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I have some questions for former friends who have dumped me on account of my support for Mr. Trump’s re-election — which is mostly a vote to prevent the Democratic Party and its fellow travelers from running the government. On the whole, these former friends are college-educated, mature in experience, and cultured. Some of them are well-acquainted with history, which is to say, they ought to know better than to support the obviously illiberal motives of the political Left.

Are you against the principle of free speech? The Democratic Party is. They used to be champions of the First Amendment; now they want to make it conditional on ideas and sentiments they support. Contrary ideas are to be labeled “hate speech,” and suppressed, along with anything that might hurt somebody’s feelings. How did you come to such a complete misunderstanding of what free speech means? Namely, that a free society is obliged to tolerate the expression of disagreeable ideas up to the limit, as the Supreme Court put it, of “crying ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.”

I will answer my own question partially by saying: you have been programmed against free speech by what used to be the very vehicles of it, the newspapers and TV News channels, which have, amazingly, come out against freedom of the press and turned into propaganda outlets for Woke Progressivism and its illiberal agenda — thereby inadvertently committing suicide of the entire profession. We’ve seen this acted-out most vividly just the past week in the social media companies’ efforts to suppress all news of the Biden family’s global business operations, along with The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, NPR, and other leading news organizations that Americans used to depend on to know what was happening in the nation. This is especially unforgivable during a national election.

Did you support the movement on campus in recent years to shut down events featuring speakers such as Charles Murray (The Bell Curve), Heather Mac Donald of City Journal, Dinesh D’Souza, and many others who represented not-so-Woke ideas that “offended” you? Since when are your feelings so special that they negate the open exchange of ideas in the places that used to be dedicated to it, the universities? Should higher education only entertain ideas that you and your cohorts approve of? What if, in some future, a different cohort gains control of higher education and seeks to exclude your ideas on the grounds that they’re “offensive” (i.e. they just don’t like them)?

Are you in favor of a politicized Department of Justice and CIA? That is what the Democratic Party’s Resistance League deliberately brought about during the 2016 election, and they continue to promote it. Is it okay for bureaucrats to break the law to disable their political adversaries? That was the essence of the RussiaGate ruse. Former employees of those agencies, such as ex-CIA chief John Brennan and Andrew Weissmann, who ran the Mueller investigation, to this day still hype “Russian collusion” falsehoods to deflect attention from their own misdeeds. You let them get away with that.

Is it okay for these government agencies to spy on US citizens without any legal predicate, except their being political adversaries? Would it be okay if that were used against you in some future disposition of things? Is it okay for the FBI to withhold exculpatory evidence in federal court proceedings, thereby obstructing justice? Is it okay for the FBI and CIA to “leak” falsehoods to news reporters for political advantage? Do you not understand how by failing to oppose these actions you undermine the basis of political rectitude in a republic — bearing in mind the literal meaning of the word republic, from the Latin, res publica, the public thing, where civilization lives?

Are you against reason itself? For all your talk about the primacy of science, your agenda militates furiously against it: Math is “racist,” there’s no biological basis for understanding sex, all science is a “white colonial way-of-knowing,” masculinity is “toxic,” women can have penises and men can menstruate. Do you really believe these absurd fantasies manufactured in the graduate schools in the service of academic careerism at all costs — or do you just go along with them for the sake of protecting your own careers and perquisites?

Are you in favor of Antifa riots and the BLM hustle? They are staunchly supported by elected Democratic mayors and governors. These organizations looted and burned down shopping districts in many cities, and Democratic leaders did nothing to stop them. In Portland, Oregon, the nightly riots have continued for over 120 days under Mayor Ted Wheeler and Governor Kate Brown. The nightly riots have ceased to have any genuine political purpose or meaning; rather they’ve degenerated into a party space for energetic young people who can’t otherwise go to clubs, parties, concerts, cafes, or raves during the Covid-19 shut-down. So, rather, they’re enjoying a long-running game of “Cops-and-Robbers” out in the streets, busting things up, setting fires, getting chased around, and waking people up in their homes late at night with bullhorns and heavy metal music. They’re obviously having fun. The police have been forbidden to effectively disperse them, and the Multnomah County DA refuses to prosecute any of them — all of which just inspires the Antifas and BLMs to keep the game going. They have no real stake in the public interest. The net effect is terrible destruction of the city as a functioning civic organism. The Democratic Party has made it all possible. Wait until it comes to your town or city.

Are you in favor of cancel culture? The Democratic Party is addicted to it. Should livelihoods and reputations be destroyed for expressing an opinion, or telling a joke? Is asking someone for a date in the office a firing offense? Were Christine Blasey Ford and Michael Avenatti unimpeachable witnesses during the Brett Kavanaugh SCOTUS hearings? Or was that just an instance of anything goes and nothing matters? How much sadistic pleasure do you suppose has been involved in the professional ruination of men in the media, the arts, and politics? How much of cancel culture and the Me-Too movement have been based on simple coercion, the wish to push other people around, and on vengeance for personal losses and slights?

By the way, did you notice that Jeffrey Toobin has not been fired from his positions at The New Yorker magazine and CNN for jerking-off on-screen during a Zoom meeting of his professional colleagues last week? None of them have even publicly criticized him. Why do you suppose that is? I suppose it’s because he is a favored member of the Woke Journalists club and enjoys special protection from professional ruin — though the truth is he’s thrown away his credibility as a legal commentator, whether the Wokerati like it or not, especially on matters of public conduct. But that’s just one example of the hypocrisy that Wokesterism is full of, and reveals its chronic disingenuous insincerity.

The Democratic Party supports all this pernicious mendacity and bad faith, and more. Joe Biden is the current figurehead of the Party. Mr. Biden pretty clearly has insurmountable defects of his own, first as an international grifter while holding national office, as well as the misfortune of his cognitive decline, which is not his fault, but disqualifies him for high office. As for everybody else in the party, I don’t want such a reliably dishonest gang to be in charge of running the American government. So, I’m voting for Mr. Trump. He’s far from my idea of an ideal candidate, but despite his defects, he’s managed to hold the country together during the greatest disruption of normal life since World War Two. I’ve also come to admire his resilience and, yes, his bravery, in the face of an opposition that has spared no effort of foul play to destroy him.

I’m under no illusions that Donald Trump will Make America Great Again in the way that many of his supporters understand that slogan. The USA is headed into a terrible ordeal of economic disorder that I call the long emergency. Mr. Trump won’t stop it, and it may yet make a fool out of him. But the Democratic Party’s agenda would add an extra layer of tyrannical and sadistic insanity to the process that will only bring more suffering to more people, and I don’t want that to happen. I believe that Mr. Trump will probably win the election, but we’ll have to see what kind of nefarious dodges his opponents will employ to prevent any resolution of that outcome.


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659 Responses to “Last Round-up at the Wokester Corral”

  1. Penelope Dreadful October 26, 2020 at 9:57 am #

    Bless you for your honesty! More intelligent Democrats should do the same, and vote for Trump. The whole Democratic Party needs to be run out of office for a decade or so until they can get their brains back.

    • Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 10:26 am #

      Agreed, but the problem is that the good Democrat voters didn’t exactly have a place to run to.
      My support for Donald Trump was as much about trying to salvage that party, as it was about the corruption in the other.

    • hortonz October 26, 2020 at 11:50 am #

      You want to see what a Biden administration will look like? Just look at north of the border to our own Liberal government and pray that the Democrats aren’t half as destructive to your own country.

    • thirdcoastlegend October 26, 2020 at 12:45 pm #

      It’s not so much their brains as the obvious Chicom control that must be purged.

      Joe McCarthy was right about Communists.

    • ThorsHammer October 27, 2020 at 9:13 am #

      Dreadfull

      “The whole Democrat Party needs to be run out of office and their leaders sent to Guantanamo”

      There, fixed it for you.

      Jim, if you want to regain your credibility with your Delusional Democrat friends you need to direct your pen to the equally deplorable soul of the Repugnant Party. It will be equally easy to draw up a list of particulars that show that it should receive banishment along with it’s Demorat partner.

    • bluedog October 27, 2020 at 10:36 pm #

      Hell both parties or the party of one is dangerous for your health,but people are conned into voting for one or the other, because of the 24/7 line of propaganda that spews out of Washington,hell both parties are backed by the same tribe,the 1% who have caused the 40 million living in poverty and the millions more who will be joining them, and I know Jim is well aware of this for there is no other outcome,there are no more countries that they can loot to keep feeding the capitalist type of government that we have, and there is nothing left in the country to steal,so what difference does it make? who sits in the ivory tower,!!!!

      • EnterpriseSpaceship October 28, 2020 at 6:08 pm #

        “Hell both parties or the party of one…”

        This is not something typical to the US but rather a universal around the globe – burn the maximum fossil fuels energy for a very little positive outcome.

        What else seems universal is that oil exporting nations tend to be war-torn, too.

        Oil-exporting Azerbaijan becomes now the latest member of war-torn oil-exporting nations-club of Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen – war-torn.

        Are we in an Energy Musical Chairs Game, thinking it simply a two-party issue?

        Will Saudi, Russia and other oil producing nations eventually join over time that pre-industrial-reality club of Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Venezuela and now Azerbaijan?

        Wail.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUGgw2j_k-o

  2. erik October 26, 2020 at 10:02 am #

    This week’s post is magnificent.

    • Doc Holliday October 26, 2020 at 12:48 pm #

      A great refute to the smug answer that “the science is settled”.
      Thank you James!

    • zenfugue October 26, 2020 at 1:09 pm #

      hear, hear!

  3. shotho October 26, 2020 at 10:02 am #

    yes, the totalitarian tendencies of the democratic party are now plainly clear.

    • benr October 26, 2020 at 10:26 am #

      They have been plainly clear for the last twenty years if one paid attention.

      • Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 10:34 am #

        Since 9/11, at least. Everybody was fooled, it seems, because Bush Two was in office, but that Patriot Act wasn’t written overnight, and the Democrats were as much in favor of it as the Republicans.

        I remember how, at first, the librarians stood staunch in defense of our civil liberties.
        You should see my local library now. The creeping authoritarianism under Obama has now found a host in COVID-1984, and there are huge posters plastered all over the windows, plus a giant TV screen in case you missed the posters, or maybe can’t read, informing you of all the conditions you must meet in order to enter.

        A mask requirement isn’t enough for these Gestapo, they will take your temperature and make you log in, so in case you aren’t wearing that mask exactly right, they can take away your “privileges”?

        Privilege? Access to the books I paid for, which they do NOT own?

        • Rain Waters October 26, 2020 at 11:02 am #

          How they had the private rent a pig installed ay before march to. . .

          • Rain Waters October 26, 2020 at 11:02 am #

            Way b4

        • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 1:33 pm #

          One of my local libraries as none of that, just no good books. Full f large print mysteries and other fictions. Just for old folks! Books are passe is the message It seems. No computers since that would attract kids and homeless people, and in general the poor who might need them. If you can help someone by farting, hold it in.

        • Jo-G October 26, 2020 at 7:26 pm #

          As we go through the various “Health Conditions” here the library seems to drop the mask requirement sooner than the other facilities. During the more severe conditions they had customers perform the entire checkout process. They provided sanitizing equipment for patrons to wipe down the shared computers before use but I didn’t see any enforcers. Its like the LIbrary has different rules than the rest of the base.

    • abbybwood October 26, 2020 at 12:52 pm #

      Especially considering California Gov. Newsom’s recent edict regarding Thanksgiving.

      All get-togethers must be outside and everyone must be six feet apart. The gathering can only last two hours and masks must be worn (outside!) at all times even between bites of food and taking a drink!

      The house bathroom must be sanitized between uses! (Everybody can afford a maid to take care of that chore).

      And no SINGING! No group of little girls doing any spontaneous performances of “Let It Go!” And definitely no singing “Baby Shark”.

      Here in California some areas outside will be a crisp 50 degrees or colder! Lovely weather for sitting around six feet apart chatting up the election results and what Netflix series everyone has been watching, all the while with masks on so nobody can understand a word.

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8877273/Megyn-Kelly-joins-revolt-against-Newsons-Thanksgiving-insanity-requires-families-wear-masks.html

      I am sure Newsom and his family will be following all these edicts as well?? While they drink the best wines from his “vineyard”.

      I was already going to vote for Trump. Now I am hoping California voters will vote for Trump and against all the hare-brained propositions here $$$ just to stick it to them good. Especially Newsom.

      People here have had it.

      • malthuss October 26, 2020 at 1:44 pm #

        gosh

      • sophia October 26, 2020 at 2:00 pm #

        Don’t forget to vote against these mayors and governors.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder October 27, 2020 at 1:21 pm #

        That absolutely defies all understanding. The hammer is being dropped. No more interaction. No more school No more holidays. No more history.

        Even the “woke” have to say no to horseshit eventually.

  4. tractorguy October 26, 2020 at 10:05 am #

    Wow, Jim! You’re on fire today. Especially the paragraph about “For all your talk about the primacy of science, your agenda militates furiously against it…” I’ve been saying that for years about the TG crowd competing in woman’s athletics after growing up as genetic males. Bravo!

    Tractorguy

    • Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 10:39 am #

      Know what’s scary? All the universities suddenly receiving gargantuan endowments from “tech” titans, with the stipulation that the money be used to build new science and technology centers.
      No doubt that these places will teach New Science, as well.

      The tipoff us how bad the schools are using the COVID hysteria against their own students.
      Tracking them on and off campus, restricting how and where they may congregate, and using the phony testing scam, which science tells us does not work, to control healthy people and keep the scam going.

      • B_NOLA October 26, 2020 at 11:39 am #

        Students in elementary schools are being punished – including suspension and even expulsion – for the unforgivable sin of having toy swords or (gasp) BB guns in view of the cameras in their bedrooms. That isn’t hyperbole, it’s really happening.

        • abbybwood October 26, 2020 at 12:57 pm #

          But it is okay for Toobin to jerk-off on a business Zoom call!

          That’ll teach ‘em!

  5. Rodster October 26, 2020 at 10:05 am #

    Sir no need to apologize. I applaud you for having the balls to tell the Democrat party to fuck off. It’s obvious what they have done and are doing. The Media is all in on the Democrat side.

    It’s absolutely disgusting what they have and are attempting to do just so they can get power back even if it means blowing up the Country which they don’t really care. They are playing people from the BLM to create even more chaos if the manufactured Covid 19 bullshit wasn’t enough. Is anyone but me pissed off every time I see someone wearing a useless mask thinking it will protect them from Covid?

    JHK, you don’t need friends like the ones you described, if they are to fucking stupid to connect the dots.

    But make NO mistake both parties have sold out America and its people. I have an absolute disdain for politicians. I’m also gald Trump during the last debate said he was “no politicians” unlike the walking dead Joe Biden. I cringe every time I see that fucktard in his aviator sunglasses and surgical mask.

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    • Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 10:43 am #

      The other side of BLM is OCDM, Only COVID Deaths Matter.

      Florida’s governor finally wised up, when presented with evidence from some actual reporters, as to how rigged or just plan wrong the COVID death numbers were being counted, and removed all the unconstitutional and unscientific restrictions on citizens.

      • Rodster October 26, 2020 at 11:13 am #

        America needs more Governor’s like that. Wasn’t the Belarus President who said regarding Covid 19, “I rather die standing than to live on your knees”?

        • thirdcoastlegend October 26, 2020 at 12:48 pm #

          Belarus was offered a large IMF loan to impose lockdowns.

          Belarus said, NYET, and presto they got a color revolution.

        • Doc Holliday October 26, 2020 at 12:54 pm #

          The elder Italian civilian in ‘Catch-22’ was asked “Is it not better to die on your feet than to live on your knees?”. He retorted, “No not at all. It is better to live on your feet than die on your knees.”…

      • Mountain gal October 26, 2020 at 12:05 pm #

        It seems that flu deaths are way down and in fact may continue to be way down. This might in part be due to lack of travel from elsewhere to N America but as Covid has spread so easily I’m not sure this reason holds water. The other reason may well be that Covid has taken out so many of the people who the flu would have such as the elderly, ill and infirm. Yes, flu shots exist but often those in rough shape and elderly can’t mount a good immune response to the flu shot anyway. It’s still early but overall deaths, averaged between flu and Covid may turn out to be normal. Will see.

        • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 1:36 pm #

          In other words, the Flu is out of favor and is being called Covid. Medicine is a business and there’s more money in Covid. And of course there’s the Agenda of World Takeover by the Chinese and their Western Allies too.

        • ThorsHammer October 28, 2020 at 1:37 pm #

          Mountain Gal

          The triumph over the decades-old curse of the flu is indeed miraculous. Ocam’s Razor would point toward a simpler answer than those you suggest. The reason that flu deaths have collapsed is that they are now called Corvid deaths. In the US medical system that is easy to understand because the bounty paid to a hospital for a Corvid patient or death is several times higher than for a patient who dies from the flu.

          If we dig deeper into the Second Wave where an explosive increase of new “cases” has not been accompanied by a corresponding increase of deaths another simple explanation surfaces. The “gold standard” PCR protocol involves laboratory amplification of viral samples obtained by swabs from the upper respiratory tract. At each amplification the initial sample becomes more potent and easily identifiable. In the case of the search for the Corvid virus the number of amplifications is usually set at 40, a number called the Cf. That number was chosen as the sensitivity level that will identify almost any active virus present regardless of it’s probability of leading to future illness.

          If the Cf is increased to 50 almost everybody will test positive for Corvid19 — a 100% “case infection rate” as defined by the standards of our medical propaganda system. By the same standard, amplify PCR swab samples only 20 times and the world will suddenly seem to be 100% Coronavirus free because the PCR test is not sensitive enough to measure it at that amplification level. “Cases” are almost entirely a product of the way testing is measured.

          In the USA we are only a week away from a presidential race wherein facts and lies fall off the wall as if it were made of Teflon. Anybody want to take my wager that the number of “cases” in the US will crash drastically within a month so the winner can claim “victory” over the pandemic regardless of which figurehead wins the show?

          • Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 2:40 pm #

            I’d take that. The Covid Cult is aiming for World Domination. It’s much bigger than just who wins. That being said, the Cult wants Biden to win of course.

          • GreenAlba October 29, 2020 at 7:22 am #

            So now we have the truth from ThorsHammer.

            People all over the US are being killed by crows.

            How delightfully Hitchcockian.

          • GreenAlba October 29, 2020 at 8:10 am #

            “If the Cf is increased to 50 almost everybody will test positive for Corvid19”

            Perhaps you missed the post where neurodoc pointed out the false negative rates for the crow virus of 48 percent in presymptomatic people and 30% thereafter. (2 October, if you’re interested.) That would explain a lot.

    • abbybwood October 26, 2020 at 1:12 pm #

      And Joe Biden likes to take credit for writing The Patriot Act. He wrote after Oklahoma City and a few days after 9/11 he whipped the copy out of his desk and dusted it off and submitted it:

      https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/andrewkaczynski/surveillance-joe

      • beantownbill. October 26, 2020 at 4:29 pm #

        I thought he invented the internet. Oh, wait… that was somebody else. I get my Democrats mixed up.

    • daytrip October 26, 2020 at 3:10 pm #

      If Trump’s kids did 1/10 of what Biden’s kid did, the story would be bigger than covid.

      • abbybwood October 27, 2020 at 2:23 am #

        Tomorrow night Tuesday, full hour with Tucker interviewing Bobulinski, Hunter’s business partner who has turned Whistleblower.

  6. Vadrosaul October 26, 2020 at 10:07 am #

    Excellent summation, JHK. As a denizen of academia (mainly because the private sector still values a graduate degree as status symbol for one’s level of skills that can be exploited), I can rigorously say that the bubble-boys and bubble-girls that have perpetually lived in the halls are dichotomized. They are either lemmings deathly allergic to cognitive dissonance – meaning they will employ empiricism and rationalism in their own works but not of others – or they are cowards afraid of taking a step out into a world where their redundant or esoteric CV material will result in a tiny paycheck and no sycophancy from impressionable youngsters and other bubble denizens.

    It is truly a wonder to behold how the system props up this massive human waste of time-effort. In my dealings, there is so much no-shit-sherlock research accompanying the relativist nonsense that shirks all modes of scientific thought. As Jordan Peterson declared, Social Sciences and Humanities should be gutted, and parents should awake to the fact that STEM and trades are a far better option and far more capable of instilling critical thought.

    • tractorguy October 26, 2020 at 10:15 am #

      ” Social Sciences and Humanities should be gutted, and parents should awake to the fact that STEM and trades are a far better option and far more capable of instilling critical thought.” And have a far better chance of earning a real living.

    • Mountain gal October 26, 2020 at 12:12 pm #

      Yes, the NYT has posted a sob-story about declining enrollments in the humanities and colleges shuttering some of those majors. Even, oh the horror, combining black and woman’s studies into one! Still guaranteed to get you a job as a Starbucks barista I’d presume? It would be good if more students and their parents woke up to the fact that paying 50K a year to study these subjects isn’t the best use of money. We really do need more plumbers, carpenters, roofers, electricians etc; although as that actually requires physical labor and a willingness to get hot, sweaty and dirty, that might rule out our precious melting snowflakes.

      • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 1:40 pm #

        Good news indeed. The Black Feminists will drive White Women out of this hot house and back into the real world. Only Lesbians will remain in Feminism, their own ultra-radical kind. And their ghetto will be constantly raided by Tranny Warriors calling them TERFS.

      • Vadrosaul October 26, 2020 at 2:09 pm #

        I’ve hypothesized that the “toxic masculinity” phenomenon is actually a gut reaction by wimpy feminists to the world the egalitarian feminists before them helped create. Deep down they realized they need tough men who will get hot, sweaty and dirty to maintain the societal comforts they revel in, and they desperately don’t want to get hot, sweaty and dirty themselves.

        Instead of developing thick skin and a thicker work ethic, they codify their wimpiness into “theory” so that they can turn the tables on the conversation and proclaim themselves the victims of hurt fee-fees.

      • ThorsHammer October 29, 2020 at 11:49 am #

        Mt gal,

        I’m not sure we “need” more plumbers and carpenters. Aren’t there hundreds of thousands of them on the unemployment rolls already? As for college graduates with a Master’s degree in Barista Services working for Starabucks at minimum wage, they never are going to pay off their $200,000 in student loans that way. Time to find a more profitable line of work like selling crack Cocaine instead of coffee. That’s just the free enterprise economy at work.

    • roccofire October 26, 2020 at 9:51 pm #

      You’ve never been out of college! You don’t know what it’s like out there! I’ve WORKED in the private sector. They expect *results*.

      from Dr. Stantz to Dr. Venkman

      ghostbusters

  7. solomega October 26, 2020 at 10:11 am #

    For the people who hate the direction that things seem to be going, at what point does the desire to be left alone give way to the need to DO something about it? What would it take to get millions of people into the streets against this Wokerati (great word, Jim) agenda?

    • draupnir October 26, 2020 at 2:24 pm #

      While apparently BLM rallies, “mostly peaceful” protests, riots, looting and burning are not believed to spread COVID, you can bet the police will be unleashed for even peaceful marches or any congregation of those with opposing viewpoints, citing COVID fears as excuse to break them up. Expect fire hoses, rubber bullets, flash bangs, tear gas and mass arrests with charges that stick (if the police are willing to cooperate by this point).

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder October 27, 2020 at 1:38 pm #

      “What would it take to get millions of people into the streets against this”

      Hunger. And no heat.

  8. newworld October 26, 2020 at 10:11 am #

    Well said. I am correct, the entire Left has the mind of a 19 year old white girl from the suburbs. I used to appreciate the intelligent liberals’ blogs and such, now they all read like a sorority battle over costumes for the next party.

    Not to ruin this week’s entry by turning it into a Breitbart comments section of the usual outrage and tough talk so I’ll leave it at this.

    When you were “cancelled” after your Google appearance I knew it was over.

    • feralandroid October 26, 2020 at 12:14 pm #

      What google appearance are you referring too?

      • newworld October 26, 2020 at 4:48 pm #

        This is from memory, he had an invite to talk at Google, the brats there basically said “we have tech” and airily dismissed him. From there the general drift that the Left was shutting him out.

        He used to taunt us Nascar loving rubes, basically correct even if he missed the 50% haircut Nascar has taken since its peak in 2007. Where Nascar goes so goes America. Maybe a light bulb went off saying that a few of us rubes who care less what the coastal elite thinks of us are not much of an indicator of America’s drift from reality.

  9. Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 10:23 am #

    That summation is both stirring and sad. Beautifully written, it is sad because I know for fact the futility of appeals to reason and the use of logic, and even irrefutable evidence, when trying to persuade some people whom I know should know better, that they are being conned, big time.

    • draupnir October 26, 2020 at 2:32 pm #

      The entire last nearly four years has reminded me of being forced to relive the worst parts of high school. All of the mean girls have ganged up on Trump. Anything he says is attacked. Nothing he does is right. No position is correct. He doesn’t even look right.

  10. benr October 26, 2020 at 10:24 am #

    As I sat in the same room as the idiot box playing in the back ground I became aware of some HIV medication extoling the virtues of itself and towards the middle of the commercial a blurb spewed out that it had not been proven to work in trials for children assigned female at birth.
    ????

    Assigned????
    I also noticed that not one person on the television was actually a real female you know assigned this gender at birth.
    I forgot the name of the medication because they did such a great job of showing happy healthy looking men truth be told I was stunned at the assigned line.

    The layers of unreality keep getting plopped down like so many rock strata it’s beginning to look like reality will never have another chance.

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    • tractorguy October 26, 2020 at 10:33 am #

      That expression “sex assigned at birth” is erroneous. Your DNA, and therefore your body’s entire blueprint, is determined AT CONCEPTION. Every single cell your body manufactures during your whole life is based on that blueprint, irregardless of our feelings and external supplied conflicting hormones.

      • Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 10:51 am #

        It is somewhat misogynistic as well. I remember one doctor on a network news program, repeating the propaganda about ‘gender’, and he used the talking point about not necessarily being the sex “your mother told you you were” at birth.

        Stupid women, telling their babies they were girls when they were really boys.

        Besides, when was the last time a woman was not told by some medical professional, that she was having or just had a boy or a girl?

        I don’t understand how people who went to medical school can allow themselves to become paid whores for the propaganda outlets.

        I guess it is the lure of easy money.

        • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 11:19 am #

          DNA has spectrums across the two genders. Various blends of testosterone and estrogen give different types of people.

          Masculine women and effeminate men seem to confuse the public and themselves as a consequence. Both exist along with every combination in between. A considerable stigma exists with sexual deviation, just like ethnicity, with the affected kids deeply affected by discrimination from both adults and their peer group.

          What to do? How about, for once, ignoring the issue of gender deviation. Let people be what they are, leave them alone.

          One exception, parents who gender shame their kids should be prosecuted for child abuse. The normal development of a kid’s personality picks up sexual identity in grade school where kids start to imitate their same sex parent. So any kid that is directed toward sex change prior to that is being abused by sex shaming. Parents are at fault, not the kids. They do not even realize what they are. Puberty finishes the process.

        • SW October 26, 2020 at 12:21 pm #

          I had to explain to my youngest daughter (B.S. from Georgetown, M.A. from Cambridge) the difference between primary sexual characteristics (penis or vagina) and secondary sexual characteristics (breasts for women, beard for men) and how people confuse the two. If a man who claims he’s really a woman, has breast augmentation & hormone therapy but doesn’t have his penis and testicles removed–he’s still a man b/c his primary sexual characteristic has not been changed.

          And doctors “assigning” gender at birth is complete nonsense. Doctors document the baby’s sex based on — you guessed it! — primary sexual characteristic. The medical field has been shamefully silent by allowing this idiocy to perpetuate. Once again, the power of woksterism picking and choosing “facts” that suit their purpose and screaming insults at anyone who challenges them.

          • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 1:43 pm #

            And if he has his genitals removed he then becomes a woman? I think not. A woman is something in herself and not just a mutilated man.

          • SW October 26, 2020 at 1:55 pm #

            No it doesn’t b/c that’s written in our DNA but it could make him (changed physically to “her”) a sexually functional woman, like a post-menopausal woman who doesn’t have ovaries, no menstrual periods or the ability to have children.

          • Kim October 26, 2020 at 7:58 pm #

            The phenomena of cross-dressing and gender confusion has been around a long time.

            One remarkable historical example was that of the Chevalier d’Eon.

            Start of edited quote

            Chevalier d’Éon, was a French diplomat, spy, Freemason and soldier who fought in the Seven Years’ War. D’Éon had androgynous physical characteristics and natural abilities as a mimic and a spy.

            D’Éon appeared publicly as a man and pursued masculine occupations for 49 years, although during that time d’Éon successfully infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by presenting as a woman. For 33 years, from 1777, d’Éon lived as a woman. Doctors who examined d’Éon’s body after death discovered “male organs in every respect perfectly formed”, but also feminine characteristics.

            In 1756, d’Éon joined the secret network of spies called the Secret du Roi employed by King Louis XV without the knowledge of the government. It sometimes promoted policies that contradicted official policies and treaties.

            According to d’Éon’s memoirs. the monarch sent d’Éon on a secret mission to Russia in order to meet Empress Elizabeth and conspire with the pro-French faction against the Habsburg monarchy. At that time the English and French were at odds, and the English were attempting to deny the French access to the Empress by allowing only women and children to cross the border into Russia.

            D’Éon later claimed having to pass convincingly as a woman or risk being executed by the English upon discovery and therefore travelled disguised as the lady Lia de Beaumont, and served as a maid of honour to the Empress.

            Eventually, Chevalier Douglas became French ambassador to Russia, and d’Éon was secretary to the embassy in Saint Petersburg from 1756 to 1760, serving Douglas and his successor. D’Éon’s career in Russia is the subject of one of Valentin Pikul’s novels, “Le chevalier d’Éon et la guerre de sept ans”.

            End of edited quote

            If he had been doing his thing today, no doubt the Chevalier would be killing it on the women’s water polo team.

          • Kim October 26, 2020 at 7:59 pm #

            Sorry, that material was from Wikipedia

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalier_d%27%C3%89on

          • Kim October 26, 2020 at 8:01 pm #

            If you check online pictures of the Chevalier, you might agree he looks like a cross between Tootsie and Mrs Doubtfire.

            Nonetheless, he apparently fooled the Russians.

      • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 11:08 am #

        Absolutely a fact.

        But boy does it put a dent in the abortion crowd. What has happened to the suburban female? Used to be they were the protectors of life and kids. Trump’s anti-abortion stance seems to have alienated them.

        • draupnir October 26, 2020 at 2:48 pm #

          They protect abortion for the sake of their daughters, as unplanned pregnancy can ruin a life before it’s even properly begun. They protect abortion for their own sake, because a defective child can ruin their own lives and their marriages.

          • Kim October 26, 2020 at 11:17 pm #

            Being a thoughtless whore or a careless chad can ruin a young life, family, or marriage too, but I don’t see anyone legislating against that. On the contrary, it is encouraged or glorified!

            How about getting behind the re-criminalization of adultery?

            How about ending free speech rights for pornography? After all, it is not politicial speech. It is nothing more than socially destructive sewage.

            It can ruin the lives of young boys and girls to have pornographic filth piped into their smart phones 24 hours a day. Can’t it? So why do we allow it?

            Why does no one speak against it? The only people who speak against porn that I know of are the NoFap crowd. So are young white males the only socially responsible family conscious people left in America?

            But things like partial birth abortion and “post birth abortion” – formerly known as “murder” – they’re just fine.

            Just to be clear, I am not anti-abortion – because after all, what else do we have to dfefend ourselves against the blacks? – but it does turn my stomach and I do regard it as a terrible evil.

            Ultimately, however, abortion is a downstream symptom of a society that is thoroughly poisoned at its headwaters. And it is the upstream poisoning that we need to focus on before handling anything else.

          • draupnir October 27, 2020 at 5:40 pm #

            Post birth abortion was often the only method of birth control available to our ancestors. Babies born in the fall and winter were exposed if there wasn’t enough food for the mothers to make milk during those seasons or if the mother died. The imperfect were also often disposed of in this manner, and it was often used to restrict the number of children or to get rid of unwelcome girls. The Chinese practiced that method up until quite recent times. In the Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent Tongue, due to a prophecy, Gunnlaug told his wife that the child she carried would not be raised if it was a girl, and that was after the conversion of Iceland to Christianity), so it was not an unheard of occurrence even then.

            Herbal remedies as treatment for inconvenient pregnancies have been known for a very long time. Pennyroyal is quite effective, but there is a risk of liver damage. Ergot has been used with varying degrees of success, but it is also a poison. A strong deconcoction of tansy was the preferred treatment during the middle ages. In milder forms it was a beneficial treatment for other ailments and was readily available.

            Abortion has always been practiced in our species. About 20 years ago I came across a site containing the information for a DIY abortion with instructions on how to build a simple vacuum aspirator made of easily acquired items, as well as step-by-steps for the procedure itself. It was being widely disseminated and I downloaded the PDF myself. Desperate women can now take care of themselves, in case of emergency, with the assistance of one other woman. In other words, we don’t need your stinking laws.

          • Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 12:45 pm #

            Evil has been around a very long time indeed. Morality is Male it would seem. Eve thinks she can do whatever she feels.

          • draupnir October 28, 2020 at 4:50 pm #

            Yes, Yohannon. Morality is such a fluid and variable thing. To quote Cindy Lauper, “we’re not the fortunate ones,” and really can’t afford to be constrained by what some man considers moral–it’s easy for you; you don’t have to pay to play. The consequences don’t fall equally on men. They can just zip up and walk away. Even the 18-year financial commitment occasionally imposed doesn’t even begin to equate,

          • GreenAlba October 29, 2020 at 7:32 am #

            “Morality is Male it would seem. ”

            So, which bit of ‘Gunnlaug told his wife that the child she carried would not be raised if it was a girl […]’ and ‘Babies born in the fall and winter were exposed if there wasn’t enough food for the mothers to make milk during those seasons or if the mother died.’ did you misread?

            Do you think when the lord of the manor and his sons fucked the servant girls – without asking them – and they were sent away, pregnant, to live or die, that the lord of the manor ‘paid’ in some way? Did you think Downton Abbey was real?

            Bless.

          • GreenAlba October 29, 2020 at 8:32 am #

            “Just to be clear, I am not anti-abortion – because after all, what else do we have to dfefend ourselves against the blacks? – but it does turn my stomach and I do regard it as a terrible evil.”

            So … killing black babies is just fine, but proposing that foreign aid might be conditional on providing basic healthcare, including reproductive healthcare (with no mention of abortion) for the poorest of the poor – instead of, say, using it to purchase advanced weaponry – betrays an approval of genocide and eugenics?

            The reasoning of the two-faced Gotcha troll, for all to see.

          • GreenAlba October 29, 2020 at 8:45 am #

            This from the Gotcha troll who called the proposer of the foreign aid/healthcare package ‘a hypocritical sack of shit’ for the proposal.

            You really couldn’t make it up. I’d have thought a self-awareness bypass of this quality would be hard to find, even in the US healthcare system.

    • Mountain gal October 26, 2020 at 11:36 am #

      Yep. I don’t get it. What ever happened to men proud,happy and comfortable with being men and women feeling the same about being women? Other than rare birth defects which are tragic indeed, a boy has XY DNA and a girl XX and their gender is apparent at birth. What a crazy country we have become.

      • So many liars October 26, 2020 at 11:47 am #

        We’ve been so complacent, thinking that this silliness will somehow go away. Doesn’t look like it will. I think the sane people (us) must resist by refusing to comply with the dictates of the trans activists. That might mean that we suffer consequences, even if they’re costly. Perhaps we’ll have to fight back through the courts. Perhaps we’ll lose multiple times. But if we don’t try, we’ll never get our free speech back.

      • Kim October 26, 2020 at 11:33 pm #

        @ Mountain gal

        What ever happened to men proud,happy and comfortable with being men and women feeling the same about being women?

        Ever heard of Miley Cyrus? Or – antique now – Britney Spears – or, antediluvian, Madonna?

        Remember how these were introduced to our little girls as role models and quite proper young ladies and then – before our eyes, on building-high jumbotrons – were turned out as insane pan-sexual nymphomaniacs and whores?

        They are just three examples of the now very longstanding and long-planned process of perverting and mentally damaging the psyches of modern Western girls and women.

        And now the models for children are all foul-mouthed black and mullatto gangbanged whores and money-obsessed, tattooed, narcissistic gutterslime. Produced by Disney!

        Do you pay for cable? Do you have Netflix? If so, then you are subsidizing it.

        This process has been deliberate. The Chinese and the globalists are laughing. We are too weak to legislate and act against what is clearly nothing more than filth? Then we are too stupid to go on living.

        https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/19/how-destroy-society/

        • Kim October 26, 2020 at 11:37 pm #

          If you have children, do they have smart phones? Do you know how they use them?

  11. RaymondR October 26, 2020 at 10:26 am #

    Fascinating and very well written. Vote for DJT as harm reduction, that should make some heads explode on all sides.

    One can only hope that by the end of this election process, Americans will apply common sense and seek peaceful resolution to their political conflicts. I remain optimistic that this will happen but wary of those with no common sense.

    Thanks

    • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 11:23 am #

      The domination of the Left in this country for forty years and their usage of the divide and conquer technique has created the discord that characterizes the country now. It will not go away as long as the Democrats and RINOs hold sway over the Deep State.

      • FreddieMars October 26, 2020 at 6:29 pm #

        JohnAZ

        The domination of the Left in this country for forty years[…]

        Can you clarify this further JohnAZ? 40 years is 1980 till now.

        Reagan won the presidency in 1980, Bush 1 in 1988, then Slick Willy in 1992 & 1996. By any measure, the Clinton administration was “GOP Light” and many of the ‘reforms’ of that era – such as ‘workfare’ and 1996 Crime Bill and Immigration Bill – were pretty much ‘GOP gospel’.

        Then 8 years of Bush, plus 8 years of Obama. Were ALL these administrations, in your view, “Left”?

        • Kim October 26, 2020 at 8:42 pm #

          @ Freddie

          The left has dominated academia, media and the civil services for more than a century in the USA. We see it perhaps most dramatically starti g in the 1930s with the importation of the Frankfurt School people and the stacking of the federal government with communist agents under the New Deal, but going back if you like to John Dewey (a globalist communist) and the Rockefeller/Columbia University creation of its PhD program which offered juicy grants to colleges which put its PhDs on staff. That was pre WW1.

          Note that the strategy of capturing key positions is similar to what we see in the Soros-supported Democrat DA races today.

          Much of academia have been explicitly and openly communist since the 1960s under the guise of front philosophies such as the “New Left”, but you go all the way back to influential enemies of society like Boas and his mendacious protégé, Margaret Mead, if you wish. Again, that is more than a century ago.

          Many members of the government of FDR were soviet agents. I have quoted here before the case of Democrat Congressman Samuel Dickstein, who entered congress in 1928 and has been proven by Venona to have been an NKVD agent.

          How many congressmen and women today are agents of the CCP? Not just a few, I am sure.

          The corruption of the courts and legal system by scheming leftists through the universities and the Democrat party similarly goes back at least a century. A key name in this was that of Felix Frankfurter, one of the founders of the ACLU and later a Supreme Court justice, who was influential in placing neo-Bolsheviks throughout the Federal Court system. One of his longtime protégés was Alger Hiss.

  12. Kellyfrombayfield October 26, 2020 at 10:37 am #

    Right on Jim ! This is a spot on post.
    I hope it is read far and wide.
    and if one more person tells me to stay safe… @#%&*

    • Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 10:52 am #

      I never was one for cursing, before this latest scam.

  13. Brabantian October 26, 2020 at 10:37 am #

    A tear-inducing photo of Trump with a 90-year-old black grand-mother, lets you see the character of this threatened, beleaguered, indeed heroic man, as JHK suggests

    Donald Trump with 90-year-old Adrianna Valoy, mother of a murdered female New York City police officer

    After bringing her to the stage, Ms Valoy didn’t want to let go of the President … Trump let her hold on to him, and held her hand as he continued to speak

    A photo for the ages, this is the Trump much of the world doesn’t know:

    https://commonsenseevaluation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Trump-Love.jpg

    • Skylark October 26, 2020 at 10:41 am #

      Heroic my ass, a true actor and con man…

      • Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 10:53 am #

        If he were an actor, he wouldn’t be turning off so many people, would he?

      • vengeur October 26, 2020 at 10:58 am #

        AND he’s obviously an agent /asset of the Russians.lol

      • tresho October 26, 2020 at 5:17 pm #

        “Heroic my ass” What does this statement make of you?

      • redrock October 27, 2020 at 10:03 pm #

        Anybody who fuck’s a Clinton out of anything is HEROIC.

    • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 11:26 am #

      The political Trump is a product of very distorted representation by the MSM and is based on the biggest group of lies and name calling in history. Just read some of the inane entries on CFN.

    • abbybwood October 26, 2020 at 1:33 pm #

      Made me cry.

  14. ed October 26, 2020 at 10:38 am #

    Lets assume your insights are right. Then it coms down to which of your two choices are the most despicable. You have really taken a blind eye to the atrocities of the Trump administration. He has proven he is a lousy president. At least there is hope things will be better with Biden as he is more likely to appoint competent and capable staff. I agree country needs a strong 3rd alternative.

    • redrock October 26, 2020 at 10:49 am #

      Kamala competent and capable? What fucking planet do you live on?

    • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 1:19 pm #

      Atrocities of the Trump Administration.

      Like the best economy in fifty years?

      Like the withdrawal of troops overseas?

      Like the de-escalation of tension with Korea?

      Like the renegotiation of NAFTA with our neighbors to remove giveaways?

      Like the tightening of trade with China to undo the Obama/Biden giveaways that have cost so many US jobs?

      Like getting NATO “allies” to put up the share of costs that they agreed to do but didn’t?

      Like eradicating ISIS?

      Like killing the number one killer of Americans in Iran?

      Like undoing the very stupid Iranian treaty that was used to build their missile arsenal and continue development of their Nuke program?
      BTW, the ten years that was negotiated by Kerry is about over, so it would be re-started anyway.

      Like getting us out of the Paris peace accord that refused to admit that the US is a much smaller contributor to CO2 pollution than China, India or Russia. Yet we were going to pay the freight for whatever climate changers would be implemented, which by the way have not even been identified yet.
      This was a great stoppage of the globalization effort.

      Like putting together three peace accords in the Middle East?

      Like reversing the Democratic takeover of the US judiciary and putting three folks onto the Supreme Court?

      Stopping the idiots trying to clobber the US economy by allowing a virus epidemic to shutdown the economy?

      Etc, etc.

      The real Trump administration atrocities were:

      Russiagate, which actually stopped any reconciliation efforts with Russia.

      Mueller et al.

      Impeachment over something that the real story is coming out now.

      • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 1:21 pm #

        Paris climate accord

        Peace!

  15. Doug October 26, 2020 at 10:39 am #

    Thanks for a wonderful post! Thank God for some sanity in the world. We need it bad.

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  16. jivefive99 October 26, 2020 at 10:42 am #

    I think you went off the rails when you appointed yourself another 55,000,000+ amateur commentator on political affairs. Choosing any party because of anecdotes is silly and you know that. Choosing a side based on Zero Hedge headlines is equally shallow. The oil story may have hibernated for a little while due to the fracking “slurping of the straw,” but I think its gonna be coming back real soon. Sadly, Trump will confuse the election, have it decided in the Supreme Court, and the Orange Dimwit will become the first American King.

    Jivefive– And what would Joe Biden be, if elected? The first 25th Amendment removal case? — JHK Admin

    • Jeremy October 26, 2020 at 10:56 am #

      ” … but I think its gonna be coming back real soon.”

      Now that is Hopium writ large.
      ‘I think, so it shall be.’
      Wishing on a star for sure.

      Keep “thinking” buddy, keep on “thinking”.

      Sheesh 🙁

      • jivefive99 October 26, 2020 at 11:27 am #

        Fracking, while also making no money for the frackers (only sustainable with zero percent loans and gullible investors expecting “next year we’ll make some money!”), has contracted to basically the New Mexico portion of the Permian basin, much of which is Federal land. Before he died, Matt Simmons said he knew of all the ways to get oil and the cabinet was empty of new ways that made any financial sense. Im sure he would have laughed at fracking as realistic in the real world.

        • Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 11:39 am #

          Speaking of fracking, if I hadn’t been reading this blog and one other local one, I might have been fooled into thinking that Andrew Cuomo banned fracking when he did, out of concern for the environment.

        • Jeremy October 26, 2020 at 1:13 pm #

          How correct Simmons was.
          Shame he was murdered in his bath. That was a sad day.

  17. redrock October 26, 2020 at 10:44 am #

    I see only one cure for the liberal insanity. 7.62. Having participated in the liquidation of opposing political views in 1968 I see no reason to refrain in 2020. These liberal morons cannot be re-educated.

    • stelmosfire October 26, 2020 at 11:30 am #

      7.62? 39,51,or 54

      • bluekayak October 26, 2020 at 12:00 pm #

        .223/5.56 ARE cheaper…

      • elysianfield October 27, 2020 at 12:58 pm #

        Saint,
        So 7.62X25 is chopped liver?

    • thirdcoastlegend October 26, 2020 at 12:54 pm #

      Yuri Bezmenov was right about brainwashing.

      The Left and Chicoms have done a sweet number on half the populace and nearly all of the US elites.

      • Kim October 26, 2020 at 9:10 pm #

        The biggest number that has been done on the population has been via sex and drugs, but most widely through sex.

        The key to mind control and suggestion – and popular movie storytelling! – is always to enter the subject’s mind through the open door of our basic drives, through the limbic brain. That is why movies often start with some dramatic or sexual action. It opens the limbic mind, and creates suggestibility, the suspension of disbelief.

        Once the limbic brain is accessed, the rational mind can be made to excuse or explain away anything.

        Knowing that, our masters have created a pornified society where we live with the limbic brain always open – as if society always has its zipper open and its junk out, or is constantly fondling itself.

        The result is that we live today in a society that is in a constant state of sexual anticipation or expectation. And no one is left out of the orgy. Even those who have no sexual partner have a computer or phone constantly stimulating and diverting them and constantly foregrounding what is in fact the most stupid aspects of our human condition.

        In short, the sexualized society has put a ring through the nose of a population that as as result become mostly swinish in its tastes and behaviors and rarely better than bovine.

        Professional manipulators have constant and total access to the uncritical parts of our minds. We have given burglars the access code to our psyches.

        It is time for the institution of strong laws against pornography.

        • messianicdruid October 27, 2020 at 6:20 am #

          “I will place no unclean thing before my eyes.”

          An easy vow to make, hard one to keep.

        • AKlein October 27, 2020 at 6:26 am #

          Your explanation of the dynamics of mind-control is very lucid and seems quite reasonable. Could it be that the ills that have befallen us, and by us I mean the western world, is clever payback from a clever people for the Opium Wars?

          • Kim October 27, 2020 at 11:14 pm #

            @ AKlein

            “Could it be that the ills that have befallen us, and by us I mean the western world, is clever payback from a clever people for the Opium Wars?”

            Certainly the Chinese are behind a lot of it but this sexualization has been going on now for going on 100 years, though it sped up post mid-1950s.

            In any case, Opium Wars of not, China would still be our enemy today. The Mongol Hordes needed no excuse and neither does the CCP.

  18. Amman October 26, 2020 at 10:48 am #

    Is the democratic party rotten? Unwholesome? Unnatural? it seems to be the case. So what about the Republican politicians? Are they part of the same game??

    • Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 10:57 am #

      They sit back and allow the Democrats to do the dirty work for them, for the most part.

      Ann Coulter ailed it when she said the Republicans care about only four things – abortion, tax cuts, the embassy in Jerusalem, and I forget the last, maybe the death penalty?

      Neither party actually cares about abortion, just some of their members do.

      • Disaffected October 26, 2020 at 12:01 pm #

        I believe ‘wedge issue’ is the term you’re looking for here. Guns, same thing. No one’s talking them away anytime soon, but they always make for great campaign fodder.

    • Kim October 26, 2020 at 9:13 pm #

      Plenty of Republicans are agents for the CCP and/or Davos. Never Trumpers out themselves on a regular basis.

  19. brb October 26, 2020 at 10:52 am #

    I’m an independent myself, but would have migrated from Obama in 2008 to Trump in 2016 if I had voted. Already submitted my absentee ballot for Trump this year and—remarkably—ended up voting all Republican.

    For Democrats who may feel conflicted, there is an interesting #walkaway campaign out there where many former Dems are offering their experience and support for those who are ready to leave the Democrat plantation.

    This is a paraphrase, but founder Brandon Staka nicely summarized his evolution in an interview where he said to the effect: I did not really change much myself but after 2016 I surveyed the political scene and realized that the Republican party had become much more diverse and inclusive while the Democrats had become…(short pause)…insane.

    That kind of says it all to me.

    • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 11:34 am #

      The Dems have migrated from protecting the interests of the working class of the US to protecting their own interests and power base only. Wokesterism is a joke, a political ploy to try to unify all the special interests the Dems represent. Last of their concerns is the goodness of a free United States. The Dems do not give one damn about Their public as evidenced by their encouragement of tearing apart their own cities. Come on, city folks, wise up. Name one time Trump encouraged civil disorder and violence. Never!

    • King of Comedy October 26, 2020 at 11:37 am #

      In 2016, I held my nose and voted for Clinton. I grew up on the east coast and had family members who owned construction businesses that had done work in Atlantic City. In that milieu, Trump was widely viewed as a con artist with whom you did business at your own peril. Trump as leader of the free world was simply not a serious option.

      From a business perspective, truth be told, I still view Trump as full of shit. And I think that the reality TV antics have at times approached Mike judge’s prescient Idiocracy. All that being said, I still voted for Trump because the other side is completely repellent.

      Much like you, I voted straight Republican. I simply looked at the Democratic candidate and/or Democratic position on state and local issues and voted the opposite.

      The reality is that you cannot have any resemblance of a sane, civilized society and entertain a pathology as a reasonable mode of running that society. The Democrats at this point in time are a pathology. There’s no other way to put it.

      • King of Comedy October 26, 2020 at 11:40 am #

        *semblance

      • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 12:13 pm #

        King

        My father in law, another builder, often said that the key to construction success is to “Sell them a dream, build them a box”. Optimizing profit is the job of the American businessman. The buyer must be wise to avoid the pitfalls and demand their side gets what they are paying for.

        Huh! Sounds like the free market to me. If people were “taken” by Trump , or anyone, it is their fault. Trust as the basis of business is in short supply. But again, trust as the basis for much of anything is in short supply.

        Trump has been a survivor in the grossest market in the US, NYC. He got screwed in Atlantic City by some pretty stupid advice and it clobbered him. He then played Phoenix and recreated a million dollar company from the ashes.

        Sounds like someone I would want to run the company I would work for, or maybe the country itself.

        • King of Comedy October 26, 2020 at 12:39 pm #

          @John

          Not that it matters one whit to me vis-a-vis the election but Trump’s business practice wasn’t negotiating a hard bargain whereby he came out on top. That’s legitimate business. It was accepting a bid for work from contractors and subs and then beating them down on the price after the work was completed, at which point they had already outlaid significant money for materials and labor. Running a three-card monte racket is hardly a admirable accomplishment.

          None of my relatives fell for the bait because Trump’s reputation proceeded him. Tells you all you need to know about the Democrats though… that Trump, warts and all, is still a better alternative. It’s not even close…

          • King of Comedy October 26, 2020 at 12:41 pm #

            bad day for spellcheck *preceded

          • Q. Shtik October 26, 2020 at 8:47 pm #

            Trump’s reputation proceeded him.
            bad day for spellcheck *preceded – King of Com

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

            Spellcheck would not have put a squiggly line under ‘proceeded’ since it is an actual word. It’s like all the times people write ‘to’ when it should have been ‘too’. ‘To’ is a legit word so spellcheck is oblivious. Maybe grammar check would work. I don’t know. I’ve never used it.

          • Kim October 26, 2020 at 9:21 pm #

            On my android device the thing constantly changes my spelling and word choices. Sometimes repeatedly. Tedious. Especially if you miss something and post the device’s “corrections”.

          • Kim October 27, 2020 at 12:27 am #

            How to turn off predictive text on a samsung smartphone.

            Hallelujah

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

        • beantownbill. October 26, 2020 at 4:16 pm #

          Every successful real estate developer I ever me had at one time declared bankruptcy, so to me Trump’s failures don’t mean too much.

          • beantownbill. October 26, 2020 at 4:16 pm #

            Should be met.

          • FreddieMars October 27, 2020 at 1:06 pm #

            Daddy Fred Trump never did. He was, by all accounts, very successful.

      • redrock October 27, 2020 at 10:12 pm #

        Well said. I would vote for a yellow dog (not that thing on Trump’s head) before any Dimokrat, ever.

    • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 1:52 pm #

      See the All Lives Matter rallies being held in Hollywood. Black Lives MAGA! Trump is the new Lyndon Johnson. No one has given more to the Blacks, even letting felons out of jail during the Black riots. All just part of the “Platinum Plan”. He’s gonna have them voting Republican for the new two hundred years!

      Despite such things, one must for The Man. Trump is El Senor!

  20. teddyboy46 October 26, 2020 at 10:57 am #

    Another great post, thanks JHK. Your last question is one I have been asking myself. I too believe Trump will win the election and like you I wonder what the Deep State will try this time to prevent him from being sworn in?

    Another cracker in the soup is this. What we are seeing is a war between white people. With BLM as a side show. Whatever way this turns out it will be interesting.

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  21. PeteAtomic October 26, 2020 at 10:58 am #

    The worst part of all this is the cozying up to the secret policemen & regime change agents, in the name of “resistance” to Trump.

    The cognitive dissonance involved must be astounding. Take the former Dir. CIA John Brennan, who throughout his career supported torture of suspected terrorists, and secret bombing campaigns known as the Drone Program, which very likely killed over 70 innocent people, including many children. Brennan went on to help launch the counter intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, kicking off they Russia hysteria.

    Brennan, and all of the people similar to him in activities & position (like Clapper), are now all MSM celebrities who “consult” to agencies like MSNBC.

    Using people like Brennan at MSNBC is political indoctrination. It’s not news. It’s not journalism.

    But some people love the opinions on MSNBC because it is anti-Trump. A Biden Presidency will re-empower these dark forces within government.

  22. Night Owl October 26, 2020 at 10:58 am #

    Excellent essay. Reminds me that regardless of what happens in the election, the threat of corporate fascism is very real.

    The scope and breadth of the crimes and thought policing among the Unipartyists and their invertibrate enablers should terrify all decent people.

    • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 12:20 pm #

      Think which group favors corporate movement to China and which one believes in America first. Which party favors government, thus corporate control, and which favors individual control. Which party extrapolates to totalitarianism and which fights for the maintenance of the American worker. Which party has the globalist elites supporting them while the other fights the Swamp.

      See? Easy choice!

      • thirdcoastlegend October 26, 2020 at 1:00 pm #

        Amen, John.

        If the mail fraud and lawfare work, China will win without firing a shot.

      • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 1:57 pm #

        The NBA refuses to criticize China. Apparently China makes our basketballs. But even more: they are hoping to bring Basketball to China – a much bigger market than America. With such fantasies the Corporate mind is occupied. Maybe it’s realistic, maybe not. Don’t know. But NASCAR’s idea of throwing lower class Whites to the dogs in favor of fantasized new markets will prove to be folly.

        Yes, the Republican Party is split and needs to do so officially. Trump could call the new Party the America First Party or something.

        • cbeard October 26, 2020 at 9:20 pm #

          Lower class whites, eh. Come on down south to a local stock car event with talk like that and see what happens. Actually, NASCAR lost me the first time I heard rap music played at a race. Recently some of the drivers made asses of themselves sucking up to the black driver, can’t remember his name, who found the supposed noose over his garage bay door. In actuality is was a rope to close the roll up door. Don’t have to worry about that shit at the local tracks.

          • Yohannon October 27, 2020 at 12:22 pm #

            All Truman Capote types, eh? I didn’t say White Trash – just lower on the socioeconomic level. Guys who like cars and like watching them drive in circles. Fast! I like cars and I like speed too. Maybe I’d like NASCAR though I doubt it.

  23. Zoltar October 26, 2020 at 11:04 am #

    We have all lost liberal friends for refusing to pretend that the Democratic agenda is legitimate or tenable. Thank you, Jim, for using your forum as a redoubt of rationality.

    Trump is still atrocious, but so is today’s America. And there can be no hope of improvement until we, as a nation, start to look at matters honestly again.

    • redrock October 26, 2020 at 11:25 am #

      Never happen. To far down the tubes.

      • beantownbill. October 26, 2020 at 4:11 pm #

        Correct.

    • messianicdruid October 26, 2020 at 8:31 pm #

      Like in the mirror?

  24. Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 11:06 am #

    I quoted from and linked to a well known person who could hardly be described as wedded to a conservative political ideology before, and I’m linking to this particular tweet featuring Sean Ono Lennon for a reason, because the guy whose tweet it is happens to be a lawyer who ran for governor once in New York, and who has also had a family member die due to Madman Cuomo’s reckless dictates during the ongoing COVID scam.

    “I believe Big Tech may be revealing itself to be the greatest immediate threat to society by any corporatocracy”
    https://twitter.com/WR4NYGov/status/1319656469990694917?s=20

    Note that I am not saying that I agree with everything this man has said or thought in his entire life, I am merely illustrating that not everybody with any liberal bona fides is locked into the current mindset of two “sides”.

    • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 2:00 pm #

      Yoko herself seems to be with the Globalists, once mentioning the Georgia Guidestones favorably for example.

  25. Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 11:10 am #

    Here’s another Lennon tweet, on censorship.
    “Remember when cool people were against censorship?”
    https://twitter.com/seanonolennon/status/1318052804817281025?s=20

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  26. volodya October 26, 2020 at 11:17 am #

    The human brain is a metabolically expensive piece of equipment, using an inordinate amount of energy even when not in use, so why use it unnecessarily? I mean if you can get someone else to do your thinking for you, well, why not? 

    What is ideology but a framework of prefabricated fabrications, pre-chewed food-for-thought for non-thinking – cough – “thinkers”, easily swallowed and quickly digested? 

    Membership requires “belief”, at the very least, publicly expressed professions of belief, the more unbelievable the required belief, the more discomfort inflicted by the expression of said belief, the warmer the applause, the hugs, the smiles, the handshakes. It means you’re one of us, you said what caused you discomfiture, it made you squirm saying what is on its face utter claptrap, expressing credulity when you know the people listening don’t believe it either. Russian collusion? Bullshit, but it’s bullshit that everyone in the tribe must assert as true. 

    That said, some expressions of untruth are painless. The 9-11 terrorists came through Canada. Right? Wrong. But if you’re American, then it’s true because such luminaries as John McCain and Janet Napolitano said so, and they must know. Right? Wrong. But they didn’t suffer by saying so and everyone has by now forgotten they even said it. 

    The vast diminution of American working class income and employment is the result of technology. Right? Every economist worth his salt will tell you this, every coastal intellectual who deigns to look at the issue will tell you. Or, if it’s not that, then it’s unfair Chinese trade practises to blame. See, both explanations exonerate the real culprits, those that sold-out that class of people commonly regarded as deplorable. 

    Back to the question; why not? Why not let someone else do your thinking for you? Just this, belief in things that aren’t so is inconsistent with survival. It’s that simple. And ideologies that pervert history, that lie, that bend and shape what happened, or altogether ignore facets of it, is not innocuous. It’s like Orwell said, the truth still stands right behind you. Lying about events doesn’t change them.

    So what’s the way forward in this Age of Ideology, that is to say, this Era of Lies? Think for yourself. Trust your own eyes and ears and powers of reason. Two plus two equals four, it will always equal four no matter the power and “expertise” arrayed against it. 

    • volodya October 26, 2020 at 11:19 am #

      correction; is not innocuous should read ARE not innocuous.

    • Paul October 26, 2020 at 11:45 am #

      Vlad,
      Thank you for your essay. Does membership require belief or can it be attained simply through participation in certain quaint rituals? Maybe bullshit is the test: if I’m bullshitting the way that everyone else around me is, then do I automatically belong? Am I part of the herd?
      Think for your own (sic) self! Hard to argue with that one, but what is the difference between a herd-member who is thinking and one who’s just grazing? Not much.
      And like to riff on Orwell, the truth is there, but it’s invisible because it’s all around you. Invisible except at singular times: like when the clock strikes thirteen, or when two plus two equals not four, but twenty-two. Aye, there’s the catch!

      • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 2:04 pm #

        Vlad? Which one? Putin or Vlad Tepes? Or some other? Is Vlad a diminutive of Volodya?

        • sophia October 26, 2020 at 4:00 pm #

          Yohannon,

          Other way around. Volodya ist he diminutive.

      • volodya October 27, 2020 at 1:06 pm #

        Nobody automatically belongs because every herd has its own secret police on the lookout for non-compliance ie heresy.

        Bullshitting, that being public profession of required beliefs, itself one of those quaint rituals, is required, but if you want to maintain membership, you have to be careful not only of what you say, but also your demeanor, and your intonation. Be careful because denunciation, as we’ve seen multiple times, can be life-limiting, career-stopping, altogether a terrible thing. Paranoia anyone?

    • sevensec October 26, 2020 at 7:31 pm #

      “Is it not a sign of immense progress that the masses should have “ideas,” that is to say, should be cultured? By no means. The “ideas” of the average man are not genuine ideas, nor is their possession culture.” —Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses

      In other words, “having other people do your thinking for you” is the natural way of the masses. The vast majority of the “ideas” held by individuals in mass-society are not ideas at all, but propaganda or, as you say, ideology.

      Here memetics replaces thought and truth; memes, in turn, have little direct relation to truth, and every relation to conformity and social control.

      Not that conformity or social control are totally bad in themselves—but to conflate them with objective truth certainly is. And this is precisely what is happening.

      (P.S. a couple pages later Gasset goes on to praise liberal-democracy as by far the “highest” and “noblest” of all forms of government. So… he bemoans the failure of ideas in the hands of the mass, given the latter has the least capacity for ideas and the greatest susceptibility to ersatz “ideas”… but then turns and and admires the form of government that is maximally deferential to mass opinion. That is some tortured reasoning, Ortega. Guess that’s why the book was free?)

      • volodya October 27, 2020 at 12:34 pm #

        I suppose that Ortega is like a lot of allegedly educated people nowadays. Their heads are so screwed around that they can’t think a straight thought anymore or put forth a coherent argument and you can’t make head or tail about what they say.

  27. J. Dean October 26, 2020 at 11:18 am #

    I had this idea that, if Trump wins again, perhaps it will really and finally crack the current Dem party, and it will disappear. Then, there will be a reset of the party, but it will be a bifurcation of the Republican party. Those more moderate/libertarian of the Rep party will form the new Dem party, and those more conservative will continue to be the “Trumpists” or “Trumpians”– the Rep party.

    • draupnir October 26, 2020 at 3:12 pm #

      They aren’t going to simply lie down and die. The agonal convulsions of the Democratic Party are likely to fracture this country.

  28. So many liars October 26, 2020 at 11:28 am #

    Eight days till we “might” get election results. However it turns out, most of the country isn’t so polarized as the media depict. Our families, churches, and communities are a mix of red and blue. Even as individuals, many of us have a mix of red and blue values.

    The Left seems eager for violence, and so far, the Right has turned its cheek. This can’t go on. Imagine the damage to our families, churches, and communities when we’re forced to choose a side.

    • beantownbill. October 26, 2020 at 12:08 pm #

      Who says we have to take a side? Stay out of it, be aloof, and let the chips fall as they may. You won’t be changing anything, anyway. That would be like trying to stop the tide using a pail.

      • Mountain gal October 26, 2020 at 12:35 pm #

        Yes. I pretty much try to keep my mouth shut except when with others who I know for sure share similar thoughts. And sadly, it’s not as if I don’t care about some of the so-called “values” that the Dems supposedly support. But now it seems that there’s a litmus test and you have to choose one or the other. Sad.

        • SW October 26, 2020 at 2:11 pm #

          Many of my old friends are Democrats as I once was and are very annoyed that I won’t vote for Biden and didn’t for Hillary either. Jeffery Toobin is an excellent example of the hypocritical double standard the true believers are supported to justify on the Democrats behalf without thinking. And they do.

          • SW October 26, 2020 at 2:11 pm #

            supposed

          • benr October 27, 2020 at 9:46 am #

            Disgraced former Mayor of San Diego Bob “Filthy” Filner is a perfect example everyone knew he was a pervert but as long as he could move the Democrat ball they ignored it.
            They ignored it until he was no longer of value and he was cast aside and disgraced. I told anyone who would listen to me the guy was a terrible choice.

            Robert Earl Filner (born September 4, 1942) is an American former politician who was the 35th Mayor of San Diego from December 2012 through August 2013, when he resigned amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment. He later pleaded guilty to state charges of false imprisonment and battery.

        • beantownbill. October 26, 2020 at 4:06 pm #

          I just tell people that I do not discuss politics because most such conversations end up angering someone. It might make me appear boring, so then I start talking about the wonders of the universe, simulation theory, string theory, etc., and soon people’s eyes start crossing and they forget they considered me boring. Weird, maybe, but definitely not boring.

      • michael October 26, 2020 at 4:04 pm #

        How aloof will you be when the tide submerges you and there is no air to breathe?

        • beantownbill. October 26, 2020 at 4:09 pm #

          What tide?

          • Kim October 26, 2020 at 9:28 pm #

            A tide of mud, mostly.

      • benr October 27, 2020 at 9:41 am #

        What percent of people does it take to cause change?
        What was the percent of people who decided to throw off the yolk of merry Ol’ England?
        How many people will it take to over throw our precious Republic if your idea is followed by to many?
        Have you been paying attention to the Anarchists and the repulsive mostly peaceful rioters?

  29. jeff2002 October 26, 2020 at 11:28 am #

    I’m not sure quite what to think of the president. He could very well be pulling the most shrewd con-job in the history of politics, considering how the presidency has been largely allergic to honest people since JFK. I say “most shrewd” because his criticisms of Biden’s obvious corruption–not to mention the rest of the swamp–are largely on-point. So if it is a con, it’s a double head-fake, but maybe that’s what it takes these days to really fool a voter base.

    And yet the ferocity of the Deep State to unseat him is so over-the-top that hey, maybe he’s onto something. At the very least, Trump is a disruptor–not entirely for the good, but enough to put a deservedly harsh spotlight on his opposition. Frankly, I hope he stomps Biden on Tuesday, who is easily the weakest Democratic nominee in the modern era.

    • messianicdruid October 27, 2020 at 6:38 am #

      That’s why he was chosen, and why Harris, the most disliked of the Dem candidates was chosen – Trump is the preferred pick [ bagholder ].

      Zionist vs. Bolshevik

  30. Mountain gal October 26, 2020 at 11:31 am #

    Well written and a cri de coeur. I too have been appalled by the Dems that I know, all convinced of their saintly “rightness” and wokeness. I’ve been yelled at for merely suggesting that perhaps Trump wouldn’t be as bad as they feared, following his election. I’ve been told that if I voted for Trump I’m not welcome in someone’s house, a long-time friend. I basically keep my mouth shut, tolerating all of the BLM signs, “resist ” bumper stickers and endless rants by the left about Trump, the Supreme Court, etc. I also know that my livelihood depends on it as likely most of my customers would depart if they knew who I voted for in 2016 and will again.

    I don’t like what this country has become and I don’t think it’s Trump’s fault. Sure I wish he didn’t tweet as he does and I don’t agree with him on every measure but overall, he tells it like it is and I respect that. He has also taken many stands that I agree with and welcome. And overall, he’s certainly the lesser of the to evils as you too Jim have come to recognize.

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    • Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 11:47 am #

      It’s hard to get that point across about Trump, when the nightly news programs tell outright lies about him.

    • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 2:10 pm #

      Secrecy is a necessary part of our system, thus the secret ballot. But the new level of secrecy you describe is extreme indeed. We need to separate from the Crazies. And if you can’t talk frankly to someone, then real friendship has already departed any loss will have already happened.

      The Civil War was called the Brother’s War. In honor Feminism and Feminine craziness, we can call this one the Sister’s War. As a Sane Woman, you have a very important role to play and a place of honor in the New Republic.

    • sophia October 26, 2020 at 4:03 pm #

      I don’t do twitter, but how else can he communicate freely to the public with the media acting the way it does?

      • tresho October 26, 2020 at 5:34 pm #

        “but how else can he communicate freely to the public ” In short, by continuing to say outrageous things that grab the media’s attention and force them to give his statements free publicity. He’s been doing that since 2016. Had Trump limited his statements to pure reason, sweetness and light, he would have long ago been flushed down the attention-hole the media has turned itself into.

    • redrock October 27, 2020 at 10:16 pm #

      Bingo

  31. SoftStarLight October 26, 2020 at 11:33 am #

    Friends. Who needs em? Most of the time when push comes to shove they will let you down anyway. And then again, oftentimes when one looks around at their “friends” they realize they don’t need enemies. In today’s world politics and culture are becoming zero sum games where the winner takes all. It’s actually more of a reversion to the mean than anything else since most of human history and culture has been dominated by authoritarians, tyrants, dictators, and warlords. Modern ideas of freedom of thought, association, etc. are actually the outliers. So in reality we are simply moving back to the overall norm of human history and existence.

    • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 2:19 pm #

      Did you watch No Country for Old Men? The fiend, Shugar (phonetic spelling), would flip a coin and say, “Call it friendo”. If you got it you got to live.

      Yes, we are going back to the Clan structure. Few rights but many duties. And expulsion from the Clan is a death sentence since that makes you an out-law to be killed at at a whim. Shugar may have just been ahead of the curve.

      • SoftStarLight October 26, 2020 at 3:19 pm #

        No I haven’t seen it but I have heard it referenced here several times. I probably should though to better understand. I read back over my post and realized it may have sounded harsh and negative. But I guess that sometimes things in life are harsh and negative even though a lot of times one wishes they were not. Or sometimes even pretends differently. I wouldn’t want to be expelled.

        • tresho October 26, 2020 at 5:41 pm #

          ” it may have sounded harsh and negative.” There is a useful distinction that may be drawn between an accurate description / pointing out uncomfortable facts and being “harsh and negative”. In the long run, we are all dead. That is a prediction as well as a type of description. It is “harsh and negative” if you choose to call it that. Now let us switch our attention to a more important issue: What do we do in the meantime?

        • sevensec October 26, 2020 at 7:19 pm #

          Perhaps you were overly harsh in that you seem to confuse Tribe (clan) with Barbarism—there is an important difference.

          One can surely have barbarian tribes; but there is no civilization, nor culture, without Tribe. Witness the ongoing, decades-long descent into totalitarian mayhem, and creeping barbarism due to free-handing stateless (or world-state) business interests and their Allies in the Multicult. All this amounts to the deconstruction of Tribe.

          Tribalism is like cowbell: we just need a little more of it. Halfwitted leftist attempts to claim the tribal concept, as in the case of Sebastian Junger or the various intersectional agglomerations, only will lead to the destruction of either the concept of Tribe itself, or of the Left.

          Thus we have yet to see whether the tribal pill will poison, or itself be poisoned.

          • SoftStarLight October 27, 2020 at 1:35 am #

            I’m not sure if I’m following you but I’m not suggesting that a return to tribalism is per se a return to barbarism. Though right now there is a resurgence of both tribalism and barbarism. I mostly meant that generally it seems like political authority is becoming more authoritarian whereas most past governments have also been authoritarian. So in a sense its as if we are returning to the historical norm.

          • benr October 27, 2020 at 9:49 am #

            Tribalism is football Raiders vs. Chargers.

          • Yohannon October 27, 2020 at 12:24 pm #

            Pats vs Stealers. Do you have your Trump gear (gang colors) yet, SSL?

        • Kim October 26, 2020 at 9:32 pm #

          @SSL

          I find the Coen brothers hit-and-miss but “No Country…” is a really good movie.

      • elysianfield October 27, 2020 at 1:04 pm #

        “fiend, Shugar (phonetic spelling),”

        The part of Anton Chugar was played by Javier Bardem…

        He is a great actor, married to…Salma Hayek.

        The bastard….

        • Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 12:48 pm #

          And she still looks good! Truly she is eu-gene or well born.

  32. Disaffected October 26, 2020 at 11:35 am #

    Bravo, Mr. K! Agree or disagree, you have certainly nailed all the salient points here. Gonna be one helluva mess to clean up on Nov 4th from all the exploded wokester heads if Trump wins a second term. I judge it as even money at this point, even allowing for the neoliberal Dems’ very heavy and very obvious fingers on the scales.

    • Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 11:59 am #

      Memory hole

      “If you are looking for “Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review” by John Hardie, BDS, MSc, PhD, FRCDC, it has been removed. The content was published in 2016 and is no longer relevant in our current climate.”
      https://www.oralhealthgroup.com/features/face-masks-dont-work-revealing-review/

      • SW October 26, 2020 at 2:25 pm #

        Dr. Scott Atlas has this to say about how to handle the pandemic:

        “My advice is exactly this. It’s a three-pronged strategy.

        Number one: aggressive protection of high risk individuals and the vulnerable (typically the elderly and those with co-morbidities).

        Number two: allocate resources so that we prevent hospital overcrowding, so that people can be treated for this virus and get the other serious medical care that is needed.

        Number three: open schools, society and businesses because keeping them closed is enormously harmful — in fact it kills people.”

        And he stated very clearly the glaring problem of handling the virus with common sense:

        “I knew I would be vilified, because in the US there are a lot of people who think that this President is radioactive, so there is a massive destruction that ensues immediately when you associate with this President. It’s a very sad statement on America, on American culture, on the world — these people are blinded, even scientists, to the data because they despise the political side of this. And they have a massive ego, and can’t admit they’re wrong. “

  33. Pucker October 26, 2020 at 11:43 am #

    Are you one of those Dudes who, like Dr. Frankenstein, Wonder Woman, Hunter Biden, Nietzche, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the Fascists, Cher, Rocky, the NeoCons, Batman, Reverend Jim Jones, Bruce Willis, Condoleeza Rice, George W. Bush, Jr., Hillary Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the Communists, thinks that there’s a “Higher Morality”?

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OUzKkmGgsB4

  34. Pucker October 26, 2020 at 11:45 am #

    What do we make of the fact that the Democrats showing up at Trump rallies don’t have enough bags of urine and feces to throw at people? Are times really that tough now under Trump?

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    • Beryl of Oyl October 26, 2020 at 11:55 am #

      They were throwing red paint at the vehicles in the Jews for Trump procession in New York City.

  35. beantownbill. October 26, 2020 at 11:51 am #

    I agree with you, Jim. I was born into a very Democratic Party family. I remember 7 year old me asking my mother something about Eisenhower, and she said,”He’s a bad man”. How could I not help growing up considering myself a Democrat? I shed that notion 16 years later in 1968. I’ve been affiliated with no party since then. However, I think I can understand your pain in having to vote for a Republican, kind of like being forced to eat roasted cockroaches. I felt the same way back in ‘68 when I first realized the entire election process was a farce and AGANM (anything goes

    • beantownbill. October 26, 2020 at 11:57 am #

      (…and nothing matters) – fat finger.

      It’ll be interesting to see who ‘wins’ the election a week from tomorrow. The national conversation over the next two months will be who really won the election, rather than trying to address real issues.

      • bluekayak October 26, 2020 at 12:08 pm #

        “The national conversation over the next two months will be who really won the election, rather than trying to address real issues.

        Sadly correct; the pending election shitshow will ensure that none of the real problems even gets mentioned. It’ll be a useless and damning political bloodbath equivalent to the Byzantines’ internecine squabbling over icons while the Turks gobbled up most of Anatolia.

        • beantownbill. October 26, 2020 at 12:25 pm #

          Wouldn’t be so bad – a national sideshow as a rest from the real world – except we’re running out of time to possibly remedy what ails us. Even a couple of months delay could seal our fate, if it isn’t too late already.

          • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 2:24 pm #

            We need good ale in order to think clearly. Take the huge screens out of bars. Make men men again. With no distractions, energy and conversation will arise. Watch the bubbles in your mug be born and then die. Surely the answers can be found there and not in your neighbor’s mug. Tell your neighbor what you see. Perhaps he can add to it or sees something different in his mug.

          • sevensec October 26, 2020 at 7:23 pm #

            Re Yohannon’s aleful comment: so there IS wisdom and strength in alcoholica!

            Nietzsche is wrong again—that teetotaling, chaos-sowing, slight-physiqued impostor…!

            He really is only useful as a barometer of how bad things had already gotten by the 1880s. And I speak not only of mustache fashion.

      • Disaffected October 26, 2020 at 12:10 pm #

        Should make for some lively holiday family gatherings – real or virtual – eh? I wonder how many domestic dispute calls will result? Funnier still if the cops show up and promptly take sides and join in the festivities too. Yee-haw!

        • feralandroid October 26, 2020 at 12:39 pm #

          Just no singing, ok.

      • hmuller October 26, 2020 at 12:53 pm #

        Bill, did you actually eat roasted cockroaches or was that just a metaphor? The more woke green crowd thinks we can save the earth by refraining from traditional meats and dining on insects. I’d sooner go vegetarian.

        • beantownbill. October 26, 2020 at 3:53 pm #

          I regularly go to Boston Into the Fenway area, where there’s lots of roaches. I carry along my grocery bag and gather enough of them to put into my soup. Yum, yum! Just make sure they’re cooked enough, because if not, they tend to be a little too crunchy.

          Yech! I was kidding. But really, when I lived in the city and went into people’s apartments there, I’d bang on a kitchen cabinet door, and then open it quickly. I’d see lots of cockroaches scrambling for cover. That area is called the Fenway because it has fens, which also yields plenty of rats. Many times I’d drive along the road and see rats scurrying into apartment buildings.

          I think that the most natural living area in central Boston is in Beacon Hill. The Fenway and especially the fabled Back Bay is on filled land that was once swampy. In fact, many of the pilings that buildings there were built on were rotting from the effect of just below the surface swamp water. This was in the late 70’s, early 80’s. I do ‘t know their conditions now.

          The Back Bay has many gorgeous buildings with 16’ ceilings, beautiful woodwork and very large windows, but I never wanted to live there because I knew what was underneath.

        • benr October 27, 2020 at 9:53 am #

          I got talked into eating a mealworm at the san diego zoo.
          We routinely eat bugs in processed foods as well as rat turds and other assorted nasty items.

    • Mountain gal October 26, 2020 at 2:05 pm #

      Yep, my mother has I guess refused to vote for whomever the Dems have been running for years now(since Obama) but still won’t vote for a Republican so she just doesn’t vote.

  36. Ishabaka October 26, 2020 at 12:05 pm #

    “Wait til it comes to your town or city” – since I live in shall-issue, castle doctrine, stand your ground Florida, that will be a long, long wait. Despite large minority and college student populations, there has been exactly zero rioting or looting. You may or may not like the Second Amendment, but take this to the bank: it REALLY bothers BLM and Antifa.

    • stelmosfire October 26, 2020 at 12:09 pm #

      “An Armed Society is a Polite Society”, true are not I don’t know.

      • elysianfield October 27, 2020 at 1:10 pm #

        ““An Armed Society is a Polite Society”, true are not I don’t know.

        Saint,
        Consider the converse, the ultimate unarmed society…prison.

    • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 12:31 pm #

      It is the average citizen that stops the influx of anarchists.

  37. Trent B October 26, 2020 at 12:14 pm #

    “I don’t want such a reliably dishonest gang to be in charge of running the American government. ”

    But Jim, we ALREADY have a reliably dishonest, well oiled criminal gang running things now.

    Either way this election goes, self serving criminals will be firmly in control. Neither party has my interests in mind….and probably very few of the rest of you, either. So pick your poison, blame “the other side”, and pretend it matters.

    • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 12:55 pm #

      The Deep State.

    • edpell October 26, 2020 at 2:33 pm #

      The money side wins every time. We are not the money side.

    • Kim October 26, 2020 at 9:42 pm #

      Communist China owns Joe Biden.

      Fact to remember as you fill out your vote.

  38. JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 12:27 pm #

    Quit apologizing for Trump, you are encouraging the MSM whose BS you are obviously buying as truth. The MSM is united in one cause, lying, lying , lying about Trump, his family and the Deplorables.

    Who do you think is the better man to contest the incursion of Marxism into this country? Who is the better businessman to lift this country out of the business doldrums it is in? And for goodness sakes do not believe the same groups, like Moody’s who got us here in the first place. Who is the best person to exemplify the American way?

    Vote for him!

    • King of Comedy October 26, 2020 at 1:10 pm #

      I wrote something similar months ago and your second paragraph reminded me: if you posit the increasingly logical proposition that the United States is facing an existential crisis such as Britain faced in 1940, then Trump plays the Churchill role.

      Churchill, prior to September 1, 1939, was viewed as a buffoon, an incompetent, a creature of no self-restraint. The failures of Gallipoli, the return to the gold standard, and his position of the abdication of Edward VIII led to his years “in the wilderness”. Without the war, Churchill would have been an inconsequential figure, perhaps even a cautionary tale.

      History is strange that way though. I don’t buy the encomiums to Trump’s business acumen but I’m more and more inclined to believe he may be the right man for the right moment in history much as Churchill was. Time will tell…

      • Kim October 26, 2020 at 9:49 pm #

        Churchill destroyed Europe. His actions resulted in 50 years of soviet rule in Eastern Europe, the Communist triumph in China, the Korean War, dozens of bloody wars of “liberation” in Africa and Asia…and, perhaps worst of all, sustained the environment that allowed the continued penetration of Anerican society and government by communist agents of subversion, from atom bomb spies, to founders of globalist entities hostile to the USA such as the UN and the World Bank by people like Harry Dexter White, another proven soviet agent who sat next to FDR throughout his presidency.

        Churchill’s legacy was the enabling of globalist communism and the destruction of the West.

        He was an utter disaster.

        • King of Comedy October 27, 2020 at 10:03 am #

          Definitely a unique reading of history there.

          Churchill most definitely strove to maintain the British Empire long past its sell-by date but it’s a, to say the least, curious assertion that a leader who was voted out of office in 1945 had such a central role in the post-war realignment.

          Curious as well that the guy who coined the term “iron curtain” and by some accounts urged a nuclear strike against the Soviet Union in 1947 was actually working for the commies.

          I suspect we’ll have to agree to disagree on that front but it’s beside my larger point. For the run-up to WW2 and in particular the period between the invasion of Poland and the Battle of Britain, without Churchill, the outcome almost certainly would have been different. Speculative history no doubt but less speculative is the fact that the Chamberlains and Halifaxes were more or less resigned to a Vichy Britain. The RAF and some awful strategic decisions by the Germans ultimately saved Britain but without Churchill, none of that even gets a chance to play out. And that’s the Trump comparison: flaws aside, maybe the right leader for this exact moment in American history.

          • Yohannon October 27, 2020 at 12:27 pm #

            Many saw the support of the Soviet Union during WW2 as a dreadful necessity to be ended as soon as possible. Churchill is said to have said, We killed the wrong pig.

    • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 2:34 pm #

      Black Lives MAGA!

  39. Pucker October 26, 2020 at 12:29 pm #

    Hunter Biden probably thinks that all of his erudite former professors are huge idiots because they didn’t go for the big bucks and “wasted their time reading books”?

    There are many people who think this way.

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  40. JoshuaThompson October 26, 2020 at 12:42 pm #

    I agree with your analysis of the Wokesters and their impending autocratic trends. (Just read Douglas Murray, “The Madness of Crowds” and am working through Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay, “Cynical Theories”) I voted for Trump in 2016 because of Hillary’s theft of the nomination and the treatment of Bernie’s delegates in Philadelphia.
    Unfortunately, I am even more concerned with Trump’s ongoing disregard for science, the environment, and the governmental separation of powers–in other words, his autocratic and irrational work already in progress. (Also read Masha Gessen, “Surviving Autocracy”)
    Given a choice between present incompetence and in increasing autocracy and future incompetence and autocracy, I choose to vote for Biden now and against the Democratic Party next time. Probably contributing to the increasing polarization of society by encouraging both sides, I guess, those are the cards we have been dealt.
    (PS–You are worried about Biden family graft? Another time.)

    • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 12:54 pm #

      Not just Biden graft, the Deep State graft, which he represents.

      How the heck can Obama afford a mansion on Martha’s Vineyard. He took his share.

      We have a government whose members have been ripping off the taxpayers for 60 years. Trump wants to drain that swamp, he gets my vote for that reason alone.

      Quit believing what you see on MSM, it is BS.

      • John1945 October 26, 2020 at 2:04 pm #

        =How the heck can Obama afford a mansion on Martha’s Vineyard.=

        All the Good Boys after leaving White House can.They go on speaking tours.

        $153 million in Bill and Hillary Clinton speaking fees, documented

        https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/politics/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-paid-speeches/index.html

        Nobody pays out of pocket for listening to platitudes like

        “Agriculture is important. Our rivers are full of fish. You cannot have freedom without liberty. The future lies ahead.”

        It is corporate money that pays for it.And it is tax-deductible.

        What happens to Bad Boys in the White House ?
        Magic Bullet from the Grassy Knoll coming right up 🙂

        • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 3:04 pm #

          You’re a Man, John.

      • benr October 27, 2020 at 9:55 am #

        Obama bought into the Gore blood carbon credit exchange scam.

    • sophia October 26, 2020 at 7:59 pm #

      Joshua,

      Good God man, the left is openly engaging in autocracy right now and only want to increase it. It is happening as we speak and you think that because Trump does not agree with your particular brand of environmentalism that he is authoritarian? When has he been so? He advocated states rights, as is proper, for covid decisions, and the left hate him for it because it isn’t authoritarian enough for him. But Biden promises not to respect states rights and to institute national mandates.
      Wherever you look, those who are intolerant of free speech, for example, are not Republicans. How you can come to the conclusion you have re authoritarianism is really a puzzle to me.

    • Kim October 26, 2020 at 9:51 pm #

      It doesn’t concern you that Joe belongs to the CCP?

  41. JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 12:49 pm #

    Covid report.

    Watched a you tube by a guy who took 4K, 1000 frames a second of himself, backlit, while he sneezed, coughed and talked the words, 1, 2, 3 and 4.

    It was disgusting the amount of spittle expelled by this guy. A mixture of big droplets, especially with coughing and sneezing, but significant with just saying numbers, and very small droplets. All sizes. Droplet and airborne.

    Then he donned a mask and did the same thing again. Sorry, all you anti-maskers,it made a humongous difference. 99% of the outflow was blocked, with only small droplets going through the fabric and very few of them. The big droplets, the giant virus carriers, were non-existent.

    After creating his videos, he contacted Fauci. Fauci was appalled at this guy’s presentation, the amount of outflow that it showed.

    My reaction to this is that I am going to clean my mask a lot more often, considering all that spittle ends up in the mask. Yuk!

    Don’t believe it? Watch the video on you tube.

    • stelmosfire October 26, 2020 at 2:11 pm #

      I looked it up John, here is a link if anyone is interested. I think an elbow or hand would knock that spray down quite a bit. . I don’t consider myself a spitter but some people spray like crazy when speaking.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ66wJFD3bs

      • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 11:22 pm #

        Believe it or not, they have compared different languages for the amount of output. The Germanic languages, with the hard consonants, of which English is one, produces the most output.

    • draupnir October 26, 2020 at 3:39 pm #

      Here’s one by a doctor demonstrating various masks using vape to demonstrate.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRFtVsL9dzE

      • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 11:27 pm #

        Watched it, and not surprised. As I have said before, masks are a protection against droplet transmission, not aerosol. Even in this video, you can see small aerosol particles going through and around the mask. Masks do nothing for aerosol transmission!

    • Night Owl October 26, 2020 at 4:06 pm #

      I cannot believe you are still doing this.

      In the only scientific test done on cloth masks to date, 97% of virus particles passed through.

      Do you know how small virus particles are.

      Christ on a crutch.

    • sophia October 26, 2020 at 8:54 pm #

      John,

      Well who woulda thought that if a person sneezes and coughs and you film it right, you will see all sorts of stuff. Have you ever read how many bacteria are in every square centimeter of soil? I think it is in the billions.
      So what you are saying is that life is disgusting, people are disgusting, their bodies are disgusting, and forevermore we must do our best to implement the nearest possible thing to keeping everyone in a plastic bubble.
      Have you ever heard of biophobia?

      • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 11:14 pm #

        No, what I have heard of is self-protection from a contamination source. What do you do, run around trying to find sneezes to immerse yourself in? I will bet you would have kept rats for pets during the Bubonic plague days.

        Bio phobia, my foot.

        • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 11:19 pm #

          And you and Night Owl might watch the video. 99% of the spittle is captured as evidenced by the video. If you are virus active, the mask protects others from you. Social conscience should be enough.

          • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 11:29 pm #

            The other 1% does escape as aerosols.

          • Night Owl October 27, 2020 at 3:24 am #

            A fantasy.

          • sophia October 28, 2020 at 6:47 pm #

            1%??? Are you nuts? Most of it escapes, not 1 %.

        • sophia October 28, 2020 at 6:46 pm #

          What all this implies is that people constantly emit filthy and disgusting biological output, and that we should always protect ourselves. This means that humans must stop interacting socially as we always have for thousands or hundreds of thousands of years and that at the very least we should be masking ourselves 6 months of the year. Social distance must be permanent. It will make us all unhappy and crazy and depressed…

          I ate today at a table with several other neighbors. No masks. I didn’t see anything in the air nor any disgusting thing. These droplets you speak of are not emitted as a matter of course.

          But what about people having to rebreathe their own germs and their own respiratory moisture? Is that a healthy habit?

          I guess God made a mistake.

      • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 11:34 pm #

        If the let ‘er rip attitudes of some of the CFNers happened, and close social contact started to happen again with no masking, the country would shut down just as fast from health care overload as from mitigation.

        Why can’t people have the social sense to socially space themselves, and mask only when they cannot, indoors only. When this discipline would be in place, you could open up everything.

        • sophia October 28, 2020 at 6:50 pm #

          Because, John, this is going to be permanent. Or several years at least until they have the entire world cowering in their New World Order of compulsion and censorship. This is apocalyptic.

          And because this virus is no more harmful that other respiratory illnesses that make the rounds, and life must go on.

          And no, there is a lot you could never open up under those circumstances. All the things which are the most fun and uplifting to the human spirit. Concerts. Fairs. Really endless public events.

  42. JoshuaThompson October 26, 2020 at 12:50 pm #

    I agree with your analysis of the Wokesters and their impending autocratic trends. (Just read Douglas Murray, “The Madness of Crowds” and am working through Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay, “Cynical Theories”) I voted for Trump in 2016 because of Hillary’s theft of the nomination and the treatment of Bernie’s delegates in Philadelphia.
    Unfortunately, I am even more concerned with Trump’s ongoing disregard for science, the environment, and the governmental separation of powers–in other words, his autocratic and irrational work already in progress. (Also read Masha Gessen, “Surviving Autocracy”)
    Given a choice between present incompetence and increasing autocracy and future incompetence and autocracy, I choose to vote for Biden now and against the Democratic Party next time.
    Probably contributing to the increasing polarization of society by encouraging both sides. I guess those are the cards we have been dealt.
    (PS–You are worried about Biden family graft? Another time.)

    • shox October 26, 2020 at 1:52 pm #

      I understand your concern about Trump’s disregard for science and the environment. I too have been appalled by the fact that the EPA is now effectively defunct. Daily, I hear horror stories which make my stomach clench about protected areas being opened for development. I find it unforgivable that the so called “conservatives,” who are supposed to conserve nature among other things, have chosen to turn a blind eye to climate change and ecological collapse.

      I gasped at your words “governmental separation of powers–in other words, his autocratic and irrational work already in progress.” I’m amazed that it has escaped your mind that the Democrats will be MUCH, MUCH worse in this regard, especially since they have the backing of all the citadels of power in the mainstream media, mid-level bureaucracy all across the country, the educational institutions, Big Tech, Big Business and much of a judiciary system whose verdicts seems always to lean towards progressive ends. If Trump seems autocratic, it’s because he’s fighting all alone against a monstrous machine which is in a life and death struggle to preserve itself by expelling the non-compliant intruder which is him. If you really want the machine to win, I just don’t think you understand the nature and gravity of the situation.

      Under Kunstler’s previous blog post, someone said that he/she would be too embarrassed to vote, given how awful both candidates were. I will here quote most of my reply to her comment, with some slight edits for your benefit:
      ——————————————

      You can choose to vote Biden in this election. Just remember this: once the Democrats come to power, there will NOT be a next election. Or rather, your vote in the next election will simply NOT COUNT. This election will be the last election in which your vote will actually matter. They will turn the whole country into a one-party state where the election is a mere formality, just like in California. Read Michael Anton’s excellent exposition of how the Dems have taken strategic measures to keep themselves in power indefinitely in that God-forsaken state. One (just one; here are many more) of their cynical (yet very effective) tactics is demographics-engineering by allowing unrestricted immigration from third-world nations (all in the name of “diversity” of course):

      From “The Stakes – America at the Point of No Return” (2020) by Michael Anton
      ——————————————————————————————-

      The founders, however, did not intend massive concentrations of lockstep voters to overwhelm the votes and preferences of everyone else through sheer demographic might. When Jefferson and Hamilton skewered one another over the pros and cons of big cities—home of dangerous urban mobs to the former, engines of economic dynamism to the latter—they agreed on the potential danger from massive voting blocs easily controlled by monied interests.

      Needless to say, voters did not “consent” to the last fifty years of mass immigration, which has entirely transformed the electorate of the country. It was foisted on them by the ruling class in order to squash consent by effectively voiding their votes. Indeed, in order to bypass consent, the ruling class explicitly misled the American people about what immigration “reform” would do. Here is Senator Edward Kennedy on the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 (also know as Hart–Celler):

      “What the bill will not do: First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same… Secondly, the ethnic mix of our cities will not be upset… Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigration from any one country or area, or the most populated and economically deprived nations of Africa and Asia.”

      Every word of the above is false; everything Kennedy assured Americans would not happen has in fact happened. One result is that, in today’s America, for every Wyoming senator casting a vote on behalf of a mere 578,000 people, there are millions of red Americans living in blue states who may as well not even bother to vote, ever. Their voices are never heard.

      States such as California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, and now Virginia are one-party owing almost entirely to mass immigration. A few big cities and counties are crammed with the recently arrived who — together with the oligarchs and valet-class liberals who beckoned them in — overwhelm the votes of everyone else. This is how a state like Virginia — cradle of the American Revolution and home to four of our first five presidents — suddenly, just like that, became implacably hostile to the first two amendments to the United States Constitution. Five cities and counties — three adjacent to Washington, D.C.—essentially dictate to the other 128. This is the sort of brute-force majoritarianism that our founders warned against and took pains to prevent.

      Once the blues have power, they waste little time….

      • JoshuaThompson October 26, 2020 at 3:04 pm #

        I agree with our former Attorney General that many millions of basically good people are fleeing gangs, despotic governments, and poverty, but that we simply cannot accept them all. I also do not think we should be subsidizing people to have children they cannot feed, such that 80 percent of the students in LA were on free school food before the pandemic; followed by a gleeful claim that they will be in majority in 20 years. A clash will come.
        Unfortunately, that is not the most urgent problem we face.
        (I also fear the courts have been been too creative in interpretation since at least the thirties. That I lay at the feet on the Republicans, who refused to adjust the original Constitution to the industrial age, requiring a workaround. Now the Conservatives are playing the same game, and it has lost much legitimacy since Bush v Gore.)
        As to who is more corrupt, that issue just leads to endless rounds–I will pass.

        • shox October 26, 2020 at 9:12 pm #

          “Unfortunately, that is not the most urgent problem we face.”

          Indeed it isn’t. Though the Dems are more attuned to the collapse of the biosphere which we are currently living through, I must reiterate Kunstler’s position:
          “I’m under no illusions that Donald Trump will Make America Great Again in the way that many of his supporters understand that slogan. The USA is headed into a terrible ordeal of economic disorder that I call the long emergency. Mr. Trump won’t stop it, and it may yet make a fool out of him. But the Democratic Party’s agenda would add an extra layer of tyrannical and sadistic insanity to the process that will only bring more suffering to more people, and I don’t want that to happen.”

          In other words, the Dems may reinstate the EPA, do more to protect forests and national parks (though, with what’s going on with the California wildfires, this is questionable), and at least bring climate change back into the conversation. But they will also ram all of their leftist SJW insanity (such as critical race theory) down your throat. How will society be able to reorient people to protect the environment while the Dems are, to take an example, defunding the police, allowing hordes of immigrants to swamp the nation, neutering the judicial system and letting crime spiral out of control? This and a whole lot more are going on in California. Unfortunately, with the Dems, the good stuff comes with a whole lot of poison. The best hope is to stick to the Republicans, and address our pressing problems in other ways.

        • Kim October 26, 2020 at 11:43 pm #

          “many millions of basically good people “

          Most people are far from being “basically good” and especially not when they present in large numbers, like “millions”.

          Most people are in fact basically bad and at their worst in crowds.

    • draupnir October 26, 2020 at 4:01 pm #

      The statement that the science is settled is fallacious, I’m afraid. There are opposing views. They are simply not the preferred view. It’s a pity when science is politicized. Environmental concerns are also problematic when China, India and Russia continue to do as they please. As a US taxpayer, I’m not willing to foot the bill for for the whole world, nor am I entirely confident this is not a natural process quite beyond our intervention. We are at the beginning of a grand solar minimum. The Maunder minimum lasted for 70 years and caused cooler than average temperatures and violent weather extremes. The Earth has been both much colder and much warmer in the past and oddly enough, colder periods have been accompanied by higher atmospheric measurements of CO2 (by ice core examination) than we are seeing today. Scientists claiming to predict such things accurately are guilty of hubris approaching that of Victor Frankenstein. As for incipient autocracy, I worried about that with George Bush, but he left the White House without any difficulty. I’m pretty certain Trump will move out when the time comes too.

      • beantownbill. October 26, 2020 at 5:01 pm #

        I don’t remember the numbers exactly (too lazy to be researching right now), but apparently the US accounts for a minority of the co2 emissions in the world, so if we stopped producing it this minute, that wouldn’t prevent climate change. So why bother? We’re no longer the world’s moral authority, so that isn’t the answer.

        The fact is, our global civilization is slated to fail soon, no matter what.

        • draupnir October 26, 2020 at 6:18 pm #

          They want to tax us for the air we breathe and sell us carbon credits. Lots of money to be made on the climate change con.

          • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 11:40 pm #

            Carbon credits are political lingo for I do not want to give up my cars. The spread of CO2 is a pan-global problem that the Paris accord tried to blame on the Western countries.

            Thank goodness Trump told them where to go.

            When all countries take it seriously, including the US, Russia, China, India and Brazil maybe a return to Paris might be in order. Otherwise, forget it.

        • FreddieMars October 26, 2020 at 8:17 pm #

          Not to be too picky about it JohnAZ, but emissions per capita is the most useful measure.

          https://ourworldindata.org/per-capita-co2#:~:text=More%20populous%20countries%20with%20some,and%20Canada%20at%2015.6%20tonnes.

          The map on the left has a sliding bar to show recorded growth in CO2 since 1800.

          • draupnir October 26, 2020 at 10:44 pm #

            Ah, we have a large carbon footprint per-capita, but only 4% of the world’s population, so I hardly think that’s really a particularly useful measurement when we’re talking globally. Are you planning on assuming the lifestyle of a Chinese farmer?

          • Kim October 26, 2020 at 11:56 pm #

            @ Freddie Mars

            Why is “emissions per capita the most useful measure”?

            I really look forward to an explanation of this one. (Hint: utilitarianism is a trap)

            You see, there is this things called “numbers” and there is this other thing called “values”, and besides 170 years of effort by all kinds of totalitarians and utilitarians, the twain has never yet been brought to meet.

            You might start by explaining “useful for what and to whom?”

            The Soviet Union was famous for turning out finished consumer goods that were worth less on the consumer market than the cost of the materials it tool to produce them.

            Was that a “useful” economic activity?

            I believe that you might find it useful to read up on the marginal theory of value and observe that there is no way to make ultitarian arguments in a value-laden discussion unless you first accept the validity of the posited values.

            https://www.fff.org/2018/05/14/marxs-fallacious-exploitation-theory/

            https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/mises-on-the-impossibility-of-economic-calculation-under-socialism

          • draupnir October 27, 2020 at 5:57 pm #

            Dollars to donuts the big cities in China, Africa and the Middle East have as large a per-capita foot print as the US and Canada.

  43. par4 October 26, 2020 at 1:00 pm #

    You seem to have missed Jerry Nadler pooping his pants. Creepy Joe should have him at his next rally. He might bring out more than 8 (eight) people.

  44. marcyincny October 26, 2020 at 1:06 pm #

    Oh ffs you live in NY. That it makes no difference says it all…

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  45. Htruth October 26, 2020 at 1:13 pm #

    I sent in an unmarked ballot. I consider a vote for a republican or democrat to be a vote for that status quo. Sorry James, but voting for either is the problem.

  46. shox October 26, 2020 at 1:19 pm #

    “I’m under no illusions that Donald Trump will Make America Great Again in the way that many of his supporters understand that slogan. The USA is headed into a terrible ordeal of economic disorder that I call the long emergency. Mr. Trump won’t stop it, and it may yet make a fool out of him. But the Democratic Party’s agenda would add an extra layer of tyrannical and sadistic insanity to the process that will only bring more suffering to more people, and I don’t want that to happen.”

    You spoke my exact thought better than I could ever put it. I’ve been searching for these exact words for weeks. For a while, I asked myself, “What difference does it make? Neither of the candidates has a full grasp of our real predicament, with looming energy and resource depletion, and possibly abrupt climate change.” But as you said, the last thing people need when they are struggling to contend with REAL problems, is an “extra layer of tyrannical and sadistic insanity.”

    • malthuss October 26, 2020 at 2:00 pm #

      California is already in the Emergency. Newsom has shut much of it down.
      Read Abby woods post.

      • sophia October 26, 2020 at 9:06 pm #

        I thought people were fighting back and that resistance was picking up steam.

        • benr October 27, 2020 at 10:00 am #

          No Newsome doubled down and is now mandating people wear masks at Thanksgiving and that it must be hosted outside.
          He is also moving toward a complete shutdown again.

          We (Californians)need to recall this slob and fire our entire legislature and start again.

          • sophia October 28, 2020 at 6:52 pm #

            Apparently recall efforts did not succeed, which is depressing.

  47. Pucker October 26, 2020 at 1:52 pm #

    Hunter Biden probably thought that his prep school, University, and law school professors were huge idiots because they didn’t go for the big bucks like Hunter’s dad and “wasted their time reading books”?

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=blx-kkxJAvo

  48. Roundball Shaman October 26, 2020 at 2:30 pm #

    “Is it okay for bureaucrats to break the law to disable their political adversaries?”

    When asked why did you rob the bank, the perp simply said, “Because I could.” Bureaucrats are getting away with rampant misconduct in this world today, why? Because they can. And they will. Who’s going to stop them?

    “Is it okay for these government agencies to spy on US citizens without any legal predicate, except their being political adversaries?”

    See above answer.

    “Is it okay for the FBI and CIA to “leak” falsehoods to news reporters for political advantage?”

    It’s terrible that the FBI and CIA leak falsehoods to news reporters for political advantage. News reporters should leak THEIR OWN falsehoods without any outside help. Otherwise, what are we paying them for?

    “Are you against reason itself?”

    Not everyone possesses the same ability to reason. That means, there is a fundamental difference among people. That means, that situation is TERRIBLE. All people on the planet must be leveled to same level of nonsense and mental blathering. Therefore, “reason” says that it is unreasonable to be reasonable.

    “Are you in favor of cancel culture?”

    Once things run their natural course, EVERYTHING will be cancelled. That means we will have a clean slate again to fill up with stuff.

    “…did you notice that Jeffrey Toobin has not been fired from his positions at The New Yorker magazine and CNN for jerking-off on-screen during a Zoom meeting of his professional colleagues last week?”

    Pleasuring himself on screen is likely the most authentic thing he’s done in years. Perhaps he could chair a new regular segment on CNN having to do with, uh…

    “…I don’t want such a reliably dishonest gang to be in charge of running the American government.”

    The dishonest gang we know is always better than the dishonest gang we don’t know. Words to live by, America.

    • draupnir October 26, 2020 at 4:12 pm #

      When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
      They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
      But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
      And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”

      Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling, October 26, 1919

  49. TheAngryJerk October 26, 2020 at 2:34 pm #

    Contrary to poll predictions, I really don’t expect a harris/biden victory simply because the banking cartel (aka fed reserve) will not allow it. So why even bother wasting time voting? According to Twain, If voting really mattered, would it be allowed? According to Stalin, it doesn’t matter who votes but who counts the votes. So,on election nigh, the angry jerk and the domineering beast (significant other) will get the popcorn ready, kick back on the sofa in front of the little screen and watch the re-selection of DJT (aka the shit show) as it unfolds.

    Cheers, TAJ

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  50. edpell October 26, 2020 at 2:39 pm #

    James I love this line

    “But the Democratic Party’s agenda would add an extra layer of tyrannical and sadistic insanity to the process”

  51. oswegatchie October 26, 2020 at 2:41 pm #

    I am in Oregon hanging in a hot spring near Summer Lake in the high desert. Been here 6 nights. Many of the travelers I have met are from the Portland/Eugene corridor. Most support the rioting and other chaos happening over there. I asked one couple about the looting and burning of local businesses, and the lady responded ” They have insurance, right?” End of conversation and we continued soaking in silence. Enough said.

    • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 3:14 pm #

      I was in Portland and a group of Black Africans (I believe) were walking down to the Festival to be worshiped by the Antifas. Their leader asked me something. I couldn’t get the accent. In retrospect, I think he asked me if I thought Black Lives Matter. Not knowing that at the time, I simply said in an amazed tone, “I don’t know”. He cracked up laughing.

      From what I saw, I agree. One graffiti I saw said, “We are Portland”. That’s basically right. The whole City is Antifa or at the least the ones who have a say or even bother to vote. Given the winner take all nature of our system, an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the people there have no representation whatsoever.

      They have insurance. Or as Montag said, we only burn books and books can’t feel any pain. Of course one could also ask, Do they have insurance? Does insurance cover things like this?

      • benr October 27, 2020 at 10:02 am #

        Actually no most insurance has a clause about riots not being covered.
        These people lost everything.

    • Kim October 26, 2020 at 10:03 pm #

      Rioters break window.

      Replacement cost, $1400.

      Deductible, $1500.

      No, effectively, no insurance.

      Business, established six years. No profits first year of worry and hard work. Now pulling a modest wage for management. Building rented. Building burnt down by rioters. Staff laid off. Customers lost.

      How does insurance solve that problem?

      People are infuriating stupid and selfish.

      • oswegatchie October 27, 2020 at 12:42 am #

        Scariest part of all is that they seemed to be highly educated, at least in theory.

  52. KappaJoe October 26, 2020 at 2:56 pm #

    It all comes down to money and power – duh.

    The promotion of any particular ideology to that temporary end is simply a carefully fashioned tool to gain power and money. And in our case, it is actually simpler than that: the actual goal is power, raw political power, as we don’t use real money any more and haven’t worldwide since the early 70s. Money is now conjured through the levers of government and largely projected to the politically favored, no matter in which country one resides.

    The MSM has come to wholly support the Left and all its nonsense because the internet has destroyed their business model. It is far more likely that the Left will bail them out and continue their current existence than would the Right.

    Academia, already largely dependant on the government money hose, senses their business model becoming archaic, irrational, and wasteful in the internet age. It is far more likely that the Left will bail them out and continue their current, bloated existence than would the Right.

    The Obama CIA, DOJ, & FBI et al have a lot of plainly criminal and treasonous activities to bury, and the Left will gladly oblige them, while the Right will much more likely prosecute, eventually. Of course, the Rino Bush/Cheney administration committed far worse, but would never be uncovered and prosecuted without first going through the more recent shenanigans of the Left, and this must irk the left side of the Deep State to no end.

    Thus with self-serving ideologies, elections are about power: to get and stay rich, to get bailed out, to bury capital crimes and other felonies, and above all to retain that power – indefinitely.

  53. tom clark October 26, 2020 at 2:59 pm #

    A brief check-in…I won’t linger and wear out my welcome.

    Thank you Jim for your honest post. If you lost friends over politics, they weren’t friends to begin with.

    There are 9 Fruits of the Spirit: Peace, Patience, Kindness, Love, Joy, Goodness, Gentleness, Faithfulness and Self-Control..

    Regardless of political persuasion, God Bless America. We’re ALL in need of it.

    • Kim October 26, 2020 at 10:05 pm #

      Nice to see tolerance is not on the list.

  54. SouthernYankee October 26, 2020 at 2:59 pm #

    Jim, thank you for your sobering comments. I say this not as a staunch Republican (I am not) but merely as a rational person myself. While I may still enjoy the irreverent and radical music of the ’60s Fugs, Zappa, etc… (which is still brilliant) I also realized at some point that Dean Wermer was right when he counseled Flounder in Animal House that “fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.” Maybe we all “had to much too fast, or just overplayed our part” ala Shakedown Street. I dunno but as enjoyable as the Bus ride was, it’s time to go home like in Goodfellas when Jimmy and Paulie are counseling Henry …You gotta home. It’s the only way. You’re not gonna get a divorce. We’re not animale.” It’s time grow up. Damned if I wind up the proverbial grasshopper starving in the winter season of my life. Fuck that! And fuck chasing ideological/political/existential windmills!

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  55. Soul Forensics October 26, 2020 at 3:05 pm #

    I’ve never been a believer in traditional Christianity, even though I was dragged to church till 13. (Not an atheist either.) But humans have always needed and yearned for a spiritual vision tied to a communal support system to exist without its counterpart, nihilism.

    And that’s what we have today. Nietzsche nailed it late 1800s with his “God is dead” quote, and what that would help to usher in in the 20th century.

    But you can’t erase that core desire. The river’s been silted up for a long time, and, in the West, trickles, and now streams, have been set loose.

    Just like the worst of religious faith, today’s perverted and secular offshoots are identical in their cultish beliefs and behaviour, their enabling and acceleration of desire for ‘justifiable’ prosecution and violence, their intolerance of different ‘faiths’, their puritanical squeamishness, their unwillingness to, and fear of, entertaining opposing ideas, their group pile-ons (made much worse by social media), their blinkered ignorance, their self-righteousness, and, yes, their realization of and desire for personal profit.

    It’s a human need to belong, to be on the ‘right side’ of history. The intensity of this manifestation is always made worse and more ugly by economic downturns and crashes.

    I hope Trump wins (without too much bloodshed in the streets propagated by Dem shadowplayers), but the evil turn in the sociopolitical climate isn’t going anywhere even if the Republicans sweep all houses.

    • SouthernYankee October 26, 2020 at 3:19 pm #

      SF after being married to a devout Christian now for six years I can say that, although she and the Bible have made me a better man, I don’t subscribe to all that Christianity espouses. One has to still work out his own salvation and use his own lizard brain.

      • Soul Forensics October 26, 2020 at 4:17 pm #

        Exactly, SY. Christianity has a lot of excellent precepts, and many of our lasting institutions follow a Christian morality, to varying extents. But it’s all about individual development. And there are esoteric interpretations and practises within the exoteric traditions of all religions, some of which are … ahem, inconvenient to the latter.

        • messianicdruid October 27, 2020 at 11:04 am #

          We must individually answer the most important question He asked, ” who do YOU say that I am?” . You will be asked again.

        • Kim October 28, 2020 at 7:00 am #

          You may like this:

          It is mostly about how Solzhenitsyn came to christianity in the gulag and his views on russian and western spirituality.

          A very interesting book.

          http://ebook3000.com/Solzhenitsyn_613948.html

          • Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 12:53 pm #

            An amazing man. He described the joy he felt on his first night in the Gulag. He knew somehow that he would find Life there, and become a completely new man. How many could do that instead of woeing their me?

  56. Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 3:25 pm #

    The Democrats love Islam and China, but these two hate each other. Strange bedfellows.

    Birds fly, Men drink – and fly through drinking. The Muslims would close the bars, thus they are the enemy. China would shut down the Internet and are also the enemy. And their Friend the Democrats are shutting down the internet and our businesses. Another enemy. Intersectional Enemies. Every hand is against us, yet we may triumph yet, at least for an hour. Trump has to clean house or America is doomed by 2024.

    • SouthernYankee October 26, 2020 at 4:27 pm #

      Yo, Hannon, I take it that you would agree that, though the ship be sinking, you would still prefer Trump at the helm. The descent should at least be orderly if possible.

    • shox October 26, 2020 at 7:20 pm #

      @Yohannon

      That’s the best contradiction in their worldview which you could ferret out?

      How about the push to allow more Muslim immigration whilst promoting feminism and militating aggressively against “toxic masculinity,” the “patriarchy,” and exaggerating how oppressed women are in order to exalt them to the top of the hierarchy. Ask France how their culture, values, traditions, customs, institutions and rule of law are doing, particularly in regard to the treatment of women, after decades of unrestricted Muslim immigration. The Muslims don’t have any patience and tolerance whatsoever for Western innovations like feminism, gay rights and same-sex marriages. Ask French women (in secret of course, since in public, white males are the real enemy) what they really think and how they’re really doing. Ask any feminist to wear a mini-skirt and tank-top and take a stroll through one of Paris’s Muslim neighborhoods.

      • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 7:55 pm #

        I agree with you. I’m reading Guillame Faye right now in fact. The Ale must flow.

        South Yank: If the Titanic had made full steam for that light (a commercial ship) on the horizon, many might have been saved. Or like Ahab, at least ram the White Whale and bring it down with us.

      • Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 10:45 pm #

        “Integration and assimilation have turned out to be complete failures. Only minorities can be assimilated, not mobs. The German people are disappearing before our very eyes. There is a change of people. You just have to take a stroll through Germany’s big cities. 75 per cent of Turks (naturalised or not, from first generation to the third) consider Germany only as an ‘economic fatherland’; they still feel that they are Turks and Muslims and watch only Turkish TV. Out of 800,000 annual births, only 278,000 births of Christian babies are recorded (1998 statistics), a terrifying 35 per cent of births.”
        ? Guillaume Faye, Convergence of Catastrophes

        “History teaches us that humans do not change their civilisation after deliberation, or by their own willpower, but in the wake of chaos that they themselves have provoked.”
        ? Guillaume Faye, Convergence of Catastrophes

        “Whether we like it or not, Islam has entered its third phase of conquest, towards the ‘Universal Caliphate’. The first two phases happened in the Seventh to the Eleventh centuries, as well as in the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth centuries. It is a question of a groundswell that the governments of Islamic countries, which are pro-Western out of temporary calculation, cannot disguise for long. Islam’s principal weapon is its demographic vigour, in the face of Western countries that are experiencing depopulation. This confrontation will cover the planet and will usually take the form of civil war, with episodes of classic war.”
        ? Guillaume Faye, Convergence of Catastrophes

        Some people like Ike. I like George. Of those who have courage, it’s usually of the physical variety. And many who could face the elements would blanch at facing a living foe. Faye has intellectual integrity and the moral courage to speak him mind, despite his ideas being the antithesis of the current ethos. Both are rare in themselves, but to combine both at such a high level is incredible in this day and age. He is a throwback to a more vital European Age.

  57. michael October 26, 2020 at 4:10 pm #

    The winding up is a slow process: another twist, another turn and the energy stored adds up. The stress increases. We don’t notice much. A creaking here a groaning there. But so far so good it all holds together. Then something breaks. The unwinding is fast. Things spin around, fly off crash into each other.

    The system goes into a stable minimum energy state, a landscape strewn with carrion men groaning for burial.

  58. ViceGrip October 26, 2020 at 4:21 pm #

    Been reading Clusterfuck Nation a long time; certainly longer than 2 decades. Finally! My thoughts regarding this whole goshdarrn mess …

    1. Get Trump re-elected.

    2. During the Obama admenstruation, signed into law was the National Defense Authorization Act. The NDAA.

    3. Buried D-E-E-P within the NDAA is the root of the problems that are now so confounding everything and everyone.

    4. Buried in there is something called the ‘Smith-Mundt Modernization Act’.

    5. No one (except the MOST evil ones) has ever heard about it. Never any discussion about it, because we have been turned into a nation of skimmers (for the most part) as it pertains to reading, and THIS is what they had counted upon in order to destroy America.

    6. To Wit . .

    7. Previously during wartime, propoganda was sanctioned by the US government for use against the enemy

    8. The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act has made it fully lawful and sanctioned by the US government to use propoganda against it’s own citizens.

    9. As such, it has been “Game On” for the mainstream media and Facebook, Twitter, Google, et. al to do what they have done to us.

    10. Hell, our own government wanted EVERYTHING that is now happening TO OCCUR!

    11. I believe that this needs to be fixed.

    12. I don’t believe this would entail rocket science or brain surgery

    Thanks for reading this! It’s become simply too much to keep this info to myself and not share it. THE TIME IS RIGHT!

    • SouthernYankee October 26, 2020 at 4:29 pm #

      Thx VG, I’ll have to read up on the Smith-Mundt Act

      • tucsonspur October 26, 2020 at 7:40 pm #

        It seems a bit confusing to me. Here’s part of the Act:

        ‘Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 to prohibit funds for the Department of State or the Board from being used to influence public opinion or propagandizing in the United States. (Under current law such provision applies to the United States Information Agency [USIA].)’

        It says ‘to’ prohibit, not ‘that’ prohibit.

        I guess the interpretation is what they want it to be.

        • sophia October 26, 2020 at 9:27 pm #

          Tucson,

          That reading is unclear.Does it amend an act that used to prohibit propaganda? I think that is what is meant. The 1986, 1987 act prohibited funds for propaganda, and Obama amended that.

          • Kim October 27, 2020 at 12:02 am #

            It means the prohibition has been removed.

          • tucsonspur October 28, 2020 at 3:36 am #

            Thank you both.

    • MX Vet 57 October 26, 2020 at 4:56 pm #

      Good stuff, VG, but please…it’s propaganda.

    • sophia October 26, 2020 at 9:24 pm #

      Vice,

      I was aware that Obama had enacted law which allows domestic propaganda.

    • Kim October 26, 2020 at 10:09 pm #

      Exactly right re Smith Mundt.

  59. James Kuehl October 26, 2020 at 4:34 pm #

    More very cogent arguments from JHK against supporting Biden today. I share the disappointment at the intransigence of the two diametrically opposed camps in which we find ourselves. But I do not reject the Democratic Party because it lacks purity. Political capital is not achieved by truthfulness and honor but by devious, dirty trickery. For me, this election has a lot to do with personality. Trump is a birther, which is more revolting to me than any of Biden’s past financial and political chicanery. I am embarrassed by Trump’s buffoonish character and ridiculous self-aggrandizement and believe we would be well rid of him.

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    • MX Vet 57 October 26, 2020 at 4:54 pm #

      Dude? Seriously? Almost 50 years in government and you’re going to pull the lever for Biden? He’s done NOTHING. Did you read Jim’s blog? What part don’t you understand?

      • James Kuehl October 26, 2020 at 5:25 pm #

        You misunderstand the difference between understanding and acquiescence.

        • sophia October 26, 2020 at 9:29 pm #

          Or a moral compass, Mr.Kuehl.

    • MX Vet 57 October 26, 2020 at 5:01 pm #

      Really want to hear your evidence Barry Sotero was born in Hawaii. Don’t bother with his birth certificate – the one with a font that didn’t exist in 1961. Where’s his college transcripts? His college writings?

      What’s your evidence Biden hasn’t been compromised by the CCP?

      • benr October 26, 2020 at 6:24 pm #

        Yea the cold case posse destroyed the narrative that the Birth certificate was authentic in fact they have more questions about Obama now.

    • benr October 26, 2020 at 6:22 pm #

      Birther as in born into silver spoon life or birther as in Obama was born outside of the United states?

    • Kim October 26, 2020 at 10:10 pm #

      All those words yet you make not a single argument.

  60. Opie October 26, 2020 at 5:14 pm #

    Doesn’t matter which side of the aisle you sit on,truth is truth. Thank you James for stating mine and countless others for our reason to pull the lever for Trump.

  61. BookAdams October 26, 2020 at 5:43 pm #

    Kunstler finally wrote a serious, very exceptional “lucid” article. As good as he gets. He really is this good when he wants to be. I’ll return to being a goy fan when he addresses the glaring cringe-worthy reality of Trumpstein also being a literal tool of so-called “Israel”.

    • Q. Shtik October 26, 2020 at 9:13 pm #

      Kunstler finally wrote……..etc.

      =========

      That’s what I call faint praise.

    • Kim October 26, 2020 at 10:19 pm #

      True is true.

      Trump recognizes Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. That means big money for Israel’s Genie Oil, a corporation connected with Ira Greenstein, protégé of Jarod Kushner.

      https://www.rt.com/op-ed/454231-golan-heights-oil-recognise/

      This is an example of how Kushner is to Trump as Hunter is to Joe.

    • SouthernYankee October 27, 2020 at 1:06 am #

      Finally wrote? Uh, you must be new around here Book. Or else, you weren’t paying attention during the last 15-20 years

  62. Night Owl October 26, 2020 at 5:52 pm #

    Hunter stuff dropping at GTV.org.

  63. triathing October 26, 2020 at 6:11 pm #

    I’ve enjoyed your podcast for more than a decade, but if I want to read feces-flinging from the online monkey house, I’ll go to Breitbart or the Washington Post.

    Please think about returning to the bigger picture — building a better society, improving our towns and villages, the pandemic and the Long Emergency, etc. It’s a lot less crowded and much more valuable online space.

  64. feralandroid October 26, 2020 at 6:45 pm #

    Great stuff.

    Not sure if anyone else posted this as I didn’t read all the comments. But the search term “Can I change my Vote” has surged after the debate

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/can-i-change-my-vote-voters-remorse-sets-google-searches-do-over-spike

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  65. Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 6:50 pm #

    High energy All Lives Matter rallies in Hollywood and Beverly Hills.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFFqM9xp1hE

    Only Trump can bring the races together like this. We’re a giant gang now, complete with gang colors. It was said, He is Chinese who wears the Chinese robe. Likewise now, He is American who wears the MAGA hat and/or the red, white, and blue colors.

    You’re not going to bring the races together by terrorizing Whites. They may terrorize back if pushed much further.

    • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 11:00 pm #

      Yes, the White contingent in this country may revoke the invitation to join up.

  66. constantvigil October 26, 2020 at 7:53 pm #

    Thank you for your moral courage, clear thinking and writing in questioning those politically correct anti-constitutionalists and anti- Americans…!

  67. Yohannon October 26, 2020 at 8:00 pm #

    Lester Holt’s Nightly News, just now: Twice as many Black ballots are being rejected. Uh Oh! The poll worker said she didn’t know why that was the case. But how did Lester even know this? Is there a race question on these ballots?

    Are Blacks too dumb to fill the ballot out right? Or to mail it right? Probably not. Or is it all a lie to start the invalidation of the Election?

  68. Wizard of the Saddle October 26, 2020 at 8:36 pm #

    Bravo, Mr. Kunstler! BRAVO! You have just penned the finest and most well-reasoned repudiation of of the Ultra-Woke and thoroughly totalitarian Democrat Party that I have yet read during this interminable and nightmarish election year.

    If I were dictator for a day, my one and only edict would be to command every registered Democrat in the country to read your post and to reflect on it before heading out to the polls on November 3rd.

    A vote for the Democrat Party of 2020 is a vote for tyranny and oppression. It is almost treason to cast a vote for any of these racist, socialist, criminal misfits of society.

    • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 10:55 pm #

      You got it. It is treason to abet enemies of this country, foreign or domestic.

      The Democratic Party, led by the greatest grifter in recent memory, IS the greatest enemy of our Republic ever. Xi is smiling thinking of Biden in the WH.

    • elysianfield October 27, 2020 at 1:24 pm #

      “If I were dictator for a day…:

      Droit du seigneur, of course, would be the first.

      And then, you know, no more wars and shit would be a close second….

      • elysianfield October 27, 2020 at 1:26 pm #

        “Droit du seigneur”

        A tip of the hat to Tokotomi….

  69. wm5135 October 26, 2020 at 9:01 pm #

    Nomination for national theme song:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_rB4v75jqU

    No matter where you find yourself on the political spectrum I will wager this will work for you!

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    • venuspluto67 October 26, 2020 at 9:54 pm #

      Until I found out this song was sung by someone named Johnny Nash, I always thought it was a woman singing it.

    • SouthernYankee October 27, 2020 at 1:11 am #

      I like Back in the Saddle by Aerosmith or Trampled Underfoot by Zeppelin.

  70. tucsonspur October 26, 2020 at 9:20 pm #

    The indicators are not good. Huge numbers of young voters turning out, most of them likely voting for Biden. The ‘neighborhood’ signs are now 3 to 2 in favor of Biden.

    Hope it doesn’t come, but if it does, we’ll at least know what it is and how it got here. Will you be able to reconcile yourself to a cup of Joe every morning? To swallowing the bitter, Biden brew? You will have no choice. Fighting is the business of real men and we don’t have enough of them. Business won’t be good.

    The irony of it won’t stop them from putting Us in irons of metal or of meekness. Yes, you and I will suffer it if Trump does not win. Our only weapons now are words, and words are not enough. So get ready for a descent into a world of deferential despair, but ascend for now up to the hopeful heavens.

    Hail the Golden, Granitic, Generalissimo of Gotham!!

  71. venuspluto67 October 26, 2020 at 9:40 pm #

    Well, my reaction to being presented with a plate of pig-poop and a plate of rhino poop and being told to choose one to eat, is to say, “Oh, fuck no!”

  72. 100th Avatar October 26, 2020 at 10:32 pm #

    Log-in to Twitter and you see this:

    “You might encounter misleading information about voting by mail
    Election experts confirm that voting by mail is safe and secure, even with an increase in mail-in ballots. Even so, you might encounter unconfirmed claims that voting by mail leads to election fraud ahead of the 2020 US elections.”

    How many ask themselves why Twitter and the other social media and tech giants are pushing this and other agendas?

    Why has the MSN, social media, infotainment business, the MIC, the national police (FBI), the clandestine and espionage services, the elite and 1%, the patrician class, the wannabe patrician class, the foreign agitators, the global world order hegemony, the pseudo-intellectuals, the influencers, the useful idiots, all consolidated behind one feeble man and one shockingly powerful political party?
    Why?

    The new world order is here. It’s only a matter of time, but alas, even those working ages to bring it to fruition grow impatient.

    Their progress doesn’t have time for your dissent.
    If you’re not awake to that now, you will be woke soon.

    You’ll still have places to run, to escape to. It’s not a global dominance yet. Backwaters and failed states await you.
    But you can’t have this place. It’s theirs

    • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 10:49 pm #

      Yeah. I get the feeling that even if Trump wins, the globalization will continue. The local chapter, the Deep State, led by the Dems is still in majority control of DC. Trump will be totally outnumbered if the Senate is lost. Nothing will happen for four years. Which is a heck of a lot better than more encroachment by the globalist Left.

      • SouthernYankee October 27, 2020 at 1:15 am #

        John, have you not heard? Globalization, like the American Century is winding down due to Peak Oil. Jim has been saying it for years now.

        • JohnAZ October 27, 2020 at 5:48 pm #

          The very ignorant politicians are in denial. You are right, Peak oil will stop international travel and trade. Right now, though, all the Elite cast of characters are doing what they always do when an impossible situation arises, ignore it, hide it, blame it on the opposition.

          Covid is one fine example. Peak oil another.

      • tucsonspur October 27, 2020 at 2:00 am #

        You want to stop globalization? Then stop trade, stop the flow of ideas and capital, stop the flow of people.

        You might as well try to stop plate tectonics.

        “Globalization is here to stay, it will never die,
        It was meant to be that way, though I don’t know why,
        I don’t care what people say, globalization is here to stay.

        Globalization will always be, I’ll hate it to the end,
        It’ll go down in history, just you watch my friend,
        Globalization will always be, it’ll go down in history.”

        Tucson and the Seniors

        • Night Owl October 27, 2020 at 3:21 am #

          Globalization and globalism aren’t the same things. I suspect he meant globalism, which is an ideology.

          • JohnAZ October 27, 2020 at 5:52 pm #

            Right, globalism is an philosophy, globalization is a process.

            And yes, globalization is being foisted on us by our domestic enemies. For some insane reason, they think globalism is the way to go.

            Wait until the American people find out how they are being sold down the river and lose their fine lifestyle in the name of globalism.

          • Night Owl October 28, 2020 at 6:38 pm #

            Globalization is largely based on trade and sharing ideas, tech. — even culture.

            Globalism is focused on the elimination of national sovereignty and the centralization of power to allow an elite class greater access to and control over populations and natural resources.

            Globalization on its own is actually a good thing, IMO. Globalism is a form of fascism that many have dubbed corpratism or corporate fascism.

        • Kim October 27, 2020 at 9:43 am #

          Mass population movements can certainly be stopped.

          1. Build walls (trump)

          2. Punish uncooperative neighbors (trump)

          3. Have an unrewarding social safety nets for illegal aliens

          4. Uncomfortable “refugee” camps that offer only forced returns (australia)

        • Yohannon October 27, 2020 at 12:33 pm #

          Oh come on. As if there was not vigorous international trade before Globalism. And the exchange of ideas across borders is also ancient. The Capitalists got tired of dealing with different nations and their regulations and decided to abolish them. In other words, they got too powerful.

      • ohyesiam October 27, 2020 at 11:59 am #

        Trump has business interests all over the globe. That makes him a strange choice to fight against globalization, don’t you think?

        Bunging a few taxes on American importers and victimising Muslims hardly counts as a trade policy.

        • Night Owl October 27, 2020 at 2:36 pm #

          Good thing he is fighting globalism.

          • ohyesiam October 28, 2020 at 5:55 am #

            The two things go together.

          • Night Owl October 28, 2020 at 6:31 pm #

            Nice dodge. He is fighting one but not the other.

            I know why, do you?

          • ohyesiam October 28, 2020 at 7:20 pm #

            He’s played the oldest truck in the book, whipping up hatred against foreigners to build a political base. But has he done anything to actually benefit his working class supporters? Has he bollocks. It’s just tax cuts and deregulation.

          • Night Owl October 30, 2020 at 7:54 am #

            What foreigners does he hate, as you put it?

            Be sure to provide concrete evidence to back your claim.

  73. Kim October 26, 2020 at 10:47 pm #

    Daily Mail reports global deaths from flu have fallen 98% this year.

    How’d that happen?

    https://mobile.twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1320485545970196480

    • JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 10:57 pm #

      Flu is not as transmittable or as virulent as Covid. Lo and behold, the mitigation efforts against Covid are probably stopping flu in its tracks.

      • Kim October 27, 2020 at 12:04 am #

        Because the same old people who were being killed by the flu are being killed by covid instead?

        So if you’re not already old and sick it is not a problem and never was.

        • SoftStarLight October 27, 2020 at 2:10 am #

          Or what if the flu cases are being recorded as covid cases? And any potential deaths resulting from these “covid” cases would then be “covid” deaths. Thus bolstering the pandemic numbers and justification for more lockdowns, restrictions, and vaccines.

          • JohnAZ October 27, 2020 at 10:04 am #

            I know we used to administer flu tests to patients in about the last two years I worked the floor. Same thing getting a sample, it was uncomfortable. Supposedly, the tests today can distinguish flu from Covid. Does that mean that everyone is getting double tested? Some one who is sick and tests negative for Covid has the flu? How many fevered patients are assumed to have Covid? Or the flu? How many diagnoses are determined by the MD’s political stance?

            That is why the only thing that matters is trends. Is the cases or deaths going up or down? Why is there a steady state situation instead of cases going to zero? Why is Covid not going away like the MDs told Trump it would? With mitigation at say 80%, why are there so many escapes causing the steady state condition? A really big question. What would happen if we did let ‘er rip and just mixed it up as before? Would we have a real pandemic with overloaded hospitals? No one knows the answer to this, which is why the prospect scares everyone so much. I think Europe’s current situation is an indicator though.

          • GreenAlba October 27, 2020 at 2:14 pm #

            JohnAZ

            “How many fevered patients are assumed to have Covid? Or the flu? ”

            Descriptions of your health system seem to be somewhat lurid. I wouldn’t know. But over here, where there is no financial advantage to a doctor in diagnosing anything at all in anyone (outside of the private sector), people would be tested properly on entering a hospital.

            My late brother went into hospital with cardiac arrest and still had to be tested for Covid, partly because Covid can cause myocarditis, but also because you need to know which ICU to put a patient in, so that you don’t (a) infect them when they’re vulnerable and (b) infect other vulnerable patients, not to mention staff. He had no flu symptoms, so presumably wasn’t tested for flu, but they had to put him in a ‘possible Covid’ unit until they’d verified that he was negative, at which point he went into non-Covid intensive care.

            How could you treat a person appropriately if you didn’t know whether they had Covid or flu?

          • FreddieMars October 27, 2020 at 5:53 pm #

            “How many diagnoses are determined by the MD’s political stance?

            JohnAZ – do you REALLY think that’s ‘a thing’? If so, all is lost.

        • Night Owl October 28, 2020 at 4:01 pm #

          There is no reasoning with Branch Covidians.

  74. JohnAZ October 26, 2020 at 11:50 pm #

    A question and a comment.

    Why didn’t John Roberts swear in Barrett tonight. Clarence Thomas was superb but I thought the Chief Justice was supposed to swear in the associate justices.

    Anyone notice that the Orange man is no longer orange. His hair is blonde and silver and his makeup is much lighter colored. No raccoon eyes. An improvement.

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    • SoftStarLight October 27, 2020 at 1:56 am #

      It’s autumn John. John Roberts was likely unable to swear ACB in because his natural reaction to her presence would be akin to a vampire encountering a crucifix.

    • ohyesiam October 27, 2020 at 11:49 am #

      It’s no mean feat to disguise the fact that Trump, in reality, is a six foot lizard.

  75. Iananna October 27, 2020 at 1:16 am #

    Things have come to an appalling point when the points made in this essay are unarguable.
    Unfortunately the conclusion – vote for the Trump as the Evil of two Lessers – is conceding defeat.
    Unless JHK is trying to speed up the Crapocalypse to confirm his Long Emergency.

    • Night Owl October 27, 2020 at 3:23 am #

      This post is illogical on at least three levels.

      Impressive.

    • Yohannon October 27, 2020 at 12:39 pm #

      You’re conflating two different things. Namely the basic situation and the coming election. He does not believe that Trump (or anyone else’s victory) can save America and the World from what is coming. That being said, he is for the lesser of the two evils in the coming election. What is irrational about that? Nothing.

      Maybe you’re the one looking for a savior or a simple one shot solution. Not JHK.

  76. amb October 27, 2020 at 2:48 am #

    The unseen cause of man’s insanity puts another notch in its belt: another empire collapses and turns to ashes. Like a broken record, playing over and over. USA is the latest on this chain that goes back for millenia.

  77. SoftStarLight October 27, 2020 at 3:45 am #

    Globalization though is precipitating the destruction of all natural habitats and therefore essentially all life on Earth. It is also relentlessly compartmentalizing, commodifying, and standardizing all human life and experience. It’s a curse as much as its benefits have been a blessing. Tyrannical elites and dictators come and go and are a dime a dozen. Their days are surely numbered but in the meanwhile can we escape?? Speaking of precipitation..

    https://nypost.com/2020/10/26/nasa-set-to-announce-exciting-new-discovery-about-moon/

  78. Kim October 27, 2020 at 4:50 am #

    Has the destruction of America’s youth – especially young women – been well organized and heavily funded?

    Well, let’s see…here’s something….teen vogue doesn’t only promote “anal sex”, it also has an “Antifa” section!

    Hard to believe? Check it out.

    https://www.teenvogue.com/tag/antifa

    • elysianfield October 27, 2020 at 1:29 pm #

      ““anal sex”,

      “Nature’s condom”~D. Tosh

  79. Frank October 27, 2020 at 8:50 am #

    Dear James,
    I can’t see how these people could be ‘friends’ of yours.
    acquaintances I would say. Good commentary, Frank

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  80. malthuss October 27, 2020 at 11:06 am #

    DID SHREDNI GET BANNED?

    • GreenAlba October 27, 2020 at 12:02 pm #

      Perhaps he got Shred-ded.

      Only kidding. I don’t recall him saying anything particularly offensive just before he went quiet, despite being reminded fairly recently to mind his anti-semitic tongue.

      I have a theory about Sredni/Janos.

      Naturally, being a theory, it may be entirely wrong. But it’s a theory among theories anyway.

      I think Janos may have been out-Janos-ed. So, according to your view of his status here, he may have just chosen pastures new, or been re-posted.

      Like I said, just a theory. Came to me out of the blue. As a mere passing thought, I have no particular interest in defending it.

      • GreenAlba October 27, 2020 at 12:03 pm #

        Or clarifying it.

    • Q. Shtik October 27, 2020 at 12:31 pm #

      DID SHREDNI GET BANNED? – Malthuss

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

      I’ve been wondering the same thing and was thinking of writing to JHK by email to ask. I also wanted to suggest that Jim advise the commentariat when he bans someone and give the reason why. But then I thought I should just keep my mouth shut.

      Another thought about Sredni: maybe he caught Covid and is languishing in a hospital.

      P.S. Malthuss, did you spell Sredni with an ‘h’ AGAIN just to bust my balls?

  81. cook October 27, 2020 at 11:18 am #

    JHK seems to have finally come out of the Trump closet, just in the nick of time for the election, surprise!

    Railing on only one side of the corruption constantly, always without evidence, and giving the other side an entire pass with such a critical eye. Seems like plain old boring partisanship to me.

    If the analysis was done in good faith and sprayed the venom in both directions for such obvious issues on both sides with the point being to vote for a third party then you’d actually have something.

    Instead, you seem to be a sad old man screaming get off my lawn, only concentrating on one side’s faults. Too bad, I assumed you were so much more.

    -Cook

    • Yohannon October 27, 2020 at 12:57 pm #

      In other words, you don’t think old men have the right to have lawns (private property) or the right to protest the invasion thereof?

      You have come out of the closet of Western Civilization, post Magna Carta. So stuffy in there!

      No doubt you believe in the Village and Communal Sharing as enforced by Village Matriarchs like AOC + 3.

    • Night Owl October 27, 2020 at 2:29 pm #

      What’s up Carghoul?

      9th handle?

      • benr October 27, 2020 at 2:40 pm #

        hah so true.

    • sdf October 27, 2020 at 10:11 pm #

      Well someone did leave their water damaged laptop in a repair shop, forgot to pick it up, the repairshop owner brought it to giuliani who made a copy who sent it to the National Enquirer wannabe The NY Post. Right, sounds totalllllly legitimate to me.

      Whatever happened to innocence before proven guilty? Trump is always whining about that. But honestly that is THE underlying premise of justice. I will believe this whole Hunter thing after an investigation and trial is done. Until then I honestly don’t give a crap about it, despite JHK’s weekly rant.

      • benr October 28, 2020 at 10:55 am #

        Of course you don’t because it challenges your beliefs but I bet you were all in on Russia russia russia and piss gate.

        • Night Owl October 28, 2020 at 3:59 pm #

          Chances are this bot has already seen Hunter’s GTV porn vids linked earlier up the page, and watched the Bub interview on Carlson.

          So now he just doesn’t “give a crap about it.” We all cope differently.

    • Islander October 28, 2020 at 1:18 pm #

      I don’t see it that way!

      Speaking only for myself, of course, not for Kunstler.

      I have been on the fence about this mess for a very long time. I couldn’t believe it that I was gradually getting so disgusted with the Dems—disgust that started with the immediate aftermath of the 2016 election— that I was actually starting to see Trump as the lesser of the evils. The longer theRussiagate fraud went on, the more I saw Obama’s fingerprints in that. I had lost faith in Obama by January 2009, and he never did anything much for me to regain it.

      Then I sensed that there was something very, very wrong with the Dems’ Biden choice. I knew enough about the Ukraine situation, too, to suspect that there were plenty of cockroaches in those walls.

      Finally, after the covid-19 and BLM summer I started to suspect that quite apart from any personal issues with the two men, there are some relevant ideological issues such as globalism vs. nationalism —which it has become absolutely impossible to discuss with any friends who are Democrats. They just dissolve in hatred of Trump. They can no longer think of anything else. This total emotionalism is a give-away of some kind of mental programming, seems to me.

      Then came the increasingly obvious pattern of censorship by the current “left,” along with the increasingly obvious fecklessness of the MSM in reporting the news . . . All of these issues that Kunstler mentions. They do have a cumulative effect. And eventually one reaches a point where voting for the Dem monkey troupe—visualizing Clinton as SecDef and other horrors—started to make the crazy notion of voting for Trump look less crazy. Now I am proactively interested in preventing a “Biden” presidency (quos because, actually, a Kamala Harris presidency).

      I am grateful to Kunstler for stating these questions so clearly. They are a good summation of my own “Werdegang.”

  82. drewkeeling October 27, 2020 at 11:28 am #

    This is a useful summation, though few diehard Democratic Party proponents (e.g. those who act as though Trump landed unexpectedly from Outer Space and instantly got tens of millions to support him, and dislike of the Democratic Party had nothing to do with it) will read it.

    And, even a fraction of this list of complaints could suffice as a plausible indictment.

    It does not follow, however, that four more years of the same presidential administration is a wise solution.

    Several questions are begged:

    1. If Biden does become the next president, what might be a viable response? Trump / Pence in 2024?

    2. If more from Trump is not the best response to the shortcomings of the Democratic Party, why not focus more on such alternatives?

    3. Every one of the last nine fall presidential elections, up to and including the current one, has had a candidate Bush, Clinton, Obama or Trump. In four of the nine, both candidates were from one of those families or were VPs to one. Are there more effective and less rigid ways of improving America’s future prospects than running presidential campaigns every four years (that last about two years), e.g. running presidential campaigns about half the time?

    • JohnAZ October 27, 2020 at 3:29 pm #

      The Founding Fathers so feared the monarchical nobility system of Europe they banned nobility in the Constitution.

      They should have added nepotism and intrafamily dynasties.

  83. getsome October 27, 2020 at 11:43 am #

    When laws are written by those to be impacted by said laws, as in the 2005 (?) Dubba debt and reconciliation act, you have effectively ceded control to the JP Morgan’s of today. Trump has been the ONLY outlier elected since Ike, who warned about the MIC, which could neither
    control nor assassinate him. Deep State as such is, in my opinion, a consortium of powerful individuals with similar goals who have near total control through exerting power at appropriate times. We exert no such power and -excluding Trump- we’ve been served up two vetted choices to “pick” from, based on supposed Repub/Dem platforms differences. Being somewhat outside their control Trump must be kept off balance enough for minimal negative impact to their control of events. My fear is that, unlike Ike, Trump in NOT considered “off limits” to prejudicial judgement upon re-election. An aside; Three targets at 3, 4 and 5 yds from concealed carry. One – two- two and back to first target for second round. Practice with BAD intent.

    • JohnAZ October 27, 2020 at 3:26 pm #

      Get some

      The Deep State is a group of the Elite that want the central government to run the show in this country. They are comprised of the most of the Democratic Party, the RINO branch of the GOP, the bureaucracy of the executive branch, the intelligence group, esp. the FBI and CIA, the military with its cadre of defense contractors, aka the MIC, the national media. One of the big problems currently is that much decision making is done in the parts of the DS that are not elected, ie the voters do not control the Deep State. That is how so much of our economy has been shipped offshore.

      The Deep State’s primary job is to protect itself from its primary enemies, Trump and the Deplorables. The bureaucracy is protecting their jobs, the military its ability to make war, and the intelligence agencies are protecting heir own egos. These all are folks that think that people are serfs and they should be running things at all times. Trump and his populism scared them to death. And still does.

      If Trump loses, I hope he forms a new party whose identity will be based on the destruction of the Deep State.

      • amb October 27, 2020 at 4:06 pm #

        Agreed JohnAZ. This is a very difficult cancer to cure, as it is embedded in every organ, tissue and bone of our government and country.
        Can it be accomplished? I don’t believe so. A collapse in confidence must come first IMHO.

    • elysianfield October 28, 2020 at 11:39 am #

      “An aside; Three targets at 3, 4 and 5 yds from concealed carry. One – two- two and back to first target for second round. Practice with BAD intent.”

      getsome,
      That exercise has been described as the “El Presidente”…yes?

  84. Yohannon October 27, 2020 at 3:10 pm #

    What about Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s receding hairline? Can it be reversed? There must be some kind of Rogaine for women or something. If not, why not? Racism? Joe Biden has more hair now than 30 years ago. Why not Lori too?

    Coyotes dragging Mexican children over the border is another problem. But the animal rights people (Antifa) will scream bloody murder if we do something about it.

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  85. Night Owl October 27, 2020 at 3:53 pm #

    This Jimmy Dore segment with Tuggin’ Toobin is a masterpiece. Great satirization of the sort of BS that McMedia fucksticks pump out on a daily basis.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4LJhkQ7kbA

    Genius.

  86. DurangoKid October 27, 2020 at 4:40 pm #

    Voting for ushers does not change the movie.

    • KesaAnna October 27, 2020 at 8:24 pm #

      Lol , that reminds me of something Ayn Rand wrote once.

      She wrote , grossly paraphrasing ;

      So you say you are a free country and a free person because you get to vote ?

      News flash Jack ass ;

      We had voting in the Soviet Union too.

      Voting can mean a whole lot of absolutely nothing.

  87. JohnAZ October 27, 2020 at 5:43 pm #

    Flu vs. Covid

    Old vs. young.

    One huge difference why I would much rather get the flu is
    Ace 1 receptors. That is what Covid attacks.

    Flu does not chew holes in your organs like Covid does.

    Actually, it is not the virus that does the damage, it is our immune systems, namely killer Ts and antibodies that do Most of the damage.

    Flu receptors are in the respiratory system only. Ace1s are everywhere, that is why Covid causes the widespread damage it does.

    Did you know the senior flu shot has 4x the antigen the regular shot does?

    • tucsonspur October 27, 2020 at 6:26 pm #

      Trump says we’ve rounded the corner and are defeating the virus.

      • JohnAZ October 27, 2020 at 6:36 pm #

        Uh-huh?

        I do not agree with Trump on some things at all.

        • JohnAZ October 27, 2020 at 6:56 pm #

          As I have said, these politicians in DC, when confronted with a no solution problem, like Covid, just ignore it.

          Notice that Biden has no real plan to defeat Covid, lockdowns will only take the crud to steady state rates. Attempts to open will cause surges if mitigation is not present.

          No solution. If Biden wins, no solution, if Trump wins, no solution.

          Recent no solution situations?

          Climate change

          Wildfires

          Overpopulation

          AI

          Covid

          CCP expansionism

          Immigration

          Peak oil

          Inadequacy of renewable energy sources

          Disposal of nuclear waste

          To name a few.

      • FreddieMars October 27, 2020 at 8:06 pm #

        Doesn’t claiming that we’re “rounding the corner” week after week simply mean we’re going in a circle?

    • KesaAnna October 27, 2020 at 8:34 pm #

      ” Old vs. young. ”

      Bingo.

      We have a winner.

      ” divide and conquer might have been the formula in the 9th century , like when armies actually fought other , just as numerous , and just as heavily armed , armies.

      These days the formula is more like ;

      Divide , and then you can get both sides to swallow a ” security measure ” as presumed guard against the other side , which is really a ball and chain for both.

  88. Mostly Disagreeable October 27, 2020 at 5:55 pm #

    For another excellent sequence of reasons to vote for Trump, I recommend Anthony Esolen’s essay in Crisis magazine:

    https://www.crisismagazine.com/2020/thank-you-mr-president

    • tucsonspur October 27, 2020 at 6:39 pm #

      “Race relations, despite interracial marriage, are terrible.”

      Yeah, so is he implicitly endorsing interracial marriage? Maybe we should have more of it, because when we are all brown, race relations are bound to improve.

      • Kim October 27, 2020 at 7:49 pm #

        @ Tucson

        “when we are all brown, race relations are bound to improve”

        Ah, echoes of the Kalergi Plan!

        And we know that because there is currently no inter-tribal war in Africa and never has been.

        https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/09/whats-behind-south-africas-xenophobic-violence-last-week/

        You are probably being sarcastic, but still…

        You do know that in schools where there are Haitian, Somali, Jamaican, US or local blacks, etc, the various black groups form ethnic tribes and fight each other and form criminal gangs?

        • KesaAnna October 27, 2020 at 9:04 pm #

          Just the other day I ran into a little anecdote in much the same vein.

          A British regiment was holding a line of trench in WW I opposite a Saxon German regiment.

          For the entire month or so that the Saxon unit was in the trenches opposite the Brits there were no dastardly sniper shootings , because the Saxons were decent , laid – back , sensible , moderate blokes , presumably.

          Then the Brits got sent a warning — FROM THE SAXON ENEMY —

          ” We are being rotated out tomorrow . Our replacement is going to be a Prussian regiment , and the Prussians are assholes.

          So watch out ! ”

          Sure enough , when the Prussians replaced the Saxons , sniper murders , which had been non – existent , became now routine.

          Do I have to point out that these are all white people I’m referring to ?

          ” “when we are all brown, race relations are bound to improve”

          Ah, echoes of the Kalergi Plan! ”

          This mixed – race girl must admit I have no idea what the Kalergi Plan is.

          I do , though , know why it is that JHK sounds perfectly reasonable and sober , even genius , to me —

          — up to the point where he takes out the red , white , and blue ,

          and trots out the old narrative that the big union is a wonderful thing.

          You haven’t been around here long if you don’t know that I categorically and absolutely reject , as a total and complete god damned lie , the conventional narrative of the American Civil War.

          Southerners considered Northerners assholes , and wanted a divorce.

          400, 000 dead Southerners as good as proves the Yankees were assholes.

          This Leftie ( ??? ) has no idea what to make of it when right – wingers say that if you don’t like America , then leave it.

          — And then in the next breathe , describe Abraham Lincoln as a good guy

          when that good guy had 400,000 people shot , and an entire region torched , precisely to prevent any such thing as ” leave it if you don’t like it. “

          • KesaAnna October 27, 2020 at 9:07 pm #

            And , again , any group other than the white – skinned group I have not even gotten around to mentioning.

          • Kim October 27, 2020 at 10:59 pm #

            @ Keas Anna

            You are not aware of the Kalergi Plan? Well, maybe it doesn’t exist. Wikipedia tells me it is a far-right-wing racist fantasy such as the idea of The Great Replacement and summarizes it more or less like this:

            The Kalergi Plan is a far-right, anti-semitic, white nationalist conspiracy theory,which states that a plot to mix white Europeans with other races via immigration was constructed by Austrian-Japanese politician Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi and promoted in aristocratic European social circles.

            But we know the plan does in fact exist because we have the book (1925) by Count Coudenhove Kalergi outlining and explaining the plan:

            https://archive.org/details/PracticalIdealism-EnglishTranslation

            The basic idea described in this book is to create in Europe a new race with new features and characteristics by mixing White Europeans, Asians and black Africans in order to change and alter the characteristics of the European people in “positive ways”.

            Kalergi – the product of an Austrian diplomat father and Japanese mother, he was born in Austro-Hungary in 1894 – went on from this noble base to become one of the founding ideologues behind European integration and the European Union.

            Kalergi is also a founder of the Pan-Europa movement which strives “to replace the nationalist German ideal of racial community with the goal of an ethnically heterogeneous and inclusive European nation based on a commonality of culture.”

            But was Kalergi important or influential at all? Perhaps he was. Kalergi was the first of only three Presidents of the Pan-European Movement.

            – Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1923–1972), elected the first International President in 1926.

            – Otto von Habsburg, MEP, the former Crown Prince Otto of Austria-Hungary (1973–2004)

            – Alain Terrenoire, former Member of Parliament and MEP, France (2004–)

            A Habsburg prince is in the list! So, contra Wikipedia, Kalergi is favored in artistocratic circles!

            The Pan-European society each year – now in concert with the European Parliament – awards the very prestigious Charlemagne Prize. Here is a list of its recipients with a few of the most interesting names highlighted. It is quite a rogues gallery of corrupt globalist scum. Observe the first name on the list:

            1950 Austria Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
            1951 Netherlands Hendrik Brugmans
            1952 Italy Alcide de Gasperi
            1953 France Jean Monnet
            1954 West Germany Konrad Adenauer
            1956 United Kingdom Winston Churchill
            1957 Belgium Paul Henri Spaak
            1958 France Robert Schuman
            1959 United States George C. Marshall
            1960 Luxembourg Joseph Bech
            1961 West Germany Walter Hallstein
            1963 United Kingdom Edward Heath
            1964 Italy Antonio Segni
            1966 Denmark Jens Otto Krag
            1967 Netherlands Joseph Luns
            1969 European Union European Commission
            1970 France François Seydoux de Clausonne
            1972 United Kingdom Roy Jenkins
            1973 Spain Salvador de Madariaga
            1976 Belgium Leo Tindemans
            1977 West Germany Walter Scheel
            1978 Greece Konstantinos Karamanlis
            1979 Italy Emilio Colombo
            1981 France Simone Veil
            1982 Spain Juan Carlos of Spain
            1984 West Germany Karl Carstens
            1986 Luxembourg The People of Luxembourg
            1987 United States Henry Kissinger
            1988 West Germany Helmut Kohl and France François Mitterrand
            1989 Switzerland Frère Roger
            1990 Hungary Gyula Horn
            1991 Czechoslovakia Václav Havel
            1992 France Jacques Delors
            1993 Spain Felipe González
            1994 Norway Gro Harlem Brundtland
            1995 Austria Franz Vranitzky
            1996 Netherlands Beatrix of the Netherlands
            1997 Germany Roman Herzog
            1998 Poland Bronis?aw Geremek
            1999 United Kingdom Tony Blair
            2000 United States Bill Clinton
            2001 Hungary György Konrád
            2002 European Union The Euro
            2003 France Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
            2004 Republic of Ireland Pat Cox
            2004 Vatican City / Poland Pope John Paul II (extraordinary prize)
            2005 Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
            2006 Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker
            2007 Spain Javier Solana
            2008 Germany Angela Merkel
            2009 Italy Andrea Riccardi
            2010 Poland Donald Tusk
            2011 France Jean-Claude Trichet
            2012 Germany Wolfgang Schäuble
            2013 Lithuania Dalia Grybauskait?
            2014 Belgium Herman Van Rompuy
            2015 Germany Martin Schulz[2]
            2016 Vatican City / Argentina Pope Francis
            2017 United Kingdom Timothy Garton Ash
            2018 France Emmanuel Macron
            2019 Portugal António Guterres
            2020 Romania Klaus Iohannis

            Plenty of European royalty on that list. You’ll find the same kind of people also associated with the Rockerfeller, free-trade, open borders Mont Pellerin Society, including Habsburgs. Remember, Mises himself was an economist and advisor to the Habsburgs.

            Anyway, you may now be able to see the point of my reference to Kalergi.

            But don’t take my word for it, or Wikipedia’s. Download and read his book. It is an insane plan to change Europe into a two-class society of stupid brown people ruled by a mostly-Jewish nobility of intelligence.

            And the plan, such as it is, is well on its way.

          • Kim October 28, 2020 at 3:48 am #

            Here is a link to an informative six minute video about Kalergi.

            https://archive.org/details/TheKalergiPlanWhiteGenocide_201803

        • tucsonspur October 27, 2020 at 9:27 pm #

          No doubt. But why aren’t they forming chess or math clubs, or debate clubs to compete? You can still belong, no?

          But the jungle is still in the jig.

          It’s the primitive, reptilian brain that dominates, that wants the fight, the feral firing pin that hungers for the trigger.

          • Kim October 27, 2020 at 11:01 pm #

            You should see those Norwegian and Korean kids duke it out when they get put together.

          • Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 2:07 am #

            Your viewpoint is abhorrent and racist from a humane pov yet one echoed in nature herself. Consider the Chipmunks of the Sierras. Eight species, four on the West slope and four on the East. To wit:

            “The ecologists’ term for chipmunks’ aggression is competitive exclusion. No two species with exactly the same ecological requirements can exist in the same habitat, at least not indefinitely. One always replaces the other eventually. The chipmunks ecological requirements are just different enough that the four species can coexist, but only by occupying different habitats, a separation constantly enforced by aggression. The little Sagebrush or Least Chipmunk, with a physiology that permits it to live virtually anywhere in the Sierra, has the broadest fundamental niche of any chipmunk. But because of competitive exclusion by Yellow Pine chipmunks, its realized niche is restricted to areas where Yellow Pine Chipmunks do not survive. Yellow Pine Chipmunks have have a narrower fundamental niche than Sagebrush Chipmunks, but they make up for it by being superior competitors. Charles Darwin, one of the founders of the theory of natural selection, once commented, ‘It is difficult to believe in the dreadful quiet war of organic beings going on in the peaceful woods and smiling fields.’ So it is with Chipmunks.”

            Peterson Field Guide, “Ecology of Western Forests”, Essay, Why so many kinds of Chipmunks?,

            Tuff stuff. In short, some of the Chipmunks are more chipper and some are more chimpy. The Lodgepole Chipmunk is even worse than the Yellow Pine as the biggest Chimpmunk. In human terms, the Bantu drove the Bushmen into the wastelands as they migrated south. Why would anyone live there if they didn’t have to? What is the fate of American Whites to be? Are we now the “Least Chipmunk”, fated to be driven out into the most remote areas of North America by more aggressive races or worse?

            Only Trump can bring the races together. He is the Great Magician, the Dr Doolittle. But for how long? And at what price, monetary and otherwise?

  89. JohnAZ October 27, 2020 at 6:03 pm #

    To Freddie Mars

    Yes, I consider every administration since the second term of Reagan to be Deep State dominated. Left and right are irrelevant. But yes, trending left over the forty years. How do you think we got our country into the mess it is in.

    Remember when a favorite saying was “ There is no difference between a GOP and a Dem?” There was a reason for that!

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    • FreddieMars October 27, 2020 at 8:17 pm #

      So, JohnAZ, were you equally as vociferous against Bush II’s administration as you are of Obama’s?

      • JohnAZ October 27, 2020 at 8:33 pm #

        Just about!

        I voted for Obama the first time. I believed the tripe that he wanted to pull the Blacks into the mainstream. I was wrong. Bad vote! I did not like the hawk McCain.

        I voted for Jeff Flake for the Senate, he was our representative. Bad vote!

        I was floating along sorta involved emotionally about The Bush 2 world, then in 2008 I read The Long Emergency. I have not been the same since.

        The Deep State is the enemy of the American people. That is my basic belief. I am a Deplorable because I believe that Trump is the only person in DC that believes the same.

  90. Kim October 27, 2020 at 7:37 pm #

    Best James O’Keefe video gotcha ever.

    Scamming and bribing old people to change their votes.

    “Don’t tell anyone about this or I could go to jail. I am very nervous.”

    “This is what Trump was saying would happen” (what we are doing)

    “Yes, he was right.”

    https://mobile.twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII

  91. elysianfield October 27, 2020 at 8:36 pm #

    Well, ladies and germs;

    Trump did it. Barrett has been sworn in. Three, count them, three SC justices named in his term. Win or lose, Trump will be the gift that keeps on giving, for a generation or so.

    • JohnAZ October 27, 2020 at 9:03 pm #

      If the Dems sweep, the only block to the socialistic takeover of the country with the balance of powers will be the Supreme Court. Barrett et al of the conservatives will be a significant block to the takeover. Until the Dems pack the court or do something else to cancel the effect of the court.

      Barrett is very important!

    • KesaAnna October 27, 2020 at 10:08 pm #

      meh , I listened to about 45 minutes of the confirmation hearings on the radio.

      And that was probably quite enough.

      ” I’m a judge , and the involved mother of seven kids ! ”

      Gimme a fucking break !

      Did she stop to throw in the caveat ,

      ” You could just as well hear ; ” You , too , can be a judge ” from any garden variety Bolshevik picked at random ?

      Nope .

      Did she hasten to point out to any little girls who might be looking to her for an example ,

      ” It might just be , you know , that juggling 7 kids and a judgeship at the same time is a bit easier and more practical in a context of a 100k a year .

      100k a year will not at all be the context for most of you , and so will you will have to choose between being a mother , or being a judge.

      If you refuse to make the choice , well , at least a lot of people besides just yourself will go to great lengths to argue that the result isn’t complete shit , even though we all know it is complete shit.

      * wink *

      If you do soberly acknowledge that poor people must economize , and so must choose one or the other , not both ,

      ( having your cake and eating it too was the prerogative of the aristocracy 500 years ago , so it is now , and so it will be in 500 years . But not for you dummy. )

      and you choose scrubbing pots and changing diapers , then a great many people — and most of those people calling themselves fans of womens rights ! — will look down on you , hold you in contempt . ”

      Did she throw in that caveat ?

      Nope.

      If that is in any way a conservative or a traditionalist then there’s hope for Joseph Stalin.

  92. tom clark October 27, 2020 at 9:12 pm #

    Hey Donnie…could you please do one more thing for the American people before you leave office? I’m asking nicely, so I know I won’t be heard. But here goes anyway.

    Could you eliminate forever daylight savings time? I know you want to take America back to the 20th century, but DST truly sucks. It’s just a damn inconvenience anymore. My clocks will appreciate it and so will I.

  93. FreddieMars October 27, 2020 at 9:36 pm #

    I’m watching Mr. Trump’s current rally in Nebraska.

    He doesn’t actually say very much. At all.

    Broad accusations of ‘socialists, Marxists & communists*’ (*special emphasis on the last).

    Nothing of any substance on POLICY as far as I can see.

    It’s like a high school slumber party. He’s just a stand-up comedian.

    • sdf October 27, 2020 at 10:00 pm #

      Totally. He has turned the entire Republican party into a joke. There’s a local Republican group in my sister’s town known as the “Trump Train” and they spend their time going into local businesses and harrassing employees and customers who are visible minorities, and taking BLM flags and running them over with their trucks and setting them on fire. Some people need a real hobby.

      Not to mention the Republican party rolling back over 80 significant environmental regulations, or not having a plan to transition away from oil.

      Not to mention the hypocrisy of the SCOTUS nomination. She might be a fine person (or not), but so was Obama’s appointee 8 months before the end of his term.

      I hate both parties as much as the next person, and have always voted third-party (except for Obama’s second term, I did vote for him). The toxic culture of Trump groupies makes me want to vomit, and is probably going to make me vote for Biden over my usual third party pick. To assume Trump and his Republican cronies are somehow less corrupt than Democrats is laughable indeed. They’re all DC swamp creatures on both sides of the aisle.

      My priority is for us to at least have someone in office who has a plan to keep our heads above water, because God knows Trump has no plan.

      • Kim October 27, 2020 at 11:19 pm #

        @ sdf

        There’s a local Republican group in my sister’s town known as the “Trump Train” and they spend their time going into local businesses and harrassing employees and customers who are visible minorities, and taking BLM flags and running them over with their trucks and setting them on fire. Some people need a real hobby.

        Video or it didn’t happen.

        Come on. Not a single person had a smartphone available to record these attacks?

        We look forward to seeing the links.

        • KesaAnna October 27, 2020 at 11:39 pm #

          I , for my part , am getting Stephen Glass / The New Republic flashbacks.

          It so happens I was subscribed to The New Republic just before that shit went down.

          And , believe it not , he wrote a story about the South that caught my notice at the time.

          In point of fact I did not recognize the story as an out – an – out fraud.

          But then , blatantly , poisonously condescending and mocking treatments of Southern people and culture by Northerners calling themselves cosmopolitan egalitarian types are a dime a dozen ,

          and whether the articles are objectively factual , or made up out of whole cloth , are neither here , nor there.

      • Night Owl October 28, 2020 at 4:18 am #

        Media Matters Agent 6576 hates both parties but particularly hates Trump supporters and will, ofc, vote Biden.

        LOL.

      • benr October 28, 2020 at 10:23 am #

        Yea I call bullshit on your ridiculous story or that you ever voted third party.
        Bullshit meter pegged so hard it bent the needle around the stop.

      • hmuller October 29, 2020 at 6:35 pm #

        I agree, sdf is flinging lies and inventing propaganda. If that kind of harassment happened just once anywhere in America, it would be captured on a phone and be the lead story on every network for a week.

        Soros would send his minions to burn the town down.

        100 DOJ lawyers who never noticed a Demo dirty trick would descend like locust on that town.

    • Kim October 27, 2020 at 11:09 pm #

      He has four years of government for people who want to judge him on his policies.

      The rallies are there to rally enthusiasm, crucial to winning, which is the part you don’t like.

      “Oh, look at that Drumpf! All he is doing is trying to win the election!”

      If you don’t like it, turn it off. Go watch a Biden rally instead. Oh, wait…

  94. 100th Avatar October 27, 2020 at 10:47 pm #

    The Great Reset is nigh.

    Pandemic, election chaos, tensions.

    What an opportunity.

    Every bank, multinational, heck even UPS, has a page devoted to the coming Great Reset.

    That retirement lifestyle you think you planned for, well,.. if it ain’t in Davos…

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    • Kim October 28, 2020 at 7:45 am #

      USA private + public debt to GDP = 390%

    • Night Owl October 28, 2020 at 9:14 am #

      Yep.

  95. KesaAnna October 27, 2020 at 11:12 pm #

    ” It’s the primitive, reptilian brain that dominates, that wants the fight, the feral firing pin that hungers for the trigger. ”

    No doubt .

    Once upon a time white people considered snipers and spies in the category of bottom – feeding scum of the earth.

    Now spies and snipers are celebrities.

    Once upon a time white people cited Pavlik Morozov as an example of just how diabolically twisted and flatly evil things could get.

    Granted , nowadays the average person wouldn’t know who Pavlik Morozov was , but , anyway , the whole idea of THAT is presented as example of ….. GOOD FAMILY VALUES !

    You have come a long way ( down ) white girl.

    • Kim October 27, 2020 at 11:36 pm #

      Pavlik Morozov

      You know the entire Pavlik/pavel Morozov story is bullshit, don’t you?

      For those who don’t know, here is the real story.

      At the time, this was the early 1930s, the communists had really turned up the intensity of their anti-family propaganda just as the murdered bodies of two young brothers, Pavel and Fedor Morozov, were found. This was in Siberia. The soviet press at first said they were killed by “kulaks” because they were such good communists but then, even better, the story became that Pavel had in fact denounced his own father in court as a class enemy so then he was killed by his own relatives.

      Message? Families are bad.

      The commies went crazy for this and spent three years building Pavel up in the media as a prize soviet citizen and even decided to build him a mausoleim in Red Square. In the end, they didn’t build it, but hundreds of other mini-mausoleums were built around the country.

      Why the change of mind? Well, there had been a change of policy wrt the family because there was a worker shortage so familes were back in again. Pavel was still said to have betrayed his family, but only because he had been advised to by a secret policeman, so that was okay. He was officially authorized to betray, you see, so that was not monstrous at all. State above family.

      This is the kind of bs you get when you let communists anywhere near you. But the modern insane commie policy of cutting off boy’s dicks – chemically or otherwise – is probably even worse than this.

      • KesaAnna October 27, 2020 at 11:51 pm #

        ” You know the entire Pavlik/pavel Morozov story is bullshit, don’t you? ”

        Yes.

        But then ;

        ” Message? Families are bad. ”

        ” State above family. ”

        Are the meat and potatoes of the thing.

        Whether Pavlik Morozov was a Young Pioneer or not , a police informant or not , right – handed or left – handed , blue – eyed or brown – eyed , is neither here , nor there.

        • KesaAnna October 28, 2020 at 12:24 am #

          ” But the modern insane commie policy of cutting off boy’s dicks – chemically or otherwise – is probably even worse than this. ”

          Ugh ,

          I would say that when you swallow Social Darwinist swill like , ” State above family. ” you have as good as already arrived at weird shit like encouraging eight year old boys to become Brownie Scouts.

          The whole sex thing is roughly analogous , in my view , to the whole self – defense / gun rights thing.

          That is , the gun control lobby was always a fucking joke.

          Gun control became a not – at – all – funny reality because presumed / supposed gun rights advocates were so fucking greedy and vain to keep guns out of the hands of the average Joe next door that the situation very quickly morphed into a case of ,

          ” with friends like these , who the fuck even needs an opposition ? ”

          Which is to say that in the case of sex , to make a long story short ,

          All of this began — and ended ,

          when some asshole who might have called himself a socialist , or might have called himself a Falangist , or might have called himself the president of the George Washington fan club ,

          made the assumption that it really didn’t mean shit that for 50,000 years the only thing remotely resembling a government was the family .

          Nope , all that means nothing.

          No big fucking clues in any of that pointing in a certain direction !

          No , it’s a perfectly rational and sober idea that some stranger who has taken a few courses , read a few books , and is doing it for the money , and is going to collect that money even if the sky should fall on the family ,

          should have more authority in a house than do the mother or father , in every concievable way , EXCEPT for the ONE DETAIL of how you go about fucking.

          Nope ,nothing wrong with that picture.

          Nothing particularly bizarre or weird about innovations and impositions which almost certainly would have shocked Nero or Ivan the Terrible , in the shear degree of license taken , the power assumed.

  96. John1945 October 28, 2020 at 12:34 am #

    Please join Phila PD in silent prayer.

    They just twitted a plaintive tearful message (scroll to the bottom)

    *Alert* A large crowd of appx 1000 is looting businesses

    https://www.phillypolice.com/about/leadership/index.html

    If you are not woke enough you may look at Phila PD Chief ,Phila PD First Deputy Chief and start laughing uproariously.

    Real kicker is – that Precious Talent (PD Chief ) was scooped up in Portland.

    • Doug October 28, 2020 at 11:19 am #

      John1945, Holy crap! Just when I thought things couldn’t get more absurd, I checked out your link. CAN the insanity ever end?? Good God!

      • John1945 October 28, 2020 at 12:07 pm #

        🙂

        It is called “assault breaching of enemy fortifications”
        Appoint a Dumb Sister as a PD Chief
        Bring in BLM/Antifa Joint Task Force
        Let Freedom ring !!!

  97. Theedrich October 28, 2020 at 12:51 am #

    Biden means the suicide of America. A new article by Brian T. Kennedy in Imprimis (ImPREEmees) published by Hillsdale College makes this clear. (Kennedy is president of the American Strategy Group, chairman of the Committee for the Present Danger: China, and a board member and senior fellow of the Claremont Institute.) In his must-read exposé, titled Facing Up to the China Threat, he reveals, among many other horrendous facts:

    “Perhaps the greatest threat to the U.S. posed by the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] is its corruption of America’s business and financial elites, who view the economic benefits of dealing with China as more important than America’s national interests. If there is a single group committed to the globalist project and the delusory China dream, it is Wall Street. Our great investment banks are now selling trillions of dollars in debt and equity in Chinese corporations to American investors and retirees. They are literally betting on the success of China at the expense of the U.S.”

    This quote describes the mindset of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. perfectly. He is a traitor sans pareil. Another alarming bit of information revealed by Kennedy is that

    “It is also believed that Chinese operatives in the Houston consulate provided intelligence to Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters in Houston as a way of demonstrating their solidarity. Indeed, there is growing evidence that the CCP’s United Front includes these groups, and that some of the funding for BLM and Antifa is coming from CCP-sponsored or affiliated groups: Liberation Road, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and the Chinese Progressive Association.”

    The average American is oblivious to these facts regarding China’s policy of Unrestricted Warfare against us pointed out by Kennedy and blind to a number of others which can only be described as hair-raising. Our citizens, stupefied by cognitive dissonance, have no idea of the kind of savagery and oppression the CCP has in store for us if we let the globalists win and install the Biden Trojan Horse in the White House. Americans have been brainwashed by Leftist propaganda in the media and taxpayer-supported universities to think that America needs to be overthrown.

    If the Marxists succeed and Sleepy Joe wins, Yankeeland can kiss goodbye to the only civilization worth the name. It will be replaced by a continent-wide concentration camp.

    • SoftStarLight October 28, 2020 at 2:36 am #

      This sounds true. Communists and Marxists regimes always seem to control populations with gulags, internment camps, labor camps, and often just plain genocide. What the media and shadow state politicians are doing to gaslight Americans is to say Socialism (which is more acceptable) to describe their policies which are ultimately Globalist, Communist and Luciferian. The CCP is already deeply embedded in our society. They have people for example planted at Facebook who are now directing censorship efforts across that platform as we type.

  98. Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 1:33 am #

    Dark Winter
    Overview
    The Dark Winter exercise, held at Andrews AFB, Washington, DC, June 22-23, 2001, portrayed a fictional scenario depicting a covert smallpox attack on US citizens. The scenario is set in 3 successive National Security Council (NSC) meetings (Segments 1, 2 and 3) that take place over a period of 14 days. Former senior government officials played the roles of NSC members responding to the evolving epidemic; representatives from the media were among the observers of these mock NSC meetings and played journalists during the scenario’s press conferences.

    centerforhealthsecurity.org

    Sound familiar? Like the Event 201 before the Covid outbreak. But it was planned years earlier. As they going to bring this one out mothballs too or was Joe just being garrulous?

    • SoftStarLight October 28, 2020 at 2:17 am #

      Some people think that if Trump wins then the globalists will unleash terror, and potentially something like a new pandemic. The last naturally occurring cases of smallpox were reported around 1980. At this time there are no known cures or treatments for smallpox and the vaccine’s side effects make it too risky to use for routine immunizations. Maybe just maybe Joe was giving the people a heads up on the ultimate price of disobeying the globalist overlords.

      • KesaAnna October 28, 2020 at 3:03 am #

        I’m certainly no fan of these bastards.

        Never the less , My reaction would be that sounds terribly far – fetched.

        But , then again , presumably the idea that the heirs of Mao are the A – Team is not far – fetched.

        Likewise ,

        You can put a man on the moon , but the only way you can conceivably compete with the crude system of slave labor in places like China and El Salvador is for everyone to pull 50K out of their asses , get a ph. D , and work 80 – hour weeks.

        And presumably that is not a far – fetched narrative either.

        Oh well.

        • Kim October 28, 2020 at 4:01 am #

          Since the early days of the John Birch Society, people have been saying “That sounds far-fetched” and didn’t want to hear the warnings.

          “I don’t believe in conspiracy theories.”

          “Oh, that’s just a Red Scare” or “That’s McCarthyism”.

          And now look what we’ve got. The FBI and DOJ wouldn’t even investigate when for almost a year they had proof that a Presidential candidate was bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party.

          People need to get it through their thick skulls: communism is a tool of globalism and globalism is a long-term plan to destroy Western Civilization and replace it with a global, technocratic, anti-Christian (Satanic) despotism.

          And no, that isn’t just “fake news” or a “conspiracy theory”.

          It is now undeniably right in front of our eyes.

          • messianicdruid October 28, 2020 at 9:31 am #

            If the blind [ willfully ] lead the blind [ ingrained ] they shall both fall into a ditch .

          • SoftStarLight October 28, 2020 at 10:51 am #

            Yep! And interestingly enough the Globalist Elites are actually very open about their ideas and plans now. They constantly drop hints about their methods and plots in various ways whether through the media or movies, etc. But at the same time they have mesmerized people into believing somehow that there is no such thing as conspiracy and operating in secret. People can watch movies filled with conspiracies and secrets and yet they are the same people who assume that basically government officials are open books. It’s actually very strange but a lot of people are seeing through it now.

          • beantownbill. October 28, 2020 at 1:31 pm #

            Generally, I agree with you, but I don’t think globalism is satanic, or at least to any degree. Do you know that all the globalists worship Satan? I don’t believe so.

          • Kim October 28, 2020 at 9:38 pm #

            @ beantownhill

            I don’t think globalism is satanic, or at least to any degree. Do you know that all the globalists worship Satan?

            These people are consciously evil and anti-human. They conspire and organize on an historic level to advance their greed and selfishness through lies and violence.

            And they exult in it.

            They are satanic.

          • hmuller October 29, 2020 at 5:50 pm #

            Beantownbill. Let’s avoid terms like “all and every” which are argument invalidators.

            There are some very peculiar activities being conducted by some of society’s elite. Even the mainstream media has reported about Nxium, child trafficking, the Hollywood rape culture, etc. And there’s much they have refused to report – things worse than you’ll see in “Eyes Wide Shut”.

            Yet apologists for the Global Elite continue to claim its all just crazy conspiracy theory horse shit.

            A Dutch banker named Ronald Bernard was encouraged to join a secret society by his superiors. He personally witnessed child rape and murder conducted by people who claimed to be “satanists”.

            https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/dutch-banker-ronald-bernard-blows-the-whistle-on-worlds-satanic-elite/

  99. KesaAnna October 28, 2020 at 2:04 am #

    ” Kalergi is also a founder of the Pan-Europa movement which strives “to replace the nationalist German ideal of racial community with the goal of an ethnically heterogeneous and inclusive European nation based on a commonality of culture.”

    I suppose that in theory there would be a difference there ?

    But the fact was that in practice there was no difference.

    I didn’t actually count the pages ( rolls eyes ) but in Mein Kampf Hitler devotes a great many pages to running down the polyglot Austrian Empire ,

    and lauding the homogeneous Germany.

    OK.

    So far , so good.

    But now look at a hypothetical map of Europe if the Third Reich had won the war.

    If Hitler had won the war he would have , in effect , re – created the Austrian Empire , only ten times bigger , and so it seems to me reasonable to assume , ten times worse the polyglot.

    Typically , when I point out to people the obvious implications in such a map ,

    Whether the person in question loathes the idea of a German victory , or loves the idea ,

    I get , never the less , the same response ;

    Well , the Nazis weren’t shy about exterminating people , so , no , it wasn’t going to be a Hapsburg Austrian polyglot !

    In plain language , whether right – wing or left – wing , they really do seem to assume that Hitler really was an Aryan superman ,

    with an honest – to – God magic wand.

    This extermination business ?

    No , I’m NOT saying it didn’t happen.

    I am saying 6 million dead , endless pictures of piles of bodies , and endless crying over Anne Frank ,

    is a bit misleading.

    How so ?

    Well, Jews were only about 2 % of Europe’s over all population.

    Throw in some Gypsies , some really hard case Communists and homosexuals , and the picture still doesn’t substantially improve.

    We are roughly talking about in a random group of 100 people , generously , only about ten of them disappear.

    And if truth be told , it’s a good bet that of those ten people , four to six of them were people you didn’t particularly like anyway.

    So , basically , I would say , and rather confidently too , that the most impressive thing about the SS were their costumes.

    To my way of thinking , the Rwandan genocide was much more impressive.

    With a primarily volunteer , unpaid , force , armed primarily with machetes that wholesale for 50 cents , they managed to exterminate one – fifth of the total , general , population in one and a half months.

    Maybe the master race is African ?

    Anyway , if Germany had won the war , and if they were going to establish a German racial community over such a land mass ,

    they were going to have to greatly up their game , to the Rwandan level.

    Because we aren’t talking about a 2% of Jews here , a 2% of Gypsies there , and who knows how many homosexuals over there who won’t take no for an answer.

    The numbers of people who are going to have to be shot or gassed really are impressive , really are staggering.

    In summation , whatever Hitler preached , if the proof is in the action rather than the words ,

    then , regardless of what Hitler claimed or didn’t claim , admitted or didn’t admit ,

    the proof is right there , plain as day , in looking at a map of this victorious , and now gigantic , Third Reich.

    At some point Hitler said to himself , ” Fuck the German racial community , I’m in for the power and the popularity , I’m in it to be a rock star. ”

    Because no fucking way was this huge polyglot empire ever going to be a German racial community.

    Indeed , say the war ends March 12th , 1946 , with a complete German Victory ?

    Then on March 12th , 1946 , Germans are already a second tier minority in their own empire.

    No hypothetical , that’s what the numbers already say.

    But then , there is no end of Americans who apparently subscribe to the absolutely fantastical notion that somehow the entire North American continent is going to vote itself into a white Protestant E Pluribus Unum with the Disney seal of approval.

    So go figure.

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    • SoftStarLight October 28, 2020 at 2:49 am #

      You think so? I can’t imagine many people thinking that all of North America would be a White Protestant empire when Canada and the US have been thoroughly inundated and overwhelmed by a hyper diverse flood of third world migration for decades and Mexico is mostly Mestizo to begin with. I think more people than ever are thinking that the US will probably dissolve and divide at some point. Maybe Canada will too.

      • KesaAnna October 28, 2020 at 3:26 am #

        I don’t think Blacks have secretly been in charge of America these past hundred years.

        I don’t think the conventional American civil war narrative was cooked up by blacks , or by Jews , or even by the country club set.

        You talked yourselves into the idea that Abraham Lincoln was Mother fucking Theresa , instead of the utter crackpot monster he was.

        You talked yourselves past the truth that nobody hates white people more than other white people.

        It’s plainly fucking obvious , in at least every fourth essay written by a white Northerner , regarding white Southerners , a hundred fucking years after the fact , that these white people hold their supposed white fellow citizens in complete contempt.

        And rather than feeling any regret or scruple over having shot these people or otherwise ruined them , they rather , on the contrary , fucking revel in it.

        • tucsonspur October 28, 2020 at 4:07 am #

          ‘You talked yourselves into the idea that Abraham Lincoln was Mother fucking Theresa , instead of the utter crackpot monster he was.’

          What nonsense, what utter drivel. Not even worth any further response except for some Whitman:

          ‘O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done;
          The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
          The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
          While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
          But O heart! heart! heart!
          O the bleeding drops of red,[a]
          Where on the deck my Captain lies,
          Fallen cold and dead’.

        • benr October 28, 2020 at 10:15 am #

          Yep I agree with you Kesa one need only look at the language of Democrats…Bitter clingers…deplorables….chumps….red neck….inbred….uneducated….hill Billie’s…

          Conservatives engage in this as well but did not get so nasty until very recently.

        • JohnAZ October 28, 2020 at 11:09 am #

          KA

          Do you think if a miracle happened and Blacks were suddenly given control of this country, they would have a single clue what to do next? What model would they use to govern? Power seekers suck at governing, they cause more misery in history than any other group of humans.

          From my perspective, the Blacks have been given control of many of the cities in the country. Their governance of said cities is horrible, broke, in revolt, crime ridden.

          Lack of a value system is a huge problem. South Chicago is often used against the Blacks. Without a solid families values system, it is no wonder that young Black folks migrate to the gangs, the only form of social organization they have available. It is a natural incubator for the entrance of crime syndicates.

          Why have the now Black administration of Chicago used the gangs to promote growth in the Black communities and integrate them into the America mainstream. One day the Blacks are going to figure out how they have been used by the Democratic Party and their revolt will change things.

          I have picked Chicago, but Baltimore, Washington, DC, LA, NYC all have the same problem. Also, white idiocy on the West Coast is no better. The common denominator, the color blue. The desire for power with no idea what to do with it.

        • SoftStarLight October 28, 2020 at 11:09 am #

          I used to think that Abraham Lincoln was a monster. But I don’t anymore. I think that the truth is closer to that there were many monsters at the time. Different because of the time but generally the same as today. The Northern industrialists were just as cruel as any Southern slave master. Maybe some were more so for all we know. Either way the North won so basically at the end of the day that is the way it is no matter what we think. I actually wish that Lincoln would have had a complete victory but the Satanist John Wilkes Booth made sure that didn’t happen. And that is actually a factor in why we are where we are now.

          • Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 1:05 pm #

            Studies were done at the time: southern slaves were often treated better and in better condition than northern industrial workers. Agriculture has a natural rhythm: Very hard work at certain times and much less the rest of the time. Lots of leisure in the winter. In contrast, industry has an inhuman rhythm. And with no unions around yet to mitigate it, the workers were treated horribly and it showed. Thus southern intellectuals responded to northerners, Free your slaves first.

          • SoftStarLight October 29, 2020 at 1:49 am #

            This is true. So was Lincoln generally supportive of the industrialists? Was he one to overlook the bad working conditions for example? I would hope he wanted to reign them in just as much as the the plantation owners.

          • Yohannon October 29, 2020 at 4:45 pm #

            Don’t know what Lincoln thought about industry. I think it was already an issue in England which began the industrial revolution, but I’m not sure it was here yet.

      • JohnAZ October 28, 2020 at 10:49 am #

        SSL

        Much to the chagrin of US traditionalists, the Left has succeeded in changing the demographics of the US. It is not Blacks either, their percentage has hardly budged in sixty years. It is immigrants from Latin America and Asia that have changed things. Add on GOP RINOs like Bush 2 that encouraged Latino immigration. As Latin America has been a hot bed of socialism and Marxism since 1960, and before, it is no wonder that the Dems want to protect their increased presence here.

        • SoftStarLight October 28, 2020 at 11:16 am #

          Its also too because so many people have been enriched in one way or another because of the current open borders system. And because a lot of people really do believe now what Biden actually said which is that America is just an idea. Its not like we never heard that before. That is intentionally said so that people begin to believe the lie. That America was never an actual people or country but it was just a place for a new idea and a new way of doing things.

    • benr October 28, 2020 at 10:11 am #

      The actual masters of warfare in Africa were no doubt the Zulu.
      They were so good at murder and warfare they denuded all other tribes in the South Africa region and wiped out the first wave of British.

    • beantownbill. October 28, 2020 at 1:25 pm #

      From a completely unemotional point of view, you are correct. I understand how you are thinking. But the amount of suffering of the few percent and how it affected the general population is staggeringly out of proportion to the population numbers. Like I said, you seemed to use a technical argument on an extreme situation. I would have preferred that you had mentioned the suffering and pain was evil. That you had not done so might give the impression you are cold-hearted (I, personally don’t think it true). I do believe you don’t pay too much attention to what people think of you (which is ok), but I know I wouldn’t want to go through life with people thinking I’m a cold person. But, hey, that’s just me.

  100. SoftStarLight October 28, 2020 at 3:01 am #

    Do foreign powers and Globalists have a huge influence on American universities? Duh! 😉

    Is there any possibility that this is why most American universities produce crops of students who hate America and Western Civilization?

    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/u-s-universities-received-billions-in-unreported-foreign-funds-education-department-finds-warning-of-national-security-risk/

    • JohnAZ October 28, 2020 at 10:36 am #

      SSL

      It still mystifies me how the Leftists loaded the university system with Marxists so completely. They did have forty years to do it. The elementary and secondary systems have also been invaded as patriotic US classes like civics and American history have been removed.

      The continuous takeover by the Left has been insidious and a very cowardly RINO response of the GOP has failed to stem the tide.

      • SoftStarLight October 28, 2020 at 11:20 am #

        It shouldn’t mystify you at all John. Why would the Marxists have any incentive not to completely take over everything if there is essentially no real opposition to their doing so?

        • JohnAZ October 28, 2020 at 11:58 am #

          SubsitNot from their perspective, how did they worm their way into such a position of power? Same question for social media. Where was the traditional patriotic resistance to them?

          • JohnAZ October 28, 2020 at 12:02 pm #

            SubsitNot? WTH? Not from their perspective.

            It is the cowardly Deep State GOP that is the bad guy here.

  101. tucsonspur October 28, 2020 at 4:17 am #

    Tucker’s Bobulinsky interview removed all doubt about the extent of Biden’s corruption It’s a must view. Shocking, searing, and revealing.

    • JohnAZ October 28, 2020 at 10:30 am #

      It will probably be buried in three days by the Democratic machine.

  102. PeteAtomic October 28, 2020 at 9:29 am #

    I’m not a fan of binary thinking, e.g. ‘Trump is evil’ or ‘Biden is a communist’…

    The trouble with Biden is that he is exactly what the US doesn’t need at the moment: a staid, incompetent, wholly underwhelming, life long politician who certainly will not be able to effectively manage entropic decline that the nation will continue to experience and only accelerate as streams of energy production become a bigger concern.

    The Left wants to shut down fossil fuel production. This isn’t going to happen. In an odd way, the corrupt democrat party will continue to support Big Oil, if simply out of practical necessity. There just is no other real methods (as JHK often repeats) to fuel Disneyworld, Walmart & the movement of peoples across the US.

    So, Biden will not turn the US communist, or anything like that. The democrats are fascists. They will do the bidding of multi-national corporations.

    There will be some economic recovery under the first part of a Biden Presidency. I think the US will be waging at least one or more wars in the next 2 years with a Biden President. War can have the ability to give the US economy a little boost, especially to the democrat west coast, where a lot of US bomb makers live and work. Weapons manufacturing is one of the last industries in the US.

    ..however, entropic decline & the management of that decline, will prove too much particularly for Biden (or really anybody for that matter).

    Another part of an economic upturn will be government largesse & payoffs to racial & classes that supported Biden. More welfare/social service programs. Government contracts to particular unions, etc.

    That’s how the sausage is made in the US!

    • JohnAZ October 28, 2020 at 10:29 am #

      Trump understands that economic stimulus, via tax cuts and regulation reduction plus military (fiscal) spending is required to make a positive impact on the business faith in the US. If the positive impetus is not present, corporations will go where it is positive, ie China.

      That is why Biden is totally dangerous to the health of the US, not just Biden, but the whole rotten nest of Leftists.

      Why? The buy there votes from the have-nots by favoring gimme programs. Those are programs where the government steals from the economic engines to give capital to the gimme folks. The effect? More and more gimme folks and corporations moving offshore.

      That is a description of what Obama did to prolong the Recession, more taxes, punish the corporations, regulate everything, centralize power. It is what stimulated Trump to run, and why he won.

      It maybe why he may win again as more and more folks realize what Biden means. The gimmes have probably already voted, the easy way, and there should be a drift right during the next week.

      BTW, Google reports that the number one inquiry is “How do I change my early vote?” As the early vote was slanted to the Left, the Dems should worry a tad about that. The polls are narrowing everywhere.

      • messianicdruid October 28, 2020 at 1:34 pm #

        “More and more gimme folks and corporations moving offshore.”

        I saw a bumper sticker this morning in the Pilot store. It had the flag with the caption ” If this offends you I’ll help you pack “.

      • ohyesiam October 28, 2020 at 7:14 pm #

        You conveniently forget the corporate welfare that the government hands out, such as the 500 billion for big business in the Covid stimulus package, or the 20 billion a year for oil and gas companies.

        • JohnAZ October 28, 2020 at 10:24 pm #

          Interesting comment.

          You want to tax the corporations even more to have more capital for the gimme sect. Then you give the same corporations subsidies.

          Don’t you get it? The government, “Deep State”, exerts power over the corporation by holding out the money carrot in front of them. You are a sucker if you think the Dems wanting to tax the corporations more is benevolent. They are figuring out ways to tax us more, hiding behind “rich man” taxes, to exert their power everywhere. The Deep State is the enemy of the American people.

          • JohnAZ October 28, 2020 at 10:28 pm #

            What if subsidies were stopped? Then tax those corporations more. Then cry when your job is moved to China, or Malaysia, or India, or even Mexico.

            No wonder you were so happy with Obama.

    • SoftStarLight October 28, 2020 at 11:29 am #

      I found this definition of Fascism from Merriam-Webster:

      a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

      So the Democrats are not Fascists at all as they are fully onboard with the whole idea of a one world global government and open borders. You can look up the definition of Communism and you’ll find the DNC there.

      • Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 1:10 pm #

        Now Merriam-Webster is going to change the definition of Fascism because you quoted that.

        • SoftStarLight October 29, 2020 at 1:43 am #

          Lol that literally would not surprise me these days! But my biggest hope is that they would include my commentary as well re DNC. 🙂

        • PeteAtomic October 29, 2020 at 8:14 am #

          LOL!

      • PeteAtomic October 29, 2020 at 8:35 am #

        I was using Mussolini’s definition of fascism as government run as a corporate entity.

        If you examine why democrats want unrestrained immigration, it is for the benefits of large agri-business. A large pool of unskilled people allows large industries a large pool of cheap labor.

        I’m not sure if the democrats agree with one world global government. They certainly use government as an extension of corporate power/interests throughout the world. I don’t think they would ever want to lose their monopoly on power. The US is involved in places like the Middle East, as one easily understood example, largely because of Big Energy business interest.

        “above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition”

        I think we are headed in those directions. Authoritarian regimes like China’s use technology to control their population. We appear to be headed the same way. The Deep State is very real. The security state is real. The last 4 years have also shown us that we have a State Media.

        The type of republic that the founders of our country had imagined & created is long dead. The citizen farmer/small mercantilist who was both active on his property & in the public sphere, is long gone. The US is largely divided between a highly insulated elite on one hand, and a larger & larger percent of the population constitutes a roiling underclass. The middle class is disappearing. We now have something much closer to France in 1789, then Philadelphia in 1776.

        • SoftStarLight October 29, 2020 at 12:56 pm #

          That makes sense. And to be clear too there were many Republicans who were very much on board with the Democrats in there efforts all along the way from what I can tell. But I agree with your points.

          • PeteAtomic October 30, 2020 at 8:38 am #

            yep! the republican party (or pre-Trump one anyway) was largely all on board for with the democrats.

  103. Pucker October 28, 2020 at 9:35 am #

    “That’s Russian Disinformation.”

    What do you think of King Leopold’s ability to masquerade his venal, rapacious exploitation of black labor to harvest rubber in the Congo (to feed the rubber boom inaugurated by Dunlop’s invention of the inflatable tire) behind a facade of Christian-inspired humanity, civilization, and philanthropy? Sixty-five year old Belgian King Leopold used to wake up every morning to ride his big tricycle around the palace grounds before riding over to screw his 16 year old voluptuous, big-titted, French mistress who’d boss him around and pussy-whip him. King Leopold was a pedophile who would frequent a pedophile brothel in London run to service European royalty. The Belgian people and the people of Europe thought that King Leopold was some Huge Humanitarian. I think that Bill Clinton used to fly around on Jeffrey Epstein’s Private jet, “The Lolita Express”, to do humanitarian work in Haiti and to help people suffering from AIDS in Africa for “The Clinton Foundation”.

  104. Pucker October 28, 2020 at 11:21 am #

    They all believe in man-made Global Warming. And they mock religion and “idiots who waste their time reading books rather than trying to make Big Bucks.”

    If you asked Hunter Biden while he’s soaking in the tub stoned with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, he’d say: “Global Warming is real.”

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  105. benr October 28, 2020 at 11:37 am #

    The flow of information dribbles out but it eventually does so the light of day. Nothing that has two people or more involved ever stays a secret forever people talk and some people brag. Much like Joe Biden bragging about getting a Ukrainian prosecutor fired.

    https://www.oann.com/cdc-reveals-hospitals-counted-heart-attacks-as-covid-19-deaths/

  106. JohnAZ October 28, 2020 at 11:45 am #

    This is not going to be popular.

    I read a lot of Kesa Anna’s posts.

    What is going to lift the Blacks in American society are the Blacks themselves. Allowing the Democratic Party use them since 1960s has been a major FU organized by Black leaders.

    Waiting for the central authority to give you power is ludicrous. It is reminiscent of slavery itself, “Massah, Massah, please provide for me. Gimme stuff.

    Politically and socially, Blacks need to grow up! Become independent, tell the MARXISTS TO FO, grow your future. Join in with American traditionalists to build your communities, quit listening to Dem lackeys, and quit looking towards the Leftist Massahs that want to keep you in your place.

    Every ethnic group has had to fight for their position in this country, it has been their responsibility to make their place in society. Blacks are no different. Dependence on the federal tit has been the Blacks downfall, never their salvation. Dependence on the Black “leaders” that bow down to their White Dem Massahs is definitely a mistake.

    I know this has little meaning being written by a White guy. Consider though that I think that Black self help organization candidates such as BLM, the urban gangs, and even the MLK era of the NAACP Are the ways Blacks will progress and get their share of the American pie. Quit thinking of yourselves as second class citizens. There are enough very successful Blacks out there promoting American values to point the way to success.

    One more, quit grooming your kids to be athletes only. Not enough demand, but it limits the ambition of their dreams. They need to be doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, not just BB or football players.

    • Kevvia Knack October 28, 2020 at 11:56 am #

      Not everyone, of any race or color, has the IQ to be a doctor, lawyer, tech genius or entrepreneur…nor the desire to be any of those things. What the country needs are jobs that pay a decent wage for working class people.

      • JohnAZ October 28, 2020 at 12:52 pm #

        Story, they are all in China thanks to you know who.

        • Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 1:21 pm #

          They did it to make money. No one forced them. Can you run a society on profit alone? Christ seemed to say otherwise in His, Man does not live by bread alone.

          Offshoring our industrial base was madness, but it benefitted a few or it wouldn’t have been done. So it wasn’t madness from their pov. There are many povs! Theirs just doesn’t make for the survival of Nations, in this case, America.

  107. beantownbill. October 28, 2020 at 12:55 pm #

    During my entire life, the dialogue has always been Dems vs. Repubs. Life has changed so much, but the dialogue hasn’t at all. Now we are faced with issues that we haven’t had before (North America): Surging population, strains on our resources and destruction of the Yuesday, etc.environment.

    So what have we been discussing? Mostly whether Biden is senile, how the Dems are devils, the Repubs are crooked, too, who’s going to win on Tuesday, etc. That’s ok, but after the election (which won’t be official until January at the earliest) we ought to start talking about the poisoning of our oceans, the depletion of our soil, dealing with supply chains, self-defense and myriad other real-world situations that we’ll have to work on ASAP. Otherwise these problems will work on us, and in a very destructive manner.

    As I’ve said many times before – and I don’t want to be a nudge – but it won’t make a difference who ends up running the government, so I’m not voting, as is my right. Start thinking seriously about how you are going to get through the winter.

  108. Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 1:18 pm #

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/27/family-christmas-gatherings-breach-covid-rules-will-broken-police/

    Fun Police in the Midlands vow to break into homes that are breaking the Rule of Six. Call it the Mersey Beat.

    In Italy some of the Police took off their uniforms and joined in the battle against their former brothers, Covidian Goons who were stomping people. We must rise up against the Lockdown or all is lost.

  109. Pam Demic October 28, 2020 at 1:39 pm #

    Ah, the air is cleaner, food tastes better and there is an overall lighter feeling to the infested air as we prepare to remove the great Orange Carbuncle from the White House six days from now.

    There are some who think we may have to fumigate him and his noisome Klown Kar ninnies from 1600 but I don’t think so – at his core he is a silly coward and will go without much ado.

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    • Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 2:48 pm #

      Oh Pam! Not this again. You prefer the Biden grifter groper, owned by the Chinese? That’s not very smart….

      • Pam Demic October 28, 2020 at 2:59 pm #

        Oh hell, I would much rather have the guy who bagged my groceries in the White House instead of that lying pig we have now.

    • hmuller October 29, 2020 at 5:21 pm #

      Pam, as long as the pandemic no eviction laws are extended, Trump lawyers can argue The Big Guy stays in the White House, no matter who wins Tuesday! Contemplate that loophole.

      • hmuller October 29, 2020 at 6:14 pm #

        Ok, so maybe Trump can’t act as President after noon January 20th. But Donald, Melania, Baron, and all the rest can cling to the White House family quarters like heavily armed white trash in a rented trailer.

        The Bidens will just have to bunk with “the help”. They’ve always claimed to feel more comfortable around people of color. A cot behind the kitchen stove will be good for Jill Biden. Joe won’t know where he is anyway.

        Kamala, impersonating a large, cheerful domestic will secretly spy on the Trumps, perhaps sabotaging them with bed bugs and other dirty tricks only a lifelong Democratic politician would know.

        Bill Cosby (out on parole) will appear as a blind waiter, serving jello and advice to both families.

        We have the outline of a SitCom here. I’ll call it “Upstairs, Downstairs, Get the Fuck Out of My House!”.

        • Q. Shtik October 29, 2020 at 9:25 pm #

          Kamala, impersonating a ‘large,’ cheerful domestic – hmuller

          =========

          I guess by large you mean ‘fat’ because she is a shade under 5’2″ tall. Not large in a height sense. This is based on conversion of 1.57 meters I got from Google.

          • hmuller October 30, 2020 at 1:28 am #

            I was thinking of Kamala as a full bodied “Hattie McDaniel character” complete with the Aunt Jemima cap and a lot of attitude. Does that make me racist?

            How about we cast Nancy Pelosi as a Butterfly McQueen persona?

            “Oh please, Mr President. I don’t nothing about birthing bills.”

  110. John1945 October 28, 2020 at 2:10 pm #

    To read about how humanoid apes destroy Phila (first Capital of the US btw) you have to read British “Sun”.Or probably “National Geographic”

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13035155/mass-looting-philadelphia-police-shooting-walter-wallace/

    • Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 2:47 pm #

      Spreading to New York and Los Angeles. All because a Black attacking a cop with a knife got shot. Pretty thin pretext. Why do they need any at all at this point? If you give them the right to loot, they’ll take it. And if you give them the right to attack and kill cops, they’ll take it. Or anybody they don’t like, be it Black individuals or other races in general.

    • stelmosfire October 28, 2020 at 5:13 pm #

      They’ve got insurance don’t they? So it doesn’t cost anything right? Free Stuff!! Yippee!

      • John1945 October 28, 2020 at 5:24 pm #

        @Yohannon
        @stelmosfire

        Gentlemen;

        Do a smell a whiff of sarcasm in your comments ?
        If you ever read a history of Communist Russia or at least “1984” you should know that the thought crime is the most dangerous of all crimes.

        In Communist Russia domestic murder was punished with 2 years.
        While an innocent joke about Stalin was rewarded with 25 years.

        Please try to look woke.
        And take knee on a regular basis !

  111. tucsonspur October 28, 2020 at 2:53 pm #

    THE FAST WIND UP AT THE CONSERVATIVE COVID CORRAL

    I don’t know what’s going to happen come November. I’m no oracle or soothsayer that can peer into the future. I can often see the past clearly enough, but the future is blocked by something called time’s arrow, and it’s not infrequently that I’m stuck by it when I arrive there.

    I do know that the inscrutable, inventive Chinese sent us a vicious, voracious virus to tame the American herd, to put the reins on our economy and the bridle tightly into our teeth. It all seemed to happen rather quickly, and just when things were going so well.

    It was the conservative herd who, for the most part, did not respond well to the virus, not wanting to be corralled, but wanting to continue roaming the range of laissez-faire and the plains of personal pursuits and pleasures.

    One stallion in particular bucked and heaved, kicked and brayed at this encumbrance like some wild, untamable ladino, and led his herd into the harrowing highlands of hubris and hyperbole.

    Will they be rounded up in November, penned and imprisoned, branded, even gelded, tamed by the nefarious nags of progressivism? Who knows.

    My horse sense tells me that there’s a good chance it could happen, that this wild ladino had his time, that he’s now certainly no longer a firm favorite in this race for the greatest of stakes.

    I’m going to saddle up anyway, sheath my Winchester ’73, and ride out into the wild country, join some ‘Wild Bunch’.

  112. KesaAnna October 28, 2020 at 3:30 pm #

    ” Not even worth any further response except for …. ”

    Not even worth any further response because Abraham Lincoln could write pretty stuff , and so could Whitman.

    Rings a bell.

    Hitler was every inch the equal of Reagan when it came to showmanship , and giving a speech.

    He certainly was not at all bullshitting when he said that he was first and always an artist.

    The Horst Wessel Lied was a really great song.

    Nobody ever came up with a better logo than the swastika , and the really neat and surprising part was that it wasn’t even an original creation , but a second – hand borrowing of some old shit.

    All this presumably proves something.

    A guy was a great guy because he could write pretty.

    It doesn’t.

    • tucsonspur October 28, 2020 at 6:18 pm #

      Horst Wessel was a weasel and a pimp, turned into a martyr.

      For those who don’t know, lied is German for song.

      • KesaAnna October 28, 2020 at 6:59 pm #

        Yes , and when people complain about special interest lobbies and greedy , two – faced lawyers , they are complaining about Abraham Lincoln.

        As I recall, he was the richest , or second – richest , railroad lawyer / hatchet man in Illinois.

        No doubt he was indeed once plain folks , but that was long past.

        • tucsonspur October 28, 2020 at 7:35 pm #

          Yet he was called ‘honest Abe’. Can you cite some examples of his being greedy and two-faced? Being a hatchet man?

  113. KesaAnna October 28, 2020 at 4:53 pm #

    ” This is not going to be popular.

    What is going to lift the Blacks in American society are the Blacks themselves. Allowing the Democratic Party use them since 1960s has been a major FU organized by Black leaders.

    Waiting for the central authority to give you power is ludicrous. It is reminiscent of slavery itself, “Massah, Massah, please provide for me. Gimme stuff.

    Politically and socially, Blacks need to grow up! Become independent, tell the MARXISTS TO FO, grow your future. Join in with American traditionalists to build your communities, quit listening to Dem lackeys, and quit looking towards the Leftist Massahs that want to keep you in your place. ”

    I , for one , agree with everything you just wrote.

    Except ,

    I wish white people would apply the same sober and unsparing critique to themselves.

    At least 75% of the news devoted to the doings of the Nabobs in far off Washington ?

    What the hell is that but the , ” A great leader is going to save us ! ” – mentality of serfs ?

    Supposedly you threw out an absolute monarch 200 years ago ( except George III was by no stretch of the imagination an absolute monarch , Already the King of England was Parliaments bitch ,

    and by no stretch of the imagination was ” Farmer George ” the tyrannical type. )

    But people who believe there is a class of people whose shit smells sweeter than the ordinary kind are thick as flies , and believe in the divine right of kings ( under other names ) to a degree and with a sincerity that was never true of actual monarchists.

    Today , no less than 500 years ago , it’s a good bet that most of the people who plant , maintain , and then harvest the food you eat , without which you would starve to death in short order , are so esteemed and well – regarded that it is not seen fit to pay them a wage that adequately pays their grocery bill.

    ” One more, quit grooming your kids to be athletes only. ”

    Since you mentioned it , if a 12 – year – old is really deprived , how exactly do they go about affording the shoes , the balls , not to mention the ten hours a day of practice necessary to attain that level of performance ?

    Don’t genuine working class kids have diapers to change , laundry to do , tomatoes to pick , and all that work to be done gratis ?

    We must live on different planets is the explanation I suppose ?

    As far as astronauts , physicians , and judges go , I wish I had even just a penny for every time that story began with ,

    ” I studied hard , went to college , worked hard , and …. ”

    Wait a minute ….

    I can’t remember the last time I saw a 12 year old working a job that paid anything , even the most minimum of minimum wages .

    So , how exactly did our self – made 12 – year old subsidize the process of qualifying for college to begin with , never mind the rest of the story ?

    For that matter , what 12 year old has the authority to say , ” I’m going to do this or that for my benefit , to look out for number one , and all you adults with your needs , wants , and schemes can go jump in a lake ! ” ?

    What strikes me as a thousand times more grossly mendacious than an atheist claiming , ” You owe me , because Jesus said so ! ”

    Are these spoiled brats with their child – worshiping , grossly indulgent parents claiming they were self – made , and did it all on their own dime.

    ” One more, quit grooming your kids to be athletes only. ”

    I would prefer it if you quit grooming your kids to lust after titles of nobility , and to respect only titles of nobility.

    • JohnAZ October 28, 2020 at 10:14 pm #

      Like your response.

      You are right. There are folks of every type who need to work their way into society on their own to succeed. I am spotlighting Blacks mainly because they seem to want nothing to do with common culture when working into that society is what is going to pull them up by their own bootstraps.

      Others not assimilating are Muslims, as they use CAIR to make themselves exclusive. Is there a possibility that the Black Muslims are a sect in the Black community that is pitching disunion?

      It boils down to we are supposed to be a country here. Our citizen oath requirement says that folks renounce their former country and swear allegiance to the US. When everyone wants to go their own separate way, how can you call that a country.

      And the Dems encourage this division, it is why if they get in control, the UNITED States is history.

      Also, athletes. All groups are much more than just one thing. Part of being in a family is the recognition of your talents and the pursuit there of. Whites who think that Blacks are inferior need to have lunch with Clarence Thomas, or Ben Carson, or Candace Owens, or Barack Obama, or Martin Luther King,

      • FreddieMars October 29, 2020 at 8:00 am #

        Great comment, JohnAZ.

  114. getsome October 28, 2020 at 6:29 pm #

    Elyslainfield: Correct identification. I usually vary turn left/right for each hand and have a teammate change target orientation to my probable shooting point each iteration. I say probable in that I walk away at an angle to the targets ( I know general placement) and upon command turn and engage. For what it’s worth,( my song), I am a wheel gunner ONLY.
    JohnAZ: Totally agree. You elucidated it much more concisely than I. Arigatou gozaimasu.

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    • Night Owl October 28, 2020 at 6:41 pm #

      But can you remote view, bro?

    • elysianfield October 28, 2020 at 7:33 pm #

      ” I am a wheel gunner ONLY.”

      getsome

      Well, my preference is S&W N frames…but I have many K frames, and will occasionally use an auto. My daily carry is…a new departure hammerless in 32 S&W…go figure.

      • benr October 29, 2020 at 3:13 pm #

        I got my hands on a 1972 4″ Colt python nickel finish in almost perfect shape.
        Sad the original owner put a magnaport in it but the damn gun shoots like a dream.

  115. Pam Demic October 28, 2020 at 6:50 pm #

    The trump administration today claimed the end of the corona-virus epidemic as one of its signal accomplishments.

    These criminals have no shame whatsoever – as well as no awareness of what is really going on. Try to imagine FDR in 1943 declaring WWII to be over simply because it had outstretched his attention span.

    Meanwhile over 40% of the obviously addled American public wants to hand this atrocious man another 4 years. Imagine that.

    • tucsonspur October 28, 2020 at 7:03 pm #

      He’s gaslighting the public on the virus, with Norman Vincent Peale and Roy Cohn still guiding him.

      If you don’t know Roy Cohn, read here:

      https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/opinion/roy-cohn-trump.html

      And go shit in your hat if you don’t like the NYT. Or piss up a f……
      rope.

      • redrock October 28, 2020 at 9:01 pm #

        Wow!!! You have the liberal fever, name calling, profanity. Perhaps you should perform an anatomically impossible act on yourself. Ease your mind.

        • tucsonspur October 28, 2020 at 9:54 pm #

          Your shortcomings are not necessarily mine.

        • benr October 29, 2020 at 3:10 pm #

          @redrock

          Never seen tucsonspur as liberal kind of middle of the road mostly.

    • sophia October 29, 2020 at 2:57 pm #

      The pandemic is indeed over, and has been. The entire world and its leaders are lying. Trump tells the truth. America is indeed the last hope for freedom.

      https://www.sota.com/files/pdf/Letter_to_Dr__Bonnie_Henry_Oct_2020.pdf

  116. tucsonspur October 28, 2020 at 6:51 pm #

    Trump organizers give Biden another opening:

    “Just look what happened last night in Omaha, after the Trump rally ended, hundreds of people, including older Americans and children, were stranded in subzero freezing temperatures for hours,” Biden told reporters during a brief speech in Wilmington, Delaware. “Several folks ended up in the hospital. … It’s an image that captured President Trump’s whole approach in this crisis. … He makes a lot of big pronouncements, but they don’t hold up.”

    Probably catch cold or the flu, if not covid.

    Hail the Giant Glacier of Gotham!

    • ohyesiam October 28, 2020 at 7:05 pm #

      If Trump gave a flying shit about his supporters, he wouldn’t be holding rallies during a deadly pandemic.

      They’re fuel for Trump’s ego, nothing more. Cannon fodder.

      Suckers.

    • Pam Demic October 28, 2020 at 7:23 pm #

      Of course the trumpers don’t realize something that outside the cult is glaringly obvious – that this ghastly man hates every single one of them.He doesn’t have the capacity for anything like genuine affection or warmth – as we learned from his own niece, who clearly despises him.

      Four more years of this?

      • sophia October 29, 2020 at 2:59 pm #

        If you see that much hate, it might mean you are projecting.

    • Kim October 29, 2020 at 12:01 am #

      Any video or testimony to support these claims?

      Biden needs to put his bib on and get back to his porridge.

    • SoftStarLight October 29, 2020 at 2:11 am #

      Well glaciers do happen to be spectacular you know. How about the historic cold, snow, and ice storms of late? Coldest ever October temperature in the lower 48 recorded recently! So indeed! Hail the Giant Glacier of Gotham! May he crush his enemies into moraine!!

      • tucsonspur October 29, 2020 at 3:36 am #

        Bravo! Let’s ski the glaciers then ride the wild surf in Baja! Ole!

        First week in October it was triple digits. Then nineties. Last night, the 27th, it was about 32 degrees. Rain in the desert, snow in the tropics, what the hey!

  117. Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 7:17 pm #

    Emerging Infectious Diseases, May 2020 (a publication of the CDC)

    Abstract
    There were 3 influenza pandemics in the 20th century, and there has been 1 so far in the 21st century. Local, national, and international health authorities regularly update their plans for mitigating the next influenza pandemic in light of the latest available evidence on the effectiveness of various control measures in reducing transmission. Here, we review the evidence base on the effectiveness of nonpharmaceutical personal protective measures and environmental hygiene measures in nonhealthcare settings and discuss their potential inclusion in pandemic plans. Although mechanistic studies support the potential effect of hand hygiene or face masks, evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials of these measures did not support a substantial effect on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza. We similarly found limited evidence on the effectiveness of improved hygiene and environmental cleaning. We identified several major knowledge gaps requiring further research, most fundamentally an improved characterization of the modes of person-to-person transmission.

    There you have it. Masks don’t seem to work. Their advocacy is socio-political-psychological or even religious. Your feelings of anger or betrayal or terror don’t change this. We really don’t seem to know much about the actual process of transmission. Viruses are just too small. One article I read talked about researchers in Antarctica who had been isolated for weeks out on the ice coming down with something. The author believed that viruses can be carried incredible distances in water droplets. True? Who knows. Science doesn’t seem to.

    • Pam Demic October 28, 2020 at 7:29 pm #

      The CDC under the thumb of the Orange Monster. Not to be taken seriously.

      • Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 10:04 pm #

        But you love little Dr Fauci, right? Your Tony and his mask mandate? And after that will come a goggles mandate?

    • tucsonspur October 28, 2020 at 8:11 pm #

      Why didn’t you call that number I gave you for the suicide hot line? Wear the mask, love life and health, abandon the suicide squad! ?

      • tucsonspur October 28, 2020 at 8:13 pm #

        That question mark was supposed to be a smiley!

        • FreddieMars October 30, 2020 at 9:42 am #

          🙂

        • FreddieMars October 30, 2020 at 9:43 am #

          Use ‘colon & close bracket, TC, not your emojis.

      • Yohannon October 28, 2020 at 10:01 pm #

        Can you imagine Whitman mearing a mask? He’d have to cut his beard – and no doubt you’d force him to do just that. He who said, Obey little. Resist much.

        • tucsonspur October 28, 2020 at 11:11 pm #

          No, but I wouldn’t shave it either. Why?

          There was an Old Man with a Beard

          There was an Old Man with a beard,
          Who said, “It is just as I feared!—
          Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,
          Have all built their nests in my beard.

          EL

          • Yohannon October 29, 2020 at 2:14 pm #

            El? Is that short for Ka El, Superman’s dad? Or El the ancient Babylonian god?

          • hmuller October 29, 2020 at 5:07 pm #

            EL stands for Emerson and Lake before they met Palmer.

    • roccofire October 28, 2020 at 9:46 pm #

      Folks sorry for repeating, 40 years now, and still am front line hospital worker. A huge trauma center, teaching hospital, over 100 years old, I show these comments to the I.D. doctors, masks work, viruses, bacteria are all real. This virus is real, flu shots and pneumonia shots work. Please check out the YouTube videos of ZDogg, a emergency dept. physician, read the Dredd blog for in-depth discussions of biology.

      IF you gentle fellow commenter are a prepper; then please learn the laws of mother nature, the earth is not flat, it is older than 6,000 years, modern Western evidence based medicine works, many folks live normal lives thanks to meds by big pharm. Not all old white men are evil. JHK once again awesome articles describing the bathroom that is now USA .Now I am off to get candy bags ready for trick or treating, Happy Halloween.

    • SoftStarLight October 29, 2020 at 2:23 am #

      I bet there are a lot of germs in Antarctica. Almost because you would think that there wouldn’t be because of the harsh polar conditions. So that would naturally be natures curve ball and twisted little humor. Go to frozen, unpopulated, and almost lifeless Antarctica just to catch your death of cold.

      • Yohannon October 29, 2020 at 2:16 pm #

        You are a ray of darkness in the brightest day. People are too cheerful, yet not cheerful enough. They need this. They don’t think they’re going to die…

  118. tom clark October 28, 2020 at 8:53 pm #

    We’ve “rounded the bend” for sure. Just ignore it…it’ll go away. I’m the greatest and I recovered. Good luck you 74 year-old bastard.

    Cozy #2 now in the fam now…the oldest granddaughter at college. mild symptoms…the fever, the cough, positive test…she’ll recover without lasting effects……….hopefully.

    My 86 year old aunt? Not so much. She was Cozy #1 in the fam…worthy of a badge of honor. Mary Sunshine the nurses called her because of her positive “attitude”. She’s “recovered”, sure and is currently quarantined at her continuing care facility. But she’s not the same…cozy has aged her…affected her memory. Phone conversations w/ her used to bring joy…now they are a difficult chore.

    A worldwide hoax? I don’t think so. God Bless the USA.

    • tucsonspur October 29, 2020 at 5:24 am #

      Hope all get well and stay well.

    • sophia October 29, 2020 at 3:04 pm #

      Tom she’s 86 and lives in a care facility which means she has health problems. And her apparent decline may be due to isolation, which is rather cruel and depressing.

  119. JackStraw October 28, 2020 at 9:23 pm #

    I know exactly what you’re going through, Jim. I’ve lost childhood friends because of their insane Trump hatred and failure to grasp what it is they are actually supporting.

    It has also split my family up to the point where my three brothers no longer talk to me, and barely speak to my mother. For the latter, I will never forgive them.

    I fear civil war is an inevitability at this point.

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  120. Pam Demic October 28, 2020 at 10:00 pm #

    Here in sunny Florida there is apparently a club called the Blacksmokers Club. What these morons specialize in is buying gigantic trucks, stripping them illegally of all the pollution gear, then proudly drive around spewing forth black smoke…

    Their hero? – why Donald John trump, of course. He of the sociopathic worldview of “I’ll do exactly as I please, cuz, you know, I want to be FREE!”

    We may not have a snowball’s chance in hell.

    • Kim October 28, 2020 at 10:24 pm #

      @ Pam Demic

      “I’ll do exactly as I please, cuz, you know, I want to be FREE!”

      The spread of the idea that “freedom” triumphs over social obligations and responsibilities has certainly been a major contributor to the destruction of the West, but it has crippled almost every modern political worldview.

      We find the same idea that freedom and liberty are paramount present in all kinds of libertarian positions, like treating pornography as “free speech”, and regarding drug dis-prohibition as being just a freedom-of-choice issue.

      As Edmund Burke said,

      “The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: We ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations, which may soon turn into complaints.”

      Burke had this precisely right and so, like you, I am an authoritarian on many social issues.

      In fact, I would say that I am almost a Franco-ist. So naturally I congratulate you on joining the Falange.

    • Kim October 28, 2020 at 10:30 pm #

      @ Pam Demic

      “Here in sunny Florida there is apparently a club called the Blacksmokers Club.”

      I take it from your use of “apparently” that you do not know if it is really true that such a group exists.

      I have had a look for it online and could not find a reference to any such group.

      Do you think this story is actually true? Sounds, I don’t know, like bullshit to me.

      • Pam Demic October 28, 2020 at 10:44 pm #

        You can also search without success online for an incident in 1970 whereupon I tied Suzie Fitzgibbons hair to the back of her desk in school causing all manner of chaos when she bolted at the 2:39 bell.

        Does that mean it doesn’t exist? Are you that limited in your experience and imagination?

        • Kim October 28, 2020 at 11:45 pm #

          The question is, why do you believe it?

  121. Kim October 28, 2020 at 10:10 pm #

    Well, I have just downloaded a new book and I am very keen to read it. It is

    THE RED MILLIONAIRE: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF WILLI MUNZENBERG, MOSCOW’S SECRET PROPAGANDA TSAR IN THE WEST, 1917-1940 By Sean McMeekin Yale University Press, 2003, pp. 416, $32.50.

    I am especially keen on this book because it is by a very well-respected historian, Sean McMeekin, who is the author of lots of great books including “The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923”.

    I read “Endgame” earlier this year and it was great. Very clarifying. McMeekin is a good writer, a very impressive polyglot, and an original-documents researcher. How can you beat that in a historian?

    You can get the Munzenberg book here:

    https://b-ok.cc/book/1047832/195330

    You do not have to sign up if you don’t want to as they still allow you to download a couple of books initially without membership.

    Anyway, I mention this because along with John Dewey, Comintern, the Rockefellers, Bernays and Freud and the Frankfurt School, Willi Munzenberg is a major figure in the story of how society in the West in the last 150 years has been – deliberately – brought to its present parlous state.

    If you don’t know who these people are and what they did, you will be forever confused by what has happened to us.

    • Pam Demic October 28, 2020 at 10:46 pm #

      Yet another pedantic internet know-it-all. God’s new bumper crop.

    • tucsonspur October 28, 2020 at 10:55 pm #

      I’m a firm believer in lifelong learning. As the immortal Ching Chow once said, ’tis written in jade; a wise man is always a student.’

      But outside of that, how will reading this stuff help us now? If you want depth and detail fine, but knowing that isn’t going to stop the diabolical Left now.

      If Biden is elected we’ll need riots, resistance, and rampage more than we will reading. I understand the comfort of a good book, but too much lamplight and too easy an armchair can lead to fight fright and despair.

      Put down the books, break out the meat hooks! After you bleed, then you can read.

      • Kim October 28, 2020 at 11:54 pm #

        @ tucsonspur

        How will this help us now?

        Someone above, JohnAZ, enquired as to how this happened, how we got into this predicament. This reading will explain it.

        As to its usefulness, Sun Tzu said, “If you know your enemy, and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”

        Perhaps you disagree. Perhaps it would be better to not know the identity or tactics of the enemy. But I doubt it.

        • tucsonspur October 29, 2020 at 3:25 am #

          Just how does the reading explain it? I do disagree, because I don’t believe one has to go back to the Frankfurt School to know who the enemy is today. Again, fine if you want a deeper history about things.

          Maybe Clausewitz would be more relevant today, but I do think that Sun Tzu should certainly be read by all military leaders. It’s a good start, better than a comic book.

          But how did Tzu fare in the long run after he attacked the Chu army? It’s been said that he achieved tactical success here at the expense of strategic blunder.

          Did our generals in Vietnam read Tzu? How about Korea? Iraq? They probably did. A lot of his stuff is like what you quoted above and this:

          “He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.” Well, no shit Sherlock!

          No, this is all well and good, but it won’t help us now. There’s only one way to stop what’s facing us if Biden wins, and it won’t be hiding in a book. We’re at war right now, only it hasn’t fully broken out, which the Left loves. What does Tzu have to say about our current dilemma? This?

          ‘He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight’

          Maybe this:

          ‘Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.’

          Or how about this gem:

          ‘If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.’

          Again, bleed first, then read. If I wanted to, I could outshine Sun.

  122. Kim October 28, 2020 at 11:43 pm #

    This is the most damning James O’Keefe clip ever.

    Ballot Chaser Raquel Rodriguez goes into deep detail about the CASH payoffs she is currently receiving from Republican Judges – yes, she names them and the cash amounts – and Republican precinct chairs who are secretly working to elect the Bidens.

    She is paid for how many votes she delivers, $5 to $8 per vote.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII

    It is all there and it is stated as plain as a peanut butter sandwich.

    Shake my head. Have these clowns never heard of Project Veritas or do they just have no fear of the law?

  123. tom clark October 28, 2020 at 11:59 pm #

    Got to take off my toupee and get myself a few winks.

    Cozy’s finally hit my family hard…I’m a believer.

    Goodnight, Kim.

    • Kim October 29, 2020 at 7:29 am #

      Don’t sleep with your teeth in. You could choke.

  124. SoftStarLight October 29, 2020 at 2:54 am #

    I noticed a mention of beards above. I found this and completely agree. We need a special prosecutor, hearings, testimony, and lots of stacks of papers everywhere because the nerve of this man is just out of orbit!

    https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/jack-dorseys-beard-could-use-its-own-senate-hearings.html

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  125. tucsonspur October 29, 2020 at 5:50 am #

    Get ready for Biden-Harris:

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-biden-wisconsin-polls-coronavirus-pandemic-outbreak-185230353.html

    Cases will soar up until election day, and we very well may be the victims of an ego causing the most abominable political situation in American history.

    • sophia October 29, 2020 at 3:09 pm #

      If cases soar before election day it is fake news. Fake tests. Fake data. Fake science.
      You never Trumper, you!

      • Night Owl October 29, 2020 at 6:25 pm #

        The War on Covid is the new War on Terror.

  126. Kim October 29, 2020 at 7:40 am #

    Here Anglin lists some of Walter Wallace’ arrest record, armed (gun) burglary, assault with a deadly wwapon, and so on….many, many serious charges.

    So glad to know that this man has nine (9) children already and one (1) more on the way.

    The future of America.

    https://dailystormer.su/with-walter-wallace-murdered-by-cops-who-will-pay-for-his-ten-10-children

  127. volodya October 29, 2020 at 10:02 am #

    What is this wokester stuff but psychological and behavioural rigidity? Like an intellectual parkinsonism maybe. Or maybe more like the kind of thing that good wokesters piss on regularly, you know, religious belief, a set of assertions taken on trust or faith, unverifiable and unfalsifiable, things you take as true simply because authority sez they’re true. And thou shalt not diverge, thou shalt adhere to orthodoxy on pain of expulsion or ostracism or worse. 

    And where have we seen this before? In civilizations in decline, like the Islamic world when the Enlightenment era took root. Said they at the time, we don’t want none of this enlightenment crap, nope, we don’t need none, we’ll just keep doin’ what we’ve been doin’. Yup, why do we need infidels tellin’ us what’s what? 

    Until that time it was a toss up as to what way would predominate, with the West on its way up, rediscovering antiquity, learning new ways of thinking, learning science and history and mathematics from the Hindu and Muslim world, shaking off Christian religious dogma and looking at the world as it is, not as the holy men and their books said it is, with the great Muslim cities still fat and rich from trade with the east and endowed with centuries of scholarship.  

    But the times they were a-changin’ and the glittering societies of the Middle East and elsewhere failed to take note. Same with China, slumbering in its self-satisfied conviction of its own superiority, barbarism beyond its borders, end of story. It failed to notice that up north, not that far north, there was a narrow body of water with tips of land practically touching, an entire continent a stone’s throw away, and below that continent yet another. Nope, no exploration for us thanks very much, nothing out there worth knowing about. And so the Chinese and Muslims bitch and moan about Western dominance. 

    It looks to me like the US falling into that same kind of cultural declinism, with freedom to think and speak and act severely curtailed, a sitting duck for tougher and more aggressive people. History may not repeat but it sure does rhyme. 

  128. JohnAZ October 29, 2020 at 10:50 am #

    A Covid read

    National Geographic
    Why Some People are Superspreaders and How the Body Emits Coronavirus
    Fedor Kossakovski

    My adder

    The masks job is not to block the virus, it doesn’t. It’s job is to block the droplets, the big infectors, to limit the heavy spread. Note the emphasis in this article is on exhalation not inhalation. Hence the mask’s effect is exhalation limitation.

    Any one who doesn’t think that masks block anything has not worn one. Note always the dampness of the mask upon removal, wash them often. As before mentioned, when my daughter, a teacher, started wearing a shield, she was surprised by how many times she had to clean the goo off the inside. From just talking.

    • sophia October 29, 2020 at 3:14 pm #

      But the droplets are not the major spreader, the airborne is.

      • Night Owl October 29, 2020 at 6:23 pm #

        97% of particles pass through the mask.

        Unless one is a Branch Covidian.

      • Yohannon October 29, 2020 at 6:33 pm #

        The droplets float and the virus hitches a ride. By itself, it can’t float at all, but just drops. Or at least that’s what they used to say a couple of months ago.

        • Islander October 29, 2020 at 8:43 pm #

          No, the droplets are heavy and fall to the ground inches from the emitter. Get your facts straight, Mister Muzzler.

          • Yohannon October 29, 2020 at 11:31 pm #

            No, the virus drops, the drops float. Have you never seen fog? Or clouds?

            Ouch. It’s too easy sometimes. But what can one do but say the Truth, feelings be damned? Is that not what the Internet is for? If our internet does not exceed our spoken word, then what is a heaven for?

  129. JohnAZ October 29, 2020 at 11:07 am #

    Even Fox is putting on a last minute effort to convince the remaining conservative electorate that voting now will not make any difference as Biden is too far ahead. Fox may be the difference between this year and 2016. It’s big viewership of conservatives has been faced with a much more liberal presentation than 2016. With the very thin voting margins, could be Fox may be why the thin margins flip. Trump does not stand a chance when every single information source, including the three main social media sources, continuously bombard the public with false and negative only information.

    A personal example was Colorado Springs, Colorado. Extremely conservative, always has been. We lived there, 1978 to 1991. The Colorado Springs Gazette has been super conservative for that long. The question is, I guess, does the local rag shape the public, or does the public shape the paper. It is no wonder after 4 years of continuous negative attack by the entire MSM, Trump will probably lose next week.

    He will leave the WH and go on with his life from Mar-a-Lago, and the rest of us will be the real losers as the Republic known as the US slowly disappears into the Deep State. To Trump, nice try.

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    • SoftStarLight October 29, 2020 at 11:30 am #

      You are so negative John. I mean I don’t mean to be rude but it just seeps through your post. There has to be something in the water in Arizona I tell you! I don’t think anyone anymore is under any notion that Fox is conservative. Fox is another branch of the lame stream. Everybody knows that. Fox is NOT CONSERVATIVE. The only conservatives are basically the night crew. Tucker, Hannity and Ingraham. And their programs are the most watched Fox programs. Otherwise Fox is just basically blech. Why don’t you go ahead and just vote for Biden. I mean you are basically wanting the Deep State to takeover because you are afraid of free range spit and viruses despite the fact that nobody cared before the ronahoax.

      • JohnAZ October 29, 2020 at 12:09 pm #

        SSL

        Give me a break. Does reality really bother you that much. Do you watch the biased news and try to derive truth from it. Or are you a denier?

        Why the hell would I vote for the idiot that is going to destroy this country? Go insult someone else please!

        You and your anti- masker friends are what is making this epidemic go on much worse than it should, take those masks off and everyone hug one another. Then scratch your head trying to figure out where the surges come from. Express your opinion on the virus all you want, so will I. By the way, what is your health care background that makes you an expert.

        I do not not want to be rude, also. No wait, yes I do.

        • SoftStarLight October 29, 2020 at 12:51 pm #

          Well be rude if it makes you feel better John. But it won’t help you discern reality any better. And unfortunately we are left to discern reality because the supposed “experts” you listen to can’t seem to make up their mind what the reality about the virus is. And why do you say I am an anti-masker? I have always said wear a mask if it makes you feel safe or good or whatever. They don’t do much to stop the virus since the virus appears to be exploding despite all efforts to stop it. Europe was heavily locked down and masked up and the virus is supposedly rampaging over there. So you tell me what the real reality is. What is apparent is that you are totally bought in to the official narrative on the virus and you think about it and fear it every day. That was clearly the whole point of the those who have purveyed the virus so that is why I say you might as well vote for Biden. Your spirit is with them whether or not your mind is. And yet your same concern for health doesn’t appear to translate over into the devastating consequences to health that the lockdowns represent. Not many people seem too concerned that millions of people are missing routine health care, millions of people are financially and psychologically ruined from the lockdowns. Not many people seem to be talking about the suicides and overdoses directly tied to the misfortunes created by the lockdown. The divorces and domestic and the list goes on and on. But rona is all we care about huh.

          • GreenAlba October 29, 2020 at 1:52 pm #

            These two doctors are very concerned about those things, SSL, since their patients are ordinary people who need to work and send their kids to school, not what they call the ‘elite urban Zoomocracy’.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6eac2lV7K8

            It’s why they’re so strong on mitigation, like John.

            But without wishing to force anyone.

            And this is interesting if you want some insight into why people seem desperate to beat each other verbally into submission over the issues involved (most especially masks):

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eiy71RpATBQ

          • sophia October 29, 2020 at 3:27 pm #

            Very good analysis SSL. John’s posts are truly incomprehensible. Mainly because he is utterly impervious to anything that he doesn’t already think. He never responds to real questions like your appeal to a more balanced compassion. He cares only about the virus. Not the 4 babies who just died in Australia because covid travel restrictions didn’t allow them to fly to a bigger hospital for surgery. No, save the 85 year olds. He doesn’t care how many thousands of doctors and epidemiologists have signed letters begging the politicians to consider the real facts, the real science, and to have some compassion for the suffering of many.

        • benr October 29, 2020 at 5:14 pm #

          John how many times does the Who and the cdc have to publicly say the masks most people wear are mildly effective at best?
          iE NOT effective?

          N95 effective if fit test.
          Triple ply effective.
          Single ply mask worthless.

    • sophia October 29, 2020 at 3:17 pm #

      I have heard from some conservative commenters that Fox betrays at precise moments. And I hear they have sold out to the libs. They keep people like Tucker because he’s the biggest in history.

      Biden is not ahead. Why do you believe nonsense?

  130. messianicdruid October 29, 2020 at 1:17 pm #

    From Gary Allen’s classic, None Dare Call It Conspiracy, published 50 years ago:

    “We are being socialized in America and everybody knows it. If we had a chance to sit down and have a cup of coffee with the man in the street…he might say: ‘You know, the one thing I can never figure out is why all these very, very wealthy people like the Kennedys, the Fords, the Rockefellers and others are for socialism. Why are the super-rich for socialism? Don’t they have the most to lose…?’ In reality, there is a vast difference between what the promoters define as socialism and what it is in actual practice. The idea that socialism is a share-the-wealth program is strictly a confidence game to get the people to surrender their freedom to an all-powerful collectivist government. While the insiders [Oligarchs] tell us we are building a paradise on earth, we are actually constructing a jail for ourselves.”

    Why don’t more people understand this ?

    • messianicdruid October 29, 2020 at 1:25 pm #

      “Obviously, the power-elite manipulate political pragmatists during every election cycle—especially at the national level. By stacking the deck in the general election with controlled [ * ] candidates from both political parties, they ensure that no matter who wins, the establishment’s agenda moves forward unabated, while rank-and-file voters on both sides of the aisle believe they have voted for a difference. It is a masterful strategy.”

      * = zionist or bolshevik

  131. Pam Demic October 29, 2020 at 1:22 pm #

    Volunteered today to meet and greet Biden folks coming out to vote for Joe.

    We were visited by a gigantic pickup truck proudly waving the trump underwear. Out clambered a small trumper – an unkempt homunculus who began regurgitating whatever he could remember from Fox and various internet swamps. This specimen was of course covered with tattoos and featured the required turned-around ball cap.

    All of this is so very comically predictable. The grotesque trump appeals to the lowest common denominator – all the base prejudices that good folks have worked so hard to convert into something positive are being reinforced by these morons.

    Four more years of this?

    • messianicdruid October 29, 2020 at 2:08 pm #

      “Four more years of this?”

      Only if you are going to help them count the votes, also.

    • Yohannon October 29, 2020 at 2:20 pm #

      You’re the Tatooed savages. Look at Antifa or their section of Teen Vogue.

      I bet you have one or two too.

      • Pam Demic October 29, 2020 at 2:24 pm #

        You lose

        • benr October 29, 2020 at 2:45 pm #

          Talk about a childish response.
          Try not being such a hyper partisan troll and you might not get banned for the 9th time.

      • Pam Demic October 29, 2020 at 2:26 pm #

        I do have a pet bonobo named Punk. Does that count?

        • Yohannon October 29, 2020 at 4:33 pm #

          Maybe. Tell us more about this primate. Male, female, or other? And if other, how does Punk identify?

        • hmuller October 29, 2020 at 4:47 pm #

          Well Pam Demic, (if that’s really your name), that explains who taught you to fling monkey (sorry, primate) shit.

        • hmuller October 29, 2020 at 4:55 pm #

          And you want to talk about people “proudly waving the trump underwear”? Nobody waves Biden’s depends, lest something fall out.

        • benr October 29, 2020 at 5:11 pm #

          Do tell us what its like to have mad monkey sex because I am sure it’s the only reason you own a primate.

          • Pam Demic October 29, 2020 at 7:18 pm #

            Yes – I knew I would flush out the left (far left) side of the bell curve.

            Again – the predictability of trumpworld is truly awe-inspiring.

          • Yohannon October 29, 2020 at 11:34 pm #

            He barged right in and ruined our repartee. I was going to approach your relationship with Punk with subtlety. Forgive him.

    • SvrzoH October 29, 2020 at 3:18 pm #

      “Please forgive me, Papa….”
      Hunter with bloody and swollen lips and between heavy blows by Joe and his: ” You worthless piece of sh**t that you’ve been all your life!”

      • hmuller October 29, 2020 at 4:44 pm #

        What movie are you parodying? Is that the scene between Friedrich von Trapp and his father they cut from “Sound of Music”?

        • SvrzoH October 29, 2020 at 9:10 pm #

          Just a generic creepy movie thought that also rings the bell in some way.
          I may check your movie hint.

          • hmuller October 30, 2020 at 1:14 am #

            I was trying to be funny. The Sound of Music didn’t have such dark moments.

  132. Q. Shtik October 29, 2020 at 1:44 pm #

    To whom it may concern,

    1. ‘reign’ and ‘rein’ are different words with different meanings.

    2. Stop beginning sentences with the words ‘I mean’ (presumably as some sort of intensifier?), I beg of you.

    • messianicdruid October 29, 2020 at 1:54 pm #

      I used to go to a site that wanted me to preface everything I said with ” I think ” or another indication of personal opinion, nothing I said would be allowed to be considered factual. I got tired of jumping through hoops to try and communicate with them.

    • benr October 29, 2020 at 2:30 pm #

      To the only person who really cares.
      Mind your own posts and don’t worry about correcting others unless they are factually flawed.

    • Kim October 29, 2020 at 11:41 pm #

      @ Q. Shtik

      ‘I mean’ (presumably as some sort of intensifier?)

      Then you would presume wrongly.

      I would characterize the use of “I mean” as management of the interpersonal metafunction, probably in the epistemic aspect. It certainly is not any kind of intensifier, for godsake.

      And tell me, Q. Shit, do you have an advanecd degree in Linguistics?

      No? You don’t? Then perhaps you should shut up on the subject because you are just making yourself look like an idiot.

      • Q. Shtik October 30, 2020 at 2:28 pm #

        I would characterize the use of “I mean” as management of the interpersonal metafunction, probably in the epistemic aspect. – Kim

        ========

        WOW! Hahaha! That’s quite a mouthful. And it certainly clears up my question about the purpose of ‘I mean’ at the beginning of a sentence. NOT! You are what, back in the day, we called a Jerk Off.

  133. Q. Shtik October 29, 2020 at 2:12 pm #

    At the behest of my daughter I watched two documentaries on Netflix this week. They were so good I wanted to share with y’all.

    The first was titled My Octopus Teacher. A man in South Africa goes into some relatively shallow waters with a regular snorkel tube and goggles and encounters an octopus. He decides to visit and study this octopus and its ways on a daily basis for about a year. He develops a relationship that is amazing and touching to the extreme. My own takeaway is that octopuses are the most amazing animals on earth.

    My daughter asked me by text message if I cried near the end of the documentary like she did. I said “Of course not but my lip quivered a little.” She liked that.

    The other docu was titled The Social Dilemma. It concerns the takeover of our lives by ‘social media’ (Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.). It shines a very thorough and harsh light on the subject. I highly recommend it.

    • benr October 29, 2020 at 2:31 pm #

      Yes Octopus are amazing critters.
      Shame they taste so good.

      • Yohannon October 29, 2020 at 2:35 pm #

        I’m into foxes right now. They have the biggest smiles of all. A wonderful mix of cat and dog. Some can apparently make good pets if socialized early.

      • stelmosfire October 29, 2020 at 2:39 pm #

        Man Benr, you beat me to it. My wife and I went out to for our favorite Italian the other night, It was her birthday. They have the best fried calamari there. I love those little octopi that they throw in. Yum-yum!

        • benr October 29, 2020 at 5:04 pm #

          Not that it matters you post is every bit is relevant as if I had not said it first.

          My wife hates seafood of any type so when I want to eat any type of fish I’m forced to sneak it into the mix.
          Costco has an octopus pack from Portugal I believe I have been tempted to buy several times but two things stop me.
          One is divorce and two is the fact the the octopus is so damn smart.
          That and eating flipper or fido just don’t seem right.

    • sophia October 29, 2020 at 3:35 pm #

      Q

      I recently watched both and agree they were incredible. I mean, I highly recommend them.

      • hmuller October 29, 2020 at 4:51 pm #

        I haven’t has a good cry over an octopus fatality since — i don’t even know when.

  134. Yohannon October 29, 2020 at 2:32 pm #

    Daily Mail

    France has been struck by two terror attacks within hours of each other as three people were killed – two of them beheaded – in an attack in Nice before another knifeman was shot dead by police in Avignon.

    The first attack began around 9am at the Notre Dame cathedral in Nice where a knifeman beheaded an elderly female parishioner and a male church warden, fatally stabbed a second woman, wounded several others, and was then shot and arrested by police.

    Two hours later, another knifeman threatened people on the streets of Avignon – 120 miles from Nice – while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ before he was fatally shot by police.

    The attacks come amid fury across the Islamic world at President Macron for defending satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed which had been shown to a class of schoolchildren by a teacher, who was later beheaded.

    In the Nice attack, the elderly female victim was attacked after coming early to pray and was found ‘almost beheaded’ close to the church font. A church warden was then attacked and also beheaded.

    A third woman was stabbed ‘multiple times’ and managed to flee to a bar across the street, where she died. A local called police, who arrived at 9.10am and stormed the cathedral, shooting and arresting the attacker.

    The attacker is a man in his 20s who gave his name as Ibrahim while being arrested, Le Figaro reported. His identity is being checked by police.

    Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said the attacker ‘kept shouting Allahu Akbar even after being medicated’, and that ‘the meaning of his gesture is not in doubt’.

    ‘Enough is enough,’ he said. ‘It’s time now for France to exonerate itself from the laws of peace in order to definitively wipe out Islamo-fascism from our territory.’

    Is France waking up? They seem committed now to irritating their choleric foe with cartoons. Well, it’s great they’ve realized that the Muslims are in fact their foes. But annoying an enemy is not in itself a viable overall strategy. You have to be ready for when they charge. You have to have the mindset of the mayor of Nice in other words. Then you can use tactics like this correctly. Alas, he’s still an outlier. France will have to suffer much more and get new leadership before it’s really ready to fight. But Faye believed they would in the end.

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    • hmuller October 29, 2020 at 4:22 pm #

      The answer is clear – greater knife control. Too may people have access to sharp objects. Blame the knife, not the man.

  135. Q. Shtik October 29, 2020 at 4:44 pm #

    I just returned from a trip to the gas station (Costco, reg $1.969/gal) and the post office where I dropped off a letter to the Office of the County Clerk of Middlesex County, NJ. Also mailed copies to the NYT and Star-Ledger newspapers.

    Here is what the letter said:

    To: Office of the County Clerk

    Subject: I just committed election fraud to prove a point

    When mail-in ballots arrived for the primary election this past summer I immediately perceived the potential for problems. As it turns out “potential for problems” is a great under-statement.

    A month or so ago four Official Mail-In Ballots arrived in the mail for the November 3rd election, one each for my wife and me and one each for my two sons who haven’t lived in NJ for 20 years. When they lived with us (in Middlesex County) they became of voting age and so they registered. Eventually they both moved out of NJ to other nearby states where they registered and have voted ever since.

    I called my sons and asked if they had received mail in ballots where they live. Yes, both received ballots, filled in their vote selections and mailed them in. Interestingly, one is pro-Trump and the other pro-Biden. I told them I was holding ANOTHER mail-in ballot in their names and suggested that they both vote a second time, double the pleasure, double the fun. (I figured, what the heck, the fraudulent votes will cancel one another out so no harm no foul.)

    Well, neither son was willing to do this (to their credit, I suppose). They both feared legal repercussions. And so I have taken it upon myself to perpetrate the voting fraud to prove that the mail-in ballot system is rife with fraud potential.

    How many registered voters in NJ have moved to another state and have received two mail-in ballot mailings? Surely it is not just my two sons. Maybe the problem of duplicate mail-in ballots only happens in Middlesex County. I don’t know but I doubt it. And what about the other 49 states? Is there any foolproof method to prevent people from receiving two or more mail-in ballots?

    Today I donned a pair of surgical rubber gloves (purchased for pandemic use), filled out the ballots and signed my son’s names with no attempt to copy their distinctive signatures. I placed them in two different drop boxes whose addresses I found on-line. I am laying odds, metaphorically speaking, that no authorities will show up at my door or the door of either son to place us under arrest. The fraudulent double votes will be counted just like the legitimate votes. If I’m wrong I have lots of books I’d like to read while serving time.

    Sincerely,

    Anonymous

    • benr October 29, 2020 at 5:09 pm #

      Yea but they liberal left always says voter fraud is next to nil….
      Pfft yea bullshit.
      No matter which sides is claimed the victor the damn democrats are in the wrong!

      Easiest way to fix this is forcing people to:
      Vote in person!
      Show ID to prove who they are.
      Only one day to vote.

      If you fear covid infection over the possibility of the person you don’t like getting elected then stay home and deal with it.

    • John1945 October 29, 2020 at 8:35 pm #

      =To: Office of the County Clerk=

      Its gonna be some dumb fat woman in burka.Or hijab-whatever.Most likely your letters will sink like stone and no bubble will heave up to the surface.

      Are you aware of the fact how easy it is to track anonymous letters ?

      In the 70’s one German dissident sent a cople of disrespectful letters to the Communist Chief Erich Honecker.Instead of writing he cut letters from the communist newspapers.He left no fingerprints and he mailed them from from the part of Berlin where he did not work and did not live.

      Stasi tracked him down in 2 months.And he lived in Berlin,not in some remote german village where every dissident (in case there happens to be one) sticks out like sore thumb.

      https://www.amazon.com/Stasi-Untold-German-Secret-Police-ebook/dp/B009W6VAZ2

      =I have lots of books I’d like to read while serving time=

      You will not be able to read you books because of constant din.Life in the pen is not how it was portrayed in “Cold Hand Luke”.

      Good update on this subject is here:

      https://www.amazon.com/Arrested-What-When-Your-Loved-ebook/dp/B0054SBLH4/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Wes+denham&qid=1604017367&s=digital-text&sr=1-2

      Bottom line, Mr.Q.Shtick:

      1.Dont rattle the cage.If they take it personally they will track you down

      2.Life in the modern pen is abso-f..-lutely disgusting and not very conducive to book-reading.

      • Kim October 29, 2020 at 11:33 pm #

        https://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/features/nsa-leaker-reality-winner-microdots-printer-spying-metadata-1714577

        Your Printer Prints Secret Microdots That Can be Traced Back to You

        • John1945 October 30, 2020 at 4:01 am #

          It was not NSA and not those ubiquitous evil Russians but Secret Service which is supposed to take care of counterfeiters.

          When HP LaserJet hit the market in 1984 every a$$hole started to print $100 bills.So the Gov passed the law requiring all laser printers leave UV-visible mark.

          =”The only way to avoiding having microdots printed on your documents is to either print in black and white or to use a printer that’s not known to use this technology,” =

          Yeah,right.

      • Yohannon October 29, 2020 at 11:38 pm #

        Remember the Outer Limits episode where the hen pecked bookworm bank teller goes into the Vault and survives the atomic attack? At last he can read all the books he wants! The Ball and Chain is dead along with everyone else and Library still stands. He takes out dozens of books and then he drops his glasses. They break….

        • Kim October 29, 2020 at 11:45 pm #

          I remeber the scene in one of JHK’s World Made By Hand books where the character is reading a history – some ancient history if memory serves – and of course one wonders, does history matter any more in this new world?

          • Q. Shtik October 30, 2020 at 12:07 am #

            I remeber the scene… – Kim

            ==========

            says the linguistics expert. Can’t even proofread the first two words of its comment.

          • Kim October 30, 2020 at 1:41 am #

            Yes, I choose not to. Because it doesn’t matter.

            And am I a “linguistics expert”? If you say so. But the main takeaway of my observation above is that you claim to have superior knowledge but you in fact do not!

            But even being shown to be utterly wrong apparently doesn’t faze you.

            A normal person, once proven to be a know-nothing in his claimed area of excellence, would shut up.

            Why won’t you?

          • Night Owl October 30, 2020 at 7:49 am #

            Tell Q he formatted his ellipsis incorrectly.

          • Q. Shtik October 30, 2020 at 12:57 pm #

            you claim to have superior knowledge but you in fact do not! – Kim

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

            I guess you have not been on this board long enough to have seen the numerous times I have disclaimed having any technical knowledge of grammar. I couldn’t parse a sentence if my life depended on it. Rather, I am like a musician who can’t read music but can play by ear. I also go out of my way to look things up when I am unsure. Take, for example, my mention yesterday of the documentary My Octopus Teacher. I wrote a sentence that required the plural of Octopus. I Googled it and learned that Octopuses was preferred over Octopi and Octopodes. I also frequently have to look up word spellings. What makes me different than many on this blog is that I will take the time to do it. I believe it is the responsibility of the writer to make things clear to the reader, not leave the reader to figure things out. That is just rude. Benr is a prime example and his response to me is a big Fuck You!

        • elysianfield October 30, 2020 at 12:03 am #

          “Remember the Outer Limits…”

          Yohannon,
          Never watched, nor was aware of a program called the “Outer Limits”. I DO recall an episode, in the mid ’50’s of the “Twilight Zone” with the exact same circumstance portrayed.

    • stelmosfire October 29, 2020 at 9:25 pm #

      Q, my wife’s cousin moved to Fl from CT about 5 years ago. She received a Florida ballot in the mail at her new address and a CT ballot addressed to her was delivered to her mothers house in CT. I’ll bet there are millions of duplicate ballots out there. When you move obviously you may register at your new address but who bothers to de-register at the old place?. You’ll get plenty of reading done in the Big House. I know a few jailbirds and besides dominoes and cards that’s all they did. If your good you might be able to have your own TV. No cable though.

      • Q. Shtik October 29, 2020 at 10:02 pm #

        If your good – stelmo

        =========

        you’re 😉

        Maybe I can teach a class in grammar and pronunciation to the brothers. Get them to shake off Ebonics that has held them back all their lives. I would start with the word footbaw.

  136. Night Owl October 29, 2020 at 5:40 pm #

    Glenn Greenwald resigns from The Intercept.

    https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1321869227226222593

    ‘Bout time.

  137. tucsonspur October 29, 2020 at 7:01 pm #

    Warning, some may find the following offensive:

    Let me clear some things up regarding my political position and Trump. I was almost called a CUNT (certifiably unhinged never Trumper) today, and I was shocked, shocked I tell you, by the gross insinuation.

    While I admit to being a TWAT (Trump weary and tired), I still voted for him. But being called a CUNT is profoundly beyond the pale, and I must warn you, I simply won’t stand for it. After all, I’m a proud, decent man, and to hear myself and women slandered in such vile fashion is simply intolerable!

    • SoftStarLight October 30, 2020 at 2:30 am #

      It doesn’t sound like you are weary and tired at all. After all you have already done your part. I voted early too. Last Friday actually. The line was so long oh my gosh! I must have waited for over an hour. Never saw anything like it ever for early voting. It was like the whole town showed up lol. I was so excited to vote for DJT!! I’m glad you did too.

      • tucsonspur October 30, 2020 at 3:26 am #

        Can you believe it? The nerve of some people!

        Glad you’re not offended. Yes I did it, didn’t even wear the clothespin!

  138. Tate October 29, 2020 at 7:02 pm #

    How can one believe in “science” when the word is invoked as a talisman by the fanatic lapdogs of the media & their plutocrat enablers who suppress research on the efficacy of masks, as one example? This is happening right now with a study by researchers in Denmark. Three prestigious medical journals, JAMA, NEJM, & the Lancet have refused to publish the study. What does that lead the layperson to think about the credibility of “science”?

    Properly speaking, this is not “science” but “scientism.” Regardless of their credentials as “scientists,” another faction also want us to believe in something called “Climate Change” (formerly known as “Global Warming.”) Anyone who didn’t just graduate high school in the current year, might be forgiven for suspecting that this “Climate Change” hysteria has something to do with the Carbon Credits scheme so often brayed about which is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to consolidate power further into the hands of the Globalist Oligarchs led by people like George Soros & his ilk.

    Hopefully voters will see through the potential corruption of a Harris administration & will vote for Trump. If Harris/Biden are elected, AOC and her gang of Democratic Socialists will be in the drivers seat & they will go full throttle to enact their Green New Deal. The folly of electing Harris/Biden will be plain for all to see soon after but it will be too late to stop the onslaught of civilizational-leveling carnage after TDS has arranged itself like an alien crustacean on the windpipe of the American body-politic.

    • Yohannon October 29, 2020 at 11:44 pm #

      Quite so. We’re witnessing the dying of the light of Western Civilization. Even formerly real Scientists and Scientific Journals are in favor of censorship – even of themselves! And those who have kept the light alive inside themselves are silent out of fear.

  139. elysianfield October 29, 2020 at 8:35 pm #

    Well, ladies and germs;

    The BBC, this PM, has reported that Walmart has decided not to sell guns in it’s stores due to “Civil Unrest”

    Thank God! The Republic is saved!

    Expect soon to see the venerable merchant refuse to sell Pork and KY jelly to combat heart disease and the infamous crime against nature.

    …yeah….

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    • elysianfield October 29, 2020 at 8:38 pm #

      And…the link;

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54738047

    • tucsonspur October 29, 2020 at 9:05 pm #

      I don’t think it’s that bad a move, E. Most people who give a damn are armed up.

      Just picture these rioters storming a Walmart and loading up.

      It may be just temporary. But you’re right, it’s not going to help much otherwise.

    • GreenAlba October 30, 2020 at 8:45 am #

      “The BBC, this PM, has reported that Walmart has decided not to sell guns in it’s stores due to “Civil Unrest””

      EF, with your career history, being an honest witness must have been important?

      Did you read the article?

      What it says is that the guns have been removed from display, not that they aren’t being sold. Over here cigarettes are ‘removed from display (in this case in a closed cabinet behind the cashier. If you want ciggies, you just ask for them. I expect, with the guns, they’re in the store room.

      It’s that Fake News thingy, and it wasn’t the BBC that perpetrated it.

      Disappointing, EF. You should have left it without the link – that way everyone would have just swallowed it whole.

      • elysianfield October 30, 2020 at 7:39 pm #

        Alba,
        Thank you for t he correction. Regarding the posting of links, I’d rather be wrong and corrected, than wrong but admired for my many obvious good qualities….

        Mea Culpa….

  140. Kim October 29, 2020 at 8:36 pm #

    Of the 220K+ deaths reported as CV-19, the actual cause was:

    88,208-pneumonia/influenza

    17,799-chronic respiratory disease

    26,365-respiratory distress synd

    44,261-hypertensive disease

    23,275-heart disease

    28,000-cardiac arrest

    https://twitter.com/PearsonSharp/status/1321861953329881089?s=20

    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Comorbidities

  141. Kim October 29, 2020 at 9:28 pm #

    The question is, does “medium” density housing cause crime?

    Or is it the people who live in it?

    She saw them committing a burglary so they had to shoot her. Allie Hannah. She was only 22.

    http://www.nnnforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=348534

    These four saw a man walking down the street carrying a backpack.
    He handed it over. Then he got down nto his knees. Then he cowered behind a potted plant. Then he begged for his life.

    Then they shot him dead. Brandon Van. 38 years old.

    http://www.nnnforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=348530

    So, again, the urgent question is, does “medium” density housing cause these dreadful crimes? And what are white people going to do to prevent them?

    Obviously, what is needed is a “Trump platinum plan” or perhaps a “contract with black america”. Or maybe “prison reform”.

    Then blacks will surely stop victimizing whites each year at a rate of 700,000 police-reported incidents a year.

  142. Kim October 29, 2020 at 9:34 pm #

    Why is Portland the locus of so much rioting and criminality?

    Does it have anyting to do with the 41% non-white “fair housing” that was built on its east side?

    https://theamericansun.com/2020/10/28/portlands-eastside/

    Decades ago when Oregon was a purple state with a healthy logging industry, the city of Portland decided to transform its eastside. The city wanted to use the undeveloped land to plan an amazing expansion of affordable housing.

    No one asked residents, and when they did there was pushback. No real reason for the development except for the fair housing act and developer & construction firm contracts. The focus then switched to affordable housing, and after several decades one can see that Portland ruined its eastside….

  143. Kim October 29, 2020 at 9:42 pm #

    https://nypost.com/2020/10/29/philadelphia-store-owners-beg-looters-to-leave-them-alone/

    Food deserts. Pharmacy deserts. Make up deserts. Nail artist deserts. Jiffy lube deserts. Car wash deserts. Pawn shop deserts. Check cashing deserts. Bodega deserts. Taxi deserts. Postal and package delivery deserts. Electricity meter reader deserts.

    Damn that whitey! He don’t want the black man to have nuthin’!

  144. Kim October 29, 2020 at 10:05 pm #

    How is the Chinese Communist Party – through various front groups – tied in with Black Lives Matters?

    This short video details how front groups such as the San Francisco-based Chinese Progressive Association (formed as a communist front group in the 1930s) does its work for China through groups such as Asians4BlackLives and how it coordinates with similar groups round the world.

    https://rumble.com/vauw4j-chinese-communist-party-ties-to-black-lives-matter.html

    The value of a video such as this is to help people understand that the West has for almost a century now been targeted for destruction by globalist communists – and, to be frank, by anti-white racial opponents – and that conspiratorial front groups are regularly used to infiltrate and change otherwise benign organizations and to provoke problems, make things worse and manipulate grievance groups.

    Black Lives Matter is a catspaw for Communist China.

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    • Yohannon October 29, 2020 at 11:50 pm #

      Life is a bourgeois compromise. We’ve all become Alex Jones seeing slant eyed china boys behind every bush. Fu Manchu lives! But he is still a great Man – except when talks about how it would be fine to get a hundred million Black African immigrants as long as they were legal and assimilated to American Culture.

      How likely is that?

    • tucsonspur October 30, 2020 at 2:20 am #

      Biden, BLM, China. Not so surprising. But people should know.

  145. tom clark October 29, 2020 at 10:58 pm #

    Kim…I’ve been to Portland. It sucks. I would never live there. (Portland, ME, maybe). Good night.

  146. SoftStarLight October 30, 2020 at 2:51 am #

    I’ll try to rain in my bad little habits. But I’ll never feel guilty for crashing boring Mensa picnics or lame and tired Hide the Biden fundraisers. I mean, would a humane and compassionate human being think that its ok to exploit and appropriate for shamelessly poltical purposes a cognitively challenged elderly individual? Or has it been made worth the family’s while? Oh silly me!! The campaign isn’t taking questions. Its the lid again. Tee hee!!

  147. SoftStarLight October 30, 2020 at 3:15 am #

    And yes. Nothing further needs to be said to convince me that indeed Mark Zuckerberg is partially descended from tall watermelon head Grays. During Donald John Trump’s second term we will demand an investigation into the infiltration of our institutions by the half Human half Grays. It never rains in SoCal but when it does it pours. And so our Golem must fight beasts and creatures from the sea, to the swamp, to outer space. And then the genuises wonder why such enthusiasm as they mouth their morning bullet points in their mirrors in preparation for their daily echo chamber swims.

    • FreddieMars October 30, 2020 at 10:00 am #

      Laughable…I assume that was intended as a joke.

  148. John1945 October 30, 2020 at 6:05 pm #

    The pretexts keep getting slimmer for Feral Blacks to loot. Soon they won’t even bother with pretexts.

    Now take a look at the vandalized stores where BLM/ANTIFA looted for Justice.

    Dollar Tree,Walgreens,Walmart,Target-all of them are low-margin high-volume businesses.Walmart’s profits are about 4.5% of revenue.

    One destroyed Walgreens means no profit at this site for the next 20 years at least.

    If insurance companies decide to pay claims it means no profits for them either – unless they raise premiums tenfold.Now again it means no profits for Walgreens at this site for the next 100 years 🙂

    Eventually big cities will turn into Detroits.But the stockpile of bioweapons (feral blacks) in those cities will keep growing unabated.

    Eventually those bioweapons will be used against the rest of the US via Section 8 program.In military terms it is called “advance troops establish a bridgehead”.

    In 2020,2024,2028-it is just matter of time.

  149. volodya November 11, 2020 at 1:13 pm #

    I just finished a book called Seeing Things As They are, a compilation of essays and articles by George Orwell.

    In one article Orwell recounted a trip he took by passenger ship to Burma in the 1920s (he served in Burma as an officer of the Imperial Police). He told of an incident, minor perhaps, but one which left a lasting impression; the passengers had more than ample food, and Orwell spotted a crewman he knew to be a quartermaster, one entrusted with the wheel of the ship, skulking with something in his hands. What he was holding was a plate with the remains of a partially eaten custard pie. The crewman disappeared into the crew quarters to eat the pie at his leisure. 

    To Orwell this illustrated the gap between function – in this case a highly skilled technician who held the lives of passengers and crew in his hands when he steered the ship, and reward, ie his pay, such that the crewman stole table scraps from passenger dining rooms. 
    Orwell said that this incident taught him more than half a dozen socialist pamphlets. This, to me, not only illustrated the gap between the importance of somebody’s job and how much he got paid for it, but it also illustrates the gap between ideology, in this case Orwell’s favored socialism, and real life, in this case the real need of a hungry crewman. Never mind the pamphlets, just look at what’s right under your nose. It will inform you more than any ideology or propaganda or theorizing academic. 

    Looking at what’s right under their noses should be the first thing every morning for the high and the mighty in the media and punditry disecting what happened in this last election. For all the triumphalizing by Democrats and their media accomplices, and concurrent disparagement of Trump and his followers as variously White Spremcasists and racists, or undereducated buffoons, only a precious few saw what actually happened. And what happened was that while Trump’s percentage of the White vote declined, it actually increased among Blacks and Latinos and asians and Muslims. So much for White Supremacy.  

    Seeing things as they are ought to be the first rule taught to journalists, it ought to be the first taught to philosophers, students of politics and science and other ostensibly reality-based endeavors.

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