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So much chatter in the news media these days about who will be “Joe Biden’s” running mate in 2024 — not that there’s anything wrong with his current sidekick — but I’ve got half a mind to throw my own hat in the ring. That’d make two of us with half a mind and a shot at the so-far elusive ideal to govern least… and therefore govern best!

Alas, I lack the connections and the ground-game of a seasoned pol such as Liz Cheney, the current favorite, who dragged her esteemed old daddy, Dick Cheney (“George W. Bush’s brain”) up to Capitol Hill this week, for to schmooze up the Progressive caucus and raise morale among the walking dead. Where Dick Cheney treads, you know war can’t be far behind. That must be what America really needs to pep her up in these days of sagging poll numbers and inflating dollars. War, the ivermectin of politics!

But shall it be a foreign war or a civil war? Isn’t that the question? From the looks of things around “Joe Biden’s” White House, where a weird concrete fortification is being hoisted up on the north lawn as I write, it looks like they’re planning for action on the home front, perhaps a full-out assault by the lurking forces of white supremacy — painted savages in horned head-dresses screaming MAGA-MAGA-MAGA as they loot Dr. Jill’s walk-in closet.

The Attorney General, Mr. Garland, has been warning us about this Satanic host of backward-facing demons. They breed like botflies in the red state hills and hollers, swarm and buzz in the school board meetings, caress their AR-15s in prostrate worship of their Trump bobbleheads, scheming to deprive BIPOCs of their votes. They’d like to tie Democracy to the back bumper of a Ford Alpha F-150, drag it over seven miles of broken Southern Comfort bottles, and feed whatever’s left to the hogs. They must be stopped!

Except… what if they fail to materialize? Maybe a foreign war would play better on social media and The View. Our arch-enemy, Vlad Putin, election-meddler supreme, is fixing to invade Ukraine, we’re told. Obviously, that would interfere with “Joe Biden’s” plan to make Ukraine America’s fifty-first state. When Sec’y of State Tony Blinken mentioned that to Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister blew mineral water through his nose all over the conference table. Would a friendly little tussle over that sad-sack country lift America’s animal spirits… like, get the economy firing on all cylinders? Roust up all those work-force dropouts who disdain fine jobs waiting for them in the Amazon warehouses and the fry-lanes of Mickey-D? Put the brakes on all this fentanyl snorting…? All this porn-watching…? Turn around America’s long sickening slide into its own Hollywood fantasy of the zombie apocalypse?

Well, I must be frank: probably not. Probably only hasten America’s journey to the political pits of hell (and Ukraine’s to its special sub-hell). What would be our strategy in this war over Ukraine? Arm Ukraine with all the latest US gee-whiz fighting gear and let them have a go at the Russian army poised along the border of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts? That’ll work, I’m sure. Call it Operation Russian Roulette, only with a bullet in every chamber. You see, it is not a generally-accepted fact among world military professionals that Ukraine has — how you say? — a well-disciplined, experienced fighting force. I hope that does not offend.

If that doesn’t seem like a viable game-plan, do “Joe Biden,” Tony Blinken, and Lloyd Austin really suppose we would transport x-number of US troop divisions six thousand miles from Kansas to slug it out with those Russian divisions poised at the edge of their own homeland? Have a look at the world map and contemplate the logistical picture. Not so favorable for us, wouldn’t you agree? A long way to re-supply our boys, gals, and theys in uniform with fresh Kit-Kat bars.

Okay, say that dog don’t hunt, what else then? Default to our trusty old ICBMs, waiting patiently in their rusty silos lo these many decades for the chance to do their thing? That is, turn the world into an ashtray? I give you: Dr. Strangelove re-made as a documentary…. We are livin’ the dream, all right.

How’s this for an idea: just leave Ukraine alone. If Russia intends to dominate it, so what? For most of our lives Ukraine was a virtual province of Russia, so to speak, and it didn’t hurt us none. Ditto our grandparents and all the ranks of our ancestors. And now it’s a problem? Could it be possible that Ukraine is just none of our business (in the most literal way)?

Meanwhile the business of Covid-19 flares spectacularly in omicron drag — but not vary harmfully — around the world, presaging a welcome end to this contrived global emergency, and yet the member nations of the Western Civ club (including many also enlisted in NATO) drive deeper with their experiment in tyranny even as the end of Covid is in sight. Despite overwhelming proof that the mRNA vaccines don’t work, and actually induce much serious harm to people, Western Civ still strives insanely to vaxx-up every last citizen. The Supreme Court shot down “Joe Biden’s” vaxx mandate for businesses yesterday, and the “president” actually declared that companies should ignore the decision and compel employees to get vaxxed anyway.

If that is not something like peak insane, what is? At least, among the cohort in our land who are susceptible to that madness, which is actually not a majority of the people in this land. Hence, I have news for you: we are now at the turning point. Americans are rejecting blue insanity. We are fixing to drag that old blue dog to the doghouse, where it can cool out for two years before we put it down for good. And a couple more things: “Joe Biden” is done running for president, and Liz Cheney is done running for Congress, or anything else. Welcome back to reality. Let the sun shine in.


 

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1,075 Responses to “Dog Gone”

  1. Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 10:02 am #

    Bobby Jr. is expected in DC in a few days.

    • mike6972 January 14, 2022 at 11:09 am #

      In the present environment, anyone other than BLM or Antifa attempting a rally in DC will be met by mass arrests, indefinite detention, and perhaps even execution for “treason”. I will never venture anywhere near DC again. It’s occupied territory now.

      • Hardrock January 14, 2022 at 12:33 pm #

        I do Rev War reenacting. A few years ago, a buddy was going to do a weekend event at Mount Vernon for a George Washington commemoration.

        He made the mistake of taking a route through DC and making a wrong turn or some silly minor traffic infraction. He was stopped by the police and you can imagine what happened when they found muskets, swords, black powder, etc, in the car. They spread all his stuff out in the rain. Didn’t matter that he had all the clothing accoutrements, etc to back up his story. He told them to call Mt. Vernon to confirm that he was registered for the event. They wouldn’t do it.

        He spent the night in jail while his wife and kid slept in the car. The judge that heard the case the next day told him to never come back to DC again and let him go.

        This guy was trying to do something to commemorate his country’s history and got treated like a terrorist. I fear that we’re all going to feel like strangers in a strange land soon.

        • debt January 14, 2022 at 4:23 pm #

          Horrifying. I live on the West Coast. I have no desire to ever visit DC or anywhere else on the East Coast for that matter. There are too many issues in California anyway. Cali works is okay if you’re not in the big cities.

        • GracieBentley January 16, 2022 at 12:18 pm #

          A bit clunky to say the least but our skill set and experience won the day. Poor ref with no regard to offside and he bottled it on the sin bin, red card all day long if it had been on sky

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      • 100th Avatar January 14, 2022 at 5:44 pm #

        The only people allowed to rally in DC are FBI entrapment squads.

      • Wizard of the Saddle January 15, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

        This proves that the tactics of the increasingly authoritarian Biden Regime are working in at least one respect:

        Suppressing the 1st Amendment right to peaceably assemble to lawfully petition their government.

        In normal times I’d advocate a response of getting 1 Million MAGA’s to swarm into Washington to stage an enormous protest.

        But these are not normal times.

        It is clear that the Biden Regime and the Wokester Criminal Syndicate that props it up, have destroyed the political viability of the Democrat Party. We know. They know it.

        So now, they must find an extra-constitutional way of staying in power.

        The first stab at that was to sweep away the filibuster to clear the way for a series of federal laws to subvert our elections. But, amazingly, (thanks to Manchin and Sinema), that’s not going to happen.

        So now all that is left for the desperate Wokester Regime is to try to go full Abe Lincoln on America’s ass by provoking a second Civil War. TPTB behind Biden hope to goad MAGA’s into an act of sedition, rebellion, insurrection, domestic terrorism, etc. They plan to do this in the same manner that Lincoln did it to the South in 1861. By continuously poking the bear with a stick until you rile it and it attacks you.

        Lincoln accomplished this by dispatching an armed armada of naval vessels loaded with relief supplies to Ft. Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The strategy was as brilliant as it was devious. If the Confederate government stood idly by while a foreign fleet reinforced foreign troops unlawfully occupying a military fort in the middle of Charleston Harbor then the CSA’s claim of national sovereignty would be reduced to an international joke. After all, if you can’t eject the Yankee army from your own ports, we’ll, you ain’t much of a country, are you?

        On the other hand, if rhe Confederate government bombarded the fort prior to the fleet’s arrival in order to force it to surrender the facility to the Confedrate government, then Lincoln’s government would have their “casus belli” needed to rouse the Northern populace to support an unconstitutional invasion of the Southern States.

        Jefferson Davis’s government was placed into a “damned if you do and damned if you don’t” predicament.

        The Southern temperament being what it was in 1861, we fired on the damn fort and the rest is history.

        I predict that TPTB behind Biden will spend the rest of this year trying to maneuver the Republican Free State politicians and free floating MAGA Patriots into committing a similar casus belli. Failing that, they will settle on something that falls far short of that, but which can be “spun” as one by their MSM synchphants.

        This is wat they are trying to do with the January 6th frat party at the U.S. Capitol, but this is proving to be rather thin gruel, so they will continue to try to provoke something more substantial.

        For this reason alone, all Republicans, Trump supporters, 2A supporters, etc must play things as cool as a cucumber until we at least get control of Congress back again. Even then, we should tread cautiously and oppose these people in a calm, steely-eyed manner until the White House is cleansed of these scum in 2024.

        • Ron Anselmo January 16, 2022 at 12:41 am #

          Wiz – I love your stuff, but you’re off today.

          “In normal times I’d advocate a response of getting 1 Million MAGA’s to swarm into Washington to stage an enormous protest.” ~ Wiz

          LOL, then what?

          “For this reason alone, all Republicans, Trump supporters, 2A supporters, etc must play things as cool as a cucumber until we at least get control of Congress back again.” ~ Wiz

          LOL, then what?

          “Even then, we should tread cautiously and oppose these people in a calm, steely-eyed manner until the White House is cleansed of these scum in 2024.” ~ Wiz

          LOL, then what?

          If you’re suggesting the solutions are political my friend, dream on.

    • Bob12065 January 14, 2022 at 1:33 pm #

      to beyrl of oyl and ron anselmo…you are misspelling our gov’s name.

      it’s spelled Hochghoul

      • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 2:03 pm #

        I wonder if she knows that everybody hates her.

        • Hereward the Woke January 14, 2022 at 3:01 pm #

          The problem with Dems is that if you get rid of one, you end up with someone even worse. Same in the UK with BoJo. He deserves to go, but his replacement will be a Grade A psychopath.

          • GreenAlba January 14, 2022 at 8:26 pm #

            There’s a choice of them too, Hereward – Javid, Zahawi, Hunt …

            I expect Sunak’s not as charming as he seems when push comes to shove either.

            My gut instinct is that Javid is the worst of all. Previously I though that was Hunt, but Javid is vile. I think he’s ex-Goldman-Sachs.

      • Uncle Bob January 15, 2022 at 12:13 pm #

        It’s so wonderful having a former county clerk of a bankrupt county strutting around acting like she thinks she’s Catherine the Great ordering the cossacks to punish any peasant who doesn’t follow her every whim. At least Buffalo Kathy won’t get to fuck a horse — her fugly face would scare the poor creature to death, or st least permanent impotence. Shes Cuomo’s parting gift to New Yorkers: “You morons kicked me out of office for playing grabass? Fine. Your punishment is a moron who refuses to wear masks she commands everyone else to wear (including bureaucrats who work in closed sites and/or are on phone calls all day), and who thinks she’s gorgeous, but who’d scare Medusa. HAHAHAHAHA!!!”

        Sure would be nice if New York actually had a viable alternative party….

    • Sixtus V January 14, 2022 at 8:49 pm #

      * * *

      NO JABZ FOR JOE !!

      Calling on Rogan, Jones, Everybody !

      Let’s  ADOPT – A – NURSE  & PROVIDE FOR THEM IF THEY ARE FIRED !! We’re Going to Need Them !

      SAY NO TO JOE !! 

      BEST WAY TO EGG JOE !!

  2. NickelthroweR January 14, 2022 at 10:02 am #

    What we must do next is sue every company that mandated masks and vaccines into oblivion. It was and is illegal. The people that demanded these ridiculous measures are WAR CRIMINALS and must be treated as such.

    No exceptions – no mercy.

    • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 10:09 am #

      Biden and Bernie are busy with plans to get everybody in the US in N-95 masks.

      The FDA says don’t used them on kids, but some schools are already doing so.

      The N95 masks are designed to protect the wearer from particles, and are not meant to be worn continuously.

      Such masks have been tried and enforced in the US military and in Germany, and did not work under field conditions.

      Something I missed, the NY governess b*tch from hell madwoman dictatress extended her insane mask mandate until February 1.

      Probably to get people used to the idea while Joe gets his slave masks ready.

      • Ron Anselmo January 14, 2022 at 10:21 am #

        Beryl – your words are too kind for Hochul.

        • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 10:25 am #

          You are correct. Words don’t usually fail me, but there are no words.

      • NickelthroweR January 14, 2022 at 11:19 am #

        Ordering everyone to do something will backfire when entire regions simply refuse to obey. Then what is Brandon going to do? Is he going to fill his diapers on live television until we acquiesce? He could turn his tranny army loose on us but they’ll flip sides if we offer free anal bleaching to anyone that surrenders.

        • observex January 14, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

          Correct. I had to go to a blue state and was the * only * person in a large store not wearing a mask.

          This did not cause the building to collapse.

          And no one said anything to me.

          Arguing is exhausting. Ignoring them is easy.

        • Wizard of the Saddle January 15, 2022 at 12:23 pm #

          That’s a visual I could have done without.

          Ugh.

      • Prospero January 14, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

        Perhaps N95 masks would be more appealing to everyone, including our boys, gals, theys and thems in the military, if plenty of Nancy Pelosi-style decorative patterns were available.

      • ThorsHammer January 14, 2022 at 7:55 pm #

        Beryl

        Stop whining! Your Leader is doing you a favor if you are a true revolutionary. By hiding your identity and masking your intentions you can blend into the herd with less chance of detection. Do you think the chap with a buffalo cape and horns would have stood out and been ushered into the White Man’s House by the security guards if he had been properly masked? That would have been a waste of good planned TV footage.

        It is a simple matter to clip the seams on a a K95 mask and render it perfectly wearable while producing no effect upon its efficacy against the nano- particle virus. (Zero equals O)

        If we move on to the next stage of requiring rubber seal full face twin filter masks that is a great opportunity for future profit. A small line leading from a waist belt mounted tank and regulator. Filled with nitrous oxide (laughing gas) or the street drug of your choice to feed your mood.

    • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 10:37 am #

      Agree. If these people are just allowed to back away slowly from the crime and keep everything, then it will happen again, only worse, next time.

      • hortonz January 14, 2022 at 11:40 am #

        Of course they can always take more drastic measures and tax the unvaccinated like the loonies over in Quebec.

      • ThorsHammer January 14, 2022 at 8:04 pm #

        Been watching a lot of classic Westerns lately. ( Mainly because I’m missing camping in the Utah desert)

        It does seem that back in the cowboy days there was a lot less whining and a lot more justice.

        • Wizard of the Saddle January 15, 2022 at 12:27 pm #

          That’s because most of the Justice was doled out by the locals.

          Matt Dillon, granted, was a federal marshal in “Gunsmoke,” but his kind were few and far between in the real Old West of the 1800’s.

          Local lawmen and vigilance committees did most of the heavy lifting in those days and they didn’t fuck around.

    • lastman January 14, 2022 at 10:42 am #

      Just ignore them. The results will be faster.

      Eliminate any monetary support for any of these companies.

      Their day is coming. Be patient.

      In the meantime, support like minded people in your community and starve those who luv der gubmint cheese, funds, etc.

      • TaxDonkey January 14, 2022 at 11:13 am #

        do not comply

        • JTinMD January 14, 2022 at 11:28 am #

          Or just ignore them. Ignorance is bliss. Follow your bliss.

          • beantownbill. January 14, 2022 at 11:49 am #

            The full statement is “when ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise”.

      • Wizard of the Saddle January 15, 2022 at 12:30 pm #

        That’s right. America has turned against Wokism. It might not be totally clear yet, but I believe a majority now sees these people for the dangerous ass-clowns that they are.

        Therefore, expect the Woke to soon go broke, as more and more Americans refuse to do business with companies run by PC idiots.

    • Not_GeorgeT January 14, 2022 at 12:38 pm #

      The idea has merit, finding a legit court is another matter.

    • ianw January 14, 2022 at 7:12 pm #

      What we must do next is sue every company that mandated masks and vaccines into oblivion. It was and is illegal. The people that demanded these ridiculous measures are WAR CRIMINALS and must be treated as such.

      Do you have the same passion against the thousands of companies that demand abstinence (even outside work hours) from drugs, alcohol, and tobacco? I’ve not seen it.

      And while you might not like company mandates on masks and vaccines, they are not “war criminals” … it is hyperbole that doesn’t help the discussion much.

      • Wizard of the Saddle January 15, 2022 at 12:32 pm #

        You’re right. They are not war criminals.

        They are worse than that.

        They are traitors with genocidal hearts.

        They should get everything that they have coming to them, and I mean that in a most severe way.

    • ThorsHammer January 16, 2022 at 2:05 pm #

      NickelthroweR

      “What we must do next is sue every company that mandated masks and vaccines into oblivion”

      What planet are you living on? In the USA you get the best justice money will buy. Add up the capital assets of all the companies that mandated muzzles and gene modification and of all the companies that just didn’t give a s+++ and rubbed their hands in glee with every new murder. Now add up the resources of all the “we” who care enough to try to pursue the illusion of justice in the courts.

      Need I state the obvious winner?

      (The average dog catcher exhibits more intelligence than Sotomayer, Obama’s “wise Latina” appointment to the highest court in the land—.)

      • ianw January 16, 2022 at 8:52 pm #

        Add up the capital assets of all the companies that mandated muzzles and gene modification

        As one virologist quipped, “Those who believe that the mRNA vaccines modify their DNA should welcome the opportunity.”

  3. Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 10:03 am #

    A Large Anti-Vaccine-Mandate March Is Planned for DC on January 23
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will speak at the January 23 event on the Mall.

    https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/01/13/january-23-anti-vaccine-mandate-march-dc/

    • thirdcoastlegend January 14, 2022 at 10:18 am #

      Won’t this just be another killbox for conservatives like J6?

      • Ron Anselmo January 14, 2022 at 10:23 am #

        TCL – yes, exactly. Also, another march, another protest – absolutely nothing will happen. Nothing. A friend asked if I was going. LOL

      • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 10:28 am #

        If they kill too many high-profile people like Joe Rogan and Bobby Jr., people will start to notice somethings up.

        I think they will have plenty of their own security, something the J6 marchers did not have.

      • lastman January 14, 2022 at 10:44 am #

        One of the golden rules right now.

        Stay away from crowds.

        • benr January 14, 2022 at 11:01 am #

          That has been one of my golden rules for the last thirty years!

          • rhys12 January 14, 2022 at 2:30 pm #

            Tried finding N95’s lately? I found a few in a Home Depot, which have valves (which they also don’t want you to wear under the illogical argument that it only protects you, not others. But if YOU don’t get covid you can’t infect OTHERS!!! ).

            Even if you wear them for a full week, they are going to be very expensive over time. And they are supposed to be single use.

            The first year of the pandemic I wore a P100 respirator (better than N95) which also had a valved exhaust – never got covid so I never infected anyone else. Changed the two pink filters once a month. Got funny looks, though.

            In later 2021 I just wore cheap paper masks that look like surgeons masks. They leak so much air around the edges that they don’t do anything. But no one questions them. Most of the people at the hospital are wearing the same type, usually under their noses!

        • Not_GeorgeT January 14, 2022 at 11:08 am #

          It has, in my opinion, all the markings of a setup.

          Habeus Corpus left town Jan 6th last year.

          That’s just for starters.

          Security? Security from any of the 3-letter agencies would be the first order of business.

          Who is left? Realistically the Marshals Service might have a place, but the best they could do was move a number of the Jan 6 detainees to somewhat better confinement conditions.

          At this point DC has all manner of restriction in place. Liberty, whatever was left, caught the last train along with Habeus Corpus. Arrest them all, throw them into internment camps somewhere, removing a potentially number of unwashed, deplorable, anti-mandate, non mask-wearing troublemakers.

          Then leave them there to rot. The precedent has been set.

          Always keep in mind these people never stop.

          • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 11:23 am #

            I’m thinking they know the optics of any harm coming to the son of a slain senator and nephew of a slain president, or his followers, will not play well around the world, so they settled for a new barricade that will give dunderheads watching the nightly news the impression the government was threatened by anti-vaxxers.

            Is Joe ever even in the White House anymore? Is that set they built for him within they area the wall will encompass?

          • beantownbill. January 14, 2022 at 11:57 am #

            Well said. What’s happening with the detainees is something out of North Korea’s playbook. The America I grew up in has ceased to exist. For anyone not aware, we are in the midst of TEOTWAWKI.

          • draupnir January 14, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

            Beryl–They are using the sound stage and 3/4 size White House replica Tyler Perry built on his property in Georgia.

          • abbybwood January 14, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

            I can’t believe they got a permit!

            But it is guaranteed they have one.

            Think of the list of speakers! Kennedy, Malone, probably Dr. McCullough etc.

            Hope it will be live-streamed on the Children’s Health Defense website.

            I couldn’t afford to go there from LA plus I don’t do well in cold weather.

            Ft. Lauderdale might have been a better choice for location.

          • ianw January 14, 2022 at 7:21 pm #

            What’s happening with the detainees is something out of North Korea’s playbook. The America I grew up in has ceased to exist.

            I have no sympathy for the rioters / insurrectionists / violent meat-heads playing weekend warrior – they tried to physically prevent the certification of the president-elect.

            The America you grew up in didn’t have losing presidents who refused to concede, and refused to give a decent unifying concession speech – and instead incited a riot and then refused to defuse it.

            But I agree – long-term detention-without-trial of those arrested is appalling, and seemingly unnecessary.

          • spaingaroo January 14, 2022 at 7:31 pm #

            count on ianw to make one nauseous

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 14, 2022 at 8:30 pm #

            Tekapo – they tried to physically prevent the certification of the president-elect.

            By doing what…strolling through the Capitol after being let in by the very police officers who later claimed to be overwhelmed? Not harming anyone, getting into desk chairs of “leaders” and taking selfies and then leaving (because there was never a plan to actually “do something” that day, except for the MS media)?

            Insurrections generally involve insurrectionists, doing things that insurrectionists do, like taking hostages or killing those in power (or even threatening to). This involved invented cartoon characters and tourists walking through a building while likely two beers in, and you know it.

            It was not an insurrection, it was a tv show. And no one actually tried to make it an insurrection. If people wanted to do that here, they would do it. But they didn’t, so MSNBC and CNN have had to pretend for a year now that it happened, because that was the story laid out before it happened.

            Sack up and quit crying.

            Sorry for the ad hom, but it’s getting old. You tend to suck.

          • Anthea January 15, 2022 at 10:29 am #

            @ MrMango:

            Ian is kind of like those fact-checkers on Facebook. He’ll be sure to let us know that everybody who’s anybody agrees that the moon is Stilton–and to deny that she is Dutch is obviously racist.

        • Paul January 14, 2022 at 11:17 am #

          “Stay away from crowds”, is good advice, 24/7/365.

          So is: “Don’t HOO de Ya-hoo!”

          And so is: “Be careful what you wish for; you might get it!”

          • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 11:33 am #

            Don’t eat yellow snow.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 14, 2022 at 3:00 pm #

            Or piss into the wind.

            Though that seems to be a part of life, metaphorically, at least…

    • TaxDonkey January 14, 2022 at 11:15 am #

      Horrible thought, but one could image RFK and other speakers locked up like the J6 crowd. Can’t they all just do a zoom meeting?

      • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 11:35 am #

        The late RFK still has a sizable cultist following. I don’t know if they want to get those people stirred up.

        • Not_GeorgeT January 14, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

          I don’t think it matters to them. They will stop at nothing. Removing threats is part of what they do. If they pause, they are done. There is really no way out for them other than destroying the opposition.

          I think they believe it is not a two-way street of any significant size. So far, they have been correct. Success breeds success, as some old saying goes. These people have been at it for generations.

      • Islander January 15, 2022 at 9:23 am #

        I wish they had chosen a different location. That would have been a good protest against the draconian measures installed in DC—for the very purpose of aborting this demo, I reckon.

        However, I expect they will stay FAR AWAY from the WH and the Capitol—on the Mall. Like MLK.
        In front of the Lincoln Memorial.
        If the goons tried to stop them there the optics would be pretty bad. As for the danger or FBI provocateurs, I hope the demo organizers have plenty of private security to scope out, call out, and document any agents. I can, actually, actually, imagine a scenario of dueling security: who is the FBI and who is “real” security?

        I was seriously thinking about attending, but only if I went with someone else—not on my own. I don’t know anyone to go with.

        I don’t like the idea of not being able to get anything to eat or drink or use a bathroom.

    • Hereward the Woke January 14, 2022 at 3:03 pm #

      Is Trump condoning it? If so, watch out. Anyone who gets arrested can expect zero help from him.

    • ianw January 15, 2022 at 12:16 am #

      A Large Anti-Vaccine-Mandate March Is Planned for DC on January 23

      Wouldn’t it be more strategic to hold these things in nice Spring weather? Just asking. I’ve only been in DC once in January – it wasn’t pretty.

      • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 5:43 am #

        Obvously. Because if you want to stop mandates, the best way to do it is wait 3 months till more mandates are in place.

        You’re not ‘just asking’. You’re just wasting space and people’s time.

        Troll Handbook, page 1.

    • Wizard of the Saddle January 15, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

      Oh Boy, here we go.

      It will be interesting to see how many agent provocateurs get sent in by Antifa, BLM, and the feds.

      Of course, trying to paint Robert Kennedy, Jr. as a MAGA hat wearing seditionists wannabe will be a genuinely heavy lift to achieve, but that won’t stop the bastards from trying.

      I hope they manage to have a peaceful, well controlled, protest rally without “incidents.”

      If even one controversial incident occurs expect the Biden regime to pivot on a dime to smear all anti-COVID vaccine Americans as an army of Benedict Arnolds.

  4. Walter B January 14, 2022 at 10:06 am #

    I don’t know about the sun shining in anymore Jim. It doesn’t shine much around here anymore. As far as an army attacking Dopey Joe in his White Crack House, I agree that real people would never consider such a fool’s move, but I am sure that if those in charge of the money printing hand out enough to a bunch of play for pays Wokesters, they would be quick to don Trump hats and charge in front of the cameras, just as they did on the 6th of January last year. Remember, anything that appears on a magic screen is science to those that worship at that alter.

    In a land where dotard kings do whatever those behind the curtain make them do and piss all over the rule book and all over those that they rule, well it never ends well. Nothing is going to stop these assholes and yesterday’s response to the Black Dresses was all the proof you need.

    • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 10:15 am #

      Isn’t it exceedingly strange, how the plaintiffs never once mentioned the undeniable fact that these shots in question are not “vaccines” that can keep anyone safe from getting sick, nor did they mention the horrifying number of adverse reactions? The experimental nature of the technology wasn’t even an issue.

      So the Supreme Court rules that some Americans can be forced to take an iffy medical treatment, because a government agency said so.

      • thirdcoastlegend January 14, 2022 at 10:20 am #

        It may simply be a case of surface-level thinking.

        I think the past two years of lunacy have revealed that’s the typical depth of thought in the US.

      • Walter B January 14, 2022 at 10:43 am #

        It is clearly a population reduction/replacement event. Those damn dirty and dangerous white people are pretty close to realizing how hard they are being screwed by the greedy bastards at the top and must be neutralized if bastards like Besos, Gates, and Zuckerberg are to remain safe in their castles. Check out George Carlin’s last gig should you doubt that.

        How to implement such a plan? A slow death shot that kills off people slowly over time by a number of bodily failures would be the perfect tool with a built-in excuse for the ever-increasing death toll would be an easy sell to many of the rule following whiteys as we saw. How many border jumpers and other non-white drag-ins were allowed to go without the creeping crud shots? Seem strange to you? Not if you consider the need for replacements once the injections do their job.

        To me at least it seems like angry white people, especially armed white people who require education, incomes, and more stuff than they could ever hope to play with are a lot more costly and difficult to maintain control over once resources become less plentiful. The move to ethnic replacements by those poor primitives who only need a couple of cheap meals a day and someplace to flop at night out of the weather are a much safer herd of servants to keep around.

        • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 11:23 am #

          Watch the Corona-Ausschuss (in English) segments with Dr. Yeadon and Dr. Merritt from last week. They discuss the pattern in the timing of the releases in detail.

          There is now hard evidence that Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J worked together and traded off the release of dangerous batches in waves, in order to hide the injuries and deaths from the public.

          Pretty compelling stuff.

        • TaxDonkey January 14, 2022 at 11:29 am #

          Walter, you make a good point. It certainly looks like that’s the plan. But their plan also depends upon energy and technology to keep the entire matrix running. If they indiscriminately start killing off high-functioning engineers, architects, scientists, etc…this kills their productivity base. A good example is the nuclear energy industry. It is hanging on by a thread, run almost exclusively by older white guys with irreplaceable knowledge. The younger crowd with their gender study degrees are not replacing them. Just whack away at your intelligentsia through vaxx mandates, inoculations and affirmative action replacements and they will be more or less gone. Who will develop K Schwab’s magic carpets? If your goal is to destroy western civilization, you may find that goose stops laying the golden eggs that made you a lottery winner in the first place.

          • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 11:39 am #

            FWIW, the Market Ticker guy has discussed some of the various ‘conspiracy theories’ around covid.

            Stop The Crazy*

            https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=244816

          • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 12:22 pm #

            Well will still be the good and loyal Whites, at least until the spikes get them. And there’s the Indians and the East Asians. Or at least the Chinese who have a different type of vax.

            The future is Chinese. Yeah, I’m not sure these guys though it through as well as they think they did. Because why would the Chinese tolerate these people having much power in their new World?

        • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 12:24 pm #

          Yes, the fulfillment of the Kalergi Plan.

        • ianw January 15, 2022 at 1:41 am #

          It is clearly a population reduction / replacement event.

          It is not. Please calm down and take your meds.

          There is no depopulation event occurring, and all that stuff emanating like methane from a cow is just the Anschluss frat-boy hyper-ventilating again.

          There are crises occurring in capitalism – in the hyper-complex, hyper-technical, hyper-competitive world that is getting very close to hitting resource limits. Read some JHK.

          It’s a clusterfuck of course – governments are finding it increasingly difficult to govern and to get re-elected. But please don’t bother invoking the Davos Dandies and the Gates / Soros / Zuck conspiracy meme – it’s getting really old and boring.

          Just understand that Late Capitalism is what it is – a remarkable century that might be meeting it denouement. But that’s all it is.

          • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 5:53 am #

            “But please don’t bother invoking the Davos Dandies and the Gates / Soros / Zuck conspiracy meme – it’s getting really old and boring.”

            You’re getting visibly desperate, troll. Isn’t there a ‘Troubleshooting’ chapter in your Handbook?

            As I write, the UK is the subject of two referrals to the International Criminal Court in the Hague for genocide/crimes against humanity.

            Concurrently, a criminal investigation is in progress into the UK’s vaccination programme, plus a civil action against the MHRA and the GMC for Gross Negligence Manslaughter.

            I’m not aware of the ‘frat boy’ having anything to do with any of them.

          • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 5:55 am #

            BTW I don’t think one generally ‘meets’ a denouement.

      • Bill of Rights January 14, 2022 at 12:01 pm #

        Nor did the court discuss where the U.S. Constitution stands on these assumed powers of the federal government. They only looked for acts of congress which might have given OSHA such powers. Fortunately they didn’t find any such laws empowering OSHA to force vaccines.

        To put a clear end to this confusion, the court needs to state that the constitution does not empower the federal government to force any medication of any kind into the bodies of the people. Period. Full stop.

        Justice Alito’s dissent in the Healthcare worker vaccine mandate mostly rested upon the phoniness of the government claim that they skipped the public review and comment period due to the urgency of the matter. Alito’s argument is too weak because he almost acknowledges the claim of the government’s authority to mandate vaccines so long as it is done in a timely fashion. He should have simply said that the vaccine mandate is not supported anywhere in the constitution. Finito.

        Another weak and dangerous argument against the government would be to show the vaccines don’t stop infection and transmission. Although that makes practical sense today, they could come back tomorrow with a vaccine that really does stop the infection and transmission and rightfully force all of us to take it.

        The day will come when the SOMA pill is mandated so we are always happy and harmless to our fellow citizens.

      • ianw January 15, 2022 at 12:52 am #

        Isn’t it exceedingly strange, how the plaintiffs never once mentioned the undeniable fact that these shots in question are not “vaccines” that can keep anyone safe from getting sick …

        The trial-lawyer mind can be a strange thing, but I agree – most of the arguments were constitutional ones about the reach of the Department into private companies. It could have been about yellow socks, I guess.

        It wasn’t an argument about the efficacy of the vaccine.

      • Justin January 15, 2022 at 10:29 am #

        It looks like some smart folks in Ohio found a very vulnerable Achilles heel to attack with lawsuits, and win. The entire “emergency” ruse is easy to prove false and non-existent, and since it supports almost everything else being done illegally, it is a very successful legal argument. In Ohio, so far, anyway
        Basically the EUA and any mandates based on a non-existent “emergency” fall apart. It looks like a much more direct and fundamental attack than wasting time with procedural arguments.
        Lots of good case info and documents on their web site.
        https://makeamericansfreeagain.com/ohio-landmark-lawsuit/

    • abbybwood January 14, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

      I thought “Joe Biden” swore an oath “to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies both foreign and domestic”?

      Aren’t The Supremes part of that document?

      Yet he publicly states that we should “ignore” their decision?

      Doesn’t this make him an enemy of “democracy”?

      • debt January 14, 2022 at 5:17 pm #

        Joe Biden is an Enema of the State.

      • ianw January 15, 2022 at 3:30 am #

        Yet he publicly states that we should “ignore” their decision? Doesn’t this make him an enemy of “democracy”?

        No – the three branches of government are separate and equal – legislature, judiciary, and executive. It doesn’t mean that any one of them has to kowtow to any of the other two.

        The Supreme Court could rule that every first-born son has to be slaughtered – the legislature and the executive could say, “Fine, you’ve made your decision, now you enforce it”.

        How it works.

        • benr January 15, 2022 at 10:53 am #

          The Supremes look at laws and decide whether they are legal and Constitutional.
          They do not enforce anything and Joe Boden saying they should be ignored shows just what a power-hungry little turd Joe Biden is.

  5. par4 January 14, 2022 at 10:07 am #

    Is Dick Cheney now a ‘Progressive Fascist’?

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    • gustafson.robert.22 January 14, 2022 at 10:12 am #

      it would be he smoothest of smooth transitions for him wouldn’t it

    • lastman January 14, 2022 at 10:47 am #

      People need to shit can the right/left thing.

      They are all on the same team and we ain’t on it.

      • Not_GeorgeT January 14, 2022 at 11:14 am #

        Been watching Carlin re-runs?

        • Walter B January 14, 2022 at 11:25 am #

          Why not!

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-o_XCDTyB4

          I wasn’t long after this one that he was heart-attacked,. Smart move, but too late. The message got out!

          • Not_GeorgeT January 14, 2022 at 12:59 pm #

            Likely the technique wasn’t quite far enough along, or they wrote him off too early, then realized he had a platform and some people were listening.

        • TaxDonkey January 14, 2022 at 11:33 am #

          George Carlin called it:
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILQepXUhJ98

      • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 11:29 am #

        You are half right.

        Dem vs. GOP is passé.

        It is Deep State versus the people now.

        The people being folks that believe in individual rights and responsibility

        As opposed to dependency in a socialistic state.

        • lastman January 14, 2022 at 10:55 pm #

          I don’t want anything from them, I don’t need them, any of them.

          Brothers and Sisters, I just want them to leave me tf alone.

          Us people better get our asses in gear because their coming for us.

          • ianw January 15, 2022 at 1:00 am #

            I don’t want anything from them, I don’t need them, any of them.

            Do you drive a safe car? Do you drive on decent roads? Do you expect your flight not to crash, and for there to be an airport at the other end? Do you expect your schools to be functional? Public hospitals? Do you expect your water to be clean and your food to be what it claims to be?

            Do you expect contract law to work, and your right to your private property to be sacrosanct?

            Libertarians are in a strange space.

          • lastman January 15, 2022 at 10:55 am #

            Are you for real?

            Keep worshipping at the altar of state ian. Fuck them.

            It will suffice to say that all of what you listed could be dealt with in the private sector by smart, honest people like myself.

            I’ll answer to God, no one else.

            In the mean time, I’ll take care of my family, my friends, my community, my local businesses and myself.

            It can be done.

          • ianw January 15, 2022 at 5:24 pm #

            It will suffice to say that all of what you listed could be dealt with in the private sector by smart, honest people like myself.

            Problem is there is a majority who are neither smart nor honest – there is much greed, corruption, incompetence, uncontrolled power, and even sociopaths.

            Even running a hippie commune of fifty people will have all these issues arise eventually.

            And if you bring the profit motive into a wide range of things that are not designed to make a profit – then they are done very badly, are very expensive, or become just the preserve of the rich.

            The rise of the social welfare state – coupled with economic growth through a properly regulated private sector – has been a huge achievement since WWII – it has improved the lives of millions and millions.

            America is an extreme example of naked capitalism – it’s been turned into THE major religion of that country, and its ideological reach is demonstrated on here every day.

            There is much about the state that I dislike too – the massive growth in bureaucracies, their inertia, their lack of responsiveness to real issues, the propensity to send young working-class men and women to die in rich-man wars, their unabashed suppression of working-class solidarity, and a lot else I could mention.

            But on balance, the benefits of having a state infrastructure far outweighs the downside – your community and small businesses wouldn’t last a month without the support structures around them – many you may not even recognise and acknowledge.

            Despite its superficial attractiveness, libertarianism is a philosophy for five-year-olds.

          • lastman January 15, 2022 at 10:36 pm #

            All that shit will be burnt to the ground…the fire has been lit.

            Move to a better place and forget this disfunctional system ian…where ever you live. It can be done.

            “Free your mind and your ass will follow.”

          • ianw January 16, 2022 at 5:27 am #

            Move to a better place and forget this dysfunctional system ian…where ever you live. It can be done.

            I’m nearly 70 – if I were nearly 40 or 50 I might think about it seriously. Fortunately we have FOUR bug-out locations on the remote or semi-rural coast where we can go if the shit really hits the fan in the big cities.

            We might not live hugely longer, but we would do so in nice beach locations where there are fish to catch.

            But really – I’m a gradualist – I don’t think there’s much drama in store before 2050 – maybe 2040 at the earliest.

          • lastman January 16, 2022 at 2:26 pm #

            I’d already be at that fishing spot on the beach. I’m a decade younger than you and have been at my bol for nearly 20 years…improving it weekly. I am living a great life and will continue to do so…until it is not.

            The drama has already started. They are killing people, trying to kill/enslave us, sterilize our children, starve millions around the world, denying people the basics, etc.

            Then the other night at a friends, I found out from another quest that 2 family members had died recently. One 90, stage 4 cancer and one half that age due to a just plain chronic life of poor health. Both had tested positive for covid, but the writing was already on the wall for both.

            The hospital asked if it would be ok to list their death as covid19, in return, they would pay for their funerals.

            Just when you think humanity has no further to fall.

          • ianw January 16, 2022 at 9:06 pm #

            The hospital asked if it would be ok to list their death as covid19, in return, they would pay for their funerals.

            Isn’t this precisely the problem with most libertarianism?

            A charming but ultimately delusional belief that the “private sector” can do stuff better than the state? That all human endeavours are motivated by the pursuit of profit?

            JHK has talked frequently about the medical racket, the agriculture racket, the legal racket, the education racket, the financial racket, the insurance racket … and so on.

            Most of these rackets are the result of greed, the accumulation of power by ever-larger corporations, the relative powerlessness of those who need these things, and weak oversight from a compliant state.

            Good luck with your BOL – sounds attractive. I have few illusions that I can survive a genuine societal breakdown, but I do enjoy fishing (saltwater).

    • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 12:26 pm #

      Fascism is neither left nor right, but on a different line entirely. They don’t teach Fascist theory (even at the University level) because they know how much sense it makes.

      • rhys12 January 14, 2022 at 2:35 pm #

        Mussolini said a better name than fascism would be corporatism. Which party is NOT in bed with the mega-corporations and using them to enforce unconstitutional mandates? NEITHER ONE!

        • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 4:46 pm #

          Mussolini wanted Government to control the corporations, be the head of one corporate body. What we have in contrast, are the corporations controlling Government, both parties. This is Plutocracy.

          Thus they are opposites.

          • lastman January 15, 2022 at 10:56 am #

            Yeah…that has worked out really well. 😉

    • ianw January 15, 2022 at 4:14 am #

      Does he have any hunting buddies left?

  6. a kullervo January 14, 2022 at 10:09 am #

    So, the tragic farce is seemingly over? (Inoculation target acquired? Perhaps…)

    But wait a minute – hold TPTB’s beer… the next psyop is just around the corner.

    I place my bet on a “hostile takeover” by Artificial Intelligence (all in all, just a variation on the virus theme, a cybernetic one this time.)

    • thirdcoastlegend January 14, 2022 at 10:21 am #

      Being exterminated by Skynet sounds far more pleasant than the future the WEF and Chicoms have planned for us.

      • TaxDonkey January 14, 2022 at 11:34 am #

        That IS the future they seem to have planned

    • abbybwood January 14, 2022 at 1:04 pm #

      Speaking of this, I see where Kiev had a huge internet hack/meltdown that is being blamed on Putin. (Probably CIA Nuland inside job).

      And now US intelligence is saying they believe Russia is planning a “false flag” attack on themselves so they can claim Ukraine fired first and Russia’s take-over of Ukraine would be in self-defense.

      If true, the Russians must have gotten the “false flag” playbook from Langley. They are the pros of false flag operations.

      Start with Operation Northwoods.

  7. MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 10:14 am #

    Only James H. can deliver the stark reality of the shitshow, but manage to make things hopeful still. Well done, James, and thank you.

    People are definitely sick of the blue scourge and the Jo Jo Magoo fake administration. Seriously, it’s been conducted on a soundstage almost since day 1. Fake, fake, fake, fake, fake.

    Now they send in the Cheneys to fix it? Seems like a perfect denouement to the 9/11 fiasco; 20+ years of an ongoing false flag, culminating in the collapse of the US, engineered by Cheney & Co. (brought to you by PNAC).

    What else is Jo Jo’s proclamation to US businesses to ignore the law of the land, other than outright tyranny? The dummy is behaving like a dictator. He needs to go.

    • TaxDonkey January 14, 2022 at 11:37 am #

      “Now they send in the Cheneys to fix it?”

      Hard to imagine a more cruel joke. But it kind of shows these guys have no new ideas, and not really any young fresh blood to replace them. I call them the collapse party, not anything that represents the future.

      • abbybwood January 14, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

        You should see the Republican’s playbook for the midterms. Complete boring typical milquetoast pablum. “Lower taxes, fix inflation blah, blah, blah”.

        Not a word about the mandates, federal corruption being rooted out at Justice. Nothing.

        McCarthy must be compromised.

    • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 11:58 am #

      “Now they send in the Cheneys to fix it?”

      That’s what this country needs, a connection to those magical Camelot years of the Dubya administration. The Dumbocraps sure do love Dubya these days – maybe because of his schoolboy crush on Big Mike. Maybe because they have no principles, or memory.

    • DoctorGonzoSpeaks January 14, 2022 at 2:15 pm #

      When it’s down to a handful of second-rate politicians like Dan Quayle (!), Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney as the only thing standing between the quasi-democracy we have today and a wholesale rejection of all remaining American democratic (small “d) institutions, well you know this country is in serious trouble.

      Dan Quayle? Seriously? It took a chat with the intellectual powerhouse *Dan Quayle* to finally convince Mike Pence not to overturn the will of 81 million American voters in 2020?

      Yikes. One has to scrape pretty far down to the bottom of the barrel to dredge up any “profiles of courage” left in the Republican Party these days. The Democratic Party ain’t a heckuva lot better, but at least they aren’t working 24/7 to turn this country into a one-party autocracy led by man-child with the charming maturity of a fourth-grader.

      • spaingaroo January 14, 2022 at 7:42 pm #

        do you really think we believe you are real? You have to try a little harder. You are just a caricature. no one falls for this
        hello brigade 77

        • ianw January 15, 2022 at 4:20 am #

          Still plugging away with the same old shtick – and guess what, I reckon there isn’t one in a hundred here who has the slightest ide what the “Brigade 77” meme might mean.

          Do try harder.

          • benr January 15, 2022 at 10:56 am #

            A simple search reveals Brigade 77 are sock puppets of the British Army.
            You know sock puppets just like you little filthy troll.

        • DoctorGonzoSpeaks January 15, 2022 at 10:09 pm #

          Don’t worry. JHK will cancel me from having access to this dialog within a week or two. I realize most of the crowd here is not used to having their group consensus challenged. Sorry to be the party-pooper. Don’t worry, I’ll get banished to the ethersphere soon.

      • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 3:43 pm #

        ” at least they aren’t working 24/7 to turn this country into a one-party autocracy”

        Hahahahahaha!

        What the hell do you think the covid19 totalitarianism is?

        The complete removal of our rights.

        Do you live with your head in the sand?

    • ianw January 15, 2022 at 4:17 am #

      People are definitely sick of the blue scourge and the Jo Jo Magoo fake administration.

      Which people would these be? Millions more people voted for Joe Biden – and BTW – also returned a Democrat House and Senate.

      You speak only for a minority of the minority. Most sensible Americans don’t agree with you, I reckon.

      • benr January 15, 2022 at 11:05 am #

        You speak of things you don’t understand nor have a clue about.
        Buyer’s remorse is strong with Joe Biden.
        He has a 33% approval rating which at this stage of the game is about the worst approval rating one could have.

        https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2022/01/15/biden-promised-unify-us-low-approval-rating-show-dislike/9197903002/

        Most voters hate Joe Biden and by proxy the insane asylum Democrat platform.

        https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/other/grocery-store-shortages-are-back-here-s-how-long-they-might-last-this-time/ar-AASNoef?ocid=msedgntp

        https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/domino-s-ceo-says-food-costs-are-soaring/ar-AASMzN9?ocid=msedgntp

        The above two things will raise the misery index and usher in the absolute shellacking of any Democrat and it all falls in Joe Bidens frail and inept self.

        You supported this asshole.

        • Paula D January 15, 2022 at 2:11 pm #

          The election was rigged. Americans voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
          The only ones who voted for Biden were those whose brains were so riddled with TDS that they thought a senile old hair-sniffing child-molesting grifter was better.
          People like Ian.

          • ianw January 15, 2022 at 5:43 pm #

            Republicans can’t accept the result of any election they lose.

            A sheepdog would have beaten Trump in November 2020 – he was much disliked, and not fit for the position.

            He even gives real estate moguls a bad name.

          • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 3:45 pm #

            Yes. People like ianw love themselves the pedo hair-sniffer.

        • ianw January 16, 2022 at 2:10 am #

          The above two things will raise the misery index and usher in the absolute shellacking of any Democrat and it all falls in Joe Biden’s frail and inept self.

          You supported this asshole.

          No – I have said a dozen times at least that I think Joe Biden was the worst long-term candidate that the Dems could have selected … I think he’s a doddering old man suited to the 1990s.

          But he’s a thousand times better than the corrupt, lazy, incompetent Trump ever was – but that’s not the point. The Dems went for him because he looked a “safe bet” to beat the Orange Monster.

          He did that – but they needed someone to take the party skyward for at least eight years … they’re only going to get two out of Uncle Joe at best. Kamala Harris is unelectable. Bad tactics.

      • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 3:44 pm #

        Jo Jo Magoo has about a 22% approval rating and a full load in his Depends, last I heard.

        • ianw January 16, 2022 at 9:25 pm #

          It’s about 35% – but still not that flash. I think the Dems are heading for a beating in the Midterms, in both houses.

          President Biden would do well to tacitly declare that he’s there for only one term. Kamala Harris as his successor might not work though. Road-test some new blood.

          I just hope they don’t revert to ridiculousness – dragging out old war-horses from a bygone era – Hillary etc.

  8. thirdcoastlegend January 14, 2022 at 10:14 am #

    Gee-whiz US fighting gear?

    I thought we left all of it behind in Afghanistan.

    • rainmaker January 14, 2022 at 10:54 am #

      Our Gee-whiz fighting gear (and our jihadis) went to Kazakstan a while back, to try a hostile takeover of that country. The Russians kicked our little plot in the nuts.

      • Not_GeorgeT January 14, 2022 at 11:17 am #

        Note how rapidly they responded to it.

        Ukraine is a nuisance. Kazakhstan was a serious situation.

      • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 11:25 am #

        Read a book on geopolitics years ago that stated the US goal was to keep both China and Russia surrounded by Allies and sympathetic nations. Hence Iraq and Afghanistan. Iran was a major set back.

        Kazakstan was a success for the US after the SSR breakup. They helped with Afghanistan. Not so much anymore. Finally figured out how worthless the US is as an ally.

  9. avartist January 14, 2022 at 10:19 am #

    James nails it again as we live The Long Emergency. Military forces are training for domestic unrest and guerrilla warfare in the US. This must be for when it is revealed that it was all a big scam. The way Fauci is quivering it won’t be long.

  10. Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 10:21 am #

    Biden isn’t going to be running in 2024.

    When I try to explain the problems with President Trump sticking by his stance on the vaccines, and how it is turning off many who supported him before, I always get met with the retort, “oh, they prefer Biden, then?”

    Biden is not going to run for anything in 2024. I would say he’ll be lucky if he lives that long, but I’m not so sure that is what luck is, considering what they are doing to him.

    It truly sickens me. Not because of Biden, but the idea of any helpless elderly person being so ill-used.

    I do not understand what motivates Jill Biden. People say she loves the trappngs of the office. Does she ever even look like she’s enjoying herself?

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    • Ron Anselmo January 14, 2022 at 10:31 am #

      “Dr. Jill” is motivated by the grift – she’s surrounded by it, lives off of it. She’s a psychopath like all the rest. Don’t be fooled.

      • thirdcoastlegend January 14, 2022 at 10:39 am #

        Didn’t Frau Doktor Jill play a pretty active role in inserting herself into Biden’s marriage and breaking it up?

        • Islander January 14, 2022 at 11:01 am #

          I think she was the babysitter.

          Maybe she was curled up on the sofa with her gams invitingly arranged when the Bidens returned home.

        • Uncle Abraham January 14, 2022 at 11:10 am #

          According to her husband at the time. He found out when Joe wrecked his Corvette, driving Jill around in it. I do not know whether this report has been verified, but the husband sounded credible.

        • Paula D January 14, 2022 at 2:02 pm #

          Yeah, she had an affair with a married man. She wasn’t the babysitter, she was a campaign volunteer.
          And then Biden’s wife put her three kids in the car and drove in front of a truck.
          I think she meant to kill them all, but the boys survived, thereby giving Biden a tragedy to drag out every campaign.
          Jill and Joe spawned one time, but they keep her hidden from the public. Easy to do when the media is compliant, even when a diary surfaces.

          • Paula D January 14, 2022 at 2:04 pm #

            The NY Times literally told us that Biden would be a great president because he has a lot of experience consoling grieving people.

          • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 3:47 pm #

            The Biden story is nothing but tragedy after tragedy.

            All probably driven by Joe, who is a narcissist and a psychopath.

            And of course Jill was attracted to all that.

    • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 11:48 am #

      Biden, a “helpless elderly person being so ill-used”? Since he’s occupied the Whore House (damn spell-checker…) he has been so busy sniffing hair and fondling minors he hasn’t had time for anything else. A worthless elderly person ill-using others.

      I agree, he won’t be running in 2024. I think he will be gone before then.

    • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 12:29 pm #

      You don’t understand? Really? As if women can’t be low lifes!

    • workingclasshero January 14, 2022 at 12:43 pm #

      I thought Trump doesn’t support mandates of any kind?

      • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 1:00 pm #

        He doesn’t support mandates. He keeps claiming the vaccines are safe and effective, and he can see where they are going with this, as can the other Republicans who think “I’m for choice” is good enough as they watch the country slide into totalitarian hell.

        Does he want to be president, or a pharmaceutical salesman?

        • mrs_saj January 14, 2022 at 5:28 pm #

          ^^^*** This!

          And why isn’t he loudly calling for therapeutics to be made available? He clearly had access to them when he was sick with Covid. I don’t expect him to site Bobby Jr.’s book chapter and verse, but acknowledging the vaccines don’t do what we’d hoped (and should never be mandated), therapeutics should be released from the government stockpiles, these loony pharmacists that refuse to fill legitimate prescriptions need a “time out” without pay until they agree to do their jobs, and that he will fire Fauci and separate that role into three separate jobs to be held by three different people.

          I feel so much better…..

  11. BackRowHeckler January 14, 2022 at 10:27 am #

    Yesterday in Hartford bags of fentanyl were found inside a Middle School. The entire building is poisoned, kids were dropping, one is in critical condition. Tons of fentanyl is apparently coming in across the southern border, which is wide open, and making it’s way to all corners of the United States.

    Secretary Blinken and President Biden are worried about Ukraine’s borders, not the US border.

    • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 10:38 am #

      Remember during the NH primary, people were begging candidates Clinton and Trump to try to do something about the heroin problem?

      Not opioids, although that was a problem. It was heroin so many of the young people were falling into addiction with.

      The thing is, yuge amounts of very cheap heroin had been flooding the country for quite some time. It was coming through our wide open border with Mexico.

      I knew what was going to happen, with all that heroin suddenly easily available.

      The thing is, if I knew this was happening, so did our intelligence agencies, and so did the Obama White House, yet as late as 2016 people were desperate for the government to do something about the problem.

      When this kind of thing occurs, it’s with the knowledge and at least tacit approval of the government.

      • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 11:17 am #

        Did you read the book a couple of years ago that stated the illicit trades that the border allows are the main source of liquidity keeping the USA and global money and debt machine afloat. Without it, the world goes down fast, monetarily.

        Hmmm, could it be Trump actually understood this and it is why he had the target painted on him by the US globalists when he actually started trying to close the border and shut down the scumbags.

        • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 11:42 am #

          Yes, any attempt at stanching the financial crime was racist, and Trump was a racist.

        • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

          Also remember that about mid-way through his term he said he wanted “all these people here” because “the economy is so good”. As longa as they come legally. As if “legal” makes it right or smart. Laura ingraham told him right to his face that that wasn’t what he campaigned on.

          • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 1:02 pm #

            He started allowing Jared to have a say. We could have and should have set him straight, but noooo.

      • BackRowHeckler January 14, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

        Yes and big banks like BoA and Barclays aid and abet high level drug dealing with their massive, extremely profitable money laundering schemes.

      • Paula D January 14, 2022 at 2:11 pm #

        95% of the heroin of the world comes from Afghanistan. Or at least it did for the last 20 years.
        Once Americans started noticing that their family members were addicted and ODing, the media started telling us “It comes from Mexico” or “It’s not the heroin, it’s the fentanyl” or “Those damn Sacklers!”
        But the ODs I saw in the ER were always heroin and I have 2 friends who lost family members from heroin, not oxycontin.
        I assume that now that the US has left Afghanistan things will change.
        It is my opinion that the US leaving Afghanistan is another Big Tell that they are going to abolish cash and put us all on digital currencies.
        You can’t have an illegal drug trade without cash, so they apparently are going to give it up.
        The banks which have been kept afloat by all that drug money must have been assured that they will be kept alive by the Feds instead.

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 3:50 pm #

          When cash disappears, we’re screwed.

          Want that pizza? Your card may decide you can’t have it.

    • thirdcoastlegend January 14, 2022 at 10:41 am #

      I think the fentanyl is China’s revenge for the Opium Wars.

      The Mexican heroin and OxyContin crisis is pretty well covered in Sam Quinones’ easy-reading yet thorough book Dreamland.

      • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 12:02 pm #

        You don’t need to look all the way over to China to find the enemy. The opioid epidemic is homecookin’, and as American as government cheese.

      • crudgemudgeon January 14, 2022 at 9:43 pm #

        Good book. Another is “God’s middle finger”.

    • Merkwurdiglieb January 14, 2022 at 11:04 am #

      Among other reasons, that’s why the Left have maintained an “open border” policy.

      A) They no longer have any use for the average American in the labor force. He/She/It have reached the end of their useful economic life. They’ve “promoted” them to the position of “Addict” in its many forms which merely sustains a whole other enormous sector of the economy which no immigrant (illegal or otherwise) would ever patronize.

      First they channel the devastated into the “addiction economy,” then after twenty years or so, into the pharmaceutical/recovery economy, and finally into the “death” economy which employs medical examiners, funeral homes, and the hog feed industry.

      B) They create a problem so they can justify themselves as the solution. Que Diablo!

      • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 11:09 am #

        DOL had addiction counselor listed as one of the jobs that was increasing.

        • Merkwurdiglieb January 14, 2022 at 11:45 am #

          Bingo

        • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 12:49 pm #

          How long before addiction counselors become dealers? Or at least counsel their clients to apply for legal suicide or “going home” as termed in Soylent Green?

          • Merkwurdiglieb January 14, 2022 at 6:39 pm #

            Aah yes, the beauty of euphemism. Going home with the final farewell of deer delightfully feeding in a meadow choreographed to Symphony No. 6 (“Pathétique”) by Tchaikovsky. Get your La-Z-Boy and your cyanide!

      • abbybwood January 14, 2022 at 1:16 pm #

        They probably get “the solution” first, then create the problem.

        Vaccine patents were around years ago. Fauci said he would like to experience a pandemic so Goddamn if he didn’t create one!

        Then voila! The jabs were ready to roll out with mandates within months! $$$$

    • malthuss January 14, 2022 at 11:32 am #

      No, its White Supremacists that are the problem. I will top your story,

      The new “tough on crime” NYC Mayor, Eric Adams, is full of surprises. and yesterday appointed his brother as asst. Mayor in charge of security at City Hall, a job that pays $250,000 per year.

      Adam’s states his brothers main task is to “Protect me from White Supremacists, who are threatening my life.”
      White Supremacists in NYC?

      The Police Commissioner is a black woman who admires Angela Davis and says her main goal is to be a role model for black and brown girls from the projects. The DA sent out a notice his first day in office which says he won’t be prosecuting any crimes short of murder

      • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 11:46 am #

        It’s a shame, it seemed like he had one good intention when he started, and in a matter of days went completely over to the other side.

        There were just two armed car hijackings in midtown Manhattan.

        New York is over.

        • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

          He tricked everybody. He’s a good actor.

          • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 1:05 pm #

            He is. I thought he meant it. How bad is it, when a man who has been a cop, can’t be trusted when he says he is against violent crime in the streets?

          • elysianfield January 15, 2022 at 6:37 pm #

            “He’s a good actor.”

            Jarek,
            …or a diversity hire….

        • Cactus Girl January 14, 2022 at 2:17 pm #

          @Beryl of Oyl: Sounds like it’s become Frisco-ized. Our illustrious DA prosecutes nothing. Break ins, smash & grabs, dog theft (I shit you not. They steal your dog right out of your hands) bicycle theft are rampant here. I bought a $50 old Schwinn, because they broke into my garage and stole my chained up good bike. I was actually able to buy it back for $50, after I tracked it down myself. There’s a huge strip shop operation for bikes downtown.

          Yesterday, I found a leather jacket and a pair of new sneakers in my backyard. Couldn’t figure it out, until I realized someone had probably broken into a car, grabbed a bunch of stuff, and threw the un-sellable things over the fence. And it’s not the first time it’s happened. Oh, but everyone here has a BLM sign in their window!

          • elysianfield January 15, 2022 at 6:36 pm #

            ” I found a leather jacket and a pair of new sneakers in my backyard.”

            Cactus Girl.

            WELL? How did they fit?

      • King of Comedy January 14, 2022 at 11:55 am #

        The future of New York: Detroit with taller buildings.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az1FSLfZxH4

        • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 12:52 pm #

          Once Blacks attained power in Detroit government, Whites began to flee en masse, knowing that they would no longer get any justice at all in their battle against Black criminality.

    • elysianfield January 14, 2022 at 12:18 pm #

      “Yesterday in Hartford bags of fentanyl were found inside a Middle School”

      BRH,
      In all seriousness, I am beginning to believe that all drugs should be legal and subsidized by the Government…sold in vending machines, for pennies, in supermarkets…no controls…no shame.

      Users of hard drugs cannot be considered our best citizens. Few “tun their lives around”…etc.

      Drug profits of criminal gangs would drop to zero. They would have to cede to more honorable forms of crime…prostitution and gambling.

      Little Chlorine or Buffy just died of an overdose? Sad. Perhaps she will be an object lesson to others. There would be a brutal transition, but the gene pool would benefit. The crime stats would benefit…the quality of life for the survivors would benefit.

      Tough love.

      • NoLongerHuman January 14, 2022 at 12:43 pm #

        People make mistakes and people can under estimate their ability to not become addicted. Opioid addiction is an overwhelming physical and mental loss of ownership of your life. For some people that brief touch of purified euphoria can be the brightest thing they ever will experience. In America’s throw away towns, where all the jobs and commerce up and left and there’s an ever hanging gray emptiness, I’ve seen collage boards in shops filled with the last pictures of 100’s of dead teenagers.

        elysianfield, I’m glad you can pile on and say this is just a way to clean the gene pool. Hell we never needed all those musicians and writers who delved into addiction either. Would have interrupted our efficiency.

      • benr January 14, 2022 at 12:44 pm #

        So easy to say but what about when it’s your kid or close relative?
        What if it’s that kid you have known since they were a toddler?
        Not so easy to watch.
        I say this because several of my daughter’s friends have hooked themselves on pills or powders.
        The football star at her school got drunk and drive off the road killing himself.
        No watching fragile lives wink out is tough to watch.

        • Anthea January 15, 2022 at 12:21 pm #

          Tough to watch, agreed. But from another point of view, those lives winked out long before they ODd–generally leaving a decades-long trail of destruction: neglected kids, heart-broken parents, and often a train of parents and other relatives who’ve been victimized by their lying and thieving, and sometimes violence. Not to mention everyone else they come in contact with.

          Probably the best and most compassionate thing would be to lock them up in mental institutions for five or ten years–or permanently, if they had demonstrated that they could not stay clean after release. But our society is no longer affluent enough for luxuries like mental institutions.

      • Tate January 14, 2022 at 12:59 pm #

        Retarded. as in ‘Libertarded.’

      • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

        Kids are kids. Children that age will naturally try out things they have been told they should not do.

        It’s an adolescent’s job to rebel, and at the middle school age, they still basically have a child’s brain development.

        • elysianfield January 14, 2022 at 7:06 pm #

          NLH, et al;

          Consider that all that would use the drugs would not die. Consider further that the majority of the “youth” that rebel may (and do) do so without dying. Consider that there are no other options that are viable to end the absolute shit storm that is the war on drugs, the gang culture, and the destruction of what once was a viable way of life.

          That youth and the gifted artists among us are using without the benefit of legality, they are exacerbating the issue by filling the jails and maintaining the criminal element.

          If you want the quality of life to increase in the urban ghettos, cripple the gangs that make life “sporty”. Is little Susie Creamcheese being offered drugs by her peers/ neighborhood dealer? Remove the incentive.

          Some countries have already legalized most drugs. Our government legalizes liquor and tobacco. Drugs have destroyed our culture, and our future. Where is your solution?

          Just say no? Counselling? WHAT?

          Addictive personalities are gonna become addicts. Addicts will make your life hell if you are related. I should suggest that “My kid or a close relative” argument is both shallow and dismissive.
          Who among us will describe an outreach program that has low recidivism? Always expensive, rarely effective.

          If your son or daughter is using…what does that say about your parenting efforts? If the usage stops…why? If it does not stop, why not?
          In the final analysis, if they do not kill themselves, they are serial felons, at best…one arrest away from a menial job in a meaningless life.

          The campaign against tobacco seems to be working. Make it uncool. Make it a disgusting habit. Make it…shameful in the eyes of the youth. Friends dying by the dozen will soon send the messages, along with extensive government propaganda against usage.

          Life is conducted through a series of choices. Benefit from the good choices…pay the price for the bad ones.

          You suggest the hopeless in the flyover states are inexorably drawn to drugs? Arguable buy not a given. All poor do not steal. All the lame do not whine. All the hopeless do not fall victim to drugs.

          • hilton33 January 15, 2022 at 11:31 am #

            In my opinion the biggest problem isn’t about drugs, legal or illegal. It’s a soul sickness that’s rotting us from the inside out. Enticing us at every turn to jump into the morass of addiction, anger, selfishness, resentment, and indifference. I’m speaking for myself here, as a person who crawled out of a twenty three year vortex of addiction of every type. Addicts don’t get clean because there’s no drugs or to many drugs. They don’t, because it’s hard on every single level. Mentally, physically, spiritually. Especially if your addiction journey is decades long. Having to look back at the destruction you left in your path wondering how you’re going to make it right. How do you cripple the gangs and gang culture? We tried and failed. Remember the three strikes law? That worked! Our government legalized liquor and tobacco. It ruined our culture and future, so let’s have a free for all and legalize it all. If your son or daughter is using… what does that say about your parenting efforts. What a condescending bitch ass statement is that. Are you and your families such paragons of virtue with lights shining out of every orifice of your body, are you really that sure of that. What you’re saying is make it uncool, make it shameful, friends dying by the dozens will soon send messages. When? Twenty more years/ thirty. It’s easy when you just sit back on your throne of virtue and say fuck em all. No grace, no forgiveness, no redemption, no nothing.

          • elysianfield January 15, 2022 at 1:11 pm #

            Hilton,

            What does it say of your parenting skills if your son or daughter is successful beyond your wildest dreams? Graduates Cum Laude from a respected institution?

            . “It’s easy when you just sit back on your throne of virtue and say fuck em all. No grace, no forgiveness, no redemption, no nothing.”.

            I would expect that none of us on this site were perfect parents, without issues nor regret. I accept the mistakes of my parenting, also accept the positives that occurred. Perhaps, the condescending bitch-ass statement had nothing to do with my supposed virtue, but with a cold, hard look at the issue before us.

            ” When? Twenty more years/ thirty. It’s easy when you just sit back on your throne of virtue and say fuck em all. No grace, no forgiveness, no redemption, no nothing.”. Grace, forgiveness and redemption have been a failure, if you judge our culture.as broken. Half measures? More money? Psychobabble deftly applied. Been there, done that.

            Tough love ain’t easy. If we could destroy the drug and gang problems in this country in twenty or thirty years, would that not have value? Would we not do so? If not, why?

            Gimme your solution…what have you got?

          • elysianfield January 15, 2022 at 1:31 pm #

            Hilton,
            Permit me one final point:

            “it’s hard on every single level. Mentally, physically, spiritually. Especially if your addiction journey is decades long. Having to look back at the destruction you left in your path wondering how you’re going to make it right.”

            If your drugs were free and easily available, what damage and destruction would be mitigated? Perhaps a marriage brought down by money issues? Perhaps the loss of friends and parental sympathy due to continuing theft? Life’s work squandered? Criminal elements maintained? Jail terms?

            Congratulations on getting straight. You can gain respect for this effort.

            Grace? Forgiveness? Redemption? Guess again…that is on you. Society owes you nothing unearned.

      • Not_GeorgeT January 15, 2022 at 8:39 pm #

        This idea was floated a few decades ago, it didn’t gain traction. It would have likely been easier then.

        The premise was simply those who absolutely could not handle it would self-select. Others would be recreational users with little impact as it was a self-controlled situation. Others would give it up.

        The predicted time frame was 6 months of chaos and it would level out.

        Fast forward 30+ years, the problem is worse. It will continue to get worse. When does worst occur?

        Societal breakdown has increased over the past 30+ years. Is there a connection.

        The nuclear family is in tatters.

        One way or another it settles out, this seems to be the lesson of history.

        Difficult times… “ain’t seen ‘nothin’ yet!”

  12. DanandMary January 14, 2022 at 10:32 am #

    Bravo. I hope to GOD your final point is correct… if not, we’re in a hopeless situation. By the way… thank you to the only two Senate Dems with a conscience.

    • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 1:00 pm #

      America is hanging by a thread.

      • malthuss January 14, 2022 at 5:59 pm #

        No, I feel a noose around my neck.

        hanging, yes.

        thread, no.

  13. Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 10:41 am #

    “The Russian foreign minister blew mineral water through his nose all over the conference table.”

    “Mineral water”. Nice touch.

    • Not_GeorgeT January 14, 2022 at 11:24 am #

      Quite creative, liked it as well.

  14. MisterBimmler January 14, 2022 at 10:48 am #

    What I am reading is that combat in eastern Ukraaine has been intensifying. It doesn’t hurt Russia in the least to simply let NATO spend a lot of money on Ukraine’s quisling government testing the latest in US weaponry.
    Obviously, Ukraine is supposed to be a tar baby. But s a trap, it’s plainly obvious. The Kazakstan coup was a bit more devious but that has the stamp of London all over it. The British are subtle and enjoy the game for its own sake. America’s subversion is largely more ham fisted and relies on denying access to the capital flows and credit markets of wall street. Which is getting to be pretty thin gruel lately.

    • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 11:01 am #

      I believe both Kazakhstan and Ukraine sit on the Silk Road into Germany. Ukraine has oil and gas running through it. Both are geopolitically violent.

      Both are demonstrating how totally worthless the US is as an ally today.

    • NoLongerHuman January 14, 2022 at 12:55 pm #

      The US is expanding billions of dollars of investment in LNG and the US will soon become the number one exporting country passing Qatar and Australia. The global LNG market will double by 2040.

      The US wants to be number one source of Natural Gas for Europe and Southeast Asia. Nordstream 2 is messing that up. We are using one the most indebted and corrupt countries in the world (Ukraine) to mess with Russia and make it look like there is a security crisis that demands we block Russia.

      Ukraine is worthless as a potential EU country, but just like Turkey, they are corrupt and in debt and will do what we want. And they are in Russia’s backyard.

      More US hegemony, never ever ends. Nat Gas will be the new Oil Wars.

    • D from OR January 14, 2022 at 12:55 pm #

      But wait! I heard they might threaten Russia with a ban on iPhones!

      Thin gruel indeed.

    • BackRowHeckler January 14, 2022 at 1:02 pm #

      Ukraine and Russia are essentially the same people speaking the same language, with a shared history. War between Russia and Ukraine would be very similar to a Civil War, which sometimes can be the worst kind.

  15. Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 10:53 am #

    Something I almost forgot to bring up, the people whose efforts resulted in that Malone/Rogan interview getting over 50 million views, are to be congratulated.

    Our host is one of them.

    A request has been made to Spotify, to remove “misinformation”, and that podcast was specifically referred to.

    You know you’ve done your job when they try to shut you up.

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    • thirdcoastlegend January 14, 2022 at 10:58 am #

      Don’t forget the 270 loons trying to get Dr. Malone’s interview removed are mostly nurses and students basing their objections on MSM fact checks.

      Like some kind of Amerikan Khmer Rouge.

      • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 11:09 am #

        Until you are on the front lines of the fight against this disease as nurses are, you might cut them a little slack. Calling them loons calls you into question a little.

        You end up in the hospital with Covid or anything else, try calling the RN you are dealing with a loon, and see what happens.

        • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 11:11 am #

          If they are trying to remove DOCTOR Malone’s interview, they are loons.

          • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 12:08 pm #

            I agree. Hard work and stress is no excuse for stupid.

        • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 1:04 pm #

          Remember all the self righteous “hero nurses” going out to stare down lockdown protestors? And all the tiktok dance routines idle nurses did?

          The field is full of silly female loons.

        • Hereward the Woke January 14, 2022 at 3:13 pm #

          If you end up in hospital with Covid, the nurses won’t be your friends. The last place you want to be with China flu is in hospital!

        • Islander January 14, 2022 at 3:31 pm #

          Terms and images like “front lines” have been corrupted to instill a besiege mentality, which is a fear mentality, not a rational problem-solving attitiude.

          Can’t you see that, JAZ?

          Sounds like regurgitating fear porn.

          • Islander January 14, 2022 at 3:32 pm #

            Perhaps the “front=line” nurses and doctors should show some curiosity about actual TREATMENTS.

    • Islander January 14, 2022 at 11:04 am #

      B of O,

      I think it is also called being “directly over the target” !

      • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 11:12 am #

        I do believe you are correct.

  16. Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 10:54 am #

    Alex Berenson had a talk with Bobby Jr.

    RFK Jr. and I talked about Covid and the vaccines

    https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-and-i-talked-about-covid-and/comments

    • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 3:57 pm #

      Berenson is now on my shitlist. First he backs the Jan 6 hysteria, now he attacked Robert Malone. Saw a lot of people unsubscribe from his substack because of it.

      • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 3:57 pm #

        Night Owl was right!

  17. JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 10:56 am #

    Let’s give them East Ukraine and let them annex it into Russia, not as an SSR.

    Make West Ukraine a part of NATO, as worthless as that is.

    Create a new Iron Curtain right through Kiev.

    With the way the US and the EU are performing right now, the East Ukrainians, Russians, might be better off. After all, they elected a Russian advocate to be president before we deposed him.

    Better yet, let the EU invite the Russians into a worthless NATO, into the EU itself, dissolve NATO. They have more in common than either have with the US anyway.

    • Disaffected January 14, 2022 at 11:13 am #

      NATO is entirely a US concoction. The Euros are just idiot bystanders.

      • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 11:43 am #

        True.

        Remember how much flak Trump got for trying to get the EU countries to pay the 2% freight they agreed to to fund NATO.

    • lateStarter January 14, 2022 at 11:33 am #

      Kind of what I hope for too – Russia will stop at the Dnieper and call it a day. I think Russia would rather have EU gas customers paying premium price for delivery as opposed to destroying their customer base.

      • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 12:39 pm #

        Russia wants to be a member of Europe, maybe the leader displacing the US.

        Hmmm,

        Disarmament of NATO maybe, would that be a bad thing? Night Owl? Jarek?

        • lateStarter January 14, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

          It makes sense for Europe and Russia to have better relations going forward in the Long Emergency. Logistically. But with US sanctions Poland can’t even sell apples to Russia. I really wish the US would focus on issues at home. Aren’t there enough?

          I realize the usual approach for problems at home is to create some abroad. So as problems increase at home in the US, instead of working to resolve those, the preferred solution will be to stir up trouble abroad. As usual.

          So my theory: as things get worse in the US, expect more Russia, Russia, Russia.

    • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 12:13 pm #

      “Let’s give them East Ukraine…” Right JAZ, because it is ours to give away – just like the rest of the world.

      “East Ukrainians”? A large part of the population of the Donbass are ethnic Russians, many are even Russian citizens.

      But I do like your idea of inviting Russia to join NATO. They would turn us down of course. Maybe other members would then realize what a worthless and expensive club they joined, lose their enthusiasm, and drop out.

      • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 12:40 pm #

        NATO will dissolve.

        Think Germany, would you rather be a part of a defunct alliance,

        Or be warm?

        • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 12:47 pm #

          NATO is a useless relic of the past, created by the psychopaths driving the technocratic takeover.

          Were it disbanded, I suspect we’d have less tension between Europe and Russia. The Europeans and Russians need each other. Agression by one side is deterred by the other. Russia is large and nuclear, European states are nuclear and would band together if Russia actually were encroaching.

          Russia also has China to think of. They are literally surrounded.

          The post-war Russian boogeyman is a NATO creation.

      • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 12:42 pm #

        Not so much give away as walk away.

        With Trump, some vestiges of our alliances existed,

        With Biden, they are dissolving and considered a joke.

    • tahoe1780 January 14, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

      The issue is NATO missiles and other weaponry on Russia’s doorstep. Cuban missile crisis in reverse. They’re asking for a written guarantee since we didn’t honor the verbal one. We see that as a non -starter.

      https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/drumbeat-war-sounding-loud-us-says-after-russia-declares-talks-dead-end

      • draupnir January 14, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

        Give it to them. It costs us nothing. Where the rubber meets the road, we’re no more likely to honor a signed document than we are our verbal word.

        • rainmaker January 14, 2022 at 2:07 pm #

          The US .gov is not to be trusted to honor any agreements, contractual or verbal. Ask the Native Americans.

          • draupnir January 14, 2022 at 11:19 pm #

            Ask the Kurds, poor things.

          • lastman January 15, 2022 at 11:15 am #

            LOL…the native Americans (or should is say a handful of NA) still have the US gub by the sack.

            Free money at will. They are a sovereign nation (lol) that gets lots (ALL) of funding from US taxpayer. They have control of some of the most beautiful and productive land in the US. Most of them live in squalor, but they also have their .001% elite that control/bs them just like they do us.

            Same shit, different day.

            Here’s the real story from one of their own.

            American Tribal Tyranny. by Elaine Devary Willman

    • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 1:06 pm #

      Yes, exactly. It’s not a viable country. Huntington’s line goes right thru the middle of it. Western Ukraine is Catholic and looks to the West. Eastern Ukraine is Orthodox and looks to the East. They take their religion and culture more seriously than we do ours. It’s a real division. Why not make it official?

    • Islander January 14, 2022 at 3:36 pm #

      We, the USA, cannot “give” anyone anything outside the USA.

      Re “Better yet, let the EU invite the Russians into a worthless NATO,

      JAZ, meet Memory hole..

      Years ago Putin the Horrible (sarc/) suggested that Russia be integrated into NATO, for the purpose of creating a broad security architecture (maybe kind of like a military UN).

      Guess who said, Fuck, you, Russki.

  18. Nigel Tufnel January 14, 2022 at 10:58 am #

    Mr. K, I like the way you end your posts on a note of optimism. It reminds me of that time in Paradise Lost when Virgil points out the sign carved in stone over the gates of hell to Danté – “Abandon all hope, Ye who enter here.” Sigh. To hang on to that last shred is commendable – it gives us a reason to carry on with the struggle.

  19. beantownbill. January 14, 2022 at 10:59 am #

    Jim, run for VP; I’d break my 54 year non-voting record to vote for you. The way things are now going, anything is possible. Only one caveat: You still write your two blogs per week.

    • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 11:05 am #

      BTB

      You really think JHK would want to leave his Eden in Northern NY to get involved with the insane asylum on the Potomac? Trump may have a streak of insanity in him, I hope JHK does not.

      • C.O.Jones January 14, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

        Yeah, JHK is far too smart to run for office but imagine a ticket of RFK Jr as POTUS and JHK as VP. Two guys who tell the truth…yeah, never happen.

        Per usual, I greatly enjoyed today’s post from JHK but felt the need to respond to the question posed in paragraph #9:

        “Could it be possible that Ukraine is just none of our business (in the most literal way)?”

        I agree Ukraine is none of our business but it is YUGE, excuse me, huge business for “Joe Biden” and family. Sending US troops to die in the Russian winter would trigger a priapistic joy not experienced since Dick Cheney and his wife watched the snuff flicks from Abu Ghraib. Film at eleven, Dick. How would the gas contracts be affected, Hunter? Joe? Bueller?

        • Islander January 14, 2022 at 3:42 pm #

          There is also a major Ukie Fifth Column in Canadistan—true Banderistas and their spawn—and they might also be agitating in DC.

          Chrystia Freeland:
          “Freeland’s maternal grandfather, Michael Chomiak (Ukrainian: Mykhailo Khomiak), had been a journalist before World War II. During the war in Nazi-occupied Poland and later in Nazi-occupied Austria he was chief editor of the Ukrainian antisemitic daily newspaper Krakivs’ki visti (News of Krakow) for the Nazi regime.[79] After Chomiak’s death in 1984, John-Paul Himka, a professor of history at the University of Alberta, who was Chomiak’s son-in-law (and also Freeland’s uncle by marriage), used Chomiak’s records, including old issues of the newspaper, as the basis of several scholarly papers focused on the coverage of Soviet mass-murders of Ukrainian civilians. These papers also examined the use of these massacres as propaganda against Jews.[80][81][82] In 2017, when Russian-affiliated websites[which?] further publicized Chomiak’s connection to Nazism, Freeland and her spokespeople responded by claiming that this was a Russian disinformation campaign during her appointment to the position of minister of foreign affairs.[83][84][85][86][79] Her office later denied Chomiak ever collaborated with the Nazi Germany.[87] However, Freeland has known of her grandfather’s Nazi ties since at least 1996, when she helped edit a scholarly article by Himka for the Journal of Ukrainian Studies.[83]”

          She is not the only. Ukes are a powerful bloc in Canada. Mathew Ehret has written about this.
          https://canadianpatriot.org/2021/02/11/chrystia-freeland-rhodes-scholar-trustee-of-the-wef-deputy-pm-of-canada-and-the-failure-of-the-super-elite/

          Hey, Freeland is also a trustee of the WEF!

          • Islander January 14, 2022 at 3:57 pm #

            More—WEF-Uke-Canada-USA dots to be connected. Freeland is the only foreign minister who is a trustee of the WEF.
            https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rupa-subramanya-chrystia-freelands-side-gig-with-the-wef-is-endangering-canadian-democracy:

            “Even more strangely, Freeland also sits on the supervisory board of the Aspen Institute Kyiv, a chapter of another Davos-type exclusive club that holds forth on global issues. That’s quite a journey from her beginnings as a freelance journalist working out of Ukraine.

            These board memberships are far from symbolic. According to the WEF, the board of trustees “act as guardians of its mission and values” and are its “highest-level governance body.” Similarly, board members of the Aspen Institute Kyiv are responsible for providing “counsel to the president, as well as governance over the business, affairs, and property” of the institute. What would happen if acting as a “guardian” for the WEF came into conflict with acting as a guardian for Canada’s public finances, which is Freeland’s day job? What would happen if providing “counsel” to the Aspen Institute president came into conflict with providing counsel to Canada’s governor general, which is part of Freeland’s day job as a member of the Privy Council?

            Writing in the New York Times in 2011, Freeland described Schwab as a “rather traditional European social democrat who aims to encourage among … participants a kind of noblesse oblige, or its modern equivalent, stakeholder capitalism.” The political tradition that Freeland is describing originated with the reaction of privileged liberal elites rebelling against Europe’s feudal past, a world away from contemporary Canada. Search the 2019 Liberal party’s campaign platform, and you won’t find a single reference to “stakeholder capitalism.” Yet, as a member of the board of trustees of Schwab’s outfit, Freeland is implicitly or explicitly committed to importing this brand of European social democracy into a Canadian ethos originally founded on individual rights and free market capitalism, which in turn is premised on maximizing shareholder value. While Canada has drifted considerably leftward since its founding, a wholesale adoption of a corporatist philosophy and governance ethos imported from an exclusive gathering of the self-loathing rich who espouse these ideas over cocktails in the Swiss Alps would be nothing less than a subversion of Canadian democracy.

            Like its first cousin, “The Great Reset,” which bizarrely aims to bring in environmental considerations under the purview of central banks, the innocuous sounding stakeholder capitalism is committed to destroying the foundations of Anglo-American free market capitalism and replacing it with a system where governments and their cronies in Davos tell private businesses what they need to care about. The irony here is that all of those at Davos, including Freeland, got there because of the free market system and shareholder-driven capitalism, which they’re now bent on overthrowing in an unholy alliance of true believers and opportunists.

            There’s no need to invent conspiracy theories. The attempt by global elites to subvert local democracy is fully on and in plain view.

          • anmariwakaranai January 15, 2022 at 12:22 am #

            I saw on some link that Christie holds the purse strings here in Canuckistan. And it is not transparent.
            Full disclosure. Freelander, where is our money going?
            I feel absolutely complicit in this sh@%.

    • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

      VP? VP under the Big Guy? Because the office of VP is so powerful…

      Beans, a bit early in the day to be drinking, doncha think?

      • benr January 14, 2022 at 12:47 pm #

        Depends in some cases its rumored the vp really ran the President.
        Bush/Cheney.

        • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

          Good point. But Mr. K. as the Big Guy’s puppet master? I could see him cutting the strings and throwing that dummy in the woodstove.

        • draupnir January 14, 2022 at 1:25 pm #

          They actually did a skit about that on Saturday Night Live showing Bush moving into the oval office. Then Cheney came in and directed him to a card table with a coloring book on it, while he took the seat behind the Resolute desk.

        • draupnir January 14, 2022 at 1:31 pm #

          Cheney may be a nuclear-armed entity. There was a weird incident involving six missing nukes and rumors of some sort of fire-fight at a runway during his tenure as VP.

          • Blackbird January 15, 2022 at 1:27 pm #

            You people and your crazy conspiracy theories! Big Dick needed those nukes to power his atomic pacemaker – no old fashioned, climate-changing, diesel-powered pacemaker for him.

            “Fire fight”? In Wyoming it’s called “dove hunting”.

            More fake news shot down. Back to the dinghy to chug some Night Train.

    • BackRowHeckler January 14, 2022 at 12:56 pm #

      The last talented author to run for President was TR.

      • spaingaroo January 14, 2022 at 7:55 pm #

        Tommy Robinson?

  20. Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 11:13 am #

    Agree that we are at a turning point. It ain’t over, but the fraudsters who created this nonsense are panicking.

    The SC decision was a massive blow (despite the poor result for healthcare workers), and the recent news of of Germany, the UK, and Spain (another admission that no isolate of “Covid” exists), is quite positive.

    Keep up the fight, kids.

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    • Alfred January 14, 2022 at 11:32 am #

      No. Not a massive blow to the regime, it was pablum for the masses. They did not address the constitution. They actually watered down our constitutional and Nuremburg lines of defense.

      Healthcare workers have the same constitutional rights as me, and I stand with them and #FJB and #FSCOTUS.

      Sorry Night Owl, SCOTUS just did their part in the plan, and the screw has just tightened a bit instead of loosening.

      They’re playing us like fiddles. Totalitarianism isn’t coming, it’s been hear a long time, we’re just seeing backstage now.

      • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 11:42 am #

        I disagree, but from a realpolitik perspective.

        The general mandate failed, which forces the administration (and WEFers behind them) on the back foot. They must further expose themeselves/their intentions by demanding that their corporate friends enforce the tyranny. This was always part of the WEF plan, but it cannot succeed without government giving it cover.

        This was a win — and it was a win for us living in Europe, too, as the political winds are often influenced by what happens in the US.

        As I said, it isn’t over, but this was a very good result.

      • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 12:24 pm #

        I think the ruling by the supremes is a fake retreat. We’ll let our guard down and they’ll hammer us from another direction.

        I don’t think they’re gonna let this go. Gotta implement the ID.

        • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

          That’s what some of the people who are so spot-on about the problems with the vaccines seem to be missing. They see it as a profit motive, incompetence, etc. but nobody seems to get that the main reason this is still happening is because they see it as the last chance to getting that vaccine pass installed.

          Nowhere in the Constitution does it suggest that the federal government has the power to order anyone to get vaccinated.

          • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 1:27 pm #

            Spot on — as so often, Beryl.

        • thirdcoastlegend January 14, 2022 at 2:37 pm #

          I think we’re going to see blue states go full retard with mandates and jabports after the SCOTUS ruling to rope more people into the digital biometric/social credit ID system.

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 4:17 pm #

          That’s my take on it too, BB.

          They are not going to back down now. No way, no how.

          So we have to step it up.

      • Hereward the Woke January 14, 2022 at 3:18 pm #

        You think their decision was nothing? Can you imagine what would have happened if they’d upheld the OSHA mandates? Sure, the psychopaths will push ahead anyway, but a positive Scotus decision would have given them legal cover. As for healthworkers, I’m going to be hard-hearted here: apart from some very honourable exceptions, most of them went along with this hysteria, KNOWING it was all lies. And don’t even get me started on those creepy tiktok videos!

        • Alfred January 14, 2022 at 3:31 pm #

          Right now, you cannot paint all healthcare workers with the same brush. They are stratified in their opinions and world views like the rest of us. This goes for Cops and other First Responders, etc…

          It was the healthcare workers in NYC that started the ‘Not a lab Rat’ movement. There are stalwarts in every profession and walk of life who are caught up in this process of separating.

          And yes, there will come a time when those who enforce the rules will be the enemy of the people and who will deserve no quarter.

          STILL, THEY HAVE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS THAT JUST GOT TRAMPLED ON. That much must be said louder, and those around should notice that such a thing was said, and they should be alert.

          “First they came for the post office, but the post office said, “fuck you, we just stole the election for you.” Ok, ok…

          “First they came for the Healthcare workers…”

          You get the point, I hope.

          • Islander January 14, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

            Health-care workers who work in orgs that are plugged into Medicare are kind of like federal contractors.

            The companies they work for are not actually run by the govt. They are independent entities who, I guess, have contracts and agreements with Medicare. We do NOT have single-payer health care in the USA. We have a system of insurers, of which Medicare is just one of many.

            Just as a contractor may have a number of clients, just one of which is the federal government.

            I don’t actually see any reason why health=care workers who work in businesses that accept Medicare insurance (not all do, of course) should be covered by any mandate. These practices have contracts with many insurers, not just Medicare.

            To me the companies look more like some variety of independent contractor. *Their* employees certainly do not work for Medicare, or for the government. Medicare does not “govern” practices or hospitals that accept Medicare insurance.

          • lastman January 16, 2022 at 2:45 pm #

            We are a medicare/medicaid provider. No word yet as to whether our medical exemption will stand up.

            I will tell you a couple things though. It doesn’t pay shit for services for services rendered…by a long shot. Dealing with it is a pain in the ass and time consuming. Finally, you people who use it need to get off your asses and send daily emails to these ijits that you vote for if you want to keep what you paid into for your entire working life. That was the deal THEY MADE with us.

            Take responsibility and do something, anything that makes them aware that you are sick and tired of this bs and are not going to take it anymore.

            My advice…quit paying for it and use that money to your benefit with care that makes you feel better. To do that, you’ll have to entirely change your mindset.

            It is out there.

            We shit canned (I love that term) our HC when the ACA began and have been fine for over a decade without it.

            As I told ian above, “free your mind and your ass will follow”

        • spaingaroo January 14, 2022 at 7:57 pm #

          I’ll stick this here again because it’s fun https://www.bitchute.com/video/dVTf4EANBiKo/ more tiktok videos

        • Not_GeorgeT January 15, 2022 at 9:19 pm #

          Your point is, I think, a broad brushstroke. You also note honourable exceptions.

          It is difficult to get real data, real information. This has been called an information war.

          One nurse, early on, went to NYC to help. From her Florida residence, it looked dire up in the Big Apple. She recounted her story in a book. I’m not sure how much of a mess her life became when she wrote of huge paydays for looking the other way when presented with the absence of the patients she went there to help, and remaining silent while being housed in some of the best hotels in the city.. This went, at minimum, for physicians and nurses.

          If those hospitals in NYC were as bulging with the afflicted as the country was led to believe, why did the hospital ship and the Javits Center sit idle?

          Another measure is the urban street population. These individuals are prime for effects of poor nutrition, unsanitary living conditions, and spreading disease. Their lives run at subsistence levels. Dying in the street, when it happens, is not from some virus, it’s poly-pharmaceutical to include opioids in many forms potentially laced with other toxic substances.

          I know people making 6-figure incomes doing the jabs. Informed consent of the jabbed is non-existent. That, the consent issue, falls directly on the providers. There is lots of money behind this effort.

          A lot of healthcare workers are out of work because they will not, for a variety of reasons, submit to being injected. Apparently this does not fall under the “national emergency” heading.

          Purposeful workforce reduction of those employed as skilled healthcare providers does not bode well.

          There is an alternative theory out there. I don’t believe it has fully jelled. The present system will collapse on itself. A better system will replace it. The greed factor driving the present system will be absent. Healing the ill and preventing illness before it gets out of hand will again become the norm. It will likely look different because the drivers of the current system will be gone.

          Time frame unknown, I’m not doing a time frame prediction. The present system is failing, if not already failed.

    • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

      I think the health care part was because of Medicare and Medicaid. Both government agencies under government control so they have the constitutional right to govern them.

      Private enterprise, not at all. Another argument for private control of the economy.

      • Alfred January 14, 2022 at 3:21 pm #

        Except in this case it’s fascist, unless it’s actually reverse fascism…

        What the government can’t get done by fiat, they get the so called private sector to implement by coercion.

        But what is more to the point, who do you think owns the government? They wanted the government to mandate so as to manage their, ahem, reputational risk.

        Any of the common folk, from all walks of life, who TRULY believe the government is really looking out for their best interest are probably vaxxed.

        The gloves are coming off this week. Blackrock anyone?

      • lastman January 16, 2022 at 2:49 pm #

        http://www.usawatchdog.com

        Greg Hunter interview with Catherine Austin Fitts.

        48 minutes right up your alley brother John…and the rest of you also.

        😉

    • Islander January 14, 2022 at 3:44 pm #

      OK, if you stop calling me “kids.”

      OK, kid?

  21. D from OR January 14, 2022 at 11:17 am #

    Was sort of hoping JHK would tie the Kazakhstan situation to the Ukraine situation because they are connected. The failure of the Kazakhstan coup makes it less likely for anything to take place in Ukraine. After all *they* used the same playbook in Kazakhstan they’d used in the “Maidan revolution” in Ukraine. It was easy for Russia to see as well as any well-seasoned observer.

    Obviously *they* are running out of other plans. Psychopathy has a lot of energy but not much creativity.

    So now *they* have pivot to the domestic stage. Joe is and problem and Covid is not going to last much longer so the old Civil War idea is dusted off. Hence the barricades around the White House. Perhaps the idea is to create a battle at the White House so they can conveniently get rid of old Joe. Solves the problem of him and retains the “emergency” footing. They’d somehow get rid of Kamala in the process as well.

    While it remains to be seen if the narrative creators at the CIA and FBI can come up with a realistic enemy watch for them to begin laying out some kind of story in the next week or so.

    Likely they are trying to coincide things with a juicy astrological date like they do with many of their efforts (sorry if you don’t believe this bit but if you don’t know astrology then you obviously wouldn’t know). I say the date they are looking at is Pluto conjunct Mars in Capricorn. Upheaval + War is the vibe with that transit – March 3.

    • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 11:24 am #

      Good point.

    • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 12:26 pm #

      I think January 23 is a good date for mischief – though lacking in any numerological or astrological significance that I am aware of.

      • D from OR January 14, 2022 at 1:16 pm #

        January 24th is the day Mars (War) enters Capricorn which is the home of governments and institutions (including hospitals and schools). The reason these entities have been forefront in our experience the past few years is because Pluto (Hades) has been there bringing destruction.

        The United State has its Pluto return this year (back where it started). We were born from revolution, destruction.

        Mars arrival in Capricorn will bring heat to all institutions but how it manifests and is exploited is to be seen.

        Astrology is a clock which gives you the climate but not the outcome.

    • rainmaker January 14, 2022 at 12:36 pm #

      Why do people go to Washington DC to protest? It does no good, the politicians there are deaf. Let’s make DC irrelevant and start ignoring it’s “mandates”, and Old Joe too.

      • D from OR January 14, 2022 at 1:06 pm #

        Why are we tied to the idea of a “protest” march? Because it is presented as the only option. The other involves an NGO giving you a false framework acting as if it is outside the system when it is supported by it.

        The protests are a salve to release the energy which could be harnessed towards building a way around those who seek to control us. That is the real protest.

        • rainmaker January 14, 2022 at 2:12 pm #

          The real protest is going on right now – the “I QUIT” protest.

    • abbybwood January 14, 2022 at 1:53 pm #

      They claim the barricade is being constructed so they can “fix the fountain”.

      Seems like spring/summer would be a better time?

  22. Alfred January 14, 2022 at 11:20 am #

    The movie Lookup is so funny, because it’s so true.

    For the past 6 years, and to no avail, we’ve tried to apply logic and reasoning the world around us. Statements of disbelief based on the insanity factor is like chewing aluminum foil. You believe yourself to be insane.

    Yet, as many have observed, if you flip your perspective, and see them as actually wanting to be destroyers of worlds their insanities become the rational actions of would be destroyers. You are not insane.

    If we have any hope of taking back control of our countries and our lives, the perspective must flip collectively, and the population must recover their sanity.

    • Paul January 14, 2022 at 11:27 am #

      The only way that might be possible is for each individual American to withdraw their consent to be governed — by the media. It’s well-nigh time to awake from our ‘electronic hallucination’.

    • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 11:30 am #

      The logic was clear when the Wuhan B-roll was released.

      Anyone who believed people were dying mid-run as they ran down the street almost deserves what they get afterward.

      • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 12:30 pm #

        Seriously! When I saw those videos from China at the start of the scamdemic , I thought, “How stupid do they think we are?” Well, for the most part, we are as stupid as they thought – ~200 million fully vaxxed.

      • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 1:11 pm #

        Yeah, that’s what the cure does, not the disease!

      • thirdcoastlegend January 14, 2022 at 2:38 pm #

        I’m surprised they don’t already have 24/7 clips of people bleeding to death from their eyes to push the new hemorrhagic fever rumors coming out of China.

      • anmariwakaranai January 14, 2022 at 3:09 pm #

        They say 5g was rolled out in Wuhan waaay above the allotted giga hertz at the time of the ‘collapse & virus intro’. I saw a vid linked here a week or so ago that had an asian but not chinese lady showing a 5g contract that stated they start at 14 gh I believe and go up to 28gh eventually.
        These wavelengths do NOT support human life.

        In lab settings diabetes is induced into rats using exposure to 2 g.
        Think about that. And thank you got_truth.

    • draupnir January 14, 2022 at 1:46 pm #

      Orlov did a review on that movie that showed up in my email from Patreon yesterday. He thinks the time of its release on Christmas Eve was telling, and it came to us courtesy of our overlords via streaming services. The review is too long to copy and paste here, but he pointed out that there is no main character who doesn’t betray everybody, and all die at the end. He found it revolting.

      • Islander January 14, 2022 at 3:50 pm #

        Same. I mean, got the Orlov review.
        Very funny. And, I think, spot-on.

        I do think there may be powers out there who are truly TRYING to get Civil War 2.0 going.

        some are internal; some are external but of course tied to the internal.

        I bet there is a Battle of the Titans being waged in DC and elsewhere to determine the fate of the USA. We just see the occasional bloodied fin breaking the surface of the waters . . .

  23. Mister Roboto January 14, 2022 at 11:35 am #

    Jim, I’m genuinely surprised that you didn’t say anything about the possibility of 2024 being a The Donald vs. The Hillary redux. Maybe because there’s nothing much to say to that other than “BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!” 😀

    • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 12:32 pm #

      The Repugnantcans won’t let the Orange Wonder run again.

      Even Chelsea wouldn’t be caught voting for the Hildebeast.

      That is why the Beast will be appointed – and then cancel further elections.

      • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

        Did you hear Graham yesterday?

        Paraphrasing,

        If you do not acknowledge Trump as the leader of the GOP, you are out!

        Aimed at McConnell and other Deep State Rhinos.

        • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 1:12 pm #

          And with Trump as leader of the GOP, the GOP is out. He’s not on your side JAZ. Trump is all about Trump. Always has been always will be. Judge him by his actions not his words (but remember those words and see how poorly they line up with his actions).

          Dust off that narcissist, polish him up, and march behind him again. It didn’t work the first time, so it’s almost guaranteed to work this time!

          Doesn’t anyone remember the narcissistic buffoon we all laughed at during the ’80’s, the ’90’s, the ’00’s? Grifter, scammer, showman. And after 4 years of failure – and a massive advance of the globalist agenda – we want to put all our chips on the Trumpster again?

          • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

            Show me the grift and the scams.

            If he was so unsuccessful, why were the first acts of the Biden administration a whole slew of EOs to undo all of his achievements?

          • lastman January 15, 2022 at 11:38 am #

            Don’t forget that when he exited bankruptcy (4 of them that we know about), that he was all pure and clean. They (you know who I’m talking about) made him a deal. He agreed to their terms. Art of their deal.

            Just another clown in this long running show. The left/right thing is just a pendulum that swings back and forth, left and right, back and forth, left and right…total distraction until the fucks at the top Vanguard pull the plug.

            It’s got to be close. Everything is being exposed. Some are on to them, still many can’t grasp the seriousness of it.

            Who will come out on top?…to be continued…

            Just remember, none of them are coming to save you.

            Plan accordingly.

          • lastman January 15, 2022 at 11:39 am #

            /sarc/ after pure and clean.

            Sorry.

    • BackRowHeckler January 14, 2022 at 12:52 pm #

      I believe the Republicans have Governor DeSantis teed up for a presidential run in 2024. Trump will be consulted as a sign of respect for his service in past campaigns, but 2024 is a new day.

      • draupnir January 14, 2022 at 1:54 pm #

        Trump is too old. So is Hillary and Biden. I’ll vote for him if he gets the nomination, but would prefer DeSantis as the candidate. I have, however, considered that the fraudulent election will finally be sorted by next year and Trump reinstated. That way, he can run again in 2028 and get another six years in office.

      • abbybwood January 14, 2022 at 1:58 pm #

        And Trump has been berating DeSantis because he won’t reveal whether or not he got a booster!

        • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 2:18 pm #

          He didn’t name him. Just as Kristi Noem didn’t name him when she disparaged those Republican governors who were pretending they never closed their beaches.

          President Trump has changed. He’s not like he was before this covid thing started.

      • lastman January 15, 2022 at 11:42 am #

        No offense BRH, but voting has never really worked out well for any of us.

  24. trypillian January 14, 2022 at 11:58 am #

    If American military were to visit Ukraine, logistics is really a red herring. As any reader of Tom Clancy would know supply and reserve of forward divisions is paramount and integral. The NATO Joint Warfare Center in Stavanger, Norway would provide support of US material assets within the existing logistics network. The large US base at Mannheim Germany is already prepared for such an adventure. American Forces would employ several huge Ukrainian An-225 Mriya and An-124 Condor aircraft to transport goods and services. A fleet US C-5’s are ready for the occasion as well. The Ukrainian designed and built An-225, the worlds largest aircraft, can carry twice the payload of the C-5, by the way. Flying time from Mannheim to Kiev, Karkiv, Poltava, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia; major cities in East Ukraine is only two hours. Armored tank, artillery, and mechanized infantry divisions are a moment away. I suspect the Ruskies wouldn’t want to duke it out. They would be pushed back to their own border where they crawled out of and Ukraine would reclaim Donetsk and Luhansk back into the national fold.

    Nuclear weapons are actually obsolete nowadays and are verboten. The US military would use scalar and directed energy weapons from space to vaporize aggressive components of foes as needed. The incineration of California’s forests have proven the efficacy of these things.

    • D from OR January 14, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

      The US material assets failed in Kazakhstan in a big way. “The Ruskies” (tipping your hand) made it look like child’s play. It was quashed within days. The Biden’s buddy is now imprisoned.

      Lovely to imagine these things organized and spearheaded by the Military but this is Politics so if any dreamy action is taken by the US/NATO it will fail as it is grounded in ideology and criminality.

      • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 12:52 pm #

        The administration could not run water into a bath tub.

    • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

      “They would be pushed back to their own border where they crawled out of…” Because the US military is just that goddamn tough!

      We can’t disarm a handful of goat ranchers with flintlocks, but against a real country with a real military and a long history of kicking out invaders – no problem!

      • benr January 14, 2022 at 12:53 pm #

        @blackbird

        Thats because the rules of engagement prevented it.
        The intent was never to win but to stay as long as politically possible.
        This was about money, oil, nat gas, rare earth minerals and poppies poppies poppies!

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nJ30dodvdc

        • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

          Another good point. Since WWII all of our wars have been about causing damage, enriching the military-industrial-criminal complex, and curtailing the rights of the citizens of the US – not about “winning” (whatever that means).

          Still, put the US and Russia in the ring together – especially when that ring is on Russia’s border – and watch us go crying to mommy with a bloody nose and a black eye.

    • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 1:15 pm #

      That would be accepting defeat since it would be giving the green light to be attacked again and again. No, they’re not going to allow us take Ukraine from their sphere of influence.

      They have better battlefield weapons than we do in terms of missiles and men.

      • anmariwakaranai January 14, 2022 at 3:19 pm #

        I’d be interested in the effect of 5g on those war planes.
        Plus Havanna syndrome on troops.

    • Hereward the Woke January 14, 2022 at 3:40 pm #

      Thankyou, Dick Cheney! Sounds good on paper. Just like it did in Afghanistan.

    • Mac January 15, 2022 at 3:01 am #

      Obsolete? Naw. Send us a postcard from the frontlines when the shooting starts. Or better, have your kid send it.

    • Trean January 15, 2022 at 7:00 pm #

      Of course the problem with your scenario is that the Russian Air defense network extends nearly 500 km into Ukraine. Any troop transports would be easy meat for the S500. A dreadfully effective system that we know can deal even with stealth aircraft.
      In gulf war we had 6 months of build up and 43 days of air war.
      Putin isn’t going to give anyone that preparation time. Every scenario shows us losing half of our aircraft with the Russians retaining 60 percent of their air defenses.
      The first time we deploy space or energy weapons the Russians will automatically regard it as a full scale attack and start attacking our satellites and probably go nuclear too.

  25. patrickd January 14, 2022 at 12:03 pm #

    Just to clarify…
    The troops and weapons that Russia has assembled about a hundred miles from the Ukraine border are there to intervene in case the Ukraine military launches a campaign of genocide against the Russian citizens in the Donbass. Russia will use stand-off weaponry to destroy the war criminals. If necessary they will briefly enter the battle zone to eliminate them.

    The recent meetings of this week were for giving the West (the U.S. and it’s vassals)a chance to remove its nuclear missile bases from Russia’s borders. The West laughed in Russia’s face. Russia will now remove the threat these bases present, nobody knows how this will be done, but it is recommended to find sources who are covering these events and stock up on popcorn.

    Patrick

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    • Islander January 14, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

      Patrick:

      One of the best spots to watch these events is The saker blog. He is a bit of an AH, but his analyses are worth reading, and he has a lot of “from the horse’s mouth” info from behind the scenes in Russia and elsewhere.

      Comments there are also often illluminating.

      • Islander January 14, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

        See Pepe Escobar’s article:

        http://thesaker.is/this-is-how-the-u-s-does-dialogue/

      • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 12:42 pm #

        For those with a real interest in Russia and Russian policy – rather than blue-checked MSM propaganda – the Vineyard of the Saker is a good place to start. Geopolitica.ru is a good source too.

    • Paula D January 14, 2022 at 2:31 pm #

      Thank you, Patrick. A little common sense to counter the insane American chest-beating is always refreshing.
      I also doubt that the Russians will enter Ukraine, but if they did it would only be the Donbass and only to save their fellow Russians from the Nazis from western Ukraine, armed and trained by Nazi-supporting American mercenaries and military.
      I think they will destroy the stockpiles of weapons the US has been sending Ukraine.
      This will not upset the US war machine, they’ll just make more.
      My hope for what Russia has planned is that they destroy the refinery the US is building in Syria, in order to more efficiently steal the Syrian oil they have been stealing all these years.
      The US is ILLEGALLY occupying Syria, illegally stealing their oil and illegally burning their wheatfields.
      I hope that Russia will send their criminal butts back home.
      That would be a win/win move to make, imo.

      • Paula D January 14, 2022 at 2:33 pm #

        The main US military will not get involved. This is a “let’s you and him fight” situation.
        They are pushing Kiev to attack eastern Ukraine, so that Russia will put a stop it it, and the Mighty Wurlitzer of propaganda can sing the “Bad Russians are so aggressive” song.
        You would think that song would be old by now, but it turns out that people’s stupidity is endless.

        • anmariwakaranai January 14, 2022 at 3:23 pm #

          Saker and moon of alabama. I haved noted there are ways to get around the no coof policy.

          • farmgal January 14, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

            Thanks for the moon of alabama reference. I had seen it mentioned somewhere else but forgot about it. It is a very interesting and informative site.

          • anmariwakaranai January 14, 2022 at 7:39 pm #

            My pleasure farmgal. 🙂

  26. observex January 14, 2022 at 12:04 pm #

    I had Covid! Here is my horror story:

    – My double-vaxxed, mask-wearing house guests got it – first one, then 2 days later the other.

    – Those double-vaxxed people then gave it to my unvaxxed self.

    – My symptoms were: a night of headache and some sweats and a day of staying in bed.

    – I followed the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance protocols – you know, vitamins and ivermecitin – and was back to normal in 48 hours.

    – Then the third, younger, unvaxxed house guest got it.

    – I recovered faster and with less symptoms than all three younger guests. None of us are fat or otherwise have risk factors.

    That’s it. How dull.

    • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

      I know someone who got sick similarly to what you describe, back in 2020 I believe. No one thought it could be the coof, because there were no respiratory issues.

      • draupnir January 14, 2022 at 2:07 pm #

        My daughter and two of my grandaughters got it last winter. Other than the annoying loss of smell and taste for two weeks, they were only really ill for a couple of days and had the sniffles for a few days more. My daughter works at home and she was only off for one day. The baby and the rest of the family got omicron recently, the baby’s first illness. She ran a fever for a day and then, other than a stuffy nose, was back to her usual smiling and cooing self.

        • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 2:20 pm #

          The person I know didn’t have the loss of their sense of smell or taste.

          I have heard that some don’t, but I have never heard of an actual person who says they didn’t.

          • draupnir January 14, 2022 at 3:31 pm #

            Maybe they simply had the flu. Those tests can’t really distinguish between covid and influenza.

      • Hereward the Woke January 14, 2022 at 3:44 pm #

        My question is, if we are “diagnosing” these symptoms with a PCR test that isn’t a test and that even the CDC admits can’t tell the difference between China flu and seasonal flu, how does everyone claiming they have it know they actually have it? It is winter after all, the season of colds and normal flu.

      • farmgal January 14, 2022 at 4:03 pm #

        @Beryl – my husband and I had it in August 2020 and thought it was a sinus infection. No respiratory issues at all. Now it seems we have whatever is making the rounds – three days of burning sinus congestion, sore throat and slight fever. Scary thing is how quickly this thing transmits. Kept the granddaughter last weekend. Son came home from work not feeling well with cold symptoms, two days later I was sick and two days after that my husband came down with it. Imagine having a cold in January!

    • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 12:47 pm #

      “…a night of headache and some sweats and a day of staying in bed…” I had that too – in 2004! (Also 1984 – cured with LSD! – and probably other times that I don’t remember.) I didn’t do anything (other than sweat and sleep), and strangely enough, I’m still here. Who knew Covid has been around so long?

      • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:16 pm #

        Zing!

    • benr January 14, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

      Wish I could say that I was delirious for almost a week.
      Still have the damn cough.
      Weird part I had the flu before the covid so I have been essentially sick since 12/26.

      • BackRowHeckler January 14, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

        Ben do you know when or where you picked it up? I’m thinking at some point everybody will be coming down with Covid no matter how careful they are.

        • benr January 14, 2022 at 1:26 pm #

          Pretty sure I got it traveling.
          One of my flights almost everyone was coughing and hacking.
          The flight crew were talking about how bad the flight was as far as how many people were coughing away.

          • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 1:43 pm #

            There are all kinds of coughs that can linger. I have had 3 or 4 over the years since I moved to Germany.

            A couple of them hung around for several months. Take lots of Vitamin D, really. You need about 6k IUs per day in the winter, even when not sick. It truly works.

          • thirdcoastlegend January 14, 2022 at 2:41 pm #

            Everyone around me at work is coughing and wheezing constantly.

            Clearly, the mandatory face diaper policy is working great!

            I’ve had a lingering cough since New Year’s.

            In mid-2017 I picked up a cough that lingered for the better part of a year.

          • Bill of Rights January 14, 2022 at 3:01 pm #

            Night Owl: do you live in East or West Germany?

          • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 4:10 pm #

            Bill,

            I live in the western part, though much of the former East has gone through quite a rejuvenation process and there are some amazing places there if you like old-school architecture (pre-Commie).

            The only negative is that the economy has never really caught up, so the only areas that are really doing well are tourist cities like Dresden.

        • BackRowHeckler January 14, 2022 at 2:35 pm #

          I’ve never really flown in commercial aircraft that much, but every time I did fly I got sick with a bad cold, a sore throat, tonsillitis and so on. This was in pre Covid days.

          Yeah that is good advice, Owl, Vitamin D (and Vitamin C)

          • benr January 14, 2022 at 4:40 pm #

            Don’t forget Zinc, magnesium and calcium

      • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:17 pm #

        Muh muh muh MY FLURONA!

        Sorry.

        Couldn’t resist.

        Honestly, hope you are feeling better and will fully recover soon.

    • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 1:13 pm #

      Hmmm. Sounds suspiciously like when households pre-2020 would all get a cold or the flu.

      LOL.

      • BackRowHeckler January 14, 2022 at 2:41 pm #

        Yes, like the common cold. Strangely enough, I used to get 2 or 3 serious colds every year but haven’t even caught one since all this Covid BS started. The only thing I do different is wash my hands alot more than I used to, carry around handi wipes and a bottle of rubbing alcohol in my truck.

        Right now I’m knocking on wood lol.

        • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:18 pm #

          Yeah, I haven’t had the flu for like, 27 years. And a cold for… I don’t remember, maybe 15? Seriously. No idea why, but apparently I have a good immune system.

          I do work on that, though. Supplements, good diet, exercise, sun, etc. Always have.

          Still nothin’ throughout this covid ‘horror’.

      • Hereward the Woke January 14, 2022 at 3:48 pm #

        This really bugs me, Mary. Everyone I know is getting the sniffles and coughs (and I’m not knocking our dear friends here with those symptoms) and is rushing off to get “tested”. Of course, the results all come back positive for China flu. But why can’t they all be seasonal flu or, dare I say it, the common cold? It is winter time and an particularly cold one at that. It seems like we’ve become a race of hypochondriacs. Stop testing, everyone!

        • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 4:06 pm #

          They are testing positive because the test was slyly changed again to be more sensitive.

          Appears to be their last ditch effort to keep “Omicron” alive.

          But Omicron is fake, so hey.

        • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:19 pm #

          It’s yet another manifestation of the hypnotic mass formation.

          If everyone is doing the same thing – that’s your evidence.

          Nothing to do with illness, they’ve made people afraid of the common cold and flu.

      • Islander January 14, 2022 at 4:13 pm #

        Yeah, and kids would bring “something” back from school.

        Zees is now verboten!!!

    • Anthea January 14, 2022 at 2:27 pm #

      @ observex:

      I fell ill a few days ago. I had the most God-awful headache I’ve ever had in my life. (I rarely get headches at all.) I also had some unpleasant muscle aches. No fever. I was sick enough that I considered breaking out the Ivermectin, but instead I took an extra-strength tylenol and went to bed. The headache was gone in the morning, and I was run-down for a couple of days and slept a lot. I don’t know if it was covid. If so, it hardly even qualifies as a seasonal flu.

  27. Roundball Shaman January 14, 2022 at 1:06 pm #

    “War, the ivermectin of politics!”

    As Edwin Starr told us all those years ago…

    ‘War, huh, yeah
    What is it good for?
    Absolutely NOTHING, uh-huh, uh-huh…’

    So, the Dark Narrative Peddlers like to call ivermectin ‘horse dewormer’ in their demeaning of a useful human medicine. Horses need dewormer because they are highly subject to worm infestations.

    BUT, politics is itself little more than a Worm Infestation gone wild of the highest (lowest?) order. Public offices and Public trust for sale to the high bidder. Slime and swamp everywhere. The political consequence of institutionalized and canonized
    ‘What’s-In-It-For-ME’-ism.

    And We the People are left with the results of a massive National political, social, and financial worm infestation.

    Now that all Americans have been declared to be Domestic Ter’rists… things get even more interesting. All kinds of quasi-legal and faux moral justifications for the demonization of the American people. And also, their process to lay the groundwork for all forms of nastiness and self-righteous bludgeoning of those who do not adequately conform to the tiny allowed window of debate and evaporating numbers of ‘permitted’ things for Americans to say and do. Freedom? Bah. ‘Give Me Government Granted Privileges Or Give Me…!’

    “Maybe a foreign war would play better on social media and The View…”

    Foreign wars are messy and leave bad optics when you get out of them while running for your lives. How about some ‘action’ against those nasty freedom-loving, mask-ditching, Covid Passport burning, uppity States like Florida and Texas? There’s already a low-level conflict going on already. Confused Joe needs a quick and easy win to keep his approval poll numbers from going negative. Be on the lookout for tanks heading South on I-95.

    “What would be our strategy in this war over Ukraine?”

    Make them binge watch The View. That ought to do the trick in short order.

    “The Supreme Court shot down “Joe Biden’s” vaxx mandate for businesses yesterday, and the ‘president’ actually declared that companies should ignore the decision and compel employees to get vaxxed anyway.”

    This tactic actually has possibilities. If the Supremes take on a few more mental midgets and socialist wackos… we could use some kind of precedent to ignore what comes out of those black robed wonders in the future. Thanks for the idea, Mister I’m-Beginning-To-Lose-My-Temper.

  28. RocketDoc January 14, 2022 at 1:06 pm #

    Many Ukrainians would rather have opportunities in the EU rather than Moscow. Those in Lviv would prefer Vienna or Warsaw to Minsk or Smolensk. The USA should not go to war with Russia over their dreams but to the degree that we can support their wish to be independent of Russia, we should, while remaining realistic…

    • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

      Most Ukrainians don’t understand the real cost of EU membership. They might want to speak with the Greeks before getting lost in the supermarket.

      • BackRowHeckler January 14, 2022 at 2:26 pm #

        That’s a good point BB. Greece has been the EU economic basket case up until now but if Ukraine gets in it would give Greece a run for its money.

    • Paula D January 14, 2022 at 2:38 pm #

      Yeah, RD, that is how the US sold the Maidan to the Ukies, back in 2014.
      How’s it working out for them?

    • Hereward the Woke January 14, 2022 at 3:49 pm #

      Most wannabe EU members still think it’s the 1990s, where membership means getting one’s snout in the golden euro-trough. Those days are long gone. The EU offers no benefits whatsoever.

    • Islander January 14, 2022 at 4:17 pm #

      The ARE independent of Russia.

      What kinda Kool-Aid you be drinkin’?

      Russian helped hold up Uke for years after the breakup of the USSR. Naturally it was mutually beneficial because the USSR had helped build up Uke in the first place with heavy industry and so forth, including defense industry.

      Also, with cheap reliable gas. If the Ukes had just not kept pilfering it, things might have turned out differently. I think this is about where the Bidens come in . . .

    • ianw January 15, 2022 at 2:16 am #

      Many Ukrainians would rather have opportunities in the EU rather than Moscow.

      I can very well understand that. I think the Putin/Russia is the last model I would aspire to. Surely the freedoms and career opportunities in the West are so much better.

      What I can’t really tolerate is both Russia and USA/NATO seeing the fertile flat plains of Ukraine as being some chessboard on which they fight their geopolitical (and even physical) wars.

      But all of this hand-wringing is just that, until the Ukraine can elects a genuine government that reflects the moderate position of most of the population.

      • Paula D January 15, 2022 at 2:31 pm #

        Russia has no intention of playing war on the plains of Ukraine, you are insane with TDS.
        And the Ukrainians elected Zelensky on a peace-with-Donbass platform, just like Americans elected Trump on a peace-with-Russia platform.
        How’d that work out for all of us?
        All it did was postpone the Dems insane drive to war for 4 years, but now we’re back on track.
        And the Ukrainians got nothing.

  29. MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 1:11 pm #

    Love this. Well said, John Rappaport:

    “Question: How do you prevent a disease that has no cause?

    Get back to me after contemplating this for 10 years.

    The so-called disease, COVID, is touted as the result of a virus, but the virus doesn’t exist.

    Nevertheless, a vaccine aimed at beefing up the immune system against the virus that doesn’t exist is heralded as a miracle.

    There is also a test for the virus that doesn’t exist.

    People fear the virus that doesn’t exist.

    Whole countries are locked down to stop the spread of the virus that doesn’t exist.

    People wear masks to stop the transmission of the virus that doesn’t exist.

    People with no symptoms are called cases of the disease caused by the virus that doesn’t exist.

    The vaccine can’t stop the transmission of the virus that doesn’t exist.

    The federal database lists over a million injuries reported after the vaccination which was designed to prevent the disease caused by the virus that doesn’t exist.

    People who refuse the vaccination designed to prevent the disease caused by the virus that doesn’t exist are called criminals or even terrorists.

    The virus that doesn’t exist will spread at a small party in a person’s home, but the virus that doesn’t exist will detour around waves of immigrants coming into the country.

    The virus that doesn’t exist was created in a lab.

    The overwhelming percentage of people who die from infection by the virus that doesn’t exist are the elderly, who already have several long-standing serious health problems and have been treated for decades with toxic drugs, and are then given more toxic drugs to kill the virus that doesn’t exist and are sedated with powerful drugs and put on breathing ventilators—a lethal treatment.

    There are at least two variants of the virus that doesn’t exist.

    There are doctors who heavily criticize the current vaccines, but claim that a safe and successful vaccine can be developed to prevent the disease caused by the virus that doesn’t exist.

    Other than all of the above, the global public COVID policy is quite sane.”

    Bravo, said it better than I’ve been trying to.

    • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

      “That’s one magic loogie!” – Kramer

      • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:24 pm #

        HA!

        Sorry though – Jerry said that. 😀

        (I have watched too much Seinfeld).

        • Blackbird January 15, 2022 at 11:29 am #

          No blue checkmark for me!

    • Roundball Shaman January 14, 2022 at 1:37 pm #

      “Question: How do you prevent a disease that has no cause?”

      You don’t. You get go ahead and get ‘it’. Because… without a ‘cause’ there can be no ‘effect’ (on you).

      ‘Oh geez, I got this disease last week that doesn’t exist. A test told me I had it! Some guy who looks like a little weasel on TV said that millions of Americans have it! Everyone is terrified of ‘it’. The skin punctures and stabs don’t stop it. And all this makes me feel just rotten. And I want someone or something to cure me of it!’

      ‘Have you ever considered that YOU are just making YOURSELF sick since the disease has no cause other than your belief in it?’

      ‘What’s next, you’re going to ask me if I EXIST?’

      ‘Well, do you?’

      ‘OF COURSE I DO.’

      ‘Did ‘You’ have a ‘cause’ or not?’

      ‘Sure. My parents.’

      ‘So, You exist because you had a cause. But you have a ‘disease’ that exists that has no cause?’

      ‘R-r-r-r-right…’

      ‘Does that make sense to you?’

      ‘Look, I just Follow The Science. Don’t bother me with such silly questions… You don’t happen to know if there’s a new booster out today, do you?’

      • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:27 pm #

        Love it. LOL.

    • ianw January 15, 2022 at 2:20 am #

      Love this. Well said, John Rappaport:

      Yet another anti-vax Covid-denier rant. Why do you bother with this stuff? It’s all laughable. Seriously – this is very close to certifiable brain damage.

  30. Q. Shtik January 14, 2022 at 1:13 pm #

    My wife and I and BIL, Peter, all tested negative for Covid this morning.

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

      Did you ever have symptoms? What testing kit or protocols did you use? The same both times? Show me your papers!

    • Blackbird January 14, 2022 at 1:26 pm #

      Wait a minute – you got Peter to take a “Covid test” but you still can’t get him to: 1) put his clothes on, 2) stop eating the houseplants, 3) poop in the toilet?

      Use his enthusiasm for “Covid testing” to finally get him out of the house. “He Petey ol’ pal, ya gotta take another ‘Covid test’. Gotta go to Mexico this time…”

      • SpeedyBB January 14, 2022 at 8:09 pm #

        Mexico is where you can get a Sinovac shot. mRNA not included. I’ve had two of those and I’m still quite Long Live The Great Chairman Xi and the Chinese Revulsion.

        (Am I doing it right?)

      • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:28 pm #

        Busted out laughing.

    • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 1:44 pm #

      There is no test for Covid.

      • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:28 pm #

        Why do people still believe this? All I can do is laugh. It’s so hopeless.

        • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 4:03 am #

          Because they don’t care to inform themselves. I maintain that it is an IQ test. Harsh, but over two years in, I have no other explanation. One can only run with the lemmings for so long.

      • ianw January 15, 2022 at 2:22 am #

        There is no test for Covid.

        There is no test for your low IQ.

  31. D from OR January 14, 2022 at 1:29 pm #

    And then there’s this about train robberies in LA.

    Anyone who thinks anything is under control is delusional.

    https://twitter.com/johnschreiber/status/1481770722271760384

    • BackRowHeckler January 14, 2022 at 2:18 pm #

      LA never ceases to amaze. If it’s not carjacking its trainjacking, if it’s not home invasion it’s a nurse nearly beaten to death on the street by a vagrant (yesterday) Looting, assaults, tens of thousands of drug addicts and alcoholics living in the streets, ‘follow home’ robberies … looks like the days of Surf City and California Dreamin’ is long over.

      • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 2:23 pm #

        We used to have train robberies in olden times.

        • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:29 pm #

          The wild, wild west is BACK, baby!

  32. jim e January 14, 2022 at 1:36 pm #

    “Let the sun shine in.” indeed and along with their recent ruling…

    DIANA ROSS and THE SUPREMES aquarius / let the sunshine in…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-oovHpaWhw

  33. DoctorGonzoSpeaks January 14, 2022 at 2:01 pm #

    > “Despite overwhelming proof that the mRNA vaccines don’t work”

    Huh? “An overwhelming majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations are among unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people. In 2021, 85 percent of virus hospitalizations were among those not fully vaccinated against COVID-19.”

    > “Where Dick Cheney treads, you know war can’t be far behind. That must be what America really needs to pep her up in these days of sagging poll numbers and inflating dollars. War, the ivermectin of politics!”

    OK. Whatever you say, Captian James. I’ll just note that after 21 long years fighting our losing war in Afghanistan — and around $6 trillion squandered dollars along the way — it was Biden who finally got us out of that black hole. The exit wasn’t pretty, but, yes, we’re finally out. This was more than his three predecessors were able to accomplish.

    > “We are fixing to drag that old blue dog to the doghouse, where it can cool out for two years before we put it down for good.”

    Wow. It sounds like JHK is totally behind a one-party authoritarian government going forward. What could possibly go wrong with that plan?

    • rainmaker January 14, 2022 at 2:23 pm #

      Joe didn’t get us out of Afghanistan – we finally just had to leave. Afghanistan was a black hole sucking up the energy of our military. The next conflict may end the myth of our military might for good.

      • DoctorGonzoSpeaks January 14, 2022 at 2:28 pm #

        OK. It just magically happened one day that we pulled our troops out of Afghanistan after 21 years. No one actually made that decision. Got it.

        • rainmaker January 14, 2022 at 2:33 pm #

          You seem to think that humans are in control of events. More often people just respond to circumstances that can get beyond any human control. Sometimes you just realize that it’s best to stop doing something when it’s obviously stupid or useless.

        • jim e January 14, 2022 at 6:25 pm #

          From start to finish, Desert Storm only lasted 43 days, from Jan. 17 to Feb. 28, 1991.
          We took the bait the second time around.

        • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:31 pm #

          Do you really think POTATUS makes any decisions? LOL.

          He can’t even get through a speech with a teleprompter telling him what to say.

          And he shits his depends in front of the pope.

      • Paula D January 14, 2022 at 2:41 pm #

        It was Trump who negotiated the deal with the Taliban. They signed a treaty saying that the US would leave by May 1st, 2021.
        It was Biden who tore up that treaty, leaving the troops there past May 1st.
        The Taliban didn’t appreciate the broken treaty. Didn’t they realize that that is what the US is known for?

    • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 3:28 pm #

      It used to be that no matter which party one, the direction of the country was dictated by the US Constitution.

      That is changed, the Dems, no the Deep State want to rewrite all the rules so that Uniparty control with them in charge becomes the norm. Right now, if we do not move both parties back to center, dictatorship is going to come forth.

      I agree, as long as this presentation is given by the Deep State, the Tea Party conservatives are going to try to destroy the Dems.

      Extremism of both sides will destroy the country as a democracy.

      • Mac January 15, 2022 at 6:28 am #

        Wake up, dude. One man/ one vote looting is what destroys democracies.

    • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:30 pm #

      Hahahaha.

      Someone ingests a LOT of CNN.

  34. ianw January 14, 2022 at 2:12 pm #

    We are fixing to drag that old blue dog to the doghouse, where it can cool out for two years before we put it down for good. And a couple more things: “Joe Biden” is done running for president, and Liz Cheney is done running for Congress, or anything else.

    I sincerely believe that it would be in everyone’s interests if all the Cheneys, all the Clintons, all the Trumps, and all the Bidens walked away from, politics altogether. And soon.

    And everyone else over retirement age. Go play with the grandkids, Nancy.

    I think it will be a huge disaster if the Republicans regain the House and Senate in 2022, and not just because they can rig Congressional certification of the president, which they will – 2020 was a dress rehearsal.

    They are committed to one-party rule in perpetuity, and they don’t even hide their intentions any more. That is peak insanity.

    • DoctorGonzoSpeaks January 14, 2022 at 2:25 pm #

      If the Republicans regain the House and Senate in 2022 — and I think they will — it’s Game Over for anything resembling “democracy” in the United States.

      With a majority in Congress, all they have to do to stop ANY Democratic candidate for the presidency is refuse to certify the election results reported by the states after the 2024 election. They are already priming the Republican faithful in the swing states to set up their “alternate slate of electors” (as they tried to do last time).

      In short, I don’t see any way for a Democratic president to win the election in 2024. Not even if they score a solid win in the electoral college vote.

      Well, the democratic experiment had a good run in the United States while it lasted. Far from perfect, but it had many self-correcting mechanisms that, gradually, over time, made for a “more perfect union” that allowed for non-white, non-landholding, non-male citizens to also participate in electoral politics.

      There will be nothing “self-correcting” about a one-party authoritarian cult of personality such as that that will be installed beginning 2025.

      I agree with you that the aging old-guard of politicians need to move along and make room for a new generation. So long Nancy, Chuck, Donald, Mitch, and Hillary. But it will be too little, too late. So long democracy.

      • benr January 14, 2022 at 3:03 pm #

        Name one Democrat who is not certifiably nuts?
        Their cobbled together electorate of freaks, nuts, control freaks weirdos and perverts are right out of clown world.
        Everyone I know who votes Democrat are also popping SSRI’s like candy.

        • DoctorGonzoSpeaks January 14, 2022 at 4:58 pm #

          Our Democrat governor Jared Polis is pretty good, as far as politicians go.

          (I know: that’s a lot like saying “the seasonal flu is pretty good, as far as communicable diseases go”.)

          He may be one reason that Democrats won every statewide race in the 2020 elections. The Repubs held control of the state legislature for a number of years, but they seemed incapable of addressing important issues at the state level, like highway and transit improvements, educational needs, and day care options for working parents. I think the voters got tired of listening to the Republican ‘leaders’ whining about taxes and gays and abortion, but not really doing anything about basic government responsibilities.

          So, there you have it. When you fail to deliver, eventually the voters will turn on you.

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 14, 2022 at 3:03 pm #

        your prescription after the last two years is more blue wave…. good lord. okay.

        • DoctorGonzoSpeaks January 15, 2022 at 10:06 pm #

          Actually, I’d happily settle for the opposition Republican Party returning to its roots of seeking lower taxes, more guns, and less governmental regulations (except on abortion, of course) … if in exchange they booted the Trump Cult wing to the curb and committed themselves to strengthening our democratic institutions, rather than planning a slow-moving authoritarian coup.

          A vibrant two-party system with an honest and fact-based policy debate would be healthy for our country.

      • rainmaker January 14, 2022 at 3:20 pm #

        “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover that they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy – to be followed by a dictatorship.” Alexander Fraser Tytler – You are right, DoctorGonzo.

        • workingclasshero January 15, 2022 at 1:37 am #

          So your saying Republicans should be nothing but gold bugs and stewards of the currency? I say Prudence yes,austerity no.

      • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 3:20 pm #

        OMG, you think that a political party that is promoting socialism up to Communism and admits it, promotes tax and spend in a world of break over debt, promotes black racism against whites and Asians, enables phony baloney voting systems, destroys private economy in favor of government control, aKA fascism

        Is promoting democracy?

        You must have learned about democracy in a democratic socialist country.

        The Democrats are the biggest threat against America ever. Democracy is dying as we watch right now. All hail the rise of Communist Amerika.

        • DoctorGonzoSpeaks January 14, 2022 at 4:51 pm #

          Um, OK.
          Whatever you say, Captain.
          This blog, and the people posting on it, sure ain’t what it used to be.

          • benr January 16, 2022 at 12:33 pm #

            Only because they see Democrats for what they are.
            Mind you Republicans are only marginally better.

        • DoctorGonzoSpeaks January 16, 2022 at 6:35 pm #

          Breaking news this week:

          ” In the weeks after the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump’s allies sent fake certificates to the National Archives declaring that Trump won seven states that he actually lost. The documents had no impact on the outcome of the election, but they are yet another example of how Team Trump tried to subvert the Electoral College — a key line of inquiry for the January 6 committee.

          “The fake certificates were created by Trump allies in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Mexico, who sought to replace valid presidential electors from their states with a pro-Trump slate, according to documents obtained by American Oversight.”

          Jesus Christ. This is seditious sh!t. Please explain to me again how Republicans since 2016 are somehow noble defenders of ‘Democracy’?

      • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:33 pm #

        Aw, look.

        Ianw found a little wokie pal.

        • Paula D January 15, 2022 at 2:35 pm #

          Isn’t it cute? There they are, discussing elections as if they meant anything, or as if they counted the votes honestly.
          Oh, wait, I didn’t mean cute, I meant hilariously deluded.

          • DoctorGonzoSpeaks January 16, 2022 at 6:36 pm #

            The Authoritarian Right will save us.

      • ianw January 14, 2022 at 10:06 pm #

        In short, I don’t see any way for a Democratic president to win the election in 2024. Not even if they score a solid win in the electoral college vote.

        I don’t know how truly smart the Democrat brains trust is – but they should be devoting huge energy to meeting and matching all the new laws and restrictions that red state Republicans are ramming into place.

        Rather than dying on a hill pointlessly, they could:

        • have a massive and targeted “Voter-ID drive” where required
        • get every potential Dem voter to hold an approved ID
        • target minority communities where political engagement might be low
        • make sure everyone who moves state, county, or address meets all registration requirements
        • ensure everyone is properly on the electoral roll
        • exploit to the hilt (legally) mail-in voting processes, to the extent they exist in each state
        • train election observers in every aspect of polling booth laws and procedures

        And a whole lot of other strategies too.

        I’m sure some of these things are happening – but there still seems to be a huge number of court challenges grinding through the legal process.

        Basically you’re trying to maximise the vote, and essentially eliminating just about any possibility of “voter fraud” claims arising.

        The MAGA hats are going to scream fraud in every marginal (race and even non-marginal ones) – even in the Midterms, let alone 2024 – the Dems need to be prepared – and able to repel any moves by the Republicans to install “alternative electors”.

        Basically get the vote out, get everyone legal – and play the Republicans at their own game.

        PS Are you channelling Hunter S Thompson by any chance? We enjoyed visiting Colorado – middle of winter – it was freezing. But I could live there.

        • benr January 16, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

          Oh you mean like Al Gore did with his hanging chads and what the voters intended to vote for nonsense?

          It’s like Cook County election fraud all over again every year.

          • DoctorGonzoSpeaks January 16, 2022 at 6:41 pm #

            I seem to recall Al Gore ultimately conceding the election to GW Bush.

            And, in fact, while still Vice President in January 2001, and presiding over a joint session of congress, he fulfilled his Constitutional duty of counting the certified Electoral College results determining that Bush won the EC by one vote.

            Then he graciously made way for a peaceful transition of power to the Bush Administration on Inauguration Day.

            What is Donald Trump’s lame excuse again? Please remind me.

    • benr January 14, 2022 at 2:59 pm #

      Do you REALLY think the Democrats are not trying to toss out Republicans and commit to a one-party system of only Democrats and their ridiculous political kabuki theatre?
      The Democrats are literally so close to a one-party tyranny it really is scary the feckless Republicans are hanging on by the skin of their teeth and you are goose stepping into nonsense as usual.
      Blind as a bat and dumb as a goose.

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 14, 2022 at 3:42 pm #

        if all that were the case, you’d think dems could put on a little better show right now if this is their last big chance at anything

        • ianw January 14, 2022 at 6:22 pm #

          You would think so. But I reckon they still believe they’re playing in a game where the other side follows the rules. Silly them.

      • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

        Agreed, but it isn’t so much about the Dems. It is the DAVOS group behind them. The Dems and many Reps are either pushing or tacitly supporting the technocratic global plantation.

        They push the same nonsense everywhere: digital IDs, experimental medical treatments for the Coroneau, woke school and workplace programming, the digitization of the healthcare system, and the destruction of borders and national identity.

        • ianw January 14, 2022 at 6:32 pm #

          Agreed, but it isn’t so much about the Dems. It is the DAVOS group behind them. The Dems and many Reps are either pushing or tacitly supporting the technocratic global plantation.

          LOL. Most Dems and all the Republicans couldn’t find Davos on a map – or think it’s a haemorrhoid treatment! You are a wonder.

          • anmariwakaranai January 14, 2022 at 9:59 pm #

            Davos 2020, congress critters in attendance….,
            Cantor, trump, ivanka, jared, munchin neilsen, ross scalia, chao,lighthizer, liddy, and many many more….

          • ianw January 15, 2022 at 2:03 am #

            Cantor, trump, ivanka, jared, munchin neilsen, ross scalia, chao,lighthizer, liddy, and many many more….

            Very few of those (if any) are actual Congresspersons, as it happens. Trumpies on a junket – free cocktails and lots of attractive European women to harass …

      • DoctorGonzoSpeaks January 14, 2022 at 5:07 pm #

        Yes, Democrats appear to be working hard to win super-majorities in national, state, and local governing bodies by means of winning a majority of the votes in those jurisdictions.

        That’s not the same thing as trying to suppress voting opportunities for US citizens, or setting up a strategy to throw out the legitimate results of elections.

        If you don’t understand the difference between the two, then you are probably part of the problem.

        • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:36 pm #

          LMAO. Wow.

          • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 4:05 am #

            Ian must have 5 handles right now.

            It is hilarious.

      • anmariwakaranai January 14, 2022 at 8:02 pm #

        • Overwhelmingly the big lobbying money is conservative / Republican…says EeeYan.

        Except for the biggest money of all, Soro s n co.

        Oh, but he’s not lobbying. He’s ruling.

    • Mac January 15, 2022 at 6:40 am #

      The Republicans want one party rule in perpetuity? Yes, maybe they could do that by packing the Supreme Court, or by illegally changing election rules at the last minute, or by flooding the country with immigrants and giving them free stuff and the vote, or by perpetuating a public health hoax to guarantee another round of mail in ballots. Why, they might even exempt postmen from the jab just to make absolutely sure those ballots get delivered!

  35. Jarek January 14, 2022 at 2:12 pm #

    Cynicism: Metaphysics looks for a black cat in a dark room that doesn’t exist. Theology finds the black cat.

    True Philosophy looks for a black cat in dark room that may exist. Theology finds the cat if they are willing (humble enough) to call It and It is willing to come to them.

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    • eatabanker January 14, 2022 at 2:26 pm #

      Perceptive, Uber witty and positive post today Jim. Good one?

    • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 2:30 pm #

      We had a yellow cat who was harder to see in a dark room than the black cat.

      I’m sure there is a scientific explanation for that, but I never bothered to find out what it was.

      • Hereward the Woke January 14, 2022 at 3:52 pm #

        Beryl: You mislaid your glasses?

    • anmariwakaranai January 14, 2022 at 10:03 pm #

      The metaverse looks for a black guy in a dark womans body that doesn’t exist. Theology sends it to Rome.

  36. Ed Haskell January 14, 2022 at 2:16 pm #

    Mr. Kunstler,

    “…Let the sun shine in.”

    Yes. With beer.

    Cheers

    • anmariwakaranai January 14, 2022 at 3:38 pm #

      Now we see through a brown beer bottle, darkly.

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 14, 2022 at 3:59 pm #

        hahaha

      • Alzaebo January 14, 2022 at 6:21 pm #

        *Guffaw*

        Classic!

  37. Disaffected January 14, 2022 at 2:20 pm #

    More pot, kettle, black. This might actually be a first. A US administration – the long acknowledged master of the dark art of false flags – calling out another country for conducting their own false flag operation in order to justify a war, which itself will be largely carried out to put an end to a rogue administration installed in power by one of the US’s own previous administrations’ false flags. Whew! That’s a mouthful. Getting mighty hard to keep score anymore!

    U.S. intel suggests Russia is planning a false-flag operation

    The Kremlin has operatives already in Ukraine, laying the groundwork for an invasion, say Biden officials.

    Per the official, Russia has already placed a group of operatives “trained in urban warfare and in using explosives” in eastern Ukraine. The intel suggests that this group might “carry out acts of sabotage against Russia’s own proxy-forces,” thereby providing the Kremlin a convenient excuse to send some or all of its 100,000 troops stationed outside of Ukraine over the border.

    The Russian military plans to start these activities “several weeks” before a potential invasion, which is estimated to begin sometime between mid-January and mid-February, the official continued. “We saw this playbook in 2014 with Crimea.”

    Top U.S. officials, including national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in recent days previewed that the U.S. had information suggesting that Moscow was setting the groundwork for another incursion.

    “Russia is laying the groundwork to have the option of fabricating a pretext for an invasion, including through sabotage activities and information operations, by accusing Ukraine of preparing an imminent attack against Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine,” Sullivan told reporters at the White House Thursday, promising the administration would share more details within the following 24 hours.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/14/us-intel-russia-false-flag-operation-527112

    • rainmaker January 14, 2022 at 2:28 pm #

      If I was Putin, I would cut off all gas exports routed through Ukraine right now. Let Europe freeze this winter, so they can make up their minds about who their real friends are. He would have a legit excuse – why would one send commodities through enemy territory?

      • Beryl of Oyl January 14, 2022 at 2:35 pm #

        Speaking of freezing, I just got my utility bill. While all eyes are on Europe, our own government is trying to freeze and starve us.

        • Disaffected January 14, 2022 at 5:14 pm #

          THAT ain’t no lie! $350 for my little shoe box last month!

      • ianw January 14, 2022 at 3:20 pm #

        If I was Putin, I would cut off all gas exports routed through Ukraine right now.

        Why? Western Europe is Russia’s biggest market – why would they destroy it? They like and need the income.

        Plus the West can impose sanctions on Russia, freeze all their assets overseas, stop Russians travelling, etc. Dictators and oligarchs do not like that – they like flying to London or NYC or the Cayman Islands, and jumping nude into their big piles of money.

        And if push really came to shove, and Europe was starved of oil and gas, NATO would threaten Moscow and they would advise Putin, “You have five days to turn the taps back on, or we’re going to do something really exciting!”..

        • rainmaker January 14, 2022 at 3:25 pm #

          That would be exciting ianw! Europe has had several exciting episodes in the last couple of centuries. Who says that they are not due for another one, real soon?

        • rainmaker January 14, 2022 at 3:26 pm #

          With Nordstream 2, who needs Ukraine siphoning Russia’s gas?

        • NoLongerHuman January 14, 2022 at 3:54 pm #

          Western Oligarchs like sex with little kids

          Russia has the right to border security

          US has 800 bases around the entire globe some in countries that have demanded they leave (Syria, Iraq, Cuba)

        • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 4:08 am #

          When does Putin activate the Doomsday Glacier?

          And what is the “Manchurian Candidate’s” role?

          We never did get an update on Putin’s shift in plans after 2020.

          Come on, Ian. Don’t be shy now.

          Give us some of that Russo-MAGA nutfudge.

      • Hereward the Woke January 14, 2022 at 3:53 pm #

        You have to feel a lot of disdain for the Euroweenies. They hate America but want an American led and financed NATO to defend them, and they hate that nasty Mr Putin but have managed to put all their energy needs into his hands.

        • NoLongerHuman January 14, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

          Are you sure they do want NATO dictating who they can do business with or could it be all that all their leaders are hand picked puppets from the same financial destructive leaning institutions. Could it really be that we have them by the balls between debt and embarrassing secrets we gathered from every technology device they use.

          After all that’s what the Alphabet agencies and Tech giants do

          How many europeans have you spoken to

      • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 4:22 pm #

        They stupidly allowed Western internet and media into their country. China kept all that shit out. No color revolutions there.

        Also NGO’s. Wtf? Why let those carpetbaggers in?

        • ianw January 14, 2022 at 6:41 pm #

          Also NGO’s. Wtf? Why let those carpetbaggers in?

          Check you white privilege, comrade. Those NGOs try to stop women and kids dying in droves because men play at war games.

          • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 4:09 am #

            Yes, comrade.

            You are part of the “International Russo-MAGA” conspiracy.

            Let me tell you about NGOs.

            LOL.

        • ianw January 15, 2022 at 3:13 am #

          I don’t know where you live, but you come across as a deplorable from Podunk Indiana, who’s never been more than about 100 km in their whole life. Am I right? I expect I am.

          • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 6:04 am #

            Says the parochial Aussie who thinks growing wine grapes in England is a gobal warming fantasy …

    • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 3:11 pm #

      Dis

      One question for you.

      What did you think of the Cuban missile crisis? 90 miles away.

      What would you think if Russia got involved in Mexican elections and stopped a proAmerican president?

      BTW, put China in instead of Russia, that is happening at cartel level.

      • Disaffected January 14, 2022 at 5:21 pm #

        Seems you’ve got everything bass ackwards again JAZ. That’s exactly what we’re doing to THEM right now with this encirclement strategy. I think you’ve been so conditioned to see DC as “the US” and as some “shining city on a hill” that you just can’t see things clearly.

        We are an OCCUPIED country right now, have been since even before 9-11. The bastards running DC are war criminals awaiting trial.

        You gotta stop sipping the exceptionalist Kool-Aid, my friend. It’ll rot your brain!

        • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 10:13 pm #

          Okay, Dis.

          Where do we go from here? I agree with you about the Deep State.

          It seems that every country goes through this, where the government takes over dominates and then thrown out by the people.

          We have 50 states, each with their own agenda, is that the basis for the revolution that needs to happen?

          I hear your opinion, to say it another way, are the war criminals in DC a worse enemy than Russia or China. I do believe this myself.

          • Paula D January 15, 2022 at 2:43 pm #

            Well, John AZ, what military leader of what country has declared that their main enemy is the American people?
            China? No. Russia? No.
            That would be Mark Milley, chairman of the USA Joint Chiesf of Staff.
            Hell ya, the war criminals in DC are your biggest enemy!
            And I have NO doubt that they are planning on releasing a weapon, either biological or chemical, on Americans naive enough to show up in Wash, DC on Jan 23.
            They could release a poison that destroys a person’s kidneys and lungs, and then call the ensuing deaths “Covid deaths” and the covidiots would do their usual ghoulish dance of delight over the graves of those people upholding the Nuremberg Code.

          • ianw January 15, 2022 at 10:40 pm #

            And I have NO doubt that they are planning on releasing a weapon, either biological or chemical, on Americans naïve enough to show up in Wash, DC on Jan 23.

            Handing out referrals to a psychologist and a decent tailor would be a lot more useful.

    • Islander January 14, 2022 at 5:02 pm #

      It takes one to know one . . .

      Didn’t Biden say he looked into Putin’s eyes and saw . . .evil . . . (bwa haha)

      Maybe he was looking in the mirror!

      Except, sadly, I think Biden is too far gone even to be evil . . . Takes a certain amount of mental agility to be evil.

  38. freedomforever January 14, 2022 at 3:36 pm #

    If science can’t be questioned it’s not science anymore. It’s propaganda. They want to rip on people for taking Ivermectin. I researched and saw the evidence on the internet. Research papers are on the internet for those who wants to see. Top respected world doctors are being under defamation by MSM and vaccine manufacturers. I won’t back down recommeding IVM. You can get yours by visiting https://ivmcures.com

    • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 4:14 pm #

      Agreed. Has anyone isolated and purified the virus yet?

      Looks to me like all we have are the computer models someone created and gave to Drosten to develop the test that can’t show whether one is sick or not.

      Science.

  39. anmariwakaranai January 14, 2022 at 3:52 pm #

    “I’ve got half a mind to throw my own hat in the ring. ”

    DO it James!!! I know it’s basically a kamikaze move, but YOU see which way the wind blows, and there is historical precedent…
    Kennedys speach impediment would make YOU his mouthpiece, &
    Moses speach impediment made Aaron speak for him.

    (Also we have signed letters from our hallowed future VP already,…to treasure, frame or barter as history will see fit).

    & thanx for that. 🙂 & the hope.

  40. aibohphobia January 14, 2022 at 3:53 pm #

    Trump worship you say? Apparently not everyone is kidding about this. You can get a Trump Buddha statue from Amazon, suitable for your home shrine–Also available in Temple sizes up to 16 feet;

    https://www.amazon.com/Donald-President-Handmade-Souvenir-Accessories/dp/B093BL9F9V/ref=sr_1_4?crid=5AD8SVX7LAL3&keywords=Donald+Trump+ZEN+Statue&qid=1642192810&sprefix=donald+trump+zen+statue%2Caps%2C108&sr=8-4

    As for COVID, the chief objection seems to be that the un-vaxxed are clogging up the emergency rooms. This could be fixed by signing a DNR order, so that you die at home if you get COVID, but get treated for anything else. If you have no COVID concerns, it could get the health system off your back.

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    • Hereward the Woke January 14, 2022 at 3:54 pm #

      I’m rather sick of having my liberties and livelihood destroyed just so doctors and nurses don’t have to work so hard.

    • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 4:22 pm #

      We know you have a Fauci doll, Ian.

      • Islander January 14, 2022 at 5:03 pm #

        Maybe even a Fauci altar!

    • GreenAlba January 14, 2022 at 7:46 pm #

      “As for COVID, the chief objection seems to be that the un-vaxxed are clogging up the emergency rooms.”

      Well, that’s funny because even fullfact.org, not known for putting honesty before government propaganda, have had to admit that it’s the vaxxed who are there in greater numbers.

      https://fullfact.org/health/economist-vaccination-status/

      Oops! When fullfact are backed into a corner, you know the narrative is falling apart.

      And The Herald, one of Scotland’s biggest mainstream newspapers:

      https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19843315.covid-scotland-case-rates-lowest-unvaccinated-double-jabbed-elderly-drive-rise-hospital-admissions/

      “Double-jabbed Scots are now more likely to be admitted to hospital with Covid than the unvaccinated amid an increase in elderly people falling ill due to waning immunity.

      It comes amid “weird” data showing that case rates have been lower in unvaccinated individuals than the single, double, or even triple-jabbed since Omicron became the dominant variant in Scotland.

      “Weird”. Yeah …

      • GreenAlba January 14, 2022 at 7:58 pm #

        Translation: Moronic is just a cold. And unvaccinated people aren’t bothered by a cold. But double-vaccinated people whose immune systems have been damaged by the vaxxes seem to be very bothered by a cold.

        Oh dear. Better get more jabs in arms before too many people notice.

        Eventually our resident troll will find himself fighting a cold in hospital.

        Assuming he’s vaxxed as he says he is, which isn’t assured.

    • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:40 pm #

      Did you celebrate your “Fauci Ouchie”?

    • Paula D January 15, 2022 at 2:47 pm #

      The chief ”propaganda line” seems to be the un-vaxxed are clogging up ERs.
      Fixed it for you.
      I think at this point, people smart enough to avoid the GMO injectable are also smart enough to know to stay out of hospitals if they get sick.
      Between the Remsdevir and the ventilators, the odds of surviving a hospital stay are grim.

  41. tom clark January 14, 2022 at 4:10 pm #

    “We’re fixing to drag that old blue dog to the doghouse where it can cool out for two years before we put it down for good.”

    Who’s this ‘we’ your talkin’ about and to be replaced by what, or will we simply have a one-party system? I suppose many on this blog would argue that’s the case now, but I’m not quite that much of a pessimist (yet). I still go to church on Sundays and count my blessings.

    • jim e January 14, 2022 at 4:42 pm #

      But why not on Saturday?

      The Fourth Commandment to remember the the Sabbath day concludes the section of the Ten Commandments that specifically helps define a proper relationship with God and how we are to love, worship and relate to Him. It explains why and when we need to take special time to draw closer to our Creator.

      “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shall you labour, and do all your work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Exodus 20:8-11

      Why is setting apart one day a week so important that God included it as one of His Ten Commandments? The Sabbath, the seventh day of the week was set apart by God as a time of rest and spiritual rejuvenation.

      https://www.the-ten-commandments.org/fourth_commandment.html

      • anmariwakaranai January 14, 2022 at 7:38 pm #

        Jim e, Christ rose on Sunday, that’s why not Saturday. The Jewish Sabbath runs from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.

        New Adam, new Eve, new life, new Sabbath.

        Yes, the Sabbath is meant to be a complete rest for ALL of us, and it will be again, soon.

        • messianicdruid January 14, 2022 at 10:43 pm #

          Jerome changed the Law without authority. The Sabbath was made for man, a day of rest.

          Following the commandents and doctrines of men means you are in transgression, 1 John 3:4.

          • anmariwakaranai January 15, 2022 at 12:56 am #

            Interesting mess. Gonna check that out.

          • messianicdruid January 15, 2022 at 8:26 am #

            “Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.”

            This includes whenever. This doesn’t change the day of rest to the first day of the week. Pray without ceasing!

          • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 12:02 pm #

            Christ gave all power to the Apostles – and the Keys themselves to Peter. The Jewish Law? It was crucified on the cross. We don’t follow it. Christians that start following it and participating in Jewish holy days are messing with their faith. Why? Because the Sabbath and (some) of the Festivals speak of the Messiah to come. And since He already came, it is a de facto denial of him by those who should know better.

            I went to Chuck Missler’s Church when I lived in Post Falls – a chance to look into the heart of the cult. They’re good people, very fervent though I disagree vehemently with their idea of “replacement theology”. One very learned disciple of Missler said, No you don’t have to follow the Jewish Law. But this was God’s instructions about how to live this life in all its details. Don’t you kind of want to know about all that?

            An interesting point with some validity. Maybe Christ didn’t talk about all this stuff because he intended people to keep following it, though not the religious law.

    • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 9:41 pm #

      We already essentially have a 1 party system.

  42. Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 4:32 pm #

    “Breaking: The UK government admits that vaccines have damaged the natural immune system of those who have been double-vaccinated. The UK government has admitted that once you have been double-vaccinated, you will never again be able to acquire full natural immunity to Covid variants – or possibly any other virus. So let’s watch the “real” pandemic begin now! In its Week 42 “COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance Report”, the UK Department of Health admits on page 23 that “N antibody levels appear to be lower in people who become infected after two doses of vaccination”. It goes on to say that this drop in antibodies is essentially permanent. What does this mean? We know that vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission of the virus (indeed, the report elsewhere shows that vaccinated adults are now much more likely to be infected than unvaccinated ones). The British now find that the vaccine interferes with the body’s ability to make antibodies after infection not only against the spike protein but also against other parts of the virus. In particular, vaccinated people do not appear to form antibodies against the nucleocapsid protein, the envelope of the virus, which is a crucial part of the response in unvaccinated people. In the long term, the vaccinated are far more susceptible to any mutations in the spike protein, even if they have already been infected and cured once or more. The unvaccinated, on the other hand, will gain lasting, if not permanent, immunity to all strains of the alleged virus after being naturally infected with it even once.

    Source:
    https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1027511/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-42.pdf

    The first insurance companies are backing down because a huge wave of claims is coming their way. Anthony Fauci confirms that the PCR test cannot detect live viruses. Anthony Fauci confirms that neither the antigen test nor the PCR test can tell us whether someone is contagious or not!!! This invalidates all the foundations of the so-called pandemic. The PCR test was the only indication of a pandemic. Without PCR-TEST no pandemic For all the press workers, doctors, lawyers, prosecutors etc. THIS is the final key, the ultimate proof that the measures must all be lifted immediately!”

    https://t.me/RealGenFlynn/1975

    • Jarek January 14, 2022 at 4:42 pm #

      With fire not water.

    • Disaffected January 14, 2022 at 5:40 pm #

      I was gonna ask, but I see now that the above was Gen Flynn’s summation based on the gov.uk document I guess.

      Call me old fashioned, but I still continue to think that this was will not be won with scientific papers, opinions, studies, databases, or any of that nonsense. Most people don’t understand any of it, nor should they be expected to, and the waters have been sufficiently muddied on both sides of the issue that it will never be settled.

      ALL OF THIS is basically a civil liberties issue, of which ConVid is just the latest front in an ongoing war between totalitarian neo-fascist governments in the west who have rightly assessed that the ship is going down on their watch, and now want to consolidate the loot they’ve plundered over the course of the past 75 years or so by eliminating all the people who provided it to them in the first place. Simple as that.

      And if people aren’t bright enough to wake up, look around, and see for themselves that there’s simply NO PANDEMIC AT ALL out there, then there’s really no hope for the stupid bastards in the first place and they’re fully deserving of whatever Fauci and Co. have in store for them.

      • Forrest Grump January 14, 2022 at 5:43 pm #

        And that’s all I’ve got to say about that.

        • 100th Avatar January 14, 2022 at 5:47 pm #

          sayt’s taykehhn

      • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 5:44 pm #

        I agree. But that said, the info. on the kill shots is coming out left and right. The European Medicines Agency also just said publicly said that the shots destroy the immune system.

        I view the whole thing as an IQ test. I can understand maybe taking one, given the circumstances and the fact that many people do not take the time to dissect what we are fed by the corporate media, but at some point you either engage your brain or you do not.

        Those who have taken two, three, or even four are in trouble. No way around it now.

        • Islander January 14, 2022 at 6:21 pm #

          NIght Owl,
          We need actual quotes here, not paraphrases.

          I don’t see how Flynn came to his conclusions. He didn’t actually quote anything in the UK doc.

          So, where has the EMA said this?

          Language (i.e., if not English) used is not an issue.

          • GreenAlba January 14, 2022 at 8:04 pm #

            islander

            https://twitter.com/N625662/status/1481203014845276161

            Now got a Twitter ‘misleading!’ tag. I suppose they can’t cancel the EMA …

          • GreenAlba January 14, 2022 at 8:18 pm #

            There’s this from Expose UK too, islander, which uses the UK’s vaccine surveillance reports:

            https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/09/uk-gov-data-suggests-fully-vaccinated-developing-ade/

          • Islander January 14, 2022 at 8:22 pm #

            Thanks, Green Alba.

            Doesn’t Alba mean “white”?

            Are you Green White???

          • GreenAlba January 14, 2022 at 8:41 pm #

            Alba means Scotland, in Gaelic.

            That’s why Albany, NY, is called Albany. 🙂

          • ianw January 14, 2022 at 9:07 pm #

            We need actual quotes here, not paraphrases.

            Spin is the modus operandi …

          • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 5:21 am #

            Says the troll, reading from page 2 of his Troll Handbook.

          • Islander January 15, 2022 at 1:07 pm #

            Albany — learn something every day!

            Settled by Scots?

            I.e., Alba, NY?

          • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany%2C_New_York#British_Occupation_to_1800

            “Albany is one of the oldest surviving European settlements from the original thirteen colonies[24] and the longest continuously chartered city in the United States.[g] When New Netherland was captured by the English in 1664, the name was changed from Beverwijck to Albany in honor of the Duke of Albany (later James II of England and James VII of Scotland).[27][h] Duke of Albany was a Scottish title given since 1398, generally to a younger son of the King of Scots.[28] The name is ultimately derived from Alba, the Gaelic name for Scotland.”

          • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 2:23 pm #

            Interesting about Albany. I never knew. That’s a stone’s throw away from my hometown.

      • ianw January 14, 2022 at 9:15 pm #

        And if people aren’t bright enough to wake up, look around, and see for themselves that there’s simply NO PANDEMIC AT ALL out there, then there’s really no hope for the stupid bastards …

        This is just absurd … there are hundreds of thousands of ill people, thousands in heavily overloaded hospitals, and indeed hundreds and sometimes thousands dying of the virus.

        When you see stories of many ambulances ramped at hospitals – no room in the ER – no beds, no staff … what do you think? It has all been staged on a Davos film set – directed by Klaus Schwab himself?

        We can argue about the word “pandemic”, and finer points of semantics – but there is a potentially serious and even lethal respiratory disease out and about, and it is very easily transmitted via aerosol means through quite casual contact.

        The vaccines work to prevent the more serious effects of the virus.

        • Harry Bolsogna January 15, 2022 at 1:07 am #

          How many of them have influenza? How many have pneumonia? How about norovirus? How about one of many coronaviruses? You are absurd. The vaccines clearly don’t work and are currently showing negative efficacy. Do you know what that means? They create a higher likelihood for acquiring a covid infection than being unvaccinated. Doesn’t sound like they are working. Not safe either genius.

          • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 1:39 pm #

            He’s hopeless.

          • ianw January 15, 2022 at 10:48 pm #

            How many of them have influenza? How many have pneumonia? How about norovirus? How about one of many coronaviruses?

            Do you really believe that medical services (highly trained and well-equipped pathologists, etc) cannot tell the difference between all these illnesses?

            It’s not the 18th Century.

            They create a higher likelihood for acquiring a covid infection than being unvaccinated.

            There is no credible evidence for this – and more importantly, it’s still the case that a big majority of those requiring intensive hospital treatment are unvaccinated, despite their being only a small minority of the population.

        • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 5:26 am #

          “The vaccines work to prevent the more serious effects of the virus.”

          If the ‘vaccines’ didn’t destroy immune systems (as admitted by the EMA), the vaxxed wouldn’t be in hospital with respiratory infections clogging up wards. Nor would so many of them be in hospital for other things, like heart failure, strokes and other events known to be caused by the ‘vaccines’.

          We already know that the UK government had to admit that 44% of those supposedly in hospital ‘with’ covid were in there for other things and just happened to test positive for covid, which doesn’t even mean they had covid in the first place.

          Spin, as you mentioned.

        • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 1:49 pm #

          “When you see stories of many ambulances ramped at hospitals – no room in the ER – no beds, no staff … what do you think?”

          I think they should have been given early outpatient treatment according to the protocols developed in 2020 by many doctors, including Peter McCullough (who only lost 2 patients from covid). Then they wouldn’t be in hospital at all, let alone queuing in an ambulance?

          And most of the off-label drugs used cost very little to next to nothing. But that wouldn’t do, for your paymasters, would it?

          And it was never in the plan. You don’t get an EUA for a clot-shot if there are recognised treatments.

          As if you didn’t know that.

          • Paula D January 15, 2022 at 2:54 pm #

            Beantown Bill told us why the ERs are full of patients already – they are gullible people worked up into a panic by the media, running to the ER with their runny noses because the talking heads told them they were going to die.
            No staff because the some of the staff was laid off because of the mandates and you can figure out why they are overwhelmed.

    • Islander January 14, 2022 at 6:16 pm #

      In this context, what does “backing down” mean?

      I read through most of hte UK document. I don’t see where it states what Gen.
      Flynn says. A lot of the language does seem vague, and I couldn’t really see any kind of wrapup except that they are ceasing to do this type of survellance for some reason.

      In the doc’s early sections there seems to be a lot of talk about cases and testing positive, as opposed to actual diagnosis of the disease of covid.

      I don’t see any useful info at all on the PCR tests. On what basis did Flynn make his inferences?

      To me as a lay person the doc seems designed to say in effect nothing much that is useful or comprehensible to a lay person.

      They do cite use of Cominarty—where does that come from? I thought that Com was actually not yet in production.

      • anmariwakaranai January 14, 2022 at 8:13 pm #

        I thought the German government disclosure was clearer.

    • ianw January 14, 2022 at 6:56 pm #

      Would that be the pardoned criminal and traitor, General Flynn? I get all my medical advice from him.

      • Forrest Grump January 14, 2022 at 7:26 pm #

        As opposed to the FaucMouse?

  43. Jarek January 14, 2022 at 4:39 pm #

    She tempted Jesse and he did eat.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeZ8pMoFDh8

    Look how confident she is, how competent in evil! Is this not demonic?

    In the Near Space series by Larry Niven, there are wireheads who just plug into the wall. No muss, no fuss. The pleasure centers of the brain are stimulated. They typically die of thirst or starve to death because they can’t unplug. They just don’t want to. Why don’t the Elite kill us like this instead?

    Louis Wu loves the juice but wants to live so he creates a timer system that shuts it off. he then had to take twenty minutes of intense concentration to get it back on. By then sanity has reasserted itself and he could take car of his bodily nees.

    • anmariwakaranai January 14, 2022 at 8:00 pm #

      I believe the metaverse covers this j.

      • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 12:12 am #

        If you were plugged in like that, you wouldn’t need an alternate world and the advanced technology that implies. You just need an extension cord, a plug, and the jack into your brain.

        They did preliminary work in this direction decades ago. It seems to have been stopped, but of course may have continued someplace quietly.

    • beantownbill. January 14, 2022 at 11:31 pm #

      Ah, yes, Louis Wu. I attended his 200th birthday party in Boston in the late ‘80’s or ‘90’s. If you see him, say hello to Gil ‘the Arm’ Hamilton for me.

    • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 12:09 am #

      Yes, great ideas, stories, and characters. The Ringworld novel was good, but the extended series I found tedious.

    • Blackbird January 15, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

      My (now discarded) theory was that they would get rid of us through virtual reality. I mean the really good stuff, like you really think it’s real. Who wouldn’t choose a virtual utopia over this increasingly unliveable world? Of course, once in that electronic wonderland: thoughts implanted, thoughts read, heart attacks, starvation. And who will notice, with everyone living out their private fantasys?

      Unplug after a 36 hour binge – and wonder why there are muddy footprints leading from your door to your feet. “Why’s there blood on my shirt?” “Who’s at the door?”

      Guess they were impatient…

  44. 100th Avatar January 14, 2022 at 5:43 pm #

    15 years ago, maybe 10, if I told you what our near-future holds, you would have asked me where I get my pot.
    Or how long was I committed.

    Yet people doubt we live in a simulation run by future stoned teens.

    -Bruce Jenner
    -Trump
    -The greatest ever “female” Jeopardy Champion
    -The new flu
    -Australia
    -Mail-in voting
    -Joe Rogan a beacon of resistance
    -Seth Rogen has a career
    -Fascist LARPing gangs
    -Bezos’ Space Penis
    -Israeli pederast blackmail rings
    -NFT’s
    -Mail-in voting
    -Vaccine freedom cards

    • 100th Avatar January 14, 2022 at 5:48 pm #

      and of course, Klauss VonLuftSchwabben

    • malthuss January 14, 2022 at 5:56 pm #

      chemtrails
      killer shots
      the return of child killer Fauci

      • 100th Avatar January 14, 2022 at 6:19 pm #

        Chemtrail nonsense has been going on forever

        But Fauci should be framed as the sycophantic mass worship of a totem of the deep state.
        He is, quite literally, a lifelong bureaucrat.

        The grand wizard of technocracy.
        He is the grandfather of the fatherland of the big brother.

        It is absolutely sickening.

        • Night Owl January 14, 2022 at 6:29 pm #

          Fauci the grandwizard of technocracy? He is an errand boy.

          • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 10:21 pm #

            I think of him as more of mob captain.

          • 100th Avatar January 14, 2022 at 11:05 pm #

            There is no greater bureaucrat
            None

    • ianw January 14, 2022 at 7:00 pm #

      Interesting collection Avatar … care to clarify why Australia (aka Best Country on Earth) is on your shit-list?

      • 100th Avatar January 14, 2022 at 11:02 pm #

        The soon to be Chinese province of Retrognathia, filled with inbred squeaky voiced chipmunk teeth fascist sycophants.

        Anyone here can tell you, and I’ve been here a long time, Duncan days or before, that I’m not jingoistic flag waver, but god damned if Americans ever act like bootlicking loyalist inmate progeny like the backward Australians

        Orwell knew something

        Oceania

        Genius

        • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 4:28 am #

          Orwell knew quite a lot. He was MI6 and a member of the Foreign Offices covert propaganda unit, known as the Information Research Department.

          Much of what he wrote in 1984 was based on potential future societal scenarios, which were based directly on information he had access to during his time in intelligence.

          You should look into it. Fascinating guy.

        • ianw January 15, 2022 at 1:02 pm #

          I’m not [a] jingoistic flag waver, but god damned if Americans ever act like bootlicking loyalist inmate progeny like the backward Australians

          LOL Perhaps you’re just terribly jealous that we grow fat and prosperous selling vast amounts of stuff to our good friends in East Asia.

          Backward? We’re very capable at running drama-free elections, having political leaders who are young enough not to remember LBJ, and we have a smooth transition between administrations. We have smaller government generally

          And we have better beaches and better sports!

          • 100th Avatar January 15, 2022 at 2:00 pm #

            A certain loyalist hasn’t been to Hawaii

            How’s your mandarin?

          • 100th Avatar January 15, 2022 at 2:16 pm #

            Ian doesn’t seem to understand why there are smooth “transitions”of power

          • ianw January 15, 2022 at 5:50 pm #

            A certain loyalist hasn’t been to Hawaii

            I have – three times – even took the local bus around to Waimea Bay – Pipeline. There is some big surf sure, but our beaches are far more attractive in just about every respect. I am being objective of course.

          • ianw January 15, 2022 at 5:52 pm #

            Ian doesn’t seem to understand why there are smooth “transitions” of power.

            Watch out! The Davos Bogeymen are coming to get you!

  45. malthuss January 14, 2022 at 6:01 pm #

    I was told that there would be BIG jars of mayo for .99 cents at the 99 cent store,
    Id gone to 2 other stores and could not believe their lousy mayo selection or prices or whatever.

    I got 3 items at 99 cent store.
    candy 99 cents
    chips 3.99
    small may 2.99

    7.98 for 3 items

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    • Islander January 14, 2022 at 6:18 pm #

      Speaking of inflation, a choco-mint candy bar has gone from 99 cents to $1.79.

      • 100th Avatar January 14, 2022 at 6:21 pm #

        I won’t even tell you about Tony Chocolonely

        • Forrest Grump January 14, 2022 at 7:25 pm #

          That’s good. I hear Chips-N-Shit is a big seller in the hood these days. Pricey, though.

          • Forrest Grump January 14, 2022 at 7:45 pm #

            From the manufacturer: “A delicious concoction of assorted chips, nuts, popcorn, candy, pretzels, doughnuts, and whatever other high fat, high salt, high sugar shit we had left over from our other manufacturing processes, all fried up in our proprietary blend of rancid palm kernel oil into mouth watering bite-size clumps, providing a perfect compliment for those late night binges with your favorite malt beverage. Available in 32 and 64 oz bags, both of which include a complimentary industrial solvent-soaked slop rag for a neat and tidy cleanup afterwards. Go to sleep drunk, wake up from a diabetic coma later. Sweet dreams!”

            Mmm… mmm… good!

        • Blackbird January 15, 2022 at 12:55 pm #

          Sea salt?! What’s the big deal with “sea salt”? Jumpin’ Jesus! Salt is salt – sodium chloride, one atom of sodium shackin’ up with one atom of chlorine – as was meant to be. Anything else is the result of impurities – add that shit yourself. But oh no… “I don’t eat that nasty salt they dig out from underneath Dee-troit. I only eat sea salt, skimmed from the purist ocean waters by Swiss virgins.” I’m warnin’ ya, keep suckin’ salt out of the ocean and stuff’s gonna start sinkin’.

          $5 for a goddamn candy bar – that sumbitch deserves to be lonely.

      • messianicdruid January 14, 2022 at 10:21 pm #

        I bought a Zero bar for ten cents. The new ones don’t taste as good either. [ if I still had that dime I could trade it for 2 FRNs ]

    • ianw January 15, 2022 at 5:54 pm #

      candy 99 cents
      chips 3.99
      small may 2.99

      Do you have a conscientious objection to buying food?

  46. dPwOrKs2 January 14, 2022 at 6:43 pm #

    Great read today Mr. Kunstler in fact every read has been excellent and extremely enjoyable. Thanks

  47. Starlost January 14, 2022 at 7:31 pm #

    “From the looks of things around ‘Joe Biden’s’ White House, where a weird concrete fortification is being hoisted up on the north lawn as I write…”

    I’d have hated for the Internet to be aware of my lawn about a year ago, when a mysterious excavation throwing up intimidating mounds of dirt extended from the street to my house. Because a pipe was being replaced. I’m sure Jim is just joshing and knows that the purpose of the White House wall is doubtless innocuous and meaningless. But tell it to everybody else busily divining portent about it.

  48. mitchellc January 14, 2022 at 7:38 pm #

    Just a friendly reminder that none of us would even be here except for petroleum.

    Global population began its current trajectory (from 1.5b to 8b+) around 1900. Those large families of 6-10 kids all started surviving, and so here we are instead of being loose atoms in the ether.

    Btw, One may notice that’s when the finds that created 4 of the seven sisters occurred. Shortly after, we got ww1, where 1 theater (ottoman) was the Persian fields. Ww2 followed, featuring both pearl and stalingrag (again oil) as the key points.

    Post ww2, everyone is familiar with the endless geo political and financial (petro dollar) activities that has formed our very political/economic existence.

    These basic facts being duly noted, the most obvious observation is that population will revert to the pre oil baseline of 1b+- as we peak and decline. It doesn’t take a nefarious master plan, its just cold hard nature.

    The planners of course would like to ride the wave down
    While remaining in control. It’s just basic human nature. Speaking of which is the contra side where all the people who shouldn’t even be here gripe and complain in entitled bitterness.

    Go back and read the comments. 98% reflect anger at the changing course of events, not quite realizing that kind of life was literally a one off event.

    Jim has to create content, and it’s much easier to simply counter the gusher of mass media “news”. One must also consider the audience, which also craves a response to the official narrative.

    Practically no one (at least here) takes a broad macro view, which if they did would lead to some general conclusions.

    – since I wasn’t supposed to be here anyway, I’m having fun while it lasts

    – since shit is going down, I’m staying away as much as possible from 1st order effects (ie direct kinetic touch)

    – when neo feudal societies are (re)created, whether techno with the geniuses in control, or trad if they aren’t, our lives (that everyone seems to complain about) will become legend, myth and maybe form a basis for new religions

    • gustafson.robert.22 January 14, 2022 at 8:18 pm #

      “none of us would even be here except for petroleum…

      – since I wasn’t supposed to be here anyway”

      * who knows what’s SUPPOSED to be? no one. hence, acceptance is the best path.

      “I’m having fun while it lasts”

      * fun, okay, sure. what about attempting contribution to better human futures? what about fighting human weaknesses which led to the current disordered situation? “fun” does not contraindicate these. neither does it imply them.

      “when neo feudal societies are (re)created…”

      * imo, “neo-feudal” will quickly break down further, through anarchy to tribalism

      “…our lives (that everyone seems to complain about) will become legend, myth and maybe form a basis for new religions

      * hahahaha. more like a damn laughingstock!

    • ianw January 14, 2022 at 8:46 pm #

      These basic facts being duly noted, the most obvious observation is that population will revert to the pre oil baseline of 1b+- as we peak and decline. It doesn’t take a nefarious master plan, its just cold hard nature.

      Not sure this is supported. A reversion to one billion is not likely.

      We have made huge advances in food production (and not all green revolution food technology is totally dependent on fossil fuels), we have far better medical treatment, especially the survival of many formerly lethal diseases, but most importantly we do have alternative energy sources that did not exist in 1900.

      Of course when oil+gas supply does peak and then decline, life will have to become different. We won’t all have nuclear, solar, or even electric vehicles, and like may become much more local. Flying will become exclusive again.

      Big cities will cease to continue to grow, and as they become increasingly untenable, they will decline in population and attractiveness.

      We don’t know yet where the peak population number might be – some demographers talk about 8-9 billion later this century – but there are still a lot of assumptions and variables in there.

      Population decline might be extremely uneven, with developing countries continuing to populate for a long time. Lots of people in poor countries will have wretched lives, and many in the West will have much more modest ones.

      But I expect overall, there will be a plateau and then a gradual decrease in population over a century or so.

      There are no precipitous events that are likely to result in any form of population reduction, other than through natural death-rates gradually becoming higher than replacement via live births.

      No Davos conspiracies and reset theories are going to change any of this.

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 14, 2022 at 9:01 pm #

        this is known as “the chardonnay scenario,” where nothing all that traumatic for anyone happens while, meanwhile, the entire basis of contemporary society is ripped from underneath it.

        though i do agree that much change will be more gradual than we might imagine, and also agree that davos will be a laughingstock before too long… these shifts are going to be revolutionary on a scale of 10,000 years—multi-millennia. the whole paradigm of civilization-building will be shaken and fall.

        even return to 1 billion is likely, ultimately, a conservatively high number, imo, as the path to 1 billion was thoroughly intertwined with the particular civilization-building paradigm that brought us here. the one that is now dying with finality. new civilizations will operate on new paradigms.

        *low-key apologies for using the word “paradigm”

        • ianw January 14, 2022 at 10:19 pm #

          this is known as “the chardonnay scenario,”

          LOL – as it happens being 16-19 hours ahead of y’all I do most of my writing between 6:00 am and 3:00 pm my time – well before any Chardonnay has passed my lips!

          But yes, I’m pretty-much a gradualist in most of these things … the inertia is enormous, and it takes a lot for big changes to happen.

          But if oil gets to $125 a barrel – I might need to get back to you.

        • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 10:26 pm #

          Throughout history, the rich take from the poor until the poor’s lives are threatened by the rich. Then the SHTF and the rich either move elsewhere or are terminated. Then the cycle starts again. There has NEVER been a society that avoided this cycle, EVER.

          • gustafson.robert.22 January 14, 2022 at 10:58 pm #

            we go back to PRE-history (all that history that happened before the history that got written).

            the “rich” did not “take” from the “poor”

            there were fewer exploitative social relationships dragging out generation to generation, or even year to year.

            instead the strong just put the weak in the ground, completed the domination quickly, once for all, when there was conflict.

            or if they were smart they did

      • TaxDonkey January 14, 2022 at 9:36 pm #

        The data that are out there unfortunately do support the likelihood that we are in ecological overshoot. Most striking is that global energy production is no longer increasing. This is just the truth, I am not making up numbers. The term ‘peak everything’ that someone coined about a decade ago is now more true than ever.

      • mitchellc January 14, 2022 at 9:40 pm #

        You can tell a lot about a person by what they say.

        The most dominant trait in the comments are from the high emotionals who cling to Jim’s optimistic projections. I mean, they get *really* torqued about what is happening.

        Next up are the cynics, who shield their disappointment of human failure/high ideals with atainitan accurate, albeit negative perspective on current events.

        Sprinkled among these groups are interesting non sequitur responses from people that somehow don’t fully grok what’s going on. Whether a dickly troll, or someone who stumbled into the forum and likes being contrary, it’s either entertaining or very boring.

        Here’s a simple thought experiment: what will people 5,000 years from now think about us and our times? How about just 250 years, the time since the USA was founded with approx 3m Euro people living in all of the N American colonies?

        If you cant quite figure out that we are the anomaly, that our expectations of justice, law, social order, etc were entirely a figment of imagination supported by incredible luxurious surplus, then it sucks to be you.

        Fed.gov knows exactly what’s happening, which is why they are logically positioning for war. My advice is to stop pretending, stop dreaming and wake up to what is actually happening and why.

        • mitchellc January 14, 2022 at 9:58 pm #

          I mean see the reply below by pucker

          Who gives a fvck about what or what scotus doesn’t do. As if the constitution, foisted on the people in a classic insider deal, bears any weight.

          We exist in a war time environment. Fed.gov knows ecactly what’s happening. You think any justice can order more petrol supplies?

          Don’t listen to what people say, observe what they do. Hubbert published his report in FVCKING 1956 for doGs sake.

          Rickover got the navy going nuke during the 50s. Think these guys didn’t know about all the ww2 belligerent supply issues?

          Jfc, it’s too bad even a site like this can’t focus

          • MaryQueen January 14, 2022 at 10:08 pm #

            You seem to think random commenters should be acting as one platoon or something.

            LOL.

          • Islander January 15, 2022 at 9:25 am #

            Gosh, what a waste of “fucks.”

        • JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 10:30 pm #

          Yeah, the government has been malleable in this country over the two centuries, liberal then conservative changing according to the vote.

          Until the last thirty years where the Deep State has found a way to cancel the effects of the vote. 2020 is just the latest example.

          • ianw January 14, 2022 at 10:56 pm #

            The capitalist state (deep and otherwise) has been methodically and ruthlessly suppressing revolutionary thought since the first trade-union backed labour parties won elections, and of course the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

            They have destroyed unions, oppressed worker demands, legitimised the theft of wealth by the ruling class, outlawed communism, fractured class solidarity, and eviscerated class consciousness.

            Ably supported by a (mostly) conservative and pro-capitalist mass media, and of course Hollywood.

            Victory was pretty-much declared when lots of working-class people voted for Ronald Reagan, and rejected liberals such as Eugene McCarthy and Hubert Humphrey.

            Elections have become beauty pageants based on personalities – not serious politics, or voting for your own interests.

          • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 6:21 am #

            “Elections have become beauty pageants based on personalities – not serious politics, or voting for your own interests.”

            That’ll be why you keep telling us politicians are going to be responsive to voters’ wishes when it comes to covid restrictions.

            If you were less desperate, you might manage some internal consistency.

          • JohnAZ January 15, 2022 at 12:05 pm #

            In the US anyway, unions became so corrupt and political they no longer represented the workers. The workers rejected the unions, it had little to do with the PTB.

            Today, the Liberal PTB do not give one damn about Joe Average. Obama is responsible for sending millions of jobs overseas, removing the little bit of influence unions held. All in the name of AGW.

            Your hero worship of liberals is BS.

          • ianw January 15, 2022 at 11:37 pm #

            Today, the Liberal PTB do not give one damn about Joe Average. Obama is responsible for sending millions of jobs overseas

            The transfer of American jobs to low-cost countries has been going on for decades – with surges in the Reagan and Bush II years. See the history of Ford and GM as examples.

            Obama had his hands full just trying to save the country from the ravages of the finance industry and Wall Street.

            Again – US Presidents don’t control where corporations locate their plants – they go where the logistics and profits are optimised.

  49. Pucker January 14, 2022 at 8:01 pm #

    I haven’t yet read the SCOTUS opinion re: the Vaccine Mandates, but it seems that 3 moronic, brain dead Justices asserted that the Courts should not be able to question and overrule the “Health Experts” on matters of health? In other words, they should not be able to question the “Authority” even where the “Authority” is corrupt and has huge Conflicts of Interests. Pure, raw Authoritarianism. OMG!

    It’s another repackaging of “The Best and the Brightest” nightmare thesis….

  50. gustafson.robert.22 January 14, 2022 at 10:18 pm #

    “what will people 5,000 years from now think about us and our times? How about just 250 years…?”

    this might be the simplest thought-experiment ever

    first and foremost, they will think “those fucking idiots built a whole ass civilization with all the planet’s gas energy in a way that was doomed to implode in a couple hundred years when the gas ran out. What morons!”

    secondarily (very secondarily), they will think, “they did do some cool stuff with telescopes though. at least they accomplished something”

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    • mitchellc January 14, 2022 at 11:25 pm #

      We will be remembered as gods

      The idea of Justice, of anything even remotely “fair” will be cast as heaven

      Imagine if zebras had a 100 year period where they negotiated with lions *and* the lions recognized the rules?

      If you want to know how pre surplus societies were ordered, merely look at their caste legacies. This is *our* future.

      Woke, blm, etc are a psyop designed to break down resistance. It’s purpose is to destroy opposition.

      Someone always sits at the top of the pyramid; the current crew aims to remain there.

      They are preparing for war. We know the ones who are perceived as a threat.

      • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 12:07 am #

        You are correct. Just as the New Guinean Tribesmen built runways and effigy airplanes in order to get more cargo from the gods – White Americans.

        • malthuss January 15, 2022 at 11:45 am #

          cargo cunts?

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 15, 2022 at 4:49 am #

        maybe mitch, maybe. not necessarily at all.

        why wouldnt the zebras remember “that time when we negotiated with lions, thought we were hot shit. our herds got way too fucking big. then it all collapsed and we’re back to being regular zebras again, like we should have been all along. it really is better this way, and our ancestors were fools, in the end, to try that short-lived, disastrous power-play. we should never try that again.” ?

        no reason not to believe that, unless you belong to the foolish “church of the sanctity of 20th century riches”

        the idea that everyone will is ludicrous

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 15, 2022 at 4:58 am #

        bonkers actually, for mitch c to be locked on “they will remember us as gods”

        one card in a deck of possibilities

        • gustafson.robert.22 January 15, 2022 at 5:01 am #

          but mitch is so proud of his opinions!…

          and jarek loves the way they might play into his ever-simplistic race-takes (20th century whites will be revered forever!!)

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 15, 2022 at 7:11 am #

        “The idea of Justice, of anything even remotely “fair” will be cast as heaven”

        this is actually the dumbest line.

        no, no one will feel that bad for the “oil-born” billions that didn’t get to leave progeny, or who died.

        but they will judge this current project of civilization as mostly stupid.

        and will go on creating moralities that apply to their future situations

    • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 12:27 am #

      No Gustaph, they won’t because they will have lost all of those concepts. They will remember their mighty ancestors as gods. Some pagans, like the Europeans and Japanese, felt that their royalty were descended from the gods. So this kind of feeling toned thought could easily reassert itself given the magnitude of the collapse and all the huge ruins all over the place.

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 15, 2022 at 4:43 am #

        it could. it is possible. people are fucking dumb, i can’t argue that.

        there are other possibilities. native americans were unimpressed with London, when they went. “okay, your huts are just bigger.” now guns, yes. they were impressed.

        i do not think it’s any kind of given that all the concepts are lost. ESPECIALLY IF RECOGNIZED WIDELY DURING THE COLLAPSE PERIOD. people will want answers. some knowledge will be preserved. maybe whatever is deemed important going forward.

        the “story of the ancestors with all the plastic shit, when people were many and then died quickly.” … what reason do i have that this story will not be preserved in some form? none, necessarily.

        it will not be like the new guineans encountering airplanes.

        it will be like the airplane pilot and crew crashing on an uninhabited island, marooned there.

        entirely different.

        and some of the outcome will depend on us, now. how well an accurate understanding of current events is spread.

        which is why mitch c’s “fun while the lights are on” mantras are rather repellant, and childish

        • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

          Yeah, the myth of an abused Mother Earth is already a religion. So they might keep this and say that the ancients were destroyed by Mother for their abuses of Her. I must say though, that if history is any judge, this kind of attitude usually leads to ritualized human sacrifice.

          • gustafson.robert.22 January 15, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

            it really has fuck-all to do with the abused mother, and everything to do with social structures capable of healthy population-growth rates

          • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

            Because her blood, the oil, is being sucked by human parasites. Stop being so rational. Your neolithic heroes won’t be.

            This is the future you want – one of ignorant savages and their stupid, violent beliefs.

          • Rulo Deschamps January 15, 2022 at 4:08 pm #

            I dunno, Jarek

            I’ve been reading about Paleo, Meso and Neolithic archeology, and it turns out, contrary to cliché, they were not “ignorant savages and their stupid, violent beliefs.”

            That applies more to historic times. Our ancient ancestors were apparently in tune with concepts like cooperativism, not depleting resource niches, quite egalitarian to a degree. Not warlike, not greedy.

            Waves of nomadic warriors probably from Central Asia erased those societies from the face of the world, and “history” started.

          • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 10:01 pm #

            Well Rulo, I agree but Gustaph doesn’t. He wants things as primitive as possible, and he’s fine with violence. But then expects them to have the same beliefs that he has now!

            He wants the cannibals talking about ecology and how Civilization was crazy because it used up the Earth’s resources.

        • Paula D January 15, 2022 at 3:09 pm #

          Human knowledge may not be preserved. After the fall of Rome a lot of knowledge was lost.
          I watched a YouTube video that popped up (for some reason) about a rich dude in Florence in 800 or so (can’t remember) who wanted to build a temple, but no one could figure out how to do it.
          Then some architect dug into old documents buried in the catacombs and found out how they did it back in the day, so he built another temple and they all rejoiced.
          But I was like, what? They forgot how to build domes?
          I knew that they had burned books and libraries of other civilizations, but I didn’t realize they forgot their own.

    • Rulo Deschamps January 15, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

      gustafson,

      any life form that comes in contact with certain radioactive wastes will die – for a quarter million years.

      Even when our civilization is around and the lights are still on, we have trouble managing and containing these toxic byproducts of our hubris. 250 years? 5 thousand? 250,000?

      Without counting many other basically eternal (for all practical purposes) consequences of our brilliance, plastics, many chemicals, genetic manipulation.

      Gods? No. In a Lovecraftian sense maybe. Imagine this 3rd rock from the Sun in 10 million years and the new lifeforms in it, capable of feeding off radioactive waste and micro plastics.

      A Buddha or a Jesus are the closest we’ve come to conceiving enlightened superior beings, or Gods. Also many archaic deities with roots in the Stone Age. Message: simplicity, joy, gratefulness, anti-greed. Not Muhammed and Allah, not Yahveh, angry, jealous. Not the science god, the artificial intelligence god, control freaks, greedy.

      I simplify too much. Eat, drink & be merry. Plant seeds.

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 15, 2022 at 6:16 pm #

        cheers

        i hope the planet’s not poisoned. i hope humans have a chance to put it all together. to end it now feels incomplete.

  51. JohnAZ January 14, 2022 at 10:34 pm #

    Anybody notice the price of oil lately.

    Over 84 dollars today and rising.

    Gasoline will start their upward trend again soon.

    $4 and $5 a gallon this year?

    The beginning of the end is here.

    • BackRowHeckler January 15, 2022 at 5:18 am #

      It’s being done deliberately by the Biden Administration to get American consumers to accept EVs, which it has gone balls to the wall for in accordance with their ‘Climate Pledges’ made in Paris in 2016. It’s the same logic that is being used to dismantle our energy grid (which, incidentally, will never be rebuilt).

      “Sure a GM Chevy Silverado costs $108,000, but look, gas is $8 per gallon”.

      That’s what killing the Keystone Pipeline project was all about “ON DAY ONE”, only a year ago, but it seems like a lifetime ago.

      • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 5:59 am #

        It is also a further control mechanism. When the ID2020 conditions are fulfilled, and we all have a digital ID, these IDs will be linked to a network that also ties in with your electric vehicle’s computer.

        Overexceed your carbon ration? Don’t have the latest BigPharma product in your veins? Your car does not start.

      • ianw January 15, 2022 at 6:10 am #

        It’s being done deliberately by the Biden Administration to get American consumers to accept EVs

        Nonsense – and conspiracy jive.

        Biden and the Democrat brains trust couldn’t give a flying fuck about EVs, or even trips to the moon.

        All they care about are the Midterms and then 2024. They fervently want inflation down, gas prices down, the pandemic to fade, and the supply chain issues fixed – they only care about re-election, and not being pummelled in November.

        • benr January 15, 2022 at 11:10 am #

          Another ridiculous post from the resident village idiot.

          Tell me dim one why did Joe Biden mess with the Keystone pipeline?

          Either you’re an idiot or a liar well you are both let’s get real!

          https://energywatch-inc.com/biden-energy-policy/

          Biden’s energy policy is vast and ambitious. We’ve broken it down into a short list:

          Require aggressive methane pollution limits for new and existing oil and gas operations
          Develop rigorous new fuel economy standards to ensure 100% of new sales for light- and medium-duty vehicles will be zero emissions
          Ban new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters.
          Enact legislation in 2021 that puts the U.S. on the path to achieve economy-wide net-zero emissions no later than 2050.
          Invest $400 billion over ten years in clean energy and innovation.
          Establish ARPA-C, a new research agency focused on accelerating climate technologies.
          Accelerate the deployment of clean technology throughout the U.S. economy.
          Set a target of reducing the carbon footprint of the U.S. building stock 50% by 2035, creating incentives for retrofits that combine appliance electrification, efficiency, and on-site clean power generation.
          Require public companies to disclose climate-related financial risks and the greenhouse gas emissions in their operations and supply chains.

          • benr January 15, 2022 at 11:12 am #

            The joke in all of this is the new “clean energy” platforms are gross polluters in production and end of life platforms.
            One way or another this shit is toxic to produce and dispose of.

          • JohnAZ January 15, 2022 at 11:48 am #

            Benr

            All true, but the real disaster is the Democratic drive to destroy the Fossil fuel basis for the economy before a legitimate alternative is developed, assuming an alternative is possible.

            So far, the prophets have been correct that no legitimate alternatives are on the drawing board, let alone in production. The practicality of alternatives is a joke, even Greta has seen the absurdity of the claims.

            The ignorance, forced or unforced, of the people who are making huge decisions right now in the government is Dis quieting. They are worthless. Think what the EV situation would be if one man, Musk, was not the driver (pun intended) of the industry.

            Bottom line, the technology to create an alternative to today’s world simply does not exist, and the advance of said technology looks to be unlikely. Just watch the EU, genuflecting to the stupidity of the globalists quest for power using AGW, jerking back and forth with alternatives and the still needing Russian oil and gas to run things. It is not even close.

          • ianw January 15, 2022 at 11:02 pm #

            The joke in all of this is the new “clean energy” platforms are gross polluters in production and end of life platforms. One way or another this shit is toxic to produce and dispose of.

            I don’t disagree – I am a serious renewable energy sceptic indeed, while I firmly believe that anthropogenic global warming is real and not over-exaggerated.

            The solution is a reduction in consumption, and a winding back of hyper-complexity and hyper-technology – in a systematic way, before JHK’s World Made By Hand becomes inevitable.

            But humans – being less smart than yeast – are not going to voluntarily cut back their consumption and “way of life” – they’ll do it until they can’t.

      • ianw January 15, 2022 at 6:19 am #

        Note to all the conspiracy disciples: the US President does NOT control the price of Brent Crude or West Texas Intermediate … it is a global commodity.

        • BackRowHeckler January 15, 2022 at 6:43 am #

          No, but high energy prices come next November will drive out of office every Dem Senate and House candidate. That’s the bright side of expensive gasoline.

          • JohnAZ January 15, 2022 at 11:20 am #

            Unless the GOP can manage to put in a Deep State contrarian as president, or contrarians in the Congress to “fire” the idiocy we have in the WH, the Uniparty will just continue to grow. Half of the GOP is DeepState. The real battle is DC against the people. Right now, I do not see a way of wresting control away from the scum in DC without secession of some sort.

          • ianw January 15, 2022 at 6:05 pm #

            No, but high energy prices come next November will drive out of office every Dem Senate and House candidate. That’s the bright side of expensive gasoline.

            That may happen – I’m just pushing back on the absurd notion that the Biden Administration is forcing up the price of gasoline on purpose, for EV and AGW reasons.

            It would be political suicide, particularly in a context where none of the media give President Biden they free pass they gave to Trump, whose corruption and incompetence were routinely normalised. Still are, come to that.

          • benr January 16, 2022 at 5:11 pm #

            @ianw

            That may happen – I’m just pushing back on the absurd notion that the Biden Administration is forcing up the price of gasoline on purpose, for EV and AGW reasons. -VILLAGE IDIOT

            You’re pushing back are you kidding me he has already said he wants EV and they are doing everything they can to make it painful at the pump. There is nothing to push back on.
            Under Obomnable they said that energy costs would skyrocket and Joe Biden is Obama 3rd term same idiots same feckless dithering policies same moronic messaging.

            Here’s one line that President Barack Obama might want to rewind: “Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” -Barry Soetoro

            “If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them,” Obama said, responding to a question about his cap-and-trade plan. He later added, “Under my plan … electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” -same idiot

        • benr January 15, 2022 at 11:14 am #

          He has done EVERYTHING he can to surge the prices.
          Pain at the pump is like driving the cost of cigarettes through the roof to change people’s habits.

          Your arguments are like a child that has not bothered to ever listen or even look at anything.

          Everything you post is wrong, and opinion based.

          • JohnAZ January 15, 2022 at 11:27 am #

            An undereducated, child in denial about the evil pursuits of a power driven mob. A sucker who has bought into the “we will take care of you” crowd. A non independent person who needs that government to take care of him, and will defend its right to do so.

            The world is changing, the Great Reset is the loss of independence.

          • ianw January 15, 2022 at 11:22 pm #

            A sucker who has bought into the “we will take care of you” crowd. A non independent person who needs that government to take care of him, and will defend its right to do so.

            I don’t need government to take care of me – I’m a totally independent self-funded retiree that makes no welfare or any other claims on the public purse – working and saving all your life has its advantages. We do not have one dollar of debt.

            You make no allowances for cultural differences – you live in the US where the ruthlessness of its systems are way outside international norms – very low minimum wages, lousy savings plans, no national medical insurance, grossly unfair tax regimes, huge power to corporations and almost none to the working person.

            It doesn’t have to be this way. You should welcome any Great Reset that comes your way.

        • Rulo Deschamps January 15, 2022 at 4:19 pm #

          The US president doesn’t control anything, just like Ronald McDonald doesn’t control McD’s – it’s just its mascot.

          The network of interests behind the US president control a great deal, though. Take the price of oil. The most recent example would be the shale oil boom, made possible at the cost of cheap loans that will never be paid back, courtesy of US taxpayers, and environmental destruction including billions of gallons of water mixed with chemicals injected into the horizontal wells to give us another decade or so of “American way of life” cheap gas.

          In 1955, US oil extraction was about 2.5 billion barrels per year. In 1970, domestic production peaked at 3.5 billion. by 1985, it was back to roughly 2.5 bbls/yr, and in decline. By 2015, most easily recoverable oil was gone, but an infusion of cheap credit was financing another upward surge, this time fueled by more problematic, dangerous and difficult reserves: deep sea, previously protected natural areas, and especially, fracking. At 3 bbls/yr, the shale oil boom peaked in 2015, short of the 1970 all time high, and has been in decline since.

          Mr K has written a lot about all this. And while your statement that the president doesn’t control the price of oil is true, the wider context is that the puppeteers behind the figurehead do in fact control a great deal, including, at times, the price of oil.

          • ianw January 16, 2022 at 12:25 am #

            I agree with your post – and have read a huge amount (probably too much) about peak oil.

            I would add that OPEC and non-OPEC countries influence the price of oil about 80%, and even they are subject to world-wide rises and falls in demand, and constraints on their production & delivery capacity.

      • JohnAZ January 15, 2022 at 11:54 am #

        BRH

        Read about an EV being developed in China that will cost an unbelievable low amount, like in the single digit thousands. Seems impossible,

        But if it is true, how will the US react?

        Keeping markets open will destroy any semblance of an auto industry in the US. Without that, another huge component of what is left of US manufacturing will be kaput.

        Just remember what opening to Japan did.

  52. beantownbill. January 14, 2022 at 11:38 pm #

    I spoke to my wife’s cardiologist (btw, a great guy) today. He says that although the area’s hospitals are very busy, they are not overcrowded as the media say.

    • Paula D January 15, 2022 at 3:17 pm #

      I just quoted you unthread about what your neighbor told you.
      Thanks for the reality checks.

  53. Jarek January 15, 2022 at 12:24 am #

    Anthea: Women are marginally more liberal than men.

    Hooey. See the famous electoral map, What would America look like if only women voted. Then look at, What would America look like if only men voted.

    https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-map-generated-in-response-to-Nate-Silvers-original-What-if-only-women-voted-viral_fig5_325181270

    How could anyone not know this, at least approximately and intuitively? Is her shadow preventing her from knowing the simple and obvious truth?

    Women and slaves want freebies, as much as they can get from the Government or by Government extortion of free White Men, either as a group, or in the case of a wife, via the divorce industry.

    • JohnAZ January 15, 2022 at 11:13 am #

      Four generations ago, women were dependent on men to be the breadwinners. Four generations ago, the world was a sane place, people were content with societal roles, kids were not nutcases trying to figure out what sex they were, politics were not an insane asylum. So lots of labor saving devices were invented to free women of the drudgery of their role in society. A child care industry was invented to relief them of their child rearing responsibility. Women were at last free to participate in society, IOW, compete with men instead of complement them. At least in the eyes of a few women at that time.

      Look at the world today, did society make good choices? Our liberated world really sucks!

      • ianw January 16, 2022 at 12:37 am #

        Four generations ago, women were dependent on men to be the breadwinners. Four generations ago, the world was a sane place, people were content with societal roles,

        This is nonsense JAZ – looking through a rose-coloured rearview mirror.

        I grew up in a suburban street in the late 1950s-1960s – probably similar to millions of such streets in working-class neighbourhoods across American cities.

        There was one old car per house, the men worked in often mundane jobs, and most of the “housewives” went delirious with boredom and the limitations on their lives.

        I was often asked to bike to the shops to get the era’s equivalent of opioid painkillers. They wrecked their kidneys.

        My mother worked all her life – apart from the actual years when she was bearing three kids – but she was very much the exception. Neither of my grandmothers worked, never drove a car, and never flew overseas – they barely left their home state.

        Next you’ll be advising us that African-Americans were happier and better off being slaves. Give us a break!

        • messianicdruid January 16, 2022 at 10:34 am #

          Most of us would go back to that time as a child in a heartbeat.

          • ianw January 16, 2022 at 10:00 pm #

            White straight males with decent careers maybe … for everyone else, perhaps not so much.

  54. Proton January 15, 2022 at 1:19 am #

    This Ukraine thing makes me laugh. Americans are playing a multi-dimensional board game whose rules they don’t remotely understand, which change all the time anyway, and which the opposing players routinely disregard.

    And, dear me, Americans witlessly gave away half of their game tokens to one of the other contestants. Oh yes, there’s more than two because the wily fellas from Beijing are sitting at the table. Like the reluctant virgin they had to be tempted by Americans, their most ardent suitors, the American logic being that the Chinese would finally put out if given enough incentives. Which is how they got all those game board tokens formerly in American hands. Stupid, no? The Americans I mean.

    And let’s not pretend that others haven’t got an interest in the proceedings. The Turks, for example, aren’t that far out of living memory of having ruled an empire. And Ukraine and Russia are right on their doorstep. Not that the Turks are currently in any shape to conquer anybody, let alone an empire, but maybe it’s worth noting that they still have some aggressive juices and that they have a big military and that Erdogan is in some deep financial shit right now with a lot of discontent to deal with and maybe a nice war would be a salutary distraction. Preferably one fought by other parties, but one close enough to home to draw people’s attention. And who knows how things would shake out. Maybe the Turks could carve out some turf at minimal expense?

    So is Putin smart enough to draw the US into a war over a rottenly corrupt territory that will as sure as we sit here turn into a financial millstone to bankrupt its conqueror?

    Maybe that’s the wrong question. Maybe the question is whether the fools running the Pentagon and the State Department are dumb enough to be drawn in.

    If Ukraine by itself was worth the expenditure and the exertions, Putin would have done it by now. But by no stretch is it worth it. Not to NATO, that’s for sure. What would the Ukraine have to offer? Would NATO really need to expand to the Russian border? To what end exactly?

    It’s only value is as a buffer between one spavined ‘power’ (ie Russia), and other even more spavined ‘powers’ (the Europeans). Why would the US get mired in this nonsense? It would be hideous. You would avert your eyes. Watching Russia and the US going at it would be like watching old people fuck, the only question being which one expires first.

    Which is why the inscrutable Chinese are at the table and keenly observing, and maybe more. What’s their game plan?

    • tucsonspur January 15, 2022 at 2:17 am #

      Their game plan is to prepare for the coming Die-Centennial, as I call it. Our 300+ is their .3 added to the billion. Many mouths to feed and backs to clothe. Although the Chinese dynasties ended in 1912, an embedded, fervent nationalistic ethos probably remains. I’m certainly no Chinese scholar, but how you best govern 1.3 to 1.4 billion people is most likely the way they are doing it now.

      The present condition of our ‘nation’ has been well described above. We’ve got nukes and a still comparatively strong military, but currently the situation is evolving more and more into one where there is nothing worth defending anymore except the stark maintenance of our physical existence. Maybe that’s enough.

      Both Russia and China could/should be working towards our civil upheaval, our internal collapse.

      Good article on Putin and the Russians. Yes, NYT.

      https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/world/europe/putin-ukraine-russia.html

      • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 4:20 am #

        “I’m certainly no Chinese scholar, but how you best govern 1.3 to 1.4 billion people is most likely the way they are doing it now”

        When not torturing and enslaving Uyghurs, Xi and co. keep busy marching Covid “rule breakers” around in white Hazmat suits for public ridicule.

        Looks like something out of a neofeudalistic dystopia.

        https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/30/china-parades-covid-rule-breakers-in-public-shaming-through-streets-15842730/?ico=more_text_links

        Your wisdom knows no bounds.

        Any updates for us on the “Doomsday Glacier,” BTW?

        • tucsonspur January 15, 2022 at 5:11 am #

          I told you before that I won’t always give in to your masochistic inclinations. I just gave you another verbal beating and I thought that your perversion just might be satisfied, but no, you keep coming back for more.

          If you insist on continuing this behavior, in the future I won’t even consider smacking you around a bit. I’m tired of punishing you. I’m not a sadist.

          So, this is it, probably your last lashing…. enjoy.

          YOU SHAMELESS PERVERTED PUTZ!!

          • ianw January 15, 2022 at 5:52 am #

            YOU SHAMELESS PERVERTED PUTZ!!

            Have a little bit of sympathy TS – he’s an extremely Low IQ cubicle worker in some German shithole, because he couldn’t make it in America.

            He’s an Anschluss-Corona frat-boy, and a totally devoted pod-person cult member. There’s no reasoning with the zombie brain-dead. Give it a rest, and go look elsewhere for a reasonable discussion of the major issues that we face – some of the stuff that JHK raises.

            They’re not to be found anywhere near him, that’s for sure.

          • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 5:55 am #

            More caps and exclamation points.

            You commie nut.

          • benr January 15, 2022 at 11:17 am #

            @ts

            But where was N.O. wrong?
            Your exchange was hardly a lashing.

        • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 12:28 pm #

          LMAO!

          • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 2:14 pm #

            This is how most exchanges end with Tucson.

            Unfortunate, as I really wanted to know more about the necessity of Chinese technofascism, as well as the danger we are all in from the Doomsday Glacier.

    • JohnAZ January 15, 2022 at 10:57 am #

      The Russians are our enemy, right?

      Whose enemy?

      Who uses Russia as the enemy, who used Russia as the enemy, Russiagate? Who has repeatedly used Russia as the target in their wag the dog exercises? Who has repeatedly used Russia as the diversion while tearing down the USA?

      Hint: everyone needs an enemy to consolidate power.

      So who is it that has consolidated power in the US to the point there is very little opposition left, except at the ballot box, and they are working on that.

      • JohnAZ January 15, 2022 at 11:01 am #

        China? Just watch and see. Success is not fighting the US or Russia, it is letting them demolish each other.

        China reminds me of Mein Kampf, conquer the world for the Chinese people to inhabit, but the CCP has learned that they do not have to do it themselves.

    • Proton January 15, 2022 at 10:54 pm #

      All,

      I don’t see where Russian and American interests are in conflict. If they collide it’s because one side or both are in the mood for a scrap. Or because arms dealers need to make more money. As ole General Butler said, war is a racket.

      But the days of global communism are done, so that justification is gone, those of globe-girdling capitalism not far behind, with a whole slew of forces dismantling piece-by-piece those arrangements loosely called neo-liberalism.

      Much to the displeasure of the Davos class – many or all of which see themselves as in-charge of this new (now old) world order for the sake of self-aggrandizement with the added zest of their business cartels sucking everyone dry – the world by necessity is re-localizing. It has to.

      That glorious border-less planet, the better to exploit slave-wage labor and to move money beyond the reach of national tax regimes, is de-rezzing, shedding bits as the days and months pass. De-globalization is coming.

      As far as China goes, they’re no geniuses as evidenced by the litany of calamities they’ve inflicted on themselves, but lately they’re seeming to smarten up. Are they bright enough to know to not interfere with adversaries when their adversaries are busy screwing themselves? I would think so, they have got at least that much moxie.

      Something John AZ said; foreign enemies are needed especially by corrupt and despotic regimes to justify their rule. Corrupt despotism is something Americans are becoming well acquainted with as we see the degeneracy of a once vibrant and once widely prosperous place.

      An aggressive – even if comically inept – America is what Putin needs. Hence the Russian troops along the Ukrainian border sitting there as an unbearable temptation for American war-mongers and war-profiteers. Putin needs Biden as much as Biden needs Putin. Meanwhile I can picture Xi sitting there chuckling, manfully resisting the temptation to intercede somehow to spark a war.

      To touch on something Tusconspur said about the Chinese, they have got a massive problem feeding those teeming cities especially now that they’ve gotten some pork and poultry in their diet. They want more. Good luck to the CCP. They’ve got their work cut out.

      But to think such an old and deeply rooted people are going to change their ways because Americans come waving money and whispering sweet nothings is pure craziness. Just how crazy we can see for ourselves as this is no theorizing, we’ve seen such a thing in action. Did it work?

      No, it was a monumental flop, China now sitting on America’s industrial backbone, giving orders to that class of cretins that thought it such a good idea and can’t-lose proposition.

      Some really stupid people stepped up and showed the world the reach of human idiocy. They thought they could remake at will such a place with the massive population and economy and deep history (8,000 year old Chinese artifacts have been found with markings that look like writing) with such civilizational momentum and inertia. It was an act of incredible hubris and a preposterous over-estimation of their own capacity.

      Can’t lose? Well, they lost. The Chinese won. The idiots who were so sure they’d be giving Beijing orders find themselves taking them. It was inevitable. How could it have been otherwise?

      • ianw January 16, 2022 at 12:56 am #

        I don’t see where Russian and American interests are in conflict. If they collide it’s because one side or both are in the mood for a scrap. Or because arms dealers need to make more money. As ole General Butler said, war is a racket.

        I agree entirely – there is only a very small elite in DC and arms factories who believe being a war hawk is good for the soul, their careers, and their bank balance.

        I also don’t think there is conflict between the US and China either – the intersection of their mutual interests are absolutely huge.

        There are issues to do with oil and gas … no doubt about that. But those geopolitical games are played out pretty-much away from the Big Three powers.

        And always remember, “The American way of life is not negotiable!”.

  55. tucsonspur January 15, 2022 at 2:50 am #

    The JWST is nearing its L2 point. Mirrors and sunshield successfully deployed. What will it ‘see’?

    Everything in the Universe is moving. Right now, on a local note, I’m spinning around with the Earth at about 880 mph. The speed depends on your latitude.

    The Universe is expanding, billions and billions of galaxies moving apart at phenomenal rates. Check out the velocities of stars around our supposed central black hole. Boggles the mind.

    Anyway, I know that this condition could probably never exist, but picture our galaxy, the Milky Way, as the only one in the Universe. What would it be doing, where would it be ‘going’? You picture it hanging there, but wouldn’t it ‘fall’? To where?

    In this expanding Universe, besides towards the “Great Attractor” and the like, where are all these galaxies going and why are they going there? The profundities involved with the simple concept of motion are deep indeed.

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    • beantownbill. January 15, 2022 at 11:48 am #

      Astronomers have estimated there’s probably a trillion galaxies in the universe. Two years ago, some astronomers said there could be as many as ten trillion. No one knows for sure because of cosmic inflation, which has pushed objects in the universe so far that even at the speed of light, there hasn’t been enough time for their light to reach us. Sounds kinda like our budget deficits, doesn’t it?

      • malthuss January 15, 2022 at 11:52 am #

        I cannot wrap my mind around such a big –uh–area? creation, universe.

        • beantownbill. January 15, 2022 at 6:48 pm #

          No one can emotionally understand such hugeness. But it is in 3 dimensions, so it’s the big volume. I find it difficult to comprehend myself and wonder if we really know anything – that the universe is something we can’t even imagine.

    • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 12:11 pm #

      The Universe is curved. They farther they fly apart, the closer they begin to move towards each other again. And then, Bang, they all collide. The end is a new beginning. The Big Bang is the Alpha and the Omega.

      Any other questions?

      • beantownbill. January 15, 2022 at 6:41 pm #

        Picture a balloon. Spots on the surface don’t move closer together when the balloon gets bigger, they move away from each other.

  56. ianw January 15, 2022 at 4:29 am #

    It’s great that the JWST telescope is so far behaving and operating as planned.

    Some of your other questions are too complex to contemplate. We are in one of 200 billion galaxies at least, powering through space at truly enormous speeds.

    But we can sit here under a tree on the banks of a river – and believe the whole universe is still. As it should be.

    • SpeedyBB January 15, 2022 at 7:28 am #

      “The universe is unfolding as it should.”

      – the brilliant Pierre Trudeau

      (…and look at the caliber of offspring he produced. Blame Margaret?)

  57. Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 4:52 am #

    For those that never saw it: One of the slides from WEF showing exactly how far they want their Digital ID/SSI Pass to extend into your life. The answer of course is that it covers everything:

    https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1482189658050031621

    And here is the result when they lock your account (locking you out of all connected services and rights of entry) when the system glitches or you are not “up to date” on your fake vaccines:

    https://twitter.com/jonowee/status/1482162715330232321

    Imagine being stupid enough to put this on your phone and advance the ID2020 agenda.

    • ianw January 15, 2022 at 5:42 am #

      Imagine being stupid enough to put this on your phone and advance the ID2020 agenda.

      Imagine being stupid enough to believe any of the twitter links this Low IQ person posts. Error after lie after fake news.

      • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 6:01 am #

        Yes, those original source documents are just full of lies.

        • Islander January 15, 2022 at 9:31 am #

          He’s just doing his job.

          Best to ignore.

          He might get a bonus for every response.

          • Islander January 15, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

            Not to mention, a boner.

          • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 4:18 pm #

            It is a sport for me. No worries.

            If Ian were truly capable of convincing anyone of anything, he’d still be on his original user name.

    • anmariwakaranai January 15, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

      Did you see the news tweet just under that?
      “The US has intel the Russians plan a false flag in Ukraine.”

      Article by LOUGHEAD MARTIN

  58. ianw January 15, 2022 at 5:35 am #

    The Ohio Supreme Court has struck down the state’s gerrymandered U.S. Congressional districts map for partisan bias.

    The Supreme Court of Ohio issued a 4-3 ruling today in the American Civil Liberties Union’s lawsuit challenging Ohio’s U.S. congressional district map, ordering the Republican-controlled Ohio General Assembly to draw a new map that complies with the Ohio Constitution.

    Republicans (being the party of capital and oligarchs) can never win a fair election – which is why they rig everything they can. I can’t believe anyone with any decent moral compass can support these ratbags.

    I also can’t believe the US is so backward that they allow legislators to draw district maps. In every sophisticated democracy, there is an independent and impartial electoral commission who does this stuff. SMH

    • BackRowHeckler January 15, 2022 at 6:39 am #

      Democrats win an election: Democracy is healthy and thriving. The natural order of things is reaffirmed.

      Republicans win an election: Perfidity is afoot. Obviously the election was rigged, coercion and collusion was employed and the results must be questioned and scrutinized.

      Does that about sum it up?

    • gustafson.robert.22 January 15, 2022 at 7:44 am #

      “Republicans (being the party of capital and oligarchs)”

      be careful. deplorable republicans may have already surpassed any other group of significant numbers as the most legitimately revolutionary (though still with much to be desired) in the USA, the most threatening to capital and oligarchy

      (hello)

    • Rulo Deschamps January 15, 2022 at 4:27 pm #

      Republicans (being the party of capital and oligarchs)…

      As opposed to what? Democrats? All tech behemoths, all mainstream media, Wall St (how many Gordon Gekkos did St Obama put behind bars?), the Pentagon & Intelligence, all academia, all entertainment… etc…

      Limited, your view, Ian. How about Rep & Dem, the parties of capital, etc?

  59. Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 5:52 am #

    “Bayernstar Davies leidet an einer Herzmuskelentzündung. Und ein Großteil der geboosterten Mannschaft ist nach Positivtest in Quarantäne. Alles nur Zufall.”

    Another soccer star down with myocarditis — this time, from Bayern Munich.

    https://twitter.com/SHomburg/status/1481977007906906114

    Dropping like flies.

    • Islander January 15, 2022 at 9:38 am #

      And, as Homburg emphasizes, they treat every positive test as a “case” of disease.

      Infection does not = disease.

      I see the same s— in the local paper. Testing all over the place, free tests to take home, free testing paid for by some nonprofit. youi get a postive, TS for you! Now you have to quarantine, even though you have no symptoms and are not illl. Plus the contact tracing madness. Of coiurse these stories filled with “case porn” make the readers and the Karens ever more loco, reinforced in their enforcer personas

      I am staying away from any testing. Just asking for trouble.

      • stelmosfire January 15, 2022 at 10:06 am #

        “I am staying away from any testing”. Not so fast Islander. Slo’ Jo has 1,000,000,000 tests on order to be delivered to everybody in the USA. 3 tests each, every man, woman, and child. Delivered by the USPS right to your door. My mail is messed up during the best of times. I can’t wait for this fiasco to unfold. They have some home tests at the my local corner store. 25 bucks apiece and made in China. He can’t stock them fast enough for the Covidians, The tests sell as fast as he gets them. Somebody is making a boatload of money on this deal and I have the feeling that I’m paying for it.

        • BackRowHeckler January 15, 2022 at 10:46 am #

          Thousands of Covid kits and PPE scattered around the UP yard in LA, looted from freight cars and left to rot. In SF, last week, $18 million worth if PPE and test kits discovered in a municipal storage yard, left in the weather since August, all ruined.

    • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 7:30 am #

      And another:

      https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/celebrity/dancing-on-ice-star-matt-evers-left-heartbroken-following-shock-death/ar-AASQYok?ocid=msedgntp

      Shock death of 45-year-old Dancing on Ice star.

      And the ones we read about are mostly just the slebs and lesser slebs!!

  60. Kielanders January 15, 2022 at 7:20 am #

    “a seasoned pol such as Liz Cheney, the current favorite, who dragged her esteemed old daddy, Dick Cheney (“George W. Bush’s brain”) up to Capitol Hill this week,”

    Here’s where you’re wrong, Jim – why you always be such a negative Nellie?

    Dick simply choppered-in from St. Michael’s for a father/daughter lunch at Ben’s Chili Bowl after which he & Liz took a leisurely drive around Anacostia shopping for a new heart.

    I think it’s a touching story.

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    • SpeedyBB January 15, 2022 at 7:35 am #

      (He may have got a deal on one of David Rockefeller’s low-mileage second-hand ones.)
      (Yeah I know it’s fake news – the seven transplants – but why spoil a good story.)

    • Islander January 15, 2022 at 9:56 am #

      I think they used the “seasoned pol” meme for Joe Biden, too.

      Real meaning:
      One who knows the unspoken rules—plus how *real* fundraising is done—and won’t go off the reservation, a la DJT.

  61. Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 7:48 am #

    The media chorus to implement digital IDs is growing louder as the hoax slowly loses its ability to transfix the gullible.

    WEF SSI Pass:

    The potential use cases for self-sovereign identity to transform the travel industry are almost limitless, particularly with the impending arrival of decentralized identifier communications, also known as DIDComm, attendees of a PhocusWire roundtable discussion on the role of SSI in the future of identity and travel at the Phocuswright Conference 2021 heard from an panel of digital identity experts.

    The panel, moderated by Phocuswright Senior Research Analyst Robert Cole, was made up of IATA Americas Director of Airports Filipe Pereira dos Reis, Indicio CEO Heather Dahl, and Kaliya Young, who is ecosystem director of the Linux Foundation Public Health’s COVID Credentials Initiative.

    https://www.biometricupdate.com/202201/businesses-desire-to-store-less-digital-identity-data-stokes-travels-ssi-brushfire

    “The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to provide legal identity for every person in the world by the year 2030. Digital identity will be a major catalyst to achieve that goal.”

    “In this digital age, we frequently perform various transactions online. While doing so, how are we identifying ourselves, or verifying that we are the authorised persons for said transactions?When we request for any service through a government web portal, how do we prove ourselves as legal citizens? If we need to justify purpose while purchasing a product online, how do we do that?”

    https://twitter.com/SikhForTruth/status/1481959070965895169?cxt=HHwWgsC4yYv7_JApAAAA

    Total control. Tyranny.

    • Slugoon January 15, 2022 at 8:28 am #

      “self-sovereign identity”

      LOL!

      • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 9:05 am #

        Which you’re born with.

        Imagine the brainstorming meeting that came up with that.

        ” How can we make something utterly oppressive and totalitarian sound entirely self-empowering to a technologically groomed generation?

        • Islander January 15, 2022 at 9:52 am #

          Exactimundo!

      • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 9:16 am #

        Just read that the two favourites (among the betting public) for replacing Boris are Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss. That would be Rishi Sunak who instructed the Bank of England to create a digital currency.

        Talking of SSIs …

        • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 11:17 am #

          Yet another WEF puppet/transhumanist no doubt.

      • Islander January 15, 2022 at 9:51 am #

        “self-sovereign identity”

        Perfect example of Orwellian newspeak.

        Because the reality is the opposite of the phrase used.

        Left-to-right reading. Sujbject-verb-subject equivalent. An implied syllogism.
        Phrase thus suggests: Self is Sovereign.
        Sovereignty guaranteed by “identity.”

        Reality: right-to-left reading:
        Digital identity is “sovereign” over “self.”

        Intersring presentatoin at Canadian Patriot that incliuded some disucssion of the discovery by PR and propaganda pros that three=word phrases, in groups of three, stick in the mind and become embedded.
        E.g., Arbeit Macht Frei; Kinder-Kueche-Kirche
        Some more examples provided from the recent covid op, but mercifully I can’t recall them!! but “let’s go Brandon” might be considered in this light. “Yes we can”?

        So:
        No Vaxx Pass
        Hands off Self
        Fuck Didge Id

        • anmariwakaranai January 15, 2022 at 1:17 pm #

          6uild 6ack 6etter

          • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 6:38 pm #

            It’s in the WEF logo, too.

      • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 2:26 pm #

        Slug, are you familiar with some of their other sales language?

        “Freedom as a service” is still one of my favorites.

        Plug that one into a search engine. Good times.

    • Islander January 15, 2022 at 10:14 am #

      I strongly suggest that all here keep track of the digital ID plague by checking out the items linked to the right at the Biometric website under “Most Read This Week.”

      E.g.:
      https://www.biometricupdate.com/202201/liminal-forecasts-major-regulatory-impact-on-digital-identity-in-2022

      and many others, with updates on strides made in various countries such as Greece, India, Quebec, etc.

      My own prediction:

      We will soon see slogans such as

      SSI for Democracy!!
      Support SSI for All
      SS: Working for YOU
      SSI: In YOUR wallet
      SSI: Expand Your World
      SSI Takes You Far
      Travel the Universe with SSI
      SSI: A Rocket in Your Pocket
      SSI: Your Own Kryptonite
      SSI: A Gift to YOU
      SSI: Makes Good Things Happen!
      Etc.

      And, finally, “Anti-SSI-ers.”

      SSI meaning “Self-Sovereign Identity.”

      • Islander January 15, 2022 at 10:18 am #

        “The analysts also review 2021 while grading themselves on last year’s predictions, scoring between As and Cs. “If 2020 was the year that accelerated digital transformation and pushed digital identity into the mainstream, then ***the impact of COVID-19 in 2021 was kerosene on an already well-lit fire,” *** according to the team.

        They gave themselves an A for predicting a buying spree on the part of incumbent fraud prevention platforms in a shift towards digital identity solutions. They list Equifax’s acquisition of Kount, TransUnion’s acquisition of Neustar as well as the funding rounds for Socure and Forter.

        Liminal’s analysts’ takes on age-verification in 2021 got them a B+ for getting some of it right as the topic gained a great deal of momentum (AADC and tech firms’ response) but they feel they were too early and 2022 will be the year. A similar story for the adoption of digital identity wallets.

        Where their self-awarded prediction grades slip was for ***being too optimistic about digital identity benefitting from a “Biden Bump” *** [bwawahaha]]– and they still hold out that developments such as Personal Identity Ecosystems are on their way – and that the passwordless revolution was nigh. Again there was a great deal of activity in the sector and attitudes are changing, but habits are hard to change. This is not a prediction they have pushed into 2022. . . .”

        https://www.biometricupdate.com/202201/liminal-forecasts-major-regulatory-impact-on-digital-identity-in-2022

        • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 10:40 am #

          Nice work. Thanks, Islander.

      • BackRowHeckler January 15, 2022 at 10:41 am #

        If you don’t have an I Phone your digital ID will be tattooed on your forehead.

        • Islander January 15, 2022 at 11:46 am #

          Gee, will that make me—or my friends–cross-eyed?

    • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

      Not Linux! They were supposed to free us!

      Any talk of hyper-individuality is a scam. The individual alone tends to be weak and/or crazy.

      As the Ancient Greeks said, A man alone is either a beast or a god.

      And beasts are far more common than gods.

  62. stelmosfire January 15, 2022 at 9:42 am #

    Whatever you do, “Don’t Look Up”. It’s a distraction. Instead listen to Leo, “Look At Me” DeCaprio as I continue the good fight to combat climate change. Pay no attention to the 150 ft. diesel yacht and my legions of adoring nubile fans. Leo says, ” It’s all good, for me that is. For you lower life forms, not so much.”

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPivXaIUAAE9Smu?format=jpg&name=small

    • stelmosfire January 15, 2022 at 9:44 am #

      Leo,” Hey did I mention I have an electric bicycle on my yacht?”

    • elysianfield January 15, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

      ” For you lower life forms:

      Saint,

      The term is “carbon units”

      Give ’em a name….

  63. Amman January 15, 2022 at 9:45 am #

    2 years on, post election-rape, The Needle and the Damage done… – BROKEN

  64. Islander January 15, 2022 at 9:53 am #

    I spotted the digital ID thing back in 2019—sent to my list. No one paid any attention.

    Check this out:

    https://www.biometricupdate.com/201909/id2020-and-partners-launch-program-to-provide-digital-id-with-vaccines

    • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 10:30 am #

      And before anyone had heart of covid …

      Thanks. Added to my list of things to send people.

      • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 10:31 am #

        heard, not heart (heart is everywhere just now!)

    • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 10:38 am #

      Yep! And the covid19 plandemic was branded and the marketing campaign set to go well before March 2020.

      This is why I knew it was a hoax from the start. That among other things, actually.

      • Blackbird January 15, 2022 at 11:31 am #

        I’ve known McDonalds was evil since 1989. What’s taking everyone else so long to catch on?

        • Blackbird January 15, 2022 at 11:33 am #

          Meant to be a response to ProudMary’s comment below…

          • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 12:21 pm #

            So proud. As if she is not still deluded about so many things.

            No, you see this wasn’t a McDonald’s restaurant, but a place for kids getting chemotherapy to live along with their parents perhaps.

          • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 1:50 pm #

            Oooh Jarek’s got a bee in his bonnet about me today. Seems to be ranting about women and feminism today, and reiterating how he wants us to ‘return to’ second class status where we belong.

            Maybe someone pissed in his Post Toasties. LOL.

        • elysianfield January 15, 2022 at 1:17 pm #

          ” What’s taking everyone else so long to catch on?”

          Bird,
          Difficult to catch on when they will sell you a decent cup of coffee…with free refills, for 80 cents.

        • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 1:51 pm #

          Evil food, evil ‘kid’s house’.

          Evil clown.

      • Amman January 15, 2022 at 12:29 pm #

        Hello MQ, Do you know how I really knew that it was all a Hoax? It was when the news reported in the early days that a British Prime Minister, chap called Boris Johnson, had contracted the virus and was under most compassionate government medical care. That was, as it were, “sufficient, Irrefutable hoax.”

        • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 1:48 pm #

          You bet! So many signs it was. Like Pompeo at the podium in the WH, with Trump standing near, saying “we’re in a live exercise.”

          And then World-o-Meter’s site showing creeping numbers of dead… hardly any. But the news reported overflowing hospitals and morgues.

    • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 2:20 pm #

      That’s all wild conspiracy, friend.

      LOL.

  65. MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 10:37 am #

    ‘For your safety’

    “The Ronald McDonald House in Canada will evict all tenants, adults and children over the age of five, who are not vaccinated by the end of January.

    The father of a young boy with leukemia responds.

    “This is some kind of crazy evil like I’ve never seen in my life.”

    https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1481090188906532864?s=20

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    • Islander January 15, 2022 at 11:48 am #

      Truly evil.

      Since the jab could very easily exacerbate the boy’s leukemia.

      Incomprehensible.

      Maybe they should start a GofundMe for a motel room. I would contribute

      • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 12:54 pm #

        Absolutely. It’s carcinogenic and aggravates existing disease.

        Dr Zandre Botha, from South Africa, said that of her cancer patients in remission, 100% of those who took the jab now have metastatic cancers.

        I have a friend/ex-colleague in France I haven’t seen for decades. She’s been fighting lymphoma for more than a year. Chemo cleared it then more tumours appeared. She recently had some treatment involving her own bone marrow. At Christmas I got a letter from her husband with their Christmas card, saying she was finally able to get her booster because her immune system had been too weak previously. I could have cried, but I knew by the time the letter arrived it was too late, and they wouldn’t have listened to me anyway.

        She’ll probably die, in due course, and very likely because of three jabs.

        • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

          That’s so unbelievably sad. The mind control! Ugh!

      • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 1:46 pm #

        Apparently, they are re-routing the patients to another ‘home’ that is more tolerant and doesn’t want to force-vaxx the dying children.

        I hope they lose all their donations. Then again, I’m guessing this one is funded by Big Money.

        • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 2:18 pm #

          The Ronald McSoros House.

    • Amman January 15, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

      “The people are the enemy.” seems to me to be the operating principle. It’s just another level.

  66. JTinMD January 15, 2022 at 11:04 am #

    Just a drive by, not necessarily apropos of anything that I know of in this edition of Mr K’s blog nor it’s comments. I’m reading The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Fascinating book that I strongly recommend.

    The authors say that upon closer examination of how hierarchies, cities and authoritarian societies emerged, the process often unfolded in reverse, or there was a conscious rejection of hierarchy from the outset. The example from the excerpt below is from a Neolithic “city,” or large settlement in ancient China.

    “Now, it is considered bad form to question an excavator’s first-hand judgement about a site, but we cannot resist a couple of observations. First, the ostensible ‘state of anarchy’ (elsewhere described as ‘collapse and chaos’) lasted for a considerable period of time, between two and three centuries. Second, the overall size of Taosi during the latter period actually grew from 280 to 300 hectares. This sounds a lot less like collapse than an age of widespread prosperity, following the abolition of a rigid class system. It suggests that after the destruction of the palace, people did not fall into a Hobbesian ‘war of all against all’ but simply got on with their lives – presumably under what they considered a more equitable system of local self-governance.

    So, not only is a WMBH feasible, but reversions to it from hierarchical systems are found in history and prehistory to have been happy, peaceful, successful, and much more common than we assume.

    • BackRowHeckler January 15, 2022 at 11:44 am #

      Meanwhile, while everything else was going on, in the genteel Hancock Park section of LA, a pretty 24 year old graduate of UCLA named Brianna Kupfer, while working in a boutique furniture store called The Croft House, was STABBED TO DEATH, stabbed many times, by a homeless man who walked in off the street. Looks like it was random attack, without provocation or reason, no motive ascertained, apparently no motive needed.

      The bodies are really starting to pile up.

      Malthus, was this story newsworthy in LA, (or are they still covering Kim Kardashian’s butt.)

      Brianna Kupfer, say her name.

      Oh, and don’t expect CNN or BLM to make a big deal of this. The victim and the assailant were the wrong races.y

      • malthuss January 15, 2022 at 11:50 am #

        I check Brietbart, and for a laff, Drudge.
        Thats about it. IN this case the killer was black?

        Beachside, a homeless man was killed in a hit and run. very sad,

      • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 12:33 pm #

        Did you see the one about the Latino guy and the White woman waiting for the bus? He suddenly decides to kill her. He get up takes off one of his shoe strings, gets behind her and starts strangling her. She’s big and and is able to get up and get out of the choke. But she goes down and again and he is pounding on her. Luckily a good Samaritan came by and intervened.

        Maybe he tried to talk to her and she shunned him? Not that that is a reason to try and kill somebody of course.

        • BackRowHeckler January 15, 2022 at 2:36 pm #

          Yeah I saw that one. Also a few days ago in LA a nurse waiting at a bus stop was cold cocked from behind as well (by another one of Garcetti’s vaunted homeless) she is now in critical condition.

          Note to CFNers: avoid city buses, in fact avoid public transportation of any kind. Progressive Climate Change types want all of us on the bus, not in our private cars and trucks. Well, let them sonsabitches ride the bus with the psychopaths, leave us out of it.

      • beantownbill. January 15, 2022 at 12:47 pm #

        Marlin, I first experienced this around 1981 when Reagan de-institutionalized many mental patients. I ran into a woman who was screaming there were esophaguses loose in her building, as well as many other incidents with crazies. What’s happening now is what’s been happening since then, except violence is rampant. If I met the esophagus lady now, she probably would stab me.

        • Islander January 15, 2022 at 3:06 pm #

          Beantown–

          I remember it well.

          In the 1980s I was living in NYC. there were a few large single-room-occupancy hotels on the Upper West Side, in the eighties, between Amsterdam and CPW. And people who had been released from mental institutions “into the community” were housed in these hotels (probably all converted to condos by now). Columbus Ave was rapidly gentrifying, but stretches of the Upper West Side were pretty rough.

          West 82 Street was pretty nice; West 81st not so much.

          Not helped by the odd characters wandering around. I wonder where these people ended up when the gentrification of the whole West Side really got going. .

          • beantownbill. January 15, 2022 at 3:56 pm #

            The last few times I went to NYC, which was in the 21 teens, we stayed at a small, boutique hotel on West 44th St. I believe, a few blocks from Times Square. The area was nice, and Times Square felt reasonably safe. I bought theatre tickets at the booth in the middle of the square. The very last time was about 4 years ago. Now, you wouldn’t catch me dead there, it’s so unsafe. This is a shame because I loved the City, it was so alive. My maternal grandparents lived in Manhattan.

          • Islander January 16, 2022 at 12:06 am #

            Hi, Beantown,

            After living on W. 82nd, then on Patchin Place, in the Village, I ended up in an apt. on West 51st St. Times Square was basically my home neighborhood. It was the old Times Square, before they “cleaned it up” and also managed to pull down some of the great old theaters.”

            I was never that anxious in Times Square—completely lit up! And I guess I had become fairly street-wise. One gets to know one’s own neighborhood, walk in the middle of the street, don’t make eye contact, that kind of thing . . . it was the crack era.

            Compared to Manhattan Boston always felt like Sunday morning. Dead.
            I did spend a good portion of my life in the Back Bay.

      • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 1:45 pm #

        That’s so odd, it’s almost exactly like the story a couple months back I think you posted from Chicago, where a recent grad worked in some boutique and a homeless guy came in and stabbed her.

        Almost as if there’s some bizarre agenda.

      • stelmosfire January 15, 2022 at 2:05 pm #

        Hey BRH, what’s up with the hockey players keeling over mid skate? If the off duty FF’s weren’t there this guy would be history.

        https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nhl/firefighters-perform-cpr-on-hockey-player-at-olympia-in-west-springfield/ar-AASMYmT

        • BackRowHeckler January 15, 2022 at 2:43 pm #

          Huh, W Springfield is just up the road but we didn’t hear about this. News stops at the state line lol. (And I don’t mean the State Line Package store)

          Sounds similar to the kid in Greenwich, who they said bleed to death on the ice; however, nobody saw any blood.

    • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 12:29 pm #

      People who reject hierarchies immediately set up new ones, with the most freaky, “oppressed” people being the new virtuous and the new authority figures.

      This utopia you speak of? Children obeyed their parents. The young, the old. Wives, their husbands. People who did a really good job with their obedience and their work, why they might rise to prominence and become village elders. Sometimes women too or at least prominence among the women themselves and having the ear of the elders.

      Mary and Islander were outraged when I described the lesbian relationship between an older, white haired lady and a young woman in her twenties as freaky. They were the height of virtue in their book.

      • Islander January 15, 2022 at 1:12 pm #

        “Islander [was] outraged ”

        Really? Prove it.

        I don’t recall responding to any of your posts.

        • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 1:41 pm #

          Do recall having just responded to one of my posts, the one right above your post?

        • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

          If you don’t respond, he’ll bait you any way. He’s obsessed with women who don’t kowtow to men, and he can’t stop posting about it.

        • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

          Yeah he’s lying about me as well. He makes up shit. Nothing new there.

        • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 1:47 pm #

          We’re on the same side, ladies. We “only” differ about what comes next. See the electoral maps I posted. Women vote liberal. We’ve had enough of that. You have to the ball back to us so we can rebuilt what you helped to destroy.

          • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 2:54 pm #

            No, we’re not on the same side.

            I’m not a racist, a misogynist, a MRA, or base my beliefs on the bible.

          • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 2:57 pm #

            Stop lying about what people say. Stop misrepresenting our ideas and twisting our words. Stop pretending you know what other people think or our intentions: You don’t.

            I’m sure a lot of people up here who you continually lie about would appreciate that.

          • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 6:36 pm #

            Look at the map, Mary. The map tells the sad tale of female voting. Look at it – if your shadow will let you.

          • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 7:26 pm #

            Look within yourself, Jared.

            I realize it may be too ugly, but it would be worth your while.

          • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 9:41 pm #

            Telling the truth about an ugly situation (what feminine voting has done to America) doesn’t make the teller ugly.

  67. benr January 15, 2022 at 11:43 am #

    History does seem to repeat.
    Joe Biden is channeling Jimmy Carter but without Jimmy’s soul.
    Hostages in Afghanistan instead of Iran.
    Gas crisis and a pathetic grasp of policies and foreign policy.
    To include near record inflation.
    Food production and distribution shortages.
    Get ready for a run up on interest rates which will be the final nail in the coffin of the US economy.

    https://www.oann.com/record-inflation-dominates-headlines-white-house/

    • JohnAZ January 15, 2022 at 12:26 pm #

      Three words Benr.

      Tax and spend! Anytime liberal, Deep State entities get in control of DC their policies cause inflation. The conservative alternative in the last thirty years has done little to undo the damage.

      LBJ. Viet Nam and The Great Society.

      Carter just continuation of the same.

      Clinton. His tax and spend was limited by GOP congresses and Gingrich’s welfare reform

      Obama. Tax and spend was dominant as he allowed much of the US manufacturing to be moved overseas.

      Running the presses to fund the spending sprees of the Democrats always kicks up inflation. The 70s and now are the worst because no conservative effort was able to counter the trend. The Bushes made no effort to throttle back the debt situation at all, hence aggravating the situation.

      We are going to get a spurt, who knows how long or how much, of inflation now, it is here. The insanity is to stop it we need to create and spend more money, increase taxes “on the rich”, and off we go again.

      The saddest part of the whole mess is that instead of getting some payback on all the tax and spend, we continue to fall, precipitously now.

      CW2.

      • messianicdruid January 15, 2022 at 4:22 pm #

        “The insanity is to stop it we need to create and spend more money, increase taxes “on the rich”, and off we go again.”

        Doing the same thing and expecting
        … never mind.

      • malthuss January 15, 2022 at 6:41 pm #

        Know your history.
        LBJ and RR opened the flood gates.

  68. malthuss January 15, 2022 at 11:49 am #

    I see Ms Mosley, Freddie Grays champion, may be going to prison.

    one more crooked jogger.

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/us/baltimore-marilyn-mosby-indicted-perjury/index.html

  69. TaxDonkey January 15, 2022 at 12:01 pm #

    Is anyone actually surprised this is ending badly? We the insouciant people of the USA have the government we deserve. Nobody put a gun to our heads and forced high fructose corn syrup, yellow dye #5 and cheese puffs down our throats. Even the most disturbed artist from the last century never dreamed of what a 350 pound ‘consumer’ might look like naked in the years ahead. Outsourcing our production while mowing down our beautiful landscape to build strip malls was perfectly fine with us apparently. Nobody questioned all the endless wars or what exactly is the Federal Reserve. Now those same people bring us the safe and effective shots. Maybe this is just a cyclical aspect of history that has to be suffered, but this time with nuclear weapons and global rather than localized resource depletion. May the strong survive and rebuild a brighter future, so that this process can be repeated.

    • JohnAZ January 15, 2022 at 12:29 pm #

      The PTB have the power. Society has never come up with a good way to stop this simple fact short of all out warfare.

    • beantownbill. January 15, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

      Well, I actually like cheese puffs, but I avoid eating them. Imagining a naked 350 pound woman is a good thing because it would make me vomit up all those cheese puffs.

      People are nonchalant because there’s so many choices in daily life that there’s no time left over to think things through. Complexity is bringing us all down. I grew up in the 1950’s. I always thought that era was sick with hidden tensions, but now I long for the days when things were so simple.

      • Islander January 15, 2022 at 1:18 pm #

        “a naked 350 pound woman ”

        I dunno, a naked 350-man would probably be worse. He might to decide to sit, or lie, on one . . .End of story [choke]

        • beantownbill. January 15, 2022 at 3:34 pm #

          Being a male, I chose the female example. But I actually thought about a 350 pound man. It just didn’t turn me off to the same extent. Men (or at least me) seem to fantasize about their visually ideal woman, so thinking about a very obese female is more of a turnoff for me. I’m definitely not anti-woman like some posters here. As a matter of fact, and I’ve stated this several times before, women are far more superior than men in many respects.

          • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 7:37 pm #

            Remember, you’re a “conservative” now! So what are you trying to conserve? America? If so, look at the electoral map. Women voting has been a disaster for America.

            You won’t want to change, but logic dictates no other alternative. They shouldn’t be voting.

      • TaxDonkey January 15, 2022 at 2:58 pm #

        Never actually said 350 pound woman. No gender discrimination here! I would love to go back to the 1950s. I bet west Los Angeles was cool back then.

    • mitchellc January 15, 2022 at 2:12 pm #

      Looks like you’re bridging the anger-depression steps. One day hopefully you’ll reach acceptance.

      Acceptance means considering the true American stock: the absolute bottom of the barrel of Euro society. Kings granted massive land grant monopolies to connected insiders, who in turn fancied a bit more power and control.

      Racketeers and financial pirates speculated in slaves, tobacco and cotton in a bid to get rich. Downton abbey and similar properties are the result of these fortunes.

      America was always a rickety jalopy, strong armed into behaving somewhat civilized. But Dickenson was aghast when he visited, and of course James got out.

      Even back in the day, the big sell, the ultimate con job was the wholesale brainwashing and forced patriotism of a loose conglomerate of losers to convince themselves they were winners.

      But the truth is no one ever forcefully protected themselves except for the confederacy. The USA has always required a draft and forced conscription, to be managed by a ruthless officer corps in turn in order to get anyone to fight.

      The truth of these observations is two fold:
      – fed.gov knows these facts, so they knew they could get away with anything, and
      – no one has done anything in return in terms of mounting effective opposition, proving them right

      As I’ve suggested before, fed.gov is clearly preparing for war. They commissioned hubbert in the first place, so the Seneca cliff has been part and parcel of COG (continuity of government) planning for a long time.

      Entitled, griping and resentful excess consumers are their adversary. In other words, you.

      • TaxDonkey January 15, 2022 at 3:07 pm #

        Nope, reached acceptance at 3:26pm on May 16th, 2016. Now it’s mostly logistics. How is this going to go down? Who are my neighbors? What is my new role now that I took an early retirement from a high pay but covid retarded job. Previously JMGs essay pasted below was more of an intellectual exercise but now just got real.

        https://www.countercurrents.org/greer070612.htm

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 15, 2022 at 3:42 pm #

        “…the true American stock: the absolute bottom of the barrel of Euro society.”

        true

      • messianicdruid January 15, 2022 at 4:15 pm #

        “But the truth is no one ever forcefully protected themselves except for the confederacy.”

        Shame on you.

        “The farmers in western Massachusetts organized their resistance in ways similar to the American Revolutionary struggle. They called special meetings of the people to protest conditions and agree on a coordinated protest. This led the rebels to close courts by force in the fall of 1786 and to liberate imprisoned debtors from jail. Soon events flared into a full-scale revolt when the resistors came under the leadership of DANIEL SHAYS, a former captain in the Continental Army. This was the most extreme example of what could happen in the tough times brought on by the economic crisis…While the rebellion disintegrated quickly, the underlying social forces that propelled such dramatic action remained. The debtors’ discontent was widespread and similar actions occurred on a smaller scale in Maine (then still part of Massachusetts), Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania among others places.

        While Governor Bowdoin had acted decisively in crushing the rebellion, the voters turned against him in the next election. This high level of discontent, popular resistance, and the election of pro-debtor governments in many states threatened the political notions of many political and social elites. SHAYS’ REBELLION demonstrated the high degree of internal conflict lurking beneath the surface of post-Revolutionary life. National leaders felt compelled to act to put an end to such popular actions that took place beyond the bounds of law.”

        https://www.ushistory.org/Us/15a.asp

        • BackRowHeckler January 15, 2022 at 8:25 pm #

          I got interested in Shay’s Rebellion a few years back, drove out to Sheffield, Mass. where the last (and bloodiest) battle was fought. Turns out the battlefield was on private property so we couldn’t walk around on it; it was just a big field anyway, appearing probably as it was back in the 1790s. The State Historical Society had placed a sturdy plaque at the site noting its historical significance.

          Sheffield is a pretty little town in far SW Mass, largely rural in character with lots of open space. Tragedy struck Sheffield about 2 or 3 years ago when an Iraqi War Veteran, an Army Officer, went berserk and wiped out his whole family, and himself.

          • stelmosfire January 15, 2022 at 9:13 pm #

            Sheffield is 98% white. That just won’t do these days. Build back better says they need more low income housing in those
            “lots of open spaces.” Pretty little town, gotta burn it down!.

          • BackRowHeckler January 15, 2022 at 9:30 pm #

            No place to get a weave in Sheffield, Mass. Stelmo. It’s too far away from any urban centers.

            Altho public housing was built in small Iowa towns far west of Chicago, and residents of some of the most notorious Projects in Cook Country were moved out into them. You can imagine what the results were.

            Hey, -24°F out in the Norfolk area last night.

          • stelmosfire January 15, 2022 at 9:33 pm #

            Western Ma. should secede from Massachusetts. Split off everything east of the Ct. River. We’ve got plenty of water, farmland, forest. Plus old time Yankee smarts. Fuck the wokeys, blues, and urbanites of eastern MA. Sorry Bill. We don’t even exist as far as they’re concerned. If we ignore the 5 college area they’ll dissolve and go away soon enough. Liberal arts bullshit is practically all they teach. When are they going to change the name of Amherst , the town and college? Named after a famous Indian ( sorry indigenous person) killer. Tear down Lee but oh no, heaven forbid, don’t touch Amherst.

        • BackRowHeckler January 15, 2022 at 8:28 pm #

          Further south there was also the Whiskey Rebellion at about the same time if I’m not mistaken.

          • messianicdruid January 15, 2022 at 9:22 pm #

            “Progress is everything.”

            0000

  70. docmartin January 15, 2022 at 12:49 pm #

    I hope all you flatscreen warriors have reduced your flatulence considerably after ranting and philosophizing for the last 24+ hours.

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    • beantownbill. January 15, 2022 at 1:10 pm #

      What’s wrong with philosophizing, anyway? Science grew out of philosophy. There’s no need for you to be so condescending, unless you get a kick out of being that way. If so, you probably should seek counseling.

    • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

      Why do you care?

    • anmariwakaranai January 15, 2022 at 3:43 pm #

      All hail the might DOCTARI, because you have been such a font of truth and copassion for the last couple of years…. do no harmus maximus biotch.

      • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 4:16 pm #

        “I was fraudulently intubating common-cold patients while you were staring at your screen, son!”

        LOL.

    • Disaffected January 15, 2022 at 5:30 pm #

      I must say, I object with your linkage of flatulence and philosophizing. I prize both, mind you, but I’ve never considered them directly linked in any way. Hot air, notwithstanding.

  71. amb January 15, 2022 at 1:20 pm #

    Kill, or be killed. It’s the only solution. This country needs violent, forceful overthrow of its government. Jefferson warned us and instructed us. If you aren’t proactive, if you don’t become ultra-aggressive and destroy a threat to your survival… you will be buried. This is our collective situation.

    • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 4:13 pm #

      Nah, it’s all about united non-compliance.

      And laughing at the criminals and modern Good Germans who are too afraid to stand up to them (because they will turn you in, and you know it).

      Ridicule is the best weapon friend, and it must be done with elan.

      • Disaffected January 15, 2022 at 5:25 pm #

        I’m right there with you. Trouble is, I can’t think of a single time that united non-compliance has ever actually worked. Seems to me that time was 30-40 years ago at least.

      • GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 5:46 pm #

        UK government and media using seriously dirty tactics now, in their desperation:

        https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/concern-for-uk-security-as-anti-vaxxer-groups-evolve-towards-us-style-militias/ar-AASOFIJ?ocid=msedgntp

        “Latest intelligence assessments describe the anti-vaxxer movement as ostensibly a conveyor belt, delivering fresh recruits to extremist groups, including racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist organisations.”

        Taking a leaf out of Trudeau’s book, with his ‘often misogynists, often racists …”

        This will help with putting people in jail just for talking on a blog, and the idiots will think it’s really great.

        • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 6:36 pm #

          They are doing this everywhere — another sign that it is centrally coordinated.

          In the US they just announced an anti-domenstic-terrorism task force that is targeting MAGA types (the US propaganda-defined equivalent of “antivaxers”), and in Germany the Verfassungsschutz head (office for the protection of the constitution) just claimed that the people protesting Corona measures are “enemies of the state” — mirroring Merrick Garland’s language in the US.

          Trudeau and Macron have also been using similar language. All centrally controlled by the big spider in DAVOS.

          • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 7:32 pm #

            Yep. Looks like they want their civil war.

          • Islander January 16, 2022 at 12:13 am #

            “another sign that it is centrally coordinated.”

            another central coordination signal:

            Everyone is saying on cue:

            “We just have to learn to live with covid.”
            Funny vid compilation of the news parrots and pols at The Highwire.

            Not a huge fan of Bigtree, but he is improving noticeably. This was really a pretty good episode. Episode 250, on Bitchute.

          • Islander January 16, 2022 at 12:18 am #

            I wish someone with talents beyond what I possess would come up with a seriously ridiculous “walking back” meme for all of this “What, I have been saying this all along!” shit, also coming out of the Faucian pie hole.

        • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 11:10 pm #

          At last you realize the poisonous nature of such words. I’ve been warning people with little success for years.

  72. Jarek January 15, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

    JUST IN – Downing Street staff held “wine-time Fridays” throughout the pandemic. Boris Johnson regularly witnessed the gatherings, attended a “handful.”

    Bottle with popping cork staff bought a fridge to store wine, Prosecco & beer.

    Jarek: They didn’t even invite Alba….

    • stelmosfire January 15, 2022 at 2:11 pm #

      For Karen it’s whine-time 24/7. Insufferable bitch.

  73. messianicdruid January 15, 2022 at 3:59 pm #

    They came for the health care workers and I only cared for my own … hey wait a minute!

    • SoftStarLight January 15, 2022 at 4:18 pm #

      Nobody should have to take “medicine” they don’t wanna take

  74. SoftStarLight January 15, 2022 at 4:16 pm #

    I dunno. It doesn’t really feel like there is a good atmosphere going on right now. And that’s about all i’ll say about that with snipers in the midst and everything lol. But if there isn’t an appropriate atmosphere around then the sunshine will bake and boil you in like seconds or if the sunshine is not around you will completely freeze like a statue. So it seems like there has to be a favorable atmosphere present in order for the sunshine to be survivable and beneficial.

  75. Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 5:38 pm #

    Mary — if you are around: I know you are a Pockets fan, and you might enjoy this, given the Alec Baldwin tear he has been on. It’s pretty good stuff.

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

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    • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 5:52 pm #

      Oh my gawd he’s so funny! Wow. That’s great, he has the voice and mannerisms down. The puppet Hilaria – hahahahahaha!

      • Night Owl January 15, 2022 at 6:42 pm #

        The part about the baby movie had me dying.

      • liber8tor January 15, 2022 at 7:18 pm #

        Kyle Dunnigan is a talented guy. Does some spot on imitations.

        Thanks JHK for your weekly dispatches that help me cope with the dopes in Washington.

        • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 8:23 pm #

          Was he the crazy guy in Reno 911 who wore the chicken suit and got flattened by a bus? LOL.

  76. MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 7:24 pm #

    Column: Mocking anti-vaxxers’ COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes — but may be necessary

    “Among all the ways that COVID-19 affects our lives, the pandemic confronts us with a profound moral dilemma:

    How should we react to the deaths of the unvaccinated?

    On the one hand, a hallmark of civilized thought is the sense that every life is precious.

    On the other, those who have deliberately flouted sober medical advice by refusing a vaccine known to reduce the risk of serious disease from the virus, including the risk to others, and end up in the hospital or the grave can be viewed as receiving their just deserts.”

    https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-01-10/why-shouldnt-we-dance-on-the-graves-of-anti-vaxxers

    These people are brownshirts.

    • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 7:33 pm #

      I was mocked a couple of weeks ago for posting something identical that someone had said came from the NYSlimes. And now look! Here it is.

  77. GreenAlba January 15, 2022 at 7:43 pm #

    One for our resident troll:

    https://peckford42.wordpress.com/2021/09/28/australian-nurses-spill-the-beans-on-vaccine-injuries-and-deaths-does-anyone-think-this-is-all-lies-all-made-up/

    “Australian Nurses Spill The Beans On Vaccine Injuries And Deaths—Does Anyone Think This Is All Lies , All Made Up?”

    So maybe Australia’s not an ‘advocacy’-tactic country after all. It’s just that the censors are just as draconian as elsewhere – and possibly even more so – when it comes to the ‘safe and effective vaccines’. And the doctors aren’t reporting the deaths and injuries.

    • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 8:20 pm #

      Resident troll doesn’t do facts, only Media Matters propaganda.

    • ianw January 15, 2022 at 9:51 pm #

      There are some pretty sad first-hand stories in there … there’s no denying that.

      Mostly they relate to people with serious illnesses already (‘co-morbidities’), who would probably also become seriously unwell if they contracted Covid-19.

      It’s still the case that serious Covid-19 illness is much less among the vaccinated – there’s no denying that either.

      And there needs to be sense of proportion – millions and millions of people have been vaccinated without any ill-effects whatsoever – myself and my partner, and everyone else we know without exception, included.

      I think of it as the Airbag Syndrome.

      Some years ago now, there were a couple of media reports of kids being killed by airbags – never mind that they were travelling in the front seat when they shouldn’t have, never mind that they weren’t belted in properly, and never mind they could have just as fatally injured if the airbag had not deployed.

      Never mind any facts – and never mind that airbags save thousands of lives annually. People all over the place pulled the wires to their airbags. The madness of crowds.

      • stelmosfire January 15, 2022 at 11:43 pm #

        Well, despite my desire to not engage the troll I feel the need to interject. Air bags are for non seat belt wearing persons. If you wear a good 3 point seat belt , available in every car since I don’t know when, your airbag does nothing besides smash your face. Actually airbags have killed quite often. Side airbags are a different story. When an old lady runs an intersection and gets sideways with an 18 wheeler it will save her life. Of course it was the truck drivers fault so there ya go.

        • ianw January 16, 2022 at 1:08 am #

          I feel you might have missed the whole point, of the analogy, but never mind …

          • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 5:37 am #

            You deliberately miss the point of everything, because you are a disgusting, lying troll.

            There are over 13,000 reports of myocarditis on the VAERS system (where it is known only a tiny fraction of adverse reactions are reported). They overwhelmingly relate to young men and boys, who do not have comorbidities.

            A peer-reviewed study of these myocarditis cases was published in the Elsevier journal ‘Problems in Cardiology’. Then, because the US public health authorities were about to decide on vaccinating children against a disease that does healthy children no serious harm, the paper was withdrawn, without telling the authors and over the head of the protesting journal editor. Elsevier are being sued and will hopefully be slaughtered in court. That won’t save the children who have suffered adverse reactions or died in the meantime as a result of that information being censored and of all information about adverse reactions and deaths being censored generally, all around the world, and clearly on the same orders.

            There are simply no words for what you are. It is not surprising that you have to take refuge in alcohol and sick ‘humour’ to try to hide your corrupt soul from your own view

            Well, there are words – like vile, disgusting and corrupt. It’s just that they don’t do justice to what you are.

          • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 5:40 am #

            According to Dr Lee Merritt, Navy Surgeon, 50% of those boys and young men who suffered myocarditis as a result of the poison jabs will be dead of heart failure within 6.5 years.

            A face rag is not enough for you – you should cover your shame in sackcloth.

          • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 5:55 am #

            The other question you repeatedly miss, lying troll, is why are those 13,000 cases of myocarditis (and details of the known under-reporting factor) not on the news and on every front page around the world? Why are they (and all the deaths and injuries generally) not part of the pre-jab information people are given before being invited to give their informed consent?

          • Islander January 16, 2022 at 11:03 am #

            Green Alba,
            Re “There are over 13,000 reports of myocarditis on the VAERS system (where it is known only a tiny fraction of adverse reactions are reported). ”

            On the Highwire episod 250 (I htink I mentinoned this already) it turns out that there is an additional database of adverse reactions that no one has even heard o—V-Something—and it is much easier to use for reporting adverse events after jabbing than VAERS.

            Not sure why we never heard of this before!

            anyhow,
            1. There are over a million reports on it
            2. The ease of reporting on this GV-thing suggests the likelihood of even more underreporting on VAERS than by the percentages alone as concluded by the Harvard study of VAERS.

            I don’t have the time to listen to the whole thing again to figure out where this is discussed, but here is a link to Episode 250 on Bitchute:
            “Game, Set, Match,”

            https://www.bitchute.com/video/cJVQ4yzMMjxI/

            Good on you for entering the lists against our resident troll/MSM cutout.
            I just can’t stomach it!

          • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 1:04 pm #

            Thanks, islander, I’ll look into that. They obviously want to make everything as opaque as possible to try to stop the truth getting out. The truth is getting out anyway, but not fast enough or widely enough, due to the gargantuan level of censorship.

            The idea that the entity called ‘ianw’ could remotely be a normal citizen is beyond laughable. He is a parody.

          • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 1:24 pm #

            islander

            I just went over to bitchute to watch that video, but this caught my eye (it’s less than a minute). It’s one of the sickest things I’ve seen.

            Trudeau, speaking directly to children (5-12 year olds) telling them to ask their parents if they can get vaccinated. Apparently half of them already are, but that’s not enough for him.

            https://www.bitchute.com/video/bp15g6KfJeiK/

            There are no words.

      • stelmosfire January 15, 2022 at 11:47 pm #

        Ianw, Cargill, Takapo,etc. Give it up.

      • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 12:37 am #

        Ian. I hope you’re taking the preventative supplements on here. What with all the new government immunity disclosures….

        • ianw January 16, 2022 at 1:06 am #

          I have a good tan – it’s summer here and we walk a lot – so up-to-date with my Vitamin D. Chardonnay is good too I hear – up there with Ivermectin!

          • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 6:06 am #

            Alcohol is unequivocally a toxin. Mostly we know that but take our chances, because a glass of wine is enjoyable.

            Given that the jabs incrementally destroy your immune system, and cause fast-track cancers, you might find alcohol is better avoided in your case. Obviously that will be even more pertinent when you’ve had your booster. And increasingly so as you continue to take boosters (you won’t be offered a choice – it will be a condition of participating in society and, eventually, of accessing money.

            Nothing (observable, anyway) happened to my husband either following his first two jabs, btw. Most people who have serious adverse reactions to the first or second jab wouldn’t be suicidal enough to take a third one. And your government has bought enough of the ‘vaccine’ (developed for a strain of covid that no longer exists anywhere) to jab you all 10 times. It’s basically a filtering exercise, through time. At some time it will be your turn to be caught in the filter.

          • Islander January 16, 2022 at 11:10 am #

            Aussies, Hang your heads in shame—or despair.

            https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/vaccine/australia-has-covid-vaccines-made-us-vulnerable-to-other-diseases/

  78. MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 8:41 pm #

    270 ‘experts’ apparently want Joe Rogan cancelled, and are pressuring Spotify. Because interviewing scientists and specialists with years of experience is now ‘spreading dangerous information’ with INTENT TO CAUSE PUBLIC HARM.

    That is where we are people.

    And all of the news you trust are backing this: The Rolling Stone is in the forefront, as well as all the usual suspects.

    Brownshirt time.

    • mitchellc January 15, 2022 at 9:07 pm #

      Serious question: why do you care?

      During WW2, Lord Haha and Toyko Rose, citizens of GB and USA respectively, worked for the Germans and Japanese as propaganda agents.

      Their radio shows were favorites of many listening Allied audiences. The reason they saw humor in the broadcasts was because they well understood an actual war was underway.

      You seem to still react as if something is about to happen, when in actuality it already occurred. If you got your head straight about the actual situation at hand. any commentary on mainstream “news” would be completely redundant.

      I keep suggesting turn off the torrent and focus on what’s really happening.

      • MaryQueen January 15, 2022 at 9:42 pm #

        Serious question: Why do you care?

        Who died and made you the hall monitor?

        I suggest you shaddap and stop annoying people.

      • Islander January 16, 2022 at 11:14 am #

        What is “really happening”?

        In one sentence.

        Thanks.

      • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 4:14 pm #

        “Lord Haha”

        Lord Haha!!

        HawHawHawHawHawHawHawHawHawHawHawHaw!!

    • Islander January 16, 2022 at 12:15 am #

      Rolling Stone?

      That is most shocking.

      Seriously.

    • TaxDonkey January 16, 2022 at 2:43 pm #

      Hey Mary, any indication that the ‘270 experts’ have had any success with their censorship? Both Rogan/McCullough and Rogan/Malone have gotten about 50million downloads. By contrast, CNN viewership is like 800,000. Still too many. Even Tucker is only 3million or so. The optimist could say that the ‘discovery’ or ‘awakening’ phase of this story is progressing in a positive direction.

      Having said that, beware of any false prophet that doesn’t include shutting down the passports. CA Fitts explains this crystal clear.

      https://usawatchdog.com/headed-for-a-digital-concentration-camp-catherine-austin-fitts/

      • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 2:55 pm #

        Good one. I wish everyone would listen to her! She knows what she is talking about. She was in the belly of the beast.

  79. ianw January 15, 2022 at 9:38 pm #

    Could be a slow news day this Sunday afternoon in summery Australia – Sky News is carrying Trump’s Arizona rally live. Fox News isn’t – must have gone all woke!

    • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 12:02 am #

      It’s a pity you’re still indulging your Trump obsession lol

      • ianw January 16, 2022 at 1:49 am #

        It’s a pity you’re still indulging your Trump obsession lol

        It’s actually the reverse – I couldn’t give a toss about Trump – he’s been and gone and won’t be back in 2024. It’s the obsessives who believe the 2020 election was rigged who need treatment.

        But the problem is a bit deeper – there are plenty on here who believe that only Republicans have authority when they get elected – when Democrats get elected they’re illegitimate.

        It’s certainly what the batshit partisan Supreme Court thinks. Trump got a free pass on all sorts of EO lunacy – Biden gets nailed on a perfectly legit vaccine mandate.

        • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 2:20 am #

          Oh ok. Well what should the obsessives who believe the 2016 election was rigged do? I assume therapy is also in order.

          It’s interesting to consider but then do recall that the entire mainstream media and social media are ostensibly Democrat institutions. Not to be outdone by academia and essentially the entire corporate world.

          If the osha “vaccine” mandate was legit Biden’s chief of staff would not have referred to it as a work around the Consitution. The mandate for healthcare workers (also unconstitutional) was kept in place by your partisan Supreme Court.

        • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 12:45 pm #

          “Biden gets nailed on a perfectly legit vaccine mandate.”

          How can it ever be ‘legit’ to mandate a ‘vaccine’ that is still in Stage 3 trials and has killed hundreds of thousands of recipients in the course of that trial?

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 2:41 pm #

          You’re practically the only one up here who mentions Trump.

          Time to look inward, Poo.

          • TaxDonkey January 16, 2022 at 2:48 pm #

            Trump is done. Bring in the corn pone Nazi already!

          • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 2:56 pm #

            We are post-politician. We are global. The WEF is your mommy and daddy now.

  80. Jarek January 15, 2022 at 10:09 pm #

    Anglin translates Two Chainz’s song, Million Dollars Worth of Game from Ebonics into English, then comments:

    I own a Mercedes-Benz Maybach G650
    The only time I drive it is to pick up codeine cough syrup
    The FBI has filed charges against me, and the court proceedings are complex
    The only time I let a woman make music with me is when I am having sexual intercourse with her
    I’m a famous person, but I don’t let it go to my head

    I am extremely wealthy from being involved in profitable business ventures, buddy
    I sell marijuana and I also sell cocaine, while simultaneously working as a professional recording artist
    I sit courtside when I go to professional basketball games

    There is cash and jewelry on my nightstand
    I own a secondhand handgun with an extension and I hope the firing pin doesn’t fail to strike the round
    The seller told me the gun is in good condition, I suppose he was being frank with me
    During my early days performing music, I would fire a Fabrique Nationale handgun into the air to attract a crowd of spectators
    Long before I owned a private jet, I had a scheme to flee law enforcement if necessary
    I am the greatest person of all time, and you can shake my hand
    A woman will have sexual intercourse with one of your friends because she is personally insecure

    We were drinking so much codeine cough syrup that we bought the entire stock of Sprite from our local corner store
    You don’t understand, my baseball cap represents the city of Atlanta
    Cowardly men make outrageous claims of personal audacity which are untrue
    I am working long hours lately, synthesizing crack cocaine
    The prostitutes in my establishment have breasts like Thanksgiving turkeys
    I hope I don’t need to show you a million dollars in cash, but I will do so if necessary
    My firearms have very long barrels
    Woman, shake your buttocks in front of me
    Your body is strong, like strong liquor

    I can remember when Chief Keef produced quality rap music
    But he really fell off after the first album, unlike myself
    The reason the bag I’m carrying is so large is that it is filled with kilos of cocaine
    Everyone cannot be as great as I am
    I’m an outsider, so people are against me
    Buddy, all of the prostitutes that work for me drive a Mercedes-Benz
    A person cannot have sexual intercourse via text message
    Even if you don’t like me personally, you must respect me

    Fabrique Nationale remains my favorite producer of firearms
    Buddy, step away from me or I will shoot you
    I can easily murder someone without getting my clothing dirty
    It’s fine if you want to irritate me, because I will simply murder you in response
    I have various sizes of impressive rims on my automobiles
    My friend died, and it’s sad because he sold the best marijuana
    I drive a Rolls-Royce, but not specifically to try to humiliate you
    I’m still very surprised that I made this much money from rap music

    Okay, so.

    I’ll just reiterate that 2 Chainz is an OG. His first album was released in 2002, and he was later signed on to Ludacris’ record label. We all remember Ludacris. That was a long time ago.

    The point being: this is the entirety of black culture, and has been for decades. All they think about is selling drugs, having sex, killing people, and acquiring expensive products. It’s very clearly the single most unhealthy culture on the planet, which is the reason why their behavior is so outrageous. More outrageous than their behavior is the fact that many or even most white people believe that their behavior is somehow our fault.

    People who personally identify with this kind of rap music, who hold the associated identity, are the kind of people who were rioting in 2020. It was not political actually at all. It was just a bunch of criminals running buckwild. The only political element is that blacks do generally dislike white people, on a personal level, because they can’t relate to them at all, as there is now zero overlap in basic culture.

    What I will say is that some of the basic arguments that you would have read in the National Review during the 1970-80s black crime waves is that government policy is largely responsible for this culture that has developed among blacks. Government social services policy encourages the father to be removed from the home, and the welfare programs and public housing then cause these fatherless boys – who have to have exaggerated masculinity because they were raised exclusively by women – to not work and instead be parasites on society while engaging their primitive instincts. Then of course, the government allowed drugs to be introduced to their culture.

    Jarek: The Father. The Father. The Father. Only Men can give birth to good Men. In Freudian terms, the Culture has been destroyed so no more Superego. And the Father is gone, so no one is there to teach them how to be men, so no Ego. The only think left is instinct or Id.

    The nuclear family is weak in Black Africa but the Clan is strong, with both male and female role models. The clan remains somewhat intact in America, but again, most just female role models, and of course not always good ones.

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    • Jarek January 15, 2022 at 11:04 pm #

      Here’s the song. Thank God for Anglin’s translation. This language has diverged even further in the last few decades. I can’t even make out the words “bitches” or “hoes”, that’s how alien it sounds now.

      So you won’t be offended by understanding it, but there is a bit of partial nudity, so be warned.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUHEtjejXoc&t=34s

      • stelmosfire January 16, 2022 at 8:20 am #

        All I hear is Nigga, Nigga, Nigga, blah, blah, blah, nigga, nigga, nigga, blah,blah,blah, continue ad nauseum. Dat shiit rocks a bro like Amadeus.

    • messianicdruid January 16, 2022 at 12:21 am #

      Definitely a goat.

    • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 1:51 pm #

      Not sure why this is allowed, and links to Storm Front aren’t.

    • stelmosfire January 15, 2022 at 11:52 pm #

      That’s tragic, I’m gonna light a candle.

    • tucsonspur January 16, 2022 at 12:53 am #

      Yeah, he was sent to the happy rapping grounds. ‘Dead navy pooh, he’s as dead as he can be, because this navy boy got popped for joy and became a dead body’.

      • malthuss January 16, 2022 at 10:19 am #

        happy NAPPY hunting grounds.

  81. gustafson.robert.22 January 15, 2022 at 11:52 pm #

    “Well Rulo, I agree but Gustaph doesn’t. He wants things as primitive as possible, and he’s fine with violence. But then expects them to have the same beliefs that he has now!

    He wants the cannibals talking about ecology and how Civilization was crazy because it used up the Earth’s resources.”

    pretty much.

    except “cannibals talking about ecology” is simplistic because cannibalism need not be anything necessary or central to the culture, and the understanding of ecology would emanate mostly from experience, with a distant, remembered sprinkling of preserved history and science on top

    maybe not “as primitive as possible.” but economically? pretty primitive. A dominant economy with more kinship to that of 20k BC than any other period

    enlightened, conscious primitivism capable of policing itself so that it never breeds aspirational civilization-building in the sense of 10kBC–2000AD aspirational civilizations (aggressive, unsustainable growth as means of shortlived dominance followed by quick and dangerous decay).

    • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 8:13 am #

      It’s an interesting conversation. I thought about the arguments presented by J & you upthread. “History” starts with writing, conventionally about 5k yrs ago. “Civilization” is writing + warfare + hierarchies.

      The accepted argument is that humans who lived in the tens of thousands of years before history were savage and primitive. But that argument turns out to be obsolete. Many of those societies were quite complex. And members lived more peacefully and happily than during historic times, when war, worship of authority and ecocide became the norm.

      To me, the argument boils down to the gap that separates what is possible and the awareness of the consequences. Deforestation to build fleets and feed industry (Rome, England) vs. awareness that an unwise use of the timber resource is not beneficial in the long run. Even if some do have the awareness, they won’t prevail, because the other side, the “let’s do it and think about it later” faction, will point out that if “we” don’t do it others will, and “progress” can’t be stopped anyway.

      With new sources of energy and new advanced technologies, what was possible to achieve increased enormously. But “let’s do it and think about it later” was, and is, still the dominant thought.

      So I mentioned plastics, chemicals, nuclear energy, things that offer immediate civilizational advantages and convenience, but have a long afterlife and problematic effects. But it’s every where you look: green revolution (powerful fertilizers and pesticides, GMO seed), “let’s feed an ever increasing number of us and think about it later”, advances in eradicating disease, “let’s increase the population exponentially and think about it later”, etc.

      gustafson: “enlightened, conscious primitivism capable of policing itself”. Yes, sure, but we won’t see it in our lifetimes. The price for this enlightenment will be, I’m afraid, a turbulent era of destruction caused by 5,000 years of hubris. The inevitable Nemesis, the proverbial four horsemen, on a massive scale.

      We’ll have to be beaten to an inch of our survival before learning the hard truth of meditation and non-action before any action. It will be extremely difficult to learn to restrain ourselves from doing something just because we can.

      Some of us have always have that inclination to stop and think, to embrace sophrosyne (the opposite of hubris; “a life in balance”; moderation, selflessness, philosophical thought, frugality), but were constantly outvoted and outmaneuvered by the eager, avid majority who wants better standards of living now, this generation, and damn the consequences.

      It turns out, Neolithic populations seemed to be in possession of sophrosyne – historical era populations, up to present times, lost it completely to the point that Nemesis is now banging on the door, to collect the debts our hubris has incurred.

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 16, 2022 at 8:58 am #

        well put

        ” ‘enlightened, conscious primitivism capable of policing itself’. Yes, sure, but we won’t see it in our lifetimes. The price for this enlightenment will be, I’m afraid, a turbulent era of destruction caused by 5,000 years of hubris.”

        definitely not in our lifetimes. probably not for some centuries.

        my belief though, is that the clearer the picture of a realistic end-goal after weathering this “nemesis” of consequences, this collapse… the more people are united, clear, realistic about where we should be headed, the more the period of transition will be 1) eased as much as is possible, and 2) successful.

        even in these comments, which are from a relatively rarified set of people open to and aware of these notions of economic collapse and coming energy-scarcity… even here, few are actually able to relinquish contemporary values and accomplishments of the civilization they’ve been born in. Many either want to cling to these civilizational values and accomplishments, or deeply mourn the prospect of their loss.

        So if any quality consensus can be reached on a realistic and desirable end-goal (centuries down the road) in the midst of coming energetic and structural crunches… it’s (such a consensus is) still a hell of a long way off.

        my belief is that such a consensus should be the current goal.

        but, as i said, even among commenters on this site (and others), it seems incredibly distant

        • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 10:13 am #

          gustafson – a shift in consciousness will take centuries, I agree.

          Consensus is impossible right now. We refuse to see the problems. “If only the right wing / left wing were defeated, we could go back to the way things were”

          This, with a majority of fairly intelligent commenters here. You browse comments in more massive pages, you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Utter denial. Trump’s fault! Biden’s fault!

          I understand that the epochal changes brought by c19 & its ramifications take a lot of bandwidth. But once you’ve decided to not comply, it feels like going in circles to stay in that rut. Even worse to try convincing anyone. I like what poster got_truth says, about thinking a move or two ahead, like chess. Others feel that way too, and it’s encouraging. I’m through burning my eyeballs fine-combing the hairball. Others, smarter, better informed, can do it. I just won’t comply. Won’t march, won’t sign online petitions, probably won’t even vote. Just won’t comply.

          • gustafson.robert.22 January 16, 2022 at 10:40 am #

            yes, it’s an era of distractions. Ultimately covid, vax, politics, renewables, davos, race, digital currency/id, constitutionality, religion, abortion, class inequity, climate-change, geopolitics, etc… all distractions, if divorced from primary energy-limit and overpopulation understanding,

            distractions, if not addressed in light of an end-goal which confronts those overpopulation and energy-limit accurately and fully

            the definition of a distraction is ANYTHING which weakens one’s focus on the most fundamental, necessary, pressing, root realities. it’s increasingly unlikely that anything worthwhile is accomplished the further away endeavors or concerns wander from the most fundamental realities/problems/root-causes

        • Islander January 16, 2022 at 9:46 pm #

          ” Many either want to cling to these civilizational values and accomplishments, or deeply mourn the prospect of their loss.”

          This sentence is meaningless unless you define exactly what YOU mean by “civilizational values.”

          Both yours, and those you impute to those whom you implicitly and explicitly criticize here. In an annoyingly superior tone, I might add.

          State your premises, sir.

  82. roccofire January 16, 2022 at 12:11 am #

    JHK your essay this week sounds like my weather tv stations yelling RED ALERT, for a second I thought what is Putin up to now, and quickly ran outside but saw nothing, then zero degree with a wind chill factor minus 10, OH I thought wind chill warning, followed by the upcoming snow storm that will hit my area Sunday at 21:00 hours. BUT, I do not fear because my state governor is Socrates reborn and she will lead us and NYS to safety, and the Buffalo Bills easily beat New England tonight. I got my booster shot today, hospital front line guy we have limited economic choice to say no, but the one side effect from the booster is that, I see stupid people everywhere!!.

    • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 12:23 am #

      Rocco, to help stop or slow the failure of your immune system due to the jab, now announced by Germany and the UK, please start taking vitamin c, d, zinc, selenium, nac and Querceten.

      • ianw January 16, 2022 at 2:21 am #

        Or you can just relax and have the odd crisp Chardonnay out in the late afternoon sunshine … that’s what all the adult non-paranoid grown-ups are doing.

        These fear-porn anti-vaxxers are something else, aren’t they? Weird city.

        • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 2:30 am #

          Boost away baby! Have you scheduled your next injection?

          • ianw January 16, 2022 at 3:07 am #

            Boost away baby! Have you scheduled your next injection?

            Yep Moderna booster on 22 January. If you notice me missing on 23 Jan, say a small anti-vax prayer for me! Thanks.

          • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 3:11 am #

            Well it’s a big mistake and you should not do it

        • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 2:32 am #

          Yah. Those paranoid British and German governments that say you have ade.

  83. messianicdruid January 16, 2022 at 12:47 am #

    MaryQueen says she doesn’t “base” her beliefs on the bible.

    “Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”

    Is there a better “base” than bedrock? Do you live on a boat?

    Most people ascribe to some of His teachings – the part about murder.

    The more the merrier I say.

    • ianw January 16, 2022 at 2:26 am #

      MaryQueen says she doesn’t “base” her beliefs on the bible.

      Every rational thinking person in the world is an atheist – even six-year-old kids know it’s all horseradish. Get over these childish pursuits MD – they do you no good at all.

      • Anthea January 16, 2022 at 10:27 am #

        @ ianw:

        In your case, it is perhaps atheism that has extirpated any vestige of rationality and mentation–though I suppose there are other purely physical conditions that could be the cause of this. Nor does atheism necessarily inspire a settled enmity to the rights, freedom, agency, and dignity of ones fellow humans.

        But you do seem to be a bit of an object lesson on the ill effects of atheism: silly and trivial, unreasoning and cowardly. Your servile reverence for State-sanctioned authority is almost certainly rooted in cowardice and opportunism.

        You have a religion: you worship the State.

        True religion would direct you to an awareness and cultivation your inner being and its dignity and glory, which is no ones subject or slave.

        • JohnAZ January 16, 2022 at 1:50 pm #

          Very good!

          He worships the state.

          Human beings have a battle within themselves,

          Who is the boss here, my ego or a being bigger than themselves.

          Atheists, by nature, believe that no one is bigger, or more important than they themselves are. That the world begins and ends with them.

          So they believe in the state, which is comprised of ego maniacal people just like them.

          Boy, are they going to be disappointed that they are going to die and turn to dust like everyone else.

          Faith in something bigger than humanity itself is impossible for them.

          Like eternal teenagers, don’t tell me what to do.

      • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 12:40 pm #

        A minor point, troll.

        I feel (and I may not be alone, but I will not presume) that ‘horseradish’ has been done to death somewhat under your current nom de plume of ‘ianw’.

        I’m guessing your Troll Handbook maybe has a Glossary at the end with some other options?

        Check out ‘hackneyed phrases’ in Fowler’s, if you feel moved.

        Your usage is possibly affected by your robotic approach to argument.

        • Night Owl January 16, 2022 at 1:41 pm #

          Careful, or he is going to attack you with a bullet-point list.

          When this happens, you know you have achieved high-value-target status at MMFA headquarters.

          • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 2:57 pm #

            LOL!

      • JohnAZ January 16, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

        If you do not believe in a creator, you must believe in magic, that poof, there is a universe.

        I think you are right though, 6 year olds are too young to have a spiritual side yet.

        Sorta like you. How did your good sense development stop at six?

      • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 1:42 pm #

        Not believing the bible doesn’t necessarily make one an atheist, ianw.

        I do not define myself as such. And stop using me to make your stupid arguments.

  84. ianw January 16, 2022 at 2:18 am #

    Novax Djokovic has lost his Federal Court appeal 3-0 on Sunday – he’s got to go.

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    • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 2:33 am #

      He’s too good for such a primitive country

      • ianw January 16, 2022 at 2:50 am #

        He’s too good for such a primitive country

        Have you actually every travelled anywhere – outside of a county fair?

        • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 2:54 am #

          Lol aww that hurt huh – well be nicer to your guests and no one will notice anyway

          • ianw January 16, 2022 at 3:01 am #

            Answer the question if you wish – have you ever travelled anywhere to be able to say that Australia is a “primitive country”?

          • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 3:02 am #

            What do you care anyway?

          • ianw January 16, 2022 at 3:20 am #

            What do you care anyway?

            I don’t really care – but anyone who calls Australia a “primitive country” is very likely not been outside of Illinois or Missouri or Iowa – or wherever they were born.

          • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 3:27 am #

            And what evidence do you have for such an assertion? It may also be appropriate to define “primitive” in the course of such a discussion.

          • ianw January 16, 2022 at 4:29 am #

            And what evidence do you have for such an assertion? It may also be appropriate to define “primitive” in the course of such a discussion.

            No real evidence – just a big hunch.

            I could say that the US is a primitive, violent, unsophisticated place – but I would have some justification, having travelled there eight times and spent maybe 18 months there in toto.

            Australia is not perfect – where is? – but it is a very very cool place, in almost all the ways that matter.

          • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 8:49 am #

            Australia is like “The Prisoner” writ large. a big, hot continent, instead of Portmeirion.

            There are people from places like Iraq who are currently trying to escape back to their own country. They left one dictatorship and now find themselves in another, so feel they might as well be home with their families.

            Escaping Australia for Iraq. The shame.

          • stelmosfire January 16, 2022 at 8:50 am #

            Australia is a water deficient desert with a pretty green ribbon wrapped around it .

            From the wiki crap site “Australia is the oldest,flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soil”

            A wasteland basically, No wonder it makes such a good prison island. Some parts are beautiful . Most of the island is barren.

          • ianw January 16, 2022 at 1:49 pm #

            A wasteland basically, No wonder it makes such a good prison island. Some parts are beautiful . Most of the island is barren.

            It’s a continent, rather than island – it’s comparable to the US Lower 48. Yes – a huge swathe of it is arid, infertile, and essentially uninhabitable.

            It has its own wondrous fascination though.

            But the good bits are very very good, so we’ll settle for that. And I much prefer its cities, way of life, culture, and politics to America, but I’ll basically keep that to myself on an American-based forum.

            Yes – it started European life as a free-range penal colony, but only after transportation of convicts to the American colonies was terminated in 1785.

          • JohnAZ January 16, 2022 at 2:02 pm #

            Okay, everyone.

            Both America and Australia were dumping grounds for the English to get rid of people that did not fit in, religiously or politically.

            Take away a beautiful Australian accent, and the two people are more similar than not.

            We both have inherited the tendency to tell authority to go to hell.

            We disagree with one another constantly, but when some outside force tries to take over, join and fight. Due to the lack of enemies recently, this cohesiveness seems to be weakening.

            Both are examples of the grand diversity experiment, can different peoples with different beliefs co-exist?

            Ian, you are shaking your finger at the US, look around you might find some problems there at home.

            Like how well were your aboriginal Blacks treated early in your history, as well as today.

          • ianw January 16, 2022 at 3:03 pm #

            Ian, you are shaking your finger at the US, look around you might find some problems there at home.

            No no – I am not – I love America and have graced its shores 7-8 times.

            And I agree that we are far more similar than we are different – however I much prefer here, because we’re not so desperately ambitious, it has retained some of the better qualities of the UK, and I think we have done multiculturalism better, overall.

            Our treatment of Aboriginal People has been pretty shameful, but nothing like what 18th and 19th Century Americans did to Native Americans. But that’s another story.

          • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 7:43 pm #

            “I love America and have graced its shores 7-8 times”

            I think you’ll find it’s up to America to say whether you graced its shores or not.

      • Night Owl January 16, 2022 at 3:59 am #

        It ain’t the country, it is the WEF rejects that were installed into government. Dumbo-eared lifelong rejects like Dan Andrews, Gunnar, etc. Losers who need to take out their rage for their lot in life on others. 🙂

        The real Australia:

        https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1482558352093757440?cxt=HHwWgICy9eu9jZMpAAAA

        • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 4:17 am #

          This is encouraging to see some people standing their ground. Yes the installed leaders and the minions and the robocops are the real problem.

        • ianw January 16, 2022 at 4:24 am #

          Your Low IQ is blatantly on show again … are you not even a little bit embarrassed?

          Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, and NT Chief Minister Peter Gunner will easily win re-election I expect. I know you hate democracy, but there you go.

          • Night Owl January 16, 2022 at 4:55 am #

            Why do you have no friends on this board?

            I know why.

          • JohnAZ January 16, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

            You say someone else hates democracy?

            You do not even understand what democracy is!

            Much of the US Constitution was written to protect the young country from “democracy”. Your description of democracy makes no sense at all in trying to preserve the governance of a people.

            Biden’s democracy, feed the gimmes, is the same thing that the Roman emperors did to cater to the masses that eventually tore down the empire.

            The real problem with democracy is that it needs a uniform populace with goals and substance being the same. Otherwise, the “democracy” just tears things apart, as different people wrestle for control.

            Right now the Deep State is using “democracy” as a rallying call to hide the fact that “democracy” is tearing the US apart.

            Give me a republic with honest elections anyway, to supply a portfolio of laws to live under. Other than that, “democracy” can just stay in some idealist’s imagination.

            I do not remember who the classic philosopher was who said it but,

            One person, by themselves, without impact on anyone else can have a democracy.

            Two or more, as they impact each other, must have rules and regulations guiding interaction.

            Democracy, pure form, was tried and rejected in Greece long ago.

            Quit using “democracy” as a Liberal slogan, it is BS.

          • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

            WEF appointing puppets is not democracy, in any sense of the word.

          • ianw January 16, 2022 at 3:12 pm #

            Give me a republic with honest elections anyway, to supply a portfolio of laws to live under. Other than that, “democracy” can just stay in some idealist’s imagination.

            Huh? What are you saying here? A “republic” is just one form of democracy, where you have (usually) an elected head of state, rather than a constitutional monarchy.

            We haven’t had direct democracy for centuries – although Switzerland has some form of it at the canon level, because it’s tiny enough to manage it.

            There is no difference between the US form of democracy and many others – whether they have a titular or ceremonial head of state (like UK, Oz), or one with more grunt (Germany, France) – but all just democracies the same.

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

          This is awesome. I love the guy that gave the cop the best dressing down. Disgraceful, dishonorable, looks like a smurf, etc.

          Love the people inside chanting at them, too. I bet those cops aren’t too happy with themselves at the end of the day. Unless they are psychotic.

          • ianw January 16, 2022 at 3:17 pm #

            At least Aussie cops don’t shoot everyone or choke them to death. It’s a civilised country.

          • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 6:16 pm #

            Our police aren’t trying to put people in death camps. That’s on your fucked up country.

    • Slugoon January 16, 2022 at 3:46 am #

      The sad thing about this attitude is that you have lost all sight of what this is supposed to be about.

      The guy is a fit and healthy thirty-something who has recovered from the flu, has natural immunity, and can clearly demonstrate he’s not carrying anything. So if it was about health, which we all know that it isn’t, then he’d be allowed in. In what rational grounds would he not?

      The problem is that he dared to think for himself and not get an experimental vaccine and it makes your type angry. He won’t be pushed around and ‘do what he’s told’ so he needs to be made an example of. What a disgusting, nasty and vitriolic way to be.

      • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 3:53 am #

        But definitely not primitive! Heaven forbid! Ok thanks, so someone else can clearly see the major problem here.

      • ianw January 16, 2022 at 4:13 am #

        The problem is that he dared to think for himself and not get an experimental vaccine and it makes your type angry.

        You have it wrong … even though I don’t like the dude much, I think he should be allowed in to play in the tournament. His nut-fudge views about vaccination are not a big issue.

        But mostly I think it should be totally de-politicised myself. It’s only sport – not real life.

        But the buffoon idiot conservative (happy-clapping, snake-eating) prime minister we have made the political call and said that he was on a hiding to nothing if he let him in, and he will get our version of the MAGAs on-side if he bans him. So he bans him.

        But overall a storm in a teacup – but stand by for the Serbs in frocks to hit the streets in Melbourne and Belgrade!

        • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 4:36 am #

          Lol snake handling though I guess with real faith could come snake eating. But anyway, Perfect! You’re way more open minded than you typically let on. Consider the hydras and nano octupi and beware. Now I can rest well too. Nitey nite lol 😉

          • ianw January 16, 2022 at 4:50 am #

            So tell me – have you ever travelled outside Ames Iowa? Everyone would love to know!

          • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 6:12 am #

            Why, on so many occasions, so you use ‘everyone’ and ‘we’ when you are entirely friendless and despised on this board? Nobody wants to be associated with you, even in curiosity.

          • Anthea January 16, 2022 at 11:00 am #

            @ ianw:

            Ames, Iowa, is quite a hub of pharmaceutical manufacturing. But perhaps you’ve never been there.

            Oh, and, by the way, having been to a cafe in Seoul is no indication of actually knowing something about the place–or indeed about anything at all.

          • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 1:33 pm #

            LOL, GA!

            I noticed Poo can’t help but let his WHITE privilege show through in his comments. Oh the irony.

            The inference, I’m guessing, being that if you aren’t a world traveler, then you are lesser than.

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

          So are you calling our illustrious host ‘nutfudge’? Because he has the same basic opinion about the jab that Novac does.

        • Slugoon January 17, 2022 at 6:46 am #

          Ian one minute: “he’s got to go”

          Ian the next: “I think he should be allowed in to play in the tournament”

          Oh you confused little rabble rouser!

    • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 1:43 pm #

      That you consider this nazi behavior a victory says all we need to know about you.

      • ianw January 16, 2022 at 3:46 pm #

        Are you that devoid of comprehension skills, or just blinded by hatred? I don’t consider it a victory – I clearly said I would prefer Djokovic play in the Open.

        His anti-vax views are unfortunate and paranoid, but I don’t think they’re a hanging offence – or a deportation offence.

        • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 6:05 pm #

          As you’ve been told multiple times, a person who’s had covid is at four times the risk of serious adverse effects from the clot shots. Short- to medium-term effects, that is – we’re all, you included, going to suffer the long-term effects (although you don’t know what your booster’s going to do, obviously, in the short to medium term).

          Refusing to take a shot you don’t need, that is more dangerous to you than to other people, and which has killed hundreds of thousands of people, is not paranoid. It is utterly rational. It is also highly moral to stand up against evil. Clearly something you know nothing about.

          Standing up, that is. You are clearly very familiar with evil.

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 6:14 pm #

          Nope. Sorry. You continually agree with Dumbo-eared Jacinda and the other psychos with their tyrannical overreach, over and over.

          Stop lying to us and yourself.

  85. anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 2:43 am #

    Hey Ian, Brisbane get hit by the Tongan volcano tsunami? I just saw the Japanese tsunami alert.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/undersea-volcano-eruption-triggers-massive-shockwave-tsunami-strikes-south-pacific-island

    • ianw January 16, 2022 at 2:46 am #

      About a three-foot wave – not too much drama … we get worse from a cyclonic storm.

      • benr January 16, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

        Again you project how clueless you really are.
        Three feet tall but 100 yards thick like a 100 foot normal wave in sheer mass of water.

        • Night Owl January 16, 2022 at 1:38 pm #

          Hahahaha.

        • JohnAZ January 16, 2022 at 2:07 pm #

          Yeah, did you see the tsunami that hit Fukushima Japan or Sumatra. They are not thirty foot high giant waves, they are three to ten foot swells of displaced water that just keep overflowing and blowing away everything in their path. Two more feet and much of low lying areas of the SW Pacific could have been decimated.

        • ianw January 16, 2022 at 2:25 pm #

          Again you project how clueless you really are. Three feet tall but 100 yards thick like a 100 foot normal wave in sheer mass of water.

          Yet again you let your bile, anger, and prejudice get in the way of your brain.

          I understand precisely how a tsunami wave behaves. There was a three-foot net effect when it reached the shore – it wasn’t three-foot high a hundred miles out. Good grief … some people …

    • ianw January 16, 2022 at 2:58 am #

      But it seems Tonga took a hit – lots of Aussie Defence and Emergency Services assets heading there as we speak. Tonga is nice – you should get there one day.

      Have you even be to American Samoa – I have – a nice place, and they have a McDonald’s there right in town, so you’ll feel right at home.

    • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 3:41 am #

      I have not been there Ian. Hope Tongans r safe. Night.

  86. Pucker January 16, 2022 at 3:17 am #

    When you were a kid did you ever read the comic books about Clark Kent’s dark, sadistic psychopathic personality that Lois Lane didn’t know about?

    • Disaffected January 16, 2022 at 9:08 am #

      I believe those were X rated and kept behind the counter. Quite erotic, if you were into that sort of thing.

  87. Pucker January 16, 2022 at 4:13 am #

    “The Best and the Brightest”, McNamara, deliberately covered up reports that there were serious problems with the M16 in the field.

    Today, they cover up problems with the “Vaccines, and they slander viable, safe therapeutics like HCQ and Ivermectin.

    “ Then they found themselves surrounded by dense green foliage and banana trees, with enemies apparently everywhere, shooting from cover. In one squad all the M16s jammed, so instead they threw grenades. In worsening confusion, men sought cover. The NVA were so close that Prescott could not demand mortar or artillery support. At 1200 he told Weise that Hotel would be overrun unless reinforced. Then he himself was hit and found his back and legs immobilized. Crawling into a hut, he was traumatized by thoughts of a wheelchair future.”

    • Disaffected January 16, 2022 at 9:23 am #

      Same as it ever was. “The best and the brightest” always make the best tools for our dark overlords.

      Hence the contemptuous term, “suits,” whether they actually wear one day to day or not.

    • SpeedyBB January 16, 2022 at 10:08 am #

      The way I heard it, grunts would “lose” (ditch) their M-16s in the jungle and borrow an AK-47 off a dead VC. Can’t afford to tolerate incompetence like a jammed rifle in a firefight; the AK was said to be able to operate even if was clotted with mud and water.

      Soviet engineering was pretty dismal in general but they did have their successes (many lifted from the Germans or other adversaries).

  88. Night Owl January 16, 2022 at 4:19 am #

    “Leaked Fauci Financials Expose How Millionaire Doctor Profited From Pandemic”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fauci-financials-expose-how-millionaire-doctor-profited-pandemic

    All of the cabal orcs are getting rich. I recall Jacinda Ardern going from nearly nothing to becoming a multimillionaire once the Covid Hoax kicked in.

    • ianw January 16, 2022 at 4:41 am #

      I recall Jacinda Ardern going from nearly nothing to becoming a multimillionaire once the Covid Hoax kicked in.

      You are an inveterate troll. That myth has been debunked totally and comprehensively. No shame.

      You are so so desperate, aren’t you? As someone said up thread – when the real issues come into play, Davos and WEF will be seen for the pathetic joke and laughing stock that they are.

      Do grow a brain comrade.

      • Night Owl January 16, 2022 at 4:54 am #

        Are you going to explode, Takeapoo?

        LOL.

        • ianw January 16, 2022 at 5:33 am #

          No explosion – just pointing out your never-ending lies.

          • stelmosfire January 16, 2022 at 9:01 am #

            Well, ya gotta admit Jacinda’s he/ her/his, dick swung a bit more freely during the power grab.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7YiFQFk6fc

          • Night Owl January 16, 2022 at 9:52 am #

            Big explosion. Reminds me of the best moments of your Manchurian Candidate era.

            Your tinfoil salad days.

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

          He seems to be on the verge.

      • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 6:07 am #

        Troll repeats exact language that has been used against him on numerous occasions to project.

        Page 5 of Troll handbook.

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 1:24 pm #

          At this point, it might be a good thing that Poo is here making an ass of himself, as he is a true representative of the blue team that is all for implementing the totalitarian platform.

          Anyone who visits will clearly see how asinine it is to be on that side of the argument.

          • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 5:56 pm #

            There may be something in that. He’s an object lesson in stupidity and indecency. Stupidity if you think he’s genuine (genuinely stupid) and indecency if you see him as nothing but a troll with an evil agenda. Or rather pushing other people’s evil agenda as a pathetic but corrupt messenger boy.

          • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 6:12 pm #

            He is a true Media Matters cypher, that is for sure.

            How much do you want to bet he toasts Rachel Madcow every night with his crisp chardonnay as he digs into MSNBC?

      • benr January 16, 2022 at 12:16 pm #

        @ianw

        Point that entire post you made RIGHT back at yourself.

      • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

        You saying it’s not true is not a ‘debunking,’ poo.

    • Islander January 16, 2022 at 11:36 am #

      NO, thanks for the heads-up.

      Bwahaha

      “An evening of hope attended by my wife and **I** ”

      WTF? The can’t even speak English properly.

      Seriously, we need to find out which equities he has invested in—any Big Pharma or the other companies the NIH does any business with looks and probably is suspect.

      who handles his accounts at Schwab?

      We need more info as to the exact history of these accounts and the source of funds paid into them.

      • Islander January 16, 2022 at 11:37 am #

        Make that: “The guy can’t even speak English properly.”

  89. Pucker January 16, 2022 at 5:02 am #

    Mr. Spock used to say wryly to homeless people and the Vaccine injured: “Live Long and Prosper.”

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    • Disaffected January 16, 2022 at 9:15 am #

      Spock actually had a very dry, albeit largely unappreciated sense of humor. Kirk – ever the prankster – would often get him liquored up to bring it out, but network TV execs of the period thought it best not to include any of that in the series, as it was quite raunchy for the times.

      • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 1:15 pm #

        Have you read his two autobiographies, I am not Spock and I am Spock? To my eternal shame I haven’t read either.

        In the end Nimoy wanted nothing to do with Shatner. Shatner wept.

  90. Night Owl January 16, 2022 at 5:16 am #

    “Here is – Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer saying ‘The two doses offer very limited protection, if any.’

    9 months ago he said those two doses were “100% effective in preventing covid”

    https://twitter.com/Neverschwaber/status/1481260518568517635?cxt=HHwWhoCz0f6lv44pAAAA

    Imagine how stupid one would have to be to take a third and fourth dose? 🙂

    • ianw January 16, 2022 at 5:45 am #

      From Daily Kos today:

      Former New York Times journalist Donald G. McNeil Jr. wrote an article on Medium that stated what everyone with an ounce of intelligence already knows, but wouldn’t dare put in print:

      Not only is Trump losing hundreds of voters each day to COVID, their deaths are already surpassing the margins the GOP can possibly hope to attain in the swing states.

      This hasn’t been printed because it’s ghoulish to post the political ramifications to a human life, to which I reply that Democrats aren’t the ones killing these people—their own right-wing disinformation machine is. Hell, we are trying to save them despite the political ramifications.

      Makes you shake you head, for sure.

      • GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 6:10 am #

        The one thing almost all covid deaths have in common is that the people who died were deliberately refused early treatments that would have saved them.

        So they didn’t die of covid – they were murdered.

        Shaking one’s head isn’t really adequate in that context.

        Chopping some off might be more appropriate.

        • JohnAZ January 16, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

          Do not disagree.

          However, first in line should be the medical bureaucrats that blocked any R&D on the treatment of Covid rather than vaccines.

          If this was a matter of money only, jail, long time.

          If it is a matter of political control, life in jail or the death penalty.

          Political control is 1st degree murder.

          • JohnAZ January 16, 2022 at 2:29 pm #

            I do not know. Is their a rivalry between bacteriologists and virologists for money?

            Why did virology seem to migrate to China?

      • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

        The head of Pfizer tells you he has duped you… “but Trump”

        LOL

        • Night Owl January 16, 2022 at 1:36 pm #

          Ahahahaha.

    • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 1:11 pm #

      But maybe just enough to destroy your immune system, perhaps permanently. A great reset to put you on the subscription plan.

      • JohnAZ January 16, 2022 at 1:17 pm #

        Keep an eye on Germany and the U.K, what is making them declare that the jab injures the immune system.

        Do you think that the creators of the mRNA technology and their PTB fans are going to get away with,

        “Oops!?”

    • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

      There is it is, Tusc and Bill, right there in black and white. You guys blew it. You were had in the worst possible way. Time to repent (feel sorry) and have metanoia, a change of mind.

  91. Pucker January 16, 2022 at 5:34 am #

    What is a “Gourmet Shit Sandwich”?

    Is that what “High Class” people get to eat so that they can feel superior?

  92. BackRowHeckler January 16, 2022 at 8:40 am #

    On Saturday in THE BIG APPLE, 40 year old Asian woman Michelle Allysa Go (you might assume by the name she was an American woman with Chinese heritage) waiting for a train, pushed out onto the tracks by Simon Marshal, 61, a homeless African American man. Ms. Go is dead, Mr. Marshal is under arrest. That afternoon an African American named David Rivera shoved a white woman off a platform onto the tracks but she was apparently saved by good samaritans.

    I was wondering what would come next after THE KNOCKOUT GAME, otherwise known as HUNTING POLAR BEARS. Shoving woman onto RR tracks seems to be it. What a follow up, huh?

    In Texas, the Freedom Fighter who who stormed a Synagogue and held parishioners hostage was a Pakistani whose goal was to free Aaffi Sadiqu, aka Lady Al Qaeda, being held in a Federal Prison. The best part of the day was when Coffeeville Chief of Police announced with a deadpan face “The subject is dead.”

    Just yesterday Biden gave a speech in Georgia once again inveighing against “White Supremacists”, OUR GREATEST THREAT. Is Biden’s head totally stuck up his own ass? Does he know what’s happening out here?

    • stelmosfire January 16, 2022 at 9:06 am #

      Is Biden’s head totally stuck up his own ass? Does he know what’s happening out here?

      1. Yes
      2. No

    • malthuss January 16, 2022 at 10:22 am #

      check Wavy Navy Poohs rap, MIAMI. utube.

      m= murder.

    • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 10:27 am #

      BRH, it’s sickening. The murderous degeneracy, but also the smoke and mirrors. The cognitive dissonance.

      I did some research for the book club I mentioned, that Picoult best selling absurdity of “white supremacist bogeymen under the bed”, widespread racism and so on.

      Dept of Justice’s own statistics for 2019 (latest I could find) list 7,103 hate crimes that year. When you think of the 330 million humans in the US, that boils down to 0.002% perps. Not sure if Mr Smollet’s hoax is included. Pretty sure a lot of B on W or Asian incidents are not. But even assuming the whole 0.002% can be attributed to the bogeyman white racist, does that sound like an “epidemic of hate”? To bring the heavy hand of power to control?

      Bureau of Justice Statistics for random year 2005: W on B murder, 337. B on W murder, 934. B on B murder, 4,497.

      When they lie to you so consistently, so monolithically (most folks, whose exposure to information is a quick glance at whatever MSM they like before moving on to Netflix, truly think we’re in a crisis of white supremacy aggression), is it any wonder some of us systematically disbelieve anything, and I mean anything, coming from official sources?

      • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

        And remember, White statistics are mixed in with Hispanic statistics to make us look much worse than we are. Hispanics get their own category in everything else, right? Schools, jobs, etc. They can victims of hate crimes but they can’t commit them since they would be labeled as White in that context.

        • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 2:25 pm #

          Jarek,

          once again: Hispanic is not a race, but a culture. Blacks, Browns and Whites can be Hispanic.

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 2:47 pm #

            Yup, there it is. The eternal opposition.

            Despite the truth of your statement, they are in fact doing as I stated. How do they define Hispanic? I assume as you do and leave it up to people to define themselves. And then they play with the statistics to make Whites look bad.

            Your statement does not contradict what I said or discredit it in any way. Sorry!

            And most “Hispanics” do not consider themselves White. They act like they’re a race, whether it makes sense or not. And since the large majority are Mestizos from Mexico and Central America, not mulattoes from the Caribbean, it seems to work for them and has the appearance of reality.

            I can’t detect any negroid aspects in AOC – though not entirely White either. A Caribbean Mestizo perhaps. Of course they might be there. Phenotype or expression is not the same as genotype, just as the hand dealt is not the entire deck.

          • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 3:35 pm #

            Jarek,

            perhaps many brown Hispanics define themselves as white because that’s the side of them they value most. Or aspiration-wise, how they’d like to see themselves. Many others will prefer to focus on their Indian part, especially now that outside influences encourage that.

            Also, it may be as you say in Mexico, but in South America, most mestizos identify as white. And as we discussed other times, in the Southern Cone of S America, whites are, or were until recently, a majority.

            In any case, I think there’s a lesson for you in this: there’s more that unites our culture, regardless of color, that divides it – although I accept that outside influences are doing their best to change this “good neighbors” situation.

            From Don Quixote to music, sport, pop culture, ways to understand life and food and joy and anger, a shared Catholicism and sense of family… in many ways, in our harmonious coexistence, our culture may have something to teach the race-obsessed US.

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 10:26 pm #

            Yes, an interesting and unstable balance as witness the businessmen of Sao Paulo taking helicopters between building to avoid the deadly coloreds, be they Mestizo or Negro. Or the Indios threatening the Andean order and the Mestizos and Indios, Argentina.

            In any case here they are organized in the Southwest (and growing from there) as the Bronze Race. Do you deny it? And what pray tell does any of this have to do with my initial point, that Hispanics are used to make Whites look bad? They commit serious crimes at about three times the White rate. Did you know that?

      • JohnAZ January 16, 2022 at 2:13 pm #

        Get ready, with the Covid fear factor starting to die down, racism is going to erupt again.

        Deep State politics gets all of its hutspah (sp), from the fear factors dropped on the public, all manufactured by the PTB in the Deep State.

    • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 1:18 pm #

      Biden is doing what his handlers tell him to do and say. That would be Obama most directly I assume. As Trump said, he doesn’t know he’s alive.

  93. Night Owl January 16, 2022 at 10:18 am #

    “Not Long Before The Health Care Worker Shortage…

    A Big Wig From AstraZeneca Spoke At The World Economic Forum…

    About Replacing Doctors & Nurses Wit AI & Robotics…”

    https://twitter.com/Orwells_Ghost_/status/1482670602313949190?cxt=HHwWjICzndXDwJMpAAAA

    • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 1:10 pm #

      It’s almost as if there is some sort of global plan being implemented…

      • JohnAZ January 16, 2022 at 2:14 pm #

        Oh really, Mary, I hope your tongue doesn’t get stuck in your cheek.

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 3:03 pm #

          It was definitely sarcasm.

  94. stelmosfire January 16, 2022 at 10:31 am #

    Up thread there was a brief exchange about NYC. I haven’t been there since 2015. I haven’t been to Boston in probably 3-4 years. In my old age ( 60 is the new 30, yea right) I like to avoid crowds and really don’t see the attraction in the cities. Years ago my crew would regularly visit NYC. late 70’s era. We were living large at the time . Young and dumb and high most of the time. Those were my formative years. We cruised the city in a “Dream car twenty foot long” as Bowie would say. My friend had a ’72 Chrysler Imperial 2 door 440CI boat. Same color as this one.

    https://classiccarsbay.com/media/main/vehicle_photos/57/bd/be/57bdbe6d106c756070283b63bb564658.jpg

    My best pal was a Rican as was his pal, Robert. Bob was a taxi driver/ friend, chauffeur with a decent pad in Harlem. He knew all the hot spots, cool places ,parking spots and could run the green light sequencing with aplomb. All over the island and in some pretty sketchy places. Never had a problem. From what I remember we had a great time. I’d go back but I can’t carry there so maybe not.

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    • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 10:46 am #

      elmo’s, good story and cool car.

      Like the car’s, the time of big cities is coming to an end. For the saner of us, anyway. I’ve experienced a few of them, and enjoyed them, but that’s over.

      NYC only once, ’91. Don’t remember much. Metropolitan Museum, brilliant, MoMa hype and shite, many sex shops and panhandlers, fat roaches in the cheap hotel, 3 card monte operations milking the innocent, the CBGB punk rock club. Never went back, never will.

      • Islander January 16, 2022 at 11:57 am #

        Hi, Rulo,

        It’s too bad your experience of NYC was so limited.

        At this point i have no plans of going back.

        But, haivng lived there for 10 years (and that was NOT my plan! My tea chests arrived in Long Island City so I had to “camp out” for a month or two to wait for them—the rest is history)–anyhow.

        NYC has what IMO most great cities have: an incredible natural location. Not just “on a river and a harbor,” but an extraordinary sense of space and height, with the Palisades on the “USA” shore, the elevation of much of Manhattan Island, so that it is truly a redoubt. The expansive avenues, even as you travel north through seedy areas, afford views via the cross streets to two rivers and the opposite shores. IMO one gets a better sense of the essence of NYC—a great sense of space and “imigiability,” away from Midtown. Up at the Cloisters, looking out over the GW Bridge. Downtown, looking out over the harbor. Or on the avenues that stretch the length of the city.

        Downtown, Houston Street cuts across Lower Manhattan, again giving the pedestrian who might be noticing and concentration on driving a feeling of exhilaration as you can see both shores opposite.

        NYC is an extraordinary place. But it does require a certain type of energy to deal with it. It is kind of exhausting. In the end I was glad to have lived there for 10 years, although I went through a considerable amount of s—, and ended up losing my home to a suspicious fire in the building. It was the “hot” eighties. A whole nother story, as they say.

        NYC—Manhattan, at least, is unlike any other city in the USA—an education. And not because of the official cultural venues. The buzzy street energy is unlike anything I have experienced elsewhere. I often thought that every American should live in NYC for a couple of years. Weirdly enough, on the sidewalks of Manhattan I often bumped into people I knew from a completely different context.

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 1:15 pm #

          Agree, NYC is exhausting. I was staying in Manhattan for business in the late 1990s, and the first night there I was so smitten I thought I’d move there.

          After 5 days I was ready to get the hell out, I was so exhausted.

          • ianw January 16, 2022 at 2:37 pm #

            I agree – we’ve had three trips there, each of a week or so. At the end of each stay we were really pleased to get out indeed – breath some fresh air and relax a little.

            It has some nice features, and some good museums but there are more interesting cities IMO. I can’t imagine living there at all, although my best friend and his family do. He is high income, and can get out pretty regularly.

            His two sons definitely chose not to go to college there – really wanting somewhere more “normal”.

          • Anthea January 17, 2022 at 8:45 am #

            I lived in NYC for three years in the 70s, and I was always puzzled when people said it was “fast-paced.” Basically, you went to work and you came home, like anywhere else. I guess if a person had money there would be a temptation to indulge in 24/7 shopping, entertainment, and dining, but that wasn’t me.

            I lived on West 85th, about a half a block from Central Park West in a block of brownstones, so it was a pretty spot. As for the people, most were nice, some not nice, and a couple were very dear.

            I think it was the sojourn in NYC that made me realize that I’m a country girl.

        • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

          I was only there a few times, and I didn’t see all of those views, but I got that sense of space and majesty. The scale was just so much larger in every way, starting with the natural.

          You might enjoy reading “The World Without Us”. He gives a meditation on what will happen to NYC once we are gone and the natural comes roaring back. First step, mass cave ins as the stations are flooded by the East River (I think).

          San Francisco has some of this grandeur and of course the clouds racing across the sky and the fogs.

          • Anthea January 17, 2022 at 8:51 am #

            San Francisco is haunting. It manages to be magical even where it is most dismal–or at least it used to. Maybe it’s the fogs and the foghorns.

        • beantownbill. January 16, 2022 at 1:44 pm #

          Excellent descriptions – I totally agree with you. It is sad to see what has happened to it.

        • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 2:32 pm #

          Islander, indeed my experience there was very limited.

          You hit the nail right in the head: exhausting. I see others agree. Sometimes we can’t pinpoint what it is, what’s the right word to describe something, until someone else finds it for us.

          That’s how I felt, even after just a few days’ visit: exhausted.

          • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 3:06 pm #

            It’s sensory overload!

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 16, 2022 at 7:47 pm #

            I lived there for about 3 months. It was fun to give over to being part of it, but I never felt like I was actually part of it, as we were there on temporary assignment.

            But the description is also reminiscent of Las Vegas. Two or three days, fine. Any more and you begin to hate yourself.

      • BackRowHeckler January 16, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

        Well, from what I can see, it is mostly women who are at the receiving end of these bloody, unprovoked street assaults in Manhattan and LA, ordinary women going about their business or at their jobs. Activist women made a deal with the left decades ago, but the left is not keeping its side of the bargain. So now we see 24 year old girls stabbed to death working in a furniture store in LA, and a 40 year old Chinese woman pushed in front of a moving train in Manhattan. Ponder for a moment how horrible it must have been for them in their final moments.

        • JohnAZ January 16, 2022 at 2:16 pm #

          There is a lot of black on Asian violence in NYC. Guess Blacks have to blame someone.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 16, 2022 at 11:45 am #

      Oh man…you cruised the streets of NYC in the 70’s in that car…I wouldn’t try to relive that either…that experience will never be recreated. Especially at 60, driving a rented Nissan Sentra or the like.

      Awesome memories, thanks for sharing.

    • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 1:13 pm #

      I got to run all over Chicago in the 80’s same way. So much fun. I can’t imagine that now. Of course, like you, I’m too old for it anyway. I also don’t enjoy crowds or nightlife. I like gardening, wildlife photography and work.

      And of course tending to my dogs.

      I saw someone awhile back refer to this as ‘giving up’ or ‘lame’ but I’ve never been happier, even if I had a great time in my youth.

      • Islander January 16, 2022 at 2:45 pm #

        MQ, makes perfect sense, IMHO.

        My current meditations:
        The older we get, the closer to the end of life, the closer we want to get to Life. Not “my life,” as a whatever it was I have spent my life doing or worrying about, but Life the driving force that makes Earth beautifiul and habitable.

        Which humans are suppressing and, actually, destroying. Except that Life, and nature, will bat last. Life is probably the most ambitious undertaking of the cosmos, and will continue to develop as long as the laws of physics obtain, regardless of what Homo DennistheMenaciens does. Honestly, what do humans contribute to Life on the planet? The balance sheet is not positive.

        Seems like fungi are the true creators of Life on earth. Once Homo D’s race is run–which may be pretty soon–and the experiment in the human form of intelligence, terminated, fungal intelligence will transform the messes we have made, the plastics and toxins, back into molecules usable by higher organisms that will develop. A human generation is irrelevant as a measure of life-time.

        When I am not trying to finish Bright Green Lies and Overshoot without falling into deep melancholy, I seek relief in “Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures,” by Merlin Sheldrake. (Can you think of a better author name for the subject???? Sounds like a wizard or an alchemist, but is actually a young English biologist.)

        So, the closer I get to death, the closer I want to get to Life—the miracle that I was here in the first place as a living entity organized and “wound up” by invisible processes and energies. The idea of being rendered into useful molecules by fungi is quite comforting, if I can just make it back into the ground!

        • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 2:57 pm #

          I also heard recently that several different species of bacteria have been found to have developed enzymes that can completely break down microplastics. So the tenacity of life is certainly amazing.

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 3:10 pm #

          So well said, Islander.

          It’s a return to nature, and I naturally feel the pull. True happiness is found in nature, not in machines and screens and crowds and noise.

          I also like creating things: music, art, writing. So much more satisfying than sitting around watching TV.

        • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 3:39 pm #

          Islander,

          excellent thoughts!

  95. elysianfield January 16, 2022 at 12:27 pm #

    Well, ladies and germs;

    RT, a site you might avoid if on the “no fly list”, has, this AM, offered us a feel-good story.

    It appears that a Swedish village has been laboring under the name of “Fucke”, and has weathered the good-natured jibes of its neighbors and friends since the mid 1500’s. The outrages that abound over its unfortunate name are many, and freely offered daily.

    The residents are called “fuckers”
    Travelling to the island is referred to as “getting fucked”, or “going to fuck town”
    Most of the women of bearing age can be called mother fuckers”
    (The children are referred to as “little fuckers”
    “The village idiot is referred to as a “dumb fuck”
    Etc. Etc. Etc.

    Well, the outrages are about to end. There is now a contest of sorts to determine a new name, one with a bit of dignity…

    https://www.rt.com/news/546167-village-sweden-name-change/

    Names currently being considered* are, in order of their popularity.

    “Limpdik”
    “Nunbnuts”
    “Assrape”

    And, of course, my favorite “Eatshitndie”

    *Maybe.

  96. BackRowHeckler January 16, 2022 at 1:20 pm #

    The hostage taker at the Texas Synagogue is named Malik Faisal Aklam, who CNN describes as ‘British’. British? Yes, British! Apparently, a new kind of Brit, not what we are used to.

    • ianw January 16, 2022 at 2:05 pm #

      British! Apparently, a new kind of Brit, not what we are used to.

      Not all Britons are named John Smith or Susan Thompson – and haven’t been for a very long time.

      • BackRowHeckler January 16, 2022 at 2:16 pm #

        Yes, that’s you got a Muslim mayor of London, but not a Christain mayor of Islamabad. It seems to work only one way.

        • JohnAZ January 16, 2022 at 2:25 pm #

          BRH, just remember Mohammed’s directive in the Koran. Muslims, by doctrine, have a violent ethnocentrism that was ordained for them by their creator.

          Convert or die!

        • ianw January 16, 2022 at 2:28 pm #

          The Brits had control of Islamabad for a very long time – I don’t think India or Pakistan colonised the British Isles.

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 2:50 pm #

            They are now though. Mass immigration is a type of warfare.

    • JohnAZ January 16, 2022 at 2:18 pm #

      England was a melting pot long before the US thanks to its empire.

      • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 4:26 pm #

        Why let the ruled into the lands of the Rulers? It’s not an automatic. It wasn’t so in the beginning, but alas it always ends up happening through greed or compassion.

        A few sons of Maharajahs or Sultans, becomes a flood of grocers and then IT specialists.

    • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 2:32 pm #

      Actually it does make perfect sense as there are so many Muslims in Britain

  97. anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 1:22 pm #

    Jar, this might flesh out the prophies a little, from blessed Cannori….

    https://youtu.be/Y4sv67L3Lm4

    Also dog gone= god gone, og goned, etc…

    • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 1:39 pm #

      Here’s the one you should be listening to – Sister Miriam.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hprWmWy1nGk

      I know, I know, she’s not exciting enough for you. You love the horror movie stuff. Hey, me too! Have you watched “The Exorcism of Emily Rose”. You’ll love it.

      I couldn’t deal with the dead computer voice of your video. I hope it’s a computer and not an actual person, but they’ve got real issue if they’re not a computer.

      Why did we call OG, Hawk? I can’t remember.

      • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 3:08 pm #

        Og hawk, his last name. Emily Rose. Not nearly enough for me. But the true story with pics n quotes was terr if ying!

        Thanx rulo Igs japanese wife must have mellowed him out.

        • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 3:19 pm #

          Oh right, Hawkins. Thanks.

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 9:57 pm #

          Forgot your sidekick already.

          That says so much about you. And answers a few questions.

    • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 2:02 pm #

      If this dog can discern the real Presence, then he is a better Christian than most human Christians, and he should be allowed communion.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25tEfa7USCI

      I can’t imagine Heaven without my furry friends. The doctrinal limitations of Christianity are a spiritual straitjacket, which I experience as agony.

      • JohnAZ January 16, 2022 at 2:22 pm #

        When you meet a dog, it wants to give you love, most of them anyway.

        When you meet another human, they just want to take away something.

        No wonder more and more people are preferring the company of canines.

        • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 2:45 pm #

          Jarek, John, you may enjoy this. It’s Iggy Pop (in his old age, not a punk rocker anymore but a crooner), singing a page of Michel Houellebecq’s “The possibility of an Island”, the part where the (cloned) man buries his (cloned) dog.

          “A dog is a machine for loving”. Listen to that bit especially, and tell me it’s not true.

          Iggy and Houellebecq and dogs. No way it can be bad. Give it a listen, it’s short.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-DXj_YhNtM

          • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 2:57 pm #

            I almost like this mellower, more thoughtful Iggy better than Lust for Life Iggy. Almost. Here’s “Miss Argentina”

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcUQDXH0r1k

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 3:12 pm #

            I never used to believe in things like this, but then I experienced them: On his last ride, an old cat puts his paw on his human’s hand to comfort her.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd1byTNi7YY&t=6s

            They know. They’re people. How did this jibe with animal experimentation or eating meat? Not very well at all. No diatribes – I’m guilty too.

            As Thoreau said (and Hitler knew), future ages will think of us as we think of the cannibals. Or not if Gustaf and the back to Nature people get their way. Nature being to them the most primitive and basic level of existence, that of kill or be killed. We can do better than that because we’re the most advanced or should be since we are the most intelligent or should be if we would just use what we have.

          • gustafson.robert.22 January 16, 2022 at 3:17 pm #

            aha, jarek’s a cannibal also

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 3:17 pm #

            Living with us gives animals the chance to develop their own latent personhood. A luxury that Nature does not afford them.

            Gustaph wants us to go back and become like them, not knowing good and evil, our personhood a mere undeveloped potential.

          • gustafson.robert.22 January 16, 2022 at 3:23 pm #

            kill or be killed never leaves life, even under civilization’s awkward disguises for it.

            but it also doesn’t dominate every moment of life at all.

            the closest it ever comes to doing that is in the death spirals of a collapsing civilization when at every moment almost, the citizens feel the walls pressing in tighter. almost a constant pressure, where every detail of surroundings presents reinforcing reminders of darkness in the future to the psyche

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 3:24 pm #

            Yes, Gustaph, from a long line of cannibals. I don’t love it the way most Americans do – three times a day! – but I will really want some after a few days of not having it.

            The hunters coming back after a successful hunt and carrying a big dead animal are the natural heroes for the protein deprived.

            Rice and beans will do the trick though. Tofu is even better, though some say it’s not good for you. Nothing wrong with eggs though. Why do they lay all those infertile eggs. Any idea?

          • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 3:49 pm #

            J,

            infertile eggs: think of it as a sort of menstruation. The hen has to lay them. She’s born with the cells of all the potential eggs she’ll ever lay. Fertilized or not, the eggs will be laid in her normal lifecycle, all full of protein and nutrition for the potential embryo that may or may not be there.

            Perfectly good food and energy rich. I’m a “cannibal” too, in the sense you guys are talking about it, but not every day. And I make sure the animals I raise have a good life, and have a moment of meditation and thanksgiving before taking a life – the opposite of industrial slaughter.

            I do enjoy a steak on the coals on special occasions. I prefer to eat less of it, less often, but choose the free range, pasture fed cattle. A matter of flavor and nutritional value, but also of the quality of life of the animal I’m eating.

            What we do to pigs is horrific. Pigs are extremely intelligent animals.

            Not to mention what the damn Chinks do to dogs, including the tortures before eating them, as they say it “improves the flavor”. Fucking freaks.

          • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 4:16 pm #

            I more or less have always believed that animals have souls despite being taught that that is not the case. Even birds and squirrels and salamaders have individual personalities at least from what I have observed.

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 4:34 pm #

            Rulo: Yup. Birds too. Plucking them before killing them. Interesting – like the story of the Elite drinking the blood of children after being terrified? Or having it injected.

            SSL: I think the Talmud (which has some legitimate knowledge, its hygienic laws were way ahead of its time) says, don’t eat anything that has a “face”. Fish don’t, though of course they have eyes and a mouth. But birds are very intelligent and will quickly learn to recognize their owner.

            So I’d say fish are morally alright, even though no vegetarian I’ve ever met or read makes that distinction. Ovo/Lactos are the closest, and their distinction makes sense it doesn’t involve killing. You can certainly stay healthy on these diets without any strain. Of course you might “want” meat without really needing it.

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 4:38 pm #

            On second thought, I may be getting the above wrong since I’ve never heard about them abstaining from anything except pork.

            Unless it’s just one of those things that were believed but never really practiced. A “counsel” of perfection. Moral not hygienic, which is why they avoid pork.

          • Islander January 16, 2022 at 4:38 pm #

            Just listened.
            Wow, to tears.
            Yes, they do know when the end is near.
            Both their “natural” time, and I expect they can read the human mind when the decision has been made.

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 4:47 pm #

            Rulo: Do other birds lay unfertilized eggs? Or are chickens unique in this?

          • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 5:09 pm #

            Is there any correspondence between Talmudic and Old Testament dietary laws? From what I know in the OT God says that camels, rabbits, pigs, all animals with paws, reptiles, amphibians and insects are forbidden, as well as anything from the ocean that doesn’t have fins and scales. My limit is I guess the exact reasons why for each beyond that they are considered unclean or detestable per what is written. So the more scientific of reasons I am certain are there. For instance we know in modern times that one can get trichinosis parasites from improperly or poorly cooked pork or bear meat for example. Perhaps these are reasons the dietary laws were provided? Do you think it’s best to be vegetarian?

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 5:36 pm #

            Well there should be, since the Talmud is supposed to be a commentary on he Torah. But it has come to take precedence so perhaps not.

            Avoiding lobsters and shellfish is probably wise – any “bottom feeders” so kudos to them on that. Of course they are delicious, of course! But I do avoid them, getting a strange, queasy feeling afterwards.

            Pork too: I find it to lowers consciousness tremendously. Because they are treated and fed so so poorly? Or existentially, because they are so much like us, thus making it more wrong?

            Spiritually vegetarianism is probably best – if you can do it. Of course not giving offense to friends and family is a very important point. People find it very disturbing if you don’t eat what they do. Very alienating to the group. And of course staying strong is also important since if you can’t do your work and your duty, then that’s a spiritual failure as well. So proceed with caution.

          • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 6:29 pm #

            Jarek, re. bird’s eggs. As far as I know, what I described about hen’s eggs applies to all birds. An important distinction is that wild birds “sense” the right times to have offspring, mate and so on. So many of them only lay eggs at certain times, not year round. But the eggs may or may not have been fertilized successfully, even in mating season. Livestock birds like chickens, ducks, by long breeding have been converted to year round layers, although sometimes they slow down, sudden temperature changes, stress, etc.

            I may be wrong about the wild birds and I’m open to correction on that, but I believe that’s the general idea.

            Yes, vegetarianism is the ideal. Many of us are not ready for 100% vegetarian, but make progress towards it. It’s entirely possible and many do it! But let’s not talk about funny mustache again. Yes, he was vegetarian, non smoker and a teetotaler. Still, not a good example or a stellar human being.

            Ovo lacto may be my next step. Or simply, like in many cultures, meat will become a rare treat, a flavoring. Really, you could do without dairy and eggs, but as you say, I don’t see the point, since no animal dies because of a Swiss cheese omelette.

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 6:36 pm #

            He explained his views on meat eating and drinking to the German people Once and left it at that. He knew that evolutionary ages must pass before European man would be ready for that.

            When people tell Muslims to join German culture, it is truly ridiculous: Pork and Beer!

            Yet you want them here. I appreciate a brief truce, but the score remains the score.

          • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 7:46 pm #

            Jarek,

            I don’t mind civilized conversations, especially with smart and well read people like you. You know this.

            But you must understand it’s not OK to put words in people’s mouths – or keyboards – that they never said or even implied.

            For example, I never ever said I want Muslims here. On the contrary, I’ve commented on this sometimes, saying exactly the opposite.

            Mental leap here: a person can be radically opposed to nazi ideology, and yet admit there’s certain groups he’d rather not have around, and why. And that mass murder of those groups is wrong and a sin, and vow to be on their side if anyone attempted said mass murder against them.

            Surely you’re subtle enough to understand the difference. Truce? There must be conflict for truce, and I have no beef with you personally. I think your ideology is wrong, but don’t seek to censor it. Once in a while I react to something you post, so newcomers here, and lurkers, get a better idea of what you believe. You’re crafty, because often you start with something many would agree with without fully revealing your true beliefs.

            So fair is fair. If they still want to be on your side, fine, but freedom of speech regulates itself in that others on the forum can and will clarify the picture for them before they decide.

            But not putting words in your mouth you never said. Using only what you’ve stated.

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 10:20 pm #

            You’ve stated MANY times how “mono-culture” is wrong and how Whites need to learn to live with all kinds of different people. In other words, they must not have their own nations any more. Do you deny this? Do you deny that my equation, my “in other words” is correct in this case?

            Do you make an exception for Muslims? Very well then, my bad. But it doesn’t change the essential correctness of my equation anent your ruthless viewpoint.

          • elysianfield January 17, 2022 at 1:11 pm #

            ” Yes, he was vegetarian, non smoker and a teetotaler. Still, not a good example or a stellar human being.

            Rulo,
            Who really knows? He got a lot of bad press….

    • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 2:59 pm #

      “You will only change when the pain of change is less than the pain of staying where you are…”

      • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 3:08 pm #

        sorry anmari, you may dig the song about the dog, too

  98. anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 3:15 pm #

    JAR, that dogs knowledge made me weep.

    God help my unbelief.

    • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 3:38 pm #

      Some consider Brideshead Revisited the greatest Catholic novel. I can’t find the quote I’m looking for but to describe it: He goes home to his old house and the family chapel. He’s amazed at how dark and lifeless it feels – and then he realizes that the little flame isn’t lit and no one is home.

      This is an article about confession in the novel. Superb.

      https://www.hprweb.com/2017/06/sacraments-in-brideshead-revisited/

      • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 3:56 pm #

        That novel reconverted me or helped.

        SYNCHRONICITY

        in the vaxx, chemical reactions &
        Genetic mutations.

        In LOCK STEP, the universal pile on.

        In the power of prayer.
        166 people of like mind/heart
        May be the way to break this,
        And explain why the do not want us to congregate.

        https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t-_VPRCtiUg

        • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 3:57 pm #

          Why they…

      • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 4:37 pm #

        Oh Jar, that was truly an exceptional link. I have book marked it for study. Ian came to mind, Rulo, Mar, many characters here represented at the bedside, not least of which Alba & Jim, her betrothed in that book.

  99. messianicdruid January 16, 2022 at 4:21 pm #

    Jarek says, “Gustaph wants us to go back and become like them, not knowing good and evil, our personhood a mere undeveloped potential.”

    Deciding good and evil, not just knowing. That’s the problem: if we let someone qualified to do the deciding and obeyed the chaos would cease and the blessings could not be contained.

    “It is not within man that walks to direct his own steps.”

    Very difficult for smart people, enamored with their own brilliance.

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    • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 4:28 pm #

      druid,

      I think we all have a good – evil radar inside. It may be denied or atrophied, but it’s there.

      It comes with the human condition. It’s not intelligence that’s unique to us – it’s morality. Knowing good and evil.

      And it doesn’t necessarily have to do with religion. Plenty of non-religious folks do good and avoid evil, because it is the right thing to do, the only thing.

      • messianicdruid January 16, 2022 at 4:50 pm #

        Then what is the cause of all the chaos?

        • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 4:52 pm #

          The usual mess, greed, control, power, ego.

        • Anthea January 16, 2022 at 9:38 pm #

          @ messianicdruid:

          Not only do we know good and evil, we get to choose. Some people choose evil.

      • SoftStarLight January 16, 2022 at 5:24 pm #

        God wrote the laws in our hearts is what the Bible says which appears to correspond with your conclusion that everyone has the capacity for morality and for choosing good. Just observing

        • messianicdruid January 16, 2022 at 9:45 pm #

          Well certainly that is not yet complete. When it is God will be “all in all”.

      • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 5:46 pm #

        CORADAR, communist radar.

    • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 4:42 pm #

      Messi, I’d be interested in your comments on that synchronicity vid. Pure science, not religion. You too Ru, Jar.

      Btw, good points both of you. I think Jim is a fine example of your point Ru.

      • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 5:26 pm #

        One science fiction story I read about a near future dystopia featured “marching societies” where people would dress alike and walk or jog in tandem while chanting. I think this would be a great energizer. The streets were cleared for them. Anything in their path would be destroyed and any person, killed.

        I had a friend who said they chanted Om for hours at a rainbow gathering until the mist formed the Sanskrit syllable. See “cymatics”. Some mantravadins can start fires by mantras alone.

        Subtle physics. Interesting stuff. Perhaps very valuable as with the stuff about the heart.

        I can’t see it stopping the Law of Entropy as a whole though. I think we would have already run down, at least in terms of consciousness, without the increments of energy from above (the Avatars, Saints, and Prophets).

        • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 5:34 pm #

          Lock step will keep reason from prevailing, so the reign of terror is. But, calling down Our Lord, unified together with ALL MEN OF GOODWILL, will eventually clear earth of this new poison of the Anti Christ, right down to the smallest particle.

          It’s about vibrating at the same frequency folks, and that frequency IS GOD.

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 6:39 pm #

            Yes, the rhythm must come from above. If we dance to its tune, maybe others will start tapping their foot. Or even get get up to join us.

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 8:33 pm #

            The Lord of the Dance

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPGSFDy8wo

      • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 5:32 pm #

        anmari, the video is interesting. I have no idea of what it means, this tendency towards synchronicity.

        Not rationally, anyway. If you’ve ever had a psychedelic experience, say with psylocibe cubensis ‘rooms, or datura, or any other naturally occurring “key”, sure, you get a deep sense of synchronicity and order in the Universe, but it cannot be explained, just experienced. Cannot be put into words or mathematical equations.

        I suppose it’s similar in visionary, ecstatic states in religious mysticism, and the things learned may be very similar: a sense of purpose, a meaning, but above all, acceptance that things are the way they should be – even when they are not, an out of body experience that in the long run or the bigger picture, everything makes sense.

        It’s comforting, in that you realize your many mistakes, or sins let’s call them, may not be the whole picture that keeps you awake at night, there may be other parts, perhaps unknown to you, that somehow acted as counterbalance.

        Anyway, it’s a good presentation. The metronomes reminded me of my poor mum, the old metronome she used to keep on top of her piano. She played beautiful Chopin and didn’t need it, but her students did.

        Cheers!

        • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 5:41 pm #

          Nice ru. I think the science defined it anyway, who can ‘explain’ any of the laws?

          I always kept good time but had great trouble with even chopsticks.

          Let us try further to resonate the right way to counter these marxist bastards.

          • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 6:12 pm #

            Let’s!

          • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 6:18 pm #

            Amen. Lost the priest but we still have eucharist till it runs out. Going there right now to resonate. You meditate on avacado love my dear man. Sincerely, let’s!

          • messianicdruid January 16, 2022 at 9:27 pm #

            “In Him we live and move and have our being”.

            Nations and individuals prosper as they synchronize with the Truth. The more they get right the more abundance they enjoy.

            The reason for Jupiter’s moons synchronicity [ 1, 2, 4 ] will require more examination.

          • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 10:19 pm #

            Glad you took a look mess. It was the gravity plus oblongation that synched them thar moons my man. They found that on um some other planet recently with the probe they sent out. Happens to the best of moons.

            Soon we will be getting some serious incoming debris from the 16,000 year event when the giant comes within range. Not too far out, and maybe the effects are already being felt in tectonics and volcanos.

  100. Amman January 16, 2022 at 4:41 pm #

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXpSB1At3ao

    The Russian view.

    • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 4:50 pm #

      “There is no dialogue, only monologue.” Thanx Am

  101. MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 16, 2022 at 4:56 pm #

    Well, Minneapolis and St. Paul mayors Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dipshit have now put out a joint executive order requiring proof of vaccination (or, for now, at least, a recent negative test) to enter an establishment in their cities that serves food and/or drink.

    The rest of the world is trying to do it, trying to out-Australia Australia or out-Seattle Seattle or out-NYC NYC…so they must now follow suit as well, for no justifiable reason.

    I’m way out in the burbs, so still have rights (for now), but I guess I’m done going downtown until people wake up, stand up and say fuck this.

    I have a flight booked for a month from now. Who knows if I’ll be still allowed to go, in just that short matter of weeks? I was able to make my Christmas visit flight without incident…will next month work thouigh?

    I told some of my friends almost two years ago that it wouldn’t be long before I couldn’t come meet them for a sandwich. Crazy, they said. I also told them it wouldn’t be long after that before I wouldn’t be able to travel across town to visit them…even crazier…and while that hasn’t come to pass yet, I presume it will. Checkpoints/roadblocks, whatever they have to do to stick my arm with an all-but-proven-entirely-worthless concoction.

    This is all because we have been told to be afraid of a cold virus for the first times in our lives, of which new mutations have been existent yearly since the dawn of time.

    And who is at fault for bringing this all about? All of us. But especially those who have gone along with the rules and pretended they care. Believe me…THEY DON’T. Well, some people out there think they do, but certainly not the smart ones. That’s not possible.

    They are doing it to get by and save face, and nothing else. If these highly-educated folks actually cared about the virus they wouldn’t have invited me to their homes for dinner or a ballgame this whole time, they wouldn’t have shared a table with me at the restaurant, ridden in the same car or golf cart maskless or gone fishing for three days staying in the same cabin with me. They also have gone to Disney World, football games and the like, super-spreader events [gasp!].

    The reality? They don’t actually believe it, and don’t actually care. But they are the ones going along with these mandates as if it makes sense…and it doesn’t. And they fucking know it.

    They continue to parrot the illogical talking points that they are safer for being vaccinated when it is published nearly daily by the very doctors that tell them to be scared that they are safer for the vax, while also saying in the next sentence that people with the vax are just as likely to catch, become sick from, and transmit the damn thing as those who are unvaccinated. Ahh, but “less likely to get as sick from it”, you see. Except you can’t prove a negative, only claim to. So fuck that noise, too.

    And with all of that they dismiss that someone may be playing us all. Why? Because they can’t admit that they drank the koolaid, and they drank it for no other reason than to get by. And they know it. But that’s a tough admission for anyone to make. Ask the Germans.

    Sudden mass retardation, feigned intelligence and stubbornness are to blame. And it will never end until these very people who are my friends tell their mayors to fuck right off. Until then they are all complicit in destroying what was left of our nice towns as we remembered them from childhood..

    Not to mention the obvious violent crime wave, which is being swept under the rug at a furious pace across the country, because…oh yeah, no one knows why, because it doesn’t make any sense to them either, but they have to pretend it’s right because social justice! My thought is, you do horrible crimes, you beat up a 75 yr-old man who is having a seqizure on the train and take his wallet and shoes while kicking him in the face for no reason, you go right to jail and rot…in the meantime, let’s start by booting these stooge mayors and governors and their unconstitutional edicts. Twats, all…

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 16, 2022 at 6:03 pm #

      But…there is still hope:

      Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association responds:

      “Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association Executive Director Tony Chesak responded to the new requirements Wednesday evening:

      “We understand the seriousness of COVID and the public health for the community, patrons, and employees. The hospitality industry has complied with all the mandates, regulations, and more for COVID. But it’s hard to understand a vaccination mandate that’s unjustified and unscientific. It targets just one specific industry after zero science or data driving the decision, and zero caring about our dedicated front-line workers who will now add ‘enforcement agent’ to their plates. The only scientific thing we know is that it has devastated the hospitality industry in other cities with these same mandates.

      “They say we’re in this together – but this mandate shows that the hospitality industry is clearly targeted alone. We know both vaccinated and unvaccinated people spread the virus. And it happens at schools, work-out facilities, other retailers, sporting events, and more.”

      ___________________

      Hell yes. The solution is for every bar and restaurant in these two cities to close up shop, up and move to the burbs (at significant cost, but lower than the cost of their souls) and leave Minneapolis and St. Paul to rot with empty streets. Fuck ’em.

      • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 6:06 pm #

        YES. Fuck ’em.

        I wish people would stop prefacing their non-compliance with “We understand there is a dangerous virus but” NO. There is NO dangerous virus. There is a cold. And then a lot of pathogens that they’ve tried to unleash on us via vaccinations and gawd-knows whatever else.

    • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 6:04 pm #

      Nice rant, Mr. Mango and spot on.

      We are seeing the horror of ‘going along to get along’ now.

      If they don’t stand up now – even though in their hearts they know they are wrong – how will they face their children in five years?

      Time to man (or woman) up.

    • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 6:06 pm #

      Mango, have you considered moving away from the burbs? Mr K called them something like a mirage of country, but not country. Too close to the urban madness.

      You’re (relatively) young, probably one of the youngest ones around here. I tell you from experience, if you’re going to do anything major like that, the earlier the better. As we age, it becomes more difficult. Energy is not eternal.

      I’m about a decade older than you are, and recently I completed what I hope will be my last move ever. Lived and farmed in other places, planted trees I had to leave behind, but not anymore. This time, I’m planting myself.

      The horrible crimes that are happening right now… the collective insanity… you and your family should think hard about this. Best of luck.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 16, 2022 at 6:18 pm #

        We’re talking about it daily, Rulo. We used to live in the country but moved back to the city to enjoy some modern conveniences and raise our boy without bats in the belfry and constant home repairs.

        Oops.

        Right now we need to start school and save some money and get the eff out when we can. I know, sooner is better. But I’m rebuilding my business after a setback with my previous one, and we need to take care of each week and month for now. But soon it may be too late. Your advice rings true, believe me.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 16, 2022 at 6:20 pm #

        (enter tekapo to tell me we’re being paranoid while he sips crisp chardonnay in New Jersey while claiming he’s in Australia)

        • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 7:00 pm #

          Ha! The paranoid yellow star folks got the hell out of dodge while they still could. The trusting chardonnay sippers looked at the propaganda staged pictures in “model camps” where they’d be “temporarily relocated” with every “amenity and entertainment” and told the others “look, you idiots! It’s in the paper! What are you, conspiracy nuts?”

          We know how that story went.

          I wish you all the best. Best luck there. My last 2¢ about this, as I know the last thing you need is some know it all putting pressure on an already stressful situation: a business, a career, can be restarted later. Going a few steps down the social ladder and temporarily accepting work you wouldn’t have considered before may be the price you have to pay to expedite matters. In a word, crazy as it sounds, move first, think about the biz later. Sense of urgency.

          Buena suerte.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 16, 2022 at 7:19 pm #

            Thanks Rulo. For what it’s worth, the school situation is pretty cool in that we’ve found a charter (MN allows those for free with public funds) that actually has a portrait of George Washington in the main entrance. An actual school. Our local schools in our burbs have given over to the CRT fun. We still have options though. For now. And we can still go there from farther out from the cities..

        • messianicdruid January 16, 2022 at 10:00 pm #

          Complicity Theorist ( noun )

          A person who accepts the political narrative of the day unquestionably; consumes mainstream media like it is 1960; is prone to submissiveness; outbursts of irrational fear; and public shaming of free-thinkers.

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 16, 2022 at 6:22 pm #

        fuck the burbs mango

        fuck ‘friends’

        fuck em all! :))

        what you’ve heard about shack-living meth-heads is not universally true. some of them are very humble, intuitive, considerate, magnanimous

      • Islander January 16, 2022 at 7:13 pm #

        Good advice, from Rulo.

        Don’t put these big decisions off.

        I don’t think I have the requisite energy to make such a big move now.

        Look at the reality of energy supply staring our society in the face. But most people do not want to see. They want the show to go on, and damn the torpedoes. But “torpedoes” have a way of talking back . . .

        Plan accordingly, to take needed action before torpedoes start talking back. .

  102. tucsonspur January 16, 2022 at 5:04 pm #

    A great quote from ‘Brideshead Revisited’:

    ‘I rejoiced in the Burgundy. How can I describe it? The Pathetic Fallacy resounds in all our praise of wine. For centuries every language has been strained to define its beauty, and has produced only wild conceits or the stock epithets of the trade.

    This Burgundy seemed to me then, serene and triumphant, a reminder that the world was an older and better place than Rex knew, that mankind in its long passion had learned another wisdom than his.

    By chance I met this same wine again, lunching with my wine merchant in St. James’s Street, in the first autumn of the war; it had softened and faded in the intervening years, but it still spoke in the pure, authentic accent of its prime and, that day, as at Paillard’s with Rex Mottram years before, it whispered faintly, but in the same lapidary phrase, the same words of hope.’

    Wine, the controlling Lady Marchmain and the iron chastity belt of Catholicism, backdrop of war, art, Anthony Blanche, and much more.

    ‘Narcissus with one pustule’ ‘A bloodsucker my dear…’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-UFsJFVwi0

    • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 5:28 pm #

      Yes, time for a reread, or watch Jeremy Irons in the role of his life. Thank youzzzz

    • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 5:42 pm #

      Thanks for that bit. Jarek called it a great Catholic novel above. I’ll go a step further and call it a great novel, period. Sometimes, less is more. A universal novel.

      The pretentiousness of wine critics, the clichés and formulas, the snobbishness… and then the pure, magical message of the wine itself, the gift we receive.

      Very a propos, as I enjoy a glass of Malbec with my split pea soup and garlic bread on this gray, cold day. Even North Florida is feeling Old Man Winter’s wrath today, and for the next few days. Nights in the 20’s! Row covers! Greenhouse lit up for heat!

      But the wine and the food are good, the wood stove full of burning logs, and all is well. Gave me half a mind to reread that novel… it’s been a while.

      • tucsonspur January 16, 2022 at 6:32 pm #

        Most welcome, Rulo.

        Out here tonight, it’s a delicious beef stew with a smooth, blended California red, garlic bread also. Some chocolate molten lava cakes for dessert, accented with a scoop of vanilla. Then, maybe some Frangelico or Kahlua with eggnog.

        Wow, 20’s! Here it’s been about forty at night, but after years of these torrid summers it feels like 20!

        Being that this is the only one of Waugh that I have read, I think that it’s time to expand the list.

      • Islander January 16, 2022 at 7:28 pm #

        I spent a couple of months in St. Augustine in early I think it was 2010. January. It was cold!! The house was not designed for that.
        Effing freezing.

        Loved St A, though.
        And the salt marsh around there.
        I biked all over the place.

    • gustafson.robert.22 January 16, 2022 at 5:45 pm #

      enjoying a fine 2021 franzia myself

      • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 5:51 pm #

        Longing for the pinot noir, making due with the box of Villageois, but a beer would be nice about now, stella in my dreams, lucky lager in my reality.

        • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 6:00 pm #

          Lucky Lager! I remember that from BC! Pretty good, too. Cherish what you have!

          • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 6:11 pm #

            Lol! Treasuring a lil too much, through a beer darkly…

  103. anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 5:17 pm #

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hprWmWy1nGk

    Jar everyone should know this. Thnx your sr miriam vid

    • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 5:53 pm #

      I know almost nothing about her – just the two videos I watched and that she’s a convert. But my psychic impression? She’s the real deal.

      • anmariwakaranai January 16, 2022 at 6:12 pm #

        No kidding. That was timely.

  104. MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 6:00 pm #

    Here ya go, CFNers. The agenda straight from the horses’ mouths.

    Your tenure track to digital slavery. All right here.

    https://www.weforum.org/whitepapers/

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    • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 6:50 pm #

      Mary, I’d go there, I really would, and other valuable links too, but I’m at the end of my tether when it comes to it.

      I’ve already decided. I know my line in the sand. I’ve read enough, thought enough, reached my own conclusions. I assume the worst. Live my life as well as I can, knowing every day can be my last.

      At this point, I’d rather enjoy a philosophical conversation, or something about food or wine or literature – but cannot go into the rut of once again realizing the evil around us.

      That’s the job Mr K does for me at this point. Wade neck deep into shit creek, so I don’t have to.

      It’s not that I’m naive or whistling past the graveyard. I know it’s bad. I know it could be worse than I know. Or slightly less bad. But ballpark, I know it’s bad. Cannot let it colonize and vampirize my thoughts 24/7.

      Hope you don’t take it the wrong way. I’ve studied many materials you and others have shared. I find it hard to do that anymore.

      • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 6:53 pm #

        Oh I get it – I’m actually where you are. I already studied all of this. It is now what it is, and like you, I am just preparing as best I can to get by.

        I post mostly for others who may need to see it for themselves.

        • Rulo Deschamps January 16, 2022 at 7:26 pm #

          It happened in stages over the last 2 years. Read all possible sources. Think hard. Reach my conclusions. Try to convince others. Lose friends & family over that. Read some more. Get more anxious. And slowly, in stages, deciding that’s it. That’s all I need to know. No point arguing about it. No point bombarding my relations with info and statistics.

          Like another poster here says, thinking ahead. What’s done is done. Can’t dwell in it forever. Need to focus, like you, on being the best version of myself for the future. If not for me, for my family and my community, reduced as it is…

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 7:33 pm #

          Like I said above, I’ve never been happier. I run into proof of the plot, I like to pass it on. But I am not living my life on THEIR terms and I will not allow them to ruin my moods any more. Been in this mindset for a few months now. It’s great.

        • Islander January 16, 2022 at 7:43 pm #

          I’m in the same boat as you, MQ and Rulo.
          I have been watching all of this for a long time—maybe even longer than our host, JHK. As the awful reality spools out, I have mental and emotional fatigue.

          Yet I am kind of surprised at how early on a lot of info was out there so that the attentive could easily connect dots.

          On April 8, 2020, I sent this message to my list:

          “Warning: Speculation!

          The drive for universal vaccination.
          Bill and Melinda Gates.
          Why is this idiot savant, Bill Gates, so concerned with vaccination?
          Because the technology now exists to insert digital markers into vaccines.
          He is like a mad scientist from Central Casting. He is not interested in public health. He is interested in expanstion of digital technology and creation of a new monopoly.
          https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/08/bill-gates-crosses-digital-rubicon-says-mass-gatherings-may-not-return-without-global-vaccine/

          Why is Gates being treated as an expert in public health? He know zero about it. But he is a big donor to the WHO—second largest. Gavi is also a Gates Foudnation project.
          See https://www.biometricupdate.com/201909/id2020-and-partners-launch-program-to-provide-digital-id-with-vaccines

          Gate funded the Event 201
          http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/

          Do you see the emphasis on “The exercise illustrated areas where ** public/private partnerships** will be necessary ”
          Who says they will be necessary? Not China. Not Russia. No one has voted on this.

          did you stop to wonder where that name came from? Who do you think named this event? And why that name? Someone chose that name.
          Partly it is like Pandemic 101 (basic course name).
          but hey, it is also pretty close to, say, Pandemic 2.01. i.e. version name.
          Just wondering.
          Hey, did you know that he daughter of Deborah Birx *works for the Gates Foundation*? any conflicts of interest there?

          Why are they now obfuscating actual cause of death?
          The U.S. Department of health and Human Services has very clear instructions regarding completing the cause of death section of the Blue Form (Death Certificate)
          https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/blue_form.pdf

          what are these guidelines now being not only ignored but instructions have come out from the Department that IMO deliberately obfuscate actual cause of death.
          maybe different reasons in different countries: Italy, germany, USA. In the latter case it may be a way of diverting attention from the terrible basic health of a lot of YOUNG Americans. That is, comorbidity.

          As Dr. Hendrik Streek points out: Why the hell didn’t the Robert Koch Institute do some basic science and surveys to find out how the virus is ACTUALLY transmitted? For those who speak German,
          I think the STreek interview is linked in the item below. Here it is again:
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP7La2bkOMo

          So, the general thrust, coming from not sure where but looks like a combo of Big Pharma (Fauci), WHO, other international entities funded by the Pentagon, Gates, etc. plus the Gates Foudnation itself is steering this right into the universal vaccination dock. With no backing out. jTotal social control and huge profits to boot. What’s not to like?

          That is my speculation of the “main stream” of this river of disinformation, thievery, planned and not planned screw-ups, deliberately unscientific “science.” With lots of little eddies of other agendas on the sides.

          And, of course, the ongoing attempt to discredit any cures or treatments that are not patentable; attempt to convince public that they need a vaccine to be “safe,” even though many esteemed infectious disease experts such as Dr. Michael Osterholm have emphasized that a strong immune system—that is, good health—is the best way to defend oneself from any virus attack.”
          ++++

          I picked up the Birx-daughter-Gates connection from Amazing Polly.
          Osterholm has since gone silent.

    • Proton January 16, 2022 at 9:02 pm #

      In that link, one article titled, Rise and Role of the Chief Integrity Officer (CIO).

      Hilarious. Contradiction in terms. CIO, the man with the shovel.

      Here’s how it would work, just like in the movies:

      Egregious fuckup or criminal act comes to light.

      The CIO grabs the shmuck given the task of informing him by his lapels, or by the neck, or by the balls, drags him to the CEOs office, slams the door, starts shrieking like a madman, who all knows about this?

      And having been told names by the sweating, gasping, stammering employee, shouts at him, with your last dying breath get their asses here right fucking now and I mean now, get the Chief Counsel here now, now, now, go, go, go, go.

      And so the thoroughly rattled underling goes, trying to not piss himself.

      Chief Counsel arrives.

      Turns out both the Chief Counsel and CEO had already heard the news.

      So word is spreading and they need to tamp it down, secrecy as fundamental to corporate culture as to any totalitarian regime.

      The CEO breaks out a bottle, pours them all a stiff one, gets his admin to cancel all his calls and appointments with apologies groveling in proportion to the rank of the cancellee, then gets his personal assistant to call the wife to tell her he’ll be home maybe tomorrow. He suggests to the two fellas with him to do the same.

      They drink up.

      First question: Can we smother it?

      Second Question: Whose nuts go on the anvil?

      Third Question: What’s this going to cost?

      Everyone in-the-know is now present outside the corner office.

      The beatings begin…

  105. Jarek January 16, 2022 at 6:29 pm #

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMcYh0Awh3k

    The Sadh Guru: What is this nonsense? Stop wearing short skirts, short shorts, and tight pants.

    • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 7:53 pm #

      You’re getting cringeworthy with this shit. Get a girlfriend or something?

      • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 8:12 pm #

        Stop dressing to provoke, Mary. You draw attention to yourself that you can’t handle.

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 8:40 pm #

          You have no idea how I dress.

          Fantasizing doesn’t become you, J. Looks desperate and pathetic, kinda like that guy Nabakov wrote about.

          • Jarek January 16, 2022 at 10:14 pm #

            Why did you jump in then? You must have an issue here.

            Fantasize about you? More like, Old Lady Witch are you coming out tonight.

      • ianw January 16, 2022 at 11:45 pm #

        You’re getting cringeworthy with this shit. Get a girlfriend or something?

        I don’t agree with Mary that often Jarek, but this is some very weird shit. Give it a rest.

        The very real challenges to face and battles to be fought over the next 25 years do NOT involve weirdo discrimination between the sexes. You’re looking for problems and their solution in all the wrong places.

  106. mumbai January 16, 2022 at 6:50 pm #

    As they say in the classic re “Despite overwhelming proof that the mRNA vaccines don’t work…” – citation required.

    • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 8:09 pm #

      If you don’t know this by now there is no helping you.

      • ianw January 16, 2022 at 8:46 pm #

        Translation: “How can you question the sacred beliefs and infallible wisdom of the cult gods … death to all heretics and science followers!”

        Monty Python and the Holy Grail – She’s a Witch!

        • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 9:18 pm #

          More projection. Just, sad.

          • ianw January 17, 2022 at 1:00 am #

            More denial of the cult, even sadder.

          • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 3:23 am #

            Ask him for long-term studies on efficacy and safety.

            You will get cultspeak in return.

            🙂

  107. stelmosfire January 16, 2022 at 7:02 pm #

    BRH, you mentioned this before. I’ve been seeing a few stories on the MSM about train robberies in the yards in LA. I think PPH’s
    (President Potato Head) handlers are pushing excuses for the supply problems. No mention of the perps doin’ the crimes. Free Shit yea! Where are the railroad dics?

    • ianw January 17, 2022 at 12:20 am #

      No mention of the perps doin’ the crimes. Free Shit yea! Where are the railroad dics?

      This thought did cross my mind. Is it that hard to put an immediate stop to it? Can’t ten security guards crush it?

      • anmariwakaranai January 17, 2022 at 1:46 am #

        Not if it is condoned and encouraged by the ptb.

  108. GrimReaper January 16, 2022 at 8:04 pm #

    USAF Pilots in Peril, Threats to National Security
    https://www.americaoutloud.com/usaf-pilots-in-peril-threats-to-national-security/

    • Socrates-Detroit January 16, 2022 at 10:48 pm #

      @GrimReaper I’m not sure how much of a threat to “national security” this is.

      The shot are definitely a threat to the pilots’ well-being, and to all armed forces members. And those who “serve” are being treated most unfairly–no exemptions.

      An 30-year old infantryman dropping dead or developing cardiovascular issues is very bad. A pilot is very bad and much more expensive and time-consuming to replace.

      It is truly disgraceful and disgusting, even given the high degree of a$$-kissing that characterized senior officers (how do you think they get to be generals and admirals? Leadership? Winning wars? Please!!!! ) that they are risking the health of the troops.

      However, since the troops “serve” to advance the interests of the US elite, and not to defend the US, unless one has a loved one in the military, the impact to Americans is not too big.

      @MrMango In a better world, in Minn/St Paul, if a bar or restaurant requested proof of vaccination, any potential patron, vaccinated or not, would simply say “that’s my concern. If you want my business, let me in. Otherwise, I am leaving. Decide now!”

      When business dropped, the merchants would complain and the (illegal) ordinance would be rescinded.]

      As it stands now, some one has to find a lawyer, go to court, etc. Very tedious. And the sleazebags making the laws know this.

      • ianw January 17, 2022 at 12:55 am #

        @MrMango In a better world, in Minn/St Paul, if a bar or restaurant requested proof of vaccination, any potential patron, vaccinated or not, would simply say “that’s my concern. If you want my business, let me in. Otherwise, I am leaving. Decide now!”

        It’s still the case that the unvaccinated are far more likely to be infected, and far more likely to be carrying a heavier load – and therefore more infectious to others. It is definitely not only about their individual choices.

        Having said that, I still think it’s reasonable that states require people to be vaccinated in those environments where people are working or playing very close to others. The states are trying to flatten the curve – that’s their role.

        Why people can’t accept this is beyond me – it’s just a public health issue.

        • anmariwakaranai January 17, 2022 at 1:43 am #

          No vaxx for ‘essential workers’ till now Ian. Your shops and bars are about to close, or ours are. No groceries on the shelves in a week or so here with the cross border trucker vaxx ban either.
          Empty shelves. Is your community gated and gunned like South Africa?

          • ianw January 17, 2022 at 1:48 am #

            No vaxx for ‘essential workers’ till now Ian. Your shops and bars are about to close, or ours are. No groceries on the shelves in a week or so here with the cross border trucker vaxx ban either.
            Empty shelves. Is your community gated and gunned like South Africa?

            You are into fanciful doomer-porn. We have well-stocked shelves and functioning medical centres. YMMV

            It’s places that do not have vax mandates that are suffering the most – like Florida under the lunatic Governor DeathSentence – they have far more absenteeism, and far more people hitting the hospitals.

            When will you people wake up and see the reality? SMH

          • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 8:01 am #

            “When will you people wake up and see the reality? SMH”

            https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19843315.covid-scotland-case-rates-lowest-unvaccinated-double-jabbed-elderly-drive-rise-hospital-admissions/

            “Double-jabbed Scots are now more likely to be admitted to hospital with Covid than the unvaccinated amid an increase in elderly people falling ill due to waning immunity*.

            It comes amid “weird” data showing that case rates have been lower in unvaccinated individuals than the single, double, or even triple-jabbed since Omicron became the dominant variant in Scotland.”

            *re ‘waning immunity’, see EMA statement that jabs and boosters are destroying people’s immune systems, as stated by honest scientists more than 6 months ago.

            Lying troll lies again.

          • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 9:11 am #

            I’m waiting for an answer, clown.

            Something that doesn’t start with ‘yeah well, my dad is bigger than your dad’.

  109. Jarek January 16, 2022 at 8:18 pm #

    https://sputniknews.com/20220114/stoltenberg-natos-already-decided-to-make-ukraine-georgia-members-didnt-say-when-itll-occur-1092254284.html

    There’s nothing to talk about. NATO won’t give up its drive into the Russian sphere. And Russia will never accept it. They knew that when they decided to do it.

    There must be a trial of strength and resolve. Maybe then they’ll be something to talk about, like exchange of prisoners, etc.

    But the West is the aggressor here, let there be no doubt about that.

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    • workingclasshero January 17, 2022 at 1:16 am #

      Unfortunately, the Russians are outnumbered, outclassed militarily and the West/NATO has all the economic power with sanctions and can turn the screws for a long time. The western Ngo’s will find another Yeltsin ready to playball.

      • anmariwakaranai January 17, 2022 at 1:39 am #

        I must respectfully disagree work.

        Don’t forget, the one who stops the war, hailed as a hero and worshipped, will be the Antichrist.

        When people say, ‘Peace, peace.’, then it will begin.

        Look upon Him at your own peril.

      • Islander January 17, 2022 at 9:58 am #

        With all due respect, WCH, I don’t think you know what you are talking about regarding “the West’s” superiority.

        For starters, look around you.

        For nexters, inform yourself regarding Russia’s actual military and strategic advantages and capacity.

        Russia/Putin is taking these steps now because the country is now strong enough to stand up to Western aggression.

        Putin is not stupid, and there is no American puppet offstage in Russia.

        If the USA continues on the current course and actually starts something, sparks will fly, and many of them may fly on the American continent.

        Or, Putin may make a preemptive move. If he does, it will probably not be a small move.

  110. GreenAlba January 16, 2022 at 8:31 pm #

    And another one …

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/celebrity/young-woman-died-of-cardiac-arrest-after-falling-from-bucking-bronco/ar-AASQdEB?ocid=msedgntp

    Fell off a bucking bronco on a night out and THEN had a cardiac arrest.

    Right.

    • MaryQueen January 16, 2022 at 9:17 pm #

      Someone should repurpose that old Joe Jackson song from the 1980s “Everything Gives You Cancer” to “Everything Gives You Myocarditis (or a heart attack)”

      Insane.

    • ianw January 16, 2022 at 10:46 pm #

      Fell off a bucking bronco on a night out and THEN had a cardiac arrest.

      Is there some reason why you are posting this story here?

      Are you on a mission to broadcast the death of every person on the planet under 70, on suspicion they are being caused by Covid-19 vaccines?

      And some balance would be good – what is the percentage of young people out on the tiles who did not die after falling off a bucking bronco in 2021? Perhaps 99.99%?

      • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 5:27 am #

        “Is there some reason why you are posting this story here?”

        The opposite of the reason you’re lying your evil tits off on here every single day

        “And some balance would be good – what is the percentage of young people out on the tiles who did not die after falling off a bucking bronco in 2021? Perhaps 99.99%?”

        What is the percentage of people not dying from covid, you lying scumbag?

      • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 5:41 am #

        I took the poison* and it doesn’t stop me seeing the truth. There are millions like me. In the Netherlands, prikspijt (vaccine regret) was voted Dutch word of the year in 2021. We’ll go down telling the truth.

        The truth is getting out, massively, despite the desperate efforts of evil messenger boys like you.

        *About to make an appointment (reluctantly) with my dumb GP for the chronic bronchial irritation and cough I’ve had since the start of October. I hope it’s ‘just’ the start of a very slow road to emphysema and not something even worse.

      • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 6:02 am #

        “what is the percentage of young people out on the tiles who did not die after falling off a bucking bronco in 2021?”

        Why did you ask the wrong question? The right question is what is the percentage of young people out on the tiles dying of a heart attack – before Jan. 2021 and after 2021?

    • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 3:19 am #

      A guy went down at a local Aldi here recently. His son said he had just had his clot booster two days ago.

      • anmariwakaranai January 17, 2022 at 4:12 am #

        And I’ve gotta get off of here and pray for an ex nhl er who got the vaxx so he could get a stent and it’s not working out. Unheard of, in the stent biz.

    • ianw January 17, 2022 at 3:04 am #

      In the U.S., 527 million doses have been given so far. An average 1.26 million doses per day were administered over the last week.

      • SoftStarLight January 17, 2022 at 3:47 am #

        What he says isn’t scary or creepy to me. I mean your numbers don’t scare me because they sound inaccurate. But even if it is the case, well, so many people have worked so hard to get the truth out there that it’s going to be what it’s going to be. There is a very noticeable significant increase in death rates and it is going to be unavoidable for all to see the link soon enough it seems. That your booster is a kind of cult roulette with a veneer of rite of passage-esque spiritism.

        • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 5:49 am #

          To be fair, SSL, we don’t know if he’s really had the jabs at all, or if he’s even in Australia. Anybody who lies the way he does could be lying about absolutely everything.

    • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 3:18 am #

      It is worse here in Europe. The good part is that the narrative is so ridicuous that only troglodytes and those panicking about what they have done to themselves believe it.

      The latest narrative is that it is normal for kids and pro athletes (particularly soccer/football) to get myocarditis. 🙂

      The narrative is unsustainable at this point, which is why they are moving to go full police state. This is also pretty dumb, but these people are not particularly intelligent. A plan that has been in the works for at least 40 years is getting stopped up after just two.

      • ianw January 17, 2022 at 3:40 am #

        It is worse here in Europe. The good part is that the narrative is so ridiculous that only troglodytes and those panicking about what they have done to themselves believe it.

        Dream on frat-boy – the vast majority (millions) have had 2-3 vaccines without any ill-effects whatsoever. The sky is not falling.

        • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 3:48 am #

          No one is interested in your drunken conspiracy nutfudge.

          Show studies on long-term safety and efficacy. 7 years + as is the norm.

          The floor is yours.

        • gustafson.robert.22 January 17, 2022 at 6:47 am #

          the vast majority have had no (that they admit) ill effects. only a few have collapsed with sudden-onset heart emergencies. it’s not like everyone’scollapsing

          • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 7:38 am #

            Not true. The safety profile (no. of injuries and deaths) is far worse than any other real vaccine — real meaning using traditional vaccine tech. that has been tested for efficacy and safety over the long term.

            This is an experimental product, with no long-term safety or efficacy data that has the worst short-term safety record of any product. IIRC, there are more injuries and deaths from the MRNA shots over the course of a few months than in all previous vaccines combined since the 70s.

            What an utterly idiotic statement.

          • gustafson.robert.22 January 17, 2022 at 8:03 am #

            guess my sarcasm didnt come thru.

            sure, its true that a majority have not had extreme reactions

            but the historically huge and growing minority who (and fact that any) drop like flies with sudden cardiovascular emergencies is insane… was my point to ian

          • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 8:22 am #

            Fair enough.

  111. GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 7:53 am #

    Guardian goes for Joe Rogan.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/other/270-doctors-call-joe-rogan-s-podcast-a-menace-to-public-health/vi-AASQYiV?ocid=msedgntp

    A menace to public health he is.

    • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 8:22 am #

      The best was when CNN gave him the Orange Man Bad treatment, and adjusted the color and contrast in one of Rogan’s videos, so that he looked sickly.

      IIRC, he was talking about Ivermectin in said video.

    • Islander January 17, 2022 at 10:07 am #

      They will always fall back on the “public health” argument.

      Because anything can then be labeled as such.
      And ever new states of emergency called out, and new control measures imposed “for your own good and that of the community.”

      The Nazis used the same arguments. The eradication of “lebensunwuerdiges Leben” was cast in terms of a public health/eugenics measure.

      Hundreds, maybe thousands, of doctors and healthcare workers went along with it.

      My antennae start twitching as soon as I hear a public health argument. they are getting nervous because Rogan is getting more viewers than the MSM. So, they will try to get him any way they can.

      Maybe it would make sense for Rogan to challenge them in court. Or, challenge them to challenge him in court.

      Let’s air ALL the laundry.

  112. Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 8:21 am #

    “The search is on in Canada for an anti-vaccination dad who is accused of hiding his 7-year-old daughter to keep her from being vaccinated against COVID-19.
    https://trib.al/vLFk7iH

    https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1482933563725123589?cxt=HHwWisC4tYSOuJQpAAAA

    Another day with the Covid Cultists.

  113. MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 17, 2022 at 8:42 am #

    tejapo – “The states are trying to flatten the curve – that’s their role.

    Why people can’t accept this is beyond me – it’s just a public health issue.

    At what point, how many years in, let’s say, do we admit that the states can’t do anything to flatten any curve?

    And “their role” is most definitely NOT to flatten curves. Their role is to provide water, emergency services, public support systems and to fill potholes.

    Your role is to say what you are required to as if it’s fact, no matter how ridiculous it may be.

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    • Islander January 17, 2022 at 10:18 am #

      “”Why people can’t accept this is beyond me – it’s just a public health issue.””

      Boy, what did I just say.

      I love the way they shove in the little word “just.”

      If this were a genuine public health issue there would be a genuine public health response.

      We have not had a genuine public health response. Instead, we have had a totalitarian response—T4 2.0. \

      Stop jabbering, or the T4 team might come along and take YOU away. .

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