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By some hidden working of unseen forces, legions of ghouls and demons are bursting out of the ground in every other front yard of small-town America. Supposedly hard-up working-class people go all-out constructing Halloween shrines to the totem figures of decay and death, as in some depraved cargo cult competition aimed at hastening our country’s descent into chaos. The end can’t come soon enough, seems to be the message. Something in the zeitgeist is prompting us to do this.
Year to year, these morbid displays of slavering werewolves, hooded skeletons, grinning mummies, pirate corpses, horned devils, giant spiders, flapping crows, and glowing skulls far surpass in scale the once-exuberant displays of Christmas time — as if to say the celebration of horror and terror has way more meaning in America these days than the message of peace-on-earth, angels-on-high, the boundless generosity of Santa Claus, and the humble birth of a loving god. Kind of reminds you of what Mr. Dylan said more than a half-century ago: “…he not busy being born is busy dying.”
This Halloween month, America looks super-busy preparing for the death of something, maybe itself. Surely many now live in terror of the malevolent blob that the US government has become, led by a very paragon of ghouls, “Joe Biden.” This week, the blob declared in a “leak” to Newsweek magazine, that supporters of Donald Trump, the Golden Golem of Greatness, are now officially deemed to be enemies of the state. So, the blob that has lately subsumed the state, explicitly targets Trumpists (the MAGA crowd) for wholesale persecution, cancellation, de-personing, and incarceration. That is, opponents of the blob regime organizing for the coming election will be systematically neutralized and / or liquidated, taken off the game-board one way or another, by any means necessary.
The blobistas would do well to take heed of those Halloween lawn displays. A stupendous, howling rage is building across this land in revolt against the blob’s monumental insults to a once proud and productive people. Soon, that plastic totem army of stock mythological monsters cavorting in the front yards will be superseded by real flesh-and-blood Americans aiming to shred the blob and scatter its quivering tatters to the four winds — as John F. Kennedy once remarked of the CIA in 1962, before it killed him in retaliation.
Coincidentally, a scion of the JFK generation now running for president on an as-yet-to-be-specified independent party seeks to do exactly what his uncle promised to do. As you gaze on this developing battlefield, you will now see two sizable armies marshaling against the unholy hosts of blobbery — Mr. Trump’s MAGAs and Bobby Kennedy’s emerging division representing the old stoic virtues betrayed by vicious blob tyrants. The plausible outcomes on this battlefield are in flux thirteen months before the election. But it looks a little like the blob is outflanked; hence, its growing desperation.
The psychodrama in the House of Representatives this week looked like a possible inflection point in the blob’s war against the American people. Mr. Gaetz evicted the quisling Speaker Kevin McCarthy in a rather brave gambit, opening up the possibility of unifying his party against the programmatic wickedness of the post-Covid-19 era — the suicidal spending, the insane and unnecessary Ukraine proxy war, traitorous refusal to control the southern border, the official DOJ lawfare waged against half the citizenry, the disgusting official censorship campaign, and the ongoing criminal conspiracy between the pharma companies, the US public health officialdom, and shadowy globalist forces embedded in the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, and scores of sinister multinational organizations ranging from George Soros’s Atlantic Council to the Sinaloa Cartel.
In the background of all that — a true-life horror — lies the crumbling bond market, the foundation of the money-and-banking system that is supposed to support the on-the-ground economy that produces things of value like food and roofing shingles. The bond market is wobbling badly. As rates rise, banks’ collateral melts away and they go bust, liquidation moves to stock markets, derivatives implode, and the vast reservoirs of capital vanish. There’s your stealth true Halloween psychodrama sneaking up on the scene. Gradually, then all at once, the quarreling nation finds itself stone broke, and even the blob shrinks from the scene in horror.
It will be hard to gaslight the country anymore when that happens. That will be the sobering moment when all the preposterous, mendacious, criminally insane propositions of recent years stand nakedly exposed. That’s when “Joe Biden” begins to be seen as a dancing skeleton.
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Now people include lights in their Halloween display.
And inflatables.
Indian corn, corn stalks, and hay bales are too quaint.
Too understated.
Too traditional.
Too natural.
Lots of purple too.
Guy up the street just installed a realistic 20 + ft skeleton. I can’t imagine what that cost. Nitemare stuff for a little kid that can see it out the window. The skeleton fight scene in “Jason and the Argonauts” scared the shit of of me as a 6 year old.
Lots of 20 ft skeletons out this way, sometimes even two in one yard.
Can also think of multiple homes here with skeletons in the yard year round.
Halloween seems to be R rated now.
Has been for a long time now. Adult costumes are almost always sexually oriented or suggestive, especially those worn by our lady friends.
“Whore-lo-ween.”
Though, I can’t say I haven’t enjoyed taking part in the festivities a year or three.
And it goes on for so damn long. Used to be one night, then it was a week, now it’s the whole damn month — and I hate it, since October has always been the most physically beautiful month of the year and now they’re ruining it with ugliness. Athey do with everything.
As they do with everything.
June, formerly the month of weddings, picnics, green grass, lawn parties and kites flying, is now the month I try not to go anywhere in a big city so I won’t be assaulted with all the “pride” shit. And now they’re ruining October.
I hate these ghouls. And fuck all the greedy retailers who egg all this stuff on just to make a filthy buck.
One way that I fight back. When I see some pride video or
content online I leave the following comment. – Sodomy. It’s
nothing to be proud of.
I keep hearing rumblings that people are struggling to make ends meet and that our money is failing. I heard today that the average new car payment is $760.00 per month. Nearly what my mortgage was before I paid it off. For a car! Oddly, it seems the majority of people are driving much newer cars than my 2007 Tacoma. I go to the stores and shopping carts being pushed by fat tattooed ladies who raided their husbands tool box for facial jewelry are full of soda, candies and sports drinks. Then I drive around and I see elaborate halloween displays of 15 foot tall skeletons and pumpkin head monsters, inflatable jack-o-lantern displays, lights and motion activated witches and goblins. One of those 15 foot tall pumpkin headed monsters costs nearly $200.00 and they don’t have just one, they have 3.
The lottery is upwards of $1.2 billion and rising as millions of hopeless Americans pour their hard earned or Government gifted monies into the most immoral tax ever instituted.
So my question is, WHERE IN THE HELL ARE THESE PEOPLE GETTING ALL OF THIS MONEY? Yes, I used all caps. I live debt free and stay pretty conservative. I have money saved and I still don’t have enough money or desire to buy a new car.
Someone please tell me how people are doing this?
“Hey Stu, you ain’t gona believe this!
We got another one who didn’t catch on to the wink-winks, the foot-stomping, the whispered suggestions when the PPP loan program was offered! He doesn’t know where all the money came from!”
“Sorry Mr. Puss, my general manager is on his 30′ cabin cruiser… bad connection… have you tried the Kia used car lot down the road?”
KIA = Killed In Action or Killed Innocent Americans. At least that’s what my teenagers tell me.
My car suddenly spun a rod bearing and I took a so-so deal to salvage some equity.
The payment is under $500 and I still think that’s too much. Insurance is a bit lower and mpg is better, but still.
I probably should’ve gotten a pickup given current trends.
All credit is a mort gage or date with death. They are leveraging the future for the present. Emergency is the new normal. If you die in debt, you win! You’ve beaten the suckers, the predators who lent to you.
True, people do roll their auto loans into their 30 year mortgage re-fi. They have no intention of ever paying it off and don’t mind paying off a car that went to the junk pile years before.
But, they still have to make the monthly payments. I missed something somewhere.
“If you die in debt, you win!”
The ‘gage’ bit of mortgage means ‘pledge’ in old French (hence ‘en-gaged’). In modern French it means a wager or bet, which is more in line with your quote about winning if you die in debt. Wasn’t that the point of a mortgage – that it was resolved either by being paid off or the borrower dying, whichever came first? These days, of course, one takes out life insurance to cover a mortgage, but it’s compulsory in some countries (e.g. the UK, but not France) so almost part of the mortgage arrangement.
Today’s Headline
Senile Man Kicks Dog
12 bites and not a single one to the jugular.— poorly trained dog.
That video of Biden booting the dog in the head looked awful, though Biden boosters are telling us not to believe our lying eyes.
I have been wondering the same damn thing for so damn long that I plum got tired of wondering. Thanks for raising that eternal nagging question again.
I don’t see how PPP explains it — not big enough and didn’t last long enough.
Unemployment? Well, I think there are time limits on that as well.
Disability? Maybe, but anecdotally, several people I know who tried to get it — and seemed to me to have good claims — had a very difficult time getting it. Is there perhaps some secret office to easily get on disability that we common ordinary rubes just don’t know about?
Sorry, didn’t specify: I was responding to Cankerpuss’s comment a little ways up:
“Ny question is, WHERE IN THE HELL ARE THESE PEOPLE GETTING ALL OF THIS MONEY?”
The lottery is upwards of $1.2 billion and rising as millions of hopeless Americans pour their hard earned or Government gifted monies into the most immoral tax ever instituted. – Canker
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The Powerball estimated jackpot sits at $1.4 billion. I would not call the lottery an immoral tax although I grant you there are some stupid people playing the game, usually poor people.
Once a lottery reaches a large amt like say $400 or $500 million I begin to buy 5 tickets for each drawing. That costs $10. Every now and then I get the sixth number which is the power ball number and that pays $4. In the Mega Ball lottery when you get the sixth number (the Mega ball number) the payoff is only $2.
I have analyzed these two lottery games and concluded that the Power Ball game is more favorable to the player than the Mega Ball game for several reasons…I won’t bother you with the details unless you are desperate to know.
I will give credit to both these lotteries for making it very clear that your odds of winning the jackpot are slim to none. For example they clearly state and emphasize that the odds are 302,575,350 to 1 (Mega Millions) and 292,201,338 to 1 (Powerball) against you.
They clarify for the ignorant what these numbers mean by saying things like you have a much greater chance of being eaten by a shark, or being struck and killed by a meteor than of winning the lottery.
Despite all these warnings I continue to “invest” $10 for every drawing as the jackpot continues to grow. I dream about how I would split up the winnings among my close extended family, 10 people in all. I would take the lump sum payout and consult with my financial advisor at Wells Fargo on investment strategy.
An interesting fact I read was that among people who win large amt$ (but not including winners of jackpots) 1/3rd of them eventually declare bankruptcy. This is because so many of these winners have no experience with having a lot of money and they do incredibly stupid things.
Advisors say the most important thing to do is to remain as anonymous as possible.
Powerball update:
The drawing late on the evening of 10/7, I read on a google response, had no one winning the big jackpot. Nobody had all six numbers. There were, however, 10 tickets that had the first 5 numbers but not the all important 6th number (the Powerball number). The people holding those 10 tickets win one million $$ each.
I had 5 tickets containing 30 numbers and not one of those numbers was among the numbers drawn. How fucked up is THAT! Well, so be it. The jackpot will now grow to God knows how much. I’ll guess $1.9 billion.
I’ll guess $1.9 billion. – Q.
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How the hell did I come up with that guess? The new estimated jackpot amount for the drawing on Monday is “only” $1.55 billion.
And a couple jack o’ lanterns carved from pumpkins with candles inside; some potted mums are nice too.
I miss simple Halloween decorations also.
I have mused about how this came to pass; conclusion is Big Corp can monetize anything and convince people to buy everything from cheap plastic crap to high dollar stuff for your outdoor living room complete with a big flatscreen TV. “Aspirational lifestyle” magazines do a good job of creating demand..
Walked down the Halloween candy aisle couple days ago and was stunned at the prices. My street hasn’t gotten trick or treaters in years, so I stopped buying candy. For families living in neighborhoods with lots of children, can’t imagine the tab for candy, and costumes for their kids, let alone the yard crap.
They can monetize everything but Thanksgiving.
This is why many places have Christmas stuff out already.
That’s why they rolled right over Thanksgiving and turned it into Black Friday.
Whatever happened to bobbing for apples?
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Indian corn and stalks are representative of our agrarian heritage. People no longer have ties to the earth. All of the crap you see now are just signs of our consumerist – “give me more” society. Walmart has Xmas stuff out already. Disgusts me.
Ran into a guy I hadn’t seen in years who was my best hay customer when I farmed. He said,”God, I miss the old ways.” Amen!
Too bad we have no way to post photos here. I photographed a display last October in my small town that was the “Mother of All Front Yard Halloween Displays.”
It was so impressive that I suspect a old Scratch himself danced through it a time or two last Halloween just for the joy of the thing.
The equivalent of taunting your opponent until they punch you in the face, then calling the cops to ruin their life…
WHEN DID WORLD WAR THREE BEGIN?
When Russia invaded Russian ethnic territories held by Ukraine in 2022 under the guise of a “Special Military Operation?
—No.
When the US stole Russian national foreign exchange gold and Oligarch’s assets located in London and worldwide using the mechanism of the Sanctions War? —
—No.
When the US CIA under the regional directorship of NeoCon Victoria Nudleman instigated and stage managed the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine in 2014?
—No.
When George Bush the First promised to not move the borders of NATO one inch to the East in exchange for the Soviet Union giving up its control of East Germany and allowing German reunification? And immediately began arming Ukraine with the goal of building the strongest army on the European continent and using it to destabilize and overthrow the Russian state.
—No.
When US Navy Seals planted bombs on the Russian/German owned NordStream pipelines and then used Norwegian undersea signaling to trigger them?
—No.
When the US CIA in cooperation with British MI 16 used intermediate range cruise missiles to attack Moscow in 2023? While hiding behind Ukrainian “independence”?
—No.
When the US CIA in the 1945 aftermath of WW II supported and organized the Banderista Nazis in Ukraine as a counterforce in support of its goal of weakening and dismembering the Soviet Union? And continued to this day as the primary supporter of the Nazi movement in Ukraine?
—YES!
WW III began with the USA’s choice of an alliance with the most brutal and un-reformed Nazis left alive after the Soviet Union survived WW II. Hence one of Putin’s stated goals — the de-Nazification of Ukraine.
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In the present context the Russian Federation seems incredibly patient in their conduct of the war. They have chosen to use WWII armaments and tactics to grind through two full Ukrainian armies— The first being the NATO trained UkoNazi post-Maiden army, and the second being a mercenary force consisting of anybody who was willing to kill for money and had some training in the operation of the mis-mash of western armaments being off-loaded by the US and its NATO vassals.
That second Ukrainian Army is no more. The median age of the surviving soldiers is 40. Ukraine is reduced to scavenging drunks and young boys from the streets who will flee the country or surrender to Russia at the first opportunity. 20 million (half the counter’s population) have already fled. The last reservoir of bodies that hasn’t been bled white are the women and girls, and they are now being swept up by a draft.
Russian Federation patience can only be understood if it is seen as a process of changing goals as circumstances evolve. Russia in 2022 thought that they could bring Ukraine and the US to the negotiating table by demonstrating resolve. The military establishment reluctantly went along with Putin’s plan. Within a few months of the “invasion” it seemed to have borne fruit in the form of a peace treaty signed by both Putin and Zelensky that would have left the predominantly Russian ethnic regions under the influence of the Russian Federation and the majority of Ukraine intact, independent, and relatively wealthy with nuclear power plants and the world’s best agricultural soil. Except that it could not remain a threat to the national sovereignty of Russia. Removal of all NATO armaments. No military alliance with any country or military block. A DMZ wide enough to prevent airborne strikes upon Russia. This prospect threw the US into a panic. They enlisted Boris Johnston, ex- premier of Great Britain to rush to Kiev with a message that the peace treaty was unacceptable to the Great Powers. He promised unending support and western arms to enable Ukraine to press forward to the “inevitable victory over a weak and disordered Russia”. (Probably with a few mansions in Miami Beach and Italy thrown in to sweeten the deal.)
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As strategic a thinker as Vladimir Putin could not have dreamed that the US and its European underlings would choose to sacrifice a million wounded and killed Ukrainians to prevent peace from breaking out. Russian war fighting tactics evolved from a demonstration of commitment and will to the construction of an impregnable wall behind which the Russian Army could grind down any conventional force thrown against it. As the war went on and the imaginary fearsome garb of the “high tech” US NATO proxy army fell to the ground. Russian goals for the “Special Military Operation” evolved once again. Since the US seemed determined to shoot themselves in the foot repeatably, why shouldn’t Russia go along with the West’s plan to draw out the war? Putin’s leadership challenge was to reign in the citizenry and professional military who clamored for the extermination of the yapping terrier to the south of their border. If the West wanted to send all their armaments to Ukraine where the Russian Army could use them for target practice, all the better, If the USA wanted to bankrupt and hollow out their cities and throw open their borders to invasion by drug cartels, it wasn’t Russia’s duty to stop them. Russia already had a 20-year lead in hypersonic missile systems against which there is no defense, but it didn’t hurt to have some live fire practice against the antique devices like “Patriots” that were still left over in the US NATO warehouses.
As military doctrines go, the Russian Federation’s has proven to be quite adaptable. (In comparison to the USA’s “Global Force Projection” of 12 carrier groups that have a life expectancy of about ten minutes when confronted by hypersonic weapons.) As the proxy war evolved it has become obvious that the Emperor has no clothes. NATO, either collectively or in an alliance with the USA, has no ability to fight and win a conventional land war in Europe against a fully prepared and battle tested Russia. Nuclear war is only an option for madmen, and one in which both sides lose. The Russian goal in the Ukrainian war has now become the dismemberment of NATO and the return of Europe to a collection of independent nation-states operating in a multi-polar world — all the while avoiding nuclear suicide instigated by a collapsing Unipolar Empire. Cogitate on that for a moment! A tall order indeed!
Although I’m not sure that the edge of the US national cliff has not already been passed and it’s 727 MAX economy can’t fly backward even with the reverse thrusters on full throttle.
Very nice summary. It’s very useful to write out your thoughts in order to clarify the matrix variables.
Once you have a thorough understanding of what’s occurring, then Jim’s essays have much better context.
“The Russian goal in the Ukrainian war has now become the dismemberment of NATO and the return of Europe to a collection of independent nation-states operating in a multi-polar world — all the while avoiding nuclear suicide instigated by a collapsing Unipolar Empire. Cogitate on that for a moment! A tall order indeed!”
That actually sounds like a good deal for Europe. If Russia is no threat to them, who needs NATO?
Maybe not so much a tall an order to fulfill, as a shock to the system here in ‘merica.
A large number of Ukrainians want their own nation. No one was more brutal than the Russian Communists, so you moral high ground is in the shitter.
One remembers how Ann Frank’s father chose to flee with his erstwhile German captors since the Russian invaders were killing everything that moved.
I understand that the new Russia is a great deal better of course and I admire Mr Putin greatly. But let’s state the historical facts correctly.
Similarly, the Impaler Lord, Vlad Tepes, is deemed a great Romanian hero for this battle against the Muslim Turks. Brutality in service of the nation has never been seen as a crime – until now under the Liberal Reign of Lies.
Having read Solzhenitsyn, I have to agree with you about the Russian Communists.
Communists are brutal the world over. Communism is a disease of the mind wherein the believers assume control of those things normally taken care of by nature or God.
But I think they’re over it, and I fear we’re just succumbing to it.
I wonder what the polls would saw about the American people’s feelings about Russia, Ukraine, inclusion of Russia as the resource provider for Europe?
Is this just another Deep State maintenance of power gig through the MIC?
The American people’s number one enemy remains its own government.
The American totalitarian state is definitely our greatest enemy:
Awkward, this WWIII study with Ukraine “Nazification” focus.. Specific Stalin targeting of Ukraine for farm collectivization twice! taking place prior to Hitler; war, & another horrific period AFTER Hitler’s war. Neither armchair strategic savants Macgregor nor Ritter mention this, nor our usually elegantly correct pagemeister mention the Communist Famines.
Nor do the Stalin/Putin apologists recall Stalin’s -1937- speech, which Hitler plagiarized in 1938.. You know the list of countries Hitler proceeded to invade in 1939. Lots of baggage in these parts, boys & girls. “Fascism” is another 20 foot skeleton, appearing in consequence of the Russian and Chinese Communist movements.
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Unfortunate, inability of North American body politic to face up to sad fact “Wars & Rumors of Wars” is well documented 2000+ year prophecy culminating in our new Millenium. We will take some big hits here in America, and Famine Hedge is no longer inclusive of comprehensive Breadbasket District branch rail matrix, better able to maintain food distribution than sole dependence on solid state controlled “smart & clean trucks”.
Uncle Jim has received details and Executive Summary on ways & means of re-establishing the comprehensive train thing; in fact mentions the rail mode, albeit somewhat cautiously in his “LONG EMERGENCY” collection. See you-all down the line…
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I’d have to agree with you that a one page bullet-point answer to the proposition “When did WWIII begin” is at best incomplete. But I wasn’t trying to write a seven volume history of the post war era. Rather I tried to present a timeline chronology of the key escalation events leading up to the present state of conflict. And I’d be the last to contend that the generational memory of the crimes of Stalin wasn’t a part of the mix.
Answer me this: If the nationalist tendencies in post WWII Ukraine had no elements of Bandera Nazi politics, the US CIA hadn’t encouraged and supported the Nazis, NATO hadn’t tried repeatedly to make Ukraine available as a launching base for nuclear missiles only minutes from Moscow, and the USA hadn’t poured billions of dollars into building Ukraine into the battering ram that it could use to break up the Russian Federation, would Ukraine today be in the position of having lost a million plus dead and wounded soldiers and having half of its population scattered over the world as refugees?
Wow. That may just be the best capsule summary of the Ukraine fustercluck that I have read. THANK YOU for sharing your insights, and very articulately. I have copy/paste/saved this and will be sharing it with people. Godspeed!
Referring to the comment by ThorsHammer
Thanks!
Brilliant précis. Thank you for sharing it.
Thanks!
“When George Bush the First promised to not move the borders of NATO one inch to the East … “. It was not Bush 41 who made this promise. It was his Secretary of State, James Baker who did. Unfortunately, Baker was overruled by his boss and the promise was never committed to a signed document.
Now that I can see age 75 in the rear view mirror, I am not too concerned about the future. 100 years after the collapse of the German mark, I wonder whether we will have a US version of Weimar 2.0.
Excellent summary, but I disagree with this part…..”would have left the predominantly Russian ethnic regions under the influence of the Russian Federation and the majority of Ukraine intact, independent, and relatively wealthy with nuclear power plants and the world’s best agricultural soil”.
Except that the raping and looting of Ukraine was already underway, even before the violent 2014 coup, starting in 1991, when the USSR was destroyed by the signatures of the presidents of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, against the wishes of the population.
The US-backed soft coup of 2004, the so-called Orange Revolution, had kicked the rape into high gear.
This was written just after the violent coup of 2014, pointing out how much of Ukrainian black soil was already being stripped by multi-national corporations.
//consortiumnews.com/2014/03/16/corporate-interests-behind-ukraine-putsch/
This is an old, old story that has played out many times through story. This time will be no different. As Tom Petty once sang, the waiting is the hardest part.
Just like the Ribwhich, wait that’s the Simpsons, I mean the McRib. It’s back. From the dead. Year after year.
Nothing but a marketing ploy. And it’s not even rib meat, probably just white chicken meat pressed together in a red sweet and tangy sauce. Delicious….
It’s ostensibly pork that’s pressed into a mold to make it look like ribs. Besides avoiding most pig-based foods if possible, a big reason I won’t touch them is because years ago someone bit onto his McRib and discovered a mouse had been pressed into the meat. Deeee-lish!
McKeyRib…. rimshot! I’ll be here all week folks
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People would be better off making their own.
BUT, one should never underestimate the Blob’s “can kicking” or “blame bestowal” abilities. During the last major economic kerfuffle in the 30’s the upper classes enjoyed the depressed prices while millions of the untermensch were ushered to their “final rest.”
Yep, this was a great article! I think our fascination with Zombie shows is a reflection of an inner subconscious fear, that we will be over-run by the brain-dead and the violent. Now, even Starbucks is closing stores due to crime-related issues.
And, another SJW got murdered by a black man, stabbed to death, and I can not muster up any sympathy for the victim. The SJW Theology ends up with dead people all over the place, and this is like an Inquisition Priest getting burned to death when the fire at the stake got out of control.
Memento mori has become a new-age token.
A reminder of death to spur one to live.
Tech and armchair philosophers are just as keen on it as they are the “stoics”.
Truth is, today’s people, at least here, are unable to process the ephemeral.
It is all about maximization of the moment/experience. The Halloween displays are dragged out from the garage come mid September. As I noted, lights are now added, often “professionally” as they are easily converted, through modern LED tech, to holiday colors after Halloween. That’s a way tomaximize your buck, and give the light professionals extra time to instal.
This is writ large in our society. Our government. Our civilizational structure. The American Experiment.
They all come to an end.
But the lights are still pulsating, the monsters are still stalking (what was McConnell up to the other day?), the candy is still being handed out to Zelensky, the MIC, the donor class. The undead witches are still flying over (what did Hillarly have to say the other day?)
Perhaps Sol Invictus will usher us into a new beginning. But again, we mark that stolen holiday as a way to worship the birth of the undead. The resurrected one.
He tried to reason with a man clearly lacking the ability to reason.
It’s the best outcome for sheltered, pampered, and naive elites.
He was probably a Vassar or Sarah Lawrence grad.
Nothing more real than your life being snatched from you because your ensconsed in the armor of ideals that swallow your mind.
The story continues. His polyamorous(?) partner is taking donations. People are posting photos of her in an anti-police photo.
Maybe a police person would have known some basic combat first aid. She just stood there, on her phone…
anti-police tee.
They want psychos on the streets.
I don’t know what the killer’s problem was, but he appears to be psychotic.
He was described as “resource-denied” by his “partner”.
The religion of wokism/idealism is a potent mind virus.
This all seems to be part of population reduction. Letting lethal criminals walk and hindering the ability of the police to catch them is similar to the overwhelming spread of fentanyl across the nation.
Leaves more space for the migrants to spread out I guess
They were sitting at a bus stop in a dangerous neighborhood (that means Blacks) at 4 am. One of the zombies walked past them. Instead of giving him space or walking the other way, they immediately got up and started walking in the same direction.
Of course they weren’t following him, but what did they expect him to think? It was an incredibly bizarre thing to do. But as Matt Walsh said, to do otherwise, to wait or cross the street, would be to “other” him and that is against the Liberal religion.
One is only allowed to give wide berth to the obese on motorized scooters in the grocery aisle. At least up until 5 minutes ago.
The incident occurred at Malcolm X Blvd in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn. The victim was an activist who described himself as the “COO of Antifa”, who vigorously campaigned for no cash bail and defunding the police. The girlfriend accompanying him initially refused to help the police and would not give a description of the assailant, even tho the assailant spit in her face.
“Whatchu looking at?” A question one does not want to be asked at 2:00 am on Malcolm X Boulevard
Best to stay out of any neighborhood with a Malcolm X Blvd or a Martin Luther King Drive at any time of the day or night.
Too bad the perp didn’t do her too. Seriously…..let the Leftist scum all exterminate one another.
After that Darwinian contest plays out, (leaving only the most vicious homicidal low-IQ thugs standing), we send in the Marines and mow down the last remnants of violent hood rats.
Then all of America can return to “Regular Order.”
From the U.S. Constitution:
“The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers”
“The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.”
TRUMP, if he is chosen to be Speaker, apparently won’t have a vote since he’s not an elected rep from a district? ? ?
Uh…there is now way in hell the mush mouthed orange moron will be chosen as speaker. But then again, the party of chaos (not JHK’s) is not a serious political party.
Wanna bet?
I think of you (and your bashfulness in the boy’s shower with your tiny little GLT) when I read JHK‘s “… as John F. Kennedy once remarked of the CIA in 1962, before it killed him in retaliation.”
That is correct – JHK is on the record with a GLT tally. And JFK is the big one. Once you accept that the CIA assassinated JFK, then you understand that there was a coup d’état in the US of A in 1963. Then the world history for these past 60 years starts to make a whole lot more sense.
IMHO 1963 was the end of organized crime’s “engagement” with the USG and the beginning of their formal marriage with the dowry involved being JFK’s life. Ironically, JFK was arguably elected with the help of his mob connected ambassador / bootlegger father. The Kennedy clan is STILL one of the wealthiest families on the planet Now’s the time to study the end times of the Roman Empire as even the world’s largest mob organization (HRC) is in turmoil.
Yeah, my husband and I had the opportunity to visit Dealey Plaza and I stood on the grassy knoll and saw the fence and the chunk of concrete taken out of the curb across the street from it from a missed shot. My husband had an army buddy who lived down that way and he took us on a tour one day of the whole area, including the supposed route taken by Oswald after he was caught at the movie theater. There’s no way he could have run all the way they said he did in the time given. We made that route by car and there’s no way he could have covered the distance in the time frame given. However, i digress.
Sure..I’ll take that bet as it ain’t going to happen.
Damn……it does.
The entire idea that Trump will be the next Speaker of the House is absolutely laughable fantasy and I don’t even bother entertaining the idea as a competent one. The feckless Republicans are too stupid to come together to unite against the always united Democrats. Or, perhaps it is intentional.
I really wish Trump would just retire and go away. He’s nothing but a massive liability anymore.
Do you have any positive thoughts to share? Hopes for your family, at least? You have always come across as completely demoralized and without hope in your posts. I have a hard time believing that anyone can be as pessimistic as you seem.
Actually, I am quite hopeful. That’s why I like reading Mr. Kunstler’s postings. Unfortunately, my hope is running out as the insanity of our world continues unabated.
I have faith the sun will rise tomorrow. I have faith the winter will be beaten back by the spring. I have faith that the tall mountains I see from my back porch will be there long after humanity has destroyed itself. I have faith that if I plant a see it will grow and do its thing. I have faith that my dog will love me no matter how fat or ugly I am.
The world itself gives me hope that there are many things greater and more eternal than humanity.
I have no hope for humanity. Stupidity, greed, and evil are forever embedded in our species and there is no way to overcome this.
No, I am not demoralized, I look forward to a better time free of one human being trying to rule over another.
I’m not pessimistic, I am just a realist. Realism, unfortunately, is not always positive.
The Black Pill has done taken Cankerpuss away, it would seem.
Trump won’t have a vote … but he will be second in line to the Presidency. And he will control the Senate committees, the Senate hearings and the Senate pursestrings.
Then they impeach “Joe Biden” and Cackles. Then he becomes President and moves back into the White House.
Let the fun begin!
OMG, that would be so totally rich. I would give anything to see that!
Keep dreaming.
Time, of course, will tell, JR.
Note: President Trump on September 26, 2023:
”So less than five months from now we’re going to defeat crooked Joe Biden, we’re going to take back our country and we’re going to make America great again.”
“The 25th amendment is of zero risk to me but will come back to haunt Joe Biden and the Biden Administration. As the expression goes, ‘Be careful what you wish for.’”
You need only watch the first 1:12 (but it’s all good):
bitchuteDOTcom/video/0zeArI7yB3k0/
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“[L]ess than five months” means that DJT will be the US President once again before February 26, 2024, JR.
Buckle up, Buttercup!
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You thought that you were clever, JR, but you could not see the forest for the trees.
“Wakey, wakey, little boy.”
Thanks OG
The Speaker runs the House; the Veep (Kamala Harris) ostensibly runs the Senate, but we all know it’s really Schmuck Schumer.
Biden and Harris will both be impeached.
From your mouth to God’s ear.
So what? The Senate will never convict. Just another sham impeachment that wastes everybody’s time and accomplishes absolutely nothing. Oh wait, that’s the mission of our new Congress. Do everything stupid and ignore the important.
For the umpteenth time, what does that even mean now?
You’re correct that linguistically it means to oust. But that has been deleted from the process. Now it just means to censure. The full process was so seldom fulfilled, that the end result has been intentionally forgotten. Friend or Foe, they’re all in the same class after all.
No Trump but maybe a Jim Jordan.
Who has already been pre-vilified as with any who utters any truth or a hint or rationality.
More drama for the masses.
Hey, Cankerpuss, don’t forget this part of their mission: have your house on the lake and live la dolce vita.
That would be an enormous hoot!
Right…
Today’s post reminds me of Halloween II: Season of the Witch, which, perhaps because it struck closer to the bone and departed from the tried and true Michael Myers slasher concept, was the worst performing movie of the series. Introducing the concept of microchips in masks might have presaged both of the emerging phenomenon of recent years: Covid masks based on a non-existent “pandemic” and electronic tomfoolery in the election process, never mind the wall to wall gaslighting enabled by electronic mass media and the proposed full spectrum digital ID. As to the replacement currency soon to be rolled out after they demolish the current one, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what little shop of horrors that reveals.
that’s actually Halloween III. and i happen to like that one as much or more than the original. it’s really underrated. it’s of course not really a Halloween movie at all since there’s no Michael Myers. but it’s pretty damn good as a horror flick otherwise.
Thanks for the correction, and agreed. I didn’t like it when it first came out, but now I think it’s at least as good as any of the others, and a whole lot more original.
Correction. That was Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
Yes, highly underrated film that did a good good job of integrating the mystic and technological aspects of the story.
Who can forget the Silver Shamrock ads? Or the masks?
Thank you. I’ve been looking for this one, having seen it many years ago, not knowing it was part of the Myers train.
The Irish Magister spoke wistfully of Mag Mell, the Plain of Sacrifice. And suggested that we try to regain past glories by “playing a trick on the children”.
When everything totally falls apart, I still have “Space Alien Invasion” for April …….
I’ll take the other side of that trade – I say “No Space Alien Invasion” for April – but only for April, could be May, June or July…
“This just in….in exchange for meeting their demands our new alien overlords will cure all disease and create world peace….their demands are:
1) Eat ze bugz!
2) Sleep in ze podz!
3) Take all ze jabz!
….and now back to Phil with today’s weather…”
4) givz zee $ to Zelensky
5) don’t digz into my family hiztory
Klaus has a new song out …
youtube.com/watch?v=3KZN6aznOwI
I think there’s a longer version, but I can’t find it.
The Blob will be done when their dollars are done. I thought this would happen in 2008, and that was fifteen years ago. Still hasn’t happened. I think there’s still one more kick left in the can. Yes, interest rates will eventually crash the economy, probably starting to happen now, but the Fed can then lower the rates for one last can kick. I think that may very well be the last kick to the end of the road. Should take what? Six months? A year?
Maybe even then the Blob won’t be done. War? CBDC’s?
Neither Russia nor China was ready back then to take on the USA and dollar regime.
In fact, there is some speculation that Russia still wasn’t fully ready in Feb, 2022, which is why we accelerated the kick off in Ukraine.
Sadly for the West – and our glorious way of life based on conjured “money” – the party is about to end.
I really don’t think most people have fully internalized, much less accepted, what it means to lose a world war.
The Allies aren’t kidding when they state that a 500 year old paradigm is coming to an end. Few of us have ever lived in a fully functional economy; rather it’s all been la la land since the 60s.
Trouble is there are nukes now.
When the end comes and the cabal currently running the world has a choice between stepping aside and pushing the button- any doubts on what choice will be made?
The entire world hopes the shape shifters aren’t suicidal.
That’s the primary reason for the slow SMO – to introduce the same 5 stages that allows them to rationalize an escape plan.
The credit money system is incredibly trivial in concept – it just needs an organized force working in concert with military & political co conspirators.
If there is hope of recreating their empire, then why take it take all down?
I believe they will kill us all before they give up one smidgen of their power.
It would be pretty cool if “the cabal currently running the world” were to definitively lose WWIII and face Nuremburg-type trials and executions. This doesn’t seem very likely, but at least it’s not unprecedented.
Halloween was supposed to be a recognition of the harvest time season, with a few ghouls thrown in. Now it has been mass commercialized like everything else, and the candy conglomerates are some of the largest supporters. Yet another way to make the youth of our country into morbidly obese adults with all kinds of other health ailments.
Great, another gotdammed commie who passes out pencils, pennies, and apples.
Need to bring the trick back .Problem being, today you get shot, or Karen calls the Poe leez
I did my trick or treating in a small town in the sixties and got plenty of home made treats mixed with purchased candy.
Cookies in little bags, caramel popcorn balls and caramel apples, muffins. Generally older women whose kids were grown and enjoyed the opportunity to make treats for the kids went all out. Also homemade treats at classroom parties. Nom nom.
Bring back the caramel popcorn balls!
Mmm. Even the Caro syrup ones were pretty good too.
Karo
Karo.
I remember they were always trying to get people to make fudge with that stuff, for some reason.
I didn’t know who “they” were, because I was a kid.
“Freezy Treats” – ice cubes wrapped in tinfoil – best for kids using old-fashioned brown paper bags. Especially the kids always trying to get extra – more than their share.
Now a days anything homemade in baggies would be assumed to have been laced with fentanyl and end up straight in the trash. Gotta buy that bag of Snickers from Mars & Co. instead to make sure the kiddies are safe.
Have you tried today’s cheap confectionaries?
They burn the tongue.
So much sugar that they sear your tastebuds.
Abhorrent.
The last time I bought brand-name candy bars, they grossed me out.
Wax isn’t the worst ingredient they are putting in those things.
Trader Joe’s 17.6 ounce Belgian Chocolate bars.
I’m trying to picture Jarek making a surgical strike in his neighborhood Trader Joe’s.
“We’re in and we’re out got it!”
Having to ask a purple-haired dude (now lady) squeezed into an extra-medium Hawaiian shirt where the hell they moved his Belgian Chocolates to this week.
Heaven forbid they ring the bell when he attempts to check-out:
“Shawn,, er, Shawna… need a price check on ‘Here, Kitty, Kitty freeze-dried kitty treats’!”
My Halloweens were just like this in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Those were good times. Halloween was tied with Christmas for several years as my favorite holiday. It was still just innocent fun back then.
Same ol’ same ol’ from ‘the host.’ JHK seems to be having trouble with his math these days as he claims half the country is MAGA. The funny thing about JHK is that if the tattooed hordes of half wits with their giant trucks showed up at his doorstep, he’d want nothing to do with these folks that had trouble making it out of middle school. And teasing his ‘readers’ with his weirdo devotion to a ‘roided up Kennedy is icing on the cake. You’ve got some ‘splainin to do James.
He didn’t say that half the country is MAGA, he said that half the country is fit to be tied with the current shenanigans going on in the insider Beltway of the “elected” elite. They were foisting their destruction upon us, and we will not stand for it!
Hitlery was recently interviewed and stated the MAGA crowd needs reprogramming. I assume this will be carried out in the FEMA camps. Being a hardcore deplorable I doubt I’ll make it to the camps. Straight to the oven for me.
We can only hope.
Sheer class, this one.
Not a jackrabbit, but a jackass. Fixed it for ya.
stelmosfire
So you are going to march straight to the ovens with all the other sheeple? Are you Jewish and have no cultural memory? Talk is cheap.
Ok CB…toughguy…what are you going to do? Vote for more tax cuts for the wealthy? Strike a vote for theocracy? Please…..
You guys are much too fixated on “tax cuts for the wealthy,” like a record that’s stuck in the same groove. Most of the voting public doesn’t even have a clear idea of who “wealthy” is, and a lot of them are at the casinos every day trying to become just that, are they not? And constantly harping on that one theme is just about inculcating resentment in the general public and then capitalizing on it at the ballot box.
SeaDolt77 is a poorly educated schlub. His ruminations consist of nothing more than early 80’s DNC talking points, TDS symptoms, scatlogical associations, non-sequiturs, and mixed metaphors.
Lots of folks out here in flyover land do not identify as MAGA, but their sympathies for Trump are growing. What the blob is doing to Trump, it can do to YOU. What a wake up call for the Normies!
Of course they can do it to you if you break numerous laws. Dumb talking point.
I guess you never heard of Lawfare, that diabolically Kafkaesque machine now on full display , created by your Party if Chaos Democrats.
You mean like BLM, Antifa, and affiliated groups who riot, kill,loot, and aren’t punished because they’re “mostly peaceful?” Or the people who loot stores in major cities but aren’t arrested, let alone prosecuted?
They can use “the law” to do anything they want to you. Who was it who said – show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”?
I think that was Lavrenty Beria.
Russian Communism good. Just ask Paula.
Jerkrabbit – you do understand the acronym. right? Make America Great Again? Jim’s claim is actually understated. Easily more than half the country wants to make America great again. Wake TFU.
You had me at “half wits.”
Just kidding.. You take a very smug and dim view of MAGA voters and mock Kennedy. No doubt your candidate is perfect. Twatwaffle.
Tangerine Twatwaffle…I fixed it for you.
Twatwaffle. Goes well with champers?
Undoubtedly part of a celebratory English breakfast! Move over bangers!
I do take a dim view of the clowns that support the clown. Any sane and rational person should take a dim view of a dipshit who slathers his face with orange glow every morning.
How did Orange Man Big screw up your life for you? Are you a Yalie whose daddy’s connections failed to get you a quasi-governmental sinecure? Did you lose out on a sweet, sweet defense contract? Are you an illegal invader? Do you hire illegal invaders inorder to save a buck? Are you a Chinese lobbyist? Are you a race- or poverty pimp? Do you spoil for a fight with your fellow Antifa brothers? I ask this, because for just about everybody else, Trump spelled prosperity.
Ah yes…prosperity the only thing that matters for ‘mericans…well then you should be doing well under Biden. Remember, the evidence is overwhelming: the economy always does better under Dem tutelage.
Trump fucked his wife behind a dumpster. He’s still bitter.
RD3, I heard that Trump got her behind the dumpster, tantalized and teased her with a Big Mac, then ate it all, himself! The cad!
She went home covered in special sauce and spray tan and jackrabbit hasn’t been the same since….
ThanksegaBeth! Well said.
Roid-Kennedy vs. Roid-Biden. The rage is on.
IDK, Kennedy looks awfully happy to me.
Too happy. What happened to the fire?
I’m pissed at him, because he gave me the slightest glimmer of hope, and he keeps dashing it to death.
He did manage to muster an eensy bit of criticism of his beloved.
“U.S. strategic petroleum reserve down to 17 days — less than 1/2 of when Biden took office. He drained it to artificially lower prices for the midterm elections.”
https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1709382942999330905?s=20
He says Joe squandered our buffer against supply shocks.
Joe did much worse than that, with that move, yet Bobby seems just mildly miffed about it.
Don’t for get that Biden sold some of the SPR to the Chinese.
Yeah, I like Kennedy, but in trying to position himself to compete, he sure is watering himself down.
Which is interesting in relation to Trump because if both of them are going to be essentially vanilla-useless in office, I’d rather see the guy that will inspire the most chaos (Trump) win, in the hopes of a kind of social laxative effect.
the guy who
Speaking of tatts, there was yet another Pride event here a few weekends ago which received heavy media coverage. I noticed the participants — especially the … ahem, ladies — were heavily tattooed up, They looked like real sweethearts of the rodeo. Is this who you’re talking about showing up at Jims?
I suppose they must have those get-togethers up in the city. Around here, we have anti-abortion demonstrations. They just had one last Sunday. I think it was in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. My daughter attended (with the new baby). I begged off because it was too hot that day for an old lady.
@ jackrabbit:
I think half the country–or more–supports MAGA policies, even if they aren’t wearing the red hats. Those policies would include ending unchecked illegal immigration (and unchecked legal immigration, for that matter), busting up the health-care monopolies, forcing Big Pharma and health care to be responsible for the evils they’ve wrought in the past few years, putting a stop to the financial frauds of the big banks, returning to sound money, ending government intrusion into our economic and social affairs, ending government intrusion into our energy production, ending government intrusion into our agricultural production, ending government suppression of small businesses and small farms, breaking the big business monopolies, ending government repression of natural rights, as listed in the Bill of Rights, an end to crime and violence in our cities, an and to costly and needless wars, and end to the public display and enshrinement) of sexual fetishism, an end to child sexual mutilation, an end to child murder, an end to forced vaccination (democide) and the prosecution of those responsible, a desire to see children and young people achieve competence in reading, math, and science, a return to meritocracy in education and employment, etc. (I’ve probably missed a few things.)
I’d say those who favor such MAGA policies are (unlike their opposition) intelligent and educated enough to understand economics, monetary policy, and basic civics. In other words, they understand those elements that underpin a functioning and fair society.
@ jackrabbit:
Probably well over half the country supports MAGA policies, even if they don’t have the hat.
They’d like to see sound economic policies, sound money, sound jurisprudence, a strong affirmation and enforcement of the Bill of Rights, an end to pointless and costly wars, an end to crime and violence in our cities, an end to the public display (and political enshrinement of) sexual fetishes, an end to child sexual mutilation, an end to child murder, an end to (and prohibition of) tyrannical “pandemic” policies, the prosecution of all those responsible for vaccine-related democide, the breakup of the big monopolies (including health care), an end to government intrusion into all economic and social matters, an end to government suppression of small farming and small business, a return to meritocracy in both employment and education, a desire to see children and young people educated and competent in reading, writing, math, and science, etc. (I’ve probably missed a bunch of things.)
We are fortunate that probably more than half of our adult population is educated enough to have a reasonable grasp of economics, monetary policy, juridical matters, and civics to favor MAGA policies. To oppose them requires either profound ignorance or profoundly evil intent.
I personally have no opinion about JHK, and I don’t believe much in political solutions.
Dang it! My first post disappeared into the ozone, so I re-wrote it–probably not as well as the first time.
Well stated, both times.
Yes.
I have no monster truck. No tats. College educated. White collar career. Former federal intelligence officer…..and I’m MAGA as MAGA gets.
So your stereotype is an epic fail, micro-brain.
Go take your trolling hobby somewhere else. You are boring everyone.
The neighbors do have a cadaverous-looking plastic army on their lawn, bounded by crime scene tape. And in 11 months, I’ll be able to cash out my retirement and buy some hard assets. I only hope it’s more than just a loaf of bread.
My neighbors have an ersatz graveyard on their front lawn. Just swell.
“Coincidentally, a scion of the JFK generation now running for president on an as-yet-to-be-specified independent party seeks to do exactly what his uncle promised to do.”
Bullsh–, Kunstler. RFK, Dim’s (sic) internal polling shows him hurting Trump and helping Josef Stolen. He has zero chance to win, thus his motivation is clear. He is a Demonrat after all.
If Trump loses this Republic is over. Hell, it likely already is, but at least Trump will buy us a few more years before complete collapse.
Oh please…what will the criminal w 91 indictments who is also a rapist and a conman do to inspire saving the country? How many of his cronies are in jail? Only the best people!!
Jack, if you’re here to stir the shit, try to keep a bit more creativity out of your Crayola than all the other left-leaning NPCs. This is a Kunstler blog, not an NPC echo chamber. You’re boring.
Eke. Eke a bit more creativity. Thanks, auto-correct!
Well said, this clown is getting tedious with his shitposting. Wish there was a block feature like on Disqus.
the irony Kendar! What’s tedious is the twice a week pablum that’s vomited up by the Kunstler keyboard army that is on repeat. You’ve got the racists, the conspiracy theorists, the antivaxxers, the weirdoes obsessed w Greta and on and on. Where did the freak Mary go?
@jackrabbit ok that one was a bit better, you got a laugh out of me. Just keep the trolling funny, that’s all I ask.
Jackrabbit is overdue for his meds…..another case of TDS run amok.
Call the funny farm to come collect him.
It’s odd that a DNC lackey would keep insisting that indictments mean that someone is automatically guilty.
(Shades of Jarek’s insistence, disregarding all attempts at schooling, that impeachment means removal from office.)
Aren’t Dems supposed to take a view of crime the way the stabbed man’s girlfriend does? That it is the sigh of the oppressed? That it shouldn’t be prosecuted?
But when Bad Orange Man is assaulted with multiple frivolous lawsuits and indictments, all of a sudden the line changes to “He must be guilty, and even if he isn’t, it is still All Good to harass him with the law.”
His motivation isn’t clear at all.
He tried to run as a Democrat. They won’t allow it. They don’t want him.
Had he run as a Democrat, he obviously would have ‘taken’ votes that might have gone to Trump.
Now that they are saying he is going to run as an independent, which, I remind everyone, he has to do or quit the race, it suddenly becomes sinister that he would do polling, and that he would be getting votes from people who were never going to vote for the Democrat nominee.
We don’t even know that Biden will be the nominee.
Maybe there won’t be one period. Maybe their plan is just to slide Joe on in for a second term. That’s where all the nastiness is waiting, anyway. We haven’t seen anything yet as far as oppressive, repressive legislation goes.
Jake,
“Josef Stolen”.
Nice.
The host may disapprove, but that is a funny one, right along with Joe Briben
Except it wasn’t. Your loser lost.
“Your loser lost.”
rabbit,
…and, perhaps our winners win?
@ jackrabbit:
It’s unfortunate that, as with liberals in general, you can’t distinguish fantasy from reality–or, to come right down to it, can’t engage with reality at all. This is known among professionals as a “psychotic break.” Since mental illnes is not a pretty picture, we’d all appreciate it if you’d have your “episodes” somewhere else.
O goody, a new troll ( or possibly a renamed one booted off previously)…. Jack ASS rabbit.
Oh noes..someone that doesn’t agree with the foolishness that’s usually spouted here.
Well, you don’t have to come here, either.
Generally speaking, when an inferior person doesn’t comprehend a conversation, they call it ‘foolishness.’ Then, again, maybe its just a paid shill.
I’d call it a psychotic break. There’s so much of that going around these days that we seem to have a mental health crisis on our hands.
Per recent interview by Hillary Clinton:
“At this point, I think, sadly, he will still be the nominee and we have to defeat him and we have to defeat those who are the election deniers, as we did in 2020 and 2022,” Clinton said. “And we have to just be smarter about how we are trying to empower the right people inside the Republican party.”
But wait, didn’t she deny the election results when she lost in 2016? Hmmm….
Everything the Golden Mumu says is tantamount to, “Help! I’ve fallen to Trump and I can’t shut up!”
How I wish that old boiler would just explode. Or maybe implode under the weight of her self-importance.
^^^^
Priceless! ”Golden Mumu” and “that old boiler.”
I wish I could find the words to tell you how I really feel about that tin-eared old sardine. My son knows a guy who was a military aide who worked with several administrations, and says that having Her Royal Cluelessness in the room was the worst. She really would fly off the handle if you spoke to her or made eye contact.
That fat load of shit, Stacey Abrams, still denies losing the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race. Climate alarmist Al Gore says the 2000 election was rigged. Klaus Schwab’s messenger boy, John Kerry, believes he won in 2004. Other Democrats have said they or their candidates won various other elections they lost. All of them apparently are exempt from punishment — but not the Deplorables. Isn’t it neat how the arrogant people who cluck about compassion for “The Other” are the ones lining up to ruin or end the lives of The Others who get in their way?
Yup, that’s pretty neat, all right. And don’t forget that they have always accused the GOP of lawfare, too.
I don’t know why it’s such a thorn in the side of the democrat party that roughly half the country doesn’t believe Joe was legitimately elected. About the same felt the same way about Bush Jr., too, yet there wasn’t all this election denier stuff, at least not that I remember.
Gee, I didn’t know that I was officially designated an “enemy of the people,” but there it is. Honestly, at this point, I don’t know who I’m going to vote for. A large part of me considers it all just scripted theater. I mean, we’ve been voting for these elected representatives for the past how many years, most of us, 20, 30, 40+, from both parties, and this is where we are as a nation today. Same thing with praying for them. We’ve been praying for them for at least since Reagan, and with every administration we’ve sunk deeper into the mire.
I take extra special pride in knowing I am considered an “enemy”. Coming from the likes of Hillary, that makes me feel good about myself. If the MAGA crowd gets her so riled up, then we know we are doing something right. I will resist and refuse to kowtow to their diktats and beliefs until the day that I die. We are on the side of the Founding Fathers – they would be proud of us!
Ah yes…on the side of the FF’s. Modern day Hamiltons, Jeffersons, Madisons. I can’t stop chuckling at your sense of self-importance.
That’s probably what good old King George thought too….Keep going down that old path JR.
It’s not quite as cringeworthy as Obama’s pretentious “arc of history” shtick. What’s your reason for ridin’ with Biden? You worried about the “soul of America”? “Saving democracy”? Or are you just trying to get in good with those high-strung rich, white, liberal girls?
Yeah, I know how hard it was for you simple folk to have to listen to an eloquent black man.
I voted for Obama and was at a watch party for his inauguration, standing next to my college speech professor as Obama spoke. I asked her what she thought of his delivery and she gave him a low grade. “His cadence is annoyingly choppy.” That probably makes her simple and racist. A pity. Most good Democrats (which I was at the time) know better than to criticize somebody with dark skin. We loves us some blacks. Whatever would they do without us?
@ jackrabbit:
I guess some people like pompous, inflated, unctuous drivel.
But then, your party does have the distinction of drawing a large part of its constituency from among the illiterate and innumerate–whose ill-bred tastes you seem to share.
Yes, she was all dressed up for Halloween as Hillary when she made her pronouncement.
Oh, so it was a pronouncement that she made? I thought it was a bowel movement, or perhaps an agonal shriek.
First problem you have, Tuco, is you still believe voting in Federal elections matter. I realized a long time ago that Republican or Democrat, it doesn’t matter, we still get the same clusterfuck as the previous administration. What clusterfuck?
1. Continued funding of illegal wars in foreign nations that pose zero threat to the USA.
2. Continued printing of foney money to pay the bills and steal wealth from the people.
3. Continued growing of the size and reach of the government.
4. Continued demolition of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.
5. Continued raising of the debt ceiling and deficit spending.
6. Continued abrogation of border control and enforcement.
I’ve voted in every Federal election since I turned 18 in the 90s. Nothing changes. The result is always the same.
I’m done with Federal elections. I will now focus on local elections where my vote does truly matter.
All true. But, as local elections matter locally. Nationally, they don’t. So, nothing ever changes. Focus nationally.
So, the conclusion is either that God doesn’t answer prayer, which we know isn’t true, or judgment has already been decreed on this nation, it just hasn’t been fully delivered yet.
There is no god and prayer doesn’t work.
You’re in for a surprise when you die.
Jackrabbit will come back as an actual jack rabbit. He will be hunted in the West and cooked over an open fire spit, consumed by the clans that had to evacuate San Francisco after the bombing.
He probably has tularemia.
And his carcass will be stuffed and mounted as a jackalope that some rioting Antifa type will burn in a fit of rage over having to pay her student loans.
Now, that’s karma.
You rubes are so easily triggered.
NO, he’ll come back as an intestinal worm inside a jack rabbit. Fitting.
Or eaten by an American Bald Eagle – our national symbol – as exquisite karma.
I doubt it but I love your certainty. What’s that quote about people that are absolutely certain about a flying spaghetti monster?
Tuco, I am a devout Christian and I must admit that I have even begun to have my doubts that there is a devoted creator who is intimately involved in the rotten affairs of a ruined, insane humanity. I cannot doubt there is a creator. I’ve seen too many miracles to ever deny that there was intelligent design. However, over the recent years I have begun to question just how involved this creator is with his creation. I see it one of two ways.
1. He/she can’t be involved because it would violate his/her own law of free agency and would thus make him/her a liar and a fraud. God cannot violate his/her own laws. If that happened who would want to have faith in that God.
2. God created this world and all that exists within it and then took off to play tiddlywinks with his pals. No longer gives a damn about what happens to humanity.
These are the only explanations that make any realistic sense as to why God gives so much fucking deference to the wicked and the depraved constantly preying on the righteous and the innocent of this world. God is either too weak to help or God just doesn’t give a damn.
Leaves a pretty empty feeling inside.
Because hell is forever. There is no way out, no plea bargaining. There is no mercy. You are alive with all your senses, with the certainty that your torment, whatever it is personally for you, is for eternity. That is why God “gives so much fucking deference to the wicked and the depraved.” So they have the last possible chance in their lives for salvation. Because hell is forever.
Because you are either under the law or under grace. There is no in between. If you are not saved, then you are under the Mosaic law, which only Jesus could keep perfectly, being a sinless human being. We are not sinless human beings. Which means that everything you’ve ever said, thought or done is replayed in your “afterlife” and you are convicted, under that law, by your own words and deeds. That’s what is meant by “the books were opened.” When you are under grace, however, all that sin has been forgiven.
And that is why the crucifixion was such a horrible thing.
@tuco22 Hell is not for people, it is for demons.
Kendar667: True, it was created for satan and his angels, but if you are not saved, then you are under sin, and sin cannot be allowed in heaven. So there is nowhere else for you to go.
Tuco, I appreciate your thoughts and your post and as a Christian I agree. It’s just getting harder and harder to keep the faith these days as wickedness and depravity thrive and flourish. It is as it was prophesied by prophets of old, I suppose.
tuco22, you are always such a wisdom-filled read. Thank you.
Cankerpuss, this might help:
1,000 years is but a day and a day a thousand years to our Lord. God has plans that last far longer than do our tiny little people lives.
Do not question God’s plans for us. Rather, have faith that He knows what He is doing and ask Him for forgiveness and strength to walk the straight and narrow towards His light in your goal of being included in His Book of Life (i.e. being a citizen in Jesus’ glorious 1,000-year reign).
Tuco is exhibit A for why humanity will be better off without religion.
The evil time we occupy was foretold. That darkness would consume begin consuming the world was foretold. The saints of the Most High would be overcome. In the sense that those who follow the darkness will have their way dominate in the world. We are not unaware or abandoned. This is why we were instructed to “Watch”. It was a command. We watch for what we instructed to look for. That way we are not taken unawares by the events and behavior of people in our time.
These things are purposed. The darkness grows because it is gathering what belongs to it. Gathering people who belong to it. The beast kingdom is that magnet, drawing all its citizens to itself. It isn’t coming. It is already here. It is said that the tares would be gathered first. We are close. The revealing of the second beast is at the door.
Too often it is obscured that the prince of this world and his angels are here on earth, sowing death. They are responsible for much of what we see metastasizing in the world. We can blame them. Not God. They fell first. Then they led humanity to fall in the garden. The Dragon hates us, and so desire to see us join them in their collective doom. This is why it is said that we will judge the angels. There is the context. They led mankind astray and will pay for it. But people have willingly joined themselves with it. This is why we have a Savior. Only through Him, can humanity repel what is assaulting them.
What they can do to the body has no impact on the destination of the soul. The horrors we see will only increase. Being sober, of sound mind, and sound footing in the truth is part of the armor. We aren’t to hide our lamps, but to shine them.
This isn’t Dunkirk. There is no retreat. We fight the good fight of faith until the end of our mortal bodies. The flesh is just flesh. It all has to be shed. The world teaches us to cling to it at all costs. The world teaches fear. It truly is the mind killer.
Cankerpuss,
With your philosophy, and if you enjoy literature at all, you might like the novels of Thomas Hardy. Downbeat, and his metaphysical fulcrum is that God is indifferent.
These days, I rather side with the ancient Greeks. That is to say, God is cruel and capricious.
But, for me, these are only metaphysical speculations and entertainments. I’m not a monotheist.
Watcher,
THANK YOU for your wisdom.
I’ve copy/paste/saved it for personal reinforcement in the future!
You’re right that fear is the killer. Not for nothing does some variation of “Do not fear” or “Be not afraid” appear 365 times in the Bible.
Only an ignoramus could believe that there is no God.
The things of the Lord are as foolishness to them that perish.
The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.
Or just a sane and rational being that doesn’t believe in bed time fairy tales.
Out Jack comes with the classic lament of the devout 14 y.o. atheist. Dude, so lame, so lame. Such a basic-bitch game you’re bringing here.
Oh, that it were so, Jim, that Americans would awaken from their somnombulance to incarcerate the criminals who run the country and their lawbreaking thug protectors. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans and their employers are so addicted to the heroin of government money that we won’t do anything that might disrupt the flow of bribes, er gub’mint money.
As for Gaetz, his actions had some basis in merit, but he’s both a dick and a poor general. By striking when and how he did, Gaetz allowed the Party of Satan to not only stab the idiot McCarthy in the back and throw the House into chaos while blaming Gaetz for the whole mess. This also just happened to occur as news of a communist Democrat congressman who was recorded pulling a fire alarm in order to stop the debate about the short-term spending bill, I mean so he could open a door. Compounding this idiocy, Trump decided to endorse Jim Jordan. Trump should keep his goddamn nose out of it, and let the House Republicans fuck it up on their own. Besides, should Jordan ascend to the Speakership, that likely would leave a less-competent chairman to oversee the investigation into the criminal Biden family. They should make Byron Donalds — or better yet, Kim Klacik or Candace Owens the Speaker. Yes, it may be a blatant attempt to garner support from blacks, but it’s no worse than the Democrats’ propaganda that every Republican or conservative wants to kill every black and hispanic person in America or throw them all back into slavery. Instead, some of the dumb shits in Congress want to make Trump the Speaker. Well, there’s a reason they’re called the Dumb Party.
OK Newt, sure…
Don’t go compare me to Gingrich. For one thing, I didn’t cheat on my wife. For another, my wife doesn’t look like a snowy owl. For a third, I don’t say “Warshington.”
Gaetz had no plan beyond getting rid of McCarthy. If he had somebody lined up to become the new Speaker, what he did would’ve been fine. But he didn’t, so the Dems took advantage of an opening and fucked over the country. Again.
It wasn’t up to Gaetz to supply a hand picked replacement. The “plan” was to get rid of McCarthy because of his duplicity. There is a PROCESS for choosing a new Speaker and using this PROCESS is all the “plan” we neeeded.
Whoever gets the new Speaker position will likely disappoint, but… MAYBE not. If I choose to remove the CEO from my business I can’t be sure that the replacement will be better but I can be sure that the one I removed needed removing. That’s how reality works.
Hear! Hear!
Sorry, Bob, but Gaetz did the Republic a service. If I had the power, I’d pin a medal on him.
He has cleared the decks for real leadership to be installed.
Yeah, I know. Joe told them republicans wanted to put them back in chains. What a great leader.
USA may be Stone Broke, but there’s a move circulating in Congress right now to fund Ukraine in perpetuity, that is, lock in transfer payments to Kiev so that any future Congress could not tamper with them. Ukraine is a landmass as big as Texas; we could be talking trillions here.
I did see on the Duran that on his last trip to DC Zelensky’s wife took a shopping junket to Manhattan and bought $1.4 million worth of jewelry.
Yeah, but Michelle’s got her beat at $6 million, although that wasn’t all for jewelry. Of course, that was after 8 years of Obama’s presidency. Maybe after another 6 years of funding Ukraine to the detriment of our own countrymen, she’ll surpass even Michelle’s grifting.
Stuff I have seen Biden and Clinton say shows how little regard they have for the conservative side of America and how little fear they have of the Right side.
What do they know, except maybe they have control of everything in the Deep State and the country including the voting public.
I agree with one thing, if a rebellion is to occur, it will involve the moderates from both sides to destroy the fringe. As long as it is MAGA against the Progressive Left, the Left is in control.
The RINOs ensure that, which is why the McCarthy rejection is a step in the right direction.
If you are willing to sacrifice to get the ship of state righted, root to get the Deep State shut down.
The rebellion is happening now – that is what quiet quitting, early retirement and the current strikes are about. All perfectly legal.
Also the stubborn refusal to submit to their jabs.
Trump also endorsed Kevin.
That really worked out well.
Trump is good at calling out corruption, but his other political skills are lacking. Which is probably why Bubba conned him into running in the first place.
Have you not seen the list of Trump endorsements (failures)!
It is never-ending!
His son-in-law, the generals, Jeff Sessions, the Exxon Secretary of State, Haley, the girls from his TV show!
To this day, he is in Lady Lindsey’s corner.
Trump picks losers. Sticks with them (Fauci).
All the time.
His ego will not allow him to admit it, but the evidence is stunningly obvious.
Oddly enough, I don’t give a damn that the House of “Representatives” is in chaos, doesn’t have a leader and can’t function. I suspect many if not the majority of Americans give a damn about the House of “Representatives.” That worthless appendage of the US government is so broken that they can’t even represent themselves. All those idiotic bastards do is vote with their party. You can’t tell me that there isn’t one Democrat out of nearly 200 that disagrees with the party line, occassionally? No, I suspect most people continue on with their miserable debt riddled drug addicted lives without giving a second or two to the thought that the House of “Representatives” is unable to function.
I for one and grateful. Thank God. When they aren’t in session they can’t do any more stupid shit to fuck things up even more.
God bless Gaetz for at least accomplishing this.
I had an Uncle Bob.. us kids used go running when his bluster took over at the dinner table
Be grateful I’m not completely wound up.
My Dad was also an Uncle Bob. One of his nieces thought enough of him to name one of her kids after him. Me, not so much. But that’s okay.
So’s RFK Jr.
Seen this AM
Any man with a set of testicles will vote for Trump.
Any woman with a set of testicles will vote for Biden.
Nuff’ said.
There is a Jackrabbit running around here with no balls.
LMAO
Says the guy that cries whenever someone shows up to challenge the cfn nonsense,
@jackrabbit, We cry because you never actually “challenge” anything. You never present an argument or refute anyone else’s argument. You simply make statements of your personal beliefs (“there is no God”) which you apparently think are convincing because they were said by you. I relish an actual debate but you have given us no reason to think you’re capable of one.
You make me think of a little imp with a sharp needle who runs around poking it into people, then runs off. You are an irritant at best, but reasonable people aren’t swayed by such tactics.
“reasonable people” smh
@ jackrabbit:
Go away, or we shall taunt you again.
Says the eunuch with long furry ears.
Maybe true, but the Republicans are also all in for the trannie agenda, especially the Trumps.
The girls are going under the bus, no matter who we vote for, and they will keep being blamed for it.
The freakish cult of Orange Jesus lives on here at CFN where every transgression by the grifter appears to be celebrated. Oh and look over there…the great patriot has apparently disclosed nuclear submarine secrets. What say you that belong to the party of ‘family values and law and order?’ LMAO.
I say Bill Clinton did it first, when he sold missile tech to the Chinese for campaign contributions. But you don’t see that discussed anywhere.
Sure you do but you forgot the process started under Bush.
We built up the Soviet Union’s military so they could fight Hitler. Before that we funded the Communists so they overthrow the Czar. Before that “we” opened a gate in Constantinople so the Turks could get in.
“The first Soviet nuclear submarine—a Project 627 (NATO November class)—went to sea in July 1958”
But do go on with your idiotic claims.
The ever more over-the-top holiday displays have been a curiosity for years. And so much of it is tasteless cheap junk. Fifteen-foot tall inflatable hobgoblins twitching on the front lawn. What could it all signify? I used to think it indicated a kind of arrested development, a reflection of a childish view of the world. This week’s analysis on that point is potentially more hopeful and hopeless all at once. Forward into the darkness!
I bought a house a decade ago that involved evicting deadbeat tenants, and the beautiful, century-old quarter-sawn oak was full of nails and staples for strings of Halloween lights. I was plucking tiny plastic spiders out of my lawn for a couple years after that and finding glitter all over. They were too poor to pay rent or utilities, but they amassed a mountain of plasticky Halloween junk.
I knew a guy with middle class tenants, who were always getting behind on their rent. The rent was high, but that’s because the guy needed to keep paying the mortgage and taxes off on the place.
I’d have had some sympathy for the tenants, but they had a lot of yard ornaments and seasonal decorations clearly bought new, and it wasn’t all the cheap stuff.
Who buys pricey collectibles when they can’t make rent?
“Who buys pricey collectibles when they can’t make rent?”
Beryl,
…People trying to find a little joy in their lives?
You can get your joy cheaper at the dollar store.
You can also get it wrapped in a paper bag from the corner mart.
Fuck the plastic. Get tattoos, a joy forever.
Spending money you don’t have, especially when your ability to remain housed is under threat, is unlikely to produce joy. In fact, spending money rarely brings joy, especially when you can’t afford it.
Avatar, there are people lined up in the street to get their joy, as I type this.
It being New York, they can’t have a bag for it.
This puts the “high” in high street.
Piglet,
Yes, but note I said “trying”, not “getting”….
If this ugly plastic front-yard junk is considered “collectibles,” it goes a long way to explaining why the USA’s built environment is for the most part a horrible eyesore.
And all that crap is made in Communist China. Amazing. The Americans fund their rivals so they can put up cartoonish plastic crap.
Forth of July is all CCP made fireworks. Some Independence Day!
Baby Jesus’s birthday? Ornaments made by slave labor.
What are people thinking?
Grat essay.
I never thought about people in DC being demon possessed until Brandon and Lindsay Graham dropped their masks and screamed for Russians to shoot Putin last year. Now, it’s impossible NOT to see it. I’m not religious, but there it is, undeniable evil in front of my eyes.
Anyone who doesn’t see it, stay away from them.
It’s been admitted now, what they told us about NATO was not true.
“Now that Jens Stoltenberg has admitted the opposite,
@0rf
looks back at the parade of media clowns who parroted the transparent propaganda hokum that the Ukraine invasion was “not about NATO”:
https://x.com/mtaibbi/status/1708935352482762984?s=20
Bobby Jr. is all over the place on the cell phones in schools issue.
https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1710023376360632465?s=20
I remember when we would get into trouble for passing notes in school.
Why? Because we were supposed to be doing a thing called paying attention, because just sitting in a classroom won’t do it.
Of course students shouldn’t have cell phones in school.
Bring them, yes. They should remain in lockers, or kids who don’t have lockers should have to deposit their phones somewhere with staff and pick it up after class.
Would you let kids have a radio, headphones, television, or even a magazine or newspaper in class? Of course not.
Bobby wants “education” about phones, and then he wants teachers and parents to decide, not government.
Teachers ARE government employees.
As a taxpayer, I don’t want my money wasted by allowing children to bring alternative entertainment into a place for learning.
Of all the issues to go all libertarian on.
He doesn’t want the federal government involved? Great! Then he goes and calls for their involvement.
Public schools are mostly a waste of time and do more harm than good. Just like the phone/pacifiers everyone carries around these days.
Basic training to assimilate into the system as established by the U.S.’s and British magnates, tycoons, oligarchs, or, plutocrats, if you will. The Prussian system from one hundred fifty + years ago. (They enforced it in conquered states too.)
A quite orderly devolution over the past one hundred years.
MoA has a new post regarding the true strategic nature of the global conflict.
If you understand the motivation, current status and inevitable outcome, it puts Jim’s essays in better context of what’s in store for the USA.
Whether or not trolls wish to waste their time, or others fixate on the past, what JHK is writing about is literally our guaranteed future.
Deny, deflect, bargain, get angry, it’s all wasted emotional energy. When you well and truly understand its all over is when the anxiety level becomes the real measure.
“Mall of America”?
Mall of America is in Minneapolis, a shitty run-down city in the once respectable state of Minnesota. I am surprised this Mall can still even operate to keep their lights on in this day and age of e-commerce.
My son, for some reason likes the place, even though it has become overrun by the imported refugees who live along the light rail line that runs from the Little Apple’s downtown to the MoA and the airport. One threw a 4 y.o. boy off the fourth-floor balcony a few years back. My son promises me that he will not try “the fourth-floor Somali bungee jump” when he goes.
@megabeth re: your NW Wisconsin county seat & Somalis.
Here’s the Iowa experience:
httpx://www.amazon.com/Postville-Clash-Cultures-Heartland-America/dp/0156013363
Sounds like a fraught situation.
Blacks have destroyed hundreds of American Malls. Now we can have our downtowns back. They’d never destroy those….!
Above all the Trumble Mall near Bridgeport, Ct, scene of many assaults, robberies, gang fights, rapes, stolen cars & looting.
No longer is it mom, dad buddy & sis happily driving in the Plymouth Valiant to the local Mall for an afternoon of shopping, lunch and maybe a movie.
The only way to deal with American blacks is to avoid them. That’s largely what the late Edgar Steele’s book Defensive Racism is all about. It’s worth a read.
My NW Wisconsin county seat is 17% Somali and has a mosque. It’s been 30 years and they have barely even tried to fit into the existing community. It seems to be a permanent alien enclave.
O Beth, Sarah’s only daughter, a child of the water:
Did we try and fit in with Indian culture? Where we immigrants? Nay colonists – and that means conquerors.
How does Islam jibe with German culture for example. Octoberfest, beer, pork, and buxom ladies? But poorly? Nay, not at all. It’s one or the other. You have to choose. I’d say choose your own culture, but that not politically correct, so….?
In one Scandanavian country, they made Muslim immigrants watch soft core porn to help them assimilate. No doubt that only made them hate their “host” even more.
France wants to make their ladies stop wearing the veil. A bit late for that, right? Trying to be fair since they don’t want Christians wearing the crucifix. It’s not going to work – on the Muslims at least.
It’s affectionately known as Mallgadishu
So I’ve read
Every time I try to read Moon of Alabama, I fall asleep.
Oh! Moon of Alabama. I used to read a blog called Whiskey Bar 20 years ago. It was rather Dem-leaning. Very anti-Bush. Did it evolve into Moon of Alabama?
Good for you, if you have insomnia!
The comments on the current CFN thread so dull, I am leaving to get some real discussion at Moon of Alabama.
Ciao.
Lol.
At least the commenters on MoA don’t believe in the Holodomor myth.
They’re a bit more skeptical than the commenters on CFN, as a whole.
I don’t do very well with the geopolitics, the international affairs.
Oh, yeah, it’s definitely centered on international issues.
It’s pro-Russian propaganda then.
“We’ve conflated politics and poor mental health until they are indistinguishable.”–Scott Adams
Boy ain’t that the truth. Dilbert couldn’t have said it better.
There’s no reason to dump all over Halloween. It’s a kids holiday, for crying out loud. If you insist on invoking a comparison with the oh-so-holy Christmas holiday, at least remember that no one knows what day or year Jesus was born and Christmas, as a holiday, was invented in about the fourth century AD.
Moreover, the holiday we know as Christmas was an intentional appropriation of already existing mid-winter celebrations, from the Nordic Yule traditions (including the pagan “Christmas tree”) to the Roman Saturnalia. Christmas traditions are almost completely fabricated, from the “little drummer boy” to the Nordic reindeer and now… the Grinch (aargghh).
Noticing the cadaveric spectre of “Joe Biden” lurking in the shadows is certainly apt, but the true terror is the complete collapse of our treasured “jurisprudence”. The smirking visage of “Judge” Engoron now haunts my nightmares.
Worse yet, I see no salvation. We elected a man… a man who PROMISED us he would “drain the swamp” (and let’s be honest, we ALL knew what that meant). Instead, that man (Trump) fell, lovestruck, into bed with the swamp. His beloved daughter and son-in-law stood by like sick voyeurs, urging him on as he screwed the pooch.
We now stagger under the double burden of insane leftist TDS sufferers and the equally insane Trump worshippers who believe that Trump is the greatest thing since, well… Christmas. Having not only failed to drain the swamp but, in fact, having not even tried, Trump, they say, is the only man on earth who can do it. We are lost.
Truly.
It isn’t a kid’s holiday anymore, is the problem.
It’s adults going all out for the occasion. I find it a little weird.
Well, we do know the year. Just look up the year Augustus Caesar levied a tax on Judea (Israel to you and me). Jesus was born during that year. And while we don’t know the day, we do know the “season” because the shepherds were in the fields, so it definitely wasn’t winter.
And while we don’t know the day, we do know the “season” because the shepherds were in the fields, so it definitely wasn’t winter. – tuco
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In an attempt to resolve this question as to what season of the year Christ was born in, or not born in, I googled this question:
“What is the average temperature on Christmas Day in Israel?”
The answer was “The temp ranges from 55F to 67F in Tel Aviv.” It also added “it is mildly cool with a gentle breeze.”
Further, I asked “on average, what is the coldest day of the year in Bethlehem, Israel?” The answer was “On January 25 the temp ranges from 41F to 53F.”
These figures tell me that it is conceivable, although not likely, that Christ was born on December 25th.
Christmas traditions are almost completely fabricated, from the “little drummer boy” to the Nordic reindeer and now… the Grinch (aargghh).
Of course traditions were fabricated. Where do think traditions come from?
Having not only failed to drain the swamp but, in fact, having not even tried, Trump, they say, is the only man on earth who can do it.
You are, thankfully, so wrong. You cannot see the forest for the trees.
I suggest that you watch Nick Alvear‘s documentary The Greatest Show on Earth.
rumble.com/v3gx680-the-greatest-show-on-earth-2023.html
Then you will then understand what truly has transpired since President Trump rode that escalator in June 2015 and where we are headed now as we enter 2024.
Christmas is getting damned odd. We first destroy a beautiful tree, install it in our living rooms, sing gleeful songs to it and then when the holiday is over toss it to the curb for the trash collector. We give lavish gifts to our spoiled children but then give the credit to a fat guy in a red coat who lives in the inhospitable north pole who flies in a big sled pulled by 8 reindeer with one of them having a nose that glows red. Lately, I’ve been re-evaluating my Christmas festivities and asking “what the hell is this?”
Then there is Easter. How did the day to honor the resurrection of Christ after his crucifixion end up being represented by a fat rabbit who hops around at night laying colored eggs full of candy that he hides for the children to find? Baskets with plastic grass? Good hell, what is that?
Yeah, I am a Cankerpuss. I admit it.
If there are aliens they are looking down up on us with amazement and awe at the way we choose to entertain ourselves.
As Horace said, you can drive nature out but it will return. St Boniface chopped down one of the great sacred trees of the Germans. Now the Christmas Tree is not only a staple of Christian culture, but it is nowhere bigger than in Germany.
Did you see the tree chopped down by Hadrian’s wall?
A sycamore of a few hundred years.
They kept press coverage to a minumum.
Did the kid say why he did it? Supposedly an older man was involved as well.
Lol. My childhood parish was St. Boniface. It recently chopped down its lovely white pines. None of them were dedicated to Jupiter, as far as I know.
Remember that Christianity took on aspects of local culture as it expanded. Rome gave Christ’s birthday Saturnalia, and end of the year celebration that became Christmas.
Christ”s Mass, when did that become the birthday of Jesus. Most historians insist that Jesus was born in the summer.
Easter came from Roman celebrations of the rebirth of spring after the death of winter. Think of rebirth and the vitality of spring represented by rabbits and eggs.
Both are for the kids, hence sweets and big fat men bringing gifts.
As the religious side of things has been a target of the Left over the years, is it any wonder that all holidays have been secularized.
To the point that the celebration of evil, Halloween is becoming as potent to society as Christmas.
What do you think, will Halloween be the central holiday for the Anti-Christ?
What about death, evil, and destruction fascinates people every Oct. 31?
I agree about Halloween, Buck. Two little girls live across the street; they’re already working in their costumes. They love it. We love it when the kids come around for candy, just like we used to do when we were kids.
Some of these pricks around here shut off their lights and lock their doors. CFNers, don’t be like them.
Buckeyeman: we ARE truly lost. Wait until my comment gets out of moderation and check out the USdeptclock site which I referenced (resulting in moderation). The total currency and derivative debt owed by banks is 632Trillion$ and going up by one million $ per SECOND. Its all on the site. The US Corporation cannot pay back their debt and the US Banks can’t pay back or unwind their derivatives. No president, no politician can fix this. When the banks go down, insurance companies will go down, and any business living off debt or credit lines (90% of them) goes down. We staring a major social and economic collapse in the face. All empires come to an end.
This new podcast is good for checking your handle on issues of debt, currencies, energy and global finance dynamics.
Nate Hagens with macroeconomic consultant Luke Gromen.
youtu.be/bIq0o40Jo80?si=U6rDL1iLU8VfuPNc
I’m pretty sure there is no actual moderator on this blog. Jim has no interns.
Forget to take out the www, and you might as well start over.
Petition to elect Paula D moderator.
LOL, no thanks.
Your comment is stuck in moderation limbo for eternity.
Here: httpx://www.usdebtclock.org/
Doc – check out The Great Taking by David Rogers Webb – thegreattaking.com – a just recently published quick read, 130 pgs or so – downloadable PDF. Very interesting. You especially, will like it. Few will understand it – you are one that will. Read it soon.
Good recommendation, Ron. I read it a couple of weeks ago. It sews all and everything financial and of the economy up neatly. Why wouldn’t they? In their imperiousness? A very neat and tidy (for the Owners) “final solution.”
I do wonder about the reactionary events it will set in motion though. There will be consequences for such a rash action. Long overdue consequences at that.
Agreed Dave – It’s hard to argue his logic in the progression of law, making his described “taking”, a distinct possibility – even legal now.
Since almost all debt encumbered assets have been securitized – mortgages, student loans, car loans – the holders of the securities, the “preferred creditors” have first right to the collateral, so it can all be taken by them.
I’ve thought for a long time that CBDC is the end game – ultimate tyranny & ultimate control but wondered about how global implementation could be done. It can’t be done piecemeal, has to be across the board. Burning it all down at once seems probable, and his thoughts may be right on.
Could just be one man’s opinion, but he knows his stuff and seems legit. I believe JHK was trying to get the author on his podcast, which may shed a little more light on the subject and his credentials.
Seems that you can glean a lot about a person and their authenticity, when you see them in person – presentation, confidence, body language, tone, etc.
Maybe Jim can get him on, and we’ll get a look-see. Hope so.
A lingering thought – for about 15 years now.
What exactly is the collateral behind student loans?
There are marketable SLABS (student loan asset-backed securities), same as MBS (mortgages backed securities), with various tranches of risk, but I’ve never understood the collateral.
Their diploma? Or just indentured servitude for life?
To those much smarter than I am, I’m all ears.
“It will be hard to gaslight the country anymore when that happens. That will be the sobering moment when all the preposterous, mendacious, criminally insane propositions of recent years stand nakedly exposed.”
Unfortunately, sans a complete collapse (which would result in Nukesville) the only thing that would happen if something was exposed is rebranding and a new cast of clowns.
If one thinks not- just reflect on how RussiaGate played out. DS was caught red handed and not one single perp walk.
Not to be a complete doomer but right now the only choices seem to be accepting things as they are and make your own personal situation as good as possible or make peace with whether or not one wants to be a survivor of a large nuclear exchange.
Fundamental reform and improvement is not longer an option. “We” (all of us have let things go to far for that.
I’m afraid you’re right about that.
When you let those who outlaw any and all criticism of their subset’s machinations, their tendency to destroy, ravage, and parasitize, their history of doing the same in society after society, in countries and continents, and you do not heed the many and unambiguous warnings from Franklin to Jefferson to FDR to Ford.
This is what you have.
One big inexplicable coincidence.
Verboten to mention the common denominator.
Perhaps because some will extend the charge to all.
As is the tendency of humanity. Lump everyone in.
Yet one only need to read through the names making the decisions.
It is undeniable, but unspoken.
Your people, right?
JHK took the words out of my mouth with his description of Halloween and the apparent obsession of Americans with death and evil. Every year I see more and more elaborate displays of Halloweens demons and ghouls and fewer and fewer displays of Christmas lights and nativity scenes. Mr. Kunstler, you just described how I have been feeling for a very long time.
We are a society that worships death. Just look around you.
1. Abortion is celebrated and preserved at all cost.
2. Nearly every movie and TV show that is made involves murder, torture or some other form of horror.
3. We spend countless millions protecting the rights of serial murderers and even make TV shows about them, interview them, and are fascinated by them.
4. Just look at the average common person. They are ugly. Degenerate. Covered with unrecognizable tattoos, piercings and generally just fat and filthy. Few there be that care about themselves anymore.
That divine spark that made us better than the dogs we now place on a pedestal above our children has been extinguished.
We are culture of death, no longer a culture of life. Life is no longer celebrated and upheld. A dying society too far gone to stop and evaluate its choices and behaviors.
Pathetic.
Don’t forget about that other form of entertainment: gaming.
Nothing more than people shooting other people.
Good one. Spot on.
Another one came to mind. Football. Grown men beating the hell out of each other turning their minds to mush, destroying knees, shoulders and ankles. The only difference between football players and ancient gladiators is the players today wear pads and don’t kill each other during the event.
And the pay is definitely better.
No, not football. Not the great American game! What would guys do without the game to watch?
Pay attention to their wives
Who are paying attention to their Tennis instructors
Their wives are watching reality tv and stuffing their faces with Doritos
Got that right. Love football.Except for the end racism in the end zone, and other such crap injected into it now.
Societies that worship sex eventually become societies that worship death.
What about combining the two? Pornographic snuff films. Can’t get any sicker than that. Only in America! (And several Eastern European countries that shall remain nameless….)
Now that is a thought worth merit. The two definitely seem to go hand in hand don’t they. Our society today, at least entertainment, revolves entirely around death and sex. No doubt about it.
Beryl, maybe take it even a little farther. Death, sex and alcohol (drugs). Alcohol is a scourge upon our society. Death, sex and crime always surround it.
Yes. Hard liquor is called “Spirits” for a reason.
Man, you guys are buzz killers.
life/death are one and the same. Because all that is born must die.
True religion has to do with Life, not life. And true evil is that which is against Life – call it Death. Or call the first the God or the Good and the other Satan or Evil.
Fertility rituals aren’t evil in and of themselves. But they can easily become so by being corrupted by evil.
Beryl of Oyl:
“Societies that worship sex eventually become societies that worship death.”
I’m not sure why that is, or how it happens, but dang, it is absolutely true.
Maybe it’s something to do with failing to recognize human beings as being made in God’s image (Genesis 1:27). And what makes us “in God’s image” is something that lies deeper than the body, i.e., the soul or spirit. It is that spirit that makes us living beings (Genesis 2:7).
Deny that we are divine — and created and animated by the Divine — and what are you left with? The delusion that we are nothing more than mortal bodies, just like the animals. Well, then, the Enemy would have us USE those bodies for mere pleasure as much as we can and for as long as we can, and then dispose of it as degradingly, contempuously, and even violently as possible, surrounded with as much ugliness as possible.
Sex is fun!!!!
Sex feels great!!!!
Sex relieves anxiety, the primary goal of living.
God gave us sex as a really great way to propagate.
Except that today, nobody wants the results of that propagation. Everyone wants the “play” in sex without the responsibility.
Abortion!!!!!!
Abortion is murder!!!
It is murder because the combined DNA of two germ cells contain all the information needed to make a 21 year old adult. The state should be protecting that entity.
Love how people who swallow every kind of artificiality and unnaturalness in our civilization otherwise, will scream “murder!” about abortion, one of the only counterbalancing factors to all the artificial preventers of natural childhood mortality we’ve eliminated by squeezing the Earth like a one-use sponge.
A very strange, selective, convenient and erronious view of God and what “His” intentions are.
Huh???
Simple chore, right?
Convince yourself that a creation of God, a human being defined by his/her DNA at conception is not a human being, just a blob of protoplasm.
IOW, deny the existence of God Himself who created everything.
Just what percentage of abortions are to prevent childhood mortality or mother mortality and how many would be for the convenience of two people who went oops?
Do you really believe God intends for us to just cut his creations out of uteri?
30% of all pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion.
Explain why God does that, please.
Especially when a lot of those were wanted and planned pregnancies.
A bit extreme, for a nurse. Have you ever worked in Labor & Delivery? Ever experienced a miscarriage? I ask, because I have worked in L&D and have gone through 7 miscarriages, most of them early ones, thank goodness. Mother Nature/God/the human body/the universe kills zygotes like nobody’s business. It is a losing battle to protect fertilized eggs from mothers who probably do not want them. Your definition of murder sounds less like consensus and more like a personal credo.
I do agree with the larger point, of course, and personally would never end a pregnancy on purpose.
Good points. Nature isn’t God. And there can be too much of a good thing, be it ice cream, deer, or people (putting our best foot forward as in “made in the image of God”.
God is perfect. Nature is not. Since Nature is not, we have the right to kill the unborn? That doesn’t follow. But Gus’s point still stands. This is a limited planet. And billions are due to die fairly soon, be it from Nature or the evil hands of evil men.
“Nature isn’t God.” — Jarek
“God against man. Man against God. Man against nature. Nature against man. Nature against God. God against nature. Very funny religion!”
— D.T. Suzuki
The ridiculous giant figures are a reflection of movies and video games. These people are left flat by anything that doesn’t slap them in the face visually. Over-the-top is the way to go.
Inflatables are just depressing, for either holiday. A damp, nasty pile on the ground all day. ?
The only inflatables I like are those happy dancer guys that are sometimes found in front of used auto dealers. They bounce around and seem all happy to be there.
Of yeah, and then there are the inflatables that are of a more personal nature that we probably should not talk about…lol
LOL. I like those dancer guys too. They are quite entertaining.
I also like the giant Coke can or King Kong balloon that often appear in front of a used auto dealer. Not sure what Coke and Kong have to do with car sales, but, it works. It definitely draws the attention of the masses. Almost as effectively as free hotdogs!
Nothing beats free hotdogs!
With mustard and onions!
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss did a video with floppy car dealership inflatables. A real toe-tapper, it was. Trying to remember the title. “Can’t Let Go,” I think.
Good duo. Plant had to actually buckle down and learn how to harmonize–well into his old age.
You can extend this to the American palate.
From everything from food to wine to beer to cigars.
Irreparably damaged from sugar, salt, spice, and sauce.
Most Europeans can enjoy, let alone distinguish, unulderated flavors.
Nuanced. Depth.
Not so much here.
Salt, spice, sugar, fried, cheesified!
It infects everything.
Beer becomes hop filled bitter bombs (a disguise for poor brewing technique). ABV at 8+ person, bitterness “units” through the roof of the mouth.
We want more! Harder!
Wine becomes blended fruit bombs.
It is a wonder how Champagne is booming. My suspicion it is a yellow label/brand status thing more than people detecting brioche, fruit, toast and cream.
Then we have the American cigar market. “Flavor bombs!” Cigars stuffed from tobacco sourced from eveywhere and anywhere to give enthusiasts that peppery nico-bomb with constant flavor changes lest we become bored!
Cubans are better off in the mouths of the appreciative it seems.
Even the “news”cycle falls victim.
Nothing is shocking. It is all in line with collapse.
Nothing stimulates. Surrender.
Cubans are good, if you can get them. Unfortunately, JFK lives on with the embargo restrictions.
Add to that good Russian caviar and vodka, also scarce commodities here stateside.
I think a few Polish producers are the only source of potato derived Vodka in the US.
Caspian caviar I believe is available but that price coupled with the sketchy sourcing is too risky.
Kind of reminds me of the movie Zardoz.
With Washington, DC, as the Vortex and everything outside of it is the wastelands and barbarism.
I think it started with the gum in the 60’s. Fruit Stripe, all the sour flavor gums. I seem to remember a gum that was a packet of small colored gum bits, can’t remember the name anymore.
Chicklets.
Ain’t it funny the brain deems necessary to store after 65 years?
Ah, Chiclets. Always to be found in the glove compartment of my grandparents’ car. Also in the little vending machines in the train station, so my association is of going into the city with my mother to shop on occasion. She always wore a nice dress, with a hat and gloves. *sigh*
Mini-chiclets? About the size of Sen-Sen.
I just love the heck out of Beeman’s and Teaberry gum; my dad would give me sticks of those, back in the 1960s. Mom always offered a half-stick of Juicy Fruit from the depths of her purse. That was kind of awful.
Pepsin, Clove & Blackjack Beemans
Soapy-tasting (just a hint!) Sen-Sens.
Primal memories.
“But wait!” There’s more!”
httpx://www.amazon.com/Beemans-Black-Jack-Clove-Chewing/dp/B07VS4HYGK/ref=asc_df_B07VS4HYGK?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80333185695392&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583932713591035&psc=1
IPA is shit. Can’t believe how it’s got a market foothold.
Depends. I usually like dark stuff from Belgium (Trappist) or S. Germany, but if you know where to look, there are some very good IPAs.
I recommend Pax: https://pax-braeu.de/
IPA is seasonal, and they do some very interesting beers in general. The last one I had was made with Szechuan pepper and cilantro.
😀
The Rhoner pale ale looks intriguing. Have you had it?
It’s moot for me since they don’t sell it over here.
Not yet. Over the past few years, they had a couple of IPAs that were very good. The Rhöner Pale Ale seems to have replaced them for the summer.
Funny thing over here is that ower in this case is not legally allowed to call this beer in the German sense, as he does not follow the Rheinheitsgebot. Instead, he has to call his products “brewer specialties.”
Buuuuuuuuuusssssssssschhhh
IPAs are truly bad. Like grapefruit wine or something.
Nope. Alaskan ‘Icy Bay’ IPA is a superb IPA beer.
As a lifelong imbiber (drunken sailor in my past,) I am so glad this beer came along for my dotage, and that my very sensitive even now tastebuds are able to appreciate it.
I will say one thing I’ve noticed while recently traveling to and from the Pacific NW back to Alaska, there has been a proliferation of IPA specialty breweries and in line with the general criticism in this thread, the brewers have added a shit-ton of ‘floral’ ingredients, citrus-fruity this, fruity that, in an apparent effort to satisfy the ‘Murican predilection for hyper-sweetness on the palate, and perhaps even as mentioned above, to disguise an inferior brew.
Which Alaskan “Icy Bay” IPA assuredly is not.
Ultimately, to each his own.
Halloween
is all about
supposedly
demure
women
dressing up
as
a sexy
French maid.
Good, but you’ve mixed the singular with the plural.
(I always avoid the Q. pedantry, but when you put it to verse, the stakes go up.)
Conga Fever and or Ebola is here.
Conga fever? Is that a Miami area dance craze?
Mister Anderrrson…we’ve been keeping an eye on you.
Honest Agent Smith, I don’t know a Donald Trump. I don’t like him..I never voted for him.
“Supposedly hard-up working-class people go all-out constructing Halloween shrines to the totem figures of decay and death… the celebration of horror and terror has way more meaning in America these days than the message of peace-on-earth, angels-on-high…”
There is NO peace on Earth. And the Angels are GETTING high to deal with horrors They see going on here down below every hour in this lower dimension of insanity.
And somehow, the Halloween Season these days just isn’t the same one we grew up with since we are all living through horrors and nightmares all Year long.
And the demons and ghouls that we see on a daily basis on United States Incorporated State Media are scarier than anything that the darkness and most twisted creative writers and movie depictions can come up with.
We have Orange Man… whose head looks something like a Pumpkin if you look at it from the right angle. And we The Resident… who with his bad plastic surgery and permanently confused and befuddled look looks like a twisted Charlie Brown when he looks into his goodie bag and sees that he once again got nothing but… a rock.
We have The Cackler… who bears the default face of, ‘I can’t believe I’m still here and that I have actually made nice career for myself out of doing this crap!’
We have the Brilliant (seriously, no sarc) Governor of Florida who should have been savvy enough to pass 2024 by and let The Orange Man continue to suck up all the energy in the room as he will continue to do until he is off the political scene. Florida Man should have waited for 2028 – unless he thinks we aren’t going to make it that far?
We have Mister ‘Oh, gee, look at my real pretty hair!’ from the Once-Golden-But-Now-Rusted-And-Busted State of California who expects to be elect… er… ‘installed’ as President by virtue of how stunning his hair is and because he is fully true and committed to the dark agenda and vision of the Dark Staters who are fouling and taking full possession of Planet Earth. (‘And his HAIR was PERFECT!’, the old song goes).
And we have the true prophet and hero of Our Age… Junior… who was on the right side of Vax Issue all along and who still believes there’s a tiny window for a bit of Camelot to emerge in These Battered & Confused States.
American Politics is Cartoons for Adults. American Political dialog is carried on at mentality level of those who enjoy the worst of Saturday morning cartoons. Politics is like watching Svengoolie on Me-TV on a Saturday night but the Nation’s version goes on all week and years without end and with political characters that are much more dangerous and scary than anything that ‘Ole Sven will ever show.
Naw, they’ve ruined Halloween by making it the default governance system for Our Nation.
Want to really scare the hell out of ‘Them’? Stay sane, stay grounded, stay strong, stay rational, keep-on-believin’- and never give in to their dream of installing Hell on Earth.
Even when Our hair is less than… perfect.
RS – you’re 100% correct on DeSantis.
Especially as federal influence ebbs, and as states get more self-sufficient and lean more toward self-governing, and state-level priorities – Red States anyway.
Red States would sooner be done with the federal government, if they could only get off the federal tit – eating dirt if we have to.
Blue States of course, want to stay on the federal tit, so they can have some milk with their free cookies.
Signed, a 4th Generation Floridian
Ron Anselmo: “Especially as federal influence ebbs, and as states get more self-sufficient and lean more toward self-governing, and state-level priorities – Red States anyway. Red States would sooner be done with the federal government…”
America’s Founding Fathers believed in preeminent power and rights in The (Individual) States and not a gargantuan, power-mad Federal Centralized government. How ‘bout that! There was the answer all along… which of course the gargantuan, power-mad Federal Centralized government ignored as well as a good chunk of The People.
When you open a box with a new thing in it… isn’t it best to read and follow the directions? Apparently not for some Nations. They just throw the directions away… or totally ignore them as if they never existed.
If only our Nation had stayed true to course of the original brilliant vision of The Founding Fathers. It’s unbelievable how many of our current problems would never have occurred in the first place. Little things like a Civil War, getting involved in endless wars around the World, vaccine mandates from power drunk political hacks and Nazi-inspired scientists, impeachments, crushing taxation and regulation… you know, little things like that.
RS – my thoughts exactly, but you always outdo yourself with your well-organized thoughts & articulation. I just tease the subject and wait for you to clarify it.
As I understand the supreme law, federal government is responsible for 1) minting of the currency, and 2) national security, and nothing more.
They’ve screwed those two up, as well as every other thing they’ve touched, which they were never responsible for in the first place.
The federal government is like morally superior, self-righteous, overbearing parents of late teens.
“This is my house, and as long as you live under my roof, you will follow my rules!”
“Fuck your rules, I’m leaving!”
“OK, but remember, you’ll no longer be getting your allowance!”
“Fuck your allowance, I don’t need it!”
Allowance = Cookie
Ron Anselmo: “The federal government is like morally superior, self-righteous, overbearing parents of late teens.”
Parents can be the greatest blessing or the worst curse in a young person’s life. We are each born naked (in more ways than one) and vulnerable. We are born with a pure and clean slate of body, soul, and mind… and parents are the first and primary influence to begin to etch their own thoughts, ideas, dreams, hurts, pathology, and inspirations into the exposed youth. And that youth spends the rest of his or her life dealing with all that has been downloaded – both good and bad – into the vessel of that new life the parents created.
And good parents know that they don’t just want to hand their kids a full box of the toxic crap that they themselves were handed by their parents… or that they picked up along the way in their own lives. Good parents transcend the toxicity of their own upbringing and elevate and illuminate the lives of their children.
Now… wouldn’t it be something if Government thought that way?
Instead, Government is a spoiled brat that pounds the table and wants their way all the time in all things and they cry and yelp and blubber and punish those around them when they don’t get it.
RS – you have the definition of parenting – good, bad or indifferent, very well-defined. Your insights always are interesting & valuable.
Mine was a secession metaphor (getting off the federal tit – teat, more proper):
“This is my house, and as long as you live under my roof, you will follow my rules!”
“Fuck your rules, I’m leaving!”
“OK, but remember, you’ll no longer be getting your allowance!”
“Fuck your allowance, I don’t need it!”
JHK is particularly persuasive when he notes “that the blob has lately subsumed the state” and is now in a further totalitarian move, specifically targeting the MAGA crowd for potential incarceration or worse. He is also on firm ground when he identifies MAGA, Bobby Kennedy, Jr., and the brilliant tactical maneuvers by Mr. Gaetz in the House, especially getting rid of McCarthy, all as steps towards strengthening populist forces.
Where JHK may be most off is his sense of the potential degree of immediate economic instability in our financial and economic sectors:
“A true life horror lies in the crumbling, bond market, the foundation of the money and banking system, that is supposed to support the on-the-ground economy… the bond market is stumbling badly. As rates rise, banks’ collateral melts away and they go bust, liquidation moves to stock markets, derivatives implode, and vast resources of capital vanish.”
In order to better evaluate the likelihood of such a cascading financial economic outcome, it is important to keep technical details in mind—what I call awareness of the thwarting cascade mechanism:
1. In March 2023, the Federal Reserve established its Bank Term Funding Program to provide emergency liquidity to banks due to rises in long-term interest rates that caused markdowns in the values of bond securities in their respective portfolios.
2. The extreme losses at Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic were also due to the panicked withdrawal of loads of uninsured deposits as well as low profit margins in their bank loan portfolios.
From my perspective, the origins of some kind of cascading, financial economic crisis is more likely to originate in the increasing political instability we will be facing in the future–2024.
‘Brilliant tactical maneuver’? Gaetz is eyeing the Florida governorship (2026) and chaos gets you coverage and coverage gets you money. What are his objectives and how does he explain this ousting besides calling McCarthy a traitor to the cause? How does he expect to get things done in a highly fractured political environment?
As has been said, ‘Gaetz essentially launched the procedural equivalent of invading Afghanistan with no obvious way to declare victory or to leave.’
Again, this incident also clearly illustrates the perils of Democracy. Eight, yes eight, republicans side with the democrats and oust the speaker. 210 repubs voted against the ouster.
I await the significant achievements that the so-called populist forces will obtain in the Congress.
We’re on our third mortgage of borrowed time. The world knows and is trying like hell to get out from under the $USD. (40 + nations trying to join BRICS.)
Flocks of black swans flying everywhere. Which one will fly off the handle first? Once it does, our days are numbered more specifically.
My guess is it starts in Japan. Their debt to GDP ratio is approaching 300% (just heard that—not confirmed,) while ours nests at about 127%. They are our biggest UST holders.
I dunno. But I’m noivous about our immediate future that leads into the even scarier long term. We’ve gotten far too accustomed to living big lies, especially since 2008, back when an $800 billion TARP bailout was ‘big’ money.
We’re going to find out—soon enough.
George Gammon knows a helluva lot more than me (I just found this) and he shoots a few holes in my “theories,” but the black swans are still in the picture.
“Warning: The Economy may not Survive This”
httpx://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBgOCct3OvA&list=TLPQMDYxMDIwMjN-dzjNwUQltQ&index=15
And meanwhile, back at the ranch, the central banks—including and especially for us’ns the Fed, have continued their squirming ways in how to squeeze us even harder as we approach implosion.
John Titus (YT Channel “Best Evidence”) is the watchdog economist of our time, working alongside Catherine Austin Fitts (the other U.S. financial watchdog of our time.) He credits and thanks CAF for her input; he also writes for her “Solari Report.”
“Presenting The Fed’s Perfect Plan For U.S. Dollar’s Oblivion”
httpx://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0u5h579ZeU&list=TLPQMDYxMDIwMjN-dzjNwUQltQ&index=1
All told, said and done, we have uncountable pipers to pay. This. Can’t. Go. On.
And it ain’t going to either. Damn. We’re in for a helluva scary ride. ‘Cept most of us are going to be struggling to walk.
I think the secret the Deep State uses to quell the revolt is the monetary printing press. The answer to everything for them is to spend, spend, and spend. Whenever bad economic news hits, roll the presses, give out more money without increases in wealth. Inflate the negatives out of existence.
Right now, we are entering stage two of this inflation cycle. The workers, the unions, have had enough of the discrepancy between spending power of the wage market and the slowing but continuing escalation in prices. Their demands for a 4 day work week and big increases in pay are going to shoot up the inflation rate. Not a guess, the 10+% inflation of the 70s shows it already.
The inflation report is a crock. It shows a slowing trend in the percentage but not one indication of a reversal of prices. Why? Easy! It is because the money is there, in place in the money supply, with no means of removal.
As long as the Deep State believes in inflation is the key to keeping the lid on the can, the dollar will continue its downward worth.
Who really cares if a loaf of bread costs a hundred dollars? Not he Deep State!!!
Seriously, so what if a loaf of bread costs that much as long as Joe Average is making a minimum wage of $100000 a year. And immigrants are receiving the same.
Aye-aye, sir. You’ve summed it neatly.
I have just finished reading the first 181 comments and it has been very frustrating. I think I only understood maybe 25 or 30 of them. I am seriously wondering if it’s my own brain that is failing.
I did notice one or two hundred spelling, grammar, and usage errors. I’ll mention only one. Somebody spelled occasionally as occassionally.
That would be Cankerpuss that spelled it “occassionally”. I was curious and did a search. Whew, wasn’t me!
I can imagine little puffs of steam coming out of your ears as you read progressively further and the spelling, grammar, and usage errors began piling up.
“Occuring at certain moments in time that can only be identified by Cassio watches.”
It’s a word—one of several—that in its permutations has me repeatedly scratching my head and even becoming frustrated in spelling correctly, a problem I never had with it for my entire life.
Muh brain, what has happened to ye…?
Today’s offering by our host has filled me with longing for the past, and for a kind of childhood that no child can experience now or, likely, ever again.
My grandfather always took me out on Halloween and walked up and down our small-town street with me, having a bit of a chat with everyone whose house we visited.
The doors were all opened by stay at home mothers, sometimes grandmothers, who made a great fuss over each child’s mostly homemade costumes. They plied us with cookies they’d baked, brownies on little plates, hot cocoa and hugs. The only decorations were carved pumpkins with a candle inside and fall flowers in pots on the doorsteps. Among the candy treats were odd little charms and knick-knacks, some of which I still have – a tiny pair of metal scissors less than an inch long (yes, they worked and still do), a little girl looking out a window which, when turned around, showed the same girl looking out from inside the house.
The spooky element derived from the fact that most of us were never out and about after dark, when anything might happen in the shadows. Our imaginations were free from serial killers and chainsaw wielding maniacs, of which we knew nothing, so our fears were pretty tame by present standards. I was afraid of witches but I was with my grandfather who was more than a match for the worst of them. Nothing bad could happen in his presence.
I still recall vividly the little frisson of fear, set against a background so comforting as to make it enjoyable. The smell of fallen leaves on the ground, woodburning fireplaces, and percolating coffee drifting together as doors were opened by people we trusted, people who loved us.
I wish I could give this to every child alive now.
Thanks for that touching post, Rowdy.
The people we visited on our Hallowe’en haunts gave us chocolate bars (the apex of treats), but homemade crafted goodies, as well.
As for the fear element, very few houses had any sort of front yard paraphernalia, but of those that did, it was understated, even homely. The biggest fear for us was that the houses were often deeply inset, with a lot of space between one and others, so the experience was like entering a new, dark, unsure environment, with dogs barking, natural fog, and creaking steps (lower middle-class neighbourhood).
Great fun.
That was touching, such a perfect life in a well-ordered society. This is how children should rightly be brought up. Unfortunately, their lives have been invaded by the corrupt morals of the West, all the technology gadgets like cell phones, and cheap crap that has flooded our homes from China. You are right, we will likely never again see a time like you described.
Yeah, everything was okay until some very sick folks started putting razor blades and needles into candy and then that was exaggerated by our friendly MSM.
The days you are reminiscing about also had kids being able to walk home from school and play and do sports without soccer moms and dads hovering about.
How will kids ever learn to be independent if they are not allowed to be so?
Sorta explains Gen Z.
I had much the same in my experience, RP. Thanks for putting it in words. And in keeping with the topic, it’s truly haunting, for our collective lost innocence.
Things have truly gone to shit here, especially when we can so readily recall how different childhood was then. Even with seminal events like the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis being front and center at the same time.
Valentina Papagna, sept 22/23
Blessed Mother keeps coming to me in a vision, reminding me, “Nothing is more important than to Consecrate everyone to my safe refuge, to my Immaculate Heart every day.”
“Valentina, my child, there is not much time to waste. Now is the time to keep close to me and to offer to me everyone that you meet and encounter. There are great things that will envelop the world now, and you will not comprehend unless you are close to me. In that way, I will protect you and cover you with my Maternal Mantle.”
She was happy when she said to me, “But don’t be afraid, my children. There is so much to look forward to. You will be entering into the New Era of Peace. I cannot tell you the beauty that you will experience, that my Son is preparing for you.”
“Valentina, tell my children that they have to pray very hard and to have courage; it is their decision if they want to come (into the New Era of Peace). Tell them not to fear. They have to have courage and a strong faith in our Lord Jesus. He will help them.”
We thank you Blessed Mother for taking care of us, your children.
Blessed Mother wants us to consecrate all the people around us to her Immaculate Heart, as she said there is not much time to waste. We can do this by consecrating to her all the people we pass by and see — in shopping centers, on the road, in our workplaces, and elsewhere.
We can say this prayer:
“Blessed Mother, as I pass through this place,
and I meet many people along the way,
I consecrate myself and all of these people that pass me by
to your Immaculate Heart.
Please protect them and save them. Amen”
………….
Afterthewarning.com Jar, read the priest in purgatoey one!
On point today jhk.
Thank you for this, anmari. It is peace and tranquility to hear and ponder this message in the din of the day. God bless you.
Hell is littered with the heads of Bishops.
Some saint, can’t remember which.
See you in purgatory, ani! We’ll have lots of time and I’ll teach your philosophy.
For me, growing up in the mid ’40s to mid ’50s, the celebration of Halloween consisted officially of two days, Halloween itself (Oct 31st) and the evening of Oct 30th which was known as “Mischief Night.” The mischief we did consisted primarily of soaping up car windows and of ringing peoples’ doorbells and running away. We snickered (or is it sniggered?) as the home owner opened the front door and looked both ways but nobody was there.
Actually, we extended Mischief Night throughout the entire month of October. By the time Halloween rolled around it would be rare to see a car that did not have soaped up windows.
On Halloween Day (not in the evening) we went out “trick or treating.” I don’t recall parents ever accompanying their children during these candy collecting outings. There was one house where the woman always gave out home baked cupcakes. Her name was Mrs. Knoll.
As a side note and a coincidence, my maternal grandfather was born on October 31, 1883 and his oldest child, my mother, died on October 31, 1995.
The whole thing about Halloween and its relationship to death is that the next day, November 1st, is “All Souls Day” so the day preceding is the Hallow (or Holy) evening (een) before it. All this is totally forgotten in today’s world.
Yeah Q, and it’s also the time of ‘Dia de Los Muertos’ celebrated the first few days of November. Mexicans face up to the reality of death and are happy to rejoin with their departed loved ones during this time of celebration.
Is that the Day of the Dead that Malcolm Lowry wrote about in his novel ‘Under the Volcano’?
Yes, it is, takes place during that time. Lowry was also an alcoholic, and his own vomit put the death choke on him before he was fifty.
His writing lives on, and maybe that’s good part of the reason that writer’s write, to defy death.
TS, some people say that Lowry’s wife Margery murdered him. Yes he did die at age 47. She just couldn’t take anymore.
Critics, when talking about alcoholic authors, usually mention Tennessee Williams, Jack Kerouac, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, John Cheever and others.
But none of them drank like Malcolm Lowry.
Lowry wrote his major work in a rustic alcove on the outskirts of my city, no running water, heat, or electricity. And, during that time, little booze!
Whether Margerie killed him or not, without her editing, criticism, and caretaking, he never would have completed UTV, let alone had the quality of that finished product, without her.
I wonder if La Dia de Los Muertos has any connection to the Aztecs.
Back in the day when you could still take heart.
Almost forgot to mention: As a fully grown adult, Peter would actually take off work on Halloween Day to be at home to greet all the kids that came to his door. He would keep count of the number of kids he gave candy to and proudly tell Bo and me the big headcount number.
Thank you for remembering that, Q. Peter was wonderful in some ways, even if only small and few.
What did Peter do for a living? What kind of business did he have at the end?
What did Peter do for a living? What kind of business did he have at the end? – Jar
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Way back when, Peter got a job as a salesman for a guy named Jack. Jack’s business was outfitting warehouses with metal racking and other warehouse related equipment.
Jack loved two things, golf and alcohol. Eventually he succumbed to the alcohol. He left the business to three of his employees (two men and one woman) of which Peter was one. Jack had two daughters but they weren’t interested in the business.
Peter and the woman bought out the other guy. Now it was just Peter and the woman. She was the inside person who handled the books. Peter considered his main function to be taking potential customers out to lunch. He used to brag that Jack would get mad at him if the expense reports for schmoozing customers was not big enough. This, of course, was total BS.
The woman fleeced Peter because Peter never once looked at the books. It’s just as well he didn’t because he wouldn’t know what he was looking at or what to look for. He had a personal checkbook but did not make entries in a check register. In utter frustration, as I grinded my back molars, I asked “how do you know how much money you have at any given moment?”… which checks have cleared and which haven’t. He would smile and point an index finger at his temple as if to say “I keep track of everything right in my head.” The biz went kaput and Peter had to start over under a new business name. The re-started business eventually failed as well. I’ll spare you the details.
When Jack died his final request was that his ashes be distributed over his favorite golf course. Peter and the woman performed this request.
BTW, today was Bo’s 74th B-Day and tomorrow will be Peter’s 77th B-Day. Yep, they’re 3 yrs apart less one day. We went to Collingswood, NJ, met up with other extended family members and had a Birthday dinner. Collingswood is the charming town that I grew up in. Q Jr. calls it the Mecca of nice little restaurants. The one today featured Turkish food.
Best Birthday wishes to all, Q.
1-Adam-12: See the woman at 45th and Main. Did this woman become Mrs Peter?
What of the man, yea, what of the man?
I see you still refuse to admit Peter had any good qualities. The hardness of your heart amazes me.
My mother grew up a little earlier than that, and she told me of the various pre-holiday celebrations, one of which IIRC was ash can night.
Nobody has an ash can to tip over, or whatever they did with it, today.
The evening of October 31st is when the walls between the living world and the afterworld are thinnest.
Mr. Scratch is very busy in DC and there’s no Daniel Webster to be found.
Does anybody remember ‘Devils Night’ in Detroit, an annual event when, on the night before Halloween, ‘Community Members’ would literally set the entire city in fire? I remember reading about Devils Night in our local newspaper back in the day. Is this still a Detroit tradition? I can imagine distinguished residents of Detroit, bursting with civic pride, passing this legacy down thru generations.
I recall it happening not that long ago. It probably still happens, but the media no longer reports it.
I remember that, Heckler. When we (finally) got cable TV in Regina in the late 1970s, we got our ABC, NBC & CBS feeds from Williston, North Dakota. Williston made Regina seem big! They had some of the very hokiest local ads that you’ll ever see.
Then, in the early 1980s, Cable Regina switched The Big Three to Detroit feeds. Motown local news instantly became must-watch television in Regina. In hindsight, it was our very first taste of reality TV. Detroit was big and bad and scary to us simple prairie folk!
Devil’s Night was massive in the 1980s in Detroit and on Regina TV.
Such a quaint custom.
Crime is a sigh of the oppressed – Paula above.
You’re a lot like the girlfriend of that murdered antifa, now defending the Black murderer. He’s the real victim!
@beantownbill. – I mentioned that I would keep my eyes open and share a Derek Johnson link with you. This may not be the very best example of his work but they do cover a lot of ground in this video.
Specifically, Johnson covers the history of the Obama/Biden American bioweapons labs in the Ukraine as well as the comms of Putin handing the soccer ball to Trump in 2018 [watch the 7 minutes: 1:06:00-1:13:00].
“SG ANON & DEREK JOHNSON LIVE Q&A” – DR. MERI CROULEY
bitchuteDOTcom/video/PpuaxmNlTG00/
“We’ve conflated politics and poor mental health until they are indistinguishable.”–Scott Adams
Boy ain’t that the truth. Dilbert couldn’t have said it better.
That is because the power driven Deep State is NUTS!!!!!!!!
What if any is the difference between the politics of Dilbert and those of Doonesbury?
I read a book about death before the 20th century, back when I used to read books.
Back then, what we now call premature death was much more commonplace, and it happened at home much more often than it does now. And the visitation and wake happened at home, also.
Plus, kids died too, a lot. So the survivors grew up knowing that it could happen at any time.
It was common for people, including children, to think about what they wanted their last words to be. I always thought that Oscar Wilde was so clever to say “Either that wallpaper goes or I do”, but it’s possible he had that line all ready to go when he did.
Halloween is another pagan holiday taken over and used by the Catholics when they took over various pagan societies.
It wasn’t really a kid’s holiday back in the day. Just saying…..
Philippe Aries’ Western Attitudes Toward Death ?
I don’t think that was it.
“When progress is not progress,” example number eighty-three billion, five-hundred twenty-seven million, nine-hundred-forty-four thousand, eight-hundred-eighty two.
Halloween certainly was not oriiginally a children’s holiday;.
Halloween =
All Hallows’ Eve =
the eve of All Saints’ Day., Nov. 1
I believe that Nov. 2 is the Day of the Dead.
Perhaps only in Mexico:
“Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, is a traditional Mexican holiday celebrated November 2. On this day, it is believed that the souls of the dead return to visit their living family members.”
So, it makes sense to give the dead a warm welcome.
As in Mexico:
httpx://cozumelmycozumel.com/day-of-the-dead/
The plastic blow-up effigies are extremely bad art!
” I’m not sure that the edge of the US national cliff has not already been passed and it’s 727 MAX economy can’t fly backward even with the reverse thrusters on full throttle. ”
My THEORY is that the United States Empire collapsed with the fall of Saigon.
Sort of , kind of before the fall of the Soviets
Money is a bit like cosmetics.
For example , by her own admission Stevie Nicks had a 500 – dollar – a – day cocaine habit for a full decade.
Then an addiction for nine years to the drug they used to ween people off cocaine.
One abortion she admits to , and typically a 70 hour work week.
Born in 1948 , so 70+ years old.
She looks 40.
Lipstick on a pig.
Or worse , lipstick on a corpse.
Stevie Nicks is still smokin’ hot.
It’s not the makeup, she’s a beautiful soul, and beauty comes from the inside out – not from the outside in, don’t you know?
Got your point, she’s just a bad example. Try Pelosi. Lipstick on a corpse? She’s an evil soul – she may never die.
“lipstick on a pig.
I don’t think so.
What in the world is wrong with being 70 and looking like 40?
And what does “one abortion” have to do with it?
I like it that she looks so well and hasn’t had any grotesquely obvious plastic surgery.
A good example of aging gracefully.
You know what’s wrong with looking much younger than your age, in some cases (not Stevie’s)?
I’m often mistaken for being a lot younger than I am. A lot, as in over a decade.
Sounds good right?
No. I look pretty good for my age, but for the age people seem to think I am, I look like someone who has seriously let herself go.
Pamela Anderson recently stopped using makeup because her artist (did she live in the servant’s quarters?) died. Hideous.
There’s a Jennifer Connelly cult. I was watching a video of her progression through the years and I had to stop watching. The death of her beauty was too painful to me.
She can still look good – but only with lots of makeup.
@ Disaffected
Halloween III ?
The best I thought.
The others in the series I thought were porn without the porn .
Like they pointed out in ” Scream ” , everyone who fucks or even thinks about fucking gets murdered.
Only the ugly nun girl lives.
The first movie in the series came out in the 1970’s , the Age of Studio 54 and Hugh Hefner.
I can’t actually say where the hypocrisy runs.
In fact it seems to me that it us sterile types who do not survive.
The fall of Saigon —
Perhaps it is no coincidence that — so it seems — the TV show ” Judge Judy ” morphed into ” The Never – Ending Story ” at around that time.
I’m missing Mary Queen.
A great name for a more innocent or wholesome Halloween , too.
Perhaps she is not just bragging when she says she has a life ?
I miss Mary Queen too.
Mary, come back…you can blame it all on me…I was wrong, and I just can’t live without you…Mary, come back…
“We’ve conflated politics and poor mental health until they are indistinguishable.”
Why I’m such a stickler on the subject.
Ayn Rand was screwy , but I think that she was right that psychology is a modern magic wand that transforms a 50 – year – old into a 5 – year – old for all the wrong reasons.
” People trying to find a little joy in their lives? ”
— Elysianfield
Damn ! For a person who typically is a Twitter type / doesn’t write much ,
I like the cut of your Jibe .
( or whatever that phrase was. )
My position was all police are pond scum , Demons masquerading as Angels of light like Lucifer himself.
But you seem downright decent.
Not that I’m to be mistaken for anything but Medusa.
“The cut of your jib,” Medusa.
@ RowdyPiglet
anecdote from a …. more innocent ( ? ) …. time ;
I have no idea where I got the idea , but I used to be scared to death of Faireys.
( Not Homosexuals , I mean the mythological kind. )
I had this idea that Faireys had a pathological hatred of children and would poison candy , chocolate , and peanut butter specifically for some reason.
And at four or five years old I thought Faireys literally existed.
On second thought , not sure how innocence applies to childhood ,
when the child thinks everything that is desirable could be a vehicle for assassination by people who hate you for no apparent reason.
Oh well.
Back in my old place the primary decoration of one room was framed Cottingley Fairey photos.
The idea was the roughly the same as if I had money to piss away I would want to get a Goliath Bird Eater spider ( the largest spider in the world by weight ) as a pet ,
to hopefully get over the animus .
” Some of these pricks around here shut off their lights and lock their doors. CFNers, don’t be like them. ”
— BackrowHeckler
I live in an extremely rural area where everbody literally knows everybody.
Maybe that is actually something of a problem , as for example the neighbor who lives 8 houses down is roughly five miles away ?
So not much door – to – door ?
In any case , sorry to disappoint you BRH ,
but what I just said about Faireys in childhood applies to children in old age.
Halloween aside , and in broad daylight , I will cross the street to avoid a child.
Well said. Who is to say that a needle in a chocolate bar isn’t really a fairy bolt? And the oncoming child not an actual fairy in disguise?
The Dessert Fathers saw visions of demons as small Black children sometimes. Given the behavior of many Black children, who can say nay?
I find this fascinating.
We get propaganda everywhere, and it is very difficult to realize it.
Who woulda thunk that the whole chestnut tree story was wrong?
.youtube.com/watch?v=TksLHWB9Wbk
Fascinating .
On a related note , according to some literature I have read ,
before automobiles , a trip to the county seat , to the post office , or store , was going to be an all – day trip , or a two – day trip , anyway.
So people pretty much built their castles where ever they pleased.
So settlement was much more spread out.
Now settlement is very much concentrated along roads and in already settled areas.
One reason why , believe it or not , Eastern North America is more forested than it was in 1898 – 1900.
Not exactly strong evidence , but I have more than once come upon a Blair Witch Project – like house smack in the middle of the woods of nowhere .
Also , prior to the 20th Century , trees and forest was so abundant , and with agriculture being the number one buiseness , many folks looked at trees as being pests , like Roaches or snakes.
I have seen many an aerial view of an Eastern town in 1901 ( they took the picture in a tethered balloon ? ) where the area looks like Kansas . You scarcely see a tree.
Now back to watch the entire video.
Lol , you said fascinating.
Exactly right KA. The area I’m in, western Ct, was essentially deforested by about 1850. Photographs from that time show scarcely a tree standing, from Hartford to the NY line, a distance of about 60 miles. Much of the land was cleared for farming, but more importantly, trees were cut to provide fuel for the iron & edged tool industries that once flourished here. In the entire state only one stand of old growth forest still exists, and that’s out in rural Kent. What’s more, the majority of hardwood trees we have now, Norwegian Maple, are not native, but were brought in by state govt. to replace Elms that were dying from Dutch Elm disease. Norwegian Maples leave a lot to be desired; they grow and multiply like weeds and it’s hard to keep them under control. They have taken over the forests. There’s no stopping them.
Marlin, do not forget the Gypsy Moth that did a number on the East Coast and Midwest and continues to do so.
The Gypsy Moth, the answer to a North American silk industry. Another Bill Gates style boondoggle.
Or the African Bee, the answer to wanting a hardier honey bee
Or your EIm disease, a response to Easterners planting elms too close together enabling disease spread in the mid west.
Or maybe to spread of viruses amongst human beings by asshats messing with things they shouldn’t.
Hmmmm?
What is wiser, natural evolution to the environment or man made interference?
Gee, why am I so nervous about megalomaniacs like Fauci and Gates messing with RNA and DNA with “organisms” whose function is to eat up human beings?
You’re not a New Englander at all. That’s greater New York.
Tell them about the horrors of the “cities of the plains” (the CT coast).
Great video.
Thanks for the link.
Foster is (now) local.
He has done a lot of research on the status of the State Forest here.
However, I wouldn’t classify the misconceptions about the makeup of the pre-contact forest as “propaganda.”
I see no reason for this labeling.
The real villain of this piece, IMO, is the person who introduced the Asian species and the blight.
I just meant the “Everyone says it, so it must be true” mindset.
I resist it when it comes to anything political, but when it came to the tree question, I just accepted it as true. I think it’s a common trait, which is why our overlords can tell us any absurdity with confidence that most will swallow it whole.
I have some blight-proof Chinese chestnuts in the yard.
It is funny, the exaggerations of American chestnut prominence in old forests.
“It is funny, the exaggerations of American chestnut prominence in old forests.”
I find it interesting. The video linked above explains how/why this probably occurred. A combo of:
1. Too short a time line in interpreting the situation in the past, and
2. Development of new research techniques to access new data on the history of the terrain.
This one of Foster’s research focuses: analyzing the soil to figure out its “deep” history. He has also done extensive work of this type in the Yucatan and come up with a new theory as to the trajectory of the Mayan civilization there.
The climate crisis-ticians might be make similar mistakes:
too short a timeline, and not considering all the available data, some of it relatively new (such as extremely deep ice cores obtained by the Russians in Antarctica, going back hundreds of thousands of years).
Dunno who asked , with gasoline edging up to 5 dollars a gallon , where are people getting all this money ?
It seems like the last four or five Friday nights , Friday night is the slowest , quietest period anywhere on the net.
Seems like I’m the only one doing the bargain – basement – cheap – date – thing on Friday night.
I’m with you. I can’t believe I read the whole thing.
“Abortion is murder!!!
It is murder because the combined DNA of two germ cells contain all the information needed to make a 21 year old adult. The state should be protecting that entity.”
Love how people who swallow every kind of artificiality and unnaturalness in our civilization otherwise, will scream “murder!” about abortion, one of the only counterbalancing factors to all the artificial preventers of natural childhood mortality we’ve eliminated by squeezing the Earth like a one-use sponge.
A very strange, selective, convenient and erronious view of God and what “His” intentions are.
goddamnit, “erroneous”
People: “I know God! I know God!”
God: “No you don’t.”
Hmmm, does people also include you?
Do you really believe you know God’s aims better than anyone else?
I will always be extremely suspect that any large coalition opinion will reflect the divine view on a subject.
If I accuse most people who claim to know God and God’s intentions of being riddled with errors in doing so, I’m happy with my odds of being right.
Non-stop bullshit about abortion.
Be damn thankful your own sainted mother did not have you ripped apart in the womb.
I have changed my thoughts on Abortion and think extreme late term abortion should be allowed in one case.
Anyone who votes Democrat should be aborted at any age.
Or committed.
I have already answered this BS up stream.
Summed up, anyone thinking that abortion is in God’s plan is wrong.
One more.
All the killings going on on the streets of our cities, are they just God willed events to control the level of population? Are wars and bombings good things in God’s eyes?
One big difference is that the unborn have no say in what is happening to them.
My criticism of your post, John, was: In the universe of things going on that are likely not Yahweh-approved, this is one if a handful you want to vocalize prominently?
This issue, as much as any other, is consistently presented (probably by both sides, but especially by the opposition) with extremely high levels of childish sentimentality, and with extremely low levels of mature contextualizing of the issue. It’s a cartoon; a grotesque, simplified totem; an absolutely peripheral symptom of a deep bone and tissue disease.
I want people on the root disease, not this fluff.
If we fixed the deep issues, abortion would fix itself. Bleating about abortion is almost always a diversion.
So JohnAZ,if you’re president tomorrow or a candidate, what is your position on abortion; total bans nationally, partial bans by length of term, ending of federal funding for planned parenthood?
I think abortion abolitionism is a loser for the American rights wing’s election prospects. I’d cut Federal spending and let the insurance industry cover it if there is a demand for the service. Let planned Parenthood cover it from donations or let the Soro’s of the world fund it.
I’m on the American right but am no religious conservative. I’d nationalize the legislation and bury this political shit bomb for good.
No creature on this earth strives for death, Gus.
Very few creatures on earth strive for anything but shallower forms of expediency. We humans pride ourselves in our supposed intelligence and foresight, but this self-analysis is weak. Usually the shallowness of our tendencies toward expediency outstrips that in our “animal” counterparts.
Striving for death, following dictates of expediency, and striving for life… these are three different, separate things.
Humans need learn to strive for life instead of the expedient substitutes for that pursuit that dominate most human behavior.
This may be some of the most pretentious twaddle ever posted on CFN.
(He didn’t follow. Also, invited it.)
Read your post aloud without cringing.
If you can, then you are a stronger man than I.
It sucks when you read something and don’t understand it easily, and then have to belittle to cover.
Your post is the equivalent of modern art, Gus.
You could submit it to the Hirshhorn where others like you could enjoy it.
Yes, purely natural creatures in an unbalanced environment, say shorn of predators, will breed and breed until they are culled by starvation or disease.
Does this apply to humans? Given that we are biological beings, at least in our lower octave, of course it does.
Mary’s triumphant bray, “We are animals” is ridiculous of course, but not entirely wrong since we have an animal type body, one related to other primates.
Primitive people have their own take on this. Being shown a picture of a gorilla and and asked about evolution, an Indian (feather) elder said, He’s a relation, not an ancestor.
So, Mary ‘brays’ and Anthea ‘hisses’. But you just speak. OK, if you say so, toadie.
Couldn’t make sense of it.. or more like ly didn’t even try. Higher things are not Owl’s forte, but he still likes to pretend they are. Then when he can’t keep up, he starts spitting.
I asked John upthread what is God’s plan in spontaneously aborting 30% of all pregnancies, including those which were planned and wanted.
Why would God do such a thing, if every embryo is sacred?
Why be so cruel to couples who desperately want a baby, while allowing 14 y.o. girls to carry to term, and then dump the baby off with grandma, or auntie, or baby daddy’s new girlfriend?
What’s the grand plan there?
The question is, it would benefit the female not to become a mother at that point in time?
If she wants something to happen that occurs regularly in nature nearly as often as not, she’s bad.
Everybody gets to hate on her.
Indeed.
@Paula, I acknowledge as truth most of what you’ve said. I’ve worked with many children who come from the backgrounds you describe, and it’s tragic in every way possible.
We can’t change human nature, and some people make horrible parents. My preferred solution would be the one I originally reluctantly consented to – abortion in the early part of pregnancy and the morning after pill available without prescription so that it was as common in the home medicine cabinet (among those who might need it) as aspirin.
I wish it wasn’t so, but we have to deal with reality and sometimes the best option we have is one we don’t at all like.
But even in these circumstances, I can’t go along with the cruelty of dismembering infants who are clearly not just a bit of tissue but are viable or nearly viable. Changing your mind as the infant is in the process of being born? I think that’s monstrous, and I’ve certainly heard it advocated. I can’t abide cruelty, to humans or to animals. Surely we can do better.
None of these are solutions that I like or can support with a clear conscience. But they’re what we have to deal with, and we can only choose from what’s possible. I try to make those choices in as thoughtful a way as I’m able.
Agree, Rowdy. An infant capable of living outside the womb should not be killed.
I just question whether that actually happens, or is one of those urban myths.
So it’s therefore ok to end a healthy pregnancy and kill a healthy unborn baby?
Seriously? People die all the time, so therefore murder is ok?
@Jarek, Beryl, Paula
A few random thoughts:
There was a time when I was not opposed to abortion in the early part of pregnancy. I had the mistaken idea that no woman would use abortion as a form of birth control, or would terminate a life without the most serious and compelling reasons to do so – certainly never casually or for mere selfishness.
Since then, the demands have only increased and now we have reached the point where some are demanding the right to end the life of a child who is in the birth canal or even one who has been born (within the first 28 days of life). We’re asked not only to accept this, which is abominably cruel, but to affirm and celebrate it. This has taught me that, when dealing with fanatics, giving an inch is just the beginning of a process whereby you will eventually surrender every principle, if you allow it.
It has never been so easy or so “convenient” to prevent pregnancy as it is now. Surely, if convenience is to be the ultimate deciding factor, it’s more convenient and in every way easier to prevent a pregnancy than to abort one. The convenience argument, in any event, is a dangerous one in which you will inevitably be hoist by your own petard, as we all will ultimately become inconvenient to someone or something. Do we really want ourselves and our loved ones to be evaluated in this crudely materialistic way, by how much we inconvenience them?
In any event, if convenience is provided but you can’t be bothered to avail yourself of it, it shows a level of irresponsibility that is nearly beyond description. It’s as if you had only to say aloud “I don’t want to be pregnant” and the pregnancy wouldn’t occur – but it was just too much trouble for you to say the words.
How is it even possible that, in 2020, 930,000 women couldn’t be bothered to take the simple steps required to prevent an unwanted pregnancy? Nearly a million accidents? I don’t think so, at least, not unless we want to play one of the favorite games of leftists and redefine the word “accident.”
Why do women encourage other women, and especially young ones, to hold themselves to such a low standard that they have sex with anyone who wanders into their surroundings and catches their eye? Why aren’t they taught to value themselves and other people more than just using them as objects and allowing themselves to be used in the same way? What happened to love, to respect, to commitment? How does this exploitative behavior help women or men or anyone in any way? I recall when the women’s movement objected to women being considered “sex objects” by men; now they welcome it, practice it themselves, and consider it a human right along with all their other whims and fancies.
We’ve created a culture where it’s praiseworthy to live a life of self-indulgence, to put oneself first to such an extent that nothing and no one can even come second.The result is this conversation with the CEO of StemExpress, an organization that buys aborted baby body parts from Planned Parenthood and sells them to researchers: “Yeah, Make sure the eyes are closed! StemExpress: [Loud Laughter] Tell the lab it’s coming. So they don’t open the box and go, “Oh God!” [Laughter] So yeah, whereas so many of the academic labs cannot fly like that. They’re just not capable. Buyer: Why is that? I don’t understand that. StemExpress: It’s almost like they don’t want to know where it comes from. I can see that. Where they’re like, “We need limbs, but no hands and feet need to be attached.” […] They want you to take it all off, like, “Make it so that we don’t know what it is.” Buyer: Yeah. Bone the chicken for me and then I’ll eat it.”
Can it get more depraved than this? Wpuld it be any less so if they weren’t laughing about it?
We’re MEANT to be inconvenienced for the sake of all those things that matter more, the things that allow us or force us to show our mettle, to be better than we thought we could be. We’re supposed to grow our souls while we’re here, not lurch around, using and being used, like bags of animated meat.
That said, I don’t hate on women who get abortions. More often I pity them, because they’ve bought something without having realized the price they’ll pay. I do wonder what it would take for unwanted pregnanies to just no longer happen.
As for God’s plan, if you believe there is a God, you must also believe that trying to understand the plan of a being who created the Universe and all in it is like an amoeba trying to understand the actions and thoughts of a nuclear physicist. If you have even for a moment felt God’s love, you can make the necessary leap of faith. We’re not wise enough to understand everything.
This is my beloved daughter in whom I am well pleased.
God
I used to believe like you, Rowdy, that women shouldn’t be irresponsible enough to use abortion as birth control.
Then I talked with a woman who had worked in an abortion clinic, and I told her that.
She was horrified! “Oh no, you wouldn’t want a woman like that to have a baby!. These women are horrible people. They should never have babies.”
She was a mother, and so was I, so I could see her point.
Why would you say that irresponsible women with drug-filled lives and multiple men, should be forced to have babies?
Don’t you care about your own children? Women who want their children usually spend time, effort and love raising them.
Do you really want them attacked at school by feral punks? Stabbed on the playground by some little monster?
Seduced as a teenager by some boy who learned too early what sex was about?
It always blows my mind when people causally prescribe children as punishment for sex. “That’ll teach her!”
No, it doesn’t.
I know 3 women who are dumb enough to think that their only responsibility when they get pregnant is to carry to term. They have produced 27 children between them, all of whom were taken away from them by DCFS at some point, due to their inability to function as an adult human being capable of raising children.
None of the kids that I have seen (I only see the ones that one grandmother took), are decent human beings.
I hold the anti-abortion people responsible for convincing those dumb-ass women that “abortion is wrong”, and responsible for those 27 children who are already in mental hospitals and prison.
The damage done to society!
Why do people on CFN spend so much time complaining about the horrible people in society, and then turn around and demand that
I care about my children. I don’t want them to have to navigate streets filled with unwanted, neglected and abused children who grew up to be damaged adults.
An embryo is not a human being. I have been around enough spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) to tell you that you can’t see a “baby” in the blood and tissue that is produced by the SAB.
It is beyond ridiculous to think that they are using fetal organs for transplantation into adult bodies.
Do people not realize that it takes 9 months for a baby to develop?
Do people not know that premature birth means that the baby can’t survive, except with extraordinary medical care?
That is because their organs are not fully developed. And even at term, you can’t transplant an infant organ into an adult body.
Use some common sense!
I agree that abortion should be restricted to the first trimester, unless it is determined that the fetus will not survive anyway, which is what most third term abortions are about.
I had a friend whose unborn baby was determined to have a birth defect incompatible with life, and she was offered a late term abortion, but refused.
The baby died in utero anyway, and then she went through labor. Some women would rather not go through that, but then they get abused by nasty people screaming at them.
We have people on here shedding crocodile tears for unwanted embryos, while showing no shame in talking about killing adults they disagree with.
I am not impressed.
And by the way, I also think that the way that animals in factory farms and industrial killing factories are treated is horrendous.
So I don’t think that acceptance of those atrocities, while proclaiming that humans shouldn’t have to undergo them, is right either.
A good question of which I can only give an opinion.
God’s creation is not perfect. Life is not perfect. Accidents happen during the gamete producing process that creates non sustainable fetuses with “bad” DNA. Normal distributions of DNA are obvious in the human demographics. Non viable DNA combinations exist prenatally and are rejected as too”weird”by Mom.
Other factor such as Rh add to the rejection rate.
How about the Siamese Twin phenomenon where identical twins never totally separate but are viable enough to carry to term?
We had a momma cat adopt us in the past and when she had her kittens three were perfect but one was a monster that did not even look like a kitten. Genetic mistakes are screened by miscarriage.
I am surprised that the rate is as high as 30% and I do understand what a crushing blow it would be.
My argument is with convenience abortions, especially with an adoption market that is starved for candidates.
So you’re one of those “domestic supply of infants” types?
If a woman finds it inconvenient to carry a child all the way to birth, and the negative effects of the pregnancy and risks are all on her, the rights of the people wanting a child are to be considered over hers?
Inconvenient? Wow. Here it is Gentlemen. Look. See. Understand.
Convenience is their God. What about when you become inconvenient, say you get sick or injured or otherwise start holding her back, at least in her eyes? Your marriage will be aborted. It’s called divorce. And you may well be left in shreds.
No, I did not say that. I did say that the right of the unborn need to be protected from women who inconveniently did the oops.
Sex, like all other human activity involves risk and responsibility. In today’s world, not getting pregnant is easy. The oops factor is the woman’s fault, not the man’s.
Not always, I will agree, but most of the time. Both sides are usually there together consensually. Used to be that men took the responsibility of an oops, but not so much any more as convenience abortions allow him a way out to go off and just do it again.
I think we will have to agree to disagree on this.
I do believe many women have emotional problems for a lifetime after convenience abortions.
Jarek
Until men have to carry the load equally, re motherhood, with women, we will not understand their plight.
Man can be real shits when the responsibility for oops happens.
We should not forget that the fetus is a person with rights, that is all.
Abortion opposition, a favorite cause of the ninny police force, the male-Karen brigade..
Nature is cruel indeed, Gusptaph. Surely we can do better than “Her”. But not unnecessarily cruel I admit. Not as cruel as people often are – as you are being here.
Paula is an atheist and has no problem with baby murder.
I am shocked I tell you.
Right out of Saul Alinskies play book Hillary declared MAGA people need deprogramming.
There it is!
The wish to re-educate (gulogs) half of Americans and if she is saying it how many more are?
The simple fact is that Democrats are the cult that Hillary is part of.
a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing.
“a cult of personality surrounding the leaders”
Yep that is DEMOCRATS TO A TEE.
a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister.
“a network of Satan-worshiping cults”
EVEN BETTER!
Do you remember the disgust with Russian labor and re-education camps.
Yet here is an American desiring exactly the same.
She shows her true nature as a potential dictator.
She is evil incarnate.
And she is our next – and last – President.
Ms Clinton is just throwing another red meat political bomb at her political enemies, us, to amp the rage and heighten American rightwing stupidity. Ignore the Bitch.
Q.,
“All Saints Day”,should be forgotten as it is just another pagan (Celtic) holiday (Samhain/Kalan) usuped by the middle-eastern mind virus that sought to erase and destroy European tradition.
It continued on into the new world when the mind virus cult attempted to assimilate autumnal Aztec war celebrations into the christian “holiday’ with all saints/all souls.
The modern festivals of Halloween and Dia de Los Muertos should be celebrated as emancipation from the appropriating middle eastern cult. Much credit should be given to past anti-papal Mexican leaders who did their utmost to hasten its return to the root culture.
May God loose the scales from your eyes, 100.
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People often argue that Christians commandeered existing traditions as Christianity grew … but that is not an argument at all.
Agreed … therefore … what?
Their underlying (and always unspoken) argument seems to be:
“If Christianity were legitimate, it would have made all of its ceremonies and traditions out of whole cloth.”
This, of course, is stupid.
Turning populations Christian, (as part of expropriating their lands), was a bloody and brutal process.
Incorporating existing pagan traditions made the process a tad easier for the priests.
Therefore…..nothing, just an observation. It’s best to know your history.
IDK, perhaps existing pagan traditions were a primitive understanding of Christianity, so of course they were incorporated.
The Christian’s doing the turning used the religion as an excuse to conquer. That approach has been used over and over.
Sounds like ethnocentrism doesn’t it?
Do as I say, believe as I do, or I will kill you.
Jesus never espoused this, Au contraire, He said to His disciples to just leave towns that rejected His message.
Religion is a human production, full of all the foibles we are famous for.
Do you think Jesus would put His seal of approval on the Roman Catholic Church? Or the Protestant missionaries that went to Hawaii and pretty much obliterated the Natives?
John: There would be no United States without the conquest of the Indians and appropriation of their lands. John, it’s either/or. War is part of life on this plane of existence. Vini, Vidi, Vici. I (we) came. We saw. We conquered.
What we could do for the defeated is offer them our religion as some recompense as per Christ’s mandate. And of course, the reservations.
As the Jesuits said, Until they hear the roar of cannon, they will not hear the gospel.
Paula, Beryl and the rest of the ladies are simply the enemies of the nations in which they reside. It was inevitable given modern Christianity and feminine sentimentality/idealism. Letting them vote is an Alinskyean joke.
Jarek’s religion:
To him Every Sperm is Sacred, but he is completely copacetic with the genocide of the Indians, and the mass murder of reluctant tribes in Europe during the takeover of the Roman Empire and the installation of serfdom.
He’s also fine with the mass murders of millions of Jews, Poles, and non-Nazi Ukrainians and Russians.
Because…..progress.
Tough to proselytize for that one.
Honestly, Paula, it is in the past.
However, We are doing the same thing today with Russia phobia, anti-semitism. Nothing has changed.
All led by the Deep State.
Paula is not intelligent enough to realize this logic can be turned around on her.
And she is afraid of me, which is hilarious.
Trying to imagine the Night Owl if he were handicapped as to the use of his weapon-of-choice supercillious snark—my mind dry-heaves over and over trying to cough-up any image.
I have many other weapons, Gus. I can even put them aside for a nice conversation.
But we can never move past square one, because you have nothing to offer whenever I ask you for evidence of your Malthusian cultist claims.
I gave a good sampling. You refuted nothing (effectively anyway). You were only impervious.
The conversation never even got interesting. Can’t put the good folks of CFN through that again..
The onus remains on you to back your moronic statement that we are at “carrying capacity” (a term you still cannot even define as a number).
You are most pleased with yourself, despite not being able to back even the most fundamental point of your position.
I don’t even have to do anything.
You never do anything.
Not even remember my number was 300 million.
Paula equates a sperm cell with a viable fetus. Her utter lack of integrity is on display. She’s a drooling moron.
Challenge me to do something, Gus.
Show us that the earth is at “carrying capacity” as you claim.
Night Gnat
The “Carrying Capacity” of Earth has grown exponentially since the development of fossil fuel fertilizers etc.
Fortunately for you, your postulated abiotic oil can keep this whole scheme running (along with your self-indulgent German auto). Right?
“And she is afraid of me, which is hilarious.”
This is quintessential narcissistic behavior. Paula is “afraid” of you? And you find it amusing? What a drooling wanker.
Paula D is not known as Paula Doofus for nothing, but if all you can do is call someone ‘stoopid’, it shows a gaping lack of inner integrity. Asshole.
Populism has mostly gone over to the MAGA group. RFK, Jr. wants to rally the parts of the Democrat Party that are not woke lunatics, but that part is too small. I hope there can be some kind of merger, after Trump is elected … he should definitely find a place for RFK, Jr. in his administration … Director of HHS would be perfect!
I’d like to see a Trump/RFK, jr fusion ticket. Why not?
Would RFK, jr. agree to it, tho?
Definitely not.
He thinks Trump sold out to Big Pharma, and why would a sixty-nine year old man want a vice president role anyway?
Bobby Hated LBJ with a passion.
JohnAZ, the notorious Kennedy cruelty would not let up on the hayseed Texan.
Lyndon was a politician and just took it. He bided his time.
Things worked out well for LBJ; not the case for the entitled Bobby.
His contempt and opposition was unwise, following his brother’s programmed removal.
“RFK, Jr. wants to rally the parts of the Democrat Party that are not woke lunatics, but that part is too small. ”
You’re sorta right, SteveDog. There are too few nutjobs within the Democratic Party to swallow Bobby Jr’s line of horseshit.
I came here with some comic relief, but I’m getting caught up in the commentary. Here is the relief. I love this part:
“as if sending all your cash to Borat was not enough”
https://x.com/ElGuapoKnight79/status/1709917071004274759?s=20
…If you not send the money….I will be execute….”
One of the game changers in Dear and Glorious Physician that I mentioned last blog was the femeninization of Roman society with the consequent degradation in morality and perversity. For Lucanus, the central character, who was a Greek physician, self abortion was a sign of the times as the incidence grew during the Tiberius times. BTW, Lucanus became St. Luke. Good book for those comparing the present day USA to the Roman Empire.
Sorry ladies, I am just repeating the themes of Taylor Caldwell in the 50’s, one of your own gender.
It wasn’t “feminized” enough. That was the problem.
Caldwell’s book is a novel.
You forget one thing by that statement. Feminized societies are always wiped out by masculine successors. When the SHTF, feminism dies.
That society was men getting in on with men, in a male pecking order.
I stand by my statement. It wasn’t feminized enough.
Not totally, dying males leave fortunes to women, then and now. The book points out the fact that the majority of the wealth of Rome was held by women.
In other words, women good, men bad a la Mary and radical Feminism. Beryl is a radical feminist too.
The saving Truth is women good, men better a la Patriarchy. The deeper Truth about how bad most women really are can be kept from young men – IF the law and social custom protect them against women. AND if women who have played by the rules are willing to savage women who do not. Women should be our allies and our first line of defense.
To be fair, men would be worse too if society gave them the leeway that it gives women.
Well that didn’t take long. Slo Joe releases $6,000,000,000.00 of Iran’s cash back and away we go . Spread the love around the middle east. Do we have any bullets left to send to help out ol’ Nettie or did we send them all to Borat in Ukraine?
Netanyahu isn’t asking anything from us, Stelmo; I think Israel can handle it’s own business. Altho, this latest attack on their homeland is pretty serious. Why now?
Aid we provide Israel amounts to a little over $3 billion per year, a drop in the bucket compared to what’s been forked over to Ukraine the past 20 months.
Who was the poster that had all the links of nice spots in Israel?
He posted quite a bit but then disappeared?
That was Danny.
I thought it was Akmofo.
Who hasn’t been seen since well before the covid era. Since they’re so jabbed up in Israel – and paying the consequences – it would have been interesting to hear his perspective on things.
But he was a bit volatile!
Yes, Mika or Akmofo. I followed him and we used to talk. I got the distinct impression that he took the jab although he was among the first of us to be radically against it. Being part of the Israeli military reserves was just too big a part of his identity to part with, I think.
Meanwhile, looks to be about 110,000 fans in Columbus, Ohio for the Ohio State-Maryland game today.
More EV news. Last week it was reported Rivian loses $33,000 for every truck that it sells. Well it turns out Lucid EV — a company subsidized by Saudi Arabia — loses $338,000 for each car sold, and it hasn’t sold many. The Lucid Air goes for about $180,000, and it’s the car I figured the CEOs of green energy companies, Climate Czars, EPA chiefs, Ivy League administrators & wealthy virtue signallers everywhere would be driving around in. But they may not get the chance.
SA seems to fund Lucid to bolster its Green bonafides when it shows up at Climate Change conferences every year, no other reason.
Some indy media outlet interviewed a cabbie in the most recent Davos annual meeting.
Cabbie told him that all the CEOs and various politicians refused to be transported in EVs.
IIRC, there were lots of Merc S-Class V8s (among others) rolling around.
How do they lose $338000 on a $180000 car? Does it cost $518000 to build that machine?
Sounds like a grand showpiece for the Democratic Party’s knowledge of finance.
Also a grand showpiece of the Climate Change folks idea base for the future.
The word was also that they won’t have jabbed pilots for their private jets.
Pence and MIC owned RINOs are out there blaming Isolationist Republicans for the Hamas attack.
Yes bare with them now for this amazing logic. Opposing unlimited Ukraine aid is some how related to Hamas staging a suicide attack against Israel.
Israel has received no reductions in Miltary Aid and this attack is seems suspicious like Israel stood down to make it much worse
You cannot question the Military in the US
Good observation.
Once again, the idea that big differences in human values can be negotiated away politically is taking a beating.
Long term differences are ALWAYS settled by one side wiping out the other and putting their brand on affairs.
Israel needs to annex back the Gaza Strip and “remove” the Hamas group. The only legitimate solution, actually the only solution at all.
Remember to the source of the political conflict, Iran, who the US is scared to death of and is now part of BRICS++. Their goal is to push the Jews into the Med, and to emasculate us.
The US needs to sit this one out as it is a no win scenario for us. The Jews will take care of themselves. Netanyahu has declared war and his political opponent has joined with him. I would not wish to live in Gaza right now.
BTW
The USA is undergoing a dissolution as the latest example of this axiom. Up until the recent past, the US was a European country, with basically White philosophies in life. As the divergent viewpoints have grown in percentage, the glue that has been the common culture is disappearing.
Just think what Joe Average thinks today when he says the Pledge of Allegiance. Just the fact that the Pledge is to a flag and not to a way of life is a warning for the future.
You can publicly destroy or defile the American flag if it’s “your flag”, if you “own” it in other words. Anyone who tries to stop you will be arrested for assault.
Now try that with a Pride Flag. It may be your flag, but you don’t own it. It’s greater than that. And if you defile it publicly you may be attacked with impunity and/or cancelled.
So which is the real flag of the current United States again?
Jesus.
“Israel needs to annex back the Gaza Strip and “remove” the Hamas group. The only legitimate solution, actually the only solution at all.”
You really have it all figured out, don’t you?
smh…
Thanks for the gobsmack.
It’s like, you know, the Final Solution.
JohnAZ:
“Israel needs to annex back the Gaza Strip and “remove” the Hamas group. The only legitimate solution, actually the only solution at all.”
You are aware that you have just proposed a ‘final solution’, right?
It didn’t take long? Only 44 years. Seems rather long to me.
We stole Iran’s wholly democratic (parliamentary) government in 1953. Along with its petroleum reserves. And now the consequences.
In the 27 years (iirc) leading to the overthrow of the Brit / U.S.-installed fellow murderous, torturing Shah and his SAVAK, were the Iranian people just supposed to forget about what was taken from them in the name of colonialist imperialism? As we did and so evidently, do?
We stole. We murdered. And as consumers of that stolen ultra-cheap petroleum, what should be our shame (I’m old-fashioned, yeah) is now turned into the demonization of the victims, an entire nation / civilization and its thousands of years of history, ffs.
“Might makes right,” oh yeah. So acteth the purveyors of the myth of “Liberty and Justice for All.” Iran remains among the most glaring hypocrisies of my lifetime, but it is far from solo.
FJRB today, but as well fuck HST, DDE, (he actually OKd the coup,) JFK (although he was on a course to address our hypocrisies,) LBJ, RMN, GRF, JEC, RWR, GHWB, WJC, GWB, BHO and those to come who will do the goddamned same. In our names.
“From Robert Fisk—the preeminent Middle East reporter of our time. Taken from his epic tome The Great War For Civilisation — The Conquest of the Middle East —2005 [All 1045 pages of it]
“Christopher Montague Woodhouse was asking himself if he had helped to create the Islamic revolution in Iran.
He was an old man now, but you could see the energy that still gripped him, a tall, dignified, brave and ruthless seventy-nine-year-old. It was snowing that morning in Oxford in 1997, but he had come to the gate of his retirement home to greet me, his handshake a vise.
He sat ramrod-straight in his library with the mind of a young man, answering my questions with the exactness of the Greek scholar he was, each sentence carefully crafted. He had been Britain’s senior agent in “Operation Boot” in 1953, the overthrow of Iran’s only democratic prime minister, Mohamed Mossadegh.
It was “Monty” Woodhouse who helped to bring the Shah of Iran back from exile, [he] along with his colleagues in the CIA, who set in motion a quarter-century in which the Shah of Shahs, “Light of the Aryans”, would obediently rule Iran—repressively, savagely, corruptly and in imperious isolation—on our behalf.
Woodhouse was a reminder that “The Plot”—the international conspiracy, moamara in Arabic*—was not always the product of Middle East imagination. Woodhouse was in the last years of a life in which he had been a guerrilla fighter in Greece [WW II], a Tory MP, and a much honoured Greek linguist and academic.
Almost everyone who had destroyed Iranian democracy was now dead: CIA boss Allen Dulles, Robin Zaehner of the British Foreign Office, the two mysterious Rashidian brothers, who organised the coup, Mossadegh himself and the last Shah of Iran. Except for Kermit Roosevelt, the senior CIA man in Tehran [at the time of the coup], “Monty” was the last survivor.[…]
* [The overall tenor of the book is about various Arabic countries, and the West’s relationship to them, therefore a commensurate word in Farsi is not used. Fisk both speaks and writes Arabic, I know not of his fluency in Farsi.]
…There were also lessons for for the Americans and the British, and for the Shah, had they chosen to pay attention. The Shah would henceforth always be seen as a tool of the United States and Britain. The fall of Mossadegh, as James A. Brill has written, “began a new era of intervention and growing hostility to the United States among the awakened forces of Iranian nationalism.”
Woodhouse was to become deeply depressed by Khomeini’s subsequent revolution. “I felt that the work we had done was wasted, that a sort of complacency had taken over once the Shah had been restored,” he said. Things were were taken for granted too easily,” After Mossadeg had been booted out, Allen Dulles praised Woodhouse for visiting Washington and persuading the Eisenhower administration to back the coup. “That was a nice little egg you laid when you were here last time!” he told the man from MI6.
[Truman, the presidential adoptive father/facilitator of the CIA in 1947, had turned Dulles’ Iranian coup plans down.]
But we don’t go in for “little eggs” any more. More ambitious ideological projects, vast armies—and bigger egos—are involved in “regime change” today. [Stated in 2005] Maybe that’s why they can fail so quickly and so bloodily. The coup against Mossadegh was the first such operation carried out by the Americans in the Cold War—and the last by the British. At least we never claimed Mossadegh had weapons of mass destruction.
But the final word must go to the CIA’s man, Kermit Roosevelt. “If we are ever going to try something like this again,” he wrote with great prescience, “we must be absolutely sure that [the] people and army want what we want.”
The “sort of complacency” which Woodhouse defined was based upon the security services which the Shah established after his return. Savak— Sazman-i Etelaat va Amniyat-i Keshvar, the “National Information and Security Organisation”—was to become the most notorious and the most murderous, its torture chambers among the Middle East’s most terrible institutions. A permanent secret U.S. mission was attached to Savak’s headquarters.
Methods of interrogation included—apart from the conventional electric wires attached to genitals, beating on the soles of the feet and nail extraction—rape and “cooking,” the latter a self-explanatory form of suffering in which the victim was strapped to a bed of wire that was then electrified to become a red-hot toaster.*
Mohamed Heikal, that greatest of Egyptian journalists, once editor of Al-Ahram and former confidant of Nasser, has described how Savak filmed the torture of a young Iranian woman, how she was stripped naked and how cigarettes were then used to burn her nipples.
According to Heikal, the film was later distributed by the CIA to other intelligence agencies working for American-supported regimes around the world including Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines.[…]
*One of its victims was Massoud Ahnadzedah, an engineer later executed by the regime. In 1972, Nuri Albala, a French lawyer, who attended his trial, described how Ahmadzedah pulled up his pullover to show the marks of torture. “The whole of the middle of his chest and his stomach was a mass of twisted scars from very deep burns. They looked appalling… His back was even worse. There was a perfect oblong etched into it, formed by a continuous line of scar tissue. Inside the oblong, the skin was again covered in shiny scars from burning.”
Ashraf Dehqani, who escaped from prison after torture—she was an opposition militant—wrote of how she was raped by her Savak torturers and had snakes placed upon her body.
[“A permanent secret U.S. mission was attached to Savak’s headquarters.”]
In our names, we, the Lotus Eaters. “Shut up and consume.”
The Iraq war has reconnected the Shia crescent. Good work, Neocons!
But I digress. I agree with you: When the Zionist invasion of Lebanon was crushed by Hezbollah, it was a victory for free men everywhere.
But we have rights too, Dave. Do you feel equally outraged by the Islamic invasion of Europe and the persecution of Whites in their own nations?
Also, do you believe that Iran has the right to blow Israel off the map?
100 Israelis killed so far, AOC & The Squad, in addition to lefty ‘Activists’ on college campuses across the country, cheering on the carnage.
Does Israel have the right to blow Iran off the map, John? Let’s establish that first. After all, it is Israel which holds the Sampson Option over all of us. Along with its German-supplied nuclear missile-carrying Dolphin class submarines.
So far, Iran has not made any overt moves to incite a conflagration, protecting as able the Palestinian and Lebanese / Syrian peoples within largely defensive ops seems to be the status quo. Of course that can change, as it is known to do wherever people seek self-determination. Pre-Israel, in particular pre-Sykes-Picot and Balfour Declaration, the Arabs and Jews got along famously enough for centuries.
Iran has a historically significant Jewish population, hundreds and hundreds of years of living autonomously without persecution, few of whom wish to move to Israel in spite of enticements and the PR victory it would give the Likudniks and Kahanists now dominating its political structure..
Israel, conversely, is a self-declared ethno-state.
Don’t start this shit please. The Israel-Palastine conflict is one of the stupidest in history.
Let them destroy each other.
“100 Israelis killed so far”…
And how many Palestinians killed in the open-air concentration camp of Gaza? Oh right, that doesn’t matter. Palestinians stand in the way of Eretz Israel (as promised by YHWH). “Genocide” is only the killing of Jews – not of lesser races…
Israel – the country that receives more “foreign aid” from the US than any other. Israel – the country that steals more from the US than any other. Israel – God’s Chosen Nation.
Dave
How many rockets has Israel sent over to Iran? How many terrorist groups has Israel formed to cause the destruction of Iran? Israel has had the bomb for decades, why does the world fear the Irani crowd getting the bomb? How many times has Israel been invaded by terrorist groups versus how many times has Israel invaded other countries except in retaliation? Israel, over and over, has been stupid in my eyes, given up land to the terrorists trying to buy peace, which never comes and never will.
The world knows what a bunch of religious zealots exist in Iran, that is why central to their credo is the destruction of Israel, no matter the cost.
And by the way, those religious zealots and their violence is what the old consuming countries were trying to avoid in their installation of the Shah in ‘53. Even today, there is a large percentage of Iranians that hate the Mullahs and their restrictions. If there had been no Ayatollah, how much better would the Middle East be today, even Iran.
Good point, Jarek. The Islamic invasion of Europe though, is and has been facilitated by our Owners / social engineers to a less-than-provident outcome for its native inhabitants. I for one am glad my ‘homies’ are finally taking a stand for their right to exist as a culturally cohesive entity, i.e. “Viva Yo!” “I live!” At one with my historical people.
And what is the proper number of Muslims in Europe? Not even one.
A nation is not only a genetic family, but an organism, consisting of brain (culture) and body – a people all related both culturally and genetically.
Multiculturalism? Multiple personalities. Steve Martin in the Jerk being jerked around by different personalities.
One mind per body. One culture per nation. Got it?
Dayum. How could I leave out FDJT too?
But, maybe subconsciously that was because of his reluctance to resort to brinksmanship or overt warfare. Does not mean he didn’t condone the typical fuckery US Presidents’ engage in trying to force-manipulate independence-minded nations though with vomitus like Pompeo, Elliott Abrams, and especially the rabid Walrus.
Wisconsin leads Rutgers 17-0 at the half.
Ultimately Rutgers lost 24-13.
Don’t fear the bonfires of Samhain, Mr. K. It’s true that the mood of the age is far from anything like Christmas. It’s difficult for candy canes to dance in the midst of mass extinctions and the plunder and rape of the Earth. In this time, the living realize that they are indeed the walking dead, and the dead realize they walk the streets and halls of the living.
The Universe has the means with which in mere seconds to cleanse all reminders of our ever having even physically existed.
A comforting thought? Or not?
Oh yes, very true. But also, energy never disappears it only changes form. We are like sand and the Universe is making sand castles.
Honey, could I have one of those free refills? Hey, Waitress!
Yes, there is no death. It’s just a change of clothes. The dead wear flimsy, translucent bodies. We wear heavy coats of flesh.
So those aren’t their souls? No. What is the soul? Ah, good question!
We don’t have souls. We are souls and have bodies.
No doubt they wish we would stop haunting them. Imagine how ghosts feel when people move in to their homes.
After observing dead folks in my job. I have always been struck by how “dead” they look. A living being has a spark, an awareness that makes him alive. Dead folks do not have that.
Something leaves the body that animates it in life.
Call it what you will.
The ghost phenomenon appears to living humans when the ghosts — in prior human form — are troubled. Once a ghost exorcism of some kind, intentional or not, is conducted, those sightings, sounds, and ‘strange object movements’ disappear along with them. Their transition to a more subtle plain is complete. Ghosts need our intervention.
plane
This sounds like a job for Zack Bagans, Ghost Bro.
I knew a male witch who conducted ghost exorcisms. Went with him on one. Would cure any materialist in a minute if they could experience the same thing.
Admit it, it was Zack Bagans.
Hah! Wish I knew the reference.
Head to Youtube and search for Ghost Adventures.
Zack the Ghost Bro is the king of unintentional comedy.
Those shows are a guilty pleasure for me, and Ghost Adventures is the guiltiest of all.
The hollowed-out electronic soundscape, the bass drum surprise, the high-pitched organ, the dark lighting. Has all the tricks! Well produced.
I wonder how many of the interviewees are selling their own books or videos.
The grammatical error at the end of the show’s introduction still cracks me up, despite having heard it at least 100 times.
“This is our evidence, our ghost adventures”
–Zack Bagans, Ghost Bro.
Yes, John. Movie stars are “all face” – the brand that one instantly recognizes them by.
But when you spot the face of a “dead celebrity”, that spark of recognition is no longer there. Curious.
Of course a skilled embalmer can prettify a corpse to look however he or she likes. I’m sure the Stalin-stiff or the Mao-mummy looks enough like them to fool the masses.
I’ve read that insidious, parasitic presences like to pounce on and invade the remains of the recently-deceased. Maybe enjoy that cooling-corpse feel. Those ethereal squatters won’t get a chance to move into my cadaver – a Balinese pal has already agreed to arranging a modest cremation for me. All very businesslike.
As we cigar-lovers solemnly
intone, “Ashes to ashes, butts to butts”.
Well many times, at least from what I understand, the reason why some people experience like malicious hauntings is because the ghosts who inhabit their homes or businesses do actually feel as if the living have encroached in and disturbed their homes. And so they become malevolent in an effort to thwart the people, especially if they are making changes to the home, etc., or they may try to drive the people out altogether. Other times there are friendly hauntings where ghosts are at least benign and playful or even helpful in some instances, like catching a glass as it falls off of a table or counter or things like that. The trickier hauntings are those of actual places or areas of land or water. Those can even get to the level of which people describe as demonic.
Some of those demonic vibes are heavy in certain places. People report a depressing, uneasy, physical weight when visiting major battle sites of WWI and II, e.g.
Indeed.
In that regard, some of the worst vibes I have ever had were at Buchenwald concentration camp in the detention house right next to the entrance gate. Many people there that day commented on it.
I have had a number of more personal experiences as well, but that one still stands out.
Owl,
Funny Story. A stand up comic related a trip to visit Buchenwald, along with a Jewish friend. They got there late when the camp was being shut down for the night. The fellow pleaded with the attendant, to no avail. Then he told the attendant that his friend was a Jew.
They let him in….
Like Normandy, which we visited on our cruise.
As a believer in spirituality, I believe that sites of huge violent killing may have the “ghosts” of the combatants who were killed hanging around. Gettysburg is famous for its ghosts.
Could we be sensing them?
I felt that way about large areas of South Dakota.
“Well worth listening carefully to Denis Rancourt on all cause mortality.
His analyses leave no room for doubt that deaths after pandemic announcement were due to policies and are inconsistent with the spread of a [deadly] viral respiratory disease,
Best wishes
Mike”
https://m.twitch.tv/videos/1941132307
Your weekly reminder that Covid is a hoax for dopes.
My anecdote: I remained pureblood but came down with something at the start of April 2023. It was awful. I felt more awful than I had ever felt before in my 58 years. For the first week, I’d take 4 or 5 super-hot tubs as I pendulummed from hot sweats to cold shivers. I remember lying in bed thinking that the way that I felt was unbearable. A trip to hospital [i.e. killing fields] was out of the question so I didn’t know what I was going to do.
I was a bit better after Week 1 but then it lingered and lingered for the rest of the entire month!
I’ve had plenty of flus/colds in my life but never anything like six months ago. And my gf had the same experience – pureblood but in February 2022.
I don’t know what it is but I do know that it is most assuredly something. It exists. 100%.
Try traveling outside of Canadeu. You will get all kinds of sicknesses you have never had, and none of them are the mysterious and never isolated Coroneau.
Do you really think that what you just said logically proves anything? It’s kind of a red herring, I guess. Pretty lame.
Regardless of the non-relevant dangers of Cambodia or West Africa, I got my illness right here in Saskatchewan where we don’t have wonky jungle bugs but did have what Drs were calling the pandemic. I got it and it most definitely is something. It exists. 100%.
The onus is on the virus whackos to show us that it exists.
You are not all that bright, OG, but even you should be able to grasp this.
NO
The evidence could be ironclad and you still would say it was a fantasy.
Exactly how many examples of folks writing in describing heavy reactions to WII before you might give them credit for knowing a little what they are talking about.
You logic is faulty. WII has just taken out a few million people, made others very sick, shown an ability to prologue its effects for many months and alter the make up of people’s immune systems.
WII is a rotten development of our high tech medical research industry AND IT IS REAL.
As I have said before, virus isolation is impossible so you will never see an isolated virus.
So quit calling other people not so smart, your glass house is showing.
WII. Whatever It Is, a concession to the virus deniers.
Why are you so set against the idea of a virus, was there a virus in your past that did you wrong?
You seem to have your ego on the line in your denial of viruses.
BINGO! Mashed spuds zilch nada is 100% pride. He has mistakenly put his little, sullied reputation on the non-existence of something that billions know exists. Instead of simply admitting that he has his head up his ass, he shoves it in even further.
The onus is on the virus whackos to show us that it exists.
No. I started by saying that my experience is an anecdote. So is my gf’s experience. So is Dave’s experience. Anecdotes are evidence. Once you have enough anecdotes (i.e. millions if not billions), then you have overwhelming proof that it is, indeed, something because there cannot be millions of cases of nothing. Millions of cases of nothing is not logical or even possible.
So what do you do, Einstein? You counter with, “You were more ill than you’ve ever been before in 58 years of life? Oh yeah? Well … just imagine if you travelled to the Congo some day!”
That is correct: you are a fu(king moron.
I believe that we can all agree that there is credible, legitimate scientific debate on the existence of WII. [A CFN survey would be interesting.]
Mashed spuds zilch nada calls all those on the opposite side of this debate – his only focus during a polycrisis – “whackos” and we all know why.
Mszn is of above average intelligence. Probably clocks in at 130s. He’s used that advantage his whole life to intellectually bully the intellectually inferior around him. And when you are in the 130s, there are plenty of inferiors – they’re everywhere!
So, you end up with an Einstein who thinks that he can dispute my anecdote (and my gf’s anecdote) by pointing out that I never left Saskatchewan and that all sorts of scary bugs lurk thousands of kilometres from these subjects of purebloods living in an ideal scientific control group. Lamely arguing against himself but so very used to winning with such bullying bulls!t. Truly.
Mszn is used to winning with his bull shit because he’s always been a big fish in a small pond. Now, he is thrown into a predatory reef. Now, the little girl inside him is not winning.
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Mszn really should cough up the evidence of his accusations already or apologize to beantownbill.. A or B.
All will be forgiven if you just man up, little girl.
Well said, OG. And it’s humble for you to admit that he has the intellectual goods. He just doesn’t know how to use them and refuses to learn. He just wants to “win” by any means, fair or foul.
So he’s not a moron, he just acts like one – which is worse since he could do better.
No, John. If the evidence even existed at this point, let alone ironclad, I would be quite happy to know more.
That is the difference between you and I.
I don’t claim Covid is fake; I claim it is fake until the perpetrators can show us that it is real.
To date, they cannot.
OG:
“Mszn is used to winning with his bull shit because he’s always been a big fish in a small pond. That is a very stupid approach from a little girl who should know better.”
Night Gnat is “used to winning” only in so far as he has the ability to loudly proclaim victory when there is no evidence to support such ‘victory’.
It was probably way more common a few years back when he first started in here with his sharp elbows and smart-assed tone.
OG—In July of 22 I was visited by something unreal to my previous experience. Far out of the seasonal range of any flu that ever passes through. I spent 48 hours totally out of body, [I have no idea where my consciousness went] where my meatsack lay in all of that time was a soaked-through mattress, a lake of sweat. I have no idea why in that time I did not shit or piss myself, but finally that’s what got me up, shakily, in time.
Never, ever experienced anything like that. If not for having been on a regimen of ivermectin and critical supplements for over a year, I don’t think I would have pulled through. Old, diabetic, lung-scarring already, I was in the statistical ‘Dead Zone’ demographic. If I hadn’t had gotten burned out on gulping so many pills and taking i-mectin on such a long-term basis, I likely would not have had such a bad case of Delta.
All told, I’m finally coming out of the Long version of this “figment of my imagination,” a year and a half after it first hit me like a freight train.
Me pureblood [w/ antibodies now] too.
I got something just like that in 2014. Maybe it was Covid 11.
Well, ladies and germs;
Permit me a few asides from my fevered imagination.
Seven to ten million illegal immigrants are allowed into the country, the majority, I am told, of military age. The reasons they are here are many, but the most benign of the reasons might be the Corporations need for cheap labor.
There is a movement afoot to integrate some of these illegals into local law enforcement agencies, and that military service, conscription, has been whispered lately, as reported by the main stream media. The military has, for at least decades, offered a pathway to citizenship through military service.
NOW, consider that it is a current meme (or argument) that law enforcement, or the military, would not for long attack it’s citizens in times of turmoil. Of course, they would at first, but…eventually…not so much. One people, one culture, one Rei…I mean one country. If you suppose this premise is accurate, and well known amongst the shot callers, then what to do?
Yeah, hire the Hessians. People that have no fealty for the country, it’s people, it’s culture, or it’s institutions. An added bonus, is that there would be no political fall out for…casualties within the ranks. Consuela in Bogota would never even get a telegram.
The Germans, in WWII, employed Ukrainians, and Slavs to staff their Einsatzgruppen….It is not a new idea….
The Hessians were my favorite.
It so happened that when I came to America it was to a place right down the street from Guildford CourtHouse Park.
A battle in the wilderness of the Southern Campaign that the Hessians played a significant part in helping the British prevail.
But , like trying to write an inheritance law that does not fuck somebody —
conscription is criminal and just plain unjust ,
mercenaries are criminal and just plain unjust.
Throw in unintended consequences either way too.
Agree. It—if following the logic of it all–is one of the few conclusions to come to. I can only anticipate, with no anticipation of gloating “I told you so!” the shock of those who refuse to entertain such a likelihood. Adding up all of the factors of the past several years, this is Occam’s Razor material.
If China wants to invade the USA with an army?
They are already here.
Same with other elements of the BRICS++ group.
Biden’s reaction to Iran and their thugs in Hamas is critical. His recent capitulation to the Mullahs plus the closing ties of Israel and SA are being used to explain this uprising.
Biden’s cowardice and waffling are now starting to have a big impact on the world.
My guess that this is not accidental or a coincidence,
it is a plan.
John – you know that “Biden” is doing nothing, right? It’s the fucking cast of clowns running the show, whose cowardice and waffling, have us in a fix.
They can’t find their ass with both hands. It’s embarrassing and would be funny, if it wasn’t such a dangerous predicament.
Come on, EF!
“It’s” is a contraction of “it is”.
“Its” is the possessive of “it”.
You actually, no doubt, already know this.
Offsider,
Of course. The issue is that, in my proofreading, my eyes, are so bad that I cannot see many of the letters, nor punctuation. It is a cheap excuse, but it is the only one I have….
I have several hundred pair of glasses (not an exaggeration), and I use the pair that is closest at hand (I currently count six withing easy reach), and with predictable results. I have learned, and am currently relearning, to accept the scorn and abuse that my errors so obviously deserve
I can currently type about forty words a minute….even faster if I don’t give a damn…
It just occurred to me to change my PC’s font to a darker, heavier one….
Just changed the PC font to larger and darker…much better…
” In that regard, some of the worst vibes I have ever had were at Buchenwald concentration camp in the detention house right next to the entrance gate. Many people there that day commented on it. ”
— Night Owl.
Not sure if detention house is the same as the internal camp prison , also adjacent to the main gate.
Anyway , the guy who ran it for a long time was SS Master Sergeant Martin Sommer.
I’ll never forget him I think.
He had the face of an Angel !
The Wiki article regarding him is really tame. If even half the stories about him are true , it is in the catagory of : If it were fiction , it would be far – fetched.
Really bad vibes just reading it at a remove.
I suppose most of the Concentration camp SS were hardly exmplars of the Aryan ideal.
But Sommer was once beautiful.
Even better was Mengele . They invariably show the worst photos of Mengele .
He was plain drop – dead gorgeous.
Granted , in his case I suspect some of this stuff is made up atrocity propaganda. But what is undeniably true is bad enough.
I have little doubt some of it is made up. Let us start with 6 million dead Jews. The math doesn’t add up.
But the Nazis did kill a lot of people, including many, many Jews; gypsies; mentally deficient; cripples; and anyone else they thought were a drain on Gaia.
Hey that sounds like Yuval Noah Harari? How can this be?
I accept the 6 million number.
But , LIKE COVID , in my opinion the number is taken out of context.
6 million not particularly liked marginals. ( truth be told. )
When the population of Germany alone was 80+ million.
Arguably not as bad a number as the number of nuetral or even fellow – traveller Germans Hitler killed ,
or the numbers that are impossible to quantify , the thousand – and – one effects on a society of that degree of get tough on crime.
Part of the repugnance that remains to this day is the cold blooded approach Hitler and Himmler took regarding the Jews and all the rest of the folks exterminated in those years.
The Allies were shocked by the extent of massacre that was accomplished, but I think that part of the reaction stemmed from the knowledge of hat was happening was known and ignored. The official line was that the war needed to be won fast to stop the concentration camps.
I do not know what could have been done to stop the Nazi’s from their program of extermination. The mentality that Himmler showed does show what the extremist human mind is capable of.
That is the really scary part of what happened. It matters not how many folks were exterminated, just that any were methodically murdered.
It also shows what the power motivation can do to people. It deserves the No 1 sin status.
With that conclusion in mind, JAZ, what is your take on Lahaina 8/8?
A) Natural disaster caused by corporate negligence combined with good, old-fashioned American incompetence or
B) Mass murder
“The official line was that the war needed to be won fast to stop the concentration camps.”
Sound like something someone made up.
OG – what about the Jewish Space Lasers?
What the Nazis didn’t do, Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army likely did.
The takeaway?
The US Military Command had no compunction about using the ‘research’ of either group, nor were shy about the post-war employment of their lesser luminaries. Capturing the documents associated with that ‘research’ was a high priority for the “victors.” As I’ve determined, Germany lost the war, but not the Nazis. Their brotherhood was already far-flung across the Earth’s reaches long before the outbreak of WW II hostilities. And why we find it (and its continuing ‘research’) still extant today.
I actually knew a guy who survived Unit 731.
httpx://unit731.org
Don’t start this shit please. The Israel-Palastine conflict is one of the stupidest in history. Let them destroy each other.
– Mashed Spuds zilch nada
Israel is attacked, over 100 dead and that’s what you have to say? We are to not even “start” talking about this big news? That’s your barked command to us here at CFN?
OG is compelled to criticize Owl’s best take of the day.
Over 300 dead, 1,450 Injured, 50 Kidnapped as Hamas Invades Southern Israel
jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/hamas/100-dead-1000-injured-50-kidnapped-as-hamas-invades-southern-israel/2023/10/07/
This is massive.
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
– Matthew 24:6-8 [KJV]
This AM it has been released that American folks have been kidnapped in Gaza.
That might change things a little as Iran gets some more captives to negotiate with.
We shall soon see how much of a coward Biden’s mob really is.
Who is more important, Israel or Ukraine?
The real test will be the reaction of the Leftist cowards when Israel goes after Hamas finally to destroy them.
The only solution, to let Israel do what is necessary.
I have no idea what is going on between all of the controlled, monied interests, I just know that it will be used as a pretext to condemn and destroy western Christians. Wash, rinse, and repeat.
Let them utterly destroy each other. Get outraged. I could not care less.
I am not “outraged,” Mashed Spuds zilch nada. What makes you say that? I merely asked you questions – ones that you never did answer. And I’m definitely not telling you what you should care about – you’ve long-since demonstrated that your thoughts are worthless and meaningless and then topped with about two gallons of weasel sauce.
With my unanswered questions above, I am merely demonstrating to the group that you are a fu(king moron to tell us not to discuss war in the Middle East here on CFN.
We, of course, will discuss war in the Middle East while you prattle on ludicrously claiming that there was no bug because you didn’t get it.
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“There are no kangaroos! I know it for a fact. I watched out my kitchen window all morning and never saw a single one.”
If someone says there are no kangaroos, I can show them a kangaroo.
Show me proof that Covid exists.
See how easy it is to defeat you?
He’s never heard of preponderances of circumstantial evidence.
This brother is a fresh graduate of the “no body no crime” school, and he’s ready to let all murderers who can properly dispose of corpses walk..
That said, I’m unconvinced he’s not right in this case.
Oh, he has. But the only circumstantial evidence to date points to no Covid.
The fact that it has never been formally shown to exist just reinforces the rest.
I keep to telling you to stop straw-maning your opponents, but it appears this is one of the only tools you have?
” It’s not the makeup, she’s a beautiful soul, and beauty comes from the inside out – not from the outside in, don’t you know? ”
I know the doctrine of original sin.
One of those examples of faith seems scarcely to have anything to do with it.
We are already fucked and damned while in diapers ,
except for charity , mercy , or what you sometimes call love.
Perhaps both the hosts of Heaven , and the Hosts of Hell , are merely doing their jobs ?
But Humans are the Killer Angels.
Worse than lions , tigers and bears ,
sharks , mosquitoes , or tape worms.
I suppose if you don’t see that ,
then you don’t.
“But Humans are the Killer Angels.”
Maybe. And maybe that’s because humans are either the fallen angels or are listening to the fallen angels? Either way the fallen angels rule.
“Worse than lions ,tigers and bears.”
Lions, tigers, and bears were built to be predators, and in particular the felines. Feline digestive systems are finicky, bears can eat veggies or meat. Humans are soft, pink and pudgy, and lack claws. Our teeth aren’t worth much as weapons in a fight. Predators kill because God made ’em that way. Why do humans wish to be and work so hard to be the greatest of all predators and killers? A very bad and fatal defect that exists inside all primate DNA? The other members of the primate clan dishonor themselves by being both ridiculous and dangerous in behavior and useless to humans as pets. There have never been and never will be “seeing eye” primates or “police” chimps. Dogs have been essential to much of human civilization in the past, they worked herding and protecting farm livestock and sheep herds, they assisted in hunting game for food, they protected home and hearth etc. etc. Dogs used to work for a living and did important work. No other primate has ever assisted or worked side by side with humans as canines have.
A case can be made that *all* (including homo sapiens) primates lack character, are disloyal and dishonest, and can’t be trusted unless the agreement is written down in a legally binding contract. If you wish to have a relationship with a far more trustworthy living being then you’ll need a canine companion, not a human one. Canines are 100% honest, they won’t lie to you.
“worse than “sharks , mosquitoes , or tape worms.”
Well, yes, there are humans out there who have all the character and mannerisms of sharks, skeeters, or even tape worms. Catherine Austin Fitts likes to refer to the deep state as a sort of tapeworm. Our host prefers “blob” as a metaphor instead for our hidden overlords.
“I suppose if you don’t see that, then you don’t.”
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Nearly everyone I know, friends and relatives, think I’m a doomsday kook because I don’t believe the American suburban lifestyle has a future. They don’t appreciate my warning them and they think my primitive living styles and practices are not a sign of prepping and skepticism but of madness and poor health. Food will *always* be available in abundance at grocery stores, and gasoline will *always* be available for their cars no matter what else happens. Asking about how their transportation needs will work out without using automobiles only gets me a blank stare or changing the subject. They aren’t about to answer that question. The wise old owls out there know that God has promised us comfy cornucpian living from here to eternity!
“The wise old owls out there know that God has promised us comfy cornucopian living from here to eternity!”
Hog,
You could rename it the cloaca of plenty!
Results may vary….
The Cloaca of Plenty is like a box of chocolates…you never know what you’re gonna get….
A mysterious new poster arrives to defend the cult of no evidence.
” And what does “one abortion” have to do with it? ”
They say you know your own kind. I figure there is some truth to that.
Lol , except for the abortion —
and not because I am so virtuous. In my time birth control was cheap , readily available , not rocket science to use , and you could say that no , I never lost my head because , yes , I really am that cold – blooded.
— except for the cocaine ( who can afford it ? ) the Klonopin ( same thing. )
the 1948 ,
and the still working 70 hour weeks ( well there is no free lunch. It costs money to do things includes working. )
It could just as well have been my biography.
—
My guess would be I have mentioned Stevie Nicks more than anyone here.
By a wide , boring , nauseous margin.
That probably doesn’t make me a friend.
But if it makes me an enemy , I wish I had such enemies.
Gaza ?
I’m reminded of a line in the movie , ” Head Office ” ;
” My Benz is leaking oil like ….like … like…. Poland ! ”
Lol ,
that is , any extra thing that causes the U.S. Empire to spend more money is I suppose ” good ” news.
” I got my illness right here in Saskatchewan where we don’t have wonky jungle bugs ”
Granted , it was one book , other books may say other things.
But the book I read said that best they could make out the Spanish Flu first appeared in Kansas.
Ft. Riley Army installation, I believe.
JHK do not fear Halloween! I was decorating my yard today because the left wingers hate Halloween more than the right wingers. The Scottish and the Irish( also the Romans had something similar, shh) brought us this fall harvest and the USA melted it into it’s own brand. I was decorating my yard today, when a our Sunday call from the olde country chimed. My Aunt was worried about the start of war In Israel. I don not watch the news anymore and I was surprised. She was upset what is wrong with you Americans possible World War 3 is on the horizon she yelled. I turned on the news hardly mention, until I got to Fox news. I reminded her of the ancient guy who was from her region who stated,” Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.” Skeletons, ghosts, pumpkins do not scare me, fear the living! Happy Halloween. Watch out for the Christmas decorations while you shop for candy.
Speaking of Halloween , history buff shit ,
and frightening Faireys ,
I thought The Witch was really good.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witch_(2015_film)
BackRow Heckler is Connecticut ? That’s kinda close to Puritan country I guess.
For my money , the best depiction I have seen of 17th Century Puritans.
And I don’t hate them , I feel profoundly sorry for them.
On that score , I wouldn’t call the movie scarey .
I would call it profoundly unsettling and disturbing.
It’s one thing to read Malleus Malificarum and things like that , but the movie makes such things real.
Jarek might ” like ” it because women suck.
As for blood – curdling Faireys ,
the one thing to me in the movie that really was scarey was …… a rabbit.
You would have to see this rabbit , in the dark somber woods .
I just read the plotline of that film. Maybe I’m weird but I’d as soon poke my eyes out with a sharp stick as sit and watch something like that. That’s hyperbole of course, but life seems to be somewhat hyperbolic these days.
Here, the Beeb et al seem to be putting on horror films for the entire month of October. Although, in some ways, it’s hard to tell, since so much of their output seems to be dystopian and designed to cause anxiety and fear. I hate horror films generally and give them a wide berth. I can’t even watch Turn of the Screw, although I think I read it once decades ago.
A former colleague once told me she watched horror films to get the excitement of fear without any actual risk. Maybe the reason I’ve never needed to do that is that, as a bit of a catastrophist (I suppose) I’ve always known, at some level, that there’s plenty to fear in real life. Why would I want to replicate it in the (for now) haven of my own living room?
You are definitely braver than me generally, anyway.
I must be the only person left in the western world who hasn’t seen any of the Halloween films, or even The Exorcist.
I did see Poltergeist, eventually, which was too silly to be scary.
The Excorcist is a good film. The others are just low-grade entertainment for those who like blood and jump-scares.
The Excorcist is also the only film I have watched that I ever found truly scary.
Back when I lived in DC, I visited the notorious staircase from the film. Had a vibe about it.
Yes, The Exorcist, but also one more I found terrifying: Jacob’s Ladder.
Both movies transcended the scare/horror genre completely since the fear they engendered wasn’t from the outside, but from within, wisely realizing that evil can have its seed in anyone and everyone.
Oh. Good one!
GA: No, you are not.
I don’t understand why anyone would watch such films.
@ GreenAlba:
One of my friends was really into horror movies and “slasher” movies, in his youth. His life was very difficult at the time. He was experiencing quite a bit of violence and disorder, both at work and at home.
My take is that the scary movies were an escape mechanism. They allow you to have a catharsis re the real-life terror you are experiencing, but without really confronting–or even acknowledging–the negativity in your life and realizing you need to change it.
I’ve noticed that depression often works the same way. A person can be depressed without even knowing or acknowledging that they’re depressed. E.g., they burst into tears in the parking lot at work and don’t know why, because they’re unable to face the fact that a lot of very bad things are going on in their lives. So the very awareness of their problems is repressed, and they suffer from depression.
Yes, this was the quintessential ‘Puritan Town’, KA. I grew up in the Puritan Church, which is now called the Congregational Church. (which has recently gone off the rails, with a huge ‘Pride Flag’ permanently attached to the entrance) The New England Witch Hunt of the 1690s reached here, with two woman and one man being prosecuted and hung. It was largely forgotten, an obscure historical event, until revived by a few feminist organizations. Now it looms large.
The Witch was magnificent! It also introduced a young Anya Taylor-Joy, who has gone on to some acclaim in the aftermath.
I remember reading a movie review site comment board where one guy was going on and on (…and on!) about how the movie was unbelievable and yada yada yada like it was some kind of documentary or something. No one could get through to him that it was based on a old New England folk tale, and that yes, people at that time actually did believe in such things. Per John Michael Greer, the world was a much more magical place at that time.
In reality, the world was pretty brutal too, DA, specially when it came to witches. The Witch hunting campaign in Salem & a few other places, including here, was small potatoes compared to events in Central Europe. During the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 its estimated at least 50,000 people were convicted of practicing Witchcraft and subsequently beheaded, hung & burned. Witchcraft seems to have been an ‘Extraordinary Delusion’, blamed for everything going wrong, much like “Climate Change” today.
Yes, nice comparison. Another case of mass insanity. The “wisdom” of crowds operating in reverse. Just another reason that large groups of people give me the creeps.
If you haven’t seen The Witch yet, I highly recommend it!
Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter another good Witch Tale.
Scarlet Letter not exactly about Witches but features a good example of the Witchhunters mentality.
What are you talking about, Kesa? Of course I love women – and that includes you. Just pick a cromlech in one of the old Celtic lands and we’ll do this.
Biden: Is everyone on the line now? Bebe?
Bebe: I’m here!
Biden: Z Man?
Z: But of course!
Biden: Hamas?
Hamas: We’re here to serve, Mr. President!
Biden: Ok now, let’s get down to business. Hamas, we’ve got a little job for you. It will pay well, and it’s right up your alley. Gonna need a little incursion. Usual stuff, missiles, and civilian carnage, all the usual stuff.
Our little Ukraine caper is starting to peter out, and Z Man, Bebe, and I all need some political cover for all the shit we’ve been pulling these past many years.
Hamas: Is that all?
Biden: Well, no. Bebe and I have mulled it over and think that some hostages would be nice this around time too. Keeps the attacks on the front page and all that and generates some nice human interest stories. Real tearjerkers. My people are absolute suckers for that maudlin shit.
Hamas: No problem at all. And the payment terms?
Biden: Well, listen, I don’t like to get into specifics on the phone, and quite frankly, I don’t care how much you take. This one’s gonna grow the cake so large we can all fatten up for years to come if we play our cards right. So how about I just give you Janet’s personal number, you get ahold of her and told her Ol’ SloJo said open up the vault on this one. She’ll take good care of you.
Bebe, you know what to do, right?
Bebe: Oh hell yeah! We’re declaring all out “war” on them motherfuckers! We’ll pull out all the stops.
Hamas: That’s fine Bebe. Just keep us in the loop. Wanna make sure civilians take most of the casualties. That’s just good business for both of us. [chuckles]
Bebe: Oh, of course! None of us wants to lose our own operatives for such a mutually beneficial operation as this. Let the damn civilians carry that load!
Biden: OK, that’s it then. Everyone know their parts?
Z: Uh, Mr. President, what do I do?
Biden: [angry] Go back to your hellhole in Ukraine and STFU you loser! I’ll have Hunter keep you in all the coke and hookers you can handle. I’ll have my press manufacture some supporting quotes for you, so just don’t go shooting your mouth off and fuck anything up! Think you can handle that much? God knows you’ve already banked a small fortune at our expense, so not a peep, or I’ll have Vlad take your worthless ass out!
Z: [sheepishly] Yes sir…
Biden: [upbeat] OK then, gentlemen, let’s get to work!
Brilliant!
Well, listen, I don’t like to get into specifics on the phone
has me in stitches.
Not to be cynical, but they needed a casus belli to attack Iran. Now they have it.
Surely we’re not going to let “our only ally in the region”, gallant, little, democratic Israel go it alone?
No. Of course not! I smelled a rat as soon as I heard about this. Networks cut in on college football yesterday to proclaim loud and clear that “we” (the royal we, meaning Biden and his cronies) stand firm with Israel. Not a single doubt in my mind that this is just another cheap trick, aka false flag.
A few old (actually timeless) chestnuts (no, gems) quoted by the Brothers in conversation.
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
— Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer
At a dinner party attended by women from the upper echelons of society the question of night work was being discussed. A woman said she wouldn’t do such things for money. The host asked if she would consider one night for a million pounds. She said yes. Then the host asked if ten pounds would suffice. She said,sir what kind of woman do you think I am? To which Oscar Wilde replied that he had established what kind of woman she was they were just haggling over the price.
He and Sir Winston Churchill were merciless when engaged in conversations with female critics.
An exasperated Lady Astor angrily told Sir Winston that if he were her husband she would poison his drink. To which he replied that he would happily drink it.
Ha, she walked straight into that one!
Aaaaaaamen no truer words have been said…. Eve had it made Adam the first in the gene pool so you know he had to be strong tall and handsome, her home was Eden being cared for by her husband and God. But it was not good enough she wanted to be in charge. Genesis 3:17 says it right there, Adam was punished because he listen to His wife and not to God!!!
John Adams’ wife Abigail asked him to remember the ladies. John Adams replied this country will not succumb to the tyranny of the petticoat… (The movie Patriot) His real reply was, “I cannot but laugh, we know better than to repeal our Masculine systems.”
Jarek: Courage! We’re going to win! Why? Because we can think, we can wait, and we can fast. Fast? From food? Not just food, almost everything, certainly them.
Jarek at 2:14 pm
What are you talking about, Kesa? Of course I love women – and that includes you.
Jarek at 2.47pm
Because we can think, we can wait, and we can fast. Fast? From food? Not just food, almost everything, certainly them [women].’
Alas, poor Jarek …
All deep relationships require shared values. Virtually all modern women are traitors to their nation, culture, and therefore their men – as you proudly proclaimed yourself the other day. And of course in regards to the latter, ingrates as well (though as a working woman that doesn’t apply to you so much). You may indeed give as much as you get in your marriage, be it caresses, paid bills, or blows about the head and shoulders, with either fists, frying pan, or rolling pin.
What am I missing, exactly? In your own words, please. You think so highly of your own sex to think that you are indispensible to us? But so many of you regard us as eminently dispensible. You certainly didn’t speak up in our defense when the feminists talked about fish and bicycles. Indeed, you took your dating and marriage advice from these frizzy haired sweethearts.
Anthea hissed: Men want one thing: Pussy. Does any man really want to go there with a woman who thinks so little of him?
Admit the glory of these quotes! Wilde and Churchill had team woman figured out even if Freud didn’t or pretended not to.
Another from Winnie: A female journo said to him, You’re drunk. Winnie replied, But tomorrow I will be sober. Yet you will still be ugly.
In contrast, the Hero was known as consumate gentleman with the ladies. No doubt he knew the secret, deeper Truth however.
His speech to Women denying them a role on the frontlines in War may well be the pinnacle of chivalry as known in the West.
“Anthea hissed: Men want one thing: Pussy.”
This is one of the few times I half-agree with Anthea. The catch? Many men DO only want pussy, and many women offer nothing else.
A perfect match, until the spiritual bankruptcy of both kicks in, usually between fuck #1 and six months into it.
Yes, the pasus or beast men. Shiva, the Lord of Beasts, gives them what they want and the wages thereof.
Shun the heaven that leads to this hell.
Shakespeare.
Like I said, alas poor Jarek.
“You think so highly of your own sex to think that you are indispensible to us? ”
Citation needed, toadie.
I didn’t say anything about rating my sex at all. You’re the one doing the (be)rating. I questioned the fact that half an hour after saying you loved women you were talking about how to avoid them, following a diatribe of hackneyed nasty anecdotes (I think you’d be better avoiding them, personally.) I expect the nastiness – I merely wondered why you stepped out of character to say you loved women.
“Virtually all modern women are traitors to their nation, culture, and therefore their men – as you proudly proclaimed yourself the other day.”
Citation needed, on the ‘proudly proclaimed’ bit. Don’t forget to post it verbatim. And I would add that, as things currently stand, my nation is a traitor to me – and to my fellow citizens. Or at least it’s representatives are and the heads of its institutions, and most of them are men, including its supposed monarch.
“You may indeed give as much as you get in your marriage, be it caresses, paid bills, or blows about the head and shoulders, with either fists, frying pan, or rolling pin.”
Blows about the head and shoulders? You are one sick puppy.
You may recall I provided the home as well. ‘Give as much as you get’, indeed.
Take your misogyny elsewhere. There’s no misandry in my house. Take your sour grapes somewhere else as well.
You responded to me so you get lost, traitor.
I have no idea what that sentence even means, but you still owe a verbatim quote of what you claimed I said, unless you accept that you are, as ever, a lying toad.
You mocked me in my aloneness and I challenged you to make you case for the desirability of having a wife or girlfriend. Instead of meeting my challenge you just made the post about yourself. Thus not only did you not meet my challenge, you reinforced my premise.
When you’re not spitting mad, you’re a drooling idiot.
I am never spitting mad and I am never a drooling idiot, your insults notwithstanding. I know what butt hurt looks like, though, so perhaps you should hide your emotions better when you are feeling that way and need to lash out. All this is because you said two contradictory things in half an hour and don’t like it being pointed out.
And I did not ‘mock’ your ‘aloneness’, I said you’d be better avoiding women – because you hold them in contempt. No woman deserves to be stuck with a man who despises her sex the way you do. Women who despise men generally should stay on their own too, like the one Laurence Fox got sacked for insulting (he should have behaved better but she was smirking at male suicide, which got his back up).
There is nothing wrong with ‘aloneness’. Quite possibly, I should have stuck with it myself.
One of your problems is that you are far less interested in the truth than you are in point scoring. You say it quite openly.
Jerek,
Yes, we can fast, but it is very difficult…very hard….
But, of course, as you get oldert…it is only difficult.
I now fast from Tuesday evening through to Thursday lunch each week. I highly recommend it.
I do consume hibiscus tea during those 40 hours.
Yeah I was watching another episode of the Climate Critical podcast, which mixes Marxism, Feminism, and Climate Extremism into one big stew. The guest: a professor at Virginia Tech. The premise: fossil fuels are part of the patriarchy, indeed petroleum above all defines the patriarchy, capitalism, western civ, Christianity & the traditional nuclear family … all of which must be eradicated asap. What would replace petroleum, coal natgas etc.? Something she called ‘Feminine Energy’. She wasn’t real clear how ‘Feminine Energy’ would work in a practical sense, in the real world, but the upshot is that all resources on earth would be equitably shared & we would care for one another. The host, Rachel Donald — not a bad looking gal — nodded knowingly. Above all ‘The Global North’ (Whitey) would be taken to task & made to pay.
Lmao.
Jarek,
Your first quote is correctly attributed to George Bernard Shaw, not Wilde.
Second quote of yours, actually. Originally unattributed.
Ok! But part of a recording of an actual exorcism was used The Exorcist, Tubular Bells notwithstanding.
We’re at cross-purposes. Agreed. I’ll clarify: The great quote, “we know what you are, madam, we’re just dickering over the price” was from Shaw.
Soul bacon
A former IDF intelligence officer says there is no way Israeli intelligence did not know about the impending Hamas attack.
efrat.substack.com/p/israel-hamas-war-an-update
Netanyahoo is a war mongering maniac.
We are to believe:
-no air patrol
-no camera or sensors at border fence
-no border patrol
-no boat patrols
-no police/military at a music festival
-no military/police as the terrorists made their way 18 miles in.
Netanyahoo said it’s their 9-11
Just think about that.
He’s not lying.
Just think about that.
Unless of course he has Mayorkas’ brother Shmuel as his border czar
Lol. Yep and Ron DeSantis said that the attack is like a 9/11 too. Probably others in the US have said the same. It sounds like they are using this as a pretext to depopulate Gaza at least. Who knows what the ultimate results will be. War with Iran?
“Americans” kidnapped.
What kind?
The Jeff Epstein and Mark Rich’s.
That dude that swindled BurgerIM franchisees?
Just another ploy to get dopey Americans onboard the Netanyahoo express.
Last stop: Iran… then emptied Ukraine
They got away with vaxing over 80% of them. If they went for that, they’ll go for this too.
But Islamic Prophecy is clear: the Mahdi will plant the black Flag of Jihad in Palestine. Nemesis follows hubris. And who has been more hubristic than them? Thus, the Nemesis will be great indeed.
Prophecy.
What did the Israelites get punished for venerating? A golden goat?
They have a jealous, fragile, and vengeful god.
In one of the musical festival videos, the attendees at the (security free) kibbutz are dancing beneath an altar with a shiny robotic looking Buddhaesque statue.
And just like that, hang-gliding terrorists, AKA the demiurge’s wrath appear in the sky.
Netanyahoo said it’s there [sic] 9-11. Just think about that. He’s not lying. Just think about that.
100 scores a point on the GLT scale.
I didn’t say “there” you bipolar f**k
You are correct, 100. I copied your text but then my auto-correct must’ve goofed it when I was removing all of your hard returns.
My bad. I regret the error.
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Do you also name-call and ridicule the cancer-ridden for their cancer? Or diabetics for their diabetes? Or just us mentally ill?
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My point remains – we now know that you are not a GLT shutout.
“Oil & gas are of course NOT “fossil fuels”: that is another fear based limited supply hoax:
“Abiogenic Deep Origin of Hydrocarbons and Oil and Gas Deposits Formation”
“The theory of the abiogenic deep origin of hydrocarbons recognizes that the petroleum is a primordial material of deep origin [Kutcherov, Krayushkin 2010]. This theory explains that hydrocarbon compounds generate in the asthenosphere of the Earth and migrate through the deep faults into the crust of the Earth. There they form oil and gas deposits in any kind of rock in any kind of the structural position (Fig. 1). Thus the accumulation of oil and gas is considered as a part of the natural process of the Earth’s outgrassing, which was in turn responsible for creation of its hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere. Until recently the obstacles to accept the theory of the abyssal abiogenic origin of hydrocarbons was the lack of the reliable and reproducible experimental results confirming the possibility of the synthesis of complex hydrocarbon systems under the conditions of the asthenosphere of the Earth.”
https://twitter.com/robinmonotti/status/1710182962807906788
They would never lie to us! 😀
They would also never lie to us and encourage 150 years of investment in a hydrocarbon civilization as if the energy-supply to maintain this civilization were reliable and indefinite, when all along the energy supply was quite finite, and the civilizational investment never any more than a shortlived pop-tent, one-weekend-only, furureless bonanza.
They would never do that to us.
But the GLT-10? Or Paradise? Or Lahaina? That’d be too much! That’s a line they wouldn’t cross.
Pretty sure.
Ah, yes. The masterplan was to collapse all of the industrialized societies in the West and go back to the stone age. All of the inventors and scientists of yesteryear did it all for nothing.
They always knew natural resources would run out, and we would simply all die off.
You have figured it out. We must now all exit this mortal coil.
Or, they simply want it all, and they just foisted one of the greatest hoaxes in human history on you in order to push you into their control system–a control system discussed in documents dating back to before many of us were alive.
If only we could do detailed analyses of these possibilities, weigh all probabilities in the most educated way possible, and then come to new sets of conclusions about which scenarios are most evidenced… But that would require open-minded objectivity, engagement and effort.
If we wanted all that we wouldn’t be sitting here sloshed at this bar now, would we? I mean, we’ve got jobs to slave at, mouths to feed, college-funds and retirement funds to fill, mortgages to pay. If God wanted us to think, he wouldn’t have loaded our plates with all these things…
Best would be you first showing hard evidence for your claims of “carrying capacity.”
How can we move forward when such an over-the-top claim has yet to be backed with even a scintilla of evidence?
Show us, Gus.
I did. Laid it all out. You countered with something about “Netherlands agriculture is really efficient,” and then put the “you’ve shown no evidence” record back on.
Up thread, Owl wrote:
“Challenge me to do something, Gus.”
I challenge you to describe a plausible energy future for this civilization extending more than 500 years into the future.
Don’t even post it here. Just do it for yourself. But no shortcuts. No, “nuclear will just save us somehow,” or, “we’ll discover something that will do the trick.” Dig in deep, map it all out with an open mind and in realist detail.
“Best would be you first showing hard evidence for your claims of “carrying capacity.””
Well, this is not my dialogue,
but there has been some discussion of “carrying capacity” that I thought was quite reasonable (including my own contributions).
I do feel as though the “Show me, X!” type of challenge that crops up her and also in threads at other blogs on the Holocaust/HoloHoax is basically bulls classhing horns or butting heads or something.
All of these issues are complex, and the “Show me” type of comment doesn’t really advance an;y discussion of any value. Not that I can see.
We can all check the archive, Gus.
You have no proof whatsoever and now resort to simply lying.
LOL.
😀
Owl, leave Germany and get to your true home, Missouri, the “show me” state.
Islander describes “message-board championism.” People for whom message-boarding is a sport and endgame in itself.
“Islander describes “message-board championism.” People for whom message-boarding is a sport and endgame in itself.”
I don’t understand the point of or reason for this insult.
Sure, I thought my own view was useful.
I gave it thought and wrote it down for the participants in the discussion board.
Per you that an offense. I doubt that you bothered to read it.
So be it.
I will claim credit for not insulting you by calling you “Gus.”
I was just trying to agree with you (not disagree!) and add a descriptor to the “show me evidence” posting style you talked about.
Well the Earth is essentially a living being. So it would not be a surprise. However, what is this argument being used for?
Oil is “dead dinosaur” bones.
😀
They use this argument to bolster their belief that there is an unlimited supply of oil, and therefore Happy Motoring will never stop.
They aren’t smart enough to realize that it doesn’t matter how the oil got into those pools, what matters is that when you pump them dry, the oil is gone.
Will it trickle back into the pools over the next million years?
Maybe it will. So what? How does that mean that dry wells are not dry?
It doesn’t.
Why you gotta be such a bummer, Paula? Let’s just have a good laugh at the “fossil fuel” losers and pour another pint and feel god damn swell about ourselves for a while, alright?
Sounds good, gus. I’m about to kick back and enjoy my night anyway, so I’m taking your advice.
Nice.
Show your proof that we are at “carrying capacity” (whatever this figure is).
It has been about a year since you claimed this with no hard evidence whatsoever.
😀
“Will it trickle back into the pools over the next million years? ”
It does trickle back into supposedly dry wells.
Probably not fast enough, though.
That hydrocarbons come from fossils is a theory.
It is not a very believable one, IMHO.
I want to study more of the very best “refilling” stories.
Second-hand, I hear that this is more likely to be horizontal sloshing and post-drill draining than actual abiotic refilling from Earth’s mantle, which would be a much slower process, way below levels relevant to this civilization.
Yeah that is where I am at basically. I think that the hydrocarbons are produced by natural geological processes. But see that is just it. Geological. Geological time is also referred to as Deep Time which translates to millions and billions of years. So if a well of hydrocarbons is all used up it may take a geological epoch or longer to replenish itself.
Those who are genuinely curious can do a search for “Comparison of fossil fuel theory versus abiotic fuel theory.”
The main point is that you have to clear your mind of human emotions, fears, preconceptions, needs, wishes, hopes, forecasts, etc. Ignore any articles that talk about “renewability.”
Just compare the two theories in scientific terms.
Here is one article that sets forth the arguments in terms laypersons can easily follow:
httpX://web.archive.org/web/20110706112841/http://trilogymedia.com.au/Thomas_Gold/usgs.html
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Yes, Islander. I was convinced when you posted a long Russian paper/article on it last time.
What do you know of genuine accounts of well-refilling?
Have the Russians determined any kind of ideas on rates/timeframes for the process?
Don’t make me research this myself! Provide more of your excellent research and cache of great sources for free! 🙂
I think this is the same article.
It seems like, from the article, even IF oil wells DID refill at any relevant speed, it would pretty much only be with natural gas, not oil, because of oil requiring much more specific conditions to form.
This is from an old NYT article I’ve read before, in which the gyst is: oil wells usually have more oil than we think they do at first. Either there’s more laterally, or pressurized systems are moving oil around and up.
“But Dr. Ahlbrandt hastens to add that this does not mean that prospectors are finding large new oil fields; it means that “people are becoming more clever at finding and extracting hydrocarbons from previously overlooked resources.”
This results from a trend oil experts call “field growth.”
In some cases, he said, an oil company may discover an oil field, pump it almost dry, and then, using new seismic techniques that produce three-dimensional images of the fine details of deep geological structures, discover that an unsuspected and untapped extension of the field exists in some new direction.”
I would expect that what seems like the general trend in global drilling describes the whole system in the end: there’s more oil than you think at first, but eventually the supply peters out, and remainders are too hard/costly to extract.
Oh, I thought you’d dropped this ridiculous theory…but then again, you’re still the promotor of many other equally insane myths:
“COVID doesn’t exist”
“Trump was the best president ever”
“The 2020 election was rigged (everyone knows that)”
“The Storm is Coming!”
“Lin Wood & Sydney Powell are great patriots”
“Climate change is (yet another) hoax”
“Ronnie Jackson is a wonderful guy”
“Trump never said ‘inject the bleach'”
….and so on, endlessly.
Can you not see how self-tarnished your fragile credibility is? Only a true narcissist wouldn’t see it and would continue adding to the list of embarrassing lies to which he adheres.
Ron recently noted that no good deed goes unpunished. Here is an interesting example of that phenomenon. There is a rebellion within me as to which outcome would be more satisfying. In one sense it would’ve have been comical and gritty if the migrants took over the ship completely. On the other hand, if the sailors had simply adopted a “let em drown” strategy it might be compelling and interesting, and triggering for some people.
revolver.news/2023/10/dutch-sailors-rescue-african-migrants-at-sea-moments-later-they-face-a-knife-wielding-attack-on-their-ship/
And yes Q, I did intend to say “would’ve have..”.
Wooda have done been hella comical now I reckun, wouldnit?
Oh, I didn’t realize you were from the backwoods lol
What a surprise, huh SSL. This seems to be a theme this week. First we have the reporter & LBGQT ally in Philadelphia, ‘mentoring’ a black kid at 1:00 am, shot 3x in the chest. Then we have the do-gooder in Brooklyn, who described himself a COO of Antifa, stabbed twice in the heart while waiting for a bus on Malcolm X Blvd. Now the sailor confronted by a knife wielding African at sea. I’m not that bright but I’m starting to see a pattern developing here.
That’s right BRH. You can believe your lying eyes lol. The simplest way to understand is if you just start with the self help books. No one is going to take care of you if you don’t take care of you.
I don’t claim Covid is fake; I claim it is fake until the perpetrators can show us that it is real.
That is a very stupid approach from a little girl who should know better. For example, what if it is in the perpetrators’ best interest is to not show us what it is? In that probable case, your stupid approach would result in you being foolishly wrong with no hope of ever getting onboard with right.
Think about it, Einstein.
It makes sense to me. If someone is arguing for something then they need to show the receipts. The covid perpetrators said that covid was real. So they need to show us their receipts. Bam! Einstein couldn’t keep it snookums lol
it mean up and up means it = shut up
How did millions (if not) billions become ill if WII does not even exist? Logically that is the question (regardless of how forthcoming the perpetrators are).
Your logic is, basically, “Clearly this man with a bloody hole between his eyes was not shot to death. I know it for a fact because the suspect told me that he doesn’t even have a gun!”
Hundreds of thousands (in America alone) did not become intubated-remdesivir fatalities for absolutely no reason at all. They, each and every one, went to hospital for something.
Death statistics did not show anything significant until the vax.
Also, flu numbers mysteriously plummeted about as much as covid numbers rose…
Overall death statistics aside, people got sick, went to hospital, got intubated and remdesivired and died by the thousands and that is a simple fact.
You do realize that you are actually arguing for me, right Gus? You are arguing that WII was, indeed, something.
Pro tip: When you pull the bullet out of the skull, covered in brain matter, you know the man was shot.
OG believes the virus is real, and he doesn’t need any evidence to do so other than thinking that his cold/flu was kinda weird.
Ironclad evidence, kids.
Oh, boy, another mark.
Well if you think about it, it actually makes the perpetrators worse. Essentially they killed people using remdesivir and of course the vaxes in the name of a made up disease. I actually tend to think there was a virus but that it was not what they were saying. For example, do you recall how the flu disappeared? They could have easily inflated whatever covid was with flu and that could fool lots of people.
The flu did not disappear.
The federal government paid hospitals and clinics billions of dollars to test for covid with the inaccurate PCR test.
They did not pay them to test for the flu.
It is not difficult to understand why the flu “disappeared”.
Follow the money.
But the Chinese didn’t use the PCR test to diagnose the disease. They used O2 sats and ground-glass CT scans, and they only tested sick people. The US tested everyone, in order to raise the stats.
There was a difference between pneumonia from the flu, and the covid illness, which was not pneumonia. A CXR of pneumonia will show patchy infiltrates, and there is a cough and shortness of breath.
In covid, there was a generalized ground-glass appearance. There were low O2 sats, but no real respiratory distress, according to doctors I saw who treated them. They said it was bizarre to see someone with an O2 sat of 80% not struggling for breath, the way people do with pneumonia.
It was definitely a distinct disease, but it mostly killed the elderly with co-morbidities, and it burned out by spring, 2020.
So overall fatalities did not go up for the entire year, but those who would have died that year pretty much died in March and April, instead of spread out through the year.
They have shown the receipts, SSL, both from the funding of the bioweapons research labs AND the mapping of the virus and each of its variants’ genomes.
Dumbass Night Soil just denies that all those researchers have looked at the original virus and its variants.
Then he denies that people got sick with them.
See how easy it is? Just deny evidence and then claim there is no evidence, and then demand that evidence be shown, but then deny that it is evidence.
No point in arguing with autist idiots, but also no point in believing their repetitive assertions.
There are other highly regarded scientists who say the opposite, Paula.
Like Denis Rancourt, and the ex-VP of Pfizer, Mike Yeadon–among others.
Particularly as there is no isolate or any hard evidence that the virus exists.
I do enjoy that you are afraid to address me directly.
I know why.
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Re “Enter Yeadon.” \
I think Yeadon is sincere—not participating in any kind of psy-op. And I do take many of his views—based on his knowledge base— very seriously. For instance, his observations on the lack of quality control; on the unrealistic speed with which a “vaccine” was developed; his explanation of the the relationship between correlation, hypothesis development, and testing to establish causation; the way the “vaccines” were manufactured to “match” what the developers wanted. Yeadon calls out plenty of red flags.
But i don’t unquestioning accept all that he says., in particular, concerning the input from doctors who actually treated patients with . . . “Something Called Covid-19” such as Dr. Zev Zelenko and Dr. Peter McCullough.
Yes. It seems possible though that they could fabricate the mapping of the virus and the variants etc. At one point they wanted us to believe that the virus came from pangolins.
Their official story is ridiculous, I agree, SSL.
But the released emails show that they knew from the very beginning that the virus was man-made.
There are emails between Fauci and other scientists on Jan. 30th, 2020, in which they point out that there was a genetic sequence in the virus which would have been impossible to happen naturally.
Then the other scientists got million dollar grants from Fauci, and they went on record saying that there was no way it was man-made. It totally came from a pangolin, a ferret, a bat, and a human mingling in a wet market.
And they hid the emails showing differently.
But scientists all over the world have studied the virus and its variants. Fauci doesn’t have to bribe them all.
All they need is scientist willing to participate in a FUD psy op, to confuse the gullible.
Enter: Yeadon.
Paula – I’m on the ‘virus side’ rather than the ‘no-virus side’ (for now – I’m happy to shift if I’m sufficiently persuaded). I agree with Rancourt that there was not a pandemic by any traditional measure, but I think there was probably an extra respiratory pathogen around that added to the normal array of winter pneumonia-type illnesses, but with no great difference in overall mortality (apart from when they were euthanising old people with Remdesivir or Midazolam/morphine). Lots of flu may well have been treated as covid.
However, I think Mike Yeadon is as straight as an arrow, and if he’s wrong in his position on the virus/no-virus argument (and I’m in no position to claim that he is), I can’t imagine it is in any way to intentionally muddy the waters. In fact, in numerous interviews, he makes his no-virus position pretty much in parenthesis and has said quite clearly that he doesn’t want to argue with people about it, because it’s not the thing that matters most and he doesn’t want to see it dividing the ‘resistance’.
GA: ” . . . because it’s not the thing that matters most and he doesn’t want to see it dividing the ‘resistance’.”
I strongly disagree with Yeadon on this point.
“The resistance” is a political aspect. Resistance to what? I know the answer, more or less, but this stance just miuddies the science and vitiates Yeadon’s contribution to the whole debate as what really happened. .
Yeadon is a scientist and should stick to science.
P.S.
The truth should never weaken “the resistance.”
If the truth shows some “resistance” figure to be barking up the wrong tree (such as maybe Malone and Desmet?), maybe they aren’t helping “the resistance.”
Malcolm X:
“I’m interested in the truth, and I don’t care who says it.”
I don’t think Yeadon ‘knows’ the truth about the virus/no virus issue. He has been persuaded by talking to and reading Tom Cowan and the Baileys. When he talks about it, he says ‘I now believe … ‘ not ‘I have irrefutable evidence that …’.
As a scientist, that’s all he can say.
And if he changes his mind, he will tell us.
Most interesting thing about the “virus or no virus” debate:
even if there was a real covid virus, most recorded covid cases were faked/mislabeled.
So even if Night Owl’s wrong, he’s still mostly right.
I agree with that.
I am entirely right at present, though it is not about being right, it is about potentially the greatest hoax in history being dustbinned with no accountability due to seas of morons who do not understand manipulation and propaganda.
They have not shown that Covid exists, and there is no evidence that anyone got sick with what they claimed Covid is (which is also nebulous and changed constantly).
Only a complete idiot would believe a deadly virus was created in a lab, travelled around the entire world in a few months, killed next to no one, and had a survival rate of nearly 100% but was, um, still deadly, and could only be shown “in silico” (a computer model)…
The whole thing is so mind-numbingly stupid that words cannot adequately describe it. And I didn’t even mention Chinese moon men and a host of other absurdities in this clown show.
“That is a very stupid approach from a little girl who should know better.”
OG – putting the “OG” misOGyny – again.
Informing a man that he is acting like a little girl is not misogyny, RO.
I love little girls. They are wonderful. I don’t like when grown men act like little girls. They are disgusting.
Obviously.
Kim Dotcom hasn’t been posting on X lately but yesterday he gave his take on the whole Israel-Hamas situation. He actually says that the attack could be provoked by Iran as a means of further destabilizing the US. His argument is that the US is already bankrupt and a new war in the Middle East will accelerate the bankruptcy. Perhaps a strategic move by Iran, Russia and China.?
twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1710624093878604061?s=19
Well, I would ask Kim Dotcom why the mid-BRICS would want to jeopardize their own countries in any fashion (casualties, economic and energetic expense) when, by their own perspicacious take, the U.S. will implode anyway. The Chinese, especially, have a history of taking the long view.
Kim Dotcom, SSL? What caché does he hold in your otherwise usually thoughtful observations? He’s an egomaniacal grifter and (likely) a Trumpista to boot.
Anything’s possible, but I think I agree with you. The US is already in the process of committing civilizational suicide and more wars are pretty much a given, with or without any external stimuli. With buffoon enemies like DC, why go to the trouble? Find a nice high perch out of harm’s way to watch the carnage unfold and wait for the inevitable.
The “worrying” part for US citizens is that this signals beyond a doubt that the Biden bunch and the globalists they’re in bed with are getting increasingly desperate. Meanwhile, the US populace yawns, rolls over, and goes back to sleep.
DA I think 700 dead Israelis have got our attention.
Biden has sent a Carrier Task Force into the eastern Mediterranean but what good can it do? I certainly hope the Navy doesn’t start dropping bombs on urbanized, crowded Gaza and the West Bank.
I think the IDF is capable of handling the situation.
In for a penny, in for a pound! Right on time, we’ve got a bouncing baby war! Ain’t she cute?
The schlubs pay the price.
As always.
The regular folk.
Be it Israelis at a music festival or driving on a highway.
Next will be Palestinians in the wrong apartment tower.
Then Iranians in the wrong milk bottling plant.
The children in the Murrah daycare.
The kitchen prep nobodies at Windows on the World
The southern enlistees who signed-up to fight for our freedom…
Iin Iraq
Afghanistan
For two decades
For nothing
When life is plentiful, life is cheap.
The schlubs pay the price.
As always.
What can you say? They keep begging for more. They’ll support this one just like they always do. Sure glad I’m retired.
More dumb Americans gonna die for the puppeteers
“Be it Israelis at a music festival or driving on a highway.”
Israelis partying a few miles from the Gaza fence where IDF sharpshooters have target medics and other civilians . . .they are all willing executioners.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong REASON.
He’s wrong.
It’s a plot to get the US out of the unpopular and lost war in Ukraine.
And into Iran.
A way for Israel to get a few more pounds of flesh from the still warm American corpse.
They put all their eggs, and operatives, in the American basket and the basket is unraveling.
Might as well have America and Americans help them before it is totally helpless.
The border between Israel and Gaza is one of the tightest borders on the planet. Nothing crosses it without inspection.
So how did Iran manage to ship 5,000 rockets, guns and ammo to Gaza?
Magic? Is that what we’re supposed to believe?
You believe many of their other narratives, why not this one?
Paula, what do you think?
Are you saying it is a false flag, arranged by Israel?
Could be. No one really knows what is going on, and theories abound.
But I wonder whether the false flag theory includes the plan that Hamas would grab General Nimrod—in his underwear, no less!!
Why would that be anything out of the ordinary? Even allowing for the fact that you can’t take any “news” dressed up as “facts” coming out of there at face value anyway. Literally *everything* is suspect in an operation such as this. Sure looks like another joint Zionist psyop to me. I just wonder what took them so damn long, ongoing Ukraine fiasco notwithstanding.
“Why would that be anything out of the ordinary? ”
Does this comment apply to the seizure of Nimrod in his shorts?
If so, that action is very much out of the ordinary and a huge humiliation to the IDF and, really, to everyone. Imagine if —-well, we don’t have anyone of the caliber and position as General Nimrod Aloni—but let’s say, Colin Powell were captured and perp-walked from his home in his boxer shorts?
httpX://www.geo.tv/latest/513483-hamas-capture-senior-israeli-commander-during-operation-al-aqsa-storm
I have no idea, but the idea that Iran could ship all those weapons to Gaza is flat out ridiculous.
I assume the weapons went through Egypt. That border is closed to Palestinians, so I don’t think that there are Israel border guards there.
But who? I don’t know. I would doubt that it is an Israeli false flag, though.
Islander – Looking forward to Vanessa Beeley’s take, if she’s on UKC News on Monday.
Back to MoA for updates . . .
Tunnels and air drops using drones not that difficult.
Tunnels from Iran to Gaza. Sure, Ben.
And drones are not invisible.
Tunnels from Iran?
What are you an absolute imbecile?
That would be one hell of a tunnel.
How do you know what drones are being used and when they are flying them.
Do you know what the radar cross section of one is?
I got news for you they have been finding and collapsing tunnels into Israel for decades and the drones are being used to wage warfare all over the place now.
Iran has a cluster drone program to overwhelm ship defenses.
Amazon is now using them for deliveries.
You really are rather obtuse.
It’s not inconceivable that there might be some collaborators in the Egyptian military/border patrol.
benr, you will soon be shocked at the tunnel digging/building technology that has existed for a long, long time. A tunnel from Iran to Palestine is not ridiculous. For example, there is a tunnel from Rome to Jersulsalem. There are tunnels from New York to LA. There is a global network of tunnels.
Tunnels and DUMBs. Soon you will know.
Happy Thanksgiving, eh! Gobble gobble.
There are quite a few works of popular fiction that push the consumer to contemplate the idea of the assumed reality.
M. Night Shamalamadingdong’s ‘The Sixth Sense’and the Whatsexski’s sisters (?) ‘The Matrix’ are just two popular examples.
One day people will learn of Yaldabaoth’s realm.
It was hell all along.
Israeli Mossad Motto: “By deception thou shalt do war”
And they’re exceedingly good at it. Hasn’t failed them yet.
Dis,
Do you mean they are exceedingly good at deception or exceedingly good at war? Or both?
Both, for sure.
” What are you talking about, Kesa? ”
— Jarek
Let me try to elaborate.
First , two points ;
— Witches were not Robin Hood – like Characters in the 17th Century.
There were reasons why the attitude was zero – tolerance , merciless , kill – them – all.
— Long story , but best I can determine , many people in the 17th Century believed pretty much the exact opposite of what is generally believed now ;
Women are the sex fiends.
Like I said , it is a long story , but , for example , when one in three pregnancies ends in death , you might wonder who would volunteer for that.
Might there be a powerful compulsion behind it ?
—
This is not a movie with a cast of thousands .
There are four females characters.
The Witch.
A Matriarch
A teenager
A 6 year old ( ? )
We will start with the character you see the least of , the Witch.
She seduces a 12 year old boy , and uses a baby in human sacrifice.
The Matriarch is so absorbed in her own sorrows that it doesn’t seem to particularly trouble her that she accuses a teenage girl of Witchcraft …. a serious …. fucking …. charge … in 17th Century Puritan New England.
The 6 year old is a brat. She scarcely says a word in the whole movie that doesn’t radiate cruelty.
The teenager becomes a Witch.
To borrow a phrase from James Howard Kunstler , none of these women are leaping unicorns and rainbows.
That’s how I see the movie anyway.
Yes. The youngsters actually had the best parts. Very convincing. And Black Phillip, of course!
lol
When do we the sacrifice that you ordered?
@ GreenAlba
Not a fan of horror fiction myself , for apparently the same reason ; there is plenty of horror in real life.
I’m a history , sociology , and anthropology buff ,
and the movie strikes me as excellent on all three counts.
Then again ,
I’m afraid 90% of history , sociology , and anthropology is horror.
Well, if it comes on TV, I’ll try to watch it – for the history at least. 🙂
When I think of Halloween horror I think of the nauseating nails on chalkboard like annoying nature of Hallmark dramas
Sloppiest psy-op yet.
Total secret until yesterday.
1 day later mainstream propaganda is saying 6 months in the making.
Finalized in Beirut according to Fox’s WSJ.
By Iran of course.
That’s quick intel gathering.
But Netanyahoo MUST have his
Iran war.
It’s like they are getting worse at this each time they deploy one. What gives? Are they really getting this sloppy or do they just care less about hiding their intentions?
OG believes the virus is real, and he doesn’t need any evidence to do so other than thinking that his cold/flu was kinda weird. Ironclad evidence, kids.
Arguments work best if you say what you believe and I say what I believe, Mszn. As soon as you start stating what I believe: Srawman Alert!
Don’t presume that you can speak for me and my beliefs. You, of course, cannot. Instead, you merely display your corruption.
I know that WII is something. It cannot possibly be nothing and that is ironclad because I was sick on something. So was my gf. So was Dave. So were millions of others. That is way more than enough proof that WII is something. D’uh!
The rest is just srawman from a “man” who argues like a little girl that doesn’t have the balls to man up for his false accusations.
So even if Night Owl’s wrong, he’s still mostly right.
– Gus
God, give me strength!
Gus, Right v Wrong is binary. There is no such thing as being wrong but mostly right. That is a cop-out.
Mszn is wrong. WII is not nothing. WII is something. Obviously.
The position is too nuanced for you Ogg Man. It could exist, but why would you claim it actually does with no hard evidence? Particularly when it never did what they claimed it would? The only thing that happened was that they benefitted by getting seas of cud-chewers to lock themselves in their homes, call for the incarceration or deportation of the “unvaccinated,” and demand untested swill from some of the most corrupt corporations in human history.
You have not thought this through, but I will at least give you credit for not being too weak to attempt a debate, like Paula.
😀
Interesting anecdote: I just saw my brother-in-law, Ken, at Thanksgiving turkey dinner at my parents. He had just returned from a one-week training course in Denver. A classmate of his was there from Hawai’i. He told Ken that Lahaina 8/8 stinks to high heaven and that everyone in Hawai’i knows that.
The Extinction of the Alien Machines
by JMG
‘An exploration of extinction events for technological civilizations, but also extinction events that may happen to alien machine civilizations.’
youtu.be/GgxgAJG_mbE?si=ek8VdNLG9VBLe04w
If someone says there are no kangaroos, I can show them a kangaroo. Show me proof that Covid exists. See how easy it is to defeat you?
– Mszn
That didn’t “defeat” me, dipsh!t. In the demonstration, you are the moron claiming that there is no kangaroos because you haven’t see one.
I still don’t even understand what your argument is. How can millions of people worldwide get sick on nothing? Psychosomatic?
I don’t imagine anyone is arguing that millions of people worldwide didn’t get sick. More like they got sick from cold and flu viruses that were already in circulation. Perhaps it was an even more potent year than usual. Then you add in all the people killed on the remdesivir protocol and intubation and the vax injuries. It was a big psyop yes but not pyschosomatic. It makes sense if you think about it.
SSL, it is worth listening to Dr Shankara Chetty, a South African physician and scientist I’ve mentioned several times before. In this interview with the World Council for Health, he describes his covid experience after one year. He personally treated 7000 patients that year (a year later he had treated 14,000).
He describes the presentation of the illness, which is clearly not flu or a cold. It’s presentation is very specific, especially from day 8 in those patients who, having got through the viral replication stage unharmed, started to experience serious inflammatory symptoms, always on that day.
He describes his treatment protocols and the fact that he didn’t lose a single patient. In fact, none were even hospitalised.
Two patients who had formerly been his did die, but only after their relatives had removed them from his care and taken them to hospital (against his advice) where they died
I know that you are very even-handed on this issue, so if you do take the time to listen to it, you will see that it does not sound at all as if these people had flu. I’ve had flu – I was incapacitated and felt so bad I didn’t really care if I survived or not. But nothing whatever happened to me by day 8 – nor have I ever heard anyone who’s had flu say that they started experiencing serious inflammatory symptoms on day 8.
worldcouncilforhealth.org/multimedia/uvc-shankara-chetty/
” It was a big psyop yes but not pyschosomatic.”
Possibly “boosted” with a lot of hypochondriac-ism. Which is normally considered to be neurotic, but suddenly became normalized.
Also, people fell hard into the “tracking” thing, and that is not going to go away.
The two bouts I had with flu—and i was quite sick—were in 2000 and then in 2017. In both cases, it was known that “a bad bug was going around.” I probably picked up No. 1 from my BIL at Xmas, and No. 2 from who knows where. But I didn’t go into a tracking frenzy!
Last summer my cousin came up from Florida and we met for brunch. Two days later I started getting sick. OK, my turn for covid-19, I guess! I took ivermectin etc. that I had laid in.
The point being, though, that my cousin (who was also sick) called me to let me know that she had had dinner the night before we had brunch with a person who had been in contact two days before that with someone who ended up getting covid-19 . . . She was also sick.
So, this hyper-attention to the track of the illness seemed to put it into a different category from earlier bouts of flu, when people just shrugged about “catching” it. People who were ill did not have to be instructed to stay home, etc.
BTW, the earlier bouts were worse than last summer’s. I reckon I had good antibodies . . . Still I was pretty sick and recovery of strength took a few weeks. Four months later I lost a lot of hair, which had never happened before.. (It has now filled back in! Yay!).
“(It has now filled back in! Yay!).” ~ Islander
((:-))
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I have seen a kangaroo. I can show you one right now. We can scientifically show there is a species of mammal that we call a kangaroo, and this evidence goes back many years and is well documented. A kangaroo could even kick your ass in a fight, were you to challenge it.
So check that one off.
Now show me who specifically was sick with “Covid” and show me proof that it was “Covid.” How should we go about this part?
Lay it out for us in detail.
I think you’re correct in saying that, Owl. We don’t have definitive proof of it, and I’ve never really believed it was real. All is still conjecture at this point. I think it’s far more likely that we had some isolated releases of a lab grown bio-terror weapon to stir up the hysteria and then let
a lapdog press fueled panic take it from there. The power of suggestion is greatly underestimated.
I think the person to answer that question is Dr. Peter McCullough (and other physicians), as he seems to be up to par on the genetic personality/ies of the virus/es.
Also, . . .well, this thread is done, so . . . .