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958 Responses to “House Party”

  1. PeteAtomic June 24, 2019 at 10:32 am #

    “The week’s doings left the impression that the Democratic Party has turned into one big race hustle, with reparations for slavery as the centerpiece on the banquet table and recriminations for “white privilege” as the main course. ”

    That hits the nail right on the head there, Jim. It is one big race hustle. The democrat presidential candidates have few real solutions to national institutional cascading failure. So, the ‘easy’ fix to get power is to play with turning the US into a giant version of Yugoslavia around 1989. Watch how well that will turn out. When you see private militias roaming the countryside with names like “Johnson’s Tigers” and setting up roadblocks under the name of the Provisional Government of So-and-So, you’ll know the country is fucked.

    • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 10:40 am #

      Do you do hint that the reaction will be localization and every little burg will have its own identity? How will they decide which side they are supporting? Each household or neighborhood may have its own identity.

      Do I see a India Pakistan style separation coming?

      The Constitutional Americans get all the flyover states and the Gimmes get all the cities?

      Just wondering.

      • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 10:47 am #

        Red state / blue state seems to be the natural division line, for now at least, although big cities in red state land tend to go blue. Perhaps big cities won’t be so big anymore? Hard to say right now, but Balkanization of some sort certainly seems to be in the cards.

      • PeteAtomic June 24, 2019 at 8:36 pm #

        Well if we look at the last 40 some years, the divisions in serious civil disturbances have been divided on race lines, e.g.. the LA riots, the Ferguson, Missouri riots. I don’t know. Maybe a combination of political/race factions. Scratch may be right, I don’t know.
        We have a large, complicated country, and I think if anything some serious devolution of power from DC will create a power vacuum which then (?) who steps in (?) in some places state governments and their populations are cohesive enough, or blocs of regional states, however– southern California? Chicagoland? Forget it. Mad Max, here we come.

    • Neon Vincent June 24, 2019 at 10:47 am #

      I don’t share your dim assessment, which I view to be as much or more a right-wing fantasy than a left-wing one. That’s all I write about it, so I’m moving on to the debates.

      I prepared for this week’s debates by performing two analyses of the Democratic candidates’ ideologies and they go from far left to center-left. There are hardly any moderates among the field. The first used DW-NOMINATE scores from Voteview, which has data on every candidate that served in Congress. According to this source, the most liberal candidates are Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Bernie Sanders, while the most moderate are Amy Klobuchar and Michael Bennet. The only problem is that the candidates who never served in Congress don’t have Voteview scores. On the other hand, OnTheIssues.org has scores for all the candidates except Wayne Messam, although it has a page for him. According to this source, Bernie Sanders is the most liberal, followed by Warren, Harris, and Joe Biden (!). The two most moderate candidates are Steve Bullock and John Hickenlooper. As for Pete Butigieg, he’s probably the most moderate candidate with significant support, but he’s pretty much in the center of the Democratic field.

      All this talk about the debates reminds me it’s time to make a couple of drinking games. Wish me luck!

      • K-Dog June 24, 2019 at 11:15 am #

        People should vote for the pet dog. It will do as much good. All we get is a bottom feeder no matter who wins. America is about competition not cooperation and no politician in America has what America needs to survive much less prosper.

        All any Dem or Rep will do is turn up the heat!

        • K-Dog June 24, 2019 at 11:20 am #

          The link was to my website which failed because my cable connection has been keeping me offline today. I typed something wrong on my phone. Big paws! This is it if my paws work right this time.

      • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 12:15 pm #

        Yes distraction indeed!!! Let’s not discuss the actual causes of what ail us. Lets discuss pointless debate and drinking games. That will save the day!!!

        • toktomi June 24, 2019 at 2:38 pm #

          @SSL

          Might just as well “discuss pointless”, I reckon, for what “ails us” most assuredly, I contend, is terminal; that is to say, there is no cure, no solution.

          By contrast, however, I would offer that the discussion to have might be something other than how to rearrange the deck chairs but more like, “who’s up for a silly game of staying alive through the collapse?” And who better to lead such a discussion is there than the world-made-by-hand man himself, James Howard Kunstler? Such a discussion might even run off a fair bit of the human detritus that draw sustenance from bigotry and hate.

          I could be wrong all counts.

          • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 12:15 am #

            I don’t think you are wrong on all counts. It does indeed appear that our condition is terminal. I don’t know though that I am there yet when it comes to believing that there is no solution. Though some solutions may be so horrid as to render them as non-options. Honestly its all pretty scary when you think about collapse in general. Surely one can plan and prep and should.
            But what guarantee is there of survival? Silly question I know since eventually the mortality rate is 100% but you know what I mean.

            IMHO bigotry and hatred have existed in the human heart for as long as kindness and love have. You will find them all where you find people. The more important detail is how one copes with and manages them.

      • abbybwood June 24, 2019 at 2:44 pm #

        I find it odd there is no mention of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii who also happens to be an active Lt. Col. in the Hawaii National Guard and who also served two tours of duty in Iraq and sits on The Armed Services Committee.

        She will be in the first debate. She is a progressive and supports Medicare for All and stopping US regime change wars. Keep your eye on her tomorrow night.

        I read today where illegal immigration is the number one issue for Americans of both parties. Too bad the Democrat candidates are on the wrong side of the issue as the word “sovereign” appears to be dirty to them.

        But rest assured, if Google executives have their way there will be ZERO chance of another Trump election:

        https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/24/insider-blows-whistle-exec-reveals-google-plan-to-prevent-trump-situation-in-2020-on-hidden-cam/

        • PeteAtomic June 24, 2019 at 8:37 pm #

          She is interesting. I’d like to hear more from her.

      • PeteAtomic June 24, 2019 at 8:31 pm #

        Hi Neon, thanks for the links there. I’m gonna check out the scores.
        Much of not most of the democrat candidates offer unrealistic bandaids to the weight of systemic problems working people in particular face; Universal health care, universal college, a UBI, sundry social service programs– all of this can not be feasible with a military budget that is serving an Empire. So, something is gotta break– and with the power of the arms lobby in the US– I don’t see universal anything happening.

      • Uncle Bob June 24, 2019 at 11:28 pm #

        Allegedly, at the time he and The One were in the Senate, Biden and Barack the Magnificent ran one-two in the contest over who was the biggest lefty in the Senate, so him ranking fourth now shouldn’t be a giant surprise. (Biden’s leftism has to be the reason Obama picked as his running mate someone who made such stupidly racist comments as saying Obama was clean and articulate for a black man. Who the hell says something like that and isn’t instantly destroyed? Apparently Joseph Robinette Biden, the Homer Simpson of American politics.)

    • TraffickingInDivinity June 24, 2019 at 10:49 am #

      These Democratic bloaks will form a circular firing squad and get Trump re-elected. They are clueless and charismaless.

      • PeteAtomic June 25, 2019 at 8:45 pm #

        You are right, buddy. They have no charisma, that’s for sure. If you are gonna be a President of this complicated country, you better have charisma.

    • Walter B June 24, 2019 at 11:44 am #

      Yes Pete, it is the smart move to hand out bribes to those that will not work to get ahead for votes and the best place to get the loot to hand out is to steal it from those that have to most to be taken. What we whites have to do to save ourselves is become able to get the thieves to look to the Chinese and wealthy Indians to rob instead as they are amassing quite the piles themselves and accomplishing it all without any “privilege” at least so far.

      • abbybwood June 24, 2019 at 2:51 pm #

        Speaking of handing out bribes, Kamala Harris of the 3rd World State of Sanctuary California has declared that if elected President she will give all the teachers in the US a raise of $13,500/year!

        Do we have $15,000??? $15,000 from Sen. Booker!!! $16k?? Anyone???

        Why anyone would deliberately vote for such vile and corrupt slimeballs as this lot is beyond me (except for Gabbard).

        • Walter B June 24, 2019 at 3:00 pm #

          You hit the nail right on the head abby. The answer to you wondering who would vote the scum in lies in the fact that so many are on the payroll that they have enough power to keep the same old same old in place. The corruption is almost total IMHO.

      • PeteAtomic June 24, 2019 at 8:59 pm #

        “Yes Pete, it is the smart move to hand out bribes to those that will not work to get ahead for votes and the best place to get the loot to hand out is to steal it from those that have to most to be taken. ”

        yeah, that seems to be what is happening.

    • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 12:11 pm #

      The balkanization process that you are referring to isn’t something the race hustling Democrats are instituting now because they have no other strategy for 2020. The balkanization process began when the immigration system changed in the 1960’s along with forced (by gunpoint) desegregation. That was the turning point that ensured America’s eventual demise. The Democrats are only making hay out of the failed system that both parties have allowed to exist. All politicians are responsible really. Who in politics is calling for a common identity and culture?

      • PeteAtomic June 24, 2019 at 8:59 pm #

        “Who in politics is calling for a common identity and culture?”

        great point. Nobody. It’s a shopping mall with a flag. Who would wanna die for that?

        • Walter B June 24, 2019 at 10:57 pm #

          Exactly Pete, they are calling for diversity because keeping us at each other’s throats keeps us away from going after theirs!

        • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 12:26 am #

          Very true! And now the brick and mortar mall has been replaced by a virtual mall and the flag has been banned because it offended 0.03% of the population.

    • hmuller June 24, 2019 at 12:43 pm #

      Pete, a situation like you envision is unfolding in Oregon.

      The Governor and Democrat legislative majority are trying to institute carbon taxes, cap & trade (whatever they call it) The GOP legislators have disappeared into the hills to deny them a quorum.

      The governor has tasked the state troopers to round them up by force. One of the GOP legislators has made some strong statements about resisting arrest with lethal force. And now some good old local militia boys have decided to get into the act.

      It’s all a comic opera until someone gets killed. See link

      https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-23/oregon-militias-threaten-violence-over-gop-carbon-credit-standoff-capitol-closed

      • BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 2:05 pm #

        Has the governor thought about sending state troopers to round up illegals?

        • DrTomSchmidt June 24, 2019 at 6:05 pm #

          Thanks for the belly laugh!

        • gonetohell June 24, 2019 at 6:54 pm #

          Not exactly. He’s putting together a separate unit of enforcement he refers to as Gestapo 3.0.

      • PeteAtomic June 24, 2019 at 9:04 pm #

        wow

        ridiculous situation there. Some “democracy” at action! LOL round up the guys by force to do what.. I suppose they would be locked up somewhere until they ‘decided’ LOL to vote your way!

        that’s fucked

        • Majella June 25, 2019 at 5:54 pm #

          No, they just weren’t going to VOTE, or even debate, which is their elected responsibility after all. They’re deserters.

          • benr June 26, 2019 at 10:00 am #

            Or they see the issue for what it is a waste of time and energy.

          • Majella June 27, 2019 at 6:39 pm #

            Regardless, they have simply abdicated their democratic responsibility.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 1:11 pm #

      In Oregon, the Republican Senators fled because they didn’t want to participate in passing a draconian carbon emissions bill. The Governor told the State Police to arrest them. One of the missing Senators tweeted that they better come heavily armed. Playing for the crowd? Sure – but the crowd in deep red Oregon loves it. And a Democrat rally for the Bill was cancelled in Salem due to threats by a militia.

    • gonetohell June 24, 2019 at 6:48 pm #

      The fact that JHK, and the fools that hang on his every word, seemingly find nothing to pick apart in the Republican Party establishment, indicates a very low bar has been set as to what passes for intellect.

      • hmuller June 24, 2019 at 7:27 pm #

        If you feel that way about JHK and his troup of fools, I hear the Rachel Maddow site is welcoming new fans.

        • gonetohell June 25, 2019 at 12:25 am #

          I’ll have to get back to you. I’m still trying to find the word “troup” so I may give you an adequate response.

          • hmuller June 25, 2019 at 1:12 am #

            OK, “troupe” then. Doesn’t it ever get tiresome for you to look down on others as intellectually inferior? I would guess it defines your persona in real life, if you have one?

      • Uncle Bob June 24, 2019 at 11:37 pm #

        He can’t do it every column, one; and two, where else do you read about how corrupt and foolish the Democrat party has become? These 24 morons have more in common with Eugene Debs than they do with JFK, yet we’re to believe the great food warrior would’ve gone along with socialism and dragging down America for political gain. Is JHK supposed to ignore this and club Trump and the cowardly weasel, Paul Ryan, twice a week so your beliefs are affirmed?

      • Walter B June 25, 2019 at 12:10 am #

        Sorry g-t-h, but I do believe that the majority of us do in fact understand that the republicans are totally useless as well, hence the reason that Donald Trump was able to steamroll them all and get the republican nod. Trump did not defeat Hillary Clinton because he was a republican or because he was good, but because she was so damned bad and even evil! The fact that the democratic party has been hijacked by radical progressives who tend towards violence is an issue that may very well result in more republican victories, but that is no indicator that anyone is really happy with the party. They party people are all sellout garbage, both sides.

      • benr June 25, 2019 at 1:44 pm #

        I don’t think anyone will argue that Republicans are bad the argument and reality is that Democrats are worse in every measurable metric.

    • BlueGuyRedState June 26, 2019 at 5:18 pm #

      Substitute ‘class’ for ‘race’ and practically the same.

      White evangelicals are the core Trump base much like black churchgoers (many evangelical but not all) are the same for the DNC.

      If us Berniecrats and DSA types can convince black churchgoers to give Bernie the nomination he was robbed of in 2016, we might stave off the collapse of the Republic long enough to fix a few things.

      If not, look at the Oregon state house for a preview of coming attractions.

  2. JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 10:33 am #

    One more for the Dems

    AOC was offered a trip to see the concentration camps in Europe by a holocaust survivor. She declined stating it was a right wing stunt.

    Ha, somebody has finally called her bluff on her stupidity. Hopefully someone in the media will place her on the ash heap of dumb politicians and quit covering everything she blathers.

    Maybe she should visit the border before she makes claims about something she has never seen.

    • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 10:38 am #

      She’s well meaning, but hopelessly naive. A young idealist who’s swum out into the deep water, only to find out that there’s man-eating things out there swimming with her.

      • malthuss June 24, 2019 at 11:12 am #

        NO WELL MEANING.

        Sorry.

        One more Marxist monster who loves capitalism. oxy moron.
        and a moron.

      • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 12:22 pm #

        She actually is a plant. She was hired by the DNC after answering a casting call. Her mission is very specific. Apparently its working.

        • toktomi June 24, 2019 at 2:42 pm #

          @SSL

          A domestic Greta, as it were, eh?

          Well, hopefully, we can trust that she is at least not a crisis actor.

          …or is she?

          • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 12:54 am #

            That’s a good question. I wish I had the answer. Some people believe she is a manufactured character altogether being played by Allison Williams. Apparently makeup, contacts, and a bit of cgi makes it all possible. Seems far-fetched but they say reality is stranger than fiction.

          • Walter B June 25, 2019 at 8:27 pm #

            I don’t care who claims that this has been debunked because this is how the system is worked:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5iv6sECGU

            Far too many people cannot see the truth when it is right in front of their faces, and that is a damned shame, but for those who can, well, there it is.

          • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 1:05 am #

            Amazing how there always seems to be someone behind the curtains pulling the strings. And so it’s all theatrics to some degree or another. It seems like these special interest groups have done an amazing job at stacking Congress because everybody knows Congress don’t represent us. Whether they call themselves Progressives or Conservatives doesn’t really matter. The Truth is not in them.

          • toktomi June 26, 2019 at 2:32 am #

            @WB

            I’ve not seen that before.
            I love! it. It’s like, of course, a very shrewd variation on The Theme. She is no more disingenuous and controlled than any of her ilk. These folks are just new wave, completely cynical, and brutally efficient. It sounds perfect to me for a bullshit, rigged, and evil system. You go, girl!

            To comment on your reference to the fantasy known as “truth”, oh, please.

        • Bill7 June 25, 2019 at 5:43 pm #

          My impression, too, is that AOC is some kind of Democrat Party
          limited-hangout plant.

        • benr June 26, 2019 at 10:02 am #

          Why would you insult good plants everywhere?
          If AOC is a plant I suspect poison oak or poison ivy possibly hemlock?

      • PeteAtomic June 24, 2019 at 9:06 pm #

        She sounds like prime material for Pelosi’s job LOL!!

      • Nightowl June 25, 2019 at 6:06 am #

        She has had too many moments of hypocricy to be well-meaning.

        And I have not seen a politician as utterly imbicilic since George W. or Maxine Waters.

    • venuspluto67 June 24, 2019 at 10:40 am #

      One thing that I think that really muddies the waters in that whole discussion is that when many people hear “concentration camp” with all its Holocaust-laden connotations, they think “extermination camp” along the lines of Auschwitz or Treblinka. You could conceivably call any mass-detention facility a “concentration camp”, but I don’t think it serves the conversation at all well to conjure up images of the Third Reich’s extermination-factories in central and eastern Europe.

      • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 10:57 am #

        The point is though, it would be nice if she would stop mouthing off things she hears and does her own investigation before she shoots off her mouth. The Media are just waiting with baited breath. That can be good or bad.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 1:16 pm #

        Depends on whose agenda is in play. Obviously it does serve those who want the gravy train to keep on flowing. But no, it doesn’t serve Civil Society either here or in Europe.

      • Nightowl June 25, 2019 at 6:10 am #

        That is the entire point. She is being coached to use this language. Her defense line that concentration camps don’t equal extermination camps was also pre-construed, and the idea that concentration camps are the same as the MEX border camps is absurd. There is no mass starvation or death occuring, no forced labor, no sub-human living conditions.

        People are dumb though; many are even dumber than AOC.

    • DEFCON1 June 24, 2019 at 11:26 am #

      “Maybe she should visit the border before she makes claims about something she has never seen.”

      Now who does that remind us of?

      She is great – really scares the mouth-breathers. She wants your money, John. All of it. To give to poor families. So they can do nothing all day but live of your $$

      Sounds like heaven to me.

      • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 12:23 pm #

        You meant to say poor, non-citizen families.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 1:18 pm #

        People like you are the problem, Def. You need to be in chain gang building the Wall. Cool Hand Def! And you’re already a Con….

    • gonetohell June 24, 2019 at 6:59 pm #

      They are concentration camps by the very definition of the term. She did not specify Nazi concentration camps, a distinction feeble minds are apparently unable to grasp.

      • benr June 25, 2019 at 1:50 pm #

        The feeble mind is yours for leaving off the rest of the comment as in “never again” a direct reference to NAZI style Concentration camps.
        The direct quote!

        “I want to talk to the people that are concerned enough with humanity to say that ‘never again’ means something,” Ocasio-Cortez continued in her live video. “The fact that concentration camps are now an institutionalized practice in the ‘Home of the Free’ is extraordinarily disturbing and we need to do something about it.”
        So what was that about feeble minds the gonetohell?

        Language and context matters when on the world stage on a forum such as this meh but in the big leagues it matters.
        She is wrong on this comment and well pretty much everything else that slithers out of her greasy gob.

        • Majella June 25, 2019 at 6:02 pm #

          benr, watch the video linked below and then come back & tell me you ‘approve’ of these institutions.

        • gonetohell June 25, 2019 at 8:02 pm #

          Your last sentence as pertains to Ms. AOC quite adequately identifies yourself as the slithering sort.

          The very fact that AOC has specified concentration camps that have existed in the US would indicate she’s not referencing Nazi camps. She is likely referencing the internment camps for American citizens that happened to be of Japanese descent during WWII.

          Yes my feeble minded friend, those were concentration camps by the very definition.

          • benr June 26, 2019 at 2:27 am #

            Talk about WEASEL wording.
            You just engaged in it and expect to get a pass!
            Hell no she said it “NEVER AGAIN” we all know what she was referencing!
            So what is it are you a liar, ignorant or just an idiot?
            She is a dyed in the wool rabble rousing POS trying to score political points by selling out her country much like half the Democrat scum in power now always do.
            How about instead she visit some of the sites and help get funding or better yet push for comprehensive immigration reforms to stop this madness now! No instead she shoots off her mouth showing what a fool she is…again.

            The Democrats promised Ronald in 1986 if he signed an amNASTY bill they would fix the busted immigration system!
            Instead they kicked the can down the road and the spineless Republicans and worsewe the people have allowed this travesty to continue for thirty fricking years.

    • Majella June 25, 2019 at 6:00 pm #

      Maybe her ‘concentration camp’ remark was not as far off the mark as everyone has been quick to remark. Remember, she didn’t refer to the death camps so technically she was correct, though it was naive to think she wouldn’t get the reaction she did.

      Here’s Shep Smith, hardly a ‘rabid left-wing extremist prone to violence’ on the topic:

      https://youtu.be/retm4NzVJ9k

      • benr June 26, 2019 at 2:28 am #

        See my post above you are smarter then this we both know it so why pretend it was anything but her trying to make political hay and being called on it.

        • Majella June 26, 2019 at 4:23 am #

          No, benr. I trust you’ve caught up with today’s reports from the Border. It’s a truly shitty clusterfuck-mess and the administration should be ashamed – oh, wait…it is. It just APPROVED a further $4.5 BILLION of YOUR hard earned federal tax dollars to papering over the cracks. What a fecking joke. How can YOU be so blind to reality?

          • Majella June 26, 2019 at 4:32 am #

            Benr – your ‘post above’ was unsurprising in its predictability – your standard impotent rage against objective reality, triggered into spewing shite without any sense aside from your ingrained predispositions – prejudices in fact.

            AOC is everything you loathe:
            1 socialist (and Democrat, though that doesn’t matter as much as the first)
            2 in a position of public prominence
            3 articulate

            (Note, her brown skin & vagina are AGAIN not reasons in my argument for your antipathy.)

          • benr June 26, 2019 at 11:04 am #

            Majella

            Socialism is a disease like an STD which I suspect most people who believe in it must have tertiary syphilis. How else could someone be so brain damaged as to believe a country of 430 million legal and upwards of 20-50 million illegal aliens could provide so many goodies and not go bankrupt?

            You’re right how ever I loath her politics and well yours.
            In fact I abhor most Democrats politics, the virtue signaling and all the assorted bullshit they put forward.
            Its the ideas or should I say lack of coherent ones I abhor.
            It’s the finger pointing and lecturing while complaining $172,000 is not enough money.

            As far as articulate that is a laugh.
            She has overtones of Kardashian up speak mixed with girl from around the way. Not a good sound rather grating on the ears. I guess compared to other like um you know like millennial valley girls wanna be’s she might be like um well you know like smart. For sure.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMZNcxdoCA

            Watch the entire clip your hero is a dunce and the host annoying as he is, spot on with his assessment.
            She doesn’t stutter non-stop like Obama without his precious teleprompter I will give her that but she still says moronic over the top things and people applaud her for it.
            I just want to pat her on the head and give her an alfalfa cookie and send her out to pasture where all the good donkeys belong.

            Here is an idea I know it’s tough for you to understand the reality that this is a mess thirty years in the making but it’s not this administration that should be ashamed. NO it’s people like you all mouth and no action. I have been voting for people who talk about fixing the immigration system and so far well even the side I support has failed spineless bastards.

            I blame people like you directly for giving DEMOCRATS COVER to keep on allowing unchecked illegal immigration and the endless free goodies that attract them!

            Typical Democrat nonsense never let a crisis go to waste!
            Hurray overwhelm the system force change hip hip hurray!
            Right out of that old play book Cloward and Piven STYLE YEA BOYEE! My my Saul Alinsky would be so proud Marxist clap trap.
            Just another exercise in PROBLEM, REACTION, and SOLUTION except the only solution is ever more government, more money and of course more Donkeys in power. Yet everywhere these idiots go misery follows higher crime, busted up streets, and everything falling apart. So tell me who are the real idiots? Yea the people who always tell us how smart they think they are when talking to we the working class little people. You know the ones that actually fix stuff for a living.

          • Majella June 26, 2019 at 6:44 pm #

            Still raging impotently, benr.

          • benr June 26, 2019 at 7:29 pm #

            Raging hell no its up lifting to whittle away at your false narratives with caustic truth.
            I can sense your utter frustration and revel in your non-response.
            How do I know this???
            You have not responded with a mountain of cretinous bullshit.
            Huzzah.

          • Majella June 27, 2019 at 6:45 pm #

            🙂

  3. Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 10:35 am #

    Sounds like the perfect recipe for another four years of Trump’s shenanigans. Perhaps if he’d just jettison Pompeo and Bolton we’d even survive that, although the devil knows all too well that there’s a deep cesspool of replacements from whence those two crawled out of. Perhaps the better question still is whether the R’s will continue to be content to go along for the ride in the Trump clown car, or will one of them – just one! – somehow summon up the gravitas to challenge him and try to do something truly audacious, like say, actually govern the place in a semi-adult manner? Indeed, is such a thing even possible any more in country that’s wandered so far off the beaten track that it might well be impossible to ever find our way back now? Either way, the old song lyric still applies: Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with… Remains to be seen I guess, that last part.

    • venuspluto67 June 24, 2019 at 10:47 am #

      Another thing that makes a long-term string of defeats for the Democratic Party a strong possibility, is the fact that the Clinton-supporter/ Sanders-supporter rift of 2016 all but caused the party to split into two separate parties that virulently loathe one another. One Christian teaching that manages to be universally true is that a house divided against itself cannot stand.

      • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 10:48 am #

        Great points!

      • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 10:54 am #

        Hopefully!

      • benr June 24, 2019 at 11:02 am #

        And good riddance to it the Democrat party as it stands now is a dinosaur the sooner it ends up as history the better for America.

      • jdhines June 24, 2019 at 11:44 am #

        With GGG’s low poll numbers, his flip flopping on “bomb Iran, no wait, cancel that bombing run,” his “deport millions, no wait, let’s do that later,” his “I’m building a great wall, OK and Mexico, I guarantee, is going to pay for it.” His, “Kim Jong Un and I are in love, OK, no really, we are in love, OK?” I don’t see how he can possibly win.

        He hasn’t delivered on stopping illegal immigration, quite the contrary, with record crossings. His tax “reform” for the wealthy was a big flop with the base and everyone else save the rich. There are no new factories, the tariffs are hurting his base and the Repubs have gone out of their way to antagonize women with there pro-life antics. Women continue to come out of the woodwork talking about his various sexual advances. Throw in that the farms are being decimated and his re-election simply does not seem to be in the cards.

        I know “it’s the economy stupid,” but most people have figured out that the stock market is a rich person’s scam and low unemployment equates to UNDER employment unless you are a 10%’er. The economy (stupid) didn’t save the Repubs in the midterms and I don’t believe it will save them and Trump in 2020. Too many people, save the delusional rube base, are tired of the obvious BS, including MAGA and Keep America Great. Ha!

        No doubt, he will carry the reddest of the red states and other Rube enclaves, but it simply is not enough to win the electoral college. Of course, he will lose the popular vote by many millions, even Her Royal Highness Hillary kicked the shit out of him there! Can Russia et al pull another rabbit out of the hat via social media? Very doubtful, everybody knows that trick now.

        It doesn’t matter who the hapless, corrupt Dems run, anyone shy of Hillary could beat him. He’s no longer an “outsider,” his schtick is getting very stale, a tiresome repeat of 2016. He’s toast, but I may be wrong.

        • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 12:35 pm #

          Yep, he’s in his late waffling phase now. Never a good look for a pol whose go-to negotiation method is the ultimatum. People know they can call his bluff now, which makes him all the more unpredictable and potentially dangerous. Meanwhile, the feckless Dems are still pulling up the rear just a whisker behind, with no coherent plan for anything at all, other than general hysteria.

        • abbybwood June 24, 2019 at 3:30 pm #

          As we all clearly learned on election night 2016, the ONLY “poll” that counts is when the citizens actually vote!!

          I still watch The Young Turks election night coverage as they are popping champagne at the beginning because all the polls say Hillary is a sure thing then things slowly go south and their heads all explode.

          Cenk and Co. should have known the Hillary jig was up when the fireworks were cancelled. Ha!!!!!

          • Nightowl June 25, 2019 at 6:27 am #

            The best was sending Pedo Podesta out to give her speech.

            She couldn’t even do it herself.

          • Bill7 June 25, 2019 at 5:45 pm #

            Is your impression that our mcVotes are accurately counted?

            I have a bridge for sale, right this way…

    • Paulo June 24, 2019 at 11:12 am #

      Everyone is heading to their fringe corners, because this whole farce is just another WWE/WWF vote joke to keep the population placated. Meanwhile, the corporations run the show for their officers and wealthy stock holders, and the US is headed off to another war. It’s a joke, for sure.

      And exactly half the states are right to work states, with Tenn workers so dumb they voted down certification at a VW plant, what 3 times?, when VW would actually prefer a union plant for management ease. Let’s take that $2 lower per hour wage “’cause we don’t need no stinkin union tellin’ us what wages and benefits we might git”. And the glorious USMCA or CUSMA ensures Mexican auto workers still make 1/3 of what north American auto workers earn. The corporations have stolen the store and their unrelenting propaganda has convinced people it’s for their own good.

      Funny, there’s never enough money for affordable health care, pensions, and decent education, but the military has unending support and growing funds. In the next while we’ll see unrest handled with automatic weapons and modern version Pinkertons with batons and Glocks. The Gubmit will still try and overthrow other countries chosen Govt structures and say it’s for their own good. The Christian fringe will decry Muslims and white shooting massacres will continue with side orders of addictions and suicide. hey, 53% of the US public believes in Creationism or Intelligent Design. 41% of US citizens believe that people co-existed with dinosaurs. can’t fix stupid.

      • venuspluto67 June 24, 2019 at 11:21 am #

        Yep, and to add insult to injury, television entertainment will just keep getting increasingly insipid, unoriginal, and boring. The only TV I watch anymore is retro-TV. (Sorry, that was a bit of a tangent, wasn’t it?)

      • City_of_76 June 24, 2019 at 12:25 pm #

        You can’t even trust books anymore — Amazon.com is apparently filled with counterfeit books.

        https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/technology/amazon-domination-bookstore-books.html

      • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 12:29 pm #

        Yes God forbid Americans believe in anything other than science and government right. Science and government have solved all of our problems. Why the constant derision for a section of the population that has absolutely no power? Too afraid to lay the blame where it belongs? The left is as stupid as the right.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 1:20 pm #

        But no Muslim or Black massacres? You suck, Paul.

        • benr June 26, 2019 at 11:10 am #

          Oh they happen they just won’t report on it.
          Jihadwatch Robert Spencer highlights all the Islamic inspired mayhem since 9-11-2001.
          People like to forget about the constant massacres in Africa!

      • abbybwood June 24, 2019 at 3:33 pm #

        As to your wrestling analogy, it’s all “a work”, eh?

      • benr June 26, 2019 at 11:08 am #

        Nope you can’t fix stupid as evident by your insipid posts.
        It’s laughable that you “think” you are smarter than any of the people you lampooned.

    • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 12:26 pm #

      Most Republicans are spineless. Certainly there are none that I am aware of that want to even come near to embracing Trump’s base. After all, there won’t be any rewards for attempting to represent White America. As it is, Trump is too scared to even mention that we exist. So the only parties with representation are indeed the Elite (who will support any war you give them) and all of the minorities. In other words, nothing changes and the decline accelerates.

      • Majella June 24, 2019 at 7:32 pm #

        SSL

        I think it’s pretty obvious that Trump is not a Republican – not even a RINO. He’s always been a liberal-minded sort of person – check videos of interviews in the 80s & 90s when he was coherent and expressed himself in actual sentences.

        Now, he’s just a rabid power-grasping fool – his narcissism is full-blown and has taken over his few remaining grey cells.

        He’s insecure because, I postulate, he now realizes that his ‘life’ didn’t turn out as he had expected. He CLAIMS all the victories & successes in business ventures, which we all know is total fantasy. Somewhere deep inside, he knows it too.

        In any event, it turns out he’s just NOT the White Supremacist you voted for – sorry. Fortunately, there’s no one offering themselves with an agenda that would satisfy you & BFF Janos, and I/m confident in predicting that there never will be.

        • BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 8:06 pm #

          He’s a total failure, topped off by becoming President of the US.

          Brh

          • Nightowl June 25, 2019 at 6:29 am #

            At least Maj finally went back and looked into who Trump really is.

            The coginitve dissonance kicks back in in paragraph 2, but hey ho …

        • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 1:41 am #

          Seriously? You thought we voted for him because we believed he was a White Supremacist? LOL, that’s really funny but yeah I’m pretty sure you are high. Never has DJT remotely appeared racist. That is a PC deception but a very popular one no less that is chirped everyday.

          You shouldn’t be confident of anything. Things can change. And quickly. It would appear we are not fully represented by any candidate now and no doubt that brings you joy. But don’t assume things will always be this way.

          • Majella June 25, 2019 at 6:14 pm #

            SSL

            But only the other day, you were saying ‘there’d never be another Republican in the White House’ (or words to that effect).

            You change your tune as often as your underpants.

        • Majella June 25, 2019 at 6:13 pm #

          Nightowl

          My ‘cognitive dissonance’?

          You just pull things right out of your arse:

          “She is being coached to use this language. Her defense line that concentration camps don’t equal extermination camps was also pre-construed, and the idea that concentration camps are the same as the MEX border camps is absurd. There is no mass starvation or death occuring, no forced labor, no sub-human living conditions.”

          You start with a conspiracy theory (“She is being coached…” by whom? George Soros?), then go on to make the very point so many others have in her defense. Does ‘pre-construed’ even have an actual meaning? I can’t find it anywhere, please enlighten me.

          Except for the ‘no forced labor’, the rest describes these federally-authorized hell-holes pretty darned well.

          • Nightowl June 26, 2019 at 4:21 am #

            Yes, your cognitive dissonance.

            RE: point two, it is my opinion that she is mouthing talking points provided to her.

            In school, many Americans are not taught that there is a difference between a death camp and concentration camp, particularly when the context is WWII. But the funny part is, as mentioned, there is little difference with regard to the NSDAP camps. Mass starvation and death were commonplace in work camps. The entire point was to work them until collapse.

            Given how often the clown corporate media and select politicians have compared Trump to Hitler, this would appear to be just another manifestation of the same mental illness (kidding, ofc, it is a strategy) we have observed for the past 2-3 years.

            I await your report on Obama’s “federally authorized hell holes.” When do you make your personal trip to see if reality matches your claim? Maybe they really are just like Nazi concentration camps! Get to it!

          • Majella June 26, 2019 at 4:43 am #

            Nightowl

            So YOUR cognitive dissonance remains unrecognised. Surprise.

            I can’t speak for the US education system (I wasn’t subjected to it) but your point is lost in any case. Anything greater than high school plus reading/life experience would surely get even a public-school-drone to an understanding of the obvious nuances involved.

            Reports today – such as the conversation between a Federal judge and some over-worked, under-paid, under-staffed and completely-thrown-under-the-bus functionary who could NOT answer a simple question was the mean raw face of your nasty ‘gulag’-operation on the border.

            Is there not an ounce of milk of human kindness in you? These are fecking children – not responsible for their plight and forcibly separated from their parent(s). Who’s responsible for the outcome? The US Government and the likes if you who are willing to accept it because it fits your perverted narrative.

            Bah!

          • Nightowl June 26, 2019 at 5:55 am #

            CD does not apply to me in this matter. I am not the one ranting about detention centers being “concentration camps” while putting forth no evidence whatsoever that the two are similar.

            You also have a habit of dodging every point you are exposed on. What is my perverted narrative? That rule of law should be enforced? I am an immigrant myself. I left the US for Germany. Had I not followed the rules, I would have been sent packing.

    • gonetohell June 25, 2019 at 12:33 am #

      Have you read many of the comments here? Cuz I’m guessing if you had, you’d realize the Trump clown car has clowns hanging from it’s undercarriage.

  4. venuspluto67 June 24, 2019 at 10:37 am #

    Senator Warren added a gender hustle amuse bouche to the menu over the weekend with a demand for “reparations for gay and lesbian couples” who had to file income taxes as individuals in the pre gay marriage days.

    Wow, even I think that’s laying it on just a little bit thick. :-/

    • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 10:49 am #

      Each Dem candidate is going to add on more giveaways. They do not have anything else to offers. It is already started.

      Brought to you by the party that lives in debt.

      Just like the other party.

      Hmmm, the problem might not be the parties. Maybe these promise alls are part of the Deep State and voting Dem vs, GOP may not make any difference.

      Trump vs. Deep State in 2020. And I would listen to arguments that that confrontation may not make any difference.

      If so, the path is downward either way.

      • Luhrenloup June 24, 2019 at 11:36 am #

        Of course, you’re right. What gets me is how anybody can think that going to war with Iran is the solution.
        The Dems screwed themselves when they abandoned the working class for Wall street and there’s no coming back from that error; they are ineradicably tied to that money. They have nothing to offer; their only game is pitting groups against one another. Their desperation is such that they are promoting a man with seriously questionable interactions with girls and women.
        Politics has descended to such a level that it is totally meaningless. Even the people being pandered to by the Dems see it for what it is.

        • BC_EE June 24, 2019 at 11:42 am #

          Because “War Presidents” get re-elected. Hail Caesar.

        • Nightowl June 25, 2019 at 6:30 am #

          Questionable? He is groping kids on film.

          • Luhrenloup June 25, 2019 at 2:40 pm #

            Nightowl, you don’t get to sit at my table. Until you learn to be respectful and have something intelligent to say without trying to humiliate others, I’m not interested.

          • Nightowl June 26, 2019 at 4:25 am #

            He groped kids on film. No amount of wordplay can hide it.

          • Luhrenloup June 26, 2019 at 10:51 am #

            Nightowl, you don’t get to sit at my table. Until you learn to be respectful and have something intelligent to say without trying to humiliate others, I’m not interested

      • abbybwood June 24, 2019 at 3:35 pm #

        All of their goody promises are lies. They know it and we know it.

      • gonetohell June 25, 2019 at 8:28 pm #

        Seems like the only giveaways acceptable to the idiot class are tax breaks to corporations and one-tenth of one percent of the U.S. population.The Wall Street giveaway to bail-out an economic collapse-caused by Wall Street-makes sense to the idiot contingent as well.

        The lies that got us into Iraq, and its subsequent trillions in costs and giveaways to the defense industry, is also perfectly acceptable. It’s just when giveaways go to helping our struggling middle class that offense is taken. Heaven forbid a poor kid goes to public college for free. Or that fewer die or go bankrupt because of medicare-for-all.

        This country is going to fail. The uneducated and ill-informed will continue tuning in to FOX as substitute for a thought process.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 1:23 pm #

      What do you think of Trannies reading to kids in libraries? The Elite are deadly serious about this. In Spokane, a couple of hundred mothers showed up to protest one such reading – the Police had snipers out to insure that the reading went on. America must be queered one way or another.

      • BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 8:04 pm #

        Trouble is there just ain’t enough queers to go around. At just a few % of the population they’re spead pretty thin. Trannies reading to inpressional little kids here, homosexual gangs trafficing young migrants across the border there, it takes people to get this important work done.

        Brh

      • Bill7 June 25, 2019 at 5:48 pm #

        Divide et impera is working fantastically well- for the Few.

  5. TiredOfTheTreadmill June 24, 2019 at 10:37 am #

    This is the best American politics can give us now. Both parties full of absolute crap humans. Decline is the only path forward.

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    • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 10:41 am #

      On the plus side, it’s definitely making for great entertainment on the way down. Maybe that’s even their true intent?

      • abbybwood June 24, 2019 at 3:36 pm #

        Bread and circuses??!

    • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 12:32 pm #

      Yes, any real change requires an end to the current system. The solution lies outside of the established political process.

      • toktomi June 24, 2019 at 3:13 pm #

        @SSL

        Ya, probably waaayyyyy “outside”

        Kathy McMahon, a very long time ago, described and coined a term for the attitude of those who have recognized the symptoms of this collapsing industrial human society but who refuse to accept it. She described these people as suffering from Panglossian Disorder.

        In the study of population dynamics it’s called a die-off. It’s really quite thoroughly described and is relatively easy to predict with some degree of probability.

        “Say goodnight, Gracie.”

        I could be wrong.

        • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 1:49 am #

          Hmmm Kathy McMahon. Ok, thank you. Though I am not ready to say good night you certainly could be right. We will get there one way or the other. I for one hope you are very wrong. And you know its nothing personal at all. Hey, maybe that’s that disorder talking?

          • toktomi June 26, 2019 at 2:49 am #

            @SSL

            “disorder talking”? I don’t think so.

            What I’ve seen over the last 18+ years of doomerism seems to suggest that there is a genetic predisposition of the human population that prevents somewhere in the area of 90% of all people from visualizing their near-imminent demise even when it is obvious.

            Looking at the trajectories of all the global systems, natural and abstract, the numbers add up to about a 7 billion soul die-off. There is no model that gets us out of this intact. So, what is the subject of conversation? Economic recovery. Cuz the lie stalls the panic.

  6. shotho June 24, 2019 at 10:40 am #

    It’s interesting to me that the greatest exponents of individual freedom over and against an oppressive central government were Democrats: Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Grover Cleveland. Sad to think about where the party is now.

    • CancelMyCard June 24, 2019 at 10:56 am #

      And on the Republican side . . .
      well let’s just say that
      Donald Trump ain’t no Abraham Lincoln either.

  7. Walter B June 24, 2019 at 10:49 am #

    When I saw that Tulsi Gabbard was slated to be on stage two days from now I made a note to tune in myself. I do not recall if Booker T. Cory is on the same night, but I hope that he is not. He is a true example of Jersey Dirt at its worst. I cannot imagine the Jackass Party pulling anything like a real movement together for next Fall, though they are perfectly capable of doing their best Oliver & Hardy imitation. My most rabid liberal friends are foaming at the mouth for Joe Biden to get the call as “only Joe can defeat the evil hairy monster Trump”, so they say. Most of these demented fools should switch their drink of choice from Cool Aid to Hemlock and put themselves out of their misery after four years of “Trump must go, Trump must go mania” drove out the last vestiges of real thought from their tiny minds.

    One thing is sure and that is that we can no longer rule ourselves, and if we cannot rule ourselves, how can we expect to rule others?

    • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 10:52 am #

      The last sentence is very well stated.

    • benr June 24, 2019 at 11:04 am #

      Well stated.

    • malthuss June 24, 2019 at 11:23 am #

      t. He is a true example of Jersey Dirt at its worst.

      –wow. what a sentence.

      • Walter B June 24, 2019 at 11:30 am #

        An updated and polished version of Sharp James. And just wait until Ras Baraka comes of age and we are all seriously screwed. No one from New Jersey should even be allowed to take part in national politics and if you doubt my opinion, try Googling “Soprano State”.

        • malthuss June 24, 2019 at 3:38 pm #

          Whitman, the republican governor, okayed legal infanticide, way back in the 90s or 00s.

          • Walter B June 24, 2019 at 3:57 pm #

            And I do believe that she was the first to raid the pension funds.

          • malthuss June 24, 2019 at 6:14 pm #

            T Y

      • abbybwood June 24, 2019 at 3:39 pm #

        I thought New Jersey was “The Garden State”??

        • Walter B June 24, 2019 at 10:58 pm #

          It was but has degraded and is now the “Soprano State”:

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP6ZP0DM1po

          • Majella June 24, 2019 at 11:28 pm #

            Walter, we spent a whole summer (1989) working in a bakery in Villas, Cape May.

            We lived for part of that time in Sea Isle City before moving south to Cold Harbour, and we would drive to work through the sunrise, headed south on the coastal highway. Very beautiful, great surf and lovely locals. Never got to North Jersey, though…

            So, based on my experience (younger and not politically engaged), Noo Joizy IS a Garden State. As you can imagine, Boardwalk Empire was a ‘must see’ show, even though we only went to AC once, for a day – the Trump Taj Mahal was still under construction if I recall.

          • Walter B June 24, 2019 at 11:47 pm #

            The state has many, many parts that are indeed a garden and a beautiful national treasure, but the political “leadership” is corruption incarnate:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6iIeVgI00M

            The north and central western part of the state is more like Pennsylvania than NJ, and the Pine Barrens are pretty cool too, unless you do not prefer sand over soil. Just as how in New York state the rolling gorgeous farmlands go on for mile after beautiful mile and the cities are dumps, so too is New Jersey. Perhaps that can be stated about many places, no?

          • Majella June 26, 2019 at 4:47 am #

            Yeah, Walter. Loved that summer. Cape May township us a delicious slice of old-time America…or at least it was 30 years ago. We started work at the bakery on July 2nd 1989 – 30 years ago next Tuesday. Wow…aging sucks.

        • Majella June 24, 2019 at 11:21 pm #

          Yeah…”pushing up daisies” is a State-sponsored occupation for stool pigeons et al.

    • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 12:37 pm #

      I just can’t get past the fixation on Joe Biden as the antidote to Trump but hey whatever. That last sentence is very good Walter. Government actually starts within the heart of the individual, then extends to the home and then out from there. Anything goes and nothing matters all the way down to the individual now. So yes, governing and government itself are impossible tasks because the individual is now ungovernable.

    • Majella June 24, 2019 at 8:22 pm #

      Looks like you’re not going to get your wish Walter:

      DNC debate candidates for June 26:
      Cory Booker
      Bill de Blasio
      Julián Castro
      John Delaney
      Tulsi Gabbard
      Jay Inslee
      Amy Klobuchar
      Beto O’Rourke
      Tim Ryan
      Elizabeth Warren

      • Walter B June 24, 2019 at 10:59 pm #

        Maybe de Blasio will get Booker stoned before the gig and all will work out in the end.

        • hmuller June 24, 2019 at 11:28 pm #

          Cory Booker – the self described Black Spartacus of American politics. Maybe he and Buttigiggly can make some gladiator home movies.

        • Majella June 24, 2019 at 11:30 pm #

          Here’s hoping!

          I’m really keen to see if Tulsi is given a fair shake here…

          Were these the lowest 10 of the 20 selected? In ascending order?

          • Walter B June 24, 2019 at 11:50 pm #

            i am unaware of how the choices were made, but I too am anxious to see Tulsi in action. So far she is the first possible I have seen in decades that I am seriously impressed with.

          • Nightowl June 25, 2019 at 10:09 am #

            I like her, too. But she has no chance. Her personality is not strong enough, and though she is attractive, she doesn’t project authority.

            She will get devoured in our TV-based process. Superficial aspects account for the majority of votes. Dems will likely choose Warren. She is tall, blonde, projects confindence, and can speak well enough to avoid gaffes 80% of the time.

            Problem is, vs. Trumpi, Liewatha has already lost.

          • Walter B June 26, 2019 at 12:23 pm #

            I do believe that many Americans want to be able to say that they are on “the winning” side and make choices based upon the probability of a candidate or a sports team to be able to “win”. I have a long history of choosing who I thought was the most competent individual and so I am usually not on the winning side. I do however, sleep like the dead because my conscience is clear and I will continue to do so.

  8. JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 10:50 am #

    Anyone hear from Howard Schulz or ,shudder, HRC recently.

    • CancelMyCard June 24, 2019 at 10:59 am #

      HRC will be drafted to run again at the last minute,
      right after Biden self-immolates.

      • BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 2:02 pm #

        Don’t count Breadline Bernie out.

        He’s been fighting the good fight since like 1931,

        Breadline has staying power if nothing else

        Brh

        • Nightowl June 25, 2019 at 7:06 am #

          He has no chance. I think they will bet on Warren, but her claims to NA ancestry, and the fact that she grifted off them, have already torpedoed her chances vs. Trumpi.

          She’s a posterchild politician. Says the right stuff, presents the right image, and is a total fraud behind the scenes. Thing is, people know about the fraud now.

          • BackRowHeckler June 25, 2019 at 7:56 am #

            I’d like to see how her Schtik works out when negotiating with hard men like Young Kim, Putin, and Premier Xi. I’d vote for her just for that.

            Brh

          • hmuller June 25, 2019 at 9:13 am #

            She can threaten to hang their scalps in her casino.

      • toktomi June 24, 2019 at 3:25 pm #

        @CMC

        Assuming that the world is not well into the die-off by the time this insanity plays, my current guess would be that the puppeteers will be looking to extend their insanity story line rather than repeat parts of it.

        Biden is an absolute ROFLMFAO, bat shit crazy, first order pedo, perfect for bringing down the tents on this circus.

        “It’s all bullshit, folks, and it’s bad for ya!”
        “Go home.” [Tracy Ulman]

        I could be wrong.

  9. Robert White June 24, 2019 at 11:03 am #

    The Democrat wannabe leadership candidates are all just making a show of their less than honest runs at the presidency. All are well aware of the incumbent status of the last term majority win for the Republicans. No amount of political grandstanding or histrionics emanating out of the Democrat camp will suffice to undermine the Republican incumbency unless they can dig up dirt, or urine, on The Duck.

    The Duck knows that corporate America & Wall Street all fully support his P.T. Barnum II negotiation style & tactics. The Duck is a full fledged coward like bully that has an entranced following of Jonestown Kool-Aid drinkers that will follow him over the cliff like Lemmings all hell bent for Kentucky.

    Upsetting the mass delusions of a captured American public by entertaining the mass delusions of Democrats and their posturing wannabe Zombified aged old decrepit frontrunners is the only way to proceed into 2020 knowing that the elections are always rigged for incumbency unless the resident dictator fucks up & commits a dastardly criminal act.

    The Duck’s personality is rolling probable cause for impeachment but the spineless deep state ain’t actually that deep after all.

    RW

    • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 12:40 pm #

      So personality now falls into the range of things that can get one impeached from the presidency? Is this finally the full union of Hollywood and DC?

      • Robert White June 24, 2019 at 1:04 pm #

        Psychopathy with respect to personality, and relational disposition towards others, is what genocided the poor sots in Jonestown. If The Duck & The Wonderful World of Disney combine forces to disseminate Jonestown Kool-Aid en masse I’m pretty sure the CIA would go along with it as long as they get appropriate recompence before hand. Heck, pre-crime profiling is empirically based today and more accurate than not given BIG data mining & advances in Experimental Psychology with regard to Criminal Psychology and propensity based upon known past behaviour.

        The probability that the system is rigged is p = 1.

        The probability that I am wrong about personality & psychopathy is p = 0.

        Empiricism has its benefits.

        RW

        • CancelMyCard June 24, 2019 at 6:45 pm #

          You are definitely
          a legend
          in
          your
          own
          mind.

          • Robert White June 24, 2019 at 11:08 pm #

            I am far greater than most legends but I’m not one to brag about my life as my King James Bible instructs one to be humble and not prone to braggadocio. Moreover, there is pride before the fall so I’ll pass on the pride thingy too.

            Suffice to say that whilst I have a healthy perspective on myself & behaviour it is due to experience. When I was younger I knew that I was going to become an excellent drummer but my older brother thought otherwise when he heard me playing drums one day and decided to hurl the upright Hoover vacuum cleaner down a flight of stairs straight into my face & drum kit as a positive refinforcer for me to play better. When I saw that Hoover upright vacuum cleaner hurling towards my drum kit & face/upper body I realized in a split second before it hit that my brother was wrong and I was most assuredly well on my way to making him eat his words of discouragement eventually.

            Within about two years from that day my brother was choking on crow, and I never looked back again on anything anyone ever said or did with respect to discouraging me at anything I put my hand to.

            My mother was really my only fan all along so she gets credit where due.

            RW

        • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 1:55 am #

          So then the system is definitely rigged and you are right about personality and psychopathy?

    • abbybwood June 24, 2019 at 3:43 pm #

      If Google has its way, it will literally be impossible for Trump to win:

      https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/24/insider-blows-whistle-exec-reveals-google-plan-to-prevent-trump-situation-in-2020-on-hidden-cam/

      “Don’t be evil” eh??!

      • CancelMyCard June 24, 2019 at 6:47 pm #

        What is it with
        you Canadians
        with your
        “Eh”
        bullshit???

        • abbybwood June 24, 2019 at 9:44 pm #

          Ha!! I am NOT Canadian!

          Born and raised in Ohio and now I am in Los Angeles.

          Only time I was in Canada was as a child when we took a summer trip to Niagra Falls.

          Pfft! (What’s THAT? Polish??).

  10. FincaInTheMountains June 24, 2019 at 11:14 am #

    So this is how Roosevelt’s America was dying!

    In fact, this is a very common story. One of the “Washington Square Wise Men”, the one who introduced me to Stanley Kubrick, served a couple of years in prison because, like the bartender in this movie in 1946, he knocked his boss out, who told him that America was not on the right side of the front line during WWII, that it was necessary together with the Germans (Nazis) to fight against the Russians (Soviets).

    By the way, he knew Trump’s father well, who became a millionaire by starting to build low-cost housing on East-End and in Brooklyn for soldiers returning from the war.

    So Roosevelt America did not surrender without a fight, despite the fact that in Truman America similar statements were officially made by the US ambassadors to the USSR, Harriman and Bullitt, and Bullitt, who became the prototype of Voland in Bulgakov’s “Master and Margarita”, spoke about this back in 1940 at the height of Dunkirk.

    And even it is impossible to refer to his disgust from the horrors of Stalinism, since before the famous Ball in SpasoHouse, held in 1935, Bullitt admired Stalin in his reports to the State Department. (Back when he thought that Moscow would become a World Capital of anti-Christianity).

    Best Years of Our Lives – “And For What?”

    The Germans and the Japanese had nothing against us. They wanted to fight the Jews and the Reds, and they would have destroyed them if a bunch of Washington radicals would not deceive us.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4EjRzzRQLI

    Apparently this topic is very relevant, judging by the last week’s discussion in this blog.

    And judging by Sunday political programs and forums, Trump gave the command to drown the Clintonoids in the shithouse (ideologically), not looking at the possibility of appearing in the press that the United States was not always the Shining City on the Hill, that it was an ideal to which one should strive, not a political reality.

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    • FincaInTheMountains June 24, 2019 at 11:22 am #

      By the way, I don’t think that ANY Democratic candidate is relevant AT ALL, since it appears that Hillary is going to run again.

      • CancelMyCard June 24, 2019 at 6:50 pm #

        Imagine that!

        HRC and The Donald

        REDUX!!

        Pass the popcorn!!

      • Majella June 24, 2019 at 8:29 pm #

        Absolutely clear that you’ve been interviewing your typewriter again, Finca, with a prediction as idiotic as that.

  11. Lonely Traveler June 24, 2019 at 11:19 am #

    Biden’s biggest campaign slogan so far is that Nothing Would Fundamentally Change. That gives working people nothing to hope for when it comes to healthcare, wages or anything else. The working classes will continue to gravitate to Trump because something (MAGA) is better than nothing. It’s a real freak show, but Trump will win again. America will continue its rapid decline unfettered by Democratic platitudes. Only after collapse will we see any fundamental changes, and then we’re probably looking at some kind of techno-futuristic fascism, until that falls apart, too. Get ready people.

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/06/19/vowing-not-demonize-rich-biden-tells-billionaires-nothing-would-fundamentally-change

    • malthuss June 24, 2019 at 11:24 am #

      The huge increase in USA population is much of the problem.

      Immigrants are negatively selected, to quote Brimelow.

    • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 12:43 pm #

      Nothing will fundamentally change because the Deep State will be in charge like it is now. They always have continuity of power no matter what the results of the election are. Trump didn’t drain the swamp and has made it clear that he won’t.

    • SpeedyBB June 26, 2019 at 10:40 am #

      “Lonely Traveler” – cool name, nice exposition. “…techno-futuristic fascism…” seems to have gathered its own momentum, and the unopposed triumph of that ideology in China is increasingly admired (even secretly admired by many in Lana the Free and Homer the Brave). I just spent a week bicycling around Guangzhou and the orderly prosperity of that city is something not to be seen in most metropolises of Norteamerica or Eurabia.

      The price, of course, is to mind one’s manners, and accept the official repression of the Party. Cross the line and pay the price.

      The interior of the hostel where I was camping out was reportedly being monitored with a CCTV camera feeding directly into police HQ. Got to keep an eye on those unpredictable foreign devils.

  12. draupnir June 24, 2019 at 11:30 am #

    Mayor Pete is simply repulsive. Anybody who puts “Gay” first on their CV is dubious to begin with. I’m not morally opposed to a little discreet buggery in the privacy of one’s own home, between consenting adults, but sexual matters are private, and to make it the platform you are running on is a serious and frankly scandalous miscalculation. Nothing he says can even be taken seriously after that. People have asked me to listen to what his has to say, but I simply can’t. Women would be fools to vote for him. My mother, a staunch and lifelong Democrat won’t consider him. I can’t get past the vision of the inaugural ball.

    There are men dressed in black leather shorts with suspenders, SS officer’s hats on their heads, spiked collars on their necks, and Nazi regalia tattooed on their persons, men dressed as Queen Elizabeth I complete with ruff, men in pink spandex, men dressed like Lucille Ball or Cher, men in feathers and makeup. It makes me giggle, and being found ridiculous is death to political ambition.

    • venuspluto67 June 24, 2019 at 11:56 am #

      Your homophobic fever-dreams aside, I do tend to think that the USA isn’t really ready for an openly-gay president. I regard Mayor Pete’s bid as a novelty-candidacy that is being taken seriously because the fellow knows how to charm the media-elites. 🙂

      • draupnir June 24, 2019 at 12:49 pm #

        Are you kidding? Actually, I adore gay guys, especially queens. They can be the best friends a girl can have. They are so often clever, funny and lewd. I simply don’t fancy one of them for President.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 1:30 pm #

        Removed for scurrilous content — JHK Admin

        • SpeedyBB June 26, 2019 at 10:43 am #

          Poor “Janos” simply could not resist the temptation. Alas.

    • Luhrenloup June 24, 2019 at 12:20 pm #

      When I think of the great queers that preceded him, Gore Vidal, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin who were possessed of dignity and wit, and didn’t see their sexual preference as in need of a movement, Mayor Pete simpering sycophancy gives a bad name to buggery.

      • Robert White June 24, 2019 at 2:24 pm #

        I seem to recall one William F. Buckley threatening Mr. Vidal publically with violence and a physical beating for being the person he was during public debate recorded live on network television back in the 70s.

        William F. Buckley was a typical American homophobe that reacted violently towards the prominent queers de jour like Mr. Vidal by physically threatening him with a punch to the face for his greatness.

        Not all simpering queers can be as demonstrably individualistic as Mr. Gore evidently was judging by historical record. Could it be that Mr. Gore was generously equipped to deal with human adversity all on his own two feet without feeling the need for any mass movement to be following him in lock-step?

        Contemporary queers n’ dykes more fully grasp collectivism today given mass demonstration, contemporary activism, and propaganda/misinformation et cetera. The ‘Gay Pride Parade’ was not an animal of Mr. Gores time really. And whilst he aged out of the limelight gay collectivist attitudes came to the fore but he was not part of that as he stood as an individual pundit of American life and not as a collectivist in need of supporting dogmatism or propagandized rhetoric.

        Mr. Gore also had more grey matter than most given his upbringing & existential experiences apart from the run-of-the-mill types that were never writers in their own right.

        Gore Vidal was a lot like Hunter S. Thompson for being individualistic and strong on his own two feet whilst the likes of Buckley were trembling right-wingers pretty much in fear of their own shadows/unconsciousness as opposed to conscience which I, for one don’t think they possessed with respect to their actions & homophobic demonstrations of violence towards ‘queers’ like Gore Vidal.

        RW

        • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 11:06 pm #

          Mr Vidal was a fine man, a lover of the Old South, and a quasi Fascist if not an actual National Socialist in fag drag.

          Remember how he told off the Pod People?

          • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 10:05 am #

            Ah, gotchya. So some Gays are good Gays but if they are good Gays then they don’t highlight their Gayness and instead fight for their race. Did I sort of get it?

          • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 12:31 pm #

            Yes, why does “gay” have to be someone’s main or only identity? Vidal was a Man even though out and unashamed in the quieter way that was possible then.

      • Luhrenloup June 25, 2019 at 12:09 pm #

        Thought of 2 more queers who wouldn’t be caught dead in a gay pride parade, and they’re still alive. You have mad dog Paglia. Sounding like a amphetamine chihuahua, Camille tells it like it is. No pussy hat for her, thank you. And then, Fran Lebowitz, who on commenting about the lesbian gay movement found it beyond comprehension and truly bizarre that their goals were pitched at being accepted in the military and have the state sanctioned right to marry. Goals that she believed were the opposite of queer reason.

    • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 12:50 pm #

      I disagree in that I think he could actually receive a lot of support. Particularly among younger people who have been trained from a very early age to not only accept homosexuality but consider it as a viable life alternative. Remember, all forms of media continually and constantly transmit the idea that these lifestyles are acceptable and also glamorous. Same thing they did with race in the last century and look how completely acceptable and common race mixing is now. So don’t just write him off because older people may not be comfortable. Remember, being old and intolerant is one thing the PC crowd rants and raves about on a daily basis. Even Oprah said all the old people need to die out.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 1:38 pm #

        Good point. In some circles, “cis” is a death knell and cissies are at the bottom of the barrel, especially if combined with White skin and male genitalia. And unless really cool or self hating, cis White Women are in danger of being termed as “Beckies”.

        • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 9:59 am #

          And they say it with such derision but it is actually very cool to be a Becky. It’s rebellious and non-conformist after all. They are just creating exactly what they wish to destroy through their persecution.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 12:34 pm #

            Exactly so. I love Beckies. Turn it around like Blacks did with the word “nigger” or we did with “deplorables”.

            I’ll see if I can find it: One poor White women was wondering if she should call the cops on Blacks if she saw a crime being committed. She didn’t want to be seen as or be a “Becky”. She was told No, she should never call the cops on Blacks….

          • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 1:36 am #

            This may not be what you were talking about exactly but it’s basically about the same thing. Whats most offensive to me is that no context is provided for the women who are calling the police besides a few examples meant to highlight racism and bias. Shouldn’t overall statistics matter? I don’t know anyone who is just dying to call the law on random Blacks after all. And then the snooty moral lecture about how she is so awesome because her children are Black and she thus rises above the inherent racism of other White women. It’s all very demeaning and I also think its meant to demoralize. And notice who is giving the lecture.

            https://www.sierraclub.org/articles/2019/05/dear-white-women-no-more-bbqbeckys-please

      • draupnir June 24, 2019 at 8:10 pm #

        All in good time. Meanwhile, one of my kids is at the end of generation X and the other at the leading edge of the millennials, and I’m pretty sure neither of them would vote for Mayor Pete either. You and Oprah have a while to wait. From what I can tell, lifespans are continually being extended. The old guard still has control of the party and I’m not seeing much willingness to step aside for the likes of AOC. I’m surprised Nancy Pelosi hasn’t bitch-slapped her yet. What Oprah may say in public might be substantially different from the opinion she actually holds. You can’t trust celebrities

        • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 10:03 am #

          Oh absolutely! Actually many millennials are conservative but you won’t hear much about it. I am sure you understand why. I am not in agreement with Oprah by the way which you may think based on your response. I was just stating that her belief is a belief held by many SJWs. I definitely don’t trust celebrities but I am sure Oprah wants to get rid of Whites like most of Hollywood. It’s just in their makeup to be anti-White. They are part of the propaganda machine pushing the anti-White narrative so its as if it has become part of their DNA.

      • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 1:45 pm #

        SSL

        “Particularly among younger people who have been trained from a very early age to not only accept homosexuality but consider it as a viable life alternative. “

        You will possibly recall me saying that my nephew who is gay wasn’t known by his parents or siblings to be gay until his sister finally sent him a text to ask him (very similar story with my husband’s niece, except that she came out and introduced her family to her girlfriend shortly after she left school). They had all politely ‘wondered’ and ‘surmised’ from time to time, but he didn’t talk about it and nobody had asked. He was a bright boy, with lots of friends and no ‘issues’, who got straight As in all his subjects at school and a prize from the school for being the best German pupil they’d ever had.

        Nobody trained my nephew. He just is what he is (which, aside from anything else, is a charming and clever young man who loves his family).

        But here’s the thing, SSL. You have young boys. My nephew wasn’t definitely known to be gay (his text back to his sister said ‘I assumed everybody knew’) until he was 21. He’d known since a young age, obviously.

        Now your boys are young. And please don’t do that thing where you turn into a banshee screaming ‘disgusting!’ at me – I’m putting a totally imaginary hypothesis to you, nothing more. I’m sure your kids will be über-manly, but just if…if one of them turned out to be gay, would you force him to undergo ‘conversion therapy’? Would you tell him his ‘lifestyle’ was not ‘acceptable’ even though it was utterly normal for him?

        Have a look at this article:

        https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2018/11/15/Gay-conversion-therapy-often-starts-at-home-with-devastating-consequences/2141542322152/

        “We found that when efforts to change a young person’s identity occurred in adolescence, it had an impact that followed them into young adulthood,” …. “Two things that were surprising to see was that negative impact included limiting their income as a young adult and restricting their educational attainment.”

        “Suicide attempts among those surveyed nearly tripled for those who reported both home-based efforts to change their sexual orientation by parents and intervention efforts by therapists and religious leaders. Levels of depression also more than tripled among this group.”

        Now, as you know – or should do by now because I’ve said it often enough – I don’t remotely support any attempts or ‘agenda’ to push young people towards a gay or other ‘lifestyle’ if that’s not the way they’re inclined naturally.

        So, in turn, are you for or against attempts by parents and others to try to change their child’s natural sexuality and thereby do them harm?

        And if you think the enthusiastically anti-gay can’t have gay children or other relatives, you could take a look at this:

        https://www.ranker.com/list/top-anti-gay-politicians-with-lgbt-relatives/keaton

        Newt Gingrich, for goodness’ sake!! But at least he can take some credit for his response, unlike a number of the others.

        Please don’t give me any whataboutery concerning the ‘LGBT agenda – that’s not what I’m talking about, which is simply people whose natural sexuality isn’t the same as yours or mine and who have existed in all populations since centuries before there was an LGBT agenda.

  13. K-Dog June 24, 2019 at 11:36 am #

    Roy’s Death Words:

    I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.

    Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

    Suburban homes eaten in firestorms.

    I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.

    I watched both major political parties in America not know what civic duty was as they glitter with gold.

    All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

    And Americas’ good ideas lost in time, like trolls on a blog.

    Time to die.

    Time to cry.

    • FincaInTheMountains June 24, 2019 at 11:40 am #

      K-Dog, are you sure you are a dog, not a coyote?

      • K-Dog June 24, 2019 at 11:46 am #

        aaaarrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooooo!

    • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 1:42 pm #

      You’ve done incredible things, Roy. The fire that burns twice as bright burns half as long. Time for you to die, droid (America). The Elite are going to sell us off at cost – a massive junk sale, while they abscond to China, New Zealand, Australia, etc.

  14. Dumbedup June 24, 2019 at 11:38 am #

    You left out Elizabeth Warren’s pitch to forgive college debt.

    The problem is that Sen. Warren has just one too many plans; or maybe 2 or 3 too many. We can’t do everything and unless the composition of the Senate changes we likely won’t do anything much except moderate some extreme positions regardless of which Democrat is elected. To me, the best ticket would be Biden-Harris. They would trounce Trump-Pence or Trump-Haley. (I have no doubt that Trump would dump Pence for Haley if he thought it would help his chances. Pence should have no illusions about that.)

    From appearances, it seems to me that Biden is an insider version of Trump with more spit and shine. He is also more predictable than Trump. But give him a drink or two and he is equally gaffe prone and unapologetic. The things that need to happen won’t happen on his watch.

    1) repeal of Citizens United;
    2) more regulation of markets and banks;
    3) repeal of the Trump tax cuts;
    4) MFA or at least improvements in the ACA;
    5) a new policy towards Central America and immigration reform.

    He might get Garland Merrick appointed to the Supreme Court.
    .
    The country is not buying what the rest of the Democratic field is selling. The right wing lug nuts are firmly entrenched in the upper chamber and on the Supreme Court. That will probably give them the edge for the foreseeable future. If there is a future.

    • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 12:53 pm #

      Let me guess. The new policy for Central America and immigration reform is code for making sure the border stays open?

    • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 1:45 pm #

      The nuts have been right about everything, from floridation to the dangers of the UN. Trump’s stacking of the Supreme Court is one of the few good things he’s done. And those conservatives aren’t very conservative in any case. We’re going to go over the cliff at 40 mph instead of 120 under the rule of a Warren, Clinton, or Pelosi. The Red Queens!

  15. BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 11:38 am #

    Another Dem initiative presented this week — by Warren & Sanders — is forgiveness of the $1.6 trillion of student loan debt out there. What a reason for youbg people to vote for one of these two, but the other candidates have similar plans.

    For me several quesions are posed.

    1) For people who paid back their student loans, will there be a refund?

    2) Students who worked their way thru college — and some still exist — can they get some kind of credit from the feds?

    3) Student loans going forward, will they be forgiven as they are being made, maybe presented as a grant, or a gift from the Dem Party,

    Nothing like free money — $1.6 trillion in this case — to scare up votes. Its fool proof.

    Brh

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    • FincaInTheMountains June 24, 2019 at 11:46 am #

      I got my higher education free-of-charge and was even paid a small (around 40% of average worker’s compensation) stipend.

      But extremely high academic standards must be enforced, in other words students must study their ass off to be eligible, and their natural God-given talents must fit the area of study.

      Everybody must get their chance to ride a social elevator, not just the rich kids.

      • BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 12:25 pm #

        Finca I doubt if higher ed in Russia is a racket like it is here.

        Also, Finca, on the Russian campus, is it PC, with a strain of anti Russia sentiment running thru it, like the anti Americanism and anti white rhetoric like we have in the USA?

        Brh

        • FincaInTheMountains June 24, 2019 at 3:25 pm #

          I think we were more interested in girls and American music.

    • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 12:56 pm #

      If they can flip the electorate via immigration which is the plan (and its working spectacularly) then option 3 will be the answer. The country will be a big version of Cali. One party control down the ballot. That’s where they want to bring us.

    • Majella June 24, 2019 at 8:38 pm #

      $1.6 trillion – in other words, 2 years fo the ‘Defence” budget. Guess which one would be the better investment?

      • BackRowHeckler June 25, 2019 at 8:00 am #

        We need a big defense budget,

        When the Chicoms decide to rub out little New Zealand you will be calling on it to save your sorry asses.

        Bfh

        • Majella June 26, 2019 at 5:31 am #

          Nah, we’ll just do a ‘great deal’.

          It’ll be your oligarchical billionaires with bolt-hole syndrome who’ll suborn the US military to head south & kick out the Chinese, but not as a favour to the Kiwi population. I’d possibly prefer Chinese imperialism to overblown, entitled American billionaires operating the country as a serfdom.

          • benr June 26, 2019 at 4:43 pm #

            No you wouldn’t China is hell why do you think anyone with money is getting the hell out of there and sending their kids abroad to study?

  16. BC_EE June 24, 2019 at 11:38 am #

    Ol’ Scratch, you should know better than anyone (any-arch angel): Better the devil you know.

    It may come down to that at the proverbial pull the lever moment, the “lazy vote” and go with the devil as opposed to the deep blue sea.

    Might be a good idea for either party to aim for this mind-share middle ground. Round the edges the (then) four years of misdirection and turmoil as it were. Time to shift down a gear on the politics. Slow down and see what is really going on….

  17. Tate June 24, 2019 at 11:40 am #

    “Tate, I love that you were a fly on the wall during all these er…historical intimacies which involved power relations of pure equality.”

    I suppose you were another one of those flys, eh? That they were unequal power relations proves my point unless you consider all sex involving unequal power relations rape, LOL.

    The problem is, everything gets filtered through your secular materialist hedonistic modern POV, my dear.

    “Maybe you’re the type who blames a 14-year-old girl who gets involved with a 35-year-old teacher.”

    Maybe you’re the type who blames a 35-year-old teacher who gets involved with a 14-year old boy.

    “I mean men can’t help themselves, can they? Poor dears.”

    You’re riding high on the outrage bubble, sweetie. Get out that virtue whip, Yee-haw!

    “Even churchgoing white slave-owning pillars of the community with a wife at home.”

    Uh yeah, the Christians among those Churchians could. See above, first response. Your straw man ‘arguments’ — if such they can be called — miss the point, which was the point, wasn’t it?

    How many Christians there were among the Churchians is a different question.

    Unequal power relations were so unbearable to your way of thinking. But that’s the way the world has been, is, & will always be. “Slavery” in some form will always exist. Females are hypergamous, whether black, brown, yellow, white, or striped, always seeking unions with higher-status males. Massa never needed to use force on the wenches to have his way. You just can’t stand that.

    • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 11:57 am #

      Hi Cutie Pie

      At it again. And you couldn’t just answer on the previous thread, obviously, where the comment was. You have to plaster your bigotry all over a new thread where it has no place.

      “Maybe you’re the type who blames a 35-year-old teacher who gets involved with a 14-year old boy.”

      Yes, obviously. Aren’t you? What is your point?

      “That they were unequal power relations proves my point unless you consider all sex involving unequal power relations rape, LOL.”

      Twisting words again, Cutie Pie. You have proved no point. You said they were mostly not. And yet, bizarrely, you weren’t there. I presume you think it was possible to say no to Massa. As if Massa even asked. I suppose you think children abused by their fathers or uncles are consenting because they don’t put up a fight.

      “Massa never needed to use force on the wenches to have his way. You just can’t stand that.”

      Of course he didn’t. He was Massa. Everyone knew what happened if you said no to Massa. What I can’t stand is people who make stuff up to suit their agenda. When they weren’t there.

      Females are hypergamous, whether black, brown, yellow, white, or striped, always seeking unions with higher-status males. “

      How very cute to call it a ‘union’.

      As for your ‘always’, my daughter and I can’t be the only exceptions. That would be just too much of a coincidence.

      • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 12:04 pm #

        And people who use ‘always’ and ‘never’ in their arguments are to be taken with extreme caution. Since they ‘rather often have an agenda which overrides the truth.

      • Tate June 24, 2019 at 12:22 pm #

        That didn’t take long.

        “Yes, obviously. Aren’t you? What is your point?”

        My point is that there is no blame. Love will find a way.

        “What I can’t stand is people who make stuff up to suit their agenda. When they weren’t there.”

        Neither can I, sweetie.

        “As for your ‘always’, my daughter and I can’t be the only exceptions. That would be just too much of a coincidence.”

        Yes, the acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree. Your kind eventually peters out on the tree of life.

        • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 12:49 pm #

          My kind? You are too hasty in your default to ad hominems, Tate, when you have no argument. And only those most pathetically short of an argument need to resort to calling complete strangers ‘sweetie’ as a putdown. You should think better of yourself, Tate.

          My point is that there is no blame. Love will find a way.

          I think you have just excused both serious professional misconduct, of a person in a position of responsibility, trust and authority in a school abusing that responsibility, trust and authority, as well as statutory rape.

          I think that speaks for itself.

          • elysianfield June 24, 2019 at 1:30 pm #

            ” Love will find a way.”

            Alba,
            As will lust….

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 1:31 pm #

            But if it does between a 35-year-old schoolteacher and a 14-year-old pupil, EF, it should end in a jail sentence.

            The law will find a way too. Thankfully.

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 1:32 pm #

            Although evidently not often enough.

          • Tate June 24, 2019 at 1:45 pm #

            But you indicted yourself. I was just pointing out the obvious. You & your daughter are aberrant in the genetic selection game.

            That is, if what you say can be taken at face value. You eventually married a doctor, no? I don’t know about in Airstrip One, but here in the U.S. physicians are high-status ‘catches’.

            Illicit love affairs are a part of history. You want to reduce everything to black-&-white. I don’t excuse egregious incidents where trust & authority are truly abused. But that’s just part of your usual smear tactics, making me out to be some kind of Simon Legree character.

            & sweetie, we have a history as you well know, we aren’t “complete” strangers.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 1:53 pm #

            One 14 year old boy was “abused” by a young teacher in her 20’s for some months. He tired of her and then reported her. The Will to Power exercised by a young Sith Lord.

            I could never treat a lover that way, but he is obviously destined for great things. In any case, boys and girls are very different and have different reactions and different life paths. A good key can open many locks but a good lock will resist many keys.

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 2:36 pm #

            Tate

            There you go again with your ad hominems.

            Not that it’s any of your business – or that you have much of a clue what non-partner GPs earn in the UK, but my husband works less than half time and will have a pension (he’s just turned 65) pretty much the same as mine, because most of his previous pension savings went down the drain with a business that didn’t work out, and his flat and everything in it.

            Thankfully I have a paid-up home for us both, so who’s the ‘catch’ now? I have to say I’m in a very happy and secure position because of my lifetime’s work. I guess my daughters caught the hard-working, personal responsibility bug from me, but then they’re just not that unusual in other cultures than yours.

            Like I said, none of your business, but you insist on personal arguments, I have the right to rebuttal.

            I’m perfectly familiar with illicit love affairs. I specifically asked you about a teacher-pupil scenario because it is so completely clear in terms of the power relationship AND the responsibility. And your reply was shocking.

            I wasn’t thinking of a female teacher, by the way, but a male teacher abusing his power in relation to a male pupil.

            Janos’ imagination doesn’t seem to have stretched that far either, despite his endless witterings about gay men allegedly ‘turning’ young boys.

            Whether you are a complete stranger or not, the point about your pathetic use of ‘sweetie’ still stands. You’ll have noticed that other people who engage with me don’t have to lower themselves in that way. Janos uses insults, of course, but he’s Janos.

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 2:37 pm #

            “A good key can open many locks but a good lock will resist many keys.”

            Yes, I’ve heard your arguments for whores before, thanks.

            Remind me where it is in your Bible?

          • Tate June 24, 2019 at 2:59 pm #

            You are very prickly, it seems. You can’t stand a little rough-&-tumble so I will refrain from calling you ‘sweetie’ so as to preserve your delicate feelings from hereon out.

            You were thinking of a male teacher converting a male student to his perverted lifestyle? Now, that’s new to me. At first you said it was a 14 yr old schoolgirl. Now you’re trying to get me to approve of sexual inversion in addition to the power disparity? How perverted in its own way. You will never get approval from me of that no matter how dishonorably you try to smear this American with it. That’s one thing that here in America we never countenanced. That’s a British peccadillo.

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 4:01 pm #

            “You can’t stand a little rough-&-tumble so I will refrain from calling you ‘sweetie’ so as to preserve your delicate feelings from hereon out.”

            ‘Sweetie’ isn’t rough and tumble. Your usual insults are rough and tumble. ‘Sweetie’ is intended to patronise and diminish one’s interlocutor, not engage in rough and tumble. It’s the fallback position of the inadequate male.

            Re the rest, you seem to be having difficulty following the dialogue, Janos. I put to Tate the scenario of a 35-year-old teacher and a 14-year-old female pupil. The default assumption would be that the teacher would be male.

            Tate responded by flipping the scenario to include a 14-year-old boy instead. There have indeed been instances of female teachers behaving in such a predatory manner, but sexual predation is still primarily a male behaviour, so I assumed we were still talking about a male teacher. It could have been either. In both cases it would be a serious case of professional misconduct and statutory rape, if intercourse took place.

            Your anti-gay pearl clutching is neither here nor there. Perhaps therapy would help.

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 4:06 pm #

            Apologies, Tate, I read that as a reply from Janos, so you’ll have to adapt it, which I’m sure you can manage.

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 4:08 pm #

            “You were thinking of a male teacher converting a male student to his perverted lifestyle? ”

            I was merely thinking of a gay teacher and a gay pupil.

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 4:17 pm #

            Correction: had it been a female teacher it wouldn’t technically be rape in the UK. I’m not familiar with US law on the matter. In the UK, rape requires a penis. Otherwise it’s sexual assault.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 5:57 pm #

            Oh really Alba? People’s development can’t be fucked with? Oh but it can. Girls could easily be turned away from men by early abuse. Bet you don’t have a problem admitting that, right? But the opposite is a big problem because it goes against Gays.

          • BornToKillPeace June 24, 2019 at 11:33 pm #

            GreenAlba,

            The last teacher-pupil case heard of in this area was a 28 year old female art teacher and a 17 year old male student. They engaged in intercourse on a number of occasions at a wilderness preserve. She had a 1 year old and was recently married.

            My younger sister happened to be best friends with this women when they were girls about the grades of 3rd-6th. Then they had a blow out as people do growing up and didn’t know one another by high school.

            Thanks-No Thanks for “fun” dialogue between you and Tate, as it reminded me to look into what has since been reported about the case in the last 14 and 1/2 months.

            Not a peep in the news from what I can tell. No jail time. The teacher did lose her job, as is. Seems a bit like a gender double standard….

          • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 8:09 am #

            Janos

            “Oh really Alba? People’s development can’t be fucked with? Oh but it can. Girls could easily be turned away from men by early abuse. Bet you don’t have a problem admitting that, right?”

            Why would I have a problem ‘admitting’ that? It’s nothing to do with ‘admission’. If the evidence is there, it doesn’t need to be ‘admitted’. Many women and men abused as children have testified to difficulties with relationships and trust in later life. Why would you think that was difficult to imagine?

            So your bet, as with so many of them, is tripe. Hope you didn’t wager too much.

            “But the opposite is a big problem because it goes against Gays.”

            On the other hand, I’ve yet to hear of someone being ‘turned gay’ in that manner. Most young boys who have been abused by e.g. teachers or priests are heterosexual and have remained so. Some, statistically, would have been gay to start with.

          • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 8:20 am #

            BTKP

            If someone posts a comment to me at the end of a thread, I respond to it on that thread, on the assumption that they may or may not look at it. Such dialogues can continue through several comments and they don’t need to inconvenience anyone else, since most people won’t look back at the old thread once they’ve moved on.

            That would have been my preference in this case.

            Re your case, I quite agree with you that there is a double standard and I don’t support it, as you will have seen above. In fact it is the fellas above who think it is genuinely different. EF wishes it had happened to him and Janos thinks it’s just different because men and women are different.

            Whatever. I think people in a situation of trust and in loco parentis should keep their mitts off their charges. No ifs, no buts.

            A very quick google search came up with this list of women who did go to jail for such offences. Given it’s a legal firm’s website it has its own agenda but it reckons the punishments are lighter too.

            https://www.lawfirms.com/female-teacher-sex-crime-offenders-and-scandals.html

            And I have learned that in the US a woman can commit rape, which is a technical difference with the UK’s legal system.

          • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 10:25 am #

            And the other thing, BTKP, is the age of the minor.

            Had the 17-year-old boy and the 28-year-old woman had a relationship but not been at the same school, the situation would have been different and really nobody else’s business, at least in this country, where the age of consent is 16.

            The issue is that she was his teacher and therefore guilty of serious professional misconduct.

    • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 1:02 pm #

      Yes, unequal power relations have always existed and always will. Simply a little nugget of truth but inconvenient for many anyway. So what is the big surprise about the fact that there is unequal power relations between the sexes? Rather than fighting it all the time it seems a lot easier to just accept it. But that’s just my opinion.

      • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 1:23 pm #

        “Yes, unequal power relations have always existed and always will. Simply a little nugget of truth but inconvenient for many anyway. “

        I’m not sure where anyone in this conversation said unequal power relations didn’t exist. Perhaps you could point it out to me?

        So where are you on the issue of 35-year-old teachers having sexual relations with their 14-year-old charges, SSL? Are you with Tate? Will you back him if a 35-year-old teacher gets involved with one of your sons? He thinks there is no blame to be apportioned because unequal power relations just, you know, exist.

        “So what is the big surprise about the fact that there is unequal power relations between the sexes? “

        If you came to my home and to many, many others, SSL, you would find that isn’t necessarily the case. I know we are far gone in our horrific descent into mutual respect, but there we are.

        • elysianfield June 24, 2019 at 1:33 pm #

          “the issue of 35-year-old teachers having sexual relations with their 14-year-old charges…”

          Alba,
          One of my greatest regrets in life is that I was found wanting in that particular process…unselected, and thus diminished….

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 1:41 pm #

            EF

            While I’m sorry if your crush on Mr Jones remained unfulfilled, I feel it is better so.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 2:03 pm #

            Cuz boys and girls are exactly the same. And an older woman initiating a boy is just as bad an older man abusing a girl.

            Marmish nonsense. The Tyranny of Equality.

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 2:37 pm #

            Read the post, dummy.

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 2:40 pm #

            “And an older woman initiating a boy”

            If you want to have the law on statutory rape changed, I’m not the person to be arguing with. Stand for election and see who votes for you.

            Maybe SSL has views on some Mrs Robinson with a taste for 14-year-olds initiating her boys.

            Especially if she’s their geography teacher.

            What a shower…

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 2:42 pm #

            And if you read my post to Tate, you’ll see that I was thinking of a 35-year-old MALE teacher messing with a 14-year-old boy, since Tate didn’t specify in his silly tit-for-tat response.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 2:48 pm #

            Female virginity is all important since no man wants to raise a child that isn’t his. Of course the State is fine with supporting such women so it doesn’t matter as much now to them. And thus Society goes down by the bow.

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 3:52 pm #

            “Female virginity is all important since no man wants to raise a child that isn’t his.

            Right. Because it’s impossible to have sex without getting pregnant.

            If you want female virginity for the delicate class of male, you need a class of whores. And repulsive hypocrisy from people like you who want it both ways.

            You are adept at avoiding questions, I’ll give you that.

          • Majella June 24, 2019 at 8:54 pm #

            Janos spewed up…”Female virginity is all important since no man wants to raise a child that isn’t his. Of course the State is fine with supporting such women so it doesn’t matter as much now to them. And thus Society goes down by the bow.”

            Who else is tiring of this faux intellectualism, parading as deep wisdom on the basis of irrefutable statements of fact (as Janos sees it)?

          • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 12:18 am #

            In American marriage, at least ten percent of babies are from men other than their husband’s. It’s a big issue, Madge. Men should test their new baby’s DNA to make sure that it is in fact, their baby.

          • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 7:53 am #

            “Men should test their new baby’s DNA to make sure that it is in fact, their baby.”

            If mine had insulted me like that I’d have left him even sooner than I did.

            He had two of his very own and ignored the second one totally because she was a girl and he thought he was due a boy.

            Some women are duplicitous; some men are wankers (and often duplicitous too). C’est la vie.

          • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 7:59 am #

            “Who else is tiring of this faux intellectualism, parading as deep wisdom ”

            Amen to that. Men with views like Janos’ tend to not be able to get the women they feel entitled to by dint of their esteemed alphaness, hence they can’t forgive da wimminz in general. Someone on their level wouldn’t be good enough for them. We had one like that at my work. Come to think of it he weirdly collected Nazi memorabilia too – maybe it’s a syndrome.

            Of course it’s a syndrome – you only need to look at the websites they gather on. All the same views on everything, like they’ve been injected.

          • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 8:56 am #

            And I don’t mean this website, but rather the more er…specialised ones.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 12:39 pm #

            I didn’t say accuse your wife of anything. If the test comes back ok, she never need know. You only “accuse” her when you have the Facts.

          • Majella June 25, 2019 at 7:50 pm #

            “Men should test their new baby’s DNA to make sure that it is in fact, their baby.”

            Geez, Janos…that’s “alphaness” taken to a paranoid extreme if ever there was one. You must have a miserable shriveled life, lacking in any sort of personal trust.

            I guess if your partner/wife/chattel to a cute li’l piccaninny you’d really have a fit!

          • Majella June 25, 2019 at 7:51 pm #

            “…gave birth to…”

          • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 9:04 am #

            “If the test comes back ok, she never need know. ”

            Obviously you approve of women of doing stuff behind their husband’s back as well. She could take a hair of his for DNA testing and check if he’s 100% worthy to give her a child. If it came back OK, she never need know.

            I mean there’s nothing that provides a sturdier foundation for a relationship than lies of omission and commission.

          • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 10:00 am #

            *he* need never know…

          • Janos Skorenzy June 27, 2019 at 5:30 pm #

            Women are sneaky, Alba. And in any case they do endeavor to ascertain a man’s fitness to be their husband. Is it really too much to ask that a man have the right not to be a cuckold? What do you expect him to do? Ask her? If she was good enough to be honest, she would have never cheated on him to begin with.

            Ten percent is huge. Huge. And I notice you don’t dispute the number.

        • BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 4:06 pm #

          Whoa! Only a few hours in and the board already spinning out of control.

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 4:09 pm #

            Perhaps if Tate had just responded to my post on the other thread ON THE OTHER THREAD, you wouldn’t have had to read all this.

          • GreenAlba June 24, 2019 at 4:12 pm #

            But you have a strange idea of ‘spinning out of control’, brh.

            I don’t think even Tate has this in mind:

            Tate
            December 22, 2018 at 1:17 pm #

            “This is why a woman cannot be trusted with The Secret. Woman must be subordinate to Man. Her Omega man was telling her to shut her pie hole but she disobeyed him with a sneering impunity. A good back-hand would have solved that problem.’

            But what would I know? Maybe he’s all mouth and trousers. Maybe he isn’t.

          • PeteAtomic June 24, 2019 at 9:11 pm #

            “Whoa! Only a few hours in and the board already spinning out of control.”

            ha ha

            burn baby, burn 😉

          • PeteAtomic June 25, 2019 at 4:54 pm #

            Tate & G.A. calling each other sweetie & cutie pie..
            the smoldering sexual tension between the two on the board is spinning out of control
            🙂

          • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 9:08 am #

            I know, PeteA. It’s like Janos and his Becky all over again (I didn’t know about Beckys before today – the things I learn on here 🙂 ).

        • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 10:23 am #

          Alba, you are so completely outrageous that it’s really hard to take you seriously. Especially in this thread. I made no comment whatsoever about your “Mrs. Robinson” situation. My comment was specifically that many people deny the differences between the sexes. The differences in perception, development in general, sensibilities, etc. I never once said I support some 35 year old woman sleeping with a 14 year old boy. You really are disgusting to openly suggest my support of that but I am not surprised because you always drag me through mud when the opportunity seems to present itself. Why is that exactly????? Anyhoo, what I will say is that you are out of your mind if you don’t think teenage boys don’t fantasize about being “initiated” by an older woman. And yes, whether it is right or wrong many in society see it different than you. I hate to tell you but alot of men even joke about giving their sons high fives if they were to find out their son was getting it on with his teacher. Men are just that way. Sorry you can’t get a grip on reality. And I am not embracing it I am just telling you it is there. On the other hand most people automatically think of abuse if some situation between a 35 year old man and 14 year old girl were to be uncovered. Why? Because the girl is naturally going to be seen as a victim and the man a perpetrator. Why? Biology. Men seek and women say yes or no. Well that at least is the customary model though of course now women are supposed to be like men and pursue lovers the same way. So that situation would be seen as a grown man taking advantage of a vulnerable teenage girl. Abuse in other words. It really is simple so I am not going into it any more. I never said anything about not respecting you. You made it clear how little respect you had for me in the beginning. That is on you Alba. I have no hard feelings against you. I just often disagree with you.

          • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 9:22 am #

            “. You really are disgusting to openly suggest my support of that…”

            Really, SSL, again, get a flippin’ grip. I don’t understand how someone can go all the way through school and have such a tragically poor grip on the uses and nuances of the English language.

            And thanks so much for the lesson on differences between men and women. I mean I’d never have thought…

            That was sarcasm, BTW, since you seem to need the infinite variety of linguistic functions explained to you.

            There was a case here a while ago where a 15-year-old girl went off with a married 35-year-old teacher, who was allegedly besotted with her, as she was with him.

            They ran off to France together, but he later spent two and a half years in jail.

            But here’s the thing. She was just a desperate to run away with him as he was to run away with her, and just as much as those boys would like to have sex with their teacher. So, in terms of responsibility and trust, there’s no difference between the male and female teacher.

            What happens if the female teacher gets pregnant? Is the kid’s father going to give his boy a high five or try to get the teacher prosecuted?

            “Anyhoo, what I will say is that you are out of your mind if you don’t think teenage boys don’t fantasize about being “initiated” by an older woman. ”

            Are you mad? Who’s talking about fantasies? We’re talking about people DOING stuff.

            And please, please, stop being ridiculous.

          • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 9:40 am #

            “Maybe SSL has views on some Mrs Robinson with a taste for 14-year-olds initiating her boys.

            Especially if she’s their geography teacher.”

            And given what I actually said, it’s you who owes me an apology for your utterly ridiculous interpretation, but don’t worry, I’m not that desperate. Bonkers is as bonkers does.

          • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 10:42 am #

            I’m going to spell it out for you, SSL, since you seem to have such difficulties.

            “Maybe SSL has views on some Mrs Robinson with a taste for 14-year-olds initiating her boys” …

            …means…

            ….wait for it…

            I don’t think SSL would approve of some Mrs Robinson initiating her boys.

            Perhaps people should be less insulting about an education in the humanities. It has some uses.

  18. volodya June 24, 2019 at 12:03 pm #

    I’m confused, who was “celebrating” segregationists?

    Sniffy Joe was making who-knows-what point, maybe about his moral flexibility, maybe about his strong stomach, maybe about his ability to overlook crimes committed against large swathes of the American populace. Maybe he’s saying he’s adept at dealing with low-life scum. Who knows? Does he even know? Is he making virtue out of necessity?

    As to modern-day segregationists, they’re in plain sight, not even hiding, right there on college campuses, in wealthy coastal enclaves. For all their virtue-signaling about race and diversity and multi-culturalism, do they inter-marry with Blacks and Latinos or Asians? No, the hell with all that, they take racism and bigotry with their mother’s milk, they circle the wagons to protect their interests and all the social justice blather is for earning a living in the academy or in corporate HR and in government bureaucracies but it’s especially for distraction and especially for distracting useful idiots. And aren’t these the clowns that practice Asian exclusion from their institutions of higher learning because of alleged character defects among that demographic? And no apology for it either.

    There aren’t any “whites only” signs anywhere but there don’t have to be. Nobody even has to mouth it or whisper it. Barriers to entry are sky-high, social mobility a sick joke, not only for non-whites but also whites of poorer socio-economic strata, especially from Deplorable country. If you’re not born into the club you have more of a chance of making it to Proxima Centauri. Even if you accumulate a lot of dough, your looks, your tastes, but especially your accent marks you the second you open your mouth. You maybe can take the boy out of Shantyville but you can’t take Shantyville out of the boy.

    JHK is right, the Democrats are well on their way to losing 2020 as all the Democrats are about is distraction from the real Democrat agendas of money and power for themselves but especially their paymasters. Will Liz Warren surmount what will be a Deep State push to up-end her candidacy given her railing against the predations of Wall Street? If I were Liz I’d watch my back, because what they did to Trump with the Russiagate baloney, they’ll do to her too. If I was a betting man I would bet the dirt-diggers are digging.

    But in the end, by ignoring the material interests and dire needs of everyone but a small slice of the polity, all the Democrats are doing is creating political space for a political entrepreneur to create a following and maybe even a new party. They can maybe get rid of Liz, they can harass Trump to the point of neutering his administration but they can’t get rid of the economic interests of the people that voted Trump or would vote for Liz. Someone will sooner or later surface to address those needs. The Democrats, in short, are furiously digging their own grave. Boo-hoo. Good riddance.

    • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 12:27 pm #

      Or did he just get caught out “rambling on” as old folks are often wont to do? I almost feel sorry for the old dude in this case, but he’s been in the game long enough to know better (it’s his own party that’s playing all this wokester BS, for crying out loud!), so better that he get tripped up and eliminated now than to actually get elected and go into full-on Ronny Raygun geriatric meltdown mode later. He doesn’t look well at all these days.

      • Tate June 24, 2019 at 12:30 pm #

        “He never called me boy…” LOL. In his calcified brain he probably imagined himself for just a moment out hoein’ cotton.

      • volodya June 24, 2019 at 12:33 pm #

        You’re right, he was probably just ramblin’. He’s a bull-shooter anyway and maybe lost the thread part-way.

        • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 5:24 pm #

          Old people are a hoot to listen to! As long as you’re free to get up and walk from them, anyway.

    • montsegur June 24, 2019 at 1:04 pm #

      Hi Volodya,

      More than the end of the Dem Party IMO. The spectacle of the 2016 election was a clear signal that the political party system in the USA is so thoroughly corrupted that only the most partisan fools wouldn’t admit such. Too much uniparty mentality and too many sitting in the “wrong” party; RINOs, DINOs, etc. And Gawd forbid that an outsider should win the election and make the grandees of the District of Corruption look bad.

      I can only imagine the liberal uproar were Trump to be discovered “sniffing” a woman. But for some reason, Joe seems to be the anointed one, or, perhaps, until he fails so badly that she has to return to the struggle to compel the Deplorables to follow the moral arc of the universe, or something like that.

      It is difficult not to be profoundly disgusted and completely cynical about the national political clown show.

      Cheers?

      • volodya June 24, 2019 at 1:41 pm #

        SHE has to return to the struggle? You don’t mean the Mother of all Washington swamp creatures do you? Save us oh lord, save us …

        Liberals are beset by selective blindness – be it ocular or olfactory – shrugging irritably, declaring there’s no “there” there to the most laughably obvious offences, but then they have the willing acquiescence of the Deep State in making a mockery of law enforcement and a joke of the judicial system.

        So, yeah, if Trump took a Biden-style sniff, they’d be storming the barricades, drawing up impeachment papers, at the very least demanding an end to this thing about not indicting a sitting president.

        The way I see it, wokesterism and Gay Pride Parade-ism is just an orgy of virtue-signaling similar to the howling and grief and gnashing of teeth and rending of garments anytime one of the Kim patriarchs kicks the bucket in North Korea. So get out your rainbow flag and show up at the appointed hour along the parade route and pretend with all your might that you give a shit. Or your job or career or your social standing will be in peril, all of which applies to North Korea with the addition of imprisonment in the gulag or death by firing squad.

        But the real liberal agenda is money. Filthy lucre and nothing more and the rest is a distraction. The service that Trump rendered is to have called out the Republicans because their agenda was the same as the Democrats and so Trump left the GOP stalwarts carrying their asses home in a pail. The same is yet to happen to the Democrats.

        But with their frenetic attention to everything that matters least and their diligent inattention to everything that matters most they will by necessity make themselves irrelevant. I mean, even the most dedicated Democrat functionary has eyes and ears and a brain. Just like the Republicans and the Communists, the Democrats will stop believing their own bullshit. And they won’t even pretend to believe. And when that happens, that’s the end of it.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 5:51 pm #

          Not yet, thought that’s coming if things continue apace. As it is right now, these are popular religions and the people believe with a passion, wish to convert others, and persecute those who resist.

          What you say is true of firefighters and police though: they are being forced to participate in these sorry spectacles.

        • Bill7 June 25, 2019 at 6:09 pm #

          Good comment. The ‘Dems’ [heh!] are fine with “losing”, though, so long as their palms still get greased.

    • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 1:10 pm #

      It’s interesting that you think that there are barriers to social and economic mobility for minorities. In fact, the entire deck is stacked in their favor now. Its non-Elite White America (flyover country) that meets with barriers when attempting to be socially and economically mobile.

      • volodya June 24, 2019 at 1:50 pm #

        I think that – cough – “progressives” make a big show of it as every other word out of their mouths is migrants and blacks and gays and lezzies but the reality is that people with money mean to keep what they have. If there’s a widow or orphan with a few bucks in their bank account, the wealthy Manhattan “progressive” sees it as a cosmic injustice remedied only by scoffing said funds. In reality the condition of Deplorable Whites and Blacks and Hispanics is disastrous and the remedy for that is something that will never happen ie steady, decent paying jobs and an economy that makes use of more talents than fucking with spreadsheets or writing apps or conning people out of their retirement. But, because all of this will mean more money for destitute Whites and hard-bitten Blacks and Hispanics, it will ever see the light of day. At least, under this current regime.

        • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 10:31 am #

          Well yes that is true V. They, the Elite, are not going to give up their cushy positions so easily. That is why if there is any change at all it will be revolutionary. Let’s just hope it is a Nationalist revolution and not a Marxist revolution. Right now it is looking like it will be a Marxist revolution but I am hopeful I am wrong. And I know that you are really hoping that there can be a racial Kumbaya but I don’t see that occurring either. Especially as the fight over the table scraps of civilization heats up. That is why family/tribe will matter. Blood is thicker than water. It’s easy to forget what is important when things are relatively easy.

          • Majella June 25, 2019 at 8:03 pm #

            Blah, blah, blah.

            SSL – you operate through a values system based on jealousy of the ‘cushy positions’ of the amorphous & unnamable ‘Elite’ and fear of the improbable takedown of the “White Race” by hordes of marauding immigrants who will overwhelm the mighty USA and give everyone Ebola – all of which is orchestrated & funded by Soros and his buddies.

            Now, you’re mongering fear of a ‘revolution’ – you want Nazis in charge but are afraid the nasty commies might prevail. Make up your mind!

  19. Tate June 24, 2019 at 12:05 pm #

    Why would Trump in his prime ‘rape’ a 50 yr old woman in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman? This harridan, who is now 75, claims in her book that she’s promoting (no surprise), that she has a 22 Most Hideous Men in My Life list on which we find our president listed No.1. Teflon Trump says that he never heard of her. That will be the end of the story. Avid feminists can wait 6 mos to pick up her book on the remainder table.

    • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 1:43 pm #

      Who the heck is paying these women to come up with this stuff, and not only aimed at the GGG. Men need to learn new boundaries, women need to learn to stay out of trouble by staying away from trouble.

      • Majella June 24, 2019 at 9:06 pm #

        Whether her claim is true or not, I – and many others no doubt – don’t have any trouble accepting that it is ENTIRELY POSSIBLE, given the Slugworm’s history.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 2:34 pm #

      Bergdorf Goodman? Is that a hotel? I want to rent a room there or make it a user name. It is a spell of protection!

    • Q. Shtik June 26, 2019 at 5:35 pm #

      Why would Trump in his prime ‘rape’ a 50 yr old woman – Tate

      ============

      Trump’s latest accuser is 2.5 years older than Trump, hardly the gap in age you imply by the words “in his prime.” And besides there’s the ‘any port in a storm’ factor.

      Regardless, my reason for commenting is to note that the funniest line in this political season is Trump offering as denial of sexual abuse that “number one, she’s not my type.”

      • benr June 26, 2019 at 7:36 pm #

        Well if you look at his ex- wives and current wife you will see he does have a type and I seriously doubt this lady was his type but as we have all been lectured about rape is not about sex it’s about a power tripping asshole.

        • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 8:53 am #

          I think it can be either or both, benr.

          There have been horrible instances here of men in their 20s or 30s breaking into the homes of women in their seventies and raping them before stealing their stuff. (White men before Janos jumps in.). It’s not frequent but it does happen.

      • Tate June 27, 2019 at 3:16 pm #

        She asserted it’s often about sex to Anderson ‘CIA’ Cooper. Then with a glazed expression she told him he is a very interesting interviewer which left him tongue-tied & stumbling for a response, ROFL. I’m having to reevaluate on her. She’s not like all the others.

        Although roundly labeled as a crazy, I’m thinking she’s quite a gal. Could be an extended comedy routine like Joaquin Phoenix doing hip-hop.

  20. marcus1 June 24, 2019 at 12:45 pm #

    Red meat for the rednecks. Yeah, them crazy delusional, paranoid negras. When’s everybody gonna understand they’re just a sub-group of whiners with no reason at all to think they’re getting unequal treatment by the police
    (https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/12/08/south-carolina-cop-shot-black-man-back-got-deserved.)

    Funny, no mention of the really dangerous behavior by the psychopaths in the Trump administration. To much of a contortion for even your talented pen to paint a similar picture of them irrational Iranians behaving like they are getting unfair treatment by the Man?

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    • SoftStarLight June 24, 2019 at 1:16 pm #

      Yes exactly. No matter what and all the time evil and wicked Whites are to blame for every single and last problem in the world. All concerns of Blacks or any non-White person are not only always correct but they are the only concerns worthy of any consideration. Whites lol, like you said…nothing but stupid rednecks worthy of nothing.

      • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 5:21 pm #

        You better stop feeling sorry for yourself or I’ll give you something to be sorry about, young lady!

        • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 10:33 am #

          Holy moly!!!!!! Wow, the Devil is telling me to behave! It can’t be any clearer that I am a deplorable now lol ;-).

  21. montsegur June 24, 2019 at 1:07 pm #

    gravid

    Thanks, Jim. My new word for the day. I also enjoyed the use of rascal to describe a U.S. president. Will Trump one day be described with such an adjective? (grin)

    Cheers

  22. JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 1:52 pm #

    The only thing worse than the Democratic and Republican Party going under, is the idea of a single party system.

    What will we call the remaining party? National Socialist, or Communist. Both have had their run at history.

    What we need is for a middle of the road press that reports honestly and unbiased on the foibles of both sides. Then let the people choose sides based on the needs of the moment. Extremism would die out quickly as they would be considered quacks like they used to be.

    We need two parties, not one. Choice is critical in a republic.

    • volodya June 24, 2019 at 2:03 pm #

      I agree, we need to throw the bums out periodically. But then there has to be bums to replace the ones that got thrown out. And that means another political party. The Chinese would insist no, it’s not necessary, that in fact their way is better. I say it’s not. The Chinese way is how corruption gets entrenched.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 2:42 pm #

        Businessmen say it’s cheaper overall than endless taxes, fees, and restrictions. Twice a year you take your patron out to a good restaurant. At some point you express your deep gratitude and casually present an envelope containing the requisite sum, probably just placing it on the table near him. It’s all fairly ritualized and casual. But any bad attitude about it will be resented tremendously. Deep sincerity about the gratitude need not be there, but the words must be said with a semblance of the same.

    • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 5:20 pm #

      Umm… John, we HAVE only one single party as we speak. The names are purely for distraction. Don’t be distracted.

      • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 8:54 pm #

        The Deep State vs. the Trumpers. Two factions. 2020 will tell the tale on whether the new two parties will continue. The Browning of America may destroy the two party system.

        • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 8:57 pm #

          One of my points is that the press is key to a two party system. When the press lines up on one side only, it ceases its monitoring function. Commonly known as a free press.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 11:31 pm #

        The two real parties: Zionists/Neo Cons and the Democrats. And the Democrats are increasingly the Party of Big Business – let’s face the simple fact. This will not become common knowledge for years though. The Republicans are merely the deceptive outer face of the the first faction. Their golems.

        The Zios want to drag America off to same nameless place for some nameless purpose. As the nut said Joe in that movie, I’m gonna use you, boy! You know, Dustin Hoffman and the blonde guy taking the bus ride to salvation…..

        The Demos want to dissolve America – which they see as exalting her, making her a showpiece or microcosm of the World.

        Being the Party of Big Business, and having the UN behind them (as in controlling it a la the NGOs), they are ultimately more powerful than the Zios. But the Zios can’t be counted out – as they have the power to dash the world to hell since they control key industries and positions in the military, etc.

  23. BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 2:26 pm #

    The Dem debates ought to be good.

    It looks like student loan debt will be the main issue, at least for now, edging out impeachment.

    Blaming whitey for everything should be a main theme, ‘specially white men. Climate change, homosexuality, racism, the wonderfulness of trannies, all good talking points. Expect each candidate to out do the other. The way that works is, if Breadline Bernie says we have 20 years to cool the planet, Liz Warren says no, we have only 10 years.

    A few things all can agree on is free sh#t for everybody, and the borders need to be wide open.

    Let’s have a round of applause.

    Brh

    • volodya June 24, 2019 at 2:28 pm #

      clap…clap…

      • benr June 26, 2019 at 4:50 pm #

        Penicillin will fix that.

    • Majella June 24, 2019 at 9:15 pm #

      DNC debate candidates for June 26:

      Cory Booker >>>> corporatist schill, will sell out on Inauguration Day
      Bill de Blasio>>>>even NYers don’t want him to run, preferring Trump (!)
      Julián Castro>>>> who?
      John Delaney>>>> who?
      Tulsi Gabbard>>>> Commonsencial genuine patriot who will probably be drowned out. Listen for her message.
      Jay Inslee>>>> who?
      Amy Klobuchar>>>>>Vanilla, through & through
      Beto O’Rourke>>>> Apologist wokester
      Tim Ryan >>>> who?
      Elizabeth Warren >>>> smart lady, but too much like your mother or hectoring wife to garner much more than average male support

      • hmuller June 24, 2019 at 11:08 pm #

        What no Buttigiggly? Did they lynch him in South Bend, yet? What an ironic name for a town led by a guy who will bend in any direction.

        • Majella June 24, 2019 at 11:34 pm #

          He’s on the Big Boy’s Board – tomorrow’s shindig.

        • Nightowl June 25, 2019 at 7:37 am #

          I’ve said this before, that I think stuff like this has to be some kind of psyop.

          Gay Mr. Buttigieg from South Bend. Don’t touch my Peter.

    • PeteAtomic June 25, 2019 at 9:00 am #

      “Blaming whitey for everything should be a main theme, ‘specially white men.”

      the high pitch oughta be especially annoying, particularly by the males.

  24. BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 2:35 pm #

    “Senator Warren, can we get mortgage and car loan debt cancelled”?

    Get the money from Wall Street.

    Among other benefits it would free up money for a tropical vacation in the Dominican Republic. There’s some new mixed drinks I would like you to try out.

    Brh

    • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 5:18 pm #

      Wall Street’s likely to repossess your fingers for typing that and they’ll damn sure go after your tongue if you dare say it out loud. They’ve “got people” who handle these things.

  25. prepper of oz June 24, 2019 at 3:04 pm #

    I graduated with a BS (Bull Shit) of Environmental Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2017. Was the degree worth it? No. Mr. Kunstler, John Michael Greer, Derrick Jensen, Chris Martenson, and Hambone Little-Tail are far better teachers than a four year college education.

    $375 a month is unmanageable in terms of student loan payments, especially if you are working a minimum wage job. $1600 per month, $12,025 left after paying the loan. $850+ for rent in MA which leaves $375 for everything else. I can’t even find a part time minimum wage job anywhere and have applied to Chucky Cheese, Walmart and every racket out there. (You’re overqualified is the response I keep getting from them) From every environmental corporation, I’m told I don’t have the experience.

    Here’s what they need to do before forgiving student loans. Just stop the interest from accruing. That’s all. It’s indentured servitude/slavery because wages won’t rise to keep pace with the interest of these loans. Graduates inability to pay their loans is part of what’s driving young people towards socialism.

    Mr. Kunstler I would love to drive over to New York sometime and talk about the student loan issue with you and the insanity of college campuses. If you want to talk about it doing some painting together I’d be happy to bring my canvas paints and brushes along.

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    • malthuss June 24, 2019 at 3:33 pm #

      THANKS

      Now, I ask, why? why did you try?

    • Tate June 24, 2019 at 3:54 pm #

      Stopping the interest from accruing is a good suggestion but it may not be possible because aren’t these loans packaged & resold in the financial markets to big institutions like public service retirement funds? This will eventually be a mess going almost as haywire as the housing bubble fiasco, I’m afraid.

    • Robert White June 24, 2019 at 4:01 pm #

      Picket in front of the UofM Amherst front administration building with a large placard that reads…’Professors & university administrators making huge profits off of shilling for Subprime Student Loans that can NEVER be paid off due to compounded interest rate charges that are predatory!’

      And on the other side of the placard write…

      UofM Amerherst PREDATORY LENDERS VICTIMIZE STUDENTS!

      That should net you a job once the media interviews you after a week of picketing in front of the admin building. If the media does not respond within a week you should change up you tactics to picket in front of the local media newspaper building.

      Do a YouTube video of your demonstration so that others catch on and copy your activism.

      They claim you have no experience so all you need to do is to show them that you have enough experience to become an activist that lives in their lobby of their corporate headquarters.

      If they call the police to evict you make sure to picket right in front of the police station too.

      Don’t back down like a snowflake in defeat. Pretend you are Spock on Vulcan and you have to fight Captain Kirk to the death because that is Tapring’s Vulcan law. Remember The Cable Guy and persist until carried off in a straight jacket to the nut house.

      P.S. The nut house costs the man more to keep you there than it does to keep you on minimum wage.

      A wise Jewish professor from Bar Ilan U. Israel once told me never to work for wages. Don’t work for Chuckey Cheese unless you are selling franchises for high profit.

      And always remember to screw the man!

      RW

      • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 5:15 pm #

        Freakin’ RW’s a damn campus radical! Who knew?

        • Robert White June 24, 2019 at 6:03 pm #

          Aside from my professors & CSIS/RCMP & CIA – not many.

          RW

      • malthuss June 24, 2019 at 6:17 pm #

        There are many you tube talks by debtors. And Dave Ramseys channel on you tube.

      • elysianfield June 24, 2019 at 7:35 pm #

        A wise Jewish professor from Bar Ilan U. Israel once told me never to work for wages.”

        RW,
        True Dat….

        Here’s another bit of wisdom;

        Jesus Saves,

        But,

        Moses Invests!

        (It’s like a metaphor…see? Moses….)

        • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 10:11 pm #

          As one Amren poster said: Your opponents understand you far better than you understand yourselves and use that to great advantage against you.

          Poor John Az or BRH being cases in point.

    • wet dog June 24, 2019 at 4:28 pm #

      This was a good lesson for you at a young age: every adult is out to screw you into debt servitude any way they can. All the nonsense that adults care for you and want you to do well should be out the window now. You (and your friends) are on your own.

      This doesn’t help the debt situation. From what I know, Env Science is a worthless degree. But, did you take Stats classes, math classes, any hard science? These could be worthwhile, if you move into a field like data science. That takes no schooling or tuition, and you can build a portfolio by taking 30 hour courses on Udemy for $11. And you learn the same stuff as you would in a lame college course. The Same Stuff.

      Or, is a trade open to you? I talked to an electrician and he said kids get paid to apprentice, and just go to a union hall and ask a lot of questions – maybe that could be a fit.

      One last note: a friend had a math and stats background from college, but was making peanuts, literally, working at an “environmentally-caring” company. I spent 2 years teaching her databases and data science (python, pandas, sql server, power bi, access), and she literally doubled her salary in one jump. She showed off her portfolio of work and there was a bidding war for her skills, and she ended up working for an enormous, major company. I would get digital books for her on sale at places like PacktPub or Manning or Apress. Video courses at udemy and Lynda (never pay more that $12 for those video courses).

      Total cost to more than double her income? Maybe $300 for books and video courses. Plus a lot of hard work. But now she has a chance for a life. And don’t forget the torrent networks. Every textbook and solution manual is on there.

    • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 5:14 pm #

      Sounds like the kind of degree you need a Masters in to do anything with (which is MOST degrees these days!). Not that I’m advising you to throw any more money at it at this point. You’d probably need a steady, relatively uninterrupted career track with references these days, as well. The National Labs would be a logical route, as they often pay for higher degrees while you work. Environmental Sciences are a major growth area in terms of sheer employment opportunity numbers, but the upper salary potential’s somewhat limited unless you’re a standout in the field. Definitely not a prestige job or anything, but it will more than pay the bills.

    • BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 5:50 pm #

      Prepper, try to get a gig with an oil company. That’s what my youngest brother did, signed up with Exxon when he got out of the Coast Guard and made a shitload of money on giant tankers transporting petroleum from Bahrain to Houston. He made enough to retire and live at a fishing camp every season. He ain’t even 50 yet..

      If that don’t fly check out the coal fields. They’re always hiring environmental types. Go wherever they’re going to pay you some f#kkin real money.

      Good luck.

      Brh

    • Majella June 24, 2019 at 9:35 pm #

      Prepper

      New Zealand has a possible solution you might want to explore or promote
      (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loans_in_New_Zealand).

      Student loans were introduced in the mid-1990s. Before this, university fees were covered 90% by the government.

      Introduced by NZ’s conservative party, National, the Student Loans System was a way of reducing the on-books cost for the government accounts by transferring what had once been a subsidy to a student to an obligation on that student.

      The ‘loan’ is fully supplied by the government, rather than private lenders.

      In 2001, a Labour government seeking re-election waived all interest on loans while studying and, later (2005) in post-study if living in New Zealand. (If you leave NZ to work, then interest starts accruing.)

      Currently, outstanding debt amounts to $15 billion, with the average loan being around $21,000.

      Repayment is paid through the tax system – once in work, and earning more than $19,500 ($375 per week) after which you pay an additional 12 cents in the dollar towards your loan. Again, no interest at all, throughout the life of the loan.

      Still, some kids leave university with mortgage-sized debt, which hangs around their neck for a long time which means delays in starting a family and buying property. Still, it is clearly a much fairer system than the US uses.

    • I don’t know how you are going to pay the rent by volunteering to apprentice to Kunstler as sidekick in his plein air mein. You are more likely to make your monthly nut if you take your clothes off and strike heroic poses in the South End of Boston.

      Anyway, with grade inflation, you really have to get a masters to make real money, or at the very least, be willing to go literally anywhere, and take jobs that might be tangential to a strictly environmental science field, for example, as a public health officer, swabbing public toilets. From there, make professional connections to upgrade to something cushy, moving icons around on a screen, to prepare endless required civil paperwork. The bottom line is that, as in every field, you have to pay your dues. Long hours at the bottom of the totem pole, obscure grunt work, volunteer or temporary, and demonstrate some sense of drive and mission beyond a careerist mentality. Ironically this will prepare you to become a careerist. The degree is just the beginning of the moat.

      Or, you could go live with the syphilis-ridden lost tribes of Bora Bora with the Peace Corps. That is what I did. I have great memories and some anal itching that will never go away.

    • benr June 25, 2019 at 11:20 am #

      I suggest leaving your college off of applications for employment I it does not apply.

      Have you tried USAJOBS?

  26. FincaInTheMountains June 24, 2019 at 4:04 pm #

    Brh: Also, Finca, on the Russian campus, is it PC, with a strain of anti Russia sentiment running thru it, like the anti Americanism and anti white rhetoric like we have in the USA?

    Me: I think we were more interested in girls and American music.

    About the sex in the USSR, which actually was!

    When I once told my fellow Pratt students about the life of students in the USSR, they sat and listened to me, nervously gnawing at their nails, and one even accused me on the basis of this story that I am a Communist and propagandize the Soviet way of life, by no means meaning lack of sex in the USSR.

    Which was not at all in my plans. I just got drunk and I felt sorry for the unhappy boys from Iowa who found themselves in the “capital of the world” New York.

    The fact of the matter is that the sexual revolution was not in America, it was in the USSR, when the moral image of the builder of communism had already left the forefront of history, and the sexual accountant of capitalism had not yet learned to use an adding machine (I don’t even talk about computers).

    But in the USSR, no one noticed because of its uniformity, universality and benefits for fertility.

    Sexual Revolution – in America, this phrase means the emergence of Playboy magazine and mass masturbation with the help of this magazine, with the result that, as I understand it, any depravity was destroyed as a class and American abstinence and morality reigned after money and career have come to the fore in this area.

    Physical philandering due to the weight of the possible consequences turned out to be too expensive and could not stand the competition with Playboy. When I went to the USA through Austria and Italy, every tobacco shop was crammed with covers with naked women and matching cassettes, but it was nothing compared to 42 streets in New York, which gave the impression of some kind of sexual Hell that could turn Casanova and Marquis de Sade into pathetic impotents.

    In the USSR, there was nothing of this, and until the girlfriend dragged a video player from work, I did not know what pornography is. But in personal relationships, the only thing that was required of a man is to please the girl. And, as far as I remember, physical attractiveness was also not so important, and even more so, neither money nor career played any major importance. Practically we lived in the world described by Stanislaw Lem in “Return from the Stars”.

    The only material factor that still invaded this sphere of human relations, and at all social levels, is American blue pants with rivets. And in my opinion it is precisely this invasion in this sphere that became the cause of the most terrible geopolitical catastrophe in the history of mankind.

    There was one single exception: the sexual life of children of diplomats and foreign trade workers from the mid-70s followed the laws of capitalism, and it seems to me that Meladze realized some complexes of that time in this song and reduced some of his scores with a delay of 20 years, since at the moment of the appearance of this clip, the logic determined by the difference in exchange rate between the sausage ruble and foreign-exchange ruble was already outdated.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRuPhmJ33-E

    And all the other young men and women who had nothing to do with MGIMO, INYAZ or the faculty of journalism or philology, having met and liked each other, went to the cinema, not really bothered with mercantile considerations. It was in the last rows of cinemas that shyness and other moral barriers were overcome, preventing young people from embarking on a frank discussion of ways to solve the most important and most difficult problem: “Where and when ?!”.

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

    And then came US citizen Anya Politkovskaya with the “Vzglyad” program under her arm, where all the boys did not belong to the “high society” and whom she approached, removed from herself, drove in, divorced, reconciled, quarreled as Ksyusha of the defendants of House-2. And the morals of the faculty of journalism, MGIMO and INYAZ have become spread to the rest of the youth.

    And everything collapsed!

    • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 5:04 pm #

      So The Beatles’ Back in the USSR had it right, eh?

      Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out
      They leave the west behind
      And Moscow girls make me sing and shout
      That Georgia’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind
      Oh, come on
      Hu hey hu, hey, ah, yeah
      Yeah, yeah, yeah
      I’m back in the USSR
      You don’t know how lucky you are, boys
      Back in the USSR

      Sing it, Finc!

      • FincaInTheMountains June 24, 2019 at 5:44 pm #

        Right, here came Scratch and with his vulgarity ruined everything!

        • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 6:34 pm #

          My pleasure.

    • San Jose June 24, 2019 at 7:59 pm #

      Finca,

      My take on the sexual revolution in the US: 1. Availability of the pill. Made sex seem less risky for women. 2. In my imagination, I think the whole “sexual revolution” scheme was cooked up by some frat boys (probably Dartmouth) to increase their chances of having sex. “Show us how free you are girls!”

      Seriously? No woman wants a one-night stand.

      Jen in San Jose

      • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 8:46 pm #

        Jen

        Do you remember Hugh Hefner and Playboy. His stated objective was to lead the sexual revolution, and he did it. The Playboy Mansion in LA was famous as a source of debauchery and many of the dirty old men of today’s #metoo movement are products of this lifestyle. Remember the 70s and 80’s and the playboy movement. Part of being male, famous and rich was access to the Playboy movement.

        And yes girls, there were plenty of female volunteers.

        • San Jose June 24, 2019 at 11:59 pm #

          Sad story…The head cheerleader from my high school became a playboy bunny. Tragically, she died in her early ’40’s of hepatitis. Blech.

          • BackRowHeckler June 25, 2019 at 8:23 am #

            Pam Anderson has Hep C, which seems to be an occupational hazard amongst women for the promiscuous lifestyle promoted by pubs like Playboy and Penthouse in the last century.

            Why women bought into any of that I’ll never understand. Maybe they didn’t after all, as your post indicates, Jen.

            Brh

          • Majella June 26, 2019 at 7:01 pm #

            Hep C is easily treated now, since last year in fact, with a course of orally-taken medication.

            Prior to that a 6-month therapy regimen (with what was essentially a chemotherapy drug, interferon) had great success, over 70%, but a nasty process, physically.

            So, Pamela A may be with us for some time yet.

            But, blaming it on sexual activity is a bit of an over-reach – there are many causes:

            You may be at high risk of hepatitis C if you can say ‘Yes’ to any of the following:

            Have you ever had a tattoo or body piercing done using unsterile equipment or somewhere other than a licensed studio?

            Did you receive a blood transfusion prior to July 1992?

            Have you ever taken drugs through needles or your nose – even once?

            Have you ever had jaundice (yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes) or abnormal liver function?

            Have you ever lived in or received health care in Southeast Asia, China, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, or Eastern Europe (including Russia)?

            Does your mother or a household member have hepatitis C?

            Have you ever been in prison?

            Less common risks include:

            Sexual practices which may risk blood contact with a person who is infected with the hepatitis C virus

            Sharing personal care items, such as razors or toothbrushes that may have come in contact with the blood of an infected person

            HIV infection

  27. ozone June 24, 2019 at 5:18 pm #

    Wellsir,
    Tulsi Gabbard is the *only* candidate talking seriously about pulling in the horns of Empire and repairing the infrastructure (while there yet remains capital to do so). BTW, that would be a ‘jobs program’ of massive dimensions. This is a common sense approach to what is about to steamroll us all.

    I’ll give ya three guesses as to why she gets no press… and the first two don’t count.

    The status quo must be maintained at all costs. And who do you imagine gets to bear those costs — until they can’t be borne, hmm?

    • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 5:42 pm #

      Quite telling, isn’t it? She’s otherwise very articulate, comely, and middle of the road in nearly all of her views. But dare to bite the MICC hand that feeds? Not on your life in this country. I’d like to see her team up with Gravel and go for the “what the hell, what do we have to lose?” vote. They’d never win, but they could at least get some good points out there. The MICC ain’t going away anytime soon, but it will be in the not too far distant future.

      • PeteAtomic June 25, 2019 at 4:58 pm #

        Gabbard doesn’t seem too keen on riding on the identitarian bandwagon or the pro-war lobby, so I doubt she has much of a future in the party.

      • Majella June 27, 2019 at 7:23 pm #

        Scratch – I don’t get the ‘Gravel” reference…

    • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 6:00 pm #

      How about the borders though? Most jobs like that go to Hispanics now. That has to be stopped first.

      • Ol' Scratch June 24, 2019 at 6:21 pm #

        Not as long as corporate America is running the show.

        • benr June 26, 2019 at 5:29 pm #

          More to the point not as long as American kids think they are going to get $60,000 right out of high school and $150,000 right out of college!
          Manual labor jobs or McJobs are far beneath our entitled spoiled brats.

    • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 10:38 am #

      We have to bear those costs. And I imagine that *they* are not too concerned about our pain threshold. They are going to do what they can to discredit Tulsi Gabbard IMO as they have done with any real threat to the status quo. They started this process months and months ago when they accused her of homophobia and being a Russian plant.

  28. BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 5:40 pm #

    Offered without comment

    Bridgeport, Ct, last week, Nelson Morales, age 55 was beaten to death inside the ‘Mambo Market’ by 3 Hispanic men, after he entered the bodega to buy a lottery ticket. Motive: unknown. Suspects: at large.

    Draw your own conclusions, CFNers.

    Mine is ‘we don’t need no stinkin guns’!

    Brh

  29. BuckP June 24, 2019 at 5:55 pm #

    As the seconds tick off towards the 2020 election and eventually eternity , the last stand of the Baby Boomer Generation is upon us. Whether it is the Donald, Joe, Bernie or Liz, my generation has finally
    .

  30. wm5135 June 24, 2019 at 6:00 pm #

    I know I’m not the only one old enough to remember Eric Hoffer. I happen to be what is described in Florida as unaffiliated and no matter which wing I happen to be browsing I cannot help but think of Eric Hoffer.

    What we need is more of the same, that’ll fissit fo sho!

    Oh and ask the stock holders of GE how they like that free govment shit. Nah, just ask anyone who owns stock in the MIC.

    clap! clap! clap!

    Did you ever hear about the great deception
    Well the plastic revolutionaries take the money and run
    Have you ever been down to love city
    Where they rip you off with a smile
    And it don’t take a gun
    Morrison The Great Deception

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    • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 6:03 pm #

      I liked him before my Awakening. But then I heard him as if for first time in his talking down of White Ethnocentrism (and only White Ethnocentrism). Same old Tribe stuff that they all do.

    • BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 6:09 pm #

      The True Believer was pretty good.

      LBJs favorite book.

      Brh

      • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 9:46 pm #

        As Kevin MacDonald pointed out, they endorse, advocate, and advertise for radical individualism for Whites while rejecting it for themselves. A bunch of Cowboys loners with radical ideas are little threat. But hundreds of thousands of Catholics who believe the same thing – say Fr Coughlin’s program – could easily become millions and pose a real threat. But of course the Church has been infiltrated and ruined from the opposite end – namely the gooey type Socialism of open borders and Queer and Female empowerment.

  31. BuckP June 24, 2019 at 6:22 pm #

    As the seconds slowly tick off towards the 2020 election and eventually eternity, the last stand of the Baby Boomer Generation is upon us. Whether it is the Donald, Joe, Bernie or Liz, my generation is nearig its’ expiration date. Turning the country’s riches over to the globalists, fomenting endless wars of empire against non-compliant countries, usually with vast reserves of crude, filling prisons with non-volent offenders and making pot respectable are the hilites or lowlites of Boomer accomplishments.
    We should be able to pass some wealth onto our progeny but who knows what those fiat dollars will be worth down the road. Maybe Gen Z, the Millenials or Gen X will do a better job. Not squandering $7 trillion in endless Mideast wars, $29 trillion to bailout TBTF banks (instead of breaking them up and jailing their officers) and passing $21 trillion of dark money from the Treasury through the DOD and HUD to somewhere unknown, is a start. Maglev trains, anone?
    .

  32. Exscotticus June 24, 2019 at 6:48 pm #

    >>> Mayor Pete struggled to hold in his tears…

    DISQUALIFIED. Next…

    • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 9:48 pm #

      Damn you, America. You are not worthy of Mayor Pete. He and his partner will now return to the planet Transexual Transylvania.

      • BackRowHeckler June 25, 2019 at 8:47 am #

        I’m waiting for President Pete to introduce his husband, Chasten, to steely eyed Commissar Putin and Premier Xi at the Summit in Moscow.

        While Xi and Putin do shots of Vodka in the Kremlin, President Pete asks for a cup of Rosewater. Meanwhile, in other quarters, Chasten commiserates with the definetly unwoke Russian and Chinese first ladies, who joke thru translators of sending Chasten down the Volga in an ice flow. Back in the Kremlin, President Pete begins to lecture Putin and Xi on special rights for homosexuals and drag queens. Xi and Putin are baffled — they’re here to talk about the spead of nuclear weapons — and give each other side glances. Then and there they decide the pit of sodomy President Pete represents needs to be eradicated.

        Brh

  33. Pucker June 24, 2019 at 7:05 pm #

    Operation Barbarossa

    “Yet despite Churchill’s laudable intentions, British politician Harold Nicolson wrote in his diary on 24 June: ‘80 per cent of the War Office experts think that Russia will be knocked out in ten days.’”

    Lloyd Clark
    Kursk: The Greatest Battle

  34. Pucker June 24, 2019 at 7:20 pm #

    The TSA seems very racially, and gender diverse. And they rub your crotch with those blue rubber gloves….

    Do you remember that episode of “Gun Smoke” when the black towns folks rioted after Miss Kitty and some white cowboys lynched that black bloke named Cosby who screwed that drunk crazy middle-aged white saloon girl? Fetus was shouting the “N Word” and pointing his shotgun at the angry mob. Marshall Dillon, like Mayor Pete, looked feckless….

    • Pucker June 24, 2019 at 7:31 pm #

      Do they need to recruit more Iranians to work in the TSA? Do Sunni and Shia TSA goons work well together? On the Mekong Cruise ship, the Vietnamese and the Cambodians didn’t seem to get along. At one point, Charlie started freaking out when I asked for some fresh mint leaves for my iced tea on the boat.

  35. Pucker June 24, 2019 at 7:27 pm #

    Have you ever heard the sound of a dull heavy thud of a truncheon on a bloke’s back and then hear him groan in agony? I heard that once many years ago in China outside my hotel window at about 5:00 am. I recall that I was so sleepy that I couldn’t get out of bed.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ6Uy5paWdI

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  36. BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 7:49 pm #

    Holy Sh#t!!

    Malthus, get ready to evacuate.

    Dr Pinsky says Bubonic Plague is on the streets of LA right now due to millions of rats over running the city and feeding on the deitrus of 50,000 living in the streets. LA needs to be abandoned, ‘Good Vibrations ‘ is over.

    Brh

    • elysianfield June 25, 2019 at 12:23 pm #

      “‘Good Vibrations ‘ is over”

      BRH,
      You’re giving me excitations….

  37. GhostOfHam June 24, 2019 at 8:19 pm #

    Soooooh . . . . the “Golem” is one of either or both:

    1. A [Jewish] clay figure brought to life by magic, that is “created entirely from inanimate [nebulous] matter. . . . an uncultivated person [a mask]. . . . golem is used to mean ‘dumb’ or ‘helpless’. Similarly, it is often used today as a metaphor for a mindless lunk or entity who serves a man under controlled conditions but is hostile to him under others” (Wiki)

    2. An automaton, “a machine or control mechanism designed to automatically follow a predetermined sequence of operations, or respond to predetermined instructions,” (Wiki) or a robot.

    IS Trump Jewish — or is he being molded into becoming Jewish? If he is Jewish, then who is the Magician that creates an animates him? To what predetermined sequence of operations and purpose? Recall the legal maxim “The Creator Controls.” Does Trump not serve his creator?

    Ya know, the Golem has a town named after him now — in Is-Real, no less.

    Too much magic–or, as I like to write, simulation.

  38. auburn June 24, 2019 at 8:31 pm #

    “Nothing like free money” –brh

    Exactly. Health care and education are human rights. We have a right to Medicare for All and a right to GI Bill for all. Free money for health and education is our birthright. I like Bernie Sander’s plans to provide education and healthcare for all. And I like the way he will pay for it. He was very specific on where the money is: we gave it to the banks in bailouts. It is time to take it back. Sanders 2020.

    • BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 8:36 pm #

      Breadline Bernie appreciates your support, Little Jane,

      Brh

    • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 9:51 pm #

      Holy cow, auburn or whoever you have been.

      Money represents labor, Econ 101.

      Money is not a phantom, as will be shown in the great debt collapse in the future.

      I will give you an example of the idiocy of the free money campaign.

      You bring up the bank bailout of 2008. Perfect example against your cause. The Federal government spiked the housing credit market with free money in the form of sub prime loans to millions of people who had no business financing a house. Then Wall Street developed methods to make securities out of these bogus mortgages. When the ARM cheap loans ran out, so did Wall Streets capital base. The government bailed out these banks because the banks had no money left. They were bankrupt. So the banks resurrected their capital bases by using money from the taxpayers. Argue that point all day, I won’t because it is a waste of time.

      Well, guess what. Here we are again. This time the capital inflation is in student loans. Again we have trillions of dollars of loans to people that have no way to pay it back. We have Wall Street making securities of these loans to increase their supposed profits. The banks are on the edge, AGAIN, of insolvency due to bad debt.

      Do you get it? Where the hell is Bernie or anyone going to get the money to pay off these loans en masse. Wall Street is already teetering again trying to keep its head above water. There is no money to tax in Wall Street. Wall Street is a house of cards, if anyone tries to tax Wall Street for anything to be given free, 2008 is going to be a fond memory. And millennials, if you think you have been hurt by 2008, vote for Bernie, any future you wanted will be destroyed. By the same mechanism.

      Oh yeah, look at the timing of the 2008 collapse, right after the last Democrat entered the White House after a GOP turn. Obama scared the hell out of the business community and they scared him right back.

      • auburn June 24, 2019 at 10:40 pm #

        Meh.

        • auburn June 24, 2019 at 10:42 pm #

          Sanders will fund his student loan forgiveness plan through a new tax on financial transactions, which he expects could raise more than $2 trillion over the next 10 years. The tax plan will include a 0.5% fee on all stock trades, a 0.1% fee on all bond trades and a 0.005% fee on all derivatives trades.

          • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 11:03 pm #

            So he will pay off all the outstanding debt, what about the new debt, and the increases in tuition that the colleges will charge once they have a free tit from the Feds.

            That is what got us here in the first place.

            Bernie et al is buying votes, period. We shall see how high the bid gets during the debates.

            One more comment. I will be watching the debates closely looking for a breakout candidate to start rolling up the delegates. Yes, just like Trump did.

            Do you think there are any Megan Kelly’s there?

          • benr June 26, 2019 at 5:36 pm #

            Bernie is a done.

            https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bernie-sanders-essay/

            https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/29/410606045/the-bernie-sanders-rape-fantasy-essay-explained

            This old fool is owned and will be out of the race shortly.

          • Majella June 26, 2019 at 7:20 pm #

            benr – “Owned”? What on earth do you mean? This is extremely old news, and nothing like:

            > being accused of rape by 15 women,
            > being recorded discussing how to sexually assault women
            > how he’d like to have sex with his own daughter

            none of which facts made a dent on Trump’s evangelical vote. Bernie’s 1972 piece is a nothing-burger, an essay by a 31-year-old, the point of which was to explore the changes in inter-gender relationship dynamics.

          • benr June 26, 2019 at 7:42 pm #

            @majella

            You don’t think the current round of Democrat nuts are not going to dredge up that nonsense?
            I was not talking about if he gets the nod because he won’t I was talking about the first debate that actually has any heat in it.
            Tonight’s 60 second forum is a joke big yawn fest.

          • Majella June 27, 2019 at 8:10 pm #

            benr – right, I misread your intent there.

            Want to put something on your assertion that the ‘essay’ will be mentioned?

  39. BackRowHeckler June 24, 2019 at 8:35 pm #

    Mayor Garcetti is bringing back Adam 12 to clean up the city, Malloy and Reed cruising the LA streets in their 67 Dodge Dart squad car … “One Adam 12, one Adam 12, rat infestation on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, possibly feeding on a human body.”

    Malloy and Reed don their HAZMAT suits. They speed up the Boulevard, siren on, one strobe light atop the Dart, passing hundreds of dead and dying on the sidewalks, Bubonic Plague rampant.

    Brh

    • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 9:51 pm #

      Now you are writing like Pucker. Good stuff. Mayor Pete has just been spotted ripping off a licker store. One Adam 12, One Adam 12….

  40. Pucker June 24, 2019 at 9:01 pm #

    What is Elizabeth Warren’s concern re: “Gay Reparations”?

    Is that Reparations, or an accounting issue? Is Warren’s argument that the gays were denied the fundamental human right to file a joint tax return?

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    • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 11:33 pm #

      Pucker

      Just another one ups to make herself stand out. I think we will have lots of one ups in the debates this week.

  41. Pucker June 24, 2019 at 9:20 pm #

    Reparations….

    Do you remember the Coen Brothers movie “Burn Before Reading” in which the crazy, middle aged, single white woman at “Hard Bodies” is driven to desperation to get money for her cosmetic surgeries?

  42. Q. Shtik June 24, 2019 at 9:23 pm #

    Tate,

    I followed up on the Crazyland thread with a couple of comments today a little before and after 5 PM to put to rest my son’s use of Thom vs Tom.

  43. Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 9:55 pm #

    500 Mom Strong is a group of women who have had enough with the sexualization of our children and the mockery of our femininity,” she wrote.

    “The Spokane Public Library South Hill has decided to host a ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ on June 15th, at 2pm. This is misogyny; drag queens are very offensive to women. They are grotesque hypersexualized caricatures of women. They mock women and debase our womanhood and femininity. A drag queen is no different than a racist donning black face,” she continued.

    “The library hosting such an event teaches our sons that women are just sexual objects and it teaches our daughters that they must be overly sexualized to be desired. Enough is enough. We say NO more to a political agenda aimed at degrading women and sexualizing children. We say no to gender appropriation!”

    Anna Bohach.

    In response, police snipers were placed on the roof. Nothing stops Drag Story Hour. Got it plebes?

    Stereotyped feminine behavior is alright when Trannies do it – but not so called real Women. Got it Alba?

    • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 9:59 pm #

      I support Ms Bohach’s protest and commend her clever use of stereotypes against them. But I don’t endorse her complete pov since I believe that “stereotyped” behavior is at least partially natural or innate, though mediated by culture of course. Most women desire to be sex objects, at least sometimes. Never to be a sex object is to be destined to be an old maid.

      • hmuller June 24, 2019 at 11:03 pm #

        I support replacing Lester Holt with a trannie reading the nightly news. At least we’d get a few laughs with all the lies.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 11:09 pm #

          As long as the Tranny is exactly the same shade of brown that Les is. Better yet, have Les himself transition gradually, much as what’s his name did but this time before our adoring/horrified eyes.

      • BackRowHeckler June 25, 2019 at 8:12 am #

        Trannies, .005% of the population, have the media and the whole lefty establishment backing them. They are in fact walking point for the Dems. Who backs 500 Moms Strong, besides God, who nobody gives a sh#t about anymore?

        Brh

    • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 7:25 am #

      Got a quote for my views on transgender issues, have you, Janos?

      “they are grotesque hypersexualized caricatures of women. ”

      ““The library hosting such an event teaches our sons that women are just sexual objects and it teaches our daughters that they must be overly sexualized to be desired. ”

      So we can expect you to start your fight against wall-to-wall online pornography when exactly?

    • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 7:28 am #

      I suppose it’s because you’re a caricature yourself, Janos (some have a theory as to why) that you see other posters as caricatures and don’t even read what they say, but what you want them to say.

    • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 7:36 am #

      I wonder if it’s called ‘Drag Queen Hour’ because the dipsticks feel they are being dragged along to watch it against their will.

      ‘The library hosting such an event’ doesn’t teach their sons anything if they decline to go to the library on June 15th at 2pm.

      I wouldn’t be there, just like I didn’t see the Pride march in Edinburgh on Saturday even though I was in town. Didn’t even know it was on until friends I was meeting told me it was and that the buses might be delayed. The obsessed see everything, naturally.

      • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 10:53 am #

        Why should children be exposed to and indoctrinated in sexual deviancy at the library???? Is it not enough that sexual deviancy is being glamorized on every imaginable form of media known to humankind in every little corner of the earth???? Is there no place where a child can simply enjoy the innocence of childhood? And please do explain how a Drag Queen is not simply a caricature of women? Why are they called female impersonators? You don’t need to impersonate something you are so clearly they are happy being caricatures. Why are they so over the top about everything? It is not about being obsessed about anything. It is about attempting to stop the corruption of children and civilization itself. You keep basically saying live and let live. Yet it is exactly they who do not believe in live and let live. Otherwise they wouldn’t be forcing this onto children in libraries.

        • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 11:37 am #

          SSL

          Not for the first time, you seem to be rather hysterically arguing with a whole lot of points I haven’t made 🙂 .

          I’m not into drag queens. I didn’t mind Danny la Rue as a child of his time but he was about glamour, comedy and pantomime, and was no more sexual than a bar of soap.

          Where did I say anything about drag queens being caricatures or not being caricatures? You are so obsessed you fly off the handle without reading people’s posts properly.

          I didn’t even criticise the angry mommies for doing whatever they want to do. I merely pointed out that the library can’t corrupt anyone’s sons if they just don’t take their sons there when the flippin’ drag queen is reading his/her flippin’ story. Which seems to be on June 15th at 2pm. Eminently avoidable I’d have thought. March as well if you want to.

          “Otherwise they wouldn’t be forcing this onto children in libraries.”

          Forcing? Like I said, they’re not going round with a van and a big net. Get a grip.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 12:48 pm #

            There’s a Canadian case right now where a couple is suing the school for teaching their daughter that there is no such thing as gender at all. Regular school, regular hours, regular class. It’s coming. In Europe, you can’t opt out of “school”. Not that bad here yet. But soon to raise pure healthy kids, you’ll have to make them pariahs.

            And again you inject yourself into the argument. You’re not into it you loftily state, but you are all in favor of snipers being employed against those who protest it at a PUBLIC Library.

          • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 2:01 pm #

            “but you are all in favor of snipers being employed against those who protest it at a PUBLIC Library.”

            I don’t recall mentioning snipers – that seems a bit far-fetched and very American.

            But the point about the public library is that it’s not compulsory at 2pm on June 15th. If people don’t go, they won’t continue the drag queen story hour. You’re the one who’s into free speech.

            I consider drag queen story hours slightly bonkers, but I know that in the highly unlikely event of my almost 7-year-old grandson going to one, he’d just giggle a bit with his friends afterwards and carry on as normal.

            I don’t agree with schools taking it upon themselves to teach children that there’s no such thing as gender. I’m perfectly happy for them to teach children that everyone isn’t the same and people who are different shouldn’t be attacked or bullied for being different if they’re not harming anyone else.

            I don’t know what a ‘pure’ child is, although I am familiar with healthy ones. I’m guessing they’d have to approximate to the baby Jesus.

          • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 2:02 pm #

            And there’s nothing ‘lofty’ about saying I’m not into drag queens. That’s just a statement of fact. The dressing up into ‘lofty’ is your doing.

          • Elrond Hubbard June 26, 2019 at 10:15 am #

            ‘Snipers’, he says — there’s one for the scrapbook, a very clear instance of the KIBO syndrome (knowledge in, bullshit out) at work. If Eyesore McGee doesn’t like milk, he’ll accuse you of putting spiders in it. I imagine his inner life as something like a puppy mill: very sad, and very stinky.

        • EvelynV June 25, 2019 at 12:12 pm #

          I wonder what is more corrupting than knowing the President of your country approves of pussy grabbing, making lascivious innuendo comments about their own daughters, raping young women doing their jobs, and bribing hookers to stay silent?

          As opposed to clowns that look like exaggerated women who are being openly honest about their somewhat bizarre fascination with entertaining others.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 12:51 pm #

            Yet women would scratch each other’s eyes out to be with him. A high level Alpha. A veritable God. Not being able to get such a man twists women into shrews and harpies.

          • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 2:04 pm #

            “Not being able to get such a man twists women into shrews and harpies.”

            Are you for real? I wouldn’t touch someone like him with a barge pole and I don’t know anyone else who would.

            Alpha men sound like a true pain in the arse, from what I’ve observed. From a distance, obviously.

        • elysianfield June 25, 2019 at 12:30 pm #

          ” Is there no place where a child can simply enjoy the innocence of childhood? ”

          SSL,
          I did not necessarily enjoy mine….

          • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 9:33 am #

            Perhaps you could get reparations from the children of those teachers who didn’t choose you, EF 🙂 .

            Now that I gather (from a nephew) that our DNA has a major connection with Scandinavia, I’m waiting for someone to exact reparations from me for all that longboat and longsword activity on the beaches of Northumberland in the 9th century. Next time we have a day trip to Lindisfarne I may have to take scones for the locals, as well as buying even more of their soft fruit and over-priced home-made raspberry jam.

    • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 10:43 am #

      Finally!!!!!!!!! TERFs versus Drag Queens. It is so on!!!!! And Drag Queens are such sissies. They need snipers because they are afraid of mothers? Pathetic….

      • benr June 25, 2019 at 11:27 am #

        I don’t know some of them soccer moms are pretty scary when they get mad.

  44. Slugoon June 24, 2019 at 9:59 pm #

    They say what happens in America eventually flows across the Atlantic, and by golly we’ve got our own electioneering going on, but it wears me right out reading about your political campaigns.

    The level of vitriol, outrage and personal slights is nothing short of epic. I thought it was bad here.

    Are any of them demonstrating any actual ideas or leadership or are they all just engaged in identity politics and tearing strips off each other?

    • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 9:46 am #

      We get the odd moment of light relief here, Slugoon:

      https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D92a-L0WsAEj6FR.jpg

      • Slugoon June 25, 2019 at 5:40 pm #

        Ordinarily I would raise a smile but I’m a little sleep-deprived and I’ve just witnessed Beth Rigby on Sky News in addition to an Adidas advert depicting what regrettably passes as today’s youth culture.

        This is the kind of thing I mean. No rebuttal of Boris’ views, plans or beliefs. Just the usual negativity and ad hominem attacks. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you…

        Like I say, I’m curmudgeonly. I feel like Victorian Dad from Viz living in a country to which I belong no more. Bah!

        • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 7:13 pm #

          Slugoon

          Really, I think you are definitely being curmudgeonly.

          A joke is a joke and if you’ve lost your sense of humour, then Brexit has all been for nought…

          For what shall it profit a man if he regain the whole of his sovereignty but lose that which is most British? 🙂

          But such things are subjective. It was my husband who sent me it and he thought it was funny too.

          I’ve heard Boris’s plans this very evening BTW AND a sensible rebuttal of each one. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about, unfortunately.

          Boris doesn’t do detail. He does bluster. But I am a mere observer and will continue to observe.

          • Slugoon June 26, 2019 at 2:56 am #

            I’m in a better mood this morning. I now appreciate the warm green tones in the photograph and you can’t deny that’s a good price for a patio set, even if it does come flat-packed 😉

            I’ve seen a bit of Boris on TV lately (finally) and I really think he will do well if given a chance. The problem is he won’t be. Even his own party will do whatever it takes to remove him. I smell a Russia story coming on!

            We shall observe together.

          • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 9:37 am #

            “you can’t deny that’s a good price for a patio set, even if it does come flat-packed ”

            And with sitting tenants 🙂

      • Majella June 25, 2019 at 8:13 pm #

        Brilliant.

    • benr June 25, 2019 at 10:22 am #

      It has gotten really bad but a look at history of political cartoons shows at least in this country politics has always been bitter, nasty and divisive.

      https://www.illustrationhistory.org/genres/cartooning-political

      • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 11:48 am #

        I don’t think the Boris cartoon is bitter or divided, benr. I think most Tories would laugh too, especially since IKEA’s a bit of a mild cultural joke as well, the way they give daft names to bookcases.

        • benr June 25, 2019 at 2:00 pm #

          Actually I posted the wrong link.

          • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 2:27 pm #

            Yeah, it was way too intellectual to be a response to my Ikea joke, benr 🙂 .

          • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 2:28 pm #

            And it was an actual photo of him and Ms Symonds, not a cartoon.

            I just saw him squirming during the news as one interviewer pointed out that it was an old photo since his hair was a different colour!

      • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 11:49 am #

        Also it’s taking the piss out of Boris and his latest squeeze posing while playing happy families to offset his carcrash moment of having the police called out to a domestic between the pair of them. Maybe a cultural reference you could miss, not being here!

        • hmuller June 25, 2019 at 2:04 pm #

          Just curious, GA, has anyone remarked on Boris’ odd hair? One can’t be elected to lead a major nation with silly, unnatural looking hair.

          • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 2:34 pm #

            hm

            His floppy hair has always been seen as part of the lovable buffoon image he’s cultivated over the years. He seems to have cut it shorter than it used to be in a concession to potential high office.

            As he gets chubbier, of course, he takes on the aspect of a boiled egg with a blond mop dropped on top.

            It will be interesting to see him and the other famous hairdo having ‘talks’, though!

            Some people are giving him two weeks as PM, before some crisis or other triggers an election.

            I can’t take much more of this… 🙁

          • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 2:48 pm #

            They say that a bald man could never be elected as US President, hm. That does seem to be the case so far.

            We’ve had William Hague as PM and contenders like Sajiv Javid and Chuka Umunna for party leader – shiny bonces all. We seem to be less afraid of the follicularly challenged representing us!

          • Majella June 25, 2019 at 8:17 pm #

            “They say that a bald man could never be elected as US President, hm.”

            Dwight D Eisenhower was quite a hubcap-head, or at least sported a major comb-over.

          • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 5:26 am #

            Ah, but could a bald man be elected now, Majella? 🙂

            I don’t know anyway, it’s just something that people have said in the past. Maybe since shaved heads became Hollywood-sexy, the US electorate has moved on, follicularly speaking!

          • Majella June 26, 2019 at 7:24 pm #

            A fine distinction, ‘then’ v. ‘now’. I suspect, Cory Booker won’t be elected but it won’t be because of his hair. If Bernie gets the nomination, it’ll be a real test case, won’t it? Or do comb-overs not count?

  45. Pucker June 24, 2019 at 10:09 pm #

    How can we use nanotechnology and other disruptive technologies to overcome the racial, gender, age, and sexual divides so that as Beto harangues: “Everyone can realize their full potential”?

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  46. Pucker June 24, 2019 at 10:28 pm #

    Do you remember the TV show “Crossfire” in which they’d shout at each other, and they’d never agree on anything?

    • hmuller June 24, 2019 at 10:54 pm #

      They say Crossfire was a lot like a Jewish family holiday dinner, only without the gefilte fish.

      • Ricechex June 25, 2019 at 12:21 am #

        Ha ha ha! I never saw the show, but you certainly gave me a good laugh.

    • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 10:56 pm #

      Wasn’t Hannity one of the people?

      • Majella June 24, 2019 at 11:48 pm #

        No, Tucker Carlson and a rotating roster of other dickheads…

        I’ve always written Tucker Carlson off as an entitled little whiner, but then I saw his take-down of Iran & Trump’s decision. Wow. Right on the button.

  47. auburn June 24, 2019 at 10:44 pm #

    “Money represents labor, Econ 101.” –JohnAZ

    So you opposed the GI Bill providing education to veterans? I think not. You are fine with “free money” … just not for everyone.

    • Pucker June 24, 2019 at 10:47 pm #

      Beto now is switching gears to push “Veterans Rights”. The “Kids-in-Cages” meme didn’t get traction?

      • hmuller June 24, 2019 at 10:56 pm #

        I have a hard time trusting a politician who plays an electric guitar while wearing a sheep mask.

        • benr June 25, 2019 at 10:18 am #

          Ditto and anyone of them with a D in front of their name.
          Well I have a hard time trusting any of them actually.

      • benr June 25, 2019 at 10:19 am #

        Mostly because it splattered all over the Obama regime.

    • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 10:55 pm #

      GI Bill is not free money. Servicemen earn their college time serving the country. Not at all like free student loans, or free healthcare.

      • Majella June 27, 2019 at 8:41 pm #

        JohnAZ

        But even the lowest enlisted soldier doesn’t work for free. A quick look shows that the military option is pretty good, especially for the lower socio-economic cohorts, which explains to a large extent why Recruitment Centres are where they are.

        Starting pay for a Private is $19,200 pm plus ‘all found’, while a minimum wage worker on full time (40 hours a week, if you can get it flipping burgers) gets $15,080 and carries all personal living costs, including transportation to work.

        The military money gets pretty attractive if you get committed and climb the ranks – the highest NCO is E9, an SMA (Special) on a range of $60,600 to $94,000-odd. Not bad. As well, there are several pretty attractive retirement plans which you can start collecting from age 37.

        There’s also all the trade & other educational courses accessible while in the service.

        “Service” doesn’t necessarily mean overseas combat duty. I don’t think that living on a base in Europe, Japan or Korea for the duration of the term of enlistment is particularly worthy of the ubiquitous ‘thank you for your service’ cap-doffing.

        If you DO go into combat, there’s a bonus for that too – $225 per month PLUS waiving of all taxes for that month.

        So, given that it’s actually not a deal – financially & educationally – , the GI Bill looks just as much like free money as everything else you rail against.

    • benr June 25, 2019 at 10:17 am #

      Spoken like a true idiot that has not served in the military.
      You have zero clue about what it takes to basically put your life on hold while in the military.
      I can only attest to what it was like in the NAVY but your life revolved around the NAVY and the ship you were assigned to.
      Your wife and children came second, your hobbies and pass times came third!
      I was gone on an 8 month cruise and was away for four months of my daughters life I never got to see her born or the last several months of my wife’s pregnancy!
      While in port we were in three section duty meaning 1 in 3 days I slept on that ship.
      Our op tempo was usually floating in the ocean for over 200 days a year!
      I find clueless short sighted people such as yourself contemptible I bet if you were old enough you would have spit at returning Vietnam vets..

  48. I’m a bit shocked to hear some people still believe that capitalism isn’t set up to take all your money and lead you into debt.

    Thats all it is, in the end. The retailers know exactly how many pennies you have in the cartegory “Disposable income”. Their market research is the best in the world. They know exactly what kind of person you are, and how much money you have in your pocket.

    Netflix and HBO know how much money you are going to spend on TV and movies. Nike and Adidas know hoe much you are going to spend on shoes. The landlords know how much you will pay for rent.

    Its their jobs to take every marginal penny on the dollar they can from you in their category, and the degree to which they make you overspend or subtract from payments to their competitors is the measure of their success.

    College is a business, and without an apparent upper bound for what middle class families will tolerate, the price naturally rises to the threshold determined by the invisible hand of the market. Same for every commodity and good.

    The only way to beat this system is radical awareness and active strategies to avoid a situation where you end up in debt or with an inability to pay.

    Of course you’re not going to hear too much about the moral hazards of a market subsidy for a class (college degree holders) who can already by considered “ahead of the game” as they can typically command higher than average wages – typically.

    I do think price controls are necessary in higher education. Nothing is holding these institutions back currently, from ballooning administrative staff and fluff like sports teams, landscaping, remodeling, and other non-curriculars.

    Lets assume Miz Warren pays the bill for Mr. EnvSci pooper-prepper up there. Aside from an URGENT need for cash employment at the local Chuck-E-Cheez, are we to assume he will now somehow magically accrue wealth and status, and all the other bullshit modern life requires, without leaving Amherst?

    The marketers are licking their chops and expecting his application for a loan to McMasters’ School of Public Administration where he’ll turn these experiences into a lifelong mission to convert every private institution to public-funding.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 11:17 pm #

      Well said. Let’s have a moratorium on ALL of this. Make everyone wear wrinkled gray pyjamas for a few years. Get back to basics. Show trials for Bankers and Capitalists and billionaire Socialists with AOC as the Supreme Authority as to guilt, innocence, and penalty. Gangs of youth with their faces painted greed roam the cities looking for environmental criminals. Blacks don’t have to work anymore, but most will want to work in the take from the rich and give to themselves industries.

      Rural Whites mock them saying “C’mon and get some”. The Blacks, Browns, Greens, and Reds seek easier targets, begging the Army to come in and conquer the hinterlands.

      • JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 11:26 pm #

        Ha, Janos.

        You can write a book. The progression of The Long Emergency. Your visualization is pretty right on, I think.

        Hey, maybe we agree on something.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 11:50 pm #

          Reading Estulin’s “TransEvolution: The Coming Age of Human Decontruction”. He’s a mixture of deep insights and utter confusion. Thinks that Nazism was the New World Order and not its bitterest foe. Conflates Fascism and Plutocracy the way you do, etc. But I will read it to the end for the insights it provides. The guy is a more sober, Spanish version of Alex Jones. Alan Watts is supposed to be good too, but I haven’t read him yet.

        • Majella June 26, 2019 at 7:26 pm #

          It’d be in the sci-fi/fantasy section…remaindered.

    • FincaInTheMountains June 25, 2019 at 12:23 am #

      All this, according to well-developed scientific theory of Marx, is called the general crisis of capitalism, but by the efforts of Hillary such terms are forbidden to be used as not politically correct.

      And how to solve the problem, when you can’t even call it by its real name?

    • Ol' Scratch June 25, 2019 at 6:39 am #

      Finally, something worth reading from the Lil’ Snacker. Looks like you’ve put down the snack cakes, got that blood sugar stabilized, and are thinking clearly again. Keep it up. Corporate capitalism is a giant vacuum cleaner, hoovering up revenues from all over the world and converting them to profits for the one percent. Simple concept, but most people simply refuse to get it. Probably because they foolishly think that they can share in the party. Not for long for some, not at all for everyone else.

      • Majella June 26, 2019 at 7:32 pm #

        Right, Ol’ Scratch.

        It’s as if the US right/evangelical cohort is pretty densely populated by aspiring billionaires, who are just waiting for THEIR big moment.

        In the meantime, it wouldn’t do to criticize those august figures if you expect to join them one day. Hence, the significant number of those who vote against their own interests (viz the Tea Party).

  49. JohnAZ June 24, 2019 at 11:30 pm #

    Hey, everyone. No more freebies.

    How about a two to four year service commitment by every youth in the military, Peace Corps or a latter day VISTA. You earn your salary and earn your education. Yeah, like the GI Bill.

    Mandatory, like the draft.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 11:46 pm #

      Yes, this is National Socialism/Fascism. Good John. Make em wear Khakis and teach ’em to fight too. Of course, we’re too far gone. Any such attempt would be saddled with Queers, Trannies, Multicultural indoctrination and Black Thuggery.

      We must await the Fall and the Next Civilization. And Winter comes between these two – and we must wait for the Lion in Winter to lead us into the New Age. What can I say? Surrender to Him when he appears, and be loyal to Him unto Death.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 24, 2019 at 11:56 pm #

        And if the Lion in Winter turns out to be the Lion of Judah (Christ), well that’d be alright too. He warned them but they wouldn’t listen. He’s not going to be playing around this time. The Carpenter isn’t laying down his hammer this time. He’s a gonna be doin’ the nailin’ this time.

  50. JohnAZ June 25, 2019 at 12:22 am #

    Janos

    Maybe if Kids were made to do service work, they might grow up a little and appreciate what they they have in this country.

    You give many thoughts on the US after a governmental collapse. Not just you, what exactly do you think the people of the country really want the structure of the USA to be if they all had their way. IMO, the Left wants the Constitution abandoned to allow them total power. I do not have a clue what the GOP wants. I do think that business as usual is not going to happen

    My question to both sides and you is, what goes into place of the Constitution if it is voided? Will the government of the Red states and the Cities be the same? Will there even be a central government?

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    • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 12:35 am #

      It has to be amended at least. We were implicitly a White country, but anything that is nailed down in this world will get appropriated sooner or later. Now the Leftists professors deny that we were ever supposed to be White. Or that Whites even exist. Of course they know these things are nonsense, but when did the Left ever care about Truth? Facts are just weapons and the truth is just a big stick. Trump is like this too. He knows the Truth, otherwise he couldn’t have talked to White America with such passion. He just doesn’t care about it – not when it gets in the way of the Agenda or THEIR Truth.

      Some say the Articles of Confederation were better in terms of keeping Government small. I sympathize, but we need a strong, central Government so I can’t go that route at all. We’d be conquered state by state that way, either from within or without. But America isn’t going to stay the same in any case. Much of it is lost because of the Mexican invasion – already part of Mexico. Other parts are lost to the Blacks, etc. So we can’t afford to lose any more of it, eh?

      • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 12:38 am #

        correction: anything that ISN’T nailed down, etc

      • JohnAZ June 25, 2019 at 12:49 am #

        One more thing to not forget. When the founding fathers did their thing, the country was filled with agrarian folks that worked very hard and looked to the Feds for protection of the entire country. And not much else.

        Unlike the spoiled rotten gimme Leftists who are always looking for a handout from the PTB instead of earning their own way. Constantly berating the wealthy for being rich, instead of being grateful for the jobs and fiscal opportunities that the rich provide.

        It is so easy to just complain. Instead of creating a path for themselves.

        • Majella June 25, 2019 at 8:38 pm #

          “…being grateful for the jobs and fiscal opportunities that the rich provide.”

          Wow. You’re the epitome of ‘wage slave’ & how to ‘vote against your own interests’.

          And, to cap it all off, you ask Janos for advice on running the country?

  51. Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 12:24 am #

    They repair the roads and bridges and rails. Our infrastructure is in ruins in case you haven’t noticed. Clean up the filth left by the illegal invasion of our Southern Border. Maybe even help build the Wall, directed by Engineers and professionals of course.

    • JohnAZ June 25, 2019 at 12:34 am #

      The job of the militia and the national military is to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Why the Marines are not guarding the border is a mystery?

      The military trains foreign countries to defend themselves, they build infrastructure overseas, they stop foreign powers from coming here, they give up two to twenty or more years of their lives in service to this country.

      Of course, Auburn, America haters like you cannot comprehend this.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 3:11 am #

        It’s against the Law for the Military to protect our borders. That’s up to the border patrol who can’t handle it and have to take in asylum seekers in any case – those worms so loved by the Left.

        But as Aquinas said, A Law that is against Natural Law is no Law at all and is meant to be broken.

        • JohnAZ June 25, 2019 at 9:55 am #

          Good morning, Janos.

          Right in there with you.

          The Laws that have evolved over the years stink. The natural role of the military has been distorted by a “police force” that has been hamstrung by the same lawgivers.

          A no win scenario!

        • Ol' Scratch June 25, 2019 at 10:21 am #

          And yet the military is organized under the Department of Defense. Yet another oxymoron, in a land chock full of them.

          • James Hansen June 25, 2019 at 12:56 pm #

            The bigger the military gets, the less safe we are. It is insane to spend 1.25 Trillion a year so we can kill and threaten people all over the world. Using depleted Uranium weapons is a war crime that never goes away because cancers and birth defects will never stop happening.

            How does provoking Russia, Iran, China, and Venezuela on a daily basis make me safe?

            Russia spends only 60 Billion a year and now the military wants many more billions to counter their superior weaponry.

            The MIC is a cancer that keeps growing and promises to kill us all.

          • dorn June 25, 2019 at 4:48 pm #

            Up until 1947, it was the Department of War, headed up by the Secretary of War. In Duck Soup, Groucho gave that job to Chico.

  52. JohnAZ June 25, 2019 at 12:26 am #

    Your diatribe against folks putting their lives on the line FOR YOU is disgusting. You do not deserve an answer and thus no one is offered.

  53. FincaInTheMountains June 25, 2019 at 12:31 am #

    Hey, everyone. No more freebies.

    How about a two to four year service commitment by every youth in the military, Peace Corps or a latter day VISTA. You earn your salary and earn your education. Yeah, like the GI Bill.

    Not necessarily military – it could be a civil service.

    For instance, in the USSR every college graduate received a mandatory assignment to some place of work – a young doctor could be sent to some rural clinic, for example.

    It usually was for 3 years, during which the graduate received a normal compensation for his/her work. After 3 years, you are free to look for any job you like.

    • JohnAZ June 25, 2019 at 12:38 am #

      Finca

      You are describing VISTA.

      Volunteers in Service to America. A domestic equivalent to the Peace Corps.

      Both created by the JFK administration.

      The Peace Corps, service to others in foreign lands. What a concept.

      And all service folks make significantly less than their civilian counterparts.

  54. FincaInTheMountains June 25, 2019 at 1:29 am #

    Regarding Libya’s Tragedy

    Libya is the second after the collapse of the USSR example of the fundamental weakness of a secular welfare state.

    Libya finally proved that in conditions of “developed socialism” (and in Libya it was probably even more developed than in the USSR), when people forget what the struggle for existence is and they don’t have a real spiritual life they turn out to be defenseless against the spread of pseudo-religious sects and information manipulations from outside.

    They cease to perceive the homeland as a common home and begin to consider it a feeding trough, and citizens as competitors who need to be driven away from this feeding trough.

    They forget what solidarity is and stop appreciating what they have.

    And they lose everything.

    And pseudo religions cannot replace real spiritual life. I’m sure that if Gaddafi tried to find mutual understanding with the Sufi orders of the Summania and Tajiks Misurata to oppose Benghazi’s Salafis and sinusitis, instead of imposing his “green book” on the fellow citizens, then no one would even try to organize an orange revolution in Libya.

    Likewise, I am sure that if in the 80s the 5th Main Directorate of the KGB, instead of introducing schisms and heresies into Orthodoxy, adapting it for its privatization games, would simply fulfill its official duties, even if determined by an atheistic state, then in the early 1990s, the Church could effectively counter the final demoralization of Soviet citizens.

    Meanwhile, it was this demoralization during unprecedented social and economic reforms that led to abnormal mortality in the 1990s, to a decline in the birth rate, and to rampant banditry, and to the antagonistic confrontation of “creative class” with the rest of society, which today threatens to destroy all achievements of the Russian state over the past 30 years.

    After all, a person is an animal that cannot go to die for the sake of saving the Motherland, if the Motherland cannot offer him anything other than satiety and a book of red, brown or green color.

    • Ol' Scratch June 25, 2019 at 11:04 am #

      Ideally, the “motherland” does not go about asking its citizens to die for “its sake,” all the time either. And satiety should include more than a full check book of whatever color as well. The ideal government should feel like no government at all, while still keeping the rascals among us relatively in check. A difficult balance to maintain, for sure; but the good ones at least make an effort to do so.

  55. S M Tenneshaw June 25, 2019 at 5:28 am #

    “reparations for gay and lesbian couples”? Good grief.

    To paraphrase Little Stevie Wonder, reparations ain’t the way.

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    • Ol' Scratch June 25, 2019 at 10:19 am #

      More like separations, maybe?

      • S M Tenneshaw June 25, 2019 at 11:44 am #

        Nah, I’d rather keep the United States united.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 1:40 pm #

          Yeah the idea of Whites being prosperous and happy by themselves is simply unbearable to you people.

          • S M Tenneshaw June 25, 2019 at 1:46 pm #

            Get real. Whites who want to separate physically can do so now. We don’t need another civil war.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 27, 2019 at 5:39 pm #

            So why are they bringing massive numbers of 3rd World immigrants into the last remaining White areas and States?

  56. Pucker June 25, 2019 at 6:34 am #

    Do you believe that we can supply our energy needs with biological batteries grown by viruses? Sounds rather difficult to scale up. I’m not sure that I buy it…

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  57. JohnAZ June 25, 2019 at 10:08 am #

    Just a Tuesday morning thought.

    If we have taken a position that Palestine needs a two nation solution, that there needs to be a Palestine for the Arabs and an Israel for the Jews, are we not admitting that the USA is an impossibility, that people with difference religions or ethos cannot live under the same rule of law culture . Shouldn’t we be negotiating a political peace treaty to separate into a Caucasian States of America, a Black States of America, a Latin States of America, an Asian States of America and of course Americastan. Their will be a lottery to say who gets which states and the loser gets California.

    Hmmm, I believe I remember who championed the idea of the two state solution and they all belong to the USA. Maybe a forecast of what they wanted for the USA. Now who could possibly want that?

    • Ol' Scratch June 25, 2019 at 10:18 am #

      Their will be a lottery to say who gets which states and the loser gets California.

      LOL! That’s a good one, JAZ.

    • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 11:34 am #

      Of course we should be negotiating a peaceful separation. I have been advocating this for a while. That is if Whites refuse to use their current majority to take the entire country which clearly that’s not happening. OMG a Caucasian States of America. What a friggin dream!!!! That would be like an answered prayer for sure.

      • Majella June 25, 2019 at 8:42 pm #

        OOOOOHHhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! *la petite mort, Jean?*

    • Exscotticus June 25, 2019 at 2:54 pm #

      The problem with this idea is that the Left is incapable of “live and let live.” They preach diversity but absolutely won’t tolerate ideological differences.

      As for the Palestinians…

      What the Palestinians need is birth control. They’ve received tens of billions of dollars in aid. So far, what they seem really good at is converting other people’s wealth into more Palestinians. If the overcrowded shithole world they’ve made for themselves is any indicator, we’re far better off keeping the status quo.

      • Majella June 25, 2019 at 8:55 pm #

        Exscotticus – you make pronouncements on ‘the Left’ as if we’re all the rabid tweet-storming college professors that trigger you so easily.

        Once again, the vast majority of ‘the Left’ simply want fairness, not ‘freebies’, and we want that fairness for you too, JohnAZ.

        Also, we do ‘tolerate ideological differences’ – witness how many common-sense, intelligent, eloquent ‘Leftists’ continue to comment here, despite the repulsive racism and incoherent rage your ‘side’ is constantly expressing against anyone not in your racial/ideological tent. Who’s intolerant, exactly?

        As to your disrespect for Palestinians (quite possibly the most put-upon, exploited & least regarded player in the Middle East), it’s just shameful.

        However much the Palestinians may have received in US Aid, it pales in comparison when held up against the blank cheques the USG writes for Israel year after year, including supplying it with weapons with which to regularly slam the CONCENTRATION CAMP that is the Gaza Strip.

        • Exscotticus June 25, 2019 at 10:17 pm #

          >>> Once again, the vast majority of ‘the Left’ simply want fairness, not ‘freebies’

          The Left’s idea of “fairness” is equal outcomes. Hence all Lefty leaders advocate wealth redistribution schemes. Your Dem leaders are falling over each other promising open borders and reparations.

          >>> witness how many common-sense, intelligent, eloquent ‘Leftists’ continue to comment here

          Can’t. Stop. Laughing.

          >>> As to your disrespect for Palestinians… it’s just shameful.

          This must be the part where you demonstrate your “tolerance” for opposing viewpoints.

          >>> slam the CONCENTRATION CAMP that is the Gaza Strip

          I didn’t realize concentration camp prisoners have access to bombs and missiles. Tell us more!

          • Majella June 25, 2019 at 11:42 pm #

            Clearly, your reading skills require more honing.

            “If the overcrowded shithole world they’ve made for themselves is any indicator, we’re far better off keeping the status quo.”

            That isn’t an ‘opposing view’, that’s a slanderous distortion – how’d it get to be a shit-hole? It wasn’t one in 1947. If your community was starved of resources and constantly bombed by your well-heeled neighbor with a rich sugar-daddy supplying him, you’d be living in a shit-hole too – of your own making, apparently.

            You & your cohort are just so freaking ANGRY all the time…it must be really exhausting, being constantly triggered and having to believe the unbelievable things you profess at the same time. How do you cope?

          • Exscotticus June 26, 2019 at 12:19 am #

            >>> how’d it get to be a shit-hole?

            Gaza has been under de jure Palestinian control since 1994. No one forces them to breed like barnyard animals. No one forces them to engage in fruitless terrorism.

            Under a different people, a different culture, and a different leadership, Gaza could be like Beirut once was: “The Paris Of The Middle East”.

            But leave it to a liberal apologist to blame everyone but the Palestinians for their own actions. Next up: Trump is to blame for drowning immigrants.

          • Majella June 26, 2019 at 4:59 am #

            So, you blame the broad population for the errors of the government? Sounds like the USA. Go figure.

          • Exscotticus June 26, 2019 at 10:10 am #

            >>> So, you blame the broad population for the errors of the government?

            Huh? Citizens are not culpable for the actions of their government? Jeez is there any responsibility in your world? You do realize they have elections—just like us.

            And what does the government in Gaza have to do with the choices Palestinians make with regard to “family planning” (or the lack thereof). People with no homes, no jobs, and no wealth have kids like there was no tomorrow. Why not? Liberals like Majella will pay for it—and force others to as well.

    • Slugoon June 25, 2019 at 6:19 pm #

      JohnAZ, that is a brilliant argument and I have had precisely the same thought for the UK. If only we could cut the country in two and relocate everybody to one half or the other along 2016 voting lines rather than racial ones (although there would be a strong correlation).

      The Remainers get London, obviously, which would necessitate most of Scotland upping sticks but then Nick Clegg could drop his fabled drawbridge right over the Strait of Dover to really embrace the EU vibe while us Little Englanders get to toddle off north to live in peace free from the BBC with our Gin and tea while the plebs down south slurp on their absinthe and small beer.

      (GA – you still wouldn’t find me in Thurso.)

      • GreenAlba June 25, 2019 at 6:58 pm #

        I certainly wouldn’t, Slugoon (not that I’ve even been there).

        We’ll be rebuilding Hadrian’s Wall and the Sassenachs will be paying for it 🙂 .

        • Slugoon June 26, 2019 at 2:44 am #

          Hehehe, I like it 🙂

      • Majella June 25, 2019 at 10:04 pm #

        No, Slugoon, it’s actually a really STUPID argument.

        • Slugoon June 26, 2019 at 2:45 am #

          Unworkable, sure, but one can daydream.

          • Majella June 26, 2019 at 5:00 am #

            Hmmm…some would ‘dream’ of it, but not me.

  58. wm5135 June 25, 2019 at 10:23 am #

    “I do not have a clue what the GOP wants.” JohnAZ

    Blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other. I call BS on you John.

    • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 10:55 am #

      Cheap labor, corporate profits and kickbacks, and votes. Same as the Democrats.

      • Ol' Scratch June 25, 2019 at 10:57 am #

        That’s BINGO for SSL! You may collect your prize.

        • SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 11:10 am #

          Wahoo!!!!! I won I won!!!!!!! Now I hope my prize isn’t a lump of burning coal you Devil lol.

          • K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 12:14 pm #

            Yes,

            Cheap labor, corporate profits and kickbacks, and votes. Same as the Republicans.

            Maybe Scratch can squeeze that lump of coal real hard before he gives it to you. You earned it for that one.

            I wonder if there has ever been a culture where profit was considered a sin.

            Scratch?

    • K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 12:44 pm #

      A quote from one of your articles.

      In the next two decades, should the country’s legal immigration policy go unchanged, the U.S. is set to import about 15 million new foreign-born voters. About eight million of these new foreign-born voters will have arrived through the process known as “chain migration,” where newly naturalized citizens are allowed to bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country.

      15 million in twenty years relative to what American Population is now is not a big deal. You are worrying about nothing.

      But if the world were getting hotter so the wet bulb temperature were to climb above 35 degrees C or 95 degrees F on a regular basis then over a billion people would want to come to America. Then there would be something to worry about. There would be an exodus from the tropics as in ‘Let my people go’. Holy Moses.

      But what would make the world hotter? It would take billions of people combusting things to change climate because the world is a very big place. A layer of water molecules 1 molecule thick over the whole planet might fill a third of a small oil tanker. That is a lot of water. A cubic centimeter of water will paint a sphere about 100 feet wide in the same way.

      If the world were getting hotter it would be time to complain about the ‘House Parties’ and find another way. Since that is not happening the world must not be getting hotter or the whole world would be crazy. I know my logic. I was paper trained on Mad Magazine! Thinking the whole world is crazy is crazy!

      Isn’t it?

      Just kidding. Somebody check my math. It is mine. I did not get it from anywhere. A gram of water will paint a sphere how big? Then enlarge the sphere to the size of the earth and see how many grams of water you get. The grams will go up as a cube as the sphere radius goes up linearly.

      The Condoleezza Rice has a capacity of 129,000-tons. This is not the same tanker I used so the answer may or not be a third and the 100 foot sphere size still has to be checked.

      Show your work. 🙂

      The Science Dog.

      • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 10:41 am #

        You had to bring math into it didn’t you lol :-P! I would disagree however with your assessment that all of these millions of newcomers aren’t necessarily a big deal given the current US population. Well for one, the growth of the US population is all immigration driven. And what do all of these new people require? In addition to burning more fossil fuels, they require infrastructure, living space, and all the amenities and modern conveniences guaranteed to them by our open borders policies. So basically we are inviting in more sprawl, more deforestation, more poisoning of the soil and air, and more CO2 ultimately. So yeah lets do something about fossil fuel consumption. I am with you. But I implore you to see that increasing the population through immigration (rapidly btw) is also destroying habitat and ecosystems.

  59. SoftStarLight June 25, 2019 at 11:26 am #

    If you are a mom worried about what your kids are exposed to at the local library be ready to be harassed by the police and Antifa street thugs. Oh also get ready to be doxxed. This is happening all over the country. No escape is possible.

    https://www.thecollegefix.com/video-undercover-moms-expose-graphic-teen-pride-public-library-event-then-get-doxxed-by-antifa/

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    • K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 1:16 pm #

      SSL

      K-Dog was once totally anon but years ago at the request of the John Bull spook contingent I was identified. In a sense doxxed. How times change now I want to be better known and am not afraid of people seeing who I am at all.

      It is a well known fact I am in ‘Seattle’. I am actually closer to Renton WA than Seattle which is a whole ten miles away. The Renton city limits are less than a mile from this keyboard.

      Your article is total bullshit. I can’t find anything to back it up. If I do I’ll let you know and I’ll be down to the Liberty Cafe soon enough. I’ll ask around. If I am wrong I’ll let you know, but for now your article is total bullshit.

      • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 10:35 am #

        Please do let me know what you find out. I simply posted the article. It is not really mine. But this is happening all over the country so why would I assume it is suddenly fake because it is in Renton WA? I am happy to admit and repost that the story is false if you find out it is.

        • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 7:52 pm #

          I love the idea of someone “dancing in scantily clad clothing”.

          Priceless.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 1:39 pm #

      Imagine a group of Christians using a public library in East Buttcrack, North Dakota. The Left would bus in troops from as far away as Chicago if that was ended immediately. But corrupting little kids with Tranny Monsters? Not only harmless but a Right!

      • Majella June 25, 2019 at 10:12 pm #

        *Yawn*…never read a more pathetic analogy, Janos. Who gives a toss what a group of “churchians” is doing going to the library?

        My first expectation is that they can, or are finally learning to, read. You know…Occam’s Razor.

        As to the triggering of your ‘morality’ with ‘Tranny Monsters’…what are you on? s GA has said, repeatedly, there’s no harm done if you don’t take your children to the scheduled event.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 5:52 am #

          So you admit there might be harm then? So why should a PUBLIC institution be promoting such harm to small children? Why should dumb mothers be allowed to hurt their kids this way? Let’s go back to the old days, when such corrupt performances where done in back alley clubs late at night, seen by only the really hardcore who were willing to sacrifice to get to them.

  60. EvelynV June 25, 2019 at 11:46 am #

    Stop looking at me that way Ivanka, you were…uh…would have been just a little girl then. But she isn’t the type I raped…er…would have raped anyhow. Just more fake news.

    What are you looking at Melania…I didn’t even know you then…er…would have known you then? Don’t believe that fake news. Look, does she look anything like Stormy? Of course she doesn’t! That proves it’s just fake news…doesn’t it…doesn’t it…hey look at me…doesn’t it…?? Stupid democrats will believe anything. Unless it’s me talking.

    • K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 1:01 pm #

      Little girls do love their stories!

  61. BackRowHeckler June 25, 2019 at 12:21 pm #

    Malloy and Reed are patrolling around Crenshaw, cruising the blighted streets in their ’67 Dodge Dart squad car, S&W .38s strapped to their hips and a war surplus Winchester model 97 shotgun locked in the trunk.

    “One Adam 12, one Adam 12, report of a man down in the Mambo Market at the corner of Crenshaw and Avenue. Please respond.”

    Malloy pulls over and he and Reed put on their Hazmat suits, just one of the changes they’ve had to get used to since being called back to duty by Mayor Garcetti to clean up the city of LA. That was right after Bubonic Plague exploded out of the homeless encampments near city hall, and rats overran the whole of LA County.

    The Dodge Dart speeds to the scene, tinny siren blaring, one strobe light spinning on the roof. Up and down Wilshire Blvd plague infected people lie on the sidewalks.

    A large group of Hispanic men surround the Mambo Market, all liverish, with the pallor of Hep A,B,C, & D victims.

    “It looks like he was beat to death,”

    “Don’t touch the body, Reed. Its infected”.

    Brh

    • K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 1:01 pm #

      Bubonic Plague!

      That dirty rat!

  62. volodya June 25, 2019 at 12:37 pm #

    SoftStarLight, I’ve been railing now for I-don’t-know-how-long that people have to see what’s under their noses.

    So, a tip of the hat to unfortunate reality, what you’re saying is true, that people are tribal and one of those tribal markers is skin color. It doesn’t have to be just skin color though as we’ve seen in the Balkans in the last 30 years. Just look at the ungovernable mess that Bosnia is in. They’ve had Croat and Serb and Muslims living cheek by jowl for how many hundreds of years, there being no discernible racial difference between them, yet civil war is just a grenade toss away.

    But you don’t have to go overseas for examples, the USA is example numero uno, with North and South fighting a Cold War since 1865, the descendants of two founding settler groups still at daggers-drawn as we see week-in and week-out in Washington. It astounds that the animosity, even after 150 years, is as alive as ever.

    What we have here are inter-locking wheels, one of these being a small coterie of American Oligarchs funding both Democrat and Republican to run a sham democracy, another wheel being that of the economically ruined US interior, yet another wheel being one that’s been turning for at least a couple hundred years, that being a struggle for power between America’s two founding ethnicities, North and South.

    Now, it case somebody thinks things can’t possibly turn kinetic, we have the spectacle in Oregon, where a Democrat governor is threatening to have state police do a round-up of recalcitrant Republican state legislators. And, guess what, militia groups are giving the Republicans armed protection.

    Don’t say I didn’t tell ya, because I did tell ya, that these armed fellas out there in the vast expanse between the coasts would become a factor to be reckoned with. And now it appears they’re taking their first tentative steps out of the shadows. It was just a matter of time. People don’t get gunned-up because they’re happy campers, they do it because they’re not. For one thing, moving people’s livelihoods overseas and ruining their lives and then pissing on them and insulting them is just a sure-fire way to get trouble of the high-velocity type.

    So, where does this take us? It takes us to a place that was easily avoidable, but wasn’t avoided. As I’ve been saying, economic class is one fracture line, another is the age-old fissure between North and South, but we have to give reality its due, so is the racial divide lovingly stoked lately especially by “wokesters” for the purposes of their own self-glorification but especially their own power.

    It really is like somebody said not long ago on this site, sooner or later you’ll have to choose sides. And it won’t be a surprise that I have one in mind but I would prefer that it not be racially segregated because that falls into the hands of people that would divide and conquer, people that I have no time for given that they ruined not only the US but much of the formerly prosperous West.

    You can’t replay history. It would have been better that slaves weren’t taken. The conquest by Mexico of the west and southwest happened and so did the conquests by the USA of 1848 or thereabouts. All these things left effects still evident today, none of which can be wished away. All you can do now is make the best of it. But choosing sides based on race is in my view making the absolute worst of it.

    • K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 12:49 pm #

      So decide not to be tribal. You have a brain.

      • volodya June 25, 2019 at 1:09 pm #

        Everyone has a bulb of neurons encased in bone, not everyone makes the best use of it.

        The people that tell us they’re the best of the best, the brainiest IOW, distinguish themselves with an evident lack of what they insist they have the most of. For my part, I put the most credence in what I personally see and hear. And I judge people by results. And this is my conclusion.

        Insofar as personal survival goes, and that of your family, you kid yourself if you think you can go it alone. Maybe some people can, but most people don’t have the repertoire of ability and knowledge our cave-man forebears had. Those robust people, whose remains we find under rock ledges, were apparently all-rounders, surviving and prospering in small groups. But nowadays, in today’s environment where we encourage specialization, we say “it takes all kinds” because it really does take all kinds.

        When it hits the fan and, as sure as we sit here, it WILL hit the fan, we’ll have to make common cause with others, to render help and to get help. OK, don’t get “tribal”. Society will have to re-form on some basis, so find another word for it.

        • K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 1:28 pm #

          distinguish themselves with an evident lack of what they insist they have the most of

          Yes, crackers and snoots with enough brains to score 115 on an IQ test always be claiming they are 160 IQ geniuses when only one in more than 11 thousand actually are. Shows they are not very smart I think. It is the same way in everything.

          Point taken about going it alone. If that is what is meant by picking sides OK, and in that way, my standard is high.

          Another word for it is a good idea. Tribal sends mixed messages and people banding together to help each other is a good thing.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 1:35 pm #

            Did you catch the video of Jussie with a clothesline draped around his shoulders? A noose left there by Trump KKK! The cop asked if he wanted to take it off now. Jussie: Ok, I don’t want this filmed. Yeah, right!

            Is this worse than the flaming tires used by Winnie Mandela and others in South Africa?

          • malthuss June 25, 2019 at 2:15 pm #

            I have known countless White humans with

          • malthuss June 25, 2019 at 2:16 pm #

            oops….with IQ 115. I have known only 1 who claims
            super genius IQ.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 1:30 pm #

      First he said you have to choose a side in a Tribal war. Then he said he isn’t going to choose and doesn’t think you should either. Does that makes sense?

      It does if there is a secret third option that he doesn’t want to talk about – namely that he is already a member of a Tribe that has its hooks into both sides. Needless to say then that his advice to non-members is the worst advice imaginable.

      I admit there other factors besides race and that Red and Blue Whites aren’t going to bet along. The Blues intend to use their Non-White clients against the Reds and are already so doing. The Reds, many of whom work with their hands, intend to bring down the grid against the Blues, turning their cities into nightmare villes.

      • K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 1:43 pm #

        Don’t forget the polka dots.

      • volodya June 25, 2019 at 1:46 pm #

        Um, no, I said that making alliances based on race is falling into the hands of the present-day Oligarch elite whose policy it is to divide and conquer with their “identity” politics, race being one of those identities. So don’t fall into the trap.

        Their aim is to enhance their own power and wealth and the more we subdivide ourselves, the more we help them and the more we cut our own throats.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 2:24 pm #

          Hah, we are already divided. And the Elite have picked sides – Not Ours.

    • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 10:32 am #

      I’m with Janos on this one V. You were making sense to me when you began by stating that people are naturally and inherently tribal. Then it all fell apart when you said that we shouldn’t choose sides based on our tribal identities. That is the problem. Whether we want to admit it or not that is what will eventually happen. We are headed back toward a more natural arrangement of things. Whether that happens by choice or by disaster it is coming. And you are comparing two very different types of people. People who exploit human differences for their own gain and people who recognize that humans are different and go about attempting to uplift their own people, not always at the expense of everyone else btw. That is worthy of a different post.

  63. capt spaulding June 25, 2019 at 1:01 pm #

    So Trump says his sexual assault accuser “Is not my type.” Which prompts me to ask what IS his rape type? Just wonderin’, is all.

    • K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 1:02 pm #

      Big tits.

      • S M Tenneshaw June 25, 2019 at 1:16 pm #

        Or his young daughter.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHLjm9kHFe8

        • capt spaulding June 25, 2019 at 8:14 pm #

          I have read that mushrooms are fond of wet, dark, warm spaces.

          • S M Tenneshaw June 26, 2019 at 5:56 pm #

            Well, they do call him Tiny Hands donnie.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 1:32 pm #

      Gay Anderson cut to a break very quickly once the nutcase started talking about how sexy rape was – way too much Truth being released by the nut, clueless as to how it mitigated against her case and credibility. But such is the nature of nuts.

      • K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 1:40 pm #

        No, that is how he plays people. He is an expert manipulator who talks like a 4th grader on purpose. He does it to play with your mind. He is outrageous in a very devious way because it is a way to hypnotize people Rosie O’Donnell. You push solidity at them at the same time their brains are filling in blanks. I think that is how it works. Scott Adams explains it here:

        Dilbert’s author.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 1:52 pm #

          He is a sharp blade in the hands of his superiors. He plays his part very well. I think you are right about the hypnosis. Many of them have such techniques. Trump certainly does as well.

          • K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 1:57 pm #

            ‘In the land of the blind,’ so goes the saying, ‘the one-eyed man is king.’

    • JohnAZ June 25, 2019 at 2:09 pm #

      How about the tale being a fabrication. Why do people continue to believe the female side without any proof. What did PT Barnum say?

      How come she announces just after he announces his campaign. Don’t you recognize just another Liberal set up to try to smear Trump. How many more are going to happen before the media and the public ceases to give them a voice. Probably never.

      Just add this lie onto the skyscraper of lies the Dems have gunned. The Collusion lie is the penthouse.

      • BackRowHeckler June 25, 2019 at 2:51 pm #

        When did this alleged rape happen?

        1966?

        1981?

        1987?

        She’s just getting around to reporting it now?

        • BackRowHeckler June 25, 2019 at 2:54 pm #

          MSNBC and CNN will be flogging this story for about the next week or so; after that it will disappear never to be heard about again.

          Brh

      • Majella June 25, 2019 at 10:18 pm #

        Where are all the lawsuits he promised before the 2016 General?

        If this one is ‘yet another liar’, sue her! He’s just so full of crap.

  64. Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 1:55 pm #

    Important

    https://www.amren.com/news/2019/06/thomas-dissent-rips-into-kavanaugh-scotus-opinion-over-racial-politics/

    The Negro, Clarence Thomas, is the only real Originalist (as in upholding original intent) on the Supreme Bench. Sometimes Gorsuch. The rest of the Conservatives have accepted the Left as their moral superiors and merely follow at a respectable distance.

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    • malthuss June 25, 2019 at 2:16 pm #

      The Negro????

      • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 2:22 pm #

        Yes, Thomas is a Negro. You didn’t know that? Amazing I know, but true.

        • K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 2:31 pm #

          Appearances can be deceiving but we both know what the hair on the coke can proved.

  65. JohnAZ June 25, 2019 at 2:03 pm #

    I do not have a clue what the GOP wants. That is because they spout off one thing then another and their end result is the same as the other side. The end result is power, in all forms. Money, women, bragging rights, profits in all forms, There is no good side to raw power.

    However, put them both in the same bucket and call it the Deep State, those that believe that Washington DC should be running everything.

    The parties that need to compete are the same as it was before the Civil War. Federalists and States Rightists.. Central power versus disseminated power.

    Newcom of California may be right, the GOP is losing its relevance to the Deplorables who want disseminated power. The GOP, Bush, Romney, Sessions etc., are obsolete, their message does not ring true any more.

    Unfortunately, the same thing is happening to the Dems. No revelance, Leftist socialism will never be accepted in the US.

    However, if the Browns from outside the US come to outnumber the Europeans, socialism may take over. At that point, the USA won’t be worth much anyway.

  66. rhys12 June 25, 2019 at 2:06 pm #

    The Democrats are getting to the point where whites are abandoning them entirely, except for a dwindling number of ageing hippies, and they are being forced to rely on blacks, the LBGT-whatever movement, environmentalists, and illegal immigrants to win elections. They think since whites are now becoming a “minority”, they can just ignore them. However, what everyone is missing is that Asians are the most rapidly growing minority in the US, and most Asians aren’t overly supportive of socialism or Democratic priorities. Blacks have been stuck at 12% of the population for many years, and so aren’t going to have much more influence than they have had on national policy. The Republicans could swing things by getting serious about the environment (Conservatives used to be in the forefront of conservation), and by paying attention to what Asians want.

    • K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 2:38 pm #

      What Asians want. It should be a good fit. That is what Americans want too.

      Which sort of shoots your getting serious about the environment in the paw.

    • volodya June 25, 2019 at 2:41 pm #

      The other factor is that of inter-marriage. What I’m reading is that off-spring of Asian and White tend to identify as White. And Hispanics are more and more identifying as White.

      Whoever stops talking about peripheral identity issues and starts talking about work-wages-health care-education wins the election. Liz Warren showed a real character issue with her claiming to be amerindian. Really pathetic. But she’s the one talking about some real bread and butter problems.

      The condition of Hispanics is not good. I don’t see them as necessarily a Democrat constituency with Democrats constantly rattling on about gays and trannies. Whoever addresses the material needs of Hispanics ie decent jobs at decent wages, gets the Hispanic vote.

      • K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 2:42 pm #

        Where have you been? Asians tend to identify as White.

        • volodya June 25, 2019 at 2:53 pm #

          Ok, I guess I missed it. Which is pretty much what Asians are color-wise anyway. Don’t mean to constantly repeat myself but like I said to SoftStarLight not too long ago, if you drive from the English Channel to Beijing, you see faces change little by little from “White” to “Asian” with a whole lot of people along the way a mix of both. There’s tribes of neighboring Bushmen in Africa that are more genetically distinct from one another than Frenchmen are from Japanese, yet the Bushmen tribes would be regarded of being of the same race and Nip and Frenchie of different races. What sense does that make? “Race” as a concept stops making sense as the classifications become incoherent.

          • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 10:24 am #

            So again I pose a question V. If you truly support human diversity then wouldn’t you be interested in preserving these unique gradations of racial makeup that you are pointing out? Just because some groups have only slight differences between them and those that surround them does not mean that they are now all one and the same. Again, its fine that you are always wanting to find similarities. However, you will find differences too. So see, the differences still matter, even when they are slight differences.

          • volodya June 26, 2019 at 12:43 pm #

            Do I truly support human diversity? I think I truly support letting people boff who they want.

            What you’re talking about I would leave to individuals to sort out on their own. If you’re attracted to someone, you’re attracted and natural selection will do its thing like it always has. Boys want the exotic fragrant flowers in the next village as opposed to the blooms they see next door. This is nature’s way of ensuring against too much in-breeding with its deleterious effects. Likewise I’ll bet the gals want the warriors over in the next valley as opposed to the paltry specimens they grew up with. Same idea.

            What “race” are the folk in Indo-China? You see a wide spectrum of skin-tones and facial configurations which tells us the process of admixture has been underway for a while. Let ’em at it and nature will sort things out.

            The White homelands in Europe weren’t always white. They’ve found skeletal remains of sapiens who lived in post-glacial Europe from whose bones they were able to get good DNA samples. And it turns out that the DNA pointed to brown skin, brown hair and blue eyes. Modern Europeans most resembling those ancient, prehistoric hunters are now found on the shores of the Baltic Sea. Go figure. But this is nature’s verdict.

            Opinions differ but it seems that White folk probably came from somewhere in western Asia in the vicinity of the Black and Caspian Sea because that’s where you find nowadays most frequently the genes giving rise to white-ness. And it looks like the mutations giving rise to de-pigmentation arose sometime in the last 25 thousand years. And they maybe got a firm foothold because of farming culture and a grain-based diet. Same with East Asians. I’ve read that there are several possible mutations that de-pigment skin, some of which you see in Europe, some of which you see in Asia, one or two of which you see in both.

            The sameness or differences between groups of people becomes a statistical exercise, ie counting frequencies and distribution of mutations and gene types. There’s no “race” that’s pure, and what they’re saying is that there’s more genetic difference found within racial groups than there is found between them, subsaharan Africans being the most genetically diverse, Whites, the least genetically diverse. Australian aborigines may be similar in skin color to black Africans yet Australian aborigines are are the ones most genetically distant from Africans. Again, go figure.

          • montsegur June 27, 2019 at 10:23 am #

            What “race” are the folk in Indo-China?

            Indo-China? Your question distracted me from considering current affairs in the Belgian Congo 🙂

            The White homelands in Europe weren’t always white.

            Here’s something interesting. We don’t know, really, what Neanderthals looked like. Oh yes, there is a truckload of imagery ‘out there’ purporting to depict Neanderthals — they have been positively Disneyfied, much like the dinosaurs — but no one has ever discovered a frozen-in-the-ice Neanderthal. For all we know, they were furry.

            Black and Caspian Seas?! C’mon, Volodya, you need to re-read your Reich mythology. White boys all emerged from Thule Air Base, or something like that …

            Yeah, I’m talking stuff here.

            Cheers

  67. Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 2:20 pm #

    Orcs and Wild Men are ravaging Rohan. Theoden, newly awakened and still with Grima Volodya’s poison in his mind:

    Theoden: I would not bring open war on my people.
    Aragorn: Open war is upon you whether you would or not.
    Theoden: Not all Wild Men and Orcs are bad.
    Aragorn: They are here to kill your people and therefore they are all bad until they go back to where they came from.
    Theoden: Not all Rohans are good.
    Aragorn: So?
    Theoden: So what right do we have to keep out anyone?

    Aragorn doesn’t say anything but merely beheads the Mad King. The head keep talking until he throws it into the fire.

    If Blacks identify with their race, and Hispanics, etc and Whites don’t does that insure peace? How? Why would it? It insures Whites will be easy pickens. So much for his “advice”…..

  68. K-Dog June 25, 2019 at 2:25 pm #

    One house party and you don’t belong anywhere Everybody has beer in a cup and they all dress different than you. Nobody gives you a cup. A dozen conversations and you are not seen. You leave.

    The other house party has friendly people. They grab you and pull you in. It is crowded and you wind up in a tiny kitchen against the refrigerator talking to another refugee. But you both have beer.

    You don’t care that your beer is warm. You don’t notice that everyone in the living room sends everyone new back to the kitchen. Which is really having its own party. Everybody in the kitchen still wants to be in the living room. But there is not enough room and everybody has pared up and is negotiating there. There won’t be new room in there for a very long time.

    To bad the boys and girls in the kitchen don’t know they will never get into the living room.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 2:58 pm #

      We want and need men of your ability. But you want to be with the cool kids who don’t want you. I ignored the cool kids so thoroughly that they starting feeling I was cooler than they were. As C.S Lewis said, the Ring (of inclusion and exclusion) is among the deepest of human metaphors.

      And you also still want to get into the first party, Madiba’s Party, too. You need to learn Yoga, or the art of focusing and freeing the mind and heart. Zen would probably be best for you actually.

  69. Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 2:52 pm #

    PSA: In Case of Rape by an Orc or Wildman

    It’s only rape if you label it as rape and resist. The police have a lot to do tracking down Rohanian Rebels and Racists – won’t you help out by just accepting the situation calmly? It may not be your best sexual experience, but who knows? In any case, just stare at the ceiling and think of England and Alba.

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    • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 10:19 am #

      LOL looks like Alba has completely avoided this one. Her open support of the Muslim takeover of the West on past threads revealed her inner desires for a patriarchal society. I suppose its ok if the patriarchal society is dominated by Sand Men. But she couldn’t tolerate for one instance a patriarchal society dominated by White Men.

      • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 3:00 pm #

        I beg your pardon, SSL?

        “Her open support of the Muslim takeover of the West on past threads revealed her inner desires for a patriarchal society.”

        You should be ashamed of yourself, but you never are. I might revert to asking for that apology for your appalling insult upthread.

        Are you telling me I have to respond to posts that are beyond demented now?

        What if Janos meant what Alba actually means, since he included ‘England’. Am I supposed to be so narcissistic as to assume he’s directing his tripe at me?

        Have a look in the mirror, for goodness’ sake.

        • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 3:51 pm #

          Alba you say I am demented and crazy no matter what I post. Now I will apologize that I misunderstood what you were suggesting up thread. I took it that you were suggesting I would be for you know what because I appeared to be on Tate’s side of the issue. Clearly you understood my point and basically agreed so we can move beyond that as I don’t feel slighted or upset or anything and I hope you do not either since I am apologizing for that misunderstanding. Now as far as saying that you revealed an inner desire for a patriarchal society. Well Alba it seemed like on previous threads when we were discussing Islam that your were protective of it and wanted to be sure that we include Muslims in our society. Ok so fine. But I do have a problem with that because they are so primitive. And if you think men in our culture are misogynists I truly believe that you will be very unhappy once the Muslims take over. So if I have gone too far then I am sorry for that but I feel like you need to disavow any support for Islam if you have problems with misogyny.

          • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 7:43 pm #

            Thank you for the apology for the outrageous accusation upthread. It isn’t great being called ‘disgusting’ by someone who can’t be bothered to read a post properly and always assumes and presumes.

            Why did you jump on Janos’ post and draw me into it just to make trouble? Why would I reply to something that ridiculous? I’m not going to respond to a post where some idiot who’s supposed to be a Catholic is making a joke of rape. Sorry. I don’t get your system of values and I never will.

            As for your repeated nonsense about my supposedly being ‘protective’ of Islam, where to you get this from? Seriously?

            Islam is completely bonkers as far as I’m concerned – you do actually know that from what I’ve said many times. I just wish you would stop this nonsense about Europe being ‘taken over’ by Muslims and there being some grand plan to replace the current population.

            I’ve asked Janos this question twice and got no answer, so let’s see if you can help out. The EU has been paying Turkey since 2016 to host a refugee population of several million Syrians to prevent them from crossing the border into the EU and adding to the number already there. How do you reconcile this with your mad theory that the EU wishes to replace the European population with Muslims?

            Just look at your sentence again:

            Her open support of the Muslim takeover of the West on past threads revealed her inner desires for a patriarchal society.

            Are you not remotely ashamed of making up nonsense like that?

            As for misogyny, again, why do you make up rubbish about my supposed belief that ‘men in our society’ are misogynists? You seem unable to talk other than in caricatures. I’m married to a man; I have brothers and had a father. None were or are misogynists. I’m not suggesting that everyone is like Tate and never have.

          • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 9:38 am #

            I also find it curious that you worship what you call a ‘Sand Man’, but I suppose there’s no accounting for people’s lack of insight.

          • montsegur June 27, 2019 at 10:29 am #

            Islam is completely bonkers as far as I’m concerned

            Careful, GreenAlba. You don’t want the Chinese gangster Fat Wa to come looking for you.

            Cheers

          • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 1:31 pm #

            He and his Fat Ma have a restaurant about 4 minutes’ walk from my house, montsegur. I’m sure it’s a cover 🙂 .

            Still, there’s the little mosque and community centre between me and them and you know what they say – you don’t need to run faster than the tiger, just faster than the other person you’re running with!

          • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 1:41 pm #

            I answered too quickly there and misread your meaning, montsegur, as I was thinking more about the current Muslim er…re-education camps and flattened mosques in China.

            But on a more serious note, there seems to be a lot of leeway from what I can see. There are quite a few well known irreverent Muslim or ‘Muslim’ comics around here these days and they don’t seem to get any flak at all.

            Although currently a bunch of Muslim parents are engaged in a hoo-hah at a school in England where they’re not happy with the ‘no outsiders’ programme running in the school, which includes such subversive ideas as homosexuality just being a thing.

            Funny how religious polar opposites can have shared agendas!!

          • montsegur June 27, 2019 at 2:44 pm #

            GreenAlba,

            Well, you know, there are plenty of wonderful individuals from all over ‘out there’.

            Where people get hung up is the collective “presentation” of groups, and too often groups don’t get along with other groups because the “presentation” differs, even if only in matters of detail.

            This IMO is where the rub is today. Technology has brought us to a point at which there is no need to ‘blend in’ or submerge into a culture into which one has immigrated — because it is so easy to keep in touch with the old country and keep an expatriated mirror of it going with one’s fellows who share the same origin.

            That doesn’t sound problematic until one pairs it with what I mentioned above about group dynamics. The more divergence in the “presentation” of different groups, the more the sparks fly and the more the social fabric is rent.

            And yes, I expect to see an uptick in the harassment of, and attacks on, those whose sexual behavior is officially disapproved of by Islam. Moderate Muslims might not support such harassment and attacks, but the expectations of the group will very effectively censor their concerns.

            Cheers

          • GreenAlba June 28, 2019 at 6:51 am #

            The funny thing about the English school hoo-hah, montsegur, is that (besides many of the Muslim parents having no problem with the programme anyway, as you suggest regarding the moderate Muslims), the local iman is much more liberal than the parents!

            We are all so fond of our caricatures. There are imams in some mosques who are sympathisers of things we almost all disapprove of and others who are learned and refined men who aren’t at all out of place having an erudite discussion with the Archbishop of Canterbury over tea and sandwiches.

  70. JohnAZ June 25, 2019 at 3:21 pm #

    Janos, between you and me.

    I agree with a lot of your assessment of the roles of ethnic groups in this country.

    Yes, the overwhelming influx of folks, “not like us”, is changing this country to something that is inferior.

    I believe part of the role of the Federal government is to regulate exactly who comes in here so that the country maintains its goodness. And yes, I believe that the European culture is what has made us no. 1. But other cultures add considerable spice to life as long as their goal is to join our culture.

    Immigration of folks dedicated to becoming “White” In culture and assimilating adds to our culture. However, folks who want to change our culture to theirs are an anathema and should not be allowed to enter the country. It is like inviting in an enemy and wondering why he is stabbing you in the back.

    Whatever it takes to regulate the folks entering this is a good thing in my eyes. All you folks that think otherwise, please just commit suicide now and get out of the way.

    We sure would lose a lot of Dems.

    • JohnAZ June 25, 2019 at 3:25 pm #

      Okay, everyone. I have painted a target on my back. Have at it.

      • benr June 25, 2019 at 4:08 pm #

        Not really just take a drive through North LA aka the San Fernando valley it’s more Mexico then parts of Mexico now.

        • Majella June 26, 2019 at 5:02 am #

          Oh. Like it was when it WAS Mexico….right…

          • benr June 26, 2019 at 5:54 pm #

            Actually no because no one lived there it was virtually EMPTY but every twenty or so miles there was a fine Mission you could take refuge in until the Mexican government closed those and left several thousand people scattered up and down the entire state of California.
            Mexico actually owned California for only about 30 years and has zero claim to it now. They are trying to take it over using the pressure groups like La Raza and Reconquista movements. They both push brown pride vata or is that vaca? Tell me do you equate brown pride or power to the same lower level of hell as white pride or power?

            Honestly Majella quit trying so hard to troll you need to go sit in the corner with the pointy white paper hat labeled DUNCE.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 7:00 pm #

      You want the scent without the flower. European Culture without Europeans. It cannot be. We are unique. Just because we can be dragged down by Negroes doesn’t mean they can be lifted up to our level nearly as easily. It doesn’t work like that. We have a lower nature, but they don’t have much a higher nature, you see. And even if they had, say like the East Asians, it would manifest differently as the East one does, to produce their own unique culture.

      In short, you didn’t listen to Christ’s, “Beware the “leaven” (teachings) of the Pharisee.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 8:54 pm #

        Likewise, We Whites could never have created Chinese Culture. They are unique.

        • benr June 26, 2019 at 5:55 pm #

          Why would we want to it?

  71. FincaInTheMountains June 25, 2019 at 4:58 pm #

    And yes, I believe that the European culture is what has made us no. 1.

    I have painted a target on my back. Have at it.
    == Arizona John.

    Ok, here we go – your beloved “European Culture”, at its best!

    Plan Ost

    Many people are not aware that several years ago the plan Ost was declassified and published in Germany – the Germanization project for Eastern Europe, that is, the mass extermination and resettlement of Russians, Poles, Ukrainians.

    Long time considered lost, the text of the plan was found back in the 80s, but then it was the Germans who hid it. Now anyone can get acquainted with it on the website of the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture of the Humboldt University of Berlin.

    The publication of documents from the state archives was accompanied by an apology. The Council of the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture of the Humboldt University stated that it regrets that one of the former directors of the educational institution, a member of the SS, Professor Konrad Mayer, did so much to create the “General Plan Ost”.

    “German weapons conquered the eastern regions, for which the struggle has been going on for centuries. The Reich sees its most important task as soon as possible to turn them into imperial territories, ”the document says.

    For a long time the text was considered lost. For the Nuremberg process, they got only a six-page excerpt from it. The plan was the Imperial Security Directorate General, and the Nazis burned down other versions of the plan along with other important documents in 1945. The “Master Plan Ost” with German thoroughness shows what the USSR would have expected if the Germans had won the war. And it becomes clear why the plan was kept in strict secret.

    “At the forefront of the front of the German people against the Asiatic region, the areas of particular importance to the Reich are marked. To ensure the vital interests of the Reich in these areas it is necessary to use not only the power means and organization, it is just there where the German population is needed. In a completely hostile environment, it must be firmly rooted in these areas, ”recommended in the text.

    Yevgeny Kulkov, senior researcher at the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “The Lithuanians were going to be deported to the Urals and to Siberia, or destroyed. This is the same thing practically. 85 percent of Lithuanians, 75 percent of Belarusians, 65 – western Ukrainians, residents of Western Ukraine, 50 percent each – from the Baltic states. ”

    Comparing the sources, the scientists found out that the Nazis wanted to relocate 10 million Germans to the eastern lands, and from there to evict 30 million people to Siberia. Leningrad of the three millionth city was supposed to turn into a German settlement of 200 thousand inhabitants. Millions of people were supposed to die from hunger and disease. Hitler planned to destroy Russia finally, dismembering it into many isolated parts.

    Based on the instructions of the Reichsführer, the SS should proceed from the settlement primarily of the following areas: Ingermanlandia (St. Petersburg Region); Gotengau (Crimea and Kherson region, former Tavria), Memelnrava region (Bialystok region and western Lithuania). Germanization of this area is already on its way back to Volksdeutsche. ”

    It is curious that the lands beyond the Urals seemed to the Nazis such a wrecked territory that they were not even considered as a matter of priority. But, fearing that the Poles exiled there could form their own state, the Nazis nevertheless decided to send them to Siberia in small groups.

    In this regard, it is not only calculated how many cities will have to be cleared for future colonialists, but also how much it will cost and who will bear the costs.

    Here is the statement of the Board of the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture of the Humboldt University of Berlin dated May 28, 2002 regarding the Ost plan –

    https://www.agrar.hu-berlin.de/…/i…/profil/geschichte/gpo_ru

    Here is a link to the Ost plan published by the faculty itself – http://gplanost.x-berg.de/gplanost.html

    In the photo: At the opening of the exhibition “Planning and building a new order on the
    East ”March 20, 1941. Conrad Meier (right) tells
    Reich’s leading foockelers (from left to right): Hitler’s Deputy Rudolf
    Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Reichsleur Buler, Reich Minister Todt and Chief of the headquarters of the imperial security of Heydrich on the plan of the Ost plan – the Germanization of Eastern Europe

    https://scontent-mia3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/64819193_10215105579057133_294479231444844544_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_oc=AQmJdXb4EWtmOG7uedFKFj_BYqSTO-SCIx5hTaKohLRBdr-yRc-BS2H56QZ2RGmP5cY&_nc_ht=scontent-mia3-1.xx&oh=35c5cbf3f0a32e2c193b28e0e06661c0&oe=5D80F091

    • FincaInTheMountains June 25, 2019 at 5:00 pm #

      No doubt the current colonization of Ukraine by the Fourth Reich, aka the “European Union”, is a continuation of Plan Ost.

      • JohnAZ June 25, 2019 at 5:13 pm #

        Yeah, I think I remember that Hitler documented that plan in Mein Kampf. His aim was to turn the world eventually into an Aryan paradise.

        I also remember that America, and Australia too, were places that misfits, convicts, second plus sons went to because they did not fit into Europe’s ideas of nobility and peons, or religion du jour. Leftovers from the Middle Ages. Entrepenueurship and work ethic is something that came with them from Northern Europe and continues in “our genes” today. THAT is what is being undermined.

        • FincaInTheMountains June 25, 2019 at 8:10 pm #

          Is Nazism a freak accident of the 20th century or it is something deeply imbedded in Western European culture, especially France and Germany and is rooted in genocidal Crusades against European Christianity, starting from England’s conquest by Wilhelm the Bastard?

          • PeteAtomic June 25, 2019 at 8:58 pm #

            I think you are right Finca. Nazism is the end result of the Drang Nach Ost belief, back to the Teutonic Knights.

            However, Russia bites back 🙂 We aren’t weak.

          • JohnAZ June 25, 2019 at 9:01 pm #

            Maybe Europe is a conglomerate of many very different tribes way back when. It has been a conflagration ever since as each tribe tried to dominate and eliminate the others.

            Ethnocentrism the second human failing after power.

            And I think the onslaught of ME folks is going to reignite the flames that had started to die down with the EU.

            Germans, Francs, Spaniards, Scandinavians, Russ, Greeks, Romans they are all different. The Nazis, Hitler was just the latest of the domineering attempts.

            Everybody, take another shot of Wild Turkey!

          • BackRowHeckler June 25, 2019 at 9:51 pm #

            There it is.

            Shots of Wild Turkey all around!

            With a beer chaser.

            Brh

    • benr June 25, 2019 at 5:15 pm #

      Nothing new here look at the plan of San Diego what the Mexican government had in store for people across the desert southwest.

    • PeteAtomic June 25, 2019 at 8:38 pm #

      I love Russia because the people are genuinely friendly and open.

      I can’t ever imagine waging a war against them.

      • BackRowHeckler June 25, 2019 at 9:41 pm #

        Good point, Pete.

        Russia is our natural ally, let’s hope the cold war period was an anomoly.

        Brh

  72. BackRowHeckler June 25, 2019 at 5:22 pm #

    Turns out Joe Biden is rolling in the dough, what with a $3 million beach house in Delaware and a 15000 Sq ft mansion in Virginia. That’s no problem when you get $250,000 per speech, and he gives alot of speeches. How’s this is going to go over with the Red Guard cadre — who have made a virtue out of poverty — the core of the Dem Party, is anybody’s guess.

    Brh

  73. BackRowHeckler June 25, 2019 at 5:35 pm #

    Let’s play a game here in the CFNation.

    Every time somebody mentions ‘Hitler’ on this board, you take a shot of Wild Turkey.

    I chose Wild Turkey because it doesn’t cost much. Everybody can afford a bottle.

    Last man — or woman –standing wins.

    The prize: yet to be determined.

    Brh

  74. Tate June 25, 2019 at 7:06 pm #

    Confirmation from an industry insider:

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-25/shale-pioneer-fracking-unmitigated-disaster

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  75. auburn June 25, 2019 at 7:18 pm #

    Trump has created a humanitarian crisis at the border (and in a baby and toddler gulag in 23 states) through his “zero tolerance” policy. We need to bring back open border crossing. We need to repeal Section 1325 of Immigration and Nationality Act, which applies a criminal, rather than civil, violation to people apprehended when entering the United States. This provision has allowed for separation of children and families at our border, the large scale detention of tens of thousands of families, and has deterred migrants from turning themselves in to an immigration official within our borders. The widespread detention of these individuals and families at our border has overburdened our justice system, been ineffective at deterring migration, and has cost our government billions of dollars.

    We need to effectively end the use of detention in conducting immigration enforcement, except in serious cases. Utilize cost-effective and more humane alternatives to detention, which draw on the successes of prior efforts like the Family Case Management Program. Ensure all individuals have access to a bond hearing and that vulnerable populations, including children, pregnant women, and members of the LGBTQ community are not placed in civil detention.

    • BackRowHeckler June 25, 2019 at 8:17 pm #

      How many illegals have you taken in, Little Jane?

      Today Congresswoman Pelosi referred to illegal minors being held in camps as “our beloved children”.

      She’s worth $300 million. Let her part with some of it and put the “beloved children” up in the Waldorf Astoria, with room service.

      Brh

      • JohnAZ June 25, 2019 at 8:51 pm #

        Because she is a hypocrite.

      • Majella June 25, 2019 at 10:37 pm #

        BRH:

        “…put the “beloved children” up in the Waldorf Astoria, with room service.”

        According to the WA New York’s website, you can get a perfectly acceptable room for around $350 per night.

        If you upgrade to a three bedroom suite, with ‘queen sofa bed’, you’re getting into the late $700s – low $800s range.

        If you max out, a 4 bedroom bi-level suite will screw you for between $1,111 & $1,220 per night.

        Why is this relevant?

        The cost per child of holding these defenseless vulnerable children in freaking HELL-HOLES is currently running at $775 per night, per child, on the ‘taxpayer’s dime’.

        So, in fact, the Waldorf Astoria would not only be the way cheaper option, it would also be able to supply the necessary services – there’d be toothpaste & soap, heat & light, clean living conditions, adults available when needed, decent food and we would know where they actually WERE!

        https://www.gq.com/story/trump-detention-camps-cost

        • benr June 26, 2019 at 2:38 am #

          Easy send em back to where they belong problem solved.

          • Majella June 26, 2019 at 5:03 am #

            Cattle-wagon class? On a train. God forbid you’re ever in need of some human compassion, Ben.

          • benr June 26, 2019 at 6:12 pm #

            I do not break the laws of other countries and would do it the right way!
            They came here uninvited and most of them are lying about the situation they fled from.
            Worse your support of the directly supports the coyotes stealing and raping them on the way here!
            You support the Cartels who are also getting paid to get them here!
            Shame on you where is your compassion?

            Tell me something miss high and mighty when is the last time you got off your ass and actually helped someone?

            I routinely take bottled water and sandwiches to our homeless vets in San Diego and volunteer at local homeless shelters. I’m ashamed to admit it’s only a couple of times a year but at least I give back!
            For twenty years I took part in a local Thanksgiving outreach event at my local church the city took the land from and drove out of business!
            I give my time which is far more valuable than money.

            Democrats talk talk talk but when it comes to their money and time they tend to walk away and not make eye contact!

            https://nonprofitquarterly.org/republicans-give-more-to-charity-than-democrats-but-theres-a-bigger-story-here/

    • Janos Skorenzy June 25, 2019 at 8:56 pm #

      If we enforce the border and keep them on their side, we won’t have to detain them. “Problem” solved.

      • Majella June 25, 2019 at 11:44 pm #

        No, ‘problem’ deferred.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 1:17 am #

          Their kids, their problem. Keep them over there and it stays their problem. But of course, you folks want the problem because you love what comes with it: more votes, more power, more jobs and work for social services (the illegals are clients after all), etc.

          • Majella June 26, 2019 at 5:07 am #

            Wanker. The same old tired trope of illegals voting. The most recent estimate is 11 million or 3% of total population.

            If they ALL did illegally vote, they’d make a tiny dent in the numbers. What a crock of shite, but you lot keep recycling it, Goebbels-style.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 5:48 am #

            You still haven’t explained why we need to take these people, Rubber. Any of them. What’s good for people isn’t good for America.

    • benr June 26, 2019 at 2:45 am #

      Endless hand wringing and kabuki theater from you.
      No answers just attacks endless stupid comments.
      How about instead anyone caught here illegally will never become a citizen and will never get any benefits.
      Enforce the real id act and make all employers use it.
      Any employer caught with illegal aliens get a massive fine for each infraction.
      Remove the incentive and they will self deport and quit coming.

      • Majella June 26, 2019 at 5:13 am #

        Go on then, do it! Your nut-job crew run the senate & the executive.

        Until 8 months ago, the house was yours as well. But the priorities were fake, temporary tax cuts & a rapist judge on the Supreme Court.

        Wasted opportunity? No – this manufactured & Nd intractable ‘crisis’ is red meat fir the Rednecks.

        Speaking of tax cuts, did you refute my figures from a thread or two ago? (If yes, I’ll go back and look…but I doubt it.)

        • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 10:11 am #

          – a rapist judge on the Supreme Court –

          Get a life Maj. You and your ilk have diminished and demeaned the real concerns that women have in society by making up lies and stories. So embarrassing and sickening.

        • benr June 26, 2019 at 6:16 pm #

          MMMM HMMM.
          You still don’t get the concept of layered tax schemes even though you claim to have such a high acumen.

    • Exscotticus June 26, 2019 at 1:15 pm #

      >>> Trump has created a humanitarian crisis at the border (and in a baby and toddler gulag in 23 states) through his “zero tolerance” policy.

      Wait I thought you liberals said there was no crisis. That it was all manufactured. Yes I’m certain of it. Here’s a link.

      How can we trust liberal leadership when they Flip Flop more than a break dancer at the House of Hip Hop?

  76. Pucker June 25, 2019 at 7:30 pm #

    I’m this bizarre creation of the absurdity called “Globalism” in which everyone is supposed to have a shared, fluid, multicultural, gender-neutral non-identity, which doesn’t really work. A bit like the family pet that wants to sit at the dinner table. It’s like that episode in Bonanza in which Hop Sing comes back from university on the East Coast with an advanced degree and a pile of cash and buys out the the indebted Cartwright’s ranch and moves in, but rather than throwing the Cartwright’s out on the street, Hop Sing seeks Ben’s, Hoss’s, and Little Joe’s protection from the rival Chinese gang. I guess that this may all make sense one day when they they start putting computer chips in animals so that the family dog has a higher IQ than his human masters and then the human masters gladly let the family dog run everything until the dog realizes that he’d rather chase female dogs, sniff crotchets, and “ play ball ball” all day long.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wUFdyVNJYwI

    • Pucker June 25, 2019 at 9:08 pm #

      In Aus….chwit..tz, the section that the slaves wanted to be assigned to was where they got to rummage through the discarded clothing of the people who were gassed looking for hidden money, jewels, cash, etc., and hopefully a stashed piece of bread or morsel of food that they could surreptitiously eat. This section was dubbed “Canada” because Canada was deemed a rich country-of-plenty….

      • Pucker June 25, 2019 at 9:12 pm #

        In China, young people will sometimes sell one of their kidneys to get money to buy a new “Smartphone”. I guess that the Millennials could mortgage their kidneys to a financial institution as security for their college loans?

        • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 12:52 am #

          really??

        • benr June 26, 2019 at 2:36 am #

          Somehow pucker I believe those fine Chinese kids did not have much of a choice so that is what happens when the state owns you such as a communist or socialist state.

        • EvelynV June 27, 2019 at 2:30 am #

          You sorry ass sons of bitches who make broad sweeping statements based on one solitary act by one person out of a population of 1,419,902,273 give or take a few dozen.

          Idiot.

          In the United States white people will sometimes kill their victims and eat them.

          In the United States white people will felch other white people.

          In the United States white people will creample.

    • Pucker June 25, 2019 at 9:31 pm #

      The Aztecs were big organ harvesters….

    • Pucker June 25, 2019 at 9:51 pm #

      “Counterrevolutionary Revisionist Lives Matter!”

      Speaking of Canada, what’s Justin Bieber up to?

    • Majella June 25, 2019 at 10:39 pm #

      Actually, donated, I think you[‘ll find.

    • Elrond Hubbard June 26, 2019 at 10:24 am #

      Simmer down. For anyone interested in investigating this topic in a non-hysterical, non-hair-on-fire manner, here’s the link to the actual guidance from the Canadian Medical Association:

      Deceased organ and tissue donation after medical assistance in dying and other conscious and competent donors: guidance for policy

      http://www.cmaj.ca/content/191/22/E604

      Don’t let some fever swamp conflate involuntary, industrialized forced organ donation of prisoners in China with voluntary, directed donation by conscious and competent donors in a free country.

      The CMA’s guidance is about as nefarious and evil as the line on your driver’s license (you do this in the USA, yes?) where you can allow or deny organ donation in the event of your death by accident. Oh, and there are no death panels, either.

      • elysianfield June 26, 2019 at 6:33 pm #

        ” Oh, and there are no death panels, either.”

        Elrond,
        …But, but you DO have a picture of a duck on your money…admit it Goddamnit!

        • Elrond Hubbard June 27, 2019 at 9:11 am #

          It’s a loon. They don’t quack, they have a haunting, soulful cry.

          Can you… can you hear the loons?

          • elysianfield June 27, 2019 at 12:37 pm #

            Elrond,
            Well…sometimes, in the wee hours, inky darkness and angst sharpen the senses, and yes…the mind plays tricks, and I do hear a soulful cry, although I always assumed it was of my own doing….

      • benr June 26, 2019 at 7:50 pm #

        Uh huh there is this little tid bit.

        https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5602971/Real-Bodies-Exhibition-cadavers-come-Chinese-political-prisoners.html

        Sorry there is nothing from the Chinese government I believe.

  77. Pucker June 25, 2019 at 8:58 pm #

    Do you believe that we can supply our energy needs with biological batteries grown by viruses? Sounds rather difficult to scale up. I’m not sure that I buy it…

    This book was given to me by an investment bank. They all want to invest in “Disruptive Technologies”. The more “Disruptive”, the better….

    It may be a bit dangerous to constantly hype unrealistic, hopium, pump-and-dump investments in technologies that are not viable?

    Susan Hockfield
    The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

  78. KesaAnna June 25, 2019 at 10:34 pm #

    ” So, the ‘easy’ fix to get power is to play with turning the US into a giant version of Yugoslavia around 1989. Watch how well that will turn out. When you see private militias roaming the countryside with names like “Johnson’s Tigers” and setting up roadblocks under the name of the Provisional Government of So-and-So, you’ll know the country is fucked. ”

    Interesting statement.

    Racially , ethnically , and culturally , The United States had already turned into a giant version of Yugoslavia around …… 1750.

    Structurally and politically , the United States had already turned into a giant version of Yugoslavia in 1865.

    Yes , war really sucks , and civil war not less so .

    With that caveat ;

    Maybe it isn’t so much that Yugoslavia is just fine , and it is people that suck ?

    Maybe the truth is the other way around ; That it is Yugoslavia that just plain doesn’t work , that Yugoslavia would STILL suck even if people were perfect ?

    Maybe the case was not , that if they had pushed unity and conformity a little harder , then the Yugoslavian civil war could have been avoided .

    No, maybe pushing unity and conformity only served to make civil war more , not less , likely ?

    Bolsheviks with itchy trigger fingers , for whom , ” dictatorship ” and ” concentration camp ” were not dirty words , couldn’t prevent Yugoslavia from marching off a cliff.

    But , presumably , you are somehow going to prevent your Yugoslavia from marching off a cliff because ………..

    well……..

    that would be nice ?

    ( Except it wouldn’t really be nice , even according to your own individual bias , whatever that bias is.

    The truth is , you don’t like __________ any more than Croats like Serbs. )

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  79. KesaAnna June 25, 2019 at 10:50 pm #

    ” The Elite are going to sell us off at cost – a massive junk sale, while they abscond to China, New Zealand, Australia, etc. ”

    Bonnie Prince Charlie was more French , or even Italian , than Scottish.

    And the first Hanoverian King of England , I have been told , couldn’t speak English .

    My point ?

    My point is that 200 years ago nationalism was for the peasants . The aristocracy were already globe – trotting jet – setters.

    So that is hardly a new development , or an innovation.

    My point is that history begins to make a lot more sense if you assume that the only significant change that has occurred in the past 500 years is ” better ” propaganda .

    • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 12:53 am #

      China is hell.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 1:20 am #

      All the heads of Europe were related. Not Globalism but good Europeanism. As a Constitutional Monarchist (do I have that right?), I’m surprised you have a problem with it.

      • KesaAnna June 26, 2019 at 2:26 am #

        ?

        You’re hitting the sauce ?

        So You have me confused with GreenAlba ?

        Near as I can tell , she doesn’t like the Stuarts , or the Hanoverian’s,

        or probably the Tudors , Yorkists , or Plantagenet’s either ?

        But apparently loves people

        ( people who in most cases she probably can’t even so much as name )

        who exercise a depth and breathe of power over the peasants that even a Tamarlane could not even imagine in his wildest wet dreams.

        And the same appears to be roughly true for you as well ?

        I thought you were NOT a fan of the idea of a Germany divided up into as many as a hundred different sovereignties ?

        Or a fan of the idea of a North America divided up into as many as a hundred different sovereignties ?

        — EVEN IF one of those sovereignties was to give you , to the letter , your cultural and racial preference ?

        Though it seems to me that folks like you and GreenAlba are never really even remotely specific about what those preferences really are ? Do you actually even fucking know ?

        Catholicism ?

        or a specific , identifiable , nameable one of the ten thousand species of Protestantism ?

        Secular ?

        Then Secular what – the – fuck ?

        Germanic , Celtic , Slavic , Castillian , Galician , Basque or Croat ?

        Again , DO you have ANY fucking idea ??

        • Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 5:45 am #

          Remember, UNITY in diversity is what we both like. The Greek city states, all different in some ways but still having the same basic culture and pantheon. The Italian City States – all Catholic, etc.

          I was just emphasizing the unity. Thus the Europeans did have some sense of unity in the 19th century and earlier – at least the good ones did.

        • benr June 26, 2019 at 7:51 pm #

          What kind of sauce?
          Whiskey
          Rum
          Vodka
          Or something more boring like BBQ sauce?

  80. KesaAnna June 25, 2019 at 11:27 pm #

    ” I disagree in that I think he could actually receive a lot of support. Particularly among younger people who have been trained from a very early age to not only accept homosexuality but consider it as a viable life alternative. Remember, all forms of media continually and constantly transmit the idea that these lifestyles are acceptable and also glamorous. Same thing they did with race in the last century and look how completely acceptable and common race mixing is now. So don’t just write him off because older people may not be comfortable. Remember, being old and intolerant is one thing the PC crowd rants and raves about on a daily basis. Even Oprah said all the old people need to die out. ”

    All forms of media continually and constantly transmit the idea that this rebel quit the only employer in town , quit the only job for which he had any substantive job skills or work credential ,

    but , instead of being reduced to eating out of garbage cans , and / or winding up forgotten in prison , or plain obscurely dead ,

    he instead went to live in a castle ………………

    Err…………..

    Who was that ?

    I shouldn’t have to give you a name.

    The powers that be have trotted out that particular fantastical and dubious narrative at least a dozen times in the past 500 years.

    For 50, 000 years the family and religion was the ” government ” . ( for lack of a better term. )

    The past 500 years has primarily been a process of teaching you that this ” rebel ” was on your side and working for you , when he was in fact a mercenary working for a very different set and sort of people.

    • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 10:05 am #

      Please explain when you have the time. A mercenary and not a rebel you say? Would this be from the Roman perspective? It’s new to me to hear this sort of thing.

  81. KesaAnna June 25, 2019 at 11:47 pm #

    ADVICE FOR ANTI – SEMITES ON HOW TO GET RID OF THE JEWS.

    The Roman Empire is as dead as Pontius Pilate .

    But the Jews , who had no country , but “only ” family and religion , are still here .

    ( And when they did have a country , it was semi – arid mountain land barely the size of Connecticut . )

    So here’s my idea ;

    Give them a country , and power , and make THAT their identity.

    And , if what has happened five hundred other times in five hundred other cases over the past 2,000 years, is any clue ,

    Then they will disappear , and become a historical footnote ,

    when they lose a war , or run out of free shit to bribe people with.

    Problem solved.

    • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 12:54 am #

      Jews disappear? Are you an anti jew?

      • KesaAnna June 26, 2019 at 2:49 am #

        I suspect that the prospects of a Southern Cracker waving his stigmatized Stars and Bars in futile isolation ,

        are quiet possibly better than the prospects of those who fancy they can maintain the popularity of the Stars and Stripes at gun point.

        Does that answer your question ?

        • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 9:57 am #

          I appreciate your implicit respect for Southern Crackers Kesa. If I had the ability to do so I would implore the King to bestow upon you the title of Honorary Aryan.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 1:22 am #

      No, they rejected that when they rejected Madagascar – large enough for all of them and more. As Hitler said, they wanted a base for their global operations and they never intended to all go to Israel. And he was right: they haven’t, have they?

      • Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 1:24 am #

        The Jewish kid who made all those fake terrorist threats absconded to Israel, remember? And they don’t extradite – such great allies! And his faux terrorist threats remained on the books for them to moan about even thought they were false and they know they were false. Such is their love of Truth.

      • KesaAnna June 26, 2019 at 3:11 am #

        700 years ( ? ) ago Richard the Lion Heart , and Saladin , both basically arrived at the conclusion that the Levant is — sort of — decent real estate for

        Moslems ( They are living there in the thousands or millions anyway )

        And for really keen history buffs.

        And that’s about it.

        But , to hear people talk now , you would think Saladin and Richard were backward , superstitious types.

        To hear people talk now , these semi – arid , ugly hills —

        — which I just pointed out are only worth anything to Moslems and history buffs anyway —

        are worth fighting a nuclear war over because …………

        err……….

        because ………….

        Well …………. you would have to ask these people who are presumably atheists and / or secular humanists exactly why this real estate is so valuable ,

        when , presumably , Jesus Christ has no greater significance to them than the Landgrave of Hesse – Kassel.

        When , presumably , to them Abraham or Muhammad have about as much significance as Prester John or William Pitt the Elder.

        Being the backward superstitious religious kook that I am , I haven’t the faintest fucking clue what it’s about.

        To me , the Crusaders of 700 years ago appear a thousand times more sensible and coherent.

        • KesaAnna June 26, 2019 at 3:42 am #

          ” The Jewish kid who made all those fake terrorist threats absconded to Israel, remember? ”

          No , I don’t remember.

          FYI :

          Today I live 25 to 45 minutes drive from Oak Ridge.

          And as someone once said in a movie , ” That place wasn’t built for just one or two bombs. It was built to produce thousands. ”

          Also , 50 years on , It never ceases to stagger my mind the degree of shit I have had to eat in my life , merely on account of I won’t say that my country sucked and yours is so much better.

          ( Near as I can tell , THE definition of an ” American Patriot ” is : You hate your country more than this East German ever has , or could. )

          That is to say , I would rather watch grass grow than read or hear about ” Terrorism ” .

          As you may have already surmised ( ? ) another issue I have zero interest in is listening to Libertine apostles of the massive free – for – all orgy of the 1970’s ,

          who in the process killed 30 + million babies ( except somehow they weren’t babies ?? Don’t ask me how that logic works. )

          And consigned three ( ? ) , four ( ? ) , or five ( ? ) times that number of children to life – long poverty ,

          whine about child sexual abuse.

          Never mind the mountain , look at the mole hill !

          Anyway ;

          Terrorism and stories about kids who have been screwed over ?

          I would honestly rather read about Hog futures or some such.

    • Ol' Scratch June 26, 2019 at 6:04 am #

      Don’t they HAVE a country already in that little abomination called Israel? And they certainly have more than enough power already, given that they’re sucking the US dry of all its political, military, and economic resources. Need to take away their nukes, however, before the little dipshits break them out. Then the semites of ALL stripes in the region can get on with doing what they do best – KILLING EACH OTHER over their semitic religions.

      • BackRowHeckler June 26, 2019 at 6:46 am #

        Scratch, It seems to me Israel is willing to live and let live. Their posture is purely defensive.

        I don’t see how Israel is “sucking us dry”. They get about $3 billion from the US, all of which is comes back to defense contractors like Raytheon, UTC and Sikorsky Aircraft.

        Brh

        • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 8:31 am #

          You are delusional. Go to the ‘Maps of Israel’ project and see how
          Zion has grown.

          Then groan.

          Defensive your ass. Zion would not let the Arabs have chocolate.

          Then go to Takis Mag and read the new article on Israel and DNA rules.

        • Ol' Scratch June 26, 2019 at 10:29 am #

          I guess you’d have to ask the Palestinians and the rest of their neighbors about that. I think they’d beg to differ. The ever expanding Israeli settlements certainly suggest otherwise.

          But in the end, I’m just for leveling the playing field over there and forcing Zionists to make a choice. If you want to remain a Zionist, you need to declare it, and get your ass over there to the humble little nation state that your people have longed for so long. That’s all. You can’t serve two masters by living here and owing your first allegiance to Israel. PERIOD.

          Then level the playing filed by taking away the Israeli’s nuclear toys, subjecting them to the same rigorous inspections and standards that we do Iran, for instance, then take away all their US military and economic assistance and make them stand on their own two feet, just like you would any adult child who refuses to leave the nest.

          THEN and only then would we see how they could get along with their neighbors. My bet is they’d suddenly learn how to make some friends in that neighborhood and stop being so damn belligerent all the time. In turn, their neighbors might just do the same. And if not, they should have chose a better neighborhood to set up shop in the first place, as with the ongoing climate change, the place is soon to be a blazing inferno and/or several feet underwater anyway. So much for “The Holy Land (TM).”

          • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 2:18 pm #

            thank you

          • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 9:18 pm #

            crickets

        • Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 12:27 pm #

          Israeli Terrorism against the British who tried to enforce the UN Agreement? Hello? After the British had bent over backwards for them – Gratitude?

          We’re the British now…..

  82. malthuss June 26, 2019 at 12:56 am #

    Susan Hockfield
    The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

    Transhumanism is bad stuff.

    • K-Dog June 26, 2019 at 1:57 am #

      Transhumanism is deluded, here is one of her netball answers.

      Q: Why do we need living machines?

      A: We are facing an existential crisis. The anticipated global population of more than 9.7 billion by 2050 poses daunting challenges for providing sufficient energy, food, and water, as well as health care, more accurately and at lower cost. These challenges are enormous in scale and complexity, and we will need to take equally enormous leaps in our imagination to meet them successfully.

      She is so hopelessly buried in the Matrix a red pill for her is not possible. She farts techno-porn. The energy materials and social infrastructure do not exist to support living Machines even if they existed, which they don’t.

      I’ll go Godwin’s law on this. The Nazis had secret weapons. The V1 and V2 and they were building jets at the very end of WWII and they lost. History at best will repeat but the fact is a blue ocean will arrive before any ‘living machines‘ do. The intellectual dishonesty of rich white people is truly comical.

      • K-Dog June 26, 2019 at 1:59 am #

        correction:

        nutball

        • Pucker June 26, 2019 at 5:23 am #

          Is she talking about trans Humanism, or using biological organisms to engineer new products, like bio-batteries to store energy, and protein membrane filters to purify water, etc.?

          • K-Dog June 26, 2019 at 8:46 am #

            An amateur hypnotist will be vague on purpose.

      • Majella June 26, 2019 at 5:20 am #

        Net ball fits, K-Dog (dumb game…)

        • K-Dog June 26, 2019 at 8:57 am #

          I noticed that too!

      • ozone June 26, 2019 at 9:52 am #

        K-Dog,
        9.7 billion, she says, eh? With the glyphosate “miracle” destroying our gut bacteria, I don’t think we’ll have to worry too much about that.
        Perhaps Ms. Susan subconsciously and deep within every cell of her body knows that and is looking for a way to prolong her own brilliance well into the future.

        Thanks Monsanto; along with our general hubristic carelessness and Dominionist bullshit, you’ve given us a systemic poison to play [havoc] with! Good goin’!

        “Eat your soy now, Johnny, you wouldn’t want to have any of that nasty gut bacteria living inside you, now would you?”

        Hear ANY politician venturing a ‘position’ on this?

        • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 11:54 am #

          ozone

          Austria’s parliament is voting on a total glyphosate ban next Tuesday, so ‘sumofus’ informs me. Hopefully a start…

          • benr June 26, 2019 at 7:53 pm #

            Here is to some sanity.
            Lest we forget Monsanto brought is a nice defoliant called agent orange!

          • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 10:21 am #

            It would be nice if it were the whole EU, benr. They seem to be schitzophrenic on these matters (also neonicotinoids). On the one hand they have a long tradition of attempting to improve environmental and food-safety outcomes; on the other they are corrupted by lobbyists of the Monsanto/Bayer variety.

            Perhaps we need an effective anti-lobbyist spray 🙂 .

            Post-Brexit UK will be no better, since what the Brexit leaders are about is de-regulation and freedom for businesses to concern themselves primarily with their bottom line.

            I see that the UK doesn’t figure anywhere on this list of countries where anti-glyphosate action has been taken, at least partially:

            https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/where-is-glyphosate-banned/

            I see that Brazil tentatively started on the right path, then was brought back into line late last year. It looks like a glyphosate ban in Brazil is about as likely to thrive at the present time as a snowball in hell – or perhaps a native Indian in the Amazon rainforest.

          • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 10:22 am #

            *schizophrenic*

    • Ol' Scratch June 26, 2019 at 5:59 am #

      Just another variation on the Cargo Cult delusion and another sign that we’re so deep into overshoot that people are getting desperate for answers. We currently have no conception of, never mind a precise definition of, what makes humans human; so the idea that we’ll suddenly engineer sentient machines or download our consciousness into computers or any such nonsense remains nonsense. Just laughably naive and stupid, from people who really should know better. A sign of the times.

      • BackRowHeckler June 26, 2019 at 6:35 am #

        Pretty heavy stuff, Scratch.

        I think I’ll drive down to the beach today, soak up some rays, get some fried scallops, check out a few bookstores on US 1, and then, before the 50 mile drive home, stock up the cooler with beer and ice.

        GA, I’ll be looking out for any evidence of sea level rise. Still haven’t made it to Newport yet to check out Gravelly Point and Goat Island, but Friday was my last day of work for the summer, so the way is clear.

        Me to boss: “I’m taking the summer off. See you in September.”

        Boss to me: “We might not take you back this time.”

        Me: “That’s what you said last year.”

        Brh

        • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 8:39 am #

          That’s a very envious relationship you have with your employers, brh – do they give you holiday pay? Or perhaps you’ve married into the Spanish aristocracy and only do it for beer money 🙂 .

          Keep some aside for that drink you owe me. Maybe next year.

          Maybe, maybe…

          Re your observations, please don’t deprive the scientific community of the details. You (they) can’t have too much information!

          • GreenAlba June 26, 2019 at 10:47 am #

            *enviable* – gawd…

        • Ol' Scratch June 26, 2019 at 10:17 am #

          Good for you, Brh! I’m rather fair-skinned, so I’d have to skip the beach in any case. And now alcohol free too! But do party on! I’ve had more than several people’s share in my lifetime already, so everyone else is just getting a chance to catch up now. Closing in on the 200 lb barrier as we speak, so I’ve got my eye firmly on the prize 24/7 these days.

          • benr June 26, 2019 at 7:56 pm #

            Sad day in hell when you have to give up on booze!
            No one likes a quitter!

      • K-Dog June 26, 2019 at 8:32 am #

        Her background gives her authority and intellectual oneupmanship can keep the I know more than you about science game going until the collapse cake is fully baked and frosted.

        Techno-narcissism will be a thing this summer. As heat waves and wildfires intensify the clusterfuck of the long emergency more and more, rosy tomes on geoengineering will be paired with articles saying things like the polar ice will be gone in five years. Such as the recent ‘Forbes’ article did.

        A bitch slap of impending collapse will be diverted to techno-miracles. This method will be used to silence any canary in the coal mine who gets into the way of plutocratic resource extraction and exploitation. The powers that be are about to ‘steal’ collapse and make it their own.

      • K-Dog June 26, 2019 at 9:23 am #

        Is it possible that people who say we can download our consciousness into computers have no actual consciousness themselves? Is it possible these people are posers as humans and they are actually a biological form of AI as in ‘lights on but nobody home’?

        If so these are only half baked cookies or I’m actually an aristocratic lizard dog in need of rescue. Their claim is actually 100% true, for them and signing a contract with them is a waste of a pinprick for you.

        They don’t have one to reap.

  83. Pucker June 26, 2019 at 8:19 am #

    Why did Hy Tyler’s assassins in the Wehrmacht take it upon themselves to act? Why didn’t they just wait with futile passive resignation for “God’s Plan” to unfold?

    “Hitler returned to the Wolfsschanze in mid-March much cheered by Manstein’s success. According to General Alfred Warlimont, the deputy chief of OKW, he arrived ‘with the air of a victorious war-lord, clearly considering himself and his leadership primarily responsible for the favourable turn of events in the East …’ Yet en route Hitler had been the target of an assassination attempt. A bomb had been hidden on his aircraft by a young officer during a visit to Kluge’s headquarters. The lieutenant was not acting alone for he shared the views of his boss, Major-General Henning von Tresckow, chief operations officer of Army Group Centre, that Germany would be destroyed if Hitler remained alive. The failure of the bomb to detonate (probably due to the extreme cold in the luggage compartment where it had been placed) condemned the nation to fight on, but military opposition to Hitler’s rule continued to grow as faith in his strategic abilities waned and defeats became more frequent. As Richard Overy has written: ‘Hitler refused to accept his limitations, perhaps because he saw his calling as Germany’s warlord as the central purpose of a dictatorship based on the ideal of violent self-assertion of the race, where for Stalin supreme command was above all a political necessity.’“

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    • BackRowHeckler June 26, 2019 at 8:29 am #

      Close enough,

      Another round of WT, 2 finger shot.

      I know its early but thems the rules of the game,

      Bottoms up!

      Brh

      • Ol' Scratch June 26, 2019 at 10:31 am #

        Go easy, Brh!

    • Ol' Scratch June 26, 2019 at 10:12 am #

      I’m sure that he was receiving approval and assistance from wealthy allied corporate industrialists and financialists and shady governmental spy figures such as one A. Dulles might have had something to do with it to. What we don’t know about what really went on just prior to he US entry into WWII would, and has, filled volumes.

  84. Pucker June 26, 2019 at 8:38 am #

    Are they going to do a big Kevin Burns PBS series this Friday on the big 50th anniversary of the Stonewall gay bar riot? Bought to you by Archer D. Midland, the makers of high fructose corn syrup, Purdue Pharma, the makers of OxyContin, and contributors like you.

    • K-Dog June 26, 2019 at 8:50 am #

      If they did, would it suck?

    • Pucker June 26, 2019 at 8:55 am #

      “Tonight on Frontline – “Donald J. Trump: Putin’s Stooge”.

      “Bought to you by Archer D. Midland, the makers of high fructose corn syrup, E & J Gallo Winery, the makers of “Ripple”, Purdue Pharma, the makers of OxyContin, and gullible, mentally-disturbed viewers like you.”

    • K-Dog June 26, 2019 at 9:06 am #

      I was too young to know but by the end of the summer after Stonewall and the moon landing; the pick up line. ‘Is that a rocket in your pocket’, must have been a thing.

  85. volodya June 26, 2019 at 11:20 am #

    Majella, don’t mean to intrude on the discussion you were having with SSL but, what the hell, I’m sticking my nose in.

    In my view, the “elite” isn’t so amorphous and unnameable. For starters, just look at who donates how much to Republicans and Democrats and you’ll get some idea as to who calls the shots.

    Here are the top 20 individual donors for the 2016 federal election cycle. In my estimation, it’s worth perusing these lists.

    https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topindivs.php?cycle=2016&view=fc

    The total coughed up is $561 million dollars, of which, by my calculation, $307 million went to Democrats or liberal outside groups and $254 million went to Republicans or conservative outside groups.

    There are the top 20 organizational donors for the 2016 federal election cycle.

    https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/toporgs.php?cycle=2016&view=fc

    The total donated is $732 million of which, by my calculation, $458 million went to Democrats or liberal outside groups and $274 million went to Republican and outside groups.

    This is a huge pile of money. Forty people and organizations donated $1.3 billion of which about $765 million went to Democrats and liberal groups and about $528 million went to Republicans and conservative groups.

    If you look at the top organizational donors, a four of them are unions, two are environmental advocacy groups.

    When I bandy about terms like “Oligarchy” or “Davos Class” this is what I’m referring to. Compare 40 donors against 330 million citizens and it’s not hard to figure the outsized impact this handful of people have. And, given what’s been inflicted this past generation or so, I don’t think the effect has been benign, in fact, the opposite.

    But it’s not just these guys. Look also at the Fortune 500, another relative handful whose CEOs can call a congressman and get their call returned forthwith whereas you and I would have no hope in hell.

    Money talks IOW.

    • Majella June 26, 2019 at 8:16 pm #

      Volodya

      Thank you for that. It’s most informative and I take your point entirely.
      (SSL, I concede the point to you, too, though I doubt you could have elucidated it so succinctly.)

      I find it informative in several ways –

      Firstly, that so very few of the individual donors are ‘household’ names; and

      Secondly, that in the 40 entities listed, only 10 could be seen to have donated across the board (by which I mean at least 80/20 split). DJT claimed that the Donor Class spreads its donations roughly equally so it doesn’t matter who wins. Not so, apparently, or have the dynamics changed?

      And the obscene amount of money…yikes. Considering the greatest on-the-ground effort for candidates is voluntary labor, I’m guessing the bulk of it goes to media buys & the balance to logistics & paid staffers.

      Bernie Sanders raised $224 million in 2016 and all from small donations, which was only around only a quarter of Hillary’s total war chest and about half of Trump’s.

      But HRC didn’t win her Nomination by outspending Bernie, and lost to Trump despite outspending him 2-to-1.

      So, money is clearly needed to make the electoral system, as it has mutated in the US, run, but the money doesn’t necessarily ensure the outcome.

      Do you have a position on PACs & Dark Money? To my mind, it should be outlawed, and all individuals (not corporate ‘persons’) be limited in donations as the FEC rules currently regulate.

    • montsegur June 27, 2019 at 10:38 am #

      Money talks IOW.

      Money talks, Hillary walks.

      Cheers

  86. SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 11:31 am #

    So Liz Warren is now supporting the idea that illegal border crossings should be decriminalized. Now call me crazy (which I know you will do) but doesn’t that essentially mean that she is supporting the nullification of the border? If the border is legally meaningless, then doesn’t that basically mean that the nation itself is really meaningless? Perhaps it is all meaningless anyway since everything we are taught is basically a lie. There is no such thing as a government of the people, for the people, and by the people when there are only a few people in control and politicians are bought and paid for actors and actresses who do the complete bidding of “wizards behind the curtain”. Sorry, I have digressed. So anyhoo, if illegally crossing the border is no longer illegal, then doesn’t that mean that the US doesn’t exist anymore?

    • volodya June 26, 2019 at 12:00 pm #

      I’m no lawyer but I don’t think that decriminalizing something makes it legal. Regardless, it’s like Bernie said, without borders there’s no USA. It ain’t complicated. It’s frustrating to have to point out the obvious to people that pull rank and act intellectual and superior. But there’s no stopping us from insulting them the way they insult people like us. Did they go to college and spend all that money to get stupid? And you don’t even have to resort to name calling, just point out the facts. For people supposedly so fact-oriented, they’ve got so precious few. The facts sit in well known history. The Roman Empire collapsed because they lost control of their borders and so did the Byzantine Empire. Those are the two big kahunas of collapse and that’s the lesson they provide, that if you don’t control your borders, you get over-run, you go down, your elite ruling class goes down too. The Oligarchs think they can survive and keep running the show. Good luck wid dat. Not happenin’.

      • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 3:42 pm #

        Well they probably do have plans to bail once the situation deteriorates badly enough. Why are all of the billionaires buying remote estates in far flung places like New Zealand? They are preparing for the collapse and the resulting anarchy IMO. Some will stay right here too in underground bunkers. They will emerge once most of the population is gone.

      • Majella June 26, 2019 at 8:35 pm #

        Volodya

        You’re right – decriminalization is not legalization. Of course, borders are essential and the policing of them likewise. It’s an unfortunate quirk of geology that the US/Mexico border is so long and pretty much unpopulated, making surreptitious incursion relatively easy.

        But this border clusterfuck is only the VISIBLE issue. The deliberate Visa overstaying option is taken up at almost twice the rate (62%) of illegals crossing the physical border (38%).

        https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/686056668/for-seventh-consecutive-year-visa-overstays-exceeded-illegal-border-crossings

        Are these people LESS ‘trouble’? Are they pursued, harassed & demonized in the same way as poor people escaping crime, violence and climate change? No, they aren’t.

        You need to have experienced entering the US on a foreign passport to know how scary it is – tacky lounges, bored immigration officers, triple checks of documents and bio-metric recording of iris & fingerprints, intended one assumes to weed out the undesirables.

        By the time you hit the ground outside the airport, you are a well-known quantity to the Federal government, including details of where you will be living. So, why aren’t these people being rounded up if ‘Illegal Immigrant Numbers’ is the actual issue? Surely these people are quite easy to locate, round up & deport?

        The problem is it’s NOT numbers – it’s who’s poor/brown/Hispanic.

        • Majella June 26, 2019 at 8:36 pm #

          “..unfortunate quirk of geography…”

      • elysianfield June 27, 2019 at 12:43 pm #

        “I’m no lawyer….”

        Volodya,
        Can we then assume that your parents were married?

        • volodya June 27, 2019 at 12:57 pm #

          yeah but I don’t get what you’re saying…

          • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 1:18 pm #

            I think he’s trying to say you’re not a barsteward

            But I may be wrong. We MI5/FBI/THRUSH folks shouldn’t be believed anyway…

          • elysianfield June 27, 2019 at 8:33 pm #

            Volodya,
            An old lawyer joke…I was denied entrance to Law School when they found out my parents were married….

    • EvelynV June 26, 2019 at 11:10 pm #

      The good thing is, if the US doesn’t exist anymore then no one here does either. It all an illusion. We have conceptualized everything as being electro-magnetic energy being fed into our brains converting it all into a picture show for our conscious selves to enjoy and pretend is real but even the notion of energy fields is no more than an illusion that is not real either.

      Me. I. Self. Fake news.

  87. Elrond Hubbard June 26, 2019 at 11:36 am #

    Shocking photo of drowned father and daughter highlights migrants’ border peril
    The toddler’s arm was still draped around her father’s neck after bodies were found in the Rio Grande as they sought asylum
    Warning: graphic images

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/25/photo-drowned-migrant-daughter-rio-grande-us-mexico-border

    “The grim reality of the migration crisis unfolding on America’s southern border has been captured in photographs showing the lifeless bodies of a Salvadoran father and his daughter who drowned as they attempted to cross the Rio Grande into Texas.

    “The images, taken on Monday, show Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, 26, and his daughter Valeria, lying face down in shallow water. The 23-month-old toddler’s arm is draped around her father’s neck, suggesting that she was clinging to him in her final moments.

    “The UN refugee agency compared the photograph to the 2015 image of the three-year-old Syrian boy Alan Kurdi who drowned off the Greek island of Kos – although it remains to be seen if it will have the same impact on America’s fierce immigration debate.

    “Their bodies were discovered on the bank of the river near Matamoros, Mexico, across from Brownsville, Texas, just half a mile (1km) from an international bridge.”

    Don’t look away.

    • Walter B June 26, 2019 at 12:03 pm #

      So some mindless idiot decides to migrate to a foreign land and takes his daughter into a dangerous river and gets them both killed in the process and somehow that’s MY fault? I call bullshit EH. In fact I think that he was probably headed to Canada so that would place the blame squarely on your shoulders if you care to bear it. Personally, I avoid dangerous bodies of water as they tend to be hazardous to human life.

      • benr June 26, 2019 at 12:56 pm #

        Here here for common sense rational thought and a coherent message!

      • montsegur June 27, 2019 at 10:40 am #

        Walter, yes, getting hard to see for all the propaganda.

        Cheers

    • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 12:05 pm #

      Totally horrific and tragic, but completely avoidable. So are you now saying there is a crisis at the border? I thought we were supposed to be welcoming unending hordes of refugees despite all costs, including human? Isn’t that what the Jesus you don’t believe in would say? The reality is dead bodies are found all the time along the border and this has been going on for years and years. And yet anyone who dares insist on border enforcement or the securing of the border is condemned by the same people who support politicians who vote for their own salary increases while doing absolutely nothing about the border. So who has blood on their hands? If the Wall was there no one would risk the dangerous journey to the badlands but that is far too logical. And I suppose its also far too illogical to expect those who care so much about foreigners to go to their countries to build roads, hospitals, houses, for the people they have dedicated themselves too?

      • Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 12:36 pm #

        The Rio Grande is a natural border and it did its job this time. But it needs help from man. As the old Alchemists said, Nature unaided, fails. Thus we need that Wall.

      • benr June 26, 2019 at 12:57 pm #

        How about the rape trees they find all along the borders!
        Panties and bras hanging all over from the women being raped by coyotes and God only knows who else!
        Build the wall.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 12:34 pm #

      We have our own “beach boy”! They probably rearranged the corpses like they did Beach Boy’s……

      Seriously though – so what? People die everyday in the water. Elrond is just attracted to the outrage of brown people drowning when he can blame us for it. Anti-White atrocities in South Africa? His eyes glaze over.

      How many Whites have these people killed with their insane driving? How many White Women have been raped by them? How many of them are in prisons for these and other crimes? They are simply a disaster area who deserve to be here and should be kept out and all cost.

      • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 2:27 pm #

        How many Whites have been victims of Black crime?
        In 20th century, in USA?

        Any idea? A billion violent crimes against Whites by Blacks?

    • FincaInTheMountains June 26, 2019 at 12:37 pm #

      Remember this photo?

      http://wwportal.com/data/uploads/2017/01/utonuvshij-mal-chik-bezhenets-MIGRANT-NELEGAL.jpg

      Later it turned out to be a part of a larger photo:

      https://www.voltairenet.org/local/cache-vignettes/L400xH300/1-5286-04b30.jpg

      The left part of this photo was widely replicated by the European press. It is believed that the victim – a child of Kurdish nationality Islan Kurdi from Syria was thrown ashore by waves.

      However, his body is perpendicular to the waves, whereas it must be parallel to them. On the right is the official Turkish photographer, which confirms the version of the planned action. Bathing people are visible in the distance.

    • Tate June 26, 2019 at 12:38 pm #

      Did you see the ghastly images of the man who was taken into a brown bear den in the remote Tuva region of Siberia, near the border with Mongolia?

      He survived for a month in the bear den by drinking his own urine. The hunters who found him thought at first he was a mummified body. He could only croak out his name “Alexander” but had forgotten his last name & everything else about himself.

      The Tuva region has indignantly disavowed that this happened on its territory. In all likelihood, the brown bear was engaging in human trafficking & had smuggled him across the border from Mongolia, this being an age-old practice in this area. Vladimir Putin is known to enjoy taken vacations in the remote region.

      • FincaInTheMountains June 26, 2019 at 12:45 pm #

        Well, now you see what happens to people who keep poking the stick into the bear’s den hoping that a bunch of butterflies would emerge.

        Don’t be surprised when a bear emerges instead and bites your ignorant ass off!

      • Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 1:08 pm #

        Bears or Yetis? The Yetis often keep humans as sex toys.

    • Exscotticus June 26, 2019 at 1:27 pm #

      So Elrond I guess you’re tacitly admitting that Trump was right about there being a border crisis? And that nearly the entire Democratic leadership and MSM was wrong? Especially when they claimed it was all manufactured by Trump?

      You can’t fix a problem until you admit that there is one, yes?

    • Elrond Hubbard June 26, 2019 at 3:05 pm #

      So as I write this, here’s the score so far. The format is: name of poster — number of posts by that poster — number of posts by that poster that express even minimal sorrow or sympathy for the dead as fellow human beings; and optionally, my observations.

      Walter B — 1 — 0. Walter, this isn’t about “that’s MY fault”. It’s about “Who do I feel worse for, the dead father and daughter, or myself?” Your answer is clearly the former.

      benr — 2 — 0. Subtract one additional point for paranoid ravings about ‘rape trees’.

      SoftStarLight — 1 — 1. SSL wins this one with “Totally horrific and tragic”. Congratulations, SSL, on remembering that these are (were) fellow human beings. However, who was denying that there is a crisis at the southern US border? I wasn’t. My concerns are on a different dimension, namely how to react to that crisis. My position is: with compassion, recognizing and respecting people’s humanity. Very little of that on offer, I’m sorry to say.

      Eyesore McGee — 3 — 0. Claims to be a Catholic, yet compassion for the stranger is supposed to be a Christian virtue.

      malthuss — 1 — 0. Along with Eyesore, loses points for introducing false dichotomies.

      FincaInTheMountains — 2 — 0.

      Tate — 1 — 0.

      Exscotticus — 1 — 0. See my remarks above about crisis.

      1 point out of a possible 12: all in all, a really dismal showing. Sadly, not at all surprising either.

      • Elrond Hubbard June 26, 2019 at 3:07 pm #

        Walter B: The latter. Excuse my correction.

      • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 3:35 pm #

        Well yes, let’s do approach the situation with compassion. In order to do so we need to kill off the incentives for people to make this journey to the border. How do you do that? Make the border impenetrable. Therefore people will know there is no sense in making the journey since you cannot cross the border without going through an actual port of entry. In addition to that, I say that all of the churches, NGOs and countless others who are supporting and aiding the refugees all the way please take your efforts to the actual countries from which refugees are coming. Spend your efforts and time making those countries better so that people don’t want to leave. We could do this but again it comes down to actual will.

      • Exscotticus June 26, 2019 at 4:39 pm #

        But, Elrond, Lefty leaders explicitly criticized us for conveying “thoughts and prayers”. Flip-flopping AGAIN?

        No criticism of NYT for politicizing a tragedy and showing these victims on the front page?

        No acknowledgment that the Left flip-flopped on this issue? Perhaps if they had acknowledged it months ago, and worked with Trump to address it, the harm could have been mitigated. Perhaps the victims would still be alive.

        Total # of times Elrond acknowledges his own hypocrisy and double standards? ZERO.

      • benr June 26, 2019 at 8:17 pm #

        Paranoid pfft I have seen them down on the border and near either the California town of Avinal who’s claim to fame was being of the top ten worst places in California to live.

        Sorry but you need to educate yourself Elrond.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=mLy3XvPO7XU

        https://www.usatoday.com/border-wall/story/us-ranchers-deal-with-migrants-border-crossers-mexico/559702001/

        You forget I live on the border I surf down in Imperial beach and camp in the mountains along the border!
        My life is directly affected by people sneaking into my country.
        I have been booted off of BLM land (Bureau of land management) by Border patrol while exercising my second amendment rights. We complied but my BLM contact was pissed when I told him about it and he said I should have told them to piss off.

        • benr June 27, 2019 at 12:19 pm #

          I forgot to add the why.
          Because we were scaring off a herd of humans being trafficked to even more remote areas of Kitchen creek making it more difficult to round them up.
          Now as a result of all the illegal aliens being trafficked in several areas are now totally off limits.
          These are areas set aside for people that like the out doors camping, fishing, target shooting and even some hunting.

          Not a bleeding heart for people who’s first act in our country is to break the law.
          When they get here they are often abused in many ways that a bleeding heart such as yourself should be against.
          Raped
          Ripped off and living in sub par situations.
          There was a canyon in rich Carlsbad area with illegals living in it that had an outdoor bar and under age prostitutes one of which was 13.

      • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 9:06 pm #

        Well arent you the critic.
        False Dick outta yous.

      • Tate June 27, 2019 at 3:28 pm #

        You are the prime moral preener on here, Elrond. Green Alba is your second. This is your schtick, pretending to be the morally superior sort. How much do you give to charity or volunteer to charitable organizations? Have you sponsored any of these “refugees” in your home? If not, STFU. People die every day in tragic circumstances. A few are exploited for political purposes. Most of us have a limited capacity for empathy in the face of massive abuses of our system of laws.

        • GreenAlba June 28, 2019 at 6:17 am #

          I don’t need to pretend to be morally superior to someone who thinks it’s OK for men to hit their wives to keep them in line like chattel. But I don’t consider myself morally superior to anyone else much.

          And I give to the same charities* monthly by direct debit that I have done for decades, even when I was a single parent. Plus every refugee crisis, earthquake, tsunami or biblical flood gets an ad hoc three figure sum. Not that it’s any of your business, like the previous issue you tried to insult me with.

          I can’t keep a refugee in my home as it only has one tiny bedroom and I’m not into weird stuff. But if I lived on my own and had a spare bedroom I’d be happy to. Lots of people here actually do.

          I won’t ask you about your charitable contributions because they’re not my business any more than mine are yours.

          *One is specifically to support homeless young people in London and provide them with shelter and stability so that they can complete their education and make a start in life. Like I said, I’m not a nationalist. If London’s needs are greater in that department, then London’s youngsters are welcome to my help.

          • GreenAlba June 28, 2019 at 6:27 am #

            I didn’t contribute to your refugee crisis, though. I reckoned that was your business to sort out, one way or another, especially given my income compared to the average American.

          • GreenAlba June 28, 2019 at 7:30 am #

            Not that I ever said you should feel obliged to take in every refugee that comes your way anyway – in fact I’ve said the opposite. I think the US has done an enormous amount. I don’t have an answer to the global problem any more than anyone else does, but I still think it behoves us to consider aspiring migrants as human beings. You can consider that moral preening if you want to.

            I would refer you to my post regarding the explanation of how the man and his daughter died trying to cross to the US. Nothing more than explanatory and with no agenda whatsoever. Try to find some moral preening there if you wish.

        • Tate June 28, 2019 at 8:42 am #

          I could care less about the particulars of your charitable affinities. It should be pretty obvious that those were rhetorical questions. How do we know this?

          Because it’s really easy to ignore a comment, GA. It really is. It’s not like I’m in your face, you in mine. Something you should learn.

          • Tate June 28, 2019 at 8:52 am #

            And I don’t beat my wife. Have never once done so. But do I think that for some women in some instances the situation calls for it?

            Probably.

            But I could be wrong. I spanked my son up until he was six years old. I regret even doing that. I should have stopped that when he was about three.

          • GreenAlba June 28, 2019 at 8:52 am #

            ” It’s not like I’m in your face, you in mine. Something you should learn.”

            You’re right in my face when you’re insulting me and accusing me of moral preening and/or hypocrisy, Tate.

          • GreenAlba June 28, 2019 at 8:56 am #

            “And I don’t beat my wife. Have never once done so.”

            Do you want a medal or something? I didn’t suggest you did, your wife being a pearl among women an’ all. Lucky for her, eh.

            And re your second sentence, that’s exactly why your views are so utterly repulsive. Putting a question mark after it doesn’t make it any less repulsive. There are no words, really.

          • Tate June 28, 2019 at 10:35 am #

            No, actually, we’re not facing one another. Get a grip. I often ignore your ad hominems. You might do the same & be a happier person.

            I don’t expect a medal. In fact, I was about to post immediately after that last comment, “Arghh! Now you’ve got me doing it.”

            No words really? A willful child doesn’t accept the need for discipline at the time it’s needed. Neither does a willful woman, until both have matured past the need for it. But we’ve reached a new moral plateau, haven’t we, so in our progressive times there’s few in the first category & none in the latter.

  88. FincaInTheMountains June 26, 2019 at 12:13 pm #

    Even Oprah said all the old people need to die out

    Tripling utility rates through “green energy” is an excellent method to expedite the process, especially in a summer heat!

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    • Walter B June 26, 2019 at 12:26 pm #

      Well Opfrah WAS born in 1954, so she would be 65 and is thereby “old”. Perhaps she had a point and perhaps she should put her money where her mouth is and lead the way!

      • FincaInTheMountains June 26, 2019 at 12:41 pm #

        You are forgetting, Walter, she is rich and hence ageless.

        Black Project in a chemically pure form.

        • JohnAZ June 26, 2019 at 2:05 pm #

          Interesting situation.

          Trump is criticized for being a hard hitting business man, with showman qualities who has narcissistic tendencies.

          Hmm!

          Oprah is a hard hitting business woman, with show woman qualities who has narcissistic tendencies.

          Boy, will she make a great president!

    • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 3:05 pm #

      So you are an oil man then?

  89. Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 12:57 pm #

    TUCKER CARLSON: Very quickly Jim will you just confirm something for me: isn’t it the same people who are pushing us to war in the Middle East, who are also telling us we have to accept the populations of the countries in the Middle East coming to our country? How does that work?

    JIM ANTLE: It’s a very strange concept, where we can’t enforce our own borders, but we can redraw the borders of every country in the Middle East, that we can create democracies in the Middle East and we’re sort of invading and inviting the world here at the same time. It’s definitely a little bit of a head scratcher, but it does make sense to people in Washington.

    TUCKER CARLSON: It’s almost like they’re trying to destroy our country. That’s funny.

    JS: Thank God Trump has been talking to Tucker, and getting a different viewpoint than the people’s he surrounded himself with. Trump knows that he’s an idiot and is thus wise that far at least. And he can’t do better than Friar Tuck. Read between the lines – he’s hardly hiding it. Tuck knows about the Tribe and what they’re doing to us.

    • JohnAZ June 26, 2019 at 2:01 pm #

      It is not funny! The Media light handed tolerance of the betrayal of America by the Leftist wings is not funny.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 2:12 pm #

        I don’t even know how to respond to that. Left and Right just don’t matter to them. The Neo-Cons and Neo Liberals both want this War. Trump’s high level Jewish supporters are disgusted and furious. Hillary would have come thru for them…..

        John you can see more from the top of the Mountain than at the bottom were you insist on being. Why don’t you climb at least a bit?

        • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 9:07 pm #

          A ‘genius’ told me Chabad is BAD. real bad and they or similar are in White house, pushing for Noah Hide. We know who he is.

    • Tate June 26, 2019 at 2:26 pm #

      In September 2001, the neoconservatives got the “New Pearl Harbor” that they had been wishing for in a PNAC report written a year earlier. Two dozens neoconservatives had by then been introduced by Dick Cheney into key positions, including: Scooter Libby as Cheney’s deputy; Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith at the Pentagon, David Wurmser at the State Department, and Philip Zelikow and Elliott Abrams at the National Security Council. Abrams had written three years earlier: “Outside the land of Israel, there can be no doubt that Jews, faithful to the covenant between God and Abraham, are to stand apart from the nation in which they live. It is the very nature of being Jewish to be apart — except in Israel — from the rest of the population.”[5] As for Perle, Feith and Wurmser, they figured among the signatories of a 1996 secret Israeli report entitled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, urging the new Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to break with the Oslo Accords of 1993 and reaffirm Israel’s right of preemption on Arab territories.  According to Patrick Buchanan, the 2003 Iraq war proves that the plan “has now been imposed by Perle, Feith, Wurmser & Co. on the United States.”

      [5] Elliott Abrams, Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 181.

      Jewishness & the Culture of Crypsis
      — Laurent Guyenot

      • James Hansen June 26, 2019 at 2:52 pm #

        First the USS Liberty and then 9/11, and we pay them four billion a year? If we are that stupid I guess we deserve it.

        • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 3:01 pm #

          I know, it gets to a point where you start thinking that huh? Mr. K has said before that a society ends up getting what it deserves or something along those lines. Sorry if I butchered that Mr. K!

        • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 9:07 pm #

          who is ‘we’? the voting public?

          • James Hansen June 26, 2019 at 9:56 pm #

            I was just referring to the American public in general, do you disagree with what I said?

      • Walter B June 26, 2019 at 9:20 pm #

        Page 51 of the document Tate at the top left:

        REBUILDING AMERICA S DEFENSES – visibility911.org

        It’s not like they were hiding it were they? They even have the balls to call for the Weaponization of space and cyberspace, and America is ok with that. Damn we are screwed!

        • montsegur June 27, 2019 at 10:12 am #

          Screwed, blued, and tattooed

          Remember that phrase, Walter?

          (laughing) Now people want to get tattooed! I guess getting blued will come along in due course.

          Cheers

    • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 2:48 pm #

      When we finally get the Wall I want Tucker’s visage carved into it. Can I put a request in now? That is in addition to my request to be able to dance freely upon the Wall.

      Yes, Tucker is one of the only people in primetime mainstream that comes very close to telling the complete truth. And if you read between the lines he does reveal what’s really going on. He would disappear if he actually spoke the very words themselves so we have to continue to read between the lines.

  90. JohnAZ June 26, 2019 at 1:58 pm #

    SSL, Janos et al

    Elizabeth Warren and her cohorts are not just an opposing USA party, they are anti-American, more so than Russia or China. She belongs to a minority wing, maybe majority of the DEmocrat party, that literally belongs to the globalist group, like Finca’s Black Project. These folks should be drummed out of America. Hey, maybe make them part of an exchange program, 100 illegals for every Leftist Democrat 2020 presidential candidate. I think we would get the better end of the stick.

    • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 2:59 pm #

      Yes this is true John. Liz Warren and many of the Democrats are traitors. But as we try to continue to tell you. Many Republicans are traitors as well. You know how little Republican support Trump receives. If I didn’t know any better I would think the Republicans didn’t exist at all. Where are they speaking out on critical issues like immigration, the border, healthcare, living wages, re-growing the middle class? They are AWOL. Trump is basically the face of whatever the Republican party is. The Elite on Right and Left are part of this. We the people are the collateral damage as well as the chess pieces in their game. They are all anti-American as is at least half of the general population. To be truly pro-American means that you would want to return the country to 1776. But that means a return to White Christian Male domination. Do you think this balkanized, White and Christ hating society is going to go for that willingly? Not a chance on God’s green earth!

    • John, Warren will be the Pieta we never had. And it could be awesome.

      Enjoy a beer and the Democratic Debate Live, like me.

  91. malthuss June 26, 2019 at 2:29 pm #

    GATEWAY PUNDIT—

    Bill Clinton delivered 215 speeches for $48 million in the four years Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and this was one of a very few that anyone in the State Department told him he shouldn’t do. (ABCNews, 8/28/2015)

    Amitabh Desai was involved in many more illicit transactions related to the Clinton Foundation.

    Desai worked with Bill Clinton trying to reach agreement with the State Department to give a speech in Congo, to the poorest country in the world, for $650,000.

    Desai received emails from Cheryl Mills that contained classified information. He worked with Libya’s President who sought to meet with Bill Clinton just two days after the Benghazi terror attack. (Desai must have done his job because the Libyan President did meet with both Hillary and Bill Clinton later that month.)

    • SoftStarLight June 26, 2019 at 3:04 pm #

      The Clinton Crime family gets away with literal murder but you know they stamped out the Mafia. So where’s the justice? At least the Mafiosi were generous to their communities and thus garnered devotion and love from the hoods. Please show me where the Clinton’s have actually been generous with their blood money.

  92. Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 3:05 pm #

    Post pictures of White motorists killed by drunken illegal drivers. Then listen to the deafening silence as Elrond and Co refuse to comment on the pictures.

    • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 9:09 pm #

      How many Whites have been victims of Black crime?
      In 20th century, in USA?

      Any idea? A billion violent crimes against Whites by Blacks?

  93. Janos Skorenzy June 26, 2019 at 3:13 pm #

    There was so much hope and so much joy when Trump was elected – all of it gone except on the part of uninformed and unwashed. Does Trump miss it? Feel guilty for betraying us?

    If Trump or Don Jr want to make it up to us a bit – forget about seeking high office – use your wealth and power to start a media network. You can give Tucker a job after he gets fired for trying to stop the Iran War and the inevitable terrorism they have promised to bring to the streets of America.

    The People need to be educated if they are going to make the right choices. Want to do even more, Don Jr? Ambitious are you? Idealistic? Brave? Start a Third Party….

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    • Tate June 26, 2019 at 4:10 pm #

      This is true. It’s pretty sad. Hopefully, Trump is simply treading carefully as he plans six moves ahead, like Odysseus returning to Ithaca.

    • James Hansen June 26, 2019 at 5:01 pm #

      My feeling is if you give any politician enough time they will end up disappointing you. They live insulated lives from the rest of us and nothing is more important to them as the brown envelope. Living up to your ideals does not even occur to them.

      That is why I have no trouble criticizing either side. Middle class Conservatives and Liberals have a lot more in common than we do with the politicians. Too bad we will always be divided.

      • BackRowHeckler June 26, 2019 at 7:10 pm #

        James, about the USS Liberty incident, that was an accident of war, not an intentional attack.

        I’ve mentioned previously about another, similar incident, in 1944, a barge of 400 US soldiers being trained by Marines for the Normandy landing in the English Channel, was torpedoed by a British submarine. All were lost. Nobody blamed the Royal Navy, and the drowned infantryman were counted as war casualties as if they were lost to the German Navy.

        Chester, Mass, we’re practically neighbors, and with Ozone you’re real neighbors.

        Brh

        • BackRowHeckler June 26, 2019 at 7:18 pm #

          Check that, it was 800 soldiers.

        • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 9:10 pm #

          In politics, does anything happen by accident?
          Is there such a thing as an accident?

        • James Hansen June 26, 2019 at 10:00 pm #

          You have not read about the Liberty or you would know it was definitely done preplanned and deliberate.

          I am pretty far from Chester, I live in Cheshire. How would you know where I live, are you with the CIA?

          • BackRowHeckler June 27, 2019 at 6:41 am #

            James, your name is linked to your business website. Actually I hit it accidentally and it came up.

            Brh

          • benr June 27, 2019 at 12:07 pm #

            President Lyndon Johnson is reported to have claimed he wanted that f’ing ship sunk to blame on the Egyptians.
            He was a terrible President that did really bad things while in office.
            Alex Jones has talked at length on the subject.

        • EvelynV June 27, 2019 at 2:41 am #

          Accident! You’re gullible to believe that.

          http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ussliberty.html

        • Tate June 27, 2019 at 1:32 pm #

          BRH, you are a Neocon sock-puppet.

          • Tate June 27, 2019 at 1:33 pm #

            And yes, GA, it’s add hominy.

          • BackRowHeckler June 27, 2019 at 6:31 pm #

            Tate, I’m no neo con.

            Brh

          • Janos Skorenzy June 27, 2019 at 8:51 pm #

            As the Bible says, the pot does not know the Hand of the Potter that shapes it. Likewise, the sock puppet does not know that it is a sock puppet.

            Socky: There was a HUGE American flag flying on the ship for the whole duration of the attack. Your idols are anti-American but you refuse to take in this information because you don’t want to give up your idolatry.

    • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 9:10 pm #

      How many Whites have been victims of Black crime?
      In 20th century, in USA?

      Any idea? A billion violent crimes against Whites by Blacks?

  94. auburn June 26, 2019 at 4:37 pm #

    ozone asked: “Hear ANY politician venturing a ‘position’ on this?”

    Yup, and a pretty clear “position” at that!

    “The popular weedkiller glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, is on the run.

    Congresswoman and Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) last week called for a ban.

    “We need to ban all products containing glyphosate, including Roundup,” Gabbard tweeted on February 16. “It’s poisoning our people, butterflies and other insects, the land and the water.”

    And then again today, Gabbard tweeted: “Monsanto proves they’ll do anything to pad their pockets, including manufacturing ‘scientific studies’ to influence the EPA while destroying small farmers. They unleashed the scourge of Roundup on us and should be held accountable for the consequences.”

    • BackRowHeckler June 26, 2019 at 5:49 pm #

      That’s just great, Little Jane,

      Now how am I going to fight my poison ivy infestation?

      Brh

      • James Hansen June 26, 2019 at 10:02 pm #

        You do it the manly way, pull it up with your bare hands and take a piss when you are finished.

    • Q. Shtik June 26, 2019 at 6:13 pm #

      They unleashed the scourge of Roundup on us and should be held accountable for the consequences. – auburn (formerly Asoka, janet, etc., etc., etc. quoting Tulsi Gabbard)

      =========

      Speaking of Roundup, a few weeks ago I had a Mulberry tree on the side of my property cut down. Its branches were extending out into the phone lines that run along a county road next to me. (I had other issues with this ugly tree as well.) I asked the tree guy if I should expect the stump to start sprouting new limbs and he said yes it would. He offered a solution to this problem: drill a bunch of half inch holes into the stump and pour into them Roundup. This will kill the stump.

      • auburn June 26, 2019 at 7:05 pm #

        But it still may be in your breakfast cereal. Twenty-one oat-based cereal and snack products popular with children contain traces of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup, according to tests from the Environmental Working Group. EWG said the tests found glyphosate levels above what it considers safe for children in all but four of the products. The 21 products that were tested are made by General Mills, including six varieties of Cheerios and 14 of General Mills’ Nature Valley products, such as Nature Valley granola bars.

        • BackRowHeckler June 26, 2019 at 7:14 pm #

          I like the name Roundup,

          It evokes images of the Old West.

          Brh

          • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 9:11 pm #

            Haz mat suits in the fields.

      • stelmosfire June 27, 2019 at 8:06 am #

        Q, Roundup is not so good for killing stumps. It is absorbed through the foliage. Paint some Tordon on the stump. No need to drill holes. Problem solved.

    • ozone June 26, 2019 at 7:14 pm #

      Alrighty then!
      Let’s see if she’s given a chance to speak tonight. If she is, response should be “interesting”.

      Even if she’s not selected to run for da big job, she needs to be heard, loudly and clearly. (The Joe Rogan interview is really comprehensive. More people should view it. There are a couple now.)

  95. Q. Shtik June 26, 2019 at 5:55 pm #

    I haven’t read anywhere near all the comments posted here over the past 2 or 3 weeks so if someone has already mentioned this (below) please forgive me.

    Fred Reed has completely revised his Blog site and for technical features I would rate it far ahead of Kunstler’s CFN site. It appears he has also begun once again to post his column on a weekly basis and he is now accepting comments. I posted one a couple of days ago under my usual screen name. I didn’t recognize any of the customary screen names from CFN in the comments section. Fred’s columns have even improved. I rate him as the King of Sarcasm.

    • FincaInTheMountains June 26, 2019 at 6:32 pm #

      I hope, Mr. Q, you have promoted on Fred’s site the CFN blog as you are promoting his here.

      • ozone June 26, 2019 at 7:23 pm #

        Yeah…..so folks can wander over here and read endless reams of Fincan horseshit until turning away in utter disgust. Yup, sounds reasonable to me.

        • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 9:12 pm #

          F U N N Y

          endless reams of Fincan horseshit

    • I see Fred finally purchased Grammerly(tm).

      ….so he can “Talk Right”.

      A Word Count, ESTIMATED

      Buy stock in the New York Times or … don’t.

  96. FincaInTheMountains June 26, 2019 at 6:17 pm #

    Boris Yeltsin Politics and Freedom of Will, or how the Putinomics had begun

    First of all I would like to inform you, my dear readers, that Putin did not tell me any secrets about his economic policy, and I am writing this post just as the Eskimos sing a song – I sing about what I see.

    And I see what you see, but the conclusions to which I come are significantly different from what you are inspired by the media, who all the time are trying to put glasses on us, with green lenses at best.

    But personally, simply because I understand that the future is a continuation of the line that connects the past and the present, plus the delta – the decisions that we make today, now.

    Moreover, according to Judaism, Christianity and Islam (these religions are arranged in order of decreasing age) ordinary people are naturally free to make decisions, but those who make decisions for others, in their freedom to make these decisions are limited by the Will of God or and according to his sins and by the will of other beings with whom it is better not to have any affairs. (Ol’ Scratch comes to mind, incidentally).

    And the best that a Sovereign can do is just like an ordinary person – to voluntarily do God’s will.

    That is why I have confidence in the recollections of Naina Iosifovna and Tatiana Borisovna (the wife and the daughter of Boris Yeltsin), that they clearly did not read the Book of Enoch and Maximus the Confessor, but they write about Boris Nikolayevich so that I personally cannot help but recall these books when I read their memoirs.

    Especially Naina Iosifovna is accurate in reproducing the Book of Enoch, which she did not read, and the first two Books of Kings, which she probably read, especially when she describes that Boris Nikolayevich never did anything until he heard the voice inside, having heard which he made decisions instantly, never hesitated and did not regret the decisions taken.

    And one of these decisions was the appointment of Vladimir Putin as director of the Federal Security Service (FSB or KGB if you like that better). It was from this appointment that Putinomics began, and I have a suspicion that I was present at its birth when I first heard the name Putin.

    Let me remind you the chronology of events:

    Beginning of 1997 – a microchip plant burned down in Thailand, as a result of which the prices for RAM in New York rose almost 4 times. As I remember, 32 mb of Asian RAM allegedly of low quality cost $36, and literally in a week it was $142, but only American, supposedly high-quality. And the Asian chips just disappeared in the unknown direction.

    On June 30, 1997, the Thai government announced the devaluation of the baht, which was previously pegged to the US dollar. As a result, the baht exchange rate fell in half, and Thailand’s stock market fell by three quarters. The Asian economic crisis began.

    During the year, the price of raw materials fell significantly, in particular, the price of oil fell 2 times from $23 per barrel to $11 per barrel. And taking into account the fact that the cost of oil production in Russia is 3 times higher than in Saudi Arabia and was then 6-7 dollars per barrel, it turns out that the Russian budget revenues for the year fell 3 times.

    On March 23, 1998, B. Yeltsin, by his Decree, dismissed Prime Minister Chernomyrdin and entrusted S. V. Kiriyenko with the duties of Chairman of the Government.

    On May 25, 1998, Vladimir Putin was appointed first deputy of the head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, Valentin Yumashev.

    Two months later, on July 25, 1998, Vladimir Putin was appointed director of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. Putin appointed generals Nikolai Patrushev, Viktor Cherkesov and Sergei Ivanov as his deputies.

    On August 17, 1998, the Government of Russia and the Russian Central Bank announced a technical default on the main types of government securities and a transition to a floating ruble rate within a sharply expanded currency band. Later, the Central Bank actually refused to support the ruble exchange rate.

    From August 24, 1998, Viktor Chernomyrdin was re-acted as Chairman of the Government, but twice was not approved by the State Duma, and for the third time B. N. Yeltsin submitted the candidacy of Yevgeny Primakov, with the approval of which short-term return of Chernomyrdin to power ended.

    August 18, 1998 (probably) I first heard the name of Vladimir Putin.

    That day I was moonlighting in the house of some Wall-Street bloke, helping setup the local network.

    The walls of this bloke were hung with photographs in which he embraced with Bill Clinton, with James Baker, then it seems even with Hillary Clinton. But I don’t really remember this – I still didn’t understand who Hillary was and didn’t pay attention. And he and Armstrong embraced, with a photo of Armstrong in an astronaut costume with an open helmet, so that everyone could see who the bloke was hugging.

    And suddenly I hear him in the dining room, barely opening his eyes, turned on either the TV or radio NPR.

    And there it was:

    Byzantine intrigue, IMF loan, 10 billion bye-bye, depreciation of the ruble exchange rate !!!

    And in response, the bloke cried out:

    – It’s fucking Putin!!! I kn?w it, it’s him! He stole our money! But we are going to catch every dollar he stole from us and he is going to pay dearly!

    To be continued…

  97. BackRowHeckler June 26, 2019 at 6:37 pm #

    I’m worried about that kid who posted upstream, prepper of oz.

    BS degree in environmental science, thousands in student loan debt, and the best job he can get is at Chuck Cheese?

    Jeesuz Krist!

    First thing, he’s going to have to get out of Amherst, Mass. In fact he might have to get out of New England altogether. There’s nothing here for young people, businesses are closing weekly.

    Actually he got some pretty good advice from posters on this site. Here’s some more, totally unsolicited I realize. I was fishing off the pier when a nice boat came in and tied up. I started bullsh#ting with the captain, he was telling me he retired from the railroad. He said the pay was good — they were unionized — and he retired at 55. He was also saying the RR — I think it was the Boston & Maine — that they always needed young people to hire but couldn’t find many. (Which is the same problem we have where I work on web presses) So prepper forget about environmental science and all that nonsense,try to get into some high paid, preferably unionized blue collar job, not necessarily the RR — pipefitters make pretty good cash too, diesel mechanics and so on. I mentioned oil companies where my brother made a shifload of money and he’s not the sharpest tack in the drawer if you know what I mean.

    If none of that interests you get some vocational training at the local trade school. Get a certificate, get hired, get some experience, and if the boss gives you any sh#t tell him to go F himself, and take your skills somewhere else,

    For what its worth. I hope you are still looking in.

    Brh

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    • Pucker June 26, 2019 at 7:08 pm #

      I once met an old retired bloke with a raspy voice and a flask who said that he coaches Pop Warner “Pee Wee” Football girl cheerleaders.

    • PeteAtomic June 26, 2019 at 7:11 pm #

      well the shale oil fields probably need another oilman.. or trucker. My little brother was over there and made 90K the year he worked it..

      • BackRowHeckler June 26, 2019 at 7:21 pm #

        Well, there you go,

        It beats getting into costume at Chuck E Cheeze

        Sheeet, nobody mentioned you know who,

        And that WT is calling me.

        Brh

        • ozone June 26, 2019 at 7:38 pm #

          BRH,
          If Hitler hadn’t gotten the job as Chancellor, might he have walked the streets with a sandwich board, advertising for a Jewish bakery? (I know, that’s pretty far-fetched; Hitler is as Hitler does.)

          Not too fast now! 😉

          • BackRowHeckler June 26, 2019 at 7:46 pm #

            Set em up CFners,

            3 shots yer out,

            Brh

        • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 9:22 pm #

          The National Enquirer, award winning? tabloid.Once had a story about,

          THE WEIRD TOWN WHERE MEN ARE NOT WANTED.

          It was about a Massachusetts College town full of dykes.

          Spray paint the side of the bridge -stella luvs fran, type stuff etc

          • BackRowHeckler June 27, 2019 at 6:36 am #

            Had to be North Hampton, Mass.

            More about N Hampton later.

            Brh

    • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 9:14 pm #

      20-22 is not a ‘kid’–think of all the people who raised kids at that age.

      That being noted, I too got a BS degree.

  98. Pucker June 26, 2019 at 7:24 pm #

    This is the new Ken Burns PBS Homosexuality series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall gay bar fight (June 28, 1969).

    https://www.pbs.org/outofthepast/

    Brought to you by Archer D. Midland, makers of high fructose corn syrup, E & J Gallo, makers of “Ripple”, Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin, and low information, gullible viewers like you.

    • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 9:16 pm #

      Yes, cigarettes, booze, pills, ADM are big advertisers.

  99. prepper of oz June 26, 2019 at 7:25 pm #

    @The Great and Infernal Truthiness of Lil Debbie Snack Packaging

    I’m fully aware my degree in Envi-Sci prepared me to be nothing more than a political officer in the Soviet Union and that’s why I want to speak out against the university system today. @Backrowheckler Yes I have looked into oil companies/fossil fuel companies. Getting into an oil field is far easier if you went to a trade school than a four year university. (I have the OCEA HAZMAT and SCBA course under my belt for whatever that’s worth.) It’s not as simple as telling everyone to go into petroleum or become a computer coder.

    Mr. Kunstler spoke about Hampshire College’s financial woes recently. That school is a great example of how the top 5-10% of society has their heads so far up their own ass that they don’t understand there can’t be servants for the servants. IE a student teacher ratio of 1:1. Some readers here might have seen the Triggly Puff meme…. I had the memorable experience of running into her once at a coffee shop; that had to be one of the biggest reality checks of my life. (No joke intended)

    The student loan issue is going to eventually explode, in ways far more dramatic than it already has. It is a cultural problem endemic not just to millenials but to every age group. (You’d be surprised how many baby boomers took out loans against their houses so their kids could go to college.) Students borrowed money and I believe they should do their best to pay it back. The problem is the system is already delusional about what the real default rate actually is. (Income based repayment plans are just default of the bond by another name) The most effective political means to combat student loans at this point without going full blown USSR socialism, is to simply stop interest from accruing on student loans. Just pay back the principal owed to the public, no harm no fowl. (If inflation rate is taken into account that’d be fine.) The bottom line is young people need the boots taken off their throat.

    Rather than draft and send our young people off to war, we’re giving them student loans. High schools shoehorn as many kids as they can into college to keep the unsustainable debt racket going. I scored a 758 on my Math SAT and I was called to the high school guidance office seven or eight times because I hadn’t picked a college. When I said I was thinking about a community college, it would have been free because of my grades, the guidance counselor pleaded with me to go to a higher ranked school. I don’t think I even said yes. It was just you’re going here.

    I was a young and stupid, piece of shit what can I say? I have worked as a produce clerk, dishwasher, cashier, and printer repair technician. If I’m still shit because I was “smart” and went to college, what can I say? More than I want any relief for student loans. I want the upcoming generation to be told don’t go to college.

    • BackRowHeckler June 26, 2019 at 8:09 pm #

      Dude, don’t call yourself a piece of sh#t. You come across as a smart kid. And believe me, if getting yourself an education is the worst ‘mistake’ you make in your life, consider yourself blessed.

      Ask anybody on this board over the age of 50 if they have any regrets over decisions they’ve made in their lives.

      Brh

    • All aboard the Yang Gang then. UBI by 2020 … Here we come!

      I’m 100% in favor of more subsidies for myself.

    • benr June 26, 2019 at 8:33 pm #

      I echo others sentiments you are working and have held jobs!
      Good for you!
      Motor on brother there is no shame in taking the work that comes.
      Life is a series of struggles and everyone gets through them but no matter what you do we always start on the ground floor.

      Have you looked at being an officer in the coast guard?
      They always need smart people and there is an element of adventure mixed in.
      As someone else mentioned you might need to move.

      You could also get into a help desk position and work your way up.
      Look into getting a couple of certifications in A+, Network+ and security + those three certifications will get you $15 an hour in some rare cases almost $30 an hour on the right contracts or jobs cycles and you don’t need to dig into boring ass code. Coding is not for everyone let me tell you.

      I am very curious about your trigglypuff encounter please expand on that.

    • Majella June 26, 2019 at 9:08 pm #

      Prepper

      “The most effective political means to combat student loans at this point without going full blown USSR socialism, is to simply stop interest from accruing on student loans. Just pay back the principal owed to the public, no harm no fowl. (If inflation rate is taken into account that’d be fine.) The bottom line is young people need the boots taken off their throat.”

      Yes! See my post upthread.

    • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 9:34 pm #

      check this guy

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrWduZYstYk&t=722s

    • malthuss June 26, 2019 at 9:42 pm #

      do diesel mechanics make 100/ hour?

      i know a guy who makes 200k a year w machine lathes? welding? something like that.

  100. Pucker June 26, 2019 at 8:45 pm #

    Beto recently posted a photo of a drowned, dead Mexican bloke on the Internet and with indignation said that “Trump is responsible.” Beto never provides any information or context to anything that he says. It’s like when he shouted passionately: “At least 10 Transgenders have been murdered so far this year. We must confront this crisis head on!”

    • benr June 26, 2019 at 8:54 pm #

      Another bites the dust the dad from ALF passed on at the young age of 75.
      Rip Max Wright.

    • JohnAZ June 26, 2019 at 8:58 pm #

      The picture is of a man and his daughter who drowned. Of course they are going to blame it on Trump. That way they do not have to take the blame for encouraging the influx of the huge amounts of people.

      Beto is a total nincompoop with no sense whatsoever. I think it is a legitimate measure of the quality of the Dem candidate class that he is a prime member.

      Why don’t the Dems have sensible candidates?

      • Pucker June 26, 2019 at 9:24 pm #

        I saw a photo of what looked like 2 bodies floating face down in the water. Maybe they were murdered and then dumped? Hell, I don’t know….

        • JohnAZ June 26, 2019 at 11:46 pm #

          Pucker

          Good point. There has been no explanation of how they died. Did the man not know how to swim and thought he could walk across. Did someone observe them drowned ? If so, why didn’t they help out?

          My guess is that no one really knows what happened.

          We have a very legitimate problem at the border, all of it caused by the Deep State in DC. The Dems refuse to try to regulate border crossings, want open borders which would be catastrophic. The GOP will not allow anything that would add 11 million Dem voters. Total impasse, and it will not change. Now the Liberal drift over the past thirty years have allowed asylum laws, and guaranteed entry to most of the invaders. They disappear into the country never to be followed or seen again. The Deep State encourages the foreign surplus population to do exactly what they are doing. The final insult by our elected idiots is to not finance any improvement or expansion of the holding facilities at the border.

          These indigents are the victims of the most callous group of aholes in US history. They are political pawns of the worst kind. No one really cares about the human condition at all.

          Trump? He predicted the caravans, asked for wall funding and funding for facility improvement which was denied by the Congress. He has negotiated with Mexico for assistance in the congestion of people. All because he Dems do not want to give him a way to handle the situation.

          The really dumb folks are the ones that think the Dems give one damn about those people at the border.

          All they see is potential votes in their incessant clamoring for power.

          • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 7:23 am #

            JohnAZ

            “There has been no explanation of how they died. Did the man not know how to swim and thought he could walk across. Did someone observe them drowned ? If so, why didn’t they help out?
            My guess is that no one really knows what happened.”

            We shouldn’t guess, when the information is so easily available. The man’s wife saw it all. The man went over with his little girl and deposited her on the American bank. Then he went back to get his wife, but the little girl, who I believe wasn’t even two years old, followed him back into the water and was carried away by the current. He tried to save her and they both drowned.

            He was his mother’s only son. Heartbroken, as you’d imagine, she is trying to persuade people not to make the journey, and to stay at home and ‘fight’.

          • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 7:27 am #

            Separately from this case, there is no shortage of articles in respectable journals about the effect of climate change on the farmers of Guatemala. I’m guessing they don’t have social security for when their crops fail.

            Maybe people should have listened 50 years ago, but when they won’t even listen now, I guess the only option is to sigh and watch tragedy unfold. It’s only starting.

            “They would not listen, they’re not listening still
            Perhaps they never will”

            As somebody said.

          • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 7:49 am #

            And, Exscotticus, in case you wish to jump in, we both agree on the need for poor people to have fewer children, and probably also on the cultural (and other) reasons why they have them anyway, so it’s not an either-or, it’s both, when it comes to climate change and overpopulation.

          • Exscotticus June 27, 2019 at 10:27 am #

            GreenAlba, recall that I’m not a climate change denier; I’m a climate change solutions denier.

            It’s an undisputed fact that the Sahara Desert was once a sea. Even as recent as 6-8k years ago it was lush and tropical. Human activity had nothing to do with this change.

            Moreover, as it turns out, winds carry the desert sands to South America where it fertilizes the Amazon. So in this case, one area’s loss is another’s gain. Restore the Sahara back to its glory and we may very well destroy the Amazon.

            Getting back to the invading hordes, asserting climate change is involved is a distraction at best, and more likely a misplaced obsession. It’s not like the Fuego volcanic explosion where Guatemalans were caught by surprise. By definition, climate change is slow and gradual. So slow that it takes centuries of data before we can be certain that it’s even happening.

            The more likely culprit is the obvious one: opportunity. With tens of thousands traveling north in massive caravans, there’s no need to pay coyotes. There’s safety in numbers. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance. And every migrant we let in inspires more to make the journey. We can actually see these migrations ebb and flow with changes in policy and reporting by the media.

          • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 1:00 pm #

            Exscotticus

            “GreenAlba, recall that I’m not a climate change denier; I’m a climate change solutions denier.”

            I’m conscious of that.

            And I don’t deny the ‘opportunity’ aspect, but that doesn’t make the reality of their plight any less genuine. And there’s a tipping point aspect to such things too, probably.

            https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/drought-climate-change-force-guatemalans-migrate-to-us/

            (There are any number of similar articles.)

            I specifically said we should have been listening 50 years ago. Obviously with every passing year, realistic ‘solutions’ disappear and that disappearance gives succour to the recalcitrants who fought all those decades to obfuscate the issues. (And we have climate records from 800,000 years ago until today).

            I didn’t mention your name to start another thread about climate change, which would be truly pointless – I merely wished to prevent another thread headed ‘climate change isn’t our fault for burning fossil fuels like there’s no tomorrow (maybe there isn’t!), it’s all theirs for having too many babies).

            In fact it’s a function of the number of people and their consumption – and always will be.

          • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 1:06 pm #

            And remember I’m not a proper-borders denier either, Exscotticus!

          • Exscotticus June 27, 2019 at 2:26 pm #

            GreenAlba that NG article is such fake news nonsense. Allow me to quote it…

            Now, with a dwindling supply of food, and no source of income, he’s wondering how he’ll be able to feed his six young children.

            Did it ever occur to Méndez López to NOT have six children? I don’t have six children. I bet you don’t have six childen. I bet most of this forum’s community doesn’t have six children. It’s not a RIGHT to have six children. On the contrary, it’s CRIMINALLY IRRESPONSIBLE to have that many children under circumstances where you don’t have a reasonable expectation that you can care for them.

            Floods, droughts, landslides, earthquakes and violence are nothing new or unusual in that area. Breeder cultures live on the edge and always have.

            No one wants to see children starving. But it’s not the job of responsible people to be economic slaves to human leeches and parasites expecting us to pay for their broods. It’s not our job to subsidize the lives of risk-takers who gamble and lose.

            FYI, that NG article’s title (likely composed by an editor) doesn’t match its content…

            While scientists know that El Niño contributes to increases in global temperatures, it is still unclear whether human-induced climate change is causing El Niño events to intensify and occur more frequently.

            A lack of historical meteorological data makes demonstrating a clear connection between human-induced climate change and increased climate variability difficult.

            “We still have some ways to go before we can conclude scientifically that what we’re seeing now is outside the normal.

  101. Pucker June 26, 2019 at 9:01 pm #

    “The problem is the system is already delusional about what the real default rate actually is. (Income based repayment plans are just default of the bond by another name) The most effective political means to combat student loans at this point without going full blown USSR socialism, is to simply stop interest from accruing on student loans. Just pay back the principal owed to the public, no harm no fowl. (If inflation rate is taken into account that’d be fine.) “

    Good Idea.

    Unfortunately, the banks have probably packaged the student loans into securitized debt instruments and then sold the bonds to investors. If the students stop paying interest, then there’s a default and another horrible financial crisis? So the student galley debt slaves will have to fight like Ben Hur or keep rowing….

    • Pucker June 26, 2019 at 9:07 pm #

      In other words, the young people are being “harvested”, like the Aztecs….

  102. PeteAtomic June 26, 2019 at 9:16 pm #

    Demos debating and Warren already promising everything for everyone except rich people, and beto breaking into Spanish.
    Lol commentator points out failure of demo policy in NYC, and de blasio
    Counters with wealth redistribution

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    • JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 1:03 am #

      70% tax on high income, and corporate tax needs a boost

      Dumb!

      The rest of the country’s manufacturing will leave,. Robotics will take over. The Elite everyone loves to hate will just pull up stakes and leave and I wouldn’t blame them.

      America, the land of opportunity! Until you hit the jackpot then we will get you.

      If I was a Dem, I would favor the 50’s progressive income tax to keep capital flowing downhill. If the rates are too high, and the economy flags, which it did, leading to the Reagan tax cuts then let the Fed adjust the rates down. When things are good, adjust the rates up. And stop the lobbyists from putting in exemptions to make it so Corps pay nothing. My guess is that is the great mystery of the Trump tax returns is that his tax lawyers got him off paying taxes,

      LEGALLY!

      His dad was a champ at it. His kids benefited enormously.

      Taxes are a game, to see what you can get away with, many lawyers earn their income this way.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 27, 2019 at 1:33 am #

      It’s gonna be a Potlach, a competition as to who can give away the most of the remaining wealth and heritage of White America.

    • benr June 27, 2019 at 11:59 am #

      Redefine the term rich.
      If you are in these United states compared to many other parts of the world YOU ARE RICH!
      When globalist which most DEMOCRATS ARE talk about the 1% and taxing the rich they mean everyone don’t let them fool you!
      They are not just talking about income tax no they mean consumption tax.
      The act of buying goods and services a layered tax scheme where everything is taxed that you pay money for.
      When the idiots in Sacramento raise the gas tax another nickel it affects the poorest people in the state the most.
      Do they care….nope.
      They do how ever lie non-stop on what the money stolen from everyone us actually used for. Right now they pontificate at length for the roads for the roads and yet the roads in California are crap I have seen roads in Mexico that are better engineered and taken care of.
      When they say its for the kids! Look out.
      Its always about power, control and most of all trickling money into their own pockets and their friends pockets.
      Power corruption and most of all lies.

  103. Pucker June 26, 2019 at 9:46 pm #

    The Social Justice Warrior ideologues posit that the prisons are filled with mostly black people because they’re black rather than because they commit crimes. The ideologues further posit that whites are equally prone to criminality but get off because of “White Privilege”.

    • James Hansen June 26, 2019 at 10:19 pm #

      I love my White Privilege, in the last 25 years I was stopped five times while driving and the first four times all I got was warnings,

      The fifth time I got a ticket for 61 in a 50, I went to court and told the judge due to my great driving record I thought I should have gotten a warning, the ticket was dismissed!

      No way would a black guy be as lucky as me.

      • Pucker June 26, 2019 at 10:50 pm #

        Would the South Bend cops have let you off with just a warning if they found you rummaging through cars at 2:30 am?

      • Janos Skorenzy June 27, 2019 at 1:31 am #

        Very few Black guys would have such a clean record. That’s the reason behind the much ballyhooed difference in sentencing: they already long records before they reach their late teens.

        • malthuss June 27, 2019 at 9:56 am #

          Indeed-you see cause and effect.

          Oh, the last time we were stopped, it was by a Black policeman and we were given a ticket. He was waiting to write them. Forgot our seatbelts.

    • EvelynV June 26, 2019 at 11:23 pm #

      Yeah, the crime of smoking or possessing marijuana.

  104. Well, I think the Dems just debuted as the party of total chaos. Exhausting.

  105. Walter B June 26, 2019 at 10:10 pm #

    I just tuned into a bit of the demagogic debate and was not disappointed. We have become a pathetic tribe of mindless idiots if we are going to decide who to put into the Oval Office based upon their view of abortion verses no abortion, any other sexual issue, and all of the mindless bullshit they spew about “healthcare”.

    I am not a supporter of abortion, but IMHO, if you want to get one, knock yourself out, just don’t require me to pay for it, although in some cases, I might be willing to fork over the cash.

    Choosing a Chief Executive based upon their views of any other sexual issue is simply admitting that America is now just a pathetic porno film playing out in real life.

    And I say fuck you to anyone that discusses “healthcare” that does not start out the conversation with a statement that “their plan” is the same plan that the senators and congressmen are cover by!

    That being said, Tulsi Gabbard smoked the asses of everyone there when she commented on Iran and the need to do our best to not add another war of regime change there. And anyone that was tough enough to listen to Cory Booker and not vomit must surely realize that he needs to go back to the ironbound Section of Newark and stay there, not that the Portuguese people living there would want him.

    • Pucker June 26, 2019 at 10:56 pm #

      I’m a supporter of abortion for low IQ people and for people who are woefully irresponsible and who expect me to pick up the bill for their irresponsibility. In such cases, they should abort the parents….

      • Pucker June 26, 2019 at 11:09 pm #

        “But it’s a Soul! A Soul!!!!”

      • EvelynV June 27, 2019 at 2:47 am #

        A great idea Pucker! Abortion for low IQ people would be the end of the republican party once and for all. What’s the oldest they would have to be to no longer be legal to abort – 50, 65, 70??

        • benr June 27, 2019 at 11:49 am #

          Yes because you appear to be so smart.
          Every time I see someone of your ilk claiming to be intelligent it always turns out they are the most clueless person in the room.
          You see dumb people don’t know their dumb.
          Fredo said it best.

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

          • EvelynV June 27, 2019 at 10:23 pm #

            Don’t get your jockies in a twist bendie, it’s not going to happen so you’re safe.

            On a side note, I swear, every redneck who posts in forums sooner or later uses the word “ilk”. What’s up with that, do they teach it at some redneck academy I’ve never heard about?

      • benr June 27, 2019 at 11:52 am #

        Bravo because after all they are but weeds to be plucked.
        The Eugenics movement lives and breathes in fact it thrives and the leftist trolls call righties Nazis oh the irony.

  106. Walter B June 26, 2019 at 10:39 pm #

    Wow, Cory Booker, champion of the African -American, transsexual community, what a platform to present to rule over America as president! Perhaps I am an idiot, but I long for the possibility of somebody, someday responding to a question asked about how they feel about the QRSTLNMOP issue with a statement of, “I really don’t care about what kind of sex a person has or who they have it with, but I do care about the difference between a person that is willing to work together with me to get something accomplished rather than simply tearing something apart”. I won’t hold my breath waiting.

    • EvelynV June 27, 2019 at 2:49 am #

      How is your breath Walter? Hope it’s not the kind people hope they can hold their own until they can get a window open.

  107. FincaInTheMountains June 26, 2019 at 10:49 pm #

    Boris Yeltsin Politics and Freedom of Will, or how the Putinomics had begun

    And in response, the bloke cried out:

    – It’s fucking Putin!!! I knew it, it’s him! He stole our money! But we are going to catch every dollar he stole from us and he is going to pay dearly!

    So, in a slightly mythologized form, I then realized this:

    The United States allocated 10 billion dollars to the Russian Federation to support the ruble exchange rate, which for some reason was beneficial to the United States. But they became wary when Chernomyrdin did not receive the money and resigned, but received the money the acting Prime Minister Kiriyenko, though not all, but half. True money, he received almost all cash money, which was brought on a special Boeing.

    But all this is my speculation. Impressions from the context, so to speak.

    And now, whether the next day, or a few days after the arrival of this Boeing, the ruble exchange rate began to crumble and the Kiriyenko government, in full compliance with the instructions of the IMF, began to buy rubles using arrived dollars.

    But people came to the currency exchange with trucks full of rubles in bank packages, from which it followed that the money received from the sale of the Russian T-bills and bought up all the IMF dollars in 15 minutes. And it was half an hour before the close of the exchange and an hour before the TV turned by the bloke from Wall Street.

    For some reason, in the NPR comments, this combination was called the <b<Byzantine Intrigue, and if at first (morning) they just fumed with rage, then in the evening they realized that the more they would be outraged, the clearer it would be that the IMF was taken for a ride on a perfectly legal grounds.

    And slowed down the tone. I remember a critical moment when the lead NPR anchor, apparently not equipped with the appropriate instructions, thinking out loud asked a suit from the IMF:

    What were the true objectives of the issuance of this loan, if not buying the rubles of the Russian T-Bills pyramid?

    The dark story.

    I have not managed to find reliable information about whether an IMF loan was issued to Kiriyenko or not, and if so, when and in what form. And yet, it is completely unclear what happened earlier, and what later – the government declared a technical default, and then the ruble exchange rate began to fall or vice versa. So far, logically, it turns out that first there was an IMF loan, then a default, then a ruble collapse, then an IMF loan disappearance in an unknown direction.

    Accordingly, the T-Bills pyramid was not a pyramid at all, but a special operation, which made it possible to concentrate funds in the hands of the state that were not in the hands of the oligarchs. And the default has several times magnified the effect of this special operation, so that after a default, the state could simply buy up all the best companies of Russia, that is, on a completely legitimate basis, to re-nationalize the economy.

    Actually, the Russian economy began to recover after this special operation. And the fortune of the new Russian bourgeoisie, which perished during the default, was reminiscent of the drug in the hands of a drug addict.

    First of all, the markets obviously instantly figured out that a strong government appeared in Russia and oil prices began to rise. After a year and a half, they increased 3 times and one and a half times surpassed the prices that were before the onset of the Asian economic crisis.

    Accordingly, budget revenues, taking into account the cost of oil production, have increased 6 times, and the economic strength of the IMF loan has increased 5 times due to the depreciation of the ruble.

    So if the IMF really wanted to normalize the economic situation in Russia, then it undoubtedly succeeded. 🙂

    Part of these 10 billion dollars was given out in cash and the IMF tracked them – they were paid out as combat pay during the Second Chechen War. So once again, thanks to the IMF – it paid for the defeat of Shamil Basayev.

    And the Russian industry immediately after the default turned out to be competitive and if in 1998 only 30 percent of the industry worked, and Russia received money only as handouts from international financial organizations, then by 2001 only 30 percent did not work, and Russia’s debt decreased to zero.

    I remember how people, who were distraught from misfortunes and hopelessness, cut the wires leading to their own village and sold them as scrap. Another couple of years of such economy and all the fixed assets would be dismantled for scrap, and after turning off the international financial charity, the well-dressed corpses of the Moscow bourgeoisie could simply be collected from the streets along with the corpses of the rest of the population and forget that there was such a city Moscow and such a country Russia.

    To be continued…

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  108. Pucker June 26, 2019 at 11:07 pm #

    Artificial Intelligence and the merging of biology and engineering and the creation of living machines and sexbot robot sex slaves….

    Susan Hockfield
    The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

    • malthuss June 27, 2019 at 10:01 am #

      Did you see my post?

      malthuss June 26, 2019 at 12:56 am #

    • Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 10:25 am #

      I imagine the sexbot sex slave role would be getting reversed post haste, once the robots figure out what’s going on. “Who’s your robot sex daddy now, bitch?” And guess what? They can party all day, all night, 24/7 for as long as their batteries hold out. Better get all your orifices sleeved and lubed, boys! You’re gonna need ’em!

  109. Walter B June 26, 2019 at 11:50 pm #

    This from MSN:

    Chuck Todd of NBC asked the field who the biggest “geopolitical threat” was to the United States. And the Democrats did not agree. Here were their answers:

    ? Mr. Delaney: “The biggest challenge is China.” He added, “The biggest geopolitical threat remains nuclear weapons.”

    ? Mr. Inslee: “The biggest threat is Donald Trump.”

    ? Ms. Gabbard: “Nuclear war.”

    ? Ms. Klobuchar: “China” (as an “economic threat”). But, she added, “the major threat is what is going in the Mideast with Iran.”

    ? Mr. O’Rourke: “Climate change.”

    ? Ms. Warren: “Climate change.”

    ? Mr. Booker: “Nuclear proliferation and climate change.”

    ? Mr. Castro: “China and climate change.”

    ? Mr. Ryan: “China.”

    ? Mr. de Blasio: “Russia.”

    • James Hansen June 27, 2019 at 12:19 am #

      Anybody that is not in a coma should know the biggest threat to the U.S. is those 535 people in Washington. All the problems we have and many throughout the world can be traced back to them.

      • JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 1:24 am #

        Right! And the biggest myth is that they care one iota about the people.

      • Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 6:13 am #

        Agreed. DC is the problem, not any kind of solution. Boycott the elections charade.

    • PeteAtomic June 27, 2019 at 9:23 am #

      de Blasio was the most clueless empty-headed candidate up there.. although Booker & Beto were close behind him

  110. Pucker June 27, 2019 at 12:07 am #

    The biggest geopolitical threat to the U.S. is “Fat, Stupid, Willfully Ignorant Motherfuckers”….

    Don’t the Gnostics believe that there is a God, but he doesn’t interfere in the affairs of Man? In other words, “God’s Plan” doesn’t involve, as Jules would say, “come’n down from Heaven and stop’n dem Motherfuck’n bullets.” Right?

  111. Pucker June 27, 2019 at 12:14 am #

    The biggest geopolitical threat to the U.S.: The Baby Boomers….

    • JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 12:42 am #

      Pucker

      A report issued about a week ago stated that the generation that overspent their SS allotment was the great generation from WW2. Why? Because they contributed when payroll deductions were small. My adder is that during their dominion life expectancy grew a lot.

      Also part of the report said that the Boomers are not, repeat not, spending their SS allotments yet.

      • JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 12:49 am #

        Report by Ann Schmidt, Fox Business News

        Baby Boomers aren’t to blame for Social Security Troubles -study says

        • capt spaulding June 27, 2019 at 8:16 am #

          Social Security is a Socialist program, hell, it’s even in the name.

  112. JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 1:21 am #

    College

    Think about it. The Deep State and their globalist masters wanted to move manufacturing overseas with its middle class wages in the 60’s. There was a bunch of environmentalism in there to. The middle class job market dried up and we got stagflation. The remaining jobs were high tech, advertising and Wall Street. Oops, let us not forget politics.

    Common denominator, college. So our political managers of the time sold us that the answer was everyone goes to college and everyone will get a great paying job..

    People, we are foolish to ever listen to a politician giving away free stuff. No such thing as free.

    Income Inequality is the result. We have the famous one percent who gathers up a large %. College, most of them.

    College is not for everyone, we are not all academicians. But the PTB made it their business to convince us that college is a requirement to be active in the job market. And to help us out in our requirement to have college on our resume, we will be glad to give you loans, big loans and just pay them back over your lifetime.

    One huge problem, most of the college work was useless in the job market and the loans still had to be paid. You cannot even get rid of them by bankruptcy. GenZ is having to deal with this now, and some are getting wise to the BS the PTB are handing out and opting not to go to college.

    Smart!

    BTW, as these loan folks have probably losing their appeal, I imagine they are currently selling time shares.

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    • Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 6:11 am #

      Good observations. Yes, college is all about the financialization of “higher” education, whether the education is useful in any way (other than as a revenue source for the financialists, of course) or not. The genius was in tying it to credentialism, which now makes it mandatory for getting into the corporate rackets, even though those chances are now dwindling quickly. Same as it ever was: when everyone has the credential, the credential becomes meaningless. And lying about it by claiming degrees that one has not earned remains a fairly low risk, high profit endeavor for those who are clever enough to try.

    • The politicians are saying “College is for anyone” and yet your rejoinder is, “College is not for everyone”

      Care to explain the discrepancy?

      • Ol' Scratch June 28, 2019 at 6:17 am #

        What part of that is hard? College is not a good use of time and money for most people. It’s an expensive anachronism. Most people would be better off taking up a trade through a paid apprenticeship, which is how things used to be done.

  113. Pucker June 27, 2019 at 2:40 am #

    How come German tanks are always called “panzers” whereas all other combatants refer to them as “tanks”?

    “An early strike, Mellenthin advised, had a greater chance of success for ‘the Russian defences around Kursk were by no means adequate to resist a determined attack … [but] a delay of one or two months would make our task far more formidable.’ The operation was to be classic blitzkrieg, eschewing a grinding advance for a swift and efficient strike, the kind of attack at which the Wehrmacht had excelled and which would preserve panzers for future operations. A double envelopment with pincers directed at the city of Kursk would surround the majority of the defenders and seal off the salient along the Maloarkhangelsk–Kursk–Belgorod line. It was a bold plan, audacious even, considering the physical condition of the Wehrmacht and what it had just been through, but Hitler and OKW were confident that Zitadelle would revitalize German strategic fortunes in the East. As Manstein said in a letter to Zeitzler on 18 April: ‘Everything now depends on the success of Zitadelle. A victory at Kursk would also make up for the temporary setbacks elsewhere …“

    Lloyd Clark
    Kursk: The Greatest Battle

  114. Pucker June 27, 2019 at 2:44 am #

    It’s too bad that Arnold Schwarzenegger didn’t participate in the Democratic debates.

  115. K-Dog June 27, 2019 at 2:49 am #

    Hustling their way to an election disaster in 2020, they play right into the small-ish hands of Mr. Trump, the Golden Golem of Greatness.

    With every hustle they piss off people more and more and the ‘T’ on the window of the Ford F-150 says nice and clean. Red white and blue.

    The battle lines are clear and sides have been picked. But a dog can get so pissed off a dog might refuse to wag a tail in any direction at all come election day and not vote. Contrary to popular belief there would be nothing wrong with a dog saying chase your own damn ball in American make-believe reality politics. Refusing to vote for a fool does not make one a fool. It makes one the opposite of a fool. Since reality is optional then so is my ballot. More than one candidate can be a fool so I’ll not be. This could be powerful.

    No matter who wins we lose. So chase your own damn ball. In ten years it won’t matter who won Rep or Dem. Reason being; allowing either party to continue in power will be a fatal mistake. Both parties have lost touch with reality at a time when being in touch with reality is less optional than ever before.

    • Pucker June 27, 2019 at 3:16 am #

      During the debate, Beto kept asking for “Cerveza”.

      • Pucker June 27, 2019 at 3:26 am #

        Beto:

        “La cerveza (del celto-latín cerevis?a) es una bebida alcohólica, no destilada, de sabor amargo, que se fabrica con granos de cebada germinados u otros cereales cuyo almidón se fermenta en agua con levadura (principalmente Saccharomyces cerevisiae o Saccharomyces pastorianus) y se aromatiza a menudo con lúpulo, entre otras plantas.“

      • Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 6:02 am #

        He’s multi-cultural! [Crowd cheers]

        • BackRowHeckler June 27, 2019 at 7:04 am #

          With a name like Beto, who wouldn’t be?

          Did Pete Buttplug, Americas Mayor, change his name to Pedro yet?

          Brh

          • Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 11:08 am #

            I think he’s going with Tyrone in an effort to win back the black vote. I think it will be an uphill battle.

          • malthuss June 27, 2019 at 1:33 pm #

            , Americas GAY Mayor

    • ozone June 27, 2019 at 10:21 am #

      K-Dog,
      To actually address your post, Paul Street goes back to the beginning: who gets what and why. The veil is ripped away. Regardless of what anyone thinks of his personal politics, he outlines the setup of the crafty illusion.

      https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/13/time-to-stop-playing-simon-says-with-james-madison-and-alexander-hamilton/

      What duh publick gets to do every 1460 days is exercise their futile hopes.

      Meaningful action flowers upon the grave of hope. This is the idea that modern Americans refuse to entertain, and why they wait for a savior.

  116. K-Dog June 27, 2019 at 3:15 am #

    The ‘T’ on the window of the Ford F-150 stays nice and clean.

  117. Pucker June 27, 2019 at 3:40 am #

    America’s greatest strategic threat may be the Americans’ own desperation. Like the Germans in 1943, the Americans will be driven by their own predicament to make a foolish, tragic mistake….

    “The Germans were going to have the tables turned on them. They were to be drawn into a carefully devised trap, which aimed to destroy the Wehrmacht’s armoured power and create the conditions for a major Soviet offensive. At the heart of Stalin’s plan was the careful use of intelligence, which would be allowed to guide the military’s actions in a way that had yet to be seen in the war.”

    Lloyd Clark
    Kursk: The Greatest Battle

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    • Pucker June 27, 2019 at 4:15 am #

      Possible tragic, stupid strategic blunders include: Neocon war with Iran or Russia; Massive orgy of quantitative easing money printing; Hard turn left to Socialism; Hard Right turn to God-Only-Knows….

      • Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 6:01 am #

        Great post! Desperate people, desperate times, desperate leaders, desperate choices…

  118. KesaAnna June 27, 2019 at 3:43 am #

    ” How many Whites have been victims of Black crime?
    In 20th century, in USA?

    Any idea? A billion violent crimes against Whites by Blacks? ”

    Well ………let us say that it is absolutely true that the ratio is ten , or even a hundred , to one.

    Well , long about 1960 – 1970 these bright white people started preaching to the masses that sex was really all about individual rights , and only and exclusively about consensual acts between two people ……..

    Actually , sexual acts —- with the possible exception of masturbation in the closet with the door locked and using only your imagination —- never occur in a vacuum .

    Sex takes place within a matrix of relationships involving perhaps many third parties who don’t get a vote .

    What about that ? They downplayed that at best , or buried it at worst .

    And look around this blog here in 2019 ; THEY STILL DO.

    And in the main , Left wing or right wing , traditionalist or Bolshevik , seems to play little role in that narrative. Politics frankly seems irrelevant . BOTH stripes push that narrative.

    Ok ………what the Hell does that have to do with black crime?

    A Hell of a lot.

    — But I don’t feel like writing 15 pages to cover obvious and simple shit.

    So maybe a more direct and simplistic example will serve?

    I don’t know if he ever actually said it , but in a movie they put the words in General Patton’s mouth ,

    ” Americans love a winner , and will not tolerate a loser……..

    ….. when you were kids you all admired the best ball player , the fastest runner ….. ”

    Well , teaching such a philosophy to little white boys in a white imperium might be all well and good .

    Indeed , I’m given to think that it probably worked very well when the New World was the New World , a vast frontier with few obstacles except the natural kind , the Wild West and all of that.

    I would think that a Klansman , be he Neanderthal bigot and all of that , would never the less easily see , though , that extending such a philosophy even to little white girls ,

    or even to black boys , might be pretty darned problematical ?

    I’m afraid , though , that those who are presumably more egalitarian or liberal might never the less have a very hard time getting through their brain the notion that ;

    The New World is not the New World anymore. The frontier is closed. And the Wild West era barely lasted 30 years anyway.

    Have you ever seen the Movies , ” Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ” , or , ” Tom Horn ” with Steve McQueen ?

    In both movies , the Wild West era has ended , but three icons of that era cannot / will not adapt to it.

    I think you could replace white skin with black skin , and change the date to 2019 , make no other changes , and both movie scripts would still work the same.

    Now that I think of it , I think you could replace male actors with female ones , and it would again still work , but with , perhaps , a crippling difference that would ensure that no such movie gets made ;

    Both movies are essentially tragedies , and end badly. Yet despite the clear negatives , and the obvious warts , men may still be flattered by it , and women might still idolize the muddled and doomed protagonists .

    What society really teaches , and to women now too , is that being the alpha predator is all gravy and glamour.

    But a woman , especially in the role of Tom Horn ?

    Tom Horn does not wind up master of his environment , or liberated from it , but becomes a dismally pointless victim of a dark agenda .

    I very much doubt that in that context , with a female actor , there would be scarce anything to flatter the male , and no , no feminist would like it. Not one bit.

    It couldn’t possibly be that philosophy and world view leaves a lot to be desired all together , and even in conditions where it ” works ” ?

    No ! No ! No ! Perish the thought !

    Another example of why I say I have never encountered such dogmatic religiosity in any church , mosque , or temple , as I encounter in the seemingly mundane , secular , non – religious world .

    I could just say that anonymous self – report studies ( at least so many that I have looked at ) pretty consistently show that upper class and middle class folk commit felonies , even violent ones , at roughly the same rate as working class ones.

    Likewise , that women , reporting on themselves anonymously ( ! ) consistently prove in the resultant numbers to be as abusive , violent , and predatory as men.

    Never the less , yes , the prisons are 90% full of poor men.

    Never mind that the prisons are 90% full of poor WHITE men in a 90% white imperium too.

    And I suspect the prisons would still be 90% full of white poor men in a 90% white Amazon imperium.

    ( That , or women would look very different in such a context , and you might not like at all what you see. Since I brought up classical mythology ; maybe she would look a bit like Medea or Medusa ? )

    I rather suspect the numbers that are habitually trotted out say less about any objective reality ,

    or even really about the obfuscations and machinations of the ruling class ,

    but rather a lot about the self – flattering quasi – religious vanities of the peasantry.

    My guess would be that you would chalk up my views and suspicions to being female , or mixed – race , or an America – hating alien ,

    and would discount that it is very unlikely that GreenAlba or Elrond would be eager to rush in and back me up .

    • Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 5:59 am #

      Shorter: Manifest Destiny wrapped up in a veneer or American Exceptionalism, all expressed through the archetypal Heroic Individual, all reinforced daily by the technological wonders of the ever-present mass delusional media. It’s the prototypical Hero’s Journey myth writ LARGE (the only way Americans know to write anything), and it’s failing tragically as you say here, because there’s no more frontiers to conquer, even though the myth makers are working overtime to try to create some. [No, moving to Mars, transporting our essences into virtual reality, or redefining ourselves sexually are NOT new frontiers!] Prison cells are actually as good a way as any other to hold the poor souls who have adopted that myth and been defeated by it, for they are essentially dead already anyway. The idiots still pursuing it are just awaiting their same fate. People are so desperate to live up to this mythical construct that they’ll eagerly destroy themselves and theirs in its pursuit, or alternatively, live lives of quiet desperation in defeat if they fail.

      • malthuss June 27, 2019 at 1:35 pm #

        Neither of you gave me even the roughest guess at how many violent acts.

        • Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 2:09 pm #

          Statistics. Pick a number and go with it. That’s the prevailing trend today.

    • BackRowHeckler June 27, 2019 at 6:56 am #

      Tom Horn, I knew his name would come up here eventually. I have a copy of the book he wrote in jail around here somewhere. He was a literate man, as well as being many other things.

      There is an interesting photo extant of Horn walking to the scaffold on the day he was hung. I think it was in 1903, in Wyoming. Apparently the whole town turned out for the event, there they were. Here’s the thing, not a horse to be seen. Every one was either pushing or riding a Columbia bicycle, not the high wheelers from the 1880s, but relatively modern looking bikes (made in Hartford Ct) In the background you could see telephone poles with llines strung on them. The Old West was definitely over. It was all over but the hanging, it seems.

      Brh

      • Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 9:58 am #

        Are you on the beach pursing mass quantities of liquid libation (and the devil only knows what else) today?

        • BackRowHeckler June 27, 2019 at 10:54 am #

          Nah, cleaning out the garage.

          Day was pretty good, caught some flounders, caught some rays, temp. In the low 80s (scientific note to GA, sea level about the same as it was last summer) but then the wife insisted I take her to this Basque restaurant she’d heard about it was great blah blah blah. I should have known better but off we went. It wasn’t far from the pier and the beach but I had the suspicion something was up when my wife, the bartender and the waiter were talking back and forth in Basque, which nobody else I know understands, and there were no prices on the menu, which were also in Basque. “I can’t read this menu.” “Well I asked for the one printed in Basque”. Fried clams weren’t on the menu, which is what I wanted. I let her do the ordering, a fish dinner with veggies it turned out, with a Sam Adams . It wasn’t bad. But when when we finished the check came to $106.00. For lunch! I had enough on me to cover it but when it was time to go they were all over at the bar happily jabbering in Basque, which is a strange language if you’ve ever heard it spoken.

          Brh

          • Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 11:04 am #

            Cleaning out the garage. Now there’s and All-American pastime. Goes well with cold beers sipped leisurely and baseball on the radio (NOT TV!). Or at least it did back in the day. All while checking out an occasional young filly or two across/down the street traipsing around in suggestively skimpy summer attire. THOSE were the days!

            Sure glad they don’t have any Basque bistros around here. Not that I ever go out to eat anyway. I’m on a strict diet of fingernail and hair clippings these days. Tastes like it anyway.

          • Exscotticus June 27, 2019 at 11:48 am #

            >>> (scientific note to GA, sea level about the same as it was last summer)

            LOL.

          • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 12:43 pm #

            Yes, and when I look in the mirror I seem to look pretty much the same as I did last summer too.

            Funny that 🙂 .

      • malthuss June 27, 2019 at 1:36 pm #

        There is a beautiful place called Ascension Island.
        A man died there. A ship left him on the desert isle.
        he had been involved in buggery on the ship.

        Not sure why only 1 man was left. IMO it takes 2 to tangle. or tango.

  119. PeteAtomic June 27, 2019 at 10:00 am #

    CNN declaring the “winners” and “losers” of the debate last night. You have to take what CNN says on this topic seriously because it is the mouthpiece of the DNC/establishment in this matter.
    According to CNN, Castro, Warren and Booker were the ‘winners’. Beto was the ‘loser’.

    I’d argue they were largely all ‘losers’ with the exception of Gabbard and Klobuchar who at least came off as largely genuine (or were good at acting genuine).
    Beto, Booker, De Blasio, the governor of WA, and the fella from Ohio came off as shrill, high pitched, and hysterical– and in various degrees of pandering towards the SJW & demo socialists.

    • Walter B June 27, 2019 at 11:41 am #

      Booker is a clueless idiot and why he wasted so many words in pandering for black transgender votes is beyond me. Are there really that many that securing a majority of them would win Cory the election? Bets the shit out of me. I am damned tired of hearing sellout scumbag politicians rant on about sexual issues when there are plenty of critical issues that a chief executive should be concentrating on.

      • Exscotticus June 27, 2019 at 12:03 pm #

        >>> Are there really that many

        They sure would like you to think so.

        LGBT makes up an estimated 5% of the population. And those stats come from the Left, so it’s likely even less. Transgender blacks? Far less than 1%.

        But judging from MSM, Hollywood, etc., you would think LGBT is 50% or more.

        For Booker, of course, this is all just virtue-signaling. It’s not about LGBT; it’s about non-LGBT liberals believing that Booker is their future Wokester-in-Chief.

  120. PeteAtomic June 27, 2019 at 10:13 am #

    The next 10 (or whatever) DNC ppl are tonight. I’m predicting that these next candidates will shift leftward– so you’ll have more and grander promises for enormous government programs and giveaways. I think what you’ll hear, particularly from Sanders, is that last night “wasn’t enough”, and that all this talk about a mixed economy must go– and the US needs to go full Venezuala.
    I think the topic of UBI will probably come up, and so will reparations for all types of people– gays, blacks– and maybe new groups, too. Why stop with gays and blacks? Why not the families of the Japanese interred during WWII?
    the same with gun control and a variety of topics. Maybe you’ll hear a call for full gun abolition. Maybe for real censorship. I wouldn’t be surprised.

  121. Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 11:39 am #

    More on the Iran drone provocation/shootdown. As might have been expected, it appears this was just another case of he said / she said.

    https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/06/sources-say-downed-uav-penetrated-deep-into-iranian-airspace/

    • PeteAtomic June 27, 2019 at 11:52 am #

      false flag op to try to sucker the US into a war with Iran.. thanks to ppl like John Bolton who continues to have his fangs balls deep into US foreign policy moves

      • JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 3:16 pm #

        War hawks like Bolton persist because diplomacy ultimately does not work. Eventually every major human disagreement is settled with war with the world changing to the doctrines of the winner.

        Greece knew this, Alexander knew this, Rome knew this , Europe knew it, now America is learning this.

        The problem is when you are playing whack-a-mole with so many diverse elements you drive into huge debt and resentment. All the above mentioned groups discovered this too late and ended up on the ash pile of history.

    • stelmosfire June 27, 2019 at 12:22 pm #

      Ol’ Scratch back in the day I was based in Oman. I passed through that secret base “the Grundle” . I remember like it was yesterday, especially the odor.

      • Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 12:47 pm #

        Ahh yes! Like very ripe fish… on a good day. Quite a bit more pungent on all the rest.

  122. volodya June 27, 2019 at 11:54 am #

    Majella,

    money greases the wheels regardless of the legal vehicle it rides in, and while there are legitimately competing interests, those with shitloads of dough shouldn’t be allowed to hijack the public agenda.

    But, inside or outside of politics, money talks. A moneyed-man can donate to a college and have a department or school named after him. So whose views do you think would figure most prominently when colleges take stances on various issues even if their donors don’t have their names on buildings?

    People laugh and say “conspiracy nut”. But I’ve worked in the corporate world, I’ve been to the exclusive clubs (on the company dime), I’ve attended professional conferences (it was pretty much compulsory to keep your standing), I’ve listened in person to prominent economists and execs propound their view of things. After the formal presentations are done, you stand around in claques drinking, and you see these guys up close and you listen (and maybe contribute your two cents).

    You can use the word “conspiracy” to disparage, but what I’ve seen is elite consensus as to a view of the world, as to how things ought to run and, implicitly or explicitly, as to whose interests ought to predominate. I’m not a Davos type as I’m not rich enough, nor was I ever in the top executive echelon, but I was high enough on the ladder of the professional ranks, and I’ve seen enough to know that this “elite” we’re talking about is a relative handful of people. Money is the common denominator, who has it, who deploys it, who has an understanding of it.

    The problem here is one of money, in politics for sure, but also money outside of the confines of the political realm and especially the attitudes of those that possess it. The common view is that money should have no fetters, that the sole priority of the corporation or business is to maximize profit, that there should be no obligation to do anything other than this.

    This view came to predominate in the political world and was given effect via international agreements. And, as anyone with functioning eyeballs could attest, this was the maximally destructive path. This is why we have Trump, this is the reason for the weekly festivities in France, and also the rise of “populist” parties – as if this was a bad thing. As I think K-Dog said, Kansas isn’t buying their bullshit anymore, and that goes for a lot of folk world-wide. This is just the beginning, people know they’ve been bamboozled, but it takes time for movements and events to coalesce. For example, Marx wrote in the 1850s but his followers didn’t start to overturn governments until the next century ie Russia, China, Cuba and many others.

    And money corrupts. As Montsegur so aptly put it, money talks, Hillary walks.

    If not for the overshadowing influence of a globalist moneyed elite, would Hillary have got off? As Comey said, “no criminal intent”. The best legal minds that money could buy came up with this astoundingly simple yet brilliant ploy. Hillary’s State Dept had to approve a Russian purchase of uranium assets. And so what happens? Bill gets hundreds of thousands of dollars from Russian interests for making a speech, and $145 million of Russian money flowed in Clinton Foundation coffers. Was all of this co-incidental? Does this look clean to you? Were you born yesterday? I wasn’t.

    Anyway, I’ve ranted enough, I think you get my drift…

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    • FincaInTheMountains June 27, 2019 at 12:48 pm #

      Couple of lousy hundred thousand for Russian speeches? Couple of lousy hundred millions for Uranium sale?

      It’s all peanuts compare to trillions of dollars they steal from free-of-tariffs dealings with China Communist Party under the umbrella of Vanguard, or from arms sales and traffic in drugs and humans.

      Trump is turning that tap dry, that’s why they are so riled up against him.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 27, 2019 at 1:10 pm #

      Agree. Thus the ruthless brilliance of the Elite’s Plan: By the time the Nativists are organized enough to do something, they’ll be too outnumbered to do it. And the Elite will be watching, waiting for trouble. You can’t sneak up on people like this. One criminal knows another. Thus the Rules of Counter-Revolution must be different than Revolution per se.

  123. volodya June 27, 2019 at 1:12 pm #

    Montsegur, I guess I need to re-familiarize myself with occult Nazi-ism…

    Belgian Congo… hah!… “Indo-China”, I guess I date myself. Well, I suppose that as soon as you open your mouth your origins come out, temporal no less than geographical and cultural, and there’s no way to hide it.

    • montsegur June 27, 2019 at 2:29 pm #

      Check, we’re all products of the time and space from which we emerged. I’ve thought about getting an antique globe just so I can look at a map that doesn’t irritate me, heh.

      There was something about “Thule” in the Nazi occult worldview. Somehow, I doubt they were thinking about that godforsaken air base in Greenland …

      Cheers

  124. prepper of oz June 27, 2019 at 1:12 pm #

    @Back Row Heckler

    It think it’s an exciting prospect going away to work for a while. Thank you, Yea, I know I’m not shit. Being able to swallow my own pride is the useful skill I’ve found to making rational decisions in the labor market.

    You said upstream I might have to get out of New England all together. When I take my family, parents, siblings, cousins, etc. into account, I could leave New England temporally, for a few years. I have been thinking about that since December last year.

    I don’t mind being cashier or cleaning chicken coops. What I mind is that companies will work you 44 hours one week then no hours the next week so it averages out that you are part time (20 hours a week). Holding 2+ jobs with scheduling instability is a pain in the ##@## What bothers me most is that paying back student loans requires going on to a position that pays more then minimum wage.

    Life is not about college; it’s about being able to go into the world and start a family and build a home. (I’ve been called a misogynist saying that) We talk about protecting the US border but I look at college admissions and we can’t even have an honest conversation about who should be in college and who should not or who belongs in what tier school. Of all the businesses out there, the military is the only one left that seems to accurately judges the worth of a college degree. Do you have a degree in a useful field? Can you pass the officer qualifying test? I’ve been thinking about going to take the AFOQT. Iran what quagmire could that turn into? Do I want to get in the middle of that?

    • malthuss June 27, 2019 at 1:50 pm #

      Is 800 the highest score one can get on SAT Math?
      If so, you are a math genius, or close.
      research what jobs or job training suits yr smarts.

    • montsegur June 27, 2019 at 2:49 pm #

      Do I want to get in the middle of that?

      Before you consider it any further, look at the oath of office you’ll have to take and honestly consider if it is an expectation you can, and want to live up to.

      If not, I honestly recommend to stay away from the military. There are already too many people in the military who saw their oath of office as just another hoop to jump through so they could learn some skills that might land them a future job.

      I wouldn’t worry too much about Iran. Things may get a lot hotter considerably closer to home.

      Cheers

      • volodya June 27, 2019 at 3:18 pm #

        Things may get a lot hotter considerably closer to home. – Mont

        Indeed. Care to elaborate a wee bit? I’d be interested in how you see this.

        • montsegur June 28, 2019 at 2:03 am #

          Volodya,

          Pretty much what JHK has outlined and you have discussed in these forums. What we know as the USA may or may not hold together. In either case, the social fabric is rent and not likely to be repaired anytime soon. Powder in the keg is pretty dry IMO.

          Thus my comment re: Iran. Prepper has stated he is young, and therefore has a lot of history yet to live. Me, I appreciate more every day that I’m on the other side of that hill.

          Cheers

      • BackRowHeckler June 27, 2019 at 4:36 pm #

        Montsegur

        How about if he checked out the Coast Guard?

        His degree might useful in that particular organization too.

        Recently the CG reserve has been running recruiting ads in this local area

        I wish that kid luck. I hope he makes it thru.

        Brh

        • BackRowHeckler June 27, 2019 at 4:38 pm #

          Oh, Benr already suggested the Coast Guard. Good advice, Ben.

          • capt spaulding June 27, 2019 at 8:57 pm #

            The nice thing about the Coast Guard is that even though the oceans rise, there’ll always be a coast to guard.

        • montsegur June 28, 2019 at 1:43 am #

          Back,

          I think the USCG is a great organization. As long as Prepper wants to join with an understanding of what he’s signing up for, then he could do well, IMO, in any of the military services (with exception, perhaps, as a USAF officer as they [were] very focused on people with engineering degrees).

          A brief anecdote of a friend of mine who was in the Coast Guard. At one point, they were offshore of Haiti. The CG ships were routinely approached by Haitians swimming to them, because (at least then) the rules were if they reached a U.S. ship, they triggered a process by which they had to be cared for by the ship’s crew. Whether that led to consideration for immigration into the USA because they were on “U.S. territory” at that point, I’m unsure.

          So the USCG used .50-caliber machine guns to warn the swimmers / small boats to stay away from the ships. Not as in actually shooting them, but making it clear that approaching the ship could become a deadly exercise. Warning shots may have been fired.

          Didn’t sound like a “fun” job to me. This is the kind of thing Prepper needs to consider — the requirements of the military have precious little consideration for the needs and impulses of the individual. If he is on board with those expectations, then he’ll do well joining the military.

          Cheers

  125. Janos Skorenzy June 27, 2019 at 1:42 pm #

    Tulsi on with Tucker. Two sane people.

    Tucker: You have gotten a tremendous amount of criticism from the media and both parties for your viewpoint on War with Iran. Has any one ever actually talked to you about your viewpoint? Actually engaged you?

    Tulsi: No

    JS: There you have it. Just a non-stop slander machine against anyone with intelligence or decency enough to stand up to the Neo-Cons and Neo-Liberals in their warmongering. As she says, imagine if all that money had been used for America and the American people. One recalls Eisenhower, who in a rare moment of decency at the end of his career, warned America about the Military Industrial Complex – he who had served it faithfully all his life. Fuck people like this.

    Tulsi shared the Aloha with America last night. And America responded. By one metric at least (the most googled), she was the clear winner. Of course that might be skewed by guys trying to find nudes of her, but still! And she came across very well, despite being given so little time compared to Booger and Pocahontas.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 27, 2019 at 1:45 pm #

      And one more thing – a point Anglin makes. She has immense natural dignity if not charisma. She could stand against Trump whereas he – the ultimate fraud – will make mincemeat out of less gifted fraud like the rest of them. And imagine her bringing up her solid record of military service compared to his ferment.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 27, 2019 at 1:46 pm #

      Tulsi on with Tucker

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpe79LfhUZU

    • Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 2:15 pm #

      Member of the CFR? She’ll never stray far from the beaten path, no matter what she says. And although Ike certainly warned us of the dangers of the MICC, he also spent his entire eight years as President building and appeasing it. He was either a doddering old fool or very good at speaking out of both sides of his mouth. Probably both. On the plus side, he was known for his golf game.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations

      • Janos Skorenzy June 27, 2019 at 5:42 pm #

        I had no idea about her in CFR. Very disappointing.

        • Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 5:50 pm #

          I wonder if she’s a plant to express and then take the steam out of any anti-war contingent that gets political traction?

  126. Tate June 27, 2019 at 2:04 pm #

    On the census question, Roberts sides with the American Deconstruction wing of the court to deny Census Bureau the right to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census.

    What bullshit is this?

    As Justice Thomas has correctly pointed out in his dissent, joined by Kavanaugh & Gorsuch, this “pretextual” argument will basically create a dangerous precedent for the courts to call into question any executive branch decisions. Clearly, it cannot serve as precedent. What it will do is, in having remanded the question back to the lower courts, is make it impossible for the question to be included on the census forms because of the printing deadline.

    • montsegur June 27, 2019 at 2:55 pm #

      Tate,

      A serious question as I haven’t followed this topic for a while. Has any new photograph of Justice Ginsburg emerged in the last few months?

      Cheers

      • Tate June 27, 2019 at 3:44 pm #

        It wouldn’t be unprecedented for a public figure to ‘disappear’ or retire from public life as a ploy to effect a political outcome or continue the status quo.

        Are there any conspiracy theories about something like that in the past which was suspected but never verified?

        It wouldn’t have to be a ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ scenario. They say Colonel House acted in Woodrow Wilson’s stead during the last months of his admin. Then, of course, Howard Hughes was controlled by a group of Mormons after he became a recluse. Something similar developed with the Scientologists if I recall.

    • JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 3:05 pm #

      Trump is consulting his folks about delaying the census until. SCOTUS does its job and makes a decision.

      I am telling you, GGG is smarter than the whole Deep State put together and will not allow the circumlocution BS that DC is famous for.

      This census battle is far from over.

  127. BackRowHeckler June 27, 2019 at 2:38 pm #

    Did I hear this right

    Cory Booker demands abortion rights for transgenders?

    Can’t be!

    Correction on post upstream.

    True transgenderism estimated to be .005% of adult population. Statistically, they don’t exist. But in the minds of lefties, academics and Hollywood, for some reason, they loom large.

    Brh

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    • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 2:51 pm #

      You’re a couple of decimal points out there, brh, but it’s still a tiny percentage.

      • BackRowHeckler June 27, 2019 at 4:24 pm #

        I finally saw one a few months ago inside the town library, a kid of about 20, dresses up like a woke girl of fashion I suppose, tight red shorts, high boots, blouse, hair done up in a pony tail but the pony tail was sticking straight up, vertically, heavy eye shadow and red lipstick. He was walking around in public like that. I kind of felt sorry for him.

        Brh

        • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 9:05 pm #

          I think they’re mostly unhappy people even when other people aren’t attacking them one way or another or insulting them. Thinking how much harder life is for people who are already normal men or women but don’t happen to be very attractive I can’t imagine how they can improve on that when they’re never going to have perfect bodies in relation to the sex they’re trying to transition to. So, yes, I feel sorry for them too, whatever if is that leads them to feel the need to be something other than what they were born.

    • montsegur June 27, 2019 at 2:51 pm #

      Back, too many of these topics are WMDs.

      Weapons of Mass Distraction.

      Cheers

  128. JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 2:59 pm #

    Good morning, all you Thursdayites.

    A thought this morning thinking about AGW.

    A lot of the talk about the effects of AGW center on sea level rise. But it never seems to do much, much to the consternation of the GW folks.

    Why not, you ask?

    Just an idea! The melting of sea ice makes no difference to sea level, like ice in a glass not changing the level of the liquid in the glass when it melts..

    So we need melting ice on Greenland or Antarctica to raise the level.

    Wait a minute, didn’t I read somewhere that the weight of ice on land masses actually depress the land masses into the crust and that land will rise if the ice is removed. Now take the weight of the melt water going into the ocean, doesn’t It figure that weight will depress the ocean floor into the crust. So Greenland and Antarctica could have a net lowering of sea level with little change everywhere else.

    I am not trying to deny AGW, I actually believe a major change in he behavior of Gaia is coming. I also believe a consequent huge change in human behavior is coming. Forced, not voluntary. That is the rub! People are not going to give up their gas hogs, or furnaces or air conditioners, or computers or cell phones without a fight. Political or physical. Economic shaping of supply and demand for resources is the only thing that will change things, and not without a lot of grumbling.

    Green New Deal is a power grab. The Leftists running the show do not care about anything but the increased power the New World Order will get. Want to change things and make it stick? Let the price of oil float on the supply demand curves the way it should, let it be a real cost of production and utilization like it is in Europe. If 1973 is a clue, you will not be able to give away the gas hogs, in favor of little gas engines, hybrids and electric vehicles. Let the airlines have to charge the real cost of flying to get airline traffic to decline and trains to rise from the ashes. I want the first resurrected train line to be named the Phoenix.

    Just some AM thoughts. GA, your country really needs to invest in really nice train service, what you have is terrific but can be so much better. Mind the Gap!

    • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 3:23 pm #

      “Wait a minute, didn’t I read somewhere that the weight of ice on land masses actually depress the land masses into the crust and that land will rise if the ice is removed. Now take the weight of the melt water going into the ocean, doesn’t It figure that weight will depress the ocean floor into the crust. So Greenland and Antarctica could have a net lowering of sea level with little change everywhere else.”

      That effect only happens where the actual ice is or was – there’s tectonic shuffling happening all the time. Scotland is a winner as we’re tilting slowly up (when I say slowly I mean s–l–o–w–l–y) while the south of England (esp. the SE) is s–l–o–w–l–y tilting downward. The net effect is bad, of course, considering where the prime real estate is and how much of certain counties is already below sea level and already reclaimed from the sea (and happens to be where a lot of food is grown).

      But your ‘overall’ theory won’t cut it, I think, with the hope that most places will be fine. These things remain slow, sorry, s–l–o–w…and will be for our descendants to worry about. For now it affects us when there are storms and tidal surges, because even a couple of centimetres in sea-level rise makes a massive difference to the volume of water hitting a coastline, or an oil refinery on your coast.

      I’d say our primary worry for now isn’t the long-term sea level rise, although it’s obviously going to be serious in time, but the already obvious effect the changes in climate are having on crop growing at different times in different places, from those poor Guatemalans and the almost incinerated crops a number of years ago around the Moscow region, to the periodically flooded crops in many areas, including the UK.

      Re trains, I think we should be investing in all of our network and not building the vanity project that is HS2. My fingers are crossed that it will be canned, but I’m not hopeful.

      • JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 3:46 pm #

        Agreed that tectonic forces add to what I am theorizing. But that is the gist of all the AGW argument, is is the combined effect of so many variables that we really cannot predict results.

        It IS a power grab by global socialists.

        I was just musing about why the sea level has not risen with all the ice melt that has occurred. My idea about the thermal gradient eventually taking out the polar caps I think will occur, along with most of the continental ice. What happens then, runaway heating maybe, is anybody’s guess.

        The thing I believe that is going to ruin the insurance companies first on the coasts is the intensity of storms. The gradient model says that winds from the equator will intensify as the gradient grows, ie the equator heats up. Average wind increases mean more intense localized turbulence, ie storms. Sea level changes in centimeters is inconsequential compared to storm intensity.

        Trains

        I think trains are the future. Your reluctance with HS2, I would like to address. JHK would agree with you about investing in what we have first and so do I. However, new technologies need vanguards in R&D. High speed rail has its place, long distance point to point travel and will be the displacement for air travel, so I believe we must learn to build and run High speed rail efficiently. California’s project was perfect connecting San Diego to Northern California but like so many things the government does, the corrupt bureaucracy destroys the effort with cost overruns. Instead of heads getting together to correct problems, politics divides and destroys.

        I guess that is why I despise government intervention in what should be private business.

        • BackRowHeckler June 27, 2019 at 5:36 pm #

          John, I think you can forget about ‘high speed rail’. We made the choice in about 1954 to abandon passenger rail and go with automobiles and limited access highways. We have to live with it. The railroad tracks we have now were built for ‘low speed frieght’. We would have to rebuild the whole system coast to coast to accomodate trains that ran at 300 mph like they do in Francs and Japan. I doubt if it will ever happen.

          Brh

          • Ol' Scratch June 27, 2019 at 5:45 pm #

            It would likely take a generation or more to adjust our supporting infrastructure, work and living patterns, and personal preferences to trains as a replacement for air and auto travel as well. People would not like that one bit.

          • JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 7:14 pm #

            I hear you.

            When peak oil hits, there may be no choice. I personally am glad that I will not have to face it.

            Also, if AOC gets her way with GND, it will be forced on us.

            The state of rail is terrible. The most high tech runs on the East Coast have problems with derailing and lousy signal control. I looked into rail as an alternative to air a few years back. They are not competitive.

            There is another big question you brought up. Why is it that Europe Japan, China can afford high speed rail and we, the no.1 economy, supposedly, cannot afford it?

            BRH. Have you been able to ride on high speed trains? I was able to do the Chunnel to Paris and it was wonderful. No sheeple treatment.

          • GreenAlba June 27, 2019 at 8:50 pm #

            JohnAZ

            I love Eurostar and the TGV/Thalys. But the cost of HS2 now is just ridiculous and one thing that’s as sure as death and taxes is that if it’s built what it actually costs will be way over what they say it will. I don’t think we can afford it, especially with the Brexit hit to the economy. Nor do I think it’s worth if for the relatively small time saving. And it’s not as if it’s even going that far north anyway.

            Constraints in the future (not sure how near or far) might mean that any kind of train journey is a luxury – that’s why I think we should be concentrating on upgrading the network we already have and electrifying those lines still running on diesel. I don’t see the point at the moment in taking 20 minutes of the trip from London to Birmingham when people trying to get to and from work in Manchester are packed like sardines and can’t get a seat.

            I was just listening to Question Time tonight with Liz Truss as Brexit fantasist wittering on about how economic growth in other cities has to be brought up to the standard of London (which they proudly declare is as productive as Germany) – these people are so clueless it hurts.

          • GreenAlba June 28, 2019 at 7:51 am #

            “Why is it that Europe Japan, China can afford high speed rail ”

            The reason the UK system is so higgledy piggledy and still dysfunctional in many ways has a lot to do with the way it historically developed – i.e. with private funding during the period of railway mania when fortunes were made and lost. Some places had no service; others had two competing lines going to the same places.

            In Europe, railway networks were developed later and generally by the state, and as a result they were more rational and efficient.

          • GreenAlba June 28, 2019 at 8:00 am #

            Christian Wolmar is extremely knowledgeable on all this stuff:

            https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wrong-Line-Ideology-Incompetence-Britains/dp/1854109987/ref=sr_1_15?crid=1KNHXGEBE4ZT4&keywords=christian+wolmar&qid=1561722898&s=gateway&sprefix=christian+wolmar%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-15

            “On the Wrong Line: How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain’s Railways”

            And he has written numerous books on the history and raisons d’être of a number of the world’s great railways.

            He has also written about why the whole driverless vehicle thing is delusional and not going to happen (which I must read):

            https://www.amazon.co.uk/Driverless-Cars-Road-Nowhere-Perspectives/dp/1907994750/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1KNHXGEBE4ZT4&keywords=christian+wolmar&qid=1561722898&s=gateway&sprefix=christian+wolmar%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-4

            “Driverless Cars: On a Road to Nowhere (Perspectives) “

        • capt spaulding June 27, 2019 at 9:12 pm #

          Private business was doing a helluva job during the administration of G W Bush. Then the damned government had to get it’s sticky hands into everything, and screw the whole thing up. When will people learn that zero taxes and no regulations are what make some countries winners and all those others with their pesky rules about stuff like climate change, and all the rest, just spoil things for the real doers and shakers. As another country with no taxes or regulations, I expect Somalia to give China a real run for it’s money, starting real soon. Free enterprise, nothin’ like it.

        • montsegur June 28, 2019 at 2:11 am #

          JohnAZ,

          What happens then, runaway heating maybe, is anybody’s guess.

          It could go the other way as well, I think the term is thermohaline collapse. But like the rest of these considerations, what will actually happen is at best an educated guess. As you say, too many variables for which we have too little data.

          Cheers

  129. JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 3:58 pm #

    Saw a clever political cartoon yesterday.

    A young man is holding a ball and chain in has arms, labeled Student Debt. The chain is on his right leg. A huge ball and chain is behind him, labeled National Debt attached to his left leg.

    His comment: I am so relieved that the Democrats are going to forgive my student loans!

    • Pucker June 27, 2019 at 6:43 pm #

      Fuck the Baby Boomers!

      • JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 7:18 pm #

        The biggest sin of the Boomers was to indulge Gen x, the biggest sin of gen x was to indulge the millennials, and so on.

        People need to work their way from the bottom up no matter what the generation they belong to.

        • Pucker June 27, 2019 at 7:48 pm #

          $21 Trillion is missing and unaccounted for. Like in the movie “High Plains Drifter”, the estranged Millennial “Stranger” should burn the Baby Boomer town of Lago to the ground….

          • JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 8:42 pm #

            If you are talking about the National debt, all parties are guilty as hell. Our government has no feeling for fiscal control. It is always fun to spend someone else’s money.

            The real debt crisis is personal debt. Americans owe fifty or so trillion dollars to someone. Face it the government is a reflection of this country’s people and people spend too much money. That is the indulgence I was addressing, each generation want what their parents have, right now. They will not work their way up the ladder. They just put it on plastic. Baby Boomers started it but every generation is guilty.

            Millennials and Gen zers should put their plastic away and rebuild their capital bases. Fat chance.

            You know why they hate student debt so much? Because they can’t duck the debt with bankruptcy.

        • James Hansen June 27, 2019 at 9:51 pm #

          I have a nephew, he took out a student loan for 21,000 when he was 20. He has paid over 60,000 over the last 25 years. He is now 45 and his balance is 18,000. Is that fair?

          • BackRowHeckler June 27, 2019 at 10:28 pm #

            Wow.

            That high interest will kill you.

            Elizabeth Warren was pulling down $350,000 per year for teaching a single course at Harvard. The president of Qunnipeaq U in Hamden, Ct makes a cool $1 million a year.
            That’s where all the money went. The pres of UCONN is paid $800,000 per, has 2 free houses and a State Trooper to chauffer to drive him around.

            That’s where all the student loan money goes.

            Brh

          • JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 10:34 pm #

            He is obviously paying interest only for extended periods. Without the ability to pay principle, the loan goes on forever. It is a trap that most, most people fall into.

            Fair, maybe not, but legal. And bankruptcy does not work.

          • malthuss June 27, 2019 at 11:50 pm #

            gosh

  130. Pucker June 27, 2019 at 6:57 pm #

    Who was the bloke during the Democratic Party candidate debate espousing abortion rights for Transgenders?

    Beto kept going on in Spanish about “Cerveza”.

    Whenever I order in a Mexican restaurant I always ask: “What’s good?”

    When the Mexican girl replies: “It’s all good”, I then ask: “What’s Bueno?”

    She then usually relies: “The Tacos”.

    • Pucker June 27, 2019 at 7:29 pm #

      During the debate, Beto started freaking out and he started channeling his Mexican personality? It must have been the intense pressure?

      • Pucker June 27, 2019 at 7:33 pm #

        If Beto is elected President, what guarantee do we have that during a crisis like the Cuban Missile Crisis, Beto won’t freak out and turn into a Mexican, or worse, a Cuban?

        • BackRowHeckler June 27, 2019 at 8:06 pm #

          What happens tonite, when candidate Pedro Buttplug, Americas Mayor, states unequivocally “Black lives matter”, and it so enrages the black community outraged over the unfinished matter of last weeks police shooting, they burn South Bend, Indiana to the ground?

          • malthuss June 27, 2019 at 11:52 pm #

            The pres of UCONN is paid $800,000 per, has 2 free houses and a State Trooper to chauffeur to drive him around.

            My local JC in Cali has
            president [Black female]
            9 VPs
            130 administrators.

            and on it goes.

  131. BackRowHeckler June 27, 2019 at 8:16 pm #

    Moderator: “Mayor Buttplug, what is your position on abortion rights for trangenders?”

    (cameras pans quickly to Chasten in the audience)

    Mayor Buttplug: I back transgender abortions 100%. In my administration they will be fully funded in the Medicare for all program.

    Brh

    • Pucker June 27, 2019 at 8:53 pm #

      Chasten Buttigieg’s recent tweet:

      Chaz:
      ·
      20m
      You’re ready,
      @PeteButtigieg
      . You’ve got this. I love you

    • Ol' Scratch June 28, 2019 at 6:08 am #

      How do they determine that they’re going to be trans before they abort them? Either way, I’m all for it.

  132. Pucker June 27, 2019 at 9:14 pm #

    If I were running as a candidate for President, I’d promise to give amnesty to all people who renege on their student loan debt. Then it all just blows all-to-Hell….

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    • malthuss June 27, 2019 at 11:53 pm #

      Nader promised similar, long ago, to wild applause.

  133. Pucker June 27, 2019 at 9:28 pm #

    “As President, I’ll provide everyone with a gun and one free bullet so that, as Beto says, “everyone can realize their full potential.”

    • Ol' Scratch June 28, 2019 at 6:06 am #

      That might be the most truthful statement that any of them could make!

    • benr June 28, 2019 at 9:41 am #

      If the gimme state is real and I have a constitutional right to own guns then the government owes me as many as I want and enough bullets to train with it safely. We did provide one lady with like thirty Obama phones after all.
      I would like an m1 girand and 2500 rounds to start.
      Followed by an FNH 5.7 and another 2500 rounds.
      Then next year because I will have worn those out I want a browning bar in 308 and 2500 rounds also a Dan Wasson custom chambered in 45 with 2500 rounds.

  134. Pucker June 27, 2019 at 10:13 pm #

    I support Andrew Yang. I read his book. It’s ok. He advocates a Universal Basic Income because he says that robots will put everyone out of work, particularly truck drivers. If they merge Biology and Engineering to create biological, meat robots, then all of the women will be put out of business as girlfriends, wives, mothers, fashion models, TV talk show hosts, and whores….

    • Pucker June 27, 2019 at 10:27 pm #

      They’ll probably 3D print hot, sexy, female meat robots?

      Susan Hockfield
      The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

    • JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 10:30 pm #

      Two questions about UBI

      1. If people are thrown out of work, how will they afford to buy the products that are being produced by high tech

      2. If people are thrown out of work, how will the intermediary, the government, find the funds to pay every adult one thousand dollars.

      If people have no skills, no professional identity, no job identity. No role identity, What do they have?

      Nothing! Ignoring the robotics problem is bigger that any other issue.

      • Pucker June 27, 2019 at 10:57 pm #

        According to the book “Dreamland”, when addicts don’t have money to buy heroin they often resort to bartering shoplifted merchandise for Mexican black tar heroin. According to the author of “Dreamland”, many American communities have underground barter centers where addicts can exchange discounted shoplifted goods for cash and coupons that can be leveraged to acquire heroin. The Mexican black tar heroin business model is very dependent upon a porous border with Mexico so that illiterate Mexican teenage males can come to the US to drive around all day with their mouths stuffed with balloons, each balloon filled with a BB-sized hit of heroin. If the cops stop them, they swallow the balloons and shit the balloons out later. I read somewhere that some of the Democratic candidates advocate decriminalizing shoplifting.

        • benr June 28, 2019 at 9:29 am #

          Some places won’t prosecute till you steal $750 dollars worth of stuff.
          Is that at once?
          Over a week?
          Can you steal $700 dollars worth of stuff say every hour?
          Man I am in the wrong business if this is the case.

  135. JohnAZ June 27, 2019 at 10:17 pm #

    You know what is missing in the debates?

    The answer HOW?

    So much rhetoric, so little solutions. How?

    That is why the Dems have no ideas, their only answer is to clobber Trump.

    They have nothing to offer.

    Example

    The Trump administration warned about the caravans a year ago. They have been trying since then to get funding to improve the border, not just the wall, but more storage capacity for the invaders. Blocked by the House Dems. By the Dems. Now that the nightmare has occurred and the Dems are complaining about a border crisis with crowded children problems, who is at fault?

    Who is always at fault? Not Trump’s group.

    Proof? Pelosi, seeing the political disaster coming got a bill funding the border through the House in one day. The biggest mouth objecting? Guess!

    AOC!

    • benr June 28, 2019 at 9:30 am #

      Lets get honest for a second much of the Republican agenda is was to stop Obama.
      Before that the Demos wanted to stop GWBush.
      Its a game and the American people are the losers for it.

    • benr June 28, 2019 at 9:32 am #

      Also when Trump was telling the American people there was a crisis at the border the Democrats said “no there is not he is grandstanding”.
      What changed their collective minds?
      Political damage as a result of a childs “death”.
      If true sad but the reality is that picture was probably a hoax.
      When was it taken has it been verified or was some bot spun up to send it out?

  136. Pucker June 27, 2019 at 10:42 pm #

    Captain Pete Buttigieg:

    Do you remember those submarine war movies in which the crazy captain orders the submarine to dive to extremely dangerous depths because after years of being underwater and after heaps of anal and oral sodomy in the Navy the Captain suddenly realizes that he’s really a woman?

    • Pucker June 27, 2019 at 10:43 pm #

      Pete’s an Officer in “Naval Intelligence”….

    • Pucker June 28, 2019 at 12:35 am #

      Pete is the “Naval Intelligence”, Deep State, corporatist candidate….

      • Pucker June 28, 2019 at 12:38 am #

        Pete’s got “MK Ultra” written all over him….

        As “The Chief” said to “Captain Willard” in the movie “Apocalypse Now”: “Well, wherever we’re go’n….one look at you and I know it’s gonna be hot.”

  137. SoftStarLight June 28, 2019 at 2:49 am #

    So it seems fairly safe to say that there aren’t any new or significant ideas or solutions being offered by those in power or those seeking power. Instead it appears that the power hungry are in a race to embrace ever more bizarre and unworkable policies and ideas that are divorced from reality. I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise but its unfortunate nonetheless. Any good ideas worth considering don’t generate enough interest in this atmosphere of woke pop politics. The merging of Hollywood with K Street is complete and maybe it has been for a long time? After all who in Congress isn’t an actor or actress? But working for someone behind the curtains while pretending to work for the audience is a glitzy and rewarding gig. No wonder it attracts so many oddballs and narcissists. All in all, tools are tools. I don’t like pessimism but you know there isn’t any chance of anything good coming from any official or insitution anymore. And yes, maybe the doubters are right. Maybe there isn’t going to be a savior or even a path to survival. Certainly lots of scary things are coming and soon. And it is true that when the SHTF there won’t be any help coming for the common person. At least not in any official way.

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    • tucsonspur June 28, 2019 at 4:27 am #

      That’s probably right, SSL. The first responder will have to be you.

    • Ol' Scratch June 28, 2019 at 6:04 am #

      That’s pretty damn astute there, SSL. I can’t help but think of it as high school student council all over again. All of the beautiful people coalesce to get their people elected and then they all vote for their own shit. It’s not so much a conspiracy as a simple alignment of interests. Of course they play act that what they’re doing is in everyone’s best interests, but that’s only true if everyone believes that their interests are their own. It’s the tyranny of an unenlightened majority/mob, something all true democracies eventually fall prey too. It’s ironic that only now do people denigrate the working poor for selfishly voting for their own interests (even if those they elect never actually represent them), even as the rich have been reliably doing that forever.

  138. FincaInTheMountains June 28, 2019 at 6:51 am #

    Don’t meddle in the election, please

    In fact, he said it twice (twice):

    Don’t meddle in the election, please. Don’t meddle in the election

    It was very noisy and now different geopolitical artificial intelligence systems are working on the record, trying to prove or disprove the word “please”.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WS2EaJrIXw

  139. Iananna June 28, 2019 at 8:02 am #

    It’s hard to know, in the first exposition – it was NOT a debate – which was the more egregious idiocy to lose base votes, the hable espanolish or the QWERTYUIOP grovel to pregnant men & women with penises.
    I’m out of tech range to see the 2nd but hold little hope that it’ll be anymore rational.
    Yay for Drumpfster – el presidente for life.
    Thank Dog that, given his junk food intake, it’ll not be too long.
    Come ON, Melania take one for your new country and give him a heart attack

  140. BackRowHeckler June 28, 2019 at 8:11 am #

    Well, one thing I learned this week …

    On the beach, I was noticing the bikinis the girls were wearing, the tops and bottoms didn’t match (like in days of yore)

    I asked my wife about it, she was said, matter of factly, “oh, they sell them seperately now, not in a set.”

    So there you have it, two sales instead of one. And the girls buying these suits feel ’empowered’, by having a ‘choice’. Everybodys happy.

    Brh

    • ozone June 28, 2019 at 9:08 am #

      LOL
      Openly displayed stupiditidy!
      As the French were once thought to say: “Zut alor, Etienne, we will put zee tap watair in zee bottelle an’ sell it to zee Americannes… zay will buy anysing!”

      Sadly, we’ve become a nation of suckers. Just look at who we allow to make our laws and rule over us.

      • GreenAlba June 28, 2019 at 9:43 am #

        The French are also mad themselves, ozone, in such matters.

        I recall about 35 years ago my (now ex-) French mother-in-law demonstrating the use of an aerosol containing some ‘dehydrating’ product that sprayed a fine mist onto your face and which was supposed to make you feel great. Or something.

        Turned out it was water. It makes me feel ill to think of someone manufacturing an aerosol can, filling it with a greenhouse gas propellant (which they still contain, even though ozone-depleting chemicals are outlawed, something you must have been relieved about 🙂 ), then throwing it on a landfill site once it’s been emptied of feckin’ water.

        My M-i-L looked ‘mist’ified when I looked at her with my jaw on the floor.

    • stelmosfire June 28, 2019 at 9:10 am #

      BRH ” the tops and bottoms didn’t match.”
      What you really mean is “The carpet didn’t match the drapes.”

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