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It looks like someone has called room service in a certain Swiss Fortress of Solitude and ordered der Schwabenklaus’s ass to be handed to him on a platter with a side of sauerkraut. The assisted suicide of Western Civ, Euro division, has been interrupted by peasant uprisings, first in the Netherlands, now spreading to Germany, Italy, and Poland. The farmers are on the march. They are coming for you, Klaus, and your World Economic Forum’s legion of implanted government goblins.
The governments of virtually all the nations of Western Civ have become enemies of their people. It’s been obvious in the USA for quite some time, but our preposterous attempt to turn Ukraine into a forward NATO missile base next door to Russia finally revealed the villainous rot in Euroland, too. Cut yourselves off, Germany, from Russian oil and natural gas? Whose bright idea was that? (Hint: Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who else? He supposedly runs that joint, doesn’t he?) Plan B, you Deutsches Volk now realize, is to burn your furniture to stay warm at Christmas.
America’s gambit to goad Russia into a Ukrainian quagmire turned into such a mighty fail that the US news media doesn’t even report on the doings there anymore. Which are: the Russians sent in their junior varsity and systematically wiped up the floor with Ukraine’s 250,000-man, NATO-trained (ha!) army of neo-Nazis. That is not an empty pejorative, by the way. They really are explicitly true believers in old Adolf’s mid-20th century program of exterminating the Russ people next door. Mr. Putin wasn’t kidding around when he highlighted that feature of his operation.
So, now the heart of Euroland looks forward to a new era without energy and without modern industry, meaning what? Well, without modern life (maybe without life, period). Der Schwabenklaus outlined that pretty clearly, too, with the by-now shopworn slogan that “You vill own nussing and you vill be heppy.” It was such an absurd maxim that many who pretend to think took it as a sort of joke. And, let’s face it, Klaus really does appear to be a comic figure — the weirdo tunic he sometimes wears, the Hollywood B-movie accent. But not so many are laughing now as the lights go out from Galway Bay to the Gulf of Riga.
If not the sinister Schwabenklaus, then, who or what entity is behind this world-ending mischief remains a matter of baffling consternation. Quite a few people, otherwise not insane, say we’re in thrall to some hovering alien presence not-of-this-Earth somehow directing our own destruction. Personally, I find that a bit silly. The most persuasive real-world clues point to China’s Communist Party (the CCP). Where did the “Wuhan Flu” (Sars C-19) emanate from? (Trick question.) At whose 2019 Wuhan World Military Games did the first outbreak occur? (Ditto.) Whose policy model was adopted in the US and Euroland for dealing with that punk-ass virus with lockdowns? Which current President of the USA has been on the payroll of the CCP for nearly a decade via shady business deals grifted up by his son? Hmmmm.
This latter saga of R. Hunter Biden is so well-publicized in its grotesque details — smoking crack and cavorting with Russian whores on-camera — that it seems like just another Netflix series. But guess what? It’s really real. And so are all the deal memoranda and emails on Hunter’s laptop, which has been in the passive possession of the FBI for three years. And you mean to tell me that no one has done anything about it? How is Director Chris Wray still walking around a free man?
Meanwhile, the very people who helped engineer the Wuhan Sars C-19 virus — and the mRNA “vaccines” now proving way deadlier than the virus — are still in the employ of our government: Anthony Fauci and former NIH Director Francis Collins (currently “Joe Biden’s” chief science advisor in the White House at $300+K-a-year). The effrontery! Notice, too, that, having winkled the Pentagon into “vaccinating” all our troops (including our military women-with-penises and men-with-vaginas), we now have an army programmed to drop dead on any battlefield they find themselves at without an enemy firing a shot. How do we even propose to defend North America if, say, China took a notion to seize our land by main force?
These quandaries and conundrums form a toxic cloud of cognitive dissonance blanketing America like a cosmic miasma of wickedness. We have got to turn the tables on these ghouls running things.
This week, a serious rebellion has sparked off in Europe. The Dutch government moved to seize the land belonging to about a third of its farmers, supposedly to cut nitrogen-oxide emissions so as to satisfy WEF-inspired EU 2030 climate goals. There is more horseshit in the government’s policy pretexts than there is on the farms of Holland, so the farmers have formed a tractor army of rebellion, blocked highways and border crossings, and mixed it up physically with the police. As I said at the beginning, the revolt against official climate change psychosis is spreading quickly to other European countries.
Perhaps the non-elites of Europe have realized that they were played for chumps. (They were.) They went along with the “vaccine” mandates only to learn now that their countrymen are dropping dead at suspiciously alarming rates, and maybe it has something to do with those shots they lined up for so obediently. And they can see the vast loss of jobs and income ahead as their industries have to shut down for lack of fuel. And they can see how their governments seek to starve them and force them to freeze to death a few months from now. So, it’s game on and governments are about to fall across Europe, and God knows what kind of strife will erupt out of that. BoJo is going in the UK… Holland’s PM Mark Rutte may be next… Olaf Scholz after him… and Mario Draghi in Italy. Look out below.
As of this writing Friday morning, we have no idea what the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe might signify — except, perhaps, the ominous beginning of a global trend.
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I really hate to say this but, assassinations of global leaders is a very good start to fixing the problem. These “ghouls” do need to go. And they won’t go quietly.
A famous man once said, ‘good men sometimes have to behave like psychopaths in order to control and defeat real psychopaths.’
Just say’in.
Neurodoc:
Many “famous men” are idiots.
DyersEve has dared point out a grim, obvious fact.
John Wilkes Booth was reported to have said ‘Sic Semper Tyrannis’ right after assassinating Lincoln.
Translated as ‘And thus always to tyrants.’
“assassinations of global leaders is a very good start to fixing the problem.” That was a popular idea carried out here & there up until the beginning of WWI. How did that turn out?
— Far more likely (and in act also being carried out here & there, particularly in places like Chicago) are assassinations of common folk wherever they gather in large enough numbers to increase the chances of killing them by some rando mass-formed psychotic. I made a comment similar to this one in another online venue just hours before this week’s Highland Park mass killing hit the news.
The placing of profits above peace has exceeded critical point, with personal high profile assassinations and non-personal mass casualty shootings as the outcome.
Sentient AI “sentiment bots” are corporate assets capable of interceding on behalf of civilization peace, alerting “local authorities” to the pre-crime homicidal maniacs articulating their horrific plans on the blogosphere of social media.
The assets are not being deployed.
Gird. Maneuver. Adapt.
GODSPEED!
Carpe Diem!
Sola Vertus Invicta!
The US spent much of the 20th century whacking national leaders who didn’t support official US policies or otherwise got in the way of some scheme or other. Maybe Biden and his handlers will have the CIA start doing so again — off the books, of course.
They are already doing that, but many have not noticed, since it is off the books, and being covered up by their cover media.
They may even be behind the Abe caper in some way…
It’s not the bought and paid for politicians, it’s the oligarchs that own them.
I was going to say that. You said it for me.
If it weren’t for the “leaders” and politicians and mass-media people who are owned by the oligarchs, these oligarchs wouldn’t be able to do squat.
And the “leaders,” policians, and media have another layer of minions below them–the foot-soldiers doing the dirty work (or the “wet work,” as the case may be) in law enforcement, the courts, and the media.
It’s an organization made up of many, many people, and those people are as much, or perhaps more, you enemies than the oligarchs.
At the lowest level of this organization are its supporters and advocates–usually themselves on the payroll.
None of this happens without an army.
Without an vast organization and an army, an oligarch is just another gustafson, dreaming of exterminating most of the earth’s population so that he (not “we”) can return to “nature” as he imagines it should be.
At least the Georhia Guidestones are no more.
Wonder what the brown stain on the top stone was from, and why are Georgians so stupid?
There are some good documentaries that investigated who owns that private land that was donated to the builders of the structure, and who funded it.
Now there are some new questions about that such as who paid for the security cameras and lights around it, which were recently added?
Who paid for the immediate demolition of the remaining structure without any forensic investigation of the attack, just like with the WTC tower rubble?
That won’t change anything. Sorry.
The point I was trying to make–if somewhat obliquely–is that if it comes to violence or civil war, the people you will be fighting will be local officials, local cops, schoolteachers and school board members, store managers, neighborhood Karens, and erstwhile friends–people known to you.
I’m not much in favor of whacking people, unless they come to my door to trouble me. And in the event of serious violence (civil war) breaking out, my first thought would be to “get out of Dodge.” I know enough about people to know that any emergent “leadership” in war of any kind would almost certainly be mere opportunists chiefly interested in becoming the proverbial “new boss.”
It will be important to be aware that the supporters and foot soldiers of tyranny are what makes it all possible–really much more your enemy than Klaus Schwab or Joe Biden, etc., who are little more than a bunch or corpses animated by tana leaves.
Like this chap?
://newspunch.com/mosquitoes-testing-positive-to-rare-deadly-viruses-in-us-months-after-bill-gates-released-millions-in-the-wild/
At first blush, I agreed with your point. But I’d have to say that it’s not really a constructive and durable option. If you are an organization of just 3 utterly committed and mutually-protective individuals, you have the power of 12. If you are 12, you are as powerful as 50. So just create a posse. Which serendipitously leads me to end with “posse comitatus…!”
Any chance that Schwab’s most loyal follower, one Justin Trudeau, will be forced out anytime soon? Or will the bastards in the LPC and NDP allow him to turn Canada into a failed state, a la the former Yugoslavia?
But Abe was a friend of Trump and is considered to be a strong nationalist and decidedly not a friend of the woke. The fact that he was taken out doesn’t look good to me, and makes me wonder if Orban will be next – as the only other leader I can think of (other than Putin) who isn’t a friend of the WEF. Now, if someone had a go at Trudeau, it would be a different matter.
rp – vox day has another take on abe – not a nationalist, behaved as a globalist and moved japan that way while in office as pm.
voxday.net/2022/07/08/clown-world-loses-another-clown/
I often agree with Vox, but IDK here.
Abe didn’t go hard on Corona IIRC, and he was close with Trump.
Have not read or heard much about him being much of a globalist, but I also don’t follow Japanese politics.
Totally concur.
Well, this whole shit-hole-of-a-mess we are in today started off with the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kenndey, who had the gall to buck the military industrial complex and the unholy matrimony of organized crime and government, after being educated for three days prior to his presidency by General/President Eisenhower, didn’t it?
Of course, it only seems right that the evil ones utilize murder as a means to an end, correct Frau Clinton? Apparently, we good guys just have to take it on the chin, keep a stiff upper lip, and try our best not to drop the soap in the showers. Seems a bit one sided, don’t you think?
I do believe that just before the assassination of JFK we in the western world were probably the closest we’ve ever been to actual ‘freedom’ even though even then, it was much more limited than we were told.
And yeah look where we are now, 58 years later. What a clusterfuck.
I remember Eisenhower’s reaction to JFK’s murder which can be found on You Tube and my take on that was that Ike knew in his heart that he bore some responsibility for for what happened because he educated Jack on the dangers of the Military Industrial Complex in meetings with him for three days before JFK took office.
Every president since Kennedy knew that if they did not do as they were told they too would get the Dealy Plaza Special. It was a coup de etat without doubt that is taking our nation down the road to perdition.
The rich are immunized against which the good are not.
Rhode Island Covid Caes: 404204. Deaths: 3613.
You do the math
I hit you because you went after OGH and his daughter. That’s a no-no on planet earth. Posse Comitatus.
Because he quoted scripture? The same scripture OG fervently believes in?
St Paul says that such people will not see God. Thankfully for my peace of mind, I don’t believe in eternal separation from God, also known as hell.
Because he quoted scripture? The same scripture OG fervently believes in? – Jarek
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Please note, two people read the same scripture and come to opposite conclusions as to its meaning.
On some things confusion may be legitimate. Not on homosexuality. The Bible is quite clear.
yeah sure–the bible (scriptures) was written by groups of homo men living in half way houses after they got kicked out of monastreries for bad bahavior(homo)–these nut jobs were very uncomfortable with their own sexuality and present day nut jobs want to proclaim it the “word of god”!!! fat chance…the bible,10,000 years of religious mayhem,torture,death,rape and other chaos in the name of god/jesus says you have no idea what the HELL your talking about–but go on with your pious,self righteous nonsense–Juda and Peter were homo and jesus,me and a lot of others have no problem with that–god is love–humans are wrath and judgement sock suckers like you jerke
Hap: So the Bible was written by Homos who wrote against Homos?
Judas (your patron saint?) and Peter were lovers and Jesus approved? Where are you getting this from? Some degraded gnostic text?
Right or wrong, I don’t believe in eternal hell so I don’t think they are condemned by God – nor any other kinds of sinners. States of suffering and penance after death, yes. Eternal suffering, no. Doesn’t fit with a loving God. The translators may have gotten Jesus’ teaching wrong on this.
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Though I must say that in my close community of a hundred or so seniors 60-89 yo, all vaccinated and boosted, no one has dropped dead of either covid-19 or the vaccine in the last couple years. A few got covid-19 and got over it. Since we are in the most probable age bracket for bad things to happen, they haven’t so far and I’m not expecting anything to happen. JMPO
Even the CDC has admitted that only 6% of reported deaths are due to Covid, so the real number is only 217.
A “death” by covid including anybody who died within 28 days of a positive test.
Get real.
Just curious Jim, but does anyone really know how big the Ukrainian army is? 250,000 as reported today? A few months ago it was 400,000. Last winter it was 600,000. It keeps shrinking.
The German military has only 180,000 active for a country of 83 Million (double Ukraine).
Give it a few more months and it will be approaching zero. Alive and still participating, that is.
Putin in the news this morning warning Biden and the West that thing’s are about to get a whole lot worse for Ukraine very shortly too, and invited the Biden and the US to come in and test the waters for themselves directly too if they thought they were up to the task. Wanna bet there won’t be any takers? Poor Joey B’s out of luck, out of time, and out of explanations for this latest epic fail. Maybe he and BoJo can abscond to that mythical Big Rock Candy Mountain to live out the rest of their miserable days?
I have a feeling that many of the Western countries will be scapegoating their present leaders in an effort to have people forget the horrors inflicted on them under the ruse of the pandemic.
These weasels are already rolling back their positions and calling coal and natural gas clean energy in a pathetic bid to cling to power.
One thing one can say in favor of Trump: he got us out of that death trap known as Paris Climate Accords. Naturally Biden jumped right back in.
also spiked signing the TPP – trans pacific partnership
i wonder if there was trans funding in that? i know, stupid question
“Maybe he and BoJo can abscond to that mythical Big Rock Candy Mountain to live out the rest of their miserable days?”
BoJo made more writing for The Telegraph than he did as PM. He’ll go back to writing for the Telegraph, probably (for an even fatter salary) and he’ll also have the extremely lucrative lecture circuit to look forward to. Even being a war criminal like Blair doesn’t disqualify them for that.
There is a view that how Boris is feeling (and even looking) at the moment is relieved.
Boris was put in to serve in a transitional role, IMO. Much like Kurz in Austria.
Soften the UK up for the true tyranny to come.
Agree. Apparently Bill Gates flew into London today. Fancy that.
Bob Moran gets it right, again (second one down).
bobmoran.co.uk/downloads-
Bob’s on fire on Twitter, laying into the aspiring Tory leaders.
twitter.com/bobscartoons
I’m a little shocked they haven’t already moved to install the billionaire WEF stooge Sunak as UK PM.
Apparently he had his stall laid out early, thirdcoast. He’s a strong contender – he has the charm of Mark ‘Carnage’ and will be able to starve people into submission with a smile on his face, telling them it’s for their own good.
As Neil Oliver put it on Twitter yesterday, “The next PM is a change of drivers on a train. The train is going where it’s scheduled to go, on rails already laid.”
twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1545462716231475200
“Rishi was getting his campaign website ready last December.”
Mark Carnage.
That’s good.
Sunak… He’s a strong contender – GA
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I was looking at a list of hopefuls who would like to head BoJo’s party and I noticed at least 3 names that were not Brit-sounding. Sunak was one. I forget the others. They sounded Indian. Am I right, GA?
names that were not Brit-sounding. – Q.
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The ‘not Brit-sounding’ names were:
Rishi Sunak
Nadim Zahawi
Sajid Javid
Priti Patel
I wish I could claim credit for ‘Mark Carnage’ NO, but, sadly, it isn’t mine. 🙂
Q – they are obviously all British citizens and all born in this country.
Sunak – Indian origins, married to daughter of Indian billionaire businessman. Said daughter/wife’s business interests meant she continued to deal with Russian interests despite everyone else in the UK being expected to respect sanctions. Sunak is the CBDCs man.
Zahawi – I think I heard it said recently he is of Iraqi parents who left for Britain to escape Saddam, but I’m not sure of the timing. I am less interested in his origins than the fact that he was ‘Vaccines Minister’.
Patel – Of Ugandan Asian parentage – parents left to escape Idi Amin.
Javid – Parents from the Punjab, I gather. He was born in Lancashire. He is evil incarnate. WEF/Goldman Sachs. Trying to get the NHS App going as a precursor to general digital ID and social credit. Wants to jab everyone.
Doesn’t matter who the Tory party votes for (or are told to vote for), what we get is the WEF. Why the heck else would Gates fly in, other than to deliver instructions?
The US/NATO spared no expense in the last 8 years, building up the military in Ukraine.
Coincidentally, Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe.
How many troops were real and how many on paper?
I doubt that anyone knows. But the weapons, the fortified trenches, the weapons depots and the 100,000 troops occupying the Donbass are real. I mean…were real.
I looked at the UK military. About 170k. 80+k in army. given a teeth to tail ratio of about 1:11 (an ambitious number) that translates to maybe 8k combat fighters.
The arms the West has exported to Ukraine so far comprise over 12 months of the total manufacturing capacity.
I’m sure Mr Putin sleeps soundly.
For once the wiki is worth a read.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth-to-tail_ratio
What is teeth-to-tail ratio? This is a new term.
Front-line fighting men vs. supply clerks, rear echelon people, transport, etc.
They are going to have to ban the other gun in Japan.
I hear it was homemade. Seems to have functioned as intended.
It was a tape-wrapped zip gun. They’ll need to impose heavy restrictions on the sale of electrical tape, too.
Ban all the things!
Japan may have to ban the private possession of metals to really crack down on weapons.
I believe that this could be accomplished in a resource-poor nation already living in paper houses.
With brains like these, who needs resources.
Note that getting your hands on a pistol in Japan is about as unlikely as scoring a nuclear weapon in any western country. The authorities have it sewed up so tight that the yakuza actually set up their own gunsmiths to tool out crude homemade firearms. Don’t know where they get the ammo from.
Japanese tourists just love to go to those firing ranges in SoCal where you can even fire off a machine gun. Getting your hands on a heater like that is like catnip for a kitty.
Speedy, if Yakuza smiths can make a workable gun, they can make workable ammo. The formula for black powder is not that hard, and to cast a chunk of lead into a .50 cal. ball would be child’s play (for them).
How do you make them? Do you give classes on this?
My dear Janos–the formula for bang-bang is there for everyone to use.
I bet the close protection teams for the political elite have the best high-tech weapons money can buy. But they’re special.
las vegas is the go to place for shootin places–a lot more than socal–many japs waiting in line–it is unreal
Abe’s assassination simply provides further confirmation of the fact that violence works, otherwise the police wouldn’t use it, nor would the military. It’s the prime mover of history, like it or not.
“Power comes from the barrel of a gun.”
– Mao Zedong
It’s one of the first principles of ‘knowing’ power.
That is what I often retort whenever people haul out that old saw about violence never solving anything. Violence solves one heck of a lot of things.
Violence solves one heck of a lot of things. – mega
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Also, ‘might makes right.’
You’re darn tootin’, dawlin’!
Quite so. And obviously one doesn’t talk much about it on public forums or any kind of internet forum or any kind of electrical device that uses radio waves, not even short ones.
Al Qaeda used porn sites – which they were naturally on anyway. One is reminded of Kilgore Trout…..
Kilgore Trout! Omfgrotfl! You’re very right, except Kilgore Trout was a Nerf weapon, alas.
When one party refuses to give in, violence always results.
At this point, it is pretty clear that the globocap crowd sees this as their only real opportunity to create the global plantation.
If they fail here, it will take another 60 years to get back to this point.
It took 100+ to get where they are now. I hope the entire medical industrial complex comes crashing down. That’s the best first start.
What were Abe’s politics? Was he one of the “elites” sacking his country for personal gain?
Yes, people like Ben Fulford, a very smart reporter who lives in Japan, says Abe was the current leader/avatar of a cabal mafia group that has had it’s tentacles in Japan since the end of WW2.
Fulford certainly has a lot of interesting things to say. But he lost me when he claimed the Pope personally persuaded his girlfriend to break up with him. And then go lie to the local (Japanese) police that he consumed illegal drugs and beat her. Yes, he said this in one of his weekly podcasts about 5 or 6 years ago. Colorful character.
Oh dear.
WOW!!! I’ve listened to him several times and read his blog periodically. I’ve not seen anything as crazy as what you’re reporting. I have thought about his claim to seemingly know most people in power. But, he did work as a reporter for Forbes for year. Who knows? Bottom line: people are strange.
You bet. Especially, that Pope who butts into people’s personal romances!
All you really need to know is that he was part of an entrenched elite that increasingly made life in Japan hopeless for most.
The Market Ticker guy had some thoughts about that:
You want to know what stops jackasses with political power?
Fear that the “peasants” will have had enough.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?blog=Market-Ticker-Nad
“You want to know what stops jackasses with political power?
Fear that the “peasants” will have had enough.”
Beryl,
Want to know what I fear? I fear that the US Government wants the peasants to have “had enough” and react…providing them wherewithal to claim emergency powers.
Strange and wonderful powers….
Yes, that’s a reasonable fear. California’s governor still has the covid emergency going.
You don’t see a single Republican campaigning on repealing these emergency powers to suspend not only the Constitution but the Bill of Rights.
Beryl,
That’s because most people don’t know the law exists, and because the Republucans (foolishly) think they’ll be in office when the music stops playing.
Wouldn’t it be great if market-ticker was published every day at the bottom of the screen on CNN, Fox news, MSNBC, etc. to become a real part of MSM.
How so?
I really have not heard that about him, DyersEve, but if you want to suggest a source, I’ll definitely check it out. But I keep in mind that Orban is vilified in the press here, and is one of the few leaders I’d place any hope in.
Monetary policy that helps the bankers but not the people. 3rd richest nation on Earth but can’t live in more than 200 sq ft of space
Having spent a total of 8 years studying and working in Japan, starting in 1962, I can state unequivocally that the great majority of locals do not care for foreigners, particularly those choosing to live there. We are looked down upon as untermenschen, no matter how hard we might try to learn the language and follow the customs. It’s a no-win deal.
Time and again, I have been subjected to the following question, when engaged in small talk by strangers, “So when are you leaving Japan?”
This is not at all considered impolite.
One Canadian acquaintance, who has spent 25 years there, carefully building up a small video production house, stands as a case study in hopelessness. NHK has blacklisted him because “… he does not present Japan properly in his videos…” So he only earns income by shooting footage for western media organizations.
The worst-case scenario is trying to fit into a Japanese family. I always feel sorrow when I hear of a Chinese, Filipina, or Western woman going to live in Japan with her new husband, because of the way she will be treated by the family, neighbors and society in general. As one disgruntled gaijin put it, “It is not like the son married a foreign woman – it’s as though he brought home a chimpanzee as his new wife”.
Since the birth rate began its death spiral, a result of newly-won economic independence of women and the generally miserable state of Japanese families (the one I was with, in Yokohama, was a case study: the younger son and the father refused to talk face to face – everything had to be communicated via the mother) they are in a real fix. Either they revise their attitudes toward the rest of the world, and accepting foreigners on an equal basis, or the race might just wink out.
“the younger son and the father refused to talk face to face – everything had to be communicated via the mother)”
I had that relationship with a roommate in college–even though all four roommates sat down to dinner together four nights a week, as we took turns cooking dinner. Typical conversations were, “Cami, would you ask Alice to pass the potatoes?”
It worked well.
Your description of your experience sounds pretty dated. I was in Japan for 92-93 and my experience was 180 degrees opposite of yours. I agree that there is some racism–and maybe it’s justified.
A fellow teacher and I would play a game we called ‘Subway Roulette.’ We would get on on the subway, sometimes transferring to some line we didn’t know, then randomly get off at a place we didn’t know. We had both wonderful and not-so-wonderful experiences. We found this one bar that was on the second story of a building. On the steps going up was painted: “No Americans.”
One time we happened into a gay/transvestite/disturbed-person club, and the next day, my buddy, who didn’t make it home that night–I left him when I realized, “Uh oh”– woke up in a grassy field with green stains on his knees. And that is not the best part of the story. I remember running through some kind of manufacturing facility where people were building sh*t and machines were making machine sounds as we ran along. I stole a bike to escape.
But on the whole, I loved the Japanese and they loved me–not in the way you’re thinking.
Great, hardest working people ever–until I met the South Koreans 20 years later. Even better. No green knees.
While Abe took an anti-communist, anti-China stance, he was under serious scrutiny for misuse of funds for personal reasons when he stepped down.
As prime minister, he reformed Japan with Abenomics and moved the country away from the passifistic doctrine Japan embracedd after WWII. He has been campaigning for his party since he retired from politics.
If he was giving speeches, he most certainly hadn’t retired from politics.
One group to ask is the South Koreans.
It’ll be like looking for love in all the wrong places.
I lived in South Korea for 4 years. I kinda learned to speak Korean, but as an older guy (50 when I was there), it was hard.
Anyway, I saw a play called ‘The Comfort Women’ while I was there. Powerful. There were some bad Japanese dudes at that time. I also lived in Japan for a year. There are a lot of good Japanese dudes. The times…
I recently watched a video about Japanese army brutality at Nanking. It was over the top — what explains it?
check the book. it was censored [some photos omitted] to get it in libraries.
Without the link this time. Search for The Orthodox Nationalist the Rape of Nanking Fact or Fiction? 061919
Matthew Johnson dismisses the Rape of Nanking out of hand as a myth, saying that the use of massacre is a Communist thing not a right-wing one.
Right click on Download to save or open, not on the play button, which does not work for me.
Johnson’s argumentn in summary:
Always be sceptical of massacre claims in wartime.
Cui bono? Why would the Japanese do this?
Rape of Nanking 1937 but the first mention of it is 1945. (That alone should do.)
All massacre stories have faked photos. (Even the Savile legend has them, in particular an altered photo showing him with his arm around a woman and the arm looks about twice the nataurla size and is very oddly shaped.)
One of the most famous photos, showing a pile of severed heads,, was actually of the execution of ‘bandits’ by a warlord in N. China.
Other photos show the Japanese soldiers wearing Middle-Eastern style vest, or sporting beards (Jap soliders were not allowed to do this).
Contemporary accounts make no reerennce ot any excessive deaths.
The Japanese were welcomed into the city because at last there was a chance of law and order.
150-odd journalists in the city and they saw nothing. (This reminds me of the ridiculous Tiananmen Sq massacre in ‘Beijing’ (Peking).
Johnson then goes on to discuss the Batan March (?) in the Phillipines in WW2.
HB
Living in our times. These are the only times we have.
Each grouping/generation lives in their time/times. They make decisions there. They take action at times, and at other times they choose inaction.
There is a B/W video floating around out there showing San Francisco the day before the momentous earthquake. It is not long, probably less than a minute. The point is those people at the time had no idea regarding the calamity which would occur in less than 24 hours.
We live in our time.
It certainly is an interesting time, is it an any more interesting time than all the predecessors?
china has not forgotten by any means.
remember a story recently about an american guy working in china that mentioned owning a mitsubishi. his chinese co-worker effectively shunned him for that.
OK, let’s say govts around the world fall, public officials arrested/tried, and self determination restored.
The what? How are the course of events altered?
Far too many variables involved in that hypothetical to compute at this point. You’d need to start with something simpler and more immediately plausible.
Cogito ergo sum
Look at 17th century Europeland
The new Governments have to face the international creditors or default and go the self-reliant and Independence route a la CUBA is what I’m thinking. The Chinese might talk business and Russia has a “friendly-unfriendly country” business policy which might help them.
autarky for the win.
and industrial policy based on national interest, rather than a world-slave-labor-shopping financialization asset strip.
Spot on.
Most of humanity isn’t wiped out as per the Great Reset, with the remaining ones hideously altered into a mockery of human nature?
You are ridiculous sometimes, like with this comment.
@ mitchellc:
“OK, let’s say govts around the world fall, public officials arrested/tried, and self determination restored.
The what? How are the course of events altered?”
That’s quite a weird question. I think it is probably safe to say that the punishment of criminals and the eradication of criminal organizations/cartels is an unmitigated good. It is the removal of those who prey upon and parasitize society, which is kind of like getting rid of your tapeworms, and ridding your neighborhood thieves, murderers, and rapists–only writ large.
“Self-determination restored” rather obviously results in prosperity. You are free to be productive and to freely engage in commerce–plus you get to keep your shit (and your life), rather than having it stolen.
We save the world from the appalling shortage of Africans!
I was worried about that!
“self determination”?
Without a genuine self, all yer left with is determination. Growing up, your first *real* encounter with yourself and with your peers happens in situations when no adults are hovering around nearby. You are in that situation having the experience of freedom. Your freedom expresses itself when you – and you alone – make the next decision as to what place you wish to travel to. No need to ask a parent can you go over there, you determine that for yourself. How old must a person be in order to experience self determination?
I go back in my memories/time machine to age four in 1953 and I’m in a semi-suburban area in a small southern hillbilly town – people used to joke about it and call it “Mayberry” instead of it’s real name that sounds a bit similar. This time of year, our neighborhood gang of kids would get jars with lids (from our moms) and we’d go running about the neighborhood at dusk collecting fireflies. Countless thousands of them everywhere and easy to catch. After an hour or two of roaming about you’d have a jar full to take home and place in your bedroom later. Every now and then there was a mishap and the bugs got released indoors, also great fun.
Today’s children never have any experiences like this, instead they live in a wierd state of bondage that they aren’t fully released from until age 18 or so. By taking self determination away from our children we have also taken it away from ourselves. That’s the real price we pay for the fossil fuel lifestyle in US suburbia.
It will be interesting to see how far the people (nonfarmers) in Holland support them. I’m hoping that finally more people wake up to the creeping totalitarian takeover and say — this far and no farther. My family thinks I’ve lost my mind b/c I no longer believe all the climate change “information” that’s flooding the airwaves and am worried that this is already being used to crush and control people.
I explained it to my youngest this way : say you live in a 1600 square foot house for 4 people. One day the government (in the guise of controlling climate change due to excessive consumption) says “rather then 400 square feet/person, we’re only going to allow 200 so your house will shelter 8 people. You may take in 4 more, or move to 800. By Wednesday. Since this is a free, democratic country, you decide.”
Sound extreme? If we were able to go back 5 years and talk to those farmers, my guess is, to a man, none of them would have believed the government would grab the power to do the very things they’re doing right now. It would seem crazy.
An ex-pat living in the Netherlands reports that the real motive for seizing that farmland is medium-density housing for all the new immigrants. Larger tax base, of course. They apparently have faith that they can turn away from being a net food exporter into a regular consumer at the globalist grocery store.
What is your friend saying is the public’s reaction to this brazen action by the government?
He’s all for pouring shit on the homes of government ministers and doesn’t mind the temporary shortages.
The Dutch do not seem to be turning against the farmers the way that Canadians turned against their truckers.
What’s so crazy about this too is manure is used for fertilizer — a natural fertilizer rather than chemical (oil-based) and is much better for the soil. It’s organic and recyclable which is just what Greta wants.
I saw a nature program a while back about the dwindling elephant herds in Africa and one of the reasons they believe this is happening too (not excluding poaching) is, as numbers decrease, there’s less elephant poo to fertilize plants and trees and so the cycle continues.
SW,
Welcome to complex systems.
@ JT — Complex systems that are self-defeating at that. It’s hard to see how this is all going to pan out in 5 to 10 years as the much maligned baby boomers take their skills and either die or retire.
So it’s outright theft by the Dutch govt under the green scam to make money replacing the Dutch people.
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
They have tried to sell some American communities on building those large apartment towers in suburban and even rural areas, claiming they are more “efficient” and therefore more green, but then you see that in the places they put these things, they quickly fill up with immigrants, not Americans, thus over-stressing the environment.
This is the same plan HUD had back in the 70s, when Jimmy Carter said no. Back then they claimed it was for diversity, although they didn’t use that term then.
I wish they didn’t use it now, because it is stupid, and so is the concept behind it, and everyone bends the knee to it, without bothering to think how stupid it is.
Well you have to put the new people somewhere, right? Or are you against mass 3rd World immigration? Since when? When did you see the light?
Most people just want to do it gradually. Go over the cliff at a staid 20 mph instead of a screaming 90 mph. It all comes to the same thing. And the screams will come in any case, just a bit later.
That’s exactly what Big Dem Pols want to do around here (Ct) — build massive stinking Section 8 concrete housing towers in our small towns and rural areas — TO PROMOTE RACIAL EQUITY. Needless to say, Billionaires Row in Greenwich, where Sen Blumenthal & Gov Lamont live, will be exempt.
Jarek, I saw the light back during the Carter administration, which is why I remember it.
BRH, I noticed Blumenthal was over in Ukraine with Lindsey, paying homage to Zelensky. Maybe he will recruit some Ukrainian refugees for the welfare towers. They may be white, but at least they are foreigners.
Beryl,
Blumenthal and Miss Lindsey were in Ukraine saying we need to go hand-to-hand with the Rooskis.
What are these tough guys waiting for?
Apparently, there is a severe housing shortage in Holland, and they need at least 1/3 of that land to put up high-density housing to shelter all those middle eastern immigrants.
And what kind of jobs are these immigrants going to have? Even if the government is successful, what will that ultimately accomplish? High density housing usually means slums in ten years or less.
Jobs? Did someone say jobs?
Right? See France.
European bureaucrats are the scourge of the earth right now and if the citizenry doesn’t push back then I have zero sympathy to their fate.
Yes, the Dutch farmers are a bright light and the Spanish and Italians can be counted on to at least protest.
The Germans are simply stupid, dangerous and robotic. Northern European countries the same with their misguided immigrant policies ruining the quality of life in their countries.
The British Isles are simply the worst and while it is great to see BoJo go the Brits need to realize they produce nothing and are a small island led by a family of inbred Germans. Why is the UK even in the G7? What a joke.
Guaranteed we will witness a sh*t-show in Europe this autumn. Nothing will go as planned by the central controllers but people will suffer.
Boris was bad enough, but I’m afraid worse is to come. It’s ironic but not surprising that the same people who bleated for years about having fewer children and reducing the population, having achieved the smaller population they claimed to want, now demand that a small country accept unlimited numbers of breeders from the third world – who will be welcomed, provided for, and never accused of filling the world with too many people.
In Camp of the Saints, Raspail had the Government mandate that people take at least one into their homes. The ultimate integration. As a D from Oregon, this is your nirvana.
Did you read about the woman who chastised a bad driver in Portland, only to be called a colonizer by a “Native American”?
France, Holland, the UK — but its Sweden that is the worst f#kkd. Swedes did it to themselves, with their smarmy, self hating Pols and “Feminist Foreign Policy” that opened the gates to the entire wretched 3rd world. Now Swedes are paying the price.
Source… gosh I can’t recall, it’s recent.
Set off a nuke or some similar high yield explosive off their coast and the Brits become swamp mush as the tidal wave (tsunami) hits.
I’m sure they’ll live on the welfare state and prey, for the most part, on each other (except for the rape gangs). They’ll never assimulate or even learn the language. At least it will be handy when the time comes to round them up.
“Did you read about the woman who chastised a bad driver in Portland, only to be called a colonizer by a “Native American”?”
Any “native American” who speaks using English is a hypocrite.
They’s speak their Native tongue, but they don’t know how.
See what I did there?
“Did you read about the woman who chastised a bad driver in Portland, only to be called a colonizer by a “Native American”?”
You can find the entire video on Rumble. Just search for:
WOKE ON WOKE CONFLICT! White Liberal Woman Tells Native American To Go Back To Where He Came From
It’s a pretty hilarious exchange between two completely insane liberals.
The Indian is a liberal? If so, what does liberal even mean?
Actually Ditto for ditzy too. Does seeing life thru rose colored glasses with rainbow frames have anything to do with the original meaning of the word, say according to Thomas Jefferson?
Hahahahaha that exchange between liberal wokies – that’s comedy gold, thanks!
One of my daughters lives in the Portland area, and she tells me that the liberals are constantly berating each other over some failure to conform to one of the finer points liberal ideals. Apparently being nasty to each other for the sake of being nasty.
20 years ago we went into Amsterdam on a train from Germany, before the huge influx of immigrants. I’ve never forgotten the shocking multifamily housing that stretched for miles and miles in the middle of nowhere. There were almost no cars, no people walking around, it was bleak. I’ve always wondered what the millions living like that do all day or all their lives. And that was 20-25 years ago.
here in California I see Blacks eating out, driving expensive cars, obese black women [the one I saw today was scary, as in when the butt sticks out like a shelf, almost].
I wonder where all the bling is from?
1 in 4 black males is a felon, IQ average 85, from single mothers…how they get the bling?
drug sales, both stolen legal and illegal
SW;
What you describe can be seen in Dr. Zhivago, a cool movie that showed the heartless cruelty of Bolshevik worker bees in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
“Life imitates art.” — Oscar Wilde
I remember when Dr Zhivago and his family fled the famine in Moscow and huddled into a cattle car for a long train ride to Siberia. Remarkably, they had more fun than modern airline travellers.
hahahah and no masks 🙂
My clearest memory of Dr. Zhivago was when he and wife returned to his ancestral home to find it run by a big fat communist minion women who monitored everyone and told all what to do and where to go to the toilet. Grim !!!
About as bizarre as some health official telling renters they could stop paying rent for a year and a half. Bolsheviks – they never go away, they just change into lab coats.
Lots of discussion today about farming and Germany. My mom grew up in Munich during the Hitler era and her family had a front row seat to all the events that happened in Germany. It all started in Munich with herr Hitler auditioning and rabble rousing in the huge beer halls. It ended with my mom’s upper middle class neighborhood being blown to pieces in ’44, a few of her former neighbors were actually pieces in the street. Earlier, her brother was one of the few that made it back from the failed Russian invasion, more dead than alive and ill from tuberculosis. She then began life in the basement of a bombed home, and for long periods of time there was nothing to eat but sauerkraut, potatoes, turnips, crap like that. No butter, no coffee, no eggs, forget about beef. She used to lecture my siblings and myself about how spoiled and complacent we were about the availability of food. Yada yada yada. Instead of “finish your plate – there’s people starving in China” – it was “we were starving and desperate in Germany at the end of the war. You need to be thankful for how good you have it”. I never took her seriously much when I was a kid. She was a war bride, met my dad when he was a soldier, and a few years later came to live in America. Instead of worrying about another war or famine, I was upset because my dad bought a Chevy Biscayne with a six cylinder motor. I was wanting the family car to at least be an Impala. German history is rather amazing. Every so often, the country goes completely nuts, maybe from boredom? – and feels the urge to tear everything up and live the bombed out basement lifestyle where you are shivering in a dark damp place with candles and oil lamps for lighting. This isn’t a recent thing with the Germans, they were doing stuff like this in the Middle Ages as well.
alice cooper mocked that, in the 1970s with a song with a line about..finish yr food, koreans r starving.
Much of my family lived in the Netherlands when it was occupied by the Germans. They ate tulip bulbs. The Germans made them house German soldiers and many watched their neighbors being hauled away to concentration camps. I was raised on those stories. The rest of my family lived in the Netherlands Indies and were in Japanese concentration camps. Those were even grimmer stories. My cousins have been keeping me informed on what is happening with the farmers. One of my cousins has given me a completely different tale than what the farmers are saying. I would say that propaganda is alive and well in Nederland and hope the farmers keep up their protests. Mark Rutte, the PM is a graduate of Schwab’s young leaders program. He and Justin Trudeau are soulmates. Things are going to get really grim for Europe.
Mr. Kunstler,
Holy smokes, you are truly an expert at ‘poking the monkey through the fence’! Bravo!
Here, in the sunny morning of Friday, July 8, coffee-in-hand I again thoroughly enjoyed your crisp concision succinctly summarizing the picture with incisive clarity.
After reading your talented writing all is now ‘good-to-go’ for the start of the weekend…
Cheers!
Eddy,
Haven’t you been a little hard on the Beaver lately?
Perhaps start drinking Decaf?
Dutch farmers rising up, Italians doing likewise, then some patriotic souls did something about those globalist “guidestones” on American soil.
All positive events.
Does seem to be a trend there.
I think that the Georgia Guidestones were more of a herpy-derpy late-70s monument to utopia rather than a globalist plot, but utopianism is BS that ruins lives when it turns authoritarian . . . so good riddance! What were you creeps thinking back in 1979?
“monument to utopia rather than a globalist plot,,,
Beth,
Reduntant.
Yes, but those were the roots of much of this globalist crap.
As far as I’m concerned, blowing up the GG was a boss move, and a warning to Krampus Schwab, regardless of the Guidestones’ original meaning. It’s iconoclasm that I can get behind.
Thank you. Not all Icons are good so not all iconoclasm is bad. But they are good to some one or they wouldn’t have gone up in the first place. People differ, thus conflict. So to avoid serious conflict, one must strive for a pure sample or relative homogeneity. Thus? Thus White Nationalism, with culture as factored in. No blue eyed, red bearded Jihadis need apply.
Destruction of a people’s monuments used to be a stage in the schemas of genocide. It was cunningly deleted some years ago so as not to clue in Whites about close we were to this.
The Plot goes back generations, centuries, and even millenia. So, no.
What do you think the 60’s were if not part of the Plot?
Positive… something which struck me as odd was how quickly the guidestones came down after the initial event. A crime scene is essentially a piece of deteriorating evidence. My first take on a the very short clip I saw looked eerily like some previous events in Manhattan.
Just an observation.
Yeah, they “pulled” the rest of the megaliths.
Weird.
I don’t know who “they” is.
“Authorities”?
Who owns them?
Questions, questions . . .
If you look official, no one will question you. Could have been anyone.
It has been vandalized for decades. It was a big Conspiracy fact among people in the know. Yoko Ono talked about its ideals in a positive fashion.
So they might have gotten rid of the ruins so quickly because having their ideals laying around in pieces is very bad symbolism. Or did they blow it up themselves, because they want all evidence of their intended crime to be hidden.
In any case, they moved Fast. They cared deeply.
Orange men good.
I’ve just signed a contract with a tanning company. I’ll post pics anent my transformation. Don’t dream it, be it.
“Hugo Talks” on Bitchute commented on how quickly the rest of it was demolished (reminds me of the speed with which the rubble of the WTC was taken away). He also says that the cctv did not show who placed the explosives. (Reminds me of Epstein’s death, a theory I do not share.) I expect it is to warn America about the rise of right wing extremism and I would guess about the shooting of Japan’s former PM. Perhaps the stones were an embarrassment to them.
Possibly not an embarrassment.
could be what goes around comes around.
Sort of like a warning using a visual to emphasis the truth will come out.
Test Post
Post Toasties
It’s July now. National Cheese Day’s on June 4th.
Alex Berenson is back on Twitter, and Elon Musk is curious.
“Can you say more about this: “… pressures that the government may have placed on Twitter …”
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1544719143387238403
In a country following the rule of law, Jen Psaki should go to prison.
Elon founded SpaceX with the head of In-Q-Tel, which is the CIA’s venture capital fund.
He’s friends with Jack, and Jack is a liar, so who knows whether his motives are pure or not.
Psaki has openly boasted that the administration was working with social media to censor.
I don’t even think it matters. Anyone depending on a guy like Musk to save things is lost beyond help.
Is the assignation of Abe going to rhyme with the assignation of Arch Duke Ferdinand? Only in this case the citizens of Western Civ go to war against their puppet governments of the WEF? Maybe it will be vogue to snipe WEF employees? Look out Justin Trudeau, Bill Gates, Lori Lightfoot et. al.
It’s obviously horrific and diabolical to have service men deliberately killed getting “vaccines” but would they not be used against Americans at some point? The same with the epically corrupt American police force. The more neutered these thoroughly destructive establishments are the better IMO.
If one looks at regime policies the only big winner we can note is the CCP.
Why didn’t we move our industry to Russia in 1992, instead?
No environmental laws
No labor unions
Excessively low wages
A desperately motivated employee base
Educated workers
Underdeveloped, plentiful energy resources in place
PS- the offshoring was kicked off with California investing 20% of its huge CALPERS pension fund “investing” in ‘Red Chips’, in 1992.
Woops! So solly.
PS- the offshoring was kicked off with California “investing” 20% of its huge CALPERS pension fund in ‘Red Chips’, in 1992.
Alz-
Russia would also be far less likely to wage unrestricted warfare and buy out large swaths of our political, media, and academic classes.
And fewer political prisoners than the US
“Miasma”! Yes!
Ever wonder what reconciling your life in an openly corrupt and hostile country feels like?
Life in Mexico, life in Saudi, North Korea?
Biden sells strategic oil reserves to Chinese company his son’s “investment firm” has or had a 1B USD share in.
And the mainstream propaganda ignores (natch).
You no longer need to imagine, provided you did not succumb to the near constant gaslighting.
The western world has fabricated insanity
As the new order
“Biden’s Energy Department has refused compliance with requests under the Freedom of Information Act probing the administration’s improper use of the nation’s strategic oil reserves maintained for emergencies.
The president will have depleted 260 million barrels from the nation’s reserves. The Energy Information Administration reported that just more than 492,000 barrels remained in storage on July 1, exactly one month into the six-month hurricane season.”
Sinopec is tied to Hunter Biden, whose private equity firm, BHR Partners, bought a $1.7 billion stake in the company seven years ago. According to the Washington Examiner Hunter Biden remained listed as a part-owner of the firm as late as March. Sinopec is wholly owned by the Chinese government.
When Biden stated he was releasing oil from reserves it was to “ease the pain that families are feeling in the United States from high energy prices.”
Beiging Biden should be impeached and removed at this point. Why the wait? Harris could hardly do worse than the Goniff-in-Chief.
My dream team:
Kamala Harris / Tiera Mack 2022
“Pull it, pull it now”
Fabricated insanity, I love it. Not hard to do on a population increasingly having shit for brains. Anybody know where Hunters laptop is? Speaking of Hunter, the first documented case of conception of a human through anal intercourse.
Hunter as the new Mayhem. Democrat party as the new Allstate.
Gotta be someone who can have some fun with it.
.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/allstate-s-mayhem-actor-reflects-on-pain-tolerance-after-three-amputations/ar-AAQf6Dl
At this point, the laptop is so famous it should be in a glass case at the Smithsonian.
Hahaha
Angry citizens do not assassinate leaders and certainly not ex-leaders. That’s the Deep State’s job. Abe’s assassination is not what it at first appears to be. I’m sure of that. He didn’t get whacked by our team. He got whacked by their team.
And illegal alien gang members do not plan to murder 4th of July parade attendees.
Using the police to eliminate your rival is an old tactic, if not by bribery then by hot button lies
Just ask Orangeman
The kid was a crazy crossdresser, not a cop. But yes, perhaps a product of Monarch training and/or mood enhancing pharmaceuticals, well known to cause murderous or suicidal ideation in some.
Specifically addressing the 2 arrested in Virginia for ostensibly “plotting” a July fourth assault
Scott Adams had an interesting Twitter thread on troubled kids, which is getting quite a reaction.
I think it’s an overreaction myself, he was talking about the options society gives the families, not advocating.
“When a young male (let’s say 14 to 19) is a danger to himself and others, society gives the supporting family two options:
1. Watch people die.
2. Kill your own son.
Those are your only options. I chose #1 and watched my stepson die. I was relieved he took no one else with him.”
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1544679512327081984?s=20&t=vOU6_PkYVfOH_LvSmIBteg
@BofO: In “olden” days, (and not so “olden” days amongst tribal peoples), young men like that tended to have “hunting accidents”. Or they were used to inflict misery on other tribes. Sort of like the draft.
Many very young children who “weren’t quite right” were left exposed, i.e.—given back to the Fairies) with the explanation that they had been just fine right up until the Fairies stole them and replaced them with Fairy children.
Read Even-Wentz’s “The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries”. They could destroy humanity if they put their mind to it. They drove my father out of Ireland.
He makes good points however the sick young man problem is due to our messed up culture. Change culture, change the people in it. I’m guessing Adams knows THAT’S not about to happen, therefore the other stark choice.
Jars,
Fairies chased your dad out of Ireland?
I heard it was St. Patrick who ran him outa town.
Black: The demons are sharpening their pitchforks in anticipation of your arrival. And licking their chops. They love you! – like a fox loves a chicken.
@Blackbird, can’t stop laughing – thank you.
Our team? Their team?….. What team?
Well said. There is no our anymore. Too much diversity.
Blacks have their own national anthem for example. And Mexicans plan to take back a huge chunk of the Southwest.
Teams are so racis!
From the linked article:
“Japan will not leave the Sakhalin 2 project, important for its energy security, even if asked to leave, the Japanese industry minister said in May.”
QUOTE: ***It looks like someone has… ordered der Schwabenklaus’s ass to be handed to him on a platter with a side of sauerkraut.***
I wonder how juicy and how tender those two hemispherical chunks of flesh on that platter would be. Perhaps adding some soy sauce would make them more tasty.
@Someone: be sure to marinate in rice vinegar first.
Mmmm, sauerkraut. Make sure it has the caraway seeds in it!
“. Make sure it has the caraway seeds in it!”
CB,
An abomination! Kraut is cabbage and salt.
The Boston Globe’s Kimberly Atkins Stohr said Democrats need to stop fighting amongst each other about the most effective strategy heading into the midterms and into 2024. “This is not Joe Biden’s sweet spot, Joe Biden is not out in front arguing and expressing anger over issues like abortion or guns, he wants to talk about inflation. He wants to talk about the economy, he wants to talk about the kitchen table subjects.”
She added that the world has changed, and Biden seems to be “behind the pulse of the American people.”
TRU STORY?
Jebus . . . who pays her to write Brandon fanfic?
Do you suppose there’s a sliding pay scale relative to the size and absurdity of the lies you’re willing to tell?
Well, CFN’rs, we have spoken, and our betters have listened;
The G20 meetings will occur soon, and they have taken a suprising tack…In the name of Global Warming, and our pending economic peril, they have agreed to meet in a small industrial city, in Poland, stay at local accomodations akin to our Holiday Inns, Make their way to the meeting in electric vehicles, and have forgone catering…eating at low budget local diners. All this to show their commitment to the issues of the day.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/war-ukraine-russia-g20/2022/07/07/id/1077817/
…Naw! I’m just shittin’ya…they going to Bali…Shangrii-la, paradise! somewhere you will only see on a cheap calindar…the one you use to mark your miserable days and months, in your painful, inexorable march to penury…or, if of a religious bent, Calvary.
We must eat cake! Learn to code!! Have nothing and like it!!!
It’s their greedy sopping up of all the available gravy that convinced me the entire climate thing was a scam. They have done none of the things you would do if there actually was some kind of emergency. The mere sight of their 1,500 private jets lined up near some resort that only they can afford should be sufficient proof for any sane person. They could conduct their meetings via Zoom and save, just by that one step, more of the planet’s resources than most of us use in a lifetime.
“The mere sight of their 1,500 private jets lined up” makes me think of a “target rich” environment.
Where are all those second hand rocket launchers that were abandoned on the fields of Afghanistan when you need them?
If “they” really wanted to stop climate change, they would cut the US military down to something approaching a reasonable size. Why is our military budget 10x the size of the next 10 countries combined? The US military is THE biggest user of fossil fuels in the world. And the biggest polluter.
And BY FAR the most profitable.
“Why is our military budget 10x the size of the next 10 countries combined?”
CG,
The answer would be obvious if you had been as screwed over by the US as have the next ten nations on the list.
It’s in large part financial support for the MIC.
Ike was correct, and who better to know than a person who rose to the very top of the heap.
“So, it’s game on and governments are about to fall across Europe, and God knows what kind of strife will erupt out of that. BoJo is going in the UK… Holland’s PM Mark Rutte may be next… Olaf Scholz after him… and Mario Dragi in Italy. Look out below.
As of this writing Friday morning, we have no idea what the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe might signify — except, perhaps, the ominous beginning of a global trend.”
As early as two years ago, Economist and Forecaster, Martin Armstrong , who for the last 40+ years has been advising heads of state and world leaders, was predicting this very same thing, happening and here we are, right on cue. He has been repeatedly issuing warnings that political, social and civil unrest will be on the rise peaking into 2023 and lasting into 2024. He also predicts the breakup of the United States.
Dimitri Orlov and a few other voices out there have been predicting the breakup of the USA. That is, the federal government’s performance gets so bad that not even the government itself believes in its own competence. The failures will be so manifest that everyone simply stops being believers, they realize that the project is over and has failed. In the Soviet Union, the day arrived when all of Russia decided they had to move on, what they had simply stopped working for them. When we reach that point, the state governments or confederations of state governments will be forced to take over managing the daily affairs of running a state. It’s called “decentralization”. It will require going into a time machine and living at the minimum a 50’s lifestyle. Or you have no life at all . Your choice.
@Woodchuck: I’m cool with a 50’s lifestyle, but only if I can have a T-bird and the population goes down to 50’s levels.
I’m with you there. The 1950s would be a great time to get back to. Would be great to find a woman as a wife that was actually concerned about nurturing and taking care of herself, her family, and her husband.
Tight blue jeans, a white t-shirt with a pack of fags rolled up in the sleeves, greasy hair, white socks, and old school tennies. All served up with a semi-bored look of teen angst while loitering outside the malt shop.
There’s James Dean in a nutshell.
Playing chicken on a county road in dad’s Pontiac. Didn’t swerve in time – who wants to be called a pussy? – and clipped the oncoming Rambler’s front fender. Spun off the road into a pretty sturdy tree and got decapitated.
Hey that’s what happened to Jimmy Dean (secret cocksucker), so you’re in good company. Strum that harp and pipe down now.
It was a good time to be a kid, and, comparatively speaking, it was a good time to be an adult. Your 40-hour-a-week job would support a family with a stay-at-home mom, and you could own your own (usually modest) home. You had one car, one black-and-white TV with three channels, and one phone.
You could also get a job at a grocery store chain when you graduated high school and work your way up to a good-paying position in management. No college required. Or you could go to work at the Ford plant, the railroad, or–where I grew up–at Lake City Arsenal. You would have the same job until you retired (comfortably).
You could probably afford a family vacation every year, and sometimes even a “big” vacation to Yellowstone or California. You could afford frequent weekend trips to the lake or some fishing resort.
I guess the main thing I remember about the 50s was that the pace of everything was SLOW. There were few after-school activities. (To be frank, there was not much to do in general.)
Clothing and home furnishings were hideous, as were hairstyles.
It was kind of an oppressive time to be a teen, but it’s always an oppressive time to be a teen. Work opportunities were limited to various iterations of “the company store.” Kind of like now.
The Failed States a’Murika naturally divides into about Ten Regions in futurist fiction. Even the Davos Mob Agenda 21 recognized that.
The primary question is how many have to die to get there. the Archdruid’s ‘Retrotopia’ is a worthy look at one way it might turn out.
It’s hard to say who is behind this, because what appears to be one big racket, is often a collection of small rackets with different groups benefitting.
The Border, for instance. Who benefits? The Catholic Church, the politicians who take donations to keep it wide open, the commies who want to weaken our culture and destabilize our society…
Does anyone think AOC understands she’s just a communist dupe?
NO. She has no idea. She also probably thinks she’s hot and attractive. HEE HAW HEE HAW HEE HAW.
🙂
And don’t forget, Beryl, the Democrats who are importing vast numbers of reliably Democrat voters. I think it doesn’t even matter who the groups are and what their different rackets are. It’s all dependent on the flow of money to people who will play any part to keep the money coming. If we can’t stop that flow, I don’t think it would even matter how many people were assassinated. There is a steady stream of greedy and immoral people who are ready to take a chance and step into their shoes. It’s like the Mafia in that respect – there’s always somebody waiting in the wings.
These immigrants are 100% socialists, they have been raised under a socialist government, have no idea of individual responsibility, and are here because they have been told that Biden will take care of them. Somebody suggested last blog that Biden will try an October surprise, to give the vote to the illegals. Wouldn’t that be a pleasant surprise?
“Does anyone think AOC understands….”
Could have been a multiple choice question with 1/2 dozen or so choices, the last being ‘Nope (rhymes with dope), none of the above’
“The governments of all western nations have become virtually enemies of their own people.”-JHK
Yes, and I could never figure out how countries could meet Paris Climate Accord Mandates without crushing crushing their own people, industry, agriculture and way of life. It didn’t seem possible, and it isn’t. How shocked the elites were in France at the Yellow Vest protests last year, and now the farmer revolt in The Netherlands. Here in the USA — as they dismantle the energy grid — they tell us “Relax, nothing is going to change. You’ll just be driving an EV instead of a gasoline powered car, and all electrical power will come from wind turbines.” (by 2030) Just on the face of it, it’s absurd. And rest assured, once the US energy grid is dismantled, it will never be restored.
Remember the US officers oath
To defend all enemies, foreign and domestic.
That last word is critical, how do you fight domestic enemies when they are the worst.
I think you mangled your quote “To defend all enemies, foreign and domestic.” But on the other hand, you told the truth!
The countries in western civ. are gradually ceasing to be a country in the traditional sense of the word, i.e. ceasing to be a country with a single centralized state.
An ordinary, normal country exists and develops when and if it has a single governing body interested in promoting national interests and in preserving it as a whole. This requires a nationally oriented elite with national interests. There is no such elite in western civ countries.
The elite in W civ. are supranational. They considers themselves not the elite of a particular state but the elite of the entire planet. Neither more nor less.
All the state institutions of today do not work for the people and certainly nor for business. They work for capital. For the international Banker.
– SQUARING THE CIRCLE , 2022
Yeah, you are right.
“To defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic”
The rest still stands.
He’s subtle too.
This is why energy issues need to come to the absolute forefront of the public’s agenda. People need to take their future into their own hands or it will be taken.
But you can barely find two people on the planet who have a realistic view of energy and a plan.
Jimbo…glad to see you’re back on the speaker’s circuit. As a former Democrat, I’m sure you’ll be able to educate all those filthy rich members of the Republican Club who can afford to wend their way to midtown NY to hear you. Glad to know the Schedule part of your homepage may be updated once again. We’ve moved far beyond the “Year of Magical Thinking”, for sure.
In NYC it’s the Dems who are filthy rich, not members of the Republican Club.
“ How do we even propose to defend North America if, say, China took a notion to seize our land by main force?”
This is one of the benefits of having something no other country has: the Second Amendment.
Thanks for this amazingly astute and prescient piece Jim! Mondays and fridays are my most anticipated days of the week. Living about 6 hours from NYC, I might try to attend your talk at the Republican Club. Cheers!
The same people defending the 2nd amendment might support the Chinese overthrowing the monster we have in DC.
The way things are going, the Deep State, primarily the Biden Mob, may give the country to China.
@Daddyotis: I once read that the reason the Japanese never invaded the West Coast was because they were terrified of there being someone with a gun behind every blade of grass.
That was Yamamoto’s warning to his elite brethren.
Yamamoto was a card.
“I look forward to dictating peace to the United States at the White House in Washington” [public quote]
“You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.”
[warning to an over-confident Japanese military]
“Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United State, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.”
[more detailed version]
A highly-intelligent man, he had spent a great deal of time studying and traveling in the U.S.A. He was thus in a better position to adjudge its mentality than those who had not.
I think a relatively large nuclear arsenal will really do the trick over a bunch of grinds with semi-autos, but I’ll fight to the death with my itty-bitty Glock against those evil Chi-coms and their designs on my semi-arid county on the great plains. ALWAYS VIGILANT!
Great Lede.
It is not like the Mafia
The Mafia is part of it.
The only thing that makes sense is that the global people are united behind their universal cause.
The are the global Mob.
BRICS is part of it, the Biden crowd is part of it, the EU is part of it, the Mexican Cartels are part of it, each of the Big nations have a Mob, they are unifying into the NMO. Schwab is trying to unify them, remember back to Bond’s SPECTRE. Iran is trying to join BRICS now.
A good question is what is WEF up to? Is BRICS a counter to the Western Mob that WEF is sponsoring. I have noticed that the BRICS countries are favoring Russia in Ukraine.
The MAGA group in the US, do they favor a side? The Red states, if they split from the Blues, who would they takes the side of in the global conflict?
Think about it. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa economically banded up against Nato and the US.
Mexico is aligned with BRICS with its cartels running our southern border for China with the idiots in DC doing nothing about it. Latin America and Venezuela join that group which basically says south of our border is BRICS country.
Two key countries that are teetering are Saudi Arabia and Israel. Where are they going? Right now they are trying to learn to live with each other, maybe in self defense.
If the USA is the center of the Western world, we are losing in every way possible. Economically we are shrinking fast, socially we are turning into a quagmire and approaching a self identity crisis, maybe a CW2. Militarily, the Biden Mob is making us into a clown show.
BRICS is on an ascent and we are fading fast. Will Eurasia and South America dominate the future? Will the darker elements of the BRICS world destroy the Caucasian European groups? What affect will the alignment have on the control of fast dwindling resources? What role will Africa play, China is already making a play for dominance there.
One think I believe is that the WEF dominance by Climate Change is a thorn in its side. If BRICS gets control of oil and water, they will crush WEF.
We live in interesting times!!!
Not NMO, NWO.
I thought you intended New Mob Order.
New Mess Order. *Ahem*
Nope. Got it.
Although Vox Day’s Wicked Evil Fascists is a little more elegant than The Davos Mob.
Jim needs to cut back on the adjectives and adverbs. He is a little long in tooth to be that witty sophomore English major trying to impress his professor. It’s clever, but in the end exhausting. Just sayin…..
…Hey, wait a minute….
That’s 8 adjective-words out of 38 yourself, doc m, jus’sayin…
…it well..
Oh great, another literary brutalist
Let me guess, GPO Style Manual aficionado?
“Typewriter tappers
You’re all just crappers
You listen to love with your intellect”
– Jools and Jim
Peter Townshend
Oh come on. The old white guy version of
“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” 🙂
Jim needs to cut back on the adjectives and adverbs. – docmartin
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I disagree doc. I like the extra description those adjectives provide. I will say, however, I got my son-in-law to read some JHK essays and he said he pictured an old man sitting at a typewriter with a Thesaurus in his lap.
Witty turns of phrase and well chosen metaphors, adjectives, and adverbs are the seasoning in a written work. As with seasoning in food, it should not be overdone.
With music, there are sublime moments: the tenor hits that high note, some inspired harmony emerges, the violin merges so seamlessly with the vocal that you can’t tell which is which. Or maybe there is a brief “showpiece” vocal, like the one in “Gimme Shelter,” maybe there’s some cowbell.
The point is, the tenor doesn’t sing high notes all the way through, and what’s-her-name did not sing all the way through “Gimme Shelter,” and the cowbell doesn’t need to be going all the time.
I’d say Jim’s use of “the seasoning” is pretty judicious.
Actually, he has toned it down quite a bit over recent years. Older stuff was a little on the Rococo side and sometimes seemed strained. I’d say it’s about right at this point in time.
“They really are explicitly true believers in old Adolf’s mid-20th century program of exterminating the Russ people next door. Mr. Putin wasn’t kidding around when he highlighted that feature of his operation.”
No, he wasn’t. America is fully on board with this project, too.
There is a sequence of dialogue from the film, Come and See, where a captured German officer explains to the assembled Russian group around him that (paraphrasing) ‘they’ (Russians) should have never existed, and they shouldn’t ever exist.
It really sums up the Western thought towards Russia collectively.
That’s quite a film. The aktion takes place in Belarus, which 80 years later is back in the news.
Let me guess. Hollywood? So it was the Russians they hated and not you know who.
Well, ladies and germs;
A bit of news that you might be unfamiliar with;
The Stiuational Awareness, this AM reports;
Good morning. Here’s your Early Warning for Friday, 08 July 2022.
FOOD & AG: Widespread drought conditions and high temperatures have led to biblical swarms of Mormon Crickets in the western U.S. Numbering in the billions, swarms of the 3-inch long insects decimate vegetation and crops before ultimately feeding on each other. Damages from the swarms can have catastrophic effects, with past swarms causing the destruction of 10 million acres of Oregon farmland in 2021. The USDA data shows damages from the swarm can negatively impact patterns of erosion, water flow, and nutrient cycling causing lasting effects. (AC: Continued swarms are likely as drought, and high heat persists across the American West. Damages from these swarms are likely to have deleterious effects on crop yields already struggling under environmental extremes, contributing to a growing food crisis. – R.P.)
Note to those well versed in the Old Testament…. Are these the harbinger of the locusts forcast for the end of times? If they indeed can eat one another, they might be biters….again, as the Old Testament forcasts. Will the Calvery come and save us”
My belief is that there will, indeed, be Calvary…personal Calvary of the Via Delarosa variety….
This might, however, have a silver lining for those producing insect flour for protein enhancement in the new and improved food industry.
Errata;
Actually, the end of times are forecast in the New Testament, as are t he biting/stinging locusts.
Read the New,
But don’t forget the Old,
As one is silver,
And the other is gold.
Just shut the fuck up
And do as you’re told….*
*Religious leaders everywhere….
I don’t care what Katy did or didn’t do John Livingston will take care of it.
Yesss, so say the Mormons….
The Locusts have no king, yet advance in ordered ranks.
Psalms
What does this tell us?
Jarek,
It tells ME that the only good bug is a dead bug….
Starship Troopers. A classic!
…Well, Dis, it was originally a Black Flag insecticide TV commercial from the ;50’s….
Great commercials too. I remember them well. Those were running well into the 60’s and maybe early 70’s.
Remember a few years ago when swarms of locusts headed from Saudi Arabia to India and the Chinese sent India millions of ducks?
I remember because someone said “Wait! The Chinese have an army of ducks? Shouldn’t we build up our duck army?”
I never heard the outcome, but I have to assume that the ducks prevailed and the crisis was averted.
Although, of course, this raises the obvious opportunity of the government putting a bounty on the crickets and then processing them into food.
At the buffet, I go for crickets over impossible burgers every time.
I love the bugs, ‘cept for when their little legs and/or antennas get stuck between my teeth. Real pain gettin’ ’em out. ‘Bout the same as eating crawdads when you think about it.
I’m so glad I’m already a vegetarian.
” impossible burgers…”
Gustaf,
Any right-thinking man would.
“right-thinking man”
That’s me..
First I heard ot it. I know Mao declared war on the starlings in the Fifties. According to that biography he as the only man in China putting on wieight. Even his own daughter lost weight.
What I meant as to a restoration of public consent and adaptive strategies is: how does removing coercion alter the underlying facts? (It wasn’t meant to imply we should continue to follow dear leader.)
1. No covid/Vax – no pilot mandates, no resignations, no cancelled flights. Yet, fuel prices alone will shortly destroy a temporary, 50 year phenomenon of mass air travel. Same result, different process.
2. Woke policies intentionally sabotaging efficient maximization of available surplus in production & services.. Again, fuel availability and pricing will soon enough render those industries obsolete and redundant.
3. AGW mandates and compliance driven asset seizures. Farmland is only as useful as fertilizer is available and affordable. Soil long ago stopped being anything other than a root substrate for the delivery of chemical nutrients. (Please refrain from claims of “organic”.)
Taken altogether, 8b people are still in the same boat, with the exception of a few thousand living it up. In this case it sounds like jealousy and resentment. OK, so we don’t have a cartoon character telling us how to live, but it doesn’t change the essential facts.
like yalta, perhaps the people should start discussing a post globalist order, years before the war actually comes to an end.
Good points.
Although the baddies, IMO, are not the mere globalists.
They are the ultra-elites wedded to the technocracy.
The investors in the techno-narcissistic revolution.
The technocracy believes humanity’s future is inexorably intertwined with technology/software/internet/AI.
Synth-life (soon to be sticker on the EV pickup
So long as this nexus of the funding/seeding class enriching themselves on our capitulation to an all-electronic future “there’s an app for that!”, we are doomed.
The engineers and programmers and those who learned to code are enthusiastic for it.
The ultras are hungry for it (never dated)
And the mortals intent on remaining so will soon be overtaken by these new Titans
Never sated
It’s OK To Be Replicant
Replicants, led by St. Khan, striking for life and freedom
against Hive AI-led Terminators
The youngest generations will be unable to distinguish a man from a woman
The next generations will be unable to distinguish a human being.
If earth’s near future, as they believe (or are more likely using as the reason for their post-humanism) is destined to be hostile to humanity
Then there are legions determined to be inhuman
“In the year 2525”
“The youngest generations will be unable to distinguish a man from a
woman…/”
Avatar,
This is true even today, if you turn them onto their bellies and then squint….
A Friday Fun-Reader for y’all:
“A man was shot and killed after a confrontation with squeegee workers in downtown Baltimore, city police said.Baltimore police said officers responded around 4:30 p.m. Thursday and found a 48-year-old man shot at the intersection of Light and Conway streets. Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said the man was driving through the intersection and had some interaction with some squeegee workers, which got heated.Harrison said at some point, the man drove his vehicle through the intersection and parked it on the other side of Light Street, exited with a bat and walked back to the area where the squeegee workers were and swung the bat at one or more of the workers. “The information that we have right now is that he swung the bat at one or more of the squeegee workers. In return, one of the squeegee workers pulled out a gun and fired striking the male victim,” Harrison said.It is unclear if the man made contact with the bat. Police said the man was taken to a hospital, where he died.The squeegee workers got away and police are still looking for them. There were two other incidents involving squeegee workers earlier Thursday at the same intersection “Discussing the details of the incident that I was involved in today is a distraction from the tragedy that resulted in another needless death and act of violence in our city. As (an) elected leader, I am disappointed in our collective inability to address the despair that leads our young people to busy intersections washing windshields. This activity is dangerous, and a threat to our city’s progress. I am committed to work with all elected officials and community leaders to fully address this vexing problem.”Harrison said police were in the area throughout parts of the day.”There was an entire team out here earlier conducting outreach, making sure we connect people with resources, with lifestyle changes,” Harrison said. “At this very intersection, the police were out here conducting enforcement as people want us to do. We did exactly what they asked us to do enforce and we did we caught a guy with a gun at this very intersection.”
“Today, another tragic — and yet preventable — death has occurred in broad daylight at one of the most heavily trafficked intersections in the entire city. At approximately 4:38 p.m., a motorist exited his vehicle with a baseball bat, went after at least one squeegee worker and swung the bat, and was shot and killed.”Hours before this tragic incident, BPD responded to this exact location for a report of a squeegee worker with a firearm. That individual was arrested at approximately 1:51 p.m., and the firearm (a pellet gun) recovered.”As I said during the public safety hearing yesterday, the level of violence in this city is simply unsustainable. Two lives were destroyed today and one person is dead because we have failed to adequately address this situation. As a government, we have failed everyone here by allowing these circumstances to continue to occur. I again call on BPD leadership to ensure enforcement of the laws already on the books that prohibit this illegal activity, immediately.”But residents said what the city is doing isn’t working, and they want to see real results. “We hear that they’re reducing the crime numbers, but we’re not seeing that out on the street, and it seems, if anything, to be getting worse and be getting closer to home for us in the Inner Harbor,” resident Andrew Creech said. “I think it’s something that a lot of us could see coming. These squeegee people have been a source of a lot of violent acts and incidents.””The number of folks out here on the corner the squeegee kids are increasing it used to be one or two now it’s like five or sometimes six,” resident Jolene Allen said.
At a news conference Friday morning to announce the appointment of a new deputy mayor of public safety, the mayor addressed squeegee workers, saying: “We are going to continue to connect these young people with jobs and opportunity … To the young people who are out there on those corners, I want you to know we understand why you’re out there, but we don’t want you to be. I don’t want you to be. I want you to take advantage of every resource we are offering you to get off of those corners.”
The mayor also had a message for motorists and city residents and businesses, saying: “To the motorists and all those who have been impacted otherwise, we have been and we will continue to work to keep you safe. We’re going to continue to have an increased presence of city officials to keep those corners and everyone there and motorists safe …
We have been and we continue to enforce the laws.”Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan spoke Friday morning, saying: “It’s another tragic incident in Baltimore that we unfortunately hear about far too often, it seems like on a weekly basis. I’m hoping that they find the perpetrators of this crime and that they’re brought to justice.”When asked about whether the city’s crime plan is working, Hogan said: “I don’t think the plan is working. It’s quite obvious that it’s not working. I was happy to see the mayor just made a decision to bring (Anthony) Barksdale back in as the deputy mayor for public safety. I think that’s a good move. I think he’s a guy who understands violent crime and how to deal with it. They need a new plan.”When asked about squeegee workers in the city, Hogan said: “I think the squeegee workers have been a terrible problem for many years and it’s been unaddressed by the city. This was just a culmination. It certainly has a major impact on people being afraid to come to the city because they’re being harassed for years and years, and this was just the pinnacle of the problem right in downtown across from the Inner Harbor with somebody getting shot.”
WBAL-TV 11 News spoke with people who came from the Baltimore Orioles game. Some said they wonder about the impact the shooting will have on events and tourism in the area.”I think it’s like definitely concerning,” Maddie Dukes said. “I was definitely surprised that it was a squeegee worker.” Dukes said her concern is the impact crime like that will have on the harbor’s reputation.” The Inner Harbor is one of the most popular places for tourism and things like that. It’s a big draw to the city, it’s right by the aquarium, it’s right by a lot of restaurants, so I think it brings safety into question,” Dukes said. Joe Nemec and Corey Crest, both from Harford County, said it could make people think twice before visiting downtown.” I definitely think it’s worrisome,” Nemec said. “If you’re a dad or a mom, obviously, you’re probably more scared to come down because all you hear about is all this bad stuff.” Some people said one of the most important things you can do is to be vigilant.” Things like this can happen in a vacuum very quickly and you just have to know where you are going and who you are going to be with and what’s going on around you,” Burke said. Police are reviewing camera video from the area, but they’re asking anyone who witnessed the incident to call Metro Crime Stoppers.
Welcome to Bawlmer, hon…aka Charm City. 😉
The Market Ticker has a piece on government failure to enforce existing law:
Are You Serious? Then Read This And Understand It
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=246317
The story mentioned Richmond; I thought when the orcs tore down Confederate Memorials utopia would ensue. Instead, Richmond has become a worse dystopic sh#thole than it already was.
Not as bad as Baltimore tho, which has sunk to levels of Brazzaville or Capetown.
No one will be happy until they are paid untold trillions in reparations, after which the US dollar will immediately be devalued and become worthless. But hey, what is worse? Being 5 generations removed from the unpaid slave labor, or getting a few Benjamins that are worthless that you didn’t have to work for?
I say pay ’em all off already, then there should be no reason to further complain or make increased demands.
“I say pay ’em all off already, then there should be no reason to further complain or make increased demands.”
CB,
What makes you think they need a valid reason?
The ability of a victimized class to garner further sense of outrage is bottomless…..
Lagos on the Chesapeake.
H/T to the Z-man, temporarily in residence.
When squeegies are outlawed…you know the rest.
Hey Q, the assassin in Japan used a homemade gun. Japs have always been resourceful, and where there’s a will, there’s a way
I recall once for getting called out in class for referring to the subjects in a case as “the Japs”. I claimed I was just trying to be historically accurate, since this case was from the 1940s. Still, I continued right along with that terminology and let my classmates bristle all they wanted.
CB,
SAME THING happened to my son in High School when they were asked to write a story of fiction…he chose WWII, and mentioned the “dirty Japs”….
Called me.
BRH,
The only way to stop a bad guy with a zip gun is a good guy with a zip gun….
squeegee worker – JTinMD
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Haha, worker huh? “worker” instead of “man” lends a little dignity to the lowly job… like sex “worker” lends to paid whore.
God bless squeegee workers everywhere. May they squeegee in peace and make lotsa bucks doing so.
You think the culture wars are bad now? Just wait another 15 years when the U.S. is 40% Latino and the Catholic Church has got its nose into everything. Yuk. My predictions do often come true. I did share 3 weeks ago that I foresaw an assassination attempt, albeit here and not in Japan.
How would you know what 2040 will be like?
Perhaps the guidestones were hinting at a planned culling.
tell us what 2022 is and will be like.
“The governments of virtually all the nations of Western Civ have become enemies of their people.”
Most governments throughout time have been enemies of their people. It’s just that now the Monsters in Charge have new toys and powers to play with to assert their psychopathy and pain.
There seems to be some kind of rule that in organized society (and some disorganized ones as well), the Worst Among Us always have to take over and assert pain and torture upon the People.
And We the People have been taking this for so long that we now expect in and can fathom no other kind of social order.
“This latter saga of R. Hunter Biden is so well-publicized in its grotesque details…”
A poster boy for the Age of Decay and Decadence. And one more ‘D’… an Age of Death.
“Meanwhile, the very people who helped engineer the Wuhan Sars C-19 virus — and the mRNA ‘vaccines’ now proving way deadlier than the virus — are still in the employ of our government…”
Why wouldn’t they be? They are doing a stellar job for what They were hired for. Raises and high-fives (with a double-layer of gloves on!) for all of them.
“… we have no idea what the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe might signify — except, perhaps, the ominous beginning of a global trend.”
In an Age of Chaos… chaos is the goal. Chaos is the pathway. A social contract of chaos and disorder… to bring in The New (Old Serfdom) Order. When We the People beg for ‘order!’… and we want order so bad that we accept Their New Hellish Order. Arriving right on schedule.
Remember the Guidestones – and more importantly – the monsters and the twisted philosophy that such a Monument to Hell represented.
As the old spiritual goes… ‘This World is not our home and we’re just-ah passin’ though’.
And one day, we’ll all meet up behind those Pearly Gates and swap stories about just how effed up these Times were.
And smile that certain parties who inflicted this pain upon our World are all meeting up in another place that’s much, much, hotter.
Until then… enjoy the ride. The wildest roller-coaster ever conceived.
New COVID Variant Called “Centaurus” Is The New “Stealth Omicron”
www(dot)shtfplan(dot)com/headline-news/new-covid-variant-called-centaurus-is-the-new-stealth-omicron
A new Omicron subvariant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is being dubbed “Centaurus,” or the new “stealth omicron.” The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Fortune on Thursday that this could be the “most immune-evasive” variant yet.
It’s never-ending with the fear and panic over people getting colds. There have been a whopping two cases of BA.2.75, dubbed “Centaurus,” detected in the U.S., with the first being identified on June 14, a spokesperson for the CDC said. But that won’t stop the media or ruling class from pushing the fear onto the public.
This new subvariant was first detected in India, and it’s tough to say if it’ll be the next one the rulers will use to overly panic the public or not,
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Booga Booga!
Geez, give it up already people. Medical fear porn, that is what we are all living with these days. Maybe if enough of us tune it out and ignore things the people that try feeding this news to us will just go away?
We’re back in limited mask conditions up here in LALA land again too. Looks like we’re building up takeoff speed for a new round of CV19 insanity in the fall and winter. And the legions of rubes still haven’t figured it out.
Altogether now, let’s hear it…
Ya just can’t fix stupid!!!
At the start of the Hoax, I told my very left-wing social worker wife that most of what we are experienceing is driven by the fact that, sadly, most people are stupid. They may have a few things they are good at, but overall, they are really stupid.
After about two years, she agreed.
monkey pox
Honkeypox
“Live from New York!”
“It’s Saturday Night!”
Wow. The good old days.
Have’t been back since 2013.
JHK – wish I could make it.
But I’m stuck in Phoenix!
Please have a video or audio for all of us sequestered.
Oh for Pete’s sakes. I tried a link and took out the dot and still had it go to moderation.
I found this interesting…
johnhelmer dot net/ dot the-coming-verdict-in-the-mh17-trial-is-certain-and-double-dutch/
In keeping with updates on our “Flubber In Chief” Biden, today he was speaking after signing the executive order on federal level abortion freedoms. He said something along the line of “and I quote….Repeat the line”, basically reading cues off the teleprompter verbatim.
Although this should come as no surprise to any of us here, it is still remarkable. I would encourage you to search online for the “Biden repeat the line” video and you will find yourself laughing along to his fumbling antics.
“It is noteworthy that the percentage of women who register to vote and cast a ballot is consistently higher than the percentage of the men who do so – end of quote. Repeat the line. Women are not without electoral and, or political – let me be precise – not and, or – or political power,” Biden said alongside Vice President Kamala Harris and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.
Bedpan Biden is just about as good at reading as Ron Burgundy in the movie “Anchorman”.
Biden’s staff is already trying to cover for this latest gaffe, with the likes of Emilie Simons, White House assistant press secretary, telling people Biden said, “let me repeat that line.”
Shinzo Abe – WEF puppet:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/shinzoabe/
Maybe someone is starting to rid the world of the ghouls.
Yup, good riddance to bad rubbish I guess you could say. The WEF needs to update their website listing of him with the date of his demise. Any hackers out there care to take on the WEF website?
There are a few who have had profiles on the site who were not puppets.
Jury is out IMO.
Want to add: NPR called Abe a right-wing nut.
So I think we are much closer to an answer.
Well it’s true that most assassinations are carried out because the person pissed off the PTB. But this guy was mafia-connected, etc. Just as shady and corrupt as any other world leader. And they all are.
Abe was against immigration and apologizing for WW2.
That would seem to put him on the outs with the WEF gang.
Women are life. Men are death.
Mary Q
Jarek,
A question. At a subsistence level, men can survive without access to women. Could women do so without access to men?
I don’t know about that. If there were no men around, who would the women belittle and hag-hag-hag against? They wouldn’t have men to blame all their problems on any longer, so that would be rich.
Hey women-hating assholes, what does my post have to do with women?
A violent man killed a man. As per usual.
Maybe remind yourselves of the 1st Rule of Misogyny:
“Women are responsible for what men do.”
You are pathetic.
This is another situation that I have had the opportunity to observe first-hand. Since women generally live longer than men, there a lot of old ladies with no men around. They are happy as pigs in mud. There is nothing to complain about once the husband has popped off, as there is no one around fucking up everything he touches.
There have been many male Hermits (spiritual) and Mountain Men (mundane but extraordinary), but few female hermits or Mountain Women.
Take care of men (get out of our way mostly) and the men will take care of women. Take care of women and men will die under bridges.
Thus the Elite made their choice as per the Jefferson quote below.
Another one of Nock’s observations was that women manage very well without men, while men can barely manage at all without women.
This becomes especially noticeable when you get old. The women who are alone (divorced or widowed) are happily engaged with their families, churches, and communities. They take up quilting or gardening and join book clubs, writers’ clubs, and garden clubs. If someone is teaching a class on how to make Christmas tree ornaments out of tobacco-can lids, they’re on it. They do volunteer work or babysit the grandkids. They meet friends for lunch. The men, on the other hand, watch TV all day, often while drinking themselves to death. They have no interests or hobbies and little or no social life.
Widows often blossom after their husbands pass away, since hubby was the chief obstacle to doing the things they always wanted to do, going the places they always wanted to go, and even to having friendships. They can listen to good music at home and in the car, instead of listening to whatever vulgar crap their husband preferred. They can watch good movies. Basically, they can have a life.
There are always exceptions to the rule, like the famous aviator Jackie Cochran. Her husband was partly disabled but a genius businessman and airplane enthusiast who owned a company that made airplanes, Republic Aviation Inc. He said he lived vicariously via his wife who was doing things he could only dream about. Jackie never in her life ever let any men tell her where she could or couldn’t go. She didn’t go to movies, her life itself would have made a great movie.
Chuck Yeager told the best story about her in his autobiography. The Pentagon had her traveling to the Soviet Union under a special invitation to take part in a big aviation conference involving multiple countries. But the meeting place was in Soviet Russia. She was flying in her own private passenger plane, and naturally had a bunch of “spies” aboard, including Yeager. First stop was supposed to be at an air force base way up northeast Canada, for refueling. On the radio she was denied permission to land at the base because the colonel in charge hadn’t read his messages from Washington. Low on fuel she landed anyway, and she and her passengers were detained and her aircraft confiscated. The base commander let her have her phone call, and it was around 2 am. Instead of calling a lawyer she called the secretary of the air force on his private home phone number. When he managed to answer in Washington, she told him that she was having bad problems at the airbase and handed the phone over to the colonel. Poor dude turned pale and gray, standing at attention while the Air Force secretary rotorootered him out on the phone. A woman came out of nowhere, landed at his base, and for a short while took control of the place and got her gas. Next stop Greenland.
Somehow, Jackie (and other women like her) never got the message that women had to sit around and be losers because some guy somewhere thinks that’s how it should be.
They have no interests or hobbies and little or no social life. – Anthea
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Anth, your comment above is very astute in all but one aspect.
I will be 82 in Nov and my wife, Bo, will be 73 in Oct. I am about 9 yrs her senior. Our 3 kids are raised and live elsewhere. There is only Peter to be concerned with (haha, ONLY!, as if) and Bo handles 95% of that grunt work. Essentially she has to handle and direct every aspect of another person’s life in addition to her own and much of mine.
And yet Bo manages to have this incredibly full (and, to me, exhausting) outside life of endless activities. Yesterday there was water aerobics in the morning and book club in the evening. She does yoga and other forms of exercise including those slow motion movements in a class directed by a Chink woman. I forget what that is called. Tie chi?
On Wednesdays she has art class run by a 93-94 year old woman. She goes out to lunch with 2 ‘girl’ friends on Thursdays. She cares for plants throughout our house and around our back yard.
Her circle of women friends take one another out to lunch on their birthdays, buy them little gifts (like earrings or scarves) and properly wrap them and tie with a bow and present with a B-day card personalized with cute drawings of people, pets, or other. There is no end to my wife’s outside activities. Sewing club. They are always going to fabric stores. I just dropped her and Gail at the train station. They’re going to a play in NYC.
I, on the other hand, have a completely different routine. After breakfast I go to my ‘man cave,’ turn on the TV, tune to CNBC, mute the sound, and only glance at it through the day when I want to see what the market averages are doing. I also pull up the Kunstler blog on my PC and begin to catch up on the reading of all comments. I start at the bottom and work upwards so I’m generally reading them in reverse order from the time they were posted. I have no activities with other old men other than a phone call with an old HS chum up in Maine every month or so. We mostly talk about our various aches, pains, and illnesses.
Back in the day (my 40s and 50s) I had male friends with whom I was a teammate on a pool team in the Tavern Pool League. I did this for years. It would never have crossed the minds of any of these males to take one another to lunch or give them a birthday gift. Let’s face it, men and women are vastly different creatures.
And here is the one thing in your comment above where you go wrong: you seem to assume we men are unhappy that we are not out and about doing things with our guy friends like women are. Actually we are very happy to be doing almost none of that.
@ Q Schtik:
I am probably more like you in my habits, than I am like your wife, as I’m pretty much of a homebody. Also, I’m 73. I have a few friends that I meet for lunch from time to time–and talk with about aches and pains on the phone. I used to go to the local book club and writers’ club, but they suspended that during covid, and I never got around to going back. This was partly because I was in the process of moving and selling my house, and trying to make the old place presentable was quite a chore in itself. I also sell soap and skincare products at the farmers’ market in KC, where I’d talk to people all day long every week. Very social. But I’m finding it more and more difficult to keep up with production. Market days–which used to be fun–seem more and more like a struggle with all the lifting and lugging to set up and break down, and I’m getting to where the heat is hard to bear. So I’m attending the market less and less often. It’s all getting to where it’s not fun any more.
Besides that, there is the garden–a joint project with my daughter, who is next door and has done most of the work. This house is where my daughter and her husband lived before they bought the big old farmhouse next door, so the garden (and the chickens and goats) are on this property. But my daughter recently started a full-time, work-from-home job, so I’m trying to step up to the plate on the garden work. (And not succeeding very well, as it’s HOT out there.) I am trying to learn to shoot rabbits, so I do a little target practice now and then. I’m getting pretty good at hitting the bullseye on a target, but not very good at all at hitting a rabbit.
Long story short: I too play on the laptop most of the day. I also get to chat with my daughter when she comes over to do chores in the morning, and my son-in-law when he comes over to do chores in the evening. So I get to tell my old-person stories about how a friend (a gay guy) and I used to walk over to Redemptorist and sit on the lawn in front of the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes and pray the rosary, and go to First Saturday devotions together, and sometimes read poetry aloud in the evening. (He could do an unforgettable rendition of “The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s.”) I will probably always have a tender heart for gay men because of this stuff.
But I am reminiscing too much.
@ Jarek:
What exactly do men do for women? I can’t think of anything. Maybe you can name something.
What exactly do men do for women? I can’t think of anything. Maybe you can name something. – Anthea
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We take out the trash. Its a time honored tradition, we do the trash and the recyclables.
In our little corner: makes the bigger paycheck, fixes house problems, handles the tougher discipliary situations where the son just won’t listen to the mom.
Oh, and helped make the son.
Seems like a good deal to me.
My ex tried taking out the trash once, but was not successful at that.
You are not only ignorant and malicious, you are despicable.
In our little corner: makes the bigger paycheck, fixes house problems… etc. – Night Owl
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Yes, all true. When I said we ‘do the trash and recyclables’ as if that was all, I was being sarcastic.
In my case I handle virtually all paperwork and financial decisions… health insurance, car insurance, homeowners, investments, reconciliation of bank accounts. All of this makes my wife’s eyes glaze over.
@ Q Schtik:
Sounds like you have a functional marriage where you are making an equal contribution. I have seen some marriages like that. In fact, two of my daughters are married to fine young men. Another daughter is in a long-term relationship with a very good guy whom everyone in the family likes–though he’s a bit of a flake in some ways. (He gave everyone a copy of “The Secret” awhile back, because he’s really into that.) One of my former neighbors has devoted years to taking care of his wife, who is almost completely disabled. He’s an all-around good guy in many ways–highly intelligent, capable, and so remarkably modest as to cause one of my daughters to comment admiringly.
Even some really good guys can be a trainwreck when it comes to managing finances, so this chore often falls to the wife. So do home repairs and even car repairs in some cases, especially if hubby works long hours.
In my experience, guys like the above (and yourself) are the rare exceptions. And I have a LOT of experience. People tend to confide in me. I’m not sure why, but I think it’s probably because they can tell that, whatever it is, I’ve “been there, done that.”
I don’t know if you have daughters or not, but if you do you are likely to get some idea about what women are dealing with, when it comes to the men.
I don’t know if you have daughters or not, but if you do you are likely to get some idea about what women are dealing with, when it comes to the men. – Anthea
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I have one daughter. She’s married to a terrific guy. I was the officiant that married them. They have no children and that’s probably a good thing because I don’t think my daughter could handle it. They have 2 beautiful Corgi dogs. We call them our grand dogs.
Q: After decades of extracurricular activities, obviously women are better at them than recently retired men who may not know what to do with their freedom. Sudden deaths of recent retirees are not uncommon. You seem to have handled it, but do you get any regular exercise apart from yard work – like walking?
What was your daughter’s degree in again? Was it feminist studies?
A good balance is critical. My wife is better than me at many things, and I am happy to admit that.
Money aside, her work is also far more important than mine.
@ Jarek:
“After decades of extracurricular activities, obviously women are better at them than recently retired men who may not know what to do with their freedom.”
Most women work full-time, these days, and have no more time for “extracurricular activities” than men. The difference is, men just aren’t interested in anything. Free time is spent playing golf or watching sports on TV.
One of my farm-wife friends (the market gardener) is continually frustrated by her husband’s approach to farming–which he does mechanically and by rote. He can’t identify plant or insect life and is uninterested in the information it provides. He is uninterested in soil science, micronutrients, or any innovations, refinements, and techniques related to farming or food production. Meanwhile, she attends every available seminar and conference on organic gardening, farming, and business management and promotion. She manages three websites and keeps the books. Hubby is just not INTERESTED in anything and has no curiousity about anything.
I do know a couple of guys who do have interests. One of them has a full-time job and is into highly innovative approaches to animal husbandry, rotational grazing, and soil reclamation, and is a big fan of Alan Savory. He’s also into low-cost building methods and has done some highly innovative things along both lines–some of which were his own inventions. He also has other activities. He’s a musician, and he goes to nursing homes to provide the old folks with entertainment.
The other guy is (among other things) a licensed pot grower. He knows everything there is to know about growing pot and making interesting products out of it. (I dabbled in making CBD products for awhile, and the chemistry and math involved is not for dummies. Made the house smell like skunk weed and didn’t pencil out in terms of profit.) This guy has always done innovative things in the way of the building trades and mechanical stuff. People always said that he made pipe bombs in his idlesse, so I guess he also knows about explosives.
But guys like that are rare. Most of them border on being in a persistent vegetative state. This makes them poor companions for women (and kids)–unless you just like to watch someone watch TV.
Another misquote.
If you can’t quote people correctly, you shouldn’t bother.
Men start wars.
Women give birth.
Another man assassinating a male head of state kinda proves my point.
But, please try to blame women. It’s funny.
@MaryQ: they really are a bunch of retarded teenage boys, aren’t they?
Yeah, they are.
Arrested development is a huge problem in our culture, these goofballs seem to embody it and celebrate it on a daily basis.
Yeah, women give birth without any input from men. The frigid one has spoken.
And then men screw up this paradise of strong nurturing women by starting wars that won’t benefit women in any way. If the women were smart, they’d kill all baby boys at birth or before.
You’ve gone off the deep end.
I suppose being an incel can do that to someone.
Look at Eliot Rogers.
“Frigid” isn’t an insult to me, Jarek. Sorry to burst your bubble.
It’s merely a rude term tossed at women who won’t succumb to some impotent man’s demands. Pfffft.
Sounds like you really could pick ’em, lol.
“Yeah, women give birth without any input from men.”
Admittedly, the men do make about ten minutes worth of contribution. In comparison to pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, and about 20 years–more like “lifelong”–parenting, I think it is reasonable to view men’s contribution as virtually non-existent.
“Yeah, women give birth without any input from men.”
Admittedly, the men do make about ten minutes worth of contribution. In comparison to pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, and about 20 years–more like “lifelong”–parenting, I think it is reasonable to view men’s contribution as virtually non-existent.
Try and keep up, Mary. In this day and age, it’s women who start wars and men who give birth. On a more serious note, we men designed and built nearly everything that makes modern life comfortable. As feminist Camillia Paglia once said, “If women had ruled the world, we would still be living in caves – with beautifully decorated curtains”. Why can’t we recognise that it takes both men and women to build a healthy civilisation?
Zerohedge is reporting nationwide debit card outages in Canada.
This is probably a test run for the coming bank shutdowns and bail-ins to CBDCs.
Make sure you have enough cash and other fungibles on hand for when your money can no longer be accessed. I think what we need right now is a good old fashioned bank run!
The plan is to make the money worthless to usher in a blockchain-based currency.
The BIS already let the cat out of the bag.
If they get that far, cash won’t matter. Buy what you need now.
Night-
I figure they will just close the banks one Friday and we will awaken to our new FedRes accounts filled with our allotted FedCoin stipend.
Access will be contingent on verification of a DNA sample and up-to-date jab records.
They do like to test their psyops/plans on the people there. I remember the wolf pack scare during the 2020 crazy time.
The Supreme Court and the federal government have crushed federalism by asserting federal power. While countless media outlets are decrying today’s “illegitimate Supreme Court,” almost every major progressive victory — including same-sex marriage, abortion, desegregation, the doctrine of “disparate impact,” affirmative action, abolishing school prayer — was imposed by the Supreme Court.
Taking journalists and progressives at their word, if the Court is illegitimate today, it’s hard to see why it was legitimate in the past. Christopher Caldwell argued in The Age of Entitlement that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 essentially replaced the Constitution. The Framers surely didn’t think they were giving the federal government the power to abolish freedom of association.
If the Supreme Court is illegitimate, why should we respect its earlier decisions? The Framers wanted Congress to challenge the Supreme Court but sadly they overestimated the courage of the people’s elected representatives, both state and federal. If Democrats challenge court rulings, perhaps Republicans will learn they can do the same thing.
Gregory Hood
Jarek: Abortion as “right to privacy”. Who knew such a right existed? The baby/parasite is watching women’s every move. It’s indecent!
A good Constitution destroyed by evil judges. As Scalia said, We need our Constitution to be safely dead. Only then can it Live and provide us with Light.
Let the culling begin! This sick, evil World needs a deep and thorough cleaning.
Goodbye and Good Riddance.
Let me see. Praying for Griner and not Abe. Hypocrite
No. You misunderstand, Crusher. I prayed for Abe.
I am saying “Goodbye” and “Good Riddance” to these corrupt times.
I am many things but hypocrite is not 1 of them.
I wonder if he’ll follow you around for months now attacking you like some sort of nutjob. That’s what he did when I pointed out his hypocrisy (which is constant, and he doesn’t seem to know it, apparently).
In any case, if he doesn’t launch an attack on you for using that word, I can put my suspicions to rest that he only attacks females.
Which is 100% what I expect (and what bullies do).
Bullies come in all shapes and sizes, you irritating asshole.
You keep claiming that I am a hypocrite while refusing to ever, once, point to an example of my hypocrisy, you irritating asshole.
I do not attack you for being a woman. I attack you for being an asshole, you asshole.
You think that because you are a woman, you are exempt from being held accountable for your unJust attacks lest your victim defend himself and then be declared a misogynist by you, you asshole.
Like YOU are Womanhood, you asshole!
I will hold Crusher accountable for unJustly calling me a hypocrite, do not worry, Asshole.
Nope.
I said the word hypocrite and you went ballistic.
When aren’t you a hypocrite? You say you love people then unleash diatribes like this one.
You are one confused mess.
Getting off the booze obviously didn’t do much for you – I can’t imagine how bad you were then.
Nope.
It is not up to me to disprove your accusations, you asshole. It is not for me to prove when I am not a hypocrite. I am ALWAYS not a hypocrite.
You are the accuser, dipshit. It is for you to prove your allegations rather than simply libelously state them unfounded as fact. D’uh!
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I love a handful of people. The vast majority are dumb-asses that will not repent and will go to Hell. TruStory
True: This blog’s comment section is 100% more enjoyable without you & Jarek.
True: When you show up, Jarek gets even more worked up.
True: When both of you are in circle-jerk mode, you get the other old dudes riled up, and attacks on women start, which have nothing whatsoever to do with any discussions at hand.
I’m sure others have observed this.
In fact, my response above was to Jarek’s Supreme Court posting. It had NOTHING to even do with Abe’s assassination.
You argue corruptly, Crusher. Shame on you.
I’d simply ignore you … but I like swatting mosquitos.
God bless you. May you repent your sins before it is too late.
You should repent yours first and STFU when it comes to judging others.
I repent my sins every night and do not judge others, you asshole.
“and (I) do not judge others, you asshole.”
OK, Canadian humor…I think I’m beginning to see it….
I sense that OG’s calls for repentance are not a new facet to his personality, but are of many years’ standing.
It’s perfectly charming, of course, but I can see how you could get tired of it, if you were…his wife.
Crusher,
I pray that the unamerican bitch serves her full 10 years with the dignity I know she posesses….
How about loving the sinner and hating the sinner, Hawkins?
You are Right, that is my mandate, Crusher. But I’m done. I tried my Best. I can’t fix this mess. I can’t even make a dent. I give. “Uncle!”
Dumb-asses everywhere.
The Lord Almighty, on the other hand, gives slack, watches in disappointment again and again and again … and then goes Biblical Wrathful.
It is time. Let’s do this thing. Let’s go!
Let the culling begin! This sick, evil World needs a deep and thorough cleaning.
Goodbye and Good Riddance.
JUSGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED
It is God’s plan, dipshit. It’s not my plan.
I do not judge. God will judge. I know that. I repent my many sins every night as of course I will be judged and I know that I have absolutely no Hope without God’s forgiveness and mercy.
I am not judging. We all know God’s game-plan – it’s published. I’m simply saying, “Let’s do this thing!”
No hypocrisy here. Just a man ready for The Show.
He’s a hypocrite. He says one thing and does another.
Rinse & repeat.
For example … ?
Seriously? LMAO. Everyone can see for themselves, just as Muldoon noticed today.
You contradict yourself in every statement.
I’m guessing your cognitive dissonance is pretty uncomfy.
Yes, serious. Crusher was completely mistaken as he thought that I was referring to Abe when I was not. I corrected his error. Try to keep up, Asshole.
You argue like you think that you need simply state whatever you want as fact and then you delusionally Believe it to be fact.
Here in the Real World, one must back their explosive allegations with Truth … or shut their lying pie-holes, Asshole.
You’ve been calling me a hypocrite for a long, long time, Asshole, but you have never once pointed to an actual example of my alleged hypocrisy. Not once. Asshole.
You’re a hypocrite, and too stupid to see it.
I’m not angry, I’m entertained.
Funny you still don’t see that.
BTW? Who told you that you have a high IQ? They lied.
You are really not very bright.
The concept of “a right to privacy” (if such a thing existed in law) could be interpreted to mean many very ugly things. It could be claimed to mean that you get to beat your wife and molest your kids, for example.
Local Exxon stations were out of mid grade and premium gasoline today; last week regular was hard to find. I was rather surprised, but on second thought– this might become the norm. Still, traffic is thick. There’s a sense of panic in the air … when transportation fuel runs down completely then this place will take on an apocalyptic hue. Amongst other things, that’s when revolvers will be coming out of glove compartments.
I know, get an EV. A Ford dealership a few towns over has no new vehicles on the lot, but a Ford F-150 Lightening came in. Pricetag: $119,000.
Really, where exactly in the world (or the USA) is this phenomena occurring? I haven’t encountered any fuel shortages here in the Midwest.
August isn’t even here yet, so just imagine what might happen if a major hurricane swoops in to take care of business!
No shortage here in Nevada. Shortage of money but not gas.
No shortages of anything lately, here in Missouri.
“There’s a sense of panic in the air … ”
BRH,
Agreed…I’m beginning to feel it and I got nothing to worry about.
Cue creepy sounding music, with nails on chalkboard screech.
Well, you got that brace of S&W Model 29s, E.
Should be sufficient to deal with any problems that might arise.
Premium grades were out for a week or two up here last week. About the only place I drive to is the grocery store and the gas station, which are right next to each other, so I wasn’t overly concerned. For the people that commute long distances to work here I wonder if they haven’t considered camping out all week. Real estate’s either unavailable or unaffordable, so no relief there. I might have to keep my current dump after I move on as a rental investment after all. There’s people renting single bedrooms out boarding house style for $1K/month, so the sky’s the limit.
DA, 1K per month, in New Mexico?
Yep. A fact. For a bedroom in a family home.
“Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties. 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and consider them as the most honest and safe, although not the most wise, depository of the public interests. In every country these two parties exist: and in every one where they are free to think, speak, and write, they will declare themselves”.
Thomas Jefferson or Jefferson Airplane?
“Thomas Jefferson or Jefferson Airplane?”
Jarek,
” May the Baby Jesus shut your mouth and open your mind”.
Fillmore or Audebon Ballroom poster?
Well Audebon was the bird guy, and we know that birders are racist, so I’m going to have to go with Fillmore.
Yeah, but in all actuality, birds aren’t even real.
https : // birdsarentreal (dot) com
J., James Audabon was a talented artist, but it was at the Audubon Museum down in Fairfield, Ct that I found out he was a prolific BIRD HUNTER, and a competent shotgun man.
Argh! I didn’t know. 🙁
Yeah, birds don’t hold still too well when you’re trying to paint them. And they don’t pose too well when they’re dead.
So sad. I can’t imagine wanting to shoot birds with anything except a camera.
Why not step in and try shotgun art? Pick up where Burroughs left off. You could be the new Jackson Pollock or Hunter Biden.
Jarek,
A trick question…it was a poster for the Avalon Ballroom!
…only a trick ’cause I didn’t know it myself…..
And…the link;
https://www.facebook.com/Posterville1966/photos/a.338065392972272/1992366020875526/?type=3&eid=ARCCS5s6SjxaiiBs0t0mW6SR6oR-ZtYbybCEiSsoVmRK4Bsy6XEAZ4cT98WRpqqigL9aRYadLg5bjjJY&_rdr
He means the Avalon Ballroom.
And why is Sleepy Joe sending portions of our emergency oil reserves off to China and other European countries for refining, when we desperately need that oil here at home?
There are reports that China has purchased oil from U.S. emergency reserves to bolster its own stockpile.
JOEY B. IS A NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT AT THIS POINT, NOW MORE THAN EVER!!!
Joe probably has no clue that some oil went to China and his son’s company will profit from it bit. A million barrels of oil is well below Joe’s pay grade. The bastard that signed off on it just to please the higher ups is the traitor.
Wait a minute, Hunter has a company?
I thought he was a full time artist, producing masterpieces that rival Van Gogh and sell for $500 a crack?
Notice how his big debut into the art world was mostly laughed off and never spoken about again.
“$500 a crack” or “$500 for crack”?
$500?
“Hunter Biden’s artworks have reportedly been fetched for $75,000 each.” NY Post, 10/7/21
“…Hunter Biden finally showed up at the Manhattan art gallery where his novice paintings are being offered for up to $500,000 each…” NY Post, 11/10/21
“Hunter Biden expected to meet with potential art buyers before anonymous sales…” CBS News, 9/8/21
“the White House said that potential buyers of the pieces would not be disclosed.” Western Journal, 7/19/21
Can anyone say, “Money laundering”?
Hope the Ruskies capture Burisma headquarters – and its executives – intact. Hope they let the world know what they find.
“Ask and ye shall receive.” (Well, not really, but I’ve found that use of clichés enhances one’s credibility.)
Very informative article over at Vineyard of the Saker. A presentation on US-funded biolabs in the Ukraine, by the Russian Ministry of Defense. Original documents included for your reading pleasure.
Guess who features prominently? That’s right – our poster boy for grift, nepotism, and cocaine, Hunter Biden.
Metabiota: a health startup whose expertise is in tracking epidemics. $18 million from the Department of Defense between 2014 and 2016.
Rosemont Seneca: Hunter Biden’s investment firm. Invested $500,000 (the price of one of Hunter’s better paintings…) in Metabiota.
What a tangled web they weave.
Well, yeah, you of all people understand that the ‘art world’ is a big laundering scheme.
Mary, are you implying that my art auctions are a money laundering operation?
Interesting… What tipped you off?
BB is your ‘art’ for sale in major art houses in NYC for $500K+?
If not… sorry bud, you didn’t make it to the laundry party.
What is being destroyed is the notion that western culture’s two millenia long Hunter Biden binge will continue. To parody Carlin, Eurasia will be just fine, it’s you who is going away.
Western civilization is populated for the most part by willing indentured servants, also known as cheap whores, from stem to stern.
Perhaps Quicken Finance is correct,”You deserve” 18% compound interest.
Manifest Destiny!!!!!
as far as the CCP, seems our host has not assimilated Sun Tzu
The word ‘lead’ is in the word ‘leader’.
We all know they need more.
Gives a whole new perspective to the old phrase: “Get the lead out.”
Too bad they don’t make leaded pencils anymore, nor lead paint or leaded gasoline.
I guess there is only one thing left to with with all that lead…….
Jo Jo Magoo wants military women to be forced to shower with men, because we wouldn’t want to hurt the trans’ feewings.
Of course, since he used to inappropriately shower with his daughter, I’m guessing it makes perfect sense to him.
https://newspunch.com/bidens-woke-military-female-soldiers-must-now-shower-with-men/
How many men here on CFN both LOVE women and DESPISE Mary? Surely I’m not the only one.
Mary Believes that she is exempt from much-deserved criticism and, when she gets her much-deserved criticism, she feels that it is unJust and that she is only receiving it because she is a woman!
She has equality but has no sniff how to use it.
Thank God she did not replicate! That’s enough of that! More than enough.
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“Stunning.” Hahahaha! Right.
Suuuuuure she is. No doubt.
Hahahaha!
LOL, another meltdown.
Good times.
*Clink*
(A nice Malbec)
“Stunning.” Hahahaha!
Like I said above, “arrested development”
Are you actually in your late 50’s?
57 … but I never let age get in the way of Truth v Lies.
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“Bible-humpers”
– A Hell-bound “stunning” old maid spinster hag
Have you made fun of the dudes up here with regard to age, sex or appearance?
Just wondering if those attacks are only reserved for females.
Since it’s obvious now you’re fighting with some of the guys, I’m waiting for you to call them sexist names, etc. Not seeing it. What gives?
“I don’t judge.” – O.G.
“Except when the voices in my head force me to.” – Also O.G.
O.G. Judging just 10 mins after denying he does it:
“– A Hell-bound “stunning” old maid spinster hag”
What a nutter!
Now you completely fabricate quotes in efforts to “win” an argument?!?!?!
I never said that, you lying, corrupt, mis-quoting asshole.
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My knowing that you will be judged is not the same as my judging you, Asshole. D’uh!
You are a Hell-bound “stunning” old maid spinster hag. Fact. You do not repent your sins. You’ve told us that. This is simply a statement of undisputed fact. Sad but True.
On the other hand, Mary. It is not too late for you. Yet. Repent your sins and ask God for His immense forgiveness and mercy.
God bless you.
I copied your quotes directly using C&P.
You really are delusional. Anyone can scroll up and see for themselves.
LOL.
Your self-owns are almost as embarrassing as Fake Trae’s.
Would you just shut up?
Get over whatever she did that you didn’t like.
Christ on a crutch.
Scroll all the way to the bottom.
Enjoy yo bugz.
*Coming Soon!*
Because climate change loons think that it’s better for the planet to annihilate billions of small bugs which requires a lot of FOSSIL FUEL than to have ranches.
Insanity on wheels.
https://aspirefg.com/
Who, besides O.G., on this blog’s comments threads, has ever made a post specifically asking people to pile on another commenter, using extreme rhetoric like “despise”?
I think this might be a first. Congrats, Mr. “non-judgmental.”
I do DESPISE your ugly Pride, Mary. It is disgusting. TruStory
I’m off to Marina’s to watch Ottawa Red Blacks at Saskatchewan Roughriders now. See ya.
I don’t care what you despise about me, Mr. Hypocrite.
I appreciate how our host generally allows the commentariat to be a self-policing community, only occasionally stepping in to correct the more severe cases of abuse…
You always pile on if anyone says anything against me. Two of my all time favorite posts: you did it with Rulo and Kesa and they rebuffed you.
Agreeing with people is not the same as making a post calling for people to hate on someone.
But I know you have comprehension issues in that regard so I’d expect nothing less than this stupid comment from you.
SMH, Jarek. Seriously.
Yes, it’s not. But you do both because arguing is an angry activity that leads to hate, unlike debate which you know nothing about. Thus you try to get people to hate me because you do. Rulo and Kesa told you to get lost with that.
More bullshit.
I hate you? That’s news. I don’t even know you.
Jim has said:
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who or what entity is behind this world-ending mischief remains a matter of baffling consternation
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yes, and not just the entity, but the communication system.
it is manifestly clear by now, that there is a secret global communication system among the wokester deep state nations of the globalist commune.
this has been demonstrated a dozen times with linguistic comparisons among the WEF nations, when they all initiate a new propaganda slogan overnight, whether, green-gargling, spurious vaxx rationales, or UKR war pitches. they use the same words, their medias use the same sentences. within minutes and hours of each other.
this is de facto evidence of prior co-ordination and obedience to some central emitter of “the plan.”
so yes, centralization is after all, their stated objective, global centralization. no surprise there. but even ever so willing there still has to be physical ear to ear, eye to eye, mind to mind, transmission through a secret transmission system. it is a communication system because it — a fortiori — must exist, and secret because it has never been exposed, named or proven in the mass or the alt public media. although doubtless the intels know of it, and some must participate so they can learn their lines and play their parts in a timely manner.
this is the biggest most gigantic, most global mafia crime cartel in human history. and it has a secret internet or some frequency transmission system. and it is synchronous. no drop boxes here.
perhaps the famous quantum internet is already here and in use.
one could envisage a tolkien palantir, but probably nothing so elegant and mysterious. just some new and inevitable technique of frequency. it is the perfect shielding of this secret communication system that is so amazing. but remember the manhattan project, what — 2 million knew at the time and at some level, and yet no blabs made it to the media, or even AFAWK, to whispers and speculations.
I think you’re making more of it than need be. Secret but not so secret “agreements” have hidden in plain sight among the elite for decades now, if not for well more than a century. Recent history has shown us how ridiculously easy it is for internet memes to propagate, so it’s really nothing more sophisticated than that. As far as the “globalist mafia cartel,” or whatever you want to call it, of course they talk to each other all the time and take reasonable care to ensure that that us plebes don’t routinely intercept their transmissions. I’d be surprised if they didn’t. Once again, not exactly rocket science, especially considering how much money an power they wield in the first place.
Very good point niner. Though, couldn’t they just be emailing or something?
Awhile ago someone was missing rulo. I believe it’s high season on the avacado farm and he may be back in the winter.
Good to see OG. Sad to see him wasting his big brain on fights. Come on, give us some of that crazy logic man. Oh and say 1 4 me k?
Congrats Jim on speaking at a republican event. Big ups. Knock em dead with ‘science’. Save those mofos! Be brutal. Be true. Like you need advice.
Oh and congrats Am! Watch out for them lines!
Dis – that was always chomsky’s theory–the natural confluence of like minds. however that theory–while seemingly rational in the world of daily newsprint, breaks down with the *identical words and phrasing* of instantaneous and simultaneous authority speakers, both media and pols.
i’d adduce two other well-known secret transmission systems used for conspiracy purposes:
the encrypted-blackberries of the spy ring of Radical Islamic spy master Imran Awan & Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-fla)–which the gumshoe George Webb uncovered, including the physical whereabouts of the military grade blackberries. (IIRC, hunter biden had one of those encrypted blackberries, for his crime family conspiracies)
and the DOD US army intel communications pool, which included intel analyst Chelsea Manning, who transmitted several hundred- thousands of classified docs to wikileaks. AFAIK, the DOD classified intel pool had an access list of over 1 million security clearance gov.ees/contractors. yet, Chelsea was the only whistle. an amazing fact.
these are further examples of carefully designed secret transmission systems for the purpose of conspiracy and co-ordination.
when you see a highly coordinated conspiracy, you can bet they have a secret transmission/coms
and the global covid and vaxx fraud is exhibit A of a highly coordinated global conspiracy.
Agreed. That’s the operational nuts and bolts of it. But at the highest strategic levels I think these guys just naturally gravitate to one another, as C. Wright Mills hypothesized in The Power Elite so many years ago. Their entire social and familial milieu is made up of each other (remember, at that level marriages are more often than not arranged with future power arrangements in mind), so it would be surprising if it were otherwise. At the lower operational levels, yes, industrial marketing systems are implemented to make sure the messaging is always the same. It’s really the highest level 20th century industrialism seen yet, used to manufacture the most valuable commodity of all: political and social consensus.
indeed so. and that is a nice realization:
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manufacture the most valuable commodity of all: political and social consensus.
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but when the consensus is in direct contradiction to the painful facts on the ground, we see the propaganda breaking down.
one of the most painful aspects of this period is that the narrative has broken down, and there is no new narrative. the king is dead, but there is no new king.
In a fairer world, Victoria Nuland would have been extradited to the Hague and tried by the International Criminal Court for encouraging the Maidan Revolution in 2014 in Ukraine. But we don’t live in a very fair world and the US is not a member of this court.
Ever since Gorbachev agreed to the re-unification of Germany back in 1990, NATO (i.e. the US) has ignored Russia’s security concerns. Starting in the late 1990’s, NATO began to admit former members of the East Block to membership, in spite of Russia’s opposition. The Maidan Revolution was the last straw from Russia’s point of view. Russia’s first step was to take control of Crimea, the site of its only warm water port and its naval base at Sevastopol. Then in 2015, it started construction of a land link from Crimea to Russia. Three years later, it finished its road and rail link.
The more NATO talked about eventually admitting Ukraine and Georgia to NATO membership, the more concerned Russia got. Russia launched a preventative strike on Ukraine in Feb of 2022.
Nice high level summary. Nuland and the rest of the gang of thieves in DC might yet meet an International Criminal Court for their crimes, or they might just meet a just end at the hands of a mysterious stranger for reasons untold. Either way, their time will come. Unfortunately for the rest of us, the US’s crimes they helped perpetrate will live on long later they’re gone either way.
later = after. I think I’m going senile.
Tractor diplomacy [sic] in Holland was inspired by the famous Tractor Battalion of Ukraine. The invading Orcs kindly left behind their tanks and the like, often with a full compliment of ammo. They ran away under fire after seeing comrades burned alive in their tank tombs. The Tractor Battalion swiftly salvaged the vehicles and transported them to be reconditioned to deliver ordinance back to its previous owner. Now that’s what I call turning the tables.
The other day Ukraine’s Armed Forces vaporized about 50 Orcs and many armored weapons after targeting via US HIMARS. The UAF are very pleased.
Do you get paid by the word or by the post? Inquiring minds want to know.
I understand the Mighty Army of Ukraïna have almost reached Vladivostok, and after taking the city (the cowardly Ruskies drowning themselves in the sea, rather than facing the Mighty Ukrainians) will rename it Volodymyrivostok.
Due to their enormous pride and and outsized sacrifice, the Drag Queen Story Regiment of Volunteers from good ole USSA will take the pole position in the Victory Parade.
Always fun reading your comments bird. But more poetry!
Jimbo will be nervous, anxious and depressed returning to downtown NYC on 7/26. It’s not the place to reenergize. Go back to your chickens in upper New York. You’re an old man…kick back and relax.
You won’t live forever…times a fadin’, my man, times a fadin’
Yeah I hope Jim writes a few lines about his observations of NYC 7/22.
Hmm,
For the longest time I have wondered what to reply — short of writing a frigging book —
— when people say Afghanistan cannot get its act together because Afghan ‘s are inferior.
Or when folks say 150 years of African history is explained by innate inferiority.
It just hit me.
Well , you aren’t Afghan,
And you aren’t African.
How is Globalization working out for you ?
( not that it would make a fucking dent in their consciousness anyway )
” I recently watched a video about Japanese army brutality at Nanking. It was over the top — what explains it? ”
— Backrowheckler
My theory is the Japanese, the Germans , even the Communists, were merely victims of bad timing.
Folks used to be not so anal about keeping records , and then some asshole invented the camera , and some other asshole transformed the camera from something the size of a cart , to something no bigger than your hand.
Nanking ?
That sort of thing was always like that.
You just didn’t see it.
And if you didn’t see it , it didn’t happen.
We studied the Rape of Nanking in my history class at university (I graduated in 2019, so recently).
The Japanese soldiers who committed mass atrocities were interviewed, and asked why they could do the things they did.
They answered that the were destitute and offered money & fortune, etc. They were also convinced that the people they were killing were cockroaches and vermin and evil.
Sound familiar?
Sounds like Hawkins-san
(I graduated in 2019, so recently). – MQ
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How old are you anyway?
58
So you started school rather late.
MQ, KesaA, good points.
This is why I like this board, posters come up with angles I never even thought of. (in my own little bubble)
It was VERY disturbing learning so much in my history class. We also read “King Leopold’s Ghost” which is something everyone should read (about genocide in The Congo between 1894 – 1910).
Hard stuff to read but it’s history we should know, as we seem to keep repeating it.
Incidently, our Exec Dir where I work had us all do the Clifton Strengths Finder test and it’s quite amazing. I was the only one whose number 1 skill was context. Meaning, basically, I’m a history buff and pretty much see everything through the lens of history.
I don’t know if you saw my posts further up about Matthew Johnson’s views on this. Like so many oather things in history, particularly spectacularly gruesome things, the simplest expalanation is the right one. It was all made up. He says the first report of it was in 1945, eight years after it was supposed to have happened. The Americans had a lot of guilt to transfer and project after what they had done to the Jeapanese.
I am inclined to believe you, Sean Coleman.
When atrocities are too unbelievable to believe they are probably invented.
So need to twist into pretzels to explain it.
We are watching it happen again in real time as they lie about Ukraine.
Most of these commenters also believe the Holodomor bullshit also, so there you go.
— it’s been awhile since I brushed up on Nanking , and my memory isn’t quite as stellar as it used to be ,
But as I recall the Japanese army in question had just been through months of grueling campaigning , with pretty horrid casualties, and if that wasn’t bad enough, it seemed that no matter how many Chinese you killed , there were still more the very next day.
Put people under enough pressure, and normal behavior goes right out the fucking window.
You have already seen some hysteria in your own life , and the pot isn’t even close to boiling.
Also concerning such matters you might check out George Orwell’s short essay ,
” Shooting an Elephant ”
In my opinion at least , the best short essay on the subject of power in an impossible situation.
You’re spot on: We read that story while studying Nanking also; brings it into focus quite well.
Well said, KesaAnna.
Absolutely.
But I think even more than that, they were recruited by the higher ups with all of it planned down to the smallest detail.
It’s probably a combo of both.
Re:Nanking
Remember too mob psychology.
Seems that when a bunch of people get together, they can be fired up by a few “leaders” to do things they would never do individually, sort of advanced peer pressure.
I think of what the mob did in Jerusalem under the “guidance” of the religious leaders, threatening Pontus Pilate with rioting.
Mob psychology can be used diffusely, like when the mob is fired up against one individual and vote en masse against him.
Or maybe one issue.
Maybe Machiavelli was describing the use of mob tactics to coerce power.
The New York Post alleges that a motive has been revealed in the assassination of Shinzo Abe but says very little to explain that motive. Suggesting that it is not political. And that the assassin believed Abe was part of some organization that he held a grudge against and that authorities are unsure if said organization even exists. In other words, a potential lunatic.
Apparently when Abe was prime minister he was incessantly pressured by US et al to retreat from open dialogue with Russia. One of Abe’s major initiatives was developing a treaty with Russia over the disputed Kuril islands. That treaty never came to pass due to his own advisors undermining that process and his successors have adopted an essentially anti-Russian attitude and are enjoined with US et al in sanctions against Russia and are reducing use of Russian energy.
Abe also put the regime in Washington in an awkward position when he asked the US to openly clarify it’s full support for an independent Taiwan. The regime has done no such thing. And given the sabre rattling it may not be thrilled to be quickly noted as being all bark and no bite.
It’s actually spelled Audubon. As if appropriation and incorporation are not enough. Must the name also be desecrated? The casual profaneness feels like a thousand rampages and terrors. Give me strength Lord
Birds are great, but I wish he had designed our U.S. highways like he did that one in Germany..
We have more than one.
All autos should be bahnned, really.
What a devil you are lol 🙂
No, not really.
Joe Bidet awards a medal and puts it on backwards.
https://twitter.com/andre_mihaescu/status/1544782995189600260
LOL! It was forward to him. Sad thing is, neither one of those two old birds knew the difference.
Looks like some old man comedy skit, like what Tim Conway did back in the day on the Carol Burnett show.
Exactly! Conway and Korman!
Amazing combo/duo. Also watching Carol herself struggling to keep a straight face when Tim did his old man shuffle was priceless.
Wow that is just – i don’t know. Maybe a lesson learned is that one should receive medals and be president when more cognitively present.
As dementia ridden as Biden is, the medal was put on correctly. It hangs in front of the knot of the man’s tie. In a long shot it can’t be seen, but it is visible in close up.
It may have been the only thing Biden got right however, given he is at the can barely walk and talk stage.
Coming to a state near you…soon:
Fortune
‘The situation is more than dramatic’: Germany is rationing hot water and turning off the lights to reduce natural gas consumption
Such a beautiful country. Shame to see it come to this.
That’s during the summer by the way. Let’s see what “We support Ukraine sounds like in January 2023 when said through chattering teeth. LAUGHS
Joe Bidet gives a speech and wants you to know what his cue card says:
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1545444306995011585?cxt=HHwWgoCzqZfawvIqAAAA
The guy to his left was smirking the whole time. Looked like Kammy started to do the same at the end. Must be hard to keep a straight face around the old bastard. Kind of like an SNL comedy sketch, only funnier.
KesaAnna said, “For the longest time I have wondered what to reply — short of writing a frigging book — when people say Afghanistan cannot get its act together because Afghan ‘s are inferior.”
Afgans are hampered by inferior belief system(s). Their g-o-d-s [ rulemakers ] are at war with the truth [ John 17:17 ].
We are too, while the “perfect law of liberty” gathers dust on the corner table.
The Islamic states are ruled by Imams. Their education of the young is religious indoctrination. Some of the boys schools are based on memorization of the Quran. Girls, forget it.
The violence of religion stems from the fact that theology, the interpretation of the holy literature, becomes interpreted by the most human of activity, politics.
One of the basic tenets of politics is that if one person gets an idea and presents it, there will be some one else that takes exception to it.
When something as intense as religion gets involved in politics, it gets violent very fast, the reason our FF split religion and state.
Could it be one reason the country has split apart, that the religion of the Left and the Right is different and that fact makes it impossible to merge. It seems to be that each generation makes things worse. If so, a political split is inevitable.
The secular side of religious fiefdoms make power control of the mob mandatory. It definitely makes control of input from Western ideologies necessary. Add on the tenets of the Quran that makes violent overthrow of other religions a matter of faith.
So here is the US, importing Muslims, and Catholics hand over fist into a Conservative Protestant and Leftist atheist country. It amazes me to listen to the sociologists wondering why we have problems getting along.
A question.
If we split, should it be secular, or religious?
“If we split, should it be secular, or religious?”
Get rid of hierarchy and you get rid of politics AND religion.
I’m interested in why you have linked the term leftist to atheist here, JAZ. I’m an atheist in the sense that I don’t believe in the supernatural but far from being a leftist as I understand it. Is that how it is in the US, conservatives = Christian, progressive = atheists, as a general rule?
Also, on the subject of Muslims/Islam, who has it right? My experience here in the UK is that they have a strong identity that binds them together and they don’t suffer half of the PC/trans BS that is pushed by do-gooder Whites (and Blacks).
I was admittedly suspicious of Islam for much of my adult life. My personal experience has changed all that. I admire them in many ways and would rather have them as my neighbours than half the shrieking Karens and Covidiots I have encountered these past few years.
Yeah, that and their IQ of 85, no smarter than Black Americans and perhaps just as violent – like much of the Muslim world actually. The Caucasians of North Africa are often just as dangerous.
You don’t imagine it has anything to do with the fact that much of Afghanistan is desolate? I read once that the most successful civilizations have emerged in well watered, temperate regions.
Well-watered and temperate until local populations desertify them with aggressive agriculture and irresponsible herding.
We are split Red and Blue.
Why? Why are liberals liberal and conservative patriots conservative?
What separates the two zealous groups?
Think the basics of Maslow’s hierarchy. I have used the term “gimme” over and over. Is that the difference? Are the Leftists dependent folks that have to depend on someone to feed, clothe, house them? Is that why the Left grows in the cities? Conversely, is that why the Right seems to migrate to areas where they can take care of themselves. Is that is joke, could suburban Reds actually be independent? Are they actually the heart of the Purples, the folks sitting on the fence?
Ironically, does the Left need the Right to “care” for them? If the Reds all went to one area, and the Blues all went elsewhere, could the Left exist without the Right?
Great minds would like to know!
Leftists are almost always government dependents, and most of them are government employees/retirees (directly or indirectly). There is literally not much more to it than that.
Supporters an all-powerful, tyrannical government and a powerless, disarmed people are simply on the payroll.
I am a know-nothing when it comes to biochemistry or medicine. But I am an eager reader, and attempt to look at all sides of a question, particularly one as immediate and with such far-reaching implications as Cootie-19.
Still, when I read the following, researched and written by medical professionals for medical professionals, I get an uneasy sensation, as no mention whatsoever is made of the slightest possibility that it is the mRNA boiling through bloodstreams that is at least somewhat at fault for “long Covid”.
[from MEDPAGE TODAY]
“More Complex Than One Definition
Another emerging insight into long COVID is the probability that it is more than just one syndrome. Walter Koroshetz, MD, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, emphasized that even the name “post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2” suggests plurality.
In fact, the experts who spoke with MedPage Today agreed that it has multiple different phenotypes and endotypes. As such, researchers will need to focus on developing not just one definition, but multiple definitions, each with clinically relevant algorithms and guidelines to help clinicians work through each version of long COVID.
“They’re all important, but they’re all different,” Koroshetz, who is also the co-chair of the RECOVER Senior Oversight Committee, noted.
According to David Putrino, PhD, the director of rehabilitation innovation at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, the focus should be on identifying the endotypes of long COVID, including an immune-mediated type, a viral persistence-mediated type, and a chronic inflammation-mediated type.
Furthermore, he said he believes there are probably 10 to 15 different causes of long COVID, which is why waiting to develop clinically meaningful definitions is critical for the sake of long COVID patients.
“I think that given how hard it is to access adequate care right now, it is imperative that we keep the working definition of long COVID necessarily broad,” Putrino told MedPage Today.
“He noted that more specific definitions — that lack foundational evidence — could lead to overemphasis on patient presentation that could harm efforts to diagnose and treat as many patients as possible.
“For example, using positive PCR tests or antibody tests to identify long COVID cases would likely lead to health inequities, since people from historically underserved groups do not have equal access to those tests.
“Putrino also noted that antibody tests have not performed as well as expected and that some patients did not experience seroconversion with COVID-19. The bottom line is that a specific definition for even one endotype of long COVID would likely mean that large groups of patients will be left out of any guidelines or algorithms in the future, he said.”
Something is seriously wrong with this line of reasoning.
Dr Shankara Chetty treated 7000 covid patients personally. Not one of them got long covid (or died, or was hospitalised). He defines long covid very simply – it is untreated moderate covid.
If people are treated appropriately and timeously they don’t get long covid.
Chetty treated patients directly, learning what the virus attacked, and what helped the patients.
America’s cookbook medicine is hands off. I still have not heard of anything from our medical experts about treating Covid, only a dysfunctional vaxx. Pavloxid (sp) was the only thing presented but it’s tendency to allow reinfection within days has put it under suspicion. Fauci, the anointed one, got hit by this.
The latest variant is supposedly getting around everything. The vaxx may lose all credibility at this point. What remains in America is avoidance of infection, all sociological problems, not medical.
The variant’s evasiveness makes perfect sense.
It has had three years to mutate.
The injections haven’t really been updated at all.
The mutations are caused by the ‘vaccination’ programme. The virus has to mutate to get past the ‘vaccines’. If there had been no ‘vaccination’ programme, the virus would be less than a common cold by now, which it is anyway for many people. See the work of Geert Vandenbosche, who predicted the mutations at the start of the ‘vaccination’ programme. It’s why standard practice is NOT to start mass vaccination programmes during a pandemic.
Also relevant is that it takes so long to do proper safety testing that by the time you have a safe vaccine, a pandemic would be over.
But that was the old normal, and old science. Now we have ghoul science.
Long time ago, a teacher told me about circumlocution, ie bearing around the bush.
A method of justifying not doing anything about any irresolvable problem
Your post is a perfect example. Very little has been done to figure out the mechanisms of Covid. Fauci has been an excellent selection to block all avenues of investigation into the virus and it’s workings.
Dustin Hoffman in “Outbreak” said it well. “They want their weapon”. My words, no matter how many people are hurt.
I have given up waiting for answers to what Covid is all about. Your post’s conundrums about how to investigate what is the cause of long term Covid could be started by selecting a group of folks from the long term group and doing blood tests on them looking for positive indicators of mRNA or s proteins. Also biopsies of affected areas of inflammation or lymph node contents near zones of inflammation should show evidence of mRNA or s proteins. The models say that both should be gone within a few weeks, work by Malone says that s proteins remain detectable until 60 days after vaxx. Some people are looking at pockets of the intestines holding viruses in hiding for long terms.
I hope work is being done, but it will be attempted to be blocked by the agencies that will be clobbered by disclosure of what Covid is all about along with the vaxx. Our illustrious medical and national PTB.
Beating around the bush.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
-Carl Sagan, “The Demon-Haunted World”
Sounds like a good book. I, a haunter of bookstore, have never seen it or heard of it. But I read a few of his books. He was a fine writer.
As for the quote itself, one is remined of Twain’s , it’s easier to trick people than to get them to admit they’ve been tricked. Alas for fallen man. His ego makes him very vulnerable on top of his dulled mind and clouded faculties.
“I can’t be wrong; my ego is too invested.”
“A fool decides a matter before he has heard it.”
Exactly! Like siding, sight unseen, based purely on gender.
Blatant misandry.
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“Stunning.” Hahahaha!
Delusional? Absolutely.
Stunned? No doubt.
“Stunning”? Hahahaha!
Spoken by a first-class bamboozler, Carl Sagan
define that B word.
Saint Andrew of Anglin
Twitter claims this is a real person. Others differ.
The first rule of deal-making is that you always have to be able to walk away from the table. This is what I tell people with regards to women – there is no possible way any relationship can work if you’re not ready to get up and walk away at any moment.
Elon is now saying he’s walking away from the Twitter deal.
RT:
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has canceled his previously agreed $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, accusing the social media company of “material breach of multiple provisions” of the merger agreement in a letter on Friday evening.
Under the April 25 agreement, Twitter was obligated to provide Musk with the data he requested, in order to “make an independent assessment of the prevalence of fake or spam accounts on Twitter’s platform,” said the letter, sent by his attorneys to the company’s Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde.
Twitter Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde
Musk said that information was necessary to finance and plan the buyout and “engage in transition planning” for the firm, but Twitter “failed or refused” to provide it, the lawyers said. The company either ignored his requests, “rejected them for reasons that appear to be unjustified,” or claimed to comply while giving Musk “incomplete or unusable information,” according to the letter.
The billionaire maker of spaceships and electric cars first disclosed a large purchase of Twitter shares in early April, then proposed to buy the platform outright. The company’s board at first sought to fight off the hostile takeover with “poison pills,” then accepted his offer on April 25.
I don’t know that this is a real thing he’s doing, or if he’s just showing he’s ready to walk away. My thought is that it’s just negotiation strategy posturing.
That seems to be the thought of investors as well, because Twitter stock only dropped 5% on the news.
Elon has said that he wants to run the Western version of China’s WeChat, and the reason he is buying Twitter is to turn it into that. He has said that if he can’t buy Twitter, he’ll start from scratch. But it would obviously be a lot easier to start from Twitter. And he’s already got the money.
Twitter is clearly lying about the number of bots, so it’s not surprising they would refuse to let him look at the data. But that’s ultimately only a couple billion difference on a deal he’s already got the money together for, and which will make that loss back quickly.
The other option is that he does have some dark secret that the media/intelligence agencies have dug up, and the [redacted] are telling him to back out or else. That’s possible. Seems unlikely though. I think he’s a pretty straightforward person, and only seems interested in old skanks. They already turned his kid into a tranny and dropped the news of his secret twins.
I’m certainly not happy with any news that the deal might not happen, but this doesn’t totally worry me. It seems to be posturing.
Jarek: God bless you Andrew. By God we’ll have a home again, by God we’ll have a home.
So now the woke employees of Twitter will be dancing in the streets celebrating “free speech”
Yeah i had the exact same notion as Mr. Anglin that this is all part of the negotiating and bargaining process. It certainly does not appear to be a victory for the censorship wing within twitter given they are now lashing out and want to force Elon to purchase the company. I saw somewhere that all of this now puts twitter in existential jeapordy because in legal proceedings which could be forthcoming twitter can provably be shown to have fabricated a lot of info on formal company filings etc.
Hope so. We need a big free (at least relatively) online forum. Anglin says that Elon will build his own if it all falls thru. I hadn’t heard that before.
Oh I hadn’t heard that either but he certainly has the resources for it. I do worry that the regime will put a lot of legal and regulation obstacles in his way to try to prevent him from doing that.
Elon musk is terminating his agreement to buy Twitter: So basically Twitter has a huge amount of spam accounts —way more than they let on — and has gotten busted for it!!!
As I said weeks ago spam accounts are probably 50% not 5% of Twitter users.
Don Jr, July 8
SCOTUS has over-turned the 2020 Election.
Roe v Wade was a smokescreen while they examined evidence on a secret docket. Cavanagh, Coney-Barrett and Roberts & their families are being secured from the Deep State (who killed Abe).
BoJo’s resignation was part of what is happening. Trudeau will fall. Macron, Dragi too.
Donald J Trump is POTUS and will be back in the White House before August 1.
Leviticus 19:11, Hawkins-san
1- Did you read Green Alba’s post on Leviticus 19:11, Crusher? It turns out that the ancient Greek word has been lost to time and that it has been translated as all sorts of things throughout the ages.
2- In fact, it could not possibly be your translation as the word “homosexual” did not exist until the late 1800s in German and around 1900 in English.
3- Before that, it was often translated to mean “masturbation” which must be very concerning for you, you jerk off.
4- Even using this current, disputed translation, it seems to refer to male-on-male homosexuality, not lesbians.
5- Of course I am concerned for my adult daughter’s soul. You ridiculing my daughter for your sadistic pleasure in hurting me is beyond the pale, Crusher. Shame on you.
6- You called me a hypocrite because you thought that I was praying for Griner while also celebrating Abe’s assassination. Now that it has been proven, beyond shadow of doubt, that you were completely Wrong with your head up your ass, will you apologize for such a horrific, unfounded, inaccurate accusation of me or will you Just continue being a jerk off?
NO NO NO Hawklins-San. The scripture in question was 1st Corinthians 6:9 and I presented a rebuttal by a heterosexual. male who totally disputed the interpretation Green Alba presented. You claim to be a Christian, and you think Leviticus 19:11 is connected with homosexuality? No, no no, Hawkins -San Leviticus 19:11 says “THou shalt not lie” Thou shalt not lie. Whether I’m a jerk off or not is a moot point. You and Alba may present all the alternative meanings to 1st Corinthians 6:9, but Romans 1:26 sounds the death knell. (For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.) Sorry
I Just now read Leviticus 19:11. I was expecting another verse supporting your painful assertion that my adult daughter is damned to Hell for her lesbianism.
Instead, I see that you are calling me a Liar as well as a Hypocrite.
I did not lie to you, Crusher, and your allegations of hypocrisy were based on your proven error and misunderstanding.
These are horrific, unfounded, unTrue allegations and I demand an apology.
Oh and by the way: Why would you be concerned about your adult daughter’s soul since you don’t seem to believe homosexuality is Biblical abomination?
You are so very presumptuous, Crusher.
I never said that homosexuality is not a Biblical abomination. What do I know?
I never lied.
I never claimed to be a Theologian.
I have Faith, am trying to learn and worry for my daughter’s soul. Green Alba posts something that appears to be Good news for my daughter’s eternal fate and I cling to that because I Hope she joins God’s kingdom after Judgement Day. That is admirable of me, in my humble opinion.
May God bless you, Crusher.
I am still awaiting your apology for calling me a hypocrite based solely (soully?) on your completely erroneous misunderstanding of what I had actually said.
Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake. He then lying on Jesus’ breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it? Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickl
John 13:23 – 27
Thank you, jim e.
You are Truly of the very Best of men.
Q or some bloggers insisted DT would be back in WH by april 2021.
I don’t know about that, malt. I Believe that it was not Q as I Believe he had gone silent by then.
I do always marvel at the Logical fallacy:
People have been predicting the End of Times for centuries [with the then unsaid ridiculous conclusion:
They were wrong, therefore, these Times will never End.]
There is a prison barge off New York City Right now. July 2022 is Show Time, methinks!
People have been predicting the End of Times for centuries ..
The ones who waited back then saw the end of their time.
Wait, what? The Supreme Court overturned the election? This seems like a cruel bamboozle OG.
I hear tell that SCOTUS did so on Wednesday, June 29, SSL. I hear tell that the Biggest sting operation in mankind’s history is now bearing fruit. I hear tell that there will be massive arrests. I hear tell that there will be Real Justice in our crooked World.
Yes, of course, it could be a cruel bamboozle but …
UK government Really has resigned en masse.
Abe Really was assassinated.
The Georgia Guidestones Really were demolished.
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Hold on to your hat! Here we go!
Actually i’ll need to pack for the trip. Ugghh i’ve been needing a vacation since forever. These are really some crazy times OG. I’ll have to do more research on that one. I do remember hearing that they were going to be taking up some sort of dispute over a controversial election law.
www(dot)bitchute(dot)com/video/cjviBzywbaOr/
Sounds like more Q bullshit. Two More Weeks!
Wow what a complete load of bullshit.
I’ll be back here in a month to repost this and laugh at you all over again.
Who is following whom?
May God bless you, Mary.
Where did you dig THAT up, OGH?
Sign held up by a young (militant) woman at a Jane’s Revenge rally in DC.
‘I’VE HAD 3 ABORTIONS’
You Go, Girl!
Let’s see: Chad Tyrone and Rodrigo?
OMG, the things people are proud to announce!!
As prophesized, Satan has taken control of this completely lost generation.
Q. Maybe it is a status symbol in today’s young society.
Wow! A poster child for the Dem Stupidification program.
Preggers three time, in spite of government sex education programs, and all forms of contraception.
Old adage applies here?
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me three times, ???????
If this was on the public dime third time should be sterilized as well.
Brandeis University declared that word “picnic” is “oppressive language” because picnics are associated with “lynchings of black people in the United States.”
Wait til they hear about the plan to decorate their own name with parentheses.
So is ‘Picnic’ a banned word? At Brandeis, what’s the penalty for inserting the word ‘Picnic’ in a sentence? Expulsion? A $50 fine?
What about ‘rope’? Can I say: ‘rope’?
Tree? Branch? Noose? Chevy?
The Vedantics say that this world is a rope that people imagine to be a snake in the dimness of twilight. If upon seeing such a “snake” one jumped and cut one’s foot, they could die from the imagined snake bite’s venom, such being the power of the mind.
At a school that ridiculous, I think the most severe penalty that could be applied, would be to force the student to remain enrolled.
Last night on the streets of Philly a gang of about 6 joggers beat a 72 year old man to death with traffic cones. What’s the penalty for that?
” What’s the penalty for that?”
BRH,
It was but a harmless jape. The youths were merely annoying the old cracker with what turns out to be non-threatening rubber cones. He had enraged the group when he tried to cross the road to avoid their seemingly juvenile antics. He was obviously a racist, and several of the group opined that, being as old as he was, he probably had owned slaves…or maybe was responsible for putting their daddy in jail, or otherwise keeding them down. A jury of their “peers” will met out punishment, if punishment is deemed appropriate.
Old bastard was gonna die soon, anyway….
Some people coned someone.
Indeed, the very whisper of the word “picnic” stirs in my heart fond memories of my antebellum youth.
They must have already banned “father” due to its association with white privilege.
There was just a loud crash outside my man cave door. I yelled out “What was that??” No answer. Could one of the cats have knocked something over? But what, there’s nothing out there to knock over.
I went out of my cave and there was Peter picking up broken dishes off the floor. I asked ‘what happened?’ He said he tripped while carrying his aluminum tray of stuff.
This confirms my belief (as I described a day or two ago) that Peter would ultimately trip, fall, break his hip, go to a nursing home and die there exactly as his mother did 8 years ago.
Why should you allow that to confirm your belief Q. Did you fuss at Peter? Clearly it would seem as if he needs to be told that he is not allowed to walk and carry an aluminum tray with stuff any longer. If you have to lock up everything so that he must ask then so be it. That means more caretaking of course but that appears to be your burden to bear.
Because he dropped a tray?
Hmmm.
Because he dropped a tray? – MQ
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When my wife got home from the play in NYC I told her about the incident. She grilled Peter and learned that both he and the tray of dishes crashed to the floor but no broken bones. Give it more time, my prediction still holds.
So do something to stop it – like installing him in the living room. You must suffer more, Qeeg!
I guess we’ll see, then.
@ MaryQueen:
I think the key thing when it comes to finding fault with someone is this: “Was this an isolated fuck up, or is there a pattern here?”
We all screw up from time to time–sometimes spectacularly. The question is, do we screw up everything, all the time? If so, why?
In Peter’s case, there is probably some degree of dementia. Could be a lifelong problem. Maybe the guy has always been on the autism spectrum. People with dementia can be very, very hard to put up with. Your best bet in cases like that is to make your peace with it as best you can, and not let it eat you up emotionally. Offer up your sufferings for the conversion of sinners. Say the Prayer to St. Michael (“defend us in battle). You are in a battle against negative thoughts, emotions, and reactions. Believe it or not, this helps a lot. This is a way of caring for yourself, so to speak.
Say the Prayer to St. Michael – Anthea
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Oh, Puleez!!
He might also just be Aspergers. Isn’t that like autism-lite?
I’m starting to think everyone over 60 has some combo of Alzheimers, Aspergers or autism.
Yeah, I think you’ve only got the first two cards in that confirmation straight. You still need: broken hip, nursing home, and last – but hardly least – death.
But I do appreciate your optimism.
I still say it’s exhausting to get through Jim’s descriptive phrases to get to the point. Bad men bad. Good men good. Crime pays.
Oh ya? To each their own, I guess. Mr K’s eloquent essays are highlights for my week … and I read constantly.
The caveman says as he beats his chest
I still say it’s exhausting to get through Jim’s descriptive phrases to get to the point. – docmartin
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My main concern in reading literature is not merely ‘getting to the point’ but rather enjoying the whole trip to the point.
My main concern in reading literature is not merely ‘getting to the point’ but rather enjoying the whole trip to the point. – Q.
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I will concede this much. There are some writers who are simply interminable. Take Henry James, author of The Ambassadors…….. Please!!!
Henry James. I posted the following story a few years ago.
From A Backward Glance by Edith Wharton
The most absurd of these episodes occurred on another rainy evening when James and I chanced to arrive at Windsor long after dark. […] While I was hesitating and peering out into the darkness James spied an ancient doddering man who had stopped in the rain to gaze at us. ‘Wait a moment, my dear—I’ll ask him where we are’; and leaning out he signalled to the spectator.
‘My good man, if you’ll be good enough to come here, please; a little nearer—so,’ and as the old man came up: ‘My friend, to put it to you in two words, this lady and I have just arrived here from Slough; that is to say, to be more strictly accurate, we have recently passed through Slough on our way here, having actually motored to Windsor from Rye, which was our point of departure; and the darkness having overtaken us, we should be much obliged if you would tell us where we now are in relation, say, to the High Street, which, as you of course know, leads to the Castle, after leaving on the left hand the turn down to the railway station.’
I was not surprised to have this extraordinary appeal met by silence, and a dazed expression on the old wrinkled face at the window; nor to have James go on: ‘In short’ (his invariable prelude to a fresh series of explanatory ramifications), ‘in short, my good man, what I want to put to you in a word is this: supposing we have already (as I have reason to think we have) driven past the turn down to the railway station (which in that case, by the way, would probably not have been on our left hand, but on our right) where are we now in relation to…’
‘Oh, please,’ I interrupted, feeling myself utterly unable to sit through another parenthesis, ‘do ask him where the King’s Road is.’
‘Ah—? The King’s Road? Just so! Quite right! Can you, as a matter of fact, my good man, tell us where, in relation to our present position, the King’s Road exactly is?’
‘Ye’re in it’, said the aged face at the window.
I started ‘Anna Karanina’ a few weeks ago, my summer reading project. 3 chapters in I’m already having trouble keeping the characters with their Russian names straight — made more difficult since Tolstoy assigns more than one name to each character — sometimes referred to by his position, his rank, his title etc. And it’s even more confusing with the female characters.
Reading Russian literature is definitely a challenge at first. When I was faced with the same daunting task of remembering names, I just stopped trying, because eventually you will know them all and who they are. You just have to let it happen naturally.
And now “Raskolnikov” rolls off my tongue easily even 20 years after I read “Crime and Punishment.”
I bought Portrait Of A Lady when I was a young man and I scarcely got past page one. I never read Tolstoy but I loved Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, not that i understood all that much of it. It was an easy read all the same. The Brothers Karamazov was also interesting but even harder to follow althought it was also very interesting. When I was a thirteen year-old i found the Just William children’s books very hard to follow and Billy Bunter too. The English public school was a complete mystery. Yet I thoroughly enjoyned Tom Brown’s Schooldays two years earlier. Treasure Island defeated me as quickly as James. I eventually read it about a dozen years ago and it was hard enough even then to work out exactly what was happneing. My elder sister could breeze through all of these. Shhe read Catch 22 in an afternnon. Mind you, she could remember little afterwards.
Agreed, BRH. Great book but no-one seems to be called Steve or Trish.
Exactly, Q.
Not that I’m complaining [It is Just the opposite, in fact: I am Truly amazed at how Mr K can keep churning out these golden nuggets at the pace of twice per week!] but I always want MORE.
As I read and scroll, I am inevitably disappointed when I see “the end is near.”
God made you.
God’s gonna kill you.
But if you apologize,
He may let you live.
the bible – Available at docmartin’s condensed books
Hahahahahaha!
Burma Shave
Mary likes you beebee!
The one thing you get right!
I loves me some BB!
Nicaragua Authorizes Entry of Russian Troops on Its Territory
dialogo-americas(dot)com/articles/nicaragua-authorizes-entry-of-russian-troops-on-its-territory/#.YsnhkzfMI2w
BY LORENA BAIRES/DIÁLOGO
JULY 07, 2022
The Daniel Ortega-Rosario Murillo regime has authorized Russian personnel, ships, and aircraft to enter Nicaragua from July 1 to December 31, 2022. The Russian troops will participate in humanitarian aid, military exercises, and operations against illicit activities on the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, the June 7 decree in the official Gazette indicated.
“The region has reason to feel threatened. Nicaragua bought offensive as opposed to defensive armament from the Russians. The 80 tanks that it acquired are perfectly suited for armed entry into any of the capitals of Central America,” former opposition lawmaker, lawyer, and political analyst Eliseo Núñez told Diálogo. “The Russians in Nicaragua, with conventional and technological military capabilities, are a danger to the region. We already see what is happening in Costa Rica with hackers blocking the internet […], who coincidentally are from Russia.”
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Shoe … Other foot.
B – B – B – But Monroe Doctrine!
(So how’s about Marilyn Monroe Doctrine?)
(All the centuries of resentment, curdled by envy, directed at Tio Sam, is bound to be extruded at some point. No country of Latinoamerica has anything like the military oomph to do anything but they certain have the feeling.)
I laughed deliciously when I heard that the Bush Crime Family had invested heavily in a vast latifundium in Paraguay, presumably as a bolt hole (only my presumption). If you want to feel real bad about the state of humanity just read the Wiki entry on the blood-drenched history of that sorry land-locked republiquita. Paraguay, for God’s sake.
Here’s how it might go down: the BCF 777 has set down on the runway at Silvio Pettirossi International Airport, in Luque, near Asunción, escaping mass civil conflict and economic collapse in El Coloso del Norte. They got while the gittin’ was good.
The Boeing taxis to a predetermined spot on the tarmac where an officer in full uniform gets on a walkie-talkie to the air crew.
“Welcome to Paraguay, putos gringos. You will come off the aircraft and board the buses which will take you directly to Paraguayan Intelligence Headquarters. Your squad of bodyguards will turn in all weapons and communication devices to our military police. We will assume control of your stash of gold bullion in the cargo hold for ‘safekeeping’.
“If you are very lucky, we will let you live. Maybe even leave the country someday. In the meantime consider yourselves illegal immigrants and suspected smugglers.
“The cabin crew will now open the door of the aircraft and you will all exit with your hands raised above your head, putos gringos. Otherwise, we will commence the festivities by blowing holes in the aircraft’s fuselage with our CIA-supplied RPGs.
“Welcome to Paraguay.”
Yes, one dictator mandated that Whites must marry non-Whites. There was a war and the whites lost. So there are very few Whites left in the that sorry land. A triumph of the Good from the Marxist pov.
Leviticus 19:5-8 clearly states that all meat must be consumed within 2 days of butchering.
I guess all us Safeway carnivores are in Big trouble.
Nah
When God and Moses gave us Leviticus, there were not many refrigerators or freezers around. Meat spoils in two days unless smoked or salted.
That, I learned to my dismay, is what gave rise to the huge trade in spices from the Indies (where I ended up.) Sailors’ jumpers had no pockets, to prevent them from smuggling cloves of nutmeg, cardamom and pepper, worth more by weight in Europa than gold.
The spices were used to cloak the gathering stench in rotting meat.
Enjoy, carnivores.
May 2007–$62/barrel–$3.15 at the pump
July 2022 (15 years later)–$99/barrel–$4.59 at the pump
The world is coming to an end! Just sayin’
Nothing ever really changes much.. till it does one day, one decade or one century.
But isn’t that just one data point. It seems like you might need more to conclude the world is ending?
Sex work is rewarding, pupils told by education providers
“Providers of sex education in schools are teaching children that prostitution is a “rewarding job” and failed to advise a 14-year-old girl having sex with a 16-year-old boy that it was illegal.
Outside organisations teaching children about sex also promote “kinks” such as being locked in a cage, flogged, caned, beaten and slapped in the face, The Times has found.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/35cd493a-fee1-11ec-88db-ae1b6b9bdd3e
They’ve done this too here in the states, only there was no farmers’ revolt. Which is very concerning.
Dutch Farmers Protest Climate Policies They Say Could Drive Them Out of Business and Fuel Global Hunger Crisis
“Dutch farmers are protesting new climate policies they say will force them to kill off livestock and drive them out of business — policies which some argue also will drive up consumer food prices and contribute to the global hunger crisis.”
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/dutch-farmers-protest-climate-policies-global-hunger-crisis/
It’s obviously no coinkydink that propaganda like are starting to permeate popular media:
https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1544508946999906311
the depopulation agenda.
That Nicole Kidman vid reminds me of the humiliation rituals all those ‘stars’ continually have to be subjected to, per the Vigilant Citizen site (as well as 100s of others I’ve read).
Just ugh.
Kinda like this:
https://vigilantcitizen.com/pics-of-the-month/symbolic-pics-of-the-month-07-22/
Are they really subjected or are they willing participants? Some of them surely must be aware and fully onboard?
I think that initially they might be willing but then it gets creepier and more horrific, and they don’t know how to get out of it.
They do sell their souls, figuratively and literally.
Here is an interesting quote from that webpage:
Speaking of biblical things, pride has always been considered the worst sin of all. Proverbs 11:2 says “When pride comes, then comes disgrace”.
Of course, I whole-heartedly agree. Pride is so very evil.
Yes, and O.G. you show more pride up here than anyone else.
You consider yourself the arbiter of who goes to heaven or hell: PRIDE.
I guess projection is your biggest problem. You should probably work on that.
You make no sense, Prideful Mary, but that does not keep you from yippin.’
You literally changed your handle on CFN to boast of your Pride, for Goodness sake!
I am not the arbitrator and I never once claimed to be. God is. D’uh!
We can, however, recognize those who will be damned to Hell by God’s decision on Judgement Day. Only those who repent their sins even have a sniff of a chance at receiving God’s forgiveness and mercy.
It’s not a secret and it has nothing to do with my little thoughts.
Yet you continue building strawmen and ad homming, Prideful Mary.
Leading Irish journalist Claire Byrne ate them on air some months ago, I hear. John Waters and Gemma O’Doherty were discussing it in a live stream. From memory:
Gemma: I wonder how they got her to agree to it?
John: I can tell how the conversation went.
Them: “You will eat them.”
Claire Byrne: (in pompous voice) “Don’t you know who I am?”
Them: “You rae going to eat them anyway.”
A dozen years ago I saw British broadcaster Stephen Fry eat a chocolate containing a whole insect on the comedy quiz QI. He complained of nausear immedatiately afterwards.
This symbolism thing is extraordinary. I would have been very sceptical in the past, but not now.
Yes, Sean, I don’t really think these celebs just one day decide they are going to eat bugs.
I’m guessing the convo goes a lot like what you say in your recap.
After the real global famine is fully underway, and food is rationed in the USA with shortages of basic things like butter, eggs, and coffee, discussion on CFN will change. No longer will women wonder about what men are good for. With rationed and sometimes non existent fossil fuel supplies, hard work will be done by human and animal muscle instead of machines. Women will find males who can cut trees, split firewood, make lumber, dig foundations by pick and shovel etc. very desireable. Our fossil fuel lifestyle provides each one of us with the equivalent of something like a thousand or so slaves. Take all those “slaves” away and the only way for a civilized life to continue will be by hand, not by machine. There’s a lot of work out there in places like construction, farming, etc. that require a lot of muscle. Work that women simply cannot do nearly as well because they aren’t built for it. But there will be an equal amount of vital work women will be performing in other areas. If CFN is still around then, we won’t be squabbling here anymore about gender issues. We’ll be very grimly and seriously discussing about how to produce our food without farmers doing it for us. A well fed person has countless problems and issues, such as not being able to figure out what men are useful for. Or the issues about proper pronoun usage. A starving person only has one problem, all the rest are insignificant.
Yes, then the question will be: What are women good for?
Only women can give birth to humans, and women are best at raising children to adulthood. Kinda important, I’d say.
Well, the idea of women being best at raising children to adulthood has been tried in our large cities. In particular in the black neighborhoods where the state replaces a father’s role in providing for a living. And it’s on the woman’s shoulders to try being a mom and a dad at the same time. Candace Owens, I believe it is, has been speaking publically about these issues. At the moment, this social arrangement has produced very poor results.
As Mary likes to say, Zing!
Of course it does; however, single women (most often not by choice) families do better than single fathers raising their children. I’m wondering where your stats are for that. LOL. I’m guessing they are missing for a reason.
So you put it on women for having to raise kids as single mothers, letting men off scott-free. And still haven’t really countered anything I’ve said which is that women bring humans into the world, and raise them.
Smarter people than me have opined that this is THE most important job on earth.
@ Woodchuck:
Outcomes in black neighborhoods are no indication of outcomes for anyone else. Their shitty parenting is like their murder rate or their illiteracy rate. These misfortunes don’t happen to anyone else.
I don’t have any figures on this, but it appears to me that white single moms do as well or better at raising kids than intact families. Probably better. “Intact families,” by definition, include an adult male who, more often than not, is a negative influence on the children.
“Out of an abundance of caution” has taken over our lives.
Whatever happened to the risks we took as kids?
One must risk to grow.
So agree. Most successes in my life came from baptism by fire situations. Sink or swim.
Of course, you always had your “stunning” looks. Life is so much easier for beautiful women than it is for the rest of us.
That’s bullshit. I’m guessing my looks never hindered me from getting jobs, etc. But good looking guys had it even better (and given that the US is way behind Europe, etc. where men make more $$ for the same job, that’s significant).
Being attractive made me more of a target of professional jealousy & sexual harassment, which is pretty much constant (still) in US workplace which is annoying and horrid when you have to deal with that in addition to trying to advance on any career path.
So no, life is no easier for the pretty than for the plain. That’s just yet another cop-out for people who are lazy and unambitious.
In the end, the people who apply themselves and have great people skills to boot are the ones who get ahead.
Or do you consider Bill Gates to be “pretty” or attractive?
LMAO. You’re so stupid.
That is one lame red herring/strawman. I never said that only the beautiful succeed.
You cannot help but be corrupt in your each and every argument. You are corrupt.
May God have mercy on your Prideful soul, Prideful Mary.
God bless you.
If heaven were populated with people like you, hell might look inviting.
Oh so now I’m beautiful?
I thought I was a dried up spinster bitch ugly hag.
At least be consistent with your insults.
I have no idea, Proud Mary.
How’s about you post a current pic and us CFNers can then rate how “stunning” you actually are – on a 1-10 scale?
If you average more than 8.5, I will then admit that you are “stunning” (even though a 9.0 should be the bare minimum for “stunning”). If, on the other hand, you average below 8.5, you must then admit that self-proclaiming yourself “stunning” is, at Best, delusional.
Note: My rating will not be included in the average to avoid me unfairly skewing it (by, for example, giving you a 2 even if I think that you are a solid 5).
@og hawkins
What does it matter what she looks like?
Seems you suffer from the same affliction you have cursed Mary with.
ROMANS 12:10-16
Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
O.G., I don’t rate myself for men. Are you completely off your rocker?
Just pointing out your hypocrisy and confused thinking once again.
So who do you rate yourself for? Women always lie to each other about how beautiful the other one looks – a kind of mutual egoic deception.
We need mirrors that crack when women “hit the wall” since people often don’t see themselves as they are. Poor Karen Carpenter thought she was fat…..
Jarek: Your bizarre magazine-induced idea of what women are is laughable.
No, normal women (not the ones in ridiculous reality shows on TV) don’t spend our times ‘rating’ ourselves.
It doesn’t occur to me to do something that useless and silly.
Please get a clue.
@mary
Too many people now see women as Kardashian like or housewives of some ridiculous burb in manner, attitude and intelligence.
For some they simply can’t get past this and for others its simply how they think they are to act.
benr that’s so insane.
The Kardashians are the farthest thing from real humans as you can get.
And of course that’s for a reason.
@ Jarek:
I seriously doubt that you have the slightest idea what women tell each other about their looks–or anything else. How could you? Do you hide behind the drapes or under restaurant tables to eavesdrop on women’s conversations?
My impression, as I have mentioned before, is that you have almost no human contact and are generally unfamiliar with all things that are people-related.
It also kind of sounds like you don’t know how to go about conversing with people.
There are people on my Facebook feed who post one of those “canned” posts about how no one pays any attention to them when they are in a group, so they just get more and more quiet. I always tell them, “Try flattering them. Nobody ignores someone who is flattering them.” That’s an over-simplification though. What I really mean to say is, try talking about THEM, rather than talking about yourself. Express an interest in their garden, their kids, their dog, or their new compression wrench. Throw in a compliment.
This is how you talk to people, here in the civilized world.
I made a special point of teaching this to my youngest daughter. I told her that when she went in for an oil change, she should chat up the mechanic about his kids (whom she went to school with). When one of my old-men friends arranged for her to get a bogus inspection on her car and we went to pick it up, I told her to be sure to ask him about his new table saw. You should have seen the old guy beam! We had to go out to the shed to have a look at it.
The reason you do this is because you don’t treat people like “things” who exist for your convenience. Young kids, especially, need to have the experience of finding that older people are not to be feared (an idea they pick up at school), and that they can relate to them as equals and will be treated as equals.
If you will learn these basic conversational skills and cultivate an attitude of courtesy and generosity towards others, you might very well find that you will have a lot more human contact. (One gets the impression that your personality is a little abrasive.) Good manners are almost entirely a matter of having a generous spirit and consideration for others.
STARLIGHT
In some cases [The Bidens 4 1] its inter generational molestation.
In those cases, are they free agents? Or damaged goods?
Laughed my ass off & highly recommend!
https://youtu.be/bItcoUb5xsw
Love Jim Breuer, from back in the goat-boy days on SNL, and kicking ass harder than ever.
This PC group-think environment dies erode art, though. Art is just less possible.
Inevitably, when art becomes puerile, sterile, and stagnant from decades of ‘going commercial’ or crafted to be entirely pro-establishment, new anti-establishment art will crop up. Always happens, always will. A friend asked why now it seems conservative-leaning comedians are so much funnier than the lefties, as it used to be the opposite.
It’s because the left is all pro-establishment/authoritarian. They can’t be funny lest they offend their tribe (see: cancel culture).
Breuer is smart, he broke away from the group-think on the left.
To be a Marxist revolutionary now, one has to be a conservative. Thus the idiocy of Marxism is made plain. Alas for Paula and her ilk.
You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about, Jarek.
The Left used to be (supposedly) and is supposed to be anti-Establishment, dummy.
What a crybully you are. What agitated you this week to go on such tangents?
That now most of the female commenters up here are not putting up with your shit any more?
Pout some more, cretin.
Looks like 4chan has been busy cracking other Hunter Biden devices and distributing the contents to ensure they don’t get sucked up and disappeared by the security state.
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/385949860#p385950286
More incest? More crack?
Time to warm up the popcorn.
You could show any liberal that video of Hunter Bidet smoking crack while getting a footjob from a teenage girl, and their faces will go blank because it will not compute.
OG says, “I have Faith, am trying to learn and worry for my daughter’s soul.”
also, “We can, however, recognize those who will be damned to Hell by God’s decision on Judgement Day.”
Most of us will go to hell [ the grave ] before Judgement day. Hell and the “lake of fire” [ burning with regret ] are not the same thing.
“Thou has made Him for a little while lower than the angels; Thou hast crowned Him with glory and honor, and hast appointed Him over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things [panta] in subjection under His feet. For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to Him. But now we do not YET see all things subjected to Him. But we do see Him who has been made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.”
We do not YET see all things subjected to Him. There is still much sin and rebellion in the earth. However, this does not mean that He has not purchased them already. It does not mean that they will be lost in the end, for that would indicate that in fact they were not really subjected to Him in the first place. But yet the FACT of universal reconciliation has already been established at the cross. It is only a matter of time before this is manifested in the earth.
godskingdom.org/studies/books/the-restoration-of-all-things
After Putin was placed in a position of leadership in Russia, one of the first things he did was walk across the street after the ceremonies were over and re-establish the ancient relationship between the government of Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church, part of the what’s loosely called “Eastern Orthodox”. The Eastern Church never experienced what happened to the Western Church. It never broke up into tens of thousands of different squabbling sects and groups. It never became a corrupt nest of self indulgent effeminate pedophiles as happened to the Western Roman Catholic Church. Persecution during the Soviet era made it tough and unified, and the Russian Church is growing, successful, and unified. The Eastern Church never underwent a Protestant Reformation that chopped it up into thousands of broken pieces. The satanic West is terrified of Russia becoming a NON secular, Christian, prosperous, and unified nation. That’s part of the real reason the West has declared war on Russia. This is an ancient fight that started around a thousand years ago with the Great Schism of 1054, when the Western Church went its own way, and trouble began because Russia emerged as the only European nation that was Eastern Orthodox instead of Catholic. This set the stage for wars to come later. Russia wasn’t quite legit and was exposed to attacks from the West because they didn’t follow the Catholic/Protestant Christian rules and beliefs. So now what we have is the largest country on earth with the most remaining vital resources – declaring state support for the Russian Church. The West can’t have that, the rules about Church and State separation apply not only to the US, we’ve declared that Russia must follow these rules as well. So what we have is the world’s largest and officially Christian nation engaging in total war with the satanic West? This will be the final battle. Who do y’all think will win? Anybody taking any bets? Y’all ready for the final battle?
Nicely said, but the Communists did set up false Churches, driving the real faithful underground. Have no idea what the situation there is now. But the renaissance is modest, with Russia experiencing a very low birthrate due to Western feminism, male despair, poverty, etc. Mass Muslim immigration into the heartland bodes ill indeed. The Muslims in Kosovo mocked the Serbs, “We will outbreed you” and did just that.
About two years ago, Pope Francis sold the real Chinese Catholics out to the fake Catholic Church in China.
While universal reconciliation has already established on the cross, it’s still up to the INDIVIDUAL to appropriate it to his or her account. Please don’t insult me with “everybody goes to Heaven” If that were true than Revelation 20:15 would not have been written: “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” I’ll tell you who won’t be found in the Book of Life: Those who fail to accept the free gift of Salvation as well as those who consciously reject it. I don’t apologize for what is clearly written in the Scriptures.
Neither do I.
Philippians 2:10-11 – That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
Romans 14:11 – For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
Isaiah 45:23 – I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Philippians 2:10 – That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
Revelation 5:13 – And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
1Corinthians 15:24-28. — Then cometh the end, when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when He shall have put down all rule, and all authority and power. For He must reign till He hath put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For He hath put all things under His feet. But when He saith, All things are put under Him, it is manifest that He is excepted, which did put all things under Him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him, that God may be all in all.
During it’s first three centuries, the Church didn’t have any “official” and orthodox scriptures. Yet the Church was spreading and growing exponentially and crossing national boundaries everywhere. It wasn’t a “Holy Book” that was converting or influencing people, the New Testament wasn’t assembled until the 4th century. Only a few people during that time were literate anyway. The religion was spreading in a completely different and new way, and it was happening person to person. It was more of an experience than a codified belief. During those early centuries, church happened in private homes, not in church buildings and cathedrals, there was no male hierarchy running it. Women played a a large part in church management and activity because the home was their domain, that’s where they worked and ruled. The Church was also quite diverse, with many different “flavors” depending on one’s nationality. Many centuries later, “Christians” became militarized and started hacking each other to pieces over doctrinal disputes. Jesus never had anything to do with that. He never wrote a single scripture himself, didn’t know Greek, and very likely was illiterate. If God wanted us to worship scriptures, He would have sent us a savior who could read and write.
I’ve got a problem sometimes with a “free gift” that later they’ll tell you requires you to give ten percent of your income to a corrupt and obviously confused institution. The “Church” first needs to get all its “believers” on the same page instead of wandering all over the place with contending and confusing beliefs. A non Christian looks at all this and can’t take it seriously. The religion first needs to fix its own problems before it can even begin to try fixing mine. Because of widespread misinterpretations, people think that Jesus taught a doctrine that if you didn’t believe in Him you’d roast forever. Nobody with common sense believes this because it makes a mockery of even the crudest notions of justice. The Jews never believed in eternal hell, and Christ never taught it.
Yes, since ancient times Judaism has been focused on this world for the most part, much like the Ancient Greeks. For individuals interested in the soul and its fate? Well there were the Mysteries in Greece, and brotherhoods like the Essenes in Israel, or before them, small schools of Prophets, etc.
Strongly agree about the monstrous doctrine of eternal hell. But what a great way to make people behave – or do what you want them to do? But you do lose some of the really smart people. And if you crack down on them, you raise up powerful enemies like the Masons.
Ancient Rome managed without a Theocracy. You just had to be willing to burn incense for the Emperor – basically an oath of loyalty. You didn’t have to believe he was the incarnation of the Logos or Tao, just that he was the rightful ruler. Civil Religion. Christianity, for better or worse, refused to do this. But of course later they set up a similar system with the Popes or the Emperor in Byzantium.
The Jesuits tried to take on the big islands away from Japan, a rebellion that was crushed with massive loss of life. Later in China, they gave up such ideas and just quietly converted people without trying to get them to curse the Emperor or their People, Culture, and History.
correction: one of the big islands
A friend once challenged me to show her where Jesus talks about hell in the Gospels. Even a cursory read-through shows Jesus talked about it plenty. In fact, Jesus talked about hell more than any other person in the Bible. In Luke 16, he describes a great chasm over which “none may cross from there to us.” In Matthew 25, Jesus tells of a time when people will be separated into two groups, one entering into his presence, the other banished to “eternal fire.”
Jesus doesn’t only reference hell, he describes it in great detail. He says it is a place of eternal torment (Luke 16:23), of unquenchable fire (Mark 9:43), where the worm does not die (Mark 9:48), where people will gnash their teeth in anguish and regret (Matt. 13:42), and from which there is no return, even to warn loved ones (Luke 16:19–31). He calls hell a place of “outer darkness” (Matt. 25:30), comparing it to “Gehenna” (Matt. 10:28), which was a trash dump outside the walls of Jerusalem where rubbish was burned and maggots abounded. Jesus talks about hell more than he talks about heaven, and describes it more vividly. There’s no denying that Jesus knew, believed, and warned about the absolute reality of hell.
www(dot)thegospelcoalition(dot)org/article/the-uncomfortable-subject-jesus-addressed-more-than-anyone-else/
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Most people will be damned to Hell where they Justly belong.
So it is written. So it shall be done.
There’s no denying that Jesus knew, believed, and warned about the absolute reality of hell. – OGH
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Thank god it’s all a myth, right?
I would take the topic of hell more seriously if I knew that the gospels were written by eye witnesses or even Jesus himself. However, we don’t know who wrote those books. It’s very unlikely that any of the disciples were fluent in Greek. No only that, but the books themselves don’t come with the author’s names – all we have is the claim “according to”. None of the gospels are written in first person whereby the author states in places “This is who I am, and I did this, that, and the other thing.” Other major complications arise when you read the NT in the original Greek. There are concepts and words in Greek that don’t lend themselves well into English translations.
Jews don’t believe in an afterlife.
The Kabbalists and those influenced by it do. And there is a lot about life after death in the Midrash (tales) as well.
So wrong. The mass isn’t interested in it, but there’s more available for those who are.
In modern Judaism, I know for sure that Conservative Jews don’t believe in an afterlife, and I’m pretty sure Reform Jews don’t either, as they are even more atheistic than Conservative Jews. I’m not sure about Orthodox Jews. I never discussed it with any of them, as it just never came up in the conversation.
I’ve had rather long discussions with Conservative Jews about this. One thing they often point out is that there is absolutely nothing in the Old Testament that indicates that there is an afterlife. There are a couple of passages that could be construed to HINT that there might be an afterlife. One of these is in 2 Macabees, where the people pray for the dead. (Why pray for them if they no longer exist?) My Conservative Jewish friend was not persuaded by this passage. Job 14 expresses a wish for an afterlife, but seems to end up rejecting such a possibility.
If you want to get a working knowledge of Judaism, read “Conversations with Rabbi Small.” It’s pretty much a ritualized form of atheism.
On the other hand, I once told my opinion to an ultra-Orthodox Jew, and she agreed with me. She worked in a nursing home and said she had more in common with the old ladies with their rosaries than with Conservative or Reform Jews. But, as I said, I never got around to discussing the afterlife with her.
IMHO, a person can’t be considered to be truly religious unless they are delving into the more mystical stuff–the meaning behind the events and personalities. To be honest, I think most “religious” people are not really religious at all, but are just repeating formulas and incantations. E.g., if you say, “I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior,” you are now “saved.” There are various other ritualistic things that you can do to be “saved”–or that people will say make you “saved”–such as being baptized.
It’s kind of like that old Smothers Brothers satire of “The Cowboy’s Lament”:
“I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy;
You see by my outfit I am a cowboy too.
We see by our outfits that we are both cowboys;
If you’ll get an outfit you can be a cowboy too.”
Welp, an outfit doesn’t make you a cowboy. Neither does the size of your hat.
I do sometimes wonder about people who are happy to get dunked (or sprinkled or poured on) and parrot some formula. Is there some facsimile of salvation at work there? If it doesn’t make them “saved,” what does it make them? Since I’m not omniscient, I guess I don’t know.
So @Woodchuck, I think you are taking a superficial view of religion. You can’t expect believers to be “on the same page.” Some of them are learning nursery rhymes, while some others are wrestling with solid theology, and still others see behind or beyond the outward forms and arguments.
Anthea – I don’t think Jesus ever intended belief in him to be dependent on having the capacity to write a PhD thesis – quite the opposite.
Religion isn’t the same as faith.
“Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.”
I think it is absolutely fine for some people to be learning ‘nursery rhymes’ while others delve into ‘solid theology’. It’s not a competition. And you will recall anyway that the first will be last and the last will be first. So there’s that. 🙂
Govt in Ceylon down, large mobs seen over running the Presidential Palace, swimming in the Presidential Pool, and grilling meat from the Presidential Stores on the Presidential Grill lol.
Coming to a left coast near you.
No doubt. they have a head-start in SF, Portland and Seattle.
Was watching that on Telegram. Quite something to behold.
I guess the president was forced to flee.
Good times.
[… all the deal memoranda and emails on Hunter’s laptop, which has been in the passive possession of the FBI for three years. And you mean to tell me that no one has done anything about it?]
Disregarding the rules is standard mode of operation for the WEF crowd, that is basically conducting a soft coup the world over, to implement “The Great Reset”.
John Kerry has been flying around the world for years doing backroom deals, just waiting for his team to get into the White House, so the deals can be implemented.
The standard mode of operation for the likes of Soros and Bloomberg is to buy/bribe key people in positions of power.
What are the odds that all the word-salad-specialists in the Biden administration just happened to bloom overnight? And not to be outdone by the “distinguished” Robert Mueller, with a “stellar reputation as an attorney”, who uttered nary word for the better part of 2 years, and when he did, he makes the present day Joe Biden look like a genius.
When it became apparent that the Taliban weren’t honoring the backroom deal the Biden administration made with them, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said “We have also indicated that they have to be respectful of humanitarian law and that we do not expect to see that Afghanistan will become a safe haven for terrorists. But, again, it is not their words that we will hold them to. It is their actions that we will be watching, …”.
I have in mind that Brian Kilmeade put up a map of the world about a week ago, where all the countries Hunter had been doing backroom deals were colored, and what came to mind was the WEF stipulation that “Every country, from the United States to China, must participate [in the Great Reset], and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism,” wrote Klaus Schwab, the head of the World Economic Forum (WEF), in a recent article for WEF’s website. The reason Hunter is untouchable, is that he was merely filling in the blanks for the implementation of “The Great Reset”. Think about it. One of Hunter’s partners was none other than John Kerry’s stepson, Christopher Heinz.
Looks to me like one hell of a lot of SMO backroom deals, the money that is being laundered by the likes of the Biden clan, Fauci, Gates, etc., is likely being pooled to buy/bribe leadership throughout the world, and as you put it, the key players are dealing the general population cards from the bottom of the deck.
I hope your “Lift-off” is a moon landing!
Watch out for people who tell you who you are. They will constrain you for their own comfort.
Messi can say so very much with so few words. I admire that.
Jesus is much better at it than me, and according to some He is illiterate [ lol ].
Incredible dot-connecting for those interested. Some of it is mind-blowing, all of it is infuriating:
https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/metabiota-ukraine-and-the-cia
In some cases [The Bidens 4 1] its inter generational molestation.
In those cases, are they free agents? Or damaged goods?
-“All of the above”. However, one thing you can most certainly be assured of is that they will receive the near complete benefit of the doubt from most everyone. At a minimum. From the Queen down to your local ditch digger. Meanwhile if a mere mortal such as yourself is guilty of an indiscretion the Queen and the ditch digger are likely to join forces to ensure your wholesale destruction.
I liked it, so i decided to keep it for now, i hope you’re good with that 😉
Re – desertification of temperate well watered regions
I can’t argue with your assertion G. However, to be clear, i’m also one who feels that the theoretical population density of late Pleistocene Eurasian Neanderthals was ideal. So undoubtedly i would not be found to be a friend of civilization in the minds of many who even contemplate such things.
Grizzlies are dangerous, but Polar Bears actually hunt people. How did the Eskimos (far northern peoples like the Inuit) deal with them?
Would there be a way to cross Polar Bears with Grizzlies and Black bears (and European Brown bears in Europe) in order to transplant this aggressiveness in order to keep human population in check?
Polar bears will usually only hunt humans if they are starving. The problem is that it is very easy to attract polar bears because they are naturally very curious and not shy at all. And if for example they see a campfire and hear voices and things like that they will advance toward the campfire and voices rather than remain cautiously stationary or retreat. And they are very nocturnal. So the eskimo igloos not only protect from bitter cold winds and ice but also serve as a place to hide the campfire so to speak, contain the smell of food, etc. And probably like dog and cat breeds etc it would be possible to transfer the aggressiveness to hybrids. Polar bears can successfully interbreed with grizzlies and brown bears. But not with black bears.
SSL, 2 Sundays ago I came face to face with a black bear in my front yard; his head looked to be a yard wide. Mr. Bear turned tail, but about 10 minutes later he returned and hung around for awhile. By that time I was safely inside the house. Here’s the strange thing about black bears — as a kid I roamed these woodlands and river sides and never saw a bear. Now bears are not an uncommon sight. Last week I saw a rather large snake in my granite wall and now I know why this area was named ‘Rattlesnake Mountain’ 300 years ago. Also, about 1 month ago a bobcat came thru here — not sure why the emergence of this wildlife in suburban and rural areas all the sudden.
And I’m talking about the Wilds of Ct.
Wow that is really cool but also terrifying! Hmmm that is really interesting that you are noticing more wildlife than in the past. It may have something to do with the animals living off of food waste in garbage, etc. It sounds weird but it is happening everywhere. Here it is deer. I noticed this morning hoove prints all over the back yard. I really didn’t see them at all like 10 years ago and now when i go out its a good chance a few deer are foraging at the edge of the woods in the back and they are not bothered by me they just stare for a minute and then go back to eating leaves.
That might make sense. Aren’t they said to be a recent mutation, separating from the Grizzlies only 20,000 years ago?
Yeah they did come about around 20,000 years ago but they diverged from brown bears somewhere in Siberia because the ice age glaciers separated them from the other brown bears.
Up in Alaska and Siberia, do Polar Bears and Grizzlys ever come into contact? Do their territories intersect? WHO IS KING?
Tim Treadwell thought that Grizzly Bears were his friend.
If I were wondering around out there I’d at least need to be toting a Remington 700 in .308. cal.
“Polar bears will usually only hunt humans if they are starving”*
*…And they are ALWAYS starving….
Do Polar bears hybernate? If so, when?
Jarek,
The concept of trans-species fertilization has already been tiried…and works!
They crossed an Orangutan with a prostitute, and the issue was a prostitute that swings from lamp post to lamp post, and does it for peanuts….
I’m not surprised that my best ally here on ideal population numbers is a woman. Men are suckers for the supposed “glories” of complex civilizations, and both very distant futures and very distilled ideals are often more difficult for men to picture clearly. I think it is tied to men having a stronger ego-attachment to the social structures they are familiar with.
In my case it has more to do with the fact that no man or woman can accurately tell any of us what the right number is where population is concerned. Much like climate change, many charlatans have many computer models, and make many claims.
There are so many open questions regarding resources and related possiblities. And in terms of sheer land mass, humans reside on a tiny portion of the planet.
Klaus Schwab thanks you, however.
I’m thoroughly agnostic/skeptical/uninterested regarding climate change.
Energy and population are much more cut-and-dry. Have you read “The Long Emergency” yet? It’s as good an introduction as any to the argument that hydrocarbon-energy will not be replaced by anything—is a one-time and short-lived bonanza in human history.
And that energy argument is not the only, but the simplest basis for the population argument.
But I don’t believe you’re very interested in exploring these issues. Your commitment is to opposing Schwaub. In this way, you illustrate my point about men exactly, who are often more caught-up in the affairs of their moment in time, in the thrall of their personal sphere of influence and the issues of their societal moment, and can sometimes be less likely than intelligent women to exit paradigms, to reach utterly detached states (from which true solutions to the largest problems arise).
What energy argument? Whose data and conculsions are you using? Where do they get their fact base to draw their conclusions?
The reason I compare it to climate change is that the fact base and methods for arriving at conclusions are quite similar.
We are in an era where even “established” science, such as the existence of viruses, is being credibly challenged, and the arguments are not only interesting, but I would say highly convincing.
What if much of what you think you understand is a lie?
What is this, the mantra of the Know-Nothing party?
Where does the extreme confidence in your pet Great-Reset conspiracy-theory come from then, if all other logic, facts, science, personal common-sense are so hazy and to be doubted?
If you’re honest, you should see the absurdity and circular logic you’re using: “Everything is a conspiracy, except what I think right now. Trust nothing but the thoughts in my head at this moment.”
Pick up JHK’s “Long Emergency” book. It’s filled with quality references, quality logic. It’s not a WEF special-op…
The book was part of the 2000’s peak-oil movement, which was filled with independent truth-tellers and honest men, and women. Of course, the movement was largely ignored by everyone, in favor of climate-change charlataning on the left, and climate-change-hating and debunking on the right.
And then, because the oil-supply crisis didn’t happen immediately, q public felt 100% confident that everything regarding peak oil had been thoroughly debunked, because q public are morons awaiting their depopulation program.
I have read the Kunstler book.
So when do we hit peak oil, and how many people do we need to snuff out in order to save the earth?
Never. Don’t worry about it. Everything’s fine.
If we can just topple these reptillians in charge, the oil will never run out, plus we’ve got algae on the way, and nuclear of course. Everyone knows only two reactors will ever melt down; it will never happen again.
No problem. I am not worried about it.
Mr Gustafson’s comment reminds me of the multiple times I have read of reported encounters of humans with aliens, when they implored the locals they faced (all, it seems, ordinary powerless citizens) not to poison the biosphere with nuclear contamination. That seemed to be a particular alarm to them. For whatever purpose, selfish or otherwise, is of course not clear (or revealed) (or credible, even if revealed – there is a warning floating about that among the aliens are accomplished liars).
Reckless destruction like the creation of the Great Garbage Patch, deforestation or chemical poisoning of the soil can be overcome, even with contemporary technology. With ambient radioactivity you are both looking at a very long span (especially with plutonium, which has leaked and dribbled hither and yon) and unwanted mutations.
People think the two people are arguing in Portland were both Wokies? An extraordinary failure of discrimination. The American Indian man is ethnocentric to the nth degree – a nazi in other words, small n because of its generality in this case with Germany or any modern theory of the Nation State. The White woman is a Wokie who imagines some non-existent brotherhood/sisterhood among all the people of the world, with White men excepted perhaps. She’s the Wokie fool, not him. That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was driving badly and didn’t like being called on it. She is the nicer person, both in the good sense of the word and in its original or etymological sense of Fool.
Not that its immediately relevant to your specific point but more generally i guess is that I have always contended that driving can bring out the worst in people
contended is not the right word though it sounded good in the moment so..i have always said or argued..or something like that works better
correction: with nothing to do with Germany or any modern theory of the Nation State.
Starlight: Ain’t that the truth! You’re in your “car”. No need to be civil or moral to another “car”. Some continue this even once they step out after an incident.
Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.
I’m inventing a mirror that will crack when women hit the wall. Women will send these to their enemies so they will crack on them. I’m against this use of my invention as a weapon, but I know it will happen. What can I do? I want my mirror used a tool of self knowledge, clearly labeled as what it is. But there will be knock offs……
The bad mirrors will crack all at once right across the whole mirror. My mirrors will start to show little cracks as she approaches the Wall so she can hurry up and get married and/or pregnant while there’s still time.
Oscar and Mary, I’ve read quite a bit of this thread. I’m sorry, but it looks like maybe we’ve come at a bad time.
Father knows best. The other one needs a scold’s bridle.
Scold’s Bridle:
A scold’s bridle, sometimes called a witch’s bridle, a gossip’s bridle, a brank’s bridle, or simply branks,[1] was an instrument of punishment, as a form of public humiliation.[2] It was an iron muzzle in an iron framework that enclosed the head (although some bridles were masks that depicted suffering). A bridle-bit (or curb-plate), about 2 in × 1 in (5.1 cm × 2.5 cm) in size, was slid into the mouth and pressed down on top of the tongue, often with a spike on the tongue, as a compress. It functioned to silence the wearer from speaking entirely, and caused extreme pain and physiological trauma to scare and intimidate the wearer into submission. The scold’s bridle was overwhelmingly used on women, often at the request of husbands or other family members.[3] This prevented speaking and resulted in many unpleasant side effects for the wearer, including excessive salivation and fatigue in the mouth. For extra humiliation, a bell could also be attached to draw in crowds. The wearer was then led around town by a leash.
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I’d be content with either a valid explanation or a simple respectful apology.
LOL, not likely, Mr. Hypocrite-on-Wheels.
You & OG’s impotent rage is hilarious.
You have zero power over me. Seethe and cry.
God bless you, Mary.
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Thx, btw, for the Jim Breuer link last night. I enjoyed it immensely. Funny stuff.
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Me & my ex- were lucky enough to get into a Saturday Night Live taping once. 1995, I Believe. Jim Breuer did the warm-up routine before the guest host (Chevy Chase) came out. Hilarious!
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Lisa Loab was the musical guest that night. She was fantastic! I sure do love women! They’re the Best!
Too little, too late.
God bless you.
Thanks for starting the misogynist fest back up.
The women-haters thank you.
Woodchuck said, “If God wanted us to worship scriptures, He would have sent us a savior who could read and write.”
Does one “worship” America’s founding documents because he insists that his employees follow them?
Do you think the Creator God can read and write? Yah [ poetic form of YHWH ] became [ as promised ] our salvation [ shuah ]. Yahshua.
Worshipping something or someone implies intense focus and attention on that object/subject, and the worshipper is in a subordinate postition. A position involving great trust. Consider the worship going on according to:
Revelation 13:15 KJV
“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”
Nope, we’re not talking about a robot statue being worshipped here. Almost every home on the planet nowadays has an image of a speaking and moving beast in a prominent spot in their homes. They sit there hour after hour in rapt attention, assuming the news and shows they are seeing make sense. If somebody on tv tells them to get a dangerous shot or wear useless masks – well – they do it. If it’s on tv it has that beast seal of authority on it.
Right, they are worshipping “somebody on tv” not the tv itself.
“The transmission of reliable information from one person to another, from one place to another and from one generation to another has ever been a necessary feature of the human enterprise. Of particular concern to humanity is the status of the Bible in this regard. It has come down to us as a translation of early documents written largely in Hebrew and Greek, declaring itself to be the Inspired Word of God – a claim which hitherto has necessarily been accepted by faith alone. However, there are now good reasons for believing there to be some inherent property of the autographs which – having escaped the attention of generations of translators and others – confirms the Bible to be both self-authenticating and the work of a Supremely-gifted supernatural Author.”
whatabeginning.com
It’s Sunday alright.
All the Warren Jeffs types and jebus freaks quoting passages from the great compendium of bullshit.
But that’s all little people got in the end
May God bless you with Wisdom.
Indeed.
“But that’s all little people got in the end”
It is enough.
“Is Sri Lanka leading the way into the New World Order? Or is it showing us the way?”
leohohmann.com
It’s kind of inevitable once the store shelves are bare and only the elite few can afford to drive and travel.
Not to mention eat.
Oh yes there’s that…
Getting back to Polar Bears, their population is increasing! From a low of about 6,500 in the mid sixties to an estimated 31,000 today.
That’s great news. Amazing! And so the pics of the poor starving polar bears out on ice floes was also propaganda for the Great Reset/Climate Change ™/ Green New Deal.
Chop, chop, CFN-ers.
Jarek and OG are awaiting myriad apologies, their demands for them are piling up like so many old bald tires in a city dump.
Get on it! Egos need to be appeased! Demands need to be met! Or there will be no peace at Clusterfuck Nation!*
*I of course won’t be offering one but will continue to call them on their hypocrisy, racism and misogyny, but maybe there are those who may cave to their demands. LOL.
Hahaha! Proud Mary never lets The Truth get in the way of her corrupt attack, attack, attack m.o.
While Jarek (Yoho) is obviously more than capable for speaking for himself, I am only owed a reasonable explanation or a respectful apology from Crusher and Proud Mary.
Both have called me a hypocrite but refuse to either Justify such an accusation or simply apologize and move on with life.
Pride is such ugliness.
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May God have mercy on your soul, Proud Mary.
“Stick your pride and judgement up your stupid assssss, O.G.”
Sincerely, God
Shame on you, Proud Mary~
Forgive her, Father. She knows not what she does.
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Now she presumes to speak as the Lord! She calls the Faithful “Bible-humpers.” She is blasphemous!
She had Best repent and ask God for His forgiveness and mercy. Honest to God. TruStory
SSL- you’re an admitted Louisianan, I believe…
I found this recently and your comment on it would be interesting:
“Why Louisiana Stays Poor”. JohnAZ – can you spot the ‘gimmes’ in this picture?
w w w. youtube.com/watch?v=RWTic9btP38
You must not remember that you’ve posted this before. 🙂
An admitted Louisianan huh? You make it sound like im a criminal or maybe something worse. Well I told you the first time that corruption is what it is. And that dynamic isn’t going to change all to much in the current system. So in your measurements and scales of wealth and poverty indeed we are your district 12 and will probably always be. However, the natural resources wealth is far beyond the imagination it would seem. So if you are resourceful you can live well. Outlanders are usually not welcome.
I fear the day that technology surpasses human interaction. The world will then have a generation of idiots. Albert Einstein
It’s very inspiring tom. And ego does have a lot to do with our current predicament. And in many cases technology mediated discussions are more aggressive and people speak in a way that they would not in face to face discussions. So it is easy to see why replacing human interaction with technology will literally dumb the population down even more! and make them less able to effectively communicate. But sometimes its all we have.