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There will be a Great Re-set, of course, but it’s not exactly the one that Western Civ is blabbering about — a mere shuffling of political and financial protocols. It’s happening with or without “Joe Biden,” the EU, and der Hoch Schwabenklaus, though the aggregate stupidity they represent is surely making the entry process worse. The Great Re-set is what happens when the business model goes bust for powering the world with oil and other fossil fuels — even if there is quite a bit of all that stuff left in the ground. Years ago, I called it The Long Emergency.
Everything emanates off of that, including the astonishing bouts of mischief made in attempts to work around it, assign the blame for it, grub money off it, and shift the effects of it from one group of people or one region of the world to another. Steve St. Angelo says it neatly: “Energy drives the economy; finance steers it.” That’s so. When the oil business model broke in 2008, industrial society lost its mojo and, after that, finance steered it into a ditch.
The Great Re-Set is an emergent phenomenon. It unspools naturally out of circumstances that reality presents. It goes its own way and we have to adapt to it, like it or not. Is our climate changing? Maybe. But so what? The climate has changed many times since the Bronze Age. If preventing that is actually out of the question, which it is, then what else are you going to do? The answer is: adapt intelligently to new conditions. When you clear away all the mental resistance to that — which amounts to a titanic struggle to keep things just the way they are — you’re going to have to make changes anyway.
America was, for a time, the greatest industrial society and now that appears to be over. The disorder in all the moving parts of it is probably too gross to arrest at this point. We shoved it into disorder by making some very bad choices, like getting rid of our factories and squandering our wealth on an absurd suburban living arrangement. Shale oil was a financial stunt to keep our set-up going a little longer. It was part of the colossal debt roll-up — the steering function of finance — that was used to compensate for our actual loss of mojo, and now that gambit has hit the wall. You can’t pretend to issue more debt when everyone knows it can never be paid back.
Europe, the old home-base of Western Civ, never got around to shale oil, and its financial structure was such — reckless bond issuance with no fiscal accountability whatsoever — that now it is collapsing faster and worse than America. Europe’s leadership is clearly insane and it will likely be overthrown before long. The foreign minister of Germany, the winsome Annalena Baerbock, promised last week to keep demonizing Russia to support Ukraine’s black hole of racketeering “no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life gets.” Stand by to see how that goes over.
The angst around these circumstances is expressing itself in a generalized political nervous breakdown featuring the sort of tragi-comic behavior previously confined in lunatic asylums. Have you ever seen anything more patently insane than the sexual confusion acted out in American schools? Drag Queen story hours? Litter boxes in the bathrooms for students who identify as “furries”?
That was the funny part. The Covid-19 event is no joke — rather a psychopathic mass murder. Obviously, it was no accident. We have a pretty good idea who made it, and set it loose into the world. And the “vaccine” response looks plainly malevolent at this point. Yet the Covid episode is shot through with mystery. How did all those sedulously trained doctors get so mind-fucked as to persist in saying the “vaccines” were safe-and-effective, when the vaxxes were obviously killing and maiming people? They’re still stuck in that disgraceful posture, busy punishing their colleagues who demur, and dishonoring medicine — not to mention the thousands of public health officials still pushing vaxxes and boosters to this day. We can attribute that to mass formation psychosis, but even that reeks of mystery. Maybe, as the old American hymn goes, farther along we’ll understand why….
Anyway, and in the meantime, we’re obliged to see where all this is taking us and what we have to do about it. The survivors of this disorder will be living in a world of generalized contraction, facing much-reduced standards of living. All the giant enterprises will be gone, including probably the federal USA government as we know it, and all the supports it offered. We’ll be gravely disappointed by the failures of advanced technology to mitigate any of this, and much of that technology will disappear, including reliable electric service and the Internet. Whatever you do will have to be much more local and, in one way or another, these activities will revolve around growing food.
I called it a World Made by Hand in the cycle of four novels I churned out between 2008 and 2017. You can look there for a detailed, graphic description of how this new disposition of things might work. The society depicted is still recognizably an American culture, and the people still find joy, purpose, and meaning in being here on this planet, despite the reduction in comfort and convenience. In many ways, it is a world in recovery from the ravages of the super high velocity way-of-life we’re leaving behind, and because of that, it is shot through with grace. That is our destination.
Keep that in mind — if you still have a mind — as you witness the unravelings ahead. This is not the end of the world or the end of the human project in this world. Not everybody will be violent or insane and the number of reality-based people with their emotional equipment intact will, oddly, grow in proportion as the others depart this plane of existence. For some of us, this is a movie with a happy ending. Make some popcorn while there is still some corn, and some electricity to pop it with.
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If the mindless bullshit ever ends Jim, that in itself will be a happy ending. This nation was made great and prosperous by a lot of human strife and suffering by real men and women that toughed it out and plowed ahead against odds that were not usually in their favor. Were their wrongs and injustices done along the way? Duh, there always are and for the most part, Americans have worked hard and with great effort to correct them, failing only recently once greed and corruption stole 99% of the nation’s leadership from us. THEY are the problem and seeing them crawl down the crumbling halls of power like rats running from a sinking ship will be all the happy ending that I need.
The “wrong” was largely a feature not a bug. So is it still a wrong? There would have been no United States without the conquest and dispossession of the Indians by Us, the Native Americans. They have nothing to do with America. They were just living here – in our way. That got remedied.
The Blacks are another story. Bringing them here was a huge error. We should have picked our own cotton. Ditto the Mexicans. We should have picked our own crops or got the Blacks to do it, since we had already screwed up by not getting rid of them.
You can’t live without eating – and that means killing something. Do you value your own life more than that tomato or cow? We valued our own people and culture more than that of the Indians. We chose life! Now we value the alien more than our own people. This is the path of death from which there is no return.
Importing the Institution of slavery from Africa was the founding fuck-up.
Importing that terrible practice ensured the seeds of our own destruction were sown at the very beginnings of the nation.
agreed, it was like a poison pill, guaranteed to leave a conflict that was exploitable. did someone plan it that way?
on the other hand, the seeds of destruction were fertilized by the idle time the trouble makers had at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
progressive movements of all types began shouting envy to the high heavens, making whatever implausible claim they could to the wealth that, at the beginning of the oil age, looked endless. the principles enumerated at the founding of this nation are timeless, regardless of their flawed expression in our founding document.
now, we are just seeing envy reach its penultimate conclusion, the insanity inherent in attempting to make envy a foundational principle expressed in a wide swathe of the citizenry having lost their minds in competitive expressions of entitled madness.
the time is coming when everyone will pull their own weight or die. some will lost the will to live, being so identified with the status quo.
at some time, sanity may shine and we’ll have leaders (likely after some conflagration) that are capable of seeing just what of the electrical / industrial civilization can be saved.
EROEI at 1 barrel in to 1 barrel out is clearly not possible – that’s just a version of a combined game of hide the sausage
+ impossible perpetual motion machine. most renewable comes under the same heading, but it may help give us time, especially hydro power.
splitting atoms safely, for instance using Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, may be the only way to keep the lights on longer term. siting reactors near hydro power sources as a center of mutually supportive energy and technology will likely be the best way to claw our way back from oil addiction.
the rest just looks like mid 19th century or earlier. how far we regress, both socially and technically, is the only open question.
But it happened before we rebelled against England, our founders had to deal with it along with the social and economic conditions of their time and place, not ours. I couldn’t judge how our ancestors would have dealt with the slave dealers if they first offered slaves for sale in our country after adopting our constitution with all mentions of slavery expunged.
Slavery existed in the Western hemisphere before the Europeans arrived. Once the Spaniards and Portuguese landed, they started to enslave the local Indians, until Catholic priests petitioned the Vatican on the grounds that the natives had never heard of Christ and needed to be given a chance at conversion. The Pope, aware that he was getting shitloads of gems and precious metals from the Americas via Spain and Portugal, considered his options and decided to allow blacks to be imported to the Americas because the book of Genesis said the descendants of Ham (traditionally, Africans, especially blacks) were cursed because Ham saw Noah’s family jewels. Thus the African slave trade began in earnest. I knew this story in the mid-1980s. Apparently the NYT reporter who started this 1619 stuff was too lazy or blinded by hatred to bother reading why Africans were brought here in the first place.
Wow, I actually agree with you on this one.
I read a fascinating book a few years ago. It was an actual diary of an Irish woman who was sold into slavery by her father (indentured servitude) and shipped to the Caribbean to work on the plantations. Your service term could be extended for any kind of infraction, so for many people, it was basically slavery. Many, many Irish were either sold by their families, or snatched off the street and sent to work on these plantations.
She explained how many Irish died in the fields because they couldn’t take the heat and the sun. The native Indians had been wiped out by disease, so that’s why they turned to importing African slaves. They forced them to interbreed with the white slaves, to increase the herd. Plus, it was a way of getting free slaves. So that’s why the people of the Caribbean are so mixed, genetically.
The Blacks didn’t want to interbreed with the Irish girls? O Cac!
After one rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves (not indentured servants) were sent to the plantations. The girls were made to work naked in front of Black overseers.
That’s how the English brought the Boers to heel. They had thousands of Boer women and children in concentration camps and they threatened to give them to the Blacks.
That and they murdered tens of thousands of women and children.
I don’t know if I posted this here before or not, but years ago I was listening to the car radio while waiting for someone outside a dentist’s office, and there was one of those conservative radio shows on (not Limbaugh).
A caller started in on a diatribe against what we did to the Indians, and the host interrupted him, and kept repeating, “Go find an Indian and give him your house!”
That has always stayed with me.
every insane claim based on “injustice” (envy) should be met with the same.
Thank you Beryl for taking us back to the main point. The Liberals above (and Conservatives are also Liberals) eagerly reverted to their programming to rave about the evils of Black slavery, ignoring the more fundamental issue of the Indians.
Black slavery was bad for Whites. Survival is the first morality as Jefferson said.
Your long meditations inside McDonalds while slurping a shake are beginning to bear fruit.
Dinesh D’Souza said the same thing to a little snot at Amherst. After politely listening to the kid prattle on about white privilege, he told the kid to drop out and give his slot to a deserving, disadvantaged student. Priceless.
Hard to believe that you say that we should have gotten rid of the blacks Jarek, pretty damming statement if you ask me.
As far as the American Indian story goes, while I have always admired their ability to live at one with nature, but their destruction at the hands of superior and growing technologies was clearly inevitable. And our destruction at the hands of increasingly malevolent technologies in the hands of our criminal leadership is also unavoidable.
The shame in our government dealings with the indigenous peoples comes from the breaking of every single treaty they ever made with them. Better to have NOT made deals that were never going to be kept than to document the US government’s long history of deception and lies.
Your statement about getting rid of the blacks, while certainly racist by all standards, is at least far more honest than what the government shitted out throughout history and does so even more flagrantly today.
You never cease to amaze, Walt – for the good and the bad. Do you really not know that Lincoln, Jefferson, et al wanted to send them out of America, “beyond the danger of mixture”?
Is there some secret benefit they bestow that they and I am not aware of? If so, please share. Because of the face of things, they are simply an utter curse.
Perhaps I am too sentimental, I admit to that. It is hard for me to toss out a pair of old work boots that have served me well and have paid the price of their service. Of course, only the dimwitted judge those of history by modern “moral standards”, or lack thereof, but for all of those that grew wealthy on the backs of their slave workers to simply eliminate them in any fashion seems rather heartless to me.
I suppose that if one considers himself a member of a master race then all things are equitable.
Well said. If you can’t choose your own people, there is a problem. If that problem is common among the People, then that people is doomed as indeed ours is.
You choose another People perhaps, one who chooses themselves. The Founders were quite otherwise. They would not recognize you.
“The thing is you cannot judge a race. Any man who judges by the group is a pea-wit. You take men one at a time”, Seargent Kilrain.
I find it ludicrous to even consider standing up and proclaiming my loyalty or superiority as a member of the Caucasian white race when it is that very same race that corrupted this nation into the woke and politically correct shithole that it has become. Joe Biden is white, and so are Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck “the Fuck” Schumer.
I did not choose my race, I was born with it and am proud to choose my loyalties with human beings of faith, character, and the motivation to get of their asses and make it better, not just bitch about how bad it sucks.
“THEY are the problem and seeing them crawl down the crumbling halls of power like rats running from a sinking ship will be all the happy ending that I need.”
Senator Josh Hawley springs immediately to mind.
Seriously, in respect to Mr Kunstler and the posters here who don’t appreciate my humour can I just make a serious comment as a Briton and European:
Could you please tell that crazy old man who is destroying your country to stop blackmailing Europe with these crazy sanctions, the natural gas bills are destroying our economy.
Unfortunately, your leaders seem more than happy to go along with it all, if not actually leading the way. Insanity’s contagious, ya know.
I would argue that the biggest problem, crazy old man is Klaus Schwab, who happens to be a European, not an American. In fact, if you add up all of the corrupt scumbags that are spearheading this movement like the Rothschilds, Windsor’s, and the WEF puppets in Germany, France along with all of the other European nations, our American dotards are clearly only puppets. Sorry.
I still like to entertain fantasies about making voodoo dolls of every last one of them — plus the CCP — and dipping the dolls very slowly into boiling oil. Feet first.
You have given me an idea!
Walter, please include the Dutch royal family, the House of Oranje Nassau. My former home. The current king’s grandfather, Prince Bernard actually created the Bilderbergers and was infinitely pleased with himself for doing so. He was helped by Philip Mountbatten. The House of Windsor and the House of Oranje Nassau are cousins going way back. Equally corrupt and equally venal.
An Honorable mention to Billy “Genetic doom” Gates
President Joe Bidet has problems computing even the little things which is why his wife Dr. Jill is propping him up with medication. Europe just like the rest of the world has been left holding the bag of dogshit courtesy of the US.
Europe was thrown under a giant double decker bus with Joe Bidet behind the wheel. Your country along with the rest of Europe gladly obliged.
Joe Biden may be taking lots of different meds but let’s be clear.
“Dr. Jill” may be administering them, but there is some physician (s) who are ordering them.
I read that he takes a drug called Namenda. For Alzheimer’s.
Oz
These nuts are stuck in a mentality where they need an enemy to justify their causes.
Their cause? Schwabenklausian globalization. How many times has one individual “taken over” world affairs and directed events until contained?
Starting with Clinton and accelerating with Obama, the WEF has carefully picked its “friends” and enemies to tear down the world order.
SPECTRE in a literary sense.
Think medieval society, a small group of “know everything’s” with all the capital and all the power. They fight amongst themselves for dominance and voila, monarchical power, he or she who is most canny gets to play king or queen.
Now think about the last vestige of medieval serfdom, slavery. Currently making a new entrance stage Left on the new theater NWO, the Great Reset.
Now close your eyes and think Davos, the WEF, the NWO, drugs, human trafficking
And King Schwabenklaus.
“These nuts are stuck in a mentality where they need an enemy to justify their causes.”
Correct, JohnAZ, and the rest of your post shows what mentality YOU are stuck in. It’s getting weirder…
Biden is in a rarefied bubble. Can’t think of a single way to get his attention, unless it be by trolling by with a van with “Free Hair” painted on the side.
Or free ice cream.
Just keep an eye on the “USE BY Nov-8-2022” and “DISCARD BY Nov-5-2024” dates printed on that bubble.
Your government agreed to the idiotic sanctions, which Hungary for example did not…so maybe you should assign blame closer to home..
Agreed to?!
These plans were laid out YEARS ago!
Read The Rand study from 2019.
Go back and watch all of Gonzalo Lira’s “Roundtables” on YouTube and check out The Duran every day.
Get up to speed.
Bedpan Biden is going to show Putin his iron resolve if it means every European must freeze and starve. And if you don’t agree you must be one of those semi-fascists he rails about like a demented Mussolini on the balcony. Only the feathered hat is missing.
The War serves the Great Reset very well, does it not? Many birds with one stone. Masses of people freezing to death or dying from disease because the cold has lowered their resistance? Wunderbar, in Herr Schwab’s book.
Cities destroyed by nuclear exchanges? Saves money on having to tear them down.
Russia defeated? Perfect. Russia not defeated? An excuse to impose tyranny because “there’s a war on” until they are.
Don’t be surprised if they make an open declaration of war against Russia to give themselves legal cover for canceling the midterm elections.
Quite possible. Also, giving the UN enforcement authority during such “emergency”.
Yet another fantastical theory that the November election will be ‘cancelled’. That makes like twelve or so, that I’ve seen promulgated on this board in the last year or so. Anyone willing to put any thing of value on the wager? Just the “elections will b cancelled” wager, not on what spurious grounds.
It will not happen, and MAGAts are going to get a pasting.
RL,
I tend to believe that the odds are against the Dems finding a sufficient pretext for cancelling the elections.
But the idea that the MAGA supporters will be trounced this November 8th is far more delusional.
Keep whistlin’ past that graveyard RL. Your Leftist worldview continues to lead you towards La-La Land.
you mean you are planning the steal again. Of course
@Jarek: I don’t think it’s the cold that lowered their resistance. Ahem.
Cold lowers human resistance. If you are cold, you may well begin to get the sniffles and sneeze.
Don’t forget the ordinary in favor of the extraordinary – like the Vax. The Cult does this too of course. No more colds. Every sniffle is covid.
@Jarek:
ugh, computer acting up. @Jarek: yes, I was obliquely referring to the clot shots and their immunosuppressive qualities.
Generally being cold happens during the winter. Getting sniffles and sneezing and flu also happens during the winter, mostly because of Vitamin D deficiency due to lack of sunshine.
Remember to take your Vit D, Vit C, Quercetin and Zinc daily!
I take vitamins and get plenty of winter sun which my fair skin (red hair) soaks up to the max. But if I’m cold for long periods, I will get the sniffles.
COVID holds no terror any longer. I am not vaxxed and finally caught a dose of Omicron on July 1st. A two-week nuisance. Nothing more. This is why the evil one was pushing the Monkey Pox hysteria, but this time he got laughed off of the stage.
After what America was just put through for over 2 years I think airborne Ebola could break out now and most of the country would reject masks, EUA vaccines, isolation, etc.
People are worn out by all the medical hysteria and they’ve had quite enough of it all.
Oz – here’s how simple it is:
Why would Country #1 provide energy inputs to Country #2, when Country #2 uses those energy inputs to manufacture armaments that are then used to kill the children of Country #1?
WTF is the matter with the Europeans – lot of Country #2’s that can’t figure this out? I repeat. WTF is the matter with the Europeans? Over.
It is a puzzle, isn’t it?
And they seem to think that if they lift the sanctions, Russia will then say “OK, no harm done, here’s your cheap gas and oil. Oh, and you can pay in Euros, to boot. We aren’t holding your theft of $350 billion against you. You meant well.”
Delusional to the max!
Exactly Paula – holding a gun to their heads, telling Putin, “Give us cheap gas & oil, or we’ll shoot!”
Dear Sir,
i can explain to You and everybody here:
like the soldiers in the 17th century, who marched into battle because the feared punisment by their commanding officers more than death by the hand of the enemy, the politicians and buisness leaders fear anger, harsh words and sanctions by their overlords in US / DC more then the economic ruin of their countrys.
Some of them may be different, but the are delusional or incompetent and think what the big guys there want is good for everybody in the west. Such folsk also believe the US can an will deliver unlimited masses of shale oil and shale gas to the EU at affordabel price.
And then there are those who are groomed as shills of the US deep state since many many years. They may be payed, delusional or both.
And there ist, since the cold war began in the 1950ties, the influcence of the “transatlanticians” on the media and the “respectable” part of the intellectual scene of western europe.
I will enjoy to discuss my points above with you all.
Have an nice day !
No argument from me, petit. I think you covered it.
Petit – in situ opinions and observations are always appreciated – always two views, one from the outside in, and one from the inside out.
Your first paragraph is telling. As the “governors” fear their masters, so do the people fear their governors.
That’s the glaring difference. In the US – the last remaining armed civilian population anywhere – the government fears the people still – the people do (should) not fear the government.
The US government’s fear of their people is palpable – their fear rising in concert with the tone and volume of their hysterical rants. Their focus on disarming the US population also stems from their fear.
The lesson here is that the people should never fear their governments – governments should fear their people. That’s the only thing keeping tyrannical governments at bay and that requires an armed civilian population.
…shall not be infringed.
In closing, I’m assuming France, from the handle – if so, not sure why anyone would be afraid of Macron – my daughter could kick his ass, and she’s only 10.
LMAO, Macron does seem like a little wuss would could be toppled by a young girl.
Plus obviously a massive POS.
@ Mary
You’re exactly right about Macron on both counts.
There’s a clip, about 4 or 5 seconds long, of Macron getting “bitch-slapped” at some public appearance in France. Search “Macron bitch-slap” on YouTube and it’ll come up.
It’s the ultimate intended insult – one being not even worthy or capable of taking a punch like a man. Hilarious – check it out.
Just like us, they are ruled by psychopaths.
Yes. The real psychos are behind the scenes. The politicians are all puppets.
Demonstrations are starting to percolate in Prague, Germany and Paris.
Turn off the MSM and start getting news from The Duran and other places every day.
Watch Gonzalo Lira’s Roundtable discussion tomorrow with Andrei Martyonov and you will start to see what is actually going down.
By all accounts your new Prime Minister is all in with Ukraines existential battle with the evil Putin and has promised more $$$ and weaponry to Zelensky. Sure you might freeze in the dark this winter but that’s what it’ll to defeat Russia.
And Truss also said more than once that she would have no problem using nukes.
But when a journalist passed out during a recent debate she almost lost her shit.
See if you can find that. Worth it for a laugh.
I saw it. He asked her how she would feel about blowing up the world and everyone in it.
“Feel”? It did not compute. Her species does not have feelings.
Bob Moran gets it right again, re the ‘election’ of it doesn’t matter whom in it doesn’t matter where.
bobmoran.co.uk/other-work/trussdeaudernens-original-artwork
Trussdeaudernenskyy, Prime Minister of Makes No Difference.
Excellent summation. It feels like we’re in the eye of the hurricane, waiting for the big winds to return. Time to board up the windows again and get ready for what’s next.
Feel like a freak- no debt, prepared for anything- live in a secure area-sold my petroleum business ,kept one semi truck just in case- can always generate cash flow- my friends and family are not prepared at all- the unknown is how far we go down the mad max road…
“the unknown is how far we go down the mad max road…”
Perhaps there will be no Mad Max and it will be more like living in Haiti.
Mad Max is just one projection of the NWO’s appearance.
IMHO, the transition back to medieval times will be crippling and deadly. Most softie Americans, myself included, are going to get run over by the NWO steamroller.
All the Hollywood apocalypse stories are romanticized. Two thirds of the world’s population are simply going to kill each other and then starve to death.
As it has always been with Mother Nature.
The key thing to avoid is extinction.
BTW, without sentient beings, who cares?
Got gang? Gangs are the key to survival. Being in one that is. Your debit is everyone else’s credit.
The Gang or Hunting Pack comes before families in such times of renewal. Women will desperately try to get with such gangs or the gangs will take them as spoils of war.
Women giving it up for food? Oh of course. GI’s would take German women and then renege on the payment. As the ancient saying goes, Woe to the vanquished.
“Crush your enemies, see them flee before you, hear the lamentations of their women” ~ Conan the Barbarian
Yes indeed, woe to the vanquished, and you are correct on gangs.
You must be in incel heaven just thinking about it.
Like the Monopoly champion said today, “The best way to win is to stay in jail.”
Don’t worry Mary, no one will want you. 123 pounds? You’re a stick with no curves at all.
and every incel wants to join your gang, kweeeenmary. i’m sure the strong matriarchy will reward the preening sycophant men with ample s*x.
for the 10 minutes of its theoretical existence before reality comes in swinging a club.
troll
The price of gas has fallen quite a bit where I live from two dollars and change for a liter to a buck forty five, Across the border in Detroit it’s three twenty nine a gallon for regular down from close to five bucks. Have no idea what’s going on but there’s more cars on the road today than at any time since the start of the pandemic, Real estate is tanking big time even in place like Toronto and Vancouver but it’s not getting any easier to buy a home. Interest rates have gone up and banks are making it harder to get loans, There’s been a huge flood of people into the rental market and apartments that used to go for nine hundred a month are going for upwards of two grand. inflation is out of control negating the fifty cent raise in the minimum wage that was promised. Maybe someone on this blog can make sense of it all.
Fucking “Joe Biden”! He’s even screwing Canada with his commie policies!
Not just Joe Biden.
Word was out yesterday that bills are going to the California legislature to raise the minimum wage to 22 dollars an hour.
Ludicrous you say?
Not really, Cities in California have been playing with UBI for a decade now.
Free money! Yay!
Can you even imagine the results of a minimum wage of 22 dollars?
15 dollar Big Macs.
200000 dollar EVs. Yes Joe, your policies increasing inflation will put your priceless EVs out of reach.
Weimar Republic is approaching.
Redneck
A social experiment was actually done in history to check out the goodness of communal, every one gets his share, social order that Bernie, Joe and the Mob seem to want installed. Not to mention Schwabenklaus.
It was in Ukraine circa 1930s and 40s.
Stalin tried to communize the farmers of Ukraine and met a lot of resistance. He killed millions in pogroms forcing the farming folks onto communes.
The results? Just dandy.
The USSR finally let each farmer to have, I believe, a quarter acre for his own use.
Ten years later, those 1/4 acre plots were out producing the communes.
Amazing thing, incentive by individual entrepreneurs.
Sure am glad the Deep State is suppressing it in the spirit of Wokeism.
JohnAZ
It wasn’t a “social experiment” – it was a Diktat from a ruthless authoritarian regime. Can you see the difference?
Priced #2 Home heating Oil lately, Redneck?
@rl
Do we see a difference?
Not really Joe Biden is about as dictatorial as any modern-day despot.
Crusher – no. I’m fortunate enough to live where there’s 80%+ renewable electrical energy (hydro) and in a benign maritime environment in the South Pacific. No need to burn filthy oil.
Benr…(yawn)…really? You see what you want to.
Why the hell should we non-MacDonald’s eaters subsidize your cheap hamburgers?
A full time worker in California cannot live on slave wages so the taxpayers pay for food stamps for the workers (who are probably living in their cars).
Sounds like the ultimate in gimmes. I thought you disapproved of that.
In Denmark McDonald’s workers make a living wage and the hamburgers are actually cheaper there.
But the owners make less profit. The landlords probably do also.
Why should I subsidize the owner of a McDonald’s so that his profits can be high?
Buncha grifters involved in this.
And there you both go, with the Ukraine bullshit.
Don’t you people ever get tired of repeating the bs you are fed in the media?
@rl
No, I see the reality of what a crook and totalitarian freak Joe is.
Meanwhile back in bed sick land you see what you want to and eat the propaganda as if it was mana from heaven.
That would be TrueDope, RL, but same stupid, brain-dead Leftist philosophy that you espouse.
There. I fixed that for you!
In mad max they had gas for their vehicles.
Yes, but no Q-tips after a shower. Just a warning people – when the world goes full-on dystopian – I will kill for a Q-tip. You’ve been warned.
Get inventive. The Vikings groomed their ear canals with little cuticle stick-looking things. What else are Q-tips good for, besides getting gunk out of the shower door track?
@ Beth
Great idea – very creative. Although, I’ve been stocking up on Q-tips – the near-orgasmic experience of using them after a shower, for that admittedly small demographic, will make them invaluable as a barter item.
the hard folks will clean their ear canals with fir twiggies !
Pussy Willow
Are you actually serious??? It’s a fucking Hollywood movie – it’s MADE UP!
Yes RL – it is a movie. Someone made a funny. Haha. I realize the Left has cancelled humor but try to chill TF out. Maybe cut down to one cup of coffee. JFC.
Sometimes I imagine that you are made up, RL – a paranoid bot sent here by some Leftist Hollywood weirdo with too much time and money on their hands.
umm, actually it is an Australian classic, nought all to do with Hollywood.
fromWikipedia (I know, but for this it works)
Mad Max (film)
Directed by George Miller
Screenplay by James McCausland, George Miller
Story by George Miller, Byron Kennedy
Produced by Byron Kennedy
Starring
Mel Gibson
Joanne Samuel
Hugh Keays-Byrne
Steve Bisley
Tim Burns
Roger Ward
Cinematography David Eggby
Edited by Tony Paterson, Cliff Hayes
Music by Brian May
Production company Kennedy Miller Productions
Distributed by Roadshow Film Distributors (Australia)
American International Pictures (United States)
Warner Bros. (International)
Release date 12 April 1979 (Australia)
Running time 93 minutes[1]
Country Australia
Language English
Budget A$350,000–400,000[2]
Box office US$100 million[3]
Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller and produced by Byron Kennedy. Mel Gibson stars as “Mad” Max Rockatansky, a police officer turned vigilante in a near-future Australia in the midst of societal collapse. Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, and Roger Ward also star. James McCausland and Miller wrote the screenplay from a story by Miller and Kennedy.
Principal photography for Mad Max took place in and around Melbourne and lasted for six weeks. The film initially received a polarized reception upon its release in April 1979, although it won four AACTA Awards. Filmed on a budget of A$400,000, it earned more than US$100 million worldwide in gross revenue and set a Guinness record for most profitable film. The success of Mad Max has been credited[by whom?] for further opening up the global market to Australian New Wave films.
The film became the first in the Mad Max series, giving rise to three sequels: Mad Max 2 (1981), Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and Fury Road (2015). In 2020, a fifth film, to be titled Furiosa, was announced.
Thanks Jim, we need to hear this.
Energy. Our host placed a specific link to Steve St. Angelo. Steve is well worth reading, does excellent analysis, have followed him for years. The Energy Cliff is right in front of us.
I dun’no, the metaphorical hurricane whirling through family and friendship relations seems to be leaving such shambles that I’m not optimistic about anything, most certainly considering the unlikelihood of redeeming all the feral young gangs of inner cities along with the majority of other young folks strutting about, made ignorant by public education and tattooed like the savages they are.
“considering the unlikelihood of redeeming all the feral young gangs of inner cities” My thought is forget about redemption, not happening.
If you live in a city, find a way out.
If these individuals decide to become roving gangs in the more rural areas of the country (something they really aren’t well-equipped to manage) have a plan.
Those feral youngsters are keeping their own numbers down.
Judging by what I’ve heard out of Chicago this weekend, the new plan to let them have the streets works better than incarcerating them.
But wait, I don’t see fewer black people? Yes you do. You see fewer blacks with American roots, they are being replaced by foreigners.
the ebt system took a knee a couple of weeks ago, and the first test confirmed – killing ebt will kill the cities.
first, violence and confusion, then those who’ve prepped or are able will gtfo dodge.
then come the raids into the burbs, which will become a no-mans land, then finally, a well armed ring around the no man’s land, while the rest of the country seals them off and gets its own arrangements in order.
think katrina after the hurricane with dwindling relief and no future.
que snake plisskin.
whatever will we do without the cities?
What’s the final casualty count in Chi this weekend Beryl? Did it top 100? I was surprised to see not all of the KIA were gunshot victims; no, a few were deliberately run down with cars, stabbed, and beaten to death.
Charming, huh?
But don’t lay any blame on the mayor. That would be racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and anti-midget. Not to mention a slap in the face to everyone who looks like a zombie.
Oh, don’t you love woke, identity politics?
Competent government is irrelevant. Instead, we have Secretary of Transportation Butt-Plug looking for ways to make highways less racist, when he’s not practicing his breast feeding technique.
This underlines the need for White self love, which means White Nationalism. Any White who voted for such a hideous creature clearly hates themself.
So far they seem to be slouching, don’t they? They are going to have to step it up.
I remember when the holiday death toll was all about speeding on the interstates.
From my limited vantage point America looks like one of those fun house mirror reflections, distorted beyond recognition. I feel submerged in a soup of ignorance gasping for breath.
That’s a good comment.
Yes. It is, isn’t it?
In which the botched and ruined look in the distorting mirrors and see perfection.
frightening perspicacity.
and real mirrors being broken and hidden deliberately by mass formation psychosis.
can’t last forever.
@redneck Depends where you go. Here in Wisconsin life is good. Most semi-rural and rural places haven’t changed at all in essential outlooks and ways of living probably since the ’50s, maybe the 40s. Big state, peaceful and prosperous. Common sense no BS people just kind of waiting for the craziness elsewhere to subside.
So, in his other handle he pretended to be an American at least this time around it is pretending to be something else.
From Australia or New Zealand and yet it stumps for the DNC.
Reality it’s probably just another asshole sock puppet in need of yet another banning.
he’s like a stupid yeast – feeds on the sweet, but is puffed up artificially, and produces useless hot air.
he’s probably baked too. no way anyone not on drugs believes his crap.
Well. I sure do love my homemade weed chocolate.
What’s YOUR excuse for believing the crap YOU believe?
entirely a reaction to you.
@benr, you dickhead…
Dang! Ya got me! I’m actually living in a basement in Vladivostok, working for the secret cabal of Oligarchs & Putin, to undermine your confidence in the American System by encouraging you to believing that MAGA is the right way to go!
This is, of course, most easily achieved among those who are pretty fucking stupid, and most effectively done by pretending to hold the opposite view. It’s a head-fuck you can’t resist.
fattigmann
Yes – I know well two Wisconsonians, living outside Steven’s Point. Both are well into their 70s, both life-long liberalthinkers, both cynical as fuck about “government” at the Federal level. So it’s possible to be not a MAGAt and actually love your country
Post-Shrub’s 2nd installation to the WH in 2005, they moved (escaped!) to Aotearoa for several years. They’ve since returned but still come here every late summer (February/March) for a month or so.
So, I know that there are many many millions of sane Americans, and I’m aware of the danger of my perspective is being affected by reading too many angry, reactionary idiots on this blog.
You’re not sane.
If you where you would see just how evil your point of view actually is.
Evil and lacking in common sense.
…says an angry, reactionary idiot.
Lowered standard of living: some of us have already had this forced upon us by vaxx refusal resulting in unceremonious job loss with the accompanying significant income loss. Thus the need to re-invent oneself became imperative.
In a back-handed sort of way, for some of us this macabre chain of events imposed on us these past 2.5+ years has put us well along the way to adapting to ‘The Long Emergency” and ‘Living’ in it.
killed any comfort of being part of the herd, anyway.
i wonder if herds always evolve into hive mind in the absence of a reality based bitch slap now and again?
You’re naughty. Knock it off.
You can delete this ^^^^ ; was just a response to the `First!’ nonsense, which was old 20 years ago.
Not for naught but rather aught for aught.
Very good essay, Mr. Kunstler.
Re “Make some popcorn while there is still some corn, and some electricity to pop it with.”
Earth to Mr. Kunster: You do not need an electric corn popper to pop corn. We popped corn in a screen-mesh thing over the fire. Or, put it in a pot on your stove burner, whatever kind of stove it is, with plenty of oil or butter on the bottom, and SHAKE IT, baby, while you enjoy the pop-pop-popping.
You can also do this over an open fire, if you have a long-handled pot.
The popcorn thing struck me more as an allegory.
“When the heat becomes intense and you’re smothered in the oil of oppression, your seed of potential suddenly expands into a new and glorious form, previously unimagined.”
– The Philosophical Musings of Orville Redenbacher.
The burning or ruin of potatoes resulted in potato chips. Are we in a similar process? Our carbons are being released. We will never become diamonds but perhaps we will become chips.
Perhaps, we will become like Lay’s potato chips – each stamped out in identical form by Der Kartoffel Fuhrer Klaus Schwab!?
We had one of those long-handled basket things when I was a child. It came out of my grandmother’s house. She still had a lot of Victorian household items stashed around.
It may have been meant for chestnuts though. I have never tried them, but I’m told that roasted chestnuts taste really bad.
I sure don’t like them, but many do. It’s very common to see chestnut roasting operations parked here and there during the festive season in Madrid, or at least, it certainly still was a decade ago when I lived there.
The streets of Madrid are literally lined with chestnut trees, whatever they should really be called.
I am pretty sure I have also seen them in Granada since.
Since I don’t patronise their services, I only half notice them.
@spaingaroo I absolutely love Madrid. Was there about 15 years ago and the grand boulevards with the green space in between were amazing. The Prado, cathedrals…I could go on forever. But above all….the food especially the iberico jamon and green Olives!
Has Madrid suffered from immigration as Paris has?
hey, sorry for not getting back. The newcomers are pouring in, but I got out, I now live halfway between Granada and Córdoba in the mountains, in a village.
Madrid is my favourite city, but it’s still a city.
I fear for those living in any city now, but Spain will probably still be whole to watch the first part of the fall from.
maybe
Roasted chestnuts have a sweet, mildly nutty flavor. The scent of them roasting is associated in my mind with being taken into the city before Christmas to see the decorations in the big department stores as a child. There was someone roasting chestnuts at a cart on most street corners. At home, we picked them up from the backyard and roasted them in the fireplace.
What chestnuts are even available in America, now, since the blight? Buckeyes ain’t it.
@ beth..there are plenty of chestnut trees around. They’re “Chinese chestnut” trees (Of course).
There is a difference between horse chestnuts and the chestnuts used for food.
I think the blight attacked the chestnut trees whose fruit was edible to humans and others.
There have been efforts to breed a blight-resistant American chestnut by hybridizing it with Japanese and Chinese chestnuts.
The Wikipedia entry is really interesting. The American chestnut was one of the most economically valuable trees in the US, before the chestnut blight came along:
“It is estimated that in some places, such as the Appalachian Mountains, one in every four hardwoods was an American chestnut. Mature trees often grew straight and branch-free for 50 feet and could grow up to 100 feet tall with a trunk diameter of 14 feet at a few feet above ground level. The reddish-brown wood was lightweight, soft, easy to split, very resistant to decay; and it did not warp or shrink. For three centuries many barns and homes near the Appalachian Mountains were made from American chestnut. Its straight-grained wood was ideal for building furniture and caskets. The fruit that fell to the ground was an important cash crop and food source. The bark and wood were rich in tannic acid, which provided tannins for use in the tanning of leather. Many native animals fed on chestnuts, and chestnuts were used for livestock feed, which kept the cost of raising livestock low.”
How do you roast chestnuts?
They are encased in a spiny shell. Do you leave that on for roasting?
You leave the shell on, but take a sharp knife and cut an X into it, which prevents it from exploding.
Ah, like popcorn?
Or like a big mess?
This blog is morphing into Roastanutnation.
i love roasten chestnuts !
in some european countrys they are often served at fairs in winter and autum, but you nearly never get them on other occasions.
they are said to be very very nutrient.
and a chestnut tree is permaculture !
I love them too. When I was a child in Nederland my father roasted them in our stove. Now, I cut a slit in the shell, wrap them in some paper towels and put them in the microwave. Delicious.
Permit me to offer a alternative prediction. The American economy is built on consumption. Indeed during the planedemic the government sent us money to keep spending.
The Big Money Boyz are not about to let us stop going into debt as we spend our way into oblivion.
Get rid of all debt.
No one can force you to take on debt.
you must be single.
And young.
or/and have no young to support.
Get rid of all debt- I foresee a lot of Americans with debt being forced into bankruptcy.
Isn’t that what people do once their income no longer covers their bills, after basic necessities?
Yes, you can cancel cable, downsize that house, etc. but that only goes so far.
So far, we’ve ignored the problem of the student loan debt holders who have been paying for their loans all along.
What are they going to do when they just plain can’t pay that bill after they pay for food, fuel, and a roof over their heads?
On the one hand, you have the Democrats an unconstitutional cancellation. On the other hand, you have Republicans, if they talk about it at all, calling these Americans deadbeats.
Again, I know quite a few Americans in this situation, struggling but diligently working to pay their loans back.
They are going to hit the wall pretty soon.
How can we have one class of debtors singled out for special treatment?
If you want cancellation, that’s what you are endorsing.
If you don’t want cancellation, but think mocking these Americans with “you borrowed money, you pay it back” addresses the issue, you are also giving tacit endorsement to treating one class of debtor differently than all others.
When I point this out to people, they quickly change the subject to ways these people could pay their bills.
Okay then, apply that to every other kind of debt.
the return to the debt jubilee is the only way to have a debt system for its utility without enslaving a society or having its elite financialize it into the gutter.
the mechanics of debt issuance and retirement on a 50 year cycle is an interesting thought experiment.
one aspect is that it strongly ties generations together, as the 50 year cycle bridges 2 or 3.
Get rid of all debt?
Hey great idea!
Watch everyone’s savings for the future just go poof!
Watch retirements disappear overnight. Stop the housing market with no mortgages, stop the car industry with no car mortgages, definitely stop fracking, no new oil sources with no financing.
IOW, start the new Middle Ages, the NWO. What do you think those Davos boys are talking about over there every year?
We could go back to debtor’s prisons while we are at it.
Beryl
Come on now, we cannot even get the Leftie DAs and mayors to keep murderers in prison.
I think those already came back.
Well, mountains of debt will disappear and be discharged, regardless of anything we want to do about it. The Banksters tried to make student loan debt non-dischargeable, and now SloJoe stepped in with his “free” handout of $10K. Anyone who has significant student loans is now in wait and see mode, to see how much gets wiped from the ledger the next go ’round. Jingle mail will pick up as housing costs can’t be maintained.
A lower standard of living is coming for most of us, like it or not. The Davos boys continue to scheme on how to maintain their wealth as the pie shrinks, but it’ll still shrink. Unfortunately, they’re in a better position to get a bigger slice of the pie. The process of contraction won’t be fair, equitable or evenly distributed across all regions. Learn to get by with less – things, money, and energy now, while there’s still a little slack left in the system.
A lot of short straws will be available to be drawn, coming soon to all of us.
I see the Great Reset as a global Jubilee. Yes, the average American is deeply in debt. Car, house, credit card, student, payday loans.
But the owning class has massive gambling debts that also cannot be paid. Something like $200 TRILLION.
The Great Reset makes the plebes a bargain. All debt will be cancelled, including the plebes’ debt, but in return all assets are turned over to our owners.
Just like in previous Jubilees, cancelling outstanding debt never changed the relative positions of the upper class and the lower class.
I don’t have any debt. What happens to me? Will they take my paid-off house? I wouldn’t put it past them. I already know my car will be worthless when the gas stations shut down. I don’t have a credit card, which already is a problem for some situations. They already do not accept cash as legal tender in some places, which is obviously illegal, but that’s just another unenforced law.
@Paula D: went to a ballgame last week. They refused to take cash at the concession stand. No prices were posted. Total cost for 2 beers (Bud Lite, in a can, NO cup) and 2 dogs? $43. Last ballgame for me.
Good for you, Cactus Girl.
It is outrageous both that they didn’t post the price and that they wouldn’t take cash.
@Paula D: not to mention the prices! Between the tickets, the carfare and the snacks, it came to over $70 each person.
Wow that’s insane.
I haven’t been to a ballgame in a couple of decades.
Now I won’t bother.
Yeah, those prices.
Little League games are probably still free. And the kids are cuter.
My understanding is that you can own your home but the land it is on belongs to the state.
If they raise your property taxes through the roof and you can’t pay you will lose your home.
One more way for the WEF scheme to work. Take your home and if you play nice they might let you rent it.
You will own nothing and like it, eh?
Same with your car. They can raise the annual registration fees so high you can’t pay so bye-bye car.
They “mandated the jabs” and the non-compliant lost jobs. Now people are finally catching on to that scam. 40,000 military are being released due to refusing the jabs.
It is about control. Tracking your driving by GPS. Be a bad boy or girl on social media and the next step will be punishing your anti-establishment narrative by messing with your digital currency and how far you can drive. Most cars after 2005 have the technology in place now to just shut your car off if you do not comply.
Is this the Brave New World?
this is a worst case. as things fall apart, our access to resources depend on individual ingenuity, while there access depends on compliance and organized force.
assuming the worst now, where we are at the major disadvantage to their advanced capabilities, is temporary.
as this progresses, they will run out of resources and bodies to monitor and enforce.
irish democracy will come to be the order of the day, with more and more aspects of our lives coming unglued from the matrix, with only egregious offenders being targeted and stomped to encourage the rest of us.
they will become just another gang competing.
ask rome.
(their access)
paula – current estimates of derivatives and other unregulated financial instruments are ~2 quadrillion.
the argument is that these bets all net out, since they are connected in counterparty chains.
the problem is that if one counterparty cannot perform, the failure is cascading.
2008 came very close to this happening. they probably think they can prevent it this time – except this time, energy and economy are out of sync, and they cannot print europe a warm winter.
popcorn time, right?
Pretty soon you’re talking real money.
something to keep in mind regarding the notion of a jubilee.
there is a significant difference between a debt forgiveness episode where the benefits are asymmetric, as per the example here today, and the historical debt jubilee.
historical jubilees were planned – and the object was to prevent concentration of power by usury. the society was more stable when wealth was not concentrated. when planned, the entirety of the debt system looks very different than ours today.
if everyone knows debt will be cancelled periodically by jubilee, all economic activity accounts for this fact and for when it will occur.
I lived a debt free life. People called me crazy. Paid cash for cars and houses. Began with nothing except blue-collar depression surviving parents who encouraged education and frugality. “A penny saved is a penny earned.” “They can steal your wealth but not your knowledge or skills.” Began saving my money for college from my paper route at 12 years old. In times of high inflation, saving money may be crazy. During the 1980 time frame it probably made more sense to go into debt but I avoided it. Now it is difficult to spend. My wife is a child of hardship so she’s on board with frugality. With inflation now we’re trying to piss our money away before Mr. Kunstler’s long emergency makes it worthless. In today’s essay Mr. Kunstler suggests that the government guarantee of fair dealing by financial intermediaries will dissipate so we need to acquire more real property or things useful for food production or barter for food as the only store of wealth. We think that at our age we won’t be in the survivor group.
Don’t count on it.
No doubt that they will continue to issue us debt and print cash for themselves until the day that they declare it all worthless and introduce their digital currency. Even the Pope is getting nervous OR pulling the plug on the world’s banking system as he ordered all of his churches to send all of their moveable assets to the Vatican Bank by the 30th of this month. Look it up, it’s on the Vatican website under news. Happened 23 Aug 22.
Yep, MMT. The self given authority of the Liberals to continue issuing debt, spending power, even when the justification is gone. It will continue into one of the characteristics of the NWO, UBI.
Until UBI is deemed worthless by the productive third of the world and the great starvation begins.
Biden, all the Marines in the world are not going to stop it either.
Chris Martenson advises to get rid of all debt and use the cash you have now to purchase solid.
Anything that you currently need, such as a new car, a new water heater, whatever, buy it now.
That is my understanding of his message in a recent podcast.
Solid what?
Gold?
Sorry, I meant solid/concrete assets.
And pay for it in cash, whatever that is.
Personal resolution of debt is one of the survival requirements.
Remember that the goodness of exchange currency is no better than the faith producers and consumers have in it.
Solid? Gold, who can eat gold? What good is gold in a society that does not need it?
Over and over, the effects of the apocalypse are understated by everyone, including this blog. The Bible is probably the closest, annihilation of humanity except for a very few.
Let’s see, how many survived the Flood?
that tired question,, who can eat gold?
people eat food.
and after the base survival mode of “food or die” has been exceeded, gold will be part of rebuilding.
or at least it has for 6000 years or more of human history.
it would be better if anyone in survival mode were to think about what happens beyond. even that will not last forever.
collins tutored the irish about the parallel systems that were needed once the objective of freedom from the british boot had been achieved.
we need to accept that lesson.
@ JohnAZ:
To have any kind of efficiency in trade, you need a monetary system. People can barter for most basic needs, but it’s not always possible for an exchange to come out equal for both sides of the transaction. E.g., maybe your neighbor will give you a pig in exchange for firewood, or maybe there is nothing you can offer them of equal value at pig-butchering time–or nothing they want or need, because they have their own garden, laying hens, milk cow, fruit trees, and woodlot. What they really need money for is to buy a draft horse (whose owner does not need a pig) or to buy the ten acres adjacent to them. The exchange of IOUs, which might work for small transactions, is not going to cut it.
If some US states should decide to secede, their first order of business should be to decide what to do about money and banking.
Personally, I think the best thing to do would be to use silver and gold as mediums of exchange. I also suspect that a lot more people have a little hoard of gold and silver coins stashed away than you would think–as in, anyone who has any investments of any kind surely knows they should have some physical gold and silver as a hedge.
In the event of a monetary collapse, these people will start to consider offering one of their silver dollars for big bag of rice or a few laying hens. Others will gradually do the same, and pretty soon the wheels of commerce will have enough grease to recommence.
@Islander: everyone says to get out of debt. Wouldn’t it be better to go into debt, buy as much as you can, and then default? When everything collapses, who’s gonna come after you to make you pay?
I agree. If this goes where the WEF ghouls tell us they are taking it, then it matters not whether one has debt. If you have a mortgage, a financed car, anything — you are only going to be able to pay it off (potentially) if you have a fixed rate and are able to keep your income flowing.
And, if they really get CBDCs through with the SSI passes, they are going to force you to do all kinds of things to keep your accounts open.
There is no advantage to being debt free when the end game is the construction of a digital prison. If you don’t want to play the game, it won’t matter how much debt you have, as you won’t have access to any money anyways.
I can sort of see this argument, but only sort of.
Being in debt means someone else has power over you.
I would not bank (ha ha) on cancellation of my debt, so the sky’s the limit and I’ll let the good times rolls until . . . ???
I also would not count on CBDC being rolled out so quickly that having debt doesn’t cost you a lot of interest in the meantime. .
And, I would not count on the rollout of CBDC meaning that all debts are canceled. Rather i would assume that at the rollout, any debt you have will be deducted from the total amount of digital cash you are allowed to have.
Better to let others try out that game.
I was thinking that same thing. Plus they can’t get water out of a stone. Still, could be used to put you in debtor’s prison/ camp. But they’d have to round up millions. Not that easy.
Islander, I find the debt argument very one dimensional in most cases.
Debt can be use to one’s advantage as well.
We have a mortgage at present, and we will not be selling our house. It is currently worth about double what we paid 4 years ago, but I realize this could change.
Even if it does change, in the end, regardless of what happens, we will need an income. If that income depends on acquiescing to digital slavery, then we are toast in this respect.
Debt is meaningless when one can no longer generate cash. You are broke with or without the debt, and in the case of the Great Reset, if you do not comply, you will need to find an entirely new way of life — outside of the system.
Cancelling debt is part of the Great Reset.
The way I understand it, if you are in debt they cancel it, but then you have to live where they tell you to live.
I think it will be harder for them to take paid off property.
They might do it anyway but why set yourself up for their Reset plans?
debt was only the faith that an investment will result in real utilitarian growth, (example, new energy technology) or a shift in utility from a prior mode to a new one (example, buggy whip makers fail while tire makers grow).
so either debt grows as a zero sum game or growth without bounds.
growth in productivity could be a material increase, or a qualitative improvement. its arguable if your home theater screen improving from 2K to 4K resolution justifies the debt incurred or the inevitable planned obsolescence.
many of our standards (which ultimately aim investment / debt) defining “advancements” will be revert to prioritize civilization fundamentals, and ironically simplified. in fact, the irony is that those standards have been skewed to serve debt, rather that the standards defining whether an increase in debt is justified or not.
many will argue that the market’s efficient allocation function keeps debt and the vector of risk / advancement in their proper order, ie, debt follows investment decisions, but ultimately, the debt system combined with the dollar as world reserve currency has warped all debt to the higher imperative:
debt must grow or the debt reserve system crashes in literal truth. this cannot last, and a future debt system must include a jubilee, or we’re playing groundhog day with the war -> empire -> failure game. enough of that already.
I think the plan is that people with mortgage or other debt will be offered debt forgiveness in return for renouncing all future right to private property. There was a leaked Canadian local government memo to this effect.
Then you might have some other people billeted on you, if that’s their fancy, or you might be chucked out of what is now their property and sent to a high-rise rabbit hutch.
My flat is paid up, but I don’t think that will do more than buy a few months of freedom (if I haven’t starved to death by then anyway). I still have to pay local council tax on the property and I will only be able to pay it while I have access to my own funds. So I reckon they’ll use that to take over paid-up properties. Any debt will be dealt with by confiscating assets, primarily one’s home.
ga – possibly – but for masses of people to be dispossessed requires either an extraordinary event that works in concert with circumstances, or a long gradual change.
i think the rate of change has exceeded by a far amount what the globalist plan might have been, and there is virtually no imaginable worldwide event, save for a meteor or some such, that can fit the variety of circumstances.
the u.s., and the population in possession of not-f15s, is still the wild card.
i really feel sorry for the rest of the anglosphere – do you think people will just accede to what you describe there?
I think that, living in a country like the US, which still has massive open spaces and natural resources, it’s easy to criticise people in the old world who have neither. I am not going to ‘accept’ what’s coming, but for me that means I’m going to choose to starve if the other choice is digital slavery. Like most ordinary people I have literally no options, except that one.
I read recently that ‘they’ have incorporated in their projections that 1-2% of us will choose to starve rather than comply. They have plans already for disposing of us, apparently.
Most of the people I know have absolutely no idea of what is going on. My husband is still calling me a conspiracy theorist after more than a year of telling him what’s going on. How do you deal with that?
ga – not a rhetorical question. my wife finally came around when she saw the 2020 election and then the ccp virus.
she said “there are some things you cannot unsee”
its gradual until the wall crumbles – my stepson “getting it” independently of me was probably the straw that broke it all free.
keep the faith – come to the us if you can.
NO:
Not sure what you mean by “the debt argument.”
Of course one may have to go into debt in modern life.
When I got a mortgage to buy a house, the monthly payment was a hell of a lot less than paying rent. Plus, of course I built upo equity in the house.
Still, a big portion of a mortgage is interest payments. Of course you know that. Aside from being able to deduct mortgage interest from one’s income tax, I can see no advantages to paying interest to anyone for anything if one can avoid it. Many Americans totally misunderstand the point here and actually like the idea of getting a mortgage so that they can deduct the interest payments. Go figure.
By managing to pay off my mortgage early I avoided a total of $12,000 in interest. I can’t recall the calculation of how much interest I had already paid.
Credit card debt is of course usurious. That is why credit card cos are located in Delaware, where they have been protected by Credit Card Joe.
One point made by Michael Hudson last year in the context of the stimulation checks: Many people have credit cards issued through their banks. When the money was sent directly to people’s bank accounts, if they had credit card debt that debt got paid automatically by the bank with the infusion of new money. Thus, the helicopter money was a huge boon to the credit card companies. Thanks, Joe!!
It seems like many people are “…use the cash you have now to purchase solid. ” Home improvement contractors seem to be booked up all over America. My friends and family all say you can’t get supplies nor work contracts from home repair companies. One family member was just told last week that it would be over a year wait to have a new front gate installed. I’m aware that some luxury durable items are sold out too.
Real estate is probably the safest investment right now. But then again, it usually is anyways.
That’s why they call it “real”.
Touché.
I’m apt to wonder how — if at all — the ‘World Made by Hand’ scenario could play out here in Singapore where I live. There’s very little land here; Singapore’s so tiny it would take at least a few hundred Singapores to cover even the smallest state in the US. And this island nation is so highly modernized and industrialized, and hence so reliant on a functioning global economic system to feed her people (more than 90% of our food is imported), that it’s frankly hard to see the people here reverting to some pre-industrial way of life that can allow us to continue even at a subsistence level.
My fear is that Singapore’s probably doomed…
Someone: Well, The World Made by Hand series is set in America for specific reasons. Of course it would be unlikely to go down the same way in other places. — JHK Admin
QUOTE:***How did all those sedulously trained doctors get so mind-fucked as to persist in saying the “vaccines” were safe-and-effective, when the vaxxes were obviously killing and maiming people? They’re still stuck in that disgraceful posture, busy punishing their colleagues who demur, and dishonoring medicine — not to mention the thousands of public health officials still pushing vaxxes and boosters to this day.***
I think perhaps they were simply blackmailed…
@SOMEONE IN Asia
Some serious hanging gardens and roof top food production is in order.
I sure hope that would help!
Many of the people in Singapore will leave. Those will be the ones who survive.
Blackmailed, as in lose your job and standard of living, is in play. The debt one might still be paying off for medical school doesn’t go away.
Private practices are mostly gone. Physicians are hospital employees. The hospital administrators dictate the practice of medicine. The focus is the bottom line and their bonus potential.
Reading your remark for a second time, Not, I wonder if that wasn’t all part of the plan, part of the reason student loan debt was a carve-out from bankruptcy reform legislation.
I know the excuses, such as some students just finishing medical school tried declaring bankruptcy right away; but as I’ve said before that was an excuse and not a reason, because the legislation could simply have been written in such a way to prevent that stunt.
No, I’m thinking the no discharge ever rules may have been a way of keeping certain professions shackled to the job because they could not afford to walk away and start over.
Something I had not known, back when we were being told we were “behind” the Japanese in technology, was that droves of students left the electrical engineering field during the Viet Nam era, because they did not want to go to work for the War Machine.
A doctor told me this- he trained as an engineer, but then switched to medicine.
Nowadays, someone with a pricey degree in the professions that still pay a living wage generally can’t afford to do that, leave the one job let alone get a degree in another field.
I’m thinking now about all the planning that went into Obamacare, and how people did not recognize that it was “not health care reform” at all.
What if “bankruptcy reform” was part of putting doctors under the government’s thumb?
Beryl – a close neighbor, whom I call Doc, sarcastically corrects me and says he is now a “Healthcare Provider”. Yes – he now considers himself under the government’s thumb. Good points.
Beryl:
Interesting points
I ended up not getting any kind of post-B.A. degree because I could not see going into debt to do it. I wasn’t certain I’d be able to pay it off. That is, partly I felt I needed the degree to have a “career” and make an adequate salary, but at the same time I was afraid of having a debt hanging over me. I was contemplating getting an M.E. so that I could teach in the public schools. But then I thought: The state should actually be paying ME to get this degree. I am college-educated and love kids and would like to be able to teach school. But why should I go into debt to do it???
So, that was a fork in the road. I never made much money but I did manage to support myself as a freelancer. But I used the money I had to buy a house instead of to pay expenses and tuition to go to grad school (even a state U). . And for that, as a matter of fact, I did get state aid as a first-time home buyer. Once I paid off my mortgage I was debt-free. However, this was possible only because I lived very frugally. no new clothes, no new cars, no a lot of things.
And the only reason i was able to get into the state program was because I had no existing debt.
It is beyond ‘no discharge ever’. It is a trap resulting in a form of indentured servitude.
I’ll start with the Department of Education, a Carter creation.
If the goal was to improve education in the US, it is a dismal failure on its best day.
If its goal was to enrich the colleges, universities and tenured professors, it is a success.
If the goal was to expand the influence of ‘wokeness’ utilizing colleges and universities as the breeding and testing ground for interference in the daily life of the people in this country, it is a success.
If the goal was to grow a social justice kangaroo court model without due process (Title IX) as a pilot program for more invasive ‘laws’ such as ‘red flag’ laws, it is a success
If its goal was to make the recipients of loans slaves of the state, it is a success.
Is the US better educated now than in 1976-1980? I’ll answer with a resounding No. Everything has been dumbed down, and it started around 1980, just as DOE was getting up to speed.
Tuitions were raised, the loans were rolled in together under a cumbersome FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) process. Always beware of the name. Programs such as this have misleading names to sound great. They suck great at the same time.
I tried filling one out for one of my children. It didn’t take long to toss it aside and determine we’d find another way. Going into the trades was a good option. Good wages and the jobs can’t be readily outsourced to some distant land with borderline slave labor. Try getting a plumber, electrician, or HVAC repair person from China to make a house call in the USA.
Better to find the kid who went to the regional technical school, landed an apprenticeship after graduating and moved up in a blue-color trade with good wages and benefits.
Or
Have a generation (or two) with useless degrees who ‘qualified’ for more and increasingly larger loans to pay for the salaries at the universities and the building programs and perks which the higher education grifters employed with federal government assistance for a couple of generations.
At its core, it is part of a huge wealth transfer.
I could start making a list of those programs which are nothing more than huge wealth transfers, but I won’t. The people on here mostly get it already.
Returning to the discharge of student loans through bankruptcy, there seemed to be a problem decades ago. A different solution was needed. Indentured servitude was not and still is not the answer.
I’ll entertain the idea it was a long range plan, and wear a tinfoil hat so as to be easily identified.
A tinfoil hat for every conspiracy theory. Can I get something, maybe a gold star sticky to put on my tinfoil hats for every such theory testing true?
I’d consider clown noses for dress-up days, but I already have a supply.
What to do?
If these GenXers and Millenials want relief, let them find a way to do a reverse wealth transfer to reclaim what they paid. Don’t reach into my pocket. I paid my way and made the necessary sacrifices to get it done.
Put a bunch of universities and medical schools out of business through reverse wealth transfers, it would be a start. Huge endowments = a target-rich environment.
Bankrupt the corrupt politicians who facilitated the wealth transfer as part of the process. Mostly, they’re inside traders protected by laws they create and pass.
No empathy, no mercy.
The people who foisted and fostered these tuition-based wealth transfers on generations of US students deserve neither. Let them reap what they have sown.
I’ll buy the popcorn for the show.
Is Grandma’s corn-popper basket available?
Maybe go for making kettle corn? Yum yum Delish!
@ Not_GeorgeT:
Excellent post!
I especially agree with your suggestion to “put a bunch of universities and medical schools out of business” and go after their huge endowments–to reimburse their students for the fraud these schools have perpetrated upon them.
In fact, close down the entire public school system, K-PhD, liquidate all their assets, fire all their employees and claw back all employee benefits, and use the money to reimburse their students for fraud, and to reimburse the taxpayer, who was also defrauded of the value of his tax dollar.
Back when the legislation was passed so that you student loans could not be discharged in bankruptcy, the reason that was always cited was that newly graduated doctors with six-figure incomes were filing for bankruptcy to erase their student loan debt. That was the go-to example.
The last time I checked, the rule for being able to file for bankruptcy was to have debt in excess of one year’s income. So if you were newly graduated from medical school, your student loan debt almost certainly exceeded your first year’s income as a doctor, even if you were making $100K a year. So I suspect that it was very common to game the bankruptcy laws–and it was likely even part of a medical student’s planning to decide to take on student loan debt in excess of their expected first year’s income as a doctor. (Frankly, you’d be an idiot not to plan it that way.)
One skill that I think will be very valuable in the near future is welding.
If you can weld you can keep a vehicle together far past its sell-by date.
There are lots of other uses for welding in the world-made-by-hand future.
There is plenty of scrap metal around. A lot of it ends up in the big skip at the landfill—form appliances to lawn furniture to pots and pans. In many countries the stuff in there would be getting used for something new, fixed and reused, smelted and re-formed into something else . . .
Someone in Asia.
No, I think they had no other political choice? Why, because they had no solution to Covid, and the PTB trembled as they ordered anything to quell the public storm.
I do think that medicine and mankind itself took a real hit to its invulnerability in 2020.
IMHO, the cities of the world are where the Long Emergency is going to clobber and destroy. The Middle Ages onset was caused by the same thing, descent of the human race to its Aggie subsistence level.
QUOTE:***IMHO, the cities of the world are where the Long Emergency is going to clobber and destroy.***
Singapore is a city.
As you said, Singapore is probably doomed.
Remember though, If the apocalypse occurs, the cities will empty out and they will be coming for the rest of us.
under the assumption they will reach us.
that is a thin assumption – and is where CW2 will begin.
Cities are where people are forced to comply… and that’s why they want you in them.
A place where you are forced to comply, you have no choice.
Good example. Piss off the truckers, cities, and your supply chain disappears, then what?
What I’ve failed to understand is why there hasn’t been a general strike on the part of all the people who actually keep the physical world running, i.e. the deplorables for whom the elite have so much contempt.
What if they couldn’t get a plumber to fix their toilet, couldn’t get a roofer to stop the leak, couldn’t get a mechanic to fix their car? I don’t think it would have to last very long. The people who are ruling over us are the most helpless and dependent human beings to ever infest the earth.
More and more of these people doing the LABOR are just grateful to be allowed in here, working.
Look around, it ain’t Trump voters doing the dirty work.
The majority of the deplorable working class are OD’ing on Fentanyl and/or buckets of KFC.
Yes, medicine took a real hit. It was self-induced, with those not participating in the fraud being ostracized and worse.
It will only have an opportunity to right itself when physicians are again able to be physicians and exercise good judgement rather than be lashed as prisoners to the post of evidence based medicine to the exclusion of all other options.
The West won’t even be able to save indoor plumbing, as that requires at least semi-competent people in charge….
What I still don’t get- I knew, when the whole nutty “until a vaccine is found” criminality started, that what they had in mind was an experimental gene therapy that could not be called a vaccine, because it could not prevent you from getting the virus, and it could not prevent you from passing along the disease.
That information was readily available to anyone who wanted to spend two minutes reading.
Remember, medicine all over the world ‘cleared the decks’ for this cold virus.
Doctors were focussing on covid, and covid only. They could not have been to busy to read up on this shot. That excuse is impossible.
BTW there are STILL people with credentials who will not admit that Alex Berenson was right all along. In the face of overwhelming data, they are reaching for any other possible scenario instead of the one that is staring them in the face.
absolutely, first sign of leaving the plantation on vaxxes and they lose their medical license, and many places have considered and / or are jailing doctors that do such things as prescribe Hydrochloroquine or Ivermectin to their conjob patients. See Queensland for an example.
I’m aware of one who has lost her medical license. That’s a lot like taking out one person and shooting them as a warning to others who might consider doing the same.
Yes, of course they were blackmailed. And given human frailty, unwilling to leave their good jobs AND unwilling to admit their lack of moral heroism – even to themselves. So they pretend and “life” goes on, always getting worse and worse as good people refuse to stand up or walk away.
i remember reading of a survey done (maybe with military personnel?) where the questions were:
would you risk you life for your children, wife, family, friend or nation? answer: resounding yes
would you risk your job for your children, wife, family, friend, nation or moral principles?
answer: let me get back to you on that…
we’re all the same in this, and we are being played with that understanding.
its how you boil frogs.
Interesting point. Heroism is one thing, but without your job you’re a bum – and you won’t have your children, wife, and family.
We need a parallel system.
Look up the population of Singapore (applied to everywhere) in 1800.
That is how many the island can support.
Over time, it may not be a huge concern, as the population of Singapore collapses. Can’t remember the exact figures, but as many as 95-98% of Singaporeans were vaccinated, due to their rigid obedience.
Further, again, can’t remember the exact figures, but the 2020-2021 increase in births was only 2.5%, down from a typical 4-5% increase. The 2021-2022 decrease in births is clocking in at 8.5%.
Thus, a decrease in births of about 10.5% over the last two years. Another benefit of the “safe & effective” shots – birth control (read population reduction)!
My cousin lives there, got jabbed now in the hospital with “covid”
Self reflection being projected off on others Joey?
Just insert Democrat for MAGA AND IT IS 100% ACCURATE.
MAGA proposals are a threat to the very soul of this country.
— President Biden (@POTUS) September 4, 2022
The MAGA agenda represents an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.
It doesn’t respect our Constitution.
It doesn’t believe in the rule of law.
And it doesn’t recognize the will of the people.
— President Biden (@POTUS) September 4, 2022
BREAKING: Trump on Biden’s speech: “The most vicious, hateful, and divisive speech ever delivered by an American President vilifying 75 million citizens..as threats to democracy and enemies of the state.”
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 3, 2022
“Vilifying 75 million citizens, plus another probably 75 to 150, if we want to be accurate about it, as threats to democracy and as enemies of the state,” Trump stated. “You’re all enemies of the state. He’s an enemy of the state if you want to know the truth. The enemy of the state is him and the group that controls him, which is circling around him. ‘Do this. Do that, Joe. You got to do this, Joe’. Right.”
Right on cue, you get the fake Twitter accounts calling Trump racist, misogynist, etc. etc. so the adherents to the new religion of globalism will feel there is safety in numbers, and repeat those words to discredit him.
Beryl
Right on. The real enemies of America with a c are the MSM who are controlling what Joe Everyman hears and sees. What would happen to the Uniparty if the MSM suddenly veered to the Right tomorrow?
Just imagine how quickly things could turn around if honesty was restored to the MSM. Instead of non stop obfuscation and lies, to be inundated with truth every time that you tuned in to TV, radio, printed media, internet websites etc. I don’t see things getting better until this happens. I have friends and family that believe all that they are told by the MSM. You can’t fix stupid.
I too have friends and family who believe what the television tells them and faithfully repeat it. If the MSM were to suddenly begin telling the truth, I think their heads would explode.
It’s not just the realization that they were willingly misled, it’s that they’d have to face having been complicit in the deaths of loved ones whom they encouraged and bullied to get the vax.
There is the saying “some people have a brain, others have a tv”
I agree, Rowdypiglet, most people can’t take the truth. Of course, the MSM doesn’t lie to protect them. It lies to manipulate them.
This doesn’t bode well for the EV Revolution sweeping the planet. For example, GM has built an entire factory to produce the new 12 ton Escalade Lux EV, pricetag: $300,000. Surely executives, marketing people and engineers at General Motors know what they’re doing and wouldn’t invest so much capital in what seems to outsiders to be a boondoggle. GM claims there are thousands of perspective buyers “putting down deposits” eager to get in on the early action lol.
BRH
Thousands, huh.
Great, what %is that of 330 million?
BRH, you’re not going to be owning a vehicle.
This is precisely the point: to make poor a renting class.
The future (for the non-elite) is subscription ride-on-demand autonomous vehicles
And Daddy will take the T-bird away if you do something naughty.
You’ll be grounded if you didn’t do something TPTB told you to do.
Oh, we’ll be owning vehicles all right. But they’ll be having 2 wheels instead of 4, and many will be powered by human legs, not pistons. Bicycles powered by small and simple two stroke engines will be very popular.
Riding bicycles will do wonders to restore the general health and fitness of what’s left of the population.
We have thing called “black ice” in these parts. One winter I saw a cyclist wipe out on a patch. It wasn’t pretty.
Been there, done that. You go down so fast and so hard it takes you five minutes afterward to figure out what happened. Luckily, it was a small village in Germany on Thanksgiving Day and as far as I know nobody saw it. Must have slid for 100 ft or more. Funny in retrospect.
we’ve been putting pull rivets in old tires to ride on ice for ages. better than any studded bike tire we can get.
head faces inward toward tube, of course.
The fleets of electric scooters air-dropped overnight in name-your-city-across-the-globe should have been a wake-up call
seldom noticed is the pre-conditioning.
Come on do you really think even bicycles would be allowed.
You forget we are as humans’ carbon emitters as well as methane emitters.
Leaving your housing pod will require authorization it would appear.
It is more than that. Look up “freedom as a service.”
But not enough generation capacity to power the few EVs already in service..California asked owners not to charge their vehicles during a recent period…
Just like masks and vax this is merely rehearsal and preparation for a future where your mobility is kept in-check.
Guardian had an excerpt from Rushkoff’s book about billionaire preppers.
His (rough) conclusion: they WANT it to blow up so as to move to the next stage.
He believes their very existence: a world/system where so many are taking so much off the top is why we are headed for catastrophe.
Nobody, particularly Americans who are so indoctrinated to believe that limitless wealth accumulation is a right, wants to admit this. That unrestrained greed and accumulation by few is detrimental, that THIS is a class conflict.
They don’t want you to see this. They want you occupied with immigrants and poor people why they are building bunkers and secret farms around the world.
There are plenty of resources here for people to live a luxurious lifestyle in balance with nature and the planet.
For a relative few (500,000?)
You’re not a part of this future.
Hmmm
Who is going to produce all the goodies for the Elite 500000?
What makes you think that the remainder of society are going to allow the Elite to survive?
One of the first victims of an out and out social war will be Davos.
Read the story/book.
They already have contracted security services.
Starving people make great workers.
Robots make the best.
Who will hiring security services?
Those folks will be dead! You need robot creators and coaches to have robots. Those people will be dead.
You know who will be alive? All those city gangs and Rightist gun owners who know how to kill other people effectively.
There will be no Davos, no Deep State, no Hampton, no Newport, just lots of rich folks gunned down.
When Rome devolved into the Middle Ages, who died? Not the soldiers or farmers. The elite who no longer had a purpose.
That’s why they’re going to use nukes or bioweapons, while they sot on their yachts.
“…Rightist gun owners who know how to kill other people effectively.” ~JAZ
Yes John, effectively, and without emotion or malice, just accepting that it is something that will have to be done.
Rushkoff quotes a billionaire worried about keeping his hired SEALS in line. To the point of developing compliance collars to fit them with
Once he can no longer pay his SEALs…
Pay?
They have food, shelter, and security/order.
And does one think that if a SEAL or contracted security worker decides to take the throne that things will change?
It doesn’t matter who is in control because what remains is a situation of some surviving and most not.
Yeah right.
The billionaire will be dead!
The point is that, in those circumstances, those at the top would be in danger of assassination every single moment of their lives. You still need doctors and nurses when you’re sick, people to grow and prepare your food – you need human beings to do many things for you that robots won’t be doing anytime in the foreseeable future. And every single one of them hates you and wants you dead, including the ones you’ve hired to protect you.
Follow this through. The Billionaire is murdered. Then what?
The bunker, stores, farm, meds, water is opened for everyone?
No, it just means a new verifiable warlord.
Back in the Middle Ages, the feudal lords were able to command the loyalty of their knights–possibly because they were able to offer them relative comfort and security. The peasants went along with the deal because the feudal lord and his knights provided protection in a world full of roving outlaws, along with the risk of attack by a neighboring warlord.
The knights’ alternatives to serving the feudal lord would have been either to become roving outlaw/bandit or to set themselves up as a feudal lord in their own right. To accomplish the latter, they would have had to fight an existing feudal lord. One of the chief requirements of feudal lordship was some serious fortifications to protect them from just such an attack.
The peasants’ alternative to living as subjects was to become a roving outlaw/bandit. This would have been a very precarious life, and there was no guarantee that a runaway serf would be accepted by an existing band of outlaws/bandits. Pickings for outlaws/ bandits were probably pretty slim, and there was probably no real future in such a life.
My impression too is that what is now Italy had sorted itself out into little feudal fiefdoms a long time before the fall of the Roman Empire settled into the Middle Ages. The wealthier people set themselves up as lords of latifundia worked by slaves. I’m not enough of a student of history to know when this became a trend in anciety Rome, but I’m pretty sure it was a LONG time before Rome officially fell.
If a parallel situation developed here in the US, what we’d see is the very wealthy buying up fairly large areas of land. In an economic collapse, they could find people to work the land as virtual slaves. In a societal collapse where there was a situation of lawlessness, the landowner would also be able to provide protection. It probably wouldn’t be too hard to find “knights” to act as defenders in a setting where the landowner could offer them a reasonably good and secure life (relative to the alternatives) and substantial prestige.
In Illinois, Anthea, a form of that has already happened.
Since the 80s more and more small farmers sold their land, but some of them now lease land to farm from the wealthy who bought it.
I read somewhere that only 30% of Illinois farmland is farmed by the owner.
It’s probably the same in Missouri?
And I agree about the fortifications. Look at those old castles, built by hand.
You sure as hell would not do all that work unless it was necessary for protection.
(Obviously the overlord didn’t actually do the work, but you know what I mean).
Anthea, this kind of reminds me of the origins of the mafia; and also the gangs that form along ethnic lines in our cities.
The irony is, being in a gang or under the protection of the mob exposes one to violence as well.
Yes, Paula.
And something many Americans and others don’t realize is how small Europe is and how fierce the competition was for even small areas with resources. Here in Germany, there is a place called Manderscheid where I’ve taken visiting family a few times.
In Manderscheid, there is a Oberburg and Niederburg, two castles about 500 meters away from one another. They used to fight over access to the resources between and around them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in2o1bR-v48
Same as when one visits the Dahner Felsenland, where on one 15 km hike, one can see as many as 20 different ruins of castles built by bands of robber barons/knights. The region itself probably has 60-70 of these ruins, and it is not a big area.
@ Paula D:
In most rural counties around me, one or two families own quite a large percentage of the agricultural land, and they usually rent it out rather than farming it themselves. (In some cases, the owners are elderly widows, which I have read is very often the case in Iowa.) Owners of large acreages receive substantial ag subsidies from the government, often have city jobs, and are very politically powerful, which normally means that their family members hoover up all the jobs in local government. Several of these nepotistic placements in local government have wreaked havoc on some local economies because of their stupidity and incompetence.
The thing about modern farming is (as an old friend of mine used to say), “It costs as much to farm five acres as to farm 500.” If you were a farmer who owned 120 acres, you would need to purchase farm machinery to the tune of (heck, I don’t even know) maybe a couple of million dollars. So in order to pay for your equipmment, you must rent acreages from other landowners. Then you hope for the best re yields and markets.
As another old-lady friend of mine (a farmer’s widow) once said, “A farmer is nothin’ but a gambler.”
I think they lease those tractors also.
My farmer neighbor told me they cost a million dollars, so no one can afford them.
“…compliance collars…” hits a rich comedy motherlode.
Batteries dead? Gives you a jolt whenever you pick up a weapon? Collar’s too loose, Bruce?
The sleek immortals blow all that dough and fret and scheme, but there is always a Mack Sennett trapdoor awaiting them. And because they are the Entitled Ones, they and their kin are on the bullseye.
A beloved child has a rare blood condition. The wife needs eye surgery. A mysterious, painful and potentially lethal fungus is going around: first the slaves, then their guards. How to keep the Masters from infection …
It is simply impossible to cover all the risks, no matter how much moolah you lather around.
I’d love to see the ‘elite’ everywhere being given their comeuppance.
Including the CCP.
In particular that fat, ugly man on the Chinese throne.
It amazes me that people are amazed every time that TPTB procure yet another ace from their shirt sleeve.
They appear with a massive supply of normalcy bias, have spent no time or effort researching or analyzing and then dismiss the whole thing out-of-hand on account of not fathoming the other side of the obviously coming paradigm shift.
the way sufficient stickers magically appeared 6 ft apart on ALL grocery store floors by spring 2020. . .
And the plexiglass barriers. That was quick.
Very interesting 100th. That’s pretty much how I see it too.
All the billionaires in their bunkers would be dead in ten years. They will all have died of boredom having no one else to talk to other than each other.
Some years ago someone calculated that the growth in wealth dispartiy in the USA could be tracked with the tax breaks for the wealthy introduced by I think Reagan.
It was a direct relationship between changes in tax brackets and tax rates and the movement of wealth to the top 1% and then .1%.
“Yet the Covid episode is shot through with mystery. How did all those sedulously trained doctors get so mind-fucked as to persist in saying the “vaccines” were safe-and-effective, when the vaxxes were obviously killing and maiming people?”
The medical profession largely ceased practicing medicine decades ago and just became another grifting operation–like almost every other enterprise in the US. I suspect that almost everyone working in the field of medicine has known this at some level for a very long time. I.e., they know that their sense of purpose to heal and care for the sick has long been consistently frustrated and thwarted. They may attribute this to causes other than greed or malice, but they’re used to it. Doctors are used to practicing medicine based on a flow chart provided by insurance companies that know nothing about medicine and care less. They’re used to being reduced to mere drug pushers.
There has been a deep acceptance and resignation to robotically perform their roles as cogs in the machinery of fraud. They’ve been dehumanized, in a sense.
“Education” in the US operates in the same way. Many or most other types of employment do likewise.
Probably most working people have learned to accept this unthinkingly–or perhaps find ways to rationalize this reality–just as cops must accept that their real role is to act as revenue-enhancers, though many of them will vehemently deny it.
Why?
Because all Doctors are forced to work in a hospital or within the health-insurance system.
They had no choice, like most other workers.
And doctors are nothing more than workers with better salaries and more college loan debt.
True dat.
I had a great and dedicated doctor years ago. He saw what was coming and fought it, but they wore him down until he gave up, retired, and drank himself to death.
No one seemed to notice that there was a real turning point that didn’t even involve the health insurance system and the herding of doctors into hospitals and clinics and out of their private offices. It happened when doctors and the public accepted that it was legal and even laudable to cut off the healthy organs of people who were weak minded victims of a narrative and/or mentally ill. “First do no harm” went out the window with barely any notice.
Doctors gave up the Hippocratic Oath in favor of high 6 to low 7 earnings ages ago. Vacation homes, golf clubs, luxury vehicles.
How many went to open an independent clinic?
Not many.
Bills to pay, lifestyles to maintain.
And the original oath forbade abortion. That was changed. Appearances must be kept up, so the “Oath” is still taken in an aborted form. Such is the demonic way.
Rowdy, I assume you’re talking about sex change operations.
What’s now even worse is how the woke crowd is insisting on sex change operations for prepubescent children. If a ten year old boy says he wants to be a girl, bring out the scalpels.
Children often change their minds, but there’s no going back after that operation.
Yes, hmuller, I was specifically referring to sex change operations. While I’m in favor of adults making stupid decisions about their own bodies if they wish to, there’s something else in this equation – and that is the role doctors play. We really opened a can of worms when we allowed doctors to discard the Hippocratic Oath to cut off healthy body parts because mentally disturbed people wanted it. That led inevitably to the mutilation of children, who are easily led and bombarded by propaganda. This is one of the worst crimes that any government has ever been complicit in. These pitiful kids have lost all hope of a normal life. What has been done to them is so far beyond evil that we have no adequate word for it.
Agreed, Rowdy. The mind boggles at the sheer evilness of the agenda.
Pilots used to be kings, but now they sleep in tiny little dormitories before their next shift.
Professors were lords, now they’re part time “knowledge workers” trying to get a steady gig with benefits. The Elite hate tenure – not that many professors ever really use it. But that they could is simply an abomination. No freedom from the system can be allowed.
Originally one of the driving ideas behind granting tenure to academics and scholars was to ensure their intellectual independence.
They were free to say and write what they actually thought.
Yes, Jarek, and the difficult-to-disguise murder-suicides of commercial pilots may well be a reaction to the way the employer treats them.
Mandated jabs certainly don’t help labor relations.
I don’t remember if I posted Michael P. Senger’s piece about “preference falsification” Friday or not.
Fauci’s Red Guards: Lawsuit Reveals Vast Federal Censorship Army
“This evidence suggests we are uncovering the most serious, coordinated, and large-scale violation of First Amendment free speech rights by the federal government’s executive branch in US history.”
https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/faucis-red-guards-lawsuit-reveals
that linked site came packed with WA state COVID BS !
Great post as always, Jim!
I had the opportunity to see Dr David Martin and his new movie American r/Evolution in Yuba City Friday night. A very enlightening history lesson on how we, as a young nation, threw off the shackles of Monarchy and Papacy only to replace them with the corporate monarchy and the insurance papacy. They have siphoned ALL the wealth offshore so it cannot be recovered even if we could hold them accountable. They have stuck us with a debt that can never be repaid.
Their operative technology is the art and practice/facilitation of human addiction: drugs, sugar, alcohol, tobacco and easy credit.
AND like all addiction recovery programs, the first step is to acknowledge that we have hit the bottom and must take personal responsibility for the situation we find ourselves in.
WE did this to ourselves.
WE allowed this to happen.
NO ONE is going to save us.
We must determine our own means and live within them now, as described in World Made by Hand.
There was an interesting Public Service Announcement in NYC last month regarding a nuclear event and what to do after it happens.
Dr Martin recalled the Carrington Event of 1859(look it up) and the fact that it did over one $Trillion of damage in1859 dollars to whatever electrical infrastructure we had at the time. A false flag EMP detonated over NYC would do similar damage and could be blamed for the loss of all financial records?
An EMP over NYC will be the best thing ever for all the rats in the place. Instead of eating garbage they’ll be eating freshly dead humans.
Ten EMPs strategically placed would eliminate the US grid.
Ten hacks on the grids software could do the same. Why bother with EMPs?
They already experimented with knocking out the grid to NYC. No one seems to remember that.
Weimar Germany. Debt that can never be repaid and foreign carpetbaggers coming in to buy the nation out from under them.
The National Socialist Party was the cure.
Depends what you mean by “cure”. In the short term, your friend Dolfie did wonders for the US and Soviet economies.
The problem, or one problem, was that it wasn’t the state that owned everything.
The Nazi Party owned everything. Even the German military had a hard time defending oitself against Party paramilitary organizations.
People could have families again. He was literally the Father of the nation.
The Party regulated, not owned. Or do you want the Capitalists to stay in control? You have to choose, Hannah.
Wokie: If he was such utter shit, why did so many statesmen – including John F Kennedy – say he was a great man?
Jarek: Hitler’s record speaks for itself. I can fully understand how Germans would turn to someone like that in the early 1930s. It’s hard for us to imagine the catastrophic effects the economic crash had, both physically and psychologically, on the Germans. And at first, his actions seemed to work. However, we know where it all ended up. And there’s also the little matter of those 6m Jews…Genius is knowing where to stop. If Hitler had left the stage in 1938 he would have be regarded as a true saviour of Germany, albeit one with some nasty traits. So, thanks, but no thanks!
“We know we’re it all ended up” – an economic Renaissance that led to them being attacked by the nations controlled by the International Bankers.
Try harder, little man. Google “spiritual combat”. You have to root out the wrong ideas in you head around which your shaky personality have formed.
Hereward the woke has no idea of Hitler’s record, which has never been allowed to speak for itself.
He only knows the big lies, the original big lies.
Watch “The Greatest Story Never Told” if you would like to come out of the trance.
You could then watch “Europa; The Last Battle” to follow up and you will finally understand that all that senseless violence, was never that.
You can thank me in a few months, when you have passed through all the stages of acceptance and finally come out the other side, ready to finally face the truth.
Gemma O’Doherty brings up that JFK quote in her discussion with E Michael Jones a couple of days ago.
Jones is the man to listen to these days.
Getting back to JFK I was watching a Pietro Ratto video this morning in my break about the Italian politician Aldo Moro who was assassinated by the Left in the late Seventies with secret service collusion. Ratto said he was probably the first and last Italian politician to stand for an independent policy and against the bankers.
I tried linking to E Michael Jones’s video. It is the most recent on his Bitchute channel.
The Truth About Carbon-Based Fuels
Let’s face facts:
Carbon-based fuels are the reason for modern society.
Carbon-based fuels have been responsible for lifting every single area of the world out of privation and dependence on the whims of weather and vagaries of wandering consumers of vegetable material (otherwise known as “meat”) one region at a time — without exception.
As the use of carbon-based fuels has been further-refined (e.g. from trees to coal to oil to natural gas) the lift in living standards has been dramatically increased, again without exception anywhere in the world.
Not one single subset of society has ever moved forward on any other basis in human history.
Ever.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=246835
It seems that “lift in living standards” hasn’t made anyone happy or satisfied, and has instead introduced a mass of problems that cannot be solved. Assuming that we have a critical need for this “lift” is the problem in the first place. It makes the assumption that mankind has been living in misery for all its past existence on our planet, and that we must have modern conveniences or life can’t be worth living.
It could be that the very reverse is true.
@ Woodchuck:
Nicola Tesla supposedly wanted to develop energy sources that would lift the laboring classes out of a life of drudgery–in which they had no time or energy for the finer pursuits of education and culture, religion and philosophy.
The record, when it comes to the drudgery and harship of subsistence farm life, is highly varied. In some cases, it sounds like such people were living in a paradise of abundance while doing satisfying self-directed work (much of it physically demanding in shitty weather). In other cases, it sounds like a hardscrabble life of poverty and drudgery.
I suspect that the difference can largely be accounted for by the level of taxation. Many years ago, I read a book about life as an eastern European farm family. It was estimated that about nine-tenths of their income was taxed away.
I also read Mark Twain’s account of subsistence farm life (probably in Missouri), which he described as a life of immense abundance.
Many years ago, I had an elderly neighbor (in her 80’s in about 1980) who grew up on a subsistence farm. She spoke joyfully about how, “We made a BIG garden.” She also said, “Oh, we had such a GOOD time in winter!” So I’m thinking it was a time when the workload was light and the peach pies were in the oven.
My mother and her old-lady friends also used to talk about how they hated shelling beans on winter evenings around the wood stove. This was apparently one of the main family activities on winter evenings. The dry bean pods were stored away during the summer, and you shelled them as you needed them during the winter. In “Living the Good Life,” by Helen and Scott Nearing (worth a read, if you’d like to be self-sufficient) say that their method of harvesting dry beans was to pull up the bean poles with the vines still on them and stack them in a shed. Winter evenings shelling beans, cracking nuts, and mending were enlivened by having someone read aloud.
To me, subsistence farming sounds like it could indeed be a “good life.”
I grew beans this year because I read an old poem about a woman who thought that if she had 8 rows of beans she would be happy.
This is my first time growing shell beans. Thanks for the tip on what to do with them.
We have podcasts now, we don’t need someone reading to us.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
Thank you.
Let us worship this element then. It is a god if not God. Nay, the god is Agni or the Fire trapped within the wood or the oil. Surely we can contact the Fire in a more direct fashion.
We were born with internal Agni, and if we eat correctly — right food for our individual Prakriti, right time, right sources, right attitude and relaxed manner — and live with Nature in all seasons, we won’t have any problems with a lack of Agni.
Current socio-political events and attitudes makes that difficult even for the discriminating minority.
He conflates lithium and nuclear, surely an error. Both require tools and energy derived from carbon, but surely the EROEI is not comparable at all. Nuclear could power our society. For that matter so could coal – for centuries here in America.
Nuclear power requires that all of our descendants monitor all the radioactive waste left behind from nukes plants. And for how many years? Have we put anything into escrow for them to compensate for all the work they will be required to do in monitoring all the waste we left behind?
So we inflict this problem on everyone who arrives on the planet later than us. And why?
Well, we do this because we must have “modern conveniences”. We’re not about to stop using clothes dryers or water heaters. Our forebears bathed in cold water sometimes but not us! We’re not about to wash clothing by hand in the bath tub either. The list of things we won’t or can’t do is very long. The generations following us will view us as a miserable bunch of shitheads who ate everything up leaving their children with a stinking pile of radioactive feces that never goes away.
That’s for sure, Woodchuck.
I remember in the 70s Americans being told that the resources were going to run out some day so it might be a good idea to conserve them for future generations.
And then the Evil Reagan was elected on a platform of “We’re not going to freeze to death in the dark! Let our descendants freeze to death in the dark instead! Screw the children!”
And now here we are, getting ready to freeze to death in the dark, and the squeals of “This isn’t fair! We want more!” are deafening.
The magical belief that our overlords can somehow summon up more energy is amazing. Humans blew through millions of years of stored sunlight in a little more than a century and the belief in Magic and the feelings of entitlement it produced don’t die easily.
Oil use in the USA doubled since 1980.
That wasn’t a smart move.
They also told Whites to not have more than two kids – then opened the borders. There’s your doubling of oil use. Strange how you wouldn’t say it or can you not see it?
I see it, Jarek, but it’s irrelevant now.
My kids went to a mostly Mexican school in the 80s. When Reagan gave the amnesty the school emptied out for a month while they all went back to visit their relatives.
And then after Tinamen Square Bush told the Chinese that anyone who came here could be a citizen. They came by the shipload.
For whatever reason Reagan/Bush destroyed all energy conservation and opened the borders. And everyone that came was more than happy to join in the happy motoring life.
And now here we are. It’s too late now.
Hah, just like Merkel’s, “Well they’re (Muslim men) here now.” As if you ever cared about the White Republic and the real American nation. You always hated it and rejoice at the diversity that will destroy. You got your odd assortment of people that have no relation to each other, utterly dependent on the government.
Better to glow than freeze in the dark. Maybe we could read in the dark, with our hands lighting up the page.
The problem is the ecological destruction that has followed. And much of this destruction—not all, by any means, but a lot— has been wrought by the take over of agriculture by corporations.
Huge amounts of energy have been wasted in the process of moving humans off the land and replacing their labor with that of gigantic machines.
Now is the time to apply all that we know about regenerative agriculture and the actual sources of healthy ecosystems to try to change course and restore rain and fertility to large swaths of the earth that have been destroyed by desertification and destruction of soil.
And Now Europe Shall Freeze
Europe is boned.
By the own hand.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=246829
Europe will rise from its dependence on Uncle Sam and realize that Russia is its true partner and its supplier of natural resources. Eurasia will arise, and the leaders trying to kowtow to their Deep State god will be eliminated.
America is soon going to realize it is a very lonely world without Allies.
Let’s see, who has Biden alienated?
China, Korea, Russia, Europe, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel.
Good start, still has 2 years to go.
BTW, New Zealand is just an island in the middle of the ocean without America with a c.
JohnAZ, I agree. Europe, however much it blusters now, simply won’t be able to let its people freeze to death unnecessarily. People won’t tolerate it, and surely they know that’s the case even if they let it play out to the very last moment. They’ll make their peace with Russia in the end.
Rowdy, the “elites” here in Europe are perfectly happy with letting us freeze to death. They will have to be “persuaded” to change their minds. We’re in the middle of a massive game of Chicken with Uncle Vlad.
Hereward, I took note of what your Foreign Minister said and wondered how voters felt about being told she didn’t give a damn about their votes. I have a few contacts in Germany and, so far, they’re fired up about supporting Ukraine no matter what. Of course, they haven’t begun to be really cold yet, so we’ll see. I’m so disgusted with people in general at this point that I feel inclined to say “If this is what you want, if you want to freeze and starve to support a proxy war, have at it.”
On Blinken’s recent threatening “Nice place ya got here …” trip around the globe, a high government official from South Africa publicly complained “We do not like to be told what to do”. So you can add that country to your list. India is giving a big shrug as well.
Indonesia, my home base, just smiled sweetly and gave Uncle a polite brushoff. As a matter of fact, I recently wrote a business letter to the Russian Embassy here, asking about buying black gold from them.
The only lapdogs in East Asia who are always ready and willing to jump when Uncle barks are NZ, Oz and Singapore, all compromised by economic entanglements. Many of the denizens down under are not happy about the subservience but their government caves easily.
A Continent Boned by (their own) Hand
Boned or bound?
Mr K asked the question of, “How did all those sedulously trained doctors get so mind-fucked as to persist in saying the “vaccines” were safe-and-effective, when the ‘vaccines’ were obviously killing and maiming people?”
As a retired physician I believe I can offer some insight.
You have to look at the system that selects people who can become physicians and the people who are willing and able to pass through that system. People who decide to become physicians are akin to trained seals or monkeys. From the moment it pops into someone’s head that they would like to become a doctor, whether it was while watching Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare on TV, or from some other inspiration, when they look into the particulars they will see a series of hoops they must jump through and dances they must perform. In college there are a series of “pre-med” courses to take, which in general mean a year of General Chemistry, a year of Physics, a year of Biology, a year of Organic Chemistry, along with the lab courses that go along with each that are sometimes more difficult than the didactic courses with which they are associated. Oh, and yes, to actually be in the game, you must get A’s in all or most of those.
Then you have to take the MCAT exam, and unpleasant day-long experience that pastes a number on your forehead showing how well you absorbed all of those pre-requisite courses.
If you maintain your enthusiasm and happen get into medical school, the hoops through which you must jump become higher and more frequent. For the first 2 years you are never more than 7-10 days away from exams that are roughly equivalent to mid-terms or finals in college. The courses include anatomy, biochemistry, physiology, microbiology, neuroanatomy, histology, pathology, pathophysiology, immunology, pharmacology, parasitology, epidemiology, and a few “softer” courses like History of Medicine.
Jump, seal-monkey boy or girl, jump.
The next two years are spent in the hospital, where in addition to constant studying and exams, you are graded on how successfully you can assist in the slave labor of the residents and interns.
At the conclusion you agree to be part of the slave labor system yourself and continue hoop-jumping and monkey-dancing for the system for 3-10 years, depending on the specialty. More specialty-based exams, all aiming toward the dreaded written specialty board exams at the end of residency, followed by oral board exams after being out of residency a year or two.
Since 1988, in most specialties, the board exams have to be repeated every 10 years.
So, you can see that the type of people who can put up with this sort of system are professional hoop-jumpers and monkey-dancers. There are no such things as debating or avoiding this system; you either do it or you do not become a doctor. However pure the underlying motivations are/were, you do not get to do what you set out to do without acquiescing to this system. The exams all come with what are considered at the time to be correct answers. You either regurgitate the correct answers or you flunk the exams.
So when the official medical world comes out and says, “the jabs are safe and effective,” the individual practitioners are well-rehearsed in agreeing with such a pronouncement. Only a few individuals will have to courage to state out loud, “Wait a minute – these (jabs) have not been adequately tested! This is a novel technology, and the downstream effects and unintended consequences have to be studied at length! I cannot in good conscience tell my patients to get this shot!”
Because 1) you are likely to lose your job, your license, and your ability to do what it was you decided 20 or more years before you wanted to do, 2) EVErYTHING you had gone through to get to the point of practicing your chosen profession will be erased, nullified, and wasted.
The institutions that preside over the practice of medicine, namely the specialty boards, the state licensing agencies, the professional societies, the federal agencies (such as the Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA) in whose good graces you must remain, were all allied in imposing the correct answer of “safe and effective” with regard to the question of the jabs. Speak against this leviathan and you were crushed.
The amazing thing is that there were physicians, (like Peter McCullough, Pierre Kory, Robert Malone, and a limited number of others) willing to put everything on the line to speak the obvious truth.
Although retired, I could see that something was terribly wrong in rolling out these jabs with such rapidity, and I could see that claims made about this entirely novel mRNA based injection were absurd (“the shot just stays in your deltoid muscle, and the mRNA just goes away.”)
Maybe because I was retired it was possible for me to think clearly. Everything I had learned or been taught about medicine screamed, “Wait a minute! Bullshit! What keeps the S-protein from going everywhere? What keeps some reverse-transcriptase enzyme from creating DNA from the RNA and getting incorporated into the host genome? Look at the emerging VAERS data! These shots are NOT VACCINES! They don’t vaccinate and they are not safe! Not only that, but they are also not necessary! Why are we not exploring early treatments?” Etc, etc.
I’d like to think that I would have thought as clearly had I been in practice and that I would have spoken up and not explicitly or implicitly endorsed the jabs. But one never knows how one is going to perform in combat until one is on the battlefield, actually getting shot at.
I am as disappointed in the mass of doctors as anyone, but I am not entirely surprised. I remain mystified as to how all of the the professional societies and state boards were so comfortably complicit.
good comment, but I impel you to read this article about the current situation, just for the shock value alone.
city-journal.org/the-corruption-of-medicine
The MCAT is becoming a thing of the past because it is interfering with student activism, just for one small part of it.
Not to say anything against your comment as I agree completely and said the same much less elegantly a few comments above.
I entered medicine but fled after second year never to regret it.
if not for what mom said, the comment would be two words
brainwashed morons
I am sure I got that link from this comment section a week or two ago, but I didn’t note who shared it. Thanks to them for posting it.
“I entered medicine but fled after second year never to regret it”
I am not a physician, let alone a retired one, and have not been to med school…but I did stay at a Holiday Inn one night….
UR, Roo,
Thank you for your comments.
The MCAT is being replaced. Penn Med has a program waiving the test for minorities and putting them through a different tract.
One thing you’ll never hear about from the medical education establishment is the suicide rate among people in the med system working on getting an Md degree and getting certified. It seems to me that the general mental health of physicians in training is being ignored. Apparently there is a lot of hazing or the equivalent of hazing going on just to get through the period of being an intern – going through a bunch of abuse and sleep deprivation on the job? Why? Who in their right mind as a patient wants a sleepy and harassed intern looking after their health problems?
A German ancestor of mine lived to be 100 years old, and in near perfect health for the entire time. He was a follower of a Bavarian priest, Sebastien Kniepp, thought of as being one of the founding fathers of naturopathic medicine and a healing process called “hydrotherapy.” I’ve used hydrotherapy very successfully myself for treating infections with using antibiotics. This ancestor never used allopathic medicine unless it was for treating trauma, broken bones, lacerations etc. He took cold showers, jumped in ice water when he could, and used only herbal treatments. No pills or shots of any kind, no vaccines etc. When he was in his 90’s, he was still out in his back yard landscaping and splitting firewood. Died in his sleep at 100.
He also left behind some brutal internal family fights concerning medicine that still go on today in my extended family. It’s the allopathic medical believers vs. the Kneipp disciples. The “allopathic believers” are convinced that our little minority family section of “non-believers” are suicidal. That motivates them to intrude into the private lives of relatives not going along with it. So far, it’s been getting more obvious the pill and needle crowd in our waring tribe are the ones having health problems. One physician I’m closely related to is now having bad second thoughts regarding the covid disaster. All of a sudden he’s figuring out that he’s involved in a disreputable profession. He was able to get ivermectin for himself and all the other relatives that got covid – and it fixed them all up within days, they recovered nicely. He’s now a vaxx skeptic and refused to get vaxxed himself – easy to do because he’s retired!
This is the first forum software I’ve encountered that won’t let you go back and edit something already posted.
A sentence above should read”
“I’ve used hydrotherapy very successfully myself for treating bad infections withOUT using antibiotics.”
simple for a human being, most difficult for hyper trained specialized animals though.
There is new research into the role light, “regular hours” and proper sleep play in mental health.
It’s a yuge one.
Think how many younger Americans have been subjected to “on call” work schedules, with no guarantee of what hours or how many hours they will work.
As for adjusting your sleep to a rapidly changing schedule, you can’t.
Why do you think they gave all our soldiers cigarettes during WWII?
How many adolescents are put on meth-like substances because their school day starts much earlier than their natural sleep patterns can accomodate?
It’s a weird kind of cult initiation and the competition led Harvard students to sabotage each other’s experiments to lower the curve.
The European model takes a bit longer but is without all the unnecessary stress. Obviously those who can’t do it are still weeded out, but the cruelty is absent because it’s not needed and it’s inappropriate.
When I lived in Germany, decades ago, I was struck by the fact that a whole host of alternative therapies and cures was closer to the mainstream than here.
For instance, a teacher I know when for a cure to Bad Kissingen, and the state paid for this treatment. One feature of Bad Kissingen was a large structure in one of their landscaped areas made of interwoven branches of cedar or some other evergreen with a fine mist sprayed over it—water piped in for the purpose from the nearby Saale, which I believe was also considered to contain beneficial minerals . The “treatment” (but available to anyone) was to walk alongside this structure and breathe in the mist, laden with curative molecules from the branches. It smelled heavenly and surely didn’t do any harm!
Also, herbal preparations could be bought in the apotheke—where one could also have the mushrooms one had collected looked over for troublemakers.
Also, Waldorf schools and the idea of Rudolf Steiner were closer to the mainstream than here in the States. Or, at least accepted as viable and valid alternatives. I have no idea how things now look in Germany. Also, this was in Bavaria. Maybe quite different in northern Germany.
A great source for mail order medicinal herbs is the German style Merz Apothecary in Chicago. The business was founded in 1875 and is still going strong today. Steiner developed his own unique approaches to agriculture and medicine, and some people are reporting great success with Steiner’s methods . I’ve tried reading some of his stuff but it’s too complicated and alien for me to figure out. Some of it looks more like witchcraft than science.
Pine and evergreen trees contain a lot of terpenes with medicinal properties. CBD oil and medical cannibis also contains a long list of complex terpenes that have benefits.
At this point, everyone is going to think I’ve really gone mad when I’ll admit to taking turpentine for medicinal purposes. It was in popular use in the 1800’s and listed in the early Merck medical manuals as a cure for a long list of problems, very effective against parasites. Veternarians still use it some. It was also in common use long ago for topical applications. I’ve discovered that the label placed on pure gum spirits of turpentine (by government decree) was one of the first patent medicines to get in trouble in congress. Some think that Rockfellers were involved and wanted to force people to use kerosene instead. Whoever came up with that idea wasn’t knowledgeable about how turp works. It doesn’t taste all that bad when you take it using the proper procedures.
The very oldest drug store in my little town still sells medicinal turpentine. They have a special place in the store where you can find some the stuff used long ago, like castor oil, cod liver oil, camphor, etc. Children all over the nation rejoiced when turp was ended for medical use. Back in the old days, the stuff that was good for when you were ill always tasted or smelled awful.
One of the best things you can apply to a wound is pine resin. If you have a pine tree in your yard, you can usually find a little pine sap exuding from the tree. This can be applied directly to wounds.
I have discovered DMSO which comes from trees too. I am still experimenting with it, but it seems to be pretty amazing in it’s variety of uses, internal and external. For me and the animals
DiMethyl SulfOxide but just search on DMSO
I’ve been all into natural healing and go to a naturopath doctor now.
So far, she’s done a great job. I have more energy than I have in years.
She knew what supplements I needed.
Woodchuck, for several years I’ve followed Dr. Kevin Pho’s blog, at kevinmd.com ; mental breakdown and suicide of physicians and other medical workers is a common theme in articles.
It is called Rockefeller Medicine. Same family that owns big oil, big ed, big pharma, and lets not forget big ag, all made from oil. They started the Club, and you aint in it. Like George Carlin said, they own you.
Ding, ding. The history is fascinating, and I knew little about it until about a year ago.
I have reconsidered many medicines and procedures that I once would probably have been ok with.
We have been lied to about a great many things.
Great comment U R. I think you nailed it.
Excellent comment. Thank you.
Hi everyone,
New commenter but longtime reader. I’ve been trying to make it to New Hampshire for several years with the idea that it’s filled with small towns where people can work together, but the towns are also near agriculture/livestock and water. It also has the Free State Project which promotes individual responsibility.
But because of a mother-in-law who refused to leave the West Coast, I haven’t gone. She has now passed away and I (we) can leave. I’m preparing to go in about May of 2023 when my lease is up.
My question is, what does everyone think of that time frame? Do we really expect total chaos in one year, or just a few downward lurches? Those lurches might be pretty bad though. Could they hinder someone moving across the country? Even if I go to a different state, I want to be east of the Mississippi, which is a long trip.
Many thanks for your opinions!
I have been assuming a cataclysmic fall for at least as long as JHK and as you know here we are.
It must happen and judging by my experience so far in life, it will be exactly unlike what I think is going to happen next.
I really feel that this time is different, and this is it, I acknowledge from experience that it may well not be yet, and the downward lurch will persist.
I can’t remember who said that being right but off on the timing is the same as being wrong.
but eventually that stopped clock is right.
to mix a few metaphors.
“Not only do you have to be right – you have to be right at the right time.” ~ RA
@ spaingaroo:
It has also been my experience in life that the future was always VERY different from what I planned or expected. The book, “The Goldfinch,” really resonated with me for that reason.
I think the whole covid and vax scams are cases in point. Totally unexpected developments. But I have had many other such surprises in my lifetime.
thanks @Anthea. The surprise with convid was how easily they could pull it off.
Double with the vaxx
I was pleading with people to open their eyes and minds just a crack to see the obvious from before day one flaws in their story, but like banging ones head against the wall.
thanks for the book recommendation I meant. It looks like just my sort of thing.
You might like Theft, by Peter Carey. I loved it.
Your future will definitely be Blue… Dem blue.
I wouldn’t want to be in an extremely cold place during a starvation (chaos) event.
They’re the first to go.
conversely, less invaders going north. north might be best as the hordes go south.
If I were bluefuture, I would avoid most (or all) of the east coast. From what I’ve seen of the East, most of the areas along the coast seem to be one gigantic city.
Flyover country is the best bet. I think MIssouri is a good location, though there are several other states that are not too heavily populated and have good farmland and a reasonalby long growing season, and are not too expensive. I’d check out places where the Amish are settling.
But it may be that bluefuture is constrained by the need for employment in a particular field.
@bluefuture
Forget the lease just go now. dont wait on any particular event…we purchased 12 acres 5 years ago and have been working on water storage and the like since.
I had a notion after seeing Kunstler in 08′ in Monterey.
We’re in the central sierras and lots of hometown folks, but it takes 3 winters to find out who you want to associate with.
Just go..
At least you know what to expect.
Good luck.
Thanks. They actually screwed me into another one year lease. I was looking for a place before my lease was up, and I found there wasn’t anything available. My new lease said a month-to-month would cost 900 dollars more per month, which is downright evil. Since I didn’t find anything in the time frame, I had to re-sign.
I’m thinking a lawyer might be good for getting out of the lease. Those property managers are seriously evil.
Maybe sublet? That may be against the rules but if they are getting their money, it may not be worth it for them to take it to court.
That’s a possibility. Thanks.
900?
Good grief you can’t even get a decent studio in San Diego for that.
Rents start at 1700 and go straight up.
No, 2000 a month for a one year lease. 2900 if I want to go month to month.
@bf
Yeah, that sucks.
Where in the country are you?
Use the time while you have a place to live to do a lot of online research, then plan a trip to look around and maybe buy something or get an agent working for you in your target area.
I suggest not waiting until your lease is up to start planning. The lease is, actually, a gift because you have housing security while you get your ducks in a row.
If you are on Effbook, there is a lot of info there about new places ( I am not on EffBook so do not have access to that info).
A good resource is Realtor.com.
In your target areas, to searches for “Realtor.com Place X,” See what the prices look like. To see what properties are actually selling for, do searches for “Realtor.com Place X Recently Sold.”
Plan an R&D trip—for NH, it might be a good idea to do this in the winter, to ensure realistic expectations!!— and have your financial info and your checkbook with you, so that if you see something you can make an offer on it then and there. Property is often cheaper in February.
“Your future will definitely be Blue… Dem blue.
I wouldn’t want to be in an extremely cold place during a starvation (chaos) event.
They’re the first to go.”
I completely disagree with Avatar100. I offer as proof where our host has elected to settle himself. New England is huge and, if you get away from the cities (which is easy to do) real estate can be astonishingly cheap. You can certainly grow things here, though not the same things you’d grow in California. Root vegetables are a great choice and store well. There’s a ton of firewood.
As for the “extremely cold place” – refuse from the cities won’t be heading out for remote areas where they’d get no help, the people are armed, and they’d soon freeze to death.
No one knows exactly what the time frame will be, but I’d advise you to forget the lease and get out of there while you can. It takes a good while to get to know people and to acclimate to a cold place. You won’t know everything you need to acquire for a while, and you want to have time to be adequately established before it gets worse than it is right now.
I suggest you talk to people on the city-data forums for the places where you’re considering moving to. You’ll get good advice from locals, and often even an invitation to supper.
Thanks. I’ve been looking for several years and have decided on a town in southeast NH. There is still work available there and it is surrounded by agriculture, including Chris Martenson’s farm, I think. Housing is a bit cheaper, too. I’ve made some acquaintances, but nothing remotely close to friendship yet. That, as you say, takes awhile.
I find the NH libertarians to be all over the map. Some are anarchists, some are just conservative republicans and the rest are everything in between. What I like about them is their philosophy of “do no harm” and to help each other out because the state is too corrupt to do it.
SE NH is just a suburb of Boston. Stay as far away from Nashua as you can. Head farther north or west to the Vermont border. .Chris Martenson lives about 20 miles west of me in the Berkshires of western MA.
Actually, some months ago there was a pretty detailed discussion of good places to go at this blog. I can’t recall what thread that was—what the title of the essay was that generated the discussion. A simlilar question got the discussion going. I recall seeing mention of a certain region in southern Ohio. I recall thinking that I should book mark it but I didn’t.
Since then I have decided where i am going to be looking.
Maybe someone here can help remember and locate that thread.
A couple of decades ago they caught a politician there campaigning in Spanish even though there were almost none of them there yet. He was ahead of the curve. It’s predicted that New Hampshire will be majority minority in a few decades – and that was decades ago. I don’t know how fast it has progressed since I’m not long in New England. But the old industrial cities of Northeastern Massachusetts (Lowell, Laurence, Salem, etc) are brimming with them – poised for the invasion so to speak.
And of course there’s the Church do gooders who can’t allow any place to remain White. Changing that is their religion now that they’ve lost interest in God.
Those old industrial cities are lost, and have been for some time. But New England is huge and still largely rural, especially as you go farther North. And I wouldn’t say that NH exemplifies New England in any way. I haven’t lived there, but it seems to be full of libertarians whose creed I admit makes no sense to me.
Southern New Hampshire Southeastern Maine are extensions of Boston. Vermont is its own liberal catastrophe.
Portland was deemed hideously White so they brought in tens of thousands of Somalis to remedy that. Now at least White Portlanders can get mugged on their own streets without having to go to Boston for it.
Portland is lost. But Maine is a big, a very big state. And the northern and western parts are huge, empty, cold – but you can grow things and your neighbors are REAL neighbors. If LePage can get back in office, the Somali invasion will likely cease. They don’t really like it here anyway, and stay only for the benefits – which are available in warmer places.
You’ll be an outsider for your entire life. But if one can stick it out, your kids will be accepted if you don’t ruin it for them.
Creed in a nutshell:
-Don’t want to pay taxes, particularly income taxes
-Don’t want to fight foreign wars on behalf of a deferred establishment elite
-Want to smoke weed legally
-Want to smoke more weed
“Live Free or Die!”
What you have to watch out for in NH is pretty steep fees of all kinds to make up for the low to nonexistent taxes.
Southern NH is infested with refugees from Boston.
But there is a lot of land in Maine, away from the coast. There, too, you have teo keep your eyes peeled for towns that have seen migrant dumps—such as Lewiston, where thousands of Somalis have been resettled (I understand).
It is somewhat true that cold weather culls a lot of people. My elderly cousin lives in Portland, Maine. I asked her how she copes with the cold. Her answer: “I have warm clothes.”
You’re right about New Hampshire. We have friends who own a waterfront home across the street from Lake Winnesquam (Sp?)We’ve stayed over there many times.
A story you might find interesting: About 1960 my father and a bunch of his cousins bought 14 acres of land in North Londonderry, NH. They paid $1,100 for it. It was all woodland, totally undeveloped. They decided to build a retreat there with a clubhouse. I remember me chopping down trees to make space. Every Sunday during the summer we were there having a great time.The clubhouse was started, but then the cousins lost interest, abandoned the whole project and the next year sold the land for $1,400.
My mother wanted to buy out the cousins, but my father said no. About 20 years later, North Londonderry had a real estate construction boom and many new homes were built. Today, if any homes were built on our former land, I figure they’d be worth $4-500,000 apiece. My mother was the smart one.
I have also expected a collapse for years, decades even.
I moved here onto land in 1994, expecting that any day now I will have to live off the land.
Luckily, they have kept it going with spit and baling wire (and incredible debt) because I still can’t manage to grow enough food to live on.
So I agree with those that say the whole thing will collapse by next May and you won’t have gas to get there. Except we’re probably wrong.
I signed a 3 year lease onetime and moved out after 1 year. I found people to take over the lease and the landlord was fine with that.
Yours sounds worse though. But it’s worth a try.
Thanks.
One of the benefits of being retired is that you can do time intensive things like canning and gardening that are just impossible when you’re working as well. The down side is that you just can’t work as hard as you could thirty years ago. Even in the cold place we live, we could probably grow enough to live on in a modest way. It’s critical in rural places to know other people and to make yourself as useful as you can. I couldn’t be more glad to be where I am, even though I was splitting wood in -12 degrees all last winter. There’s no perfect place anymore, but the farther you are from any city, the better.
I garden and can, and I don’t enjoy it much at all, there are parts of it that are about as much fun as hanging wallpaper or shoveling snow. One way to relieve the boredom and endless repetition is to have an audiobook playing in your ear while working in solitude. The endless solitude, at least for me, is the hard part. I’m surrounded by people who have better things to do than repairing rototillers, working for hours outside in the heat doing stoop labor, or canning in a hot kitchen with no ac. I’m doing this mostly because of my prepper paranoia and foodie and healthy living attitude – I like knowing exactly whats been sprayed on my food and just who grew it.
I just spent most of the day picking and canning tomatoes and tomatillos with my daughter. Today’s harvest–ten pounds of tomatoes and 4 pounds of tomatillos–was processed into 10 pints of tomato salsa (with about a pint left over for eating fresh) and three pints of salsa verde. It took a little longer than just canning, as both kinds of salsa required quite a few ingredients.
While the salsa was processing, my daughter and her husband went out and picked a big box of peaches, though there are still lots more on the tree.
I have always loved gardening and canning. When I was younger I didn’t even mind the heat that much. In spring and early summer when there was nothind ready to can, I used to think up oddball things to can, like mint and elderflower cordials. Cordials are like soft-drink syrups; mix a little of the syrup with carbonated water for a homemade soft drink.
Solitude doesn’t bother me too much. Usually a trip to the grocery store or thrift store a couple of times a week gives me my “human contact” fix. (I often run into people I know at these places.) I’m too new to this area to have made any friends at church, and I’m too old to be of much use in the altar society anyway.
Your best bet for beating the solitude would be to join a book club, garden club, writers’ club, or some other such organization–or join a church and become active in it in some way, if possible. Public libraries around here sponsor many activities.
I’m heating with wood. My obsolete 1951 model hot water circulator gas furnace has broken down again for the last time and I ain’t spending the at least ten grand for a new setup. I’m fortunate in that I have a woodlot behind me and I can go in there with a small garden tractor towing a trailer. I’ll come back a little while later with enough wood in the trailer to stay warm for a few days. And cutting and splitting the stuff can be enjoyable exercise. There’s wood all around us rotting on the ground and piled up on curbs everywhere.
I think many of us (intuitive types, at least) have known this for many years. My worldview changed after 9/11. It was part of the reason I left the US, and things have never really been the same.
We are ruled by criminals and psychopaths.
I was certain that the BIG collapse would happen in 2015.
I can’t remember why I thought it would be then. First I thought it was in 2008 (and it was partially) but then when we sort of bounced back (not all of us though), the reading I did seemed to indicate things would finally fall apart around 2015 or so. So when it didn’t, I was surprised, and I remain surprised now, although it seems much more imminent now. In 2015 there weren’t 50 million signs of impending collapse as there are now.
That’s the thing about Apocalypse predictions – you can always kick the can down the road some more. However, you could also choose to quit kidding yourself that the sky is falling.
Like Al Gore telling us we’d be underwater by 2015?
@ Paula D:
I had a stash of staple foods back in the 80s. In the 90s I knew people who were establishing self-sufficient farmettes in the expectaion of a collapse. In the 00s, people in my little town sometimes talked about ways to hide or fortify out little town against the urban hordes we thought would descend on the countryside in the coming collapse.
Rural houses have always been vulnerable to burglary, especially if the owners are at work during the day. Rural people are diligent about keeping an eye out for suspicious activity and suspicious vehicles for that reason. In the little “resort community” I recently moved from, the “weekenders,” whose properties sat vacant most of the time, were often troubled with break-ins. Meth is a big problem in rural areas, and meth-heads are thieves.
I would guess that the expected “urban hordes” will manifest as a great increase in criminal activity of this kind.
New Hampshire is an excellent choice for a destination and a place to set up shop, Bluefuture. Evidently, you have done your homework.
Behind every unit of GDP there is a unit of energy.
It has always been thus and always will be thus. It is akin to the laws of thermodynamics, which you cannot do anything about and it does not matter if you like them or not. Attempting to go “beyond them” will not only always fail it will hurt in some regard since it will at best be a less-than-optimal experience and at worst will be a death-causing one.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?blog=Market-Ticker&page=6
Stop it Beryl. There’s more energy in your fingernail than you would know what to do with. Remember the teaching of Kpax.
Global Energy Shortages only by choice. Peak oil exports from the combined countries of Iran, Iraq and Venezuela were 14 million barrels a day. The US and NATO worked hard to destroy Iran’s production since late 70’s, Venezuela’s since the early 2000’s and Iraqs for the last 20 years. These 3 countries are still in the top 5 for energy reserves, and now the US and NATO are trying to take out the number 3 country in Energy Reserves.
This is all by the decisions of Maniacs, tripling down on green energy, which they have no ability to deliver at the breadth they need to keep the lights on and the goods moving. This fantasy bullshit Green Tech can’t even be manufactured without reliable fossil fuels.
They are the leaders of fear, sloth and stupidity. They want to take their ball and go home. They don’t want to pay the bills they rang up for the last 40 years. They are having trouble keeping up with the complexities.
We need many more Prague Nationlists Marches
Another Amazon warehouse has burned up in Fresno.
The solar caught on fire and adios building.
Amazon has discontinued their solar at all super distributors and are back on the grid..
Total bull shit..
Why dont we hear of this news in a normal fashion?
Obvious to any common sense folk.
Jeez. The electric cars explode, the solar energy factories explode.
And yet they push it. Just like the vaxx.
Do they say specifically why and how the panels caused a fire? They don’t inform us as to the cause. Figures. Why scare potential panel purchasers?
BTW, a few years ago I got the idea that it would be nice if my condo complex could install solar panels and get us off the grid. It didn’t take make research for me to determine it wasn’t even close to being worth it. I also learned that installing solar panels negates the warranty on roofs. Ours is about 5 years old with a 20 year warranty.
‘How did all those sedulously trained doctors get so mind-fucked as to persist in saying the “vaccines” were safe-and-effective, when the vaxxes were obviously killing and maiming people?’
The best answer I can offer to that question is as follows: medical schools look to admit authoritarian personalities. That is a personality who can obsessively and loyally follow authority in order to become authority. You see it in most physicians; ‘i’m the doctor, you’re the patient.’ or ‘why would you want a 2nd opinion?’
My self and several others in med school who had PhDs prior to entering (and had been trained to think in grad school) had a good deal of difficulty with not a few faculty doctors to whom we asked too many pointed questions. i.e. What evidence is there for what you’re claiming? One learns to keep one’s mouth shut in order to graduate.
This concept is dealt with in Desmit’s book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism. He’s the guy who came up with mass formation psychosis to explain obedience to the covid idiocy. Basic concept is: authoritarian personalities accept and support totalitarianism.
In med school, we jokingly referred to this as ‘imperial conditioning,’ trying to make it positive; but, I now refer to it as authoritarian psychopathology.
That mindset is all conveyed in a salute
but the medical profession has always been an easy(er) path to financial success for the working and middle classes.
indebted doctors paying off their loans before the real money starts coming in during their forties
and no workingclass schlub after a taste of the very good life wants to go back on account of some principles.
the only thing that conditions doctors to be authoritarian is day after day of listening to patients and their self-diagnosis and their incredulity to the doctors’s orders.
You explain it well, neurodoc.
The authoritarian types are the ones who don’t learn from history or use history as a context when they form their opinions about the present day and our situations… if they did, they might see that no matter how they kow-tow, their status is in no way guaranteed.
They operate on fear and greed.
Great Post Today Jim. The Green Energy Lies of the Swindlers will be revealed quickly.
Great essay Mr k. Thank you for pointing out the hope in all of this.
Regarding EV’s – Many people still don’t understand that electricity is not a source of energy. It is generated by energy from an outside source, like coal, oil, or biomass.
Another concept that the gen-pop fails to understand is that of EROI, which is the ratio of acquired energy to the amount of energy spent to obtain this energy. After factoring in mining cost of rare earth minerals, the cost of political coups in other countries to pave the way for exploitation by corporate vultures, environmental costs, plus the usual production costs then electric vehicles come in at a negative ratio. With battery replacement costs added in, it goes even lower.
I’m not sure what the ratio is for solar and wind. At first the short life span of collectors and blades was not factored in. Nor was the problem of what to do with the old blades and solar parts. As of now, they are going to landfill. Why not design housing using them?
Auburn University in alabama has an architecture program called the Rural Studio that explores the concept of using the detritus of modern culture to build structures, mostly housing for the poor. One student project called the Yancey Chapel is especially lovely, made of tires and recycled corregated roofing.
Once US suburbia becomes obsolete, and the general public lacks the resources to maintain suburban living standards, new housing for the former middle class might well be partly constructed from building materials scrapped out of demolished former homes. The “detritus of modern culture” will include much of the building materials that went first into the construction of half million dollar meadow mansions that have been splattered all over the landscape, some of it on former small farms. Much of the land that was used to create suburbia and suburban sprawl will be useless for farming. The topsoil has all been scraped off and former farmland turned into the equivalent of a desert.
Along my way, there’s not too much land left, so people are buying old houses, tearing them down and building mcmansions on the same lot. They start at about $700,000.
That’s happening in Ct too, Bill. Unfortunately, some pretty historic buildings are being knocked down, replaced with architectural monstrosities. Another trend here is the pressure put on small towns to build ‘Affordable Housing’; zoning laws are suspended by state govt and the upshot is Section 8 welfare towers going up in the middle of cornfields, and on small town Main Streets — surrounded by chain link fence and acres of pavement & concrete.
What a waste, beantown.
And my sister lives in a residential neighborhood in San Jose, next to the hills that all the neighbors enjoy.
So TPTB are going to ignore the zoning laws and tear down a single family house right next to the hills and put up a ”low income” apartment building.
There is no public transportation in that neighborhood, so the poor people stashed there will have to have cars. There is no parking.
The whole thing is stupid. And yet they persist….
The apartment building will block the view to the hills.
And the hills will no doubt be trashed by the new neighbors.
Actually, many parts of suburbia look to me like good sites for “urban farming,” since they tend to be subdivisions on flat land with huge lawns and lots of sun.
I predict that many people will be able to make a living by tending largish gardens for suburbanites who have decent-size lots but no know-how or energy to plan and execute the gardens themselves.
“There are somewhere around 40 million acres of lawn in the lower 48, according to a 2005 NASA estimate derived from satellite imaging. “Turf grasses, occupying 1.9% of the surface of the continental United States, would be the single largest irrigated crop in the country,” that study concludes.Aug 4, 2015.” so, there is plenty of arable land available for growing food and flowers.
Also, gray water should be considered an undertapped resource. Water from washing machines, dishwashers, showers, etc. can be directed toward gardens instead of down the sewer.
Yep, when the oil goes, most of the humans go. We’ve known that for a long time, so why the shock and anger and disbelief now?
There is still gas available, so we drove from Illinois to Tennessee last week, through Kentucky.
Nothing makes me cheer on the end of oil like a car trip. I haven’t taken a long car trip since 1999, but this year I took three, the Nashville one and Texas and California trips, and it was hair-raising and pathetic. Too many people in too many cars and most of them drive like frigging idiots.
And the housing developments continue! Big ol’ McMansions being built out in the country with nothing but car transportation available.
It’s almost as if we are ruled by total freaking idiots.
Oh…..
Transportation to where?
Sam’s club, Target? That’s like so 2003!
Have you witnessed the marvel of the modern McMansion?
Home theaters, home bars, gourmet/chef’s kitchens, home gyms, pool, grottos, fireplaces in and out… of your modern farmhouse… with, yes, you guessed it… small plot gardens for cannabis and heirlooms.
You can have everything delivered to your door as you telework plugged in to your Tesla solar roof and watering your plants with graywater from the newest rainwater harvesting cistern.
The future is in the burbs
I meant transportation to work, but you are right, people can work at home.
When I bought this house in 1994 I deliberately chose a house within walking distance (2.3 miles) to work because I was sure that there would be no gas soon.
I never did have to walk to work though.
Nope, never been in a McMansion. Don’t know anyone rich enough to buy one. Or at least, I don’t know anyone rich enough to buy one who would invite my over.
JHK – “It’s happening with or without “Joe Biden,” the EU, and der Hoch Schwabenklaus, though the aggregate stupidity they represent is surely making the entry process worse.”
Hear, hear.
Just epic.
And at this point Trump is no longer needed either. The focus of Biden’s rant was on MAGA voters who can be demonized with or without Trump as their leader. It was, in its own way, a subtle switch but this slurring of group identity into the usual charges of violence, rabid racism, homophobia, ignorance (science deniers all of them) and anti democratic (questioning election tallies) will be repeated until MAGA hat owners will be conflated with pointy white hoods & burning crosses.
Speaking of American lore…
I just picked up the banjo after a few decades of thinking about it.
My dad played when I was a kid. That was pretty cool. About 10 years ago I asked him if I could have his banjo, as I know he hasn’t played in 25 years. He balked. So finally I went and got one.
Turns out it’s quite easy to play. Not easy to play fast…but if you just pick it up every time you walk into the room and throw down a quick song, it starts to come easy.
Jarek wants me to fight in the streets. I might just wanna sit on the back porch and pick and grin with an unsweetened iced tea. We shall see. Tough out there.
We shall also see if I can get my dad to pull his out of retirement as well. We could annoy the shit out of everyone at Christmas this year.
Something that could conceivably return after things have settled down (if ever) is the family getting together around the piano or whatever instrument someone could play. It was a feature of every Christmas and family event as a child, and these are some of my fondest memories. Children alive now will, for the most part, remember staring into their iPhones as the predominant feature of their childhoods. I don’t think it will give them any comfort.
You make a sad point.
I’ve done accordion at a few family Christmases. I’m not a virtuoso, there were plenty of mistakes, but I guarantee people remember singing along, especially the kids. Time to amp it up to banjo.
Mango, pick up a copy of “Earl Scruggs and the 5 string banjo”. Best book out there if yer into book learnin. That’s how I learned. 40 bucks on Amazon but ebay has ’em for way less. He even tells you how to build a 5 string. Lots of great tab for his songs.
Small children tend to love homemade music. They don’t notice the mistakes.
Give the kids kazoos to sing along with.
They are really funny! Easy to play.
And Irish tin whistles, super easy.
Dueling banjoes. SSL and I will do the clogging.
Yeah you could play the theme from Deliverance on your porch while people fight in out a few yards away. Musicians are left along. They are sacred.
Some say it’s an African instrument originally, as if we didn’t have the wit to make our own stringed instruments. But even if true, we’ve made it our own.
Yeah that’s why the greatest banjo players in the world are found in Africa.
I used to go to Strumming, Picking and Fiddling festivals for fun.
Don’t remember any black players. Must be institutional racism in the bluegrass world.
Bravo! I picked the piano back up a couple of years ago, but I have been lax for the past few months.
I can’t wait ’til ‘entertainment’ collapses and we get to entertain each other. That’ll be way more fun, IMHO.
This coming Saturday is the Tomato Festival.
This is where all the old hippies up here in the Ozarks get together and party.
There is a bonfire, a potluck and people that can play bring instruments for jamming.
One year we had two tubas and no guitars. That was odd.
There is always a plethora of basses for some reason.
I’m looking forward to it. The only thing I ever learned to play, though, was piano and saxophone.
Would those be washtub basses? Easy to make. hard to play though.
Nope, store bought.
That does sound fun!
Oscar Wilde famously said that the very definition of a gentleman is one who play the banjo…but doesn’t.</I.
Afternoon Jim, excellent today, as always. Laying out the unspooling realities we’ll face, with your usual dose of optimism. It helps, thanks Jim.
“The survivors of this disorder will be living in a world of generalized contraction, facing much-reduced standards of living.” ~ JHK
The equation: Raw Materials + Energy Inputs = Finished Goods
Generalized contraction & reduced standards of living. Yes. As you allude though – not necessarily a bad thing – but lots of bad things in the aptly named meantime.
Hope Labor Day in your neck of the woods is ushering in a little crispness in the air. Always nice.
Labour Day.
Our elite now return to their power positions after their hard-earned summer vacays in the Hamptons, Martha’s. Muskokas, etc.
The Pope has mandated that all Roman Catholic wealth be consolidated in the Vatican Bank by Oct. 1.
The shit is about to hit the fan.
O.G., have you got a source on Vatican Bank?
Responding to JHK’s comment:
Generalized contractions and lowered standards of living will be far better, spiritually, psychologically, and physically, than the insane stress infused 4/5G rat race we live in now. The average person may actually learn how to read a book again.
I’m with you Doc, 100%.
Something I was thinking about yesterday, as I was also thnking about stocking up on some non-perishable foods- if you are paying for your purchases with some kind of card or using certain delivery services, they know exactly who you are and what you bought.
Even if you pay cash, and you swipe that supermarket discount card.
There is emergency legislation in place, right now, that will allow the government to come knocking and take what you’ve set aside to take care of your own family, to give it to others.
We all just saw how much ALL the elected officials loved making up stuff based on an emergency they themselves were allowed to declare.
Has anyone heard of any single person running on a platform of abolishing this workaround of our Constitution, Bil of Rights, and even human rights?
These people either want to keep things as they are, or they are way too stupid to govern.
I can’t remember the name of the bill, but they passed that back in the Bush years giving them the right to your house, your animals, your vehicles, etc in times of “emergency”.
People were alarmed, but they haven’t done it so far.
They have been getting prepared since then, with their pushing of the cards (like you say), the FEMA camps, the militarization of the police, the surveillance state and the fusion centers. The “pandemic” was probably a trial run to see how malleable the population is.
I think they’re ready now.
Humanity as a whole flunked the test and now we’re gonna pay.
There are protests all around the world, and they aren’t against high fuel prices as the media is claiming.
Shouts of “Frexit” were heard at a French protest.
Farmers must destroy crops – NRK Rogaland – Local news, TV and radio
The question now is whether we should spend time and money plowing everything into the ground, or whether it should just stand and rot. Those are the two choices we have now, says farmer Sigbjørn Skjørestad (38).
Skjørestad runs Ogna gard in Hå municipality in Rogaland together with his wife Marthe Skjørestad (35). In 2020, the couple started carrot production. They made it into the mass market, and the future prospects looked good.
They have around 150 acres of carrots which are now in danger of being plowed down
Uses twice as much power
Last year they had a turnover of NOK 12.5 million. They made a profit. But not anymore.
Now 100-150 acres of carrots can be lost.
– Now we use twice as much electricity as we earn from the carrots per month. And that’s before we deduct the costs of planting and producing carrots. Then there is no way around picking them up. It’s simple mathematics, says Sigbjørn.
https://norway.postsen.com/news/37961/Farmers-must-destroy-crops-–-NRK-Rogaland-–-Local-news-TV-and-radio.html
They use electricity to grow carrots?
You have to keep them someplace before they go to market.
Have no fear. President Biden, as we speak, is training cadres of thousands of new, heavily armed IRS agents, all of them trans People of Color, to round up the Dirt People.
Tax accountants with guns. What could possibly go wrong?
Lots of “overpayments” out there! You’d be shocked at how many – easy tens of millions is my guess.
In the haste to shovel out stimmy checks, unemployment checks and PPP checks during COVID, many “overpayments” were made, by “mistake” and probably some “glitches”.
Wink, wink. It was a preconceived set-up, It’s rug-pull time.
Now cometh the new IRS Army, to sort out all these “overpayments”, and have the money returned. How many have it? How long before a little front porch collection attempt, to an unemployed father of two, under economic stress, goes completely sideways?
Answer: Not long. You wait and see, it’ll happen.
Nigeria Pitches Debt Forgiveness for Climate-Change Funding Plan
Proposal would help free up government budgets, Osinbajo says
Growing number of developing nations facing debt distress
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/nigeria-pitches-debt-forgiveness-for-climate-change-funding-plan
I can recall back in the day when Bono made African Debt Forgiveness his main cause. He was successful, much African debt was written off. One result was that the Prime Minister of either the Congo or Uganda — I forget which — suddenly finding himself flush with funds, bought 3 Harrier fighter/bombers from the UK, hired flight & maintenance crews etc., and promptly bombed and strafed a rebel tribe in the jungle that had been giving him trouble for years lol.
Bono is a WEF puppet and buffoon. Great story, hadn’t heard of that one.
“The Great Re-set is what happens when the business model goes bust for powering the world with oil and other fossil fuels… The Long Emergency.”
‘The Great Reset’ is just some tiny group of elitists wet dream of total World domination and the removal of the annoying and resource-wasting pests called human beings.
It was and is a deviant mental construct. A generational goal. A sickly desire. Something hatched in the darkest corners of the subhuman spirit and unleashed upon the Human Race like a true plague instead of the phony one we’ve all been subjected to.
But as The Long Emergency argues… there are real World consequences born out of disappearing sources of energy and living like drunken sailors while the cheap energy was abundant. And not having a plan when the good times no longer roll.
The majority of the World knows that The Great Reset is not great nor is it as much of a reset as it is a pathological desire that will not end in our Age regardless how our immediate crisis’ turns out. There will always be those in the Dark Predator Class who possess the same desire down through the Ages to be faux gods in a World They neither created nor do They contribute anything useful to. And They think WE are the useless eaters?
“America was, for a time, the greatest industrial society and now that appears to be over.”
There are bumper stickers that read, ‘GOD BLESS AMERICA.’ Well, they have part of it right but not quite all. The more accurate bumper adornments say, ‘God BLESSED America… and America EFFED IT UP.’
“Have you ever seen anything more patently insane than the sexual confusion acted out in American schools? Drag Queen story hours? Litter boxes in the bathrooms for students who identify as ‘furries’”?
Once a society has gone fully insane there are no limits to how sick and bizarre and delusional it can become. Just when you think things can’t get any worse… they do. And then, they do again. We have been ‘blessed’ to live in the Age of Insanity. And Insanity has no bounds once it has been unleashed.
Meow… meow.
“For some of us, this is a movie with a happy ending. Make some popcorn while there is still some corn, and some electricity to pop it with.”
Just give us a nice folded blanket next to the fire… some fresh milk in a clean bowl… a couple of strokes on the head and a belly once in a while when we are in the mood… and you’d be surprised just how little we need to navigate this Great Regret and still live the good life.
Something the Dark Predator Elitists will never understand.
But sorry… even identifying as a feline we still won’t eat bugs…
Cats love to eat some bugs, like moths. There must be others. Nature tells them which are good and which to leave alone.
Listened to a report discussing chitin in the exoskeleton of many bugs is very high in glutton enough that eating bugs will make many people sick who have no glutton problems with normal sources.
I’d say that most Americans have a glutton problem.
Just looking around it becomes clear.
LOL!
Hey, can we redirect the gluten phobia to the Gatesian bugfuckery?
Make sure bugs are associated with high gluten intake, so majorly allergenic?
Our cats used to love to catch and eat June bugs, the large ones. I don’t see them much anymore, they were all over when I was a child.
That cats must have eaten them all.
Oh, yes, they used to buzz around and occasionally get tangled up in one’s hair.
What has happened to the June bugs???
The ducks have eaten them all. Haven’t you heard that old Southern saying, of a pretty girl, “I’d be on her like a duck on a June bug!”
I used to have ducks.
One year I had a Japanese beetle invasion. I bought one of those traps, connected it to a chute and emptied it out in a plastic swimming pool.
The beetles went into the trap, down the chute and the ducks gobbled them up.
NY Post
An administrator at a posh Manhattan private school was placed on paid leave after being filmed talking about “sneaking” her Democratic views and activism into the classroom.
The Trinity School also announced in a Friday letter to students and parents that an investigation will be launched into the comments made by Jennifer “Ginn” Norris, a director of student activities at the Upper East Side fixture.
Norris had said that she tries to “disrupt” the school’s curriculum in a recording published Thursday by Project Veritas, a conservative outlet known for filming undercover videos to expose progressive organizations.
“There’s always groups of teachers who want to do these [activist] things but the administration just wouldn’t let us,” Norris says in the clip, apparently filmed by a man wearing a hidden camera at an outdoor dining shed in the city this spring.
“So, we’ve been just sneaking things in [through] the cracks.”
“I don’t hide how I feel, but I can’t pretend I’m [not] promoting an agenda even though I clearly am with all the stuff I’m doing.”
Norris also said she would not allow Republican speakers at the school and added there was a “huge contingent” of “just horrible” white boys that attend the prep school.
In the school’s letter obtained and shared by Project Veritas, school officials said they found it “deeply disturbing” that Norris was recorded “without her knowledge or permission by someone who misrepresented himself.”
But the school added “the sentiments expressed in the video do not reflect the mission or values” of Trinity.
“The School is retaining outside counsel to conduct an independent investigation. Ms. Norris will be placed on paid leave while this investigation is underway,” John Allman, Head of School and David Perez, President of the Board of Trustees wrote.
Anglin:
James O’Keefe is one of the only people on the right who understands that this is a war, and you just have to destroy the enemy.
Most Republican politicians would claim that entrapping these stupid bitches and getting them to admit that all this stuff is their doing on secret recording is unethical. Because they are fags.
When people are trying to turn your kids into homosexuals, there is not really anything you can do in the act of preventing that from happening that can be unethical. By definition.
Jarek: Imagine being outraged that an infiltrator was filmed against her will rather than being outraged that an infiltrator had infiltrated their school. The school is a “prep” school, preparing students to enter a captured and corrupted system. So of course they’re on the side of the infiltrator even if they can’t admit it because parents can’t take the truth. Or perhaps even because they can’t either.
‘secret recording is unethical.’
When I have heard an administrative type, whether in education, medicine or government, use the word ‘ethical,’ it has ALWAYS involved their covering their own assess or justifying attacks on a competitor of some type.
Looks like big tech is once again censoring that which they feel you should not know or have access to.
techcrunch.com/2022/09/01/google-blocks-truth-social-from-the-play-store-will-apple-be-next/
I have not downloaded or created an account, but it looks like they are forcing me to do just that.
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
No doubt, for a sizable (recurring) donation at any of Drumpf’s Grifting Sites, you can purchase this highly desirable app (giving you direct access to the deranged thinking you enjoy so much) without having to ‘expose’ yourself to Google or Apple.
Oh! No, look! It’s FREE!
reviewestores.com/truth-social-app/
Deranged thinking…
Let’s take a moment and examine the MAGA agenda, shall we?
Put your country and people first…
How is that deranged?
This includes securing the borders so we know who is coming into our country and what their agenda actually might be.
Is this deranged?
Letting in violent people, diseased people and people who only want free shit now that is crazy,
The fact is that is what Democrats are actually doing!
Five million people in twenty months SORRY MAN THAT IS NUTS.
Making America business friendly.
How is wanting to bring back manufacturing deranged?
Lowering taxes so people keep MORE of what they work hard to earn.
Gee that is craziness we should be taxed at a 90% rate like the Democrats of old want.
Whoops heavy tax burdens are crazy.
So far, the only insanity I can see is in the agenda you profess to support.
I then decided to look up what the maga agenda actually is and all I found was attack articles on what your ridiculous side wants people to believe.
If not for the constant barrage of negative press on Trump and the constant splatter of throw things at the wall to see what sticks Trump in a landslide.
Instead, they ignore all Bidens corruption and crazy antics of him and his disgusting lecherous son and the insanity of the woke establishment.
The derangement you speak of is almost exclusively the crap of nightmares being foisted on the American people by cultural Marxists calling themselves Democrats.
You’re a simpleton, with ‘arguments’ based on unreal ‘alternative facts’.
An attempt to explain the behaviour of british and EU “leaders” in the last 7 months:
i want to post it again althought i repeat myself.
like the soldiers in the 17th century, who marched into battle because the feared punisment by their commanding officers more than death by the hand of the enemy, the politicians and buisness leaders fear anger, harsh words and sanctions by their overlords in US / DC more then the economic ruin of their countrys.
Some of them may be different, but the are delusional or incompetent and think what the big guys there want is good for everybody in the west. Such folks also believe the US can an will deliver unlimited masses of shale oil and shale gas to the EU at affordabel price.
And then there are those who are groomed as shills of the US deep state since many many years. They may be payed, delusional or both.
And there ist, since the cold war began in the 1950ties, the influcence of the “transatlanticians” on the media and the “respectable” part of the intellectual scene of western europe.
I will enjoy to discuss my points above.
10 dead in Saskatchewan, stabbed, all of ’em.
Pretty sick, I’d say. What’s goin’ on up there, OG (Rhett)?
Your Mounties got them Sanderson boys yet?
Sounds a tad racially motivated to me.
But then, what the hell do I know
Stirring people up stirs them up.
No biggie, Tom. The assassins used the right pronouns.
There might be a lot more than 10 dead — they’re still finding bodies. About 25 casualties total, so far.
These are Cree Indians. This might be characterized as an Indian Uprising. However, since guns weren’t used, and the assailants appear to be not White, this story will fade fast
Ya, horrible mess!
One of the perps has been found dead. The other one remains at large.
They were brothers – 30 & 31 y.o.
My understanding is that it was not racial. Cree on Cree.
10 dead (11 counting the perp). 15 injured. 13 crime scenes.
Time to ban knives now, right?
Indians living on reservations are often divided into rival groups–kind of like the Hatfields and the McCoys–that fight with each other. Occasionally there is a murder, though normally it’s just rather vicious fighting. E.g., Indian high school kids have been known to embed razor blades in the soles of their tennis shoes (donated by Nike) for anticipated fights between rival gangs.
Beryl…apparently.
“Stirring up” when I was a kid meant a good ol’ fashioned fistfight, sans knives and guns. Girls watching on were all the better. They’d understand if you showed up that night at the dance w/ a shiner. At least you showed up.
Alas, times change, especially in a world where anything goes and nothing matters.
Happy Labo(u)r Day. The world’ll be a better place tomorrow, I guarantee it.
Canadians appear to be on a roll, over in Nova Scotia a popular ‘Rapper’ Pat Stay was stabbed to death last night too. There is nothing more elemental and basic than the blade. The stabbing rate in London & Manchester is phenomenal and the trend seems to have spread to Canada.
Stabbing: when shooting gets personal.
I dunno. I think I’d rather be shot. But I’d rather not be either, if it comes right down to it.
The solution to the Stabbing Crisis is what? To give them all hand guns?
No, that’s not the solution. Everybody is ramped up due to Covid and the war in Ukraine; eventually I think things will calm down.
No RL – take away all the knives. It’s the knives that kill people, right?
Oil and nat. gas depletion, environmental degradation, fresh water shortages and pollution, seafood scarcity, air and light and noise pollution, plastic pollution, deforestation, etc., etc.,
wars, financial chicanery, corruption, despotism, Schwabbian machinations:
are NOT because of shortages of energy
The ARE because of overages in humanity
There is only one cause to all the aforementioned: billions upon billions of over-consuming and over-reproducing humans.
But lest we forget, cheap, ubiquitous, and easily accessible energy mixed with modern farming brought so, so many of us here.
A lot of sugar in the petri dish.
There are 2 solutions: the vast majority of billions learning to live with much, much less: energy, meat protein, travel, their own homes, their own large motorized conveyances, fresh water, new clothing, spending money, and MOST importantly: freedom.
The second solution: a lot less people.
Perhaps they will meet in the middle on this.
Night Owl
And something many Americans and others don’t realize is how small Europe is.
I never saw Europe as being small. Or over populated.
bluefuture
September 5, 2022 at 1:52 pm #
Thanks. I’ve been looking for several years and have decided on a town in southeast NH. There is still work available there and it is surrounded by agriculture, including Chris Martenson’s farm, I think. Housing is a bit cheaper, too.
/what price for an acre or a shack?
You can get a place in NH for a few hundred thousand. It wouldn’t be a shack.
In one of the small towns, up away from Boston
“Is our climate changing? Maybe. But so what? The climate has changed many times since the Bronze Age. If preventing that is actually out of the question, which it is, then what else are you going to do? The answer is: adapt intelligently to new conditions. ”
Yes. The big uncertainty about the greenhouse effect is the lack of precision in forecasting its dire effects.
If the climate will change significantly how can ALL the changes be bad? If there is more evaporation there will be more precipitation – more fresh water. Why will the forecast increased precipitation only cause floods but never bring water to drought stricken areas? Why will the higher temperatures only dehydrate farmland but never extend growing seasons in the higher latitudes? Why won’t rising sea levels increase the acreage of estuaries which are very biologically productive.
I also reject the the hoaxterism of the “just so” stories explaining every current observation or connecting every current observation with climate change. It seems like I can’t read an article about some natural history phenomena without the author making some comment about climate change being the cause of something the author deems negative. When I had to write papers for science classes the professors took a dim view of any “editorializing”. Now it seems to be a requirement for popular science articles to editorialize about political topics.
More life on earth is dependent on CO2 than oxygen. Somehow the dipshits fail to mention that.
Right? I’m seeing all these businesses brag about being carbon neutral. Total madness.
Let’s get rid of all the C02!
Dipshits, indeed.
You clearly don’t even understand the issue or this imperfect solution…dipshit, indeed.
Why don’t you explain it to us, Nut.
Wrong. I understand unmitigated bullshit when I see it.
I took geology at university – which focused on climate change – only 4 years ago. You?
Their reasoning was idiotic and continues to be.
Gonna call out the GND czars on their jet use? How about all those masks clogging the ocean, or one-use plastic still in abundance? Why is nothing done about that?
Kinda obvious to me.
“Not everybody will be violent or insane and the number of reality-based people with their emotional equipment intact will, oddly, grow in proportion as the others depart this plane of existence.”
Yes. This is an important point. Also, with the disappearance of a deranged pop culture which mesmerizes and acts as another anesthesia on society, sanity & human connection will re-assert itself.
“The Great Re-Set is an emergent phenomenon. It unspools naturally out of circumstances that reality presents. It goes its own way and we have to adapt to it, like it or not.”
Words to the wise in the midst of all the finger pointing.
We threw our runes but
They fell a trillion needles on a forest floor
And it was on fire
You know what comes next
Another good essay by Jim, but the more valuable information is gained by observing the commentary.
(Reading for content, sure, but the meta patterns are the key. Of course, jim is monitoring his own site for the same feedback.)
Like any physical reaction, there’s a transition point – metamorphosis (water/ice, racing turn/spin) – where the actual state of reality is altered.
We can see this kind of fundamental transition occurring as a core conclusion is reached that it doesn’t matter if justice is rendered via traditional means. Rather, the WEF types ain’t getting out of this either.
Secondly, I quite enjoy following the path of JohnAZ’s posts. He’s moved rapidly from a mere doubting Thomas to an honest to doG revolutionary in just a mere 12 months.
Of course all the TLA agents monitoring this site (hi guys!) are logging these as well, with some of the brighter ones perhaps even noting a possible trend (hint: extrapolate).
Anyway, it’s really satisfying seeing Jim bringing it all together, the commentary reinforcing these concepts, and hoping the 100::1 read::post ratio is getting a clear message out to normies still wandering around a bit confused.
Hey TLA Agents:
Go vaxx yourself!
“Secondly, I quite enjoy following the path of JohnAZ’s posts. He’s moved rapidly from a mere doubting Thomas to an honest to doG revolutionary in just a mere 12 months.”
Yes, he’s been radicalised, but he was ripe fruit for the process…
Radicalized, even.
LMAO.
Wow, Fake Trae has gone off the deep end.
That’s twice in two days. I must be getting my 100 metre overarm certificate soon.
Got anything original MaryQ? No? I didn’t think so…
For the record, I wasn’t making fun of your British spelling.
I was merely spelling it the American way.
So you missed the entire point of my post.
Not surprising.
Radicalised.
Epitomise.
Honour.
Labour.
Colour.
Favour
Quite funny really, after you gave us all that howler yesterday “Al Quaeda”
That was your team calling all MAGA people Al Qaeda.
Or are you obsessing over a typo?
LMAO.
OK then.
Do you understand what ripe means? Ripe fruit is fruit that has completed its development process.
Majella/Redneck trips on his own shoelaces yet again.
A master of language.
LOL.
Perhaps the WEF types want to try and mitigate and preserve some order on our regression to the mean, but a faction of the .1% are not getting out of it, they’re getting away from it.
As we’re getting away from civilization and its law and order and concepts like justice
We will be getting closer to our nature as we are getting closer to nature.
The nature of life on earth.
There is no justice when it’s eat or be eaten
Mary, Mary, Very Contrary
I asked you a question last thread – you deflected most inelegantly but I’ll give it another shot anyway:
September 4, 2022 at 10:53 pm #
Okay – a wee test…let’s see what you’ve got.
What is your ‘position’ on the issue of ‘abortion’ or ‘reproductive rights’ or ‘right to choose’ or however you choose to phrase the ‘issue’, L’il Miss NoParty?
Feck off, there’s your answer.
Enjoy!
Okay, so you do support a woman’s right to bodily sovereignty, clearly.
But you can’t say it round these parts, huh…too many of the other persuasion for you to actually say something that might go against their views.
I get it…you’re a fake, a ‘keyboard warrior’ and extremely careful about your ‘public image’.
Hence all your virtue-signalling is specifically designed to be waving a flag to those whom you fear the most. Got it.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and abortion is not defined as a RIGHT!
What about the body you so desire to rip apart?
Shame you were not aborted rl.
Thought you were AGAINST abortion, benr. How weird that you pity the fact my mum is a Catholic…
I’ve stated my position previously but you were out of reliable wifi for a bit so may have missed it.
Personally, I don’t agree with abortion. If in a situation where I was involved (that is, the impregnator), I would NOT condone it.
However, I’m not the pregnant one, and have no say, in reality or on a cosmic level, in the choice another person may make.
I hold that person’s right to choose above my opinion. You should try it.
@rl
SHOW me where in the US Constitution or the bill of rights an abortion is a right!
The Supreme court righted a wrong decision because it is only to say whether laws are Constitutional or not.
They kicked the abortion can back to the states where it belongs.
I am anti-abortion even more so for taxpayer funded ones.
If there are abortions allowed there should be a rider that on the second one the woman is also sterilized, or a long-term birth control implanted.
I have seen to many women ruin themselves with abortions physically and mentally and yes there is a serious mental toll on murdering babies in the womb.
You have no idea what my position is, and it’s driving you maaaaad.
I love to see it.
FWIW, I had a very public discussion up here about it months or maybe a year ago. Go find it! 😀
What a wanker.
Ridiculous. She’s for abortion, natch. Women get to kill, but they’re still “life” and men, death.
BTW, perhaps I’ll give you a hint after you answer GreenAlba’s request to debunk Dr. Chetty’s findings.
Goose/gander.
Keep up.
The specific question for which we are awaiting an answer is why we have ‘vaccines’ at all for a disease for which a humble family physician and scientist from South Africa can achieve a 100% treatment success rate, with not one of his patients even developing long covid (because they were treated appropriately and timeously).
Out of 7000 patients, which is rather more than Anthony Fauci, Chris Whitty, Patrick Vallance or Bill Gates has treated.
After that you may turn your attention to the specific criminal charges that need to be applied to those who censored, hid, smeared and denigrated this obviously excellent treatment protocol, leading to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of deaths worldwide, which were erroneously attributed to covid, as well as the deaths, injuries and permanent disablement caused by a totally unnecessary and inapproprate ‘vaccine’.
Please don’t make us wait so long for your second attempt at solving this riddle. The first attempt was already not worth the wait.
Obviously, there are other amazingly successful treastment protocols, e.g. McCullough, Zelenko and Fareed-Tyson. But since Dr Chetty achieved a full 100% success rate, let’s stick with him. Oh, and you can be sure that if any of his patients died or were injured, someone would have managed to find this out by now. Just in case you were planning to be thoroughly devious in your attempt to get out of answering the question(s).
As expected… *crickets*.
Another excellent article, James, thank you.
I find this line particularly poignant: “Not everybody will be violent or insane and the number of reality-based people with their emotional equipment intact will, oddly, grow in proportion as the others depart this plane of existence.”
I will really try to cling to the belief this might in some way still be true… I do see good signs given the way I see Idahoans reach out to help anyone in need in our community, that always cheers me a bit. Let’s hope people like that are the majority.
Hahahaha!
Says the hypocrite who just spewed:
“Feck off, there’s your answer.
Enjoy!”
It tolls for thee.
I love livin’ rent free in so many incels’ noggins.
Right. It’s not like you’ll ever move in with one of your kids. That can’t ever happen.
Apparently, ‘incel’ is now applicable to anyone who calls you out, huh? I’m assuming that includes me, but that’s just yet one more example of how little you know about anything.
No, just the ones who act like one.
Mary has all mystery, grace, and charm as a Japanese beetle eating a rose.
I bet your waddling fat incel ass can be spotted a mile away.
LOL.
You’re the biggest hypocrite here.
We All Know That.
TruStory.
Actually, ad homs are so much more meaningful when true and backed with proof.
Otherwise they are nothing more that verbal diarrhea from corrupt morons.
We all know that.
Already done it quite a few times, just reiterated what you told us.
Hypocrite.
No. I warned of God’s wrath, you did not like the message and, therefore, shot the messenger.
I am not a hypocrite and you have never once ever pointed out a single incident thereof.
You are an old, dried-up, childless, Darwinian loser. That is true, We all know that.
Nice projection.
I’m still looking and feeling great. And I never destroyed my relationship with family members losing my job from drinking and gambling away their financial future.
Kudos to me!
’ I’m still looking and feeling great. And I never destroyed my relationship with family members losing my job from drinking and gambling away their financial future.
Kudos to me!’
See? As I said upthread…
’ I get it…you’re a fake, a ‘keyboard warrior’ and extremely careful about your ‘public image’.
RL an MQ ought to hookup, get a room, and makeup.
Gross!
RL is far too classy for MQ. MQ is the worst.
Maybe you & RL should.
This quote has been cited twice already, but the amusing thing of it is that you guys all have it flipped.
You seem to believe that by “not taking the clot shot”, you’ll be those left while those of us who don’t buy your fantasy will be frothing at the mouth and dying in the gutters.
You simply cannot see your own insanity, best illustrated by the sobriquet “reality-based people”. Sorry, but you guys are not those based in reality. Like the need for toothpaste, even your best friends won’t tell you.
LMAO. Even my jabbed friends see the writing on the wall now. they will refuse any more of them. And they tell me I was smart not to get any.
You have JABBED ‘friends’? Not buying that…nor the ‘friends’ thing, either.
I don’t care what you believe and never have. 🙂
Mutual agreement? Who’d have suspected it?
Can you imagine being so propagandized that you still promote the Jab, says it all.
RL and MQ…yawn…this is getting boring. Go watchem’ get it on.
Meanwhile Trump says long ago he could go out on 5th St. in downtown NYC, shoot someone, and never be arrested. So true! At least give the bastard credit for being right about something.
I vomit every time I see those drone shots of Mar-a-whatever the fuck it is.. Enjoy your castle, Donny. You’re bulletproof.
Now apparently we have a “grand master” overseeing his investigation. What a crock o’ shit.
Yeah, Tom…I get it – the yawn. But drone shots of Mar-A-Lardo are even more boring and the talking heads on the youtube keep saying the same thing anyway (gotta fill the dead air!).
I’m happy to wait to see what the DoJ does, and I expect it will be bold – an indictment for (choose and insert a provable crime from a huge list here) and cause a major ruction.
There’ll be renting of garments & gnashing of teeth, but there won’t be an Army of Drumpf Drones marching in the streets.
“renting of garments”
LOL! That’s funny. How much do you think they’ll go for? No doubt Trump will charge a lot. That’ll probably increase the teeth gnashing, don’t ya think?
🙂 nice one.
You will own nothing and be happy.
Zing!
Dream on. Your predictions are cute but useless.
The DOJ desperately wants the evidence he has sequestered at Mar a Lago to prepare for the expose of all the criminality of the DNC over the last five years.
A huge question has not even been asked by anyone.
Has Trump done anything wrong by taking the documents? Has he done anything different than Obama, Bush, Clinton or any other president setting up a library. Are there rules controlling a president leaving office?
When Trump is exonerated of everything, again, you may enjoy him trying to destroy every liberal BS aim that exists and take down the WEF. That will be sweet.
I think you’ll find the present tense is ‘rend’ and the past tense ‘rent’ ergo rending of garments.
It’s usually worth checking before committing linguistic silliness to ‘print’.
He’s already using the Great Reset lingo. LOL
GFY….
Thanks, GA. I stand corrected.
The Judge has granted Trump a “Special Master” to go thru the documents. An objective observer. This is a strong blow against the FBI. If they fight it, it make them look like they’re trying to hide something.
Mango, if you’re looking in …
If you’re an Accordion aficionado check out the New England Accordion Connection & Museum out in Canaan, Ct. Some retired professor runs it …
the museum is in an old train station from the 1870s, We wandered in not knowing what to expect — what a surprise, the walls lined with thousands of these beautiful instruments — accordions from all over, but some made locally, many made in NYC, but most from Italy, Austria and Germany. Finely crafted instruments, what pieces of industrial art they are. Some are quite valuable. The professor played a few tunes for us. What a hoot? I think he’s on Facebook and all that. Have a look.
Cool BRH.
I had a look at the website. It seems we have yet another vulnerable group to protect – The Accordion Community!
Mama’s got a squeeze box
She wears on her chest
And when Daddy comes home
He never gets no rest
‘Cause she’s playing all night
And the music’s all right
Mama’s got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night
Well the kids don’t eat
And the dog can’t sleep
There’s no escape from the music
In the whole damn street
‘Cause she’s playing all night
And the music’s all right
Mama’s got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night
Thanks SF!
Here’s the best video I’ve ever seen of that number:
youtube.com/watch?v=JSYgRYlhMW4
Can you spot a very young Bill Murray?
A very delightful review of der Hoch Schwabenklaus’ “The Great Reset” book. It appears to be just as puerile as one would expect:
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-terrifying-vacuity-of-klaus-schwab
BRH…I see CT residents are rebelling against big subdivisions. Good for them.
I wonder what their bears have to say about that. Were they even consulted?
DA part of the problem is the land the bears live on has been gobbled up by developers and the bears have nowhere to go. Peach & Apple orchards chopped down, ancient meadows paved over, Woodlands bulldozed — what’s a bear supposed to do? So they end up wandering into town, looking for something to eat. You can’t blame the bear.
“They paved paradise…put up a parking lot.”
And there you are in your coom pod, munching cricket snacks, and drinking Soylent.
Childless, futureless.
Joni Mitchell drove a Volvo. Crashed on PCH.
…while you’re living in a bivouac in the Schwarzwald, eating roots ant nuts?
“DA part of the problem is the land the bears live on has been gobbled up by developers and the bears have nowhere to go.”
That’s a common misconception. Actually the bears are back because the forest is back. Years ago you would never see a bear around here because there were none. Bears, turkeys, bobcat, fisher, even cougar. They’re all back and roaming the suburbs.From the “Landscape History of Central New England”
“The peak of deforestation and agricultural activity across most of New England occurred from 1830 to 1880. Across much of New England, 60 to 80 percent of the land was cleared for pasture, tillage, orchards and buildings. Small remaining areas of woodland were subjected to frequent cuttings for lumber and fuel.”
Walk anywhere in the forest around here and there are stone walls in the middle of no where. Evidence of cleared land.
harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/diorama-series/landscape-history-central-new-england
And they did all that destruction without chain saws.
Yep, a real “World made by Hand” landscape. No time for wokeness in the 19th century. We even have moose back around here in western MA.
Interesting Stelmo. Just the opposite from what I believed.
That’s why I like this board.
Meditations Aurelius:
“Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.”
Memento mori I have that medallion in my book bag. Oh those wild Greeks, Romans and other middle eastern philosophers.
Here’s a nice bed time fairy tale: imagine Trump making (secret) arrangements with a heavily weighted GOP house district to run as a last minute write in candidate?
That is, GOP Rep with a lock bows out 24-48 hrs beforehand, instructing everyone to write in Trump. This would severely hamper DS, party and media operatives any ability to effectively mount a counter, allowing Trump to gain a House seat.
Then – I know, a bit fantastic, but still … – Trump is elected speaker, and thus the games begin. Forget 100s of impeachment hearings, let’s talk about shutting down the fed.gov.
And no, not stupid made-for-TV drama, but actual defunding of, shall we say certain departments and agencies?
As I said, sweet dreams …
I should add that one can only begin to imagine the resources being spent on surveilling Trump & co 24/7. Maybe up there with the resources devoted to cracking german/Japanese codes?
Surely they recognize Trump as speaker would be a death blow. They’d literally have to overtly overthrow the US govt to guarantee their existence.
Sweet dreams is right.
The president has too many restrictions on him as Trump found out.
The Speaker controls the tenor of the Congress.
The Speaker’s power is derived from the fact that the jellyfish fall in line.
When the system is corrupt, the power to push out those who would upend the system is a mechanism of self-regulation.
Trump would accomplish nothing as speaker until some semblance of balance is restored. He would be much more effective as president with a hand-picked team.
His major mistake last time was having faith in the system. Had he kept Flynn on board, I suspect many things would have turned out differently.
You are the Devil lol. Oh wouldn’t that be friggin amazing. Does it really just have to be a dream? Shut down is great. I mean, yeah. A hellish televised inquisition would be like wow though. Especially for what they’ve done. You did it. Not me lol. Make it happen somehow. Or I can dream. Good night.
WHO DUNNIT?
Twins aged eight killed along with sister, 18, in ‘violent incident’ that has ‘shocked’ Dublin
A teenager and her twin brother and sister have died following a violent incident in Dublin. Officers were called to the property in the Rossfield estate in Tallaght at about 12.30am, and the three were taken to hospital by ambulance. Lisa Cash, 18, and her younger brother and sister, eight-year-old twins Christy and Chelsea Cawley were later pronounced dead after reaching Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) in Crumlin (Picture: PA) Watch the video here
In Memphis, the body of kindergarten teacher and heiress Eliz Fletcher was found.
Done in by a Black beast. How many more must die before we separate from this horrible race?
The suspect won’t admit to murder, so the media is tiptoeing on eggshells and only mention kidnapping charges despite almost complete evidence of his guilt. If a White creep did this to a black female, he’d be up on murder charges and a media frenzy about White depravity and RACISM would be in full effect.
“Done in by a Black beast.”
Jarek,
I have read several articles on this outrage, and have found no mention of the race of the perpetrator…
His name is ‘Cleotha’…I bet there are lots of white guys named Cleotha….my middle name might even be Cleotha…
One article mentions, however, that he just got out of prison two years ago for kidnapping a lawyer.
I didn’t even know that was a crime.
…I bet white girls bleed a lot….Cleotha know….
Here we go again …
How often does it boil down to the age-old legalization of client/attorney kidnapping debate?
Myself, I’m pro-attorney kidnapping but I do see both sides.
EL, LB
Very droll!
Granddaughter flying to Dublin on Wed. for a study abroad semester…ouch.
Been to Memphis…what the fuck was this woman doing out jogging at 4am? I’m stupid and obviously don’t “get it”. Ouch.
Where did you feel that you received license to say ouch not once but twice in really what can only be characterized in a most inappropriate of manners, tom clark? Ouch isn’t utilized often at all in the threads here. In fact, I only recently recall its use. But i’ll leave that.
I’ve gone for walks at 4 am numerous times. Though admittedly not in Memphis. I think it is sad and shameful that one might fear doing so. But we do live with animals tom. Anyway. You just keep not getting it tom lol. I’ve been invited on a fire walk and this negativity is not going to get me down.
What was the name of the jogger in Iowa?
Tibbetts, a 20-year-old rising sophomore at the University of Iowa,
Mollie
Mollie “I can’t stand White people” Tibbets.
Oh I didn’t know that. Was she a wokie? I seem to recall that her dad was concerned about racism resulting from the fact that her killer was an illegal immigrant. I guess if that is the case it isn’t much of a stretch for her to have been “anti-racist”.
Yeah, we all felt terrible for her but then tweets like this came out and our sympathy evaporated. But of course she came from this terrible family and of course adopted their corrupt beliefs. She was really too young to have any beliefs of her own.
The farmer who had hired him admitted that the killer’s papers weren’t in order. Did anyone ever look into the papers of the rest of his workers?
Cascading layers of error, one stacked upon another. A Jenga Tower of folly and evil that must and will fall, the sooner the better.
I’m happy that their Jenga Tower is going to fall but a little scared of being too close to the demolition. Remember how you were talking about going sailing 🙂
She was asking for it, right, Tom?
Imagine getting up before her kids and jogging. Wanton behavior on her part.
She deserved it, right, Tom?
Paula – who refuses to talk about minority crime – goes full retard.
Amren is talking about this. Memphis is very dangerous. Maybe she lived in a White neighborhood – but the melanated don’t always keep to their own places.
You seem to understand this. Women often have a hard time with this one, accusing men of victim blaming when they are just trying to keep women safe. She was unwise I’m afraid.
With my home province of Saskatchewan (briefly) in the American news, I can’t help but think:
What if this was the start of the Zombie Apocalypse? What if the vaxx is damaging brains to the point of zombie bloodlust? What if this sick rampage (11 dead, 15 injured, 13 crime scenes) is our “new normal”?
Or it could be something more mundane, but even more terrifying. To quote Gerald Celente: “when people have nothing left to lose, they lose it”.
Expect suicides, school shootings, random acts of street violence, targeted murder of doctors and pharmacists, and shoot-’em-ups in public service buildings to spike.
I’ve thought about that alot too. The jabbed become zombies, or even worse ragers or monstrous malformed mutants. But even if something more mundane like a widespread prion disease is the reality it will still make for many chaotic, dangerous incidences.
mollies parents are lefties.
She never had a chance huh. It’s really a sad story all the way around.
Canada and their draconian gun laws. How’s that workin’ out? Guns? “We doan need no steekin’ guns.” The blade is much more up close and personal. Takes a special kind of whack job to go on a slashing spree.Especially a tag team. Same with Japan. No guns, we’ll just use gasoline. Guns are not the problem. It is our extremely sick society and I fear it’s gonna get a lot worse.
Oh! No doubt Night Howler Monkey will be piping up with his ‘predictive programming’ trope shortly.
Norm MacDonald was right, Germany!
He predicted that WEF YGLs would be installed in a fraudulent election?
I don’t recall this.
Just watched a Newsmax production on the life of Sam Giancana,
I am more convinced than ever that the Mob is the basis of our government and maybe the globalist part too.
The takeover of the US government started as a power “fusion” between the CIA and the Mob in Chicago to overthrow the Cuban Fidel Castro as his takeover of the Mob infested Havana embarrassed both the mob and the CIA. Both were unable to get to Castro.
In the meantime, a truce between Joseph Kennedy and the Chicago mob was broken when Bobby Kennedy started investigations of Giancana and others in Chicago. The current theory is that elements of the government enlisted the Mob to off JFK. Oswald was the patsy for two other Mob assassins, one of which fired the killing shot. When Oswald realized he was the patsy, he started to talk. Ruby, a gofer for Giancana, dying of cancer, ended that.
Other names involved in the Kennedy Giancana rift.
Marilyn Monroe
Frank Sinatra
Bobby Kennedy
According to the documentary, the government was a very corrupt organization.
It pales in comparison to what is happening today.
You left out Meyer Lansky.
Ruby was an underling of a Lansky underling.
“Australia’s Major Banks Partner With ConnectID For National Digital ID…
Confirms 2023 Launch Date…
It Will Be Tied To Every Aspect of Your Life… To Keep You Safe… https://biometricupdate.com/202209/payment-system-platform-gains-support-of-australias-major-banks-for-national-digital-id”
https://twitter.com/Spiro_Ghost/status/1566860496791388160?cxt=HHwWgIC-vb_Uzb4rAAAA
As predicted nearly 3 years ago…
Two more additions to the “always in scare quos” list:
“maintenance”
:”safe”
Add: “convenience”
In Ukraine, several important developments (it seems to me)
No more electricity is flowing from the Z nuclear plant, the largest in Europe. Apparently all 6 reactors have been shut down … due to what? It’s hard to tell, there are so many conflicting stories. Artillery shells are falling around the facility and it only a matter of time before one strikes a reactor with a direct hit, which would be catastrophic.
Also, it appears Nordstream 1, the main pipeline bringing natgas from northwest Russia into central Europe, has been disabled by Russia, “until sanctions are lifted” IOW, for a long time, maybe forever.
None of this news bodies well for central & western Europe, specially as winter approaches. Wars get nastier the longer they continue, which is what happened in the American Civil War and both World Wars. The gloves come off. For example, I can see in Ukraine … all of the pipeline infrastructure demolished, and the Z nuclear power plant leveled.
Nordstream was shut down for routine repairs. Then Canada, which supplies the spare parts, applied sanctions, so that the spare parts wouldn’t get to Russia.
Layer upon layer of falsehoods.
If the war continues much longer its only a matter of time before battlefield tactical nukes are deployed. After that, no turning back.
For example, in March 1945, who could have predicted that the 1000 bomber napalm raid over Tokyo which incinerated the entire city and liquidated 300,000 Japanese citizens was just a warmup for worse to come a few months later? How could it get any worse?
Now we hear the new UK PM and President Biden are promising even more sophisticated weaponry provided to Ukraine, including missiles that could destroy the Crimean Bridge and possibly reach Moscow.
Boris Johnson already has so much blood on his hands, and Liz Truss will be many times worse, as a rabid warmonger. An insight-free zone supremely receptive to flattery and bribery.
There was already a peace-for-neutrality agreement in the pipeline months ago between Russia and Ukraine, and Boris Johnson went over to Ukraine to put the kybosh on it.
Johnson was compromised while in office, IMO.
Truss on the other hand is a WEF plant, just like Sunak. She has already staffed key positions with several other WEFers.
The UK had better be ready for what this cunt is going to unleash.
Canada does whatever Buckingham Palace says. Always have and seemingly always will.
Yes, Grandmother’s Land.
Buckingham Palace, it would seem, takes its orders from the other of the two Crowns running the world’s affairs.
themillenniumreport.com/2016/02/the-top-of-the-pyramid-the-rothschilds-the-vatican-and-the-british-crown-rule-world/
you meant ‘bodes’.
Yeah. Its the spell check feature on this device.
It is pretty crazy—no, passive aggressive on an international scale—for Europeans to accuse Russia of weaponizing fossil fuels.
After they and their allies have sworn to destroy Russia and have stolen $300 billion worth of assets.
It is impossible to imagine the bizarro mental state of such “bruised” people who see themselves as victims.
“Biden ordered the raid on Trumps house.
A sitting U.S. president sent the FBI to raid his political rivals home.”
https://twitter.com/philthatremains/status/1566925804273106944?cxt=HHwWgIC8kfKt674rAAAA
Was there ever a doubt?
Yes, because wooden dummies don’t order anything. This Is Obama’s doing is my guess.
And the Dems impeached Trump for asking about the investigation into Hunter Biden’s corruption.
They were mad that weapons to kill eastern Ukrainians were held up, or so they said.
But the reason they used for the impeachment was that Trump was interfering with Biden’s campaign.
Now the flipping hypocrites are silent.
The answer is: adapt intelligently to new conditions.
Not everybody will be violent or insane and the number of reality-based people with their emotional equipment intact will, oddly, grow in proportion as the others depart this plane of existence.
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The passing… I hope I can skip it.
Nope. This is like sitting there as your roller-coaster train climbs higher and higher into the sky. You are wedged in your seat and there is no stopping this now. You’ve no choice.
Here! … We! … Go!
“Christophe Barraud: ENERGY MARGIN CALLS SEEN TOTALING AT LEAST $1.5 TRILLION – BBG
*European energy trading risks grinding to a halt unless governments extend liquidity to cover margin calls of at least $1.5 trillion, according to Norwegian energy company Equinor ASA.” from RIM-AE
“all of the assets are debt and now require an infusuion of debt to keep the debt viable “- Emerald Coast Puddin Head
what will your pension do? the same thing that is to be done in the event of a nuclear attack. and now that we have Lizzy at the helm i would suggest limbering up your back and stretching so you will be able to grasp yourself firmly by the knees…..
on the other hand there seems to be a huge, perhaps tremendous, plan for zero obesity. i’m talking a great fire and fury of covfefe. and if you don’t believe that you need to get yourself some F15s and an electric car-(hair coloring optional)
see ya Friday!
“That would spoil all our Sundays.” – Richard Pryor.
1,5 TRILLION MARGIN CALL [s] IN EUROPE BECAUSE OF ENERGY.
yikes. now what?
coal price up 10x in the last few years.
Malth, what does that mean? Margin call?
You don’t wanna know, Marlin, you don’t wanna know
BRH
It means that people loaning speculators in the markets, is scared and wants their money now.
Sorta like a run on the banks, except the banks are shareholders.
IOW, it could be the beginning of the financial end in Europe, soon to be delivered here.
delivered in a freezing winter 2023?
I think Chris Martenson said that this means that those who made these margin calls will have to sell their stock market shares to pay their debts.
Per Martenson’s speculation, a lot of cash in the real estate markets has come from people “borrowing” from their stock market portfolios. Now if those margin calls go south, they must sell shares to raise enough cash to cover the debt.
If they also bought pricey real estate with this cash, they may well have to unload some of it. Martenson’s speculation on factors that could turn real estate from a seller’s to a buyer’s market.
Can you say IMF SDR’s? Where will the money come from to cover the margin calls? There’s your answer.
This will cascade. Look out below.
The Ponzi scheme of fiat currency edges ever closer and closer to its inevitable, by-design collapse.
It like an upside down pyramid of debt and when the tip breaks off.
margin calls have been known to have a cascading momentum that produces results that might be compared to Seneca’s Cliff
a map is not the territory and when you step outside into the natural environment you are in the territory. woulda, shoulda, coulda are behinds us now. are you synthesizing a courageous and caring community around those you love?
what you see is not a Picasso it is a Hopper
apology offered for over posting
“woulda, shoulda, coulda are behinds us now”
Us Westerners will soon have far less time to navel-gaze.
The techno-elites, mostly billionaires, have their own techno-narcissistic
EXIT
Yarvin, Srinivasan, Thiel
Away from the “cathedral” and worthless human garbage
A nation in the ether for those on yachts, islands, etc.
The ultimate exit from centralized states and their handmaidens
They take their technology and go home
A home free of old media, bureaucracy, and useless people
I am curious what the short term path to the future Jim rightly predicts will look like. I have thought, like Jim, that the sane people, those who are not subject to the mass formation, will eventually hold the perps of the culling accountable. I have said a few times we should be wary of becoming the Jacobins of this age. Just because Fauci and Bourla should be held accountable, we don’t want to wind up dragging drag queens and soft headed vaxx-zealout teachers to the guillotine in our zeal to purge the criminals. I think that is a danger when justice, withheld and so poorly dispensed, finally comes calling.
Lately though, I have been wondering if my wife is right when she says there will be no accountability for this crime against humanity. Washington DC is corrupt and all do-gooders who go there become corrupt. The likely red wave that is coming may send a lot of honest patriots up there but with so much of the elite establishment involved in the coverup, will the truth ever be spoken on the evening news? They are complicit too.
The only person in the Senate who speaks the truth is Ron Johnson. There are one or two in the house. They say Johnson is in a tough re-election battle. If he is defeated by the establishment, all the hearings he is planning for some new GOP controlled congress will just melt away. They’ll be too busy talking about Hunter’s laptop to bother with Fauci.
If the spineless Republicans don’t impeach and remove creepy uncle Joe, we will continue to see the deep state persecuting honest journalists, doctors and citizens under his regime until 2024. We have seen the weaponizing of medicine against the people. Next will be the IRS army of armed goons persecuting the “MAGA Antivaxxers”.
What could be more fractious to that populist traditionalist movement than to be hollowed out by a leader who refuses to admit the truth about the poison death shots, who is desperate to not be held accountable for his role? What will Trump do to protect himself if/when he is re-elected in 2024 without ever admitting his mistake?
I suspect Biden’s pro-Covidian goons may eventually be working for Trump to continue to hide the truth. After a few bureaucrats, like Strzok and Comey are jailed, the most of the rest of those soft pudgy ne’er do wells will jump right in line to save their jobs. The destruction of American freedom has just begun. I voted for Trump twice, but I am beginning to see that he may well be the President that presides over the destruction of our Republic. We’ll all be so relieved when he replaces Biden who seems to be scripted as the bumbling destroyer. “Well they didn’t hold Klaus and company responsible, but we got rid of drag queen story time…”
Watching Pedo-Hitler’s little tirade the other night gave me a very uneasy feeling. It seems hard to believe that corruption and ineptitude led to that display. So the creepy hair sniffing old grifter (with a selfie-porn-starring, crack smoking, racketeering son) staggers up to the podium and declares war on the last bastion of sanity in the country looking like Chancellor Sutler in “V for Vendetta” or full blown Adolf Hitler and we are supposed to thing that is just bad optics??
Soon he’ll be replaced by the arrogant Reality TV narcissist who is just too self absorbed to admit his “Warp Speed” killed millions worldwide, but he really means well. He just has a “blind spot”???
Biden will be removed for his ridiculous corruption. Trump with or without a mea culpa, will ultimately be blamed for the PDS vaxx poison by those who follow him now. Washington will continue to bury the truth and persecute those spreading the seditious truth as they sink into the quagmire of the swamp. Some things will get better. Most will get worse. The smart well grounded people will live local and feed themselves. The rest will be chaos and confusion. I’m planting fruit trees on my acreage and reading Gibbon to refresh my memory of the script to play out. Mark Twain said history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. I’m sure Romans thought they were in a Republic long after it was an empire. It seems like the Republic ended before I was born… in Dealy plaza.
I continue to hold out some hope that Trump is for real and he will turn the corner and admit his mistake while running for President in 2024. I never cared for the guy, but I thought he meant business about trying to drain the swamp. I though his ego would drive him to save America for his own ego’s sake. I was okay with that. I watch and I pray. In the meantime I plant and prepare for Jim’s “Long Emergency”. It is coming..
As my Russian friend said:
“At least he is not mad.”
Hitler drove out the International Bankers. Sorry! Your brain is still “in hock” to the professional liars in academia and media
And keep in mind. Your enemies will have no such sympathy and mercy for you or yours that you are already proactively extending to them
“his ‘Warp Speed’ killed millions worldwide”
In this day of Orwellian memory-holes and constant talk of Pfizer, Moderna, J&J and AstraZeneca, let us never forget that, as 2020 turned to 2021, there were those 4 plus:
Russia
India
China (domestic)
China (export)
There were 8 vaxxess rolled out all over the globe at ‘Warp Speed.’ This was bigger than Trump, Fauci and the DC swamp.
This was global. This was Rothschild.
I doubt Trump can get back in office, and I’m reasonably certain he’ll never admit his mistake. His ego is his big flaw, but sometimes it serves us in that he genuinely wants America to be great because he feels it reflects on him. He doesn’t want to live in a shithole country, it would be an embarrassment. If there’s any possibility of his actually being in office again, I don’t think it will be an issue whether he admits some culpability or not. We all listened to Fauci and the CDC at first, and at some point came to a realization. What will matter is what he does if he ever gets into office again.
I never thought Trump was a sterling human being, but I genuinely thought he was on our side and I still do. My primary reason for thinking that is the no holds barred and still ongoing attempts of the PTB to finish him off. They really really want to see his head on a pike. That’s good enough for me. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, at least in this case.
Steve in Florida
You are hitting around the bullseye.
The end of Constitutional America is approaching.
The reason why is the creation of and consequent corruption of the Deep State by globalist forces which I believe have evolved from the collection of Mobs around the world.
The Deep State, the gang that believes that the Federal government is supreme, has been invaded by the same global influence. The idea of Trump’s America First has become an anathema to the Left directed current Deep State. They hate him for misdirecting the direction of DC in their eyes. The Deep State has absorbed half of the GOP and all of the Dems.
It is at odds with the people. The people are not as convinced of the centralization of power that is occurring due to the Deep State. 50% of the US follow the prime enemy of the Deep State, the only opponent of DC as is shown by the “traitors” that he put into his cabinet that showed themselves to be shills for the Deep State.
This is not a banter between two political parties, it is a civil war between two gangs trying to control the country. The country itself is separating into two separate geopolitical areas. IMHO, I see no way that this can be resolved. Biden’s speech is an indicator, he has given up being the unity president and is now the leader of the Deep State trying to destroy MAGA. His problem? MAGA is 73 million people.
By the nature of the beast, Trump and Biden are the leaders of two groups that will never and cannot recombine. As in all civil wars, resolution will only occur with the destruction of one side or the other
The vote is the American way of resolving differences between to opposing groups, the parties.
No longer, even if the House becomes GOP, the RINOs will continue the Deep State domination and the collapse of Amendment Ten.
Can Balkanization resolve the impasse. Sadly no, as the Red segment will always dominate the Blue and ongoing warfare will be the result of parturition.
If history repeats, annihilation by one sidebar the other will occur.
Remember when the United States were United, when issues were how to make things better for the people.
Now? One side wants to destroy the Constitution at the behest of their global bosses and the other side is represented by one man and his hatred of the Deep State. All roads head to destruction.
The old creep must have forgot he already railed against half of the electorate, and I use the term loosely because qualified is really in the eye of the beholder.
oann.com/biden-admin-doubles-down-on-attacks-against-maga-gop/
It’s actually good that Biden has revealed himself in this way and has even gone further than Hillary and her deplorables statement.
At least anyone that is listening can harken back to the famous saying.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller
Swap out Socialists for Maga
Swap out trade unions for Independents
Swap out Jews for anyone not in lockstep with the DNC agenda.
Swap out me for anyone left to speak out.
What are we left with?
Ideocracy come to life.
A country of brain-dead mouth breathing cockroach eating Morlocs.
A cockroach eating Morlock apocalypse
“… and a score that just became a final out West: The Cockroach-eating Morlocks 3 and the Mouth-breathing Lizard-people 2.
In a shoot-out.
And now it’s Chuck with the weather.
Hey Chuck! Is there any hope that that fireball hail still falling out there will cease anytime soon?”
LOL are the flying and stinging locust people in there somewhere?
They play out of New Boston.
first they came for the undocumented.
then for the unvaccinated.
first they came for the undocumented.
then for the unvaccinated.
First they came for the Maga, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the Independents and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the for anyone not in lockstep with the DNC agenda
Then they came for for anyone left to speak out.
What lol?
The beginning of the end of America has already occurred. 1860, Lincoln preserved the Union by destroying the Confederacy.
Who will be the next Lincoln during the schism occurring now?
Nobody’s coming for the Jews this time. They’re coming for the Whites.
Back in the days before fossil fuels, up to the 18th century, shipowners used galley slaves to power their ships.
It occurs to me that all talk by the proles about how our overlords plan to replace fossil fuels, including electricity, lacks imagination. It is remarkably naïve, actually, to assume that they want to provide energy for you. They don’t. They only want energy for them.
All they have to do is take the excess people, those not working in the fields, chain them in a power production facility and have them bike or row to produce electricity.
It’s probably in production somewhere.
It’s a tough life: galley slave.
But ripped abs.
And a few blisters
Hey that is pretty genius. They could advertise that too as a new health initiative. Protecting health and producing energy at the same time. They can definitely do something with that in the marketing department 🙂
Yes – and you pay them to row.
I would pay them a living wage if I had the ability to do so 🙂
No SSL – I wasn’t clear, if it’s sold as a new trendy way get “ripped abs” – the rowers pay to be able to row – like a gym membership of sorts.
or somehow have every exercise bike and cardio machine hooked up..human wind mills.
I have been suggesting that forever.
But so far no one has paid any attention to me!
Every gym should be powering at least themselves and their own lights!
Paula
You made me chuckle.
Think of a car, one car.
350 horsepower, 350 horses
How many people equals one horsepower?
However, the end of economic oil heralds the collapse of machine productivity and the return of low power alternatives.
JHK trademark picture of a horse drawn Car is reality.
The day of the one horsepower transportation module is coming.
We had this kid in HS, quit school when he was 16, got a job, bought a Plymouth Duster. He souped it up, once told me the car was pushing 400 bhp. I believe it because he could burn rubber for about two hundred feet.
It was a sweet car, dark green, dualy exhausts, 4 on the floor, stock bucket seats out of the showroom.
He was always laying down rubber in front of the High School. I said to him “You’re at school now more than when you were a student here.”
My gf in high school had a stock Plymouth Duster. Dark green. I loved driving her car. Good times. Good memories.
It’s not about the horsepower. It’s about the traction and getting power into the ground. I’d like to see a 500 Hp Dodge hemi pull a 40 ton borax wagon across the Death Valley 165 miles to the train depot. Work done for years by a team of 20 ornery mules and men who were just as tough.
500 hp Dodge Hemi
You mean the Super Bee?
They are using aborted fetuses for electricity.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fetal-tissue-used-generate-electricity-oregon-n88716
An Oregon county commission has ordered an incinerator to stop accepting boxed medical waste to generate electricity after learning the waste it’s been burning may include tissue from aborted fetuses from British Columbia.
Sam Brentano, chairman of the Marion County board of commissioners, said late Wednesday the board is taking immediate action to prohibit human tissue from future deliveries at the plant that has been turning waste into energy since 1987.
“We provide an important service to the people of this state and it would be a travesty if this program is jeopardized due to this finding,” he said in a statement. “We thought our ordinance excluded this type of material at the waste-to-energy facility. We will take immediate action to ensure a process is developed to prohibit human tissue from future deliveries.”
This is not the first time this has been done nor will it be the last.
There are nearly 8,000,000,000 of us. Undoubtedly we are viewed as a resource by our ‘elite.’
They’ll fatten us up for stored energy. There’s lot’s of btu’s in a 350 lb. lardass deplorable. A skin and bones Biafran not so much.
Doesn’t incinerating people require energy? It has to get pretty damn hot to burn people.
Yea, your probably right. You have to dry them first just like cordwood.
The fatter they are, the better they burn.
The burning fat raises the temperature and helps reduce the other bits to ash.
Maybe not the bones . . .
Ben, what’s the County Comnissioner’s name, Camp Commandant SS Oberstanfuhrer Rudolph Hoss?
that’s fucked
As I said this is being done elsewhere.
independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/thousands-of-unborn-foetuses-incinerated-to-heat-uk-hospitals-9212863.html
Wait till extreme late term abortion becomes allowed via the Dr. Kevorkian model.
They used to use pigs for super heating castles when they needed to bring them down or for lighting on fire and driving them into enemy lines.
Quite fantastically though, he had another trick up his sleeve. On 25th November, his forces wrote to London requesting “forty of the fattest pigs, the sort least good for eating”. They hadn’t gone insane. In a word before gun-powder, pig-fat was used as an explosive and as a fire-starter.
Rochester Castle Windows
Look at the strength and thickness of these walls! No wonder they survived siege. (Own photo)
The pig-fat created a fire strong enough to burn through the mine-shaft beneath the tower, and collapse part of the castle. But the rebels within were undeterred. As the keep is effectively divided into two parts, they scurried to the other side of the tower to continue their siege.
Historical accounts of incendiary pigs or flaming pigs were recorded by the military writer Polyaenus[9] and by Aelian.[10] Both writers reported that Antigonus II Gonatas’ siege of Megara in 266 BC was broken when the Megarians doused some pigs with combustible pitch, crude oil or resin, set them alight, and drove them towards the enemy’s massed war elephants. The elephants bolted in terror from the flaming, squealing pigs, often killing great numbers of their own soldiers by trampling them to death.[11][12] According to an account, Gonatas later made his mahouts keep a swine among elephants to accustom the animals to pigs and this practice was immortalized by a Roman bronze coin dating back to his time, which showed an elephant on one side and a pig on the other.[13]
As late as the 16th century, the supposed terror of the elephant for the squealing pig was reported by Reginald Scott.
Can’t read as it is behind a paywall (as the McMedia is rightly floudering), but they appear to haver been doing this quite often, despite NHS claiming they are putting a stop to it.
“The Department of Health on Sunday issued an instant ban after 10 National Health Service trusts admitted to burning fetal remains alongside garbage and two others used the remains in “waste-to-energy” programs, the U.K. Telegraph reported.
‘Dispatches,’ an investigative news program on the U.K. television station Channel 4, revealed that at least 15,500 fetal remains were incinerated by 27 NHS trusts over the last two years.
Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge incinerated 797 babies in its ‘waste to energy program,’ while telling mothers the remains had been ‘cremated,’ the Telegraph said.
And Ipswich Hospital incinerated 1,101 fetal remains brought in from another hospital to generate energy between 2011 and 2013.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/24/aborted-miscarried-babies-burned-heat-uk-hospitals/
Progressive.
That piece is from 2014!
Thank you for that, benr.
I never hear of those particular atrocities before
I waver back and forth, but you just made me feel totally sanguine about human extinction.
‘Fake News’ à la benr:
Sensationalist Headline followed by the actual facts, which are so much more mundane and not-at-all controversial.
(RE: “They are using aborted fetuses for electricity”)
According to Simon Schama, in An Embarrassmsent of Riches, in the Dutch Golden Age, people who transgressed had to man the pumps as a punishment and as forced community service.
The windmills drove pumps that pumped the water through the system and out to the sea. These prisoners had to pump with their legs for a certain number of hours to move the water along through the system.
This sounds apocryphal, but Simon Schama is a historian.
LIfe Site News
A former English soccer star lamented last week that no one is paying attention to the sudden rise in deaths of athletes that has taken place since the introduction of the COVID shots.
Speaking last Thursday to Mark Steyn for GBNews, former English soccer star Matt Le Tissier stated that the lack of investigation into the sudden increase of deaths of young athletes is a scandal and so is what he calls a normalization of it in the mainstream media.
“I have seen so many people, so many incidents of young, fit, healthy sports people collapsing on the field of play,” Le Tissier told Steyn. “And it’s just not normal, and yet the media seems to be normalizing it, and nobody seems to be paying any attention whatsoever to this huge rise that has gone on, and for the authorities in charge of these sports to not notice it or not calling an investigation I think is absolutely scandalous.”
“I have been trying and hopefully I’ll get a meeting soon with the powers that be in (soccer) to try and put evidence before them to show them just what is happening, because they don’t seem to want to investigate it themselves, and I think that’s criminal,” Le Tissier concluded.
Jarek: But Kesa doesn’t think anything untoward is going on. People have always been dropping dead and shit. This is the attitude people take towards Black crime as well. Don’t Whites sometimes kill? Alright then, they announce triumphantly.
It will take a mega-superstar’s death on national TV viewed by 30 million during a live game for this to make any dent whatsoever in normies’ minds. LeBron James driving for a dunk when of a sudden he crashes to the floor and never gets up. Even then, we’d get a week of “freak genetic accident, his number was up” or “performance enhancing drug possibly in system” before a year of nauseating, apolitical, glorified tributes.
It will take relentless and accelerating deaths, including at least 50% of the population to’ve known someone close to them dropping dead who were previously young and healthy for the reality of vaxx-induced damage to be realized as the cause.
I think you’d need two players to collapse during the same game for it to make a dent in the psyche of the brainwashed.
I seem to recall that happening in one game.
The power of the media to control minds is amazing. Amazingly scary.
Oil use in the USA doubled since 1980.
the borders opened in (((1965
and USA population has doubled in 50 years.
That was a smart move for some but not for Whites.
I think it would have to be half the team.
I’m waiting for the whole team to flake at once.
Mark Steyn has been doing a sterling job. For his pains, he’s being investigated by Ofcom (the media regulator) for spreading misinformation.
Former BSkyB and ITV news executive Mark Sharman interviewed by UK Column – blows the whistle on the Ofcom instruction to all news media in the UK that they were not to depart from the government’s narrative in any way, or there would be repercussions (i.e. they’d be shut down).
ukcolumn.org/video/challenging-the-covid-19-narrative-former-itv-and-bskyb-news-boss-mark-sharman-speaks-with-uk
He talks generally about the behaviour of the media and their motivation.
Steyn has been through the censoring rigours before, and won. The stakes are higher now, but he’s a tough sonuvabitch.
RE: Trump raid —
“#FolderGate is solved if you if were in Court or if you read DOJ Bratt’s Deputy, Ben Park’s testimony. The FOJ recanted on their being Top Secret files in their August 30th brief.”
https://twitter.com/RealGeorgeWebb1/status/1566785090444824578?cxt=HHwWhMC8taKvq74rAAAA
Tears of soy are going to flow again.
LOL.
“Tears of soy” ~ Owl
I love you, Owl.
Aww that is such a sweet sentiment (hearts). I know you are just playing around but it was like Valentine’s Day for me, except early lol!
Oh, I’m not playing around, I love Owl. There is nothing more heartwarming than a very creative dig. Just thinking of using it at an appropriate time, melts my heart.
I wish. They’ll just go into denial.
This happened in July, I haven’t seen a peep about it until just running across it today.
Nothing to see here:
“Speaker Nancy Pelosi reported that her husband sold all of his stock in chip-maker NVIDIA.
The document states Paul Pelosi sold 25,000 shares worth up to $5 million — at a reported loss.
The trade comes as Congress is set to pass a $54 billion bill to bolster US chip manufacturing and research.”
But Nancy invested in NVIDIA, even if her hubs dumped the stock.
Nancy herself says it’s a free market economy so insider trading is just fine and dandy.
https://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-pelosi-stocks-congress-chips-bill-nvidia-2022-7?op=1
She even risked WW3 to fly to Taiwan to ensure the safety of their investments! She is really good when it comes to protecting her investments. When it’s the country at stake? Well. You have to pass bills and stufft before you can find out what is in them
SSL,
She risked nothing by choice. Once the gauntlet was proffered, she had no choice…the issue was much larger than her personal safety.
You must’ve been spending all your time spewing bullshit on CFN in July as this was indeed a big MSM story before Nancy Pelosi’s PR trip to Taiwan.
It would be best if you found a more suitable venue for your brain farts and left CFN to real thinkers having real discussions that really matter.
We all know that.
—–
Have you tried knitting? Or perhaps a house full of cats? I’d suggest baking fruit pies but that is best for old, dried-up spinsters with loved ones nearby (uncles, brothers, nephews).
Insane dry drunk ramblings continue.
It would seem to me that this is still relevant, given that there appears to have been no accountability for Ms. Pelosi’s insider trading.
The drunk driving incident with her husband was likewise kept under the radar.
54% of “Republicans” expect (or want!) a Civil War. Nuts!
youtu.be/8V-ynwUcaB8
Bring it! Lock and load, and RL, you will be the first one goin’ down! 😉
Yeah? *tremble* Jeez, you nutters are really too much.
“I guess that would exist if the one world order was real.”
– A journalist
Thanks for the YT link, RL. Now I get it.
Only to someone that does not understand America. When push comes to shove, most Americans do not want your monarchical system of government domination.
There will be some sort of “war” between the Deep State and true Americans in the future.
Unless, of course, the Deep States’ evil jabs kill the true Americans first, JAZ.
They are winding it down. They know what they are doing. They’ve plans for these next few years that you & I cannot even imagine.
You are right as evidenced by five years of trying to crucify Trump and now the unconstitutional handling of the Jan. 6 folks.
Jan. 6 will recur!
There has been since Kennedy’s head was blown off.
…most Americans do not want your monarchical system of government domination.”
What sort of non-monarchical system of government will you have when the MAGAts, wrapped in flags & carrying bibles & AR15s are finally running the place?
I know, this would suit you, and be perfectly in tune with your worldview and religious thinking, but would you be happy if that form of government is instituted without a majority of citizens/legal voters? That is, if it’s simply stolen by declaration of the state legislatures?
Easy!
The Constitutional government in place now plus precise elections.
Elections that a one IDed voter, one piece of paper with no advanced voting and no mail in voting. Once voted, fingers dyed to prevent re voting. The excuse that POC are too poor or too stupid to get IDs for voting is a total crock and is the mechanism used by the Leftists to allow multiple voting.
Without this level of precision, the very close elections will never be 100% honest.
DC is extremely close to being a dictatorship, right now.
UC Davis in their study back in July had 50.1% of respondents agree from somewhat to strongly to the statement “In the next few years, there will be a civil war in the United States.”
So, yes. That’s not a positive sign at all, Redneck. Particularly for a pro-globalist & neo-imperialist Biden regime which is attempting proxy wars against Russia and China.
When a nation becomes fractured, how do governments often respond, Redneck?
Think about it.
“When a nation becomes fractured, how do governments often respond, Redneck?
Think about it.
I immediately think of Tienanmen Square, Pete. When that level of response finally happens, you’ll know you guys were right all along. However, you probably won’t want to argue with the government/regime/junta or whatever afterwards.
If the MAGAts prevail though, and state legislatures grab hold of the reins in November for certifying or de-certifying elections as they see fit, the chaos will be intolerable. In fact, lately I find myself choking when I see JHK referring to the ‘Party of Chaos’ – it’s clearly the other way around…
“I immediately think of Tienanmen Square, Pete. When that level of response finally happens, you’ll know you guys were right all along. However, you probably won’t want to argue with the government/regime/junta or whatever afterwards.”
Yes. That’s outright military force, sure. Even before that there is the “enemy within” strategy: large scale censorship, denying opposition parties, attempting to imprison political opponents, changing the language of a nation to legitimize actions, state media, the creation of imaginary enemies & problems.
This list of developments is used around the world by repressive regimes. It isn’t new or special to the US. If you compare the last 2 years in particular against this short list of actions (there is more of course), you’ll come to enlightenment that, yes, this is occurring.
I agree with Jim’s “Party of Chaos” argument. With an addition. The establishment GOP (think the Cheney family) is a part of this. Perhaps a better signifier would be the “Uniparty of Chaos” which represents the true political/military/bureacratic power in the US.
This Uniparty of Chaos isn’t just anti-MAGA. It is broadly anti-populist. There is a left wing populist movement in the US, as well as a right wing one. When I think of left wing populists, people like Jimmy Dore or to an extent Ralph Nader, come to mind. The late Paul Wellstone, who I corresponded with and was my Senator, had a lot of that spirit (he tended to be on the socialist side). At the moment, the left wing populist wing of the democrat party is nascent and submerged by the “progressives” (who are simply an elitist off shoot, imho). Anyway, I’m getting off on a tangent.
It won’t matter what your personal political beliefs are under a dictatorship. If you are perceived as a problem to the regime, you’ll be executed or imprisoned. It’s that simple. If the people who control Biden were to send the tanks to the square, they’ll crush Redneck Liberal, as quick as anyone else. They don’t give a shit about you, or anyone who isn’t in the power dynamic.
RL, on Sky News there have been a few segments claiming the Australian Union is on shaky ground and is not too solid. Not sure how accurate that is.
Yeah, I see Murdoch’s SkyNews headlines on my youtube feed. What a crock. Sky Australia is probably MORE CTNJ than Fox now.
I have no particular insight into Ostrayan politics, but from time spent there and living most of my life right next door, I can only observe that it’s a much more homogeneous society than the US (having lived there for several years too – Southern NJ and Northern CA).
But the prolific CTNJ virus has infected both Ostraya & N’Zild these last couple of years (spun off from COVID restrictions) with these people screaming “you’re taking away our freedoms & rights!” which is patently not so.
I know a number of people who have immigrated to Aotearoa from truly horrendous places – Syrians, Philippinos and Iranians among others – who find our “Freedom & Rights Coalition” (led by a charismatic religious grifter, of course) utterly laughable and are stunned that anyone here seriously thinks they have anything to complain about. I believe the same could be said about the whining little bitches the US has to suffer with as well.
Why did covid require any restrictions at all when it’s the most easily treatable respiratory virus there is?
“(spun off from COVID restrictions) with these people screaming “you’re taking away our freedoms & rights!” which is patently not so.”
So there weren’t any restrictions? I seem to remember Jacinda saying an apartheid system was just the ticket. Why would she say that when (a) covid is so easily treatable and (b) the vaxxed transmit it exactly as easily as the unvaxxed?
RL- Big difference between expect and want. Nobody wants a civil war.
Our healthcare system is about to experience a tsunami! Potential side effects of jabs include chronic inflammation, because the vaccine continuously stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies. Other concerns include the possible integration of plasmid DNA into the body’s host genome, resulting in mutations, problems with DNA replication, triggering of autoimmune responses, and activation of cancer-causing genes. Alternative COVID cures EXIST. Ivermectin is one of them. While Ivermectin is very effective curing COVID symptoms, it has also been shown to eliminate certain cancers. Do not get the poison jab. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit getmeivm.com
Here a good headline for Q…..
“Alleged carjacker run over, second on the lamb after incident in Dearborn Heights”
Apparently he was jonesin’ for some lamb shish kabob.
www (dot) msn (dot) com/en-us/news/crime/alleged-carjacker-run-over-second-on-the-lamb-after-incident-in-dearborn-heights/ar-AA11xcos
It’s “on the lam,” not “on the lamb.”
” Your government agreed to the idiotic sanctions, which Hungary for example did not…so maybe you should assign blame closer to home ”
— Pyrrhus
WW II was a glorious moral crusade , and the United States saved the world.
Hungary was Axis in WW II , and then spent the next 40 years under the thumb of the Soviets.
So my guess would be a considerable number of Hungarians were not virtually pickled in the above narrative.
My guess would be some number of East Germans would take issue with the above narrative, but we are all old farts now , who never had any credibility to begin with.
The Poles have a pathological hatred of the Russians . They were on the Allied side in WW II , you would have to ask a Pole why they ignore that the Allies fucked them twice.
I suspect a large swath of the world does not buy the above narrative.
But they no more have a vote in the UN than you do.
Kesa,
During the Big one, my father was a Glider Pilot…he mentioned that on one of the assaults, his cargo was a group of Polish troops…he said they were quiet, reseved and spent a lot of time sharpening their knives and bayonets…a scary group.
Glider pilot ?!
Geez , I guess you had a lot of macho to live up to .
Kesa,
He was a quiet man, with a measured IQ of 139…
Much to live up to, without question.
I’m reminded too of the movie , ” A Bridge too Far ”
In the movie Gene Hackmann’ s Polish character says ,
” I am a Pole , said by some to be smart.
If that is so , then I am a member of a true minority group .
Minority groups are more comfortable in silence. ”
The movie was not a commercial success at the time.
The Germans , SS no less , appeared to be the tiniest bit human and reasonable,
The Allies looked a lot like assholes.
Even though the movie was pro – Allied , I reckon that didn’t go over well with audiences.
” Get rid of all debt. ”
— > ” you must be single. ”
— > ” and have no young to support ”
Well that’s one of the top reasons I never got married or had children.
Unfortunately ;
” There is no advantage to being debt free when the end game is the construction of a digital prison. If you don’t want to play the game, it won’t matter how much debt you have, as you won’t have access to any money anyways.
”
— Nightowl
In general terms , I already found the above to be true , in my experience.
Oh and don’t forget Kesa since you’re around my age, you are a dried up prune, only good for taking care of cats, and a waste of space on the earth, per Rhett Dawson (ex drunk, current hypocrite).
That’s what women in their 50s are to Rhett.
“Ad hom, strawman, ad hom.
Ad hom. Strawman, strawman. Ad hom.
Strawman. Ad hom!”
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Old, dried-up hags are, fortunately, rare.
Mary has some weird mental problem whereby she “thinks” that someone pointing out her pathetic reality is somehow an insult to all women!
To be clear: Most women are fantastic while Mary is a dried-up old hag. Sad but true.
Nice back-pedaling, but useless (as are you).
At least he has praised your ‘rarity’.
Mary, this kind of attention only comes from one place — and it ain’t hate.
🙂
Yeah…I hate nobody…not even you, Dwayne.
@NO – My “attention” is on account of that dried-up, old hag owes me either a valid justification or an apology. Further, it comes from my life-long railing against Pride. Finally, it comes from my good fellowship in the hope that Proud Mary will see the Light and repent her sins before it is too late.
@RL – I do not hate you, too.
Note: It is spelled ‘DUANE.’
@Deep State AI Social-credit Tracking Bots – Go fuck yourself up your non-existent ass.
I don’t really give a shit, OG.
You have hit obsessive mode.
Oh, Gawd, are we back to Eunuchs v Harridans again?
Does any man here have an “I love Milfs” sticker on their ‘pussy wagon’?
Well , forget sex changes ,
and forget all that is said about the pedo thing.
I want an operation that makes me 12 years old again.
That , paired with what I know now , and I would make Kim Jung Un’s younger sister look like an amateur.
( a joke. Sort of )
I just discovered this blog. Mr. Kunstler, you do quite an excellent job breaking down current events in a way that is positively toothsome to those of us constantly called conspiracy nuts whenever we dare to counter the big belief of the day.
The comments here to say the least are also quite interesting!
Welcome aboard, Freddy!
Thanks, Rhett.
Kunstler is gold , but if you stay long term , it will be for the fans.
Duly noted.
Yes, fresh meat for the masses, very Monday & Friday.
Meat tastes good, and contributes to brain development.
The more you know.
Finally…something witty.
You can barely speak English.
“Finally…something witty.”
And from you, as usual, something shitty.
I usually agree with most of what Mr. Kunstler writes, but this blog is a bit different, more than likely because I’m not sure what I believe in the first place, so apologies in advance.
I don’t think this is ‘aggregate stupidity’ in design or process, but in unexpected results of an angry populace fed up with politicians who no longer represent the people. The Great Reset as I see it is the rebranding of Agenda 2020,2025, and 2030 repackaged post Covid. It wasn’t the business model of failed fossil fuels, it was the forcing of a change of lifestyle in response to Covid without the technology to replace that business model in the first place. Wind and solar are pre-dependent on the existing energy grid for transmission and recharging the emergent technology. Buying an electric car to avoid gasoline expenses has left people unable to recharge their vehicles due to energy shortages/ Ooops, unintended and unforeseen circumstances, never mind those who cannot afford the transition in the first place.
I think the oil companies and other industries lost so much revenues during Covid, the rise in gas prices is more to recoup money than oil supply issues and now that dollars have returned to the corporate coffers, we’re starting to see a bit of relief that is less burdensome than it had been. When the price of beef gets too high, and demand goes down, the increase in price does not offset the loss of overall revenue. We end up seeing cheaper prices in terms of ‘on sale.’
What we are presently living thru is a major disconnect between the reality we encounter and the ‘perceived reality’ we are presented with as expressed by legacy media whose best days are long gone in trying to determine the ‘group think’ we are being forced to accept, which many of us don’t or won’t. Think, ‘Fake News.’
We’ve had to endure a stolen election and anyone who does not believe that the elections were fair are tossed out of society from participating as a member of it. Their ‘caste’ system has more deplorables than obedient servants and no amount of propaganda is going to change a person’s mind of free will expression. We have a government that is not reflecting the will of the people, but it has taken such a crisis for many to realize the extent of pushback needed for any sort of social consensus to emerge.
One particular point in the article I found interesting was the medical community’s absurd standardization of mantra to ‘take the vaccine.’ I would think that those who took an oath to ‘do no harm’ are so blind to the consequences that there must be something far more sinister taking place here. They are more akin to ‘do what thou wilt’ as the law of the jungle ruling from DC and Brussels. Something has gone very wrong in “their” plans for us, and their loss of power and control over us and the average person in the world is what “they” fear most. Now we know why they are out to take away our 2nd Amendment.
In conclusion, it truly seems this is a bit more than just another chapter in good v. evil. This is the end of the line for them as they age and die off with a taste of their own medicine with.that which they intended to poison us. Karmic justice prevails.
Beware, their numbers are legion, i.e., those who have been fooled and those who just believe the doctrine. They won the popular vote by millions in the last two elections, and they aren’t going away any time soon. Thinking it was stolen is not a good idea. Better to think that we must make more of an effort to gain supporters and to focus more on election integrity in the future.
…”we must make more of an effort to gain supporters…”
Good point, TS.
At present, all the ‘right’ (whoever actually represents it) is doing is raging in the ‘culture war’ space, (where it doesn’t actually matter) and exposes those who seek to quash what is becoming mainstream thinking as, classically, fascists.
I’ve watched the ‘highlights’ of a few recent Trump ‘mini-nuremberg’ jamborees.
Not a word of policy, nothing about HOW to fix what needs fixing, nothing but whining & grizzling about how everyone picks on him and blah, blah.
I have to say, the most recent one – a sort of response to Biden’s pivotal speech of last week – was quite disturbing though: it’s almost laughable to listen to ex-President Clownshow , the most divisive politician since McCarthy, calling Biden “divisive”!?
And since then, the commonly-used line from the right’s propaganda arm that “Biden is the enemy of the people” is not only bat-shit crazy but scary.
Now, I know you’re still a GOP supporter and I’ve gathered that you are MAGA (or at least MAGA-leaning), but I also recall your response to the J6 Committee Hearings and had the impression you’d got over the Big Lie.
So, any chance you’ll be voting for either Blake Masters or Kari Lake, both election deniers, in November?
My position on the Jan.6th hearings is that the Republicans gave the Dems the gift that keeps on giving, and that the cost of that gift keeps on going up.
No, I don’t believe that massive fraud swayed the election. I believe that the Dems succeeded in undermining Trump with Russia gate and Ukraine gate, etc., and that he hurt himself in how he handled the virus.
It’s ‘ObaBiden’, not Biden if you will. His speech in Philadelphia WAS one of the most divisive I’ve ever heard.
They are both pro-life and I’m pro-choice. Masters wants to privatize SS. Kari Lake said,
“Our Government is rotten to the core. These tyrants will stop at nothing to silence the Patriots who are working hard to save America.”
She added, “The 10th Amendment can and will save our Republic and the road to stripping the Feds of power travels right through Arizona.”
She said, “We must fire the Federal Government.”
However impractical, I like her fire.
It will be difficult to vote for either, but there’s the larger picture to consider, and that picture involves the border, illegals, and the plan to, as Obama once so devilishly said, ‘radically transform America’. By the end of ObaBiden’s term, it’s estimated that he will have let in approximately 3-4 Dallas sized cities. Talk about scary.
Your opinion on Jan. 6 was quite different in the past.
Backpedaling, as always.
Spineless twerp.
Stop licking your anus.
TS. Thanks for, your considered reply. You’re a mensch.
Direct hit.
Pussy.
Excellent comment, PM: “What we are presently living thru is a major disconnect between the reality we encounter and the ‘perceived reality’ we are presented with as expressed by legacy media…” That’s it in a nutshell. The Cloud People look and speak like us, but they might as well be martians for all their lack of understanding of reality. That is their weakpoint and will be their downfall.
Kim Yo – Jong !
( Kim Jung Un’s younger sister)
You know you are getting old when you can’t remember the name of the person you have been studying for a year !
On the other hand , half the population of North Korea is named the Korean equivalent of John Smith.
Anyways, I saw a fun meme regarding her a few days back ;
Putting the ” cute ” in , ” Execute the entire village. ”
Maybe someone can make use of that somehow the next time KA gets on your last nerve .
The tide is turning against Mystery Babylon. Babylon has only a bleak future to offer Europe. They fear Russia, because it took the lead against Babylon’s destruction of family values. That is the reason the Rothschilds consider the Ukraine war to be an existential battle. It is not just a dispute between two countries. Babylon’s very existence is at stake, and they are using the mainstream media to support their ungodly “values.”
Babylon = WEF = the West = the Devil’s domain?
It’s great new folks are becoming aware of Jimbo. He’s pretty amazing in his 70s to crank out a couple fresh blogs a week and retain his relentlessly upbeat outlook on life in this crazy world. His vocabulary is encyclopedic and I always pick up a new word or two along the way. He has some cockamamie beliefs and ideas, but so what? It’s the fertile mind that counts, CFNers, the fertile mind. TC
Tom, are you a Magaphobe?
Naw, he’s just an ordinary, garden variety troll. Well, I’ll take that back, he’s an orc maybe. He’ll have to get a lot bigger and scarier looking to be a troll……..
@BRH:
Well,Marlin, I’m off to Foxwoods in the early afternoon tomorrow for 3 days. It just stopped raining here. We got a lot of rain, and driving outside this afternoon, I saw plenty of green lawns that just a few days ago were dried-up looking. How can lawns get green so fast? – but we did get continual rain for over two days. I’m wondering about CT’s rain. Did you get a lot?
3.8″ on my gauge Bill. I heard down around parts of RI they got 8-10″. What say you Crusher?
About 3.5″ here.
I’m a long way from Connecticut,
But we got a ton of rain.
I’m short on details.
The benefit of not watching the news is I can chill , and don’t have to listen to pathologically lieing idiots.
The downside is my advance knowledge of the weather is straight out of the 19th Century.
I wish we had not got a ton of rain .
The best time to weed and mow is autumn —– unless you get rained out.
Flooded areas of 95 well north of me. We got sprinklers down in the extreme southwest corner
Looks like I will have to be careful when I’m in Rhode Island. I hope I can get into CT. 8-10 inches could definitely flood out parts of rte. 95. I don’t think I can swim that far to get to Foxwoods.
Bill, believe it or not I read that Foxwoods is going thru some kind of expansion. They must be back on track after a few meager years.
However, the new casino in East Windsor seems to be a non starter — not sure what happened the land isn’t even cleared yet.
Good luck to you Bill.
Thanks, Marlin. I could use it. Hope you have some connections with the original Big Guy, but I’ll take good luck from the GG (gambling gods, not the Golden Golem).
Good luck on the slots!
Mary, l’m done for day #1. It was successful. I am several hundred dollars up. However,that doesn’t mean too much. What counts is how much money you come home with. Tomorrow I play at more expensive tables where I could lose all my money very quickly. Hope that doesn’t happen. A few months ago I came out ahead winning a $5,000 chip. That was the only time I’ve done that. That’s the largest chip I’ve ever seen. Until today when I saw my first $20,000 chip (not mine, unfortunately). This table had piles of them. They totaled well over $1 million. I had to leave the table because I could see myself drooling on the felt.
Believe it or not, I’m not very money-oriented. I gamble for the excitement. Knowing the odds are against me and then winning means I’ve beaten the house, which is all about taking people’s money. I get a kick out of it. Putting my money at risk is exciting,
at least to me, because I only need money to buy me food, etc. That probably won’t be possible much longer.
Before I left for the casino, I drove to my local Whole Foods and stocked up another several months worth of supplements. That’s the kind of stuff I like buying. I know it’s gonna get much harder staying healthy, and I want to be prepared.
Thank you for wishing me good luck. I don’t play the slots, just craps and blackjack.
Tucker: The good people of Memphis of a century ago would be shocked at what the city has become.
Jarek: No they wouldn’t, but they would know how to put things right. Blacks were afraid of the good people back then, because back then Whites wouldn’t take any shit from them. Be good – or else.
Tucker knows the truth (thanks to his White Nationalist writer/mentor), but he obviously can’t say it, so instead he brings up examples of cities destroyed by Blacks. He says they were destroyed by “riots” fifty years ago. Riots by who, Tuck?
Oh you don’t like it? That’s your prerogative. But it changes nothing. This is what Jefferson predicted if they weren’t sent away. Vigilance and the real threat of force, legal or otherwise, was the price to be paid for failure in that regard. We were guilt tripped about it, so we stopped paying or were forced to stop paying. So now we have the current situation where we live in fear of them and flee, only to have them follow us.
You are not alone.
There were several reasons why the Berlin Wall was built , but the only reason ever mentioned is the reason that makes us look bad.
Considering that at least three fourths of the Hermit Kingdom has been living in a world made by hand since 1990 , you might think it would get some respect from doomsday preppers.
But even on CFN it just gets dismissive scorn.
The other day I saw a movie about Bobby Sands. The Brits sent assigned a nurse to his care with U . D . A . tattooed on his nuckles.
I doubt the average American would even know what the UDA was.
On this side of the pond the Ulster Protestants scarcely even get mentioned.
I’m not so sure that’s any better than being demonized ?
Gee , why should the Palestinians be pissed that some aliens have been put in charge of their country ?
I suspect sometimes empathy or sympathy for American Indians is a covert way of saying the Statue of Liberty is an ugly bitch.
The list goes on.
You have no People. No North Star to sate your sympathies upon. Your is the tragedy of the half breed, the outcase, the no caste. Thus your sympathies go to other outcastes first and foremost, if not exclusively. I feel for thee, but I have a race and a nation, unlike you. Clearly both dying, but who knows? A rebirth may be possible.
I’m meeting more Hispanics lately. I’m impressed with how well many of them are assimilating. Not my first choice of course, but they can help us keep this nation ours, or at least part of it.
I’d still like one of the fragments to be all White, but one must take what one can get.
Messianic…what’s a magaphobe? You tell me and we’ll both know.
Someone who has an irrational fear of Making America Great Again.
I read some of criminal profiling book of John Douglas, a pioneer in the field. This guy was definitely the impulsive type. He saw, he liked, he struck. No planning Of course not completely – he was driving around perhaps looking for a victim.
Douglas gave an example of a more pure type. A young socialite was driving home from another city and stopped to use the bathroom in a fast food place that had just opened. The guy who had opened was an ex-con, a rapist who “was trying to get his life together” and this was the best job he could get. She was too beautiful, they were alone, and he couldn’t resist. In the struggle, he ended up stabbing her in the heart. They both wept. She knew she was going to die. And he knew that he had just finished destroying his life. He had shit where he ate. He might have called for an ambulance, but it was too late. The creep (a White) had stabbed her in the heart with the prep knife.
Liberal or Court Historians will never tell you that one quarter of those lynched in the Old South were White. They really had little tolerance for criminals. “We” have no tolerance for non-criminals. All the cops are criminals, and all the criminals, saints.
They also won’t tell you the lions share of lynchings were outside the South.
” “We” have no tolerance for non-criminals. All the cops are criminals, and all the criminals, saints.
”
If you mean that literally , I agree literally.
That was about 20 years ago , but in the Virginia jails I used to visit at least one – third of the inmates were in for child support.
And another one – third were in for drugs that were perfectly legal when Norman Rockwell America was something other than primarily propaganda.
You think criminals are saints, Kesa? Your antinominalism is getting the better of you I’m afraid. Think that’s compatible with the teachings of the Church? Think again.
Perhaps you are a typical American Catholic ?
I.e. still haven’t figured out that you are the criminal.
Discriminate better: We’re all sinners, or spiritual criminals at the level of being. That’s not the same as being an actual criminal, a rapist or a murderer.
And of course, some crimes aren’t always wrong and thus aren’t automatic sins. But serious crimes like murder and rape are mortal sins.
There’s two famous latin terms for the distinction between the types of crime:
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Malum prohibitum (plural mala prohibita, literal translation: “wrong [as or because] prohibited”) is a Latin phrase used in law to refer to conduct that constitutes an unlawful act only by virtue of statute, as opposed to conduct that is evil in and of itself, or malum in se.
” Think that’s compatible with the teachings of the Church? ”
The teachings of the Church aren’t compatible with the Church.
If the Church ever ceases to be a Sovereign state , we will be lower than Moonies or Jehovah’s Witnesses.
You would think a National Socialist would know that the name of the game is power ,
Not pedos , or how Priests dress , or that Sola Scriptura horse shit.
The Church isn’t the Church! Good Kesa. Especially now, but to a much lesser extent, never.
St Bernard thundered against the Knightly Tournaments. Any who died during them would go to hell. Thankfully he was ignored. Men must live!
His model was that of the Papacy as the Sun and the King (and the secular realm) as the moon taking its light from the former. What is needed is the Doctrine of the Two Suns, with the King another Sun and of equal dignity, chosen by God via the natural process. Thus the secular realm would cease to be an abomination in comparison to the Pope, Bishops, and Priests.
Yes, Mary has the better part (contemplation), but is not Martha (activity) also a saint who served our Lord in her way? Thus the Pope would have the right to shine spiritual light upon the secular order, but the King would have final say in this, his appointed realm.
“St Bernard thundered against the Knightly Tournaments. Any who died during them would go to hell. Thankfully he was ignored. Men must live!”
Here’s my limited view of how things went in the Middle Ages. People have silly ideas about what it was like to be a high ranking blueblood or a royal during the centuries that feudalism was in force. Young males born into high status or royal families started intense military training at ages as young as six. Princes were all expected through officer training, and many of them served as leaders on battlefields. This was true down to the last days of the House of Wittelsbach, with crown prince Rupprecht also being a WWI German war hero and commanding general of Germany’s 6th army. His group won a lot of battles and performed very well.
It seems that if young blue bloods simply couldn’t take the miseries and horrors of military training and battlefield life, they would find themselves going to seminary instead to later become bishops and arch bishops. Your respective royal families will be quiet happy to send you off to live a comfy and safe life in church hierarchy, but the downside is you will not be having any royal offspring – your own personal bloodline will end with you. Your blueblood family will be working as hard as possible to turn out bad ass battlefield princes and earls, they need military leaders. They will not be looking to polute a royal bloodline with sissies that would rather dress in robes and spend long hours in study. What they want their young robber barons doing instead is training on horseback to skewer an enemy. The Knightly Tournaments were the equivalent of today’s Blue Angels air shows. Every now and then one crashes and burns, but nobody today would suggest they’ll be burned yet one more time in hell.
Well said, Woodrow. St Bernard was no pacifist – he wrote the charter for the Knights Templar. Medieval man knew there was something higher, we do not. Some of them forgot to honor the lower however.
What is the purpose of putting someone in jail for not paying child support?
How are they supposed to rectify the situation? That’s utter bullshit.
@ MaryQueen:
The way it works in Kansas is, the dad who is late paying child support is sent a letter ordering him to report to jail for the weekend. Normally, they pay up. I assume that dads who don’t pay up will be ordered to spend every weekend in jail until they do–though I’ve never known of such a case.
If mama ain’t happy…
“And another one – third were in for drugs that were perfectly legal when Norman Rockwell America was something other than primarily propaganda.”
Yes, there was a time when all towns and cities had apothecary shops where you could purchase a myriad of different preparations made from plants. This was back in the days before United States nanny gov’t arrived, and our government took upon iself the task of protecting us from the dangers of “unauthorized” plants. The US government went so far as to outlaw the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, all of these beverages are made from fermented plants. Somehow, Congress became so stupid and delusional that it decided its role was to be to protect us from evil plants. Typical examples being cannabis and opium poppies. Both plants have very legitimate medical uses and codiene was available in every apothecary shop for treating bad chest colds and flu. Not anymore. We don’t have the ability to win a war against these dangerous plants and can’t prevent them from hurting us without government assistance in the fight. And of course, the only way to win the fight against evil plants is to put people in jail.
The best comment on Prohibition I ever heard ,
From a movie called , Prince of the City ,
Spoken by an ex – cop , and referring to the 1970’s ;
” The war on drugs will never end. Too many politicians , judges , lawyers , cops , court stenographers, probation officers , and correctional officers are making too much money off of it. “
Wiki
Independence Hall is a historic civic building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in which both the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted by America’s Founding Fathers.
Biden gave his Satanic speech at Independence Hall last week. I missed this fact and am only now realizing it and its significance. This is part of the Mandate of the New America, where 1619 and Blacks are enshrined and 1776, White history, and Whites themselves are either diminished, torn down, erased and/or forgotten.
Beneath Blacks will be the immigrants and people of color. Except the Northeast Asians of course – way too White acting. And lowest of all, a despised underclass ruthlessly discriminated against, will be the the Whites themselves.
The White Mandarins will pour down hatred upon them unceasingly, anything to spare the Eye from turning upon their pale selves. Let the Blacks and other savage them? Why, of course! Howsoever much you desire, good sirs and dames!
A few years back a journalist was interviewing some business big shot who did business in both the US , and China.
The subject of Chinese corruption came up , and they talked about that.
Then the journalist said it must be nice to come home .
The business man replied ,
No , corruption is worse in the US.
Just a lot more subtle , which is also worse.
In China you blatantly know who to bribe , how much , and why.
In America it is never spoken , but there. And you better figure it out by yourself.
Good point. I’ve heard that too. Once or twice a year you take the right person(s) out to dinner. At an opportune moment, you thank them, showing as much sincerity as you can (this is important), and you produce the envelope and hand it to them.
A ritual. Do it wrong as in too casually or resentfully and you will regret it. Confucian culture.
Greasing the wheels in unions may not be time honored, but it certainly is a ‘tradition’. It’s all covert, but the grapevine speaks. ‘Business’ within the business, from the blue-collar up on to the white-collar ranks.
I’ve noticed for a while that it basically seems like part of what has happened, which I believe Mr K pointed out, and perhaps others as well is that the lukewarm center of kumbaya consensus has totally collapsed and melted away. In the void has rushed in the churning floodwaters of the MAGA “far right” and the honest to God communist “far left”. And it seems like whatever that mix is becoming it is the emerging center.
Tucker had Jackson Hinkle on tonight. Jackson has an up and coming channel on youtube, The Dive. He’s on rumble and locals and he was kicked off twitch. Anywayz, he is ultra pro-Putin, an avowed communist and also an America First patriot. I’ve watched his vids for a while now and understand that many people who consider themselves real communists are fully embracing MAGA and America First. I recall seeing The Atlantic one time refer to Trump and MAGA as the new Leninists. Maybe its all coming full circle now.
SSL
??.
Trump a Leninist, a Communist?
Now I have heard everything. That is like calling Joe McCarthy a Communist.
This man has dedicated himself to tearing down the Liberal structure that has paralyzed this country top to bottom.
And only him.
Communism. The government owns all capital and the means of production. So 1% of the population, the Party, controls everything.
Entrepreneurship with its advantages is condemned as it puts one element before another. Communism requires total dedication to the state, hence no religion.
Putin is a nationalist, not a Communist.
The enemy of this country and the world are the globalists, not the nationalists. Each group of folks have their own strengths and weaknesses and need to be governed thusly.
America is making a huge mistake trying to go global. Elements as diverse as present here will never have common goals. As the country dissolves, two nationalistic countries, Russia and China, will rise triumphant.
The end of Trump, which may be coming, may be the end of the 48% populist movement in the country. The victory of the Globalists.
Well that was something printed in The Atlantic that I was referring to. Trump himself says he is a nationalist so I take his word for it over The Atlantic. But also I was just noticing that it appears that actual real communists are much closer to nationalist MAGA than what people think. Or at least the communists in the orbit of Hinkle and some others I have come across on youtube. Who knows it could be an intel operation but I try to at least take things at face value at first. I personally think the populist movement is well beyond 48%. The globalists maybe only have 3-5% support when their agenda is laid bare. When they lie and deceive sure they get more support. The globalists have the advantage of capital and institutional power. But they don’t have much else. IMHO
Just to let you know.,
There are fifty years of American’s that fought against USSR Communism that would consider that trying to equate communism with MAGA is a total insult, others that they are fighting words.
A big part of elderly MAGA is comprised of those Communist haters.
Including me.
BTW, again, Putin and his oligarchies are NOT USSR communists.
Yes, it seems a poor choice. On the other hand, you and your cohort love Capitalism, which funds Communism. So you folks don’t have a real let to stand on either in truth.
You people allied with Communism to crush Nationalism. More truth that you don’t want to think about.
correction: leg not let
I never heard of him before, but who knows? The old words, like Left and Right, mean nothing anymore. So maybe he’s redefined them? Perhaps not even bothered to tell people? Hopeless confusion, even if his heart is in the right place.
People are raving about Fascism since the speech. Or rather, “semi-Fascism”. Neither side knows what Fascism so they don’t know what semi-Fascism is either except something BAD.
Islander thinks that National Socialist economics were Communist, with the Party owning everything. Given her character structure, it would be almost impossible to change her mind about that. Someone pulled it out their ass and gave it to her when she was in a receptive mood. Now it’s HERS and it has to be right.
Yeah, I just started watching some of his streams like maybe six months ago or so. But I don’t agree with a lot of his philosophy but some things make a lot of sense. If I had to guess I would say i do think his heart is in the right place. He does say that he absolutely cannot stand the Left or liberals/neocons and he is very nationalist and hates the globalists and WEF and all.
Maybe he’s a National Socialist, but because that’s forbidden, he’s has to call himself a Communist – which is not. Liberalism won out and they’ve always been moving leftwards. So now the Communists have all but taken over the Democrat Party, thus revealing the real nature of Communism as a subsidiary of Corporate Capitalism.
Anyway, his conflation might serve us. It worked for the Chinese. They’re National Socialists now, and that was without ever saying the word or repudiating Communism. National Socialism works and is real; Communism doesn’t work and isn’t real, being just the offensive arm of Global Capitalism.
WTF?
“USA ?? High School Athlete has 6 foot of Blood Clots removed from his legs…You guessed it, once again The Doctors are baffled…”
https://twitter.com/risemelbourne/status/1567342062072393734?cxt=HHwWjMDTtaTTqMArAAAA
Lines up withall the reports we have seen coming from medical professionals finding similar clots/long fibrous structures in autopsies of the “vaccinated.”
Metallic (tin, aluminum, gadolinium) conductive material that self-replicates, especially when communicating with 5G EMFs and the like, the easier to track one with. That’s if the ever-growing circuitry doesn’t block your veins and arteries first.
Oh. Of course…the 5G, and self-replicating …METALS????in your blood stream? That’s all real huh?
Would you please explain how metal can ‘self-replicate’?
As The Night Howler Monkey would say “Show your workings”.
“Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes.”
SF does not have to explain the hidden science of how TPTB are obviously running a global genocide, RL. You act like if SF can’t explain (on CFN) exactly how these evil scientists, after decades of illegal, sick experimentation, are growing this shit in billions of us, then we’ll be back to normal real soon.
OG – can YOU explain how metal can be made to ‘self-replicate’? No, I didn’t think so.
The rest of your remark is the usual “the big guys are evil and out to get me!”.
SF, there is a recent interview with Dr. Lee Merritt where she gets into this.
N.O.,
Thanks. Have seen others, including the guy who isolated all the atomic elements in a lab, but not her. Will check out her interviews.
Just watched one podcast. Merritt focuses on mitochondria. I like her already.
I wish the Buteyko breathing leaders (not the leading marketers) would chime in with their angle (CO2 importance over oxygen intake), but, unfortunately, their focus is too narrow, and they’re essentially apolitical.
Interesting comment on Buteyko.
Overbreathing is quite common these days, and leads to a host of ailments.
Shameless putz of an anus licker. Your masochism is deep and dark, but I spurn your desire to be sodomized. I’ve debased you enough already. Please stop your attacks, I’ve told you already, I can pleasure you no more. I don’t mean to be cruel.
For the night gnat of course, who attacked me above, seeking his pleasure.
I simply pointed out what a crowd-surfing pussy you are.
You can’t even stay consistent within your own world view.
LOL.
When did open-mindedness and evolution become flip-flopping, back-peddling and inconsistency?
When I was a kid, back in the ’70s, consistently looking at new information (from a wide spectrum of sources) to evolve and even radically change one’s opinion was a good thing. When I was a kid, doing otherwise gave the MIC carte blanche to keep sending young American men home in body bags.
You do always try to be on both sides of issues. You see the horrors Blacks are inflicting on America, but then in the next breath you’ll be talking about how cool interracial sex is.
You had to make an absolute choice anent the Vax – and you chose wrong.
Stop lying.
tucson, he can’t.
Mary likes you now! That’s an indictment.
A reply from me doesn’t indicate like or not like.
It’s just a response to that comment.
An oldie but a goodie -1986, and nothing has changed.
youtu.be/EOzc0_bfSvc
‘Texas is still paying for John F Kennedy’s death, my friends…’
Liz Truss becomes UK Prime Minister!
“Leading offices in UK Government contains no White Men”-BBC
On the Lotus Eaters channel they were running video of a multicultural event in a London neighborhood that occurred during the summer — two large groups of African men & women in a machete fight on the streets, about 100 tribesmen hacking away at one another — IN LONDONTOWN. I remember my uncle telling me about his time in England before the Normandy Invasion — how polite, in the face of adversity, the English people were. Well, what changed? Obviously, it’s not the same country.
Nope, not the same country. However, many of the “invaders” are from warm climates. We’re entering a grand solar minimum that happens on average of every 200 years, and things change to either drought or cold and wet, depending on where you are due to big changes in the shape of the jet stream. It’s traditionally a time of famine, war, and much colder weather.
I’m guessing that after some years of chaos, people freezing to death in their homes in winter, and little to no food etc. etc, many of the “invaders” will pack up and go back to whatever southern climate they came from.
Unless, of course, they are dead from their machete wounds.
“BlueAnon used to go hard and say Trump was a full-on Russian agent. There were hookers and dirty Moscow stuff and everything
Now they’re reduced to saying the National Librarian has accused him of a filing error”
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1566891102191452161?cxt=HHwWgoC8vfvJ274rAAAA
LOL.
Loss:
My dog of 13 years was battling hip dysplasia to the point she could no longer get up off the floor unaided nor go to the bathroom without aid and support. She would randomly just give up when I took her outside for short walks to relieve herself and I would have to physically carry her and at 100 pounds she was damn heavy.
The last several days she was panting non-stop, not eating, and drinking water at extreme rates even with her being on a strong pain control drug and a SSRI it was obvious she was going downhill faster and faster.
The thing is she was still happy, still got excited when we came him from work and was generally involved in anything she was able to be involved in. She was also not showing any other problems other than a wasting of her hind legs which I am told is normal for this condition.
My wife and I made the decision to put her to sleep yesterday and it was the fucking hardest decision I have ever had to make.
The house seems so empty, and my wife is crying pretty much non-stop.
The worst part of the experience we both wanted to be there to send her off to doggy heaven and I REALLY regret all of it. Including watching them murder my dog.
Trying to tell myself we were keeping her alive not for her benefit but ours. Words fail to describe how heart-breaking loosing pets to old age is I can’t for the life of me figure out how people want another dog after having one and watching it wind down fall apart and die.
Heart broken~
Sorry for the post.
Benr,
You have my sympathy.
Mine, too. God bless you and your wife, Ben.
The pain won’t always be this fresh and you will remember the good life far more than the painful end.
Oh gosh I’m really sorry to hear of your loss benr. I totally understand and I have alot of doubts and keep telling myself I will never want a pet again once the little kitty I am currently taking care of now goes to feline heaven. The loss is just too much to bear. You love them so much that it hurts you physically and emotionally and mentally to see them sick or uncomfortable but you’ll do anything to keep them as happy and healthy as possible. I’ll keep you and your wife in my prayers today and just hope that through it all that ya’ll can have peace knowing you did all you could. You’re always going to second guess yourself but try not to torture yourself. These are very very difficult choices to begin with and we do the very best we can.
Sorry for your loss. I felt the same when we had to put down our cat after 15 years. Afterward, I very nearly broke down when I cleaned out and removed his litter box. I was miserable for a month. I still miss him terribly. I have his picture on the wall in my office and I talk to him from time to time. Losing a pet has to be one of the very worst human experiences. I really sympathize with you.
Life is loss, benr ,life is loss
How absolutely awful of you
Ya think? 13 y.o. dogs die. We all know that.
You’re being very cold. It doesn’t matter. You are supposed to be supportive and kind when someone is hurting and here the both of you are just stating a fact in a casual and cold way.
Here you see a hint of the sociopath dry drunk persona come out for everyone to see.
Anyone else getting it, yet?
You jumped the gun. That line I wrote, “Life is loss” in no way was written to minimize the loss of Benr’s pet. I have cried my eyes out over the death of pets I have had. It was just a general statement. Life IS Loss.
“Having a pet is a risk – you always have the grief ahead. But that’s the flip side of love.”
Then again, what should I have expected from a bunch of people who support a monster who tells grieving parents that the horrible death of their children was a false flag.
The delivery came across as cold. Sometimes tone is literally everything. But I do appreciate your clarification and certainly am heartened to hear of your empathy. I mean, it is true that love hurts. So I certainly wasn’t addressing anything you said on a factual level. Thank you.
Just when I was trying to be nice.
You know what. Excuse you. First of all I never participated in that conversation regarding Sandy Hook. So the fact that you are going to attempt to drag me into that and include me in that to further something shows that I did “jump the gun”. You’re being cold hearted and cruel and your being put on notice for it
Benr, condolences. Man’s best friend is an apt description for our loyal companions. Problem is that they don’t live nearly long enough. I’ve been there several times. Last time was in February and we had a traveling vet come to the house and had it done right at home in his own bed. Lymphoma took him in 6 weeks. I was never aware that was a thing before. Very peaceful. We could have more family there and spend more time afterwords. The vet disappeared for a while and made up a really nice plaster paw print and some fur memorials.
Benr
Part of the responsibility of owning a pet is knowing when to let go of them when the time is right.
The time is right when the pet is in so much pain that they are no longer able to function. Medical science has given us the idea that all sickness including old age is repairable, that there is always a future. Not true, All earthbound creatures die at a certain point.
Dogs have a definite lifetime with some set by infirmities inherent to their breed. Yours was a large breed which all have the rear extremity problems. Your dog did very well. BTW, you had another problem coming, probably, with the excessive thirst being diabetes
I hope you are separating your grief from guilt. It is hard to hurt or kill anything but you did your “duty” for your dog. He/she is probably saying thank you for that. No guilt!!
The grief is horrible. They are family members. One solution after an appropriate time is the next generation of a smiley bouncy pup to lighten your day. Dogs are meant to be our companions. People forget though that we are meant to be theirs.
So sorry for your loss. Looking forward to hearing about new canine adventures.
Well-said, JAZ. You are a good man. Thank you.
We had to give up our GSD. Was one of the most difficult things I have ever done.
Give the dog some “gummies” and a rare grilled tomahawk, then some water hemlock
So sorry benr, it’s hard when they go. I’ve had a few of them that have died, more than average because I did dog rescue/fostering for 15 years. It doesn’t get easier but I guess I learned how to cope with the loss better.
*virtue signal*
You’ve definitely got it bad. I think Night Owl is spot on. Just can’t leave me alone.
What virtue is being signaled?
You are so fucking stupid!
It’s mind-blowing how the guy has absolutely no self-awareness, isn’t it?
Or brains.
I’m sorry for your loss, benr and I understand how you feel about trying to replace the irreplaceable.
When my dog died in 1981 it took me 9 years before I got another one.
It is really hard to see them go.
Well CFN’rs, gather close;
This is one of those “…this is ‘Murica, Dammit!…Can’t happen here” episodes.
The Situational Awareness, this AM reports the usual skullbuggery in DC…
S SEEK GREATER CONTROL OVER GUN PURCHASES: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Representative Madeleine Dean (D-PA), and workers union-owned Amalgamated Bank are pushing payment processors to make a new Merchant Category Code for gun and ammunition sales, allowing for easier tracking of these purchases. MasterCard, Visa, and American Express have so far not given an opinion on the matter. (AC: The additional category code would better enable behavior patterning, making it easier for investigators to identify purchases of firearms and ammunition. CitiBank says the additional code could also be used to restrict purchases for certain individuals, such as those who have lost their Second Amendment rights. This is likely to be used in partisan fashion and increase the chilling effect on the Second Amendment. –
Reread this; “CitiBank says the additional code could also be used to restrict purchases for certain individuals, such as those who have lost their Second Amendment “.
Can anyone say “social scoring”? You know, like the Godless Commies are using in China?
Yeah….restrict purchases…
15 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.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
– Apokalypsis
In my line of reasoning having something in your right hand or in your forehead seems like an i.d. chip> I don’t think, given the current level of technology that this is a very farfetched idea.
Agreed. And that implanted chip will be real-time connected to your social-credit score in the Beast System.
Our Lord is Truly Amazing!
What does ‘lost Second Amendment rights” refer to?
What does ‘lost Second Amendment rights” refer to?
A bunch of reasons. A couple but there more.
Anyone convicted of any crime punishable by incarceration of greater than 12 months even if it is a misdemeanor and they never went to jail loses their rights. Could be a first time DUI in some states. Happened to a friend. DUI in 1994. Can never have a gun.
Anyone who smokes pot or uses any controlled substance and denies it on form 4473 when buying a gun is committing a felony. If caught you would be in deep doodoo unless your last name is Biden.
“If caught you would be in deep doodoo unless your last name is Biden” or Trump, apparently.
Well in Trumps case he has to actually do something illegal.
The most investigated person in the last thirty years and they are now trying to pin him with process crimes because they got nothing.
Could any Democrat stand up to the same scrutiny and trial of public opinion via the heavily invested press?
I think not.
@SF:
Night Owl is a bit of a fudge-packer, I’ll give you that.
@TS (not SF). I apologize for the confusion.
If you have nothing nice to say perhaps you shouldn’t have said nothing at all. The cosmos is trying to tell you something
Perhaps, SSL.
On the other hand, evil thrives when Good people do nothing. Night Owl is claiming to know my motives while also ridiculing TS for not being pig-headed.
If it walks like a fudge-packer and talks like a fudge-packer, it is most likely a fudge-packer.
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You respond to my error and self-correction of mixing up SF & TS yet you disregard my question upstream:
“When did open-mindedness and evolution become flip-flopping, back-peddling and inconsistency?
“When I was a kid, back in the ’70s, consistently looking at new information (from a wide spectrum of sources) to evolve and even radically change one’s opinion was a good thing. When I was a kid, doing otherwise gave the MIC carte blanche to keep sending young American men home in body bags.”
I find that interesting.
I don’t see where Night Owl claims to know your motives. I’m sort of thinking you are just taking advantage of the moment to name call but I won’t assume your motives in the matter as I don’t do things like that. Maybe you were not around when the big steal was unraveling before our eyes. Tucson has certainly evolved on the matter and that is about all i will say on the matter. Tucson is a Sigma so no matter what you do he won’t be there in the end. Evolution can go in all sorts of directions and can be devolution as well. So indeed evolution can be flip flopping, back-peddling and inconsistency. I’m simply letting you know that that can indeed be the case.
Night Owl
September 7, 2022 at 4:20 am #
Mary, this kind of attention only comes from one place — and it ain’t hate.
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This was far from the first time that NO has displayed his fudge-packery here on CFN.
As for his recent treatment of TS, NO ridicules TS for the mere act of changing his mind (i.e. evolving his thoughts) like that is undesirable in and of itself (regardless of context or content).
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Clearly: The man packs fudge.
LMAO, you don’t know what a fudge packer is – dying laughing.
LOL what? Oh Rhett you should know people are going to think you’re obsessed and possibly in love when you focus so deeply on what one person says all the time. That is simply human nature. It doesn’t mean he is that yuck word you are calling him. I’m not going to disagree on your other point as I feel we should try to be civil though sometimes its tough. You are something else Rhett Dawson 🙂
Sensitivity, people! We have a new poster named Fred Fudge or something. A man who is worthy of fudge is a man indeed. But packing it is another story.
I know exactly what I say and what it means.
Yes, I am indeed something else.
Rhett loves Mary.
Two direct hits in one thread.
Sweet.
And Night Owl loves Tucson. And I love Mary too. I just want to help the bitch….
Grow up.
Nobody loves me. I’m a rogue planet
I thought you and Jaros were tight? Or was that Lil’ Tommy Clark? It’s hard to keep track anymore.
I’ve never heard of rogue planets before, but it appears that you are correct and that they are “a thing.”
Dis,
Rogue planets: look up TrES-2b, the farthest discovered exoplanet. I’m waiting for Musk to start an ad campaign. I can think of more than a few candidates to get the first one-way tickets.
You’re not a rogue planet, but rather a wandering star.
Stop plugging up the board with your love letters.
Or get banned again?
My advice is solid, and you know it, mouth.
Rhett Dawson is a typing douche bucket in my humble estimation
Tru storee
“Regrettably, this here blog forum has been hijacked by a bunch of bickering biches. My word!
Look at yourselves!!
Anything more pointless than an anonymous internet feud?
Y’all should be examining why you’re triggered and at each other’s throats.
Makes you feel alive?
That’s because the life your living is a dead one”
God bless you, Karen.
Seconded.
Get back to packing fudge.
Agree with Night: Karen is a fudge packing douche.
I didn’t know you were the Banner. Are you also the author of The Gay Science?
To everyone, especially TS.
Was the election fixed?
Yes? No?
My question is
How the hell do you know one way or the other?
Easy, none of you have a clue!!!!
Why? Because the investigatory stem of the government is paralyzed by the Deep State.
When Trump’s lawyers asked for election information, they were refused. TS Rusty Bowers.
When affidavits were put forward by whistleblowers, they were denied by Leftist and RINO judges, federal and state.
Another clue is the continuation of the war against Trump by the Deep State, how come they cannot be good winners and let it go. Because they are still afraid of Trump’s message, the preservation of Constitutional America.
Redneck, TS, And others, you have no evidence that the election was legal, and all you MAGAs, that it was fixed.
Nobody ever looked to see one way or the other.
Proof, if a full investigation of the election had been done, it would have taken at least a year. It took Jill Stein’s recounts in five states four months. Trump’ s investigation with a couple of exceptions was terminated, not resolved, immediately by the judiciary owned by the Deep State.
This was and continues to be a war between the MAGA folks and the global led Deep State.
Not GOP vs, Dems.
This war is self evident and may be resolved with parturition, probably.
In the meantime, thanks to the evident corruption of the ballot box, as evidenced by the ignored affidavits, election results are meaningless, hence the vote is meaningless.
Did you ever think that the reason Trump continues to be under attack by the Deep State is that they realize with the closeness of the population divide between MAGA and the Deep State, the next national election will be under such scrutiny that 2020 will not be repeated? They want Trump out of the picture. In the spirit of Constitutional America, and the balance of powers,
Why?
And how illegal and evidenced of corruption is what is going on re. Trump.
Also, remember that TJ said that overthrow of a corrupt government is needed periodically.
Exactly, what do you think the spirit of Jan. 6 was all about.
There is quite a bit of evidence that the election was fixed.
There is no evidence that it was clean, because proving it was clean is impossible.
So far, proving it wasn’t is equally impossible.
When one does not look at this evidence, this is one’s perspective.
This is one of many reasons why you are CFN’s resident dunce.
No one else even comes close.
Red neck, white hat and blue gibbon jeer.
“A bit”
There was a bit of bat flu too
Not according to our other resident “Karen”, who says it simply doesn’t exist.
“Exactly, what do you think the spirit of Jan. 6 was all about.”
What I saw was an army of useful idiots, primed and set alight by lying grifters. Just because you didn’t ‘attend’ in person, JohnAZ, you were just as culpable in spirit, and just as duped (and remain so).
“When Trump’s lawyers asked for election information, they were refused. TS Rusty Bowers.”
Rusty Bowers – a true Republican. He voted for Trump, both in 2016 & 2020 (and says he would again if he stands).
But, JohnAZ, he has moral fibre and when asked to do something illegal, he refused to be bullied or harassed. He followed “the law” and the constitution of his state. His reward? Primaried by a MAGA fuckwit, and now being vilified by the MAGA mob, to the point of threatening him and his family. Yes, that sure sounds like the sort of ‘mob’ *I’D* want running my government – not.
I also note you wrote “all you MAGA…” like you’re not one of them. Is that correct, or do we have THREE classes of Republicans now – RINOs, MAGAts & JohnAZs?
He was not asked to do anything illegal, he was a RINO who was there to block the fraud investigation.
Arizona finally did an”investigation” which ended up being just a recount which narrowed the gap slightly. No investigation of ballot stuffing or computer manipulation at all.
Fellow MAGAS, okay? My point that you Obviously missed is that due to the Deep State stranglehold on the country, the election validity will never be proven, nor any in the future.
“He was not asked to do anything illegal, he was a RINO who was there to block the fraud investigation.”
Bullshit. See his testimony for the facts.
All this “Deep State” and “he was there to block the fraud investigation” is just nonsense, made up to support the phony-baloney narrative of a rigged election.
Bannon, the principal shit-stirrer of the MAGAts, said (in taped conversation) in October 2020, “If Trump loses, he’ll simply say he won”.
From 2:30 –
youtube.com/watch?v=UihplOTY_vI
The evidence is all over buster so what if Bannon said something.
Your false narrative is utter insanity.
The more cogent question as a foreigner why do you care so much you are willing to lie non-stop in favor of a rogue political platform and push their false narrative about the other side?
Magaphobe, pure and simple.
So, let me get this straight if it goes against Trump ANYTHING GOES? Any number of twisting events and narrative so long as it makes Trump look bad and people who support him as well.
Yet not a peep out of you when key Democrat nuts were demanding people accost Trump cabinet members and the supreme court?
Not a peep out of you as entire cities were burned and looted, not a peep out of you as people are attacked beaten up.
Piss off you’re an idiot.
I think that enough evidence was revealed to prove the election was stolen.
Just because the msm says there wasn’t, and redneck agrees, does not negate the facts.
And Jan 6th was not about overthrowing the government, it was about using Constitutional processes to ensure an honest election.
The riot was clearly a Deep State false flag. “False flag” means that an event rolls out and another party is blamed for it.
(That’s for the idiots who think that ‘false flag’ means the event did not happen.)
The rioters were not MAGA people, they were facilitated by top Capitol police insiders, and the media was immediately delivering the same script they have stuck to since then, including during the televised show trial “investigation”.
That’s a clue right there. No fog of war for false flags, the script is already prepared and followed.
Thanks Paula, this is spot on.
Deluded!
From 2:30
youtube.com/watch?v=UihplOTY_vI
Hey dim bulb how do you account for the capitol police opening up federal buildings?
I said it right after the mostly peaceful Jan 6 event the people behaving poorly where antifa plants and paid provocateurs.
My fellow patriots,
I’m a January 6th political prisoner being held in the DC-Gulag. My name is Sean McHugh. I’m being held in very inhumane conditions in the DOJ’s effort to try and make me plead guilty under duress. I believe they are trying to do this because I had direct contact as seen on video with Ray Epps, an individual who has been reported by multiple media sources to possibly have FBI connections and involvement for incitement. At the very least he appears to be a government cutout protected by a lawyer who was formally known as an employee of the FBI. In fact, the FBI has covered for him by scrubbing his name from the most wanted list for January 6th after real journalism exposed his identity.
I encountered Ray Epps, the real de facto leader of January 6th 2021, multiple times while in D.C. I had coincidental contact with Ray Epps throughout the day and people who appeared to be working in concert with Ray Epps. Other than Capitol Police attacking peaceful protesters without provocation or warning, Ray Epps was more responsible for initiating the events that happened at the Capitol than anyone else. He is seen on video January 5th encouraging other patriots to go inside the Capitol which is the very inception of the whole idea to actually go inside. However, he is still not indicted or spent one day in jail.”
thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/ray-epps-recruited-political-prisoner-writes-tell-letter-prison-experience-notorious-operative-ray-epps/
the list: revolver.news/?s=Ray+epps
NY Post
A teacher in Ireland has been suspended from work and then jailed for contempt of court after he refused to use the correct pronouns to address a transgender student.
Enoch Burke was arrested on Monday for violating a court order barring him from teaching at Wilson’s Hospital School in Westmeath, or even being present there, the news site RTE.ie reported.
Judge Michael Quinn found Burke guilty of violating an order made by the High Court last week and sent him to Mountjoy Prison, where he will remain until he either purges his contempt, or until further order from the court.
The teacher remained defiant in the face of jail time, telling the judge that “it is insanity” that he will be led out of the courtroom and taken to prison for refusing to give up his Christian beliefs.
“I love my school, with its motto Res Non Verba, actions not words, but I am here today because I said I would not call a boy a girl,” Burke told the court.
The scandal surrounding Burke began unfolding after the educator, who teaches history, politics and German at the school in Multyfarnham, County Westmeath, refused to address a transitioning student as “they” instead of “he.”
Burke’s stance prompted school officials to place him on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of a disciplinary process.
But the teacher refused to stay away from campus, despite an injunction that was issued barring him from going to the school, or attempting to teach.
On Friday, the judge issued an order to arrest Burke after he was found sitting in an empty classroom at the school.
Jarek: The kind of courage that made Ireland. That made America. That makes any nation. Now, alas, all too rare there, here, and everywhere.
Before they revolted, they developed a parallel system. People need to eat after all. It’s all just talk until that is done. Want rebels? Are you willing to offer them work? Support them when they go to jail? Put them up when they get out? Rent to them once they find work?
What the hell happened to Ireland? I’m reading about gangs from the Congo terrorizing the Streets of Dublin, and now this. England, yes. Having watched ‘Brideshead Revisited’ this is the exact sort of thing I would expect in London. In fact, people in London have been arrested by municipal police for mocking the Pride Flag. Well, the Irish Rebellion was a long time ago (1916) — 4 generations on the Irish are a different people apparently, people who cower & scatter when they see groups of Africans in their own capital city, and make sure they call each other by their proper pronouns — or else.
The Marxists know human nature, and how to corrupt it and thus society. It is the mission given to them by their Capitalist masters.
They also know how to exploit it, like that Cohen kid who pumped and dumped BedBath&Begone
‘[…] refused to address a transitioning student as “they” instead of “he.” ‘
Can any of these people write a coherent sentence? How do you address someone as ‘they’ or ‘he’? You can address someone as ‘you’, or in very specific circumstances, ‘thou’. To my mind, that’s about it. If they mean referring to someone in the third person, then perhaps they could say so, assuming they even know what that means.
Speaking of London, somebody help me out here.
In the face of a severe energy shortage in the UK, Liz Truss plans to cap energy prices, and give people subsidies to help pay the utility bills. I’m no economist, but wont this sort of thing lead to blackouts & brownouts? How can you cap the price of oil & natgas when there is no oil & natgas to be had? It doesn’t make sense. The problem is compounded, It will lead to disaster. Meanwhile, in the face of CRIPPLING SANCTIONS, Russia has all the energy resources it needs.
Look at it from the bright side. If there were any oil and natty gas available, it would have been cheaper. If it’s not available, blame them evil Russkies for invading Ukraine. That’s pol speak for don’t blame me, I tried to help, but somebody else screwed ya.
Finance Capitalism wants to control the price of oil. Just don’t ask me how because ever since pre-historic times, prices had been a matter of supply and demand.
Wow. Caveman had petroleum?
Who knew?
Whoosh!
Well, no one actually. BITUMEn was big in Iraq round about 4,000 BC. Still around too.
See ya!
The delivery came across as cold. Sometimes tone is literally everything. But I do appreciate your clarification and certainly am heartened to hear of your empathy. I mean, it is true that love hurts. So I certainly wasn’t addressing anything you said on a factual level. Thank you.
SoftStarLight
September 7, 2022 at 1:00 pm #
Just when I was trying to be nice.
You know what. Excuse you. First of all I never participated in that conversation regarding Sandy Hook. So the fact that you are going to attempt to drag me into that and include me in that to further something shows that I did “jump the gun”. You’re being cold hearted and cruel and your being put on notice for it
You should have quit while you were ahead. I’ll tale Paul Lynde to block,please
Maybe it’s because of an attitude like yours, the score’s Union 1, Rebels ZERO
Attitude? I don’t see any issues with my attitude. I think it’s perfectly fine as I am simply looking out for everyone and making sure they are acknowledged and thought of. So your scoreboard isn’t phasing me because I know i am way more than zero. But you just keep playing those Hollywood Squares and i’ll focus on the deep and important topics. And like I said I never participated in that conversation but were happy to bundle me in with those you wished to accuse.
AOC dodges question on political plans by saying she can’t say if she is ‘going to be alive’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is uncertain if she will still be alive before the end of the month, she said in an interview published Wednesday.
The New York congresswoman was discussing her career as a politician and what the future holds for her and her political party when she was asked if she believes she or someone like her could become president. Ocasio-Cortez responded by saying that “anything is possible” but that her experience as a congresswoman has allowed her to see that “so many people in this country hate women,” she told GQ.
“People ask me questions about the future,” she said. “And realistically, I can’t even tell you if I’m going to be alive in September. And that weighs very heavily on me.”
Ocasio-Cortez clarified that “misogyny transcends political ideology,” saying she has received hate from people beyond the far Right.
Cowbell comments: AOC has some serious mental issues she needs to work through before she even considers running for POTUS. Yet again, look what we have in there now – she might be totally fit for the job!
Thank you for that blub. I think I’ll stay wake tonight to think up something cruel to add to it to be further ‘be put on notice” by our fair southern belle. I got it! How about “so many people hate women in this country and the majority of them are other woman”? Cruel enough?
You should receive a notice each day to let you know that you quite frankly are unhinged and potentially troubling. I understand this technique is an operation of devastation and ravaging and I am not going to succumb to brutality and bullying. I don’t lead people astray but it’s good to know you would so cruelly knife me. I always demure. I always provide appropriate caveats. I’m not a gypsy. You have a lot to think about so you should stay wake tonight and consider the laundry list of your hurtful actions.
People without balls doing “logic”:
1) I am a woman.
2) Many people hate me.
3) Therefore, many people hate ALL women.
Like a monkey riding a bike.
Can’t ignore reality.
The Folly Of Invincible Elites
Auron MacIntyre
Sep 5
Consequences are what humble us, what give us pause when we are about to make a rash mistake. Our losses teach us about the limits of humanity, and those who do not learn from the wisdom they impart are usually setting themselves up for an even bigger disaster. The liberal world order that rules the West has been so dominant for so long that our elites cannot imagine a scenario where there are serious and lasting consequences to the decisions they make. Cultural and economic hegemony have allowed Western leaders to impose incoherent policies of global governance while insulating themselves from any costs those policies might exact. This has granted our elites an illusion of inevitable victory which makes it impossible for them to change course, even when the disastrous results of those policies come crashing through the walls of their ivory tower.
This is why Western nations have been willing to outsource energy production to hostile nations like Russia, and then turn around and fight a proxy war with that provider over a client state like Ukraine. Western powers have been seeking to isolate and antagonize a weakened Russia for decades through economic sanctions and NATO expansion, yet they did not hesitate to make that nation key to their energy supply. Our leaders assumed it was safe to push forward with their own domestic green energy agendas because they would always be able to draw more reliable fossil fuels from foreign sources. The ambitions of nations like Russia could always be contained by the “international community” and so even as Putin made it clear he intended to defy the West and send troops into Ukraine, European and American leaders continued their march towards green energy without hesitation.
The liberal world order felt confident that its economic superiority would break Putin’s resolve and quickly moved to expand sanctions, boycott Russian energy exports, and isolate the rogue nation from international financial services. Again, Western countries had actively chosen to make themselves dependent on foreign energy, but this did not cause them to hesitate for a moment when it came to playing chicken with a nuclear armed nation in Eastern Europe who was providing a large amount of their fossil fuel. The West was confident that Russia would blink, everyone always blinks eventually under the social and financial pressure. But Russia called the bluff, sold its energy to nations like India who had no interest in joining the international boycott, and the ruble has rebounded in value above its pre-war levels.
Europe and America, on the other hand, have faced an energy disaster. The average price of gasoline in America skyrocketed to over $4 a gallon, and while that cost has come down somewhat from its record highs, the cost of electricity continues to climb. Energy grid operators in California are urging customers to reduce power use or face rolling brown out. The situation is far more dire in Europe where some customers are seeing energy bills of more than ten times the normal rate. Many businesses that have been open for hundreds of years are saying that they will need to close due to the outrageous increase in operating costs. It does not matter what the average European will lose in this reckless game of Russian roulette, Western elites cannot imagine a scenario where their strategy fails and so all they can do is urge their people to freeze and go bankrupt in the name of democracy.
Despite these devastating price increases and the faltering reliability of Western power grids, our elites refuse to slow their push towards electric vehicles. They are, in fact, only interested in accelerating the process. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has said repeatedly that higher gas prices have the positive effect of forcing the average American to purchase extremely costly electric vehicles. In a time where California is increasingly unsure that it will be able to deliver basic electrical services to its residents, the state is enacting a policy that will ban the sale of gasoline cars by 2035. The ruling class already set these plans in motion years ago, and have invested both their financial and political capital in their success. These elites cannot imagine a scenario in which they fail, in which they suffer a consequence for their hubris, and so all they know how to do is double down.
This folly of invincibility can also be seen in the current domestic politics of the United States. In a country that was already experiencing radical political polarization, President Biden has chosen to accelerate the rhetorical arms race by referring to his political opponents as semi-fascists. The barely coherent commander-in-chief now regularly mentions in his public appearances how easy it would be to bomb the citizens of his own nation with F-15 fighter jets. Just in case anyone was not getting the hint, Biden reinforced his message by giving a national primetime address this week in front of a blood-red backdrop flanked by uniformed marines where he declared MAGA Republicans a threat to democracy and a danger to the country. Anyone who was not trying to destroy the United States would understand that this escalation of divisive rhetoric is extremely dangerous, but that is exactly what the American Left are banking on. They hope that by repeatedly kicking the dog hard enough they will be able to make it bite, and then use that reaction as justification for expanding their power.
Our ruling class has an unbroken string of victories reaching beyond their living memory, and they cannot imagine a world in which they are not the undisputed masters of the universe. The political machine our leaders inherited has always worked no matter how hard they have pushed the boundaries, and they believe it always will. Any evidence of failure is only an indication that they are not applying sufficient pressure. Increasingly, moderation or course correction are simply not an option. These leaders see no problem with removing all the off-ramps that could save their nations from political and economic ruin because they can only envision a scenario where they emerge more powerful, more dominant, and more wealthy.
That’s an awful lot of mansplainin’ to make a simple point:
the western elite rule this world, they have a lot, they want it all
When has this not been the case?
Well, late 19th and 20th century America. Europe had the bourgeoise. This was a blip, and it’s ending. These insanely wealthy people don’t want to compete for their prestige, and the Brahmans can’t compete but they have the American legacy still in their pocket. They intend to keep it.
I’m sorry but the rest of you are serfs with 75” tv’s and dumb-phones
Western elites’ were counting on their sanctions bringing Russia down.
Then they would be able to help themselves to the natgas they need for their “green transition.”
That was the plan, especially in Germany.
But at the drop of a hat, or a hint, or a threat of some kind, they bailed out of their carefully thought out plan and went along with the sanctions. They even bailed out of Nord Stream 2—which they has ASKED Russia to build. Huge amounts of Western capital are tied up in the pipeline (Gazprom invested 50%).
All I can imagine is that Western elites thought that by the time push came to shove, they or their political proxies in Russia would be the ones opening and closing the valves in Yamal.
Oops!
Furthermore, many prominent Russian climatologists are convinced that we are headed for global cooling, not warming.
Many Western climatologists have reached the same or similar conclusions regarding the extent of anthropogenic influences on the climate—but you have to search in obscure corners of the internet to find them.
I meant:
. . . which Germany had asked Russia to build, alongside Nord Stream 1.
@NO:
When did open-mindedness and evolution of thought/opinion become flip-flopping, back-peddling and inconsistency?
When I was a kid, back in the ’70s, consistently looking at new information (from a wide spectrum of sources) to evolve and even radically change one’s opinion was a good thing. When I was a kid, doing otherwise gave the MIC carte blanche to keep sending young American men home in body bags.
Those years are gone Lance. The counterculture got countered
The point is not Nam, Karen.
The point is that open-mindedness is no reason for scorn while pig-headedness is no reason for admiration.
No lanced pimple,
Your counterculture types got folded into big brother’s machinations. They got co-opted and not the natural grocer kind. Those same people that protested Vietnam got suited up, learned harvest moon on acoustic, and stuffed those 401k’s
“Ad hom. Red herring.”
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Insulting someone for changing their opinion is lameass and corrupt. We should all be encouraged to examine and re-examine our beliefs.
Agree completely.
In some cases, they always worked for the establishment and just put on a show.
You missed the point anyways, as you are unfamiliar with the history of the spineless Boomer twerp I was responding to.
His position has not truly changed. That was the point. Read between the lines.
He has a history of celebrating the fascist tactics being used against you when he thinks his side has the upper hand, only to temper it for a period until he thinks he has you again.
He is a sack of shit. The lack of perception among some around here is truly incredible.
Regrettably, this here blog forum has been hijacked by a bunch of bickering biches. My word!
Look at yourselves!!
Anything more pointless than an anonymous internet feud?
Y’all should be examining why you’re triggered and at each other’s throats.
Makes you feel alive?
That’s because the life your living is a dead one
Evil thrives when good people do nothing.
Democracy Dies in Doucheness
“Makes you feel alive?”
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You take hypocrisy to a whole new level. Karen. You claim the high road while sniping in the gutter.
That whole paragraph was a better way to spell “fart”
LOL
“For some of us, this is a movie with a happy ending
Don’t the hours grow shorter as the days go by?
We never get to stop and open our eyes
One minute you’re waiting for the sky to fall
Next you’re dazzled by the beauty of it all
Lovers in a dangerous time
These fragile bodies of touch and taste
This fragrant skin, this hair like lace
Spirits open to thrust of grace,
Never a breath you can’t afford to waste.”
When you’re lovers in a dangerous time,
Sometimes you’re made to feel as if your love’s a crime
Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight
You gotta kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight
Lovers in a dangerous time
Bruce Cockburn is a national treasure!
I read he comes from an indigenous Canadian family whose village was wiped out by syphilis
Yes. Humans 1980 was my introduction (and end of interest in) Mr. Cockburn, OG. His religiosity I found to be overwhelming…turns out he’s a ‘fecking commie’!
youtube.com/watch?v=bAolV9ZOAas
I’m in it for the laughs.
I’m in it for the nooky
Oooh, do tell. Who’s the best to neck with?
Rhett/OG/Poledouche abuses women to feel “alive”.
He’s the worst sort of coward. Funny he believes he’s “godly”. Jesus, what a complete psycho.
‘Tucson is a Sigma so no matter what you do he won’t be there in the end’. SSL
A wonderful compliment and I thank you for it. I hope to be in the ‘right place’ at the end, like most of us. Some of my attributes:
“essentially, an introverted alpha male.” Only, he’s a “lone wolf.” Others opine that he is as powerful as the alpha but not subordinate as the beta male.”
“What sets him apart from the rest is his decision to walk the solitary path and color outside the lines. He doesn’t subscribe to the normal social dominance hierarchy construct which, by the way, some say is imaginary and arbitrarily made up.”
“While others may tend to be around other people or show a particular face to society, Sigma males tend to be themselves regardless of who is around. They will be more or less the same person when alone as they are around other people, making it a remarkable attribute.”
“When we think of leaders, we tend to think of Alpha men. Sigma males also make for excellent leaders, albeit with a different leadership style. They prefer to lead by example or mutual communication rather than establishing their dominance or authority. Sigmas will get what needs to be accomplished with a balanced approach to leadership.”
“While this can be true about Beta males, it often manifests due to insecurity. When we say Sigma males are self-aware, it works both ways— they know their good qualities and also their flaws. Self-awareness helps them self-correct when they go wrong, and they do not repeat mistakes.”
Just a few of my endearing qualities, although I just like to consider myself a street fighting poet. You’ve got me pegged to a tee. How do you do it? Thanks again!
Oh. You’re around today. Well you’re most welcome. I dunno exactly that’s just been my intuition more or less. My comment though was a recognition of your personality type but the additional reference was based on some other information so im glad you didn’t take it the wrong way.
Redneck and Nightowl
You both, I do not believe it, have stated my main objection.
If the goodness of an election cannot be proven, IOW, the precision of the vote counting cannot tell who really wins the vote, then the vote is invalid. We have probably been electing officials into DC for years that are invalid. Which political machine can BS its candidates into office the most.
What adds to the problem is when one group gets control of the media, polls, and the judiciary, interpretation of voting requirements and the vote itself, the election becomes a joke, as 2020 and 2016 both may have been.
The incredulous reaction of Clinton in 2016 and of Trump in 2020 showed that both believed they were shoo ins and the contrary results, both within polling variances, shocked them. Were the results real, we will never know as the Deep State controls the ballot box now.
Uniparty is now a fact as this years election will show.
Redneck, do not try to use candidate quality as an excuse when the reprobate running against Oz in PA could even possibly be in contention let alone leading in the MSM polls.
Same with Walker in Georgia, running against an admitted Communist.
If a Democratic Deep State is put in this year,
The GOP and America are finished.
Your two-party system was just asking for a “bi-partisan” uni-party outcome.
Does any other country on Earth run a democracy with just 2 “competing” political parties?
Frick v Frack
Tweedledee & Tweedledum
OG
Two party system, that is a joke.
This is a battle between people controlling the government or vice versa. Half the GOP, are RINOs, who should all convert to Democrats.
Deep State (thousands) vs, Trump (one), the only thing stopping the disenfranchisement of half the country is the rule of law under the Constitution. That is why the Deep State wants the Constitution pilloried along with Trump.
You’re proving my point, JAZ. A two-party system was bound to devolve into this “bi-partisan” uni-party joke.
Does any other country on Earth try to run a democracy with just 2 parties?
Sometimes one is up. Sometimes the other. They mostly do the same thing, despite marketing to different groups.
It wasn’t always so much this way, but it has been bad and getting worse for a long time.
Professional wrestlers are all friends back in the locker room.
Kesa also makes this important point frequently. On the other hand, the Parliamentary systems of Western Europe didn’t save them. The Beast is too strong…..
Fetterman is a ‘reprobate’? What lies have you been fed on that one?
Walker – even you can see that he’s thicker than pigshit, right? Sure, Warnock is of a leftist bent but he ain’t no communist.
Besides, it’s abundantly clear that what you consider “commie” isn’t even left of centre in most western democracies, JohnAZ. However, I despair of seeing the day when you ‘get’ that.
Then you go the old ‘Uniparty’ and ‘Deep State’ route in your rant, without ever having actually defined the terms or identified what/who they are.
The last sentence is an indictment of your own morbid outlook, which is sad to see in one so otherwise worthy and experienced.
Walker – even you can see that he’s thicker than pigshit, right? Sure, Warnock is of a leftist bent but he ain’t no communist. -redneck lunatic
IS intelligence required for politics?
Joe Biden is about as stupid as one can get and what of the idiot Hank Johnson who thought putting more people on Guam would tip it over?
Or AOC who says stupid shit all the time!
Maybe a nice montage of Kamala Harris stumbling and cackling through a question-and-answer flop?
Maybe a solid dose of Maxine Waters calling for violence against Trump cabinet members or Trump supporters?
No one does not need to be smart to make it in American politics nor does one have to be very bright to vote for these spoiled ridiculous fools.
Admit it you don’t like Mr. Walker because he is a black Republican, and he poses a clear and present threat to the Democrat stranglehold on black voters.
It has NOTHING to do with whether he is smart enough for the job or not.
About Fetterman…
foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-john-fetterman-long-list-documented-failures
Tucker breaks it down in his usual aplomb.
Number one on the list regarding Fetterman is that he wants to legalize all drugs.
What a great idea, the Leftist users will love it.
As they drive the final nail into the coffin of American decency.
He had a stroke and he’s an incoherent tard now. He used to just be a tard.
Fetterman — trust fund baby at 40 pretending to be in tight with blue collar workers. He would’ve had the shit beaten out of him in my old neighbourhood.
Good synopsis there, John
Wrong. You can never prove an election was entirely clean. There are too many variables.
That said, you can prove fraud. All it requires is hard evidence, which is, ofc, in abudance for the 2020 election.
Once again, I am amazed by comments like this. So many words, so pointless.
Huh?
How do you prove fraud when the judicial PTB are 90% fraudulent?
The lock that the Deep State has on all aspects of the country power structure is due to the fact that they control the purse.
A very wise man told me a long time ago that the greatest enemy of a democracy is when the mob figures out they own the purse strings.
We are living that statement right now.
Gimme, anyone?
The Rothchilds are the ultimate mob.
When you have evidence, you can prove fraud. On the opposite end, you can never prove an election was entirely clean, as there are too many variables you cannot account for or prove.
It is quite simple.
No one asked you whether the judiciary was rigged.
No one asked and as a free man on a free site, no one had to ask: He offered it. And it is a most salient point. Nothing can be proved to the corrupt in a court of law. You prove other things to them, in other ways.
My sympathies to benr. I find that writing something can help at times like these.
I wrote this when our cat Daisy died many years ago. I think I posted it for Beantown.
Daisy
She was a feline flower
Who helped me blossom
Her tiny tongue smoothed
The rough edges of my soul
Her soft paw and purring heart
Made us one-
And made me whole.
My connection and communication with her was wonderful and deep.
Again, my condolences benr.
I’m going to buy a sweatshirt with a cat just from reading this
Where is Rhett to accuse you of virtue signaling?
Troll trolling.
nice.
Ty you all for the well-wishing.
I found talking about it in any other format was just too painful.
Me too. Cats are wonderful. The larger cats can also be pets. I tune into a Russian lady who keep bobcats and lynxes. Some people have caracals (who are always threatening), jaguars, and pumas, though the last two are kind of big and could kill you. Lions and Tigers are also friendly but probably are best left alone except for professionals.
The European wild cat stand almost alone, it would seem. It looks like our domestic cats, but it wants nothing to do with us at all. Not friendly.
Did you fuck?
LOL.
Nice.
You’re not all bad.
I have come to the conclusion that this is one silly bunch, albeit with erudite intellectuals sprinkled throughout like jimmies on a doughnut.
I’ll be back.
welcome.
Who is this Jimmy and why is he on my doughnut lol
If any man puts his Jimmy on my doughnut, well, it better not be a bearclaw
A jimmy on a bearclaw would be a serious offense in the land of pastry.
Roids?
World Made by Hand
You can look there for a detailed, graphic description of how this new disposition of things might work.
RIGHT! A World Made by Power Hand Tools might be a better title.
Instead you can look at “Olduvai Gorge” for a graphic description of how this new disposition of things will work out in the end.
The only question that I have left is, has the public persona of James Howard Kunstler, like Brandon Smith been replaced by an algorithm?
~toktomi~
Tiktok! How ya been?
It’s a good thing you showed up.
OG is desperate for friends having alienated most of the commenters.
Troll trolling.
Mike Pence in 2024…just sayin’
You provocateur, you!
Dis
Do not sniff at TC regarding Pence.
He very well may be running for president in 2024.
Against Trump as a Democrat.
And he will lose sans widespread election fraud. He’s a parasite weasel aardvark wannabe.
parasite weasel aardvark wannabe
LOL! Where’d ya come up with aardvark? Just a spur of the moment thing? They are pretty ugly, though.
I can’t imagine Mike Pence winning anything outside of Indiana. No accounting for the political decisions of Indianans, who have always been a bit odd.
Oh lol you like that? It was a very spur of the moment thing. But their inherent ugliness coincided with the image of Mike Pence in my mind. I’m in a very strange but joyous mood today. I agree with your assessment in more serious mode. I think it would be a silly waste for him to actually campaign to be President. What would be the point as there is just no chance unless it is completely rigged up. Which we can’t discount.
Back in the day an alcoholic might have been referred to as a drunk or a lush. Now they are said to suffer from substance abuse.
Similarly, kids once said to be “poor” are now said to be “under resourced.”
I resent the abandonment of straight talk.
But language is living Q and perhaps an inordinate amount of people spend their time trying to come up with new descriptions and phrases for the same old things. A bunch of busybodies are ruffling your feathers for no good reason so I understand your resentment and frustration. I am also vexed by this linguistic pestilence.
Buck up, Q! Your hidden advantage is that you’re old. You can still talk the way you want to talk and they’ll write it off to senility.
George Carlin had a lot to say about euphemisms…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc&t=2s
The man was brilliant! What a talent!
Yes!
This permanent underclass in this country is told from birth that they are beaten down by the White Supremacists, the White Nationalists, the Deplorables, the Uncle Toms and it is their fault that they are unable to get ahead. They just cannot do it, it is impossible to advance themselves, so just give up, quit school and join the gang. Learn to kill, push drugs, steal, riot and fit in to the underbelly of the country. It is the story of the cities since the Mobs moved in from Europe and Asia.
What will we call it, the day when crime economy becomes larger than the real economy?
Good point… people aren’t going to just lay down and starve. Crime is going to rise exponentially.
What will we call it, the day when crime economy becomes larger than the real economy?
We’ll call it “today.” The crime economy, which includes all of Wall St, the FIRE (includes health “care”) sector, and the MIC is already MUCH, MUCH larger than the paltry remnants of the “real economy.” That’s why they’re taking the whole thing down. The only reason to resuscitate the real economy is to serve the needs of real people (that would be us), but they plan to kill them all off, so no need. See how neat all that works out?
If a person has a habit of making unwise expenditure decisions (formerly known as “pissing away” their money) they may find themselves requiring subsidized under resourced living arrangements (formerly known as winding up in the poor house).
Subsidies, unless your coining a clever new term here, which I think you are, and so probably needs quotes around the whole term for clarity.
LOL! I sense a backhanded reference to certain relative in law of yours who lives upstairs. That would make yours, Peter’s “poor house.”
your = you’re
Yale may be the most lefty college in NAmerica, but now some komrads are worried the Klan is riding on campus. A Hispanic man (maybe a Dreamer) is claiming he was assaulted by “5 White Yalies” on the streets of New Haven — and beaten badly. This has caused the ‘Anti Racism’ monolith to mobilize; money is bring raised, outrage is being expressed by college administrators, and apologies and mea culpas are being issued. Of course, many people every day are shot, stabbed, and beaten on the streets New Haven, but it is not White Yalies who are doing it. Nevertheless, a hate crime has been committed, and stringent self examination is in order — which is how this is being reported.
However, some people are saying the story doesn’t hold up, and the Hispanic man was injured while trying to saw catalytic converters off cars on the streets just outside Yale campus. The problem is, we have these Hate Crime Hoaxes all the time, so the only way you know it’s a hoax is when the media suddenly drops the story altogether, like it never happened. What hate crime?
My impression is that Yale is where rich kids go to college if they want to major in theater. After they graduate, they get an expensive NYC apartment and dabble iin theater while living on their trust fund.
Divide and conquer. I don’t know why you even bother posting about this stuff.
It is all distraction from what they are rolling out while the cud-chewers fight about what color they are and how to address one another.
FP
Jerkin’ it to me now, too?
LOL.
Indeed, NO. I never attack first. I prefer Peace.
Once attacked, however, I do prove myself one determined foe.
“Of course you know: ‘This mean War!'”
– Bugs Bunny
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NO is full of himself, his mediocre connections to information and his flippant disregard for others’ thoughts and opinions.
TS indicated yesterday that NO licks ani while I then asserted that he does so in preparation for his relentless packaging of fudge.
Unnnngh!
IQ of 156, he says…
Yet, one dumb-ass mofo.
154 in 1982. The old noggin’s been through A LOT in the ensuing 40 years, let me tell you! I would not test 154 today, that’s for sure.
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Anyway, I do not attack first but I do retaliate after being attacked.
We can all read the transcript.
But it doesn’t matter. You were a mental patient before your ban, too.
Actually, Yale is Ground Zero for the WASP chapter of the Deep State.
The Bushes
John Kerry
James Jesus Angleton
What’s his name Meyer, Cord? (CIA)
And many, many more
“Hate crime.” What a crock. If you have ill-intent, which most violent crimes do, is that not “hate?”
This might have just been young Yalies being Yalies. Believe it or not, they have some rough-housers too. Youth and hormones will do that for you. Not to mention too much alcohol.
Alcohol is evil. There, of course, is a reason why hard liquor is called ‘Spirits.’
I am interested in the DNA tie to alcoholism. My father’s side is German and chocked full of good people who enjoy a cold beer on a hot day or a glass of wine with a nice meal.
My mother’s side is Irish and there are several of us that have taken alcohol consumption WAY too far – many nights for many decades.
Of course, to the North American native, “Firewater” was infinity times worse than smallpox blankets. [btw – The Sanderson brothers are now both dead.]
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“Jack Daniels acts like your friend.”
OG
In nursing school psychiatric clinical we learned that one of the prime directives (thank you Star Trek) of the human organism is the reduction of stress, anxiety, IOW, the suppression of the Fight or Flight response.
Alcohol is a superlative anesthetic against anxiety, as well as drugs.
What me worry?
So true, JAZ! Thank you. Even a well-timed Alfred E. Neuman quote.
When alcohol consumption switches from social laughs with friends to escape-from-reality, the line has been crossed.
nicotine absorbs stress hormone. yes?
Interestingly, nicotine suppresses the corona virus.
Alcohol, like money and gambling, isn’t evil. If abused, yes. If used recreationally, proportionally, it’s wonderful.
My father was an alcoholic. Being Finnish-Irish, drunks run throughout my bloodlines. I, like all my friends, got polluted in my teens every weekend. If there were any excuse for being a drunk, it would’ve been me. But I didn’t have any biological addiction for it, nor did I rely on it psychically. Have enjoyed beer all my life, sometimes one every day, sometimes once a month.
Puritans can bite my ass. Open up all the liquor laws. If people can’t handle booze (5% of all drinkers), that’s on them. The majority — responsible drinkers — shouldn’t suffer.
JohnAZ, yes, it relieves anxiety short term, but long term abuse does the opposite. Thiamine deficiency, with all the neurological damage that entails.
You are correct, SF. In the short-run, alcohol abuse alleviates stress but it then turns and causes stress in the long-run.
This is true on both the clock and on the calendar.
“We’re caught in a trap
I can’t walk out
Because I love ya too much, Baby
Why can’t you see
What’re doin’ to me?
When you don’t believe a word I’m sayin'”
Yeah, maybe he was fucking with one of their cars and they punched him out. Case closed or it should be if that was it.
Hilarious.
“…Ezekiel fit the battle of Memphis, Yo!”
Memphis, Yo!
Memphis, Yo!
Exekiel fit the battle of Memphis, Yo!
And the PoPo be havin; this clown….
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/09/08/Memphis-shooting-rampage/9281662624319/
The darkies just be havin’ fun with guns down yonder.
Well, it looks like there is a good chance Ezekiel isn’t an American flag waving, domestic terrorist insurrectionist so he probably won’t be in solitary and he will get a great public defender. That is if he doesn’t have a bunch of lawyers already swooping in to make sure he spends as little time behind bars as possible.
Here is an important question from yesterday still left unanswered:
Does any other country on Earth try to run a democracy with just 2 parties?
There’s no such thing as democracy outside of theoryland
True … but that does not answer the question.
“Democracies” have been established all over Earth. Does any other country claim “democracy” with only 2 parties or is this exclusively an American faulty design?
I am not being facetious. I suspect that the USA is the only faulty 2-party “democracy” on Earth but do not know that. Does anyone know of another?
I think there are only a few other smaller countries like Jamaica and Zimbabwe that have something similar to a 2 party system.
I’ll repeat what I said above: A valid point. The Parliamentary system is better since it isn’t winner take all. And the very multitude of parties invites people to think in other than black and white terms. But it can’t make them do so. And the system couldn’t save itself from being corrupted in Western Europe. The Elite have enough money to put money down on all the numbers (parties) or the roulette wheel.
When new parties arose such as the Golden Dawn in Greece to fight for the people, they were declared illegal and crushed. The same happened in Belgium.
Rhett, since we’re both Canadians, you might get that we’re essentially a two-party country with a parliamentary system. The NDP have never been an electoral threat, just a pawn for opposition alliances in order to defeat minority -led gov’ts on certain proposed bills. It’s Liberal or Conservative head-to-head, with the shrewder Liberals (changing their take on hot-button issues every cycle to fit popular preferences) winning most elections.
What third choice do we really have? Like Americans, we’re too idiotic or complacent to conjure up an alternative. (Money and access, granted, are major barriers.)
Good point, SF. I must admit that I follow US politics (“The Show”) far more closely than I do Canadian politics (“Triple A”).
Liberals vs. Conservatives with neutered NDP and regional (Bloc de Quebecois) and fringe (Green Party) is, in practice, not much different than the US’s Frick v Frack.
Big Money will crush or commandeer as necessary.
If one has a “submissive void” you may be a Magaphobe.
theburningplatform.com/2022/09/08/silencing-the-lambs-how-propaganda-works/#more-279155
Via Robert F. Kennedy Jr:
“Judge Gives Fauci 21 Days to Turn Over Emails With Social Media Giants
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Dr. Anthony Fauci and the White House Press Secretary to hand over their communications with five social media giants. The ruling stems from a lawsuit alleging the Biden administration colluded with the companies to censor COVID-19 viewpoints that weren’t aligned with the administration’s official narrative.”
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1567895400559923200?cxt=HHwWgMC-temjpMIrAAAA
Wonder what the Elf is going to do?
Find a way out of it. I’m already afraid for any judge in charge of that!
Delete them of course. As if he’d hand over anything incriminating.
It was purely rhetorical.
Queen Elizabeth died
One less royal parasite.
aloha snackbar!
But party responsibly. Charles is now king. He is a depop fanatic. So who knows. They may release smallpox or something as a tribute to QE.
Oh Lord! Alex Jones is going to be beyond excited about this. Alex claims that Charles is a direct descendent of Vlad the Impaler – you know – Count Dracul – via the Saxe-Coburg line. Dracul means “dragon” if I’m not mistaken, and this will also excite the people who believe in reptilians. David Icke? Legend has it that Count Dracul lined the driveway to his castle with heads impaled on pikes. Heads of any Turks that he could find and kill. Gothic novels and movies much later made this obscure count very famous.
Liz Truss and Charles III all in one week.
Words fail me.
Hahahaha! I wouldn’t doubt it. I thought his dad was famously depop. Did he inherit it? Wouldn’t surprise me.
Charles can start by depopping himself — after transhumanizing himself into a tampon for Camilla’s delectation.
Mary, he’s up to his neck in WEFery.
Yes, Vlad the Impaler was a great patriot. People think you can have nations without people like this. They are wrong.
You are one of them. You make your omlettes without breaking the shells, right?
I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that Woodchuck. Vlad the Impaler is my astral father. He actually knew how to deal with enemies in a practical and sensible manner. The lack of his practicality is why our world has become a literal sewage pit. He’s a lizard slayer and eternally misunderstood
Charlie is a bit special. Like very inbred special. I’m confident he’ll finally kill off the absurd monarchy
My husbad, being Irish, is already saying what a shame for him that he’s going to be Charles the Turd.
Careful! Mentioning turds gets NO frisky.
Rhett please keep your nasty comments away from my profound comments. Thank you.
Will do, SSL. I’ll be on the lookout in case you ever make one. 😉
Wow you bastard lol 🙂
In her youth she even gave the Sieg Heil a few times. But as Queen she presided over the minority invasion of Britain and said nothing as Mohammad became the popular boy’s name in parts of the land.
She was essentially a smiling nothing and her death is no loss. They might as well let Megan be Queen rather than allowing Charles to be King. At least it would be an open farce at a Monty Python level.
Agree
Let’s see the pedo island timeshare king or Diana hitman king?
Royalty and peerage meet the dodo
She was essentially a smiling nothing and her death is no loss. – Jar
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Her job was to be a figurehead in charge of maintaining tourism income. For that she was worth more than the monarchy cost.
Apparently, her husband, Prince Phillip, has stated three separate times in various interviews that after his death, he wished to come back – reincarnating if you will – as a pathogen that takes out a good part of humankind. Since he died a few years back, maybe this covid thingy is just the dead prince doing his after death vampire routines.
My condolences to all you CFN commenters who spell labor as labour and program as programme.
I still can’t get over Americans pronouncing “roof” as a dog bark.
I still can’t get over Brits pronouncing cigarette as a homosexual epithet
Whereas we can’t imagine why you’d name a boy a word that means horny. 🙂
Hahahaha!
Don’t forget – Fanny is a name for a girl here, to boot! I know what that means in Ireland. LMAO!
It used to be here (short for Frances, I think), but not recently. Not since Fanny by Gaslight probably!
In Wales, they have a boy’s name Euryn. 🙂
pronouncing “roof” as a dog bark – Soul Fore
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I assume you mean roof rhyming with woof?
For me, roof rhymes with spoof.
Many Americans are heard to pronounce it as ‘ruff.’
No, I’ve heard it as Q.’s version. Midwest friends.
Everyone does in Upstate NY.
Thursday, September 8, 2022…another turn of the crank.
And as the crank turns, CFN’rs get more cranky and more cranks are posting as well. As the saying goes, whatever turns your crank tc…….
In keeping with lunacy that is AOC:
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says She Wasn’t Sure She Wanted To Marry Her Boyfriend Because He’s White”
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she wasn’t sure if she wanted to marry her now-fiancé because he’s white.
Ocasio-Cortez met her fiancé Riley Roberts at Boston University when they were both 19, according to GQ. The pair eventually began dating a few years later and have been together since. Ocasio-Cortez recalls how late last year the couple was discussing their New Year’s resolutions when Roberts brought up an engagement.
“It’s my resolution that perhaps we can be engaged by the end of the year,” Ocasio-Cortez recalled Roberts saying.
“And I said, ‘Oh, really? Well, you’re going to have to woo me. You’re going to have to convince me, after all this time, why I should.’”
GQ described the conversation with Ocasio-Cortez as the congresswoman expressing reluctancy to marry Roberts. “She wasn’t positive that an intercultural, interracial relationship would be the right fit for her,” GQ reported. Nonetheless the duo got engaged in April while vacationing in Puerto Rico.
“I feel like I won the men lottery in my life,” she said, according to the outlet. “He has been so supportive and willing and deeply engaging.”
Ocasio-Cortez also spoke about a future presidential run, saying there are “plenty of limitations” such as the Supreme Court which could buck her political philosophies. “It’s tough, it’s really tough,” she told the outlet, noting her opposition to Wall Street as another potential hurdle.
My advice to Riley would be to bail on this relationship.
No candidate will ever win if they seriously oppose Wall St. AOC has her head in the clouds and Riley’s balls in a jar by the door.
That poor dude. Then again, maybe he’s an asshole too.
NO’d be like: “Where?!?!?!”
Words fail me. – GA
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Once you have recovered, please be more specific about your thoughts on Truss and Charles III.
Both globalists on board with the NWO/WEF agenda. Although Charles, I presume, is aware of what he supports, whereas Truss is just a mouthpiece who’s flattered beyond words that she’s been put in charge on behalf of the people who are really in charge.
My best guess.
We’re going to have to live through a month of royal shite now, with the funeral, coronation and beyond.
I am so sorry… I would be hiding away for a month.
The bill for all that is going to be astronomical.
I hope it comes out of the Duke of Cornwall’s bank account, and not the taxpayers’.
A good guess.
Well, ladies and germs;
The Situational Awareness this AM reports;
IAEA: IRAN POSSESSES ENOUGH URANIUM TO MAKE A BOMB: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported the Iranian government increased its uranium stockpiles and could produce 25kg of weapons-grade (90%+) uranium in as little as three weeks. The Iranian government denounced the IAEA claims saying its stockpile of 60% uranium is for medical purposes and has no intention of producing nuclear weaponry. (AC: Iran’s position is “technically credible” as 60% uranium can be converted into technetium-99m utilized in cardiac stress tests and cancer treatment, making the stockpile legal under international non-proliferation treaties. Iran’s storage of a material called UF6 gas is suspect, given the form has no credible use other than enabling rapid nuclear weaponization, allowing Iran to skirt international law while maintaining stockpiles needed
Now, Tell Israel and the Saudi’s to back off. Iran SAYS they will use the goo for peaceful purposes, and will not make a bomb.
A promise is a promise (that is what I used to tell my wife regarding my “birthday gift”)….
Peace in the Middle East…
Mission Accomplished….
Brought to you by the Colin “yellow cake” Powell foundation in conjunction with Netanyahu Bomb All Our Neighbors consortium in conjunction with the Neocon Never Stop Making Americans Fight Our Wars center for strategic partnership. Anymore propaganda field of the deceased?
NO is all about the Colin.
Colin or colon?
I just splooged on you again, Rhett.
Oh, the IAEA.
That would be the same IAEA that went to the Zaporizhzhia power plant and issued a report saying that the place was being shelled, even while they were there, but they had no clue who was doing it.
Shills for empire, they are.
This would be the same Iran that has been “five years away from making a bomb” since 1979, according to the propaganda.
That’s 43 years, for the math challenged. 43 years of breathless pronouncements that “experts” say Iran is 5 years away from making a nuclear bomb that they will no doubt then drop on us if we don’t stop them.
The question is: how long does it take Americans to figure out that if they have been lied to for 43 years they shouldn’t believe the latest lie? Even if they changed it slightly to ‘3 weeks’ instead of ‘5 years’?
Or is the answer to that question: Never. They fall for it again and again and again.
Dumbasses.
Yes! Reminds me also of the ‘Al Qaeda’ head that keeps being killed over and over again every 3 years or so since 9/11.
LOL, I hope they FINALLY make one and blow us to smithereens. It would kinda serve us right.
OK, like WTF is up with the Schlong COVID tsar?
The pentagram clothing and tattoos?
It’s his choice, but this is Biden’s pick?
Like seriously, are we in a simulation administered by AI or advanced humanity with a twisted sense of humor?
Why is everything emanating from this regime Twilight Zone material?
Why is everything INSANE?
Everywhere we turn it’s another lunatic in charge.
The Cathars were right. Earth IS hell.
Like it couldn’t have gotten worse after he appointed that fetishist fuck to head a nuclear agency?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/biden-administration-installs-dog-role-playing-fetish-advocate-to-nuclear-post
Everything is insane now. Welcome to the shitshow of all time!
Anthea (and others) I have a friend with recurring gout in her foot, and is very frustrated. Can you repost your remedies? I recall some of you posting them a couple of weeks back? Thank you!
Prednisone (a steroid) worked like a charm for me EVERY time I ever had an episode of gout. And it worked quickly… pain gone in 1 to 1.5 days.
Thank you. I think that’s what she is getting now, but it doesn’t last. She has done the diet, etc. but the second she deviates, it’s back.
Anthea I think had posted a good naturopathic cure, and I think someone else did, too.
Black cherry juice is supposed to help with gout.
Also, cut down on meat for a while.
Ah gout, the ailment of royalty…..
@MaryQueen,
tart cherry juice. It has to be tart only.
Plenty of water and stay off the excess meat protein. Vodka drinkers get it when they live on vodka and mustard packets like a friend of mine in Maui did. He got it and some of the rest of us would have if we hadn’t quit drinking. Thats the only thing I have heard that helps.
Good luck…
Of cours thats not for the average drinker here on CFN. K ain’t no one on here drinks like surfers in the jungle do. 5 years of that will make a believer out of anyone..and of course tons of free top ramen out of the package…just for starters…
Thanks, R Banjo! I appreciate it and will pass it onto her.
Tart cherry extract.
10Z of water per 10 pounds of body weight so 200lbs try and drink 200 ounces of water.
Celery seed, tumerick, black pepper and corn silk brewed into a tea.
Allopurinol
Colchicine tabs
Pineapple not juice but fruit.
Bananas
Milk thistle
Dandelion root (golden seal)
grape seed extract
vitamin C &D
Chanco piedra
Alfalfa grass shots
Boswellia
Devil’s claw
Anything with high anti-oxidants.
Avoid sugar, Chocolate, soft drinks sugared or artificial sugar, black tea, red meat seafood, mushrooms, spinach, asparagus, alcohol, dehydration, heavy excercise (lactic acid buildup) she needs to drink water till her pee is clear and keep drinking water.
Gout is nothing to mess around with if diet is not keeping it at bay, then she is genetically predisposed to it and the flare ups will only get worse and more frequent.
She needs to eat low purine foods.
goutbye.org/education/
Thank you, all great stuff! 🙂
@ MaryQueen:
Well, the ex said he was cured by taking calcium/magnesium supplements. The two have to be in balance, but calcium/magnesium tablets are formulated to be balanced. They sell them at Walmart.
That said, to me that sounds like a mighty strange cure for gout–but who knows?
What people usually do for gout is to drink a lot of cherry juice.
Oh! and reduce or elimate meat from your diet.
Calcium/magnesium supplements should be completely harmless, even if I AM skeptical about them as a cure for gout.
It’s possible to have too much calcium in your diet (relative to magnesium). The most common symptom of this is foot and leg cramps. So you take magnesium if you have foot and leg cramps, to restore the calcium/magnesium balance. Foot and leg cramps (and having your back “go out”–really a muscle cramp) are very common problems. I think this means that Americans have too much calcium in their diets, relative to magnesium.
If you take to much magnesium, you get the shits–but I think it takes a very excessive amount of magnesium to cause this.
Hey Q:
labour, neighbour, honour, colour, flavour, armour
Cheers!
Why did youse guys keep the U in GLAMOUR?
To be sure to be different than U 🙂
“Candian tyrant Justin Trudeau is threatening to reimpose COVID restrictions and mandates if a 90% vaccination and booster uptake is not met. This psychopath that ordered millions of boosters that he needs to inject into as many duped Canadians’ arms as possible.
The propaganda and push for more vaccines is on. That’s one sign that the ruling classes have not convinced enough of the slaves to get injected for the waning Great Reset depopulation and slavery program to be rolled out. As we said from day one, these vaccines are obviously part of the agenda and the ruling classes will stop at nothing to get people injected.”
www_shtfplan_com/headline-news/canadian-tyrant-trudeau-threatens-to-reimpose-covid-restrictions-mandates
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They plan to force us final few smart purebloods with the blind stupidity and mob-rules mentality of the defecting jabbed.
Justin Castro can grab his ankles and await NO.
“Justin Castro can grab his ankles and await NO.”
Rhett, you have a problem.
Get help.
OG has no self control.
SSL & NO:
Does this mean that Mary loves me?
The downward spiral continues.
Goose-gander.
Definitely LOL
Islander:
1) I was showing my disrespect for Justin Castro as he destroys freedom in my home country.
2) NO is a packer of fudge.
3) Show me a man and I’ll show you a man with a problem.
4) Canadian “help” is so pathetic that it is a misnomer.
Repeat: Get help.
Did you say Candian? I haven’t been to Candia before lol but i’ve so always wanted to bask on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Ha! I actually just copy-and-pasted from the source article (i.e. [sic]).
Ha ha! I made a profound clevery statement and it was so over your head you missed it. Bam!! Candia, I realized it was just a misspelling, however it was a real place. Actually the island of Crete was referred to as Candia a long long time ago. Look it up. Gotchya lol 😉
…us final few smart purebloods…
Very amusing.
Benr quoted someone talking about the myth of invincibility upthread.
I am replying here because ben is in mourning and I don’t want to think I’m attacking him. I’m not, I just want to point out that the author is remarkably mired in his own myth of invincibility.
I base that on this statement “This is why Western nations have been willing to outsource energy production to hostile nations like Russia”.
What basis of understanding does that statement come from? It appears that the author believes that fossil fuels are available everywhere but the US chooses to get them from hostile countries.
The magical thinking that so many Americans indulge in comes from a divorcement from reality.
“I like driving and hot water and central air conditioning, therefore there is no end to fossil fuels, because I want to continue my life the way it is now. If our overlords are telling us otherwise it is because they are hiding Tesla’s secret magic formula for endless energy from us because they are bad”.
This reminds me of the people screaming about the no DNR orders during the ”pandemic”. They apparently firmly believe that a dead person can always be brought back, not just to life, but to good health and youth, to boot.
No. All life ages, declines and dies.
We have fossil fuels because for millions of years algae and plankton in shallow seas lived and died and their carcasses were pressed into the amazing substance we call hydrocarbons.
And then humans learned how to pump out those dead carcasses and burn them to make life comfortable and to grow enough food to allow the population to grow ridiculous numbers.
There is no magical solution to our predicament.
Well said, Paula.
Magical thinking on just about every level possible seems to be doing us in… it’s a great distraction as things sink into utter chaos.
“A man can magically turn into a woman! Just take magic hormones and drill a hole where a penis once was!”
“Everyone needs to imagine what it’s like to be in everyone else’s skin and we’ll have world peace!”
“If I just wear a mask for 2 more years, no one will ever get sick again!”
I could keep going but you get the idea…
Indeed.
King Charles is a little Cavalier
Hiyooo!
Lol, clever
Well that didn’t take long.
Queen Elizabeth is already registered to vote as a democrat in this November’s midterm.
LOL no doubt!
Hah! What about her dead corgis? Another 30 votes right there.
Just a comment.
The last two elections showed the country is split about 50-50 between the gimme city folks and the Deplorables.
Now, think of the power split in DC, do you feel that power is split 50-50 in the Deep State? More like 75-25, Dems+ RINOs/Deplorables.
MSM and judicial more like 95-5.
No wonder everything seems out of kilter.
Saint,
Excellent!
Vote early and vote often….
Hiyoooo
Megan Markle already has a podcast about how the Queen’s ghost visited her and something something racist things about baby
Have you seen the apocalyptic story going around about the glacier in Antarctica ready to break off the continent and drive sea levels up a solid foot? I heard a ‘Vegan Activist’ from London talking about it, which she gave as a reason she and her fellow troublemakers are vandalizing public monuments, smashing up grocery stores, and destroying dairy cases in local markets. Dairy is warming the earth and causing ice to melt at the South Pole. She grew very indignant when the interviewer pointed out any melting glaciers in the Antarctic was caused by underwater volcanic activity in the southern oceans. Just for hahas I checked the temp in Antarctica today: -48°F. Glaciers aren’t melting at -48. More and more it seems like these climate fanatics are suffering from a form of mental illness. What do you say to somebody who lives in fear for their very existence based upon weather patterns? What do you say to somebody who spends their day going into food stores and dumping gallons of milk on the floor to save the Planet? Not much you can say.
Meanwhile no sign of the CLIMATE CRISES here — cool breezes, blue sky with a few puffy clouds, air crisp almost translucent, and a slight trace of orange, red & yellow on the oak & maple trees up & down this lovely street.
Simple! You can start in a more human and concerned way by speaking in the language of rubber bullets. If you receive peaceful consensus then I think you’re good to go. If not then said activist simply need to be gathered and collected and flown to Antarctica for a one way vacation. Report back each year to let us know how much ice has melted so we can monitor the situation with deep concern.
It’s really nice here for this time of year too BRH. The low this morning was actually 72 which tbh with you shocked me. It has been sorta cloudy off and on each day for the past few days and so it isn’t getting as hot as it was a few weeks ago. Wow imagine that! The weather is changing lol
The ice sheets are melting from the bottom up in some areas of Antarctica, breaking off and drifting out to sea to melt, as they have for a long, long time. As before stated, sea ices everywhere do not add to ocean depth. They already displace the volume of water they represent. Glaciers on the land are a different story, if they melt they add volume. Only two areas fit this category, Greenland and Antarctica. -48 degrees is not going to melt anything this time of year.
Warming is happening, even Trump signed up to it. Glaciers are melting, Greenland is becoming greener, California is finding out what it feels like in Phoenix.
Oh wait, California is protected by the ocean right? Right??? Hmmm, wonder what is really going on when California to Washington is higher than Phoenix.
BTW, went to meeting this morning, the subject being the water situation in Phoenix. For the first time, I heard a little doomsday in the water forecast for the area. Also, the blame is shifting from drought to overpopulation and politics. Yes, the water input to the Lakes has slowed over the last decades, but more so, the usage rate has skyrocketed. We live in a desert, and there is only so much to go around. And think about this, heat islands in the desert, Arizona, California, New Mexico and Utah may be creating the heat domes that are baking the land. California’s coast is nothing more than cities now, going inland a hundred miles, can it be they are cutting off the sea breezes that cool California?
TS, FYI. The CAP is responsible for most of Tucson’s potable water right now, and 50% 0f the East Valley’s. Forecasts are that Mead is going dead pool by September 2023. Wonder how they are going to fill all the water taps with no CAP? Especially when Mark Kelly and the gang are going to bring all the semiconductor industry to the Valley. Clean room scrubbing takes enormous amounts of water. You think the politicos are selling the aggie folks down the river?
JAZ, wasn’t there a time when dinosaurs were walking around the South Pole, which was a tropical rain forest (another name for jungle)?
“Warming is happening, even Trump signed up to it.”
Huh> Is that the basis of your acceptance of climate change, JohnAZ? It must be true because Trump signed up to it? Wow……….
Warming isn’t happening, you are reading pseudoscience. Just because something comes out of the UN or from some university doesn’t make it true. Agenda and politically driven scientists can make their “science” come to predetermined conclusions. The Catholic Church claims or used to make a claims of Papal infallibility under certain conditions. The Pope couldn’t make a mistake or talk bs. in my opinion, popes have no such powers, and neither do scientists.
We were supposed to be underwater by now – in like 2015 or so.
I thought this was MaryQueen, not Al Gore.
The answer is, there is not enough land based ice to make big differences in sea level, sea ice does not add volume,
unless Antarctica melts, which is unlikely in the near future.
Remember to create or keep power, you must incite fear. Antarctica is overplayed.
Agree, which was my point (and yes that was Al Gore who made that prediction).
A famous Russianclimatologist, 88-year-old Vladimir Kotlyakov:
“…In Antarctica, in a deep well drilled at the Vostok station, we found layers of ice formed over 420 thousand years, and climate changes that occurred at intervals of 100 thousand years were clearly visible in them. Today we live in a period of such historical warming, called the Holocene. The Holocene is a modern geological period that has lasted for more than 10 thousand years, and the peak of this warming has already passed. This peak was about five and a half thousand years ago, and now, by and large, the era of cooling has already come, which will definitely lead to a new ice age. …
“Glaciers consist of solid water that enters them with snowfalls from the atmosphere. In most of the Greenland ice Sheet, the area and rate of melting of the snow cover are now increasing due to global warming. The snow line is retreating further to the center of Greenland. The main contribution to the increase in the level of the world Ocean is made by the Greenland ice sheet. But the bulk of the ice is in Antarctica — about 30 million cubic kilometers, or about 90 percent of the total mass of ice on Earth. Therefore, the key role in the influence of glaciers on the level of the world Ocean belongs not to Greenland, but to Antarctica. But most of Antarctica, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, gets a lot of snow that doesn’t melt. And it gets more than usual snow just because of global warming: more moisture accumulates in a warm atmosphere, and therefore more precipitation falls. So the amount of ice in East Antarctica is not decreasing, and maybe even, on the contrary, is growing. Therefore, East Antarctica “takes” water from the ocean, compensating for the growth of water in the ocean that Greenland gives. . . .
“About Vladimir Mikhailovich Kotlyakov:
Vladimir Mikhailovich Kotlyakov is a member of the intergovernmental panel of experts on climate change, Scientific Director of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honorary President of the Russian Geographical Society.
He was born on November 6, 1931 in the village of Krasnaya Polyana (now Lobnya), Moscow region.
In 1954 he graduated from the Geographical Faculty of Moscow State University with a degree in physical geography, after which he began working at the Institute of Geography of the USSR Academy of Sciences (RAS), where he became the scientific director in 2015.
Participant and scientific director of many expeditions, including wintering on Novaya Zemlya, in Antarctica, on the southern slope of Elbrus; expeditions to the Trans-Ili Alatau, to the Pamirs.
In 1989-1991, he was elected People’s Deputy of the USSR and was deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on ecology and rational use of natural resources. He headed the parliamentary subcommittee on natural disaster zones. One of the initiators and authors of the first law on environmental protection in the USSR.”
The 2 Viking settlements in Greenland in the 11th century is an interesting subject. Early on, Norway would occassionally send a supply ship to Greenland every few years bringing tools, grain and even new settlers. These eventually stopped as political conditions changed in Scandanavia; sometime in the 16th century somebody remembered the Greenland settlements and realized there hadn’t been any contact for about 3 centuries. A ship was sent to investigate — the colonies were found empty.
Roanoke is a fascinating subject too, but there were many lost colonies in the ‘age of discovery’.
“What do you say to somebody who spends their day going into food stores and dumping gallons of milk on the floor to save the Planet? ”
The Obvious “It’s no use crying over spilt milk”?
The climate alarmists are being motivated by the same general type of pseudoscience fraud as has taken over our “health care” system. People promoting fake science scares in order to promote/operate other hidden schemes, scams, and political objectives. Part of the climate scam is a global taxation scheme.
No taxation without representation?
Another worthless British monarch assumes the English Throne, to the tune of over 102.4 million pounds for 2021/22.
By the end of this year, the average British household will be paying 52 pence/ per Kilowatt hour for electricity in the UK.
UK government is subsiding the entire population’s monthly energy costs because people will not be able to afford to use little more than switch on an occasional lamp.
Take note candle makers, wood pellet manufacturers, kerosene lamp crafters, and others. Maybe you’ve got an opportunity.
Is this the queen the Sex Pistols were singing about? Shocking everybody?
The Queen outlived Sid Vicious by about 40 years. I believe Johnny Rotten is still with us, living in a beach community in Southern Cal, complaining about the homeless camping near his house and threatening to shoot the sonsabitches if they don’t get out of the neighborhood.
Could be the other way around Sid alive and Johnny dead.
Bassist Sid Vicious died of a heroin/Quaalude over-dose in New York in February 1979.
Lead singer Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) lives in Venice, California which, by all accounts, is completely over-ran by homeless living in tents.
Lead guitarist Steve Jones (Jonesey) also lives in LA and has a radio show there (Jonesey’s Jukebox).
Detached home oct. price cap: £4,700 gov’t price guarrantee: £3,300 difference: £1,400
So. If you are a UK homeowner, the cap on your energy costs for the year taps out at 3,300 pounds. If you know the fixed total sum can not go over 3,300 pounds.
Why wouldn’t you say, fuck it! Keep your lights on all the time in every room, run large appliances constantly, keep your heat on in the winter to 35 C etc.
Be completely energy wasteful. Cuz who gives a shit. You max out at 3300 pounds.
Losing any public figure who has been a part of everyone’s life for 70 years leaves a hole behind. She will be missed.
Consider one thing,
She has kept the lid on a really weird family. Charles the 3rd is a huge unknown, will he kowtow to the WEF like Biden’s Mob. Is he going to try to be political and to what end? Is he part of the international “scene” like his brother. Is Andrew out of the doghouse now? William is a heartbeat from the throne and seems fairly sane, but what is the influence of Harry and his Hollywood infested wife? None of Elizabeth’s kids have been able to have a longstanding marriage.
I think the world has been looking at Charles, Prince of Wales, for a long time with skepticism. We shall soon see what he is made of.
The Queen is dead, Long live the King!!!!!!
Not weird, but downright creepy. Consider the son Andrew. Yeeesh. Epstein’s pal, child molester.
yup, noted above.
Will he be out of the royal doghouse?
Well since only mummy was putting him in the doghouse, my guess is, now anything goes…
Charles is a “huge unknown” RE: WEF allegiance?
Are you kidding?
The inland folks, Germany, Poland will be the most affected.
Caution, this is far from over. A big piece of Hitler’s drive was to get Russian and Ploesti oil for his country and its war machine. Russia’s inability to just take what it wants in Ukraine is a danger signal.
” Russia’s inability to just take what it wants in Ukraine is a danger signal.”
what are you talking about?
by this time next year Russia will have most of Ukraine, except for a couple of bits that htey will give to Hungary and Poland. The latter will heartily regret the “gift.” Ha ha. You saw it here first.
JAZ Man can’t quite let go of the MSM narrative. It’s a weakness, but he’s working on it.
“Why wouldn’t you say, fuck it! Keep your lights on all the time in every room, run large appliances constantly, keep your heat on in the winter to 35 C etc.
Be completely energy wasteful. Cuz who gives a shit. You max out at 3300 pounds.”
How very American of you, Pete.
Back in high school in the early 1980s, a good friend of mine went up north (Saskatchewan) to work at his father’s fishing lodge each summer.
Their clientele was almost exclusively American.
The Number One customer complaint? Fishing Limits. Many Americans clients simply wanted to burn through as much of Earth’s resources wastefully and ASAP.
Sad but True.
The US is the home of the 24/7 all you can eat buffet, and millions of people are coming over the US-Mexican border to get to it. Or what’s left of it lol
I live in Minnesota. We have an enormous amount of water, fishing lakes, rivers, etc. And yes, there are fishing limits here. Sadly, some lakes in the past were so over fished that fishing had to be shut down and it took decades of restocking for the fish populations to come back.
This analogy that’s becoming a persistent vision in my head is that America is a monster, but we Americans live inside the monster. The monster eats and claims its territory, but since we exist in the monster, we benefit too.
We’re also victims because we’ve had to exist within the monster, but we’re also responsible now as well because we said fuck it to our repressed guilt and denial and so we’ll live in excess (if you can get it) and ignorance ( you can get it) until we all become sad and useless.
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I’ve always interpreted the great “The Queen is Dead” Song by The Smiths as in the declaration ‘dead’ meaning a symbolic one, that it was time for the title “queen’ to be dethroned in modern day, and the entire notion of a royal family (1986).
I wonder how often this song will be played tonight overseas and elsewhere in a kind of genuine, tender farewell.
We need bands and lyrics like this to give poignancy, to paint the picture of what’s happening….it’s almost all saccharine and safe now.
(passages from the song, “The Queen is Dead”, starts with him meeting the Queen)
?”?So I broke into the Palace with a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said, “Eh, I know? you?, and you cannot sing”
I said, “That’s nothing, you should hear me play the piano?”?
“?’****
?”?We can go for a walk where it’s quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
Like love and law and poverty, ooh-ooh”
?*?**
“Pass the Pub that wrecks your body
And the church all they want is your money
The Queen is dead, boys
And it’s so lonely on a limb
Life is very long when you’re lonely”
sigh, sorry about the question marks, i won’t cut/paste anymore
God Save The Queen
The Sex Pistols
God save the queen
The fascist regime
They made you a moron
A potential H bomb
God save the queen
She’s not a human being
and There’s no future
And England’s dreaming
Don’t be told what you want
Don’t be told what you need
There’s no future
No future
No future for you
God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves
God save the queen
‘Cause tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems
Oh God save history
God save your mad parade
Oh Lord God have mercy
All crimes are paid
Oh when there’s no future
How can there be sin
We’re the flowers
In the dustbin
We’re the poison
In your human machine
We’re the future
Your future
God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves
God save the queen
We mean it man
There’s no future
In England’s dreaming God save the queen
No future
No future
No future for you
No future
No future
No future for me
No future
No future
No future for you
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Glen Matlock / John Lydon / Paul Thomas Cook / Stephen Philip Jones
God Save the Queen lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc
Ah, the Sex Pistols! After seeing the above, I had to do a bit of googling and found that the father of the band’s bass player and vocalist, Sid Vicious – had once worked as a guard at Buckingham Palace.
Best comment I saw:
Now they’re going to make a man the Queen?
This Woke shit has gone too far.
LOL omg idiots
Of course they did.
Woke = insane.
It is very strange to me that, no sooner had I shown up, that someone started throwing the term fudge packing around. This is not a very nice term at all.
Watch out, you’ll be on the OG/Rhett/Poledouche hitlist if you complain.
SSL & NO:
I think that you are right: Mary does love me.
You think that the term is not very nice, Freddy? How about the practice? Therein lies the real problem, imho.
It is a homophobic term, and incredibly hateful. How do you know I’m not gay? Do you hate gay people? That’s not very Christ-like. Didn’t He say to love everyone?
It’s a regional and generational thing, Freddy. Where I come from, fudge-packing is still considered wrong and is still often used as an insult even if not truly applicable to the target (i.e. NO is actually hetro married with a young son).
You are correct – my using this term to expand on TS’ insults of NO yesterday is most definitely not Christ-like of me.
I will cease using the term and now ask for your forgiveness.
I would appreciate that.
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
That was Janos, he keeps his fudge in the closet
LOL!
It is disgusting, and the fellow, or femme, who keeps flinging this shit is disgusting.
People who quote pop/rock songs and think they are showing what intellectual giants they are.
Derp.
People who claim to know others’ thoughts are blatantly corrupt.
Nothing to do with reading thoughts, mental case.
“People who quote pop/rock songs and THINK [that] they are …” [emphasis added]
Wrong. Wrong again.
This is far from the first time, Proud Mary. You argue blatantly corrupt. We all know that.
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Proud Mary, I am complimented that you love me but please understand:
1) I am happily already in a monogamous relationship and
2) I do not date old, dried-up hags.
Perhaps you should pick up knitting … or 47 cats.
You’re down to half a fan.
Even Jarek isn’t coming to your aid.
Who said I was talking about you?
LMAo.
Hilarious.
Who said that I said that you were talking about me? That sure was a weird strawman.
You argue blatantly corrupt, Proud Mary. That’s not about me. That is about you.
As far as Right v Wrong, it is not a popularity contest. I am Right while you are Wrong and The Truth is The Truth.
Again, I’m flattered … but taken and not interested. Thanks but no thanks.
Soon enough, he will be banned again.
Re Queen Elizabeth: I thought lizard people never die? David Icke has some ‘splainin’ to do.
Is that right? Lizard people never die? I did not know that.
OK … How do you KNOW that she is dead? ‘Cause that’s what they told us?
Queen Elizabeth even being recognized for her papal skills. Paid off victims and moved a molester to a new parish
Haven’t listened yet, just about to, but I love Jerm Warfare:
“WILLIAM HAPPER ON THERE BEING NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Earth is absolutely fine. There is no crisis, and you’re not changing the temperature.”
https://jermwarfare.com/podcast/william-happer
Oh my apologies. This is a members-only podcast, and you have to pay to hear it! So, I don’t like Jerm as much as i did before posting this. LOL.
Yeah. On one hand I understand it, but on the other hand, the sort of information he and most of the TNTers deal with really needs to be free.
You can listen to him for free here. Different show, but no paywall.
https://tntradio.live/shows/jerm-warfare-with-jeremy-nell/
See my contribution—actually, Russian climatologist’s contribution—up-thread.
Thanks, Islander. I hope Jerm frees this one up for general consumption soon.
That is, copy one graf at a time from the article into Yandex, then copy and paste the translation into a Word doc.
I didn’t really intend to speak disrespectfully of the Queen. In reality i’m hardly anyone to comment on the matter generally speaking. I also actually have no idea if all of the bizarre and not so bizarre accusations made against the Queen and royal family are true or false. So she made mistakes and bad choices along the way. I would naturally assume so given she was not Jesus Christ.
But even if the Queen were a flesh eating mega lizard I’m still under the distinct impression that I should be far more fearful of the very human humans living next door than a hypothetically monstrous, astonishingly distant monarch. Viewing the matter through a historical lens its not difficult to see that Americans hurt me so much more than the British ever could. Even though they fought the British off for the Americans. Which, let that be another cautionary tale for you that no good deed goes unpunished.
The outpouring of nostalgia, admiration, adoration, veneration and all such things is a vigorous manifestation of collectively recognized national identity. Though it won’t be recognized as such. And such a collective moment is not even possible in the US today because of the lack of an agreed upon shared national identity. Thus monarchs are exchanged for celebrities and CEOs. Or put another way. Are celebrity and CEO parasites preferable to royal parasites?
Can you feel the tidal forces of the waxing Moon? And to think if there was no Moon our world would be a lifeless orb. A lantern is needed day and night. And the molten rock and the oceans must churn forever. The magic potion of life.
If I didn’t know better, I might conclude you’re drifting off toward the lefty fringe, SSL. Are you into the Cajun and Creole black magic stuff too?
Great interview from Patrick Henningsen with Jerome Corsi on the Climate Hoax and its role in the Great Reset.
Includes discussion on the hacked data from U. of East Anglia, where prominent climate scientists were caught admitting that they rigged the data.
https://tntradio.live/shows/patrick-henningsen-show/
“hacked emails”
Thanks, NO.
I didn’t know about this show.
Looks like some interesting guests.
Is this the same fellow who is also on the UK column? Is he actually in Australia, or in Plymoiuth, UK?
Yep, same guy. And it’s 6 minutes till UKC Friday blastoff, which is generally with Patrick. Sadly there is usually no ‘Extra’ for members on a Friday!
Debi Evans is doing a sterling job of monitoring what the NHS is being turned into – and our non-regulators (aka drug pushers), the MHRA.
Actually it’s Mike Robinson and Alex Thomson. Alex the Erudite is currently explaining the role of the Privy Council in endorsing the naming of Charles as King. And some interesting stuff on his original naming as Charles, in view of his prevous namesakes.
Vanessa Beeley also on – and Patrick after all. They’re discussing Charles and the WEF/GND.
CFNers may want to watch this bit on demand later, if they’re interested in the real influence of Charles on our future.
He can choose from a few names, even the Queen’s pet name for him: “Numpty”.
All of this climate nonsense is about control.
They want to control:
Travel
What you eat
How much you eat
What you buy
Turn off your money if you support the wrong things.
Where you can live
What your thermostat is set to in your house.
Every aspect of your life
What your children are exposed to including grooming your kids for the movement of the day.
Look at what they are pushing!
Bugs for food!
Endless vaccines with dubious or even toxic results.
CRADLE TO GRAVE CONTROL
I bought a copy of “World Made by Hand” a few months ago. It took me a bit to get around to reading it, but once I began it was hard to put it down. It was an exciting and enjoyable read, Jim. You are a good fiction writer and novelist. Non-fiction prose is mechanical. Anyone willing to put some time in learning the rules of good grammar can write serviceable non-fiction; however, good fiction is far more difficult to create. So kudos to you on the book. I’m sure I’ll get around to the following novels in the series.