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What can go wrong will go wrong. It’s so fundamental to the operation of the universe that Sir Isaac Newton should have installed it between his 2nd and 3rd Laws of Motion — but he had his hands full losing a fortune in Britain’s South Sea Bubble circa 1721, after muttering to a colleague that he “could calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of the people.” Note to all you hedge fund cowboys out there: Old Isaac was probably smarter than you (and all the algos you rode in on.)
Was it a fretful Thanksgiving this year, a family feud of political recrimination with a lot of teeth gnashing through mouthfuls of candied sweets? Well, yes, coming after the extraordinary fiasco of the Kavanaugh hearings and the disputed midterm elections, but the glide path to Yuletide looks kind of bumpy, too, so here’s a short bill or particulars of things tending to go wrong:
Ukraine verges on martial law after a naval incident with Russian ships in the waters off Crimea. Say what? Martial Law? They might as well declare a Chinese Fire Drill. Details of the actual incident around the Kerch Strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov remain murky besides the fact that two Ukrainian gunships and a tug disobeyed orders from Russian ships to stand down in Russian maritime waters and shots were fired. Who knew that Ukraine even had a navy, and how can they possibly pay for it? But now NATO is trying to get into the act, meaning the USA will get dragged into just the sort unnecessary and idiotic dispute that kicks off world wars. Note to the Golden Golem of Greatness (aka Mr. Trump): this dog-fight is none of our goddam business. Russia, meanwhile, asked the UN Security Council to convene over this, which is the correct response. What could go wrong?
Late Monday update: I’ve heard reports this afternoon that Russia had intel Ukrainian ships were transporting an explosive device supplied by NATO which they suspected was intended to be deployed to blow up the strategic bridge across the Kerch Strait. Still unconfirmed chatter. Developing story….
Tuesday morning update: It’s worth reading this blog by The Saker on the situation. https://thesaker.is/about-the-latest-ukronazi-provocation-in-the-kerch-strait/. (Something is preventing me from making clickable link.) He writes: “Considering the current single-digit popularity rating of [President] Poroshenko and the fact that he has no chance in hell to be re-elected (at least not in minimally credible elections) it is pretty darn obvious of why the Ukronazi regime in Kiev decided to trigger yet another crisis and then blame Russia for it.”
Sunday, about five hundred Central American migrants rushed the border at Tijuana. The US Border Patrol tear-gassed them and they backed off. Bad optics for those trying to make the case for open borders. Naturally, The New York Times portrayed this as an assault on families, defaulting to their stock sob story, though the mob assembling down there is overwhelmingly composed of young men. Complicating matters, a new Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, takes over next Saturday, a Left-wing populist and enemy of Trumpismo. Tijuana is now choking on the thousands of wanderers who were induced to march north to test America’s broken immigration policies. What could go wrong?
Congressional Democrats are said to be “loading the cannons” with subpoenas for Trumpsters to get raked over-the-coals in a circus of committee hearings when they take over the majority in January. They’ll be matched by Senators firing back in hearings controlled by Republicans, setting up the worst political pissing match since the Civil War. In a fair universe, enough dirt would come out on either side to disable the most sinister forces of the Deep State — especially the seditious “intelligence community.” But life is unfair, as Jimmy Carter once observed and the exercise will only fan the flames of already-extreme antipathy. What could go wrong?
The engine pulling that choo-choo train of grievance is Robert Mueller’s Russian Collusion investigation. I expect him to produce mighty rafts of charges against Mr. Trump, his family and associates, and anyone who ever received so much as a souvenir mug from his 2016 campaign. But I doubt that any of it will have a bearing on Russian election “meddling.” And in that case, the charges will be met by counter-charges of an illegitimate investigation, meaning welcome to that constitutional crisis we’ve been hearing about for two years. That’s a mild way of describing anything from a disorderly impeachment to troops in the American streets. What could go wrong there?
Finally, there’s the elephant in the room with the 800-pound-gorilla riding on its back: the economy and its diabolical engine the financial markets. Anyone notice on the lead-up to Thanksgiving and Black Friday that the markets have been going south (and not on holiday to Cozumel)? Stocks are roaring back up again as I write. The TBTF banks and their ringleader, the Federal Reserve, have had a few days to engineer a rally, and the sharper it goes up, the more remaining “greater fools” will get roped in for eventual slaughter. Bond rates are charging back up too, meaning the price is skidding down. Bad combo. The poison cherry-on-top is Bitcoin, which has plunged about 40 percent in ten measly days to a 3000-handle and is headed to zero. So sad, as The Golden Golem might put it. It seemed like such a sure thing less than a year ago. What could have gone wrong?
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Bitcoin bounced huge over the holidays. 3500 to 4500?
Whats interesting is the move toward digital money for us commoners.
The FR already has its digital money.
The stock market is indicative of very little of substance, IMHO, sans VOLUME.
But emotionally, it’s a BFD.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Which, I should explain. Bob buys 1,000 acres at $1,000 per acre. That is $1 million at cost. He sells 10 acres (1 percent) at $5,000.
By comp, the other 990 acres are now also worth $5,000, so now the whole lot is valued at $4,950,000.
But are they really worth? The whole shebang is being valued at what the last acres sold at. Which could go up and go down from time to time. Unless a significant portion of the acreage is sold, one can not really tell what the land is worth.
That is the stock market. It is an iceberg, and most of it is underwater. We only see the melting and refreezing on the surface.
A more real test of value is the rate of return. What do the stocks actually earn. What is the ratio of price to earnings?
As I understand, a lot of it is at record highs, which tends to mean the market value is over-rated.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Excellent analogy, Squeaky.
The notional “wealth” that’s represented by the aggregate value of stocks can never be realized. When everyone tries to sell at the same time, the price dives, until it ultimately goes to near-zero.
When that happens, there will be some excellent opportunities. If a stock that pays a 3% dividend loses 90% of its market value, it becomes a stock paying a 30% dividend.
Fish
Right. That is why I suspect that people who are cash heavy pray for the market to crash. You can not tell what kind of games are going on in the back ground when people can profit from a societal loss.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
I’m going to suggest that you and Squeaky stay out of the equity markets as investment vehicles.
Ahem, one example as to why: Any company that loses 90% of it’s value has some HUGE problems and that dividend is in serious jeopardy. Upon a steep decline, that stock will not become an obvious buy of a “good” company with an *amazing, stellar, super sweet* dividend of 30%.
That idea is preposterous.
Need a case-in-point? General Electric. Study it……..
In the trying times to come, I recommend investing in whiskey, guns, and gold, not necessarily in that order. In a disorganized society, those should see you through.
When people in their deep wisdom tell me “You can’t eat gold.” I answer, “Really, do you eat your federal reserves notes? Do you eat your bond certificates, your jewelry, or your valuable paintings?”
Everything has it’s proper role and place. You can’t eat hot lead, but it may be useful when someone comes to take your cans of beans.
One Principle wanted children to have cans in their desks to throw at any would be shooter. Anything rather than have armed guards. Anyone with a gun is no better than a criminal, unless they’re a policeman, hopefully Leftist, Female, and Non-White.
Cap’n S–
The whisky and guns will always be useful–
Gold is most useful during hyperinflation (ie., when governments are stupidly mismanaging a monetary system), during a government collapse or civil war, and when fleeing from chaos to order.
In a true Dark Age, when mobility is not possible and no one has surplus that could be bartered, gold becomes a liability. Something to keep in mind…
Circles, it was meant as a crude example, not a case-in-point. The point was that when equities are grossly over-valued, the best strategy (which is the one I have been using) is to stay in cash and wait for the crash. Back in the depression, a wise banker in Quincy, Florida advised his clients to buy Coca-Cola stock, as it was then priced at less than the amount of cash it was holding. There are now some several hundred “Coke millionaires” in Quincy.
Same goes for land. Many a wise man picked up land on the super-cheap during the depression, via tax deeds or foreclosures.
When equities are grossly overpriced, sit on the sidelines.
Fish
In 1599 a Spanish governor in Ecuador was cheating the indigenous locals in the gold trade. They forced his mouth open and poured molten gold down his throat – as if to say “you want it, here have all you want.” Of course, he died.
There’s an example of gold becoming a liability. Otherwise, I’ll take all I can get. Even in the Dark Ages there were surplus things people would part with for a price.
Lawfish – you seem a bit of a novice. Stocks likely don’t have much upside left but the “grossly-overvalued” analysis has been uttered by many for a decade now.
Meanwhile, those in cash during that time missed one of the most raging bull markets of all time. I knew of some, about 8 years ago, who were so convinced of armageddon that they cashed-in their retirement accounts (paid penalties and taxes) and bought gold at $1500 – $1800 p/oz. They’ve been underwater ever since and missed massive upside in stocks and real estate.
Market timing is a fools paradise. You’ll nail it on occasion but, overall? No. It’s a losing proposition in the long run. Much evidence exists to prove that. But, good luck anyhow.
I think you are confusing a “90% loss of company value” with a “90% decline in stock price”, which decline is what me and Lawfish were talking about.
Notice that lawfish specifically said, ” If a stock that pays a 3% dividend loses 90% of its market value, it becomes a stock paying a 30% dividend.
When people need to dump stocks in large numbers, it is like taking your Gibson guitar to a pawn shop. You get $300 for a $2,500 guitar, but what the heck, you need the 300 bucks.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Ok, Squeeky, it’s just like that.
LOL, the confusion is not mine but, good luck.
Dear hmuller,
You have to be smart enough to realize that those people you reference aren’t suggesting you can eat those things. What they mean is that gold is often held as supposed protection against currency failure due to hyperinflation, or some other calamity. When the shelves go bare it matters not how much shiny gold you have. When lawlessness prevails all bets are off. People will take whatever they can from whomever they can any way they can. What you need in these situations is food, water, guns and plenty of ammo-not gold.
I’m buying stock in Frito-Lay, Lance Snack Foods, and pot stocks.
Not exactly financial geniuses here, huh?
But Jim – you forgot the deconstruction of the stage it all plays out on, i.e., our hosting planet. An ongoing and accelerating disaster, now way out of anyone’s control. At least the collapse of this iteration of “civilization” is being well-documented. Perhaps the records should go into the Svalbard Seed Vault, where any future survivors can puzzle over the soggy mess.
Svalbard? What a great idea, Izzy!
We should invite, by military force if needed, the Central American “caravaners” to pass by the clusterfucked U.S.S.A. and head directly to the Arctic free-for-all wonderfulness that is Svalbard.
A fine place too for YzlamiK extremists headed to Europa who want their women covered up and Geehaad in abundance. In fact everyone and everything in Svalbard is covered up full from head to toe due to the balmy clime.
I think even that paragon of political uselessness, the United Nations, should open up an annex there in preparation for the moment that Manhattan’s primest East River property goes under the auctioneer’s hammer and into the long-waiting clutches of Michael Bloomberg.
Situation with Mueller actually seems to be a bit different –
Article on how President Trump’s lawyers are holding files that can send Robert Mueller to prison if they ‘go nuclear’ on him, in crimes involving a Hillary friend and Mueller’s law firm
But ‘Deep State’ types seem pressing to cover this up, because of aspect of US fed judge bribery involved, would have ‘huuge’ damage to US court reputation if the Mueller files went mainstream
Possible back-room ‘deal’ that Mueller stays in, but backs off Donald T. & family, Mueller scandal info kept ‘in reserve’ … in a sort of ‘Mexican stand-off’, appropriately enough
In fact, Mueller has been kinda quiet over the last month …
https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/11/report-implicates-robert-muell.html
That sounds more like a dead man’s switch to me.
Brabantian– Okay… read it… seems utterly insane to me. Just sayin’ — jhk
That link was heavy on innuendo and not so much on facts. I read the Dr. Sachs thing, and it came off to me like somebody who is selling a brand new diet plan, who spends half the spiel telling you how stupid doctors are, and most of the other half on how his secret plan will cause you to lose weight, and maybe the last percent on – – – wait for it – – You can have this for only $9.95 if you act now!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
I know that Mueller was happily retired until he was requested to head up this investigation. If I can believe Fox news, he must have leapt at the chance to perform evil deeds on behalf of the deep state, who are buried so deep that even the Illuminati don’t know who they are.
You never permanently retire from the Deep State, you’re just temporarily deactivated until called upon to render further services.
Oh, please – you’re kidding, right? What a load of unsubstantiated drivel. The “Illuminati – there’s only one conspiracy” Masthead says it all.
What follows is a diatribe of conspiracy-fueling statements with no evidence whatsoever. Of course, there’s obviously no evidence because the evidence has been deleted and suppressed by the host of co-conspirators….yawn…
The whole memo can best be described as the ramblings of a sad-assed deluded nut job. He’s probably ripe for a job on Trump’s cabinet.
Sorry, Majella. You didn’t hear the news?
He’s been fired already. He lasted a full 39 minutes in the White House before running afoul of one of the ongoing spirited exchanges.
He’s hiding out with, who? The Smurch? The Smudge? Watzisname.
The cornucopia of the internet overflows. Urp, slop, bring the mop.
That’s the classic bluff, like James T. Kirk’s corbamite bluff.
Congressional Democrats are said to be “loading the cannons” with subpoenas for Trumpsters to get raked over-the-coals in a circus of committee hearings when they take over the majority in January.
Election analysis I read suggested that democratic house candidates did not run a campaign of anti-trump, but rather focused on that bugaboo that JHK has identified so many times: health care. They won because the Republican House spent two years doing precisely nothing to fix healthcare except to repeal the mandate, which will kick off a death spiral for Obamacare. It turns out that the people who voted for Trump weren’t motivated by tax cuts that were unasked for. Sticking it to the blue states with the SALT deduction cap turned out to negatively affect prospects for suburban Republicans, but not so much as healthcare.
I hope the House Democrats focus first on what got them elected. I’ve read proposals that they will open Medicare to people 50 and over who are willing to pay the fees. I’d love to see them pass that in the House and force the Republican Senate to reject it.
Subpoenas are what the pundit class wants, much like the ridiculous Republican tax bill was what the donor class wanted. They ignore what got them elected at their peril.
Thinking of you Jim!
“One of the biggest medical companies in the world has admitted it is having to pay out to the NHS to cover the cost of monitoring and operating on patients who were given defective hip replacements, the Guardian can reveal.
DePuy, owned by Johnson & Johnson, would not say how much it had handed over, but it could run into millions. It recalled a metal-on-metal hip system in 2010 after it emerged that debris from wear and tear was causing damage and resulting in a large number of surgical revisions.
The company withdrew the products – a range known as the ASR (articular surface replacement) system – and advised that patients should have tests to check cobalt and chromium ion levels in their blood and, in some cases, MRI scans or X-rays.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/26/firm-pays-out-nhs-defective-hip-replacements
Jeremy– My metal-on-metal implant was changed out in 2013, and it took me a good five years to start feeling okay. Now I’m over it, and all the weird effects of cobalt poisoning. I collected 8-K in a settlement, which about covered my out-of-pocket expenses. — Jhk
8-K?!!! That’s nothing in the malpractice business. For what you went through, it should have been at least 80-K, in fact a lot more. Don’t blame you for thinking of medicine as one of the rackets in contemporary life. 8-K??? Yea, it’s a racket.
To everyone out there, stay healthy.
David Reese, MD
Agreed about medical care in the 21st century — a major racket.
No doubt, many people are helped by pacemaker and joint replacements, ETC. But, what percentage actually NEED those versus other, non-surgical, options being available that aren’t thoroughly discussed or researched? Care to venture an educated guess about that, Dr. Reese? (I don’t know the answer but feel sure there are many who don’t need those surgeries.)
What’s amazing about this era is that there is SO MUCH INFO about how to live healthfully AND what is detrimental to good health, yet we have astonishing obesity (guaranteed to wreck your lower joints), terrible diabetes problems, nasty diets etc.
Does America have a death wish?
I have a vegan friend who shapes surfboards and loses up to forty pounds when he leaves the states to go to south America!
Mind he he changes next to nothing in his diet and how much he eats it’s how the food is grown that changes.
Americas farming techniques are toxic period end of story.
DrTom,
You have offered a cogent analysis of the election results. Nice.
Best,
JDH
I especially love how the NYT does it’s usual attempt to portray the masses storming the fence as women and children. Twas the same thing back when the vast majority of migrants attempting to get into Germany, Italy etc were young men but they’d try to portray them as a bunch of women and children.
So of course the knee-jerk liberals are all up in arms over the use of tear-gas(would you prefer live bullets?) and decrying how we should all take them in as they just want what we have. I haven’t noticed any of them offering to house and feed them in their own homes and communities though. Not gonna hold my breath…..
I haven’t noticed any of them offering to house and feed them in their own homes and communities though.
And you won’t.
A right-wing art project might be to buy houses in liberal areas and fill them with refugees. Focus on one particular neighborhood for full effect. Once the elite feels the catastrophic equity destruction that results they might change their minds.
Nothing will change until people making policy decisions are forced to have “skin in the game.”
Such a wickedly, delicious thought Dr Tom. Was it your own?
I’m sure those likely to find this arrangement unacceptable would lawyer the whole thing away though.
If they oppose it, what are they saying? It’s doubtful they’d get held up as examples of hypocrisy in the media, but it would be interesting to see.
Zillow indicates a median home price of 847,000 in Chappaqua, where the Clintons own a home worth more than twice that. For maybe $10,000,000 you could buy 5-10 nearby houses.
Right wing block busting sounds like a great idea lol :-p.
block busting. red lining? w a twist.
An extreme twist ;-).
Its not like you actually read today’s paper…. maybe you didn’t see the photo below the fold.
A Mamacita running screaming, carrying a kid, bum-rush masses in the distance, concertina wire, tear gas clouds, the whole 9.
Here’s a link, for anyone who wants to see the photo: https://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/1066797456057348098
Thought I’d share the following too, even I haven’t got around to reading it yet. Angela Nagle has taken flak on Twitter for advancing…
The Left Case against Open Borders
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/11/the-left-case-against-open-borders/
‘Before “Build the wall!” there was “Tear down this wall!” In his famous 1987 speech, Ronald Reagan demanded that the “scar” of the Berlin Wall be removed and insisted that the offending restriction of movement it represented amounted to nothing less than a “question of freedom for all mankind.” He went on to say that those who “refuse to join the community of freedom” would “become obsolete” as a result of the irresistible force of the global market. And so they did. In celebration, Leonard Bernstein directed a performance of “Ode to Joy” and Roger Waters performed “The Wall.” Barriers to labor and capital came down all over the world; the end of history was declared; and decades of U.S.-dominated globalization followed.
‘In its twenty-nine-year existence, around 140 people died attempting to cross the Berlin Wall. In the promised world of global economic freedom and prosperity, 412 people died crossing the U.S.-Mexican border last year alone, and more than three thousand died the previous year in the Mediterranean. The pop songs and Hollywood movies about freedom are nowhere to be found. What went wrong?
‘Of course, the Reaganite project did not end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Reagan—and his successors from both parties—used the same triumphalist rhetoric to sell the hollowing out of trade unions, the deregulation of banks, the expansion of outsourcing, and the globalization of markets away from the deadweight of national economic interests. Central to this project was a neoliberal attack on national barriers to the flow of labor and capital. At home, Reagan also oversaw one of the most significant pro-migration reforms in American history, the 1986 “Reagan Amnesty” that expanded the labor market by allowing millions of illegal migrants to gain legal status.’
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Those are the opening paragraphs. Read the whole thing.
Thanks for the picture Elrond. I’ve seen human beings in far greater danger from smoke around the family camp fire than from the little can spewing out a tiny trickle of smoke in the Twitter picture. Looks to be truly a life threatening event and the senorita is lucky to have escaped with her life and the lives of her children, har, har.
Well, that depends, Walter. The picture doesn’t show us where she’s from, how far she had come (with kids in tow) in hopes of crossing the border, or what troubles led her to assume the effort and risk. I would judge, though, that she’s due the honorific señora and not señorita.
Perhaps she only came from as far south as another part of Mexico. But that would make her just as much a target of globalization as American workers. According to the article I linked to: “One of the major causes of labor migration from Mexico to the United States has been the economic and social devastation caused by [NAFTA]. … By 2002, Mexican wages had dropped by 22 percent, even though worker productivity increased by 45 percent.” And a 22% wage drop has to cut even closer to the bone in Mexico than in the USA (or Canada). Heads the globalists win, tails everybody else loses, eh?
Seriously Elrond, compare that picture (which looks literally like a day at the beach with a small garbage fire) to the picture that came out of Kent State or the DNC riots in Chicago and then tell me about risk.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/6c/84/5d/6c845d0461184736122ecf36927a3dd8.jpg
Elrond, I would hope people can distinguish between two types of walls. One keeps prisoners inside (like the Berlin Wall). The other keeps intruders out and protects those inside. The two walls may look alike. Discernment is required.
Sometimes, people have a hard time with such subtle distinctions, as in recognizing that guns can protect. You can’t stop a crazed gunman with a sign that states “Gun Free Zone”. Don’t ask me why, but somehow it just does not work. But a good guy with a gun can protect people.
This is a simple truth known to “real men” who watch John Wayne movies.
A sad picture and story. But what of all the American families ruined by the economic impacts of uncontrolled immigration? What about all of those sad stories of Americans killed by illegal immigrants?
And yet the east/west german wall divided people with similar culture and the same language! Your example is perfectly flawed.
Most liberals are extraordinarily uncharitable. Duck Duck Go it!
google is so threatened by DDG that they now own similar domain names.
I noted that there was one very artistic photograph of a dead baby on the beach and Europa lost its collective mind.
Now, there is a pause, and second thoughts. But it’s too late as the Eurabian masses stake out their claim.
Yes, that picture hit Facebook and about two or three days later, as I recall, Merkel folded. The ‘refugees’ at Budapest railway station decided to march for Vienna. They were ‘advised’ to stay to the highways where they could be photgraphed and filmed. The procession was led by a man in a wheelchair, another carrying the EU flag and a third with a photo of Angela pinned to his clothes. I think I saw a picture of a man in a wheelchair in the ‘Caravan’ in its early days.
Yup. Too bad there weren’t any photo-ops for the millions killed by the Nazis who were truly fleeing for their lives. There were a good 1.5 million cute kids killed by them; no photo ops back then I guess. And Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t seem to understand the difference between fleeing genocide and trying to immigrate to improve one’s finances. Yeah, I get it that life in Mexico, Guatemala, etc is no picnic, but they could stick around and try to improve things instead. It’s not as if they are Jews or Roma in a Europe controlled by the Nazis.
“Was it a fretful Thanksgiving this year, a family feud of political recrimination with a lot teeth gnashing through mouthfuls of candied sweets?”
I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving there in the Empire state, Mr. Jim. We had a very nice one here in the Shire, with the rest of the hobbits.
Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. It’s not that it isn’t going to happen, but what the response will be. Unfortunately with the duddled, muddled, and befuddled nature of the federal government at the moment, we are about to see another act in the circus. The next two years will be filled with such pressing issues such as how many money Trump spent on golden toilets in 1989, or why there aren’t more transgendered people in the media (or movies, or whatever), and of course– why do men keep hitting on women! (like, OMG how gross, right)
I wonder if the fat, oversexed Roman senate in, I don’t know, maybe 399 A.D., had similar concerns in their day. While the forefathers of Hitler’s SS were raping & pillaging Europe, I can envision the slobs of the Senate sitting in their wine soaked togas and arguing about the quota of exotic animals from Africa, or why there weren’t enough good looking boys working down at the bath house.
The collection in our contemporary Congress would fit right in with that lot.
Who gives a damn about women and children? What makes them so special? Men have been throwing themselves into death and injury to protect the wimmens and chillins. In today’s world to hell with that. In some of these mass killings guys have died shielding women. Stop that crap. These women are going to stick you with child support and take a lot of your stuff in the divorce. The migrant varieties are going to have litters to go on welfare forever.
Happy Holidays all.
“Who gives a damn about women and children?”
Indeed. I thought the left had abolished the distinction between the sexes. I guess it remains when convenient. And what are children, but young people who are now entitled to decide whether they want to identify as people or dogs or sheep? Certainly, they are entitled to no more protection than older people who identify as men.
Fish
>>> Indeed. I thought the left had abolished the distinction between the sexes.
This is the same Left that wants to end racism—yet can’t stop making everything about race.
Feminism means having all the opportunities that men have while retaining all the privileges that women have (such as men protecting them when the bullets start flying).
So kind of like those nitwits in power in the UK that want to have all the benefits of being in the EU but none of the restrictions.
Not really. Many want to stay in and many want to leave completely. The politicians and the media are overwhelmingly in favour of staying but the former have to at least make a semblance of trying to leave. And the EU, aware of this, is making it hard for Britain to leave. I doubt if there are many who want to leave and yet keep the benefits.
Consider the untimely deaths extreme late term abortions.
On the one hand, Bitcoin seemed like a legit challenge to the control Central banks hold over the creation of money. However, I think once it became more publicly traded it was only a matter of time before the big players could start manipulating the price to destroy it.
While I would like to see a return of sound money, the tech behind Bitcoin is extremely energy hungry. Not what we need at a time when we need to be figuring out ways to use less energy and reduce co2 emissions.
mdl,
“…Bitcoin is extremely energy hungry.”
True enough, but there are new variants that use proof of stake (POS), a much more energy efficient way to validate the blockchain. Etherium and Cardano both use POS and, although currently beaten down, are in the top ten as far as market cap goes.
JDH
Thanks for the info, I was not aware more energy efficient variants had been created. How are they in terms of anonymity?
JD/MD,
I’m surprised you take crypto currencies seriously. It is a dalliance allowed by the Government, until it loses it’s ability to amuse and is made to disappear.
The Government does not like competition.
Anonymity? You jest. Alexa and Siri will dance on your grave…metaphorically, of course. There is no such thing as “anonymity”.
Nothing but a flawed game …
Central Banks Looking at Creating Their Own Cryptocurrencies
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/cryptocurrency/central-banks-looking-at-creating-their-own-cryptocurrencies/
You are right about anonymity. There’s enough tech in place right now that could easily enable a dictator to take control. Probably starting with people who post here. I’ve read that China is already making good use of it.
In the news last week: China bragging that they have software to scan their 1.3 billion subjects… in one second.
“Smile” says Allen Funt, “you’re on candid camera.”
Bitcoin seemed like a legit challenge to the control Central banks hold over the creation of money.
I guess its the start of the governments control of digital money and trans humanism.
Agreed, Malthus. Brandon Smith has posted a very rational analysis of crypto-currencies over at Alt-Market.
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/3581-imf-reveals-that-cryptocurrency-is-the-new-world-order-end-game
Fish
“Bitcoin seemed like a legit challenge to the control Central banks hold over the creation of money.”
Malthuss, How noble a description…
NAMBLA seems like a NGO that would provide a loving home for young orphans….
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XRP (associated with Ripple) has a solid use case and uses far less energy than the horrid Bitcoin. It has vaulted over ETH recently
to claim the #2 spot in the cryptoverse.
mdl, You got that right. Wall Street has already entered the crypto-currency market and now manipulates much of it. On top of which there have been a string of lesser con-men who have soiled the arena with their shenanigans and fraudulent exchanges.
Jim, your writing today is crisp and your summary is cogent.
I would have added the report from Trump’s 13 agencies which says GW is AGW (Trump said they can write their reports, “but I am the decider”) Evidently it is Trump and not nature who bats last.
Thank you! Your essay today was both informative and fun to read.
You make me blush, Janet.
Is this the new look Lil’ J-Bot? A near death experience with bad Jenny-O holiday turkey, perhaps?
Janet is different each day, and sometimes each minute ;-).
To paraphrase a Seinfeld line: she’s an enigma wrapped up in a Lil’ Deb snack cake.
Or she’s 4 fat guys in the NSA’s basement.
LOL! Nice visual!
More like an enema wrapped in a stale copy of the New York Times Scratch.
SSL, Ol’ Scratch – you guys are a scream. You should be on stage.
There’s one leaving in ten minutes.
hello Scratch.
How ya been, malthus?
I think my comments get censored. Or maybe I cant find them, w 600 other comments a thread.
https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/
FYI. Interesting reading. You can click on the specific region you live in to see a current assessment of climactic change.
Amy Goodman on Democracy Now focused on this report today. I was amused to hear her in her own particular emphatic style emphasis the hundreds of billions that climate change will cost by the end of the century. She was talking with a professor from the University of Washington who co-authored one of the sections. Ironic because there are two Seattle residents who alone are worth hundreds of billions of dollars. How can the uninformed masses get excited about something that is going to cost society the wealth of only two men?
I was also struck by her emphasis that the report indicates that the economy will shrink by 10% by the end of the century. BFD. Because I and my wife tend to believe society is well into overshoot, we shrunk our “economy” by 60% or more starting about 20 years ago. Our quality of life increased immeasurably and we can now feed ourselves.
More than just about anything, I abhor hypocrisy. Amy Goodman and her crew travel millions of miles each year to bring us this hypocrisy.
Abhorring hypocrisy is pretty weak sauce bud.
Leave it to a fan boy of the NY Times to take offense at any slander against “Hypocrisy”. Take that away, and there’s not much newspaper left.
Taking the John Michael Greer approach, eh, Matt? Collapse now and avoid the rush. My wife and I have done that to a certain degree. It is a more satisfying lifestyle.
Wrong Bezos is worth $150 and Gates $100 billion. That is not hundreds of billions of dollars. You need at least two, alone. And your analogy is like saying Hitler and Stalin, how many men could just 2 people kill? C’mon. 2 guys.
No big holiday fights around here, I think my family had enough of those back in the 80’s. Now a days we realize that we’re all different and we’re OK with that. Even if one one my brothers is clueless and wrong…
Speaking of the 80’s people have been walking from Latin America to El Norte since at least back then. That the current folk in power can’t figure out how to deal with a small group of exhausted people without busting head, lobbing tear gas canisters into a foreign land and going full on machismo, strutting around and threatening violence speaks volumes about where we’re at as a people.
Mostly, I just keep my head down and keep working on my own thing. The rest of the world will have to figure out how to sort its own self out.
mj,
“Mostly, I just keep my head down and keep working on my own thing. The rest of the world will have to figure out how to sort its own self out.”
An excellent approach!
Best,
JDH
“Mostly, I just keep my head down and keep working on my own thing. The rest of the world will have to figure out how to sort its own self out.”
mj_crites,
Damn straight.
Plus, I figger since most of the public doesn’t want to hear what the real disease is behind the symptoms, my hollering means about as much as a piss-hole in a snowbank. So, why bother when I’ve got plenty of my own predicaments to work around?
Best of luck and health in your endeavors.
The border is the skin of the Nation. Would you let your skin be “breached”?
People burning the American flag, throwing rocks, making Molotov cocktails, etc are not immigrants or asylum seekers – by definition.
These people will create exactly the chaos and violence that some of them may be fleeing. They can’t be let in en masse.
They are obviously not exhausted, having rode much of the way. I’m reminded of the Muslim immigrants who entered Europe in designer clothes, better dressed than the natives.
You don’t understand the what is going on as you are wrong about everything.
I think some people purposely “don’t understand”. What is in it for them is the question I keep thinking about now…
What I said was that we’ve been dealing with border crossers for quite a long time and that previous to this admin we’ve been able to deal with them without firing pepper spray into a foreign country, threats of violence, and swaggering machismo.
That our current admin with access massive amounts of manpower and other resources resorts to ineffective displays of fragile masculinity and can’t deal effectively with a small group of unarmed folks with a large number of kids in tow (your average county sheriffs department could do a better job than the border patrol has done) is a good measure of where we’re at as a country right now.
Previously, when these sorts of things happened, people were lined up, processed, and most of them were sent home on busses or planes. It seems to me a better solution than spending weeks whipping up fear and race hate, spending millions of $ that we don’t have and don’t need to spend, and then giving ourselves a black eye over poor treatment of other human beings.
It’s an obvious provocation and we have not had hundreds of people openly storming the border before. Look behind the obvious surface of things.
We’ve had large groups of people crossing and attempting to cross our southern border since at least the mid-1980’s. What happened this time is an out of control border patrol could not handle a situation that any city or county police force with a little bit of crowd control experience could have handled.
What also happened this time is that we had an admin that wanted things to get out of control so that they could then point to it and say “look it’s out of control.” It’s a fundamentally dishonest tactic. It’s just another lie from an admin that can’t seem to do anything but lie.
We need more masculinity down there not less. Yet your meme of “fragile masculinity” argues for just giving up altogether. How pernicious. You are conflicted against yourself if you are a man and you think like that.
I never argued for just giving up.
Both my posts said we should be doing what we’ve been successfully doing for decades. Processing border crossers in an orderly and humane manner and sending most of them home.
As Sophia said, there were hundreds storming the border, and there are thousands behind them wanting to come in. In the past we did not have this many at once demanding entrance. And frankly, we can’t even take care of our own problems, our own homeless, our own infrastructure, we certainly cannot afford to take in any more illegal invaders. We already have twenty million of them in various parts of the country. We need to take care of our own citizenry. Bah. I am a legal immigrant and I have no tolerance for this kind of behavior.
You’re nothing of the kind. You are like that Ishmael guy in Titanic who sneaks on a lifeboat and has the huge look of relief when the man says “Lower away.” You made it and fuck everybody else.
Anybody knows violence is necessary sometimes. It doesn’t have to be glorified or worshipped though. Trust me, your birth was predicated on past violence. People who break into our country deserve what they get. It is super simple really.
Are they exhausted? Did they walk all the way? How did they arrive so quickly then?
Jim,
You wrote an interesting and balanced post today. Well done!
Best,
JDH
PS I’ve always liked your writing, even when I don’t agree with it. 🙂
A point to ponder
One of Newton’s laws is
For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.
Applies to human psychology
Why is it that every time a leader comes up with an issue, position or idea, immediately fifty percent of the society tries to nail the leader and his ideas to the proverbial cross. This is currently unbelievable in scope.
Think about it
GOP wants lower taxes for the tax paying public all of it. Who pays most of the taxes, the elite! Who should get their share of the return from cuts, the ones paying in the first place.
Oh no, tax cuts are bad because people who do not pay that much of the taxes, the poor and lower middle class do not get the bulk of the cuts and the people paying the bulk of the taxes do not get their cuts.
Sidebar. Corporations enrich the stock market, fund pensions and 401’s, pay dividends, and provide services. They are taxed which helps pay for the welfare state, and everything else. I am sick of corporate bashers. The “bad” side is the legions of lawyers that corporations hire to use lobbyists to get out of paying taxes. Where is the dishonesty, in the boardroom or in Congress? Would a simple tax system with no special interest deductions stop the graft? Heck no, because the Dems would lose control. Trump wants the simple, “fill it out on a post card” tax code. Dem reaction, heck no!
The Democratic platform is so easy. So easy! Wait for Trump and the GOP to come up with an idea, then find as many bad things to say about it that you can. Do not even consider the goodness of what is being said, no compromise, shoot as many bullets at it as you can come up with. And do not work on your own ideas, that takes time away from attacking the other side. That pretty much sums up the Democrats for the last two years.
Also, pretty much sums up our own resident demon.
John Locke’s Natural Law that Jefferson used to justify the Declaration of Independence, iMHO, includes this human trait. For every idea or issue, there is someone who wants to shoot it down.
Our Constitution was written to include this Law. The two political parties are results of the Law.
We have two elements in our society now. One believes in the Founding Fathers vision of personal liberty and responsibility. The others view the Founding Fathers idea of individuality as evil and want collectivism in government as the rule. Which means we never get better than who is in Washington, DC. This group want to overthrow this government. Problem is, they have no idea of what to put in its place. This will provide fertile ground for a totalitarian state. Just like Rome.
What a horrific thought!
A corporate worshiper, eh JAZ? Good luck with that, we’ll see how it plays out. I should remind you that corporations owe no allegiance whatsoever to any nation state these days, so your federalist flag waving here (almost brought a tear to my old, jaded eyes!) is a more than a little bit misguided. No need to call for an overthrow of the carnival in DC, as it’s in the process of melting down right now with or without any wishes of ill-intent from us out here in the peanut gallery. I say let the cards fall as they will and let’s all sit back and enjoy the show! They’re paying through the nose to keep us all entertained – it’s the least we can do!
And do corporations or the wealthy owners that rule them really pay taxes or merely add taxes onto their sale prices that we all pay when we purchase their goods and services? I ran my own engineering firm for 15 years and decided to close it once my first customer had me pass him an envelope of cash once I had the order. I did not take the payoff out of my profit margin, but added it onto the bill for the customer to foot. I am not sure why people cannot understand this. The customers, the consumers pay for everything, especially once the wealthy masters are able to set up a “foundation” where the real theft begins.
Well said, Walter. It’s refreshing to read something by someone who can cut through the bullshit. It’s what brought me to Clusterfuck Nation in the first place, and it’s what keeps me coming back.
So take a hammer to DC and to the corporations? Sounds kinda fun :-), but how much clean up is involved?
Changing the way government works from the inside is never, never, never going to happen. Changing it from without is considered a criminal act and so can be avoided by the full power and might of the Machine, so it too will never happen. Grin and bear it, shut up and pay, close your eyes and hope it goes away are the only viable options. I fight it myself at the small, local level because I can, not because it will make a difference, but then there must be something seriously wrong with me in the first place.
“The Democratic platform is so easy. So easy! Wait for Trump and the GOP to come up with an idea, then find as many bad things to say about it that you can. Do not even consider the goodness of what is being said, no compromise, shoot as many bullets at it as you can come up with. And do not work on your own ideas, that takes time away from attacking the other side. That pretty much sums up the Democrats for the last two years.”
Funny…it pretty much sums up the GOP’s position for the last 6 years of Obama’s terms. Hypocrisy much?
As well, I don’t agree with your characterization of the Dems. The positive campaigning on healthcare is just one example.
Excellent work Jim, thank you once again. As they say, the bigger they are the harder they fall. When times are tough, the tough are the ones who cut through the crap, get the job done, fix the problem, and make it all work in the end. As it all gets easier and begins operating smoothly, it becomes much easier for the con men and the swindlers to work their ways to the top where they plunder it all. All systems of man are flawed, and these flaws are where the “what can go wrong” strikes first and hardest. The real pity is for the defenseless sheep, for they are where the real value lies and are totally reliant upon the shepherds and the watchdogs for protection. Too many of these stewards have sold out for their own profit and advancement leaving the flock vulnerable to disaster. It is a sad shame, but I do not see any way that it will not end badly.
So as a few of the wise that post here have said, concentrate on doing what you can do right, enjoy everything that you can while it is there to enjoy, and do your damnest to be a part of the cure rather than an instrument of the disease.
Walter, perhaps you did not get the memo: there is no cure. I don’t think there is enough rope or the will to use it. My favorite quote from Livy:
“We have been brought into the present condition in which we are unable neither to tolerate the evils from which we suffer, nor the remedies we need to cure them.”
In other words: we are just going to ride it out. As our host likes to point out – what can’t go on, won’t.
Samuel Beckett: I can’t go on. I’ll go on.
The mantra of the aged everywhere! Until we really can’t, at least. Hard to know the difference sometimes.
Read Joseph Glanville. We only sicken and die thru weakness of will. Don’t buy the Lie: Millions now living will never die. We’ll farm the Sea Bottoms once there is No More Sea!
Sadly late Starter, you are absolutely right, we ride it out. We will be ridden hard then put up wet.
How about: The election of a woman to Congress who can’t name the three branches of government, and doesn’t even know that they’re called “branches”. What could go wrong?
And those that voted for her in the first place!
A proud product of the United States education system.. I heard that Ocasio-Cortez stated she thought civics should not be taught in school. Figures, Read my last post. Dems feed on ignorance rather than rationality, otherwise they could not sell their BS. So why should they care about an informed public?
>>> I heard that Ocasio-Cortez stated she thought civics should not be taught in school.
She doesn’t believe in teaching civics, but she does believe in politicizing the schoolyard and Lefty indoctrination of children.
Civics isn’t taught any more. This way new civics of communism will just seem natural and moral.
Here’s some good news. The globalist effort to dumb down America’s school children, known as Common Core, is being exposed. https://dailycaller.com/2014/03/18/common-core-gets-awful-review-in-new-study/#ixzz2wVzGzISH
Hopefully something will be done about it!
Be careful right wingers! The left laughed at Trump a few years ago and branded him an ignorant fool.The rest is histroy! I don’t think he could name the three branches, back then, either. Oasio- Cortez is the progressive’s version of Trump. She really isn’t a Democrat anymore than Trump is a Republican. She is for Medicare-for all or a single payer healthcare option. Evidently, she’s on the right track because, in the midterms, initiatives in the reddest of red states, Idaho, Utah and Nebraska, to expand Medicaid in their respective states all passed. She is only 29 but she is fearless, truthfull and full of fire.
The past is prologue
The Baby Boomer Generation to which I belong is slowly fading away and the Millenials are on the rise ready to assume the reins of power. They will have a tough road to hoe, but, I hope they do better than we did!
I don’t know the truth of it but I’ve read more than once that she doesn’t know anything. What’s to come of it? A progressive Sarah Palin?
Ocasio-Cortez wouldn’t be the first political, sock puppet with a hidden hand up her ass moving her mouth. Think – George W. and Obama.
I don’t know Buck, the Millennials do not care about quality or value, all they care about is whether they can make the monthly payments or not. They are far less skilled than those of us Baby Boomers that are, and have limited attention spans or the ability to persevere through adversity. During easy times, every following generation becomes, on average, lazier, less motivated, and far too coddled to deal with things going wrong. Tough times make for tough men, easy times promote decay and it has been far too easy far too long.
The laughers laugh and say that as far back as the ancient Greeks people complained about youth, that they’re lazy, unfocused,hedonistic, undisciplined, so what’s new?
What’s new? How about learning from history?
In the case of the Greeks, no matter that they had a centuries long head-start, and had a series of victories against invaders, especially the Persians, they got soft and sloppy and lost to those garlic-stinking Romans who were standing around slack-jawed looking at Greek cities made of marble. It didn’t matter in the end that the Romans came from towns made of brick and not marble, and that their intellectual achievements came knee-high to the Greeks. It’s never what you’ve DONE because that’s all in the past. It’s what you’re doing NOW and Greek young men just didn’t measure up to Roman young men and Greek military commanders just didn’t measure up to their counter-parts on the Roman side. Too bad, so sad.
In the case of the American millennials. they’re flooding out of colleges steeped in political correctness. The Chinese come flooding out of Chinese academies steeped in science and engineering. Lucky for the US that there are two wide oceans, one on each side. Not that it’s a guarantee – just ask the American Indians – but it’s better than no oceans.
Same comment – brush is too broad :-).
Now Walter, please don’t put all millenials in the same basket. Many are hard workers and achievers and yes, many are basically dead weight. If many in the previous generations hadn’t been careless hippies maybe things would be different now?
No, never all SSL for there are always those who are above the norm. That is why I have made it a habit of using the phrase “far too many” rather than “all”. I should have added that to my post. There will always be exceptions but there will not always be enough exceptions to keep the whole shebang functioning. From your writings here I figure that you are one of those exceptions. Welcome to the team!
You have a good point. Blame the parents. No really, boomers inflicted the ailments suffered by millennials. Who runs colleges and universities? Not millennials. Who aided and abetted this preposterous snowflake fragility? Boomers had the power to stop it and if not stop it, to blunt it and deflect it. But we were derelict in our duties, thinking it better to coddle and indulge rather than to temper and test young minds and bodies. And so the dilemma du jour for millennials is an issue that ought to be the easiest to resolve: gender identity. And this is just ONE of the bogus “problems” occupying the mental energies of what are supposedly the brightest and most capable.
Of course this gender stuff is all baloney and posturing and status seeking but torrents of time and energy have been expended on what is essentially nonsense. And this carries a cost. There are up and coming peoples and civilizations that are tougher and more aggressive and from my perch it looks like they’ll make short work of their American counterparts.
It may not be too late but time is short and, even in the most favorable circumstance, time is against you.
I like to sneak into the enemy camp from time to time volodya, to see what they up to and I did so once again two weeks ago. I attended a two hour talk at the local hospital on the subject of dealing with “anxious children”. It included a section where we were “educated” on the ways of dealing with young people who, in the example, go flipping out with “panic attacks” when something like their car not starting occurs. Yes, they supposedly can go suicidal when their ride refuses to start and we were offered ways in which to coddle them down to earth with soothing happy thoughts should we find ourselves in such a situation. It was truly enlightening. If there ever is a real collapse or national calamity we had better avoid standing at the bottom of tall cliffs or buildings because the frail creatures will be slamming hard onto the deck by the millions. Look out below!
Good points Walter! The GI Generation, who suffered through the Great depression and won WWII at a great cost , 416,000 casualties, lived within their means and believed in strong instituitions. I thought that after the debacle of Vietnam with the Gulf of Tonkin false flag and the revealations of the Pentagon Papers (in 1966 the DOD knew the war was unwinnable) our generation would stop endles wars and reap a peace dividend, especially after the USSR fell. I thought our infrastructure would now be first class replete with Maglev trains and our healthcare system would be efficient, affordable and available to all. Instead, we have $5 trillion wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan, $21 trillion deficit, $21+++ trillion in dark money created by the Treasury, $800 billion/year defense budget, crumbling infrastrucure,a horrible healthcare system bordering on being a racket and a failing educational system. Predatory capitalism, oligarchy, a hollowed out middle class, fake markets, racketeering, endless war and an “anything goes, nothing matters” mantra rules the day. How did we get here?
Once the Hippies got old enough and inherited power and cash from their dead parents they took over Buck. They became that which they despised in their youth and worse This is always one of the downsides to conflict – the victor assumes some of the traits of the vanquished and normally, the bad ones.
Two words
Deep State
Good call Walter! Just like Pete Townshend’s eloquent lyrics to the Who’s “Won’t get Fooled Again”
We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that’s all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and…
How did we get here? Bush, Obama, and continued by Trump. Republicans started us on the road to hell in 2000 and Trump will actually deliver us into hell before his term is over.
You left out Clinton, Papa Bush, Regan, Carter and Johnson James Hansen. They ALL have been promoting the same agenda ever since JFK was gunned down in Dealey Plaza. They all dance to the tune of those that profit from war and from financial fraud and the next one will be exactly the same. Why can America not get this?
Neoliberalism, laissez faire economics, reared it’s ugly head shortly after they murdered JFK and covered it up. With neoliberalism, you are free, free to consume and free to die! Don’t dare have a contrary opinion or critically think because you might be ostracized and lose your job. You have no right to healthcare or a decent wage or an an education. Everything has a price! If drug manufacturers collude on a market price insulin of $600/mon., then so be it. If people, who can’tafford it, die, oh well, but you’re free.
Read Fred Reed’s latest column after his return from China, especially pay attention to the part about the trains.We can’t have said fast passenger train service in America because the airlines have such powerful lobbies. Ain’t capitalism grand. Or should I say crony capitalism.
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Thanks cbeard for the reference to Fred Reed’s column. He’s a brillant writer. What could have been!
Yep, and there are plenty right-wing millenials and once they are full bloom they will likely make baby-boomer right wingers blush. Same thing with the left. The center is gone.
SoftStarLight
I attached an excellent blog posting on this subject written ny Ben Hunt of epsilontheory.com entitled “Things Fall Apart (Part 1)”
https://www.epsilontheory.com/things-fall-apart-pt-1/
There is a deep divide between both sides but maybe there are some issues, like healthcare, that could serve as a bridge.
Thanks for the share Buck P! It is really interesting to see what has happened to the political distribution of the elecorate since the 90s. I think Mr. Hunt is a little too optimistic though about there not being a second hot civil war.
I hope not! The oligarchs would be delighted by a civil war because they could through their proxies in government declare martial law via the NDAA and rescind the constituition. Whether a Trump supporter, a progressive or somewhere inbetween, everyone just wants a decent life for themselves and their children. The oligarchy through their political parties and MSM strive to keep us divided.
She’s reasoned, rational and intelligent. And young. She can easily learn about the 3 branches.
Funny how Reagan, Bush and Trump had/have none of those traits, but you Foxists criticize AOC.
LATINA Power. Viva Che. Viva Assata Shakur.
In today’s news, a Harvard professor claims a Chinese physician who edited the genes of a human embryo to make it HIV resistant is “immoral”.
Here’s a tip: the Chinese don’t care about Western elites’ “morality”, political correctness, or anything else. The Chinese aren’t trying to force top STEM university departments to accept under-qualified women or “minorities”. If 100% of the University of Beijing’s Engineering Class of 2022 is 100% male and 100% Asian, Chinese don’t care, as long as they are the most qualified applicants.
And there are four times as many Chinese as Americans.
Something to think about.
Sorry legalized-torture-USA, you lost the moral high ground and no longer get to lecture any nation on human rights.
But they do what it takes to advance their people. Not that they are right or occupy the moral highground. But they stand a chance of lasting longer than we do.
Well, I ought to do an original Irish Poem for today’s article, about how all this might end, so—
Marie Christmas???
An Irish Poem by Squeeky Fromm
There once was a thing called The Fed,
And it got an idea in its head!
Print to infinity. . .
Create liquidity,
And then we’ll eat cake, and not bread!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Interestingly, “cake” was the stuff peasants ate, because the special blend of rancid fat and stale flours were masked by a bit of chocolate and slave-labor sugarcane from the colonies. It was cheaper than bread.
“. . .special blend of rancid fat and stale flours were masked by a bit of chocolate and slave-labor sugarcane. . .”
Kind of like Lil Debbies, huh???
🙂
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Not at all! King Louie couldn’t have anticipated the advent of titanium dioxide nanoparticles. We eat high-tech here in the First World.
Come the Revolution, or the Zombie Apocalypse, mayhaps “eat high-tech” will have another meaning. . .
Think, Zuckerberg being chased down by hungry inhabitants of Silicon Valley with meat cleavers. Hmmm. A very rich diet!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky,
Have you noticed that if you put some of the “goo” stuffing from a Little Debbie” product on the sidewalk in summer,it will not rot nor age, and flies will not land on it?
Same with Hostess products, and the makings of Moon Pies….
Squeeky,
That’s really quite good. Accurate too!
Best,
JDH
Thank you, JDH!!! I am glad you liked it! ( I hope everybody got the word-play title.)
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
…Cake, not bread,
Do not worry your head,
Eat two portions today,
With a credit card, Pay,
For when the bill comes,
Might be dead anyway,
Can’t get blood from a turnip,
Nor blood from a rock,
When the credit man come,
Tell him “my pay to dock”
The Joke’s on the vendor,
The Jokes on the Bank,
Been laid off for years,
It’s the Fed you can thank….
I just heard about this Russian-Ukraine flare-up yesterday. I agree with our host that this fight is none of our business, but disagree that we are being dragged into it. The report I saw from a YouTube blogger whom I trust said that SOS Pompeo met with his Ukrainian counterpart just 10 days or so ago. I wonder what they discussed?
Channeling Victoria Nuland’s 2014 coup of Kiev’s legally elected pro-Russia government, our Deep State, as usual, is orchestrating the whole thing. It’s been that way for the Trump Admin ever since know-nothing Nikki Haley, in perhaps her first UN address, told Russia to give Crimea back.
“a YouTube blogger whom I trust ” – source?
I’ve been looking for one of those, ever since I was offended by something in the New York Times. Damn legacy media! Hopefully some Patriotic re-reporter news interpreter can reinject my life with a level of clinical certainty guaranteed to establish a healthy aura of “Its all good”.
@Debbie,
It’s called Blackstone Intelligence Network, hosted by Jake Morphonios. I couldn’t think of his name while writing, sorry. Do you not think that truth can be found anywhere on YouTube? Where do you get your “real” news from then?
The New York Times. Print edition.
Wait – the print edition? Well now, that changes everything!
Yes Scratch newsprint. Giving you yesterday’s news tomorrow.
Regarding our Southern border, if you can go by Yahoo comments, Trump’s hard stance against the invaders has the broad support of the American people, even if, (or especially because), it doesn’t meet with the MSM’s approval. Now, if only our GGG can keep traitorous Pompeo/Bolton from starting another war, while he is forced to waste time answering investigator Mueller’s ridiculous questions, this could be Trump’s Finest Hour!
Meanwhile, riots and fires on Paris streets, and it aint muzzies burning cars this time. No, its real Frenchmen protesting Macron’s — Chief Butt Pounder-in-charge — new Carbon Tax on fossil fuels ‘to halt global warming and switch to renewable energy.’ Apparently Frenchies aren’t buying it so they’re burning the place down, which surprises me because I thought Pierre was down with the paris accord and the GW agenda. What the hell is going on? You mean Pierre doesn’t want to pay $10 per gallon for gas, which seems like a pretty fair price to save the earth. Save the Earth!! (fist in the air) A direct tax on individual citizens of W Europe and the USA has been the wet dream of UN anti world thugs since 1945. Now its finally coming true.
brh
@brh,
Isn’t it possible that the Muslim hoards have taken this golden opportunity to piggyback in on the mayhem? Sounds like a perfect time to wreck more havoc while the native French are being blamed for it all.
Muslims are very stealthy and use all opportunities and openings to advance the will of allah. Westerners, as they are now, are no match for them.
Looks like Christians are very stealthy and make up utter shit from scratch, as if there weren’t enough true bad things happening to complain about.
Also looks like some Westerners are a great match for those stealthy Muslims.
“Isn’t it possible that the Muslim hoards…’
Anything’s ‘possible’, outsider. SSL was telling us the moon might be a spaceship with ‘watchers’ living on it.
But in this case it’s just about drivers getting pissed off at the price of diesel going up.
Has neither of you ever witnessed Spanish farmers ditching thousands of tons of tomatoes on the public highway or French
fishermen dumping fish in front of a town hall?
And not a Muslim in sight?
To say I’m saddened at the behaviour of both of you would be a gross understatement. You make everything pointless.
What kind of civilisation do you think you’re saving when you can’t refrain from making shit up just because you want it to be true, without the slightest shard of an iota of a sliver of evidence for what you’re suggesting, just pure, wholesome, apple-pie bigotry?
Sickening.
What pc nonsense. North Africa, Palestine, Asia Minor, etc were all once Christian until the Jihad roared in to murder and pillage and convert by the sword.
Shame on you for your arrogant ignorance.
Hordes not hoards.
Oh give me a break Alba!!! You have been grossly disappointed with me from day one. But yet, you refuse to see the obvious. The EU does actively adore Shariah Law. In October that body made the implementation of Islamic blasphemy laws much more likely in member states. Please research the Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff case! You also refuse to look at all of the violence being perpetuated by Muslims all over the world. Why do you think China has over a million of them in camps? But I see it is too much for you to get out of your safe space so you go back to your comfortable epithets. The sad thing to me is I feel like we get close and then we get so far away and I am trying. If you want to call me a bigot and all of that go ahead. I don’t call you names…
And just to clarify, I did not say the moon was a spaceship. I said it was an interesting idea in a discussion with seawolf a few threads back.
Janos
Quit with the fuckwittery. The subject was not North Africa, Palestine or Jihad, it was people making up pure fake news shit out of their own heads. Shame on you. Not that you’d recognise shame if it slapped you across the jowls.
CaptainS
Yes, it is ‘hordes’, I was going to correct it myself but decided, as I generally do, that an incapacity to spell wasn’t the point. The inability to spell ‘wreak’ likewise.
SSL
Gimme a break indeed. I came on here yesterday just to read and not to comment. Then I came back for five minutes before I went to bed, again not intending to comment.
But sometimes you come across evil lurking in the undergrowth dressed in something else entirely and if you walk past you give up all decency. I couldn’t get to sleep for hours after reading what outsider said and you sycophantically backed up. Sometimes the last straw can be a tiny one.
I’m not ‘disappointed in you’. I find you terrifying.
And, with apologies for the language, you can f*ck right off with your manipulative ‘safe space’ nonsense. How dare you, from the ignorance of your 28 sheltered years?
Why would I care if you call me names? You are a peddler of fake news and hatred and you dress it up in ‘Jesus love’. Real evil isn’t enough for you so you have to invent it.
You take me right back to the kind of antisemitism in Europe that started with one person after another saying ‘I wouldn’t be surprised if…’ and ended with kids snitching on their parents and friends, industrialised death camps and people pretending they didn’t know they existed because they couldn’t, could they, because we’re the good guys, right?
I hope to god you never get called for jury duty.
I’m done here. This website is too full of pure poison. CS Lewis, of whom I’ve read a damn sight more than you have, ‘Screwtape Letters’, ‘Surprised by Joy’, ‘Letters to Malcolm’ and more, would recognise what you just did as evil. Not nearly as evil as what the jihadists do, but evil nevertheless. ‘Great oaks from little acorns grow’.
What’s tragic is that some people can only see evil when it’s ‘over there’ and not when it’s right beside them nudging their elbow.
Thanks to those regulars who have made the site worth coming too, in particular Elrond, K-Dog, ozone, Walter and even volodya with whom I have sparred but whom I can respect (we agree on more than you’d think). And of those who only comment occasionally, all good wishes in particular to ChrisofFerngladeFarm and your labour of love.
For the poisoners, goodbye to your poison. Sometimes a person just needs to breathe clean air. And thanks to JHK, obviously, for all the writing. I’m sorry you don’t feel holocaust denial is even worth commenting on, if you ever did, but if you don’t care, I’m throwing my lot in with people who still do.
I forgot JohnAZ. One less person to argue with the climate deniers, JAZ – over to you 🙂 .
SSL
“And just to clarify, I did not say the moon was a spaceship.”
And just to clarify to you, I did not say you said the moon was a spaceship. I don’t expect you ever to be able to read the actual words in a sentence. Or to recognise the difference between a serious accusation and a p*ss take.
So actual logical thinking, I fear, will remain out of reach. Possibly with tragic consequences.
“The EU does actively adore Shariah Law.”
Of course it does, my dear, of course it does…
GA, Washington said farewell to the troops with fewer words.
To you anyone who cherishes western civilization is some xenophobic Nazi. So bye bye. But something tells me you’ll be back – and soon.
Thank you for the kind words, GreenAlba. I wish you all the best, and if caring for your mental health means never returning to this, er, place, then I’m sure many of us could benefit from your example. Farewell!
Thanks, Elrond. I’ve bookmarked your own site, but you don’t write often! Also a couple of others.
hmuller
You were civil to me, in more recent times, so thank you.
I am more protective of western civilisation than you know, but if its proponents descend into fake news and hyperbole in their desperation to ‘save’ it, it becomes that devalued currency JHK talks about so much and there’s less to save. This has always been ISIS’ actual aim – provoke them into destroying themselves.
As for your prediction, let’s see what 2020 looks like. By then we’ll hopefully see some interesting options lining over your way and we’ll have some concrete facts about Br(ex)itannia from over here. I’ll see you your GM closures and raise you Nissan’s in Sunderland 🙂 . In the meantime I need to get that keyboard and fritter away some time more healthily tinkling the ivories while there’s still juice – it can’t use more than this. All the best.
*lining up* Gawd, even had to finish on a self-correction.
Wow, Alba lost sleep because of the fact that I am aware of Islam’s stealthy and not so stealthy methods of attempting a global takeover. And no, her concern was not about the Muslims taking over the world. Her primary focus is on a girl in her twenties in very rural Louisiana commenting about facts that can be easily deduced from reading a Quran or doing the most basic of research…..
And yes, I love Jesus. Move on. You worship the creation and not the Creator. That is your choice.
I also find it very funny that Alba lambasted me for admitting up front that I was very emotional and was up and down alot. She made it known that I was an embarassment for admitting it and she asserted her superior rationality. And yet she leaves CFN in a huge emotional huff aimed at me mostly. I don’t want you to go Alba but respect whatever you want and need. I hope and wish for you and yours the best.
SSL, Green Alba will be back. I know her better than she knows herself.
I have a mental image of Green Alba as a Katherine Hepburn kind of woman, tucked up on some Scottish hillside overlooking a tranquil loch, thatched roof perhaps, communing with nature maybe sharing a song or two with the local nuthatches. Quite feisty as Scottish lasses are at least rumored to be and perhaps a little too sensitive to be able to take the kind of no respect, lower class verbal beatings that we Americans are all so prone to deal out. If everyone was like her, or like me for that matter, this world would be in serious trouble, but the addition of the wee Scottish Lassie was grand and I hope she reconsiders. Ask my wife if you doubt it, but if GA could put up with my bullshit, then she is one heck of a human being.
Sounds like we’re conducting a tear stained wake for the old gal, I hear sad bagpipes in the distance…. “the pipes, the pipes are calling.”
hmuller
“SSL, Green Alba will be back. I know her better than she knows herself.”
I don’t think so, at least I hope not. I try to avoid her posts but it is sometimes impossible.
The reason I say so is because she “pays her dues” (down to her Scottish protestant upbringing and ancestry – all people have their good points), but she cannot have liked our host’s criticism of liberal sacred cows and so will not want to continue to do this (Scots don’t like spending money to no purpose).
Well, if it’s not Mr Anti-Vaxxer of the School Prizes. One is awed. I’m not ‘back’, btw, but it’s interesting to hang around just long enough to see what the cowards have to say that they wouldn’t say to your face. No surprises there then.
Like Master Eoin, who resorts to the anatomical which he waits to drop behind a person’s back. So not just not gentlemen like Walter, with whom you know where you are, but not even men either. What a pair.
“she cannot have liked our host’s criticism of liberal sacred cows and so will not want to continue to do this (Scots don’t like spending money to no purpose).”
Dear God, the originality. Our little Anglo-leprechaun must have been up all night. And ‘she’s’ not a ‘liberal’, except to the terminally dim.
I told hmuller maybe 2020, so maybe see you then, Sean me lad. Keep up the good work.
Happy Christmas 🙂 .
‘GreenAlba’
I hope you stick around long enough to read this so.
It is interesting to see you cannot fight the reflex reaction. I told you about that before, remember. You are unable to restrain yourself.
It is not that I am afraid to say it to your face (whichever one) but (unlike you) I keep my promises. When I told you I wouldn’t be replying to you I kept to it. There is simply not enough time in the world to take you up on all of your nonsense as you obviously have time to burn.
As for talking behind backs the finger points at you, but you are not honest enough to say it. Let me remind you it was you who mouthed off here, while I had gone on holiday, that I wasn’t any good at science at school. And rounding off the deed with ingratiating smileys. That is not how I behave. I didn’t make you do it. You did it all by yourself. (For anyone reading, this was in support of your evidence-free claim that dyslexia is anything more than a just word. And your husband (the doctor) suffers from dyslexia but, absurdly, can read faster than anyone else in the world. You really are a clown!)
I am the only one here who tells you what he really thinks of you. If you want the full list of reasons then come back in the next thread and I will oblige. But I would be surprised. If you are feeling brave use your real name.
And finally: News flash! She’s not a liberal! Another earth-shattering revelation straight from the mouth of Mrs I-didn’t-say-that-where-did-I-write-that?
Sean, my dear, I have no interest in trading insults with you. I’ve seen you swatted neatly by others for your nonsense, so I can see why you’d want to ingratiate yourself with the readership with yesterday’s pathetic little post.
I fully expected you to catch up with the comments when returning from holiday, as I would myself. I was rather hoping you’d get it before you left.
Now, why don’t you stop wasting time on someone whose posts you don’t read and put on those big boy pants. There are fantasies to be unravelled, molesters to be rehabilitated and whole churches to be whitewashed, although I even took the trouble to put in a word for yours recently against one of the all-or-nothing types who was being mean to it. There’s no gratitude, is there, Sean…
And I do with you a Happy Christmas, Sean. We’re two fogies on a discussion board and long-term vendettas with complete strangers are not my thing, so I bear you no ill will at all.
And my name’s Sheila. Not a name I care for but it’s the one I have. You’ll have to pardon me for giving you just half of it, for no other reasons than general security.
All the best. If I do return, the slate will be blank as far as I’m concerned. There’s enough nonsense in the world, I think.
I watched some BBC vids there about the protests by the “yellow vests”– working people who have jobs as drivers.
Many of them looked like they were wearing hand me downs, or generally just poorly attired. But that’s what happens when the government takes too much of your money as a worker. There is nothing left.
Wait till automated trucking/cars takes whatever work these people were getting.
On a related item, GM is halting production on the Chevvy ‘Volt’. Not selling enough. Looks like the electric car craze exists only in the fevered minds of hosts on PBS and PMSNBC.
brh
Pete, those ‘Yellow Vests’
French equivalent of American ‘Deplorables’
Who gives a ff-k what they think when we’re doing the important work of saving Mother Earth here?
Besides who needs them anyway they’re being replaced by muzzies and black Africans? Have you seen Paris lately?
brh
What are you driving these days brh?
Probably a 350 hemi? Chrome babes on the mudflaps? Thats what a real man delivers a load of baguettes in.
Nah, just an F250. 10 years old already.
i need something formidable for when I go down into Hartford to work every night. Its not the kind of place you want to be broke down in a Yugo.
brh
I see an autonomous Ford Electric truck in your future
Outfitted with aftermarket battering ram and a halo of concertina wire
The Great Depression was a shitty time in history but there was one benefit, a lot of bad behavior came to a stop. I recall reading that a lot of Wall Street types jumped off tall buildings. Apparently there wasn’t as much of an appetite back then for backstopping malefactors.
If there’s any benefit to a bunch of wheels coming off more or less simultaneously, it’s the same thing, maybe the resulting wreck can’t be salvaged and we’ll have to do start doing things that are both workable and sustainable. Bad behavior comes to a stop IOW.
That would mean that a whole lot of bad actors that have been plaguing us for a couple generations might finally get dumped on the garbage barge of failed arrangements.
yep I agree there Volodya.
USA 1930–20% farmers? 90% White.
Hungry people could work on farms.
Today, hazmat suits and Monsanto.
And GMO.
I was referring to OSHA-work conditions, not the quality of the produce.
Ah gotchya – not as easy to do now with all the regs?
I know we are filled up with lying politicians but the border thing is the most obvious weakness we have in my opinion. Nobody seriously believes that an alleged super power can’t manage its borders right? Even a dense millenial like me can figure that one out. So we should follow the money and see who benefits from this dangerous negligence and give them their just deserts. And with the invaders, all it will take is opening fire on em when they bum rush the border and presto they will stop. Duh!!!!!
Cheap labor for the republicans and easy votes for the democrats. We are being betrayed by both “parties”. They party, we pay. Seems fair to them.
So we need a new party altogether then, if we have the time. Or we just may get that dictator we talk about from time to time. Which makes it clear to me, at least, that a focus on Nationalism is the only way forward. Party schmarty…the ones we got are losers.
Really Walter, why should elites from either party give a sh-t if even a billion 3rd world illegals break in here?
Safe inside their gated estates, jetting all over the world to places like Davos and Aspen for this or that GW conference, kids in private boarding schools, guarded by armed security at all times when they venture out in public, what difference does it make to them whos on the other side of the barbed wire?
And then you have multi millionaire entertainers like Bruce Springstein making noise in support of the Last Chance Caravan so as to appear to be down with the struggle and to burnish their lefty multi cult credentials. Hey Boss, if you’re looking in, take your guitar and pound it your ass.
brh
In days gone by the government actually needed the people for income through taxation and fees to support its operating expenses and salaries. Today with the availability of money printing for free and endless borrowing and credit, we are no longer needed. In fact, I wonder why they tax us at all seeing as they spend many times more than we pay in taxes every damned day, year after year.
The entertainers and celebrities are another story. After centuries of singing for their supper and being flayed in public should they fail to amuse, mass media, marketing and social programming has allowed these relatively worthless class of non-working people to amass great personal fortunes. Being of little or no class, they often act like the prima donnas that they and Tiny Bruce are and why people stand for it is beyond me. I actually ran into the little tyke once outside the Stone Pony after a Clarence Clemmons concert that he crashed and I swear the little bastard is only three and a half feet tall. Perhaps he suffers from a Napoleon Complex.
Lol and wasn’t he called the Boss :-)?
Why stick it to Springsteen because he made a lot of money from being a popular & successful musician?
He’s a working-class-rooted Jersey boy and that doesn’t necessarily change with a few bucks.
He’s also openly progressive politically, and saw through that fat turd, Christie, a long time ago.
It obviously did change.
No Majella, Bruce’s success as a musician is good for him, I bear him no ill will for that. When he put out the “Born in the USA” song, a 6 note, repeated over and over poor excuse for music, playing off the Vietnam War for profit, well that turned me off to him altogether. It was not his fault that he failed the Army physical when he was drafted, in fact good for him, but to use that damned awful war to write that crappy song for profit was just too much for me.
His “Nebraska” album is a great classic and the “Born to Run” was not bad, but for these hack musicians to presume to stand up and give us lessons in morality and politics is an insult. You are a strolling minstrel, stick to the music. Those of us that live regular hardworking, productive lives are not mega-wealthy rock stars who never worked a day in their lives. Stop feeding off of us and then preaching to us. We do not need your opinions, thank you very much.
No mention of oil at $50 down from $75 two months ago. Hmm.
A good point Ludwig. Has anyone besides me found it strange that for the first time in my 64 years, gas at the pump prices that dropped from $4.00 a gallon in 2008 to $2.50 since then have not budged in over a decade? If I recall, gas was 36 cents a gallon when I started driving and rose surely and steadily until it reached the $4.pp mark, then bingo, $2.50 and holding. A curious phenomena, no? I smell a rat.
Walter,
On the Left Coast, Oregon, regular low test is $3.37 per.
Over here for the past week Unleaded has been at $2.25 and diesel at $3.37. A hell of a gap in price.
Regarding the Navy dustup between Ukraine and Russia … if we somehow get involved, does anybody know, what’s the status of the USS Harvey Milk? Has it been on its shakedown cruise yet? I understand the crew is ‘hand picked’. And don’t expect the Milk to approach Russia thru Gallipoli and into the Black Sea … I think it will be more stealth than that, maybe a backdoor approach across the Pacific and an assault on Vladivostock like the Japs in 1905.
brh
hardy-har-har.
If the USS Harvey Milk attacks Russia from the rear, will Greece help?
Maybe the ANUs (Air Naval Units) will spread out and provide and provide an opening for the Milk???
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Capt,
Yes, the Greeks will have their back….
Cruise [look for gay booty] on the aptly named Harvey Milk.
Sorry, I get the pun.
here my dear
https://dailycaller.com/2015/07/15/why-doesnt-obama-condemn-boy-rapist-harvey-milk/
“Tijuana is now choking on the thousands of wanderers who were induced to march north to test America’s broken immigration policies. What could go wrong?”
The legal quota for the most desirable immigrant class, the ones at the center of this who-ha, is absolute zero. That sums up the problem and this has festered for decades. Any poor, uneducated, non-English speaker, keep in mind this is the worker class who we have been covering for all these years, has NO opportunity for legal entry into these United States. Congress hasn’t touched it: probably won’t this time either.
Friends! I think we all need a laugh. 2 minutes of gold.
“Trump Voter Feels Betrayed By President After Reading 800 Pages Of Queer Feminist Theory”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzVc7s-_e8
I heard he’s headed back to college for a new degree in gender studies. He is going to minor in Klingon too lol.
Trump’s legacy may be setting up right now with two events.
No. 1. The border crisis which is just starting. Maybe 5000 there now, what happens when TJ gets another 15-20 thousand more. These people are going to crash the gates, what Trump does is no.1.
No. 2 is just as important. Slow sales, someone mentioned the Volt, has moved Barra and the board of GM to cut 14000 US and Canadian jobs of which 8000 are white collar and 6000 are factory jobs. The UAW is up in arms, and the factories to be maintained are in Mexico and China. Trump is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Let GM do it and his Midwest base dissolves, use the government to control GM’s action and he is nationalizing private business. Remember our tax dollars bailed out GM a few years ago. The 2020 election may depend on the outcome of these two events.
Walter B and Scratch
I am not a proponent of bad corporations and I really hate corporations that screw the US for a few percentage points of profits. Corporations manipulate because they are encouraged by the Deep State and their lobbyists. Corporations do though control the mentality of the stock market, bond market and thus the capital core of the country. Good corporate behavior should be met with approval, bad corporations should be destroyed. Including all corporations that involve themselves in politics. Mission Impossible? Probably. I do believe that globalization of US corporations should be stopped.
Small business and the Mom & Pop operations were the backbone of the American economy when we were at our peak. It was not a coincidence and I am certain that you know this as well. When a corporation serves the country’s needs it is an asset. When it serves its own needs it becomes a liability. Once upon a time the government helped the people by maintaining this balance. They have since sold us all out.
Sure, and not a strong dollar, diverse economy, multinational corporations ascendent? A whole lotta cheap primary energy? Checks written on the future ?
A lot of people believe WalMart is serving the country’s need with Low Low Prices, and even if they don’t, they shop there anyway.
So, to pin you down here Walter, when was the precise “peak”? +/- 3 years?
Well it started after WWII and was passed, I would say, when Glass-Steagall was done away with, what was that 1999? Corporate raiding started, what in the 1970’s, so move the end to there and let us look further. If you consider the Korean and the Vietnam debacles you can move the beginning of the end back to the early fifties, so I would theorize that the US peak occurred between 1947 and 1952. Let the argument begin! And no, I was not here yet to witness this first hand.
I’m pretty sure Trump was there during the golden age- he took a lot of the gold and used if to gild his condo.
If you consider the Korean and the Vietnam debacles you can move the beginning of the end back to the early fifties, so I would theorize that the US peak occurred between 1947 and 1952.
Right you are, Walter! By the late 50’s, such noted social critics as C. Wright Mills (The Power Elite) had already completed a detailed road map of corporate capitalist public/private corruption, so the elites’ secrets were already leaking out from a handful of courageous people who were in the know and were still unafraid to say so in unvarnished terms. The JFK debacle completed the original coup in emphatic fashion, while 9-11 reinforced and updated it for the current generations.
Good corporate behavior should be met with approval, bad corporations should be destroyed.
A couple of problems with that sentiment, though, JAZ.
One, who’s going to decide which is which? Mr Market or the corporate bought and paid for politicians? They both already favor whatever enriches the almighty shareholders and corporate execs and they work together synergistically to influence legislation further in they and theirs’ favor.
Two, the capitalist system, as designed, inherently favors the Corporations that get ahead of the rest via whatever means possible, so “good corporations” (is there actually such a thing?) either become “bad corporations” over time or they simply get run out of business or absorbed by another bad corporation. Law of the jungle and all that.
And finally, for bonus points, three, the corporate money worshiping mentality gradually filters down to and infects the larger society as a whole – legally, morally, and philosophically – such that over time our very notions of corruption and greed become so watered down that you see exactly what we observe today: a society that worships the proverbial golden calf of money at the expense of all else and which now possesses no moral compass whatsoever other than unbridled greed to guide it in its affairs.
We Will. The Fascists and National Socialists. We are bound to make some mistakes, but we will learn on the job. Coffee and doughnuts when we show up might help to get on our good side. Ditto pretty secretaries.
But Evil must be punished, regardless of sugar highs or leg shows. You know this….
Learning on the job is always the way it works. Waiting for the next great theory of this, that, or the other is most often a luxury that can’t be afforded, especially since high-minded theories rarely work out as planned either.
Lol coffee, doughnuts, and pretty secretaries :-).
I think you are right. The rest of them can’t seem to do it and I want peace and stability.
I suspect that the wholesale slaughter of Lincoln and Grant’s industrial war of attrition of the US Civil War may have been traumatizing to the North, and the Yankees may have compensated psychologically by finding meaning in adopting the freed slaves’ vision of the Yankees as the Hand of God akin to Moses freeing the slaves? “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.” The US Civil War may have fomented a mass delusion and psychosis?
I guess, absent any scholarship or deep research, you might suspect lots of things.
You might purport to link any of several random concepts and characters from the Bible and U.S. History and without reflection, offer it up here as grist for conversation.
That’s a very Bad Faith, red herring comment.
It is common knowledge that the Civil War entailed mass industrial slaughter. More men died at Shiloh than all prior US wars combined. Many newspaper editors at the time cursed both Lincoln and Grant as mass murderers. Mary Lincoln called Grant a butcher unfit to lead an army. Many of Grant’s troops and Northern politicians called for Lincoln to fire Grant after Shiloh. It is clear that the unprecedented mass industrial slaughter of the Civil War created a mass psychosis.
It is common knowledge that everyone in the mid-19th century read the Bible, and it was the mental axis Mundi of the masses.
Heres what else they read:
The New York Times (1851) …
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, the Whale (1851) …
Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1853) …
Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) …
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855) …
The war started in ’61. Whitman reported on it for the papers and later his collected observations were put in book form. Fascinating reading.
The negro slaves didn’t read any of those works, but they were universally familiar with the stories from the Bible.
Because of the extremely bizarre and dysfunctional nature of Plantation slavery, I suspect that when the Yankee soldiers liberated those Mississippi Plantations that the slaves were largely brainwashed and brain Fucked? According to Booker T Washington, the freed slaves thought that freedom meant that they wouldn’t have to work anymore. God only knows what they were thinking?
Many elderly Blacks ended up on the street. They could be heard saying, I hate this Freedom shit.
Many resisted leaving their owners, as well. Sharecropping was to be its own brand of hell for many thereafter. Slavery would have eventually died out of its own accord regardless. The issue was mostly adopted by the north to put a humanist face on what was first and foremost a war of corporate capitalist federalist aggression against a still largely agrarian Southern economy and lifestyle. The same issue exists in the rural south, mid-west, and west today, although the federal leviathan has largely squashed it for practical purposes.
Yes, who listened to the Southern Agrarians, or their Northern counterparts, then or now?
Trump is facing a government shutdown in ten days because he insists on billions of dollars to build a wall. During the campaign Trump promised he would build the wall and promised Mexico would pay for it. Now Trump should get the money from Mexico as he promised, or he should take a hike. No way he will get those billions from taxpayers.
Enjoy your government shutdown. Newly elected adults, including AOC, arrive in a month. Trump’s world is about to change bigly.
When are you going to diversify your hobbies? You do believe in diversity don’t you?
The Blue Wave continues to grow. Today Mia Love coceded to Ben McAdams in Utah. Another Republican left in the dust as the Democratic majority continues to grow.
With Trump fatigue growing and Trump’s disapproval rating at an all-time high of 60%, soon Democrats will gain control of both the Senate and the White House.
To clarify: Democrats will have control of three chambers while the courts remain neutral.
>>> Democrats will have control of three chambers
LOL. And which three “chambers” might those be?
Someone’s been getting their civics lessons from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…
House chamber, Senate chamber, Oval chamber at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Joke’s on you. AOC was elected. You are still a commoner who will be ruled by her decisions.
>>> Oval chamber at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Tell us more about this oval chamber. It sounds salacious!
The Oval Chamber guides the other two chambers to produce LEGISLATION which once voted out by the Senate Chamber and the House Chamber is sent to the Oval Chamber for final signature.
The three chambers work synergistically in Democratic administrations. Trump is incompetent and ignorant of how the three chambers work and how the three parts of the nuclear triad work.
>>> and how the three parts of the nuclear triad work.
Are you sure it’s “nuclear triad” and not the three nuclear chambers?
It is the US defense doctrine, which is beyond Trump’s grasp, although putatively he is “commander in chief” of the armed forces.
>>> which is beyond Trump’s grasp
This coming from someone who thinks we have three chambers of government and an oval chamber.
The last time the Democrats had The House, Senate and the Presidency. We got Obamacare. Pelosi did not even know what it was when she voted for it. Now like every other robbery by the government, it refuses to go away.
If Jbots prediction happens, we will be facing the end of America as we know it. And the people electing the Democrats into office will deserve their fate. That is the nature of a republic.
And Jbot, you said Semper Fi a few days ago. I doubt any of the Corps would consider that appropriate from you.
Democratic house candidates won an 8.8 million margin in 2018, the largest in the history of midterms elections. Trump is still campaigning … tonight in Mississippi. Democrats defeated Roy Moore in Alabama. The South is trending Blue.
Yes janet – millions of dead people, illegal aliens, and fake ballots vote. The funny thing is you celebrate it. I will wait to celebrate when the rug is pulled from underneath you.
Fake news. Trump’s own election integrity commission could not find a single case of an illegal vote, not a single case of voter fraud. Trump dissolved the commission after eight months of reckless spending of taxpayer monies.
>>> not a single case of voter fraud.
9 accused of bribing Skid Row homeless in voter fraud scheme
Whether it’s the “three chambers” of government, the “Oval chamber”, voting fraud, or just about any other issue—leave it to janet to put the idiot back in “village idiot”.
Can’t ham sandwiches be accused. Accusations do not equal guilt. We are a nation of over 300 million with no voter fraud.
You are too predictable janet. A nation of 300 million without any voter fraud….
>>> Can’t ham sandwiches be accused. Accusations do not equal guilt. We are a nation of over 300 million with no voter fraud.
Texas Woman Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Voter Fraud Loses Bid for New Trial
That’s not an accusation; that’s a conviction. And there are PLENTY more. I found that within two minutes of searching specifically for convictions.
@Janet,
Very simple really. The darker the country gets the bluer it gets. The D’s are smart enough to know this, hence they want a new electorate with whites replaced. After getting thumped in the midterms, the civic nationalist cheap labor faction of the R’s better realize it by now. Their only political future, if they want to stay in office, is to get behind their Dear Leader 100%.
Obamacare (nee Romneycare) was passed by the 111th congress. Interestingly,
“The 111th Congress had the most experienced members in history: at the start of the 111th Congress, the average member of the House had served 10.3 years, while the average Senator had served 13.4 years.
This Congress has been considered one of the most productive Congresses in history in terms of legislation passed since the 89th Congress, during Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration.”
Yes, the three chambers were working together beautifully back then and will again in 2021.
We desperately need Congressional term limits. I would even vote for Democrats if it meant getting term limits. Of course Dems like to come off as the party of the common man, oops! I mean, woman, oops! I mean, woperson, oops! I mean, woperdaughter. Whew! I knew I could get rid of all those evil male references if I tried hard enough! As I was saying, Dems like to come off as the party of the common woperdaughter, but notice they’re not pushing for term limits…
TRUTHTELLER RECEIVES FINANCIAL SUPPORT
In a post on GoFundMe thanking her supporters, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford shared what her life has been like since she accused then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.
“Although coming forward was terrifying, and caused disruption to our lives, I am grateful to have had the opportunity to fulfill my civic duty,” Ford wrote in a post published to the fundraising site last Wednesday.
“Having done so, I am in awe of the many women and men who have written me to share similar life experiences, and now have bravely shared their experience with friends and family, many for the first time,” she continued. “I send you my heartfelt love and support.”
A group of supporters created the GoFundMe page last month to help defray the cost of security and other unexpected expenses Ford has faced since she accused Kavanaugh in September of sexually assaulting her when the two were in high school. The fundraiser easily surpassed its initial goal of $150,000 and, as of Monday afternoon, had raised over $647,000 for Ford and her family.
Great job celebrating a liar and making a mockery of real victims. Kudos to you janet wahoo!!!! Perfect examples of the most disguisting elements of society. Liars who make millions – like your dream couple the Clintons. Oh look, another liar and rapist.
For Trump campaign collusion with Russia Trump’s campaign manager is facing 17 to 20 years hard time in prison.
Former anti-pot, suburban mayor and now Weed Tycoon, “Bob” looks a bit like pedophile actor, Kevin Spacey. By the way, Kevin Spacey is out walking around, while half blind, 81 year old Bill Cosby is now in prison teaching his fellow inmates on how to improve their diet. Go figure….
These politicians are a danger to themselves and to the community.
https://www.planet13holdings.com/about-robert-groesbeck/
Trump promised manufacturing jobs would return to the US. Instead we get 15,000 laid off by GM and jobs exported to Mexico. How gullible does Trump think we are?
Trump threatens to “shut down the southern border” LOL. Another lie.
Anybody know how long the southern border is? It is impossible to “close” a border 1,900 miles long.
We need an open border. We need respect for the legally established process of requesting asylum. We need to speed up adjudication. An open border will facilitate processing of proper asylum seekers. That is the law. Can’t wait until Nancy Pelosi takes control in January.
1,900 miles! How gullible does Trump think we are? Millions of dollars to put kids in cages in civilian concentration camps every day. Obama was smarter to put ankle bracelets and guarantee they show up for the asylum hearing. Daily cost to wear an ankle bracelet: zero dollars.
>>> Obama was smarter to put ankle bracelets and guarantee they show up for the asylum hearing.
ICE: 3 in 10 illegal immigrant family units cut off ankle bracelets after being released from custody
LOL tell us more about how “smart” Obama was.
janet you are batting zero.
“We got Obamacare.“ —JohnAZ
YES! And thank God Obamacare is still the law of the land. Obamacare gave us protection for pre-existing conditions, which over 90% of Americans support.
Obamacare flipped 39 Republican seats from red to BLUE! Starting January 3, 2019 Obamacare will be protected and improved by the Democratic majority. Obamacare will not be repealed as Trump promised to do “on day one” … another lie.
SSL et al
The demon is awake tonight.
She works on you, takes the good things that you say and tries to grind it into the ground. She feeds on your discord, the more you get insulted by what she says, the more she bores in. She is an exaggerating, lying, fact baiting, spinning Liberal just like all the rest of them.
She wants one thing, the destruction of the Constitutional USA, again, like all the rest of them.
Boycott, ignore her, what she says is not worth listening to.
Coyote waits. The demon never sleeps. No one in Arizona is safe, scaredy cat. Boo!
If janet really lives in the States at all..anyhoo janet is just a player..but yes, let’s stop putting food out on the porch ;-).
Yes. Silence is consent. Thank you.
No consent for you!!!!!
Most economists agree that globalism provides a net benefit to individual economies around the world, by making markets more efficient, increasing competition, limiting military conflicts, and spreading wealth more equally around the world.
Globalism boosts technology transfer, industrial restructuring, and the growth of global companies.
Globalism has increased competition and helps stimulate new technology development, particularly with the growth in foreign direct investment which helps improve economic output by making processes more efficient.
Globalism enables large companies to realize economies of scale that reduce costs and prices, which in turn supports further economic growth.
Simply stated: globalism is inevitable and irreversible in the 21st century.
Your last post really shows either your ignorance or your hatred of America and Americans
Look out America, Janet wants you to make the same wages as people in Honduras, Malaysia, Philippines, etc. To be competitive, her words, you must not make more than $1.25 an hour. I hope you enjoy you standard of living change.
Obviously, you hate the working man in the US, equating him to overseas workers.
Are you Mary Barras in disguise?
Oh, wait a minute. Maybe she means that people in overseas will make our minimum wage of $15 an hour. Lady, the world will laugh at you on that one. As do I.
As usual, the Lib comes up with really dumb statements that have absolutely no basis in reality.
Yes, the reason why Labor used to be against it: illegals are SCABS. But Big Labor has betrayed America, just like Big Government, Business, Religion, Schooling and Big everything else.
Small is beautiful. And it’s ok to be White.
Simply stated: the end of globalism is inevitable and irreversible in the 21st century, as the oil that created and sustained it runs out.
Janet reflects the complete and transparent hypocrisy of today’s left wingers who claim they support American workers. In fact, they support Wall Street’s globalist agenda and it really irks them that the rust belt deplorables are beginning to see thru their bullshit and candy cane promises.
You wear as many masks as needed, Janet, but the enslavement of humanity under an Orwellian world dictatorship is your goal.
You’ll never win, we’ll rise again!
Simply stated: globalism is inevitable and irreversible in the 21st century.
That’s a fatalist argument if I ever heard one! Fortunately, it’s also fallacious. The high tide for globalism has already come ashore and is now not so quietly receding back into the depths of failed ideas from which it came.
Globalism’s day is almost done! YAY!!!!
Globalism is a term created to fool people. It has always existed. Yes the internet exacerbated its effects, but so did Yankee Clippers and the railroads. There is nothing new under the sun. You can’t stop what’s coming. That’s vanity. Globalism will never die.
So it seems you disagree with Mr. K about an impending economic/financial collapse? That sure would bring an end to globalism. Bigger doesn’t always mean better you know.
Exscoticus, let’s review the bidding:
I noted Democrats won the 2018 midterm elections by a margin of 8.8 million votes, greater than any election in the history of the USA.
SoftStarLight claimed, without providing any evidence, that dead people, fake ballots, and voter fraud explains the large 8.8 miilion win by Democrats.
You chimed in with an accusation and a claim about one instance of alleged voter fraud in some past election. Like SoftStarLight, you have provided zero proof about the 2018 midterm election in question because there was no voter fraud. Provide a link or it didn’t happen.
Oh I provided evidence, but then you demanded convictions only. Well even a traffic conviction can take months, and the midterms just happened. Wait a bit, and those indictments I linked to will become convictions.
Furthermore, you demand only convictions for this midterm election. So are you now finally admitting that voter fraud happened in the 2016 POTUS election as the links confirmed? Because now the burden of proof is on YOU to explain how voter fraud was possible in 2016 and not possible in 2018.
The fact is that the entire nation witnessed systemic voter fraud on a vast scale in the form of ballot irregularities in Palm Beach and Broward County in Florida.
A judge determined that Palm Beach county election supervisor, Susan Bucher, had illegally withheld over voted and under voted ballots from the canvassing board. And in violation of state law she refused to allow public scrutiny of the ballot counting.
Meanwhile, there are at least 20 million illegal immigrants in the USA, and liberals states like California are doing everthing they can to facilitate voter fraud.
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN BITES THE DUST GIVING DEMOCRATS 40 SEATS FLIPPED
Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif., surrendered the lead Monday in his CD21 House race that will determine whether Democrats achieve a net gain of 40 seats in the next term.
>>> 40 SEATS FLIPPED
40 x 0 = 0. Whether it’s 40 or 100, it’s still a lame-duck House that can do nothing but political theater.
Senate within reach… especially after Mueller’s report devastates any last vestige of legitimacy Trump has to the office he holds.
The Senate will remain in GOP hands for the next two years. And while the House is doing NOTHING, the Senate will be confirming more conservative judges.
>>> especially after Mueller’s report devastates any last vestige of legitimacy Trump has to the office he holds.
LOL. We’re soooo scared! Trump supporters couldn’t care less about some partisan report. It’s just another fake dossier—just like the fake dossier that Mueller’s entire mandate is based on.
“Maybe she means that people in overseas will make our minimum wage of $15 an hour.“ —JohnAZ
Yes! And union representation, and worker safety, and health care, and bathroom breaks, and paid paternity/maternity leave, and pension plans, and childcare, and guarantees to protect the environment.
Judge with jurisdiction over Donald Trump rules charitable foundation lawsuit against Trump and Trump’s children can go forward. Trump’s world of hurt is just beginning.
Just think about it. The Dems have brought forth on the scene a 28 year old New Yorker, who cannot get her facts straight with little experience, and anoints her as the guru of the Progressive wing of the party. Lord, if that is the best they can do, Trump is a shoe-in.
I have heard that the Dems are trying to corral that big mouth as she is causing a lot of damage to their cause.
Also heard an intelligent Dem on Tucker tonight saying that this errant migration is really bad for the US workers and really bad as a brain and labor drain to the countries they are deserting.
Not all Dems are as stubborn as Jbot.
“the countries they are deserting.“ — JohnAZ
JohnAZ, I believe in freedom of movement. The pilgrims wanted to escape persecution so they “deserted” their country, as anyone should have the right to do to seek a better life for themselves and their children. Immigrants are a net positive for the US.
You don’t seem to believe in freedom of movement. You don’t seem to appreciate how accepting immigration is part of our national heritage and our values. But our judges do so it’s cool.
BTW, all this southern border fuss is a distraction. Building a wall is a distraction and a waste of time, energy and money. Concertina wire is a distraction and a waste. Immigration will continue because you cannot put concertina wire around the desks of United, Delta, Southwest, American Arlines, etc. and that is where 40% of immigration happens, in airports, with visitor visas that are overstayed. Can’t build walls around airports. Can’t stop immigrants who want to live here. Nor should we.
Respect freedom of choice. Legalize the millions of undocumented human beings living, working, and paying taxes here now!
Give them immediate citizenship now without making them wait 17 years. Don’t make them jump through endless red tape hoops.
Eliminate ICE. Close the federal concentration camps that separate children from their parents. Stop the disgrace of traumatizing children. Stop putting children into cages with foil for blankets. Lock up Trump.
>>> JohnAZ, I believe in freedom of movement.
So do locusts and mosquitoes. So nice of you to openly admit your affinity for parasites.
Not parasites. Freedom lovers seeking a better life here, as is their right. Immigrants value freedom, not “free stuff”
AMERICA IS STRENGTHENED BY THE CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY IMMIGRANTS.
FOR THE U.S. ECONOMY TO FLOURISH TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL, OUTDATED IMMIGRATION POLICY MUST BE MODERNIZED.
Use all-caps all you want; America will not be strengthened by another 20 million parasites that use their own children as human shields.
Those parasite cut every lawn in Texas and California. They also clean a lot of house. You Trumpers can relate to that. ALOT. ALOT. Imagine Trump saying that with that mongoloid supercilious look he gets when he thinks he’s the only one in the room who gets it.
Yes, and they’re why kids can’t get jobs anymore. And in the few places where your race hasn’t penetrated, the coffee gets poured, the grass cut, and the beds made. Amazing, eh?
We don’t need you people.
Just because kids cut grass when you were a kid doesn’t mean they do it today. They work on iphones and computers now. Wrong again Maude!
Sure they do. They just won’t come to your house because they know you will stare at them, bring them lemonade, start acting flirtatious, etc.
We need immigrants like we need Rabies.
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? . . . Has it ever occurred to you that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who
could understand such a conversation as we are having now? . . . The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be
no thought, as we understand it now, for Orthodoxy means not thinking . . .not needing to think . . .Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
George Orwell
Thanks SF
Trump’s most recent approval rating is down five percentage points since last week’s Gallup poll and reflects a slight decrease in almost every demographic group, but especially among those aged 18-29, who went from 35% approval of the President to 28%. The disapproval rating increased seven percentage points since last week.
If Trump pardons Manafort, that takes away his fifth amendment protection. Manafort could be subject to subpoena and forced to testify… or go back to prison.
Trump is in a world of hurt, as a result of his own illegitimacy, illegal activities, greed, and corruption.
>>> Manafort could be subject to subpoena and forced to testify… or go back to prison.
Wrong. A POTUS pardon is sweeping and would protect Manafort from ANY prosecution related to his offenses. Any attempt to re-prosecute Manafort would end up in the CONSERVATIVE Supreme Court where Justice KAVANAUGH will have the final say.
But if you have any doubts, just ask Bill Clinton’s brother, Roger, who was pardoned by Clinton in one of the most blatant examples of POTUS nepotism on record.
Wrong. There are states with intention to prosecute Manafort. Federal pardons issued by the president apply only to federal law; they do not apply to civil, state, or local offenses. Manafort can be forced to testify and Trump, as president or as soon to be civilian, cannot protect Manafort.
Wrong. If Manafort is forced to testify, he can appeal to an increasingly conservative federal court. SCOTUS can override ANY state court.
Wong! Wong wong wong……wong.
Wrong. SCOTUS must abide by precedent. SCOTUS cannot arbitrarily intervene in an open and shut case to overturn in a partisan fasion. Any judge acting in that manner can be impeached and removed from the court.
Janet, what you call “arbitrary” or “open and shut” may not be seen that way by others. Do you know the procedure for removing a US Supreme Court Justice?
It’s the same as with the President. A simple House majority to impeach; a two thirds Senate majority to convict. If you think there are 67 Senate votes to convict and remove a justice for carrying out Trump’s orders, you are as delusional as you appear to be.
Let me rephrase that. The Supreme Court does not carry out a President’s orders. If Executive actions are challenged through the courts, the SCOTUS will be the ultimate authority on allowing or disallowing such Executive actions.
Janet thinks if the SCOTUS upholds Trump’s actions, all 47 Democratic Senators and 20 Republican Senators (67 total) will try and remove such Supreme Court Justices from office. I say, no way.
Trump will also be subject to state prosecution after he is no longer president and a whole raft of sealed indictments are opened. Trump will spend a good part of his life in court and prison.
Asylum seekers have a legal right to seek asylum. President Trump is acting unlawfully. Tear gassing children is unlawful. Trump is a disgrace to America and the laughing stock of the world.
>>> Asylum seekers have a legal right to seek asylum.
A legal right to seek asylum is not a legal right to unlawfully cross the border in defiance of law enforcement. It is not a legal right to throw rocks, and throw Molotov cocktails, and use battering rams, and place children at risk, and all the other unlawful activity this parasitic lawless mob is engaged in.
>>> Tear gassing children is unlawful.
Taking children along on a crime spree to use as human shields is unlawful. These parasites have purposely and cruelly placed their children in harm’s way to satisfy their own selfish ends. Endangering the life of a child is a FELONY.
Note the hypocritical liberal MSM. Michael Jackson dangled his baby over a balcony and the press screamed CHILD ENDANGERMENT for weeks. These parasites used their own children as human shields and the MSM calls them courageous.
>>> Trump is a disgrace to America and the laughing stock of the world.
The world is following Trump’s example. All over Europe—rampaging immigrant hordes are no longer welcome. Muslim lover Angela Merkel is paying the political price for selling out Germany. Even Hillary Clinton has flip-flopped and now sides with Trump! LOL. Your hero, janet—the women YOU voted for—is now against open borders and unlawful immigration.
Trump won Mississippi by twenty points. Then he went to Mississippi to campaign and turned it into a close race. Another indication Trump’s disapproval rating is increasing, even in solidly red states.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/give-alex-jones-press-credentials-and-sit-him-next-jim-acosta
Vote! This is America, damn it. What’s not to love here? If we can’t get rid of Jim, make him sit with a good madman like Alex. C’mon dudes, what have you got to lose except your imaginary clean hands?
And ladies, I give you permission to vote Just This Once….
“What have you got to lose?” Is exactly what Trump said to African Americans to get their votes. It is the exact answer Mia Love gave back to Trump today in her concession speech. Trump loser. 40 seat net gain was a strong rejection of Trump.
Enjoy your government being shut down over a stupid wall.
Trump won the 2016 POTUS election on building that wall and has a MANDATE to do so. Recent events at our border emphasize the need for the wall. No more razor wire or half measures. We need true border security from people who use their own children as human shields. Fucking animals!
Mandate my ass. Maybe a man cave. We need a wall like we need another hole in our border.
Wolfie,
A promise made is a debt unpaid….
Get your story straight.
Are they poor brown women using their children as shields, in which case they are carrying the children and cannot throw anything?
Or are they virile young brown men throwing rocks and flameless molotov cocktails, in which case they are not carrying children as shields. Oh what a tangled web we weave…
>>> Get your story straight.
It’s not my story; it’s the MSM’s story. They reported that migrants crossed the border en masse in defiance of law enforcement directives from BOTH SIDES of the border. They ignored both Mexican and American law enforcement. They crossed over with their children in tow, thus committing multiple felonies and placing their children in harm’s way.
And just where did those DISPOSABLE diapers come from? You keep saying “poor brown women” but their children have DISPOSABLE diapers. These are the same “poor brown women” who REJECTED Mexico’s offer of FOOD, CLOTHING, HOUSING, and JOBS. These people are all FAKERS.
“Fucking animals”
“These people are all FAKERS” —exscotticus
Crucify them! /sarcasm
Get your story straight. Are they animals or people or poor brown asylum seekers yearning to breathe free who have just walked 1,000 miles?
As any USA mom will tell you: disposable diapers are expensive. They’re a luxury convenience item of the First World. They’re single-use only, as they can’t be properly cleaned and sanitized for reuse. They’re also environmentally unfriendly and end up in landfills and oceans.
The fact that these children were caught in flagrante delicto with disposables suggests perfidy. Go visit poor tribes in Africa; their children will not be wearing disposables.
Soros and his minion NGOs are providing the disposable diapers most likely. They are becoming more affordable in Central America but still most cannot afford them, let alone alleged refugees. Why are they wearing nice clothes and shoes? These are all good questions…
What kind of people use “their” children as shields (even worse if they really are theirs)? The kind we don’t need.
Desperate, an emotion you’ve likely never encountered in your lily white world.
Seawolf, tell us about your desperate, traumatic life as a person of color. What’s that? You’re lily white,too. Imagine that.
Sorry to douse your claim, my mother was from Nicaragua.
You’re not White then. No wonder you have such hostility towards us and America. You have no real allegiance to this Culture and Nation.
My father was a Cajun. That counts twice for whiteness.
A Nicaraguan and a Cajun, that explains the hot temper.
Now it is way more clear to me why seawolf hates America.
Speaking of one who knows about tangled webs of deception.
Tonight, Janet has gone full blown bizarro-world, rewriting the Constitution to reflect the deluded ravings of Ocasio-Cortez.
Let us forget that old belief that we have three branches of govt. – Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.
Listen to Janet who has discarded the Judicial entirely and tells us we have three “chambers”, as she puts it:
“House chamber, Senate chamber, Oval chamber at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue”
There may also be a large, empty oval chamber in her skull.
Look at the positive side hmuller. She/He/IT is weeding out the weak and the chronically stupid. Do you really think that anyone is falling for the mindless drivel that is so spewed? I think not. In the end, more people will read the crap and be turned against it than will take any of it seriously. Perhaps that is the point, no? It seems to me that this is far more likely to be a psyop to turn people against the leftist-loony agenda than for it and it is working. Embrace the deception.
Walter, you could be right. Or you could be overthinking things. By that logic, Janos is really an arch liberal – left of the DNC who secretly shelters illegal aliens in his home. But I think not. LOL.
Me, overthink humuller? There is no doubt that this has always been one of the millstones around my neck and I am amazed that it has not driven me crazy yet (I think). It was why I had to give up racing motorcycles in my youth. The pre-race overthink (jitters), which disappeared once the starting gun went off plagued me for days if not weeks before. You can only guess how difficult it is for me in election years. Yep, you got me pegged alright.
The wall will be beautiful and is worth shutting it all down for good sweetie. You’ll learn to love it.
Yay I get to press the button :-)! Alex Jones versus Jim Acosta. I seriously cannot friggin wait to see that.
Keep up the good work and you’ll earn your strings. No more sock puppetry.
Thus spoke Zarajanos!
Shoo seawolf – this was not your moment and I don’t appeciate it!!!!
LOL – You’re so amazing :-)!
Thrilla in Vanilla.
Signals to design accordingly.
http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Signals%20to%20design%20accordingly.pdf
Q.
The West still hasn’t understood the magnitude and depth of Muslim savagery. The only near competitor is Communism. Perhaps it is no accident that the two are now allied. Listen to the Hindus and the Sikhs, you fools. I’d say listen to the Indian Buddhists, but they were wiped out. But the nearby Burmese Buddhists remember very well.
https://www.sikh24.com/2015/01/27/islamic-india-the-biggest-holocaust-in-world-history-whitewashed-from-history-books/#.W_zPTI2WwqQ
Ah yes, the Red-Green Axis. Funny that Green is the color of the “Religion of Peace”.
And the “Greens” are really Reds inside. Watermelons.
“Trump won the 2016 POTUS election on building that wall and has a MANDATE to do so.“ —exscotticus
No, Hillary ran against building the wall and she received 3 million more votes than Trump, so the MANDATE is against building the wall, reinforced by the midterm results in which Trump got his ass whupped in the chamber which funds the wall (not to mention Trump’s fraud saying Mexico would pay for the wall). There will be no money for the wall without legalizing the undocumented (DACA). Trump made his bed. Now he has to lie in it … when he is not playing golf or eating Big Macs.
Still going with the “We Really Won In 2016” meme, are we Janet?
At least Al Gore bounced back from his electoral college defeat in 2000 to lead a campaign of global warming disinformation.
Hillary however, just wanders the world like a traumatized Blanche DuBois in a streetcar named Delusiion, blaming everyone but her own corruption-reeking self. She makes me laugh, but not in a kind way.
You are correct hmuller, Al Gore did bounce back and find an alternate and probably more profitable way to screw us all once he was officially a loser. Hillary cannot do this. She will continue to be a loser until there is no longer a breath left in her rancid lungs. The evil that spurs her on will give her no rest and no peace, and in the end she will pay the ultimate price. Yes there are those who will state that at the very last moment she may repent, and while that may be a possibility, I would not bet a dollar on it. She is rotten to the core and angry as hell. Even Bill knows how to relax and have a good time, not her.
Now she is an embarassment. Move on lady!!!!
>>> No, Hillary ran against building the wall and she received 3 million more votes than Trump, so the MANDATE is against building the wall
Hillary lost the election, so she has no mandate. You do not understand that our polity doesn’t have “three chambers” or an “oval chamber”, and you do not understand how our elections work.
Meanwhile, Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit against California for having more registered voters than eligible voting adults. California keeps dead people and others on its rolls to encourage voting fraud. It even registers illegal immigrants for voting in “local” elections, while admitting that illegals were also able to vote in the primaries. Once you add up all the fraud, I doubt Hillary won the popular vote.
Scrotum go massage yourself. How can the Untied States have such an asinine system as the electoral college? Easy it’s a vestige of slavery, just like the Star Spangled Banner, segregation and a host of other things, including the Republican Party.
The actual fact is seawolf, that those men who designed and established this nation in the first place realized that cities would not only be where the bulk of the population would live and grow, but that they would be the first to become corrupt. Once so corrupted, population center people would be able to take over the entire nation by their sheer voting numbers. These men were wise enough to consider that rural areas, suburban areas, and populated areas all needed to have a say in the process and they set up the Electoral College to compensate for this. I have never been to Montana but have been to the sewer they call New York City, and there is no way in this world that New Yorkers should have more say than those people who live in Montana about our national government.
Those urban city dwellers usually get the short end of the stick when it comes to the Electoral College so they are the ones who bitch and moan the most. When you consider that these same urbanites sit in their high rise luxury condos while the rest of the nation sends them their food, their water, and their pension funds to consume, I’d say that keeping the city folk in line is the wise thing to do. If the shit ever hits the fan, you will soon realize exactly how valuable they really are – not!
Good reminder. The Balance is so important. Already big cities like Chicago and NY dominate whole states. Would Sea want even more power for his sect? Of course! And as Lindsay Graham said, They don’t deserve it.
Seawolf you are half Hispanic so it is no surprise you support the Hispanic invasion. You are a lot like Obama, half White, but a hater of all things White and American. Gee, some things are so simple to understand ;-).
I’m just as white as you monkey brains.
I have blond hair and hazel eyes. And I am pretty White lol. So how White are you? I know you said you are half Cajun. Do you speak any Cajun French?
LOL monkey brains – hey I am pretty smart!!!
People who disagree with seawolf are called degrading names; he also likes to insult their intelligence. Sound like a mentally well adjusted, secure man to you? Sometimes it gets worse and he’ll start expressing his sexual fantasies. (13 yr old Ivanka on Trump’s lap was a hint)
It’s like watching a psychiatric train wreck, an aging white man plagued by job lay offs, replaced by foreigners, lashing out at Trump instead of the real cause of his problem. So sad.
I think this thread is his cleanest thus far. His behavior is improving with time. Patience makes perfect they say. That being said I am very disappointed with two of his comments in particular. I am keeping bleach and a scrub brush close at hand ;-)!
Father Universe has the final say on matter.
http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Father%20Universe%20has%20the%20final%20say%20on%20matter.pdf
Q.
GM laying off 15,000 and closing 3 plants all in Trump country. You think those people are sick of winning? “You”re gonna be sick, so sick of winning. You’re gonna be thinking enough winning, i’m so tired of winning. Win, win, win, win all the time. All the time. All the time. Does that make sense?” Trump leans back on his lounger in Mar Lago and thinks to himself, “And those idiots were so fucking stupid to believe me. They voted for me. Fucking morons. They deserve their jobs shipped overseas. Does that make cents? They’re not smart enough to know what word I’m using.”
Some of the plants were in canada.
The rationale is low gas prices… Leading people to buy bigger SUVs and trucks.
I’ve said it before, but, imagine energy prices going to zero.
No upper limit in the size of vehicles
Go fetch the groceries in a roadster the size of an RV etc
Monster trucks everywhere! Yee haw!
Conspirology: Russia, USA, Israel. Religious factor
First of all, the question arises of how pygmy Israel got into this company of the great powers, Israel, which even on the map of the Middle East can hardly be seen?
To answer this question, let me start by clarifying the concept of conspiracy:
For the last 300 years, the powers that be have experienced the bitter lessons of the “color” revolutions, which did not go as they planned, convinced them that after inventing printing press, it is impossible to control the spread of information and controlled chaos is constantly transforming into ordinary chaos, the only way out of which is traditional society.
And, having refused direct control, they had to invent other methods of political control (soft power?) And conspiracy theories occupied an honorable place in it. Their essence is that if the manipulation becomes obvious, then in advance, 3000 theories are instantly invented and published, exposing these manipulations in the most distorted, delusional manner, and publishing the truth by association instantly turns up on the bookshelf under the name “Delirium of a gray gelding”.
So the Masons turn into Judeo-Masons, the distortions of Russian history by the German historical school turn into Ilovaisky’s anti-Normanism (not to be confused with Lomonosov’s sincere errors) and into all possible theories of Fomenko-Zadornov, the Euro-Asianism of Nikolai Trubetskoy into Gumilyov’s theory, and Zionism turns into Judeo-Masonic Conspiracy.
Moreover, the first and last items on this list draw attention to themselves, which is obviously connected with the most influential book of the 20th century – “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
Among the conspiracy theories, “Protocols” are undoubtedly a masterpiece of the genre, but more on that later – the topic is immense and, perhaps, requires a separate post.
In the meantime, I just want to draw the attention of the venerable public that all conspiracy theories are built on some unknown and little verifiable fact that supposedly highlights something that it extracts from the feverish fog of the well-known and obvious facts.
Unlike the conspiracy theorists, I will immediately say that I don’t have any “hot facts” of this kind, on the contrary, I will simply gather together and compare the well-known and even obvious facts that can be easily checked with any encyclopedia.
Personally, I used the Tree, the Orthodox Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia of Islam, and the Jewish Encyclopedia.
1. Israel, by the virtue of the “magic of the place,” is the center of the world for the three Abrahamic religions — Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
It is here that the stone from which the construction of the Universe and the Earth began, exactly here the Son of Man was crucified, reestablishing the connection between the Creator and the Creature, destroyed by the original sin of Adam and Eve, who were also buried in Israel and the blood of Christ dripped from the Cross onto Adam’s skull.
To the least degree Israel is connected with Islam, practically only through the prophet Issa and the people of the Book, that is, the Jews and Christians. True, the Qur’an claims that the Prophet Muhammad on his night journey to Al-Isra stopped in the city of Al-Quds, but only for namaz to the Prophet Issa (Christ?) And is this city really is modern Jerusalem is unknown, because in Al-Quds already during the life of the Prophet had the mosque.
For the first time, the Jewish theme as something connected with “blood”, that is, with nationality in the modern sense of the word, was introduced into Orthodox Christianity by Joseph Volotsky, ensuring that already convicted heretics of Sect of Skhariya the Jew, were not only condemned, but also burned alive, while the description of the heresy of the Sect suggests that they were not representatives of Judaism, but were most likely proto-Protestants, most likely connected with the Arians and Cathars of Northern Europe, that is, quasi-religious orders of the Hanseatic League – old trade partners of Novgorod.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Volotsky
In fact, the only purely theoretical connection between the Sect of Skhariya the Jew and the Jews is the personality of Novgorod heresiarch Skhariya, and the main evidence of his Jewry is his acquaintance with the works of Maimonides and Al-Ghazali, which incidentally equally applies to Thomas Aquinas.
By the way, it was at that moment when the Cathedral was held in Moscow, which condemned the heresy of the Skhariyats, in Erfurt, Germany, Martin Luther received a master’s degree.
But the fact that the heresy of the Skhariyats was connected with politics and even with a conspiracy is not in doubt, moreover, supporters of Joseph Volotsky sought rapprochement with the Catholic West against the Ottoman Empire and limiting the intervention of the Orthodox Church in political issues, which already resembles a similar situation in Byzantium.
To be continued…
And, having refused direct control, they had to invent other methods of political control (soft power?) And conspiracy theories occupied an honorable place in it. Their essence is that if the manipulation becomes obvious, then in advance, 3000 theories are instantly invented and published, exposing these manipulations in the most distorted, delusional manner, and publishing the truth by association instantly turns up on the bookshelf under the name “Delirium of a gray gelding”.
Very nice analysis! A veritable soup of possible conspiracies (mixing truth with lies in every possible combination) to so confuse the issues that most people don’t even try. Makes the official version of “The Truth (TM)” so much more palatable and easy to swallow.
Exscotticus says there are dead people on California voting rolls and Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit. What he doesn’t say is that dead people do not vote so there is no voter fraud. But Judicial Watch filed its lawsuit in 2017. What Judicial Watch has not been able to do is provide EVIDENCE. Its nuisance lawsuit was an attempt at voter suppression, a failed attempt to stop a blue tsunami.
Dead people do not request ballots. The only way for inactive voters to obtain a ballot is for them to request a ballot in person at either a county elections office or at a polling location. So far, Judicial Watch has been unable to prove even a single dead person voted. A nuisance lawsuit filed in 2017 with no proof.
Efforts such as the one undertaken by Judicial Watch and a similar one undertaken by another non-profit, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), are not meant to strengthen election systems but rather to bully election officials into purging voter rolls, in contrast to both the spirit and letter of federal election laws.
Figures produced by the likes of Judicial Watch and PILF fail to account for things such as active military members or students attending university away from their home jurisdictions that may affect figures and numbers in different ways:
Judicial Watch used inaccurate figures to target 248 local jurisdictions levying the claim they have more registered voters on the roles [sic] than eligible people. Then we have the president who with great frequency repeats similar numbers.
What we’re seeing is a campaign to create public hysteria about voter fraud. We know these figures are wrong and these efforts are aimed a voter suppression.
WE KNOW THEY FAILED.
Non-Citizens Voting in Texas? “We got TONS of them” Says Election Official on Undercover Video
Opinion of one person. Not proof. If true the election official should be fired. Put up or shut up about nonexistent undocumented supposedly voting.
But in my opinion, since the undocumented live here, work here, and pay taxes here, that makes them citizens eligible to vote. They should be legalized.
If you don ‘t agree, then find just one case (you won’t be able to) and take them to court with proof. You cannot because voter fraud does not exist.
Janet dearie, you just wrote:
“But in my opinion, since the undocumented live here, work here, and pay taxes here, that makes them citizens eligible to vote”
Guess what!? Your opinion and the law are 2 very different things. And if they vote without being citizens they break the law – maybe not in the Janet Fantasy World, but in the one the rest of us call reality.
Your postings are increasingly demented, delusional, and dishonest. Get professional help!
Hehe, hey now be kind to Sybil ;-).
It’s Helen Keller.
Dead people for democracy!
Vladimir Golstein: Why Everything You’ve Read About Ukraine Is Wrong
With Ukraine in the news, it is very important to know the context and background. Here is the essay that I wrote on the subject almost five years ago. Forbes carried it, which is great, but the narrative had been already written by the likes of Nuland and McCain, so the mass media preferred to ignore any deviations from it, sticking to their fantasies and spinning rather that taking a sober look at what was going on.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2014/05/19/why-everything-youve-read-about-ukraine-is-wrong/?fbclid=IwAR3Gc8A_cfnSjcAJNUH8BuKSOUPfRDzLGh8FdNuQxRTKzohA_-M_1xnoZo0#475fe6a510e5
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, facing elections next March, deliberately sent Ukrainian ships into Russian territory in an attempt to provoke Russia and stir anti-Russia sentiments
The Russian Security Service (FSB) confirmed on Sunday that it had been forced to open fire at and impound three Ukrainian naval vessels after they illegally crossed its sea border, entering Russian waters in the Black Sea off the Crimean Peninsula.
In an interview with Press TV on Monday, Vladimir Golstein, a lecturer at Brown University, said, Poroshenko was going to run for reelection next March and was therefore attempting to portray himself as “a hero who can stand up to Russia.”
“So, he pushed them (the three ships) there (into Russian territory) just to provoke and at least [to evoke] sympathy both within the country and outside the country,” Golstein said.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/11/26/581148/Ukraine-Russia-ships-Poroshenko-antiRussia-sentiments
“there is no way in this world that New Yorkers should have more say than those people who live in Montana about our national government.” —walterB
How is “one person one vote” having more say?
>>> How is “one person one vote” having more say?
And with that, you once again showed your ignorance of how our nation works. We’re a Republic—not an Athenian-style democracy. States with small populations will not accept being bullied by states with larger populations. It’s called tyranny of the majority. The Founders understood this. You don’t.
Electoral college is not used for elections in House Chamber or Senate Chamber. We are a republic and members of those chambers are elected with Athenian style democracy: one person, one vote. AOC could help you understand these things since she was elected with our Athenian style democracy, which you do not seem to understand. But then you have not been elected to congress.
It’s the tyranny of the minority that’s the alternative. Every year California voters would swing the election, but they don’t. Their votes are worthless. California would be the 7th largest economy in the world if independent and they don’t count as much as a handful of red states. THAT is a disgrace.
Yes, Cali is lost, a victim of Hispanic invasion. Cut it lose and watch what they do – the they being both White Liberals and the Invaders themselves.
They will try to escape the Hell they have created and drag down more of White America.
California is in freefall. It’s an unfolding disaster and will be a wasteland without Whites.
Wasteland without whites. Wasteland without whites. Wasteland without whites. Wasteland without whites. The next Trump inane platitude to be shouted at his Nuremburg style rallies by brain dead zombies. Zeig Heil!
And your half White side secretly loves it ;-).
Trump. Russia. Collusion. Gun. Smoking. Manafort. Wikileaks. Emails. Hillary. Hacked. Trump. Russia. Collusion. Gun. Smoking. Manafort. Wikileaks. Emails. Hillary. Hacked.
Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy
Exclusive: Trump ally met WikiLeaks founder months before emails hacked by Russia were published
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-held-secret-talks-with-assange-in-ecuadorian-embassy
before emails hacked by Russia were published
Allegedly hacked by Russia.
It still has not been proven and actual DNC server was NOT inspected by the FBI.
Mueller has documentay proof of Russia hacking by GRU and has provided their names, ranks, and addresses. That is why it is no longer alleged.
Sorry, janet, you demand voter fraud CONVICTIONS so I demand Russia hacking CONVICTIONS.
Meanwhile, no evidence that Trump colluded with Russians…
-S
There is now hard evidence that connects Manafort, Assange and the Russians. Assange released the stolen emails that he received from the Russians, and Trump knew about it because the idiot said so at one of his rallies. The dots are connecting themselves now. The Ecuadorians have logs proving Manafort and Assange met there. Manafort keeps lying, and they keep catching him. What an idiot. Won’t it be wonderful irony that emails bring down this presidency?
Seawolf, may the ghost of Seth Rich come to you tonight and tell you who gave Assange the e-mails. He did, not the Russians.
And doesn’t it bother you that some pedophile like Podesta had him murdered. Let there be justice!
No hmuller, there will be no expression of concern over that….
You’re accusing Podesta of being a pedophile, while 13 year old Ivanka sits on Daddy Trump’s lap. That is ripe.
Is changing the subject is the best you can do, seamongrel?
It’s the best I can do for you mullet face.
I hate when people insinuate a dirty relationship between a Father and Daughter. It seems to be a below the belt blow but something people do often. Especially when a Father loves his daughter and she is a Daddy’s girl. I don’t like that seawolf!!!!!!!!
I call a spade a spade. He brags about sexually assaulting women on the Access Hollywood tape. He brags about walking in on Miss America in various states of undress. He tells Oprah if Ivanka wasn’t his daughter he’d be dating her. The man’s a pig. If you want to go to his rallies, vote for him, say he’s a genius then OINK OINK. I just call a spade a spade.
And what are you and why are you so great and all high and mighty? You seem to be rude often times.
This morning, the newspaper of record, the Grey Lady, the paper that prints “All the news that’s fit to print”, yes, the print edition – the erstwhile New York Times (est. 1851), produced volume CLXVIII, number 58,159, of the following Important and Timely articles and features, presented, with color photography, pictures from the planet Mars, joyful faces lifted hopefully skyward in Times Square, in the control room of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Below the fold, a picture of an elderly woman in France cradling an in-home miniature Android, who is stealing an immigrant’s job, nevertheless, providing a level of companionship commensurate with the current moment’s position on the exponential curve of Moore’s Law in terms of artificial intelligence, and simulacrum of human emotional response.
Mexico’s president is mum on the migrant issue, seems like a smart guy, waiting for the right pitch and not swinging door the fences. FEMA for bilked for millions from the Puerto Rican hurricane rebuild- that nation of the most genetically diverse Americans- Manafort is being pummeled like Mike Tyson’s speedbag by the special prosecutor, Tear gas has induced heavy weeping among numerous Hollywood millionaire empaths, a Chinese doctor claims- claims- to have edited some embryos before turkey basting the birth mother, a procedure popular among woman of advanced years desiring to double their fun with twins- frankly an un-credible claim that will elicit shrugs in Shanghai and fervent prayer meetings in the Oral Roberts University office of Emergency Theology- Russia continues to terrorize Ukraine and is moving to destabilize the country further and cause another pointless white-on-white slaughter reviving the old and decrepit tradition of Russians acting like the drunken peasants and criminal oligarchies they evolved from- and finally, GM throws in the towel on numerous factories and now families will have to tighten the belts, load up the covered wagon for a long and uncertain journey across the great plains, facing hostile Indian tribes, forbidding terrain, and raging torrential river crossings, not to mention the spectre of cholera.
More shameless mutterings from our very own corporate shill.
Trust me, this is on topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJF0_4CtZf8&index=9&list=RDJ0ogqBcK9ow
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
PS, it is a really kewl new cover of a 1950’s song. Hetty and the Jazzato band do an even better cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ogqBcK9ow&list=RDJ0ogqBcK9ow&index=1
sooo good, it inspired me to buy a clarinet the other day!
Where did the Ukrainian navy come from? Well at least part of it came from the “Pentagon’s Excess Defense Articles program”. Which means paid for by the American taxpayers and then given at a bargain basement price (or free) to Ukraine.
A CNN article dated September 25, 2018 states:
The US Coast Guard plans to transfer two former 110-foot Coast Guard ships to Ukraine during a ceremony on Thursday in Baltimore.
Coast Guard Vice Adm. Michael McAllister and Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko are expected to attend the transfer ceremony.
The transfer of the two armed Coast Guard cutters come as tensions between Ukraine and Russia in the Sea of Azov have increased in recent weeks, with Kiev and the US accusing Moscow of interfering with Ukrainian shipping in the region.
“The United States condemns Russia’s harassment of international shipping in the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait,” State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a statement late last month.
“Russia has delayed hundreds of commercial vessels since April and in recent weeks has stopped at least 16 commercial ships attempting to reach Ukrainian ports,” she added.
A US defense official told CNN that the cutters Drummond and Cushin were purchased by Ukraine from the Pentagon’s Excess Defense Articles program.
The Island-class cutters are typically armed with a 25 mm machine gun mount and four .50-caliber machine guns.
More Pentagon waste and abuse of taxpayers.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
On the other hand, a handful are getting tremendously rich, so there’s always that to fall back on.
Those cutters were armed with pea-shooters so aside from a shot across the bow of an offending boat, they’re pretty much good for nothing.
No matter, the United States needs to abandon the conceit that it has got the power and money and knowledge to move the needle in foreign countries. Given the repeated military and foreign policy calamities of the post-WW2 period, it more than amply demonstrated the incompetence of its foreign policy and military establishments.
And, if the Deep State is hell-bent on disciplining Russia for its alleged “meddling” in US affairs, the US would do well to stop doing the same in foreign countries, especially in former provinces bordering age-old empires half a world away.
Americans think of themselves as the exceptional and indispensable nation. But let’s put the US itself in some historical context, its vaunted and revered Constitution is man-made, it’s not the product of divine revelation. And the US didn’t spring fully-formed from George Washington’s forehead, it’s a former province of one of those empires.
The US has got enough shit to deal with at home, both historic and current, to busy itself in the affairs of far away, foreign peoples.
“And the US didn’t spring fully-formed from George Washington’s forehead” — volodya
No, it is a product of hive mind … perfection of a more perfect union over 230 years. E PLURIBUS UNUM
Should we all stand and salute now?
Where did the Ukrainian navy come from? Well at least part of it came from the “Pentagon’s Excess Defense Articles program”. Which means paid for by the American taxpayers and then given at a bargain basement price (or free) to Ukraine.
LOL! No surprise there. What will those boys at DoD and State think of next?
TRUMP’S BENGHAZI
The deaths of three US service members Tuesday near the city of Ghazni, Afghanistan is due to Trump not withdrawing our troops.
During his campaign the America First president criticized American involvement in the middle east. But as commander in chief he has not withdrawn the troops. Their blood is on Trump’s tiny hands.
LOL. janet throws darts randomly in frustration hoping one will hit something.
The 2012 Benghazi scandal was about troops not getting the support they needed and asked for, and the subsequent coverup by Obama/Hillary.
Dems continue to deny our troops the support they need to be successful.
Trump, on the other hand, signed a $717 billion defense bill which included a pay raise for troops. Dems wanted to spend that money on trannies…
“Dems continue to deny our troops the support they need to be successful.” —exscotticus
Dems are not in control until next month. If the troops don’t have the support they need, the fault is Trump’s and the deaths of the three service members is due to Trump not keeping his promises.
Actually the fault is with Dems and RINOs (same thing).
I’d say it’s the fault of the administration that was all gung-ho to invade Afghanistan in 2001, supposedly to get rid of the Taliban and find Osama bin Laden. We’ve all seen how well that worked out. The Taliban is stronger than ever and bin Laden wasn’t even in Afghanistan.
“I demand Russia hacking CONVICTIONS.” —exscotticus
They are coming. Be patient. Mueller’s investigation is just getting started. Trump delayed 12 months before answering questions. Mueller needs 12 to 18 months more. Mueller’s devastating report will include COVICTIONS AND PRISON SENTENCES LIKE MANAFORT , Trump’s campaign chairperson.
Gee, we agree. I believe that Trump’s primary problem has been relying on the Deep State for his position filling and decision making. He has created an internal set of enemies that have compromised his ability to do much of anything. The corrupt elite that he picked or were picked for him may be going to pay the price for their manipulations. In the meantime, he is trying to remove the baggage now.
The Deep State needs to be cleaned out. Your desire for democratic representation is being vanquished by the corrupt nature of the executive bureaucracy as the vast majority of decisions being made are outside the two law making branches and ARE being made by the Judicial branch and the lobbyists and bureaucrats. The people are being left out of the equation.
This is the primary reason Trump was elected. Populism is an attempt of the population to retake control of a corrupted government. He has not been very successful, unfortunately. DC is eating his lunch. Just like Carter.
>>> Mueller’s investigation is just getting started.
Actually it’s been two years and $20 million later.
Manafort was not convicted of Russia/election collusion.
Civics 101
The House is a democratically elected institution, they fund the government, all spending bills must originate in the House, they are elected every two years so they are responsive to their constituents, they are elected from roughly equivalent population centers, they represent power from the big population states. They are the center of one of the greatest threats to our republic, that is when the people find they control the purse strings. That fact, historically, has destroyed every democracy created. So the Founding Fathers said that control must be put on free spending democracy and they came up with two remedies
The Senate is much more conservative than the House. Six year terms and older candidates make it more concerned with protecting property rights of the republic. Each state gets two Senators, decreasing the domination of a few highly populate states over the spectrum of all the states. Issues in Iowa or Montana are not the same as California or New York. The coasts cannot steal all the revenue for themselves from the smaller states. That is what power is in DC, control of the purse.
One reason why The Articles of Confederation failed is because of the emphasis on population in control of the Federal government. The implementation of the Constitution basically changed two things, implementaion of the bicameral legislature to balance state vs. population control, and implementation of the presidency with the legislative controls over it.
The country went through one episode where this concept failed. Sparsely populated, agricultural southern states were dominated by the heavily populated northern states and the republic splintered in the Civil War.
The presidency is a blend. It has both aspects set by the electoral College. The representation of each state is set by the number of Senators plus the number of representatives. So both equal state representation effects (Senators) and population representation (congressmen) is involved in the Electoral College. As the executive branch is responsible for carrying out actions and laws created by the legislature, control over the big populous states was deemed necessary by the FF.
If the equalization character of the Senate and the Electoral College had not been a compromise, the Constitution would never been signed. The US would definitely not have lasted 200+years. Iowans and Montanans would be paying taxes to support homeless overload in California and Hawaii.
Judicial review is not even in the Constitution, being created by early Supreme Courts. Lady Justice holds equally balanced scales and the distortion of the balance of power of the three branches of the government has been heavily skewed by the politicking of the Federal judiciary. I do not think that the FF even wanted the SC to be involved with political wrangling, but it is what has developed.
The balance of power between the three branches of government and between the big states and the small states has kept the highly political Federal government relatively stable over our history, As long as compromise is on the agenda, things work. When compromise fails, and I mean the object of the DC game being compromise, Civil war happens. That is why today’s lack of compromise is so dangerous.
And Janet, your type is what is ripping the country apart. But that is what the Progressives want anyway, dissolution of the US as they work for their globalist masters.
JohnAZ, thank you for the civics101 lesson. That is all I am allowed to say by my globalist masters. ?
WalterB
When we were young fellers, we didn’t have the convenience of cell-hones so if a problem came up we had to deal with it. Melt-downs and panic attacks didn’t solve anything, in fact, both earned the scorn of your peers so you just had to put on the man-pants and get on with things.
The beards running ISIS in the middle-east didn’t go away. They’ll re-form and re-group and call themselves something else. Sooner or later somebody will have to sit across from them. I’d rather it be sooner than later because what makes me shudder is the thought of some Harvard and Princeton dainties getting assigned the task.
No “safe spaces” over yonder, no “trigger warnings”, no concern for modern-day LGBTQ sensibilities. I’d much rather a local do the job, somebody who knows the geographic and societal terrain, maybe a hard-faced Turk with his retinue of cut-throats.
And never mind the beards. There’s China. In case our gender-obsessed moderns missed it, China is not our friend. By their actions they’ve shown they mean to supplant the US and the West. People may not like US hegemony but I think they’ll like the Chinese version even less. So, sooner or later, for better or worse, China has to be dealt with.
Apologies to SoftStarLight and other millennials that don’t see themselves as the fragile snowflake type but what is coming out of campuses gives me no comfort.
V
Throughout history, dominant and yes, masculine societies have ALWAYS dominated and conquered softer, more liberal societies. Look at our southern border, look at Europe’s decline with their invasion of ME, Africans, we are witnessing history repeating itself once again.
Dealt with? How?
Cheap labor is very, very expensive it seems. Nixon “opened China” – what utter folly. The Dragon should have been left alone. Now it is awake, hissing, belching fire, and stretching its wings.
How did RN ‘open’ China? He visited. It was Clinton who opened
China.
And Javits-celler.
Did you see Kerseys latest?
Woman and child killed.
She had posted ‘stop killing blacks.’
You’re ready for GOT again, aren’t you?
I may be snow White ;-), but am no flake. No apologies necessary!
One More Time About The Norman Ultimatum
What is happening in Ukraine is so terrible that I do not want to write about it. Russia is being lured to Ukraine, just as the USSR was lured to Afghanistan.
But if it is lured because of the Pochayiv Lavra, it will be much worse than if Russia is forced to go into Ukraine because of the boats attacking the bridge.
And the Russian media are blinking with big blue eyes asking the same provocative question: “Why did they recognize Poroshenko?”
And in this regard, let me repost the page, written three and a half years ago, especially drawing your attention to the fact that the question of the Pochayiv Lavra highlights the fact that the first shelling of Slavyansk with heavy artillery took place on the Palm Sunday.
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-spectacle-so-far/#comment-245104
Pregnant woman in a white suburban neighborhood for a month wakes her husband at night screaming, and then complains that she had a dream in which she gave birth to a little Negro with two heads. The poor husband is exhausted to the limit, and now comes the time of birth, the husband running from corner to corner in the hospital, and the nurse finally comes out with a strange expression on her face and says:
– Congratulations you have a son!
– Negro?
– Negro!
– With two heads?
– No one.
– Oh…. Thank God!
………………
I once again want to draw your attention that a conspiracy theory is usually not a result of imagination gone wild, but a carefully planned ideological influence ala above mentioned anecdote.
The Norman Ultimatum is a threat of war in the event that Putin would invade Ukraine, which was allegedly brought to him by the collective West in Normandy, where he arrived for the celebration of D-Day.
Without realizing this fact, the reliability of which in my opinion is difficult to doubt looking at very costly military exercises of Russian troops in preparation for a nuclear war that Putin holds one after another after his return from Normandy, people find themselves in opposition to the reality and begin to be afraid of nuclear war only now, when news feeds are full with warnings about the nuclear threat precisely because its acute phase is safely behind us.
Instead of the Norman ultimatum we are invited to believe that Putin refuses to take Kharkov and Odessa because he’s gone mad, or was co-opted by CIA and MI-6.
Let me remind you that on the eve of Norman Ultimatum, Putin clearly promised to Kiev to break their legs in case if they begin to bombard the cities of Donbass in apparent genocide. Moreover, he even received the approval of the Federation Council for the use of the Russian military outside of Russia, which he asked to withdraw after a trip to Normandy. Then he began ostentatiously prepare for a nuclear war.
And just recently, the West realized that this war it will not win at least, but may be even lose if it wants to live. It retreated, especially since it had an enemy that poses a threat much greater than Russia that despite the existence of its nuclear weapons, threatens the West with nothing but its oil and gas.
But cries about the danger of a nuclear conflict in the Western media indicate the start of propaganda campaign to sell to electorate this retreat.
And in this regard, I always think of the nuclear submarine “Kursk” and how Putin was accused that he refused to interrupt his vacation because of the fact that “it drowned.” And today, I think that we know perfectly well that Putin was informed about the attack by USS “Memphis” on the Russian nuclear submarine on the orders of President Clinton in response to Yeltsin reminder of Russian nuclear triad, and the question of how this report corresponds to reality, is again a question of the Negro child with two heads.
And in fact, Putin sat in Sochi deep underground at the command post with his finger on the red button, listening to all these accusations and thought about how and when he is going to push it, and what it would mean that the time has come. And what is happening now, he thought through then, and only now, perhaps, he mentally stepped aside from the button and took a deep breath.
Art Bell Jerome Corsi refuse plea deal on Russia Trump collusion and will be nailed by Manafort.
You are invited to a public hanging of Paul Manafort, aren’t you?
Would you moan WOW when his neck snaps?
Lil’ J-Bot’s got a definite sadistic streak in her. Probably should have paid more attention to her when she was torturing those small animals during her formative years.
Many personalities inhabiting the same body. At least that’s my theory.
Geraldo Rivera
His voice rising and filled with emotion, he said the migrants were economic refugees, not invaders, and urged people to stop using “military analogies” when talking about them.
He added:
“These are desperate people. They walked 2,000 miles. Why? Because they want to rape your daughter or steal your lunch? No! Because they want a job. They want to fill the millions of unfilled jobs we have in the agricultural sector. They want to wash dishes in the restaurants. They want to deliver the pizzas. For goodness sake, we suspend our humanity when it comes to this issue, and I fear that it is because they look different than the mainstream.”
You go girl!
>>> Because they want to rape your daughter or steal your lunch? No! Because they want a job.
Tell that to the parents of this woman who was raped by an illegal alien.
More women are raped by citizens than by immigrants, but you do not call for their deportation. You cite one single rape and condemn all immigrants who are crossing the southern border today.
womEn.
Geraldo Rivera…
The guy never impressed me of being the brightest dude around the block.
Yes, he is a drama queen like Mr. Acosta :-).
GM closing plants in Ohio, Michigan, and Maryland after Trump promised economic recovery. Instead the economy is collapsing. The market for 2018 has shown zero gain, wages not increasing, people losing health care, Obamacare mandate gone which means some health insurers will be able to deny coverage of preexisting conditions, children taken from parentsand put in cages, on the brink of nuclear war, played by North Korea, and all manner of mean and nasty things hath done Trump.
OK now, come clean Lil’ J-Bot. You’ve got a raging, sublimated adolescent crush on The Donald, don’t you? Be truthful now! Is it the money, the good looks, or the savior faire that does it for you most?
It’s the savior faire that gets me hard. Never saw anyone capable of stuffing that many feet into his mouth. It’s like one giant centipede caravan.
The man does have his charms.
the economy is collapsing. –Thus spoke Lady Janet.
Given the recent devastating fires in Cali, I don’t think Cali liberals should be encouraging fire-starting illegal aliens to cross over.
Too bad some got in by using children as human shields.
“The way these people rushed the border was absolutely monstrous. They pushed women and children up front, and then behind those women and children, they started throwing rocks, cement bricks … bottles at our Border Patrol agents”
“Agents reportedly spotted the man’s footprints near the border and tracked him down for roughly a mile before finding him near a tree.
At that point, Suazo-Gomez allegedly “climbed up into the tree, set it on fire and began to throw rocks at agents on the ground” and at a CBP helicopter that was nearby. The man eventually came down from the tree and was arrested, officials said.” — Fox News
Reportedly. Allegedly. This Fox News is Fake News. Imagine setting on fire the very tree you climbed up. Did. Not. Happen. Fake news to create caravan hysteria. Seems to be working on exscotticus!
Man climbs tree. Sets tree on fire. From inside the burning tree he throws rocks at helicopter. Imagine how much force you can muster throwing rocks up through burning tree limbs at a helicopter high above while perched on a tree branch. I wonder where he got the rocks… do rocks grow on trees. Or did he climb into the tree carrying buckets of rocks? What did he do with the rocks while he was setting the tree on fire? What did the helicopter down draft do to the burning tree? How can you throw rocks at a helicopter hovering high above? How do you survive being in a burning tree? Only extremely gullible ideologues believe Fox News.
Sorry, exscotticus. This Faux News story does not pass the smell test.
If they were forced to be shields by the alleged bottle throwing men, shouldn’t we have come to the helpless women and children’s aid? What sense does it make to start a fire in the country you are fleeing to? You need the light to read?
Why don’t those men treat their own women and children better? That is the question you should ask.
>>> Reportedly. Allegedly. This Fox News is Fake News. Imagine setting on fire the very tree you climbed up. Did. Not. Happen. Fake news to create caravan hysteria. Seems to be working on exscotticus!
Nothing to do with Fox News. Right off the USA government website. You’re batting zero as usual, janet.
I suppose now you’re going to argue that the CBP is also lying?
This was a fire-starting rock-throwing Honduran that admitted he traveled with the caravan. He had been arrested and deported many times prior. Just like Trump and Homeland Security said: there are criminals traveling with the caravan and using the caravan as cover to gain entry.
And when illegal alien criminals gain entry, women get raped.
Rape is a crime regardless, even when a white native-born citizen rapes. It is the province of Law enforcement for both citizen and immigrant. To reduce incidence of rape: Open the borders, legalize all the immigrants, and let people work and have health insurance and mental health counselng.
CIRCLE OF LIFE
Candidate Trump: I will surround myself with the best people.
President-elect Trump chooses his idea of the best people.
President Trump: I know nothing about Russia-Trump collusion.
Muller indicts Russians.
President Trump: Russia-Trump collusion is a hoax, a witch hunt.
Guardian publishes Manafort Assange Wikileaks collusion.
President Trump: I was not part of the collusion.
Manafort (Trump campaign chair) caught lying to Mueller.
President Trump: The people in collusion were bad people.
++++++++++++++
Yes, Trump has gone from:
1. I know nothing about collusion to
2. I was not part of the collusion to
3. The guys I hired for the collusion were bad people.
Some of the “best people” Trump hired only lasted a few days. Trump does not know people or how to hire the best people.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/08/politics/trump-admin-departures-trnd/
The mOOCH!
Once again you fail to show that Trump or his former associates had anything to do with Russia/election collusion. You hope and wish and dream it was true, and you keep saying it like a mantra or magic charm, but there’s more evidence that Hillary, the FBI, the DoJ, and even Facebook colluded.
Somebody asked for references for the claim that automation was responsible for 85% of job losses rather than the Trump meme of CHINA.
For Reyes, 50, a lifelong Flint-area resident who has worked at GM for 30 years, there’s no question that automation played an outsize role in changing the city permanently. He has watched tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs leave. He has also watched with dismay the appearance of “Make America great again” hats on the heads of his colleagues, stunned that they would buy Trump’s promise to bring back manufacturing jobs, which Reyes says are gone forever. While heavy industry still has a presence in the city, much of the work in factories like GM’s Flint Assembly Pant, where he is an electrician, is done by robots.
A 2015 Ball State University study supports Reyes’ view. Led by economics professor Mike Hicks, researchers found that U.S. manufacturing is, in fact, enjoying healthy growth. The problem? It isn’t benefiting human workers. Hicks and his co-authors found that productivity increases, largely driven by automation and technology, were responsible for almost 88 percent of manufacturing job losses in recent years. Machines allow factories to produce more with fewer people.
Sadly, probably true. But it has and will continue to be off-shoring to find the cheapest labor where automation isn’t feasible. What can a poor boy say? True capitalists of any political stripe simply take no prisoners! Now on with ye leg irons, ye scalawags!
Yeah and Ivanka has spoken out against automation and bots but she is just a feckless c*nt anyway right? Why do you care anyway, you said you are glad thousands of people are losing their jobs.
>>> More women are raped by citizens than by immigrants
Really? That’s the best you can come up with? That illegal aliens don’t rape as many as others? Is that suppose to excuse you and other liberals for doing everything you can to encourage more of the same? You are incredibly callous to the rape victims of these animals.
>>> You cite one single rape
Oh that rape wasn’t good enough for you?! Here’s another one.
And another one.
And another one.
And another one.
That last one proves Trump’s point. I will quote it here…
A woman turned her juvenile daughter over to a sexual predator to sneak them both into the U.S. in exchange for getting the mother a job, Homeland Security officials said Tuesday, detailing one of the horrific abuses that migrants are able to make of the immigration system.
The man, Ramon Pedro, showed up at a land border crossing in Texas in April, said he was traveling with his daughter, and demanded entry into the U.S., the government says. They were processed and released under the expectation they would return for their immigration proceedings.
But late last month, the man and girl were admitted to a hospital in Fresno, California, for tuberculosis screening — and the doctors discovered the girl had been sexually assaulted.
The hospital then figured out the girl wasn’t related to Mr. Pedro at all.
“In fact, the victim’s mother told her daughter to accompany Pedro to the United States and he would secure her employment,” a Homeland Security official said.
Like Trump said, a lot of these migrants grab unrelated children to give themselves an advantage. And in many cases it’s the children who suffer.
Open the border and coyote rapists are out of work. Provide asylum and people can build their lives here free of gang violence. Trump has created this problem by stopping the legally established asylum process all previous presidents respected.
The Mexican and Central American gangs are here and continue to come. How would a more open border keep them out? You say so many things which are utter nonsense, Janet. But you love how it sounds.
If you read enough of what the FBI says about the gangs and the gang problem in the US, it would appear that the biggest threats are to impoverished areas and to illegal immigrants:
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2008/january/ms13_011408
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/violent-crime/gangs
https://www.wola.org/analysis/ms-13-not-immigration-problem/
It is a good thing that the Hispanic immigrants coming into America these days will all be finding good paying jobs as CEO’s and brain surgeons, because if they had to settle for living in poverty, this problem would have a seriously bad effect on their lives. The funny thing is that the WOLA site claims that the gang problems were not a problem in the countries that these people left behind.
Its a good thing that I am no conspiracy theorist or I might be concerned that this whole agenda is specifically designed to turn the US(A) into a real dump. Build a man a fire, keep him warm for the night. Set a man on fire, keep him warm for the rest of his life.
Oh, but Janet will tell you: open the borders wide, let everyone come in and the gang problem disappears. It’s like there is no logical circuitry in her head. She just spews out a lot of happy crap talk which sounds great but makes no sense.
By golly I think we may be close to isolating the gene for Left-Wing Globalism. Put her in a lab!
Well hmuller, anybody that can cruise through South America without any cash and a backpack full of penicillin has a totally different set of problem solving skills than you or I do. Such individuals will always consider illegal immigrants as new “friends”, while you and I that have to pay for it all and solve all of the inherent problems, well, we are simply screwed.
I just had a great idea!
1. Government buys a 100-ac. parcel of land in NW Baha California.
2. Partner with American firms and franchises to build out a complete replica of suburbia complete with McDonald’s, Walmart, IKEA.
3. Subsidize/grant/load otherwise invite Generals Electric and Motors to build mini-factories to make putt-putt motors
4. Build a JV-size court and football field.
5. Contract Elon Musk for Tesla electric public transport
~~~ Benefits:
A. America earns an annual dividend on the economy and issues bonds
B. We prove a convertible concept of low-E high efficiency modular Crapscape core “Nucleus”
C. Enjoy additional prestige for being unique among Nations providing such innovative Win-Win solutions
Good idea, but think bigger. Apparently, many millions in Mexico and Central America want to live under the US system of law and economics.
Hence, Mexico should cede to us Sonora and Chihuahua provinces (maybe others as well). We will bring law and order to those poor benighted people. And we’ll give them the status of Puerto Rico – no votes for US President or Congress. But lots of opportunity to work for low wages in the factories of the glorious globalist masters.
>>> Apparently, many millions in Mexico and Central America want to live under the US system of law and economics.
LOL—except that they put socialists in power in their native lands and flout our laws.
They’re really more akin to locusts. They consume everything in sight, breed, overpopulate, and move on to greener pastures. That’s Shithole Nation 101.
Yes Ex, I was being somewhat tongue in cheek.
But I’ve never understood how militant Chicano organizations like La Raza can support returning the US Southwest (1845 acquired territory) to Mexico when all its members fled Mexico to live under our system. My answer to them:
“Yo bro, if you and your compadre’s succeed in returning California to Mexico, don’t check your mailbox for that welfare check ’cause I ain’t sending it, no more! Comprende?”
Because they’re colonists, not immigrants. Did the Pilgrims want to become Indians? The “welfare checks” are just the jiyza, tribute, or protection money.
Turn a map sideways or a globe upside down – it’s mind expanding. Then do the same to your mental maps or paradigms. Flip the script!
Texas belonged to mexico for about 15 years. In the whole area of what is now Texas there were about 3000 Mexicans living there in 1835.
brh
IMHO it is something that they learned from the Conquistadors, the European Spaniards that razed their lands and wiped out the Mayans, the Incans, and the Aztecs.
The Mayans are the Guatemalans, and are pretty well preserved save the decorations and the mother tongue.
I correct myself- the languages are alive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Guatemala
All three groups were very warlike long before Whites got here. The Maya and the Aztecs were hugely into human torture and sacrifice. The Inca weren’t that bad, just an occasional kid left for the gods. Normal stuff. No eating them, skinning them and then wearing their skin. Did they learn that from us too?
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5026577-Biblical-Basis-for-War.html
Walter the Aztec and Maya were very blood thirsty people.
Walt really goes off on a false tangent at times – the unholy effect of PC on Christianity.
I like your holy war link. It’s very important. I haven’t seen anything like it before.
I did not say that they were not SSL, so imagine what the spawn were like (and still are) once the Spaniards mated with them before they wiped them out! That is what we are dealing with today when the drug cartel people behead them by the hundreds and bury them in mass graves comprende?
What do you mean US, Janos? Are you a Spaniard? I said European Spaniards because Americans today tend to think that Spaniards are from South America. I’m talking Spanish Inquisition types, not fun loving Germans and Frenchmen.
Yes, European Spaniards, White Men, Christians – US. You think We taught them to be savages, but you’re wrong.
I have read that diseases brought on by contact between Europeans and Indians resulted in far more Indian deaths than war. Measels, small pox, and influenza were allegedly unknown in pre-Columbian America.
You will never get it Janos. Christians cannot, by definition, propagate a Spanish Inquisition, so NO they were not Christian, surely you can understand this even if you will never acknowledge it. The fact that they called themselves Christians is like Barry Obama calling himself and American. Good luck on Pitcairn’s Island, btw.
And yes SSL, the Spaniards DID bring disease as well as weapons and the natives were all wiped out, so my point is made. Thank you. The English used Smallpox infected blankets to kill off some of the American Indians too, but they did not wipe out their entire civilization, did they?
Well I would say their civilization has been pretty much wiped out. History doesn’t repeat but rhymes, so we better be on our toes or the same fate awaits us.
We’re the Indians now – disorganized, confused, disunited – and about to be dispossessed of our Lands and possibly wiped out.
Walt’s individualism is pernicious.
It’s alright to want to be a Saint, Walt. I do too. But you can’t force the Counsels of Perfection on others – or expect a whole Civilization to follow them. We have needs. We need space. And weapons to hold it. The best of the Amish and Mennonites understand this and pray for Civil Authorities. They know they are living a special vocation and are dependent on People who AREN’T. Do you know this?
I would never even attempt sainthood Janos. I limit my goals to achievements that I actually stand a chance of accomplishing. Yes, I am quite the individual no doubt, but you never have to worry about me influencing others because no one ever listens to me no matter what I am saying anyway. I am never the guy that people turn to and ask “What should we do”, I am the dope that has to climb into the shitty mess that results from stupidity and clean up the mess. I assume that this is because people cannot deal with being told that they have conserve, maintain, work instead of play, of care for others before they care for themselves. These are not messages that go over well, they are statements that makes a man an outcast rather than a celebrity. And Americans just love celebrities now, don’t they?
I am all for hard work and self-reliance Walter and its admirable that you are willing to jump in to take care of business. Rugged individualism and stick-to-it-ness made America. But in this time, I think what Janos is saying is that a collective effort and more cohesiveness is needed for our survival. I hope that will happen but it does feel like its up in the air right now.
All I can see are swarms of locusts.
Its ‘The Day of the Locust’
Devouring everything their path. Eventually western civilization itself will be devoured.
With apologies to Nathanial West.
brh
We gotta smoke em out now!
The locusts have no leader but they proceed in ranks.
I guess the image of zombie hordes works too. And who needs zombies?
This idea can scale and can be franchised.
Franchise – the Dis- Enfranchised- get it?
Or, do you just doubt the power of Capitalism?
Once Mexican Outback Stakehouses are built, Value goes up. Desirability goes up. Suddenly Mexico has an incentive to population control.
Move the population of old Tijuana to Nuevo Contcretia.
The nuclei, thus established will attract developmentista.
Capice? We make money without having the administrative headaches.
Similarly, beachheads in the Triangle countries should be simple.
When was the last time of major direct development help? Why can’t we increase trade with our Southern Partners? China wants in- we should be on top, not on bottom, of this Budgeting, Development, Supply Management industry.
Think!
Do!
Win!
The New World demands Creativity!
AMLO is enjoying the spectacle and is in the catbird seat. I am sure he is mulling concessions as we speak.
Meanwhile another Caravan has set out, this time from E;l Salvador
With all the National Flags coming, it will become like an annual Olympic Event- La Migracion de Olympiad.
The New Pop-up USA/Mexico Olympic villages will need to be rolled out post-haste.
We have about 30 days until the bum rush swells to 20,000 souls.
https://www.amren.com/commentary/2018/11/trumps-crucial-test-at-san-ysidro/
The battle of San Ysidro will not only determine the future of the Trump Presidency, but whether America itself has a future or not as an independent, historical nation.
I hope he shuts the government down over it, if that is what it takes.
Martial Law. We are the Martians!
As far as the pre Columbian empires, I dont know much but I
thought they [mexicans] were super into cannibalism.
Cortez or whoever saw lots of corpses for sale.
Turn a map sideways or a globe upside down – it’s mind expanding.
How so????
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN BITES THE DUST IN NEW MEXICO
Democrat Xochitl Torres Small has defeated Republican Yvette Herrell in one of the nation’s last outstanding House races, New Mexico’s secretary of state certified Tuesday morning.
The official result brings the total number of Democratic gains in the House to 39 seats, with one race outstanding
Hows the Senate race in Mississippi going?
Incident to that, what’s the latest on Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg’s health scare?
brh
Zoh-CHEE-Uhl
Zoh-CHEE-Uhl
Zoh-CHEE-Uhl
SO-chel to my ears when she pronounces it. But you’ve gotta love it when she rrrrrrrolls her rr’s in Torres.
Ask Exscotticus … that battle was lost after the first 20 million arrived. Trump could send a million troops but nothing Trump does on the southern border will stop about half of the immigration which arrives in airports with 100 year tourist visas, aka overstays. Admit it janos, multiculturalism has won as whites become a minority. E PLURIBUS UNUM!
Hey Little Jane you’ll have to keep a few whites around to fix the bridges, build the airplanes, run the trains, provide clean water, keep the EBT/snap card fully funded and in general make sure the modern industrial welfare state still functions … and doesn’t turn into Haiti, Zimbabwe, and now SArica.
brh
Yes, the enemy is within the gates. We can only do what American soldiers did during the Vietnam War in similar circumstances – call in air strikes on their own bases.
You mean they may need to destroy your house in order to save it?
Funny janet, your rudeness and purposeful trickery once again sickens me but what’s new. Actually he is going to fumigate the house leaving you and your insect buddies homeless. And on the OTHER SIDE of the wall. Since you hate the house anyway no big deal right?
Purposeful trickery-tautology!
Yes, janet is then a tautologist.
Insect buddies, lol! Raid!!!
You get to man the big fumigation unit. Kind of like a machine gun….
You liked that :-)? I couldn’t get past the locust imagery last night. Hey, I am a pretty good shot so it might not be a bad choice ;-).
TRUMP’S TARIFFS POLICY SLAMS US ECONOMY
Trump administration’s onerous steel tariffs are an important contributing factor. It’s more expensive to buy steel parts for cars than it was before he took office.
That Trump’s economic policies are in any way causing manufacturing plants to close and jobs to be eliminated could be a stake in the heart of the Trump presidential experiment.
A year ago I announced that Trump is trashing the American economy. Thousands of people who believed Trump and voted for Trump are now being laid off. For all of 2018 the stock market net gain is zero as the economy tanks. But, goddamn it we can now say “Merry Christmas”
You wouldn’t know anything about Christmas. For that you have to want to give. But you are all about theft and subterfuge. And with each post you prove it more.
I notice Trump has stopped talking about the stock market.
And what is your take? In reality, does any President really control what happens in the stock market beyond the affect of economic policies and regulations/or lack thereof?
And I didn’t care for you dirty comment below.
What’s happening here now is young ‘Community Members’ are using Hartford as a base to launch nighttime raids into white suburbs and even rural areas, mostly stealing cars, but also robbing and beating up kids at bus stops and occassionally invading homes of elderly people. The local media call them ‘Youths’. The police chief of Hartford as much as blamed whitey for his car being stolen because ‘they are not properly secured and locked up’. That’s the state of affairs now and you better be damned careful telling the truth who’s committing these crimes, who’s being robbed, and where the cars are eventually being found (the ghetto). You need to talk in aphorisms and couch your language if you know what’s good for you.
Reading thru this thread, the Brit Green Alba and Canuck Elrond are in complete agreement, they hate us Yanks! Ignorant, racist, nationalistic GW deniers, really an objectional group of people they want nothing to do with! Actually they knew all along what we were like but it took a few years on this CFN thread to really confirm it: everything they’ve heard on CBC and BBC about Americans is true!
brh
“Finally, there’s the elephant in the room with the 800-pound-gorilla riding on its back: the economy and its diabolical engine the financial markets. Anyone notice on the lead-up to Thanksgiving and Black Friday that the markets have been going south (and not on holiday to Cozumel)? Stocks are roaring back up again as I write. The TBTF banks and their ringleader, the Federal Reserve, have had a few days to engineer a rally, and the sharper it goes up, the more remaining “greater fools” will get roped in for eventual slaughter. Bond rates are charging back up too, meaning the price is skidding down. Bad combo. The poison cherry-on-top is Bitcoin, which has plunged about 40 percent in ten measly days to a 3000-handle and is headed to zero. So sad, as The Golden Golem might put it. It seemed like such a sure thing less than a year ago. What could have gone wrong?”
Perhaps the same things that have ALWAYS gone wrong:
http://tomatobubble.com/q_timeline.html
@BRH,
Their opinions, and repartee, are akin to the inevitable PIA relative who shows up periodically. Divorced from current, local events, they insist on making everything about themselves, and then whine when exposed for being the pedantic twats that they are.
Treat them like bots, ignore them.
“That’s the state of affairs now and you better be damned careful telling the truth who’s committing these crimes, who’s being robbed, and where the cars are eventually being found (the ghetto). You need to talk in aphorisms and couch your language if you know what’s good for you.
AND…How do you like it now, gentlemen?
Carefully observe the conditions of the day. If people don’t act the way they should, it may well be because they’re not playing the same game as you think they are. If immigrants don’t act like immigrants, it’s probably because they’re not immigrants but rather invaders. Or “asylum seekers”. I mean if you were seeking entrance into someone’s country, would you throw rocks at them? Burn their flag? Yell insults? Why would we let people like this in?
Ditto with individuals. Each night during sleep, there is a “backup” where the tapes are reviewed, edited, and items deleted. If an acquaintance ignores you some day, you may have been deleted. That’s not so bad. But what if your spouse wakes up next to you and doesn’t like you anymore? Something you did the previous day, tipped the balance, and during the backup process that night your marriage was effectively canceled. It will take time for the words and actions to work themselves into the outer world and the relationship, but if you are truly sensitive, you will know it’s over or at least in dire danger.
Don’t pretend to yourself even if you have to pretend to others. Get ready for the worst. Start a secret bank account. Find out which countries you can’t be extradited from. Watch Shawshank Redemption. The Pacific is the Ocean of Forgetfulness. If someone doesn’t act like your wife anymore it’s because she isn’t. She’s a ruthless enemy trying to destroy you. You have to get away from her because she has Uncle Samuel on her side. She has the papers on you, the marriage license being a warrant for your arrest, and a lien against your possessions and very soul.
Walk thru a forest in your bare feet. Does it hurt? Good, it will wake you up. We’re not from this planet originally. If we were, we’d be able to walk around comfortably without “shoes”. Move quietly, observing the animals. They are watching you too. The very act of watching changes everything. Predators know when they are seen and that warns them off. Be like Buffalo, neither Predator nor Prey. Thus they are the symbol of the true American Patriot.
I can’t believe I find a way to bring this one home. I was really rambling there for a moment or two. But I ended on a high note (I have a friend who is eating nothing but high meat now – wft!?) that will hopefully inspire after the dark notes of warning that came before. If the Watchman does not sound the Trumpet when the Enemy appears, the blood of his people in on him. If he does and they ignore his call, He is Free to enjoy living near the warm waters of forgetfulness.
That is poetic.
Q.
Tanks. I’m loosely wound to begin with, but was feeling a bit tight. So I let myself off the leash.
And of course, one remembers that both Amfortas and Klingsor were wounded unto death, too weak to live, too strong to die.
Anto LaVey (Levy) said, “There is a beast in Man. It is not to be exorcised but exercised. But Amfortas was unable to ride his beast and Klingsor thought he was his beast, like LaVey himself.
I get some of it but some of it went over my head :-). But you are a Watchman and you have been sounding the Trumpet. Shame on those who don’t listen to you.
Thank you SSL. Some of it went under your feet more than over your head. Check your soles…..
I think I understand but can’t help being scared. I am not sure I could make it to those warm waters literally. But maybe figuratively I guess. You know it is really weird. Sometimes late at night I imagine running away from it all, but then I remember that it is just a silly notion because I couldn’t pull it off and can’t leave Treasures behind. I guess this is where God wants me for now but I do dream a lot.
The Pacific has a mystical effect on me. It has a very different quality than the Atlantic – the waters of European history and memory.
Yes, there is no fleeing from Duty that has been assumed. It’s good you have children. Most women who don’t have them go crazy by 40. You had them young so someday you will be free to explore life more freely, in terms of travel, study, or career.
I had a good cry after that. But you are right. There is no fleeing, and that realism made me feel better :-). I do need to focus on what I am supposed to do now. Yes, maybe one day I will get to see the Pacific!
What’s inspiring you this morning, Janos? You and Finc ain’t at the stash again, are you?
Mueller now has evidence of criminal cospiracy involving direct illegal links between Russian intelligence and Trump’s 2016 campaign. Now I understand why what Mueller has found will be devastating to Trump.
When? Soon. There is more to be done to prepare the necessary legal documents, but Mueller now has Trump dead to rights.
Mueller has Trump, Corsi, Stone, Malek, members of GRU, Assange, Manafort, etc. by the short hairs. Indictments, convictions, prison sentences, impeachment, removal from office in the next few months.
This turned out to be a “witch hunt” that turned up a criminal bevy of witches.
>>> Mueller now has evidence of criminal cospiracy involving direct illegal links between Russian intelligence and Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Will it be as “direct” as the FBI actually paying a foreign intelligence agent to dig up dirt on Trump? Because that’s exactly what the FBI did. No surprise that no one from the FBI has been indicted.
Keep pinning your hopes on Manafort! And show us the pee tape!
Conspirology: Russia, USA, Israel. Religious factor (cont)
The “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” contained a description of the worldwide Judeo-Masonic conspiracy, the theory of which began to spread in France in 1894 in connection with the Dreyfus case, which somehow symbolized the beginning of the collapse of the secular, cultural assimilation of European Jews, proclaimed by the French Revolution and Napoleon, not only in France, but also in Germany and throughout Europe, including Russia.
The essence of this theory was that the Jews, regardless of their religious affiliation, are not assimilated, but become the hidden enemies of any European state by virtue of their genetic affiliation to the aforementioned global conspiracy.
The primary source of this theory was the French military counterintelligence in the person of Major Jean Sandherr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sandherr
But given the fact that the source of the Dreyfus accusations was a handwritten note found in the trash can of the German Embassy in Paris, which strongly resembles Schellenberg’s fake against the Soviet Marshal Tukhachevsky, and the fact that Dreyfus was accused of crimes that actually were committed by a colleague of Jean Sandherr and part-time German spy Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, suggests that in this case, the anti-Semitic card in French politics was quite deliberately played by the German intelligence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Walsin_Esterhazy
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy was the son of a general of the French army who commanded a division in the Crimean War and a member of the ancient Austro-Hungarian family, descended from Attila himself.
Moreover, this clan, in the person of Nikolay Esterkhazy, very wisely rejected the Hungarian crown proposed by Napoleon, preferring Tyler’s mediatization to it, which he allegedly took a very active part in preparing and which destroyed the monarchical system of Europe to a much greater degree than all the wise men of Zion combined.
The first full publication of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, which attracted the attention of the public, took place in 1905 in the second edition of Sergei Nilus’ book “The Great in the Little”, which contains memories of conversations with Saint Seraphim of Sarov and Simbirsk landowner Motovilov.
Moreover, for the first edition of this book, Sergei Nilus received the blessing of St. John of Kronstadt for publishing Motovilov’s notes, which he thus, in the second edition, on purpose or unwittingly, extended to the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, introducing it deceivingly to the public space and making “Protocols” a serious factor in the life of the Orthodox Church.
After that, the Orthodox Church found it necessary to investigate this hypothesis and reported that she did not know anything about the Judeo-Masons and their conspiracy, in contrast to simply Masons, which she was well aware of, and that membership in these secret societies, that is, Masonic lodges, is incompatible with faith in Christ, regardless of their “Judaism”.
One of the leaders of this commission who investigated “Jewish Masonry” was Archbishop Seraphim Chichagov, the man who composed the churchly, not the literary, life story of St. Seraphim of Sarov and facilitated his glorification probably the most in the world.
It is noteworthy that it was Archbishop Seraphim who as the arch-pastor, was sent by the Synod to investigate all sorts of lewdness in the Optina Hermitage, and in particular drove Sergei Nilus out of it, for living together with two women, which led the monks into temptation.
In addition, he was one of those who supported the declaration of Metropolitan Sergius as Saint, which allowed preserving the Russian Orthodox Church, despite all the persecutions. He sealed his glorious life with a martyr’s death, unlike Nilus, who, by the way, died quietly in his bed in 1929 under the rule of “godless Judeo-Bolsheviks”.
The Jews, who initially enthusiastically reacted to the cultural assimilation program, were forced to realize the collapse of their plans and responded by proclaiming the program of building a secular Jewish state and the Napoleonic “nation building” program applied to the Jewish people, similar to the programs of building a French and German nation, in which they took an active part before the start of the Dreyfus case.
Religious Jewish leaders reacted negatively to the program of cultural assimilation and to the program of building secular Israel, called “Zionism”, because firstly it meant the Jewish communities getting out of their power, secondly questioned the concept of Moshiach, which, according to Judaism, is the only one who can restore the state of Israel, and in the third rejected the very concept of the expulsion of Jews from Israel by God.
In the Zionist movement, supporters of Western European Jewish liberalism and socialism, personified by Theodor Herzl and Haim Weitzmann, and the Nationalism of Russian Jews, personified by Vladimirov Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky, initially took an active part, and the latter initially fought, including with arms, not for the creation of the state of Israel, but for the equality of the Russian Jews in the Russian Empire.
The fact that Israel has still been recreated, the Jewish religious leaders cannot comprehend so far, since this fact forces them to admit that either the expulsion of Jews from Israel ended and secular Jews, unlike religious Jews, who in every way impeded it, felt it and, therefore, were blessed for the restoration of Israel by the Lord God himself, or that Israel was built against the will of God and therefore must be destroyed.
It must be said that from the very fact of the existence of Israel, the roof slides not only among the representatives of Judaism, but also among many Christians, since they put forward the same arguments against the existence of Israel, as Orthodox Jews, do not seem to recognize that the Messiah had already come, and that from this point of view there are no obstacles to the existence of Israel.
Such an impression was that they recognized the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” to be inspired from Above, proclaiming the Antichrist to be the Jewish Moshiach, and not the teachings of Seraphim of Sarov, set forth in another part of the same book.
But this, at least because of the systemic Orthodox education, seems to have been well understood by Joseph Stalin, who played the decisive role in the creation of the state of Israel.
Finca
Interesting post.
IMHO, God created Christ, his promised messenger, to open his way to the world outside the Jews. When Jesus ministered, his first targets were the Jews, trying to show them the true way. He was rejected and eventually killed by the Jewish religious leaders. Why? He was up against one of the three deadly and original sins, ethnocentrism. Humans are infused with this trait. “My way or the highway!” “Believe what I tell you or I will kill you!”
God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and a zillion rules on how to conduct themselves properly. Over the centuries this gave them the God ordained excuse to separate themselves from the world and believe they were superior to everyone else. Nothing infuriates people more. Ethnocentrism became the core of their religion. God’s intention was for the Jews to set an example for the world and convert it to monotheism celebrating Him. Well, that did not work so well at first, so God started the various forms of the Diaspora and by Christ’s time there were more Jews outside of Judea than in Judea. Everywhere they went, they separated themselves from society, believing they were God’s chosen and they were not to be despoiled by the Others. Some of God’s Mosaic law and early dealings with His chosen definitely reinforced their separating nature.
Jesus was a crossroads of history. God changed course right in the middle of his symphony. Jesus attacked the number one sin, power, but by the end of his ministry, he attacked number two, ethnocentrism. All those laws and rules had allowed the Jewish nation to isolate itself from the world. The Temple, a graven image, had become the center of Judaism, and not God himself. God had punished Israel many times for worshipping graven images, but this time was different. Jesus said, the rules are summed up by what is in your heart, Love God, and each other. “Do unto others–“. The rules just fall into place. Most importantly, do not separate yourselves from the world, convert it. Your rules are no longer your excuse. Stop your ethnocentrism and get to work!
Once Christ returned to God, a Jewish backlash started to try to destroy the Christians that were attacking their self conceived exalted placenta the world. Ethnocentrism rearing its head in spades. Jesus directly converted the head of the movement, Saul of Tarsus, by direct intervention. Paul became the converter of the Gentile world, taking Jesus’ message to the world, like the Jews were supposed to do.
Finca, you mentioned Judeo-Masonic philosophies. I place before you the Mormons. Joseph Smith spun Masonic Law into a religion, sprinkled it will New World Judaism, and volla, a new religion was founded. Boy, ethnocentrism at its finest.
The ethnocentrism is in place today as much as ever. Jews are no. 1, no wait Catholics are no.1, no Protestants are no.1, no Mormons are no. 1 We all have the answer, listen to us! No where is there a feeling of human unity, that everyone is no.1, there is no Right way and Wrong way. Ethnocentrism and power rule the world and it is getting worse year by year.
Now our two new “religions are on the loose, contesting for the ethnocentritic hearts of men and women. Liberalism vs. Nationalism are once again splitting mankind up at world levels.
Will Man ever be able to reduce the effects of his sinful nature? Will Power and Ethnocentrism give way before God’s ways? Or is the Endtimes forecast by many folks the only solution.
I guess time will tell.
Is that point of view popular in Arizona in general, or is that just you?
“Is that point of view popular in Arizona in general, or is that just you?”
Komaraden Finc…
…Nigga Please! You have obviously never been to Arizona….
That I never have. So, what did I miss?
The Mormons now accept everyone – they’ve renounced any specialness for Whites. In other words, all ethnocentrism, both the good and the bad, the natural and the unnatural. On the other hand, many of the Jews are as ethnocentric as ever. Under Talmudism – a new religion btw – the Jewish people are their own God.
Yes, it’s not the same religion as the Old Testament. But for my money, even they were going wrong. Check out Isaih in the Old Testament, talking about a universal order where they “drink the milk of the Gentiles” and Gentiles work in their fields while they do nothing, and the Gentile kings come and pay homage to them. Now the Catholics, Orthodox, and no doubt the Protestants, dress this all up into something spiritual, but I bet it originally he meant it just as it sounds. This is outside accepted exegesis of course. Oh well! I refuse to admit imperfect people are perfect. And who says a Prophet always understands what is given to him – and doesn’t add on parts of his imperfect self to the Message?
And we are disarmed unless we can accept the Old Testament applies to us as well. Walt thinks that only the Jews have the divine mandate to be a People and to fight for existence. Read Matt Shea’s “A Biblical Basis for War” and be ready. Our Ancestors didn’t create America without fighting. Would you give it back to the Indians? Or some other group?
Jesus has been since the beginning.
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 1:2 He was with God in the beginning……
God made different people groups for His own purposes, which we can never really comprehend. Thus ethnocentrism is normal, natural, and healthy…..
Predators turning into prey.
http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Predators%20turning%20into%20prey.pdf
Q.
Blaming Obama for Hillary’s crimes is exactly the sort of “conspiracy theory” in the spirit of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”.
…and the protocol of Niccolò Machiavelli.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli
Q.
Adios, Mr. Trump. Your judicial doings will be reversed. It will be beautiful.
You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them,” Trump said on the tape released in 2016. “It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy.”
Just walk away.
http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Just%20walk%20away.pdf
Q.
Grab them by the pussy
Your girlish dreams again, Jane. Don’t you worry, your pussy is safe.
My dick is beautiful- is it safe too?
There are few questions which I can not answer using my outstanding analytical ability.
You just asked one of them.
LOL! You’re on a roll today, Finc! Party on dude!
Good one Finc. You really got me.
So Jim Kunstler, what do you think of the Cyber Village you have created here? Does it live up to your expectations? Surely you are not surprised are you, that whomever or whatever comes here to leave their mark seem hell bent on proving the old adage that a house divided against itself cannot stand? Certainly you expected that the “my way or the highway mentality” has been so ingrained, so programmed into humanity that anyone who even thinks about trying to bring about the tiniest bit of unity or bridge building would go the way of the Bridge on the River Kwai? When the Great Light Switch of the World is flipped on at last and the cockroaches all flee from the disclosure, what will be left to salvage?
It is fact that neither salvation nor safety can be had as a group, a tribe, or a nation. The only hope is individually and with so many tearing at any who even seek it, one can only wonder if any will be able to achieve it in the end. Quit ye like men.
I think JHK is probably more flattered by his cyber village than anything else he has accomplished, which is saying a lot, considering he has been on mainstream TV, is an oft quoted author, and has an excellent singing voice.
I was worried he would walk back all that success with a foray into unfortunate facial hairstyles and bow ties, thankfully he has changed course.
We fought as a group. That’s the only way we took America from the Indians. Would you give it back to them? Or someone else maybe?
The Spanish Inquisition was for heretics, not the Indians. Mostly people pretending to be Catholics. The Protestants had their own versions. You are still in thrall to the Master Anti-Catholic Propagandists of Elizabethan England.
But yes, the Protestants did better here in the New World: they brought their own women. The Spanish Conquistadores had huge harems of Indian women – dooming that Civilization to always be second rate. The French started out weak in many places, but later rectified their error to some extent. But the English still won out in almost all of North America.
It’s a paradox: We’ll be judged as individuals, but the individual must serve the group to be truly good – so he or she needs the group spiritual speaking. And obviously in the physical sense as I already mentioned, both to survive and thrive.
No Janos, there is never any giving or going back. Our people overcame being chained to the benches in the Roman galleys and played our part in removing the Roman menace way back when, did they not? No, not the Vatican, they are a different menace and are yet to be dealt with. The past must be remembered but at the same time gotten over. Unfortunately it can be utilized to manipulate the simple minded into evil and the slavery issue is a perfect example of that. The American Indian thing, no, that has been gotten over, just as we have gotten over being Roman slaves. We moved on, the simple minded and the lazy will never move on. They always search for the easy way out. Will that lead to big problems down the line? Who knows, but it surely has created problems for us in the here and the now hasn’t it?
Believe it or not Walt, many Catholics seers and prophets warned us about what would happen to the Catholic Church. Both Rome AND Jerusalem will become the abode of the Anti-Christ. You like the first part, but you don’t like the second because it implicates your precious idols, the Jews.
It has already begun since Vatican Two and the creation of the modern state of Israel. Do you feel bad for the Palestinians? Some of them are Christian but when the Christian Zionists go there, they have no interest whatsoever in them.
Once again Janos you have illustrated your lack of knowledge, or at least understanding of who I am and what I think. “The Jews” is a huge statement are encompasses many. I have a great affinity for the Messianic Jews, those Jews who believe that Jesus was indeed the Messiah. Those who deny Him, well they are on their own and I bear them no malice for many will be called and few shall be chosen. The Zionists however well there is the unholy union between the King of the North (Pope) and the King of the South (Bibi, at least right now). I do not care to go on forever here, but that is the long and the short of it.
Glad to hear it. Just remember, the Anti-Christ is almost surely to be an ethnic Jew (He will sit in the rebuilt Temple, right? The Church Fathers were almost unanimous on this as well as Protestant authorities like Ted Pike). And he will fool MANY of the very elect – in other words, Evangelicals and Messianic Jews who hail him as the Christ come again.
Understood and agreed. Around here and the NYC area, there are many Jews that are not very religious at all. Sometimes for sport, I will ask one, if I know them well enough, how their wait for the Messiah of theirs is going. It is always a source of quiet amusement for me at the reactions which vary from the sublime to the ridiculous. I have not found any yet that still wait with hope. How sad.
There was a whole Catholic order devoted to freeing Christian slaves of the Muslims – some of them galley slaves who didn’t tend to last too long. They would try to raise money to buy them back. But on occasion, they would Substitute themselves for the slave, if he had a family who desperately needed him back. Greater love hath no man than to take his friend’s place in a Muslim galley.
Unfortunately, Europe did fall back into slavery at this point in some places. But at the Battle of Lepanto, the Catholics offered to unchain all their galley slaves if they would fight – and freedom after that as well. The slaves agreed by and large and the Catholics smashed Suleiman’s fleet that was planning to invade Europe via Italy.