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     What to make of this mugshot? Serious as a heart attack? I’d hate to be you on that fateful day? Table turner? Energy shift? Game on? Daddy’s in da house? Good career move? You can run but you can’t hide? Please, Br’er Fox, don’t fling me in that-there briar patch…!

     Good luck trying this case, DA Fani Willis. And by all means roll the TV cameras in the courtroom. You are about to supplant the Scopes trial of 1925 as the most notoriously ridiculous piece of legal work in US history. That one, over in Tennessee, was called “the Monkey Trial” when a high school teacher named John Scopes was charged with teaching the theory of evolution in his biology class. It got the national news spotlight for the duration. The state enlisted three-time Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan as a special prosecutor. Poor Bryan, famously sweating in the southern July heat, was made a fool of by Chicago lawyer for the defense Clarence Darrow. Bryan died of a stroke days after the conclusion of the trial. It also killed what remained of his reputation.

     This week, DA Willis staged the circus parade of bookings, forcing the large cast of indictees — most of them attorneys for Mr. Trump — to submit to the finger-printing and mugshot ceremony in the county jail, in case any of them had thoughts of decamping to Uruguay. The cable news peanut gallery went berserk with glee at the humiliation of election denial celebrities Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell especially. On Thursday, attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who advised Georgia GOP officials on the process of assembling alternate electors in the case of election fraud under Georgia law, demanded a speedy trial.

     Under Georgia’s speedy trial law, Mr. Chesebro’s trial would have to take place this fall. (Such are the guiles of the law.) The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper called it, “an aggressive filing.” Ms. Willis had hoped to try all 19 defendants together during the 2024 presidential primary season, to support her RICO charges. Meanwhile, three other defendants, including former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, filed to have their cases removed to the federal court, in so far as the actions they are accused of taking happened while they worked in the service of the US government. Mr. Meadows is accused of seeking by email to get the phone number of a Pennsylvania election official.

     Ms. Willis’s case hinges on a number of novel propositions. First, that it is somehow against the law to object to the outcome of an election. And second, that the process for relief in such a case, as provided in Georgia’s election contest law and the US Electoral Count Act of 1887, does not apply to Mr. Trump and his lawyers. Anyone who intends to challenge the outcome must necessarily assemble a panel of alternate electors if state officials cannot certify the election properly and in good faith. Ms. Willis refers to these erroneously as “fake electors.” Mr. Trump and his co-defendants will necessarily have to present evidence that the Georgia presidential election of 2020 was not certified properly or in good faith.

      Will the defendants be allowed to present evidence of serious irregularities in the 2020 Georgia election results? If not, would that not be grounds for dismissal. So far, Democrats in charge of the machinery of law all over the country have skated on mere assertions that the 2020 election was fair. In Georgia, none of the principals involved in the dispute have been subject to cross-examination, the best instrument for truth-finding in the American legal system. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Sec’y of State Brad Raffensperger may not be so hot for an airing of what actually went on Nov 3, 2020 and the days after, especially the validity of over 100,000 mail-in ballots in a state where “Joe Biden’s” margin of victory was a mere 11,799 votes.

       Mr. Trump seems to be thriving under the tribulation of four court cases brought against him as he runs for election in 2024. Each new set of charges boosts his poll numbers. It helps him hugely that the cases are transparently idiotic and mendacious. If he is initially convicted in any of them, he can still run for president and be elected, even if he’s jailed — as Eugene Debs did in 1920 getting 913,693 votes running on the Socialist Party from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, where he was jailed under the 1917 Espionage Act for speaking out against America’s entry into the First World War.

     The Party of Chaos is running scared. Everybody knows that “Joe Biden” can’t possibly run for another term and yet the public debate is so grotesquely disabled that nobody will talk about it. Most particularly, they will not talk about who might take his place. All they are really demonstrating with this barrage of prosecutions against their chief adversary is how broken, craven, and degenerate the party is, and what a menace it is, as they like to say, to our democracy.


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948 Responses to “Campaign Photo”

  1. RaymondR August 25, 2023 at 9:46 am #

    I expect that Pres. Trump’s mug shot will end up on T shirts, he’ll make a fortune selling them

    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 11:53 am #

      Will he have the rights, though? I would imagine the state or county would.

      • Uncle Bob August 26, 2023 at 5:51 pm #

        It’s probably considered public domain for the purposes of trademarks.

    • Hereward the Woke August 25, 2023 at 11:56 am #

      Yep. Letting him do that photo was akin to HRC’s “deplorable” comments. A great unifier for Red America.

    • Q. Shtik August 25, 2023 at 12:16 pm #

      What ever happened to the old fashion mug shots where there is one full frontal and one in profile?

      • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 12:26 pm #

        I like it when they have to hold that little card in front of them with their inmate numbers/letters on it. Our American legal system is a joke, there is no way I take it seriously any more.

        • Cankerpuss August 25, 2023 at 1:21 pm #

          I wish Mr. Trump would have extended his right arm and lifted his big middle finger, pointed it at the camera and told the Georgia D.A. “Fuck you, you deserve what you are doing to yourselves, I’m outta here.” Just as he boarded a plane and flew to his private island where he will spend the rest of his life in lavish comfort as he watches the USA burn from its insanity.

          I’m actually disappointed that he complied and got the mug shot. Wasn’t it Andrew Jackson who told the Supreme Court to go enforce their own judgments? Andrew Jackson, love him or hate him, the dude was one tough, mean SOB. Part of me admires that toxic masculinity. I wish Trump would have done the same to these Democrat whores in the justice department.

          America is lost. When the majority of the people no longer trust their Government the Government no longer has the authority of the people. When Governments lose authority they become invalid and then resort to force, fear and coercion to get the people to obey. When this happens, ultimately, the people rise up and dispose of the remnants of that Government.

          This is a dangerous time. Our Government is more dangerous now than ever as it tries desperately to maintain its power. I give it another decade and then it will be done.

          • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 1:49 pm #

            Exactly, I don’t trust the government, I don’t want the government in my life, they can all just go fuck themselves to high hell. The government does not have the best interests of its citizenry in their heart. Why should I care about, respect, or obey an entity like that?

          • Anthea August 25, 2023 at 3:11 pm #

            We’re past the point where a majority of people (let’s say 51%) don’t trust the government or even view it’s authority is unlawful. The other 49% are on the payroll.

            What happens when the money becomes worthless?

            That’s a difficult question to answer–mainly because most will go looking for someone else to pay them. When you start speculating on who that might be, some of the possibilities are a little unsettling. It could be any number of foreign powers, or it could be drug gangs seeking to create little feudal fiefdoms. Or it could be the local elites in your rural county–promising the local cops a nice living as enforcers of their very own little feudal fiefdoms.

            I guess I’m assuming that the demise of the dollar also means the demise of the federal government, thus creating a power vacuum–which will certainly be filled.

          • ThorsHammer August 25, 2023 at 10:28 pm #

            I know it is no longer of interest to the domesticated public because it is from last weeks news cycle, but there are some very interesting photos that have emerged from the Lahina fire storm.

            Barricades on the one paved road leading out of the town, set up to prevent desperate citizens from fleeing.

            Parking lots with all the cars melted into puddles with the glass reduced to a lump. A few feet away palm trees standing with their leaves still green and intact.

            Blue cars sitting untouched amid a sea of other melted cars.

            Can anyone suggest a law of physics that would explain how this is possible? Apart from laser weapons that can be programed to selectively ignore the wave lengths of certain colors.

            Move along now— nothing to see here.

          • benr August 26, 2023 at 8:40 am #

            “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” (Goethe)

            “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.” (Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, California Medical School, 1961)
            That pharmacological method…Reefer madness.

          • Grandpa August 27, 2023 at 6:13 pm #

            A decade, Cank? You are one wild-eyed optimist… “We” won’t make it nearly that long…

    • elysianfield August 25, 2023 at 12:19 pm #

      …best pic I’ve ever seen of Trump.

    • Night Owl August 25, 2023 at 3:24 pm #

      IDK. I respect what he is doing, ofc, but the mugshot look is literally “Blue Steel” from Zoolander.

      The cringe. It is strong.

      • elysianfield August 25, 2023 at 5:15 pm #

        Owl,
        On this we can disagree. The mug shot looks…almost Churchillian.
        I see nothing but resolve, rage, contempt, and power.

        • Night Owl August 25, 2023 at 5:50 pm #

          Churchillian?

          Ok.

      • kendar667 August 25, 2023 at 6:22 pm #

        Whether you see Churchill or Zoolander in it, one thing is certain, that mugshot is literally perfect for the vast majority of Trump supporters. The meme will be epic, probably the biggest of all time. I can already see the flags, T-Shirts, coffee cups, bumper stickers etc. with various in-your-face slogans. What a giant mistake the Blob just made with that one. They can’t be that stupid can they?

        • Night Owl August 25, 2023 at 7:05 pm #

          Well, I agree there.

    • pyrrhus August 25, 2023 at 6:29 pm #

      Already is….

  2. mary.m August 25, 2023 at 9:50 am #

    What goes around, comes around.

    Looking forward to seeing Quid Pro Joe indicted.

    • Uncle Bob August 25, 2023 at 9:58 am #

      He’ll have every right and privilege afforded to every defendant at his disposal; but cf. Trump, or in the future any other defendant the Uniparty wants go destroy, as I posted below.

    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 11:54 am #

      Sure. We can be just like the banana republics who have revolving leaders jailed, assassinated, etc. in a constant timeline of stupid.

      • Uncle Bob August 25, 2023 at 12:10 pm #

        That’s what the migrants are used to anyway, so we may as well make them feel at home.

    • FGB3 August 25, 2023 at 12:02 pm #

      I look forward to seeing if there is still a Law of the Land in America.

      • Uncle Bob August 25, 2023 at 12:10 pm #

        There isn’t, unless you’re one of the anointed.

      • Ron Anselmo August 25, 2023 at 12:13 pm #

        If? You’re kidding, right?

    • Cankerpuss August 25, 2023 at 1:24 pm #

      And who will indict him? The Republicans? That is laughable. After everything that sleeze ball Biden has done the Republicans in Congress can’t even muster up a shame impeachment trial. No, there will be no quid pro quo. Joe will disappear to his basement just like Tony Fauci did to live out his retirement with his ill-gotten millions. Democrats are above law. Period.

      • Hereward the Woke August 26, 2023 at 8:28 am #

        The GOP will write a strongly-worded letters. Maybe even with exclamation marks. They are useless traitors.

    • UN OUT OF USA August 25, 2023 at 6:48 pm #

      mary.m that’s a nice wish but it will never happen. The Republicans don’t have the stones for it. They simply talk tough and then do nothing. Again and again.

  3. Uncle Bob August 25, 2023 at 9:56 am #

    One of the things the media haven’t mentioned in their breathless agitprop, er news coverage is that, by naming Giuliani et al as defendants, every conversation between Trump and his lawyers becomes evidence that isn’t protected by attorney-client privilege. Think of the brazenness of that: Another human right is being removed by the “Party of Human Rights” in order to get Trump. If successful, nobody will have attorney-client privilege unless TPTB decide to grant it to him or her. Isn’t that great?

    • Uncle Bob August 25, 2023 at 10:10 am #

      I forgot to mention, how do Trump and his co-defendants obtain legal counsel if *their* conversations with the defendants might be used against them? Many firms have already backed away from Trump because of threats against them; won’t this cause a stampede away from him? All this is caused by the same people who holler all day long about how government attorneys shaft defendants by denying them due process and otherwise attacking their rights. Ironic? Yes. Hypocritical? Absolutely. But it’s also, in my opinion, a way for them to teach everyone that they’re “avenging” certain “wrongs” against protected classes by our “evil” culture: go along with the Satanic Left, or you will pay.

      • oldandtired August 25, 2023 at 12:30 pm #

        “ Many firms have already backed away from Trump because of threats against them”

        Uncle Bob, I was not aware of this. Who has made the threats? Is this a generally know truth?

        • Uncle Bob August 26, 2023 at 8:33 pm #

          It’s been well-known in DC ever since Trump started having legal problems thanks to Lawfare machinations. Several firms were hired by Trump to defend him in the impeachment trials as well as the election imbroglio, only to bail when they were threatened with lawsuits and complaints to various state bar associations unless they quit. They get away with it because they run the bar associations, and because our propaganda ministry refuses to tell the truth.

    • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 6:19 pm #

      And most of the lemmings don’t even see it.

      • kendar667 August 25, 2023 at 11:02 pm #

        And that’s really the point. Those that see things with a critical eye and those that don’t or are incapable of it. There are different ways of describing it, red pill blue pill, NPC normie etc.. but for critical mass we all wonder how many sleepwalkers will awaken, and more to the point how many need to awaken.

  4. Rodulf August 25, 2023 at 9:57 am #

    I still got money on no election and UN involvement. Any takers?

    • mrs_saj August 25, 2023 at 10:08 am #

      Rodulf

      I can’t be drawn in to any more political predictions. I clearly have no talent for it. My prediction that Desantis could be the republican nominee is out the window at this point. His performance in the debate was disappointing and weak. His campaign was done two weeks ago.

      I hope you get some takers so you can set your odds and make some money (while its still worth something).

      • Paula D August 25, 2023 at 11:43 am #

        I thought they wanted Desantis also, mrs saj, if it’s any consolation.

        Off topic: When I first saw you post a couple of months ago, I assumed you were Indian. Something about “saj” makes me think “Indian”. It took me a while to realize that you were actually using initials, lol.

        • mrs_saj August 25, 2023 at 3:00 pm #

          Paula D,

          Lol. No, I’m an evil whitey. I also check the boxes for female, Christian, and hetero. If I were a man, the left would consider me the Devil incarnate.

          • elysianfield August 25, 2023 at 5:18 pm #

            ” consider me the Devil incarnate”

            Saj,
            But who else could make a garden so lush and productive?

            Wizardry and black magic….

          • Paula D August 26, 2023 at 11:49 am #

            They are actually starting in on white women as being the Mostest Evil group.

            It started with the Karen slur, and now we have Tik Tok and YouTube videos with rants against white women.

            Lovely time to be alive.

        • kendar667 August 25, 2023 at 11:11 pm #

          Certainly the pigrats did want Desantis but more to the point with the donor class, they want anybody but Trump. Too bad Desantis is a typical cardboard cutout, no personality politician. He never had any chance against Trump. It makes me laugh they didn’t seem to know this – it shows an obvious blind spot which anybody thar is awake knows they have. Just interesting to see it displayed so obviously.

    • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 10:19 am #

      I’ll bite. They really can’t afford an election at this point, can they? I mean, Joe might keel over in the middle of it, and then we’re stuck with Kamala, and I don’t think even they want her. What are the other options? Mr. Clean Newsome? What are the options on the republican side? Not much.

      • BackRowHeckler August 25, 2023 at 10:55 am #

        Mr. Clean Newsom is sponsoring a new ‘Shoplifting’ law in the State of California, and its not what you might think. Sure, any haul less than $950 is already legal, so that’s covered. (Resulting in the wanton looting we see weekly in SF & LA) What this new law will do is criminalize any attempt by business owners or store employees to interfere with shoplifting in progress, or apprehend the criminals filling up their carriages & dufflebags. Newsom claims trying to stop theft has racist roots, which he will not abide.

        • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 10:57 am #

          There’s always sabotage, much in the way that banks like to put dye packets in with money. Just sayin’.

          • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 10:58 am #

            Somehow make it so that if they take it, they can’t use it, because they broke it by taking it.

          • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 11:38 am #

            Like where I see those videos of them running out of Macy’s and the entire table is following them because the Gucci purses are all chained up with anti-theft cords.

            Logically, they will pull so hard that the purse handles tear right off, so we will see people walking around with torn strap handles on their designer purses. We will know where those came from.

        • bobfitz03 August 25, 2023 at 12:17 pm #

          Best government give away ever!

          Couple of strokes of the pen and the business community foots the bill for distributing inventory at no cost to the consumer. When the little guys go under, the big box Democrat donors move in. Win-win.

        • elysianfield August 25, 2023 at 12:21 pm #

          BRH,
          Got a reference on that proposed law”

          • BackRowHeckler August 25, 2023 at 4:46 pm #

            The host of the “I Allegedly” podcast was talking about it, who I believe is from the Newport Beach area.

            E., I try to post links here but it never works.

        • Yirgach August 25, 2023 at 1:58 pm #

          One enterprising store owner solved the $950 problem by pricing everything in the store at $951. If you actually bother to pay for an item at the register you get a coupon which reduces the cost to the original retail price. It still doesn’t fix the no cash bail issue, but still leaves open the baseball bat option.

          • mrs_saj August 25, 2023 at 3:03 pm #

            Yirgach,

            I love that idea. That is a business owner who has had enough and yet won’t stoop to breaking the law to turn the tables on the criminals.

        • Teufelhunden August 25, 2023 at 3:59 pm #

          There’s also the hot-lead option. Works on commies as well as criminals.

          • Yirgach August 25, 2023 at 6:24 pm #

            Yeah, I can envision a fee paid “Cleanup Service” for high end retail which provides equipment, such as security in the form of weapons, silencers, ammo, body bags and cleanup on as call or daily basis. Could become a normal part of retail insurance fees.

        • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 10:37 pm #

          Sure, I could “Google” this question, but I have more confidence in the commenters on this blog, so:

          1) Is it legal for white males to steal less than $950 in CA?

          1A) If so, is there a requirement for state residency,

          2) Anyone up for a road trip? The way I crunch the numbers, this thing is infinitely scalable.

          • tuco22 August 28, 2023 at 9:29 am #

            I’d say in response to question 1) No. If you’re a white male, or female for that matter, the full weight of the law applies to you. I mean, after all, they have to have SOMEONE to “pay” for the crime, and since it can’t be a poc, it has to be the white male or female.

            Question #1a) Since, like U-turn signs, it doesn’t specifically say you have to be a California resident, I’d guess you don’t have to be.

        • Ricechex August 27, 2023 at 2:45 pm #

          While there may not be an “official” law which precludes business owners from apprehending criminals, it really is not needed, as the businesses are afraid to be sued, so they just let it happen. Ask anyone that works in retail. The new law is more virtue signalling.

      • JackStraw August 25, 2023 at 10:56 am #

        They can’t get rid of both Biden and Deep Throat at the same time, because McCarthy would take over and only push through half his agenda.

        They’ll need to get rid of Kamala first and replace her with the person that will then replace Biden when he steps down to spend more time with his band of criminal, sociopathic degenerates that he calls a family.

        • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:53 am #

          cowbelle81, they’ll be useless to use as well as to sell, and that’s the point. The foxes that spoil the vine. Steal my grapes, I’ll make it so you can’t eat ’em.

          • Gonga Din August 25, 2023 at 2:32 pm #

            The anti theft tags could be made with a dye payload triggered when detected.

        • Not_GeorgeT August 25, 2023 at 12:23 pm #

          This I have been saying since this circus clown show began.

          Watch her exit and her replacement move in, after which one can spin up some vinyl for the opening line of “Jambalaya” .

        • Yirgach August 25, 2023 at 3:25 pm #

          The replacement for Kackles the Klown is waiting in the wings:
          Big Mike – aka Michelle Obama.

          • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 10:41 pm #

            Yirg, you seem to be new here, so I’ll forgive you for not seeing the obvious:

            The Hildebeast

            But thanks for using Big Mike’s chosen pronoun: “Big Mike”. Got Barry walkin’ sideways.

      • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 11:56 am #

        Seems Newsom has kinda disappeared off the radar.

        But then again I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to MSM.

        • Not_GeorgeT August 25, 2023 at 12:29 pm #

          There has been some speculation his trip to Mexico a while back had to do with actually getting and sucumbing to ‘the jab’, after which his ‘replacement’ avatar needed creation.

          Which rabbit hole ?

    • C.O.Jones August 25, 2023 at 10:41 am #

      Sure Rodulf, I’ll cover that action!

      No disrespect meant. I won’t mention monetary amounts but I will bet that Trump is vindicated on this latest round of balderdash, most likely by having charges dropped.

      No way do they want the mountains of evidence of election fraud actually heard in court. Remember Sidney Powell and Julie Rudiani tried to bring much of that evidence to court but it was ruled that they “had no standing.” That ruling was quickly followed by Powell and Rudiani being sued by Dominion for astronomical amounts of money. That oughta shut them up seems to be the motivation for those suits.

      Case dismissed, distraction over, move along to the next distraction. What’s next? My money is on Trump getting indicted in Arizona with all the commensurate pomp and circumstance he can muster.

      Trump’s “mugshot” should be captioned “It’s all about me!” Never mind the murderous land grab in Hawaii, PAY ATTENTION TO ME!

      Trump once again “surrenders,” with as much fanfare as he can generate, to specious charges that can’t stand up in court. He is the ultimate distraction from the crimes going on all around us. Ignore this pompous ass and focus on what’s happening anywhere but Trump’s…pompous ass.

      They are rolling out the next pandemic and the ballot harvesting that will accompany it. My prediction: Biden wins a squeaker 210 million votes to Trump’s 200 million. Never mind the fact that there are only ~330 million people in the country.

      • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 10:56 am #

        Yeah, never mind that fact, about how many votes he’ll get versus the total population. And they won’t! They won’t mind it at all!

      • Paula D August 25, 2023 at 11:46 am #

        The judge in Alex Jones’ kangaroo trial didn’t allow him to present a defense.

        I’ll bet that the judge in this trial will also forbid evidence to be presented.

        • Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 11:50 am #

          Nobody said anything, because it was just Alex Jones.

          • loosethedogs August 25, 2023 at 12:27 pm #

            The reason no one said anything is because it was a FAKE TRIAL to teach the public you DON’T question official narratives PERIOD Jones is controlled opposition and took the hit but despite monumental “fines” his show goes on. Bet he didn’t pay a dime. We live in an era of FAKE TRIALS beginning with the O.J. Simpson trial. One sign is that the prosecutor is usually some underling who has a background in drama. You’ll never see the DA wasting his time with these theatrical productions.

          • Paula D August 25, 2023 at 1:26 pm #

            Robert Barnes did. That is how I found out about it.

            He was on the Duran talking about it. I linked to the latest one with him talking about the Trump trial, below.

        • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 12:24 pm #

          Welcome to the Court of the Red Queen. The truth is no defense!

        • pyrrhus August 25, 2023 at 6:36 pm #

          It’s a criminal trial, and the Judge will be crucified if he acts like a crook…The Alex Jones trial was fake…Nobody can sue for hurt feelings…

          • Paula D August 25, 2023 at 7:18 pm #

            You wouldn’t think that you could indict for complaining about rigged elections, either.

            And yet……

            By the way, I see that Pirhogzn’s death is being used by the western media to bring up the lies about Russia interfering with the 2016 election again.

            This is not just a two tier “justice system”, it is a double standard system and a law invention system.

            Kafka and Alice In Wonderland, combined.

          • Paula D August 25, 2023 at 7:22 pm #

            But you are making a good point about the judge. He is between a rock and a hard place.

            He has the Deep State making threats, no doubt.

            But the whole world is watching as the US puts on the most ridiculous show trial possible.

            Robert Barnes makes the point that the US might have to bow to world public opinion about justice and fair trials, or lose any remaining respect other countries might still have for the USA, if the push through the agenda without regard for standards.

          • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 10:50 pm #

            In my opinion, the current administration in the US – in fact the ruling class in general – want the rest of the world to lose their respect for the US, undermining the kleptocratic underpinnings of this country, and allowing us to fall, friendless, into the shithole we dug.

            Do flatscreen TVs float in a cesspool? Well, we’re about to find out.

            But don’t worry. The Empty Spaces will be filled by the needy of the world.

      • Jim Smith August 25, 2023 at 12:01 pm #

        This: “Biden wins a squeaker 210 million votes to Trump’s 200 million. Never mind the fact that there are only ~330 million people in the country.” Whatever happens, the Democrat will win by a “squeaker,” probably after water leaks or other ballot problems delay the final count by a week or so.

        • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 9:03 pm #

          And 46% (and probably growing) don’t vote…

          • tuco22 August 28, 2023 at 9:32 am #

            A lot of them don’t see the point, since nothing changes for the better no matter who you vote for.

    • Hereward the Woke August 25, 2023 at 11:57 am #

      No election is still a sound bet, but there won’t be any UN blue helmets on America soil. 2A will see to that.

      • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 12:13 pm #

        I wouldn’t be too sure.

        • Not_GeorgeT August 25, 2023 at 12:34 pm #

          Not sure about no election?

          Or, not sure about the blue helmets and the reaction?

          • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 6:23 pm #

            Sure about the 2nd amendment taking care of anything.

    • devnickle August 25, 2023 at 12:44 pm #

      Blue helmets make great targets.

      • Ron Anselmo August 26, 2023 at 10:45 am #

        Exactly Dev – and if you can account for wind, and calc your down-range trajectory just right, you can hit just below the helmet brim.

    • Cankerpuss August 25, 2023 at 1:35 pm #

      Naw, there will be an election but the Democrats will clean the Republicans’ clocks. As inflation rages, economy sputters more and more people will certainly vote for the political party in power. At least that is what they will tell us and we’ll continue on downloading our porn, watching the NFL and obsessing over our gender pro-nouns.

      We really need a good war or plague to cull the herd. Yeah I said it. Too many people with too much time on their hands.

      • pyrrhus August 25, 2023 at 6:37 pm #

        Most of us don’t do any of those things…who are you hanging out with?

    • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 10:29 pm #

      Rodulf, thank you so much for asking this question.

      I’ve seen the future and I’ve left it behind

      I’m all in on no election, and at this point halfway in on UN involvement. I doexpect UN involvement at some point during the Hillary dictatorship.

      And here’s how it goes down:

      (Apologies to those of you who haven’t scrolled past my comments, lo these many months.)

      Russia-loving white-supremacists assassinate the ‘Ho. (Probably other “Russian atrocities” too: EMP attack… Bombing a re-gendering facility in Poland…) Biden appoints – and Congress overwhelmingly approves the Hildebeast as VP. Because who saw the Russian threat more clearly than she?

      Biden resigns. Family issues. Nation mourns. “Greatest President since Obama!” Hillary is now Whore-in-Chief – Forever. But Forever ain’t as long as it used to be. Not that any of us will live to see it of course.

  5. rdswysd4 August 25, 2023 at 9:57 am #

    Guess it’s time to queue “pandemic” 2.0… Sigh

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    • Uncle Bob August 25, 2023 at 10:00 am #

      Yup, Covid “variant” Eris, named for the Greek goddess of discord and personification of strife and chaos. Coincidence?

      • pyrrhus August 25, 2023 at 6:38 pm #

        Which variant “Eris” has not even been established to exist…Anyone who submits to any of this nonsense is going to be mocked..

      • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 9:02 pm #

        Spelled backwards, “Sire,” as in their head guy, I’m guessing (Satan? Lucifer?).

        • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 11:02 pm #

          Yeah, like “ISIS”. An Egyptian goddess, spelled-out in an English language acronym. ‘Cause when you’re an angry Wahabbi, you want to vent your wrath in the language of the infidel.

          Much as the Patriots at Lexington and Concord styled themselves, “King George’s Buggerboys”.

          Yeah, like that.

    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 12:16 pm #

      It’s another I.Q. test.

      How many have done their homework/studied up since the first one?

  6. liber8tor August 25, 2023 at 9:59 am #

    The Maui Fire, Dr. Fauci Labor Day mask-up and jab fest, UFOs, WEFers. It’s getting wonky out there.

    • Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 10:31 am #

      CDC got prepared on June 30. They stopped accepting adverse event reports.

      • thirdcoastlegend August 25, 2023 at 10:35 am #

        We coof, therefore we are.

      • Bill of Rights August 25, 2023 at 10:39 am #

        Can you provide a source reference please? Thanks.

      • C.O.Jones August 25, 2023 at 10:44 am #

        Yes, Beryl and FEMA showed up in Hawaii 2 days before the fire

        • Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 10:56 am #

          Oh.

        • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:49 am #

          Interesting, as Spock would say.

        • mrs_saj August 25, 2023 at 3:10 pm #

          C.O.Jones,

          I think I read that the top three emergency officials for Maui were off island, at a Fema training seminar being held on a different island.

          • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 6:24 pm #

            That kinda reminds me of the days before 9/11.

    • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 10:41 am #

      I’m not sure about your including the Lahaina incineration in your list above, liber8tor. I know that it looks awfully suspicious as a mass murder with clear, telegraphed motive … but yesterday Edgy assured us here at CFN that it has been “proven” that there was absolutely nothing nefarious in the barricading and incineration of an estimated 1,300+ Lahaina residents who otherwise refused to sell their birthright lands in paradise.

      On the other hand, when Edgy was asked to provide this proof, he started ad homming exactly like a little girl. So there is that.

      ***
      “I have proof!”
      “Show us your ‘proof.'”
      “You post too much!”

      Sad but true.

      • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:01 am #

        Keep voting for those elected representatives!

      • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 12:58 pm #

        I see you’ve finally concluded that at worst it was a mass murder, not a genocide.

        • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 1:42 pm #

          No. I have done no such thing. Rather, I still maintain that it was genocide (perfectly fitting your #2 definition yesterday) but switched to “mass murder” so that we can focus on the important parts and not get bogged down in irrelevance.

          • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 9:01 pm #

            No.

            It did not fit any of the definitions. Nowhere even close.

    • loosethedogs August 25, 2023 at 12:31 pm #

      ,,,and it’s just getting started…

      • Not_GeorgeT August 25, 2023 at 12:45 pm #

        I’ve been saying the same for the past bunch of years to those in the general area where I live.

        baseball analogy: hot stove is over, pitchers and catchers are just beginning to report

        there’s still lots of ground to cover until the all star break.

        It starts slowly, as in years, then ‘all at once’ might come into play.

  7. cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 10:03 am #

    We need to end the circus once and for all. Civil War American style is one of the few solutions left on the table at this point. Last man left standing and alive wins!

    • David Webb August 25, 2023 at 10:36 am #

      I wonder how it would work given the current demographics. Blue cosmopolitan neo-lib/neo-con islands vs. a sea of red exurbanites? Possibly. I could see it starting with an embargo of goods and services produced and provided by rural conservatives/libertarians that the urban areas depend on for survival.

    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 12:59 pm #

      What an absolute idiotic “solution.”

      Yeah, how ’bout more war?

      • Ron Anselmo August 26, 2023 at 11:01 am #

        Mary – I’m with you philosophically, but realistically, it’s all they understand – unforgiving brute force. They’ve made it clear, that they will not let us freely coexist – it’s them or us. Stay with us.

        • Amman August 27, 2023 at 5:59 am #

          Maybe she already is.

    • Cankerpuss August 25, 2023 at 1:39 pm #

      War is never a solution to anything. All it does is make certain people rich and devastate everything else.

      We really need a good economic crisis that strips most people of their wealth. Then they will be more focused on feeding themselves and finding shelter and have less time to focus on their genders, their next orgasm, political parties and the news media.

      Just saying.

      I thought maybe covid would cull the herd but it didn’t do anything above and beyond what the flu does.

      • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 6:26 pm #

        That’s what’s going to happen in the tribulation. The bible says people will “cast their gold and silver into the streets.”

      • mrs_saj August 26, 2023 at 10:17 am #

        Canker,

        The culling (from the vaxxes, not the Covid) has been slower than I anticipated. Interestingly, though, it does not kill the usual suspects who succumb to the flu. The demographics are younger, more athletic, and slightly slanted to be more male. Flu deaths are of course older people and women are more than half the elderly population, so flu deaths skew to the femaie side. Also, as Ed Dowd points out, based on the age of the deceased, the vaxx deaths are affecting far more working age people than flu deaths, which is affecting the economy.

        • Ron Anselmo August 26, 2023 at 11:11 am #

          Right Mrs. – in addition to deaths, Dowd also points out that the number of US disabled is typically 29-30 million.

          Since 2021, the number of disabled (unable to work), is north of 33 million, so we have +/- 3.5 million newly disabled (unable to work).

          Oddly, it’s about the same number of yumper de fenceo’s from down south.

      • tuco22 August 28, 2023 at 9:37 am #

        That would be the tribulation. The tribulation will do exactly that: strip most people of their wealth. Because it will destroy much of the world. It’ll certainly make the money worthless: “they shall cast their gold and silver into the streets.

    • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 11:08 pm #

      I understand your frustration (or think I do anyway), but if we freak out, overturn the tables, and start machine-gunning each other, do you think the rest of the world – which we have treated as our bitch for the past 80 years – will stand-by inactively bemused?

      I don’t.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 26, 2023 at 8:30 am #

        Not inactively, no.

        Governments around the world will invest heavily in either – or both – side(s), just as they did the first time around, lo 160 years ago.

        We’re still a big-ass country with control over a majority of the world economy, and they will want us to be “friends” afterward, no matter who “wins”.

        Nobody really wants a war. But once people start shooting one’s friends and family, folks tend to change their tune.

        I hope I never have to see it in person, but it will surely happen again someday, per the cycles of human history.

        • benr August 26, 2023 at 9:29 am #

          which side usually starts with the death squads and the concentration camps?

          I ask because it has happened all over the world in other countries so why would it not happen here?
          I do not agree with even one item Democrats are pushing.
          It seems when the countries swing hard left there is always the realization half the population will refuse to comply.

  8. NickelthroweR August 25, 2023 at 10:06 am #

    Greetings,

    What I’m about to say might sound tin-foil-hat but hear me out.

    If the Dems wanted to win 2024 then they’d do what they are doing to RFK and just ignore him. They order their Project Mockingbird assets in ALL corners of media land to ignore Trump and watch him wither on the vine.

    Instead, they are giving him a televised outlet to show the American people all the election irregularities the court initially refused to hear because of “standing”. Not so now.

    Ballots run through multiple times after a building is cleared out because of a made-up water leak. Those videos are finally going to be seen by the Normies and not just the alt-right. It will be on NBC rather than Alex Jones.

    These people can not be that stupid. Someone has decided that Bided must go and that his name be erased as if he were an ancient pharaoh who has fallen out of favor.

    This also means that Biden must have put something horrific in motion (WWIII, economic collapse, worldwide depression, zombie virus) that they’d just like to hand it all back to Trump so they can get in their hidey-hole in New Zealand and wait it out.

    The American people are about to see just how the Election was stolen and they are not going to be happy about it.

    • Uncle Bob August 25, 2023 at 10:12 am #

      More likely, Americans will yawn, say Trump and his backers belong in prison, and go back to playing Fortnite and fucking whoever is willing.

      • Uncle Bob August 25, 2023 at 10:14 am #

        Oh, and desexing children and convincing everyone that fair is foul, and foul, fair.

        • SW August 25, 2023 at 11:15 am #

          The attack on the sexuality of children (what else can it be called?) is horrifying. It’s not just the gender confusion that’s being aimed at them but also perversion sanctioned by no other than a Catholic St. Rochus childcare centre in Kerpen and endorsed by the German government. I hope all of you will take time to read this:

          Two German childcare centres in Nordrhein-Westfalen issue child sexuality manifestos, waxing poetic about the benefits of masturbation and outlining rules for child sexual play on EUGYPPIUS substack, AUG 25.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle August 25, 2023 at 11:30 am #

            The Pied Piper of Hamelin… is the title character of a legend from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany.

            The legend dates back to the Middle Ages, the earliest references describing a piper, dressed in multicolored (“pied”) clothing, who was a rat catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizens refuse to pay for this service as promised, he retaliates by using his instrument’s magical power on their children, leading them away as he had the rats.” ~ Wikipedia

          • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:36 am #

            That’s why God is going to take the children in the rapture.

          • Hereward the Woke August 25, 2023 at 12:01 pm #

            Don’t worry, SW, Pope Frankie will put ’em right in no time. Oh, wait…

          • SW August 25, 2023 at 1:28 pm #

            If Pope Francis doesn’t put a stop to this then the Catholic church (what’s left of it) will lose all credibility and it should. He’s been a real disappointment in not forcefully countering the trans agenda, child trafficking and the declining numbers in marriage and birth rate.

            The Irish Catholic church is almost deserted now due to the scandals.

          • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 2:18 pm #

            It really happened with the Children’s Crusade. Very few of them every made it back. Most were sold to Muslim slavers. Did anyone ever pay for this outrage?

          • Bill of Rights August 26, 2023 at 4:40 pm #

            The substack is based on an article only accessible to Welt+ subscribers. Is there another way to get it?

      • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 10:20 am #

        I think that’s about right.

      • thirdcoastlegend August 25, 2023 at 10:37 am #

        Pretty much.

        Urbanite bugmen are convinced the GOP slate is a joke and the Donald has 91 indictments, so obviously 81 million votes Joe is a shoo-in for re-election.

        • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 10:55 am #

          I think you are right. SLO Joe is being told he does not have anything to worry about re the election.

          I hope they are wrong.

        • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:04 am #

          I think just under 50% of the country doesn’t care how it gets it up the rear end, it just wants it. About half the country has a perverse desire for their lives to be destroyed.

          • thirdcoastlegend August 25, 2023 at 12:30 pm #

            Maybe the saying…

            “Govern me harder, daddy!”

            …is not so facetious after all?

      • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 1:00 pm #

        That’s my guess. Sadly.

      • Cankerpuss August 25, 2023 at 1:41 pm #

        Morel likely, they’ll yawn, shove some more potato chips into their gaping piehole, change the channel and watch more of the “Bachelorette.”

        I don’t share NickelthroweR’s optimism. The people won’t rise up until they’ve lost everything and they have nothing left to lose.

    • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 10:19 am #

      The Deep State judiciary could not allow an investigation of all the videos and affidavits after the election,

      So they just ignored them.

      Could it be that Trump wants all the indictments as a way to expose to the public all the shenanigans.

      • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 10:47 am #

        Yes, it sure could.

      • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 1:00 pm #

        Yes, they will just do what they did to Alex Jones.

        • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:43 am #

          Alex Jones was a giant psy-op you said.

          How times change.

          Mary just chugs along.

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 10:40 pm #

            Actually, I didn’t say that.

            You might have me confused with someone else. You seem to be doing that a lot.

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 10:43 pm #

            Jarek, Jr. – hahahahaha!

        • C.O.Jones August 27, 2023 at 11:57 am #

          @MaryQueen – Alex Jones serves as Trump’s de-facto campaign manager.

          How can someone (rightfully) claim the lockdown and the clot-shot are deep state depopulation events and then actively campaign for the guy who inflicted the lockdown and the clot-shots on the American people? Am I the only one who sees this?

          I need to call AJ and ask him. He will probably offer platitudes about 3-D chess or getting bad advice but I’m gonna call him and put him on the spot.

          Jones is another deep state role player.

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 10:43 pm #

            I am not an AJ fan, so I really can’t speak to what he’s about. I do think he might be a limited hangout, there are no shortage of them, but the trial against him was total bullshit.

            I called it kabuki theater, because its goal appeared to be to set a precedent about free speech and limiting it, to the point where you can be fined a billion dollars for speaking your mind. It’s not a good thing that he wasn’t allowed to present a defense.

      • fugeguy August 25, 2023 at 1:06 pm #

        No I expect the judge to ban the evidence as not relevant or fake. You know the video of the poll worker rolling in a cart full of duffle bags in the middle of the night when the polls and counting was allegedly closed does not show anything of merit. It did not happen because I say so. Nana nana boo boo

        • NickelthroweR August 25, 2023 at 2:39 pm #

          You miss my point entirely. This is being done specifically to show the world that Biden is an illegitimate president. I can not speculate as to why but that is exactly what is being done.

          They are propping this guy up and doing so big time. Make fun of it at your own peril.

    • mrs_saj August 25, 2023 at 10:22 am #

      NickelthroweR,

      It’s an interesting theory and at this point anything is possible.

      As the dems have found out, ignoring Trump doesn’t work. Case in point, the RINO debate. Trump doesn’t even need to be there; he’s been filling stadiums for the last year. instead, he can call up the top journalist in the country and have an hour long solo interview, without spending any campaign funds I might add, and have it aired while Snow Brown and the Seven Dwarves are cage fighting for table scraps.

      And I’m not convinced NBC et al will air the presentation of evidence that will show election tampering. They have ignored the plot for the last seven years. Why start following it now?

      I like the fact that you have a theory though. Let’s watch and see if it pans out!

      • NickelthroweR August 25, 2023 at 10:42 am #

        Trump was never allowed to present the election irregularities in court because of “standing”. Every court in the nation refused to get involved. Now, as we enter election season, those grievances will be televised live on TV for the entire nation to watch.

        Look, for several years people I know have dismissed the problems with the 2020 election as alt-right fantasies. They have done so because no court would hear it so they assume there was NEVER any actual evidence.

        Georgia was not the worst but Georgia has the most damning of all evidence – video of the election being stolen. A building is cleared and then ballots are removed from under a table and run through the machines enough times to give Biden his narrow margin of victory. You can’t unsee the fraud once seen.

        That evidence is going to be presented again but this time it will be live on television and when it stands as an actual piece of evidence – something that can not be dismissed as alt-right fantasy, all hell will break loose.

        The people who made that diversity-hire anti-Trumper do this know exactly what they are doing.

        Someone has their thumb on the scale pushing for Trump. Why? No idea.

        • Uncle Bob August 25, 2023 at 11:18 am #

          Could be God saying, He’s a jerk, but he’s exposing the stuff you say you want exposed. Time to put up and fix it, or shut up and let Me flush you.

          Could be he’s the preferred controlled opposition because the Dems and alleged “moderates” will vote against him.

          As for “standing,” the riots, I mean mostly peaceful protests intimidated the country. We are racists if we do anything to stop the Left, and that’s the worst thing people can be in this country. Ergo, let it go! This held true even in the USSC, where Thomas and Alito reportedly had a screaming match with the worthless Roberts over the election evidence. Roberts’ argument, which won, was that they’d be burned alive inside the Court if they voted to hear Trump’s evidence. Conservative court, my ass.

          • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:48 am #

            Roberts was probably right. And the fire department and police would’ve been told to “stand down” and they would have! That’s what I mean when I say that Americans will weigh the cost of doing the right thing, and if it’s too high, they’ll say “screw it.”

          • elysianfield August 25, 2023 at 12:16 pm #

            Tuco.
            Roberts was probably right. And the fire department and police would’ve been told to “stand down” and they would have”

            Naaah…This is ‘Murica, dammit!

            https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ashli-babbitt-michael-byrd-promoted/2023/08/25/id/1132053/

            …”If you gonna shoot, shoot…don’t talk”~Tuco

          • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 12:30 pm #

            Yes, the decision was already made by those above the Supreme Court. Who knows who they are? Only those on the immediate tier below them, in this case, the Plateau beneath the Capstone.

          • Cankerpuss August 25, 2023 at 1:44 pm #

            We know who they are, Jarek. They are those who own EVERYTHING. The uber-billionaires. I should say the Jewish uber-billionaires. They own all the media, hollywood, utilities, corporations and the Government (bought and paid for representatives).

          • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 2:21 pm #

            But, but, but Quigley said that more non-Jews are involved!

            It’s all a question of at which tier. People refuse to meditate on the Pyramid as presented on the reverse side of the Dollar Bill. Why did they put it there? It’s the opposite of “democracy”.

          • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 11:11 pm #

            Did Quigley really say that Jars?

            How many times have you read “Tragedy and Hope”?

            How many times have I read it?

            Not enough.

          • Jarek August 26, 2023 at 12:39 am #

            Alba read Plummer, Joe, and she says that he says that he did. Are you going to argue with that provenance?

            Glad you seem to see it as ridiculous. Knowing that she might not have a dollar bill handy, I actually sent her an image of the reverse side of the dollar bill so she could meditate on how the Pyramid narrows on all sides. The artist even delineates the different tiers and separate the Capstone. How much clearer could they make it?!

            Did she meditate on this image? No, of course not.

          • Blackbird August 26, 2023 at 1:10 am #

            I see your point Jars. The dollar bill. The pyramid. The all-seeing eye. Yes, they are rubbing our noses in it – in 1913 as now.

            But the real question: what are we going to do about it?

            My answer: I can’t answer for the rest of “us”. But I hope to swallow less shit than the rest of us – as my head is forced down in it.

            There is no time to debate future Utopias. We are at the last bus stop.

          • GreenAlba August 26, 2023 at 9:03 pm #

            “Alba read Plummer, Joe, and she says that he says that he did. Are you going to argue with that provenance?”

            I think this matter will only be resolved by your reading Tragedy and Hope yourself and reporting back to us. I have a copy but no time to read it at present as I have lots of less voluminous tomes that I want to read first.

            I did not at any point say what Quigley said or did not say regarding Jewish or non-Jewish people. And how could I? As you rightly point out, I read Plummer’s synopsis, which includes references to Quigley’s book, The Anglo-American Establishment,‘ as well. You could start with Plummer. Not only is it a quick read, but it makes a good primer for the Quigley volume, since it has page references. Then you can bring whatever you like to the table, without referencing me at all. I have no dog in the fight.

            All I can tell you from Plummer is that I don’t recall much of a mention of Jews specifically, apart from a brief mention of Disraeli, in passing, and – in the ‘Money’ chapter, of the Rothschilds in relation to the creation of the Federal Reserve. But Rockefeller is mentioned in the same sentence and that dynasty is not Jewish. I do think you should read it yourself, then you can let us know if it helps your case.

            Re the dollar bill, I have seen the pyramid so many times without the dollar bill that I see no reason to meditate on it. I also find Iain Davis’ schema helpful – although it is not a pyramid, it shows the levels of decision making, globally speaking, but within a rectangle.

          • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 12:19 am #

            You looked but you did not see. In any case, there has been and is much intermarriage. They are becoming one people. But I think they will keep the pride of place. They value such things.

            The dominant people are revealed by their men marrying the women of the subordinate people. Of course in this case, the offspring are not considered Jewish. The solution is for the women to convert before the marriage as Trump’s daughter did.

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 6:19 am #

            “You looked but you did not see. ”

            I just read a short book and told you what (from memory) was in it. Jewishness did not jump out at me, apart from a mention of the Rothschilds and others in the ‘Money’ chapter.

            I repeat, get hold of the actual book. Ed Griffin has read it. He says it’s just 1300 pages of dry history, for the most part, but, every 30 pages or so, you come across something that makes you think ‘did he really say that?’

            If you’re into intermarriage (forensically speaking) then I strongly recommend the book I don’t have (which Griffin describes as really tedious, but it may not be to you), The Anglo-American Establishment. It’s not nearly as long, but with your obsession, you may find it more gratifying. Or not.

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 10:56 am #

            BTW, it’s not just Jewish families that intermarry with other significant families. The Kennedy and Onassis families are both included in the 13 main so-called bloodline families. Neither of them is Jewish. Nor are the Collins, Li, Rockefeller or DuPont families, who are also part of the thirteen. The Bush family are a minor dynasty not included in the main 13, but part of the bigger network. The Rothschilds are of course in there (among the 13). I never recall the others but they’re easy enough to look up.

            So, yes, there are some Jewish big players. But all the big players are not Jewish, as far as I can see.

          • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 1:56 pm #

            Which is stronger, the hand that lends or that hand that receives – after having begged for a loan and promised to repay with interest?

            In other words, who is stronger, the banking families or the scions of industry?
            Confine your analysis (for a moment) to the latter and you will see where you err.

            I will read it! In exchange, why don’t your read “Practical Idealism” by Baron Kalergi?

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 2:39 pm #

            I know about Kalergi and have no wish to read a whole book by him or about him. I have dozens of books waiting to be read.

            Read Quigley or don’t, as you wish. I’ll be interested to hear what you think of it, as I haven’t read it myself.

        • chet_the_farmer August 25, 2023 at 12:56 pm #

          The j6 videos have been out for more than a year and yet the kangaroo courts persist.
          We are way beyond prosecuting anyone for Evidence anymore.

          • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 1:01 pm #

            THANK YOU.

        • FGB3 August 25, 2023 at 2:24 pm #

          “Georgia was not the worst but Georgia has the most damning of all evidence – video of the election being stolen. A building is cleared and then ballots are removed from under a table and run through the machines enough times to give Biden his narrow margin of victory. You can’t unsee the fraud once seen”.

          I doubt it will ever happen in court. The Cabal is in total control. Who’s the judge going to be. They will be the focus of tremendous pressure.

    • Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 11:22 am #

      Plausible, but couldn’t they just allow RFK Jr. to win, and have it all fall on him?

  9. BackRowHeckler August 25, 2023 at 10:07 am #

    Amongst many other things, this lawfare against Trump is obfuscating the disaster unfolding in Ukraine. And not only a military & political disaster of epic & far reaching proportions, but a Freak Show as well … as the ‘Official Ukrainian Spokes(person)’ for the American audience turns out to be some former US Army soldier who used to be a man, but is now a woman. He shows up on camera in a wig, false breasts, makeup & earrings, reading dispatches from the front, mostly reporting glorious Ukrainian battlefield victories, but also a plea for more aid from the West. At first I thought it was a parody or a joke, but no, it’s not a joke or a parody, It’s real, if nothing short of bizarre. The dude also manages fit Climate Change propaganda into his “Reports from the Front ” lololol.

    I don’t know who’s paying this guy, but it seems like a clumsy, cringeworthy op funded by the State Department.

    • NickelthroweR August 25, 2023 at 10:29 am #

      That guy is a modern take on Lord Haw Haw the Nazi propagandist. I suspect both will end up with the same fate.

      Imagine being kidnapped off of the street, taken from your wife and children, given three days of training and sent off to fight so that a man pretending to be a woman could live a life of luxury? Imagine how those soldiers feel.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 10:42 am #

        “More proof that US sees Ukrainians as cannon fodder:

        US-UK helped formulate a battle plan that “anticipated” Ukraine taking heavy losses. US-UK officials “envisioned Kyiv accepting the casualties as the cost of piercing through Russia’s main defensive line.”

        Instead, after suffering “major casualties… Ukraine chose to stem the losses on the battlefield.”

        US-UK “vision” requires Ukrainians to sacrifice themselves.”

        https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1692337541087911958.html

        • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 12:07 pm #

          Did you hear Nikki and Christie both say that the Reagan directive needed to be followed.

          That we would supply any nation weaponry if they would fight our enemies instead of us.

          Justifying Ukraine.

          I wonder how many soldiers would just leave if they heard that.

          • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 12:32 pm #

            The Debate: Two Indians arguing about how many American tax payer dollars should go to Israel.

          • Cankerpuss August 25, 2023 at 1:47 pm #

            The whole debate was a joke. Why? Because they didn’t mention, not once, the fact that AMERICA IS BANKRUPT! The money is gone. There is no money. Not one of those self righteous egotistical assholes talked about it. I heard some discussion of debt but nothing about the fact that money is gone, the debt will never be repaid and we are busted.

            Everything in America is a sham. A falsehood.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 26, 2023 at 9:59 am #

            Hey now – Little League baseball is still real.

            There’s always real truth out there…until money comes into play later in life.

          • SpeedyBB August 28, 2023 at 9:22 am #

            Well there brother John, just to give it an “alternative spin” I proffer the following astonishing fantasy.

            hxxps://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/08/what-does-victory-look-like-for-ukraine/?mc_cid=c19b20343d&mc_eid=c2babcfeb8

            “Ukrainian Victory” will sort of be like “American Victory over the Viet Cong” in 1975, methinks.

      • SW August 25, 2023 at 10:46 am #

        I thought the same thing when I saw a clip of her/him and thought it was some kind of a Monty Python joke. He’s so obviously a man dressed as a woman.

        • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:34 am #

          Yeah, it’s pretty obvious.

        • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 12:33 pm #

          As opposed to Admiral Levine, right?

          • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 1:39 pm #

            It’s pretty obvious with him, too.

      • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:06 am #

        If they were Americans, they’d vote democrat.

    • Islander August 25, 2023 at 10:36 am #

      Can you give link to a news story with this individual on it?
      I did some googling but didn’t find anyone like the person you describe.

      Thanks.

      • Islander August 25, 2023 at 10:37 am #

        Or, the person’s name . . .

        • Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 10:39 am #

          Ukraine Military Has a New Transgender Spokesperson

          https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-military-has-new-transgender-spokesperson-1817334

          • The Man They Call Zazelle August 25, 2023 at 11:45 am #

            It’s a ‘UFO’.

          • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 12:39 pm #

            What a smoke show. Do you have a picture of the old transgender spokesperson (ots)?

          • Phineas August 26, 2023 at 9:30 am #

            Baghdad Barbara.

            Ukraine’s version of Baghdad Bob.

        • SW August 25, 2023 at 10:44 am #

          “The Armed Forces of Ukraine have named a transgender soldier from the U.S. as one of its English-speaking spokespeople.

          The Kyiv Post, an English-language newspaper, last week in a tweet noted Sarah Ashton-Cirillo “has become one of the speakers for the Defense Forces.” Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar is among those who praised Ashton-Cirillo.

          What this means is that in today’s Ukraine being a part of the LGBTQ community is neither a benefit nor hindrance, but simply an accepted part of whom a person is,” she said.

          “The vocal support shown by LGBTQ groups in Ukraine, such as Gender Stream, Kyiv Pride and Ukraine Pride, upon news of this taking place, along with the statement of confidence in me issued by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar, made me understand that this battle for the country’s liberation is not about tolerance or acceptance for any one group but freedom and liberty for all Ukrainians.”

          Sarah Ashton-Cirillo is the US transgender spokesperson.

          • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:33 am #

            The article says he enlisted in the Ukrainian military and is a combat medic, yet he’s an American citizen. How can that be?

          • Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 11:54 am #

            I think they made Ukraine take him if they wanted to keep the money and weapons coming.

            For the humiliation of it.

          • Yirgach August 26, 2023 at 10:46 am #

            @tuco

            He’s a mercenary or merc. There used to be a lot of mercs fighting for the Ukes. The money is good (thanks Joe) but the positions are short-lived, shall we say. If captured, the Ruskies treat them as spies and they get a bullet instead of POW status.

    • Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 10:37 am #

      Fits right in with what they have planned for our own military.
      https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1693733071462318108.html

      It’s pretty clear that we won’t do any fighting ourselves anymore. We’ll find some chump nation to dupe/bribe into doing it for us.

      • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:11 am #

        From the line-up, it’s pretty clear that you won’t advance in rank in today’s military, in all branches, unless you embrace DIE. It’s also pretty clear that these people will lead a future fighting force to utter destruction. They are the best reason to stay out of the US military.

        • BackRowHeckler August 25, 2023 at 11:56 am #

          Well, the newly appointed Chief of Naval Operations, and the proposed Surface Warfare Fleet Admiral … are both grandmothers.

          I remember it was a big deal when an Admiral showed up; it happened only a time or two. These two lady Admirals, combined with Admiral Rachel Levine (Stunning & Brave) must cut quite a figure walking down the pier, like Admirals King & Nimitz on the USS Missouri in Sept. 1945.

          • Hereward the Woke August 25, 2023 at 12:04 pm #

            BRH: they are laughing in our faces. But it will backfire horribly on them.

        • mrs_saj August 25, 2023 at 3:37 pm #

          tuco22,

          Bonus points for the reordered-DEI reference.

          Carry on.

          • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 6:30 pm #

            Thanks!

    • Islander August 25, 2023 at 10:44 am #

      OK, found it. One of its deathless quotes—whom a person is being one who cannot manage basic English grammar:

      ““What this means is that in today’s Ukraine being a part of the LGBTQ community is neither a benefit nor hindrance, but simply an accepted part of whom a person is,” she said. “The vocal support shown by LGBTQ groups in Ukraine, such as Gender Stream, Kyiv Pride and Ukraine Pride, upon news of this taking place, along with the statement of confidence in me issued by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar, made me understand that this battle for the country’s liberation is not about tolerance or acceptance for any one group but freedom and liberty for all Ukrainians.”

      At least now we know why we are pissing billions into the east wind . ..

      • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 11:02 am #

        As discussed, the billions of US$ do not simply disappear into the wind. Rather, they are consumed by the MIC for their shareholders (Carlyle, Vanguard, State Street, Blackrock, et al).

        The Fed prints it, the Treasury borrows it and the MIC snarfs it. The circle of life in DC. The distant death and destruction are merely byproducts.

        • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:14 am #

          Yes, much like our institutions are now simply byproducts of grifting operations, like medicine and law.

          • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 11:41 am #

            I just like to go around and steal anything out on the public streets owned by the State or DPW. If it is not nailed down then it is fair game. If it is “owned” by the government, then it can also be made mine.

            I recall a video of a fellow driving with an entire aluminum lamp pole strapped to the top of his ca, pulled over as he was headed to a scrap yardr. It was laying down on the side of the road after being felled by a big rig or something. Wasn’t he just picking up trash left behind by the city?

          • Blackbird August 26, 2023 at 1:15 am #

            Hey ‘bells, I’d like to do a sweep through Cali before it goes totally La Brea Tar Pits. Maybe a couple weeks – at $950 per job. Whaddya think, three jobs per day? I’m planning to work everyday. How ’bout you?

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 26, 2023 at 10:16 am #

            Good work if you can get it, right?

            Minus having surveillance footage of us being dumbasses being posted all over the internet…

        • mrs_saj August 25, 2023 at 3:42 pm #

          DrZonk,

          I also have a theory that Fort Knox has long been empty. This doesn’t even include the multitude of buildings, companies, toll roads, etc that get sold to various multi-nationals.

          • SpeedyBB August 29, 2023 at 9:00 pm #

            I share your theory, mrs. saj. Check out the number of times that Congress has ordered an inventory of gold bullion but was told to beat it.

            “It is not convenient now to do an inventory.”

            “Fort Knox is getting its hair done this morning and will be unavailable.”

            “The gold is all there. All of it. We last checked it last, well, we checked it. And it is all there.”

            And so on. One not unnaturally harbors a strong suspicion that gold has “migrated” to the PRC. Maybe “for safekeeping” like all that bullion in New Yoark that the Germans had such a terrifically hard time getting returned.

            Bullion had been melted down in the meantime and recast, perturbing Deutsche Bundesbank officials. They were thus obliged to re-melt it to be sure there was gold inside the gold.

        • Phineas August 26, 2023 at 9:37 am #

          Don’t forget the 10% for not only the big guy but for most of the politicians.

    • Disaffected August 25, 2023 at 10:57 am #

      First I heard of “it.”

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Ashton-Cirillo

      Catch it in the right light with the right makeup and it’s almost pretty. But oh boy, get it wrong…!

      https://www.nevadacurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/sarah_campaign_1.jpg

      https://hrvatska-danas.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Screenshot-Twitter-2.jpg

      • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 12:45 pm #

        What did Rod Sterling say anent light and shade? Objects (and people) are never beautiful – they partake of beauty under certain conditions for a limited amount of time.

        Platonism 101

    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 2:11 pm #

      Yes, it’s “Look over here – we got TRUMP!” Every liberal’s wet dream. You just know there are Wokies fapping to his mugshot.

      Meanwhile, the Ukraine fiasco, Maui, open border, pedos, trafficking, destruction of institutions and schools, CBDC, uber-surveillance, etc. flies under the radar. Except it is all affecting the average citizen, well, except for the Ukraine war, people moved on, even though it does affect us. Another money hole & all.

      And the old problems – huge debt, corporate overreach, loss of Constitutional rights, etc. go undiscussed.

      And then of course they will also want to add Covid 2.0 to all of this.

      I almost forgot to list the collapse of our cities – not just inner cities – to the list.

  10. rudyspeaks August 25, 2023 at 10:08 am #

    Both ends of the Uniparty (Dems & Repubs) have allowed the spongy US election system to fester (The Carter Center said it would not even monitor a US election because the entire set-up is so inherently dishonest). It’s an every-4-years drama, thoroughly fixable, if anyone really wanted to, that distracts from the observation that NOTHING ever changes anyway!

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  11. tom clark August 25, 2023 at 10:13 am #

    Kick back, relax, and enjoy the ride.

    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 2:12 pm #

      I’m about to do that. Not much else we can do, eh?

    • Paddys Lament August 25, 2023 at 6:02 pm #

      Or cue up R.E.M.’s ‘It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine).’
      “Feelin’ pretty psyched!” Yeah, baby!

    • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 11:21 pm #

      No, actually, I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

      A World Made by Hand ain’t built in an armchair with a drink in one hand.

      (I know – I’m such a killjoy. I’m sorry…)

  12. Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 10:14 am #

    I see that RFK Jr., Esquire, still hasn’t noticed any unusual goings-on.

  13. Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 10:15 am #

    Elon Musk is being sued by the Justice Department because he doesn’t hire any any of the illegally border-crossing scum.

    • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 10:23 am #

      He’s being sued by the justice dept for not hiring people it’s illegal to hire. These people smoke better shit than I do.

      • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 10:38 am #

        The Deep State wants more and more illegals here. Their goal is to get millions here then enfranchise them. Their goal is to solidify their Uniparty hold on the country.

        Just a comment. DeSantis was a good target and spokesman for the state’s rights cause,

        Until he ran for president.

        IMHO, Vivek was the only candidate on stage that set the entire Deep State as his target. Will he out Trump Trump?

        • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 10:39 am #

          Even Nikki and her MIC.

        • Q. Shtik August 25, 2023 at 1:11 pm #

          Will he out Trump Trump? – JAZ

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

          My version of ^this^ sentence would include a hyphen:

          Will he out-Trump Trump?

          • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 11:23 pm #

            Back to the ‘Stick we know and… tolerate.

            Let us resolve to maintain the integrity of the American language.

        • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 1:21 pm #

          And if he does, you’ll vote for him instead of Trump?

          How easily they are tricked. It’s like taking candy from a baby.

          • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 2:36 pm #

            Absolutely not.

            Trump is number one, if he can run which is yet to be determined.

            Veep? He was the only candidate on stage to defend Trump’s record, to say the US is in trouble and the answers lie with “Trumpism”.

          • Q. Shtik August 25, 2023 at 3:03 pm #

            No Jar, your memory is short. I no longer vote for anybody. Haven’t for decades.

          • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 11:24 pm #

            Yeah – we’re gonna vote our way outa this!

          • Jarek August 26, 2023 at 12:43 am #

            Q: You “read” the indentations wrongly. I was talking to John.

    • JackStraw August 25, 2023 at 10:53 am #

      The level of absurdity that this administration crosses every day just boggles the mind.

      There is no opposition, so they can do absolutely anything.

      • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:16 am #

        God allows the wicked to do what they will because doing so actually brings about their own destruction, and all by their own free will.

        • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:17 am #

          And then there’s judgment.

          • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 2:41 pm #

            One of God’s covenants with mankind is our free will. Like a real father, giving free will means keeping hands off, allowing youngsters to learn from their own mistakes. Being a coach, a mentor, not a dictator.

            What do you do when the children are beyond hope?

            The Old Testament is full of examples of what happens when God walks away.

          • Jarek August 26, 2023 at 12:45 am #

            He likes to walk in the Garden in the cool of the morning.

          • Phineas August 26, 2023 at 9:46 am #

            “It is appointed for men once to die; after this comes Judgment”

          • Islander August 27, 2023 at 3:07 pm #

            The Old Testament is full of bloodthirsty laws instructing the Jews kill every living thing that isn’t Jewish or doesn’t belong to Jews.

            Nice.

            Should never have been combined with the New Testament. .

    • NickelthroweR August 25, 2023 at 10:55 am #

      What do illiterate peasant farmers, convicted felons, and the criminally insane know about designing and manufacturing rockets?

      How does that make any bit of sense?

      It is like something from Atlas Shrugged but only worse.

      • JackStraw August 25, 2023 at 12:05 pm #

        Atlas Shrugged veers more from fiction every day. Ayn has turned out to be quite prescient.

        • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 1:37 pm #

          Ayn needed a good editing, imho. “Get to the point already!” Reading one of her tomes is not a pleasure – it is a mission.

          • mrs_saj August 25, 2023 at 3:44 pm #

            Amen

          • Paddys Lament August 25, 2023 at 5:19 pm #

            Yes. Taking a page and a half to explain how Dagny lights up her cigarette can get tedious.

          • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 11:28 pm #

            Her point was obvious from page one.

            Why subject yourself to further abuse?

            Communism met Capitalism and their love child was Ayn Rand.

            Jars, were you in an automobile accident recently? I know the name of a lawyer…

      • tuco22 August 28, 2023 at 9:47 am #

        It wasn’t “every living thing that wasn’t Jewish or doesn’t belong to Jews.” It was only those people and places that had the “angel taint.” Remember that Joshua was tasked with driving out the giants from the promised land. The giants resulted from fallen angels mating with human women (for a more secular version of this, you can look up stories of Zeus seducing his various female lovers, for instance). This is where giants like Goliath come from (he had 4 brothers, by the way. That’s why David picked up 5 rocks). But not all places had the “angel taint” and these places were treated differently (such as spoils being allowed).

    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 2:13 pm #

      DEI/ESG/Wokeism overrides everything. It’s their cultural pathway to transhumanism and globalism.

  14. Uncle Bob August 25, 2023 at 10:15 am #

    He doesn’t want a .308 round to puncture his skull.

  15. Opie August 25, 2023 at 10:16 am #

    I’m just waiting with anxiety for the next nefarious actions the deep snake decides to pull on us, the little people. It’s pretty much game over for what came before, I just pray that there’s something left to rebuild on in the aftermath.

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    • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 10:21 am #

      Just finish this off and destroy it already, bring it down in fire and brimstone and destroy it. Washington DC needs to be bombed to high hell and low water!

      • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 10:32 am #

        Cowbell

        I am watching Designated Survivor again. I am thinking this time though that the response to a government destruction like that would not follow the benign pattern of the.movie.

        With the civics quality of the people of America, a dictatorship is sure to follow. Even in the movie, a constant is the domination of the states by the federal government, over and over.

        Beware of what you wish for, the fire is much worse than the frying pan.

        • mrs_saj August 25, 2023 at 3:47 pm #

          JohnAZ,

          Actually SEVERAL dictatorships are sure to follow. The national cohesion that would support a single dictator, I posit would not hold.

          And I’ve been stocking up lately in support of my opinion.

      • rainmaker August 25, 2023 at 10:53 am #

        Opt out is a better option than CW2. Boycott everything. Americans have no stomach for giving up their goodies voluntarily, but it seems that our festering energy crisis is soon going to force the normies to make some hard choices about their lifestyles.

        • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 10:59 am #

          Disagree, that is exactly what the WEF mentored Left wants,

          You will own nothing and be happy.

          Do not forget the left out last part,

          Or we will kill you.

          • rainmaker August 25, 2023 at 11:07 am #

            JohnAZ – the WEF has no authority over energy depletion.

          • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 12:15 pm #

            I was referring to the “goodies”

            Unfortunately, the basis for peak oil and the Long Emergency is that there is no answer, that people will just have to adapt to the new reality.

            IOW, die.

  16. JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 10:26 am #

    The initial polls after the debate declare in bold print,

    Trump will clobber the East Coast establishment RINOs. Christie looked like an idiot trying to out yell the boos he got from the audience, obviously pro-Trump.

    These RINO idiots do not get it. They are Deep State and know that Trump’s populist base wants them out of there.

    Four of the debaters need to drop out now.

    Ramaswamy is settled on Trump, DeSantis needs to figure it out. The GOP cause will be settled between three candidates. Who gets what needs to be settled.

    • SW August 25, 2023 at 10:56 am #

      Mike Pence needs to go back to Indiana and stay there forever. I never paid much attention to him but seeing him in the debate — pompous, arrogant, holier than thou, grandstanding, claiming credit for things he didn’t do — I hope he doesn’t qualify for another.

      He was officially in charge of the covid response and I now better understand why it turned into such a disaster. Pence, Fauci, Birx, Collins as the top people with all the power.

      • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 11:14 am #

        Pence is a consummate Deep Stater. Feds above everything else. Political destruction is required along with all but two on that stage.

        • Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 11:30 am #

          That melee January 6 turned into? He was in on that, as well.

          It was supposed to be the last ditch effort to get the evidence of fraud heard.

          The Deep State was there waiting.

          I think one of the reasons RFK Jr. won’t go there is because he can’t without learning some things he’d rather not know about Nancy Pelosi.

          Notice he talks about Ukraine a lot, but one name is conspicuously absent?

          He also never mentions the phony impeachment by Pelosi over that phone call Trump made.

          You can’t do a deep dive into Ukraine without seeing that.

        • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 2:15 pm #

          He’s also a satanist. He’s been caught doing the hand signals at high-level functions enough times.

        • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 2:23 pm #

          That’s gang sign, Mary. He’s part of a Hispanic cartel.

          • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:41 pm #

            LOL!

    • Paddys Lament August 25, 2023 at 10:18 pm #

      Vivek brought up Christie’s “man-hugging” of Obama after the superstorm. That and the fact that he’s an obnoxious boor, who looks like ‘The Blob Who Swallowed Idaho,’ should disqualify him.

  17. RD3 August 25, 2023 at 10:35 am #

    Wait. Are we operating under the assumption that evolution is real?

    • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 10:56 am #

      No, but devolution certainly is.

      • RD3 August 25, 2023 at 11:31 am #

        Are you speaking about central authorities returning power to local authorities?

        • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 12:12 pm #

          Yes, I meant it as a play on the word, a double entendre. Devolution as in return power to local authorities, and de-evolution as in the backwards decline of man.

          • RD3 August 25, 2023 at 12:27 pm #

            Thanks. Its funny to look back now on all of those European politicians from the 90’s and early 2000’s who ran on platforms of devolution, all while plowing forward with the EU behemoth that wrought the exact opposite. I believe Canadian politicians were saying the same things. Look what happened there?

          • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 1:01 pm #

            Canada is on the very precipice. Compliance to fall mandates of masks, social distancing and boosters is fulcrum point and the rubicon.

            And we will comply this fall. Canadians are sheep. Sad but true.

    • Night Owl August 25, 2023 at 5:54 pm #

      There is more evidence for evolution than there is Covid-19 being real or the nebulous “carrying capacity” being achieved.

      This place has become a rather odd mix of folk lately.

  18. JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 10:50 am #

    This will sound phobic, but IAm definitely not. Trying to state facts from the way things really are and extrapolating the future.

    The USA is where it is, dominant and fairly well operated because for two hundred plus years it has been run by White, European people who seem to be better organizers and managers. Is it a coincidence that since the Darker elements have been trying to take over, the US is circling the drain, falling faster and faster. Dictating the advance of the Darker groups in spite of merit deficiencies will just continue to drag us down.

    An ironic twist is the fact that the very White Democrat party is the focus for the Darker side, they cannot seem to advance themselves.

    Significant persons of the Darker groups have advanced themselves using the White formula, education and hard work.

    Their reward is the rest of the darker losers calling them Uncle Toms and Oreos. It is okay to advance to pro sports but woe be to the Black folks who want to be businessmen, MDs, or leaders.

    • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:23 am #

      You don’t sound phobic at all, John AZ. I’ve called it the Blackening of America for some time, now. It’s been a gradual degradation of education and culture in general since the mid-80s, when we adopted multiculturalism and diversity in the public school system. I like to watch movies from before that time or right around that time, before all that rot took hold in the culture and white boys started wearing their baseball caps backwards and their pants down around their ankles, thinking they looked cool. It’s like coming up for air from a sewer from time to time, because otherwise we’re totally immersed in blackness and nothing but blackness everywhere you look along with the message that what we are is bad.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 11:34 am #

        It’s white people behind it. The true forces of destruction in our society are white people.

        It was the white-run media and the white-run music business that elevated the black thug culture.

        Al Sharpton works for whites.

        The people behind Barack Obama’s rise are white.

        • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:40 am #

          This is true.

        • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 11:43 am #

          Whites run media? Whites run the music industry?

          Can you be more specific? Which whites? Do these rich and powerful whites share a common ancestry or religion?

          • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 11:50 am #

            The Deep State brainwashes the likes of Miley Cyrus and Amanda Bynes, selling them out to the American public to serve their nefarious purposes. Then when their usefulness ends, these old starlets go crazy and are medicated/locked up never to be heard from again. It is sad the way they are selling us all out.

          • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 11:58 am #

            Absolutely. Hollyweird is a little chunk of Hades right here on earth.

          • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 12:25 pm #

            Aha, here is the rub.

            Whites are at the top of most economic pyramids because the minorities either cannot compete, or defer.

            The aim of affirmative action was to inspire the minorities, Blacks and Hispanics, to aim higher for themselves.

            That did not pan out well. It is like Blacks want someone to be in charge of them.

            Is that cultural? Do Black males have an ethnic inferiority complex?

            Ironic, as most things are, affirmative action backfired on the Blacks, as Asians used the advantage to push their economic advantage. Now, some of the battles are between Asians and Blacks.

            The Black solution is inside the Black community.

          • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 12:57 pm #

            Look up to the very top of those economic pyramids, John. Media, Hollyweird, Banking, Government, etc.

            Is there a particular subgrouping of white sitting on top of all of the pyramids? I’m pretty sure that stonned is picking up what I’m throwing down.

            If one looks closely, one may find that it is, in fact, a small minority at the top of everything.

          • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 1:25 pm #

            The Unspeakable Truth. It all comes back to the Pyramid and who is the Eye in the Capstone.

            They don’t want to know. And of course Blacks are given a complete pass – as if they have no agency whatsoever. This is the bond between Blacks and White women btw. Neither cares for accountability, the Weight of Glory.

      • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 11:56 am #

        Me too. Hollywood’s golden era started in 1967 with Bonnie and Clyde and ended with Star Wars in 1977. What a decade of film!

        Jaws (1975) set the stage for Star Wars and Smokey and the Bandit (also 1977) and the Hollywood Blockbuster killed [ok, marginalized] cinema.

        • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 11:40 pm #

          “Hollywood’s golden era started in 1967…”

          Dr. Strangelove, 1964;

          The Great Escape, 1963;

          Stalag 17, 1953;

          The Wizard of Oz, 1939;

          Gone With the Wind, 1939;

          The Jazz Singer, 1927;

          <Birth of a Nation, 1915.

          ?

          OG, your disdain for Americentrism is showing.

          But yeah – 1967!

          • tuco22 August 28, 2023 at 9:51 am #

            Ah, yes, the Great Escape. My younger brother dug a tunnel from the basement to the outside in emulation of that movie. My dad found it when he was mowing the lawn one day.

    • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 12:51 pm #

      And of course race is just skin color, right?

      You haven’t even begun to understand. Is Vivek “black”. His skin is certainly as dark as many American Blacks.

      They can want all they want. But if they don’t have the IQ to be that, it’s just fraud to let them.

      • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 3:03 pm #

        Ethnicity is not race is not skin color.

        I wonder, Jarek. If a complete demographics study was done, would the Black “lack of ambition” been a result of their background of slavery? Or is it a leftover from African ethnicity? In other words, is it built in? Does concentrating the Black population into urban centers deign that those cities are doomed to failure?

        The Democrats have found a solid solution to the possibility that it was slavery that created the take care of me attitude,

        Reparations. The fact that Blacks think they are owed reparations shows how far they continue to be from independence.

        • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 6:39 pm #

          Yeah, but they’ve had 150+ years to get over the “take care of me” attitude. One wonders what would have happened to the Israelites with that attitude. Oh, wait, they DID have that attitude, and paid for it for 40 years in the desert. The late Edgar Steele discussed this and other topics in his book, Defensive Racism. I’d recommend it.

          • Jarek August 26, 2023 at 12:51 am #

            He knew the former AG, having faced him in court. He sent a copy of his book to him – which may have sealed his doom.

  19. TimmyG August 25, 2023 at 10:53 am #

    Great quote from Fani at the head of the article. Perhaps she should be called as a witness?

    • Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 11:35 am #

      Ask her about that broken pipe that wasn’t broken.

  20. docmartin August 25, 2023 at 10:55 am #

    Trump is the Republican candidate period. Donate to the Trump campaign like your country depends on it. Push back on anyone ( family and friends included) who believes in the MSM. Stop trying to be clever or cute in the comments. Get off your asses and fight back in every way. This ain’t about Trump any, it’s about all of us.

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    • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 10:59 am #

      God damn right! Trump is the man of the hour! I love and respect him more now than I ever did in 2015! His street cred just went up tenfold as a result of all these bogus charges against him! Fuck the old rule of law in this country, I don’t believe in any of it anymore!

      • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 11:08 am #

        No, not the old rule of law but,

        The new rule of Uniparty law.

        We want the old rule of law back.

      • crudgemudgeon August 25, 2023 at 12:53 pm #

        Time to ditch the Marquis of Queensbury.

    • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 11:06 am #

      Doc

      I have thought for awhile that there is no way this country can re-unite again. The opposing parties are just too far apart in beliefs.

      I think that the next twenty years will see the separation of the US into two sectors, with no idea on how it will be done.

      Precedent exists, however, the Balkans and India come to mind.

      Two areas I can think of exist where separation is necessary to avoid collapse in the future, the USA and Israel. I do not think either will be peaceful.

      • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 11:44 am #

        I have nothing in common and no sympathy at all for my left-wing brethren countrymen. I would rather see them writhe in pain and die in the streets before I render then any aid or comfort. If you voted for Biden or Obama, you do not deserve to live in peace and comfort in American any more.

        • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 2:18 pm #

          You’re just the other side of the coin, and just as bad as they are, then.

          That’s what they say about you.

  21. cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 11:07 am #

    I can’t wait until Biden dies and is buried, so that I can visit his gravesite and actually piss on it. He deserves worse, but at least that is something!

    • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 11:10 am #

      He is no better or worse than the Mob bosses that preceded him.

      They dominate by bribery and coercion. We have seen both modes in use by the Biden version of the Mob.

      • Amman August 25, 2023 at 1:08 pm #

        No link between a fake, feeble President and a real Don.

    • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:26 am #

      They won’t let you piss on it. But be comforted by the fact that in the new world, he won’t have a grave at all.

      • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 11:40 am #

        This guy gets it.

      • stelmosfire August 25, 2023 at 11:55 am #

        Your right . In the new world it’s straight to the compost pile for the dead.

        • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 12:33 pm #

          This guy? Not so much.

        • thirdcoastlegend August 25, 2023 at 12:35 pm #

          Actually, after the global thermonuclear war, the Earth will simply be the largest charcoal briquette in the galaxy.

        • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 12:53 pm #

          It’s the only way to be sure. This system must not be allowed to spread beyond the Earth to infect other worlds.

  22. stonned August 25, 2023 at 11:10 am #

    Choreographed chaos … a specialty of the OLIGARCH INFANTILE NARCISSISTS that own this joint.

    Enjoy EACH new “installment” of BREAD & CIRCUS, goy, is brought to you by the ESSENTIAL ONES, who will be in bidness LONG after YOU are DUST.

    Goy are, well, goy, just like the Talmud says they are. Same as the OXEN in the field, with the brains to match.

    Maybe you’ll awaken from your stupor.

    Probably just in time to see the flash of the blade plunging into your throat and choking on your own blood.

    • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 11:27 am #

      God has different plans.

      • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 11:29 am #

        Indeed.

      • Amman August 25, 2023 at 2:29 pm #

        So does our Man.

        It’s GAME ON now.

        And we get to see how the never-ending story ends.

  23. bobfitz03 August 25, 2023 at 11:17 am #

    The Left ploughs full steam ahead in a deceitful, hateful, and destructive quest for final and absolute power. The ability to suspend and abuse reality during this unholy war will be pushed to the limit.

    The central political asset of the Left in America is Barack Obama. The center piece on the Right is Donald Trump. They are the kings while all others are queens, bishops, knights, rooks, and pawns.

    The board was set before 2015. We’re well past the opening gambits. As game strategies unfold, we witness moves and counter moves. Pieces captured and sacrificed through sound tactics and blunders.

    The Left positions the machinery of the state while the Right consolidates the will of the people. Obama attempts to fork, pin, and skewer while Trump dodges the slings and arrows and judo flips buffoons.

    Will we see checkmate by November 2024? Will a clear outcome of the match be acknowledged by the players and hidden hands moving the pieces? Or will the game mutate and grind on?

    Time will tell.

    • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 12:37 pm #

      I hear you.

      It is interesting that the Constitution was written to divide power to many people instead of one. They hated the dominance of the King. The original Articles did not even have a president.

      Unfortunately, design by committee sucks. Legislatures are lousy administrators. Hence the creation of the Presidency.

      IMO, the removal of a president is too political, it should be judicial. Bozo presidents have hurt the US all through its history and the avenues to removing them are not there. States have recall elections, why cannot the US? Let the voters decide if the bozo they elected should be removed.

      Why is it that one person, Trump, Obama, or one family, Bush or Kennedy, can dominate national politics?

      How come RFK, jr. can have instant credibility by just showing up, because he is a Kennedy.

      Are we by definition already a dictatorship?

    • Amman August 25, 2023 at 2:34 pm #

      Truth is last to arrive. Wait well.

  24. Paula D August 25, 2023 at 11:36 am #

    I don’t know how other states do it, but in Illinois, the electors are chosen before the election, and are listed on the petition to be on the ballot.
    The Dems and Reps have it rigged so that they need very few signatures to get on the ballot, so very few people have ever seen such petitions, or signed one, or looked at the top of one if they did sign it.

    The electors are all listed there at the top. So why would they need to find new ones after the election? Unless Georgia has different laws about the electors.

    I know that Georgia is a state that has notoriously onerous ballot access laws.

    • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 12:57 pm #

      Why would there be a “thing” to certify the electoral ballots unless you could also choose not to certify them? Empty ritual from the beginning? I don’t know. Maybe it became that because it never had to be used up to now. Use it or lose it. But what was the original intent?

      • Paula D August 25, 2023 at 1:35 pm #

        I assume that it was another check, in the checks and balances system.

        If the election was stolen in November, by January the evidence would be in, so they set it up so that the election had to be certified.

        Now the Dems and the media insist that it is an empty ritual of rubber stamping.
        Why would anyone believe that?

        • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 2:17 pm #

          Remember when Pelosi was all sanctimonious about protecting that little locked box the contained the electors on January 6th? Haha, boy what a national hero she was.

        • JohnAZ August 25, 2023 at 3:08 pm #

          Paula

          Maybe because it took weeks to get information around the country, at the time.

          • Paula D August 25, 2023 at 7:59 pm #

            Now it takes years. Look how many people still think the 2020 election was honest.

            And they are the same ones who think the 2016 election was stolen.

            A bit slow, they is.

  25. Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 11:48 am #

    I came across a very good article on the questions Tucker Carlson should have asked Donald Trump, but didn’t.

    I realize there is almost no support for prosecuting any of the covid crimes, so many people are embarrassed by it, and since most of our “leaders” took part in it too they also want it to just go away.

    Even RFK Jr., for reasons best known to himself, has backed off the idea of actually doing anything about it, other than somehow making sure it never happens again.

    Fat chance of that. If crimes against humanity go unpunished, who are we to punish anybody for anything?

    BTW the shoplifting is the equivalent of the Lahaina fires. It induces people to vacate property someone ants for some other purpose.

    The covid lockdowns started the ball rolling. I am still seeing small businesses founder.

    These are good questions. Here are just a few:

    “What was shocking to me was when you seemed to pivot 180 degrees in just a few days, from saying that it would not be worse than a bad flu season, to announcing that we would throw everything we had at it, locking down the whole country, and investing trillions of dollars in keeping the economy shut down. It was especially surprising that you agreed to the economic shutdown. What made you change your mind?”

    “I’m going to be more specific on this, because a lot of information has come out suggesting that you changed your mind because your National Security Council, and related military and intelligence operatives, told you the virus was a potential bioweapon that leaked from a Chinese lab. Is that what you were told? Did they tell you millions of people would die and you would be responsible, if you didn’t follow their plan?”

    “Can you tell me who made the decision in the middle of March to invoke the Stafford Act in all 50 states at the same time (which had never been done before), and to put FEMA in charge as the Lead Federal Agency for pandemic response, when FEMA had no warning and no experience in this area at all? Who decided to remove HHS from the role of Lead Federal Agency, which it was supposed to have according to every single pandemic planning document before Covid? Did you make those decisions or did the NSC or other military or intelligence advisors tell you to take those steps?”

    “Were you in touch with leaders of other allied countries to coordinate the response to the pandemic? It’s pretty astonishing how all our closest allies ended up doing exactly the same thing at the same time. If you were not the one who was coordinating with foreign leaders, were you aware of that type of coordination going on – especially with the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Germany, and other European allies?”

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    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 2:22 pm #

      Our leaders don’t want Covid19 to just go away. They want to do it again.

      They have their marching orders, and they march to the drumming of the WEF.

      • Amman August 25, 2023 at 2:37 pm #

        I’m getting hints at the job something is up.

        Will the world take it up the wazoo? Again?

        • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:36 pm #

          Seems to be what we do.

          • Amman August 25, 2023 at 10:20 pm #

            We did the 1st time around, MQ. This time it’s different.

            *Knock on wood*

      • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 11:51 pm #

        It played well the first time around. I think they will use it for at least one more go-round. After that, introducing a new world-ending pandemic shouldn’t be too difficult.

        And just in time to defer – indefinitely – the 2024 election. But rest assured, Hillary will lead us to victory!

        (Just to be on the safe side, I should probably state now, for the record, that if I ever disappear for too long… Hillary did it!)

    • Amman August 25, 2023 at 2:39 pm #

      ….there is almost no support for prosecuting any of the covid crimes, so many people are embarrassed by it, and since most of our “leaders” took part in it too they also want it to just go away…

      This is rich.

  26. redrock August 25, 2023 at 11:50 am #

    CLUSTERFUCK IS THE WORD. Congrats for seeing it coming.

  27. MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 11:52 am #

    The Shit Show has gotten so beyond ridiculous that all I can do is roll my eyes at the mugshot pageant.

    Of course, this is not only a Shit Show, but a Side Show, to distract from the real horrors the PTB are still putting into action against us.

    CBDC, chipping, AI, transhumanism, human trafficking, open border crises, Smart Cities, “natural disasters” that aren’t, more jabbing, etc. And of course, hiding the massive crimes of the Biden family & criminal enterprise including Obama, Clintons, Soros, etc. etc.

    Look over here at Trump’s mean mug while we pull the rug out from under you and force Smart City bullshit on your community. Hey we gave you Lime bikes and scooters, shut up and go for a merry jaunt about the town. Make sure to leave said bikes and scooters littered all over the trails to trip actual bikers and hikers, for extra enjoyment.

    • Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 12:00 pm #

      Yep. The smart cities are going in right now, and nobody is talking about it.

      Probably because the political class knows they and theirs will be exempt.

      • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 12:26 pm #

        They do probably think that they will be exempt … but Satan is a liar and truly there are no good seats in Hell.

        • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 1:46 pm #

          Hear, hear!

        • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:41 am #

          That’s a really deep thought, OG.

          How do you come up with this stuff?

      • BackRowHeckler August 25, 2023 at 12:30 pm #

        The thing is Beryl, US cities almost without exception, as they exist now, are violent, squalid, shambolic, & crumbling; just raising them up to a base level of civilization where ordinary citizens aren’t pushed off subway platforms in front of moving trains, junkies aren’t defecating onto the pavement on Main Street, and dept.stores aren’t routinely looted, will take a Herculean effort and many billions of dollars. After they get that squared away … then they can start in with their ‘Smart City’ campaign.

        • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 12:46 pm #

          Or depop, Heckler. Depop would square all of that right quick; leaving historic downtown cores in its wake.

          • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 11:57 pm #

            I’m all for depop – as long as I get to call the shots.

            I think all of us agree – we can’t get along with the rest of us.

        • Not_GeorgeT August 25, 2023 at 1:47 pm #

          I moved.

          Probably not far enough, possibly enough to see it coming and make a further attempt to avoid the biggest shitballs, yet sustaining hits from the smaller ones.

          Maybe ‘further attempt’ will become ‘futile attempt’.

          “After they get that squared away…’

          I think DEW is Maui, test run, quick and simple. The dwellers you describe will be toast, charcoal side up.

          • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:34 pm #

            There are sooo many more tests. Paradise, CA, and all those other communities that Debbie Lusigne reported on, with the trees intact but melted cars and houses incinerated.

            She died mysteriously last year, at only 54 years of age.

        • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:35 pm #

          They seem to be starting “Smart City” crap in the suburbs.

      • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 1:30 pm #

        Whites are too blame for Blacks pushing people in front of trains.

        The World according to Beryl

        • Beryl of Oyl August 25, 2023 at 4:31 pm #

          Oh Jarek.

          • Jarek August 26, 2023 at 12:56 am #

            It sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous. As if Black nations aren’t basket case kleptocracies.

      • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 2:24 pm #

        My neighbors are, they have no idea what’s happening big picture though, save a couple of people who have mentioned “15 minute cities” on NextDoor. I am guessing that soon that will be censored as well as the posts where at least 200 people complained about the new “bike and pedestrian-friendly” road layout they imposed on our neighborhood (it’s insane and ugly to boot).

        Julie Romanello is at war with the city of Tulsa, OK revealing the shit as it happens, they are a Smart City in the making. You can find her on FaceBook. She is doing amazing work trying to combat it.

      • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:42 am #

        Nobody here knew about it until about 6 months ago, either (except for a handful of us).

        Now we have the Fantastic Four warning us day and night.

    • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 1:00 pm #

      The misuse of a thing is no argument against the thing in itself.

      Aquinas

      And of course not an argument for it either.

  28. stelmosfire August 25, 2023 at 11:58 am #

    I can picture the Trumpster practicing that mug shot in the mirror on the flight all the way to Georgia. Perhaps with a few helpers. ” How’s this one?” Perfect!

    • Q. Shtik August 25, 2023 at 2:24 pm #

      I can picture the Trumpster practicing that mug shot in the mirror – stelmo

      ==========

      So true.

      I thought that mug shot was very flattering for Trump. What ever happened to the mug shots of old where some disheveled character in profile is all but convicted by the picture alone.

      • Q. Shtik August 25, 2023 at 2:25 pm #

        alone?

      • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 2:28 pm #

        “What ever happened to the mug shots of old where some disheveled character in profile is all but convicted by the picture alone.”

        Should be:

        Whatever happened to the mugshots of old, where some disheveled character in profile is all but convicted by the picture alone?

        Why don’t you check your grammar and spelling for typos before you post, Q?

  29. stelmosfire August 25, 2023 at 12:03 pm #

    Get your coffee mug here. Get it? coffee MUG. Trump cracks me up

    httpx://secure.winred.com/save-america-joint-fundraising-committee/storefront/never-surrender-white-coffee-mug/details

    • JackStraw August 25, 2023 at 12:09 pm #

      He could use this to bring in the black vote now that he’s one of them.

      The Presidential OG.

      • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 12:22 pm #

        My thoughts exactly! Says the inner city Black ghetto youth: “So’s what if I’m arrested, booked, and mug shot? Looka tha big man Trump that used to be President. I’ma good as him now!”

        • Amman August 25, 2023 at 2:58 pm #

          When Trump ‘blew up” in NYC in the 90s with GLITZY GRAND Real estate projects, the term “TRUMP IT UP” started being used.

          All the Banks were falling over each other, fighting to finance his projects. After pitching to him personally in his office, the Bank I worked for actually won. I asked one Amy Unger, RE Finance officer, “What’s he like? How’d it go?”

          She said He was very relaxed and cool. He just smiled after the pitch and said OK.

          Bankers Trust
          Park Avenue
          NY, ’94

        • Amman August 25, 2023 at 3:09 pm #

          “TRUMP IT UP” was used by ambitious Black Youth.

  30. cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 12:27 pm #

    They can take the old US Constitution and shove it straight up Hillary Clinton’s nether regions.

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  31. Forced-to-subsist-on-small-game August 25, 2023 at 12:32 pm #

    All this stuff about Trump and Biden and the politics of the moment anymore. I’m all for the odd political post taking the broader view and placing it in our larger trajectory, but otherwise this is all such ephemeral stuff given we now have front-row seats to the greatest show humanity has ever been around to witness – the decline and fall of an 8-billion ‘strong’ global empire. This stuff is ecochal. “Trump” and “Biden” and who gets elected and who doesn’t and who stole the election and who wins the corruption sweepstakes and etcetera etcetera? Honestly, who cares at this point?. Flash in the pan stuff, and the players are interchangeable and it’s all going away anyway. More to the point, there is literally endless commentary on this stuff by political experts of all persuasions. So i vote “meh” to the politics of the USA of right now. Intelligent, informed, objective commentary on our decline and fall on the other hand, the larger picture… a paucity. So whaddya gonna fill the netwaves with?

    • Billy Hill August 25, 2023 at 1:00 pm #

      I’m down with ecochal. Eschew meh.

    • stelmosfire August 25, 2023 at 1:04 pm #

      “So whaddya gonna fill the netwaves with?”

      ‘Possum recipes?

      • Forced-to-subsist-on-small-game August 25, 2023 at 1:49 pm #

        How about the stuff that is JHK’s forte that’s NOT what everyone else is going on and on and on about already? The Ectoplasm that is Joe Biden and the Citrus King of Narcissism will be dead in the blink of an eye, and some claque of dustmote assholes will take their place and it’s all just a trivial freakshow for which there is no redemption now. Akin to listening to rap music. It’s just not that engrossing.

        I’ve got the possum recipes covered, thanks.

        • Anthea August 26, 2023 at 3:35 pm #

          If you have a copy of the “White Trash Cookbook” (from back in the 80s), it tells how to prepare possum. I haven’t looked at it lately, but I remember that it said, “You only eat possum in the winter.” Didn’t say why.

  32. Edge Lord August 25, 2023 at 12:48 pm #

    And after just a little bit of digging we find that Vivek is being untruthful about his Soros family scholarship.

    He did it for the money, who wouldn’t?

    Despite him earning $2m that year.

    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 2:29 pm #

      Suckers wanna be suckered. This info will probably not deter them any more than his ties to WEF did.

  33. Amman August 25, 2023 at 12:56 pm #

    If and when America… confronts America, everyone will finally see the core – the pith of the country.

    This trial could be the gateway leading there.

  34. Edge Lord August 25, 2023 at 12:57 pm #

    Whwn may we expect Stacey Abrams mug shot?

    She tried, but couldn’t make a career out of election meddling accusations.

    This is what happens when the lunatics take over the asylum.

    Equality

    • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 1:03 pm #

      Then they tried to turn her into a runway model. One recalls the actress who played Precious in this regard. She has disappeared from the scene. If only Stacey would too. She not talented, unlike Lizzo.

    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 2:30 pm #

      She is one that I hope someday will be smacked upside the head with a big wad of karma.

  35. FGB3 August 25, 2023 at 1:01 pm #

    Well … one thing is certain: IT’S COMPLICATED.

    I wonder if Mark Meadows is re-considering his decision to stymie Sidney Powell, General Flynn and Patrick Byrne’s election fraud remedy, which they presented to Trump in their daring, impromptu crashing of the White House on December 18, 2020?

    As I read the account by Byrne, I was truly depressed because Trump could have stayed in office if he had followed their plan. Initially he liked their idea and even appointed Sidney Powell as his Special Counsel, but then in the days afterwards nothing happened. Someone got to Trump. Byrne suspects Trump’s White House advisors, especially Mark Meadows. We may never know.

    Well … one thing is certain: Trump made a major misjudgement when he did not follow Flynn, Powell and Byrne’s remedy for the election fraud. For one thing he listened too much to an alcoholic Rudy Giuliani. He trusted the court system. Or, someone got to him. Because as soon as he left the White House, he no longer had the Power. And that’s what I saw and that’s what depressed me.

    As soon as the Democrats got into Power it was all over. Out came a myriad of little red devils romping across the body politic. Never again would they allow themselves to get into the situation they were in, in 2016. I can still remember that short video clip of George Soros telling someone at one of those meetings that the Cabal has, that Trump had to be whatever-you-want-to-call-it: let’s just say Trump would NOT win the 2020 election and leave it at that.

    This nameless Cabal, which we could nickname the Soros/Schwab Syndicate, has tremendous power and reach, world-wide. I find it difficult to believe that they could get themselves into the mess that’s going on now with all these “trumped-up” indictments. They are usually way ahead of the game. I mean, to paraphrase part of George Carlin’s monologue, “they own the judges”, all the way to the top. We have seen how the system of justice in America has been completely destroyed.

    No, I am not optimistic about there being a favorable outcome of all this. For one thing, I DO NOT TRUST DONALD TRUMP. He could have stayed President and avoided this shit-storm. I think it’s going to get much, much worse before (if ever) it gets better. And may the Lord have mercy on our souls.

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    • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 1:15 pm #

      What was their plan?

      • FGB3 August 25, 2023 at 1:40 pm #

        Read Byrne’s account which is below this.

    • FGB3 August 25, 2023 at 1:40 pm #

      Read Byrne’s account. I was kept from providing a direct URL, but just google ‘How Trump lost the White House: Fateful Decision Day’ by Patrick Byrne.

      • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 1:45 pm #

        Just summarize the Plan please. I’ve read some of the account previously. Trump wouldn’t even see these patriots toward the end.

        • FGB3 August 25, 2023 at 2:00 pm #

          Don’t be lazy. I gave you the way to go get it yourself. Jeez.

          • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 2:25 pm #

            If you can’t summarize it in a few words, you don’t understand it. Or maybe it wasn’t spelled out by them?

          • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 2:31 pm #

            You’ve got to be kidding, Jar.

            You, who post pages-long screeds, rather than summarizing yourself?

            What a hypocrite.

          • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 2:47 pm #

            I can be very succinct when I choose to be or needs be.

            I didn’t say that everything has to be brief, little one.

          • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:30 pm #

            It wasn’t about being brief. It was about you demanding a summary from someone, when you fail to provide them yourself for many an item.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 26, 2023 at 10:28 pm #

            So, no summary then?

          • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 12:23 am #

            No one has ever asked me for a summary, Mary. I’d be thrilled if they did.

            I don’t write long posts anyway. I sometimes paste and copy long articles and then comment on them, usually briefly.

            You’re all mixed up.

          • Q. Shtik August 27, 2023 at 8:32 pm #

            I sometimes paste and copy long articles – Jar

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

            But in the other order, of course.

  36. Cankerpuss August 25, 2023 at 1:15 pm #

    “The Party of Chaos is running scared.”

    I don’t know Jim. I don’t see them being afraid of everything. They control everything and they know the people are asleep at the wheel spending all their time watching reality TV shows, downloading porn or obsessing about their genitals. I don’t see fear. I see them embracing their power, forcing their will upon the masses and loving every minute of it. They know they are untouchable. They know the Republicans are feckless and weak. They know the people are stupid and brainwashed. Our situation is awful. What they are doing to Mr. Trump will NEVER be done to Joe Biden, a worthless piece of chunt who has broken countless laws. The Republicans won’t do it.

    I’m truly afraid of what the future holds in this bankrupt, decadent, sham of a Country. My goodness how we as a nation have fallen.

    Truly embarrassing to behold what America has become.

    • FGB3 August 25, 2023 at 1:43 pm #

      Perfect take-away line Cankerpuss: ‘Our situation is awful’.
      Any other viewpoint would be laden with denial.

    • Amman August 25, 2023 at 3:22 pm #

      No ones bought a G7 bond in 6 months.

      Plus there are some other Trillion USD dollar facts.

      That might scare some demon-rats.

  37. Paula D August 25, 2023 at 1:16 pm #

    It looks like Pirozhgin’s personal pilot is the one that blew up the plane. Apparently, it was his plane and he did some “repairs” on it before it took off, without him on it.

    He has now disappeared, just like the assassin of Darya Dugina, who was seen in Latvia and Switzerland before disappearing completely.

    I have no doubt he was highly paid for the dirty deed, and is already settling into his Miami mansion.

    Interpol issued a Red Letter alert for Julian Assange, but not for Darya’s assassin, and I’ll bet they don’t for this one either.

    Western values and all.

    Robert Barnes does a great job dissecting the lawfare against Trump, and the coddling of the Biden crime family here.

    .youtube.com/watch?v=Lfseib5n3Ww

    And I got a kick out of this one. They spend the first half hour trashing Bolton, with Sachs saying that Bolton has the knack of making everyone in the world hate him.
    I thought of Q, of course.

    .youtube.com/watch?v=J7zm3eMy_Ew&t=3835s

    • Paula D August 25, 2023 at 1:18 pm #

      It is obvious that the US needed a diversion from the BRICS summit and the debacle in Ukraine.

      So they paid this dude to blow up the plane, right as the BRICS summit was going on, and countries around the world were clamoring to join.

      Just like the 2014 coup in Ukraine, as Russia was hosting the Olympics, and the Skirpal pay op, right as Russia was hosting the World Cup.

      • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 1:53 pm #

        Most of the lemmings are currently fixated on that woman in California who got shot over a Pride flag, and they’re calling for the roundup and imprisonment of certain local (appears to be) republicans because of “stochastic terror.” So, what’s happening with BRICS and Ukraine is currently off their radar.

      • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 2:43 pm #

        Sounds about right.

        Good sleuthing on the pilot blowing up the plane, and then disappearing.

        Pretty much along the lines of what I thought.

        • Blackbird August 26, 2023 at 12:15 am #

          Yeah, good work Paula.

          Way ahead of me. I’ve kinda been waiting for the dust to settle on the whole “Wagner Mutiny” thing.

          And I’ve got this whole conspiratorial matrix thing that new ideas have to plug into…

          Just living is getting distracting these days.

          • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 12:33 pm #

            One has to step away from the online hysteria about this or that, for sure.

            I wonder if more is happening now, or if it’s just the fact we have access to it all, immediately, that makes it seem so.

      • Amman August 25, 2023 at 3:32 pm #

        “Sordid, terrible affair but mind you quite necessary” will be the worlds reaction to the end of his head honcho, Wagner group.

        “One more widow, one less white ni**er.” – OLIVERS ARMY

        • Amman August 25, 2023 at 10:24 pm #

          (This)

    • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 1:28 pm #

      Putin wanted him gone. He gone! Russians don’t blink at such measures – which are the extension of politics by other means.

      Or are you against this but fine with the murder of the Czar and his family?

    • FGB3 August 25, 2023 at 1:46 pm #

      Oh wow Paula. This is the first explanation that has any meat on it of all the others. Most of which are WEAK. There was no head down crash with some control. This airplane was totally in free fall.

    • FGB3 August 25, 2023 at 1:59 pm #

      By the way Paula what was the source of this info?

      • Paula D August 25, 2023 at 3:04 pm #

        I got it from a commenter on Moon of Alabama.

      • Paula D August 25, 2023 at 3:06 pm #

        His name is Artem Stepanov

      • Paula D August 25, 2023 at 3:09 pm #

        Oh, I guess the commenter was wrong about his disappearance.

        Russian investigators are talking to him.

        .agenzianova.com/en/news/morte-di-prigozhin-le-autorita-russe-interrogano-il-pilota-artem-stepanov-ha-avuto-accesso-al-jet-prima-del-decollo/

        • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:28 pm #

          The plot thickens.

  38. Ishabaka August 25, 2023 at 1:17 pm #

    Let me tie two things together: in Hawaii, the diversity hire in charge of water decided “water equity” was more important than saving children from burning to death.
    There is a regular meeting of neonatologists (doctors who take care of newborn babies who need intensive care), and the four top docs in North America hold a round table where they make recommendations for the best treatment based on the latest research. People are offended that the last time the four top docs were all White and male, so next time they will select lesser qualified women and brown people.
    It’s now clear the Woke religion trumps saving little children’s lives.

    • tuco22 August 25, 2023 at 1:50 pm #

      That’s how it was in the Soviet Union, too.

    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 4:07 pm #

      Of course.

      Every time.

  39. Mister Roboto August 25, 2023 at 1:37 pm #

    I think the Democratic Party at this point could write a whole book on How To Be Totally Self-Defeating.

    • FGB3 August 25, 2023 at 1:49 pm #

      Nope Mr. R. They could write a book on how they were an important part of the 2021 Color Revolution in the United States.

    • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 2:06 pm #

      They’re in Power. That title would better fit the Republicans.

    • JackStraw August 25, 2023 at 2:17 pm #

      I don’t know. It seems like they’ve destroyed everything for everyone.

    • Amman August 25, 2023 at 10:35 pm #

      The Napoleon complex!

  40. Jarek August 25, 2023 at 1:48 pm #

    Carlos said, you’re either a man or a woman at birth. Or as John Galt would say, a is a. From that, all follows. If you deny that, nothing but error and disaster follows.

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    • Blackbird August 26, 2023 at 12:22 am #

      Carlos? Carlos Casteneda? Did he say that? Which book?

      You can read Carlos Casteneda and Ayn Rand without your head splitting open?

      • Jarek August 26, 2023 at 1:00 am #

        Look up at my previous post just above this one. Each week I create a tapestry, a Tree of Meaning, where posts refer to previous and later posts. You need to study all my posts to understand all of them.

        • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 12:32 pm #

          Hahaahahahahaaaa!!

          • Anthea August 26, 2023 at 3:44 pm #

            I think we’re in, “Sure, buddy,” territory.

          • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 6:53 pm #

            Spot on, @Anthea.

          • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 12:26 am #

            Maybe. He’s been sub-par lately. Scarcely better than you guys.

      • tuco22 August 28, 2023 at 10:08 am #

        Hey, I’ve read Carlos Castaneda. You know that power he talks about in his books? Think Jannes and Jambres of the Old Testament (Pharaoh’s “magicians”).

  41. neurodoc August 25, 2023 at 2:22 pm #

    Given the divisive mendacity we are seeing with the court cases, they show just how crazy things will be once CW2 really gets started and goes hot.

    Then again, CW2 may have already started. Friends and former colleagues who are still living in dem shithole states and cities are telling me that they fear going out at night and are asking me about what guns to buy (many would have to purchase on the black market given where they live, but that’s not difficult). These are people, the former colleagues not friends, who have probably never touched a firearm and may well shoot self out of ignorance. But they are SCARED!!!!! So scared that they are willing to give up their life long anti-gun/anti-self defense stances to protect themselves and their families. Very interesting psychologically. (Most are too old to move or so they think).

    • Billy Hill August 25, 2023 at 3:05 pm #

      CW2 is already here, just not widely distributed. How it will manifest apart from the urban warfare and looting is anyone’s guess at this point but prepare to jettison your normalcy* bias.

      *(normality, that is, in case Q is monitoring neologisms)

      One of my favorite scenes in all drama was the made-for-TV movie The Day After depicting nuclear war. As the mushroom clouds were rising visible through the bedroom windows of the suburban home of the main characters, the wife/mother was busy making the beds on the verge of hysteria. Jason Robards bursts in and shouts something to the effect of “what are you doing? We have to get out of here!”

      • Amman August 25, 2023 at 10:38 pm #

        In retrospect, psyops on the American people and the immigrants who were there. (Legally and otherwise)

      • tuco22 August 28, 2023 at 10:10 am #

        She was trying to hang onto something of what she knew to be the “old life” for a few more seconds.

  42. elysianfield August 25, 2023 at 2:24 pm #

    CFN’rs,
    Subway sandwiches survived the Jared Fogle outrage…but it will not survive this;

    https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/24/subway-sells-to-dunkin-owner-roark-capital.html

    Sold to a venture capital firm…what could possibly go wrong?

    • Jarek August 25, 2023 at 2:29 pm #

      Roark? Who can forget The Fountainhead. I need to read that again. Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead are the two Pillars of the Temple.

      The small man was the Samson who would have torn it down. And built another Temple and Fortress, stronger and more beautiful. But you would not have it.

    • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 3:08 pm #

      All sub sandwich bread will now be made out of leftover donuts.

    • Edge Lord August 25, 2023 at 3:43 pm #

      How can shitty sandwhiches possibly get shittier?

      • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 4:49 pm #

        Watch for them to raise prices of their already sub-par food. What does a Subway footlong even run these days?

        • Edge Lord August 25, 2023 at 5:02 pm #

          I think it ran Jared 30 years…

          I’ll be all week folks, don’t forget to tip your waitress… and try the house prime Rib Special!

      • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:12 pm #

        They have wood shavings or pulp or something in their bread.

        It’s disgusting.

      • Amman August 25, 2023 at 10:39 pm #

        Expired mayo?

      • Blackbird August 26, 2023 at 12:29 am #

        They paid millions to answer that question.

  43. Q. Shtik August 25, 2023 at 2:57 pm #

    Changing the subject if I may…

    Evelyn, the home care person from Ghana that we employ, described to me this morning a new world record “shit explosion*” that she encountered when she ascended to the third floor with Peter’s breakfast. For your benefit I will forego repeating the revolting description.

    * Note: Evelyn never says “shit,” she always says “poop.”

    • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 3:49 pm #

      I for one would love to hear about the revolting description. This would serve as a good way for us to take our minds off the shit storm that is currently swirling our country.

    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 4:58 pm #

      I’m not interested in hearing more about Peter’s torture, no.

      • Edge Lord August 25, 2023 at 5:15 pm #

        Excuse me while I get a few chuckles from the elder I’m abusing’s incontinence. I fired the Ukrainian who wanted a living wage and hired a Ghanian who has, unbeknownst to me, sold my social security number to her cousin back in Kumasi.

        • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:12 pm #

          If only!

        • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:37 am #

          It’s far more amusing that you believe the elder is anything but a figment of Q’s imagination used to garner attention.

          Not the brightest bulb.

    • KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 5:24 pm #

      Not me.

      I like your autobiographical stories.

      But , ” No poop , no pain ”

      was my motto.

      • KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 5:26 pm #

        ” Peter’s torture ”

        Another reason I frankly don’t give a fuck about the knocking of cigarette smoking.

        Have you gotten a look at what typically happens to folks who live a bit too long ?

        I never yet saw a case that was pretty.

        • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:13 pm #

          Pretty sure this guy is in his 70’s.

          I could be wrong.

    • Blackbird August 26, 2023 at 12:30 am #

      Fire her.

      Now.

      Poop is un-American.

  44. Roundball Shaman August 25, 2023 at 2:57 pm #

    “What to make of this mugshot? Serious as a heart attack? I’d hate to be you on that fateful day? Table turner?”

    The sad-sack face that Trump made was a bad (yuge) mistake on his part. You know the Woke Dems are going to plaster that depressing mug shot endlessly on their campaign commercials. And the supposedly-media-savvy Trump should have known that and…instead… have a big wide grin on his face. Dem Wokesters can’t use that kind of happy face. But sometimes, Trump – who always believes he’s the Smartest Man in the Universe – isn’t even as smart as the camera person taking his mug shot.

    “Will the defendants be allowed to present evidence of serious irregularities in the 2020 Georgia election results?”

    They can’t. It is now against the law to question rigged elections. In fact, it’s now against the law to do almost ANYTHING that Dem Wokesters don’t like in their pre-adolescent (actually infantile) brains and ways of doing things. An entire big segment of Americans that will never grow up… who don’t want to grow up… who hate people who DID grow up… who only want to pound their fists on the table and pout and blat if they don’t get their way. What a way to run a Nation. Not even a good way to run a decent Day Care.

    “The Party of Chaos is running scared.”

    But Sane People are running even more scared. We are terrified that The Party of Chaos will get away with this (‘it’) again. Because at this point, who’s to stop them? Everything has become fully drowned in a Sea of Woke Insanity. People in leadership positions who are barely potty-trained. Yet, well versed on how to spread lots of shi…

    “Everybody knows that ‘Joe Biden’ can’t possibly run for another term…”

    Sure he can. Why, everybody knew he couldn’t run the FIRST time. So if he makes it to the frenzy of phony mail-in ballots now being filled out that will ‘elect’ him again… he will doom America to ‘Obama’s Fourth Term!’. And after that? To quote Paul McCartney…

    ‘Michelle… My Belle!… We love you, we love you… That’s all we want to say…’. That’s all you want to say if you’re a Dem Wokester, that is.

    And for the rest of America… how Trump looked in the mug shot is how we are ALL going to look one day.

    And that is no Georgia Peach of a future.

    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 5:00 pm #

      There are no mistakes.

      If Trump made a sad-sack or mad face for his mugshot, you can bet there were meetings, discussions, probably whole focus groups and surveys that were behind the decision on which face to make.

      • Edge Lord August 25, 2023 at 5:12 pm #

        Did you see the meme with the mugshot and a superimposed Lousiville Slugger resting on his shoulder?
        That was probably the best.

        • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:14 pm #

          I haven’t seen any memes yet, can’t wait to.

          He looks kind of like an angry Dennis the Menace.

      • Roundball Shaman August 25, 2023 at 6:49 pm #

        MaryQueen: “If Trump made a sad-sack or mad face for his mugshot, you can bet there were meetings, discussions, probably whole focus groups and surveys that were behind the decision on which face to make.”

        No politician does anything without the focus groups telling him or her what to do next. But if THIS is what his group came up with… where is the winning strategy in ‘that’ look he has? He looks like a misbehaving kid who was just sent to the principal’s office. And then he was told to write on the blackboard for the next 3 hours. For the next month.

        And how does that look endear him to beyond the 40% of Americans who already support him and would do so if he were sticking out his tongue or even looking professorial?

        If that’s what his focus group told him… he needs to say YOU’RE FIRED…

        • tucsonspur August 25, 2023 at 7:46 pm #

          I disagree. I posted the following yesterday:

          Trump’s mug shot could have been a lot worse. The Golden Gangster of Gotham looks firm and steady and ready to fight, NY tough and NY rough.

          His look is spot on. Angry, defiant, gold still in the hair, with menace in the glare and moxie in the stare.

          At 77 years old and with what he’s facing, they may actually wind up killing him, literally.

          Should he look like a whimpering schoolboy, berated and spanked, with tears in his eyes?

          How about one of those Stan Laurel faces? A Pee Wee Herman?

        • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:15 pm #

          Hey, I didn’t say that all those people and methods mean the outcome makes sense. Just that it’s there, that I highly doubt the face he made was something he decided upon right there on the spot.

          He actually looks pissed off, and that is his “you’re fired” face, isn’t it?

        • Night Owl August 25, 2023 at 11:36 pm #

          It won’t make any real difference in the negative sense.

          He chose “Blue Steel,” and that is more or less what I would expect .

          It still mystifies me that this guy can be so corny at times in terms of public presentation, but have been such a level-headed president (Coroneau aside).

          It is humbling on some level.

      • Islander August 25, 2023 at 7:30 pm #

        Sad sack?

        No. Angry. Head down, ready to charge.

        BTW I have started counting incidence and location of “sad” and “sadly” at this blog.

        • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:16 pm #

          Yeah I don’t see “sad” there at all. I see PISSED OFF and DETERMINED.

    • Qwibqwib August 25, 2023 at 5:59 pm #

      Sad Sack? ROFL! Dood, if you saw that man coming at you in a dark alley, you would piss your pants.

      • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 10:14 pm #

        “… if you saw that man coming at you in a dark alley, you would piss your pants.”

        Yeah, laughing.

        Then I’d probably knock him down and rob him (I’d retire after that), because, what else am I doing in a dark alley where I would run into this guy?

    • Amman August 25, 2023 at 10:47 pm #

      That photo jibes with these times. It’s sober, defiant and determined a la steely.

      • Roundball Shaman August 26, 2023 at 2:32 pm #

        Amman: “That photo jibes with these times. It’s sober, defiant and determined a la steely.”

        Leaders are supposed to LEAD, not just be a reflection of what is. We already know how We the People feel… we feel (as you say) sober, defiant, and (some of us are ‘steely’ but others have just given up).

        And as a leader who leads… he or she is supposed to convey strength and energy and wisdom and confidence – but most of all, a Vision For The Future. Maybe you guys do, but I don’t see any of that in ‘that’ look. I see anger and disgust and a bit of defeat and disbelief.

        The very best leaders were/are inspirational. They not only had/have a plan but they convey energy and inspiration to their followers. We need that kind of leader today. And I don’t see that kind of look coming from that mugshot or any of these ‘contenders’.

        In short, nobody is going to save us. We have to do that ourselves. And we should NOT have that kind of look on our faces.

        • Amman August 27, 2023 at 6:52 am #

          I’m sorry but these ideas sound inadequate. And now is not the time to be… inadequate. It’s the Long Emergency. The Fourth Turning.

          For example, the latest is some 1000+ plus Americans were incinerated in their homes. One could go ad nauseum on the news and what passes for news these days.

          That look will tell people these are serious times. It jibes with something is rotten as hell north of Richmond. If there is a hint of fury in it, well, injustice will do that to any man.

          I’m OK with it.

    • Jarek August 26, 2023 at 1:03 am #

      Sad-sack? He looks angry not sad. Perhaps that’s how he really felt? A smile might have been better – but only if genuine.

  45. Edge Lord August 25, 2023 at 3:41 pm #

    If “our Democracy”, whatever that is, is threatened by the Party of Chaos, please enlighten me as to what party is the Party of Order.

    One small example, look at how Murdoch controlled the first GOP debate. The attendance list, the questions, the staged/planted “voters”, the issues.

    Every election cycle it is the same. The power brojkers determine who is tolerable.

    Our debates should be public, not private. Held at libraries or statehouses.

    There is no Republican Party. It is controlled opposition happy to see the disruptor of the system thrown into booking.

    It’s all a charade.

    It is certainly not a dmocracy.

    It was a republic if you could keep it and you couldn’t.

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    • Night Owl August 25, 2023 at 3:58 pm #

      You’re all doomed, I tell you!

      Christ on a crutch.

    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 5:01 pm #

      It’s a Uniparty and they are all on the same page. They just play fight for the entertainment and control of the peasantry.

      • Edge Lord August 25, 2023 at 5:10 pm #

        And they tell everyone that the polls are (always) neck-and-neck to get you out there, to keep the charade alive

        • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:16 pm #

          Completely.

        • Night Owl August 25, 2023 at 11:33 pm #

          Doomer pron.

      • Amman August 25, 2023 at 10:56 pm #

        Control or, if you prefer, regulation.

        Plus a new thing – Experimentation. -_-

      • Anthea August 26, 2023 at 4:29 pm #

        Basically “kayfabe.”

  46. cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 4:09 pm #

    The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) scrambled fighter jets Friday after an aircraft was detected too close to President Biden’s location.

    Alarms were activated at NORAD when a civilian aircraft was detected in the temporarily restricted area of Lake Tahoe in Nevada on Friday morning. President Biden has been vacationing on the California side of the lake since Tuesday.

    “Two NORAD F-16 fighter aircraft and a U.S. Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin responded to a civilian aircraft that violated a Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) area near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, this morning,” NORAD wrote in a statement.

    “During this event, the fighter aircraft dispensed flares – that may have been visible to the public – to gain attention from the pilot. Flares were employed with the highest regard for the safety of the intercepted aircraft and people on the ground,” the statement continued.

    The civilian aircraft violated Federal Aviation Administration regulations by flying into restricted airspace surrounding the current location of the president.

    After intervention by NORAD fighters, the unauthorized aircraft was escorted out of the area without incident.

    “The situation was resolved without incident and with no impact to the President,” the White House told the press later the same day.

    According to the FAA, “No person may operate an aircraft over or in the vicinity of any area to be visited or traveled by the President, the Vice President, or other public figures contrary to the restrictions established by the FAA and published in a NOTAM.”

    Biden and his family are staying at an exclusive home on the shores of Lake Tahoe in Nevada this week amid the special counsel investigation into his son Hunter.

    According to the White House, the Bidens are renting the $18 million home of environmental activist, businessman and former Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer at fair market value for a nine-day vacation following the president’s trip to Hawaii to survey damage from the recent devastating wildfires.

    Biden is being joined on the vacation, which began Tuesday, by first lady Jill Biden, their daughter Ashley, son Hunter, his wife Melissa Cohen, their son Beau, and a number of grandchildren.

    • Edge Lord August 25, 2023 at 4:21 pm #

      Why the hell are re-posting this inconsequential story?

      • cowbell81 August 25, 2023 at 4:36 pm #

        Because it shows just how paranoid this administration is. They probably thought the plane was from Russia, part of Putin’s brigade or something.

        • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 5:14 pm #

          Don’t listen to him, CB81. I’m glad that you posted it.

          CFN is not about scooping AP. It is paramount that posters be allowed (and even expected) to toss out topics for discussion. Some kites catch an updraft while others smash into the earth. Both are fine. Ted Williams got put out 6 of 10 times in one of the most storied seasons of all-time [1941].

          Edgy should either join a topic or scroll on by (like a man) but it appears that he’s so edgy that he somehow feels that we should all only discuss his drivel.

          • Edge Lord August 25, 2023 at 5:21 pm #

            I think you’re on the spectrum… the retarded one.
            And, yes, parrot your sophmoric “ad hominem” ad nauseam

          • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 5:33 pm #

            It is not an ad hom to admonish your uncivil behaviour, child.

            You make this place worse with unnecessary confrontation like:

            Why the hell are [you] re-posting this inconsequential story?

            Smarten up.

          • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 6:22 pm #

            Yes, Edgy, it would be sophomoric to call being called “retarded” an ad hom.

            You are too much.

            ***
            Ted Williams went 6-for-8 in a double-header in Philly against the Athletics on Sept. 28, 1941 to finish the season with an amazing BA of .406.

            Just ten weeks later, completely out of the blue, Japan attacked Pearl Harbour thus dragging a reluctant US populace into World War II.

          • Edge Lord August 25, 2023 at 7:08 pm #

            Don’t get genocidal dr dork

          • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:18 pm #

            O.G. is absolutely the LAST commenter here who should be deciding who makes this place worse.

            Good lord. He is really living in la la land these days.

          • Jarek August 26, 2023 at 1:05 am #

            Thank God for Herr Zonk. He’s stoned on the Bible. And as for Stonner, even a stone can be a teacher or Buddha.

      • Night Owl August 25, 2023 at 5:56 pm #

        It’s more interesting than your comments on Subway, Edglet.

        Ponder that.

        Or maybe don’t.

        Not sure I want to see the result.

        • Edge Lord August 25, 2023 at 7:07 pm #

          Night Owl get back to searching Johanns Liste for Mann sucht Mann, um Sex mit seiner Frau zu haben

          • Night Owl August 25, 2023 at 11:30 pm #

            Pro tip: Don’t use online translators, dim.

      • Islander August 25, 2023 at 7:34 pm #

        At first I thought maybe the point was to contrast the speed of NORAD deployment over Lake Tahoe as compared to over the Pentagon and the WTC on 9/11.

        But the Lake Tahoe details went on too long.

    • Night Owl August 25, 2023 at 4:28 pm #

      Ashley and Hunter going to go at it again?

      Spicy.

      • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 5:33 pm #

        Zilch.

      • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 9:47 pm #

        I have to admit, that was the first thing I thought.

        • Night Owl August 25, 2023 at 11:29 pm #

          I can’t imagine how bizarre it must be to live that life.

          Any time you see your half sibling, you look at her and recall how she fellated you.

          • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 11:57 pm #

            Given how often you post about it, sounds like you do, as well.

          • Night Owl August 26, 2023 at 12:16 am #

            Mary Q-Anon weighs in.

            LOL.

          • Blackbird August 26, 2023 at 12:47 am #

            Hunter’s not thinking about the last time, he’s thinking about the next time.

          • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 12:30 pm #

            So is Night Owl…

          • Amman August 26, 2023 at 2:55 pm #

            It’s curious how you two became tangential.

          • Night Owl August 26, 2023 at 4:43 pm #

            I’d be down on everyone and everything, too, if I were a cat lady.

          • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 6:20 pm #

            I most enjoy that everything N.O. says and thinks about me is wrong, but I do know what he’s about, since he brags about himself so often.

            😉

          • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:31 am #

            Meow!

    • Paula D August 25, 2023 at 8:08 pm #

      They shot up flares in the dried-up Sierra Nevadas?

      Wow, can anyone guess what I wish, most fervently, would have resulted from that?

      Poetic justice is rare in real life, I guess.

      • Paula D August 25, 2023 at 8:12 pm #

        The colonists fought a war to separate from the monarchy.

        Now we have taxpayers paying for a retreat for the royal family, which includes restricting even the airspace above them from the plebes. For above a week, to boot.

        Why does Biden need a vacation anyway? And why are his worthless children living it up on our dime?

        • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 8:19 pm #

          Is that level of protection for the president in the Constitution?

          Where do they get it?

          It’s ridiculous. A president should be a man of the people. He should be able to walk (or fly) among us. If he’s a corrupt POS that people want to kill, well, that’s on him.

          • stelmosfire August 25, 2023 at 9:40 pm #

            I’m sure the other rich folk with lake homes were thrilled to have half the lake shut down at the top of the season.

          • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 9:51 pm #

            Mister we could use a man like Andrew Jackson again

          • Paula D August 26, 2023 at 12:20 pm #

            I remember back in the Cheney years, when Bush the Lesser went to some conference in Germany.

            He stayed on a warship tethered to a dock, and the airspace was restricted, plus the streets were blocked off. The residents were pissed. It wasn’t even their president and they were greatly inconvenienced.

            Meanwhile, Hugo Chavez went out and barhopped with the plebes, drinking and carousing and having a great time. No one harmed a hair on his head.

            Of course, that courage made him an easy target for the Deep State. Later on, he got an aggressive cancer that took him out. I think they gave it to him when he came to the UN opening and gave that “I smell sulfur” speech that I loved so much.

        • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 9:49 pm #

          800,000 dimes a month last time I counted, but that was awhile ago…

  47. KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 5:51 pm #

    ” What do illiterate peasant farmers, convicted felons, and the criminally insane know about designing and manufacturing rockets? ”

    — Nicklethrower

    A great many things in the Third Reich were compulsory volunteer.

    But the SS was a bit more like the Cheerleader Mafia.

    ” illiterate peasant farmers, convicted felons, and the criminally insane”

    Granted , Werner von Braun didn’t fit into any of the above descriptions I think.

    My not – popular take away is that resumes don’t necessarily mean much.

    • Islander August 25, 2023 at 7:34 pm #

      Calling Q . . .

  48. KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 6:06 pm #

    ” AMERICA IS BANKRUPT! ”

    — Cankerpuss

    In three words , my humanitarian reason for opposing all these wars.

    But I’m an asshole anyway.

    I reckon another thing the USA has in common with Russia is that both are fantastically rich countries.

    But I surmise the situation is a bit like that family in Holcombe Kansas Truman Capote wrote about ;

    They own a thousand acres , but if you raid their house you won’t come up with 50 dollars.

    • BackRowHeckler August 25, 2023 at 8:36 pm #

      There’s video out there, some Youtuber drives out to the Clutter house in Holcomb, Kansas. Yes, the house is still there, looking much like it did in the late 50s, sparse & utilitarian, set on the end of a long, straight road on a treeless plain. Holcomb might have been a thriving farm town in the early 60s when Truman Capote arrived, but now it looks pretty bleak & abandoned.

      • KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 11:27 pm #

        Now you have done it .

        I will have to look that up some time.

        Though that would be terrifically sad.

        Western Kansas , like Appalachia , was the only scenery I ever loved.

        East Germany and New Orleans had little to do with scenery.

        • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 12:28 pm #

          Some consider the novel, “In Cold Blood,” to be the most perfect one ever written.

          I read it twice, and since the last time was quite a few years ago, I should probably revisit it. I do remember it was incredible. Worth a read, for sure.

      • Disaffected August 26, 2023 at 11:12 am #

        Pretty interesting. I would have thought it would be further out in the sticks, as it’s just outside of town. Center pivot irrigation out in that part of the country always looks interesting when viewed from above, as well. Speaks to the long term viability of cultivating that land once the water gets scarce. Funny how the Starkweather murders coincided so closely with the Cutters’. Some bad juju going around the mid-west at about that time. I was born in Omaha in 1957, so who knows? Maybe I was the harbinger for all this? Yikes!

  49. KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 6:25 pm #

    ” Ayn needed a good editing, imho. “Get to the point already!” Reading one of her tomes is not a pleasure – it is a mission. ”

    ” Yes. Taking a page and a half to explain how Dagny lights up her cigarette can get tedious. ”

    Lol , so the other night I had nothing better to do , so I figured it was time to do your own blog – kind of thing , but without the blog.

    So I worked on another story.

    The miss – deeds of a girl like me , except she is a pasty – white red head who owns a horse — a Trakehner — a Prussian cavalry mount — no idea how expensive that would be.

    Has her own ballet exercise room.

    So anyway our girl goes to summer camp , first day of camp , and is taking a breather in her tent when in walks one of her new tent mates.

    Paula Pretty Pony.

    The girl is Cherokee and Choctaw , and jokes that maybe her drunk Indian mother was blasted when she named her.

    Well , it’s a word document , so I can only guess – ti – mate how many pages this is.

    I would say it’s about ten pages.

    Granted , their conversation sounds a bit like an N.W.A. song ,

    but that’s all that happens .

    Talk , an introduction.

  50. KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 6:55 pm #

    Trump ?

    Maybe Al Capone and tax evasion ?

    I suspect , but can’t prove , that they went with tax evasion because accounting makes peoples eyes glaze over.

    His other activities were kinda interesting ,

    and I’m certain his services appealed to more than just little people and marginals.

    Sorta like Eppstein ;

    Surely Eppstein had clientele ??

    But never mind. ^-^

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  51. KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 7:02 pm #

    ” Who can forget The Fountainhead. I need to read that again. Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead are the two Pillars of the Temple. ”

    — Jarek

    The author was a Jew , and female , and rumor was , fucking everybody.

    You’re an odd duck too.

    • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 9:39 pm #

      Ayn and Jaros sittin’ in the bunker

      K-I-S-S-I-N-unker…

      Reading Rand, is to reason, as cutting my eyeballs with torn corrugated cardboard is to my eyes.

      Did you fall down the basement steps again, Jars?

      • Amman August 25, 2023 at 11:02 pm #

        Yes, it was also unfair to human decency to write like that.

        • Blackbird August 26, 2023 at 12:34 am #

          Yes, absolutely – but do you mean, like he did, she did, or I did?

          • Amman August 26, 2023 at 1:50 pm #

            She. As in Rando.

    • Jarek August 26, 2023 at 1:12 am #

      Ayn’s aesthetic ideal was tall Aryan blondes. Yet she eschewed Nazism. So she was deeply conflicted.

      I’m more the Midas Mulligan type, ok if you like that kind of thing.

      Galt was a submerged superman, hiding his brilliance under a cap and overalls. Most people only see clothes, so it’s effective.

  52. Billy Hill August 25, 2023 at 7:10 pm #

    AQUEWSTION OF GRAMMAR

    • Dr Zonk August 25, 2023 at 7:13 pm #

      My Grammar grown up on the farm.

    • Billy Hill August 25, 2023 at 7:14 pm #

      OOPS. Not only caps lock, but pilot error.

      Anyway…..

      Was thinking: Which is correct?

      “It’s like, so over…”

      or: “It’s so, like, over…”

      I am informed the serial comma or the Oxford comma…have import here… not sure of the results.

      • KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 7:16 pm #

        Both sound Valley Girl to me.

        So I’m like totally down with both.

      • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 9:33 pm #

        Neither is correct. Delete the “like” and resubmit.

      • Night Owl August 25, 2023 at 11:27 pm #

        Put a comma before the like in sentence one. Then take your pick.

        The commas here simply set off the item in the clause that is non-essential.

        • Islander August 26, 2023 at 10:48 am #

          Comma needed both before and after “like.”

          It is basically an interjection.

          • Night Owl August 26, 2023 at 4:44 pm #

            That is exactly what I said.

          • Islander August 27, 2023 at 7:04 pm #

            No, that is not what you said.

            You said:

            “Put a comma before the like in sentence one.”

            You did not say also to put a comma after “like.”

  53. KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 7:22 pm #

    ” Maria Sharapova ”

    ” 6’2? she was! Never knew that. What an athletic beauty! I don’t particularly like watching tennis at all, but if I have to, I like the women’s better. Far too much emphasis put on the power serve by both sexes. ”

    — Dissaffected

    Keep that shit up , and someday someone might accuse you of being my sock puppet.

    Saw a headline the other day involving Martina Navratilova.

    Now she’s a freak.

    She might be all steroids …. or maybe she is ” naturally ” like that ?

    Anyway , so the freak who was a freak when freak wasn’t cool ,

    apparently said that pushing 8 year olds to choose their sex was bullshit.

    I was somewhat gratified.

    • Disaffected August 25, 2023 at 8:12 pm #

      LOL! Exceptional minds think alike!

      • KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 11:01 pm #

        Actually I adore womens tennis , pretty much the only sport I do like to watch.

        Cute White girl in a miniskirt under fantastic pressure having a cerebral melt – down in front of everybody , except she can’t.

        The closest thing I suppose you will ever see to live footage of a girl on a battlefield.

        but the premium channels are the exception , not the rule , in my life.

        The last time I tuned in , Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert were a rivalry , with Tracy Austin beautifying things occasionally.

        The next time I tuned in , it was Maria Sharapova and a shit load of other Eastern Europeans.

        • KesaAnna August 26, 2023 at 12:02 am #

          I have never figured out the scoring system in womens tennis.

          All I know is at the end of the match ( and I watched the whole match )

          one girl looks relieved , and the other girl looks like she needs a therapist , or needs to roll a joint.

          • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 12:25 pm #

            I am a tennis player. What do you want to know about the scoring/what part is confusing to you? I am not surprised, BTW, because it is very odd.

            So is ping pong scoring.

            And now I am playing pickleball, and that scoring is like a cross between ping pong and tennis.

            THAT scoring I am still learning and would not be able to explain well.

          • Q. Shtik August 26, 2023 at 4:41 pm #

            I have never figured out the scoring system in womens tennis. – Kesa

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

            Well, for starters, the scoring in women’s (note the apostrophe to make it possessive) is the same as in men’s tennis.

      • Disaffected August 26, 2023 at 11:16 am #

        Yes! Who doesn’t like shapely young athletic women sweating gracefully in public? I ask you!

        But they do need to raise the net a few inches or deaden the ball to liven the game back up again. The power serve has ruined it for me. Basically their version of baseball’s homerun derby.

  54. Q. Shtik August 25, 2023 at 8:34 pm #

    On Oct 20th the spouse and I will be attending my 65th HS Reunion (for the arithmetically challenged, I graduated in 1958). So I went looking for my 1958 Yearbook to take with me. Didn’t find it but did find some pamphlets from previous reunions.

    For the 35th reunion the committee asked each attendee to write about their lives over the previous five years since the last reunion. My pamphlet entry read as follows:

    Q. Shtik writes that “Sprinkled through the humdrum of life at our age, there are invariably some highlights (however dim they may be) that one might list in a classmate pamphlet.” Listed below are a few things that he’s been up to during the past 10 years (he missed the 30th reunion).

    * Trekked across Asia on foot
    * Bungee jumped from Sear’s Tower in Chicago
    * Had 1-night stand with top Victoria’s Secret catalogue model
    * Hit the Pick-6 Lottery for $11 million
    * Paddled across the Pacific alone in a kayak
    * Worked with the underground to bring down the Berlin Wall
    * Won the senior division of the Boston Marathon
    * Sold IBM short at $165 and covered at $42
    * Took 2nd place in the World Straight Pool Championships behind
    Willie Mosconi
    * Broke Mike Tyson’s jaw in a barroom brawl
    * Signed with Simon & Schuster to publish my History of Mankind
    Since The Creation
    * Submitted a promising AIDS cure to the FDA for approval
    * Video taped the graduation of my 17 year old from Harvard Medical
    School

    and finally………

    * In October I will be presenting to a conference of physicists and mathematicians at Princeton University a proof that E, in fact, does NOT equal MC squared.

    • Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 9:31 pm #

      To think I thought Armand was possibly the World’s Most Interesting Man

      But hey, you got the lottery part right. (Despite being someone who has earned your undying admiration – fairly easily, I must admit – I hope you won’t embarrass me with to extravagant a share…)

    • KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 10:51 pm #

      My high school ( which I never actually attended , but I loved some of those characters regardless ) reunion was interesting

      ( to watch from afar ) .

      Again , I’m not psychic , but everyone I could investigate turned out as I could have predicted at age 13.

      • Blackbird August 26, 2023 at 12:40 am #

        Where were you when I as 13?

        • Blackbird August 26, 2023 at 12:49 am #

          Never mind, that would have been bad for both of us.

      • Q. Shtik August 26, 2023 at 3:13 pm #

        My high school ( which I never actually attended , but I loved some of those characters regardless ) reunion was interesting – Kesa

        =========

        ^This^ sentence is confusing. Was it high school that you did not attend or was it your high school reunion you did not attend?

        If it was the second option your sentence should have read “My high school reunion (which I never actually attended, but I loved some of those characters regardless) was interesting.”

        BTW, note that I fixed your spacing.

    • elysianfield August 26, 2023 at 11:54 am #

      Q,
      Well, I should mention, for your and Berrie’s edification, that I stayed in a Holiday Inn one night….

  55. Blackbird August 25, 2023 at 9:20 pm #

    What do I think of Trump’s mugshot?

    I like it.

    A meme for our moment. A fake, wrapped in a fake, inside a fake.

    I like Trump’s aggressively defensive stance, since the charges against him are ridiculously transparent.

    That this is an attempt at character assassination is obvious to anyone but the accessories to this crime (about 40% of the US pop. at last count).

    The character being assassinated isn’t Trump however, it’s his supporters. Trump is the cross to which they are being nailed.

    Trump’s poor acting skills come through in the photo – just as they have in the 8 years leading up to it.

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    • MaryQueen August 25, 2023 at 11:54 pm #

      I find his grimace cartoon-worthy, and funny.

      It’s a great sign of our times, the utter ridiculousness of it.

      • Edge Lord August 26, 2023 at 8:39 am #

        There needs to be a side-by-side.
        Soros, with head tilted back, laughing.

        Trump genuinely loves the United States. Why shouldn’t he? Wealthy, living in NYC, dalliances with models and beautiful women, celebrity, having his name all over enormous buildings. He’s the prototype and definitive American Alpha. Rich, famous, obnoxious, and proud.

        Then we have George Soros. Grew up turning against his own in a concentration camp. Short, ugly, fat, foreign, he built a career on taking and breaking. He hates the United States, and has done everything he can to tear it all down. He’s the prototype vengeful Beta. Deceitful, cunning, plotting, and destructive. Not content on disrupting politics at the top, he decided to make the lives of the hoi polloi miserable as well: riots, protests, crime, theft, neglect, disorder. He is also obnoxious, but for entirely different reasons.
        Here at the bottom, you don’t have to like either, or side with either, or support either.
        But you should reflect, and examine your feelings towards this place. It doesn’t have much longer.

        • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 12:23 pm #

          Why do you assume I don’t “reflect and examine my feelings toward this place.” Whatever that means.

          • Edge Lord August 26, 2023 at 2:23 pm #

            Not you specifically.
            The general pop.

            Some people are happy if it goes away, some want a return to the salad days

          • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 7:00 pm #

            I do like your take on Soros, that seems to be about right.

            What a horrible evil POS he is.

        • astera August 27, 2023 at 5:57 pm #

          @ EdgeLord, thank you.

  56. KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 10:40 pm #

    ” O.G. is absolutely the LAST commenter here who should be deciding who makes this place worse. ”

    Gotta admit I’m relieved. Better him than me.

    ” BTW I have started counting incidence and location of “sad” and “sadly” at this blog. ”

    Alas , no BFF , no romance , for us apparently regardless.

    ” LOL! Exceptional minds think alike! ”

    <3

    • Islander August 26, 2023 at 10:49 am #

      Who/what is O.G.?

      • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 11:32 am #

        “Dr. Zonk” is a new sock used by a guy who went by O.G. Hawkins, who was, for a few months, a disruptive commenter here. O.G. was banned a couple of times, but returns under other names.

        You were commenting and reading at the same time O.G. Hawkins was. I think his initial ban was about a year or a year and a half ago. I may be off in my timeline.

        He used to post his insane emails to his ex-wife’s attorneys, and brag about his high IQ, but also whine that he couldn’t get a job because he’s a victim of the system; e.g., the professional world that doesn’t allow drunks to hold steady jobs. Some of those posts were funny, but then he started disrupting the comments section by launching vicious attacks on several people here, and going on long nonsensical and angry rants, resulting in his ultimate banning.

        IIRC, several people here, including Jarek, were big fans of his. Jarek especially seemed to enjoyed O.G.’s frequent attacks on women.

        • Islander August 27, 2023 at 7:02 pm #

          OK, Thanks.

  57. KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 10:46 pm #

    ” Reading Rand, is to reason, as cutting my eyeballs with torn corrugated cardboard is to my eyes. ”

    Like Kunstler , I have never actually read her books.

    The fascination for me is HER , not her writing.

    Not sure about Kunstler

    • Amman August 25, 2023 at 11:08 pm #

      Be sure.

    • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 11:20 am #

      That’s how I feel about a lot of writers and artists. I prefer reading their biographies to perusing their works.

      • Amman August 27, 2023 at 7:01 am #

        There’s an idea. Who, really now, is Jim Kunstler?

  58. chola3 August 25, 2023 at 10:59 pm #

    Maybe you americans are really exceptional but in us shithole countries, election frau… err irregularities of such a scale in 2020 cannot be possible unless both major parties cooperated.

    Politicks got to do what politicks got to do. They need to remove this loose cannon and they did it.

    If Trump is not a candidate, it will be back to normal; e.g small hanky pankies to sideline such pain like RFK junior, Tulsi etc.

    Of course, in shithole countries like mine, you would have seen Trump, Tulsi and RFK create a new party: win a few states, many counties, and after a few tries win the national election.

    Guess you guys are too exceptional.

    • KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 11:06 pm #

      East Germany had a legislature , with several parties.

      My fav was the farmers party. Pretty pine green and brown logo.

      I never then ( ? ) thought the United States was anything but Tammany Hall in an updated costume.

      • KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 11:08 pm #

        ” Pretty pine green and brown logo. ”

        Woodsie Owl reminded me of it.

        Still a fan of Woodsie Owl I am.

        Next time I got money to spend for shit I don’t need , I’m gonna get me a Woodsie Owl plushie.

        Just discovered there was such a thing the other day.

        • KesaAnna August 25, 2023 at 11:16 pm #

          Actually saw one once — in 1976.

          But our girl didn’t have the money.

          Somehow NEVER forgot that five minutes lust in 1976.

          I wouldn’t think anyone would even remember Woodsie Owl now , much less that anyone would be making a Woodsie Owl plushie

          • Anthea August 26, 2023 at 5:08 pm #

            I wish bell-bottoms would come back.

          • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 6:26 pm #

            I think they are on their way, Anthea.

            Wide leg jeans are in style.

    • astera August 27, 2023 at 6:00 pm #

      @chola3 – if it were only this (trump/tulsi/rfkjr)

  59. hustled enough August 25, 2023 at 11:23 pm #

    Hi JHK Admin,
    4 indictments–four criminal cases, and I find it interesting that you get exercised by the “mugshot seen around the world.” Did the DA really “force” Trump, charged with criminal activity by the way, to get a mugshot? Isn’t a mugshot part of the normal processing that criminal suspects go through in the American system? The temerity of Georgians to treat Donald Trump like any other member of this society! I think the President has received a GREAT deal of deference up to this point; don’t you in his previous arrests? I would also add, the decision to follow these normal procedures lay with the County Sheriff, Pat Labat and not Ms. Willis, right? So, why make this claim?

    “Ms. Willis’s case hinges on a number of novel propositions. First, that it is somehow against the law to object to the outcome of an election.” I guess asking a state official to find 11000 + votes for you is somehow “objecting to the outcome of an election”? Sure, but is a helluva lot more than just that–you know, shaking down officials to declare him the winner without the evidence to make it stick. The question will be if Ms. Willis can tie that into a convictable criminal conspiracy led by Donald Trump to overturn what even Fox had to admit was an election without actual evidence of sustained or widespread fraud. I know that DT was butt-hurt by Fox’s craven desire to avoid having to pay BILLIONS in damages for malicious damage to reputation, and got away with just >3/4 billion dollar settlement and acknowledgement that their coverage was BS; but hey, can DT expect loyalty when he offers so little in return?

    Will Trump be allowed to submit evidence of irregularities? Well, why didn’t he do this back in 2020 and 2021 when he had ample opportunity to do so in the court cases he raised against “the stolen election”? Well, he didn’t; those cases were dismissed because hearsay is not going to cut it. And it still won’t, so, what would he present that is such a bombshell that he already hasn’t. Or is it that document that he promised to release and then, for whatever reason, couldn’t? In any case, I hope that Ms. Willis calls on a speedy trial for all defendants. I am sure that the sight of DT reduced to smallness defending a criminal indictment will be empowering for all his supporters.Especially when he ducks actually getting on the stand, because no defence attorney in their right mind would allow DT anywhere near a prosecutor in real time.

    • tucsonspur August 26, 2023 at 5:37 am #

      Temerity of Georgians? How about the temerity of one, Fani Willis? Racial motivations are also in play, as with Alvin Bragg. Both campaigned using a get Trump message. A black sheriff in Fulton County boasted that he couldn’t wait to get Trump’s mug shot.

      Millions upon millions questioned the 2020 election results. How could one do otherwise when the likes of those two got so many votes? Biden-Harris? Look at us now!

      Why not mention all of the lies, the deceit, and tyranny of the Left ever since 2016 when the Dems attempted a soft coup to get Trump out of office with the Russia Gate hoax? His persecution continues to this day, with relentless lawfare and the continuation of a double standard of justice. Documents at Mar a Lago? What about Biden and other former presidents?

      Bragg’s case in NYC? ‘Some wondered why Bragg revived a case he had appeared to leave for dead just months ago. Others questioned the specifics — like how Bragg was able to elevate the “falsification of business records” charges against Trump into felonies, a move that requires evidence that Trump attempted to conceal a second crime. Still others focused on the delay in bringing charges — six years after the core underlying conduct — and anticipated that Trump will seek to toss the case for exceeding the statute of limitations.’

      What about FBI instigators like Ray Epps at the Jan. 6th protest? What about the DOJ’s treatment of mere bystanders in its aftermath, its overreaching roundups? What about swat teams at Mar a Lago? The raid on Roger Stone in the wee hours with automatic weapons and CNN on the scene to broadcast intimidation? The list really does go on and on.

      You should be outraged at what is obviously occurring here, election interference and the attempted removal of a leading candidate from the presidential race. What about the corrupt business practices of the Bidens? What about those 50 signatures from the intel agencies saying that the Biden laptop was a Russian hoax so old Joe could hold them up and help himself get elected? The damn list is almost endless.

      Your focus should not be on what Trump may be able to submit and other legal proceedings, but on the overarching fact that the Left is trying to steal the upcoming election by removing a powerful, possibly victorious candidate from the race.

      Forget Trump on the stand. Half the nation knows who really should be up there defending themselves. The way things are going, maybe more than half.

      • tucsonspur August 26, 2023 at 5:41 am #

        There are more ways than one to ‘steal’ an election. You can do it with lies and deceit.

      • JohnAZ August 26, 2023 at 10:44 am #

        Observation

        The Left, no, the Deep State where there is very little Right, has control of the judicial system.

        What gets presented in any of Trump’s trials will depend on the judges presiding.

        That should be scary for Trump and his minions.

        Look at it this way. The Deep State has alienated 50% of the population, the populists, Trump’s base. The other half are either hidebound Leftists or on the Federal tit. Dependency has become a huge problem for this country. Look at the streets of California for visual proof of this statement. These homeless folks are NOT all insane druggies, they are economic detritus that the Left just wants to ignore as they are representative of the futility of every Leftist economic policy.

        So the Deep State is observing what happens when you socialize an economy. What to do?

        Well, Trump is the populist representative, the obviously sole representative, of Joe Average. He is the one that knows that the salvation of what is left of the US is the destruction of the federal tit, the reduction of dependency on the government.

        So, the Deep State is throwing the book at him, every single possible thing they can dream up. Even the RINO wing is in there, ie the East coast GOP, as evidenced by Christie at the debate. The ear shattering boos from the audience are a testimony to the feelings of the Trump base. Christie should be protecting his glass house.

        So, IMHO, the election is going to be decided over the next two years not by voters, not by parties but by judges. If Trump goes into ignominy by the actions of judges, the Left will triumph in 2024 as conservatives everywhere will give up hope. After all, that is what Trump represents, the hope the people have that things in DC can be changed. Without that hope focus, the remaining GOP candidates will be cannon fodder for the Deep State machine.

        Including all those “unbiased judges”.

        We live in perilous times.

      • Qwibqwib August 26, 2023 at 10:57 am #

        He was also acquitted on these charges two times before, so this recent prosecution is “double jeopardy” as defined in the constitution. This is illegal and will surely be thrown out, maybe not until the supreme court, post haste…

      • hustled enough August 26, 2023 at 5:10 pm #

        Hi tusconspur,
        You ask a lot of questions. Here are my thoughts–be warned, I offer questions in return!
        a. The claims you advance in favour of Mr. Trump’s “stolen election” claim had the opportunity to be litigated in courts of law with the presentation of REAL evidence, not just hear-say. Mr. Trump has time and again failed to avail himself of offering such evidence. One must ask–does he have any? Because correlation does not equal causation.
        b. Did law enforcement act in an over-zealous manner? Probably. That should be investigate and where law officers broke the law, be prosecuted. But that does not negate the fact that plenty of people have been arrested and CONVICTED of crimes based on EVIDENCE in criminal proceedings dealing with 6 January 2020. Are they all “stitch-ups”? And sadly–SWAT teams serving warrants in the way you talk about happen all the time in this country–and ordinary folks like you and me get caught in the middle of that. And that doesn’t change the system. Why is that? Because we allow our various levels of government to do that–and that happened when Mr. Trump was President and it would happen even if Mr. Trump become President again. Or is it that we should owe more deference to Mr. Trump and Mr. Stone, because they are special? Shouldn’t we all be treated as “special” and be free from such tactics?
        c. You might want to review the speeches made by folks on the stage before it went down on 6 Jan–those folks might have been saying a little of–be calm, be peaceful, but they were also saying a lot of: be forceful, be active, be ready to fight, be patriots–get ready to rumble to save the Republic! Epps. One guy amongst many thousands–and do you want to hang this on him?. Did you notice all the other folks, the Proud Boys, etc? Are they FBI provocateurs, now? Do you really believe that?

        As for this claim: “Your focus should not be on what Trump may be able to submit and other legal proceedings, but on the overarching fact that the Left is trying to steal the upcoming election by removing a powerful, possibly victorious candidate from the race”

        Plenty of people on the conservative right would like to see Trump removed from consideration. Not just the Left. And I don’t agree with you. The former President stands accused of criminal activity and is clearly–from what he says and what he does–not interested in the rule of law. That “rule of the law” is CENTRAL to our love of the Constitution. Donald Trump thinks that reverence for the Law ifs a chump’s game. A sucker’s bet. He revels in getting around the law. So, yes–it matters. And here is the kicker–convicting him of any or all of these crimes does not stop him from running for President. So, have confidence in your guy–and if he is convicted of any of these crimes–vote for him.

        You believe in him, tusconspur. If you or Mr. Trump can present facts that show that those in power subverted justice and brought false charges against him, I will change my mind. But if he doesn’t, and keeps up this dog and pony stunt show what will you do? But I read the indictment from Mr. Smith. The guy is careful and he has evidence. I look forward to Mr. Trump showing us that this evidence is not as good as Mr. Smith thinks it is.

        • tucsonspur August 26, 2023 at 7:40 pm #

          While ‘believing’ in Trump I also recognize his shortcomings.

          People on the conservative right wanting Trump removed from consideration may have something to do with Trump’s endless persecution by the Left ever since 2016, starting with the debilitating Russia Gate hoax.

          The Left has created a vast army of TWATs (Trump weary and tired) with their fabricated attacks and media support.

          Yes, I believe that the FBI is corrupt at the top and that they are not above being provocateurs when it comes to Trump.

          The homes of Joe Biden or Hunter Biden were not raided by SWAT teams after the disclosure that questionable documents were in their possession. So much for equal application of the law.

          Trump may have gone too far in Georgia, but after four years of the Left trying to remove him from office, even though it may have been unwise on his part, I can’t really blame him.

          ‘Rule of Law’, as if the Democrats believe in the noble concept? Millions coming across the border, defund or disband the police, loosen penalties for criminality, and do whatever it takes, no matter how specious, to remove a properly elected president from office.

          Yes, when I look at the despicable behavior of the Left, I’ll stay with Trump. For seven years they’ve tried to destroy this man, and I certainly won’t vote for a shadow government run by the Obama clan.

          Trump. The Golden Gangster of Gotham.

          ‘When the shit jumps off what the fuck you gonna do.
          Damn it feels good to be a gangsta’.

          • hustled enough August 26, 2023 at 8:14 pm #

            Hi tusconspur.
            Everything you have said can also be said about the Biden Derangement Syndrome active on the Right. Remember the days when it was Trump Derangement Syndrome on the Left and the Right laughed and laughed about the Left’s obsession? Well, not much has changed. I don’t think the “Russia Gate Hoax,” for example, was a. a hoax; b.about Russia; and c. about a Gate…. It was then president Trump using his office to shakedown a foreign leader to get him to manufacture dirt on an opponent for political gain. So, you and I are going to have to agree to disagree on that one, tusconspur. I don’t think that it is an accident that then President Trump used the exact same tactics on Secretary Raffensberger trying to get 11000+ votes in Georgia. We can agree to disagree about the legality of that. I would just add that whether you think Mr. Trump believed he had been defrauded of the election or not, I don’t believe that that gave him the right to subvert Georgia election law. It just makes him open to criminal charges based on, ironically, election interference.

            Finally, for all the “despicable behaviour” on the Left, the lack of accountability that those on the Right offer Mr. Trump means that he has no incentive to change his behaviour. Should he get into power again, watch out. You and I have a fundamental difference of understanding about what the “rule of law” means. You see it in policy terms–defunding police, less harsh sentencing for some criminal actions, the treatment of illegal crossers of borders, etc. I see the rule of law in terms of the evolution of the rules that we set through the interplay of the three branches of government and the society it serves and the manner in which this society internalizes and follows norms established by that evolutionary history. Donald Trump does not care one whit for that (if he has to break rules to get what he wants–so be it–rules are for suckers). That doesn’t change, no matter how much you may agree with his policy positions.

          • hustled enough August 26, 2023 at 8:37 pm #

            Oh, and tusconspur,
            The reason that Biden didn’t get a SWAT team was unlike Mr. Trump, President Biden immediately notified the FBI and the archives, and handed everything he had back–i.e., he followed the rule of law, COOPERATED, and that was that. Mr. Trump did the equivalent of telling the Feds to “Go F*** yourselves,” and was shocked, shocked, I mean really shocked, when the feds didn’t agree with him and expressed their lack of agreement by raiding his property with a search warrant based on PROBABLE CAUSE, in accord with the 4th Amendment. The SWAT thing–Can you provide me with some evidence for a SWAT team being used at Mar a Lago? All I come up with is that FBI agents, entered the premises, facilitated with Secret Service help. According to the NY Times at the time, “The agents carried out the search in a relatively low-key manner, people with knowledge of the matter said; by some accounts they were not seen donning the conspicuous navy-blue jackets with the agency’s initials emblazoned on the back that are commonly worn when executing search warrants.” Can you add more on the SWAT angle? As for Stone, yep, that was, “normal,” unfortunately! SWAT teams were designed for urban pacification originally. Not much call for that (at the moment), so these highly trained individuals had to be used for something–so it is mainly drug and high risk search warrants. But I can believe that this was considered “normal” by the FBI. It is up to us to change that norm of how the rule of law is practiced…

    • Beryl of Oyl August 26, 2023 at 9:09 am #

      The cases were dismissed due to lack of standing, as I recall.

      He won four out of five cases that were actually heard.

      • Islander August 26, 2023 at 11:54 am #

        I always found the “standing” thing to be weird.

        I understand the concept of “standing.” However, it seems to be quite elastic.

        If state AGs don’t have “standing” in courts to challenge possibly fraudulent election processes and hence results, who does?

        Did the judges ever say who would have had standing to bring such cases?

        Or was that information studiously omitted . . . ?

        And, didn’t the judges rest on the “standing” issue and therefore never (have to) look at the evidence?

      • hustled enough August 27, 2023 at 1:00 am #

        Hi Beryl of Oyl,
        I would be very interested in the source for your claim and whether the cases involved were about fraud allegations or other issues, like the case in Pennsylvania about giving voters more time to correct mail in ballot mistakes. As far as I know and has been reported–no case involving widespread fraud was upheld by the court.
        There were apparently over 60 lawsuits dismissed by the courts (for a variety of reasons including “lack of standing” in some cases and for lack of evidence in most others, or were withdrawn by Trump’s lawyers. So, …?

    • BackRowHeckler August 26, 2023 at 1:08 pm #

      When will the Bidens be indicted. $33 million in payments from foreign governments need to be accounted for. Or does Lawfare work only one way?

      • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 1:59 pm #

        Yeah, the lawfare only works on behalf of the already-in-control/rich/elites what-have-you.

  60. Why_weren't_we_asked_about_Degrowth August 26, 2023 at 12:43 am #

    I love this season of Trump’s show. The writers have really spun a twisted tale of deceit. Its amazing the carnival they’ve turned the Presidency into. Old Glory Donald against the child sniffing dolt Biden.

    Its bread and circus. It’s a fucking side show. Look over there $34 trillion of unsustainable debt.

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    • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 11:18 am #

      People who need to believe in heroes and that we actually have a functioning voting system seem enjoy this show, whether they are agonizing over the mistreatment of their preferred candidate or waxing rhapsodic about how everything would change if only (insert name here) was elected. Just look at the comments on this blog. People think they will be “saved” by RFK, Jr. or Trump…

      It’s no wonder we are where we are.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 26, 2023 at 11:59 am #

        Speaking of RFK Jr., it has been troubling me for some time, they way he hasn’t even mentioned what has happened to a former president.

        Certain other things have been bothering me, smaller things.

        How he switched from exacting punishment for crimes against humanity to a feeble “making sure it doesn’t happen again”.

        The way he left Nancy Pelosi out of the Ukraine discussion.

        The way he did a deep dive into the Ukraine situation, but still hasn’t noticed that Nancy Pelosi impeached Trump over something done by the Bidens.

        The way he did a deep dive into the border issue, and blames the cartels, but doesn’t notice that the cartels wouldn’t be able to do what they do without cooperation on our end.

        How he doesn’t criticize the man he is allegedly running against.

        How he has gone all kumbaya and healing.

        I have finally figured out what his game is. He has spoken out the question that has been on many people’s minds. A word of caution, this can make you puke:

        I am not going to run a mean-spirited campaign against President Biden.
        https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1695160616611189119?s=20

        So, there you have it. The stuff he doesn’t mention, he doesn’t want to know.

        He’s offering a deal here- just leave quietly now, and I will see that nobody is the wiser, it what just faulty policy choices.

        He’s the fixer, he’s offering to clean up the crime scene, for certain considerations. Namely, that he will be the next Democrat nominee for President of the United States.

        This is why he doesn’t want to know more about January 6th. He wants to be the great unifier, we have to forgive Trump too. Only Trump has not committed any actual crimes, and Bobby, a lawyer, has to know that.

        Going back to the border “fix”. He will close up the border. Both Democrats and Republicans want that.

        Wrong! The people want an enforced border. The Republicans and Democrats don’t.

        Bobby has actually come down solidly on both sides of the fence on this issue, because at the same time he wants to close the border he wants to make it legal to have a wide-open border.

        My question now is, is this hard-core cynicism, or does he really think he’s The Jesus?

        • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 12:19 pm #

          I don’t actually care what RFK, Jr. says or does.

          No doubt he has some delusions of grandeur, because I don’t believe someone gets to where he is without it, and it seems to be instilled in the minds of the American elites & royalty.

          • BackRowHeckler August 26, 2023 at 1:01 pm #

            Well, he has the name and family pedigree. Mary, I don’t see any delusions of grandeur in him; on the contrary, he seems kind of humble. RFK, jr. has had his ups and downs in life, like all of us. He’s known around here for his environmental activism, mostly clean water issues. He doesn’t come across as some apocalyptic Climate Crank like say John Kerry, who wants to shut down the modern world.

          • BackRowHeckler August 26, 2023 at 1:04 pm #

            Of course Kerry wants to shut down the modern world for us Proles, not for himself and his leisure class billionaire buddies. They’ll continue to fly around the world in 747s attending Climate Change Conferences, and live in mansions on Martha’s Vineyard.

          • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 1:58 pm #

            Gonna have to disagree with you, BRH, about RFK, Jr. As you may know, I don’t cotton to the elites, which he is one.

            He got too big for the britches. Should have stuck to his nonprofit.

        • Night Owl August 26, 2023 at 4:42 pm #

          In Mary’s world no one is worthy of a vote. You have to accept defeat.

          To learn more about Mary’s world, check out Pockets of the Future on Youtube.

          Then you too can always be above the fray.

          And if you are a woman, you can end up childless and lonely.

          😀

          • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 6:29 pm #

            I remember Pockets. What’s he up to these days? Haven’t watched in a year, but I remember you mentioning what a big fan you are.

          • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 12:30 am #

            No candidate is perfect. None is worthy of Mary’s vote. None is worthy of Mary!

            She has never voted, apparently.

          • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:30 am #

            I razzed you before about Paul. He’s a doomer like you.

            How are the cats?

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 7:26 pm #

            I started watching him by your suggestion, as I didn’t know who he was ’til then. You used to post his links – lol.

            Your lies are all catching up with you!

            Not many friends left here, it looks like.

          • Night Owl August 28, 2023 at 3:37 am #

            Only one of us comes here for friendship, cat lady.

            😀

      • Anthea August 26, 2023 at 10:12 pm #

        I agree with MaryQueen here. Government–or, more precisely, “the State”–is by its very nature a criminal organization. Many years ago, when I first read Nock’s “Our Enemy, the State,” it was like reading a full expose of something I’d always known. For many years before that, when people would complain of government corruption, my usual response was, “That’s what government is FOR.” It’s really nothing but a mechanism–or an elaborate set of machinery–for the pupose of systematic exploitation of the nation it controls. Normally, if not universally, it came into control through conquest and confiscation. It is not a SOCIAL organization, but an ANTI-SOCIAL organization: an armed gang, if you will. It’s really nothing but a Mexican drug cartel, writ large. All it takes to set up a national government is for one gang to become large enough, powerful enough, and in possession of enough coercive power (in the form of arms and manpower) to supersede its rival gangs.

        Once the State has gained power, it seeks to consolidate this power. The first means to accomplish this is to place land ownership and all other access to the means of production in the hands of itself (i.e., its beneficiaries, the elites). The second essential step is to do everything possible to enhance its PRESTIGE and to represent itself as all-good and all-benevolent. This is done through every possible means: the public school system, the media, welfare, bread and circuses, “free” health care, including wonderful life-saving vaccines, etc. In the past, in Europe and elsewhere, the Church was important in the promotion of the State’s prestige–acting, to a large degree, as the “media” of its day and, as Nock phrased it, as “the Good Wife of the State.”

        It has been relentlessly hammered into most people that the State is essentially a social and benevolent institution. It is not; it is the exact opposite.

        I don’t see that confronting this reality as “defeatist.” It’s just reality.

        Now, according to Nock, the State will cease to exist when people stop believing in it. You can see that, at least in a limited way, that this is true. What if the general population’s response to the mask mandates and other covid measures had been, “Don’t be ridicuous” and simply ignored them? Here, at least, the enforcement of these measures was very local, and at least some local governments simply refused to enforce them. After all, they were just the recommendatios of local Health Departments, and these relied on the police power of the counties and municipalities, since they have no police power of their own. For the people to ignore State power is a tremendous blow to the State’s prestige–thus giving the State a disincentive to try to pull that shit. I think this principle has broad application.

        It’s probably not realistic to expect that there will be a broad-based rejection of belief in the State. I think it’s POSSIBLE, but it would require a nearly complete rejection of most of the State’s propaganda apparatus, such as TV and other media, and public education. Plus you’d have to contend with the fact that something like half of the people in the US are employed, directly or indirectly, by some level of government.

        As MaryQueen says, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to put your faith in the political circus (just so much “kayfabe”), or to put your faith in legislation–which Nock referred to as “levity.”

        There is no political solution to our problems.

        • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 12:36 am #

          Grotesque. No government just means a free for all and a government of the Strongman who comes out on top. It’s just surrendering the game.

          Of course it may well come to that in any case. We’re accelerating in our downward spiral. But there will be a government of one kind of another. Nature abhors a vacuum and nobody just gets to do what they want, except those at the very top of a well developed system.

          As Madison said, If we were sages we would not need any government. That not being the case, let us proceed.

          Jarek: And even a community of saints and sages would have mutual agreements, like drive on this side of the road or don’t use the communal drinking water to wash your clothes in.

          Libertarianism is simply a mind virus like Communism or Feminism – a tangent away from all reality.

          • Anthea August 27, 2023 at 1:59 am #

            Nock makes a distinction between “government” and “the State.”

            You can download “Our Enemy, the State” for free, here: httpX://farmguardian.org/Publications/OurEnemyTheState/nockoets0.htm

            Read Chapter 2.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 10:32 am #

            Get out from your anonymous nick(s) then and write a (rule-)book we can all critique, maybe even laugh at.

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 8:01 pm #

            I had no luck with that link, Anthea, but I was able to get it here:

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 8:03 pm #

            My link won’t post… in any case, I’m already grabbed right away, as the preface mentions he began the book just after the FDR attempted coup d’etat!

            Thanks again, Anthea.

        • Amman August 27, 2023 at 7:14 am #

          In math this is known as a no-solution equation.

          A Cluster-Equation, if you prefer.

          Getting to a no-solution state is what Politicians do best.

        • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 7:22 pm #

          Thank you.

          I will definitely read Nock, and thank you for presenting his take.

          The fact that people call spotting reality “defeatist” or makes me some sort of “pessimist” shows you how wildly successful the programming is.

          We’re not allowed to state the obvious anymore. And being called a defeatist is the nicest of the accusations we’ll have slung at us. Now, we’re courting wrong-think, and being labeled a bigot/hater/racist/etc. for daring to criticize anything the new mainstream consists of.

  61. tucsonspur August 26, 2023 at 4:21 am #

    Forget all the jokes about Sarah Palin. Good for her in speaking out this way.

    From the Intelligencer:

    ‘Sarah Palin responded to Donald Trump’s arrest in Georgia on Thursday night by talking up the possibility of civil war. Speaking to Eric Bolling as the former president was booked at the Fulton County Jail on election interference charges, Palin slammed “those who are conducting this travesty and creating this two-tier system of justice.” “I want to ask them: What the heck?” the former Alaska governor said. “Do you want us to be in civil war? Because that’s what’s going to happen. We’re not going to keep putting up with this.” Addressing Bolling, Palin went on to say: “I like that you suggested that we need to get angry. We do need to rise up and take our country back.”’

    ‘But with this terrible miscarriage of justice underway before our eyes each day in Washington and Manhattan and Florida and Georgia, why wait for the preemptive theft of the presidency to be consummated? Why not demand it stop right now on pain of nation-rending violence (or as some hard-core conservatives like to put it, a “Second Amendment Solution”)?’

    ‘Trump’s 2024 campaign is already infused with the smell of gunpowder and the clamor of insurrection. More conventional thinkers may believe his endless misconduct and his ever-more-relentless extremism will convince Republican primary voters to dump him in favor of some safer substitute who doesn’t terrify half the electorate. But the MAGA take on the nomination contest is that doing anything other than sending Trump back out into battle represents complicity in a “rigged election” that happened in 2020 and that is already fully underway for 2024. That makes the rhetoric of civil war, and at some point a significant risk of something worse than rhetoric, not only inevitable, but certain to get worse and worse as the various legal proceedings against Trump run their course. And Sarah Barracuda isn’t about to miss her chance to pour a little more gasoline on the fire.’

    • Beryl of Oyl August 26, 2023 at 9:07 am #

      Sarah offended the NE liberal elite because no matter how many times she laundered her blouses, she couldn’t get the blue out of the collars.

      She offended the ‘conservatives’ when she called out Texas governor Rick Perry for his executive order that all girls get a Gardasil shot before being allowed to attend the sixth grade.

    • TPTB-USA August 26, 2023 at 10:05 am #

      Sarah has justified a declaration of martial law, now all they need is a trigger.

    • JohnAZ August 26, 2023 at 11:03 am #

      Sarah is stating the obvious.

      CW1 happened when a Uniparty situation occurred in DC with abolition being the core creed. When the conservative south finally had enough, war ensued.

      Today the issue is socialism, the supremacy of the Federal government and its control of the economy. The Uniparty, the Deep State are protecting their turf. In 1856, a Uniparty situation elected James Buchanan. His ineffective attempt at maintaining the status quo led to the war when the South finally gave up. Lincoln’s election was the straw.

      1850s abolition = 2020s socialism?

      I am waiting for the anti socialism third party comprised of the base plus a huge group of people destroyed by the socialistic Left.

      A group of folks that will tell Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren et al that they are full of shit.

      Right now, the third party will stand little chance of victory as dependency is at an apex. The downside, the Bidenomics failure of the next four years will fuel the support for socialism.

      I hope! Trump needs to pass the torch to a younger rebel against the Deep State and help him or her to rip DC apart. The 2028 election, if there is one, should be the new party against the Uniparty, like 1860. The GOP has destroyed itself with collusion with the Left in the uniparty.

      Like the Whigs in 1860.

      IMHO, the third party is the only thing that will stop the descent into socialistic hell.

      • JohnAZ August 26, 2023 at 11:09 am #

        BTW, the creation of the third party will probably bring on a CW of some sort as the populist reaction to the Deep State will boil over into violence.

        BTW, on stage right and left, the autocratic world, represented by both the WEF and BRICS++, are circling waiting for the US explosion to happen, just like the Brits did supporting the South the first time.

        At this time, living in interesting times may not be such a good idea.

      • Islander August 26, 2023 at 11:56 am #

        “CW1 happened when a Uniparty situation occurred in DC with abolition being the core creed. ”

        Wrong.

        • JohnAZ August 26, 2023 at 12:30 pm #

          Okay, what is right?

          The Uniparty was the Whig Dem group that just seemed to ignore the oncoming train, the abolition GOP. Buchanan did not have much to work with, events outweighed anything he could do.

          The election of Lincoln, in spite of his declaration that union was paramount to abolition, sparked the war.

          The similarities to now was my main point.

          Do you think that anything short of a political division can solve today’s situation?

          I do not.

          Historians say that the economics of the day, manufacturing, North, and agriculture south caused the split. One cause.

          States rights? Not a cause by itself.

          The antebellum South knew that their lifestyle was at stake with the advancing abolitionist movement. The plantation system could not work without free labor.
          Also, slaves were capital, the South went broke after the war because their savings, slaves, disappeared.

          Why was the South agricultural? Because soil and climate allowed it to be. The North’s soil and severe winters precluded good agriculture.

          State’s rights? Feds, you are not taking our slaves away from us, period.

          So all and all, slavery and its fall was the prime cause of CW1. When the North won, due to its superior manufacturing capacity and technical advantage, the Antebellum South disappeared.

          • JohnAZ August 26, 2023 at 12:31 pm #

            Slavery was the cause, abolition was the spark.

          • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 12:37 pm #

            CW1 was not about slavery.

            That’s just the history we were taught.

          • Jarek August 26, 2023 at 1:39 pm #

            Not just about slavery, but slavery was part of it. A whole way of life as John says above. If you have a problem with someone, some issue will cause it come to a head – even if there is far more to it. In the case of housemates, it might be leaving the toothpaste uncapped.

            Slavery was the point of friction. And the South did want to expand their System or Way of Life westward – even if slavery didn’t make much sense out there. It had become their symbol of defiance.

          • Islander August 26, 2023 at 5:53 pm #

            Y’all need to see the bigger picture.

            I recommend Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton.

            Also, Colin Woodard, American Nations, especially part III, “Wars for the West, 1816 to 1877,” esp. chapter 21, “War for the West.”

            The context is early globalization, industrialization, and global finance, of which the South (and, say, India) was an integral part—not an outlier. Forget Gone with the Wind. It ‘s about bankers and railroad tycoons.

          • dorn August 26, 2023 at 6:12 pm #

            ” My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. ” – Lincoln Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862.

          • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 2:01 pm #

            Islander thinks it just all comes down to money. Neo-Marxism. No Exit in other words. If that’s all there is, then we’re truly fucked.

            Even “Christian” Anthea talks like this much of time, but from a Capitalist position. Same system, different side of the coin.

            This is how they were raised. And they refuse to give it up and grow up.

          • Islander August 27, 2023 at 7:07 pm #

            “Islander thinks it just all comes down to money. ”

            There goes MUS again, making up shit out of NOTHING.

            Annoying idiot. .

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 7:11 pm #

            Grow up like you, Jarek?

            A guy in arrested development who has no means of support except parasitically living off his fam or maybe the government, refuses to work, sits around waiting for someone to notice his self-described “genius”?

            This is priceless.

    • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 11:16 am #

      Sarah Palin is a fake. Ever see the real videos of her family? They cuss like truck drivers. They don’t say “heck.” If she would be real and act like the person she really is instead of some weird female version of Mr. Rogers, then I might respect her more.

      Also, she’s just stating the obvious, which takes no brains at all.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 26, 2023 at 12:06 pm #

        There sems to be a big divide in this country, with people 50ish and under using language in polite company that was formerly heard only amongst sailors.

        I think they got it from the movies.

        • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 12:18 pm #

          Agree, but I still can’t stand Palin’s fakey, folksy act.

          • Paddys Lament August 26, 2023 at 1:36 pm #

            Hey, Mary. Just curious. “How’s that hopey-changey stuff working out for ya?”

          • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 1:56 pm #

            That was a funny line, gotta give her that.

        • Dr Zonk August 26, 2023 at 2:41 pm #

          I could not agree more, BoO. I set it at Nixon making US$ fiat in 1971. In mixed company, people born before 1971 casually curse far less than those born after 1971.

          Note: Generalizations are not inherently bad. They are often factual (and are not disproven by an example or two of outliers).

        • Anthea August 26, 2023 at 10:23 pm #

          I think there is more than one level of language. You mind your tongue down at the book club meeting, but when among your neighbors, you speak as they speak–which may be a little rough, depending on your neighbors. Your close friends may be a whole ‘nother thing. Friends evolve a whole unique way of speaking to each other, over a period of many years’ friendship. It’s the same with family. Language is kind of ritualistic for particular settings.

          In writing, sometimes formal English is required and sometimes not. And sometimes you can mix it up a little. Partly it’s a matter of style, and partly it’s a matter of who your audience is.

      • Jarek August 26, 2023 at 1:41 pm #

        The whole family goes out to bars together to drink and fight. Daughter, Crystal, is said to have an incredible right hook.

        • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 1:55 pm #

          Hahahahaaa!

          • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 2:02 pm #

            What does Mary’s laugh sound like I wonder?

  62. TPTB-USA August 26, 2023 at 9:12 am #

    Hey Jarek, every day the talking-heads marvel incessantly at the latest “Jet” that was assembled from bits and pieces in some junk yard after being hit by a fluke tornado. At what point do they come to their senses and realize that the chaos is an elaborate highly organized and efficient facade?

    So much discussion about how destructive an action is, or the destructive consequence of a policy. When are these talking-heads going to acknowledge that it is all related and intentional, and then connect it to the 2030 agenda?

    Take Jonathan Turley, has conditioning made it clear to him that any discussion of the 2030 agenda will terminate his career and destroy his life like Sidney Powell’s?

    Trump has to know about the 2030 agenda, why hasn’t he initiated a full blown discussion of the agenda?

    Will “they” keep a lid on any discussion of the 2030 agenda until a CBDC has been implemented?

    How can talking-heads claim “conspiracy” when the WEF has a formal agreement with the UN to facilitate the implementation of the 2030 agenda?

    • TPTB-USA August 26, 2023 at 9:36 am #

      Perhaps there is a seat at the US Chapter of the CCP with their name on it, and if they get out of line, it will be given to someone else?

    • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 11:13 am #

      Good questions, TP.

    • JohnAZ August 26, 2023 at 11:18 am #

      Any third party creation will need to be nationalistic, opposed to any international forum. The global elite have one thing in mind, destruction of the US as the number one world power.

      BRICS++ is center stage right now. They are debating in Johannesburg but agreeing that they will tear down US dominance. More and more countries are signing up, I believe six more are signing on at this conference.

      I think that the Deep State might be feeling like the defenders at the Alamo as they watch the forces gather out there. They should fear 50% of their own people in addition.

      Trump’s obvious judicial malfeasance may be the trigger.

      Great, Biden’s foreign policy competence has two economic Fock bent on tearing us down.

      • JohnAZ August 26, 2023 at 11:35 am #

        Fock?? What the Fock?

        Focuses?

      • TPTB-USA August 26, 2023 at 2:50 pm #

        John, have a look at it from the perspective that the Deep State = the Global Elite = BRICS++ = China (Xi) as the leader of the world = the 2030 Agenda = the WEF Great Reset = Build Back Better = you get the idea. The fix is in, and the only thing that might disrupt it (as you elude) is a united population against the “Government” (picture the Larson cartoon of two giants, with one holding a pan containing a population, and the other saying “Shake ’em again. Lets see if they fight.”).

        • Islander August 26, 2023 at 5:55 pm #

          Just saw the phrase “Burn Back Better.”

          Pretty clever, and horrifying.

      • TPTB-USA August 26, 2023 at 4:05 pm #

        What would it take for a third party to win the election? Unity.

        What would be the best way to achieve unity? A national discussion of the 2030 Agenda.

        If such a discussion should happen, those on the Left should ask themselves: “why do I not know about this”?

        • Islander August 26, 2023 at 6:00 pm #

          There is no particular virtue in “unity” in the political sphere.

          The only value of “unity” is when all citizens understand the meaning of the Constitution and the laws of this land.

          Other than that, the point of politics is fighting it out in the public sphere.

          It was a sad day for democracy in the USA when John Kerry “decorously” gave in to his Skull and Bones-mate Bush in 2004, after the travesty of the Ohio, instead of challenging him and the Ohio machine.

          • TPTB-USA August 26, 2023 at 8:06 pm #

            Islander, you and others on this message board are way over my head on so many issues. That is why I find the comments so interesting.

            Bush / Kerry Skull and Bones Avoidance
            youtube.com/watch?v=gwJDs1cg9Eo

            I don’t have the storage capacity to keep it all sorted out, so I have to rely on logic.

            My comments were in regard to the average citizen. I ask people on the Left if they know about the 2030 Agenda. So far, the answers have been no. I comment that the goal is a one world government, and my oldest sister asks if it is an agenda that Trump is pushing.

            1, 2. 3. they have no idea what they are fighting 4 (Not even those I would classify as being radical political activist Left. The only thing I can figure is that they want change, no matter the consequences.).

            I assume that if all the facts were laid out with an honest assessment, that only a small minority would support the 2030 Agenda.

    • Dr Zonk August 26, 2023 at 11:58 am #

      Trump has to know about the 2030 agenda, why hasn’t he initiated a full blown discussion of the agenda?

      Some say that he has not done a lot of things yet because we now near the end-game of a sting operation that has been in progress since he rode down that escalator in 2015.

      Still others say that the sting operation actually started in late 1963.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 26, 2023 at 12:20 pm #

        Trump has objected to many facets of that agenda.

        Look what he did with energy, the Paris Accords, the “green” appliances, etc.

        He just allows himself to get turned around and blocked by his fellow Republicans, is all.

        • Dr Zonk August 26, 2023 at 2:35 pm #

          No. He’s running the biggest sting operation ever, is all.

          • Islander August 26, 2023 at 6:01 pm #

            Dream on.

    • Jarek August 26, 2023 at 1:46 pm #

      Yes, the chances of a certain number card coming up are exactly know, ditto a certain suit, or number or picture card card of a certain suit.

      But what if it comes up more often? Chance? No. Divinity? Doubtful in this case. Cheating? Assuredly.

      Damn Riggers…..

  63. MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 11:11 am #

    Chief Nerd
    @TheChiefNerd

    Biden Says New COVID Shots ‘That Work’ May Be on the Way for All Americans

    “I signed off this morning on a proposal we have to present to the Congress – a request for additional funding for new vaccine that is necessary that works…Tentatively it is recommended, it would likely be recommended, everybody get it. No matter whether they got before or not.

    https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1695387736583061712?s=20

    So much to unpack there. Is he saying the last one didn’t work? And if not, why would we trust a new one? Those of us who know it’s harmful or deadly at worst, and useless at best are certainly not going to buy in. And why do we need a new vaccine? What is the threat? Is this why MSM is reporting that there are now “record” “cases” of Covid when a cursory look at World-o-meter or the hospital bed usage map tells us that it’s all a lie? Why are some schools closing from Covid scares? Why are some universities still requiring the fatal clot shot for all students?

    I think most CFN commenters know the answer to these questions.

    • JohnAZ August 26, 2023 at 11:28 am #

      That work? What the hell does that mean?

      Forget the past for a moment, the original vaxx was a disaster, it created an antibody reaction but little memory instillation which put folks back on the Covid firing line in six months.

      Risk assessment today is certainly much different than 2020.

      That work? Is it still a DNA altering mRNA shot? Will it still create a s protein storm that kills people? Will it instill the s protein “factories” in the host that make long term, probably lifetime, inflammatory diseases a result. How will it instill memory permanence to be called a lifetime vaccine?

      I notice that none of this information is being put out by the Pharma-medical community.

      To me, that means same-o, same-o.

      The lemmings are lining up for the September release of the next booster.

      I will be elsewhere.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 26, 2023 at 12:03 pm #

        Why would Joe Biden know if it worked or not, even if he were in his right mind?

        • Amman August 26, 2023 at 3:08 pm #

          How about we ask what exactly does he mean by “it works?”

      • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 12:15 pm #

        You have several of the same questions I do.

        Of course, we can probably come very close to guessing the answers.

        • Dr Zonk August 26, 2023 at 12:37 pm #

          Right, Mare. Even there is no guessing required. They are now just plain rubbing our noses in it.

          We must wake enough people to pass the revolution tipping point (what is it? 20%) in these next few months or … well, we just must.

          • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 1:54 pm #

            Speak for yourself.

          • Dr Zonk August 26, 2023 at 2:04 pm #

            Thanks for that link, Mare. It is much appreciated!

            FYI – I shared it with my two best friends from high school/hockey. They were all “Wearing [a mask] is caring!” memes while getting jabbed two years ago. This morning, however, they saw Biden bumble out that shit and both of my friends announced that they are “out” to taking any more jabs.

            I am so pleased. They are both very good men. Your sharing of that link this morning has made the world a much better place today.

          • Dr Zonk August 26, 2023 at 2:04 pm #

            You’re such a pistol.

          • Amman August 26, 2023 at 3:17 pm #

            The tipping point of a population into a real revolution is the radical of 2 percent.

            For a USA population of 331 Million, 2 percent is around 6.6 Million people and the radical of 6.6 Million is 2,573 people.

            2,573 people is your answer. Rounded upwards.

          • Amman August 26, 2023 at 3:36 pm #

            That’s the minimum.

            Imagine 2, 600 people working together, all dedicated to specific goals, and spurious of any definition of success except the success of their plans.

            Now imagine 5 to 10 of these in the US.

            Some friendly to the people. Many not.

          • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 6:33 pm #

            My point is, O.G., that I do not want “revolution.” I want the return of law and order.

            Revolutions don’t turn out very well. They tell us they do in history classes – but they really do not.

          • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 12:55 am #

            I don’t understand, Mare. On CFN, you try to wake people up to what’s going on constantly. And you clearly understand that TPTB will stop at nothing until they have achieved their nefarious goals.

            Law and Order will not be restored by filing a law suit. This must get messy or they will win. A or B.

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 6:42 pm #

            I said nothing about filing a lawsuit, you twit.

    • JohnAZ August 26, 2023 at 11:33 am #

      Mary

      Because the WEF globalists dominate the information mill of the US’s media.

      As Dustin Hoffman said very well,

      They want their (biological) weapon.

      The context of that statement was the demolition of a small city.

    • GreenAlba August 26, 2023 at 12:09 pm #

      “And why do we need a new vaccine? What is the threat? ”

      The threat is that the depop agenda might not proceed as quickly as they’d like if people don’t take the ‘new vaccine’ as well.

      • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 12:16 pm #

        Bingo.

      • Dr Zonk August 26, 2023 at 2:26 pm #

        Eris is the Greek goddess of strife and discord. Her Roman equivalent is Discordia, which means the same. Eris’s Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Roman counterpart is Concordia,[3] though she is also described as opposing Nike, counterpart of the Roman Victoria. Homer equated her with the war-goddess Enyo, whose Roman counterpart is Bellona. The dwarf planet Eris is named after the goddess.

        She had no temples in ancient Greece and functions essentially as a personification, as which she appears in Homer and many later works.

        • GreenAlba August 26, 2023 at 4:24 pm #

          Eris of Covidshire …

          twitter.com/TheEyes2022/status/1693575275903111540

        • Q. Shtik August 26, 2023 at 5:01 pm #

          counterpart is Bellona – Zonk

          ==========

          I thought Bellona was sort of a low grade lunch meat. 🙂

    • Dr Zonk August 26, 2023 at 12:28 pm #

      Some people say that “Joe Biden” is an actor and that the only way for this US Military sting operation to successfully conclude is with a tipping point of the population that are truly awake to what these swamp creatures have done. [They need way more awake beyond just us few dozen misfits here at CFN.]

      We can pretty much guarantee that 100% of people who have remained pure-blood will continue to abstain. As long as it is still their choice.

      Plus a whole shitload of poor men south of Richmond who were duped the first go-around.

      I believe that 2021-22 was mainly carrots compared to 2023-24’s sticks. This fall promises to be very interesting.

      You don’t roll out a new product in August.
      – Karl Rove, shortly after 9/11

      Can you imagine what the 2023 model of Rove’s product will look like in the next month or two if Lahaina was just the opening act at their all-day music festival?

      • Dr Zonk August 26, 2023 at 1:17 pm #

        Lahaina 8/8/23

        God bless those poor, incinerated American souls.

        Over at the ‘chute this morning, I heard that Lahaina previously had four schools with approximately 3,000 students. Now, two and a half weeks later, 600 of them have transferred to neighbouring schools on the island. The difference, 2,400 mostly Native Hawaiian American children with birthrights to the land, remain missing.

        I also heard that close to 200 bodies washed up onto the neighbouring island of Lanai. Those poor souls were in the ocean for hours trying to avoid a brush fire so flippin’ hot that it melted aluminum and windshields yet somehow left plastic umbrellas and asphalt and trees and hotels untouched.

        That dog don’t hunt.

        I also heard that the media is not allowed into Lahaina because it is a big FEMA cover-up zone/operation and that these FEMA fuckwads have taken over $1,000/night/room Maui resorts. The $700 given to each victim’s household would not buy one night’s crash for these grifters.

        I also heard that somehow a brush fire got so inexplicably hot that the remains of the poor souls barricaded to their death on Front Street [by incompetence we’re assured] are completely unrecognizable and that they are now collecting DNA samples from survivors in order to match to the little bits that do remain of the dead.

        I also heard that the whole land grab/SMART city thing is a nice byproduct for them but that yet another motive is tied to Oprah and her child-trafficking operations ran in Maui.

        A lot of ‘ins.’ A lot of ‘outs.’
        – The Dude

        • BackRowHeckler August 26, 2023 at 2:58 pm #

          ‘Lahaina Incinerator’

          That’ll make a good name for a hot Roller Derby Queen, an outrageous WEE Wrestler, or a behemoth Monster Truck at the Monster Truck Rally.

          I doubt if we’ve heard the last of the ‘Lahaina Incinerator.’

        • Amman August 26, 2023 at 3:05 pm #

          Objection. Hearsay.

          • Dr Zonk August 26, 2023 at 3:54 pm #

            CFN is not a court of law, Amman. In fact, I clearly, repeatedly stated that I had heard what I was about to say. I testified that it was hearsay.

            Also, it was not all hearsay.

            For example:

            poor souls were in the ocean for hours trying to avoid a brush fire so flippin’ hot that it melted aluminum and windshields yet somehow left plastic umbrellas and asphalt and trees and hotels untouched.

            is undoubtedly and verifiably true from copious drone footage of the bizarre brush fire that melts cars but leaves asphalt pristine (even with its plastic embedded reflectors unharmed).

            ***
            It amazes me how CFNers are constantly outraged at their government but, when an American town is completely incinerated and 1,000-3,000 American citizens are murdered one day by government incompetence (or worse) … .

            Buddy freakin’ Holly.

            “3,000 Americans barricaded for their incineration in an American town on American soil by American officials? Those knuckleheads! … Pass the ketchup.”

          • Dr Zonk August 26, 2023 at 4:13 pm #

            Drats! I forgot that I cannot use angle brackets. HTML yanks it.

            That should read:

            It amazes me how CFNers are constantly outraged at their government but, when an American town is completely incinerated and 1,000-3,000 American citizens are murdered one day by government incompetence (or worse) … [crickets].

            Buddy freakin’ Holly.

          • Amman August 27, 2023 at 11:38 am #

            Over what went down in Hawaii.

            First, I’ve taken note many on CFN didn’t want to “go there.”

            Second, I have been told this could be Denial and a Wanting-to-stay-in-denial thing.

            That poor lady on the road… the scared kids driving by…

          • Amman August 27, 2023 at 11:39 am #

            I guess I can understand why….

      • Jarek August 26, 2023 at 1:49 pm #

        South of Richmond. Down the Pyramid from Washington or the Capstone.

        • Dr Zonk August 26, 2023 at 2:05 pm #

          Exactly. Thank you.

  64. MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 1:52 pm #

    This is really the bottom line, found in a meme on Telegram:

    They’ll keep setting fires until you submit to their climate change agenda.

    They’ll keep instigating shootings until you submit to gun control.

    They’ll keep faking pandemics until you submit to medical slavery.

    • TPTB-USA August 26, 2023 at 3:10 pm #

      Save this one and continually add contributions.

      They’ll keep allowing looting until you demand assistance from the National Gard..

      They’ll keep de-funding local law enforcement until you demand federal law enforcement to maintain the peace.

      They’ll keep the border open until sovereignty is no more.

      They’ll keep dumbing down the US population until it is comparable with the rest of the world.

      • Dr Zonk August 26, 2023 at 4:20 pm #

        They’ll keep dumbing down the US population until it is comparable with the rest of the world.

        Hahaha! That ship has sailed.

      • Edge Lord August 26, 2023 at 5:16 pm #

        Almost as dumb as Canada now.
        Not much further to fall

        • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 1:18 am #

          That ship, too, Edgy, sailed long ago. Canada is 6th while USA is 21st.

          worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/pisa-scores-by-country

          I find irony in you being so smugly dismissive … and wrong.

    • Edge Lord August 26, 2023 at 5:18 pm #

      They’ll keep finding blacks shot by cops until you defund the police

  65. SoftStarLight August 26, 2023 at 3:05 pm #

    It’s a wonderful photo for sure. It does feel like from now on a presidential candidate will need to be at least indicted or otherwise a convicted felon or political prisoner to be interesting. Just the nature of the regime and really their fault so.

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    • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 6:38 pm #

      Maybe it’s back to the Wild West mentality for Americans?

      • SoftStarLight August 26, 2023 at 9:51 pm #

        Perhaps for maybe half of the population at best? The covid affair proved that many Americans are ok with the antithesis of the wild west. But then I do wonder about how wild the west really was? It seems like it was more of a saga about the taming of the west. Ah, there it is. A potential rewilding of some Americans.

  66. SoftStarLight August 26, 2023 at 3:15 pm #

    Sometimes I’m not really sure who “they” are. Guess it depends on context. If the they you’re referring to are the top of the pyramid people, the owner, elites, what have you, well, they do have obvious advantages over others. But they are also very inbred and fundamentally unhealthy. That is why they require the full blood transfusions, eating babies, etc. So yes they are an evil cancer but they are not inevitable and indomitable.

    • MaryQueen August 26, 2023 at 6:39 pm #

      I know you are being serious here, but it made me laugh.

      Yes, they are human and, as such, fallible. I do think we forget that.

      • SoftStarLight August 26, 2023 at 9:47 pm #

        Hemophilia. Not to detract from the levity. Messages are always received better when delivered with a smile.

  67. elysianfield August 26, 2023 at 3:19 pm #

    Well, ladies and germs;

    …C’MON DOWN!

    Bob Barker is hangin’ with Elvis…died suddenly at 99 year of age….

  68. SoftStarLight August 26, 2023 at 3:28 pm #

    Do you find it to be almost like an omen that Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates just joined BRICS, and Bob Barker, the famous host of The Price is Right just passed away? It’s almost like the universe is saying something like “the price isn’t right anymore, your money isn’t going to be worth anything”.

    • KesaAnna August 26, 2023 at 6:07 pm #

      These days it seems like I can go to the store on Monday , and then again on Tuesday ,

      and on Tuesday everything is 50 cents , or a full dollar , higher than it was the day before.

      Am I imagining things ?

      Odd shortages too.

      It has become routine that coffee drinks and milk disappear from the shelves for three or four days at a time.

      I don’t suppose a lot of people would notice the coffee drinks disappearing ,

      but I suppose the gaps in milk delivery are noticeable .

      • SoftStarLight August 26, 2023 at 7:49 pm #

        Yep I’ve noticed the same thing in terms of price increases like literally happening on a daily basis. Seems like that is happening with gas too. I’ve definitely noticed shortages of things now and then but nothing that severe yet here at least. Though a couple of weeks ago there was a pretty big shortage of bread.

      • Anthea August 27, 2023 at 9:38 am #

        I only go grocery shopping about every two weeks–if that often–so you would think that price increases would make a strong impression on me. Mostly, what I’m seeing so far is that the coffee that used to be $10 is now $14, and the cream that used to be $4 is now $5. I rhink these prices increases occurred several months ago and haven’t risen since then. That’s at Walmart, which is the only grocery store within about 30 miles of here. Well–sort of. I could drive five miles to the nearest little town, where every item costs about 50% more, but I try to avoid that. The next-nearest little town, which is about twenty miles away, has no grocery store at all.

        I do about half my grocery shopping at Walmart and the other half at Sprouts, (Walmart’s meats and produce are disgusting.) The produce at Sprouts is good quality (mostly) and quite reasonable. Their meat, poultry, and fish is expensive, but at least it resembles real food. I haven’t noticed how much things there have gone up–except for salmon, which I have passed on several times because the price seemed outrageous. Some canned goods there are very high. I like their bone broth, both chicken and beef, and it runs about $7 a quart. It tastes like chicken and beef, while the broth from Walmart (which is much cheaper) tastes like canned water. I guess Sprouts has me conditioned to just bite the bullet and pay, in order to get food that has the advantage of being edible.

        Another reason I don’t notice price increases all that much is probably because people my age don’t eat all that much. It’s pretty cheap to feed a person who eats like a bird. I might pay a lot for a package of lamb chops, but it will provide me with dinner for two or three days–and maybe even leftovers for soup. And my dog loves the bones.

        I guess my appetite has decreased more than prices have increased.

        Back in the 70s, when I was a young adult, I used to go into shock every time I went to the store. Every can of beans or corn seemed to go up by about ten cents a day.

        • malthuss August 27, 2023 at 3:11 pm #

          what county n state are u in?

          the price of–cheese, protein, olive oil, high quality organics. yikes.

  69. The Man They Call Zazelle August 26, 2023 at 4:06 pm #

    Anarchist Book Sale
    (50% off until the end of August)

    plutobooks.com/anarchist-book-sale/

    • BackRowHeckler August 26, 2023 at 6:28 pm #

      The Anarchist Cook Book?

      They found a copy in Ted Kuczynski’s cabin. I thought that was banned.

      • elysianfield August 26, 2023 at 7:17 pm #

        Banned?

        BRH,
        I hope not…I…know a guy that owns a copy….

        • KesaAnna August 26, 2023 at 9:04 pm #

          In that other story I’m —- not — writing ,

          our girl eventually goes to the College of William and Mary in Virginia to become an accountant.

          A friend from school in Louisiana winds up there too.

          And they eventually wind up room mates because after all they have known each other from Catholic school kindergarten.

          Grrr , I can’t remember her name now.

          But she’s a crazy adopted asian chic who looks just like the girl called Lime in the K – Pop group Hello Venus.

          Anyway , it’s the 1970’s , when things were a lot more liberal.

          On the weekends this girl and some of her friends like to go out in the country to a big farm the family of one owns and blow shit up.

          Their biggest escapade was blowing up a house on a property a neighbor owned .

          ( The kind of house that is smack in the middle of the woods with the windows all gone and trees poking out of the roof. )

          Another was they bought an old Fiat out of a junk yard for 300 dollars and they blew that up.

          Of course they had to blow these things up from half a mile away.

          But still fun as all get out.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle August 26, 2023 at 10:08 pm #

            How about a story that has a character, say, named Barack Roald Heckler, who helps manage an authoritarian State and passes a law that denies people the right to self-defence?

            So no fists, knives, guns or bombs or generally living on your feet, just abject enslavement on your knees.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle August 26, 2023 at 9:56 pm #

        Small potatoes, but even then, for one…

        An association fallacy is an informal inductive fallacy of the hasty-generalization or red-herring type and that asserts, by irrelevant association and often by appeal to emotion, that qualities of one thing are inherently qualities of another…” ~ Wikipedia

        …And for another…

        Obama: A Nation State Is a Monopoly on Violence

        youtu.be/D64KcZsD82E?si=Wmb2lkwmKCl3TED0

      • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 9:27 am #

        Government/State Experiments On People/Kaczynski

        ” ‘Ted Kaczynski was a 16-year-old [underaged minor] student at Harvard University when he was recruited for a three-year-long psychological experiment that involved psychological torment and humiliation.’…
        ‘The experiment was conducted by psychologist Henry Alexander Murray and was part of the US government’s illegal MKUltra project, which ruined the lives of many innocent and unwitting test subjects around the world.’…
        ‘Kaczynski later described the three-year experiment as ‘the worst experience’ of his life.‘…
        ‘The university and the psychiatric establishment were willing accomplices in the experiment that had treated human beings as guinea pigs and had treated them brutally.’…
        ‘The experiment may have helped shape the worldview of the man who would later build and send 16 bombs, killing three and injuring 23…” ~ Brave Search Engine Summarizer with keywords; Ted Kuczynski university experiments

        —-

        Thanks for the inspiration, BackRowHeckler, and for helping to underscore my case.

        —-

        “The measure of the state’s success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.” ~ Joseph Sobran

  70. The Man They Call Zazelle August 26, 2023 at 4:24 pm #

    What is permaculture? A definitive FAQ for newbie permies in 2023
    (with awesome illustrations!)

    —-

    “In all of his [Bill Mollison] work, we see an ethical and practical reliance on a fairly short list of ecological design principles, summarized here from his early writing:

    • Work with nature, rather than against it.
    The problem is the solution. ‘You don’t have a slug problem, you have a duck deficiency.’
    • Make the least change for the greatest effect.
    The yield of a system is limited only by the information and imagination of the designer.
    • Everything gardens, and is in relationship to its environment.
    • It is not the number of diverse components in a design that leads to stability, it is the number of beneficial connections between these components.
    • All design is ecological design, in that all designs, whether intentional or not, affect their environment.” ~ Heather Jo Flores, Permaculture Women Magazine

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    • The Man They Call Zazelle August 26, 2023 at 4:56 pm #

      Interview With Bill Mollison
      (permaculture)

      youtu.be/6RD1GW-vOHg?si=OYYq5Zp_fIH3R60i

  71. Dr Zonk August 26, 2023 at 4:33 pm #

    Well, I’m off the Shake the Lake now.

    Saturday, August 26, 2023
    3:00 PM Gates Open
    LOCAL OPENER: The Blazers
    4:15 PM Lee Aaron
    5:45 PM Aldo Nova
    7:15 PM Chilliwack
    9:00 PM Collective Soul
    *Line up & set time subject to change

    We will enjoy this last bit of summer (high of 27C) before the Rovian product roll-out next month.

    • Edge Lord August 26, 2023 at 6:17 pm #

      Thanks L rond

      • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 12:45 am #

        You are most welcome, Edgy, but, FYI, I do not understand my new nickname.

        It was a great show!

        Chilliwack opened their set with their 1971 hit Lonesome Mary. I thought that that was somehow fitting.

        youtube.com/watch?v=7002u3T5iwo

  72. SoftStarLight August 26, 2023 at 4:48 pm #

    It’s funny to hear people mention the ending of summer in late August. That is the neat part of being able to see posts from anywhere. It will be summer here (seasons be damned) for at least two more months. The highest temp so far today is 108. Not to speak of the heat index. I’m looking forward to the cool off coming next week when the high is supposed to be 92.

    • BackRowHeckler August 26, 2023 at 5:45 pm #

      108°F! Holy Sh#t.

      I think we had 4 days just over 90°F, and not consecutively. It’s been rather cool, really. And it’s not just the temps and color evident in the oak & maple trees that signify the advent of autumn; the the shorter days of course, and the fact that the shadows and sunlight itself seems a little different.

      During the Civil War, out of 31 total Regiments raised in this State, about 6 of them served in the deep South, in Louisiana. (One guy from my hometown earned the Medal of Honor in the BBC battle of Irish Bend, La.) My, in their blue wool uniforms, how those doughboys must have suffered in that southern heat.

      • Islander August 26, 2023 at 6:08 pm #

        The sunlight is different.

        Different angle. And, I believe, different makeup of rays.

      • Edge Lord August 26, 2023 at 6:17 pm #

        BBC battle in Louisiana… I bet

        • BackRowHeckler August 26, 2023 at 6:30 pm #

          I don’t know how that BBC got in there Edge. I proofread that post, too.

          • Edge Lord August 26, 2023 at 10:04 pm #

            As long as our spouses don’t use the same excuse

      • KesaAnna August 26, 2023 at 6:30 pm #

        Much of the time my car stayed parked in New Orleans , because whatever its many faults was , New Orleans had excellent bus service.

        Why spend 50 dollars to go somewhere slower and with more hassle , when I can get there for 50 cents faster and easier ?

        Anyway , the walk to my bus stop carried me past The Academy of The Sacred Heart on Saint Charles Ave. every day.

        That’s a Catholic girls school that looks like Heaven on earth.

        My guess would be it costs as much to go to first grade there as it costs to go to Harvard.

        So here are all these girls running around in dark blue formal jackets.

        Well , it was January.

        But I’m walking around in tissue – thin blouses and still perspiring a little.

        A year or two later I read an article in a magazine about the experiences of several people who evacuated the city and state because of the storm ,

        and one was a girl who was a student at the Academy of the Sacred Heart.

        She went to Virginia.

        She said it was very , very , very cold in Virginia.

        I wouldn’t call winters anywhere in the South , including Virginia , as anything but mild.

        • elysianfield August 26, 2023 at 7:14 pm #

          Kesa,
          You may be correct in your assessment of the “Sacred Heart”, and it’s expenses.

          However, catholic schools demanded a simple uniform for students partly due to economic inequality…nobody wearing $200 shoes…no one dressed in rags.

          I always thought this was an exceptional practice…still do.

          • elysianfield August 26, 2023 at 7:15 pm #

            And…and especially the girls wearing patent leather…yeah….

          • KesaAnna August 26, 2023 at 7:49 pm #

            A slight exaggeration , but an entire society in some kind of uniform , was something I liked about East Germany.

      • SoftStarLight August 26, 2023 at 7:24 pm #

        Yes. Perhaps you forgot that I still hold a grudge against Nathaniel Banks. An interesting emotional juxtaposition to ultimately giving them water and comfort in the heat of the moment. Anyway. That is very interesting BRH. Lol, you know it is almost as if y’all have only had spring up there. I can say that I do see the changes in the shadows and sunlight now too. And yeah the days are beginning to shorten ever so slowly. The full moon is coming.

        • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 1:07 am #

          August 30’s full moon is both a blue moon (second full moon in a calendar month) and a super moon (full moon coinciding with perigee (the moon’s closest distance from earth).

          A super-blue moon typically only happens once per decade. Enjoy!

          space.com/super-blue-moon-august-2023-one-week-away

    • KesaAnna August 26, 2023 at 6:17 pm #

      I would like to live in Louisiana — Southern Louisiana at any rate —

      IF I had a gauranteed thousand dollars – worth of air conditioning every month.

      Whenever I think it’s too hot , I remind myself of Louisiana , and that it could be worse.

      • Edge Lord August 26, 2023 at 6:30 pm #

        You like to watch a lot of stuff. A lot.
        Watch True Detective Season 1. Only season 1.

        “ People out here, it’s like they don’t even know the outside world exists. Might as well be living on the fucking moon.”

        “ This place is like somebody’s memory of a town, and the memory is fading. It’s like there was never anything here but jungle.”

        “ I see a propensity for obesity. Poverty. A yearn for fairy tales. Folks puttin’ what few bucks they do have into a little wicker basket being passed around. I think it’s safe to say nobody here’s gonna be splitting the atom, Marty.”

        youtu**dot**be/A8x73UW8Hjk?feature=shared

        Tell me about La

        • Edge Lord August 26, 2023 at 6:30 pm #

          It means I’m bad at parties!

        • KesaAnna August 26, 2023 at 6:48 pm #

          Detectives ?

          They say Edgar Allen Poe invented the Whodunit with his Murders in the Rue Morgue.

          If I had a time machine I would like to go back and strangle him in his crib . He lived too long.

          One of the things I like about Kunstler is he said once that he despises the superhero genre .

          Because the subtext of superheroes is that ordinary people can’t manage their own affairs.

          So the superhero narrative is basically authoritarian or totalitarian.

          A somewhat similar deal I think with the Whodunit.

          I’m cynical about justice , or flat don’t believe in it.

          It’s fiction that folks take all too seriously.

          Like a kid taking The Brady Bunch seriously.

          • Edge Lord August 26, 2023 at 7:05 pm #

            Yeah… no

          • BackRowHeckler August 26, 2023 at 7:06 pm #

            KA, Poe didn’t make it much past the age of 40, drank himself to death on the streets of Baltimore, or Richmond.

          • Islander August 26, 2023 at 8:43 pm #

            I just read the Wiki entry on Poe.

            Really quite an incredible life story, kind of spanning North and South in antebellum America, with a long stretch in Britain, and also combining writing with military service and ambitions.

            Worth a read.

            An elderly friend of my mother’s, while pouring out cups of tea from a teapot, invariably would say, “A little tea made Poe a poet.” I finally got it when I was about 11.

          • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 12:48 am #

            Note the hatred of the Great Man. One of her fantasies is being little Mariah Carey and whispering in Hitler’s ear, “You suck”.

            And a minute later she’ll be talking about how everybody sucks.

            She is blown around by by her hurricane force whims.

      • KesaAnna August 26, 2023 at 6:32 pm #

        And a house on stilts even on the high ground.

        I only drove through northern Louisiana.

        The entire south looks like it could sink.

        • Amman August 26, 2023 at 11:28 pm #

          A sad day when Americans have to take pointers from the Dutch.

        • Amman August 26, 2023 at 11:28 pm #

          *Half seriously*

      • SoftStarLight August 26, 2023 at 7:29 pm #

        I generally keep the thermostat on 79. The monthly bill has not been anywhere near that this summer so you must like it really cold. I have to put a light sweater on sometimes when the air is running anyway.

        • KesaAnna August 26, 2023 at 8:28 pm #

          The inside of a freezer , if I could afford that.

          Come the warm months I will watch a movie over and over not because I particularly like the movie , but because it is set in the arctic or at least a far north winter.

          One example is White Out.

          Though I like that movie for a few other reasons.

          Kate Beckinsale has a smile like an 8 year old , but the character she plays in the movie is a cop ,

          So , though I like her a lot , I also want to punch her in the nose.

          ” Fuck the Police ! ” I’m not kidding.

          And when she has two fingers amputated because of frostbite , I’m grinning.

          The movie is a Whodunit ,

          but the solution to the case is no happy day.

          It’s not good news for anybody , and bad news for some , like her best friend.

          Another was Thirty Days of Night. ( I think that was the title anyway )

          I’m not keen on vampires or horror in general ,

          but ten feet of snow looks good to me.

          And thirty days of night sounds really good too.

          • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 12:53 am #

            Remember when the Vampire Lord of Siberia says to the wounded vampire woman, What is broken must be broken? He puts her out of her misery.

            Or when he sees his human servant in torment? He becomes histrionic, raving about human cruelty. Vampires would never be so cruel! The servant says, You promised to make me like you. The Vampire Lord doesn’t even deign to respond, too intent on his eloquence. Evidently, he never intended to make him one of them. He lied!

    • Anthea August 27, 2023 at 1:15 am #

      To me, the signs of the end of summer are the “surprise lilies” blooming and the cicadas singing. (Surprise lilies are also called “resurrection lilies” and “naked ladies.”)

      No cicadas this year–at least, not here. Seems odd.

      • Islander August 27, 2023 at 8:59 am #

        We have them here.

        Off Cape Cod.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 10:44 am #

        Cicadas here (Nova Scotia) but not as many heard and they came late.
        My tomatoes are getting what appears to be some mold and are not doing well.
        It has been abnormally cloudy and rainy here this summer.

        My acorn squash are doing very well so far at least, as are my other garden crops, including these mystery melons I bought the seeds for but had forgotten what they were. So now I have these tiny melons starting to grow.

        • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 10:46 am #

          I feel kind of moldy this summer too. 😀

      • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 11:49 am #

        Sorry you are missing cicadas. I know that some years are lighter than others, since some species spend 13-17 years underground before coming out. Then there are big boom years with lots of them.

        Last night there was so much noise in my house at 12 a.m. that all I could do was laugh. Massive T-storm, a mystery cricket chirping in my hall closet (somehow, one has relocated there), wind blowing stuff around, rain and hail hitting the skylight, walnuts falling out of my tree & dropping onto the roof, dogs snoring, etc.

  73. Paula D August 26, 2023 at 7:30 pm #

    Heh, heh, good takeoff on Rich Men N of Richmond, only about trannies.

    .youtube.com/watch?v=CaKhWU0wXPA

    • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 12:22 pm #

      That is super funny – thanks! LOL!

  74. KesaAnna August 26, 2023 at 7:43 pm #

    ” My high school ( which I never actually attended , but I loved some of those characters regardless ) reunion was interesting – Kesa

    =========

    ^This^ sentence is confusing. Was it high school that you did not attend or was it your high school reunion you did not attend? ”

    — Q shtik

    Both.

    The Junior High school I attended shared the same driveway with the High School.

    Come high school , some people left . ( Like myself ) And some new people I don’t recognize came in.

    But junior high school and high school were pretty much the same group of people.

    Same faces , same names.

    I can’t remember the circumstances now , but I once set foot in that high schools gym / athletics building on a weekend , in the late evening , after hours , nobody there.

    That was the ONLY time I ever set foot in that high school.

    So what was my interest ?

    As I said , it was the same people as the junior high school I DID attend.

    An obsessive – compulsive kind of thing I suppose.

    I very much tend to remember people I’m keen on , 30 years later , even if I never actually spoke two words to them.

    Like , on a similar note , unless I lose my marbles to dementia , you can be reasonably sure I’ll remember Armand because I told you I would.

    But obviously I never even met the guy.

    Another factor was that it was a very affluent neighborhood.

    I guess you could say that my parents are sorta rich.

    Not all rich people are generous , supportive , nice , and normative, is all I will say about that .

    Except I might add I went to this generally very affluent school stinking of kerosene heaters.

    Anyway , so the cheerleading squad was actually only nine girls , but to my eyes three – fourths of the student body was cheerleader mafia.

    It all looked — though no doubt superficially and misleadingly — like The Brady Bunch to me.

    Well , my guess would be I’m not the only person with a touch of the obsessive – compulsive.

    My guess is many of those people will remember 30 years later that psycho Nazi Black girl with the bad smell who stared at their ass all through science class , at age 13 .

    Not good.

    Part of the magic of the internet is that at least in some cases you can indirectly monitor a high school renuion from 800 miles away.

    And that’s what I did.

    Oh , I might also add that it might actually be so much the worse if I showed them pictures of where I live now.

    It might look to them like paradise.

    Whereas in the town where they still live , time was a Black person could go for a stroll through Country Club Row and nobody cared .

    Today if you did that the cops would show up in two minutes.

    It used to resemble Mayberry RFD , now it resembles Detroit even for the rich I suspect.

    Life isn’t fair they might think , and I would agree.

    So even my bragging rights would be a negative.

  75. KesaAnna August 26, 2023 at 11:21 pm #

    ” How about a story that has a character, say, named Barack Roald Heckler, who helps manage an authoritarian State and passes a law that denies people the right to self-defence?

    So no fists, knives, guns or bombs or generally living on your feet, just abject enslavement on your knees. ”

    — Zazelle

    I guess you weren’t here then ?

    I have been working — for 20 years — on a story set in the year 2171.

    The planet is now dominated by a species that looks like petite 12 year old girls.

    Average height is 4 foot 9 inches , average weight 80 lbs.

    Everybody lives in barracks.

    Life is harsh , the average life expectancy is 35 – 40.

    Their version of Sunday is a milatary parade everyone participates in.

    The international language is German . ?

    The march is the goose step.

    A holiday is war games where a few accidentally get killed .

    They don’t really have wars though , humans are pretty well exterminated at this point.

    And they have about as much regard for humans , as humans have for cows.

    The main character is a human who was spared because she looks like them.

    In adulthood she still looks like a 12 year old , and is 4 foot 6.

    They keep her as a pet , like a dog. Or a novelty , like a 1960 Alfa Romeo.

    Tough writing though , because I’m trying to describe an entire world , and the subject is emotionally exhausting.

    Like all your dreams come true , but it qualifies as horror fiction.

    ” But she’s a crazy adopted asian chic who looks just like the girl called Lime in the K – Pop group Hello Venus. ”

    hmm , let’s see if I can get a link to work .

    youtube.com/watch?v=gGmO8cuRoLM

    Lime is the blue haired girl.

    Elysianfield might like it.

    maybe not.

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    • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 12:55 am #

      Is this a more serious version of the smoking bee girls?

      • KesaAnna August 27, 2023 at 1:38 am #

        No , two seperate things.

        The Smoking Bees and 2171 are one thing.

        Oddly enough the main character in both is a red head named Cassie though.

        The second is just a hell of a lot of fictional anecdotes from the life of some girl.

        I don’t know if I would call it more serious than the Smoking Bees .

        The original inspiration was Judith Rossner’s ” Looking For Mr. Goodbar ”

        so just very long – winded porn , but like the best history books , no good endings , no bad endings , just the anecdotes.

        • KesaAnna August 27, 2023 at 1:55 am #

          The first part of the loooong essay above was about bringing Zazelle up to spend about something I guess he didn’t know.

          The very tail end is a reference to an exchange further up the page.

          • KesaAnna August 27, 2023 at 2:16 am #

            Specifically in the ” Looking for Mr. Goodbar ” – type story ,

            a room mate and childhood friend , who looks like Lime from Hello Venus ,

            who likes to go out on the weekends and blow shit up for fun.

            Maybe kinda stupid and self – indulgent to bring that up here ,

            since there is no fucking way I’m going to post any of that story here.

            On the other hand ,

            Donald Trump’s mug shot isn’t that much to write about.

        • Islander August 27, 2023 at 1:54 pm #

          Chelation (as a medical concept) has been around for as long as people have become aware of metals in the body such as, especially, mercury.

          Although “chelation therapy” is a thing in mainstream medicine, if you do a search for “natural celation” or similar phrases, you get plenty of hits with info on possible ways to detox—at leaste as far as heavy metals are concerned.

          I have seen protocols for dealing with the jabs—I think at Frontline Doctors. No idea whether the new genetic bully, modRNA, can be eliminated.

          httpX://covid19criticalcare.com/treatment-protocols/

          I tend to think that the best way to start a counterattack is via plenty of exercise, good nutrition, zinc and other supplements, and plenty of sleep. Same way one would “treat” a case of flu.

          Give your body the optimal resources to heal itself. That’s just my 2 c/’ worth.

    • gustafson.robert.22 August 27, 2023 at 10:27 am #

      I really hope you finish this and sell it on Amazon, or Penguin Classics buys it..

    • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 11:07 am #

      I suppose anything’s possible.
      If humans can manage to colonize Mars, maybe by 2171, something similar to your story could happen there, although a new species like that makes 2171 easily too early, unless by genetic engineering. Is that part of it?

      The young women in the video seem to look all the same. The dancing’s pretty crisp, though.

    • elysianfield August 27, 2023 at 11:39 am #

      Kesa,
      What is not to like? In my defense, My wife, when we married, was 4’9″, 95 lbs, and a gymnast. I reached puberty when living on Okinawa….

      Go figure. I am bent in so many ways….

  76. KesaAnna August 27, 2023 at 3:32 am #

    ” She is blown around by by her hurricane force whims. ”

    😛

    Here’s another one , Lime is the only one wearing anything green.

    Another reason I like her is all asians look alike , lol.

    But for some reason I can always spot her.

    I could watch them dance for hours.

    I have.

    youtube.com/watch?v=jyOJ-_HfqBM

    • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 11:08 am #

      Voops, I just wrote kind of that.

    • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 11:23 am #

      What color of hair does she have in that one?

      I rarely watch what I call dancy-dancy music videos, but did find that older Gangnam Style one interesting for the surrealism, stupid-fun and similar.

      youtu.be/cGc_NfiTxng?si=8EyhSdghZM7uzapo

      • Disaffected August 27, 2023 at 11:47 am #

        The follow-up video is better:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULk8-DGC7Hs

        Come on now everybody, Walk Like a Joe Biden!

        • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 2:35 pm #

          The ‘video is not available’ at that link but I found it on Bitchute. Perhaps it offended the State-affiliated YouTube fact-checkers.

    • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 2:10 pm #

      You might find inspiration in the Asian part of the bizarre movie, Cloud Atlas. Genetically modified food workers, all Asian females, work 19 hour shifts serving human “consumers”.

      The movie attempts to weave many threads thru time, with individuals repeating via genetic similarity and memory – I think. Or is it a clumsy attempt at reincarnation?

      • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 2:39 pm #

        It is suspected that Cloud Atlas’ ultimate or main premise is what the same characters/counterparts would do and how they would be in different places & eras. Nature-nurture.

    • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 2:27 pm #

      Mary has been talking about Lime green scooters in Boise. How much did this influence you to remember this titbit?

      A twisting of threads…..

      • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 2:47 pm #

        Lime Smoke

        There’s the word/subword ‘smoke’ in a couple of your comments in these threads while I recall previously quoting a Zero Hedge author’s reference to some ‘smoke show’ (i.e., ‘hot’) Trump attorneys.

  77. Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 6:07 am #

    Well, well. Another layer of fraud is uncovered. “MRNA” as a term was chosen to confuse people and have them think modified RNA was messenger RNA.

    “According to the agency, the mRNA in COVID-19 vaccines such as Pfizer and Moderna is created in a laboratory and teaches cells how to make harmless pieces of spike protein that trigger an immune response inside the body. The mRNA from mRNA-based vaccines is broken down within days after vaccination and eliminated from the body. In its description of mRNA and how COVID-19 vaccines work, the CDC makes no reference to modRNA or indicates that the RNA used in COVID-19 vaccines has been modified.

    Messenger RNA occurs naturally and lives in our cells, and it does not last long enough to initiate an immune response before being destroyed by the immune system—it is modRNA that is synthetically created, according to Klaus Steger, a molecular biologist who headed several gene technology laboratories, regularly applying RNA-based technologies.

    Unlike mRNA, modRNA modifies one of four compounds in RNA that make it last longer in the body, less immunogenic (reduced stimulation of the innate immune system), and more efficient at producing a protein—in this case, the spike protein, Mr. Steger stated. Since modRNA cannot target specific cells to make viral protein, it can attack perfectly healthy cells and bypass protective barriers in the body, like the blood-brain barrier.

    Injecting modRNA into the body may lead to adverse events like strokes, cardiovascular complications, pulmonary embolism, and the formation of blood clots—many of which were disclosed in Pfizer’s documents (pdf) but were not attributed to its product.

    “It is my opinion that, at a minimum, the intentional use of mRNA—an acronym well-known to stand for messenger RNA along with the endless statements about the vaccines being based on naturally occurring messenger RNA constitute misbranding in violation of a number of laws,” Ohio-based attorney Thomas Renz told The Epoch Times in an email”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pfizer-documents-show-covid-19-vaccines-contain-potentially-harmful-modified-rna-not-mrna

    Your daily reminder that this is what they were doing in the labs (IMO). There is no hard evidence for a disease of any kind. There is only the clot shot.

    • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 6:43 am #

      Yes, I saw that earlier, about the modified mRNA. There is plenty to put in a lawsuit – the problem is finding a non-captured court.

      Dr David Martin seems to be doing something lawsuit-wise in Idaho (see JHK’s podcast with him of some time ago and his site ‘ProsecuteNow’). But his lawsuits are based on the gain-of-function stuff, which Mike Yeadon, as you mention, thinks is a distraction and a support of the ‘dangerous pathogen’ thesis (I agree it wasn’t a dangerous pathogen, while remaining on the fence as regards virus/no virus).

      There’s a very recent long (5-hour) session with John O’Looney, Mike Yeadon, Sasha Latypova and Meryl Nass. It’s hosted by a (very fast-talking) female rabbi, so the first 16 minutes includes prayers and stuff, then it’s John O’Looney. Mike Yeadon’s session is very good and broad-ranging. Meryl Nass specifically talks about viruses (she’s last). The times are below the video anyway – Sasha’s bit concerns proof that it was a DoD operation, making the pharma trials redundant in the case of ‘countermeasures’.

      rumble.com/v39wgwb-rofim-international-mega-event-have-you-stopped-trusting-yet.html

      • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 11:12 am #

        Thanks for that link, GA. An all-star roundtable.

      • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 2:30 pm #

        Well the guy seems to be a genius. Perhaps he’s chosen this vector of attack because it’s accepted as a “thing” – and that legislation was passed against it.

        But yes, in Truth an utter distraction.

        • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:30 pm #

          Yeadon is a genius. He not only has an impeccable list of credientials and the industry knowledge required to speak on the shots, but he also posesses a sensitivity and critical thinking skills that put his analysis far ahead of anyone else (IMO).

          He remains the only one of the highly credentialed scientific types to be warning about the full scope of the Great Reset, as well as the lack of any hard evidence that “Covid-19” even exists.

          I am no scientist, but his words resonate deeply.

    • JohnAZ August 27, 2023 at 8:36 am #

      This has been discussed many times in the last two years. The mRNA model has been refuted over and over.

      It does not remain in the muscle tissue, IM shots go into arterioles and spread the synthetic RNA throughout the body.

      One study about a year ago said that reverse transcriptase converts the liver cell DNA. Any bets on what they become permanent producers of? S protein.

      What exactly does chronic s proteins in the blood do? What damage do they cause by just being their? What intermittent damage does the host immune system do to the body fighting the omnipresent s proteins? Do the s protein lodge themselves onto tissues, like herpes simplex and zoster and emerge periodically causing inflammatory response? Same questions for the disease itself, is this the real reason for long term Covid, the possibility that is can lie dormant.

      As I postulated before, IMO, the whole shebang was developed at the same time. My theory is that a cold virus was enhanced with SARS 1. The purpose is weaponization. It did not work, SARS 1 petered out. So the virologists next target became SARS, our friendly neighborhood Covid. They need to develop two things, the bug itself plus a way to counter it if it goes out of control. The bug and its vaccine antigen were developed at the same time?

      So the question became, how to get it into the cells needed to generate the synthetic s protein? Oh boy, were the m RNA crowd, cancer at the time, rubbing their hands with delight. “We volunteer!” Fauci et al must have been drooling at this point, maybe we have found a way to clobber viruses. Another contingent delighted in the fact that this could be a depopulation bomb if the vaxx did not work.

      What an opportunity for the mRNA development? We can inject our product into millions of people and see what happens. If it causes problems, we can always plead we were just trying to help.

      Well, it did and we are paying the price for their evil ways. The extremely gullible President and his idiot back up just bought the whole package with its story.

      Do not expect to see any of the above possibilities explored by any government agency, it will never happen. They even managed, in their panic, to give no liability responsibility to the bums. Mt number one problem with Trump is his gullibility about the whole program.

      So here we are, loaded with inflammation causing s proteins potentially in our bloodstreams for life, from the disease or the vaxx.

      The bugs are winning.

      • JohnAZ August 27, 2023 at 8:38 am #

        Well it did cause problems and we are paying the price.

      • JohnAZ August 27, 2023 at 8:41 am #

        In hindsight, putting Fauci in charge of the effort was like putting a kid in a candy store. It was the worst decision of the Trump years. Remember that when you see Pence running.

        PT Barnum was right about this one.

        • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 10:54 am #

          “Remember that when you see Pence running?”

          Can you elaborate, here?

          • JohnAZ August 27, 2023 at 11:19 am #

            Trump turned over the Covid effort to Pence so he could concentrate on the pending impeachment.

            Pence was a Deep Stater ready to “get” Trump. He allowed Fauci free rein to exercise his baloney methods on the public that did nothing except destroy education and the economy.

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 12:24 pm #

            OK thank you. I was thinking the opposite for a sec, like you liked Pence, which confused me. Thanks for clearing it up!

            Now I do remember that, also. And yes, Pence is a deep stater.

      • gustafson.robert.22 August 27, 2023 at 9:01 am #

        I do like this summary. Any theory of what’s behind covid must account for both 1) pharma profit-motives and modRNA high hopes, and 2) the backdrop of longterm WEF ideas about vaccines, social control, population reduction, etc.

        But, so far at least, the profit element seems to have been much stronger than the WEF component. No WEF pipe-dream realized so far.

        • Islander August 27, 2023 at 9:10 am #

          “No WEF pipe-dream realized so far.”

          I hope you are right, but that is not how it looks to me.

          Many Dystopian moves continue to be made, and large portions of the populace are in a state of anxiety/suspended animation, waiting for totalitarian shoes to drop.

          In the EU, crackdown on social media starts on Aug. 29, two days from now.

          New mask mandates look set to complicate travel and travel plans for the sane.

          In the UK, they are pushing hard on 15-minute cities, the ULEX operation in London—starts on 8/29, I believe.

          The migrant disaster continues in both the UK and the USA.

          The Ukraine war grinds on while more and more $$$ fly out the door in the face of inrushing winds of gross corruption in both the Ukraine and DC.

          The economy: When does the CBDC ax start to fall?

          Seems like a lot of people are in flight or fight paralysis.

          All of this furthers the WEF agenda.

          • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:27 pm #

            WEF is simply a PR front for the people driving the change no one asked for.

            I would say they have been quite successful so far. I can’t think of one thing I was talking about 3-4 years ago that has not come to pass in at least some form.

            They launched Covid too early, and it remains to be seen how many more strands of the Great Reset agenda can intertwine before the hangman’s noose is tightened and the trap door opens.

        • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 9:21 am #

          3-5 years, Gus.

        • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 9:48 am #

          “But, so far at least, the profit element seems to have been much stronger than the WEF component. No WEF pipe-dream realized so far.”

          That assumes Big Pharma as prime mover. Sasha Latypova’s (and others’) work shows the instigator to be the American Department of Defense. This is a military operation. Big Pharma, hideous and immoral as they are, are just the tool and in it for the money. In the Brook Jackson v. Pfizer court case, Pfizer’s official defence was that they were not guilty of fraud, because the fraud they committed was on behalf of the government. How much clearer do you need it to be?

          If you followed UK Column News, for example, you would see that, since long before covid, they have been following the way the defence world has been moving – towards horizontal affiliations (co-operation between governments and against ALL the people) and NATO as a world ‘defence’ force, i.e. defence of them against us.

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 10:01 am #

            I came across UKC (thanks to islander, if I recall) rather too late, but better late than never …

          • gustafson.robert.22 August 27, 2023 at 10:02 am #

            Even if the WEF agenda absolutely dominated covid orchestrations, so far, all major events have had pharma orchestrations/malfeasance at center stage. There’s not yet anything big you can point to to say, “See, pharma profit-seeking couldn’t explain this.”

            It still makes sense to say, “WEF plans are tentative. They’re still testing the waters, feeling out tools for the future, playing with ideas, colluding with more powerful players when common interests converge (with the big pharma profit-machine).

          • gustafson.robert.22 August 27, 2023 at 10:06 am #

            “because the fraud they committed was on behalf of the government.”

            The cover of “we were just following emergency government directives during a pandemic, trying to help in an emergency” seems to explain this better than a huge WEF Deep State black op to which pharma was pure puppet, to me.

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 11:05 am #

            “There’s not yet anything big you can point to to say, “See, pharma profit-seeking couldn’t explain this.”

            I didn’t mention the WEF, by the way, they’re just the PR arm of the agenda. You can point to the American Department of Defense because it orchestrated the whole thing. Why the DoD, when it should have been a public health issue, not a miltary one?

            I don’t know why you are so keen to believe in incompetence, accident and common-or-garden moneygrubbing, when this thing has so obviously been planned for decades. The receipts are there.

            Check out Sasha Latypova at 2h45. Also worth listening to Mike Yeadon before her – timeline is below the video.

            rumble.com/v39wgwb-rofim-international-mega-event-have-you-stopped-trusting-yet.html

          • gustafson.robert.22 August 27, 2023 at 11:30 am #

            DoD was involved in the gain of function projects that led one way or another to covid. Just to say, no need for their involvement to indicate a multi-decade depopulation black op. A cover-up for a gain-of-function mess is enough of an explanation.

            I’ll check the links out. Thanks..

          • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 2:40 pm #

            The Plutocrats control the Government, both of nations and of course the nascent Global Government.

            So of course things “come from the government”, lol. You’re weak on Pyramid Theory so you don’t understand this. If you would meditate on the Pyramid, you would.

            Individuals jump from Private Industry to the “Government” agencies that supposedly regulate them all the time. If the Government was truly in charge, then such a thing might be fine – depending on the loyalty of the individual. I mean you don’t want people who don’t know an industry trying to regulate it.

            We need a new kind of Man, one naturally more loyal to the People and Nation. One raised to put first priorities first and individual gain second. Those that can attain to this height, even if not rulers, should be invited forward by the rulers to take their place beside them in service to the Nation.

            To my Christian friends: None of this is beyond human capacity – if you truly believe in your religion. It is below the level of Sanctity – for my Catholic readers.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 3:15 pm #

            Jarek, it’s the same thing, a symbiosis.

            A religion.

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 5:39 pm #

            “So of course things “come from the government”, lol. You’re weak on Pyramid Theory so you don’t understand this. If you would meditate on the Pyramid, you would.”

            I understand the pyramid perfectly well – no need to be so endlessly patronising, except that you can’t help yourself because it’s part of your very being.

            I know everything comes from the government (on behalf of those further up the pyramid). My question to gustaf was rhetorical. He is determined not to see a depop agenda which you’d have to be blind not to figure out.

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 9:13 pm #

            “We need a new kind of man […]”

            Said every utopian mass murderer ever.

            “Oh, but this time it will be different.”

            Said the endlessly cheating spouse and the next utopian mass murderer …

          • Islander August 27, 2023 at 10:14 pm #

            GA:

            I think Gustafson keeps missing your point because he has not listened to Latypova and hence does not grasp the ramifications (also legal) of DARPA command and control of the op.

        • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 11:14 am #

          Klaus Schwab literally said that the “vaccines” change YOU (emphasis his).

          This aligns very much with the idea of MODRNA.

          Hey, that looks Moderna 😀

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 12:39 pm #

            Jonathan Van Tam (or however he spells his name), UK government advisor of some sort during covid – can’t remember his actual title but he was up there with Whitty and Vallance – has just taken a nice revolving-door appointment on the board of Moderna.

            Not a squeak from what used to be the Opposition in Parliament, or, as far as I know, from the MSM.

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 12:43 pm #

            I thought Schwab said the fourth industrial revolution ‘changes you’, rather than vaccines specifically. That could be implants or anything.

            But I agree that Moderna looks etymologically suspicious.

          • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 2:42 pm #

            That’s how I remember it – as the singularity or coming together of our biology and our machines.

            But perhaps he considers the Vax as part of that?

          • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:20 pm #

            GA, the quote I was thinking of:

            “The difference of this fourth industrial revolution is, it doesn’t change what you’re doing, it changes you. If you take genetic editing, just as an example, it’s you who are changed and of course this has a big impact on your identity”

            We can split the difference. 😀

          • Islander August 27, 2023 at 10:20 pm #

            Hey, that name, Moderna, already looked suspicious when the jabs putatively contained synthetic messengerRNA.

            “Moderated” RNA explains the name loud and clear.

            Someone’s clever little branding brainstorm.

            The joke sure is on us!

        • JohnAZ August 27, 2023 at 11:21 am #

          Because SARS2 did not work as well as they wanted.

          Doggonit we need SARS3. The weaponization continues?

        • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 1:26 pm #

          As bad as it already is, they have only begun to wear us down.

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 5:46 pm #

            I agree. They will get more brazen, as with the DEW ‘fires’. People will think ‘if I don’t take the vaxx they will laser my neighbourhood’. I just think, ‘well, laser me then, fuckers, I’m not taking your jabs’. Being lasered can’t be nice, but I’m sure it’s quick.

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 6:34 pm #

            And I have tinnitus, which is something a lot of vaxxed people are complaining of. Mine started in October 2021, and while it doesn’t bother me that much, it is worthy of note, if it indicates that something else has been done to us even if we didn’t get the jab.

      • Islander August 27, 2023 at 9:03 am #

        You seem to be ignoring the distinction between mRNA and modRNA.

        The bugs win only if you fail to debug. Your brain and your body.

        • JohnAZ August 27, 2023 at 10:42 am #

          The bugs are winning, long term. With help from a team of people weaponizing them.

          This is another case of the chicken and the egg. Are the evil forces originating in the government or the corporations? My argument stems from the source of funding and who is in charge.

          Fauci is a government agent, using weaponization to explore the virus world. His appointment by Pence/Trump was automatic as he is the de facto leader of all the efforts around the world. I do not know if he is directly connected to the WEF, but I would not be surprised if part of his funding stems from them, especially Gates.

          The government, whatever level, originated every aspect of the response to Covid and the states pretty much just succumbed to all the mandates and shot requirements. Follow the leader. A few shining exceptions, mostly Florida, occurred. Like the reaction to the election results inquiry, the Covid reaction shows the lemming mentality of the Deep State dominance in the country. DeSantis is still ridiculed by the Left for the Florida reaction, but his state fared as good or better than New York with Covid, without all the useless restrictions.

          Want to know if the conservative wing has a chance in 2024 with all the lemmings in place, just watch the reaction to this fall’s Covid “emergency” already starting.

          • JohnAZ August 27, 2023 at 11:14 am #

            Your statement about debugging?

            We do not even know if you can debug, or if the body has been made into a permanent s protein factory.

            Millions of folks hope so, myself included but I do show changes that started not with the vaxx but with getting WII last fall. Did the vaxx amplify the effects?

            Shrugging shoulders.

        • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 11:16 am #

          Sadly, I have yet to see evidence that anyone can clean out their system.

          I suspect that even those getting shed upon cannot fully do so.

          To date, natural processes like autophagy through intermittent fasting have been suggested, as well as the usual supplements, but who knows.

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 12:26 pm #

            Dr Ana Mihalcea has done a lot of work on this (she has a Substack page). She does a lot of live blood analysis and claims to have found hydrogel even in the blood in supermarket beef, for example. The jabs are not the only means by which people’s blood is being compromised. She says she is now finding no uncontaminated blood in her patients, whether vaxxed or not, and it appears not to be only due to shedding. Graphene oxide has also been found in rainwater after spraying of whatever they’re spraying us with.
            She claims considerable success through chelation, which I had never heard of before, but which removes metals from the blood (this appears to have been a thing long before covid).
            Not easy to find someone who does it, though. I’d have to go to Leeds in Yorkshire. And you have to keep doing it, because they keep getting stuff into us by a variety of means.
            So I don’t worry about it, as I can’t do anything about it. Others recommend NAC, which I do take, and a number of the resistance docs are now promoting Nattokinase, but that’s to get rid of spike protein inflammation to lessen the probability of future clots, whether a person is vaxxed, shed on, or otherwise compromised..

          • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:25 pm #

            GA,

            I would be careful with NAC. It is often grouped together with NAD, NMN, etc. I know they are not the same, but they pop up together quite often–usually in the context of life extention supplements. Many of these products are produced by Chinese suppliers.

            The wife and I took NAD briefly, but decided to stop.

          • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:25 pm #

            “extension”

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 6:00 pm #

            NO – do you mean it could be contaminated? I took glutathione first for months after I first found out about the jabs (it was recommended by Dr Pablo Campra, the Spanish scientist who first found graphene oxide in the vials).
            Then I read that NAC was a glutathione precursor and the NAC I buy is manufactured in the UK, although the active ingredients for pretty much everything seem to come from China, even those that are manufactured in India.

            The glutathione was a pain to get hold of – mine came from the US and I had to pay a fortune in taxes on top of the price of the stuff, which was already considerable. On top of which they sent me the wrong thing altogether the first time so I had to pay two lots of tax.

            I also heard (perhaps from Debi Evans on UKC) that ‘they’ are trying to slow the supply of supplements as they know loads of people are taking them to boost their health. I was thinking of getting a couple of years’ supply of everything I take (including just vits D&C), before they take over the manufacturers and stick nRNA in everything!

          • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 6:27 pm #

            I would just be careful. NAC might be ok. I did notice that with NAD, the only “high-quality” supplier here in Germany is from China and had some rather strange links to WEF-associated entities.

            I decided the risk was not worth it. The supplement market is also not well regulated.

            Just something to think about.

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 7:52 pm #

            OK, thanks, NO. I’ll look into the company.

          • Islander August 27, 2023 at 10:35 pm #

            NO:

            I got some NAD after reading here that you felt better and more energetic after taking it for a couple of weeks.

            I had never heard of it before. Here is what it says on the container:

            Brand: Orgabay
            Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleatide
            NAD+
            Actual NAD+ – Not precursor – Increases NAD+ level
            EcoCert: Made in UK.

            Hoping it doesn’t kill me (when I remember to take it . . .)

      • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 9:52 am #

        The extremely gullible President … just bought the whole package with its story.

        You can’t possibly know that, John. I believe that you should consider that this is exactly how a sting operation is executed: you let the criminals commit their crimes while you gather the evidence.

        Many people go astray because they do not properly assess motive while dishing out their theories. You must put yourself in the mindset of the criminal to understand his actions. Without a proper understanding of motive, detectives are “it” in a game of Blindman’s Bluff – floundering about barely being able to keep their feet.

        Many wrongly assume that it was binary: either DJT was “in on it” or oblivious to it. There is, at least, a third possibility, however. Perhaps DJT knew exactly what was going on and calculated that, after sharing the benefits of HCQ and personally refusing to wear a mask, people (Americans and not) still stupid enough to willingly take experimental toxic poison are destined to be collateral damage in his war to save mankind and the union.

        The result would be a better world with the evil criminals stung after a global populace Darwinian boot camp leaving the best, bravest and strongest to forge ahead.

        • JohnAZ August 27, 2023 at 10:50 am #

          Dr

          I am a Trump fan through and through. The pressures of the day, the impeachment and the election year overwhelmed his good sense relative to Covid. He sloughed it off onto Pence, a major error. All the RINOs at that time were just like the Senators around Julius Caesar, just looking for a place to stick their knife in. There you go, maybe the Covid reaction was a political exercise trying to nail Trump?

          I criticize Trump because of his refusal to admit error with the way he handled Covid, then and now, regardless of the circumstances.

          • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 11:55 am #

            Absolutely, Big Kahuna. Your take is far more likely than is mine. Mine, however, is possible and rarely even considered.

            Time will tell.

          • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 11:56 am #

            Ooops. I thought that I was answering Jarek but everything else applies. Sorry, John.

          • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 2:49 pm #

            Interesting take, Zonk. But I fear it gives Trump credit for having far more foresight than he has.

            He didn’t like being robbed of his second term. That’s as real as real can be. For the rest of it, he’s a sentimentalist when it comes to to our country – and the Elite hate him for that. That want us past that and won’t tolerate it anymore for someone at his level.

            Beyond that, he’s largely a bullshitter – saying halfway thru his term that he “wants these people here because the economy is so good”. Laura Ingraham said right to his face, “That’s not what you campaigned on.”

    • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 9:09 am #

      Goose egg.

      • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 9:55 am #

        Who/what is that in response to?

        • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 10:03 am #

          People in general who are simply tired of the same ol’ chicken egg and want to elevate their cuisine.

          • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 11:01 am #

            That’s funny, Zaz. Good one.

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 11:09 am #

            It’s in response to people who are tired of the same ol’ ? I’m no further forward, in terms of who the comment was aimed at and what it means. Sorry to be dumb.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 2:04 pm #

            I’m just joking, GreenAlba. Don’t know what that is about.

        • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 11:00 am #

          NO. Until that rude little weasel either coughs up his evidence against beantownbill. or apologizes and withdraws his accusations and allegations against beantownbill., NO has zero credibility. Zilch. Nada. Goose egg. Bupkis.

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 11:10 am #

            Oh, right. Not familiar with the term ‘goose egg’.

          • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 11:21 am #

            I have about a 98% track record, as evidenced by the archive.

            I kind of miss the days when we had a gaggle of people here shouting “conspiracy” at things I brought up over 3 years ago.

            Most all of it now reality.

            What have you provided HOGG man?

          • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 11:51 am #

            GA, I believe it originated in baseball as the zeros pile up inning after inning but is used colloquially throughout North American sport.

            ***
            NO, agreed. Doubts on 98% but assuredly top decile.

            But this is not about that, man. This is about being a man, man. You cannot do what you have done, refuse to recant and retain credibility, man. It does not work like that here in the civil world, man. And regardless of your track record.

            As for me? I bring a completely different set of knowledge and experience to CFN. I bring discussion-invoking topics with my outside-the-box analysis and prose. And I hold rude, little weasels accountable for their rude, little weaseliness. And that’s just for starters as to what I bring here.

            Good day, Zero.

          • stelmosfire August 27, 2023 at 12:31 pm #

            ZONK, “my outside-the-box analysis”

            “My outside the padded cell analysis”. There fixed it for ya.

            Zonk who believes laser beams from space or “DEW” as he calls them burned down Hawaii. Perhaps you’ll enlighten us as to who exactly was shooting these “beams”. Was it the US Government? Aliens in low Earth orbit? Putin? Maybe all of them were in cahoots making it a conspiracy. You are a true whackadoodle.

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 12:54 pm #

            St Elmo

            Excellent exposition of the Californian ‘wildfires’ here, which was recorded 2 months ago, before Maui, but seems to show the same inconsistencies with normal wildfires. It’s very detailed.

            youtube.com/watch?v=mHeoaIh7cx8

          • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 12:59 pm #

            Ya. What she said.

          • Islander August 27, 2023 at 2:01 pm #

            Zonk:
            You are acting like a monitor . . . plus concern troll.

            BTB can take care of himself.

          • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 2:32 pm #

            beantownbill. actually asked for our help, Isles and I am acting like a man among men.

            Men must be held accountable for their public accusations and allegations against other men lest freedom dies.

            Clearly NO needs either cough it up or recant for the good of not just btb. but of us all.

          • Islander August 27, 2023 at 10:25 pm #

            ” I bring a completely different set of knowledge and experience to CFN. I bring discussion-invoking topics with my outside-the-box analysis and prose.”

            Extreme self-aggrandizing bloviation watch!!

        • malthuss August 27, 2023 at 3:21 pm #

          GREEN ALGAE, I mean Alba,

          do you use Iodine?
          what about zeolite?
          Ive tried a few detoxes, with varying success.

          • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 6:15 pm #

            Are we back to personal insults, malthuss? I thought you’d got over that.

            I haven’t used iodine or zeolite (don’t even know what zeolite is). I have no idea if anything I’m taking is helping me. I’m not actually unwell, apart from having a dodgy knee, which is nothing to do with Astra Zeneca.

            I’ve even bought a thing on a chain that’s supposed to protect you from EMF! Came from America (doesn’t everything?!). It’s still in the box.

            I take Vits C&D, quercetin, zinc and NAC. I am considering nattokinase, in case I have spike protein doing damage that I don’t know about.

            And I pray. 🙂 I reckon if God still has something useful for me to do, he’ll keep me around for a while, no matter what I’ve been injected with. And if he doesn’t, he won’t, particularly. I’m fine with either option, except for the fact that I can’t help my kids and my grandson. It would be good to achieve something, even save at least one person (preferably them), before I go, but perhaps that is a narcissistic thought.

  78. SpeedyBB August 27, 2023 at 7:57 am #

    For my esteemed co-commenters, the following is a neat summary of how President Agent Orange was stymied in every meaningful move he attempted, by those DS reptiles he appointed:

    hxxps://www.brookings.edu/articles/president-trump-and-the-shallow-state/

    The disappointment was colossal, if not surprising.

    • SoftStarLight August 27, 2023 at 3:37 pm #

      Sometimes things must simply be totally destroyed to be good again. That is, once the thing is destroyed and replaced by something new and presumably better. Most people are slaves. Easily bought and sold. Thus the system is arrayed against those that would try to change it.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 4:40 pm #

        Everything Must Perish

        youtube.com/watch?v=UQeaE4eVwP8&t=276s

        “Tomorrow may never come
        Mountains clash in the sun
        The freezing snow starts to melt
        A quiet moment to myself

        Reflecting somewhere on the past
        I hope this feeling always lasts
        A paradise we stand alone
        Forgotten king without a throne

        A bird takes flight
        Now out of sight
        The sun catches its shadow

        A bird takes flight
        Now out of sight
        The sun catches its shadow…”

        • SoftStarLight August 27, 2023 at 6:35 pm #

          Thank you for sharing. I love how energetic and sinister it sounds!

  79. The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 9:51 am #

    What, Me Covid?: Illegal State/Government Drug Experiment, MKUltra

    Project MKUltra (or MK-Ultra)… was an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and intended to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used during interrogations to weaken people and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. It began in 1953 and was halted in 1973. MKUltra used numerous methods to manipulate its subjects’ mental states and brain functions, such as the covert administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals without the subjects’ consent, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, and other forms of torture.

    MKUltra was preceded by Project ARTICHOKE. It was organized through the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence and coordinated with the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories. The program engaged in illegal activities, including the use of U.S. and Canadian citizens as unwitting test subjects. MKUltra’s scope was broad, with activities carried out under the guise of research at more than 80 institutions aside from the military, including colleges and universities, hospitals, prisons, and pharmaceutical companies. The CIA operated using front organizations, although some top officials at these institutions were aware of the CIA’s involvement…

    Alleged subjects

    Boston mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger alleged he had been subjected to weekly injections of LSD and subsequent testing while in prison in Atlanta in 1957.

    Ted Kaczynski, an American domestic terrorist known as the Unabomber, was said to be a subject of a voluntary psychological study alleged by some sources to have been a part of MKUltra. As a sophomore at Harvard, Kaczynski participated in a study described by author Alston Chase as a ‘purposely brutalizing psychological experiment’…

    • Lawrence Teeter, the attorney for Sirhan Sirhan, believed that Sirhan was ‘operating under MK-ULTRA mind control techniques’ when he assassinated Robert F. Kennedy.

    Charles Manson has been tied to MKULTRA by author Tom O’Neil, beginning with his time in prison, when Manson took part in drug-induced psychological experiments run by the federal government. This continued through his ongoing connection to the CIA’s Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco once out of prison in 1967.”

    ~ Wikipedia

    • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 9:57 am #

      ^ Moral of the story? ^

      Oh I dunno… maybe seriously reconsider not taking, say, ‘vaccines’ that governments and their pharmacological and media cronies are wanting (especially pissing their pants for) you to take?

      I suppose I’m preaching to the choir here…

      • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:53 pm #

        There are several here who took the swill.

        Only one made an effort to seek out other information and be honest with themselves.

        The rest would have had you in a cattle car for refusing.

    • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 10:12 am #

      Are you experienced?
      – Jimi Hendrix

      I am very experienced. Several times I was wishing that the experience would end already. Or at least lighten up!

      As a psychedelic psychological explorer, I was floored by the simple concept of, “You go to and through eternity with the state of mind at your death.” The thought of spending eternity on acid freaked me out big-time.

      But I only ever dropped acid. Tabs and, mainly, microdots. Nobody that I knew ever injected LSD! That was unheard of in my circle in the early 1980s.

      I cannot even fathom how powerful injections of LSD would be. The thought gives me the heebie-geebies.

    • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 10:27 am #

      Ted Bundy was also a subject. As was Frank Olsen, one of the CIA’s own scientists.

      The Wikipedia is a limited hangout. This program is not only still being used widely, they used a lot of its tactics during the covid hoax. Instead of targeting one person, though, they used it on the entire world.

      This is no doubt (IMHO) why people are so bonkers now. Touchless torture, squeeze and release, gaslighting, violent attacks, etc. all sorts of tactics that were used on people have manifested itself in a very dysfunctional-acting public. No wonder the trans agenda and other idiotic agendas were easy to push through. People have lost their fucking minds.

      There are also (per one of the people who wrote extensively about MKUltra) reportedly at any given time upwards of 30K people deeply programmed by MKUltra just ready to do the bidding of the PTB. We see that with the mass shootings. Notice that before say, 1967 or so, there really never were any of those, even though the US populace was heavily armed from its earliest history.

      What changed? Well, for starters, the 1960s were when they set off an atomic bomb of “social change” psyops. Talk about a clusterfuck.

      They like to brag about it, too. I was in the grocery aisle a few weeks ago and saw the cover of “Life” was sporting a loud ‘n’ proud montage of photos on its cover from the 1960s. Its headline said, “1960s: The Decade Where Everything Changed.”

      Ain’t that the truth?

      • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 5:48 pm #

        Yes… It’s the butterfly effect at work, Mary. If a human system is fundamentally-corrupt/unethical at its core/inception and by its modus operandi, and maintains it, it’s just a matter of time before its core implodes, taking everything it has locked and chained and then some in with it.

    • JohnAZ August 27, 2023 at 10:54 am #

      Did you know that soldiers in the late forties and fifties were purposely exposed to nuclear test radiation to see what the effects were on them?

      Bottom line, the Founding Fathers were right. Government is evil and its direction is always towards the acquisition of power, EVIL!

      • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 2:53 pm #

        And why do people climb the corporate ladder? For the same purpose, generally. The people who just like having money to buy things and go on vacations won’t rise as high. To rise takes considerable asceticism and dedication.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle August 27, 2023 at 5:37 pm #

        Yes I do. Tip of the iceberg of course.

      • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:51 pm #

        They were for limited government John; they did not say government is evil.

        Nuance matters.

    • BackRowHeckler August 27, 2023 at 4:17 pm #

      All this time I thought Manson was nothing more than an ordinary ex-con who glommed onto the SF hippy zeitgeist for some free sex and whatever else he could extract from his ‘family.’ Manson’s real claim to fame is that ‘Creepy’ Alvin Karpis, a member of Ma Barker’s gang in the 30s, taught Manson how to play guitar in Washington State Prison.

  80. MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 10:31 am #

    John Stossel has a site devoted to debunking the climate change agenda. Has anyone here mentioned it before? If so, I apologize for the repeat. I was sort of surprised to see it. In any case, I haven’t perused it enough to see if it’s a limited hangout or reverse psyops (you know, the types of sites that exist just to make “climate change deniers” look like loons), but this article seems to be spot on:

    https://www.johnstossel.com/the-fake-climate-consensus/

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    • JohnAZ August 27, 2023 at 11:00 am #

      Mary, I will look at it.

      AGW is the worst case of attempted government, both domestic and Global, domination I have witnessed.

      Their secret is simple, pull up all the data supporting AGW and splash it all over the media. Cherry pick the data base and never let the critics have a voice. No debate is ever allowed. I noticed that it was not even brought up in the GOP debate.

      Yet another exposition of the total control of our country by the Leftist Deep State.

      • JohnAZ August 27, 2023 at 11:08 am #

        Read it, reflected what I just said.

        One of the commenters had a good point, follow the money. Who is benefitting from all of these warming warnings?

        I disagree that CO2 is the primary cause of warming, instead of the heat buildup from the heat islands created from the vast enlargement of cities in the northern hemisphere. Where are the counter moves associated with this possibility.

        This is one issue Trump was 100% correct on. He infuriated the AGW affiliates.

        Good!

        • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 12:14 pm #

          Patrick Moore (co-founder of Greenpeace) is one of several pointing out that it’s the other way round – that atmospheric CO2 is a result of warming (the oceans) and not a cause, and that it takes hundreds of years for warming or cooling to result in changed PPM of CO2.

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 3:00 pm #

            I’m with Patrick Moore. Seen a few of his videos.

        • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 2:06 pm #

          CO2 is what fuels the planet – literally. Without abundance of it, we die.

          That’s the biggest joke about all of this. I tend to go with the scientists who studied the ice core samples. At times where the earth went through cooling stages, that’s where pestilence and famine occurred. When we are at our warmest, those are the abundant times. We’re in a time of abundance. So the PTB make sure to kill millions of feed animals and burn down tons of forests and small towns, etc. to scare us into thinking we’re in a dangerous time.

          And I am with Dane Wigington (and the people – some former military – whom he interviews) that they are using high tech weaponry in order to attain those ends.

          • beantownbill. August 27, 2023 at 4:02 pm #

            Forget about numbers. Doesn’t it make sense that plants love and need carbon dioxide, and we need plants, so CO2 is essential? Trying to limit it seems counterintuitive to me. Besides which, the big-time anti-CO2ers fly around in their carbon dioxide-producing jets at will.

            I never liked that arrogant bastard Kerry.

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 6:22 pm #

            Kerry is a monster, as is Al Gore, who set the stage for the hoax in his documentary. That movie terrified everyone I know. These people are such consummate assholes.

            And you know, in Gore’s movie, he claimed that many coastal cities would be gone by now. Not only has sea level not risen, but he and his cronies have all snapped up beachfront properties for their mansions.

            And yet, people still believe in the climate change hoax.

        • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:45 pm #

          What warming? As with “Covid” you simply accept half of the narrative, but question the other half.

          The measurement sites and methods are highly disputed, never mind whether CO2 is good–which it obviously is; they pump it into industrial greenhouses for christ’s sake.

      • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 11:43 am #

        I tend to think locking families out of grocery stores or denying one the right to work in the name of medical tyanny is a bit worse, John.

        • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 12:02 pm #

          And that was beantownbill.’s fault, right?

          • Islander August 27, 2023 at 2:06 pm #

            . . .

        • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 2:01 pm #

          Beantown was locking people out of grocery stores and denying people the right to work?

          • beantownbill. August 27, 2023 at 4:27 pm #

            Oh, yeah, sure. Everyone knows I run an on-line food delivery business. No wonder I want people to stop shopping in grocery stores. Lol.

          • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:16 pm #

            The cockroach himself arrives.

            LOL.

        • JohnAZ August 27, 2023 at 7:28 pm #

          The Left is destroying the goodness of America in a multi-faceted offensive of which Covid is one part. All parts must be exposed.

          Both are main power drives of the Liberal global movements supported by the Deep State, along with many others.

          Anti-Trump drives.

          Bogus DA elections funded by Soros.

          Protests funded by Soros.

          Anti SCOTUS movements

          Ukraine War

          Election manipulation

          Coercion of the judicial system

          Coercion of the MSM.

          Coercion of social media outlets. Luckily, finally, a soldier is trying to undo a big chunk of this.

          Secession of Seattle. And on and on.

      • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 1:38 pm #

        I agree, JAZ. And soon, as I keep saying, they will call those of us who dare to counter any “Green New Deal” bullshit as “eco-terrorists” – that’s the next step up (or down?) from “climate change-denier.”

        They have names and acronyms for everything. And they love to label folks, and of course, incorrectly. Learning to do so is an integral part of the post-modernist agenda indoctrination.

    • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 11:21 am #

      Thank you for this link, Mare.*

      I believe that a handful of CFN regulars here hold us to some weird, bizarre criteria that one must apologize if they bring up a topic that they had missed when it was brought up earlier but also while they were living their life. It’s ridiculous.

      And it is not your responsibility to vet everything before running it up the CFN discussion flagpole like we’re the CIA or something.

      “Hey? Who knew about this?” is a valid intro to any link that any of us intelligent people bring to Jim’s Smorg.

      *Murray Slaughter (Gavin MacLeod) always called Mary Richards “Mare” on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in those simpler, more cordial, pleasant times.

      Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
      Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
      Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
      Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

      La, la, la, la, la, la
      La, la, la, la, la, la

      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?

      I seen you around for a long, long time
      I remembered you when you drank my wine

      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?

      I seen you walking down in Chinatown
      I call you but you could not look around

      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?

      I pay my money to the welfare line
      I see you standing in it every time

      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?

      The color of your skin don’t matter to me
      As long as we can live in harmony

      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?

      I’d kinda like to be the president
      So I can show you how your money’s spent

      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?

      Sometimes I don’t speak right
      But yet I know what I’m talking about

      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?

      I know you’re working for the CIA
      They wouldn’t have you in the mafia

      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      I want to be your friend
      Why can’t we be friends?
      I want to be your friend
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends?
      Why can’t we be friends

      • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 1:39 pm #

        Stop telling people what to say, how to say it, what to post, and what not to post.

        Loon.

        • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 1:49 pm #

          You infer meaning that I neither type nor intend. I never give commands while trying to persuade people is the entire purpose of free speech.

          I am disappointed that you cannot let bygones be bygones, Mare, but I am not surprised.

          1) I will continue posting interesting topics and links while continuing to not give a shit whether it was already discussed without me because anything else would be stupid.

          2) I will do my best to refrain from name-calling. It is the lowest form of debate, Mare.

          Good day.

          ***
          Let’s go Blue Jays!

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 2:00 pm #

            It’s not “bygones” if it’s still going on.

            What is still going on is that I don’t have a positive opinion of your behavior in general or what you post.

            That’s probably not likely to change.

            I call ’em as I see ’em.

      • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 1:52 pm #

        Now adding the lyrics to the most stupid song ever written, so people have to scroll by it.

        And convinced that your rantings improve discussion and educate people here.

        The delusion, it’s incredible.

        • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 2:18 pm #

          Agreed, Mare, those lyrics took more real estate this morning than they were worth. Apologies.

          I also disagree, though. It’s a great tune.

          You and your constant strawmen, Mare. I never claimed either thing that you claim that I claimed. It gets tiring, surely you must know that by now.

          As for delusional. I am the only one here who gives a shit about the American government incinerating an American town murdering 2,000-3,000 American citizens earlier this month! If that’s delusional, I thank God for it.

          I tried my best to patch the fence between you & I; to no avail. Out of respect for JHK and other CFNers, I will now do my best to avoid striking up another conversation with you, Mare.

          Good day.

          ***
          Lahaina. 8/8/2023. May God have mercy on their souls.

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 3:02 pm #

            You literally said upthread that your contributions improve things here.

            Do you not have functioning short-term memory? That might explain a lot.

          • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 3:24 pm #

            As for me? I bring a completely different set of knowledge and experience to CFN. I bring discussion-invoking topics with my outside-the-box analysis and prose. And I hold rude, little weasels accountable for their rude, little weaseliness. And that’s just for starters as to what I bring here.

            I mentioned neither improvement nor education, Mare, while you keep running on your bad assumptions in your corrupt little-girl brain.

            Now … I said, “Good day.”

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 6:24 pm #

            Here it comes, the real O.G. that I knew would reveal itself all along.

  81. Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 12:54 pm #

    This breaks my heart. I spent I don’t even know how many nights in Manhattan from 1994-2014. Dozens and dozens. I went to the Big Apple regularly during that 20-year span. I saw the very tail-end of XXX cinemas in Times Square (made famous in 1969’s Midnight Cowboy) but, by the late 1990s, NYC was as clean & tidy as most any other major North American city and, for example, M&M’s was opening its multi-floor cathedral of merchandising plastic to tourists in Times Square.

    Now this:

    nypost.com/2023/08/26/times-square-overrun-by-squalor-crime-its-a-sh-thole/

    • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 1:39 pm #

      *infamous

    • Islander August 27, 2023 at 2:48 pm #

      Times Square was basically my backyard when I lived in Hell’s Kitchen in the late 1970s and ’80s.

      I was never really in favor of the “cleanup.” At least the old Times Square was interesting. Many little businesses connected with show busuiness were pushed out with the “renovation” and new look.

      The current situation looks worse than anything I ever saw in the 1970s and 1980’s. I was not bothered about peep-shows and sex stores, etc. Seedy peep shows—so what? There is a difference between classic seediness and what the Post’s photos show now: misery, depravity, a behavioral sink against a backdrop of corporate glass sky scrapers that were supposed, themselves, automatically to “clean up” Times Square.

      Someone didn’t do their homework.
      This high-rise setting to me looks more alienating than what was there before. I used to say, “When you walk through Manhattan, also Times Square, look up!!” You would see all kinds of nifty architectural details of older human-scale buildings peeking out above the store fronts and their cheesy ply board or tinny metal signs.

      Eighth Avenue was in my day a kind of back alley to Broadway and Seventh Avenue. The Theatre District. The old seediness coexisted with the bonafide theatre district. That is a classic ecology. A lot of the smaller businesses such as lighting, costumes, rentals, small agents’ offices, etc. that support the theatre and entertainment industries were located there. Also pawn shops, secondhand music stores, funny little downstairs clubs—all kinds of stuff. Also some churches and their missions.

      At least the Actors’ Church is still there. And the Film Centre Building, on Ninth Avenue.

      • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 3:12 pm #

        Eighth Avenue still had a few peep show / sex shops interspersed with pizza shops and the Duane Reade in 2014. I’d stay at the Weston and be a couple of blocks from the Smith Bar on Eighth & 45th (I think). I’m lucky that I didn’t end up dead in Harlem one night.

        I believe that I heard that the Smith Bar was a casualty of the COVIDs.

      • beantownbill. August 27, 2023 at 3:46 pm #

        @Islander:

        When we’d go to Manhattan we would stay at the Hotel Mela on W. 44th St. I always enjoyed the area, and it was only a 5 minute walk to Times Square.

    • Jarek August 27, 2023 at 2:59 pm #

      New Yorkers owe much to Mayor Rudy and and Governor Bloomy – and Trump threw his support behind them too. They pushed back the corruption. How did New Yorkers pay them back? Probably (at least now) by supporting their prosecution with trumped up charges.

    • SoftStarLight August 27, 2023 at 3:29 pm #

      Don’t cry. New York will be more beautiful as ruins. A decrepit and decaying Statue of Liberty will have an especially eerie and ominous appearance. As will the crumbling, dark skyline in bright moonlight.

      • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 3:40 pm #

        Talk about a dog-eat-dog world!

        • SoftStarLight August 27, 2023 at 3:52 pm #

          Well, it doesn’t have to be that way. Some people will not be able to help themselves however.

          • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 3:58 pm #

            You are just too sweet for this cold, old world, SSL.

          • SoftStarLight August 27, 2023 at 4:09 pm #

            Did I give you a sugar rush, Doctor lol? Well, just saying that it is possible for people to cooperate instead of compete.

      • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 6:30 pm #

        “A decrepit and decaying Statue of Liberty will have an especially eerie and ominous appearance. ”

        Perhaps it will get an Ozymandias-style poem – a satire on the one that’s there already.

        • SoftStarLight August 27, 2023 at 6:46 pm #

          Perhaps one of our resident poets will give it a try 🙂

          Nothing would delight me more lol

  82. Amman August 27, 2023 at 3:43 pm #

    Germany and Leibeigenschaft.

    XXXhttps://youtu.be/fPwOD5M9yJU

    • Amman August 27, 2023 at 3:44 pm #

      i.e. The real Euro-Project

      • SoftStarLight August 27, 2023 at 4:20 pm #

        A WEF inspired controlled demolition? I think they are trying to nullify the idea that people can own property and also that there is a such thing as public property or commons. Ultimately everything will be owned by this weird government-corporate entity. Or at least that is their hope.

        • messianicdruid August 27, 2023 at 5:06 pm #

          We own and are responsible for what we create. If you didn’t create it you dte a steward or a thief.

          • Amman August 27, 2023 at 5:21 pm #

            Is there any value in knowing what the motivation for a bad policy is?

            XXXhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/RYTdMOvXebI?feature=share

          • SoftStarLight August 27, 2023 at 6:55 pm #

            You don’t create anything though? Everything is basically given to you no

  83. beantownbill. August 27, 2023 at 4:24 pm #

    @ Dr. Zonk:

    I, for one, appreciate that you stood up for me with the real nut job.
    For that I’ll stand up for you, as long as you are not mean-spirited – and you apparently are trying (and succeeding) at avoiding that.

    So, please keep up the good fight.

    BTW, it is true you are unorthodox. But so what. Just don’t change – like I really think you will. NOT!

    • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 4:47 pm #

      Good of you to say that, btb.

      Yes, I am medically much better now, thank you. I was suffering a rarely discussed condition: Situational Depression. The situation has been finalized and I am, therefore, now longer bashing my head into a brick wall fighting the impossible battle against blatantly corrupt Canadian Justice (where proof and logic are literally snickered at).

      NO owes you a recant and an apology yet he weasels away like his track record somehow puts him above accountability!

      You and I don’t always agree on the topic du jour but we are both stand-up men, not weasels.

      • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 5:33 pm #

        I’ve been insulting him since he told us to shut up about Covid as we were being locked out of grocery stores.

        You are free to look over the two years of applicable archived posts.

        A pasttime of cat ladies, those with nothing else to do, and banned Canadian posters one step removed from the padded cell.

        😀

        • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 6:23 pm #

          D’uh! Oh. Ok. I didn’t realize that me and btb. got it all wrong and that it is the responsibility of cat ladies to even locate your unfounded accusations and allegations against btb.

          You need cough up or recant, Zilch Weasel. Until you do, you have no cred.

          ***
          Every human illness is treated with, “You are getting better? Good for you!” except mental illness (which is treated with, “You’re getting better? F%&k you! I’m now going to try and make you worse!”).

          I do not wish my situation on my worst enemy, let alone you, NO. I follow Jesus Christ of Nazareth and now turn my other cheek so that you may strike me once again.

          • Night Owl August 27, 2023 at 6:24 pm #

            Give it a shot. You have nothing better to do Hogg man.

            Perhaps Mary Q-Anon can assist you.

      • Amman August 27, 2023 at 5:34 pm #

        Where’s a good place for you in Canada?

        • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 10:37 pm #

          I don’t understand your question, Amman. For survivalists preparing for TSHTF, northern Canada remains relatively pristine. Tough life, though. Lots of mosquitos.

      • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 6:27 pm #

        Everyone on earth gets situationally depressed.

        You, O.G., are just an asshole.

        • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 10:32 pm #

          That may be, Mare, but not everyone is clinically diagnosed with situational depression by a $500/hr psychologist as was I (by Dr Misener).

          Not everyone is out $1,400,000+ to “Legalized extortion” as am I.

          ***
          Thank you you for your generous feedback. Thankfully my gf, parents, children, sister, friends and relatives disagree.

          But let’s not talk about me anymore though, ok? I’m boring now that I’ve gotten better. I’d rather talk about Lahaina and DEWs and the COVIDs. That’s what is interesting, imho.

          Take care, Mare. God bless you.

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 10:37 pm #

            I really don’t care, O.G. You’re no different than you were before, just as much an asshole, and just as annoying and self-important.

          • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 10:45 pm #

            I understand and yet again I appreciate your generous feedback, Mare, but you are thankfully incorrect. Truly I really am a million times better than I was even just a few months ago. My situation is no longer in play. For better or worse, it is finalized.

            I extended an olive branch to you. You rejected my offer. Let’s now just go our separate ways in peace, ok?

            God bless you, Mare.

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 11:42 pm #

            Keep continuing to make Jim’s blog a big O.G. soap opera all about you. I want to see how far you’ll go (again).

          • Dr Zonk August 28, 2023 at 12:08 am #

            You’re the one who keeps talking about me, Mare. I have several times asked that we move on from boring me. Good day.

          • Amman August 28, 2023 at 8:06 am #

            I meant place – a city or state – that is laid-back and normal. Hope u get my drift.

    • SoftStarLight August 27, 2023 at 7:00 pm #

      Do I need to get the playpens back out omg lol

      • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 10:51 pm #

        Maybe if you had your successful life’s work extorted from you, you would better understand, SSL, and then you’d know that it is not child’s play. Unjustly having $1,400,000 confiscated is most assuredly adult business.

        I, however, pray to God that you never experience my situation.

        • Amman August 28, 2023 at 8:08 am #

          Why is the mare incensed at you? Is it a fighting-Irish thing?

  84. JohnAZ August 27, 2023 at 7:33 pm #

    Well, I am watching a report where Maui government is suing the electric company for the downed electric lines that started the fires.

    Sounds like PG&E.

    In the ,meantimes, the Dems are mouthing off everywhere that the fault is global warming.

    Will they ever just shut up!!!!

    • GreenAlba August 27, 2023 at 9:29 pm #

      “Well, I am watching a report where Maui government is suing the electric company for the downed electric lines that started the fires.”

      Nice bit of deflection on the part of the government.

      You should watch the video I linked to on the Californian fires, John. The guy is a tree expert. Trees burned from the inside, and the outside of the trunk and the leaves not burned. Tyres with no metal not burned at all. Tyres with metal rims burned (just like when you put tinfoil in your microwave). Metal pipes under the ground burned. Plastic pipes above the ground not burned.

      Children’s plastic toys untouched by the ‘fires’. Fence posts only burned round the bits that have metal nails in them, with the rest of the wooden post unburned. They went round picking up unburned plastic stuff so that people wouldn’t figure it out, but if you went behind the fences, there were the unburned plastic toys.

      • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 9:34 pm #

        The DEWs and don’ts of Lahaina.

      • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 10:35 pm #

        The same type of car-burning appeared around the blocks during 9/11, all sorts of cars on fire for no reason.

        Another thing people saw and was swept under the rug.

      • Islander August 27, 2023 at 11:03 pm #

        I have posted the link to the video with Dr. Peggy Hall and the forensic arborist Robert Brame a couple of times here already.

        Anyone watching?

        • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 11:21 pm #

          I have watched it. Thank you. Robert Brame, the tree expert, is very impressive while conveying difficult subject matter. So is Dr Peggy Hall. I was previously unfamiliar with her but will keep an eye out for more of her interviews.

    • Amman August 28, 2023 at 8:17 am #

      The Maui Gov should be plucking their eyes out… just like Oedipus Tyrannis.

      XXXhttps://illustrationwest.org/58/student/oedipus-tyrannis/

  85. JohnAZ August 27, 2023 at 7:38 pm #

    Jeez.

    The Deep State is driving patriots to root for BRICS++ versus WEF as the way to stop the destruction of the USA. The Deep State sponsored global takeover is our number one enemy.

    How can the hypocrites take their oath of office to “preserve and protect the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic” when they, themselves, are the number one enemy?

    Obviously, the validity of that oath died with Biden.

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    • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm #

      After the bogus 2020 election, they stopped taking the oath of office. It never happened. We are witnessing the biggest psyop ever. “Biden” et al will continue being so ridiculous that the people will have no choice but to finally wake up!

  86. gustafson.robert.22 August 27, 2023 at 10:19 pm #

    I’ve been converted to the chemtrail believer’s club… by this. RFK recently interviewing the founder of Geoengineering Watch on a podcast.

    geoengineeringwatch.org/us-presidential-candidate-robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-dane-wigington-is-climate-engineering-real/

    put “www.” into link

    • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 10:34 pm #

      Dane Wigington is the man!

      • gustafson.robert.22 August 27, 2023 at 10:42 pm #

        Why do you think they’re spraying, Mary? Dan thinks they’re already significantly masking global warming…

        • gustafson.robert.22 August 27, 2023 at 10:42 pm #

          Dane

          • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 11:39 pm #

            Dane’s website will tell you all you need to know:

            https://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/

          • gustafson.robert.22 August 28, 2023 at 7:11 am #

            Yes. I was trying to see where you stood in relation to his heavily global-warming-influenced perspective.

            Either way, the spraying and weather fuckery really is undeniable after looking at his material. They’ve had this tech and hundreds of patents for it (USG, Ratheon corporation, etc.) since the 60s. They say they aren’t doing it yet, but they are.

  87. Islander August 27, 2023 at 10:57 pm #

    On the spate of fires, Dr. David Martin makes some trenchant comments: It is all about land reappropriation.

    httpX://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/why-are-there-so-many-fires-dr-david/

    Language watch:
    “WILDfires” instead of “forest fires” or just plain “fires.”

    Obvious fearmongering.

  88. Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 11:04 pm #

    And I pray. ? I reckon if God still has something useful for me to do, he’ll keep me around for a while, no matter what I’ve been injected with. And if he doesn’t, he won’t, particularly. I’m fine with either option, except for the fact that I can’t help my kids and my grandson. It would be good to achieve something, even save at least one person (preferably them), before I go, but perhaps that is a narcissistic thought.

    That is the most uplifting paragraph of the day, imho. It is the complete opposite of a narcissistic thought. It is an expression of humanity at its very best.

    • MaryQueen August 27, 2023 at 11:40 pm #

      Making it all about you, then pretending you’re not a narcissist is extra precious, O.G.

      • Dr Zonk August 27, 2023 at 11:58 pm #

        I appreciate your generous feedback. Thank you. Good day.

        • Night Owl August 28, 2023 at 3:42 am #

          Mary Q-Anon has to disavow you now, OG–otherwise the board will be reminded of her DEWy Q side.

          She used you last week, broseph.

  89. smoothtom August 27, 2023 at 11:23 pm #

    Jim, I haven’t checked in on you in years–not since your rantings and ravings during the Trump administration, when you were going on about deep state blah blah blah, swearing Trump would win another term. And here you are, repeating the same unhinged bullshit. You were thoughtful, once. Now you’re a pathetic crank who gets. it. wrong. constantly. Yet you go on–I guess I have to have a grudging admiration for that tenacity. But I don’t have to take you seriously, as there is nothing serious about you anymore.

    • SoftStarLight August 28, 2023 at 3:00 am #

      Ironically, your comment has increased his credibility five fold. Smooth, tom.

      • JohnAZ August 28, 2023 at 7:26 am #

        Just think.

        Hidebound indoctrinated people like smoothtom are running this country.

        One of the clues of political insanity is not being to see any POV besides your own. The Left, with its emotional intolerance, feeds on this.

  90. SoftStarLight August 28, 2023 at 2:03 am #

    You don’t strike me as the type who would attend a high school reunion. Perhaps two thirds of the class would have had better reasons for not attending but how can you be sure? I didn’t attend either. In my particular circumstances I realized it would have been disastrous. This is because reconnecting with high school besties in the years leading up to it indicated that more often than not relationships occur within specific windows of time and or better left where they are. Once time passes, windows close. People change, their interests and focus changes. and so have you and yours. But your real connections happened in a different time and place. Thus a dear friend who used to be your confidant in all things in those days is now, all these years later, convinced that you are having an affair with her husband because the party was late, everybody probably had too much to drink and you were talking with him on the back patio and no one else was around. Or you find out that another sweet friend that you on and off kept at arms length in those days holds a grudge against you to this day because in her eyes you were sort of like Tracy Chapman’s fast car friend. Anyway. You get the picture. Believe it or not, in many ways it is much less dark. Don’t beat yourself up. Most of the time when you think you are the odd one, you are probably one of the most normal. Whatever the hell normal is lol.

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  91. SoftStarLight August 28, 2023 at 2:21 am #

    Perhaps the Doctor doesn’t always know best? Is it actually a matter of best or simply a matter of mind. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t really matter. Most have been robbed. But what one person values another may scorn, and vice versa. So chances are there are more in your boat than you realize. Not that knowing this should comfort you. But to say that you shouldn’t wear a chip on your shoulder. Perhaps others gravitate to mirth to forget the chips on their shoulders and indulging them isn’t a crime.

  92. SoftStarLight August 28, 2023 at 2:56 am #

    I’ve heard that they are spraying sulfur particles in those chemtrails. My understanding is that sulfur particles will last a long time in the stratosphere. They may think they are helping to stop global warming. But in my estimation (i am not a scientist?) their solution is as catastrophic as the environmental impacts of the industrial revolution which theoretically led to their problem in the first place.

    • gustafson.robert.22 August 28, 2023 at 7:05 am #

      Yes, they’re at least doing a lot of testing and playing around with the spraying. Aluminum also. And they’re engaging/have engaged in some weather warfare and alterations globally. They can create some artificial pressure highs to try to steer things around. And various waves (cell, radio, micro) are affecting rainfall at times.

      And the spray particles are ending up in soil and ocean, foreign particles with toxic effects.

    • JohnAZ August 28, 2023 at 7:21 am #

      Sulfur?

      As in acid rain?

      As in we cannot use coal?

  93. Night Owl August 28, 2023 at 3:14 am #

    “79 people arrested in Greece for arson following the latest “climate change wildfires”.

    https://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1695484092538671611

    Just like in Cali a few years back…

    • JohnAZ August 28, 2023 at 7:31 am #

      NO

      The arson attacks are too organized for maximum destruction to be happenstance.

      California and the west.

      Canada, 900 fires in a week?

      Maui, perfect timing with the hurricane.

      I, for one, do not believe in fortuitous coincidence.

      Ten years from now, the Left will be screaming for more CO2 to grow back the forests they have helped destroy.

      I wonder. Signs indicate the Sahara desert was a lush jungle or steppe at one time. Did it burn up?

      • gustafson.robert.22 August 28, 2023 at 8:37 am #

        The answers are not that simplistically right vs left, john.

      • Night Owl August 28, 2023 at 8:38 am #

        Yep. The number of arsonists arrested is now up to around 160 in Greece, as well.

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