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Historians of the future, gathered round their campfires poaching armadillo tail-flaps in their own shells, will harken back to the wondrous day in 2024 when they could watch and compare two heads of great nations present themselves to the world for assessment. There was Mr. Putin of the land called Russia, calmly discoursing in fine detail on a thousand years of his country’s history. And there was Mr. Biden of the USA, facing the White House press pool, angrily refuting a special prosecutor’s glum conclusion that the President was not mentally competent to be tried in court on the finding that he’d indeed mishandled classified documents.

      The contrast between the two figures might even alert the mandarins of our Ivy League that something has gone very wrong in this country for a decade or more, and could arouse suspicions among the faculties that they had been gulled into a false view of our recent history. Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report issued Thursday said it rather plainly:

    In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (“if it was 2013, when did I stop being Vice President?”), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (“in 2009, am I still Vice president?”). He did not remember even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.”

     The disclosure raises not a few uncomfortable questions. If Mr. Biden’s declining mental condition was apparent to federal attorneys interviewing him — admittedly not top psychologists — then wouldn’t the same picture present itself to the scores of assistants and subalterns busy toiling with the president around the clock for three years in the White House? Not to mention the myriad other government officials, agency heads, corporate nabobs, and news media notables streaming through the Oval Office every hour of the day? And yet, every last one of them has gone along with the pretense that Mr. Biden is doing just fine and is capable of running for reelection. Weird, a little bit.

     If there has been any discussion about Mr. Biden being in possession of the so-called “nuclear football,” the briefcase full of launch codes for our arsenal of missiles and bombers, it has gone unnoticed in the press. I suppose a conspiracy to suppress that chatter would be labeled a “conspiracy theory,” which also suggests that Mr. Biden’s mental deficiencies have somehow infected the entire body politic of the USA. That is, much of the whole US population is mentally unwell, living in a national hall of mirrors. How did that happen? Is it possible that there are branches of our government dedicated to driving the population crazy. . . a kind of ordeal-by-gaslight?

      That impression was only reinforced by listening to the president of our supposed adversary, Russia, Mr. Putin, in his confab with independent journalist Tucker Carlson. For one thing, Mr. Putin dared to express the likelihood that somebody, or group of somebodies, must be secretly running the executive branch of America’s government behind the mentally vacant figurehead “President Biden,” but Mr. Putin would not venture to guess who that might be.

     What Mr. Putin displayed most of all was an air of prudence, an awareness that America’s behavior has become increasingly and dangerously unhinged over the years he’s been in power, requiring much delicacy and Christian patience not to worsen. Ukraine was at the center of the discussion, of course, since it has become a point of dangerous geopolitical inflammation. It is unclear whether the American audience was able to follow Mr. Putin’s detailed disquisition on the history of Ukraine, and how lately it eventuated in America’s bungling effort to wrest it out of Russia’s sphere of influence. He explained his view of events around the “Maidan coup” of 2014 and NATO’s repudiation of the Minsk Agreements that might have satisfactorily ended hostilities and provided a framework for reestablishing Ukraine’s status as a neutral borderland between Europe and Asia.

      Mr. Putin also confirmed my own conjecture: that, after the fall of the USSR, Russia had one overriding concern in foreign affairs: to be re-admitted to the European family of nations as a once-again “normal,” member, especially in trade relations, after seventy-five years of its peculiar communist experiment. He spoke of this quite ruefully as a lost opportunity to shore up Western Civilization — now engaged in a mystifying act of mass suicide that Russia decidedly wishes to opt out of by strategically reorienting with the BRICs bloc.

      This Friday morning, the USA is fraught with events unspooling. As I write, with dawn just breaking, there is almost zero opinion yet formed about these troubling matters on the vast Internet — but it will probably come in hot-and-heavy as the day ticks on. If Mr. Biden is truly mentally incompetent, as established more-or-less legally by Special Counsel Hur, then there is the obvious remedy of the 25th amendment — removal of a president for reason of disability. A debate over this would seem unavoidable now. The question also implies that Mr. Biden’s charade of running for reelection must come to an end. What will the Democratic party do about that?

     A not inconsiderable part of our Ukraine problem has been that our chief executive was for years engaged in bribery and money-laundering misadventures there, for which there is abundant and powerful evidence, meaning he may have had very personal interests in keeping that country disordered — and sending billions of dollars there, some of it surely embezzled among the Zelensky government. You’d have to also be aware that the bag-man in those operations, the President’s son, Hunter, might well have misbehaved with drugs and prostitutes on his many trips to Ukraine as a board member of Burisma. Hunter’s self-compiled archive of round-the-world drug-fueled porn recordings on the laptop that (the FBI confirmed recently) was unquestionably his own, suggests that the Ukraine authorities may have their own recordings of him behaving similarly, or worse, and are using them to blackmail “President Joe Biden.”

      We will also learn the judgment, probably with remarkable dispatch, of the Supreme Court in the matter of Colorado kicking Donald Trump off the election ballot. Meanwhile, the case against Mr. Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, is falling apart in DA Fani Willis’s pathetically comical scandal, now with a new “love nest” twist (paid for with public money). And Judge Engoron and AG Letitia James might be weighing the fates of their reputations in the shabbily-conducted and bogus real estate valuation fraud case against Mr. Trump, which will eventually be vivisected at some level of appeal. The old saying remains powerful: There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen.


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522 Responses to “Eventful Events”

  1. Irish February 9, 2024 at 9:27 am #

    I think that Dennis Miller is right when he said that things have gone too far now. Just look at how Karin JP spins the narrative around Joe Biden. It won’t be much longer before they roll out Michelle Obama as their choice to run in Joe’s place.

    • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 9:40 am #

      That arrogant DIEversity hire called addressing a statement of fact by a reporter “going down that rabbit hole”.

      The DIEversity hires always, always think they are the best there is.

      • Nick Reynolds February 9, 2024 at 10:04 am #

        I think they call it DEI, but yours is better, and more accurate.

        • Yirgach February 9, 2024 at 4:49 pm #

          Oh, you mean Don’t Employ Idiots?

        • JimInFlorida2.0 February 10, 2024 at 11:03 am #

          DEI is a deliberate Jewish co-opt of the classical Latin word “Dei” meaning God.

          The Jewish god of chaos, Lucifer, is their DEI and they name the upending of Western Civilization with Affirmative Action on steroids.

          • Uncle Abraham February 11, 2024 at 1:29 am #

            What is your suggested remedy for this evil plot you have determined the no-good Jews are perpetrating?

          • JimInFlorida2.0 February 11, 2024 at 10:38 am #

            Well Abe,

            Remedies have been applied in the past. They were not only successful but, achieved the goals of restoring the people and nation.

            The methods are simply to either quell or get rid of the Jews. Quelling is not acceptable because the Jews are like a cancer simply put into remission. The threat remains.

            To get rid of them first requires a preliminary and extensive uncloaking of the Jewish mindset for all to see. Including their 3000 year agenda to enslave or destroy the Goyim. The methods of removal can range from the Romans’ destruction of that viper’s nest in 70 AD, to the Edict of Expulsion in 1290, to the Alhambra Decree and to the ALLEGED extermination of a few thousand in Nazi Germany.

            On the last one, Muh Six Million NEVER HAPPENED. That is a bald-faced lie that was IMPOSED upon the West and the Jewish media and power brokers enforce it to the uttermost. Indeed, Jews have a total hammerlock on the media and all other institutions that have the potential to hoist the Jews’ dirty laundry and bloodstained history up on a flagpole where all can see it.

            There can be no peace on the Earth with Jews. One of your spokesmen, Maurice Samuel said it quite clearly… and Whites are finally listening:

            [QUOTE] “We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers for ever. Nothing that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will for ever destroy because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build.”

            Who is the god of the Jews? Lucifer and that is provable by their works, the chaos they create among the Goyim, and their own words. The god of Moses is brought out now and then to reassure the brainwashed Christtards who’ve drunk the Zionist Kool-Aid.

            Adolf Hitler (may Providence grant him rest and peace) was entirely too kind to you Jews. He initially wanted to round you all up and dump you in Madagascar. A far superior place to be than in the State of Israel. Plus, it is an island that can be 100% quarantined as one would do with a most deadly bio-weapon.

            The Final Solution was arrived at after centuries of bad experience with Jews and it seemed to be the only solution remaining. Take that as you will. I have an abundance of historical evidence and embarrassing quotes from rabbis and infamous secular Jews. It’s too bad that a tiny minority are actually very good people but, they are not enough to justify the evils of the rest. I am talking about Abraham and Lot, that story starting in Genesis 18:16.

            Yes, Abraham did negotiate with God to spare Sodom if just 10 righteous souls could be found. But, even God has his limits. You can be sure that Sodom and Gomorrah were packed full of the same Jews that plague the West today. BTW, LGBTQ…XYZ rights are key planks in the Jewish bridge to the Pax Judaica where the god they really worship, Lucifer (Harold Wallace Rosenthal said so), will visibly rule from Jerusalem.

            You thought you could just wave me off with a boilerplate Jewish diss. You weren’t expecting a comprehensive reply with undeniable evidence, did you?

      • Cankerpuss February 9, 2024 at 10:09 am #

        And why shouldn’t they when they are constantly told by business, government and media that they are the best there is. Like I have said before the white heterosexual male has all but disappeared from society, if you were watching television, that is.

        Saw an ad the other day talking about the increased amounts of hatred against Jews. The ad mentioned that there was too much hate against Jews, Blacks, Mexicans, Women, Gays, Asians, Indians. Guess which ethnic group was missing? Yeah, Whites.

        These people think they are the best because they are told they are the best.

        • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 10:34 am #

          I’ve been seeing an ad on X, there’s a law firm (a legitimate one) looking for cases of discrimination against white men.

          I called it to the attention of someone in my family who has a friend trying to get hired for a teaching job for which he is more than qualified, and she forwarded it to him.

          He says he may look into it.

          I will report back if that happens.

        • TruthSeeker1986 February 9, 2024 at 11:04 am #

          @Cankerpuss

          They are full of shit, because for one thing Jews hate whites, that’s why they are wrecking all their nations. And Blacks hate Asians, that’s why they beat and kick their asses at will and they do the same to white people the very people that glorify and worship the ground they walk on. The Media is manipulative as hell…They simply mention all those groups because they are the people they rely on to take advantage of.

          Cankerpuss — It seems you have failed to notice that most Jews are white people. Your statement is idiotic and scurrilous. I’m giving you three demerits. — JHK-Admin

          • Uncle Abraham February 11, 2024 at 1:32 am #

            Aren’t the demerits meant for TS?

        • C.O.Jones February 9, 2024 at 11:28 am #

          Cankerpuss – I have had 2 different Indian friends tell me that part of the training in the “boot camps” set up in India by Bill Gates and company includes 2 weeks of intensive IT training – 3 weeks for a “master’s” – and the repeated drilling that white people are stupid and lazy and it is your job to go to the US and become their boss. If you fail to become the boss, you are disgracing your family and your national identity.

          I was incredulous when I was first told this but it is a reality I am living every work day.

          • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 1:17 pm #

            I can’t address that, CO, but I have been learning from Indian individuals the pressure placed on them by their parents and their culture, that they are to be “exceptional” and that everyone must see it.

            When you look at Nikki Haley and Vivek, you can see examples of what I am talking about.

            The ambition came first, and then they decided how to fulfill that ambition.

            Nikki has said that she was influenced by Hillary Clinton and decided that’s how she wanted to be.

            No one in their right mind wants to be like Hillary, what Nikki was saying is that she saw a woman aiming at achieving what no woman had yet achieved, ambition-wise.

            Vivek got into politics because of seeing the presidency as a lofty goal to set his sights on.

          • Cankerpuss February 9, 2024 at 1:32 pm #

            Aren’t Indian people just dark skinned caucasoids?

          • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 3:46 pm #

            Yes Indians are caucasoids; or I should say that’s what The Science said before this century.

            What they teach in courses like anthropology today bears no resemblance to what we were told.

            How can “Asian” be a race, any more that “North American”?

          • ThorsHammer February 10, 2024 at 2:02 pm #

            The window of opportunity is closing fast in the Ukraine. It has only about 90 days to re-build the Ukrainian Fourth Army to replace the first three sent to the meat grinder. Ukraine’s only hope is that the US institutes an immediate draft of all offspring of current US Presidential aspirants, Congresswhores, and registered Lobbyists. No training required. Nationalize the entire Carnival Lines flotilla to deliver them STAT.

            Zelensky has just appointed Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi AKA (“The Butcher”) as head of the armed forces, so I’m sure he will find a suitable place for them.

            The problem most on the minds of North Americans is the fear that the six million refugees who have streamed across OBiden’s open border (voting card in hand) will use their pass stipend to move in next door. If OBiden would just mobilize the National Guard, round up all military age “migrants” in that invasion and ship them over to Ukraine to use as human waves, the US wouldn’t have to authorize any more 155mm artillery shells that it has already run out of.

          • C.O.Jones February 10, 2024 at 5:54 pm #

            I’ve always been mystified as to how people from a different country can be considered as being a different race. I also maintain the position that there is one human race and many tribes while fully realizing that belief places me squarely in a tiny minority. Look closely – this is me not caring about that.

            Convincing one tribe that another tribe is a different race has enabled and facilitated the cries of RACISM that have permeated the cultures of planet earth.

            I was told in a workplace setting by a person named Raja that white people, Jews in particular, were a slave race and he pointed out in the same sentence that Raja meant “king” as if me being white made him my overlord.

            That conversation came about as a result of me pointing out the many defects in code he had submitted. The quality of his code was terrible and, if introduced to the existing system, it would have broken the system in numerous places. It was my job to test the code to prevent such defects from making it into the existing system. “No pissing in the pool, please.”

            In today’s workplace, finding defects in code is RACIST.

            Raja later told me he didn’t care if his code broke every other piece of code in the system – the people who wrote the system code would have to change to accommodate his (garbage) code, the implication being that if they didn’t, they were racist.

            Check, please!

          • Ron Anselmo February 11, 2024 at 1:49 pm #

            “I also maintain the position…while fully realizing that belief places me squarely in a tiny minority. Look closely – this is me not caring about that.” ~ C.O. Jones

            Awesome statement C.O., I love it.

      • hortonz February 9, 2024 at 10:30 am #

        Putin had a few things to say about our own idiot-in-chief. Margaret’s boy is none too happy. https://twitter.com/Trudeaus_Ego/status/1755773825931784393

        • ThorsHammer February 10, 2024 at 2:08 pm #

          @hortonz

          What is truly amazing is how one of the most skilled dictator/orators of this century could produce an offspring as detestable as Turd-Smell!

      • boarwild February 9, 2024 at 1:28 pm #

        DIE:

        Deport
        Every
        Illegal.

    • Socrates-Detroit February 9, 2024 at 9:49 am #

      “….sending billions of dollars there, some of it surely embezzled among the Zelensky government….”

      That’s an understatement!

      And where the US government doesn’t send cash, as in weapons, the money is spent at US defense contractors (part of the “blob”), and some of the weapons sent to the Ukraine are “skimmed” and sold on the black market.

      If/when things really start to unravel in the US or Europe, my concern is some of these shoulder-fired rockets might be used on commercial aircraft…

      I’ve seen the first third of Putin’s interview. Mr. Putin speaks well, carefully, and intelligently. The very antithesis of most US major Presidential candidates in my lifetime (let alone the mentally handicapped current President)

      • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 10:02 am #

        IIRC, some of Congress fought the oversight and accounting of where the money and “stuff” we were sending to a known crime syndicate of a country was going.

        That tells me that a lot of what we were allegedly sending never left
        this country.

        Joe was no longer capable of demanding his slice, so who did it go to?

        Donald Trump was actually capable of speaking intelligently on foreign policy issues, but whenever he did, our media reported that he had said things he never said.

        • BackRowHeckler February 9, 2024 at 10:37 am #

          Yes, but what about abortion rights and LBGQT rights?

          For a significant portion of the population, that’s what matters most. That, and free weed.

      • kidseyedoc February 9, 2024 at 10:51 am #

        Mr. Putin’s interview ran over two hours. At no point did Mr. Putin use any notes, while revealing an encyclopedic knowledge of American history, current events and contemporary politics.

        • sadlycdn February 9, 2024 at 12:29 pm #

          Great point……

        • Ron Anselmo February 9, 2024 at 2:24 pm #

          Yes Doc – because he wasn’t “educated” here. He sees American history from the outside-in (true). The dopes in this country, see American history from the inside-out (propaganda).

          • ThorsHammer February 10, 2024 at 2:20 pm #

            I’ve read that one reason why the population of the Soviet Union was able to resist the crude propaganda that they were continually subjected to is that they were readers. In the era before universal television that was pivotal.

            Jerry Mander (Author of “Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television”) recently passed away. RIP

            One of the ten mandatory reads in the English language!

          • Socrates-Detroit February 11, 2024 at 8:55 am #

            Thor, thank you for book recommendation.

            The Soviets were readers–good point, I hadn’t thought about it.

            Less TV.

            Plus (Dmitry Orlov said/wrote this, but it makes sense), most Russians KNEW what the papers and TV said was propaganda and not entirely true, and not to be depended on.

            Americans used to be more likely to believe the media and government.

            I think this is less today, and the internet has hastened this trend.

            Still, millions of Americans still bought the official COVID narrative it its entirety, took the shots. and many still cannot make the connection between mRNA shots and their new health issues….

        • cbeard February 9, 2024 at 2:32 pm #

          Putin was very impressive. Especially in comparison to his American counterparts. I watched a little over half of the broadcast last night and had to get to bed. I’ll watch the rest tonight. Also, the revelation (to some, how could anyone ever think he had a full deck) that Biden is/has always been totally incompetent and dishonest, should be enough to keep him from being able to pardon his son, extended family and others for their illegal shenanigans. The first thing Trump should do upon getting into office is pardon all of the January 6th political prisoners.

          • Ron Anselmo February 9, 2024 at 10:36 pm #

            Yes cbeard – agree 100% on the J6 political prisoners.

            It’s a travesty. Raskin, Cheney, Thompson & Schiff should be made to trade places with Biggs, Nordean, Tarrio & Pezzola.

            The committee proceedings were more criminal than any J6 actions. Erased all the testimony, withheld exculpatory video footage. WTF. And we allow it.

            I take that back, they should hang – traitors hang.

      • SpeedyBB February 9, 2024 at 12:33 pm #

        Soc-Det:

        There was a flurry of concern when Uncle vamoosed from Afghanistan – oh, no remember that no more, no? – that the scores of shoulder-mounted Stingers left behind could be used by the bearded pranksters to knock down airliners.

        In the event, air travelers had a narrow escape: it turns out the batteries used to power the missile-launchers are not your ordinary Duracells available at the corner mom’n’pop shop. I presume the authorities clamped down on the sale and export of said batteries the same as they do for those highly-accurate switches used to set off a nuclear reaction.

        • ThorsHammer February 10, 2024 at 3:42 pm #

          SpeedyBB

          IThe Iranian electronics sector if far more advanced than it was when the US ran from Afghanistan with its tail between its legs.
          Did anybody notice the hypersonic missile being displayed in pubic and blessed by the Mullahs in Iran a few months ago? They must have cracked the problem of creating a plasma shield as employed by the Russians. Why is it that the US attempts at hypersonic flight in atmosphere all burn up at well under 5,000 mph?

      • Jarek February 9, 2024 at 12:47 pm #

        I’ve watched about the first half. Yes, a most impressive man. He makes it clear that he will never leave Western Ukraine alone however. It must always just be a “border land”. Whites have no right to anything of their own, certainly not nations.

        The Bandaristas did themselves no favors by provoking the Russian bear. Evidently they can’t help themselves. In their National Socialism, Russians not Jews are the devils. So they made a deal with the Internationalists to drive the Russians out – as if those against all nations would then let them have their own. Oh the precious fools.

      • jgalt February 9, 2024 at 1:49 pm #

        I watched the entire interview and was impressed with Putin’s command of history and his memory. Naturally, he will be attacked even more viciously, along with Tucker, by the leftist Demoncraps, who cannot, and will not, abide the truth about the breech of the Minsk agreements by expanding NATO and inviting Ukraine to join while building up their military to fight Russia. With the nazi Azov Battalions attacking Russian speaking areas in Eastern Ukraine after the 2014 Maidan coup planned and paid for by the U.S., and Russia’s protests and pleas falling on deaf ears, Russia was forced to act. Interesting how Russia’s attempt to join NATO was rudely rejected, as was a negotiated peace agreement early on in the war, that NATO, UK and US, objected to, as they preferred to fight to the last Ukrainian. Everyone should be concerned about a senile Biden having the nuclear football under his control, as he is a spiteful and hateful President, even if totally incapable. Total capability was on display in the interview. And no, I am not a Putin fan, but it is rather obvious that the leftist and globalist planned destruction of the U.S. is part of the plan to destroy Russia.

        • ThorsHammer February 10, 2024 at 2:32 pm #

          @jgalt

          Of Putin’s stated goals for the Special Military Operation one was impossible. How did he think that De-Natzification was possible as long as the Deep State lives in the USA?

          Fascism: “The merger of the Corporation and the State”
          Benito Mussolini

        • Sadiethecat February 10, 2024 at 3:07 pm #

          Jgalt,

          Absolutely agree with “Everyone should be concerned about a senile Biden having the nuclear football under his control, as he is a spiteful and hateful President. ”

          Spiteful, hateful Joe must suspect that he’s gonna get the boot, since Hur’s report was made public. (the Blob usually buries oppositional info).

          Joe may decide “If I’m going down, then I’m taking everybody with me”.

          Somebody needs to give Joe an ice cream cone, while they take his toys away.

    • BackRowHeckler February 9, 2024 at 10:48 am #

      Well, only 8 months until the election, so the Dems need to do something fast. My money is on Gov Newsom, who recently announced “Californians are the happiest, most satisfied people in the US”, and “I’m proud of San Francisco, it diversity, its tolerance, it dynamism.”

      And don’t worry about Ukraine. Sec. Victoria Nuland visited Kiev earlier in the week, reassuring Zelensky “We’ve got your back, keep fighting”, and the $65 billion held up in Congress is forthcoming. Meanwhile, Ukraine has a new commanding General, and a new Spting Offensive is being planned that will dislodge Russia from Crimea & roll up the Russian Army back to Moscow.

      • Suzie February 9, 2024 at 11:01 am #

        Victoria Nulamd was in Kiev?
        That is a very, very bad sign.

        • Socrates-Detroit February 9, 2024 at 12:46 pm #

          She was in Turkey Jan 30/31. Lots of “smiles” now that Turkey approved Sweden’s accession into NATO, and now that the Biden Administration is pushing Congress to approve the sale of 40 F-6s to Turkey, and 79 F-16 upgrade kits.

          Nuland even said “if we can work thru the Russian SS400 (that Turkey bought, which led the US to expel Turkey from the F-35) we can give/sell F-35s to Turkey”

          Then early this week, Turkish drone make Baykar announced it would build a plant near Kiev, employing 500, to make drones.

          After that, the Russians said “the plant will be destroyed before it ever makes a single Russian-killing drone”, and Mr. Putin cancelled his Feb 12 trip to Turkey.

          So, the Turks are playing both sides right, because each side is concerned that if Turkey goes “more” to the other side, it will be a bigger problem. Therefore, each side (US and Russia) tolerates many “irritants”, as the lesser of the evils.

          Both sides, of course, would want the Turkish government on THEIR side. Today Turkey is a large (20% larger than Texas) expanse from Europe to Iran, from the Black Sea (which borders Russia’s southern shores) to Syria.

          The Turks are playing both sides because they want to recreate the Ottoman Empire, by expanding south (into Syria, which they illegally occupy a good part of), and Greece (they also illegally occupy Cyprus, and are constantly disputing the the status of the Greek islands and Aegean Sea).

          And the Turks are playing both sides pretty well. However, Ankara’s tirades against Israel (and just to be clear, I do agree with the Turkish position on the on-going genocide in Gaza) was not very well thought out. Turkey is barking loudly, but has no real bite when it comes to Israel.

          The same powers in the blob that are ensuring Israel can methodically go about its business of removing the Palestinians will scheme against Erdogan.

          And I think this little “wrinkle” with Israel, in some way, will precipitate a chain of events which will break up Turkey.

          The break-up of Turkey is not necessarily ideal for either the US or Russia.

          BUT, the powerful do not like uncertainty. They don’t like Erdogan/Turkey playing them.

          Setting aside the morons at the top of the US, the US establishment (which guides them) and the professional bureaucrats in DoD and State, their pre-eminent interest is to keep Russia OUT of the Med. They will not allow Turkey to let the Russians have access.

          The Russians preeminent interest is ACCESS to their most loyal ally, Syria. Turkey blocks that.

          So, something will happen, the Turks may go to far, and when all is said and done, the Western Crescent (which coincidentally was the CORE of the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine Empire, which over time became Hellenized (Greek replace Latin)) will wind up in Western (US) hands or control.

          As with Britain in the 19th Century, it will be KEEP RUSSIA OUT of the Mediterranean.

          KURDISTAN will become independent, and Russia will be the midwife, it will be Russia’s puppet. Armenia will get enlarged–also Russian. And now Russia has access to Syria.

          What’s left, the high desert of central Turkey–that will be the new Turkey.

          Just my wild hunch….. for your consideration or amusement.

          And yes, where Nuland goes, bad things follow

          • Ron Anselmo February 9, 2024 at 3:02 pm #

            Thanks Soc-Det – very interesting recap. Agreed, it would be folly to think they can build a drone manufacturing plant in Ukraine, without Putin summarily torching it. The man is resolute and does what he says he’s going to do.

          • BackRowHeckler February 9, 2024 at 3:28 pm #

            Great, maybe we can get Constantinople back. It’s a long time coming.

          • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:02 pm #

            you’ve been paying attention.

            i might take issue though with a couple of points.

            turkey cast its lot with azerbaijan in the recent second nagorno karabakh war, while expected russian support for armenia never materialized. while this is not a permanent state of affairs, it does illustrate that turkey, for the sake of expanding local and regional influence, will toe right up to the line in opposing russia, in a very calculating way. i do not see russia levering a free kurdistan unless a larger movement by russia in opposition to turkey evolves to the fore.

            second, turkey, with respect to israhell / gaza, is barking again for regional positioning. every time an islamic power takes on a wider issue, the muslim world asks itself “next caliphate?”, and turkey has several times in the past played pussyfoot with that islamic wish, balancing that national force against its own secularists. so, concluding, if gaza evolves into anything wider, turkey wants to minimally risk itself, but still position itself as the vanguard against israhell, still a universally agreeable position in the muslim world.

          • Socrates-Detroit February 9, 2024 at 7:10 pm #

            I believe “we” will get Constantinople back.

            The Greeks will get it–not because THEY will dislodge the Turks, no I don’t see that happening. The (Anglo-)AMERICANS will give it to them, to keep it out of Russia’s hands.

            Perhaps they will strike some kind of deal with the Russians.

            Churchill and Stalin struck a deal, which Churchill summarized on the back of a napkin, in Moscow in 1944. As part of the deal, Greece was “90/10”–90% British/10% other influence.

            cassidyglobalcoldwar.weebly.com/percentage-deal.html

            Perhaps (I hope!!!) this new Greek (“Byzantine Empire II”?) entity will manage to be neutral, like Tito, and it will serve both the US and Russia’s interests to NOT try to take it over, and let it be. lest it join the “other”.

            Some big differences between Tito (of Yugoslavia, 1945-80) and Erdogan (Turkey, 2003-current) is that Tito was NOT an irredentist seeking other nations’ lands; he did not as blatantly play the USSR against the US; his “neutrality” suited both sides, and his location was not as vital to both sides.

            The US wants to keep Russia out of the Med–if Turkey allied with Russia, Russia is IN.

            Russia wants direct access to client/ally Syria. Today “Turkey” is in way–but if Kurdistan became independent, and Armenia gets a little bigger, Armenia-(Turk) Kurdistan-Syria axis. See what I mean…

            The plight of the Palestinians may inadvertently help the stateless Kurds. The Kurds are the world’s largest stateless people.

            Erdogan’s comments about Israel (did anyone else notice how they have abated since Biden said the US would sell Turkey 40 F-16s and 79 F-16 upgrade kits… it’s not just in Western media, I occasionally follow Hurriyet.tr, a newspaper that supports Erdogan, and their coverage of Gaza and the West Bank has plummeted…) might also play a part down the road.

            St. Paissios, a Greek Orthodox monk, predicted the above (St Sophia a church again, Constantinople “given” to Greece by the “Anglo-Americans”)

            Before Feb 2022 and the Russian liberation of Ukraine, I could not see a “path” to the fulfillment of Paissios’ prophecies.

            In the aftermath of Feb 2022, subsequent events, such as the trade sanctions, the new Cold War, the interactions between the US, Russia, Europe, Turkey, and Greece, I now see a “path forward” to the fulfillment of Paissios’ prophecies. Probably during my lifetime (based on my actuarial life expectancy), given the state of the world today.

            St Paissios said “Russia will attack Turkey”, implying a double-cross of some sort.

            Then, many (but not ALL) Western (probably France and some other select Europeans, perhaps the US) will say “we should go get some too” and attack Turkey.

            Paissios is said to have written that the war in/over Turkey will be very destructive to all the nations involved.

            When it’s over, Turkey will be broken up. Armenia will get enlarged with Trebizon (Trapezounta) which had many Christians until 1922; Kurdistan will become independent; and the coastal region will be separate from the high desert middle of the country (which is the poorest). The middle high desert will be the “new Turkey”. Check out the Sykes-Picot plan (google it) and see how close it is to what Paissios described. Sykes-Picot was the secret deal between Britain/France/Italy to divide up the “core” of Turkey after WW1.

            Look at a Turkish election map from May 2023. You’ll see it’s a divided country–the “coast” went for Erdogan’s opponent–he trounced Erdo in the more affluent areas–63% in Izmir. The middle provinces (the poor parts)–Erdo got 70%. The Southeast is Kurdish. It’s a divided country in some ways…

            “Greece is not going to join the attack”, though it will ultimately “benefit” from events. It will be a difficult time however, and Greece will suffer from famine. Paissios says people need to “act while they can, to go back to their villages (their ancestral towns), and set up their gardens for vegetables, and few chickens and goats for eggs, milk, and meat, because you will need it to survive those 6 months or so”

            Kind of rhymes with US preppers… Except older Greeks, those who were adults or teens and lived thru 1941-48 in Greece lived in real “Long Emergency” in which survival was directly correlated to being able to produce food to eat, many Greeks today still remember their parents or grandparents’ stories about this era.

            St. Paissios said that the signs that those days are near would be “Examila” and the “passing of the current generation of Turkish leaders”

            The “current generation of Turkish leaders” of his life was the Turkish “Deep State” that ruled via the military, or pulled the strings, from 1923 thru 200x.

            Now Erdogan IS the Turkish “Deep State”. IMO, he will rule as long as he is alive. He is 69. How much longer will he be healthy enough to run things?

            He has no anointed successor. If he left tomorrow, you will have a power struggle among the Islamists, with the old “deep state” trying to re-emerge. When Erdogan goes, I see a lot of instability on this very important piece of real estate…

            “Examila” could be the name of a place, a village. It’s also short for “exi milia”, or “six miles”. As in territorial waters. Turkey has been questioning Greece’s sovereignty in the Aegean, but also has conflicts with Cyprus, Israel, Egypt on sea rights.

            Two things to watch for–a flare-up over sea rights (and in the wake of the embargo on Russia, any oil or gas in the Aegean or Eastern Mediterranean is now a BIG deal) or the passing of Erdogan. Then some kind of dispute with the Russians.

            The Russian and the Turk are like cat and dog–their current “friendship” is an aberration and it won’t last.

            So in 2019, I didn’t see how Turkey gets broken up and Constantinople/Istanbul becomes Greek. Now I do.

            St. Paissios (1924-1994) was an Orthodox priest-monk. Those of you interested in him can google him, or find books about him online.

          • Socrates-Detroit February 9, 2024 at 7:26 pm #

            @justanotherguy

            Azerbaijan and Turkey are very close, politically and racially/ethnically.

            Erdogan calls the Azeris his brothers.

            Armenia is not only smaller than Azerbaijan, it does not have oil like Azerbaijan. And it is run by (seeming) idiots or traitors.

            The West can only get to Armenia via Turkey or Iran, but in their quest to undermine Russia, they make a lot of pro-Armenian noise. The current leader of Armenia, Pashinyan. looks West.

            Armenia is in a bad spot.

            Russia is playing Armenia. Kinda like the Godfather

            Frank Pantangelli “Michael, why do you make me lay down for the Risotto brothers?””

            Michael “Keep your friend close and your enemies closer. I want them to think we are good”.

            So, YOU need to suck it up. That’s Russia (Michael) and Armenia. Now. It’ll change.

            Not only does Turkey LOVE Azerbaijan, but so does Israel. Israel provided a lot of the weapons the Azeris use, as well as Turkey.

            Iran has been good to the Armenians–but again, if Pachinyan leans West too much, that irks Iran.

            Iran is good to Armenians not because the mullahs love Christians–but because the mullahs don’t like Azerbaijan being under Israel’s and even Turkey’s influence.

            It’s very confusing world…

        • Socrates-Detroit February 9, 2024 at 12:55 pm #

          @suzie

          Yes, Nuland went to Kiev mid-week last week, after Turkey.

          Perhaps that was the REAL reason she visited Turkey–to “be in the neighborhood” so she could go to Kiev.

          I went on a tangent regarding where she was before Kiev.

          • crudgemudgeon February 10, 2024 at 12:25 am #

            Soc-Detroit, I really appreciate your insights, also JAGs. Some of the commenters here are pretty astute.

      • TruthSeeker1986 February 9, 2024 at 11:08 am #

        I live in California, and Galvin Newsom is a lying ass manipulative asshole. If people here were so happy they wouldn’t be fleeing in droves. The only people moving in are these useless illegals. Newsom said a lot of BS to stay in power, dude even called Larry Elder a Black Trump. That’s how desperate he was to remain Gov of CA, he just milked Trumps name over and over and over.

        • AmericanObserver February 9, 2024 at 12:26 pm #

          Sorry to hear you live in California.

        • Lyndy33 February 11, 2024 at 2:15 pm #

          There are no U-Hauls left in California, they are spread out from Nevada to Florida.

      • loosethedogs February 9, 2024 at 12:38 pm #

        BRH: I think Gavin is the Master of Gaslighting IOW the perfect prez candidate for the O’biden people. Now if they could just shut down social media…

      • cbeard February 9, 2024 at 2:44 pm #

        If we ever have another fair election then anyone voting to give Ukraine or really ever giving money or arms to them should be run out of office on a rail.

        • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:05 pm #

          too kind.

          they should be tarred and feathered, with the temperature of the tar decided by twitter poll.

      • PeteAtomic February 9, 2024 at 5:12 pm #

        “My money is on Gov Newsom, who recently announced “Californians are the happiest, most satisfied people in the US”, and “I’m proud of San Francisco, it diversity, its tolerance, it dynamism.””

        Yup I agree BRH.

        I think when the Dem National Convention comes around, there will be a dramatic, savage bait & switch between Biden & Newsom.

        Ole Slow Joe will be reminded who is “protecting” his family from danger, and be told to step aside, or else. They’ll trot him out, of course. He will speak less than 15 minutes (notice that’s the max time he is allowed to speak or is able to speak), and Biden will portray Newsom in glowing, messianic terms, like the kindly grandfather passing the torch down to his son.

        All of this will be couched in Orwellian terms like “for democracy” & “for democratic norms”.

        Just watch.

        The insatiable, demonic, craven, power hunger of these individuals is unmatched.

      • ThorsHammer February 10, 2024 at 2:42 pm #

        @Governor Gruesome

        “Californians are the happiest, most satisfied people in the US”, until they run out of fentanyl. Then they die. 70,000 homeless in LA alone.

    • TruthSeeker1986 February 9, 2024 at 11:02 am #

      @Irish

      I may be stepping out of line here when I say this, but Michelle Obama for whatever odd reason hardens me below the wasteline, and I want a piece of her just to see how aggressive she is in the bedroom, because I know for certain Obama is probably her bitch.

      • elysianfield February 9, 2024 at 11:24 am #

        “I may be stepping out of line here when I say this, but Michelle Obama for whatever odd reason hardens me below the wasteline, ”

        TS,
        For me, it’s Janet Yellen.

        “SHOW ME THE MONEY!”

        • Ron Anselmo February 9, 2024 at 3:08 pm #

          E – Janet Yellen doesn’t do anything for me. Now if she were to shave, that might make a difference.

          • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:06 pm #

            all over, or just her knob?

          • elysianfield February 9, 2024 at 5:28 pm #

            Ron,
            Let me jog your memory. Remember the $5.00 blow up sex dolls you would find advertised in various magazines back in the ’80’s? Flat, round face, body shaped like a pear? She is the spitting image of one of those dolls….*

            *…or so I have been told….

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 10, 2024 at 5:17 am #

            Kiss My Black Ass, Say Elysianfield, Many Time

            “I know that this is a minor irritation amongst many that we discuss, but I would opine that Google, and the suede-shoe-wearing, corner-office-having, tropical-island-buying, do-no-harm masters of the universe can, if I might invite them, kiss my black ass…” ~ elysianfield November 10, 2015 at 10:23 am

            kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-leviathan/#comment-252326

            Bubble-butt?

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 10, 2024 at 5:23 am #

            King of the Hill: “Mr.Hill, you have no ass.”

            youtu.be/SwKzKlh_tLY?si=uCasf3CZK_63FB38

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 10, 2024 at 5:27 am #

            “If a black guy has no ass, he therefore has a White ass and is therefore, White, not Black.” ~ Jarek (hypothetical)

          • elysianfield February 10, 2024 at 11:34 am #

            “Kiss My Black Ass, Say Elysianfield, Many Time”

            Zaz,
            I am being misquoted…I have suggested that they might “Kiss my BIG black ass”

            “Many Time” Elysianfield will repeat that mantra, ’cause “Me Love You Long Time”

            In truth, however, I am being deceitful…my ass is not big. Roundly turned, properly proportioned, some might find it “toothsome” however.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 10, 2024 at 3:20 pm #

            Sergeant Major Lipshitz

            Ahhaaa… I stand clarified…

            Careful where you put your azz, BTW. No telling where some’s lipz have been.

            If you must, use zees for protection.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle February 10, 2024 at 3:25 pm #

            Correction: zeez

          • gantech February 11, 2024 at 10:33 am #

            Man, it would take a whole whole lot more than a shave. I usually like a full bush, but shaving won’t even touch what she needs to make me get hard below the waist.

        • TruthSeeker1986 February 9, 2024 at 3:44 pm #

          LOL, I was being serious about Michelle, were you being serious? hahahahahaha!!!

          • Lyndy33 February 11, 2024 at 2:23 pm #

            And then you find the rumores to be true, what then?

        • Ron Anselmo February 11, 2024 at 2:01 pm #

          E – yeah, I remember being told about those dolls too. You pulled Zazzy in with the “pear shape” – his fav – comment, then he lost focus and went down the bubble butt path.

          JAG & gantech – just a regular shave – she always has a healthy growth of white peach fuzz – look closely. It’s just not sexy.

      • jgalt February 9, 2024 at 2:00 pm #

        Be very careful, as you may just wind up with a trans by the name of Michael Robinson.

        • TruthSeeker1986 February 9, 2024 at 3:44 pm #

          I don’t know, I think people were just saying that. But I don’t think Michelle is a trans at all.

          • gantech February 11, 2024 at 10:37 am #

            I guarantee it there’s a package down there and it’s not clam like

  2. benr February 9, 2024 at 9:34 am #

    They can’t hopscotch over Kamala.
    They might be able to run Mooch as VP if they can get her to actually get off the couch or stop shopping.
    Why would she want it they are now billionarres as a result of two bad books and Obama buying into the blood Gore carbon credit scam?

    Kamala and Gavin ticket is what they will wind up with.

    • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 9:38 am #

      They can suddenly discover Kamala’s lack of eligibility.

    • Cankerpuss February 9, 2024 at 10:10 am #

      It’s a simple job, really. She shows up at galas, occassionally signs a new bill into law, gets so photo-ops and allows BO and his gay mafia to run the show and make the decisions.

      Not a bad gig if you ask me.

      • cbeard February 9, 2024 at 2:48 pm #

        Yeah, Kamala would be another pawn like joey. We all know someone else was calling the shots the last 3 years.

        • Lyndy33 February 11, 2024 at 2:27 pm #

          Putin knows it also from his interview. He, like us, doesn’t know exactly who.

    • Ishabaka February 9, 2024 at 10:15 am #

      I predict Michelle Obama with Claudine Gay for VP.

      • cowbell81 February 9, 2024 at 10:52 am #

        I can see the yard signs now: “Obama Gay”. Haha, that would further prove the Tucker interview earlier last year with the guy that fiddled with Barack’s stick.

    • Phineas February 9, 2024 at 11:02 am #

      Maybe the Dems could draft Nikki Haley?

      Mike Pence for her running mate?

    • Islander February 9, 2024 at 1:13 pm #

      “Kamala and Gavin ticket is what they will wind up with.”

      I agree. They can’t just sideline Kamala, for both “bad look” reason and reason that (I have read) she has every intention of becoming the president herself.

      But they can arrange it so that Newsom (appears to) run things behind the scenes, a la Cheney.

      Of course the real string pullers will be managing Newsom.

      But Newsom may turn out to be a PITA and decide that he is really in charge. He may have enough political experience and backbench (Pelosi & Co.)—unlike the tyro, Trump—to figure out how to wield the power of the Executive Branch.

      • ThorsHammer February 10, 2024 at 3:13 pm #

        @Islander

        Cameltoe and Gruesome— a match made in heaven. But the safest Demonrat ticket is to have OBiden campaign without leaving his basement just like he did in 2022. That way if he dies before the election nobody will know the difference. And there are already enough main-in ballots boxed and ready to go to if every “migrant” does their job and brings the dozen ballots they were supplied with to the mail box.

        There have been amazing strides forward in the science of mummification since the Incas. Why, I’ll bet that during his next four years as mummy/president Joe would even grow younger. After all, it worked on Osama bin Laden after his death from kidney failure in a US military hospital. Or maybe the CIA used body doubles to make his nose grow longer, his hair blacker, and his cheek bones change?

        • benr February 11, 2024 at 9:06 am #

          Osama was buried in Tora Bora under millions of tons of rock and dirt.
          You are correct about the body doubles.

    • The Man They Call Zazelle February 10, 2024 at 3:33 pm #

      Why would the Kamala sticker be any worse than peeling/cracked/fading Biden sticker?

      Just flatten her up nice and good and paste her with some strong glue and elbow grease on the machine.

      Baddabing. Done.

  3. Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 9:38 am #

    So this was keeping you up in the wee small hours too, Mr. Kunstler?

    • oldandtired February 9, 2024 at 10:47 am #

      Indeed. A nation of mentally ill people led by the most mentally ill. I was in a car last year driving around Vermont. The driver pulled up to this old set of buildings. It was the State Mental Hospital. I thought to myself that large as it was, it should be much larger. And completely full.

      • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:08 pm #

        h2obury – know the place. we schoolchildren used that as a slur regularly.

        enjoy the day – as beautiful as feb gets.

  4. benr February 9, 2024 at 9:40 am #

    This is painful in the extreme as to just how out of touch Biden is.

    \\\\https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contribution/biden-gets-defensive-over-his-memory-slams-special-counsel-report/

    I loathe the man but watching him fumble like the buffoon he is in front of the world as the figurehead running our ship of state makes me sad for the fate of this country.

    How do so many people think this is ok?

    At a minimum this is elder abuse.

    What legal and illegal drugs are they using to get him past the sundowners and late-stage dementia he is obviously battling?

    • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 9:51 am #

      Yes. He can’t defend himself. Anybody who has ever dealt with this heartbreak in their own family knew exactly what they were seeing with Joe.

      A question that remained unanswered is just why Jill was going along with this? What was in it for her?

      Don’t anybody tell me she wanted power. She doesn’t have any power, and she can’t be enjoying what her life has become.

      She’d have been better of without Joe staying in office, so what is she covering for?

      • Rain Waters February 9, 2024 at 10:59 am #

        Youre projecting human attributes onto an obvious psychopath.

      • loosethedogs February 9, 2024 at 12:51 pm #

        BoO: She must be paid handsomely to be the full time caregiverr of a person who is pretending to be her husband (and pretending to be President).

      • Jarek February 9, 2024 at 1:18 pm #

        She gets off on her role, her pathetic vicarious power as “First Lady”.

        One woman I heard about from my mother boasted about being the Cardinal Law’s cleaning lady.

      • cbeard February 9, 2024 at 2:53 pm #

        Despite her supposed Doctorate, Jill is a real dim bulb. Just a gold digging status seeker.

        • megabeth February 9, 2024 at 5:04 pm #

          She’s a terrific tablecloth model, though.

          • Ron Anselmo February 9, 2024 at 10:47 pm #

            ?

          • megabeth February 10, 2024 at 12:36 am #

            Ron–

            All her dresses look like upholstery fabric or tablecloths.

          • Ron Anselmo February 10, 2024 at 10:15 am #

            Thanks Beth – one I’ve never heard before, but you’re right, and it makes perfect sense.

            Probably shouldn’t say this, but her obvious moral compass, indicated by the charade she keeps up – makes her a skank in my opinion – seems like what younger boys used to call “Everybody’s”.

            I could be wrong, but I don’t think so. Rain Waters is right, she’s a psychopath – no use projecting human attributes on her.

      • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:09 pm #

        i’m sure they let her think she is mrs. wilson, pox on him too.

      • gantech February 11, 2024 at 10:42 am #

        You know I’ve thought about that a long time why does Jill not put him in the closet? Everybody knows he’s demented. It’s sad to see his heartbreaking watch but maybe she gets some kind of vicarious thrill out of being the first lady that’s the only thing that I can come up with.

    • Cankerpuss February 9, 2024 at 10:13 am #

      We are witnessing elder abuse. Horrific elder abuse. “Joe Biden” should be in a retirement home sipping frothy orange juice while watching episodes of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts.

      That bitch of a wife of his is a horrible human being. She continues to permit her husband to be abused. I don’t feel sorry for “Joe Biden.” He needs to pay the piper for what he has done but it is disgusting that his wife permits this to continue and that millions of American people still support this pathetic old man.

      • Rain Waters February 9, 2024 at 11:01 am #

        Sure showed “Hill” didnt it.

      • Not_GeorgeT February 9, 2024 at 11:15 am #

        I’ll offer he might have enough capacity to demand he go in front of the press as he did last evening. As noted, his mental capacity has been ‘covered up’ by the staff and a litany of others. Suddenly they stand up to him?

        I was waiting for an anger-infused meltdown, which would not be a first, particularly when he left the podium and then walked back to it.

        Does anyone think his handlers (about whom Mr. Putin declined to speculate ) put him out on center stage?

        If the answer is ‘yes’ we’re in a deeper latrine than many think possible.

        He’s not known for making astute decisions down there in the emerald city. Put another way, he has a talent for screwing things up.

        • Paddys Lament February 9, 2024 at 2:51 pm #

          Could his pride have gotten in the way? I doubt it. More likely his handlers gave him the rope with which to hang himself.

          • Not_GeorgeT February 9, 2024 at 4:18 pm #

            Enough rope? Yes, quite possible. Could be the pride and ego are the lit match and letting him do the presser was the fuse.

      • Jarek February 9, 2024 at 1:19 pm #

        She’s fierce. She body checked a minority reporter who tried to get too close to Biden.

    • sadlycdn February 9, 2024 at 12:25 pm #

      Agreed…..Joe sold his soul as did the whole family…..Jill is beyond pathetic to allow this but then again that’s Jill…

      • cbeard February 9, 2024 at 2:55 pm #

        Beyond pathetic indeed.

    • The Man They Call Zazelle February 10, 2024 at 3:43 pm #

      What was he even doing running for pres in the first place? I mean, don’t people like to beach it and sip coladas at that age, or do shuffleboard, lawn bowling or bingo, or some hobby like woodworking or needlepoint? Watch some afternoon tv? Hang out at the local mall or in the local pool’s/community center’s sauna, game room or hot-tub? Go for a drive around the countryside, maybe to a place they’ve never been and grab a coffee at the local cafe?

      • The Man They Call Zazelle February 10, 2024 at 3:55 pm #

        …Surf the net, chat on CFN? Bake a cake? Have a local seniors’ potluck?

      • gantech February 11, 2024 at 10:51 am #

        Yes, you’re exactly right that’s what a sane elderly person would be looking forward to, but not a megalomaniac….and spouse

    • Ishabaka February 11, 2024 at 9:51 am #

      30 – 40% of voters would prefer a drooling Biden to Orange Satan.

      • gantech February 11, 2024 at 10:46 am #

        And that is what absolutely mystifies me I don’t understand how anyone could think that way, but there are many many people that don’t think as I think

        • Lyndy33 February 11, 2024 at 2:46 pm #

          There is a lot of hate towards Trump, for any number of reasons. One that stands out is: “If you are rich enough, you can grab them by the pussy” Implying that most women for sale. My wife will never ever vote for him.

  5. Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 9:42 am #

    “An air of prudence”. Yes, that’s exactly it, and it is something we have become unaccustomed to.

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  6. Alfred February 9, 2024 at 9:44 am #

    He seemed genuinely dismayed that the Russian people, having thrown the communists out of power, were not given their shot at joining the world order. Such an opportunity that was squandered by those who thought they could have it all.

    The overture to join Nato was a big surprise. I never heard that before, but in the telling I realized that had Russia joined Nato, the reason to have Nato would be moot.

    All that money, power and influence via Nato would have been moot too. That’s why they said no.

    America should keenly observe Russia’s sense of history, and obligation to it’s people.

    • benr February 9, 2024 at 10:09 am #

      Actually Russia joining NATO makes sense to keep China at bay.

      China is the new threat to the west and the world.
      We should be leveraging Russia and India as a foil against China.

      • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 11:01 am #

        You can thank American corporatists for creating China. If they weren’t dead set on driving down wages and punishing the American middle class, China would have remained a hepatitis-infected backwater with no industry.

        • anmariwakaranai February 9, 2024 at 11:18 am #

          Rd, remember Nixon and Kissinger in China?

          • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 11:30 am #

            I wasn’t alive then, but I’m aware of what occurred. Nixon was punished for the silly things he did. He should have been punished for the evil things he did.

        • Jarek February 9, 2024 at 1:26 pm #

          Or maybe it could have been a strong nation, perhaps even a somewhat Western mode? But they betrayed Chiang Kai Shek in favor of Mao.

          Nationalism is ever their enemy. They want Capitalism/Socialism/Communism.

          The Chinese could not have been kept down forever. For better or worse, they’re more than that.

        • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:12 pm #

          back then, the corrupt teamsters and aflcio were our biggest problems.

          imagine that…

          • RD3 February 10, 2024 at 10:12 pm #

            At least the goombahs spread the money around and it trickled down in American neighborhoods. When the power went to the gangsters with beards and little hats, all the money aggregates upwards and out of the country.

      • SpeedyBB February 9, 2024 at 12:39 pm #

        benr, I always presumed allowing the Russian Federation into NATO was to present a united front against the fervent Islamic invasion.

        Not that it’s worked thus far in Europe, admittedly.

        Out here its nickname is No Action Talk Only.

      • Jarek February 9, 2024 at 1:23 pm #

        Well he wasn’t the first to think this way. Our own patriot, Charles Lindbergh, talked about shoring up the ramparts of Western Civilization, from Galway to Vladivostok.

        Recently an Orthodox Bishop said that with the introduction of Fiducia Suplicans (the blessing of gay couples), all talk of reuniting Orthodoxy and Rome was off the table.

        • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:14 pm #

          i’ve been worried that this and the first and second synod on sodomy would finally see the light of day.

          when i want that flavor of blackpill, i usually check in with anne barnhardt – who’d be fine if she dialed back the strapon.

      • cbeard February 9, 2024 at 3:01 pm #

        The U.S. has stupidly driven India and China into the arms of Russia. It was a huge mistake not to embrace the Russians wanting to join up with the rest of the world economically and politically. Or maybe they have driven the Russians into the arms of China.

      • crudgemudgeon February 10, 2024 at 12:33 am #

        Exactly. Three powers, like three people, will always have the “odd man out”. By pushing Russia away, we pushed them and CCP together.

    • JohnAZ February 9, 2024 at 10:28 am #

      The United States blocked that Russian overture. You can probably guess why.

      MIC needs an enemy.

      1992, the USSR broke apart. One condition of the break apart was the USA and Europe helping Russia Through its economic problems at the time. One year later, we reneged on that deal.

      The whole issue is the USA not wanting to lose its European alliances to its “enemy”. The EU cannot accept Russia as a European nation, although it has always been. Remember on the Crown that Elizabeth made a big deal out of England’s recognition of Russia that her relatives the last Tsar and Tsarina were found and recognized. European through and through.

      • cbeard February 9, 2024 at 3:03 pm #

        When Germany tanks due to the missing pipeline, they may cozy up to Russia. If the Russians will have them.

    • Not_GeorgeT February 9, 2024 at 11:49 am #

      ‘America should keenly observe Russia’s sense of history, and obligation to it’s people.’

      I knew about the ‘Russia joining NATO’ discussion at the time.

      Good summary of the possible ramifications.

      We don’t seem to have the same grasp of history as shown by some in other cultures. Is this in part because history, civics and other topics are no longer taught in the US?

      In part it could also be shown by the actual lack of ‘history’ in the US. The land mass was greatly unexplored by Europeans, and the areas explored were not coordinated as they were ‘owned’ by a variety of colonial powers in competition.

      Visit a country in Europe,choose any, there will be thousand-year old structures still in use by people with long memories.

      • BackRowHeckler February 9, 2024 at 3:22 pm #

        In the UK, at least 1800 former Christian Churches and Chapels — some that go back centuries — are now Mosques. I suspect too you will find a similar situation in Germany & France.

        • Not_GeorgeT February 9, 2024 at 4:21 pm #

          Unfortunately there aren’t a lot of people asking why the places were empty. If they were full as intended they wouldn’t be mosques.

  7. Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 9:46 am #

    Putin confirmed, once again, that there was a peace deal in place very early on in the war, didn’t he?

    I know Tucker has asked to interview Zelensky, but maybe he should be asking to speak with Boris Johnson as well.

    All the slaughter, all the ruin, all for nothing.

    Just like the covid. That was all for nothing, and we still don’t have a flat-out admission of that from anyone in power.

    • Cankerpuss February 9, 2024 at 10:17 am #

      As is the case with every war. Slaughter, ruin and death. For nothing.

      I hate war in all of its forms.

      Saw on Brietbart that Anthony Fauci is preparing his memoirs. He’s probably going to be paid millions for it and there will be millions of Americans who will buy his tripe. Such a stupid people Americans are.

      • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:19 pm #

        “I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
        ? J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

        • Uncle Abraham February 11, 2024 at 12:35 pm #

          There are things worth defending, even necessary to defend.

      • Yirgach February 9, 2024 at 6:37 pm #

        I still believe that this planet is a living organism which is evolving a central nervous system on a billion year time scale.

        This planet has learned to become a pretty tough animal in the scheme of things.

        One wonders what that means on a galactic or multi universe scale.

      • cbeard February 10, 2024 at 5:34 pm #

        Maybe he will come clean in his book and then off himself. Yeah, right.

    • jgalt February 9, 2024 at 2:32 pm #

      To the contrary, the pharmaceutical industry and many medical and political folks got very rich from the covid scam. In fact, they are still pushing the mRNA killer drug, as the profits are enormous without any penalties to the companies or medical organizations pushing the shots.

  8. anmariwakaranai February 9, 2024 at 9:46 am #

    I got up early for this one jhk. Ta

    10.05.2015
    The great Nation of the north, the United States, will be communist without being so; it will abhor My Son and will thereby bring the chaos of its people upon itself. Civil war will come, causing men great pain. The day when this reaches the United States is not far off.

    We’ve got 3 months left before our western lives become unrecognizable.

    • Cankerpuss February 9, 2024 at 10:36 am #

      Where did you find that?

      • anmariwakaranai February 9, 2024 at 11:16 am #

        Afterthewarning.com

  9. JustinMoab February 9, 2024 at 9:52 am #

    Well, now we know what we’re up against. No wonder they didn’t want us to see it.

  10. Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 9:56 am #

    “Mr. Putin also confirmed my own conjecture: that, after the fall of the USSR, Russia had one overriding concern in foreign affairs: to be re-admitted to the European family of nations as a once-again “normal,” member, especially in trade relations, after seventy-five years of its peculiar communist experiment.”

    That’s what Ukraine wanted as well. Not the entire country, of course. The average patriotic Ukrainian.

    That’s even in that TV show Zelensky starred in. They used the word “normal” (not the English word, obviously).

    They wanted to become more like the rest of Europe.

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    • JohnAZ February 9, 2024 at 10:33 am #

      Do you think Russia is in there with all those farmers etc. raising hell in Europe?

      I would be. The WEF is actually a refit to the days of nobility in Europe, where the PTB run the feudal states. Middle Ages anyone?

      The idea of the WEF that the intelligentsia should be running things is the antithesis of the Founding Fathers of the USA. That is why the Progressives are trying to tear down the Constitution., whose ideals are that the people run the government, not vice versa.

    • Paula D February 9, 2024 at 12:16 pm #

      What a joke. It turns out that the well-being of the rest of Europe was completely dependent on the resources of Russia.

      And now Russians are finding out that they can live far better than the average citizen of Europe on their own resources.

      • Ron Anselmo February 9, 2024 at 3:30 pm #

        Good point, Paula.

    • Jarek February 9, 2024 at 1:30 pm #

      In other words, enemies of all Tradition and Virtue.
      Russia’s going the opposite way. Try to keep it straight in your head.

      Putin may be a bit confused or perhaps he’s just relating his mindset at the time. There was never any possible concord with these New World Order devils.

      • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:24 pm #

        albert pike had most of the broad brush strokes of this laid out decades ago. i don’t think he did more than relate his personal understanding of the scheming of the shadows that is ages old.

        another marxissist, just like so many of the same now, cheaply copied tools…

      • Uncle Abraham February 11, 2024 at 12:38 pm #

        If tradition and virtue mean enabling Islamic jihadists, to hell with Putin’s tradition and virtue. “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

    • Suburban_elk February 10, 2024 at 7:19 am #

      Actually the Russian for “normal” is in fact, “normal-ny”. Don’t know about the Ukrainian but it’s probably pretty close to that. And the reason they adopted the word, is cuz they didn’t have an exact equivalent; from which there can be jokes.

  11. PeteAtomic February 9, 2024 at 10:02 am #

    Thanks Jim.

    “This Friday morning, the USA is fraught with events unspooling. As I write, with dawn just breaking, there is almost zero opinion yet formed about these troubling matters on the vast Internet — but it will probably come in hot-and-heavy as the day ticks on. If Mr. Biden is truly mentally incompetent, as established more-or-less legally by Special Counsel Hur, then there is the obvious remedy of the 25th amendment — removal of a president for reason of disability. A debate over this would seem unavoidable now. The question also implies that Mr. Biden’s charade of running for reelection must come to an end. What will the Democratic party do about that?”

    Yes, I’ve been pondering these things, too. I think there has been a perfect political storm the last couple days. State Media doesn’t know exactly how to deal with all this. It’s like the Goebbel-esque machinery which the US State Media operates & depends is starting to malfunction badly. The Matrix is becoming smoky & static filled.
    For one example, on State Radio this morning, the segment I listened to was about Super Bowl Half Time bands (?) Apparently ignoring steep national decline is how the State will handle these serious problems.

    “In a case where the government must prove that Mr. Biden knew he had possession of the classified Afghanistan documents after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial, his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall.
    We also expect many jurors to be struck by the place where the Afghanistan documents were ultimately found in Mr. Biden’s Delaware home: in a badly damaged box in the garage, near a collapsed dog crate, a dog bed, a Zappos box, an empty
    bucket, a broken lamp wrapped with duct tape, potting soil, and synthetic firewood. A reasonable juror could conclude that this is not where a person intentionally stores what he supposedly considers to be important classified documents, critical to his legacy. Rather, it looks more like a place a person stores classified documents he
    has forgotten about or is unaware of. We have considered- and investigated-the possibility that the box was intentionally placed in the garage to make it appear to be there by mistake, but the evidence does not support that conclusion.”

    –From pgs. 208-9 of the Biden classified Doc. report

    The investigators in this case cite repeatedly that mentally incompetency would ‘most likely’ preclude Biden from conviction, because a jury would see him as so mentally unfit that his actions wouldn’t constitute as “willful”.

    • pranah February 9, 2024 at 11:01 am #

      Where, and the conditions in which, those documents were found is just how I’ve read one is advised to disguise important items you don’t want found in case of burglary. And who, exactly, put the documents there? Joe? Jill? What does =she= know, I wonder?

    • Jarek February 9, 2024 at 1:32 pm #

      We need Taylor Swift to weigh in on this. Why doesn’t Karine invite her to the press conferences? Why can’t she join the team? Is it sexism?!

      • Ron Anselmo February 9, 2024 at 3:37 pm #

        No Janos – it’s not sexist – it’s racist. She’s white…and rich, and apparently heterosexual.

        • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:27 pm #

          she’ll and the kc tool will have served their purpose and be discarded soon enought.

          panem et circenses

  12. Nathan February 9, 2024 at 10:02 am #

    It was refreshing to see Tucker complete the assignment and interview Putin, though it was clear throughout that even the cream of US journalistic popularity pales in comparison to the long game and sheer powers of focused intellect that Putin brings to bear. How many times did Tucker impatiently interrupt Putin’s answer to his question with an ADHD tangent question, only to be mildly rebuked by Putin, then have Putin calmly continue answering for a few more minutes, before seamlessly moving on to the interjected question.

    Jim, you nailed it when you expressed concern that the American public couldn’t follow Putin’s 25-minute contextual introduction. Tucker couldn’t see the relevance, and he’s the cream of the US crop with 4 million daily viewers.

    Tucker, who should be applauded for his attempts at independence and balanced reporting, was made to seem a cackling fidgeting mental lightweight. Some of his questions were just to keep himself relevant.

    Putin’s hemisphere analogy was masterful, but Tucker failed to follow it up with a question about what should US citizens do about it. If the Roman empire took 500 years to collapse and the US empire is collapsing much faster than that (as Putin explicitly stated), what should concerned and thinking Americans DO? Given that we Westerners are so pragmatic.

    A useful interview. Let’s hope the US Federal Supreme Court reverses the Chevron Deference this year, opening the way for concerned and thinking Americans to do something about deflating that blob.

    • Nathan February 9, 2024 at 10:14 am #

      Also, I wanted Tucker to ask some questions relating to the length of Putin’s leadership, where Putin’s answer could describe eldership governance by the competent, with democratic veto powers when elders cease being competent. Clearly, as demonstrated during the 2 hours, Putin’s Statehood, clarity of thought, grasp of historical and current world events (he quoted the US current GDP figures offhand, can anyone in Washington these days do that?) is the best argument in favour of his continuing fitness to lead. Hyper-polarised and constantly propagandised Americans cannot comprehend that democracy can flourish in forms other than the US model. Generational eldership is the governance model used in the smallest social construct possible (the nuclear family consisting of one man, one woman and their children), so why wouldn’t it work when scaled up? Of course it works. When the adult children decide amongst themselves that Dad needs help showering and going to the toilet, then that Mum and Dad need assisted living, and they elect a sibling as power of attorney, that is democracy in action. The governance moves to the next generation.

      • anmariwakaranai February 9, 2024 at 10:26 am #

        Nath, would you mind repeating P’s hemisphere analogy for me?

        • Nathan February 9, 2024 at 10:31 am #

          I’ll paraphrase, because I don’t have a transcript handy. Tucker asked what Putin thought about power shifting in the world, dividing into two hemispheres (e.g. West and BRICS). Putin paused for around 5 seconds, then launched into an analogy of the human brain being split into two hemispheres. Each controls differering but important functions. But it is still one head, and there need not be conflict between the two hemispheres. Just as there need not be on our one globe. Adapt peacefully and gradually is his hope for those in the half undergoing lobotomy.

          • anmariwakaranai February 9, 2024 at 10:35 am #

            Beauty, thaks Nath!

          • Not_GeorgeT February 9, 2024 at 11:58 am #

            Nathan, nice series of replies.

          • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:30 pm #

            makes it clear i need to dedicate my 2 hours to watching it all.

      • anmariwakaranai February 9, 2024 at 10:30 am #

        Also, I think I saw an earpiece on P, away from the camera, so some of that mastery may have used prompts.

        Not to denigrate the man, nonetheless…

        • Nathan February 9, 2024 at 10:32 am #

          That earpiece was feeding Putin a Russian translation.

          • anmariwakaranai February 9, 2024 at 10:39 am #

            Good point!

          • Nathan February 9, 2024 at 10:42 am #

            It increases the respect, given Putin was working from a translation, and that his responses were phrased clearly enough for the Russian translator to provide a more eloquent and larger vocabulary of English in his translations than Tucker himself ordinarily uses.

          • kidseyedoc February 9, 2024 at 11:16 am #

            KUDOS TO THE TRANSLATOR

            The translator for Putin translated flawlessly, seamlessly and simultaneously, with detailed, finely crafted syntax rendered in exquisitely perfect American English. Better American English than most of us speak.

            The translator had to have lived for many years in the United States. He undoubtedly has a most remarkable backstory.

      • anmariwakaranai February 9, 2024 at 10:32 am #

        Also, all interviews with peeps of this stature have rules,… ie; you may NOT discuss a, b or c.

    • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 10:25 am #

      Yes, Tucker has a brand to sell, and he let that affect his work. His work is still head and shoulders above what the legacy media reporters produce, but he can certainly do better.

      We aren’t stupid, or we wouldn’t be watching in the first place.

      Tucker didn’t need to try to dumb it down and make it more like what the other “journalists” would have done.

      • Nathan February 9, 2024 at 10:34 am #

        Exactly. Perhaps Tucker is cognisant of his audience’s ability to digest the content, so was trying to break it down into American sized segments.

        • JohnAZ February 9, 2024 at 10:47 am #

          American sized segments?

          Hahahaha!
          Look at network TV, ten minutes between commercials and production in one to two minute skits. The problem in America is a degenerate public electing a degenerate government

          • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 11:07 am #

            “The problem in America is a degenerate public electing a degenerate government”

            Ehh. I don’t buy that. This was a decent place that was intentionally destroyed. The people fought the destruction at nearly every point, but they were overmatched. Now, it is too far gone to turn around.

          • oldandtired February 9, 2024 at 11:21 am #

            In Jerry Mander’s book, 4 Arguments Against Television (sic) he refers to the cuts in television as “technicals”. These cuts stimulate the brain and keep it focused on the propaganda being shown. The optimum is around 30 seconds long.

          • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 11:25 am #

            I think that Marshall McLuhan spoke about that, as well.

          • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 12:46 pm #

            Is his name actually “Jerry Mander?” Cruel parents. Though, as time goes on and people regress mentally, I’m sure few even know what “Gerrymandering” is.

          • oldandtired February 9, 2024 at 12:50 pm #

            @RD3. Yes, his real name. Died last year. Of interest in the book was a quote from Bill Keane(sp) who was Captain Kangaroo on tv. Keane said that young children should be outside playing rather than watching tv.

          • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 12:54 pm #

            Well, it seems obvious, but they were certainly right about that. My children are far better behaved when they spend a lot of time outside. It was beautiful here last night, and I managed to get home from work in time to play football in the yard with my older boys. Of course, it ended in them fighting, but they are pretty competitive. I give the younger one a little more leeway in pushing and shoving, and it perturbs the older one.

          • Soul Forensics February 9, 2024 at 11:41 pm #

            Neil Postman’s 1984 “Amusing Ourselves to Death” is a seminal non-fic look at TV propaganda.

    • pothole February 9, 2024 at 1:26 pm #

      Good analysis, Nathan. I remember thinking, “please, Tucker, just let him finish,” then, when Putin later circled back to Tucker’s interjection, “wow, what a mind.”

    • Jarek February 9, 2024 at 1:35 pm #

      Perhaps this is why the CIA rejected him. It was pretty funny when Putin brought that up. On the other hand, his questions about why Putin didn’t press his claim to Ukraine from the first was right on target. As was his, Why not give Hungary back its part of Ukraine? Or hell, what about the German part of Poland?

    • RalphS21 February 9, 2024 at 6:21 pm #

      The Christian cross is the sign of a soul, split into at least 4 parts.

  13. bobfitz03 February 9, 2024 at 10:04 am #

    “… much of the whole US population is mentally unwell, living in a national hall of mirrors.”

    Sadly true. Some are trapped unaware. Some are starting to see the mirrors, but cannot allow themselves to admit the truth because…Trump. Some revel in the madness and just want it to continue.

    Regardless, the choice in front of us is very clear. Continue with the Globalist agenda of unreality or face reality and reject the bastards once and for all.

    Russia chose to finally stop the madness and reject the bastards. Putin encourages the West to learn from Russia’s tragic example and spare the world some pain. Will anyone listen?

    • Cankerpuss February 9, 2024 at 10:31 am #

      No. We are too far gone. God help us.

    • Jarek February 9, 2024 at 1:36 pm #

      Fun house mirrors that make distorted people see themselves as normal.

      • Ron Anselmo February 9, 2024 at 3:49 pm #

        Nice twist, Janos.

      • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:35 pm #

        that just earned a place on my long list of memorables. i’ll add as preface, because context, “the early 21st century wokesters built a culture of…”

    • Jimpa February 10, 2024 at 3:45 pm #

      I’ll say it once again. Russia and Putin are way on board with the globalist agenda and their government is full of WEF functionaries. They push the clot shots, have digital ID’s, CBDC’s and jail just about anybody they don’t like, including bloggers.
      Ukraine is about who gets to eat which peasants, but for the globalist agenda both sides support it. Putin is no alternative for anything.

  14. izzy February 9, 2024 at 10:07 am #

    All unbelievable, except that it’s actually happening.
    Donovan’s Brain would be an upgrade.

    • megabeth February 9, 2024 at 1:07 pm #

      One of my guilty pleasures is imagining how current news stories/headlines would be received by historical figures. Imagine going back to Saddle River, New Jersey, 1991, and reviewing Monicagate with Nixon. He’d spit out his bourbon and grapefruit juice cocktail. Never mind Chinese machinations, or Admiral Levine.

      Although he would not have been surprised that Trump got elected; Nixon really exhorted Trump to run, someday.

      As a kid, reading Heinlein’s “Crazy Years” headlines, as presented in Stranger in a Strange Land, I thought they were ridiculous. Porn Star Gives Birth While Skydiving; wife of world leader consults astrologer for her husband’s every move; senile SCOTUS justice wakes up during hearing and roars, “Divorce granted!”

      They don’t seem quite so preposterous, now.

  15. messianicdruid February 9, 2024 at 10:09 am #

    Twenty Four will be one of those years. It is almost Valentine’s Day, already.

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  16. sadlycdn February 9, 2024 at 10:12 am #

    Another day of unreal events….just when you think you’ve seen it all…..so they tell us Joe is out of it but can’t be held responsible …..hey why not ,as no reasonable insane hack of a liberal prosecutor would take the case!….just move on while Joe forgets his way out of any crimes…..did you really think The Big Guy was ever going to face the music?….

    • Nathan February 9, 2024 at 10:16 am #

      “Joe Biden” successfully refuting the incompetence claim means that, oh shucks, they CAN go ahead and prosecute him after all. You show em, Big Guy! The fact he doesn’t see this proves the claim.

      • JohnAZ February 9, 2024 at 10:45 am #

        The Mob must be desperate, their game plan is falling apart.

        • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:38 pm #

          “i am competent enough to face trial for corruption, that i have no concern will happen”

  17. shoemaker February 9, 2024 at 10:21 am #

    Well it appears that were the best at propaganda. We own all means of communication but apparenly were humble so we don’t brag.

  18. John K February 9, 2024 at 10:25 am #

    I’m ready for a few “decades when nothing happens” myself. I’m tired. I’m thinking of having a t-shirt made: IS THIS CENTURY UNDER WARRANTY? BECAUSE IT’S A PIECE OF SHIT.

  19. Cankerpuss February 9, 2024 at 10:29 am #

    “That is, much of the whole US population is mentally unwell, living in a national hall of mirrors. How did that happen? Is it possible that there are branches of our government dedicated to driving the population crazy. . . a kind of ordeal-by-gaslight?”

    Excellent write up, Jim. I particularly enjoyed your comment quoted above. I have long believed the US government is only a bright reflection of the people it rules over. A righteous and a sane people would have long ago ridden itself of this broken and failed system.

    However, Americans are not a righteous nor a sane group of people. Television and movies, in my opinion, have devastated our society. Causing people to have false belief in lies and fakery over truth and honesty.

    Just walk through the store and you’ll see what America has become. People are typically obese. Dressed in their pajamas. Covered in Tatoos. Degeneracy abounds in all of its forms. Drug and alcohol use is out of control. Sexual perversion permeates society. Iliteracy, ignorance and intolerance are the norms now while time honored traditions of family and love are quashed. Women butcher and murder their own children and then have altars in their homes where they worship the remains of their children.

    How can we expect a people this lost to reclaim its government?

    It can’t, Jim. I think you understand this just as well as I do.

    • bobfitz03 February 9, 2024 at 12:53 pm #

      I hear you. But, humans have somehow survived to make it this far. What is the old saying? “No matter how far you have gone down the wrong road, stop and come back.”

      A lot of people have stopped and many are headed back. More will do the same. Is it too late? I do not believe it is.

      If the gods have learned anything from toying with us it’s this: these chimps can sure take a beating and keep on rolling.

      • Cankerpuss February 9, 2024 at 1:47 pm #

        I appreciate your positive outlook. I’ve swallowed too many black pills.

        • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:40 pm #

          its about the remnant. the walking dead will freeze when the cold comes, while the thaw is for the remnant.

          blackorwhitepill, take your pick.

          • Ron Anselmo February 9, 2024 at 10:59 pm #

            “…the thaw is for the remnant.” ~ justanotherguy

            The next custom lettered message on my back windshield. The explanations to inquiring minds always amuse.

    • BackRowHeckler February 9, 2024 at 6:24 pm #

      More & more often I’m beginning to see men out in public dressed up like women. You notice the person, something seems off; it’s a dude in a dress! I think of the classic 1950s film ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’. Who has been duplicated, who is still human? Some of them are frightening, the stuff of nightmares. Face tatts add a special touch of horror … like one has unwittingly wandered into a carnival from hell where Side Show Freaks have escaped their bounds and are stalking the Midway, looking for victims.

      This was at Walmart, where I went last week to buy a Coleman propane gas stove.

      • Soul Forensics February 9, 2024 at 11:55 pm #

        Sudanese lip plates for (formerly) beautiful women in the West. That’s next on the bingo card for multi-culti fads.

        (It’s only ‘appropriation’ when White males do something similar.)

  20. dplainview February 9, 2024 at 10:31 am #

    The defense for a case of “Sicilian Flu” continues to gain velocity.

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    • megabeth February 9, 2024 at 1:22 pm #

      No kidding. Biden is being given the usual “no reasonable prosecutor would . . .” Pass by the DoJ, with a heaping side dish of Sicilian flu.

    • Paddys Lament February 9, 2024 at 2:17 pm #

      It would be fun to see Ol’ Joe wandering aimlessly around the White House grounds mumbling to himself in his PJ’s (àla the old mobster Vinnie “the Chin” Gigante).

      • BackRowHeckler February 9, 2024 at 7:00 pm #

        But “The Chin” was putting on an act in an attempt to escape prosecution.

        This Biden situation is the real deal.

  21. Nick Reynolds February 9, 2024 at 10:31 am #

    In 1971, President Nixon took the US off the gold standard. That was probably bad. But the same year, by a Congressional Reorganization Act, votes in Congress which had been secret, became public. That’s what we have now, and it’s the worst mistake the US has ever made, among quite a few. Public voting allows big donors to know how everyone in Congress votes. That has led to “donor capitalism,” or the best Congress money can buy. We should go back to secret ballots in Congress before it’s too late.

    • Cankerpuss February 9, 2024 at 10:39 am #

      And a Senate chosen by the State legislatures, not by the people.

      There are a lot of things “we should go back to” but with Americans so utterly lost and confused in their individual lives it is not going to happen. Ever. We are too far gone to reclaim what has been lost.

      We must be purged of the corrupted and start anew.

      • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 11:18 am #

        I’d be in favor of going back to The Articles of Confederation. Patrick Henry was the most intelligent and most serious thinker among the founders. He said this whole thing was a bad idea and he was right. He correctly predicted exactly what would happen.

        • Not_GeorgeT February 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm #

          The convention in Philadelpha was called to fix those Articles of Confederation.

          They determined a fresh start was in order. Was this a coup?

          Patrick Henry and the Articles is now a topic on my research list.

          • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 12:07 pm #

            Hamilton was certainly a villain in the proceedings. One of the shrewdest, most evil little men that ever lived. Did you ever wonder why there is a statue of him on Wall Street?

          • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:43 pm #

            hamilton was a reacher who knew the rewards the bankers would grant him, with a successful pitch for just a little beneficial debt.

            maybe he thought the only way to beat them was to join them?

            naw – nothing i’ve ever read would convince me that hamilton was not venal at his core.

          • Anthea February 10, 2024 at 12:32 pm #

            Some historians have called it a coup. Seems about right.

          • Mac February 11, 2024 at 9:55 am #

            Yes, George, it was a coup, perpetrated by a bunch of land speculators. It was a great mechanism to offload state debt.

        • cbeard February 10, 2024 at 6:46 pm #

          Thomas Paine is in the running for most intelligent and serious thinker also.

        • Mac February 11, 2024 at 9:57 am #

          RD- Don’t forget George Mason. He tried to put chains on the Constitution through the Bill of Rights. Chains are never forever.

    • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 10:40 am #

      Something to consider.

    • elysianfield February 9, 2024 at 11:35 am #

      Nick,
      I have noted this before, and agree with your assessment. What we want are honest politicians… when they are bought, they STAY bought. The Reorganization act guarantees this.

      • messianicdruid February 9, 2024 at 2:21 pm #

        Statesmen vs. politicians.

  22. sadlycdn February 9, 2024 at 10:38 am #

    So is Joe really “out if it”?….I believe he has all the symptoms of stupidity and obvious mental decline but nothing lots of meds can’t help …..They loaded him up for the State Of The Union…..but things have changed…..they need a nice off ramp before the election while at the same time “Fix A Few Things “…..mission accomplished…..
    so now we wait for the replacement….Gavin or Team Obama…..Joe will kick and scream all the way out but luckily he has Dr Jill to make a smooth transition into a nice facility

    • BackRowHeckler February 9, 2024 at 7:43 pm #

      He had a cerebral stroke back in ’96. Some people say he never really recovered from it. And Joe wasn’t the sharpest tack in the drawer to begin with.

  23. JohnAZ February 9, 2024 at 10:40 am #

    Two family members have succumbed to dementia, one Alzheimer’s, the other Lewy Body.

    You ain’t seen nothing yet. MDs know what is coming with Biden and are trying to stall the onset of the final stage, when the mind loses control of the body. Death comes from respiratory collapse.

    The DEms have no one else that can even have a chance against Trump. Watch out for Biden holograms.

    It is disgusting that the public even wants Biden at all, his criminality makes Trump look like an angel.

    • JohnAZ February 9, 2024 at 10:42 am #

      Everyone is signing up to the Newsom possibility. There is a big difference between a West and East coast Democrat. Newsom is not in the Mob.

      • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 10:51 am #

        Newsom was just whining about his struggles to do all the reading expected of someone in that job.

        Dyslexia, don’t you know.

        BS he’s just plain stupid and even if he did have a handicap, he isn’t fit for the job.

        Go away and don’t come back.

        • benr February 9, 2024 at 11:10 am #

          Don’t confuse stupid with lazy.

          He is lazy and entitled.

        • bobfitz03 February 9, 2024 at 12:55 pm #

          This. He’s dumb as a bag of hair.

      • benr February 9, 2024 at 11:11 am #

        He is related to Nancy Pelosi and Jerry Brown it does not get any more connected.

        • WadeWaters February 9, 2024 at 2:18 pm #

          I hadn’t heard about Jerry Brown. He’s only related to Nancy by his marriage.

          • benr February 10, 2024 at 12:11 pm #

            Which is how European royalty have cemented familial ties for eons as well as attempted to gain power and keep peace treaties.

      • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:49 pm #

        there are dems, gabby nuisance included, that are maneuvering for a nomination, and expect it to be decided in a primary.

        the dem establishment doesn’t want the party exposed or torn apart by a primary pitting the work edge against the rest, airing huge baskets of dirty laundry.

        they want no primary, then drop biden, then select by fiat.

        if we have a (s)election in ’24 at all…

    • Rain Waters February 9, 2024 at 11:34 am #

      Libs believe exactly the opposite.

  24. Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 10:43 am #

    The thing that bothers me the most, oddly enough, is the major pretense or even belief that Tucker is doing something extraordinary or illicit by interviewing Putin.

    Putin gets interviewed all the time. Recently, even.

    Maybe it’s all the weed, people have no memory of recent events.

    At leas Biden has an excuse,

    • Paula D February 9, 2024 at 12:08 pm #

      They are setting us up to believe that listening to anyone our ruling overlords dislike is an act of treason.

      //wagelaborer.podbean.com/

    • cbeard February 10, 2024 at 10:46 pm #

      A hat tip to Beryl for this comment.

  25. Jigplate February 9, 2024 at 10:55 am #

    “Is it possible that there are branches of our government dedicated to driving the population crazy. . . a kind of ordeal-by-gaslight?” They don’t call it 5th generation warfare for nothing.

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    • Paddys Lament February 9, 2024 at 3:55 pm #

      It’s what you get when the 4th estate becomes the 4th branch and joins forces with the 5th column (globalists).

  26. cowbell81 February 9, 2024 at 10:58 am #

    Fact of the matter is, whoever out there votes for Biden should really be considering that they are voting his VP as President. There is no way Biden would survive another 4-year term, let alone get through between now and election day.

    • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 11:13 am #

      Millions of 60+ year old white people in the Rust Belt, nearly entirely Christian, most Catholic, will vote for whatever Democrat is on the ballot because FDR saved grand daddy and “our family are Democrats.” These people are unreachable. I know because there are many in my wife’s family.

      • Not_GeorgeT February 9, 2024 at 12:09 pm #

        RD, I grew up in a similar environment, not in the rust belt.

        Many have escaped it, including many in my family.

        It might be a bit deeper, such as who was raised as, and encouraged to be, a critical thinker during the past 80 or so years.

        • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 12:17 pm #

          Just to be clear, I’m not arguing that voting Republican is much better.

          A few escape, most just continue to, unknowingly, sign their grandchildren’s death warrants. They plow ahead, with their minds in a fog of football and scratch off lotto tickets, until one day, whether by their type-2 diabetes, or their multiple boosters, they don’t wake up again.

          • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 12:43 pm #

            If you are white, every nationally-elected Democrat wants to see you and your family die a painful death and for your kind to be wiped off the face of the earth. There are possibly a few Republicans, though they despise you, who would spare you.

          • TruthSeeker1986 February 9, 2024 at 12:59 pm #

            @RD3

            What are the Democrats excuse for even hating white people in the first place? What did they do to them exactly? Didn’t Democrats use to be the party of the KKK at some point, now all of a sudden they act like negros are superior over white people in every way. And now they’ve recruit all the LGBTQ types and every other “oppressed” group that’s easy for them to manipulate forever.

            Growing up in the early 1990s television use to be so much cooler, now out of nowhere white people don’t exist on the networks….I’m honestly surprised they haven’t had every single movie with white people on them burnt and destroyed or that Hollywood still bothers to make films with white people in them when television itself is hell bent on making it seem like they don’t exist anymore.

          • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 1:07 pm #

            Well, historically, the Democrats had various factions, while the Republicans were the party of corporate plunder.

            In the 1950’s, Northern Democrats began to push Southern Democrats out of the party. I believe Strom Thurmond was the first significant Democrat to turn Republican. Then, over time, most of the Southern conservatives became Republicans. In the end, it was probably a bad move for Southerners. The South was as nation at the time, and no longer is.

          • Jarek February 9, 2024 at 1:46 pm #

            Joe Biden was friends with Klan Democrats. If they had retained power, he still would be. A man devoid of any principles whatsoever.

            In contrast, the rank and file are now Communist fanatics who hate whoever they are told to hate. That means Whites. Whites hating their own race? No problem, apparently. It’s a religion, and they are the elect, the saved. It’s led by Feminists of course.

          • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 2:16 pm #

            The Democrats “hate whitey” because that’s what Obama the commie was brought in to do.

            Divide and conquer, on the path to communism.

          • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 4:57 pm #

            c’mon jur’k, you of all here ought to know that feminists don’t lead, they are a herd; a herd turned by waving sheet, stomping any and everything in its path thoughtlessly.

            the rockefellers (and many further in the shadows) formed this herd.

          • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 5:10 pm #

            Haha. You’re right. Nelson Rockefeller fought to “free” women, so his fat, sweaty, pasty corpse could end up on top of one in his office.

        • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 1:50 pm #

          The fact that he was friendly with Klan Democrats might be his only redeeming quality.

  27. mitchellc February 9, 2024 at 11:00 am #

    Every generation thinks its experiences are unique, which is why the recurring manifestation of evil constantly surprises people who lament that it was “all for nothing”.

    Au contraire, it most certainly was for something, a rewarding exercise in the fulfillment of power. Humpty Dumpty explains:

    “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

    “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

    “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

    • Paula D February 9, 2024 at 12:06 pm #

      Or, as Orwell put it:

      “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”.

      • Jarek February 9, 2024 at 2:01 pm #

        What Party do you belong to?

        • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 2:15 pm #

          I might be the only member of The American Independent Party (AIP) in my state.

          • Jarek February 9, 2024 at 2:31 pm #

            What’s the platform? National Socialism or just American Fascism? The muscular Christianity of Superman. Truth, Justice, and Deer hunting? A militia training in on ever village green every Saturday morning? Let them earn their football and beer…..

          • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 2:36 pm #

            Its an anachronism, like the Conservative Citizens Council, of which I’m also still a member. It serves no real purpose, but allows me to hearken back to better times. Sam Francis wrote the platform for the Council.

  28. benr February 9, 2024 at 11:09 am #

    When the legion of dunce shows up late in the board cycle maybe they can explain the meaning of this.

    \\\\https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1755642012194533833?cxt=HBwWksfbmffGpd0wAAAA&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email

    Talk about letting the cat out of the bag.
    We all had an inkling this was going on when they had people commit crimes that were just released but to hear out plainly said from a Democrat politician is astounding.
    If this does not destroy this outlaw party nothing will.
    No wonder the black vote is leaving them in droves.

  29. docmartin February 9, 2024 at 11:33 am #

    Mr Kunstler’s repetitive statements can be condensed into one phrase: The Emperor’s New Clothes. I find zero new revelations in todays post. There is no drama about Biden. The democrats are allowing and making sure the public knows he’s gone. Hunter made sure Harris will pardon him if the old man totally dements or croaks.

  30. woe February 9, 2024 at 11:39 am #

    Joe Biden may have dementia, which I think is a convenient act, after all, they selected the investigators for an investigation that suddenly popped up that no one was aware was being conducted. But, the head of homeland security, the CDC, the FBI and these other alphabet agencies appear to be in their right minds. Hunter Biden appears cognizant of his actions. They can care for a dementia patient in prison, they have fully equipped, fully staffed, health facilities in federal prisons. Not buying the he’s all of the sudden frail and weak, but the borders are still open, our economy is destroyed (on purpose) and let me guess, he has an occasional moment of lucidity so he can pardon all of these federal criminals from further prosecution. I know people who have been released from prison doing 20 for having a joint in their ashtary, but we supposed to let him and others off with no consequences for what they put this country through. This so called president didn’t just become corrupt, he’s been that way for a long time. Does anyone seriously think that if that was us in a somewhat similar situation, that they would let us slide?

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    • Not_GeorgeT February 9, 2024 at 12:12 pm #

      It is the dual system of ‘just-us’ in full view.

    • Mac February 11, 2024 at 10:06 am #

      Woe- I have been wondering. If a pardon is issued by someone who is mentally incompetent, can it be considered legally valid?

      • woe February 11, 2024 at 10:33 am #

        Good question. And the same goes for a president that has been fraudulently selected. I am not naive enough to think that cheating doesn’t happen in elections, but not on the scale of the last one. We have to start with an investigation of our modern voting system. We should REQUIRE an audit of the voting process in every state, I don’t care if it takes as long as until the next election. These boards or commissions overseeing these elections have one job and 2-4 years to get ready for ONE job and they can’t seem to get it done. The people of those states should demand it, and get rid of the dysfunctional members on those boards. It shouldn’t take 2 weeks to count votes, thats bullshit.

        • Ron Anselmo February 11, 2024 at 2:27 pm #

          woe – agreed. It’s not that complicated.

          Paper ballots, verifiable ID, hand-counted.

          155,507,476 ballots were cast in the 2020 Presidential election.

          1,555 counting locations, each with 100,000 votes to count.

          Each counting location chairs 10 x 10, counting 1K votes each.

          Done.

  31. Paula D February 9, 2024 at 12:03 pm #

    You would think that a discussion of Biden’s mental capacity cannot be avoided, but it seems that it can, and has been for the last 4 years.

    During the first impeachment of Trump in 2019, they managed to display great indignation that he held up weapons to Ukraine without once mentioning why it was so important to get those weapons to Ukraine (the Kiev regime), and what the Kiev regime was doing with them (killing the citizens of eastern Ukraine).

    They also based the impeachment on the assertion that Biden was the “front runner” and any question of legal improprieties of a opposing candidate was an outrageous violation of democracy. Is that discussed today?

    I thought at the time that them pretending that that senile old pervert was the “front runner” was absurd beyond belief.

    I never imagined that they would put him into the White House and leave him there. Nor did I imagine that the Mighty Wurlitzer would tell us that “everyone” was relieved that now there was an actual adult in charge. Nor did I imagine that those shameless criminals would then use lawfare against the actual front runner of the next election.

    But here we are.

    • mitchellc February 9, 2024 at 12:17 pm #

      109

      Over centuries – no, millenia – lessons have to be relearned about a malevolent, hateful death cult.

      Destruction for the pure joy and satisfaction of victory.

    • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 2:19 pm #

      Well said.

  32. sadlycdn February 9, 2024 at 12:17 pm #

    The Ukraine War is obviously a stark contrast to the Israeli Hamas conflict….one has the right to defend the other not so much……no calls to end the Ukraine slaughter…..just more money and more weapons….of course it has much more to it than borders….Putin is the stopping block for the Globalist and will be defeated no matter what it takes…..so they say….watching Putin and Biden is full of irony and folly…..one man can give a history lesson while the other slug is history….Joe won’t go quietly.. in fact could put some hurt into his enemy’s on his way out….

    • mitchellc February 9, 2024 at 12:23 pm #

      Unless we have something extremely clever up our sleeve, this time around might finally be it for the West.

      2,500 years of unbroken domination, an extremely long period of opulence, extravagance and luxury.

      • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 1:33 pm #

        Undone by the ones we couldn’t convert.

        • Night Owl February 9, 2024 at 3:51 pm #

          The ones perpetrating the destruction already have more wealth that you can possibly imagine–and they bought up those doing their bidding.

          If the argument for the United States is money and luxury, then all you need to do to end the United States is pay people to end it a lot more than they had prior.

  33. Paula D February 9, 2024 at 12:33 pm #

    Interestingly enough, my husband reports that NPR didn’t mention the Putin interview at all, but they did report on Biden’s dementia.

    I would have thought it would be the opposite. Is this going to be the plan? Cover up the interest in the interview by stirring up debate about Biden’s mental capacity?

    Note: Please do not comment simply to point out that you don’t like NPR. I know this and I don’t care.
    They are a flagship of narrative control, and that is why their spin is interesting, which is why I am reporting on it.

    • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 2:20 pm #

      Probably.
      We knew at some point Biden would take all the blame for what went before, and be removed from public view.

      • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 5:07 pm #

        IOW, keep him around long enough to be the first cause of all ills, then memory hole those ills by flushing him.

        thought this myself for a long while.

    • WadeWaters February 9, 2024 at 2:32 pm #

      How’s Kai Ryssdal doing these days? What a hack. Thanks for Listening to NPR so that the rest of us don’t have to.

  34. AmericanObserver February 9, 2024 at 12:45 pm #

    What we saw from Biden was the (D) party beginning the public show of finally allowing Bidens mental decline to be openly discussed. This will allow for Biden to resign and the unelectable Harris to step in.

    She gets to check off a bunch of diversity boxes and play President the rest of the year. Since she is unelectable pardoning all Biden family crooks wont hurt her nonexistent campaign.

    More importantly, whomever she’s told to pick for VP will be the next POTUS.

    • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 12:48 pm #

      Would they be as brazen as to put Admiral Levine or Backdoor Pete in as VP?

      • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 2:23 pm #

        Andrew Cuomo intends to put himself back in the running.

    • stelmosfire February 9, 2024 at 2:40 pm #

      I could easily see Biden stepping down. Kamala gets to make history as the “First female and the first black female POTUS..” She does the job for a few months does not run for re-election and returns to the Senate in DiFi’s spot and enjoys a lifelong career of doing nothing and collecting pay-offs. A true win-win for Cackles.

  35. SoftStarLight February 9, 2024 at 12:47 pm #

    We’ll probably be gathering our thoughts about the interview for the next year. My personal immediate observations signal that there are more questions than answers. I think for anyone who has been halfway following current events for the past several years there were no new significant revelations. This makes me think that the interview was intended to be a comm. Not to Western publics but to the dark inner circles within the West. That being said I do think it was significant that Putin telegraphed to the American public that Western elites have made a decision to collapse the United States like the Russian elites decided to collapse the Soviet Union in the 1990s. So the controlled demolition meme is very real.

    I get the sense that Putin was letting the Western elites know that a new monetary system is being determined and will be established without Western input. It appears that the BRICS powers will be the determinants of the new currency or system of currencies that eventually replace the US dollar. He was also clear that he understands exactly who is doing what within the US. He knows the centers of decision but only made it clear in the immediate moment that it was not Biden or anyone who is elected. Western governments are basically just ” ” and are actually nothing more than intel psyop operations is what I gathered but perhaps it is even more elaborate?

    The interview imo was not organic but was part of the movie. Another chapter in the unraveling revelation. Note that Tucker never mentioned the biolabs or organ harvesting ops in Ukraine. One step at a time perhaps. The body language was well choreographed and was intended to show that the workers of light are in control. Putin was wearing a purple tie. To me this was an indication that he is representing and speaking for the actual center of power. He also did not appear to be the same man as those who were shown in the pictures that Tucker placed at various points throughout the interview. I won’t go there at this particular point. Tucker was wearing a gold and midnight blue stripped tie. To me this indicates that dark mysteries will be illuminated. The light is being shined into dark corners.

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    • megabeth February 9, 2024 at 1:18 pm #

      Oddly enough, they say that the color of the revolution being attempted in the U.S. is purple. Since I heard that, I’ve been attuned to its appearance here and there. Most especially the overhead lighting when public figures speak. Or the Clintons’ matching apparel the day Hillary conceded. Purple stage lighting has been “a thing” for the past decade.

      • SoftStarLight February 9, 2024 at 1:43 pm #

        I’ve heard of color revolution but not purple revolution. What is the symbolism of in that context? It is a reference to the combo of blue and red, the uniparty?

        • SoftStarLight February 9, 2024 at 1:44 pm #

          I’m not drinking yet lol, just can’t type today

          • Jarek February 9, 2024 at 2:27 pm #

            When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
            With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.
            And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
            And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.
            I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired
            And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
            And run my stick along the public railings
            And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
            I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
            And pick flowers in other people’s gardens
            And learn to spit.

            You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
            And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
            Or only bread and pickle for a week
            And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

            But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
            And pay our rent and not swear in the street
            And set a good example for the children.
            We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

            But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
            So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
            When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

            Jenny Joseph

            Jarek: Careful, fraulein. You don’t want to end up like poor Jenny.

            Have you watched any of Earth’s Final Conflict yet? Guess what the favorite color of the Taelons? That’s right, purple.

          • SoftStarLight February 9, 2024 at 3:06 pm #

            Lol aww I like that. I was just kidding. I haven’t had a drink in i don’t even know when. But I felt like there had to be an excuse for my typing oopsies. Actually I didn’t do my meditation last night and didn’t sleep well so I am a little foggy today.

            I haven’t watched it yet but I will watch it over the weekend. You watched mine so I’ll watch yours lol. Sounds funny but tis true.

          • stelmosfire February 9, 2024 at 4:11 pm #

            Well I’ll tell ya, 2024 is not a gonna be a good year to lay off the bottle

          • BackRowHeckler February 9, 2024 at 8:59 pm #

            No mint juleps SSL?

          • Soul Forensics February 10, 2024 at 12:14 am #

            Or in Lloyd Bridges immortal line: “Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.”

        • Night Owl February 9, 2024 at 3:56 pm #

          I talked about the Purple Revolution years ago.

          It is the revolution the globalists planned for the US. Those involved often wear purple in public speaking appearances (ties, pantsuits, etc.).

          I mentioned way back how my old company had an event centered around it. We had a WEF-backed speaker tell us we were the shapers of the future. The stage was lit in purple, we were served purple-colored champagne, etc.

          The color revolutions of the past few decades have all been backed by the same groups.

          • megabeth February 9, 2024 at 4:25 pm #

            Nota bene: Trump was stagelit in purple for his 2016 victory speech. A Trump thing, maybe? Or was it an RNC conceit?

          • Night Owl February 9, 2024 at 5:11 pm #

            Could be significant with globalist trashbag Pence standing behind him and what the cabal unleashed once he took office.

        • megabeth February 9, 2024 at 4:17 pm #

          I imagine that it could be construed as blue/red consensus or royalty, but I just assumed that they needed to pick a distinct color.

    • Jarek February 9, 2024 at 2:07 pm #

      Putin is older now. Not the same man. You are not the same, nor I, nor any of us. But the Soul or share in God’s life, changeth not. Get a piece of the rock.

      Or perhaps you are right. There is the picture of him as WW1 soldier. Perhaps he’s just pretending to get older or using a body double. He may be a Highlander.

      • SoftStarLight February 9, 2024 at 3:09 pm #

        Yeah, I am never sure of these things of course, but it did seem a little strange. For example in one of the pictures it almost appeared like an earlier Putin was older than current Putin. Like he had more wrinkles and all. Now of course that could be cosmetic surgery and that is likely the easiest and maybe most real explanation. But questions kinda linger just because of the strangeness of it.

        • Night Owl February 9, 2024 at 4:01 pm #

          It’s just age. He looks a bit puffy in the face, but so did Tucker.

          They both have access to the best food, supplements and associated dietary advice.

          The puffy face look is pretty common among older monied folks.

          • megabeth February 9, 2024 at 4:27 pm #

            Hyonaluric acid fillers. Makes them look more lizardlike, imho.

          • Soul Forensics February 10, 2024 at 12:19 am #

            That’s exactly it, Owl. Older, puffy face.

            The decade between ages 60 and 70 can make the same person look unrecognizable if you haven’t seen them in ten years.

    • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 2:27 pm #

      Better to stay away from the ‘conspiracy’ type issues, I think.

      Tucker wants to rise above his background as a tabloidy guy, and Put wanted to be the sober, intelligent voice of reason, the elder statesman.

      • SoftStarLight February 9, 2024 at 3:13 pm #

        For better or for worse I gravitate to conspiracies. Though I do recognize that bias so realize that I must be careful. Hmm, I never perceived Tucker as a tabloidy guy. Is that a thing?

        • Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 3:57 pm #

          Ever read Gateway Pundit articles?

  36. reggiezz February 9, 2024 at 1:01 pm #

    The billionaires will keep Ole Joe around until right before the convention. They don’t want their voters choosing the candidate. They want to choose.

    • tom clark February 9, 2024 at 2:20 pm #

      Agree…no need to haul Disease “X” out of the woodwork. It now appears Joe Biden’s situation will take care of itself…don’t think he won’t go kicking and screaming, though.

      • SoftStarLight February 9, 2024 at 3:15 pm #

        Yes, that is right tom, he was screaming last night at the press

    • BackRowHeckler February 9, 2024 at 3:13 pm #

      They’ve got $2 trillion riding on the EV/Climate Change/Transition to Renewables scam, all of which depends on Biden remaining above ground. If they have to they’ll pump him up with meth & steroids & hook him up to cables like a marionette which will at least give him the simulation of being alive & lucid. “C’mon man the world is on fire, White Supremacy is our greatest threat, where am I you dog face pony soldiers?”

      • Night Owl February 9, 2024 at 4:02 pm #

        Nah. They are going to pull the rug on Biden.

        The press is bombarding him with questions about his mental fitness now, all at once, reading from the script.

        The memo has gone out.

        • benr February 9, 2024 at 5:12 pm #

          Yes, last night was a very different press gathering they went in for blood Joe looked confused as hell and his tone-deaf joke landed very flat with the Fox News guy.

        • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 5:18 pm #

          not until the (no primary) dem (s)election.

          its about continuity for these reptiles – can’t take sudden changes in the temperature of the body poliitc.

    • Not_GeorgeT February 9, 2024 at 11:46 pm #

      He might not be as easy to get rid of as some people think.

      He could have a lethal medical incident. He could be suicided. He could be ‘taken out’.

      However, a bunch of groups and individuals want to keep the gravy train running and he’s an easy way. A few more coins into the laundromats to maintain the show.

      People say ’25th Amendment” however it’s not so easy to use as one might expect.

      Short of his exit via Section 1, section 4 is a tough way to go.

      Unless ‘they who are pulling the strings’ have sufficiently developed their game strategy, Section 4 has a lot of uncontrollable variables.

  37. megabeth February 9, 2024 at 1:11 pm #

    Just let me say here that I did enjoy Biden’s event at a Wisconsin brewery last week, in which he seemed to say that Lake Superior’s waters were made out of a lot of beer, then turned and appeared to kibbitz with a beer keg.

    • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 1:23 pm #

      He can’t even blame his miscues on being drunk.

      • SoftStarLight February 9, 2024 at 3:17 pm #

        Kibbitz means to make unwanted and intrusive comments – fyi

        • RD3 February 9, 2024 at 3:20 pm #

          I’m aware. I’m also aware that Biden doesn’t drink. That was the basis of my comment.

          • benr February 9, 2024 at 5:13 pm #

            I wonder if he goes in for a little nose candy like Hunter.

  38. Jarek February 9, 2024 at 2:11 pm #

    Mitch’s demonic boast: 109

    By Rosicrucian addition: 1+0+9=10
    1+0=1

    There can only be ONE. One ring to rule them. One ring to find them. One ring to bring them and all in the darkness bind them.

    Compare this with the health and beauty of true diversity – which means nations with borders. Let many flowers bloom, not just one poisonous one.

    • TruthSeeker1986 February 9, 2024 at 2:38 pm #

      @Jarek

      I don’t think there is a single country anymore with borders besides Hungary. Everywhere else is using the same tired shit excuse “Low birth rates, not enough workers.” None of them care about borders anymore.

    • SoftStarLight February 9, 2024 at 3:20 pm #

      Yes. Why go for a single flower when you can have a bouquet? Valentine’s Day is getting close :0)

      • TruthSeeker1986 February 9, 2024 at 4:00 pm #

        @SoftStarLight

        If only I had a damn Valentine…Then maybe I could be less bitter.

  39. edpell February 9, 2024 at 3:09 pm #

    The best way to drain the swamp is to destroy it. The best way to do that is re-elect Joe Biden. I stand with Joe.

    • megabeth February 9, 2024 at 4:34 pm #

      Do you suppose you could sort of prop him up?

  40. Roundball Shaman February 9, 2024 at 3:21 pm #

    “There was Mr. Putin of the land called Russia, calmly discoursing in fine detail on a thousand years of his country’s history. And there was Mr. Biden of the USA… angrily refuting a special prosecutor’s glum conclusion that the President was not mentally competent…”

    The Resident is living proof that the person who currently occupies the White House runs nothing in ‘The Indispensable Nation!’. A figurehead that does not currently have much of a figure nor most certainly (much left inside) a head.

    Most of us have had the sad occasion to watch an elderly person stumble their way out of a rest room while trailing toilet paper hanging like a tail from the back of their worn clothing. A silly and sad sight that they are clueless to their obvious appearance as they are sadly struggling like hell to function.

    Does that picture remind you of anyone today, hmmm? Someone that everyone around them can plainly see is having a terrible time even doing simple things while still angrily and with little grasp of reality insisting that they are ‘FINE!’?

    There are Adults in the Room. There are Children in the Room. And then there are Adults who are acting like Children. Or of a child’s mind.

    Again, does that remind you of anyone today… hmmm?

    While America and other parts of the World will be consumed by the nonsensical mind-warping, soul-perverting psy-op called the ‘Soo— Per– Bowl!’… the Planet will be continuing its descent into madness and disorder and peril. And while countless millions of people will be consumed with all things Swift and Usher and Kelce-Wellsie… serious leaders around the World will be thinking about how best to deal with an Empire in its death throes. And a wounded animal is always a dangerous one.

    And so is any Nation without competent or benevolent leadership. You can only stretch things so far with lies and puffery and thuggery and conjured money out of thin air. Sooner or later, the Devil is coming around to collect his due. And usually he is not satisfied until you surrender your soul. Which is something that very many in today’s ‘Indispensable Nation’ have already happily surrendered to the Smiling Red Guy With Tail.

    So while you are placing bets on the Mind-Effing Fiasco in the Nevada Desert… or on whether or not ‘He’ is going to pop the question (!) to ‘Her’ in a Taylor-made media setting… you might give a thought to whether or not we will still exist on this Planet in twelve months when The Next Great Psy-Op will be held.

    Maybe in the land of 500-million Americans left? If so, the Globalists will be partying like there’s no tomorrow. Because for many of us… there won’t be.

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    • Ron Anselmo February 9, 2024 at 4:34 pm #

      RS – did you mean 5-million?

      • Roundball Shaman February 9, 2024 at 4:39 pm #

        Ron Anselmo: “RS – did you mean 5-million?”

        The 500 million that Globalists will ‘allow to live’ all became ‘Americans’ and entered through Biden’s Wide Open Non-Existent National ‘Border’ (?). ‘The Empire!’ conquered All. A full-owned subsidiary of The Globalist Elitist Mafia.

    • TruthSeeker1986 February 9, 2024 at 6:09 pm #

      At this point I don’t think Americans even care anymore what the hell happens to America. The only Americans that do care is those of us on this forum discussing these things. But for mostly everyone else, I don’t think they even care…And Football is garbage now.

      • Roundball Shaman February 9, 2024 at 8:13 pm #

        TruthSeeker1986: “… I don’t think Americans even care anymore what the hell happens to America… Football is garbage now.”

        How could much of America care about the country when they don’t even care about themselves?

        Look at we Americans today. How we dress. What we eat and drink. What we allow to be done to our children. How we think (or not). What we let happen to our freedoms and our way of life. And… what countless tens of millions of Americans will be willingly doing this Sunday night with their time and eyeballs. Eating and drinking stuff that is bad for you and being propagandized by social manipulators and mind-warping and soul-sapping commercials and a ‘Half-Time Show’ that every year is written by the Devil himself.

        We ‘vote’ about things by what we choose to care about and do with our time and thoughts and energy. Sunday Night will prove once again what America really cares about… and what it doesn’t. A Super Hole. A Super… Shame.

        • TruthSeeker1986 February 10, 2024 at 2:43 am #

          @Roundball Shaman

          You are right but the problem is America wasn’t always like this…The country got heavily engineered, and it is fear that keeps people from taking action. If someone walked up to someone’s kid and slapped them in the mouth or tried to abduct them with the parent standing there, do you think the parent will just allow it to happen? Most likely no unless the person aims a loaded gun at them putting them in a position as to where one move will lead to their kid getting shot, or both the parent and the child getting shot. Such a situation would be difficult for a parent to comprehend how to deal with because real life isn’t the movies.

          One would have to why are they allowing teachers to mind fuck their kids and do nothing about it even without aiming a gun at them? Because the FBI will come after the parent and label them a terrorist for trying to protect their own children.

          People have given up due to fear of consequences so they just rather surrender and not even care. A lot of people are just “coping” at this point, coping is a form of not caring or ignoring reality. Look how leftist white people were acting in 2020…Down on their knees apologizing for being white and slavery, washing the feet of blacks, now they offer up their wives to be sexed by them in front of them while they dehumanize themselves to the entire belief of being an inferior human being to the woman cucking him while another man emasculates him in front of his garbage wife.

          It’s a disgraceful nation full of disgraceful degenerate losers that openly embrace it like it’s some kind of badge of honor. Japan gave up on themselves too, I’m seeing a lot of countries where a vast majority of it’s own people have given up on fighting or remember what their ancestors were like during invasions, and so fourth.

          And that’s because when you have a mentally sick society. That just makes it easier to rule over their lives. Mentally sick people can’t fight, and now they are importing more worthless people into the country. Ones who can’t really speak any goddamn English, don’t know shit about the laws, culture, or constitutions, etc. Add these invading parasites on top of the loser degenerates and you have a double society to lord over that can’t fight or have no desire to do so with a high tolerance for humiliation, abuse, and mind rape.

          • Suburban_elk February 10, 2024 at 7:41 am #

            America stopped caring about itself when it stopped caring about its kids, and let 120 MILLION of them have their genitals cut out and thrown into the trash, with the dirty shit rags and bloody towels and w/o so much the courtesy of a biowaste disposal protocol. [1] Blame the medical establishment, mostly, or Abrahamic religion(s), or the human condition, but a society that doesn’t protect its children when they are vulnerable, has no grounds for life, and deserves put down. Russia laughs at us, for submitting to this ritual which is a slave marker.

            1. Back in the 70s, before they were sold to Big Med and Big Cosmetic, that’s what was done, with the baby body parts: they were thrown into trash w/o so much the courtesy of a biowaste disposal protocol.

            This is the reason why American Men are confused about what is their purpose and identity. That it’s not even allowed on the table of discussion, is part and parcel of the total own.

          • Roundball Shaman February 10, 2024 at 12:58 pm #

            TruthSeeker1986: “… it is fear that keeps people from taking action.”

            Fear is the Dark State’s control mechanism. But people are fearful because they think they are alone. But We the People always outnumber the Dark Siders. And it is always collective efforts that hold back the tide of their dark agendas. As individuals we are in fact alone. But as a collective… that is power in action.

            People will collectively party or go to a football game. And watch tomorrow’s big mind-eff. But getting them to stand up to school boards or abusive employers who demand death shots seems to be beyond the thinking of most people.

            “… the FBI will come after the parent and label them a terrorist for trying to protect their own children.”

            That organization has already used that fear-peddling label against all Americans who don’t follow along like sheep to the Dark State Globalists. Name-calling is a bullying tactic used by abusive little kids on playgrounds. And that does not belong there, either.

            “A lot of people are just ‘coping’ at this point…”

            Yes they are. An coping like that is the sign of a captured and surrendered mind. It is a de-powering robbing of one’s energy and vitality. It is a form of personal death.

            “… how leftist white people were acting in 2020…Down on their knees apologizing for being white and slavery…”

            Again, this is another form of being captured and a form of mind abuse. No one alive today had a damn thing to do with slavery. And anyone who thinks they owe because of what some people did a long time ago are unhinged and have personality problems. We are all equal in the sight of God and no one should throw their skin color around like it’s the most important thing in existence. Because it isn’t.

            “Add these invading parasites on top of the loser degenerates and you have a double society to lord over that can’t fight…”

            No one lets someone off the street just barge into their house and sit down and demand money and to be fed. This is called being a trespasser and a thief. And this remains so when the scale is enlarged to the size of a nation.

            Maybe they should have stayed in their own country and worked to fix the problems there instead of invading someone else’s land and demanding to be treated like kings and queens.

            But that would require one to have respect and sense. Two things largely missing from the whole damn Planet.

  41. Beryl of Oyl February 9, 2024 at 4:23 pm #

    Hilary called Tucker a useful idiot and said she wouldn’t be surprised if he goes to work for a Russian news outlet.

    • megabeth February 9, 2024 at 4:38 pm #

      That old gorgon!

      I hear she telephoned Tucker and said, “Back off, or I’ll kill yourself!”

    • benr February 9, 2024 at 4:50 pm #

      Harkening back to Obama VS. Romney:

      Romney talked about Russia being a threat and Obama quipped the 80’s called they want their foreign policy back.
      Flash forward it’s all Russia, Russia, Russia.

  42. taijitu February 9, 2024 at 4:27 pm #

    What about when said weeks become decades long? I’m speaking, of course, about Pluto’s recent entry into Aquarius and will be there for 20 years.

  43. Htruth February 9, 2024 at 5:18 pm #

    Tucker Carlson To Be Trump’s VP?: https://rumble.com/v4cgjzc-tucker-carlson-to-be-trunps-vp.html

    • justanotherguy February 9, 2024 at 5:22 pm #

      maybe if trump just shut the hell up and focused on the job and let tucker tell the tale…

    • elysianfield February 9, 2024 at 5:31 pm #

      …After Carlson’s lackluster attempt at dialogue with Putin?

      Maybe not…..

  44. David Webb February 9, 2024 at 5:30 pm #

    Early in the days of the known Hunter Biden laptop that was denounced by “51 current and former intelligence officials”, I remember watching a video saved on it of a naked Hunter conversing with a naked prostitute about another laptop that went missing when he passed out while partying with some Russian drug dealers after a 14 day bender in Las Vegas. I wonder whatever became of that laptop, and why that video never got more publicity.

  45. RalphS21 February 9, 2024 at 6:14 pm #

    Putin and Film?
    Putin, maybe a little funny, but he reminds me of Foyle in the British series “Foyle’s War”.

    When you watch other English (European) films, you often experience a certain kindness, decency, respect and vivid faces that express the entire range of human emotions.

    Check, or compare to American movies, hm?
    Approx. 80% of Americans are circumcised. No, no, it doesn’t matter – has nothing to do with movies and emotions.

    By the way, Putin referred to the Motherland and the soul. Not to the ridiculous circumcised Jesus-no-man.

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    • Paula D February 10, 2024 at 12:15 pm #

      I believe you mean that 80% of American men are circumcised.

      You just disappeared half of the population.

      But I agree, circumcision is a barbaric mutilation and a horrific and painful attack on newborn baby boys.

      It has to leave some kind of trauma on the little brain just taking in the outside world.

  46. Yuri Sowryteski February 9, 2024 at 6:35 pm #

    Putin seemed to me to be, well feeling “othered” by Europe, caught in a romantic three way, his real crush rejecting his advances, and hurt by the lies and broken promises of getting to go to the prom; he began by telling the “creation story” of the Rus and how they became Orthodox Christian, how they never surrendered their “identity” got sobered up from the abusive lying sweet talking cluster B relationship, and decided Russian national interests would in all cases get higher priority than any corporate CEO’s interests — just the opposite of the USA, UK, EU, and special services.

    The intro creation story was to sketch out how Rus identity is an “Old Soul”, and how ever Europe lusted for her commodities, driving Rus to the bottle, really it was her own gullibility, her own damn fault. She has it straight now, the West is run by people who lie right to your face, and then blame you for attacking you, using trickery to avoid accountability, lie to their own people as they are are denounced for political disagreements. Promoting the venial, and punishing those who point out the “Emperor has no cloths”

    He seemed to imply the first step to get the USA house in order might just be, stop listening to the lies. Stop being the victims of our own sugardaddies, and start taking responsibility for our own thinking and surrendering our own power.

    For Ukraine, after the anti-Russian nazies and neo-uniparty nato arms and technologies have been defeated in violent war, healing of Ukrainian and Russian family would be “inevitable”. It will take a long time, he said, but it would happen.

    He has concluded that the CEO’s and bankers, MIC and MSM, who are in control of the West are harming their own interests due to their incompetent, short-sighted, conflicting cluster B propensity for violence, threats, lies, and propaganda such that everyone not on the gravytrain has or soon will tumble to reality just as Russia has.

    • Ron Anselmo February 9, 2024 at 11:36 pm #

      “He seemed to imply the first step to get the USA house in order might just be, stop listening to the lies. Stop being the victims of our own sugardaddies, and start taking responsibility for our own thinking and surrendering our own power.” ~ Yuri Sowryteski

      Any claim or embodiment of victimhood implies someone or something else is to blame. The root of blame is the denial of personal responsibility. Wherever we find ourselves, it’s our fault we are there, not anyone else’s.

      Yuri, your comment, in it’s entirety, is very well-said. Thanks. Comment more often.

      • Jarek February 10, 2024 at 12:50 am #

        There are no oppressed peoples. Hell, there are no peoples. Society doesn’t exist, as Maggie Thatcher happily exclaimed. It’s all just individuals screwing up. If they didn’t, they’d be rich too.

        The Gospel according to Ron

        • Ron Anselmo February 10, 2024 at 1:38 am #

          Janos – there are certainly oppressed peoples. Oppressed because they allow it. They are defeatists. Poor victims.

          Wealth? Rich? The measure of wealth will soon be how long a man can survive without money.

          • Jarek February 10, 2024 at 1:25 pm #

            Yes, the end result of Corporate Capitalism is a few people owning everything. All Capitalism moves towards this – unless acted upon by a stronger force (government). Thus, Fascism/National Socialism is the only way.

      • gustafson.robert.22 February 10, 2024 at 3:17 pm #

        My problems may be someone else’s fault, but they are still my business and no one else’s.

    • Paula D February 10, 2024 at 12:25 pm #

      Russia can now understand that the West lusts after her resources, but that won’t stop the West. They will never stop, they want those resources.

      In the last two years, they have dropped the pretense, at least among themselves, and they had a conference last year in which they discussed how to destroy Russia by using her nationalities, stirring up the kind of grievances they have done so well in other countries, including the Kurds in the Middle East, and the blacks here in the US.
      People seem to be suckers for being told how oppressed they are, and how much more they deserve than they are now getting.

      Anyway, the plan is to stir up the nationalities, overthrow Putin, and divide Russia into parts, in order to more easily steal and loot all those resources.

      Our ruling overlords don’t really think that Russia is just a gas station. They know there is far more to loot, they already did it with abandon in the 90s. They don’t care that millions of Russians died in the 90s. They are happy to kill off the rest.
      That is why they sit back and chortle at the sight of Russians killing Russians in Ukraine.

      Putin should stop selling resources to the West, if he has really learned his lesson.

      • JimInFlorida2.0 February 10, 2024 at 2:42 pm #

        Perhaps it’s time for Putin to stop calling us and the West as “partners” and dig up the old militant anti-capitalist running dog propaganda that gave the people a clear idea of who was their enemy.

        Except now it’s neither propaganda nor mere hot air any longer. The inflammatory rhetoric against ZOG-U.S.A is 100% provable now.

  47. sadlycdn February 9, 2024 at 7:16 pm #

    I’m sure the ice cream won’t go down smoothly this weekend and I can see Joe throwing the checker board … thinking its Peter Docey or even Corn Pop…..Joe is in a sour mood and I pity the person who has to change his diaper……Joe was loving playing pretend President…..so was Jill…..it was a great gig while it lasted …..he had just one job to do…..read the teleprompter and just find the right exit….in the end it was just to much to expect from a senile and useless soul….it was a mountain to high to climb..big mouth and no memory….Obama and the alphabet group decided he was on his own….No more Bewitched to twinkle the nose and and bail the simpleton out..Col Klink was finished…poor Joe sees nothing…basically his enablers quit..and rightly so…..

    • BackRowHeckler February 9, 2024 at 7:37 pm #

      But what’s next? The USA is rudderless, the Captain is out of his mind, the ship is crashing against the rocks.

      • Jarek February 10, 2024 at 12:51 am #

        Whites are the White whale that must be killed. Surely everything will become clear and calm once the monster is done in.

        • JimInFlorida2.0 February 10, 2024 at 11:07 am #

          Didn’t the Great White Whale destroy the ship of fools that attacked him?

          Deus Vult and Inshallah, Whites will finally arise and destroy that Kosher ship of death. I hate to think that we will require assistance from the Taliban and their kind to liberate ourselves but, so be it.

        • elysianfield February 10, 2024 at 11:43 am #

          Jerek/JIF,
          Melville was questioned once regarding the meaning of “Moby Dick”, and said that it was nothing more than a story about whale hunting.

          There WAS metaphor, however in the title, which was named after his friend from Rome.

          • JimInFlorida2.0 February 10, 2024 at 12:56 pm #

            Perhaps a new metaphor is needed to adapt Moby Dick to post-modern times.

            That is what I was alluding to.

          • elysianfield February 10, 2024 at 2:08 pm #

            Jim,
            And if you doubt my word, here is proof;

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx_G2a2hL6U

          • JimInFlorida2.0 February 10, 2024 at 2:43 pm #

            I don’t doubt you at all elysian

            The metaphor is in great need of updating now.

  48. OG February 9, 2024 at 8:24 pm #

    Everything was a lie.

    I knew that Yeltsin was a drunk. Newsweek told me. So did David Brinkley.

  49. BULLITT February 9, 2024 at 8:33 pm #

    At this point, I do not feel sorry for Joe Biden. Face it, he’s a crook. He has used his position to quietly milk the taxpayer for years. Lately, he and his family became “hogs”. They used an abused everyone to fill their bank accounts and at the same time laugh at us fools. The man isn’t very bright. with or without dementia. He knew that his service as President was a joke. He knew he was just a placeholder. He knew he could continue to fill his bank account while others ran the show. And now we, the American people are stuck with a terrible situation. We have an economy that is failing, there’s no respect for the law, there’s no respect for the military, and we are being overrun by the losers of many nations who expect us to keep them. Thanks Joe Biden!
    To those who cheated this man into office, well I hope you can live with the fact that you destroyed your own Country.
    Hang on folks, we are going to see a lot of misery in the next 6 or 9 months..
    What the hell were people thinking?

    • BackRowHeckler February 9, 2024 at 8:55 pm #

      Biden is in no worse shape than Woodrow Wilson was in his last two years in office. Democrats should have thought twice before they went after Trump with their baseless, stupid impeachments & lawfare tactics. They showed the public how its done; anything goes, and no mercy to your opponents. But they thought it would work only one way, against Trump. They’re finding out it works both ways, and payback is a bitch.

      • Ron Anselmo February 9, 2024 at 11:47 pm #

        “They’re finding out it works both ways, and payback is a bitch.” ~ BackRowHeckler

        Right BRH, and they ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Hell hath no fury…

        In regime change, the first thing that happens, is scores get settled. Lots of settling to get done.

    • sadlycdn February 9, 2024 at 11:09 pm #

      I feel the same way….he’s a pos by any definition……Joe has never been even decent at the best of times …..a bully and a bold face pony liar…..period

  50. Soul Forensics February 10, 2024 at 1:06 am #

    Nobody’s commented yet on Putin’s response to Carlson’s question on if the Russian leader’s worried that American provocation could result in nuclear conflict.

    Roughly paraphrasing, Putin, calm and offhanded: “We have developed the best cruise missile and military defense systems in the world, and are improving them every day.”

    You don’t fuck with Russian engineering.

    I wasn’t surprised when Putin referenced Russia’s cultural history as being more about the soul than the practical, the latter as exemplified by the current West (to mark it as different than the continental Euro West that Russia has often flirted with). He brought up “our greatest writer, Dostoyevsky” as support.

    But I found that to be curious and a little unsettling. It reminded me that Stalin also put sincere stock in the Russian literary masters, not just the obvious Marx and Lenin readerly genuflecting.

    But Putin, like Stalin, was (still is) at base a Chekist. He was a go-between for the higher-up Russian secret service and the Stasi. One might say he’s the consummate politician: outwardly diplomatic, but quietly brutal. No wonder he jabbed the CIA several times in the interview. He must think them incredibly inept and gauche.

    The next decade will be the rise of the political strong men vs the New World Order. Us proles can only contribute so much.

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    • TruthSeeker1986 February 10, 2024 at 6:37 am #

      @Soul Forensics

      What I don’t understand is why would war today be fought using nuclear weapons? Both sides would loose a tremendous amount of people and in the end the world won’t even be inhabitable anymore for millions upon millions of years depending on how many of these weapons get used. Fact is, the people who developed nuclear weapons are psychopathic assholes.

      • Paula D February 10, 2024 at 12:33 pm #

        The USSR lost 27,000,000 people in WW2, and were responsible for defeating Hitler.

        The US lost 286,959, but now claims that they were the ones who defeated Hitler. And since the US controls the Mighty Wurlitzer, there are even majorities in Europe who believe that nonsense.

        Why should Russia do that again? This time the war will be brought to US shores. At least that is what Putin said.

        So far it is totally confined to the Russian part of Ukraine. Doh!

    • stelmosfire February 10, 2024 at 9:03 am #

      “You don’t fuck with Russian engineering.”

      I don’t know about that. When Putin went into Ukraine all his trucks had flat tires and empty fuel tanks. I know it’s true . CNN told me all about it and showed me the pictures. Even worse he ran out of missiles and artillery shells about two years ago. What I wonder is,if what I was told by the MSM is true why am I sending the Z man another $60,000,000,000.00?

      • Paula D February 10, 2024 at 12:29 pm #

        The Russians are reduced to fighting with shovels and washing machine chips. It’s pathetic.
        No wonder they are losing so badly in Avdeevka.

        • JimInFlorida2.0 February 10, 2024 at 2:58 pm #

          O ye of little faith. Wait until the Russians move their Post hole Diggers (PhD) into battle!

          The Ukes and their Western backers will fall like flies before the mighty host. The terrifying clanking of steel PhD jaws shaking the Earth as they dig up and throw mountains of dirt upon the foe.

    • Paula D February 10, 2024 at 12:40 pm #

      What I have learned from this war is how strong Soviet defenses were.

      I was brought up the same as everyone else, believing that “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.”

      But now we watch as Russia struggles to evict Kiev regime forces from the Donbass. We are casually told that it is difficult because the Soviets built everything to survive nuclear bombs.

      Every frigging public structure has underground shelters, and the bridges, railroads and energy supplies are built to survive multiple attacks. Their air defenses are stellar, and it has taken 2 years for Russia to overcome the old Soviet defenses. Luckily for them, the Patriots suck.

      Meanwhile, in the US, we were told to get under our desks and cover our heads.

      It is clear who it was that both the US and the USSR thought would actually launch nuclear weapons.

      Remember when Hawaiians were told that missiles were on their way and to “Take cover”?
      Take cover? Where? The US remains unconcerned about the welfare of average citizens. The overlords have their bunkers, but we can just get under our desks when the phone tells us to.

      I think that the Russians are more prepared.

  51. Night Owl February 10, 2024 at 3:32 am #

    Guys, all of these “vapor trails” that hang in the air for days and disperse into cloud cover are actually a previously undiscovered cloud type!

    https://twitter.com/Dan__Stevens/status/1756071282955694295

    Amazing! 😀

    • stelmosfire February 10, 2024 at 9:05 am #

      Owl, now you did it. You’re gonna’ get all the chemtrail nuts going.

      • Night Owl February 10, 2024 at 1:53 pm #

        I fail to see why most of them would be considered nuts, TBH.

        John Brennan and others are on video talking about some of the programs. They do spray the skies.

        I find it far more amusing that we’ve just now discovered a new cloud. How long have humans and clouds co-existed again?

        The narratives are so stupid now that you couldn’t make some of them up.

  52. stelmosfire February 10, 2024 at 9:16 am #

    Idiot talking heads stick up for President Potatohead and say that pointing out his flaws is an example of ageism. I wouldn’t trust Joe to drive my dog to the vet. Age has nothing to do with it. Just ask this fella who is 22 years older than Joe. Still flying Spitfires at age 102

    apnews.com/article/jack-hemmings-raf-wwii-pilot-spitfire-14f1a50664e2cb4ef1269e1f05fb089c?utm_placement=newsletter

    • OG February 10, 2024 at 11:55 am #

      And Neil deGrasse Tyson is a world-famous astrophysicist who happens to be a black man from NYC. Therefore, all black men from NYC are extremely successful.

      Statistically speaking, outliers are noteworthy and interesting and valid discussion but they should never be used as attempted logic to deny the glut that is the bell curve.

      • JohnAZ February 10, 2024 at 12:13 pm #

        Compare the workplace compared to seventy years ago, it is much more integrated than then.

        • OG February 10, 2024 at 2:08 pm #

          True. Not relevant to my point but true.

  53. Beryl of Oyl February 10, 2024 at 10:02 am #

    Here’s my short rant of the day:

    This is what RFK Jr. had to say recently –

    “America is a nation of nature lovers. It’s true of liberals and conservatives, urban and rural folk, climate activists and climate skeptics. As president, I’ll tap into the American love for nature to protect our environment and to inspire the world with our example.”

    Sounds nice, doesn’t it? All kumbayah and everything. Even us “skeptics” (what the HELL is a “climate skeptic”) share a love of nature with climate activists.

    Au contraire, Mr. Kennedy. I share NOTHING with the people who glue themselves to art and stalk Taylor Swift.

    I share NOTHING with John Kerry, Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, or any of those filthy dirty megalomaniacal lying swine.

    But you do, Mr. Kennedy. You are in bed with them, even though you KNOW what they want to do to us.

    Mark Steyn, a good and decent man, has been fighting the FRAUD known as global warming, climate change, and now just “climate”, for TWELVE YEARS.

    A DC jury has just ordered him to pay Michael Mann, “climate scientist”, a million dollars, for “defamation”.

    Is that how we do science in this country? We sue anyone who questions how we came up with our iffy results?

    I understand not wanting to lose the votes of the climate nuts, but don’t pretend you can lump me in with them as one big happy family of nature lovers.

    Climate change is not man-made. Say it. Man up.

    • shoemaker February 10, 2024 at 11:05 am #

      I think capitalism is the supercar of greed and propaganda is the fuel. When Tucker asked Poutin why he didn’t try to score any propaganda points if he had intel on the popeline bombings he said control of the whole USA media including some of EU was in the us elites hands. Same when he said the two different presidents changed there minds on agreements discussed after going back to there respective countries. Like there controlled by some other entity. The germans leadership of WW2 would blush i think at the poetry in motion before us.I think our elite have proved that their form of propaganda has no equal as explained by Putin.

      • JimInFlorida2.0 February 10, 2024 at 2:52 pm #

        The germans leadership of WW2 would blush i think at the poetry in motion before us – shoemaker

        An eloquent way of admitting that Adolf Hitler was right after all.

        And let’s not forget Dr Goebbels who brought the inerrant and infallible Truth to the masses so they could understand what was done to them during the Weimar Republic and WHO did it.

        That last part is not subject to argument since the Jews BRAGGED about what they were doing back then. And continue to BOAST of their infamy in their own articles.

    • TruthSeeker1986 February 10, 2024 at 11:23 am #

      RFK Jr. is a stupid old democrat…. Why not just get Bernie Sanders up there again to talk, because that’s who he sounds like.

      • BackRowHeckler February 10, 2024 at 1:59 pm #

        Bernie Sandals, born in the 1930s, even even older than President Biden.

        Fun fact: Bernie Sanders, Janet Yellin, & Gambino Crime Family Made Man and serial killer Roy DeMaio all attended HS together in Brooklyn.

    • JohnAZ February 10, 2024 at 11:57 am #

      Climate change?

      It changes constantly, it is called weather.

      Look at the effect that the Pacific El Niño has on the world. It says that a warming of the ocean from unknown, NO HUMAN, causes at the equator can affect climate throughout the world.

      Phoenix’s weather is so totally different this winter, rain, rain. It is raining right now. The reservoirs are refilling, the water table is refilling, everything is verdant. Last year we were worried that Lake Mead and Powell were going to empty out. That is one year.

      The climate nuts have spent twenty five years measuring and measuring more to “prove” that man is warming us up. I do believe they have shown warming, Phoenix has been pretty hot the last five years, and ice is retreating, IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE. Instead of trying to figure out why that is happening, the PTB have used it as a hammer to stamp down global expansion. The Leftist nuts in DC are at the top of that conspiracy followed by Europe.

      So it is warming. Putin, in the Carlson interview said it well, Russia may get Siberia as a result of the natural warming cycle that is happening. Canada should be celebrating too as the shield warms up to be arable land. The big loser? The place that may see its SW deserts extend to much of the rest of the country, is the USA. IMHO, we will look like Mexico, wet zones near the coast, mountains in the middle and desert for much of the rest.

      Instead of measure, measure, measure we ought to be figuring out how to handle what is coming, as a planet. If America ends up being a desert, how to move agriculture to the coasts, or north to Canada. Is Russia going to be the new breadbasket, will Ukraine just become an extension of the Mideast deserts?

      The toughest part is that global leaders, in their fight for power, are using the minute changes for propaganda. Unless the peoples, like the farmers in Europe, take their power back, the government controlled decline will continue.

      EV’s are a joke, a bad dream, conservation never works in the long term, opening the border to a huge group of ignorant malcontents certainly does not work, and college degrees of sustainability have not provided one single usable alternative to offset the minute changes.

      Are we effed? We are if we continue down the current path. Resource wars have already started with no solution in sight. Wars are going to resort to obliteration of the opposition instead of political ceasefires. Diverse cultures, yes us, will subdivide as competition for resources intensifies. The USA as world leader is going to disappear in five years as everything the Deep State is doing is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. BRICS++ is the future as the competition between the USA and the WEF destroys both of them.

      Putin’s interview is a premonition of the future. He is correct on most of his prophesies, IMHO, so do not pay much attention to the addled brain reactions of the Deep State and its media.

      • JohnAZ February 10, 2024 at 12:07 pm #

        Think about history, every time humanity has been confronted with nature caused climate changes, think Ice Age, or overcrowding, like late Middle Ages, they move on, America is the result of the latter. Right now, we are running out of space to expand.

        We are supposed to be sentient beings, being able to reason through problems. Right now, the idiocy of Leftist politics is blocking any intelligent reaction to this century’s first crisis.

        • JohnAZ February 10, 2024 at 12:08 pm #

          And ultimately, the Market prevails, adjustments are forced as liberal deniers never react.

      • Beryl of Oyl February 10, 2024 at 12:09 pm #

        Wait until the virologists start suing those who question them.

    • OG February 10, 2024 at 12:15 pm #

      “climate skeptic”

      Their agenda is driven with simple schoolyard name-calling and, if you agree, then you are a conspiracy theorist.

      We, of course, are climate-change propaganda revolters.

      • elysianfield February 10, 2024 at 1:44 pm #

        “We, of course, are climate-change propaganda revolters.”

        OG,
        I have often been called “revolting”…and by better men than you I would suggest….

        • OG February 10, 2024 at 2:05 pm #

          Well played.

    • SoftStarLight February 10, 2024 at 3:24 pm #

      I think it’s actually a very nice sentiment and one that should be welcomed and not eschewed. Did he say that he agreed with the ruling against Mark Steyn? I think he would probably be against such a thing. And the narrative that they are putting out about climate change may not be real it is extraordinarily clear that human activity can modify weather and obviously ecosystems. And now they are also geogineering with chemtrails and spraying plastic and metal nano particles onto the Earth. So it’s not so simply black and white.

  54. benr February 10, 2024 at 12:15 pm #

    Has anyone seen or heard Hillary Clintons assessment of Tucker and putin talking to each other?

    Can there be no more classic example of projection on her part?

    Democrats constantly accuse others of what they themselves are actually doing.

    • Beryl of Oyl February 10, 2024 at 1:04 pm #

      There is no reason and no excuse for a government official to indulge in character assassination of a reporter doing his job.

      Evil old bitch from the pits of Hades.

    • SoftStarLight February 10, 2024 at 3:57 pm #

      Recently she was shouted down momentarily before giving a speech and the protesters called her a war criminal.

  55. JohnAZ February 10, 2024 at 2:19 pm #

    Here is an idea.

    The PTB, the “leaders” of the world should set a good example for the rest of us by being the first to volunteer for euthanasia. After all, they are the ones telling us that overpopulation is killing us.

    They can line up for their covid shots, every six months and then just die away.

    When enough of them die, things will run a lot better and the rest of us can get back to just living normal lives.

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    • SoftStarLight February 10, 2024 at 4:06 pm #

      Lol, well you see that was sort of the idea of the French Revolution. Or at least it’s a similar spirit. The removal of the established aristocracy and rulers. And that’s the reason it is considered taboo thought.

  56. Jarek February 10, 2024 at 3:09 pm #

    “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”

    George Orwell, 1984

    Who can doubt it? Women are great at demonstrations. They have no doubts. Doubt is a sign of intelligence.

    • OG February 10, 2024 at 5:52 pm #

      Doubleplusgood.

  57. SoftStarLight February 10, 2024 at 3:41 pm #

    If RFK Jr was going to carry out the agenda of the overlords I don’t think this would be happening

    msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dnc-accuses-rfk-jr-campaign-super-pac-of-colluding-on-ballot-access-effort/ar-BB1i3FTq

  58. Sadiethecat February 10, 2024 at 3:42 pm #

    JHK

    “Mr. Putin also confirmed my own conjecture: that, after the fall of the USSR, Russia had one overriding concern in foreign affairs: to be re-admitted to the European family of nations as a once-again “normal,” member, especially in trade relations, after seventy-five years of its peculiar communist experiment. He spoke of this quite ruefully as a lost opportunity to shore up Western Civilization”.

    That part got me, too. I recalled the big hue and cry about our finally getting a “peace dividend” because the Cold War was over. The (back-then) Blob came up w some lame excuses for maintaining and even increasing military spending. And here we are, dead broke and still in the war business.

    • TruthSeeker1986 February 10, 2024 at 4:21 pm #

      Well if we were really half as broke as everyone keeps saying we are, then we would be in the same situation Venezuela is in right now, but we aren’t at the level where people are digging in the trash, not to collect bottles and cans to sell for a few dollars, but they are digging because they are savaging around for food to eat. So far not even the homeless in California are eating out of the trash yet.

      • TruthSeeker1986 February 10, 2024 at 4:23 pm #

        So obviously we aren’t all that broke when we can afford to keep sending endless amounts of large sums of money to Israel and everywhere else the U.S is giving out money…Anywhere besides here to help it’s own damn citizens, and the illegal assholes flooding in don’t count.

        • SoftStarLight February 10, 2024 at 7:09 pm #

          Well when you print money you always have money. It would’ve been better luck to have an actual money tree and not a printer though from what I understand.

        • Mac February 11, 2024 at 11:01 pm #

          Truth- You don’t understand the definition of money. Fiat money always eventually becomes worthless.

      • Yirgach February 10, 2024 at 4:51 pm #

        You need to understand the reason why Venezuela citizens are eating their zoo animals as opposed to US citizens vacationing in Disneyworld.

        The reason is the US owns the printing press for US Dollars while Venezuela does not enjoy the privilege of owning the world’s reserve currency.

        That capability is changing and US citizens may soon be facing the same choice as those in Venezuela.

        The real nightmare is that this horrific outcome has been caused by that government “elected” by the US citizens themselves.

        • TruthSeeker1986 February 10, 2024 at 9:54 pm #

          @Yirgach

          I am completely aware of why Venezuela ended up the way it did. They were doing the same thing the U.S is currently doing to itself. I was just pointing out that the U.S. is not at that breaking point yet.

      • OG February 10, 2024 at 5:51 pm #

        So far not even the homeless in California are eating out of the trash yet.

        Doubts.

        • TruthSeeker1986 February 10, 2024 at 9:55 pm #

          @OG

          I see the same homeless people digging around outside in the dumpster in front of my apartment, and have never seen any of them looking for food. They are always collecting bottles and cans, not food diving.

          • OG February 11, 2024 at 12:21 am #

            That there is known as an anecdote.

  59. SoftStarLight February 10, 2024 at 3:53 pm #

    RFK Jr is hardly on board with stuff like the Green New Deal. You can just do a little research and see that he isn’t. It was actually a cinch and took a few seconds lol.

    washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2023/presidential-candidates-2024-policies-issues/robert-kennedy-jr-climate-change/

  60. tom clark February 10, 2024 at 8:14 pm #

    Junior has plenty of time to come out of the woodwork and make a run. Problem is, he’s too honest in today’s world…who’ll have him? Maybe Jimbo will weigh in on Monday…

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  61. BULLITT February 10, 2024 at 8:46 pm #

    Yes, “JR.” is too honest! The Democrat Party would eat him alive. He’s no President John F. Kennedy. He is still a Democrat. He leans towards his heritage. I’m sorry folks, he’s not a leader. He’s not the guy that will turn the Country around. He’s a liberal!
    Those of you who still live in the 60’s are in for a big surprise by supporting “JR.”.
    Don’t be suckered into voting for a guy you think will bring the people back together. I’ll bet you thought the BIG GUY Joe Biden would do this. Boy did he FOOL YOU!

    • TruthSeeker1986 February 11, 2024 at 12:32 am #

      @Bullitt

      Well John F. Kennedy was a democrat too… Maybe a different one I mean he did see some combat, was in the navy, etc. From what I read he even almost got torpedod. I guess that counts for something vs the assholes who warmonger at DC today and won’t set foot anywhere near a battlefield but will gladly have everyone else die while they collect the spoils.

      • Blackbird February 11, 2024 at 1:02 am #

        Almost got torpedoed? Hell, the PT-109 (Lt. [j.g.] JFK commanding) got rammed and cut in two by a Japanese destroyer. You don’t get much closer to the enemy than that. He even had to present falsified medical records to the Navy in order to have the opportunity to put himself in harm’s way.

        JFK had many weaknesses, but he also had strengths to offset them – a balance unachievable by most of the corrupt imbeciles in DC today.

        • TruthSeeker1986 February 11, 2024 at 1:48 am #

          I didn’t know that about the PT-109. I’m guessing he was probably the last President to ever be involved in the heat of battle like that because the rest so far would scoff at the very idea of putting themselves in that situation. It’s much easier to round up a bunch of other people and have them do it.

          • stelmosfire February 11, 2024 at 9:50 am #

            TS, Bush senior signed up on his 18th birthday.and became a a torpedo bomber pilot. Shot down by the Japanese in the Pacific. Pulled from the drink by a US Submarine. He was lucky. Many guys shot down that day were captured and later executed by the enemy.

        • Jarek February 11, 2024 at 3:34 am #

          Yes, he sustained a serious back injury that bothered him the rest of his life from that battle.

  62. envirofrigginmental February 10, 2024 at 8:53 pm #

    As a former reader of JHK’s blogs in the mid-2000’s, before he went down the rabbit hole of right wing hyperbole, hypotheses and dogma, there used to be intelligent discussions/comments here. Now, after a 15 year hiatus, all I see here is the same echo-chamber/dumpster fire of verbal diarrhea being spewed out from those on the “right” as I see from other sites from those on the “left”. Just switch the names and it could easily be script for the other side.

    After having only read the comments from the last two recent posts, it’s clear this has become a cesspool of self-referentialists, simply reinforcing the echo chamber. Cogent thought doesn’t seem so cogent here anymore.

    And when exactly did an (unholy) alliance between Putin, Trump, Jinping (and presumably Kim-Jong Un) become a desirable outcome? Sounds like a totally perfect plan for the remaining 8 billion underlings, i.e. you and me. Hey, if this servitude isn’t killing it for you already, you gotta try this! Here boy. Here boy.

    The boys are just going to go have drinks – or maybe go for a game of golf – and decide to be BFF’s… maybe do a little dick sucking or trading wives to “seal the deal”. Wars will be over. The Europeans will become irrelevant (fascist libtards that they are), and Iran will soon become the next club member. They’ll all hang out at Mar-a-Lardo making sure the rest of us have the very best of life possible – because we all know in the deepest of our souls that these people truly have our best interests at heart.

    What exactly is it that has infected your brains that you’re so unaware of? Oh, I know! COVID vaccinations. There we go… that’s always a perfect go-to answer in the conspiracy-rich ecology of the right, as has been demonstrated in several comments here: mom died of something because of COVID vaccines. Is buddy a doctor? Doubtful. But it sure makes great cow feed to spread around the stable. 🙂

    I must comment on this tho: “President Biden” in quotation marks.

    Total. Fucking. Eye. Roll.

    WTF is that supposed to mean? (As if I don’t already know.)

    There used to be a Canadian game show called the Front Page Challenge just like What’s My Line. Out of three hidden individuals, the 4 person panel had to guess who the the “real” person was based on their answers to questions. I guess the inference here is that the “real” president of the great and amazing US of A is Trump?

    Trump – best described as:

    Grand Poo-bah.

    Strong man! Whoop, whoop, whoop! (My testosterone levels are already rising as I write this!)

    Victimus Extremis Maximus.

    The poster-boy of being downtrodden and abused. (Maybe all that orange tan stuff and bleached hair is masking a black, disabled lesbian underneath. No wonder he feels so disenfranchised…. fucking disabled lesbians! They get all the attention now instead of me.)

    The penultimate innocent, selfless, law-abiding, man of stature and honor being persecuted by a pernicious deep state that only started AFTER JB got elected and the system is 100% in the hands of the despicable “left”.

    A Jesus incarnation.

    The ultimate – grab-them-by-the-pussy-and-rape-them-in-a-change room – role model for children – especially boys now that they have free reign over raping women without consequences. 🙂

    The laudations must be endless for y’all.

    Come back as you probably will with attacks that I am a Biden “blob” (isn’t that such a clever collective group-think euphemism) but I am Canadian and have little to no skin in the game, other than whatever consequences flow from your next election… which I fear could be highly problematic for Canada because there is no doubt Trump will go pedal-to-the-metal on protectionism and instead of “Blame Canada”, it will become “Fuck Canada”.

    “None are so blind as those who refuse to see.”

    • SoftStarLight February 10, 2024 at 9:22 pm #

      Is this a religious essay? You’re from Canada so saying y’all is cultural appropriation for you. I find it to be very offensive behavior and certainly not something I expect to see in a space of common courtesy and dignity. I’m also rolling my eyes at your smiley faces because they are invasive and rude as opposed to being personable and playful. fyi.

      • GreenAlba February 11, 2024 at 7:24 am #

        I was a bit put out by the two screen-filling emojis too, SSL. They are rather menacing, to my mind, and remind me of the giant balloon in The Prisoner, which is somewhat appropriate, given the content of our new poster’s diatribe. You do have to wonder why, if they are genuine (which many of them obviously are not) these scolds would bother, when they could be enjoying a pleasant conversation with a friendly, sane fellow-normie. I will refrain from the smiley, in case, at some point, the giant ones come to life and step off the screen to takes us over.

        • stelmosfire February 11, 2024 at 10:00 am #

          “The Prisoner”, now there’s a blast from the past. How prescient Ol’ No. 6 was as we approach the day when we’ll all be chipped and tracked as we go about the “Village”. “I am not a number!!”

          • GreenAlba February 11, 2024 at 4:24 pm #

            Portmeirion, where it was filmed, is definitely a 15-minute village!

            portmeirion.wales/

        • SoftStarLight February 11, 2024 at 2:30 pm #

          Yes exactly. They must get something out of it. Hopefully it is simply a feeling of moral superiority and not something more inappropriate lol.

      • RUfuckingkidding? February 11, 2024 at 5:51 pm #

        “You’re from Canada so saying y’all is cultural appropriation for you. I find it to be very offensive behavior and certainly not something I expect to see in a space of common courtesy and dignity.

        Ah…I trust this is tongue-in-cheek irony because you’re not generally a ‘snowflake’, are you.

    • Mike Sherman February 11, 2024 at 5:20 pm #

      “What exactly is it that has infected your brains that you’re so unaware of? Oh, I know! COVID vaccinations. There we go…

      Enviro – no…these mofo’s started losing their collective minds around 2016 when Drumpf made it widely acceptable to be openly racist, homophobic, misogynistic & science-deniers.

      COVID was a great boon for the CTNJs, like the Night Gnat who has massaged everyone’s generalized anxiety to a frenzy – which is what you are witnessing now.

      They’ll dump all over you, but if you have the stomach for it, come back from time to time and give them a dose of reality.

      • benr February 11, 2024 at 6:49 pm #

        Majella aka Mike Sherman the legion of dunce someone who has no grip on reality stumping for the worst of the worst.
        You’re really reaching with that one when your President Joe mashed potato brains Biden literally hung out with a former member of the KKK.

        Has uttered such notable lines as “You ain’t black if you don’t vote for me.

        Biden white-splained that Latinos in America resist vaccinations because “they’re worried that they’ll be vaccinated and deported.”

        “They are used to being experimented on—the Tuskegee Airmen and others,” Biden said.

        In this, he confused legendary World War II fighter pilots with a long, notorious governmental study of syphilis among black men—the Tuskegee Experiment.

        “unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.” -Joe Biden

        In the same interview, responding to a question on whether he had taken a cognitive test, Biden angrily fired back with the suggestion that the black reporter was a drug addict.

        “That’s like saying you . . . before you got in this program, you’re take [sic] a test whether you’re taking cocaine or not,” Biden said. “What do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?”

        In 2010, he warmly eulogized Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan, saying he was “one of my mentors” and that “the Senate is a lesser place for his going.”

        In 2007, he referred to Barack Obama as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean.”

  63. tom clark February 10, 2024 at 10:08 pm #

    The gargantuan smiley face was funny the first time, but it’s worn out its welcome, especially two in one post. Maybe Jimbo should start charging by the inch.

    • TruthSeeker1986 February 11, 2024 at 12:28 am #

      I don’t see what the deal is, it’s just a smiley face. I’m not bothered by it, I barely noticed it when reading through that post.

      • Blackbird February 11, 2024 at 12:47 am #

        The smiley faces were the most (only) worthwhile part of that post.

    • benr February 11, 2024 at 9:10 am #

      You should update your operating system and browser and if you can’t consider buying a platform manufactured in the last three or four years and not a decade old.

      Anyone with the giant smiley face is using antiquated equipment and software well past is safe use by date.
      Your practically bending over and asking to get raped by some script kiddy somewhere.

      • GreenAlba February 11, 2024 at 4:16 pm #

        My laptop is only a few years old. I have deliberately declined upgrading to Windows 11. Even with Windows 10, I used the old layout, because that’s what I like.

        • benr February 11, 2024 at 7:15 pm #

          Try chrome or firefox.

  64. Blackbird February 11, 2024 at 12:45 am #

    I just finished watching Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin on Carlson’s YouTube channel. It was titled, “Exclusive: Tucker Carlson Interviews Vladimir Putin”. A more accurate title would have been, “Vladimir Putin Educates Tucker Carlson”. Well, at least Putin tried to educate him.

    Carlson disappointed me with his seeming ignorance on the history of the current situation in the Ukraine, and how it developed out of the actions of the US toward Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. For example, he kept asking, basically, “Why did you wait until 2022 to invade?” Anyone following developments in that part of the world, even in such a casual and piecemeal fashion as I have, understands that Putin was trying to avoid the destructive confrontation that ultimately developed.

    Carlson, with his background in history, and career as a journalist covering political and international issues, should have been well aware of the development of the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine, but seemed almost as oblivious as any run-of-the mill US citizen. His questioning in regard to any potential Russian designs on the Baltics, Poland, or other European countries, may have been simply to set to rest this nonsensical belief widely held by the unthinking US masses, but if so, he probably should have addressed the issue from that perspective. The way he approached it made him look even more uninformed than I think he really is.

    I was also disappointed by Carlson’s frequent interruptions. Typical of the short attention span of the average US citizen.

    Putin’s tact – something unfashionable among western politicians these days – led him to being (in my opinion) somewhat less than honest in some of his answers, to questions such as, “Who is really in-charge in the US?” His seeming bewilderment over why the US, and our vassals, would make such self-destructive decisions, also appeared to be a smokescreen. (The decisions of the US are meant to destroy the economies of the US and western Europe in order to tenderize them for consumption by the New World Order. They are not reckless or incompetent mistakes.)

    I was disappointed by Putin’s omission, during his lesson in Russian history, of a discussion of the fact that while the Principality of Kiev resisted the Mongol invasion, and suffered horrendously as a result, the Principality of Novgorod acquiesced without a fight and survived relatively intact. This may be because Kiev would not turn the rebellious Cuman turks who sought their protection, over to the Mongols – the “noble” thing to do, while surrendering without a fight – as Novgorod did – was, and still is in many circles, considered “cowardly”. Well, one principality survived, forming the seed of what later would become Muscovy which eventually evolved into Russia, and the other was crushed with great loss of life as well as a long-term loss of sovereignty. Who made the best decision?

    The Mongol invasion also set the stage – in my opinion – for the separation of the Ukraine from Russia. Due to constant slave-raiding by the Tatars “Wild Fields” between Moscow and the Black Sea remained largely unpopulated for centuries, earning the label of “Ukraine” – the border lands. Meanwhile, the ethnic Russians in what had been the western part of the Principality of Kiev came under the rule of The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and eventually the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This is a history which festers to this day and – in my opinion – is very important to understanding the eventual separation of the Ukraine from Russia. For Putin to leave this out of the conversation was unfortunate. I suspect he did it because that era in history legitimizes, for some, the Ukraine’s separation from, and antagonism toward, Russia. Also, it would have added another 20 minutes to Putin’s history lesson. Carlson, and much of his audience, would probably have checked out and made a run to McDonalds.

    Damn, look at that wall of words. Fortunately you all have a scroll button. Unfortunately some things just can’t be adequately explained by emoji. Hard to believe, but true – in my opinion.

    • Ron Anselmo February 11, 2024 at 2:17 am #

      Bird – nice summary. Thanks for sharing and adding some additional history. Always appreciate the depth of your knowledge and content. 🙂

      • Ron Anselmo February 11, 2024 at 2:20 am #

        Sorry – it’s glitch in the program software. I was just trying to be a smartass. And you know what they say – “Everybody likes a little ass, but nobody likes a smartass”.

        • stelmosfire February 11, 2024 at 10:06 am #

          “Everybody likes a little ass”

          Ron, Kim Kardashian and Lizzo beg to differ.

          • Ron Anselmo February 11, 2024 at 1:39 pm #

            SEF – you took it out of context -“little” meaning, “a Little bit”, everyone like a little bit of ass – not little as in size.

    • Jarek February 11, 2024 at 2:46 am #

      Carlson was everyman trying to extract cash value from Putin’s learned but somewhat biased lecture.

      Putin also left out the vicious treatment of Ukrainian peasants by the Polish lords, who used the Jews as their bully boys. The Peasants couldn’t get at the Polish knights but they did extract revenge at night. Unfortunately for the Jews, the Orthodox peasants found powerful friends in the Cossacks who turned the tide in that conflict, with resulting great loss of life. But nobody forced the Jews to put themselves in the middle of a conflict between Civilizations. They chose and suffered the result of their choice.

      To be fair, he did mention the name of the great Cossack leader. But he gave no juicy details, content to be a pompous little professor, a Russian Glenn Beck. I’m being harsh. He was just playing a role. He’s very comfortable with the martial aspects of life. But he knows most people aren’t. How fucked up is that?

  65. tucsonspur February 11, 2024 at 2:43 am #

    ‘Mr. Putin also confirmed my own conjecture: that, after the fall of the USSR, Russia had one overriding concern in foreign affairs: to be re-admitted to the European family of nations as a once-again “normal,” member, especially in trade relations, after seventy-five years of its peculiar communist experiment. He spoke of this quite ruefully as a lost opportunity to shore up Western Civilization — now engaged in a mystifying act of mass suicide that Russia decidedly wishes to opt out of by strategically reorienting with the BRICs bloc.’ JHK

    Well, Ukraine wanted to be admitted to the European family of nations back in 2014, but Yanukovych reneged on his promise to side with the West and went with Russia. He was found guilty of treason by a Ukrainian court for trying to suppress pro-Western demonstrations and fled to Russia.

    Piss on Putin. I suppose he should again control the Baltic states, Poland, Hungary, etc. Putin’s claim to Ukraine is dubious at best. Putin is a dictator who stays in power through rigged elections and the murder of political opponents.

    The Russia, Russia, Russia, hoaxes here led by the Left don’t change the facts as to who Putin is and how he stays in power. If he really wanted to be part of the European family of nations, why didn’t he join Ukraine who wanted just that back in 2014?

    In a rather sick and naively warped way, the romance with the Prince of Pricks grows in direct proportion to our government’s attack on our own nation. It’s somewhat understandable but seems to ignore a huge moral issue, to wit: The Ukrainians want to be independent, they’ve had enough of Russian domination. Remember Stalin and the Holodomor, for example.

    Our involvement in Ukraine is another issue. Even if it were for truly noble purposes, sometimes being right on the moral issue can lead to dangerous tactical and strategic consequences, which may wind up being the case here.

    It’s true that our democracy has failed us. Maybe a ‘benevolent dictator’ is the answer. But Putin is a malevolent one, an anachronistic assassin, a titan of tergiversation and totalitarianism, or at least its hybrid. See the following:

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    • Jarek February 11, 2024 at 2:49 am #

      The following? I see nothing! It’s like demonstrating with a blank placard. Very effective. It insinuates that the whole demo is much ado about nothing. A tale told by idiot, full of sound and fury.

      • tucsonspur February 11, 2024 at 3:02 am #

        Chill out. Will you watch capitalism run obscenely wild, disguised as sport tomorrow? A tough wager.

        • Jarek February 11, 2024 at 3:31 am #

          Vegas, baby! Just kidding. Seriously, I thought you have forgotten to post something. But it seems you were just setting up an interlude before proceeding.

          I sometimes watch a bit of the Super Bowl for the commercials.

    • RUfuckingkidding? February 11, 2024 at 5:09 pm #

      “The Russia, Russia, Russia, hoaxes here led by the Left[…]”

      Are you sure it was all fabricated?

      “It’s true that our democracy has failed us. Maybe a ‘benevolent dictator’ is the answer. But Putin is a malevolent one, an anachronistic assassin, a titan of tergiversation and totalitarianism, or at least its hybrid.

      So, what sort of dictator do you think Trump would deliver to you?

  66. tucsonspur February 11, 2024 at 2:52 am #

    A significant number of those Russians who support Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine vehemently refuse to listen to any arguments that would challenge their blinkered vision of the world. This is a sign of a society that is no longer authoritarian, but partly totalitarian, and accepts the state position as its own.

    Once spoken about in terms of hybrid authoritarianism, Russia later turned out to be a fully mature authoritarian regime. Now, following the evisceration of civil society and civic life in general, including independent media, and following the “special operation”—unprecedented in its negative consequences—there are elements of totalitarianism in Putin’s authoritarian system that can no longer be ignored.

    Even before the “special operation,” the sociologist Lev Gudkov defined the system as “recurring totalitarianism,” meaning the regeneration of totalitarian elements that had been briefly paused under the Boris Yeltsin model of governance. What has happened to Russia as a result of Putin’s twenty-two-year rule could be termed “neo-totalitarianism.” However, given the preservation of a range of key elements of authoritarianism, I would propose the term “hybrid totalitarianism” to describe the regime.

    SILENCE IS NOT ENOUGH
    In their book, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century, Daniel Treisman and Sergei Guriev argued that modern dictators rely more on the manipulation of information than on more traditional methods such as repression, especially on a mass scale. This was also true of Putin up to a certain point, but it became clear back in 2020—the year that the Russian constitution was changed to allow him to remain in power beyond his present term, and also the year that the opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned—that his “spin dictatorship” was degenerating into something more uncompromising and repressive. Putin, who retreated to his bunker during the pandemic and has never really left it, has become increasingly embittered and ruthless, as has his system, based on the complete subjugation of the political and economic establishment and the silent assent of the masses.

    The silent assent of the majority, according to the sociologist and philosopher Ralf Dahrendorf, is one of the key signs of authoritarianism. Those who refuse to submit, he wrote, are persecuted, silenced, imprisoned, sometimes exiled, but the state, as a rule, no longer kills them.

    Those who stay silent together are acting according to a kind of unwritten social contract: the government provides people with a basic level of wellbeing or stability, and ordinary people refrain from interfering in state affairs, or even taking an interest in them.

    From 2014, wellbeing was replaced by something akin to “making Russia great again,” but the general public was still required to do one thing only: keep out of the affairs of the elites. Ultimately, however, wherever there is a central thesis about a state’s greatness, there will always be mobilization: in support of the government and the flag, and now, as it turns out, in support of military “feats.”

    This is the mobilized model that Dahrendorf called totalitarian: when regimes use complete mobilization of each and every person in the name of some kind of ideology, and in the interests of the leader, or a small ruling clique. War, the German-British political scientist observed, is invariably built into this kind of regime as the inevitable culmination of its development. Of course, mobilization requires artificially provoked crises, which are used to consolidate power.

    In the 1950s, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Carl Friedrich devised a theory about totalitarian dictatorship versus autocracy. In their interpretation, the main element of authoritarianism is prohibitions, and understandings of what people must not do, while totalitarianism encompasses both prohibitions and imperatives or prescribed behavior. In other words, subjects have to know not only what they should not do, but also what they should do, at the direct behest of the state. It’s not just repression and control that are important, but also the mobilization of the already submissive masses.

    Sure enough, elements of such interaction between the state and society appeared in full force following the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine. It’s no longer enough to keep a demobilized silence; people must trumpet their support for the regime, whether by arranging young children in kindergartens into the shape of the letter Z (the symbol of the “special operation”), holding lessons in schools on combating “fake news” about Russia’s actions, or encouraging students and teachers to denounce each other for any expression of opposition to the war.

    Putin’s public call for a “self-cleansing” of society is a totalitarian practice, rather than authoritarian. So is dividing the population into “patriots” versus “national traitors” or a “fifth column.” In other cases, it’s not enough simply to sit in silent assent; it must be spoken aloud. Loyalty must be demonstrated. This is a sign of a good citizen—or rather, a good subject.

    AN (ANTI-) CULTURE OF HATRED
    Hatred of the enemy is also required, without motivation and without thinking. This applies not just to the foreign foe, but also to the enemy within. A totalitarian system cultivates a love for violence against its enemies, and looks for justification in historical examples. This partly explains why in the modern Russian public consciousness, Stalin has in recent years been transformed into a positive figure.

    An (anti)culture of hatred toward everything declared alien justifies the comprehensive purging of civil society and the public sphere in general: from this stems the complete block on independent media, the destruction of reputable educational organizations, and the ban on work by any foreign research structures. All authoritarian legislation rests on this culture of hatred and intolerance, including the much-used law designating organizations and even individuals as “foreign agents.”

    This culture of hatred is expressed through the language of hatred. The problem is that in a society gripped by aggressive submission, the discussion gets broader and broader. You can call your compatriot—a fellow citizen, but one who happens to have a different opinion—a “traitor” and consider them an inferior kind of person. You can, like the most senior state officials, speculate freely and quite calmly on the prospects of nuclear war: something that was certainly never permitted in Soviet times during Pax Atomica, when the two sides understood that the ensuing damage was completely unthinkable. Now that understanding is waning, and that is yet another sign of the anthropological disaster Russia is facing.

    It was only through sheer good fortune that a nuclear crisis was avoided during the occupation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant by Russian troops. The people who contrived to dig trenches in a radioactive zone are being taught non-existent lessons from a non-existent history by Putin, but don’t know the real lessons of history, not even from Chernobyl.

    Totalitarian practices are self-destructive. They reduce the quality of human capital, because the best people are hunted down, while the worst are promoted, resulting in negative selection. They facilitate the deterioration of the economy. But imagined political expedience is put above socio-economic rationality.

    The presence of the state in Russia is enormous everywhere, not just in the economy. But economically, the dependence of millions of people on the state as their employer and, effectively, an ATM, is an additional factor in keeping workers subjugated. Economic dependence engenders political dependence.

    Meanwhile, the state—forced in turn to maintain high budget revenues in order to buy the political loyalty of the majority—is dependent on oil. Oil and gas have made their own invaluable contribution to the evolution of the political and ideological system of Putin’s Russia. Dutch disease is also, it turns out, a political disease. Back in the 1970s, the former Venezuelan oil minister and OPEC co-founder Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo warned: “Ten years from now, twenty years from now, you will see: oil will bring us ruin.” That is exactly what happened, only the economic collapse is also accompanied by political degradation.

    One final sign of totalitarianism is self-isolation and false beliefs about a country’s ability in the modern world to live solely by its own means, eschewing anything foreign. Russia is no stranger to such thinking: Stalinist ideology claimed Soviet/Russian superiority in everything, from the invention of the radio to cultural achievements.

    Russia has immersed itself in an anti-utopian delusion. This truly is “recurring totalitarianism,” but it has elements and properties that are difficult to explain, given that the country does, after all, now have some idea of what political democracy, a civic culture and market economy, and rights and freedoms look like.

    One important question is how long this aggressively conformist mood can be sustained—and indeed the hybrid regime itself, given that it relies on bayonets, police batons, and orders from the Justice Ministry and communications regulator. From the inside, the current situation seems not only hopeless, but irrevocable. History has shown, however, that totalitarian regimes are inefficient, and that their rulers are capable of hacking away at the very pillars supporting them. This won’t help the Russian people, but it’s a case, unfortunately, of us having proven the most banal and trite political truth: that every nation has the government it deserves.

    • Jarek February 11, 2024 at 12:57 pm #

      If one seeks to water a plant, one waters the roots not the leaves and branches. What is the root of Ukrainian nationalism? National Socialism. Will you affirm that?

      I admit that it has been poorly practiced so far. I don’t know if their theory is solid or not. In any case, they trusted the Global Slave masters to help them drive out the Russians, expect that they would then just leave and let them have an ethno-state. They were never going to do that. Zelensky had already begun creating a Globalist hell on Earth, complete with Blacks and trannyism taught in the schools.

    • RUfuckingkidding? February 11, 2024 at 5:06 pm #

      Thanks, TS, that’s a very insightful illumination of the subtleties between the two Cousins of Anti-democracy.

      Surely, understanding this, you must realize that voting for Trump in November is inviting a similar dystopia?

      • Mac February 11, 2024 at 11:14 pm #

        Oh the irony of your handle, RU!

  67. Jarek February 11, 2024 at 3:27 am #

    Posted on February 9, 2024Legitimate Preference: A Guide for Our People
    Jef Costello, American Renaissance, February 9, 2024

    This powerful little book, which boasts a foreword by Jared Taylor, advances a simple but revolutionary thesis: that we have a right to prefer — specifically, a right to prefer our own people. We owe life itself to our racial forebears, as well as the culture that makes our lives meaningful. “Legitimate preference,” writes Tim Vorgens, “could be defined as the disposition of mind which makes us systematically and exclusively favor [our own group], rather than . . . those groups to which we owe nothing.”

    The attachment we feel to our own is pre-rational and does not result from conscious choice. Imagine if Big Brother commanded us to love our own children and the children of strangers equally — to stop preferring our children. We would regard such a demand as perverse. And yet, it is this that is expected of us when it comes to our feelings about our extended family, our nation or race.

    The situation is actually worse. We are not told that we must love our own people and other peoples equally. We are told that we must prefer “the other” and repudiate our own kind, that we must perpetually wear sackcloth and ashes, in unceasing repentance for the supposed sins of our race. Guilt, we hear over and over, is the only legitimate feeling we can have about our history.

    Many whites have been thoroughly cowed by the taboo against preferring one’s own race. Indeed, we have been taught to “adore the other as an ideal,” Mr. Vorgens writes, though only the most doctrinaire leftists seem truly capable of this. They are the people who are willing to put their fellow whites in danger “for the sole pleasure of being elected the most moral community in the world.”

    Strikingly, Mr. Vorgens writes of liberals that “they are the flesh that wants to become a concept.” This is a memorable way of calling attention to the fact that leftists seem to live in denial of the body, denying the influence of genetics (on intelligence and other factors), the inherent differences between the sexes, and natural inequalities of all kinds. They are willing to risk their own bodies, and yours too, for the sake of signaling their commitment to the impossible ideal of multiculturalism.

    Leftists might deny biology, but their own bodies, like those of all living organisms, seek to survive and flourish — even if their bodies must do so by deceiving their conscious minds. Thus, liberals build what Mr. Vorgens calls “safe spaces” for themselves — for example, living in gated communities with other whites or moving to new locations in search of “good schools.” Mr. Vorgens refers to this as “hypocritical preference.”

    Through their actions, even leftists therefore concede that our great multiracial experiment has failed. “So why continue the experiment?” Mr. Vorgens asks. “Why not reclaim our right to Preference? . . . Preferring our fellow human beings and hiring, and renting a property, and accessing services . . . as we already do in the field of love, or in the field of daily relationships.” (Note: Mr. Vorgens often uses the expression “our fellow human beings” when what he actually means is “human beings like us.”)

    Mr. Vorgens writes that “In our situation of disenfranchisement, we cannot demand anything less than the right to Prefer.” This is at once an extremely simple idea and, in present circumstances, an extremely radical one. If a black man stated that he preferred to live and work around other blacks, liberals would hardly notice. But woe unto any white man who expresses the same preference for his own race.

    We have to state our preference frankly and forthrightly, Mr. Vorgens argues, as if it were the most simple, obvious, and natural thing in the world (which it is): “I prefer living and working with other white people.” And this must be said without the slightest hesitancy or apology. To use one of Mr. Vorgens’s examples, mothers should say, “My kids need doctors who look like them.”

    To express such preference, he says, is “just to let our nature speak.” Here, Mr. Vorgens refers obliquely to the power of genetic similarity. We are drawn to others who are genetically like ourselves, and we feel varying degrees of discomfort around those who are genetically dissimilar. F. Roger Devlin has summarized some of the scientific research in this area:

    When white and black people are shown pictures of strangers, the amygdala region in their brains displays heightened activity, indicating vigilance or wariness toward unfamiliar faces. But when the pictures are shown a second time only the other-race faces provoke high amygdala activity: the brain perceives the same-race faces as “familiar” after only one viewing.

    Incidentally, researchers have found that conservatives have bigger amygdalae than liberals. Reclaiming the right to prefer means giving your amygdala a “much-needed vacation.” It means being able to breathe and relax. It means being able to leave our houses or cars unlocked and possibly even to leave our babies out on the sidewalk while we have lunch in a café, as they do in Denmark.

    Though their amygdalae may object, white people do make a strong effort to direct good will toward “the other.” White benevolence is not entirely a matter of ideological indoctrination. It flows from the qualities of openness, generosity, and curiosity about difference that are Europeans hallmarks. Mr. Vorgens acknowledges this, writing that “white ‘kindness’ must not be eradicated, but contained, framed and re-educated. Legitimate Preference is the framework in which it can be exercised in a non-pathological way.”

    Mr. Vorgens does not, however, have much to say about how to accomplish this. Throughout the book, he insists that rational arguments alone are not enough to exhort whites to re-claim the right to prefer. He states that “Being right [i.e., being correct] often leads one to rely on the supposed power of truth, but truth has no power. Truth is not a power. The rationality of our cause is, most likely, not enough on its own.”

    I’m not sure I agree that “truth has no power.” I’ve personally witnessed many cases in which people of average intelligence, with little or no claim to being “intellectual,” changed their minds on major issues when presented with simple arguments founded on well-supported premises. Nevertheless, there is no denying the power of rhetoric, and it is really rhetoric that Mr. Vorgens has in mind (though he does not use the term), when he writes, “We must use tools that reach the emotions.”

    Surely this is the only path to achieve one of the major goals he sets for himself: to make white preference “trendy” within the next 10 years. And Mr. Vorgens’s own book is certainly charged with emotional power. “Legitimate Preference,” he writes, “makes you realize that you are more than an individual. You are a lineage that crosses time and conquers space.”

    This claim will stir something deep within many of Mr. Vorgens’s readers. Yet we all know that many whites would be entirely unmoved. What can we do with such people? Is it possible to teach love of one’s own, including a love of one’s history and lineage, to someone who doesn’t feel it? Maybe not. But if an atrophied remnant of that love slumbers within, surely it is possible to awaken it.

    One approach is to offer some version of “white eschatology” — the title of one of the later chapters in Legitimate Preference. Here Mr. Vorgens offers us a vision of the white race as “the promethean people.” By this, he means that whites possess a kind of “racial mission” that amounts to the mastery and control of nature.

    Prometheus Bound and the Oceanids by Eduard Müller (1879). Credit: Album / Tolo Balaguer

    No other race seems to possess the same infinite striving both to know nature and to transform it. To many, this is inspiring, but it could be our downfall. It may be that prometheanism is both our glory and our tragic flaw.

    As Mr. Vorgens notes, white prometheanism has given us “earthquake anticipation, storm forecasting, early detection of cancers, weather monitoring, anti-flood dams, artificial intelligence risk forecasting, pollutant management, concern for ecological changes, etc.” And yet it also proclaims that even though multiculturalism has always led to the downfall of civilizations, this time we will get it right. Prometheanism has such confidence in its powers that it wants to phase out fossil fuels before we find viable alternatives. It is prometheanism that brought us gain-of-function research and “sex change” operations. We hear its siren song when college professors declare that “real communism has never been tried.” All these follies have been brought to you by “the promethean people,” that is, white folks.

    Oswald Spengler was arguably closer to the mark when he called European man “Faustian.” Our tremendous strides in knowledge and mastery do indeed seem a bit like a deal with the Devil, since they have ushered in modern hubris that sees nature as infinitely malleable and man as its measure.

    It is modern prometheanism, in fact, that is at the root of the Left’s denial of all natural limits and its conviction that everything is open to subjective human choice. We need to have a more nuanced view of our promethean nature than Mr. Vorgens offers.

    Mr. Vorgens’s “white eschatology” also bears more than a passing resemblance to William Pierce’s “cosmotheism.” Pierce was prompted to develop cosmotheism when a high school student asked him, “Why do you think it’s so important for the white race to survive?” In response, he argued that the universe is evolving toward consciousness of itself and that the white race is the vehicle of that cosmic self-awareness, principally through science.

    In other words, science is nature knowing itself — and science was created by, and continues to be dominated by, white men. William Pierce’s theory is intellectually exciting (though it is essentially just a warmed-over version of Hegel’s philosophy). Cosmotheism presents a case for why the white race is worth saving. But is it successful as a way to exhort whites to save themselves?

    Mr. Vorgens is correct when he says we need to awaken “self-preference” in whites — or, better still, self-love, love of one’s own. But love is not based on reasons or justifications. Men don’t love their children because they’re rationally convinced that they are the best children in the neighborhood. They love their children simply because they are their own.

    We must, as Mr. Vorgens argues, reclaim the right to prefer our own, without apology, but also without justification. If I tell people I prefer to live and work around other whites, and they ask, “Why?” it is an entirely legitimate response simply to say I just do. Other races don’t need a “reason” for preferring their own. They just do.

    Nor do we need to spin grandiose myths about the white race to justify our love for it. A love that we feel the need to justify is a weak love. A religious man who feels the need to supplement his faith with rational arguments for God’s existence is, whatever he may tell you, suffering from a crisis of faith. True love, like true faith, requires no justification.

    Legitimate Preference concludes on a surer footing, with a chapter titled “The Fifteen Rules.” Here Mr. Vorgens sets forth a kind of ethics for white nationalism. He argues that we need to cultivate three qualities: intolerance, opportunism, and clannishness. These are all self-explanatory save, perhaps, “opportunism,” by which Mr. Vorgens means seizing “what offers an advantage to our compatriots.”

    These three are usually seen as vices. Yet, they are essential to the continuance and flourishing of an ethnic group — and only groups that cultivated these ethnic “virtues” have survived through centuries of change. Jews are undoubtedly the best illustration of this.

    Mr. Vorgens invokes the Greek concept of storg?, which means “familial love,” in contrast to eros (erotic love), philia (love of friends), and agap? (love for humanity as a whole). For the ancients, storg? commonly referred to the love between parents and children, but it can include an extended family or clan. Mr. Vorgens writes that “Storg? at its maximum size (that of the entire racial vessel) becomes the Legitimate Preference.” To safeguard our race and culture and promote its flourishing, storg? — the pursuit of our common good — must become our morality, he argues, and “we must abandon everything else.”

    I will not discuss in detail the 15 rules that follow, aside from mentioning a few examples. Readers will surely agree with the first rule: “Every individual in the Preferential family must favor the creation of harmonious white homes [i.e., homelands] for himself and then for his fellows, as soon as circumstances permit.”

    The second rule tells us that our preference for other whites must take precedence over all sympathies we might have for others. The third enjoins us to be honest and open with our fellow whites and to “save cunning for [those outside] the community, when necessary.”

    Mr. Vorgens is clearly speaking to the young men in our movement who seek in white nationalism a “way” — a discipline and a hard path — when he calls for “a cult of health, body, knowledge, heroics, and positive eugenics,” and tells us that “the link between Europeans of the past, present and future, is to be the object of regular meditation.”

    We are asked (rule ten) to become role models, especially for the young, by “confronting them with our unabashed Preference.” Other elements are less clear, as when Mr. Vorgens calls on us to “Reduce the gap between scientific discovery and understanding of the world,” and when he speaks of cultivating a “vitalist metaphysics,” though the idea is intriguing.

    There is a great deal of good advice here and much that can provide inspiration for those on our side. Legitimate Preference is brimming with ideas, and it is written with great passion. Tim Vorgens’s text is clearly a labor of love — born of “legitimate preference,” or love of one’s own.

    Some ideas are less clear and less persuasive than others. Also, Mr. Vorgens has translated the book into English himself, and there are a number of errors of usage. While the author’s meaning is usually clear, the reader scratches his head over some sentences.

    In this age of print on demand, it is not too late to correct that problem. I recommend that the publisher find a native English speaker to revise this translation.

    Setting aside these minor reservations, there is much in Legitimate Preference that anyone in our movement can profit from.

    Jarek: What a treasure in a few simple words. The golden thread to lead us back home through the matrix: To prefer one’s own people, to be natural, like everyone else.

    The diagnosis: The Prometheanism of Faustian Man. We think we can overcome all natural laws, even those within our own selves. That’s different than working with those laws, is it not? Our outer technology is not a denial of the laws of physics and chemistry. Why do we think we can deny the laws of our psyche? Hubris indeed, with nemesis already all around us, inflicting its penalty.

    I would add a bizarre Marxist Christianity as another ingredient in the toxic brew. We don’t need God or his Heaven. We’ll create it right here on Earth by OURSELVES. Sure we will…..

    Faustian Man – Whites – need to reconnect with humility. Only then can our promethean nature serve us instead of destroying us. As Mr Vorgens says, Storge or familial love in its broadest possible context, is the only way forward. And what is National Socialism but the application of exactly this?

    From a more typically American angle: The Bill of Rights is meaningless without the unwritten right of free association.

    • TruthSeeker1986 February 11, 2024 at 8:03 am #

      @Jarek

      I really hate to sound black pilled but it’s too late… I don’t see how whites are ever going to recover from self hatred. This was clearly done to them on purpose. Should I blame this on the Jews or someone else that taught self hatred to whites? Was it Obama or a combination of Obama and Jewish elites that felt that white people were a threat and hated them so much they decided to use blacks to eradicate their self esteem?

      Leftist women outright hook up with black men as a way to rebel against their own whiteness even going as far as to brand themselves like cows with these weird Queen of Spade tattoos to show how deep their hate is for who they are.

      It’s become even more mainstream in pornography after a Jewish Frenchmen realized that white people were at their lowest, to take advantage of the increased self hate and low self esteem epidemic among them. He decided to introduce a studio known as BLACKED and managed to use that to manipulate, brainwash, and cuck the world into believing that black men are some kind of “superior” race of man that every woman desires of every ethnicity. So they’ve even used black men in Japan to emasculate Japanese men the same way they are emasculating White men with the West. And I’m trying to figure out why are the Japanese doing this to themselves? Obviously whatever white women do in the States, the shit spreads like aids to other countries.

      And now you have Europeans who are on the brink of losing West Europe to Negros and Muslims because of all that mental abuse and white women advocating open borders. I’ve only seen a few women regrets this but only after they were a victim of sexual violence like that one German feminist that turned on feminism after she was victimized by Middle eastern men and admitted that she advocated open borders.

      You have interracial porn, television, movies, the education system in schools… All of these factors contribute to destroying white people on a psychological level. Not only did a Jewish Frenchmen use interracial porn to mind fuck whites and is doing it to Asians. You had that half Japanese clown promoting the Kalergi plan which is probably why they started pushing blackness on Japan hoping that blacks will do the same to them like they’ve done to White people. Destroy them mentally and psychologically.

      • TruthSeeker1986 February 11, 2024 at 8:12 am #

        @Jarek

        The fact is, blacks won’t feel guilty not even in a million years about colonize white people, taking their women or even successfully breeding them out of existence if they were to attempt to do so. And it would be impossible to make them feel guilty about any of it because one thing for certain. Blacks are less empathetic even toward other blacks. That’s why they have no problem killing their own. Tell them that blacks owned slaves and they scoff at this, their only concern is focusing on the whites who owned slaves because it’s easier for them to direct their hate and anger at white people than it is toward other blacks for this.

        Why? It gives them an excuse to be racist toward white people and they are allowed to do so. That’s why in America you have blacks who demand having their own colleges strictly for blacks and only blacks. Back in 2003 a black Muslim was going around Sniping people in Washington, mainly targeting white people because he wanted to build a nation for young black males. Although he was executed for the shootings. Had he done this today, he would have been pardon for it.

        • TruthSeeker1986 February 11, 2024 at 8:18 am #

          @Jarek

          But you are right, white people are forbidden from wanting their own of anything. All of this is done on purpose. It’s easier to bully them and take their nations from them…. Caucasian people today won’t fight to defend what belongs to them. The Farmers did it because their livelihoods were being threaten. But you don’t see the fighting spirit to push the invaders out, instead more of them just keep coming while white people stand there and take it because their own leaders have betrayed them.

        • Jarek February 11, 2024 at 12:53 pm #

          Yes, we can expect no mercy from the Tribe or their dark skinned servants, be they Black or Hispanic. Nor from the Chinese if it goes that way. Nor from the Muslims. I’d take the Chinese before the rest. They might at least let us live and remain White.

          One famed White Nationalist, Harold Covington, even mused that we might have to convert to Islam to save ourselves. If we did it voluntarily, the other Muslims wouldn’t be able to take our women and breed us out of existence. The Bosnians did so and remain White. The Albanians as well, if less so.

          Yes, it’s very late in the day. If we could begin again, perhaps we could remedy the errors that doomed us. But we’re not going to be just given that chance by anyone. Perhaps only God, after a cataclysm. Saved by the BELL.

    • BackRowHeckler February 11, 2024 at 8:22 am #

      “Our Constitution was made for a moral & religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the govt. of any other.”-John Adams.

      The media & cultural elite mock religion & morality here, and actively promote amorality & irreligious behavior amongst the citizenry. One wonders, everything else aside, how can the West survive when those on top have turned against it? In the past few days we’ve been witness to a sort of Grand Guignol in our State, with murders, shootouts and massive wrecks with stolen cars occurring all thru out the “Hoods” And the ‘Hood’ is spreading, with State govt housing project being built in small town & even in the remaining rural areas.

      One stands in awe at the disorder, squalor & violence of descendants of the former Spanish & Slave empires who have emigrated into our Yankee State due to generous welfare benefits.

      • TruthSeeker1986 February 11, 2024 at 10:00 am #

        @BackRowHeckler

        Its like I was trying to explain to Jarek about certain issues, all of it is intentional and on purpose. They are trying their hardest to cripple the West. To some extent they already have. But I think people in Red States are still safe because their gov allows them to fight back if the hoods come down there starting trouble. Which is probably why they haven’t tried moving into those areas yet. Otherwise we would be hearing stories about rural America shooting back.

        • Ron Anselmo February 11, 2024 at 2:51 pm #

          TS – in Florida, our laws are “Stand your Ground” – if threatened, personally or personal property threatened – both can be defended with deadly force.

          A small business owner? If there is a violent disturbance – a la BLM or Antifa – within 500 feet of your business, you can use deadly force to protect your business.

          They don’t start that shit here. Not up in here.

      • stelmosfire February 11, 2024 at 10:21 am #

        “One stands in awe at the disorder”

        Certainly a predictable outcome with assholes like Senator Murphy saying, “The people we care about most, are the undocumented ”

        He then admits that their strategy for over 30 years has been to make them citizens

        From a link posted upthread by Benr.

        • TruthSeeker1986 February 11, 2024 at 11:18 am #

          Yeah well fuck him…They don’t care about them, they just want easy targets to exploit.

    • JohnAZ February 11, 2024 at 10:41 am #

      Interesting!

      Is the behavior of ethnocentrism learned or innate?

      Love is built in relationships that grow in known steps. The first step is meeting someone, acquaintanceship. Step two is trust, which is developed by babies being taken cared for by their mothers, feed me, change me etc. When I cry, do something, when I know you are always there, I trust you.

      I feel that trust is given warily by everyone and does depend on how people have treated you, especially in youth. I believe this reluctance to trust people that are different is innate, as a guard against foreigners doing you badly. In a world of families and clans disseminating around the world because they are different, brother against brother, son against father, family against family, clan against clan, state against state, nation against nation, trust of one’s own type is important. We are pretty much typecast when we are adults, programmed by the environment we are raised in. That includes who we trust, who we prefer to have relationships with.

      If this is why people act the way they do, how come people cross ethnic lines? Religious teaching? Parents who raised them colorblind? School environments that were colorblind?

      How does a diverse society break down ethnic barriers? It is not by giving advantage to one group over the others. People will beg for advantage, fight for advantage, and use the advantage to the extreme. We are seeing that today around the world. The problem with using advantage is that the group using the advantage becomes dependent on the agency granting the advantage.

      When Trump was in power, all boats rose because he took away advantage and the water level rose for everyone. The gimme dependents hated him for it.

      Why do candyass “Whites” feel compelled to give advantage? IMHO, it is not out of the goodness of their hearts, it is to gain power for themselves, to advance their power goals. Power is contagious, power people can never get enough. Once their immediate power goals are fulfilled, they look for the next level to conquer. Sound familiar? Sounds like the Deep State. So about sixty years ago, the Dems looked around, LBJ in particular, and said that to get more power, the minorities were growing in percentage so phony kowtowing to the minorities started with the Civil Rights Acts and has continued to today with almost total dependence by Blacks.

      People on this blog seem to have two directions, either distrust the people who are gimmes and demand and get more and more. The other is distrust of people that are ethnocentric and successful because of it, Two that immediately come to mind are Jews and Mormons. No judgement here, just an observation.

      The Constitution is colorblind, genderblind, and religion blind. If it was followed as it is written, diversity might just work. Alas, human nature makes that impossible to do. Trust is meted out to very few by people, and again, human nature makes it do. Long term successful societies are homogeneous, people look and act alike. Diverse “empires” inevitably fail. So by the Leftists and their phony diverse reasoning pushing diversity, they are ensuring the demise of the country.

      • TruthSeeker1986 February 11, 2024 at 11:29 am #

        @JohnAZ

        That’s because they don’t care until it eventually affects their stupid ass. There was this one female that turned on leftism after she got her ass beat. I forget what her name was but she was bashing Democrats right after she spent most of her life voting for them. Then when she got her ass kicked by blacks, she changes her tone and slams democrat policies for failing to protect people.

      • TruthSeeker1986 February 11, 2024 at 11:30 am #

        There was a white BLM supporter that did the same thing. He was on twitter talking about how he no longer supports the group after he got beaten up and robbed. These people are idiots.

      • Jarek February 11, 2024 at 12:46 pm #

        The Constitution may be, but the Founders were not. I believe Adams said it was only meant for White Europeans of the Christian religion. Of course that’s not entirely true: Many of them were free thinkers, Deists, and/or Agnostics. But in the general sense, people of Western European heritage living up to the morality that had evolved via the Christian religion in its contact/conflict with the earlier pagan religions of Western Europe.

      • BULLITT February 11, 2024 at 1:38 pm #

        John AZ,
        I totally agree with you. DIVERSITY will ruin this nation. Even though we have a Constitution there are those who will ignore the rule of law to appease a minority. We see it every day!
        We need to establish a level playing field in this Country. We need to tell those whites, blacks, browns etc. if they are here for freebies, then get the hell out. If you can’t contribute to better the Country, get the hell out and go back to the shithole Country you destroyed.
        Honestly, I’m tired of babysitting the blacks who for years now haven’t learned how to act as civil contributing citizens. It’s time we make the black race responsible for their actions. We continue to look the other way and give them priority while they cause more havoc in our beautiful Country.
        The new Muslim population will be as bad or worse than the blacks. It’s in their genes.
        So, I’m sure there are people out there who say that they know many good blacks and Muslims, so do I. But that doesn’t fix the fact that we have a problem, and the good ones may be few and far between. We need more independent workers and thinkers in this Country, not more and more dependent trash wearing out those who work hard.
        We don’t have a race problem in this Country, face it, we have a problem with a couple of races in the hood!
        Take a look at Europe if you don’t believe me. Do you want to live in fear?
        Wake up folks!

        • TruthSeeker1986 February 11, 2024 at 1:56 pm #

          @Bullitt

          Who is living in fear in Europe?
          It’s not just the blacks anymore, you now have plenty of whites on the left imitating their behavior. Besides these issues don’t affect the Elites, they don’t have to live near any of this shit. So they get to pretend that none of the problems here exist.

    • Mac February 11, 2024 at 11:31 pm #

      Jarek- Being nice is a recessive trait, or at least diminishes fitness, and any peoples with recessive traits eventually disappear.

  68. benr February 11, 2024 at 10:07 am #

    Interesting perspective on Tucker and Putin interview.

    \\\https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-secret-teachings-with-ryan-gable–5328407

  69. JimInFlorida2.0 February 11, 2024 at 10:55 am #

    I think my reposting of a reply to Uncle Abraham didn’t stick. The reply stuck up top in the old comments though. Maybe the CFN algorithm is a bit stricter with new comments than replies.

    In any case, I answered your snarky reply with a comprehensive one that you weren’t expecting. I am not the average befuddled Goy who loves his blindfolds and never learned how to cultivate the art of fiery rhetoric to fight back with.

    As I’ve said before, I READ YOUR STUFF. I find the rhetorical weapons of the Tribe strewn about on the battlefields. I pick them up and learn how to use them.

  70. Jarek February 11, 2024 at 1:28 pm #

    “You have not begun to appreciate the real depth of our guilt. We are intruders. We are disturbers. We are subverters. We have taken your natural world, your ideals, your destiny, and played havoc with them.”- Marcus Eli Ravage, Jewish author, quote from January 1928 issue of Century Magazine

    Jarek: As Alinsky said, Always make your opponent live up to his ideals.

    Christianity is a universal religion? So make them prove it by taking in all the people of the world. Christ said, Go out to all nations. But they’re too dumb to remember that. Make all nations come to them. Drown them in the sludge of the 3rd World.

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  71. Jarek February 11, 2024 at 1:36 pm #

    We have put a clog upon your progress. We have imposed upon you an alien book and an alien faith which you cannot digest, which is at cross-purposes with your native spirit, which keeps you everlastingly ill-at-ease, and which you lack the spirit to either reject or accept in full.”

    Marcus Eli Ravage

    Jarek: I’m not sure you’re right about that, Marcus, not completely. No one ever spoke to the Jews like Christ did. And it did deal with the Jews far more strictly than the commercially focused Greeks and Romans did.

    But it is alien to some degree. An otherworldly religion that we had to make our own, for better or worse. One the Germanic warrior element waned, the original alien spirit came back – and then was perverted by both humanism/feminism and prometheanism.

    • SoftStarLight February 11, 2024 at 2:44 pm #

      Speaking of aliens, I am watching Earth: Final Conflict. For some reason I hadn’t realized it was a series. I don’t know what I was thinking lol. I guess I thought it was a movie. Well anyhow it is really good! I watched through episode 8 of Season 1 last night. Right now I’m not really sure about the Taelons. Like, would I really be against them. That was super neat how they have the technology to regenerate that girl’s hands. And they can obviously teleport and things like that.

      • Jarek February 11, 2024 at 4:22 pm #

        You are hardcore. Eight episodes in one night? You are a heroine. Soon you will be ahead of me in this purple knowledge.

        Purple has become a feminine color in our culture, perhaps. But unlike pink, it is not so intrinsically. It is traditionally associated with royalty and the higher levels of the Church. And of course from an occult pov, the higher chakras.

        I like the energy creature they keep on their arms as a weapon.

        A very beautiful episode coming up: Sandoval’s Run. It explores the tender part of his psyche that lies beneath the fanatical soldier of the Taelons.

        • SoftStarLight February 11, 2024 at 5:57 pm #

          Lol yeah I guess so. It is really interesting. I think purple is such a beautiful color. It also seems like there is a lot of mystery in that indigo to violet range. Its almost like there is power in mystery and the secrets and intrigue. So yeah I kinda got caught up in the show now.

          That is a strange weapon creature. It seems to create like a force field explosion. I know Boone shot one of those men who were stealing that plutonium when they were at the subway station and he exploded into a cloud of droplets. It was strange.

    • messianicdruid February 11, 2024 at 3:07 pm #

      “I pick them up and learn how to use them.”

      Do not meddle in the affairs of primates, for they are subtle and quick to anger. Galactic Guide to Primitive Planets

  72. Q. Shtik February 11, 2024 at 2:41 pm #

    Is the Swift – Kelce romance genuine?

    Here’s how to find out. Have Taylor demonstrate that she actually knows something about football. If she knows something it would demonstrate a genuine interest in what her man does for a living.

    Ask Taylor these questions:
    . When a team scores a touchdown how many points do they get?
    . What is the distance between goal lines stated in yards?
    . What is the width of the field stated in feet? This question introduces another element regarding Taylor’s smarts, namely how many feet in a yard?
    . How many points is a field goal worth?
    . What is a “touchback” and how many points is it worth?
    . What is a post-touchdown “conversion” worth in points? Note: there are two types of conversion. Describe them.
    . How deep are the end zones at either end of the field?
    . How do the dimensions of a high school football field differ from a pro football field?
    . When a receiver such as Kelce catches a pass near the field’s sideline how many of his feet must be “in bounds,” one or both? Is it the same or different in college football?
    . Define a football position known as “long snapper.”
    . Why are there so many Black athletes with the name Jalen?
    . Does an athlete get paid more if he has ridiculous hair, ugly tattoos, and an apostrophe in his name?

    If Taylor Swift does a good job in answering these questions it indicates her romantic interest in Travis Kelce is probably genuine.

    • Q. Shtik February 11, 2024 at 2:47 pm #

      Any interested commenter is invited to answer the above questions.

    • SoftStarLight February 11, 2024 at 2:50 pm #

      I think their romance is basically like a big pharma commercial or something. It’s some sort of marketing campaign and possibly an op tied directly to intel.

      Btw, what the heck is a long snapper lol? My answer would be that clearly it is something to avoid because it sounds like it could hurt ya.

      • Ron Anselmo February 11, 2024 at 2:57 pm #

        Taking bets on whether a “proposal” is part of the production tonight.

        • SoftStarLight February 11, 2024 at 3:02 pm #

          My intuition is no. It’s a bad bet.

          • Ron Anselmo February 11, 2024 at 3:31 pm #

            OK Dreamy, I sense your intuition is usually on the mark, so I won’t bet on it. Any idea on the Over/Under?

          • SoftStarLight February 11, 2024 at 3:46 pm #

            I don’t really understand how to do that honestly lol. And I don’t have a strong sense of it at all so you may not wish to go with it. But my immediate sense was go with the 49ers.

          • Ron Anselmo February 11, 2024 at 3:54 pm #

            Ok, I have faith in you Dreamy – more than you know.

    • elysianfield February 11, 2024 at 3:55 pm #

      ” her romantic interest in Travis Kelce is probably genuine.”

      Q,
      One final question for all the marbles…”What is the value of the QB’s signed contract?

      • Rooftop Observer February 11, 2024 at 4:49 pm #

        Hmm…I don’t Taylor gives a shit, elysianfield.

        She’s worth over $1.1 billion herself. The Eras tour alone has grossed $1 billion to date and climbing. I imagine she’d get a fair chunk of that pie.

        “The biggest windfall is headed straight to Swift, who stands to make as much as $4.1 billion from the Eras Tour, according to estimates from Peter Cohan, an associate professor of management at Babson College.

        So fuck Travis’s puny, chump-change $57 million for 4 years.

        • Ron Anselmo February 11, 2024 at 5:44 pm #

          That wasn’t his question dumbass – he asked about the quarterback. Do much critical reading?

          • SoftStarLight February 11, 2024 at 6:03 pm #

            lol the devil is in the details

          • RUfuckingkidding? February 11, 2024 at 6:17 pm #

            Haha! I have ZERO Clues (and even less fucks to give) about how that ultra-weird game is played.

        • TruthSeeker1986 February 11, 2024 at 6:19 pm #

          How the hell is one stupid bitch even worth all of that? Honestly…..What did she do, fuck 100 Rich Jews?

    • Mike Sherman February 11, 2024 at 4:53 pm #

      Geeez……………why are all you right-wing nut jobs so concerned about Taylor fucking Swift? You really all should get a life (though it would never be as fabulous as Taylor’s.

    • RUfuckingkidding? February 11, 2024 at 4:56 pm #

      “If Taylor Swift does a good job in answering these questions it indicates her romantic interest in Travis Kelce is probably genuine.

      Q, this is positive proof that you
      1) have too much time on your hands; and
      2) are a nosy bastard with some very weird opinions.

    • Jarek February 11, 2024 at 5:11 pm #

      Do you miss Peter yet? Does he feel betrayed by being put in a “home”?

    • Blackbird February 11, 2024 at 7:18 pm #

      Welcome back ‘Stick. Good questions. We should also pose some questions to Mr. Kelce to help us determine whether we should sanctify their relationship. Well, just one question really, asked many times:

      “So, Mr. Kelce, which of Miss Swift’s boyfriends is this song about?”

    • Anthea February 11, 2024 at 7:37 pm #

      @ Q. Shtik:

      “Have Taylor demonstrate that she actually knows something about football.”

      It would unnatural for a female to be interested in football–though she might make the effort to learn something about it for prudential reasons, if they were exceedingly weighty.

      But, generally speaking, if she were able to answer these questions, this would be an indication that she is a) not female, or b) unnatural.

      • benr February 12, 2024 at 9:08 am #

        or
        c) She grew up with four brothers and a father that watched football non-stop when it was on.

        I didn’t start watching football till I started dating my wife in fact I found it to be boring and a waste of time.

        We both quit watching when racism and politics entered the free with the bend the knee nonsense during the national anthem,

        The “black anthem” is horrible or at least what I saw yesterday sure was.
        In fact everything about the production of the sound in game was awful.
        The half time show was awful I was doing other things with the “game” on in the background and found the entire thing to be much like a WWE production you could see the flow of the game the entire time with the one team overpowering the other till it actually mattered then suddenly the other team moved the ball with no effort.
        I had no idea about the Las Vegas odds and numbers but that stinks even higher like this was choreographed.

        • benr February 12, 2024 at 9:12 am #

          It just seems like everything in ‘Murica is now fake and plastic.

          What a perfect feckless rudderless leader we have in Joe Biden.
          Fake teeth, fake hair, fake tan, fake brain, fake non-racism, fake uncle Joe, pervert, and rotted to the core.

  73. socialisthater February 11, 2024 at 3:05 pm #

    You know that the whole woke, now mostly Socialist-controlled “free world” is so far off the rails now that Vladimir Putin now appears to be the most sane, common-sense superpower leader.

    Meanwhile, in the U.S., the Democrat scum are lying like rugs trying to paint Biden as “just fine,” when even sane elementary schoolers can see that he’s a complete vegetable. Putin is correct about Bide not actually running the U.S. Worse yet, I suspect Putin knows exactly who IS running the U.S. now, while the Democrat scum voters of America are too dumb and brainwashed to figure it out.

    The whole Democrat mantra since before 2016 has been “Trump did it, “Republicans did it,” “MAGA did it” while it was the Democrat scum “doing it” and wrecking the U.S. The Democrat scum elite are pathological liars who will do or say anything to stay in power. Now that Biden is thoroughly outed as being an evil vegetable, the Democrat scum elite must get rid of him.

    The Democrats scum elite could get rid of Biden under the 25th, but that makes the Democrats look bad. They could “allow” Biden to be impeached and removed–even more embarrassing for the Democrats. They could force him to resign, but Biden might just refuse to resign–another bad look for the Democrats. Now the really scary option for the Democrat elite to do–that I no longer think is likely off the table: assassinate Biden and frame the “MAGA extremists” for it. Think of it–Biden would be gone; Harris would immediately declare Martial Law, suspend habeas corpus, “postpone” the 2024 election (forever) and begin rounding up conservatives to “send to the camps.” Even Tulsi Gabbard, former candidate for the Democrat Presidential nomination, now says that the Democrat elite are capable of doing anything, legal or not, to stay in power. Americans need to realize that the Democrat Party is now completely evil and anti-freedom.

    • SoftStarLight February 11, 2024 at 3:19 pm #

      And the Republican Party is also, for the most part. If not by direct action then certainly by collaboration. The agenda is way way bigger than the whole blue versus red Republican versus Democrat narratives imo. I do think it is a very alien agenda actually.

      • BULLITT February 11, 2024 at 3:56 pm #

        The bottom line is the fact that there’s a lot of money and power to win or lose in this next election. It won’t be as easy to alter the outcome as it was in 2020. There will be more drastic means taken to keep the status quo for both Republicans and Democrats. We, the people will suffer.

  74. BackRowHeckler February 11, 2024 at 3:54 pm #

    Meanwhile, on the West Coast, in the filthy, urine & feces stained streets of lefty utopian cities, underneath blue tarps of sidewalk encampments where hundreds of thousands of addicts & the mentally ill lead their truncated lives, cases of Bubonic Plague are emerging, spread by rats made fat as Easter hams by feeding on the bodies, dead and alive, of fentanyl & tranq Zombies. Medieval times have arrived in the USA, and with them, Medieval diseases. Bubonic Plague, like its 1348! In Portland, Seattle, SF & LA, Armies of the Living Dead haunt the streets, sidewalks, & alleys like specters from hell, carrying meningitis, polio, dysentery, AIDS & every other infectious disease known to man. More disease is arriving daily from the fetid jungles of Hondarus & the decaying cities of the Caribbean in the form of 10,000 border crossings! In Denver, NYC & Chicago ERs are swamped by ‘Migrants’ seeking (free) medical care. CFNers, have you been vaxxed … against Bubonic Plague?

  75. BULLITT February 11, 2024 at 4:21 pm #

    The Super Bowl will kick off with the playing of the Black National Anthem. When did 13% of the population deserve such an honor?
    Next year, the Muslim’s will be honored.
    I thought we were all equal in this USA,
    Does this bring people together?
    As a Veteran, they better not hold their finger in their ear waiting for me to watch this anti-American crap to include our sweetheart Taylor.

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    • Jarek February 11, 2024 at 4:24 pm #

      “Blacks are pretty patriotic” – Beryl

      • BULLITT February 11, 2024 at 5:06 pm #

        I will agree that SOME Blacks are patriotic. I served with Black soldiers that were very patriotic and trusted them with my life. If Blacks were that patriotic, there would be things like BLM and ANTIFA. They wouldn’t such a thing as flash mobs.
        BTW…for you people who believe in the 2nd Amendment, all of your major sports organizations to include NASCAR have written the U.S. Congress for more gun control!
        These are your true Americans???
        Maybe if they spent more time cleaning their own houses, we wouldn’t need gun control.

    • BackRowHeckler February 11, 2024 at 5:48 pm #

      “The most watched event in the history of the world” is what is being said about this Superbowl lol. KC in the middle of nowhere, and a decaying SF, two cities written off decades ago and which at this point nobody cares about. I think the hype around Taylor Swift was cooked up by the NFLs PR department to generate some interest in this event which otherwise would be in the tank.

      • BackRowHeckler February 11, 2024 at 5:50 pm #

        And look for the big High School football romance to be quickly forgotten and dropped by the media as soon as the Superbowl excitement is over.

      • RUfuckingkidding? February 11, 2024 at 6:14 pm #

        Quite possibly, but look at all the CTNJ media outlets sucking it up & regurgitating it for heir loyal minions.

    • BackRowHeckler February 11, 2024 at 5:55 pm #

      What if one of the few White players ‘takes a knee’ during the Black National Anthem? I say the sh#t would hit the fan, no?

      • RD3 February 11, 2024 at 11:03 pm #

        Why was the “Trans Community” so under represented in the Super Bowl? Seems like a hate crime to me.

        • RD3 February 11, 2024 at 11:05 pm #

          Shouldn’t each team have had at least four or five trannies? Where were the Asians? Why wasn’t there at least one female quarterback?

    • benr February 12, 2024 at 9:15 am #

      Honor?
      That was one of the worst sounding songs I have ever heard even worse than when tone deaf can’t sing at all Roseanne Barr defecated on the national anthem by screeching it out.

  76. Ron Anselmo February 11, 2024 at 11:50 pm #

    Over/Under was 47 – the final 47 (22+25)

    JFC do the Vegas Boyz know their business! The house took everything. Bet the Over, lose everything – bet the Under, lose everything.

    A lot of purple throughout the production. Just sayin’…

    • SoftStarLight February 12, 2024 at 12:19 am #

      Ok so that explains what that means. Good thing I told you not to listen to me lol. So what do you make of the purple?

      • SoftStarLight February 12, 2024 at 12:23 am #

        Apparently the proposal didn’t happen so I did get that one right. Where do I collect my winnings 🙂

        • Ron Anselmo February 12, 2024 at 12:34 am #

          You’ll have to:

          1) Meet me in the ether.
          2) Send an address.

          Ladie’s choice.

      • Ron Anselmo February 12, 2024 at 12:47 am #

        Dreamy, not sure what to make of the purple.

        Symbolism is always important and deliberate, but from whom, to whom and for what reason is hard to sort out. You need to look very, very closely to see the unseen. You already know that.

        Short answer? I’m not sure – purple is almost always royalty-related, but who are the royalty – the rulers? Not me. As Lorde says – I crave a different kind of buzz.

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