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      As the Yule log burns down, and the trivialities of the season melt into air, the nation might ask itself how the authorities who run things went to war against the citizens of this land. I will tell you, and, it will probably make you angry: It started when the women of the professional and managerial class watched their avatar, Hillary Clinton, lose the 2016 election against a man who seemed the quintessence of everything they hated about Daddydom.

     Donald Trump, flawed to perfection, wrecked the chance of the amalgamated successful women of America to run the national household. Out came the pussy-hats, the shrieking Wiccans, and the celebrities threatening to “blow up the White House.” Out came a savage animus against men generally, and a campaign to feminize them in retaliation — and then punish them for objecting to it. Up rose a social movement, Wokery, that had the earmarks of a histrionic religious mania, with Satanic overtones. Up rose the demons, the Antifa louts, the BLM arsonists, the drag queens.

     Thus unrolled a national psychodrama that continues to spool out as every system, every business, every institution in our country now wobbles and flies apart. In 2016, the men embedded in the professional and managerial class tried to chivalrously protect their women’s avatar and her steadfast followers and, failing ignobly that grim November day, then turned to actually attack their adversary, Donald Trump, with the explicit intent to destroy him by all means necessary. In the years-long process, they devolved into criminality, and in so doing they entered a vicious cycle of lying about everything they did to escape the consequences of their ostensible exercise in gallantry.

     In effect, the people running things went from a war against a particular person to a war against reality and its twin sister, truth. Now they are deeply invested in unreality and untruth to the point where they have forgotten how this whole fiasco started and all they can do is desperately patch the dike they had to construct against the informational deluge of truth and reality coming at them like a tsunami rolling across the sea. The harder they work at this futile task of defense, the more absurd they make themselves, leading to ridicule, humiliation, and finally condemnation in whatever remains of the legal arena, where their deeds will finally be judged.

      The first stage of that outcome for them is to pretend that none of it is happening. That’s why The New York Times and Washington Post ignore the news that the gallant knights of the FBI and several other tentacles of the Intel octopus mounted a ferocious, long-running psy-op through the new phenomenon of social media — which happened to rise in importance through this whole period of national discord. In effect, the intel agencies seized the transmitters (as Fidel Castro might put it) and used them very effectively to control their hallowed narratives.

     The second stage is deploying a ruse to distract the public’s attention: That’s why CNN allowed Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the most accomplished liar in all of American politics, to set the stage on Sunday for this week’s criminal referrals against Mr. Trump to be issued out of the House Special J-6 Committee he sits on. That will give America something else to talk about than how they’ve been gaslit and deceived for years. If The Party of Chaos can only bring The Insurrection back into the spotlight, they will feel safe for a little while during the Christmas holiday — because shortly after the new year, there will be a different crew running the J-6 committee and, for the first time in a couple of years, they will be looking into neglected and tacitly suppressed matters such as the FBI’s actual role in that event, and Nancy Pelosi’s failure to honor the then-president’s request for national guard troops to protect the Capitol building.

      Between then and now, we must expect to see the release of Elon Musk’s Twitter files regarding the interactions between federal public health officials and the social network during the years of Covid-19. You understand that these officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, CDC chief Dr. Rochelle Walensky, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and many others, lied about absolutely everything concerning the pandemic and continue lying to this moment about the putative remedy for it: mRNA vaccines, which happen to be killing a lot of people these days. These disclosures will be very serious business. Soon will come congressional inquiries, subpoenas, compelled testimony, and perhaps even criminal referrals.

     Of course, the professional and managerial class also happens to be the most stalwart group of vaccine champions in the land and thus the most psychologically invested in thinking they did the right thing taking all those shots — while forcing as many others to submit, whether they consented or not. The psychology of previous investment is a prime generator of self-delusion. It looks like that class of people will be proven incorrect the hard way. It turns out, after all, that the mRNA “vaccines” were very effective — but only at being deadly. The excess mortality has already kicked in. It’s 18 percent above normal, for instance, in Australia right now, because they’re keeping track. Our officials don’t want to keep track. They don’t want to know, and they certainly don’t want you to know. This is what you get when you make war against truth and reality.


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1,038 Responses to “A Christmas Parable”

  1. Ishabaka December 19, 2022 at 9:49 am #

    “It started when the women of the professional and managerial class watched their avatar, Hillary Clinton, lose the 2020 election against a man who seemed the quintessence of everything they hated about Daddydom.” – I’ll make one change: “It started when the White women of the professional….”. You don’t see Asian, Black, or Hispanic women grooming their sons to be homosexual by taking them to drag queen events.

    • Walter B December 19, 2022 at 9:57 am #

      That is why they will be the new American public, after the fools walk willingly into the showers.

    • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 10:17 am #

      I’ve seen just as many men taking the kiddies to these events. In fact, the goons who consider themselves the protectors of the Drag Queen Story Hours in bars (!!!) are mostly men (Antifa/Trans activists).

      I guess James has not spent any time watching any of the videos of women being assaulted for protesting these. It’s so much easier to just blame women for everything, even though there are 3/4 of us in this country not on board or in agreement with the pussyhatters in any way, shape or form.

      • Walter B December 19, 2022 at 10:21 am #

        Too many men are just life support systems for a penis and too many women are easily bullied into a demented agenda. We are designed to work with each other and balance each other out. Unless we can get to this point, which I don’t think we ever will, we shall be herded around by Mr. Global like the chattel that we have become.

        I take solace in the select few such as you Mary, thank you.

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 10:43 am #

          Thank you, Walter. I agree 100%. Women and men need to work together, and the agendas out there now are designed to divide us.

          There is some weird idea that all women are on board with this awful third wave ‘feminism’ that the Hilary Clinton supporters ascribe to. It is anti-feminism, IMHO.

          Women (and men) like me who are standing up against it, are not. It’s unfortunate that only the pussyhatters are now seen to represent all women, which is ridiculous. Even the pussyhatters have no real power. They are just loud and opportunistic. Their allegiance to the LBGTQWERTYUIOP flag is dictated to them by their employers and controllers (in the case of the celebs). We see what happens to people who refuse to toe the line (JK Rowling).

          In any case, they are being used just as much as anyone else (BLM, Antifa, social crusaders of all stripes, etc) in order to further the bigger agenda. This should be obvious by now.

          • Walter B December 19, 2022 at 11:13 am #

            Personally, I refer to that movement as the QRSTLMNOP bunch. The one thing we all have to keep in mind is that those Satanic bastards that own and control all forms of media can easily turn a mole hill into a mountain by blowing everything way out of proportion to manipulate the public into thinking that we are the only ones, everyone else is on their side. In actuality I am not so sure that the dementia is as widespread as they would have us believe.

            Even Satan himself is not omnipotent though through his technology he seeks such ability. In the end, it will fail. The question is only how bad it will get before God steps in and puts it right. Until then be well, Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday Jesus!

          • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 11:34 am #

            There are good people and bad people. Some good people are men; some are women. Look at the Covid scam. There have been fantastic men stepping up to the plate like Robert Malone, Dr Zelenko, et al. and some wonderful women like Simone Gold and Naomi Wolff. I wish we’d leave it at that and get over this silly name calling.

          • elysianfield December 19, 2022 at 12:13 pm #

            “Even Satan himself is not omnipotent though through his technology he seeks such ability. In the end, it will fail. The question is only how bad it will get before God steps in and puts it right”

            Walter,
            Reminds me of the documentary “Waiting for Superman”….

          • Kay December 19, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

            Mary, I am with you. I refused to be a part of the pink cap groupies. I lost female friends when I said that group didn’t represent me. Frankly, I found them embarrassing and low-information voters. Christians seem to be the same way. There are more issues than two. If we all get blown up, it doesn’t matter if we have a female president. Women’s reproductive organs will take a back burner if we all go into a depression. I think both men and women can rally around the big stuff that affects us ALL and the future of our kids/grandkids. Why aren’t we??

            I have told my male friends that most American women are hopelessly lost. They are marinated in feminism. I can even see it in the church. Many American women are going down the toilet in a short span of time at a super speed that is shocking! They will not self-evaluate or self-correct either. Tim Poole has stated that most of these ladies will vote for Communism so that the state will take care of them. They have disregarded husbands and children, so the State will be their guardians.

          • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 2:19 pm #

            I refused to do the pink hat thing also. I think I was the only person in my circles who refused to participate that day.

            The whole thing made me sick. No way I was going to march around protesting Trump’s first day (just like Jan. 6th, but nation-wide, because the Establishment pushed it), pink hat or no pink hat.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 4:08 pm #

            Hereward, I agree.

            It’s ridiculous to pit men against women and vise-versa; yet that’s what they have done. They’ve also pitted the races against each other, the religions, the classes, etc. On and on it goes.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 4:09 pm #

            But Kay, feminism means something different to almost everyone. And this causes trouble.

            People who are virulently misogynistic now call themselves feminists.

          • Mike G December 19, 2022 at 9:49 pm #

            Protest as you will, a greater majority of woman have a greater acceptance of government than men. Apparently they also like doddering old fools like Biden and war mongering empty suits like Blinken. They also find it acceptable to throw men into the meat grinder of war to prove how they are humanitarians.

        • Rowdypiglet December 19, 2022 at 11:04 am #

          Having closely followed the process JHK has diligently outlined above, both online and as it manifested out in the real world, I have to agree that it has been driven largely by women. Most men who have succumbed seem to have done so for reasons of self preservation or in a passive aggressive attempt to get back at women for emasculating them.

          How else to view the grotesque parodies of women that drag queens present? The rage at women, the gleeful mockery of all that is womanly, is impossible to view in any other way. The message, as in the “beauty contest” in which normal, pretty young girls stand around pretending to smile as a hideous fake woman is “crowned” is: YOU ASKED FOR THIS. LET’S SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT.

          I don’t enjoy saying this, but every single person I’ve known in real life who pushes the child mutilation/grooming thing has been a woman. Every man I’ve known has been vigorously opposed, though quite a few are afraid of the consequences of saying so – particularly at work, where HR departments are full of Dolores Umbridges, ever on the lookout for dissenters or any kind of offence that offers an opportunity for punishment.

          If we’re going to put an end to this, I think we have to own our part in it and stop pretending that men have caused it. Some men have been complicit, but the situation JHK describes is the work of women. Men have their own quite different ways of ruining the world, and while we’re distracted by the ongoing attempts, everywhere we look, to destroy the lives of children, we’ve increased the profits of those who make weapons of war and who, seemingly, are willing to destroy the world in the process.

          Anyway – it’s been my observation that men and women have different areas of competency and that, when we ignore that fact – as we seem determined now to ignore so much of reality – things that used to work well don’t work anymore.

          • spaingaroo December 19, 2022 at 11:17 am #

            I can’t think who said it, but we are in a process of changing what works for what sounds good.

          • Q. Shtik December 19, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

            particularly at work, where HR departments are full of… – Rowdy

            ===========

            To the guy a week ago (a doctor of physics or something I think) who was annoyed by the use of PM as an abbreviation for precious metals, please note that HR stands for Human Resources.

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 1:07 pm #

            Well said. Of course Mary can point to the Globalists who weaponized all such grudges and paved the way for trannyism to become a huge thing in a very short time.

            She’s right: Most of them are men. But at the ordinary level of life, you’re right. Men have more resistance to this kind of crap.

          • stelmosfire December 19, 2022 at 2:54 pm #

            Q, in 1927( when you were in 6th grade) Babe Ruth hit 60 HR’s.

          • MontanaMan December 19, 2022 at 7:53 pm #

            Outstanding truthful comment. I could not agree more with you my friend.

          • 100th Avatar December 21, 2022 at 6:07 pm #

            Why is drag phenomenon even “a thing” right now, at this moment?

            The controllers need the simpleton beasts to rage and change focus and vent their anger (away from them). It never, ever fails.

            What and who could this possibly be distracting people from?

            Perhaps the truth and motivations behind
            WWIII?
            A Plannedemic?
            The “vaccines”
            The tyrannical government?

          • Islander December 21, 2022 at 7:14 pm #

            Drag has always been a thing. Cf. my post about the hilarious scene in White Christmas.

            Certainly drag acts were a longstanding tradition in British music halls. Why? Because they can be extremely funny!!

            Shakespeare also used the fact that all of his characters were played by men to insert a lot of subtle byplay about men/women. E.g., in As You Like It. Where a man plays a woman who dresses as a man to hide her identity.

            But now it is a different “thing.” It is not funny. It is twisted and ugly.

        • Greg December 19, 2022 at 11:52 am #

          Hello, Walter

          “Mr. Global” is a term I’ve heard when listening to Catherine Austin Fitts. Are you a fan of hers too?

          • Walter B December 20, 2022 at 9:42 am #

            Absolutely! She is a great person and would be my choice for a first female president of the US along with Tulsi Gabbard. Unfortunately, Karine Jean-Pierre is more likely to be instituted into that role.

        • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 1:04 pm #

          Yes, among the liberal set at least, women dominate in the marriage. No sex for rebellious men. And if a man really goes off message, divorce and ruin since family courts are anti-male.

          In many such couples, you can see it: The woman looks more masculine than the male.

          • Kay December 19, 2022 at 1:32 pm #

            Jarek, look at the testosterone levels of men. They are finding 30’s year old males with a testosterone level of an 85 male. Men have been a target for a long time. It isn’t that they won’t fight; it is that they can’t. They have been feminized physically, mentally, and spiritually. Churches quietly preach that feminism is holiness. Most Pastors look like they consume too much soy. We are in WWIII on many levels. The current war will never look like the last war. I have no idea how to turn this around. It is frustrating and depressing to watch it all happen in real-time. I keep praying that God has the earth open up to swallow the evil reprobates. I don’t see human justice coming.

          • Islander December 22, 2022 at 12:36 am #

            ” No sex for rebellious men. ”

            That is as old as Sparta.

        • Cactus Girl December 19, 2022 at 1:53 pm #

          “Too many men are just life support systems for a penis”

          this made my coffee come out my nose.

          • Ron Anselmo December 19, 2022 at 2:22 pm #

            Really? I’m a little offended. I’m more than that. I think. But on second thought, maybe not.

          • kendar667 December 19, 2022 at 9:05 pm #

            Funny, the original joke was “a woman is a life support system for a vagina”. You knew that right? This was simply a feminist version of the joke, ironic in this discussion.

          • Islander December 21, 2022 at 7:03 pm #

            Both jokes hit the evolutionary nail on the head.

      • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 10:36 am #

        Mary, I think you can forget about a Christmas card from Jarek this year! Joking aside, you are correct. There is only one thing worse than pathetic blue haired feminists: the pathetic beta men who support them.

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 10:47 am #

          Those are not really feminists. Their job is to capitulate to corporate rule, including big pharma’s grip on children, through vaxxing, hormones, surgery, etc.

          • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 11:35 am #

            Yes, I agree. Feminism reflects the generational shift. Modern “feminists” have little to do with the pioneers who fought real injustices.

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

            Early in the 20th century advertisers (those shameless jackals) discovered that women like ads that made men look like fools. So what did they do but run with it?

            The war between the sexes is ancient. They stirred the glowing ashes into a raging fire.

            Feminine resentment is ambient, always there. It serves a purpose in Patriarchy: If a man starts throwing his weight around, other women will come to his victim’s defense. And one of them will probably have the ear of another woman who has the ear of a powerful man who might intervene on her behalf.

            But in the reign of “Equality”, what purpose does it serve? None, but to make a mockery of all such egalitarian fantasies. Men were designed to rule and women to be ruled.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 4:05 pm #

            Hereward, actually, there are many groups who call themselves feminists who are not. Much like the word “liberal” and “progressive,” it’s been hijacked and destroyed so that it means close to nothing.

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 1:34 pm #

          Hear! Hear!

        • BackRowHeckler December 19, 2022 at 7:12 pm #

          Yeah I recently watched a video showing AOCs husband — a pale, overweight ginger — inveighing against ‘Unconscious Racism, racism you’re not even aware of. There is no cure for ‘Unconscious Racism’ apparently, except for deep self examination and plenty of grovelling & self criticism, preferably in struggle sessions with trained party facilitators.

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 7:47 pm #

            Tucker called the new Megan and Harry series (about themselves) on Netflix, Ginge and Cringe.

          • spaingaroo December 20, 2022 at 4:56 pm #

            jaja, hadn’t heard that one yet. Thanks Jarek

        • MontanaMan December 19, 2022 at 7:55 pm #

          “ There is only one thing worse than pathetic blue haired feminists: the pathetic beta men who support them.”

          HEAR HEAR!!

      • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 10:39 am #

        The people in the events ARE men, for crying out loud! Yet women are to blame?

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 10:45 am #

          I know, it’s stunning.

          If you haven’t seen the footage from the women’s speaker’s corner in NYC in November, I highly advise it.

          A huge mob of mostly angry men, violently spitting on, screaming at, threatening women. But it’s OK because they identify as ‘nonbinary’ or some other bullshit.

          Police had to protect the women and there were not enough police (in NYC!!) so they had to shut down the event. An event consisting of a handful of women speaking out against mutilating children.

          It sure would be nice to see more men out there supporting that.

          • Rowdypiglet December 19, 2022 at 11:30 am #

            “A huge mob of mostly angry men, violently spitting on, screaming at, threatening women. But it’s OK because they identify as ‘nonbinary’ or some other bullshit.”

            Mary, I made the observation above that these men (drag queens, non-binary, etc.) hate and despise women. But I don’t believe you’ve taken note of the ongoing attacks on everything masculine that’s the probable reason why these “men” are so angry and vengeful. By identifying as one of the protected victim classes, they can safely attack the women who insist they have no right to be what has been traditionally understood as men.

            I’ve long since lost any sense of what anyone means when they say “feminist”. In the remote past, when the idea first appeared, I understood it to mean that women who were doing the same jobs as men, and doing them with equal competence, would be paid accordingly. That fanny pinching and worse, at work, would become a thing of the past. That attitudes would be more respectful all around.

            But it wasn’t long before a nasty tone crept in. The first instance I remember is “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” I took offence at that on behalf of the many wonderful men, beginning with my grandfather, who have loved and supported me since I was born. I don’t care much for ingratitude.

            Since then, it has gotten progressively worse until we’ve reached the point where it’s simply not acceptable to be a man. When I see the word “feminist” I now think “man hater” although I’m sure there are still many women who adhere to an earlier and more reasonable definition. But then, words no longer mean what they used to and can seemingly mean whatever the speaker or writer decides. This makes it possible to argue with people with whom one would agree if the definition of terms was agreed upon – or to appear in agreement with others with whom one doesn’t actually agree at all. This confusion is effectively used by those who like to sow discord.

          • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 11:38 am #

            Rowdypiglet: I agree about that too. I always hated that “a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle” crap too. I think it was Dorothy Parker who said that. Of course, she never mentioned that it was men who provided her with the house that she lived in, the car that she drove in, and the food that she ate. However, as Mary points out, there are feminists and feminists, and not all of them are screaming nutjobs.

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

            There is also footage of women doing the same to men at Men’s rights events and anti-abortion protests.

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

            Yaas Queen! Rowdy not Mary.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 4:01 pm #

            I’d love to see that footage, Jarek. I look forward to you providing it. Where women are breaking the fingers of men, stealing their signs, spitting on them, and threatening their lives.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 4:02 pm #

            Rowdy, everything you’re describing has been engineered, but not by women.

            Paula has posted about this extensively, and has done so again below. I suggest you read what she wrote.

            And stop falling for the b.s.

          • Islander December 21, 2022 at 7:10 pm #

            Rowdypiglet:

            I completely agree with your statement.

            That “Woman needs a man/fish/bicycle” meme or whatever it was called was very childish.

            I wish the men who post here were had a bit more common sense.

            (Cue a comment from Jarek re “patriarchy” ha ha ha )

        • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 1:17 pm #

          If they bring their kids to them, of course! What the hell is wrong with you? Did anyone say men aren’t to blame in this at all? You’re the one who is being narrow and trying to shift all blame to one side, that of men.

        • Cactus Girl December 19, 2022 at 2:08 pm #

          @Beryl: hear hear! My thought exactly. It’s always about men, isn’t it? Their fragile egos, their wants.

          “But I want to be a woman!”

          “But I want to use the women’s locker room! I’m a a a f r a i d of other men! Penis? What penis? Women can have a penis!”

          “But I can’t compete against other men because I’m mediocre, so I want to compete against girls!”

          It’s ALWAYS our fault, isn’t it? A man wants sons, he gets daughters. Who gets the blame?

          No children at all? Obviously the woman’s fault. Who do they put thru all sorts of painful and embarrassing tests when no child comes forth? Always the woman first. They test the man as an afterthought.

          For many years now, I have noticed a deep, deep thread of resentment in our host against women. It seems to be common among boomer men. They reaped the rewards of easy sex in the 60’s, but still felt a lot of resentment against losing the male privileges they think their fathers had. But they are also resentful of having to take care of women, like their fathers did.

          • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 3:20 pm #

            While in general I object to the classifying of people by generation, I did notice that of which you speak.

            Among males in my age group, there was often a resentment of feminism and the idea of equality; but they did not have the notions of the woman in the traditional role as being deserving of certain deference and behavior from the men, that the older men had, either.

            Guys who grew up in the later 80s onward have a much different attitude for the most part.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 4:00 pm #

            Misogyny has grown in leaps and bounds in the most recent decades. Of course, most of it has been engineered.

            And men are angry at us now that they can’t be us, so they attack and injure women who dare to claim in public that men cannot be women.

          • Q. Shtik December 19, 2022 at 4:31 pm #

            And men are angry at us now that they can’t be us, – MQ

            =============

            Yesterday my wife was at the gym. I was home. The phone began to ring off the hook. The phone announced the call was from Barbara Kelly. I let it ring till it mercifully stopped.

            This B. Kelly person was on the H.S. Reunion committee with my wife a few years ago and was a pain in the ass. Back in H.S. “her” name was Steve Horvath. Steve started wearing dresses decades ago. I don’t know whether “she” went as far as having a Dick-ectomy.

            Barbara wound up in Florida where “she” met a similar tranny… a male to female tranny who drives 18-wheelers. They married. This Gloria started to stay out on the road for extended periods, prolly because Barbara was such a pain in the ass to be around.

            When Barbara finally got through to my wife last night the big news was that the two trannies had busted up, their house sold and Barbara now living in a hotel.

          • BackRowHeckler December 19, 2022 at 7:14 pm #

            Q, that is Big News.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 8:49 pm #

            Nice story about a dysfunctional gay male couple.

          • kendar667 December 19, 2022 at 9:43 pm #

            Hopefully everyone around here knows what feminism actually is and who is behind it. At the risk of stating the obvious, it was/is primarily used to water down the workforce, supress wages, and destroy the family unit, brought to us by the usual suspects, aka the globalist pigs. That many women (and men for that matter) bought into it is a sad reality, but the sheeple buy into whatever the masters are selling for the most part. In other words, the mentally ill trans men are being used as a cudgel to achieve their satanic goals. Same ol same ol.

      • feralandroid December 19, 2022 at 1:25 pm #

        No one is saying its ALL women. Why does that even have to be spelled out. But it is MOST women in this country. If women never voted there would be no democrat party. So yes, its mostly women and their men they have nagged into submission. A lot of “men” I know vote blue because their wife tells them too.

        There are the top 10% men, and the millions of women that support them. Then there are the working class men below them that keep society running. Many of us working class men are walking away. You will not see us fighting at drag shows, or joining the military, or voting. We just wait for the women to collapse society.

        Its a woman’s world now. Lets give them the chance to run it.

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 1:38 pm #

          Well said.

        • Cactus Girl December 19, 2022 at 2:10 pm #

          It won’t be a woman’s world until a woman can feel safe walking down the street alone at 2am in any city in America.

          • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 2:24 pm #

            Every town is a Sundown town for women.

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 7:50 pm #

            That’s impossible until men are in control again – so never by your twisted standard.

            You all like to let criminals out of jail, remember? Especially if melaninated. They think they’re George Floyd’s mommy…..

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 8:50 pm #

            Men are in control now, moreso than ever, now that trannies (men) can invade all of our once-safe women-only spaces.

            Why that doesn’t sink into your peabrain, Jarek, who knows.

          • Bobby E December 20, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

            Cactus Girl,
            I don’t see how it’s a man’s world either based on the need to feel safe at 2 am. Unless I’m armed (and even then, only marginally more so), I don’t feel particularly safe either. We should be trying to achieve a human’s world vs. the animals that run it now.

        • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 2:48 pm #

          Actually, it’s not a man’s or a woman’s world. It’s just The World. It will go on long after men and women with all their snits and worries have long vanished from its surface. Maybe a bit of humility is in order here instead of these sterile, pointless arguments.

          • SW December 19, 2022 at 8:09 pm #

            It is just the world and it’s never going to be perfect or make everyone happy. There’s plenty of blame to go around for both sexes. Feminism used to be about equal pay, equal chance to get into medical school/law school etc. but was hijacked by shrews with A Point to Make. They see themselves as powerful, goddess-like women but the ones I’ve known have been mediocre in every way.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 8:51 pm #

            Interestingly, SW, women still are not paid the same as men in the US for the same job.

            In Europe, they are decades ahead of us, because women there, are.

          • justanotherguy December 22, 2022 at 12:18 pm #

            kaweeeeennnn – another selective view of particulars. why not argue for true equality where there is parity beween men and women for workplace injuries and deaths?

            that is so commonly known, but so seldom said by feminists.

            all the useless, nice, safe middle management paper pushing jobs that steal productivity from those lowly plumbers, electricians, utility linemen – all of whom are dispatched by their supervisors, often women, all of whom live in irritated discomfort at having to deal with the most useless, empowered job of all, HR, whose seats are also filled by mostly…

            selective.

            go find a protest against the moms virtue signalling by offering their kids up to the trans movement. because at the level of us plebes, they are in the majority pushing that evil.

            selective.

        • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 3:21 pm #

          The majority of women are single. So they nag the husbands they do not have?

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 3:59 pm #

          Women run everything? It’s a woman’s world? We decide everything? When did this come about, what have I missed?

          Want to ‘splain to us women here why we need to have pepper spray and mace on hand, and learn early how to carry our keys in between our fingers when we’re out and about?

          Jesus. The delusion here is stunning.

          • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 8:42 am #

            Mary, just a correction about women here in Europe. I don’t think they are as happy as you think they are, compared to their US counterparts. The same forces of madness are at work here too.

          • justanotherguy December 22, 2022 at 12:20 pm #

            delusion? look in the mirror, if you can stand it.

        • MontanaMan December 19, 2022 at 8:12 pm #

          I don’t know any, Any men or women like you describe. And, I’m glad I don’t. Lol ?

        • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 12:47 am #

          @ feralandroid:

          “Many of us working class men are walking away.”

          The feminism of the 1970s emerged precisely because of “men walking away,” leaving women to support their families alone.

          Women had to step up to the plate.

          Prior to the feminist movement, during the 1950s and 1960s, there was a fairly concerted media effort to denigrate women’s traditional roles. This program was aimed at men and represented the housewife and mom as spending her days lying on the sofa eating bon-bons, and characterized women who desired marriage as “looking for a free meal ticket.” Not that men were generally respectful of women or appreciated their roles at that time, anyway.

          In the immortal words of Tammy Wynette, if you were “born a woman,” you were “born to be stepped on, lied to, cheated on and treated like dirt.”

          With the advent of the sexual revolution, men quickly degenerated into mere sexual predators, when, properly, they should have viewed women as authentic persons towards whom they should (as was their duty towards all people) have had only honorable intentions. Men had of course not taken that view of women prior to the sexual revolution either.

          • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 8:43 am #

            “The advent of the sexual revolution, men quickly degenerated into mere sexual predators..” Dang it, another social trend I missed out on! 🙂

      • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 1:30 pm #

        Yes, Mary, both sexes have contributed to this disaster, the demographic participation rate of White women tilting towards and embracing the Democrats and all of their evilness has been lopsidedly greater than what is seen from white men. In round figures, 2/3rds of women vote Democrat. 2/3’s of men vote Republican.

        I don’t blame all women for this mess, just the majority of them. If women did not have the vote NONE of the rot of the past 100 years would have happened in this country. Between the suffragettes and the feminists they have managed to sink the entire country.

        Conservative women….if they are truly conservative….should be working to REPEAL the 19th Amendment. THAT would be a truly selfless act of patriotism.

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 3:55 pm #

          So you believe in the 2 party system, and that women voting for Democrats is why we are where we are.

          Hilarious.

        • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 1:14 am #

          @ Wizard of the Saddle:

          While it is statistically true that women are more likely to vote Democrat then men, there is a simple explanation as to why this is so: Women favor social programs that provide for women and their children who have been abandoned by their men–or who have separated or divorced from their men due to domestic violence, non-support, alcoholism, etc.

          The reality for women is that their men cannot be depended on.

          The demand for these social programs rests almost entirely upon the shoulders of men.

          Welfare and other social programs are invariably represented as a situation in which women are living off the taxpayer. However, the women who receive these benefits are doing their jobs in the traditional female role as mothers and homemakers. It is their men who are not providing for their families, according to the traditional male role.

          When the taxpayer funds welfare and other social programs, he is paying DAD’s freight.

          • justanotherguy December 22, 2022 at 12:22 pm #

            and government never met a problem it couldn’t make worse, by intention.

            job security, and dependance.

            great plan, well justified.

          • gilbert December 23, 2022 at 9:10 am #

            Your generalities are untrue in many cases, including mine. Divorced many years ago (now happily remarried for two decades) by a man-hater of the highest order. Unfortunately for me the divorce took place in Massachusetts where (at the time) woman got child custody unless there was a very good reason, and the man got child support. I made my support payments on time for nearly twenty years, always paying uninsured medical and dental expenses, and only hearing about a child’s illness because of an invoice received from a medical provider. It took me years to get over my resentment which has now passed. Possibly it is time for you, Anthea, to do the same?

        • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 12:18 pm #

          Anthea believes in the sanctity of the family as an organ of the State – and that’s Big Sister not Big Brother. Stay at homes Moms should get a salary taken directly from the husband’s paycheck. And when she wants him gone – he’s gone. Doesn’t even get to see his own kids without her say so.

          She waxes eloquent about the vitality of Hispanic families in her area – but refuses to admit it’s because they hold fast to traditional values. And that means no feminism.

          • Anthea December 21, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

            @ Jarek:

            Welp, I see you’re lying again.

            My above post does not in any way suggest that “the family should be an organ of the State,” or that I (necessarily) believe that the State should further replace dads.

            My suggestion was that maybe the dads should support their families and men should be men (presumably “again”). If men won’t be men, this forces women to choose between government taking over the Dad role and seeing their kids starve.

            The divorced dad who has abandoned his family, or some variation thereof, usually should not be permitted around children. The divorced mom has a lot of things to think about, when it comes to letting Dad see the kids. One of them is whether the children are physically safe with him. Another is whether he might refuse to return them. This is why a smart mom keeps a copy of the custody papers in the trunk of her car–and has another copy on file at her kids’ school, along with instructions to the school not to allow Dad to pick up the kids.

            There is a large percentage of men who should never be allowed around children, and would guess a majority of divorced men who should never be allowed around children.

          • Anthea December 21, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

            @ Jarek:

            I have an endless stock of stories about dads abusing and neglecting–or kidnapping–children during visitation. In one case (a friend of my oldest daughter), the dad injured the child so severely that he was permanently disabled and eventually died from his injuries.

            I also have an endless stock of abuse and neglect on the part of custodial dads. The “normal” custodial dad just starves the kids, never providing food, and also never providing money for school lunches, clothing, or other needs. If a kid gets head lice, a custodial dad will not treat them, and, interestingly, the schools will let them get away with it–will not send the kid home and refuse to re-admit them until they are lice-free. Even the schools know that there is no use expecting anything from a dad. But if you are a mom and your kid has head lice, the kid is sent home from school until they are lice-free, and if you take too long about it, the school will call Social Services on you.

            With dads, visitation goes like this: He says he’ll pick up the kids at 9:00 on Saturday morning. He doesn’t show up. He calls at 10:00 to say he’ll be there in an hour, and doesn’t show up. He calls again at 11:00 to say he’ll be there at noon and doesn’t show up. He calls at noon to say he can’t make it after all. Meanwhile, the kids have been waiting around the house instead of playing with their friends–or an entire morning when mom could have taken them somewhere has been wasted.

            There are probably many of these “no show” guys who are complaining that their ex won’t let them see the kids, as the “no show” and “two hours late” is a typical male behavior in all things. The moms have decided that if the dads can’t show up on time, the kids’ day will not be spoiled by waiting around for them.

            Dads are also irresponsible when it comes to returning the kids on time.

            Men are too irresponsible at many levels to be allowed around children.

          • Anthea December 21, 2022 at 2:19 pm #

            The chief reason why dads are rarely awarded custody and visitation is not enforced is because family court judges–and social workers–are all to familiar with custodial dads. Custodial dads = abused and neglected children. The same issues apply to visitation.

          • Paula D December 21, 2022 at 4:08 pm #

            That happened to a friend of my oldest daughter also.

            Dad took baby for a visit, kidnaps it, mom gets a call from a hospital in LA that baby is in intensive care.
            Baby dies, hospital calls it SIDS.
            SIDS? How is a death of an injured baby in PICU ”sudden”? That is an example of pre-covid misdiagnosis on the death certificate.

            Anyway I went to the funeral. It was tense. Mom’s family was Mexican, dad’s were white bikers. Both sides lined up giving each other the evil eye, with the priest calling (a bit desperately I thought) for peace.
            There was no violence though. Except for what the dad did to the baby, of course. But no violence at the funeral.

          • justanotherguy December 22, 2022 at 12:47 pm #

            selective anecdotes, not data.

            no fault divorce = “i’m not happy, and now alimony and child support!” = a war against stable families.

            there are at least as many stories of bad moms using this shi**y system to wage administrative warfare against men, to the detriment of their kids, and this society generally. the bias and one sided-ness spotlighted on all this is must naturally be expected of our compassionate, concerned msm though…

            *heard about this bridge for sale in brooklyn!*

            mra = an effort to get those unwelcome contrary stories equal exposure, resulting in the emotionally evocative backlash, again by the sainted msm.

            so of course that doesn’t happen, because the powerful want families and men’s native protective instincts destroyed, in favor of –

            big sister, all powerful government, and dependence. every organ of mass communication pushes this – coincidence? the msm is in favor of feminism out of a sense of pure, altruistic justice?

            pull my other finger, and rationalize some more (with those powerful emotions) you goddesses…

            the streets were much safer when men were in control, and justice was often dispensed informally. i come from an era hearing first hand stories of exactly that from my elders, when our town was peaceful, and nobody was afraid to walk out at night.

            which was in the not so distant past the story in the vast majority of america – cities, those cesspool hives of conveniently packaged crowds – excepted.

            but those days are gone, and that’s all ok because feminism!

            but miserable, prideful women will never accept accountability for the damage done by feminism, nor admit responsibility to end it, nor admit to the acts of the *powerful* men (monsters) that set up feminism in the shadows and still plays these fools like puppets. those facts aren’t allowed in the narrative history of feminism, because the tragic farce becomes visible then.

            no wonder this country is rotting from the head down.

            i love the many women in my life that are smart enough to see this bs for what it is, and we are part of a team that will win, because we still hold to the true, the good, and the beautiful.

          • Jarek December 22, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

            Anthea: I didn’t say it was in above comment. If it had been, there would have been no reason to say it. As one who has read you intensively, I was providing the context for new readers. It IS what you believe after all.

        • Bobby E December 20, 2022 at 1:48 pm #

          Wizard of the Saddle,

          “If women did not have the vote …”. That might be true and we’ll never know. But with all different boats rising on the tides of enlightenment they would have received the vote even if they didn’t want it.

        • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 8:48 am #

          I view men and women solely through the lense of what has happened these last 2 years. We are heading into truly horrible times, and I’m really not interested in who’s being feministic, misogynistic or who’s being paid more for the same work. I’m interested only in who is going to stand by me and my family’s side in the times ahead. After the Covid scam, I learnt that there are a lot of great men and women around me that I know I can count on, and a lot of both sexes who will cause harm to us. The rest is irrelevant crap.

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 4:10 pm #

        Also, let’s not forget the Drag Queens themselves are men.

        Everyone is told to support them, or they are bigots.

    • rainmaker December 19, 2022 at 10:20 am #

      The 2020 election? The 2016 election I believe.

    • Woodchuck December 19, 2022 at 11:13 am #

      I’m retired, that’s why I can come in here to read the latest Kunstler while it’s still hot off the press. After reading this, I started scrolling down page after page, wondering what Jarek will have to write about A Christmas Parable. No Jarek just yet.

      I’m prejudiced against feminism because of an ancestor going back to the 20’s who was into both temperance crusading and into getting women the right to vote. She had a bossy/butch character and had a bunch of harpies that followed her around, with her as the ring leader. She was a complete busybody in a big local Church she belonged to, and was a ringleader in the church splintering up into two pieces and going their separate ways. She had time for nonstop small town busybodying because her husband owned a small factory. I’d encountered her as a child and she was absolutely no fun at all. One of her subscription magazines was the Atlantic Monthly. She considered machine shops and factories to be beneath the dignity of her sons, so intense pressure came in that everyone was to go to college, no exceptions. Blue collar people were to be looked down upon. And machine shops are dirty and dangerous and maybe a bit too masculine? Eh? Her boyz are to stay home with her and keep their fingernails clean and their collars spotless. Dad might still be in the machine shop, but her boyz are moving on to environments that must be safe and comfortable.

      With this feminist mindset, women are to go into working areas formerly occupied by males. They are expected to do this AND raise children. It can’t be done. And males must go into working environments formerly reserved for females. Everything has to be soft and safe for these teddy boys. Their hands are pink with no scars on them. Confusion results that destroys families and gets divorces going. Everybody confused and angry with each other. People are now so confused they can’t even figure out their own gender.

      We’ve seen very powerful and popular female monarchs emerge from time to time, like Queen Elizabeth I or Catherine the Great.
      These are rather rare women, and they earned their place in history, it wasn’t given to them. I’m certain they realized the value of men and that they didn’t express bitterness about the fact that so few females ever became powerful monarchs. I don’t think they felt that women everywhere had been oppressed and denied opportunities ever since the dawn of civilization. That seems to be what contemporary feminism teaches. And what we get from this is people like Hillary and Pelosi. These are fake women.

      • Rowdypiglet December 19, 2022 at 11:44 am #

        Woodchuck, I’ve encountered the exact same woman you have described. More than once. They’re as predictable as the tides and seem to have been stamped out of a mold. They lie and sow discontent and ruination. They destroy families with malignant glee.

        Actually, I’ll amend “lie” to say that they do something I find constantly among those on the left – they find the single piece of debris floating in a clear pool of water and declare that the pool is polluted and needs to be destroyed. There is never any mention (for instance) of the fact that men have, throughout recorded history, given up their lives to protect women and children. Anything that would serve to counterbalance their list of grievances, so many of which are unimaginably petty, just doesn’t exist.

        • Cactus Girl December 19, 2022 at 2:14 pm #

          “…the fact that men have, throughout recorded history, given up their lives to protect women and children.”

          No doubt from other men.

          • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 3:23 pm #

            A paradox, isn’t it?

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 8:53 pm #

            Yep.

            But, it’s women’s fault.

            It’s also our fault when we don’t stop them from:

            1) drinking
            2) killing
            3) breaking the law
            4) losing their jobs

            etc etc etc.

            Never their own fault.

      • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 1:05 pm #

        Machine shop? What machine shops? What factories, what farms?

        The productive capacities of the USA was moved overseas a long time ago.

        The reason men are working in offices and fast food is because that is where the jobs are.

        I agree that hatred between the sexes is wrong and, frankly, fruitless, because you can’t fight biology and there will always be the majority of humans eyeing each other with lust.

        But it wasn’t women as a sex who decided to deindustrialize America and emasculate the white working class male. That decision was made in higher places.

        • Woodchuck December 19, 2022 at 1:10 pm #

          Uh, once the dollar is gone the machine shops and factories on US soil will return. Otherwise we’ll be going around barefoot and naked.

          • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 2:27 pm #

            But they’re not here now. And that is why men work in the jobs they do.

          • Blackbird December 19, 2022 at 7:32 pm #

            I think the road that we’re on will take us to barefoot and naked sooner than it will to machine shops and factories.

        • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 1:24 pm #

          He’s old and can remember. Are you alright with that? Many younger women hate old guys the most since they’re useless as potential husband or slave material.

          • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

            Spewing my coffee!! Hilarious..,,and true! The best humorous observations always are.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 8:55 pm #

            You probably prefer the Drew Peterson model, the 40+ guy on his 4th wife, marries a 17 year old then kills her.

            You know, because the bitch probably deserved it.

          • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 12:20 pm #

            You need help.

          • Anthea December 21, 2022 at 3:46 pm #

            Jarek’s anecdotes about a girl he dated lead me to believe that he is dating much younger women–at least that one time he dated someone. So I suspect the matter of whether the ladies “hate” old guys is personal for him.

            Women don’t hate old guys, of course; they’re just not attracted to them. They’d rather date someone good looking–usually.

            Young women will date old guys, but in the (two) cases I have heard about, they were very old guys who had considerable assets and who married the younger women. I assume the women did not particularly dislike the old guys.

            In the one case, I met the woman only once, after her old guy had died some years previously. She was kind of obnoxious, and her whole family were (in my estimation) a bunch of grifters. (How I came to that conclusion is a whole ‘nother story.)

            I don’t know how things worked out in the other case, though I don’t suppose the old guy lasted long. The woman’s ex boyfriend’s comment on the marriage was, “She’s gonna kill that old man.” He meant that she was far too frisky for the old boy.

            So I’d say there is still hope for Jarek to find a younger woman, though he may have to wait till he has one foot in the grave. And considering that he seems to be a trust-fund baby, I expect that such a woman will find him, when the time comes.

          • Islander December 21, 2022 at 11:53 pm #

            In the Good Olde World, such as Vienna, Paris, and Berlin, the tradition was for men on the make financially to put off marrying until they were well established. Then they often married attractive younger women who could bear them an heir or two.

            Then the old guys exited stage left, leaving their young widows very merry.

            Possessing plenty of money and independence and their looks, these ladies were the classic “merry widows” of yore.

            Perhaps Jarek will make some lucky young lady into a merry widow.

          • Jarek December 22, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

            One who is faithful in little things, can be given more. But if one can’t water plants, would you trust them with your cats? With your house? Your body? Your children?

            As wise men say, Don’t put your peter in crazy.

        • Rowdypiglet December 19, 2022 at 2:08 pm #

          Paula, I agree it’s important to make a distinction between the decisions that you rightly said are made in higher places, and how those decisions play out at the level of ordinary life. It’s just that one of those is a lot easier to see than the other.

          • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 2:26 pm #

            Right, because we’re down here mucking around in the pen. We only see each other.

      • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 1:29 pm #

        Sorry, I got up late.

        Yes, men change when they go to work in offices. The show, Mad Men, showed men who did so, but who were still masculine, back in the early 60’s. That’s all gone. Now men are under intense pressure to be neuter in such feminine controlled environments. No, ladies? Then why is HR almost completely feminine? Who came up with that? Men who wanted other men to be kept under control, perhaps? Who better to do s than the resentful women, especially those who are the losers at the game of life as Mr Kunstler put it last week.

        • Rowdypiglet December 19, 2022 at 2:13 pm #

          I have relatives and a large circle of friends and acquaintances in the corporate/office world. The HR departments in every instance I know of have grown by leaps and bounds in recent years and are entirely filled with women. I know of one (black) man in an HR department. These women are of a type, almost without exception, and they prowl their domains both physically and through their networks of tattletales and offense-seekers, searching for grievances. A male relative of very mild disposition was once walked out of the building where he worked and written up because, while speaking to a female colleague, his face had turned red. She claimed his red face made her feel unsafe.

          • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 2:31 pm #

            I agree that that is crazy.

            For a while I had a young co-worker who was very handsy. He was always grabbing me and hugging me, even though I pushed him away and told him to stop.
            One time I got mad about it, instead of causal.

            He freaked out. He said that he was afraid I would go to HR and complain. What, me? I would never snitch to the bosses.
            I told him he knew that I wouldn’t do that and he looked at me very seriously and said “I don’t know that”.

            Anyway he quit grabbing me after that. But honestly, it never would have occurred to me to go upstairs.

          • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 3:26 pm #

            That’s because male heads of corporations like to hire those types of women for HR.

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 7:53 pm #

            Beryl: And women have objected so strenuously, right?

            Wrong. They love it.

      • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 1:50 am #

        As a (maybe) interesting aside to this discussion, someone recently told me that Carrie Nation was from Holden, Missouri, the town nearest me.

        Actually, her family moved around all over the place when she was growing up, but she settled in Holden during her first marriage. The two separated after less than a year, due to her husband’s alcoholism. (The guy died of alcoholism about a year after that.) But Carrie remained in Holden and taught school there for several years. She stayed in Holden until she married David Nation. They moved around some, and Carrie began her temperance work in Medicine Lodge, Kansas.

        She died in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a town still known for its healing springs, as well as for what is sometimes referred to as “that big statue of Willie Nelson.” (The 7-story statue of The Christ of the Ozarks.)

    • Q. Shtik December 19, 2022 at 12:02 pm #

      I’ll make one change: – Isha

      ============

      You better make another change: it was 2016 not 2020.

    • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

      Yes, when dividing the citizens be sure to specify the color as well as the sex of the person to be blamed for the destruction of society.

      “White women” indeed. All women with increased melanin and all humans with Y chromosomes are blameless.

      And whatever you do, don’t look up! Those people in the penthouses drinking martinis and laughing at the ones fighting each other down below have nothing to do with what is going on in the streets.

      It is white women who are the problems and everyone should be clear on that.

      • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 1:32 pm #

        Yes, the worse women in the world. Completely devoid of all loyalty or natural affection towards half of the human race – at least outside of favor parts of Eastern Europe.

        Thus White men have taken to going abroad for wives now, often falling into race mixing or failing that, into the clutches of Slavic gold diggers!

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 1:44 pm #

          Plenty of that going on. You read about it everywhere in the Manosphere online.

        • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 2:08 am #

          @ Jarek:

          Yes, the “Slavic gold digger” who married one of our local guys was disappointed on that score, when the guy stole $2,000 from her that was a gift from her sister. So she divorced him and took the kids and went back to Albania.

          Meanwhile, as I am Facebook friends with the guy, I got to read comments from his guy friends about evil women destroying men’s lives. I said nothing about the $2,000 bucks, as this was something the guy had told me himself in confidence.

          And, as the guy comes from a local family, I happened to know people who were familiar with the family, from whom I learned that the guy has, since adolescence, threatened to commit suicide about once a week. Presumably whenever he doesn’t get his own way.

          Said “people familiar with the family” did state publicly on Facebook that a person given to constant threats of suicide was too unstable to be allowed to remain in a home with children.

          So don’t bet on the foreign women putting up with your shit.

          • MaryQueen December 21, 2022 at 6:17 pm #

            It’s the bottom of the barrel losers who buy foreign wives. And yeah, it usually doesn’t end well.

        • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 2:28 am #

          I also recall another local guy who married an Asian woman. He was a single dad with a teenage son, and the reason I happen to know the story is because the son dated one of my daughters when they were in high school and for a year or two after high school. He was a good kid, highly intelligent and (in his way) serious-minded, being a voracious reader of Terrence McKenna.

          His dad had a good job, but never thought to buy groceries or otherwise provide his son with anything to eat. I was at their house once or twice. There was no food in the house but a small carton of milk in the fridge. The kid mostly ate at our house or at friends’ houses. I once told him that he could get free food at the community center, but he said you had to be eighteen for them to serve you.

          Shortly after he graduated from high school, his dad married an Asian woman, who cooked for herself but wouldn’t give the boy anything to eat. When he bought food for himself, she threw it away.

          So I also wouldn’t figure on snagging the greatest wives and mothers among the foreign ladies.

          Obviously, the dad was no prize either. I could tell you stories about him too, but only at the risk of becoming discursive.

          • Paula D December 20, 2022 at 12:20 pm #

            I used to work with a lot of Asian women because they import foreign nurses to dilute the labor market.

            Whoa. I remember thinking that those men who thought they were going to get demure submissive sex slaves if they imported an Asian woman to marry were in for a big surprise.

            They were not demure or submissive. I never talked sex with them, but I’d be willing to bet they weren’t slaves there either.

            Men and their fantasies. It’s difficult to feel sorry for them.

      • Rowdypiglet December 19, 2022 at 2:33 pm #

        Paula, I understand your objection. But when, to all appearances, a given behavior is predominantly coming from a particular group, how else to say it? If that’s been your observation, should you not be allowed to say so? If so, why not? I’m a white woman myself, but I don’t take offence at this criticism because I think it’s justified.

        People of ordinary intelligence understand that you’re making a generalization when you use a term like “white women” or “black men”. You don’t mean every one, and people are to be judged individually. But I can’t see any reason to pretend that you don’t see what you see. Based on statistics, young black men commit a disproportionate amount of all violent crimes. Is there some other way to say that? Or are we just not permitted to say it at all?

        If it divides the citizens to say so, then the division already existed and is not created by taking note of it. Nobody said that all women are like this, or anything of the kind. It was, as I said, a generalization. As for the laughing elites in their penthouses, we understand the part they’ve played, but we each choose whether to resist or be complicit and must live with the results. The fact that it was encouraged from “on high” is not an excuse. Nobody (at first) forced us to take our kids to the gender reassignment clinic, but because of our complicity, it’s rapidly coming to that.

        • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 12:24 pm #

          Beryl’s argument: Since the Drag Queens are men, women aren’t to blame for taking them to Drag Shows.

          An absolute refusal to take responsibility for anything. Not being allowed to vote would be the least of it. When they get this bad they aren’t really human any more.

          • MaryQueen December 21, 2022 at 6:19 pm #

            Men running the tranny/wokie show seems to be getting to you, Bitter Betty.

    • db1951 December 19, 2022 at 6:28 pm #

      DEAR JAMES:

      THIS A BRILLIANT POST TODAY. You can hear the Karens. Crooks, Grifters, Criminals, NWO Satanazis Screaming in unison.

      None of these perpetrators will ever be brought to justice. Now we relax and watch a once great nation relegated to the dustbin of history. All because good people of conscience did nothing in the face of evil.

      RIP

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 8:57 pm #

        Thanks for pointing out that James puts women in the same category of people who are criminals, grifters and NWO satanists.

      • Bobby E December 20, 2022 at 3:15 pm #

        db1951,

        “…people of conscience did nothing…”. We are not experiencing something on the scale of The Battle of Athens in 1946. What is there specifically to do individually or in whatever sized group that could be accumulated? Voting?!?! We’ve seen how easily that can be circumvented. Insurrection? That baby will be strangled before it can even draw its first breath. Aside from the impotent laments from Fox and other Right aligned outlets there’s not much that can be done. Until the wheels actually have come off the cart and we are at that point where we have less to lose through pushback than we have already lost will there be meaningful resistance.

    • Bobby E December 20, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

      Ishabaka,

      Good point re the racial aspects of it.

    • J West January 1, 2023 at 2:05 pm #

      1- Hard times create strong men

      2 – Strong men create good times

      3 – Good times create weak men

      4 – Weak men create hard times

      We are in the middle of #4

  2. Penelope Dreadful December 19, 2022 at 9:51 am #

    And now, it looks like Elon Musk will be stepping down as CEO of Twitter. I wonder what that forbodes?

    • Disaffected December 19, 2022 at 10:02 am #

      Pretty crazy, eh? Surely he’ll have a backdoor way out of that promise?

      • JohnAZ December 19, 2022 at 10:19 am #

        Crazy is right, a few weeks ago, the Twitter mob voted to put Trump back in, now they vote to remove Elon Musk from CEO.

        As usual, the electorate only wants what is populate AT THE MOMENT!

        Musk wanted out before he was forced to take the deal. He has represented an unbiased media site since and of course, the Biden Mob went after him because as JHK stated, they cannot tolerate the truth to be expressed. Elon is certainly no dictator, allowing managerial decisions to be made by the electorate of Twitter.

        I think he wants to take a loss and flush the whole damn thing down the toilet.

        • C.O.Jones December 19, 2022 at 10:28 am #

          Speculation is Musk retains ownership while handing it over to Jared Kushner to run.

          • Ron Anselmo December 19, 2022 at 10:37 am #

            Jared Kushner is bad news.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 10:52 am #

            Priceless! Hahahahaha!

          • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 3:12 pm #

            Kushner? Oh, goodie! Is it me, or is all this just kabuki theatre?

        • Disaffected December 19, 2022 at 10:32 am #

          Never had any use for Twatter, myself. It’s just another step towards Idiocracy.

          • redrock December 19, 2022 at 11:25 am #

            AMEN

        • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 1:45 pm #

          it never got talked much about here, despite my efforts. But its losing millions a day. The ADL blockade on advertisers has worked. If you advertise on Elon’s twitter, you’re an anti-Semite. And that even worse than being a racist.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 10:40 am #

        He still owns the thing.

        • Disaffected December 19, 2022 at 11:27 am #

          This is true. The new CEO, if one there will be, will likely be a proxy.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 8:58 pm #

            A deep-state proxy, which Elon is part of.

    • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 10:37 am #

      “Nice little takeover you did there, Mr Musk. Shame if something happens to it…” FBI spook hands Mr M a copy of the Zapruder film.

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 10:53 am #

        Mr. Musk never risked anything. Everything published was already known to a lot of people.

        • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 11:40 am #

          And whoever publishes it doesn’t matter because nothing will be done about it. Never mind. My Trump NFT should be in the post tomorrow.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

            Musk was able to get all the stuff out there – timed perfectly after it no longer mattered.

            They have all this timed out. There is no longer any rule of law at the top so it doesn’t matter what gets leaked. This has been apparent for years to those paying attention.

          • Redneck Liberal December 19, 2022 at 6:46 pm #

            Irresistible…

            honesttrumpcards.com

            If your NFT is ‘in the mail’, you know for sure you’ve been grifted (again).

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 8:59 pm #

            Oh lookie who couldn’t resist crawling back after only 1 week.

            Mr. “I’m DONE with KUNSTLER!!” Fake Trae.

            Hilarious.

          • benr December 20, 2022 at 9:52 am #

            @RL

            Pretty amazing how he manages to troll his enemies and they and you fall for it every time.
            These stupid things sold out.
            I see you missed us.

          • Islander December 22, 2022 at 12:16 am #

            There is a big difference—a very big difference—between something “being apparent” and producing the smoking guns.

            In a Russell Brand interview with Matt Taibbi, both expressed reservations regarding Musk’s ultimate loyalties and agenda.

            And both said,
            “What we need to concentrate on now is the actual evidence that is being revealed. ”

            I agree.

            It is hysterical to see how Mehdi Something (MSNBC) —this is embedded at Dr. Mercola’s post today— responds to the Twitter Files. I wish I could see Taibbi’s deconstruction of Mehdi’s absurd comments, but Taibbi is of course behind a paywall.

        • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 1:46 pm #

          But not to the voting public. That’s what matters in a “democracy”, Mary. Or are you agreeing with me that only a few people, the knowers, should be allowed to vote?

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 8:59 pm #

            Your comment has nothing to do with what I said.

          • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 1:01 am #

            Yes it does. If you’re too proud or dumb to see it, other will, have no doubt.

          • Anthea December 22, 2022 at 8:52 am #

            Most of Jarek’s comments are made in response to something he either imagined or invented.

            He’s not talking to you. He’s talking to himself.

          • Jarek December 22, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

            Some one says 1+3, and I say 4. It’s called conversation. Then maybe someone else says 2+2 or 4+0. All good. Only a woman (and not all) would stop the thread dead in its tracks by saying, “I didn’t say that”.

            And think themselves very clever too. The life of the party!

      • NickelthroweR December 19, 2022 at 10:55 am #

        Which version? The actual version or the horribly butchered version the CIA had to make overnight?

        • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

          The earlier version of the FBI sitting on evidence (hello, laptops of Seth Rich, Huma Abedin and Hunter Biden) were the other movie cameras they confiscated immediately after the assassination, never to be seen again.
          Zapruder was not the only one there filming with his Brownie camera.

          Oh, and there are the 80+ security cameras around the Pentagon whose footage was stolen by the FBI immediately after the attack in 2001.

          • Night Owl December 19, 2022 at 1:44 pm #

            That Pentagon video from 9/11 remains one of the saddest pieces of official-narrative evidence that I have ever seen.

            A film that appears to have be created with a potato, with only a handful of frames and an unidentifiable white blur.

            To this day, no other film has been released. The refusal to show the public anything that they could use to identify the object says it all for me.

            9/11 is the second biggest lie ever told to the US public, after Convid.

          • Paula D December 21, 2022 at 12:05 pm #

            The best part of the release of that video was the talking heads solemnly assuring us that we were clearly seeing a plane hitting the Pentagon.

            If ever there was a crystal clear portrait of straight-up gaslighting, that was it.

            Anyone who could watch them proclaim an utmost absurdity with sincere conviction and straight faces and not realize that the “news” is there to lie to you, is Too Stupid To Live.

    • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

      Probably nothing more than a need to get back to his real businesses – Tesla, SpaceX, the Boring Company, etc.

      His mission to snatch the megaphone of the greatest propaganda engine on Earth from the Hard Left and destroy it is just about done.

      Like all good Superheroes Musk does not hang around for the accolades as the movie credits roll. He’s on to bigger and better things.

      • Bobby E December 20, 2022 at 4:44 pm #

        Wizard of the Saddle,

        Like all super heroes say after the job is done, My work is done here.

  3. Walter B December 19, 2022 at 9:55 am #

    I agree absolutely James, Donald Trump, Mr. “You’re Fired”, was the perfect hate magnet that attracted all of the pent-up anger and animosity that the decadent American public had accrued since the tragic loss of our last good president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Whether Donald was used or was part of the plan is rather irrelevant I’d say, because the result is what our owners wanted, distraction from their evils and turning the public’s attention and angst against each other.

    Yes, the professional and managerial class led the way for the genocide because so many of them receive fat paychecks, bonuses, and benefits from their Big Pharma owners that they have sold their allegiance to.

    In a place where everything is for sale, eventually everything gets sold and, in the end, sold to the highest bidder.

    • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 10:40 am #

      Mind you, with the week Trump’s had, maybe the Deep State and pussyhat brigade weren’t needed. In the last 7 days Trump has endorsed McCarthy for speaker, pushed out a NFT project that would have made Liberace blush, and celebrate sodomy at MAL. It’s almost like he doesn’t want to win in 2024.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 10:48 am #

        Oh that NFT. How embarrassing.

        Then they tried to blame US, for not waiting for the real “major announcement”.

        He said America needed a superhero and he was going to make a major announcement.

        Then the announcement’s first two words are “major” and “announcement”, and it’s him in a superhero costume.

        I just love having my intelligence insulted like that.

        The people pretending to think that second announcement was anything but damage control are as bad as the Democrats when it comes to being dishonest.

        • crudgemudgeon December 19, 2022 at 1:45 pm #

          Dems are speculating that the NFTs are a way to launder money, like Hunter’s paintings seem to be. If so, Bravo! One can’t keep playing fair with Dems. I’m sure the constant Kk aware takes it’s toll on his finances and they need to be replenished.

      • JohnAZ December 19, 2022 at 11:24 am #

        Yeah, he seems to cling to the idea that his personal charisma will convert the Deep State.

        Never! My problem is that I see no one, no one whose primary aim is the removal of power from the Deep State.

        • Vegan Shark December 19, 2022 at 1:50 pm #

          “Yeah, he seems to cling to the idea that his personal charisma will convert the Deep State.”

          That he does, and the problem is that his personal charisma value is a minus number. In 2016 his bull-in-a-china-shop act seemed to many a refreshing change from the routine blandness of other politicians.

          Six years later his grating personal style, unbalanced by effective results, is a turn-off for even his remaining supporters.

          It reminds me of Gloria Grahame’s line in The Big Heat: “I have a special perfume. It attracts mosquitoes and repels men.”

      • cbeard December 19, 2022 at 5:50 pm #

        NFT, MAL. I have no idea.

        • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 3:14 pm #

          Try and keep up!

    • abbybwood December 19, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

      I voted against Hillary Clinton in 2016 as I think many millions did.

      Donald Trump happened to be the only way to do it.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 3:37 pm #

        I voted for The Donald. It started off so well. He got us right out of that sham Paris Accord, just as he said he would.

        I can’t believe the same man who saw through that bought into the scam that featured a cold virus.

      • cbeard December 19, 2022 at 5:54 pm #

        Ditto.

      • benr December 20, 2022 at 10:06 am #

        Yep, held my nose and voted for him.
        Then watching the forces of darkness attack him and pulling out all the stops made me decide anyone the leftist turds hate so much they are willing to lie as much as they have can’t be all bad in spite of what I find to be a New Yorker unlikable personality.

  4. DaveO907 December 19, 2022 at 9:55 am #

    “Oh what a tangled web…”

    • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 1:51 pm #

      Oh the tangled web we weave (or neurons, axions, and synapses) when first we practice to perceive.

      To be a yogin is to be an electrician of your own brain. That shit need fixin’. If you don’t, you’ll only see the things you like. You’ll end up like one of “the ladies”, who only sees what you like.

  5. RaymondR December 19, 2022 at 9:57 am #

    2023 is promising to be an interesting year. Keep your cupboards full and make good friends with your neighbours – you’ll need each other.

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    • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 10:38 am #

      Indeed. And a winter’s worth of fire wood in the cellar.

      • NickelthroweR December 19, 2022 at 10:58 am #

        I bought an extra wood stove and put it on a rolling platform so I can roll it outside (if I choose) so that my neighbors have a way to cook their meals. I have a solar rig on wheels as well which will allow my neighbors to recharge their electrical devices or electric tools.

        • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 11:41 am #

          Nickel, if things get as bad as they say, those neighbours will BE my meal.

          • benr December 20, 2022 at 10:07 am #

            Yuck don’t eat the junk food.

        • Islander December 22, 2022 at 12:21 am #

          NickelThrower:

          Sounds good!

          I would like to be your neighbor!

      • Night Owl December 19, 2022 at 1:46 pm #

        We’ve already started with the woodstove up in ‘Schland.

        • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 3:16 pm #

          Same here in Switzerland, though we’re having a thaw right now. Wood here is still cheap and plentiful. It usually gets much colder after Xmas.

          • Anthea December 22, 2022 at 9:30 am #

            Our winter cold snap usually begins on January 1st, when it often goes down to around 0° F., though rarely below 0°. Overnight temps can drop down to nearly 0° sporadically throughout January and sometimes into February.

            But according to the long-term forecast, this will be a weird winter. That is, unusually warm, once this artic blast is over. “Unusually warm,” around here, means no lows below 20° F., with highs in the mid to upper 30s or lower 40s.

            Our market gardeners are worried that we won’t have a deep enough or long enough cold to kill off next year’s insect populations, or for some perennials to go fully dormant. I’m not clear on why it’s a problem if plants don’t go fully dormant–though I know that apple trees have a “chill factor” and won’t bear fruit without an extended period of cold winter temperatures.

      • Anthea December 22, 2022 at 9:12 am #

        It’s down to 1° F. this morning, and the temp is supposed to continue to drop all day and again overnight, to -7°. So the wood stove is blazing and the dog will be indoors for the duration–three or four days of sub-zero temps.

        The dog doesn’t quite know what to make of being indoors. He’s never been inside before.

  6. Disaffected December 19, 2022 at 9:58 am #

    2016 election, Jim.

    Of course… 5a.m. brain fart. — JHK Admin

    • Disaffected December 19, 2022 at 11:21 am #

      No problemo!

  7. Ron Anselmo December 19, 2022 at 10:00 am #

    Awesome Jim! Stay on these fuckers with both feet – they are all liars. This is the biggest, most evil, most egregious project ever. We need to take no prisoners – no excuses whatsoever. Black flag all of them.

    • Ron Anselmo December 19, 2022 at 10:05 am #

      Comment relative to everything you touched on, but I mean Covid specifically.

  8. Dr. Coyote December 19, 2022 at 10:05 am #

    To horribly mis-quote Rand (but in a directionally correct way), “You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” There has been a lot of reality ignoring going on these past few years, and right on schedule, here come the chickens back to roost. How the hell we get through 2023 without tripping into World War III and Great Depression II is beyond me.

    And to think, just four years ago the worst things that we had to put up with were mean tweets.

    • Frank Buttitch December 19, 2022 at 11:25 am #

      Just ignore it and blame it on your brother or sister.

  9. lizharmon December 19, 2022 at 10:22 am #

    Musk is giving the woke legions a taste of their own medicine now and they’re squealing like pigs. I do not care for censorship and it doesn’t matter who it’s used again. That said, I have trouble giving two shits what happens to the leftist scum and their avatar. Frankly, may they all rot in hell.

    • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

      No, he isn’t.

      Like I said above, nothing that Taibbi released was not known. But they waited to unearth it after the Biden/Deep State apparatus was in place so that there is absolutely no way anything will be done about it.

      I’d love to be proven wrong. This stuff is very easy to predict. Has anyone been held accountable for anything since 2000?

      Nope.

      • Night Owl December 19, 2022 at 1:49 pm #

        I will say this, whatever Musk turns out to be, we have and are getting more on Biden and the DS use of social media than we ever got on 9/11.

        Many people still don’t even know a third building fell.

        It is easy to be pessimistic, and energy-wise it is toxic.

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 3:50 pm #

          He plays it safe, and now he’s handing Jared Kushner the reins.

          Who’s toxic?

          LOL.

          • Night Owl December 19, 2022 at 5:51 pm #

            IDK, who is toxic?

            My comment was on toxic energy consuming even good people, because they get bogged down in all the negativity.

    • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 1:55 pm #

      I second that sentiment wholeheartedly. I
      like to be principled….but NOT where the Wokesters are concerned. They break ALL rules. Therefore, ALL IS FAIR when it comes to letting these vermin have it!

  10. Zoltar December 19, 2022 at 10:25 am #

    Our society’s problem is far greater than false narratives. There are always a Red Narrative and a Blue Narrative which must, of course, always contradict each other in every detail. Since both cannot possibly be true we are all accustomed to dismissing half of what we are told as a lie.

    Many, if not most Americans have become so proficient at narrative dismissal that they have no difficulty in also dismissing Truth, even when it is irrefutably demonstrated, if that truth does not suit them.

    Yes, the new Congress may reveal more truth than we have been exposed to in the past several years, but will that make any difference?

    Or will the people just continue to believe what they have been trained to believe, Truth be damned.

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    • Ron Anselmo December 19, 2022 at 10:41 am #

      No and yes.

    • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 1:57 pm #

      The Sheeple element is always wholly impervious to being enlightened by things such as logic, facts, reason, evidence, long-standing experience and standards, etc.

      They are hopeless and DESERVE to be devoured by the Leftist wolves.

      Problem is…they put the rest of us at risk of being devoured as well. Thus my utter contempt for Sheeple.

      • Zoltar December 19, 2022 at 2:26 pm #

        Wiz –

        I don’t disagree. Week after week I admire Jim’s industry and talent for putting together a detailed and truthful narrative, but find his insuperable hopefulness to be unwarranted.

  11. JohnAZ December 19, 2022 at 10:30 am #

    News item.

    In India, a man named Lakshmireddy Srinu died in a movie theater from a heart attack watching Avatar 2. A doctor, Sanjeev Gera, commented,

    “After Covid, there is CONTINUING inflammation of our blood vessels.”

    Another, Pradeep Kumar,

    “Plaque rupture in coronaries or arrhythmias are triggered by excitement.”

    If Covid does it, so do the Vaxxes, no information on that.

    At least, unlike America, some truth exists in India.

    • malthuss December 19, 2022 at 11:04 am #

      there are 1-2 billion people in India. How many indians die every day?

      / some truth exists in India….like what?

    • Frank Buttitch December 19, 2022 at 11:19 am #

      Triggered by excitement?
      Xanax please!

  12. MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 10:33 am #

    As I mentioned above, James seems to have left out of the Drag Queen and Wokie grooming of children all the men in charge in schools (superintendents, boards, etc.) and the Antifa goons who guard and protect Drag Queen Happy Hours, while placing the blame for everything squarely on women who hate Donald Trump.

    Quite an oversight. Men in big pharma, men in high positions in corporations (one of which I work in), are demanding their logos be made into rainbow flags, and instituting the trans agenda. Women parading in pussyhats are not in any sort of a powerful position to do this.

    But it’s sure convenient to blame women, isn’t it?

    In contrast, the people standing up against the wokie bullshit and the transing of kids are – you guessed it – mostly women.

    We’re getting cayenne-laced pies thrown at us, our signs stolen, fingers crushed and broken, property stolen, spat upon, threatened… by MEN. For trying to protect kids. Against predatory MEN.

    James, you might want to investigate something called “autogynophelia” or take a gander at the extensive reporting that Redux.info has done over the past year. They report on the predatory men who make up the meat of the trans agenda. Maybe check out which legislators have been successful in instituting the horrible anti-women laws recently – all men (start with Scott Wiener in CA). While there are no shortage of handmaidens, they certainly don’t run the show. This is not hard to see for anyone who wants to.

    Who has been arrested lately for child trafficking and porn? Hmmm. Men. Who have been using the trans agenda as an excuse to get placed into women’s prisons to assault women? Men. Who vastly make up the big pharma bloc who are pushing for hormones and surgery for kids? Again, men. There are spokeswomen galore because they need women to sell it. But women aren’t the ones in control of it.

    • vengeur December 19, 2022 at 11:06 am #

      You think men are in charge of schools??? You need to get out a little more.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 11:21 am #

        At the top, yes. Did you think teachers were in charge?

        • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 11:43 am #

          Define “men” here, please, Beryl. As someone involved indirectly in education, the “men” I see in charge are anything butt.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

            I worked in higher ed for 6 years. How are men not in charge? Most chancellors and presidents and superintendents are men.

            The women in those spots are the pussyhatters James speaks of, which do the bidding of men. Not women.

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 1:59 pm #

            Gloria Steinem said non-feminist women aren’t women.

            Mary just stepped it up: Feminists who aren’t radical enough (like the Pussyhatters) aren’t women either.

            She is very radical. Don’t believe her remonstrances to the contrary.

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 12:39 pm #

          Probably not worth responding to anyone who thinks teachers are in charge. Or that all teachers are female.

          In fact, another male teacher here in Boise was just arrested for having sex with a 16 year old student. Seems to happen on a monthly basis here.

          • Q. Shtik December 19, 2022 at 1:58 pm #

            I worked in higher ed for 6 years. How are men not in charge? -MQ

            ==========

            Claudine Gay, a Black woman, was just hired to be Harvard’s president effective July 1, 2023

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 2:01 pm #

            How gay Q is, how happy and light hearted!

            Islander was going on about freedom of speech the other day, and I reminded her of her efforts to get me canned.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 3:49 pm #

            Oh, you mean the affirmative action hires that are required now? A token woman here and there (esp of color) seems to be enough to fool you lot.

          • Soul Forensics December 19, 2022 at 4:05 pm #

            “Islander was going on about freedom of speech the other day, and I reminded her of her efforts to get me canned.”

            She wanted our host to ban me, too. She’s a shameless hypocrite.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:06 pm #

            What does your beef with Islander have to do with my comment?

          • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 9:22 pm #

            Old news about male teachers who can’t resist fresh meow. But how are we to explain the sudden explosion of women teachers banging underage boys in the schools over the past 25 years or so? Where the hell did THAT come from….and where were these women teachers when I was just a tender lad of 15 desperate for instruction from some predatory Venus? Lol…

        • Kay December 19, 2022 at 1:57 pm #

          Beryl, teachers can pretty much teach what they want in the classroom if they reach a non-descript standard. Of course, there are exceptions to teaching positive stuff like faith. The people at the top and unions can’t stop most teachers, or they lose their jobs after a lawsuit. Teachers have to be breaking the law to be fired. The only thing that disrupts teachers is a group of parents that won’t be stopped. It is not the teachers’ bosses.

          Women are overrepresented in education, HR, and I believe we have a majority in Congress. At what point will women self-evaluate and honestly consider what they contribute to society? Very, very few do. Even fewer unherd themselves because women are afraid to leave the sisterhood herd. If another female put the proper pressure on another sister, many will do something that is not in their best interest. Go look up the few channels of women on Youtube/Rumble that won’t go along with feminism. Other sisters will tear them apart. (karen straughan-girl writes what or janice fiamengo of Studio B)

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 2:05 pm #

            I adore karen, but even she admits it wasn’t until her son began to grow up that she even thought about any of this. What kind of world is left for young men, given the utter viciousness of feminism and the capitulation of men to it?

            Still powerful men around? Sure, they like men being kept down like this. Women are used, and Blacks are used as well to keep Whites (and now White women too) down.

          • Anthea December 22, 2022 at 10:09 am #

            @ Kay:

            The way it really works in teaching is that most teachers are hired from among “connected” families with known political and social stances–who belong to the “right” church and are known to support the “right” views. If you’re an “outsider” who is seeking a teaching job, your best bet is to join a church with the desired political/social stance, and let it be known that you are a true believer. (For those who have not noticed this, most churches represent specific political factions. There is always one church attended by the town’s politically powerful people–who control things like the hiring of teachers, the election of public officials, and the state, local, and federal funds for schools and other government uses.)

            Schools generally prefer to hire young teachers right out of college, rather than experienced teachers. This is because the young, new teachers can more easily be trained by administrators to toe the line on political and social issues, and things like Common Core.

            Being interviewed for a teaching job can be quite an interesting experience. There are lots of “fishing” type questions that are attempts to find out if you are a member of a “victim” or “downtrodden” class, and to get a more detailed picture of your views about feminism and racial equality/equity and such.

            If you are a volunteer or a substitute in a school and you are seeking a teaching contract, sometimes one of the teachers will be assigned to become your “pal,” in order to find out your political and social views. This happened to me once. I was befriended by a teacher who talked a lot about political and social issues. I didn’t realize until years later that she was trying to find out if I was guilty of “wrong think.”

            I think she became a little frustrated with me, as my usual response to her stories was, “I guess that’s your business and not mine.”

            She once told me that, “If a man puts his feet under my table or his shoes under my bed, he’d better leave some money on my dresser.” I’m pretty sure I was expected to respond with applause. My actual response was–though not spoken out loud–“I guess that’s your business and not mine.”

            That’s not good enough for school administrators. You must be an incandescent supporter of particular–and invariably leftist–political and social views. And they will for damn sure find out whether you “fit in” before they hire you.

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

        Go look at the superintendents list & get back to me.

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 12:39 pm #

          And chancellors of colleges.

          • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 3:42 pm #

            But wait! One affirmative action female appointee proves us wrong!

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 3:46 pm #

            Hahahaha! Yeah that’s the ticket 😉

        • Anthea December 22, 2022 at 10:30 am #

          The real decision-making doesn’t even reside with the superintendents. Many, or even most, school policies are set by the federal government, sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly. Funding for your school depends on whether your school is toeing the line on federal policies. Another factor is that schools no longer have any real choices as to which textbooks they adopt.

          Back in the 50s and 60s, there were many textbook publishers, so many different points of view were represented. For example, history–and specifically the history of the Civil War–was presented quite differently in textbooks used in the South than it was in the North.

          Nowadays, there are few textbook publishers. (I’m not sure how many. Maybe only a couple.) Maybe I’m assuming too much, but I suspect that schools are not allowed to choose their textbooks from other sources, though the enforcement of this may be indirect. E.g., the “authorized” textbooks teach the answers to the standardized tests, so if you choose an “unauthorized” textbook, your students may score poorly. This will affect your school’s reputation (thus affecting your local real estate market), your students’ chances of getting into a “good” college, and maybe even your school’s accreditation.

          If you want to identify who is really running the schools and setting policies, you need to look quite a bit higher up the food chain.

    • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 1:56 pm #

      Women never do anything wrong. They are perfect and should rule the World and men.

      The Gospel according to Mary and Anthea

      • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 3:43 pm #

        Women’s faults are many.

        Men have only two.

        Everything they say, and everything they do.

        • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 7:56 pm #

          You are a demon then, as bad as Mary and Anthea.

          Repent.

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:07 pm #

          Sweet!

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 9:23 pm #

          I bet you don’t say that when you need a spider squashed or a mouse trapped. <>

          • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 3:15 am #

            @ Wizard of the Saddle:

            Whenever a wasp got in the house, I was always the one who dealt with it, as my ex was scared of wasps.

            Once when the toilet got clogged, I handed him the plunger. He shut the bathroom door to perform this operation in secret. When I opened the door to see why things were not progressing, he was poking the wooden handle down the commode.

            When the sink sprayer crapped out, who to you think replaced the diverter? Or the length of busted pipe that went to the outdoor spigot? That’s right; that would be me.

            I believe I can handle setting a mouse trap.

          • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 3:16 am #

            Notice that Jarek can’t figure out how to water his own plants.

          • benr December 20, 2022 at 10:09 am #

            @ant

            Damn you married a dud not a dude.

          • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 12:28 pm #

            Yup. Now the question is why. The most reasonable answer: She wanted a man she could dominate. What does say about her?

            Nuthin’ good.

          • Anthea December 22, 2022 at 10:36 am #

            @ Jarek:

            I would be very much surprised if you are able to do plumbing repairs or deal with bees and wasps in the house.

          • Jarek December 22, 2022 at 1:25 pm #

            But we’re talking about your husband and why you married him since he was so impractical.

    • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 2:03 pm #

      Again….the men you cite do not even begin to approach a majority of all men. The majority of men detest ALL of this, but not enough of us possess the money and power to halt it. The Leftist and WEF types like Schwab and Trudeau are feminized sacks of shit who cynically leverage the emotional and hysterical nature of deranged liberal women to achieve their political goals. They don’t go to MEN looking for the votes to pass their socialist policies. Nope. It’s the WOMEN’s vote that always carries the day for these bastards.

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:07 pm #

        Oh so women should stop it, and caused it all, but men are helpless to do anything? Are you even reading what you write?

        My gawd.

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 9:32 pm #

          Do you do much actual thinking, Mary, before you write? Settle down.

          I do not find everything you post to be wrongheaded, but the misandry you exhibit is a flaw and I’m afraid ole Jarek has you pegged in that department.

          If all men vanished tomorrow your troubles would not be over. They would multiply beyond your imagination within the first two weeks.

          Men sustain civilization. Women sustain the species.

          Remember, Mary: Every MAN was the fruit of a woman’s womb. Biology ties us together in a way that no amount of feminist claptrap can ever set asunder. Each sex needs the other. But it only works if we stay in our allotted lanes and perform the roles nature specifically designed each of us for. Men need to be masculine. Women need to be feminine. None of this gender confusion nonsense. Any who is confused about what is between their legs is simply mentally I’ll and needs to be committed to a rubber room.

          • C.O.Jones December 22, 2022 at 9:45 am #

            Well said, Wizard.

            My last wife complained about my “toxic masculinity” at which point I diagnosed her repetition of social virtue buzzwords as a caustic asininity.

            It may be a couple of points against my poetic license – hope my insurance doesn’t go up – but it was worth the blank stare I received in response.

      • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 3:28 am #

        I honestly think that all men need to do is to begin behaving in an honest, honorable, and responsible way towards women, and towards their children.

        I have never heard of a single case of domestic violence in which the wife’s dad, brother, or other male relative did anything in her defense.

        You guys brought this on yourselves.

        • benr December 20, 2022 at 10:10 am #

          Bullshit someone abusing my daughter they are not going to like what I say and then do if it does not stop.

      • Anthea December 22, 2022 at 10:40 am #

        @ Wizard of the Saddle:

        Women vote for socialist policies because they don’t want their kids to starve and live under a bridge. And women know that the men cannot be counted on to provide.

  13. Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 10:36 am #

    I beg to differ. If the women had that much power Hillary Clinton would have been already running for her second term.

    She was well on her way to the White House when suddenly TPTB decided it would be a man, a black man, who would be the ‘historic first’.

    Black woman Oprah Winfrey, alleged feminist, told her white audience not to vote for the first woman to have a real shot at the presidency, not to vote for one of their own, because Barack Obama was The One.

    • JohnAZ December 19, 2022 at 10:58 am #

      Yeah, he was the one all right.

      Judas!

    • redrock December 19, 2022 at 11:32 am #

      Oprah and Obama, the n word comes to mind. Lotta mouth and huckster.

    • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 2:07 pm #

      And they listened too! Imagine allowing an anti-White racist like Oprah to be your brain.

      That’s White women!

  14. JohnAZ December 19, 2022 at 10:36 am #

    Exactly what do you think the political Right, the Reds, want if not the resurrection of the American Way.

    Right on, JHK, keep it up.

    Folks who want change even if it is negative decorate and right now dominate this country.

    They are JHK’s target,

    And mine.

    If the change artists succeed, there will be no American Way.

  15. ActionJack December 19, 2022 at 10:53 am #

    2016 was Hillary
    2020 was Joe
    2024 will be Gavin

    These are all beatable people, but we are 50/50.

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    • Frank Buttitch December 19, 2022 at 11:16 am #

      Not for long

  16. MontanaMan December 19, 2022 at 10:55 am #

    Another absolutely outstanding spot—on perfectly written article by that good old American truth teller. I never thought I’d live to see the day that I, a Conservative and, many many other Conservatives would be reading James Howard Kunstler. Because he was always a liberal. I think what is happened to Kunstler, is the same things that has happened to so many other, Democrat voters. That are now voting for Republicans and especially for, Governor, Ron DeSantis. And you know what I mean by that is, you would have to read an article on the Free Press that is titled,

    “The Rise of the DeSantis Democrats
    Like Reagan Democrats once upon a time, these voters have already reshaped the political landscape in Florida. Can they do the same nationally in 2024?”

    By Olivia Reingold.

    Even Democrats give birth. And even Democrat women don’t want their kids messed with by the government. They may be open minded and very much so. They may engage in weekend wife swapping parties.

    Swingers.That, up until Covid came along, swinging really exploded across our Nation. Coast to Coast. It’s a well-known fact that many people that consider themselves sexually open minded are also deeply conservative.

    For example. When it comes to their kids, or to their country. Like the border that we no longer have. Just about everything that Joe Biden has brought about since he’s been in office, they don’t like.

    Governor DeSantis did something that no politician in Florida has ever been able to do before. And that is flip them. He didn’t just flip 1 or 2 or 3 or 4. He flipped every single blue neighborhood. Every single blue city.

    Every single blue county he also flipped. In that article, I read how the employees in the Extremely well-known strip clubs would be dead up all of the stage, because none of these highly paid women was dancing.

    They were all gathered around the men at the bar, talking politics about all the things that Gov DeSantis had brought about. How he did something that no politician has successfully done in any other state. And that’s because none of them have any guts to do it!!

    Andy that is to take on that states public school system. These insane things that have been holding these transsexual dances and them even reading to the little ones in school is as disgusting to DeSantis as it is to parents and and especially to grand-parents!! All of this and more, Much much more, I read about in that article.

    • JohnAZ December 19, 2022 at 11:07 am #

      How about this,

      Americans are not socialistic, period. As the Democrats that are moderate are overwhelmed by unAmerican socialists, they are starting to realize what the Progressives are up to.

      Remember that the first person Hillary targeted in 2016 was Bernie Sanders, not Trump. Bernie is the leader of the socialist, dictatorial Progressives and the Moderate wing of the Democrats do no want them any more that the Right does and they are starting to jump ship.

      Remember the two reasons the Progressives are growing is the border and the university. Both are the seed bed of Communism.

      • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 2:33 pm #

        What about the Boston Commons and other Commons? The communal barn building among the German groups, etc, etc.

        Any People who refuse communalism are doomed. And at a higher stage of industrial organization, any people who refuse all socialism (such as unions) are doomed to become the pawns and playthings of the Capitalists and Bankers.

        Individuals could never have conquered and dispossessed the communal Indian tribes.

    • Ron Anselmo December 19, 2022 at 11:09 am #

      Montana Man – don’t hold your breath – here’s a thought that still occasionally awakens me in a cold sweat at night. I’m talking heebie-jeebies.

      In the 2018 general election for Governor of Florida, DeSantis beat Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum, by 0.4%, 49.6% for DeSantis, to 49.2% for Gillum.

      At the time, Gillum, the black, then Mayor of Tallahassee, FL, state capital of Florida, was already under investigation for corruption in city government.

      In addition, during the campaign, Gillum was found naked and unconscious in his own vomit, from smoking crystal meth, in a ritzy South Beach (Miami) hotel room, with a bunch of male hookers. I have the link to the article, which contains pictures, but I’ll spare CFN’ers the filth.

      Apparently, this did not make him unelectable for Democrats. They are sick, mentally damaged beyond repair. File under: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

      I cannot even begin to imagine the fate of Florida, had Gillum been Governor of Florida, from 2018 until present. As Jim says, it would have made projectile vomiting look like a Satanic loogie – how fitting.

      ~ A fourth generation Floridian

      • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 11:24 am #

        Those meth parties were responsible for the rise in AIDS.

        You could be banned from having a wedding or funeral because of a cold virus, but a drug-fueled orgy that spreads AIDS? Meh.

        All men party BTW.

        • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 2:35 pm #

          All men participate in orgies? Really? Show your data to back that up.

          • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 3:45 pm #

            Gay meth orgies that spread AIDS are all men, yes. When they say “gay”, that’s what is meant by that word.

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 7:58 pm #

            No, you said all men above. Look up and see.

            You need to think more.

        • benr December 19, 2022 at 4:55 pm #

          Those parties consist of meth, viagra and usually poppers.
          A weekend of that partying and someone who had zero HIV will show up as having full blown HIV/AIDS by the end of the weekend.
          The media said so about eight years ago so it must be true.

      • abbybwood December 19, 2022 at 1:25 pm #

        I am in Los Angeles and am planning my escape in May and it will either be back home to Ohio or to Florida.

        The brutal winters in Ohio scare me (I am 72) but another character like Gilliam slithering out of the political woodwork in Florida scares me just as much.

        Not down for vaccine mandates and lockdowns. Too bad DeSantis can’t be governor for life.

        • Ron Anselmo December 19, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

          Abby – come to NE Florida, you’ll be welcome here. Look hard at St. Johns County – you’ll love it, heaven on earth – especially the southern half of the county. “Heavy D” was actually our US House Rep from 2013-2018. Loved him then – love him now – pray he stays.

        • NickelthroweR December 19, 2022 at 2:17 pm #

          I left Ventura and moved to Amish Country in Ohio which was my childhood home. Skip Florida and go back home. Nearly 100% of the silliness that has infected the nation these past few years skipped over us. Yes, the Winters can be tough but the other 3 seasons make up for it.

          Oh yeah, housing here is cheap – really cheap. I have a 3000sqft brick home with a new roof and heating on a good-sized lot that backs up into a forest for $136k.

          You wont find that in Florida and with the money you save, you can vacation there for a few weeks in January. 🙂

          • Anthea December 22, 2022 at 10:58 am #

            I’d go with Missouri. (I’m thinking Ohio is colder.) Many of the very rural parts of Missouri are Amish country. Northern Missouri has good, cheap farmland. Southern Missouri does too but is more scenic. If I could live anywhere in the US, I would probably buy a small acreage in a fertile valley in the Ozark Mountains.

            I live in the exurbs of Kansas City, where housing is fairly inexpensive–more so as you get further out of town–but you’re still close to shopping, restaurants, and other amenities.

        • Blackbird December 19, 2022 at 8:15 pm #

          I recommend Florida. Ohio is too cold for a world made by hand – if that is what the future holds.

          I’m in Michigan and am working on my escape back to Florida. I lived in south Florida, on the coast, and that’s still my favorite part, but in the future we appear to be hurtling toward, that will be a world unmade by hand.

          If you’re looking for a future of relative stability in a pleasant place, north Florida is hard to beat.

          • Ron Anselmo December 19, 2022 at 11:59 pm #

            Bird – you’re right on. Still civil & beautiful in North Florida. Great people, majority conservative – actually quite a few Michiganders believe it or not. Many used to winter here in times past.

            Any that come here asking what they can give to the community are welcome – any coming here bent on what they can get from the community can GTFO.

            Unquestioned “Southern Hospitality” has gone by the wayside. If people are fleeing some failed shithole city that has failed because of their socialist policies – they are no longer welcome – we don’t want them here. Simple as that.

            Can’t believe you’ve survived under Whitmer – she is evil incarnate – I mean that literally – look into her eyes.

            Stay out of South Florida for the reason you state – check out the NE Florida coast. St. Johns & Flagler counties are idyllic, and with any luck we can stay that way.

          • Blackbird December 20, 2022 at 7:06 pm #

            “…survived under Whitmer…”

            Survived her first term. I’m not so confident about surviving her second.

    • elysianfield December 19, 2022 at 12:24 pm #

      “Swingers.That, up until Covid came along, swinging really exploded across our Nation. Coast to Coast. It’s a well-known fact that many people that consider themselves sexually open minded are also deeply conservative”

      Sooo…Montana swings like a pendulum do?

  17. Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 10:57 am #

    Speaking of those “vaccines”, the Market Ticker guy writes about how they don’t work, they were never going to work. the utter stupidity involved, etc.

    We knew this a long time ago.

    And Now the Proof: You Wasted Your Time

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247653

    • abbybwood December 19, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

      So, fraud and corruption to the tune of billions and it’s still happening.

    • Night Owl December 19, 2022 at 1:50 pm #

      They work. Just not in the way we were told.

      • Mick December 19, 2022 at 1:59 pm #

        Operation Thin the Herd

    • Disaffected December 19, 2022 at 3:34 pm #

      Love the way Denninger writes. He pulls no punches.

  18. JohnAZ December 19, 2022 at 10:57 am #

    Okay Mary.

    Who IS responsible for taking this country into the perverted mess that it is now? You say men, right.

    Look back fifty years and think of what has changed to create the perversion of our political society.

    Politics, both sexes. Think the same thing that driven the woke movement with Blacks, is the same as women. Poor little Blacks, or Women, we need to take care of them and give them preferential treatment,

    Which puts them into a power drive which divides everyone.

    What has changed? Roles. The nuclear family, a 50+% divorce rate, men leaving their traditional breadwinner role, women leaving their homemaker role, actually being forced to, to enter the job market with primarily menial service sector jobs. People who brag on the small businesses run by women do not realize that small business makes small income, takes lots of hours, and most fail within five years.

    Anyway, Mary, in this wonderful America we have developed, everyone has lost, everyone is at fault, not just women or not just men.

    You love to blame men for all the changes. Wow, considering that in 1950, every economic power position, at least 95% anyway, was filled by a man. So I guess that they made 95% of the bad and good decisions affecting things IS A GIVEN.

    I, for one, notice that as the movement of women higher and higher in the social economic structure of the US, the WORSE things have gotten. The blog talks about how the country has become more perverted with its valued and it is accelerating with time. What is changing over the last forty years.

    The percentage of women entering the workforce and the percentage of men leaving.

    Your logic bucket has a big hole in it.

    Want to find who is at fault, go to any public location and look around 360 degrees. They are all at fault.

    • Islander December 19, 2022 at 11:05 am #

      ” women leaving their homemaker role, actually being forced to, to enter the job market ”

      Bollocks. Faulty logic.

      Women have always been workers. Check your history books. Or, to keep it simple, read just one book on the history of textile production.

      The “job market” is a relative recent creation and socioeconomic concept.

      • JohnAZ December 19, 2022 at 11:13 am #

        Bollocks back.

        Women comprise a much larger sector of our economy today that sixty years ago.

        I never said they did not work hard, homemakers work their butts off, just where the energy is expended has changed.

        Want to blame something for women’s desire to get out of the house? How about all the labor saving devices invented in the first half of the 20 th century. The labor role at home was cut by 2/3.

        • Islander December 19, 2022 at 12:45 pm #

          JOhn,
          Your backward-looking lens has a very short focal length.

          The picture seems to go out of focus at about 1951.

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 2:40 pm #

            Things were better then. Modern feminist culture is a disaster. You wouldn’t fit in back then? Yeah, and you won’t fit into a World Made by Hand either. You’re not the Centre or the Measure of anything. Neither am I. We need to talk about what’s best for most people, right?

        • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 1:06 pm #

          Actually appliances brought some chores back into the home.
          When was the last time you heard of anyone sending their laundry out?

          • Q. Shtik December 19, 2022 at 2:31 pm #

            When was the last time you heard of anyone sending their laundry out? – B of O

            ===========

            For approximately 2 years that Peter lived in Florida prior to Bo and I rescuing him from a medical facility, he sent out his laundry. Likewise for all the time subsequent to his wife’s death in 2014.

            Peter doesn’t know how a washing machine works and in any case it’s not something a man should be doing.

            Ditto for doing dishes.

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 2:41 pm #

            Peter is a man’s man. What kind of guns did he have?

      • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 11:30 am #

        That Ozzie and Harriet image of American family life was crafted to sell stuff, and to get women OUT of the workforce so returning veterans would have something to do.

        The biggest change from feminism is that women were staying in the workforce after they married and had children.

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

        Total Bollocks, yes.

        Women have been in the workforce forever. But to people like JAZ it began in 1970.

        Just, weird.

        • abbybwood December 19, 2022 at 2:03 pm #

          From the time I turned 16 and worked as a lifeguard I just liked getting those paychecks every Friday.

          Same for when I became a nurse and the paychecks were like “Wow!”

          I liked making money and being independent.

    • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 11:28 am #

      The politics are driven by the perverters. Look at Disney, trying to throw their weight around in Florida.

      Actually I could make the case that society reached its highest point after women broke free of the restraints imposed on them.

      Things turned around and started going the other way at approximately the same time the globalism push started.

      • JohnAZ December 19, 2022 at 11:48 am #

        Disney, yuk.

        We went to so Avatar yesterday. Four trailers shown before.

        All were Marvel comics superhero movies. Avatar itself was Disney.

        I think Disney is responsible fro destroying Hollywood. Good movies are few and far between.

        Used to say that there are 13 basic plots that all stories are based upon.

        I think Hollywood is down to one or two.

        • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 12:48 pm #

          WTF did you go and see that garbage for? Why give them your hard earnt money?

        • RelativeGuise December 19, 2022 at 1:49 pm #

          NO! Hwood is down to a half of one, which is the progenitor of thousands of plots, this confusion, this thus I am not a bean. I identify as bean so please tell me SBF is not going on an LSD cross of jare bear stare.really

          the half life, John, of all the confusion is the whole of all that is crystalline and pure. We just seek a whole. We get a half and that, as one knows, is thousands. Just look in the mirbird.

          • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 4:29 pm #

            What have you been smokin’ dude? I’d lay off that shit if I were you..,,

          • Blackbird December 19, 2022 at 8:21 pm #

            Yeah, that stuff they sell at the gas station? That’s not really weed.

        • abbybwood December 19, 2022 at 2:07 pm #

          I heard the dialogue in Avatar is stupid. Most people left the theater or fell asleep.

          • Q. Shtik December 19, 2022 at 8:39 pm #

            I heard the dialogue in Avatar is stupid. – abby

            =============

            Disney (the creator of Avatar) stock was the biggest loser in the DJIA today based on disappointment over the movie.

    • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

      You are blind to facts, so you should probably just ignore my posts. You never even come close to digesting any of what I say. You just come out with strawmen which then you try to knock down in a clumsy fashion.

      My logic has no holes in it.

      You have proven over and over not to get that our society is structured and controlled by the deep state. Starting in 1970s when Gloria Steinem the CIA asset started gaslighting women into giving up families and motherhood onto present day. Paula D has also explained ad nauseam that forcing women into the workforce was a win/win for capitalism. Women don’t have the power to do any of this. We have been pawns, just as BLM, Antifa, etc. continue to be pawns.

      Speaking of pawns, you’re the biggest one up here. Still judging everyone’s opinion even though you flipflop on everything nonstop.

      • malthuss December 19, 2022 at 1:53 pm #

        is this to John?

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 3:44 pm #

          Obviously, since it’s a response to his comment.

      • JohnAZ December 19, 2022 at 6:24 pm #

        Hahahaha, what logic?

    • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 1:02 pm #

      Also, I pointed out the men in charge.

      I didn’t say “all men.”

      You and Jarek love to play that little game. It’s a stupid one.

      • RelativeGuise December 19, 2022 at 1:51 pm #

        momentum, Jarek.

      • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 6:31 pm #

        You often just say men as in, Women are life. Men are death.

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:11 pm #

          Never said that, though. You did.

          Maybe you have a memory problem, Alzheimer’s creeping up?

  19. Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 10:58 am #

    Aneurisms? You don’t say.

    UPDATE on the Grant Wahl story: One week after Wahl’s sudden death, disturbing new evidence that mRNA shots can cause aneurysms in healthy people

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  20. Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 11:00 am #

    They didn’t want us to know this until they were all dead.

    What will it take for the media and public health bureaucrats to admit the mRNA vaccines have failed?

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    • JohnAZ December 19, 2022 at 11:17 am #

      It will never happen! Ever. The folks in control are the ones that caused the vaxx surge in the first place.

      Also, the populace wants to follow, not lead. The majority will never believe anything contrary to what their doctor or the government tells them.

    • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 11:46 am #

      Two professional footballers here in Switzerland just dropped dead. Crickets. Celine Dion has “stiff body syndrome”. Crickets. If it weren’t so tragic, it would be funny watching the MSM twist themselves into knots trying to avoid mentioning the V word.

      • Night Owl December 19, 2022 at 1:52 pm #

        Two more World Cup journos also collapsed and died after Grant Wahl.

        All with heart issues.

        • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 2:59 pm #

          Must have been the excitement of watching Messi’s silky ball skills!

          • Night Owl December 19, 2022 at 5:51 pm #

            Scheeeenkelklopfer

      • Blackbird December 19, 2022 at 8:29 pm #

        Celine Dion had “stiff body syndrome” long before “Covid” became trendy.

        • JohnAZ December 20, 2022 at 10:15 am #

          Autoimmune disease exacerbated by Covid.

          A lot of folks have autoimmune reactions not readily noticeable. My daughter is one.

          Covid and/or the vaxx brings it on.

          Covid does not kill. It aggravates what is already there.

  21. Islander December 19, 2022 at 11:00 am #

    Hmmm.
    The pussyhatters, Antifa, BLM etc. are IMO all “vocal minorities” whose members are easily manipulated or bought and who are used as battering rams to further undeclared agendas.

    According to a Google search ” Twitter currently has 329 million users.”

    So, 10 million sounds to me like a vocal minority.

    Of course their votes are “recorded,” right? Their votes become part of “Twitter files.”

    since when do CEOs of huge corporations ask for a vote on their tenure? Never.

    This Musk vote has the feel of a stunt, or a way to get out of a situation that has gone bad for him in some way.

    Regarding JHK’s essay today, his parable includes many of the weird events the nation has been subjected to since Nov. 2016.

    But I think he is off the track to cast this parable in terms of “Holy Family” terms of Daddydom and, by implication and, logically, Mommydom (and citizens are the Baby Jesus?). Pussy grabber Trump was no one’s Daddy figure, as far as I can tell. Ditto, Hillary, qua Mommy figure. The Bill-Hillary relationship is just . . . unpalatable . . .

    Anyhow, I pray that JHK is right and that our legal system is up to the challenge of uncovering some truth and meting out some punishment.

    • Rowdypiglet December 19, 2022 at 11:57 am #

      I disagree, Islander. The fact that we don’t see Trump that way doesn’t mean he wasn’t seen as a Daddy figure by the left, particularly by the kind of women who are enraged at the idea that any man would or could have any sort of power over them. They may have perceived him as Bad Daddy, or Authoritarian Daddy, or just Daddy-like in that he is a man who disagreed with them and might gain a position in which he could do something about it. Daddy as a concept is intolerable to them, and they projected their feelings about that onto Trump regardless of how unsuitable he was.

      I don’t think there was any implication of a Holy Family or of Hilary as a Mommy figure. Again, those on the left are inclined to this sort of projection due to their obsession with destruction of the family. So Hilary as a Mommy figure wouldn’t need to be in any way a suitable one.

      • Islander December 19, 2022 at 12:54 pm #

        The expression Daddydom (as opposed to, say, “Maledom”) implies a family context.

        Rowdy: “the kind of women who are enraged at the idea that any man would or could have any sort of power over them. ”

        What?

        This may be a factor in the psyches of some women. If they offload this negative energy onto their fathers it may be that these women had fathers who were bullies or worse. I will guesstimate that this is not the majority of women. .

        Other than that though …. ????

        Are you a woman that you understand all women’s inner psyches and needs so well? (Of course all women are the same, right?)

        BTW, Dr. Peter Breggin states that the real problem for American chidren is not ADHD but DADD:
        Dad Attention Deficit Disorder.

        httpX://soundcloud.com/user-615308158-237228821/episode-60-dad-attention-deficit-disorder-dadd

        • Rowdypiglet December 19, 2022 at 3:54 pm #

          Islander, I didn’t say it was the majority of women. Nor did I claim to understand “all women’s inner psyches and needs so well” or say anything remotely like “all women are the same.” Though, being a woman myself, I may understand them a bit better than non-women.

          I enjoy a good debate, but it should be about things I actually said, not what you have invented.

          • Islander December 19, 2022 at 5:54 pm #

            “the kind of women who are enraged at the idea that any man would or could have any sort of power over them. They may have perceived him as Bad Daddy, or Authoritarian Daddy, or just Daddy-like in that he is a man who disagreed with them and might gain a position in which he could do something about it. Daddy as a concept is intolerable to them, and they projected their feelings about that onto Trump regardless of how unsuitable he was. ”

            Well, then, you speak for yourself as a member of a small cohort of women who hate their fathers and by extension all men..

            This pychological stance is, actually, IMO, neurotic or, in the extreme, pathological. Just like men such as Jarket who carry a huge chip on their shoulder because of maybe unloving mothers or something.

            In any event, I don’t think these angry women are those who started the many-faceted psy-ops against Trump as soon as he was elected. If I were to name one probably driving figure in this destroy Trump campaign it would be Adam Schiff. I think Schiff looks like a pansy but I guess he was married to Eve (not making this up).

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 6:36 pm #

            Vast numbers of children grow up today without fathers – thank you Women, Lawyers, and Law Makers! Daddy issues? Of course! How can you even rebel against someone who isn’t there, much less loved and be loved by him?

      • Blackbird December 19, 2022 at 8:43 pm #

        The Hildebeast as mommy figure? More like a termite queen – a mean one.

        • Rowdypiglet December 20, 2022 at 11:43 am #

          “Well, then, you speak for yourself as a member of a small cohort of women who hate their fathers and by extension all men..”

          @Islander, that’s such a bizarre take on what I said that I don’t really know how to reply to it. I’ve encountered quite a few women who deeply resent any man who is or is perceived to be an authority figure. I’ve encountered them in real life and I’ve seen them acting out in public. It’s not that hard to infect any group with a sense of grievance, and this is a common one. It’s something I’ve observed.

          I certainly don’t hate my father, or my grandfathers, or my husband (all of whom I love with all my heart). I do resent the implication and think it entirely unwarranted.

  22. 333333 December 19, 2022 at 11:06 am #

    Purely from recollection, but I remember reading that it was the liberal white women in Haiti that brought white control down to be replaced by black governing. After which every white person in the country was killed.

    Can’t attest to this other than this was my interpterion of that one account.

    • Paula D December 20, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

      Liberal white women in Haiti?

      Haiti?

  23. Frank Buttitch December 19, 2022 at 11:11 am #

    Is the truth as I see it all that really matters.?

    • BackRowHeckler December 19, 2022 at 11:25 am #

      Another example of “the war against truth & reality” is the way the western media is covering the Ukraine-Russia War, trotting out retired US Generals each night who assure us that Ukraine is winning. The truth is, Ukraine is losing, and losing bad; the whole country is wrecked. Just this weekend CNN ran a segment claiming Ukraine is poised to take back Crimea. It’s a delusion, and this delusional type thinking could easily lead us to a direct confrontation with Russia. If history tells us anything it is that Russians will fight like tigers to defend their Motherland. Not to take anything away from the US Armed forces, but rest assured, in any future conflict, Russia will not be a pushover. Russia in not Iraq. And this is not to mention the 6000 nuclear warheads in the Russian arsenal.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 11:32 am #

        Nobody even talks about what winning would look like for Ukraine.

        • K-Chien December 19, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

          Nobody in America cares what happens to the people of Ukraine. All that matters in America is that Russia gets dicked in the process.

          If Americans gave two shits what the American Government does overseas, we would be a different country.

          • Night Owl December 19, 2022 at 1:53 pm #

            True. But you also injected their poison into your veins.

            The human mind is a marvel.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:13 pm #

            Some of us – millions – have ‘given a shit’ for decades. We’re the ones who marched in countless protests.

            Did you bother?

            Asshole.

          • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 1:07 am #

            For what causes? Civil rights – just anti-White tyranny? Abortion – the right to kill the unborn? This helped America like a hole in the head.

          • benr December 20, 2022 at 10:15 am #

            @jarek

            But they murdered lots of black and brown babies come on that has to bring a smile to your face.
            Be honest.

          • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 12:33 pm #

            Google the etymology of nation. If you don’t know what etymology means, google that first.

            Now once you know what a nation is, decide if you still want one or not. If yes, then apologize to me.

      • Ron Anselmo December 19, 2022 at 12:08 pm #

        BRH – Check out Moon of Alabama for more accurate sitreps on AFU (US/UK/NATO/EU) vs. RF. The former getting their ass kicked by the latter. The former an embarrassing joke – the latter no joke.

      • Islander December 19, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

        BRH:
        Another part of the widespread delusion is the idea that “We can’t Putin get away with this.”

        I pointed out to this person (steadfast reader of the NYT) that it is Russia that can’t let NATO get away with creating a nuclear-armed state on its border.

        He then said that the only solutioin was for Ukraine and Russia to come to terms. At least that is a decent sentiment—although at the moment it seems to be equally ungrounded in reality.

        • Islander December 19, 2022 at 1:00 pm #

          A man of the old school (currently devotedly taking care of his much-younger wife who took a serious fall recently), he did seem grasp the idea that this war is killing off all the Ukrainian men, leaving the women with no husbands.

          • Islander December 19, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

            PS. The gentleman in question is 98; his wife 86.

            Just to preempt snarky comments.

          • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

            More workers for the human trafficking industry.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 1:46 pm #

            BoO, that’s what I was going to say.

            Lots more ‘sex workers’ as the Wokies like to call sex trafficking.

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 6:39 pm #

            One recalls the “No Sex League” of young women in Orwell’s 1984. Doubtless some of our ladies would have been members when younger if any such thing was available.

        • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 1:24 pm #

          He thinks that Ukraine and Russia need to come to terms?

          Geez. As if Ukraine and Russia didn’t consider themselves to be the same people until the destruction of the Soviet Union and especially after the coup of 2014.

          The hate and fear installed into the Ukrainians, in school and in the media, is a perfect example of how easy it is for the propaganda experts to stir up emotions.

          They did it in Yugoslavia in the 90s also. And they are doing it here.

          • Islander December 19, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

            My point:
            “At least that is a decent sentiment

            I don’t argue (much) with a 98-year-old on his birthday.

          • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 2:40 pm #

            Good idea.

          • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 3:27 pm #

            Russia and Ukraine DID come to terms. They signed the Minsk Declarations, giving autonomy to the ethnic Russians in the Donbass. It was the Ukrainians under Z who refused to respect the declarations. And, as Merkel has just admitted, they never had any intention of doing so, as they were signed just to buy time for the Ukies to re-arm. Karma has entered the battlefield.

          • Paula D December 22, 2022 at 4:28 pm #

            Actually it was the Ukrainians under Poroshenko who refused to honor the agreements, as he recently bragged.

            Zelensky ran on a ”Peace with Donbass, honor the Minsk Accords” platform in 2019 and beat Poroshenko, getting over 70% of the vote, although Donbass citizens weren’t allowed to vote.
            Poroshenko lost big time.
            So, taking away the millions of people in Donbass not allowed to vote, still over 70% of Ukrainians are not Nazis, do not want to kill the people of Donbass and wanted peace.

            Then Zelensky tried to go to the front and stop the military/Azozs from attacking the people in Donbass and they told him to go fuck himself, they didn’t have to obey him.

            Then the street nazi thugs started rioting all over Ukraine, while the police watched, and Zelensky’s “security” stood down and the members of his party in the Rada were attacked.

            And that is how Zelensky was “convinced” to go along with the US/NATO handlers and their push for war on Donbass.

            And now he is playing his part to the hilt.

    • RelativeGuise December 19, 2022 at 1:52 pm #

      No, the truth that you see is all me, which is them, and by them I mean God loves them. For feeding perversion requires,,.,AL pinky finger dollars.

  24. Lyndy33 December 19, 2022 at 11:22 am #

    Merry Christmas, Kwanzaa, solar minimum, Hanukkah to you all. Today, here, we have a beautiful day of hoarfrost all over trees and grasses. The here and now are not too bad for me and mine. We are prepared for bad times and we look around and enjoy the beautiful nature we live in. That, my friends, is reality. The ‘reality’ you talk about is something else and should not be confused with the real ‘reality’.

  25. Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 11:33 am #

    That Balenciaga story dropped out of sight real quick.

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    • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 12:48 pm #

      It sure did. What a surprise! 😉

    • Ron Anselmo December 19, 2022 at 1:58 pm #

      Beryl – I’m a PR Crisis Management Expert: I tell all my clients – “If you can last 72 hours, you’ll be fine”, That’s the news cycle – 72 hours.

      • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 4:39 pm #

        Depends on the story.

        Cheney shooting his friend in the face? Gone.

        Paul Pelosis in his underwear with a male prostitute? Gone.

        Jan. 6th will live forever.

        • Ron Anselmo December 19, 2022 at 5:17 pm #

          In infamy, no less.

  26. dorn December 19, 2022 at 11:35 am #

    The gender war escalates on CFN. Repeal the 19th.

    • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 11:47 am #

      And Herr Jarek hasn’t even weighed in yet!

      • dorn December 19, 2022 at 11:53 am #

        Yes. I’m looking forward to it.

        • Ron Anselmo December 19, 2022 at 12:10 pm #

          Yes, he’ll be off-the-chain.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 12:49 pm #

            I’ll be sure to scroll past his trolling.

          • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 12:52 pm #

            What’ll the rules be for this one? 12 rounds. three knockdowns, no spitting our gouging? I hope the ref, JHK, is up for this one.

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 6:44 pm #

            All the ladies read me religiously. My posts give their life meaning. As the Master Vampire, Barlow, said in Salem’s Lot: Your god is the one who feeds you. In that sense at least, I am their god.

      • elysianfield December 19, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

        …Anybody see Jarek an Frank Pravone in the same room?

        https://www.newsmax.com/us/frank-pravone-pope-francis-prolife/2022/12/18/id/1101009/

        I didn’t think so.

        • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 6:48 pm #

          Thank you. He sounds like a fine man. And he remains a Priest forever after the Order of Melchizedeck. No one can take that away from him.

    • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 4:45 pm #

      Ditto. I don’t even consider it a gender war. I just want good government. Female participation has made this impossible to achieve any longer.

      As a general rule, it is my firm belief that females are designed to be governed by men. It is the natural order of things. There are occasional exceptions, but they only go to prove the rule. The only people females should govern are their children. Child bearing and child rearing are the natural female functions for our species. The overwhelming bulk of the female population in a healthy society will be at home raising children and maintaining the marital household. Again, there will be occasional exceptions to this…but they should be as rare as hen’s teeth.

      OK. Fembots. Ye may hurl your bricks at me. I care not. After sixty years of living, this is the conclusion I’ve reached on this issue. I’ve heard every fembot argument to the contrary and remain unpersuaded. Feminism has paved the way for the death of America. I’m absolutely convinced of that. I strongly support the repeal of the 19th Amendment without apology.

      • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 6:51 pm #

        Ray Palmer, a mighty spirit trapped in a deformed gnome like body, wrote about Deros – or demented robots. He may have been talking about these without knowing it!

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:15 pm #

        How much more awesome was government before women were in higher roles?

        Please tell us of a time when all was rosy.

        Was it during WWI? The Great Depression? The Dust Bowl? Inquiring minds want to know.

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 9:38 pm #

          Government awesome? Since when? At best, good government means keeping the thieving and killing by the government to the lowest minimum possible.

          In all times this is a difficult task.

          In a Woke World empowered by PussyCrats it has become well nigh impossible.

        • Q. Shtik December 19, 2022 at 10:55 pm #

          Was it during WWI? The Great Depression? The Dust Bowl? – MQ

          ============

          Women caused the Dust Bowl, every one knows that.

      • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 11:05 am #

        @ Wizard of the Saddle:

        Government is actually not a pursuit that is consistent with human decency for either sex. My somewhat limited experience with having a government job (where I came in contact with the–predominantly–men who were running the show) was that bribery and corruption is government’s primary purpose. Later in life, I encountered the same thing in relation to our city government and through many contacts who had dealt with the county government and the court system. In the latter case, there were admittedly some women involved, though the great majority were men. You won’t find good women in positions of political power, but that’s mainly because you rarely find any decent people at all in positions of political power. In my former little hamlet, we did eventually get good city government, but the main thing that disincentivized bad government was the 2008 real estate collapse, together with some actions at the county level, that made stealing other people’s property unprofitable.

        When one of my daughters was about ten, she said she wanted to be the first woman president. I told her, “Honey, you are nowhere near low-down enough for that line of work.”

      • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 12:00 pm #

        @ Wizard of the Saddle:

        Re your belief that “females are designed to be governed by men,” I can’t imagine what world you are living in. In my world, we feel somewhat fortunate if any of the men know anything about anything. Admittedly, some do. My married daughters are generally fortunate in their husbands, who have highly skilled (and pretty well paying) jobs that they are good at. But it falls to the women to be highly skilled and good at almost everything else.

        I sometimes think that the men in the family are a little intimidated by my daughters’ terrifying efficiency in many areas. Let someone fall seriously ill, and they show up with home-canned chicken broth, fancy water with electrolytes, a heating pad, an oxymeter, and a nebulizer–and a cot, so they can stay overnight.

        It was when I was having trouble keeping the books on my home business that I learned that I was the only one in the family who didn’t know how to put together and maintain a spreadsheet–which apparently all the girls do to manage family finances. So they taught me how.

        One daughter is a skilled car mechanic, as well as being skilled in most of the building trades. Her husband did the electrical work on their rehab, but she did most of everything else. (She was, fortunately, not working at the time they were doing the rehab. A good thing, or the work would have taken even longer than a year-and-a-half.)

        Most of my girls are good cooks, and one is excellent. One of the husbands is a good cook, I admit.

        A couple of the girls are highly skilled gardeners and do a lot of canning–and also processing meat, though they let the men do most of the butchering.

        Several of the men do have some special areas of knowledge unrelated to their employment. One is a fine musician and probably knows more about theology than most graduates of theological seminaries. He and my daughter both teach religious education at their church.

        Highly competent, powerhouse women with a huge skillset are very common in my areas. Many run successful home businesses of one kind or another. The husbands, on the other hand, tend to have less wide-ranging competencies, and are far less likely to be self-starters or engage in self-directed activities.

        Decision-making, in all matters, properly belongs to the person doing the job. If you’re building a beehive, you’re the one who should make the decisions about the design and materials.

        Men should govern in their areas of competency. While I think my sons-in-law are outstanding guys, this does not seem to be true of most men. Try asking a guy to bring you an aspirin when you’re sick. He’ll bring you one aspirin and no water to wash it down, and he’ll have a temper tantrum when you point out that you need two aspirin and some water. Or try sending a guy to the grocery store to pick up a red onion. (He will not return with a red onion.)

        On the other hand, if you send a woman to the hardware store to pick up a one-pound box of 3″ coarse-thread, Phillips-head, black decking screws, she will return with a one-pound box of 3″ coarse-thread, Phillips-head, black decking screws.

        I’m fine with men governing in those areas in which they have competency. Unfortunately, those areas are few, when it comes to most men.

  27. 333333 December 19, 2022 at 11:38 am #

    It’s hard to make the case that this country is not bleeding out, having been shot full of holes, any one of which could be fatal:

    Third world immigrants flooding the country, sucking up resources of all kinds.

    Outsourcing our manufacturing.

    Unpayable debt.

    Pervasive dishonesty by our rulers.

    Continual, arrogant, bullying around the world.

    Corruption, a huge parasitic class, there’s more. Maybe sum it up, The seven deadly sins.

    • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

      Pride? Check. They even have flags for it.
      Greed? Check. Greed is good.
      Lust? Check. It sells!
      Wrath? Check. Current country being targeted is Russia.
      Gluttony? That’s an easy one. Look around.
      Envy? Check. Also sells product.
      Sloth? Check. Cars and electric doors and leaf blowers, oh my.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 3:52 pm #

        People who complain about another’s “privilege” have elevated envy to a virtue.

        • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

          I wish there was a “like” button on here.

  28. themetalmystic December 19, 2022 at 11:40 am #

    I think there is a lot of value in the analysis. I think it is missing a timeline and it is missing the proper level of granularity in terms of which men are the target of the ruling regime and its revolution.

    This revolution started long before 2016, and the factions involved are more numerous than just the Clinton Dynasty. The revolution started when the Frankfurt school escaped Germany. While Hitler was self immolating in a fit of Berserkering of epic proportions that turned out to be the biggest own goal in the history of The West. They came to America and had a plan with a long time horizon. They found the perfect conditions for launching their revolution – an open and extremely high trust society that was susceptible to moral brow beating whose ruling regime was at least 5 rungs of wisdom, competence and most importantly moral conviction and courage below the truly great men who built America.

    They built a coalition and destroyed for good the founding American Constitutional order and replaced it with its moral and legal antithesis: The Civil Rights regime and the Immigration Act. The latter was the silent battering ram of the project. In 1964 America was comprised of 90% white Gentiles. Now it is comprised of 57% white Gentiles and the generation of white Gentiles entering kindergarten today comprise 45% of the population. Not only are they a minority, but they are taught that their bloodline is evil and the nation and civilization that their bloodline created is vile and illegitimate. Their majority classmates are taught that their dispossession and subjugation as lessers is perfectly valid and justified.

    Why is this happening. Because those hard headed working class white people were hard headed. They couldn’t be convinced to give up their birthright of individual sovereignty and self governance. Worse, they could make more money as plumbers, small business owners and contractors than the vaccuous sinecures and propagandist pets of the ruling regime. So what do you do? You replace the nation by replacing the heritage population that is patriotic and loyal to it.

    That is the real war. That war is won. We are now a conquered people. But the story is not over. The show trials about to commence will be a mere footnote when in several generations a story with parallels to the Visigoths of Asturias is written. For today we are a conquered people, and the coming decades are going to get more not less difficult.

    But, we are the carriers of the Faustian spirit that defines The West. Now, those who know the hour are the wheat that is beginning the long and difficult task of separating themselves from the chaff. For those with the courage to admit the facts, but who can channel the rage that grows as each incendiary scale falls from our eyes, we admit defeat and feel the burden of denial roll away. It won’t be easy, and it probably won’t happen in our lifetimes, but the wheat will plant itself in fertile grounds and find its roots back 4000 years to the Yamnaya and the people of Europe who survived and who we became.

    That is the noble and heroic journey that awaits those with the courage to admit defeat and with the fortitude to survive and the wisdom and forbearance to build an actualize the long plan for our people.

    My your Yol logs burn bright and Your Halls Be Filled with Sober Merriment and Conviction.

    • Alfred December 19, 2022 at 12:36 pm #

      Faustian Spirit.

      I didn’t know it had a name.

      Thank you.

    • Ron Anselmo December 19, 2022 at 12:36 pm #

      Mystic – I’ve never seen this spoken so well, maybe ever. Thanks.

    • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 12:51 pm #

      The Frankfurt School should be studied by everyone. Thank you for this great post.

    • crudgemudgeon December 19, 2022 at 2:23 pm #

      Thanks, especially for the last part, sober thinking is called for now.

    • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2022 at 3:54 pm #

      Good post.

    • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 4:53 pm #

      Yes, you have properly summed up the situation. The Great Replacement did not happen by accident. Sinister people with agendas drive it forward and continue to do so.

      I too have concluded that they have conquered America – the one we grew up with. Here and there one finds small redoubts of the Old Republic scattered around in various largely rural enclaves of this country. I retreated into one of those and hope to live unmolested until I pass away. The forces of darkness are ascendant, but hopefully will not rub out these little redoubts of freedom until I am long gone and forgotten.

      Call me black-pilled on this subject because I am. I presently see no real way to roll any of this back short of a Civil War or secession or both. Even in that instance, I suspect most of the world would back the side composed of communist assholes.

      • themetalmystic December 19, 2022 at 6:22 pm #

        The point I was trying to make is that we have to actively protect our people and our civilization as best we can. We all should understand the great men and the great civilizations of the West. We all should understand genetics and the foundations of the Europids. (Yamnaya, Corded Wood, Nordics, Italics …)

        That is a minimum. As Americans we should understand the ideas that founded the Republic. We should understand how and why it failed.

        We must cultivate our masculinity by cultivating capabilities in the physical world. Self defense (firearms, martial arts, battle tactics); Basic Survival (agriculture; hunting and gaming; pre-industrial skills like start a fire, build a shelter …) Now these are practical but more important to cultivate masculinity.

        The next step is to transmit all of this information in a communal manner with your community and your posterity. If you don’t have kids, mentor young white men in all of these things,with the intention that they will become greater than you and your generation.

        Also, tumble down the rabbit hole and you will find more or less precisely who did this to us. Document that for posterity, because our people will emerge from Asturias and a capability and a wrath must mete out consequences. You don’t attempt a genocide of a people across multiple continents without facing the consequences.

        That said, the thrust of this is to create an upward thrust whose primary goal is to pursue our destiny after we have survived and imbue our progeny with the vision to make our first 4000 years of history look like a primoridal soup. That is a tremendous challenge but this is the grand noble pursuit that gives reason and meaning to the noble pursuit of survival.

        We have been steam rolled. But until the last of our people draws breath it is not over. Now, get to work building your house. Raise Kings and Queens who swear never again more brother wars and are focused on the quest.

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 9:41 pm #

          To paraphrase Dickens in the Christmas Season: You are a most powerful speaker, sir. It is a wonder you don’t stand for Parliament!

        • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 12:28 pm #

          Re the “Yamnaya, Corded Ware” peoples, I highly recommend reading “The Horse, the Wheel, and Language.” It’s a fascinating overview of pre-history covering the Indo-Europeans and Proto-Indo-Europeans and their accomplishments.

          They actually taught us a little bit about this when I was an English major in college. My roommate at the time, who was a history major, was indignant when I told her what we were learning and claimed it was a bunch of fairy-tales, as she had never heard of any such thing in her history classes. (I think that was because we were learning, not history, but pre-history, which was not part of the history curriculum.)

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:17 pm #

        You’re far from black-pilled though.

        You still buy into the voting scam. You still buy into women against men, black against white, etc.

        You’re not even close.

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 9:47 pm #

          I confess that I do lurch back and forth from Red to Black pilled territory. On hopeful days I’m inclined to fight the good fight – even if it is a re-run of the Alamo or Thermopylae. On days of bitter disillusionment I gravitate to the black-pilled podcasts like The Quash and Devon Stack’s “Black Pilled.”

          I am not yet sure where I will finally land, but after the 2020 and 2022 election scams I’m increasingly inching towards becoming permanent-black-pilled, but I’m still a work in progress, I suppose. Lol…

    • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 6:57 pm #

      The Founders were White Nationalists as are you. There is no higher praise. They were already sickening under influence of Capitalism, Freemasonry, and alas, beautiful Christianity as well. But they were strong enough to take this continent and wise enough to bequeath the Constitution to us before their line failed.

      People who hate me are praising you because they don’t understand you. But they will hate you too once they do. Because they are evil.

      • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 10:03 pm #

        Hell, Jarek, isn’t “White Nationalist” just 21st Century buzzspeak for someone who descends from European Western Civilization and is simply not apologetic about it? I personally believe that the GRAY matter found between the ears of WHITES has produced a lot of pretty good civilizational advances for the whole of mankind. Why should anyone of European descent be obliged to ignore, deny, or reject the achievements of one’s ancestors? A ridiculous notion. Are white people perfect Aryan supermen as the Nazi’s proclaimed? Nah, but we are not the scourge of humanity either. Unfortunately you cannot convince any of these woke imbeciles of that. Simple minds yearn for simple explanations for everything.

        • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 1:16 am #

          As Rabbi Hillel said, If I am not for myself, who will be?

          And if I am only for myself, what am I?

          Not take the myself and make it “my people” in the first statement but keep it singular in the second and you have the Wisdom of the Elder Brothers.

          We’d be wise to emulate them in this regard since they have conquered Western Civilization. The Nazi movement was just such an emulation.

          Read what PIerce and others have said. Even the famous thinkers who supposedly were in our favor – like Spengler and Nietzsche – actually said very little about race per se. We are a new Movement – yet at the same time very old – a reversion to an ancient vision of life, but updated to fit the times and the new knowledge of that our people have attained.

        • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 1:19 am #

          correction: Now take the myself – not “not”

          Buzzspeak – we have to call ourselves something, right? American Renaissance refuses the title because they want to include the elder brothers who would fain guide us back to the safe pastures of Kosher Conservatism and Slaughter House Five.

          • Q. Shtik December 21, 2022 at 12:13 pm #

            correction: Now take the myself – not “not” – Jar

            ===========

            Jar, your posts very often contain errors like the one you just corrected. What I don’t understand is what makes you only occasionally correct an error and just say “fuck it” to all the others… and please note, they are numerous.

            What makes this changing of Not to Now so special? It is not as though we readers couldn’t have figured out after reading the line two or three times that you intended to say Now not Not.

  29. thirdcoastlegend December 19, 2022 at 11:53 am #

    Plot twist – Jarek actually ghost wrote today’s post.

    Judt kidding!

    I really should go stock up on popcorn as this thread ramps up.

    • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 12:52 pm #

      LOL!

    • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 12:53 pm #

      Thirdcoast. Funny, that occured to me too.

      • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 4:54 pm #

        He could have. He has the chops.

  30. Alfred December 19, 2022 at 12:23 pm #

    Hillary Clinton’s butt hurt extends to the 2008 election when she was pushed aside by Barak Obama, first Black President instead of first Female President. She must have been apoplectic, yet somehow was appeased by the DNC with titles and fanfare and the Ukraine project to take down Russia.

    The Clinton’s played a long game. I would suggest that it was the Clinton’s who patiently set about and ultimately succeeded in capturing the DOJ. They lead the Democrats to capture most of your local school boards and governments. They transformed politics with technology, and with it they captured your sons and daughters. They are the people Ted Kaczynski warned us about, and they have done with technology, the DOJ and the schools exactly what he said they would do. They executed on it brilliantly.

    Until 2016 that it is. Yeah, when Hillary-it-better-be-my-turn-now-Clinton LOST the election to Donald-the-likes-of-which-we’ve-never-seen-Trump, she overplayed her hand, lost control of the cover-up, and faded into the background, where GOD only knows what sort of mischief she’s been up to. But really, just look around.

    It must be clear to all of us that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Washington has always a been a swamp. It’s just automated now. I’ve been following Glen Greenwald at Rumble. He’s taken me through a journey of the near past vis-vie journalists who’ve been lying for the government and it’s spooks and where they are today. They’re still lying for the government and it’s spooks, yet their benefactors are of opposite stripes now. If past truly be prologue, then what is today was set into motion yesterday.

    #FJB

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    • thirdcoastlegend December 19, 2022 at 12:32 pm #

      Whitney Webb has done a lot of great work to demonstrate that the Clinton regime really is the period when things seriously began to go south.

      Her recent interviews on Glenn Beck and Jimmy Dore are well worth a watch.

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 12:53 pm #

        And most don’t realize that Bubba Clinton was groomed by GHW Bush. The head of the CIA.

        • Islander December 19, 2022 at 1:31 pm #

          And the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) / Chatham House, as a Rhodes Scholar.

        • Mick December 19, 2022 at 2:02 pm #

          Oh those groomers!

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 6:22 pm #

            Yep, the groomers been groomed!

      • thirdcoastlegend December 19, 2022 at 2:24 pm #

        Well, she also does go back and talk about the alliance between the intelligence agencies and organized crime during WW2 and how those grioups continued working together after the war.

      • Amman December 19, 2022 at 3:56 pm #

        The Monica madness being the icing, or whatever, on the cake. Then the election disturbia and it was off to the races to 911.

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 6:22 pm #

        If you watch the episode it’s clear that no, she goes much farther back.

      • Mick December 19, 2022 at 6:35 pm #

        Yes, it goes all the way back to Chester A. Arthur.

        That bastard!!

      • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 8:06 pm #

        He didn’t fuck up the Cold War. Something about ending it with a score of USA-1 / USSR-0.

        Yeah, yeah, I know. Too trivial for you.

        • JohnAZ December 20, 2022 at 10:31 am #

          Actually, the US lost big time. The MIC needs its enemy. We promised Russia support to break up the USSR. The ink was not dry on the documents before we started reneging on that. Also, we promised NATO would not expand to provide the buffer states. Well, that was an out and out lie and Ukraine is paying the price.

          From a confrontational point of view, I guess the US won. From a peaceful point of view, the we lost.

          • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 3:34 pm #

            Anyone remember Fukuyama’s The End of History? Me neither! We could have forged a lasting and peaceful relationship with Russia. Instead, we’ve pushed her into the arms of our greatest rival, China. Only deranged neocons could have achieved this.

    • Night Owl December 19, 2022 at 1:54 pm #

      Obama is half white.

      I do not see how he is the first black president.

      • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 4:58 pm #

        Because he chooses only to identify with and promote the black side of his bi-racial heritage. If it’s a zero sum choice between serving black interest or white interests, Old Barry will never go for the white side. In his case I suppose it really is true: Once you go black, you never go back.

        • Night Owl December 19, 2022 at 5:49 pm #

          It just makes me chuckle.

          “First black president! Who is also white!”

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 6:23 pm #

            It is really funny, and shows you yet another example of how people are easily bamboozled.

          • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 7:04 pm #

            One drop of ink ruins the white page. One drop of fudge (or whatever it is) ruins the vanilla ice cream cone.

            Breeders talk of purity – as do chemists and biologists: the purity of the sample or culture. But somehow the very people who think man is an animal and who “believe” in science, get really weird on this subject. Probably because it would destroy their liberalism if given a fair hearing.

          • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 8:10 pm #

            Well, it’s now very in-PC to point this out, but back in the day the government terminology for Ibama’s 50/50 Black/White mix was “Mulatto.” So he was, in reality, America’s first Mulatto president.

            America still has never had a wholly, pure-blooded, black African president.

            However, America did once have a white president who identified as a black president and he even said as much: Bill Clinton

          • Night Owl December 20, 2022 at 3:39 pm #

            Wiz, yes. Trying to imagine the wokie shitstorm that would ensue had we heard this term bandied about on the national stage.

  31. Hardrock December 19, 2022 at 12:33 pm #

    Good to see the ladies here making a stand.

    Tip of the ice-berg stuff. There are so many reasons for the crime, gender confusion, pedophilia, irresponsibility, materialism, poor education, etc that one cannot begin to get to the root causes.

    I’d start by recommending two parent families that instill a sense of virtue in their children.

    • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 12:54 pm #

      Two parent families where both parents don’t have to work to the point where their kids become basic wards of the state, whether through public school indoctrination or online indoctrination.

      • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 5:01 pm #

        Right, Mary…,and this was largely the case in the pre-1960’s America where the ladies were taking care of the home and the children while Dad was at work earning a “family wage” because the labor force was half as large because it was not flooded with female workers.

        Once that changed, everything started going to hell. This is why we haven’t raised a fully functional generation in America since the mid-1980’s or so. All the young kids today are completely screwed up coming out of all these single mom households. It is a MASSIVE train wreck.

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 6:25 pm #

          The problem is, you believe women created the situation, which I think is beyond ridiculous.

          Women have stepped up to do whatever we need to when called upon in society, historically.

          • Woodchuck December 19, 2022 at 7:35 pm #

            Women might not have created the situation but they (many women but not all) sure have gone along with it and have become the ones forcing all of this feminist democrat garbage on children. This happens through both delusional mothers and through all the leftist idiot school teachers out there who are spending lots more time with children than the parents are. I could care less about women stepping up to do whatever when what they are doing is very destructive and ridiculous. .

          • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 8:18 pm #

            Not entirely. I believe it was a collaboration between liberal men, who constitute a minority of all men, and liberal women, who constitute a majority of all women. United, they have been able to drag this country leftward for a century now.

            Prior to that, when only men had the vote, nothing like we are experiencing today was occurring. The only true “boil over” we experienced under the old electoral patriarchy was the War to Prevent Southern Independence, which was a crusade by Yankee busybodies, early socialists, and Robber Barons to loot the South and transform America into a more imperial entity. That set the stage for the idiocies of Wilson, FDR, Johnson and others who finished putting in place the apparatus for the ultimate destruction of what remained of the Old Republic of the founders.

            So, no, I don’t so much place all the blame on women as you think. I just think 2/3’s of women voters are liberal idiots who would better serve our society at home making and raising babies than voting to empower WEF schemes to reduce us all to peasants groaning under a globalist tyranny.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:19 pm #

            Gone along with it? We were given more freedom finally and we took it?

            Wow, what evil assholes we are.

          • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

            Well said, Mary.

        • MontanaMan December 19, 2022 at 7:37 pm #

          I couldn’t agree more with you my friend.

      • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 7:08 pm #

        Yes, Patriarchy. Why does Islander hate it so much?!

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 8:25 pm #

          One wonders. The Patriarchy invented and built just about every last blasted modern convenience that makes the cushy living of which post-modern fembot wymyns are so damned fond of possible!

          Oh, and BTW, it’s men who mainly continue to maintain that infrastructure of modern life. If Fembot maniacs don’t quit trying to turn all of the young men into wymyns the entire civilization will soon collapse and it’s a Mad Max world then.

          Remember ladies, the Wichita lineman will always be a dude. Ain’t no pussyhat wearers climbing utility poles in sub-zero weather to restore your power so your privates don’t freeze shut! Just sayin’…

          • Islander December 19, 2022 at 11:00 pm #

            “One wonders.”

            Yeah, “one” does, doesn’t “one.”

            Namely, one wonders why Wizard jumps on board with Jarek’s pathetic lies.

            It’s the men here who bloviate about patriarchy.

        • Islander December 19, 2022 at 8:45 pm #

          Liar.

          Eff you, liar.

          You are flinging shit.

          I have never used that word.

          But you lie on a regular basis about every woman here.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:19 pm #

            Yep, that’s his job.

          • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 1:23 am #

            You didn’t have to use the word. It’s obvious what you are talking about. And yes, you hate it.

            You’re the Liar, I’m the Lyre, the Singer at the Break of Day.

          • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 1:06 pm #

            Hardly a day passes around here in which Jarek does not expose himself as deficient in personal integrity by lying about something.

            Seems to be a male proclivity. But I guess everybody is good at something.

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 10:08 pm #

          Jarek – I think Islander just accused you of being “Turd Flinging Monkey” of YouTube fame. I’d take that as a complement.

          • Islander December 19, 2022 at 11:04 pm #

            You mean compliment.

            You are a perfect complement to Jarek.

      • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 7:12 pm #

        Feminism told women that being a wife and mother wasn’t being all she could be. And that obeying a boss was fine but obeying a husband was tyranny.

        Of course labor saving devices and “school” left a lot of women with not enough to do once the kids got older. Nature abhors a vacuum.

        The Elite saw an opening and they took it. And the women fell for it.

        In previous generations, women of leisure busied themselves in volunteer work in the charities, sometimes doing good, other times causing trouble as is woman’s wont.

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 8:28 pm #

          That is the absolute truth. Not one word of hyperbole. Some young men out there on the Internet are starting to “get” all of this and have become rather Red Pilled on the subject of feminine nature. A sense that a counter-revolution will eventually come. Feminism, like communism, had reached a major dead end.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:20 pm #

            When you’re in league with an incel misogynist, you’ve really become sub-human.

            Congratulations.

          • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 10:19 pm #

            You see, Mary, this is where you go off the rails IMHO. I agree and disagree with all sorts of folks on this board. There have been times I’ve even agreed with you.

            I am not defined by any momentary agreement or disagreement with anyone. I am defined by what I believe in and espouse. So, if you wish to take issue with something I say, have at it, girl. I won’t wilt.

            But just because you and Jarek detest each other and have been exchanging salvos for years here does not mean that I’m taking a side. Y’all’s tussle is your own. But there will be times when I agree with Jarek and there will be times I agree with you. I’m not looking for a tribe to join here. I am only looking for interesting discourse and a little amusement to boot.

            Having said all of this, I will agree that Jarek and I happen to see eye-to-eye on the feminism problem – but I do not know Jarek. I only know what he posts here. We arrived at similar conclusions based on wholly separate life experiences. Amazing. It happens.

            So grow up, darlin, and stop letting your emotions get the better of you. You can do better. I’ve seen you post better when you simmer down and use your head.

          • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 1:25 am #

            You’re a monkey’s uncle, my uncle! Own it! You’re a monkey too.

          • MaryQueen December 20, 2022 at 10:39 am #

            Wiz can’t argue without telling someone to grow up or using belittling terms such as “Dear”.

            Women aren’t here to serve you. It’s unfortunate you somehow thought that was the deal. It isn’t.

          • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 1:38 pm #

            Most of the male demands for a return to patriarchy arise, it seems to me, from a very very acute male awareness that they are in most ways women’s inferiors. Patriarchy allows them to obscure this fact. They can lie, boast, take credit for what the women have done with impunity. When they fuck something up, they can place the blame on women. (That used to be the main job of a secretary. When the boss screwed up, it was because the secretary did it. The other main job of a secretary was to lie to callers about her boss’s whereabouts. There was one place where I worked where the “bosses” almost never came to work at all, so their secretary spent much of every day telling callers, “He’s in a meeting.”)

            In a patriarchal setting, it is not socially acceptable for women to call out the men on on their lies–or their irresponsibility. Women are expected to be deferential to men and cover up for them, at least publicly. Men would of course prefer a system in which nothing is required of them in the way of integrity or responsibility, due to the women not being allowed to draw attention to this.

    • Hereward the Woke December 19, 2022 at 12:54 pm #

      “I’d start by recommending two parent families that instill a sense of virtue in their children.” Quaint, very left-field, but it might catch on!

      • K-Chien December 19, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

        It won’t catch on. Too much work. We are in the fourth turning. People don’t work hard in the fourth turning.

        • Night Owl December 19, 2022 at 1:56 pm #

          Hey now, don’t be so hard on yourself.

          Vax-tards worked hard to try and shut the rest of us out of grocery stores.

          • Mick December 19, 2022 at 2:19 pm #

            …and track and trace everyone too. K-Dog won’t like me remember this, but he was all gung-ho back in the spring of 2020 for tracking and tracing. He figured that if we already HAVE a police state, might as well use it to keep us safe.

          • K-Chien December 19, 2022 at 4:06 pm #

            I am not a vaxtard dickweed and quit calling me one.

          • K-Chien December 19, 2022 at 4:34 pm #

            I was NOT. I was about people who want to travel needed to wear a mask. You Vaxtards seem to think that requiring a wearing a mask to engage in a public activity was the same thing as being ok with sticking a needle in someones arm. Or that is what the passage of time did to your addled binary mind.

            Sorry to inform you that there is a night and day difference between the two and an ocean of nuance between them.

            If you have a problem with science respect the fact I don’t. I do not advocate forcing of any medical procedure on anyone. I never have, and I don’t now.

            Grocery stores had masks available. Nobody was shut out. v Except people who refused to wear pants or who had no money. Which category are you in Night Owl?

            Some of you here have vax-derangement syndrome. It is not my problem you dropped out of high school and never educated yourself so now you can’t understand shit. Like what RNA even is to begin with or what it does. I don’t have you problem. So stand aside and show some respect. You let fear run your lives.

            P.S. Big Pharma and Science are not the same thing.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 5:12 pm #

            Hahahaha!

            We let fear run OUR lives? The ones who refuse to wear masks (and yes, they are a MEDICAL DEVICE) and get jabbed up out of paranoia over getting a stupid cold virus, are the fearful ones?

            Priceless.

          • Night Owl December 19, 2022 at 5:43 pm #

            Eat shit, you fascist clown.

          • Night Owl December 19, 2022 at 5:47 pm #

            BTW — As I told you personally, here in Germany, we could not enter any stores without a “vaccination.” They even let grocery stores decide if they wanted to block the “unvaccinated” from entering.

            In France and Italy they had bouncers beating people who tried to enter grocery stores without a “vaccination.” There are still videos of them beating innocent families down.

            Refer to my previous post for what you can do next, worm.

          • Mick December 19, 2022 at 6:37 pm #

            Down doggie! Down!

            Does someone have a treat for the doggie?

          • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

            @ Night Owl:

            I concur on your “Eat shit” suggestion.

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 8:33 pm #

          Things will remain dysfunctional for a while to come….until they no longer can. Wokism, like communism, will collapse because it’s not grounded in reality. It doesn’t work and people know it. It can only be maintained by coercion. But we are a well armed country. Coercion is much harder to accomplish in America than in any other country over the long haul. Now…,if they ever figure out how to grab all the guns that changes, but I think we have civil war if the government attempts to disarm the people.

  32. Paula D December 19, 2022 at 12:52 pm #

    I ain’t mad atcha, but I disagree.

    Humans are putty in the hands of the Mighty Wurlitzer and the pussy hatters were a manufactured phenomenon, as are the rise of the trannies.

    It was our ruling overlords who wanted Hillary and not because she was a woman, but because she is a war mongering neoliberal who would have continued the attacks on Russia that started under Obama.

    The 2014 coup, the downing of Flight 17, the sanctions and the lies, the attacks on Syria, the downing of the Russian passenger plane in 2015, with the deaths of many Russian children among the victims, the killing of the Russian Army Choir, the deaths of the ambassadors, the expulsion of the ambassadors in the US, and the stealing of their property….it all led up to lies of Russiagate starting in 2016, immediately after the DNC emails were exposed.

    And the identity politics bullshit started in the 90s, under Bill Clinton and a whole generation was already brainwashed and primed to explode in rainbow glitter and street violence when called on.

    But the attacks on the working class and the deindustrialization pf America and the open borders started even before that, in 1981, under the Evil Reagan.

    It’s been a long process, but we now live in a hollowed-out country with 323 million people who hate each other, and a ruling class frantic to steal as much of the remainders as possible.

    Yesterday we went to a close-out sale at Bed, Bath and Beyond and the place was stripped. Empty shelves everywhere and signs on the fixtures offering them for sale also.

    That is the USA at this time.

    • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 12:55 pm #

      Brava, Paula.

      Well said.

      • Mick December 19, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

        I agree. Well said Paula.

        And I’m not just saying this because MaryQ and I are on the same team. (According to Jarek. Lol…)

    • Islander December 19, 2022 at 2:12 pm #

      I guess our ruling overlords wanted Obama more than Hillary. At least in the first go-round, 2008.

      Perhaps she “proved heself” with the brutal Libya event and her machinations with Nuland in Ukraine leading up to the Maidan.

      Re the LGBT++ insanity, it is interesting that they basically hijacked their imagery from the original “Rainbow Coalition.”

      The first Rainbow Coalition was a political movement headed by a Black Panther, Fred Hampton, in Chicago.Its history is pretty interesting. Nothing to do with gender!

      Then Jesse Jackson started the RainbowPUSH Coalition in I think 1982.

      Then, per Wikipedia, httpX://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Coalition_(Fred_Hampton)
      “Some scholars . . . assert that the original rainbow coalition concept was a prerequisite for the multicultural coalition that Barack Obama built his political career upon.[7]”

      Interesting that all of these “rainbows” originated in Chicago (Hampton, Jackson, Obama). It isn’t too much of a stretch to think that Obama’s Chicago handlers and TPTB in the Dem party saw in the ‘rainbow” a good icon for the identity politics that took over the Party, and our national discourse. .

      “Rainbows” have now been taken over!

      No more pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, No more “Over the rainbow” . . .
      It is all identity poliitics. Pfui!

      • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 2:44 pm #

        Yes, that was interesting. It was clear that he was the golden boy.

        I am convinced that he was groomed from birth to play that role. He is third generation CIA.

        Hillary is just a grifter from Arkansas with a taste for money and murder.

        She probably never actually had a chance in 2008,

        • Islander December 19, 2022 at 5:41 pm #

          “She probably never actually had a chance in 2008,”

          I remember that campaign fairly well, but it is a long time in the past now (:-))

          What I recall is that Obama came up pretty fast from seemingly nowhere. With his “new” deployment of social media for fundraising and support building.

          And of course he was the new golden boy.

          He had come to the general public’s attention first in 2004—giving the keynote speech at the DEM National Convention in Boston.

          Who was this guy?????

          Checked all the boxes!! Except—didn’t really have much of a record. Except, he had voted against some Iraq War funding vote or something in the Senate.

          From a book that I copyedited I learned that the struggle before that convention as to who would make the keynote speech was a classic vicious behind-the-scenes factional struggle and Obama’s “forces” fought tooth and nail and with sophisticated means, twisting arms, calling in political chits, etc.

          They were determined to use that opportunity to bring their boy forward.There is no way that a junior senator from Illinois commanded this kind of political muscle. He was already chosen at that point, IMHO. That was his first “national outing” (in the sense of contest).

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 6:29 pm #

            I was gonna say, they both ticked off the diversity boxes, but Hillary was always vastly unpopular, and Obama had that charisma that appeals to easily duped masses.

          • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 7:31 pm #

            He was chosen before that I’m sure.

            Yes, the Mighty Wurlitzer told us ad infinitum that his 2004 speech galvanized the nation and brought him to attention and made the ladies swoon, etc.

            Except that I live in Illinois and I watched the senate election with amazement.
            I have mentioned this before, but he was running against a good-looking, intelligent man named Jack Ryan, who had been married to a TV star named Jerri Ryan.

            So the media manufactured a ”scandal”, based on their closed-record divorce, somehow managing to get ahold of the closed records and publishing them ad infinitum, trying to convince us that a married couple having a spat about sex was somehow disqualifying to his candidacy.
            (Remember that this is the state that elected Dennis Hastert!)

            Anyway, Jack Ryan was unceremoniously booted. and the Illinois state Republicans for some reason picked a crazy black man from Maryland to replace him.
            Cause that makes sense.

            It only makes sense if you see that Obama’s way was greased, big time.
            Faced with crazy black man vs sane black man, the voters went with the sane one.

            Then one convention speech and a ton of propaganda led to 2008 and the rest is history.

          • Hardrock December 20, 2022 at 8:49 am #

            Paula D…..Are you saying Alan Keyes was the crazy black man? Why do you say this?

            I liked Alan Keys and watched the debate. Keyes was more interested in winning battles than in winning the war. Still, it was a poor tactic to move Keyes to Illinois for the race….doomed from the start.

            BTW, I believe that the Ryan thing went a little further from main-stream thinking than you indicate

        • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 7:17 pm #

          Ever hear her unbelievably weird Black Southern accent in her “I ain’t in no ways tired” speech? She’s an obvious and over the top fraud.

          Obama is far more slick in his presentation, though the mask slips on a regular basis.

    • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 8:41 pm #

      Lots of truth bombs there, Paula, but I gotta part company with you on Reagan. He wasn’t perfect, but he was the best president the country had between the time of Dwight Eisenhower and Donald Trump. I voted for Reagan twice and if he had been 30 years younger I’d have been happy to get the constitution amended so we could keep him in office for decades. What Reagan really lacked was a completely Republican controlled Congress during his two terms. It is amazing that he was able to overturn as much of the entrenched Democrat New Deal state as he did given the massive resistance of the Dems under Tip O’Neal in the 1980’s. Hell, those bastards wasted the last 2 years of Reagan’s tenure by raising Cain over his effort to prevent Castor’s pawns from taking over all of Central America. Democrats were traitors then and are even bigger traitors now, so lay off the Gipper. I’m sick of listening to people trash Ronald Reagan because they still think it makes them look hip.

      • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 8:42 pm #

        Castor’s, not castors.

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 8:43 pm #

          Ugh! Damn spell checker. C-A-S-T-R-O’s

      • riverrunner December 19, 2022 at 10:00 pm #

        No need to look hip….Reagan sucked.

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 10:27 pm #

          Hilarious. A real wise guy, as they used to say. Tell me. Did it take you all afternoon to come up with that witty riposte? That must have taken some real heavy lifting for your micro-brain.

          Well, you’d be the expert on sucking, I suppose, except you need to detach your lips from that sewage pipe you’ve got a lip lock on because every time you post here nothing issues forth but wretched turds from your facial orifice.

          Have a nice evening, troll.

          • JohnAZ December 20, 2022 at 10:47 am #

            Wizard

            It is all the Libs have, their programs all fail.

            We have talked over and over about socialism’s failures, pretty soon, the USA move to socialism will do its run at economic failure, it has already started.

            Even some Dems are noting the failures.

      • Paula D December 20, 2022 at 12:53 pm #

        I don’t hate Reagan because it makes me look hip. I hate Reagan because he ruined my life and the lives of millions of other people. He took a productive country with employed working people, mostly men, and turned it into a deindustrialized wasteland with women forced to go to work to support the families that suddenly had unemployed men. It happened in my neighborhood, and it happened all over the country. You don’t like women working? I remember exactly how it happened that the young mothers in my neighborhood had to go out and get jobs.

        Not to mention the destruction of the family farms, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp’s Farm Aid notwithstanding. How many farmers took their own lives when they lost the farms that had been in their families for generations?

        And the opening of the border, don’t forget that. Everything he did was designed to destroy the way of life you claim to miss.

        I don’t care if you liked him. I have reason to hate him and I do. You don’t get to tell me to stop.

  33. Mick December 19, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

    The Rise of the DeSantis Democrats

    “Like Reagan Democrats once upon a time, these voters have already reshaped the political landscape in Florida. Can they do the same nationally in 2024?”

    thefp.com/p/the-rise-of-the-desantis-democrats

    “Florida voters who, until recently, identified as Democrats but in November opted to reelect Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis—he who resisted the Covid lockdowns, tangled with Disney, and governed with a record budget surplus—in a landslide.

    It’s unclear how many DeSantis Democrats there are: DeSantis’ vote count jumped from roughly 4 million in 2018 to 4.6 million in 2022. Lots of those voters are presumably independents or Republicans who didn’t vote last time.

    But some are disaffected Democrats alienated from the party they once belonged to. That’s evident from the longtime Democratic strongholds that DeSantis flipped, including Hillsborough, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade, where DeSantis skyrocketed from a 21-point loss in 2018 to an 11-point win in 2022—a net gain of more than 30 percentage points.”

    • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 6:31 pm #

      I was just thinking about this. I wonder if part of the Dem playbook (aka deep state playbook) is to get EVERYONE into one uniparty (Repub) so that the authoritarianism is complete.

      I personally know a lot of former libs and Dems who are now voting conservative and registered Republicans.

      • Mick December 19, 2022 at 6:48 pm #

        Now if we could just get the Catholics, Orthodox, and all Protestants together in one ecumenical body……and then if they would all agree that Coke is the best soft drink…..then we could teach the world to sing….in perfect harmony!

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:22 pm #

          Purty much

      • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 8:47 pm #

        An interesting conspiracy theory….but the 2022 mid-terms don’t seem to bear this out. Either not enough traditional liberals bolted to the GOP to escape the Marxist rabble running the Democrat Party….OR…the cheating was so massive again that defections made no difference.

        My gut says defections we’re more limited than Republicans hoped AND massive cheating happened.

        • JohnAZ December 20, 2022 at 11:01 am #

          Too many gimmes, too many dependents.

          Listening to what NYC is giving the incoming immigrants

          Hotel room in good hotels

          Medical care

          Three meals a day

          Every one of them, until they go elsewhere.

          Immigrant care is one place the presses are spinning at high speed. There is no real money to spend. That is why the cities are screaming, they are required to balance budgets.

          What do they call illegals plus ten years?

          Life long Democrats.

      • JohnAZ December 20, 2022 at 10:54 am #

        They see what the journey Left, socialism, is doing to the US position as number one, globally. They are deserting the Biden, Sanders Mob, the tip of the Progressive, Woke spear.

        They are not joining the Conservative GOP, the Trump crowd. They are joining the RINOs who are drifting Left.

        The Deep State, both parties, is the enemy of us. The RINO crowd talks small government but votes Liberal Uniparty.

        They want their power.

  34. Islander December 19, 2022 at 1:32 pm #

    Whitney Webb’s interview with Dark Journalist.

    httpX://madmimi.com/p/7bbe351?pact=2567769-170926449-13986592180-4d108e9e83dfab18d50a7aaccaf1c4aae1e141ac

    Here she discusses Musk/Twitter, and also goes into some material that didn’t come up on earlier interviews.

    • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 4:42 pm #

      I’m with Whitney.

      Thanks for this. 🙂

  35. RelativeGuise December 19, 2022 at 1:57 pm #

    Great post JHK. Though that guy up there had a nudge on you being a liberal still. But with the eloqution and elucidation you offer, who wouldn’t agree you’re still fighting the me inside. A free coward though I comment. A coward free though one scoffs. A TDS…

    Nancy DID NOT FURTHER THE ORDER. Foreget one person plular. Nancy committed treason. But who would doubt that, what, with her insider trading.

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  36. neurodoc December 19, 2022 at 1:58 pm #

    “The psychology of previous investment is a prime generator of self-delusion.”

    Freud, himself, could not have said it better. JHK, I sometimes commit the sin of envying your eloquence. Happy Holidays to all.

    • Islander December 19, 2022 at 4:17 pm #

      Yes,. that phrase stuck our for me, too.

      Each individual reader can mull over that proposition plenty. If inclined to self-reflection.

    • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 10:30 pm #

      Or, stated less eloquently than our host did: Most people don’t like to admit being gullible, stupid, or just plain wrong.

      Man is that not the truth. Nothing is harder than to convince another person or their own error. People will fight to the death and dig holes all the way to China just so they can keep floating down the Egyptian River called denial.

  37. Roundball Shaman December 19, 2022 at 2:06 pm #

    “…how the authorities who run things went to war against the citizens of this land… It started when the women of the professional and managerial class watched their avatar, Hillary Clinton, lose the 2016 election against a man who seemed the quintessence of everything they hated about Daddydom.”

    The ‘authorities’ fully started this war in 1913… if not sooner. And in terms of Miss ‘IT’S MY TURN, DAMMIT!’… the war entered a new phase in the 1970s with the miss-named Woman’s Liberation movement in which Miss Herself fully drank in the man-hating Kool Aid aided by her anger at the adventurous activities of her husband. Layers of anger going on here.

    Yes, women needed a better deal in this Country. But not with that man-hating, values-hating, family-hating cult of angry females who helped lead America right into the suicidal ditch we are fast approaching.

    “Out came a savage animus against men generally, and a campaign to feminize them in retaliation…”

    Add this to the current vigorous campaign against Light-Toned Skin People. And the campaign against religion. And the campaign against people who know what sex they were created by God as. And the campaign against children… yes, poisoning the young and impressionable minds with all kinds of deviant pathology. And the campaign against Free Speech. And the campaign against one’s right to defend themselves. And the campaign against controlling your own body in the face of toxic injections meant to do you in. And a few other ‘campaigns against…’ being waged against We the People right now.

    “… the more absurd they make themselves…”

    Some people call Earth a Prison Planet. It’s that, but also Clown Planet. With Bozos all around hiding behind their fake clothing and fake clownish persona to hide the horrific grotesqueness of their perverse faces and demonic intentions.

    “… the mRNA “vaccines” were very effective at being deadly. The excess mortality has already kicked in.”

    Mission Accomplished. Now, just let time and nature take their course while the deaths get relabeled with a new medical-sounding bunch of initials to conceal the true intent of these poisons and the true cause of these deaths. The next big collection of lies will be the Cause-of-Death lines on death certificates.

    “A Christmas Parable”…

    ‘And what do YOU want, my little friend?’

    ‘Ah, Santa. I know I’ve been naughty. But I’ve also been a little nice, too. So, could you please bring me something?’

    ‘A new toy? A video game? A doggie?’

    ‘No, Santa. CAN YOU BRING ME MY COUNTRY BACK?!’

    And an anxious World wonders… ‘How ‘bout that, Mister Claus? DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?

    • Islander December 19, 2022 at 4:41 pm #

      “The next big collection of lies will be the Cause-of-Death lines on death certificates.”

      This was already in the program in March 2020 when guidelines for fillin out the cause-of-death portion of death certificate (Blue Form), were changed.

      Most of gthe public didn’t understand the point of the changes made—sounded totally nerdy and trivial—and AFAIK only one MD went public with a video to state why this was outrageous and also dangerous. That video was shown only on some right-wing platform, so . . .”Trump/disinformation” etc.

      I wonder whether anyone is studying whether and how the new guidelines (which seem to increase the number of deaths from covid as opposed to death with covid) are affecting insurance companies’ bottom lines.

      Maybe no one told them in advance to get ready for the excess deaths presumably from the jabs themselves. . . .

      • JohnAZ December 19, 2022 at 6:16 pm #

        Covid does not kill by itself and should not be a cause of death.

        Covid seeks out weakness and exploits the weakness to bring on death.

  38. RelativeGuise December 19, 2022 at 2:28 pm #

    Change is not change here, and JOHNAZI good god momentum!

    But what is the American way??? about a dozen men put pen to paper about taxation without representation. It was fooling with their minds. Now, if anyone, thinks that Republic existed when world wars, spanish wars, and all wars engendered on third person confusion they have a lot to learn. But I.

    What is the American Way. Take a megaphone to Walmart and propose a dissertation. Of our supply chain. The Republic mentions war with itself. The Republic mentions war with the foreigner. But it is about representation, a solid forward about getting a who’s who with the enemy WHO IS PERFECT UNDER THE LAW PERFECT IN WORD AND CORrUPt OF HEART. Will one ever know the difference?

    • JohnAZ December 19, 2022 at 6:14 pm #

      The American Way is the common culture, the way society works, the Law,

      The common culture that is being destroyed now.

      Destroyed by separate groups that have nothing in common that are all equal in political power.

      Do you think the US can continue with no common culture?

      • RelativeGuise December 20, 2022 at 10:23 am #

        I’m sorry for the ad hom, sir. Everything is just ether here and pedophiles and babykillers just bother me in an eternal way.

        Roe was 1973. Kennedy was 1962. Nuremborg before that. Just listening to cardi b and she hate way with relish. I don’t really know what to think. It’s like the King and Queen. If they can’t get to them, they’ll take the next best thing. Is Bidet’s blunders intentional? Nobody seems to consider it for long. It bothers me. The culture is a melting pot, that part is good. Their ulterior designs remain the same and have been. Like Stone Cold Steve Austin once said on WWE Raw. DTA.

        • JohnAZ December 20, 2022 at 11:07 am #

          Biden’s blunders are entirely intentional. They are the basis of the drive left into global socialism and totalitarianism. They will never admit fault because they believe in their gospel, the Gospel of Marx.

  39. JackStraw December 19, 2022 at 3:51 pm #

    Repealing the 19th amendment would be an excellent start to resolving the problems of the modern world.

    • Amman December 19, 2022 at 4:13 pm #

      What does that accomplish?

      • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 4:47 pm #

        If voting worked they wouldn’t let anyone do it.

        • Mick December 19, 2022 at 7:00 pm #

          Well, you see, they ‘allow’ voting so that ‘they’ can then “count” the votes.

          Counting…..now that is what works!

          Bwahahahaha…..

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:23 pm #

            I believe it was Stalin who said, it’s not who votes but who counts them?

            Correct me if I’m wrong…

          • JohnAZ December 20, 2022 at 11:07 am #

            Yup!

          • JohnAZ December 20, 2022 at 11:10 am #

            It is why individual paper count voting is the only way to make the elections reliable. The Deep State will never allow it.

        • Amman December 20, 2022 at 2:17 am #

          So it was all a bad experiment?

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 6:38 pm #

        Tiny brains think then they’d get their way in the D v R nonsense.

    • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 8:56 pm #

      I’ve been saying this for several years now. It keeps me in constant hot water with every woman I know. Lol – but I shrug off their fits of rage and general hysterics.

      Of course, this gets me labeled as a “misogynist” by the Fembot purveyors of rampant misandry. Again, I care not.

      Truth is this: The only people who are more critical of women than men are….wait for it…other women.

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:34 pm #

        And men don’t care about the criticisms of other men.

        Two words there:

        World Cup.

        Oh wait, three words: “World Cup Fights”.

  40. Alzaebo December 19, 2022 at 4:15 pm #

    Brilliant. Kunstler, you are a wonder.
    This is a brilliantly original synthesis.

    This is a repetition of the campaign that brought us Prohibition.

    Prohibition turned our constitutional, legal, and moral principles on their head.

    It was the Soft Civil War that led up to the Second Soft Civil War of Civil Rights and the Cultural Revolution of the antiwar / hippy movement under the aegis of the Vietnam war.

    Prohibition’s upset led to the rise of the Agencies, which were solidifed under the bankster’s war of the Great Depression, and then enshrined under WWll, the war to destroy nationalists.

    Women are the moral enforcers of any society. They are the soft underbelly; they don’t go to colleges to invent new things, but to learn the rules and how to enforce them.

    An unnameable oriental culture, itself dominated by the breeder’s hindbrain, knows instinctively how to play to the sympathies of women.

    Thus, the men of white cultures, unique in frontal neocortex thinking, are overthrown. Our women are seduced with soft words to cheat.

    This is how the sneakyf*ckers have risen, again and again for millenia, to rule over Gaia’s intent, the white uplifters; the pimps play our women against us. Soft war to defeat the masters of hard war.

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    • Alzaebo December 19, 2022 at 4:35 pm #

      It’s a repetition of the playbook.
      We can call that period of the Second Thirty Years Wars- the culture war of WWl and WWll- call it Esther’s War.

      Esther was an Aryan Benjamite sold first to Haram, then to Xerxes. She was used as a tool, a judas goat, to keep her people under the thumb, and her masters in control yet out of target.

      A proxy; her story was even used extensively to conquer us from behind after WWll. The names of the kings were simply changed to Hitler and Uncle Sam.

      (After bedding the one, she betrayed him at her pimp’s bidding to move up to the other, becoming queen, with her handlers as the power behind the throne.
      Today, behind Uncle Sam’s throne- and you see the results.)

    • Islander December 19, 2022 at 4:43 pm #

      “the men of white cultures, unique in frontal neocortex thinking”

      I guess that explains why they like to get drunk and then get into fights.

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 6:32 pm #

        There’s been no shortage of that nonsense globally during the World Cup.

      • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 7:28 pm #

        Yes, without men fighting, women would still be living in grass huts. That’s until they were eaten by cave lions or sabertooths or stolen by the Ape men who lived in the forest as breeding stock.

        I’ll never forget the night I found David Duke’s book, “My Story” on the sale table outside the Harvard Coop. I had been searching for something for months without knowing what it was I was looking for. There it was! Nothing has been the same since.

        Maybe you were in the Coop that night too…..

        • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 9:52 pm #

          @ Jarek:

          I think we may safely assume that you could not build a grass hut. I am also pretty sure that a saber-toothed tiger would get the better of you pretty quickly–as would the ape-men, if they thought you were at all attractive.

          Tell us more about your skills in the building trades. I am sure they are impressive. (Not.)

          I have run gas lines–though, admittedly, I had quite a bit of help. I ran the interior lines and plumbed in the fireplace and wall heater, and someone else ran the exterior lines. I have replaced a length of leaky gas pipe (with my daughter’s help). I once replaced a breaker box. I have wired in at least three new electrical circuits. I have framed in windows and hung doors.

          Have you?

          As near as I can tell, you’ve never done anything at all.

          If women have, for the most part, not been much involved in such matters, or much engaged in engineering or the sciences, I would say this is primarily because they have, throughout most of history, been otherwise fully occupied.

          It is perhaps reasonable to expect the men to do SOMETHING–even if ones expectations are likely to be disappointed.

          • MaryQueen December 21, 2022 at 6:23 pm #

            I think he said he has plants that he’s able to keep alive (barely).

        • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 10:06 pm #

          @ Jarek:

          When men speak of all the things women would be missing out on without men to provide them, one is reminded of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, in “Pride and Prejudice.”

          Speaking of her musical talents, she remarked, “I should have been a grrreat proficient. If I had ever learned.”

          Maybe you could too. Or maybe not.

          • Jarek December 22, 2022 at 1:49 pm #

            A woman! Bukowski girlfriend said the same thing to him in regards to poetry, “I could have been really great, a lot better than you.” Another woman!

            Well what was holding her back at that point?

            I never claimed to be a handyman, but I do own tools and do maintain my own home and property to some degree. It’s not my main interest. And that lowers my value as a “catch”, right? Not a good slave!

            It’s great that you can do things like that. You’re an unusual woman. But men invented all of those things. Credit where credit is due, right?

            Thank you for admitting you got help. Mary doesn’t like to admit masculine help she gets with her big garden.

      • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 8:59 pm #

        That’s mainly the Irish.

        • malthuss December 21, 2022 at 12:44 pm #

          blacks?

    • JohnAZ December 19, 2022 at 6:09 pm #

      Women are the moral enforcers of any society?

      Women are the sexual enforcers of any society, after all they own the gateways.

      Family size was set by women throughout history.

      As women run the neighborhoods, they have set the folkways and mores for the society.

      Until two changes,

      The Pill

      The breakdown of the neighborhood.

      How goes the neighborhood, so goes society.

      It has been said over and over that the male influence in society is to pass morality from generation to generation of sons. I do believe this to be true.

      However, they just pass it along, women create it.

      When they do not, when the roles of both break down, perversion like today occurs. Again, the key is the family units organized into neighborhoods.

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 6:36 pm #

        First Rule of Misogyny: Women are responsible for everything men do.

        • Jarek December 19, 2022 at 7:30 pm #

          First rule of Misandry: Blame men for everything since women are never to blame for anything – being totally powerless!

          • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 3:45 pm #

            I wish you two would give it a rest. You’re both as misandrous/misogynous as each other. It’s tiring.

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 9:03 pm #

          First Rule of Misandry: Men are responsible for everything women complain about.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:24 pm #

            You’re so weak you have to copy my quotes?

            LMAO.

            Maybe women ARE more powerful. This gives me ideas. I didn’t realize how easily manipulated dudes are.

          • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 10:33 pm #

            Oh, Mary. ALL women know how easily men can be manipulated. Y’all have been using your feminine charms on us since Adam took a bite outta that apple Eve offered him. Lol…

          • MaryQueen December 20, 2022 at 10:30 am #

            It’s interesting that the only time you post this much is on the women-bashing posts.

            Says it all right there.

          • messianicdruid December 20, 2022 at 6:29 pm #

            The definition of false guilt: the feeling a man has around a unhappy woman he just met.

      • Soul Forensics December 19, 2022 at 8:24 pm #

        “the male influence in society is to pass morality from generation to generation of sons.”

        Yes.

        Women are now the moral arbiters in society, and where has that led us? To confusion, and indeed to a complete inversion of morals. Relative truth; emotional validity, and emotion over reason; ignorance of, or indifference to, evil; triviality in the arts (kitchen sink narratives, or the empowerment of victimhood, i.e.); cowardice or equanimity in the face of cultural and religious challenge; the push for more material goods over spiritual quest or powering down.

        To preclude the usual hand-wringing and bluster: of course men are guilty of all of the above as well, but the generalization holds much more firmly for women.

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 8:42 pm #

          Hmmm. What shall I do with all this power I apparently have?

          Will this power automatically make me safe if I choose to walk around the city at night?

          It feels so good to have superhero powers!

          • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 9:05 pm #

            “Will this power automatically make me safe if I choose to walk around the city at night?”

            No,Mary, but Smith & Wesson will.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:25 pm #

            Oh so you admit men are so uncontrollably violent that I need a gun.

            Thanks for confirming.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:27 pm #

            I suppose that the 90+% of violent crime that men are responsible for are women’s fault, too.

          • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 10:41 pm #

            Well, 99% of those men would be black or Hispanic. (So say the FBI crime statistics…). If all men in America were white, the violent crime problem does not go away, but the statistical totals for offenses would nosedive. So there are variances.

            And, yes, men do commit a disproportionate amount of violent crimes compared to women. Simple reason for that – testosterone and greater muscle mass. Unlike you, I do not deny the differences between men and women.

            When men act badly, they typically leverage their greater capacity for physical violence.

            When women act badly, they typically leverage their greater capacity for mental manipulation, sexual exploitation, interpersonal mindfuckery, and deception.

            Everyone brings their own personal best weapons to the fight.

          • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 1:33 am #

            If a teenager got their learner’s permit and refused to take the rules of the road seriously – and showed no contrition when confronted with it, what would you do?

            Obviously take away the car before they kill themselves or someone else, or before they get stopped by the police and the Court has to take away their learner’s permit.

            Women as a group refuse to accept responsibility for their actions. They think they’re doing the right thing, but when it turns out to be wrong, they try to pretend it never happened. And you’re the one who is wrong! Thus their right to vote needs to be taken away before they kill our civilization.

          • Night Owl December 20, 2022 at 3:46 am #

            Jarek, you are not a dumb guy. Why you post stuff like this is beyond me.

            We both know you are well aware of how stupid this argument is.

            If you are going to advance your various causes here, at least put in some effort.

          • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 12:44 pm #

            Have you not seen post after post of women refusing to take the least responsibility for downfall of the West?

            When confronted with this, they immediately pivot into an attack, blaming all men. I’m the fanatic? I’m just stating what they do. Nobody blamed all women, initially, but after they consistently blame all men, one has to conclude the problem is with most women (not all).

            You’re living in an alternate reality if you don’t see it.

          • Mick December 20, 2022 at 2:24 pm #

            I have to agree that we need reverse Suffrage.

            I feel like I can say this without offending my “team mate” MaryQ because she already does not vote.

            Ha! But all kidding aside, giving women the vote was a bad idea. An even worse practice. I think our politics and culture since it happened backs this up.

          • MaryQueen December 21, 2022 at 7:11 pm #

            Paula already has explained, as have others up here, why women getting the vote have nothing to do with west’s downfall.

            Either you get it or you don’t, I guess.

      • Islander December 19, 2022 at 8:56 pm #

        Major confusion on display concerning which sex maintains morality in society, men or women.

        Even the misogynists here can’t quite make up their minds.

        • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:28 pm #

          The misogynists up here have a very sorry showing in the logic or knowledge department.

          • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 10:44 pm #

            I know it gives you satisfaction to blurt out such things, Mary, but the exact same statement could easily be made about feminist misandry and what would it prove? Not much….except that we both look at the same world and reach very different conclusions about why it is so fucked up.

          • MaryQueen December 20, 2022 at 10:27 am #

            You know nothing, whereas the women up here are quite studied.

            You’re just a bloviating asshole puffing up his chest like those drunks punching each other over the World Cup.

          • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

            Mary confirms Wizsad’s point, like a good secretary or assistant.

          • MaryQueen December 21, 2022 at 7:13 pm #

            Nope.

            Jarek’s wrong again.

        • JohnAZ December 20, 2022 at 11:16 am #

          How about the family unit!!

          It takes exposure to both male and female attributes to raise balanced children.

          One side or the other develops perversion.

          So both sides are correct, it takes both.

      • Anthea December 22, 2022 at 9:36 pm #

        @ JohnAZ:

        When you say, “Women are the sexual enforcers of any society, after all they own the gateways,” what you’re really saying is that there should be no expectation that men be sexually moral. They are expected to be immoral.

        You might as well come right out and say that men are bad people, are expected to be bad people, and that sexual and social responsibility is not expected of them.

        As to family size being set by women throughout history, that one comes pretty close to being pure nonsense. While there have always been birth control methods of various kinds, they were, in many times and places, not known to most women. During the 1800s and 1900s in the US, it was illegal for anyone to provide birth-control information to any woman. That is, it would have been illegal for even your mom or your aunt to tell you about these methods.

        In some times and places, a woman might have been able to visit a midwife, local wise woman, or voodooienne who might advise her to use a pessary. In most times and places throughout history, there was no one like that around, or, due to the illegality of such practices, finding such a practitioner would be much like scoring drugs is at present. Most of us don’t have the right contacts. And it could be that your local practitioner was no longer in business due to having been burned at the stake.

        As to women running neighborhoods, that too would depend on the time and the place–and also what type of “running” you are talking about. Your statement is too vague.

        Re the pill, I have come to believe that it was a Bad Idea. I don’t think that women should consent, or should ever have consented, to ingesting pharmaceutical drugs, especially on a continuous basis, in order to be sexually available to men.

        I am not seeing how the male role in society is to pass morality from generation to generation of sons. How so? What is the mechanism for this? I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about. I suspect that you don’t either.

        I would also say that, while it is true that neighborhoods and communities have broken down, you have not provided any analysis as to why.

        The main reason for the breakdown of neighborhoods and communities is the loss of economic self-determination, which forces the younger people to move to the cities–and often to a distant city–for jobs. In an economically viable community, the young people would start a business or a farm. It is because we have a top-down economy that is virtually feudal in nature that neighborhoods and authentic communities have almost ceased to exist. For one thing, a house is no longer a home, but an asset and an investment. You don’t buy the place in order to become a part of a community, but because a house in a particular area is expected to appreciate in value. You are not looking at living there so much as you are looking forward to cashing out.

        The reason I am responding to your post is because these glib, “I pulled this out of my ass” comments annoy me.

    • Woodchuck December 19, 2022 at 9:13 pm #

      Earlier I left a whine in here about a feminist ancestor. She started out being active in supporting both the Volstead Act and the Nineteenth Amendment. These were issues important to a lot of people in the 20’s.

      She was a sour and dour Presbyterian fundamentalist. To be a Christian in her mind there was to be no drinking, no dancing, no card playing or gambling, and *especially* no carousing going on around her. Chastity was of utmost importance. Unfortunately for her, she had a situation going on that involved in laws visiting at times who were beer drinking northern Catholics. We’re talking a pack of inlaw uncles here. They had to bring their own beer with them because they were visiting a dry county in the Bible Belt.

      Well, they left a lot of beer bottles behind. Ole granny was afraid that the trash collection guys would see beer bottles in her trash cans. So she had all the bottles stored in a remote area in her huge basement. She went through the trash and pulled out all the beer bottles after the guys had driven off to the North. During her last year alive I was 8 years old and visiting her house. She hired me and one other child to drag all the beer bottles out of the basement and throw them down the steep wooded hillside behind her house. We had great fun as kids seeing how far we could throw them and trying to get them to bust on oak trees. Honeysuckle vines and underbrush hid them rather well at first. Decades later others were mystified as to where all the beer bottles on the hillside came from. They were covered by leaves, but a few still poked their heads out in winter every now and then. I never confessed to my role in throwing the bottles because I was afraid I’d be asked to root around in the woods, find them, and put them in the trash cans where they should have gone in the first place.

      This old feminist woman had cancer and knew she was dying. Yet she was worried about hundreds of hidden beer bottles in the basment. She was worried that after her passing, the house would be cleaned from top to bottom and the hidden bottle stash discovered. And what was much worse, the bottles might end up in the garbage can anyhow, which is why she had them hidden in the basement in the first place.

      She feared that after her death a city worker might discover that somebody in her home had been drinking a hell of a lot of beer. And that they might tell somebody. And it might get wispered around town. Image being a dying person with this sort of shallow minded nonsense going on in your mind. And you swear a couple of kids to secrecy and pay them to solve your problem. A problem that would sound hilarious to anyone today. Those bottles are still there right now , the land is an undeveloped steep hillside, and the leaves have covered the beer bottles up so completely you’d have to dig down a ways to find them by now. Until bulldozers bring them to the light of day, they’ll be there forever as a hidden monument to idiotic ideas and ideals.

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:29 pm #

        So one dysfunctional and arguably crazy woman means all women are. Got it.

        Sheesh.

        • Woodchuck December 19, 2022 at 9:51 pm #

          I don’t think you’ve got it just yet. I don’t see much if any changes in mindset starting with the early feminists to the contemporary ones. They’ve changed the talking points and the rules to confuse everyone. But the basic mindset of making females masculine and males feminine is still in place. Women are to break into professional work and do work not customarily done by women in ages past. Women have been taught they can be in the workforce full time and let the state raise their children instead in government indoctrination centers. Then everybody sits around with their thumbs in their asses wondering if yet more government money might be able to fix what’s wrong with their children.

          • Rowdypiglet December 20, 2022 at 12:42 pm #

            “Women have been taught they can be in the workforce full time and let the state raise their children instead in government indoctrination centers.”

            We’re seeing now just how well that has worked out. As soon as little girls begin school, they’re inculcated with the belief that they must choose a career, and that wanting to marry, have children, and raise them, is demeaning and is not on the list of choices. What job could possibly be more important? Is raising civilized human beings really of less value than the dreary and pointless jobs so many women hold?

            We’ve invited women who genuinely want a career to come out of the closet, and shoved those who don’t inside. What would be the harm in treating the traditional choices as at least equally valid? They are, in fact, what many women are best suited for, and what they would choose if not pressured and shamed.

          • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 12:52 pm #

            Well said. Schooling should be geared towards the mean, the ordinary human being. Ordinary girls will naturally want to be wives and mothers if their heads aren’t messed with. Teachers should be on the lookout for unusual girls who don’t want to go along with this. They should be mentored in the path in which they wish to go.

            There have always been women who didn’t want marriage and family, and of course, those who can’t find a man to give them these. They can have an honorable place as well. One doesn’t have to destroy society to accommodate them – or allow them to destroy society either of their own volition.

        • Woodchuck December 20, 2022 at 4:41 pm #

          An extremely long time ago in high school American history we encountered Caroline (Carry) Nation, aka ” Hatchet Granny”. She and packs of radical female followers would enter bars and smash them up with hatchets. If a bunch of guys did this to bars, you’d have had some brutal bar fights like in the Western movies. Chairs smashed on heads and people tossed through windows. Guys would have been far more likely to jump off the bar stools and to even use deadly force to resist such unprovoked attacks from other guys. But when the hatchet grannies invaded, the guys didn’t fight physically with these new temperance radicals. That’s something men didn’t do back then because women were universally respected and protected. Respected enough to where the men inside bars would stand down and back away while the hatchet harpies trashed the place.

          Were all women back then saloon smashing radicals? No! Were all women in the 20’s suffragettes marching in the streets to get the 19th amendment passed? No. But there were organized women’s movements on the march at that time, and they did get in the papers and they did made their voices heard. I can’t help but getting a big smile imagining a bunch of guys hanging out in their favorite saloon after work, like in the Cheers tv sitcom. And all of a sudden the hatchet grannies show up and trash the place. The shocked tough guys back off and get the hell out of the way while glass is flying and bottles are bustin’. There are photos out there of these hatchet grannies, and well, all I can say is that they look a bit homely to me, sorta the opposite of sexy. And look at the expressions on their faces. All they need is blue or purple hair and some metal on their faces to look like today’s radicals.

          There’s a shrill, loud, and bossy masculine character that accompanied a lot of these early female radicals. I’d encountered some nuns like this in Catholic School. They called themselves “Sisters of Mercy”. I found from painful experience that some of them had no mercy at all on mischievous and creative boys. They always seemed to have a sour and fun hating attitude. Are all women nuns? Thank God no! Were all Sisters of Mercy knuckle beaters? No. Not all. But some were, and way too many in my opinion.

      • Islander December 19, 2022 at 10:55 pm #

        Woodchuck:

        Na und?

        So what.

        So many words to such little avail.

      • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 1:37 am #

        Imagine thinking you are godly when you are that obsessed with what people think. And as if Jesus didn’t turn the water into wine at Cana and have a glass or two Himself.

      • Rulo Deschamps December 20, 2022 at 4:40 pm #

        Woodchuck,

        your ancestor’s vignette is vivid, well done. The beer bottle dilemma points to something in our nature, to some flaw that makes us vulnerable to many forms of madness.

        Puritanism, feminism, wokeism, teetotaling, the war on drugs. Also the noise of the ego, of “what will they think of me,” the dissonance or hallucination or illness of hiding the bottles at all cost.

        At least glass is biodegradable over a long time. A less noxious pollution than plastic everlasting.

    • Anthea December 20, 2022 at 8:45 pm #

      @ Alzaebo:

      While I’m not sure whether your main point was that the women’s vote was instrumental in instituting Prohibition, I must point out that the Prohibition movement arose entirely from failure and weakness on the part of men. Drunkenness–along with the attendant ills of domestic violence, poverty, and the destruction of families and communities–was a serious and almost entirely male-generated social pathology of the time. So, in other words, the same as the feminist movement: Male moral failures leading (inevitably) to women’s loss of respect and regard for their men and women’s demand for remedies. You know, remedies for getting the shit beaten out of them and their kids, for Dad blowing his paycheck at the bar while Mom and the kids went hungry, for Dad’s inability to hold a job, for the kids having to grow up seeing Dad drunk 24/7, etc., etc.

      You will notice that there is at present no significant temperance movement. This is because the needed remedy was applied: Divorce became socially acceptable. Women were quite willing to tolerate drunkenness among men, as long as the men were no longer in the household. Now they have to be drunks somewhere else, which is perhaps what gave rise to the “men’s movement,” wherein the world’s drunks, layabouts, and wife-beaters are reduced to complaining to each other about the cruelty of women and the injustice of being expected to support their kids.

      There were probably some other contributing factors that made separations and divorce more practical. If I remember right, it was not until the 1970s that a husband who beat his wife was automatically arrested and charged with assault–as would have been the case if he’d beaten up someone else. Prior to that time, wife-beaters were only charged if the wife pressed charges, which she was often afraid to do. (Hubby, who would be quickly released on bail, would likely retaliate.) Other factors were greater enforcement of child-support and women’s greater ability to earn at least a modest living in the workforce. Well, and of course welfare and other social services.

      As I already said, feminism arose from the same cause: male irresponsibility towards their families and resulting need for women to assume the male role of provider, due to male abdication from that role.

      You guys got feminism due to your habit of (figuratively) dumping your wives and kids off at the side of the road–though having the guys stick around to beat you up and starve you was perhaps a greater evil.

      If men wanted to overcome feminism, it wouldn’t be difficult to do. It could be done by men being men.

      I mean, presumably there are such things as male virtues–though these seem to be lost in the mists of time. According to legend, men used to be providers and protectors of women and children. There was at least a social expectation that their intentions towards women would be honorable–though such expectations seem always to have been fairly elastic. Men were allowed to prey upon women “of a certain class” and were only obligated to behave honorably towards “nice girls.” A “nice girl” was most likely any girl whose father was likely to knock your teeth out.

      Feminism is purely a response to male behavior–and a necessary one, and even an existential one for women and children.

      Don’t want the ladies to vote Democrat? Hey, support your family yourself, and your wife won’t be forced to turn to Uncle Sam so the kids don’t starve. If men wold like to see intact families, they need to stop destroying them.

      • Paula D December 21, 2022 at 12:23 pm #

        Prohibition was the 18th Amendment and Women’s Suffrage was the 19th Amendment.

        Male logic on full display when they blame women’s voting for prohibition.

        • Woodchuck December 21, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

          Logic has no gender. Many varying interests supported the 18th amendment. The bootleggers and gangsters, along with Southern Baptist preachers, loved prohibition. You see, both the preachers and women were needing assistance from the government to stop men from drinking. Nagging women and pulpit pounding Bible thumpers just didn’t have enough power on their own to do it, And it seemed that prayer had failed to stop the drinking, and so God refused to intervene directly. Help was then needed from the government. If government can make the world safe for democracy then it can certainly make the world stop drinking. Right?

          • MaryQueen December 21, 2022 at 7:15 pm #

            You didn’t even grok a teensy bit of what Paula or Anthea said.

            LOL.

        • Woodchuck December 22, 2022 at 11:51 am #

          Uh, I do know that 18 comes before 19. I hated elementary school but at least I learned to count. That turned out to be a useful skill.

      • Woodchuck December 22, 2022 at 12:24 pm #

        Getting into complex academic discussions about feminism goes nowhere. You’ll notice this on other blogs as well, neither side will give in, and the exchanges can get very intricate with people quoting various authors and bringing in history, psychology, sociology, religion,etc. It becomes a contest to see who is the best wordsmith and who can quote the most “authorities”.

        My views on feminism are negative because of how I grew up. I’m not chosing sides according to what politics I might have. A branch of my extended family fled Europe in 1861 and arrived at Ellis Island in NYC. Something awful must have been going on overseas for them to flee to a country that was in the middle of a bad civil war. Somehow they managed to do very well, and had a nice comfy place for themselves in the “gay nineties” or the “gilded age” from 1890 to 1900. The females in the tribe were all great home makers, raised very successful and healthy children – until feminism and college worship infected the family in the 30’s. Things started going downhill for my extended family after that. The younger generations of the family were experiencing psychological problems, depression, multiple divorces, etc. I was affected by this as everyone else was. To put it bluntly, we had/have a nerd problem, although we certainly didn’t start out being nerds. Nerds don’t emigrate to a place in the middle of a brutal civil war.

        When things don’t go right it’s only natural to examine one’s past family history, because family issues strongly affect how we grow up. When I looked at mine, I saw a pattern and I saw stuff going down that seemed more than just coincidental. Looking around me now, I see families everywhere in crisis, still high divorce rates, troubled and unhappy children. I tend to think now that my extended family encountered the destructive forces of feminism maybe a few decades before most everybody else, we were sorta ahead of our time. But the time is here. And the confusion is getting worse by the hour.

  41. 100th Avatar December 19, 2022 at 7:04 pm #

    I am not sure where I read it, but it is a recent story about the JFK Files, and Tucker Carlson.

    An inside (CIA) source confirmed to Tucker that the CIA did in fact kill, or conspired to kill, JFK, and that what he knows would irrevocably and forever alter one’s concept of the United States and the society one BELIEVES to be existing in.

    There is a reality.
    The (only) true one.
    And most are not residing within it.

    I have always said that the information age presents an existential hazard to the ruling arrangement. Particularly the one many of you assume to be living in.

    It is entirely false and invented.
    It is a myth.

    So, as I read the opening excerpt about leaking secrets and the laments of the rulers I shrug. Because many believe these latest spasms are aberrations. Something new.
    They see the new and obvious lies and dystopian machinations but dismiss the antecedents.

    A lifetime of them.
    The host outlines a christmas wishlist of goodies that will never come.
    Just as they never arrived in the past.
    Investigations. Special Prosecutors. Commissions. Hearings.
    The brand stamp of authority of the high priests.

    And the only thing that will come is more theater.
    More mall Santas imitating the one true fiction.

    How that disturbs people: when confronted with a tawdry, obvious, and blasphemous simulacrum of the pure mythological canon as they envision it.
    Blind to the absurdity of their demand for perseverance to the authentic lie.

    With no irony.
    Preserving the myth is the goal.

    But know this. You MUST walk away from all of it.
    Nothing within their system is real.

    • riverrunner December 19, 2022 at 7:10 pm #

      If you put ‘Tucker Carlson’ along with ‘JFK Files’ you know it’s going to be horseshit.

      • Woodchuck December 19, 2022 at 7:45 pm #

        The river is dribbling drivel again. You get paid by the word, right?

    • MontanaMan December 19, 2022 at 7:46 pm #

      Tucker was talking about this last week pertaining to President Kennedy, and the possibility that the CIA had a major hand in that situation of his death. He never did say who the person is that him and some of his staff talked to that had access to all the documents that are not being released. He’s not about to break those persons anonymity.

      • Paula D December 20, 2022 at 1:06 pm #

        JFK fired Allen Dulles and threatened to break up the CIA to a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.

        Then “someone” blew his head off in the middle of town square in the middle of the day.

        And then Allen Dulles was appointed to “investigate” the murder.

        But we’re supposed to pretend that it is still a mystery if the CIA was involved?

    • Woodchuck December 19, 2022 at 8:19 pm #

      “Nothing within their system is real.”

      The Biblical false prophet who brings down fire from the heavens? (predator drones and other aviation firepower)?

      Who or what is the beast from the sea? The now defunct British Empire? A maritime empire with a network of British ships on the oceans?

      Yes, let’s preserve the myth. Great confusion reigns in the West regarding mythology. For example, pagan Rome loved Saturnalia during the winter solstice. It was “the most wonnnnnnnderful time of the year”. Lalalala lala deck the halls with boughs of holly! Time for drinking, orgies, getting high and having colorful visions, giving gifts and flying in the sky with elves onboard, any sort of crazy and wild experience you could think of could be enjoyed during this ancient festival that has its origins in Babylon. I doubt if Jesus would have been partying it up during Roman Saturnalia, but who knows for sure? His first miracle was changing water into wine, a trick that would be guaranteed to win converts everywhere on university and college campuses. A useful miracle! One you can drink and get a good buzz from. If He was hanging out with prostitutes, drunks, blue collar guys, tax collectors etc. – maybe He also didn’t get his pants in a wad over Saturnalia. But Jesus would have been very shocked if someone had told Him that starting from 4 centuries in the future He’d be forever celebrated via a new Saturnalia called Christmas. The Christmas glitz with mistletoe, yule logs, decorating trees and bringing them inside, exchanging gifts, drinking alcohol, sex at Christmas office parties (as seen in cartoons) etc etc – that’s all Babylonian, it’s got zero to do with Jesus. My only problem with Christmas is that people are doing traditions repeatedly without knowing or thinking about the origins of what they are doing. I find it beyond silly to be engaging in expensive and time consuming activities without out knowing why.

      • messianicdruid December 20, 2022 at 6:01 pm #

        Would a fish be silly for wondering about water?

        • Blackbird December 20, 2022 at 8:29 pm #

          “Would a fish be silly for wondering about water?”

          No, that fish would be taking the important first step toward becoming an amphibian.

  42. riverrunner December 19, 2022 at 7:08 pm #

    Well looky here, another Monday and another bilking of the Kunstler ‘consumer.’ How do you manage to pull this off twice a week is beyond comprehension as it’s the same ol’ shit every week from our keyboard warrior. The irony of naming the Dems ‘The Party of Chaos’ humors me to no end. Think you got that backwards there Jim as any 1/6 video will attest. Meanwhile, any sources on your mRNA claims that you rail on every single week? Nope, never as it’s the equivalent to that other bullshit piece of propaganda, 2000 Mules.

    • Mick December 19, 2022 at 7:27 pm #

      There he is!

      A whole lotta nonsense…..and a river runs through it.

      • Paula D December 19, 2022 at 7:43 pm #

        The river is flooded and it seems to have picked up the sewage from the treatment plant.

        Peeuuw, that stinks!

    • MontanaMan December 19, 2022 at 7:31 pm #

      Why do you even come in here since it’s quite obvious that you don’t like, or agree with what Jim Kunstler has to say? Are you a glutton for self-punishment??

    • MontanaMan December 19, 2022 at 7:49 pm #

      You’re about as pleasant as a root canal. You definitely exhibit the symptoms of a late stage alcoholic.. Rage Rage ? and more Rage.

    • stelmosfire December 19, 2022 at 7:54 pm #

      Runner, you mention a film, “2000 Mules”. have you watched the movie? I haven’t, I don’t have the time or compunction to. I know what I know and observe. As the simple deplorable jamoke that I am I plod on through the fog until I see the truth. It seems you’re just here to stir the pot o’ shit.

      • MontanaMan December 19, 2022 at 8:02 pm #

        Like I told him, he really is about as pleasant as a root canal, and he does exhibit symptoms of a late stage alcoholic. He’s all about
        rage / arrogance / unpleasantness. He is definitely not a happy person.

        • riverrunner December 19, 2022 at 10:19 pm #

          Projection much?

      • Islander December 19, 2022 at 9:09 pm #

        I watched the film “2000 mules,” and it was excellent.

        • riverrunner December 19, 2022 at 10:01 pm #

          Thanks for admitting you’re a dimwit.

      • riverrunner December 19, 2022 at 10:04 pm #

        Don’t have to watch 2000 mules when you know about the fraudulent pos behind it.

      • Paula D December 20, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

        I haven’t watched it either, but as I understand it, it’s actual footage of ballot stuffing that went on in the various Dem cities that decided the 2020 election.

        I have already seen enough footage here and there to be convinced that it only took a few cities in a few states to overcome the vast majority of votes actually cast in that election.

        The election was stolen and the fact that they are trying to make it illegal to say so proves it.

    • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 9:10 pm #

      Says the River of Shit….the mighty Amazon of Democrat fecal matter in perpetual search of a proper porcelain bowl to go swirling down.

  43. BackRowHeckler December 19, 2022 at 7:58 pm #

    Speaking of lovely ladies & Radical Feminists, I give you Valerie Salanos, the artist who shot Andy Warhol 3x with a .38 Special revolver, and author of the S.C.U.M. Manifesto (SCUM stands for the Society for Cutting Up Men) & the off-off Broadway play ‘Up Your Ass’.

    Needless to say the play ‘Up Your Ass’ wasn’t too successful, which embittered Valerie to no end. She spent some time in prison for shooting Warhol. More of a nihilist than a feminist, this Sweetheart of the Rodeo blazed a trail soon followed by early punk rocker Patti Smith, and more recently black clad Antifa fems who drag civilians out of stopped automobiles and stomp their faces in with steel toed engineer boots.

    • BackRowHeckler December 19, 2022 at 8:02 pm #

      And don’t think Valerie was being satirical with the SCUM Manifesto title. She meant every word, literally.

      • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 8:46 pm #

        LOL, she sure knew how to name stuff.

        “Up Your Ass.”

        Hahahahaha!

        • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 9:15 pm #

          I know this is terribly lowbrow, but sometimes it’s the outrageously funny obscure crap that people post here that keeps me coming back. This is the great advantage of reading in with this very literate group.

          • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 9:31 pm #

            I can count on BRH to break up the tension with excellent and funny posts.

            That’s why I continue to opine that he’s my favorite commenter on CFN.

          • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 3:52 pm #

            “Up Your Ass!” Sounds a real rib-tickler. I might watch it on Christmas Day after the kids and I have seen The Sound of Music.

      • Islander December 19, 2022 at 10:51 pm #

        I just copyedited a ms. whose (feminist) author insists that no one ever established that Solanas ever confirmed that SCUM meant Society to Cut Up Men.

    • MaryQueen December 19, 2022 at 8:45 pm #

      Valerie was quite something, alright. Ironically, if she hadn’t shot Warhol she’d probably fit right in with that group given how extreme & anti-establishment they were. But then again, Warhol went onto become establishment… while radical feminists never did.

      • Wizard of the Saddle December 19, 2022 at 11:04 pm #

        See, Mary?!? Even women are capable of violence….and with a gun (GASP!) at that!

        Hilarious. LOL

        This is why the whole debate over whether men or women are the better sex is utter rubbish. It’s not only a false concept for debate, it is a total distraction and misdirection from the actual issue which is the proper roles for men and women working together – not at odds with one another – in a civilized, healthy, and orderly society.

        When I criticize feminism my motivation is not misogyny as all feminists would accuse. Quite the contrary. I am quite enamored of the female creature, as all true men are. Which is why feminism is so disturbing. I won’t re-hash the long list of well known societal issues it has caused. That has been well articulated here by others. I simply hate what it has done to male & female relations. It has destroyed the normal sexual and social dynamics between the sexes and has upended social stability as a result. Nothing good has come from it.

        People are not happier today. Women certainly are not. The bulk of all women I see today are in a state of pure misery thanks to feminism. That’s why nearly 50% of the female population in this country is on psych meds from their shrinks while fewer than 10% of men are.

        What a home run for the United States.

        I’m sorry, my dear, but if I could rewind time and restore this country to the normal cultural standards that existed a little over a century ago, I would not hesitate to pull the trigger…and every woman in the country would…ultimately…be the better for it.

        • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 2:33 am #

          Who do women choose for a mate? Someone above them: Taller, richer, stronger. And the best women? Some one whom they can’t manipulate, whom they admire and who can guide them.

          So women are clear even if you aren’t. Men are better. Thus they must rule. Pilot and Co-pilot. Husband and wife. He loves her unto death even as Christ loved the Church. She isn’t called to do any such a thing by St Paul, “only” to honor and obey.

          • kbird December 20, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

            Jarek, what a crock of shit. What makes you think women think Men are better? You are projecting, that is what you feel…so sad and gross.

          • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 2:26 pm #

            Ok, let’s go slow for you: Do women want a man as tall as they are, shorter, or taller. Give what you think is the order of preference starting with the best. Ditto money and success.

            They are born looking up. Men on their own level? Meh. Men beneath them? Invisible. If they have to deal with them, icy distaste and contempt.

        • MaryQueen December 20, 2022 at 10:24 am #

          The misogynists up here have gone bonkers.

          Where did I ever say women couldn’t be violent?

          You still don’t get that women didn’t create the current situation. And, no, society is not better when women have no rights or choice in life.

          • Rulo Deschamps December 20, 2022 at 4:49 pm #

            Mary,

            I noticed you mention drunken fights at or about the World Cup and I’m curious. I have followed the thing quite intensely and wasn’t aware of any. Hooliganism and mass violence are, of course, a part of the football context of the past, but very rare today. Some third tier game, say, in the outskirts of Newcastle or São Paulo.

            Budweiser was a global sponsor, but in a last minute decision Qatar revoked most of the approved outlets to enjoy a beer, I think they had one fan zone and one or two high end restaurants total for the duration.

            I think perhaps what you saw was the usual creative self expression by vibrant minorities in their host European cities. For example, the large Moroccan diaspora created large entertainments after the Portugal and Spain matches. Win or lose wasn’t really the point, the point to display ferocity and hatred towards their hosts.

          • MaryQueen December 20, 2022 at 5:33 pm #

            Oh wow, Rulo. That’s funny you can’t find them. I saw a lot of them on a channel named “LiveLeak” on Telegram. Some were insane. In one, a teenaged boy got run over. I think that was in France.

      • BackRowHeckler December 20, 2022 at 4:45 pm #

        Mary, Warhol, thru hard work and determination (and a bit of genius) really made a success out of himself. Believe it or not he came from an eastern European immigrant family in Pittsburgh and started out as a graphic artist. He remained close to his family his whole life despite his status as a celebrated avant garde artist and bohemian lifestyle.

        • MaryQueen December 21, 2022 at 7:20 pm #

          I know all about him, read a couple of biographies, and used to hike with one of his factory friends, Mary Woronov. She had the stories, that’s for sure. I read her book, of course.

    • Amman December 20, 2022 at 3:03 am #

      “black clad Antifa fems who drag civilians out of stopped automobiles and stomp their faces in with steel-toe engineer boots.”

      – Say it ain’t so…?!

    • malthuss December 20, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

      schiz o? very dangerous.

      Warhol was smart. he said ‘ill never survive another operation’–how right he was.

    • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 3:50 pm #

      “‘Up Your Ass”. I might watch that on Xmas day after me and the family have finished “The sound of music”. Sounds a real rib-tickler!

  44. Islander December 19, 2022 at 10:41 pm #

    The battle of the sexes continues.

    It’s all here (but much more entertaining than this thread):

    httpX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q2fTSo8aoY

    How could you believe me? (Royal Wedding).
    Fred Astaire and Jane Powell

    • Islander December 19, 2022 at 10:45 pm #

      Before Valerie Solanas was Cyd Charisse as Frankie:

      httpX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91EDMNW1VYs

      Meet me in Las Vegas (Frankie and Johnny)

      • Paula D December 20, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

        My dad and I used to drive to the downtown library every Tuesday night.
        We would sing songs that he taught me. It was great.

        One of the songs was Frankie and Johnnie. It was only later that I realized the words were anti-men. “This story just goes to show you that there ain’t no good in men. They’ll do you wrong, just as sure as you’re born.”

        I guess my dad figured singing that song wouldn’t change my opinion of him, and it didn’t.

  45. tom clark December 19, 2022 at 11:11 pm #

    Donald Trump…flawed to perfection…priceless, Jimbo.

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    • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 3:54 pm #

      Flawed to perfection. Floored in the election.

  46. Q. Shtik December 19, 2022 at 11:23 pm #

    The Monday night football game just ended. It was the LA Rams vs the Packers at Lambeau Field. The temp at kickoff was 15 degrees, smoke coming out of every mouth. The camera focused briefly on two flabby White assholes standing there naked from the waist up.

    Whut’s up wit dat? What’s the message?

    I hope they both have pneumonia tomorrow.

    The Packers won.

    • Q. Shtik December 19, 2022 at 11:31 pm #

      Baker Mayfield was the Rams quarterback. He threw a long pass straight into the arms of a Packer defender. The camera focused on Mayfield’s face and I read his lips very clearly. He said !@#$%*FUCK*%$#@!

      I laughed

    • Disaffected December 20, 2022 at 10:04 am #

      Color commentary by the Q. Succinct and brutally honest.

  47. tom clark December 19, 2022 at 11:55 pm #

    Tough for anyone to play at Lambeau. The message from the
    assholes naked from the waist up in 15 degree weather is “I’m drunk”. Don’t look for the Pack to go anywhere this year. Aaron Rogers needs to back to hosting “Jeopardy”.

  48. SoftStarLight December 20, 2022 at 3:02 am #

    It’s kind of strange for a Christmas parable. A time of miracles and mystical happenings where reality is somewhat murky and the truth nearly fantastical. But it’s certainly a grounding message to remember that a war with reality and truth can result in criminal prosecution. Though some people are prosecuted and persecuted for warring with falsehoods and unrealities, so it is a complex picture. Which is maybe why the yule log is burning everything down lol. And that fits into the spirit of the season too! The beginning of a new beginning. Dear Santa, I’m really upset Daddy didn’t take the trash out.

    • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 3:09 am #

      The Mob made hailed Christ as King. A few days later they call for his execution. Now look at what they do to Elon. The Mob chose Barrabas Trump over him.

      • messianicdruid December 20, 2022 at 9:21 am #

        Which one will be resurrected?

        • messianicdruid December 20, 2022 at 9:23 am #

          Leon or Prumt…

      • SoftStarLight December 20, 2022 at 10:55 am #

        The Mob is really fickle huh. I did see that vote to have Elon step down as the head of twitter. I voted for him to remain the CEO. I think there were probably a lot of bot votes against him. Someone said there were like 100 thousand intel operatives with multiple accounts voting against him. Not sure but it does sounds possible. I also voted to restore President Trump’s account. But for whatever reason he hasn’t even tweeted once. I think he should.

        • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

          Yeah, have the bots even been cleared out yet? If not, how was Trump reinstalled?

          In any case, Kushner was seen possibly lambasting Elon at the soccer game in Qatar by telescopic lens. But Elon has more money! But there’s more to money when it comes to being high on the Pyramid. Elon may well be using this fake poll to bow out before he gets into even hotter water with the Rulers of the West.

          They can and will destroy him. He’s had his fun, tried to inject a bit of levity and truth into the narrative. Better get back to working on space craft and what they really want from him – chips for human brains.

          • SoftStarLight December 21, 2022 at 1:24 am #

            That’s a good point. One would have thought that the bot army would have made sure to put down any reinstatement of DJT’s account as well. Hopefully Elon is not being forced to step down in the background but it wouldn’t shock me. I can hardly even bear to consider the evil things the elites want to do with his technologies.

  49. Gypsy December 20, 2022 at 6:07 am #

    Well James; the power of The Dark Side still rules. There are six REPUBLICAN congressmen ~ the Never Kevin crowd ~ who will prevent Trump ally Kevin McCarthy from becoming Speaker of the House. Those investigations ~ into Fauci, the vaccines, the January 6th fiasco and ALL these phony elections ~ will not take place.

    Elon was shining a light on the Under-the-Table, Behind-the-Back, In-the-Dark scandals and depravity going on between the government and Twitter. The Dark Side blowback was so enormous that Elon (knowing the government bots could overwhelm any on-line-poll) decided to create an Honorable Exit for himself. He’s stepping down as Twitter CEO because The People have spoken.

    This un-named monstrosity, perhaps called The New World Order or the World Economic Forum or The Hillary Crowd or Klaus Schwab or Justin Trudeau, has harmed everyone on earth. This Behemoth is rolling over EVERYTHING. So many, many people are being killed by this thing even now, all over the world, as we speak. It can throw elections. It can’t be voted out. Those who are ACTIVELY trying to stop it live in foreign countries. They have nukes.

    Well James, it doesn’t take a Gypsy with Tarot Cards to portend the future on this one. It’s inevitable. The unstoppable Freight Train meets the Immovable Object eventually. Happy New Year Brother !

    • SoftStarLight December 20, 2022 at 11:20 am #

      I heard that the whole Kevin McCarthy not becoming speaker thing is not as big of a deal as people are making it out to be. Kevin McCarthy is very snaky, at least that is what I hear fairly often, and has no real desire for the investigations and prosecutions you are speaking of. It also doesn’t seem like Elon is going to step down. He said that there is no successor. Some people have suggested that he was setting up a massive bot dragnet. Other people say that he is going to put somebody like Don Jr. in charge to really torment the severe leftists. It will be interesting to see what happens. Sometimes I think the behemoth is a big elephant standing on a chair and terrified of a few mice on the floor who are screaming at it. But i could be telling myself little lies.

  50. tucsonspur December 20, 2022 at 6:24 am #

    Too many men feel insecure and challenged by women, and too many women have been abused by men for too long. Yeah, take that you scumbags.

    The ‘man’ shrivels before the intellectually dominant female, but the ‘man’ rises before the beautiful body.

    Best to know the fit, best to rate the potential mate, copulate on many a date, ejaculate and lessen the need to speculate, see if her mind is refined, and designed as well as her behind.

    The caveman with the club wants her barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen as the saying goes, with maybe some nail polish on the toes.

    Yes, how can you tell, the match made in heaven, or the match made in hell?

    Men have made a mess of things, see them with the earrings and tattooed muscle, attaché case and Wall Street hustle, lies in suits and ties, grid iron brutes or effeminate lads of ill repute, men waging war and wielding law, needing power while wanting to deflower.

    Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan and Goria Steinem have simply spoken up for themselves and their sex, and in doing so pummeled the insecure male from pillar to post.

    Yes, some feminists have gone too far, but many men got what they deserved, a wakeup call as to what a woman is, what a woman wants and what a woman needs.

    Dumb fuckers thought it was all about them.

    Why aren’t the scumbags down there with their guns at the border fighting the invasion? Fucking pussies!!

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    • Amman December 20, 2022 at 6:52 am #

      Hey Scumbags! How are ye?

    • Mick December 20, 2022 at 11:52 am #

      Lol…. You have no idea of the background of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem do you? I won’t bother telling you because, 1. You will probably refuse to believe it, and 2. You seem to be of the sort who can’t handle truth very well.

      Is being a beta simp working for you?

      • tucsonspur December 20, 2022 at 7:17 pm #

        My long-time posts on this blog emphatically prove that I’m a Sigma, and so I’ve been called, except for a know-it-all dipshit like you.

        No, I don’t know everything about their backgrounds, but I know a lot.

        You’re probably one of those nut swinging applejacks who smack women around and never pay for it.

        The post of a shallow, presumptuous fool.

        • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 3:57 pm #

          Tempers are somewhat frayed tonight, aren’t they? From the vitriol being spewed by both sides, I guess we’re not discussing crop rotation in Upper Silesia.

    • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

      Johnny we hardly knew ye. No Johnny Reb, you. Just Tusc who wants to get in good with the braless babes of Babylon.

      • tucsonspur December 20, 2022 at 7:29 pm #

        Tucsonspur, Tucsonreb, au contraire, you do know me well, J. Sigma all the way.

        I confess, I got in good and got in bed with some of those braless babes. Loved it, they took it like they were being stabbed. Back in the day.

        Some wild ….!

  51. Islander December 20, 2022 at 11:09 am #

    Meanwhile, reality kicks in, sort of, regarding wind power:

    httpX://vineyardgazette.com/news/2022/12/18/commonwealth-wind-asks-state-pull-project-contracts#comment-455541

    “After months of back-and-forth, the company behind a large commercial wind farm planned for south of Martha’s Vineyard has requested the state pull its project contracts, citing rising construction costs and an inability to renegotiate pricing.

    Avangrid, the parent company of Commonwealth Wind, as well as two other industrial-scale offshore wind farm projects planned for south of the Island, said in a filing Friday with the state Department of Public Utilities that its 1,200 megawatt development was no longer commercially viable, and that the state should dismiss its current power purchasing agreements.

    “Unfortunately, despite diligent efforts by Commonwealth Wind to find a path forward for the Project…the project cannot be financed and built under the current [power purchasing agreements],” the filing reads in part. . . . “

    • SoftStarLight December 20, 2022 at 12:25 pm #

      Wind farms are one of the most egregious abominations you can literally imagine. They are very inefficient and unreliable. But more than that it seems that Martha’s Vineyard is again immune to the brutality and destruction of the agenda. Just like national guard troops were literally brought to Martha’s Vineyard to forcibly remove migrants, now they seem to be exempt from dealing with the agenda’s wind farms. The people who are the biggest supporters of the evil, giant octopus don’t ever have to deal with the negativity and externalities it creates.

      • Islander December 20, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

        SSL:

        I agree completely.

        Many locals are seeing the light, so to speak.

        Check out the comments.

        An interesting mix of pro and con (both kinds!!)

        Theymay not post it.

        My own comment has probably not yet posted.

        This paper is very pro renewables.
        But their stories are visible in toto to all, not just subscribers, as is the case with the other local paper.

        • stelmosfire December 20, 2022 at 2:41 pm #

          Islander, our new Govenor brags about how she fights against new NG pipelines in the state. In western MA. there is a pipeline serving 200,000 people that is 70 years old. The gas company can’t even do maintenance because if they shut it down there’s no alternative. They would like to put in a new line but the greenies are up in arms. Those people are delusional.

          • stelmosfire December 20, 2022 at 2:47 pm #

            wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/public-hearing-on-new-eversource-gas-pipeline/

          • Islander December 20, 2022 at 9:16 pm #

            They are delusional.

            My comment has not yet posted at the Vineyard Gazette.

            I didn’t take a copy of the text before I hit “send.” So, might be lost to posterity.

            It concerned disposal of used blades, among other environmental problems caused by the “renewables” push.

            I cited this:

            httpX://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills?leadSource=uverify%20wall

            Also, I cited protests in Chile concerning env. destruction, also of indigenous people’s lands, caused by mining of lithium for batteries.

          • Woodchuck December 21, 2022 at 1:48 pm #

            Let ’em burn wood and eat cake!

      • tucsonspur December 20, 2022 at 7:48 pm #

        SSL,

        Some decades ago, when I first saw the wind farm at San Gorgonio pass near Palm Springs in California, I was absolutely stunned by the desecration of what was once a magnificently beautiful landscape.

        If it could happen there, it could happen anywhere and so it has, except for those ‘special’ circumstances you mention.

        • SoftStarLight December 21, 2022 at 1:34 am #

          Desecration is a good word for it! After seeing it how anyone could think this is some sort of “green alternative” or environmentally sound option is beyond my capacity to understand. It is heartening to see a lot of people waking up to it as a real threat rather than a solution.

    • gustafson.robert.22 December 20, 2022 at 3:23 pm #

      “…the project cannot be financed and built under the current [power purchasing agreements],” the filing reads in part. . . . “

      read, “cannot be financed…without sufficient grant money being handed to us in briefcases for free.”

  52. MaryQueen December 20, 2022 at 11:30 am #

    Seen on Telegram, haven’t vetted yet, but too much coinkydink for me:

    “Natural Gas Pipeline Ablaze In Western Russia.

    Three people killed, one injured in the explosion on the LNG pipeline in the Chuvash Republic.

    The pipeline is primarily used for transporting natural gas from Siberia to Western Europe.

    Upon news of the explosion the price of gas in Europe jumped to $1,200 per 1,000 cubic meters.”

    Somebody is very determined to freeze Western Europeans, it would seem.

    • Islander December 20, 2022 at 12:26 pm #

      Holy s—.

      Yeah, way too coinkidinky.

      When was the last major failure of a natural gas pipeline?

      Oh, yeah, Nord Stream . . .

      This Wiki list of pipeline failures lists only two in Russia —which is probably due to lack of complete information, but still interesting.

      Lots of blowouts in Canada.

      httpX://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents

      Of course the volatility of gas is why a highly skilled workforce and topnotch infrastructure are required to deal with it. Which Russia has.

      • MaryQueen December 20, 2022 at 9:54 pm #

        Lots of gas and oil pipelines been blown up in Russia.

        WAY too much coinkydink.

    • SoftStarLight December 20, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

      I think it’s maybe a real story. I checked and there a few sites linking to the story. It sounds like the exports have not been disrupted despite the explosion? I quickly looked it up and you should see how amazing and intricate the indigenous apparel of the Chuvash people is. I briefly watched a video on youtube last night about the Komi people of Russia. The video just seemed to randomly pop into the steam so. They are Arctic people who follow reindeer herds and they are nomadic. They live in teepees which they call chooms. So amazing how they stay warm in them without all the trappings of modern climate control in brutally cold conditions.

      • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 1:20 pm #

        One is reminded of Obama’s choom gang. And some early Indo-Europeans would smoke pot in closed environments to get as high as possible.

        The Komi look whiter than the Lapps, bigger too, but still a bit oriental in the face. No doubt they are adapted to the cold just as the Lapps are.

        Polar peoples get a reflow of blood into their extremities are they begin to freeze and go numb. Some Norwegian fishermen have this, but only to a small degree.

        Imagine riding a reindeer!

        • SoftStarLight December 21, 2022 at 1:44 am #

          Lol, that would be scary it seems because they can gallop pretty fast and they seem to be like sort of erratic if they are disturbed. It made me a little uncomfortable watching them rope and tackle individual deers they would select from the herds to run their sleighs. But yeah, the Komi people seemed to mostly look like Russians i suppose but like you said they do seem to have some particular Asian features that are noticable as well.

  53. messianicdruid December 20, 2022 at 11:42 am #

    If moma ain’t happy nobody’s happy. If daddy ain’t happy nobody cares.

    We can’t explain it to each other because we use english. And it takes a lot of attention, effort and gumption to wade through all the definitions, mythology, pro pro granda amalgamation directed and dedicated to keep us at war with ourselves.

    The opposite of a human right is a human wrong.

    • Q. Shtik December 21, 2022 at 1:46 am #

      If moma ain’t happy nobody’s happy. – messi

      ============

      I always heard this line as:

      “If momma ain’t happy ain’t nobody happy.”

      It’s the second ain’t that gives the line its zing.

      • messianicdruid December 23, 2022 at 7:46 am #

        You are right. It helps contrast the second sentence.

  54. elysianfield December 20, 2022 at 11:48 am #

    Well, ladies and germs;

    Newsmax, (A site you can trust), this AM reports. in this season of Christmas cheer, reflection, and …and perhaps even forgiveness;

    https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/concentration-camp-secretary-nazi/2022/12/20/id/1101239/

    A 97 year old secretary…who was 20 years old at the time of her service. A secretary.

    Please God…make it stop….

    • Mick December 20, 2022 at 11:55 am #

      And yet the Jews can get away with the systemic genocide of Palestinians. That’s “proper genocide”.

      And the Tribe wonders why so many Europeans, and Americans too, have had about enough of their bullshit.

      • Jarek December 20, 2022 at 1:24 pm #

        They’re not going to let go and let us go, Mick. And anyone who tries force is the epitome of evil, right?

        Thus the status quo. The slaves will gleefully report any rebellion to the Masters. Hell, they’ll kill their own for them.

        Freedom begins between the ears.

        • Mick December 20, 2022 at 2:16 pm #

          I do agree with “Freedom begins between the ears”.

          Very true. And also, “the slaves will gleefully report any rebellion to the Masters.”

          That certainly played out for Geronimo. US Army used scouts from his own tribe to help track him. They didn’t have freedom between their ears. Geronimo did.

          And we saw a lot of slaves reporting to the Masters during the plandemic.

          • Islander December 20, 2022 at 4:28 pm #

            Have you read “Watch for Me on the Mountain” by Forrest Carter?

            Fantastic book that weaves many strands into a compelling account.

            If you are interested in Geronimo I think you might love it.

            Don’t be put off by the author. When I read the book I had not idea who the author was nor that he had become notorious.

            Forrest Carter himself is one of the most intriguing characters in the American literary and political landscape.

            Carter would be a great subject for a movie treatment, except that one would have to make up quite a lot . . . not a whole lot is known about him.

      • benr December 20, 2022 at 3:09 pm #

        Genocide I think you might be going a bit overboard on this one.
        Where are the mass graves and the crematoriums?

        Ah they don’t exist and neither does this genocide.
        Israel does seem to provide some services to a group of people that for the most part would like to actually genocide them pesky jews.
        Do the Palestinians get treated well some better than they deserve and some not so much.

        • Mick December 20, 2022 at 3:26 pm #

          Not all genocides play out the same way, Kemosabe. Israel does have to worry about world opinion. Hitler did not have that issue.

          Israel is doing a systematic slow genocide to the Palestinians. If they could get away with it, they would go in a different direction. As in they’d all be dead by now.

          And I won’t even broach the subject as to who stole who’s land. You probably think people who look like Woody Allen, Jerry Seinfeld, Bibi Netanyahu, and Jared Kushner are “real” Jews who are from that land originally. Yeah. Right. Real southwest asian desert people. You betcha.

          • benr December 20, 2022 at 4:36 pm #

            Thats why the Palestinians have some fairly high birth rates on average just over three kids per household.
            With that said they are also a very young group of people and the number of humans being stuffed into the area has not shrunk but grown every year which does not match your poor attempt at smearing Israel.
            In fact, you might try at least telling something close to the truth a lie with some truth in it is more believable.
            You keep telling the lies I personally have no dog in this fight one way or the other I just knew you were lying and decided to not ignore it.
            As far as looks go people breed with each other what does looks have to do with a damn thing.
            Are you saying all Jews have big hook noses dark skin, jet black eyes and dark hair?
            Get over yourself.

          • Mick December 20, 2022 at 4:56 pm #

            Get over myself? How about you go fuck yourself.

            Genocide is probably too strong. I admit. Apartheid is more accurate for what’s happening on the ground over there.

            I could go on with many instances of Israeli troops gunning down children and teens for no good reason. And so much more brutal acts. But you’d just say, “Get over myself”.

            Sounds like you do have a “dog in this fight”. You’re probably a Zionist, in fact. The gentile christian variety. Just own up to it.

          • messianicdruid December 20, 2022 at 5:38 pm #

            “With that said they are also a very young group of people and the number of humans being stuffed into the area has not shrunk but grown every year…”

            This happens when you shrunk the area they are allowed to live in every year. Numbers increase, area decrease / numbers decreased = more for us.

          • Islander December 20, 2022 at 8:54 pm #

            Israel is an apartheid state.
            That doesn’t come from me, but from the UN.

            Israel is a genocidal state.
            A nicer term than “genocide” might be “ethnic cleansing.”

            A very large portion of its territory is land stolen from the original inhabitants. Israelis are taught from earliest childhood to hate and look down on Palestinians as subhuman.

            Furthermore, Israel is no friend to the USA.

            Israel tried to sink the USS Liberty and murder all of its crew. Israel has lied to and stolen nuclear secrets from the USA.

            These are simply the facts.

          • Q. Shtik December 21, 2022 at 1:35 am #

            And I won’t even broach the subject as to who stole who’s land. – Mick

            ============

            All occupied land was stolen from a previous occupier. Why is it people don’t see this?

          • benr December 21, 2022 at 10:49 am #

            South Africa was an apartheid or so we were told and yet most people living there now would gladly go back to that time because the current version of South Africa is nothing short of awful. Some of the highest crime and poverty in the world and the notable child rape capitol of the world. Really a garden spot since the west helped throw out the former government.

            The same or worse would happen if Israel is thrown out the Palestinians can’t govern, feed, water and deal with any of the issues a moder society has to deal with. Power, water, sewage and trash collection all provided by them pesky Jews.

            As far as gunning down people goes throw rocks get lead thrown back and that is a universal truth.

            The entire middle east a sand box full of fellow arabs and 99% of them hate Palestinians more than the Israelis.
            No nation in that area wants these people either and if you want to set blame then blame England for how they carved up the region without a care to the tribal nature of the people in the region.

            How many Muslim nations are there on this planet?
            There is only one “jewish state” run under a laughable version of Jewish law.
            It is to everyone’s advantage that Israel survives with the hope they all decide to move there.

            Israel is not a friend, and neither is any other country on this planet they all have their own agendas.
            When they align with ours then they are friendly.

          • Paula D December 21, 2022 at 12:32 pm #

            Apartheid is a better word than genocide, I agree.

            When people go from a 750,000 population to 5,000,000 in 70 years, using “genocide” to describe their situation is a bit…….odd.

            But we live in America and words mean whatever you want them to mean, so…..

        • MaryQueen December 20, 2022 at 9:39 pm #

          Ooooh benr is an Israel terrorism supporter. Learn new shit about people here all the time.

          • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 12:26 am #

            Women care more about alien peoples than about their own. The Tribe is savaging Whites right here, but do they care?

            No.

            The other day when we were talking about Southern sovereignty, Islander started raving about the rights of mill workers in India. Desperate to change the subject. White rights? You don’t get any points for that.

          • benr December 21, 2022 at 10:50 am #

            More a function of self-preservation than anything else.

            Had some bad dealings with both groups of people to be honest so not really a fan of either.

    • MaryQueen December 20, 2022 at 12:13 pm #

      And the US war cabal members all walk around free as birds.

      Boggles the mind.

    • stelmosfire December 20, 2022 at 12:42 pm #

      Hey El, isn’t that Hilda from Hogan’s Heroes?

  55. Mick December 20, 2022 at 1:17 pm #

    Meanwhile, from the ‘Robots Are Coming’ file….

    Krispy Kreme CEO: Robots will start frosting and filling doughnuts ‘within the next 18 months’

    finance.yahoo.com/news/krispy-kreme-ceo-robots-frosting-filling-doughnuts-211028054.html

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  56. Islander December 20, 2022 at 2:34 pm #

    From Voltaire.net (Thierry Meyssan):

    httpX://www.voltairenet.org/article218535.html

    “How Covid-19 information was censored globally on social media”

    “Through its lawsuit against federal public health agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, the America First Legal Foundation obtained a batch of internal documents, revealing that the CDC had access to a secret Google portal designed to centralize the flagging of Covid-19 information conflicting with the official narrative [1].

    The America First Legal Foundation is chaired by former President Donald Trump’s speechwriter. Its board of directors includes senior officials from President Trump’s White House and it runs an annual budget of over $6 million. According to the Washington Post [2], this foundation would form part part of Donald Trump’s stand-by cabinet should he win the next presidential election.

    Google’s secret portal is located in Indonesia and operated by the Islamist Fact Checking Association, Mafindo [3]. The latter serves as the focal point for censorship on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, WhatsApp and Hello. It receives its funding from the Indonesian State.

    The selection and sorting of “true” or “false” information is handled by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) [4]. Contrary to its deceptive name, the KFF is not a family institution, but a California-based company managed by the director of the Los Angeles Times. It hands out free pointers to journalists they should peddle regarding health issues. KFF’s financial sponsor remains undisclosed.

    This arrangement has notably made it possible to foist onto the public several false concepts, such as:
     “Covid vaccines” (messenger RNA) protect against transmission of the virus.
     “Covid vaccines” (messenger RNA) are recommended for pregnant women.
     “Covid vaccines” (messenger RNA) protect children.
     “Covid vaccines” (messenger RNA) have no significant side effects regardless of patient age and condition.
     There is no effective treatment for Covid-19 other than the Western-manufactured vaccines.

    This disinformation campaign has been focused, in particular, on black teenagers to get them hooked on the narrative.

    Documents obtained by the America First Legal Foundation show that this entire system is controlled by the Biden administration from the White House.

    [1] “AFL Releases More CDC Documents Revealing Bizarre ’Equity’ Agenda in COVID-19 Vaccination and Slides Discussing the Policy Objective of Injecting Children Even When ’Parent Is Not Present’”, America First Legal Foundation, December 15, 2022.

    [2] “How a Trump-allied group fighting ‘anti-white bigotry’ beats Biden in court. America First Legal was founded last year by Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s immigrant family separation policy”, Beth Reinhard & Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, December 12, 2022.

    [3] Mafindo official website.

    [4] Kaiser Family Foundation official website.”

    +++++++++++++++++
    Of course the MSM will either ignore totally the existence of this evidence or discredited by highlighting any association with Donald Trump or anyone associated with him (“Trump-
    Allied,” oh no). I wonder whether that will continue to work.

    Or, when the MSM outlets themselves become targets of lawsuits . . .

    • Islander December 20, 2022 at 2:42 pm #

      The public must be able to see the actual documents.

      This was the advantage with Wikileaks: The public got to see actual documents (although, contra Whitney Webb, they were not “dumped” but were gone over to ensure that the release of NSA material would not endanger any lives).

      Now it seems that actual documents such as much of the Twitter material is behind paywalls (Taibbi, Bari Weiss) or otherwise not available to the public firsthand.

      (This was the point of my comment, a couple of threads back, that most of the Taibbi material and analysis was at his Substack and thus behind a paywall. I for one cannot afford multiple Substack subscriptions.)

      • gustafson.robert.22 December 20, 2022 at 3:19 pm #

        Substack should be $9.99 annually for complete access, with authors payed based on views or some fair formula.

        • gustafson.robert.22 December 20, 2022 at 3:20 pm #

          *”paid”, rather.

          What is this, 1563 when phonetics ruled?

          • Islander December 20, 2022 at 4:06 pm #

            Yes, I have often thought that some such arrangement would be a good idea.

            There are many, many items that I would like to read and writers I would like to follow, but it just gets crazy with all the different Substack accounts. some of them are very expensive indeed, e.g., Doomberg; I think they charge $30/month or $300/year.

            I would be willing to pay more like what one pays for a magazine subscription—e.g., London Review of Books is $35/year—but then get access to all material. Or, I would even be willing to pay an additional small charge—say, 50 cents—to read particular items that aren’t part of the standard subscription deal.

            This way I bet many authors are not making as much as they could if Substack’s subscription system were organized to get more eyes to the whole Substack universe.

        • Mick December 20, 2022 at 3:21 pm #

          Yes. I like that idea.

      • Blackbird December 21, 2022 at 11:05 pm #

        The discussion between Whitney Webb and James Corbett (available at both Unlimited Hangout and The Corbett Report) regarding “the Twitter Files”, how they are being processed, and some background on who is doing the processing is very enlightening.

        Their warnings against hero-worship are good advice. I wasn’t aware that Matt Taibbi is, apparently rabidly anti-911-truth. Or that Glenn Greenwald has admitted that he doesn’t cover 9/11 because he wants to be taken seriously. Or that Jordan Peterson has endorsed censorship. And yet all of these flawed individuals (or are they intentional demagogues?) provide valuable truths from time to time.

        Toward the end of the conversation, Ms. Webb mentions that Musk (“Elon” to his fans…) wants to transform Twitter into his version of WeChat – the Chinese everything app. The digital ID that we can’t wait to get. Just like Neuralink is how we will outrun those who want to chip us.

        Friends don’t let friends join the Cult of Personality.

  57. elysianfield December 20, 2022 at 3:37 pm #

    And the hits just keep on coming….

    Stanford University…One of the respected of our institutions…$61K a year (and counting).

    In an effort to expunge current language that might be considered off-putting to some of their constituents, Stanford U. has generated a list of words that should be retired from the language.

    Beat a dead horse,
    prisoner, or convict,
    …and brown bag.

    Avoiding the phrase “brown bag” when referring to a lunch because “historically associated with the ‘brown paper bag test’ that certain Black sororities and fraternities used to judge skin color. Those whose skin color was darker than the brown bag were not allowed to join,” the school’s website said.

    No mention was made over the suggestions of equally offensive terms such as

    octaroon
    high yellow,
    coal burner
    or the entirely offensive “shit skin”.

    For $61K a year, “shit-skin” should be taught as being offensive language.

    And…and the link;

    https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/california-stanford-poly/2022/12/20/id/1101272/

    • Mick December 20, 2022 at 3:55 pm #

      Just when I already thought the kolledge edjoomakated couldn’t get any dumber, Stanford proves me wrong.

    • Islander December 20, 2022 at 4:14 pm #

      Well, whatabout (one word) “gray scale”—after all, a photographer’s gray scale card could be used to decide how gray an elderly person’s hair is and refuse him or her a senior fare.

      Whatabout “tone”????

      Didja see this??

      “Tone: Understanding Black, White, and the Grays In Between”

      That is a trigger for . . . for everyone!!!

      Whatabout “blue”? The blues” is part of Black culture. “Blue” is cultural appropriation, since to Black people, Blue is a dogwhistle for “Black.”

      Or something.

      • Q. Shtik December 21, 2022 at 1:14 am #

        a photographer’s gray scale card could be used to decide how gray an elderly person’s hair is and refuse him or her a senior fare. – Islander

        =============

        If the color of a person’s hair were used as a basis for getting a senior discount, Peter, who is 76 years old, would never get one of those discounts because the hair on his head is the same rich brown as it was when he was a teenager. Only when you get down to the beard stubble do you find grey hair. It is actually uncanny.

        Bo had to disabuse one of her girlfriend chums who, after meeting Peter for the first time, asked Bo “why does Peter dye his hair?”

        • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 12:39 pm #

          Someone should paint him. Perhaps as Captain Peter at the helm, taking on the storm while you cowered below with the women.

          What a magnificent gift it would make! Promise me that he will receive it next Christmas if he makes it that far.

          • Q. Shtik December 21, 2022 at 2:03 pm #

            Peter at the helm, taking on the storm while you cowered below with the women. – Jar

            ===========

            Wrong, I remained topside. The women and children squeezed below.

          • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 6:20 pm #

            That’s not what you said before. But of course I’m being a bit mean: Peter ordered all of your down below.

            His the Glory!

    • BackRowHeckler December 20, 2022 at 4:28 pm #

      Yeah I saw that. The word ‘American’ is on the list to be banned, too.

  58. CrusherMuldoon December 20, 2022 at 4:09 pm #

    Note to Berta Bois: Kissing a woman’s ass won’t get you laid.

    • CrusherMuldoon December 20, 2022 at 4:09 pm #

      Autocorrect: BETA BOIS

    • Mick December 20, 2022 at 5:05 pm #

      ….but they can be “good friends”.

    • elysianfield December 20, 2022 at 5:33 pm #

      “Kissing a woman’s ass won’t get you laid….’

      Crusher,
      Conway suggests otherwise….

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTfXx2kDMXI

    • MaryQueen December 20, 2022 at 9:36 pm #

      It actually will though.

      • K-Chien December 21, 2022 at 5:21 am #

        Sometimes Sisyphus gets it up.

      • CrusherMuldoon December 21, 2022 at 8:30 am #

        LAUGHS

  59. Mick December 20, 2022 at 5:09 pm #

    Washington Post caught telling the truth – “vaccines” do in fact lower the risk of hospitalizations because vaccinated people are dying too fast

    thecovidblog.com/2022/11/25/washington-post-caught-telling-the-truth-vaccines-do-in-fact-lower-the-risk-of-hospitalizations-because-vaccinated-people-are-dying-too-fast/

    “The article states the following:

    ‘Fifty-eight percent of coronavirus deaths in August were people who were vaccinated or boosted, according to an analysis conducted for The Health 202 by Cynthia Cox, vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation. It’s a continuation of a troubling trend that has emerged over the past year.’

    Less than 24 hours later, WAPO propaganda supervisors changed the headline to a more innocuous euphemism. But the paper failed to disclose in the article that the change had been made.”

    • K-Chien December 21, 2022 at 5:15 am #

      The risk of death from COVID increases with age. Exponentially. Fifty-eight percent of coronavirus deaths does not mean much without age data.

      • Night Owl December 21, 2022 at 10:33 am #

        It means even less when Corona is rebranded flu and they can’t show one scientist alive an isolate.

        • JohnAZ December 21, 2022 at 11:55 am #

          Even more so, people do not die from Covid, they die from a chronic situation they are carrying around, esp. COPD. With very few exceptions.

          Yes, COPD from an older generation that smoked in their youth.

          Most of you talking about Covid do not realize how light a virus it is, if you catch it early and stop it from taking over. I am one of those over 65 and I was surprised how light it is. Initially, respiration wise. For me, GI and malaise were worst.

          • Night Owl December 21, 2022 at 5:35 pm #

            Have you located the isolate yet?

  60. PageMarker December 20, 2022 at 5:36 pm #

    Well written piece, James. The board needs an upvote ticker, there are any number of comments that make the blog worth reading.

    Support this blog on PatreonSupport this blog on Substack
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  61. Paula D December 20, 2022 at 7:12 pm #

    The Mighty Wurlitzer constantly tells us that “We all loved Reagan”, a blatant lie that sends me into white hot rage every time I hear it.

    This bullshit lie started in the 80s, when the media started calling him the Teflon President, their open admission that they could not report on or criticize any of his crimes, starting with the 1980 election, when his campaign team made a deal with the Ayatollah of Iran to keep American hostages until Inauguration Day, in return for the Reagan administration secretly sending Iran weapons in their war with Iraq.

    But why do people who wax nostalgic over pre-Reagan America and who decry post-Reagan America fall for the “I love Reagan” narrative?

    Apparently, according to Wiz, they are willing to overlook the destruction of the working class, the deindustrialization of America, the loss of family farms, the forcing of American women into the workplace, the destruction of the family and the opening of the borders because the Ol’ Gipper allowed Oliver North to run a guns-for-drugs operation out of the White House basement to terrorize and murder hundreds of thousands of uppity peasants in Central America, who dared try to think of a better life for themselves and their families. (Which operation included the Mena airport under Gov. Clinton, which not only ran drugs and guns, but trained terrorists and refurbished donated private planes for the Contras.)

    Well, the US certainly knows how to deal with citizens of other countries who dare interfere with the profits of US corporations.
    To quote John Stockwell, former CIA agent…..

    “Now ripping apart the economic and social fabric of course is fairly textbook-ish. What we’re talking about is going in and deliberately creating conditions where the farmer can’t get his produce to market, where children can’t go to school, where women are terrified inside their homes as well as outside their homes, where government administration and programs grind to a complete halt, where the hospitals are treating wounded people instead of sick people, where international capital is scared away and the country goes bankrupt.
    If you ask the state department today what is their official explanation of the purpose of the Contras, they say it’s to attack economic targets, meaning, break up the economy of the country. Of course, they’re attacking a lot more………

    Systematically, the contras have been assassinating religious workers, teachers, health workers, elected officials, government administrators. You remember the assassination manual? that surfaced in 1984. It caused such a stir that President Reagan had to address it himself in the presidential debates with Walter Mondale. They use terror. This is a technique that they’re using to traumatize the society so that it can’t function.

    I don’t mean to abuse you with verbal violence, but you have to understand what your government and its agents are doing. They go into villages, they haul out families. With the children forced to watch they castrate the father, they peel the skin off his face, they put a grenade in his mouth and pull the pin. With the children forced to watch they gang-rape the mother, and slash her breasts off. And sometimes for variety, they make the parents watch while they do these things to the children.”

    So according to the Reagan lovers, destroying the fabric of US society and livelihoods of Americans is of no importance in comparison to the importance of terrorizing and murdering those people their owners tell them don’t deserve to live.

    Because…..family values.

    /libcom.org/article/secret-wars-cia-john-stockwell

    • Paula D December 20, 2022 at 7:21 pm #

      They used the same playbook with ISIS in Syria and the nazis in Ukraine, by the way.

      Same Playbook, Same Tactics. It’s what they do.

    • Paula D December 20, 2022 at 7:24 pm #

      ”This is nobody’s propaganda. There have been over 100,000 American witnesses for peace who have gone down there and they have filmed and photographed and witnessed these atrocities immediately after they’ve happened, and documented 13,000 people killed this way, mostly women and children. These are the activities done by these contras. The contras are the people president Reagan calls `freedom fighters’. He says they’re the moral equivalent of our founding fathers. And the whole world gasps at this confession of his family traditions.”

      We all loved Reagan, my ass.

      • K-Chien December 21, 2022 at 5:09 am #

        Reagan would say anything that made his people money.

        • benr December 21, 2022 at 11:35 am #

          Verses every other sitting president?

          You’re letting your bias run free and ignoring what has been done before him and after him.
          The absolute worst in corruption is now rotting away in office with Obama and friends hands up his muppet ass.

          • JohnAZ December 21, 2022 at 12:13 pm #

            BTW, who exactly were Reagan’s people?

          • Paula D December 21, 2022 at 12:39 pm #

            Before him……After him. Gosh, what happened in between, John and ben?

            In the middle was him. And he presided over the deliberate destruction of America as we knew it. That is when it started.

            I forgot to add the homeless. We never saw homeless people living on the streets until the 80s, under Reagan.

            And now you can’t walk on any city street without stepping around human bodies lying on the sidewalks. And the woods are filled with more. And people live in their cars in WalMart parking lots.

            But…we all loved Reagan!

            What a bunch of assholes!

          • benr December 21, 2022 at 3:18 pm #

            Fabulous Ronnie shutdown federal nut houses. Which let’s face it were even more poorly run than the VA’s of the time.
            It was legendary the amount of actual mental and physical abuse heaped on people in the Asylums but yes, he defunded them, and the homeless population has exploded since then.

            To say there were no homeless people living on the streets in America prior to Ronnie is a lie.
            It just got worse and worse.

    • MaryQueen December 20, 2022 at 9:29 pm #

      Nailed it, Paula! I recall I was a senior in high school when Reagan was elected. We were horrified, and I was in a conservative town! We thought he was satan incarnate. Somehow even 18 year olds knew what this asshole was about.

      Thanks for the reminder of just how insidious he was.

      • Mick December 20, 2022 at 10:37 pm #

        I was a sophomore when he was elected. I remember my friend’s WW2 veteran Dad who told us, “Boys your great-great grandchildren will be negatively impacted by what this wooden headed son of a bitch Reagan is doing to this country”.

        I was shocked because I assumed that a WW2 vet would be very conservative and pro-Reagan. He was conservative. Just not a Gipper style one. (Reagan, like Trump, was a former long time Democrat after all. People forget these facts. Or gloss over them).

        And my friend’s Dad was in the Battle of the Bulge, among other major battles. He experienced heavy action in Europe, unlike Reagan, which he reminded us. Reagan was making B movies in the safety of Hollywood. Like his fellow “cowboy” and “brave movie soldier” Marion Morrison. (John Wayne).

        • K-Chien December 21, 2022 at 5:07 am #

          WW2 vets worked for a living. Ray-Gun was Hollywood and the Gipper was propaganda.

          WW2 vets had character. They went through hell and trusted each other. They could count on each other. Who was the last Hollywood actor who had character and you could trust?

          A young man thinks all old farts are the same. A sophomore would be surprised.

          • Disaffected December 21, 2022 at 3:56 pm #

            Raygun’s appeal was simple: he reminded everyone of the prototypical Hollywood kindly old grandfather in the same vein as Jimmy Stewart. My grandmother, who was about the same age, simply adored him, as did my mother. Plus, he was a politician’s politician. He listened to what people said and then told them what they wanted to hear. Truth be damned. Turns out, people don’t actually want to hear the truth if it’s uncomfortable. Jack Nicholson’s famous character Col. Nathan Jessup summed it all up when he screamed “You can’t HANDLE the truth!” in a line that probably came directly from the Pentagon.

          • Paula D December 21, 2022 at 4:22 pm #

            That is part of the lie, Dis. Part of the “we all loved Reagan” propaganda they still push.

            He didn’t remind me of my grandfather, because my grandfather was not a mass murdering psychopath.

            So there’s that.

      • benr December 21, 2022 at 10:55 am #

        I would take Reagan over the imbecile pretending to be IN office now.
        His biggest mistake was giving in to the Democrat lie about fixing immigration policy and signing amNASTEY before the immigration policy fix.
        Here we are forty years later, and nothing has been done.
        I would have alos taken Ronnie over pappa bush, baby bush, obama and biden.
        Clinton gave into the Republicans of the time but left to his own he would have made a mess of everything as well.

        • malthuss December 21, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

          The end of a UNITED States.

          step one–1965

          step 2–Ronald Reagans amnesty.

          • benr December 21, 2022 at 3:20 pm #

            The greatest racist resident in the Whitehouse ever LBJ and then the opening of China under Richard Nixon and the off shoring of our industrial base.

          • Blackbird December 21, 2022 at 8:01 pm #

            (In my opinion,) Every President from Lincoln on has been a tool of the bankers and enabler of “The New World Order”. And most of the dipsticks that preceded him.

            To say “I’d trade Tweedle-Dee for Tweedle-Dum” is like saying “I’d prefer to be punched in the left eye, rather than the right eye, this time.”

            They all worked against us. So what if they throw us a bone (from which they’ve gnawed everything nutritious) once in awhile?

      • Blackbird December 21, 2022 at 8:15 pm #

        When Reagan was elected, I was pro-Reagan (but a few weeks too young to vote).

        By the time he was inaugurated, I was anti-Reagan.

        What happened in-between? LSD.

        Like finding a pair of Ray Bans in a cardboard box in an alley…

        • Paula D December 21, 2022 at 8:27 pm #

          Well, that, and they killed John Lennon and told us “The dream is dead”.

          And then they proved it.

          • Blackbird December 21, 2022 at 9:47 pm #

            I always thought Lennon was a pretentious ass.

            To one of my best friends, Lennon was like the Messiah. When Lennon died, it put serious cracks in my friend’s mind. He was dead within a year.

            I always thought the Beatles were over-rated, now I think they were a psyop – as was the whole ’60’s “youth movement”. Pied pipers of the New World Order.

            Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin too, all of them (ok, maybe not Todd Rundgren…). I still like the music. I think I’m inoculated against the message.

          • Paula D December 21, 2022 at 11:33 pm #

            Not my point though.

            The Mighty Wurlitzer played his death big time, to let Americans know that the whole idea of a cohesive society who cared for all its members was as dead as Lennon.

            Reagan is in the house now! And fuck you all.

            That was the message. I’m amazed that you didn’t get it.

    • Mick December 20, 2022 at 10:27 pm #

      Reagan was essentially doing what US Presidents and the overall federal guvmint has been doing since the beginning. Or almost the beginning.

      Just what was done to the native tribes on this continent is a huge case-in-point alone. Then General Smedley Butler resigned and went public with his disdain and outrage over how his beloved Marines had been used to overthrow governments and make parts of the world more conducive to US corporation’s profits. He was most upset with what was done in the Philippines under the guise of the “righteous war with Spain”. You know, because of the “attack” on the US ship near Havana. (Which was a lie, just like the Gulf of Tonkin incident decades later in Vietnam).

      The Iran/Contra scheme was a particularly brutal and outrageous State Dept/Langley/Pentagon mess, even for American government foreign policy standards. (Which are very low). It never got the attention it needed. But do most Americans really care? No.

      They didn’t care in the 1930s either. They collectively said “meh” to Smedley Butler. (He also exposed the American corporate fascist coup planned against FDR. They foolishly came to HIM to carry it out. He blew the whistle. I doubt this is ever taught in any public school. Or ever was. I know I didn’t learn it in mine forty years ago).

      Oh well….. The piper is out there and he’s wanting to get paid. Soon.

      BTW Paula you should start your own blog. I’d read it.

      • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 12:35 am #

        There would be no America (and no Mick – at least in your current form) if the Tribes hadn’t been defeated and dispossessed.

        You’re against War! What a good boy!

        Why don’t you lay off the soy?

        • K-Chien December 21, 2022 at 4:58 am #

          Not everyone is as sadistic as you are Jarek. Your no America no Mick argument is amusing, but Spock would say you are not logical. He would put your odds of being even being here and existing at about:

          1000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,E100 to 1.

          Making you one lucky guy. Live long and prosper.

          One extra butterfly in the amazon 100 years ago and none of us would be here. We are all lucky.

          • Cavepainter December 21, 2022 at 8:05 am #

            Hey troll K, stop your feigned hysterics re the North American savages, the floods of Europeans pushed off heritage landscape in Europe by expanding issue of Monarchial titles and overpopulation was unstoppable because manpower nor means was available (even had the intent been authorized). Probably the biggest mistake was failing to establish programs for “Westernizing” the natives rather than isolating them into perpetual tribalism. Stop your whining “pussie”.

          • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 11:56 am #

            Exactly. What are the odds a few pales could have established themselves here? The Vikings tried and were attacked ferociously again and again. They gave up. What changed? Different people in the Northeast? Or had the diseases spread by European fishermen levelled the playing field there?*

            In any case, we took them on and we triumphed. But good times produced weak men like you and Mick and so many others. Weakness is one thing, but at least you could appreciate those who bequeathed everything to you – but no! You’re traitors, preferring “morality” to gratitude and loyalty.

            *Many knew about the lands to the West though of course not much about them per se. The idea of it being completely unknown and “new” was part of the packaging and propaganda to get people really interested in coming here.

      • JohnAZ December 21, 2022 at 12:11 pm #

        Reagan followed the primary power organization in DC since WW2.

        The MIC. Like every other president.

      • Blackbird December 21, 2022 at 8:09 pm #

        I have read – though not in detail, yet – that the corporate (but not fascist) coup against Roosevelt was a sham to convince the American people that he was not on the side of the corporate robber barons who had destroyed their livelihood.

    • Blackbird December 21, 2022 at 7:47 pm #

      Don’t forget, “He made us all feel so patriotic!”. I’ve heard that so many times from Reagan lovers.

      Do arms and drug deals with terrorists? No problem. The end justifies the means.

      Allow US corporations to offshore production to communist China, give advanced technology to communist China, let communist China buy property in the US? Hey, as long as it puts more money in the pockets of the rich, it’s all good.

      Ronald Reagan: The Man Who Sold the World.

      • Paula D December 22, 2022 at 4:44 pm #

        Yeah, he was a piece of shit. It boggles my mind that there are people who fall for the propaganda that says otherwise.

  62. JohnAZ December 20, 2022 at 8:11 pm #

    House panel just released Trump’s tax returns to the public.

    The Deep State just took another chunk out of all of our privacy, hence liberty.
    One more step!

    • Mick December 20, 2022 at 10:50 pm #

      Should I call a whaaaambulance for you?

      All President’s tax returns have been public. He didn’t want his known because it will expose him for the liar that he is as a “most successful businessman”.

      This is hardly a threat to YOUR privacy and liberty. Goofball. That is under threat in many other ways. And has been for years.

      You Trump and Elon worshippers are such pussy assed whiners. It’s pathetic.

      • SoftStarLight December 21, 2022 at 2:17 am #

        John is not a Trump or Elon worshipper. Perhaps Presidents’ tax returns are public but the process here is not customary. House Democrats aren’t releasing his returns like some sort of benign fyi for the public. No. This is only being done for a political calculus and as an attempt to weaponize the information only for political purposes. It is about political persecution and about the eventual criminalization of everyone the elites identify as a threat with the backing of every arm and office of government.

        • tucsonspur December 21, 2022 at 5:54 am #

          Right on, Dems have it down cold.

          John knows the stark reality of the situation. Tucker calls out Abbott on the border, he doesn’t send the troops like he promised.

          If not him, who? Yes, the jig is up, and Obama is down here directing the radical transformation.

          • JohnAZ December 21, 2022 at 12:05 pm #

            TS

            Obama is down here directing the radical transformation.

            Hmmm

            I wonder if he really knows what that is?

            What form does the Great Reset take?

            Throw out the Constitution! What do the Leftist Mob want to put in its place?

            The USSR constitution?

            I do not think any one in the WEF, globalist Biden, Obama Mob have a clue what they want. Like all anarchists, they just want what exists gone.

            Think of Reconstruction. The North did not have a clue what to do with the South when Lee surrendered. What resulted was social and economic mayhem. We are facing the same situation right now.

      • K-Chien December 21, 2022 at 4:49 am #

        Trump and Elon worshippers are pussy assed whiners. <- This is true.

        • Disaffected December 21, 2022 at 10:06 am #

          I think “pussy-assed” deserves a hyphen. That’s an oldy but a goody.

      • benr December 21, 2022 at 11:03 am #

        Mick get over yourself.

      • JohnAZ December 21, 2022 at 11:06 am #

        Hey Mick.

        You know how periodically we get warnings from credit bureaus or banks that personal info has been stolen.

        Guess what? All that info is on a tax return.

        The IRS oversteps itself legally all the time, it is the most powerful agency in DC.

        Your opinion about Trump or Musk is yours. Anyone who puts their reputations on the line against the Deep State is okay with me.

        • JohnAZ December 21, 2022 at 11:23 am #

          Also, just checked Taxnotes, a thread on the IRS.

          Tax information is private, even for presidents. It is illegal for the IRS to release ANYONES tax information except to authorized organizations.

          The returns the Times has of Trump’s 17 years were stolen through Times sources and the Times refuses to release them to protect the sources.

          The House panel is on the edge of illegality with what they are doing, the SC has weighed in supporting the panel.

          The input also said that Trump’s returns during his presidency were not audited.

          The release of presidential returns is voluntary. Just another political ploy.

          We shall see. My belief is that the whole tax return situation is a crock of s*&t. Has Trump stretched the rules? No more than any other businessman.

          Do you really believe the press et al in the mob over the tax deal? I do not.

          How do you tell if a journalist is lying?

          His mouth is moving.

      • benr December 21, 2022 at 11:33 am #

        Yet the release is not a requirement to hold office and might actually have broken laws in doing so.
        What they are ding to Trump is a repeat of the Salem witch trials with a heaping helping of people who want to get him sitting on the board that decides to attempt prosecution.
        This is a banana republic event and will no doubt whiplash back on the Democrats and the Republicans out to get him.
        They lowered the bar for impeachment to just we don’t like him while ignoring the actual high crimes being committed right now.

        As far as Trump having or not having as much money as he claims only the idiot’s care.
        He still has far more assets than anyone reading this board andmost of the people who hate the man.
        He has a Trump winery that is nothing short of amazing in Virginia.
        My wife and daughter went there last year and had an amazing experience.
        First class and treated like royalty.

        trumpwinery.com

      • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 4:05 pm #

        So many angry people on this blog today. What gives?

  63. Jarek December 21, 2022 at 12:41 am #

    Reuters

    Japan on Friday unveiled its biggest military build-up since World War Two with a $320 billion plan that will buy missiles capable of striking China and ready it for sustained conflict, as regional tensions and Russia’s Ukraine invasion stoke war fears.

    It “is my answer to the various security challenges that we face,” said Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, describing Japan and its people as being at a “turning point in history.”

    His government worries that Russia has set a precedent that will encourage China to attack Taiwan, threatening nearby Japanese islands, disrupting supplies of advanced semiconductors and putting a potential stranglehold on sea lanes that supply Middle East oil.

    “This is setting a new heading for Japan. If appropriately executed, the Self-Defense Forces will be a real, world-class effective force,” said Yoji Koda, a former Maritime Self Defense Force admiral, who commanded the Japanese fleet in 2008.

    In the sweeping five-year plan, once-unthinkable in pacifist Japan, the government said it would also stockpile spare parts and other munitions, expand transport capacity and develop cyber warfare capabilities.

    In its postwar, American-authored constitution, Japan gave up the right to wage war and means to do so.

    “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a serious violation of laws that forbid the use of force and has shaken the foundations of the international order,” the strategy paper said.

    “The strategic challenge posed by China is the biggest Japan has ever faced,” it added, also noting that Beijing had not ruled out using force to bring Taiwan under its control.

    A separate national security strategy document that pointed to China, Russia and North Korea, promised close cooperation with the United States and other like-minded nations to deter threats to the established international order.

    “The Prime Minister is making a clear, unambiguous strategic statement about Japan’s role as a security provider in the Indo-Pacific,” U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said in a statement. “He has put a capital “D” next to Japan’s deterrence,” he added.

    Meeting Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association Chairman Mitsuo Ohashi in Taipei on Friday, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said she expected greater defence cooperation with Japan.

    “We look forward to Taiwan and Japan continuing to create new cooperation achievements in various fields such as national defence and security, the economy, trade, and industrial transformation,” the presidential office cited Tsai as saying.

    Jarek: Well this is sad. If they wanted to change direction and build themselves up again, I’d be with them. Bring back the Samurai spirit – they’re going to need it sooner or later. But this Russia, Russia, Russia stuff stinks. And sure enough their ambassador is Rahm Emanuel. What next? Opening up their borders to Africa? The insanity never ends.

    • SoftStarLight December 21, 2022 at 2:34 am #

      Is this why they got rid of Shinzo Abe? If there is a US ambassador there its almost a guarantee that they are being asked to open their borders to migrants. And there are likely many more demands probably including to support Ukraine.

    • K-Chien December 21, 2022 at 4:47 am #

      Average monthly after-tax salary will cover living expenses for 1.2 months in China compared to 1.4 months in Taiwan.

    • JohnAZ December 21, 2022 at 10:40 am #

      Japan will NEVER allow unfettered immigration into their Islands.

      For one, they are looking at the US and Europe and will not allow themselves to be destroyed from within as both of them are accomplishing.

      As far as Russia, Japan knows Russia still has resentment towards Japan over their war last century. They still want a few islands back that Japan took. Could some kind of a deal happen between Russia ?? and China ?? dividing up the spoils?

      • benr December 21, 2022 at 11:05 am #

        Yep, Japan has ruffled Russian feathers a few times.
        Russia and China are not really friends.
        The US used China against Russia many years ago.

      • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 12:02 pm #

        Good point. Forgot about that.

        Unfortunately ethnic pride does seem to be beginning to wane a bit among the young Japanese. Blacks are seen as stars by some and there is a subculture of Black imitation, still small thankfully. And in the large cities, there is a small Black presence, many of them American.

        • JohnAZ December 21, 2022 at 12:08 pm #

          What would happen with a BLM sponsored riot inTokyo?

          • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 1:27 pm #

            In China or Korea, they’d probably get their asses kicked. Little known fact: the Tiananmen Square movement was partially based on resentment against Black African students, as in the favoritism being shown to them and the atrocious way they treated Chinese women by Chinese standards at least.

            The Koreans loathe Blacks and treated the half Black babies even worse than treated the half White babies left behind by the GI’s.

            The Japanese are more self controlled – until they aren’t.

    • Paula D December 21, 2022 at 4:25 pm #

      Wow, that is an amazing example of gaslighting hypocrisy.

      “a serious violation of laws that forbid the use of force and has shaken the foundations of the international order,” he says, as if this is an unprecedented event since WW2.

      Unfuckingbelievable.

    • workingclasshero December 21, 2022 at 5:08 pm #

      Jewish American academics are already berating Japanese for not having a more fluid immigration policy. I must have deleted the link. I think it was from Occidental Observer or maybe Unz Review from 2 years ago. You guessed it though; they’re pushing African Immigration and the Japs are starting to slowly cave.

  64. BackRowHeckler December 21, 2022 at 1:15 am #

    The $8 billion Biden sent to SAfrica & Indonesia respectively last week was to be used to close down their coal fired power plants. Of course that’s not going to happen — SAfrica for one is as corrupt as Ukraine — with the money most likely going to fund lavish lifestyles of the ruling ANC. More mansions, private security armys, and Mercedes Benzes. And speaking of Ukraine, a vote today in Congress for another $45 billion in aid for Ukraine. Zelensky himself is showing up in DC to make a speech.

    • K-Chien December 21, 2022 at 4:39 am #

      Might the 8 billion be some economic hit man action?

    • thirdcoastlegend December 21, 2022 at 8:15 am #

      Despite being led by an engineer Indonesia, along with Bermuda, continues to be super dumb and insist on, “jabs 4 entry.”

      No thanks.

      • BackRowHeckler December 21, 2022 at 8:41 am #

        Could be K-Dog. I never even thought of that.

    • benr December 21, 2022 at 11:06 am #

      SA is actually worse than Ukraine.

      • JohnAZ December 21, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

        BRIICS

        S= South Africa.

    • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

      8bn? Ramaphosa will have to buy some bigger cushions.

  65. tucsonspur December 21, 2022 at 5:36 am #

    Today is the winter solstice, the southernmost point of the ecliptic. The sun now begins its climb back towards the celestial equator on its way north, oblivious to the Earth’s turmoil.

    The mighty hunter Orion has been up for some time now, gazing down upon the Earth, watching the hunter and the hunted, the predator and the prey, sees coyote waiting, always waiting. Watches death from on high, watches life pass by.

    Maybe all planets with intelligent life are in the habitable zone, with suns destined to become red giants, thus purifying contaminated worlds with heat hotter than hell, incinerating worlds, turning them into atoms. Wouldn’t it be lovely.

    The story down here unfolds in usual fashion, and Robinson Jeffers is always timely:

    The Bloody Sire

    It is not bad. Let them play.
    Let the guns bark and the bombing-plane
    Speak his prodigious blasphemies.
    It is not bad, it is high time,
    Stark violence is still the sire of all the world’s values.

    What but the wolf’s tooth whittled so fine
    The fleet limbs of the antelope?
    What but fear winged the birds, and hunger
    Jewelled with such eyes the great goshawk’s head?
    Violence has been the sire of all the world’s values.

    Who would remember Helen’s face
    Lacking the terrible halo of spears?
    Who formed Christ but Herod and Caesar,
    The cruel and bloody victories of Caesar?
    Violence, the bloody sire of all the world’s values.

    Never weep, let them play,
    Old violence is not too old to beget new values.

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    • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 12:07 pm #

      Tis true. The weak “good” man like Kdog whines that violence never solves anything. But in fact violence is immensely creating and “solves” or resolves many things.

      And of course Kdog sang a different tune about
      “necessary” violence in South Africa against Whites. Is he happy with with how it all turned out? They actually thought it would be a multi-racial paradise, with Blacks being gracious to the Whites (who built the country to begin with). How very different the actuality! Another thing he doesn’t want to talk about, just like covid.

    • Rulo Deschamps December 21, 2022 at 4:03 pm #

      ts,

      Very good, but the old “red in tooth and claw” by Tennyson in the 1800’s.

      Who trusted God was love indeed
      And love Creation’s final law
      Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw
      With ravine, shriek’d against his creed

      captures more nuance about “the hunter and the hunted, the predator and the prey” passing through this valley of tears.

      This comes to mind: “Nezahualcoyotl (April 28, 1402 – June 4, 1472) was a scholar, philosopher (tlamatini), warrior, architect, poet and ruler (tlatoani) of the city-state of Texcoco in pre-Columbian era Mexico. He is best remembered for his poetry, but according to accounts by his descendants and biographers, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl and Juan Bautista Pomar, he had an experience of an “Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere” to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed — not even those of animals. However, he allowed human sacrifices to continue in his other temples.”

      • tucsonspur December 21, 2022 at 4:29 pm #

        Thanks for that, Rulo. Those names make me dizzy. I guess he was more at ease after building that bloodless temple to the “Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere”. Play it safe, hedge your bets.

  66. tucsonspur December 21, 2022 at 6:10 am #

    ‘Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to meet Wednesday with President Biden at the White House and with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The trip to Washington will be his first public international appearance since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.

    At the meeting, Biden is expected to announce a new $1.85 billion security assistance package, which people familiar with the plans say includes the Patriot missile system, the most advanced air defense weapon in the American arsenal and one of Ukraine’s top requests. Zelensky’s visit with lawmakers comes as they work to pass a $1.7 trillion spending package, which includes $44.9 billion in emergency and economic assistance for Ukraine.

    A day earlier, Zelensky visited troops on the front lines in Bakhmut, a site of bloody, intense fighting. In a nighttime speech, he promised to bring a flag — given to him by fighters there — to “those whose decisions are very important for Ukraine.” This week, he added, is “extremely important” for the country to get through the winter and next year.’

    Some Vegas oddsmakers are now shifting positions, saying that if this doesn’t wind down soon, Putin is out before Biden.

    Don’t fall all over yourself, they can get more and better information than you or I can.

    I stick by what I said almost a year ago. Putin stepped in it, may not have enough long boot to step out of it.

    I also said, only time will tell.

    • Disaffected December 21, 2022 at 8:05 am #

      Some Vegas oddsmakers are now shifting positions, saying that if this doesn’t wind down soon, Putin is out before Biden.

      Well now, that settles it then. The Vegas oddsmakers have weighed in! I wonder what their cut of the Ukraine booty is? Surely the pols haven’t hogged it all?

      • Disaffected December 21, 2022 at 12:05 pm #

        “The Joe Biden” evidently blew the dog whistle, as the trusty Z Man is on his way to DC to grovel before his masters. Or is it the other way around? Maybe he’s just coming home to put some money down (Ukrainian aid money, no doubt) with those trusty Vegas odds-makers?

        • tucsonspur December 21, 2022 at 4:13 pm #

          Better than you are weighing in. Over in a few weeks or months, right?

          So, Biden blows the dog whistle and Z comes running, what else would he do?

          Yeah, put it down against Putin, the man you love. Would a win break your heart?

          • Disaffected December 21, 2022 at 6:05 pm #

            As your DC heroes are fond of saying, “right makes might.” Russia’s on the right side of this one and the US doesn’t really even have a side, other than fuck things up for Russia and anyone else who gets in their way. The US Empire’s days are rapidly waning, all due to its own doing. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of criminals.

      • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

        Tusck is instinctively against all Strong Men, be they Trump or Putin. It’s the old hippy in him. Not as bad as Kdog of course. He didn’t totally lose his way in the Maze.

        • tucsonspur December 21, 2022 at 4:03 pm #

          Don’t lie, J. You know that I was a big Trump supporter.

          As for Putin, it’s fine that he wants to protect his border, unlike us, but he’s still a murdering scumbag. Fools worship him, comfortable here in the USA, but would shudder and be silent under his rule.

          Phonies all.

          Actually, I’d like to engage Putin in a knife fight. Slice and dice him, be a strong man.

          • Islander December 22, 2022 at 12:27 am #

            “Actually, I’d like to engage Putin in a knife fight. Slice and dice him, be a strong man.”

            Well, I think you would probably lose.

            Putin isn’t a black belt for nothing.

        • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 9:22 am #

          The Turd attributes his overactive imagination to the fact that he still whiles away his time playing with his vintage John Rambo action figures.

          If you listen closely, you can hear him yelling “YOU DREW FIRST BLOOD!” all the way from AZ.

          • Paula D December 22, 2022 at 4:46 pm #

            Ha, ha, I can picture it.

    • Night Owl December 21, 2022 at 10:31 am #

      LOL. I am sure this will go down as well as all of your other predictions.

      • tucsonspur December 21, 2022 at 4:16 pm #

        Niggling night gnat leaves his droppings, goes away licking his anus.

        Is Trump president yet, as you predicted?

        • Night Owl December 21, 2022 at 5:34 pm #

          Well, he won the election.

          The Tuscon Slur.

          LOL.

    • Rulo Deschamps December 21, 2022 at 4:06 pm #

      Every day smells of war.

      • Disaffected December 21, 2022 at 8:00 pm #

        All against all. It’s “the new normal.”

  67. SpeedyBB December 21, 2022 at 8:01 am #

    I admire the Chinese in part because they are such a practical people at heart – as opposed to the Japanese, with whom I am extremely familiar (since 1962).

    The Japanese are notoriously stubborn and stuck in their ways. And proud of it. This is, in my humble opinion, at the heart of most of their ongoing issues.

    But that’s not what I want to share. After the colossal failure of “Zero Covid”, the PRC has backed down. No more attributing car crashes, eating / smoking onself to death, falling off a ladder, brain hemorrhage from lousy diet to “Covid-19”. Nope.

    httxx://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3203992/china-says-it-will-only-count-covid-deaths-respiratory-failure-official-toll?utm_medium=email&utm_source=cm&utm_campaign=enlz-coronavirusupdate&utm_content=20221221&tpcc=enlz-coronavirusupdate&UUID=ff727e7d-04c7-44be-b78f-bddc3764c3fb&tc=14&CMCampaignID=edb05583587274a913dfc553094b311e

    • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 12:12 pm #

      I’m sure the Chinese haven’t forgotten Japanese brutality. That’s who they should be worried about, not Russia per se. But they may be right in saying that Russia’s invasion may turn out to be a catalyst for many other similar things. But standing with Taiwan? Is that wise?

  68. Night Owl December 21, 2022 at 10:30 am #

    Rainer Fuellmich, formerly of the German Corona Ausschuss, is up and running again with the International Crimes Investigation Committee.

    Some good discussions here:

    https://video.icic-net.com/videos/overview

    • Hereward the Woke December 22, 2022 at 12:40 pm #

      They’ve been discussing for a long time. We need some concrete charges against Fauci and Co.

      • Night Owl December 22, 2022 at 4:10 pm #

        They have multiple lawsuits underway.

        If you watched, you would understand the level of coruption int he judiciaries in various countries.

        What we are witnessing has been planned over decades.

  69. Mick December 21, 2022 at 10:48 am #

    I’m going to digress in order to offer up apologies to several people. There’s nothing wrong with being disagreeable, but doing so with insults and worse is wrong. I want to apologize to those that I have been out of line with over the past weeks, notably JohnAZ, benr, Islander, K-Dog, Jarek, and Bery of Oyl. If I left someone out then just know that this apology includes you.

    I also want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a healthy and Joyful New Year.

    I’m going to take a long time off from posting because I just don’t trust myself to behave. I can do okay for days, and then all it takes is for something to get under my skin and out comes the insults. It’s a real character defect of mine. I’ve been even worse on other forums…boards…and comment sections.

    Time to just interact with people in real life. Internet communication just isn’t my bag.

    • benr December 21, 2022 at 11:26 am #

      Nice getting heated is part of it.
      You are telling me to fuck off does not bother me one bit it is part of a free flow of ideas.
      Thick skin is required.
      Nevertheless, Merry Christmas.

    • JohnAZ December 21, 2022 at 11:34 am #

      I speak for myself.

      You are entitled to your opinion anytime anyplace.

      I stretch myself by reading this blog, I do not want everyone agreeing with me, quite the contrary.

      The advance of information on the Covid and the government over reach afforded by the vaxx changed my opinion 180 degrees. Information from the blog and a lot of Research pointed me in the right direction.

      No one is 100% right or wrong. That is why debate was invented.

      • JohnAZ December 21, 2022 at 11:36 am #

        Yes,

        Felix Navidad

        Joyeaux Noel

        Merry Christmas.

        • BackRowHeckler December 21, 2022 at 11:48 am #

          And Happy Hannakuh for our Jewish compatriots, too.

          • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 12:25 pm #

            Happy Holi-daze! Christmas/Hannakuh – same thing, right?

            And btw, the angels didn’t say, Peace on Earth, Goodwill to men. Bur rather: Peace on Earth to men of Goodwill. The rest? May the Saints make war upon them.

          • Paula D December 21, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

            That really made me laugh, Jarek.

            Only you could take an expression of seasonal goodwill and turn it into a call for violence.

            Happy Kwanza to you and yours!

          • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

            Yeah, because Marxists are all about peace, right?

            Kwanza? A completely fake holiday. So yes, happy Kwanza to you too.

    • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

      Thank you. They may not know how bad you can get. I do. But do come back so we can pay you back!

      Merry Christmas

    • MaryQueen December 21, 2022 at 3:23 pm #

      You’re more polite than most people here.

      Happy Holidaze! Merry Xmas!

    • Rulo Deschamps December 21, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

      Cheers Mick

    • Hereward the Woke December 21, 2022 at 4:09 pm #

      Hey, Mick, we’ve all been there. And these are trying times. Don’t be too hard on yourself. Have a Great Christmas, fella, and all the best for 2023!

  70. BackRowHeckler December 21, 2022 at 11:46 am #

    Over 80% of South Africa’s electricity is generated from burning coal, broken down and unmaintained as the system is. (Blackouts go on for weeks) Without coal fired plants SA will have no electricity at all. To think that SA can build and maintain a system of wind turbines for the entire country — the purported replacement to existing infrastructure — is delusional.

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    • JohnAZ December 21, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

      I do not believe they have adequate water either.

      Hmmm

      Electricity shortages, water shortages?

      Maybe we are watching our own future under Liberal rule?

    • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 12:27 pm #

      No Whites, no White infrastructure. The remaining Whites need to be given refuge in Russia.

      Why isn’t Kdog helping the Blacks in South Africa to keep their power on?

      • benr December 21, 2022 at 3:26 pm #

        Insult to injury they put a quota hire in charge of the damn for a shift and he hit the wrong button and let out 2/3 of the water that was left and they were already at critical water levels.

        • BackRowHeckler December 21, 2022 at 4:15 pm #

          Israeli hydro engineers offered to help out SA with their water supply problems but tgey were unceremoniously rebuffed.

      • workingclasshero December 21, 2022 at 5:17 pm #

        SA will keep enough Whites, Jews, Hindus and East Asians well paid and secure enough to scrape along without too many bad headlines. If not, screw them. They can just immigrate to Europe or North America with the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. Maxine Waters will Sheppard them in.

        • benr December 21, 2022 at 6:12 pm #

          Wrong a good friend of mine has been trying to get his nephew out for two years the SA government won’t approve his leaving the country.
          Twenty year old white kid took up the trade of plumbing.
          Now considered essential.

      • Blackbird December 21, 2022 at 6:43 pm #

        Russia? Why not send them over here? We need the diversity!

    • Rulo Deschamps December 21, 2022 at 4:09 pm #

      This is controlled demolition.

    • SpeedyBB December 22, 2022 at 8:17 am #

      Indonesians are survivors, and all the fluffery notwithstanding coal is going to be what is behind power generation for the next several hundred years, as I was informed when I helped write the IPO for Bukit Barisan, one of the major coal miners in South Sumatra.

      The move to EVs will provide the “green” cover but all those batteries will be charged up with King Coal. The environmentalists will be humored and championed, then ignored.

  71. Q. Shtik December 21, 2022 at 11:58 am #

    It’s Wednesday (day 3 in the new thread) and no posts from GreenAlba. I hope everything is OK.

    • Disaffected December 21, 2022 at 12:05 pm #

      Mighty considerate of you, Q. Man. I’m impressed!

    • GreenAlba December 21, 2022 at 3:11 pm #

      It is indeed mighty considerate, Q, but be not alarmed as I am fine, thank you.

      Just reading and listening to all manner of stuff and dealing with the domestic in the run-up to Christmas. (By ‘the domestic’ I don’t mean to suggest I have a servant. 🙂 )

      I suppose when I actually do pop my clogs, JHK will be the first to know if he checks his Patreon list as they will close my bank account!

      Apropos of nothing, I note that today is the shortest day – it gets dark very early up here at this time of year, but we get the corollary in the summer so can’t complain. And what seemed like a prolonged cold snap but wasn’t really has come to an end and we’re back to damp-but-not-raining.

      I trust you are well too, Q.

      • Rulo Deschamps December 21, 2022 at 4:15 pm #

        Cheers GA, and please have a happy, merry, and peaceful Christmas.

        May the new year 2023 (I know, I know… I never thought I’d be here either), despite the unavoidable crap certain to keep coming our way, be however peaceful, grateful, contented and merciful to you & your family.

        Feliz Navidad y Buen Año Nuevo is my sincere wish to you!

        • GreenAlba December 21, 2022 at 4:42 pm #

          Thank you, Rulo, for your lovely good wishes. I hope you also share in those good things and maybe even get a bit of a rest, if that ever happens!

  72. elysianfield December 21, 2022 at 12:04 pm #

    BRH,

    But…but this is ‘Murica, Dammit! The daily Situational Awareness, this AM reports;

    USPS TO CONVERT FLEET TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES: The United States Postal Service (USPS) announced plans to purchase 66,000 electric vehicles by 2028, after facing scrutiny for a planned purchase of gasoline-powered delivery trucks from Oshkosh Defense. USPS announced that 75% of newly purchased trucks will be electric, with the goal of 100% of newly purchased vehicles after 2026 to be electric. (AC: One of the problems the United States faces is that the power grids aren’t robust enough to maintain a country full of electrical vehicles. While 66,000 EVs are unlikely to break the power grid, federal spending that significantly expands EV sales and production could exacerbate strain on the country’s three power grids. – M.S.)

    The planet is saved! Humanity now enters what can only be described as a period of Utopia. Clean air…no more carcinogens, cancer perhaps erased. Happy people dancing on the levy! My only regret is that, at my age, I will probably not live to see it (muffled giggle)…but you will. Of course, there will be perturbations in the power supply…it may have to be rationed…even denied to the few (you) for the good of the many. (stifled guffaw).

    Anyhoo…along with the political sea change towards non ICE vehicles, the USPS has modified their motto:

    “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds…unless there is a grid failure…then you bastards are on your own….”

    .
    Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

    • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 12:29 pm #

      The Morons won’t be chanting BB but EV. They already are.

    • Rulo Deschamps December 21, 2022 at 4:29 pm #

      Pedal on the metal to mayhem. Controlled demolition.

    • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 8:33 am #

      “Sudden unintentional disassembly”

  73. malthuss December 21, 2022 at 12:43 pm #

    The Vikings tried and were attacked ferociously again and again.

    They gave up. [that is why they lost, quitters do not win]

    Had the Vikings taken one island and had more troops, they could have slowly taken Quebec. maybe.

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    L’Anse aux Meadows – Evidence for Vikings in Canada – ThoughtCo
    L’Anse aux Meadows is an archaeological site in Newfoundland, Canada, where the first evidence was discovered of Vikings (Norse) in North America.; The colony only lasted three to 10 years before it failed.; There are at least a half-dozen other brief occupations in the Baffin Island region that appear to also be Norse sites of the same age, 1000 CE.; The ancestors of the First People of …

    • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 1:12 pm #

      I think they were based out of Iceland – which wasn’t heavily populated. So in other words, they didn’t have the resources to do that, being on the fringe of the Viking world. If they had been based in or backed by Norway, Sweden, or Denmark, it might have been a different story.

      • Q. Shtik December 21, 2022 at 9:43 pm #

        I think they were based out of Iceland – Jar

        ============

        I have never understood the sense of this expression, like when someone is said to live out of his car. How stupid! Wouldn’t a person be better off living in his car?

        • Jarek December 21, 2022 at 11:33 pm #

          But they weren’t in Iceland since they were in Vinland or any time they were out a Viking (raiding).

          On a train traveling at fifty miles an hour, a person walks south on the train at 3 miles an hour. Is this possible since they are traveling north? It is if your base of reference is the train.

          If you base of reference is the world outside the train, they are not traveling south at all, but rather north – just a bit slower than the stationary passengers, at 47 mph.

          Now that we have established some relativity context, perhaps one could say they were based in Iceland if they spent most of their time there, and out of Iceland if they spent most of their time away. What do you think? Thumbs up or down?

          • Q. Shtik December 22, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

            Your train analogy is a “stretch.”

        • GreenAlba December 22, 2022 at 7:05 am #

          Living out of his car suggests to me that the person is using it as a cupboard, i.e. to store his clothes and other necessities. Like living out of a suitcase.

          • Q. Shtik December 22, 2022 at 1:29 pm #

            There are homeless people who thankfully have, at least, a car that they can live in to protect themselves from the elements. This is my concept for what is meant by living out of one’s car.

          • GreenAlba December 22, 2022 at 5:54 pm #

            And yet you said upthread that the phrase is illogical, which is what I was agreeing with.

        • GreenAlba December 22, 2022 at 7:06 am #

          ‘Operating out of Iceland’ sounds fine.

    • Islander December 21, 2022 at 1:34 pm #

      Malthuss:

      I thought one of the theories as to why the Viking colony at L’Anse aux Meadows failed was that it was the Little Ice Age.They tried to grow some crops and kept some animals, but these soon died. They starved to death.

      Another theory: And, they (the Norse, that is) refused to eat seafood (seriously).

      • BackRowHeckler December 21, 2022 at 2:15 pm #

        In the mid 16th century the Norwegian Crown remembered suddenly that they had colonists in Greenland whom they hadn’t heard from in several centuries. So they sent a ship out with supplies to see what they could see. Both settlements — the one on the southern tip of Greenland and the one on the east coast were found abandoned — one of many abandoned places in the new world that disappeared during the age of discovery (Tierra del Fuego, Columbus brother on Hispanola, Roanoke, Henry Hudson party, English settlement on New Providence Island) all vanished.

      • Blackbird December 21, 2022 at 6:37 pm #

        The Little Ice Age began in the late 13th century, so it is unlikely to have impacted the settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, although it was probably the death knell for the Greenland colony.

        That European disdain for seafood lasted awhile. When Lewis and Clark reached the Columbia River, the salmon were running. They caught a lot of them and… served them up with Hollandaise sauce? Nope, traded them to the indians for dogs. Yup, them Virginia boys rather eat dog than salmon.

        • malthuss December 21, 2022 at 7:10 pm #

          let them eat fishcakes.

        • Islander December 22, 2022 at 12:32 am #

          I seem to recall reading that earlier European settlers on Boston Neck would not eat the lobsters that teemed in shoals surrounding them.

          • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 8:40 am #

            I don’t particularly care for lobsters though I will eat them. I call ’em seabugs. My wife has a taste for them. She does not appreciate it when I point out that a 14 inch cockroach would probably taste very similar as they are both arthropods.

          • Paula D December 22, 2022 at 4:49 pm #

            Yes, when they were pushing crickets as dinner they said that people allergic to shellfish would not be able to eat them.

      • malthuss December 21, 2022 at 7:29 pm #

        they kept the wrong animals, if I recall. Cows.

        they should have kept birds and maybe goats.

  74. 100th Avatar December 21, 2022 at 12:49 pm #

    How does a puppet regime give tens of billions of dollars to a corrupt war-mongering twerp without declaration of war or consent of the governed?

    Tyranny

    • Islander December 21, 2022 at 1:31 pm #

      Wondering exactly the same thing.

      Declaration of war before funding of war???

      • MaryQueen December 21, 2022 at 6:11 pm #

        They set the precedent in 2003, I believe.

    • Disaffected December 21, 2022 at 4:57 pm #

      The US quit doing DoW’s after WWII, with Korea and Vietnam leading the way. Gentlemen’s – in this case Criminal’s – Agreement. The euphemism’s since then have been “police action, humanitarian intervention, terrorist elimination,” and the like. Fun with semantics!

      Of course when you’re fixing elections outright too, it goes without saying that “consent of the governed” never enters into the calculation in the least. That’s just assumed.

      • BackRowHeckler December 21, 2022 at 5:32 pm #

        Declarations of War have been pretty rare, actually. Afghanistan, Iraq, Gulf War, Vietnam, Korea, the Banana Wars, Philippines 1898-1913, Boxer Wars in China, Korea 1871, Civil War, Algeria (Barbary wars) NW Indian wars (1792) where the entire US Army was wiped out … were all undeclared. More undeclared wars than declared wars. I might have missed some this was off the top of my head.

        • 100th Avatar December 21, 2022 at 6:23 pm #

          Exactly.
          They do not need one.

          They do whatever they want.

        • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 8:46 am #

          The “War on Drugs” is working out pretty well these days. Millions of causality’s and 130,000 dead in the USA just in 2021. Plus the collateral damage is unfathomable.

          • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 8:51 am #

            Over 300 dead every day from OD’s and how many dead from gangs and turf wars over drugs? Shit send another $85,000,000,000.00 to the Z man to blow more shit up and poke the Bear.

  75. Islander December 21, 2022 at 1:30 pm #

    This from Tom Luongo just landed in my in box.

    Even though I don’t have a subscription (too pricey for me—wish it were cheaper [or free]), this email provides quite a lot of food for thought.

    I hope JHK will have Luongo on for another podcast (even though I find him pretty hard to follow or even understand his speech—but his reach is quite broad.
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  76. Q. Shtik December 21, 2022 at 1:37 pm #

    A blurb crossed the screen an hour ago saying that Franco Harris has died at age 72. At the height of his fame Franco had been named the Super Bowl MVP. He was a mixed race Black and Italian. This reminds me of an anecdote I told here many years ago.

    Amongst family, friends and acquaintances there was this large Greek dude. I think his name was Nikos if memory serves. He bore more than a passing resemblance to Franco. A group of us went to Atlantic City to see a big fight. I think it was Tyson. We began to spread the word that Franco Harris was among our group.

    Before the fight the announcer was naming various celebs in attendance to great applause from the fans. Then, pointing in our general direction, he says “and we have the great Steeler running back, FRANCO HARRIS.!”

    Nikos rises from his seat, turns slowly to his right and left, smiling and waving to thunderous applause. I’ll tell ya… ya gotta have brass balls to pull off something like this.

    • Disaffected December 21, 2022 at 3:44 pm #

      Our very own Q. Shtik running with the wild crowd! Who knew?

      • Disaffected December 21, 2022 at 7:55 pm #

        Question is, why did no one introduce the world famous Q. Shtik? THAT’S what I wanna know!

        Weird how Harris died the same week as the 50th Anniversary Celebration of “The Immaculate Reception.” I remember watching that game, sort of. I was assembling a model car or maybe playing a board game while I watched, so I wasn’t really paying that close attention. Same with Super Bowl III and Joe Namath’s big win over the NFL’s Colts. I always had to be doing something else while watching football. Early onset ADD perhaps.

  77. Amman December 21, 2022 at 2:32 pm #

    What do you think is the Key takeaway point of this article?

    That a deluge of Truth and Justice is coming to the USA because of Twitter a la Musk?

    • 100th Avatar December 21, 2022 at 5:46 pm #

      Musk knows full well what happens to those who speak the absolute truth:

      canceled/silenced.

      Imagine the length of the twitter thread taking the ignorant from (at least) balfour to the present.

      • Disaffected December 21, 2022 at 7:56 pm #

        That’s what sees odd. The true renegades don’t usually last too long, which makes me wonder of he’s actually a renegade at all. We’ll see.

  78. Paula D December 21, 2022 at 4:31 pm #

    The Duran hosted the great Robert Barnes again.

    For those interested in the Speaker of the House question, in part of the interview Barnes talks about his efforts to get Trump elected as Speaker, which amused the hell out of both Alexes (and me).

    That would be awesome! Entertainment beyond compare.

    youtube.com/watch?v=PqgZN9_thhQ

  79. 100th Avatar December 21, 2022 at 6:22 pm #

    Billions and billions later the globalist plant, er, democratically elected leader of Ukraine, Zelensky, arrives at the White House wearing fatigues and a sweatshirt.

    More theater. More marketing. More fiction. More ad copy. More narrative. More myth.

    This is how they suspend your disbelief.
    How they feed the mind virus.
    How you know they know that you’re an imbecile
    Reality distortion. Always through this lens.

    Psyops, propaganda, lies.

    • Disaffected December 21, 2022 at 7:49 pm #

      B-b-b-b-b-but Vegas oddsmakers, 100th!!! Vegas oddsmakers, for crying out loud!!! They’d NEVER lie to us!!!

      • tucsonspur December 22, 2022 at 1:41 am #

        Stop looking for a hand to hold while you mock me.

        • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 9:08 am #

          You’re such an easy target it’s hard not too. Apologies.

        • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 9:11 am #

          Even my greenie Sister-in-law, Trump is death,LGBTQR rah-rah girl was like. Doesn’t this guy own a suit? He’s begging for money from us for chrissakes.

          • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 10:42 am #

            Yes, a little decorum would be nice. Although I think the begging is mostly theater for the American Sheeple’s benefit.

  80. malthuss December 21, 2022 at 7:07 pm #

    benr

    The greatest racist resident in the Whitehouse ever LBJ and then the opening of China under Richard Nixon and the off shoring of our industrial base

    / due to LBJ and JFK who gave him to us, the USA population has doubled.
    Offshoring, thats a minor nuisance compared to whats happening here at home.

    tropical diseases, including leprosy
    multi culturalism
    multilingualism
    whites soon to be a minority
    crime

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    • MaryQueen December 21, 2022 at 9:44 pm #

      LBJ was a psychopath. He gave the thumbs up to the Kennedy assassination and had the nanny of his mistress killed, because she accidentally saw them together.

      That’s what the mistress claimed in a very truthful-sounding interview she gave as an old woman.

      I’ve never seen anything she claimed refuted.

      • 100th Avatar December 21, 2022 at 9:56 pm #

        Arthur Schlesinger Jr. authored a memorandum to JFK that explained how the CIA is in fact a state within a state. (I believe the CIA is still keeping it redacted and/or unreleased: imagine if the American people find out)

        Meaning: it answers to another authority

        Guess as to who

        • MaryQueen December 21, 2022 at 10:49 pm #

          It’s apparent to me.

        • Blackbird December 21, 2022 at 11:11 pm #

          “…it answers to another authority”

          My guess is “no one”.

          If I have to choose an entity, then I guess I’d have to say “Satan”, or maybe just Evil.

      • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 9:10 am #

        I’ve always thought it was pitched to LBJ as an either/or proposition. As in, the plan’s going forward with or without you, so what’s it gonna be? With the implications for refusal simply but obviously implied.

        • MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 11:20 am #

          Could well be, but he seemed cheery enough about it (per some peoples’ observations).

          • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

            Well, when you’re making a deal with the devil, it’s probably just good manners to smile when you do it. By all accounts, he was crushed after he resigned. Hard to say whether it was because his legacy was ruined by his selling out on Vietnam or the fact that he sold JFK and likely RFK and MLK as well down the river for the proverbial 40 pieces of silver. Maybe all of the above. He certainly gave life to the phrase that politics makes strange bed fellows. Poor bastard. Had some tough decisions to make and came up short all around.

          • Q. Shtik December 22, 2022 at 1:10 pm #

            for the proverbial 40 pieces of silver. – Disaff

            ===========

            Thirty pieces of silver was the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, according to an account in the Gospel of Matthew 26:15 in the New Testament.

          • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 4:59 pm #

            Thank you Q. I should have Googled it first, but I knew you’d be on it. Maybe they gave LBJ 40 pieces, what with inflation and all…?

          • SpeedyBB December 22, 2022 at 10:01 pm #

            Your Majesty MaryQueen,

            The cronies reportedly gathered round Lyndon and had a muted party up front in Air Force One on the flight out of Dallas, as the hapless JFK lay cooling to room temperature in the rear of the aircraft.

            Sick joke from 1964: “What did Jackie Kennedy get for Christmas in 1963? A Jack-in-the-box.”

        • Paula D December 22, 2022 at 4:56 pm #

          I agree that the decision was made without him. Your theory about the pitch sounds right to me.

          He sure went along with their war plans, even if he wasn’t enthusiastic.

          I firmly believe that he really thought that the US could be a Great Society. He was wrong. Our overlords had other plans.
          They were going to take it down and they have.

          • Paula D December 22, 2022 at 7:13 pm #

            Trump found out the same thing when he tried to Make America Great Again.

            Not on their watch!

        • SpeedyBB December 22, 2022 at 9:57 pm #

          Disaffected: I’ve devoted a lot of hard thought and serious reading to the JFK event, but your comment was most intellectually stimulating.

          “…either with you or without you…” Spot on, baby. Rings true.

          Servants reported a rip-roaring party over at the Murchisons’ house, immediately after the announcement of the President’s death.

          My dear mother was laid up in the hospital when she witnessed, in living black-and-white, the silencing of Patsy Oswald by Jack Ruby. Never for a minute did she buy that “lone nut gunman” malarkey.

          • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 10:21 pm #

            Thanks. From everything I’ve read as well, LBJ was a well-meaning (in his own conflicted way, at least) man who was undone by his own ambition and the terrible choices presented to him at the time. It was certainly a challenging time to be alive and in power. Very few of those alive at the time rose to it, and now we all are still living with the effects of those decisions today.

  81. Jarek December 21, 2022 at 7:51 pm #

    Turn on the TV if you doubt that America is a ZOG or Zionist Occupied Government. The Congress are Zionist stooges almost to a man or womb man.

    • Disaffected December 21, 2022 at 7:57 pm #

      Can’t argue with that!

    • 100th Avatar December 21, 2022 at 8:45 pm #

      I believe an Italian politician or bureaucrat pointed out that America is clearly held hostage by the Jewish (zionist) lobby.

      America was always the key to their unlocking and entry to the “homeland”

      and its eternal defense

      To continue support for the defense stories of abuse, hatred, and racism are invented or amplified. Just as now, a summit to address the rise in Kanye awakenings.

      Admittedly, the dim knuckle-dragging racist will blame all Jewish, even the ones who don’t get the memos, and this same lunkhead fails to see the dissimilarity in his absence of comuniques from Schwab, Gates, and The Rockefellers…

      I’ve had the hard conversations with Iraq war veterans.

      America doesn’t thank you for your service, but Wolfowitz & Co. sure does

    • malthuss December 21, 2022 at 10:59 pm #

      utube has so many race mixing ads.

      you know the gender-race mix.

  82. tucsonspur December 22, 2022 at 1:36 am #

    For Dis The Stammerer:

    Why say that they are my DC heroes when they’re not. That they are not should be evident from my many posts excoriating the Dems, the woke, and their entire agenda, and even Republicans like McConnell who is supporting the giant omnibus bill before Republicans take the House, and who contributed to Kari Lake’s defeat in Arizona.

    Is Russia right, as you say? I don’t believe they are, not by a damn long shot. Some important background, highlights:

    ‘In 1991,amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine votes for independence in a referendum, with 92 percent of Ukrainians supporting independence, and elects Leonid Kravchuk as president. Ukraine had the second-largest population and economy of the fifteen Soviet republics.

    In 1997, Ukrainian president Kuchma meets with NATO leaders in Madrid, where they sign a document establishing a distinctive partnership between Ukraine and the defense alliance. Under this partnership, a NATO-Ukraine commission will meet at least twice per year to discuss the relationship.

    On to 2004:

    The 2004 presidential race pits Western-oriented Yushchenko against Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych is Kuchma’s preferred choice and the candidate supported by Moscow. The election is a tug-of-war between those who seek closer ties with the European Union (EU), NATO, and the West and those who favor closer alignment with Russia. Yushchenko mysteriously suffers dioxin poisoning in September; he survives but with his face disfigured. After two flawed rounds of voting award the election to Yanukovych, protesters dressed in orange, Yushchenko’s campaign color, take to the streets in large numbers and force a revote in December, which Yushchenko wins.

    TS: Here the vote is for ties to the West. Note the poisoning of Yushchenko by guess who? Ukrainians want the West.

    On to 2013-2014:

    Ukrainians turn out in large numbers to protest Yanukovych’s announcement on EU ties. Mostly peaceful demonstrations continue for two months in Kyiv’s main Maidan square. They turn violent after the government moves to break up protesters, and the ensuing crackdown kills more than one hundred people. On February 21, Yanukovych and opposition leaders reach a settlement that includes plans for presidential elections before the end of the year.

    TS: This is where Yanukovych flips on ties to the EU and the West, and sides with Russia, which Ukrainians don’t want. It is also where Victoria Nuland enters the picture: Yanukovych flees because he betrayed the Ukrainian people.

    The hacked recording of a phone call between the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, and Nuland sealed the otherwise discreet diplomat’s place in history. In the recording, Nuland’s voice can be heard giving Pyatt orders about who the United States had selected to be Ukraine’s new prime minister. Countering Pyatt’s suggestion of the popular former boxer, Vitali Klitschko, Nuland selected Arseniy Yatsenyuk. After the pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country and Yatsenyuk struggled to lead a new government, an anti-Russian billionaire, Petro Poroshenko, won the presidency in September 2014.

    In 2017 Trump approves lethal arms sales to Ukraine.

    Now to 2019:

    Volodymyr Zelensky, a television comedian and political novice, wins a presidential runoff with more than 70 percent of the vote, defeating Poroshenko. Two months later, Zelensky’s party also wins a majority of parliamentary seats, marking the first time since independence that Ukraine’s president has a majority party in the parliament. Zelensky had campaigned against corruption and poverty, and pledged to end the war in the east; many saw the vote as a rejection of Poroshenko and his failure to root out corruption.

    It’s now 2020:

    Ukraine is named a NATO Enhanced Opportunities Partner in June, joining Australia, Georgia, Finland, Jordan, and Sweden as countries with deeper cooperation on NATO-led missions and exercises. The alliance says the new status “does not prejudge any decisions on NATO membership.” In September, Zelensky approves Ukraine’s new National Security Strategy, which provides for the development of a distinctive partnership with NATO with the aim of gaining membership. The previous year, Zelensky’s predecessor signed a constitutional amendment committing Ukraine to become a member.

    TS: Maybe some Russians in Ukraine want Russia, but Ukrainians emphatically don’t. Contrary to what Putin might say, Ukrainians are not Russians, and they want to be independent and aligned with the West.

    You hate your government and want a strong leader, so you support Putin. Real clear thinking, you stammering slob. Globalism got you down, who you gonna call? Putin of course, he’s the globalist buster!

    Don’t wish a freedom loving people destroyed because of some naive notion that Putin is the answer. You’re not just disaffected, you’re disarranged!

    Putin utterly destroys Ukraine. Happiness for you, fucking Putin lovers?

    • K-Chien December 22, 2022 at 3:37 am #

      What about what the people want. How do you feel about the Donetsk People’s Republic? Do you think the people living in Eastern Ukraine are entitled to self-determination?

      You say:

      ‘some Russians in Ukraine want Russia, but Ukrainians emphatically don’t.’

      Looking into this I find the country has an east to west split. Ukrainians are not one big homogeneous happy family.

      Checking this out:

      92 percent of Ukrainians supporting independence


      Ukrainian media had converted en masse to the independence ideal.

      Polls showed:

      63% support for the “Yes” campaign in September 1991
      77% in the first week of October 1991
      88% by mid-November 1991.

      The breakup of the Soviet Union was more of an inside deal than a free choice of the people.

      Crimea support was at 50% to start with but that changed with Ukrainian Corruption. They voted overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine and the eastern oblasts want no part of the western Ukraine government now.

      • BackRowHeckler December 22, 2022 at 4:33 pm #

        There is also a religious aspect to the Ukrainian divide, Dog, Roman Catholics to the west, Orthodox Christians to the east. I saw this close up in the city I lived in which had a large Ukrainian immigrant population. Catholic Ukrainians & Orthodox Ukrainians didn’t mix. They had separate churches & social clubs with eastern Ukrainians members of the Russian church and clubs, and western Ukes mostly hanging with the Polocks, and attending the Polish churches.

      • Paula D December 22, 2022 at 5:19 pm #

        But in a referendum held in March of 1991, 76% of citizens in the countries that voted, including Ukraine, voted to keep the USSR, not dissolve it.

        Damn straight it was an inside job. The leaders of three countries, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, bribed by the US, snuck away and signed a dissolution of the Union, the Belovezh Accord, against the will of most of the people.

        And then their countries were looted and sunk into deep poverty. Life expectancies dropped because millions of people died. Birth rates also dropped and immigration to Europe soared.

        Way to go, boys!

        But yeah, “Ukrainian” means different things in different parts of the country.
        One thing we do know is that over 70% voted for Zelensky over US-backed Poroshenko, and Zelensky ran on a peace with Donbass/honor the Minsk Accords platform.

        So it is not accurate to say that “Ukrainians” are fighting the Russians. It’s actually the Russians fighting with the Donbass militias to get the Ukies out of their country.

        It has been a civil war for the last 8 years, Ukrainian vs Ukrainian, ever since the 2014 coup put nazis into power and easterners said “Oh, HELL NO!”
        That is when the war started. Russia only came in last February to stop the planned final assault and massacre of the eastern Ukrainians (now Russians).

        That is why there were 200k Ukie soldiers dug into Donbass territory, they are there to kill the citizens.
        It is beyond stupid for an American to say that Ukrainians are united in their love for their US masters.

    • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 9:00 am #

      LOL! Now I’m “Dis, the Stammerer,” eh? That’s pretty good, although I don’t recall ever having a stammer. I’m flattered… I think.

      Love to see that I’ve got under Tuscon Turd’s skin. Waking up to reality is going to be very hard for him in the coming months, so I suggest we all give him some space to come to terms with the fact that everything he thinks he knows about Ukraine, Putin, Biden, Zelensky, and probably everything else is wrong.

      Propaganda’s a helluva drug!

    • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 9:06 am #

      Hey Turd, you’re not doing Ukrainians any good sitting over here in AZ. Might wanna catch a plane over there and join the fight, since they’re mopping the floor with those evil Russky’s anyway. Maybe get you a little cheerleader outfit and some pompoms before you go so you can be properly attired for your primary duties. If you play your cards right, the Z-Man himself might take a liking to you and you can become his personal waif.

      Turd on, phony soldier!

      • Paula D December 22, 2022 at 7:16 pm #

        He won’t even go to the border to defend his own country and he lives right there.

        • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 7:40 pm #

          Turd’s one of those “keyboard warriors” he decries so much.

          • Night Owl December 23, 2022 at 4:27 am #

            “Slava Urkaini”

            *Hits reply*

  83. Night Owl December 22, 2022 at 4:58 am #

    A whitewashed version of events in Ukraine. Didn’t even include Nuland’s classic “Fuck the EU” line, much less the US backed snipers on the Maidan killing innocent civilians.

    I would expect nothing less of our resident Neocon, the Tucson Slur.

    • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 9:51 am #

      The Turd’s having a hard time coping. His whole world view’s imploding. It happens.

      • JohnAZ December 22, 2022 at 10:55 am #

        Dis. Tusconspur

        Spur

        Suggestion for you

        Glenn Beck. You tube chalkboard Ukraine

        Watch this, you will find out the real bad guy here is Obama/Biden’s Mob as they manipulated every election, and every move the Ukraine theater did. They corrupted Ukraine, period, for profit.

        Trump was absolutely correct trying to get Zelensky to investigate Biden’s Mob. Instead, he got impeached for it.

        You forgot a couple of things in your argument.

        One, part of the deal to break up the USSR was for the US to help out reconstruction of SSR economies including Russia. We reneged on that almost immediately. Second, we agreed to not expand NATO into the former SSRs. Like most things the US government has done, we lied increasing NATO at every turn. This led to Putin. Third, the East side of Ukraine is a majority of Russians, who did vote the Russian candidate in in both elections. Same in Crimea.

        I think if you do a little research on the above you will not think the US government is Snow White on this, but an active aggressive party creating a politically positive proxy war with Russia.

        All is fair in love and war. Both sides. Just do not white wash the American government, the Deep State esp, the MIC on this.

        BTW, the Russians will win this war even if it is by attrition. Z is here to find a second home as an outlet when Ukraine falls.

        Watching Pelosi dawdle with Z yesterday made me nauseous. The Deep State will protect itself always.

        • JohnAZ December 22, 2022 at 11:03 am #

          Russia wins? The US government and its big brother, the WEF, take a huge hit. Trump wanted NATO to grow its share of expense and manpower, he was ignored. Even now, the EU is using Ukraine as a proxy.

          Boots on the ground wins wars, not high tech. Which side is willing to kick ass more wins. Putin is going to inspire Russia with anti U.S. rhetoric.

          Russia wins? WEF takes a setback.

          A bad thing?

          • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 11:58 am #

            It’s existential for Russia. It’s a lucrative hobby for the US.

          • Q. Shtik December 22, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

            Trump wanted NATO to grow its share of expense and manpower, – JohnAZ

            ==========

            What do you mean grow? Do you mean pay?

          • JohnAZ December 22, 2022 at 2:03 pm #

            No, I meant grow.

            The NATO charter states that all countries should ante up 2% of GNP into NATO. They haven’t. So they should grow their shares up to 2%.

            Another POV, Q. The EU seems not to fear Russia as they have never supported NATO as the U.S. has. How come?

        • Q. Shtik December 22, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

          Watching Pelosi dawdle with Z yesterday made me nauseous. – JohnAZ

          =============

          Here is the definition of dawdle

          daw·dle
          verb
          waste time; be slow.

          Did you mean dawdle or did you have some other word in mind?

          • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 1:16 pm #

            Uh oh, looks like Q.’s back in top form for the holidays. Better mind your Ps and Qs everyone, especially your Qs!

          • JohnAZ December 22, 2022 at 2:07 pm #

            Yes and no. Yes, slow and wasting time was what I intended but more so. Seeing the two together, acting phony Like long time friends, was sickening.

            Pelosi is such a schmuck.

    • 100th Avatar December 22, 2022 at 10:03 am #

      And Nuland’s husband? What’s his name?
      His story?
      His history?
      PNAC?

      Kristol?

      You’re not expected to recognize the pattern.
      And you’re not allowed to speak of it.

      • 100th Avatar December 22, 2022 at 11:05 am #

        But let’s all pretend it’s all about Putin:

        nytimes*dot*com/2014/06/16/us/politics/historians-critique-of-obama-foreign-policy-is-brought-alive-by-events-in-iraq.html

        newrepublic*dot*com/article/117859/superpowers-dont-get-retire

        nytimes*dot*com/2014/07/06/opinion/sunday/are-neocons-getting-ready-to-ally-with-hillary-clinton.html?_r=0

        Yeah, this is your war, American’s war:

        thenation*dot*com/article/archive/kievs-atrocities-and-silence-hawks/

  84. Night Owl December 22, 2022 at 8:36 am #

    Biden giving Zelensky’s ass a squeeze.

    https://twitter.com/vinayak_jain/status/1605833921807241216

  85. stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 9:20 am #

    Jesus H. Christ, You’d think it never got cold before. The weather folks are falling all over themselves about how cold it’s gonna be this week. This is nothing new. I keep track. Of course MQ was in Chicago when it was -40 back during the last Ice Age. Feels like? Bullshit. Your car oil,battery,and pretty much everything else besides bare skin doesn’t give a shit about “feels like”. Chick at the store with no hat and yoga pants, ‘It’s fuckin’ freezin’ out.” Me, “Put some cloth’s on an quit yer bitchin.”

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    • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 9:49 am #

      It was like… SO effing cold out there!

      • JohnAZ December 22, 2022 at 11:07 am #

        I wonder how many degrees this is going to take off of the AGW crowd’s forecasts.

        Look at the temperature log for the past ten years.

        Unchanging, no increase. What are the WEF manipulators gonna have to talk about when the temperature starts down. First Covid, now AGW. What next?

        • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 11:14 am #

          Christmas morning. 1980 Western MA. -22 actual temp in my home town. Cars had carburetors. Most would not start. Everybody was late for work at the firehouse and the guys wanted to get home to their kids . Their cars would not start either. We pushed them into the bay to warm them up. My wife hated Christmas mornings when I worked overnight 6PM- 8AM. The kids would have to wait until I got home.

          • BackRowHeckler December 22, 2022 at 11:19 am #

            3″ of rain & 50 mph winds coming tonite. Then a flash arctic freeze.

            There will be more than a few trees down in the morning.

          • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 7:38 pm #

            All the better for the Polar Tiger Bears, brh. Better watch out! Something a little more ominous than Santa might be sliding down your chimney this year!

        • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 11:47 am #

          Expected tomorrow a temp. drop of 40-50 degrees overnight. That’s unusual but not so crazy. Almost like the Schoolhouse Blizzard of Jan. 1888 in the Great Plains. It killed hundreds. The temp went from above freezing to -40 in Fargo in 12 hours with a 60 mph wind. Killed many. Mother nature doesn’t fuck around. A couple months later was the Blizzard of ’88 that buried New England. A winter hurricane. People actually believe this Climate Change BS. “We have all been here before”

          • Q. Shtik December 22, 2022 at 12:26 pm #

            Expected tomorrow a temp. drop of 40-50 degrees overnight. – stelmo

            ==============

            You are causing me to, again, recall memories from my 3 winters in Duluth, MN:

            There were stretches of time where the temp would remain at -20F. Getting your car to start was a real problem. I had a VW bug. I ran an extension cord with a workman’s light on the end and placed that light in the rear engine compartment. I set up cardboard around the back of the car to block as much wind as possible.

            It is surprising how the heat from a 100 watt bulb will keep an engine from freezing solid even at 20 below.

          • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 12:33 pm #

            Hey Q, How did you fare in the big blow in 1888. You were in what? Maybe first grade?

          • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 12:40 pm #

            LOL! The Q. is timeless.

          • JohnAZ December 22, 2022 at 2:16 pm #

            A very important climate, not weather observation is showing up in the eastern Pacific. It is becoming cooler initiating more consistent La Nina’s. Continued growth of the pattern will allow colder weather to drop farther south around the world.

            As the cold water deep currents from the Atlantic feed into the Pacific, could it be that the slow shutting down of the Gulf Stream is initiating a reaction in the Pacific.

            Climate freaks always seem to not realize that Gaia has many feedback mechanisms to slow the effects of change. Messing with Gaia with high tech “solutions” could be deadly for the human race.

        • Woodchuck December 22, 2022 at 6:09 pm #

          Here’s something about our current climate situation, from electroverse website:

          “Record-breaking temperatures are sweeping most N. Hem land masses, most recently in Europe, Eastern Asia and North America. The UK busted all-time mid-Dec readings in books dating back to the 1800s this week, and, according to the Central England Temperature dataset –which extends back to 1659– Britain was on for its 9th coldest December in 363-years.

          Northern Hemisphere snow extent for November 2022 closed at a whopping 1.04 million square miles above average, according to the NOAA/Rutgers Global Snow Lab, which ranks as the fourth-largest NH November snow extent on record (to 1966).

          Even after a temporary thawing in Europe, hemisphere-wide snow extent remains well-above the 56-year mean, currently running at about 45 million km2, according to the NOAA/Rutgers Global Snow Lab, with Europe still 62.4% covered.”

    • messianicdruid December 22, 2022 at 10:33 am #

      JHC is kinda like calling JHK * jimbo *.

      • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 11:08 am #

        Many people don’t know that Jesus had a middle name. Howard as I recall. It’s in the Bible. Look it up.

        • messianicdruid December 22, 2022 at 12:24 pm #

          “Howard is an English -language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German *Hugihard “heart-brave”, or *Hoh-ward, literally “high defender; chief guardian”. Erasmas 1:53

          It should still be used with reverence.

          • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 12:29 pm #

            “It should still be used with reverence.”

            Of course I speak in hushed tones lest my blasphemy be my demise.

          • messianicdruid December 22, 2022 at 2:46 pm #

            Of course. Hushed tones are more difficult when writing.

        • Woodchuck December 22, 2022 at 6:07 pm #

          Jesus Christ, son of Joseph and Mary Christ?

          • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 9:04 pm #

            Not to mention the fact that the name Jesus is kind of inconveniently Hispanic in the modern day at least. Christianity on the whole is entirely… ahem… problematic, to say the least.

  86. GreenAlba December 22, 2022 at 10:24 am #

    So … Andrew Bridgen MP, who spoke at length in Parliament to the tiny handful of MPs who bothered to attend the session, has been suspended from Parliament for talking about ‘vaccine’ harms.

    Just another day on Airstrip One.

    I emailed Mr Bridgen to encourage him not to give up the fight (not to give up is his intention, I believe). Since I had just been in contact with my own MP, regarding the lack of Labour representation in the house for Mr Bridgen’s speech, and had a reply with the usual nonsense mantras, I then forwarded the email to Andrew Bridgen to my own MP and cc’d Sir Chrisopher Chope, to whom I had sent an email of support earlier, after his own speech. I also tore a strip of my MP in the same email, for Andrew B and Sir Christopher to read.

    Sometimes communicating your contempt for these people is all you can do. And there remains a one in a million chance that they will have their conscience pricked, if they still have one.

    • MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 11:31 am #

      A very valiant effort, G.A. You never know who might be listening.

    • Q. Shtik December 22, 2022 at 12:08 pm #

      Sometimes communicating your contempt for these people is all you can do. – GA

      ==============

      Haha, I marvel at the effort you put in to influence TPTB.

      I imagine this scene: Your email arrives. An MP’s staff member opens it and yells out “OMG boss, you’re not gonna believe it, we got another email from that crazy GreenAlba broad.”

      • GreenAlba December 22, 2022 at 1:07 pm #

        Actually he replied to my last email the very next day. He was miffed at what I said to him, which I consider to be a good result.

        I had a reply from Sir Christopher Chope too, although it was to all the people who’d written to support him when he spoke out about compensation for the vaxx-injured, to general derision.

        • GreenAlba December 22, 2022 at 1:13 pm #

          I think emails of support to the ones who speak out are actually important to keep up their morale in the face of derision and lies from their colleagues and the press. It would help me too, if I were in their position. One of the worst things about my current situation is that I am almost entirely isolated from similarly minded people, apart from online.

          And I think it’s important that my MP knows what his consituents think, whether he remains ignorant (or complicit, or both). I’ve written to him about a number of things – we’re on first-name terms. 🙂

          He was born and brought up in a council flat in a fairly crappy part of Edinburgh. He’s not royalty.

          • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 7:33 pm #

            Airstrip One included North America too? Or just Britain?

            I should reread Orwell, but can’t handle 1984. I’d like to have some of his other work, like Burmese Days.

  87. 100th Avatar December 22, 2022 at 11:18 am #

    The good guy behind the radical left:

    youtu*dot*be/QSyczwuTQfo

    His excuse for all his evil acts: “it is a competition and if it was not me it would be someone else”

    Rationalization of the psychopath

  88. malthuss December 22, 2022 at 11:30 am #

    I always thought Lennon was a pretentious ass.

    He was so dominated by his wife.

    Ronnie Hawkins said ‘JL was the most henpecked man I ever met’.

    Ronnie died earlier this year.

    • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

      He was definitely conflicted. His legendary drunken blitz with Harry Nilsson came during one of the periods he and Yoko were on the outs.

      • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

        ” His legendary drunken blitz ”

        Doesn’t make him a bad guy.

        • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 1:11 pm #

          No, but it was definitely an epic blitz. Point is, he was more complex than the press made him out to be, for good or for ill.

      • malthuss December 22, 2022 at 2:21 pm #

        known as the lost weekend. I know insiders who knew Harry Nilsson.
        Harry was a nice guy and very foolish and indulged. booze, coke, at the end he weighed 300 pounds.

        his manager took his money.

    • SpeedyBB December 23, 2022 at 3:26 am #

      The sadist and the masochist. Yoko from a wealthy Japanese banking family – you can imagine how that twisted her from childhood. She ran away and decided to be a public bad girl, by being a very public very bad artist: collage of people’s asses. Please.

      Lennon was apparently an unawakened masochist, until he met the gloomy Yoko. Then it was off to the races.

  89. docmartin December 22, 2022 at 11:51 am #

    Mr Kunstler,
    Despite your upbringing in a secular assimilated Jewish family and your conservative views, many of your readers will hunt you down and march you into the gas chamber despite your right wing views and viewpoint. You remind me of the “ assimilated “ German Jews who couldn’t imagine their “ good neighbors “ doing anything so evil. You allow blatant antisemitism in your comment section and think your semi rural lifestyle and fiddle playing will insulate you from hatred. I got news for you. When they drag you out of your country house and garden, kicking, pleading and screaming, remember what I warned you about.

    • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 11:56 am #

      Anti-Zionism is not Anti-Semitism, since many if not most Zionists aren’t Jews, either ethnically or religiously. Ethnic Jews and religious Jews aren’t necessarily one and the same either. You should get out more.

      • JohnAZ December 22, 2022 at 2:23 pm #

        If I remember right, Zionism is the belief in a Jewish state of Israel where Judah was millennia ago.

        In the US there is a group of Christian believers in the Rapture that support Zionism as they contend that when the Temple is rebuilt, Revelation will be underway. So they want a Jewish State including Jerusalem.

        • Jarek December 22, 2022 at 2:36 pm #

          A large group. People like that believe that Conservative religious Jews and and Conservative Christians share a common cause.

          But in reality the Conservative sect studies the Talmud, and is anti-Christian. That’s by definition.

          Conservative political Jews exist, but are rare. I like Stephen Miller, but most Jews don’t. Most conservative Jews are Neo-Cons and America comes last in their book.

    • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 3:21 pm #

      What’s up Doc? I’m not so far from the Blogmaster. I doubt we’ll be dragged out kickin’ and screaming. I may be dragged out, but it will be lifeless and after a heck of a firefight.

      • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 7:27 pm #

        That’s the spirit, St Elmo!

        Still, docmartin makes a valid point. Some German Jews had fought for the Kaiser and had medals to prove it. Still butchered.

        As for Zionism, I won’t go near that.

        But they got one thing right, and it’s what Elmo says. Putting up a heck of a fight next time.

    • Paula D December 22, 2022 at 7:20 pm #

      Do you think that censoring his comment section will protect him? Or do you think it will stop hate?

      How does that work?

      • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 7:29 pm #

        I thought doc had valid points. But your point wins, and it’s the one I share. Bad speech, more speech.

  90. 100th Avatar December 22, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

    I cited 5 mainstream sources from
    2014 that were moderated:

    NY Times (x2): Key words:

    historians-critique-of-obama-foreign-policy-is-brought-alive-by-events-in-iraq

    are-neocons-getting-ready-to-ally-with-hillary-clinton

    The Nation: kievs-atrocities-and-silence-hawks

    The New Republic: superpowers-dont-get-retire

    Now, you can of course let the old canard of “antisemitism” keep you from the truth and experiencing WWIII.

    Zelensky pleading for more $, weapon systems, soldier-“advisers” (you know, the dumb white SF cannon fodder guys serving) that will surely escalate matters.

    Know who will never experience the horrors of the wars they foment?They don’t serve, their children don’t serve. They are not in Iraq or Ukraine or Russia.

    They send you there, because you have been programmed to refuse to see the obvious. The war-mongers infecting the highest reaches of the US government.

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  91. MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 22, 2022 at 12:49 pm #

    Two push notifications from Weather Channel on my phone over the last few days:

    “Winter Storm Elliott So Far – Bitter cold and blizzard conditions have made travel miserable in some parts of the U.S. Things will only get worse.”

    and:

    “Elliot’s Impacts Spread – Vehicles are stranded, thousands have lost electricity and over 1,000 flights are canceled. More here (link).”

    My thrust – what has become of the media and, by extension, our country? Is this what they have to do to get clicks? (Yes, I know the answer). And are people such weenies now? (I also know this answer).

    They really are calling a Midwest blizzard in December something to be overly concerned about? Here in MN we got 6 more inches of snow yesterday after 8 inches last week, and it’s -11 today. The roads are fine, unless you’re entirely uninitiated to snow driving (or completely retarded behind the wheel living in the north, sorry for the use of a word, but it fits the situation).

    Are people stupid enough to think this is unusual because their phone tells them so? In my 45 years, I’m pretty sure there have always been winter storms, and yes, they produce snow. They also cause flight delays and car accidents.

    Also, when did they start naming winter storms? Who’s Elliott? Fuck Elliott.

    Either way, Merry Christmas and Season’s Greetings to all of you. Hope Elliott doesn’t swallow you whole and spit you out into the 7th ring of hell. The media sure seems to want you to think that. Grab a freakin’ shovel, it’ll be fine.

    • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

      Mango,

      you are more used to it than I am. Even memories from frigid Argentina don’t provide the experience I need preparing for a full week at 20F, 30s daytime max here in N FL.

      Back in Argie I wasn’t a farmer and lived in the big city, with mass propane from pipes, full electric, full heating. Patagonia trips were for fun, snow, back to the warm hotel.

      A couple decades in S FL haven’t prepared me for what’s ahead: frozen pipe (I laid all my pvc) spigots, irrigation lines… heating for chickens, rabbits… insulation for bees, sugar water feeders frozen… forget crops, even with row covers… hoping some mother plants, mostly trees, like lemons & mulberries will come back in March, but with a week like this, I doubt it. Plus, being the Ingall’s family out there, we rely on much of our heat from a woodstove. This 51 yr old body can only chop so much… luckily I had the foresight to dedicate a week or so to culling and chopping good oak, seasoned now, but boy… This is FL? I want my money back!

      Just kidding. It’s just a different Florida than most know. But I must sound whiny, to experienced Eskimo like you!

      Cheers and best Christmas and New Year wishes to you, too!

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 22, 2022 at 1:43 pm #

        Oh, I totally understand. It’s just…it’s December in North America. Nothing has really changed in centuries beyond mild yearly fluctuations. Sometimes the weather affects people, and it can cause problems. And I’m just ranting based on sensationalist push notifications, so please take my complaints with a grain of salt.

        My folks live in central Florida, but they don’t rely on their garden for sustenance (though they do get some nice grapefruits from their trees, and have many lovely flowers), so I wish your haul the best, Rulo.

        • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 3:28 pm #

          C’mon Man. We’re all going to freeze to death got dang it. The TV tells me so. I’m glad my peach trees aren’t in bloom this week. Good news! The days are getting longer in the frozen north. Summer is just around the corner.

      • Paula D December 22, 2022 at 5:27 pm #

        The freeze in Texas a couple of years ago killed my son’s lemon tree.

        Citrus isn’t meant to take freezes.

  92. MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 22, 2022 at 12:58 pm #

    Also, I know bad things are happening in Ukraine, but it’s not our problem. They made that, and Russia upskied the deal. So what? Russia let our government run roughshod over countless countries in the last few decades, only issuing official rebukes while doing nothing.

    My question – why are we not allowed to vote on sending endless packages of money and bombs to some country we don”t need to take care of? (rhetorical, of course…the reason is because we don’t have a say).

    Every time we go to war or support war, who gets no say? The public. Because if we did, we’d just say no. And that’s not good for business. Zelensky is treated like a celebrity in his sweatshirt. Wear a freakin’ suit. The world has changed. But I digress…perhaps I’m just getting old…

    • MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 1:23 pm #

      I think Zelensky wearing the sweats is in order to get folks to emulate him. He looks like he’s wearing prison garb. Kinda goes along with our prison mentality. Prison-looking schools, prison-looking stores, prison-looking churches, prison-looking hospitals.

      Why not just dress the part as well? We’ve seen where personal pride in dressing has gone in the past few decades: Down the drain. Sure it’s one thing to be dressed that way doing manual labor, chores, etc. but getting on a plane or going on vacation? Really? Have some pride in yourselves, people: Stop dressing like you’re in prison (even if we are).

      • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 1:29 pm #

        I’d look at Georgia, Poland, the Balkans (Serbia, Kosovo) and the Baltic statelets for further escalation scenarios.

        It’s been a big surprise, the intensity of anti Russian hatred, bordering on racial madness (the Banderistas, Azov), coming from Europe and North America.

        This can’t be good.

        • Islander December 22, 2022 at 3:22 pm #

          “the intensity of anti Russian hatred, bordering on racial madness (the Banderistas, Azov), coming from Europe and North America.”

          This was I think the real gut punch to the Russian people. Grasping the viscerality (word?), the depth and irrationality of this hatred of them. It is comparable to the hatred of and disgust with Jews, all Jews, on the part of *some* Germans during the Third Reich.

          It is why I think the Russians will see this conflict through to the end and.

          For me this hatred and the pettiness of many of the ways it is expressed is deeply embarrassing—I have a longtime correspondent in Moscow. All I can say to him is “Not all Americans are slobbering rabid Russophobes.”

          • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 4:15 pm #

            Visceral is the word, yes. It is an existential struggle for the Russians. Just like it was an existential struggle for Europe to fight nazism. Russia had its own form of evil, communism, back then, which many think, and I agree, it’s a form of nazism minus the obermensch delusion. But even so, Stalin was proven wrong thinking he had a deal with Von Ribbentrop, despite his (purged) officer corps warning him. In the end, it got mixed into a Great Patriotic War, superficially ideological, but truly of survival as a people, a culture.

            My 2¢ is that Russia being the last of the low hanging fruit in terms of plentiful, easy access fuels, the deranged hatred is stoked as a way to pulverize and Balkanize Russia into many mini-Shells and mini-BPs.

            Poland is a focus of my attention right now, as epochal grievances against both Germany and Russia make it into a wild card. Like another Catholic European nation, Ireland, Poland was brutalized, stripped and occupied for most of her history.

            The NS2 attack came out of Poland.

            War seems inevitable. Not straight out MAD, but proxy wars around Russia, escalating into unchartered waters.

          • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 4:17 pm #

            I had a pen pal in Poland for years. Goodness, those times seem quaint now, innocent. Being 10 and writing a letter about football, the beach, and the stamp collection to some unmet stranger…

            I remember the stamps: Poczta Polska

      • JohnAZ December 22, 2022 at 2:32 pm #

        Remember Castro and his Army uniform?

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 22, 2022 at 8:32 pm #

          Exactly. At least he had layers.

    • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 1:26 pm #

      “but it’s not our problem…”

      It is now, Mango.

      I notice AFB’s nearby have quadrupled training flights, incl flares and dives.

      We’re on a collision course with war. Brace for impact… could be anytime, a week or a year from now, but the stage is set and it will be very hard to walk back from this.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 22, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

        Which outlines my point…why don’t we get a say in whether or not we do this? It would probably be 80/20 not in favor when you get down to brass tacks, regardless of how many Ukraine flags people have on their Twitter/FB profiles.

        I’ll revise – “It should not be our problem.”

        • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 6:22 pm #

          I think 80% are brain flushed and will support kicking Russia’s ass if that’s what MSM and social media tell them…

          I wouldn’t count on the sanity of crowds to look beyond propaganda and into their own interests…

      • BackRowHeckler December 22, 2022 at 4:16 pm #

        War with Russia will be no walk in the park. It will be like nothing we have ever seen before.

        Paradoxically, if the Russians suddenly found themselves losing on the battlefield with NATO troops crossing into Russian territory where the Wehrmacht came thru in 1941, they would most certainly resort to tactical nuclear weapons. “Russia will never again be invaded from the West.”-VPutin. In this case, for the West & NATO, winning would be losing.

        • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 4:28 pm #

          BRH, I agree with your scenario. Except NATO doesn’t have a million man army for an Eastern front war.

          Crossing the line of tactical nukes is very likely. Both NATO & Russia-Belarus routinely train fighter pilots on launch procedures.

          The West and NATO have already lost, if you think of safety, security and standards of living for their populations in the short term, medium term.

          Covid and this unnecessary war will make many realize what they’ve taken for granted since 1945 no longer applies.

          It will not be like anything we have experienced. Fortitude will be required of all of us, to not crack up, keep working.

          • BackRowHeckler December 22, 2022 at 4:46 pm #

            Which is why it is very disturbing to hear, for example, General Ben Hodges & General Patreaus this week on Bloomberg Radio and CNN advancing the idea that the Russian Army is on its last legs and all it would take to finish off Russia is a limited intervention by NATO troops. At some point this reckless and provocative talk by (retired) high ranking officers in international media could prove disastrous.

          • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 5:27 pm #

            Those asshole expert Generals, are on the tube all day spouting their shit. How much do they get paid to push the line?

          • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 5:29 pm #

            Vasily Zaitsev would disagree.

          • SpeedyBB December 23, 2022 at 3:54 am #

            Are people still listening to General PenetrateUs? I glance over next door and there is an older and none-the-wiser Oliver North looking like Honest Abe on my neighbor’s TV. So it’s a stupid question.

            I’ve copied and saved that rant on Bonzo Reagan from the Comments section (CIA book quote) about his support for the death squads of the Central American republiquitas. The lingering Reagan-worship is no different than all those grandmas in their babushkas carrying pictures of Stalin around Red Square.

        • Night Owl December 22, 2022 at 5:44 pm #

          That it is not a walk in the park is the point. Those pushing it want chaos. They will be in their armored redoubts and bunkers in New Zealand if it goes down.

          Then they remerge and put the survivors into digital slavery.

          There are multiple threads that they want to converge in the Great Reset. War with Russia is very much wanted.

        • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 6:27 pm #

          BRH, those retired generals are vampiric and fetid. Men who have been in war are wary of starting new wars, and this upcoming war has no raison d’être than advance an agenda, as a twin pincer to the covid psyops.

          Turkey is the only NATO nation that could cover 400,000 of the million man army needed. I don’t think they will. The US? The rest? Gizmos, maybe, not troops.

        • MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 9:24 pm #

          Aren’t we already at war with Russia, using Ukraine as proxy?

          Yertle as much as said so.

      • Paula D December 22, 2022 at 5:31 pm #

        I think we’re on our way to war also, Rulo.

        I told my husband this morning that we are going to escalate to nuclear war, so I won’t bother cleaning out the gutters this year.

        • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 5:38 pm #

          Paula, clean the gutters. Next year they’ll be totally packed. My house. No gutters. 3 foot overhang. For the life of me I don’t know why anyone ever built houses without at least a 2-3 foot roof overhang. Cheap ass construction.

          • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 6:30 pm #

            I honestly don’t see all out nuclear war, Paula. But a general decline, more violence, savage little wars everywhere.

            StElmo is right, clean the gutters. Affirm your duty to the day and the future. Check the rain barrels, make sure they work.

            I have to work on gutters too and it’s true, people put roofs without overhangs, and that’s just wrong. Cheap ass construction indeed.

          • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 6:52 pm #

            And never a drop of rain on the windows or siding.

          • Paula D December 22, 2022 at 7:25 pm #

            Well, it’s 4 degrees out there now, with a howling wind blowing snow all over the place, on its way down to negative 4 tonight.

            It’ll just have to wait. My bad. I was waiting for all the leaves to fall so I wouldn’t have to do it twice, and now it’s too cold.

          • MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 9:22 pm #

            I woke up to 6 degrees here this a.m.

            However, tomorrow will be a balmy 34.

  93. MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

    All the local chain stores I have been in during the past week are back to blaring about how effective covid19 vaccines are and flu vaccines and how you should get them, and how available and free and easy it is to get them, along with a slew of lies about how they work. Way to wreck any semblance of holiday season jolliness whilst doing any xmas shopping.

    Feels like Big Brotherland any more in this country.

    And then at my work, I see the company newsletter, it’s full of wokie nutstuff that sounds pretty cultish. They have all these services they are offering, including how to do adopt or assistance with surrogacy! I am kinda horrified.

    In any case yeah we’ve gone to hell in a handbasket.

    • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 1:31 pm #

      Surreal. They are still promoting the damn thing at full volume.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 22, 2022 at 1:50 pm #

      Mary – agreed…have you listened to the radio lately? It’s unbearable. Even my 5 yr-old boy groans when a covid “public service announcement” (sponsored by Pfizer…which is anathema to the concept and legality of a PSA) comes on every break. I don’t discuss that stuff with him unless he asks. And even then I tell him that’s “house talk”, and don’t mention that at school. Times are weird.

      • MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 3:56 pm #

        Oh right I forgot, they always say “brought to you by Pfizer/Biontec”

        Right in our faces.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 22, 2022 at 1:55 pm #

      I also will not ever consent to any vaccine for him (besides the “standard ones” he had prior to 2020, back when there was some public trust in the medical/scientific community) until he’s grown and can make that decision for himself. Me? I’m done. If I come down with Hep B, so be it. Don’t trust what’s in the vial. And the nurse has no clue what’s in there either, just what it says on the box.

      • MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

        The odds he gets Hep B are miniscule to none AFAIK. Isn’t that what junkies get? Or people bitten by a macaque monkey? Sheesh.

      • Night Owl December 22, 2022 at 4:19 pm #

        Same here. Our son is never getting another vaccine of any kind while under our roof.

        • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 5:34 pm #

          NO, if the smallpox starts making the rounds I’d give my kid the shot. That’s just me though. It is a horrible disease and the vaccine works I think.

          • Night Owl December 22, 2022 at 5:40 pm #

            They are trying to convert all the shots to MRNA products now.

            Even if they did not, who knows what is in the modern stuff.

          • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 6:58 pm #

            yea NO, I guess the old stuff works. I have the mark to prove it. Of course when I got the dose Smallpox was years in the rear view mirror. 1960-65? I don’t remember..

          • Paula D December 22, 2022 at 7:29 pm #

            If smallpox makes the rounds you KNOW it’s because our overlords dug it out of storage.

            Smallpox was declared eradicated worldwide back in 1980. There hasn’t been a case since.

            Gorbachev suggested to the Evil Reagan that the US and the USSR destroy their stocks of smallpox, so that it would be impossible for it ever to show up again.

            Reagan, of course, refused.

            So it could show up. If it does, head for Fauci’s house. If we go, he should go first.

          • MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 8:04 pm #

            Oh no really you believe that?

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 22, 2022 at 8:27 pm #

            yea NO, I guess the old stuff works

            The point is “the old stuff” is not necessarily being presented anymore. Or maybe it is. Who knows, they destroyed that trust.

            8 years ago I built a deck. In the demo of the old deck I cut myself on a rusty nail at 7:30am. I went right to the hospital and got a tetanus shot. I wouldn’t do that now.

          • Night Owl December 23, 2022 at 4:24 am #

            Exactly, Mango.

      • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 7:33 pm #

        Good points all here. Now that the Covid genie is out of the bottle, how do we know that they’re not including the Covid Vaxx in every Vaxx they give you now. We don’t!

        • Q. Shtik December 23, 2022 at 12:46 am #

          Now that the Covid genie is out of the bottle, how do we know that they’re not including the Covid Vaxx in every Vaxx they give you now. We don’t! – Disaff

          ===========

          It is for the reason you state as well as my disgust with the whole Covid experience and confusion of the last three years that I have decided I will never take another vaxx of any kind. I informed my wife of this and it pisses her off and she thinks I’m another nut case like Kunstler and his cohort of commenters. I tell her she suffers from “normalcy bias” and then I have to try to explain what that is.

          • Q. Shtik December 23, 2022 at 1:05 am #

            Kunstler and his cohort of commenters – Q.

            Did ya’ll notice the excellent alliteration?

  94. Jarek December 22, 2022 at 2:47 pm #

    Barnhardt

    There are 1,400,000,000 people in China. If a respiratory virus circulates throughout the population and 1,000,000 people, almost all elderly with comorbidities, die, that is:

    1,000,000 divided by 1,400,000,000

    Which equals

    0.0007 or 0.07% fatality rate. Not seven percent, but seven hundredths of one percent.

    Or a 99.93% survival rate.

    So… a completely normal respiratory virus season.

    Remember, a stiff breeze can kill a million people in China, because there are 1.4 billion of them. Between 25,000 and 30,000 people die completely organically every day in China. 7500 people die per day in the former US by comparison.

    Just a friendly reminder that NWO propagandists are using China’s massive population coupled with the inability of Boobus Effiminatus Americanus to do simple arithmetic to attempt a reboot of the past three years of house arrest and economic attrition, with an eye towards China’s “zero Covid” concentration camp and financial blocking paradigm.

    Because 1 million divided by 1.4 billion = 0.0007, aka a normal seasonal respiratory virus.

    Jarek: Will the coming “viral catastrophe” in China be used an excuse not to send us the drugs we need? They make most of them! What genius got us into this situation?

    I mentioned this once in class (not drugs, but things in general), and the Professor was a bit miffed, since the ruling nonsense was that countries that trade together don’t go to war with each other. But good fellow that he was, he reluctantly admitted I had a point.

    • Q. Shtik December 22, 2022 at 4:23 pm #

      I mentioned this once in class (not drugs, but things in general), and the Professor was a bit miffed – Jarek

      ============

      I’ll bet you were a pistol in class.

      I was a bit of a pistol myself. In freshman poetry class (St Joe’s College) I took exception to an impossible description… the poet had mentioned a star being held between the nether tips of a crescent moon… and the professor (Dr. George) said “Shtik (not my real name but he referred to me by my last name), are you trying to sand bag this class?”

      Years later I worked for the Sperry & Hutchinson Company (S&H Green Stamps). I had been promoted from a traveling auditor position (in which I spent 4 years on the road) to a DOM (District Operations Manager) in which I oversaw the operation of 21 Redemption Centers. These were essentially retail stores loaded with all sorts of merchandise that customers would pay for with their accumulated books of Green Stamps. All these stores had a female store manager, a number of female store clerks, and one male stockman. I held this position for 9 years. I was admitted to Rutgers Grad School which I attended in evenings for 4 years (S&H paid my tuition).

      I was in a class (I forget the subject) and a heated discussion developed. With my vast experience in dealing with women (as a male supervisor over female employees) I made some remark which to my mind was entirely innocuous but the female contingent of the class’s students literally exploded out of their seats with extreme umbrage. This all happened some 45-46 years ago so I totally forget whatever it was I said that these young ladies found so offensive. It was probably something like me saying “You must understand, women are vastly different than men and it is not just the plumbing.” The prof had to call for order in the classroom.

      BTW, I was the oldest student in the class and had far more actual working experience than any of the others.

      • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 4:37 pm #

        Those seem like good jobs for women that wanted (not needed) to work. Those jobs have been disappearing, for men and women both, and now both sexes need to work longer for less pay and benefits.

        You comment in that Rutgers classroom, the reactions it caused, is probably why both the esteemed host and the peanut gallery should stay away from that general direction.

        Let’s just say men and women are largely the same, in that there’s the good, the bad, and the ugly in both. The plumbing is different, as you probably said, as well. And if we dig down, both men and women find we incorporate a Yang of “other” to the Yin of “me” – not just homosexuals, men who like to knit and women that drive bulldozers exist and prove assumptions and theories clumsy.

      • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 5:49 pm #

        “customers would pay for with their accumulated books of Green Stamps”

        Jumping Jehoshaphat’s how old are you?

        • MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 10:07 pm #

          I’m 59 and I remember buying stuff with those.

        • Q. Shtik December 23, 2022 at 12:05 am #

          Jumping Jehoshaphat’s how old are you? – stelmo

          =========

          I assume that question is for me. I just turned 82 in November.

      • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 7:28 pm #

        A Ruckers degree on Green Stamps. First I’ve heard of such a thing, but leave it to Q. to be the first!

        I had a similar experience in a JuCo Psych I class in round about the year 2000, regarding corporeal punishment involving my girlfriend at the time who happened to have 3 spoiled brats, ages 2, 6, and 10. Needless to say, she was vehemently con on the subject (as was the woman teacher), while I merely suggested that it might have its uses from time to time. A near brouhaha erupted in the class over the subject and I broke up with my GF a month or two later. It was for the best all around, as I wanted to strangle all of her spawn before it was done.

    • messianicdruid December 22, 2022 at 9:00 pm #

      Jarek “mentioned this once in class (not drugs, but things in general), and the Professor was a bit miffed, since the ruling nonsense was that countries that trade together don’t go to war with each other.”

      Trade with your enemies, give gifts to your friends.

      Did you not see the beautiful autographed Ukrainian flag we were given?

  95. Islander December 22, 2022 at 3:13 pm #

    Another Died Suddenly:

    httpX://www.zerohedge.com/markets/guggenheim-cio-scott-minerd-has-died

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    • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 7:21 pm #

      Eulogy: He was a well-connected greedy fucker to the last, whose insider trading connections made him and us all a ton of money. Too bad he’s can’t take it with him, but all the better for us.

  96. Jarek December 22, 2022 at 3:14 pm #

    The Master uses this brief moment of freedom on twitter to preach to the masses of suffering humanity, both male and female, men and womb men.

    Following a massive reaction to a tweet I made about older women not being attractive, I decided it was time to give the sex talk to Twitter.

    They were very shocked.

    But someone had to do it.

    Point #1: what is sex and why do people get horny?

    Sex is a way to reproduce for the majority of lifeforms.

    The drive for sex is a biological imperative, given that without the drive for sex, people would not commit sex, and the species would stop existing.

    — Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) December 18, 2022

    The biological imperative drives people not to have random sex, but to have the most reproductively beneficial sex possible.

    This applies to both men and women, and the underlying subconscious drive determines who they are attracted to.

    — Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) December 18, 2022

    The preference for younger women does not differ across cultures, because it is biologically determined.

    The reason that clear, tight skin on the face is attractive is that it indicates youthfulness. The older a woman gets, the less attractive her face becomes. pic.twitter.com/tzXcg3NfMQ

    — Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) December 18, 2022

    In my personal view, it is impossible to pass moral judgement on men for having been born with biological reproductive drives. Claiming that men who will admit to preferring younger women are somehow immoral is an attack on honesty.

    — Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) December 18, 2022

    Furthermore, we cannot pass judgement on women, who universally prefer men with high social status.

    The number one marker of men’s status in modern society is money. pic.twitter.com/I9kBjcYSJ7

    — Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) December 18, 2022

    Among both sexes, you have people trying to deny these facts.

    Women insist that they maintain sexual attractiveness after their fertility begins to wane.

    Meanwhile, men imagine that if they are nice, women will not take note of their poverty.

    Neither is real.

    — Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) December 18, 2022

    In fact, sex is about reproduction.

    You will find this to be widely understood in third world countries, where women do not go around imagining that men will still be interested in them when they hit 30.

    Our disconnection from the natural order has had consequences.

    — Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) December 18, 2022

    However:

    Most men are always going to prefer young women, and most women are always going to prefer high status men.

    No one can morally judge anyone over these drives which are completely outside of our control.

    — Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) December 18, 2022

    On the whole, society would be much better off if people did not deny basic biology. It may feel good to imagine things are different than they are, but your feelings do not change reality.

    — Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) December 18, 2022

    Jarek: Older women aren’t attractive! What a revolutionary message. Who is attractive? Young women. Even ephebes or teenagers? Yes, as our own history and culture show. Are they ready to be wives and mothers? Duh. Not the way they are raised now. But in other times and places, yes, of course.

    If things are good, there’s no reason to rush this process and have young teens marrying. But things got so good, we got decadent and now women at the brink of menopause are trying to find husbands to have children. Which is healthier? The old way. Without crisis, we created even worse crisis (what is the plural?) for ourselves.

    This Kali Yuga, this reign of lies! Anglin is a Warrior of the Light against them.

    • K-Chien December 22, 2022 at 3:31 pm #

      All well and good Jareck, but for you, I think you should take what you can get.

      Old, young or none. Door number two does not have a woman for you. So what you gonna do?

    • Q. Shtik December 22, 2022 at 5:23 pm #

      crisis (what is the plural?) – Jar

      ==========

      It’s crises.

      I interface with CFN on a computer but right next to it I have my cell phone and on its screen is a Google block in which I can either type or speak questions. So I touched the little microphone on the right side of the Google block. A new screen appeared with the word “listening” and it made a sound prompt. I held the phone close to my mouth (probably closer than actually necessary) and asked “the plural of crisis?” Google answered with a brief paragraph giving the answer (including an example sentence) in both written and audible form.

      But, moving on…….

      Regarding your comment, I agree with everything Anglin has to say with the exception of “The biological imperative drives people not to have random sex, but to have the most reproductively beneficial sex possible.”

      One would have to be blind not to recognize that many sex acts, possibly most, are just for fun and in fact conception is to be avoided at all cost.

    • TPTB-USA December 22, 2022 at 6:31 pm #

      “The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. ” – Aishwarya Rai

      **

      A young stud thinks with his d***, while a wise man thinks with his brain.

      • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 7:01 pm #

        says you

        • TPTB-USA December 23, 2022 at 10:50 am #

          A bud can turn into a spectacular flower. The secret ingredient is care.

      • MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 8:07 pm #

        I think that’s true for people as a whole.

        Of course, old people who are assholes are ugly as are young people who are assholes.

      • MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 8:12 pm #

        And, as if old men are some aesthetic prize! Puuhhhhhleeeeeze.

    • MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 8:11 pm #

      We keep catching Jarek showing his superficial and skin-deep side.

      It’s hilarious.

      Worships celebrities, athletes and billionaires, drools over teenage (or younger) girls, I am betting that your God must be disgusted with you as surely many at CFN are.

  97. tucsonspur December 22, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

    They look in my mirror and see themselves as the sheep they really are. Putin loving cowards who won’t fight against their own totalitarian regime, who won’t go down and fight at the border to stop the invasion but would rather let Putin do their fighting for them. Go Putin, go kill those Ukrainian bastards!

    They have let their nation go, and now want Putin to get it back for them by slaughtering Ukrainians and supposedly stopping globalism, but they won’t fight here, they won’t fight there, and they won’t fight anywhere. Yes, there is no doubt about it, they have been defeated and cry out for blood, anybody’s blood but their own.

    Oh no numbskull, no need to ask what I’m doing, the answer is, shamefully, also not much, except demonstrating as I did concerning Ashli Babbitt’s murder for example, but that just isn’t enough. I may be one of the sheep, but I’ll never want somebody else to do my fighting for me, to let other people die because of my weakness.

    So, join Putin’s phalanx but don’t dare still be pusillanimous, don’t let him find out who you really are, show courage from your keyboard, show bravery from the safety, the bastion of your home. At least that way you’ll most likely survive, for whatever it’s worth.

    • Night Owl December 22, 2022 at 4:15 pm #

      Flaccid.

      • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 4:50 pm #

        I love it! The poor bastard’s gonna be wound up for weeks now. I recall the Turd wishing to do battle in a knife fight with Sir Vlad. Maybe his Christmas wish will come true, in his dreams at least. Meanwhile, the poor bastards in Ukraine will get crushed for real due to their leader’s shameless selling out to western corporate capitalist interests who couldn’t give a fuck less about Ukrainians, other than for stealing them blind. That’s a shame, but the smart one’s have already gotten out back to Russia. The really stupid one’s might be holed up down in Tucson with the Turd.

        • tucsonspur December 23, 2022 at 3:08 am #

          No, you don’t love it, you’re just acting like you do. It’s typical behavior from one who’s been hurt.

          If I have the time, I’m going to lacerate you, fustigate you with a certain inexplicable joy that will simply crush your macho demeanor. Verbally, that is.

          Night gnat simply became a battered hockey puck. Hope you can do better.

          • Night Owl December 23, 2022 at 4:19 am #

            You can barely string a sentence together, Slur.

    • Woodchuck December 22, 2022 at 6:00 pm #

      Uh, Ukraine isn’t a nation, never has been, and never will be. Why not open a history book sometime instead of watching tv?

      • tucsonspur December 23, 2022 at 2:59 am #

        ‘The frontlines of the frozen conflict between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists are criss-crossing the plains of the Donets Basin, but they are also running right through the region’s past. Russia’s incursions into Ukraine have enjoyed tremendous support at home and, in some quarters, abroad. Many have been slow to denounce them – or quick to embrace them – out of a conviction that the Kremlin has history on its side; that Ukraine has never been a ‘real’ country in its own right and that its south-eastern territories in particular are primordial Russian lands.

        Russia’s political top brass, including Vladimir Putin himself, appear to subscribe to this belief as well, and by all appearances it has directly informed their policy towards Ukraine. But as much as these assumptions may resonate with ordinary Russians, as well as some foreign leaders, a glance into Ukrainian history reveals that they are based on a dangerously distorted reading of the past. Ultimately, by redrawing borders and rewriting history the Kremlin is unlikely to have done itself a favour. Through its intervention in Ukraine it has galvanised most Ukrainians in their aversion to Russia and has thereby done a great deal to demarcate the perceived differences between Ukrainians and Russians more clearly than ever before.’

        Much more of this if you care to look.

        ‘Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring’

    • Rulo Deschamps December 22, 2022 at 6:06 pm #

      ts, I dunno about your rant, didn’t understand it.

      There’s many dimensions the clash. Apparently one is that Russia still grows a lot of food and GMO’s are not allowed there. Monsanto corp tried to establish a foothold there but the Russkis were smart enough at that time (after being raped financially in the 90s) to assert themselves and refuse a transnational corp to own the seed, own the food.

      Ukraine, since the US sponsored 2014 coup, has welcomed this brutal form of agriculture.

      So there’s that. There’s the biolabs, too, gain of function etc.

      There’s Ukr as a hub for $ laundering, human trafficking. There’s US & NATO arms showing up in black markets everywhere.

      Then there’s an American family, the Bidens, and their interest in that godforsaken place, the birthplace in fact of the Russian nation, a petulant child that decided to throw a tantrum and change his her pronouns.

      Which was fine with Russia, except: no nukes, no NATO on my doorsteps. Neutral state. The West lied and lied, pushed and pushed, and here we are…

      • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 7:44 pm #

        He’s venting pretentiously. Just another not-so-starving social libtard artist. There’s quite a few of those around these days. It’s a cottage industry among the idle rich.

        • tucsonspur December 23, 2022 at 2:50 am #

          I’m ‘an obscure hobo, bumming a ride on the omnibus of art.’

          Libtard. Jeez, how original.

          Why are you so unartistic and creatively shallow? Might as well join the army.

          • MaryQueen December 23, 2022 at 9:32 am #

            What an utter snob.

      • MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 9:02 pm #

        His rant is pretty delusional, that’s why you didn’t understand it.

        At least he left out the ass play he usually likes to gratuitously include, we can be thankful for that.

        • tucsonspur December 23, 2022 at 2:42 am #

          Putin still giving you the shaft? Does he put a bag over your face?

          • MaryQueen December 23, 2022 at 9:32 am #

            Maturity level of a 13 year old boy on full display.

            As Night Owl said, “flaccid.”

  98. TPTB-USA December 22, 2022 at 7:02 pm #

    Yesterday USDRUB was up 3 to 4%, but today it is down 6.2% and still looks to be searching for support.

    Does the saying “money talks, and BS walks” apply?

    Perhaps nukes are back on the table?

    I keep thinking that Xi told Putin that he could do whatever he wanted, as long as it didn’t muck-up Xi’s plans.

    • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 7:11 pm #

      Who likes fried rice?

    • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 7:15 pm #

      Nukes – they’re what’s for dinner.

  99. stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 7:52 pm #

    I want a baby-shit green tee shirt for Christmas.Preferably unwashed for 8 months. Maybe “Joe Biden” will put one in my stocking for $105,000,000,000.00 dollars.

    • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 8:03 pm #

      New Omnibus bill. $1,700,000,000,000.00 green dollars. A dolllar bill costs 7.7 cents to print. If they actually printed the money it would cost almost 14 billion dollars.. That’s $14,000,000,000.00 in paper and ink. Of course it’s all just 0’s and 1’s of digital make believe.4-500 pages of bullshit that nobody ever read . OMFG (Q pay attention) we are fucking crazy!

      • stelmosfire December 22, 2022 at 8:42 pm #

        A US dollar weighs 1 gram. The omnibus bill that Congress will pass this week is for 1.7 Trillion dollars. That is over 18,000 lbs of 100 dollar bills. How the heck is the Z-Man gonna move that kind of cash? Of course he’s only in line for $85,000,000,000.00. A US greenback is .0043 thick. That’s a stack of $100’s 1200 miles thick. My wallets not that big

        • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 8:54 pm #

          That’s why he’s the Z-Man and you and I are just us. Personally, I don’t know what I’d do with that kind of cash anyway. Maybe insulate my ancient walls with it? I suppose it would be better than what I’ve got.

        • SpeedyBB December 22, 2022 at 10:19 pm #

          Elmo et al,

          When I first began to mosey around East Asia, in the 1960s, the very idea that any smart rich crook would keep any currency except greenbacks for family safety and security was absurd. Even in the 1980s, when it should have been clear to the well-to-do in this part of the planet that the dollar was doomed, you could not convince them otherwise.

          I was thus impressed by this article, just appearing in the Singapore press (think: Izvestia), signaling a New Nervousness on the part of the movers-and-shakers out here:

          httxx://www.straitstimes.com/business/suddenly-everyone-is-hunting-for-alternatives-to-the-us-dollar?utm_source=emarsys&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ST_Newsletter_AM&utm_term=Suddenly+everyone+is+hunting+for+alternatives+to+the+US+dollar+&utm_content=23%2F12%2F2022

          (Swap xx for ps, as usual)

          Clearly, no currency is safe any longer for the floating crap game of global players. It’s kind of sad in a way (cue tiny violins) but even physical gold can and will be confiscated by desperate regimes in a pinch.

      • benr December 23, 2022 at 8:34 am #

        400-500 PAGES!

        4500 pages no one bothered to read.
        Out of control does not even begin to describe what has been going on and getting worse every year.

  100. MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 8:56 pm #

    McConnell says that the Republicans’ number one priority right now is Ukraine defeating Russia. I don’t tend to watch TV (someone sent this to me) so I hadn’t realized how out of control delusional it had gotten. Of course, it’s laughable that Ukraine could do that, unless it was a proxy war via US, and then still funny, because the US hasn’t won any proxy wars that I’m aware of.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9OAj-WcK44

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    • Disaffected December 22, 2022 at 9:12 pm #

      So much for the GOP riding in to save the day in 2024, eh? On the plus side, our very own Tucson Turd will be encouraged to continue on with his current derangement, so thank God for that at least.

      Excuse me now while I return to Dr. Strangelove and that epic Slim Pickens ending.

      YeeeeHaaaaw! YeeeeHaaaaw! YeeeeHaaaaw!

      • MaryQueen December 22, 2022 at 9:20 pm #

        Hahahahaha!

        No end to the tucsonturds’ delusions, that’s for sure.

      • tucsonspur December 23, 2022 at 2:39 am #

        Really got you on the hand holding, didn’t I? I can tell by your response.

        I can understand MQ and Paula D wanting the Russian’s rod, but you too? Jeez.

        I understand, you have no choice but to stand with the gang. Weak.

        • Night Owl December 23, 2022 at 4:22 am #

          More cock talk from the Slur.

          I am beginning to understand his love of the gay Ukranian dancer.

          • MaryQueen December 23, 2022 at 9:34 am #

            I am willing to bet that he has a pesky addiction to PornHub, and Zelensky’s old gay romps on stage.

  101. BackRowHeckler December 23, 2022 at 1:42 am #

    The CO of Seal Team 1 found dead in his home, cause of death not revealed. Could be a suicide, could be an OD, could be something else.

  102. tucsonspur December 23, 2022 at 2:30 am #

    Thanks for the reasonable response, Rulo. Looks like I really rattled some cages, singed some nerves, got the usual gang to respond in expected fashion.

    Saying it was a US sponsored coup is oversimplifying it quite a bit. The US took advantage of the people’s growing unrest and dissatisfaction with the about face by Yanukovych on the EU and the West. Yanukovych was going to be out no matter what, and the US, with McCain and Nuland among others seized the opportunity to put in a candidate favorable to the West.

    The point of my rant was to illustrate the lack of action or meaningful resistance, the lack of fight here at home against the near totalitarian regime now in power. I’m saying that Putin lovers here are fighting only by proxy, letting Putin do it for them. Why aren’t they at the border, stopping the invasion?

    Have any of them been demonstrating, doing anything at all? Probably not. Hardly a mention of the terrible plight of the Ukrainian people.

    The history of Ukraine is a complicated one and Putin’s historical claim to it is ambiguous at best.

    Too much more to go into right now.

    • BackRowHeckler December 23, 2022 at 4:00 am #

      What are you doing up so early TS, or should I say so late?

      We got a raging wind/rain storm going here — I’m worried about one of the giant pine trees in the back falling on my neighbor’s house. That’s why I’m up.

    • Night Owl December 23, 2022 at 4:21 am #

      By all means, go into it.

      My popcorn is ready.

    • SoftStarLight December 23, 2022 at 5:24 am #

      I think you made a really good point. Why exactly aren’t at least a few million Americans still patriotic enough to determine to defend the border themselves? Well it seems clear to me that the American people are a conquered, defeated, occupied, and enslaved people. And the United States corporate entity is a failed state/corporation which is in late stage collapse. It is now being thoroughly looted and pillaged with millions of alien invaders pouring in. I feel bad for the people of Ukraine who are caught in the middle. But I like the Russians. The momentum and mojo is with them. Being pro-Ukrainian would be something like being an advocate for Lockheed Martin or Raytheon or some other zionist terrorism operation. Being pro-Ukrainian would be like being an advocate for the globalists money laundering operations. But anyhow, I still understand what you are saying and am so sorry you’ve had to go through so much to say it. But you’ll make it. Like you always do 🙂

  103. stelmosfire December 23, 2022 at 6:22 am #

    Son of a bitch, the wind turbine just got torn off the roof. No heat for me today.

    • stelmosfire December 23, 2022 at 6:25 am #

      Last I saw the thing it was headed for the next county. Woodstove still works though. Gotta love the old tried and true.

  104. stelmosfire December 23, 2022 at 7:22 am #

    Wizards in Washington set to print 1.7 TRILLION bucks!! $1,700,000,000,000.00 That’s equal to 31,250 TONS! Yes TONS! of gold. Kinda makes Montezuma or Tutankhamun look like a paupers.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 23, 2022 at 8:28 am #

      I’m sure it will be spent properly. No worries! Trust the system.

  105. MrMangoOnMyShoulder December 23, 2022 at 8:27 am #

    Good Lord, are people really this dumb?

    twitter.com/CPHO_Canada/status/1605676994817056787

    Clearly many are not, if you scroll the comments…but they’re targeting those who are too young to critically think and push back. Shameful. Some may say it’s just a very lame attempt at “promoting public health”, but I’m going with “There is a special place in hell…”

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    • MaryQueen December 23, 2022 at 9:37 am #

      She’s a despicable human being, if she even is one. One of the top WEF ghouls. Glad to see sensible (if heartbreaking) comments.

  106. BackRowHeckler December 23, 2022 at 9:01 am #

    They don’t even bother printing currency anymore, it just pixels on a screen, equally worthless & inflationary.

    The good news is that there is a few million $$$ in the bill for the Trans Community, provided to help schools out in their effort to launch little ones on their glorious ‘Trans Journey’, just a little seed money to proselytize to kindergartners and provide initial hormone therapy and affirmative counseling — get the ball rolling so to speak. After that, Pharmaceutical Companies, teacher’s unions, and the Office of Trans Equity in Red States will take it from there.

    • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 10:37 am #

      You got it! It’s pretty amazing what the Woke Dems have been able to pull off in just a couple of short years. Worst is still to come, as we the little people try to fight the leviathan Trans Agenda that is now instituted everywhere.

  107. AlD666 December 26, 2022 at 12:36 pm #

    I just signed up for your blog. I’m a long admirer of The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere and much of your fiction. While I enjoy your provocations on your blog, I’m surprised that you’ve apparently swallowed a gallon of the Kool Aid. I’m assuming it’s a way to pay the bills.

    I don’t think either side is always right or wrong. What’s needed is discrimination and discernment. Otherwise, taking somebody’s rant seriously isn’t in the cards for me. Rave on, my man, it’s entertaining. But it’s not convincing. This particular rant also feels misogynistic.

    Vaccine denial is comic, yes, but can also be deadly. The insurrection wasn’t comic because people were killed. Trump’s taped conversation with the Georgia Secretary of State wasn’t comic because he suborned fraud. He broke his vow to protect the Constitution. As a fiction writer, you’ve obviously put your powers of imaginative penetration on hold unless bitterness and resentment have poisoned your circuitry because the lockdown shut you down and campuses seldom invite you to speak anymore.

    If that’s the case, I sympathize. I feel the same sometimes, but feeding red, tainted meat (from either side) to make dogs mad is counter-productive, isn’t it? Besides, your bitterness is misplaced; you have a platform much wider and deeper than most of us get. You’re influential and, in your books, very good company. We need to take back our country from both neoliberals and the far right. It feels righteous to toss red meat into a cage but the result is baloney.

    We need people like you to keep us all on our toes as we do our best to work towards progress for the sake of all those who will survive us. Language makes it possible for us to work together to do the greatest good for the largest number of sapiens. Isn’t that the goal?

    I hate to say it, but I don’t see how your rants contribute to the cause. I hope you can find your way back from whatever Cormac McCarthy dystopia you’ve fallen into. We need you to speak truth to power.

    • MaryQueen December 29, 2022 at 10:35 am #

      Hilarious, even put 666 in your name.

      Fitting!

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