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Like the fabled spring zephyr came news that the Golden Golem of Greatness, (a.k.a. President Trump) signed an executive order that would withhold federal funding from colleges and universities that do not demonstrate support for free speech. It has been an amazement to behold the appalling, hypocritical suppression of the first amendment on campuses across the nation, with their ignoble speech codes, asinine safe spaces, sinister kangaroo courts, and racist anti-whiteness crusades.
Most wondrous of all has been the failure of college presidents, deans, trustees, and faculty chairs to assert their authority and do the right thing — namely, take a stand against the arrant muzzling of free expression by campus Stalinists. Their craven passivity is a symptom of what future historians will identify as the epic institutional collapse of higher education, which first made itself into an industry like any other moneygrubbing business, and then became a titanic racketeering operation. And now it is all coming to grief.
In the years ahead, you will see colleges go out of business at a shocking rate and the contagion will spread to the giant state systems around the country. In my little region alone, several colleges have published their own obituaries in the last few months: Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont; Southern Vermont College in Bennington; and Hampshire College over in Amherst, MA (which is desperately searching for a buyout). That’s just the beginning of a wave of closures that will send tens of thousands of academic hierophants flooding the unemployment offices while sleeping in their cars.
It’s not hard to see how this fiasco developed and blossomed. In the 1960s, when I was in college, Marxism offered a neat, pre-engineered template for opposing the odious Establishment that blundered into the Vietnam War. Students then at least had skin in the game: the threat of getting drafted into the army and shipped over to die in the jungle for a senseless conflict. In fact, many young men unsuited for college took refuge there to evade the military. Then, with a bull market in Boomer Generation PhDs, the faculties were soon filled with the former Sixties radicals.
Many were Boomer women, who set out to explain and correct the evolving relations of men and women in the office workplace of the day. By then the war was over. The sick economy of the 1970s put an end to the ability of men to support a family and more women were forced to enter the office environment. Meanwhile radical progressivism needed an ever-fresh supply of new aggrieved parties to justify its agitation against the old Marxist bugbears of bourgeois values and structural oppression — and incidentally fuel academic careers. Hence, the multiplication of victims into handy intersectional categories.
By the 1980s, it also became evident that 60s civil rights legislation to end Jim Crow laws had not solved the quandaries of race in America, and that disappointment refreshed the progressive crusade to heal the world of injustice and inequality. Every other effort to produce equal outcomes for different categories of people had also proved disappointing, so now progressives resort to plain coercion to force equal outcomes at all costs, and nowhere is that behavior more overt than on campus the past decade.
The delusion that everybody must have a college education finally turned Higher Ed into a racket, when the federal government decided to guarantee college loans — which only prompted colleges to ramp up tuitions way beyond the official inflation rate and undertake massive expansion programs in the competition for the expanding base of student customer-borrowers. Almost all colleges acted as facilitators to this loan racket, though with federal guarantees they had no skin in that game. Now, outstanding student loan debt is $1.5 trillion, and about 40 percent of it is nonperforming, in euphemistic banker jargon. The student borrowers have been fleeced, many of them financially destroyed for life, and they have only begun to express themselves politically.
The anxiety and remorse behind that dastardly financial behavior, and the prospect of coming institutional ruin, is probably a big factor behind the engineered social justice hysterias that paradoxically made college campuses the most intellectually unfree — and intellectually unsafe! —places in the land. And turned all those college presidents into cowards and cravens. Since coercion is the only behavior modification college administrators understand these days, it’s reasonable that Mr. Trump use federal grant largesse as a lever to end the structural despotism of campus culture. The stumbling economy will take care of the rest.
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As a retired denizen of a state university in the South, of all places, Mr. K is absolutely correct. If it can happen here, it can happen anywhere and has done. And, furthermore, he’s correct; only removing the money incentives will stop this nonsense.
Totally agree, shotho. This is getting crazy!
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So mandatory college education without mandatory well paying employment afterwards is falling on it’s face in the gutter, eh? Well it’s about time don’t you think? What in the world are we going to do with all of the empty structures that will be left behind? Can they be utilized to house the flood of refugees that our sanctuary states (thank you NJ governor Pot Head) will be providing? Perhaps Brother Jobe should be notified of availabilities as he and his seemed to make very good use of their digs. Oh wait, he was a fictional character wasn’t he? You have to admit, it’s gettings curiouser and curiouser.
The first two paragraphs contain a delightfully fitting assortment of adjectives:
“appalling… hypocritical… ignoble… asinine… sinister… racist… arrant… craven… epic… titanic”
Thank you, Jim!
Only thing missing is snorting of nostrils!
It was implied figuratively.
The stumbling economy will take care of the rest. The economy can stumble but when it begins to really fall the game it appears will change as you will see if you follow my link. It gives a frenchy to today’s topic.
Ripped up pavers on college grinders across the land may replace card tables pamphlets and herb cigarettes soon. America is in a bubble and campus games of musical chairs are only a small part of the bigger circus.
K-Dog,
The french video link on your site appears to be unavailable.
No it is working fine. A bit of clicking around on it and it will open, I changed the width tag in the embed code and dropped the height tag expecting it to be calculated by the browser. That could be the problem. I’ll try setting it but the video link is active.
I’d like people to see enough of it to understand the commitment of the yellow vests and to get an inkling how much of our new is spoon fed to us and how much is kept away from our view.
“…I’d like people to see enough of it to understand the commitment of the yellow vests and to get an inkling how much of our new is spoon fed to us and how much is kept away from our view.”
Worth reading again.
The perils of working at the nuts and bolts level.
If you were only getting classical audio from the intro that was the problem. Missing height tag and I fixed it. Pictures add the missing tag but not embeds. Lesson learned.
Ripped up pavers on college grinders across the land may replace card tables pamphlets and herb cigarettes soon. – Dog
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I’m old and not too hip to your lingo. Please explain the above sentence to me.
Consider institutionalized adolescent acting out of social rebellion as having a short shelf life. Things are going to be getting ripe when real complaints can’t be ignored.
Something like this will be your fathers Oldsmobile once pavers get picked up. If you don’t smoke em if you got em it is ok with me. I don’t either.
How do you feel now shit head since Mueller dropped his briefcase of reality on your head and the entire piece of shit Democrat party and everybody that votes for this sorry ass party.
I’ve read enough of your horse shit stuff off and on to know that you are one of many that played a hand in Ripping this beloved nation apart.
Anyone that post or posted online pertaining to the 100% pure bullshit fake phony Russia lie are guilty of spreading propaganda.
God only knows the damage this vile evil piece of shit party that calls themselves the Democratic Party has done to our Nation. Them and each Person that voted for any of them and each one like you that swallowed every word the Leftist piece of shit media pumped out about President Trump and him being a Russian spy or Russian agent etc etc.
God only knows the moral & social / political damage that they have done to my nation. Each person in this vile evil party needs to be lined up and shot. Or better yet beheaded!!! I volunteer to pull the lever.
I swear to God I would. In closing know this, most dick suckers love girly type dogs like you. Dick sucking piece of shit Russia collusion pushing piece of garbage you are.
I’m also all for dropping off 500 illegal alien invaders a day at your place.
“I’m also all for dropping off 500 illegal alien invaders a day at your place.”
If my understanding is accurate, kdog lives in Seattle. Where do you think they end up?
I’m not leftist or conservative. I’m K-Dog.
500 aliens is too many. Five will do. I’ll pay an even 20 an hour and I want all the yard work done and my driveway pressure washed. The constant rain and mist stains the cement up here. If one has carpentry references we’ll talk.
I’m not understanding about the fake Russian lie bullshit since we agree on that. Go figure!
Thanks for the video, K-Dog, absolutely riveting. What’s truly shocking is that Macron is not addressing this situation at all, except adding more fuel to the fire by bringing in the military. His focus, like Trump, is the world stage, pompous little Bonapartes. We should all pay our taxes, so they can keep their geo- political game going and shut the fxck up!
Macron is a Rothschild shill, a globalist, new world order supporter of an Orwellian world dictatorship. Trump is against that.
To be sure,Trump’s world view pales in comparison to Macron’s globalism, but he’s no sweetheart either. He’s in Iraq, threatening Iran, attempting to overthrow the Venezuelan government, sanctioning Russia every twenty minutes, failing in his threats to win concessions from Kim and Xi. Where is the infrastructure investments he promised? I equate the two men because primarily they look to the world stage for glorification, and to hell with the folks at home. Trump is primarily looking to Make Trump Great Again
People with teeny, tiny egos usually don’t run for high political office. You’re correct about that.
A March 20, 2019 article states: “Today, the United States fields an estimated 5,200 troops in Iraq.”
That compares to 170,000 at the end on 2007. Trump has also extricated us from the civil war in Syria where the CIA and its allies Mossad and Saudi Arabia were supporting the terrorists of ISIS.
Trump may have to talk bellicose at times to appease the Neo-Con warmongers who still inhabit Congress, the deep state, Defense Dept, etc May they all drop dead like McCain!
Haven’t you noticed that it’s the Democrats who most push for war policies, provocations, economic sanctions, intervention, “nation building” by dropping humanitarian bombs, etc?
I’m not into the democrat/republic game and neither are the democrat and republican politicians.
His big ego stepped up to the plate and it is now responsible. Trump didn’t wind down the war in Syria, Russia kicked ass and won that war. What’s more, Trump knew there was a deep state walking in, as we all do. So that excuse doesn’t hold water.
The deep state does not work for the government or work in it. It rules it among a slew of other countries. The CIA, FBI, etc are pawns who do as they are told.
Hello James,
1970s grad/refugee from the Jesuit Lavender Mafia Gulag I call Gonstagnant Udiversity out in the Pacific Northwest.
RACKET was the only word going through my mind at the evacuation ceremony. This all adds new meaning to the term:
“It couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of thugs.”
Carry-on til you are carrion,
PFO
I was an engineer in oil & gas. I recently got laid off when prices sank and stayed down. When prices fell, what was once the best job I ever had quickly became the worst job I ever had. At the local bar I hung out at there was a guy who needed help with his blind business. He had once been an auto repair shop managers at the big local dealerships, but he had soured on it and quit. He picked up an Entrepreneur Magazine and looked for the business with the least capital outlay. He picked blinds. All you need was a good drill, a measuring tape, a piece of paper and a pen, and a ladder and you were in business. 10 years later he’s making nearly twice what he made managing the repair shop, he works from 8 -12 noon, has lunch and is through for the day. Needless to say he made more than I did without a college degree, and he worked half the time. A college degree is bullshit. An engineering degree is one of the worst today, because everything is outsourced. Examine the market, fulfill a need, establish a reputation for quality work and solid work ethic, stand behind your work, and you will get rich. A college degree today is often a path to ruin, not to riches. It is the professional equivalent of “Save your money.” When I was a kid if you had $1 million dollars, you put it in cd’s and earned 7%. Today you are lucky to get 1% maybe 1.5%.
Years ago, someone here [If I recall] posted that he knew a chemical engineer PHd.
The youngster was deep in debt.
He was offered a job in China at 5-10k a year.
Learn to code, bud 😉
But don’t drop your code in the road. 🙂
Lol
You’re a smart puppy today, dawg! 🙂
Lol your a stone cold piece of shit idiot. How’s that Russia collusion working out for ya??? Lol. Village idiot.
PFO, The Evergreen State College is my alma mater, I’m embarrassed to say, these days. It was a good school (for me) when I was there.
Seawolf,
“Examine the market, fulfill a need, establish a reputation for quality work and solid work ethic, stand behind your work, ”
I’m not rich yet, but this is what is and has been working to get me started.
Hey Farmer Joe, did you ever see Ken Kesey around?
I’m not that old
Evergreen State?! Isn’t that the place which has special days when white people are banned from campus?
Unfortunately
I wonder how their alumni fund raising campaign is doing? Notice with the mailing: Warning: If you drop off your donations in person on certain days, you will be severely beaten for the crime of being white.
A college degree is bullshit. – seawolf
Today you are lucky to get 1% maybe 1.5%. – seawolf
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I believe that as the years have worn on since MY day (attended from 1958 to 1962) a college degree has become greatly devalued much like the US dollar. What a valid degree does for someone is serve to show that they have endured a certain amount of rigor and the endurance of rigor is what many jobs are all about…at least jobs worked in the confines of four cubical walls.
Regarding the percent you can get on your money, I recently shifted some money where I am now getting 3.4% vs nearly nothing previously. I also opened an account where I buy T-bills that are averaging 2.5% (considered to be the lowest risk investment in the world) with the advantage that the earnings are not subject to State income tax. You also can easily get 3% or more on Utility stock dividends (for example PEG) with relative safety of principle (unless a nuclear plant blows up).
Even a relatively high 3% annual return is unlikely to preserve your purchasing power long term. Call me a conspiracy nut. But I see so many factors working together to destroy the middle class that I can’t think it’s all a series of coincidences.
I rarely agree with you, but on this post you are absolutely correct. College degrees have almost always been bullshit. Entrepreneurship is the way to go, although the responsibility can be intense.
In my neck of the woods, a million can get 2.5 %, easily, more if you want to take a little gamble. Still a bad deal because inflation is higher. The reality is that life is risk. Embrace it if you want to thrive.
Inflation is 1.5% if you believe the official numbers.
I’m not sure about right now, but a few years ago there were engineering jobs that had been vacant for years out in the Great Lakes area. I am not an engineer, am almost 71 and retired, but in my lifetime you could usually find a job if you were willing to go where the job was and willing to do what had to be done.
Yes indeed. And another one bites the dust in Vermont as College of St. Joseph’s has just announced it will close this year. Yawn…..
Too many overpriced colleges handing out worthless degrees in Gender and Queer Studies that will prepare the holder of said degree for a lifetime of student loan repayment while working as a barista at Starbucks. The “solution” of course is for the new uber-liberal arm of the Democratic party to demand free college for all! So everyone can major in Feminist Theory and Gender Studies or Afro-American Art or whatever passes for scholarship these days. I’m old-fashioned having studied science I suppose.
Interesting to see Ivanka Trump come out in support of not pushing everyone to attend college. As we clearly have way more college graduates than we can possibly employ in jobs actually needing the knowledge learned by pursuing a 4-year degree, that’s a good thing. The trades are crying out for smart new workers(hopefully those that can pass a drug screening).
As for the notion of free speech, for the snowflakes and their professors, that only applies if it’s their idea of what should be spoken of. And speaking truth to power only applies if it’s their version of the truth. Shocking to see how many times Conservative speakers have been prevented from speaking at the likes of U-Cal Berkley, Middlebury College and other bastions of liberalism. Way to go President Trump!
Graduated from a state college in the mid-70s. Received two BAs that no one ever asked to see the diplomas for. As a newly minted graduate with $12 in my bank account and owing my landlord three months back rent, I began my illustrious career by renovating my landlord’s mobile homes (most of them 8′ x 60′ or about 130 SF per student ‘body’). Now, about to retire as an General Contractor (specializing in doing projects for assisted living companies, the square footage for the ‘residents’ is about the same). If I had children, I would STRONGLY urge them to go into the trades. May get dirty fingers but could move anywhere in the US and obtain a job without 50 interviews, and have experience in three dimensional projects, not just pushing around two dimensional paper……
What ‘trades” ????
Mexicans work for cheap. skilled or semi skilled labor.
Very true. My friend’s blind business is a couple of Mexicans away from being gone. That is why the blue-collar rabid support for Trump. You just hit the nail on the head, my friend.
And that’s not a good reason? If so, why do you hate them so much? As if Mexico doesn’t protect its borders against the even poorer countries to the South.
Do you want Civilization or do you want a race to the bottom a la “Capitalism” or “Socialism”? At least a few have to be prospering in order to help anyone else – if they are capable of being helped of course. And Lifeguards used to be taught to subdue or even knock out drowning victims who inadvertently would pull them under in their desperation.
Electrical, plumbing, HVAC which demands knowledge of real life activities. Those that speak English as a second language gravitate towards roofing, masonry, concrete and painting. Those trades do not need English language knowledge nor are those trades likely to be of a ‘health and safety’ concern to the end user (in general).
If I had children, I would STRONGLY urge them to go into the trades. – Doc Hol
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Each of my 3 kids got college degrees. The first one took 7 years, the second took 6 years and the third took 5 years. I took 4 years to earn a BS in Accounting. What is wrong with this picture?
My second kid’s degree was in Industrial Design (a fairly heavy-duty degree) but he has NEVER worked a day in that field. I have often thought of advising my two grandsons (currently 7 and 5 years old) to “go into the trades” except for one thing: I try to imagine what it would be like doing plumbing (on your bad knees in tight places with the crack of your ass showing) when you are 65-70 years old.
Yes, there’s the ass crack thing. Last summer the sewer pump guy came to pump out out our septic, roared up in this big truck, looked around (at the bucolic surroundings) and exclaimed, happily, “No n–gers in this neighbood!”. He had an enormous gut, his pants hung low, the ass crack was revealed.
He was quite a likeable chap. We talked about fishing. It was a hot day, I gave him a cold beer even tho he was on the job, which he quaffed in two gulps.
Brh
Know what’s another cheerful profession?
The people who cut trees down.
I don’t know if it’s just the idea of a major payday after some weather event, but whenever I see these folk, they are quite chipper.
I didn’t know I was making that pun until after I did it, honest.
Going out on a limb, I wood knot believe you’re some sap who logged in to stump us with poplar tree puns. So I’ll leaf it alone.
Naw, by the time you are in your 50s and you are proficient in the trades, you don’t do the work any longer. You manage, bid, deal with all the government related BS (taxes, insurance, licenses, fees, and related) and customer issues (and employee’s family issues). You don’t have time to do the work. You may show your ‘ass’ by screwing up or losing money, but it won’t be due to your shirt being too short.
Canada is becoming a tech hub. Thanks, Donald Trump!
US companies are moving tech jobs to Canada rather than deal with Trump’s immigration policies.
https://www.recode.net/2019/3/19/18264391/us-tech-jobs-canada-immigration-policies-trump
“US companies are going to keep hiring foreign tech workers, even as the Trump administration makes doing so more difficult. For a number of US companies that means expanding their operations in Canada, where hiring foreign nationals is much easier.
“Demand for international workers remained high this year, according to a new Envoy Global survey of more than 400 US hiring professionals, who represent big and small US companies and have all had experience hiring foreign employees.
“Some 80 percent of employers expect their foreign worker headcount to either increase or stay the same in 2019, according to Envoy, which helps US companies navigate immigration laws.
“That tracks with US government immigration data, which shows a growing number of applicants for high-skilled tech visas, known as H-1Bs, despite stricter policies toward immigration. H-1B recipients are all backed by US companies that say they are in need of specialized labor that isn’t readily available in the US — which, in practice, includes a lot of tech workers.
“Major US tech companies, including Google, Facebook, and Amazon, have all been advocating for quicker and more generous high-skilled immigration policies. To do so they’ve increased lobbying spending on immigration.”
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It’s nothing personal, guys. It’s just business.
And your point? Oh yeah, Kunstler yields a favorable remark on action by Trump and you knee-jerk a criticism of Trump. Tit-for tat, right? Boy, that’s an adroit feint-of-point, chalk one up for the “resistance”.
“Major US tech companies, including Google, Facebook, and Amazon, have all been advocating for quicker and more generous high-skilled immigration policies. To do so they’ve increased lobbying spending on immigration.”
Oh those liberals.
Open borders, globalism, and Justin Trudeau – the recipe for true paradise. OK Elrond, we got it.
Also the CDN$ is 75-cents. Maybe net savings is 15% for a WAG.
The other difference is Canada is a multicultural society where we are not so quick to demand conformance. Matter of fact, if they figure out the road driving norms (left lane is for overtaking, merging is not a competitive sport), and the public norms (not spitting, queue, etc), we couldn’t care about the rest.
Most times that fragrant or spicy aroma coming from a neighbour’s cooking is appreciated.
As an electrical engineer I usually work with a multitude of nationalities. Of course we have a common scientific objectivity to work to so that makes it easier.
Then there is the healthcare thing …
I usually work with a multitude of nationalities. – BC_EE
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But, I assume they all speak English, right?
Some might speak French.
They don’t employ our out of work “tech” people, they go to Canada, what do I care?
@Elrond,
The trend is not for companies to move to higher-tax nations like Canada, but to offshore to lower-tax lower-COL nations like India. To bean counters far removed from the actual work of “tech”, hiring 2 or 3 Indians for the price of 1 American seems like a good deal. Savings ensue, bonuses distributed, and all is well—until quality and innovation concerns bring it all back home. This cycle repeats itself every 5 or 10 years as institutional memory fades, and freshly-minted MBAs rebirth it anew.
So much truth in the old saw ” Those that can do, those that can’t teach”
That depends on what they’re teaching. If they’re a craftsman/woman, trades worker, musician, etc one can’t really expect to teach without being really really good at what one hopes to teach. Want to teach “Communications” or “Gender Studies”; yeah, if you had any real skills you’d probably be out there using them.
those who can t, teach.
Those who can’t teach, teach gym.
OMG, flashback to girls gym class.
Pre-Title IX.
We’re post Title IX now, so we still have the gains we made in women’s athletics, only now it’s mentally ill men who are benefitting.
Thank you so much, you Obama voters.
At least Hillary wouldn’t have destroyed women’s sports.
One Tranny Girls Track star advised the girls to train harder.
Those who can’t teach, teach TEACHERS.
Those who can’t do or teach, manage. Those who can’t manage, become execs or go into politics. Those who are lucky, inherit. Those who are smartest of all, quit giving a fuck altogether.
Ha ha nice!
Starlight,
more on Mc Cain,
McCAIN THE HERO NEARLY SUNK AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER & KILLED 134 SAILORS—- Via Lew Rockwell
McCain, when a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy was a Navy pilot (they call themselves aviators). July 29, 1967 while on the deck and in his plane on the carrier U.S.S. Forrestal
he managed to screw up procedures (officially denied and covered up by him and the Navy and also even promoted on Wikipedia if you care to look–reason to follow). He did a smart ass punk attention getting tr
That has never been proven. Don’t get me wrong McCain is the worst combat naval aviator in history, having crashed 5 planes. Usually, it’s one and done. But blaming him for the Forrestal is unfair at best, an outright lie at worst. They still don’t know what happened. McCain was there, and karma suggests that he indeed did do something wrong, but the brass tacks proof… is non-existent.
And as an Admiral’s son proof was always going to be non-existent. It should also be noted that he was spirited off that ship almost immediately. His performance reviews were also uniformly abysmal throughout his career. A womanizing cowboy in search of a cause, he might well have been the subject for the movie Top Gun, assuming that Maverick couldn’t fly worth a shit either.
but the brass tacks proof… is non-existent. – seawolf
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There is a term for the kind of comment you have just written…it is called “faint praise.”
Note the stark difference in burderns of proof required by seawolf for McCain versus Trump. For McCain, it requires nothing less than a taped confession. For Trump? Whatever…
He also helped create ISIS and he had a hand in the phony dossier.
McStain.
Thank you malthuss for telling me. I’ve never heard anything about this before. Wikipedia does mention that McCain claimed that the missle hit his plane even though the official investigation found that it actually hit Fred White’s plane. So I did some more searching and found this.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/investigating-john-mccains-tragedy-at-sea/
It certainly seems as if he was an opportunist at best when it comes to accounting for what happened on the Forrestal.
Free speech is over-rated. When people are taught to not think, are fed lies, illusions, and delusions all their life, and are urged to act out their most shameful sexual fantasies and demand that others help them out with it, what could they possibly say that’s worth hearing?
Free speech is over-rated
Not to me it isnt.
Yes Pat, thus Democracy is contra-indicated. You’ve just proven yourself smart enough to negate your own philosophy. Bravo!
America isn’t a Democracy and was never intended to be one – and that’s a good thing. Now AOC and those behind are beginning the push for 16 year olds getting to vote, along with illegals, convicts, etc. What overkill. They’ve already triumphed and will have America in a few more cycles without all this. But it’s good in that the descent will be swift indeed. And in the subsequent Chaos, We may yet win ourselves a Home.
Culturally mandated shaming of people who shame others is over-rated.
If someone is fat, I should be able to say they are fat, and probably going to cost our country because they have eaten themselves sick.
If someone is allowing their minor child to “transition” to another sex, I should be able to say they are child abusers and should be helped along with their deranged child.
That is where free speech has been curtailed. I am speaking my truth, you can agree or disagree, but you cannot call it “hate speech”
That’s the only kind of speech they consider free today.
Waking through the student lounge/cafeteria at a local college, I saw a crudely lettered poster prominently displayed for something to do with LBTQRSTUV or whatever it is now.
The poster has been in place for months.
I could not help but notice, there are zero posters of any other kind displayed.
patrickd,
So then, right after you post such a dangerous view, along shamble two egregious over-posters who proceed to try and distort your point. Since they never have anything to say that’s worth hearing, they handily make your point for you.
Now an important question remains: Why?
Because we all have the right to post unless Mr. K says no I assume. They have the right to express their opinions as you do. Would you not agree that jdhines is an egregious over poster as well? You are quite the board policeman sometimes you know :-).
You have still deliberately missed patrick’s point.
“When people are taught to not think, are fed lies, illusions, and delusions all their life, and are urged to act out their most shameful sexual fantasies and demand that others help them out with it, what could they possibly say that’s worth hearing?”
Sorry, I can repost it for you, but I can’t understand it for you. (But that’s not your job, is it?)
Well I do think I understand it and I don’t agree with it. If I do get what he is saying it is that most people don’t deserve freedom of speech. I say that because to some degree most people are not taught to think. Am I on the right track? You’re wrong if you think I deliberately don’t want to understand.
Gotta totally disagree with you here, JHK. Small colleges don’t fail because they don’t want right wingers spewing their hate, colleges fail if they charge too much $$$$ to get an education. When the kids figure out that they will have a life time of debt and no decent job, over priced colleges will shut down.
And if you want to hear the right wing haters then turn on FOX. Except for Jeanine Pirro — apparently her racist screeching was too much even for FOX! Guess that’s another good reason why you should hire sober people to host TV shows.
Speaking of spewing hate…You confuse the truth for hate and have spewed enough bile to make everyone ill.
ccm apparently thinks “right-wingers” go around spewing hate. I’ll have to bear that perspective in mind next time I see Maxine Waters “spewing love” – is that what they call her act?
apparently her racist screeching was too much even for FOX! – ccm989
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To Green Alba,
Here is a perfect example of a point you made the other day. If someone disagrees with what another person says they will accuse that other person of “screeching.” I listened to Jenine Pirro once in my life (at the insistence of my daughter-in-law who loves her) and not a word was screeched.
I think she has a nice, well-modulated speaking voice.
Q Schtik
There is also the word ‘squawking’. The Guardian said that Hitchens had used it to describe women. He had not but they did not want to admit they were wrong. Nothing surprising there.
https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2017/11/on-reading-and-seeing-what-is-not-there-a-widespread-problem-and-on-bicycles-.html
“I thought this might be the moment for a discussion of what people think they have read as opposed to what they actually have read. This is partly stimulated by correspondence about bicycle helmets, and partly by my current dispute with Britain’s great liberal newspaper, ‘The Guardian’ (sometime motto, ‘Facts are sacred but comment is free’) and its writer , Deborah Orr.
“Ms Orr asserted in an article for that paper that I had used the words “squawking women”. In the print edition, the alleged words appeared in quotation marks. Thus
“‘Peter Hitchens, in the Mail On Sunday, vouchsafed that the “squawking women” would end up in niqabs if they carried on the way they were.’ ”
Vouchsafed? If Mr Kunstler starts writing like this everybody will stop reading him. Orr’s writing reminds me of someone!
A person is a right wing hater if they don’t agree with you on everything. I know the kind of person =thing you are. Oh, you are another one that is madly in love with labels and hurling them at folks that don’t agree with you or they don’t fit your very very dim wit narrow mind.
Exactly. You could probably take it as far to say that such a rigid view destroys brain cells. And for some people it definitely doesn’t do a body good either lol.
It could be said the posts secondary environment devolved into an arrested development secondary school clique continuity. Looks like duck, walks like a duck, …
Have seen it firsthand too, and been subject to teenage-like untethered anger that is generally produced by their perceived grievances.
Ironically, truth hurts sometimes, and in an institution that is supposed to be in pursuit of the ever elusive objective truth, they have turned into subjective thought factories.
MIAMI (AP) — Every year, hundreds of pregnant Russian women travel to the United States to give birth so that their child can acquire all the privileges of American citizenship.
They pay anywhere from $20,000 to sometimes more than $50,000 to brokers who arrange their travel documents, accommodations and hospital stays, often in Florida.
While the cost is high, their children will be rewarded with opportunities and travel advantages not available to their Russian countrymen. The parents themselves may benefit someday as well.
And the decidedly un-Russian climate in South Florida and the posh treatment they receive in the maternity wards — unlike dismal clinics back home — can ease the financial sting and make the practice seem more like an extended vacation.
The Russians are part of a wave of “birth tourists” that includes sizable numbers of women from China and Nigeria.
President Donald Trump has spoken out against the provision in the U.S. Constitution that allows “birthright citizenship” and has vowed to end it, although legal experts are divided on whether he can actually do tha
When it becomes an obvious Racket, you’d think that would be the motivation to stop it.
What am I saying?
When it becomes a Racket, that’s the tipoff that it isn’t going to change.
The 14th Amendment pertained to freed slaves.
There has already been one SC ruling which reaffirmed it applied to them only.
You’d think descendants of slaves in America would get more upset over the usurpation of something that was for their ancestors alone.
Stop worrying about that and work to re-enslave the melanin enhanced. Problem solved! Citizen or ‘non’, plenty of field hands and chicken pluckers to go ’round while us indispensables of oft-acknowledged superior thinkin’ skills swill juleps in the shade.
There is one drawback however; we may have to feed them once in a while. (Damn and blast, there’s always a catch.)
About 40 countries around the world have birthright citizenship. Most of them in the Western Hemisphere no less. Canada and the US are the only advanced economies that have birthright citizenship. Clearly many people will take advantage of an obvious and unnecessary weakness. The US should end birthright citizenship immediately but since there is an industry around it and profits to be made I doubt anything will be done about it.
Thanks, Jim
Reminds me of an episode of Tucker Carlson I watched recently where he had some continually smiling empty suit from the underbelly of the
Academic corpse whose message was essentially, “just keep sending us money”
“Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris. I told you about the gig I lost at a University because she so overcharged them they came under heat and couldn’t [pay] any fees for awhile. I should send her a bill,” Powell griped.”
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
https://nypost.com/2016/09/14/colin-powell-wont-vote-for-her-because-of-bill-clinton/
This is one of the reasons they need to charge such high tuition.
These out of work pols aren’t just gonna support themselves, are they?
Most wondrous of all has been the failure of college presidents, deans, trustees, and faculty chairs to assert their authority and do the right thing — namely, take a stand against the arrant muzzling of free expression by campus Stalinists. Their craven passivity is a symptom of what future historians will identify as the epic institutional collapse of higher education, which first made itself into an industry like any other moneygrubbing business, and then became a titanic racketeering operation….
This economy is one big RICO operation! No industry is spared. I am amazed that any of it is still standing.
Dmitry Orlov suggests that college campuses might be good places to use as housing:
http://longnow.org/seminars/02009/feb/13/social-collapse-best-practices/
I’m curious if or when larger and more prestigious places might ever shut down, for example, like Harvard and MIT. Even big companies that have been around for ages have gone out of business. One thing is for certain, when the sea level rises, those campuses aren’t exactly in the mountains, and will have to do something.
I wonder if any of these universities have made provisions for moving from their locations, given the danger of being flooded in the not-too-distant future. They’ve been in existence for a long time, so perhaps someone there is thinking of these things. The US military has considered the effects of rising sea levels, so might these institutions?
That reminds me. As part of my ‘Sea level’ research, I will be headed down to Newport Rhode Island in a few weeks. In 1724, 26 pirates were hung in a mass action and buried on a “little split of land called Goat Island”. It is described in contemporary accounts as barely being above sea level. Unscientific? Yes. It shows on the map, but after 3 centuries, taking into account purported rising seas, it should be gone.
Brh
Don’t forget to visit the Synagogue – the first in America I believe. Newport was the northern center of the Sephardic Slaving operation.
Yes, there is a Jewish cemetery in Newport, one of the oldest in America.
At certain points in the 17th century everybody with any $$$ in Newport invested in pirate and to a lesser extent slaving operations (sometimes one in the same) Not just Jewish Newporters. The returns were good.
Brh
(sometimes one in the same) – BRH
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I hope our host will not be overly annoyed for my pointing out the following:
The old expression “they are one and the same” is now often mangled into the roughly phonetic equivalent “one in the same.” The use of “one” here to mean “identical with each other” is familiar from phrases like “Jane and John act as one.” They are one; they are the same.
But the movie Ten Commandments said that Jews are against slavery! Charlton Heston as Moses was apparently better than the real one.
Numbers 31 clearly states that it’s OK to have virgin girl slaves. Everyone else—including virgin boys—should be killed.
Amazing it is still there and the sea level is pretty much exactly where it was even then!
Imagine that!
Forty years of surfing and yet Rincon, Malibu and all my California stomping grounds look exactly the same at the waterline!
I read an interesting article that explained lowering areas are the result of over mining sand for concrete jungles across the world and that the Chicoms are now the biggest consumers of concrete and sand to create it in the world.
They are paving Africa and China at an alarming rate!
I also read that depleting the water table in Los Angeles is causing the LA basin to sink and not come back!
That is indeed interesting.
BTW, they wanted us to pay for the infrastructure in Africa before the Chinese got everything.
At least in the old Banana Republics, the fruit companies paid for their own damn road.
Smae perspective on sea levels here in Santa Cruz (the original Surf City).
Yeah, it looks like Mario Savio’s free speech movement in Berkeley is just about dead. Now its just the opposite. Anyway, the much hyped free speech movement really was nothing more than an attempt to use the campus as a platform for leftist propaganda. Looked at that way it was an unqualified success.
The Free Love movement is dead too as a New hyper Puritanism has set in. So much for the 1960s.
Thank God for Trump. At this time, in this place, he was the man we needed.
Brh
“The delusion that everybody must have a college education finally turned Higher Ed…”
Great essay. I think you should add though the advent of Human Resources Departments (and as a college major), and their need to add requirements (like empty BA degrees) to hiring in business. Recently it was reported that somewhere McDonald’s franchises are requiring a BA in order to get hired flipping burgers.
HR is almost always 100 percent female staff and have added substantially to the feeling amongst the young (and their families) that “everybody must have a college education.”
Nice use of the word ‘Intersectional’, Jim. And then poaster ccm989 chimes in using Marxist ‘Dialectics’ to counter your point. I was waiting for him to use the adjective ‘Cis’ to make his post complete. Maybe next time.
Brh
Great post today, Jim! I’d suggest shuttering more colleges and opening more trade schools, but of course there’s very little opportunity in the trades these days either and the financial blood suckers would soon attack those schools as well.
What we really need are more paid apprenticeships in the trades starting as early as freshman year in high school with a living wage to follow, but good luck trying to mandate that. I doubt the youth these days would be excited about that either.
Either way, college education for the masses needs to be throttled back severely. It’s little more than a con.
Yes, the ethos is all wrong. As if something that can’t be financially exploited is of no value. Capitalism produces vast numbers of such blood suckers just as Communism produces vast numbers of thugs and good thinking enforcers.
” In fact, many young men unsuited for college took refuge there to evade the military.” JHK
Now those with ambition are seeking out the military as the only quality opportunity available, young women also. Now the unsuited for anything are taking refuge there, colleges and univeristies, to avoid the reality there are no opportunities.
Of course the bright side is that according to the recent CNN poll 70% of the citizens of the USA polled believe the economy is doing well. Perhaps everyone is installing blinds.
Or wearing them.
Polls are easily gamed by pollsters. Probably taken on some big city downtown thoroughfare where everybody they ask is coming or going from their corporate job. Of course they’re going to have a skewed opinion.
Of course the bright side is that according to the recent CNN poll 70% of the citizens of the USA polled believe the economy is doing well. – wm5135
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A lot of people believe what they hear. For example, on Wednesday, 3/20, Jerome Powell, Fed Chairman, in his remarks after announcing there would be no further rate hikes this year said, in referring to Fed operations and the economy in general, “we’re in a good place.” I think those were his exact words and he repeated them a couple of times. So if the common man happens to be listening he (or she) might well believe “the economy is doing well.”
Actually, I kind of doubt ‘the common man’ listens in to these periodic pronouncements by the Fed.
Groupthink.
Free tuition for trade schools – has anyone put this forth, instead of free tuition for college? Seems like this would be a good idea. Or would this mess up trade schools? One advantage of getting out of trade school is that if you can’t do the trade, you don’t get paid. Or would we get legions of bad plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc.?
Women get all kinds of scholarships to get into the trades. Or minority youth. In other words, all the wrong and worst people.
Women get all kinds of scholarships to get into the trades. – Janos
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Have you got a source for ^this^ statement? i.e. women more so than men?
20 some years ago my wife attended a course at the local vocational school learning various beauty trades (hair cutting, esthetician, etc.) She paid the tuition herself. I believe the amount was modest. There was no scholarship. She has been working in this field ‘lo these many years since, mostly as a single proprietorship. I did her schedule C on the tax return.
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Admin note: I’m letting this comment stand, but for the record I regard it as idiocy. — JHK
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>>> “Shocking to see how many times Conservative (Right-wing Fascist) speakers have been prevented from speaking at the likes of U-Cal Berkley, Middlebury College and other bastions of liberalism.”
Have you ever noticed how conservative Right-Wingers are always complaining about censorship & free speech? Even Jim is on the bandwagon now, who use to write for Rolling Stone magazine, if you can imagine. They complain about the Lame Street Media, The Social Media platforms, etc. Have you observed how the Hard-Rights preferred media outlets are cesspools of conspiracy theories, etc?
Have a look at “Info Wars”, Breitbart, Daily Stormer even the much-ballyhooed FOX NOISE, where real journalists are leaving in droves. These places will make you want to puke! The reason the Right-Wing’s Nuts feel they are being kept out of the mainstream media and colleges and universities, etc., is because they are! And for good reason.
The question is why? BECAUSE society has deemed that their fascist, white nationalist, racist like message is GARBAGE and will not give a platform to the spewing of lies, BS, hate speech, etc. NOBODY wants to hear that shit except Right Wing Nut jobs.
Would we give Uncle Adolf equal time today? No, we would not and should not. And not Stalin and Joe McCarthy and a host of other despots either. Some of the clowns the right parades around are just TOO distasteful and full of shit! e.g. Laura Ingram, Tucker Carlson and Judge Jeannine (or whatever her name is). Even FOX couldn’t take the good Judge from Nevada and gave her a forced vacation.
Please wise-up and get a message that doesn’t SUCK and doesn’t make people SICK to their stomach and you might find more welcoming audiences! Bring back a William Buckley sort of spokesperson and you will be welcome everywhere.
Get rid of folks like Milo Yiannopoulos, Nazi-wannabe Richard Spencer and dipshits like Dennis Miller, Glen Beck, Michael Savage, Mark Levin and you will fare better. I’m just saying. Remember, they are not banning FREE SPEECH, they are banning SHIT SPEECH.
It is not an issue of the Right’s speakers not being “politically correct,” it is rather an issue of the Right’s fondness for odious and stupid ideas. It’s quite simple really.
In other words, Whites have no rights. Not to the First Amendment, not to free association, not to having our own countries (like every other race), and ultimately not even to life itself. Unfortunately for you, we still have the 2nd Amendment. And cancelling that won’t change the reality on the ground.
Whites have the right to act like normal decent people and NOT like the DIPSHITS many of them have become, especially the rabble that follow our unfit leader, Orange GGG. Sorry, straighten up and you’ll be welcomed by all. Nazis and Fascists need not apply. Period.
Keep the Red Flag flying, Comrade Citizen!
Brh
I am a capitalist, and like the system just fine, thank you, but I’d rather be a red Commie than a brown Fascist any day of the week. The Fascists are yours, enjoy them while you can.
Fascists support censorship Mr. Hines.
So Whites do have the right to have their own Countries? So why is the New World Order denying them these rights and/or flooding their former countries with non-Whites? And why do you support that?
Of course your tale would not be complete without adding in the other, leftist side’s need for everybody gets a trophy, we are all good and equal, no news but good news, feel good bullshit propaganda. Or the everything needs to be free (or at least have somebody else paying for it) agenda being propagated by the Joseph Goebbels MSM, that is important to the have not’s as well. No matter which side you choose to side with, talk is still cheap and action requires work and sometimes sacrifice and todays losers are becoming more and more unable to handle the latter, so they whine. Cry me a river.
So you prefer that the 0.01% rule and enjoy all? You can have it.
The .01% rule in all Communist, Socialist, and in Corrupt Capitalism systems regardless and they have enough power, control, and mindless minions following ALL of them that solving that problem shall never be achieved.
Walter,
There are only three bastions of pure communism left on Earth;
Cuba
North Korea,
The Harvard Faculty Lounge….
Perhaps, but the .01% rule even there, don’t they?
My goodness you get the trophy for hateful douche of the day.
Oddly your posts are disgusting and hateful please seek help your insanity is really showing.
Keep voting for the Right, they’ll get all your money yet. They are, after all, your BETTERS, but please don’t believe they give a shit about you and your ilk. You are mere disposal, religious, gun-toting, rubish pawns to them.
Who is saying to vote for the right? The right and the left are both crap – this is one of the mainstays of this blog, is it not? Overcoming two party rule should be our main objective, and while DJT was not a great choice, he was at least not one of them. Now we have to find a good choice and keep the movement going.
I guess that would be Trump supporters who will vote for the right wing, no? He is, after all, a tool of the Hard Right, ergo it follows that…
Walter, I realize that Trump has only one party affiliation and that is the Trumpist Party (slogan = whatever is good for Trump, etc). However, he does align himself very strongly with a certain right-wing, nationalistic coalition that seems to be entirely acceptable to the KKK, et al, so we can safely state that, even though he is not a party affiliate, he keeps company with, plays for and is a fellow traveler of the far right.
They scratch his back, he scratches theirs… SCOTUS, Tax relief for Corps and Billionaires, etc. In exchange, they put up with his “proclivities” and family money grubbing by turning a blind eye.
So while MOST everyone here purports to hate both parties, in reality, most support one and that is the Rich loving, traditional Tory like organization or Moncharist/Dictator regime of the GOP thieves.
So jd, you are saying that DJT has ushered in the era of the Billionaire Party? You may have a point there and it may be a lot scarier than that might appear on the surface. I could indeed pave the way for a vehicle that might usher in some anti-Christ couldn’t it? Possibly, but it is certain than the republicans and the democrats have played out their usefulness (if they even ever had any) and now is the time for something completely different….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk-kQSz-Qv0
Walter,
>>> ” Possibly, but it is certain than the republicans and the democrats have played out their usefulness (if they even ever had any) and now is the time for something completely different….”
Walter, my friend (if I may call you that), I couldn’t agree more with you. It is high time for something completely different. For the record, I do understand that some (Scratch, perhaps you and others) voted for Trump in the hopes that his election would lead to radical change, which is sorely needed.
I would also like to say that the folks on this forum, Jim and I agree a lot more than it may appear. I know both parties and the system is complete crap. Here’s to hoping for something better Walt.
JDH
Yes jd call me friend and I thank you for that. However I did not vote for DJT because I though it might bring change, I voted for him because HRC was evil. If Bernie had been the candidate instead I might very well have gone for him even though I do not agree with the free shit platform.
Yes radical change is sorely needed, however I am not an optimist, but a realist and as such I do not see a happy ending under any circumstance. The ring cannot be destroyed Gimli, Son of Gloin by any craft that we here possess….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrJJ6ncp1fc
about you and your ilk. – jdh
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I just want to point out and emphasize the obvious: the word ilk is only used in a negative sense. No one ever says “Peter, the apostles, the saints and their ilk.”
Thank you for that Q. Yes, quite so.
He’s also dumber than 9 chickens.
Oh! If only we had Hillary in the White House… Ms. It’s My Turn…
You’ve got a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome workin’ overtime there.
He’s your imbecile, enjoy him the short remaining time you have. Soon it will be time to go back to the shadows.
“dumber than 9 chickens.”
Defcon,
I thought there were 12 of them….
My but the stupid is strong with this one…
“the Right’s fondness for odious and stupid ideas. It’s quite simple really.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the unofficial leader of the Democrat Party. AOC is the perfect standard bearer for how the Party is evolving. She has zero real-world experience (beyond making martinis and margaritas). She hasn’t the slightest idea what’s she’s talking about. Her Green New Deal is little more than a utopian hallucination. Nevertheless, she is the most popular Democrat. More than anyone else, she defines the party.
Democrats’ fascination with AOC shows that they place no value on experience, maturity, or judgment. She did not invent chaos, but she embodies it, particularly mental chaos.
JD, Yeah, it’s those fucking assholes on the “Right”….
I’d rather have an honest and genuine AOC, even if she is quite young, rather than an old, decrepit, liar and general dirtbag, wife cheater, money launderer a la GGG any day of the week.
I’ll bet you dollars to donuts she could beat Orangeman in a fair intellectual contest by a country mile too. She’s also a lot more popular and we on the left just LOVE how she drives you Right Wing dopes crazy!!! She’s pretty easy on the eyes too! (at least compared to Trumpo).
She’s an actress, you dolt. Her brother signed her up from Democrat casting call some years ago and that’s how she got into “it”.
I’m a dolt? You papist fearing, Jew-bashing piece of… well, let me rephrase that… can’t we just get along?
Who the hell cares how she got elected? Trumpo got elected because he was offended by his highness B. H. Obama, so f@#king what? And your point is?
So who really is behind her? Or don’t you even want to know? Or do you know already? Her policies are monstrous. You like her policies, therefore you are ******ous or a ***ster. A syllogism of sorts. Maybe not technically.
The dark money scandal she is caught up in is also most amusing.
an honest and genuine AOC, even if she is quite young, – jdh
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The Dems should shoot for the lowering of the age to become president to 31. She would just barely sneak in under the wire.
I like it! It could not possibly be worse than the nightmare we are being forced to live with by our “friends” on the right. Gotta love that GOP… 85% approval rating for GGG! Can you f@#ling imagine how that is possible?
Jim, let’s talk about real idiocy, shall we?
JD,
Wisdom comes with age and experience. AOC has no filters…neither did Pol Pot, who opined that peasants could be heart surgeons, and airline pilots.
Those with wisdom are screwing us, but leave a few crumbs on the table. No crumbs on the table with AOC, I am afraid. She is worse than a simple Utopian…she is an ignorant one….
An intellectual contest? Really?
…show us your tits…and, Oh Yeah, tell us about your Immigration policy…yeah…can you jump up and down when you are explaining the ramifications…?
LOL. Good one E!
So much for you being a loyal liberal jd. Seems like you are as sexist as those evil rightwingers. I think you really just want to fit in and since it is so chic to be anti fa presto – here you are.
What SSL, you don’t enjoy a good right-wing joke from time to time? I’ll take my humor where I can get it. I reiterate that was a funny one E (don’t worry about our PC little SSL either)!
And…the link;
https://spectator.org/the-anatomy-of-a-self-annihilating-political-party/
Admin note: I’m letting this comment stand – JHK
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Thanks for letting this comment stand, Jim. I actually Laughed My Ass Off (LMAO) at the vehemence of jdhines’s remarks. It nicely demonstrates the vast gulf between the left and the right.
And, to jdh, I want to say thank you for this nice use of the possessive:
“The reason the Right-Wing’s Nuts feel they…etc.”
You are quite welcome Q. I can see why you like it! You are the most revealing Q!
Q. Aw, I’m just ‘splainen my point of view. One of these days I’ll let you know how I really feel about the Right.
YAWN.
Oh, they might arrest me if I open my mouth to yawn.
Be careful ;-). You might be giving them ideas.
We’ve got our eye on you SSL… 🙂
Show us the man and we’ll show you the crime! Watch out, the Left is ALWAYS watching!
Why the fuck is everything boiled down to fascist vs. commie???
It’s so nauseatingly reductionist & logically fallacious.
I’m neither, goddamn it.
If you are a Trumpist, you are the moral equivalent of a Fascist. Own it if you are for it!
Definitions matter. Otherwise they become completely illegitimate & totally useless. Trump may be a civic nationalist. Trump may be ‘globalist skeptic’ or ‘anti globalist’ and he also appears to be quite anti-imperialistic. None of these are fascist traits, by the way.
So, check your definitions. Of course, from reading your posts, you appear to be one of these authoritarian individuals who make up their own definitions for people and groups as suits your own individual tastes– not with any objective understanding– but a highly subjective and individual and personalized view of Trump, or anyone else you personally dislike. Other people or groups must obviously be “fascists” — not because they actually are, but you disagree with them personally and have labelled them as such. It’s the same illogical stance as a paranoid schizophrenic, as an example.
Maybe you are a paranoid schizophrenic, I don’t know (??)
Pete,
Thanks for your comments. You have heard what the people who support Trump say and do. If you accept their behavior and views, even if you don’t do, or say, as they do, you have aligned yourself with those types. You are known by the company you keep and support. Those who turn a blind eye are complicit; if that is schizophrenic paranoia, then lock me up, please.
JDH
I think he’s using the word in the ironic sense, as in, “I know you are, but what am I?”
The word “fascism,” like everything else in our inverted totalitarianism society today, has flipped its traditional meaning since the last go round 75 years ago. The radical right doesn’t own it anymore, although I will allow for the fact that the right continues to harbor latent, always nearly tangible, fascist tendencies of its own.
In the sense that fascism represents a total coagulation of public (corporate) and private entities into one homogenous malignant political and economic mass, then the current western left and right march in jack-booted lockstep. Hardly surprising. Relying on 20th century definitions for 21st century concepts is bound to lead you astray.
But you’re right Pete, words – especially THIS one – have meanings, and we shouldn’t throw them around recklessly.
>>> “I think he’s using the word in the ironic sense, as in, “I know you are, but what am I?… ”
Scratch,
I really admire your insightful way with words, especially in the remainder of the post. Very interesting, articulate and even artful. Really, no joke, very nice.
By the way, I think what you said has great merit and I will try to be judicious in my choice of words. I sometimes get carried away in the heat of the moment… Thank you.
JDH
Thanks JDH. I try to keep things civil as much as possible. We’re all just trying to understand what’s happening to us these days. Considering all the misinformation we’re fed daily, that’s nearly an impossible task.
““I know you are, but what am I?… ”
JD and Nick O Demus,
You are referring, of course to the powerful Rueben’s Defense, a construct as famous in the field of Polemics, as E=MC squared is in the study of Physics. The Rueben’s defense is so unassailable in argument that grown men, men of letters and renown, have been known to weep at its implementation…some quit their respective field altogether in shame and intellectual defeat.
There are many (formerly) good, honest philosophers living currently in cardboard boxes because of the “Ruben”, as it is referred among the adept….
And…the link;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA5UqUyFmT0
@jdhines
So you just lifted a part of my comment and in parenthesis following “Conservative” added “right-wing fascist”. What gives you the right to do that? For the record, I don’t believe that Conservative speakers or voters or candidates are by necessity right-wing fascists. Undoubtedly some are but not the vast majority The remainder of your comment was sheer idiocy which I suppose was to be expected. .
Thanks for your comments MG.
>>> “So you just lifted a part of my comment and in parenthesis following “Conservative” added “right-wing fascist”. What gives you the right to do that?”
What gives me the right? That which you purport to care so much about, free speech.
>>> “I don’t believe that Conservative speakers or voters or candidates are by necessity right-wing fascists. Undoubtedly some are…”
A few, many, most? Some may and do employ “dog whistles,” others are “artfully” articulate. Where would you place Rep. Steven King of Iowa on the continuum? Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Steven Miller or GGG his-self?
Also, I suppose many on the right agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment expressed by the most outspoken of the RW’ers. There is, after all, an 80%+ approval rating for DJT among Republicans, right (no pun, etc.)? He does have a fairly checkered past in regards to racism, but I may be wrong.
I’d suggest that you learn the difference between “free speech” and that of using others comments for your own nefarious purposes. How would you like it if you stated something like “I totally understand why the Democrats support Rep Omar” and I used that quote from you to say “I totally understand why the Democrats support (the lying Muslim bitch) Omar”. Get it yet?
Yes, I get it. You are very critical of my “approach,” but accept the obvious and abhorrent “spinning” of GGG, his administration, the Right and many Republicans. But nary a word about that. Well, MG, I’ve got a word for you: HYPOCRISY.
Thanks for your insightful comments.
JDH
It’s college week at CFN!
While we are at it, let’s get rid of the Electoral College as well as it has delivered 2 of the most regrettable shitheads ever to hold any office at any level in the past 20 years.
Yes, please. Can we get rid of the electoral college? To call it a college, implies it is “smart,” but I prefer to see it in today’s more modern meaning of the word “college”… A f@#king RACKET for the right-wing!
Your post is nonsense of course, but I wonder what you consider a corporate media who worked directly with the Clinton campaign, promoting not only fake news to smear her opponents, but directly aiding her on the campaign trail and sending stories to her team for pre-editing, narrative shaping, and final approval. It was so bad they even had entertainment buffoons like Colbert crafting shows around what her team dictated.
See Wikileaks again.
Oh, of course. And yours makes perfect sense. As to HRC, while not a fan (although I would prefer her to the disturbed nut we have now, at very least she is sane). I seem to remember a slew of investigations over the past decades concerning HRC and, correct me if I am wrong, not a single charge was ever brought.
Colbert is hilarious, you should try to understand his comedy…
Yes of course. The electoral college exists to ensure representation is truly representative of the country as a whole. A rather noble and laudable idea. Unless deep in the throes of TDS.
The rest would make sense if you had familiarized yourself with the facts over at Wikileaks. Colbert is a corporate man now, a McResister in a McMansion McShilling his way to ever more cashflow.
Nightowl,
Actually, the electoral college is nothing of the sort that you describe. In fact, it was a compromise to keep the Southern slave states from going bonkers and the one who came up with the crock-pot idea later lamented the mess he had created. That would be Alexander Hamilton.
“Electoral College was deliberately designed to advance the political power of slaveholders:
[I]n a direct election system, the North would [have outnumbered] the South, whose many slaves (more than half a million in all) of course could not vote. But the Electoral College…instead let each southern state count its slaves, albeit with a two-fifths discount, in computing its share of the overall count.
Nice system, screwing us to this very day.
Read the Federalist Papers. 🙂
No one takes your regurgitated SPLC or MMFA fairytales seriously.
Dems cant figure out a way to game the electoral college, so they want to eliminate it.
Brh
Don’t forget the Supreme Court.
What’s wrong with good old fashion democracy, one person, one vote? You like a rigged system instead? Is that the only way you and your ilk can win? Pity.
We have never had a democracy here. We are a constitutional republic.
Speaking of rigged, remember when Hills tried to flip the electors? So noble, so honorable, so fair.
>>> “No one takes your regurgitated SPLC or MMFA fairytales seriously.”
I beg to differ, in the real world, outside of CFN, Fox, Alt-Right bubble, my views are widely accepted. Please remember, the majority voted against your boy.
Who is my boy? I am simply someone who calls out your BS.
GGG His-self, of course. If he is not your boy, you do a fine imitation.
Call out my BS…? If you are concerned with BS so much, you should really have a look at GGG, regardless if he is your boy or not. Talk about a BS rich target… he’d keep you busy for years.
“Yes, please. Can we get rid of the electoral college”
JD, I too, at one time felt that way…when I was 18….
Well, now that your much more mature, you graduated bigly to supporting an idiot. Congratulations E on supporting historical slaveholders (Racists?) and their dream contained in Article 2, Section 1.
you’re
I’ve got to be careful, Q. Tip is wielding the “red” pen. Sorry.
JD,
Over a year ago I freed all my slaves, paid heavy reparations, and sent all their bastard children to Ivy League Schools (full ride). I think, further, that all former slave holders, still living (save myself, as I am now “one of the good ones”) should be put to the sword.
In further atonement, I will plant a single row of cotton in my garden, so that I can experience the thrill of;
Picking
My
Own
God
Damned
Cotton….
While we are at it, let’s get rid of the Electoral College – DEFCON1
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And further, while we’re at it, the College of Cardinals.
Yes, please! Now you are talking Q.
One of JHK’s best essays. I worked in an urban high school for 32 years and saw how it turned from education to a money racket where each student had a dollar value and no one got expelled unless their were arrested and jailed.
I like Trump he is making some bold moves . JHK is absolutely right take the Federal Money out of higher education and watch the racket collapse. The latest admission scandels are further proof what a Racket it is.
It’s no doubt a racket and the only parallel that Trump has is he wanted in on the racket and started Trump University until he had to close it and pay the victims $25Mil. Nice leader, he sets a good example for the “yutes” of America (and you rubes, eat it up!)
Just having anything to do with ‘Trump University’ should have disqualified him from janitor at the Smithsonian, never mind the Big Chair.
A businessman trying his hand at other profitable enterprises?
Heaven forfend!
That lawsuit and settlement were a little more complicated than you state there.
The New York ethics people (oxymoron), Cuomo’s hand-picked JCOPE, never did take up the matter of if and why AG Ear-puncher was hitting up Ivanka and Donald for donations at the same time they were under investigation by his office.
The AG wasn’t just going after the Trump venture (which the majority of students were satisfied with), he was going after the for-profit education market in general.
My neighbor’s kid got his degree from now defunct ITT tech, and he’s been employed in a technical field since he graduated.
University of Phoenix is another one the government goes after.
Is it really a scam, or is it just taking away the marks who support a major money-making Racket for the government and its hangers-on.
Former head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, becomes head of a major university, and suddenly those with points of view contrary to the party line cannot be heard on campus, because she cannot guarantee their safety.
Wait, what?
Homeland Security, no free speech because safety?
>>> “A businessman trying his hand at other profitable enterprises?”
Sound so innocuous. You should have seen the credentials of the “faculty” and the photocopied “textbooks” with lessons like, “go to city tax sales and make a bid for properties that have delinquent taxes due … and YOU TOO can be rich like The Donald!
No this was a clearcut case of scamology. Let me state that I am no fan of “real” higher-edumacation either. I’ve known that has been a racket for the last 50 years.
Oh, you took the course and flunked, Janet?
The former Soaker-Hose?
The former Janet?
“go to city tax sales and make a bid for properties that have delinquent taxes due … and YOU TOO can be rich like The Donald! – jdh quoting from a Trump text book
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Actually this is not bad advice. My b-i-l, Peter FINALLY sold his house. The closing was Monday of this week. Among the complications were many months of unpaid/overdue sewer bills. These count as a lien against the property (in addition to many other liens such as 2 mortgages badly in arrears) and must be paid off with the proceeds of the house sale. I called the township to make sure that the latest quarterly sewer bill was accurate and that it would remain accurate as of the date of closing only to discover that the balance owed was zero. How could this be? I discovered that some “finance” outfit had purchased Peter’s sewer debt at a ‘Sheriffs Sale’ and they would be made whole on the date of closing with a kicker of 18% interest (annualized, I assume). Yes, the Township tax collector explained to me, anyone (or group) can start up a finance company and buy up debt at Sheriff’s Sales and make 18% on their money. There are, of course, downsides to this business as there are in any business.
I can anticipate the howls of anti-rentier zealots who will characterize this type of finance business in the worst of ways but consider the useful function these intermediaries fill. Without them the sale of underwater properties would grind to a halt. And if you think 18% on your money is outrageously high consider this: Kohls just informed me the interest rate on their credit card was raised to 27.24%.
And certainly the Orange Monster appointed a real winner in Betsy De Voss- pyramid-scheme queen and compliant yes-person to big money. Yep, the best Education Secretary money can buy.
Oh yes, and Betsy is related to that “prince of a guy” Eric Prince, the little Black Water Fascist himself, who likes to meet with Russian Oligarchs out in the Sechelle Islands. A fiction writer couldn’t make this shit-up, and you Right Wing Rubes eat-it up! Keep it up, you’ll see how it all ends.
Russia collusion and the tax return issue has fizzled out, might as well start hammering on Trump U
Ive noticed you havent mentioned the defunct college Bernie Sanders wife started up. In Burlington Vt.
Brh
Bernie’s wife is not the president of the USA. Somewhat of a difference, no? A grifter, conman as president and you rubes can’t get enough of him. A real religious saint too!
jdhines, help me out here by giving a list of the “Right Wing Rubes” on this site, but also some justifying argument other than ad hominem, I’m anxious to learn if I need to submit myself to a Leftist PC re-education camp.
That’s fairly straight forward… anyone who voted for GGG. Note, I am not saying you should have voted for HRC… You can still leave the ranks of the Rubes behind, if you renounce, as Janos has done, the error of your foolish ways that has saddled this fine country with the likes of Orangeone.
“jdhines, help me out here by giving a list of the “Right Wing Rubes” on this site”
*Raises hand*. Of course, I must be.
I didn’t vote for GGG, Murder-Count-Clinton, or anyone else in ’16, but that hasn’t stopped many people from calling me a fascist/racist/redneck for living in the Midwest and playing devil’s advocate that Clinton was probably – Worse.
BornToKill,
That’s where you are wrong. As bad as HRC was/is, at very least, we know she is sane! That cannot be said for GGG.
Don’t take my word for it, please take the word of a good, legit Republican, such as MR. KellyAnn Conway. He has it on good authority (KellyAnn’s) that your boy is bonkers. He even quotes chapter and verse from the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic manual. I have to admit, it fits GGG to a proverbial “T.” He is a certified “whack job!” Of that, there can be no question.
Yep, the best Education Secretary money can buy. – DEFCON
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The problem is obvious to me. We should not have an Education Secretary. Why in the hell is our government involving itself in education? Why does government pay out crop price supports? Why does government give money away to foreign countries? Why? Why? in a thousand ways Why? The words in our constitution that say “promote the general welfare” should be stricken or at a minimum thoroughly defined. I’d prefer clipping that sentence short after “provide for the common defense.”
More many for the military, less money for the sheeple, eh? Nice!
More many for the military, less money for the sheeple, eh? Nice! – jdh
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You are assuming money not spent in support of education must necessarily be redistributed to the military. What about simply reducing taxes and money creation?
Now they’re trying to radicalize them as they did to college students back in the day. Get them the right to vote while persecuting right wing students. Civics means voting Democrat in other words.
If someone has to be persecuted, it may as well be Right Wingers, eh?
Is this your admission that at your core you are a genocidal maniac? If not, please provide us with your full confession. Your guilt is in plain sight posted all over the place here.
Hello SSL,
>>> “… genocidal manic?”
No, not all. As you know, I find senseless death (a la Las Vegas shooter’s concert, etc. etc.) repugnant, don’t you?
My problem with the Right (my hatred may be too strong?) is that they act like they are Holier than thou, tend to be intolerant and Intent upon electing Right Wingers who are, IMHO, nothing but running dogs for America’s rich and who insist on voting against their own economic interests time and time again.
However, if you are fond of Right Wingers, you are very welcome to them. Many of my own family were aficionados of the Far Right. More of the country club, cloth coat type Republicans of long ago, but Right-wingers none-the-less.
As I have said, please enjoy GGG while you can, he won’t be around much past 2020.
Well you apparently did approve of persecution of those you disagree with unless of course I was simply dreaming. A genocidal maniac could be overboard but it did catch your attention. You appear to be as intolerant as those you condemn. There are forces from the left and the right that are bringing the country down.
jdhines, (slightly altered),
“My problem with the (REDACTED)(my hatred may be too strong?) is that they act like they are Holier than thou, tend to be intolerant and Intent upon electing (REDACTED) Wingers who are, IMHO, nothing but running dogs for America’s rich and who insist on voting against their own economic interests time and time again.”
I’d argue, there is No LEFT or RIGHT.
90-95% of American’s are void of the observation of the mechanisms past three steps of the off-shoring of our humanity, let alone our economies of material being; tied all into the health of our cultures and importance of thereof.
Left and Right is a identitarian politic puppet show.
The Left and the Right tribes NEED to come together.
I really don’t think there is a way for the Left and Right tribes to come together peacefully at this point. The divide has become too large and the animosity has grown so toxic. We are lucky there is still relative peace at this point.
It’s like most things in American society these days: if you have the money, you pay the money, and you get to move up.
Only two of my professors even seemed to care about feeding our brains. That said, they were both amazing individuals and the things I learned in those classrooms did stay with me.
There’s an interesting article in the April issue of The Atlantic, titled “How Much Immigration Is Too Much?” This is a question that will need to be addressed in the face of the decline in manufacturing in the US, meaning good paying blue collar jobs for the people who already live here. Further complicating this economic decline, will be the effects of Climate Change, which will bring new and unknown difficulties to countries all over the world. I would expect a surge of migration towards the nations of the northern hemisphere from the poorer nations in the south.
The world is already overpopulated, and all that’s gonna happen is that people will leave their overpopulated countries that can no longer support them, and flood the first world countries, making them just as bad as the places these people are trying to escape from. There is no good way out of this dilemma, humans have overpopulated the Earth, and pretty soon the bill is gonna come due, and I don’t want to be the one who has to pay it. Not just for me, but my kids also. I practiced birth control to avoid the very situation we are gonna be confronting.
Capt in that Atlantic article what’s the answer to the question posed?
I used to subscribe to that rag until I couldn’t take the smarmy PCness of it any longer. Not one more issue from those arrogant, know it all, elitist pricks.
Brh
Yes you are absolutely correct. The issue of immigration and migration does need to be immediately addressed. How do you suggest we do that?
Perhaps everyone is installing blinds == wm5135
In late 1970s, after graduating from URGU (Ural State University), being ethnic Jew I couldn’t count on a high-paying position in Military Industrial Complex (starting salary there was at least twice the regular starting engineering salary, with some other perks), I still got a government “direction” to teach Classical Mechanics and Resistance of Materials in technical college, while working on some scientific projects – all graduates of colleges MUST work at least 3 years in the government-prescribed position – sort of a pay for free-of-charge education plus a small stipend for good exam marks.
Of course, salary was not enough to make it with wife and a kid, so I decided to go into private entrepreneurship installing padded upholstery on the apartment doors – it was (and I believe still is) popular in Russia.
Contrary to what you all think sole proprietorship was quite legal in USSR and I even got all the appropriate licenses, however the taxes were prohibitive – close to 90% of the profit above certain level, but of course, you could play usual tax games.
Very soon I found out that on a good day I was making more than in my teaching + engineering position in a month, so I was working 2 – 3 months a year.
But I still missed the engineering and teaching work, and one of the motivations to emigrate to US was a perceived ability to make a nice living in States while doing what I really liked.
Were you a spy?
BRH,
Why the past tense?
Finc I was curious as to the Russian upholstered doors, I just watched a good movie last night ” Battle for Sevastopol” about Lyudmila Pavlichenko. Great WWII sniper with 309 kills. I noticed that her childhood apartment home had an upholstered door, a nice buttontuck job. I thought it was a little strange. Of course you probably could shut off the subtitles. BRH would enjoy it, her weapon of choice was a Mosin-Nagent model 1891.
Stelmose i got one of those, its the model 1944 carbine version but essentially the same gun. Paid $99 at Cabelas. Heavy duty steel receiver, thing came with a bayonet attached. Also came with stripper clips and a sealed 5 gal bucket of 7.54 ammo from about the Korean War era. But the ammo still works. I couldn’t pass it up because of the price and the day I bought it there was a long line to get one. They had a shitload of them, they were selling like hotcakes (as they say) It looks like the one I have was unissued by the Russian army or else factory refurbished after WW2.
Brh
I remember when you mentioned they were on sale. Just the ammo is worth 99 bucks. Wish I picked one up. Can you really have a bayonet in CT anymore? Being from MA. bayonets are a no go I believe. I can’t even buy ammo down at Cabelas since Sandy Hook without a special permit from the CT. State Police.
installing padded upholstery on the apartment doors – Finca
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I think you would have starved to death in the US in that line of work. I’ve never heard of padded upholstery on apartment doors. What is the purpose? Noise suppression?
How do you characterize this policing of speech on (and off) campus? Stasi-esque? Stalinist? Maoist? Should we just never mind historical comparisons and define it using modern day terminology? Maybe we name it after the originator. So who’s the main modern-day inspiration for all this?
No matter, speech policing is there because of the intellectual inadequacy of the regime that does the policing. Their absurdity is there for all to see. The regime knows this. The regime knows it can’t withstand challenge, so, the regime resorts to the force of sanction and ostracism. Mouth the wrong words, give support to unapproved notions, and away you go. Ask good ole Jordan Peterson. Act like a man? Heaven forfend. Cambridge ain’t havin’ it, that’s for damn sure. The question now is how long he lasts at the University of Toronto. I suppose we’ll see. Are they as shameless as the others? Is their tradition of intellectual freedom and free speech as big a sham as other places? Last I heard he suspended his teaching activities there I guess because he was busy with other stuff. What if he wants to resume? Is U of T as craven a gang of imbeciles as their counterparts?
Seems that, at every turn, these bastions of wisdom and knowledge cover themselves in disgrace and dishonor, for example, with overtly racist admissions policies that bar intelligent Asian kids just because, golly, we can’t be undermining the power structure now can we? I mean, chinky-faced people in positions of authority? Nope, can’t have it. I mean, once they get all those Harvard and Princeton diplomas they’ll have expectations and start feeling entitled to a say. Chinky faces on the Supreme Court? Jews and Blacks and Catholics were bad enough. An Asian face in the White House?
cough, um, well….
I judge people by their actions, I impute motivation not so much by what they say but by what they do. Now, nobody in the councils of the mighty would have said this but Black people in elite institutions are fine because, to the racist in progressive garb, Black people don’t look like a threat. So the progressive racist has nothing to worry about. In the mind of the progressive-racist, Black people just aren’t up to it either intellectually or any other way. That’s why Blacks need the progressive-racist, because they can’t do it on their own. In the progressive-racist mind, Blacks in places like Harvard are set to fail but, if they pass, get to where they are not because of their brilliance but because of race quotas and special consideration and will always and forever have this asterisk beside their Bachelor-Masters-PhD. In short, Blacks are no threat to the career-minded progressive racist, neither to those exalted people at the pinnacles of academe and the think-tank world of Washington.
But, to the progressive racist and to those people at the highest echelons of the intellectual world, Asians are another matter. They’ll dress up Asian exclusion with a lot of pseudo-intellectual-progressive fluffery, but fear of excellence and competence is what’s at the root of it.
When asked what could be done to solve the 15 point gap between Blacks and Whites, Arthur Jenson studied the question and then responded, “Nothing”. The difference is largely innate and genetic. Frankly Frankenfurter, I think you know this and are being disingenuous. Remember, I’m Fr Issac Jogues and you’re an Iroquois. You “think” you can beat me, but you can’t.
https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jensen30years.pdf
Yes, many Liberals are secret Racists and have every right to be since that’s the reality. The bizarre aspect or Wrong of it, is why they went with what they knew to be false with such gusto. False consciousness. Wilhelm Reich’s “psychic plague”. It might have started out innocent and with them really believing, but then it took on a life of its own. Now everyone MUST believe or be branded as a denier or heretic. And so, so many – like hines – absolutely love that kind of “moral” triumphalism.
You should really get a fucking job.
All the Democratic Candidates are boycotting the AIPAC conference. Thank you Sweet Mountain Jesus that I have lived to see this. Meanwhile the guy I voted for is calling them “Anti-Semites”. He has certainly shown his true colors – and they aren’t the red, white and blue. More like the white and blue.
He has never even mentioned us by name even though mentioning every other group. Truly America has to die in order to be reborn into a score of new nations, some of them larger and/or more viable than others. We will conquer some of them and leave others alone. Segregation at last! Monroe Doctrine in place. Hands off our Blacks, China.
Hands off Venezuela!
Too close to home?
The Democratic Party is really acquiring distinctive anti-Semitic features, which always were characteristic to the Sole Proprietor of the Democratic Party – Hillary Clinton.
Black Project in chemically pure form.
I REALLY think you give her too much credit, Finc. She’s a passing fad hitchhiking on hubby BillyJeff’s notoriety.
You see Janos, you should have been with us all along. Your guy screws you and the Ds hand you a gift; funny how things work out. This comes under the general heading of “miscalculation.”
Yeah, except for the fact that so many of you dream of conquering and/or genociding us. That kind of queers it for me….
We just want to get along, not “queer it” for you! If the whites don’t act like entitled little pricks, it’s all good. When whites start acting like they are better than everyone, that is when the trouble starts.
Some may be smarter, quicker, “nicer,” etc. Every being (not just humans) got here the same way and every being has worth, whether or not Whitey likes it or not. If we believe in G_d his-self, as I may, (G_d was not of the Whitey persuasion, by the way.. I’m just saying) then we must accept that he populated this earth the way he did because that’s the way he wanted it.
So no, Whitey doesn’t get to play “I’m boss” any more than the Japanese or Germans do (or wanted too). We are all in this zoo together.
The US South tried that and we see how it all ended in 1865. Maybe they shouldn’t have been kidnapping all those Africans and bringing them here against their will. Maybe the chickens have finally come home to roost, yeah? Kind of like the French did in Algeria, Morrocco, Cote d’Ivoire, etc? Same chickens roosting, but I may be wrong.
Oh G.d, huh? So since you’re against Zionism, and Jews are just White Imperialists, you have no problem if say the Iranians drive them into the sea, right?
Every other race gets to have countries but Whites don’t? Fuck that. That’s as much a prescription for peace as old G.D’s granting Abraham all the lands from the Nile to the Euphrates. You see Ishmael thinks he’s in on that contract. And We think we have the same rights in regards to having our own Nations as everyone else.
This is beautiful jd; demonstrating how terribly ignorant has been made the public regarding actual history, having been submersed instead in what amounts to no more than political myth making. But then, what’s one to expect when education has devolved down to regarding Ebonics as a useful language in an advanced society (Western society having invented all the advantages you rely upon — that is to say “Whitey”).
Your guy is screwing the farmers who voted for him too with his tariff game, but they still love their GGG…. right into the poor house. It makes one wonder what hold he has on those of a rightward bent, doesn’t it?
I mean some of these poor devils are losing family farms that have been in the family for 5 and 6 generations. Now that is dedication, going to the poorhouse for a fruitcake! They will, of course, still support the Big B’ness GOP Monsanto, Dow, friends forever, if still from the poor house. Dedication…. it IS a mystery!
Janos,
Whitey does have a country, namely, all most all of them! He runs the vast majority of worldwide corporations and countries. What more does Whitey want/need? Of course, there are those of color, different religions in many of those countries, but Whitey is in CONTROL of everything, but you knew that.
there are those of color, – jdh
but Whitey is in CONTROL of everything, – jdh
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there are colored people
but people of whiteness are in CONTROL of everything, 😉
Many of them are White or Jewish, true. But the Whites don’t represent us anymore than the Jews do. They are for their Class alone.
The Left has gotten so into Race that it’s forgotten what it is supposed to be about – namely class conflict. To the extent that it has any contribution to make, it’s here. The Elite cleverly substituted race for class, and you dolts went along with it 100%.
Needless to say I don’t support their old idea that race doesn’t matter and that we’d all be getting along but for the Elite causing division. No, we’re supposed to be divided.
Thank you for the grammar lesson Q., most beneficial. However, you really do need a “red” (no pun, etc) pen.
I am very hurt and offended that he nevers mentions us. He appears to love Israel more than those who gave him the Presidency. Primarily the White middle and working classes.
He loves money above all else and is a narcissist to boot, but I may have that wrong. Please don’t feel too bad SSL, really. 🙂
Wow that would make him just like so many other politicians both D and R. That comes as no shock does it jd? Do you think you are going to get any better the way things are? The left also does the bidding of and for big money.
SSL,
Yes, I know the left is also compromised by big money. I believe that we need a new third, party, but that seems pretty unlikely for the time being. The Rs and the Ds conspire to keep a third out.
I could say I hate both parties and that I hate the right a little more. For many here, they hate both parties, but they hate the left a little more. No big difference, I suppose.
It truly is one heck of a mess SSL. Let’s hope it gets better someday and that there can be a party for the “people,” while still allowing the wealthy to go about their business without undue interference.
Best,
JD
I appreciate what you are saying. You may just want to consider how you come across. You say that you ultimately dislike both the right and the left. But your comments overall give the impression, at least to me, that you are are indeed a leftists. And many posters here are conservative as you say. Maybe you are really a National Socialist? A real combination of the left and right that ultimately transcends both.
SSL, thanks for the suggestion and the classification guidance. I will clarify: I think of myself as a Progressive, as in things getting progressively better. So yes I am a leftist in your vernacular. I am not a fan of either of the two parties of big business and the wealthy, but since I must choose amongst the two, I see the Dems as a much lesser evil than the Reps. For me, the people do relatively better under Dems. The Rs are much to blantly pro-rich and wish for a fantasy of America that harken back to the 1950s, but it never existed back then either.
As to your supposition that maybe I am a National Socialist, a Nazi in other words, I am certain that you know that I am not. As for “how I come across, ” that is for others to decide, as I know what I believe, for the most part.
Again, if you are happy with GGG and the Far Right, stick with them. I am just saying that I don’t believe that they have your best interests at heart, but I may be wrong.
Best,
JDH
@ Janos
I like the idea of segregation if it meant that you would have your own little country to yourself(maybe a small island in the middle of BFN) with absolutely no cell signal or internet from which you could spew your misogyny, antisemitism and racist hate to an audience. Yell as loud as you want into the wind; you will have the audience you deserve(one; yourself).
But I bet you’re all for Israel, right – an Ethno state if ever there were. Explain that if you can. But you can’t.
I am totally all for Israel; long may it live and prosper. Are you only ok with “ethno states” if they are Muslim or Christian? At least in Israel, religious minorities are protected, able to send their children to religious schools, attend mosque or church, are required to get time off for their religious holidays etc. I’m sure you are unaware of any of this, only getting your “news” from sites that spew hate. Israel is the ONLY country in the entire world that is “Jewish” majority and by design; it’s the size of freakin New Jersey! The only people who have a problem with this just plain hate Jews. Having 3 square feet of a Jewish country is 3 square feet too much for them.
Mountain (of Olives) gal
https://youtu.be/QFVSQW_vCmg
That is absolutely horrendous and cruel.
Olive trees live longer than Redwoods sans chainsaw. Thousands of years.
“And now it is all coming to grief.” At first I read that as grift. What a scam it has become.
Solid summary
https://www.amren.com/news/2016/08/a-white-teacher-speaks-out/
Slavery persists to this day–in places where black people are in charge. Feel free to repatriate anytime.
Thanks, I think I’ll stick with the Capitalistic USA, or even Euroland, but please be my guest.
What if I paid for your airfare?
Jim, considering your ramblings as of late, I consider it an honor that you regard it as idiocy. I will guarantee you, however, that my views are much more mainstream than the drivel peddled and accepted as gospel here. No disrespect meant and I do enjoy the wordsmithing and discussion provided herein, so please don’t ban me. I have been a loyal follower for many years as you know.
Just send me the cash and I’ll take care of my own arrangements, thank you.
Jimmy Carter seems to be the only member of the political class who is aware of that fact.
A true classic. Pulled this: Nietzsche: “I call an animal, a species, an individual corrupt, when it loses its instincts, when it prefers what is injurious to it.” Great definition of Liberalism.
Nice! Classic Nietzsche. Might be said about most of modern humanity as well.
“We had everything, we have everything, but we gave it away, are giving it away, thanks to the traitors who sit in our marbled halls of power. Intellectual or shop-worker, banker or rough-sleeper, journalist or junkie, it’s coming your way. How will you deal with the coming collapse? Will you run or hide, or will you stand up and be counted? Will you face our Western fate like a man, or like a diversity officer in an NHS trust? We’ll see.
Masochism is fun until you meet a real sadist.
A point that is too good!
The most important gem of wisdom was kept for last. If at all possible homeschool your children. And nowadays there are so many resources. You can learn algebra on Youtube!
This is really, really discouraging, revilo. I say that as an educator (starting with a pioneer group of Saudi students in Texas, back in 1960) and an expatriate.
I had realized the situation was bad but was not aware it was so hopeless. Wow.
Now the same thing with the expulsion or even killing of white farmers in South Africa.
As usual Dr. K, you have your fingers on the pulse of the zeitgeist and have delivered another correct prognosis. Thank you.
IMO the best thing about the internet is the incredible education sites. Whatever you want to know just look it up. Want to take a class? Go online and you’ll find any topic that has ever existed. Chances are you can get the class free. Free unlimited education is already available to all who wish to learn. I say again for those who truly wish to learn and, of course, have the discipline required of an autodidact. So why universities? Simple. That piece of paper you receive after all the time and money spent. Not to mention everything covered in Mr. K’s article.
For the student, that graduation certificate is the only reason to even bother with college. For many students, the university has become a four-year party with little learning even attempted. Just get that piece of paper at any cost. (As recent headlines concur.)
Internet as an educational tool is great – but caution! – too many conspiracy theories (e.g. ideological diversions).
Classical school with trusted reputable professor is still a must.
I would say with the possible exceptiontion of Seminaries the overwhelming majority of American Colleges and Universities are nothing but left wing ideological diversions. Same probably holds true for Europe. Perhaps Russia still holds a classical education as sacrosanct.
Ss did you visit the College Fix site?
Hadn’t heard of it til your post. Just took a quick peek and about barfed. Just the headlines I purused got my blood boiling. Certainly backs up what I posted above about the leftward ideology on American campuses. Will definitely check it out more closely tomorrow. Thank for the tip.
I agree with you Sam. Everything is at your fingertips with the internet now. But the universities give out the certificates that are supposed to make your life better. After you get deep into debt though. And for some people, after you have sold your soul.
“And for some people, after you have sold your soul.”
LOL. Helps to keep Ol’ Scratch in business.
Here in Virginia, the worst loan default ratio among colleges, Liberty University (founded by Jerry Falwell) has been advertising on daytime sports radio stations (middle class medium) tuition breaks of $5000 for “qualified” individuals making household income between $35,000-$90,000. The truth is, this is a best case borrowing income for federal loans. Falwell paid off Republican Party goobs for years and built his school from a molehill to a large private school, without the pre-requisite massive endowment.They have grossly over-expanded in all manner including an NCAA D-1 football team. I would bet they are a likely collapse candidate. Stay tuned.
And at V Tech, asians kill people.
After the mass murder, another yellow man beheaded a gal in the cafeteria.
“Students then at least had skin in the game: the threat of getting drafted into the army and shipped over to die in the jungle for a senseless conflict. In fact, many young men unsuited for college took refuge there to evade the military.”
Now, they take refuge in the military to evade the expenses of higher education.
The GI Bill also lead to an exponential increase in for-profit colleges. Many of them of dubious credentials.
Chapter 33 gave even more benefits and expanded the program to the NoGos.
So now, young people instead join the senseless conflict, knowingly and willingly, because they need a job and or need a way to pay for the insanely priced colleges and universities. Most are still unsuited, but the law of lowest common denominator has also lowered admission standards over time.
More schools, lower standards, more applicants, more money.
Now that’s a racket.
“Now, they take refuge in the military to evade the expenses of higher education.”
Right, many have no choice. No money and living in some shithole? Tap some towel heads and evade the gunfire.
Come back alive and then reap the GI benefits. I wonder about the number of vets coming into the universities. In the current university environment it would seem that at least some of these vets might just want to pop a professor.
You don’t actually have to go to university these days.
Many of these diploma mills have a huge online program.
Besides, it’s usually a profesor wanting to “pop” a student.
Nerve of those profs. Tables must be turned.
Hahaha tucsonspur – and then plead PTSD in their defense.
Slamdunk.
<how to pop a professor without any negative consequences.
How not to be 100% with Jim on this. But you have to be terminally naive to believe Trump threat applies to ALL free speech.
If this new stance were to be true then there should be no more Steven Salaitas, Churchil Wards or Norm Finkelsteins and many more fired from their positions even tenured and tenure track as in the case of Norm, for speaking inconvenient truths about Israel.
Or merely appropriating a cultural artifact of the Holocaust: Eichman.
Real coercion is what Sen. Diane Feinstein and her big Govie Contractor hubby Mr. Feinstein applied to the UC Davies for allowing un-aproved expressions about Israel, in person, both of them threatened the U. with defunding, press campaign and worse.
Trumpuppet himself requested the resignation of Rep. Ihlan Omar for…telling 100% true statement.
And I am to believe that Trump’s threat means anything in the real world?
Puleeezzzeee!
Red Oregon says No. A sheriff is a sovereign unto himself and his people. A local Warlord/King who doesn’t answer to anybody except the voters.
http://www.captainsjournal.com/2019/03/20/colorado-ag-tells-sheriffs-to-resign-or-enforce-red-flag-law/
I think that the so called ERPOs and GVROs will be found not to violate the constitution and are actually a good thing if due process is followed.
We recently had a sheriff misappropriating funds. Answered to himself and said fuck the people.
Some more on sheriffs:
https://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-bad-sherriffs.html
Look at this guy, got the star and he’s goin’ far:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/14/593204274/alabama-sheriff-legally-took-750-000-meant-to-feed-inmates-bought-beach-house
So I went to State U on the GI Bill, graduated without incurring any debt whatsoever.
Drank a lot of beer, dated a lot of coeds, a good time was had by all.
About halfway thru a private womens college about 10 miles away closed down; guess where most of them transferred to? It was like a gift from God, Manna from heaven.
For graduate school one of the elitist college in state offered a program to vets who graduated from State U. I signed up. It was a big lefty stronghold filled with rich kids with recognizeable family names. I got on ok with them. I was grateful for being there.
That’s the story of my education, undistinguished as it was.
Brh
THERANOS–Did you know Liz is from a name family?
Fascinating movies at you tube about Ms Holms?
And the family fortune. They bought a Hawaiian island.
Is it as good as the movie about thr Frye Festival?
Brh
fire–I dunno. but the information on Liz is factual.
Fleisman yeast? fortune.
Check out her pictures online with and without makeup. Quite a difference. Almost pretty (in an android sort of way) with, utterly plain Jane homely without. And the voice!
THE VOX WAS AFFECTED.
Check the news reports.
Yeah, I read up on her yesterday and then watched the HBO special documentary. She was basically running a cult. I found her to be robotic and weird watching the footage, but she must have had something in person to take all those people in. The fact that she could fool the investors was the least of it, she maintained the con to the people working for her LONG after they should have known better. But credit where credit is due, she used the allure of fantastic riches combined with iron fist security enforcement to get her way.
But the truly weird thing is that she remains a true believer in her scheme to this day, so much so that if she avoids serious prison time, she’ll probably find a way to chase after it again, even though everybody interviewed said that her contraption is physically impossible to produce. Not to mention the fact that if it ever actually was produced, it would be so large, expensive, and trouble to keep serviced and calibrated that it would never be viable for home use, other than possibly for multi-millionaires of course.
She evidently grew up getting everything she wanted and has become terminally addicted to that habit.
Sounds like mine too, more or less. Except for the elitist grad school part. Just a bunch of numb nuts who thought they were elite.
Yeah, OS, we had enough vets around for TWO beer league campus softball teams. We kicked ass, I’ll tell you what.
Those were the days.
Brh
I missed out!
Crane Brinton in his excellent book, “The Anatomy of Revolution” says that a precursor of Revolution is when the Intellectuals go from being Alienated and complaining about society (which is their normal existential predicament) to actively supporting a new paradigm for the society. Who are the Intellectuals in our Society of Rackets? There are the Intellectuals, and then there are people like Nathan Bedford Forrest: “War means fight’n. Fight’n means kill’n.”
Oh yes, he of KKK fame (infamy). There is a special place for old Nathan in hell, isn’t that right Scratch? At least Uncle Billy Sherman kicked the living shit out of old Nate. Yee Haw!
The US Civil War basically involved the graduate classmates of the US Military Academy at West Point brutally slaughtering each other in bloody savage battles on their native soil. More Americans died at the Battle of Shiloh than in all previous US wars combined. And the carnage after Shiloh only grew worse. The monument at West Point is a monument to War, in particular, to the US Civil War. The West Point classmates were both friends and rivals, except for Ulysses S. Grant who was a bit of an outcast because he did not come from a rich aristocratic family, like Robert E. Lee. Grant did not fit in. Grant’s dad ran a “tannery” in rural Ohio, a slaughterhouse of cows and horses.
Yuck! How could anyone work at a slaughterhouse? I do love meat, but if I had to do that I’d become a vegetarian and I know it is hypocritical, but there you have it.
But old US Grant could kick some Rebel arse, eh? Not much of a president, but he and Uncle Billy (Sherman) were magnificent on the battlefield! The south wanted war, so by damn Uncle Billy and USG gave it to them. Then they were not “into” insurrection by-and-by and surrendered at Appomattox courthouse. They didn’t have conviction, yeah?
Please forgive the historical ramblings, I just like to spend time on the victory once in a blue moon. I might add that Uncle Billy was not very nice at all to the Native Americans, nor the buffalo for that matter, after his fun in the war. But profit is profit and nothing can ever come between $$$ and the USA, right? Or at least nothing living like “injuns” and dumb animals.
Is it true that Adam Schiffs sis is married to one of Soros sons?
Must we bring George into this vipers nest? What has G. Soros ever done to you?
Queen….
The flaming Homosexual is singing: “Nothing really matters.”
How can anyone possibly say that this is Art?! It’s Dreadful…. Absolutely Dreadful….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A22oy8dFjqc
Sorry, Puck, on this one I don’t agree with you at all. Freddie Mercury had a great musical mind. Brian May is now a brilliant astrophysicist.
Just because he was flaming is no reason to dislike his music. Try to separate the music from the person. A friend of ours knew Freddie pretty well and told us a lot about him.
He changed his name from “Farouk” to “Freddie Mercury”.
You gotta be shit’n me?!
That the flaming homosexual “Freddie Mercury” (who sang “Nothing Really Matters” and who sang about death and killing people) was “popular” in a depraved consumeristic society should raise a lot of Red Flags…
Prima Facie SHIT…..
Anything goes…and Freddie Mercury sings: “And Nothing Really Matters….”
He paid a pretty heavy price for his homosexuality, didn’t he?
Freddie Mercury used his talent to erode and to destroy the culture.
In Mercury’s defense, I doubt that’s what he had in mind at the time. But yes, he was definitely one depraved motherfucker, especially in his later days.
On the flip side, you could also say that any number of hetero rock stars of the period were every but as depraved, so you definitely can’t pin this all on Mercury.
Further, Queen wasn’t all that popular in the late 80’s when Mercury was in full flame-out mode. Their music mirrored his personality, and went all to shit accordingly.
But credit where credit is due, he manned up when it came time to check out. He kept his disease secret to the very end, gave his entire inheritance to his lifelong “common law wife,” then specified that his remains be burned and scattered in secret so as to discourage the treasure hunters and ghouls. Their final album remains the one of the best, certainly in their catalogue, and possibly in rock history. A true masterpiece.
If you’re going to live that life, he at least lived his courageously, something most of us will only aspire to do.
I heard that the Russians are crazy about Golf.
Maybe I could make a go of it teaching Golf in Russia as a post-Collapse business?
Didn’t want to go to college. Didn’t apply. Parents hit the roof: every aunt and uncle came over for dinner to lecture me on the need to go to college. I finally caved and went. Had terrible grades and behavior reports in high school (never participated as I knew the subject matter was either worthless, inapplicable or fake) and was also applying too late in the year so I couldn’t get into a good school. My only interests at the time were photography and music so I applied to Rochester Institute of Technology and was obviously refused. Went into apathy on my photo and music goals. Wound up going to Fullerton Junior College in SoCal (they’d take anybody). Again, I didn’t participate (for the same reasons as high school) and basically flunked out. I spent most of my time at Fullerton reading philosophy books and playing music there. Next, I traveled around the country in my VW microbus in search of a goal and purpose. No result. Then decided to try school again and went to Franconia College, an experimental college in New Hampshire (comprised of radical ex-teachers and professors from Harvard and Yale, and had the youngest college dean in the country). I finally was able to study photography and music there and made some progress. Dropped out after the first year (too many drugs and partying on campus and didn’t envision a viable career in either of my fields). That was my last contact with academia. I finally went the entrepreneur route and decided upon real estate: read books, went to seminars, attended boot camps and then started rehabbing/reselling houses, owning rental properties, and eventually building custom homes. These activities finally morphed into running a private lending company that lends to real estate professionals.
College was a waste of time. If I knew then what I know now, I would’ve… dropped out of high school and gone to work for an uncle who was in commercial real estate (the wealthiest guy in my family) and learned the trade and have gotten a 5-year, earlier start on my life and career.
Glad to see that academia is perishing as they are a blight on our country and ruinous to our youth (not applicable for doctors, dentists and other highly technical professions). I’m all for self-study, mentors, apprenticeships, guilds, trade and professional schools and training. As well as preparing our youth for the new industries and sectors that the future is bringing. Entrepreneurs, unhindered by gov regulation, corruption and high taxes, are the only element that can improve the US economy.
Damn! We’ve got a BUNCH of juvenile delinquents and malcontents on this board.
Lots of contracts for you. Business is looking up.
Totally agree amb. I’m the academic sort so college and grad school suited me but clearly many(most) people are not and that is just fine. We shouldn’t be forcing kids to go to college and telling them they will lead a life spent stacking groceries on the shelves at the Walmart if they don’t. And yes, I’m all for apprenticeships starting by 9th grade at the latest. Glad you found yourself before you wasted too much time and got into too much college debt to ever get out from under.
Where you a spy?
Trump and the Golan Heights
Do you remember what I wrote in October about the union of the United States, Israel and Russia in Syria?
strategic secret agreement between Putin’s Russia, Israel Netanyahu and the US Trump about the joint struggle against the globalist Europe and Clinton America.
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/going-full-porn/#comment-370501
So Trump’s demarche means that Hillary finally lost this campaign.
Well, she won’t hesitate to start another one, but all the same, most likely it will be a campaign in a strange for her territory of the Cold War.
Better watch out, Finc. You’ll throw your shoulder out patting yourself on the back.
College sports seems to be doing fine. Million dollar salaries for coaches. I seem to remember a billion dollar TV contract for Texas football. 24 hour cam and audio on Zion Williamson the Duke one and done player. If they could only use that money for tuitions and books. Just like businesses the small mom and pop schools will get left in the dust unless the can conjure up a division one football or basketball team. Let’s not forget the sports apparel companies bribes to coaches and teams if they can get away with it.
As in corporate America, so in intercollegiate sports and pretty much everything else. SYMMETRY BABY!!!
Baseball player got 300-400 million, if I recall a drudge link headline.
That’s all? Steve Trout I think you’re talking about.
The objective of US Civil War uniform fashion was to put as many shiny buttons on the uniform as possible so that when the very low velocity, high mass lead ball hit your arm or leg that you’d look “Snazzy” for the drunk doctor who’d then saw off your limb.
I prefer the “Camo” look myself….
I prefer the guys controlling the killer drones lurking overhead to be on my side…
Go up to the addicted pharmacist and ask him if you can crush the “Allergy Relief” tablets up and snort them? Ask him if they readily dissolve in water so that you can “Mainline It”?
There are probably some professions that you probably shouldn’t go into, like working at a winery or becoming a Pharmacist?
After fully taking in his look of horror and pausing for dramatic effect, follow up with,”No? Well OK then, I’ll just take a roll of surgical tubing then. By the way, which aisle are the cotton balls and alcohol in?”
I wonder how well a college that taught knitting, quilting, canning, tanning, farming, animal husbandry, brewing, etc.– All the necessary skills and knowledge a person would need to survive a collapse — would do.
If tuition was paid in kind, I’d be on the faculty! 🙂
Sounds like a job for a worker’s collective. Gonna be a few of those around in the not too far distant future after the current generations get weeded out a bit.
Sad thing is that in VT there is a college teaching students how to become market growers. Save your tuition payments to buy land with kiddies. Go apprentice with an actual market grower who will teach you everything you need to know to grow fruit and vegetables, no degree required. I mean, it’s a useful subject at least(as opposed to Gender and Queer Studies) but still costs a lot to get a degree in something a farmer would happily teach you for free(and provide room and board while doing so!).
Remember, God wills it!
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/22/politics/mike-pompeo-donald-trump-israel-golan-heights/index.html
And Netanyahu gets help as Trump again says eff u to the international community:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS1RFi4viXU
Clintonoids are hysterical – they shout that Trump did it all for recognising Crimea as Russian territory.
And yeah, fuck the international globalist community.
This news means that the probability of a nuclear war has become much less.
My granddaughters’ parents are both school teachers. They are wonderful people, so I don’t like to criticize education. But things are what they are, and I have to say, our educational system is a big con, and has been during my lifetime.
Most of life’s activities require a modicum of common sense; anything more can be gotten through experience or books (or in today’s world, online). Other than readin’,’ writin’, ‘rithmatic public education isn’t necessary, except maybe history.
I take exception that I have to pay for others’ childrens’ education. Public education costs are by far the biggest expense of local real estate taxes. I wouldn’t mind as much if public schools turned out highly educated students, but let’s face it, they are just dumping spots for children so parents don’t have to care for them all day. It didn’t start out that way, but now education has devolved into a farce.
Ditto. Think of it as socialized child care. If it weren’t for public schools we’d have even more of the little miscreants out getting into trouble. With the future they’re facing, I couldn’t really blame them for getting into trouble either.
Myself, I quit paying attention in school altogether after the 8th grade.
You two do know that a community is supposed to support one another?
If you’re complaints are about the quality of education, fine, but if your complaints are about having to pay tax dollars to schools:
Give me a ****ing break.
You pay taxes for police, jails, streets, roads, traffic lights, sewers and water to subdivisions… but you don’t what to have to pay to educate “other people’s children”
Wow.
Precisely why we don’t have a nation.
We have a notion: more for me.
and the auto-spell on this site is horrendous.
“your”
In this town (pop 25000) there arent 1 but 2 ‘Diversity Coordinators’, salary $95,000 per year.
What they do mostly is sheperd around the minority kids bused in from Hartford.
That’s what you’re paying for.
Brh
No major complaint about the taxes, even though the local taxes are quite high. Education is sterling here as well. But think about it, all of that education is essentially wasted locally, as almost all of that talent promptly picks up and leaves as soon as they graduate. Granted, our local circumstances are somewhat unique, but probably not all that much these days.
No. This a senior citizen complaint.
Like noise after 10PM.
They don’t want to have to pay.
Anything
This a senior citizen complaint.
Like noise after 10PM.
They don’t want to have to pay.
Anything ————————–Avatar
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Hey Avatar, I’m 78. I live in Central NJ. My property taxes are $13.5K. Most goes to support the school system.
Where do you live? How much are your taxes?
Then move to Flardah or Texas.
Why would anyone retire in NJ?
Friends and family. Sentimentality. History.
No other reasons.
BTW, that $ ostensibly goes to support the schools.
The irony isn’t lost on me. As one advocating for less people, and less wrong people having children, I’m now defending public schools.
Perhaps not having free schools, aka educational daycare, will reduce the birth rate.
Most likely not.
Because nothing really puts the breaks on the behavior of stupid people besides… death, not even jail (they just behave the same way in the prison).
Imagine the alternative. The wrong people having more and more children and without a learning environment.
More roving youth gangs.
A relatively wealthy old and feeble white bloke is the perfect soft target.
How about you visit one of the favelas in Brazil, or one of the shantytowns outside Lagos on your next vacay out of Newark?.
There, you will see the future you ask for.
The answer isn’t less money towards schools.
It is always
LESS PEOPLE
I believe in live and let live. If I don’t pay my local taxes the government comes in and tries to steal my home. When I resist, they shoot me dead. That’s not community-minded.That’s also not live and let live, by my reckoning. As I said, I don’t mind paying the money if it was put to good use, but it’s wasted, so I don’t like it.
You’re right, many oldsters don’t want to pay. Probably for the same reasons I don’t want to. I think taxes are immoral – forcing people to pay tribute or else. I pay a lot of income tax, but I dislike to because we spend $700 billion annually on starting wars. Why should I spend my money on something I don’t believe in? Since I’m self-employed, I pay an additional 12.5%. At least most of that goes to other elderly.
As far as community goes, if every parent had to bear the cost of their child’s public education, and my neighbor needed the money, I would consider giving it to them, but it would be my choice. There’s something about forcing someone under the threat of violence to do something that gets my goat.
I understand, but did you only realize in your dotage that man isn’t born free?
You don’t have a choice pal.
And there is nowhere to run to.
Every place wants their cut, and don’t worry, you get a passport and the opportunity to vote for an egomaniacal sociopath every 4 years.
But this can also be broken down by the race of the students.
And by the race of those caring for the children. Take a bus driver in Italy, for one example.
Peter Brimelow has mentioned this.
Same with Army recruits on IQ, obesity, etc
Education is hollowed out by common core and uninspired thinking to the possible roles of such an institution within something resembling a society? Who and what do we inspire to be? Where have we been? (What is on netflix and what meat cut is on sale at the box grocery?)
Schools are holding pens for discipline in numbness to future roles as wage slaves, welfare recipients, soldiers, taxpayers, etc. Some break out – many never do, even when they are pulling quarter million. ….
Profession sports memorabilia and flags should be banned in public school classrooms for how much it resembles playing the lottery.
Yeah but the sweetheart contracts to get the architectural masterpieces built make the rich richer so you need to continue supporting the system.
Seriously, Do you really think a thirty million dollar building to keep 300 kids corralled for working hours five days a week is really about the kiddies? If you wanted them to really learn you’d not make the environment so damn wonderful.
Two by fours plywood walls and a pot bellied stove with every kid having to pitch in and help keep the room warm. Force the kids to teach the young ones if you really want to get learning going on.
Politicians tax so they can hire their friends for jobs and contracts. Once in bare wooden rooms schools taught that politicians actually had a different job altogether. Something to do with public service, the social contract and fiscal responsibility.
I can’t remember exactly what? It has been so long. Anybody care to help.
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At the end of the West Point tour, the fat, middle aged white female tour guide who hated her job asked for tips. One white bloke in a white shirt and baby blue jacket on the bus with his wife unabashedly gave her $1 dollar.
In all fairness, the white bloke in the baby blue jacket was old, so he was probably having a Vietnam era flashback to his tour of duty in “NAM” when a couple of bucks could buy some “Poon Tang”?
I went to college because I understood that it was my ticket out of the blue collar world. I had dropped out high school after the first semester because It was absurd. Schools can give you a brief overview of what you’re interested in, but their primary focus has always been in creating obedient serfs who know their place and deliver whatever is expected of them. The only education one can achieve for oneself is through books, i.e. intelligent, articulate books, creative artistic books, etc. The more you read the more discerning you become.
College did get me out of the blue collar world; hanging in the student lounge discussing philosophy with your buds, while the folks back home are trapped in a factory 7 to 4 guarantees you will never take your place by the conveyor belt.
Later I went to grad school where I was taught by fellow writers a few tricks, and it was an ivy league school which I hoped would open a few doors.
So, one learns from books, from colleagues, and from strangers that do not hold your brainwashed views. Colleges now have lost their way and no longer know which side of the toast holds the butter. But then again, they may know something about what America is now looking for and are teaching to that, intent on producing a cadre of gelded graduates.
your retrospective is interesting.
To a certain extent, I “cheated” on the whole “College Thang”. I did one of those overseas study programs in Asia that gives you a year of academic credit and then I Fucked Off for a year and then I deferred my return to college for another additional year. That last year of college, as Forrest Gump described the “Shrimp’n Business”, was “Tough.”
For some reason this does not come as a shock :-). Did you have your spiritual experience when you were in Asia? Was college overrated?
Two years of absolute nonsense which was the Mueller investigation is finally over.
No indictments, Barr will rewrite the report before releasing it to the public.
wow yep
CNN/MSNBC tripling down on fake news
Fox News: “Grand Slam” .. no further indictments
wow
thanks for the news tovarish
Yes, looks like the coup is fizzling out.
Dems must now be prosecuted.
Pelosi went from impeachment in January to no impeachment in March. Some time in between, she was alerted to Mueller’s capitulation.
Mueller’s capitulation to WHAT? I am starting to believe more than ever that the whole damn antiTrump thing is a coordinated contrived effort by he Deep State uniparty Libs in the country to take over, destroy the Constitution and install a dictatorship. To continue what the Clinton crowd started under Obama.
One thing I do not believe has ever been put forward. That Trump may be the guy with the white hat being surrounded by a large group of very antiAmerican evil people. If that is the case, I hope he wins the war. If the alternative to Trump is any of the socialistic, stupid, narcissistic jerks that the Dems have put up so far, our country’s future hinges on his victory in 2020.
Their mouthpiece, the media, has been effective at offsetting the efforts of Trump to re-nationalize the US. When the people of the country consider America as an entity bigger than themselves, the Kaepernick horses—t will cease. Out of many, one, used by the Libs a lot means what they detest, individuals submitting to the common good, having allegiance to something bigger than themselves. The self indulgent Left just cannot get past their own egos.
The Zionist faction has withstood a full court press from the Liberal/UN globalist faction. Now will they repay in kind?
Doesn’t matter. Both sides are vehemently Anti-American and Anti-White. They Zios just hide it better. They still want to use us as soldiers for their Wars overseas is all. Both are in favor of open borders. Both were in favor of increased Muslim immigration after 9/11. Both are obviously crazy and evil.
So yesterday, I planted 144 shallots in one bed in the garden.
Shallots, like Multiplier Onions,
are a particularly wonderful vegetable to grow.
They are rewarding,
in so many ways.
First of all, when you plant a traditional shallot,
you don’t plant a seed,
you plant an actual whole shallot,
just like with garlic . . .
you don’t plant a garlic seed,
you plant a clove of garlic.
It Is A Clone that grows.
Asexual reproduction, in other words.
And when it produces,
it is not like an onion seed,
where you get one single onion . . .
When you plant a shallot,
a Whole Shallot,
you grow a whole NEST of shallots,
you get 7 – 10 new shallots.
In other words,
this is a wonderful way to reproduce
the Allium line of vegetables.
But so many, many people just don’t get it,
they have no concept whatsoever what growing food
is all about.
Pity.
Sounds a lot like immigrants. You plant one… and get a whole bunch more.
Except . . .
You can eat these vegetables,
I’m not certain at all that you can
eat these immigrants.
However,
YMMV.
CMC
I asked you if you’re Lawrence Ferlinghetti. You said no. Ok then, are you Gary Snyder?
You write like one of these west coast poets, but I know you’re on the east coast, in zone 7A.
Maybe the immigrants will eat us, like in Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road’,
Brh
No, not Gary Snyder.
However, I grew up on the west coast,
took my education there,
and my family still resides in the same area.
Came to the east coast 38 years ago.
Had a chance to move back west awhile ago,
but did not take it.
I like my present area far too much now.
It has grown its tentacles
ever more tightly around my heart
to ever want to leave.
I enjoy your posts. Life would not be the same without allium vegetables. Are you growing chives? Their purple flowers are pretty. And edible too!
SSL,
Thank you for your kind remark.
Yes, I grow most of the allium family:
Garlic,
Leeks,
Shallots,
Scallions,
Onions,
Chives,
Egyptian Walking Onions,
Garlic Chives.
Leeks — I grow regular leeks, and two kinds of perennial leeks.
There’s Perpetual Leeks, which are pencil-thin but multiply prodigiously.
And there’s my favorite — Babington Leeks.
These form a bulb at the base,
unlike the straight shaft of a regular leek.
The marvel of the Babington is that when it is mature,
you harvest it by digging down around the base,
then cut the shaft just above the bulb.
You now have a whole leek to cook with.
However, the bulb will sprout again the following year and produce another mature leek.
Now, that’s having your leek and eating it too!
That is amazing. And they are low maintenance! I see why it is your favorite leek.
Given that the Russians are so crazy about Golf, maybe Trump should invite Putin to his Mar El Lago resort in Florida for a few rounds of Golf?
Words will hardly do.
http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Words%20will%20hardly%20do.pdf
#oathkeepers
Q.
Bill Cosby
@BillCosby
Happy 75th Birthday to my beautiful bride, Camille. Dear, you’re a wonderful mother, loving wife, but most importantly, you’re the strength of this family. Please celebrate your day!
#CamilleOCosby
#Happy75thBirthday
#BillCosby
#FarFromFinished
#FreeBillCosby
He is your father figure isn’t he?
People seem to think that Bill Cosby was convicted of raping women. He wasn’t. Cosby was convicted in Pennsylvania of “Indecent Aggravated Assault”, which under the statute only requires sex with a woman under the influence of some drug, whether she took the drug voluntarily or not, or whether she objectively consented to the sex, the idea being that the drug vitiates consent. It’s a stupid law since most men have at some time Boned a woman who has had a few drinks, smoked Weed, or in Cosby’s case, popped a few Benedryl.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GVlWqX3oFsk
Well there is a big difference between having a few drinks or smoking weed and being completely passed out.
Sometimes
Wrong Pucker. The difference is night and day. Take Cosby out of the equation and just think about it. Seriously. It’s one thing to be drunk or high but alert enough to formulate a yes or no. When someone is out they can’t say yes or no, because they are, um passed out. Am I wrong?
That’s a Straw Man argument since under the Pennsylvania statute Dr. Cosby would have been convicted regardless of whether Constand had passed out or not. In any case, she hadn’t passed out. She may have passed gas, but she hadn’t passed out.
Did Pol Pot fuck up?
Where in the hell did that one come from?
Life is strange. Now that Mueller has come out and says there will be no more indictments the Democrats now want to subpeona Mueller. Does it ever occur to any of them that possibly governing and implementing policies that help ordinary, everday people may be a good thing to do? Oh right, I forgot we are talking about the swamp. Where good Rs and Ds go to do the bidding of their corporate lobbyists. Like universities, the government is so out of touch. It all seems like a bad joke, but for sure, the facade of legitimacy is slipping away.
“Life is strange.“
You can bet your ass it is….
That only means that he’s not going to do the indictments. Congress is free to indict Trump on their own after reviewing the report. We’ll see…
Yes, I heard about that. I have no doubts whatsoever that they will take all of their investigations as far as possible. I assume this is at least part of the divide and conquer strategy since it’s likely to accelerate the turmoil? It looks like the new attorney general may have something to say about the report soon, maybe this afternoon.
According to Crane Brinton, a Revolution requires that the Ruling Class lose faith so it will no longer sees itself as legitimate and becomes slow to use force (“Decadent”, but not in a moral sense). I suspect that the US is being tenderized for a downstream Fascist takeover?
What do you think of really old blokes in the gym? You wanna talk about an uphill battle. Jeeeze….
I go to the gym (is 73 a really old bloke?). I don’t “pump” iron, that would be silly. I use weights for muscle tone. Who wants to be a saggy-ass old fart? Lifting maximum heavy weights builds muscle mass, but a lot of repetions using light weights tones and shapes muscles. I have a swimmer’s body, which I’m happy with, and have no need to try to change it so I look like a tank.
I also walk the treadmill when it is too cold outside to comfortably walk, and I do a lot of stretching, which is of paramount importance.
What’s so bad about that?
Yes indeed. Use it or lose it becomes your mantra after 60.
more like 35.
True that.
where did this discussion start?
huh
In the summer of 1990, Russian President Boris Yeltsin attended the opening ceremony to show his respect to this sport that was new to Russia. After a short lesson with Sven Tumba, Yeltsin sent the ball across the lake at the 9th hole on his first try.
http://www.mcgc.ru/en/about-us/club-history/
Maybe this is why stocks tumbled:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-just-picked-laughingstock-204024425.html
Here’s another take on Moore:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/stephen-moore-federal-reserve-trump.html
Moore always wants more. More tax cuts. More growth. Gotta grow the economy, grow employment, grow GDP, grow new markets. Then grow growth. Then grow that growth that you’ve just grown. Then…………………………………………………………THE END.
He is absolutely right. America has a limited window of opportunity to transfer its economy back on productive rails.
The situation with the dollar as a mandatory world currency is coming to an end.
One of Estulin’s main points is that the Ponzi effect takes over when the marketplace for money becomes based on financial smoke and mirrors, not assets. The value of money needs to be based on man-hours of production. When the US taxed the corporations and companies to move overseas, our money turned into “the magic kingdom”. The stock market usd to be a bettors paradise and a good forecast agent for the future economy. Now it is 45% of the economy, Oops, big mistake.
Great points. The stock market, part of what Estulin terms the “global economy 3.0 (post-industrial networking)”, has now become completely untethered to the underlying industrial economy (or at least what’s left of it), thus making it doubly useful as a propaganda device for those who don’t know better. That’s also what allows it to absorb all the Fed funny money being thrown about these days, while still limiting inflation in the underlying real economy to a few key asset/commodity classes, primarily real estate and health care. Inflated real estate prices ensure that everyone lives precariously in fear of homelessness, while inflated health care costs ensure that everyone lives precariously in fear of death itself. You have to admit, it’s a pretty clever racket they’ve created here.
I like modern conveniences don’t get me wrong. But I hate the way our economy is. I hate the whole growth for growth’s sake thing. And it’s like nothing that is built, or very little, is built to last. And I hate how they clear cut all the trees to build new stuff. Sorry, now I am ranting…
When asked if he fed his child’s feces to his wife, Beto replied “sounds like something I would do.”
https://theweek.com/articles/830443/why-are-2020-democrats-weird
Who gives a flying you-know-what about the Beto-male?
He’s just a part of the working crew to pave Hillary road to 2020.
Ha, I hope so. Trump won’t even have to leave the Oval Office to campaign.
He’ll be gone from the oval to rectangular, 6 X 9 to be exact.
This is one sick person who uses others for his own self-grandisement. I am concerned that the Democratic Party as a representative of the common Joe is shot, and the nuts are in control. Lots of historical precedence for this.
I’m just concerned that his poopamole recipe might have been culturally appropriated.
Ewww he’s so disgusting and narcissistic.
It’s possible his guacamole recipe was apoopriated.
They want us to hand over our guns to these batshit crazy freakazoids. It’s unbelievable. Wake the fuck up, people.
apoopriated that’s a good one :-).
He is allegedly a prankster all the time. I actually think these stories maybe are intentional. To show how he is just this every day guy and he has made all these mistakes. But he is just so committed to doing the right thing now. Bring down the bad orange man. And many people will soak it up.
US Party of Nuclear War is not giving up so easy!
At NPR, they say that they will not give up this and will “continue the investigation”.
Fox insists that Russia is still to blame, only it supported Clinton. Or not Russia, but Ukraine.
Same difference, Putin is to blame.
By the way, so that you know, there is NO such thing as MAD.
Foreign Affairs, 2006: The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy
Abstract:
For four decades, relations among the major nuclear powers have been shaped by their common vulnerability, a condition known as mutual assured destruction. But with the U.S. arsenal growing rapidly while Russia’s decays and China’s stays small, the era of MAD is ending–and the era of U.S. nuclear primary has begun.
http://www.acamedia.info/politics/escalation/nass/The_Rise_of_U.S._Nuclear_Primacy_%7C_Foreign_Affairs.pdf
Since such open threats of a nuclear war are prohibited by UN Charter, they are using “private” publications (Foreign Affairs) to do it nevertheless.
Foreign Affairs is the organ of Council on Foreign Relations.
The Ukraine stuff is the real powder keg. I do wonder why no one has heard from Tony Podesta in so long. 🙂
Coincidence or Confirmation of the Theory of the World Color Projects?
Yesterday I published a post in which I claimed that the recognition of the Golan Heights as Israel territory meant Hillary’s final loss to the party for fomenting a nuclear war that began in September 2018.
And a half hour later we were informed that Special Prosecutor Mueller, under the hood of whom President Trump had been for 2 years, provided the United States Attorney General Barr (see the Big Bargain) with a final report on the results of his investigation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/us/politics/mueller-report.html
That is, that the investigation is over.
2 solid years of this Russia collusion hoax. Who is going to be held reponsible for perpetrating it?
Brh
No one. The Libs are in control of the Deep State judiciary, for now. The Supreme Court though might be the crack in the dam. No more Deep Staters (Sessions) in the DOJ though, please.
I doubt very much they will be able to put Hillary behind bars, but they will be able to purge the first echelon of the FLying Monkeys – various Comeys, Brennons, etc..
Unfortunately, the Clinton rot is in the Institutions of Higher Education and the so-called American leftist intelligentsia – that is a much tougher task to purge.
He’s packing the Court with Deep State Zionists – the other Globalist faction. Judge Napolitano said of Kavanaugh that he was Deep State/Swamp all the way. Your inability to recognize the two factions limits your analysis. Ditto your inability to see Capitalism for what it is: the other side of the COIN of Communism. One system in the end. They united to defeat Fascism and National Socialism and they will again in the future (which is already here).
To a certain degree you are correct, Janos, at least from the economic stand point of view.
For example, the Soviet socialism was essentially a State Capitalism where there was just one corporation, but pretty much same accounting principles as under Capitalism were 100% applied to running the economy.
Huge difference were not in economic, but in moral principles – Russians managed to put an Orthodox Christian face on the system – to a degree of course, but main principle – ALL people are created by the same God, was largely applied, which, of course, means presence of social elevators, main of which in USSR were Higher Education, Sports and the Army.
Bolshevism persecuted the Real Russian Church, driving it out and/or underground. Then set up a fake Russian Orthodox Church. This model was used against Roman Catholicism. That’s what Vatican Two was all about. Both are precursors to the One World Religion and the advent of the Anti-Christ.
Well, it looks like the Dems in Congress backed by their agit/prop media sponsors are doubling down and striving to keep hate alive. That’s what im seeing this morning.
Brh
I wanted to research Jesse Mathews, he and his mom were killers.
Turns out there are 2 killers with that name, but spelled differently.
One killed a few coeds [serial rapist]. He is Black.
He killed Hannah, who was wandering in skimpy clothes late at nite.
There was a great blog by a cop or ex cop, he calle the blog Ambrose Kane.
When pizzagate broke, it disappeared during the fake news propaganda. It had a lot of information on Hannah, like what was she doing dressed like a slut, wandering late at night and having
seen a photo of Jesse MatThews, how could she talk to him?
Youre right malth stupid coeds out wandering around late at nite half in the bag dressed like sluts.
They felt safe because their profs told them the main threats they faced were climate change and white males privilege, not 300 lb blacks psycopaths. They found out different, too late.
Brh
Well there is naivety too for those who have been sheltered for most of their lives and suddenly experience a sense of freedom. They were always protected from wolves and then they were deceived into believing that everyone can be trusted because all people are good at their core.
Protected from wolves. No, there weren’t any wolves and they ate everything, all the trees, the shrubs, the greenery. They got so fat and lazy that even the plains were bored. When they introduced wolves into the environment was the first time they experienced freedom. Freedom does not mean safe and sound with nary a threat of danger. Freedom means anything can happen, good or bad, welcome it all. You don’t build a stupid fucking wall to limit freedom, or cry about like a little baby, or put your head in the sand and hope it sniffs your butt.
That doesn’t have anything to do with what we were talking about seawolf. But I appreciate the reminder of what I am supposed to believe. You know that is pretty bold of you. ……Freedom means anything can happen, good or bad, welcome it all….. What a careless, thoughtless and actually hurtful comment.
Yep, it looks like the idea is to keep up the pressure and investigations at all costs. I wonder if its going to finally break down into a real fight?
Montsegur, this is about something you said in last week’s discussion about the rate of change of the rate of change overwhelming our society’s capacity to adapt.
I think you’re right about this on a lot of levels, economically, politically, culturally, technologically. You made a point Feb 24:
Big Picture take on this. Has the speed at which public discussion takes place and with which ideas are exchanged outstripped the public image games of traditional politics? That is to say, will all candidates now seem to lack credibility under such conditions? That Change thing, again. – Mont
One aspect of this change is how technology, especially interactive social media, basically outran politics-as-usual. Social media is nothing new, ie the telephone, and there’s other ways to communicate like the good ole fashioned mail service and there’s photocopiers to distribute written tracts. You get my drift. But new means of doing it, like email, you-tube, twitter, facebook, added speed and reach. Nobody waits for the evening news with Walter Cronkite or the Huntley Brinkley Report. The latest info or messaging is just a few key-strokes away.
On this site we’re able to exchange views, sometimes rancorously, but outside the usual censoring of the “letters to the editor” page of the newspaper. Having said that, tech also enabled government spy agencies in their surveillance, which I suppose necessitated the so-called “dark-web”.
Economically the corporate sector was given carte-blanche. It’s not the CEOs on the leash of congress or the president, now it’s the other way around. As to the man-in-the-street, the great and mighty in the academies told us it’s all for the good in the long run. The problem is that we eat every day, not just in the long run, and no matter what, it doesn’t do to gut the economy of a country for some mythical benefit sometime in the future. In any case the long-run arrived and it turned to be all lies at worst, a fairy tale at best.
It’s fair to say that politicians have been walking around lately with their asses in a pail. In France Macron was seemingly blindsided by 18(?) consecutive weekends of street demonstrations and riots, the UK establishment likewise with the results of a vote few of them expected. As to the US, most of the in-the-know expected the latest installment of Clinton in the Oval Office. And now there’s the Mueller Report, which again blind-sided so many that thought Trump’s goose was just about cooked. In short, the world isn’t unfolding nearly the way it was supposed to.
And then there’s China, which in the space of a generation went from being barely fed and always hungry, to trying to re-build the Silk Road of all things. Fair to say nobody saw that coming. Events in general I think, unfurl faster and in ways out of the control of those that think they ought to have it.
Is the rate of change continuously exponential, or is it a combination of that and a step function? Only older people could really answer the question because they can look back in their minds and see the differences. From my perspective, everything has sped up; there’s so many choices compared to 60 years ago. If anything does us in, I think it would be hyper-complexity.
This is a relatively trivial thing, but look at car radios. You can either drive or adjust the radio but you can’t do both at the same time, not anymore, at least I can’t.
Bingo! Or as the Archdruid calls it, the era of maximum abstraction at the expense of what is physically real. Everything becomes theoretical. As in, the Boeing 737 Max should theoretically fly just fine, exactly like its predecessor. In reality, it’s now known primarily for killing people and Boeing’s theories for building it are under intense scrutiny.
WRT rate of change I think it depends on what you’re talking about. As to the economic degradation of so much of North America, both north and south of the US border, it happened I think a few percent per year. 60,000 factories didn’t all leave at once. Nor was the Mexican farming sector ruined for the family farm all at once. But thirty or forty years of plunder left the landscape despoiled and people living in a state of degradation hardly imaginable in the 1960s.
As to technology I think the change was of a different order with world-beaters left in the dust in a few short years. Anyone remember Research in Motion and its crackberry? Or Nokia or Yahoo or Nortel? Or Wang Laboratories?
Remember the ruin left by the dot-com bust? Did anybody foresee the rise of Amazon or google or Facebook back in 2000? Or youtube?
As to abstraction, a lot of it is just plain impractical. The derivatives world is one example, with bank balance sheets larded up with tens of trillions in contracts that nobody understands. And take the tax code of just about any western country. Nightmarish.
badly worded: should be “including both north and south of the US border,”
And let’s not forget what accelerated things, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, which increased the systemic scale of risk and expanded institutional connections, creating the TBTF scenario.
Also the repeal in 2000 of the lesser known Commodities Futures Modernization Act, again by ol’ Bill Clinton. This is what let companies like Enron run their scams.
All of this led to the financial witches’ brew that cursed us in 2008. Then the bailouts. Doubling the debt from ’08 to ’16, QE, etc. No long term effective changes were ever made, and so with outsourcing, along with financialization of the economy and the creation of mostly dead end jobs, we carry on.
As technology and automation progressed workers were decimated. Retail and Main street are both nearly dead after Amazon and Big Box bashing.
But the dollar is still powerful, even if the American worker is not. Go figure.
Well hyper complexity is not a trivial thing. It’s a real issue. The law of entropy works against hyper complexity every day right?
Sure, it’s a big problem. Human error and inattention are the main forces working against hyper-complexity IMO. Complex systems come apart because they take too much energy and effort to maintain.
When I said “trivial” I meant that the problem of car radios is relatively trivial in the general scheme of things.
Ah ok.
Events in general I think, unfurl faster and in ways out of the control of those that think they ought to have it. –volodya
volodya,
You’re handy with examples from history, so you may appreciate the inspiration for my comment,
Has the speed at which public discussion takes place and with which ideas are exchanged outstripped the public image games of traditional politics?
… which was, the events of May 1940. What really beat the Allies was the speed of German decision making and implementation. The German decision loop was ‘inside’ that of the Allies, and therefore dictated the events and their pace.
And I think that is where we are now with respect to the increasing rate of change and the dysfunction of our traditional structures of governance, including their attempts to mold the perception of the public. The speed with which ordinary people can exchange information, such as you and are doing at this moment, has established action:reaction cycles that are ‘inside’ the decision loops of the elite.
The reaction of these previously comfortable elites will, IMO, only become more violent as their control continues to erode. We have already seen in the USA, in the UK, and in various countries of Europe, that the elite shun adaptation and prefer to wield their monopoly on legalized violence. They start slowly at first — lawfare, then police actions, and finally with military force (armored cars deployed against the Yellow Vests in France).
It is hard to imagine how this will all end without replays of Tiananmen Square or Paris-1789. Perhaps, in the end, they will simply deny common people access to technology like the internet in order to reestablish control of the narrative.
Huntley-Brinkley … been a while since I heard those names!
Cheers
Fascinating image, a decision loop “inside”…
I always thought of it as running circles around the adversary. But the idea of a decision-making turn-radius is better. Hoping you haven’t patented this image because I want to use it.
And that’s a great point about the German “decision-loop”. I never thought about it that way but it’s true, guys like Guderian commanded from the front-line and the German emphasis was to encourage decision-making and risk-taking by guys who were where the action was, even if they were junior officers or even non-officers. That is, don’t wait for HQ to get back to you because by then the opportunity is gone.
The result, as you say, was a decision-making turn-radius well inside that of the allies.
There was one brief episode on the first day of Operation Barbarossa that’s instructive. A Russian officer, relatively junior, was told to destroy a certain bridge over a river at 17:00 hours to deny its use to the approaching Wehrmacht. Well, the German tanks got there a few hours early. But the Russian officer couldn’t contact his HQ, probably because the HQ was no longer in existence, and so without new orders he didn’t set off the charges. Result? The Germans captured the bridge intact.
That would never have happened if the situation had been reversed. A German officer would have destroyed the bridge.
AOC: The little lady, the Latinx bombshell, is not only a fraud but a crook. hynes weeps as he covers his food with ketchup. I laugh the laugh of the justified.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/ocasio-cortez-quietly-removed-from-justice-democrats-board/?fbclid=IwAR3Kl1u-qu6Tuv6GhXC106gRs6xzRCI4JJNopJgQ-DFJ_qAatE6yWp_uZkk
Fraud and a crook? Ok, but you’d boff her anyway.
Only if I was alone with her on an dessert island. Nature would compel me too. It would thus be righteous for both of us. Even Lions and Tigers will mate if kept in close quarters together. They never would in the Wild. Thus did Sauron create Orcs, by tormenting Elves and mating them with Goblins. Perhaps I would devise some kind of natural condom from seaweed or something to prevent this from happening.
No doubt she would initiate it. After helping her build her hut, she would be pressing her lady bumpers into my back and shit. Trying to get a rise out of me and probably succeeding. What could I do? Saying No would be ridiculous under the circumstances since my body would be saying Yes.
If she didn’t behave in this way, I would leave her be. And even if I succumbed to her beguilement, I would never try to justify it socially. I would never forget that I was violating my greater principles. Special cases (like being marooned) do not negate the ordinary and the norms – Tribal intellectual tricks notwithstanding.
yeah, yeah, yeah
Isaac Jogues and the Beetles – a great new sound!
Ha ha funny posts there Janos
I get a mental image of aoc from her college dancing days, and Heinrich Himmler in full Nazi regalia.
Tanks. She wants a Revolution she can dance to. And we’ll make her dance alright….
I have no idea what the above even means. Words form themselves sometimes or are given to us by the Jinn. An Imam told us that they hide behind the sky….
Lady bumpers. Nice. Lady bumpers like on a ’58 caddy.
She can’t help it, the girl can’t help it
If she smiles and beef steaks become well done
She can’t help it, the girl can’t help it
She can’t help it, the girl can’t help it
If she winks an eye and bread slices turn to toast
She can’t help it, the girl can’t help it
If she’s got a lot of what they call the most….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npVgbAdZITo
“My baby got, she got the Cadillac walk. She got the Cadillac walk.” Moon Martin song from the 70s. Been covered by a million others.
Gotta keep singing it for ya…
“When Rita turns down her bed
Grown men plead and beg
Honey, baby, sugar, you’re the one
Carve your name right on my gun
Ohh ain’t she something nice
Bones rattle my dice
Man that girl can drive
I said my baby got…
She got the Cadillac walk…”
After the WAR, and after we had dropped the BIG ONE, cars were made to look like rockets. And Breasts were augmented into strong brassiers that came to a point so as to be like unto torpedoes.
The Poetic Vision sees all things making love all the time. But cannot one say that they are making war all the time too?
>>> Only if I was alone with her on an dessert island.
On a “dessert” island? I see what you did there… like Jeffrey Epstein’s dessert island…
You know, I seriously do wonder how many Congress people and other politicians are basically paid actors and actresses? Clearly they don’t work for us.
There’s website called Center for Responsive Politics where you can find who is donating and how much. If I remember right in the 2016 election 20 individuals donated a total of 500 million bucks for either or both Democrats and Republicans and 20 organizations donated about 700 million.
These donors are who Congress is working for.
People laugh about conspiracy but if you want to know what oligarchy looks like this is what it looks like.
Link please.
Thank you
I think this is it.
http://www.opensecrets.org/
Actors or not, SSL, the new — this weeks — motto seems to be:
KEEP HATE ALIVE
Apparently Muellers 2 year investigation, with its unlimited budget, unlimited portfolio, and dozens of agents wasn’t enough, it must continue, to the end of time possibly.
Hatred of the President, everyone who voted for him, whitey, Republicans, anything traditionally American, the rule of law, hatred for western civilization itself … it all has to be investigated, and if possible, replaced.
Brh
I don’t know if all that is true, Marlin, but it sure feels that way, doesn’t it?
Little hyperbole in my post, you’re correct Bill.
But they don’t seem too happy today at CNN, MSNBC, or in Washington.
Brh
But Brh it really isn’t hyperbole at all. What you are saying is very true and very real. Its just that it seems surreal.
It isn’t new. If we go back to the election, creating and keeping hate alive was the game plan every step of the way after it was clear Trump was a real threat to the establishment.
They tried to flip electors (!). They rigged the debates (!). And they created one of the most baseless conspiracy theories in US history and had a complicit press sell it, and Obama made sure there would be no accountability among journalists by legalizing domestic propaganda right before he left office.
The Uniparty is never going to stop.
Absolutely correct, not new at all. Same old shit. They’ll never stop, they’re like the fricking Borg. We say good they say bad, we say up they say down they always counter with bullshit or ad homenein attacks. Always. I hate these shits with their, but Trump (fill in the blank) after anything at all. Doesn’t have to make sense or fit the narrative. Just blurt out but Trump, but Trump. Truly like a bunch of children on a playground.
That’s a spot on analogy: they’re paid political actors who may or may not being playing their parts as written.
Apparently a number of D candidates running in the last midterms had worked for the CIA.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/no-precedent-us-political-history-extraordinary-number-ex-cia-operatives-running-congress-democrats/
I am thinking this issue with AOC is based on Conservative wishful thinking as Republicans are the masters of dirty politics. I am betting they are trying to Swift Boat her and they lose.
I am getting a real kick out of AOC make Conservatives go crazy and horny at the same time!
How do I get a “Hollywood Body”?
Is it true what this old bloke says about lots of repetitions with light weights and stretching?
The American Medical System seems to favor just throwing a lot of pills at people, which is not very friendly.
“I go to the gym (is 73 a really old bloke?). I don’t “pump” iron, that would be silly. I use weights for muscle tone. Who wants to be a saggy-ass old fart? Lifting maximum heavy weights builds muscle mass, but a lot of repetions using light weights tones and shapes muscles. I have a swimmer’s body, which I’m happy with, and have no need to try to change it so I look like a tank.
I also walk the treadmill when it is too cold outside to comfortably walk, and I do a lot of stretching, which is of paramount importance.
“How do I get a “Hollywood Body”
Puck,
I understand that West Hollywood is full of them…you can rent them by the hour….
That one guy did— Ed Buck.
can he pass the buck anymore?
I’m wondering here how many of you have experienced true love.
How many years has it lasted so far?
How would you characterize the quality of the love you have now?
How many years more do you think it will last?
So, do you think it will last into the life beyond this one?
Do you think that love will last forever?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I ponder these questions every single day.
I would advise anyone in an intimate relationship
to do the same.
It is a propitious question worthy of deep delving.
Do you remember the movie “Falling Down” starring Michael Douglas?
Yeah,
It is not the definition of true love to me.
It is a definition of corrupted infatuation,
to me.
But, I can certainly be wrong.
I have been before,
and I certainly will be again.
True love CMC? Yes I have and I do have it every single day. It comes in the form of a soon to be 9 year old daughter that melts my heart on a daily basis and never fails to bring tears of joy to my eyes . I would gladly give her my last breath or rush into a fire to save her though it were not possible. I am reminded daily that this is the exact same love that our father in Heaven offers to all of us. All have to do is believe in Him.
I think that CancelMyCard is referring to Eros?
I figured, but surely true and real love cannot exist in that area of endeavor can it? In order to truly love we must freely and totally give and that just don’t happen does it? Certainly not in our society.
I think that Freud said that “Love is Dependence.”
[Cut to the bartender scene in the movie “The Shining”]
Lloyd the Bartender to Jack Torrence: “Women…Can’t Live with ‘em; Can’t live without ‘em.”
Jack: “Words of Wisdom, Lloyd! Words of Wisdom!”
A summary of current political news
The last time I tried to make a more or less comprehensive overview of political news was on March 2 in a post “Damascus, Hanoi and Caracas”, in which I explained that the failure of Trump’s negotiations with Kim Jong-un was connected with the danger of a repetition in Syria of the attack on Russian military that occurred on February 2018.
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/marching-to-gilead/#comment-401062
I made this assumption before I learned that Russia and Syria, almost simultaneously with the failure of the negotiations, made a threatening statement to the United States, in which they demanded the withdrawal of troops from Syria.
And since I’m still unable to finish the series of posts about the Big Bargain and the threat of the new Cold War, and the mountain of events that require analysis is growing, I’m still not claiming to prove the conclusions I made, but only as a tip for those readers who want to follow in my footsteps, I can inform you that the above conclusion follows from some details of the dismissal from the post of US Secretary of Defense Mattis and calling him to the Republican Congress on February 15, 2018 to explain the reasons why he allowed American troops in Syria to provoke World War III, or as it is clear from the context of questions asked of him to provoke a nuclear war between Russia and the United States.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/28/c_137855779.htm
The republican congress in the previous phrase means that the congress was then nominally republican, and Mattis’s dismissal occurred after the House of Representatives became democratic in November, but the Republican faction ceased to be republican in the name only.
But the republican majority in the senate remained nominally republican precisely because a relatively small number of Republican senators were reelected in November.
And judging by the pump with which Trump, obviously triumphant, signed his first veto, he seriously feared that the number of traitors among 54 Republican senators would be a little more than 12 and they, together with Democrats voting like the Communist Party of the USSR unanimously, would be able to cancel his state of emergency with a margin sufficient to overturn his veto. Indeed, only one Republican senator from 12, who voted March 15 against the state of emergency imposed by Trump, is re-elected in 2020, and the rest leave the political scene, apparently either being too much into Clintonism and / or hooked by Hillary.
Mattis was fired as part of a general replacement of administration members, imposed on Trump at the point of a gun – an investigation by Mueller that was pointed at his temple, with proven members of the Bush family, but under the cover of Mattis’s request for resignation in connection with the withdrawal of troops from Syria.
And this request for resignation, which should be called “Do not make me responsible for other people’s crimes,” sheds a curious light on the thrashing that he received on February 15, 2018 after the execution of the Russian paratroopers and which made him head of the Party of Peace on April 14, 2018, when the United States first bombed Syria, with active opposition from Russia, including Russian submarines armed with Caliber, and possibly Zircons, moreover, the order of the Supreme Commander Trump on the withdrawal of troops from Syria was somewhat mitigated by its lack of being obligatory – an accomplishment that was also presented with fanfare by the democratic media as soon as Mattis wrote a request for resignation.
And the aforementioned coincidence in time of the failure of the negotiations in Hanoi with the unprecedentedly tough statement of Russia and Syria suggests that these events are almost automatically linked by a causal link.
But the most interesting thing is that these events coincided not only among themselves, but also with a serious aggravation of the Indo-Pakistani incident, up to discussions in the media about the possibility of exchanging nuclear strikes in conjunction with the elimination in Pakistan of witnesses who could have connected Hillary Clinton with Osama bin Laden and those terrorists who actually provoked the current aggravation of the Indo-Pakistani incident.
But this is not enough, and literally the next day, Vice-President of the USA Pence, along with Dick Cheney and Senator Rubio, noted that the Latin American Spring will not limit itself to the overthrow of Maduro and will inevitably spread to Bolivia and Cuba, which also somehow suggests nuclear war, especially after the statement of Vladimir Putin that Russia is ready for the Caribbean crisis 2.0 and the proposal to partners to calculate the flight time of the Russian missiles, and we don’t know to which objects, but Putin’s Western partners in this game are clearly aware which ones he was talking about.
And now it is necessary to make a grandiose effort and imagine that Hanoi’s dependence on Beijing is greatly exaggerated, and in fact Kim Jong-un in nuclear-missile issues is listening to Putin much more than to Comrade Xi since it is only Russia can be the guarantor of his denuclearization deal with Trump. Thus, Putin through Kim Jong-un negotiates:
“Dear Trump, the issue of nuclear dominance should even be removed in the future, otherwise try first to dominate North Korea, which has far fewer missiles with warheads than Russia, but it can still arrange 60 Hiroshimas in the continental US”
And when it became clear that while Trump was negotiating, behind him Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton are going to have fireworks in Latin America, the Middle East, and Hindustan, and these fireworks will cause Russia enormous economic damage and create the impression that Putin will not be able to provide Russian business with equal opportunities guaranteed by the WTO, Putin simply took a phone and sent a text to Kim Jong-un “Stop agreeing with these rogues!”, and Bush intercepted this message and sent it to Trump via SMS with this text with an explanation of its reasons.
This of course, I fantasize, but I think my fantasies are not far from the truth!
Finc,
“This of course, I fantasize, but I think my fantasies are not far from the truth!”
None of us thinks
our fantasies
are far from the truth.
Problem is,
pretty much all of our fantasies
are as far from the truth as you can possibly imagine.
It is a hard thing to agree with,
but
it is the hard fact that you must deal with.
One of the hardest parts of living
an adult human life,
Is the acknowledgement that we are frail
and fallible.
If you truly feel you are somehow infallible
you are feeding your death.
The ability to acknowledge your failing and
vulnerabilities,
Is the ultimate acknowledgement that you
are human.
A rather unexpected comment on a political summary.
May be instead I should concentrate on the peculiarities of Western Mentality.
You must become a Slave of God. As He told one Saint, “I am the one who is. You are the one who is not.” But paradoxically, He can make you strong in this world in His service. His Regent or Caliph.
The Clinton Matrix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDYZD5atY30
That Jewish guy has a little actual geo-political knowledge, but lots of intuition.
Daily Mail
The world’s tallest building has been lit up with an image of New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hugging a mourning women at the Kilbirnie mosque in Wellington.
The Burj Khalifa in Dubai beamed out the picture of Ms Ardern in a black hijab on the 829m skyscraper on Friday.
The word ‘peace’ in both Arabic and English was marked on the building in honour, a week after 50 people lost their lives in the Christchurch terrorist attack.
Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of the emirate of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed, shared the image on twitter and thanked Ms Ardern for her support.
The heartbreaking image was projected on the same day New Zealand broadcast the Muslim call to prayer on national television and radio.
JS: Muslims regard things like this as acts of Submission and use them accordingly for propaganda. Are they wrong? No, they are correct. Female political leaders are almost invariably Traitors, at least in Europe. Usually here as well. There were calls for all women in New Zealand to don hijabs and the newscasters did so. Fucking bizarre as well as despicable.
Here’s a picture:
https://www.euronews.com/2019/03/23/dubai-honours-new-zealand-prime-minister-by-projecting-her-picture-on-burj-khalifa
This is how the Muslims come “on little cat feet.” Envelope and blind us with the their fog.
What I don’t understand is the quick embrace of the hijab. I guess most people don’t know what Shariah Law really means. What Jacinda Arden and others who wore the hijab communicated is that they will be Shariah compliant. But they won’t have to live like that in New Zealand, at least right now, so they are all hypocrites and playing political games. Someone needs to ask Ms. Arden if she agrees that women can only go out in public when accompanied by a husband or male relative. She should be asked if she agrees that a man’s testimony is always to be believed over that of a woman’s in a court of law. She should be asked if she agrees that wives should be beaten by their husbands whenever the husbands deem it necessary. And I could go on and on. Presumably she would agree with all of the above now that she has accepted Islam. It’s infuriating actually. These dunces and frauds want to drag us back to the 7th century.
propaganda
gaslighting
stockholm syndrome
And it looks like Recep Ergodan is stepping up to lead the World Caliphate, maybe establish a new Ottoman Empire, this time projected deep into Western Europe. He’s got plenty of soldiers inside Western Europe already, and more pouring in all the time.
Rest assured the ladies leading France, Germany and Sweden won’t offer much resistance. Hungary, and eastern Europe might not go down so easy.
Brh
Where are we with Brexit? I’m confused….
It’s going great, Pucker. Anyone who says otherwise is a big girl’s blouse. A big Jessie with no…FAITH.
Think positive. Think Empire. Think Britannia rules the waves. Or waives the rules, I forget… Think Battle of Britain. Think Churchill. Think Suez…
No, wait a minute, don’t think Suez.
Think unicorns. Think sunlit uplands. See, I told you it was all going great.
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s got FAITH. It’s because of his faith he’s got six children and doesn’t believe in climate change. The last one’s called Sixtus. What a sweet dad. That might be a ‘Boy called Sue’ thing but it won’t even get little Sixtus beaten up in the kind of schools Sixtus is going to (he won’t meet any oiks, not even Brexit-voting ones – they’ll be like another species to Sixtus). At least JR-M has the decency not to say ‘we’re all in this together’, like some of the other Brexit super rich.
https://badboysofbrexit.com/
I’m not sure if it’s because JR-M has faith that he’s got an investment business that’s just made £7 million since the Brexit vote and opened an office in Dublin (he says that was planned earlier, but then Brexit was planned earlier too. By Rees-Mogg types in the Tory party). Anyway, you’d need to ask him. And I think he considers it a private matter.
Unlike health and safety regulations and environmental concerns which you’ll find him very vocal about after Brexit.
https://badboysofbrexit.com/the-regulation-burners%F0%9F%94%A5/
If people are worried about health and safety, or climate change, they can pray. Or something. Have FAITH.
So, in GB there was no ‘health and safety’ before joining the EU 20 years ago?
Maybe when the EU goes down the Dutch West India Company can be revived. (Another defunct trade organization) Henry Hudson was an employee til he got marooned in James Bay in 1611, never to be seen nor heard from again.
Brh
brh
“So, in GB there was no ‘health and safety’ before joining the EU 20 years ago?”
Not so much, no. And many of our beaches were too manky for kids to play on or to swim in the sea. It took fines from the EU to get them to get their act together and clean the place up.
The point is that after Brexit, the UK is going to have to align itself with regulations pertaining in jurisdictions like your own, brh, in order to get a trade deal.
That and selling off the NHS lock, stock and operating theatre.
Not the less sexy stuff, like mental health services, chronic illness or geriatric medicine. They’re entirely too demanding and don’t have the er…yields that American healthcare companies like. So the NHS will be able to keep those, but won’t have the funds, because the funds will be chasing the sexy stuff that makes big bucks.
The Bad Boys of Brexit want out of the EU because the EU wants to regulate financial services and they don’t want to be regulated. They’re very happy, thank you very much, funnelling British wealth to the Cayman Islands and elsewhere. And British financial interests have been sticking their spoke in the wheel of European financial regulation since forever.
Once it’s defunct as a trade organisation, that’s fine, brh. We’ll all be in the same boat – and probably not chasing trade deals on the other side of the world anyway.
But leaving your biggest trading market, right on your doorstep, at the moment, is like you taking your kids out of school because one day there won’t be schools. And not taking them to the doctor when they’re ill because one day there won’t be doctors.
And I’m still waiting for one single person, including you, to explain to me how it makes sense to be trading more with countries on the other side of the Atlantic or the other side of the world, in our current situation, the one that we’re on this board to discuss.
Ive read that your NHS sucks, it should go toes up.
That anybody with any means at all avoids it like the plague, gets private care, or leaves the country altogether.
That the NHS, established for Britons, has been overwhelmed by 3rd world refugees.
Is that about the size if it, GB?
Brh
brh
“Ive read that your NHS sucks, it should go toes up.”
I’m sure you have. But then you also read that 130 Coptic Christians were killed in Nigeria over the last week or two.
“That anybody with any means at all avoids it like the plague, gets private care, or leaves the country altogether.”
Well, it’s taken care of me when I’ve needed it, delivered my children at no upfront cost, and my grandson. And it operated on my mother’s colorectal cancer in her early 80s, also at no upfront cost, from which she made a full recovery. She couldn’t praise them enough. I couldn’t praise them enough either when they took care of her during her last ten days, dying of a stroke.
They brought me a reclining chair so that I could spend those 10 nights with in in her room. On the notice board outside in the corridor, there were hundreds of cards from grateful patients and relatives, thanking the staff for the care they’d received in the Stroke Unit.
“That the NHS, established for Britons, has been overwhelmed by 3rd world refugees. Is that about the size if it, GB?”
No. It’s way more complicated than that. But you like slogans so I’ll leave them to you.
Or you can use an hour of your life to educate yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ultKvnw2h3Q
But you won’t.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/jan/04/health.conservativeparty
“I have a child who’s not too well, so I’ve seen a lot of the NHS from the inside.
“In fact, in the last three years, I’ve probably spent more time in NHS hospitals than any politician apart from the few doctors in the House of Commons.
“I’ve spent the night in A&E departments and slept at my child’s bedside. I’ve got to know the people who dedicate their lives to helping others.
“I’ve met so many miracle workers who are the real jewels in the NHS crown. Not just consultants, doctors and nurses but all the unsung heroes, too.
“So I know, from personal experience just how important the NHS is to everyone in this country. There isn’t a single person in Britain, however rich or powerful…who can safely say that they won’t, at some time or other, call upon the NHS.
“And when they do, what they ask of the NHS is the most important thing in the world to them. They ask to be taken care of.
“The fact that we have in this country a health service that takes care of everyone…whatever their needs, whatever their background, whatever their circumstances, is one of the greatest gifts we enjoy as British citizens.
“We should never forget it, and never take it for granted.”
DAVID CAMERON, who has a multi-millionaire wife (daughter of Sir Reginald Sheffield, 8th Baronet). Their late son, with severe cerebral palsy, who needed 24-hour care until he died, aged six, was taken care of by the NHS.
How it works, brh, is that if the private sector messes up, and has already been paid, the NHS has to pick up the pieces and do what they can for the patient. And the private sector that made the mess doesn’t reimburse them.
But you’re right that it’s under stress. Just not for the reasons you’d like.
our beaches were too manky for kids to play – GA
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manky in British. (?mæ?k? ) adjectiveWord forms: mankier or mankiest slang. 1. worthless, rotten, or in bad taste.
Or just dirty, Q.
BTW you may have heard that, in addition to the almost-million citizens (some would call them the ‘elite’) who marched in the street against pushing ahead with a cliff-edge Brexit, there’s a petition that’s so far gained almost 5 million signatures, to revoke Article 50. It would of course have to reach 17.4 million to have any moral authority, since just over an entire THIRD of the electorate voted for Brexit.
Anyway I’m not signing it. You break it, you own it. You take it up the jacksie and let your remain-voting neighbour take it up his.
‘We’re all in this together…’ And what could be a more noble and fitting end than going over those White Cliffs of Dover unbowed. I guess the lorry drivers will be tempted anyway, once they’re stuck in 40-mile queues for a few days.
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot… Well, they used to call Kent ‘the garden of England’. ‘The lorry park of England’ doesn’t have the same ring to it, but still. You win some, you lose some…
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584
Like I said, I’m not signing it. They made their bed, they can lie in it.
Did you vote for Scotland to secede from GB?
Brh
No.
I don’t believe in Nicola’s fairy tales either.
Imagine if Scotland had been independent and had to swallow 100% of RBS’s losses. And then the price of the oil they were counting on just collapsed – as it did after the referendum – and the jobs just disappeared overnight.
I don’t listen to ideologues and their obsessions. I like to see kids with food on their plates, shoes on their feet and a roof over their head. How prosaic of me.
I love poetry. But I know it’s poetry. It’s what we do to cope with reality.
RBS would have been like Darien all over again.
Anyone who says otherwise is a big girl’s blouse. – GA
A big Jessie with no…FAITH. – GA
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The phrase “Big Girl’s Blouse” is a British English idiom meaning “ineffectual or weak, someone failing to show masculine strength or determination”.
Jessie : noun a weak or effeminate man. A Scottish and northern English term of ridicule which has become widespread since the mid-1970s, partly due to the influence of comics such as the Scot, Billy Connolly. It is synonymous with nellie and big girl’s blouse.D
This whole Brexit stuff may actually achieve the one thing the IRA hadn’t been able to do– create a united Irish country.
I think that would be phenomenal– and not only for historical reasons, but for real economic ones as well.
So, we’ll see.
Well, PA, it’s going to come anyway because of the demographics. The nationalists have more babies! It’s just a matter of time.
I’d be happy enough to see a united Ireland – seems ‘logical’ to me, but it’s nothing to do with me, it’s entirely a decision for the people of the island of Ireland. The DUP ‘no surrender’ types won’t go quietly, though. Snarlene wants to be exactly the same as the UK (no customs union with the EU) except when she doesn’t (abortion, gay marriage…).
Not everyone in Ireland wants ‘the north’ to be re-integrated with them before the bigots of both sides have attained an acceptable level of civilised behaviour (that’s not an allusion to the gay/abortion debate, just general religious/nationalist bigotry and physical attacks resulting therefrom).
A cliff-edge, no-deal Brexit is likely to propel Scotland out of the UK first, though, sadly. Scotland can’t afford to lose the jobs it’s likely to lose as a result of a no-deal Brexit, with losses to the economy overall estimated to be more than is spent on health services altogether. That will possibly lead to a considerable increase in pro-independence votes in the Indyref2 that Nicola’s already planning. It’s sad that what is primarily an English vote may eventually lead to the demise of the UK, but that’s the law of unintended consequences for you.
One wonders how life on the British lsles went on from, say, the 4th century when the Romans departed, to when the EU was established in the 1990s. It must have been hell for those 15 or so centuries.
Brh
It often was for ordinary people, for a lot of that time. The Common Market referendum was 1975. I voted to join.
https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/news/Brexit
Have a look at the second graph down.
And stop worrying, brh. The UK is going to be on its own again, just like you want it to be. And it’s going to grovel to your country again. You think the Poodle was bad? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet… Desperate times call for desperate measures.
And the ordinary working man will bend over to the British financial class like he always has. He just won’t be able to present his case to the ECJ like he could now.
Grovel? Like we didn’t save you in 1918, and again in 1944? And perhaps if we left europe in 1945 the Red Army might have found a way to cross the channel where the German army in 1941 couldn’t.
By all means have another vote and remain in the EU. I don’t much care one way or another. And when the EU Commissars order GB to accept 10 million Africans and 10 million muzzies, open up the tunnel and let them in. You can be at the head of greeting committee with a sign that reads ‘Refugees Welcome’.
Thats when all your churches can be converted into Mosques, not just a few hundred.
Brh
You joined the second world war because you were attacked by the Japanese.
And we’re not in Schengen. And we’re exempt from EU diktats about refugees. We have more perks and exemptions than you could shake a stick at.
“I don’t much care one way or another. ”
Could have fooled me 🙂 .
And most of the Muslims in this country (4.4% of the population) are from Pakistan. They’re a consequence of empire, not the EU.
I’m off to do some neglected work now, brh. Have a good day 🙂 .
That’s ALL Muslims that are 4.4% of the population, not the ones from Pakistan.
And the grovelling I was referring to was Blair’s man-crush on Bush II.
And most of the Muslims in this country (4.4% of the population) are from Pakistan. – GA
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But don’t ever call them Pakis or there will be hell to pay.
I have no wish to call them Pakis, Q – they have done nothing to me to merit any such lack of courtesy.
You may not see this, as today is Sunday.
You joined the second world war because you were attacked by the Japanese.
So why did the USA not just attack Japan?
“I have no wish to call them Pakis, Q – they have done nothing to me to merit any such lack of courtesy.”
Alba,
So I assume that “Western Oriental Gentleman” is also out of the question?
I think that’s called a ‘backronym’, EF.
There is a view that the offensive appellation originated with shirts bearing the acronym for Working On Government Service in India in the late 19th century. But nobody really knows.
But in any case since the Western and Oriental simply cancel one another out, you’re just left with Gentleman. Which would certainly be more applicable to the target than to the user of such a term, as I’m sure you’d agree.
And part of the British Isles will still be in the EU. That’s why it’s impossible to get a withdrawal agreement that everyone can agree to.
But, bizarrely no-one thought about that ‘before’. We made a decision and then thought about the implications afterwards, which isn’t the way it’s supposed to work.
GA
Your opinion is interesting. The division inside GB will further divide the group.
My question is this, why? And who?
Why did a majority of the English contingent vote to Brexit? Who were the Brexit advocates and followers?
I have always thought that a United States of Europe was an admirable goal. Why can’t they all get along? Why can’t economy benefit overcome ethnocentrism of cultures and languages?
I ask the same question of North America, not just the USA.
Were the English Brexit folks the same belief group as the Nationalists in the US? Or nationalist factions in Italy, France, Germany and Brazil? These are people that have believed in the Deep States, yes your Deep State, for a couple of generations. The Deep State has failed, and has no ideas to make thing improve. I believe that is what has fired off the anti-Deep State , nationalist movements. Europe’s Deep State is centered in Brussels and therefore the anti movement is against the EU.
People have had it with non-functioning government. The pendulum of the future will swing wildly with folks looking for an answer. The scary thought is that we, the folks, will sign up to a “superhero” that will save the world. The ignorance of the young and their belief in Marvel Comics and Stan Lee is troubling.
Until the Left cooperates to create some answers for the folks on both sides of the Pond, nationalism will continue to grow as the political systems seek answers. When the folks lose faith in the “goodness” of their polity, change occurs. Hopefully through the vote, but not always.
Sidebar
Trump’s relative successes with the US economy is feeding the fire.
That’s easy. Currency is used as arbitrage between countries to even out the natural imbalances that exist due to uneven natural resources, innovativeness of indigent populations, the work ethic of different ethnicities, and finally the fiscal responsibilities of people in general. Here in America, the Federal Government evens things out between the blue states which power the economy forward and the red slacker states that want everything handed to them and get really upset when the gravy train stops running.
I live in a blue state – Illinois. But the people who grow the world’s food live in “red” counties. The life long criminals and welfare junkies live in “blue” Chicago, where they shoot each other with gusto. You should join them, seamongrel.
Since when is California “red”?
JohnAz,
Here’s one problem with the EU. The euro made German products more affordable to Europeans. They bought, the German factories hummed; and all rejoiced. What did they use to buy these German products? Money (euros) they borrowed from German banks.
Vendor financed consumption eventually runs into a wall, especially when Greece et al. can’t just print the money to keep living beyond its income.
The USA as the issuer of the world’s reserve currency has also abused the process of consumption via more debt for so long, people think it can never end. We shall see.
Wouldn’t disagree with any of that, hm. Not being in the eurozone, like not being in Schengen, has been one of the UK’s many perks and exemptions, which the rest of the EU has patiently endured.
JohnAZ
I keep popping back when I shouldn’t, but I really am trying to get on with a job! There’s a lot in your post, so I’ll try to get back to it if I can.
In the meantime, if you’re interested and have 25 minutes to spare, here’s a link to a lecture given before the referendum by Professor Michael Dougan of Liverpool University before the referendum regarding the actual benefits of the EU and how it works. You may remember I mentioned before that one of the most common queries presented to Google from the UK AFTER the referendum was ‘what is the EU?’. Listening to this lecture might have provided rather more real information to voters than reading decades of ideological bile from The Daily Mail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USTypBKEd8Y
Unfortunately not enough people listened to it (although I think half a million did, on his university website) for there to have been a more informed vote, but there we are. Professor Dougan had to take down his academic website before the referendum because of the level of disgusting abuse left on it by Brexit supporters.
Apologies for the repetition of ‘before the referendum’…
He covers the ‘sovereignty’ issue, about which a great deal of non-sense was written and spoken.
GA, the irony may be that while you are longing to reunite with the EU like some hot Latin lover, other stress fractures may destroy it.
hm
If you think I’m ‘longing to reunite with the EU like some hot Latin lover’, you have my sympathies for the state of your reading comprehension.
Other stress fractures may well destroy it. I won’t cry at its funeral, except for the three quarters of a century of peace between our countries that it’s brought us. It suffers from over-reach, like many another project.
I don’t know if you’ve ever listened to Yanis Varoufakis or read anything he wrote. From his experience as Greek finance minister, he holds the top bods of the EU in contempt – but he thinks the UK has lost its marbles in choosing to leave.
I know ideologues like their reasoning to be entirely linear, but reality just… isn’t.
Wait a minute. GA, are you saying in England you wouldn’t clean up your beaches until ordered to do so by an EU Commissar — let’s call him Commissar Butt Pounder because I don’t know who in Brussels is in charge of English beaches? If that’s true GB is pretty lame, thats all I can say.
Brh
I’m not sure who you see as personifying ‘England’ in this scenario, brh.
We’re talking about regulations here, specifically regulations regarding how far out to sea you’re allowed to dump human poop and other waste that you don’t want your kids to be swallowing in microbial quantities while they’re splashing about on the beach. And other regulations pertaining to sewage outfalls and sewage treatment generally. And agricultural runoff, I suppose, as well.
So ‘you wouldn’t clean up your beaches’ doesn’t really cover what I’m talking about. I don’t mean litter and ice lolly sticks – the town council sees to that if individuals aren’t domesticated enough to take their debris home.
I don’t know what the Butt Pounder obsession is with you, brh – some kind of unacknowledged insecurities perhaps?
” let’s call him Commissar Butt Pounder”
BRH,
Your comment is both demeaning and assumptive…could he not be a Butt-Poundee…or maybe even French? Or both?
Hey GA, ‘Buttpounder’
Word that comes to mind describing EU Commissars, and top Vatican honchos.
Show me where I’m wrong.
brh
brh
I think that says more about your mind than about the EU officials.
Nice to see no Trumptards celebrating. The $40 million wasn’t a waste of money, it was a downpayment on a 6 X 9 cell, probably 6 or 8 of them, depending on how the brothers, sister, wives, and husbands want their living arrangements. LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP! LOCK THEM UP! Notice mine is in all caps, that means I’m capitally serious. Ahhhh I can hear the echo of the iron doors closing. It sounds like… VICTORY!
So you want to put any and everyone who voted for Trump in prison?
They already are. They’re racist, and they live in a prison of the soulless.
O MY SOUL
Are you serious lol? I think you need to reconsider who the racists really are. Who is ranting at everyone all the time? Tell me more about this prison of the soulless. You know all about it I bet since you are a creature of night as you told us you were.
I rant you not.
“They already are. They’re racist, and they live in a prison of the soulless.”
Wolfie,
Throw me into that briar patch…please?
Throw you? Nah I might mow you like in “Sinister.”
“Here is guy, a deputy, he appoints some to write a report. Didn’t get one vote. He writes a report that will judge my entire presidency. Didn’t get one vote. I got tens of millions of votes. One of the greatest electoral victories in the history of our country. But this guy he writes a report.”
“But Mr. Presdent Hillary Clinton got 3 million more votes than you, in this so-called one of the greatest electoral victories. Does that mean she has the power to call for a report?”
“No no no. Those votes were not real votes, they were stolen votes. Only my votes were real. And we got tens of millions of votes. TENS of millions. And this guy calls for a report. Somebody who got ZERO votes. My people don’t get it. I don’t get it. And they won’t stand for it.”
I think the reason I trust the Trump revolution is the level of BS that is constantly generated by the opposition. The media, the forefront, has been caught over and over just outright lying, exaggerating, making up false stories about Trump and his legions.
After two years of listening to the wall of BS from just about every direction, Trump is arising winning. The Left has taken a gigantic hit, all their resources aimed at this guy have failed.
To all the bloggers, is GGG a big buffoon who is dumb?
Or the smartest guy in the house?
You need to add a diode to your BS meter. It seems to be detecting the donkey-assed BS fine but elephantine dung is not even registering. The diode you have in your meter now must be shorted out.
Kdog
Recently watched a video saying Seattle is a craphole with hordes of homeless people defecating in the streets, breaking into cars, shooting dope, harassing citizens, and making the city look like Calcutta, and the police can’t do anything about it.
Is it true, or right wing propaganda?
They have a lot of video backing it up. It might be doctored, I don’t know.
Brh
Just keep the Boeing factories in clean shape, we will make a good use of ’em.
Well then. If we are going the way of Paris post the damn video. You are a smart guy and can figure it out.
Boeing is moving jobs out of Seattle.
A city councilwoman in Seattle recently gave a speech to Boeing union members saying the workers should take over the factory, stop making aircraft, and begin makung buses and ‘high speed’ trains. (Why is it always ‘high speed’ trains?)
That kind of mentality help explains the condition Seattle finds itself in.
Brh
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.
Rachel Maddow cried when she realized the Mueller report exonerated Trump. You gotta love it.
Will the Trump defamers ever acknowledge their hate, lies, and bias? Don’t hold you breath.
She is so fake. Like when she fake cried without tears over the kids getting put in cages. That policy that Obama started.
Not a chance in hell! The games not over to fat “SDNY” lady sings! Stay tuned Trumpers!
until the = sorry
@JohnAZ, there’s no need to define Trump in terms of his opposite. The fact is that Trump has kept his campaign promises. Oh he didn’t make Mexico pay for the wall? Whatever. I don’t care who pays for the wall so long as it gets built. You know things are bad when we can’t even stop a legless man from crossing. And Mexico IS paying for the wall. Every time we stop their drugs and losers from crossing, we save and they pay.
Last week SCOTUS ruled on a no-brainer: that there is no magical 24-hour limit on detaining criminal illegals. Despite Roberts’ claim that, “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges” the vote was split 5-4 right along ideological lines. We were just one vote away from an insane verdict that would have granted criminal illegals more immunity than average law-abiding citizens.
Trump’s triumph was assured the day Kav was confirmed and SCOTUS flipped from blue to red (or at least purple). Nothing else Trump does in the next 2 to 6 years will match this achievement, as it will far outlast his presidency.
The “Trump revolution?” Not so fast there Speedy Gonzalez; We still have to hear from the SDNY, yeah?
Yes, GGG is a big buffoon who is dumb. Let us “follow the Deutsche Bank money trail,” OK? Then we will see how smart your little lying, narcissistic buddy is.
Lets hear it, Seawolf
KEEP HATE ALIVE!!!
Fist in the air. Black flag unfurled.
KEEP HATE ALIVE!!!
BRH
What can the US do for us?
Uh.. NATO.. er, we can bomb the sh** out of places… hmmm, we have crappy unreliable cars… hmm… beef and poultry pumped full of hormones… franken-wheat… did we mention we can bomb stuff?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-23/italy-has-officially-joined-one-belt-one-road
A summary of current political news. Part 2.
Sunday political broadcasts will begin soon, but this time it will be important not what they say, but what they won’t say. The fact is that the most important news appeared in the news tape a couple of hours ago, and under no circumstances can they agree under which sauce it should be served.
Prosecutor who probed President Trump’s ex-lawyer quits
https://news.yahoo.com/prosecutor-probed-president-trumps-ex-lawyer-quits-152042726.html?fbclid=IwAR0lXT0ySdlbJcz99ySK1LJ8wQ89z6bHnpYn_7565cjS8dZt_Ghafts5vQA
Moreover, it is date stamped with 22 of March, but it appeared only now in the news feed and one can only guess what kind of struggle went on around the last 36 hours. And the fact that it was not in any news line at 3 am New York, I know absolutely for sure – Robert Khuzami and Thomas McKay are prosecutors, I check the news for every day, sometimes several times a day, since it is with them that the hot civil war in the United States will start, and possibly the Third World War.
And this news were sent to me by PM yesterday literally a few minutes before I published the first version of the previous post, and I spent almost an hour trying to check and comprehend this news, which, combined with the news about the end of the investigation by Special Prosecutor Mueller cardinally changes the situation not only in the USA, but in the whole world, especially in Russia.
http://blackchristiannews.com/2019/03/prosecutor-who-investigated-michael-cohen-resigns/
The fact is that immediately after the appointment of William Barr as the US Attorney General, it became clear that Muller’s investigation would soon come to an end, and the Flying Monkeys spoke that they would still reach Trump with their long paws of the so-called New York prosecutors, including Thomas McKay and Robert Khuzami was distinguished by his recklessness and inclination to lawlessness, and yesterday, after Khuzami’s resignation became known, but before this resignation appeared in the news feed, Khuzami and McKay appeared in the press as political killers of Donald Trump.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/as-mueller-report-lands-prosecutorial-focus-moves-to-new-york/ar-BBV83Qu
To be continued…
In college point, New York, the ink splattered printing presses roar with electric energy, shaking the ground as thousands of pages are printed every minute. In the poor’s room, editors are putting over overseas correspondents text, sent over the Time secure network, run from a command room that monitors the hour by hour attempted intrusions and denial of service attacks from Russia, North Korea, and China. It’s another granular, fact checked article written by consummate professionals in a dangerous occupation growing more and more dangerous by the day as governments worldwide take license to sanction and harass them. America’s first amendment provides little protection overseas. Thugs and enforcers, gangsters and mercenaries triangulate with the warlords that comprise the second-order apparatuses of state control. Photographers smuggle equipment across borders. Reporters follow handlers into the warrens of mega slums and switch taxis to ditch the spooks following behind. Their communications are encrypted, the sources are hidden, the deals scrambled, transmitted wirelessly on military controlled satellite networks. Nothing is saved approaching the airport. Hard drives are scrubbed, wiped, erased, passwords changed, batteries drained, as they hand them over to the state run security agency who take the equipment into a back room. They stand around, handling the stuff, tugging and scratching their beards. Somehow the information is here, but nothing seems to work.
Meanwhile at zerohedge.com, a spectacled white guy in a basement office in Topeka reads The New York Times’ website, and arranges HTML on his second monitor. He is a political science major, Iowa Tech, class of ’96. He has two kids and his wife works in the local hospital administration. He stays home with the 6 month, and three year old. He is aggregating various articles and typing summaries. He sees himself as being in the entertainment business although he does sell site visitor data to several third party trackers. He spills coffee on his shirt but doesn’t notice. The three year old is running around singing a broken chorus of repetitive phrases. His stable of regular contributors keeps him at his inbox. What began as a wry tabloid filled with obscure stock trading tips read by amateur investors had become, since 2008, a forum for boilerplate conspiracy theory, a vastly more accessible subject for mass audience, which had increased year over year to the point where he had become able to quit the job at the accountant firm. Adblocking became a problem around the time Maria was born, eating into his bottom line. He reduced bandwidth overhead with sore redesigned, and changed his hosting package which helped, but he wasn’t making as much as he did before.
Meanwhile a man on the sidewalk is waiting for his uber to take him back to Flatbush and his thrift store couch in a walkup. He has about 4 minutes to wait according to the app. A stack of fresh New York Times newspapers hits the ground at the newsstand 20 feet away. Hes loaded zerohedge and is squiting at the tiny letters on his phone. A man in a thousand dollar suit uses Applepay to buy the Times. A flying saucer descends from the sky, shocking the young man from his stupor. He looks up in time to see the man in the suit adjust his Ray-bans and step onto the automatic platform. He’s greeted by a beautiful woman in a silver suit as the craft begins to rise swiftly toward the sky. The man in the craft turns as the saucer rises, and tosses a silver object from the portal. It shatters against the ground in front of the curb, sending bits of metal and plastic scattering. Suddenly the craft accelerates upward and disappears in a gust of of wind. Bewildered, the young man looks down at the object and picks it up. Familiar shape…. It is an iPhone.
And Joe Sixpack is reading Weekly World News in his house outside Altoona, Pirates spring training game on AM radio.
Brh
Beto’s wife hanging in there like a champ until she can get off-camera and pick the peanuts out of her teeth.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xte3HvB5Nog
The most Lynchian candidate ever foisted on our fucked up country. Enjoy it while you can.
Wow that was long winded lol. What was up with the hand movement? I didn’t realize he was Italian. She obviously didn’t have any input in the formatting of this whole thing. I mean that constant adoring stare didn’t convince. She should have had a few seconds to tell us how awesome he really is and why we would be crazy not to vote for him. I guess it was a missed opportunity.
I understand the constant adoring stare does not have the homoerotic undertones that Mike Pence staring at Trump does, but at least it is heterosexual.
‘KEEP HATE ALIVE’
Lol you are grasping for anything seawolf. Relaxing is a good thing to do on Sunday no? Are you a big Beto fan? I thought you said you were into Kamala. Or is Booker the one?
“The delusion that everybody must have a college education . . .” with the inevitable result that everybody is now ‘somebody’ with lots of letters after their name – although many of them are barely literate or numerate.
Per W.S. Gilbert, “When every one is somebodee, Then no one’s anybody!” https://www.lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/t/therelivedaking.html
Okeydokey, the letter is delivered and Mueller sez nobody colluded. Two years wasted on nonsense with the press having discredited itself utterly and completely. What a joke.
As to jokes, I’m reading that another is brewing over in old blighty. They’re saying that the cabinet is plotting to toss Theresa overboard.
Incompetence on a truly grand scale on both sides of the Atlantic so what does this portend? You can see the generation-by-generation degradation in Brit leadership, but it seems to me that on this side of the water the plunge is much faster.
What’s next? Barr has to make a decision on “obstruction”, the southern district of NY apparently has who knows what work yet to do in its campaign to up-end 2016.
This changes the cultural and political landscape of the country. It makes the previously unthinkable eminently thinkable. Stupidity knows no bounds especially among those that think of themselves as “intellectuals”.
yeah it’s really amazing.
Well.. it shows that real reform and meaningful policy implementation has zero chance vs. power & control in DC. It has been like that for a long time, but the Mueller investigation– and the dark nexus between MSM, the Deep State, and party politics– is out in the open and naked for all to see.
What’s next?
“real reform and meaningful policy implementation has zero chance vs. power & control in DC.”
let me correct that cuz its incorrect.. real uphill battle would be a better term…
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, Skippy.
“Mr. Barr also said that Mr. Mueller’s team drew no conclusions about whether Mr. Trump illegally obstructed justice. Mr. Barr and the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, determined that the special counsel’s investigators lacked sufficient evidence to establish that Mr. Trump committed that offense, but added that Mr. Mueller’s team stopped short of exonerating Mr. Trump.”
Stay tuned. More to come! Soon to be playing at the SDNY theatre in New York:
***!!! ORANGE SLUSH !!!*** The True Story of How an Orange Guy from Queens Became a Billionaire and the President of the USofA with A Little Help From His Friends!
Better get your tickets early!!! Enjoy the show, JDH
“Mr. Barr also said that Mr. Mueller’s team drew no conclusions about whether Mr. Trump illegally obstructed justice.”
jd,
Okay then, BUT let us not forget the much-ballyhoo’d thrust of this investigative anal probe: Scary Russian Collusion and Trumpian Puppetage in the sacred (and thoroughly ‘democratic’ and ‘fair’) election machine of the [thoroughly ‘democratic’ and ‘fair’] “United” States.
The realistic view of this whole consent-manufacturing exercise was that it was the proverbial fishing expedition. SO, we’re poking around in the bid’nez of Trump, his opportunistic hangers-on, politicians looking for the main chance and piles of post-office loot, and various Trump-humpers with petty advantage to gain. Guess what? You’re going to find a lot of *something* (i.e. corrupt practices) splattered about in plain sight. Why? It’s Washington D.C. and that’s what is specialized in.
This is in no way a support of Trump or The Trump-humpers, it’s more of a “seek and ye shall most certainly find” kinda thing. Again, fishing expedition in a barrel teeming with corrupt fishies…
ozone,
I can taste what you’re pouring here. Agreed, and good points to be sure.
***************************
It’s NOT about equality.
http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Its%20not%20about%20equality.pdf
#oathkeepers
Q.
L’istruttoria è chiusa: dimentichi
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe93xQAJ2Yg
“No collusion.” At last, an answer. The irony is that if you listened to Trump & his boys, Mueller was Satan incarnate, and there would be no end to the monstrous misdeeds that he was capable of. If Mueller says “no collusion”, that’s good enough for me.
So what was the past 2 years all about?
Capt.,
It’s good enough for me too on the collusion front and good for the country too. I think there is still a lot of questions on other issues, obstruction of justice, being the main one, but several others as well.
Also, I can’t quite get past the feeling that, with Rosenstein so chummy with Barr, and Barr’s public letter of application for the AG job and his chuminess with Mueller, that somehow the FIX WAS IN, but maybe I’m wrong.
It just seems a little to “neat” from my point of view, but I will concede that the collusion issue (NO COLLUSION) is, thankfully, put to bed and you are correct Capt., that Mueller didn’t turn out to be the devil his-self with a bunch of angry Democrats in tow that GGG painted him to be. Funny how things work out.
Walter,
About those trophies, I just wanted to mention that it’s not just us Leftists that hand out trophies. It seems the Left-wing NFL teams are following our lead! Please see below. I don’t see any real harm in the elementary school kids or the NFL kids getting trophies or rings, but I guess it’s not that important, just a nice gesture. 🙂
“There are a lot of variables in play as to who gets rings, but generally you can expect every player on the 53-man roster, the entire coaching staff, and the front office to earn rings. The NFL pays for the cost of 150 rings for the winning team, with a max cost of around $7,000 per unit, depending on the cost of gold and diamonds at the time. That usually covers the bulk of people the team wants to give the rings to, but it can go above that number if it buys the extra rings.
Other players who can receive rings include practice squad players, players on injured reserve and players who were on the roster at some point during the season. Teams will often consider everybody who contributed at any point in the season worthy of a ring.”
The NFL is a really pathetic organization jd and a perfect example of what has gone wrong in America today. I have watched them grow in uselessness since 1965 and every year they became more and more arrogant and self serving. So sad that they have degraded from the Tough Guys that played hard because they enjoyed the sport to light weight candy asses that they are today. Once Brett Favre was cast aside by loser Mike McCarthy, my days of caring were numbered. Once he retired I had no use for these clowns and their ridiculous social causes. The NFL exemplifies what is wrong with America.
Walter,
I have to admit I did enjoy the NFL a lot more back in the mid-60’s. It seems like it’s all about the cash today. I only watch the Super Bowl anymore and only half-heartedly at that.
im trying to come up with an appropriate, Jesse Jackson inspired like slogan unmitigated Trump haters can use, with KEEP HATE ALIVE as the punchline.
How about
SHUCK AND JIVE
KEEP HATE ALIVE
or
GIVE ME FIVE
KEEP HATE ALIVE
maybe
JOIN THE HIVE
KEEP HATE ALIVE
how about this
TAKE A DIVE
KEEP HATE ALIVE
thats all I can think of for now
Seawolf, feel free to use any of the above.
Brh
Brh,
You are normally a good guy,
seriously,
But sometimes you go beyond the pale.
I can understand that.
You need to really think this over,
Yes, seriously,
Best Wishes,
This was a little over the top, CMC, you’re right.
Sometime I get chastised by Jim; he will kick me out if I don’t pull it in.
Thanks for the warning.
brh
Are you freakin kidding me? There was no collusion. So what happened at the Trump Tower meeting? What happened at Helsinki? What were he and Putin talking about? This is the biggest letdown since who shot JR? It was all a dream. This explains nothing. It took 2 years to find out nothing. I guess it’s let it ride until the next election for the good of the economy. Happy Trumptard Day!
Thank you.
https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2019/03/22/why-do-paperwork-americans-hate-free-speech/
Looks like the Elite really knew what they were doing when they hired all those foreign IT workers. 71% in Silicon Valley (see hyperlink in article). Alas, they usually seem to know what they are doing when it comes to the use of power and taking down the West.
It’s Weird: The Christians think that Trump was sent by God to save America. The Left thinks that Trump is a Russian Spy. Trump is a real estate developer, casino operator, and former Reality TV show host.
“After Tur made perhaps the most painstaking legal or political announcement of her career, Ainsley replied that “it does….vindicated him on collusion and remember, collusion is a term that was laid out in the charge given to special counsel Robert Mueller when he got this assignment but it’s not a criminal.”
“[H]e’s been cleared — has cleared the president and his campaign and anyone associated with it on both of those things,” she added.”
I don’t know about that Pucker. I cannot see God stepping into the mess to “save America” and using DJT for such a task is a big stretch, but then He can do whatever He wants to do, so who knows. There are certainly things that Mr. Trump has done that might suggest that he is trying to stop the degradation, such as his opposition to the live birth abortion legislation going about. Personally I am not so sure how I feel about that myself for if a woman wants somebody to deliver her baby and then kill it, perhaps she might not be the best person to raise it anyway. Fortunately, this is all above my pay grade. And if such action is actually a blood sacrifice to Moloch, there is a much better authority to judge this than I. Free will certainly has consequences whether we care to recognize that fact or not, doesn’t it?
Perhaps Donald trump has gotten into the position that he now assumes and circumstances offer America the opportunity to rethink it’s degradation as a society and maybe even change course. I don’t think it will or that it can. It is too far gone and in the end it will surely choose poorly. But that’s just me. .
Why would the Russians recruit a Reality TV show host?
I always thought that when these “Intelligence Agencies” recruit blokes that they try to find some bloke who’s financially in straitened circumstances or some bloke who they can blackmale? Didn’t the Hillary Clinton, DNC Steele Dossier suggest that the Russians had photos of Trump taking golden showers, and it took Meuller 2 years to get to the bottom of whether Trump is into Golden Showers? I thought that everybody in Washington DC is into Golden Showers?
Trump could not be into silver surfing so golden showers it must be.
So it doesn’t make sense. It’s still fun.
Perhaps Donald trump has gotten into the position that he now assumes and circumstances offer America the opportunity to rethink it’s degradation as a society and maybe even change course.
There is a way to do it. We just need to find the appropriate grimoire and call up the right demon. Perhaps Abaddon?
We can use your fingers for the sacrifice. And your soul, you don’t really need it do you?
If you want it, come and take it. I will teach you how bad doggies are dealt with.
Some people I guess are invested in the way things are.
Janos,
Following up on a point from a week or two ago:
I took out a set of discs from the library today titled The Decline and Fall of Rome by Thomas F. Madden. The accompanying booklet contained this blurb about Emperor Diocletian (284-305 AD):
“………These reforms took time to work, so in the meantime he also decreed maximum prices for goods and services. This attempt to legislate prices was a failure.”
Jim’s post tomorrow should be interesting.
I hope I will not create any divisions by repeating Trump’s opinion that it wasn’t an idiocy but a very smart attempt to overthrow legally elected president of the United States.
I’d like to see it reported how many billions of dollars were pissed away on the ridiculous witch hunt.
Don’t you like to see how many lives were lost during this far from ridiculous coup attempt?
It is hard to estimate, but I am sure it is in hundreds of thousands.
Money is no object, Walter. Whatever it takes to bring down this President.
Brh
You mean whatever it takes to bring down this country.
I do think it is very funny that the silly little investigation fell flat on its face :-). I feel so happy and joyous on this beautiful Monday morning. Isn’t it so very exciting!! I know this won’t stop the crazies but at least we get a good laugh at them :-P.
Stay tuned. More to come! Soon to be playing at the SDNY theatre in New York:
***!!! ORANGE SLUSH !!!*** The True Story of How an Orange Guy from Queens Became a Billionaire and the President of the US of A with A Little Help From His Friends!
Better get your tickets early!!! Enjoy the show, JDH