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Since Elon Musk pounced on Twitter, are you not amazed to see just how dedicated to the suppression of speech the Left is? Censorship is the Left’s very spark-of-life. Everything they stand for is so false and lawless that truth magnetically repels them. Now, this may surprise you, but truth and reality are joined at the hip, so when you work hard to suppress one, you are also stomping the face of the other. “Disinformation” just means anything that the Left doesn’t want you to say out loud.

The truth is that everything the Left stands for these days is some kind of a hustle — which is the cheap street version of a racket, meaning an effort to extract something of value from you dishonestly. It’s the only way they know how to operate. It necessarily and chiefly depends on the deployment of lies, which by definition are propositions at odds with reality. The more they traffic in lies, the further they must distance themselves from reality and try to coerce you to go along with evermore absurdity: mostly peaceful riots… men-with-ovaries… free and fair elections…  insurrection… conspiracy theories… Lia Thomas in the fast lane… safe and effective vaccines…. Believe it or else!

The Left ends up at war with reality. That adds up to a bad business model for running a society, and the results are now plain to see. What in the USA is not failing these days? Our Potemkin economy of nail parlors, porn sites, pizza huts, casinos, drugs, and helicopter money? Our reckless relations with other countries? Public and higher education? Medicine? Financial markets? The sputtering engine of government under a phantom president? It’s all sinking into chaos and incoherence. For now, food just costs more than ever; wait until it’s simply unavailable. Nobody will care about anything else after that.

All this failure requires cover stories, narratives. Russia did it! Covid-19 did it! White supremacists did it! Trump did it! Narrative failure would equal failure of the Left altogether, so the Left requires the sturdiest possible apparatus for suppressing counter-narratives that lean in the direction of reality, its enemy. The Left found that apparatus in social media, the new vehicle for political debate, especially Twitter, which was so easily, blatantly, and dishonestly manipulated backstage by mysterious code ninjas. Twitter enjoys subsidy relations with government that incline it to do the government’s bidding. In effect, the government enlisted Twitter to undermine and over-ride Americans’ first amendment protections, by proxy.

Now we have the Disinformation Governance Board to be run by a TikTok musical comedy star, Nina Jankowicz, an instant laughingstock, since retailing disinformation has been her main occupation in the scant years she’s been on the Deep State scene. Ms. Jankowicz is a notorious RussiaGate hoaxer and psy-op agent in the October 2020 emergence of Hunter Biden’s laptop. She has zero credibility as anything but a professional falsifier. Her Disinfo Governance Board has no authority to regulate anything. It’s just a lame charade that can only draw more attention to the Left’s hatred of truth and reality. The Left pretends that free speech is a threat to civilization because, as usual, they are projecting psychologically. Their world is a mirror. In fact, the Left is a threat to civilization.

Behind all this is the growing panic in the Left that they are culpable for an enormous raft of crimes committed against their own country, and will eventually end up in court, in prison, or worse. Mr. Durham is just the leading edge of what will eventually be a heavy blade of judgment falling down on their necks. He’s busy sorting out the “Russia collusion” flimflam that turned into a coup to oust Mr. Trump, but that is only the beginning. In November, the Democrats will lose control of Congress and its oversight powers of agency operations, and in 2023 there will be inquiries galore into the neo-Jacobin craziness imposed on our country by the folks behind “Joe Biden.”

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1,022 Responses to ““Disinformation” is Just a Boot in Your Face”

  1. BackRowHeckler May 2, 2022 at 7:54 am #

    And it turns out the whole ‘Ghost of Kiev’ meme from the beginning of the Russia/Ukraine border dispute — a Ukranian pilot shooting down 8 Russian fighter aircraft which the western media made so much of — was just a load of Bullsh#t, it never happened, but was a scene lifted out of a video game.

    ABC just reported the First Lady Jill Biden is flying into Kiev to meet with Zelensky — I thought Ukraine was such a hot war zone? How is it elite Pols from western Europe and the USA are flying into Ukraine on almost a daily basis? Why would Jill Biden of all people be showing up in Kiev?

    • Kim May 2, 2022 at 8:15 am #

      I am sure that Mrs Defeater of Corn Pop will land in a helicopter under sniper fire if the narrative happens to demand it.

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    • stelmosfire May 2, 2022 at 8:23 am #

      Why would Jill Biden of all people be showing up in Kiev?

      The only Doctor I know who makes housecalls.

      Supposedly these attention seekers travel by train from Poland to Kiev. Russia has control of the airspace I believe. If this was anything like a real war there would be no train service in west Ukraine. Not to mention electricity, internet, whatever. USA knocks all that stuff out on the first days bombing campaign. Vlad is going easy on the Z man.

      • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 10:22 am #

        Many people consider Vlad to be a moderate. Even much of the Russian population feels like they should take off the kid gloves. If Vlad were to get knocked out of the game for whatever reason, then it’s likely a really hard-liner would take his place. To me, Vlad looks like one of the biggest obstacles to all out WW3.

        • Rowdypiglet May 2, 2022 at 2:04 pm #

          If Putin were to be removed, I think the nature of his replacement would depend upon how active the Deep State is really able to be in that part of the world. I don’t think the Russian people would tolerate our putting in a puppet, but that’s not to say we wouldn’t try. I think Putin has conducted a careful war, and is at least sane – which can’t be said for most of our operatives.

          • Blackbird May 2, 2022 at 7:48 pm #

            No reason for Putin to be removed.

            He is supporting his people (Russian Nationalists), and he is supporting the globalists (China’s courtiers).

            USUK may have created the global plutocracy, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t be drained of all wealth and power by that plutocracy. In fact, the west has to be drained of that economic power for the globalists to rule the world.

          • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 8:31 pm #

            I don’t think Putin is supporting the globalists at all. They hate him and want Russia’s resources, which they’re not going to give up. The Davosians will wind up in the compost heap of history along with the rest of us. Local economies will emerge as the tectonic plates of change shatter the globalist paradigm, which all depends on centralized control and the cost of oil-based transport being negligible.

          • Uncle Bob May 2, 2022 at 10:07 pm #

            Putin may die of cancer, if news reports are accurate

    • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 8:47 am #

      Believe half of what you see with your own eyes and none of what you hear. Is she meeting with Z somewhere? Possibly? Is it in Kiev? Not on your life. Not without Vlad’s personal permission. This is ALL disinformation. The only question to be answered now is: are BOTH sides in on it? I think we’re being played.

      • benr May 2, 2022 at 9:02 am #

        I have heard that a certain family funded both sides of many wars.
        Could history simply be repeating over and over?

        • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 9:07 am #

          I was on the fence, but I’m more and more convinced now by the day. I think that’s exactly what’s happening. Cratering the dollar and the west and shifting the great con to the east is all a part of the plan, and both sides are being used to enact it. Look at it as the US is fully mature (in a crop sense) and is being harvested.

          • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 10:25 am #

            So you’re saying Xi and Putin are mere puppets of HomoGlobo WEF? I have my doubts about that. Those guys should be done once this collapse gets going.

          • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 10:35 am #

            The jury’s still out, but yes, it appears more and more that they’re in on it too.

          • Rowdypiglet May 2, 2022 at 2:07 pm #

            I think it remains to be seen whether they’re controlled or not. I certainly hope not, though it’s possible. Putin seems to me to be a Russian patriot, and Xi has not shown his colors yet in that regard. Surely there is somebody in this mess of a world who is what they appear to be. Not that I’m counting on it, just hoping.

        • oswegatchie May 2, 2022 at 11:08 am #

          Does that family start with an “R” and end in a “d”?

          • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 12:35 pm #

            That would be the one.

          • justanotherguy May 2, 2022 at 2:18 pm #

            any string puller that insists on remaining in the shadows, and does so effectively, can rely on the accusation of “conspiracy theorist” to deflect attention and criticism.

            i’ve concluded after years of reflection that knowing they exist is insufficient to dislodging these parasites from the human condition.

            the lever that gets the most violent response is on the national level – such as libya and syria – neither of whom appear to toe the line wrt / participating in the global monetary game. prior to its overthrow, libya had africa’s highest standard of living – but quadaffi made the mistake of agreeing to participate in the gold dinar monetary experiement – proposed by none other than saddam hussein.

            one common feature to these middle east overthrows is the first action upon victory – setting up a central bank.

            ron paul was personna non grata in the 2012 election because he touched that central bank third rail.

            one step further, which i really hope is opposable, is central bank digital currency. i think crypto currencies are only allowed to exist as a precursor to wide acceptance of cbdc.

            how to fight it? never agree to cashless.

            how to fight the spiders in the shadows? kennedy tried…

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqqiZdqBNI0

          • justanotherguy May 2, 2022 at 2:32 pm #

            see 14:36 on the video for kennedy’s speech.

      • ThorsHammer May 3, 2022 at 11:40 pm #

        Dis
        I’m trying like hell to put aside speculations about things over which I have no control. Allowing myself to be injected with a clot shot that increases the probability of my dying from stroke and heart malfunction— I’l pass in a New York minute!

        Buying a 200 million dollar bunker in New Zealand— turned out to be not a good move by the super rich as that country goose steeped into the future leaving even Canada behind. But I never had 200 million $ anyway.

        What I do have is two thousand $. Should I turn it into Gold, which at least in the future might buy heating oil? Goldbugs believe in the shiny metal because it was used as money back in the days of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. But the truth is that gold is as much a fiat currency as the Dollar or the Ruble. When Nixon decided to replace gold with paper all it took was a signature. The fantasy that gold is real money because of it’s use value is beyond silly.

        Instead of listening to our host pontificate about how the Attorney General is going to somehow return our Democracy to a nation under the rule of Law I suggest you rent the movie “The Road.” The travelers on that Road still are under the illusion that Gold has some value, but when it comes down to it, a bullet for your gun is worth more. So I’m going to invest in something more valuable than Gold—- brass and lead.

        My closet contains a 7mm Magnum elk and moose rifle along with 250 rounds of ammunition. Certainly enough to supply me with protein for the rest of my life. I also have a concealed carry pistol which is of little use as long as I stay out of bar fights! I’m thinking I should trade the toy pistol for a Glock with extended magazine if I ever have to protect my food cache. Along with a couple of thousand rounds of .223 NATO which will become the trading goods of the future.

        • Anthea May 5, 2022 at 3:00 am #

          @ Thorshammer:

          I am thinking I’d like to have an AR-15, and I’ve been doing a lot of reading to figure out what kind I should get and what kind of ammo I will need.

          But at least I now know what is meant by MLOK, 1:8 twist, and mil-spec.

          It seems that this rifle is quite versatile–good for both hunting and home defense with the appropriate ammo. So it seems foolish not to own one, if you can afford it at all.

          • ThorsHammer May 5, 2022 at 5:08 am #

            Anthea

            An AR15 isn’t really a hunting rifle unless you are hunting bunny rabbits. little whitetail deer, or long pig. Where I’m from elk and moose are more common than rabbits. And they fill up the freezer or smoker a lot faster. AR15’s do have the cheapest ammo and look the scariest if that is your goal.

            If you are looking for a hunting rifle with the best long range accuracy and the lowest recoil, get a Creedmore 6.5 which has become the most popular modern hunting cartridge . They are available from $399.

          • benr May 5, 2022 at 9:25 am #

            Get a ruger mini ranch instead.

            https://www.turners.com/ruger/ruger-mini-14-ranch-556mm-185–14856

            Or one of the excellent built henry guns.

            https://www.henryusa.com/rifles/long-ranger-express/

            As far as calibers go you should also look at 30-06 bit pricey ammo wise but they will kill anything that walks on two legs or four in the world.

            For actual home defense Remington magnum express shotguns are pretty well rounded.

          • Wizard of the Saddle May 6, 2022 at 8:20 am #

            If you are going to buy an AR, you might as well purchase a reliable one. I’ve got two words for you on that: Daniel Defense.

            Made in Georgia. Best mass-produced AR for the most part, but you need a tad over $2,000 to get one.

            I let JB’s last “stimulus” pay for mine.

    • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 9:41 am #

      Pretty sure the current residents of the WH – if they are even there – do much of their appearances on green screens.

      • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 9:59 am #

        Wag the Dog was actually a primer on all that we’re seeing now. Just barely possible then (1997), but entirely possible now. They were actually flaunting it, since they knew we wouldn’t get it and would be powerless to stop it anyway.

        • Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 10:20 am #

          Why not? Look how much of the scamdemic was based on movies.

          • Alfred May 2, 2022 at 10:26 am #

            The endless loop of art imitates live imitates art….

          • ThorsHammer May 4, 2022 at 12:07 am #

            Beryl

            Movies? The Pandemic of Fear was founded upon the fraudulent misuse of the PCR test that according to it’s Nobel Prize winning inventor has no value whatsoever in medical diagnosis.

            Yet the PCR test is still being used worldwide with approximately six hundred million tests administered over the course of 2.5 years to “prove” the scope of the “Pandemic.”

          • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 8:31 am #

            TH – The PCR test is now being used on chickens, as a means of slaughtering millions of them by claiming they have bird flu. This not only affects the supply of chickens directly, but also the supply of natural fertiliser, just when the natural gas supply is in trouble, affecting the supply of chemical fertiliser.

            The free range eggs I buy now have a notice on them warning that, for hygiene reasons, the birds now have to be kept in barns.

            Somewhat like the human situation that’s coming? If we will be able to call it human. As Attorney Todd Callender pointed out to Reiner Fuellmich’s team, a genetically modified human may give ownership rights to the person who did the genetic modifying. And the genetically modified human may not legally have human rights, like the right not to be enslaved.

            Sorry, I wandered a bit from PCR tests there, as is my wont. 🙂

        • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

          They’ve gotten us used to fakey video. As someone who is a video editor, I can tell when the video is fakery. But when I point it out, the normies scream “conspiracy theory!” even in the ones where it was clear POTATUS’ hand passed right through a microphone in clear sight.

          So even detecting the fakery doesn’t expose it because of the deep state controlled MSM and stupid trollage who do their work for them (and we know who they are up here in CFN land).

          • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

            The sad truth is, we all believe what we want (or are conditioned) to believe.

          • Islander May 2, 2022 at 1:54 pm #

            Disaffected.

            I don’t think that is true.

          • Blackbird May 2, 2022 at 7:58 pm #

            Some of us don’t believe anything – or at least try real hard not to.

            I’ve tossed aside a lot of deeply-ingrained beliefs that used to keep me warm at night. If I have, so have many others.

    • Ron Anselmo May 2, 2022 at 10:05 am #

      To pick up a suitcase?

      • megabeth May 2, 2022 at 10:23 am #

        Zing!

    • CrusherMuldoon May 2, 2022 at 10:34 am #

      Probably because “Joe Biden” ain’t making the grade in the White House bedroom

      • megabeth May 2, 2022 at 10:49 am #

        Doubt Mr. Z could, either, with all the booze and blow he does.

      • Anthea May 5, 2022 at 3:06 am #

        After a certain age, very few people are making it in the bedroom, and those who are, are depending on viagra. As one of my old friends told me awhile back, “Stuff doesn’t work.”

    • Billy Hill May 2, 2022 at 10:38 am #

      Why would Jill Biden of all people be showing up in Kiev?

      Maybe Jill was not present when the female members of Congress threw their panties at the Jumbotron image of Zelensky and she wanted to make it, say, a bit more personal.

      • Wizard of the Saddle May 6, 2022 at 8:23 am #

        If she tossed her rancid underwear at me I’s dive for cover!

        • megabeth May 11, 2022 at 3:48 am #

          I would, too, if faced by a blond Alice Cooper wearing that same old lemon print dress.

    • elysianfield May 2, 2022 at 10:47 am #

      BRH,
      Finally, a bit of recognition for our betters;

      PELOSI IN UKRAINE, RECEIVES AWARD: A Congressional delegation, lead by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), toured Kyiv with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy over the weekend. She is the highest-ranking U.S. official to meet with the embattled leader in Ukraine. Speaker Pelosi also received the Order of Princess Olga for her “significant personal contribution” to U.S.-Ukrainian relations.

      Yesss the Forward Observer this AM reports that, the Order of Princess Olga was presented to our Nancy.

      …Wasn’t Olga the one that was rumored to be screwing horses?

      Perhaps Ukranian Horses have different rules of engagement….

      • megabeth May 2, 2022 at 10:53 am #

        I think it was Catherine the Great who did the horses. Maybe she also ate hay for breakfast.

        • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 12:16 pm #

          Turns out that was urban legend kinda like everyone who can’t stand Jo Jo Magoo talking about him shitting his Depends. Oh wait, it’s true in Biden’s case.

        • Islander May 2, 2022 at 1:56 pm #

          Megabeth.

          No. Catherine the Great was a great leader of Russia.

          She had human lovers. Actually, only serially. She favorites.

          For heaven’s sake, we have to have enough shit about Russia shoved up our noses. Don’t add to it.

          It is because of Catherine the Great that Russia “owns” Crimea and a large portion of the Ukraine.

        • elysianfield May 2, 2022 at 6:29 pm #

          Catherine the Great,
          If the legend be so, then there is no need to explain what was “great” about her….

      • Socrates-Detroit May 2, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

        Princess Olga award to Nancy Pelosi….

        That statement is so full of irony—where to begin? I started with google/wiki… From them:

        Princess Olga of Kievan Rus. RUS. So, this Princess Olga, around 950AD, became a Christian, baptized by no less than the emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

        (As in Russia. This is not my thing, someone in this space can better articulate, but my sense is that Kiev, as in Kievan RUS, is the cradle of Russia (if not the birthplace))

        Her grandson, Vladimir, also became Orthodox, and established Orthodoxy as the religion of his people (the Orthodox monks Saints Cyrillus and Methodius created the “Cyrillic” alphabet, which has its roots in the Greek alphabet). They also came up with Church Slavonic, which is what I believe the liturgy is conducted in, in Russia, and other slavic countries.

        Over time, through ups and downs, by the 1700s, Tsarist Russia became a large, powerful country, even though it was not a technologically advanced as Britain and France, and later Germany.

        So, Ukraine and Russia are branches off the same tree. Kievan RUS drifted east and north and became Muscovite Russia. In the 1700s, Peter the Great built a new capital in St Petersburg.

        Between 1000 and 1700, parts of the Ukraine were overrun, at various times, by Poland/Lithuania or Sweden. The Crimea, that we hear the media bleating about constantly, the Russians liberated it from the Ottoman Turks when George Washington was a child.

        So, the Russians probably also revere Princess Olga too. Ironic.

        And to give any award, that has any semblance of prestige from any nation, to Nancy Pelosi, is to deprecate and cheapen it beyond measure.

        • Islander May 2, 2022 at 1:58 pm #

          “to give any award, that has any semblance of prestige from any nation, to Nancy Pelosi, is to deprecate and cheapen it beyond measure.”

          This award sounds pretty cheap to begin with.

          Kind of like a Wotan Award confected by the original Nazis.

          • SW May 2, 2022 at 4:37 pm #

            Nice to know they’ve still got plenty of time to hand out awards to corrupt politicians. Did they host a nice dinner & dance to go with it?

        • Sean Coleman May 2, 2022 at 5:57 pm #

          Socrates, Matt Johnson in his latest podcast talks about how the Ukraine was there at the birth of Russia.

    • SmokieHillVillain May 2, 2022 at 10:59 am #

      Indeed, the levels of propaganda are stratospheric.

      At once it seems that Kyiv (is that Key-ev or Keev?) and its environs are embroiled in a fully fledged assault by Russian military, while also in Kyiv Boris Johnson goes on a walking tour of the Maidan with Zelensky.

      Interestingly, the Irish Foreign Minister Simon “Bilderberg” Coveney also went to Kyiv but unlike Johnson who wore a business suit, “our guy” wore the flak jacket and caused a mini kerfuffle when he chose to bring along the Irish police Emergency Response Unit (ERU) rather than the Irish Army Special Forces Unit (the Ranger wing), “for protection”, which led to some bruised egos and revealed some inter-agency rivalry in our little islandic pearl.

      So much for a jolly to a live war zone.

      What looks like credible information here from Eva Bartlett:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzMLPSXb7RU
      (she also has a You Tube channel, for as long as it’s allowed to stay up)

      and the ongoing cover-up:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skd9hWsFdAg

      I guess that many, or perhaps most, of Jim’s followers have already seen this:
      https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/09/former-nato-military-analyst-blows-the-whistle-on-wests-ukraine-invasion-narrative/

      Didn’t somebody once say that the first casualty in war is truth?

      Sublime article today as usual.

      shv

      • Sean Coleman May 2, 2022 at 6:02 pm #

        Thanks for the Itish news. I follow it second-hand because it makes me want to be sick. so Coveney brought along ourparamilitary police force?

        • SmokieHillVillain May 3, 2022 at 6:51 am #

          He did indeed Sean.
          I suppose I should have clarified for US readers – he brought along the equivalent of a SWAT team, rather than Delta Force, Seal team or green berets. Something like that.
          ah, it is sickening Sean. The propaganda is off the charts. The main channel RTE – which I and many people I know stopped watching almost 2 years ago such was the daily dose of Covid-related death and destruction – is something akin to DNC or Clinton Foundation central. Dripping with bias. Total lack of impartiality.
          And people – a lot, though not all – have gone a little crazy. Ukraine flags everywhere.
          Lots of talk about Ireland joining NATO – my tuppence worth is that the decision has already been made, so whatever about the reality of Irish neutrality, where unlike say, Switzerland, we don’t have any appreciable self-defence capability – it was something that was symbolically important.
          Coveney – or forces behind him – will likely dismantle it. I could go on but I don’t want to bore readers.

          That said, the recent Russian military exercises, south west of Ireland did make US media. The Irish Government has been letting the naval service wither on the vine, so-to-speak, but that seems now like a strategic policy. Besides, apart from fishery and drug interdiction, our navy has no serious offensive capability, and no ASW capability whatsoever. In reality, a glorified coast guard.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBUKJ2V3W0E

          shv

    • abbybwood May 2, 2022 at 2:55 pm #

      I think maybe she is promoting her new book that only sold 400 copies (no doubt all bought for White House staff?).

    • Bilejones May 2, 2022 at 4:48 pm #

      I gather that the Kiev that they all meet their Ukrainian tool has been relocated to Poland.

    • Roger T May 2, 2022 at 10:48 pm #

      Bringing these monsters to Justice? Wish I could believe it. No; how does it go? – Evil prevails while the Right does nothing. They are not us, anymore than the US is America.
      I imagine future headlines: “Provoked, Russia annihilates US; Entire World joins America to thank Russia.” If only.
      Will America, like Russia, survive her Empire? Sometimes I’m thankful for not being long for this World.

      Roger T
      The Occupied South

    • Goodwalkspoiled May 11, 2022 at 11:38 pm #

      Even if the GOP takes both Houses the Left is home free. Repubs don’t play well together. They`ll blow it yet again. Count on it. The media will rule. They’ve got the real power. They are the puppet masters. They control the agenda and spin masterfully. Just watch the new press secretary of Biden. The media will deify her. Biden gets a free pass.

  2. sanspeur May 2, 2022 at 8:23 am #

    Jim, Me thinks you are a little too optimistic. Even if the R’s get congress, there are so many RINO’s in there that many things you list, probably will get buried.

    We currently have a majority of RINO’s cheerleading Biden’s war with Russia.

    Its gonna get worse before it gets way worse, you are correct, hunger does clear the mind to REALITY.

    • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 8:49 am #

      The whole left vs right canard is all a lie. “Free elections” aren’t and there will be no knights in shining armor riding in to save the day in 2022 or 2024.

      • benr May 2, 2022 at 9:00 am #

        To small degree I agree with you how evermost of the Republican party at least appear to tap the brakes to slow the decent into the abyss.
        There is some difference.

        • JohnAZ May 2, 2022 at 11:14 am #

          The party that will tear down the Uniparty Deep State does not exist yet.

          Trumpers were hoping he would have the cojones to do the deed but so far, nothing.

          • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 12:32 pm #

            Gonna take A LOT more than a party JAZ. Sing it again:

            This ain’t no party!
            This ain’t no disco!
            This ain’t no fuckin’ around!

          • Rowdypiglet May 2, 2022 at 2:43 pm #

            I’ve decided not to blame Trump for what he didn’t do. It appears he didn’t have any support, and quite a few within his administration were actively undermining and opposing him. I don’t think this is something that any one person can do alone. I think he was trying, and did quite a few good things that were immediately undone by “Joe” and by the traitorous judicial branch.

      • abbybwood May 2, 2022 at 2:57 pm #

        But…but..:Trump is back on Twitter!

    • Walter B May 2, 2022 at 9:28 am #

      Yes sanspeur, while I do like what our host thinks may happen, the fake election two years ago was only the first and clearly not the last. I have seen total vote counts from 2020 at 81M for Dopey Joe and 74 M for Trump. So, they are claiming that almost half of the people in the US voted? Since there are 300M people in the USA, that would mean that every adult and probably some of the children in the country voted? That’s absurd!

      Oh, that’s right, Americans don’t do math. Wow, what a bunch of dipshits.

      • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 10:02 am #

        Gotta give points for sheer hutzpah, though. Go REALLY BIG or don’t go at all.

      • Prospero May 2, 2022 at 11:16 am #

        The upcoming fake November election will probably coincide with another massive Covid lockdown. Mail in ballots and rigged voting machines could easily create another Democratic landslide.

        • beantownbill. May 2, 2022 at 12:00 pm #

          Ya know, I was thinking the same thing. If the dumb dems win in November, how will the public react?

          • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 12:30 pm #

            However they’re allowed to. But the leash will be much shorter this time.

          • Rowdypiglet May 2, 2022 at 2:48 pm #

            If it happens, the public will do the same thing as last time. The only difference will be that everyone will know without question exactly what happened. But they will still have no more than the same tools they had last time with which to mount an opposition. They’ll have all the proof they need, but no one who matters will want to see it. I suppose there could be BLM-type riots if you push people far enough, but that would give them an excuse to declare martial law and put people in camps. There would be no kid gloves, as there were for Antifa.

          • Ron Anselmo May 2, 2022 at 2:51 pm #

            You’re right Dis – but leashes are for poodles & collies. You’ve seen chains – spiked into the ground holding back pit bulls – time to get “off the chain”. If only.

          • Paula D May 2, 2022 at 7:23 pm #

            The public reacted to the theft of the 2020 election by showing up in Washington, DC, as is traditional.
            We see how that was spun.
            It is no longer time to gather in large crowds.

          • Wizard of the Saddle May 6, 2022 at 8:37 am #

            Kinetically, I think. Full Kyle Rittenhouse. Enough is enough. One can only be forced to swallow the hair of the dog once.

      • Bilejones May 2, 2022 at 4:44 pm #

        “the fake election two years ago was only the first ”

        Thanks for the laugh.

        • spaingaroo May 2, 2022 at 11:52 pm #

          thanks for the comment, saved me having to post it

      • Walter B May 2, 2022 at 5:09 pm #

        I just checked online with the US Census site and the official numbers for the 2020 election are:

        Total registered voters – 168 million
        Total percentage that voted – 66.5%
        Total votes that counts for – 112 million

        Total votes received by Trump & Biden – 156 million

        If these numbers confuse you, please consider never voting again.

        • Paula D May 2, 2022 at 7:25 pm #

          The Census sit? I want to post this before it is illegal, but I want to check it first.
          Oh, that’s right, it is already illegal to mention the stolen election on social media.

    • megabeth May 2, 2022 at 9:38 am #

      Remember all the congressional seats clawed back by the Dems in 2018? Bet they’re STILL finding Clinton votes in California airport lockers.

      • Paula D May 2, 2022 at 7:26 pm #

        I read today that they found a whole bunch of Le Pen votes in France.
        Oops!

    • thirdcoastlegend May 2, 2022 at 10:11 am #

      RINO Kinzinger just put together an AUMF bill that would give the regime a free hand if the Russians use chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons.

      False flag in 3….2….1….

    • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 10:33 am #

      Sanspeur, I tend to agree with Jim in that if we don’t get some justice (Russiagate, Biden’s corruption etc… etc….) for all this, then we simply don’t have a country anymore. Perhaps his misplaced optimism stems from that core understanding. However, maybe the Dems will get swept away in a landslide this November since too many people are on to the voter fraud for that to be as effective as it previously was. Not that a red wave will save the country, but it might go a long way to get some payback theatre on some of the woke sh!t that’s been going on.

      • Socrates-Detroit May 2, 2022 at 2:16 pm #

        Yes, I’m with you. I’m at a loss to explain JHK’s “optimism” about the “heavy blade of justice”.

        I certainly hope he is right, but I can’t see more than a minor slap, if that.

        Two things: on the high-end, the corruption permeates the entire system. So the accusers cannot probe too deeply, lest they reveal themselves.

        On the low end, well, look around you. Most people (for many reasons–I don’t always blame them, but I do not totally absolve them either) are unaware, ignorant, or indifferent, and very pre-occupied with their lives. Building castles in the sand…. it is a CFNation!

        • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 8:36 pm #

          As the system becomes more unstable, it could violently shift this way and that. The Hillary cabal could wind up on the guillotine I guess. You never know.

      • Rowdypiglet May 2, 2022 at 2:50 pm #

        If the Dems do get swept out, it will be interesting to see the behavior of Republicans who will have been elected specifically because they’re (believe not to be) RINOs. If they then proceed to betray the voters who put them in office, something really interesting could happen. As I said, even innately law abiding people can be pushed only so far.

        • Islander May 2, 2022 at 3:46 pm #

          Well, don’t get your hopes up.

          Zelensky was elected by, what, 75% of the Ukr population to pursue the Minsk Accords.

          That didn’t work out.

          I hope I am wrong and the Repugs can actually turn some of this shit inside out.

          But . . .

        • sanspeur May 2, 2022 at 4:32 pm #

          Hungry citizens don’t stay law abiding for long.

  3. benr May 2, 2022 at 8:29 am #

    That smoking crater really is reality.
    For years they said we had a gun problem, but the truth is we have a sanity problem.
    Proof just look at anything Democrats have been pushing as an agenda and policy since at least Obama. Forty years ago they would all have been put in an I love myself jacket and liberally dosed with some mind bending drugs.
    The Democrat party really does appear to be a loose collection of freaks, weirdos, communists and anarchists.
    The smoking craters liter the landscape in the form of Democrat run cities my own city self labeled the finest city in the world part of which now look like skid row in Los Angeles or the war zone areas in Ukraine.
    Filthy trash everywhere, fecal matter all over the ground and sprayed on buildings and reeking of urine. Bidenvilles popping up on the bridges not under them now.

    I watched a middle aged lady yelling at a street post the other day.
    As I walked by I asked if she was winning the argument and I will be damned but she stopped looked at me confused and said ” I don’t know” and for just a moment I could see a hint of sanity.
    Then she turned around and double her effort to win against her personal windmill.

    I can’t just blame Democrats as Republicans have not done anything and there are just to many people now to go down and hand out water or sandwiches. In fact it has grown rather dangerous to wander around some of these shantyvilles.
    Several are now epicenters from theft, rape and even murder.
    For the first time in my life I have little hope about what is coming.

    • BackRowHeckler May 2, 2022 at 8:43 am #

      “Filthy trash everywhere, and fecal matter all over the ground”

      You’re describing San Francisco to a T. Part of Pelosi’s Congressional District, but Pelosi was in Ukraine last week, worried about conditions inside Kiev.

      • malthuss May 2, 2022 at 9:29 am #

        So what is really going on?
        Why would she go there?
        How much crime can be traced to Ukraine?

        • Ron Anselmo May 2, 2022 at 10:18 am #

          Malthuss – hundreds of millions, at least, can be traced to Ukraine.

          Pelosi’s son has “business” there, Hunter Biden has “business” there, Mitt Romney’s son has “business” there & John Kerry’s son has “business” there.

          Dr. Jill & Nancy Pelosi have visited – wouldn’t surprise me to see Romney & Kerry make the trip also.

          This is what we allow, so this has become acceptable. The country is lost.

          • beantownbill. May 2, 2022 at 12:05 pm #

            So how do we find it?

        • Not_GeorgeT May 2, 2022 at 10:42 am #

          “How much crime can be traced to Ukraine?”

          A few years ago, when asked how much they (Russia) knew about what goes on in the Ukraine, his reply: ‘We know everything…(pause) … Everything’

          • Not_GeorgeT May 2, 2022 at 10:44 am #

            his reply = V. Putin

          • abbybwood May 2, 2022 at 3:06 pm #

            file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/6c/12/6F20216E-C28A-4005-B000-1139AB385149/IMG_7476.png

      • Not_GeorgeT May 2, 2022 at 10:36 am #

        House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has pledged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky forthcoming aid

        Pelosi was in Kyiv on Saturday as she led a coalition of Congress to Ukraine.

        Apparently echoing Pelosi’s comments:

        Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO): said during the Sunday Poland press conference.
        “The United States of America is in this to win, and we will stand with Ukraine until victory is won,” he said.

        J. Crow is apparently implying: ‘the United States is in this fight all the way down to the last Ukranian’

        Accompanying Pelosi:

        Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
        Adam Schiff (D-CA), who is in charge of the House Intelligence Committee
        Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, the House Rules Committee’s chair
        Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)
        Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA)

        Note: All from Blue states, with 2 from the Bluest of Blue: MA

        Source: https://thepostmillennial.com/pelosi-travels-to-kyiv-and-promises-zelensky-more-aid-in-war-effort?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_term=1924

        with my personal comments sprinkled in.

    • benr May 2, 2022 at 8:59 am #

      Leftist policies always are strong in the law of negative unintended consequences!

      Take the war on plastic bags to save flipper or crush and squirt.
      At first it was to be an outright ban and them somehow it became a well you get to pay for it with an upgraded even sturdier plastic bag.
      They simply passed on the cost of said bags to the consumer.
      Then we get the holy quest of using multi use bags of questionable material which they then said NO it could be covid infected!
      Those single use plastic bags are what many homeless people pooped into tied up and disposed of and everyone knew to shy away from them should they encounter one in the street.
      Now they just shit everywhere.

      Straw bans now all the straws are paper and useless.
      Instead of mandating plastics made from soy oil that biiodegrade into harmlessness they went back to killing trees.
      Give me back the sturdy brown paper bag please.
      For the love of Christ enough with the useless feel-good legislation get back to common sense!

      • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 9:36 am #

        They are selling the paper straw (the ‘green’ solution) in a plastic clear protective wrapper.

        • megabeth May 2, 2022 at 10:25 am #

          You made my old man spit coffee, Mary.

          • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 12:18 pm #

            Then my job for the day is truly done.

        • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 8:20 am #

          Have they thought of the ‘adult’ solution – drinking straight from the glass? For very young non-adults, there’s the trainer cup.

      • JohnAZ May 2, 2022 at 11:27 am #

        Benr

        We are departing Oceanside today after a week stay.

        I am very disappointed in San Diego. We have been visiting here for fifty years, the first was being in the Navy in 1967.

        San Diego reflects the Liberal decline in California. It is really simple. Put lipstick on a pig. Do straws, do silly little showplace things to make it look like you are doing something.

        Instead of maintaining roads, cleaning litter, housing the homeless, controlling the mentally impaired, cleaning the beaches, etc.

        San Diego is not the prime city it used to be.

        • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

          California is in the shitter.

        • benr May 2, 2022 at 8:19 pm #

          Oceanside is actually paradise compared to some areas adjacent to I5.
          Get off I5 going south at Caeser Chavez and behold tragedy!
          https://iexitapp.com/California/I-5/Exit%2014B/18132?order=rank&origin=by_state&show_priceline=yes

        • Blackbird May 2, 2022 at 8:36 pm #

          I spent a couple hours in the San Diego Greyhound station during the early early morning of April 20, 1989. Looked like the bar scene from Star Wars – only more infectious. A glimpse into the future – of SD, CA, the US.

      • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 11:41 am #

        I was living in Portland when, to much fanfare, plastic bags were banned. It didn’t seem to apply to East Asian stores or restaurants. And you could get a big Target shopping bag after two months or so. Then some six months or so later, the bags started coming back everywhere to no fanfare whatsoever.

        Was it the general ban too hard on the homeless, who make much use of them?

        • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 12:21 pm #

          The plastics industry must have a very formidable lobby.

        • D from OR May 3, 2022 at 10:04 am #

          Unfortunately, for now, I still live here. The plastic bag ban is in Multnomah County which is why if you happen to cross over to Clackamas County to do your grocery shopping you can get a plastic bag.

          Oh and if you want a paper bag to hold your groceries in Mult. Co. you must pay 5 cents per paper bag.

          Oh and if there’s a pandemic then you can’t use your own bag – might be contaminated!

          Think is all sounds stupid? It is.

    • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 10:39 am #

      “I watched a middle aged lady yelling at a street post the other day.”

      I watched a dude (meth head) physically assaulting a lamp post recently. It was in a Wal-mart parking lot. I know, what the hell were you doing at Wal-mart you may be asking. Just needed a battery, that’s all. It will never happen again.

      • Blackbird May 2, 2022 at 8:40 pm #

        “Just needed a battery, that’s all.”

        Probably couldn’t find one either, could you? Each of the five times I went to Walmart, they didn’t have what I went for. Never again. (I mean really, this time.)`

    • SW May 2, 2022 at 11:44 am #

      beer — What Pelosi, Newsome and the rest refuse to address is that the state and federal government are subsidizing this destruction. I worked in detox/rehab for 20+ years and have no illusions about homelessness/drug abuse/crime. For the people who are genuinely mental ill and homeless, there’s no protection at all from the criminal element that preys on them. The police have lost control of their ability to police effectively by not arresting anyone who’s “just a low level dealer” without realizing that’s the only place to start to cut access to cheap drugs.

      San Francisco is a terrible prophecy for what could happen in American cities if a clear-eyed policy isn’t implemented.

    • Rowdypiglet May 2, 2022 at 2:53 pm #

      You could be describing any of our formerly great cities. Even once delightful, safe, and eminently livable small cities like Portland, Maine are quickly becoming unfit for purpose.

  4. Kim May 2, 2022 at 8:31 am #

    And another thing, remember when people used to laugh at Lysenkoism?

    “Ha ha ha! Grow papayas in the Arctic! Ha ha ha!”

    “Nurses are now being trained to deal with male birthing people who birth through the penis.”

    “Really? Fascinating. And so progressive!”

    • JohnAZ May 2, 2022 at 10:20 am #

      Kim

      Ouch!

      • neurodoc May 2, 2022 at 2:01 pm #

        And I thought trans-urethral endoscopic prostate surgery sounded bad!!!

        • spaingaroo May 2, 2022 at 11:58 pm #

          and it does sound bad, there’s no doubt

        • megabeth May 11, 2022 at 3:59 am #

          Now TERFs can have a TURP–if they identify as male.

    • CrusherMuldoon May 2, 2022 at 10:46 am #

      Probably because “Joe Biden” ain’t making the grade in the White House bedroom

    • CrusherMuldoon May 2, 2022 at 10:47 am #

      Geeze, I thought passing a kidney stone was a bitch

    • Islander May 2, 2022 at 3:55 pm #

      Nurses are now being trained to deal with male birthing people who birth through the penis.”\

      WTF??? That cannot be. I am reminded of the thing about a camel passing through the eye of a needle.

      Like, Don’t try this at home.

      I’m OK with virgin birth (I guess) . . .

      It is kind of a thought experiment . . .

      but I am not OK with “penis birth.”

      I definitely don’t want to do a thought experiment about penis birth. . .

      • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 10:09 pm #

        It’s a religion.

        So therefore anything is possible.

        You know, like people flying or turning into mist, burning bushes talking, etc.

        Why would the trans agenda religion be any different?

  5. a kullervo May 2, 2022 at 8:41 am #

    (what the heck is a star that doesn’t want to shine forever?)

    Conservatives can’t prevent change; progressives can’t control it. Due to the constraints with which they were conceived, humans are unable to successfully tackle a third way. Their fate is sealed.

    You can fight it or accept it.
    Resisting means trying to change others; accepting means trying to change the self.
    Resistance is hard and futile; acceptance is harsher and yet, smooth (once achieved.)
    Either way, things shine, and then fade.

    The fire burns bright until the watcher sleeps (and sleep he must, ’cause sleep is granted, awaken’s not.)

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    • Alfred May 2, 2022 at 9:00 am #

      Resistance is NOT futile. Change will come, no doubt – but resistance will shape the change. We are, after all, self-determined. Unfortunately, the left is suicidal, and the right keeps hitting the snooze button.

      The left has infiltrated the right. I hope for a reckoning of all the mischief, but I’m not the least certain it will come. Whoever is pulling these strings has been all-in for a long time, and they are calling the shots. I don’t think we’re going to vote ourselves back to Kansas.

      Change must be given it’s due as inevitable, but it must be facilitated by strong OPEN minds.

      • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 11:46 am #

        Capitalism funds Communism. The snake now bites his own tail. Some Communists never got the memo and aren’t going to like their imaginary victory.

        Why did they fund it? As a weapon against the Middle Classes, as an infiltrator to non-modern nations, and of course as a weapon against the Fascism and National Socialism (the white blood cells of defense) that rose up against them to save the body politic.

        • justanotherguy May 2, 2022 at 8:20 pm #

          jar, surprised that you, who seem to be careful to speak with some precision, would make such a general statement.

          the system funding communism is budding tyranny, wrapped in crony capitalism or oligarchic capitalism – both much more similar to fascism – an elite in effective control of everything.

          capitalism is simply investing saved excess productivity for the sake of profitable advancement.

          the world needs a notion of useful advancement, certainly not tied to infinite growth (impossible anyway), but perhaps infinite improvement.

          its like we’ve lost faith in the things that gave us all the advancements that have made our lives better, and have no sense of a worthwhile goal for the future. there is a way to save for the sake of investing in a better future – maybe it just need a new aspirational name, since no one trusts any of the old ism’s any more…

          • Kim May 2, 2022 at 8:35 pm #

            That is not real capitalism.

            That is not real communism.

            Yes, they are.

          • justanotherguy May 3, 2022 at 12:25 pm #

            care to elaborate?

      • Rowdypiglet May 2, 2022 at 2:59 pm #

        Yes, they’ve been all-in for a long time, and this is the left’s advantage over us. They’ve been willing to play a long game, infiltrating academia, churches, government, schools, pretty much everything. When they get inside any entity, they consume it from within, like some kind of insect that eats the wood of your house and excretes it as waste. They never stop and they seemingly never tire. They hide very effectively until it’s safe to come out into the open, which we’ve seen them doing in their takeover of the public school system. By the time that happens, they’re in every nook and cranny. We don’t have any of these characteristics, and we’d better learn to develop them or it’s finished for good.

    • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 10:14 pm #

      I’m rollin’ with it. Expect the absolute worst, but grab opportunities. Be aware. Stay sane, build communities and/or keep connected with other aware people.

      About all we can do.

  6. snagglepuss May 2, 2022 at 8:44 am #

    Watched that old flick ‘Three Days of the Condor’ this past weekend. It mirrors some of the current day debacles, but in those days people still had some steel in their spine and no social media to hid behind. The ‘Left’s progressive big mouth springs from their ability to remain largely anonymous and from their seething resentment of all things ‘Boomer’ or anyone (like Elon Musk) exhibiting Boomer tendencies. He dreams too big and embraces truth too much for their taste. I figure the boiling point will be mid summer, when it’s hotter than a cat on a tin roof, and all the chickens have come home to roost. Russia should be holding its War Crime Tribunals then (probably in Donbas where they still have the death penalty as Russia does not), supply shortages and inflation will be kicking everyone where it counts, and almost certainly there will be some new madcap gun violence event to capture the attention of the American public. It just might be time for the second coming of Christ. Wonder what he or she will look like this time. It might be a less kind and benevolent version. Personally, I can’t wait.

    • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 9:02 am #

      Great movie (Condor), but I wouldn’t be counting on saviors from this world or any other interceding in our self-destruction. Jim’s takedown of the left this morning is certainly on point and true in all aspects, but it’s what he didn’t say that’s even more ominous. It’s the right’s maniacal stupidity for all these year’s that gave the left the political room to go off the deep end in the other direction in the first place, and given the chance in 2022 or 2024, the right will offer up something every bit as ridiculous and dangerous too in its own right. Count on it.

      Most everything on the national stage is being staged now with the express purpose of taking down the US as going concern. We’ve exceeded our shelf-life. No longer credit-worthy or credit capable, we’ve consumed everything we’re capable of consuming and now must be put down to make way for the next great consumerist wave in the global capitalist game. Spoken biblically: As we have consumed others, so shall we be consumed. As it is written, it will be and is being done.

      • Not_GeorgeT May 2, 2022 at 11:01 am #

        Is it the ‘right’s maniacal stupidity’ or a two-sided coin?

        Some of us raised money after 2016 to sue the uniparty over the way the ‘presidential debates’ were designed (devised?) and conducted. Couldn’t gain traction in the courts.

        https://reason.com/2017/08/29/dismissal-upheld-by-dc-appeals-court-in/

        • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 11:10 am #

          The great Janus face.

          Jar, this would be a good space for you to expound.

          • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 11:54 am #

            The two headed Axe is a classic symbol of Fascism. Like Janus, Fascism looks both to the Past and the Future. How can one know what to do unless one knows what has been done and worked in the past?

            Imagine letting greed heads export your industrial base to to other countries! Where were the Warriors to walk into those offices (both Corporate and Governmental), grab them by the hair and bang their heads against their desks until they changed their minds?

            Of course in a functioning nation, it wouldn’t come to that because they would know better than to even try it. I was just being graphic.*

            *If their hair was short, then changed to lapels and wall.

        • Rowdypiglet May 2, 2022 at 3:07 pm #

          We couldn’t gain traction in the courts because the courts, as everyone here knows, are infested with leftists and are entirely political. How did that come to be? It doesn’t happen overnight. It’s been a long process, and we’ve stood by while it happened. It seems to me that the nature of the right is such that we just don’t have the kind of ideologues and zealots that are found on the left – people who are the first to shout “heretic!” and who are fundamentally unable to leave other people alone. They work at it 24 hours a day, in everything they do, whereas we only get worked up when things get close to the point of no return. Then we flail around a good bit.

          • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 4:04 pm #

            Well, but notice who rubber stamped all this fuckery in the judiciary? The Supremes heard the leftists’ tune and got right up and joined in the dance with no problem at all. Their veneer stripped away, they revealed that they were essentially no different at all. Remember Obama chastising Roberts at the SOTU over Citizen’s United? In hindsight, I’m just surprised either one could keep a straight face.

      • KesaAnna May 2, 2022 at 2:21 pm #

        Broach the subject of bigotry ( except their own bigotry ) and watch a Leftists IQ drop into the toilet .

        Broach the subject of crime ( But not their crimes . Who knew that saints were stacked ten deep on every sidewalk ? ! ) and watch a Right – Wingers IQ drop into the toilet .

        Between these two emotional partisan dogmas ,

        welcome back to Serfdom.

    • D from OR May 2, 2022 at 10:50 am #

      “from their seething resentment of all things ‘Boomer’ or anyone (like Elon Musk) exhibiting Boomer tendencies”

      Wrong.

      We are where we are at precisely because of Boomer tendencies which have been at best all about maintaining status quo and stealing from the future.

      I could go on in great detail but simply Musk, like myself and millions of others, are Gen X.

      The love of all things Boomer isn’t universally shared but you guys never seem to get it.

      The Boomers were our parents. We know your type and how you operate. Claiming someone who is likely 25 years your junior as part of your generation is a very good example.

      Dream on.

      • megabeth May 2, 2022 at 11:00 am #

        Hey, get your hackles down. He just said “Boomer tendencies”. I’m an old Xer with Silent Generation parents and older Boomer siblings, and I have a lot of Boomer tendencies, myself. But as an Xer, I have learned how to be a scrapper in tougher economic times than the Boomers had to deal with. I’m not bitter and casting blame, though.

        • D from OR May 3, 2022 at 10:14 am #

          Hackles aren’t up. Boomers just do this kind of thing all the time and its annoying especially since its rarely called out.

          The point was Musk just can’t be a renegade on his own it must be “Boomer tendencies” that gave him the juice. Of course….

          If you’ve got some “tendencies” hopefully they are only minor ones like a penchant for classic rock instead of the dominant one: narcissism.

          • megabeth May 11, 2022 at 4:09 am #

            Well, classic rock, for sure! Not sure my narcissism exceeds the functional allotment of it that most of us have.

    • Paula D May 2, 2022 at 10:53 am #

      The narrative that the problem with our society is the ability of citizens to conserve is exactly why they are setting up the Ministry of Truth.
      The line that people should not be able to opine anonymously is part of it.
      They want to register you before you can access the internet, so that you will be afraid to speak lest mobs of Woke Totalitarians arrive at your door.
      Do not go along with this toxic plan.

      • Paula D May 2, 2022 at 10:54 am #

        Shoot, I meant converse, not conserve, although they don’t like people making do with what they have either.
        Cuts into consumption profits.

      • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 11:58 am #

        It getting downright Stalinist out there! Oh you like Stalin, sorry.

        When Stalin walked in to a theatre, there would be watchers on the balcony to see who stopped clapping first. Knowing this, no one wanted to be that person so it would go on and on.

      • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 11:25 pm #

        Yep. Incrementally making it OK for the gestapo to show up at your door.

  7. a kullervo May 2, 2022 at 8:51 am #

    (philosophia perennis / urreligion)

    Not all philosophers are poets, still
    all poets are philosophers.
    Not all philosophy is poetry, still
    all poems are philosophy.
    Philosophers and poets perish,
    Poetry/Philosophy won’t:
    Man is the supreme poet,
    God as The Supreme Poem.

    Consciousness is a time bomb which we have no plans from and which we must learn to defuse.

    • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

      Very nice, but would you attain the heights and then pull up the ladder after you so no one else could? For such is religion.

  8. Ubermensch May 2, 2022 at 8:53 am #

    Clusterfuck Nation notification finally came through to the proper email inbox. W00t!

  9. Walter B May 2, 2022 at 9:09 am #

    Interesting that it is “the left” that has turned into what is essentially a new form of crime family which reinforces the Latin origin of the very word itself, evolving from “sinister”. Growing up in New Jersey during the time period that I did, I retain vivid memories of the Mafia, Coza Nostra, Black Hand and all of the other mobs that often battled each other openly in the streets of New York and New Jersey. The organized crime entities that worked hand in hand with Alan Dulles and the CIA spooks on many endeavors including the attempts to murder Fidel Castro.

    The Kennedy brothers were keenly aware of this fact of which RFK wrote about in detail in his book, “The Enemy Within”. They were both concerned that this unholy marriage of crime and government would result in the corruption of our still not totally corrupt government. Clearly, he was correct, and they both paid the price for their insight. Hollywood even confirmed the plan when Don Corleone spoke to his son of the day when the families would be able to buy and become the government with the massive amounts of profit, they were able to amass on the streets.

    As I look around us these days, even at the small, local levels it is clear that everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is run by bullies, by criminals, by con men and hucksters. The sad and most disturbing part of it all, at least for me, is that the bulk of the regular people actually accept this as the new way things are done and bow down to whichever bully is beating them down at the time. At the rate we are going, it will not be long before our technologies will be used to round those of us up who speak out against the criminals and implement a new, Final Solution.

    I am beginning to have a change in heart about Joe Biden, his VP, and those other crooks that rule us all. I’m starting to think that they are the perfect crew to lead a frightened mob of cowards and shirkers into the abyss, and Dopey Joe is the perfect patsy at the top for he can shed all of the insults and criticism hurled at him with his non-functioning, empty brain cavity.

    Yes, the Left pretends to be always right, and the Right clearly is always wrong. Sounds like what was foretold to happen, doesn’t it?

    • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 9:34 am #

      Well said, Walter B.

      Scary Poppins might be the best example of the left’s absolute crazy tap-dancing distraction show. I can’t imagine that these people don’t know what they are doing – just putting more and more ridiculous clowns in charge to see how the populace will react, or perhaps just to try to ‘queer’ the country. Who knows.

      Jo Jo Magoo’s performances this past week defy common sense to the nth degree. He’s made some major gaffes that no one else would have ever gotten away with. But the left ignores it. I wonder how much longer they can pull that off.

      • Night Owl May 2, 2022 at 10:21 am #

        They ignore it because the corporate media ignores it.

        They are controlled by the TV/narrative. That is all there is to it.

        • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 11:25 pm #

          Agree.

      • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 10:43 am #

        Walter, Mary, I’ve thought this from day 1. This is the collapse party. They’re old, senile, incompetent, weak, decadent, corrupt puppets. they don’t represent the future.

        • Walter B May 2, 2022 at 12:36 pm #

          They know that they cannot take it with them, so they are going to make sure that nothing is left for those that remain.

        • Ron Anselmo May 2, 2022 at 3:01 pm #

          Decrepitocracy.

          • spaingaroo May 3, 2022 at 12:05 am #

            we need a like button

      • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

        As Jim from Florida used to say, a dead tree can stand for many years. Don’t count your firewood before it falls.

        • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 8:40 pm #

          The Romans took a long time to go down. How many terrible emperors did they have at the end before the hammer fell? And how many of those terrible emperors suffered terrible fates? Wish I had more time to read the history books on them.

          • Anthea May 3, 2022 at 12:32 am #

            I really enjoyed reading “I Claudius.” Most of the “elites” of those times seem to have met with unpleasant ends. Their lives also seem to have been rather unpleasant, for the most part. It’s probably not so different today. Count your blessings if you are a nobody.

    • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 9:52 am #

      Excellent Walter. The mob was also notorious for letting their old guys – looooong past their prime – rise to the top job before finally getting the bloody send off from some ambitious up and comer. “The churn” was generally encouraged and was considered for the most part to be good for business, as it allowed the most enterprising to display their skills and advance because of them. A genuine meritocracy, if you will. In the mean time the old guys could provide a measure of stability while they were on top and hopefully pass on at least some of the wisdom of the generations to the youngsters before they met their bitter end. Their lavish funerals being their just reward in this world for faithfully hewing the party/family line.

      In the mean time for the rest of us, it might be time to “go to the mattresses” to protect what little we’ve got while we still have it and contemplate what comes next, because whatever comes next for this society/world certainly doesn’t include us.

    • megabeth May 2, 2022 at 10:30 am #

      I agree with you that Boe Jiden is such a good and appropriate fall guy. Just give him enough risperidone during his trial so that he doesn’t holler “You’re full of shit, fat!” and try to beat up his `trusted interloqutors ‘.

      • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 10:47 am #

        I can see whole Biden gang sitting in a big covid-safe plexiglass cage on trial while a diverse team of lawyers in wigs babble for months. The whole thing would be televised during prime-time.

        • megabeth May 2, 2022 at 11:04 am #

          I say muzzle them and cart them around on hand trucks, like Hannibal Lecter. And don’t let them wear clothes with pockets, lest people try to stuff them with the usual ill gotten money.

          • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 8:42 pm #

            I hear the tumbrels rolling

    • Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 11:00 am #

      Large numbers of Americans now, never learned civics in school. They have no idea how things are supposed to work.

      • SW May 2, 2022 at 11:52 am #

        You are completely correct, Beryl. And having the kids out of school in some places, for two years, will guarantee they never are able to figure it out. It will be a popularity/propaganda contest every couple of years with the big rally every four for the hologram to be picked as president.

      • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 12:12 pm #

        “Conflict of interest” is never spoken or written anymore by the media. Rand Paul once asked Fauci about his, rhetorically. Paul knew that he wouldn’t answer, and Fauci knew he didn’t have to. Theatre, good for getting votes!

        • SW May 2, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

          Reality (as JHK pointed out in the post) is about to bite and bite hard. Here’s a little something to ponder along with inflation, less food and other surprises the Biden voters didn’t know they’d signed up for :

          “For the first time in history, Lake Powell has dipped below 3,525 feet. A drop of 32 more feet will mean the cessation of hydroelectric power production at the Glen Canyon Dam.

          Bryan Hill runs the public power utility in Page, Arizona, where the federal dam is located and likens the situation to judgment day.
          Hill says: “We’re knocking on the door of judgment day – judgment day being when we don’t have any water to give anybody.”

          Read more: https://www.digitaljournal.com/world/op-ed-lake-powell-crisis-is-so-bad-that-were-knocking-on-the-door-of-judgment-day/article#ixzz7S9WHJEaQ

          • Redneck Liberal May 2, 2022 at 8:26 pm #

            Fucking Biden & the Goddamned Dems! They’ve even managed to shut down RAIN in their evil agenda to wipe out Western Civ.

          • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 8:43 pm #

            Hey Redneck, tell us how you really feel.

      • Rowdypiglet May 2, 2022 at 3:18 pm #

        That’s absolutely true. I have young relatives with degrees in history who know nothing about either civics OR history. It’s worse though – they believe they “know” a great deal, and it’s all completely wrong. This foundation of lies is built on every day, and is the reason why they readily believe that many unarmed black men are shot by the police every day – and other such absurdities. When challenged, they produce so many layers of fantastical imaginings that there’s no thread you can get hold of and give it a pull to begin unraveling their lunacies.

        • SW May 2, 2022 at 4:57 pm #

          Rowdy & Jarek — The basics about the constitution might as well be written in ancient Greek and history is whatever is passed off as true by NYT. 1619 Project (book) was immediately debunked by real historians with facts but no matter.

          And I doubt 1 in 100 could actually explain what “conflict of interest” is and why it’s destroyed so much of our government.

          I’m not optimistic about our country’s ability to recover from the years of mismanagement and outright deception. I don’t think Elon Musk, even if he’s completely sincere about restoring free speech to Twitter, will have that big of an impact.

          There’s a theory in sociology called Path Dependence and it’s essentially (if I’ve understood it correctly) the observation that once a country has progressed down a certain path, it just keeps going down that same one even if destruction is at the end. In other words — they can’t learn from past mistakes, or learn from history or look at what they’re doing and see, realistically, where it will end up. It’s willful blindness.

    • Not_GeorgeT May 2, 2022 at 11:16 am #

      Anyone unfamiliar with “The Enemy Within” can find a nice synopsis here:

      https://www.amazon.com/Enemy-Within-Robert-F-Kennedy/dp/4871877817/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1SEKMZXT8J4TE&keywords=the+enemy+within+robert+f+kennedy&qid=1651504208&sprefix=the+enemy+within+robert+f+kennedy%2Caps%2C75&sr=8-1

      The book was in our house when we were growing up, left out for us to read.

    • Islander May 2, 2022 at 4:12 pm #

      Walter B:

      The relationship between the USA’s underworld and “upperworld” is deconstructed in detail by Gus Russo in The Outift and Supermob, both outstanding, highly documented, and readable books. Of note is his documentation of how one crusading journalist after the next who tried to get the story about the Mob was sidelined, whole archives and dossiers of evidence were disappeared, etc. It is not as though no one tried to inform the American people of the rot in their midst. .

      In the former he provides a blow-by-blow of the push-you-pull-me between the Mob and the JFK campaign in the last days and hours of the 1960 election.

      Great info also on Joe Kennedy.

      Very readable.

      Supermob is more focused on how the Mob made Las Vegas—an SMO (Special Mob Operation) basically run out of Chicago, the caopital city of Mobstan. I don’t say Mafiastan because the Jewish Mob was at least as powerful as the Italian Mob. Probably more so.

      In fact, I reckon it is a major PR coup that the Jewish Mob succeeded in basically going legit—blending in with the Upperworld—and tarring the Italians with the “mob” label. This the Jewish mobsters did basically via sending a few of their children to law school and setting up nonprofits, etc. They ran circles around the goyishe wogs, Irish, etc.

      Russo also has some interesting insights into Hoffa’s early union activities and political convictions and loyalties. According to Russo, Hoffa started out as a genuine working-class hero, championing the working man. Seems like he and others could not resist the blandishments of the US political system (of which I consider the Mob to be a part).

      • Walter B May 2, 2022 at 5:12 pm #

        Thank you Islander. I will check those out.

  10. Bilejones May 2, 2022 at 9:17 am #

    I’ll be surprised if the Left doesn’t double down on the vote rigging this time around.
    Looking at the French election it’s apparent that a;; that matters for the kakistocracy is to be able to point to some “victory” no matter how it is subsequently refuted.

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    • draupnir May 2, 2022 at 10:59 am #

      Biden’s still ostensibly in the White House, Macron won his reelection, the Canadians are still stuck with Trudeau and Newsome won his recall. I don’t believe any of that is legitimate for a second. It’s all in your face and “what are you going to do about it?”

      • Not_GeorgeT May 2, 2022 at 11:41 am #

        There are some who say the ‘Left’ is scared.

        As you point out, these people are still in place. I’m not seeing the look of fear.

        • Rowdypiglet May 2, 2022 at 3:22 pm #

          I think they’re worked up into a frenzy, as they become when the level of awareness rises a bit, but that’s not the same as fear. It motivates them to be ever more active in pushing their many related agendas and punishments. I admire Jim’s optimism, and occasionally I’m able to savor a bit of it myself. He could be right, and I hope he is. But, on the whole, they’ve gotten away with everything so far, no matter how egregious, and I see no real reason why they shouldn’t continue to do so.

        • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 8:48 pm #

          George, The elites are terrified, they’re running scared. Trust the plan. The good guys are playing 4D chess. They fleeing from the sinking ship. We’ve heard that for about 8 years now.

        • Blackbird May 2, 2022 at 8:59 pm #

          I think the “Left is scared” rhetoric is intended to: 1) provide false hope to the “right”, 2) invigorate those on the “left” to double down on their support for the “Joe Biden”.

        • workingclasshero May 3, 2022 at 1:23 am #

          And worse news on that front. The Supreme Court is probably going to overturn Roe vs Wade, and this will give a huge boost to whatever brand of Gender Kreig in play heading into the November Midterms. First Putin saves the Biden Administration, now possible abortion restrictions will save the Dems.

  11. zappalives May 2, 2022 at 9:22 am #

    Once upon a time I was a democrat………….40 years ago !
    They were still the party of the workingman………..kinda.
    Then like a virus they mutated.
    Sold out the workingman for globalization.
    Now they represent race war between whites and blacks-all things good for mega-corps and billionaires and the glorification of mentally ill homosexuals and pedophiles !
    Its no longer a political party !
    Its a suicide/death cult !
    If you want this insanity to end you will have to destroy the democrat party.
    Once that is done……….destroy the CUCK faction of the cult…………the repubs !
    Any questions ?

    • cbeard May 2, 2022 at 12:16 pm #

      Sounds like a good plan to me, zappalives.

  12. tractorguy May 2, 2022 at 9:29 am #

    “a TikTok musical comedy star, Nina Jankowicz, an instant laughingstock,”

    Oh come now, in the “laughingstock” category, she doesn’t even begin to hold a candle to Ray Dee O’Active!

    Tractorguy

  13. MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 9:29 am #

    Excellent article today, James! Thank you.

    As usual, I wish I could share your optimism that any of the absolute monsters running things would see some sort of comeuppance but I still doubt that will happen. Still, there ARE tipping points when things get too insane, and things tend to balance out. Whether or not that happens before a complete collapse is another thing altogether. It appears they are moving in tandem. By design.

    Loved this line:

    “Narrative failure would equal failure of the Left altogether, so the Left requires the sturdiest possible apparatus for suppressing counter-narratives that lean in the direction of reality, its enemy.”

    Forced censorship is the last desperate act of cowardly scam artists who fear exposure.

    I hope I live to see some of these Jacobin nutjobs thrown into jail cells but I won’t hold my breath.

    • draupnir May 2, 2022 at 11:14 am #

      I suspect we won’t be able to afford to keep them in jail cells. I think it’s going to be vigilante justice and a lampost for those who can be caught.

      • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 11:45 pm #

        I agree, I don’t see them ever getting officially arrested or anything. But I have seen senators, etc. chased out of restaurants. LOL

  14. John K May 2, 2022 at 9:33 am #

    I don’t see the Dems losing anything in November, not when they have so thoroughly rigged the election process. They could probably get a garbage truck elected at this point. (I’m sorry, that’s already happened.) It’s the reason I’ve retired from voting.

    • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 10:04 am #

      Likewise. NEVER again!

      • neurodoc May 2, 2022 at 2:23 pm #

        What he said! Never again. No point.
        Mark Twain once said ‘ if voting mattered, they wouldn’t let us do it.’ Truth. Unfortunately.

    • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 10:49 am #

      George Carlin explains why he didn’t vote:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk

  15. Penelope Dreadful May 2, 2022 at 9:37 am #

    The Money Quote from above:

    “Disinformation” just means anything that the Left doesn’t want you to say out loud.”

    Like, nearly 80% of black kids are born out of wedlock –

    or if you do say it – due to Christopher Columbus, 1619, Slavery, Jim Crow, Institutionalized Racism, White Supremacy, Free Speech, etc.

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    • Ron Anselmo May 2, 2022 at 10:03 am #

      Ironically, add Planned Parenthood to the list.

  16. Mister Roboto May 2, 2022 at 9:42 am #

    You may call them “the Left”, but I prefer to call them what they really are: Professional-managerial class shit-libs. And the spiritual energy with which they have flooded our society can be truly called “demonic”. If society takes a sharp rightward turn after the events of 2020, 2021, and 2022, it will not surprise me in the least. Not being too dismayed by it is something I will have to work on, I guess.

    • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 10:07 am #

      Yes. I think hard right is the next turn in the great race to oblivion, although much of what “the left” is doing now is already hard right in terms of totalitarianism. All the traditional left/right lines are being blurred as we speak.

      • JTinMD May 2, 2022 at 3:22 pm #

        Don’t they call lefty totalitarians communists? And righties are fascists? Maybe they’re virtually identical? Like the snake swallowing it’s tail?

        • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

          Exactly.

    • MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 5:15 pm #

      Agree completely.

  17. benr May 2, 2022 at 9:43 am #

    So here it is folks the disinformation czar is attacking the great reset!

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/there-s-a-new-boogeyman-freaking-out-americans-susceptible-to-conspiracy-theories/ar-AAWNimQ?ocid=msnews&cvid=48917c2c1b9640918a0a4711206e6c51

    QUEUE rednut libtards arrival he has been given marching orders I am sure.

    • Night Owl May 2, 2022 at 10:25 am #

      Judging by the replies to that piece, we have little to worry about.

      Reads like a collection of children tossing their own personal buzzword salad that is not only incoherent, but representative of a brain that has lost the ability to critically think to the point that it will be it’s owner’s own undoing.

      Half of these idiots will be dead within a few years of a blood clot.

      • Night Owl May 2, 2022 at 10:26 am #

        “its”

        “dead of a blood clot within a few years”

        • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 10:56 am #

          come get your dead blood clots. 4th booster available now at Walgreens

      • Islander May 2, 2022 at 4:43 pm #

        “Half of these idiots will be dead within a few years of a blood clot.”

        At last, a happy thought!!

      • MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 5:27 pm #

        A teacher friend of mine just said that in her smaller class with 11 kids, 3 are unjabbed, and the rest are. Out of those 7, only 3 are doing OK, and 4 are sick all the time, and with bizarre things happening to them (including things that require hospitalization). The 3 who are not jabbed are completely healthy and never sick.

        It should be obvious by now that the jabs maim and kill, and yet people are too stupid or in denial to see it.

        • Ron Anselmo May 4, 2022 at 4:12 pm #

          What about the 11th kid? What’s his/her deal? Dead already?

          • MaryQueen May 4, 2022 at 8:21 pm #

            OK with being jabbed. At least so far.

    • Islander May 2, 2022 at 4:46 pm #

      Actually, I wouldn’t call this “attacking the Great Reset.”

      More like reinforcing its cover.

      • benr May 3, 2022 at 8:15 am #

        Yes I flubbed that comment pretty good.
        It is actually attacking the idea of the great reset being only conspiracy theory.

        Nothing to see here and ignore that little man behind the curtain.

  18. PeteAtomic May 2, 2022 at 9:43 am #

    “If Mr. Biden is still on-the-scene in January next year, he’ll be the first president not only impeached but convicted and removed by the Senate. And if for some reason he avoids criminal prosecution for treason out of some pitiful need for the government to maintain official decorum before the rest of the world, his brothers and his degenerate son may not be so lucky.”

    Perhaps it’s the exuberance of Spring that Jim is seeing things in a sunny light. Unfortunately, I’ve gotta echo most of the other posters with another bucket of cold water.

    Nothing will happen. Justice won’t be served. There won’t be many prison sentences, other than maybe apart from the low-level pawns that have been implicated so far in the Durham investigation– and those sentences will be pretty short.

    The US is a criminal system. It is a system run for and by con artists, hucksters, entertainers, fakers, flim-flam men, impostures, and other sundry cheats & swindlers in a variety of ethnic flavors, religions, and hue.

    Washington DC is simply a long- and well-established artifice.

    • JohnAZ May 2, 2022 at 10:50 am #

      Pete

      Justice won’t be served.

      The US is a criminal system.

      Ever since votes have been bought, and power obtained with money, this country has been heading down.

      Taking stock now, the MSM has been purchased lock, stock and barrel by the progressive Left. Want proof, look at the reaction of the Twitter board and employees at the idea of free speech.

      Michael Douglas, of all people, said it well in The American President.

      Democracy in the US means that you have to be able to listen to someone tear down everything you believe in, then shake his/her hand.

      That is slightly paraphrased.

      His viewpoint was from the Left, but now the Disinformation people are on the Left.

      And they are much better at it than the Right, controlling the press, the bureaucracy, the magazines, the social media the Department of justice including the federal, state judiciaries and our investigatory agencies.

      And you wonder why Trump was ineffective? I, for one, do not believe in the red wave this year. Too many deluded citizens with their hands out.

    • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 11:02 am #

      Their ability to bribe people with free money is coming to an end. We’re about to see price shocks in natural gas and diesel. I was looking at charts showing that our natural gas production has hit all-time highs, however our stored reserves are at all-time lows because “Joe Biden” is exporting record amounts, which will guarantee shortages in the homeland. Similar story for diesel. Global production of crude oil, the king of fossil fuels, is now declining. We may be looking at down part of the roller coaster ride of Hubbert’s oil curve.

      • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 11:06 am #

        Their ability to bribe people with free money is coming to an end.

        Goodbye to the carrot. It was nice to know you.

        We’re about to see price shocks in natural gas and diesel.

        Say hello to the stick.

      • Not_GeorgeT May 2, 2022 at 11:57 am #

        TD

        I’ll add the producers sell the production to Europeans because they make more money exporting it to them, being the EU countries are already energy-screwed and in dire need of the product.

        The caveat (from the likely source) is the problem there is about to become the problem here.

        Those fracking geysers are rather impressive, along with being laden with toxins.

        • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

          Good point. The Market – always a jungle – becomes a highway to hell under Globalism. A turbo-charged race to the bottom.

          • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 9:01 pm #

            The spice must flow.

      • BackRowHeckler May 2, 2022 at 2:02 pm #

        I don’t know, TD; next week Biden will announce a student loan forgiveness scheme. That’s about $1.5 trllion in free money. My question is what about people who did pay back their student loans, and what happens to loans going forward? I guess deadbeats are the sharpies, and people who made sacrifices and did the right thing are suckers.

        • Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 2:25 pm #

          From what I’ve heard, the amount he’s proposing to hand out isn’t what he promised when he bought the votes.

          • SW May 2, 2022 at 5:03 pm #

            The details are kind of murky but it seems he’s saying (or is told to say by the Magic Bunny) that it’s $10,000 per person.

        • Rowdypiglet May 2, 2022 at 3:29 pm #

          I always wonder this same thing about people who immigrated legitimately and played by the rules. It isn’t particularly easy (nor should it be) and if you’ve been scrupulous and done what was asked, and then, after you, the door was just left wide open for those who showed utter contempt for the law, I expect you’d be pretty enraged.

          • benr May 3, 2022 at 8:31 am #

            My South African friend sort of did it all correctly.
            He is pissed and sees DEMOCRATS EXACTLY as they are.
            He was and is still a Trump fan but sees Trump in a rather different light than most of his supporters.

        • JTinMD May 2, 2022 at 3:30 pm #

          Chump
          Chumply
          Chumpitude
          Chumpiness
          Chumporific
          Chumposity

        • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 9:06 pm #

          Backrow,

          FJB can hand out free fiat currency as far as the eye can see, but he can’t guarantee the purchasing power. All those EBT cards are going to go worthless by the time we’re done. The student loans will be a distant memory.

      • Islander May 2, 2022 at 4:47 pm #

        Can we just not use the term “in the homeland”?

        Whatever happened to the phrase “in this country” or, say, “in the United States”?

        • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 6:38 pm #

          Or the Fatherland.

        • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 9:09 pm #

          All empires pump wealth back into the homeland. That’s the appropriate term. Towards the end, when the currency and the citizenry are completely debauched, the parasites cannabilize the homeland.

        • Not_GeorgeT May 3, 2022 at 2:52 pm #

          Way back when Dubya introduced the new department, I keyed in on the name and realized we were in even deeper trouble than the times suggested. Then he sold it by putting Tom Ridge in charge of it.

          The USA, to my knowledge, was never referred to as ‘the homeland’ prior to this.

          IMO, it has never fit. We’re a country of mongrels, to put it bluntly. The ‘melting pot’. … The most common heritage item we likely share most in this country is either we or our ancestors started out somewhere else and came here as immigrants.

          • messianicdruid May 3, 2022 at 6:14 pm #

            Assorted Crackers.

          • Not_GeorgeT May 3, 2022 at 8:53 pm #

            Assorted Crackers

            Some might fit the term, it does keep things interesting

          • Not_GeorgeT May 3, 2022 at 8:54 pm #

            🙂

  19. Ron Anselmo May 2, 2022 at 9:59 am #

    Morning Jim – a fine spring morning it is – you’re up and at ’em early this morning. Excellent piece this morning! Nice! Thanks as always, much appreciated – your talented musings are incomparable. Really.

    “…in court, in prison, or worse…” – if there’s a God in heaven, please let it be worse. No quarter for these evil fuckers – they don’t deserve it – not one single bit.

    • Not_GeorgeT May 2, 2022 at 12:08 pm #

      ‘or worse’ might be the choice if/when the tv watchers figure out how over just the past couple of years (short attention span) they’ve been lied to, poisoned (some to death, others to permanent disability), tossed out of work, and watched their family members experience the same.

  20. Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 10:06 am #

    We were talking recently about the vaccine injured, and I said I didn’t personally know any, but I did know vaccinated people who were getting covid left and right.

    Saturday I happened to glance out my window, and I noticed a neighbor who had started to climb the stairs to his back deck. He was clinging to the railing, leaning over, and it looked as if he could not catch his breath.

    I don’t know how long he had been that way. He straightened up and went into his house very shortly after I noticed him there.

    This is a nice person with a nice family and all he does is work hard, and he works at a job that would have “required” him to get vaccinated.

    I don’t know where to go with this horror I feel. There is nobody in my life I can even tell about it.

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    • thirdcoastlegend May 2, 2022 at 10:20 am #

      Well, that’s the value of boards such as this, to make skeptical people feel less isolated.

      In my own life, I only know one immunocompromised 60-something male with at least one comorbidity who had a terrible reaction to the Moderna injection.

      On the other hand, I have close relatives nearing 80 that have been pumped full of Moderna and….nothing. One of them even has comorbidities.

      Yet, looking around at the numbers in VAERS and the athletes dropping like flies, there is something definitely afoot…

      • Paula D May 2, 2022 at 11:04 am #

        I think that a lot of people got saline, probably by design, although the story we were told about plucky drug companies rising to the dire emergency and manufacturing millions of doses of fragile mRNA concoctions that had to be kept at minus 70 degrees F at all times, should make people skeptical even without the evidence of some people keeling over and some not even having a sore arm.

        • Islander May 2, 2022 at 4:49 pm #

          Well, according to Yeadon’s data (can’t recall who first analyzed the batches), only certain batches were “kill” batches.

          • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 9:12 pm #

            yup. I don’t think we know yet if the “good” batches were just lower dosages of the kill batches or if they were outright different formulations. It’s definitely one of the many questions that needs to be asked during Nuremberg 2.

      • BackRowHeckler May 2, 2022 at 11:41 am #

        Sounds similar to the Spanish flu epidemic 1918-1920, which mostly killed younger people.

      • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 12:21 pm #

        Yeah, it’s a lottery system, slanted against the Red states perhaps. But sooner or later, everyone will get a hot shot unless you’re one of the very special people.

        They’re evil, not stupid. Of course the evil often behave stupidly in the end.

        • TaxDonkey May 5, 2022 at 12:05 am #

          The formulation of your monthly inoculation will depend upon your social credit score.

    • JohnAZ May 2, 2022 at 10:37 am #

      S proteins make people’s immune systems over react. The kill some people whether they ride on the back of a virus or are artificially manufactured by an injection.

      Scary thought, what if s proteins are not destroyed in “some” people like the model says. What if in some people the cells’ DNA can be modified to produce perpetual RNA to make s proteins?

      Do additional injections just add s proteins to the immunity mix and increase the inflammation levels to more serious levels?

      If the ultra conspirators are right, do the PTB know that increasing the s protein levels, cross the board, just culls out more people.?

      A big question! Why was the s protein picked instead of another part of the virus? Could it be that the s protein was mapped at the onset of Covid? That it was designed?

      Are these possibilities real? We do not have a clue! Nor will we with the perps in charge.

      • neurodoc May 2, 2022 at 11:04 am #

        Initially, I had assumed that the PTB erroneously focused on the S1 protein thinking it was a marker, finding out latter that is was THE toxin of COV (i.e. stupidity, idiocracy which is rampant in medical research). Now I’m not so sure. The autopsies being done in Europe (COV pt autopsies are strongly discouraged here in the US Corporation) ALL show massive S1 protein tissue infiltration of pulmonary, cardiac, immune and brain tissues. Surely they SHOULD have know this in testing. The S1 protein also knocks out T cells and most B cells, dampening the immune response (Pfizer’s response to this has been that they needed the immune system dampened for the mRNA gene tx to work ???????) Idiocracy v. Greed v. Genocide, take your pick.

        • megabeth May 2, 2022 at 11:17 am #

          Pfizer’s response sounds like the nutty excuse for the My Lai massacre.

          What do you make of the Astra Zeneca chief saying that people with autoimmune diseases should not be vaccinated with his product (or any of them)?

          It angered me because I just heard it last week, and it showed up my hunch that, as someone with Graves’ disease in remission, I should never take this jab. I had 2 flare-ups caused by standard vaccines, in the past, and I’m done with that noise. My own physician is too craven to give me as pass on it, either.

          Because she’s a dunce, I suspect.

          • Anthea May 3, 2022 at 3:45 pm #

            @ megabeth:

            My Graves Disease was completely cured when I stopped drinking tap water and switched to distilled water for all drinking and cooking. (I just bought the gallon jugs of distilled water from Walmart; nothing fancy.)

            It took about six months for me to get completely off medication, but I could notice an improvement after about two weeks.

            I haven’t needed medication for eight years. But I also stopped going to the doctor when I stopped needing the medication, so I haven’t had any bloodwork done until a couple of months ago. I suppose they’ll tell me the results of the blood work some time or other.

          • neurodoc May 3, 2022 at 8:56 pm #

            My own initial interests in researching the mRNA ‘vaxx,’ was the issue of auto-immune disease. My wife has Graves and I have a mild family history of RA, thus concerns about worsening via ‘shotgun’ stimulation from the adjuvants like squalene. (I’ve seen many patients with auto-immune flareups of all types, after flu shots, back when they loaded with them squalene). What I found was far far worse than the auto-immunity activating adjuvants they put in mRNA tx, and it had to do with the highly toxic/inflammatory nature of the S1 protein produced in mass by the mRNA cellular manufacturing process.

            BTW; about 1/3-1/2 of MDs I know are dunces (in one sense or another), and they don’t know what they don’t know (including those from the best AND worst training programs, it doesn’t matter). I saw it most clearly when teaching residents for about 25 years (in a top 10 and 2 top upper half med ctrs). Always do your own research; question your doctor, and if they don’t like that, FIRE THEM!!!!

        • TaxDonkey May 2, 2022 at 9:23 pm #

          Neuro, It’s hard to imagine the spike protein as just a marker (for what, the virus?). There’s so much genetic engineering that seems have gone into it. Everything from the plentiful GxxxG repeats with codon optimized GC enrichment, to the sections that are homologous to hiv, the furin cleavage site, the homology with syncytin, etc…..I’m not a geneticist, but all these reports on the crazy Spike sequence appear to be credible. I can’t even imagine it as accidental, especially with all the endless patents. It sure seems premeditated.

          • neurodoc May 3, 2022 at 9:36 pm #

            The initial story in the medical literature was that THE marker for COV was the s1 protein, and that initially made me think they simply screwed up, couldn’t face up proceeded. As I’ve been saying, Idiocracy v. Greed v. Genocide. Take our pick. Your logical arguments point toward the last and third option, which is hard to swallow but very possible. Also horrendous for our future and our children and grandchildren’s futures. Dystopic sci fi stuff but very real.

          • neurodoc May 3, 2022 at 9:44 pm #

            All viruses have marker spikes, traditionally notated as N for neuraminadase or H for hemmaglutinin, as in H1N2. The S1 spike was initially labelled by fauci as THE marker for COVID. My understanding (from reports from his co-workers and doctors in fellowship around him) is he does not allow himself to be wrong, ever, regardless. Thus, he is actually rather stupid, very stubborn or very sinister.

      • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 12:23 pm #

        S? You mean Spike? Don’t hold back. Say Spike.

    • Rowdypiglet May 2, 2022 at 3:35 pm #

      My sister, who beat cancer 30 years ago and had been cancer free since, had end stage cancer within a few months of getting the jab. She plummeted like a stone from the moment she had the shot, and we lost her within a few months. My other sister immediately became vague and she now thinks she called me on the phone when I called her. No one in my family has ever had memory problems, but both sisters began to be confused as soon as they had the shots. My firm belief is that it was decided, by those who make such decisions, that they were expendable – as many others have been. I won’t ever forgive or forget.

      • benr May 3, 2022 at 8:37 am #

        Well, we know proteins cause dementia and mad cow.
        Who knows what other disease is caused by the odd protein?

        A prion is a type of protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally. Prion diseases can affect both humans and animals and are sometimes spread to humans by infected meat products.

        • TaxDonkey May 4, 2022 at 11:45 am #

          There are 16 CJD (Cruetzfeld-Jakob disease) in the VAERS the last I heard. Pretty elevated compared to any other vaccines. CJD is the bona fide prion disease, in contrast to every other protein misfolding disorder (Parkinson’s, Alzheimers’s), which people are calling prion-like. Mad Cow was in cattle with 200-something spillover to humans. Anyway, this blip of CJD in the VAERS is noticeable, or should be, much like a hardon at the swimming pool. If the CJD numbers radically escalate, then we’re living in a Walking Dead episode. The credible Stefanie Seneff from MIT has been predicting lots of protein misfolding (prion-like) from very early on and a few days ago she came out on Del Bigtree saying how it’s happening faster than even she thought.

      • MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 6:28 pm #

        That’s horrifying. So sorry.

  21. Rodster May 2, 2022 at 10:12 am #

    Jim wrote: “For now, food just costs more than ever; wait until it’s simply unavailable. Nobody will care about anything else after that.”

    That’s when I see Daddy Government kicking the Plebs in the crotch and forcing them to take their vaccines or else they fucking starve. That’s how Crime Syndicates roll. They do their best to put you in a checkmate situation.

    Jim wrote: “That includes such dicey matters as the several years malevolent mismanagement of Covid-19, which looks more and more like a deliberate effort to kill a large number of citizens”

    And of course the Drug Pushers i.e. Moderna, Pfizer et al are getting ready to vax up the infants and toddlers.

    “Moderna Poised to Commit Infanticide”

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/vaccine/moderna-poised-to-commit-infanticide/

    • mitchellc May 2, 2022 at 10:21 am #

      Nah, this is where I believe you and Disaffected are wrong. You allow pessimision to override common sense. (Just the flip side of optimism.)

      The universal constant is reality. It’s how all governments fall, whether 1789, 1917 and so on.

      We don’t have to do anything. Just watch the trends and observe the exponential pressure build up. Then the blast.

      • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 10:32 am #

        Veiled optimism, with a dash of detachment, eh? A foot in both camps? By the way, it’s pessimism, and “common sense” isn’t actually all that common. Governments fall all the time in the long run, but most of the people they oppress never live to see it. As Bush the Lesser wisely noted: “In the long run we’ll all be dead.” It’s what we do in the meantime that matters.

        • Anthea May 3, 2022 at 3:56 pm #

          When governments fall, the aftermath is generally not pretty. You may not have need to “do anything” before the collapse, but you can expect to have to do all kinds of things after.

          In a couple of such cases I can think of, the population sort of melted away. Probably a lot of them died, while others relocated–perhaps to regions where they fared better. Or maybe not.

          Some things you might have to do could be toil, flight, bloodshed, and enduring privation.

          • TaxDonkey May 5, 2022 at 12:14 am #

            A Mad Max movie without all the gasoline.

    • thirdcoastlegend May 2, 2022 at 10:22 am #

      I also believe jabs for food is coming, probably after they steal the midterms to cement a Marxist lock on power.

      On the other hand, they may manage to wreck the supply chain so badly they’ll wind up with jabs and no food.

      That scenario would get real interesting l, real fast.

      • Not_GeorgeT May 2, 2022 at 12:13 pm #

        Supply chain

        Developing local for this Long Emergency is forward-thinking.

  22. mitchellc May 2, 2022 at 10:13 am #

    A commenter above astutely noted that we can’t stop what’s coming. Whether it’s an organized effort as Jim hopes, or we go the way of Rome, it’s already baked in.

    The real issue is resources – will an elite maintain control over distribution and wealth, or will there be a mad dash for the pantry?

    The key to survival – at least mental – is to accept future events as a natural, preordained turn of fortunas wheel.

    It was *always* going to happen; the only variables where when and how (not even why).

    • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 10:39 am #

      It was *always* going to happen; the only variables where when and how (not even why).

      Fatalism, no matter how you slice it. That’s just pessimism in the submissive mode. Own it.

  23. Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 10:14 am #

    This may have been talked about here before this, it’s from Naomi Wolf and a couple of people brought it to my attention. I’ve become someone that people send things like this to.

    She too has experienced the weight that I have been noticing.

    “For the last two days I’ve felt an uneasy sense of grief, or of a heavy pressure on my heart. At first I could not figure out the cause of it.”

    https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/oh-ok-its-over?s=r

    She also wants something done about what was done to us. I think someone here on Friday said that she was going to run into obstacles with her lawsuits.

    “I am angry that beautiful America is mostly back, mostly free again, overnight, just because a shameless creature who should never have had the power to suspend our liberties in the first place – said so; just because the whiny-voiced evildoers of the last two years, now that evidence of their fraud and coercion emerges irrevocably to light, want to tiptoe away from the scenes of their massive crimes.”

    I’m angry too. If they were too punish these people as the deserved, and they couldn’t get a firing squad, I would take shooting lessons.

    You don’t get to murder and maim millions and just walk away.

    • Night Owl May 2, 2022 at 10:27 am #

      I feel it, too. And have for the past few years.

      Things are going to get much worse before they get better.

    • thirdcoastlegend May 2, 2022 at 10:46 am #

      Dr. Wolf’s evolution has been one of the most unexpected pleasant surprises of this whole mess.

      I tend to agree with NO things will get much worse before they get better.

      We are perhaps, at the end of the beginning.

      • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 12:28 pm #

        Well even a decade or more ago, she began to speak against the savaging of men by the radical feminists, thus showing her commitment to humanity.

        • MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 6:30 pm #

          LOL!

          Won’t SOMEBODY think of the poor menfolx!

    • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 12:27 pm #

      De Santis says he’s not going to stand for the Ministry of Truth – even though he’s just a governor.

      He should be President for Life. You can’t gamble with elections or mob rule when there are so few really good men like him.

      He hasn’t revealed what he plans to do yet, or at least I haven’t heard it.

      • TaxDonkey May 5, 2022 at 12:20 am #

        I would imagine we might see the rise of more populists. It must be nice to hear applause when you address a crowd. Most of the establishment politicians are openly hated, jeered and booed now in a public forum if they give people the opportunity.

  24. megabeth May 2, 2022 at 10:14 am #

    This has little to do with Mr. Kunstler’s fine piece; I just want to kvetch a bit about coronatarianism.

    April 12, I tested positive for coronavirus on an antigen test. I feel fine, now, and tested negative on an antigen test on 4/29. I had an appointment to have carpal tunnel release surgery today, and was required to take a PCR test at the clinic, prior to surgery.

    To make a long story quite short, I must now wait two months to reschedule surgery because I am not vaccinated.

    Marshfield Clinic has lost its flipping mind! I want to find a hand surgeon who won’t kick me around like this! So damned sick of this medical apartheid!

    • Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 10:17 am #

      You are better off not getting surgery from a willfully stupid surgeon. I hope you can find another one soon.

      • megabeth May 2, 2022 at 10:19 am #

        This guy is just a grease monkey for his employer. He did a nice job finishing the job my husband did on his trigger finger with a chop saw.

        • Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 10:24 am #

          Maybe you need a fake vaccine record.

          • megabeth May 2, 2022 at 10:45 am #

            I’d rather not do that; it would feel like defeat for me. I’m looking for a private surgeon to give my money to, instead. It’s such a quick, simple surgery.

            If I do find one, I’ll tell Marshfield Clinic what I’m doing, and why.

            Marshfield competes with Mayo around here. I’ve worked for them both, but I never will, again, because of their vaccine requirement. My own doctor at Marshfield smirked at me when I refused the vax.

          • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 11:03 am #

            Kvetching is good for the soul.

    • megabeth May 2, 2022 at 10:18 am #

      Whoops. I left out that my PCR test on 4/30 came up positive, yet.

      Probably just for residual virus RNA, and probably no longer contagious. but Big Clinic don’t give no shits.

    • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 12:30 pm #

      At one point Elon tested three times during a 24 hour period, same test, same nurse. Two negatives, one positive.

      The PCR is a false positive machine.

      • Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 12:49 pm #

        I tried to use that tidbit as bait, to get a local reporter to look at the PCR test scam, but nothing came of it.

    • Not_GeorgeT May 3, 2022 at 9:12 pm #

      Have you considered medical tourism?

  25. Bill of Rights May 2, 2022 at 10:16 am #

    TPTB will send VP Harris to Ukraine where a “Russian” kills her. That way, they get rid of Harris and also can start WW3. (That’s how WW1 started)

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    • Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 10:19 am #

      Pence went over there for some reason and no such luck.

      I thought maybe they would put something in that expensive covid treatment that they allegedly gave her.

      • draupnir May 2, 2022 at 11:35 am #

        As ffar as I know, Mike Pence no longer holds office. What was he doing there?

        • Not_GeorgeT May 2, 2022 at 12:18 pm #

          “What was he doing there?”

          Violating the Logan Act?

        • Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 12:51 pm #

          He was there with Franklin Graham, ostensibly. Franklin was there because that’s what his Samaritan’s Purse organization does.

          I think Pence was really trying to steal the evangelical vote from Trump.

          • draupnir May 2, 2022 at 1:33 pm #

            Do you suppose he’s deluded enough to run in 2024?

          • Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 1:45 pm #

            Yes.

          • draupnir May 2, 2022 at 3:25 pm #

            If Trump doesn’t run, he’ll throw his weight behind someone like Desantis. I think he likes being kingmaker.

  26. hgonc2 May 2, 2022 at 10:27 am #

    “Behind all this is the growing panic in the Left that they are culpable for an enormous raft of crimes committed against their own country, and will eventually end up in court, in prison, or worse….”

    LOL! Don’t your mean… “or BETTER”?

  27. neurodoc May 2, 2022 at 10:33 am #

    ‘ In November, the Democrats will lose control of Congress and its oversight powers of agency operations,…’

    Very very optimistic. The democrats, er…communists (let’s be frank), appear to be doing everything in their power to set up more election mendacity. For ex., the biden show is proposing that stacy abrams as head of the FEC!!!! (she is the obese loudmouth blm supporter from Georgia, who apparently doesn’t see the need for dental work, and helped steal the vote in 2020). I am not convinced that we will ever have fair elections again. If not, end of America, period. Welcome to the USSA.

    • JohnAZ May 2, 2022 at 10:57 am #

      Yeah, Neurodoc.

      Stacy can whistle with her teeth shut.

      The Uniparty Deep State controls everything now.

      How can you get a balanced election with everything controlled by a few thousand people in DC? And all, with a few exceptions, liberal as heck.

      It really is the Deep State against the people.

      • elysianfield May 2, 2022 at 1:34 pm #

        “Stacy can whistle with her teeth shut.”

        John,
        How indelicate. She is properly described as; “being able to eat an ear of corn through a barbed wire fence”….”

        • neurodoc May 4, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

          …and she has eaten a LOT !!!!!

          🙂

  28. Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 10:36 am #

    I noticed that Jack Dorsey is pushing the idea that he has some kind of newfound reverence for free speech or something, but I also can’t help but notice that he’s telling lies around the Hunter Biden laptop issue.

    Still.

    Another thing, Jack was still in place when Alex Berenson was banished permanently.

    It seems to me that the massive amount of attention (I think they call it hits” Alex’s account was getting just before they silenced him, Jack had to be aware of Alex and just what he was posting about. Didn’t he actually read any of Alex’s stuff? Doesn’t it seem as if he would?

    Why did Alex have to go to the lengths of filing suit? Why didn’t Jack correct things right then and there?

    I hear a lot of talk about dis- and mis- information. Also left and right.

    Alex is a health/science writer. Anybody looking at the scope of his work on Twitter would see that it was factual and TRUE.

  29. Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 10:38 am #

    Elon Musk appears o be aligned with Jack Dorsey in this rehab of Twitter.

    Jack is a liar. That doesn’t bode well, does it?

    You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

    • Paula D May 2, 2022 at 11:11 am #

      Elon Musk is channeling Obama with his talk of ”authenticating humans”.
      The goal is to stop all internet freedom by limiting access to the internet to properly registered and monitored authenticated humans.
      This is a Good Cop, Bad Cop routine.

  30. Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 10:41 am #

    The thing people forget when there is talk of conspiracy theories, is that conspiracies exist, they are real.

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    • Wxtwxtr May 2, 2022 at 10:52 am #

      The great thing is that “Conspiracy Theories” that used to take decades to turn into facts in “the Age of the Three Networks” … now take hours.

      Thanks Jack, et al

      • Paula D May 2, 2022 at 11:12 am #

        Indeed. And that is exactly why they are clamping down so hard.

    • JTinMD May 3, 2022 at 10:42 am #

      conspiracies exist, they are real.

      Yup. The Founders of this here nation conspired centuries ago to throw off the yoke of tyranny. And it worked!

  31. rudyspeaks May 2, 2022 at 10:43 am #

    I always like JHK’s column but one quibble, about the term “the Left”, which extends to essays all over the internet. How do we include #1) the Democratic Party, and #2) the American MSM as “Left”… in any way at all? Plunk the Democratic Party into any modern nation in Europe, Japan, Australia, flogging their Neo-lib agenda (private, expensive, 2nd-rate Medical Care, lifetime debt for college grads [but no actual “learning”], limitless War Spending, etc.) and they’d be, at best, Center-right. When did the “Left” get so much affection for Spy Agencies, censorship? The MSM is 5 groups of Billionaires, Comcast and 4 Right-wing families (Murdoches, Luces, Disneys and Redstones). And what have these Bolsheviks fed us? Every war in my lifetime has started with US government lies which this media has AMPLIFIED, not “examined”, “discussed”, or “evaluated”. They gave Trump BILLIONS of dollars worth of free publicity while “disappearing” the (inconvenient) Democratic front-runner, Sanders. “Identity Politics” is an evasion of class issues, which more accurately define “the Left”… the real Left (Caitlin Johnstone, Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, eg).

    • Wxtwxtr May 2, 2022 at 10:49 am #

      Simplest gauge of “Left”?

      ANYONE who favors a big.gang.guv any larger than “The Night Watchman State” of the minarchists.

      • megabeth May 2, 2022 at 11:21 am #

        Or Grover Norquist’s bathtub-sized federal government.

    • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 12:42 pm #

      Who funded the Communist Revolutions? The Bankers. The Capitalists. Money has no nation. Communism thus starts out as Capitalism with a mask on. It suddenly looks very different once the mask falls off.

      But in far flung lands, Communism got away from its managers, and reverted to other forms: Monarchy in North Korea. National Socialism (glorification of the Race/Nation) in China. Fascism (Civic or non-racial Nationalism) in Russia.

      In other words, in and of itself Communism is wholly negative, a giant philosophy of Grudge. It cannot last too long because of its emptiness. If the Capitalists don’t show up to claim what’s theirs, it reverts to earlier, more natural forms of government.

  32. Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 10:44 am #

    Evidence of the lying I speak of. It was Emma-Jo’s story.
    https://twitter.com/EmmaJoNYC/status/1520209898025455623?s=20&t=nHYRPGeyKUNXbKKyhqhq1w

  33. Wxtwxtr May 2, 2022 at 10:46 am #

    “… or worse …”
    A weird question just occurred to me:

    What if Hitler was cleaning out “the land of poets and philosophers” in the 1930’s and sending all those types of people to camp?

    Should we be sympathetic? To whom?

    Ominous Parallels?

    • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 12:44 pm #

      Some artists and philosophers supported him – even eminent ones. You’re not supposed to know that, or if knowing, say it aloud.

      • benr May 2, 2022 at 9:15 pm #

        @jarek

        Given enough time a good propaganda program can get average people to believe all sorts of things even when it might actually be detrimental to their health, sanity and over all well being.

        • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 10:09 pm #

          Yeah, saving one’s nation, Western Civilization, and the White race was always going to be detrimental to Europeans. Why didn’t they understand that?

  34. Zoltar May 2, 2022 at 10:46 am #

    In the days immediately following Election Day 2020 I collected a large file of links to documentation of the massive ballot fraud that “elected” Biden as president. Unsurprisingly, nearly all of them have been disappeared down the official memory hole in the months since the Dems took power. I also downloaded and saved a copy of the three-part Navarro report, which contains much of the same material, though my liberal friends, of course, assert that he is not a reliable source of information.
    This week marks the release of Dinesh D’Souza’s film 2000 Mules, which exhaustively documents hundreds of instances of vote tampering which took place in highly coordinated fashion on the night of November 3, 2020.
    But, as we have seen with Architects & Engineers for 911 Truth, liberals’ grip on “reality” remains firm. Can getting trounced in the midterm elections make a difference? I guess we’ll see, if they don’t manage to kill us all with a nuclear war first.

    • Disaffected May 2, 2022 at 11:02 am #

      Yep. I’ve been pounding this drum over and over. Information/disinformation is all so totally malleable these days that it’s essentially worthless, whether it’s true or not. “Truth” is whatever the loudest megaphone says it is these days, and guess who’s got the loudest megaphone?

    • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 12:48 pm #

      When is some artist going to do a performance piece with pizza boxes and windows? The audience could be cast as hostile cops or magas, with the window coverers sneering at them as they work. They do not deserve to see the sacred work of cheating being done within by the Hidden Figures (often large Black women).

      • TaxDonkey May 5, 2022 at 12:30 am #

        sounds like a fun side-project for you between now and the election!

    • Night Owl May 3, 2022 at 7:44 am #

      Even Waybackmachine has been taken over.

      They have been caught on multiple occasions now removing content that would be politically disadvantageous to team globocap.

  35. erik May 2, 2022 at 10:48 am #

    An employee of mine, a black man and a Navy vet who served on the Carl Vinson during Gulf War #2, was talking to me recently and said “Progressive” was just anodyne camouflage for “Communist”, that progressives at their emotional core are communists who, if they really got a firm grip on power, would take it all way, even to Gulags. I think he nailed it.

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    • JohnAZ May 2, 2022 at 11:03 am #

      It is what is happening.

      Communist = believing in world control by the WEF NWO.

      That about sums it up.

      Communist also ties into the real power in the world now,

      The Mob.

      Automate enough manufacturing, remove enough jobs with the computer and AI, and what is left?

      The Mob!

      • Night Owl May 3, 2022 at 7:43 am #

        That is more or less what is happening.

        And now they are working in overdrive to remove your ability to even speak about what they are doing.

        The Obama speech a few days ago was coordinated to occur right before Joe-Joe announced the new Ministry of Truth.

    • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

      Liberalism was always moving and morphing, the goal posts being ever pushed back as per “moveon.org” and other such groups.

      As Commander Rockwell said, Liberalism is Communism’s pimping little sister.

      • bluedog May 2, 2022 at 4:23 pm #

        Think you are a little off, for capitalism is the pimping sister of the right/communism and always has been, which goes clear back to the forming of the country and taken from the system they just fought to get away from, the Founding Fathers reared up in underneath the English form of government simply didn’t know any other so followed their failed system right up to Hamilton stating that at the center of the Treasury he would place a group of wealthy individuals to build the factories create trade ETC and of course they were the bankers.

        • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 4:41 pm #

          Why “right/communism”? You think the right and communism are the same? I agree in the sense that the “right” or conservatism conserves nothing and that Capitalism/Communism are one system ultimately, one coin with Capitalism being the heads.

          The ultimate system will have elements of both: Capitalism for them. Communism for the masses.

          My equation is reduced to the lowest common denominators, the most basic factors. Your equation is intermediate and needs more reduction.

  36. Night Owl May 2, 2022 at 10:54 am #

    “U.K. – A silent undetectable new heart condition that the NHS will be unable to diagnose or treat will kill 40,000 over the next few years.”

    https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1520749633156354055?cxt=HHwWjsC4yf3u5JoqAAAA

    Good luck to the double and triple vaxed. You are going to need it.

    • GreenAlba May 2, 2022 at 12:11 pm #

      And someone down that Twitter conversation posted this ‘crumb trail’:

      https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/017393-2021

      My own view, being double-vaxxed, is that a heart attack would be infinitely preferable to the transhumanist agenda they’ve got planned further down the line. Since I would have been triple-doused in spike protein and lipid nano-particles anyway from my husband’s shots, it probably wouldn’t even have made any difference if I hadn’t been vaxxed myself.

      An utterly evil shitshow.

      Don’t know if you saw this from MCM – they’re ramping up the ‘unvaccinated as disease vectors’ propaganda again:

      https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/its-kristallnacht-again-as-our-free?s=r

      There’s a scientific rebuttal in there from Byram Bridle.

      • Night Owl May 2, 2022 at 2:28 pm #

        Thanks for that, GA.

        About the future — yes I understand. One wonders if the world will be worth living in, if these people are successful.

        • GreenAlba May 2, 2022 at 5:49 pm #

          One of the interesting things MCM mentioned in his excellent interview with the Corona Ausschuss team recently was that they must have planned all sorts of spurious ‘research’ for years before covid in order to have all those articles that are appearing in the MSM about the endless list of things that can give you a heart attack, stroke (or cancer, or dementia, I’ve noticed as well). So they must have known the whole spectrum of vaxx ‘side’ effects years ago. The detailed planning that went into this is mind boggling.

          Some of the ‘look at this thing that can give you a heart attack’ articles are just stupid, of course, but many claim to be based on ‘studies’ (it’s like reading The Onion or The Daily Mash sometimes).

      • spaingaroo May 3, 2022 at 12:55 am #

        Nice, a cool 3 billion pounds, oh and the left over 185 million. Almost slipped my mind, like pocket change of course.

        II.1.4) Short description
        NHS Framework Agreement for the supply of Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs) for the NHS in England. Also known as Novel Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs).Period of Framework: 01/11/2021 – 31/04/2024 with an option to extend (at the Authority’s discretion) for a further period (or periods) up to a total of 12 months (i.e. total possible framework duration of 41 months)All documents can be found at https://health.atamis.co.uk/. Atamis Reference Number: C40079

        two.1.5) Estimated total valueII.1.5) Estimated total value
        Value excluding VAT: £3,185,000,000

        two.1.6) Information about lotsII.1.6) Information about lots
        This contract is divided into lots: No

        two.2) DescriptionII.2) Description

        • spaingaroo May 3, 2022 at 12:57 am #

          one has to wonder if that could be a typo, surely it’s ‘only’ 3 million pounds.

          • GreenAlba May 3, 2022 at 9:29 am #

            The NHS is a behemoth, and effectively a monopsony. So billions wouldn’t surprise me.

            I mentioned previously that the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) was the recipient of almost £1 billion from Bill Gates, while the ‘vaccines’ were being pushed through. It was also observed during a board meeting (observable online by the public) that they, at the time of the meeting, had £15m of funds they couldn’t find a use for. At the same time, FOI requests by the public for evidence that the 2000+ vaxx-related deaths on the MHRA’s own Yellow Card system (like VAERS) were not caused by the ‘vaccines’ are being regularly stonewalled.

            The two reasons given are that (a) correlation does not mean causation (except, of course, that when it comes to PCR tests and deaths it does), and (b) it would cost £600 a pop to carry out autopsies, so of course they ‘can’t’. And that’s after the health authorities throwing billions down the toilet with their test and trace systems that didn’t work even on their own terms.

    • Redneck Liberal May 2, 2022 at 6:36 pm #

      The bald fact is that most who have heart disease (particularly infarction) have no idea until they have that first – often last – heart attack. This is not news.

      • GreenAlba May 2, 2022 at 7:28 pm #

        It is when you’re 25. Or 10.

          • GreenAlba May 2, 2022 at 9:02 pm #

            Is that what killed 644 fit and healthy athletes? Diabetes?

            https://goodsciencing.com/covid/athletes-suffer-cardiac-arrest-die-after-covid-shot/

            It’ll hit 1000 collapses by next week.

            I wonder what keeps you going.

          • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 11:33 pm #

            He’s in such denial that trying to work his way out might give HIM a heart attack. Plus, he’s all boosted up, you can bet.

            If not, then he’s a big fucking hypocrite.

        • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 11:32 pm #

          Yeah I recall my highschool buddies collapsing from strokes and heart attacks all the time back in the day. LOL.

          • Night Owl May 3, 2022 at 7:39 am #

            It happens all the time, Mary.

            All normal.

            LOL.

          • GreenAlba May 3, 2022 at 9:38 am #

            The other thing I’ve noticed, in addition to the ‘things that cause heart attacks’ articles, is lots of articles about things that happened just before covid – two people in the same family – or a young couple – both getting weird cancers within weeks or months of one another. Life-altering horrors like sepsis-induced amputations.

            Always in the few years before covid, so that we won’t be surprised by the current stories. Why report them years after the event, one wonders (or rather one doesn’t).

          • MaryQueen May 4, 2022 at 8:35 pm #

            They are as sneaky as it gets, GA.

  37. bluedog May 2, 2022 at 11:03 am #

    And if the democrats loose the congress in the midterm and the republicans take over nothing will change any more than Reagan’s trickle down scam as they all followed the script laid out before them.

    I wouldn’t hold my breath that things will change by the courts because they too are part of the problems they will simply fade into the sunset like Trump with the Clinton’s “oh they have suffered enough” beside they are my buddies.

    It reminds of what Jefferson said “that the American people would become slaves in the country that their grandfathers fought for” and we are almost there regardless of who’s in the Oval Office or the congress. Now I see the good republican congress member from Ill. is going to enter a resolution to send American troops to Ukraine that ought to be a winner for I hope he’s going to send a few shipments of body bags along with them for Russia is not Iraq or Nam or Afghanistan..

    • Paula D May 2, 2022 at 11:15 am #

      Which one? I have a Rep congressman who is dumb as a rock.

      • bluedog May 2, 2022 at 4:11 pm #

        Kinzinger is the man you want.

    • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 1:10 pm #

      Yes, some people know about the danger the bankers pose. And others, about the danger posed by Blacks. Usually one type of person only knows about one or the other of these.

      Jefferson knew about both. And he didn’t try to reduce the Black problem to the Banker problem as in conservatism’s, “They are trying to divide us”. They are making it much worse of course, but we were always divided. The potential for race war was always there as Jefferson said and predicted. He also predicted the Civil War. He was right about that….

      • thwack May 2, 2022 at 8:43 pm #

        Jefferson knew about both.

        *****************

        Thomas Jefferson was raping 14 year old girls.

        • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 10:11 pm #

          Black ones? Or White ones that he had married?

          Is there even a word for rape in Black African languages? How about Black English?

  38. Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 11:06 am #

    My intuition tells me this is exactly what happened.

    “They had to get Orange Man out of the way so they could kick off this pre planned war.”

    https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1520880846290489344?s=20&t=uM_c2Qz_abQF7bJ3pecUxA

    • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 11:34 pm #

      Orange man is not a savior. Repeat and try to understand.

      • TaxDonkey May 5, 2022 at 12:49 am #

        I still have hopes that a Trump 2.0 character will come along for 2024. For entertainment purposes, if nothing else. Trump is from yesteryear. He ripped down the curtain and showed us what was there. He’s done what he could do. Time for some new blood. This all assumes that we have some semblance of a functioning system by then.

  39. Ishabaka May 2, 2022 at 11:18 am #

    Never in history have so few struggled so hard to suppress the speech of so many.

    • TaxDonkey May 5, 2022 at 12:50 am #

      This has been happening forever, but they’ve got some interesting tools nowadays.

  40. 100th Avatar May 2, 2022 at 11:49 am #

    Excellent piece today

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    • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 11:34 pm #

      I thought so, too.

  41. 100th Avatar May 2, 2022 at 12:07 pm #

    A lot of news about speech, but the war is over thoughts.

    Controlling the way one thinks about things by controlling/limiting what they can say about things.

    It is improper to say or express certain things = it is improper to think this way about these things.

    Be mindful of the endgame: forming your thoughts and opinions. Re-educating.

    The schools from elementary to university have been conquered. The youth programmed or reprogrammed.

    The legacy generations, raised in an era of free expression are not required to have their opinions changed so much as silenced.

    They’re on their way out, and gaslighting them until acquiescence seems to be the preferred conversion approach. Ostracized, silenced, shamed.

    How dare you believe men cannot carry a fetus!
    How dare you believe that our elections are not free, open, and legitimate?
    How dare you believe that Biden Inc. Is a crime syndicate?
    How dare you believe that lax policing, prosecuting, and punishment leads to societal deterioration?
    And on
    And on

    And remember who it is.
    It’s not that antifa clown, that blm goon, that trans man with a baby bump.

    It is who it always is
    The rich and powerful
    It’s always the money
    Always

    • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 1:13 pm #

      In olden days, merchants didn’t rule. The higher caste, the Kshatriyas or Warriors did. From them came the nobles, and from the nobles the king.

      In this Iron Age, the Merchants rule, sometimes via their pawns, the Sudras (Workers) as in Communism or “Democracy”.

      • elysianfield May 2, 2022 at 6:26 pm #

        ” The higher caste, the Kshatriyas or Warriors did.”

        Jarek,
        You misspelled “Kardashians”….

      • SpeedyBB May 3, 2022 at 3:06 am #

        Feudal Japan, a “closed society” if ever there was one, had four fixed classes, in order of political subordination. They were categorized by the following abbreviations:

        SHI = “buSHIdo”, the warrior class, as rulers
        NO = “NOgyo”, the farming class, as sustainers of life
        KO = “KOgyo”, the artisans, tinkering and crafting to keep the [humble] infrastructure going
        SHO = “SHObai”, the traders, or business class, firmly at the bottom. Making a lot of money and especially flashing it around was considered extremely impolite.

        Samurai would occasionally test the sharpness of their swords by cutting down a passerby – the more flamboyant, the better.

        After the Pacific War, and the installation of “Dugout Doug” MacArthur as Emperor, this was neatly flipped around. Business reigns supreme, and the political servants in the Diet and civil service do the bidding of the mighty conglomerates.

        Artisans are a vanishing breed. Try and find a skilled carpenter. Then try not to faint when you see what you have to pay him.

        Who wants to be a farmer? Hundreds of deserted farming villages – kids want to go work in a factory in Osaka, live six in a room and survive on packaged noodles. The farmers are, however, extremely coddled by a [highly protectionist] government, and live very well, as they still supply the nutrition of the nation.

        The warrior class? A joke, except in manga. There is no real military, just a “self-defense force”. Police are pussycats and inevitably defer to yakuza, unless the heat is on.

        The military fucked up profoundly going to war against Uncle Sam, and the Japanese, being an extremely practical people, did not forgive them for their delusions and hubris. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who had studied in the USA, commented about the oncoming war, “You had better be ready to fight all the way to the White House”.

        • Jarek May 3, 2022 at 1:25 pm #

          Testing their swords on peasants? Very evil. Lord Rama of the Axe incarnated to destroy the warrior caste when it went bad.

          Some of the Samurai adopted Zen Buddhism and were much better than that.

        • Jarek May 3, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

          But putting merchants at the bottom is very wise. They tend to become parasites and tyrants. But I notice no Brahmin or Intellectual/Priestly class. That’s not good.

          Even Europe’s simple Christian version of the Aryan system had it: Those who fight. Those who work. Those who pray.

          • SpeedyBB May 6, 2022 at 1:32 am #

            What I assume is that those inhabiting the Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines were “set aside” from the feudal ranking. Quite likely the priests, nuns and acolytes were not supposed to involve themselves in such worldly affairs. As I recall from my studies, they did not meddle in politics the way the Roman church did, from its foundation.

  42. Prospero May 2, 2022 at 12:20 pm #

    I just went to the Pfizer website and downloaded this charming little document: “EUA Fact sheet for Recipients – 12 years and over – Pfizer-B.” This document reveals some of the known dangers connected to COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine which are claimed to prevent Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2.

    Over two dozen side effects are listed, including, “Myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the lining outside the heart) have occurred in some people who have received the vaccine, more commonly in males under 40 years of age than among females and older males. In most of these people, symptoms began within a few days following receipt of the second dose of vaccine.”

    Are the reciepents of these experimental drugs actually given this disclosure before beginning a series of injections? My guess is they know nothing about these dangers.

    Oh, here’s the best part: “WHAT IF I DECIDE NOT TO GET COMIRNATY (COVID-19 VACCINE, mRNA) OR THE PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 VACCINE?

    Under the EUA, it is your choice to receive or not receive the vaccine. Should you decide not to receive it, it will not change your standard medical care.”

    • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 11:36 pm #

      Even when these insidious monsters admit it (Pfizer, CDC, FDA, etc) idiots like Redneck Libtard still believe them.

      Unfortunately, there is no cure for the culted except being de-culted which is nearly impossible.

      • Night Owl May 3, 2022 at 7:36 am #

        Notice he will never touch the subject.

        A hardened leftist supports one of the most criminal pharma companies in world history.

        LOL.

        • MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 6:40 pm #

          It is truly pathetic.

  43. BackRowHeckler May 2, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

    “We must all do our part to defeat Russia. Fellow Europeans, you will be asked to make sacrifices … take fewer showers or no showers at all, do not wash your clothes but air them out, park your automobile and walk to your destination, turn the heat off at your house, switch off the lights … this is just a few of the things we must do to send a strong message to Putin.”-Franz Timnermans, EU Commission on Energy

    • 100th Avatar May 2, 2022 at 12:45 pm #

      I’m sure yachts will be dry-docked.
      Private jets hangar’d
      Coastal retreats boarded up.
      Pied a terres abandoned.
      Lavish parties canceled

      • BackRowHeckler May 2, 2022 at 12:54 pm #

        Yeah, I watched some video taken outside EU headquarters, plenty of Mercedes and BMW limos pulling up and departing.

        • Night Owl May 3, 2022 at 7:35 am #

          I was talking to our neighbor the other day and he commented that the local Green party chapter had an activist driving around and putting up Wahlplakate (election posters).

          They were doing so out of the back of a 500+ hp Porsche Cayenne Turbo. 🙂

      • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 11:36 pm #

        Hahahahahaha! Yes, I am sure as well.

    • Beryl of Oyl May 2, 2022 at 1:11 pm #

      Some Europeans don’t need to be asked not to bathe.

      • Ron Anselmo May 4, 2022 at 4:22 pm #

        The French.

    • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 1:16 pm #

      The prevailing Westerlies will take the stink all the way to Russia. A gas attack! Good thinking, Oceania.

      Is the fake war against Putin a real war against us? Is Putin in on the game? Forget me too, the question is Xi too?

      • TaxDonkey May 5, 2022 at 12:56 am #

        why is this a fake war on Putin? Do they not hate him like no other?

  44. fuzzypom May 2, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

    https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/oh-ok-its-over?s=r

    Amos [KJV 5:24] promised: “Let judgment run down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.” Jesus said, Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth; I did not come to bring peace but a sword [NKJV: Matthew 10:34-39].

  45. fuzzypom May 2, 2022 at 12:45 pm #

    https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-05-01-blackrock-vanguard-controlling-america-centralized-food-production.html

    The next phase of the Great Reset!

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    • malthuss May 2, 2022 at 12:58 pm #

      Great? like the ‘great’ depression?

      more like the big depopulation.

    • SpeedyBB May 3, 2022 at 3:15 am #

      Thanks loads for that linky, fuzzypom. It’s a keeper.

  46. malthuss May 2, 2022 at 12:58 pm #

    T I M E
    Time magazine is now owned by tech billionaire Marc Benioff (Salesforce) who is a trustee at the Davos WEF, along with fellow billionaires Larry Fink (BlackRock) and David Rubenstein (Carlyle).

    All are promoting the elitist “great reset” agenda, described by atheist/humanist Yuval Harari of the WEF.
    Search for his video interviews.

    Fink and Rubenstein are also directors at the New York CFR, and Benioff is a member.

    The CFR has dominated US policy since WW2, and nearly every key player on the “Biden team” is a CFR member, including the secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Commerce and Homeland Security. Also the CIA director, Fed chairman, UN ambassador, and dozens more.

    • Bilejones May 2, 2022 at 4:39 pm #

      No other commonality that you perceive?

    • workingclasshero May 3, 2022 at 1:49 am #

      It’s easy to notice that the COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS and the ATLANTIC COUNCIL which have great power in the Federal govt National Security state are never mentioned except maybe rarely on Fox News and nowhere else since forever.

  47. trypillian May 2, 2022 at 1:06 pm #

    James is concerned about future food supply in the good old USA. The solution is development of priority purchases via the breadbasket of Europe – Ukraine. The prolific agricultural country however is an anathema to the Scribe. The methodology is straightforward; a ‘weapons for wheat’ protocol. In exchange for howitzers you will be rewarded with a portion of the priceless harvest. Bon appetite.

    • malthuss May 2, 2022 at 3:25 pm #

      The solution is ending immigration to USA.
      And no more visitors. Green curtain.

      • KesaAnna May 2, 2022 at 4:04 pm #

        It’s a lot easier these days to say that I’ll never apologize for the Berlin Wall.

    • elysianfield May 2, 2022 at 6:24 pm #

      Tripillian,
      You assume that the current shot callers want to keep us fed. There is no solution if those that control the country do not want there to be one.

  48. Roundball Shaman May 2, 2022 at 1:16 pm #

    “The truth is that everything the Left stands for these days is some kind of a hustle…”

    It’s not just the Left. It is EVERYTHING that is a hustle. Every place you turn today.

    The Mass State Corporate Media. The Medical Mafia. The Energy industry. Organized religion. Professional sports. Our laughingly-named Public Servants. ‘Our Heroes’… who are neither Ours not are they Heroes based upon who and what They are really serving
    (but you gotta love the imaginative branding, right?). The ‘Federal Reserve’ which many have pointed out are NOT Federal and they HAVE NO reserves. (But they do have magic rabbit’s hat from which they pull out not rabbits but an endless supply of fake money).
    Globalist Corporations. The Public Education Indoctrination Center System. Big Harm-ah Phar-ma.

    All of these and more have degenerated into nothing but open hustles upon We the People. And they have been for a long time now.

    It’s SUCH a great idea for us now to have a National Department of Fatherland Disinformation Clearinghouse and Mass Dispersion Center and Foot-In-Your-Face-Planting Office filled with career grifters who study Bernays-as-god and who will tell us WHAT and HOW to think and importantly what NOT TO THINK ABOUT – EVER. We are so lucky so have such dedicated and caring individuals looking out for our well-being. What did we ever do to deserve such wonderful treatment!?

    Note: For the benefit of the hard-working Public Servants of the National Department of Fatherland Disinformation Clearinghouse and Mass Dispersion Center and Foot-In-Your-Face-Planting Office who are no doubt reviewing these words in between bites of donuts and sips of designer coffee… . The words above were only said in jest and they are not serious points that outline horrible abuses and attacks upon We the People. No further intervention by Your Esteemed Office is necessary. And if ‘Jesting’ is no longer appropriate or legal, you may rest assured that full compliance will be immediately forthcoming without delay.

    But there is a question: WHICH WAY do we SALUTE YOU!? And with WHICH ARM?

    (Now, back to those donuts…heroes…)

    • Bilejones May 2, 2022 at 4:37 pm #

      I agree.
      The line I’ve been using is that we live in an Empire of Lies.
      There is no Institution I know of in the West that isn’t corrupt to the core.

    • Ron Anselmo May 3, 2022 at 2:00 am #

      RS – always look forward to your posts. This one – close to my heart – in particular – deserves comment. Years ago, I came to the very same conclusion that everything is a hustle, a racket & most of all – predatory – everything.

      As many people may or may not be aware – the Cape Buffalo is the only animal that not only defends its herd, standing against all predators, but many times takes the fight to them.

      I’ve taken to putting the initials CFB behind my name in all correspondence – personal & official. Over 10 years or so, and countless correspondence to doctors, lawyers, accountants, writers, friends, colleagues & relatives – exactly two people have questioned the initials.

      The answer goes like this: Based on the characteristics above regarding Cape Buffaloes and their fierce determination in taking on all predators, CB stands for Cape Buffalo. CFB? The even more recalcitrant Cape Fuckin’ Buffalo.

      In recognition of blatant acts against predatory enterprises, I’ve even taken to giving honorary certificates to “Cape Buffaloes”, attesting to their indomitable spirit. You’ve earned one today CFB, keep it up my friend.

  49. elysianfield May 2, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

    Kesa,
    OK…I’m one hour into “Come and See”. My primary takeaway at this point is the trite and superficial use of metaphor…especially the totally transparent and obvious use of the stork in the forest to represent
    the Joint Meeting Of The All-Russia Central Executive Committee, The Moscow Soviet, The Moscow Committee Of The Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), The All-Russia Central Council Of Trade Unions, Moscow Trade Unions And Factory Committees To Mark The Founding Of The Communist International…Lenin, of course. March 6, 1919…frankly a two year old could see that one coming.

    The succubus in the forest “Gailina”, was not a metaphor, of course…just a succubus.

    • KesaAnna May 2, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

      I often don’t get your humor.

      Not a criticism , just a fact.

      I have been told before that I’m literal – minded to the point of childlike naivety or gullibility ,
      Or , simply , literal – minded to the point of stupidity.

      Case in point ;

      like the 14 year old boy , it never occurred to me that the recon plane would take any interest in two boys in a field , armed or not.

      It’s two boys in a field , poorly armed. Surely the recon plane is more interested in things like tank divisions ?

      As much as I have studied that sort of thing , that degree of total and all – consuming ruthlessness always comes as a shock to me.

      That the recon plane would radio in ; ” Partisan activity in this area ! ” and send in the paramilitary police death squads, never occurred to me until it happened.

      Anyway ,

      Well , no sooner had I proffered it as the greatest war movie of all time than I regretted doing so.

      The cultural context is entirely Eastern.

      Surely that’s going to be a significant handicap for a Westerner ?

      For example , no matter what German troops do in this movie , I still see them as MINE.

      So they did some really evil shit ?

      They are still my boys.

      I can no more disavow them than I can slit my own throat.

      Likewise , after the war the Russians were our best buddies against the West for 50 years.

      So I can strongly emotionally relate to the Russians too.

      So I guess the emotional impact is a great deal different for me than what it would be for a Westerner?

      Referring back to Dissafected’s recommendation of ” The Thin Red Line ” by way of contrast ,

      I’m sure it’s a very good movie , but the only way I can relate to it is to wish the U.S. Army would get beaten.

      The only U.S. troops I have ever been able to relate to are —

      The Vietnam U.S. Army .

      Custer’s command

      The Confederate Army.

      Otherwise U.S. troops leave me cold . I can’t relate.

      Not a total loss I guess. I always wondered what that gun was the boy dug up. I don’t recognize it.

      Looks like a primitive version of an American BAR , or a proto – SKS.

      Just because I’m a military science nut , doesn’t mean I’m a gun fancier .

      Clearly you and Blackbird know a hell of a lot more about small arms than I do.

      • rube-i-con May 2, 2022 at 7:22 pm #

        so you must be fluent in german? specifically, the vocabulary of east germany.

        • KesaAnna May 2, 2022 at 10:40 pm #

          Piss – poor actually.

          My parents are Americans , we spoke English at home , I was home – schooled then , we left when I was ten , and in these parts of the States you encounter German about as often as you encounter Turkish.

          Not a novel circumstance , at least for me.

          I once worked in a factory for five years where about 90% of the work force was Mexicans who spoke very little , or no , English.

          In another factory , I once had a Vietnamese assistant , for about a year , who spoke maybe four or five words of English at most ?

          Best I reckon , the two closest friends I ever had were dogs.
          Some folks think dogs understand some degree of human talk , my opinion is the average dog MAYBE understands three or four words at most.

          Anyway , in contrast , for ten years on a near weekly basis I wrote ten page or more letters to a person I thought was a friend. Turned out I was wrong.

          Some guy once said , ” The most important things cannot be put into words. ”

          That seems to fit my experience.

          Or , it turns out that the people you could hypothetically have 16 hour heart – to – heart talks with never the less might as well be on Mars,

          And the people you do love deeply and dearly , it seems to have scarcely anything to do with words.

          The second part ,

          ” … specifically, the vocabulary of east germany. ”

          I’m not entirely sure what you mean.

          My guess as to what you mean , could amount to a book that proves never the less to reflect just as derogatorily on the United States as it would on East Germany.

          For example ,

          The East German narrative regarding the Nazis was if anything even more scathing , dogmatic , heavy – handed , two – dimensional as the most grossly simplistic and partisan anti – Nazi rhetoric in the West .

          Which is downright bizarre , if you know even the least background on the subject.

          When the Nazis took power in Germany in 1934 , Stalin got the idea that making a deal with the Nazis might be more advantageous than making a deal with the British / French / American Capitalists.

          So the order went out from Comintern to the German Communist Party that they should cooperate with the Nazis.

          To many German Communists that was tantamount to volunteering for a concentration camp and a bullet in the back of the head !

          And in most such cases , that is exactly what it did in fact amount to .

          Fast – Forward 15 years.

          Near as I can tell , most of the top leadership of East Germany turned out to be the people who survived the Nazi era because they followed orders , ratted out their fellow Communists who didn’t follow that order , AND COLLABORATED WITH THE GESTAPO.

          The God so many of them don’t believe in never the less seems to have a really fucking weird sense of humor.

          I don’t suppose I really need to point out to you that despite their strident and virulent pinko Communist Snowflake anti – Nazi rhetoric ,

          These are the outfits and the iconography they pick out for themselves ;

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJpxt3T1XBM

          And haven’t a clue apparently how that is going to look even to a completely uninformed Western 5 year old ?

          Basically , their vocabulary was as deceptive , as convoluted , as clueless , or as bizarre as American vocabulary by any measure or metric , in any context.

          A few days back someone mentioned , ” Zen , and the art of motorcycle maintenance. ”

          I can’t get past the title without rolling my eyes .

          I have met a few East Asian Buddhists.

          And without exception they would all tell you matter – of – factly in all of two minutes that theirs is a religion , of the polytheistic persuasion.

          Westerners calling themselves Buddhists ?

          I haven’t the faintest fucking clue what they are talking about , Robert Persig included , except that I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have a fucking thing to do with Japan , China , Thailand , or Seven Years in Tibet.

          Motorcycles ?

          Two wheels should be cheaper than four .

          Makes sense , doesn’t it ???

          Well , East Germany produced motor scooters in precisely that spirit , and the Soviet Union produced motor cycles according to precisely that premise .

          But it turns out Germans and Russians alike , wanted grossly over – priced two wheeled phallic symbols instead.

          Granted , I wasn’t around for late 1960’s – early 1970’s motorcycle culture , but I would guess it was pretty much the same in old Norman Rockwell America ,

          as it was among our poor benighted enslaved masses yearning to breath free .

          Piss on a cheap two wheeled vehicle you can realistically fix yourself.

          I don’t get the impression that Robert Persig was some kind of Bolshevik Puritan.

          He strikes me as typical snotty upper class , or would – be upper class , snob.

      • elysianfield May 2, 2022 at 10:39 pm #

        Kesa,
        OK, finished the flick. The usual excesses. Germans are no worse than any other group. Most of them are human, and all nationalities are prone, during times of extreme stress, to any outrage you might conjure.

        Saw a German Einsatzgroup member shooting at the burning church with a 1917 Enfield…improbable.

  50. tlauria May 2, 2022 at 3:05 pm #

    Jim, I wouldn’t be so sure of the Dems losing anything this November if the voting systems used aren’t changed.

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  51. Jarek May 2, 2022 at 4:00 pm #

    Disney employees protest against groomer culture at the company.

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

  52. GreenAlba May 2, 2022 at 4:03 pm #

    A light-hearted (?) song to start the week – Biden, Johnson, the climate and the virus.

    The Maybe Song (Dominic Frisby).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7233qDjO0xw

    • KesaAnna May 2, 2022 at 4:22 pm #

      I wonder what you sound like ?

      Funny song , but seriously I have never encountered an accent that grates on my nerves more.

      Some Scots I have encountered , though , sound like they don’t live within ten thousand miles of England.

      Indeed , they sound like they are speaking Finnish , Icelandic , or some such crazy shit . Don’t even recognize it as English in any accent.

      That’s why I wonder.

      • GreenAlba May 2, 2022 at 5:10 pm #

        I sound like an East coast lowland Scot who’s spent a lot of time in England (mostly the north-east). So, not like someone from Glasgow and not remotely like Dominic Frisby. 🙂

        • GreenAlba May 2, 2022 at 5:26 pm #

          I have a pretty good ear for accents, which probably helped when I was learning French. My parents were from Glasgow and we moved to northern England when I was four, so I started school in England. The kids made fun of my accent the first day, so by day 2 I spoke with the local accent like the best of them. But when I went home I had to speak with a Scottish accent or it annoyed my mother. So I spent all my school years bi-dialectal. Now my English friends who used to know me with a northern English accent have to put up with me speaking with a Scottish accent, because enough is enough.

          • JohnAZ May 2, 2022 at 10:31 pm #

            Blow their minds, GA

            Speak in Gaelic.

          • GreenAlba May 3, 2022 at 9:50 am #

            That would blow my mind too, JAZ – I know about two words, plus being able to recognise a handful of place names.

          • GreenAlba May 3, 2022 at 9:57 am #

            For the record, the ugliest accent I’ve ever heard is Justin Trudeau speaking French. It shocked me, because he speaks what sounds to me like pretty generic Canadian English (although I’m unfamiliar with any wider selection of Canadian English accents).

            So I was expecting, with him being a toff, that his French might sound more like European metropolitan French (although I realise it wouldn’t really work like that). But his French accent is just horrible.

            It didn’t help, of course, that in the selection I was listening to, he was calling the truckers and their supporters racist, misogynist science deniers and asking whether ‘we’ should tolerate ‘these people’ taking up space. That’s a bit like looking at a picture of someone you already know is a serial killer and observing that they have the face of a serial killer!

        • Redneck Liberal May 2, 2022 at 6:24 pm #

          No, Frisby sounds so West London.

    • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 7:18 pm #

      Try Scary Poppins (credit to Mary)

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLX2_9E79z0

      • GreenAlba May 2, 2022 at 7:39 pm #

        Yes, I heard that on the previous thread. ‘Really quite atrocious’ doesn’t quite cover it.

        So you’re getting a Ministry of Truth just as we’re getting the Online Safety Bill. Nothing weird about that …

        • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 10:12 pm #

          Seems a tad coordinated….

  53. Bilejones May 2, 2022 at 4:33 pm #

    Anybody who has an hour or so of driving time in the next 2 or 3 days could usefully spend it listening to this interview of Scott Ritter.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6HI_26aU-c

    • thwack May 2, 2022 at 8:37 pm #

      Is it true that Scott Ritter is a twice convicted child sex criminal?

      • thwack May 2, 2022 at 11:22 pm #

        Arrests and conviction for sex offences

        Ritter was the subject in two law enforcement sting operations in 2001.[30] He was charged in June 2001 with trying to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl.[31][32] He was charged with a misdemeanor crime of “attempted endangerment of the welfare of a child”.

        The charge was dismissed and the record was sealed after he completed six months of probation.[32][3] After this information was made public in early 2003, Ritter said that the timing of the leak was politically motivated in order to silence his opposition to the Bush administration’s push toward war with Iraq.[31][32][33]

        Ritter was arrested again in November 2009[34] over communications with a police decoy he met on an Internet chat site. Police said that he exposed himself, via a web camera, after the officer repeatedly identified himself as a 15-year-old girl.[16] Ritter said in his own testimony during the trial that he believed the other party was an adult acting out her fantasy.[2] The next month, Ritter waived his right to a preliminary hearing and was released on a $25,000 unsecured bail.

        Charges included “unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of a communications facility, corruption of minors, indecent exposure, possessing instruments of crime, criminal attempt and criminal solicitation”.[35] Ritter rejected a plea bargain and was found guilty of all but the criminal attempt count in a courtroom in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 2011.[16][36] In October 2011, he received a sentence of 1½ to 5½ years in prison.[37] He was sent to Laurel Highlands state prison in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in March 2012 and paroled in September 2014.[1]

        • MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 11:42 pm #

          I am completely convinced that just about everyone in high office of any sort today is a kiddie-diddler. If not that, then a rapist and a satanist or something. They are all suck sick fucks.

          Jeeez.

          • benr May 3, 2022 at 9:04 am #

            I have often heard everyone has dirt on them of some form so they can be controlled.
            When the power brokers don’t have enough dirt on someone, they do what they did to Trump and outsource it to get some.
            When they can’t manage, they go full bore crazy assault mode using the media and the court of public opinion.

        • Islander May 3, 2022 at 4:30 pm #

          Thwack, Mary Q and others:

          We went through this whole topic a few threads back.

          Weren’t you paying attention?

          Ritter lives with his wife and daughter; he paid his dues; he explained the circumstances–depression owing to the stress he was under as the US govt. sidelined him and pressured him when he said there were no WMDs in Iraq..

          I have little doubt that he was set up in one way or another.

          Give it a rest.

          Pay attention to what Ritter has to say about the current disaster.

          • MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 7:28 pm #

            Stop bossing people around, esp. if you don’t know what they know or don’t know, or read or haven’t read.

            “Give it a rest.”

            Nope, and I don’t take orders from you.

          • Blackbird May 3, 2022 at 8:31 pm #

            Because Ritter was wrong regarding appropriate relations with under-age girls, does not mean that he is wrong in his assessment of military matters.

            Don’t shoot the message because of the messenger.

          • Islander May 4, 2022 at 3:41 pm #

            “Stop bossing people around, esp. if you don’t know what they know or don’t know, or read or haven’t read. ”

            That is rich, coming from one of the most reactive and bossy individuals on this blog.

            Don’t think twice before hitting “send”!

          • MaryQueen May 4, 2022 at 8:41 pm #

            Islander, you are THE most reactionary person on this board.

            And the most defensive.

            But nice projection, there.

            And no I don’t shoot the messenger. I still listen to Scott Ritter’s interviews. But I think he’s a pedo and a scumbag.

          • Islander May 5, 2022 at 8:14 am #

            NB:

            “reactive” does not mean “reactionary.”

        • MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 7:28 pm #

          LOL Islander thinks kiddie diddlers just stop being kiddie diddlers ‘cuz they get caught.

          • Islander May 4, 2022 at 8:16 pm #

            Um no.

            AFAIK this episode is in the past.

            I am focused on current events and Ritter is an incredible military analyst.

            It is you who are obsessed with “kiddie diddling.”
            And with such “clever” formulations.

            In the reports that I have read Ritter did not “diddle” any “kiddie.”

          • MaryQueen May 4, 2022 at 8:44 pm #

            I think you might have that wrong.

            Ritter is obsessed with kiddie diddling.

            I, OTOH, detest it.

            Maybe you are on board with the new SCOTUS who goes easy on the pedos, or the trans agenda activists that long to add the “P” to the gender alphabet. That’s cool, you do you.

          • Islander May 5, 2022 at 8:17 am #

            “You are for this that and the other .You think this that and the other”

            Sounding more like Jarek all the time!

  54. Jarek May 2, 2022 at 4:36 pm #

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-lashes-russia-over-lavrovs-082530896.html

    Zelensky and the Gang thought that they were going to be able to skate because the Nazis are in control. But Lavrov says that Jews can be Nazis, just as Hitler was part Jewish. Uh oh!

    I’ve heard this one before and I don’t buy it. But what the hell, Truth left the premises a long time ago. It counteracts the Lie being promulgated that will let the real Kingpins walk away. De-Nazification includes them. How about Kerry, Nuland, etc?

    Certainly Israeli Jews can be National Socialists. That’s what the Likud Party is. That doesn’t make them “Nazis” in the proper noun sense, since the Nazis were a particular party in old Germany. Apparently some individual Jews were members of the actual German National Socialist Party as well.

    • KesaAnna May 2, 2022 at 4:56 pm #

      As I understand it , in many parts of ” free ” Europe now you can go to prison , or at the least have ” Felon ” stamped on your resume ever after , NOT for claiming the Holocaust didn’t happen ,

      but for merely disputing a number , or quibbling over a context.

      What could be murkier ?

      Granted , I have a bias from the get – go.

      But the more I study WW II , the murkier , and murkier , and murkier things get.

      Spin , which ever way you spin it , has been way too fucking successful.

      A literal Midas Touch or Monkey’s Paw – type outcome.

      • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 6:51 pm #

        Yes, in one famous Holocaust Trial, the lawyer was charged for trying to defend her client. When she protested, the Judge just said, Be that as it may, it doesn’t matter. The Truth is no defense.

        • malthuss May 2, 2022 at 11:36 pm #

          I had a book, ‘Fragments’.
          I assume you know about it.

          He was accused of anti semitism or holocaust denial.

          weird fiction book.

      • Paula D May 3, 2022 at 12:12 pm #

        Apparently Alice Walker was cancelled for saying something nice about David Icke and the charge against David Icke was that he is an antisemitic Holocaust denier because he said he thought that 4 millions Jews were murdered, not 6 million.
        I guess it’s like election results, you are not allowed to question the numbers.

    • elysianfield May 2, 2022 at 6:34 pm #

      ” Apparently some individual Jews were members of the actual German National Socialist Party as well.”

      Jarek,
      Hold my glass of crisp chardonnay…

      https://www.edpost.com/stories/the-naacp-was-founded-by-white-people-and-it-still-isnt-looking-out-for-black-families

      • thwack May 2, 2022 at 8:30 pm #

        correction,

        the NAACP was founded by Jews after the lynching of Leo Frank.

        *you’re welcome*

        • elysianfield May 2, 2022 at 10:33 pm #

          Thwack
          Founded by…Jews?

          What color were they…just askin’

    • Islander May 4, 2022 at 8:21 pm #

      A commenter in a thread at The Saker blog suggests that this comment by Lavrov—who thinks carefully before he opens his trap—is meant as a warning to the Israelis: “Watch it! We do not buy the “Jews cannot be Nazis” fairy tale.” If the Israelis are playing games with the Nazis, they are Nazis. And will be treated as such by the Russians.

  55. tom clark May 2, 2022 at 4:52 pm #

    Speaking of disinformation:

    http://www.birdsarentreal.com/collections/all-products

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    • KesaAnna May 2, 2022 at 5:20 pm #

      Not sure if it qualifies under the heading of disinformation.

      But , 99 out of a thousand people try to be funny , or fancy that they are.

      99 out of a thousand people simply aren’t. They have zero talent for it.

      That applies double or triple to ridicule. Ridicule was very effective in elementary , middle , or high school because it was brazen mendacity versus an intellect that simply lacks the experience to know better.

      But people get older , step in shit , wade through shit , slip on banana peels , see a never the less awesome and beautiful sunrise over a shitty trailer park or a grim Gulag ,

      and that shit simply doesn’t work on them anymore.

      Anyway , it’s certainly in that category.

    • Blackbird May 3, 2022 at 2:16 pm #

      “Birds Aren’t Real”

      Oops, looks like my cover’s been blown.

  56. PeteAtomic May 2, 2022 at 5:35 pm #

    We are living in an information environment designed by a mind similar to that of Joe Goebbels or the Soviet Information Bureau.

    We are living in a world where the Ghost of Kiev is valiantly flying around above the plucky sailors of Snake Island.

    You can almost see him now, maybe, yes– there he is! Flying solo in his F-35, steely blue eyes & slick backed blonde hair. He is doing loop-d-loops, Red Baron- styled. Can you see him?? The slant-eyed, Asiatic Russians are growling in disgust as one missile after another miss their target. It’s nothing for the Ghost of Kiev! He zigs and he zags. Whole groups of Russian Migs fall to his guns, or rockets, or just the artfulness of his flying. Wolfsangel on one side of his fighter, and the Black Sun on the other– the Ghost of Kiev is shooting down hordes of Russians.

    It’s on to Moscow, next! Yes! Can’t you see it?? The Ghost of Kiev is now flying above hundreds of Ukrainian Abrams & Leopard II tanks. No, thousands of tanks! They are in a flying wedge now, unstoppable. But first, we must take a city called Volgograd.

    Yes, Volgograd, it is! Nothing will stop us, as we spread western civilization to these mongrel undermen!

    Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!

    • Jarek May 2, 2022 at 6:34 pm #

      Since nazi now means everything, it means nothing too – or just people you don’t like. The Russians don’t like the Mafia running Ukraine. I can’t blame them for that, can you?

      • Disaffected May 3, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

        Yep. Nazi is just another word gone down the memory hole now. What’s the passage from Alice? My words mean exactly what I say they mean, no more, no less?

  57. rube-i-con May 2, 2022 at 6:08 pm #

    JHK’s been wrong about so many things, makes me feel sick with worry he’s wrong about biden being convicted & removed come January.

    Or that the Stupidcrats will lose the mid-terms.

    They’re the psychopathic party of Cain (who killed Abel) & won’t hesitate to openly steal the latter.

    If they realise they can’t do so this time ’round, they’ll create a need to change the rules to ‘save our democracy’ and ensure they stay in power.

    • Redneck Liberal May 2, 2022 at 6:18 pm #

      “JHK’s been wrong about so many things, makes me feel sick with worry he’s wrong about biden being convicted & removed come January.

      Yes. I recall his demise has been predicted more than several times. It starts to read like Mike Pillow’s constant predictions of Trump’s re-instatement, huh.

      As to the Crazies in the GOP taking the House and/or Senate in November, if that DOES happen, will you guys quit complaining that 2020 was ‘stolen’? I mean, if ‘they’ couild do it then, ‘they’ could do it again, surely.

      • rube-i-con May 2, 2022 at 7:18 pm #

        lol so the crazies are on the right

        as the media love to say: “the far right”

        you sound like one of Brutus’ honourable men

        • benr May 3, 2022 at 9:08 am #

          Funny how the real crazies never understand that they are actually bat shot crazy.
          Normal thoughts, beliefs and behavior are now considered abnormal and crazy by the left.

          A fat middle aged man with hairy legs and a functioning weiner is now called a women and egads its like Benny Hill in dress up ugly.

  58. Jarek May 2, 2022 at 6:48 pm #

    “It is difficult
    to get the news from poems
    yet men die miserably every day
    for lack
    of what is found there.”

    ? William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower & Other Love Poems

    Jarek: Indeed they do. If there is no gospel, no good news, then how can the soul withstand the pangs and arrows of outrageous fortune? Or being trapped in a decaying body? Or being married to a monster?

    If you don’t like Christianity, and can’t find the good news in the Gospel, try poetry. Or the Koran. Or the Bhagavad Gita. The NY Times? No, you’re going in the wrong direction. Read not the Times, but the Eternities as Thoreau put it.

    • GreenAlba May 3, 2022 at 8:36 am #

      For these democidal times, I have once or twice gone back to Rupert Brookes’ Safety.

      “Dear! of all happy in the hour, most blest
      He who has found our hid security,
      Assured in the dark tides of the world that rest,
      And heard our word, ‘Who is so safe as we?’
      We have found safety with all things undying,
      The winds, and morning, tears of men and mirth,
      The deep night, and birds singing, and clouds flying,
      And sleep, and freedom, and the autumnal earth.
      We have built a house that is not for Time’s throwing.
      We have gained a peace unshaken by pain for ever.
      War knows no power. Safe shall be my going,
      Secretly armed against all death’s endeavour;
      Safe though all safety’s lost; safe where men fall;
      And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.”

      The men are ‘falling’ for a different reason now, of course, and, for all its horror, not as awful as that horror, except in its mind-boggling scale. But it’s still a war, just with most of the victims unarmed, in relation to the perpetrators.

  59. anmariwakaranai May 2, 2022 at 7:33 pm #

    Yo James, good one. ‘This is this’, was like a knife to the carotid. 😉

    Hi all, using the library interwebz so I gotta fly.

    Gonna go see if they got any of your books.

    • KesaAnna May 3, 2022 at 12:02 am #

      I wondered where you got to.

      Somehow to me surfing CFN at the public library is very roughly equivalent to surfing porn at the public library .

      Like , you should get honorary obsessed groupie / old timer status on CFN.

  60. anmariwakaranai May 2, 2022 at 7:37 pm #

    Oh, and by the looks of it, Yeadon was right about the markets, the crash and the timing.

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    • GreenAlba May 3, 2022 at 8:47 am #

      Looks like it, anmari. I wonder if Fuellich is right about the coming HIV scare (with Moderna anti-HIV vaxx having received emergency use authorisation – since that’s the latest craze in drug-pushing circles).

      • GreenAlba May 3, 2022 at 8:50 am #

        That went too soon. My return button seems to activate just by my finger hovering over it.

        Interesting point in the interview: those of us old enough to remember AIDS in detail in the 80s know you can’t get it by skin contact or aerosols. But will they be able to fool the younger folks? Or will they invent a brand-new aerosol-transmitted HIV strain?

        https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2022/04/dr-reiner-fuellmich-urgent-warning-to-the-world-aids-will-be-their-next-move/

      • GreenAlba May 3, 2022 at 8:50 am #

        Glad to see you back, BTW, however briefly!

      • GreenAlba May 3, 2022 at 8:55 am #

        This will be Moderna’s second product brought to market ever, I believe. And both drugs only available under EUAs.

        One could be tempted to apply for emergency use authorisation for a heavy blunt instrument and an appointment with a selection of Big Pharma CEOs. Or a gibbet, whatever …

  61. stelmosfire May 2, 2022 at 7:38 pm #

    Talk about devastation. Take a look . A drive through Mariopul 4 days ago.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM0q2WViLao

    Oh wait a minute wrong vid. That’s Detroit.Same thing. Only we’ll probably rebuild Mariopul.
    $40,000,000,000.00 for the Z man.
    $1,700,000,000,000.00 for college deadbeat loans.
    Thanks Brandon, What’s wrong with this country?

    • BackRowHeckler May 2, 2022 at 8:08 pm #

      Didn’t show the former Packard plant, closed in 1955, still standing. Time and the elements do even more damage to structures than high explosives, it just takes longer.

    • elysianfield May 2, 2022 at 10:32 pm #

      …That’s a good’n, Saint.

  62. BackRowHeckler May 2, 2022 at 7:59 pm #

    Well CFNers, the sh#t has hit the fan. The EU announced today it will not pay Russia for oil or natgas in roubles, and Russia is expected to shut down all pipelines asap. EU has warned its members to prepare for an “energy shock.”

    In effect, Europe has sanctioned itself … over nothing really, a border dispute on the European frontier that historically has seen so much trouble it is called ‘The Bloodlands’.

    Despite all the happy talk about ‘the transition to renewables’ Europe is pretty much f#kkd when it comes to energy IMHO.

    • JohnAZ May 2, 2022 at 10:28 pm #

      BRH

      Let them! The SOBs running Europe are full fledged members of the WEF. I hope maybe a few million frozen or baked asses over there wises them up to what the WEF is up to and they get rid of these egomaniacs that are taking over their countries.

      Read my last down thread. How can we stop these globalists?

      • Nigel Tufnel May 2, 2022 at 11:01 pm #

        Pick one and give it all you’ve got:

        1- secure the vote – hand written hand counted ballots

        2- free the media – Repeal bill clinton’s Telecommunications Act of 1996 which allowed monopoly control

        3- repeal Citizens United that gives personal rights to corporations

        4- Insist on total political and governmental transparency… no secrets = no wars. Do this by supporting multiple groups like Wikileaks so that we the people can look at the facts and triangulate the truth.

        5- At the same time promote personal privacy via Edward Snowden.

        Free Julian Assange!

    • malthuss May 2, 2022 at 11:46 pm #

      baby bond programs

      Connecticut and the District of Columbia have established baby bond programs. A handful of other states, including New Jersey and Washington state, have considered related proposals.

      • BackRowHeckler May 3, 2022 at 6:01 am #

        The govt has made clear this program is not for us, but members of ‘The Community’. We have to pay for it tho.

        • malthuss May 3, 2022 at 10:50 am #

          so what else is new?

      • Islander May 3, 2022 at 5:02 pm #

        What are baby bonds??

    • malthuss May 2, 2022 at 11:48 pm #

      easterneye.biz: Muslim families struggle to afford food during Ramadan, charities say. ‘According to the report, many families have been struggling to feed their immediate families – making hosting larger iftar dinners particularly difficult.’

      • benr May 5, 2022 at 9:30 am #

        Oh darn.

    • Blackbird May 3, 2022 at 2:30 pm #

      That’s ok, we will sell Europe our natgas and oil. Higher prices for U$ consumers of course, but we are willing to pay any price to destroy the evil Russians. It would have been nicer to do it during the winter so that we could really feel the pain we are inflicting on the dreaded Ruskies, but if we are lucky, this “energy shock” just might last awhile.

    • Islander May 3, 2022 at 5:05 pm #

      I don’t see how the “EU” can prevent any member state, or a company in any member state, from buying gas from Russia, or anyplace else.

      The EU is not a federation. What are they gonna do?

      I await developments . . .

      For updates I recommend The Saker blog or Moon of Alabama.

  63. lost-in-north-dakota May 2, 2022 at 8:43 pm #

    A question, not a comment. The crimes that Durham is investigating….are any of them bumping up against the 5-year statute of limitations?

  64. tom clark May 2, 2022 at 9:09 pm #

    LIND./.good point, and BTW, whatever happened to Bill O’Reilly? Did he turn to the dark side or sumthin’?

    • JohnAZ May 2, 2022 at 10:23 pm #

      He is present every day on You Tube.

    • MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 7:36 pm #

      He’s always been on the dark side.

  65. benr May 2, 2022 at 9:27 pm #

    We are doomed!
    They call them smart phones!
    The smarter they get the dumber we seem to get collectively!

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/driver-claims-she-was-following-her-gps-down-staircase-police-say/ar-AAWQd80?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=9e0b3d896b9342869610fa89bf034e39

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    • Blackbird May 3, 2022 at 2:48 pm #

      About 13 years ago, a GPS tried to prevent me from driving down a flight of stairs.

      I was in some town on the south coast of Devonshire (starts with a “B” if I remember correctly) trying to get down the hill to the sea. The GPS laid out a circuitous route, but I could see a more direct route among the streets shown on the map. Passed a lady pushing a baby carriage (“pram” ectually…) who gave me a strange look, while driving down a street (?) just barely wide enough for my small, ugly British rental car. A couple more turns – and there I was, looking down a long, long flight of stairs. Driving in reverse, I passed the lady pushing the pram who gave me another strange look.

      Without that GPS, I’d probably still be wandering lost around southern England.

      • neurodoc May 4, 2022 at 4:44 pm #

        My recollection of SW England, in and around Cornwall, is driving a straight shift (and not done since I was a teen), on the WRONG side of the road, with crazed grizzled looking little old men going 80 MPH on, what appeared to us, to be a one lane road that allowed for two lanes of traffic, sided bilaterally with a thick hedgerow that looked like it was full of briars. Other than that, it was beautiful, interesting, and a fun trip.

      • Redneck Liberal May 4, 2022 at 9:11 pm #

        “(starts with a “B” if I remember correctly)

        Branscombe? Budleigh Salterton?

  66. kimmasad01 May 2, 2022 at 9:46 pm #

    it’s not the “Left” that is at war with truth and reality (although the political left is bad enough)

    It’s tyrannical, Malthusian, Imperialism that is the real threat to all that is true and real, oh and right, moral and free, as well.

    These Imperialists hide behind leftism in order to marshal a useful idiot army as leftists are more inclined to destroy their own communities, culture, heritage and posterity under the delusion that they are carrying out some praiseworthy, revolutionary act. Their delusion serves the interests of Imperialists that will sooner see them dead.

    Everything that passes for progressivism on the agenda of these Imperialists furthers their true objective- that is to destroy the Westphalian free nation-state economic system to usher in a tyrannical One World Empire.

    Those who think they are on the progressive, political “Left” will figure this out eventually- but too late and at too high of cost.

    • Night Owl May 3, 2022 at 7:30 am #

      WEF and co. hide behind leftism because it allows them to claim they are against “hate” and “corruption.” Everyone who rises up against them is a “Nazi.”

      The formula is simple, and it works on simpletons.

      • GreenAlba May 3, 2022 at 9:09 am #

        I’m beginning to wonder, in preparation for when I might eventually get ‘lifted’, if one should confine one’s answers to parrying with another question. Even giving a statement in answer to their accusations is an admission that they have the right to ask you.

        This follows from Kesa’s notion that one should not accept the role of the defence, which has obviously made an impression on my mind!

        Sadly I’m not blessed with the presence of mind that produces the necessary quick retort in a to-and-fro situation (especially under a naked lightbulb), which is why I just write stuff. 🙂

      • Islander May 3, 2022 at 5:22 pm #

        I have two more names for the WEF roster:

        Sangu J. Delle, “CEO of Africa Health Holdings, [where] Delle leverages technology to shape Africa’s health care future. . . . An Eisenhower Fellow, a World Economic Forum Global Leader, a TED Fellow, and a Council on Foreign Relations member, Delle was jFuture Awards Africa’s 2014 ‘Young Person of the Year.'”

        This is called grooming. To get Africa to follow WEF and CFR orders. This fine young “Fellow” (snark) also earned an M.St. degree at Oxford. I never heard of that.
        OK, basically it is a degree in nothing
        https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/about/master-of-studies-programmes

        Pardon me while I puke.
        ++++++++++++

        Next up, Judith Michelle Williams, “a leading expert on building inclusive cultures whose expertise encompasses business and the arts. . . . Williams serves on the boards of Brighton Park Capitol and ESSEC International and participated in the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Equality and Inclusion.”

        My, the WEF is just soooooo busy!!!! Councils here and programs there . . . These people are like human drones.

  67. JohnAZ May 2, 2022 at 10:22 pm #

    The WEF NWO and the Great Reset is the most deadly threat against what the USA has tried to represent itself to the world, the champion of individuality and liberty. The WEF is the enemy of individuality in the name of collectivism with them on top of course.

    People, you are too stupid to run yourselves any longer, we must run you, for your sakes.

    The WEF is the enemy of nationalism too, as ethnic individuality is another thing that is condemned. Targets in the DAVOs eye are USA, then Russia. China is the model for the future which has been acknowledged by the leader, Klaus Schwab.

    A recent item I saw was the social ranking that the WEF wants to do, so that the government awards or punishes each person by what they do, or write, or speak. Sound like China?

    Anyone in the US that still believes in what the founding fathers put down on paper must abhor what this group of rich egomaniacs want to do.

    IMHO, I see only one way to preserve the American ideal. This group of people, call them what you want, that believe in individualism above all, must organize and secede from the Mob, WEF led Deep State in DC.

    Then they need to affiliate with Russia to beat back these globalist communists.

    Both The real USA and Russia have much in common to preserve their ways of life.

    Go ahead, hit me!

    • SpeedyBB May 3, 2022 at 9:19 am #

      It’s a sixteen. Hit you again?

    • Disaffected May 3, 2022 at 9:29 am #

      LOL! Hit you? Did Will condition you to that?

      Sorry, JAZ. I couldn’t resist.

      • JohnAZ May 3, 2022 at 12:18 pm #

        Dis

        Ha Good one.

        I guess he is too busy being re programmed in India.

        • Disaffected May 3, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

          Is he actually in India? I thought you were just fuckin’ around.

    • Islander May 3, 2022 at 5:32 pm #

      I have two more names for the WEF roster:

      Sangu J. Delle, “CEO of Africa Health Holdings, [where] Delle leverages technology to shape Africa’s health care future. . . . An Eisenhower Fellow, a World Economic Forum Global Leader, a TED Fellow, and a Council on Foreign Relations member, Delle was jFuture Awards Africa’s 2014 ‘Young Person of the Year.'”

      This is called grooming. To get Africa to follow WEF and CFR orders. This fine young “Fellow” (snark) also earned an M.St. degree at Oxford. I never heard of that.
      OK, basically it is a degree in nothing
      https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/about/master-of-studies-programmes

      Pardon me while I puke.
      ++++++++++++

      Next up, Judith Michelle Williams, “a leading expert on building inclusive cultures whose expertise encompasses business and the arts. . . . Williams serves on the boards of Brighton Park Capitol and ESSEC International and participated in the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Equality and Inclusion.”

      My, the WEF is just soooooo busy!!!! Councils here and programs there . . . These people are like human drones.

      • Islander May 5, 2022 at 8:20 am #

        Apologies for the double post.

        Glitch.

  68. Nigel Tufnel May 2, 2022 at 10:57 pm #

    James, your optimism gives me hope.
    To me it feels like WW3. It’s ‘them’ against us. The enemy is within our country’s body, like a parasite … controlling it.
    How did it happen? They did it bit by bit, while we were busy struggling to survive them destroying our livlihoods…. NAFTA, Citizens United, Telecommunications Law of 1996, open borders, and so on….
    And they used our hard earned tax dollars to do this …. It’s like being forced to produce the ammunition being used against us. 1 million migrants per year for us, the taxpayer, to support … both them and their numerous offspring. Clot shots. Lockdowns and destruction of small business. Control of the media. Control of your children. Going to war with your money but without your vote. The move to digital currency and ID. Now food destruction both by fire and weather (look up – they own the sky now) It all adds up.

    • JohnAZ May 2, 2022 at 11:02 pm #

      Who is the biggest enemy to the Constitution?

      Biden or Putin?

      • Nigel Tufnel May 3, 2022 at 8:25 am #

        “Biden” of course – or to be more specific – his controllers – the war machine, the grifters, the money launderers. All the scum who, having squandered all the resources here, lust after the vast land and resources of Russia. Their hope is to weaken and fragment Russia into smaller bites.

        • Paula D May 3, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

          I agree with both of your comments.

  69. thwack May 2, 2022 at 11:00 pm #

    I think a good metric to determine how the war is going would be to find out how many Ukrainian POWs don’t want to be sent back to Ukraine?

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/N3X49flIg4If/

  70. tom clark May 2, 2022 at 11:12 pm #

    I just heard something that sounded like a gunshot outside. Gotta go.

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    • Disaffected May 3, 2022 at 1:39 pm #

      Dd you shoot back?

      • Disaffected May 3, 2022 at 4:13 pm #

        My spelling’s gone to shit. Along with my eyesight. And my typing…

        • beantownbill. May 3, 2022 at 7:51 pm #

          As long as more important body parts are still functioning, you’ll be ok. The other body parts I’m talking about don’t need eyesight.

  71. MaryQueen May 2, 2022 at 11:27 pm #

    Absolute desperation from the right and left, big SCARE that SCOTUS is gonna overturn “Roe v Wade”. Of course, it’s just a rumor from Politico.

    But that’s OK. It will start an epic social media battle for the next week, and that’s all they need.

    • Night Owl May 3, 2022 at 7:28 am #

      TV controlling the herd again.

    • Blackbird May 3, 2022 at 2:55 pm #

      The Supremes are gonna overturn Roe vs. Wade. That’s funny. If anything, abortion “rights” will be increased to the point that postpartum abortions will be legal.

      • MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 7:42 pm #

        Or mandatory! Gotta kill them kids somehow.

  72. malthuss May 2, 2022 at 11:34 pm #

    Dailymail.co.uk: Eid Mubarak! Muslims praise Blackburn Rovers after it becomes first football club in the country to host Eid prayers on its pitch as 3.3 million Muslims in the UK mark the end of Ramadan.

    Ahmed Khalifa, 37, who moved from Sudan to Blackburn around four months ago, said he was ‘so happy’ to see so many people at the Sky Bet Championship club’s ground.’ and ‘Almost 30,000 Muslims gathered in a Birmingham (Small Heath) park this morning to take part in one of the largest Eid celebrations in Europe.’

    / easterneye.biz: Muslim families struggle to afford food during Ramadan, charities say. ‘According to the report, many families have been struggling to feed their immediate families – making hosting larger iftar dinners particularly difficult.’

    • BackRowHeckler May 3, 2022 at 5:53 am #

      Not too worry, Malthus

      I’m sure the Muslim World appreciates the West’s tolerance and generosity, and will respond “In Kind”, hosting large scale Christian events on Easter and Christmas, in the cities of Jebba, Islamabad, Tehran and Riyadh.

      • Kim May 4, 2022 at 10:15 pm #

        In Indonesia, Christmas and Good Friday are public holidays.

        Biggest muslim country in the world.

  73. Jarek May 3, 2022 at 12:03 am #

    https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-leaked-report-shows-scotus-overturned-roe-v-wade/

    Is decency beginning to return to America – or at least parts of it? The right to decide will return to the States if this is true. Women in red states will have to go elsewhere to kill their babies.

    But what about a woman’s right to choose? Her choice, her responsibility, was not to get pregnant in the first place if she didn’t want to be the vehicle of birth for another being. Once pregnant, she is carrying another life, another body, another soul.

    In purely political terms, apart from this contentious moral question, this will help to begin the break up of the FUSA, the Former United States. Is this not to be greatly hoped for and desired? Did you think it can happen without a great price?

    • roccofire May 3, 2022 at 6:01 am #

      The progressive folks I work with last night all woke up, when the news leaked out. Some were going to vote Republican in the fall, but now that the right wingers decided to give rapists, criminals rights over the victim, they are a hollering. BUT, so am I, already I heard if freedom to choose over your own body is overturned, all Americans must get the shot, must wear masks, Jarek it is not a moral victory, but more political theater.

      JHK again more proof of decline, soon all Liberty minded individuals will be hunted by the right wingers and the left, one government to tell you no reproductive choice, no guns, no meat, no sex, no liquor, oh Snake Plissken we need you now.

      • Kim May 4, 2022 at 10:17 pm #

        Public spaces for rallies against this were booked weeks ago supposedly before the decision was made.

        It is all centrally controlled.

      • benr May 5, 2022 at 9:33 am #

        Uh no the bill is aimed at using abortion only as a form of birth control.
        Health of mother, Incest and rape still are cause for abortion and no state in the union is going to be crazy enough to stop those.

    • tucsonspur May 3, 2022 at 7:20 am #

      The Democrats now have some hope in November, with this Republican life raft tossed into the sea of their drowning prospects.

      The state should not control a woman’s uterus. Women (and men) will be galvanized and a larger Democratic turnout in November will occur.

      One may wish it otherwise, but there is no soul in the blastocyst, the embryo or the fetus. There is no soul without sentience, and even with it its existence is highly doubted. Sure, you have ‘soul’ in the common usage of the word.

      This ruling and a Ukrainian victory or stalemate, or some major Ukrainian ass kicking, will mean fewer losses for the Left come November. After all, all along it was Russia, Russia, Russia, and the Democrats will bask in the glory of a pulverized Putin.

      Who knows, what with all the disinfo, gaslighting, and confused people, the Republicans may yet find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

      • benr May 3, 2022 at 9:12 am #

        Everyone has read this wrong.

        The Supreme court reversal of Row V Wade is about ceding ill-gotten authority back to the states where it belonged all along.

        • Redneck Liberal May 4, 2022 at 8:52 pm #

          “Ill-gotten”? The 14th Amendment was ratified by the States, was it not? How can this be “ill-gotten”?

          • benr May 4, 2022 at 9:59 pm #

            Think beyond your Satanic need to murder babies and then of course old useless people and see it for what it really is.
            People of your ild are now clamoring to abort up to 28 days after birth!
            I even heard some idiot professor saying up to four years old.

      • JohnAZ May 3, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

        There is no soul in a blastocyst?

        Do we know that for sure. Is the soul a working of the DNA structure that programs the organism? Does God go Poof! At parturition and installs a soul?

        I do not have a clue. But, IMHO, we are taking pretty big changes of being celestial murderers if we do not know the answer.

        • Islander May 3, 2022 at 5:34 pm #

          It doesn’t matter what “we know.”

          “We” don’t know s—!

          What matters is what the individuals concerned “know.”

      • Blackbird May 3, 2022 at 3:01 pm #

        Mail-in ballots and voting machines won’t allow the prospects of the Democrats to drown – in the big blue tsunami coming this fall.

      • Anthea May 4, 2022 at 9:21 am #

        @ tucsonspur:

        I don’t think that the existence of non-existence of a soul in an unborn child is relevant to the abortion question. For one thing, this is unknowable. No one can say with legal certainty that you or I have a soul. It would be inappropriate, and even weird, to make legal decisions on that basis: “Bill has a soul; therefore, he is entitled to free insulin, or a free kidney transplant.”

        The issue is that an uborn child is a human life. To approve killing it as a matter of convenience is monstrous.

        The usual arguments won’t wash. Yes, it is entirely dependent on its mother’s body. (And abortion is permitted in some states, even if the child would be viable outside the womb.) But if we are going to make dependency on others the standard for deciding whether you can be casually killed (because you have become a burden or inconvenience), you would be able to kill just about anyone at some time or other during their lives. Children are dependents, as are the sick and the elderly.

        A culture or civilization that approves killing people because they are a bother is pretty much in the toilet.

        One of the other arguments for abortion is that the child is unwanted and would have a miserable life. But since we are not psychic, we don’t know that. And on the practical side, it is now VERY difficult to adopt. There just aren’t enough babies for all the prospective adoptive parents.

        Secondly, is being unwanted or likely to lead a miserable life to be the standard for whether a person can be killed? There are a lot of people around who are unwanted; there are a lot of people around whom I don’t want. There are a lot of people who are miserable–such as my acquaintance whose son recently OD’d, or the many older people who struggle with painful/serious health issues. Almost everyone will be come ill (and miserable) at some time or other and need to be cared for.

        So are we going to approve/legalize offing anyone whom we deem to have a poor quality of life? Or anyone who is “unwanted”?

        You can’t approve of this kind of thing without losing your humanity. I suppose “humanity” is as much an intangible as the soul, but surely we can all see what it is to lose it.

        This whole line of thinking leads to some very unpleasant places.

        • Kim May 4, 2022 at 10:21 pm #

          What if killing the child is not a matter of convenience but of policy, specifically a hygenic public policy in a race war?

          Would that be more acceptable – for we do after all accept wars and conscription and deadly orders as acceptable public policies?

      • Redneck Liberal May 4, 2022 at 8:59 pm #

        Republicans may yet find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”

        Here’s hopin’…

        • benr May 4, 2022 at 10:00 pm #

          No one but a fool wants this country to trave any further down the path the Democrat horde is dragging us.

    • Disaffected May 3, 2022 at 9:26 am #

      Right on time, another issue re-conjured up to divide us.

    • malthuss May 3, 2022 at 10:51 am #

      after 5? million late abortions?

    • MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 7:44 pm #

      Overturning that law means you also wave bye-bye to body sovereignty. Not just women’s, yours, too. Uh oh. What a slippery slope that could be in the time of covid and forced vaxxes.

      Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!

      • benr May 4, 2022 at 10:02 pm #

        The rallying cry my body my choice!
        Until the covid clot shot, this is about profit not safety.

    • Anthea May 4, 2022 at 8:42 am #

      I would say with near certainty that the “leaked” “opinion” and the leak itself are pure theater.

      Here’s how I think it went down: Support for the Democratic Party is in decline, threatening the outcome of the mid-term elections. They decided to concoct a credible threat to abortion rights in order to stampede the herd back into the Democrat camp.

      My bet is that not only was the “leak” planned, but that the SCOTUS was ordered to produce the “opinion,” and they were all in on it. Or (more likely) the document was prepared out of whole cloth in advance by a few crack attorneys, and the Supreme Court justices were told to sign off on it and a leak arranged.

      This is a game. Nothing will come of it.

  74. SW May 3, 2022 at 12:08 am #

    I know you choose actual buildings to be The Eyesore of the Month but here’s an opportunity you might not want to pass up —

    “She (Blake Lively) explained that her dress was inspired by “New York City architecture and classic buildings,” as she noted different elements of the look that were pulled from Grand Central Station, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty.

    Lively also pointed to the crown on her head which has seven tiers to explain its symbolism.

    “The Statue of Liberty has seven rays, representing the sun’s rays. And then also the seven seas and continents, which represents welcomeness, inclusivity, freedom,” she explained. “And it’s just 25 windows so Lorraine [Schwartz] put 25 stones at the bottom.”

    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/blake-livelys-2022-met-gala-dress-optical-illusion-223757975.html

    • Blackbird May 3, 2022 at 3:13 pm #

      A ridiculously long dress, but I have to say, much more tasteful – dare I say “respectable” – than the stripper garb most females “wear” to these events.

      Also note, “…inspired by… classic buildings…” – not the ugly, disposable new “architecture”. Kind of an art deco look to the pattern actually.

      All that work creating and then putting on that massive mass of fabric – and her hubby forgets to shave…

    • Islander May 3, 2022 at 5:35 pm #

      Note masked peons.

      “Who’s that masked peon???!”

  75. Q. Shtik May 3, 2022 at 12:43 am #

    It’s “slings”, Jarek, not “pangs” and arrows etc.

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    • justanotherguy May 4, 2022 at 3:52 pm #

      just a wild guess, but your funding to be here does not come from poets…

  76. JohnAZ May 3, 2022 at 12:47 am #

    One more comment on the Spike (For you Jarek) protein.

    IF the spike protein on the virus is the over stimulation of the immune system –

    IF the spike protein in the Vaxx has the same effect , it is easy to see that if folks are getting re stimulated every 4-6 months by boosters, the risk of side effects goes up each shot.

    I would like to add on an aggravating factor.

    The vaxx was based on the alpha phase of spike protein of 2020, a much more virulent form. So taking alpha boosters against omicron virus may be just another major medical error.

    Stay away from alpha boosters forever.

    • malthuss May 3, 2022 at 10:53 am #

      vax = death, for some.

  77. jim e May 3, 2022 at 12:55 am #

    Hey thwack… AND on HOARDING? Good bad or indifferent…. Global supply line will be softened by us hoarders… Just hate throwing it all away… today … what do you say?

  78. jim e May 3, 2022 at 12:57 am #

    A depression era sorta thing.

    • jim e May 3, 2022 at 1:08 am #

      Or do you watch to much TeeVee?

      Moon Landing and all…

      • SoftStarLight May 3, 2022 at 2:14 am #

        I don’t believe in the teevee

        But I know there’s such a thing as a pyrrhic victory

        • CrusherMuldoon May 3, 2022 at 6:43 am #

          SSL: That last sentence was the best bit of analysis to ever appear in a Clusterfuck Nation comment

          • SoftStarLight May 3, 2022 at 1:04 pm #

            Thank you

  79. CrusherMuldoon May 3, 2022 at 6:45 am #

    Well, if the news about Roe v Wade is true:

    1) The Z man in the Ukraine is screwed

    2) The Democrats won’t have to worry about rigging the election

    3) I fear for the future welfare of the SCOTUS justices that voted to repeal it

    • benr May 3, 2022 at 9:16 am #

      Abortion is a states right issue.

      I would like to add what happened to the right for all people to:
      “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase gives three examples of the unalienable rights which the Declaration says have been given to all humans by their Creator, and which governments are created to protect.

      All humans the right to LIFE how is this difficult to understand?
      Like it or not the instant an egg is fertilized it is the essence of being human.

      • CrusherMuldoon May 3, 2022 at 10:36 am #

        I agree with all of your statements benr. However, I’m betting dollars to donuts that the same Democratic shills are going to twist the abortion issue is an individual state’s issue into “no more abortions”, the same way they twisted Florida’s ruling about forbidding teaching gender issues to K through 3rd graders into “Don’t Say Gay”

        • JohnAZ May 3, 2022 at 11:39 am #

          Are there any states that have said, “No more abortions at all”? Aren’t most holding to the 15 week rule?

          If someone wants an abortion after Roe, there is always the West Coast, Colorado, Illinois and the East Coast. I see a new medical vacation game plan in the offing. For $1000 you get an abortion and three days on the beach. Believe me, that IS how shallow some folks are.

          The real enemy are the abortion mills like Planned Parenthood and their Liberal hold on DC. You are about to watch an explosion go off in DC.

          Thwack I have heard often that Blacks operate an abortion mill that has severely limited their birth rate. True? I would think some Black leaders would have a problem with that.

          • thwack May 3, 2022 at 12:26 pm #

            Thwack I have heard often that Blacks operate an abortion mill that has severely limited their birth rate. True? I would think some Black leaders would have a problem with that.

            ***************************

            John, black people don’t “run” anything; the “abortion mills” for black women are funded by white liberals, Democrats, Jiberal non profits…

            I can’t remember where I read it; but somebody calculated that there are several million “missing” black people due to abortion?

            Its a tough subject for black women; so data is difficult for me to get.

            Their 1st pregnancy is often the one that is aborted; because

            a) They wanted to see if they could get pregnant.

            b) they try to use a pregnancy to get some guy to stay/marry them…

            c) They started the single mom path, but then chickened out.

            I had a white roommate who told me she had 8 abortions. She was a nice Catholic girl; but her dad died when she was 14; from then on she chased alpha males and never could keep one; hence her high fetal body count.

            One time she called me late at night sobbing about “my son would be 18 today…”

            She had a good run though; she stayed pretty hot till almost 50.

            but towards the end she whined about her thighs rubbing together.

            She couldn’t bring herself to date/marry and average guy.

          • Jarek May 3, 2022 at 12:47 pm #

            Wow, damning in every sense. Classic feminine psychology to an extreme degree. Always looking up.

            Heard a girl talking on a bus to an older man she had just met. Why should I accept a Burger King Burger when I can have fillet mignon? She wasn’t anywhere close to being fillet mignon herself. She was so into talking about herself that she missed her stop. She was going to some kind of mental health place.

            The guy told her he found women more interesting than men. Don’t think he was coming onto her, he was just really into playing the fatherly role. That was his “interesting”.

        • Jarek May 3, 2022 at 11:56 am #

          The street fighting analogy also works. Most fights are won by a sucker punch followed by a flurry of blows leaving the victims unable to respond. Similarly, the right of Black children to go to the nearest public school was justifiably (at least in conventional terms) no sooner established only to have the liberals press on to establish bussing – an issue that had no real connection with the former issue. That Blacks could go to White schools was changed to Blacks must go to White schools and Whites to Black schools.

          The ruin of the public school system was underway, with vast numbers of Whites leaving the schools or even the cities if they couldn’t afford private schools.

      • thwack May 3, 2022 at 11:36 am #

        The question is simply this: Can a fetus, become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all of the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guarantied [sic] by that instrument to the citizen?

        We think the [fetus] are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word “citizens” in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.

        It is difficult at this day to realize the state of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate fetus, which prevailed in the civilized and enlightened portions of the world at the time of the Declaration of Independence, and when the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted. … They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order … and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Fetus might justly and lawfully be reduced by abortion for its benefit.

        • JohnAZ May 3, 2022 at 11:42 am #

          Wow, Thwack, we wrote these at the same time.

        • malthuss May 3, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

          I can’t remember where I read it; but somebody calculated that there are several million “missing” black people due to abortion?

          Like chinas missing women.

          however in1965, USA had 12 million africans. [blacks, thwacks, whatever you want to call ‘them’].
          now, 43 million.

      • JohnAZ May 3, 2022 at 12:07 pm #

        At conception, it is a single cell with the program in it to create a three trillion cell organism with a chunk of God included.

        The whole legal issue is whether that cell or fetus up to fifteen weeks is a “Life”.

        Mis programmed fetuses end up miscarrying. Was that a life?

        Should abortion be the solution to a woman’s biggest Oops? At what point is that individual inside her a separate being, under Constitutional protection.

        Certainly not at 40 weeks, like the abortion nuts want.

        Problems with unwanted kids can and should be remedied by the 15 th week. Those laws seem reasonable and relevant to me.

        Maybe a return to procreative responsibility by both sexes, but mostly women will occur with no Roe v Wade.

        A really negative statement could be,

        If a nation does not protect its babies, it does not deserve to exist. Biblically speaking, are we bringing on our demise by God getting really pissed at us. God has expressed his displeasure with nations, even Israel by abandoning them to enemies, but also with disease and Climate Change.

        Hmmmm?

        • thwack May 3, 2022 at 12:33 pm #

          I don’t really care if a woman wants to get an abortion; I just want to be able to abandon it if I don’t want it.

          *am I a bad person?*

          • Disaffected May 3, 2022 at 1:38 pm #

            LOL! Very commendable. You’d be signing up for a lifetime of abuse either way.

            But of course you’re a bad person, but that has nothing to do with the sentiment expressed here.

          • justanotherguy May 4, 2022 at 3:44 pm #

            are you the mother or the father.

            most of the answer starts there.

    • BackRowHeckler May 3, 2022 at 11:35 am #

      Here in the USA nothing is ever settled, they’ve been going round and round about abortion since I’ve been a little kid. Slavery has been dredged up as an issue altho it’s been over for 150 years. (Probably the failure of the Great Society programs and Affirmative Action has something to do with Whiteys nose being rubbed into the slavery issue all the sudden)

      • JohnAZ May 3, 2022 at 11:48 am #

        Not settled because Congress can never get a law passed governing abortion.

        Typical Lefty grandstanding, Roe v Wade was the Left’s way of getting around representative government, like executive orders. Don’t puke, Redneck, both sides do it. Roe was a Lefty attempt though, exclusively. Just like EOs, they can be reversed with just a simple judicial ruling. So here we are, awaiting the back lash.

        Hmmm, is the leaker a Dem. Plant who is trying to sabotage the Red Wave this fall?

    • workingclasshero May 4, 2022 at 12:24 am #

      I doubt Biden’s FBI will never find the identity of the Democratic staffer who leaked the legal brief. Biden is beginning to show that famous dumb Irish luck.

  80. BackRowHeckler May 3, 2022 at 8:32 am #

    I don’t know how believable it is but ABC is reporting Putin will undergo cancer surgery and is transferring executive authority to FSB Chief Nikoli Potrushev. A lot of people will be happy about this until they realize Potrushev is bigger hardass than Putin himself. Be careful what you wish for is the message here. I see some Congressmen in DC want the US to challenge Russia directly on the field of battle; in my opinion this would be a huge mistake, maybe a fatal mistake. My reading of events of 1812, 1914 and 1941 is you are not going to defeat Russia in a war. Russians will keep coming at you. Even when they lose like in Crimea in the 1850s and against Japan in 1905 the country remained intact. And if Russia did perceive it was on the losing end I don’t have any doubt they would resort to their nuclear arsenal. We in the west are playing very dangerous game with Russia, a game with no winners, but many losers.

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    • Disaffected May 3, 2022 at 9:24 am #

      Fist I’ve heard of that. What kind’s he got?

    • CrusherMuldoon May 3, 2022 at 10:37 am #

      Supposedly he also has Parkinson’s Marlin

    • thwack May 3, 2022 at 11:11 am #

      I don’t know how believable it is but ABC is also reporting Putin has a wooden leg

      • Blackbird May 3, 2022 at 3:23 pm #

        Yes, he lost a leg in a bare-chested bare-back bear-racing crash. Hopped across the finish line on his mangled left foot. One leg and he’ll still kick our ass.

        • justanotherguy May 4, 2022 at 3:38 pm #

          hilarious – quite the visual

    • JohnAZ May 3, 2022 at 11:27 am #

      We in the West, who believe in small Constitutional government better understand that Russia is not our enemy. The WEF and its Democratic Party shills are.

    • Islander May 3, 2022 at 12:00 pm #

      My Moscow contact says that he has heard nothing about this.

      He wondered whether this might be an April Fool antic.

  81. CrusherMuldoon May 3, 2022 at 10:28 am #

    I bet Roberts leaked it

    • SoftStarLight May 3, 2022 at 1:07 pm #

      I bet he very well might have. He is not a conservative of any sort and it seems like he needs the approval of the militant neoliberals. Supposedly though they are saying that it was a clerk working for Sonia Sotomayor who leaked the draft decision.

  82. JTinMD May 3, 2022 at 11:08 am #

    From Caitlin Johnstone’s latest at Substack.

    An honest Met Gala dress would have a corset made from the bones of Yemeni children, draped with a cloth of stolen gold and lithium spun by the tiny hands of child slaves, with a full-length train that leached oil and blood wherever it went.

    https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/a-weird-stupid-dystopia?utm_source=%2Fprofile%2F14779628-caitlin-johnstone&utm_medium=reader2&s=r

    • MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 6:17 pm #

      She has a way with words!

    • justanotherguy May 4, 2022 at 3:36 pm #

      an for the brief moments i had to look at all those elaborate costumes, i was thinking…

      hunger games.

  83. thwack May 3, 2022 at 11:24 am #

    Ok, here is the end game for Ukraine.

    Russia wil basically take a big chunk of Eastern Ukraine, Donbass, and in the south around Crimea.

    The Ukrainian army will be destroyed until it becomes something like Hamas in the west bank.

    From that point on, Russia will deal with Western Ukraine the same way Israel deals with the Palestinians.

    Bomb them when ever they want, conduct raids whenever they want…

    Ukraine (sans the Russian areas) will basically become a white “failed state”, broke, deep in debt, and highly corrupt full of grifters and NGOs out to line their pockets…

    • JohnAZ May 3, 2022 at 11:29 am #

      And Biden will walk away, declaring victory.

      • thwack May 3, 2022 at 11:41 am #

        dependz

        • Blackbird May 3, 2022 at 3:26 pm #

          “My butt’s been wiped!” – Biden on his Ukraine victory.

      • BackRowHeckler May 3, 2022 at 11:50 am #

        Musk will run his Tesla “Giga Factory” located near Berlin on solar panels and windmills, mixing the medieval with the post modern.

    • BackRowHeckler May 3, 2022 at 11:38 am #

      What about the sanctions? Will they end? EU claimed today they are done buying coal, natgas and petroleum from Russia — forever! From here on in its Renewables.

      • JohnAZ May 3, 2022 at 11:50 am #

        Hahahahahahahahahaha

        And a snicker thrown in.

  84. Islander May 3, 2022 at 11:58 am #

    America wants to know:

    @@@What is on the laptop???

    @@@Who is in the Azovstal???

    • GreenAlba May 3, 2022 at 12:29 pm #

      Vaguely on the subject, I heard a lovely anecdote recounted by Alex Thompson on UK Column news. Apparently an English church was seeing the numbers at the services increased by virtue-signalling parishioners coming along to show off their guest Ukrainian refugees.

      Two of these Ukrainian ladies appeared not to be very impressed with the proceedings, and, after the service, people chatting to them asked them how they managed to escape. They replied that the Russians had helped them, of course. And that Zelensky was a moron who was responsible for the war. Some noses put out of joint in the church hall, I gather.

  85. BackRowHeckler May 3, 2022 at 11:58 am #

    Actually I’m getting a little worried. Here we are into May and no leaves budding on the maple and oak trees yet. I’ve got a fire banked up in the outdoor fireplace trying to drive away the chill while I work on this chainsaw. Still looking for a day where the temp. reaches 70°F and stays there a little while. What can grow in this? With all this gloom and bare trees the world seems haunted somehow.

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  86. Jarek May 3, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

    https://www.westernjournal.com/tucker-carlson-needs-single-picture-respond-new-york-times-bombshell-hit-piece/

    Tucker triumphantly holds up a copy of NY Slimes with its headline attack piece. It accuses him of being an American Nationalist! Truly, the greatest praise comes from our enemies.

    Their treason is nothing new. They supported the Russian Revolution. How did they get away with this for so long? Because of the mid-wits going to college and wanting to emulate and be “in” with the Good People, who of course despise them as cannon fodder.

    And of ahead of that was the corruption of the Academics. For most, it all comes down to money. The Bankers and Industrialists had it, and decided what would be taught to create an Order favorable to them and their plans.

    He tweeted this picture. Twitter is now becoming an Instrument of Truth under Elon – who is already purging the malicious South Asians formerly in charge.

    • Q. Shtik May 3, 2022 at 10:50 pm #

      Tucker triumphantly holds up a copy of NY Slimes with its headline attack piece. It accuses him of being an American Nationalist! Truly, the greatest praise comes from our enemies. – Jarek

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

      Speaking of Musk and the NYT, the other day the Times had a picture of Musk and some other guy taken in year 2000 and Musk had significantly less hair than he does now. Plugs, I assume.

      This is an unflattering form of narcissism…when someone refuses to accept the hand (or hair) that mother nature has dealt them.

  87. Jarek May 3, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

    Tucker last night had a clip of Adam Schiff saying, We have to fight them over there, so we don’t have to fight them here. Sounds familiar, right? Mid to late 20th Century anti-Communist agitprop. Korean and Vietnam war propaganda.

    This has nothing to do with Ukraine of course. It’s all about hurting Russia, supposedly because of them helping to get Trump elected. I don’t know if Tucker really believes that, but I don’t. It’s just a higher level of propaganda for Party Members. The real reason is that our Oligarchs want their resources. You can make money out of nothing, but you can’t make oil out of nothing. Or wood. Or grain. If you had a car full of hundred dollar bills stuck out in the desert, you’d give it all away for a gallon of water and a few gallons of gas.

    • SoftStarLight May 3, 2022 at 1:16 pm #

      I agree with you. I don’t think (even though they may signal that is the reason) that the current aggressions against Russia are linked to the Russia collusion hoax or the 2016 election. This does appear to be a larger scale conflict over resources (Ukraine has lots of natural resources) and also who is going to be in control of the world really. Allegedly Russia wants several counterbalancing centers of power. But that could be their propaganda. Personally I do think it seems that they are at least willing to share global power with China.

      • Jarek May 3, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

        You may be right. And if so, they deserve to win. A uni-polar world would be a nightmare.

    • Disaffected May 3, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

      We have to fight them over there, so we don’t have to fight them here.

      I agree. We need to fight the DC scourge right where they are gathered in DC and the local environs. Then it should be on to Wall Street, the Hamptons, and the toney estates in Connecticut and the NYC exurbs to take down that gang of criminals next. Then and only then can the long battle begin to root the vermin out of their hiding places all over the country. That will be a job for the states and local militias, and a long hard fight it will no doubt be.

      All the real enemies of the US reside right here in the US, at least some of the time.

  88. Jarek May 3, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

    Noam Chomsky finally says something notable again: Trump is the only major political figure who wants to end the war in Ukraine. Bravo, Noam. You’re still alive inside.

    Hope he’s right about that and campaigns on that. He’d be worth voting for if so.

    • malthuss May 3, 2022 at 12:47 pm #

      but how to end the war?
      which side is Janos on?

      • Jarek May 3, 2022 at 12:51 pm #

        How to end the war? Leave them alone and Ukraine will have to settle with Russia. It never was a viable country as it was, anyway. But there is the basis for two viable countries, one Western and one in the Russian sphere. Incredibly, Pope Francis just admitted that NATO started the War. This is the first good thing he has ever said or done.

        In conventional terms, therefore, I’m on Russia’s side. But he’s not for the White race either so I’m not really on Russia’s side in a deep sense.

        • Blackbird May 3, 2022 at 3:44 pm #

          There are several layers to our “reality”.

          On one layer, Putin decided to recognize and then defend the two break-away republics – after 8 years of war and no attempt at a fair resolution by the “international community”. On that particular layer of “reality”, I see Russia as being in the right.

          Go up another layer, (or would it be down?) and the Ukraine War is really about hastening the economic collapse of the U$ and our vassals with the end goal of a world government and we the people dead or tethered. On this layer of “reality”, I see Russia’s actions as furthering the cause of the plutocrats, something I don’t agree with.

          • Islander May 3, 2022 at 5:46 pm #

            “Go up another layer, (or would it be down?) and the Ukraine War is really about hastening the economic collapse of the U$ and our vassals with the end goal of a world government and we the people dead or tethered. On this layer of “reality”, I see Russia’s actions as furthering the cause of the plutocrats, something I don’t agree with.”

            You have bass ackwards, my friend.

          • Jarek May 3, 2022 at 6:13 pm #

            If you draw a line in the sand again and again, and they aren’t respected, soon you will lose respect for yourself – or your people will.

            He bent over backwards to avoid war and finally he struck suddenly and hard. Now people want to blame him for the war? Please.

    • Jarek May 3, 2022 at 12:48 pm #

      and that Trump campaigns on that

      • SoftStarLight May 3, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

        I hope he peeks in here and sees your advice. 🙂

        Tucker says the Biden regime is the end of the road of neoliberalism. That would be awesome if so. And Trump has said that this is the most dangerous point in our history because we have such feckless and malicious people in charge who don’t know how to negotiate or do deals.

        • Disaffected May 3, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

          Don’t get too chirpy, Lil’ SSL. One thing you can always count on in politics is that that light at the end of the tunnel you’ve been waiting so long to see will invariably be another freight train barreling down on you from the other direction.

          • SoftStarLight May 3, 2022 at 2:53 pm #

            LOL I’ll try to curb the chirpy a little 😀

        • Jarek May 3, 2022 at 1:32 pm #

          Yeah, I like De Santis more in general. But as a very traditional guy, he might well bel getting the Ukraine war completely wrong. Trump is very clever, the problem is whether he carries through on what he knows. His tweets were better than his speeches. His speeches better than his policies. And his policies better than what actually got done.

          Anyway, the Republican nomination is his for the taking. De Santis will have to wait.

          • SoftStarLight May 3, 2022 at 2:52 pm #

            Yeah I like DeSantis too and he does actually follow through more than Trump. No matter about all the talk and hype I don’t think anyone but DeSantis would have taken on Disney for example the way he did. Trump would have said something like oh well we don’t really want to hurt anyone now do we. And he would probably hope that bellicose rhetoric would change peoples’ behavior, which it very well might have with enough public pressure added on. But of course politics is so weird that many people say DeSantis is perfect for Florida but couldn’t win a national election. Whereas Trump could. I suppose that could be.

          • Blackbird May 3, 2022 at 3:48 pm #

            In other words….

            Trump 2024: More Words, Less Action

          • Redneck Liberal May 4, 2022 at 8:37 pm #

            Trump is dead-set stupid, and De Santis is no more than ye another political grifter.

          • benr May 5, 2022 at 9:39 am #

            @RL

            Damn near ANYONE is better than the potus, vp, soth or if you will 1, 2 and 3 in line.
            Two ancient demented old people and a cackling fool.

        • JohnAZ May 3, 2022 at 5:18 pm #

          I do not know if neoliberalism will end as long as we keep filling our borders with gimme immigrants.

          A gimme immigrant is a new creation. He/she is the product of a government that has allowed too many of them creating a surplus that has weakened their ability to find jobs. The surplus ends up in the welfare trash heap.

          I do think it shows the failure of neoliberalism, the omnipresent inflation coming from flooding the monetary marketplace with tax and spend philosophy.

          Overlay us on top of Venezuela and you will find our situation now occurred there just before their collapse.

          A people have to believe in themselves to succeed, Americans are losing faith.

    • JohnAZ May 3, 2022 at 5:27 pm #

      Really not surprising, is it Jarek.

      Trump is against the Swamp, the Deep State. That includes the biggest part of it, the MIC.

      Trump tried to cool down relations with our adversaries. The MIC hated him for it.

      Especially Russia.

      BTW

      Could it be that the Dem. Hatred of the Russians started with the embarrassing performance of JFK with Cuba and the Russians.

      • justanotherguy May 4, 2022 at 3:26 pm #

        the international bankers have hated russia since the czars. banking financed lenin, international banking has financed every war since the 1750’s.

        begins with r, ends with d.

  89. Htruth May 3, 2022 at 2:18 pm #

    Hi James, It’s funny how you ignore the election fraud on the “right”. That’s OK because I really don’t buy into the left/right republican/democrat paradigm. Election fraud is alive and well in Michigan. Recently the “right” half of the Uniparty has been up to a few tricks of it’s own.This is only the tip of the iceberg: https://americanyellowvest.wpcomstaging.com/2022/04/24/michigan-election-fraud-uncovered/
    https://americanyellowvest.wpcomstaging.com/2022/05/03/selected-not-elected/

  90. Walter B May 3, 2022 at 2:23 pm #

    Thinking about Dopey Joe’s “Ministry of Truth”, it might prove to be useful after all, because everything that is published by it will clearly be a lie or total crap. They might actually be handing us a Bullshit Meter.

    The downside would be that of course they would be monitoring the airwaves for anyone speaking the truth and that might lead to them finding and shutting down this wonderful place.

    In any case, MTV warned us a long time ago that this would be the future. I for one listened and have not forgotten.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXCja-pmspo

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  91. anmariwakaranai May 3, 2022 at 5:03 pm #

    Jhk, library update, they have ‘several’, of your books, all out and no hope of reading one unless I get in line, a long line!

    You should be rich!

    Kessa and Alba, YO! Good to see you both and all the rest of you rabble.
    Comments are quite impressive lately, some new blood. Keep it comin folks.

    • cowbell81 May 3, 2022 at 5:18 pm #

      Invest in the book and just buy it, best $20 you’ll ever spend, and you can refer to the text again and again at your leisure.

    • Redneck Liberal May 4, 2022 at 8:33 pm #

      You can buy your own copies on Kindle…

  92. mitchellc May 3, 2022 at 5:04 pm #

    Must I be among the few who admires the state’s ability to establish the agenda, set the tone and direct the narrative as casually and with about as much effort as grabbing a beer from the frig?

    Forget the actual events themselves; we should be both amazed and impressed at how effortless and *effective* the direction and manipulation are achieved.

    For example, it obsoletes both jim’s and wolf’s excellent essays. Covid? Shit, that’s really old news.

    • Disaffected May 3, 2022 at 6:36 pm #

      Yeah, but its cyclical, not linear. Covid’ll be coming right back around again soon.

  93. cowbell81 May 3, 2022 at 5:17 pm #

    It would not surprise me if the government introduced this tick into the ecosystem with the sole purpose to get many people infected and allergic to red meat, all in the name of climate change (a.k.a. global warming):

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/tick-that-makes-people-allergic-to-red-meat-is-spreading-in-the-us/ar-AAWS9iF?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=1178501084134d349ddcf1073c2e2d88

    • mitchellc May 3, 2022 at 5:37 pm #

      I watched a YT vlog showing how much effort it took to travel these days. A commenter pointed out its part of an intentional effort to take away personal mobility.

      I thought about adding something, but figured the general population is still behind the curve.

      Ultimately, whether driven by market forces aka prices, or top down direction, the future is pretty clear: much, much lower energy consumption and general wealth.

      That means basic engineered subsistence, limited personal liberty, dense urban apts (prisons) and intrusive social controls. Virtual reality, drugs and alcohol will provide the distractions. Electric mass transit will allow limited movement.

      This scenario isnt really any different than what jim described 15 years ago. The biggest change of course is rather than a broad kumbaya consensus aka “cooperative living”, the elite have a much more specific plan in mind.

      For the record, I still think they will ultimately fail. But that’s no reward, because the prize is mad max.

      • BackRowHeckler May 3, 2022 at 5:50 pm #

        The elite? As the Proles slog thru the mud on the side of the road, trudging to the bus stop to wait for one of their stinking buses filled up with vagrants and the mentally ill, the State Climate Commissar will be blowing by in his Lucid Air EV sedan, Deluxe Model $209,000, feeling smug and self satisfied, ready to run down any Prole that gets in his way.

    • thwack May 3, 2022 at 7:18 pm #

      I had a spider web and a bowl of bed bugs for breakfast.

  94. JohnAZ May 3, 2022 at 5:31 pm #

    Dis

    Visited Nixon’s library in SoCal.

    Wondered what one of the biggest communist haters would think of his country right now.

    Did he really realize what he was doing with China?

    Also, one of Klaus Schwab’s first statesman conquests was

    Tada, Henry Kissinger, who had total influence of Nixon.

    • Disaffected May 3, 2022 at 6:34 pm #

      We’re about two steps away from evacuating over here now, JAZ. Fire season getting real again, and it’s only early May! Think I need to move out of this shithole.

      • BackRowHeckler May 3, 2022 at 7:45 pm #

        I was going to ask you about those wildfires, DA. What’s burning? Cactuses?

        • JohnAZ May 3, 2022 at 9:47 pm #

          Sante Fe area is beautiful. Used to be a mixture of juniper, pinyon pine and cedar. The pine bark beetle took out the pines about 15 years ago. The dead wood from that is probably feeding the fires.

          Large areas of Colorado have been decimated by the beetle with close to 100% kill. Eventually it will all burn as it is nature’s way to recycle nutrients in the West.

          Dis

          Hope everything goes well for you. I have noticed the fire services protect homes pretty well. How do you feel about living in an area that has been burned through?

          • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 12:01 am #

            Where did the beetles come from? Japan? A lot of bad bugs come from there for some reason.

          • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 8:48 am #

            Right now, I feel like a two pack a day smoker. Smoke is terrible.

        • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 11:58 am #

          Nah, we don’t have cactus (Saguaro) up here, or in NM for that matter. Pinon pine, juniper, Ponderosa Pine, and a few spruce, cedar, and other conifers. Mostly what’s called high desert chapparal, very similar to SoCal. Burns hot, burns fast, and spreads fast, and where Ponderosa Pine’s involved the damn thing’s actually explode! The highly flammable sap (mineral spirits or turpentine anyone?) boils within and blows the damn top of the tree, ejecting little fire bombs to spread the fire. Ponderosa Pine don’t play!

          • BackRowHeckler May 4, 2022 at 5:31 pm #

            Where the hell are all the cactuses then?

      • elysianfield May 4, 2022 at 11:25 am #

        Dis,
        Think Coos County Oregon. Conservative…Rural…and it is still raining.

        • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 11:59 am #

          I’ve always wanted to get up that way. I’m guessing expensive as hell, though.

          • elysianfield May 4, 2022 at 12:59 pm #

            Dis,
            Not expensive, considering the times. Downtown Myrtle Point has, estimated 50% commercial vacancies..Coquille, the county seat, not much better.

            Not much commerce. No chain restaurants, and a crying lack of…cultural diversity.

    • KesaAnna May 3, 2022 at 7:13 pm #

      The historical figure who most reminds me , roughly , of Nixon was Frederick the ( so called ) Great.

      I would love to invite either man to dinner — 15 or 20 times — because both were absolute geniuses ,

      and certainly quirky enough to be entertaining / engrossing / interesting , whatever you think their precise IQ.

      But both were impossibly opaque.

      Frederick the Great never got enough of making witty snide remarks ridiculing religion in the company of his butt – buddies.

      So you would think …. ?

      Under his rule , in lock step with that of his father previously , if a peasant missed church one too many Sundays the police showed up at the peasants door wanting to know why the hell he wasn’t at church.

      In his salon it may have been chic agnosticism or even atheism ,

      but out on the street , for the average Joe , Prussia was an Iron – fisted Lutheran theocracy.

      Turning to Nixon ,

      If you look at things like the Alger Hiss case , you reasonably conclude that Nixon was decidedly and stridently anti – Communist.

      But then it seems to me that YOU HAVE TO OVERLOOK A HELL OF A LOT to not take into long consideration that when Nixon made overtures to China Mao was still very much alive , and the Cultural Revolution still in full swing.

      And then there’s the Gold Standard thing.

      1971 was 50 years ago , and Nixon didn’t have the benefit of hindsight. so maybe he could claim , ” I didn’t know what I was getting in to. ? ”

      And maybe he really did intend going off the Gold Standard to be a temporary measure ?

      Keeping in mind that finance is not my area of expertise ,

      It sure appears that going off the Gold Standard has been no end of ambiguities and all sorts of funny business a Totalitarian could only salivate over.

      On a personal note ,

      to me , Nixon was your most likeable and relatable President of the past hundred years.

      Whatever Americans claim to like or prefer , pretty much all these guys are born to the Country Club types.

      But , Duke education not withstanding , I could believe Nixon was the son of an only modestly successful Grocer.

      If one really believes the Democratic premise that ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things , here , in Nixon, was such an example.

      But that’s personal. My likes or dislikes should not be the issue.

      • elysianfield May 4, 2022 at 11:23 am #

        Kesa,
        We both have respect for RM Nixon. I consider him the best president of my long life. China was not a mistake,but a brilliant geopolitical move to isolate our then boogyman, Russia.

        Gold Standard? Another competent move to increase the money supply and provide for the ridiculous level of wealth our country has experienced since.

        Nothing is forever. Blame Inflation and China’s hegemony on Nixon?
        It would be akin to blaming Dresden on the ancestor that invented fire.

  95. BackRowHeckler May 3, 2022 at 5:38 pm #

    If Ukraine is such a hot War Zone, how is it that the dozen petroleum and natgas pipelines that bring product from Belarus and Russia thru Ukraine, and west into central and western Europe, fragile and exposed, have not been damaged one little bit (by either side)? All it would take is one burst of automatic rifle fire with a tracer round to destroy a gas pipeline. By comparison, I remember the hellacious oil well fires in Iraq during the Gulf War, and the massive infrastructure caused by US shock and awe bombing and missile strikes. As far as I know Kiev still has electricity, water and internet.

    Angelina Jolie flew into Ukraine last week “to comfort the children”. That’s a nice gesture, but it begs the question ‘WTF kind of war is this?”

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    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 3, 2022 at 7:34 pm #

      The Wag The Dog type. Might as well be Albania.

  96. MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 3, 2022 at 7:08 pm #

    Love hiow Roe v Wade is now the thing.

    Fock Ukraine. Same for covid.

    Whatever we need to keep people arguing instead of thinking.

    This should be so incredibly obvious to all, but it’s amazing how many people will just follow along with the news cycle as if it’s being fed to them from reality. No, it’s being fed from a script written long ago to occupy the minds of the public while other things go down behind the curtain.

    Roe will be fine. This is a trash media false flag to get people riled up about something new and not think about why.

    • MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 8:04 pm #

      I agree and it’s beyond silly that we are so gullible we keep getting worked up over everything the PTB throw at us.

    • mitchellc May 3, 2022 at 8:53 pm #

      It’s why the elite are (much) more cunning than smart.

      Design an airplane, discover a new element? Hah, too much effort, not enough ROI.

      Rather, all one must do is remember some really basic rules about human nature: greed and fear. Take these core motivations and mix match:

      – enemies, foreign or domestic
      – race, religion, nationality, gender
      – crime, health, safety
      – jobs, family, economic security

      As Dis noted, covid may come back as part of the regular recycled news, but it will need to be updated and improved to deliver a comparable scare effect.

      Anyway, apply Hegel, appear sincere, and profit.

    • tucsonspur May 3, 2022 at 9:40 pm #

      ‘Roe will be fine’. Not according to millions of pro-choice people out there. Is Roe being overturned ‘fine’?

      This is not a trash media false flag. This was a calculated leak to do one of two things or both:

      1. Influence SC Justices to change their mind(s).

      2. Change the discourse leading up to the election.

      I believe that this was first leaked to Politico, who then ran with a major, controversial story with the MSM more than happy to get in on the fireworks.

      Two things. No Justice will change his or her mind. Republicans will still make considerable gains in November, unless Obama and the DS come up with some sensational shenanigans.

      Who leaked it? A Justice, a clerk, a minor player?

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 3, 2022 at 9:56 pm #

        Disagree.

        This leak was only to make a story for people to argue about for the coming months.

        Nothing will change.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 3, 2022 at 10:02 pm #

        Everyone’s blue and yellow flag overlays on their facebook avatars will now change to “I support a woman’s choice”, when only 10 weeks ago they all were pics of them receiving the shot or wearing a mask.

        They are in lockstep, thinking they are being original.

        (they are not)

      • Redneck Liberal May 4, 2022 at 8:30 pm #

        “Republicans will still make considerable gains in November, unless Obama and the DS come up with some sensational shenanigans.
        TS – what’s changed since November 2020? If these evil DS pranksters could have pulled off what has been claimed so vehemently by the Trumpistas, what makes you think they can’t pull the same ‘stunt’ in November? If the GOP makes its expected gains, will you then agree that 2020 wasn’t stolen?

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 5, 2022 at 1:13 pm #

          Agree.

          Though I think there may be a lot more independent pollsters out this coming election. If those numbers are at extreme odds with results, well, nothing will happen, to be honest. But the more people start to distrust the system being shoved down our throats, the more likely some change will be forced in the near future.

  97. thwack May 3, 2022 at 7:48 pm #

    Your position on abortion should be dependent on you having witnessed the birth of a child and its matriculation through and to adulthood.

    If you haven’t witnessed that series of events, your opinion should be consider null and void.

    It was quite a shock to the system to realize my niece was NOT a clone of my sister; but instead a unique and independent person.

    She was born premature and spent two months in the neo natal ICU; so I intentionally refused to get attached to her incase she died and my sister freaked out….

    (spin doctor mode, goofy Catholic copes….)

    yeah, yeah, yeah, the “apple don’t fall far from the tree….”; but my niece is a SEPARATE person from my sister.

    Actually, she is not even a composite of her mom and dad?

    Is this a case of “the whole being greater than the sum of its parts?

    It kinda feels like it because I know both her mother and her father; and she reveals sighs on both?

    Plus other things not in the algo…?

    *sigh*

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 3, 2022 at 8:02 pm #

      Having been through a whole hell of a lot to receive the gift of my boy a few years back, I agree.

      Do whatever you want, folks. But I, for one, am personally not on the abortion train. I know, that’s just me, and that’s fine. Enjoy your freedoms, have your fun without “consequences”…just can’t understand some of these smug jokers bragging about such a life-changing thing as if it’s a cute anecdote. That, I will never understand, having lived through the process with rapt attention and hope, with prayers answered in spades.

    • KesaAnna May 3, 2022 at 9:29 pm #

      Interesting.

      I raised a child .

      I was not the biological mother , though , or any kind of mother at all.

      The biological mother was busy playing Mary Tyler Moore or Marlo Thomas.

      I guess it is fairly accurate to describe my position as unpaid Nanny , with zero authority , because the biological mother was a major Control Freak.

      As for the child in question , like her biological mother was a control freak , in this case the Apple did not fall far from the tree .

      For another , ” Money ( and formal social status and conventions ) talks , and bullshit walks. ”

      Whatever your experiences in life , undoubtedly at some point you have encountered the circumstance where you are given a mountain of responsibility , but zero authority and zero credit to go along with that responsibility,

      and so have at least a vague idea how that is always a really lousy and bitter deal , whatever the precise details of the circumstance.

      The Good News ; The kid turned out OK , near as I can tell , according to her testimony.

      The Bad News ;

      The child I raised and I are profoundly estranged now , and I don’t see that ever changing.

      —-

      But then you could also say I never had any children.

      Paradoxical , No ?

      Hmm , well , anyway ,

      I am given to think a great many questions which never the less are on the table , and never the less are open to discussion ,

      really should be , for better or worse , pro or con , ( In this case male or female , breeding or sterile ) in the category of ;

      ” It’s none of your fucking business to have an opinion in the matter. ”

      Perhaps it is only a matter of course that the shit is stacked so high you need a helicopter to rise above it ,

      because we really have opened way too many cans of worms. ?

      • tucsonspur May 3, 2022 at 10:45 pm #

        Sounds lousy, pain and no, or very little gain.

        I’m wondering how long you raised the child and why the profound estrangement now? You raise interesting questions on the meaning of motherhood, ‘blood or love’, and the lives of nannies.

        I knew a nanny quite well at one time who didn’t have any children of her own and the clock was ticking loudly. She often seemed quite sad which is not surprising, being the substitute mom in another’s family. The drinking came easy, living a life not really her own. Absence, a hollow presence, nothing like the family essence.

      • BackRowHeckler May 4, 2022 at 5:38 am #

        Great insights into the human condition, KA.

        You’ve led and interesting life, seem to have always made the best of what you’ve had.

    • elysianfield May 4, 2022 at 11:14 am #

      “Your position on abortion should be dependent on you having witnessed the birth of a child and its matriculation through and to adulthood.

      If you haven’t witnessed that series of events, your opinion should be consider null and void.”

      Thwack,
      Of course, you jest. Witness a child dying of hunger in abject poverty….

  98. MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 8:13 pm #

    This one’s for G.A. – hahahahaha!

    https://twitter.com/mehercle/status/1521278376547344394

    • workingclasshero May 4, 2022 at 12:48 am #

      We’ve had about 25 years of tattoos and I had hoped they would go out of style 15 years ago, no chance. Left Libertarians and their neon hair dye are going to make me go postal. By 2080 I wonder how it will look in a history book if it ever goes away at all.

    • GreenAlba May 4, 2022 at 7:26 am #

      Ugh! The SNP-Green coalition (should be SPMP as they are post-modernists, not nationalists) have made this country an object of ridicule around the world, what with this, the midwifery students being taught about childbirth via penises, and the abysmal covid death figures among the fully ‘vaccinated’, that have been going viral around the world since last summer.

      Nicola Sturgeon will not be content until they have destroyed everything that used to be admired about this country. All those Victorian engineers, scientists, philanthropists (real ones) etc. must be whizzing around in their graves with embarrassment. A reflection of your own US experience, really. We have always copied everything a year later from America, since the last war. It started with chewing gum. 🙂

      I think I need to remove the ‘Green’ from my moniker lest I be tainted (although it signifies an earlier kind of ‘green’). Can I do that without opening a new account?

      • GreenAlba May 4, 2022 at 7:45 am #

        One chewing gum practice that, thankfully, hasn’t been copied (to my knowledge) – in this case from Canada, but I’m guessing they copy US practices? – I heard about from a Scottish neighbour of my mother who’d worked as a waitress in Canada. She said one of the jobs they had to do when the cafe closed was to scrape the chewing gum off the underside of the tables.

        What The. Actual. F***

        Who behaves like that, seriously? And what kind of contempt would you have to hold the waiting staff in to expect them to clean up after your disgusting habits? Put it in the effing paper it came in, people, or use a napkin.

        • GreenAlba May 4, 2022 at 7:51 am #

          ‘People’, in this instance, obviously isn’t addressing the well brought-up members of this admirable community. 🙂

          And maybe it’s only those ‘nice’ Canadians.

          • GreenAlba May 4, 2022 at 11:27 am #

            Ugh, that is disgusting! It makes those bridges covered in ‘love padlocks’ look like fine art. Why on earth?

            In the late 50s when a couple of my demobbed American cousins came over to England for a visit they brought dozens of packs of Wrigley’s chewing gum with them. Big packs of small packs, like the packs of ciggies you get at the airport (or did?).

            After they’d gone my mother threw it out – she wouldn’t let us touch it, except for maybe one try to see what it was. Singapore-in-miniature our house was. 🙂 We weren’t allowed fizzy pop (soda, to you?) either. I remember being looked after by a neighbour while my mother was in a ‘maternity home’ having my kid brother, and she gave us ‘cherryade’ after school – it was the most transgressive drink we’d ever had!

            I wonder if chewing gum had been some kind of bartering gift American soldiers brought to Europe during the war, like chocolate and nylon stockings.

            Talking of stockings, my long-dead aunt told me that during the war and rationing, they used to dye their legs with tea (that must have taken some persistence) and paint a line down the back for the seams.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 5, 2022 at 8:52 am #

            Alba – …like the packs of ciggies you get at the airport (or did?).

            Did. You might be able to buy a pack on the way out after arriving these days, but not in most cities.

            We weren’t allowed fizzy pop (soda, to you?)

            Depends on where you are in the US. It’s “pop” here in most of the Midwest, Soda in more “cosmopolitan” coastal metro areas. Sometimes down in TX people just call all flavors of soda “Coke” (at least they did when I was a kid visiting my family there). In Missouri a “soda” used to mean it had a scoop of ice cream in it…that has apparently faded though, according to more recent visits.

            One thing’s for sure, I’ve never heard the term “fizzy pop”.

          • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 2:55 pm #

            Technically speaking, I suppose it’s either ‘fizzy drinks’ or ‘pop’, Mr Mr – I think I added the ‘fizzy’ thinking you wouldn’t know what I meant by pop. 🙂

            AFAIK, we only used the term ‘soda’ for lemonade with ice cream in it, which was known as (ice-)cream soda (from the US, obviously).

            ‘Soda’ is generally reserved for baking soda.

          • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 4:59 pm #

            Or caustic soda!

          • Blackbird May 5, 2022 at 9:06 pm #

            “Lemonade with ice cream in it”?!

            Two good things and ya gone ‘n’ ruined both of ’em. No wonder so many people left those tubercular isles.

          • GreenAlba May 6, 2022 at 5:57 am #

            ice cream soda

            NOUN

            NORTH AMERICAN

            a cold drink consisting of ice cream served in a glass with flavoured soda water or another soft drink.

      • BackRowHeckler May 4, 2022 at 5:38 pm #

        Just watched bios on Andrew Carnegie and Alexander Graham Bell — both Scotsman. James Paris Lee — inventor of the Lee Enfield rifle who lived in this town when he worked for Colt — also from Scotland.

        Do you still have that Pakastani Attorney General who hates whites, Scotland, the UK, Christians, in fact the whole western world?

        • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 7:09 am #

          We don’t have an Attorney General, brh, we have Her Majesty’s Advocate General for Scotland, who is Lord Keith Stewart (Baron) of Dirleton QC [that’s ‘Queen’s Counsellor]. I don’t know if he’s ever been to Pakistan, but I’ve not idea why he would.

          The one to keep an eye on, though who may or may not fit your template) is our former Justice Minister and now (very scarily) Health Minister (or to give him his posh title, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care).

          https://www.gov.scot/about/who-runs-government/cabinet-and-ministers/cabinet-secretary-for-health-and-social-care/

          His English counterpart is Sajid Javid, which may nourish your theories, of course, but my concerns about Javid are not his origins but his history with the WEF and Goldman Sachs.

          I don’t trust any Health Minister or Secretary in the Western world, at the moment, regardless of their origins.

          • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 7:11 am #

            missed an opening bracket there (for a change – I usually miss the closing one)

            “The one to keep an eye on, though (who may or may not fit your template) […]”

          • BackRowHeckler May 5, 2022 at 1:30 pm #

            You need to get yourself a Lee Enfield rifle to go along with your Adam’s British Bulldog revolver — keep it British, GA — for when you got to make your break for the Highlands.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 4, 2022 at 7:44 pm #

        Can I do that without opening a new account?

        Alba – Yes you can, just go to edit your profile and change your display name.Though we’re pretty used to this one, so that’s up to you.

        • GreenAlba May 4, 2022 at 7:51 pm #

          Thanks, Mr M!

          • Blackbird May 5, 2022 at 9:10 pm #

            Don’t do it! You were Green first. Make them change their name.

            But if you are going to change your name, post something to make Mr. K. ban you first. That’ll be fun.

          • GreenAlba May 6, 2022 at 6:02 am #

            Haha. Actually, the ‘green’ in GreenAlba most refers to the fact that the country is literally green, because that’s what rain gives you. I quite liked the idea that the word was ambiguous.

      • MaryQueen May 4, 2022 at 9:04 pm #

        Love your breakdown of what these idiots have done to your country. And, I’m sad for Scotland. Yes, they imitated the US at their own peril. Very sad. Why anyone would want to emulate the absolute clown show here is beyond me!

        Don’t remove the Green from your name. I never associated it with the GP. They should have Green taken out of THEIR name! They have gone so far away from the principles they were founded on, they have no business using it. I think of “Green” as grassroots, and pro-nature. They are anti-nature (pro big pharma) now, and anti-woman, about as unnatural as it gets.

  99. tom clark May 3, 2022 at 8:56 pm #

    I just heard something outside that sounded like a gunshot. Shot back and nailed the motherfucker. Gotta go…cops a swirlin’

    • MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 9:12 pm #

      I’m going to assume you live in some rich fantasy world, tom.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 3, 2022 at 9:24 pm #

      North Side, tom?

    • KesaAnna May 3, 2022 at 9:54 pm #

      Since you mention it , sort of , that’s one of the things I like about where I live ;

      — Lots of gun fanciers here. And at least some folks still hunt.

      So gun shots , even many , many gun shots , are as ubiquitous as the wind through the trees , birds chirping , and dogs raising Hell at the moon like drunks.

      — Speaking of gun shots , and dogs raising Hell at the moon , if anything untoward ever did happen , your neighbors would never even smell anything , either. Too far away.

      — This is not Grizzly Bear country. But given the circumstances , I suppose if the Manson Family or Ted Bundy ever showed up ,

      it would pretty much amount to the same thing as a pissed off Grizzly Bear Skulking behind the shed.

      Frightening ?

      Nah , unless you’re a fucking idiot.

      Best just to say , ” Fuck it ” , and , ” Forget about it ” .

      Folks make far too much of way too little.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 3, 2022 at 10:03 pm #

        Yeah, I used to live there. But tom is living in the Cities. Gunshots are not a calming sound there.

        • KesaAnna May 3, 2022 at 10:43 pm #

          I was suggesting maybe it’s time to give up on the human experiment and get thee out into the wilderness.

          Though , of course , that’s a hell of a lot easier said , than done !

    • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 8:52 am #

      TC’s new motto: “Damn it feels good to be a gangsta!”

      Gotta be ready to throw down at a moment’s notice, now.

      No time for lovin!
      Or hoochie coochie!
      We ain’t got time for that now!

  100. tom clark May 3, 2022 at 9:13 pm #

    Diane Feinstein’s losin’ it. Don’t we all?

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    • MaryQueen May 3, 2022 at 9:17 pm #

      She’s ancient.

    • benr May 4, 2022 at 8:14 am #

      One of the worst she should have been canned twenty years ago.

    • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 11:09 am #

      There’s some pretty fearless free climbers out there. Most die early, though. It only takes once.

      • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 11:16 am #

        This kid is featured in the documentary The Alpinist. I was weak in the knees just watching the damn thing. His heart rate wasn’t even rising. Crazy thing, avalanche finally got him.

        A true free climber lives life as a vagabond, earning only enough money to go place to place in search of the next great climb. Kind of heroic, really.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc-Andr%C3%A9_Leclerc

        • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 11:23 am #

          And they generally avoid ropes and pitons, and all that, although not religiously. They’ll use them if the situation absolutely demands it, but not until. In addition, Leclerc did all his record attempts or similar absolutely solo. It was like watching a kid who had never been told that what he was doing was difficult. He was just playing.

          • stelmosfire May 4, 2022 at 1:12 pm #

            Dis, back in the day I climbed Denali, in my fruit of the loom’s, with only a swiss army knife, in January during a polar vortex, solo, nobody witnessed it. Tru story

          • stelmosfire May 4, 2022 at 1:17 pm #

            Well I wasn’t totally solo . I started out with Wim Hof but he backed out at 4500 meters. I had to summit alone.

            https://www.wimhofmethod.com/iceman-wim-hof

          • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

            Cool. Never heard of this guy. Here’s another freak.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirmal_Purja

            Not dead yet, either! An anaerobic monster!

            While Leclerc was about the adventure and the experience, Purja’s about the accomplishment. Purja’s not a free climber either. He uses (and hauls) all the gear plus Oxygen as required. Still a monster.

    • MaryQueen May 4, 2022 at 9:11 pm #

      Stupid media, all they can do is talk about how he ‘endangered’ others. Good lord. That’s quite a feat, climbing a tall building. Impressive as hell!

  101. Jarek May 3, 2022 at 11:56 pm #

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-lashes-out-at-israel-as-rift-over-holocaust-and-ukraine-widens-223208572.html

    Russia doesn’t back down. Putin went along with the Nazi narrative at first, but now he is challenging it (I assume Lavrov cleared it with him) in his own way. Why did the Jewish Elite who actually control Ukraine, empower and arm these people? You must support them and believe what they believe? The Holocaust you say? The Red Army stopped that. We haven’t forgotten, by maybe you have?

    I doubt Putin believes that they are Nazis or Nazi sympathizers, but pretending that he does is a way to call their bluff and out them.

    • justanotherguy May 4, 2022 at 2:54 pm #

      why?

      this is a lesson to learn well. because they hate us more than they love one another.

      check out ‘The Transfer Agreement’ by Black

  102. tom clark May 4, 2022 at 12:03 am #

    Mango…not a food desert (yet).

    MQ…who the hell gave you permission to express your opinions on this site? Sit down and shut up.

    Good nite, Chet. Good nite, David.

    • benr May 4, 2022 at 8:13 am #

      We could flip this back at you Tom.

      What do you bring to the table worthy of discussion?

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 4, 2022 at 6:59 pm #

        Dry, unprovoked witticisms, of course!

  103. Jarek May 4, 2022 at 12:12 am #

    My brother showed me a good documentary on Ukraine by Oliver Stone titled “Ukraine On Fire”. Form 2017, so out of date now but very good on showing the build up.

    I was wrong to think that Stepan Bandara has no modern influence – he is still a great hero in Western Ukraine. They are a fierce people who deeply resent Russia. Thus they accepted aid from the West to secure their freedom. Or did they also want revenge? It will turn out to have been a foolish choice I’m afraid. It simply isn’t a viable country as is, and no doubt they wanted it all of it, not just the West and Center. Alas for them.

    No information on the half dozen or so militias they have. Some of them may be perfectly legitimate nationalist organizations (National Socialist or Fascist of course) – unlike the loathsome Azovs who seem to have been favored by the new Elite after the coup.

    The English speaking guy who could probably tell us about all this is David Duke who teaches over there. But he’s staying out of it.

    • Walter B May 4, 2022 at 7:25 am #

      Well, they cannot be very smart if they are willing to get into bed with the American Mob, especially when our Puppet In Chief is Dopey Joe Biden. They should have checked in with South Korea, South Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Libya or Afghanistan and found out what happens to America’s friends, sorry, I meant victims. Even Israel is backing away from the Whore of the Harbor:

      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-20/israel-adds-yuan-to-206-billion-reserves-in-philosophy-change

      • justanotherguy May 4, 2022 at 2:52 pm #

        the mob clearly paid them well, probably saying “here’s an offer you can’t refuse”

        their job is to cover for the mob in the prescribed way. can’t wait to see the cracks in that.

    • stelmosfire May 4, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

      In case anybody wants to watch it.

      https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html

  104. Htruth May 4, 2022 at 12:37 am #

    Republican rejected by voters after rape comment: https://americanyellowvest.wpcomstaging.com/2022/05/04/rj-regan-loses/

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  105. tucsonspur May 4, 2022 at 6:24 am #

    Not that long ago you wouldn’t dream of this happening here in Tucson:

    https://www.kold.com/2022/05/03/graphic-videos-show-large-scale-fight-tucson-high-campus/

    Shootings will soon follow.

    There are only edges anymore, crisscrossing lines and delineations that have no center and that have no boundaries.

    The ‘rough beast’ is no longer slouching. It is now pouncing towards total mayhem, rapidly gaining ground.

    • stelmosfire May 4, 2022 at 6:53 am #

      Perhaps we are looking at another “Summer of Love” like 2020. Miscreants are gearing up for a SCOTUS decision on Roe and it is an election year.

      • tucsonspur May 4, 2022 at 7:13 am #

        Burning ‘Love’ worked the last time. Maybe too many have come to believe that the violent people must be right. Go figure.

      • BackRowHeckler May 4, 2022 at 8:54 am #

        Any large scale disorder and violent outbursts this summer in cities like Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, SF and so on should just about finish them off as viable entities. As it is these cities are just about hanging by a thread to begin with.

    • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 8:44 am #

      Cool! Look at all that pent up youthful energy! Don’t harness it or let it vent, and yep, it’s gonna come out.

      Back in the day they might have been handed the miscreants over to the gym squad and allowed them to go at it with gloves on under adult supervision. Now men with guns rush in to shut everything down and the kids are punished for un-needed aggression. Irony much?

      The Borg loves it some violence, provided it’s Borg sanctioned. Give these young’ns a few years, sign ’em up for the military or the cops, and then let them go vent this kind of energy on Borg approved “villains,” (foreign OR domestic) and all will be A OK.

      • JohnAZ May 4, 2022 at 11:02 am #

        The Borg

        Resistance is futile!

        Damn good description of the Deep State.

        • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 11:11 am #

          And a good TINA to you this morning, JAZ.

  106. tucsonspur May 4, 2022 at 7:07 am #

    What’s up, Putin?

    Cancer or nervous breakdown?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLtuF6SyX7A

    Tough slog for the Russians. Putin may formally declare war and bring up more troops.

    See Javelin Joe and what he’s sending to Mr. P.

    https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2022/05/02/bidens-javelin-factory-tour-spotlights-struggle-to-backfill-ukraine-munitions/

    Is Putin being held back militarily? Are the Russians this weak? WTF?

  107. MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 4, 2022 at 9:03 am #

    So..of course war is stupid (at least when it’s based on bullshit), but let me get this straight…

    The US military rolled in hot with flags waving and KFC in tow, invading two countries we had no physical or historical relationship with, Afghanistan/Iraq in 2001/2003 respectively. This was based on (what even then we all knew) was a complete fabrication to justify occupying and draining their countrys’ resources into our elite’s coffers for decades. Based on lies

    What did Russia do about it? Nothing. I mean hey – we took over for them after they had enough. So Russia stepped back and let us play war and get it out of our system. That said, Yeltsin was likely hungover and could barely see straight to tie his shoes at that point, but hey – neither can Joey NoPulse.

    Anyway, the whole world “officially” denounced our actions, yet voted to allow us to carry on with it anyway. Some even joined in on the fun (UK for starters) without official repercussion.

    Now, Russia rolls in hot to their neighbor over an actual physical and historical beef, and suddenly Putin is Hitler, Russia is taken off the international Western trading block, we’re blacklisting Russian tennis players and removing Dostoevsky from local bookshelves, not to mention the Russkies pulling their support from the International Space Station (which, personally, well, whoopity freakin’ doo).

    The point is: Russia didn’t fuck with us when our hallowed government decided to go beat up on someone weaker because, well, nuclear threat deterrent and money. Now, when Russia steps out for a little military walkabout, we can’t let them get their jollies and are pushing toward world war. Granted, I don’t think “WW3” will happen in the traditional sense, but I very well may be wrong about that. Strager things have happened by leaps and bounds, and people have the immense capacity to suck.

    These things happen by the snowball effect and having too many “foreign entanglement” obligations on the table due to mutual defense agreements. That may bite us in the ass, and we seem to be doing everything we can to make that happen.

    France and Germany are set to be bombed soon as they vote to send weapons to Ukraine. A farther off reality for us across the pond, but still easily doable if Putin really doesn’t care about what happens to the rest of us after he’s dead. Clearly our government handlers don’t…

    I know I’m not breaking any new ground here with this line of thinking, just pointing out how huge the double standard is here. Putin ain’t gonna nuke anybody. But it’s possible it’s our generation’s turn for a bout of utter carelessness and populational idiocy. We just might push that button to make a point. Stupid.

    • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 9:40 am #

      WW3’s already LONG begun, it’s just a different kind of war. And it’s actually MUCH MORE world encompassing this time. The winner will truly take all this time.

      • MaryQueen May 4, 2022 at 7:51 pm #

        Yes I agree. I’d argue it started in 2001.

    • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 11:19 am #

      Putin ain’t gonna nuke anybody? Really? He’s got the biggest arsenal in the world and he’s definitely not going to use it, no matter what?

      I’d say that’s your normalcy bias talking.

      • cowbell81 May 4, 2022 at 11:26 am #

        Step 1: Take out the grid.
        Step 2: Send in the nukes.
        Step 3: Watch everyone lose their shit since they cannot access Instagram.

        This is the playbook that Putin should follow, he should put down all the chips already to show that he means business and is not bluffing.

        • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 12:58 pm #

          EMPs. Your two birds with half a dozen stones.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 4, 2022 at 1:17 pm #

        I’d say that’s your normalcy bias talking.

        You are clueless about me, Jarek.

        • justanotherguy May 4, 2022 at 2:26 pm #

          j is looking to me like someone with limited exposure to the historical and strategic bookshelf, and learns very slowly by arguing superficially and then grudgingly and very privately almost admitting to himself that he was wrong.

          sorry, not intending to start a flame war, but that the way it looks.

          that said, he does occasionally offer up an interesting nugget.

          • justanotherguy May 4, 2022 at 2:28 pm #

            in the interest of adding to the conversation re: whether we are on a war footing, specifically WW3, i would offer this gem of analysis from the yt channel s2 underground.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p10G1m3ZfU

            i’d love to bounce around some ideas based on this guy’s analysis.

        • MaryQueen May 4, 2022 at 7:52 pm #

          He’s clueless about everyone.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 4, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

        Love that you purposefully don’t acknowledge that I immediately followed that opinion with a comment about how carelessness and stupidity may reign.

        But if I had to lay down my money, I’d say no one actually wants to drop nukes. They’d go down in history as the devil with no benefit to themselves, even if it is only 10,000 people that survive to remember the story.

        Stuff it, sir.

        • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 2:05 pm #

          You said we might press the button. And when you spoke of Russia bombing France, I assume you meant with conventional weapons. Maybe you meant nuclear, at least possibly?

          • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 2:08 pm #

            But you weren’t clear. Now you may owe me an apology. And when you refuse to pay, your debt will only increase!

            Thus things always tend to go from bad to worse in this world.

          • MaryQueen May 4, 2022 at 7:53 pm #

            LMAO, he wants yet another apology he’ll never get.

    • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 11:36 am #

      https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/05/04/the-neoconservatives-are-setting-up-the-world-for-nuclear-war/

      I don’t know why he says neoconservatives since neoliberals are the same now, fundamentally. The Deep State is the proper word. Otherwise, I’d say he is correct. Maybe Putin should set one off of the East Coast or something – a warning shot as a wake up call. But that may not be the Russian way. He’s already bent over backwards for them, and if that hasn’t worked, why would this?

  108. Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 9:37 am #

    Brilliant and succinct summation of what the current war between the US and Russia – of which the actual shooting war in Ukraine is just a small part – is all about by a top economic advisor to Putin, Sergey Glazyev:

    https://thesaker.is/sergey-glazyev-for-those-who-still-dont-understand/

    “The implementation of this plan, in fact, is aimed at destroying the Russian world, followed by the American “deep state” plans to destroy Iran and block China.

    Due to the objective laws of global economic development, this plan is doomed to failure. The United States will not be able to win the global hybrid war it has unleashed to maintain its global hegemony. They are irrevocably losing it to China, which is rapidly strengthening as a result of anti-Russian sanctions.”

    Dis: Ukraine is just a mop up operation, which will be completed in due course on Russia’s timeline, not the US’s. The Euros will need to choose between remaining loyal lapdogs to the globalists represented by the US and GBR and being destroyed, or realizing where their real loyalties should lie. Either way, the 21st century’s great war – a continuation of the 20th’s WWII – has been joined and there’s no going back to the way things were from here.

    Unless all this has been shadow play and all sides are united in taking down the whole shebang – still a possibility – which still seems unlikely given the basic philosophical and sociological differences between east and west, one side or the other will determine the immediate future of the world.

  109. thwack May 4, 2022 at 9:51 am #

    Fresh Losses Of AFU On Every Frontline: Kharkov, Popasnaya, Izyum

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/BFVazt3ITF96/

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    • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 10:50 am #

      Which one’s the AFU again?

      • Paula D May 4, 2022 at 11:07 am #

        Armed Forces of Ukraine

        • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 11:09 am #

          Ahhh! Thanks.

    • BackRowHeckler May 4, 2022 at 11:35 am #

      It’s not for nothing do they call the frontier between Moscow and Berlin “The Bloodlands.” Its certainly living up to its name.

      • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 11:47 am #

        Do ya think there’s another young Clint Eastwood out there making a spaghetti western as we speak?

        The Good, The Bad, and the Fugly, starring Vlad, Z, and “the Joe Biden,” in that order.

  110. JohnAZ May 4, 2022 at 11:13 am #

    Right now, Biden is staying the deficit is going down by 1.5 trillion since he has been president and is now justifying his tax and spend policies by saying is will reduce the deficit even more.

    Huh? The president.cannot even add and subtract.

    Never heard a better description of Democrat, lie, lie, lie and it becomes the truth.

    Every Democratic change has been disastrous for Joe Average.

    That is the truth.

    ANY partisan in DC that says that the government is the key to success in the economy or social issues is a Liar. The government is only a source of division in its continuing hegemony of power.

    • JohnAZ May 4, 2022 at 11:26 am #

      They just showed a poll that showed that 53% of Americans disapprove of Biden’s performance. 45% of them approve of what he has done. Holy cow. 45% think that that gangsta has done a good job.

      The government is a reflection of the people.

      “Of the people”

      This country is in such big trouble, from the bottom up.

      Think about the Democratic platform. Support abortion, ie kill Americans in utero and let in as many socialist impoverished immigrants as possible.

      45% of Americans approve of this. Now wonder we are the first targets of the WEF.

      Stupidification is working well.

      Next step is immediate enfranchisement of the illegals.

    • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 11:44 am #

      “The deficit” being a relative and highly manipulated term. One, because its year to year, so going hog wild one year and then throttling back a hair the next some how appears to be “responsible,” and two, because so much of government spending is off the books now, hidden in every manner of dark ops top secret bullshit that would curl your nose hairs. It’s widely speculated that “off-budget” budgets dwarf all official spending, just as derivatives and other highly speculative instruments dwarf the real economy of actual productive investment. We have reached the point of maximum abstraction.

  111. mike6972 May 4, 2022 at 11:23 am #

    I agree completely about Nina Jankowicz. However, in her defense, she does have a lovely singing voice. She should get out of the “Ministry of Truth” business and become a lounge singer. It’s her true calling.

    • cowbell81 May 4, 2022 at 11:28 am #

      How old is she and is she single? Inquiring minds want to know….

      • Slugoon May 4, 2022 at 1:20 pm #

        Bleurgh.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 4, 2022 at 8:43 pm #

        How old is she and is she single?

        32. And married (to a man, surprisingly).

        Seriously, can you imagine having to smile and pretend you enjoy that type of performance from your partner on a daily basis?

        “Wow, you’ve really got something here, babe! You should perform this for everyone when we have the Lundquists over next week!”

        Oy.

        I mean, she can sing. But that is some over-the-top energy that must be fed continuously. Agree that she should spend more time at her local community theater. They will love the effort.

    • MaryQueen May 4, 2022 at 8:19 pm #

      She’s more a musical/stage voice, not a jazz/lounge voice, IMHO.

  112. cowbell81 May 4, 2022 at 11:27 am #

    The Kunstler website was just now down and unable to be viewed for a minute or two. This could be the start of someone trying to hack in and take it over. Watch out now!

    • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 12:59 pm #

      Ukrainian cyber attack.

    • Redneck Liberal May 4, 2022 at 6:25 pm #

      Hahahaaaa….unlikely.

  113. cowbell81 May 4, 2022 at 11:49 am #

    LOL, people are losing their minds. Where was the outcry when the government decided to ban menthol cigarettes? Or when the clot shot mandates were being rolled out? Apparently they can tell us what is best for our bodies.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/women-scramble-to-get-iuds-load-up-on-plan-b-as-roe-worries-hit/ar-AAWTuOQ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=dbb17a579b4b476087be7f1e1de15e6c

    • BackRowHeckler May 4, 2022 at 12:30 pm #

      Wait a minute. They banned menthol cigarettes?

      • cowbell81 May 4, 2022 at 12:36 pm #

        They are about to, so best stock up soon if you enjoy them for personal use or want to sell at a profit on the black market. They banned clove cigarettes back in 2009 too. Every time this Obama/Biden clan comes into office they chip away at our personal liberties.

      • stelmosfire May 4, 2022 at 1:30 pm #

        BRH, they’re banned in MA. No Newports for the brothers. The Indian down the street was selling them from the back room with no state tax stamps. Revenuers busted his ass and he had I think a 50-100 thousand fine and loss of license . Lost his store because of it. He was just performing a wanted public service but people talk to much. Anybody close to the line just goes to CT. or NH. Mass loses tax revenue but we’re much healthier for it.

        • BackRowHeckler May 4, 2022 at 2:36 pm #

          In Ct the State is cracking down hard on tobacco, but promoting weed.

        • BackRowHeckler May 4, 2022 at 2:41 pm #

          “No Newports for the Brothers”-Stelmo

          What the hell! Dat be raciss! Next thing you know they be banning 40 Ozers and MD2020.

      • thwack May 4, 2022 at 2:37 pm #

        Im pretty sure I can nigger rig a Marlboro into some kind of menthol cigarette?

        I’ll be a king pinguin.

        • cowbell81 May 4, 2022 at 3:17 pm #

          Some people are trying to learn how to inject menthol flavor into their regular cigarettes. This will be the new work around.

          Regarding the government promoting cannabis in lieu of cigarettes, some people are saying that big marijuana is going to take over for big tobacco. Then in 15-20 years the lawyers will come in and sue all the dispensaries claiming they knew how bad it was for you all along. It will be the Marlboro trials all over again but with Mary Jane.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 4, 2022 at 8:50 pm #

            Some people are trying to learn how to inject menthol flavor into their regular cigarettes.

            Lol. I mean what could go wrong?

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 4, 2022 at 8:50 pm #

          Thwack, I’ve been trying to figure you out for a while.

          One theory is that you’re a white guy from Dubuque named Keith masquerading as a black man to be able to sling the n word online without repercussion…

          The other theory is that you just have a strange sense of humor and are probably a fun guy to stand over a barbeque grill with.

          Which is it?

          • thwack May 5, 2022 at 6:51 am #

            ask JHK

            he bought me dinner at a nice restaurant a couple of years ago

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 5, 2022 at 8:41 am #

            I guess that settles that. Good to know it’s option B!

  114. cowbell81 May 4, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

    Per Loonie Harris: “How dare they tell a woman what she can do and what she can’t do with her own body! How dare they! How dare they try to stop her from determining her own future! How dare they try to deny women their rights and their freedoms!”

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/05/03/vp_kamala_harris_womens_rights_in_america_are_under_attack_how_dare_they_try_to_deny_women_their_freedoms.html

    I would argue, how dare the government try to force a jab upon me and deny me my rights and freedoms of my body. You see here Ms. Harris, this should be a two way street, not applying the facts only when it is convenient for you. The woman should have thought about all this before she decided to do such an adult thing like engaging in the act of congress.

    Can I determine my own future and bludgeon people over the head with sledgehammers if it makes me feel good? After all, based on your reasoning to uphold an abortion free for all then this activity should also be a right and freedom in which I can engage.

    What is a life after all, and why should be actually act like adults? I don’t see any reason to start defining these now.

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    • Redneck Liberal May 4, 2022 at 6:25 pm #

      “I would argue, how dare the government try to force a jab upon me and deny me my rights and freedoms of my body.

      It has not happened, though, has it?

      • MaryQueen May 4, 2022 at 9:18 pm #

        To hundreds of thousands of workers who’d otherwise lose their jobs, and thousands of college students, yes, it absolutely has. Have you had your head in the sand for a year?

        • Night Owl May 5, 2022 at 2:46 am #

          No, Mary. It is just coercion.

          LOL.

          This guy is such a sack of shit. I think he revels in being a sack of shit, however.

          Because he hates himself.

      • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 9:05 am #

        Redneck

        Your neck seems to be buried, ostrich-like, rather than being red.

        In England the Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, told the public, through the loud hailer of the MSM, that he was ‘cancelling’ the covid pass (as the ‘crisis’ had passed, or something).

        Then he told the Digital Transformation Summit (a title to warm the cockles of one’s heart, just for starters), to which the public was, curiously, not invited, that ‘the public need to realise that the covid pass is for life and not just for covid’ and that it would in future be a gateway to NHS services.

        Do you perhaps think they’re going to have a covid pass that doesn’t involve you being up to date with your covid jabs? Or the presumably imminent HIV jabs, since Moderna has just got Emergency Use Authorisation for its new HIV jab?

        Where is the HIV ’emergency’ that got them the EUA, do you think, Redneck?

  115. Jarek May 4, 2022 at 12:56 pm #

    “We painted Hitler as a monster, a devil. And that’s why we could not move away from that portrayal after the war. We had mobilized the masses against the devil incarnate. And so we were forced to continue in this satanic scenario after the war. We could not possibly have explained to our people that the war had actually been only a preventative economic measure.” – James Addison Baker, US Secretary of State

    Jarek: Substitute Hitler for Putin now. Capitalism is a philosophy of economic expansion. It must expand or die. Thus it is a philosophy of war. Thus it created Communism as a sword to attack with and a shield to hide behind. But the salient questions: Who funded Communism? And why – reveals the Truth.

    People are really bad at asking the right questions. Ergo, Democracy is contraindicated. Luckily, we weren’t supposed to be a Democracy so the true American system is not threatened by this, “only” the false one that almost everybody believes in.

    • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 1:20 pm #

      One of your best posts yet!

    • justanotherguy May 4, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

      capitalism is not a philosophy, it is a practice. it does not have to expand or die.

      the incarnation that relies on central banking we have now has that characteristic. before central banking, capitalism worked by crowning winners that made something useful, like cars, while writing off losers, like buggy whip manufacturers.

      central banking created communism and monopolies.

      jefferson, for his part, mentioned he would have added two further amendments to the bill of rights – one against standing armies, the other against monopolies.

      in the early days of the republic, corporations were granted limited charters, their continued existence predicated on the public good and at the public’s pleasure. corporate personhood is another abberation.

      the polemics are of blanket statements are worse than useless, they are enstupidating.

      • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 1:43 pm #

        I’m alright with early and middle Capitalism. But it is the nature of small businessmen to want to become medium sized, opening up more stores, then a chain, then an empire! That is their lust, their philosophy if you will. In the modern era, some were enabled to do that and then ate their competition. Law of the Jungle, or in Indian political philosophy, The Law of the Fish – big eating small.

        I’m not even absolutely against that. But to whom much is given (by Life or God), much is asked. They have to play ball with the Nation. Putin didn’t drive out all of the Oligarchs, only the ones who wouldn’t submit to the new Political Order. That which governs least gets taken over by the Corporations.

        Hate to say it because I don’t like him, but Obama’s “you didn’t build that” has real truth to it. No one goes it alone without the State to protect them and build the roads needed to ship their products, etc. Of course he might want to rob them like AOC or is he too smart for that? In any case, I don’t.

        Again on a deeper level, remember St Paul’s “You have nothing that you have no received.” Not everyone gets as much….

      • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 1:51 pm #

        Everyone is a philosopher. To do something (a practice) is to do it for a reason; to think it’s worth doing. So the question is not whether or not to be a philosopher, but rather to be a good one.

        I can understand the joy of making money, of overcoming, etc and of course the joys of having it. So I understand why they do what they do. The question is why we let them, so often to the detriment of all of us.

        Breaking up monopolies is good since they often can’t exist without State support. By in some cases, it really is get big or get out, and the monopolies make economic sense. In such as case, the closest cooperation between public and private is called for, with the public dominating of course. But none of this has to mean castigating, robbing, or ruining men who have risen to the top of their field. Let them serve the nation if they will in their capacity. If they won’t, send them on their way – into retirement or exile or prison.

        • workingclasshero May 5, 2022 at 12:58 am #

          Breaking up monopolies is good since they often can’t exist without State support. By in some cases, it really is get big or get out, and the monopolies make economic sense. In such as case, the closest cooperation between public and private is called for, with the public dominating of course. But none of this has to mean castigating, robbing, or ruining men who have risen to the top of their field. Let them serve the nation if they will in their capacity. If they won’t, send them on their way – into retirement or exile or prison.

          Watch out Jarek, that doesn’t jibe with “our” new equity influenced political zeitgeist.

          • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 1:34 am #

            National Socialism wishes the best for all classes of men and works to insure that they cooperate harmoniously. If they Merchants act up as they so often do in the Kali Yuga, the righteous fists of harmony must come into play.

            We need them. But they like to think they don’t need Us. Or that they don’t have to serve (in their own way. None of this putting the most gifted men out in the fields as punishment) just like everyone else.

      • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 1:55 pm #

        This is a resource limitation site, Peak Oil spedifically. Did you factor that in? The American Oligarchs and their European peers want and need what Russia has and they mean to have it.

        That means war.

        • justanotherguy May 4, 2022 at 2:46 pm #

          has been about peak oil for years.

          if you analyse all the machinations wrt / peak oil, with one specific caveat, it makes much more sense.

          and that fact is:

          whoever has control of the last usable oil wins – this round.

          the great game has been going on for centuries now.

          see: ‘A Century of War” by Engdahl

  116. BackRowHeckler May 4, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

    Last weekend in Chicago … 42 shot, 8 KIA. That’s where the real war is CFNers, the war that should concern us, the one that the deconstructionists would rather not acknowledge.

    • SoftStarLight May 4, 2022 at 1:26 pm #

      Dave Chappelle was attacked on stage last night. You can’t stop that war unless you upgrade the brain or something. But then again that is transhumanism. So I’m afraid you are stuck between a rock and a hard place on that one

      • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 1:53 pm #

        Punch lines:

        Comedian Chris Rock, who performed earlier in the night, came on stage with Chappelle moments after the attack and joked: “Was that Will Smith?” (This part’s true)

        JohnAZ in the audience immediately shouted out: Nah, Will’s in India getting his soul adjusted! (This part might have been true)

        Hilarity ensued…

        • SoftStarLight May 4, 2022 at 4:12 pm #

          Yeah I thought it was really interesting that Chris Rock was around exactly for this incident given what just happened with him. The universe can be so weird. You never know if you will be in the right place at the right or wrong time or the wrong place at the wrong or right time. It makes me dizzy!

          • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 11:56 pm #

            LOL! You’re precious, SSL!

      • BackRowHeckler May 4, 2022 at 2:33 pm #

        Looks like it was a black tranny.

        • SoftStarLight May 4, 2022 at 4:12 pm #

          I heard that too but he doesn’t really look like a tranny so I don’t really get it

        • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 7:59 pm #

          Carrying an imitation gun with a blade that “shoots” out of the barrel, like a stileto. How did he get it past security?

      • MaryQueen May 4, 2022 at 9:24 pm #

        He was attacked because he’s a transphobe, so it’s all good.

        Can you imagine if he had BEEN a trans? It would be on the twitter trend for 2 weeks nonstop.

  117. SoftStarLight May 4, 2022 at 1:33 pm #

    JD Vance won a primary race in Ohio last night for the Senate. I didn’t know much about him before other than President Trump endorsed him sorta late in the race and all. He has a very interesting backstory with a rags to riches type feel.

    • PeteAtomic May 4, 2022 at 6:48 pm #

      He wrote the book, Hillbilly Elegy.

      Which is pretty good.

  118. SoftStarLight May 4, 2022 at 1:36 pm #

    This is a super crazy story too. It just goes to show that love can make you do anything

    https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/05/03/alabama-sheriff-corrections-official-participated-in-inmate-escape/

    • thwack May 4, 2022 at 2:31 pm #

      she could have helped him escape in a way that would not impact herself?

      Like give him a guards uniform, left his cell unlocked…

      • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 2:41 pm #

        Walks “with a waddling gait”. Poor woman. He’s gonna use her and dump her.

        Poor guy is 6 foot 9. Hard to hide at that height. He should have played basketball instead. Probably can’t run or jump. Typical White.

        • thwack May 4, 2022 at 3:53 pm #

          can’t run or jump. Typical White.

          **************

          thats a white supremacist myth.

          What you hafta remember is that in a system of racism white supremacy, the white male has MANY more options to “make a living” besides fighting other men….

          As soon as Russian/slavic men realized they could become millionaires overnight by fighting black guys; they were on that shit with a vengeance.

          To sum up, white fighters will destroy you because they actually follow their coaches instructions.

          (kinda like Maywether; but he is in a class of his own)

          The era of black guys dominating fighting is over because white men ain’t got no money anymore.

          *be afraid*

          • SoftStarLight May 4, 2022 at 4:09 pm #

            LOL what are ya’ll even talking about? This is a love story btw so just to make sure ya’ll know since it is like the topics being discussed are so far away from where it started 🙂

          • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 5:21 pm #

            Thwack: Yes, Thwack. And not just Slavs: Tyson Fury knocked out the last Black he fought a couple of weeks ago. Of course I was talking about basketball….

            SSL: Are you sure it’s love? It is very romantic in a sense, but given that he’s a violent felon, I’m not so sure it was a good on her part.

          • SoftStarLight May 4, 2022 at 5:33 pm #

            Yes it is love I think. I know what you mean that it was a bad decision when everything is assessed. But it doesn’t matter. I mean, to her. Have you ever experienced where it is like you are on autopilot and you’re not really in charge of where you are going or what you are doing. It’s like that. I suppose I may not be able to really explain it well but you probably get what I am trying to say.

          • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 5:47 pm #

            Yes, It’s embarrassing: You become iron and the woman is the magnet. Hopefully she feels the same way…..

            Prison Break: Michael and Sara, Season 1

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRWS5UfFTls

  119. Q. Shtik May 4, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

    There’s this guy “Rick” Mishkin…

    “Frederic Stanley “Rick” Mishkin is an American economist and Alfred Lerner professor of Banking and Financial Institutions at the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 to 2008.” – Wiki

    Whenever the Fed is about to make some meaningful move on interest rates (as they are about to do at 2PM today) CNBC has Mishkin on their show to give us the scoop and the lowdown.

    When he’s on I always prick up my ears and count the times he says the words ‘problem’ and ‘probably’ which he pronounces as ‘prahlem’ and ‘prolly’.

    Today I counted 4 ‘prahlems’. Thankfully there was no occasion for him to say ‘prolly’.

    You have no idea how much this bothers me. I have actually emailed him several times about it in years past. Never got a response.

    You would think a guy teaching at the Columbia Graduate School of Business would want to be free of such errors………but no, apparently not.

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    • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 1:49 pm #

      LMFAO! You are absolutely PRICELESS, Q. Man!

      • Q. Shtik May 4, 2022 at 3:06 pm #

        You are absolutely PRICELESS, Q. Man! – Disaff

        ==========

        Well, PRICELESS is prolly a bit of an exaggeration but thanks.

        • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 7:58 pm #

          You’re what we used to call “a character.” I’m sure poor Peter was and is as well. Senility’s a bitch, at least to watch. But who knows? It might be pretty cool to experience, though. You’re basically checked out from all the bullshit.

    • BackRowHeckler May 4, 2022 at 2:31 pm #

      So how much did rates go up? Half a point?

      • Q. Shtik May 4, 2022 at 2:52 pm #

        Yes, ONLY half a point.

        • Q. Shtik May 4, 2022 at 3:21 pm #

          I have a whole spiel on why the Fed only raised the rate a half point (exactly as I thought they would) rather than the 3/4ths point that was recently being threatened.

          I tried out this spiel on Peter. Too bad I don’t have THAT on film and audio. Picture the uninformed and unaware trying to pretend he knew what I was talking about… especially given his recent rapid decline into dementia.

          At any rate, I don’t want to bore y’all so I’ll forgo the spiel.

    • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 5:11 pm #

      He prolly says chimley too. Take him out to lunch some time and gently explain this to him. To your horror, you will see him stuffing food into his mouth without bothering to swallow before he does it again.

      • Q. Shtik May 5, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

        Jar,

        You either have a good memory or you have been taking notes on my rants concerning Peter. Speaking of whom……….

        There could not be two more different ways of thinking than Peter’s and mine. Take dinnertime last night as an example. With dinner nearly finished, Peter got up from the table and carried his drinking glass over to the counter surface just to the left of the sink. The glass is tall and heavy (thick glass) and holds maybe 8 or ten ozs. He sets the glass on the very front rounded edge of the granite counter. In fact (no lie) the glass is beyond the counter top’s edge by about a half inch. I am staring/watching like a friggin’ hawk. He has taken his glass there to give himself a partial refill of iced tea. He detects my intense staring and asks if I need a refill too. I say “no, I’m just watching to see if you knock that glass off the edge.”

        Well, he didn’t so no harm no foul other than my mental anguish.

        I later went back and measured this glass. The diameter on its open end is 3.125 inches. It tapers slightly to the bottom where the diameter is 2.75 inches. Picture me smacking myself on the forehead with the palm of my hand and grinding my molars as I try with all my might to understand what would possess a person (namely Peter) to place their glass actually over-hanging the rounded edge of a countertop. The slightest bump from the jug of iced tea and off goes the glass, spilling the tea and smashing the glass on the floor.

        Peter appears not to even notice the possibility of this scenario playing out. He simply completes his mission of pouring more iced tea.

        • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 9:42 pm #

          Well that might bug me too. But the salient question is: Is he always knocking things over? Is he clumsy? Some people have (to our view) strange ways of doing things, but they make them work just fine.

          I assume he always did this? So to make the question even more salient: Years ago, before his decline, was he clumsy and always breaking things?

    • Redneck Liberal May 4, 2022 at 6:23 pm #

      Is an accent now an ‘error’, Q?

      • Q. Shtik May 4, 2022 at 10:33 pm #

        Redneck,

        You seem to be one of these people (there are many) for whom nothing is right or wrong, correct or incorrect. Everything is okay in your book.

        ‘Prahlem’ and ‘prolly’ are NOT accent issues. They are issues of making the letter b silent where it is not at all typical to do so.

        The word ‘dumb’ correctly contains a silent b but ‘problem’ does not.

      • Anthea May 5, 2022 at 1:54 am #

        @ Redneck Liberal:

        Regional accents are of course charming, but mispronunciation and poor enunciation–at least in formal speech–is not. And one expects a decent attempt at formal English on national television. It’s also surprising to see such deficiencies in a prominent and highly educated person.

        Back in the day, rather more innocuous errors, such as pronouncing the “t” in “often,” were corrected in school. (Not where I went to school, but in private schools. You were also expected to emerge from private school with the distinctive “private school accent” back then, as well.)

  120. thwack May 4, 2022 at 2:41 pm #

    White boy blinded by Rooski artillery but lived to tell his tale:

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/9GYsb2ygDZKt/

  121. cowbell81 May 4, 2022 at 3:55 pm #

    ATTENTION ONE AND ALL~~~~~~

    Please visit the Wikipedia page concerning Nina Jankowicz:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Jankowicz

    I find it very interesting that she majored in Russian Studies, and worked for various agencies in Kiev. This just goes to show how deep the rot really is. Who’s to say she isn’t a Russian spy of some kind, here to purposely sow disinformation under the guise of eliminating it?

    The page doesn’t even know what year she was born or how old she is!?!?! How is that for disinformation? lmao

    For someone who is allegedly an internationally-recognized expert on disinformation and democratization, there certainly is not a lot of information about her online! And I am sure she is pulling in a low six-figure salary for this cush nothing of a job.

    Here is a link to her personal website:

    https://wiczipedia.com/

    • SoftStarLight May 4, 2022 at 5:20 pm #

      It’s completely off topic in a certain way but this sorta reminds me of that movie Orphan. Such a good and weird movie. The 12 year old girl turned out to be like 35 or something. Nobody really knew who she was or how old she was until it was almost too late lol

    • JohnAZ May 4, 2022 at 5:44 pm #

      You have nailed the core of the problem today.

      Used to be that no matter who won an election, you supported the president because you knew his allegiance was to the US, just mechanisms might be a little different. Good example DDE to JFK.

      Today it is totally different.

      2020 we voted in a class of politicos that have allegiance to the WEF, to a NWO philosophy that our Constitution was written to avoid, to globalism with unbelievable centralism.

      THAT is why this whole mess may end up being half of the US becoming part of the WEF and the other half, allies of Putin and Russia against the WEF.

      It is not looking good right now as it seems only about a few governors have the guts to fight back against the WEF goonies. Thank God one of them is Texas.

    • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 5:51 pm #

      She’s a New World Order princess. That she has a very silyl side shouldn’t blind us to possibility that she is both ruthless and competent as fuck.

    • Anthea May 5, 2022 at 2:06 am #

      She’s an “internationally recognized expert on disinformation” like Obama is an expert on Constitutional law.

      One wonders what her claim is to such a distinction. I’m thinking it’s because she was on the student council in middle school, and the “international recognition” part is because she was a diplomat’s kid who went to school in some other country, where one or people might still recognize her at the grocery store.

  122. tom clark May 4, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

    SSL…only in Bammy!

    • SoftStarLight May 4, 2022 at 5:17 pm #

      Wow tom has addressed me! I’m not sure if I’m in trouble or not today lol

      • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 7:18 pm #

        Wants to meet you in Bammy, I reckon…

  123. thwack May 4, 2022 at 4:12 pm #

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hws-4eDDchw

    CA became much better after this fight.

    He should have paid some kind of tuition after this fight.

    Maywether with ridiculous cardio… and insane processor speed

    hate him if you want, but that nigga is phenomenal

    • Kim May 4, 2022 at 8:49 pm #

      Hey thwack,

      As long as we are on the topic of processor speeds.

      https://news.yahoo.com/oregon-governor-signs-bill-ending-154100667.html

      “Oregon governor signs bill ending reading and math proficiency requirements for graduation”

      Yes, it really does some that high processor speeds are something that some people have and others simply do not.

      • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 11:50 pm #

        She also passed the Menstrual Equity Act today that will put tampons in student bathrooms from elementary school through high school – including the male restrooms.

  124. beantownbill. May 4, 2022 at 5:48 pm #

    Contrary to many conservative CFN commenters, I always have had no problem with anyone getting a relatively early abortion. If you understand exponential functions, you begin to realize how much our population could have grown if every pregnant woman couldn’t have gotten an abortion. I don’t know how many abortions have been done since Rowe vs. Wade, probably millions, but we are already into our 3rd generation; the children would already have children. Go forward another 30 or 40 years, and the American population would be preposterously high. Just as anti-gun laws don’t prevent shootings, anti-abortion laws won’t stop large-scale population increases. Notice I’m not talking morals here, just mathematics.

    Politically, all this USSC stuff about abortion is very suspicious, given the timing. Conservatives have the midterm elections all but wrapped up, and NOW the Court decides to go after Rowe vs. Wade? They know they could overturn it anytime, so why not wait until after the elections? Otherwise they’ll lose a lot of pro-abortion fence-sitters who might have otherwise decided to vote for Republican candidates.

    No, something is very fishy here. This could be a misinformation campaign (to use a new buzzword) against conservatives by either Dems or deep-staters or any other 3rd party.

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    • Redneck Liberal May 4, 2022 at 6:19 pm #

      BTB

      You’re right – abortion has been around for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, and all the laws designed to prevent it will not. It will be driven underground again, that’s all, and a tsunami of misery will result.

      As to the SCOTUS ‘leak’, I think the alternative theory is more plausible – that it was leaked by ‘the right’ faction, because the process of “concurrences” that SCOTUS goes through before releasing such decisions might have been going to loosen the will of one or more of The Five Fuckers, and now it’s out there, they really can’t do so. John Roberts must be freaking FUMING.

      Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett bald-facedly LYING in their confirmation hearings also needs to be examined by the Judiciary Committee. Impeach the lying bastards.

      • Anthea May 5, 2022 at 2:21 am #

        @ Redneck Liberal:

        Abortion has indeed been around for thousands of years. But so have murder, theft, rape, and so forth, so maybe this is not a great argument for legalizing it.

        One thing that puzzles me about people making all this fuss about abortion is that it is very easy to induce an early miscarriage. All you have to do is run up and down stairs a lot.

        While I am not advocating this (and I even feel a little guilty about mentioning it), if you really want to end a pregnancy, it can be done so easily and privately that literally no one even has to know. The services of an abortion clinic are unnecessary.

        • Islander May 5, 2022 at 8:25 am #

          There used to be a lot of talk about jumping up and down.

          Not very reliable.

          Some DIY methods are more dangerous than others . . .

      • Night Owl May 5, 2022 at 2:48 am #

        Killing has gone on for hundreds (if not thousands) of years, kids.

        Deep thoughts from our deepest thinker.

    • tucsonspur May 4, 2022 at 8:43 pm #

      It has been said that without abortion the black population would be double what it is now.

      If you don’t like abortion, then don’t have one.

      States were passing restrictive abortion laws this year, and they were challenged in court. The SC probably has to follow certain rules regarding the calendar.

      Manipulating that calendar could be seen as too political.

      • Anthea May 5, 2022 at 2:23 am #

        @ tucsonspur:

        While yours is a compelling argument, I remain opposed to murdering babies, even if they are black.

        • Night Owl May 5, 2022 at 2:53 am #

          Abortion is truly one of those items that allows one to witness the extent to which the human brain is able to engage in magical thinking.

          Abortion isn’t murder because X, Y, Z. It’s just a choice one makes, you see.

          I can kill but not be a murderer, you see.

          LOL.

  125. beantownbill. May 4, 2022 at 6:03 pm #

    Climate change, resource mismanagement and ridiculous politics have combined to wreck the West. I’ve always loved the Western states and now they’re doomed. I never would have thought that Lakes Mead and Powell would dry up, or that wildfires would become so widespread. The general population is so narrow-minded and has such a lack of vision or care of the future, that like a fat person vulnerable to a heart attack who keeps on eating regardless of the health consequences, the country we’ve always known is gone.

    • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 11:42 pm #

      It was probably inevitable. Sigh…

      Too much, too much, too much…

  126. tom clark May 4, 2022 at 8:29 pm #

    BTB…good post. Always liked Bostonians pragmatism (my wife is from Medford so I’m obviously biased)..

    Don’t be too hard on the “general population”, however. They’re not like posterrs to this blog, so forgive ’em. Fat, bigoted and happy…there’s no one like that on this site, is there?

    • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 8:40 pm #

      More not so thinly veiled swipes again, eh TC? What are ya gonna redeem all them troll points you’re piling up for? A 1 month vacay in Jim’s doghouse?

      • BackRowHeckler May 4, 2022 at 9:50 pm #

        Little disappointed to hear there’s no cactus in New Mexico. In every Billy the Kid movie I’ve seen there’s cactus all over the place (my favorite one is with Bob Dylan, Chris Christofferson and Chill Wills). Has anybody here ever ate cactus? What do you do, just take a slice out of it like a pineapple? What’s it taste like? Conceivably, you could be lost out in the wilderness, and as long as you could find cactus, you could survive. Am I wrong on this?

        • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 11:35 pm #

          Nah, we either do emaciated tall grass prairie in the east and the south-southwest, or we do the other stuff I mentioned above in the higher elevation areas. Cactus is kind of a mythical thing that belongs to mostly southern AZ, especially if you’re thinking of the big Saguaro. You’re definitely not gonna find salvation with cactus if you get lost in NM. Better off looking for a Rippy Mart in all its many variations or one of he many good-hearted locals. Just watch Better Call Saul if you wanna know what NM’s all about. Filmed right around here, for the most part.

        • Anthea May 5, 2022 at 2:37 am #

          The nopal cactus is commonly eaten. I understand you gather the pads with kitchen tongs and remove the spines.

          You can buy nopalitos at any grocery store. I have tried them, but either they aren’t all that great or I don’t know how to prepare them.

    • JohnAZ May 4, 2022 at 9:08 pm #

      Heh!

      Bostonian pragmatism, huh.

      Like Elizabeth Warren?

      Not the General Population, just 51% of it.

    • beantownbill. May 5, 2022 at 11:18 am #

      Tom,

      I’ve lived in Medford; had an apartment there sometime in the stone age, just outside of Medford Sqare.

  127. tucsonspur May 4, 2022 at 8:30 pm #

    Saw the movie about Rani of Jhansi last night and was amazed by her courage and deep-seated patriotic fervor. She’s often called the ‘Joan of Arc’ of India and led her army against the mighty British Empire and the British East India Company.

    Warrior Queen nonpareil:

    https://newsonair.com/2021/06/17/rani-laxmi-bai-the-warrior-queen-of-jhansi/

    She had a deep love for her motherland, and we here now have a motherland constantly decaying into something like a human mongrel land. It has no center but a center of power, a power dedicated mostly to itself. How can we love a land like this?

    I would bow, kneel in front of this woman, braver than most men.

    • Kim May 4, 2022 at 9:39 pm #

      It was just a movie, wasn’t it?

      There are plenty of movies, i am sure, wherein Stalin is a grest man.

      • tucsonspur May 5, 2022 at 2:58 am #

        Maybe it seems so improbable because this type of pure spirit is so rare.

        You think it’s only celluloid courage or only digital defiance, all made up so that we can just have another hero to worship?

        Banish the thought Kim, this one was the real thing.

    • Jarek May 4, 2022 at 11:47 pm #

      Ramakrishna had a Rani devotee. One time some drunken English sailors overcame the temple guard and were moving towards the inner sanctuary. She picked up a weapon and waited to protect the sanctuary against desecration. Others intervened before it came to that however.

  128. JohnAZ May 4, 2022 at 9:09 pm #

    Watch out, Trump won in Ohio.

  129. tom clark May 4, 2022 at 9:12 pm #

    Dis…I’m not too worried about Jimbo’s doghouse. If he wants to throw me in it, so be it. I’ve heard him speak a couple times (back before the days of magical thinking commenced). I’ve read enough of his stuff so I think I know my asshole from a hole in the ground. I’ve even sent him some stuff and got a REAL WRITTEN RESPONSE…don’t know if he still does this, tho. So relax and kick back…trolls mean nothing these days. The world is screwed (but cynicism will do you in, right?)

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    • Disaffected May 4, 2022 at 11:40 pm #

      Shhh… Rosemary’s Baby just came on AMC. Mia Farrow was quite the babe back in the day, before she became a bitch. Yeah, it happens…

      • Disaffected May 5, 2022 at 12:02 am #

        Ruth Gordon while she’s still relatively young but just as pugnacious. What’s not to love? What a spirit! Modern day counterpart? Bel Powley. Watch and see. I know these things.

  130. tom clark May 4, 2022 at 11:05 pm #

    JAZ…Elizabeth Warren or Marjorie Taylor Greene? I’m sure you have an opinion and will let CFN know about it.

    • JohnAZ May 5, 2022 at 12:15 am #

      Greene does not even look like an Indian.

      Like Trump, Greene get clobbered by telling the truth, Overtly, in an environment filled by liars.

      Greene is an opponent of the WEF instead of an advocate.

      That is enough.

  131. Jarek May 4, 2022 at 11:48 pm #

    JD Vance: I don’t care about Ukraine. Someone needed to say it, for God’s sake.

  132. Tate May 5, 2022 at 12:51 am #

    Ever hear of a ‘father-son’ dance? This weirdness was going on two weekends ago at my son’s favorite bar (no , not a gay bar). Just wtf is going on? Even my son was shaking his head over it.

    • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 1:20 am #

      No, what the fuck is that shit? The last taboo?

  133. KesaAnna May 5, 2022 at 1:21 am #

    ” I’m wondering how long you raised the child and why the profound estrangement now? ”

    — Tocsonpur

    I was ten years old when she was born , and raised her parent – like up until the point where she could figure out , ” Hey , you are not my mom , you are just my sister ! So you aren’t the boss of me ! ”

    So about six or seven years.

    Not long ,

    except that in the context of that age , 6 months is roughly the equivalent of 20 years any other time.

    And a single year is practically a life time.

    At least in my experience , the experience of others may differ ( ? ) ;

    childhood is the longest period of your life.

    Adolescence is half a life time.

    Age twenty to thirty , a day is roughly a day , a month is roughly a month .

    Age thirty to about age 45 , a year goes by in 6 months , dropping by one month every six month period the closer you get to 45.

    After 45 , time takes off like an out – of – control , very fast , roller coaster .

    I’m now 56 , and an entire year now seems to last about a month , slightly longer ?

    This is one of the reasons I am incessantly driven up the wall when looking at the cases of other peoples lives ;

    Some working class kid is having trouble learning how to read , or understanding this math stuff , or the twelve year old simply doesn’t have the time or energy to do homework , because the twelve year old is busy , in effect , running a household at twelve.

    So the supposed Snowflakes say , ” Well , we need to fill out 500 forms , and in 6 months we will get the kid some help . ”

    God damn it , 6 months for a 12 year old is the equivalent of twenty years in prison.

    Six months of standing still , and even if the kid were the reincarnation of Einstein , the Casino odds are the kid hasn’t a snowballs chance in Hell of ever catching up .

    Which might be OK , if we still lived in a world where an Andrew Carnegie or a Nathan Bedford Forrest could get a rent – paying job at twelve years old , but we don’t.

    Anyway ,

    Six or Eight years of playing Mommy in the strictness relative terms.

    But then another ten years of being the older , but less favored , responsible party older sister ,

    in a circumstance where you are in a lifeboat captained by Joseph Stalin and Dimitri Yezhov ,
    so the underlings have to hang together , or we all hang separately .
    But the much favored baby of the family , of course , never understands any of that.

    ( Grr , I make my parents sound like absolute Ogres ? Actually I have seen much , much worse , and seen much , much worse quite commonly . So who is to say ?

    And undeniably such circumstances have their benefits .

    Like I didn’t need to study social science 30 years to know there is no more dangerous life form on the planet than a rat or an informant.

    Whatever their motives , rats and informants have killed or ruined more people than Serial Killers could ever hope to match.

    I like to say that it seems to me that God has a very weird sense of humor. ;

    His blessings often look like curses , and his curses often look like blessings. )

    ” why the profound estrangement now? ”

    In my experience / observation relationships usually break up for one basic reason ;

    At least one party to the relationship is a totally unreasonable asshole.

    Since you are only hearing one side of things , and given other considerations I won’t bother to go into ,

    it seems to me that for the sake of discussion we can go ahead and assume that in this case I’m the totally unreasonable asshole.

    To proceed ;

    I heard in a movie recently , ” When money goes on the table , things always tend to turn nasty. ”

    She now makes five , maybe even ten times , what I make , due in no small part we might argue to my efforts and sacrifices ,

    but , honestly , if the shit hit the fan , I would naturally consider panhandling and sleeping under a bridge , before asking her for help.

    The argument , ” Well , I can’t very well realistically give you five or ten thousand dollars just for jollies and merely for your convenience , as I have a family and responsibilities of my own now. ” , only makes me seethe.

    One could perhaps argue with some justification that the only reason you have a husband , a child , a mortgage , and respectability now is because of me.

    To wrap up that part , I find her about as dependable as someone I met five minutes ago.

    And that is important to me.

    In my cosmology dependability excuses a great many faults , and it even , and certainly , trumps dislike.

    But if I cannot depend on someone then even liking them is irrelevant.

    One of my favorite novels ( sort of ) is Thomas Hardy’s , ” Tess of the D’Ubervilles ” .

    Like the main character in that story it seems , I would rather sleep under a bridge or be hanged , than go cap in hand to someone who , at most really , is merely an equal.

    The Roman Emperor Caligula supposedly once said , ” Let them hate us , as long as they fear us. ”

    I would not agree with that ?

    But certainly it appears I would rather be hated , but respected ,

    than be loved , but disrespected.

    Then there is the whole matter of I wasn’t Mary Poppins , who did what , and all that shit.

    It wasn’t like I got myself knocked up , it wasn’t like I had money falling out of my ass , and I was ten years old ,

    I wasn’t calling the shots anymore than a Burger King Cashier does.

    and so I won’t apologize for a God damned thing.

    Joseph Mengele and I have the same birthday , and in a biography about the guy the words that stick in my mind to this day are the final words of the book , ” His was an unworthy life . ”

    Oh ?

    He lived 69 years , the preponderance of that on the run. And why on the run ?

    Can we be honest for just one fucking minute , and acknowledge that there was no fucking way in Hell he was going to get anything remotely resembling a fair trial ?

    Whatever he presumably did , or didn’t do ?

    As to that ; What he did or didn’t do adds up to barely two years out of a 69 year life .

    On that score ; while surely there is an exception to every rule , as a rule , monsters don’t live the boring white bread life , go off the rails , and then go promptly back to boring white bread life.

    Monsters tend to have a consistent , life – long , track record.

    It strikes me as rather curious that in this case it was a boring bio before , then barely two years of really bizarre shit , then right back to boring bio for the remainder.

    Hey , maybe he was the Prince of Darkness ?

    The trouble is that the people telling you that story are the same people , or the children or grandchildren of the same people ,

    who tell you that they have exported your jobs to China because you are a sorry piece of shit .

    Is that true ?

    My guess is that it is at least NOT ENTIRELY TRUE.

    They leave out some shit.

    I have the same trouble with the Catholic Church at the point where they ask , ” Are you truly sorry for your sins ” ?

    Well , except for the assumption that God’s motives are good , and that things will otherwise work out for the best in the end ,

    I’m otherwise pretty sure that I haven’t the faintest fucking clue what God’s ten million year end game is.

    MAYBE things worked out the way things did because God WANTED things to work out that way ?

    • tucsonspur May 5, 2022 at 4:23 am #

      Thanks for the expansive, personal response. Please don’t feel shortchanged because I don’t respond in kind, since my older years are really kind of boring and my younger ones are so dark and trouble filled that they just insist on wanting to stay confined, imprisoned if you will, only within my memory.

      Am I just a coward, afraid of what others might think? No, I don’t think so. Maybe it’s just that I wouldn’t be able to get my hands on some mutha fucka who might stomp on such sensitive ground.

      Yeah, hated but respected. I can’t come up with an example of someone who loved somebody yet held them in disrespect. Something like that in “The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers”? Maybe only a mother’s love.

      It’s the question that pops up more and more the older you get. Where did the time go? Amazing how often that occurs. As the song says, it just kept slippin’, slippin’ into the future.

      • KesaAnna May 5, 2022 at 11:16 pm #

        Lol , believe it or not , I didn’t intend to write a book.

        But that is TYPICALLY how it goes ;

        I intend a brief response , but write a book .

        I intend to write a book , but then find myself largely mute.

        When I was 5 years old reading and writing appeared to me to be virtually the same thing as magic.

        And books were basically equivalent to magic wands or Tolkein- like rings of power.

        And it turns out that hasn’t changed.

        That is — and note I’m NOT making any psychic or paranormal claims here —

        It always seems like someone else is doing the writing , that I’m holding the pen , almost a joke , a Potemkin Village kind of thing.

        But then pretty much all talents , even the most mundane or trivial , seem to amount to a kind of out – of – body – experience in reverse.

        ” I can’t come up with an example of someone who loved somebody yet held them in disrespect. ”

        Hmmm ,

        Well , ” Familiarity breeds contempt ” and , ” No one respects a drudge ” appear to be very old sayings , maybe ancient.

  134. Jarek May 5, 2022 at 1:28 am #

    Playing with Nuclear War — and Some Advice for My Friends in Sweden

    William S Lind

    The Blob, the Washington foreign policy establishment, is playing with nuclear war. So what if Russia goes nuclear in Ukraine? We will just pile on even more sanctions, make Russia more of an outcast, and tell her she must grovel in the dirt to be readmitted to the concert of powers. Some are going further: the lead op ed in the April 28 Wall Street Journal, by former deputy undersecretary of the Navy Seth Cropsey, was titled, “The U.S. Should Show It Can Win a Nuclear War.”

    No, it can’t. A single nuclear weapon detonated on one American city would do this country more damage than it has suffered in all its wars to date. No foreign policy goal can justify such a price. No threat to our “credibility,” no diplomatic humiliation, no “abandonment of our allies” can outweigh the consequences of a single American city getting nuked. Not only would we suffer tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of Americans killed by the blast, and far more doomed to radiation sickness, we would have a collapsed financial system and economy, a completely discredited government and quite possibly a revolution or devolution as people withdrew their allegiance to a state that had brought catastrophe upon them.

    What is the danger of this happening? Unfortunately, it’s fairly high. The course of events leading to it is already taking place in Ukraine. Russia and her armed forces have been humiliated by the failure of their initial campaign in Ukraine. They have regrouped and are trying again, with more limited goals. As of writing this (May 1), the outcome of the second Russian offensive is unclear, but it seems to be making slow progress at best. If it fails, the initiative is likely to pass to Ukraine as the shift will be a natural event after a defense succeeds. But in part, it will also be because of U.S. and NATO support for Ukraine. At some point, the shift may permit Ukraine to go on the offensive.

    What does Russia do then? What does President Putin do to save his neck? Near the top of the list will be escalating by using tactical nuclear weapons. Where does the escalation stop?

    A wise U.S. and NATO foreign policy establishment would now be building a golden bridge over which Russia can retreat rather than going nuclear. Asking itself the question, “What would Bismark do?”, it would call a conference in, say, Vienna. A deal could look something like this:

    Ukraine sells the portions of Luhansk and Donetsk that had already declared their independence to Russia, along with a narrow land corridor connecting them to Crimea (which remains Russian). The price is high enough to make a substantial contribution to re-building Ukraine.

    Ukraine agrees not to join NATO unless Russia also joins. That would leave open the door to the alliance Christendom needs, one running from the U.S. Pacific coast to the Russian Pacific coast, oriented south.

    Russia agrees to Ukraine joining the EU.

    Russia cedes East Prussia (the “Kaliningrad Oblast”) to Ukraine, giving Ukraine a Baltic as well as a Black Sea outlet for her grain exports. Russia also funds building a new, high capacity railway, not running through Belarus, connecting Ukraine with the East Prussian port of Konigsberg.

    What does Ukraine think of all this? It doesn’t matter. In true Bismarkian style, the great powers make the deal and inform the smaller powers what they are going to do. Otherwise, no deal is possible in cases such as this.

    And in Vienna, let the ball commence. A word to my good friends in Sweden. Sweden is considering joining NATO. Don’t do it. The reason Sweden still has Stockholm’s Old City, the wonderful 18th century dockyard at Karlskrona and much else is that it has not gone to war since 1815. As Swedes know, Sweden did almost join Germany in both World Wars. Had it done so, Stockholm would have no Gamle Stan, and Karlskrona would have been shelled or bombed flat. After their abysmal performance in Ukraine, neither Sweden nor Finland nor anyone else has much reason to fear Russia’s conventional armed forces. And even a mad Putin is not likely to nuke Stockholm or Helsinki in a neutral Sweden or Finland. Neutrality has benefitted Sweden greatly for more than two centuries. Don’t kill the chicken that has laid so many golden eggs.

    Jarek: Has it gone poorly for the Russians? My brother has read a lot and says that’s the consensus. Maybe it’s not that they did so poorly, but rather the Ukrainians were far better than anyone expected. And of course, the Russians don’t have enough troops. If this goes on as our Elite plan, the Russians are going to have to use their ultimate weapons – something the West stupidly no longer fears.

    It’s not stupid to try to survive a nuclear war as a family or individual. But in terms of a any return to normal or the survival of the current order, that’s probably out of the question as Lind says. In terms of a no hold barred one, indeed the living may envy the dead.

    After the Kennedy coup, the Elite lost all interest in public air raid shelters so that the American people could survive. They are sill very interested in their own survival though.

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    • tucsonspur May 5, 2022 at 5:20 am #

      It has gone poorly for the Russians. One nuke into the plexus of NYC and the chaos begins. In this case the great powers are the US and Russia, so it seems that the US must throw Ukraine under the Russian bus and then allow it to be mildly mauled by the Great Bear.

      If history is any guide, we are certainly capable of doing that, but all of the momentum seems to be aimed at a Putin defeat. It takes more than just Putin to order a launch, and maybe we have some inside info that nukes are out. If so, Putin’s in deep shit.

      This NATO aid the intention of sending more and more is either the height of dangerous brinkmanship or a safe play with the potential ouster of Putin.

      • thwack May 5, 2022 at 6:39 am #

        Russia is in no more danger from Ukraine than Israel is in danger from “The Arabs”

        • Islander May 5, 2022 at 8:35 am #

          Thwack, you’re joking, right?

        • malthuss May 5, 2022 at 11:05 am #

          is thwack a fake black who can rap or is that rumor just crap?

      • JohnAZ May 5, 2022 at 10:55 am #

        TS

        Ukraine is a poker game. The two sides are Russia and the WEF, led by the USA right now.

        WEF=NATO al this point.

        NATO, led by the Democratic Party mostly in the US, have pushed against Russia since WW2, but especially in 2000 on. Since 2014, NATO has become arrogant in its dealing with Russia through Ukraine. Putin drew a red line in 2014, NATO took a chance and pushed into Ukraine. Ukraine is the loser, no damage to Europe, Russia or the US.

        Look at Russia over the last twenty years. They have allowed expansion of NATO to the Russia border everywhere but Ukraine. They have requested admission to NATO. They defended their stake in Crimea, mostly to have a warm weather port. They have worked with US and British oil companies to develop the oil resources of the Arctic. They have watched the US invade Afghanistan and Iraq with nary a peep.

        Who has acted like the big bully in the sand box?

        How about the idea that the US is starting to finally react to the fact that our policies have weakened us so much that aggressive catch up is required to stop the ascent of Sino-Russia.

        The role is the WEF in this chess match poker game is yet to be determined.

        With Biden in there, we are in big trouble.

    • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 6:45 am #

      Jarek, you might find this podcast interesting, on Vanessa Beeley’s site (it’s about 45 mins). She’s an independent English journalist who appears often on UKC News, and seems to live in Syria some or most of the time. She’s expert on all things to do with White Helmets, child trafficking and generally all the lies the MSM fed us about Syria. And now she’s into Ukraine.

      Here she talks to Matt Ehret in a deep dive into the historical relationship between Zionism and Nazism in Ukraine, in the context of the Reset.

      It’s really interesting – I’m going to have to listen to it a second time to get a handle on it all.

      And in this second podcast she’s talking to Alex Thompson, English but Netherlands based, who regularly contributes to UKC on the Wednesday edition. He spent 7 years working for GCHQ and is extremely sharp and knowledgeable – lots of info here about international law and how it relates to the former Soviet countries, especially Ukraine.

      https://thewallwillfall.org/2022/03/06/an-intelligent-analysis-of-putin-wef-and-the-ukraine-nato-alliance/

      “An intelligent analysis of Putin, WEF and the Ukraine NATO alliance”

      • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 7:36 am #

        Duh … forgot the first URL:

        https://beeley.substack.com/p/zionism-in-ukraine-allied-with-nazism?s=r

      • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 7:42 am #

        They don’t think that Putin is ‘in on’ the WEF’s reset as such. But that doesn’t mean Putin (like Xi) isn’t into a parallel reset within his own sphere of influence, perhaps?

        • JohnAZ May 5, 2022 at 10:28 am #

          Yeah!

          Putin supports Russia! What a concept!

          Maybe some Western leaders should support their countries instead of Klaus Schwab.

          Wait for it. Sino-Russia is rapidly coming, bound by the Silk Road, promoted by warming of Siberia drawing in Chinese folks, and later on supported by Europe freezing their butts of waiting for a lousy partner across the pond to send them LNG resources that do not exist.

          The USA is the weak sister globally right now and growing weaker by the year, led by a horrendous debt and a lousy Liberal tax and spend mindset to solve all problems. Powell is going to drive us into stagflation this year, because he has to. Whether a recession occurs depends on the idiot in the WH and his band of economic nincompoops.

          • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 11:10 am #

            What I was suggesting, though, JohnAZ, is that – since we know people are ‘dying suddenly’ of unexplained reasons in Russia as well – that he might well support ‘Russia’ as some kind of idealised entity, while not seeing a problem with topping a fair number of individual Russians and enslaving them with jabs and vaxx passes.

      • Islander May 5, 2022 at 8:36 am #

        I am a fan of Alex Thompson.
        Always worth listening to.

        He is a regular at UK Column.

        • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 9:13 am #

          Yes, he has a phenomenal intellect – and wears it lightly, as Vanessa says to him at the start of the interview.

          I have no idea how many languages he speaks, but they include Russian and Ukrainian (and French, Dutch, German …).

          • malthuss May 5, 2022 at 11:03 am #

            whats going on?

            Just erase whiteness and white history and be done with it.

            That’s end game, right?
            [Now ‘woke’ radicals target cricket and KNITTING:

            How taxpayers’ cash from Arts Council England has been spent on ‘decolonising’ specialist museums of ‘racist narratives’ depicting history of ‘white, wealthy, able-bodied men’,

            Daily Mail, April 24, 2022]:

            via unz.com / kerseys page

        • Islander May 5, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

          I think it is Thomson.

          • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 2:42 pm #

            So it is, islander. And a man with that level of scholarship deserves to have his name spelled properly. Not that he’d complain – he’s too gracious. 🙂

      • malthuss May 5, 2022 at 11:05 am #

        historical relationship between Zionism and Nazism

        and oxymoronism?

        • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 11:15 am #

          Why don’t you listen to the podcast, malthuss? – that way you’d know what they were talking about, which is the historical relationship in Ukraine. Let your mind be blown, malthuss. 🙂

          • malthuss May 5, 2022 at 11:13 pm #

            If you see this, tell me what its about in the new thread, tomorrow.
            I am afraid to listen.

            thanks.

      • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

        Sounds good. Just remember, that the Kalergi Plan to genocide White humanity came before the Nazi movement was born. Thus the question arises, How much did the Plan and the general attitude behind the Plan, influence the rise of the Nazi movement. And inevitably one must also ask, Do you still believe the Nazis were completely wrong, given what they were up against?

        I know the Kalergi Plan isn’t wide known about given who owns the media, but it was and is completely real. If you would be a serious person, you must think about it irrespective of whether it is popular to do so. After all, you are already is such strange waters with the material you are reading and listening to.

        • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 2:39 pm #

          Whatever Kalergi said, believed or promoted does not provide a defence for what the Nazis did (and I realise he wasn’t Jewish anyway).

          Just as ordinary Jewish people are not to blame for what a tiny minority of Jewish people might do when they transmogrify into extraordinarily powerful banking families, the evil that emanates from the City of London does not implicate every living Anglo-Saxon and require their doom as payment.

          But, as regards the content of the podcast, the ideologies of these various extremists (Biblical or political) and the relationship between them in one particular country is interesting,

          • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 5:49 pm #

            What the Nazis did was fight for Germany, Western Civilization, and the White Race. You are still utterly and unutterably conditioned with Western suicide propaganda. You aren’t thinking clearly.

            Fight it.

          • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 5:54 pm #

            Thus there are no nations, right? Just individuals?

            Thus the Bankers win. You are just another victim of their propaganda, one of hundreds of million poor White dupes. An Eloi to the end.

          • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 7:19 pm #

            Why does the fact that there are individuals mean that there are no nations? Your premise needs some work.

          • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 7:21 pm #

            Are you saying that if Putin is allowing his people to be picked off with the vaxxes that’s OK as long as he stands on a stage and defends Mother Russia? Seems to me the people he’s possibly allowing to be picked off are the sons and daughters of Mother Russia.

          • GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 7:25 pm #

            “What the Nazis did was fight for Germany”

            I was referring to the death camps. But you knew that. Quit the grandstanding.

        • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 9:19 pm #

          You’re not engaging with what I said, which is Real.

          They – another people – decided to genocide us. Our people responded. It’s just that simple. Your inability or unwillingness to acknowledge this makes any discussion moot since there is no discussion until you engage with the Reality.

          Not all individuals….It was happening. It is happening. Not enough of us fought back you see. More than half didn’t. They (people like you) won and our genocide is proceeding a pace.

          So not all Anglo-Saxons – yet all have been vilified along with White Americans despite fighting FOR them. Gratitude! Their response to their victory is simply more evidence for their commitment to the Kalergi Plan as a group.

          For a nation to work, individuals have to support it. Since you don’t feel anything in this regards yourself, think of it as a Union. Do you still have Unions over there? It only works if individuals obey what the Union officials decide to do. So a nation is an entity of collective bargaining, got it?

          Margaret Thatcher once admitted to an interviewer that she didn’t think Society existed. It’s just individuals, with the State as the enforcer of contracts. Does that sound workable to you? It isn’t. Any such people who hold such views if headed for the graveyard of history.

          To summarize: They started it. We fought back. You people helped them – and not your own people. To bring up “individuals” is just a way of avoiding engaging with my argument anent the historical reality of what occurred and the existential crisis that we face now – one ever worsening into the future.

          This is a lot like your defense of wearing masks to help other people not yourself. Not only scientifically (they don’t work) and logically (works one way but not the other!) wrong, but just emotionally masochistic. Your only consolation is that hundreds of millions of Euro-Americans are twisted inside out in the same way you are. Exactly the same way since they imbibe the same propaganda as you.

          • GreenAlba May 6, 2022 at 6:09 am #

            You are clueless. As clueless as Margaret Thatcher was.

    • Islander May 5, 2022 at 8:34 am #

      ” The course of events leading to it is already taking place in Ukraine. Russia and her armed forces have been humiliated by the failure of their initial campaign in Ukraine. . . . but it seems to be making slow progress at best. ”

      Wow, what is Lind smoking? Russia’s armed forces have been “humiliated” sez who?

      Sounds like he has swallowed the Western “pre-progamming” narrative as to why we can expect Russia to press the nuke button first. And therefore maybe we are justified in going for a nuclear “skirmish.” Or “calling Putin’s bluff.” Madness.

      Is Lind a military analyst? Does he understand the point of the Russia’s “slow” advance in the east? IMO Lind should pay more attention to Ritter’s analysis of the situ on the ground in Ukraine, Russia’s strategy and tactics, and the ways the US and UK in particular are trying to enter the war by stealth in Transnistria, Moldova, and Romania.

      • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 12:21 pm #

        Indeed. He was invited to think on such things by Senator Taft and according to many, has done important work on military theory. But he never served, and of course, that opens him up to much criticism. Beyond that, an important paleoconservative thinker.

        from the Wiki:

        Views on warfare and U.S. military
        In 1989, alongside several U.S. military officers, Lind helped to originate fourth-generation war (4GW) theory.[7]

        Lind served as a legislative aide for Taft from 1973 through 1976 and held a similar position with Senator Gary Hart of Colorado from 1977 to 1986.[citation needed] He is the author of the Maneuver Warfare Handbook (Westview Press, 1985) and co-author, with Hart, of America Can Win: The Case for Military Reform.

        Lind has written for the Marine Corps Gazette, Defense and the National Interest, (D-N-I.net), and The American Conservative.[8]

        According to the book Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed The Art of War by the writer Robert Coram, Lind was during lectures on maneuver warfare sometimes criticized for having never served in the military and for having “never dodged a bullet, he had never led men in combat, he had never even worn a uniform.” Coram writes that when challenged by an officer, Lind “cut him off at the knees.”[9]

        Political career and related writings
        Lind was the Director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation. He advocates a Declaration of Cultural Independence by cultural conservatives in the United States and believes that the federal government ceased to represent their interests and began to coerce them into negative behavior and to affect their culture in a negative fashion. The foundation believes that American culture and its institutions are headed for a collapse and that cultural conservatives should separate themselves from that calamity. It also supports setting up independent parallel institutions with a right to secession and a highly-decentralized nature that would rely on individual responsibility and discipline to remain intact but prevent the takeover of the institutions by those hostile to cultural conservatism.[10][11]

        Lind has authored and co-authored (with Paul Weyrich) monographs on behalf of the Free Congress Foundation that attempt to persuade American conservatives to support government funding for mass transit programs, especially urban rail transit. The two men wrote about Cultural Marxism as being an organized conspiracy against what Lind views as the traditional Christian values of America.[12]

        Lind was Associate Publisher of a quarterly magazine called The New Electric Railway Journal from its launch in 1988 to 1996,[13] and from January 1994, he also co-hosted a monthly program about light rail on the National Empowerment Television network; the program used the same name as the magazine.[14]

        As a paleoconservative, Lind has often criticized neoconservatives in his commentaries. While not a libertarian, he has also written for LewRockwell.com. He is a self-proclaimed conservative and monarchist.[15][16] He is a staunch supporter of a non-interventionist foreign policy.[17]

        In his column of December 15, 2009, Lind announced that he was leaving the staff of the Center unexpectedly and that his series of articles was on hiatus.[18]

    • JohnAZ May 5, 2022 at 10:59 am #

      I do have one question Jarek.

      People and weapons are pouring into Ukraine. How?

      Why hasn’t Russia blown them to bits?

      Why would Russia attack civilians instead of weapons shipping?

      Someone is lying big time here. I know who I would bet on.

      • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 11:50 am #

        Well he’s bombed the rail lines. Maybe he’s going to have bomb the roads leading out to Poland too? Refugees would have to go out thru Belorussia perhaps.

        And of course maybe the Ukrainians created new airstrips here and there, say deep in the Western forests, or in the central wheat areas. Or say block off a major highway, say at night at a given hour, and use that? Is that feasible?

        I assume the Ukrainians are still using civilians and civilian building as human shields. Of course one assumes some level of misbehavior by the Russian troops and commanders on the ground.

    • SoftStarLight May 5, 2022 at 11:08 am #

      I can imagine that the Western elites would ultimately be ok with a nuclear war. As you say they will have the ability to shelter themselves from it and they have stored up enough to survive. And the war would help further their goals of depopulation and the destruction of the current world. I think they are certainly willing to do such a thing. I guess now I understand why a lot of people’s faces are starting to look like apes. We may live in a planet of the apes type situation in short order. 🙁

      • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 11:51 am #

        Hail Sister Stormer!

        • SoftStarLight May 5, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

          Lol 🙂

    • workingclasshero May 5, 2022 at 11:52 am #

      Any Russian use of tactical nukes in areas west of the Russian borders will cause radiation to drift from west to east back onto Russian territory. One or two western nukes on Russian territory will have to dissipate circling the globe before it returns to western Europe. The russkies are in a bad spot geographically in this regard.

  135. BackRowHeckler May 5, 2022 at 4:56 am #

    The question is, will Planned Parenthood continue to secure its $550 million grant from Congress each year? — that’s what is at stake here. To be sure, Planned Parenhood provides many other health services for women beside abortion.

    • SoftStarLight May 5, 2022 at 10:55 am #

      PP doesn’t provide any services that many, many other providers can’t or don’t. The main issue it seems is that PP is a major bankroller for the Democrat Party and the Biden regime particularly. I think they will resort to violence if needed in order to keep that laundering operation going.

      • malthuss May 5, 2022 at 11:04 am #

        playboy magazine donated money to NOW.

      • JohnAZ May 5, 2022 at 11:14 am #

        SSL

        In every direction, the almost 100% monopoly on power that the Libs have in this country is being chipped away, piece by piece.

        Twitter, just heard Musk will fire the entire board.

        Roe vs, Wade abortion to be allowed as a state issue.

        Various state a local elections ending up in conservative, Trumpy victories.

        An economy that is nose diving driving people to the right in self defense.

        Hunter.

        Ukraine, another Afghanistan in scope.

        Countries, critical, being alienated by US weakness. SaudiArabia, China, Russia, Mexico and LatinAmerica for starters.

        The border, an unbelievable self caused mess. Every region of the world is sending refugees to the southern border to destabilize the US economy and social structure.

        The ties between the Democratically led Deep State and the plutocracy of the WEF are being identified more and more. Joe Average is discovering how badly he is being manipulated. The last time Joe reacted, it was 2016.

        • SoftStarLight May 5, 2022 at 12:51 pm #

          Thank you John, those are all certainly items that offer some hope. I truly do hope things will tilt in the directions as you outline! I am hopeful that the deep state and WEF actors will soon be prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. In my estimation it seems like that is the only way to dismantle and destroy those terrorist organizations.

  136. malthuss May 5, 2022 at 11:09 am #

    Go forward another 30 or 40 years, and the American population would be preposterously high.

    from the guy who thinks hes so smart..BTB,

    well the USA population has about doubled since LBJ opened the flood gate in 1965.

    USA takes in the huddled masses or messes and you know it.

    legals illegals refugees anchor babies chain migration

    • malthuss May 5, 2022 at 11:10 am #

      its not all the democrats/ LBJs fault as the world population has increased and migration is much easier now than 200 years ago.

      1800, it took months to go from UK to NYC by sail ship.
      steam ship made it go from months to a week or less.

    • beantownbill. May 5, 2022 at 11:31 am #

      Uh, Malfuss,

      I don’t know how smart I am, but one thing I do know is I am smarter than you (but that’s not saying much). You should know better than to razz me.

      • malthuss May 5, 2022 at 11:16 pm #

        as jar notes, ‘more philosophical fail’.
        cheers.

    • SoftStarLight May 5, 2022 at 12:52 pm #

      What about the environment and preserving wilderness areas?

  137. stelmosfire May 5, 2022 at 11:18 am #

    “Putin’s War” is so last week for the wokester crowd. The war is back in the USA. Divide and conquer on the new front: The leaked overturn decision on Roe. It’s gonna be a long hot summer to follow the “the Joe Biden” dark winter we just went through. Attack them at their homes!!

    https://www.westernjournal.com/leftist-group-announces-plan-target-conservative-supreme-court-justices-homes-publishes-supposed-addresses/

  138. beantownbill. May 5, 2022 at 11:50 am #

    Another abortion thought: When does abortion murder start? An anti-abortionist says it’s murder to have an abortion because the fetus could develop into a person some day, so an abortion kills that potential. Well, if I was capable of impregnating a woman, say my wife, but we decided not to have a baby, are we not killing a potential fetus who could have turned into an adult some day? Are we murderers? So should birth control be illegal, too? Should any physically capable childless adult be in prison at some point because they are murdering a potential future adult? Should we have a pregnancy czar in the government to insure all potential fetuses are born, just like we now have a misinformation agency? Should a grandfather or great-grandfather be jailed because he tells his 16 year old to have an abortion?

    • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 12:08 pm #

      Well leave what is God’s to God. Our duty is to what already IS. But you are right: Traditional Catholics for one are against birth control, and for having as many children as possible (every time they have sex), a fatal combination in terms of the world’s population given the current level of medical care. And a commitment to war needless to say.

      It is one or the other: To live naturally, one allows nature to cull many children via disease. To live as we live, with good medicine, is to leave the natural world behind. Thus one can no longer just “breed” as nature intends. I swear to God, I’m just about the only person I’ve ever met or read who gets both sides of it.

      The Church allows couples not to have sex if they don’t want any more kids. This really isn’t very practical of course. Trads get into poetry, “Every new child arrives with a loaf of bread”. Not true! Some big White families are good because our numbers are falling so precipitously. And Traditional Catholics, who have stood strong for their beliefs, are often of very good stock. You can see it in the way they hold themselves. Their children are often very beautiful. But they remain wrong as per Kant’s test of morality: What would be the effect if everyone did it? After all, that is what they want and advocate for.

      Thus the Black problem is solved. Obviously a doubling of the Black population would be fatal for America. If they lived in their own nation, that wouldn’t be our problem, and since they aren’t able to escape Nature on their own power, the problem would be solved – if the do gooders would just leave them alone.

      The Do Gooders quadrupled the Black population in South Africa in a few decades – dooming the White Nation that was there.

    • CrusherMuldoon May 5, 2022 at 12:12 pm #

      Oh, come on Bill. You mean to tell me that deciding not to have a baby is the same thing as pulling a fertilized egg that is developing out of a woman’s womb with forceps? I thought that kind of logic was reserved for wet-behind the ears Philosophy majors. After reading all of your fine, well-reasoned posts throughout the years, drivel like this greatly disappoints me. How can you “murder a concept” Jesus!!!!

      • beantownbill. May 5, 2022 at 12:25 pm #

        Crusher, I was just following a train of thought and taking it to an extreme end point. I like to do that. I’m not saying I want an abortion czar or that deciding not to have children is murder. I was asking a series of questions to see where that leads me. You don’t know me very well.

        • CrusherMuldoon May 5, 2022 at 2:42 pm #

          Like I said, and I’ll stand on it: Your “thoughts” about abortion are those of a “wet behind the ears” Philosophy major. That being the case, I guess you’re right: I don’t know you very well

      • Islander May 5, 2022 at 1:10 pm #

        What happened to the morning-after pill?

        A lot of pregnancies end in miscarriages, known and unknown.

        A fertilized human is in principle no different from the fertilized egg of a whale, dog, cat, or even fertilized eggs of fishes.

        Many people eat fertilized eggs, and only fertilized eggs, for breakfast.

        • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 1:20 pm #

          So why not eat fertilized humane eggs too! Or perhaps even fetuses? What is the cut off date?

          In other words, more philosophical fail from Islander.

          • Islander May 5, 2022 at 7:58 pm #

            ‘Rek stuck on a siding as philosophy monitor.

    • cowbell81 May 5, 2022 at 12:45 pm #

      For a good perspective along this train of thought, I recommend reading the book entitled “Better to Have Never Been” written by David Benatar.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Never_to_Have_Been

      It gave me a whole new perspective on the concept of life and being.

      • SoftStarLight May 5, 2022 at 12:58 pm #

        Hmmm that is interesting. Well you know just tentatively thinking about it there is really no such thing as not existing. I mean, if you look at our chemistry we are made up of water and dust and metals and compounds and electricity. All elements and chemicals that come directly from ambient nature. We are made of star dust. So in that sense we have always existed. But. Until we are conscious and put together in our current forms we simply don’t have the consciousness to know about it or understand it.

        • malthuss May 5, 2022 at 11:17 pm #

          when younger I thought like that, sort of.

          but the me doesnt change as some cells die.

  139. wm5135 May 5, 2022 at 12:00 pm #

    Do you think cleansing the “whiteness” might have something to do with 85% of the worlds population having had enough of the “whiteness” murdering their children for profit?

    Never hear the indigenous peoples of the American continents going on about the beauty and sophistication of the Sistine Chapel, do you?

    On the bright side, our enlightened oligarchs and autocrats will erase the majority of the “whiteness” before the 85% can get to the job.

    How did it go? The only good whitey is a dead whitey, or sumpin like dat.

    ” So remember
    when you’re feeling very small and insecure
    How amazingly unlikely is your birth
    And pray that there’s intelligent life
    somewhere up in space
    ‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth” Monty Python

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  140. beantownbill. May 5, 2022 at 12:12 pm #

    Recently I have been paying about $4.19/gal for gas. I usually drive by our local gas station most every day so I see the daily prices. Two days ago as I drove by, I saw the price had risen to $4.30 overnight.

    Today, I read in Zero Hedge that the country’s oil reserve has gotten low because our illustrious president has been selling it off to keep prices down, but now he has to begin buying it back to replenish the reserve. As ZH said, nothing like selling low and buying high. Duh!

    I try to avoid thinking too much about the incompetents and crooks in our government, but this gas price folly gets me scared about placing my fate in the hands of these people.

    • stelmosfire May 5, 2022 at 12:56 pm #

      Bill what’s really scary is the price of diesel and no.2 heating oil. Diesel up the street is $6.20. The price of most everything depends on the transportation cost. SloJoe cancels pipelines and the oil is now transported by trucks burning diesel. Well thought out plan by the Idiot in Chief. Heating oil predicted to be proobably $6/ $6.50 next winter. The Ruble is back to 2015 levels. We sanctioned ourselves I believe.

      “Heating oil is expected to trade at 4.62 USD/GAL by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate it to trade at 5.19 in 12 months time.”

      Wholesale price chart.

      https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/heating-oil

      • JohnAZ May 5, 2022 at 1:33 pm #

        Our station went to $4.79 today. From $4.69.

        Oil has risen $5.00 in the last few days. More importantly S&D is holding it above $100 a barrel.

        Europe just cut off gas shipments from Russia.

        Hope the sun is shining and the wind blowing enough in Europe. Hope the Gulf Current holds up bringing warmth to Western Europe.

        I wonder how many Europeans are going to migrate into Russia to get warm. Russia may end up being the last bastion of the White Caucasian in the world after the WEF converts Europe into a dark Muslim continent.

        • BackRowHeckler May 5, 2022 at 1:52 pm #

          Yeah, EU is proudly cutting off all fossil fuel imports from Russia.

          That’ll show ’em!

          Ahahahahaha ahahahaha

    • malthuss May 5, 2022 at 11:18 pm #

      come to San Jose and pay $6. recently $7.

      you have it easy, where ever you are, mr smarty pants.

  141. Jarek May 5, 2022 at 1:12 pm #

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbxVvP6MKpU&t=337s

    Rand Paul takes on lo latine (latinx is out!), lo cubano, Mayorkas.

    At once, he has one of the most dishonest and utterly non-human faces I have ever seen. God help us. Not his physical features, per se – but rather its “set”, his mien or countenance.

    The Government has lied to us continually for decades. They have admitted much after the fact, yet no one ever pays. Now they want us to trust them to determine what is truth? Like hell we will.

    Don’t try and kick the football this time, Charlie Brown, kick Lucy in the head.

    • JohnAZ May 5, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

      Uh, Jarek, how are you going to get that honest benevolent government to run the socialistic paradise?

      • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 1:29 pm #

        It always comes down to quality people, John. Your idea of as little government as possible just gives the green light to the Scumbags of Banking and Corporate America – and their peers in Europe and elsewhere. Oceania in a word.

        We tried it your way and this is what got. Set it back a few decades and the same thing will happen. Time to try something completely different. A new culture. A new type of Man.

        • JohnAZ May 5, 2022 at 1:44 pm #

          I guess I feel that the issue is where do the scumbags go, corporate America or the government. Or both.

          Power corrupts absolutely. Yo want power in the government to control the corporations, that has not worked, as you say here we are. The corporations, their power of money and now communication are trying hard to control everything. We have allowed monopolization to take over the business world, mostly because of the government.

          Okay then, who do you give power to, a corrupt government or a group of corrupt business leaders.

          Making both having minimal power is the solution, reduce socialism and do anti-trust control of the Too Big to Fail corporations.

          Right know, the government is increasing its own power and the power of the international corporations through the WEF.

          • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 2:38 pm #

            The government was taken over by the Corporations generations ago. The Bankers struck very heavily with the Federal Reserve Act. The Bankers obviously favor the Corporations in this war. Thus we now have a Plutocracy.

            Fascism would be much better. You’d still have all three classes – yes, a middle class too – and the Rich would be kept in line but not tormented. We need them so they should be treated well – but always watched carefully since as a class, they can’t be trusted.

        • JohnAZ May 5, 2022 at 1:57 pm #

          Also, how many people would be quality people in the Deep State in your definition.

          The US government is the enemy of the people of the US.

          Supporting your opinion though, I will say that The Nazis and Russia both at least supported their countries.

  142. SoftStarLight May 5, 2022 at 1:13 pm #

    Speaking of whiteness lol I admit that I have become obsessed with the Casey White Vicki White jailbreak story. It has come to light that Vicki White’s ex husband who she was still good friends with died in January and that may have sorta pushed her over the edge according to some theories. Inmates are saying that her and Casey have been in a relationship since 2020 and it appears he was getting extra favors that other inmates weren’t because of her like extra food and stuff. So now they are saying that she was definitely not kidnapped or coerced into the jailbreak as people were suggesting a few days ago.

    • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 1:25 pm #

      It almost sounds like such things are accepted in some places, at least if done quietly. I don’t know what people expected by putting female guards in charge of male prisoners or vice versa. Maybe the male guards are watched and policed more? Perhaps with no one assuming the female guards would be interested?

      • CrusherMuldoon May 5, 2022 at 2:48 pm #

        Dollars to donuts she wins the Darwin Award posthumously. BTW the dude is 6’9”. I wonder who’s going to play Vickie and Casey in the upcoming Lifetime movie, we all know will be made.

      • SoftStarLight May 5, 2022 at 7:08 pm #

        Well yeah I am sure a lot of people assume that female guards will not have any interest in the male prisoners

    • BackRowHeckler May 5, 2022 at 1:49 pm #

      SSL, what I heard today is that she was due to retire with a full pension on the day she disappeared. All I can say is this dude must have had something she liked — and couldn’t get enough of.

  143. JohnAZ May 5, 2022 at 1:18 pm #

    Well, well.

    The Leftist, progressive folks are threatening the Supreme Court, and they are putting up security fences around the building. Six of the justices have had their homes identified for protests.

    Anybody remember Jan. 6. I don’t!

    This country is done. BTW, Doug Doucy, gov. Of Arizona is putting into motion the authorization of cryptocurrency as legal tender in Arizona.

    • BackRowHeckler May 5, 2022 at 1:39 pm #

      My kid — who was kind of a screw up as a teenager — became a bitcoin millionaire. He got into it early, against my best advice. Now he shows up here in a Cadillac Escalade with a driver, smoking a cigar. I ask him “Who the f#kk are you, Al Capone?” He was pissing money away like there’s no tomorrow, buying all kinds of stupid sh#t, but I talked him into purchasing a 100 acre farm up near where Jim lives actually.

      • JohnAZ May 5, 2022 at 1:50 pm #

        Seems to me that good investing is when you invested in something you are involved in and thus is more local.

        Your kid has gone through something we all go through, the appearance of success. You have imparted wisdom to him if he realizes that financial only success is fleeting. Good luck to him.

      • Night Owl May 5, 2022 at 2:38 pm #

        This may be one of the best posts in CFN history. Every line made me laugh.

        Bonus points in that it was also totally unexpected.

        • Night Owl May 5, 2022 at 2:44 pm #

          Also, while reading it, I thought of it being read by Jack Handy from that old SNL skit Deep Thoughts.

          Hahahahahaha.

      • R banjo May 5, 2022 at 6:58 pm #

        @BRH
        Thats some funny shit right there…
        My oldest grows weed.. i mean lots of weed.
        He is the biggest grower in a certain area in Cali?
        Anyway, I had no idea how much money this kid is and was making…
        He was going to buy an island in Fiji.
        He is a big surfer and all that…
        Anyway I got a big belly laugh out of your son’s bitcoin story…
        Lmao

  144. Q. Shtik May 5, 2022 at 1:31 pm #

    @ Anthea

    Thanks for your support at 1:54 am above on the issue of whether ‘prahlem’ and ‘prolly’ are just the result of accent differences as Redneck contends. They, of course, are not.

    What they are is lazy speech where the speaker has developed the habit of saving the infinitesimal effort of softly bringing his upper and lower lips together to make a b sound. With no b the word problem becomes ‘prahlem.’

    You may have read my rants about Rutgers students in the very area I live in who similarly drop the t in Rutgers and you wind up with Rukers. This is another instance of lazy speech. That t in Rutgers is formed by a quick touch of the tongue to the hard palate of the mouth but among these youths, who could bother?

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    • Redneck Liberal May 5, 2022 at 7:31 pm #

      So, Harvard, pronounced in a Bostonian accent “Haaavaad”, is just lazy speech? Geez…you can pick on typos & syntax, but lay off the accent-nazi-stuff.

    • MaryQueen May 5, 2022 at 9:33 pm #

      I actually agree with Redneck here.

      What about Bostonians who don’t pronounce the “r”?

      Then there is this new thing with young folks (mostly women) who can’t say words like “button” instead they say “buh-inn”.

      Shall we get into Southern accents while we’re at it?

      • Anthea May 5, 2022 at 11:42 pm #

        I didn’t hear the broadcast that Q Shtik is talking about, so I don’t really know the extent of the speaker’s offense. (I don’t even have the patience to watch a video, so I’m always mispronouncing well known people’s names, never having heard them actually spoken.) Not too long ago, someone had to correct my pronunciation of the Hagia Sophia.

        I think it’s acceptable to speak formal English in the public sphere with a regional accent, as long as it’s correct English. And it’s perfectly okay to speak informal English in private. It’s also perfectly acceptable for some people to go through their whole lives saying, “I seen that accident,” “That plumbin’ is all busted up,” and, “That cistern is slam full.” We just expect that they won’t be writing many academic papers or appearing on national TV to give their opinions on the velocity of money or something.

      • KesaAnna May 5, 2022 at 11:49 pm #

        Southern English is best English.

        That’s my story , and I’m sticking to it.

        They have this accent in New Orleans , though , that’s really awful ,

        like ten thousand ten year olds from New Jersey showed up and taught them English.

        Otherwise , no idea where they got that shit.

        But then I think of P.G.T . Beauregard

        and I think of New Orleans natives in the uniform of the Washington Artillery , or in Confederate Zoauve uniform ,

        and it’s all good.

        • Q. Shtik May 6, 2022 at 12:57 am #

          like ten thousand ten year olds from New Jersey – Kesa

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

          Hahaha, that’s so funny yet so true. I grew up in South Jersey not far from Camden. When I hear a playback of my own voice from having left a phone message I will flush red with embarrassment, even disgust.

          If you want to hear a really THICK Jersey accent (as thick as two day old pea soup) listen to the people who have lived their whole lives along the coast from Atlantic City to Cape May.

      • Q. Shtik May 6, 2022 at 12:37 am #

        they say “buh-inn”. – MQ

        ===========

        Believe me, I have noticed this. It is a peeve of mine that has not yet reached major proportions but it’s on my radar.

        As to Redneck’s “Haaavaad” comment……… this is a genuine accent thing. There is an entire region, with Boston as its hub, containing probably a million or millions of people who all (or mostly all) do not pronounce the letter r. (Pahk the cah) I don’t think they are even conscious that they do not pronounce the r. I think they think they ARE pronouncing the r. I would bet that BeantownBill says Haaavaad and so do 9 out of 10 of his neighbors who live on his block.

        And to make matters even more odd they pronounce an r where an r doesn’t exist, namely in words ending in a as in Africa, Asia and China (Chiner). I don’t think you can find 9 out of 10 people on any block in the U.S. who pronounce problem as ‘prahlem.’ It comes nowhere near reaching the level of an accent and I would hate to see it reach that level.

    • Anthea May 5, 2022 at 11:06 pm #

      @ Q Shtik:

      I love to listen to regional accents. One of my oldest friends (now long deceased) was from Long Island, transplanted to othe Midwest. Another long-time friend (also long deceased) was from Alabama. She had an accent so broad that I often had trouble understanding her, and was full of idiomatic expressions and sayings that were hilarious. (Wish I could remember them.)

      If a person is going to present themselves to a national audience, or write for the general public, they should do so in formal English–or at least standard English. We all speak informal English, and we’re all expected to be more or less bilingual, in the sense of also being able to speak and write in formal English–a least if we’d like to pass for an educated person.

      English is I think without peer among all the languages of the world, for allowing communication with both great precision and great delicacy of feeling. There is hardly a word in the English language that doesn’t evoke poetry or call to mind some line from Shakespeare or the Bible. You can hardly talk at all without summoning the spirits. To speak is to conduct a seance.

      What we have in the English language is something analogous to the very finest and most perfectly machined piece of equipment–like an absolute, top-of-the-line, ne plus ultra example of a rifle, a racecar, or a violin. It is really painful, to some of us anyway, to hear a Stradavarius played by a savage. The least a person could do is to enunciate clearly.

      • Q. Shtik May 6, 2022 at 12:46 am #

        The least a person could do is to enunciate clearly. – Anthea

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

        You are preaching to the choir, Anthea.

  145. cowbell81 May 5, 2022 at 1:52 pm #

    I read that a lot of women are stocking up on morning after pills now, just in case the government decides to outlaw those too! Who exactly are these slut buckets that cannot have control over their bodies, and don’t know enough to ensure their male partner is wearing a wrap before going in for the nasty?

    And then there is Joy Behar from The View who is proposing a “sex strike”, as if anyone would be willing to do it with her anyway! lol

    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/05/04/joy-behar-floats-sex-strike-this-is-war-on-women-gays-people-of-color/

    I haven’t gotten any action for at least three years now. For us guys that is what porn is for, so checkmate on the women, we don’t really need you either!

    • JohnAZ May 5, 2022 at 2:09 pm #

      The Left is the proponent of all forms of immoral behavior. They support drugs, human trafficking, prostitution, the suppression of religion, and in today’s case, the suppression of sexual morality in almost every way possible. A significant part of abortions are belated birth control.

      Women have ALWAYS been the responsible side of birth control, because they carry the burden in all ways. That is reality. Birth control “freed” women for awhile but estrogen side effects became evident after awhile.

      Abortion is the final answer for poor responsibility.

      Men should also be responsible here right?

      Make me laugh!

      • CrusherMuldoon May 5, 2022 at 2:51 pm #

        Right John: Since men have no say whether or not the “clump of cells” they helped create can live or not, why should they care?

        • cowbell81 May 5, 2022 at 2:57 pm #

          The only thing I would care about is if I got hit up with a paternity suit and had to pay for the care and maintenance of the child (actually it is usually wasted by the woman on herself any way though).

    • CrusherMuldoon May 5, 2022 at 2:50 pm #

      After sex, I has me tay

      • SoftStarLight May 5, 2022 at 7:09 pm #

        omg lol

        • CrusherMuldoon May 5, 2022 at 7:45 pm #

          It might sound a lot cleaner if you knew I was saying that with a Scottish accent, SSL : “After 6 (o’clock) I have my tea’

  146. GreenAlba May 5, 2022 at 5:16 pm #

    Meet the GERM Team (2 minutes). Bill Gates, in case you are wondering …

    Global and permanent.

    Keeping their skills honed with ‘germ games’ (well, obviously).

    It’s enough to make a person throw up their dinner.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyRkbe5wfcQ

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 6, 2022 at 1:44 am #

      Huh, who would’ve guessed they’d have comments turned off for that one?

  147. beantownbill. May 5, 2022 at 5:33 pm #

    I guess I’m more liberal in certain matters than many here. I despise human trafficking. To my mind that is hellacious. I support prostitution. It has been present forever, and I don’t want to go into a long spiel about it. Americans seem to have a very prudish, Victorian attitude about sex. We have intelligence and have the ability to really enjoy sex, so why have guilt about it? My attitude was formed in the 1960’s; I will never tell you the sexual things I’ve done, but let me say you might be very surprised. Sex is only immoral if one emotionally and/or physically hurts someone doing it – before, during and after – that alone ought to set appropriate limits to what is acceptable sex, not the particular act itself. Just my opinion.

    • MaryQueen May 5, 2022 at 7:22 pm #

      You mustn’t have watched TV for 20 years. Prudish? Scantily clad women walking around twerking in everyone’s faces – hardly a prudish thing.

    • tucsonspur May 5, 2022 at 7:27 pm #

      I don’t want to hear about the animals anyway, Bill. 🙂

    • MaryQueen May 5, 2022 at 7:50 pm #

      Also, violent porn is available to kids on pornhub. No, I don’t think our society is ‘victorian’ at all.

      • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 9:30 pm #

        As Camille Paglia says, we’re entering into a new Puritanism where women demand protection from everything, that’s how frail they are. They want to be safe. Many male fems want to join them this time of course.

        She says she wouldn’t be surprised to see calls for sexually segregated education again. It might not be a bad thing either.

        • MaryQueen May 5, 2022 at 9:34 pm #

          It’s not ‘frail’ to counter the violent porn kids are subjected to. It makes you a target.

        • Anthea May 6, 2022 at 12:14 am #

          @ Jarek:

          I think sexually segregated education is beneficial. I once taught a school with all-girl and all-boy classes, and I think the quality of the education is greatly improved.

          With the boys, academic excellence becomes a blood sport. They get really competitive. As a female teacher, I also had the impression that they were knocking themselves out to impress me–there being no other females around to impress.

          The all-girl classes had an atmosphere of intimacy that I really enjoyed.

      • beantownbill. May 5, 2022 at 10:35 pm #

        Violent porn is one thing; just plain porn is another.

        • elysianfield May 6, 2022 at 10:19 am #

          Bill,
          I might not be able to define “violence”…but I know it when I see it….

    • malthuss May 5, 2022 at 11:21 pm #

      I despise human trafficking. I support prostitution.

      does one exist without the other?

      • KesaAnna May 6, 2022 at 12:20 am #

        In my view , someone who works 8 or 10 hours a day , 4 to 6 days a week , and at the end of it is POORER than when they started and / or if they had just sat on their ass ,

        THAT IS human trafficking.

        Secondly , if you ever did a little wrong , to do some good ,

        if you ever followed orders , instead of strictly followed your conscience ,

        that’s prostitution , whatever you otherwise call it.

        A fundamental problem today is this , ” two consenting adults ” construct.

        Any sex act , even masturbation ( Pornhub readily available to any curious 11 year old who knows their way around a cellphone , for example )

        invariably involves third parties who don’t get a vote.

        The construct is shear nonsense.

        Consequently , 98% of what is written or said , be it Puritan or Libertine , is utter bullshit.

        It may actually have been better when romantic love was something for the Versailles crowd to pass the time with ,

        marriage and procreation otherwise being largely a matter of who gets ten acres or a cow ?

        Certainly now there is way too much shit to wade through.

    • Anthea May 6, 2022 at 12:06 am #

      @ beantownbill:

      I don’t think that women can engage in prostitution without serious emotional harm–or probably men either.

      Sex is sacramental in nature. The Creator has conferred upon us the power to participate in the act of creation. It is a REALLY bad idea to cheapen or degrade this power, from either a social or a personal standpoint. You can’t possibly treat sex as a commodity, a convenience, or a recreational activity without brutalizing both yourself and your sexual partner.

    • elysianfield May 6, 2022 at 10:21 am #

      ” that alone ought to set appropriate limits”

      Bill,
      Easy Peasy…just sign a “prestupital: agreement….

  148. BackRowHeckler May 5, 2022 at 6:41 pm #

    F#kk me, Dow down 1000+ points.

    When you lay sanctions on a country with the largest landmass on earth, with natural resources coming out of its ying yang, shouldn’t you yourself have a strong economy, and be operating from a place of strength? We have, in effect sanctioned ourselves. And the EU is in a worse position than we are.

    • Anthea May 6, 2022 at 12:25 am #

      Whew! I sold my house recently, and though I didn’t get much for it, I still felt like I should do something with the money. Luckily, I was uneasy about putting it in the stock market. I-Bonds are now paying over 9%–which tells you that even 9% is a losing deal.

      I would invest in guns and ammo, but even if this stuff doubled or tripled in price, would I be willing and able to sell it? Of course, it might get to where being able to bag a deer or two could be a very good thing. Maybe I should try my hand at hunting rabbits.

      It’s disturbing that there seems to be no way to protect yourself from monetary collapse.

  149. tom clark May 5, 2022 at 8:17 pm #

    God bless the the sub sub sub sub sub sub variants.

    And God bless Matea Roach.

    (Correct me, Q if I misspelled, because all know that misspelled is one of the most misspelled words.)

    PS…Russia will get along ok…Dmitry Orlov…Hey Jimbo, when you interview him on the current mess? Inquiring minds want to know.

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  150. tucsonspur May 5, 2022 at 8:23 pm #

    What to some has become a tired, old cliche still bursts with truth:

    ‘If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.’

    When the mistress of that righteous, hypocritical conservative gets pregnant, he either often wants to end her life, the baby’s or both.

    In this complicated, contentious case, a case which involves the most extreme female biological intimacy, the state, more so than ever, must never enter a place as sacrosanct as a woman’s womb.

    Certainly not in all cases, but particularly in this one, it’s the individual over the state.

    • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 9:25 pm #

      It’s a projection of their darkness onto men. To them, abortion IS a sacrament right now.

      You’ve been Had.

      • tucsonspur May 6, 2022 at 4:32 am #

        To them it is a basic, profound, fundamental right to control their own bodies. If they view that as sacramental, fine with me.

        And so I can say that it’s you who has been had. On that note, I’ll abort this discussion.

    • Anthea May 6, 2022 at 12:42 am #

      @ tucsonspur:

      A few years ago, that was my position on abortion: the State should have no involvement in the matter.

      I’ve since moved firmly into the pro-life camp. I don’t see how a society can condone the murder of unborn children and retain any semblance of humanity.

      Sure, people will continue to have abortions, as they always have throughout history–just as they have always committted murder, rape, incest, theft, and so forth.

      We as a society have gotten to where we condone every kind of crime and mischief. We’ve failed to uphold the most basic standards. A willingness to murder the unborn is about as basic as it gets. To condone or normalize this is to hit rock bottom. The society that does this is done. Stick a fork in it.

      • tucsonspur May 6, 2022 at 5:07 am #

        Many nations have approved abortions and are doing just fine and remain quite humane.

        Pro-life (Ha!) people have murdered pro-choice people.

        I believe that we could use Ayn Rand’s philosophy more today than ever before, certainly when it comes to the power of the state.

        Here she is on abortion:

        ‘Never mind the vicious nonsense of claiming that an embryo has a “right to life.” A piece of protoplasm has no rights–and no life in the human sense of the term. One may argue about the later stages of a pregnancy, but the essential issue concerns only the first 3 months. To equate a potential with an actual, is vicious; to advocate the sacrifice of the latter to the former, is unspeakable.

        Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living: the right of young people to set the course of their own lives. The task of raising a child is a tremendous, lifelong responsibility, which no one should undertake unwittingly or unwillingly. Procreation is not a duty: human beings are not stock-farm animals. For conscientious persons, an unwanted pregnancy is a disaster; to oppose its termination is to advocate sacrifice, not for the sake of anyone’s benefit, but for the sake of forbidding fulfillment to living human beings.’

        From someone else:

        ‘No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.’
        —Frederica Mathewes-Green

        We are not ‘done’ as you say because we allow abortions. It goes far deeper than that.

  151. tom clark May 5, 2022 at 8:30 pm #

    PPS…when you go out and get drunk (or high or whatever), you’re asking to get laid. CBD anyone? Notice how CBD shops are springing up next to liquor stores? Abortion clinics may be next…just wait Amerika. Go out, get high, get laid, get pregnant, have an abortion, all w/in your neighborhood strip mall. Easy peasy.

    • Jarek May 5, 2022 at 9:26 pm #

      tom smears CBD on to himself to get high? You have to use a lot so he does?

  152. BackRowHeckler May 5, 2022 at 9:03 pm #

    Think you’re having a bad year? Yeah I’ll admit Sleepy Joe has f#kkd things up good. But the Cincinnati Reds are 3-22 to start out the season! 3-22! Ponder that fact for a moment, CFNers.

    You don’t really hear too much about Cincinnati, like say, you do about Minneapolis or Seattle. Yeah every once in awhile a riot will break out and they’ll be some looting and arson; however, nothing like those other cities.

  153. tom clark May 5, 2022 at 9:51 pm #

    BRH…I am well aware of the Redlegs baseball record. MLB goofed on this one…it failed on parity, so precious to the powers that be for attendance and profits. Cincinnati’s not such a bad place…ever been there? Pete Rose, eat your heart out. Mpls. is cold and Seattle is dark and wet. What’s your gig?

  154. Shoplet™ May 5, 2022 at 10:51 pm #

    I just got back from the grocery store. Here’s what happened…

    I happened to be in the aisle that includes the table syrups (which I never buy) and happened to notice that the bottle of a particular shape that would normally have ‘Aunt Jemima’ and a pic of ‘her’ on it had another name– that of the company or something like that.

    My immediate thought was that the so-called social justice warriors, woke or cancel culturers– call them what you will– might have ‘got to them’.

    I decided to bring the bottle to one of the so-called ‘black’ guys who was normally busy at that hour stocking the shelves and told him about it and how it was amusing that the so-called ‘white’ Chef Boyardee, Captain Highliner and the Quaker Oats guy were still on their respective packages.

    He confirmed that it used to be Aunt Jemima by pointing to a portion of the label as proof. So I told him that I will see, for fun, if Uncle Ben’s is still there. Sure enough, it was not. Instead, it is now called Ben’s (or without the apostrophe). I took one of the packages over to him and pointed that out, ‘Sure enough…’, ‘How about that?’, etc..

    So I arrive at the cash/till and tell the cashier (a very petite so-called ‘woman’, ostensibly fresh from India or thereabouts) and the guy in front of me, the ‘amusing’ revelation and the guy in front of me congatulates me on being racist for my observations and amusement and holds out his hand as if to shake mine. I put mine out and he takes his away.

    At one point, he refers to my being ‘white’ and I suggest that I am pinkish-beige and that we are all ultimately from Africa, so who’s racist? That sort of discourse as you might imagine. The cashier seems to have giggled when I suggested being pinkish-beige. I added that the other so-called ‘white’ labels– Quaker, High Liner and Chef Boyardee– were all still there, and then I explicitly challenged the guy to argue his point. He couldn’t or wouldn’t. Gee what a surprise.

    He appeared to be in his twenties, maybe thirties and was wearing a mask, even though, by law, he didn’t have to anymore, and with some kind of cutesy print on it. I had none.

    As I was unlocking my bike, he slowed his car down near me and looked at me and maybe I could make out his head shaking in a kind of virtue-signal, to which I smiled and waved my hand. And then he drove away into the night…

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    • Shoplet™ May 5, 2022 at 11:01 pm #

      I wouldn’t doubt the possibility that one of the next times I go to that store, they pull me aside and go over what transpired and maybe threaten or enact some sort of ‘discipline’. Should be interesting.

    • Blackbird May 5, 2022 at 11:06 pm #

      The Quaker Oats guy isn’t the same, the new one is gay.

      • Shoplet™ May 5, 2022 at 11:09 pm #

        They gave Captain Highliner a ‘makeover’ too.

        Come to think of it, ditto Wendy’s and Colonel Sanders.

        • malthuss May 5, 2022 at 11:23 pm #

          sanders had fried chicken. and thats how it was advertised.

          by the 1980s or 1990 it was ‘KFC’ they took the fried off the marquee.

          • Shoplet™ May 5, 2022 at 11:39 pm #

            I know all that, but thanks just the same.
            I briefly used to eat their 2 pieces-and-fries-for-two-dollars special but kept getting a kind of acidy stomache ache afterward.
            The culprit was likely the excess grease/fat. So I pretty much stopped eating KFC, save for the rare piece on the go.

      • malthuss May 5, 2022 at 11:22 pm #

        ?

        • Shoplet™ May 6, 2022 at 12:10 am #

          “?” ~ malthuss

          ?

      • Q. Shtik May 6, 2022 at 1:22 am #

        How can you tell? Is his wrist limp?

        • Blackbird May 6, 2022 at 9:00 pm #

          Next time you’re walkin’ down the oatmeal aisle, take a look. Tell me you want that guy staring out of the cupboard at you.

    • malthuss May 5, 2022 at 11:27 pm #

      quite a story.

      we are all ultimately from Africa, NO we disagree. the africans are from africa. we are Neanderthals.

      • Shoplet™ May 5, 2022 at 11:43 pm #

        It’s apparently only a very small percentage of Neanderthal but also were they and/or their ancestors also from what is now known as Africa?

      • thwack May 5, 2022 at 11:45 pm #

        Neanderthals; another failed race who couldn’t define what a woman is.

        The penis mightier than the sword.

        • Shoplet™ May 6, 2022 at 12:04 am #

          Are you indirectly referring to a so-called ‘black’ so-called ‘woman’s recent so-called ostensible ‘inability’?

    • Q. Shtik May 6, 2022 at 1:21 am #

      ^This^ is a funny story.

    • KesaAnna May 6, 2022 at 2:00 am #

      I miss the Lipton tea guy ; Some old white guy in a peaked cap and a monocle , but representing 19th Century British Imperialism , not 20th Century German imperialism.

      Art just keeps getting worse and worse.

      Kim Possible looks best with loose hair and a cheer-leading outfit.

      At least a cute but elegantly dressed bitch.

      In a ponytail and trousers she just looks like a bitch.

      And so it goes…..

  155. tom clark May 5, 2022 at 11:30 pm #

    A grocery store is for grocery shopping, not judging others who happen to work there or be there.

    If you don’t like it, grow your own food or shut the fuck up.

    And what’s with this cutesy Shoplet (trademark) bull shit?

    • Shoplet™ May 5, 2022 at 11:55 pm #

      Who’s judging whom?

      Anyway, they have cafes and Starbucks cafes in quite a few grocery stores over here, so they are not just for shopping any more. I have also rollerbladed in them. LOL

      • R banjo May 6, 2022 at 12:11 am #

        Keep em’ coming folks!
        F.,Ning hellarious…..!!!!!
        Rollerbladed?
        You got to be kidding!!!

        • Shoplet™ May 6, 2022 at 12:21 am #

          For me, it’s almost as easy as wearing shoes. I’m more stable on blades than some women appear to be on/in high heels.
          But, ya, some businesses insist, so that’s why I carry flipflops– just in case.

          • Shoplet™ May 6, 2022 at 12:24 am #

            …or some ‘trans’ for that matter. Maybe especially.

    • Shoplet™ May 6, 2022 at 12:01 am #

      “And what’s with this cutesy Shoplet (trademark) bull shit?” ~ tom clark

      It’s fucking ridiculous.

      • Shoplet™ May 6, 2022 at 12:08 am #

        I’m Borbolactic over at Russia Today.

        If you’re ever there, and I am too, feel free to say hello.

  156. tom™ clark™ May 6, 2022 at 12:36 am #

    ? ? “…I am invincible…
    I am woman,
    Yes I am…”? ?

    • Shoplet™ May 6, 2022 at 12:46 am #

      That’s the spirit!

  157. thwack May 6, 2022 at 1:33 am #

    Zhirinovsky Explaining Some Hard Truths To BBC Scoundrel In 2018:

    His Scotland, Wales and Ireland analogy is very interesting; The “prince of Wales” in not Welsh?

    *think about that?*

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/zCfM8Lhf8Vkn/

  158. KesaAnna May 6, 2022 at 1:38 am #

    ” ‘If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.’ ”

    ” “Your position on abortion should be dependent on you having witnessed the birth of a child and its matriculation through and to adulthood.

    If you haven’t witnessed that series of events, your opinion should be consider null and void.”

    Thwack,
    Of course, you jest. Witness a child dying of hunger in abject poverty…. ”

    ” The Supremes are gonna overturn Roe vs. Wade. That’s funny. If anything, abortion “rights” will be increased to the point that postpartum abortions will be legal. ”

    ” It’s a projection of their darkness onto men. ”

    I never think of that subject without thinking of this ( It’s only just under 5 minutes ) ;

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbF5tThtHbM

    Now I’m not moralizing .

    As I have said before , when I was a little girl I wanted to join the army , and if I could have joined at ten years old , I would have said , ” Sure ! Thanks ! ”

    Now my understanding of that was not informed by Rambo , John Wayne , or Batman.

    My understanding of it was informed by the knowledge that when the shit hit the fan , both Germany and Russia handed out rifles to ten and twelve year olds.

    And in your country , at one point the VMI Cadets were thrown into battle to defend the Confederacy ,

    and if I recall correctly , Jesse James joined Bloody Bill Anderson’s Raiders at 13 , and was already famous or infamous at 16.

    Presumably I’m now wiser , more sober , more skeptical ,

    but in truth when I look at the above video , part of me still views it as HEROIC and ROMANTIC.

    ” Give ’em Hell boys ! ”

    — Quite literally.

    I don’t know , your reaction might be , ” What the fuck does that have to do with abortion ? ”

    But it says something to me ,

    so I’ll post it anyway.

    I might add that I think abortion is killing a baby.

    I also think millions of 30 year olds are viewed ( admittedly or not ) like garbage.

    Maybe some evil twisted fuck should say so.

    • gustafson.robert.22 May 6, 2022 at 1:49 am #

      The usual anti-abortion position, in a nutshell:

      Life is most sacred in the womb—once outside it, less and less so.

      • tucsonspur May 6, 2022 at 5:20 am #

        As I posted above:

        ‘Never mind the vicious nonsense of claiming that an embryo has a “right to life.” A piece of protoplasm has no rights–and no life in the human sense of the term. One may argue about the later stages of a pregnancy, but the essential issue concerns only the first 3 months. To equate a potential with an actual, is vicious; to advocate the sacrifice of the latter to the former, is unspeakable.

        Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living: the right of young people to set the course of their own lives. The task of raising a child is a tremendous, lifelong responsibility, which no one should undertake unwittingly or unwillingly. Procreation is not a duty: human beings are not stock-farm animals. For conscientious persons, an unwanted pregnancy is a disaster; to oppose its termination is to advocate sacrifice, not for the sake of anyone’s benefit, but for the sake of forbidding fulfillment to living human beings.’

        AR

        • CrusherMuldoon May 6, 2022 at 7:51 am #

          I guess you could apply the same bullshit to student loan cancellation: “For conscientious persons STUDENT LOAN DEBT is a disaster; to oppose its CANCELLATION is to advocate sacrifice not for the sake of THE LENDER’S BENEFIT but for the sake of forbidding fulfillment to “adults” raised by getting PARTICIPATION TROPHIES. R-I-G-H-T

      • messianicdruid May 6, 2022 at 9:01 am #

        It is less sacred because it can care for itself.

        • messianicdruid May 6, 2022 at 9:04 am #

          If it learns to be conscientious.

  159. BackRowHeckler May 6, 2022 at 7:18 am #

    NBC reports this morning that US and British Intel agencies are providing information to the Ukrainians that allows them to assassinate Russian General Officers, also to sink that Russian warship in the Black Sea. This is worrisome. One wonders how much more of this the Russians will take? Watching MSM last night and the consensus seems to be Russia is on its last legs, is ready to fold, is losing the war badly. Also implied is Lavrov and Putin are bluffing when they make mention of their nuclear arsenal and besides, that nuclear arsenal might not even be operable. If NBC, CBS, ABC etc. are mouthpieces for the Biden Admin — and it’s pretty clear that they are — these are the assumptions and delusions that the US is operating under.

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    • stelmosfire May 6, 2022 at 8:06 am #

      General Keane on Fox says Russia is using large incinerators in Mariupol to burn all the cilvilians they have been killing to cover up evidence. That people actually believe this crap is beyond frightening.

      • Disaffected May 6, 2022 at 8:13 am #

        Remember, we heard the same thing about China when ConVid first kicked off.

  160. thwack May 6, 2022 at 9:00 am #

    ” “Your position on abortion should be dependent on you having witnessed the birth of a child and its matriculation through and to adulthood.

    ******************************

    am I the only person who thinks this is a valid metric?

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 6, 2022 at 9:29 am #

      I know my personal stance changed massivley after having a child.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder May 6, 2022 at 9:29 am #

        Or *massively, even…

    • Disaffected May 6, 2022 at 9:42 am #

      Everybody’s *position* on abortion is valid, but the question is, should it be **against the law** for someone to exercise that position? We have too many laws that aren’t enforced now anyway, but the real question is do we want the government nanny state to dictate what we can and cannot do at every turn. And as we’ve learned recently with ConVid and the vaxxes, you’d have to add **must do** to that list as well.

  161. Shoplet™ May 6, 2022 at 2:47 pm #

    Hi guys, I have a conspiracy theory:

    States are attempting to sow discord and division within and between people and groups to cover their abject failures as well as the abject failures that they are.

    I mean, Roe vs Wade, etc.? Now?

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