all the money in the world for very little discernible reason) to make that happen.

        But screw Deloitte lol.

        • Soul Forensics August 18, 2022 at 1:46 pm #

          Jordan Peterson is a hero and pioneer fighting the Woke agenda. Where he goes off the rails is typified in an essay he writes, linked above.

          Peterson — with very few limits, certainly no practical means with which to implement them — is a free-market cheerleader. Leave it up to the entrepreneurs and all will work itself out in the realm of competition and incentive. That’s ideologically laudatory, but functionally unworkable and psychologically naive, the latter particularly surprising in someone who aces the psychological make-up of the Woke.

          Peterson never mentions Peak Oil, but it’s easy to read between the lines (in many of his other essays) to discover that he’s pro-growth and that human ingenuity will somehow magically solve all financial/energy problems if the free market is allowed to operate without check.

          In the linked essay he boasts about India advancing their standard of living, but fails to consider the link between prosperity and population increase. He hates modeling systems, yet tells us (elsewhere) that humans can increase to beyond the bloated projected world numbers by mid-century without it being a problem (re energy availability).

          His vision is seductive and financially and energetically dangerous.

          I’d like to critique his scientific epistemology, but this is already too long.

          • Soul Forensics August 18, 2022 at 1:57 pm #

            Some would argue that the poorer countries have the most offspring, and that as prosperity increases, couples stop or curtail having kids. Sure, but babies and the young die at an alarming rate in third-world countries, and the biggest cause of population growth is the growth ideology itself, the last century in the form of the Green Revolution, brought about, of course, by fossil fuel discovery, production, and use.

            In any case, it’s all about to change. The WEF and their political lackeys in power want depop, and it sure looks like they’re gonna get it.

          • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 2:43 pm #

            Disagree. Most cultures have as many as possible. The kids are the insurance policy for their parents old age, not an ideology. In any case, traditionally most didn’t make it to adulthood. That has changed because of public medicine, but the poor don’t feel the change so they keep having huge families unless and until they become at least lower middle class.

            I’ve heard the old Tibetans practiced birth control and didn’t keep their women “pregnant and sick” as in India. Maybe, not sure. Perhaps the barrenness of the land lead to this tradition?

          • Soul Forensics August 18, 2022 at 3:14 pm #

            Don’t know why you’d disagree. I agree with everything you just said in your 1st paragraph. The ideology is from the rich, Western “growth is good” philosophy, which the former second- or third-world countries also adopt (India, Brazil, China).

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 11:32 am #

      You know, I’ve never heard Peterson say one thing that I find controversial. Not one. Always wondered why he’s cornered so hard for literally stating obvious reality, and mostly from a scientific perspective.

      This is why people don’t want to speak out in real life (like myself, and many others here), because they can’t afford to lose their career or reputation or both…yet. But I’m glad there are some folks that are comfortable enough to take the risk and get some reward for their efforts. Selling books would be neat. No one cares about your book unless they know who you are…perhaps he’s onto something.

      • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 11:49 am #

        He became a Christian awhile back, but recently caved on Gay marriage. He’s still too much of the world.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 12:00 pm #

          I guess it just comes down to perspective.

          For example, I personally don’t give a rat’s ass if two dudes or two ladies want to marry. Have fun, get your action however works best for ya, take care of yourselves and your community and be happy.

          That said, I do care about the general structure of society, and that pairing doesn’t perpetuate humanity, so from the other side of the coin, perhaps that means I’m contributing to the dismantling of what I consider to be society. And maybe they’re not happy.

          What I don’t do is go out of my way to celebrate it, unless it’s one-on-one with someone I know and have a vested interest in their happiness.

          But hey – as Denis Leary once said, “Happiness comes in small doses, folks. It’s a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt, you eat the cookie, you go to sleep, wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, That’s it. End of fucking list.”

          Sigh.

          Tough out there, unless you just stick you foot in the dirt and say, “Get off my lawn!”

          Which…is something we are perhaps lacking these days. Where’s Abe Simpson these days?

          • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 12:13 pm #

            If they can “marry”, then that’s tantamount to society condoning and celebrating their “union”. And OF COURSE that means they get to adopt kids.

            You still have far to go in your journey to the Light. You tried to get away from Mary, but she called you back and you meekly went back.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 12:20 pm #

            Ha.

            For a guy that seems to read every word I write, you sure don’t seem to listen to what those words say.

            There are plenty of “black and whites” in the world. But I think most is gray. That’s the difference between our worldviews.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 12:21 pm #

            twitter.com/carp68/status/1014877050275094529/photo/1

          • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

            So if they can marry,
            They can adopt.
            Are you in favor of that?

            If so, you aren’t traditional at all. If you think you are, it’s just self image, an affectation like fags who grow big beards.

          • Q. Shtik August 18, 2022 at 2:21 pm #

            an affectation like fags who grow big beards. – Jarek

            ===========

            Hahaha, this is a new one. Now Jar is against fags (male homosexuals) growing big beards.

          • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 2:49 pm #

            Q is fine with them adopting, apparently. Else why would he focus on the extraneous?

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 6:02 pm #

            I’m fine with them adopting, Janos.

            They are people. Most of them want to just live and be good, like everyone else. They just like dicks. They are not criminals. I will fight tooth and nail against the creatures doing drag queen story hours for toddlers though. They should know better, because they are not looking out for the betterment of society…just personal justification of their lifestyles. Screw them. I’m sorry you are different. But don’t foist it on my kid who doesn’t know, or need to know, anything about anything yet.

            Most just want to do well, nothing different than us “normies”…and there are plenty of shitty normies. Read the paper. I mean holee shit.

            I am against celebrating it, and I feel for the kids being brought up in that environment if the parents instill their values as being “the norm”, and if it’s presented as something special to be emulated…but it is their reality. And we do the same. If they want to be part of society and contribute, fine.

            Much like I am for bacon cheeseburgers, whiskey, onion rings and milkshakes, but against celebrating them as the norm.

            Deal with that.

            Gray areas, sir.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 6:12 pm #

            Janos, perhaps you don’t know anyone who is gay? Or that is smart enough for your acceptance as finding their way to participate in the world, as they do represent a small fraction of the world in every time period since before the Great Flood.

            Again, I’m not at all in favor of pretending this should be preached as a “norm”…but it has been a small percentage of the norm since the beginning of time.

            That;s why I married a woman and teach my son about boys and girls and mommies and daddies. But soon enough he’ll learn there’s a kid named Matt or Keith that acts “different”. Just like we all did when we were in adolescence. If they contribute, I wish them well…do you not?

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 6:42 pm #

            Now, proceed to tell me how I’ve given up my manhood to the Feminists for being reasonable.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 12:12 pm #

          “It’ll be a cold day in hell before I recognize Missourah.”

          – Abe Simpson

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 6:25 pm #

            LOL!

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 8:15 pm #

        I don’t agree with Peterson all the time, but to dismiss him outright is a bad oversight. I have really enjoyed a lot of his interviews. And he continues to grow and evolve, and I do highly respect that in any person.

    • SoftStarLight August 18, 2022 at 11:44 am #

      Jordan Peterson is stupid

      • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 11:50 am #

        How so?

        • SoftStarLight August 18, 2022 at 2:12 pm #

          Because i say so lol 🙂

          • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 2:35 pm #

            I heard the Emperor (Anthea) and Darth Vader (Mary) talking about whether you could be turned to the Dark Side.

            Don’t trust your feelings, but only your intellect.

          • SoftStarLight August 18, 2022 at 3:00 pm #

            Yes, Sir.

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 3:30 pm #

            SSL is a good woman. A very good woman.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 12:01 pm #

        Yes, I too wonder how so.

        • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 1:20 pm #

          Jordan Peterson is obviously not stupid. This is a Grade-3 assessment of him. Much like calling him “a poopy-head.”

          • SoftStarLight August 18, 2022 at 2:13 pm #

            You’re a big poopy head too 😛

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 2:23 pm #

            Ha! Well-played.

  111. Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 1:18 pm #

    Morning CFN Publish Stats Update:

    Posts
    MaryQueen: 67
    Jarek: 56
    Rhett Dawson: 42
    Night Owl: 41
    JohnAZ: 39
    Disaffected: 36
    SoftStarLight: 36
    Q. Shtik: 33
    GreenAlba: 32
    MrMangoOnMyShoulder: 30
    Paula D: 30
    malthuss: 29
    Redneck Liberal: 27
    Anthea: 26
    Soul Forensics: 24

    Characters
    Q. Shtik: 15,585
    Jarek: 15,471
    Anthea: 15,288
    JohnAZ: 14,181
    Rhett Dawson: 14,003
    GreenAlba: 11,414
    Sean Coleman: 10,438
    MaryQueen: 9,258
    Paula D: 9,089
    Soul Forensics: 8,583
    Night Owl: 8,357
    cowbell81: 8,143
    SoftStarLight: 7,829
    MrMangoOnMyShoulder: 7,569
    UN OUT OF USA: 7,469

    • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 1:48 pm #

      Note: Lamely criticizing the fact that these CFN publish stats are “snapshot” as opposed to real-time (and are, therefore, only 99.x% accurate compared to RIGHT NOW) is akin to arguing that newspapers should not publish the MLB standings each day.

      • Q. Shtik August 18, 2022 at 2:56 pm #

        Very good point.

    • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 1:56 pm #

      Define character – if you dare!

      • Soul Forensics August 18, 2022 at 2:00 pm #

        The ironical counterpart — care actor.

      • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 2:22 pm #

        I am using MS-Excel’s =LEN() function. It counts every key stroke as a ‘character.’ Letters, numerals, spaces, punctuation. The works.

        For example:

        Define character – if you dare!

        Counts as 1 comment and 31 characters.

        • Jarek August 18, 2022 at 2:38 pm #

          Ok, thanks. You kept saying Leno and I though Jay Leno and that it must be a joke. But I counted and see the number.

          It’s still hard to believe I have wracked up so many characters. The count is from Monday morning, right?

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 3:03 pm #

            Yes, it is from Monday morning … but you have me now questioning something in my methodology. I am going to re-examine it right now.

            FYI – It was common in my career that new data-pulling, -collating & -publishing systems have “bugs” until the product is made bullet-proof.

            I will update soon …

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 3:15 pm #

            “I thought hat I was wrong once … but I was mistaken.”

            My methodology has been confirmed. These stats are accurate.

            —–

            The characters add up quickly. e.g.:

            If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,

            is 500 characters.

            Nicolás Gómez Dávila (18 May 1913 – 17 May 1994) was a Colombian writer and thinker who is considered one of the most intransigent political theoreticians of the twentieth century. His fame began to spread only in the last few years before his death, particularly by way of German translations of his works. Gómez Dávila was one of the most radical critics of modernity whose work consists almost entirely of aphorisms which he called “escolios” (that is, “glosses” or “annotations”).

            is 503 characters.

        • Q. Shtik August 18, 2022 at 3:17 pm #

          Define character – if you dare!

          Counts as 1 comment and 31 characters. Rhett

          =============

          Something weird is going on. You get 31 characters, Jar, using his eyeballs, gets 31 characters and I, by my own count, also get 31 characters.

          But but but, if I copy and paste the sentence into Open Office Writer (OOW) and then get a word and character count (under Tools) it tells me there are 32 characters.

          I noticed this last night when I ran a couple of tests. Each one was off by one or two characters.

          Do me a favor. Use MS Word or whatever Word-type software you have and see what character count it comes up with for the sentence in question.

          • Q. Shtik August 18, 2022 at 3:23 pm #

            Is it possible the dash (-) between character and if is actually two dashes that appear as one.

            I’m going to test that theory right hear: character — if

          • Q. Shtik August 18, 2022 at 3:25 pm #

            Ah ha! I’m right. Two typed dashes comes out looking like one long dash.

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 3:26 pm #

            Hey Q.

            I just tested using MS-Word 2003 on my old (ancient) Windows XP PC. It reports 31 characters (with spaces) and 26 characters (without spaces).

            My Guess is that perhaps your OWW is counting hard-returns as characters. To test that theory, you could quickly pad your tester with some hard-returns and see if it starts reporting 33, 34, 35, etc. with each addition.

            Cheers!

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 3:27 pm #

            Well done!

          • Disaffected August 18, 2022 at 3:34 pm #

            The Q Man is a natural data monkey! All due to that Ruckers education, no doubt.

          • Q. Shtik August 18, 2022 at 5:22 pm #

            pad your tester with some hard-returns – Rhett

            ==========

            No, hard returns (i.e. pressing the Enter key) did not increase the character count however “soft returns” (Shift + Enter) did add to the character count. This fact still does not account for me getting a 32 character count when I copy and paste the sentence from the blog into OOW.

            Therefore the 32 character count is still a mystery.

            Note: I never knew there was such a thing as a “soft return” until I ran into the term when googling a definition of hard return.

    • malthuss August 18, 2022 at 3:11 pm #

      since monday I guess.

      • malthuss August 18, 2022 at 3:12 pm #

        is the list ALL posters of this week?

        • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 3:18 pm #

          No. ALL posters and ALL comments were used to make the complete lists but, for the sake of CFN scollers, only the Top 15 of each category (Posts & Characters) has been published above.

  112. malthuss August 18, 2022 at 3:10 pm #

    Soul Forensics,

    I [in 1990s?] went to a Tony Parsons talk.
    Perhaps 10-20 people were there.
    I recall him mentioning cult leader Fred Lenz had been his guide – teacher.

    • Soul Forensics August 18, 2022 at 3:52 pm #

      Thanks, malth. I’m not too familiar with Lenz. Will look him up.

      • malthuss August 18, 2022 at 8:26 pm #

        aka RAMA, Atmananda, had a best selling book. killed himself.
        rich.

        • Soul Forensics August 18, 2022 at 10:25 pm #

          Yes! Now I remember his story. Pretty boy who used to advertise in the Yoga Journal about “gaining the Zen edge”. Anyone with a shit detector sussed him out pretty early.

  113. Disaffected August 18, 2022 at 3:38 pm #

    Well here we go. Looks like the Joe Biden has infected the Elkhorn River in NE with his rare brain eating amoeba. He’s long been known for wandering off during campaign stops and getting into seemingly harmless mischief, but now a poor NE youngster is paying the price.

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/18/us/nebraska-brain-eating-amoeba-death/index.html

  114. tom clark August 18, 2022 at 3:56 pm #

    As you wander on thru life
    Whatever be your goal
    Keep your eye upon the doughnut
    And not upon the hole.

    And never forget…Infinite growth can’t go on forever in a finite world.

    • Disaffected August 18, 2022 at 4:11 pm #

      What if you don’t eat doughnuts anymore? Does the same go for bagels? I’ve noticed that many of the bagels (and doughnuts too, for that matter) these days don’t really have a hole in the middle either. What do you do then? Return them and demand a hole so you can avoid focusing on it? It’s all in the fine details, tc.

      And don’t get me started about wandering off into the Elkhorn River and getting the Joe Biden’s brain eating amoeba. I guess then you won’t be focusing on anything at all.

      • beantownbill. August 18, 2022 at 4:37 pm #

        Dis, I’m starting a bagel-hole business. I can ship out 500,000 to you. You have to pay the shipping costs, but that shouldn’t be much considering each hole has no weight.

        • Disaffected August 18, 2022 at 5:39 pm #

          So you’ve been hoarding all the damn things! I might have known, Bill.

      • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2022 at 4:54 pm #

        I had my first donut in awhile a few days ago, driving down to the Sound and just had a hankering for a donut. Pulled over at a Dunkin Donuts — even in the little town it was pretty busy. Ordered a coffee and a few chocolate frosted donuts — I can’t describe how good the donuts were.

        • Disaffected August 18, 2022 at 5:48 pm #

          Cake donuts, I’ll bet. I must admit, I could probably eat a dozen if they were put in front of me. That’s why I never let that happen. I do admit to liking a bagel now and then, though. My weakness/avoidance is the green chile cheese bagels they sell here locally. Can’t get near them for fear of a binge coming on. My green eyed chile monster comes out.

          Speaking of which, has anyone noticed that Disney’s coming out with She Hulk: Attorney at Law? She’s green, she’s large, and she’ll sue your ass into submission! Rumor has it, she single-handedly intimidated Deshaun Watson into settling with the NFL.

          • benr August 19, 2022 at 8:24 am #

            @dis

            Yeah!
            Heat that up hot cheese mellow jalapeno burn!
            Throw a fried egg and bacon on that with a shot of butter with the bagel toasted!
            Food glorious Food!

        • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 8:45 pm #

          I’ve never been a donut person. I guess I should feel lucky about that. They just don’t do it for me. Sweets-wise, give me carrot cake with cream-cheese frosting. Now, that I would walk a mile for.

          OR dark chocolate with almonds.

          • Disaffected August 19, 2022 at 8:45 am #

            Love me some carrot cake too!

          • benr August 19, 2022 at 8:47 am #

            Or a cake with whip cream frosting instead and pudding in the middle.

    • Paula D August 18, 2022 at 8:09 pm #

      I get the feeling you’re trying to get into the Top Ten, TC.
      Usually you post drive-by snark, but now you post a poem?
      Still not enough to catch up with the champs.

  115. MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 6:24 pm #

    I found out where Jarek gets his ‘debating’ style!

    Cenk Uygur. You may have been separated at birth, it’s so uncanny.

    https://youtu.be/GZ-LamG4FmY

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    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 6:52 pm #

      Chunk Yogurt. A real piece of something.

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 7:26 pm #

        Years ago, I used to watch TYT, for like 5 minutes. To see stuff now (I saw this because it was on someone’s Twitter timeline) is surreal. Ana Kasperian also does this bloviating & bullying business, which are more akin to temper tantrums.

        The way they twist everything the interviewee says is so Jarek.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 8:02 pm #

          I see what you mean. Chunk’s team is very pointed. And I generally don’t agree with them.

          I agree with Jarek on a lot, he wants things to stay “the way they were” or “could be”, and I can’t disagree there, but there are some clear lines of delineation where we shift to a different playing field.

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 8:16 pm #

            Jarek could study Cenk’s tactics to be even better at the twisting. He could be the CFN pro if he puts a little bit more effort into it!

  116. MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 6:49 pm #

    What if JHK were to schedule a CFN Commenter get-together in a public park somewhere out east. People can fly in or drive in as they are able. We’ll grill some burgers, brats, and I suppose some veggie burgers and asparagus or something (for posterity, and those that prefer that option).

    We show up. Name tags with fake names. No IDs presented. No hotel locations disclosed (must be staying at least 25 miles from said cook-out), and then do a post-event roundup here the next week of who we think was who. It work work if people stuck to the rules (except the host of course, whom we already know).

    Which would never really happen as planned, nor would I suspect it would actually be planned at all.

    But…hey, why not try. Life is long, but it is also short.

    Ten bucks a few publishing deals would come to fruition.

    • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 8:17 pm #

      Everyone would know who everyone else was right away. I am guessing it would take me a matter of seconds.

      • Bob Polecat August 18, 2022 at 9:02 pm #

        Of course.

    • Redneck Liberal August 18, 2022 at 9:12 pm #

      Best have it in DC. Then you could all March on the Capitol. What a scary ‘army’, especially if neurodoc shows, what with his awesome armoury and all…

      • SoftStarLight August 19, 2022 at 12:37 am #

        Lol omg you are such a dork. What are you? High? I’m not going anywhere near that police state. I would say Santa Catarina with the Confederados would be perfect, especially for you lol

        • Q. Shtik August 19, 2022 at 12:52 am #

          Your comment both begins and ends with lol. Seriously, you need to limit the use of lol, AND the emojis. They weaken every thing you have to say.

          • SoftStarLight August 19, 2022 at 2:12 am #

            Ok ok, gosh this is hard. I feel like I’m having to get into a box. Or a bottle. Some times are more lol times than others Q and its easier to follow the rhythm than to be perfectly grammatical or forsake emojis. And anway, you know perfectly well that if I had a serious, lol-less retort to RL he would still not take it seriously. But I hate to think that my lingo and emoticons would cause someone to not even consider my comment. They should be able to get it though. But I know what you’re saying. I have to speak to the audience in a way in which they will understand in their particular space and all.

          • benr August 19, 2022 at 8:14 am #

            @SSL

            iGnore The killjoY poSt What anD How yOU waNT

    • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2022 at 10:27 pm #

      The FBI, ATF, & Homeland Security would be there to round up the bunch of us. It would be like the famous mob meeting in upstate NY in 1957 — top mobsters from across the US met at a farmhouse when FBI agents and NY SP raided it; mobsters were jumping out windows and running thru the woods to get away. Some got away. Big Paul Castellano & Crime Boss Joe Bonnano were able to escape.

      • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2022 at 10:42 pm #

        100 top mafioso from Canada, Cuba, Sicily, the five NYC families, Kansas City, Las Vegas, LA, Boston, North Jersey, South Jersey, Philly, the Chicago outfit … met at the country home of Joe ‘the barber’ Bararosa in Appalachin NY for a big mob sitdown — the first top meeting since The Commission was formed in 1931 by Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz, Kid Twist and Joe Bonnano.

    • Anthea August 19, 2022 at 10:00 am #

      This would be very entertaining, and probably very funny. You are always surprised at the physical appearance/demeanor of people you only know online.

      Jarek probably looks like an accountant, perhaps with the obligatory spare tire. You would recognize him by his shoes–which would be spotless to the point that you’d wonder why he wasn’t wearing spats.

      I would bet that MaryQueen would come across like one of my friends’ late mothers, a well-turned-out old country gal who eats nails for breakfast. My friend told me that one of the ladies he talked with at his mother’s funeral said, “I was scared to death of that woman.” A strange comment, since I never knew her to say anything unkind; she was just plain-spoken and didn’t bear fools very well–though I’m sure she thought I was one back in those days.

      I always picture Green Alba as a kindly matron in a in a neat cotton house dress and apron, her long red hair peppered gray and put up in a bun. She would be wearing a sweater, of course, and sensible shoes.

  117. MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 6:59 pm #

    Also, an example of my general premise, that people used to be smarter than we are now.

    Now, five’ll get you ten that he was given the answers prior…but maybe not.

    youtube.com/watch?v=cR7EBBXcQUg

    Wyatt Earp’s nephew, on the $64,000 Question game show back in the 1950’s.

    Who in today’s world can handle a 10+ part question and win the day? That said, maybe he had the answers in front of him in the booth. (hell, I give that a 50/50 possibility) But just sayin. We’re retarded now.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 7:16 pm #

      Randomly…I’m writing for our local town paper now…called the editor last month and asked if they wanted help – they said yes. I said, “Dammit.”

      Never knew it was so easy to get a writing gig. I already have a job, created by me, and not writing for a paper. I couldn’t have cared less if they said yes. That’s probably why it was so easy to get it.

      Good luck to the chodes on the city council who gladhanded me last night at the council meeting. They’re going to be “transparent”, they say. I think it may turn out to be an interesting venture. Wish me luck, or ill. Whatever’s clever.

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 7:28 pm #

        That’s awesome and congrats, MrMango. I’m sure it will be interesting. I might do the same for the small burgeoning paper here. And photography.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 7:35 pm #

          Thank you, Mary. I’ve hit the front page three weeks in a row. Reaching a massive 4,500 subscribers lol. But…why not.

          I’d suggest you go and get it if that’s something you want to do.

          Hell, the check cashed yesterday, so there’s that.

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 8:23 pm #

            That is terrific! Thanks for sharing. I love hearing about stuff like this. People just doing stuff they find interesting or impactful, without expecting to make $$$$$ or get something in return.

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 11:39 pm #

            Unless, of course, it is data-pulling, -collating and -publishing CFN poster stats, right? Then they are to be ridiculed for “just doing stuff they find interesting or impactful, without expecting to make $$$$$ or get something in return.”

            You are phonier than a $3 bill.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 7:43 pm #

          (the check was not big, btw…but it cashed)

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 8:25 pm #

            Sweet! It’s great they pay you something. I am doing some part time side work I find rewarding and it doesn’t pay much but it’s for a great person and her burgeoning enterprise, so I enjoy it all the more.

          • Q. Shtik August 18, 2022 at 9:41 pm #

            Mango, do a copy/paste of one of those articles and let us have a look at it.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 10:15 pm #

            Q – Then you would know my name.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 10:19 pm #

            Then again, maybe I don’t give a shit. I’m probably overthinking this.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 10:24 pm #

            Losing my anonymity is something I’d rather avoid. I have a wife and a kid to feed for at least another 13 years.

            What I talk about here is not the bland city council crap that I write about with the paper.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 18, 2022 at 10:29 pm #

            (hope the comment about at least 13 years doesn’t come off wrong…that was just about until my boy is 18 and moves off on his own. My wife and I shall dine together until we decide to plow a Cessna into a mountain side at age…93, or whenever the time feels right around that age.)

          • Lance Boyle August 18, 2022 at 11:30 pm #

            “until my boy is 18 and moves off on his own”

            Hahaha! I thought that you were serious before realizing that it was a simple typo. 28 is, of course, far more likely.

      • Disaffected August 19, 2022 at 8:56 am #

        A proper writing gig would be way too constraining for me. The two local rags – both amateurish affairs – are just PR puff pieces for the lab, so that definitely wouldn’t work for me. All of Northern NM is beholden to the DOE, and the first rule of the club is thou shalt not bite the hand that feeds. The SF rag has one guy who pretty much carries the dissent mantle alone for the environmentalists.

    • Anthea August 19, 2022 at 10:02 am #

      @ MrMangoOnMyShoulder:

      I’m pretty sure all those game shows are fake.

  118. Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 8:31 pm #

    I must say that absolutely EVERYONE is forgiving and supportive of my being sober for 28 months. They, of course, understand that living in the present and working for a better future is productive while constantly maligning a man for his past darkness is sick, cruel and counter-productive.

    EVERYONE but one, that is.

    • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 8:51 pm #

      What an inflamed sense of importance you have.

      • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 8:56 pm #

        Your sick, cruel counter-productiveness is not about me. We all know that.

        • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 9:13 pm #

          Who is “We” like a royal thing? Because I can assure you, very few up here agree with you.

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 9:25 pm #

            Very few up here agree that your sick cruelty is not about me? Ya think?

            Obviously either you are wrong or they are stupid. A or B.

            I only use, “We all know that” when I say something that is self-evident.

            Facts are not a popularity contest. Facts are facts.

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 10:18 pm #

            Your ‘facts’ are usually rants containing bullshit.

          • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 10:53 pm #

            Ad hom forever.

            Can you not speak about one thing at a time? You have allies and enemies and live in perpetual war while us normal people want to discuss matters of the day.

            Your sick cruelty is not about me.

            Obviously.

    • Anthea August 19, 2022 at 10:16 am #

      @ Rhett Dawson:

      I think you’d find that people were less inclined to malign you if you didn’t go out of your way to antagonize them. It’s also best to be indifferent to other people’s opinions of you and make no demands for others’ approval. Doing so is weak.

  119. tom clark August 18, 2022 at 8:56 pm #

    Dunkin Donuts is now simply Dunkin in these parts.

    • Bob Polecat August 18, 2022 at 8:59 pm #

      “You’ve always got time
      Always got time
      For Tim Hortons”

    • Disaffected August 19, 2022 at 8:42 am #

      Makes sense. Ditch the politically incorrect part of the name like it doesn’t exist. Thus, Kentucky Fried Chicken became KFC.

  120. Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 9:58 pm #

    So … That was a completely bizarre red-herring salad. I asked a simple question regarding The Battle of The Sexes but people lose focus like dogs.

    Being that we are mere hours from another fresh, brilliant Kunstler essay (and its corresponding thread reset), I will try again now – knowing that this will be buried forever tomorrow morning.

    Please set aside your personal assessments of the usefulness (or lack thereof) of the CFN publish stats that Q and I have recently posted. This question is not about that. This question is about The Battle of The Sexes.

    Who here knows a woman who could replicate what Q and I have done?

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    • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 10:21 pm #

      You’ve got to be kidding.

      You think parsing data is some sort of miracle only you & Q are capable of?

      I can’t stop laughing – seriously, thanks for this.

      I’m gonna share with my female expert database engineer/administrator friends.

      • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 11:16 pm #

        Like a dog.

        She can’t simply answer a simple question. She has to try and guess the questioner’s thoughts and motives. Every single time.

        She is exactly like a dog.

        —–

        I never said that no woman on Earth could replicate what Q and I have done. I never said that no man on Earth can bake a fruit pie either, for that matter.

        Obviously both exist. I am interested in statistical analysis in our Battle of the Sexes.

        You see, I did work for 22 years in a very heavy data-driven industry and it was common knowledge there that data-pulling, -collating and -publishing data tasks like this were the exclusive domain of men. I’m not making it up.

        There must be a reason for that, right? So, I thought that I’d sample the astute CFN posters here to see if they know any women, in the real world, who can actually tackle this little data project without a man’s help.

        You say that you do know women who can do this work? Dandy. Not the admins, of course. The admins would simply give the task to a man and then show up with the binder at the meeting for all the credit. That sleezy m.o. is shared equally among men and women admins, btw.

        But you know real-world expert women database engineers? Really? In my experience, that is like knowing Sasquatch.

        Do you think that they can quickly put together these publish stats along with a quick step-by-step of how they did it?

        I think that that is so cute. Expert woman database engineer. Like a monkey riding a bike.

        • Anthea August 19, 2022 at 10:26 am #

          @ Rhett Dawson:

          I’m quite sure I’d need help with such a project (if I could work up any interest in it). I’m also pretty sure my daughter could teach me how. Maybe even my grandson who just turned 14. I find that the kids are wizards at such things.

    • MaryQueen August 18, 2022 at 10:22 pm #

      P.S. Shove your pies up your bum. 😀

    • Q. Shtik August 18, 2022 at 10:58 pm #

      Who here knows a woman who could replicate what Q and I have done? – Rhett

      ===========

      Well, I can tell you this: That person would NOT be my wife. She is far more interested in setting out the clothes she will be wearing tomorrow, choosing coordinating belt, shoes and handbag. Yep, she will dump out everything from her current handbag, get rid of numerous crap items and transfer the good stuff into what will be tomorrow’s handbag. I cannot imagine men doing such a thing, if men used handbags which 99 out of a hundred don’t. They manage to carry their meager few items in two or three of their pants pockets.

      This is not to say that there are no women capable of creating the lists in question but women find such efforts eye-glazingly mind numbing. Persons like Rhett and me (or is it I) find it to be an interesting mental challenge.

      • Rhett Dawson August 18, 2022 at 11:26 pm #

        Absolutely! The fact that there are (at least) 100 men capable of this little data task for every woman capable of the same goes beyond aptitude but it is all related.

        People gravitate to what they are naturally good at and avoid what they suck at.

        Undoubtedly, nobody can pull, collate and publish this data unless they have already performed similar tasks in the past. They would not have the foggiest clue on how to get from A to B.

        Many men are good at these data tasks so they perform them and get better at them. After a while, this is just another little data task.

        As Q points out, many women are good at planning tomorrow’s ensemble – including handbag – so they gravitate toward that task.

      • Islander August 18, 2022 at 11:43 pm #

        That is because it *is* eye-glazingly dumb.

        No intelligent woman—no, make that no normal woman—would waste her time doing it.

        This blog has become infested with intellectual aphids.
        Please, bring on a swarm of ladybugs ASAP.

        • SoftStarLight August 19, 2022 at 12:24 am #

          LOL intellectual aphids 🙂

        • GreenAlba August 19, 2022 at 7:38 am #

          Reluctant as I am to comment on this tedious splurge of self-glorification, it’s interesting that when Q talked about his wife, as an example of something, he wasn’t accused of arguing from the personal, ‘just like a woman’. Personally (since one is now permitted to argue from the personal, apparently) I use two bags. One if I’m without the dog and the other when I’m with the dog – the second is a Kipling bag that is very light and is excellent for carrying dog-related crap, as well as any other necessities. Most women I know have the same bag every time I see them, for years, just like me, I do have a couple of small ones for weddings, but they rarely see the light of day, just like my husband’s one suit.

          Likewise, my friends, although they can all cook, don’t spend their time making fruit pies, because fruit pies are full of sugar. My husband does about 80% of the cooking in our house, because he wants to, but he doesn’t make fruit pies either, thank goodness.

          One of the senior commissioning editors where I worked has a wife who is a Cambridge-graduate mathematician. She’s probably retired now, but her job was producing national public health statistics. She didn’t just ‘do’ it – she was a workaholic and couldn’t stop doing it. I never heard that she had to get a man to help her do her job. I never heard she was particularly unique either.

          The head of IT at our London office (of the biggest medical publishing company in the world) was also female.

          But, whatever … some people just don’t have the wisdom to know that the only people you are entitled to tell to ‘go to your room’, metaphorically or otherwise, are your own children. And, even then, only while they are children.

          Last point: those self-glorifying men who are fond of bell curves, generally fail to wallow in the fact that the people at the thick-as-pig-shit end of the curve are overwhelmingly male too, which is an unfortunate happenstance for the ladies not far from that end, as the pool they’re fishing in is full of morons. Morons who probably still need someone else to make them a sandwich.

          • messianicdruid August 19, 2022 at 9:25 am #

            “In my experience, that is like knowing Sasquatch.”

            Being from Sasquatch Haven and not knowing him [ since his speciality is not bring seen ] similar to not being listed on your tabulation.

          • Anthea August 19, 2022 at 11:31 am #

            As far as I can tell, usually the main reason why people devote so much time to “intellectually challenging” data tasks (or other puzzles) is because they are trying to avoid fixing the lawn mower.

  121. tom clark August 18, 2022 at 11:47 pm #

    The human imagination is a wonderful thing, but when it can’t produce results, it is worthless.

    • SoftStarLight August 19, 2022 at 12:19 am #

      What does this mean, tom?

    • Disaffected August 19, 2022 at 8:39 am #

      Tom be trippin’ again.

    • benr August 19, 2022 at 8:45 am #

      Tom, are you talking about the latest wokester films from Disney that are flopping horribly?

      Tom are you a real human or some poorly coded ai bot?

      • Anthea August 19, 2022 at 11:43 am #

        @ benr:

        It’s the meds.

  122. KesaAnna August 19, 2022 at 12:40 am #

    ” @KesaAnna

    Don’t change a thing it is easier to read. ”

    — behr

    I simply didn’t believe what he said.

    But confirmation is nice.

    We used to have a poster who was genuinely unintelligible.

    Pretty much the ONLY responses he / her ever got were gratitutious one – line ad hominems .

    But not a single genuine , meaty , response that I recall.

    But that stands to reason ; As I said , his / her posts were genuinely unintelligible.

    It’s kinda hard to frame a response when you really haven’t a fucking clue what you just read.

    An , ” I don’t understand ” , followed by a critique , is a dead giveaway that you DO understand perfectly well.

  123. KesaAnna August 19, 2022 at 3:13 am #

    ” Arranged marriages + trips to the red light district + no antibiotics.

    What could possibly go wrong? ”

    Compared to …… ?

    For 60 years now you have lived in a world where the entire species , and maybe the entire planet could be exterminated in 15 minutes ,

    Not because the sun burns out or blows up , or a meteor the size of Chicago slams into the planet ,

    but to justify an impossible exercise of power , that typically even in its superficial aspects usually lasts not even a hundred years anymore.

    The shelf – life of regimes keeps getting shorter , and shorter.

    • GreenAlba August 19, 2022 at 10:15 am #

      “Compared to …… ?”

      Compared to decent men in ordinary, unremarkable marriages keeping it in their pants when it’s not with their wife, who generally doesn’t deserve the insult, the humiliation or the microbes. That’s all (plus antibiotics are useful anyway).

      Other aspects of life may be compared to other aspects of life.

      You might as well excuse child rape and murder by pointing out that life is generally shit anyway.

  124. BackRowHeckler August 19, 2022 at 4:26 am #

    A disaster in the making at the Z. nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

    Something is happening today; apparently Russians have ordered Ukrainian crews not to report to work at the facility. There are 6 active reactors at this plant, which is the largest in Europe. I find that the best news source concerning events in Ukraine is from India.

    The danger posed by any of those reactors melting down cannot be overstated. It would be a catastrophic event with worldwide consequences.

    • gustafson.robert.22 August 19, 2022 at 6:20 am #

      Are the pro-nuclear people in the crowd here or anywhere taking note?

    • Disaffected August 19, 2022 at 8:38 am #

      I think they’re worried about sabotage, brh. Z has been making noises about that kind of thing.

  125. benr August 19, 2022 at 8:26 am #

    In other words China had a hissy fit.

    msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-s-response-to-pelosi-visit-a-sign-of-future-intentions/ar-AA10P1YH?ocid=msnews

    I find it amusing the dragon was angry about a drunken old woman showing her ugly face in Tawain.

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