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If the first forty-eight hours are any measure of the alleged Trumptopia-to-come, the leading man in this national melodrama appears to be meshuga. A more charitable view might be that his behavior does not comport with the job description: president. If he keeps it up, I stick to my call that we will see him removed by extraordinary action within a few months. It might be a lawful continuity-of-government procedure according to the 25th Amendment — various high officials declaring him “incapacited” — or it might be a straight-up old school coup d’état (“You’re fired”).
I believe the trigger for that may be an overwhelming financial crisis in the early second quarter of the year. In, the first case, under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, it works like this:
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Or else, it will be an orchestrated cabal of military and intelligence officers — not necessarily evil men — who fear for the safety of the nation with the aforesaid meshuganer in the White House, who is summarily arrested, sequestered, and replaced by an “acting president,” pending a call for an extraordinary new election to replace him by democratic means. I’m not promoting this scenario as necessarily desirable, but that’s how I think it will go down. It will be a sad moment in this country’s history, worse than the shock of John Kennedy’s assassination, which happened against the background of an economically stable Republic. History is perverse and life is tragic. And shit happens.
Returning to the first forty-eight hours of the new regime, first the ceremony itself: there was, to my mind, the disturbing sight of Donald Trump, deep in the Capitol in the grim runway leading out onto the inaugural dais. He lumbered along, so conspicuously alone between the praetorian ranks front and back, overcoat open, that long red slash of necktie dangling ominously, with a mad gleam in his eyes like an old bull being led out to a sacrificial altar. His speech to the multitudes was not exactly what had once passed for presidential oratory. It was not an “address.” It was blunt, direct, unadorned, and simple, a warning to the assembled luminaries meant to prepare them for disempowerment. Surely it was received by many as a threat.
Indeed an awful lot of official behavior has to change if this country expects to carry on as a civilized polity, and Trump’s plain statement was at face value consistent with that idea. But the disassembly of such a vast matrix of rackets is unlikely to be managed without generating a lot of dangerous friction. Such a tall order would require, at least, some finesse. Virtually all the powers of the Deep State are arrayed against him, and he can’t resist taunting them, a dangerous game. Despite the show of an orderly transition, a state of war exists between them. Anyway, given Trump’s cabinet appointments, his “swamp draining” campaign looks like one set of rackets is due to be replaced by a new and perhaps worse set.
Trump was correct that the ruins of industry stand like tombstones on the landscape. The reality may be that an industrial economy is a one-shot deal. When it’s gone, it’s over. Even assuming the money exists to rebuild the factories of the 20th century, how would things be produced in them? By robotics or by brawny men paid $15-an-hour? If it’s robotics, who will the customers be? If it’s low-wage workers, how are they going to pay for the cars and washing machines? If the brawny men are paid $40 an hour, how would we sell our cars and washing machines in foreign markets that pay their workers the equivalent of $1.50 an hour. How can American industry stay afloat with no export market? If we don’t let foreign products into the US, how will Americans buy cars that are far more costly to make here than the products we’ve been getting? There’s no indication that Trump and his people have thought through any of this.
Trump can pull out the stops (literally, the regulations) to promote oil production, but he can’t alter the declining energy return on investment that is bringing down the curtain on industrial society. In fact, pumping more oil now at all costs will only hasten the decline of affordable oil. His oft-stated wish to simply “take” the oil from Middle Eastern countries would probably lead to sabotage of their oil infrastructure and the cruel death of millions. He would do better to prepare Americans for the project of de-suburbanizing the nation, but I doubt that the concept has ever entered his mind.
The problems with Obamacare, and so-called health care generally, are burdened with so many layers of arrant racketeering that the system may only be fixable if it is destroyed in its current form — the overgrown centralized hospitals, the overpaid insurance and hospital executives, the sore-beset physicians carrying six-figure college-and-med-school loans, the incomprehensible and extortionate pricing system for care, the cruel and insulting bureaucratic barriers to obtain care, the disgraceful behavior of the pharmaceutical companies, all add up to something no less than a colossal hostage racket, robbing and swindling people at their most vulnerable. So far, nobody has advanced a coherent plan for changing it. Loosing the Department of Justice to prosecute the medical racketeers directly would be a good start. Overcharging and defrauding sick people ought to be a criminal act. But don’t expect that to happen in a culture where anything goes and nothing matters. A financial crisis could be the trigger for ending the massive medical grift machine. Then what? Back to locally organized clinic-scale medicine… if we should be so lucky.
Saturday afternoon, Trump paid a call at CIA headquarters, ostensibly to begin mending fences with what may be his domestic arch-enemies. What did he do? He peeved and pouted about press reports of the lowish attendance at his swearing in. Maximum meshuga. I’m surprised that some veteran of The Company’s Suriname outpost didn’t take him out with a blowgun dart garnished with the toxic secretions of tree frogs.
Do you suppose Trump is going to improve? That was the hope after the election: that he’d take on some POTUS polish. No, what you see is what you get. I can only imagine that what’s going on behind the scenes in various halls of power would make a Matt Damon Bourne movie look like a sensitivity training session — grave professional men and women on all fours with their hair on fire howling into the acoustical ceiling tiles.
Don’t forget that it was the dismal failure of Democratic “progressive” politics that gave us Trump. His infantile lies and foolish tweets were made possible by a mendacious political culture that excuses illegal immigrants as “the undocumented,” refuses to identify radical Islamic terror by name, shuts down free speech on campus, made Michael Brown of Ferguson a secular saint, claims that there’s no biological basis for gender, and allowed Wall Street to pound the American middle class down a rat hole like so much sand.
You think this is the dark night of the national soul? The sun only went down a few minutes ago and it’s a long hard slog to daybreak.
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There was much predictable and idiotic warbling on CNN about the Peaceful Transition of Power. A sad testament to the age of diminished expectations that we should be grateful that the tanks didn’t roll.
A pathetic and empty spectacle void of anything even remotely joyous. Welcome to the new Normal.
Donald Trump is to the American Presidency what The Young Pope,
Lenny Belardo, is to the Catholic Church. It’s a transformative Shake
Up. I’m not saying the creators of The Young Pope HBO series
intended it to be instructive in this way, because I’m sure they didn’t. It doesn’t matter whether they intended it or not, it’s instructive
nonetheless, wittingly or unwittingly. One thing The Young Pope is
accomplishing in the first episode is revealing, and the creators of this series aren’t the first to do this, the malevolent political bureaucracy that runs the Vatican and the Catholic Church. It’s the REAl POWER behind the Papal Throne, and this The Young Pope is already exposing it for what it is. Don’t get me wrong, The Young Pope appears to be a psychopath, but the message is, it takes a psychopath to turn the collective psychopathy of the Catholic Church‘s administrative bureaucracy on its head.
The Enemy Within
Hi Cold! Great point! By the way, I’ve been checking into your blog with interest. I learn a great deal from you, and from Janet and from barbisbest–and from James, of course.
If a Catholic doesn’t like a Pope, that person can quit being Catholic and go Episcopalian or something.
It’s a lot harder to quit being American, and super-extra-double hard to quit being Black or Jewish or non-cisgendered or non-heterosexual. Or to quit being a woman.
Well Mr Kunstler that was indeed rambling and incoherent.
“Trump is a Meshuga”…(crazy) for doing the right thing. For not being corrupt. For calling out the clowns on the podium behind him????
WTF???
But then you imply he’s on the right track with the title of the piece??? ( Vast array of rackets implies a negative connotation of the status quo )
Somebody went off their meds and it was not me. While I don’t have to agree with all the articles I do ask they they show some semblence of coherence.
I’m saying your prediction is WRONG here and now: 1/23/2017. I say the people will rise up and cause holy hell if any sort of attempt as you describe is made. Is it perhaps your cognitive dissonance bubbling up because you secretly admire what he is doing but have to keep tell yourself “I hate Trump….I hate Trump” ???? Whitey please!
Ok to summarize we have:
Pepe: Trump is a puppet
Kuntslur: Trump is crazy
Brandon? Trump is the fall guy
Any others?
Let’s play clueless pundit roulette:
Round and round the marble goes. Where it stops nobody knows! Come on! Momma need a new pair a shooooes!
Originally written for ZH. Thus title was different there.
Agree. Again trying to play both sides. Little coherence in this weeks diatribe… except oil, impending crash, deep state, CIA assasins repeated ad infinitum.
He wants his cake and to eat it too. Wants a peaceful upturning of the apple cart… as do all pensioners and loose talkers
You should be banned for insulting our host with your idiotic name-calling.
“Non-cisgendered”? Were such creatures roaming the Earth at the same time as dinosaurs – and was Big Pharma selling child-castration products way back then?
If so, Evolution deniers will have to update their theme parks to keep up with biological science-deniers to explain: “How we managed to survive as a species, after the Deity made M’Adam and St/Eve from mud”.
BTW, one may renounce one’s U.S. citizenship at any time. FBI agents won’t come to your door anymore, but you’ll pay a pretty penny for it.
But well worth it to be free to move to another country – if you can find one where the term ‘non-cisgendered’ is in currency (they’re very rare in the world).
People who use such terms are sure to go the way of dinosaurs within a generation – after thousands of them commit parricide, and then suicide, when they realize how much they miss that thing that was between their legs when they were born).
Survival of the fittest, and all that.
T
Timo: “Child castration products.” How apt. Why are so many young males, who have been medicated since childhood, committing suicide or, worse, murder? Maybe it’s because, due to sexual drive killing psych meds, they cannot get the normal erections, and orgasms, that other teenage boys get? If that had happened to me when I was a kid, I’d be plenty pissed off too. Those drugs are just as bad as circumcision, another affront to the manly spirit of males in the hopelessly backward USA.
“Non-cisgendered”? Were such creatures roaming the Earth at the same time as dinosaurs – and was Big Pharma selling child-castration products way back then?
If so, Evolution deniers will have to update their theme parks to keep up with biological science-deniers to explain: “How we managed to survive as a species, after the Deity made M’Adam and St/Eve from mud”.
BTW, one may renounce one’s U.S. citizenship at any time. FBI agents won’t come to your door anymore, but you’ll pay a pretty penny for it.
But well worth it to be free to move to another country – if you can find one where the term ‘non-cisgendered’ is in currency (they’re very rare in the world).
People who use such terms are sure to go the way of dinosaurs within a generation – after thousands of them commit parricide, and then suicide, when they realize how much they miss that thing that was between their legs when they were born).
It will just be another example of the survival of the sanest.
T
I wonder if this monstrous Catholic church will be featured in the show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzurtPFe9jE
I would be VERY interested to hear Mr. Kunstler’s comments on this architectural clusterfuck.
Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule, which was first put in place by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. It prohibits giving U.S. funding to international nongovernmental organizations that offer or advise on a wide range of family planning and reproductive health options if they include abortion ? even if U.S. dollars are not specifically used for abortion-related services.
Trump requested tanks and missile launchers as part of his inaugural parade–a la North Korea–but his request was nixed by the MIC. Given Trump’s propensity for tweeting insults, it won’t be long before the real tanks start to roll.
Please state evidence of Trump requesting tanks and missile launchers at his inaugural parade.
From http://www.snopes.com:
The military “may come marching down Pennsylvania Avenue,” Trump told the Washington Post in an interview . “That military may be flying over New York City and Washington, D.C., for parades. I mean, we’re going to be showing our military.”
During the preparation for Friday’s transfer-of-power, a member of Trump’s transition team floated the idea of including tanks and missile launchers in the inaugural parade, a source involved in inaugural planning told The Huffington Post. “They were legit thinking Red Square/North Korea-style parade,” the source said, referring to massive military parades in Moscow and Pyongyang, typically seen as an aggressive display of muscle-flexing.
The military, which traditionally works closely with the presidential inaugural committee, shot down the request, the source said. Their reason was twofold. Some were concerned about the optics of having tanks and missile launchers rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue. But they also worried that the tanks, which often weigh over 100,000 pounds, would destroy the roads.
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Trump’s got guts, you’ve got to give him that. Maybe more guts than brains or good sense, but maybe that’s what it’s going to take to get things back on track for the long haul. Perhaps we should view his election as a form of catharsis. Sometimes catharsis requires actions that are not very fashionable or nuanced. Such as, when you’ve drunk too much and your stomach is churning, you stick your finger down your throat to vomit it up. Not pretty. But is sure works.
Or, better yet, cutting off your nose to spite your face. I hear that works just as well.
Trump, above all else, is a free man – perhaps the only free man left in America. This, I believe, is what attracted me from the beginning. I am, after all, a life-long Democrat, tied to it’s various myths and dogmas. But Donald Trump introduced to something long forgotten but very American – freedom!
I’m curious in what way you consider him free. How is it “free” to be so attached to externalities: crowd size, gilded furniture, younger women, the “biggest and bestest” of everything? Isn’t he the woolly mammoth of the tar pits of consumerism, in which most of the “little people” will sink without a trace?
Some continue to claim he “tells it like it is” and isn’t bound by the usual conventions of political discourse. That would be great if he were talking about the reality of restricted resources, etc. But his freedom of expression is so markedly used to prop up his ego.
Really–I’d like to know where you see the freedom in him.
The assumption is that he does not owe any favors but the fact is he does. He has to advance a highly conservative platform to appease his base and satisfy the conservative deep pockets who contributed to his campaign. Sheldon Adelson is Trump’s biggest contributor and on Sheldon’s behalf Trump will be looking the other way next time Israel goes into the West Bank to murder men women and children. I’m not happy about that but the Clinton Foundation would have made equally unsavory demands on had she prevailed.
There is also a collective sigh of relief south of the border in Mexico where members of the marijuana distribution industry are now assured they will continue to be able to practice their trade no longer being threatened by a looming specter of legalization. Sheldon hates the evil weed and is convinced it speaks Spanish; end of story.
On a positive note the world and the country is overpopulated and America will soon be discovering the resources needed to feed the current population are strained to the limit. I am happy to see that identity politics are under attack. I watched Elizabeth Warren rant yesterday about immigration being wonderful and it is good that mindless agenda is not walking the halls of the White House in Clinton’s blue pantsuit. I am tired of pro-immigration people wanting to give citizenship to strangers in as large a number as possible as if resources came from the bottom of a horn of plenty. Identity politics is a way of not taking care of our own and driving wedges between people who actually already get along. Making differences where they do not exist. If Trump’s ideas have little basis in reality the Democratic agenda was no different in that regard.
There is no reason to panic,. The country was already in deep shit before Trump was elected and I am not worried about getting my pussy grabbed. I don’t have one.
The power of ‘Make America Great Again’ wanes as action must now replace words lest the natives become restless. I’m having the decency to let Trump fuck up before I criticize him.
I know I won’t have to wait long and while the Cheeto’s acceptance speech has been criticized for being overly depressing his mention of the country having a failed infrastructure and other problems was not something that modern Democrats really care to acknowledge in their distracted and feckless pursuit of imaginary discriminations.
I could never vote for Trump because he seems brain dead in so many ways but I’m not saddened to see the Democratic circle jerk come to an end at least for now. It may be necessary for the Democratic party to grow some actual real vales instead of their empty and amorphous equal exploitation and degradation for all mantra if they want to return to power.
In the last days of Obama, watching him give away medals to rich people who don’t need them (including the Vice President) I was reminded that I had read in the last days of the French monarchy prior to the French revolution the monarchy had been paralyzed by ritual. Obama also made himself paralyzed by ritual, perhaps he did it on purpose since no change was his agenda and in that regard Trump is indeed free. If Trump has two brain cells he can rub together some progress is possible.
Does he have two brain cells he can rub together. That is the question. His media attention center is fully intact and above average in ability. That is clear. The question is what else is up there besides hair for as we know Cheetos are mostly air.
K-Dog,
While Jim is probably the one writer I would want on the deserted island, a surprising second choice–he making many of the same arguments, using fiction, as you and Jim–would have to be: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-ship-of-fools
And I appreciate your willingness to allow to Trump to fail before crucifying him, as you just don’t “hear” that anywhere on the net–at least not the places I’ve been.
P.S. Give the Cabin Boy a chance…
K-Dog: “Identity politics is a way of not taking care of our own and driving wedges between people who actually already get along. … I am not worried about getting my pussy grabbed. I don’t have one.”
It sounds to me like you give Trump a pass on out-of-control behaviour, as long as the people he’s harming aren’t ones you consider “your own”. Regarding Bill Clinton’s shenanigans, all we ever had were rumours and accusations. In Trump’s case we have his bragging declaration on videotape.
Personally I would hold those in power to a higher standard: Be a man, whether the women you want to finger are ones I consider “my own” or not.
The cost of ‘waiting till he fucks up” could well be enormous. He’s already in violation of the Constitution – which he has just sworn to uphold – in many respects.
The fact is, that whatever he says NOW will be in opposite land 10 minutes later. How can anyone or any external state believe a single thing he says? On what basis can any sort of treaty or ‘deal’ be made and relied upon?
@Howard I appreciated ‘ship of fools‘ thank you. We are indeed in that situation. How many of our fools on our ship don’t even know that rubber bullets were fired at Sanding Rock last week. How many of our fools even know about Standing Rock. Of those who do how many understand the issues? We are a nation with misplaced priorities and our ship too heads north and everywhere our people are distracted by trivia.
@Elrond Trump has not had time enough for out of control behavior since he took office and if you are referring to his comments about grabbing pussy, that was talk years ago and not actual behaviour. It is called talking shit. I have done it and I bet you have too. As far as I know no woman has ever stepped forward complaining about Trump grabbing their pussy. As to holding leaders to a higher standard I don’t agree. Generally a politician’s sex life should be kept private and out of the news. Worrying about a politicians sex life detracts from genuine political issues and is ‘ship of fools‘ behaviour. If nobody is getting hurt by a politicians sexual proclivities their sex life is none of our business. What is our business is how well they govern. The people I consider my own is everybody so your assumption about me is wrong.
@Majella Not waiting for him to fuck up sanctions chaos and disrespects rules of common decency and law. If people are going to be held accountable for anything it has to be done fairly or it means nothing. Not waiting for him to fuck up sanctions the law of the jungle.
He is the eternal Wild Man: Enkidu, Samson, the Pied Piper of Hamlin, Davy Crockett, Shane – like these archetypes he’s come to lay waste to all that encumbers the animal spirit within. Bill Maher (Mar sp?) calls Trump, “all id”. …Perhaps, but so what!
Self-control is the foundation of civil order. How can the chief executive govern 330 million people when he can’t govern himself?
@K-Dog (just above)
I get your point, but who’s to say what constitutes ‘fucked up’? In my view, he has already fucked up by contravening the Constitution when he swore to uphold it last Friday…that, and since then a constant barrage of small-minded, petty, pathetic whinging about ‘everyone in the dishonest press’ being against him…his complete cognitive dissonance regarding his previous whining about Nazis in the face of the CIA at his meeting there…what’s next? How BAD does it have to get for you to call me on having FUBAR’d it?
“…called HIM on having FUBAR’d it?”
Money, Power, Fame – these are what women find attractive before all else. Trump has them all – He is the Alpha Male of this planet. All those women marching want to be Melania Trump.
Oh, please! You’re projecting – YOU want to be Donald Trump.
From what I’ve read, evolutionary psychology backs up Janos. Women are constantly in search of resources due to eons of taking care of children while the man goes into the woods in search of meat for dinner. So, they look for the Alpha Male to mate with. How about present day Europe? Feminist women there have rejected the Beta Males they are responsible for creating in favor of the Middle Eastern invaders who will put them back in the kitchen, clothed from head to toe, with a half dozen children to care for,
In a way he acts like a guy who doesn’t have any money? (f*ck yo feelins neeyuggah)
God bless the child who got his own
Free to be a total asshole – degrading women, accused of multiple rapes, – free to not give a fuck about the employees in his many failed businesses. Free to shoot his mouth of about things that have actual consequences for those without that “freedom.” Wakey, wakey. To anyone with half a brain cell it’s as clear as day that he is unfit for anything other than a cell. James is right, his presidency is already past its sell-by-date.
All those women backed off. Women often do this kind of thing, for example before divorce. Typically they back off to avoid perjuring themselves.
You’re really talking about Bill Clinton – but of course you’re fine with what he actually did.
As someone who’s unburdened by empathy, erudition and self-reflection, he is very free indeed.
The concept of “things back on track” may be where the disconnect lies for Trump, inc. and his followers. As our host JHK has noted through several books and weekly posts here for years, including this one, there is no going back to this ambiguous America Made Great Again. Thus far Trump and crew seems to want to be the 2nd coming of Reagan with a little Alex Jones on the side. No science, no economic thought beyond Austrian School austerity, no well rounded thinking from a wide array of disciplines. No consideratipn whatsoever that the endless growth paradigm might be a flawed theory. Nope. Just pure ideology from a conservative, entertainment business mindset.
Personally, I expect incompetence of epic proportions as antiquated, obsolete ideas are thrown again and again at multiple predicaments to no avail. Then the scapegoating will begin in true ernest. It’s the liberal medias fault. Those immigrants are the problem, etc… Never once will the concepts of our living arrangement or the EROEI on the drill, baby drill foolishness come under consideration.
Prepare the best you can, then kick back and watch the show. That’s about all you can do. Plus, many of Trump, inc.’s actions should prove breathtaking in their foolishness and/or incompetence. So the entertainment level could get quite high for those who enjoy gallows humor. After all, that’s where we are as a society: entertainment first and foremost.
Sit back and watch the show on our Chinese plasma screens – until a spook dressed as a general comes on air to tell us that broadcasts have been suspended due to a national emergency. Or the screen just goes blank.
The revolution will not be televised . . . Oh wait, maybe the coup d’etat will be. SCNR
Our host, Mr K, has long written about our crumbling infrastructure. At least Trump is addressing it. Instead of talking about more highways, if Trump acknowledged the disaster of Happy Motoring America, and had said he wanted to pour billions into rebuilding the railroads (NOT high speed rail), I wonder if Mr K would remain such a critic.
Well, he DID deep-six the TPP trade deal this morning that Obama and many Republicans were hell bent on passing.
Hillary Clinton called it “the gold standard in trade deals” before Sanders shamed her into coming out against it.
It was clear that her intention was to “re-negotiate” the deal once in The Oval Office when she demanded the platform committee not come out against it as Sanders wanted. The claim was that it was out of respect for Obama. BS.
I am a Progressive and I cheer what Trump did today regarding the TPP.
I will cheer when he deports illegal aliens who are convicted criminals.
I will cheer when he “somehow” (?) manages to create new jobs.
Who knows? He might come up with a healthcare plan that is better than the ACA.
And I will certainly cheer when he lives up to his word about not wanting to continue the imperialistic “regime change” scheme enacted by Bush, Obama and Hillary Clinton.
The best line of his inaugural speech was regarding no more regime changes. That it will be better to lead by example and hope that other countries follow what we are doing rather than go thousands of miles off our shores to force our way of life with bombs/drones.
Bravo for your clarity. America First – they hate us having Dasein again – being for ourselves first, last, and always. A people who have being are hard to exploit.
What does it mean to put America first? Sometimes, policies that plainly appear to put America first are in fact detrimental to America’s long-term interests. Consider the executive order banning immigrants from countries deemed to be “terror-prone.” While it sounds pragmatic on paper and may actually succeed in denying entry to a would-be terrorist, this has to be weighed against the loss of influence that comes from closing down an exchange between two countries, which is unquantifiable but immense.
I wish Rush Limbaugh hadn’t destroyed the word “ditto.”
Cheers!
Hmm no more regime changes? Are we sure about that?
Jeremy Scahill was on DemocracyNow talking about the Amway Pyramid scheme billionaires Erik Prince and Betsy DeVoss and their connection to the Trump Administration. Of course we know Betsy DeVoss the champion of privatizing public schools so they can be taken over by religious and rich private schools or cannibalized for private plutocratic profits has been nominated for Secretary of Education. But apparently Erik Prince, another member of the Amway con scheme is advising Trump.
See https://www.democracynow.org/2017/1/18/scahill_blackwater_founder_erik_prince_the for details.
The same story was also covered by the Intercept, home now to Glenn Greenwald who helped release Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA spying on all Americans:
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/notorious-mercenary-erik-prince-is-advising-trump-from-the-shadows/
Erik Prince is of the same mindset as Betsy DeVoss – privatize America’s actual soldiering at taxpayer’s expense for his own profits and resource extraction. Which goes right along with nominating Rex Tillerson of Exxon “Climate Denial” Oil Wars and resource extraction aided by private mercenaries in countries like Nigeria…
On Climate Denial funding STILL being done by Exxon as they claim they have stopped see:
https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/07/08/exxonmobil-new-disclosures-show-oil-giant-still-funding-climate-science-denial-groups
Al Gore repeated this same claim to DemocracyNow…
Erik Prince has NO loyalty to the US, the Constitution or anything else except his endless power and project of some Christianized Jihad Holy War for of course millions in profits.
Exxon Mobil in Nigeria – I am very sure I have had reports of Exxon Mobil hiring “private security” ie the likes of Erik Prince’s Blackwater to defend its oil extraction overseas. But not found documentatioon yet. But here is an interesting article on Exxon’s corrupt business practices beyond CONTINUING Climate Denial:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/23/exxonmobil-nigeria-oil-fields-deal-investigation
More on Blackwater mercenaries:
https://books.google.com/books?id=vpo5E5JagJEC&pg=PA422&lpg=PA422&dq=scahill+exxon+mercenaries&source=bl&ots=dhneSJcK_u&sig=blHlEtgZiypcniWwRCRqYahxtKI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwje2PHSz93RAhUCxVQKHfctDvAQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=scahill%20exxon%20mercenaries&f=false
Cheers to ending the TPP!
Good riddance!
That’s a great last paragraph. The long dark night is indeed upon us, and the wheels aren’t just gonna come off, they are gonna explode off. I’m witnessing a side of America that I’ve never seen before, and it’s very disturbing. Indeed, we live in interesting times.
Personally, capt, I think it’s exhilarating. The stifling tyranny of the status quo has been slowly killing the spirit of men, while empowering women. Hillary would have been the death of males, even if she didn’t start WWIII just to prove she was tougher than any man.
This kind of zero-sum thinking about men and women — i.e., if women are empowered or any particular woman is empowered, then men are thereby disempowered — and its attendant castration imagery says a great deal more about the anxieties of men than anything else. You can take your hands off your crotch, it’s okay.
yo Jame’s, great writing as usual, but . . . what’s to be expected from you if the “Trumpster” actually prevails and demonstrates more political/biz finesse than you anticipate. At what date should One expect an “uncle” exclamation from you? After all, he has confounded just about the entire world stage up to now.
Well, I’ll respond as the situation evolves. I’m not entrenched in fixed beliefs about this unspooling story. — JHK
One random observation – this comments section (among others) wouldn’t be half as interesting had Clinton won the election.
Trump will adopt, adapt and improve, the way he did in his successful primary campaign. He’ll find strategies that work for him, and exploit them to the hilt. We already know what kind of president he will be, and the longer he does last in office the better we can expect him to get at it.
The Sean Spicer presser about the inaugural was the shot across the bow. Trump has his preferred universe that he lives in, and his efforts to enforce that on others will be unrelenting. The more the press in particular turns against him, the more he will turn to his base for direct action. It has worked pretty well for him so far.
And since the “Women’s March” on Saturday I think that base has increased.
The Hillary supporters embarrassed themselves Saturday and the anarchists who torched cars and busted windows in D.C. on Friday during the inauguration also helped move more fence sitters into the Trump column.
The Democrats can’t stop running around with their collective hair on fire. They all need to take a cold shower then go to the DNC headquarters in D.C. to demonstrate. That is where the enemy is that gave us Trump.
JHK: “Don’t forget that it was the dismal failure of Democratic ‘progressive’ politics that gave us Trump.”
and
abbywood: “That [DNC headquarters in D.C.] is where the enemy is that gave us Trump.”
You are both wrong. The people who gave us Pissident PussyGrabber were the people who voted for him. People who didn’t vote for him didn’t put him in office. Stop making up foolish nonsense.
If the Democrats are responsible for electing the PussyGrabber, then the Republicans are responsible for electing President Obama, right?
I don’t think so. I went on the Woman’s March in DC and there were a LOT of women who had never taken any interest in politics before but said “Enough is enough!” As on sign put it
“When you piss off Grandma you are really in trouble!”
Some of these women are going to call Congress and their politicians every day about their issues, they will run for office,
they are going to show up at meetings. Imagine the Tea Party multiplied by 1000!
Except not astroturf grassroots funded and taken over by the Koch Brothers but the same people who gave millions to fund Bernie’s campaign.
Trump has awoken the sleeping giant of the Obamabots who had been mesmerized for 8 years by the silver-tongued very intelligent Obama who gave great speeches but who’s actual policies were frequently the exact opposite or at least milquetoast babysteps when bold action is needed.
For example, there was a storm of criticism when Trump tweeted that we need more nuclear weapons. Obama always SAID he wanted to reduce nuclear weapons but in reality was supporting the insane plan to waste $1 Trillion of American taxpayers (the middle class or what’s left of it!) on a new generation of nuclear weapons!
But Peace Action and other groups were having a terrible time convincing people to do something about it as the gifted orator lulled them to sleep.
Now they are fully awake…
Personal experience – to my shock 2 very nice woman neighbors that walk and run our dogs together admitted they voted for Trump at the last minute solely because they hated Hillary more. Now they are dead set against birth control restrictions, new pipelines instead of wind and renewable energy, etc…
I doubt I will convince them to call Congress but they will be no bastions of support for Trump and will increasingly support their fellow women against Trump and the Republicans assault..
Yes, we hate the media. They are like the Ray Bradbury story where an alien takes over a boy’s nervous system so he starts doing things that he doesn’t intend. We want our own nervous system again. How about Anti-Trust legislation against them? A few billionaires all from one ethnic group control the whole thing. It’s incestuous to the max and it doesn’t serve us in any way, but only “them”.
I always appreciate JHK’s commentaries. I heard you on the recent Peak Prosperity Podcast – keep up the great work.
I am assuming by your comments in this post that you are not buying into the ALTERNATIVE FACTS presented by meshuga’s administration. By golly – gosh – gee…..I can’t imagine why not! If you add some saccharine to the kool-aid then it tastes palatable.
The word “fact” was an unfortunate choice. All it accomplished was to give Chuck Todd a easy target to thrash the unfortunate issue of crowd size. Conway brought it to the point by pointing out the 14% approval rating of the previously mainstream press. RIP.
Kelly Anne Conjob almost physically CHOKED just as she uttered the ‘unfortunate’ words, Alternative Facts.” She’s no stupid bunny (like Pierson et al) so she KNOWS full well that she is deliberately distributing pure bullshit by the bucket-load, but the cheques must be too big to turn down. Have you seen here in April 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjPfljy0BzQ&t=1s
Just, UGH!
Here is the best reasoning I can find as to why trump is right on trade that I could find. Unfortunately Sir Goldsmith died of a heart attack 3 years after this was recorded. This is a must watch for those interested in the economy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwmOkaKh3-s
Another thing is that Trump has been continuing to skip intelligence briefings and he mostly took the weekend off after the inaugural before he really begins “presidenting”. Sounds like somebody who doesn’t really want the job, to me.
According to Kasich (for what it’s worth), when Trump offered him the VP job, he essentially said he didn’t want to the work, he just wanted to make deals.
So Pence is the real president.
Uhh – the same intelligence briefings that informed previous Presidents of the certainty of Iraq possessing, weapons of mass destruction, advanced warning of the 9/11 attacks (oops – didn’t happen), passed on the Russian warning concerning the Boston bombers (oops, didn’t happen), the reasons why it was too expensive to repatriate America’s war materiel in Iraq (ISIS says “Thanks!”), and the reasons why a coup d’etat in Syria would be a matter of a few weeks, and a few American “advisors”?
I was like a hawk watching the inauguration – and it was fascinating, and strangely uplifting.
Trump has balls – he stood, and stands – alone – a true mark of strength.
I’ve got a degree in Science – career oilpatch – then a full-time mountaineer for seven years – since 2004 a married man with a wife and son – and since then an environmental blogger – i.e., not exactly a fan of climate denial etc… Since the mountaineering – a working man – a precariot – all bridges to a more ‘comfortable’ past burned long ago.
But you know – the “good-guys” didn’t do squat – just smoke and mirrors – and drones – yet more war – hypocrisy to the max.
Trump is refreshing in comparison.
And what he said in his speech – needed to be said – it was basically on message – and basically entirely correct. Even if he doesn’t deliver – at least he said it. How come no one before him said this ?
Middle class – bullshit.
I am an egalitarian. Middle class means there is an upper class and a lower class – even more bullshit.
Someone mentioned Trump is a free man – yes – that captures a good part pf it – a rebel, in a way.
Globalization as practiced has been an unmitigated disaster for the working man – and I now know how that feels.
Someone mentioned “catharsis” – bang on !
A country is more than a geography or an economy – it is an idea – sometimes even a great idea.
The other way wasn’t working – as foul a nest as one could imagine – and I can imagine a lot.
Is this better ?
In the sense that change is here – and the mirror is now being finally looked into by everyone –
Yes !
“A country is more than a geography or an economy – it is an idea – sometimes even a great idea.”
America was built by a nation, not a country. America will survive the United States.
“And what he said in his speech – needed to be said – it was basically on message – and basically entirely correct. Even if he doesn’t deliver – at least he said it. How come no one before him said this ?”
“Mein Trumpf”
I reference Trump’s 16 minute Inaugural speech as “Mein Trumpf”…akin to an executive summary of his beliefs and remedies. it has been often posited on this site that “history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes”, and, in this instance it rhymes like a…well, like a motherfucker.
Hitler wrote “Mein Kampf” in the 20’s…he was derided by the press of his day…insulted and demeaned by those in power, his plans for the German People, outlined in his book, given no consequence…then he got into power and some stuff happened….
Trump gave us his plan…for good or bad. He did not stutter, and he said it “real loud”…ignore, demean, diminish, and consider it a fantasy at your peril.
Yes, and his Plan created an economic miracle – so much so that the International Powers had to destroy Germany before the System spread to other countries.
Hitler cut out the Banker middle men and bartered directly with other nations. Does anyone think they’re going to allow that?
Yes, those evil “Banker middle men” must have invaded Poland and later Russia. Using the word “barter” to describe an armed invasion is quite creative.
A Nation is a People first and foremost. Even a great man like Trump can’t undo the damage of mass Third World immigration – all of them unneeded now, unlike the immigrants of yesteryear. And all of them far more alien than other European Christian peoples. It’s a recipe for disaster.
The problem, as usual, is the ignorance of the Word [ instructions ].
Immigrants were welcome in ancient Israel, but were not to partake in the government [ become citizens ] as soon as they settled in. After the third generation those with similar geneology were allowed into the congregation. After the tenth generation others were allowed into the congregation. Declared enemies were never allowed in, at all.
These were the time periods required to perform assimilation, which does not include the worship [ obedience to ] other g-o-d-s [ rulemakers ].
Cause and effect.
True…to a point. Of course ‘rank hath its privileges’. Ruth the Moabite and Uriah the Hittite (along with his wife) are only a few of the numerous examples of exceptions to the rule you lay out.
Because of certain attributes that were important to the powers-that-be, these foreigners were able to fast-track their ascendancy into the higher ranks of the nation of Israel-Judah society. It was then as it is now – it’s all about who you know. Traditions and rules can be circumvented with the right connections.
There is a good argument to be made that Ruth was an Israelite living among the Moabites. But Moab, at any rate, was a product of incest between Lot, the nephew of Abraham, and a daughter, thus a Hebrew [ a descendent of Eber ] and thus their grandchildren were born as citizens.
Being married to an Israelite, or employed by one did not make you a member of the congregation.
“Traditions and rules can be circumvented with the right connections.” Circumventing the rules does not circumvent the consequences of circumventing the rules. This is the whole message of the scriptures which moderns scrupulously ignore.
CI says that the injunction, “Thou shalt not lie down with the beasts of the fields” refers to Black slaves. What say ye?
Wrong Janos, the Children of Isis, Ra, El were originally pastoral. Having sex with the livestock was a real problem, on a number of levels. As far as blacks were concerned, Solomon had a black lover who made it into the literature. Joseph’s wife was an Egyptian. There are other examples; none that I know of that single out blacks as slaves.
What animals are you attracted to? What problems do you experience with this?
Ayatollah Khomeni opined that you CANNOT eat the meat of animal you have ejaculated into. Please bear that in mind.
Janos – Perhaps you’d agree (or not) that our country is not a nation by any stretch of the word. We are just a ramshackle multicultural mess whose inhabitants from all over the world have nothing in common. Enter Trump to Stop the Madness. If the GOP majority does not repeal and replace the 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act (heavily promoted by a young Teddy Kennedy), then our doom is sealed. Unless these GOP Beltway Bums get a handle on immigration (how about a time out, please?), then, not only is the USA doomed even sooner, but Trump will be the last republican ever elected potus.
Yes, to all of the above. We once were a Nation, the different European ethnes twining together. But Hart-Celler blew all that up. People draw all the wrong conclusions from our previous history: it was very difficult to bring the European Peoples together – and that’s when we were strong and they were needed. Now we’re supposed to do the same with utterly alien peoples when we’re weak and they’re not needed? Not going to happen.
“Not going to happen.”
If you are automatically making them citizens with full voting rights, etc. – the society will be changed to polyglot of chaos. This is the reason it is being done.
However, if you are allowing strangers who wish for their descendents to become citizens then follow the instructions. It takes ten generations.
Hey Manysummits – correct. It is refreshing to hear the Truth spoken aloud & to power. The unfortunate thing is the Truth in this case was spoken by a liar…a dyed-in-the-wool serial prevaricator.
There was – IS still – someone also telling the truth in Bernie Sanders. Maybe the DNC succeeded in blocking his advance with dirty tricks, but they have not been able to stop his progressive ideas and those who will fight for them and resist this JOKE of an administration.
Trump shocked the political establishment and media by giving an inauguration speech that implied he is dead serious about destroying their oligarchy. They were bewildered. He’s supposed to sell out now that his populist song and dance won him the White House.
Probably unfounded concern, a lot of his advisers are old guard establishment hacks.
Immigration reform advocates point out he has yet to appoint Kris Kobach deputy Homeland Security Secretary, an essential step if the anarchist immigration policies of the Bush/Obama regime are to be rolled back.
Meanwhile the journalism community is dead set on burying him for fostering public awareness of what a bunch of clowns they are.
And he’s not helping himself by taking the bait they lay out hook line and sinker.
JHK, you seem to understand that we live under a despicably corrupt and hypocritical kleptocracy. Our leaders have the moral values of gangsters. (Actually worse, most gangsters aren’t pedophiles.) Then you denounce Trump for opposing such evil. He’s not cautious, deferential, and polite enough for your tastes.
It’s going to take some very rude and bold men who aren’t afraid of blood on their hands, if the American people are ever to take back our nation from the goons of the deep state and banking cartel!
“It’s going to take some very rude and bold men who aren’t afraid of blood on their hands…”
Wondering if you mean that literally or figuratively. There’s no question that this country is a basket case and needs some major shaking up.
Neither party seems to be up to the task. But I’d rather that the leader of the New Reformation be someone of integrity, rather than a lying, self-absorbed gangster. To be only “rude and bold” isn’t enough. We’ve been down that road before.
I can’t believe how many folks in this forum, and out in the ‘real world’
have drunk from Trump’s Kool-Aid chalice.
My devotion is to the principles of the US Constitution and the founding fathers, not to any person. If Trump betrays us, I’ll turn on him. Am I a Kool-Aid drinker to believe in such things?
Yes, but yours is only about a 1/4 teaspoon to a gallon of water. Their’s is thick enough for the spoon to stand up.
Shaking up?
How about breaking up?
Well said. As Spengler said, Civilization stomps up on hob nailed boots and descends in silken slippers. If we want to go up, we have to make some noise and do some stomping.
Indeed, Jefferson wrote: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants, it is its natural manure.” Feminized males throughout the Western world have forgotten this. Trump is bringing this truism back. As Lenin once said: you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.
If Trump opposes our corrupt kleptocracy, why is he appointing the witless super rich to run his government? Betsy DeVoss, a woman who opposes public education, is chosen to run public education. Rick Perry wants to run an agency he originally said should be shut down. Ben Carson, who knows nothing about commerce, is going to run the Dept. of Commerce. And don’t tell me Trump deliberately chose the clueless when the rest of his choices are nothing but foxes guarding the hen house. Rude and bold? I don’t think so.
Ben Carson was appointed to head HUD (Housing and Urban Development) not Commerce! Try getting your facts straight. As for the Dept of Education, they need to be shaken up by a critical thinker.
In the New Republic, members enjoy resuming the restoration of the Constitutional republic from JFK’s point of interruption, can see for miles and miles, and enjoy Liberty in building out properties and the local means of production, with the capability to sow, nurture, grow, harvest, store, cook, engineer, design, program, automate, construct, process, raise, teach, hunt, defend, provide, debate, organize, compose, worship, dance, laugh, love, celebrate, and sustain.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nv8sko6hpqm6tir/New%20Republic%20rev123.pdf?dl=0
http://www.got-truth.com
All I can add is Oy vey!
And of course, don’t miss Pussy Riot’s video, “Make America Great Again”!
https://youtu.be/s-bKFo30o2o
He mentioned re-building the railroads!
I only know this as was mentioned jokingly on a podcast comedy I listen to (called the Bugle) as un-American. That means it may not be true of course. But I am not going to read the speech
Every news article in the UK press with a photo of any of his team has a middle aged man in a suit and tie. They could use ‘stock photo’ of man in suit instead
I think they should just put photos of puppies or something nice instead
Totally agreed. Photos of the grim-faced Great Man with his phalanx
of grim-faced serious men moving boldly here and there, signing this edict, going over there to Tweet some serious stuff, or talk to more grim-faced serious men about seriously serious stuff. Wow, these guys are on the ball. You can tell just by looking at them.
The Bugle is hilarious, although I’m not sure that all of the guest hosts really hold up their end equally well. Andy Zaltzmann performed here a couple of months ago and gave a very generous show.
Donald J. Trump is the person who best manifests the post-industrial, technotronic (computer & robot) hyper-finance civilization we have created in America. He tapped into the Zeitgeist and angst wonderfully and that is why he is where he is.
That he is coarse, blunt and unexpurgated is just another reflection of the culture that produced him: TV is the pervasive social integrator nonpareil of all time. The president is a TV star, only now on the biggest stage imaginable.
make the future generation of adults, are mostly warehousing for youngsters teaching them God-knows-what: coherent thinking e.g. Logic or Rhetoric? the elements of Tweeting; strategic basketball playing; LBGTQ advanced placement courses?
How much TV per day do they watch?
Where Melville, Twain or Mencken are no longer read – too white, too male. Who’s got time to read anymore anyway?
Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer are not the songwriting team of our time; Everyone’s “device” is loaded with the greatest hits of Pharrel, Rhinna and Katy Perry – how cool is that? Providing the “classical” background score to the spectacle: Madonna , Tupac and Slipknot
And how the machines now keep the American civilization rolling: the Wall Street money machine; the D.C. war machine; the Hollywood infotainment and bullshit machine….now A.I. will be directing those machines: if anything,THAT IS CRAZY!
I think ours is a collective guilt – so please don’t blame the messenger, the President of the U.S.A.
As to the disposition of the current state of the new administration: Will he be carted off of the stage on a gurney after collapsing with apoplexy? Will the Deep State use a big hook to force an exit stage right? Can a foreign power or rogue agent interrupt our programming for a special announcement? Yelling fire in a crowded theatre is always hazardous.
Stay tuned – it is the “real” daily show.
Believe it or not, my Mellennial son has the “La La Land” soundtrack playing in his car and he is determined to learn to play the piano!
No Rihanna/Pharrell for him!
“Where Melville, Twain or Mencken are no longer read…”
No, it’s not because they are too white.
It’s because the attention span has shortened and the language is not simple and easy to understand as mandated by our universities.
Everybody was confident that it would be Hillary. And her movement against common sense and traditional values looked ominously like Maidan in Kiev. But it all resulted in fiasco, not a revolution.
On the contrary, she helped mobilized remaining healthy forces in America to support the National Revolution of Trump.
Although there will probably be a hybrid civil war between conservative and liberal clans, not to mention the constant danger of riots in Washington. After all, Bikers can’t be in DC year round.
And I don’t believe in any possibility of acute financial crisis ala 2008/9 – after all, even then it was artificially triggered by the Wall Street “community” and some politicians, including Hillary who blocked the rescue of Lehman Brothers to punish it for financing Obama campaign. And the reason was simple – to be able to buy real assets penny on the dollar, as usual (yawn).
And now they are the losing party, they wouldn’t dare to try or they’ll wind up in a New York minute in Caribbean resort named “Gitmo” for terrorist activity aimed at disrupting the healthy American markets.
Good thing Obama didn’t get to closing the Gitmo.
“Everybody was confident that it would be Hillary.”
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Yeah,
and those are the very same people for whom the inauguration address was the first time they listened to a Donald Trump speech from beginning to end.
If you got all your Trump filtered through the main stream media; of course you couldn’t understand how he beat Hillary?
Obama and the press remind me of the “mean girls” in high school that all the other girls are afraid of.
Trump’s speeches were not filtered by the evil “main stream media.” On days when Clinton gave three speeches in three different locations, CNN, for example, had a blonde yakker give a two sentence summary of one of her speeches while the network covered Trump’s empty podium for thirty minutes before he arrived and then gave him full, uninterrupted coverage of his entire speech. No filter. You obviously weren’t watching or reading the same “main stream media” I watched and read.
As usual, Mr. K has said it all, so why bother to embellish. But, I will.
If one looked closely, the sad state of national affairs was on full display this weekend. From a whole stage full of grifters, preening themselves on their wealth and power to silly, fat-assed, pointy-eared and pink clad women parading their goofiness for all to see. How does one have any optimism after all of that?
https://twitter.com/Nick_Offerman/status/822822358259904521
I find that plenty optimistic.
Sorry, I don’t know where this intro to the paragraph disappeared to:
“The family units and school systems….” that make…..
All I have to say about the Trump presidency is that millionaires have run the country since Ronnie Raygun declared it Morning in America in 1981. Now, it’s time for the billionaires to take over. I don’t see much changing for us hundredaires and thousandaires. We’ve been ignored for three decades. I just hope like hell that they don’t squander the Social Security and Medicare funds. Those will be my ticket out of this mess in a couple of years. Make America Great Again – buy a bunch of shit you can’t afford and check out in deep debt.
Agreed.
In spite of his big talk, his cabinet screams “business as usual”. Anyone who thinks the billionaire’s boys club that makes up Trump’s cabinet is going to change their tune on globalization because president Donald told them to is delusional. These suits can’t “drain the swamp” because they are the swamp,
More like mid70s decoupling of productivity and wages. That was also when last WW2 vets were retiring. The Master class couldn’t touch them, once they were gone, Masters project of returning to gilded age began in earnest.
Don’t forget, gilded age/robber baron level of inequality is the historical norm in US; New Deal/WW2/Marshall Plan era c1933-75 is the aberration. I don’t believe Trump would interfere with the Master class project if he could.
I have to say, I enjoyed yesterday’s spectacle of mostly white, middle class American women – one of the planet’s most privileged groups – marching wearing “pink pussy hats” to express their outrage at a President whose main offense seems to have been to say “Grab ’em by the pussy” in a private conversation long ago.
Of course, none of those women had the slightest fear anyone would dare touch a hair on their heads, unlike the Negro Freedom Marchers, or Chicago Vietnam war protesters in days gone by.
Photos of the aftermath revealed mounds of garbage left in the streets by the middle class women, to be cleared away, apparently, by deplorable blue collar working men.
Don’t you know that it’s a fundamental human right to have other people clean up after you, for free?
Yes, they hate White Men and White Men hate them back. Diving the sexes is perhaps the greatest Victory of the Enemy against our People and Civilization.
The secret is to ignore women. If White Men can throw off their chains and become proud and prosperous again, the women will come a runnin’ and crawlin’. They’re much like the Blacks: the more you give them, the more disrespectful they will get and the more they will riot.
silly, fat-assed, pointy-eared and pink clad women parading their goofiness for all to see
Most likely they were already paid for Hillary inauguration festivities in advance. Would be a shame to let all that money to go to waste.
My 81 year-old-mother was in one of those groups, wearing one of those hats. She hasn’t embarrassed me that much since elementary school.
The Vedic Civilization teaches that Women are never to be under their own control. Their Father passes them on to the Husband and the Husband to the Son. If these links fail, the Brothers step in.
. . . claims that there’s no biological basis for gender . . .
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Example: Bradley Manning is a delusional young man who thinks he is a woman and calls himself Chelsea. This is abundantly clear, yet not politically correct, at least in Democrat circles, to state openly.
That does not justify the abuse Bradley has received at the hands of the deep state.
It’s ridiculous how the press refers to Manning as a “she” because he put on a dress. If I wear feathers, will I officially become a chicken? At least to the mainstream press?
Speaking of “Radical Islamic terror”, It looks like Trump is going to make things even worse in the Mid-east, as if such a thing were possible, by inviting the con-artist Bibi Netanyahu to The White House in February to discuss the the American Embassy move to Jerusalem. Over the next ten years Bibi and Co are going to grab a record amount of US taxpayer dough to prop up their Zionist state and steal more land from the Palestinians.
You can’t be say “Radical Zionist Terror” in this mendacious political culture.
Uslabor,
What you say is true…and unfortunate.
To say it would be politically incorrect.
“Do you suppose Trump is going to improve?”
No. I despised the man when he claimed to be a Democrat. He was a carnival barker selling Brand Trump and all its cheap gimcracks then. He still is.
Problem: the Brand has no value. JHK is correct that either the Cabinet or the military will have to remove this waddling, fact-denying Id from power. We will then have to endure the outrage by the lumpenproles who really believe his carnival-barker’s pitch.
I’m confident that enough Trump voters are reasonable, if dispossessed, middle-class folks to prevent the Civil War 2.0 from erupting when Trump goes down. A Republican needs to take his place after his early exit, if only to maintain the sense that our system still works, until the next elections.
But I could be wrong. Badly wrong.
You are. Why do you think he put Mattis in? Trump has the military from the top to the bottom. He just needs to remove the huge number of traitors and weirdos that have entered over the last few decades.
“He was a carnival barker selling Brand Trump and all its cheap gimcracks then.”
Made me think of this old western:
http://www.dailycrow.com/1958-western-a-man-named-trump-promises-to-build-a-wall-in-texas/#more-6431
The message of disempowerment wasn’t something that came out of the deep blue sky on Jan 20. Trump has been on this theme for the whole presidential campaign and the primaries before then.
Maybe it was a shock that he STILL keeps talking about it when a more reasonable man (and a man who has an eye to self preservation) would start talking about something else. That’s the expected thing isn’t it?
There’s others that have a stake in this. The political legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party rests on the multitude of off-shored American factories and and the millions of jobs they provide. So if Trump tries to re-arrange global production, they will not be happy about it.
The men in Beijing may command a huge army to keep internal order but they know they’re still vastly outnumbered by the uncounted hordes of Chinese that need the wages these factory jobs provide, no matter how meager. Chinese workers will not be happy about being tossed onto the street. And when it’s a question of eating or not eating the question of who exactly is to blame is academic. They will look at the ruling class of billionaire Communists in their palaces and take it out on them.
And Chinese Oligarchs know this. They don’t blithely take things for granted. Not for nothing is Xi Jinping cracking down on dissent. They know their position is shaky.
The point is that if Trump meets a bad end I’m not sure it will be American assassins doing the deed. Imagine that Trump refuses to go quietly. Imagine that people in his entourage kick up a fuss. Imagine that there’s a lack of stomach in the U.S. for taking out an American President. There’s others invested in the status quo who are a lot less squeamish that American Deep Statists. This can be outsourced like everything else.
Here is where Israeli Intelligence come into play. They have 60 years experience tracking exactly that kind of people and penetrating their infrastructure.
All it takes is a new Ghengis in China and the Chinese will drive everything before them like leaves in a storm.
They will be superior to the Germans of the Third Reich, greater in number operating from a superior industrial base and more willing to suffer.
Nothing will stand against them.
Volodya,
I am sure you have observed that Trump, so far, has done everything he said he was going to do…. Can it be that his entire MAGA program is viscerally felt by Trump, and not a mere list of talking points, as you describe, of the successful politician?
Is Trump’s ascendancy an accident of human folly, or a gift from a vengeful God?
I cannot wait to see what happens next….
Uprising of the coyotes in America
Coyote – a small American wolf, living in numerous quantities throughout the country and not enjoying any sympathy among the population. It attacks the defenseless bystanders, children and cyclists. It feeds on garbage dumps and stolen food from the farmers.
Howling of Coyote is disgusting. It also mates with large stray dogs, why there is a hybrid, called Coydog. This cross is even more dangerous.
US media turned against the new US president, Donald Trump, and event of this kind, can be safely called the uprising of coyotes. The inhabitants of the media space making anything their business scented a fat payout for the political corpse of the new president.
From whom? From the honored master of “color revolutions” and the famous financial speculator George Soros who has announced the move of secret war against Trump into the open phase.
Trump Tax?
Cutting regulations will be great, but a border tax will backfire.
One of the pillars propping up America’s bubble economy is cheap foreign imports.
If Americans are forced to buy domestically produced products instead, living standards will collapse, as consumers buy a much smaller quantity of more expensive goods.
Also massive tax cuts for the middle class would be great, but only if we also have massive cuts in government spending.
There is no free lunch. If the middle class does not pay for all this government with taxes, it will do so though higher inflation
—-Peter Schiff
Any tax changes have to come from the House of Representatives operated by Paul Ryan who seems to be violently opposed to any tax of any kind. He’ll joyfully make any tax cut he can, but the chances of a new “border tax” (or any new tax) making it out of congress are slim to none.
Messianic, you say America will survive the United States. No doubt something will take its place. But if the United States crashes and burns, how do you see the successor “America”, in one piece or several?
America – in my understanding is old Gaelic for heavenly kingdom. Am-el-rica [ reich ].
The Kingdom of Heaven is a form of government, not a religion. It is not limited to lines drawn on map. When men realize government by men cannot be free of oppression, they will begin to seek out the “perfect law of liberty”. You and the Creator – no middle men.
If the US fractures you will just get more false rulemakers [ gods ] drawing lines and idolaters believing the lines are real.
http://www.gods-kingdom-ministries.net/teachings/books/the-kingdom-of-god/
I personally am glad and giddy that The Donald was elected President. When you take the layers off the lies and BS from the last 4-5 presidents it quickly becomes apparent what a fucking joke “centralized government” really is. They play the people like chess pieces and get them to do what they want.
Here’s a guy who in reality is no different than any other liar occupying the highest office in the US government. As far as presidential decorum, that went out the window when Bill Clinton was getting his regular BJ’s from Lewinsky.
To me Donald Trump is just a reflection and what happens to every Empire, “it rots from within”.
How bad is DT?
But when the people let themselves be gotten to do as others want
are they then even rightfully called “the people”?
I’m surprised so many of you seem to believe Trump is going to be removed from office.
In spite of what they say, he’s giving Ryan and Mcconnell basically what they want – the chance to kill the ACA without having to actually do work and come up with a replacement. He will give them a supreme court nominee that will make Scalia look liberal and Thomas look honest. He’s going to allow them the double down (for about the 10th time) on the failed “trickle down” theory of economics. He can try to cancel the F35, but in the end, Congress makes those decisions.
Yes he says a lot of stupid things at 2:00 AM on twitter, but that kind of distraction is perfect to keep idiot America from looking at the theft that is really going on.
It’s not so much what Ryan & McConnell (reeling with giddiness, like drunks given the keys to a liquor store) want, but what their donors want. Finance, corporations, the 1%-ers, etc. run things. If loose cannon Trump starts threatening profits with decisions and schemes that backfire in unexpected (unexpected to him, anyway) ways, Republican leaders will be given their instructions and shown the bus under which DJT is to be thrown. It doesn’t help him that the CIA and other security state players do not trust, nor like, him.
The CIA might be the more worrisome of the players you’ve listed. The oligarchs are set to make money no matter which way Trump steers the government.
Probably the most offensive thing he could do to congressional sponsors would be to end the existing guaranteed minimum corporate income the Fed has been running. But his choice for Treasury Secretary certainly isn’t going to drain that swamp.
Wow! JHK, really?. 25th Amendment? A cabal that overthrows the POTUS? Rather extreme predictions. Close to delusional if you ask me.
The old adage of “It takes all types of people to make a world.” seems to apply here: I’m in incredulous amazement as to how viewpoints and perceptions can differs so drastically between people on a given subject. Trump is the diametrically opposed opposite of what all of these protesting, rioting, urbane, pseudo-intellectual, socialist liberals accuse him of being. Unbelievable. It is THEY that are the harbingers of or bringers of non-existence for humanity.
I thought his inaugural address was SPOT ON.. Just what I wanted to hear.
The existing American Establishment or Status Quo is a runaway train taking us toward definite and complete destruction. The evil, immorality, corruption, false and failed “isms”, special and hidden agendas, arrogance, manipulation, socio-economic ignorance, propaganda and false information has metastasized throughout the government and body politic. We are a degraded nation of degraded people. And the Socialist/Communist/Fascist/Globalist continues to encroach upon us with the intention of blanketing us in an eternal “existence” that is vapid and hopeless.
Trump’s actions may be able to begin to slow this runaway train down. Maybe eventually bring it to a halt and avoid that fatal crash at the end of the line.
I hope that Trump’s populous and practical viewpoint becomes contagious and spreads throughout our diseased and failing nation. This is a step towards the qualities we need: morality, sanity, logic, reality, freedom, liberty, health, productivity, prosperity, innovation, creativity, character, individualism, self-sufficiency, and all other qualities that will make a people and their nation great.
“Trump’s actions may be able to begin to slow this runaway train down. Maybe eventually bring it to a halt and avoid that fatal crash at the end of the line.”
I doubt that, but IMO we are way, way too far gone for a soft landing. At best we can have an entertaining band paying “Nearer My God to Thee”.
SteveO and Walter B:
I don’t disagree with you. I’m only saying that Trump/Populism may BEGIN a motion towards a more honest and sane government, and thus an improving country, within the existing system. Improvement.
A complete crash of the system (a reset) most definitely is the only phenomenon that will allow a positive evolution for America. (A new, improved system–a Reformation of sorts.)
If one wants to get to the basic of basics, the common denominator, then it would be the real and true understanding of the human mind and the human spirit. This would solve all on all levels of life. We are totally in the dark in these two areas. We’ve progressed with technology, but not at all with the mind/spirit… we remain in the Dark Ages in this. (Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychoanalysis are all false sciences and are highly dangerous. All born from the intention to control man and the masses, and all originally funded by governments: Russia funded Pavlov (Psychiatry); Germany funded Wundt (Psychology) and Austria funded Freud (Psychoanalysis).
Philosophers, sociologists, politicians, teachers, religionists, etc. etc. will never solve man’s problems. This will never happen until we can understand ourselves and our fellow man.
amb: “(Psychiatry, Psychology and Psychoanalysis are all false sciences and are highly dangerous. All born from the intention to control man and the masses, and all originally funded by governments: Russia funded Pavlov (Psychiatry); Germany funded Wundt (Psychology) and Austria funded Freud (Psychoanalysis).”
I guess the Internet must be a false technology, since it was funded by the government as well. DARPA (the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) paid all the bills for decades at taxpayer expense until it was a functioning and proven system, then handed it over to the ‘self-made’ ‘entrepeneurs’ so they could make billions off it.
All those government-funded roads, too, are clearly false — even the ones with public transit running on them. You get the idea.
You must admit our Psychiatry serves the State though. Many abused patients admit us much – as did Ezra Pound who spent ten years in St Elizabeth’s as a “patient” (political prisoner).
The Soviet Union was well-known for putting political prisoners into psychiatric facilities as a way to incarcerate, humiliate and control them. And Ursula Le Guin wrote a short story about a psychiatrist in a fictional society who learns to doubt what she has been taught:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20014686-the-diary-of-the-rose
Putting the functions of society to use in service of power is what power structures do. That doesn’t mean those functions themselves are illegitimate.
The romantic, one-flew-over-the-cuckoo’s-nest notion that there is no such thing as mental illness, and that the seemingly mentally ill are no different from healthy people and/or are possessed of special insights, is just that: a romantic notion. A person who insists they are dead or that parts of their own body don’t exist, if they’re not just faking, might be in fugue from an unbearable memory; or, there might be something organically wrong with their brain, causing them to have a genuine experience which is still out of touch with reality. If their condition prevents them from functioning in society, they need help. If they have a condition that leads them to act out violently, e.g. paranoid schizophrenia in certain cases, then the world may need to be protected from them. All of that is legitimate.
This Train is bound for Glory, THIS Train! The Trump Train has no breaks. We’re not stopping or breaking: we’re speeding up. We’re gonna jump that gap in the Track. The secret? Coal.
Ths description applies as well or even better to much of the EU.
amb: “Wow! JHK, really?. 25th Amendment? A cabal that overthrows the POTUS? Rather extreme predictions. Close to delusional if you ask me.”
For what it’s worth, JHK isn’t the only one suggesting that a 25th-amendment remedy may be brought to bear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qdRyMgaR2g
Skip to the 6:00 mark (six minutes, zero seconds) for the reference. Olbermann doesn’t officially mention the 25th amendment but it’s clear that’s what he’s talking about.
Well I may only be a small town Committeeman in a rural West Jersey Township, but from what I have personally seen and experienced and continue to do today I can assure you that government in America simply cannot and will not change. Oh, it will decay and erode as I have seen from the inside over the last 20 years, but the very nature of the greed and dishonesty has such a firm death grip on the buttons of power that nothing, absolutely NOTHING is ever going to get better, only worse. If there are 10 levels of government, 9 of them are corrupt beyond repair and that statement comes directly from an acquaintance who works to uncover and bring such cases to “justice”. Those who pursue such careers are “allowed: to only go after those criminals that the criminals at the top allow, and hands off of the power people. The bulk of the run of the mill government workers may very well be honest and decent but 9 out of 10 at the top of EVERY institution, every department, every particular division are complete and utter sellouts and political hacks. Sorry people, delude yourselves if you need to in order to maintain sanity, but no swamp will ever be drained and corruption, graft and pay for play will only stop when and if the whole damned system simply crashes and burns.
Well said, Walter B. No matter what happens, the one thing you can be sure of is that the Oligarchs and the powers that be will still be in complete control when the dust settles. The milking of Amerika will continue unabated.
And when the civilians talk about the government actually doing anything constructive or changing anything at all for the better, take it from me that nothing, absolutely NOTHING ever get changed or accomplished quickly, efficiently or even partially completely when the government is involved. The only people that get anything good out of any deal the government is involved in are the lawyers (BIG time) the inside contractors, and the sellout politicians. Everything that eventually trickles down to the population costs ten times it’s value and is leveraged to the hilt so that even your great, great grandchildren will be burdened with the payments. It is scary and sad to see the beast from its decayed insides.
And the sad thing is, this is probably the way of all complex and wealthy societies, I’m guessing. 🙁
Christianity teaches that we are a fallen species. All religions teach some version of the same thing. In contrast,Liberals and Romantics raved about how great we are. Glad you have realized your error towards the end at least.
Hear, hear! Preach that gospel of despair! Preach it!
It is only despair for those that sit on their asses and do nothing about it and you know far better than I if that includes you. I fight it hard every day, it is how I deal with it. If there were more decent honest men that would do so perhaps it might change but from what I see, the lazy, selfish do nothings may raise a finger or two on the keyboards of cyberspace, but damned near none will ever become part of a solution rather than being part of the problem. You can’t always get what you want, but if you try some time, you may find, you get what you deserve!
The Orcs are in the Deep, Elrond. Look down at your feet: they’re already Black. It’s rising up now over your ankles. Best cut them off now, while you still have your knees. We’ll fit you with White prosthetics. If stop it before it reaches your knees, you’ll still be able to walk and that means golf! And we know how important golf is to you…
Just read an article by Chris Hedges, who incidentally was at the Women’s March. He claims the March is hopefully the beginning of another American revolution. Yes, the Democratic neocons are just as blameworthy as the obstructive GOP. According to Hedges, the whole structure has collapsed:
“When a tiny cabal seizes power–monarchist, communist, fascist or corporate–it creates a mafia economy and a mafia state. Donald Trump is not an anomaly. He is the grotesque visage of a collapsed democracy.Trump and his coterie
of billionaires, generals, half-wits, Christian fascists, racists, and deviants play the role of the Snopes clan in some of William Faulkner’s novels….. fictional representations of the scum now elevated to the highest level of the government. They embody the moral rot unleashed by unfettered capitalism.”
He claims the March is hopefully the beginning of another American revolution. –Hedges is a fool.
Did he go in drag or were men allowed at a gals march?
He’s no fool. There were thousands of men there. Hedges witnessed the beginnings of the revolution in Poland and said it was very similar. Read some of his stuff–he’s been around the world, and knows a lot.
i, on the other hand, unlike you, am not young enough to know everything.
The scalawag in me wants to ask if he wore one of those pink “pussy hats”! 😛
Liberal Zuckerberg turned media verification over to Snopes – basically a Liberal couple into Poly and BDSM.
Trump, in other words, is not the solution. He is the final product of the problem.
Trump is the final solution.
Rings a bell. Where have I heard that before?
It referred to the pogrom developed by the Nazis to eradicate the Jews.
YUP!
When Obama failed to prosecute one Wall Street bankster I was done, and fully expected men with pitchforks and nooses running amuck in Southampton … I was off by seven years… people will always cut off their nose despite their face when rage replaces anger. It’s showtime!!
Not so long as there is beer in the fridge, Cheese Doodles on the shelf and the NFL on TV.
You forgot Nascar.
That starts the week after Super Bowl Sunday.
Funny how nicely the two sport’s season’s mesh.
Q will have a field day with this… to spite
To spite
I would be interest in whether anyone has some idea about the basis for, impact of and genesis of the REIN Act? It looks to be an unconstitutional power grab by Congress, designed to Rein in the Executive Branch. Passed without notice or fanfare.
Anyone?
The REINS Act, introduced by Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), simply requires that an economically significant rule be approved by Congress within 70 days and signed by the president before it can have any force or effect.
The “economically significant rule” – those with an annual economic impact of $100 million or more.
http://www.freedomworks.org/content/reins-act-adds-teeth-congressional-review-act
Looks to me they’re just trying to lower the cost of doing business in America.
Sen. Rubio announces support for Donald Trump secretary of state pick Rex Tillerson
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-rex-tillerson-secretary-of-state-confirmation-marco-rubio-20170123-story.html
That’s what matters! Not the media…
Go, T-Rex, get em!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7251586-3×2-940×627.jpg
That was to be expected. Rubio made some noise, pleased the blue-hairs in Florida and maybe got a favor in the queue from Trump.
Yawn, nothing to see here.
For you, may be not – for me it is the first chance in decades, since Truman destroyed the FDR State Department, to get a normal diplomatic agency in charge of US Foreign policy, not the Ministry of Colonial possessions.
As stated by many, we will see. But, meanwhile: More than worth just noting it is imperative to recognize that JIHAD by BIRTHRATE is WAR, and is now openly declared widely by Muslim Imams and broadly carried out by followers across Western nations including ours, aiming toward the result of displacing our Western heritage of secular law with Sharia law.
Unfortunately, the PC Maoist are well dug-in, ready to carry-on effort to inhibit protesting the fact that most of the births and follow-up services are paid for via tax supported social services (we literally are taxing ourselves to death, especially considering that birthrate among Muslim women averages 8.1 compared to under 2 national average rate). The question becomes, why is not this population, if lacking citizenship, not deported, or if citizen, not hung for treason?????
Because the penis mightier than the sword?
Only while the sword is sheathed. Once taken out, it is bigger and sharper than your penis. Blacks are slated to take over the world if trends continue: Black Africans have endless Babies supported by Western Medicine. Those young men then travel to Europe and America and black the White Women. And so on.
Trends will not so continue, Thwack. I’m sorry (for you, not that that things will change).
Quite so. Marching Women in Germany chanted Allahu Akbar. Some of these Women (and Men!) put on hijabs while chanting. Sick stuff, but to be expected after generations of Holocaust shaming.
“All hail the Glorious Leader!” Anyone wanting to understand the cults of personality that surrounds authoritarians like Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Kim Jong-Un, etc., can read many of the comments here and elsewhere that pour fourth in fawning praise of Donald Trump. These people love their strong man.
I do declare these post have given me the vapors. The chicken licken commentaries seem to have Trump imploding within weeks if not outright civil war in months. The truth is President Trump has hit nothing but opposition from his announcement to run yet who’s President? The Republicans have the House and Senate majority and the next Supreme Court choice is President Trumps and possible the next 2 justices. Think his own party will not back him (maybe McCain not) as he was the impetus to make it so. Hey I’m a follower of Jim since I found him on the energy bulletin back in 99′ and started to read his books and I also gave up car ownership a few years before so you know I’m concern about energy and our living arrangement. I’m concerned about our financial future and population growth. I believe the latter will be coming faster with a Trump than a Hillary. He did say he was going to get the infrastructure repaired along with the rail. One thing for sure his followers will hold his feet to the fire on his promises unlike the Obama supporters
Alternative facts. What a stupid choice of words. Kelly Anne handed over a stick for them to beat her with.
But now that it’s been said, here’s a few: it was raining. A miniscule proportion of people in the area voted for Trump.
Alternatively, imagine the inauguration on a sunny day in a Red State in Trump territory instead. Would anyone doubt the turnout? Would anyone doubt the triumphalist, exuberant atmosphere?
Does anyone have any idea of global viewership of the inauguration? Nope, don’t give a damn who sez what, it can’t be done. Putting numbers on it is an exercise in pure bullshit. So Spicer’s assertions can’t be verified, nor can they be falsified. Bullshit IOW. But does anyone doubt there WAS a global multitude watching if only in horrified fascination, waiting to see what came out of Trump’s blow-hole?
Now we hear Trump’s opponents talk about the hijacking of “facts”. Hilarious to listen to these bullshitters, progressives in the main, who themselves can’t or won’t see what’s plainly under their nose, who lie like absolute hell, who deceive and twist and manipulate and spin.
They say Trump’s inaugural speech was “dark”. Dark? Bullshit.
I’m disappointed with this essay. Jim usually combines great insight with a very rare & unique ability of expression.
25th amendment? Sorry, but this is just trolling of the worst kind; bottom fishing at best.
The primary problem I see with respect to Trump’s opposition is the constant dismissal of his business experience. Combine this with a willful ignorance of how wars are actually fought: on the ground, with both guns & money. (How were allied troops paid during the Peninsular war? Banking houses distributing gold specie.)
This really isn’t rocket science. The heart of all rackets is money. Cut off funding and the criminal gang’s ability to finance their illegal activities is destroyed.
Trump is an absolute workaholic; I gather not many here have been in this kind of position, where the only things of interest become the excitement of the project, the deal, the reward.
Rest assure he was working all weekend long. And on what? Oh, how about a detailed review & analysis of an ordered list of financial inflows and expenditures? No, not social entitlements – those are locked in and are extremely popular (essential to his political survival).
Rather, the name of the game is how to disable the biggest threats posed to his first 100 days. Once he gets some momentum, and the resulting hiring fairs begin to gain pick up widespread publicity, the critical moments will have passed.
So, right now it’s all about a financial decapitation strike to render the Deep state numb. He’s had months to prepare an action plan to take over the NY Fed trading desk to mitigate any kind of rear-guard retaliatory action.
This is an extremely exciting time to be alive. The last time the oligarchs where put to the fields was during Jackson’s tenure. I have every confidence that we are going to see a very well thought out, multi-layered strategic plan executed to perfection.
I think James Kunstler is too hard on Trump. I read Trump’s inaugural address. I liked it. He tells the truth, though that’s a problem. Those in power won’t like that. I don’t see how anyone can fix the mess we are in. At least he has balls.
this mostly seems like a reasonable analysis of where we currently sit. The only exception is the foaming at the mouth by Kunstler (still) about the soon to be collapsed economy. He predicted the economy was going to collapse before the November elections. He is ALWAYS predicted the pending economic collapse, just as he use to predict the oil collapse. Its not to say that the basis of the analysis is not correct, its just that the economy as it is, can continue to be propped up by endless means at least several more years by the powers that be. I also don’t believe Trump will be impeached altho he may be a one termer. Best case scenario he fails to prop up the struggling working class and in 4 years we have a far left liberal Ellison type running as democratic candidate promising to upend everything and he or she wins……….maybe pie in the sky but it could flip flop if things get bad enuf.
B9K9: I agree with you. Trump is going to do some damage to the establishment. It’s the beginning of a cycle and he is the main character on the world stage representing it. More will follow. This is a pendulum swing from the public to the private sector–from government to the people.
This awareness if seeping into the masses now. Government? Corrupt and incompetent. Career politicians? Corrupt parasites. Lobbyists? Big money and special agendas that are detrimental to the population. Mainstream Media? A corrupt propaganda machine, prostitutes for the establishment. American Intelligence: Evil, corrupt, running their own agenda (not that of the American people). Banking? In cahoots with and manipulating government. Major trans-national corporations? Ditto. The Federal Reserve? Corrupt, political, and completely incompetent. Education? A joke. Healthcare? A joke. Main Street? Devastated and almost gone. Et al.
For me, Trump’s inaugural address was a call for popular revolution at home and protectionism abroad. I feel it was long overdue. How and what it all this will look like is the million dollar question, but I think his ideology is a step in the right direction.
All these people who call for a revolution love the idea but don’t ever comprehend that they and their families will be floating face down in the rivers of blood that start flowing. Hitler and those who supported him reduced Germany and all of Europe to rubble but there were those who still adored him.
I expect there will come a time when the poor white trash of America will squat in what is left of their trailer park with the consequences of their beloved Trump strewn all around them and still, they will say, “Well, at least he ain’t no nigger.”
Ha Ha. That’s funny, Pete, and very perceptive.
“Hitler and those who supported him reduced Germany and all of Europe to rubble but there were those who still adored him.”
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Yeah,
but he also bought you, the rest of Christian Europe, and possibly the entire world a good 14 years to get your shit together before the commies came for you?
*sigh*
We’ve all been fed a very Anglo-centric view of world history that says:
“Hitler wants to take over the world!”
Who said that?
Why the only people who did actually take over the world — the British
Even so, Thwack, even so. And to his dying day Jesse Owen complained how they wouldn’t let him shake Hitler’s hand, even though Hitler waved to him and would have been willing.
Americans have been sold a bill of goods by the media and they still haven’t woken up.
Only if they lose. If they win, they’ll be living in your homes and you’ll be the squatter squatting on the shitter of your life. Oh, which class does the military come from again? And does the country depend on the city or the city on the country?
Yep, because it was all the white people in trailer parks that got him elected. Worse yet, from trailer parks in states that don’t even border an ocean. It was them, all them!
Jim,
I’ve been a reader for some time but rarely, if ever, comment online. It’s equivalent to entering some level of hell.
But, I like to commit masochistic acts of contradiction too.
I have agreed with the broad scope of your narrative over the years. There is a clear path that leads civilization to the point where we will be arguing who gets to ride the family horse (at best!).
Sometimes I don’t agree with the specifics. Like you, I don’t moor myself to altars of belief, I allow new information to lead me to new territories. I keep reading because you have clearer insight of the mechanisms at play. I don’t need to agree 100%.
I have some questions (and opinions). Hopefully I present them in a way that is constructive.
“Don’t forget that it was the dismal failure of Democratic “progressive” politics that gave us Trump.”
Given your insight, don’t you think that this a simplification? Blame only blinds us to the story we are all captive to (something the Dems are clinging to desperately). Our culture led us to Trump, not a faction, not a perspective. The math of our global culture’s unwinding calculates this outcome as highly probable.
“His infantile lies and foolish tweets were made possible by a mendacious political culture that excuses illegal immigrants as “the undocumented…”
Not made possible by his asshat self? However we paint the immigrants, our economy would be crippled without their labor. They are a function, not a burden. Why do people want to remain in denial about this? Glorification and demonization does not erase this fact, it only serves as a method of manipulation. They are not going away. Plus, if the fallacy of “hard work = success” were true, we’d be ruled by them.
“…refuses to identify radical Islamic terror by name…”
Same point: our (the world’s) culture of empire brought us the term “terrorists.” It is a subjective word, used to manipulate.
“…shuts down free speech on campus…”
This is a new thing? History is replete with examples. It’s perspective that dictates whether it’s repressive.
“…made Michael Brown of Ferguson a secular saint…”
Isn’t this a much more complex issue? Something that transcends the event and the characters involved?
“…claims that there’s no biological basis for gender…”
I don’t understand transgender issues. They SEEM bizarre. But does understanding dictate right and wrong? In a universe we know zero percent of, is the human condition simply binary? Does “biological function” dictate social morality? Does the fabric of society hinge on things like this?
“…and allowed Wall Street to pound the American middle class down a rat hole like so much sand.”
YES. I think this has had the greatest influence, perhaps singularly. But anger is an emotion, and emotion is untethered from reason, easily manipulated.
Survival is currently dependent on money. All the other issues are simply conduits for fear and easy targets for blind anger. They are not causes, they are scapegoats for a public that refuses to come to terms with the unwinding of an unsustainable culture.
Cognitive dissonance rules.
Systems Theory explains our unfolding predicament far better than opinions on sexuality, immigration, race relations, and political fuckery. They are fodder for fear, not roots.
Keep on keeping on, Jim. Your writing is appreciated.
I shall now retreat and let the trolls masturbate.
Good for you, Cab! I totally agree. As far as the “no biological basis for gender” is concerned, there IS some recent evidence to suggest that there IS a biological basis for homosexuality–a 2014 study in the Journal of Psychological Medicine showed that a gene on the X chromosome called Xq28 and a gene on chromosome 8 seem to be found in higher prevalence in men who are gay.
There are several other studies being conducted as well, but the conclusions seem to suggest that people cannot change their sexual orientation, and that for men, at least, it is set by the time an individual reaches puberty.
Consider Freud’s theory of “polymorphous perversity” and the fact that among the Greeks, homosexuality was prevalent.
This is not a new thing–it is an ancient thing. We are only beginning to understand it.
There are several other studies being conducted as well, but the conclusions seem to suggest that people cannot change their sexual orientation, and that for men, at least, it is set by the time an individual reaches puberty.
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Would you accept the same conclusions if they suggested people cannot change their racial orientation?
Thwack,
Yes, they can change, but rarely for the better if you are suggesting racial perspective. Michael Jackson changed his orientation….
You totally agree? “terrorists” “it is a subjective word, used to manipulate…” Cab
Maybe it can be, at times. But the statement’s broad reach makes it inaccurate.
And of course the progressive politics of the left ARE a part of our culture, and it was those politics in the main that gave us Trump.
Last but not least, immigrants can be and are in fact a burden, not just a “function”.
tucson–Yes–the word “terrorists” is subjective, and can be used to manipulate. Have you heard of domestic terrorists, lawn Nazis,. family terrorists, academic terrorists–the word has been used and abused so much that it barely has any meaning. There are some who would tell you that Hillary, Obama, and Trump are all “terrorists.”
Immigrants comprise most of the one million farm workers in America. In 2010 with unemployment near 10 percent, there was an attempt by United Farm Workers union to connect unemployed people to farm jobs. So few wanted those jobs, even though they were unemployed, that the attempt failed. The hand-picked fruits and vegetables in California would rot in the fields without immigrants. So would grapes. About 50% of dairy farming in Idaho–same thing–immigrants.
Gender doesn’t exist, but Homosexuality does – think about that for a minute. The Darkness grows, the Light of Rationality dimming over the hills. The Monsters are coming waking up now.
One is reminded of Jared Diamond’s, Race doesn’t exist but Jews do. These people don’t care about having a rational coherent outlook on Life – as long as the right people are hated and the right groups as lifted high.
Guns, germs, and airport high-fiction masquerading as theory.
Janos–Maybe I wasn’t very clear in my earlier comments. As you know, sex is a biological term. A person is born with either male or female genitalia. Gender is a social term. It refers to the role you and I both play in society. Because I am a white heterosexual female, it is easy for me to conform to that gender role. Not so for a lesbian. She may be biologically female, but her gender role is nonconforming.
That being said, geneticists have discovered that some people who are biologically male, also have a biological variation in their chromosomes distinct from heterosexual males and that these males tend to be homosexual–suggesting that homosexuality may actually be biological, like blue eyes, and not something that a person can change. So much for conversion therapy. Who knows? Research might change next week.
“Gender is a social term”
No, it isn’t. “Sexual Orientation”, however, is.
“Research might change next week”. Yeah, research might show that 10,000 years of biological history is now to be questioned in the age of the “internets”, with some room-temperature-IQ fool writing a Masters Thesis on the topic. Bad science.
Parsing genetic sequences will not change the basic equation, merely poorly define and excuse aberrant behavior.
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Bibi – many heterosexual women have trouble fitting in. You’re not trying hard enough if you do.
Cab (quoting JHK): “‘Don’t forget that it was the dismal failure of Democratic ‘progressive’ politics that gave us Trump.’
“Given your insight, don’t you think that this a simplification?”
The politics of the Democratic party failed because they (i.e. progressive politics, and the constituents of those politics) were sold out. This happened in the later 1980s and early 1990s when the Democratic Leadership Council successfully moved the party to the right to make it more amenable to policies sought by corporate donors with deep pockets, particularly the free-trade deals that Trump now rails against. The labour movement and the left, they reasoned, would go along with it, however grudgingly, because they had nowhere to go. That strategy worked until it alienated working people sufficiently that they handed the 2016 election to Trump.
Since the economic policies the Democrats spent up to 30 years pursuing were basically identical to those preferred by the Republicans, what they had left to differentiate themselves was women’s and minority rights; hence their fall down the identity politics trap. What they could have done in that time was pursued economic policies of benefit to all, including women and minorities as well as those who were neither, while also standing up for equal rights. They made their choices, and now here we are.
Cab (quoting JHK): “‘…claims that there’s no biological basis for gender…’
“I don’t understand transgender issues. They SEEM bizarre. But does understanding dictate right and wrong? In a universe we know zero percent of, is the human condition simply binary? Does ‘biological function’ dictate social morality? Does the fabric of society hinge on things like this?”
Sex really is binary. A strand of DNA has two strings of nucleotides, one contributed by each parent. But the human condition isn’t simply binary, although obviously it’s strongly bimodal. A living organism like a human being may be the product of binary DNA, but the process of growth and development is fantastically elaborate and contingent. In the end, some of us don’t quite fit.
Jim calls this “sexual confusion”. He deploys that term repeatedly to dismiss as negligible the point of view of people who don’t fit the gender binary. But people who don’t fit the gender binary remain people, and they are not negligible. When the North Carolina bathroom issue hit, Jim complained about goodthinking progressives wanting to force ordinary citizens to “consort” with them. In fact, the federal Justice Department acted correctly in that case, when the state of North Carolina tried to legislate coercion of trans people.
When it comes to LGBTQ issues, the question is whether: (a) people have a right to their preconceptions, and (b) the law should be a tool to enforce those preconceptions on the individual. I think the answer to both is no — not if it means that preconceptions can never be legitimately challenged. If trans people want to fight to be recognized, that presents a challenge to non-trans people, including to their very identity as simply a man or a woman. Obviously I get why that upsets people, but the law should be protecting the minority, not dictating to them.
Elrond, spot on about I.D. politics. I’ll bet that JFK and RFK would’ve fought it, had they lived. But “heir apparent” Teddy was such a wuss, and the Left let JC twist in the wind.
By definition, the Law should reflect the Culture of the Majority, not the grievances of tiny minorities. As it is, the Culture of Grievance in which you live, move, and have your being is dedicated to tormenting and ultimately genociding the Majority. The election of Donald John Trump is the Majority fighting back against your cognitive and democratic terrorism.
Once again, Janos, you demonstrate that you are anti-American, opposed to the most fundamental principles of your country. You don’t want to secure the blessings of liberty, you want to arrogate them and piss on everyone else.
“All . . . will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect and to violate would be oppression.”
— T. Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
“Society can and does execute its own mandates; and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression… There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs as protection against political despotism.”
— J. S. Mill, On Liberty
Yes, we are a Republic, a Government of Laws not Men. And those Laws are based Natural Law. And Natural Law is based on Divine Law.
There’s no room in any of this for men dressed up as women going into the Lady’s room.
Please bear in mind Jefferson’s “reasonable”. Yes, the majority isn’t always right. But neither is the minority. And perverted minorities are going to be almost always wrong. Likewise low IQ minorities, such as Negroes. The Standard is not Man, Votes, or Man made laws per se, but always Natural Law.
Two men marrying? It’s not Natural Law no matter how many people vote for it.
Elrond–You give me hope.
Janos: “And perverted minorities are going to be almost always wrong.”
Is this supposed to rebut what I said about you wanting to piss on everyone else? To paraphrase (again) Jefferson, what injury does it do you if your neighbour wants to suck a dick or worship Tchernobog? It neither picks your pocket nor breaks your leg.
Gripping stuff as usual, JHK!
“It is a subjective word, used to manipulate.”
Cab, it’s facile arguments like this that helped give us Trump.
There’s a gargantuan OBJECTIVE difference between, say, Mexican culture, which does NOTHING to glorify suicide bombers, and crucial Wahhabi/ Salafist parts of Arab culture, which puke out a whole bunch of such glorification.
It would help if Trump would be more specific than “radical Islamic terror”, by calling it Wahhabi/ Salafist terror, and emphasizing that the eastern ½ of the Moslem World (and most Turks) has scant regard for that crap. In so doing, he could defang the charge that his policies are moved by general bigotry toward Islam.
Seeing that Wahhabi $$ have been radicalizing Arab (and Pak) culture for decades, it’s disgusting that so few Americans are at best dimly aware of this Saudi role. (Thanx again, MSM, for a job well done!)
Moreover, as long as Trump’s already at war with the CIA, he may as well make the case made by Dave Stockman (at davidstockmanscontracorner.com/christmas-2015-why-there-is-no-peace-on-earth/ ):
“When the cold-war officially ended in 1991, the Cheney/neocon cabal feared the kind of drastic demobilization of the US military-industrial complex, that was warranted by the suddenly more pacific strategic environment.… the only real terrorists in the world, which threaten normal civilian life in the West, are the rogue offspring of Imperial Washington’s post-1990 machinations in the middle east….”
Rather than the Left dodging the OBJECTIVE thruths about terrorism, it should join Stockman etc. in placing much blame where it OBJECTIVELY belongs, in Langley and similar places.
And, Cab, your comments about immigrants are irrelevant to the issue at hand.
The PC Left can’t face some simple facts. The Constitution patently empowers the Feds to repel invaders, and states no limits on the definition thereof, regarding whether they sport uniforms, swords, or diseases. So no one to speak of beefed when Ellis Island etc. were set up for procedures to check immigrants for diseases, criminal records, mental issues, etc.
But since the rise of Lefty PC, calling those who evade those time-honored procedures “invaders” has brought howls of “racism” etc.
Crippled without immigrant labor – with tens of millions of American unemployed? C’mon Cab, think.
“I just look back at my life, and uh, I feel so blessed to be part of this whole scene”
-Obviously not this Cab reflecting on his time in the Kunstler comment section, but THE Cab, Steve Caballero, on his time in Bones Brigade.
The media and the Left in general will probably self destruct before Trump is removed from office.
“Revolution” ROFLOL
Please do.
I would be as glad as anyone for Trump to “fix everything,” now that he has improbably wrested the presidency from the Deep State – at least for the time being. But let’s get real: given the deep, deep hole that the puppet masters have dug this country into, was that ever a reasonable expectation?
In my view, there have been just two major achievements that we might have hoped for Trump to pull off: saving us from four more years of Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Clinton, and destroying both of this nation’s corrupt and useless political parties. Improbably, he has, in fact achieved the first, and there is still reasonable hope for the second. Add to that his demonstration to a comatose electorate that it is, in fact, possible to stick a thumb in the Deep State’s eye and, in my opinion, the Trump presidency has already surpassed expectations.
Who else in the Oval Office would have the balls, temerity, and clout to repudiate such bastions as the intelligence establishment and the commercial media? I, for one, am loving watching the establishment media idols queue up behind Hillary’s supporters to tear their hair and rend their garments. If he should open up the White House press corps to bloggers and other alternative media, that would be a wonderfully disruptive development.
These blog entries are more and more absurd.
A relatively peaceful revolution where 2 corrupt controlling parties were effectively eviscerated (the RINO Graham-McCain axis and the Clinton Inc. wing), but wishing it was accomplished by someone more polished with better hair…
More than Trump can do better..
I think you could stop at …”wishing it was accomplished.”
I dunno what you’re smoking but nothing was eviscerated but the possibility of adult conversation about real priorities and circumstances in people’s lives. The guy was an anti-candidate. As actual executive, initial signs aren’t good that he is capable of leading.
adult conversation… uh, in DC… in politics? I may be smoking, but at least i am smoking on planet earth… not sure where you’re at .
JHK,
Respectfully, I couldn’t disagree more with your perspective on the ousting of Trump in 2017. He’s kissed all the proper ass expected of him by now. I won’t contend the economic claims of your Monday offering, but it’s plainly clear that all recent Trump maneuvers amount to a changing of the guard among pivotal Deep State players, and not the dramatic upheaval that so many fear or hope Trump’s insertion to power to be. Whereas legacy media grossly demean Trump’s never better than 47% populist/nationalist belch, the alt-media have foolishly exaggerated Trump’s American revivalist fairytale. See Trump now pander to the establishment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmLi0hB9SMw
This serenade to a roomful of CIA spooks is telling. Does that look like a man preparing to legally clean up/out the most venal and corrupt institution in the U.S.?
I find it humorous so many onlookers are willing to dismiss the final popular vote numbers which provide a glaring indicator of the last-minute electoral college default to Trump, and it’s intellectually negligent to forget the 650k treasure trove of Abedin’s-rainy-day-emails which surely betrayed a vast web of Deep State kakistocrats, if not entire governments, involved in global dirty dealing of all sort. It takes an intriguing level of willful dissonance to ignore the idea that intricately connected and always jockeying elites suddenly at risk of full exposure for a Hillary Clinton win would/could easily insert The Donald to redirect the ever gullible public. Thank goodness for them that Comey slipped that heads-up fortune cookie to congress. What’s that you say, members of congress can no longer be criminally investigated unless members of congress agree to it? Well there ya have it. Whew, that was a close one.
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre?
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;?
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;?
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,?
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere?
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;?
The best lack all conviction, while the worst?
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;?
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.?
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out?
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi?
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;?
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,?
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,?
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it?
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know?
That twenty centuries of stony sleep?
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,?
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,?
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
– William Butler Yeats
Nice to see this again. I posted it a few weeks ago, but I don’t think I had all the question marks.
Well…. shit.
Or, perhaps I should say, shit?
It’s just great to see. So appropriate. I love bathing in the magic and mystery of poetry.
Once while waiting for a class in the corridor, I tried to talk to Ozone about poetry. He called me a fag. I tried to explain how many classic rock songs are based on old poems. He wouldn’t listen. Guess I wasn’t wearing the right blue jeans or somethin.
Gripping stuff as usual, JHK!
“It is a subjective word, used to manipulate.”
Cab, it’s facile arguments like this that helped give us Trump.
There’s a gargantuan OBJECTIVE difference between, say, Mexican culture, which does NOTHING to glorify suicide bombers, and crucial Wahhabi/ Salafist parts of Arab culture, which puke out a whole bunch of such glorification.
It would help if Trump would be more specific than “radical Islamic terror”, by calling it Wahhabi/ Salafist terror, and emphasizing that the eastern ½ of the Moslem World (and most Turks) has scant regard for that crap. In so doing, he could defang the charge that his policies are moved by general bigotry toward Islam.
Seeing that Wahhabi $$ have been radicalizing Arab (and Pak) culture for decades, it’s disgusting that so few Americans are at best dimly aware of this Saudi role. (Thanx again, MSM, for a job well done!)
Moreover, as long as Trump’s already at war with the CIA, he may as well make the case made by Dave Stockman (at http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/christmas-2015-why-there-is-no-peace-on-earth/ ):
“When the cold-war officially ended in 1991, the Cheney/neocon cabal feared the kind of drastic demobilization of the US military-industrial complex, that was warranted by the suddenly more pacific strategic environment.… the only real terrorists in the world, which threaten normal civilian life in the West, are the rogue offspring of Imperial Washington’s post-1990 machinations in the middle east….”
Rather than the Left dodging the obvious OBJECTIVE thruths about terrorism, it should join Stockman etc. in placing much blame where it OBJECTIVELY belongs, in Langley and similar places.
Just look at a panic that occurs in the Russian so-called “elite” on the occasion of the election by the American people of Donald Trump!
Even the panic in Davos does not go to any comparison with panic of Russian liberals. What they don’t do to come up with something to downplay the significance of this event: that Trump will be subjected to impeachment, that he does not know anything about foreign policy, or the work of the state apparatus, and he’ll be assassinated in the near future.
Even the color of the dress of his wife reminds them of Jacqueline Kennedy, whose husband was killed by Hillary Clinton sponsors. Of course they do not mention that this color was the favorite color of Melania even before she met with Donald Trump, who, by the way, knows how the state apparatus works better than Hillary, because for many years he was greasing its gears, and not milking it like Hillary was.
And there will be no impeachment because along with Trump’s victory was replaced a significant part of the Senate and House of Representatives. Republicans who won the elections know that they owe it to Trump, who created a wave which washed away the Democratic Congress in spite of the predictions of the complete defeat and demise of the Republican Party, which sounded from every steam iron just one day before the election.
And they will not kill him because for Trump works the entire Israeli intelligence, except Mossad, and probably Mossad soon will switch to his side too. After the Holocaust in Europe, the Western Black Project has always been their main focus of attention, and now it is packed with Israeli sleeper-agents as leg of lamb with garlic.
But in Russia the situation is complicated, since the essence of privatization in Russia was that the representatives of the Clintons distributed the USSR State property to their people, and who knows, if the position of Russia would be even worse if privatization was led by Jeffrey Sachs. Anyway, if you look at the results of his operations in Argentina after the Falklands War, to mind involuntarily comes the weavers uprising in India in the 18th century.
In any case, to leave everything as is, would be tantamount to suicide in the new world, brought about by the Tramp revolution (or, rather, on the contrary gave birth to such a revolution)
Can you imagine that the Red Army liberates the occupied territories in 1945 and leaves in place all mayors, elders and policemen assigned by the German occupation administration?
But Yeltsin and Putin were able to hold in their hands not more than 35% of the state apparatus (Military Industrial Complex + Security apparatus) and not more than 10-15% of the Soviet property, now almost entirely controlled by Russian Clintonoids personifying by Medvedev’s government.
“You think this is the dark night of the national soul? The sun only went down a few minutes ago and it’s a long hard slog to daybreak.”
coming around to daybreak? awfully presumptuous
Madonna. Gingrich says she should be arrested. Maybe so. Watch Madonna, with so much love in her heart.
http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a42336/madonnas-womens-march-speech-transcript/
They want you to believe it. The left does. That it’s all about love. But this love can kill.
Madonna? Who is Madonna?
Goddess of love, and a master of geopolitics, world economies, military strategy, and a pretty good entertainer.
According to myth, the ancient is venerated for never having opened her legs, the contemporary; for never having closed them.
“They want you to believe it. The left does. That it’s all about love. But this love can kill.” –Tucsonspur
And what of Trump’s love … Look at what he is actually doing… What has he actually signed that affects people’s lives… Here are the groups he has damaged in his first signed orders:
MIDDLE CLASS FIRST TIME HOMEOWNERS (taking $500 out of their pockets, by repealing Obama’s lower FHA mortgage interest rate).
FAMILIES: (reinstated the Mexico City Policy so that NGOs have to agree as a condition of receiving any federal funding that they “would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations” … so more kids, more poverty, more immigrants coming into the USA)
IMMIGRANTS: (choosing to focus on both violent criminals and on non-violent law-abiding hard-working immigrants who have overstayed their visas, but wisely choosing not to focus on DREAMers who crossed the border illegally as children)
WORKING PEOPLE: (Trump repealed TPP … an empty gesture as it was never ratified by Congress anyway. But Trump’s proposed NAFTA repeal will force American businesses to bring services back onshore, increase costs for those businesses going forward, set off a trade war, cause a downturn in the US economy, and increase the unemployment rate. It would not be good for our neighbors to the north and south either, and I also care about them.)
EVERYONE: (Trump’s federal hiring freeze will disrupt government programs and services that benefit everyone and will actually increase taxpayer costs by forcing agencies to hire more expensive contractors to do work that civilian government employees are already doing for far less. The freeze will mean longer lines at Social Security offices, fewer workplace safety inspections, less oversight of environmental polluters, and greater risk to our nation’s food supply and clean water systems.)
His first Monday in office Trump has hurt many groups with his signatures. He will hurt many more groups, as he continues to put his signature on harmful orders. Don’t listen to what he says. Look at what he is actually doing.
Markets are still going down since Trump arrived in the White House. DOW was on its way to 20,000 until the Obamas starting packing to leave the White House. Since then the markets have gone down. DOW down. NASDAQ down. S&P500 down… as Trump furiously signs orders that hurt people.
So many damaged egos. Witnessing an incorrigible narcissistic “know-nothing” Twitter addict pursue all the goals they had hoped for. From dismantling obamacare to renegotiating trade, to spurring “local” manufacturing.
They wanted someone better, they, as “Americans” deserve someone better. Egomaniacs all.
Trump isn’t holding the mirror up for the American people.
He is the reflection.
Welcome to the New Social-MEdia World Order. Wretched all
So many more polished men could have done what Trump did, but they didn’t or couldn’t for lack of courage or funds. And of all the unpolished men only one Man did do it: Trump. He is El Senor. We owe him everything. If a hair on his head is harmed, it means war.
“If a hair on his head is harmed, it means war.” –janos
Just like Trump, you a paper tiger. Shouldn’t ISIS be destroyed by now… like “so fast it would make our heads spin” to quote empty campaign rhetoric.
Trump has gone after first-time homeowners, women, immigrants, the weakest most vulnerable groups.
But he has not built the wall, or eliminated ISIS, or banned Muslims. He’ll punt to Congress on those issues. The predator in chief already got the votes he wanted from the rubes. Now he shows he is just another politician and by punting to Congress a long delay (inaction) is guaranteed. Business as usual for politicians.
On your first and last points above:
Cancellation of the rate cut will help slow down the riskier mortgages the FHA is insuring, saving taxpayers money in the long run.
Markets are always adjusting, and declines always occur for a wide variety of reasons.
The other points have some validity but also have flaws, needing longer explanation.
The left is finished if Trump is successful. So they must destroy him. You simply don’t want him to succeed. The rubes were right. Reconsider. Help us save the nation.
Talk to people about Scalia found dead with a pillow on his face – People go right to sleep. It’s just like the people in the movie Dark City do when the aliens tell them to.
Have you ever seen anyone sleep on their backs with a pillow over their face? Or did he commit suicide by suffocating himself? And why no autopsy?
Face the Fact: it was assassination. And so confident were the Conspirators that they left their calling card (the pillow) in plain sight.
Was it a “my pillow”? If so, they really made him possess it!
I only “got” that yesterday when I heard Sean talking about “my pillow”. You have a most mordant wit, but yes, no one can say it doesn’t work. After all Scalia is still sleeping the sleep of the Just. Leaving it on his face was unnecessary to sell the product – pure over kill.
Obama may have been their Ngo Dinh Diem for the American blacks? Obama was a US Senator for 10 minutes before coming from nowhere to become US President.
“The wife of the acting president of the Ukraine (in 2014) is an American, and she’s part of a Ukrainian exile faction. The CIA has a stable full of exiles from everywhere. Ngo Dinh Diem was living in exile in America when Ed Lansdale and the CIA installed him as president in South Vietnam. He was sweeping floors at Maryknoll seminary in Lakewood, New Jersey. They keep their exiles in storage and activate them and their agent networks when required. A current example is Fethullah Gülen, the America-based, Turkish exile and business magnate who tried to overthrow Prime Minister Erdo?an in July 2016.”
Douglas Valentine, “The CIA as Organized Crime”.
Trump puts US military personnel in danger.
Trump to CIA: We now have a 2nd chance to take Iraq’s oil
“Given that the US has 6000 troops in Iraq, as Thomas Doherty pointed out, this kind of talk puts them in danger from Iraqi nationalists who may begin seeing them not as allies against ISIL but as stalking horses for a sinister imperialism. Trump just painted a big red target on the backs of our troops. [emphasis added]
Thomas Doherty @dohertytjp:
“There are American troops in Iraq now, fighting Daesh. Talk like that increases risk to their lives, makes their mission harder.”
This isn’t speculation: the great Borzou Daragahi reports that the Iraqis are indeed ‘pissed’ and ready to fight for their oil.
Trump is also wrong that Iraqi petroleum fueled Daesh (ISIS, ISIL), or that the US could have “taken” Iraqi petroleum. This is because he does not know Iraqi geography or political geography. Most oil in Iraq is either down in Shiite territory at Basra (the vast majority of what is pumped) or up in Kurdish-held territory at Kirkuk. Daesh in Iraq had relatively little access to petroleum revenues, and the experts on it believe that contributions from Gulf supporters and taxes and plunder from local people (including on agriculture) were much more important. The situation is perhaps a little different in Syria, but we’re talking about Iraq.
Trump uses the phrase “take the oil,” apparently, to mean do a deal to handle the export of petroleum from a country. He said that Rex Tillerson, the CEO of ExxonMobil, goes to a country and “takes their oil.” I’m not sure whether he understands that this is typically a business deal negotiated by both sides rather than an act of coercion.
Any attempt by the United States to occupy Iraqi petroleum fields militarily and unilaterally would have resulted in massive bombings of them by Shiite militias in Basra, including Muqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army (‘peace brigades’). You can’t export a flammable material like petroleum from a country nowadays against its people’s will. They have too many bombs. Any small garrison of US troops at Basra would have been constantly under attack.” –Juan Cole
ISIS and AlQueda recruiting offices did high fives when Trump announced his Take the Oil Doctrine. That and announcing to the world that nothing the Trump administration says can be trusted because they can just declare their own alternate facts. How fucking stupid are these people?!?
Forrest Trump….
Trump may be a bit of a belligerent Forrest Gump?
“Momma always says: ‘Buy Low’, and that the property price is lowest when there’s blood in the streets.”
“I’m going to Heaven because I always Win. Jesus Loves a Winner.” – Donald J. Trump
The ultimate loser loves a winner. Trump double speak, the Orwellian apotheosis. He even brings Jesus onto Bullshit Island.
Meanwhile, everyone’s freaking out because Trump has a “Trophy Wife”.
Trophy wife. Try Trophy life.
Jenny eventually relented and married Forrest Gump because despite being an imbecile Forrest was a “Winner”.
No. Jenny relented because she was a coke-addicted, suicidal, rode-hard-and-left-out-to-dry skank-a-zoid who couldn’t get any job better than coffee-shop waitress, so she latched onto the one beta-boy still gave a crap about her.
I mean, I don’t wanna cast aspersions on anyone.
Jenny is an archetype.
She represents the wounded naive. Acting out against those that hurt her, hurting them… and ultimately killing herself.
Jenny was stupid as stupid does. Her life surrendering her “self” to the zeitgeist. Hiding in change.
Walk into any freshman dorm and you’ll find Jennies.
Superficial rebellion on display.
Gump lived truth in the moment. No ulterior motive, no machinations, just a fawn at the waterhole. No pretensions, no assumptions, non-judgmental. Gump was the biggest rebel, having never surrendered his self.
Good day James!
Obviously, we woke up with a bit of a sour stomach, eh?
Good, I remember how it felt 8 years ago.
I was told to “Give him a chance.” I did…. yeah, I hate it when I’m right.
(Refusing to hold his hand over his heart during the Nat Anthem, was a dead giveaway something about him was ‘off’.)
Now the shoe is on the other foot. But he understands “the Great sucking sound…” of Ross Perot… and he articulated it.
Deal with it Yankee.
Just so you know, anything happens to Mr. Trump, prepare to go to war.
So you should pray for his good health, and an Elite that understands that there are consequences for every action.
When did people start holding their hand over their heart for the anthem? This is a modern phenomenon born from ignorance. Modern American illiterate ignorance.
See, you stupid kids got “the pledge” and the anthem confused… all sorts of confused.
At most, remove your hat and be quiet, almost solemn, and applaud loudly with the bombastic ending. That is all that is expected in the right situation.
Save your hand over your heart for grade school inculcations.
Obama was appointed president because of his lack of nationalistic sympathies and tendencies. Clearly.
Another yankee ‘target’ speaking…
Yankee, that’s funny. Are you familiar with the most important flag of the confederacy? The last flag hoisted by countless southern legions?
Let me describe it to you.. it was white and waving from butt stocks.
The rebel yell(ow)
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Trump.
Yankee extraordinaire
Ok,
but what did that white flag really mean?
Maybe it didn’t mean what you THOUGHT or “hoped” it meant?
Don’t raise a petard you can handle being hung from.
The Yankee Carpetbaggers were Jews. Money is their God.
The south shall rise again… oh wait..
We just did…
and the north, and the west, …
against a Federal Establishment that’s outa control.
It was Federals that abandoned any ‘peace talks’, that led to Ft. Sumter… now Kalifornication is talking about secession… haha…
If the northern establishment plays this wrong, there will be democrats and repubs disappeared across the land.
They have plans, there are many others who have plans, plans within plans, shadows within shadows, rhetoric leads to war.
I gave Obama a ‘chance’, he was president, I didn’t get out and act like an ass. I didn’t destroy anybodies property, or assault anybody. And, I didn’t need a safe space, or a teddy bear, or a sucker to calm my frazzled feelings.
The term yankee now takes on a completely new meaning in this age, they are called; snowflakes.
If the Establishment crashes the system, and blames it on this president… or moves against him with procedural bs, like they are holding up his cabinet… there will be trouble, but it will take the snowflake army a while to figure out just what’s happening. It will be the MOOs. the Militias Of One.
Otherwise called patriots/terrorists, depending on your perspective.
I hope and pray, you leftists give this guy a chance because your global world order is the foundation of culture war, and culture war is going to be the flashpoint of CWII. Europe has already lost their minds inviting nasty animals into their house to live with them, now they have to clean up the shit on the floor and replace the torn furniture and repair the wounds of animalistic attacks on their women. We shall see how all that works out, when you have a new president that told you, regardless of skin color, we all bleed red, but, we have to keep the animals out of the living room.
America is White or it’s nothing. We all bleed red? So do rats and monkeys. It means nothing.
Yes, more of this fake patriotism. Standing for the national anthem is all that is customary and historical. Right wingers only recently added this hold your hand over your heart BS. What a crock. Disappear people. Torture people. Really patriotic. Constantly think up silly new symbols of patriotism. You can’t be a politician unless you wear the silly-ass flag pin on your label. No pin, unpatriotic. You can’t be a politician unless you get down on your knees and swear that you love Jeeesus! Praise the lord! No religious test for office. Who cares about the Constitution?
Culture, is sometimes more important than anal retentive ‘facts’. If someone doesn’t accept a culture, then by definition he/she is anti culture. To say that WASP culture is now The Enemy(as the DNC obviously does.), is to attack the foundations of the culture of the nation.
Burning the flag, not standing for the anthem or placing hand over heart, is now ‘culture’, not some fact. Either you are ‘American’, or you are not.
The Black Caesar wannabe, was not an ‘American’, in fact, he stood against WASP culture with every fibre of his being, that should have been a clue. The first action he took, was to shut down the manned space program, and turn NASA into a climate change agency. These should have been red flags to red blooded Americans… but, nowadays, we have too many blue blooded Americans, who think they are better than the rest of us, simply because we disagree with them…
F* them, we cannot debate with somebody who tells sweet lies to himself.
The dark night of the nation’s soul. Woo. Hmmm.
or maybe the preliminary stages of a female coup de’tat…. I guess a lot of females just don’t like the Donald. …. …if it’s Monday, Its Clustefuck Nation.
If President Trump is indeed removed from office thru some extraordinary measure, who would replace him? Some Army General? A resurrected Hillary Clinton? Vice President Pence? One thing is clear, all this time I underestimated the hatred the urban lefty elite and the MSM media has for people like myself, and those who represent me. Rest assured the feeling is reciprocal.
brh
The worst thing white people could EVER do is remove PRESIDENT Trump before he has a chance to f*ck things up and make sh*t all retarded and everything…
Just sayin
In TLE Jim talks about the USA breaking apart, worse than 1861 … now I read California is talking about secession … I say let that bankrupt craphole go without a fight, who needs it? Maybe Cal can rejoin Mexico? California’s Capital City can be San Francisco, also known as an open toilet for 50,000 street people, and a 1/4 million illegals. The Golden State, a lefty paradise!
Only problem I see is could Mexico City pay out the same level of govt. largess i.e. foodstamps, section 8, WIC, free Obama phones etc., as Washington does? If not, these new Mexican citizens might be a little aggrieved, and there will be trouble.
brh
Jim I am glad he is meshuga. Would you rather have another empty suit telling us sweet nothings, parsed and focus group tested? We don’t need some symbol of gov’t to right the ship with dignity and decorum. I am not looking for him to fix anything. The US Gov cannot fix things, only a world made by hand can fix things. What he can do is trip up the corrupt initiatives and institutions. The Demos, establishment Repubs, the TPP, the MSM, the deep state, the Clintons and Bushes. With Obamacare to come and very possibly the belligerent Foreign Policy and who knows what else. So far he is doing alright.
Hmm…
He’s doing… doing… doing….
He’s already done what the Black Caesar said was ‘impossible’, with a simple phone call he shut down several industrial plant relocations…
Economics 101 is not something leftists understand. You take dirt, you mine it, grow something in it, and then turn that into something of ‘increased value’, in order to grow ‘wealth’.
Otherwise, lefties, answer this question…
Why are we having to borrow money from China, et al?
When we were a manufacturing super power, we loaned money to the world. Now, we are a paper pushing paper tiger…
Only a Trump can understand the difference.
A bloke that I know who used to work in USCIS, which regulates US immigration, said that before a new POTUS assumes office USCIS will deliberately create a lot of problems expecting that the new incoming administration will throw money at the department. In other words, the US Federal Government deliberately creates problems in order to feather it’s own nest. One-tenth of California’s population is illegal aliens.
Create a “Russia problem” or “Terrorist problem” or ” “Drug Problem” in the hope that the US Federal Government will throw money at you to try to solve the problem.
The US Federal Government is a gargantuan extortion racket.
Personally, I wouldn’t be concerned with The Dons mercantile, pecuniary and political chicanery. Chemtrails and climate heating supported by the newly crowned King, will kill you all anyways; sooner rather than later. Have a nice day.
Much of the post-WW II Cold War drama, the War on Terror, War on Drugs, Affirmative Action, millions of lives lost, etc. may have just been theater driven by bureaucrats’ Jobs and sinecures?
Eichmanism….
Douglas Valentine says that basically the role of the MSM is to cover it all up.
Douglas Valentine, “The CIA as Organized Crime”.
“Meanwhile, everyone’s freaking out because Trump has a “Trophy Wife”. –Pucker
She probably is the first FLOTUS to have worked illegally in the USA on an immigrant tourist visa. Most FLOTUS do not have a criminal history.
At the moment President Trump is in the White House basement, rifling thru old safes, examining musty records on yellowing paper.
“Where did Ike put that brief on ‘Operation Wetback?”
“Oh, here it is.”
He blows on, raising a cloud of dust.
“Here Reece, bring this up to the oval office.”
brh
Whitehouse.gov no longer bilingual.
ACLU salivating over white genocide: http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/17/aclu-official-mocks-elderly-white-people-tells-them-they-have-five-years-left/
This punk of a bean bandit wouldn’t care if they all dropped dead right then and there.
Many think the race war should begin now. It would be hundreds of thousands of their dead to our (whites) thousands. If it was gone at with a vengeance, it could be their millions.
Finally settle this shit.
The enemy has vagina hats.
They also have cell phones, and they know how to use them.
brh
The coming change in global economic paradigm
World objectively came to a glut in the majority of manufactured goods, and the consumer no longer responds to the design change and minor improvements in functionality with former enthusiasm.
Trying to go to the mass production of “short-lived” products across the spectrum from consumer electronics to cars caused more backlash and reduction in demand. Even on the fashion consumer is not looking as before. The situation is exacerbated by consumer overload with accumulated debts of past wasteful purchases. More and more people realize that the credit bondage has nothing to do with the growth of living standards.
As a result, the world came close to changing global economic paradigm.
From the total globalization to restoration of economic sovereignty and the protection of domestic markets and domestic producers with all sorts of barriers. Moreover, the incipient transition will be fast and extremely painful. For everybody.
But there is simply no alternative. And, in this respect, Russia, which was put under sanctions first, and a few years earlier, is in the better situation, since passed the most painful period of transition under the most favorable conditions.
The US, who lost during the globalization almost all of its real production, is least prepared for the immediate restoration of trade barriers. US need at least five years to get back to situation that can ensure the survival of the country in isolation, without a dramatic drop in living standards.
By the way, the process of disintegration of the world economy is here for a long time – 150 years or more. So for all of us, it is now the only objective reality.
Needless to say that in the era of trade barriers and trade wars financial system can not be based on the emission of any currency, no mater how strong is the country behind it. Return to the gold standard in these conditions becomes virtually inevitable.
That’s about what kind of situation the Trump administration will face from the start. And Trump’s victory in the light of what has been said does not look random or illogical.
Opting for Clinton in these conditions clearly would mean all-out war of all against all. But neither Russia nor China seem too weak, to ensure the victory of the United States without incurring critical losses themselves, making any victory meaningless because of the absence of winners. Obviously, the real US political elite or the part of it that has not lost the instinct of self-preservation considered war a bad choice and was able to change things.
Against the background of the real problems facing the United States, the figure of President Trump does not look random, even theoretically the best of all. Not so many of big business figures in the United States who are engaged in the real sector and have acquired vast experience in crisis management.
Fincaln, we indeed will see a change in global economic paradigm, spurred largely by a crisis caused by the burden of unpayable debts, these accumulated to pay for past wasteful purchases. The causes of this crisis include the recent orgy of malinvestment, spurred by US manipulation of the world’s “Passive investors”, see
http://fofoa.blogspot.com/2014/12/global-stagnation.html .
But, instead of a return to the gold standard, int’l trade will be (re)balanced by the Freegold system “invented” by De Gaulle’s successors, see
http://fofoa.blogspot.de/2010/06/how-can-we-possibly-calculate-future.html?showComment=1277110872499#c614227533561322707 , and
https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/bullionstar/introducing-freegold/ .
This new system will have a floating price for physical gold, free from manipulation by Bullion Banks’ fractional reserve games in the (dying) Gold Futures market. Physical Gold’s floating price will be Free from influence by Futures Contracts “backed” by non-existent gold, and from influence from gov’t efforts to fix its price (as happened in the old Gold Standard).
Personally, I’d vote for original Bretton-Woods system as was envisioned and designed by President Roosevelt and where gold was ONLY used for settlement of inter-state trade deficits, in other words if by the end of the year Russia sold US 30 billion worth of goods and US sold Russia 28 billion, US would be liable for 2 billion in gold payment, or face according devaluation of US dollar compared to other currencies, otherwise FIXED to each other.
In other words, totally eliminate the Forex speculation as in the word “forever”, promote fair, balanced and predictable trade.
For internal circulation, it would be totally up to National monetary policy – you want to print more money, print away, just do not export your inflation abroad through trade deficits.
Finc, I can see why you’d lean that way, but FDR’s smart improvisations later became victimized by their very successes.
Google/ Wiki “Triffin’s Dilemma” and “Exorbitant Privilege”, then look at http://fofoa.blogspot.com/2011/09/once-upon-time.html .
The seeds of the Depression, and of recent crises, were sown in 1922 at the Genoa Conference, which introduced “reforms” which ended up sterilizing gold’s Flows through the int’l trade system, and exported US inflation abroad. When FDR got to boost the price from $20/oz. to $35/oz., this bought helpful time, and helped fund the Marshall Plan.
Bretton-Woods might have led to gold flowing in the needed way for a while, but LBJ’s Guns and Butter budget ended up killing the London Gold Pool, which was the last gasp of Bretton-Woods. Whoever tries to fix the gold price, and then allows fractional reserve games to distort int’l balance of payment flows, will, one way or other, eventually bring on fatal trade imbalances.
President Donald Trump told Capitol Hill leaders Monday evening that he lost the popular vote because 3 million to 5 million “illegals” voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton, according to three sources in both parties familiar with the meeting.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that he lost the popular vote in November’s election because of voter fraud. There is no evidence of this, and none that millions of undocumented immigrants voted for Clinton. It’s a fixation for Trump, who won the election because of Electoral College votes, but has had trouble accepting that Clinton won the popular vote by more than 2.8 million.
He is not going to pivot to be presidential. Trump is a narcissistic incompetent clown. As JHK says, Section 4 of the 25th Amendment may be our way out of this situation.
“may be our way out of this situation/”
Our…OUR? You have a mouse in your pocket?
The 25th Amendment meme is the current Democratic party line. The intent is twofold:
– To delegitimize Trump by means fair (pointing out that he lost the popular vote by 3 million votes), foul (diagnosing him from afar with a mental illness) and indeterminate (i.e. Trump as beneficiary of Russian meddling).
– By means of the above, to distract attention from the Democrats’ dismal electoral failures and protect the current Dem leadership from efforts to change the direction of the party. Such a change of direction might well help the Dems win back voters, but it could have the irksome side-effect of depriving party meritocrats of their cushy sinecures. The Clintons and Pelosis of the world would much rather lose elections than lose their privileges.
It was striking seeing Trump and Obama standing side by side with their families before the Obama family left for Palm Springs.
Oh, and the president who has been married three times and has had children by three different women, that was the white president.
Lord have mercy, at least he was married. And Trump is probably too old to add another 10 to the litter.
Pregnancy is not a result of golden showers.
Trump was not married to the prostitutes or to the women whose pussy he grabbed.
The rebellion gains momentum: Kevin O’Leary vs. Trudeau
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/23/shark-tanks-kevin-oleary-on-running-for-office-in-canada.html
I doubt it, for two reasons: age and inability to speak French (if he wants to represent all Canadians). You have a poor chance of becoming PM of Canada if you don’t speak French.
TRUMP ENDANGERS US TROOPS
On Saturday, Trump said “if we kept the oil, you probably wouldn’t have ISIS because that’s where they made their money in the first place, so we should have kept the oil. But, OK, maybe we’ll have another chance.”
Gordon Trowbridge, who until last week was a civilian spokesman at the Defense Department, said “The only acceptable answer to ‘are you going to steal your ally’s oil’ is ‘no.’ ” He said Spicer needed to say definitely that the answer is “no.”
“WH spokesperson needed to clearly say US is not going to take Iraq’s oil,” Trowbridge tweeted. “Every moment that statement stands puts our troops at greater risk.”
Trump’s performance in front of the CIA was bizarre (read the transcript… Trump appears to have attention disorder).
Trump’s remarks could be used as evidence of his mental instability, just the kind of thing that justifies recourse to Section 4 of the 25th Amendment. I agree with JHK. Trump will not last long as president.
Wal Mart is going to sell CARS!!!!!!
Not a shock to me – their automotive centers and car parts subdivisions are already monstrous. Horizontal and vertical integration is the preferred business model for the most successful multinationals and monopolies.
On a semi-related Walmart tangent, I submit for your mastication:
Some two decades ago, upon my return to the U.S.A., after a lengthy out-of-country habitation experience: seeing and visiting my “first” Walmart Supercenter – I actually had the belief then that they would quite soon be selling funerals and associated paraphernalia like caskets.
Today, I believe that if Walmart could – there would be discount, drive-up, cremation services complete with a computer funeral director, A.I. clergy and finishing up with sending the mourners back out to complete the shopping experience with a cardboard ash “urn” (with dandy little advertising printed on it) for the “mantle” below the 55+ inch class flat-screen TV.
Thinking of a nice vacation at a Mexican resort? You should have your head handed to you! Ooops, maybe you will!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/seven-mutilated-bodies-found-mexican-tourist-port-official-181751137.html
“South of the border, heads rolling away…”
Well said. Israel is the very essence of the Black Project, hell bent of World Conquest for thousands of years. == Janos
It made me remember the Soviet interpretation of anti-Semitism, according to which the bourgeoisie specifically provokes anti-Semitism in order to divert the proletariat from the class struggle with the bourgeoisie.
Replace proletariat in the Soviet interpretation of anti-Semitism with the Christians, and the bourgeoisie with the masons, and you’ll get quite an adequate picture of what is happening.
Apparently Ivan the Terrible was right when he said that the Russian people are the new Israel, with all its advantages and disadvantages.
I just read that the other day in a book about the Czars. Those terrible anti-Semitic peasants were rioting against the Jews. But of course the book forgot to mention that it was a Jewish assassin who killed the young Czar who had done so much for the Jews. You also leave out all important details – all the time.
The Mysteries of the Triangle Obama – Clinton – Trump or
Why Obama Did Not Pardon Hillary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK0niRWpG44
Why didn’t President Obama pardon Hillary Clinton?
After his election – as President-elect – Donald Trump announced that he bore no ill will towards the Clintons and didn’t want to hurt them. This was a rather surprising statement after 18 months speaking at huge rallies around the nation where the crowd inevitably chanted “Lock her up.”
But Trump knows that the Clintons represent a significant and malevolent force in politics both domestically and internationally.
Michelle’s feelings towards Hillary were blatantly obvious when no couple dinners were scheduled at the Obama White House while Hillary was Secretary of State and frequently meeting with the President.
Trump came up with a perfect solution: If Obama didn’t pardon Hillary, she would be at the mercy of the new president for the next 8 years and effectively neutralized.
Nice piece of journalistic work, but it doesn’t explain why Obamas – both Barack and Michelle – so enthusiastically campaigned for Hillary during the last 4 months of the campaign.
Bill Still does not go far enough – the only explanation is that Hillary took over the White House in June of 2016 and Obama’s family was under direct physical threat.
Can anyone tell me what the story is about Trump and the numbers at his inauguration? Serious question, as in order to get near the truth of any piece of news these days you have to spend time researching it. I keep seeing two pictures in the newspapers, one of wide boulevard covered in people (presumably Obama’s inauguration) and the other of the same road practically empty (Trump’s?).
The way I have picked it up is that Trump’s side were caught out telling a barefaced lie.
After the ‘Brexit’ vote last year it quickly became folk ‘wisdom’ that the ‘Leave’ side won because they had ‘lied’, making promises about the savings that would follow. Now (again) I hadn’t followed the referendum campaign but from what I saw it consisted of nothing but sound bites with little (or exceedingly little) analysis. In such a scenario truth and lies are somewhat irrelevant, in much the same way as they would be in a soap opera or an episode of the Simpsons.
I would be interested to know what the story is with the ‘attendance lie’. The numbers turning out in protests and demonstrations has been a continual issue in recent years. I remember the Irish media’s reports about the size of the demonstrations protesting about the invasion of Iraq. (The demonstrators were right on this occasion, it must be granted, even if I would not have wished to be associated with them.) The media here in Ireland reported a much larger number than those who turned out as evidence of support (it was something like a factor of X6, it might easily have extrapolated to more than the entire population). There was some debate about how they calculate these numbers – I think the police have experience in this area. And when I say ‘debate’, it is in the loosest sense because publicly there is next to none. (And when I say ‘next to none’ what I mean is that I didn’t notice any, but I wouldn’t necessarily rule out the possibility.)
I seem to recall some discussion of the numbers turning out for the protest against the ‘Brexit’ vote. American readers may not have seen the ‘iconic’ picture of a young man with is face painted in the British flag ‘iconically’ kissing a young lady with her face painted with the stars of the European flag. (Another ‘iconic image’ prominent on Facebook at the time was of the same imperial EU flag, but with one of the stars transformed into a tear drop. Aaah!)
The rule appears to be to over-estimate the size of liberal demonstrations and to under-estimate those of their opponents (if, indeed, they are reported at all.)
The weekly iMedia programme on TV Liberté has looked at a number of cases over the last year and more. The amount of deceit is usually of entertaining dimensions.
For me the most interesting part of the whole Trump story so far is the behaviour of the media. In Britain and (where I live) Ireland they are ‘una voce’. There is virtually no plurality and no opposition. The Irish media are particularly interesting as they seem to do no original thinking (on any topic, by the way) but are exquisitely sensitive to overseas opinion formers. They have of course been universally highly critical of Trump (some of them, hilariously, comforted their readership before the election: ‘But don’t worry. There isn’t a snowball in hell’s chance of him being elected.’. Then, following the election, there was a hurried repositioning, a hedging of bets: he wasn’t all bad, there were understandable reasons for the US electorate’s mistake. But over the last couple of days I sense a hardening of views again: Trump is a liar, an abuser of women, etc.
Is this the case in America too? Or has the media held the line from the start?
by the way, I found half an hour before the election to dig into the allegations of sexual assault made by a number of women. From what I saw I would be amazed if there is any truth to any of them, which of course comes as no surpise to anyone interested in modern mass delusions and witch hunts.
They’ve all withdrawn their accusations. They were afraid to face him in court. One is now suing Trump for slandering her because he called her a liar. She also withdrew her previous accusation – so she is.
Some commentators have admitted Liberal hubris and hatred of the proles caused the election of Trump. But the vast majority in the media cannot give up the moral high ground at all.
Sean Coleman: “I keep seeing two pictures in the newspapers, one of wide boulevard covered in people (presumably Obama’s inauguration) and the other of the same road practically empty (Trump’s?).
“The way I have picked it up is that Trump’s side were caught out telling a barefaced lie.”
On the one hand you have Trump, who is if nothing else a confident liar, declaring ahead of time that his inauguration will have the highest attendance of all time, later doubling down on that claim in the teeth of the evidence. On the other hand you have the media taking undeniable glee in refuting the claim after the fact, with things like the photo (taken from atop the Washington Monument). Some outlets also featured video footage of empty, or pretty much empty, stands lining the inauguration route. Additionally there was more quantitative evidence such as the underwhelming ridership figures recorded on the Washington Metro that day versus Obama’s first inaugural. In short, while the battle lines are clear enough, the facts in this case are not on Trump’s side, if anyone cares about facts.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/24/fact-check-inauguration-crowd-size/96984496/
Sean Coleman: “The rule appears to be to over-estimate the size of liberal demonstrations and to under-estimate those of their opponents (if, indeed, they are reported at all.)”
I propose an alternate interpretation: The rule is to over-emphasize the size of demonstrations that help the establishment narrative, and underestimate or simply ignore demonstrations that counter it. Compare coverage of the recent Women’s March versus coverage of the demonstrations in the lead-up to the Iraq War. The Women’s March received extensive coverage, while the anti-Iraq War dmonstrations were largely ignored in the media. The single biggest Iraq War demonstration, a worldwide phenomenon that took place on February 15, 2003, has been called “the largest protest event in human history” yet was simply steamrolled by the G.W. Bush administration’s drumbeat to war. In that case the media, led by the New York Times (special hat tip to their reporter, Judith Miller, aka Miss Run Amok), were basically on the side of the administration. Nowadays the establishment is split and it remains to be seen which side will carry the day.
EH: ‘I propose an alternative interpretation: The rule is to over-emphasize the size of demonstrations that help the establishment narrative, and underestimate or simply ignore demonstrations that counter it.’
This surprises me. In Britain and Ireland, and in Europe too, the establishment is liberal. It has become clear (to those who had not already realized) that the big divide is between the liberal establishment and a lot of the people. The rest of the people side with the establishment, although they may be convinced that they are ‘anti-establishment’.
I thought it was the same in America.
Indeed over here nearly everyone fancies himself as anti-establishment while at the same many, if not most, hold establishment (ie ‘anti-establishment’) opinions.
In Ireland the establishment line is to stand up to the tyranny of the Catholic Church, whereas said tyranny (which I doubt it ever was) has been extinct for forty years. Indeed, most of the clergy (or at least practically all who voice an opinion) themselves protest loudly against the ‘Hierarchy’. The ‘Hierarchy’ seems to be a mysterious place inhabited by ‘prelates’ (another Dan Browne word) who are old-style authoritarian and uncomplicatedly evil.
The leader of the Irish government (the Taoiseach Enda Kenny) a few years ago made a widely praised speech where he attacked an Ireland “where the swish of a soutane smothered conscience and humanity and the swing of a thurible ruled the Irish-Catholic world.” He believed he was ‘speaking truth to power’. Kenny is Fine Gael, the traditional Blue Shirts party, of solicitors, doctors and, well, ‘the establishment’.
When it turns out that there is nobody in the Irish ‘Hierarchy’ after all then all eyes turn to the ‘Vatican’. But this is the home of is a smiling, media-friendly Pope; who doesn’t fit the bill. So it is the turn of sinister, shadowy figures in the Vatican bureaucracy. Indeed, Pope Francis has attacked them himself. But my hunch is that they are as right-on as the next man and are looking for someone to point their own fingers at.
Sean, I regret that I can’t speak to the Irish experience.
In my home and native land, the traditional political rivals are the Liberal and Conservative (formerly Progressive Conservative) parties, the groupings that have traditionally traded off forming the government. The more left-aligned New Democratic Party was close to winning the most recent federal election if you believed the polls, which were in a nearly-even three-way split. Believing real power was within reach for the first time, the NDP pledged balanced budgets and other putatively economically-sound policies in an effort to seal the deal with less socialist-friendly voters. This enabled the Liberals to outflank them on the left, who correctly deemed that promising deficit spending to stimulate the economy would win them votes.
Meanwhile the Conservatives, who were fighting to hold on to power, tried to make an issue out of the niqab and other social hot-buttons that voters pretty soundly dismissed. The Canadian establishment (it has been called the ‘Laurentian consensus‘) is pretty reliably small-L ‘liberal’ and concerned with displaying open-mindedness when it comes to such things, and this time around the voters agreed with them.
In neither your country’s case nor mine is the establishment going through a legitimacy crisis anywhere near as serious as what the U.S. is now enduring. The U.S. media in particular are split between, on the one side, a few obvious Trump partisans like Breitbart, Fox News, and assorted right wing ravers and droolers, versus pretty much every other media outlet who are ganging up on the new president like nobody’s business.
The longer Trump survives in office, the healthier this will be for U.S. news media in my opinion. Journalists ought to be malcontents who relish holding those in power to account. U.S. media have come to be as distrusted as they are today precisely because they have been more interested in access and in cozying up to power than in truth-telling. What concerns me is that the Trump administration may hit on effective ways of luring the media into playing his games, such as turning press conferences into glitzy media spectacles that the media have to cover for the sake of ratings survival.
In the beginning of 2010s Russia was horrified by the level of combat readiness of its military forces, and the West was pleased to note it. Russia began to mobilize all forces for military restructuring and the West had fallen asleep again, lulled by the low level of the Russian readiness.
So when after only five years of conflict, the Russian elites have become totally uncompromising and West in its irritation arranged a mutiny on the outskirts of the new Empire (in Ukraine), it absolutely was not prepared for a forceful response.
These events are described many times in its genesis, but the main result was the full audit of the military capabilities of Western forces and Russia’s defense. As a result, the situation of the Old World Order Keepers developed quite into a dead-end. There were no real forces for their quick victory, and Russia in principle doesn’t know how to lose in a long-lasting war.
The closer the auditors were getting to the final report, the more clearly stood out hysterical tones. Because it is not enough that the current situation is very different from its preliminary assessment, but it is getting worse with each passing day.
By the second half of 2016 West came to understanding that even the nuclear blackmail does not excite Moscow too much. Even if you put under a rifle the entire population of Ukraine and Poland, there was no confidence that Russia at least would declare a full mobilization.
It became more and more clear that Russia would just mix NATO forces with dirt and do it just in exercise mode, as it happens in Syria, were Russian forces are fighting on the exercise budget of the Ministry of Defense.
The continues “appropriation” of US military budget by dishonest financiers ended that almost all modern types of US weaponry will have to go back to the drawing board.
And this at a time when Russia and China (sometimes together), are already moving from development to implementation and supply of such weapons to the troops. So until then, until the American military-industrial complex does not return its core competence, to start a big war for Americans is a pure suicide.
Here is the only thing that will stop Trump from turning the United States into a Banana Republic — you — get involved!
And regular people (like me) are getting involved. We turned up for the protest march in DC (500,000 of us) to let Trump and the GOP know we are not happy with what Trump and his minions want to do.
I have never been involved in any political action ever before but the rally was amazing. The nicest, most polite people who you could ever meet were there. And the cops were dancing and waving. All in all, a very positive and energizing event.
And there will be more.
“Nicest most polite people….a very positive and energizing event.”
Yep, very noice, and Madonna is not a Satanist, pornographer, and child corrupter of the highest order – a fabulous role model who wants to “blow up the White House…” That’s positively a direct threat against the president and I’m happy that (it was reported) she received a visit from the F.B.I. or Secret Service or was it Federal Marshals.
In any case I’m glad you had a good time and at least there was no actual violence, because peaceful assembly for grievances, real or perceived is the American Way.
And what do you mean the U.S.A. is not a Banana Republic?
Janet. That description of seeing Trump’S family and Obama’s family side by side and all of Trump’S children.. Trump’S children were not mentioned at all in the first book about him! Art of the Deal. He’s a good family man. Uh huh. And I’m Jesus of Nazareth. I think it was BRH who posted several weeks ago, I think were being played. Its worth repeating. During the campaign Trump asserted Ted Cruz was controlled by Goldman Sachs and assured the people he was not. Since his election, trump has appointed five (5) people affiliated with Goldman Sachs. Meanwhile , the 32% who still approve of Trump will get their huge tax cut.
The Vampire Squid* (Sacks of Gold Man!) leaves no stone unturned in its quest for total domination.
There is that shadowy Banana Republic theme again…hmmm.
*Thank you Matt Taibbi.
In Russia, groceries are getting cheaper
I was surprised to find that the prices of some products fell, and some significantly so.
Unprecedented deal for Russian merchants. Buckwheat, which at some point soared to 100 rubles/kilo – now you can buy at 50-60 in chain stores. Eggs, too, have fallen in price – 60-70 rubles, while previously you couldn’t find cheaper than 120 rubles. And so on – the potatoes and other vegetables, grains, milk. Even meats.
In principle, it has its reasons. Firstly, agriculture is developing and growing volume of domestic production, and on the other hand, the purchasing power of the citizens fell – and according to the laws of logic, to sell perishable goods traders have to cut the prices.
But it is in theory but in practice often greedy merchants, especially intermediaries, artificially inflate and hold prices.
However, here’s something, obviously, has changed – and the cost of products decreased, which is unique to the capitalist economy.
(During the Stalin economy, Soviet Union decreased prices every year in a planned manner, I think in April)
The “Don’t take any shit” people that put this man in office, those archetype Southerners that keep order when no chaos exists, who jump on people for untied shoestrings, no have the orange haired Daddy they always wanted. Bon a petit!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4147758/Small-cities-unprepared-population-flood-warns-urban-expert.html
But for ‘White Nations’ –Influx may be ‘migrants’.
Elysianfield, you ask is Trump’s ascendancy an accident of human folly?
You bet, human folly, but not the folly of voters. Not sure you can call it an accident either. It comes from the folly of Oligarchs, and their administrative clerisy, in creating an unworkable system of global production and consumption and trade that gutted the U.S. economy.
As JHK would say, this is a failed arrangement, and a reaction to the immiserization of tens of millions of Americans should have been expected. Trump is that reaction. Or one of them at least. This thing ain’t over.
The fact that it was Trump taking the oath of office and not someone a lot nastier should be taken by the maroons that created this mess as a reprieve, a wholly undeserved reprieve mind you. There’s some time, not much, but some time to get to the work of unwinding it. Having said that, given the fortunes expended in creating this debacle I would expect the opposite, a counter-reaction. They will dig in their heels.
And then what? History doesn’t repeat but it sure is instructive, ie trouble. Abusive ruling elites have found themselves variously overthrown, deprived of their property, chased into exile, guillotined, shot and thrown down mine shafts.
Will or own elites take the lessons of history? No, not a chance, they think that none of this applies to them. To them what matters is money, the numbers they look at are quarterly results and stock prices. They think they’re invulnerable. They think they can do what they want and get away with it. See, they’ve appropriated government intelligence agencies for their own use and protection, to keep at bay the forces of discontent. And history? History is a boring irrelevancy, the province of batty professors.
Me too, I can’t wait to see what happens next.
Will or own elites – typo, should be “will OUR own…”
Volodya,
I agree. Makes me wonder about “Dannyboy”, our resident 1%er…currently, no doubt, eyebrows-deep” in the roiling fleshpots of Havana…
‘Course, Dannyboy has a plan…an ass full of diamonds and Uber on the quick-dial….
Russian Defense Ministry Says Its Warplanes Have Flown First Combat Mission in Syria With U.S. Aircraft
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russian-defense-ministry-warplanes-flown-combat-mission-syria-44988439
Viva la Trump! Viva la Mad Dog Mattis!! Viva la America!!!
Hey! Hey! LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?
Michael,
what offshoring did was to build up China’s industrial and therefore military capabilities. Thanks to the U.S. oligarchy and its academic and political apologists for this.
If there is a Genghis Khan like charismatic leader that comes to the fore in China, it’s not beyond imagination that he makes use of this new wherewithal. Right now China isn’t just flexing its maritime muscle, I’ve read that Russians are getting highly uneasy about the numbers of Chinese walking across their borders and setting up shop without as much as a how-do-you-do.
Siberia, with all its resources, has got to look awfully enticing, especially as China is really crowded. And Chinese outnumber Russians by a vast margin.
China has got some real economic problems. And demographic problems too with a shortage of marriageable girls. And so it’s a whole lot better to export those problems.
1. It’s too cold for Chinese in Siberia – look at their population map and where it concentrates – in milder climates.
2. What happened to Chinese Army a Tamansky in 1968 is still pretty fresh in their memory when a million-strong invasion was wiped out in half hour.
” What happened to Chinese Army a Tamansky in 1968″
Finc,
I, until this point, was unaware of any major battles between the USSR and the Glorious People’s Army. A cursory internet search did not reveal much. Has there ever been books written on this conflict? Any in English? I would like to study this event. You, then being a freshly minted Officer at that point in time,have any direct experience in the conflict?
There was no glorious battle, there was a meat grinder. They sunk the Tamansky Island as well for good measure – you can’t find it anywhere on the map of Amur river anymore.
Nobody wants to talk about it now, as well as nobody wants to talk what really happened in 2011 in Fukushima and why Japanese started to evacuate their Moscow Embassy just few days before the Tsunami struck in Fukushima.
Some stories are better left untold.
” They sunk the Tamansky Island as well ”
No doubt by “unconventional” means….
“And demographic problems too with a shortage of marriageable girls.”
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there are upwards of 100 million females “missing” from the global population due to women exercising their “choice” to abort female children.
So once again I will remind the feminists not to raise a petard they can’t afford to be hung from.
You’re a f*****g imbecile. Do you even know what a petard is? How on earth is one hung from one?
If you’re going to quote Shakespeare; know it.
Too many window-lickers. We deserve Trump.
I agree completely Frankiti. Too many people are eager to post here without knowing what they are talking about. I hate to agree with you, but you are right, we deserve Trump. To quote an old saying, “Democracy contains the seeds of it’s own destruction.” On this wonderful thing we call the internet, every asshole out there can express his own dipshit opinion,whether it makes sense or not. Compared to the intelligence of JHK, many of the people here do not deserve the courtesy of having their opinions considered. I look at this Blog as being similar to a table at a bar, and most of the people here would not be welcome at my table. I know that this sounds elitist, but I can’t help it. At this stage of my life, I don’t have time to listen to every idiot with an opinion. Like the man said, “Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one”. I expect some great responses to this post.
Because of the one child per couple policy, the Chinese aborted incredible numbers of their girls since boys carry the family name and so they needed a boy. So? So he’s right and you two are wrong.
And I wouldn’t want you at my table either – but only because you don’t want to talk to people unless you already agree with them. In other words, you don’t really believe in First Amendment. No doubt you think you do, but you don’t.
The man continued, “… and they all stink”.
Not only can they express their opinion, they often pass it off as fact. Most are aware that “news” is scarcely straight facts. There is always an angle and nuance and context. Opinion rules these days. Facts are difficult to parse out, and they seldom lead to truth, if it even exists.
I think this blog is more akin to the carny’s trailer at a traveling tent revival circus. Freaks, trash, masqueraders, religiots and fools. Many come to see them, as opposed to the big tent sermon and performance.
The shtick of this particular a**hole is to misrepresent himself as Black, and then there is Janos shedding crocodile tears for dead Asian kids.
There comes a time when every clown, halfway through painting his face, realizes the act isn’t working… and he’s only fooling himself. The show goes on, and circuses keep traveling.
This is to Janos,
I read this—China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power.
By, Nicholas D. Kristof is a New York Times op-ed columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. With his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, he has written four best-selling books, including the No. 1 New York Times best-seller “Half the Sky.” Kristof and WuDunn were the first married couple to win a Pulitzer for journalism, for their coverage of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in China and the massacre that followed. Kristof later won a second for his columns from Darfur. Kristof and WuDunn live in the New York area with their three children.
It mentions the disparity. And goes into things that I didnt
consider, like ‘a boy will be taken to the doctor while a girl will not be taken, she will recover from her illness.’
It went into the percent gender imbalance. What does that number translate to? In ‘missing females?’
Frank: Why shouldn’t Thwack be Black? Because you think all Blacks must agree with you? And he’s the asshole?
Malthus: I have no idea how many girls they abort – but it is huge. No doubt many of the fetuses are used in experiments or as cosmetics or medicine.
“The shtick of this particular a**hole is to misrepresent himself as Black,” –Frankiti
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Hey Frank,
I may indeed be an A-hole; but I am not misrepresenting myself as black; Jim knows who I am.
But I do think you are practicing racism by representing my behavior as the type a black person could not or would not engage in?
Do you know any real black people?
You need to get out a bit more.
Petard retard
weez gonna get it
good and hard
Wow?
negro scholastic errors really bring out the klan in you guys?
Yikes!
I would guess 100 million in China. alone.
See my post to Janos.
“In private Facebook groups, wealthy survivalists swap tips on gas masks, bunkers, and locations safe from the effects of climate change. One member, the head of an investment firm, told me, “I keep a helicopter gassed up all the time, and I have an underground bunker with an air-filtration system.” He said that his preparations probably put him at the “extreme” end among his peers. But he added, “A lot of my friends do the guns and the motorcycles and the gold coins. That’s not too rare anymore.”
Doomsday Prep for the Super Rich, New Yorker 1/30/2017
JHK,
Not sure you’ll see this, but I’d like to say thanks for a second bit of space on your site this week. I’ll make this comment fairly long but my last one for a while. I respect the central theme this week, but I view Trump’s supporters/detractors to be desperately attempting to flee from an emotionless overarching reality that’s going to have its way — despite any set of govt. initiatives — no matter if they recognize it or don’t. Ecologic chaos a/k/a Climate Change will kick us all in the belly, soon. Those refugee/invaders are coming now, and if not let in they’ll force their way, and I don’t blame them. Sides will be chosen and hands forced, especially when the bread baskets go empty. For all the hopeful projections and emotional anguish felt toward Drumpf, exactly as that felt for Obombya, the sweat and tears will evaporate to yet another pile of salt and sadness just the same. Whether one likes or dislikes the current legitimacy crisis that is our government, every one of those voters will in a heartbeat turn to the state for assistance and intervention in one sense or another. The tragedy unrealized is that the youngest of us will be left entirely naked and awash in the brutality of hard consequence before the eldest of us fully die out. The Deep State is ever working to ensure that one half of the electorate stands ready to quiet the other half as needed.
I enjoyed yesterday reading a fat 55-year-old blogger wannabe who visits this site threaten a consummate intellectual troll who posts daily as both used the language of Civil War. My guess is that neither of these fucks could hump around a neighborhood block with a rifle and rations strapped to their back, plus their belly fat, before dying of exhaustion in a mud puddle aside the road. So that leaves mitigation and striving to survive with loved ones to those like me, men of some ability who’d summarily ghost the burdens of generational excess with extreme prejudice and without hesitation before the big war party even gets started.
JHK, you recently described the forthcoming U.S. effort to salvage the economy in podcast with Chris Martenson as the greatest, and I would add — final— misallocation of resources. Trump’s lingo of triumphalism and vows of return to industrial bliss ignore external driving factors entirely, from what I’ve read. But what can any of us do now but kick back and laugh at the newest American virtue cartoon, its latest paragon leading way to renewed rapacity with incoherent gestures of liberal reformist credo and quasi-fascist tactic? Like it or not, natural physical ingredients will continue to collide against man’s economic philosophies and fantasies.
There are but few developed voices on how these particular clashes might emerge. I first learned of Guy Mcpherson’s extremist position on climate change several years ago on CFN and was at once startled and doubtful. Finding videos of presentations Mcpherson had given on certain near term human extinction lead to discovery of a differing and more confident view from Dr. Mark Cochrane. Some relief was attained. After mentioning Cochrane on CFN, he later became a featured voice of Martenson’s podcast. Appearing recently again on that podcast, it’s interesting that Cochrane’s view has shifted significantly closer, but now is only tentatively confident of human survival, to Mcpherson’s. However, neither of these two voices do much but cite the strong interpolative evidence that anthropogenic-climate-chaos is real, and government ought to do something.
So what of the international government economic and political promises being made during recent global conferences regarding climate shift and action? And what do non-celebrity seeking scientists have to say about these plans of action? After all, the discussion is flooded with plenty of enviro-celebrity hypocrisy to be sure, not to mention a tacit, cowardly admission that brown people are going to burn and die first, and it’s kind of OK. No doubt I too despise the bleeding-heart perspective on environmental collapse, so I understand why so many avoid the discussion. I know this post won’t change that much. Still, for those who’d like to know, to objectively critique the promises of liberal do-gooders and triumphant free marketers who pretend to give a shit about forthcoming disaster, here it is:
Energy expert Kevin Anderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpbfGaKp4K4
Trump just signed the executive orders moving along the Dakota Access and XL pipelines. Just another step towards the 2 degree C threshold.
Thousands of new nuclear plants will make the earth itself resemble a nuclear reactor, waiting to go critical. But with continued population growth and ever decreasing resources, it seems to be the most logical way to go, to avoid that climb to 4 degree C.
The drastic changes needed to immediately and substantially lower the carbon footprint won’t take place in time. We will have to live with and suffer the consequences.
Trump just declared himself an environmentalist. You can’t be an environmentalist and not be for mother earth.
If you are for mother earth, how much needed “life” can you rip from her womb?
“Trump’s cabinet appointments …looks like one set of rackets is due to be replaced by a new and perhaps worse set.”
Yes, Mr. Kunstler. As Mr. Trump was up front making nice-nice with The Folk, the billionaire club seated behind him was busily making up its wish list. You have alluded to 3-card monte, and I think this it it to the max.
Either Hillary or Trump could have been inaugurated, but the same old party won the election–the party of Goldman Sachs. I fear it bodes ill for our children, and certainly for our planet.
You could be right. And Trump just declared himself an environmentalist.
That, along with Kellyanne Conway’s “alternative facts” is enough disingenuousness for me. I hope it stops.
And Spicer, as we can already see, is certainly adroit when it comes to being shifty and evasive, like most press secretaries.
The alternative facts fit perfectly with the alternative universe that we now occupy. It was best expressed by DC comics with Superman when he encountered Bizarro Superman, who of course came from the bizarro universe. I present to you our bizarro president, Donald Trump.
I read somewhere, some time ago, of some nascent theory positing that Autism and its related spectrum are most likely evolutionary adaptations in response to the flaw of over-developed human emotion. Human emotion that gets in the way of rational and instinctual programming. Emotion that is an impediment to the species, the superorganism and eusociality.
Reactions to this election should hasten it.
Ultimately, humanity’s future is looking more robotic.
Wilson says, “we have created a Star Wars civilization with Stone Age emotions”.
He also says, “we are not ants (eusocial, my parentheses), we can do what ants can’t; pull up to a campfire, roast marshmallows, and sing a song”.
Does an emotion exist, anywhere in the universe, outside the known range of our own basic emotions? Love, hate, anger, jealousy, greed, lust, fear. Combinations don’t count.
Some things like contempt or disdain, or indifference could be considered states of mind more than emotion.
Whatever, assuming the same basic carbon lifeform, can a different, unique emotion exist outside our range?
Or will it require a much different chemical makeup for the organism? And what would that emotion be?
Some say there are 2 (love, fear), scientists say 4 (happy, sad, fear, anger).
Many agree that emotional sublimation is where human creativity and pure living in real time exists.
And ants don’t throw the empty marshmallow bag into the woods, become diabetic, and start a forest fire… all on account of an exercise to usher in joy in place of sadness, in place of ennui.
Unwittingly, I left out happiness and sadness, connected in full emotional circle.
Second line would look good on a study’s desk if it weren’t so long. It’s quite profound.
Ants can carry marshmallow bags into the woods, but I think we’re in agreement overall. Ants do not have emotions like ours, as far as we know.
Because they don’t need them to function. Humans need things like campfires with marshmallows to take their minds off, to ease their emotions surrounding, the cold hard facts of their existence.
Ants march on not knowing, not caring. Humans know they are ultimately marching to their inescapable deaths. This fear and ultimate dread makes for a lot of detrimental (to themselves, and other humans) behavior on the march.
A future of emotionless autistic savants may be what survival orders, but it won’t be in time to stop the AI
“I read somewhere, some time ago, of some nascent theory positing that Autism and its related spectrum are most likely evolutionary adaptations in response to the flaw of over-developed human emotion.”
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You need to stop reading so much.
“Autism” is just another one of those “conditions” white people made up for THEMSELVES as an excuse to explain away why they suck at this, that, or the other thing…
What do you call a black person with “autism?”
Exactly;
you don’t know because black people aren’t allowed to have “autism.” When we suck and our sh*t is all f*cked up and retarded… you say its because we’re black; we don’t get to invent a condition to explain it away.
Autism, Limes disease, moon landings… y’all just make sh*t up.
*vomit*
Hey thwack I haven’t analyzed it but your witty retorts sound a lot like our friend Dannyboy from Manhattan.
Would you be one and the same?
brh
Blacks are too primitive to be autistic for the most part. When your IQ is 70, how much more do you have to lose?
But in the movie on vaccinations causing autism, there was a Black boy featured with autism – he got a double dose and he never recovered. The mother grabbed the sister away before they could stick her. They were siblings. She was playing the piano while he was gibbering over his little kid book.
This will help reduce population numbers…….
Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy, also known as the global gag rule, which was first put in place by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. It prohibits giving U.S. funding to international nongovernmental organizations that offer or advise on a wide range of family planning and reproductive health options if they include abortion ? even if U.S. dollars are not specifically used for abortion-related services.
Prohibiting abortion and family planning services will result in an INCREASE in population.
I was attempting sardonic humor!!!!!
the only thing mexicans use condoms for is to swallow heroin bundles…
In the first seven days after Donald Trump’s election, 13,401 Americans registered with New Zealand’s immigration authorities, the first official step toward seeking residency—more than seventeen times the usual rate.
American emigration (mostly of the super rich leaving) is increasing. New Zealand is just one of many countries where folks have a plan B for Trumpocalypse.
Funny, WPAsshatoka, how the celebrities threatened to leave the US for Canada. Bellying their own deeply concealed racism.
Mexico is a mere 2.5 hour drive from LA.
They could easily commute to LA from Tijuana and its outskirts.
No, they chose Canada. They speak English there, they respect the environment, live with less crime, are exponentially safer.
Better healthcare, governance, and civilization.
All the things the US was before the deep pull downward.
Nah, the cesspools are for poor people, poor brown people that speak foreign tongues.
Belying SC
There is Janos shedding crocodile tears for dead Asian GIRLS.
Oh, fuck you, Frankie.
Aww, were you choking on Vlad’s impaler when you read that?
Y tú, Frankiti… ¿no sabes leer inglés? … Vuelvo y repito:
“New Zealand is just one of many countries where folks have a plan B for Trumpocalypse.”
Miles de norteamericanos ya se han escapado de EEUU… y no sólo para vivir en San Miguel de Allende… sino en todo Mexico lindo. Estás lleno de prejuicios.
WPAsshatoka cobarde escondido.
Somos todos escondidos y anónimos acá… ¿o quieres salir de tu cobardía y publicar tus datos? ¡Caso del burro llamando al otro orejón! Hipócrita.
Bellying??
look up dummy, already addressed
Caso del burro llamando al otro orejón. Hipócrita.
3 and a half million illegals voting against Trump, the reason trump lost the popular vote. That would be a momentous scandal! Think he’ s meshuga? Ya think?!?!? Bibliomaniac, that’s one of the nicest things anyone ever wrote about me, what you wrote, and to be mentioned in the same sentence as Cold and Janet and James. wow. But it’s really about Donald Trump. Kidding.
You can learn a lot from James. Keep reading. One thing if I could learn you, don’t give up. And along with JHK s posts and Colds too read some Wendell Berry like The Hidden Wound.
There are many decent people living in our urban areas, and here’s what they’re up against. We hired an Hispanic women about a month ago; she was working out pretty good, in on time every nite and adjusting to this 3rd shift schedule, which isn’t easy, ‘specially in the beginning. The noise of the presses and chemical residue in the air, which drives many new people out, didn’t seem to bother her too much. I was assigned to show her around, show her the ropes so to speak, and got to know her a little bit. She told me she had 4 kids and was living with this dude,
About a week in she showed up with 2 black eyes. I asked her what happened; she told me she fell down the stairs at her house. I left it at that, thinking its really none of my business. Then one night a few weeks ago she didn’t show up. We called, what happened? Turns out her car was stolen out of the parking lot where she lives. We arranged to get her a ride in with another employee. Several nights later she was waiting for her ride with 4 little kids because the dude she lived with got arrested, was in jail, and there was nobody to watch the kids, 4 little kids. We brought the kids in and made them as comfortable as we could in our break room. Well she found somebody to babysit the next day and that’s where things stand now.
Civilization in our urban areas has basically collapsed. An honest person trying to make a living doesn’t have a chance in hell.
brh
“Civilization in our urban areas has basically collapsed.” –brh
Really? And what are Trump and the Republican controlled congress going to do about it? The time for bitching is over. It is time for action. No more blaming collapse on liberals and Democrats. It is time to make America great again. Charge first-time homeowners $500 more each year for mortgage insurance, paint a bulls-eye on the backs of our soldiers, run oil pipelines through Standing Rock, ban any federal money for legal and safe abortions, round up hard-working, law-abiding immigrants who overstayed their visas, etc. Yeah, make Amurca great again.
He hasn’t been in office for a week yet.
I have to say a good percentage of the people I work with, black, white and Hispanic, support Donald Trump.
Next time run a good candidate, not an entitled, corrupt, elitist wobbly old hag. Maybe you’ll win.
brh
“He hasn’t been in office for a week yet.” –brh
He promised that in the first hour in the FIRST HOUR our heads would spin from two million immigrants deported, ISIS eliminated, blah blah blah
Now you are going to tell me the same thing politicians always say: “these things take time”? Business as usual. Trump is the ultimate billionaire politician insider Goldman Sachs, blah blah blah
I would have much preferred the elitist wobbly old hag. She didn’t promise miracles in the FIRST HOUR like your liar did.
About 47.5% of the people I know support Trump.
Some of what he is doing is shaking up the status quo. I am in favor of that, but he needs more people around him who think outside the box about real policies and programs rather than how to circumvent the media.
On energy, what not launch a national program to develop a fusion reactor or to build thorium reactors. How about an actual health care plan to take the place of the ACA. (They certainly have had plenty of time to think about it.)
“Clearly, the pathetic remnant of the American left has more hate for those who stand up for the working class than they have for those oppressing the working class and those fomenting war. Why did the women so quick to march against Trump not march against the Clinton, Bush/Cheney, and Obama regimes for killing, maiming, orphaning, widowing, and dislocating millions of peoples in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Syria?
That we see the left aligned with the ruling elites against Trump is proof that the left has abandoned the working class.” PCR
Your bitching don’t match your itching. You want to skate after five days? And two of them a weekend?
Trump was the first to ever say anything about gangs in his inaugural address, and probably the first POTUS to accept it as his problem.
It is great that you went to such an extreme to help her. We’d all be better off if we did more to help each other. What has and will hasten our decline is the obsession with our own point of view and values. In short, we need to practice compassion and empathy. I think what we will find out in short order is that indulging the self will become a national practice – if it is not already.
Jim Webb would have been a good candidate for the Dems, one that could probably have won. He got almost no support from the party.
brh
Jim Webb is a centrist/right militarist. We did run a good candidate. Bernie Sanders got support from the party, winning 23 states.
Clinton herself got 2.8 million more votes than Trump.
There were no “illegal immigrants” voting fraudulently as Trump claims and he has presented no evidence of any illegal or fraudulent votes. He lost the popular vote. His inauguration was smaller than Obama’s and smaller than the Women’s March.
Jimmie Webb is a particularly vile leftie i.e. ideal D candidate. His last run at the imperial throne was scuttled when grotesque scenes of perversion were reproduced from one of his early failed novels (Lost Soldiers): scene involved sucking and masturbating a hapless baby’s genitals in some kind of pervert ritual. Nothing too low for a vile leftie…….
“I have to say a good percentage of the people I work with, black, white and Hispanic, support Donald Trump.” –brh
They are in the minority. In Connecticut Hillary Clinton received the majority of the votes… by almost 14%:
Hillary Clinton
897,572
54.6%
Donald J. Trump
673,215
40.9%
It wasn’t even close. They love Hillary in Connecticut.
I will therefore avoid Connecticut.
Trump got us out of TPP and is going to smash NAFTA. He said today he’s in favor of rebuilding the railroads. Gotta love that.
True, he is unpolished in the presidential protocol, but I think that train left a long time ago.
After 8 years of the Kenyan usurper who spent $85 million of taxpayer money on private vacations, a well-trained monkey could serve us better.
I didn’t vote for Trump, but I wish him well and hope he can stay alive long enough to make a difference.
“I didn’t vote for Trump, but I wish him well and hope he can stay alive long enough to make a difference.” –Trump
He has already made a difference to first-time home buyers, women, immigrants, and military personnel in Iraq. Not in a good way. But as a person he seems fun even though his policies suck.
So I hope he has stopped eating McDonalds and KFC. Studies have been done on sodium, fats, and sugar in diet. Eating fast food two to three times per week increased the risk of dying from coronary artery disease 50 percent.
“Studies have been done on sodium, fats, and sugar in diet. Eating fast food two to three times per week increased the risk of dying from coronary artery disease 50 percent.C
Janet,
How about we meet up and have a few cheeseburgers…I’m buying….
Trump is suspending all refugee admissions for 120 days while the administration determines which countries pose the least risk.
Got that? He’s been promising to stop immigration until he could figure out “what the hell is going on” (Trump is concerned but clueless). So now after 18 months of trying to figure it out, he says he needs 120 days more … another four months. This is standard politician behavior. Business as usual. Hell, he should appoint a commission to “study” the matter … that would delay for another two years.
So what?
Who gives a sh=t?
Trump gets 2, maybe 3 supreme court picks.
I mean how much longer can Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg hang on?
That’s what’s important.
brh
“how much longer can Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg hang on?” –brh
Four years. That’s all that is needed. She’s only 83. She doesn’t even have to hang on until she’s 90.
The buzzards are already gathering for her. As are the demons, or powers of the aire.
“Trump gets 2, maybe 3 supreme court picks.” –brh
Trump is not a legitimate president. Trump is already a lame duck president who did not win the popular vote, so Supreme Court nominees cannot be interviewed, given a hearing, considered, or voted upon until a president who wins the popular vote is elected. Precedent for delay until Trump finishes his term has already been set in the case of Merrick Garland.
According to a Fox News national poll, Trump assumed the presidency with by far the lowest level of support since the inception of polling. Just over 1/3 of Americans support the Trump agenda while 58% are opposed. Wow, talk about a short honeymoon!!!!
Any democrat other than Hillary would have won the election.
If there was a Nobel prize for hypocrisy, Mitch McConnell would win it.
Assuming no Democrats defections, the Republicans may resort to the so-called “nuclear option” to break the filibuster. Otherwise, we are well om the way to system where the party holding the white house must have a super majority in the Senate to get supreme court vacancy filled.
BTW, El Presidente Don says he won the popular vote if you discount all those 2.5 million Mexicans Hillary had bused into California to vote for her.
In an NPR report in Nogales, México, Mexican ranchers said building a wall is not possible due to rough terrain. Drug dealers of the Sinaloa cartel laughed at the idea of a wall saying there is always a way over or around a wall and they are not worried. They don’t think it will be built anyway and don’t feel their business is threatened. Trump is an international laughingstock for his dumb wall idea.
In any event, the reality is that Trump is going to punt on the wall, giving Congress the responsibility to build the wall. He has promised to make Mexico pay for it, but it is unclear how he will do so. Nothing that Trump has said about the wall has been true so far. Congress is dysfunctional and won’t do anything. There will be no secure border. Without a secure border there will be no mass deportation (those deported would just come back across). Trump’s whole immigration manipulation was a ruse that people fell for… red meat for the rubes.
It’s going to be built and IT will be miles high. Aliens from Space will marvel at is height and Trump’s power. There are already whispers that Trump is an avatar of Galactus himself.
I get your humor now. You are a funny man.
Newsweek wrote an article about the “wall” in the fall of 2015. The length of the border is almost 2,000 miles. It runs through lakes and rivers and along mountain ridges some of which are as tall as 8,000 feet. There are already a myriad of tunnels under the border and more will be built. People pass through hidden in cargo trucks, by boat, and using forged papers. A wall will do nothing, but the cost will be enormous.
That does not even take into account the indirect economic effect.
According to a Fox News national poll, Trump assumed the presidency with by far the lowest level of support since the inception of polling. Just over 1/3 of Americans support the Trump agenda while 58% are opposed. Wow, talk about a short honeymoon!!!!
Fucker should never have promised to do so much in his FIRST HOUR in office. That just meant that hour two he was fair game. Is he that sensitive and thin-skinned? If he can’t take the heat, he should not be in the kitchen. He has not even begun to see resistance. He is going down in 2018, if not sooner… as JHK says this week: He is Risen… But For How Long?
“Is he that sensitive and thin-skinned? ”
Janet,
Attention to detail is the hobgoblin of small minds. You do not take the bible literally, yet it supposedly is divinely inspired…you do not take the Constitution literally, as the Supreme Court is designed to parse its meaning. Yet you take Trump at his literal word…and you should. Missed a time line by 48 hours? Oh my!
It appears that Trump is going to try to do everything he said he would…very unusual for a President, and a welcome change from the past.
You are on the wrong side of history.
You are pegging my schadenfreude meter, as well as, perhaps, your significant other.
…suck it.
ISIS? Why does ISIS still exist? Trump promised to take care of ISIS on his first day in office. Trump has floated various strategies but refused to give details. He promised a hardline approach, but has done nothing. Is he giving the radical extremists a pass? Or is he waiting for them to strike the USA first? Or was he just lying about knowing more than the generals?
ISIS? Why does ISIS still exist?
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Because they are funded by the very governments the U.S is protecting.
The Saudi royal family and the various royal sheikhdoms are never more than 30 days from getting their heads chopped off. Groups like “ISSIS”, “Al Queda…” function as “sinks” to collect angry young Arab men and give them a place to go and something to do; a purpose if you will.
They are provided just enough support to keep them fighting, but never enough to win.
Its like “midnight basketball” with guns and bombs.
The 3rd world is a very young demographic; half of their population is under 25 or something like that.
Recently something like 20 million Muslims went on a pilgrimage to Karbala (south of Baghdad) in late November against ISIS. But all Islam is a hateful and violent religion and all Muslims are evil and terrorists.
No “edit function”
Approximately 20 million Muslims went on a pilgrimage (or march as some might call it) to Karbala about 60 miles south of Baghdad last November protesting ISIS. But the rhetoric by most leaders in the west would have you believe that Islam is a violent religion and that all Muslims, if they read the Quran and follow Muhammad are terrorists.
Believing the former, and the failure to allow the latter to enter public dialogue, is what I consider to be “alternative facts” and “fake news.”
This is why identitarianism is pernicious. It distorts thought by misleading people to assimilate negative qualities exhibited in an identity context to the identity itself.
– There are fanatical Muslim terrorists? Therefore we have to protect ourselves against Muslims — never mind that that’s over a billion people, while the religious fanatics number a few tens of thousands, if that.
– There are over 23,000 violent crimes committed each week* in the U.S. As many as one of them was committed by an illegal alien? Clearly this is an altogether unique and crucial category of crime.
– You’re scared of black men? Look, there’s one! Shoot first! Or even twelve-year-old kids? For all you know, the toy gun in his hands might have been real. Best to be sure. Rights are for white people.
* FBI figures: ~1.2 million violent crimes in 2015 divided by 52 weeks.
I’ve never heard that term (identitarianism) before but it certainly fits.
My own bigotry leads me to draw false conclusions and generalize more than I like. But I usually catch myself before I go too far.
I actually get the white male supremacy argument that the world would be a better place if everyone else were relegated to pre-suffragan status. A cursory and superficial study of history does seem to show that we are masters of the universe. But not if you look deeper.
Would we really want to go back to the middle ages – or even to a time in this country when woman and minorities were considered property? Would society function better if wife beaters and racists ruled?
Obviously that is rhetorical and I suggest it only to refute the exaggerations of many posters and posers.
Over the weekend, President Trump indicated that he would continue Obama’s foreign policy. The US conducted some 31 airstrikes in Syria and Iraq and two drone strikes in Yemen. Ron Paul want to know: will we achieve different results doing the same thing over and over?
Janet–Good question from Ron Paul. From what I understand it’s the definition of insanity.
CARNAGE: Trump’s plan for America.
ISIS? Why does ISIS still exist? Trump promised to take care of ISIS on his first day in office.
Donald Trump brought war to ISIS 30 minutes before his swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20. The strike by a single B-52, flying out of Qatar, killed more than 100 terrorists in northern Syria.
https://youtu.be/z2Pcoz4-NAQ?t=24
Of course Bill Still, still being an “American exceptionalist” is full of it when he implies that America’s 200-year old B-52s have better precision-strike capabilities than Russian bombers, not to speak of the capabilities of newest Russian precision Caliber missiles that could be launched from the small ships in Caspian Sea.
Just Russia carefully avoids making a blood feud with US Military by killing some US and NATO “instructors” embedded in those terror camps.
You guys, feel free to clean up your own mess.
The Trump Untouchables
If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible “carnage” going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the Feds!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/824080766288228352
You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the *Chicago* way! And that’s how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I’m offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOvH-7lcjb0
Now when Rahm Emanuel, who was appointed by Clintons to be a Boss of Mid-West organized crime, lost his “roof” in Washington, there’re still plenty of good cops in Chicago PD to cooperate with the FEDs and clean up the city.
Gutfeld to Emanuel: ‘Shut Up’ About Trump & Focus on Chicago’s Murder Epidemic
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/01/24/greg-gutfeld-monologue-rahm-emanuel-chicago-violence-president-donald-trump
Now, Janos, what Rahm Emanuel being Jewish and me being Jewish too has to do with the carnage in Chicago?
Stop blowing your anti-Semitic cover smoke out of your ass!
Bretton-Woods might have led to gold flowing in the needed way for a while, but LBJ’s Guns and Butter budget ended up killing the London Gold Pool, which was the last gasp of Bretton-Woods == NanyMouse
The technicalities of the monetary system are of course very important, but if we forget that economics must be based first of all on economic ethics we won’t go anywhere. There always will be crooks and thieves who will manage to find loopholes in any “perfect” system.
Economic ethics is a kind of social ethics, containing ethical standards and requirements for the participants of economic relations.
The causes of many negative phenomena in contemporary society, why it is immersed in corruption, disintegration, and pessimism, should be sought at the level of corrupt customs and immoral behavior, and above all in the social order of society and the system of its institutions, in the area of social ethics.
Now, fixing a social ethics is a much harder problem than just fixing the technicalities.
Finc, the view that “fixing a social ethics is a much harder problem than just fixing the technicalities” was, according to U. of Chicago Prof. Allan Bloom, (and, somewhat, Princeton Prof. Walter Kaufmann) central to the thought of the Enlightenment guys (from Machiavelli and Locke, thru Montesquieu, Voltaire, Hume, Smith, and the Framers) before Rousseau took a different direction.
These guys saw fixing a social ethics to be usually a losing battle, such that we are better off focusing on “fixing the technicalities”. The Framers were pretty damn good at that, and my sense is that FDR was very much in that Enlightenment tradition.
If we are to have any decent chance to fix any social ethics, we need leaders of public opinion who take whistleblowing (vs. the Elites’ exploitation of loopholes) deadly seriously. But when the (subtle) anti-whistleblowing doctrines of guys like Faulkner and Steinbeck get more attention than is given to those who clearly object to such doctrines, any chance to fix social ethics is sabotaged.
Virtually no one in the West understands that those two guys’ highly-touted Nobel Prize banquet speeches may as well have been drafted by Rousseau or Hitler. So this Enlightenment Tradition, rather nobly defended by FDR, JFK, and (to a degree) JFK’s pal Goldwater, has gotten lost in the shuffle of a deafeningly-noisy Post-modern “culture”, which owes so much to outright Nazis like Heidegger, and quasi-Nazis like de Man (and Derrida?).
Authoritarian rule may have come to America. Rachel Maddows show last night tweets about climate change from the Badlands, the National Park service deleted within an hour deleted with corresponding instructions that governmental technology not to be used for this purpose until further notice or something very close to that. America may have gotten it’s Putin. Bibliomaniac, I would definitely suggest her show for interesting information. Pay attention. Smerica May not have gotten it’s Ceasar nor it’s Putin but it’s Nero. Some of the vest signs from the women’s March “Pussy grabs back.” ” blink twice Malanis if you want us to save you.” “This is a very bad sign, but so is our president.” at the very least when Obama was elected there weren’t rampant hate crimes, MASSIVE, and I do mean massive, demonstrations. Pay attention.
barb–You got it. Facts have a way of kicking us in the a$$. I’m watching Maddow. And it if’s OK to assault women, then it’s OK to starve children, beat animals, assault the earth. I’m amazed that some do not see the connection.
Savage Capitalism is the parasite that is now devouring the host.
As Struther Martin said in “Cool Hand Luke”– “What we have here is a FAILURE to communicate.”
Whites were savaged during the Trump Campaign, just as was Richard Spencer the other day. You people don’t give a shit about our lives, dignity, and property. Now you cry wolf? Fuck you.
Yes, women bring their children to these vile marches and Gay Pride events – some even to the unspeakable Folsom Street Fair.
Dem Injuns are outta luck. They should be grateful for their casino scam – as if they are the ones who built them.
Vile marches indeed! I’ve survived 58 years without attending a single political march/rally and I don’t intend to start now. Pussy hats and obscene signs were everywhere in San Jose on Saturday.
Went to church on Sunday and some idiot asked if everyone who attended the protest would stand up. It was half the congregation! I kept my mouth shut. Part of me wanted to stand up (during the prayer and concerns time) and say, “God please inspire the world’s most famous Presbyterian–Donald Trump.”
Jen in San Jose
PS I did attend the Tournament of Roses Parade once.
You are most unusual indeed. Most Buddhists like to march. You must an unusual mix of old and new. Did you vote for Trump? Do you now accept you are well behind enemy lines? California may yet burn by the Mexican hand.
Yes, I voted for Trump. I’m behind enemy lines, but the weather is great in San Jose.
Ken Wilber coined a term: Boomeritus. It’s a frame of mind that boomers believe that they truly can change the world by speaking their mind or marching for a cause.
I have a big ego, but I know that my voice means nothing.
Authoritarian rule may have come to America.
Rachel Maddows show last night tweets about climate change from the Badlands, the National Park service deleted within an hour deleted with corresponding instructions that governmental technology not to be used for this purpose until further notice.
GOOD FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
Climate Change, a meaningless term.
Here’s how it works…a rich msn has plate of 10 cookies. He sits in front if a man who has little and takes 9 cookies from the plate and says ” hey, that immigrant is going to take your cookie. ” Hence, the border wall along the south’s border, which, thank you, the Mexicans aren’t going to pay for, despite what the ass fuck promised. Nor will Donald Trump pay for it! No indeed! WE will pay for it. He is risen is perhaps going to sign “an order” today. Thanks America. And add to that he is risen is not going to look into voter suppression but voter fraud because if he is risen’s fear that everyone does not love him. Seems like a Nero to me.
No hate crimes during Obama’s administration? What planet is Barbie living on? Mexican criminals have been killing our people and Blacks youfs rampaging. But a new sheriff is in Town and things are gonna change.
And Barb is just that plastic doll that goes into the drawer never to be seen again. Your daughter just didn’t like it and didn’t even bother taking it out of the box. You took it out so it could fit in the drawer.
35,000 reported rapes a year, Black on White.
that does not include prison rape and assault.
Janet.. Love that Trump was the White man with 3 wives and children to them and the black man was had one wife comparison ! That’s priceless. Thanks in any case for being a class act Obamas!!
Looks like Barb got her calligraphy back. Nice!
Barry is a queen. His wife is a butch gal.
Fake marriage and adopted children.
THANK YOU Biblio maniac for paying attention! Of all the things we face and Trump cares about voter fraud!!! Come on. You’re r Biblio maniac it is Not okay to grab anyone, nor to starve children or abuse animals. It is not. Contrary to what some deviants have written here, women don’t want to be grabbed. This from someone who had been “come on” to by my share of married men in the recent past. Women don’t want to be grabbed. Hang in there Biblio maniac as long as one good person is found in the land.
Thank you, barb! It’s easy to see that it is
CARNAGE:TRUMP’S PLAN FOR AMERICA.
Biblio maniac. I’ll go out on my limb ..on the spiritual side of things. Doreen Virtue has a youtube video with her take on 2017. I’d never listened to her before today but, In it, she says stay a way from violent protests, doo not succumb to fear, avoid harsh music, cultivate peace within, among (yes, unlike Trump I spelled that right) other things
She added there would be divine intervention in 2017. Who knows. At any rate, Doreen Virtue was listed as one of the top 100 spiritually influential people alive including the Dalai la ma, Marianne Williamson , Peter Russell, Wayne Dyer and others. Hang in there Biblio.
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Dyer is not alive, least not down here.
Jesus is, but didn’t make the list = suspicious list.
It is amazing. I have a desire to rant so I come here among the trolls like I did years ago. I’m back to working on my own blog software again, but it is not ready yet and having a full time job impacts that schedule. SO:
It is quite a spectacle. Watching mainstream media last night I could not believe that the world was still round. Obviously the handful of media owners in our land are not Trumpsters for they have all their minions acting like children saying Trump acts like a child. There is no sense of decency. They compare Trump to characters from the ‘Game of Thrones’ and are actually making up blatant lies and dwelling on meaningless trivia with their skilled big city tongues to try and disrespect the Trump like they were players in a superbowl. Many in this Trump hater militia seem to know ‘Game of Thrones’ by heart.
Perhaps the minions are acting like children all by themselves; drunk from endorphin highs of their weekend marches. Usually the color pink calms people down but all the mainstream media pundits have gone troll lit up by the zealotry of their mates.
Trump is what he is but Trump-hating seems to be a mental disease and a plague has descended upon the land.
K-Dog–Just so. But the new boss seems to be the same as the old boss. In effect, the “elites” on both sides of the political aisle have won the day:
“the essence of American politics, when distilled, is the manipulation of populism by elitism. That elite is most successful which can claim the heartiest allegiance of the fickle crowd; can present itself ‘in touch’ with popular concerns; can anticipate the tides and pulses of public opinion; can, in short, be the least apparently ‘elitist.'” –Christopher Hitchens
I too, am in despair that the American people have been so successfully divided that we can no longer unite to fight against the DEEP STATE that James has so long warned us about.
I’m with you–the only difference between this place and the Titanic is that they had a band. Bibs
And who is supposed to win it? The whining dregs?
Put up or shut up.
Too many people without skin in the game hoping for change instead of really working for it. Writing checks and whining away on social media doesn’t cut it.
For all his faults, Trump is of the doer category. He talks the talk and walks the walk.
For good and bad.
Maybe so, Frankiti. But we’re all whiners on this bus. And I fear that shutting down the EPA, blacking out the media, cutting funds for health care with no real plans for a replacement, etc., isn’t going to help any of us, including you and me. We’ve both done a lot of whining from what I can tell from reading earlier posts, and I’m not on here to fight with any of you.
In fact, I learn a great deal from you–even though we both whine. You are certainly an intelligent person in my estimation.
So, do you have an suggestions to solve this mess?
Bibs
I’m sorry, I should have been more clear.
You are right, we are all whiners in a sense.
I suppose I was referring to the wedding of the 4th estate with the 5th column. A professional media of whiners and a supporting cast of social media addicts.
Pundits, wonks, policy experts, advisors, etc., all a part of the eternal whining apparatus, 24/7.
They believe their constant unabated criticism IS work in the right direction. That IS their contribution.
They want a man of the people from the right stock, and if not, one willing to patronize, or feign, membership of those classes.
Elitism is relative… and it’s easy to see why
I think they are able to manipulate populism. If you say you want green or yellow because purple and red have proven to be bad then they are able to take over green and yellow shortly after you choose. That is the way evil works.
And remember, Danaerys Targaryen herself is building a huge Brown army of zombies and the poor to overwhelm the West. And who Danaerys but a young Hillary Clinton?
And The Wall will be built. We may well meet on the Wall. But as comrades or enemies?
Myths are springing into Reality. All things are quickening. Trump is Galactus or at least a forerunner of the One we are waiting for – the Man on the White Horse, He who is equally Lightening and Sun, the Leader of the Last Brigade, none other than Kalki himself.
Janos, you said: “And I wouldn’t want you at my table either-but only because you don’t want to talk to people unless you already agree with them.”. In fact, I wouldn’t want you at my table because I have heard your brand of bullshit a million times before, and it becomes a waste of time having to listen to it. Come back & see me when you have something original to say. I love to hear original theories from people whether I agree with them or not. They make me think. However, your tired old shit is neither new or interesting, and therefore a waste of time. Go tell it to someone who doesn’t know any better.
2+2=4 remains true no matter how many times it’s used or said – but it’s news to some. Ditto the difference in the Races. You need to go back to the basics, slick. We all do. If a batter is having a bad streak, what does the batting coach do? Take him back to the basics.
We’re a fallen species. That means you too. We have lost with what Theologians call our supernatural integrity. We say things we don’t believe. We believe things we don’t say out of fear. We believe things that don’t make sense. We say one thing, believe something else, and do a something else again. The basics, Cap, the basics. Q’s punctuation. Basic arithmetic. Simple slogans like “Culture is upstream of politics and race is upstream of culture.”
“Ditto the difference in the Races.”
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Actually Janos, the human race is dangerously homogeneous compared to other mammals.
For example, look at the “whale race”; the different “races” of whales are very different from one another, some have teeth and eat meat, and some don’t.
If our environment changes drastically, like say, the Earths magnetic field weakens, humans “races” are NOT different enough from one another to survive.
We don’t have the equivalent of a duck billed platypus, all f*cked up and retarded looking… that can suddenly fit in perfectly to the new rap game.
remember the rapping Duke?
But I digress
For example, why don’t the different races have separate blood types?
Wouldn’t that be better?
I might have the same blood type as you?
*vomit*
Even down to the molecular and nuclear level there is a possible dangerous lack of human diversity?
Indeed, you MIGHT be able to “white power” your way out of a mass extinction event?
But don’t count on it
Why the hatred? Why the desire to black and brown us out of existence? You must really feel inferior if our very existence threatens your self esteem.
Before science became pc, men like Huxley and Darwin said Blacks were a separate species. We are farther apart than chimps and bonobos for example. I grant you that we can interbreed, so we’re pretty similar. But even a small difference in genotype can lead to major differences in behavior as per Chimps and Bonobos – or Blacks and Whites.
“Why the hatred? Why the desire to black and brown us out of existence?”
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Janos,
where do you get this paranoia?
It feels like Im watching a cartoon when you speak?
What is stopping you from stepping away from the keyboard, washing your ass, and going out and finding a white women, and producing some more white people with her?
Tha fuck does that have to do with me?
How am I stopping you from engaging in that behavior?
I find it very interesting that those white males ranting and raving the most about “white genocide” are the same ones sitting in their moms basement eating Cheetos, drinking Mountain Dew and complaining about ni66ers poaching white women?
WTF?
Why don’t you get off the couch and go make some white babies?
Are you “The English Patient?”
You think you can just lay around all pale and stiff and collect an Oscar?
Look man, I know you don’t wanna hear it, but I like you; you’re like a brother to me. I believe you have potential; but you gotta stop tryin to change everything but yourself; cause thats what ni66as do.
You harm your own movement with your pathetic, weak, fearful behavior; you don’t see president Trump actin like that do you?
Here is my suggestion for you Janos.
1. Tell people what you are gonna DO.
2. Go out and DO IT.
3. Tell people what you DID.
Thats all you gotta do in order to feel better about yourself.
Can you do that?
” washing your ass, and going out and finding a white women?”
Thwack,
I have been looking for dating advice…does that washing thing really help?
White Men have been destroyed by the Feminist/Federal alliance. And of course, minorities are put ahead of us in hiring and admission – and advertising as well. The classic ad is a White Man portrayed as a fool in front of a White Woman and/or a Black Man.
You want our Women but we don’t want yours – for obvious reasons. You bring nothing to the table and you want to drag us down to your own level. Foolish women succumb and reap a harvest of sorrow. The Black takes off seeking his next victim and the fool is left with a chocolate surprise which she foists on her parents. But no decent White Man will take her at that point.
Nothing personal, Thwack. We’ve both seen thru this world to some degree, like the Salt and Pepper buddies in the movie, “They Live, We Sleep.” We both have the special glasses that allow us to see the monster.
But you’re not getting into Valhalla. No exceptions.
“You want our Women but we don’t want yours” –Janos
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hey man, thats not fair; I only want one.
Whats one white woman among friends?
Are you saying there are no white women you would not throw away?
Well ok, I’ll just take those.
You tag em, I’ll bag em.
See how well we get along when we work together?
Yes, your fetish for White Woman is so strong that you (plural) will take anything. This is also bad because it builds up the numbers of Mulattoes who are often more intelligent and dangerous than Blacks per se.
I assume that you prefer unattractive White Women to even the most beautiful Black Women, such as they are.
“This is also bad because it builds up the numbers of Mulattoes who are often more intelligent and dangerous than Blacks per se.” — Janos
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What???
So if I was darker you would like me more?
Now Im thoroughly confused?
Didn’t you say blacks are a problem because they are black?
What is it you want me to do?
How can I help you?
That’s a question you should never ask. Whites have learned not to ask it of Blacks. Because like the captured Alien in Independence Day, the answer might be, “Die”.
I think you need a hug Janos?
You sound like a person filled with vinegar and bee stings…
Do you need a hug?
Speaking of vladdie the laddie:
” However, your tired old shit is neither new or interesting, and therefore a waste of time. Go tell it to someone who doesn’t know any better.”
Capt. my Capt.,
Mark this and mark it well: This [tired old] operative’s tired old shit is meant for any new eyes that should be intrigued by Kunstler’s ideas of contraction and decentralization, and to immediately put them off of this blog as some kind of neo-nazi nuttiness. It’s his fucking JOB.
Want to see farther in? (Not really, no, but it’s instructive.) His “lauding” of Trump is totally specious. When he paints Trump as a “saviour”, his brush is dipped into his bucket of night-soil filth with a schpritz of gold-colored tint atop it. Thus is Trumpy the Clown presented as a neo-nazi operative. Nice and easy. Bernays’ peasy…
“Free” speech?? Are you fucking kidding me? He [or whatever] is instructed what to say and how to say it; the only originality is a faked erudition… and maybe not that either. The only requirement it seems, is that one actually enjoy being an asshole disruptor of the first degree. (Yes, that’s why he’d never be welcome in my home either; he couldn’t resist employing the persona he’s been instructed to portray. You become what you espouse; real, hired for, or imagined.)
You think the Government is really in favor of White Supremacy? That’s why they’re bringing in tens of millions of people to replace us, genius.
Do you think Anti-Fa and Minorities have the right to attack Whites anytime they want? I’ve asked you before but you never answer. Why not?
Are you a secret Communist? Where you Anti-Fa in your earlier life? You feel like it sometimes….
For Kdog in honor of his most sane post. May he do many more. And for Barb – a barb or thorn in her flesh to make her virtuous.
http://www.dailystormer.com/living-in-the-age-of-vaginaggression/
The Democrats are terrified that Herr Drumph is going to investigate voter fraud. Evidently they have much to fear. In the meantime, they pay homage with their trembling. There are many levels and many scams, the most basic being their outrage that people should have to show ID to vote. What’s up with that?
Start the investigation with Steve Bannon. Dude is registered to vote in both Florida and New York.
Nice one, Janet! You posted this at 4:42 pm. Curiously, while Janos has replied to several other posts since then, he’s seen fit to pass over your highly pertinent observation in silence. Cat got your tongue, Janos?
Big Beautiful Beaner Barrier will soon be a reality…..made of real reinforced concrete and topped off with gorgeous shiny stainless coiled concertina razor wire, and not some vile leftie techie virtual wall using a silly laser pointer beam to deflect the turd world invasion. Der Trumpster signed the exec order today. Maybe some of you shiftless freeloading lefties should do something really radical and apply for your first real job….building the 1000 mile long 40′ tall beautiful wall.
Trump stood ten feet tall this morning. The mothers of dead children, killed by illegal immigrants, were there when he spoke.
He spoke about protecting America, keeping its citizens safe. Border patrol will be increased, catch and release will end, and the first steps to end sanctuary cities were put in place. Procedures to vet immigrants will be strengthened.
Trump understands the connection to the Mexican cartels.
He addressed the problem of gangs and even offered help to Chicago, although I wonder if they deserve it. Let leftie Rahm clean up his and Obama’s own fucking mess.
Yes, all along last year, the left thought he was dead. And now he is risen. As they behold the nation’s hope, they can’t believe their eyes and are shaken, unsteadied by their weak knees and spaghetti spines.
Let us be joyous in his ascendancy, and help him rise to the peaks of the purple mountains, in all of their majesty!
Left? Wherefore this “left” of your whinging and disdain? Get a clue; this country has been in the grip of a gaggle of right-wing psychopaths hiding in the shadows since *before* the great convulsion of WW the second.
This “left” whereof you speak died with what little remained of the unions (you know, that “fair pay for a fair days’ work” crap).
Before you advocate for “gettin’ rid of them foul lefties!”, you might want to find some in the great expanse of Ameristan the Land of Exceptional [something-or-other].
A lack of imagination does not excuse a shitty “outward” outlook.
The Left/Right stuff has you all turned around. Try thinking in terms of Nation vs Globalism. Hitler and Trump were Nationalists. Their opponents are Globalists, both so called Left and so called Right.
Got it?
The Wall is going to be built, the Dow breaks 20,000, and Mart Tyler More, the archetype of the modern woman, dies.
A Terrible Beauty is being born. All of this because A MAN is finally in the White House again and not a dupe, simp, or suck up. Don’t even think of getting in our way – or you will be trampled.
“The Wall is going to be built, the Dow breaks 20,000, and Mar[y] Tyler Mo[o]re, the archetype of the modern woman, dies. ”
vladdie should beware; this is now his/her persona, truly. His gleeful worship of Thanatos is not a vision of anything close to “civilized discourse”, white-ish or brown-ish. Faaaaar too much practice has led to this, and shows the psy-op prosecutor becoming its unintended victim.
(Pretending that this space is welcoming of this verbal chunk-blowing is the intended thrust however.)
It’s bigger than all of us, Zone. Krishna says, Those who don’t surrender to me willingly in life, will surrender to Me when I come as Death.
Perhaps we will meet in combat and die in by each others hand. Then we will feast forever in Valhalla, toasting the gods and each other, and laughing at our comical misunderstanding during so called life.
Do you really want to get much older? Do you not hate hospitals and retirement homes? Isn’t it better to die for your beliefs?
What did Whitman say? “He who touches this book (Leaves of Grass) touches a Man.” Likewise, he who reads Me, knows Me. And to know Me is to love Me. If you read my posts and hate me, you are just hating yourself and/or your life. Life (capital L) remains and waits for you to awaken. It’s alright to hate me, but you cannot truly hate Me.
“Big Beautiful Beaner Barrier will soon be a reality…..made of real reinforced concrete” –nsa
Hmmm…. the cement industry is the most energy-intensive of all manufacturing industries, with a share of national energy use roughly 10 times its share of the nation’s gross output of goods and services. Piss poor EROEI. (reference to golden showers not intended)
Concrete is also unique in its heavy reliance on coal and petroleum coke. Hmmm…
We get a wall we don’t need, we get dirty air, and we waste energy. Lose, lose, lose.
These guys saw fixing a social ethics to be usually a losing battle NanyMouse
A carry trade is mostly a trade in Japanese yen and it flourished based of Clintons coming to power in 1992.
I already wrote about it and now I will not dwell on the nature of the Clinton Super Bowl, but, judging by the speed with which the Japanese government has reacted to the rise of Clintons to power and have begun reducing its prime rate just when B. Clinton announced his candidacy, the Bank of Japan has been a part of Clinton conspiracy, or their financial intelligence entangled the Black Project even better than that of Israel.
http://www.threadgillfinancial.com/sites/default/files/users/zthreadgill/japan-interest-rates.gif
The essence of the carry trade is that you borrow a billion dollars at 1% per year for 30 years from the Bank of Japan, convert it into US dollars and sell this money in thirty-year mortgage fixed at 4.5%, and 2.5% is spent on the purchase of Forex rate hedge, hedging yen conversion rate with a shoulder of 40, and the difference between 3.5% (1% + 2.5%) and 4.5% over 30 years is $348 million you put in your pocket immediately, not in 30 years. And if everyone did as I described it, the world economy would work like a clock, but mortgages have floating rate, but the most important thing is that Forex has created such a thing as an option, a Forex insurance transaction, which effective shoulder can reach 2000.
And papers specifying all these transactions are arranged in a single package, which in theory is unsinkable with effective shoulder of 2000 for a conservative estimate, and this package on the market is considered to be a separate product, the value of which is much greater than the combined cost of its parts.
Actually these packages are the creative financial instruments of Alan Greenspan, and the main shop that initially created them is a hedge fund, that made its startup capital by producing and distributing some movie called Deep Throat.
As a result, after Japan conducted a reorganization of its banking system, all are talking about the State debt of Japan, but that financial companies around the world owe 10, or even 100 times more to the Bank of Japan no one knows anything.
In fact, the Bank of Japan holds a significant portion of real estate in the world, in particular the entire mortgage market in Russia, denominated in dollars and more than 50% mortgage market denominated in rubles.
In the next post on this topic I will try to talk about what is the toxic debt and why Japan’s financial system would be in the best position compared to the financial position of all the other countries of the G7, if not for Fukushima and tsunami that hit Japan a day after Prime Minister Abe’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Lima.
“building the 1000 mile long 40? tall beautiful wall.” –nsa
SCENE
2:00 a.m. Pedro in Mexico, Jose in the USA.
DIALOGUE
Pedro to Jose: “You ready over there?”
Jose to Pedro: “Sí, jefe, send the contraband over”
NEWS HEADLINE.
Cartel uses ancient catapult technology to defeat 40′ Trump
Cartel burla de Trump utilizando tecnología antigua
[The wall is a waste of billions of taxpayer dollars]
Let’s get real about the wall. THE WALL WILL NOT BE BUILT.
There is no consensus about the length of the wall.
There is no consensus about when construction will begin.
There is no consensus about how much it will cost.
There is no consensus about who will pay for it (it won’t by Mexico)
There is no legal permission to build on privately owned land along the border in the Rio Grande Valley.
There is also ongoing debate about the feasibility of the structure and the need for it in the first place.
The rugged terrain in the Arizona desert and the shifting Rio Grande River in Texas, which routinely changes depth and even direction, both represent natural obstacles to building a border wall.
Even if a wall was built, it would require a significant hiring increase to have enough agents to monitor the wall. That would be no easy feat for an agency that is currently 1,200 employees below full strength.
Most people would be surprised to learn that it’s possible to drive for 30 minutes in some Border Patrol sectors and not encounter agents on patrol. Juan and Pedro will have a blast with the wall. Literally.
Janet’s gone into a raving mode. Trump’s doing something right.
WPAsshatoka is a raving phony
Never substantive reply. Just more misidentification and misplaced ad hominem attack. Funny, actually.
WPA-CCCobarde
One tell that “Janet” is a sock is, “it” went through the trouble of taking a female name as a cloak;but kept arguing like a dude.
Ive seen this phenomenon before when I participated on a counter racism web site and we had white racist trolls come and try to pretend to be black. I would bust them every time because they would try to “out black the black people”
and then they would leave and try to come back as a black female;
but they would continue talking like a guy.
It was pure comedy.
Jim should take pride in the fact his blog is popular enough to have a paid sock like “Janet” attempting to steer it with system “talking points…”
Exactly.
He’s not only proud, he’s protective of his sock.
“Let’s get real about the wall. THE WALL WILL NOT BE BUILT.
There is no consensus about the length of the wall.
There is no consensus about when construction will begin.
There is no consensus about how much it will cost.
There is no consensus about who will pay for it (it won’t by Mexico)
There is no legal permission to build on privately owned land along the border in the Rio Grande Valley. ”
Janet,
(stifled giggle…) Dry your eyes and have another cheeseburger, my dear.
Ted Kaczynski has a beef with Sylvan Learning Centers. He says that it’s mind control. http://www.sylvanlearning.com
When we look at Sylvan Learning Centers we don’t see anything unusual. But when Ted Kaczynski with his IQ of 167 sees it, his immediate reaction is: “Holy Fuck’n Shit!” We’ve all been brainwashed into our own enslavement.
He probably has it mixed up with Silva Mind Control.
Biblio. If I may add to Doreen Virtue’s list. Don’t do anything out of fear. Practice deep gratitude for things. She says being grateful is very powerful. And also meditate. Michael Newton was on the list of 100 most spiritual influential people. Startling. Some great posts here recently. Kudos to California for refusing to enforce the proposed immigration laws for stating
If Hillary was president right now she’d be intent to demonstrate that the balls she has aren’t limited to the silicone ones that comprise her Huma strap-on. She’d be provoking Russia over election meddling and (but really the Ukraine) and working towards regime change with escalations in Syria
SCIENTISTS TO MARCH
Scientists worldwide have been alarmed by the clear anti-science actions taken by the Trump administration. It has been less than a week and there have already been funding freezes and efforts to restrict scientists from communicating their findings (from tax-funded research!) with the public.
These actions are absurd and cannot be allowed to stand as policy.
This is not a partisan issue — people from all parts of the political spectrum should be alarmed by these efforts to deny scientific progress. Scientific research moves us forward and we should not allow asinine policies to thwart it.
Call up John Lewis, he likes to march.
Mass marches, civil disobedience, general strikes, color revolutions have brought down dictators without firing a shot. I’m sure national hero John Lewis will be there.
When I heard Trump on Friday, I was relieved. For the first time in twenty-five years, I saw someone become president who I actually liked. Trump impresses me as a leader, and I enjoyed his inaugural address. It was brief, to the point, and a relief from most speeches that last forever, and go on about ‘when I was a youth, and dreamed to lead this great land…’ kind of twaddle that always sound like it’s ghostwritten, recalling something Groucho might have said (‘after five days in the water and six in the boat…there stood before me a mere boy and a beardless youth…I kissed them both goodbye’), Trump merely restating what he came to do. After all that blathering about McCain being a maverick, here was the real deal. I also thought his wife looked very elegant compared to Michelle, who kept scowling.
So, the wedding came out well. We’ll see how the marriage works, but I’m impressed Trump is talking like a leader and doing something, and so many people want leadership. Already, the markets appear to be recovering, and it’s delightful seeing the left go crazy, shrinking like the witch when Dorothy threw water on her.
Can Trump do it? I don’t know. I agree with a lot of JHK’s thoughts, but also I’m reminded how P.J. O’Rourke said the Democrats are like your mother, and the Republicans are like your father, and dad has to straighten out things. I think Trump can help bring back some industry, although we all know there won’t be millions of factory jobs. If manufacturing comes back, it will be small, using robotics, and a recovery will be focused on providing jobs for people here…JHK was right that you can’t make a recovery out of more mall jobs and real-estate, and economics and technology argue against having millions of unskilled people flood the country.As it is, we have far too many useless people, and much of the dynamics of social policy has been buying them off so they don’t riot, and making people stupid so they don’t ask embarrassing questions.
Trump, to repeat what I said in an earlier post, isn’t the GOP choice. He’s an outsider, and right now his power will build if he gets results, and fail if he can’t.
Is he another Reagan? In some ways, but I’m reminded more of Dioclesian, the Roman emperor who tried to revive the empire through strict order and failed, or Julian the Apostate, trying to bring back the old classical gods but it was too late…killed while leading an invasion of Persia (Take note, Donald: think twice about any wars Israel wants you to fight). This was an election of the globalists versus the nationalists, and the nationalists won. Right now.
Trump, if he wants to survive, needs to build a party or really solidify the GOP into new ways of thinking.
When some creep put a tweet saying Trump’s son is a ‘home-schooled shooter’, and a secret service agent said she wouldn’t protect Trump, it shows how much hatred there is for a genuine change.
The culture war is still alive and well, and I’m not sure that can be turned around. Trump’s call for greatness and the lunacy of the women’s march reminds me of the contrast between Apollonian and Dionysian thought; there’s an awful lot of irrationality and deconstruction going on, and might not be reversed.
Meargen,
Good effort…nice post.
https://www.amren.com/news/2017/01/neo-nazi-richard-spencer-got-punched-can-thank-black-bloc/
Nation Magazine, flagship of the Left, endorses violence. Does Ozone repudiate this? Kdog? Janet? Venus Bluto? Dumb? Elrond? Sea Wreck?
Nation the magazine does not endorse violence. You do.
Yes, actually, I repudiate it. Don’t give ammunition to assholes.
So one against and one for. Thank you for responding, El Ron.
Imagine going on a long drive with a Realtor to see a House. When you get there, there’s just a foundation and roof, but no walls. Walls are divisive, he explains. Would you buy that house? If not, why not? Maybe because things are what they are because they’re not something else? And to keep them from becoming something else, one puts up walls? Even the most basic form of life, the cell, does this – does it not, El Ron? Who is against this most basic aspect of life, even at the most basic level? Why the Cancer Cell is, It destroys Cells and Cell Walls, creating huge clumps of putrescence. Does it not, O El Ron?
Is it any different at the human level? Are those who want to destroy our borders not a kind of cancer? Enemies of the Body? Of the Folk? Am I an asshole for pointing this out? Only to the Cancer Cell. To the Body, I am as a physician, enjoying the gratitude of the Folk. The asshole is the Realtor or “Unrealtor” who promotes this kind of Death in Life. Surely you see this now, El Ron? Or does your position, income, and/or self image preclude such honesty?
Janos, do yourself a favour and give up the idea that you’ll ever persuade me to think of my fellow human beings as vermin. People are not an infection, your world view is the infection. Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
I’m not calling humans vermin. I’m simply saying that life of all kinds depends on boundaries, human life and organization not excepted.
Since you don’t accept that in regards to human beings, your philosophy is that of a cancer cell. Your first and foremost loyalty is to your family, friends, community, and nation. By putting “humanity” ahead of these, you become a traitor.
Your position, that I am a cancer, has a name: eliminationism. It’s all one whether you say cancer, infection, vermin, or anything else. In Rwanda, the Hutus who murdered their Tutsi neighbours and less-hateful fellow Hutus were in part incited by radio broadcasts denouncing them as ‘cockroaches’. It’s one and the same: an anti-gospel of hatred, framed as disgust, directed against the Other, and always tending toward crimes against humanity.
You write as if I enjoy some position of privilege because I have basic decency. I’m just some schmuck on the Internet with an opinion. I say, if you’ve suffered some loss to your position, or your income, in the past because of the views you espouse, take thought whether people simply saw you for what you were and scraped you off their shoes. I have no hope of you seeing you escape from your pit. Simply know this: you are witnessed. You are known for what you are.
I don’t want to eliminate you, just bring you to justice. Make you live with the consequences of your actions. In other words, with the people you prefer over your own. If you repent, you could return – but not immediately to private life. You would have to speak at schools, admitting your error and how you fell into it. Some time in stocks in various public squares would also be good. Nothing unreasonable for this kind of treason. And you will have much company. Imagine the great conversations you will have with other ex-traitors in the stocks near you.
He is risen but for how long? Given his incompetence not long. Now Trump wants restrictions on Muslim entry into the U.S. over fears of terrorism. But our brilliant president did not include several countries whose nationals have actually been linked to terror attacks on U.S. soil. That’s right … Trump says it is OK for terrorists from Egypt, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and especially Saudi Arabia (the 19 hijackers on 9/11) to enter the USA.
“This was an election of the globalists versus the nationalists, and the nationalists won. Right now.” –meargen
Just a bump in the road. Trump will crash the economy and be gone. The globalists will soon be back in the saddle.
“Trump will [ be blamed for the ] crash [ of ] the economy and be gone. The globalists will soon be back in the saddle.”
Have you been reading Brandon Smith over at alt-market dot com?
If the economy crashes it won’t be because of Trump – although he’ll be blamed for it. It will be a stealth operation behind the scene by those who actually control the economy (and want Trump gone) – the Fed and the international banksters.
I can’t say he was groomed for the position of fall-out bag-holder, but his over – confidence in his ability sure makes you wonder. The fact that the globalists [ and their minions ] hate nationalists/liberty minded individuals and must overcome them to effect their plans show you where they are headed. It ain’t going to be easy for us “deplorables”.
Recorded last October, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters’ 40-year-old song is more relevant than ever thanks to current events:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWLBtMz5OuY
An audience of 300,000 in Mexico City’s Zocalo offers an understandably enthusiastic reception. Share and enjoy!
The entire world will continue to be shocked that President Trump says what he means and intends to do what he set out, and was elected, to do:
– America and her citizens first.
– Terrorists NOT wanted here. Exterminate them there.
– Big beautiful southern wall (with some lovely entry points) to be constructed irrespective of the wishes of President Nieto of Mexico, and also a guy with a great mustache, former Mexican president Vincente Fox -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4OwJOVi0ec
although a wall is not required for a cordon sanitaire; the East German border with West Germany was very convincing, effective and efficient, especially those wicked DIce Guns.
http://www.siue.edu/GEOGRAPHY/ONLINE/Vogeler/FortifiedFenced&WalledBorders.htm
– Halting the importation Yzlamik refugees from seven of the most violent and terrorist-coddling Saracen countries. Let them go to Saudi.
– Addressing gangs and violence in “inner cIties” and Chicago by name. ( Rahm quietly likes to brag it’s just like back home in Israel with those pesky Philistines.)
– Hiring American, building American, producing American, buying American.
– Already playing a little rough with the folks in Beijing.
– Not taking any crap from the awful legacy American Fourth Estate, and showing them for what they are – slanted, spoiled, ill-mannered, propagandists of the worst order.
– Getting ready to nominate some very smart conservative judges for the Supreme Court. Gorsuch, the Oxford scholar, would make the perfect first appointment to the high court and replacement for Justice Scalia.
Not only has he done more in six days than Barry O. did in eight years, but he is learning the ropes and levers of government each and every day. He will only get better at the job should he have the good fortune to continue in it as he is pulling many chains and rattling the cages of most of the Washington D.C. zoo.
He once said something about Anti-Trust legislation against a coming media merger. Too few guys (Rahm’s Tribe) own far too much of it. We need new and more voices. This would be a tremendous and dangerous thing to do, one desperately needed.
Likely new US ambassador to Europe: “I recommend dumping the euro – it is in for the imminent collapse”
Gee, time of ostentatious friendship to the public between the US and the EU is coming to an end – the jackals start biting each other openly.
Ted Malloch, who is considered a likely candidate to become the new US ambassador to the EU, said:
“I’m not sure that the EU, with which it would be possible to negotiate, continue to exist … What I think – should get rid of the euro in 2017. The euro has real problems, and may collapse within the next year and a half.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzM5Ar55KPE
Trump will build a relationship with each country on the basis of bilateral relations. It will be a kind of Big Treaty, in which the economic and political conditions for cooperation between the two countries will be specified: conditions for the admission of the goods to the markets of the parties, the visa regime, the military-political cooperation (the conditions of military support), etc.
It is clear that the globalist WTO will not fit into the scheme of bilateral agreements between the countries, and together with the IMF and the World Bank and all of their structures will go to an ash heap of history. Well, you can’t combine signing “Big Treaty” with Trump’s America and at the same time with the globalist IMF.
CNN reports that according to Trump the number of fake and illegal votes in the last election was measured in the millions. Think about it. The US president said that the US elections were rigged with millions of fraudulent votes.
How could this happen? As Trump himself wrote on Twitter, it was the votes of the dead, the votes of undocumented migrants, as well as the votes of those who registered to vote in several locations (who said merry-go-round?).
As Trump press secretary Sean Spicer acknowledged the investigation will focus on the cities in which Hillary Clinton received the most votes. Given that all schemes of election fraud have not been possible without the organizational support of the Democratic Party Machine, there is a very real scenario of the criminal prosecution against them. To call a spade a spade, at the Trump’s request can be imprisoned almost all the regional Democratic Party activists, as well as many officials who have contributed, for example, to the preservation on the voter’s lists dead people and illegal immigrants.
If it comes to that, the show will be delightful, and then it will be very fun to watch, as the US NGOs will teach Russia how to conduct a “fair” election.
Being a legal immigrant myself, I appreciate Mr. Trump effort in increasing the valuation of my American Citizenship, in which I have invested 5 years of my life.
What country you from?
Is it a country I ever heard of?
They speak English?
What does Donald Trump
look
like?
Is it a country I ever heard of?
Probably a question only you could answer to. I am not aware of the level of your geographic versatility.
Do you read the bible?
State by state, the Democrats have done all they can to stop Voter ID laws. Why? No wonder our new President, along with millions of others, are suspicious of the true vote count. In my home state of PA, the legislature even allocated money to give free photo ID’s to anyone who needed them. Yet the Democrats, thru the state Supreme Court, still blocked the legislation.
Victoria “F*ck the EU” Nuland is Leaving the State Department
Nuland was the Assistant Secretary of State responsible for Russia and Eurasia Policy at the State Department, and is known for her hardline view on Russia.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/longtime-state-official-resigns-amid-department-shakeup/
Such great news. No doubt killer Nuland saw the writing on the wall and didn’t want to wait until Rex Tillerson (why hasn’t he been confirmed yet?) fired her. With Nuland gone is it too much to ask if Trump will order an end to our Ukraine aggression?
“Ranchers say you cannot build a wall over the rough terrain of the Southwest” — WPA Asoka
Probably true.
In those spots you string out coils of barbed wire — in depth, like on the western front, c.1916 — and lay down landmines.
One might say ‘Operation Wetback’, 2017, has commenced.
brh
Meanwhile, over in Sweden (socialist utopia) a gang of afghan Muzzies rape a blond Swedish girl and stream the 2 hour ordeal on facebook.
Swedish media and govt cover up the details as long as they could, same way as the MSM here do it.
Those rascally Muzzies, they like their blond girls … and there are plenty in Sweden. you might call Sweden (socialist utopia, a lefty wet dream) as target friendly.
brh
Yet these same naïve Swedish women welcomed these young, military-aged thugs with open arms, flowers, and cookies. What did they expect? I wonder how many of those who were actually Syrians had deserted, or draft dodged, from Assad’s Syrian Arab Army. Since the vast majority of these invaders are males, a serious disturbance in the 50/50 ratio between men/women has been created, and its detrimental effects will be felt for decades to come. You can’t expect all these horny young men to just remain celibate. It is no surprise that Sweden has become the rape capital of Europe. When will the Swedish men take up arms?
Alright…
before you clowns get too carried away white knighting for “Gretchen…”
I remind you that not all white girls are innocent snowflakes; some are straight up foul and on the prowl for drugs, drum beats and gold chains…
They get with thugs because they think its gonna be like a “safari”; all of the excitement with none of the danger.
Then when they get hung by their own petard, you simps come scramblin out the woodwork to cut them loose and play Captain Sav-A-Ho
that train is never late.
*vomit*
Wake up white man.
Exactly. Both parties need to be controlled and/or punished. And once you folks are gone as Jefferson and Lincoln wanted, the issue will cease. And Black Women will have Black Men all to themselves again! Scary thought, but that’s between you all.
I don’t know, maybe a way exists for LE to charge this young Swedish girl who got raped by Muzzies with a hate crime? Why not? Its not out of the realm of possibility. Similar things have been done in Europe.
brh
And then to add to the “welcoming atmosphere” for the Yzlamik conquerers, not only charge the whore with a hate crime, but provide those sweet silly Saracens the opportunity to sue the bitch, with gratis legal support from the Swedish Crown, and her family in civil court for the tort of contractual non-performance as now Swedish women “owe” sex services at cost to the provider to all refugees. That would be real “progress.”
How long imbecile Sweden, how long, til Absolut vodka is proscribed and Victoria Silvstedt is burqa-ized?
Typical CNN (Clinton News Network) coverage. No pictures or mention of the rapists nationality.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/24/europe/sweden-rape-facebook-live/index.html
“The police said the men arrested were born in 1992, 1996 and 1998 — meaning they are aged between around 19 and 25. The woman was born in 1986, making her around 31.”
***********************
See what I mean?
An older white woman corrupting young traumatized refugees; she probably bought them alcohol; a drug with which they have no experience.
This is tragic.
I hope they press charges.
Again, the heartlessness of the Negro. In many African languages, there is no word for rape. Sex is just sex, and what she wants got nothing to do with it.
Just three months ago, no less a luminary than Rush Limbaugh mocked the idea that consent is crucial when it comes to sex (video at this link):
“You know what the magic word, the only thing that matters in American sexual mores today is? One thing. You can do anything, the left will promote and understand and tolerate anything, as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent. If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it’s perfectly fine. Whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there’s no consent in part of the equation then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left.”
So far, so accurate: most members of the left would indeed “call out the rape police”. In fact they would call the actual police — just like pretty much any decent person who cared about law and justice, since the definition of rape pretty much everywhere is “a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration perpetrated against a person without that person’s consent.”
Is Rush Limbaugh a decent person? Does he care about law and justice? That depends whether he believes that “‘no’ means ‘yes’ if you know how to spot it”, as he said once. He went on to add that “Agreeing on the ‘why’ takes all the romance out of everything! Seduction used to be an art, now of course it’s brutish and it’s predatory and it’s bad.”
So which form of heartlessness are you condemning, Janos? Is it the ‘heartlessness of the Negro’? is it the heartlessness of Rush Limbaugh? Or is it door number three? I’ll generously give you an opportunity to get your story straight.
Ron: Rush is probably referring to the Rape Cult on Campus where Women talk about being raped by men looking at them. Or think it’s rape after the fact, say if a man doesn’t call them back afterwards. And let’s face it: there is a grey area in any case. If both are drinking and she decides that she didn’t consent later. Did the man consent? Or is he automatically guilty if she says so? Do you really want to give women that much power? They’ll eagerly take it: they’d love to be able to point to a man have him be locked up at their whim.
None of this is the same as the Black African or Muslim rape culture – which you have no problem with needless to say or at least won’t admit exists. How typical of you and your liberal tribe.
Janos wants to kill any white woman HE doesn’t want to have sex with (in addition to any Im sleeping with)
Where does a guy find the time and energy to think like that?
Maybe he does have a high IQ?
In Rotterham, one of the thousands of girls pimped out by Muslims recalls how one night she and two of her drunken paramours were taking her to another client. The police stopped them and arrested HER for drunkenness. Never mind that she was underage and in the company of older men, who were also drunk. Just her.
One of Obamas ‘sons’ -released on an Obama pardon. whaked by Blacks while in half way house.
see SBPDL for more info.
In Sweden suspects can be detained, but not charged, without court approval.
Sweden lays bare the reality that a society can’t simply EXPECT others from outside it to appreciate it, to conform to it. That what they regard as strength through buzzwords and utopian ideals like “tolerance” and “inclusiveness” is WEAKNESS to a congenitally violent animal species such as man.
Like putting a pit dog into the general play population in a kennel.
The submissive are not going to socialize the pit fighter.
The pit fighter is going to extract the socialized dogs from their fabricated and solipsistic reality and drop them back into the laws of the universe. You don’t exist. Dog eat dog.
Sweden lays bare the reality that a society can’t simply EXPECT others from outside it to appreciate it, to conform to it.
How is Sweden any different from [fill in this blank]?
John McCain [ the traitor ] confession posted at:
countdowntozerotime dot com
Rex Tillerson got a real clean slate at the State Department:
The State Department’s entire senior management team just resigned
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/01/26/the-state-departments-entire-senior-management-team-just-resigned/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-b%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.23f3cc10274b
Snake’s nest of war-mongers and color-revolutionaries is finally ravaged! We see if T-Rex could restore a real State Department of professional diplomats as it was during FDR era, destroyed by Truman and McCarthy.
I just read about this on Zero Hedge. It will be very difficult to replicate the skill set taken away from State by these resignations. Will Tillerson be able to do this? We shall see. It gets more and more interesting.
Trump is going to learn that walls do not make good neighbors. Trump is going to learn that his executive orders will generate blowback. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced today that he canceled a meeting with Trump.
Y’all still believe Trump’s claim that Mexico will pay for the wall? Y’all still believe Trump’s hype about his business experience and how he will sit down with leaders to negotiate deals? Piss people off and they won’t sit down with you. You know now who is going to pay for the wall?
I know who is going to pay for the wall: THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER. We just got hit with a Trump Tax Increase.
The 10 bucks surcharge per remittance to Mexico would ensure a weekly cash flow to help fund the cordon sanitaire as would the “employment” of Mexican criminals currently serving time in American jails and prisons (can you say chain-gang?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRyDlVOE86U
Does your house or apartment have walls? You’re a bad neighbor.