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Do you know what most of America wants? I will tell you: America wants Daddy to step up and say, “Okay, you can stop being insane now. Really, enough is enough.” Trouble is, America is short on daddies these days. That’s what happens when you throw The Patriarchy on the old garbage barge. Mr. Trump was a kind of daddy, but to many women, especially, he was the wrong kind, Bad Daddy, the worst kind of daddy, the kind who makes you clean up your room and come home before midnight. They traded him in for demented Grampa. He just wants to fondle you — and not in a good way — but family decorum requires that we don’t talk about that. In the meantime, we can do whatever we feel like.

It’s a fact that more-educated folks are most susceptible to mass delusion, and the reason will surprise you. It’s because of status-seeking. Yes, even more than money. We’re hard-wired for it. And status is liable to send money in your direction, anyway. Among the educated managerial class, going along with everybody else is crucial because careerism in a bureaucratic system, public or private, demands it. If you seek to rise in the hierarchy, or are just angling for brownie points, you must appear to subscribe to the reigning beliefs-of-the-moment, no matter how crazy, and the punishments are severe for appearing to not go along— like losing your career and livelihood, and all prospects of a comfortable life.

The main belief-of-the-moment is that battling the invisible menace called Covid-19 requires the most extreme measures, and anyone against that is an enemy, a domestic terrorist! Thus, it is most urgent to “vaccinate” every human being in the nation. Why? Because Dr. Tony Fauci, America’s doctor, says so. Why does he say so? Because the Covid-19 “vaccines” are the crowning achievement in his long vainglorious quest to bring forth a world-saving magic cure for a dread disease. And since Dr. Fauci is The Science incarnate, and The Science must be followed (because…come on… we are modern people in a modern world ruled by Science), we must follow Dr. Fauci!

But it’s obvious now, after a year on-the-scene, that the vaxxes work poorly at best to protect against infection or control the spread, and, at worst, induce terrible long-term damage to organs, blood vessels, and the immune system. The vaxxes can kill you or gravely disable you. The statistics in the CDC’s VAERS registry show this in no uncertain terms: 1,003,992 Covid vaxx adverse event reports including 21,745 deaths linked to them through January 7 — and these figures are said to be deeply understated due to the poor design and difficulty using the VAERS website with its clunky, out-dated code that the CDC refuses to fix.

Dr. Fauci has avoided addressing these adverse reactions and the negative efficacy of the “vaccines.” He simply states that the vaxxes are “safe and effective.” That so many Americans believe him, despite all the evidence, and go along with the crusade to vaxx-up everybody, is proof that they are insane. But now that the whole story is unravelling, they are ever more determined to stick to the script. Covid-19 has been their security blanket for two years. As long as it was in the picture, raging and killing as an invisible demon, it could be the focus of all their free-floating terror.

Terror of what, you might ask? Of the meaninglessness, alienation, and debility induced by the managerial class in its own sick institutions and corporations… in short, the 21st-century America that the managers evolved in and supported — a culture of junk food, junk work, junk art, junk environments, junk government, junk economics, and, lately, junk science… a sickening panorama of systems out-of-control and entering failure mode. Confronting the disaster of its own incapacity to sustain a healthy culture and an economy with a future, the managerial class went nuts. Its insane actions now are killing people while seeking to punish those who refuse to walk sheepishly into America’s version of the gas chamber, the Anthony Fauci “vaccines.”

One way out of a trap like this is to follow your insanity into all-out Götterdämmerung, chaos and destruction. That’s the Hitler way (preceded by a period of psychotic totalitarian social control and sadistic scapegoating). I don’t recommend it. When it’s over, there’s not much left to assist the continuity of the human project. But we are led, at the moment, by a very Party of Chaos that is making all those moves. Check the boxes: social control freakery, check… punishment unto the unvaxxed, check… loony war-drumming, check….

The cries for more lockdowns and punishments grow shrill as omicron burns across the land, presenting a fair chance of putting a stop to Covid 19. We’ll know in a couple weeks where this is going. Will those tell-tale “all-cause deaths” mount in the insurance companies, suggesting that the “vaccines” seeded millions with lurking illness? Will the public turn on Dr. Fauci and run him from public health to rough justice? Will the inept “Joe Biden” regime start World War Three in Ukraine, a place of no real interest to us, or the South China Sea, just to change the channel?

You can feel the paradigms straining to shift under your feet now. For that degenerate managerial class, and its psychotically woked-up minions on the campuses and in the news-rooms, this thing would likely go the Schopenhauer way: the new paradigm is at first ridiculed, then violently opposed, then accepted as self-evident. Snap your fingers and they’ll come out of it, just like that.

The managerial class will try to pretend that they never did the things they did. A few will offer weak apologies. But the damage is done. Before long, an economic rip-tide takes the drowning out to sea. The rest of us left on dry land have a lot of work to do. It’ll be no time for crybabies.


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1,096 Responses to “No Time for Crybabies”

  1. Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 9:57 am #

    Where’s the optimism?

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 17, 2022 at 10:04 am #

      There are times for that…and then there are other times.

      • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 10:05 am #

        I don’t like living in the Other Times.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 17, 2022 at 10:09 am #

          That’s the fun part. It’s a roll of the dice for each and every one of us when it comes to “when we will be”.

        • MisterBimmler January 18, 2022 at 10:17 am #

          The Other Times. The Interesting Times.

          • pyrrhus January 18, 2022 at 11:06 am #

            “These are the times that try men’s souls…”

      • abbybwood January 17, 2022 at 2:10 pm #

        I wonder what effect the January 23rd rally in DC will have?

        • Walter B January 18, 2022 at 9:27 pm #

          Let us hope that Dopey Joe does not hire a brigade of MAGA hat wearing flunkies to break through the barriers again shouting “Viva la Trump” or the awakening shall be set back a decade if not forever.

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        • ThorsHammer January 17, 2022 at 5:26 pm #

          “Just Ask Alice’
          Do your kids watch you while you work? And do you brush your teeth afterword?

          • Gypsy January 18, 2022 at 3:25 am #

            Hammer: you make me (^: smile with my coffee at 3:25 AM.

          • MisterBimmler January 18, 2022 at 10:18 am #

            “Supervisor Maxwell is vey demanding. Stern. But fair.”

          • Wizard of the Saddle January 18, 2022 at 6:57 pm #

            Alice can remove her mask while she is working, but she has to put it back on her face immediately after the “happy finish.”

      • ThorsHammer January 17, 2022 at 6:17 pm #

        Mr. Mango

        There is a war going on– a war between our Leaders and all the rest of us. COVID is the smoke screen, Totalitarianism is the goal. Optimism has a nice ring to it, but what then?

        Two things are starkly evident: Our Leaders are clinically and criminally insane. And Our Leaders have a time-tested solution to create solidarity when all else fails. WAR.

        What happens when the target of War, manufactured by forty years of propaganda by Our Leaders, says NO? And has one bedrock principle of its foreign policy—-“Never again will we fight a war on our home soil”? And has developed the defensive and globe girdling technological superiority to enforce its demands?

        What then, you insane American War Hawks? You think the “Enemy” will permit you to install missiles on the Ukraine border five minutes flight time from Moscow after you promised never to expand NATO? Are you not aware that a Chinese hyper sonic missile flew around the entire globe in low orbit, maneuvering without detection by your sensors?

        • Mike G January 18, 2022 at 1:26 am #

          The biggest threat to America is the five eyes.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 18, 2022 at 7:56 am #

          Thor – Not sure why that was directed my way, but good points.

          • ThorsHammer January 18, 2022 at 10:16 am #

            MrMango
            Just expanding upon your theme— not questioning it!

        • Bilejones January 18, 2022 at 9:10 am #

          The Zman sums it concisely.

          ” Disordered minds seek the order of the bloody fist imposing its will on society.”.

        • pyrrhus January 18, 2022 at 11:08 am #

          The problem is that when (((they))) lose the war to Russia and China, they will be ejected from power…meaning perhaps the desperation that leads to a nuclear war…

        • Wizard of the Saddle January 18, 2022 at 7:02 pm #

          Thor – O.K., I’ll bite. You said this:

          “Are you not aware that a Chinese hyper sonic missile flew around the entire globe in low orbit, maneuvering without detection by your sensors?”

          If we didn’t detect it, who did?

          • ThorsHammer January 18, 2022 at 9:50 pm #

            Wizard

            My understanding is that the Chinese claimed success after the fact, and the US failed to refute their claims. So the event probably took place.

            My point is that we have entered a new era of warfare in which the backbone of American force projection— the Carrier Group– is as antiquated as horses armored with chain mail. If the US/NATO were to achieve hyper-sonic and defensive missile technical parity the result would probably be an even more dangerous world.

    • Walter B January 17, 2022 at 10:20 am #

      The optimism is that our host and people like Dr. Martin and RFK Jr. are talking about it and spreading the real truth. And even more optimism that they have not been arrested or taken out for doing so by the criminals running the freak show. We need time for the jabs to do their dirty work to the point that even the idiots that took them wake up and/pr die off in sufficient numbers to prove the point. It’s going to happen I assure you.

      • DrTomSchmidt January 17, 2022 at 10:43 am #

        I think the jabs are a bad idea, Walter, but I’m not sure the great dieoff is coming. I do think that the vast number of jabbed people have seen that boosters don’t prevent Omicron, and are now firmly getting off the vaxxes forever train. What happens next is the question.

        If the Professional Managerial class is lucky, they’ll hold onto their ill-earned wealth. If they’re unlucky, they’ll lose their miserable compromised lives.

        • thirdcoastlegend January 17, 2022 at 10:56 am #

          DrTom-

          I have the same worry that we’re just going to grind on with an elevated level of deaths that’s *just* high enough for them to blame on Covid while they manage to ensnare more and more folks into the jabport system until it is an inevitability for everyone.

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 1:25 pm #

            Well said. That’s what they’ll do if they can.

        • JojoAnnie January 17, 2022 at 1:55 pm #

          I agree. However with the information out there. We must speak truth and nothing but the truth. The vaccinated have a better chance at living if they stay far away from the boosters. They call the first shots the primer in their studies. Hiding the side effects from us is horrendous. Especially since it’s not licensed. They have been denied patent rights many times due to it Does Not Meet Any Vaccine Qualifications. Cdc lied and after 2 times being refused patents they they actually paid fees on a fefused patent saying they had rights and making money on it. Supreme court exposed this and same time exposed fauci tried the same with same vacc. Stating his failure of HIV vacc patent pulled from him for same reason. I have that case in files. This is an EXPERIMENT. it failed once. They tried again. It failed . They tried again. Boosters. It failed. Now a 4th? Meaning 2 shots each time. Add this up. 8 virus extractef from bats ..test tube ..petri dish. Foreign DNA. From humanized
          bat virus infected rats VIRUS. CELLS. SYNTHETIC . Hydra. Harvested in insects instead of eggs. process DEVELOPED IN AI COMPUTER PROGRAM. Pumped into humans FIRST TIME EVER. To FAIL. over and over. Yes it was to STOP INFECTION. HERD IMMUNITY. go figure they change definition of vaccine try again. Changing difinition again. To meet the FAILURE. saying it’s a possiblity a yearly thing. Is nothing more to cover up the failure. Excuse is immunity wean. No it’s failure. I wish I could upload the real trials confidential reports here. It will BLOW YOUR MIND they giving it to us. Maybe I can find the URL to post. I have pdf files. Can’t upload here. WHO training platform explaining how to scrub the internet of facts and what to replace with. Or Fauci actually had study on what to say to implement and process of taking rights to get people to vacvinate. The WHO plan stating they using vaccines not approved as pfizer vacc. Reason they can’t find issues with the approved vacc. I have these studies etc. Omicron mentioned in study YEARS AGO with delta. Alpha. Etc. WEF list of varients and dates to release. It’s up to date. Video of biden in a meeting telling that white people will be only 40% of what it is now by 2030. . I can prove my statements. I’ll be right back and post what urls I can. Hugs all stay safe . Truth be told. Or able to make own decisions. Hugs

          • abbybwood January 18, 2022 at 12:41 am #

            Now I am reading about life insurance companies refusing to pay out death claims related to the jabs because the person should have known the risks involved taking a rushed out experimental jab.

            D’Oh!

          • ranchlife49 January 18, 2022 at 1:18 am #

            Wack job

          • Alexander January 18, 2022 at 11:07 am #

            JoJo, put your PDF files in a free Dropbox in the Cloud and give us the weblink here.
            Thanks…

        • abbybwood January 17, 2022 at 2:14 pm #

          Interesting how some corporations like GE are listening to The Supremes and dropping the mandates while others like NIKE are holding fast to it? Maybe their CCP Masters told them to listen to Biden and not The Supremes?

          • Hereward the Woke January 17, 2022 at 4:04 pm #

            The more woke a company is, the longer it will hang on to the mandates. “Doing the right thing”, don’t you know.

          • Alfred January 18, 2022 at 1:25 pm #

            Yep. Sat through several minutes of ‘staying-safe’ fear mongering this morning.

            The tactics are changing, but the goal is the same.

        • SG-71 January 17, 2022 at 9:56 pm #

          Agreed DrTS. My thesis around “what is the endgame here of these vaccines?” isn’t a die-off, though a minor one may occur unintendedly, but rather a perpetually sick populace needing a pill, or a shot, to stay alive… Basically a captive consumer of healthcare. Just like when one becomes captive of government services/welfare that person generally accepts the party promising to help and votes accordingly. Similarly, a captive user of healthcare will demand universal/single-payer… Fauci’s job has always been to keep the government money flowing to industry, and what better way than through gene-therapy conditioning the “perfect patient?”

          • observex January 18, 2022 at 9:13 pm #

            Absolutely. And this has shown us that if 2 years of constant fear of death won’t make fatass Americans diet and exercise, nothing will.

            I’m buying drug manufacturers like Organon and Viatris with U.S. facilities and lesser-risk (lesser backlash) generic and specialty products. American health will keep going downhill, so let’s collect the dividends on that.

        • MisterBimmler January 18, 2022 at 10:29 am #

          The idea that 3 or 4 plus times vaccinated people will suddenly start dropping like flies is comforting. Especially to those of us who’ve toiled under their yoke, lost work, business, credibility. But I’m making that my ‘frosting on the cake’. Because, even if, as David E Martin insinuates, that was a facet of the original scheme- it’s only happening at the margins. I wish I knew someone in the insurance industry to get some handle on that angle. Supposedly they are not paying out on deaths to the vaccinaion or ‘adverse effects’ because health officials and the press will not report the deaths that way. If you control the song the mockinbird sings, you can keep people lost in a fog of anguished befuddlement. And it’ll be the fault of poltiical dissidents like us anwyay, so why should Fauci worry? IF the narrative starts to fray- bang on the war drums harder.Notice how news is 20%Covid 80% evil Russian aggressors v plucky democratic Ukraine (nevermind the SS regalia)

      • Perimetr January 17, 2022 at 11:26 am #

        Excellent and important interview
        :
        Special Solari Report – Join Us on the Barricades with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. https://home.solari.com/special-solari-report-with-robert-f-kennedy-jr/

        • Alfred January 18, 2022 at 1:41 pm #

          Thank you very much.

          And thank you Catherine Austin Fitts for the public Solari Report!

          “Far and wide,” she said!

      • hortonz January 17, 2022 at 12:48 pm #

        Except the control freaks are still in charge and trying to find new ways to make our lives miserable. Case in point: Our esteemed prime minister, aka The Good Daddy, Justin Trudeau, has decided to pick a fight with American truckers who cross the border and are not fully vaccinated. The stupid shit is demanding that all American truckers provide proof of vaccination before entering our country. Completely ignoring that one of the major causes for the collapse of Canada’s health care in this pandemic is the demand that all health care workers be fully vaccinated, the shits in Ottawa are doubling down on their failed policies and the results do not look good for the Canadian people. We are told to expect more empty shelves in our supermarkets and higher prices for everything. It was bad enough when he allowed the crypto-fascist government of Quebec to hold the country hostage with its’ demands that they could unilaterally make changes the country’s constitution, which they’re not even part of by choice, but now Little Lord Fauntleroy, having won an election where only a third of the electorate endorsed him, governs as if he were the all-powerful emperor of the north. People are starting to find out the emperor has no clothes and Canadians, known for the deference to authority, will soon run out of patience.

        • Islander January 17, 2022 at 1:07 pm #

          The situation in Canada is beyond awful.

          Especially Quebec seems to have lost its mind.

          One thing I don’t understand is why the provinces don’t have some power analogous to state power in the USA.

          Why are they going along with the BS out of Toronto, and the Little Dictator?

          You have my full sympathy. Things are not yet that bad here in the USA.

          • Anon1970 January 18, 2022 at 4:09 pm #

            It depends on what numbers you are looking at. Chicago recorded about 10x the number of homicides that Toronto did in 2021, even thought the population of each city is about the same. New York City has recorded more deaths from covid-19 than all of Canada, which has 4x the population of NYC.

        • Mike G January 18, 2022 at 1:35 am #

          When were Canadians ever deference to authority? Some one run a stop sign?

        • Wizard of the Saddle January 18, 2022 at 7:26 pm #

          I wish I more fully grasped the nuances of Canadian politics. The American media does an abysmal job of covering Canadian politics. Most Americans cannot name the major political parties in Canada and no one has any idea how much support each party commands. It would be interesting, periodically, if some of our Canadian friends here would give the American readers some quick and dirty recaps of what is going on in Canada and why it is that the idiot Trudeau has not yet been ejected from office? Seriously, how badly must the enfant terrible wreck Canada before Canadians pick up torches, pitchforks, and ropes and get to work?!?!

          • observex January 18, 2022 at 9:15 pm #

            Why Canada is docile?

            It is a country of clean-cut, polite pussies.

            A nice place to live a certain type of person. Not for a real American.

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 19, 2022 at 9:56 am #

            Lol…

            Ricky and Julian would disagree with that statement, though.

            https://thewalrus.ca/the-saints-of-sunnyvale/

      • ranchlife49 January 18, 2022 at 1:16 am #

        How much time? I am vaccinated. 58 years old, 33 inch waist, lift weights and exercise 3-4 days per week. And when not exercising, we are running a ranching operation.

        You sound like one of these over-fed clowns that Kunstler is always talking about. We’ll see who kicks off first.

        Word of advice… Go get vaccinated.

        • Mike G January 18, 2022 at 1:37 am #

          Word of advice… go get f

        • ThorsHammer January 18, 2022 at 10:30 am #

          ranchlife49

          I applaud your efforts to even out the odds. With your active life style you probably had a life expectancy ten years longer than average. By choosing the clot shot, opening your cardiovascular system to invasion by the artificial spike protein, opening the gates of the blood/brain barrier to inflammation, and increasing the miscarriage rate of the female members of your family you’ve joined the millions of other victims of the genetic alteration experiment.

        • megabeth January 18, 2022 at 2:54 pm #

          I found the one with an aching case of cognitive dissonance.

          Word of advice: go get your ninth booster, please. Thanks. Bye.

        • Wizard of the Saddle January 18, 2022 at 7:28 pm #

          Word of advice: Mind your own business. You are free to inject yourself with the poison. We are free people too and opt not to imitate your foolish and poorly informed act.

        • Anthea January 20, 2022 at 12:58 am #

          @ ranchlife49:

          So you’re saying you are not a real rancher, but you play one on TV or have the video game or something.

        • Ryan January 20, 2022 at 6:27 pm #

          Did fitness help all the professional soccer players who’ve been collapsing lately?

    • shotho January 17, 2022 at 10:25 am #

      There is a difference between optimism and hope; we always have hope. The human spirit will keep trying to live and thrive. What else can you do, at least on an individual level?

    • Not_GeorgeT January 17, 2022 at 10:33 am #

      No time for crybabies. I’ll add: no time for snowflakes… they, lacking meaningful skills and the knowledge required to develop them, thus they await the washing away.

      A lot of work to be done.

      It is not the first time in the history of this species on this planet, it is merely the most recent example of an economic riptide, with all the accompanying disasters massively disrupting the “way of life’.

      Adapters will have a lot of adapting to do. Here’s some optimism: adapters do exist.

      • chopper January 17, 2022 at 1:56 pm #

        Refuse to comply. I visited Battenkill Books in Cambridge to acquire a signed copy of one of Jim’s books. They told me to wear a mask or leave. I left, never to return.

        • ranchlife49 January 18, 2022 at 1:19 am #

          Good riddance

          • megabeth January 18, 2022 at 2:56 pm #

            Your bottom surgery hurting you today?

        • Wizard of the Saddle January 18, 2022 at 7:36 pm #

          That’s the spirit. Never patronize tyrants.

    • DrTomSchmidt January 17, 2022 at 10:39 am #

      JHK explicitly refuted what Orwell wrote: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.”

      There is no forever. Eventually even the boot stamping wears out the stamper. That’s more optimistic than Orwell.

      • Blackbird January 17, 2022 at 11:41 am #

        Doc, don’t be surprised if, as one boot is retired, another steps forward to take its place. But I do like your optimism, it’s rational, up to a point.

    • Amman January 17, 2022 at 11:26 am #

      In the dream world. Not here.

    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 11:35 am #

      I prefer the realism.

      But there is some, there. The managerial class ‘snapping out of it’ I’d say is tad optimistic.

    • Uncle Abraham January 17, 2022 at 11:57 am #

      Rolling up your sleeves and getting busy doing right is optimistic. Indeed, it’s the only warranted optimism there is.

      • Rain Waters January 18, 2022 at 12:03 pm #

        cattle car mantra

    • Nigel Tufnel January 17, 2022 at 12:20 pm #

      Abe Lincoln put it this way, “The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

      Our battle against tyranny will benefit future generations as much or more that it will benefit us personally. It won’t be easy and it won’t be comfortable … no place for crybabies! How many know what it’s like to go weeks without a hot bath, a meal, or a warm bed?

      • CheezusCrackers January 20, 2022 at 12:40 pm #

        Funny though Nigel, i no longer see Lincoln as a hero. Seeing the feds trampling all over the rights and powers supposedly reserved to the states under the Constitution, I’m not sure that the Civil War wasn’t a mistake. Why shouldn’t a state be allowed to secede if the residents of that state clearly support it? Maybe it shouldn’t be an easy process but it now strikes me as villainous that a voluntary union of states was compelled by death and destruction to stay in a “union.” The war wasn’t fought over slavery, we know. And ever since then the feds have been gobbling up absolute powers never imagined by the Founders or those ratifying the constitution.

        • Ubermensch January 20, 2022 at 6:41 pm #

          True that. It’d be as though libertarian states (i.e. New Hampshire) tried seceding from Biden’s America, today, only to be forcefully prevented from doing so by the tyrannical, CCP-captured Fed.

    • TaxDonkey January 17, 2022 at 12:23 pm #

      The optimism, if you choose to accept, lies in the excitement of standing on the precipice of a new paradigm. Or at least a fracturing of the old.

      • lastman January 17, 2022 at 10:39 pm #

        Been standing on that edge for over a decade.

        The fuse was lit then…and here we are.

    • Anthea January 17, 2022 at 12:28 pm #

      The notion that the managerial class and broken institutions will get washed out to sea strikes me as optimistic.

      • Walter B January 17, 2022 at 1:36 pm #

        As long as the bulk of Americans worship money and material wealth as their god, things will only get worse. When money no longer buys food either because it has lost its purchasing power or there is no food to be had, THEN you will see change.

      • Rain Waters January 18, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

        saw one go from 200k to zip squat in one layoff. compartmentalized itself to failure. course, i hate middle managers like all other useless fluff, so good riddance.

    • thirdcoastlegend January 17, 2022 at 5:18 pm #

      Cheer up Beryl!

      We’re witnessimg the complete removal of freedom on Earth.

    • anmariwakaranai January 17, 2022 at 7:31 pm #

      Schopenhauer, snap your fingers wake_up-boom. Optimist.

    • DougtheKell January 18, 2022 at 11:07 am #

      The “optimism” may be located in the hopes that ‘pages of music’ being played went discordant.

      I can, for instance, remember Jim Kunstler, several years before Covid post-Great Recession, describing NASCAR attendees culture as consisting of .. “tailgate parties with the swilling of beer by pot-bellied fried cornpone eaters”, basically celebrating, almost-only, the consumption of petro-gallons of dino-fuel.
      And later, “tattoo quotients in Cohoes”.
      Admittedly both very funny, accurate, depictions.

      Later, these types, like Mr. “BBQ, Beer, and Freedom” in Clark County, NV, are now feted as somehow ‘heroes of protest’.
      Types like “Guns, God, & Trump” Scott Presler with his bigoted racism, and poorly-“entrained” parades.

      The “Biggest Theft Ever” was the Great Recession, wasn’t it? Well??

      Some sects do their “Measles parties” despite mandates from decades-past for their children to be Measles-vaccinated, or not allowed to attend school.

      And numerous studies show those recovered from Measles exhibit LASTING impaired immune function against the major pathogens.

      Yet, despite that, that sect’s been able to keep a tight lid on their offspring exhibiting that impairment.

      Is it Taibbi’s “Russiagate” that helps keep that “lid” on, or a .. “Deep State” that says ‘no talk about’?

      You may have seen Glenn Beck caught Covid in April, refused to get vaccinated, and has caught it, Again.

      So much for “herd immunity”, “pages of music, discordant”.

      And in summation, we saw Mobil “tax” the American nation during “freedoms GWB” for much of the Iraqi War, now see unexplained petro-hikes unprecedented.
      & claims of “Inflation”, Matt Stoller pegging that “Inflation” as driven 60% .. by corporate profits.

    • ThorsHammer January 20, 2022 at 1:47 am #

      Finally! A true cause for optimism.

      On Wed. noon the UK announced that it was abandoning all attempts to continue with it’s failed COVID policies.

      “Restrictions including COVID-19 passes, mask mandates, and work-from-home requirements will be removed in England, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday. Johnson also suggested that self-isolation rules may also be thrown out at the end of March as the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic becomes endemic.

      Effective immediately, the UK government is no longer asking people to work from home. The COVID pass mandate for nightclubs and large events won’t be renewed when it expires on Jan. 26. And from Thursday, indoor mask-wearing will no longer be compulsory anywhere in England.

      The requirement for secondary school pupils to wear masks during class and in communal areas will also be removed from the Department for Education’s national guidance.

      Roaring cheers from lawmakers could be heard in the House of Commons following Johnson’s announcements on masks.”

      https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/england-ends-all-covid-passports-mask-mandates-work-restrictions

      After two years of continuous propaganda it is difficult to believe any good news, but if this isn’t the ultimate exercise in gaslighting it is not just good news but great news! The Pandemic of Fear is doomed.

      However here in the land of the Free Press (USA) I’m betting that any leak of the news into the public consciousness will be fought to the last available keystroke of censorship.

      • timgenx January 20, 2022 at 10:30 am #

        Politicians finally do the right thing when their political butts are in danger.

  2. nohnson January 17, 2022 at 9:58 am #

    I live on the north side of Chicago where faucci’s words are gospel. Yet it hasn’t stopped any of them from running to Florida for the winter. It’s really a shame American liberalism has proven just to be a mask for hypocrisy and criminality

    • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 10:15 am #

      It’s pretty funny, so many of the political class head down to FL, too. And they lounge around maskless, enjoying the very freedom they are conspiring with the DAVOS set to take away.

      AOC was the most recent example, I believe. She really should mask up though; those chompers look formidable enough to make quick work of a sequoia.

      • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 10:21 am #

        I hope they stuck her on a ventilator.

        • ranchlife49 January 18, 2022 at 1:22 am #

          AOC is a bad ass. Don’t F with her

          • Wizard of the Saddle January 18, 2022 at 8:20 pm #

            No, no…..not true. She is not a bad ass, just a piece of ass.

            If you don’t believe me, go ask her. She is convinced that every Republican male secretly wants to “do her.”

          • Ron Anselmo January 20, 2022 at 1:55 am #

            You’re both right – a *bad piece of ass* – the finger-waggers always are.

          • Mike G January 22, 2022 at 8:54 pm #

            At least from the required 6 feet and a broomstick.

      • Ron Anselmo January 17, 2022 at 10:25 am #

        Night Owl –

        Our Florida Commissioner of Agriculture, Nikki Fried(D), could sure use AOC’s help though.

        Nikki Fried is talking about running against our Governor, Ron “Heavy D” DeSantis in 2022.

        That’s an awful lot of Independents to blow – they may need to bring the whole Squad.

        • BackRowHeckler January 17, 2022 at 10:36 am #

          She’s comparing DeSantis with Hitler, a sure sign her campaign is already in trouble and headed nowhere.

          • Ron Anselmo January 17, 2022 at 10:41 am #

            BRH –

            She’s a loser – needs to spend a little less time getting her eyebrows plucked.

          • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 10:47 am #

            I’m pretty sure people didn’t flock to Nazi Germany.

            She seems to have won her campaign on the basis of legal weed.

            New York like to put farmers in charge of agriculture.

          • thirdcoastlegend January 17, 2022 at 10:58 am #

            Ron-

            She looks a bit like the Joker to me:

            https://www.qwant.com/?l=en&t=images&q=nikki+fried

          • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 11:13 am #

            Oh my gosh. She’s Godwinized herself!

            (Okay, I only wish that Godwin’s Law applied to the political hustings)

          • abbybwood January 17, 2022 at 2:45 pm #

            I would move to Florida just to vote for DeSantis.

            This should be his slogan: “A vote for DeSantis is a vote for freedom!”

      • BackRowHeckler January 17, 2022 at 10:29 am #

        Nancy Pelosi just bought a pretty swanky oceanfront mansion in Florida. $25 million, but no problem for Nancy since she’s been able to leverage her $148,000 per year salary into a personal fortune of half a billion. Some comrades say there’s been some insider trading activity going on, but nothing has been proven, or can be proven.

        • Ron Anselmo January 17, 2022 at 10:34 am #

          Free market…

        • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 10:36 am #

          Yes, a similar pattern exists with the DAVOS young leaders like Ardern, Trudeau, Scholz, Kurz, etc.

          Back in America, another rags to riches story was that of Obama. In fact, Obama is one of the best examples.

          • BackRowHeckler January 17, 2022 at 10:40 am #

            Yes, and it odd that these elitists ringing the alarm over Climate Change and SEA LEVEL RISE, invest $20-25 million each on these oceanfront ‘Cottages’ built right on waters edge.

          • Not_GeorgeT January 17, 2022 at 10:48 am #

            Kenyan makes it to the big time…

          • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 11:18 am #

            I have often thought that Obama had help from high places. He was much too young to truly have made it on his own in the so-called New Class managerial meritocracy, as Bubba Bill had, to cite just one example.

            I mean, seriously . . . Obama wrote his memoir before he was thirty, and took forever to submit it. It was as if some monied sensei had assigned him some homework.

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 11:38 am #

            megabeth, Obama comes from a CIA family completely connected and his rise to fame was no accident, he was conditioned for it his entire life.

            The people who hold the reins plan their futures decades in advance.

            It’s a big club and only a select few are in it.

          • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 11:49 am #

            Mary and Mega, someone commenting perhaps on this very site, quite a long time ago, pointed out that Barack Obama rose much to fast for an outsider, within the world of dirty Chicago politics.

          • Blackbird January 17, 2022 at 11:54 am #

            mega,

            Bubba didn’t make it on his own. Bubba was a Rhodes Scholar. He was chosen long before he did anything. Probably ever since David Rockefeller’s drunken visit to an all-night diner on the road outa Hope…

          • Uncle Abraham January 17, 2022 at 12:01 pm #

            As Harry Truman, the last best Democrat said, and I paraphrase, “Anyone who goes into politics and comes out rich is a crook.”

          • Islander January 17, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

            The Obamas are grifters.

          • BillRI January 17, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

            In response to Megabeth, below, wondering whether Obama had help from high places, see https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2012/03/what_the_mailman_knows_about_ayers_and_obama.html

            This is an interesting post by Jack Cashill, who has written extensively about Obama.

          • ianw January 17, 2022 at 1:43 pm #

            Bubba didn’t make it on his own. Bubba was a Rhodes Scholar.

            LOL Do you think Rhodes Scholarships are a secret ploy by the Davos crowd? People around the world who are going to make it as politicians (left, right, and sideways) often aspire to and attain a Rhodes.

            They get them on academic merit – their applications aren’t then signed off by the Rothschilds or the Rockefellers.

          • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 1:56 pm #

            “I therefore assume you’re lying about the others as well … and

            “Donald Trump shall be your president!”

            “More than 75% of those dying from Covid-19 had four or more co-morbidities.”

            Just to be clear, troll, so as not to insult your intelligence or your moral integrity without knowing which is at issue here, are you claiming not to be able to recognise the difference in the nature of these two sentences?

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 8:32 pm #

            @Beryl,

            The people in high office were all groomed for it at a young age. They were placed where they got to. See: WEF young global leaders. Or the ones who are connected to the CIA, related to the power families, etc. Sometimes it takes some searching but most of the time that search takes less than a minute.

            All of what is happening has been planned for decades.

          • MisterBimmler January 18, 2022 at 10:42 am #

            Barry wasn’t all bad. But his parents were both intelligence operatives and doors had a way of just opening as he moved along.
            As to Rhodes scholars, that is an indoctrination program set up by the Rhodes-Milner circle to bring about a unity in the British and American ruling castes.
            Mission accomplished, I’d say. No one ever said Bubba was a dummy. He stuck to the script and did his job. His wife on the other hand….

          • Night Owl January 18, 2022 at 6:35 pm #

            “LOL Do you think Rhodes Scholarships are a secret ploy by the Davos crowd? People around the world who are going to make it as politicians (left, right, and sideways) often aspire to and attain a Rhodes.”

            My wife applied to get the German equivalent of a Rhodes Scholarship. She got to the final selection round and had to travel to Berlin for the interview.

            Every person she was competing against came from big money; two candidates were the son and daughter of two well-known politicians.

            You remain an idiot.

        • Walter B January 17, 2022 at 10:47 am #

          The fact that we, the little people know how hard we are being played and abused by these thieves and we can talk about it online is what is frightening them. They know that eventually we might put an end to it, and to prevent that they have to kill us off. At least the dangerous ones like white people. The third world immigrants, our ethnic replacements are happy just to be let in and live in poverty because it’s better than where they came from.

          • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 10:57 am #

            They have to at least eliminate the control group. We’re the evidence for the tribunal.

          • Walter B January 17, 2022 at 11:29 am #

            Thats correct Beryl. In the end they may even murder us outright because many want us dead as a minimum. And aren’t there some places that are actually rounding the unvaxxed up and imprisoning them? There certainly are rumors of that and I for one would love to see some proof of that if it is true. I honestly have been told by at least a few of the Kool Aid Drinkers that only when people like me are dead will they be safe. They are out there.

        • abbybwood January 17, 2022 at 2:48 pm #

          Plus it looks like her darling spawn has gotten caught up in some nasty financial shenanigans.

          The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

          • Ron Anselmo January 17, 2022 at 3:26 pm #

            Abby –

            If I’m not mistaken, the spawn with ties to the Ukranian laundry mat include, Biden’s son, Pelosi’s son, Kerry’s son & Romney’s son.

            No wonder their getting pissed that Putin may shut the laundry mat down.

          • Ron Anselmo January 17, 2022 at 3:28 pm #

            Edit: *they’re* not their

          • Ron Anselmo January 17, 2022 at 5:10 pm #

            Billions of US taxpayer dollars go to Ukraine in the form of aid, and millions come back in the form of fees, salaries & bonuses to these four kids (and their mommies & daddies of course) – clean as a whistle. Yep, free market.

            For the umpteenth time – for the record – “what we allow becomes acceptable”.

        • Merkwurdiglieb January 17, 2022 at 3:08 pm #

          BRH, nothing WILL be proven or attempted for if you or I, over any period of time, had cash accumulated in our bank accounts beyond what our earnings statements say, or if a Lamborghini or Maserati periodically appeared in the front yard of our double wide you know damn well that the IRS would be informed and NOT look the other way. But Nancy gets a ride because the caviar class think themselves above the law and beyond reproach.

      • Ron Anselmo January 17, 2022 at 10:33 am #

        Another, in early December, was CNN’s hypocrite Don Lemon and his gerbil-jockey boyfriend, caught lounging at a Miami Beach hotel pool – both without masks.

        • jerrydylan January 17, 2022 at 10:44 am #

          Thank you for being politically incorrect. He deserves the “gerbil jockey” reference.

          • Ron Anselmo January 17, 2022 at 3:33 pm #

            You’re welcome Jerry –

            I grew up in the age of “sticks & stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”.

            If my words hurt some people’s feelings, well, too f**king bad.

        • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 11:21 am #

          Are you saying that Lemon’s husband is of short stature, or that Lemon himself is short?

          Or maybe this is an oblique Richard Gere reference. One tends to wonder.

          • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 11:36 am #

            Richard Gere- he’s that guy who used to have a career. He kept talking about Tibet, after it was no longer permissible.

          • Ron Anselmo January 17, 2022 at 11:41 am #

            Richard Gere.

            Admittedly, I’m way off track this morning. Wouldn’t surprise me if Jim bounces me this morning – back to the serious discussion his posts always deserve.

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

            That’s a great point. He has been gone from Hollywood for a long time. And yeah, it’s fine for stars to become political, but only in an “in season” kind of way. He’s a man who became better than actors are allowed to be.

          • BoomerDoomer3 January 17, 2022 at 1:45 pm #

            His absence might be explained by his marriage to a woman who is young enough to be his granddaughter. Two kids in the last 3 years. At least he’s not killed the Director of Photography on his movie sets…

          • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 5:59 pm #

            “His absence might be explained by his marriage to a woman who is young enough to be his granddaughter”

            Can’t hate a man for that !!!!!!!!!

            I don’t believe, I’d be man enough

            For that challenge !

    • malthuss January 17, 2022 at 11:35 am #

      Fauci’s words are gospel. wth

      did DOCTOR Fauci kill 100s of children? huh.

      • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 12:16 pm #

        He’s America’s “top doc”. Top and doc rhyme so it must be true.

  3. izzy January 17, 2022 at 10:08 am #

    And, as the Big Rattletrap heads for the junkyard, those still able to think wonder what will be left to carry us into the future. We might have to walk.

    • Ron Anselmo January 17, 2022 at 10:16 am #

      Izzy –

      “Before long, an economic rip-tide takes the drowning out to sea. The rest of us left on dry land have a lot of work to do. It’ll be no time for crybabies.” ~ JHK

      To each of us left on dry land, 40 acres and a mule, and we’ll see how that goes.

      No time for crybabies, probably an understatement.

      • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 11:00 am #

        The sad part is…………….

        Ain’t but 1 in 100,000 people,

        Even know how to put a harness on that mule..

        Let alone know how to use a walkin plow !!!!!!

        Ain’t many that can get along with a mule.

        • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 11:40 am #

          I love mules. But I am clumsy with harnesses.

          • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 11:49 am #

            Takes a special person to work mules……

            You mistreat them one time or ask them to

            do something that will hurt them…….

            And you are screwed for life.

            Fun little fact about mules………..

            They (almost) will never over eat and founder……….

            Where a horse will eat till it kills its self.

            Best thing about mules, they are…….

            Waaay smarter than a horse !!!!!!

          • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 11:53 am #

            Saw a Little Amish girl down in New Holland PA

            little like in 6 or 7 yrs old……….

            Dragging a field with

            Six BIG mammoth jacks, all abreast

            Big Strappin Blond Mules tooo……..

            She definitely had the gift of workin mules

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 12:25 pm #

            Sounds like we’re more like horses and need to become more like mules.

            The Arabs say camels are similar and will intensely resent the driver who overloads them. If you do, you must make a big show of throwing the load off and stamping on it. Otherwise the camel will wait for the right time and kill you.

          • Nigel Tufnel January 17, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

            @Jarek- Patricia Highsmith wrote an excellent volume of short stories about animals taking revenge on humans. One of the best ones was about a camel who bided his time before taking revenge, just as you describe. I would hope that mules are the same.

          • Nigel Tufnel January 17, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

            Mules are better than horses for trail riding. If a horse gets spooked, it will throw you and hightail it back to the barn. Mules don’t spook as easily, but if you do fall off for some reason, the mule will stay with you so can remount and get back home… assuming that you have a good relationship with the mule.

          • elysianfield January 17, 2022 at 1:28 pm #

            “She definitely had the gift of workin mules”

            Good mornin’ Captain,
            Good mornin’ Shih-hine….

        • Blackbird January 17, 2022 at 12:03 pm #

          Give everybody a mule and watch the hospitals fill up faster than Covid.

          • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 12:08 pm #

            That right there is way toooo funny !!!!!!!

            Made my day for sure !!!!!!!

          • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 12:12 pm #

            and speakin of that……….

            Had an old man tell me once about being in a barn

            Full of mules……….

            When he walked past one, its hoof……..

            Went over his shoulder, right past his ear.

            He said to the owner, your mule just tried to kick me…….

            The owner smiled and said………..

            He was just givin you,……. A warning

            They never ever miss.

          • cbeard January 17, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

            I remember years ago reading an article in a tabloid of some kind about a camel that bit most of a mans face off. I forget where exactly, but it was in the middle east somewhere. They are supposed to be ornery critters.

        • Nigel Tufnel January 17, 2022 at 12:30 pm #

          Even to construct the harness takes a craftsman/engineer – for a multi-mule team, even more so. In my community there is a harness maker. He is Amish.

          • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 4:06 pm #

            The hardest part Nigel, is gettin the hides …

            To work with, which until recently had come from Mexico

            All harnesses are pretty straight forward…….

            Work harnesses (Plow harness) for

            horses and mules both are simple in design, until you get into the

            Double “D” ring or “backer harness”

            Now the collars….thats an art form, all by its self

            A good set of leather harness, ought to

            last you most of a lifetime, providin you

            keep it oiled and cleaned

      • MisterBimmler January 18, 2022 at 10:43 am #

        Mad Max will turn out to have been predictive.

    • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 12:20 pm #

      Why was the old America better? Because people received something better – the wisdom of the ages, enshrined in culture, tradition, family, and of course, scripture. But modern man will not receive and being intrinsically flawed as all humans are, he fails miserably.

      Even the rebels received anyway, just by being born then. But they succeeded and began to chip away at the Tradition which made Civilization possible, with each generation becoming crazier.

  4. Paul January 17, 2022 at 10:13 am #

    An easy trade for any bureaucrat who want to gain promotion and ‘success’ is to immediately trade any hint of idealism — and a desire for reform — in their nature to a low and cunning adaptation to the subtle agenda of whichever organization they have joined.

    Thus, a department of “Public Health” is that only in name. For whatever else it is, the shortest path to ‘career advancement’ within a bureaucratic organization is to hitch your own wagon to money-making train.

    Everything we’re seeing now is the result of that largely unconscious process.

    Going along to get along . . . .

    • BackRowHeckler January 17, 2022 at 10:21 am #

      Junk art? I hope you are not referring to Hunter Biden’s masterpieces, which we are told even outshine works of great ones — Vermeer, Monet, Raphael — and sell for $500,000 — $1 million per crack. I mean, why would Soros, Xi Jinping and Bill Gates pay $1 million for a work of art if it wasn’t great?

      • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 10:59 am #

        Speaking of art, did you see the cool posters someone placed around DC ahead of the freedom rally?

        • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 11:41 am #

          I did. Those are great.

      • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 11:41 am #

        LOL!

      • Ishabaka January 17, 2022 at 11:47 am #

        “$1 million per CRACK” – you got that right!

      • Amman January 17, 2022 at 12:28 pm #

        They got the father by the balls of the son.

      • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 2:16 pm #

        I must admit that I think Hunter Biden has some talent. Just not 500 grand per canvas-grade talent. He’d be more of an honest broker if he marketed a line of smokable parmesan cheese, perhaps.

        • BackRowHeckler January 17, 2022 at 3:19 pm #

          Megadeth the rumor is that Hunter Biden’s masterpieces are produced by UCLA art students — Hunter just signs off on the finished canvas.

          • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 3:58 pm #

            The hell you say!

            Well, that figures. I could buy that. Cheating seems to be in his wheelhouse.

            Why UCLA?

          • BackRowHeckler January 17, 2022 at 8:50 pm #

            Hunter lives in LA right near the campus. That’s where he parks his Maserati.

          • Mike G January 18, 2022 at 1:46 am #

            What UCLA students will do for some uncut cocaine.

  5. sanspeur January 17, 2022 at 10:13 am #

    This singer gets it.

    https://youtu.be/xD7K0x0UusE?t=42

    Cold Cold ashes on the ground
    Nothing lost and nothing found
    Friends and loved ones falling down
    Can’t you hear that mournful sound
    Nothing left but memories
    Of things I still can’t stand to see
    There’s an empty spot in me
    Where my hometown used to be

    This old boat is taking water
    It won’t be long till it goes down
    We’ve had enough to push us over
    Time to turn the wheel around

    Neighborhoods Left to decay
    People died or walked away
    Nowhere left for them to stay
    And we just look the other way

    This old boat is taking water
    It won’t be long till it goes down
    We’ve had enough to push us over
    Time to turn the wheel around

    Waves keep pounding through the night
    Lost without a ray of light
    Going down without a fight
    Is there still time to make it right?

    This old boat is taking water
    It won’t be long till it goes down
    We’ve had enough to push us over
    Time to turn the wheel around

  6. GrimReaper January 17, 2022 at 10:17 am #

    State-sponsored propaganda machine, CBC, does a story about a team’s best soccer player who has myocarditis due to “Covid.” No mention of the 3 mandatory jabs he took.

    https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/alphonso-davies-covid-myocarditis-1.6314813

    • JohnAZ January 17, 2022 at 10:40 am #

      S protein is the stimulus for the inflammatory reaction.

      The heart, or whatever, does not care where the source of the s protein is. Vaxx or virus.

      The real threat of the vaxx is its inability to stay in the muscle of the shoulder as advertised.

      A huge UNKNOWN is if the mRNA s protein connection can create daughter cells like retroviruses and continue to create s proteins.

      • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 12:27 pm #

        Quite so – as advertised. They knew better.

      • TaxDonkey January 17, 2022 at 12:33 pm #

        yes, that’s one of the big questions at the moment. Peter McCullough, one of the guys I trust, seems to think there might be some indication of that. Let’s hope that’s not the case, as humanity from this point onward would have a new protein in its genome, Fauci’s GOF spike protein. Great.

    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 11:43 am #

      Not in the comments, either. I would suspect that a propaganda rag like that only allows bot comments that echo the story.

      • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 11:49 am #

        And they just closed the comments. Guessing some truth-tellers started coming in and saying something.

  7. mitchellc January 17, 2022 at 10:30 am #

    I’m not so sure fauci, Vax, masks etc are actually believed. Rather, if we get back to first principles, then they provide the necessary war rationale for the left.

    all life forms compete for scarce resources. Family, clans, groups, nations create organizations necessary for effective success

    While pure hate usually provides enough motivation, having a propaganda advantage helps demoralize the enemy, while providing both a moral boost plus allied ID function.

    As for optimism, what’s the point of watching the msm, writing a contra essay, and then having a bunch of high emotionals cling to you for mental support?

    I guess it might have been an ego stroke at first, but intelligent people get easily bored. Why not address the reality at hand and reward yourself for being right?

    • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

      Because we live (unfortunately) in a democracy, and the emotionals are the majority and you have to win them over for things to change.

      It’s the good zombies against the bad zombies. The good zombies are simply those who have good programming. But don’t snort at good programming. It’s what made America, the West, and any and all other civilizations. Or do you expect individuals to start from scratch and reinvent the lightbulb?

  8. D from OR January 17, 2022 at 10:31 am #

    “You can feel the paradigms straining to shift under your feet now”

    For certain.

    Four weeks ago I had a middle-aged African American gentleman visit my shop seeking to sell me some “picks” (I sell vintage clothes). While I never wear a mask in my shop he did, On his second visit a couple weeks later it was the same thing regarding masks. A couple days ago he swung by but this time he came in without a mask. He could see I was consistent. We had a nice chat and it was great to see his smile.

    My point is we counter the narrative by not participating in it in big and small ways. The mindset should be as an observer to the madness and to not engage with it. Hold strong as most are weak.

    • TaxDonkey January 17, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

      just out of curiosity, why is it important to your story the the man was African American?

      • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

        I can think of a number of reasons. I won’t put words in D’s mouth, though.

      • Islander January 17, 2022 at 1:15 pm #

        Why is it important for you to challenge another person’s story in such a stupid way?

        • TaxDonkey January 17, 2022 at 2:38 pm #

          There’s no challenge. It’s an honest question.

          • Islander January 17, 2022 at 6:51 pm #

            What is this? Adjective patrol?

            Why did you use the word “honest”?

        • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 8:27 pm #

          It doesn’t have anything to do with anything. WHy label people? I find it offensive, personally.

        • lastman January 17, 2022 at 10:48 pm #

          Courtesy not a strong point in your communication?

      • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 8:26 pm #

        Great minds… was wondering that as well.

        • D from OR January 18, 2022 at 7:14 pm #

          I thought about leaving that detail out as I knew even on this blog comment section to expect language patrol or apparently in this case, competition.

          I kept it in though because in my city the only people targeted for vaccination are of color. Mostly African American. Every public service announcement and advertisement for mask wearing features African Americans which is 5% of the population.

          Do you think the decision to create the ads and choose the graphics is done by accident or design? It’s almost like an attack rather than persuasion.

          I just wanted to show human-to-human we have far more influence than what government entities say.

          • Uncle Abraham January 19, 2022 at 9:33 am #

            Good response – thank you.

    • Merkwurdiglieb January 17, 2022 at 3:14 pm #

      I’m with you on that D’OR. Everywhere I go, except a medical facility which I only visit rarely, I do not mask. Been doing that since the beginning of ’21. Hold strong as most are weak!

      BTW, D from OR in the Romance languages translates as D’OR which means “from gold.”

      • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 3:57 pm #

        When I see his name, I’m always reminded of….

        That silly bastard “Dennis From Oregon”……..

        That used to post on the old…………

        LATOC site years ago.

        He, was a character to say the least!

        • D from OR January 18, 2022 at 6:59 pm #

          Not a “he” but a woman.

      • D from OR January 18, 2022 at 7:46 pm #

        The masking needs to end. It’s a symbol of submission not protection so I thank you Merkwurdiglieb for holding strong. Also thank you for the translation – it made my day!

    • Suburban_elk January 18, 2022 at 10:47 am #

      “a middle-aged African American gentleman”

      ffs man: Reevaluate your programming already.

      To spell it out more clearly. Do you really go around calling people “gentlemen,” or a thousand times more likely, is that honorific reserved for black Americans, because you wanna status signal that you are the good sort of White American who loves values respects all peoples equally, but especially blacks, because you are not a bad racist?

      • D from OR January 18, 2022 at 7:40 pm #

        I refer to all men 20-30 years older than me as “gentleman”. Often it fits their manner as was in the case I described. It’s respect.

        I also call elderly women ladies so I might remark to my husband, “I met this older lady walking a poodle today.”

        Most of the time I refer to men as “guys” and women as “gals” and in fact I prefer being called a gal than a woman (so “ffs man” should really be “ffs gal”)

        I cannot call people that I was raised to call “Mr” and “Mrs” by their first names. So funny.

        It’s habit and vernacular really. I know you wanted to score some points by scolding me but you shouldn’t get so excited and signal your virtue.

        • Uncle Abraham January 19, 2022 at 9:36 am #

          Clean kill shot of a suburban elk.

        • Jarek January 20, 2022 at 5:32 pm #

          Good rejoinder. But he’s right: Most D’s from Oregon worship Blacks. Thus the law of averages is in his favor.

  9. lizharmon January 17, 2022 at 10:32 am #

    This is so good, James. I was part of the managerial class. Now I grow food in a small town in the heartland. Makes me sick to admit what I once was. Glad I woke up. Spend 5 minutes wading through their verbal vomit on LinkedInand you’ll know exactly what these people are, which is to say…brown-nosing empty shells…every last one of them.

    • thirdcoastlegend January 17, 2022 at 10:46 am #

      LinkedIn…ugh….

      They should rename it something more accurate, like, “Bugman land.”

    • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 11:32 am #

      This used to be my life, as well. Not as a white collar worker, exactly, but as a nurse working for one of the most storied big clinic systems in America. So much corporate-speak and groupthink going on . . . ugh. Don’t get me started on LEAN or evidence-based bean counting–I mean medicine. I can only imagine what a doubethink nightmare it must be on my old unit lo, these past two years.

    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 11:53 am #

      Sadly, I have to wade back into that world in order to make a living unless i figure something else out. Not looking forward to it.

      I suppose it’s possible to be part of the managerial class while hating everything about it.

      I aim to get a paycheck and check out of the rest of the b.s. And I’m going for remote work only so I don’t physically have to be around any of them.

      • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 12:35 pm #

        Sometimes that is what one must do, and fuckem, otherwise. As for me, not only am I being backed into an increasingly tight corner as an unjabbed RN, but I just can’t stand the coof charade. Each time I show up to a gig and it’s posted as cov-positive, N95 masks only (and constantly) i just feel like spinning on my heel and heading out the door. One evening, I sort of left my own body and watched myself in full, sweaty hazmat gear replace an ileostomy appliance on a morbidly obese coof patient that was gouting liquid excrement toward my shield. Not quite sure how I did that! I am still chuckling at the comic opera, but also longing for the old way that we used to treat the flu.

        Tired of the covidians. Tired of biting my tongue. Tired of swabbing and being swabbed. Tired of my corporate overlords with their legal and HR departments. Tired of the damn government intrusion. I am looking forward to burgeoning private practices; they are already cropping up, much in demand, like ramps in the spring thaw.

        • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 8:25 pm #

          Go for one of those private practices. I am seeing those pop up too. Also, nurse practitioners opening clinics.

        • woe January 24, 2022 at 11:49 pm #

          Hang in there if you can. They need nurses, at least that’s what I tell myself as I have been consistent in my refusal and my reasoning and beliefs for refusing, but I’m kinda sweating it too. There are aways places to work that may have a more relaxed atmosphere, whether you want to work there is a different matter. I wish I had a little more coin, but I’m pretty prepped up otherwise and my niche is take the nursing jobs no one else wants, so there not much competition. I’ll do prisons, mental facilities, rehab all the crazy shit. I do private duty right now, the pay sucks, but I dont have the BS you have.

      • Ubermensch January 20, 2022 at 7:20 pm #

        No shame in taking a paycheck from the machine, so long as you invest it properly (locally). Active resistance in its own right!

  10. steppingup January 17, 2022 at 10:40 am #

    Invasion of the pod people. I wish. This whole thing is planned. From the plandemic to economic collapse, all planned. They have an agenda, hell, they even named it, Agenda 21. Read about it, pretty close to “The Great Reset”. The new world order. Same as the old one, more for them, less for you. I would say with a new twist of world depopulation, but it is the same old twist, just modernized.
    The only reason we do not have martial law yet is the 150 million registered gun owners in this country. So they do everything to take the guns away. Not gonna work, hence all the bullshit. Get us fighting among ourselves, they just do the cleanup on aisle ten.
    If they had a half a brain , they would have used a rod of god, destroyed a city, blamed it on the invasion of ET, tell everyone we had to surrender and we have 24 hours to give up our guns or they will destroy another city. Have all your neighbors turning you in for hiding a gun, or just trying to kill you because “ET”, or “Covid” or “Climate Change”, or “The Children”.
    This country is going to hell and I can’t even afford a fucking hand basket.

    • JohnAZ January 17, 2022 at 10:52 am #

      The Great Reset?

      So far, it is not hitting Joe Average in detrimental ways. He does not care.

      So far.

      Now, tax and spend is having effects. Suppressing oil production for AGW is having effects. The Biden administration is mis firing 100% of the time.

      Will the effects move Joe to the point that he reacts? I have my doubts. Here is why.

      The Economic Joe Average has dropped so far that he is more of a gimme more than ever. Have we passed the point where the gimmes just plain outnumber the providers to the point that the Deep State is locked in place?

      2020 sorta points in this direction. Failure of the GOP to take control of Congress this year will be a huge hit.

      • Anthea January 17, 2022 at 12:53 pm #

        “Have we passed the point where the gimmes just plain outnumber the providers to the point that the Deep State is locked in place?”

        The last time I looked, almost 20% of the entire workforce was made up up people directly employed by government at some level. Now imagine what percentage of the workforce is indirectly employed by government. I would guess it is at least another 20%. Add to that the legions of government retirees and welfare recipients, and you likely have a clear majority.

    • Blackbird January 17, 2022 at 11:28 am #

      The Hildebeast will be man enough to take our guns away. Her followers – some of them our friends – whipped into a frenzy of hate, will be cashing in on the tip line.

      • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 11:59 am #

        “The only reason we do not have martial law yet is the 150 million registered gun owners in this country”

        “Registered” is the key word here……….

        dot.gov figures there is 600 million guns out there….

        Unofficially closer to a million.

        Don’t know about you but……… There are folks out there

        I wouldn’t want to try and take their guns away

        • JTinMD January 17, 2022 at 12:17 pm #

          FAFO

      • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 12:54 pm #

        My first .38 was a Smith & Wesson with a little key and safety lock near the hammer. My more world-weary friends at the range refer to the lock as a `Hillary hole’.

        • stelmosfire January 17, 2022 at 3:01 pm #

          Mega, I picked up a little 38 S&W snubbie with the Hillary Hole. I’ll be darned if i know where the key is. Why would I lock up the hammer on my gun?

          • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 4:08 pm #

            I don’t know, either, but the Hillary hole almost bankrupted S&W. I mean, on a revolver? Hello?

            My husband says that S&W puts out a `performance series’ without that cockamamie thing.

    • Wizard of the Saddle January 18, 2022 at 10:16 pm #

      Don’t give them any ideas.

      Also, there are no registered gun owners. We do not allow gun registration in America, although I’m sure TPTB are collaborating with the tech masters of the universe to build private, non-governmental databases of gun owners.

  11. Opie January 17, 2022 at 10:40 am #

    James,sometimes you really condense it all down to a sentence or two.
    Today’s quote “It’s a fact, you know, that more-educated folks are most susceptible to mass delusion, and the reason will surprise you. It’s because of status-seeking.” is a case in point. Brilliant !

  12. mike6972 January 17, 2022 at 10:44 am #

    Speaking of the “Hitler way”, the salt Lake Tribune (a 501(c)(3) public charity for which contributions are tax-deductible) came out for forcibly imprisoning the “unvaccinated” in their homes:

    “Were Utah a truly civilized place, the governor’s next move would be to find a way to mandate the kind of mass vaccination campaign we should have launched a year ago, going as far as to deploy the National Guard to ensure that people without proof of vaccination would not be allowed, well, anywhere.”

    • thirdcoastlegend January 17, 2022 at 10:50 am #

      How will the jabbed troops manage that when they’re all stroking out from blood clots and their hearts are exploding from “mild” bouts of myocarditis?

    • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 10:52 am #

      That’s a funny idea of civilization.

    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 11:54 am #

      Same with LA Slimes, with their article attacking the unvaxxed.

      They must be desperate.

      • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

        I would challenge you to question that. During the height of Stalinist terror, there were signs up saying, “Dare to vote for Stalin”. Were they desperate? When they were rounding up people because of the supposed threat they posed, where they really desperate?

        Emergency is the very life blood of Totalitarianism. Seeming to be desperate follows from that.

    • Bilejones January 18, 2022 at 9:16 am #

      It’s More than one organization.

      https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/01/thomas-woods/revealed-what-democrats-want-to-do-to-the-unvaccinated/

      Rasmussen just reported the following:

      — 59% of Democrats favor forcing the unvaccinated to stay home at all times except for emergencies.

      — 55% of Democrats favor levying state or federal fines on people who decline the shot.

      — 48% of Democrats favor fines or imprisonment for people who publicly question vaccine efficacy.

      — 47% of Democrats favor a government tracking program to people who decline the shot.

      — 45% of Democrats support temporary relocation to “designated facilities or locations” for those who decline the shot.

      — 29% of Democrats favor temporarily removing your custody of your children if you decline the shot.

      There is no “more perfect union” with these people and 50 (or 57 if your name is Barry O) States may not be enough.”

      Separation Now!

      • Wizard of the Saddle January 18, 2022 at 10:19 pm #

        Well put. I agree.

        But then I’ve been an advocate of secession and partition for over 30 years.

        It is only now, in the midst of all of this insanity, that the Overton Window has shifted in my direction.

        It is now cool to be a secessionist.

  13. jerrydylan January 17, 2022 at 10:48 am #

    From the front lines, 2 co-workers fully faxed and boosted still out after 10 days. Feel absolutely miserable. Good people who work hard but just succumbed to the BS. One I supervise texted out sick with side effects from booster-thinking of going to hospital, wife age 32 had mini stroke a month ago. Unvaxed here, pumping iron taking C and zinc plus some amino acids like L glutamine plus chaga powder. Pumping iron and feeling like a tank.

    • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 10:52 am #

      Same here, Jerry. MTB, some weights, and plenty of D, C, zinc etc. Have not even had a sniffle over the past two years.

      • jerrydylan January 17, 2022 at 10:55 am #

        The only way Night Owl. When the truth is released it will be like Watergate to the 10nth degree.

      • thirdcoastlegend January 17, 2022 at 11:00 am #

        I managed to get myself a bit run down over New Year’s and picked up what I believe to be the Omi-con variant.

        It’s a lingering cold/sinus infection, nothimg more.

        • Blackbird January 17, 2022 at 11:33 am #

          I’m looking forward to the Comicon variant – I hear it’s a lot of fun.

          • thirdcoastlegend January 17, 2022 at 12:44 pm #

            Comicon is only fun if there are a lot of attractive cosplay gals around…

        • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 12:48 pm #

          So why call it omicron and play into the narrative? It’s cold as you said. Leave it there.

        • lastman January 17, 2022 at 10:55 pm #

          I haven’t been sick in quite a few years.

          What I am really concerned about is getting colon cancer… from all the smoke being blown up my ass for the last 2 years.

          • Mike G January 18, 2022 at 1:56 am #

            Funny, then reminds me of kramer’s license plate

      • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

        Same. Fast-walking, cycling, lap swimming in the summer. Vit C, D (10K UI), querticine, NAC, Selenium, B complex, etc.

        Nary a sniffle, either.

        • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 12:52 pm #

          Do you pump your arms as you walk? Speed walkin’ women are the most ridiculous people on Earth.

          • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

            They are only ridiculous, though, if they also drink Franzia from a box. Get that straight.

          • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

            That arm pumping went out with those stretch terry headbands.

            So, you think those men swinging their hips from side to side look dignified?

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 2:11 pm #

            It’s over? Thank God. I still see an occasional dinosaur though.

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 8:22 pm #

            Do you pump yourself full of Cheetohs and wash it down with Mountain Dew like your fellow incels/MRAs?

            Miserable self-hating racists are the most ridiculous people on earth.

          • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 10:14 am #

            Like these men?

            https://racewalk.com/Photostory2013WorldChampionships/2013WorldChampionshipMens50km-03.php

            No. I just walk fast. I don’t ‘speed walk’. If I did, I’d say that’s what I was doing.

    • jerrydylan January 17, 2022 at 10:53 am #

      Age 61 in May. Fearless.

      • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 11:05 am #

        I’ll be 63 in may, and……..

        I ain’t one to ever be scared of anything………

        people included.

        Respect is earned, not given.

        • tahoe1780 January 17, 2022 at 2:34 pm #

          73 Just getting over mild “sinus infection” using nebulizer and povidone iodine solution.

      • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 12:06 pm #

        58! Same.

        • Ron Anselmo January 17, 2022 at 12:08 pm #

          In May?

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 12:16 pm #

            No I’ll be 59 in August

      • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 12:58 pm #

        57, soon, and not afraid of those Kommie Spores.

    • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 12:50 pm #

      Plenty of luff and plenty of duff.

      Treasure Island

  14. Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 10:55 am #

    Great interview with Mark Crispin Miller on the Covid Cult, Great Reset, and being mobbed by cultist colleagues at NYU.

    https://thewallwillfall.org/2022/01/16/mark-crispin-miller-on-how-to-identify-understand-and-dissect-propaganda/

    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 12:07 pm #

      Mark’s great. Talk about facing the beast and tackling it head-on.

    • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 1:06 pm #

      Half way through it – it’s excellent, thanks.

      Going to send it to my big bro, as it has a bit in about why academics fall for propaganda even more than ordinary people.

      • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 4:23 pm #

        Yes, I also found that part particularly interesting.

    • Walter B January 17, 2022 at 11:32 pm #

      Thank you, Night Owl, for a very enlightening link. I only wish that more people would turn to such educational videos rather than sit coms and sporting events.

  15. Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 11:01 am #

    Ball boy’s life as he knew it is over. They should be ashamed of themselves, going ahead with this tournament.

    https://twitter.com/TheJuggernaut88/status/1483018659732029440?s=20

    • thirdcoastlegend January 17, 2022 at 11:19 am #

      ….wow….right out of the gate on the first day…

      • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 11:38 am #

        They’ll carry on, as if they don’t all know what just happened.

        • thirdcoastlegend January 17, 2022 at 11:51 am #

          Like the idiots in the replies to that tweet:

          “Oh, nothing extreme in the weather right now, who knows what happened.”

          “Ballboys just faint you know. No big deal.”

        • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 12:08 pm #

          It would be sweet to see a massive boycott or protest of the Open.

    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 12:08 pm #

      The other players are cowards for not standing up for him. I’m sure there is no shortage of opportunism either, as he kicks all their asses.

      • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 10:17 am #

        Oh sorry, thought you were discussing Novack.

    • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

      This is like the blizzards that followed Global Warming Conferences.

      The Serbian is vindicated.

    • Ron Anselmo January 17, 2022 at 5:38 pm #

      Thanks for the link Beryl – we’ve found tweedle dee & tweedle dum – they’re hiding out in Oz.

    • megabeth January 19, 2022 at 7:46 am #

      Ball girl, actually. The comments in all languages were sarcastic, angry, or exasperated over the official press for us to doublethink–mostly.

  16. JohnAZ January 17, 2022 at 11:08 am #

    It really bothers me that the endless flow of bad news streaming out now is really greeted with a Ho hum by the media and the public. Is it too late for this country, are we demographically locked into the Deep State? In three years, we will know?

    • JohnAZ January 17, 2022 at 11:09 am #

      IOW, what happens when the cry baby gimmes are in control of the ballot box?

      • Blackbird January 17, 2022 at 11:34 am #

        Guess we’ll find out in November.

    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 12:08 pm #

      The media is creating the bad news.

    • anmariwakaranai January 17, 2022 at 4:14 pm #

      The jabbed/msm watches are under a forced delusion. No point in trying to bring them back now by our own efforts. Some will wake up if we just keep leaving the info laying around in funny billboards, funnies, deceptive pro vax headers followed by clear, simple!, indisputable truths.

      Best build our alternate universe pronto.

      • anmariwakaranai January 17, 2022 at 7:45 pm #

        Watchers.

  17. Perimetr January 17, 2022 at 11:22 am #

    Speaking of doing what you feel like:
    Teacher fired for not identifying student as ‘a cat’…
    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/teacher-fired-for-not-identifying-student-as-a-cat/

    • malthuss January 17, 2022 at 11:36 am #

      CLOWN WORLD

    • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 1:00 pm #

      Honk, honk!

    • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 1:01 pm #

      Close the schools. The people will benefit a hundred fold.

      Lao Tzu

      The worse of Admin is always HR. All women. Coincidence?

      • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 1:10 pm #

        No coincidence at all. And women in general are •horrible• to work with, outside of home and hearth. I really appreciate the minority of female coworkers who are direct, focused and without mischief, as most male coworkers seem to be.

        • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 2:13 pm #

          Polls have been done: most women would rather work for a man. Women take things very personally, by and large.

          • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 2:24 pm #

            And how! Is it estrogen poisoning? Most women engage in the old lateral ultraviolet. As a nurse, I do know it. Once, I accepted a DoN position just while we looked for a permanent director. About ten minutes after I agreed to do it, I had a line of female tattletales coming through my office door. The behavior was intractable.

          • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 2:25 pm #

            Lateral ultraviolence is what I meant, with an eye on Anthony Burgess.

          • Anthea January 17, 2022 at 4:51 pm #

            I once worked in an office headed by men. We ladies all liked it because the men never came to work.

          • Anthea January 17, 2022 at 5:30 pm #

            Of course, the job I had where the male department heads never came to work was in city government; they were no-show jobs. The actual supervisor of six female secretaries was a woman, and an excellent supervisor. One of the six female secretaries was a bit of a pill, and the one who sat behind me talked to herself all day.

            I once had a male boss who was in his 80s who was impossible to work for, partly because he was stone deaf, and partly because he was just an asshole.

            For the most part, my “supervisors” were school principals, so I never saw much of them unless one of us had a beef. Some of them were female. Seemed to do an acceptable job with no drama–or at least none that originated with them.

            With co-workers, whether male of female, very often one of them is a real pill. I’ve had a couple of jobs where a low-level male employee pretended to be the manager or department head and began bossing everyone around–and in one case the guy was a new hire. He actually told a subsequent hire that he was the department head. I commented on this to the actual deparment head (who was never there). He told me the guy had been transferred from another store, due to their desire to get rid of him. Anyway, I continued my policy of ignoring the guy, though at one point I told his new sidekick who the real department head was. He refused to believe me at first, as they had a strange co-dependent relationship going on.

            Overall, I don’t think there are fewer problems working with men or having a male boss. There are just different kinds of problems.

          • Anthea January 17, 2022 at 5:52 pm #

            Though I was a stay-at-home mom for many years, much of my career experience was in teaching, plus a little in publishing. This leads to having a lot of summer jobs and temp jobs, so you wind up with kind of a patchwork career.

            I had one summer job as a secretary to a male boss who was actually illiterate; I don’t think the guy could spell “cat.” He was also rarely in the office, and, as it was a two-person office, I took to bringing my crochet projects to work.

            He was a devastatingly handsome devil who had married into one of our city’s wealthiest families. So they put him in charge of creating a home-security department in the family’s telecom company. He was a very pleasant guy, and he looked great in a suit, but he did not seem to know anything about anything. I didn’t either, at that age, so it is perhaps telling that I noticed. He wisely stayed away from the office, hanging out with the engineer in charge of designing the system, where they were presumably “one site.”

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 5:55 pm #

            Most women disagree with you. You’re out-voted.

          • Anthea January 17, 2022 at 6:04 pm #

            I had one male co-worker–also pretending to be the manager–who was in the habit of throwing things at female employees: pens, pencils, and sometimes the phone.

            On of the ladies asked me what she should do about this. I told her to call 911, since this was assault. Word of this got back to the guy, and neither I nor anyone else had any further trouble with him.

            One of my daughters has a similar problem when she worked as a waitress while in high school. One of the male servers was in the habit of shoving the female servers into walls–and shoving them pretty hard. She had reported this to the management (male), but they were unresponsive.

            I advised her to call 911. She said that she didn’t want to cause her employer an embarrassing scene, as she liked the job and the owners. I suggested that she tell the manager that if they did not correct the problem, she would call 911.

            In any case, the situation got resolved. Often all it takes is for the perp to hear, through the grapevine, that there is a plan.

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 8:22 pm #

            Yes, as you said the other day, all men are perps or suspects. Those that complain about divorce rape for example.

            Most women would rather work for a man, polls find. It’s a bitter pill (just like the female voting map) but swallow it. It’s good for you.

          • Anthea January 17, 2022 at 8:40 pm #

            @Jarek:

            I have the impression that you live a rarified existence, without much contact with the real world of work. People are very much a mixed bag when it comes to assholery, and it does not seem to be related to their gender.

            I’ve been out of the workforce for many years now. Looking back, it seems like most workplaces were peopled by a surprising variety of looney-toons–which kind of makes you feel sorry for employers. Who to hire? Most people have some temperamental quality that rankles.

            Some workplaces were great fun. I once worked in a gas station where me and the woman I worked with would while away the slow times by practicing our high kicks–and telling the male manager, when he teased us, that we would put ice down the back of his pants.

            Now I just sell soap at the farmers’ market, where there are some vendors (and some customers) who strike me as a little strange–thus adding to their entertainment value. There’s the lady who sells skin care products whose claim to fame is, “My husband is a dermatologist.” There is the Vietnamese produce vendor–Madame All Business, All the Time–who sometimes rails at her husband (a doofus) all day, mercifully in Vietnamese. There are the homeless girls running a booth for some city program–sweet kids.

            I don’t know why I mention all this. I guess my point is that you should get out more.

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 8:45 pm #

            In other words, you’re the one who lives a rarified existence now.

            Your failure to engage is a de facto concession of defeat. I’m calling it: Jarek by a tko.

          • messianicdruid January 18, 2022 at 9:35 am #

            But then, you are often jumping to conclusions.

          • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 10:19 am #

            You haven’t won anything. You haven’t gotten Anthea to ‘admit’ anything. You lose. Again.

          • Anthea January 18, 2022 at 10:37 am #

            @ Jarek:

            Yet you seem to have no real-world experience at all. I have mentioned this before.

            Your views are based on polls and second-hand information, from which you draw fanciful conclusions and construct dubious cause-and-effect relationships.

            I have occasionally known people who led such cloistered existences. (Well, a couple of them.) They were trust-fund babies. You always envy them a little bit, until you reflect on their rather drab, colorless lives: no fire-forged friendships or family relationships, no character development that comes of a testing of their mettle, no fire-forged skills.

            There was at one time a trust-fund baby who was slightly acquainted with my circle of friends. I once asked one of my friends if he’d seen the guy around lately. My friend replied, “He could have moved into my apartment and I wouldn’t have noticed.” Total nonentity.

          • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

            Not to choose is to choose. Not to engage with the data is a de facto admission she can’t refute it. Instead she goes into her personal experiences – as if they are more trustworthy than a scientific study by a well respected statistician.

            She doesn’t like it. So what. Too bad.

            Anthea: If I read about Whites getting beat up by Blacks constantly, and I choose to be very careful around them and to avoid their areas whenever possible, am I smarter or dumber than the person who refuses to accept the data and has to have a “real” experience before they believe?

        • Blackbird January 18, 2022 at 2:56 pm #

          The co-workers with whom I got along the best were women, intelligent, attractive, young women – with great personalities. Some of whom have even kept in touch two decades since we last worked together. (Several have remained unmarried, while most of the others have since divorced.) The co-workers with whom I got along the worst were women, (somewhat) intelligent, attractive (at least superficially) young women – with awful personalities. So, what sweeping generalizations can we make based on my experience?

          • megabeth January 18, 2022 at 3:10 pm #

            Well, apparently, you have a distaste for male coworkers?

          • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 4:33 pm #

            That you were young, romantic and/or horny?

            Did you click on the map?

          • Ron Anselmo January 18, 2022 at 4:51 pm #

            1) Or, conversely, he has a taste for female coworkers.

            2) Blackbird is very wise.

          • Blackbird January 19, 2022 at 10:47 am #

            Ron is, obviously, the most correct. What everyone seems to be missing is the fact that my worst relationships with co-workers were with women, as well as the best.

            I looked at the map. Nate Silver may have gotten something correct for a change (stopped clocks and all…). But what does it mean? So men, whites, and uneducated choose the capitalist pig, and women, non-whites, and educated choose the socialist pig. I guess the message is: we’re screwed no matter how you slice it.

            Back to the female co-workers… I think part of the secret of my success was that I was always teaching these young ladies to do difficult and dangerous things that nobody else would bother teaching them. Like trailering a boat, launching a boat, gator catching, snake charming, operating a boat or airboat, outrunning storms, recovering an airboat from the branches of a willow head, or refloating a sunken airboat. As one of my female co-workers once told me, “If I’m gonna fuck up, I want it to be with you.” Awww…

          • Jarek January 19, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

            What does it mean? It means women shouldn’t be voting. Your facile equation of conservatism and capitalism simply spells death, since conservatism is the only path forward. I don’t like the word either because of these negative connotations, but the people won’t accept better words like Fascism or National Socialism, since the media and academia have done their work all too well.

            Now tell the truth and shame the devil: You got involved with some of these positives and they ended up crossing over to the negatives.

    • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 4:05 pm #

      This stuff is just so surreal. Onion.com-level absurdity is being normalized.

  18. scoubidou123 January 17, 2022 at 11:37 am #

    I am still checking in this website regularly, but I find myself turned off more and more.

    I am perfectly willing to entertain the notion that western society is turning crazy. That the authorities handling of Covid has been fluctuating from initial underreaction to panicked overreaction, now mixed with liberal doses of social panic and dissident punishment.

    Yet there is a difference between that and believing that vaccines are “America’s version of the gas chamber”. Billions of doses have been given. Their efficacy has been a disappointment, but if they were net killing people we’d know about it.

    • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 11:41 am #

      What we don’t know is who will get hit. They aren’t the gas chamber, they’re Russian roulette.

    • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 11:56 am #

      scoubi

      All-cause mortality is up (throughout 2021 and continuing) in the highly vaxxed countries, both compared to the supposed pandemic year (2020) and to the previous five-year average.

      In what way is that not ‘net killing people’?

      • Prospero January 17, 2022 at 12:33 pm #

        Thank you for saying exactly what I was thinking when I read what scoubidou123 wrote above.

        Apparently, the dramatic increase in all-cause mortality during 2021 only measured the first 3 quarters of the year. I expect the last quarter all-cause mortality figures will show an even greater increase in deaths, perhaps as high as 50%.

        It looks like life insurance premiums will soon be going up substantially and soon after that, life insurance companies will be forced to declare bankruptcy.

    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 12:09 pm #

      LOL, you’d know about it.

      Hahahahahaa!

      • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 4:07 pm #

        You couldn’t make it up.

    • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 1:05 pm #

      We do know about it. Mr Kunstler gives the official number from the CDC’s own site. And everyone who knows, knows that that number is woefully underestimated.

      You’re the one out of the loop, stuck in normalcy bias. Things are far worse than even most of us imagine, what to speak of you.

      So meditate on this: Why does Fauci and the CDC never mention the official number of deaths and injuries? They’ve admitted it’s not effective, now admit it’s not safe and adapt your policies to the Truth.

    • ianw January 17, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

      Yet there is a difference between that and believing that vaccines are “America’s version of the gas chamber”. Billions of doses have been given. Their efficacy has been a disappointment, but if they were net killing people we’d know about it.

      There are quite a few ultra-fringe conspiracists on here who claim that the Covid-19 vaccines are a deliberate plot by some monstrous club of elites to depopulate the world. Nutty.

      Then there are those who claim it’s all been a massive con-job by Big Pharma in cahoots with Dr Fauci – to make a small group a lot of money through mass vaccination with a possibly flawed product that was rushed to market.

      Fauci demonisation is an interesting phenomenon to observe.

      I’m disappointed that the efficacy of the vaccines wane in less than twelve months, but I side with the medical experts and the scientific data – and not with the crazy claims of too many websites that just repeat the same voodoo.

      The vaccines are safe to take for the vast majority, and there is overwhelming data to show that it is the unvaccinated who are filling the Covid ICU beds, despite being a minority of the population. The vaccines definitely reduce the severity of the disease.

      I don’t think the unvaxxed should be vilified or banished, particularly in a context where person-to-person transmission can and does occur between the vaccinated anyway.

      But nor should they be praised as freedom fighters, and all that ideological cheer-leading.

      They are still selfishly clogging up hospital critical care beds and otherwise stressing the nation’s health services. And they are prolonging the pandemic mandates and restrictions for the rest of us.

      • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 1:23 pm #

        You’ve ignored this post twice – please answer it this time.

        *************

        https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19843315.covid-scotland-case-rates-lowest-unvaccinated-double-jabbed-elderly-drive-rise-hospital-admissions/

        “Double-jabbed Scots are now more likely to be admitted to hospital with Covid than the unvaccinated amid an increase in elderly people falling ill due to waning immunity*.

        It comes amid “weird” data showing that case rates have been lower in unvaccinated individuals than the single, double, or even triple-jabbed since Omicron became the dominant variant in Scotland.”

        *re ‘waning immunity’, see EMA statement that jabs and boosters are destroying people’s immune systems, as stated by honest scientists more than 6 months ago.

        **************

        Clearly the excess deaths (increase in all-cause mortality in all highly vaxxed countries) affects the vaxxed primarily. They are now clogging up the hospitals with vaxx-induced heart attacks, clots, strokes, fast-track cancers and other results of the lethal vaxx campaigns.

        You are evil. There is no medication for that.

        • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 1:35 pm #

          Alex Berenson discusses what is going on Down Under:

          Watch Australia closely

          It is what happens when Omicron hits a highly vaccinated population with little preexisting natural immunity; the early returns are not promising

          https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/watch-australia-closely

          • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 1:52 pm #

            Thanks, Beryl.

            Looks like they’re *going down Down Under*.

            And the troll will continue to lie and lie and lie.

        • ianw January 17, 2022 at 1:56 pm #

          You make my point for me.

          The vaccines are effective but they wane – especially among the elderly – but prior to that they are effective.

          And of course there are going to be more cases in absolute numbers among the vaccinated, because they are 90% of the population.

          But it’s clear – the unvaxxed are disproportionately by far going to be in ICU gasping for breath like a landed fish. Any ER doctor will tell you that – and they frequently do.

          • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 2:11 pm #

            I did not make your point for you. The newspaper did not say the effectiveness of the vaccines had waned, it said that immunity had waned.

            We KNOW that the ‘vaccines’ destroy immune systems – the EMA has come out and said it publicly.

            “And of course there are going to be more cases in absolute numbers among the vaccinated, because they are 90% of the population.”

            It didn’t say numbers, it said rates. And even if it had been numbers, the Scottish figures show that the preponderance of sick vaxxed in hospital is greater than the preponderance of vaxxed over unvaxxed.

            “the unvaxxed are disproportionately by far going to be in ICU gasping for breath”

            So now, bereft of facts, you are reduced to the hypothetical ‘going to be’.

            You are despicable.

          • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 2:16 pm #

            No they won’t and no they don’t and you lie.

            Do you get paid to come on here and lie?

          • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 2:19 pm #

            https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11SqfJ5m_rvBfssP_wtgGEdgpUue6KH0WXxrfpNADp1c/edit#slide=id.gfbf17b7f0d_13_170

            Slide 77:

            Latest Irish figures:

            58% ICU vaxxed
            100% dead vaxxed.

            Crawl back under your bridge.

          • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 2:24 pm #

            “Any ER doctor will tell you that – and they frequently do.”

            Re ‘TV doctors’, one of the things John O’Looney (funeral director) made clear was that when the BBC wanted to interview him at the start of the ‘pandemic’, (a) they made him dress up in full PPE and mask when he didn’t use those AT ALL all through the ‘pandemic’ when dealing with dead supposed covid patients (and came to no harm) and (b) they spent longer grooming him for the interview and telling him what his answers to the questions should be than they did conducting the actual interview.

            If only you were just naive and stupid.

          • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 4:08 pm #

            Our resident mental patient has arrived.

            Yes!

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:14 pm #

            Take-a-Poo has hit new lows in schmaltziness.

        • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:16 pm #

          The Media Matters dupe isn’t equipped to respond to those points.

      • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 2:06 pm #

        “And they are prolonging the pandemic mandates and restrictions for the rest of us.”

        Three words.

        Ivermectin. Uttar Pradesh.

        Hang your head in shame, troll.

        • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 3:27 pm #

          Two more: ivermectin. Japan.

        • Redneck Liberal January 17, 2022 at 4:58 pm #

          Sorry GA, but you’re constantly citing Uttar Pradesh.

          How does this fit with your view?

          “Uttar Pradesh reported 16,016 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the tally of active cases in the state to 84,440, while three more fatalities pushed the death toll to 22,949, according to an official statement released on Friday evening. With these fresh cases, the total number of cases recorded in the state so far stood at 18,01,231.” (January 14, 2022)

          Read more at:

          https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/uttar-pradesh-registers-16016-fresh-covid-19-cases-three-deaths/articleshow/88900674.cms

          • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 5:19 pm #

            Three deaths in a state with a population of 231 million people?

            Are you having a laugh?

            ‘Cases’ mean nothing, as you should know by now, surely.

          • Ron Anselmo January 17, 2022 at 5:45 pm #

            RL –

            Nothing like showing up at a gunfight with a knife.

          • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 6:20 pm #

            Also, with early treatment such as the Fareed-Tyson protocol, or the McCullough protocol, you can reduce hospitalisations by 99.97% and deaths by almost 100%.

            But you have to censor that if you want ‘vaccines’ to be the only game in town. And if you want vaxx passports.

            One has to assume that our resident troll, for example, wants to be forced to carry a passport. Maybe he’s more comfortable as a slave. Do you like the idea of sitting in a cafe minding your own business and a pair of brutish looking police coming in and demanding your documents? I can’t get over anyone thinking that’s OK. Especially when everyone with two brain cells to rub together knows the vaxxed are every bit as infectious as the unvaxxed.

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 8:10 pm #

            Cases don’t exist.

            The test is garbage.

            There goes your ‘data’.

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 8:11 pm #

            77% occupancy in hospitals now.

            Hardly overflowing. More like if they don’t get more people in, they will need to close.

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 8:11 pm #

            https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization

      • tahoe1780 January 17, 2022 at 2:15 pm #

        “They are still selfishly clogging up hospital critical care beds ”

        Who is it withholding outpatient care? Who is it selfishly outlawing FDA-approved, cheap, off-patent medicines that would jeopardize sales of their uber-expensive, toxic formulations?

        • megabeth January 17, 2022 at 3:37 pm #

          ICU beds are full of deferred problems, not the unvaccinated. At least this is so in my area.

          My mother had to defer cancer surgery for almost six months. She had end-stage COPD, yet when she caught the Kommie Kough, she powered right through it to recover totally.

          What killed her was the deferred treatment for cancer. This was a year ago, during the worst of the lockdownerism. I had to raise the roof so my sister and I could visit her bedside one half an hour, each, each week.

          Even so, the phone-obsessed teenagers in charge of her care forgoot to tell us for about 20 hours that she had become unresponsive. They found her dying in a puddle of bloody shit at shift change in the morning, stripped her, propped her in her wheelchair, moaning, as they changed linens. Then they called us, so a witness said.

          I have blood in my eye for the managerial class, I tell you. And if I ever get a lick in, I’m telling them, “This one’s for my mother having to die alone.”

          • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 10:26 am #

            That is so horrific. I’m so sorry. Damn these ghouls to hell.

          • megabeth January 18, 2022 at 3:17 pm #

            Thank you, Mary. Ghouls is right. And I’ve seen a lot of the elderly isolated wilt like plants over the past two years because of these half-baked bureaucratic bedwetters’ policies.

      • anmariwakaranai January 17, 2022 at 4:20 pm #

        Not wishing this on you or your loved ones Ian, but get back to us when your wife gets diagnosed with cancer.

        One day you will just disappear.

      • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 8:09 pm #

        Is this satire? LOL.

      • Mac January 19, 2022 at 6:19 am #

        Ian’s word there: Selfish. When did vaccines become more about people other than the patient?

      • Bilejones January 22, 2022 at 7:44 pm #

        You do know that a huge proportion of the “Unvaxxed” ” selfishly clogging up hospital critical care beds ” are people in hospital after they have had the vaccination but are classified as pure-bloods for 28 days after their last shot, don’t you?

    • Mike G January 18, 2022 at 2:07 am #

      Vaers CDC reports 21,000 US deaths from shots. Someone apparently is dying from the jabs. I’d bet that 99% of those 21k people who died from the jab wouldn’t have died from covid. That is good enough for me, I’ll take my chances with the virus.

    • Jarek January 19, 2022 at 12:40 pm #

      Google up the Nuremberg Code. You’ll find out that our medical establishment is violently out of accord with it.

      Stealth genocide.

    • scoubidou123 January 20, 2022 at 9:08 pm #

      Given the crowd I was expecting these reactions.

      Yet, with a population vastly now more vaccinated, the record number of cases of the latest wave has resulted in much fewer ICU stays and deaths, among which the unvaxxed are way overrepresented. Sorry, I regard this as undeniable.

      I agree that to people under 60, the risk of covid is very low. I understand that some people won’t take the vaccine, and I respect their right to do so, even if I think it’s the wrong choice.
      .
      Yes I know there are adverse reactions, sometimes extreme. Does not invalidate the point.

  19. CheezusCrackers January 17, 2022 at 11:38 am #

    Here’s a theory for everyone to chew on:

    The Criminal Cartel aka the PTB aka Gangster government is currently at loggerheads over the next move. The Cartel members– a kind of criminal enterprise w many members who generally cooperate for mutual profit but nonetheless have distinct and often conflicting interests– are in disarray of sorts. Some members have decided that the Scamdemic con game has played itself out and a pivot is needed to maintain control and perpetuate the mass formation. Thus we are seeing Fauci being set up for classic scapegoating by, it seems, the intel agencies who fed the damaging docs to Project Veritas. Other Cartel members are fighting this effort for whatever reason. We’ll soon see who wins based on whether Fauci and his accomplices are burned at the metaphorical stake or not.

    What happens after that is a mass distraction of shocked and surprised propaganda media while the Uniparty pols pose as our saviors uncovering the deceit of these Faucistas and allowing the Hypnotized to vent their rage against the approved targets. Meanwhile the Cartel continues quietly installing more controls and “safeguards” for our protection natch. The Cartel may well attempt a return to “Normal” where we all pretend that elections matter, that there is an actual difference between political parties, and that everything will be juuuuust fine w more stimulus and free money.

    • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 11:44 am #

      I think it’s that the people in on it were in on it for various reasons, and they don’t all know who else was in on it, or why.

    • TaxDonkey January 17, 2022 at 12:19 pm #

      Good point. I’ve always thought that there is division within TPTB. You can kind of see the schizophrenic nature of the narrative. The masses are getting pissed and need some red meat and we’re not getting any satisfaction through the Epstein thing, the Durham case, or anything else for that matter. The whole bread and circus thing has been really weak. It might be time to throw Fauci to the wind, let the public enjoy watching him get drawn and quartered, perhaps on public TV. Are you not entertained?

    • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 1:12 pm #

      It could happen that way if we stay strong. But it’s not part of their Plan A by any means.

      To take control and power down Civilization, reducing the population drastically, always was going to mean breaking cover and sprinting for the finish line – which is total vaccination and the QR code for everything. You can’t do that without many realizing it. Thus death camps are in that future along with the Blackrock high rises, etc.

      You can’t fool all the people all of the time – and you don’t have to. The fools are your foot soldiers and they help your crush the non-fools. The army and police will be vaxed fools and tools.

      • TaxDonkey January 17, 2022 at 1:27 pm #

        Wow Jarek, that sounds like a real good time. Thanks for making my day! Any chance we’ll be in the Blackrock condos sipping fine wine and babbling about history and philosophy. Or will it be sneaking a pencil and paper at night to write about our experiences in the death camp for future generations. You could be the next Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.

        • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 8:14 pm #

          Well, you’ll probably be in the Judge Dredd type towers, unless you’re willing to up your social credit score by say, dating a tranny or something.

          I’ll send my writings to you from the food factory where the drones are loaded with the meals of bug slurry. When your drone buzzes at your 60th story window, take the tray as usual but also the writings in plastic at the bottom before returning the tray to the drone.

          You get about five minutes to slurp down the slurry. The drone starts buzzing to make you hurry up and will sting you if you go overtime.

          • TaxDonkey January 18, 2022 at 12:12 am #

            Oh man, that’s actually pretty good. We’re talking fiction here, right?

          • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 4:34 pm #

            Future memory. It has already happened in the future.

    • Paula D January 17, 2022 at 2:02 pm #

      They may be ready to switch to another scam, but their main program will goose step forward.
      I have a friend who has friends in high places and the prediction is that the world will be on digital currency within 7 years.
      They roll these things out slowly, but they roll exceedingly fine.

      • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 7:19 pm #

        I agree completely.

    • workingclasshero January 17, 2022 at 3:10 pm #

      I think the democrat led feds at the CDC will just claim victory over all forms of covid about 4 months before mid-terms and proclaim the vax campaign as the reason why we’re in the clear. The 2 years of hysterics over doom virus and the deplorable un-vaccinated will be memory holed by the MSM just like Russia gate. It could work.

      • Socrates-Detroit January 17, 2022 at 10:31 pm #

        I hope you are correct. That seems to be the “conventional view”, that “the worst is behind us”.

        I don’t think so. I think it’s more likely for the Democrats to double down: “the unvaxxed are straining the system”, at the same time they conjure up with some clever, legally dubious workaround in the Senate, to muddle the voting laws. The Democrat states will hold (NYC is permitting illegals to vote), and the GOP will flip fewer seats than expected.

        Not that the GOP are our saviors–but they are clearly the lesser evil at the moment. Even so, the MSM reports that The Donald is hounding Gov. DeSantis. Is that constructive? Trump’s ego may ensure that he snatches defeat from the jaw of victory. If untrue, the MSM are already working to undercut Trump.

        We will see what happens this Sunday in DC. Will the demonstration be blacked out by the media if uneventful? Will there be some kind of provocation, so the demonstrators can be presented as a “small minority of extremists”?

        RFK’s book, “The Real Anthony Fauci”, is a best-seller, probably THE best-seller. It is studiously ignored by the MSM.

        Then have BS like this:

        https://abcnews.go.com/Health/hawaii-require-travelers-covid-booster-shot-fully-vaccinated/story?id=82307999

        Fraudulent beliefs treated as fact and used for policy. How can a state impede interstate commerce? The audacity of this is infuriating.

        If we lived in a nation where more people had brains and balls, they would say, “WHAT?” and cancel their trip. Or they would say “WHAT?!!!” and not patronize bars in Minnesota/St. Paul.

        But no, the vaxxed either support this stupidity, or they don’t but “shrug their soldiers” and go about their business.

        I think JHK feels compelled to leave a sliver of optimism about “justice” for whatever reason. Sorry, but the system is corrupt. Trump didn’t get any justice on Russia-gate. We are not going to get justice here.

        The mandates may not hold in court–but that take time to stop. A mandate can be “right away”. The witch in NYS says she will make it hard to renew your driver license if you are not vaxxed. WTF???

        When people get fed up and take matters in their own hands, it will be used as a pretext for martial law. Already, the sycophant generals and SecDef view “domestic terrorism” as a “concern”.

        That will make life difficult in the suburbs. Not everyone in this space lives a small town surrounded by farmland, or on a farm with neighbors they trust. Even there, the state can assert control. I think our host underestimates this. The Communists in 1917-1920, the Nazis, Mao, even the (Communist) Vietnamese: they all took over because they were ruthless. They had no qualms about liquidating their enemies.

        Just like today, the PTB have no qualms about letting people die in hospitals. Ivermectin is mostly NOT used, it is much harder to get, and they go out of their way to vilify it.

        Yes, many suburbs are doomed anyway–in the long run. Many don’t have water. Maybe all of suburbia is doomed. By the same token, in the long run, we are all dead.

        It’s early in the game…

        • Mike G January 18, 2022 at 2:26 am #

          Going to DC to protest is like picketing a Mafia Don’s house.We never hear about the FBI busting up the mafia nowadays, you know why that is don’t you?

        • messianicdruid January 18, 2022 at 2:19 pm #

          “The witch in NYS says she will make it hard to renew your driver license if you are not vaxxed. WTF???”

          I dont need permission or training to travel. I’ve driven every kind of vehicle on every kind road for hundreds of miles in any direction over the last 53 years. The ONLY reason I get a “license” is to keep the highway men unoffended and that is about to end.

  20. jim e January 17, 2022 at 11:41 am #

    Janis Joplin – Cry Baby

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWm81fpd1g8

    • Mike G January 18, 2022 at 2:41 am #

      Txs jim e

      Haven’t seen nor heard Janis in a long time. raw and uncut.

  21. AKlein January 17, 2022 at 11:53 am #

    JHK’s characterization of the behavior and motivation of the managerial class seems quite similar to those of the Soviet apparatchiks. Parroting the received wisdom of “the Party” even if it plainly defies logic – correction – especially if it defies logic to showcase their fealty. Truly odious.

    • TaxDonkey January 18, 2022 at 12:17 am #

      Dmitry Orlov has written eloquently about the Soviet collapse. According to him, at the end the Soviet leaders were literally insane and had to be drug away from their offices along with the furniture. It’s easy to imagine this scenario playing out in the US as well.

      • messianicdruid January 18, 2022 at 2:21 pm #

        Stuck in the now, no past – no future.

  22. Htruth January 17, 2022 at 12:03 pm #

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    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

      Thank you.

  23. MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 12:15 pm #

    Tinfoil hat, eh?

    “Human trials will start this July on a micro-chip implant smaller than a pin-head that will hold your booster status and other information to enable a fast and easy way to access things like shops and events. All powered by Microsoft technology. A very exciting technology.”

    7:29 AM · Jan 16, 2022·Twitter for iPad

    https://mobile.twitter.com/HattMancockMP/status/1482721799687360512

    • TaxDonkey January 17, 2022 at 12:22 pm #

      The comments on that thing are pretty disturbing.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 18, 2022 at 10:32 am #

        The first ones, yes…intentional planned drops by sycophants.

        But it doesn’t take a very long scroll to find people calling him Hatt Mancock, so take some solace in that!

    • TaxDonkey January 17, 2022 at 1:04 pm #

      They also want to chip you to cryptocurrency. You only get paid if you’re where you supposed to be doing what you’re supposed to do.

      Patent 060606- LOL. you can’t even make this up

      https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606

      • GreenAlba January 18, 2022 at 7:10 am #

        Thanks, TD. Another one to send my brainwashed brother and some brainwashed friends!

    • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

      “I’m excited” – classic corporate retard talk. People do it even in their off time, becoming just bio-units of the machine.

    • roccofire January 17, 2022 at 2:34 pm #

      Mary,

      I must confess as an old style Liberal ,not progressive, think of old Star Trek. I found the chip store right wing fantasy, until I saw a Russell Brand video on youtube yesterday where they are experimenting with this in Europe, and he was flipping out, and me too.

      JHK I hope you did well during the Red Alert, keep up the writing. I am going to work, hopefully the storm kept away the un sick folks from the E.D.

    • anmariwakaranai January 17, 2022 at 4:28 pm #

      Already rolled out in Sweden.

      • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 4:43 pm #

        That was grain of rice size – this is pinhead size!

      • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 6:46 pm #

        Indeed.

    • GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 4:45 pm #

      Matt Hancock. What a surprise. Known as Matt the App by UK doctors (not that I have any sympathy for many of them any more).

      • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 6:47 pm #

        Yeah, I’m guessing another transhumanist freak.

  24. David Webb January 17, 2022 at 12:41 pm #

    Speaking of hysteria, the governor of my state recently issued another Covid decree banning any elective procedures at hospitals statewide. I mentioned in an online forum that my local hospital doesn’t seem overwhelmed, why would this have to apply to all hospitals? The answer I got from a true believer was that we need those hospital beds in case patients need to be transferred from other hospitals that are overwhelmed. I got to wondering about the numbers, so I looked into it. Currently there are 832 Covid patients hospitalized statewide. So how many hospital beds are there in the state? I couldn’t find a total, but I found a county by county listing and started adding them up. I gave up when it got over 10,000. More than ten thousand hospital beds statewide and we’re overwhelmed with 832 patients. But “what about ICU beds?” you might ask. Well, I had even more trouble finding those numbers, but I did find that there are 650 ICU beds in Seattle alone. So if every single Covid patient is in the ICU (which I seriously doubt), Seattle can handle more than three fourths of them. Something doesn’t add up, literally.

    • TaxDonkey January 17, 2022 at 12:46 pm #

      do you by chance have information on how many of those 832 hospitalized have been inoculated?

      • David Webb January 17, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

        That’s another one that’s hard to pin down, the best I could find was of all hospitalizations in the state for most of last year, 24.5% were fully vaccinated, and 4.2% were partially vaccinated.

    • stelmosfire January 17, 2022 at 3:43 pm #

      Dave, this interactive US Gov site gives the lowdown on hospital and occupancy rates. I check it when I hear on the local news that the hospitals are overwhelmed. All the stats were just updated today. My area is not even at 80% capacity. Even less for the ICU numbers. I call BS on the MSM and their panic numbers. I have heard the hospitals like to be 80% full for economic reasons.

      https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization

    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 7:17 pm #

      My favorite tool:

      https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization

      They are always caught lying about capacity.

  25. trypillian January 17, 2022 at 1:00 pm #

    There are 1,050,000 US citizens of Ukrainian descent who do have an interest in Ukraine. Sylvester Stallone and Steven Spielburg being among the famous ones. According to the Office of US Trade Representatives $2.5 billion worth of goods are sold each year to Ukraine, and $1.5 billion worth of Ukrainian goods are imported, which is not exactly chicken feed.

    • TaxDonkey January 17, 2022 at 1:12 pm #

      Spielberg’s grandparents came from Ukraine so picking a fight with Russia makes sense somehow? Not following the logic.

      However, that is interesting information regarding the trade numbers. US usually has a trade deficit with most nations. what are we selling them I wonder?

  26. getsome January 17, 2022 at 1:05 pm #

    With all the examples of ineptitude, bidet/heels up the most egregious, people STILL ascribe to a small group of “evil” genius’ directing the takeover of the WORLD!!! What total tripe.
    Having “visited” 52 countries and around 20+ states here, the impossibility of controlling a small amount of countries is evident to a thinking person. Sure, dictators rule many areas BUT it’s their country supported by their countrymen.
    The opposite of a crybaby, Hans-Ulrich Rudel was as tough a human as is possible. To get a feel as to what a person can push themselves to, look up Hans Rudel escaping the Russians. His own words. This is how one gets through the coming tribulations although hopefully not quite so the berserker mindset necessary.
    James Howard, a truly gifted encapsulation of current events. Our very own Nostradamus. Continue to March, I will continue to Follow.

  27. mitchellc January 17, 2022 at 1:09 pm #

    I guess with respect to the main point of depletion that jim was right all along about dramatically reduced living standards.

    However, he seems to have been ambivalent about population levels retracing an arc back to pre 1900 levels of around 1b+-.

    But the big miss, the one that so many could either not see, or dismiss outright because it didn’t comport with a lifetime of programming, were the offensive actions taken by thinkers and planners to remain in charge during the collapse.

    In hindsight it now must seem so logical, so obvious, that one should be torn between the depressing effect of loss, but also hold grudging respect for how artfully it was pulled off.

    When you draw it up today, it becomes clear that it wasn’t just jim and his typically light liberal “yes we can” followers that were on to the truth of the matter.

    Rather a group of ruthless, cunning and savvy operators determined that if the wave was going to crash, then they would be the surfers and the great disenfranchised masses were to be their surfboards. In other words, they were to be lords, and all else the vassals and serfs.

    Once you come to grips with this reality, then you might actually appreciate how perfectly normal it was for them to take steps towards self preservation.

    That’s not to imply you just rollover and take it, but it should help place you in the proper state of mind of what’s to come from both sides.

    • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 1:19 pm #

      Are you sure? In his World Made By Hand series, the technology reverts to the 19th century level, and America is in a state of complete collapse. The novel doesn’t go into it per se, but a vast population crash is implied in every page. On the local level which is focused on, disease has taken a large percentage of the population and the town if full of empty houses.

      • mitchellc January 17, 2022 at 2:21 pm #

        I’m still waiting for anyone of any influence to utter these immortal words “Fuaci, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!” Followed by, “Were going to kick your ass all the way back to prison!”

        IOW, respect is given where and when earned. Patton, the US and its Allies weren’t afraid, but they well knew the fight ahead. However, under no circumstance did anyone cry about how they were fooled, or how they had trusted the enemy.

        Jim’s got the talent and audience to be one of the leading figures for our times. Enough of the complaining and self pity. The game is afoot, and individuals need a rallying point.

    • anmariwakaranai January 17, 2022 at 4:38 pm #

      That’s funny Mitch. I seem to recall James mentioning Deagals population forecast. I could be wrong…

      • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 5:07 pm #

        The first forecast in 2016

        showed a reduction of 84% in the US……..

        After a HUGE Public outcry, they revised

        them to where they are today.

        And for the Troll…..(Cause I know its coming)

        “Deagel, a true intelligence organization for the US government, predicts a massive 50-

        80% global depopulation by 2025. Few people are familiar with this website and even

        more say the organization does not legitimately exist. Despite the overwhelming

        removal of its significance, WikiLeaks documents revealed that it was legitimately

        used as a reference material in a Stratfor report on the technological capabilities of the North People’s Republic of Korea

        And……………..

        Here is a partial list of known Deagel partners and customers, according to their own websites:

        National Security Agency,

        North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),

        Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),

        the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),

        the Russian Defense Procurement Agency, Stratfor,

        the World Bank and the United Nations

        These forecasts are based on the reconciliation of various publicly available reports

        from institutions such as the

        CIA,

        the IMF

        and the UN.

  28. Unappreciated Rationality January 17, 2022 at 1:21 pm #

    I enjoy reading Mr. Kunstler’s sarcastic/sardonic comments on our esteemed rulers. But Mr. Kunstler seems to live in hope that our current-day villains will receive a fit punishment. But how is that supposed to happen? None but the powerless get punished these days. What will happen to Dr. Fauci? He’ll probably retire while complaining about how badly he’s been treated. But nothing more will happen to him.

    • TaxDonkey January 17, 2022 at 1:30 pm #

      I don’t know. I hear the tumbrels coming in the background.

      • Beryl of Oyl January 17, 2022 at 1:39 pm #

        Amish made.

        • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 4:20 pm #

          It’d be Waaaay easier to use one of these

          https://chadipioneerfarmequipment.com/dump_trailer.html

          Then when you got them were they was a going………

          Just dump’em out on the ground, no mess, no fuss

          Amish made too, Holmes co. Ohio

          • stelmosfire January 17, 2022 at 6:04 pm #

            Bring out yer dead! The funny thing ( not really funny) is this could happen way easier then some people think. It’s all fun and games until people are dropping in the streets. When peoples children are dying as they historically have during pestilence well there it goes. When this Wuhan shit started I was wearing gloves and masks at the store. I was the only one. When I saw it was bullshit I dropped the whole farce and now the sheep are bought. Hook, line, and sinker.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcbR1J_4ICg

          • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 6:14 pm #

            Hey, St Elmos………..

            I was going thru an old cemetery one day

            While waitin on the cutter to finish a load of logs……

            Straights Corners, (in the southern tier) to be exact.

            In the far back corner, was a family plot.

            On the left side was 4 children, lost to an epidemic in the late 1880’s

            On the right was 3 more, lost right after the turn of the century

            Kinda wonder, how them folks found the will

            To go on

    • JTinMD January 17, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

      For the current regime law enforcement is so yesterday. Think on that a while. It’s deliberate neglect in service of plunder and pillage.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder January 18, 2022 at 10:57 am #

        Every single DA needs to publicly be asked the question: “You were hired to do what? Oh, that’s right, prosecute criminals within the penalties laid out within the law. And you’re letting them all go now…so…what wouldya say ya do here?”

        And then of course most of them should be summarily shitcanned.

        Except the mayors and governors are playing the same game, so they don’t have a reason to point out how obvious the dereliction of duty in the enforcement of criminal justice has become. They don’t care.

        Cops catch the bad guys, provide evidence to the lawyers. Means nothing if the lawyers then say “eh, let’s give em another chance,” and put them back on the streets to immediately re-offend.

  29. mitchellc January 17, 2022 at 1:46 pm #

    I would also suggest stop anthropomorphizing certain personality traits, job skills and social habits.

    Both dangerous spiders and beautiful cats result from natural selection; it is only we who establish artificial standards.

    Gnomish beaurocrats developed in environments that selected for their advantages. On an objective scale, they are just as worthy as the types of self sufficient individuals promoted by the right.

    Again, not trying to justify their actions, rather it’s an attempt at clearly identifying who is currently on the offensive.

  30. driguana January 17, 2022 at 2:11 pm #

    And don’t forget “junk yards”!!

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  32. Roundball Shaman January 17, 2022 at 3:24 pm #

    “Do you know what most of America wants? I will tell you: America wants Daddy to step up and say, “Okay, you can stop being insane now…”

    Do you know what too much of America wants? Big Daddy aka The Government to take care of them in every way. They want Their Daddy to tell them what to think, what to inject into their bodies, what Nations to fear, and to keep faking ‘money’ and sending it monthly to them so the infantized can sit home in their PJs and order unhealthy food to be hand-delivered to their front door every day while looking endlessly for ‘Likes’.

    Rugged individualism? Showing personal initiative? Finding your own answers on your own without them being spoon-fed to you by billionaires with dark agendas? BAH. Who needs all that what Big Daddy is there to make life so simple and easy.

    “It’s a fact that more-educated folks are most susceptible to mass delusion…”

    It’s also a fact that life in general on this Earth is ALWAYS mostly a delusion. Quantum physics has proven that. All the brainwashing-gone-wild has also fostered that. And again, the desire of some for quick-and-easy answers to be provided by someone other than themselves invites delusion to become the centerpiece of one’s life.

    “The main belief-of-the-moment is that battling the invisible menace called Covid-19 requires the most extreme measures, and anyone against that is an enemy, a domestic terrorist!”

    Calling someone a ‘Dome Terr’ is in itself a massive ‘mass delusion’. While such people no doubt exist, when one accuses most Americans of being such a thing exposes the hand of darkness by those who are beginning to reveal themselves more openly these days. Throwing such dangerous labeling around so freely is not what is done in a civilized population. But when you ‘need’ enemies, you just call everyone an enemy and you have all you can use.

    “Why? Because Dr. Tony Fauci, America’s doctor, says so.”

    Nothing like a career grifter being elevated above the status of heroic Biblical figures in the minds of so many Americans now. More mass delusion.

    “He simply states that the vaxxes are ‘safe and effective.’”

    He has to. His entire career and status has been build around these atrocities and menaces to public health. If the vax goes, so does he and all his lackeys. And we certainly can’t have that. We have entire industries and shines built to this crap.

    “But the damage is done.”

    Sadly, the damage is just beginning. It will echo for generations and has altered the arc of history in ways that we can’t even yet imagine.

    One additional note. Martin Luther King Jr. spent a lifetime trying to convince America to look past skin tone to recognize a fellow human being not a color. But now, we have powerful forces making sure that we never look past color. Again, whole industries and shines have been built to this idea. ‘Content of Character’? Again, BAH! say those who exist to dehumanize each other.

    This Age is not our finest hour.

    • Blackbird January 18, 2022 at 3:09 pm #

      Not sure I agree with “what America wants”. Too much of the America I know wants daddy to step up and say, “You’re not insane – but obviously everyone else is!”

  33. TaxDonkey January 17, 2022 at 3:29 pm #

    I heard that Trump, in his recent rally, is no longer pushing the vaxxes and has come out against vaxx mandates. I didn’t actually watch it though, so I could have missed something.

    • Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 4:11 pm #

      He was never for mandates, but it seems he has now stopped talking about the shots..

    • Blackbird January 18, 2022 at 3:10 pm #

      Why does anyone care what Trump has to say?

      • TaxDonkey January 19, 2022 at 3:59 pm #

        They have no one better to follow I guess. I pointed it out because it’s perhaps marks a milestone in which way the political winds are blowing. Who can distance themselves as far away from this bullshit before the next election.

  34. Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 4:22 pm #

    The future of food under the Transhumanist nutjobs:

    “The projections for market uses of nanofood are huge but highly speculative. Some are also really weird: Kraft has shown interest in creating a smart “blob” that could become any kind of food with any kind of flavor using nanotech. Basically, you can put this yummy blob into the microwave and specify what you’d like it to be. Nanoparticles in the food would be activated by the appliance and change color, shape, and possibly even nutrientst.”

    https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a12790/wait-theres-nanotechnology-in-my-food-16510737/

    Soylent green is people.

    • TaxDonkey January 17, 2022 at 4:53 pm #

      And alkaline hydrolysis of corpses to then spray on crops as fertilizer. I’m sure this is just a conspiracy theory.

      https://banned.video/watch?id=61e30b09e9a7ce775c74edc5

      • stelmosfire January 17, 2022 at 6:14 pm #

        Well maybe it’s just me but I piss on my tomato plants when I am in the garden.

        • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 6:32 pm #

          Well yea !!!!!!!!!!!

          Its Pure Urea mister !!!!!!!!!!

          Not only that but……….

          What about using pee to flush a wound?
          Mr Cooper says it’s fine to use urine to irrigate cuts and wounds, but it has to be freshly passed — and not left in the heat for bacteria to breed.

          “Urine can get septic pretty quick after it comes out of the body,” he said.

          https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2016-09-13/is-urine-sterile/7835934#:~:text=What%20about%20using%20pee%20to,the%20body%2C%22%20he%20said.

          • stelmosfire January 17, 2022 at 6:47 pm #

            Did ya ever see Seinfeld about pissing in the shower. I hear it’s good for foot fungus.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOlGMPE68Bo

          • stelmosfire January 17, 2022 at 6:52 pm #

            It’s all pipes!

        • TaxDonkey January 17, 2022 at 11:53 pm #

          Pissing on the ground next to your plants is OK, but not directly on them. Anyway, that’s not even in the same league as dissolving bodies in potassium hydroxide and doing whatever they do with it. A lot of google stuff says it’s a conspiracy theory they’re going to use it for fertilizer, but who knows? It’s a real thing though, it’s easy to youtube it.

    • Mac January 19, 2022 at 7:54 am #

      I saw a movie once, can’t remember the name, in which all people ate was this blue glop that had everything you needed to stay healthy.

  35. WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 4:36 pm #

    A short (30 sec.) video of the rail yards in LA…..

    Titled, ………

    “Los Angeles. No other developed nation looks like this.”

    Sad !!

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/f7laT8ZuWsE9/

    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 6:41 pm #

      That looks tidy compared to skid row

      • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 6:49 pm #

        The rail cars in that video ………..

        Were off the tracks tooooo

        Probably don’t dare stop and fix them in that

        neighborhood

        • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:08 pm #

          No doubt!!

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 9:15 pm #

            What color are the perps?

          • TaxDonkey January 18, 2022 at 12:31 am #

            Jarek, are we talking the trashed out train track video? I didn’t see any perps. Anyway, I would assume the demographics are similar to skid row:

            In 2019 the racial makeup of the neighborhood was 12.66% White, 58.21% Black/African American, 2.06% American Indian/Alaska Native, 0.63% Asian, 24.53% Hispanic or Latino, 0.79% Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander, and 1.11% from other races.

          • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 10:33 am #

            What perps?

    • WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 6:47 pm #

      “Union Pacific Bashes LA’s Social Justice Reform, Threatens To Leave City Amid Soaring Train Thefts”

      “A top Union Pacific Railroad official threatened to leave Los Angeles over the District Attorney’s progressive measures to lower criminal theft offenses amid a wave of criminal gangs looting rail cars.”

      https://www.zerohedge.com/political/union-pacific-bashes-las-social-justice-reform-threatens-leave-city-soaring-train-thefts

    • BackRowHeckler January 17, 2022 at 8:08 pm #

      LA is not a developed nation. Besides, enforcing laws against pilfering, theft and looting be racist.

  36. WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 4:45 pm #

    OMG………….

    Wonder if we could get her and Mr K to do a

    coordinated blog post……..

    She is way beyond her years!!!

    “THINGS TO LEAVE IN 2021! WHATSHERFACE”

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/QS85NrFrUBmB/

    • Paula D January 18, 2022 at 7:17 pm #

      That was great. The funniest part for me was that I was folding laundry while I listened.

  37. Night Owl January 17, 2022 at 5:04 pm #

    “Dr. Fauci and his team-mates, Klaus Schwab & China’s Xi Jinping all spoke at WEF virtual summit today.”

    https://twitter.com/JoeDanMedia/status/1483103554676137993?cxt=HHwWkoC52ee0hZUpAAAA

    LOL.

    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 6:40 pm #

      He has such a punchable mug, doesn’t he?

      • Night Owl January 18, 2022 at 6:06 am #

        IMO, that is a good part of the reason why so many of these criminals are how they are.

        Herd/attention-seeking creatures who the herd rejected. If you were 5’5″ and looked like a moleman, you might also end up like Doktor Faust.

        Look also at Ardern, Chant, Kurz, Andrews, etc.

        • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 10:50 am #

          So true. Look at Lori Lightfoot, and that Rachel Levine thing.

          All probably beat up on the playground, or ignored by the rest of the class. Now want everyone to pay.

          • Night Owl January 19, 2022 at 8:47 am #

            I should add that it is not my intent to make fun of their appearance per se; am more just looking to understand where these crazies come from.

            I mean, Napoleon complex is real, too. But not every manlet has it. 🙂

  38. mitchellc January 17, 2022 at 5:33 pm #

    OK, here’s my direct suggestion for jim on how to make a difference and perhaps be remembered as a hero.

    Jim has two core strengths: he knows what’s going on, but more importantly has the communications chops that sets him apart.

    At this point in time, the number of people who have figured out the score number in the 100s of millions, so that’s not an especially novel position.

    However, JHK is literally unsurpassed in his literary and communication abilities. And this is why he just might be the man for the times:

    This stage of the war is being waged through highly sophisticated pyscholical techniques, all of which are dependent on:

    1 who crafts the language,
    2 who sets the narrative,
    3 who controls the dispersal, and
    4 who directs the reinforcing chorus

    1, 2 & 4 are highly vulnerable to an intelligent, organized pointed attack and rebuttal.

    Anyone can quickly scribble down the top terms used to excess by the gnomes. Racist, supremist, terrorist; its both futile and stupid to attempt to counter them. (No, you’re the racist!)

    Rather, we need a crib sheet that IDs their favored terms, suggests alternatives and also provides targeted rebuttals.

    Language is their true weak point. They have a roster of pros working their side, but it only takes someone truly special to dissect their BS and flip it around back at them.

    If only a few million were armed with these comm tools, average citizens could engage with seasoned propagandists on CNN and come away from a victorious encounter.

    • Disaffected January 17, 2022 at 7:04 pm #

      Might be true. But it ignores the fact that the Big Lie doesn’t really work on the argumentation level, but simply on pure repetition, with the additional advantage of having the biggest microphone. Especially when the essential message is fear, which it nearly always is. That’s why this whole thing is so very intractable.

      The “battle” for the animal mind was essentially lost in the first 2-3 months. In retrospect, the TP shortage right out of the box was a masterstroke. As a commodity it seems so utterly innocuous, but it struck at some very primal fears. Home, safety, cleanliness, defecation as a basic and necessary bodily function so often totally taken for granted, etc.

    • gustafson.robert.22 January 17, 2022 at 7:32 pm #

      i would love a public, global peak-oil conversation/debate.

      it would pop the cork on all the festering, stagnant blockages and problems.

      i really think it’s the only possible positive global-scale action.

      but, it’s hard to see it as really possible. all the techtopians would blare their insanity at 11, and the public would never get their feet under them to understand the real energy issues.

      unless, someone rose to prominence, a president or extremely prominent ceo… who went on a mission to articulate peak oil to the people and spur that debate.

      sheeple could understand energy issues, but would have to be led and herded there

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 17, 2022 at 7:41 pm #

        if elon musk or some such were converted to an energy-scarcity position and became extremely vocal

        but the pressure to “file under climate-change” (render the message innocuous, drown it out) would be so strong

        • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 7:47 pm #

          Like if he started wearing animals skins and a bone through his nose? The symbolism would take the day.

          • gustafson.robert.22 January 17, 2022 at 7:50 pm #

            would he do it?

            do you know him? can we put a bug in his ear

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 8:32 pm #

            Yes, we could have have him talking about “a stick sharpened at both ends” in that weird, vague way he has as he speaks in a soft, muffled voice.

          • gustafson.robert.22 January 17, 2022 at 9:45 pm #

            lol

        • TaxDonkey January 18, 2022 at 12:04 am #

          I think the WEF guys really are worried about the environment. They understand there are finite resources. Where they’re deranged is this technology wet dream. They’re going to fly around on magic carpets with a fully functioning matrix while we all eat bugs to nourish our vaccinated bodies and own nothing. I have to think this is delusional thinking. Hope I’m not proven wrong.

          • anmariwakaranai January 18, 2022 at 2:48 am #

            We’ll be dead tax, the fully vaxxed that is. It’s the green option.

          • gustafson.robert.22 January 18, 2022 at 8:05 am #

            i agree

            they understand there are finite resources,

            and yet, they dont understand

            they know cake is unhealthy
            but they want to eat it anyway

    • messianicdruid January 18, 2022 at 2:53 pm #

      Its all guesswork and they want you to guess wrong.

      https://lonewolfexpress.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/reading-is-guessing/

  39. PeteAtomic January 17, 2022 at 5:36 pm #

    “degenerate managerial class”

    Yes! totally. End stage imperial behavior? Absolutely.

    Unfortunately, expect more.

    We are just at the beginning of the insanity. Problems about powering modern industry and society haven’t even begun to be discussed. Our potemkin economy of fraud & shadow, which continues to only seem to go up, without any reality behind those gains– will face a terrible reckoning.

    Wait until these issues rear their very real heads. You think “supply chain shortages” is an issue now? Seriously? You can still get three down types of bread at the store.

    Wait until there are only 2 varieties. One variety. Maybe there won’t be any bread.

    • PeteAtomic January 17, 2022 at 5:36 pm #

      *three dozen types of bread

    • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 8:35 pm #

      Yes, on the news: Airlines screaming about what 5g is going to do to plane instrumentation as they try and land. It’s due to “go on” next week. Kind of late to start talking about this. Or did they only go public because the tech companies wouldn’t back down?

      • malthuss January 18, 2022 at 12:08 am #

        try TO land.

    • messianicdruid January 18, 2022 at 3:02 pm #

      “Maybe [ hopefully ] there won’t be any bread.”

      Debt money, or I should say an understanding of debt money would go far to solve these problems.

      https://www.bitchute.com/video/Gq21URspw2fL/

  40. MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 5:56 pm #

    Ugh. Note the illuminati masonic symbolism on the older woman’s shirt in the first scene. They’re managing to get all the ghoulishness into one short cringeworthy ad:

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/watch-viral-tiktok-shows-young-australian-girls-going-on-vax-date

    • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 7:55 pm #

      Yes, add to that her being so much older than the sweet young girl and the Black Muslim women who give the kill shot.

    • TaxDonkey January 18, 2022 at 11:21 am #

      Mary, that vid is wrong on so many levels. they packed quite a bit in for 1 minute.

    • Night Owl January 20, 2022 at 1:32 pm #

      Mary check out my post further down thread.

      UK Column points out in their latest video that the older woman/girlfriend in the occult shirt is over 40, while her “date” is a kid.

      The older one flashes her ID at the clot-shot site.

  41. Ed Haskell January 17, 2022 at 6:13 pm #

    Mr. Kunstler,

    “… loony war-drumming, check….”

    (*) “…The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

    But I have long been hearing the sort of excuse clever men produce for their own wrongdoing. They protest that they act under compulsion and are dragged unwillingly into war. Pull off your mask, drop your pretences, examine your own heart, and you will find that anger, ambition, and folly brought you to war…”

    (*) Erasmus; 1514 letter to Antoon van Bergen, in his work “A Complaint of Peace”

    Cheers

  42. liber8tor January 17, 2022 at 6:16 pm #

    Life Insurance companies sound the alarm. Sudden deaths up 40% since the mandates and they are losing a lot of money. The Insanity Variant is the real pandemic.

    • Disaffected January 17, 2022 at 6:52 pm #

      Large insurance companies, being vital corporate entities themselves, no doubt have some sort of “back door” means to remedy this; whether it be tax breaks over and above the usual, subsidies, or just plain old kick backs, so I wouldn’t be counting on them to ride in to the rescue just yet. Covid is a fully integrated scamdemic. There will be no loose ends coming from the corporate sphere.

  43. GreenAlba January 17, 2022 at 6:28 pm #

    First it was a ‘health contribution tax’ on the unvaxxed in Quebec, which has *allegedly* brought them in droves down to the vaxx centres for their first jab.

    Now they’re fining the over-60s in Greece 100 euros a month.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/unvaccinated-older-people-in-greece-face-monthly-fines/ar-AASRsFp

    That would be the Greeks whose pensions were already decimated.

    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 8:36 pm #

      Yes, we saw this coming. Anyone getting government money soon will be at their mercy. Absolutely no choice.

      I can’t imagine a bigger crime, outside of the obvious genocide.

      • Mac January 19, 2022 at 8:02 am #

        Anyone and any organization who accepts Medicare and Medicaid money, ratified by the SCOTUS.

    • Socrates-Detroit January 17, 2022 at 9:28 pm #

      Sadly, the Greek measure was announced first.

      Mitsotakis, the Greek PM, is an alumnus of the Young Global Leaders school.

      He is beholden. In December 2020, the Greek magazine “Crash” cover story was “7,834,000 laboratory rats” about the upcoming vaccines.

      Unlike most news media, the magazine did refer to RFK who is quoted as warning the public “do not take the mRNA vaccines, the effects will be irreversible”.

      Later in the same issue, the magazine talks about the “Great Reset” and has a picture of Mitsotakis at his desk with a copy of the book. Was it photo-shopped? Does it matter?

      The opposition left accuses the government of “risking public health to placate conservative extremist supporters”. It is farcical.

  44. Valevapor January 17, 2022 at 6:47 pm #

    Hey, James. I have been reading your books and blogs for at least 20 years, but haven’t commented here for some time. I stay tuned-in most weeks because you always circle back to your grand thesis – the declining state of America’s civic design and corresponding social dysfunction. I’m less a fan of the increasing political slant over the years. I shall remain independent to the core, and it nauseates me to see how fully fossilized so many of us are by the patently false two-choice system that has come to prevail.

    I remain unvaccinated, and it is not for any political reason under the stars. I have a deep distrust of giant governments, corporations, and any other such insentient monstrosities. The vaccines are clearly not our savior, haven’t been proven safe by any rational/scientific criteria, and to continue such a mass global experiment is truly insane.

    I see an analogue here with the witch hunts of yore, except this time it is not religion imposing its unproven sentences upon the innocent, but rather rational science executing its own sentences based on unproven propaganda. Mind you, I am a very rational person who loves science. However, I realize that there is no scientific proof that scientific proof alone is real…and anyway the whole spirit of science is to always question, dismiss when necessary, and adapt…and ultimately there is just a heap of subjective interpretation involved in understanding science too.

    Getting back to your grand thesis, I think the most important qualities for human beings to nurture in these times are the ability to perceive as objectively as possible, the ability to adapt, and the ability to foster kindness in all our relations.

    • TaxDonkey January 18, 2022 at 11:48 am #

      Agreed that the false left right paradigm has always been a scam. However, what was perpetrated during the Trump years was so egregious that our country is simply DONE if the rule of law is not preserved somehow. The Russian collusion theory for example, made Watergate look like jaywalking and there was no reckoning for that. The distasteful cancel culture, violation of the 1st amendment, the woke philosophy, etc… is being done by those who identify as leftists. If there’s any shred of populist resistance to this color revolution, it’s looks to be people who identify as on the right. Not really the same left/right paradigm as before but hard to escape all mention of politics in discussions about this stuff.

  45. WilbursHuman January 17, 2022 at 7:11 pm #

    Got to love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Triple-vaxxed top US general gets Covid-19

    General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has tested positive for Covid-19 and is working remotely, the Pentagon has announced. One other member of the Joint Chiefs is positive, but the military did not say who.

    https://www.rt.com/news/546313-general-milley-pentagon-covid/

    • BackRowHeckler January 17, 2022 at 8:03 pm #

      General Milley has what they call ‘Co Morbities’ which is he weighs in at about 300 lbs and most likely has high blood pressure and diabetes. I saw a lot of dudes like Milley when I was in, just couldn’t get enough of that free military chow. Altho I think at the officers mess they have to pay a little so it’s not totally free.

      • malthuss January 18, 2022 at 12:09 am #

        but the pay is from the government. they give a little back that way.

    • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 8:07 pm #

      Probably Lloyd Austin, with Milley getting it from his intimate contact with him.

  46. wm5135 January 17, 2022 at 7:16 pm #

    “The managerial class will try to pretend that they never did the things they did.” JHK

    anyone who has been reading the comments at this blog over the years can affirm this statement. Not only did they not do the things they did, it was someone else’s fault.

    “The rest of us left on dry land have a lot of work to do.” JHK

    People with no skill who have avoided labor with a religious intensity work? At what?

    The nation bought this, the nation owns it. All of the middle class leeches clamoring for the status quo demanded this outcome. Everyone outraged that the workers on the assembly line at Ford, Gm and Chrysler who received a lving wage were robbing them of their rightful high standard of living. The same group to stupid to understand the difference between a contract wage and the take home wage.
    Do you have air freshener in your toilet room? there’s the truth

    revenge is a dish best served cold

  47. tom clark January 17, 2022 at 7:17 pm #

    Valevapor…so what’s all the fuss about? Your last sentence sounds like a worthwhile goal to live out your life as a human.

  48. stelmosfire January 17, 2022 at 7:38 pm #

    I worked 33 years at the firehouse. We were divided into 4 groups. A-B-C-D rotating 8 day shifts. Covered 24/7/365. 20 per group like a big family. Living together, sleeping in dorms, eating meals together, and working through some serious shit, Like a big dysfunctional family. We were tight. I miss it. Anyway,we were always with the same crew but due to vacations, sick days, swaps, and time off etc. we would often work on different groups.One group in particularly had a reputation as a bunch of crybabies/ whiners. It was not so much the guys on the group but a couple of them had the whole crew convinced that they were being persecuted. Nobody wanted to work with them.

    • BackRowHeckler January 17, 2022 at 7:54 pm #

      Well, I hope you gave these malcontents a good asskicking.

  49. Jarek January 17, 2022 at 8:00 pm #

    Ann Coulter

    EXCLUSIVE: Trump is demanding to know Ron DeSantis’s booster status, and I can now reveal it,” Coulter wrote. “He was a loyal booster when Trump ran in 2016, but then he learned our president was a liar and con man whose grift was permanent. I hope that clears things up.”

    Jarek: Vintage Coulter. Sounds like DeSantis has her in his corner if he runs. Lucky man if so, He should keep her close.

  50. Jarek January 17, 2022 at 8:04 pm #

    Blacks want to end Democracy in the name of Democracy and MLK. King himself would be in favor of this, affirmative action, and all the rest of the Communist (Democrat) platform.

  51. Jarek January 17, 2022 at 8:29 pm #

    Changing one important thing can change everything. If women weren’t voting, we might well have not lost the Republic – at least not yet. Especially since the Will to keep the franchise for ourselves would have translated into the Will to keep the Hispanics out, etc.

    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-if-only-men-voted-only-women-only-nonwhite-voters/

    People widely accept the validity of these maps because Nate Silver is a statistical genius.

    We’ve lost the Will to Power, to Greatness. We laid it down for a mess of pseudo-Christian pottage.

    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 8:34 pm #

      Your misogyny is so tiresome. Why in hyperdrive these days? Did you attempt to talk to a woman and got shut down? LOL.

      • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 8:38 pm #

        Can you try and not get personal about this? Can we discuss the map? Do you think it’s fake? That women are only “marginally more liberal than men” as Anthea said?

        • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 8:49 pm #

          Not personal.

          LMAO.

          OK if I tell you all white men are lazy pussified hormone cases, you won’t take that personally, correct?

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 8:52 pm #

            What about the map, demented one?

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:00 pm #

            Stick it up your bum. LOL.

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 9:11 pm #

            There we are. The civilized response. True colors comin’ out!

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:45 pm #

            Next we’ll hear, it’s not ladylike.

            Screw that, too 😀

        • Anthea January 17, 2022 at 10:20 pm #

          I would guess that, throughout human history, hundreds of civilizations have risen and collapsed. I doubt if many–if any at all–allowed women to vote. Certainly not in the Roman Empire, nor in Ancient Greece or Ancient Egypt. I think you’d have a tough time showing a historic correlation between women having political power and cultural decline and the collapse of civilizations.

          The cause of collapse is mainly just the advance of State power to the point where social power and individual power have been overthrown: the parasite killing the host.

          The advance of State power produces a wide range of symptoms. Any decline in social power tends to be disadvantageous to women. E.g., social power will normally enforce cultural norms like family stability and fathers providing for their families. As social power declines, the cultural support systems for women deteriorate, so they are inclined to demand that the State provide. There is literally nowhere else to turn.

          In a healthy culture, women wield a huge amount of social power. They tell the kids they aren’t allowed to say “ain’t,” adjure them to “worsh up,” drag their husbands to church, and make sure everyone knows that they frown upon fornication and adultery, and being a layabout or a barfly. In a healthy culture, they can mostly make it stick.

          Nock complained in (I think) the 1920s that the US was “an icewater-drinking matriarchy”–despite being nominally a patriarchy. He didn’t seem to connect that with women’s social power, though.

          Women turning to the State and becoming Statists (aka liberals) is really one of many symptoms of cultural decline–such as a culture where “the women are women and the men are too”–and not a cause.

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 10:53 pm #

            Good post, but cause and effect aren’t one time things. You can’t turn them off like you just did. Symptoms? People die of symptoms and every “symptom” or effect becomes a cause in turn, be it minor, major, or middling.

          • TaxDonkey January 18, 2022 at 11:58 am #

            Anthea, that all makes sense. On another note, I wonder what it is about our current situation that more and more women in authoritative positions are becoming Nurse Ratched types and the city males looking more like the guys in this clip.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onm5gjgL97Y

          • Anthea January 18, 2022 at 6:55 pm #

            @ Tax Donkey:

            I think the main reason for the bad and bizarre behavior is the media holds up these behaviors as models.

          • messianicdruid January 18, 2022 at 10:41 pm #

            It started with Ma & Pa Kettle. People have received “programming” for decades.

    • mitchellc January 17, 2022 at 8:56 pm #

      I think you might be spending a little too much time thinking about what happened, and then speculating about different possible scenarios if events had been changed.

      In reality that’s nothing but a black hole, So let me help you out with a quick overview of mitchs guide to power:

      1. In the beginning of civilization, it was simply brute force. (Of course the Japanese kept to this style until around 1850.)

      2. Perhaps with rome, we began to see the emergence of minor reconciliation that included maybe 5% of the people.

      Now, the problem with both 1&2 was that you had to spend constant time and energy on domestic issues, as well as guard against foreign assistance. (Gee, like the French actually beating the brits on behalf of the yankees?)

      The growing awareness of this problem led to the development of republican democracy, literally the moonshot or Manhattan project of its day.

      The genius is that by convincing people they had control, one could get complete buy in by the “governed”. All that was required was an easy to manipulate populace, and effective media control.

      If you place yourself in say 1880, what is the obvious solution to expanding as easily manipulated voter base? Add women, and then minorities.

      In Britain, they actually had to bring in minorities, whereas in the USA we already had a readily available voting block.

      My main point is that if you dial things back and observe the challenges of governance from a thinkers perspective, these events were always going to occur.

      It’s only after a 100 years or so that the rubes wake up and go “wha happened”?

      • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 9:02 pm #

        Yes, the more divided or “diverse” the population is, the stronger the Elite are. So they strive to break the People by diluting them, thus lowering the all important social capital.

        One remembers the delirious joy of German women as they welcomed the million plus Muslim men who marched in without a shot being fired. Now the fools can’t go out at night by themselves.

        Would they have been so happy if a million young Chinese women had marched in, wearing shorts to show off their tanned legs and superb skin? Maybe we would have been the ones out there with the signs and offering hugs. But at least people would be safe at night on the streets of their own cities and towns.

        • malthuss January 18, 2022 at 12:03 am #

          interesting question.

    • Night Owl January 18, 2022 at 3:33 am #

      I don’t really understand the point of the map. Fivethirtyeight is part of the wokester propaganda machine, and much like the rest of the wokester media, presents complicated issues in a simplified and often deceptive manner. Fivethirtyeight in specific spikes its own polls.

      Voting patterns depend on more than whether one is male of femail. Socialization plays an even bigger role, as does access to information and the ability to weigh and measure evidence to determine the validity of said information.

      • Night Owl January 18, 2022 at 3:34 am #

        Dis phone. “Female”

        • Night Owl January 18, 2022 at 3:38 am #

          Should also have mentioned that the rest of the piece follows the same “us against them” myopic logic.

          This stuff is low vibration. Unfortunately, most of the media we take in is by design low vibration, dressed up with some graphics and charts.

          Divide and conquer.

  52. Jarek January 17, 2022 at 8:57 pm #

    Women used to be proud as peacocks of their ultra-liberalism. Hell, many still are. Could Mary be realizing what a disaster this kind of ultra-liberalism is – and knowing the feminine role in it – be desperately trying to change the subject?

    It’s basically almost Communism, though most are still chary of using that word. The Democratic Party is gone, the “Party of Chaos” as Kunstler, a former Democrat, calls it now.

    • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:02 pm #

      Elliot Rodger is your hero, isn’t he?

      • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 9:07 pm #

        You are truly pathetic. The map destroys your whole worldview. I thought you would do better than this, but Anthea fell pretty easy too, so don’t feel too bad.

        Why not defend Liberalism? Do you not believe in it anymore? Fine, then admit it. But that would be throwing your sisters under the bus, right? You’re caught in complete cognitive dissonance, just like the poor vax victims.

        You’re strong on that issue, I freely admit. But that strength does not carry over automatically, certainly not on this one.

        • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:18 pm #

          Ah, touched a nerve.

          Yes, you clearly worship him. He had had enough of women and their voices, too. As well as their right to exist and participate in society.

        • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:19 pm #

          P.S. I’m fully aware that you use the term ‘liberal’ as an insult, and no matter what I say you will call me one. Just as you label everyone, and use that to insult them.

          Very childish.

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 9:24 pm #

            We all know what it means at this point. So defend it or reject it, but that means parting company with the Sisterhood. I think that’s the crux of it.

            You still haven’t commented on the Map….

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:24 pm #

            OH! And ironically, the same strategy as the Woke.

            Using their playbook – funny, that.

            Label – then attack.

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:44 pm #

            Oh, I don’t really click on stuff you post, because most of the time it’s just a link to misogynistic and racist drivel. Why would I want to read that?

            So many other great people to read.

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 9:55 pm #

            Yeah, you never read anything I write. And you haven’t really been talking to me at all for the last hour.

            Vintage Mary. Classic feminine hypocrisy.

  53. MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:04 pm #

    “Women used to be proud as peacocks of their ultra-liberalism. Hell, many still are. Could Mary be realizing what a disaster this kind of ultra-liberalism is – and knowing the feminine role in it – be desperately trying to change the subject?”

    No.

    You are the one steering the discussions into bizzaro zones.

    Everyone else is not talking about women causing the fall of civilization or obsessing 24/7 about black people.

    Maybe you need to get with the program, and stop changing the subject. Which is human survival.

    • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 9:09 pm #

      Women voting us into oblivion is threatening our survival. Check. Checkmate imminent.

      • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:17 pm #

        Stupid white men shooting up empty beer cans and screwing sheep are our future! YAY!

      • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 9:18 pm #

        She never came out for the 9th round. The ref is over in her corner. I think he’s going to call it.

        • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 9:19 pm #

          Oh there she is. She’s standing up in her corner screaming. The fight is over but she can’t accept it. Like what’s her name down in Georgia, that fat Black woman who thinks she’s the guv-nah.

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:22 pm #

            Well, even she’s at least doing something with her life. Rather than a fat ass racist sitting around all day insulting various groups of people and thinking he’s superior. What a delusion.

        • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:20 pm #

          You lost a long time ago. I’m guessing this might cause another temper tantrum that will end in your banning. One can hope, anyway.

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 9:30 pm #

            So much for your commitment to the First Amendment. Sore loser. True colors coming through.

            To paraphrase the Comedian, Women transformed America. This is your version of the American Dream. You got it. This is it. Now you don’t like it? Maybe you dreamed poorly.

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:42 pm #

            It’s my First Amendment right to express my opinion that it’s awesome when JHK bans you. Which actually has nothing to do with the First Amendment.

            If it were the government banning you, then that would be a First Amendment violation.

            Seriously, don’t you know what it even means? LOL.

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 9:52 pm #

            Right, just like you’re for all these sites banning people who talk against the Vax. Oh wait, you’re against that. Consistency isn’t your strong point because you don’t stand on Principle.

            You’re all about emotions and feelings. You’re very feminine.

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:56 pm #

            You’re very blobby, and incel-y.

          • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:57 pm #

            LOL. Jarek thinks JHK is the same as a Silicon Valley billionaire social media platform.

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 10:01 pm #

            The Principle is the same.

          • messianicdruid January 18, 2022 at 10:48 pm #

            “One can hope, anyway.”

            Error has rights.

    • gustafson.robert.22 January 17, 2022 at 9:43 pm #

      there’s only one group to blame …

      the white men who gave women the vote, of course

      • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:47 pm #

        No, robert, women did it – per Jarek.

        Women have single-handedly – with our second class status for centuries – brought down civilization.

        LOL.

      • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 9:50 pm #

        I agree, Gustaph. We failed to keep them under control, thus failing ourselves, our culture, and of course them as well.

        • MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:55 pm #

          Nyah, nyah.

          Too late now.

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 9:58 pm #

            There’s no contradiction. We gave women the vote and they savaged our Nation. Our was the initial error, yes. We gave away our power and then you “guys” ran us off a cliff.

            First move? Prohibition, an absolute disaster that gave great power to the Mob, and then to the Feds who fought them.

          • Anthea January 17, 2022 at 10:30 pm #

            @ Jarek:

            You notice that there has been no call for Prohibition from women for around a century.

            The reason for that is simple: divorce became socially acceptable. Marriage to a drunk was formerly a life sentence of poverty and domestic violence. Once it was deemed okay to throw the bum out, women discovered that they did not care if the guy drank, as long as he did it somewhere else.

          • Jarek January 17, 2022 at 10:41 pm #

            Yeah Anthea, no such thing as women drinking, right? Or female infidelity? Now at the same level as men’s – which is amazing.

            The deed is done. The Evil Ones know their business, they know human psychology to the last iota. As parasites, they must and they do. They empowered women to bring down real culture, replacing it with what we have now. You don’t like it? You didn’t dream well.

            Buddha: Woe to the society where women gain control.

            Of course they haven’t per se – the Elite are in control and women have played the role that they were meant to play.

            Oh btw, did you click on yet?

        • Anthea January 18, 2022 at 1:01 am #

          @ Jarek:

          Men failed to be men. They lack the intellectual and moral stature to command even themselves. As men abdicated all social, sexual, moral, and financial responsibility, women were forced to assume masculine roles.

          • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 10:58 am #

            Hmmm

            Could there be a reason men quit? Men have two roles in life, to provide sustenance and protection.

            When evolved effeminate societies take away these roles, men, in your words, fail to be men.

            Which leads to collapse of those societies. Men do not abdicate, it is stolen from them. We are witnessing it right now with the demise of the alpha male and the glorification of the beta male.

            I will say one thing though. People want to be lazy in nature. Human progress has always moved toward less work and more play. In America, the gimme society is a result. The welfare state is the result. Things would certainly change if the politico stopped feeding the welfare state and people had to work for a living.

          • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 1:20 pm #

            True, but as the Bible says, women were always going to chafe at their bonds. Would you be comfortable with the way Greeks and Romans kept their women? Or the Muslims?

            FYI, I’d just return us to the 18th or 19th century. A very civilized time when each knew their place. No female voting, natch.

      • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 11:10 am #

        NO, that is not the real cause of the ascendency of females, only part of it.

        The hidden reason is a “law” of nature. Women outlive men. They control the capital base of any country. Look at local older communities, look at nursing facilities, who has the bucks.

        Add on the natural falling off of energy levels that comes with the decline of testosterone. All you fifty year old males have a real surprise in store for you.

        Go ahead and take all those testosterone boosters, cancer is licking its chops waiting for you.

        • TaxDonkey January 18, 2022 at 12:34 pm #

          “They [women[ control the capital base of any country”

          Until you go into full blown war, disease and famine mode. Then unfortunately, it’s pretty bad for women and children. For the record, I have no interest in a gender conflict, we’re in this together until death do us part

          • messianicdruid January 18, 2022 at 10:56 pm #

            As usual, we are hornswaggled into gighting each other.

            Classism uses capital to feed pride. Pride comes before a fall. They’ve seen it before.

        • malthuss January 18, 2022 at 5:33 pm #

          Who has the bucks? not the Bucks, they died.

        • SpeedyBB January 19, 2022 at 9:10 pm #

          JohnAZ, you got me smiling. The “off-a-cliff” of men and their energy, sexual and otherwise, is an astonishing aspect of life today, at least in East Asia, where I’ve lived half my life.

          This stands in such contrast to the women, who keep on barreling along into their 80s in some cases. And such sexual drive! Most of these countries have a thriving gigolo industry – Pattaya, Phuket and Bali in particular. Muscular young farm boys draped in gold chains, wearing designer jeans and Nikes, riding brand-new motorbikes. Huh? Oh those three giggling Japanese women in their 40s, just left on the plane. One’s hospital administrator, another has her own restaurant chain and the third is a media executive. And all NOT MARRIED AND NOT INTERESTED.

          They slip away to Hawaii or Bali to get freshened up on the sly, nobody the wiser. Also some who are married but find they’ve got a big tired baby coming home exhausted, all his vital KI spent at the office, and just wanting to be mothered. Red-hot mammas, and boy do they make the gigolos earn their Baht or Bucks or Rupiah. Here the Muslims are all circumcised so they can go on forever but forever ain’t enough for some of these 55-year-old cougars. Amusing.

          The men? Tired, overweight, distracted, dull and certainly no big sexual appeal. I except the dwindling class of farm-folk: those guys keep in shape. You’ll see a wiry 90-year-old Okinawan out hoeing the hell out of his sweet potatoes and downing half a liter of shochu a day (a glass would knock you or me out). But they’re not necessarily sexually active.

          It’s the women. Staying power. Look at Attila the Hen and her standard-issue suit of a hubby. Denis the not-so-menacing.

  54. MaryQueen January 17, 2022 at 9:40 pm #

    Come for the wit & yuks, stay for the memes:

    how to generate a societal immune system
    surmounting the problem of herding animals by declaring emergencies

    el gato malo

    the problem with herd animals is that you do not even need to make sense to lead them. you do not need reason or righteousness, you just have to offer them a sense of belonging, a sense of status, and a sense of safety.

    do this, and the entire structure is payload agnostic. they really do not care if you change your narrative and keep altering the facts and ideology. this becomes easy.

    https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/how-to-generate-a-societal-immune

  55. Jarek January 17, 2022 at 10:07 pm #

    All over Clusterfuck America, men are looking over their shoulders to see if the coast is clear, and then clicking on the Map.

    Did you click on yet? I don’t want you to get in trouble little guy, just wait until she’s out. On second thought, don’t bother.

    • Anthea January 18, 2022 at 1:02 am #

      @ Jarek:

      More likely they’re passed out drunk.

      • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 12:37 pm #

        You’re an ignorant female bigot.

  56. Proton January 17, 2022 at 10:18 pm #

    It’s one thing if membership in the professional managerial class requires affirmation of belief in things that exist, that have some basis in reality and reason and logic, things that you can see for yourself and know that yes, this is for real.

    But it’s otherwise. In the vast sweep of human history, the modern-day PMC are the George Costanzas of ruling elites, whose whole life, by his own admission, was a lie. Their central precepts are lies, their way of life based in lies, ways of doing things that don’t work, that on their face are irrational. The more bizarre the assertion, the more centrality it has to their belief system, the more tenaciously they cling to it, insisting on its unbendable truth.

    You could spend a lifetime cataloguing the nonsense, making lists, writing histories and analyses and commentary. But who has the time and what would be the point? Maybe as a warning to future generations, assuming the tomes wouldn’t be tossed onto bonfires, the authors persecuted, prosecuted as terrorists, canceled and written out of the historical record, ‘non-persons’ as Orwell would say.

    The hell of it is that the craziness the PMC inflicts has real life consequences, deleterious for society at large, corrosive to the nation state, disastrous for individuals, and without exaggerating, has every likelihood of ending that long train of thought and behavior that we call Western Civilization.

    How did things get so far? On this side of the world it was the existence of two wide oceans that shielded the polity from consequences of their own absurdity, letting manias in the world of ideas run rampant without nearby rival powers to exact wrack and ruin when they saw the insanity. IOW when you feel safe you get sloppy.

    On the European side it’s different, orgies of killing came out of their crack-pot religious and political and economic ideologies and intellectual ‘isms’ with the necessary result that Western Civilization is done over there. I suppose they felt safe and out of this complacency came catastrophe. So, it had its run. It’s over. Something will take it’s place.

    Here Western Civ still twitches. But, to look at it dispassionately, it self-evidently is trying to self-destruct. Why this would be is mysterious, maybe a form of civilizational senility, or a collective belief that what went before no longer has any use. But maybe this belief is mistaken, the product of dire errors in perception and reasoning.

    Or maybe our PMC, instead of being the best and the brightest, are not nearly that, brought to the top of the hierarchy as a result of chance events, or maybe malfunctioning societal systems that failed to select the fittest.

    Is this mess salvageable? If it isn’t, the question is how does it end, because, by the evidence of your own eyes, you know this can’t go on. The world doesn’t abide unreason, especially on this scale.

    The date given for the fall of the Roman Empire is 476 AD, that of its Byzantine successor 1453. What about us?

    • Anthea January 18, 2022 at 1:28 am #

      Civilizations rise and fall. This has happened hundreds of times throughout history. We’re living through a civilization in its death throes. There has never been a single historical instance in which this death spiral has been reversed.

      Depopulation seems to be the usual outcome when civilizations collapse. General lawlessness makes people unproductive. Why grow crops or bake bread, if you will be robbed? Commonly there is some kind of pestilence going around. The next thing you know, there is outside invasion.

      You can look at graphs showing the massive depopulation of Rome towards the end of the empire. I always kind of wondered where they all went. Many probably migrated to Eastern Empire. Some probably holed up in the country somewhere, maybe in what is now France.

      We seem to have few options for getting out of Dodge.

      • anmariwakaranai January 18, 2022 at 2:39 am #

        This is something else Anthea. This is the purification of the earth. Man made terror, war, mark of the beast.
        Gods intervention with massive natural and unnatural disasters.
        The reign of the Antichrist.

        The few that survive will have been washed clean in the blood of the lamb.
        The martyrs chosen will be brought back to life.
        The marked will be forever destroyed.

        After the collapse of the economy and confiscation of property,
        The sorting and the war begin.
        The Antichrist stops the war.
        The sorting involves choice,
        Who by famine?
        Who to captivity?
        Who by the sword?

        Those who have faith, and have been purified by putting away their pride, vanity, all sins by admitting them to Christ Jesus and imploring His grace in combating their faults, for none can do all by their will alone, will be saved.
        They may not live through this, but they will live eternally.

        Without humility, we have no chance.

        All you have to do is ask for mercy, and help, and it will come.
        Ask for faith. Ask to survive if it is His will. Pray for others.

        • Anthea January 18, 2022 at 8:22 am #

          I think you can make a pretty good argument that these are the End Times. I see the book of Revelation as mostly descriptive of the cyclical collapse of civilizations, which has occurred many times in the past. I once mentioned to a priest that I thought a particular prophecy in Revelation referred to particular current events, and he told me that this had already happened a couple of thousand years ago in Ancient Rome.

          The main argument that these are the End Times is that we have never before experienced world-wide collapse. In the past, collapses have been local events, even if, in the case of Rome, there was a large geographic territory that was impacted. Most of the rest of the world barely noticed, if they noticed at all. There are some other good arguments, such as the Mark of the Beast stuff.

          I do agree that what we’ve seen over the past couple of years is Satanic. There has, on the other hand, been a lot of Satanic activity over the past few millennia, so it’s hard to feel confident that this is something out of the ordinary.

          People have believed they were in the End Times many times in the past. And there were many times in the past when things were a lot tougher than they are now.

          • gustafson.robert.22 January 18, 2022 at 9:54 am #

            my preffered interpretation of the religious tradition that began with the jews and flowed into christianity is as an opposition to the complex-civilizational development of the period coinciding with the religion.

            an opposition to “babylon,” to intensive-agriculture-driven, growth-focused, standing-army-having, empire-aspiring civilization…

            the culmination of which is our own tech-empire

            so, in that sense, these could be the prophesied end-times… when babylon is finally defeated

          • anmariwakaranai January 18, 2022 at 5:10 pm #

            There are some other good arguments, such as the Mark of the Beast stuff…..

            Anthea, if you are with Amman, that the ptb know the prophesy and are just using it, it goes to the fact that in the end all things work in favour of the divine. So that is saying, the mark to buy and sell, luciferase, the highly documented 666 in patents, governments etc, the collusion of governments, corporations and organizations to cull, control and destroy the whole economy of the earth. OF the earth., is Not a sign of the times foretold, I would suggest you go study that book of revelations again.

            Certainly it is another collapse, by Jims means, oil, by government means, jab, war, policy. But is much more, and time’s awasting.

            We have only one recourse Anth, prayer. (Prep presumed).

        • Anthea January 18, 2022 at 8:28 am #

          One thing I have noticed: The sheep and the goats seem to be separating nicely on their own. People are unequivocally declaring their allegiance to either God or the Beast.

      • BackRowHeckler January 18, 2022 at 5:52 am #

        c535 AD is the year civilization collapsed, first waves of bubonic plague decimating the population of W Europe, volcanic eruptions in Sumatra blotting out the sun plunging world temps and causing famine, cities abandoned in Britain, total liquidation of Rome in Italy, Constantinople under siege by Asiatic hordes from the east … 500 years of Western Civilization at an end, not to return for another 500 years. If one looks at video coming out of NYC, Chicago and LA (and many other US cities too), one can assume that civilization has hit a roadblock in the USA as well.

        I was a little surprised to see this week giant, 50 ft. tall Social Justice murals unveiled in Norwich, Bristol and Hartford, which included visages of George Floyd, Obama, MLK etc. These murals look permanent. Within living memory these cities were prosperous, orderly, productive market towns and manufacturing centers; its astonishing how quickly they have been transformed into squalid, dysfunctional, 3rd world welfare colonies. That’s how quickly civilizations end.

        • Anthea January 18, 2022 at 8:44 am #

          Makes you heartsick.

        • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 10:40 am #

          From 165 to 180 AD. the Antonine epidemic clobbered Rome. Brought by legions from the east, it killed 1/4 of the Roman empire, including one of two co-emperors and maybe the other. It is thought to have been small pox co mingled with measles. It was documented well by Galen, an MD who was helpless to do anything about it except watch people die.

          I wonder how many folks then thought it was a hoax? It is interesting that here we are 1800 years later, and still pretty helpless against viruses, that are not even life, or in some minds, do not even exist. The only difference between now and then is the mortality of Covid is not much compared to smallpox. FYI, smallpox wiped out the eastern Native Americans and the Aztecs when the were exposed to European peoples.

          Mother Nature is in charge, in spite of human arrogance. So far, the fight against Covid does not seem to be getting anywhere as its ability to mutate is faster than our ability to kill it. The ambivalence of some and the politics of other may be driving us toward a cliff such as in the past.

          As BRH said, the Plague pretty much wiped out what was left. Both then and now, the result was a wipe out of the urban centers and dislocation back to an agrarian mode of life. The ruling classes were decimated to a fortunate few and what their was of a middle trading class all but disappeared.

          Continued Covid activity could have the same effect today. People who believe in “let ‘er rip” may get their wish by default. Especially if the vaxx is doing the damage it seems to be doing. Genetic advantage made survivors in the past, we may get to that point.

          • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 10:43 am #

            Comment

            The plagues of Rome and the Medieval times all came from the East.

            China! How come?

          • Proton January 18, 2022 at 10:49 pm #

            I’ve read that westward expansion of farming/herding from east Asia disturbed previously undisturbed populations of wild rodents on the steppes that carried y pestis.

            I’ve also read that y pestis was present in Europe in neolithic times.

            I’ve also read that there were apparent epidemics of hemorrhagic diseases in medieval times and who knows where those bugs came from.

        • Proton January 18, 2022 at 11:08 pm #

          Events can move along really fast. Venice was Europe’s most powerful state in medieval times both commercially and militarily. Once they found a way to sail around the southern tip of Africa, trade routes shifted and within 50 years Venice became a museum piece.

      • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 10:45 am #

        As will be discussed later, most of them died from plagues.

        • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 10:46 am #

          To Anthea from way back.

      • Proton January 18, 2022 at 10:56 pm #

        I would put money on death from starvation of the urban population in a lot of cases. I would bet that the farmers fared relatively well.

        The new lords of the manors that gave the former Roman overlords the boots would have known not to mess with the farmer and his planting and harvesting etc. because otherwise the new overlord starves too.

        Interesting idea that a civilizational decline or collapse has never been reversed. I think you’re right. Prolonged maybe but never reversed.

    • SpeedyBB January 19, 2022 at 9:16 pm #

      Proton: [Applause, sadly smiling & applauding]

      • Proton January 19, 2022 at 10:26 pm #

        Thanks Speedy. No joy in writng this, so yeah, very sad.

  57. Jarek January 17, 2022 at 10:23 pm #

    Buttons are being made: Did you click on yet? T shirts: I clicked on and I’m glad I did. Women respond: He clicked on and I checked out. T shirts with the map on it. People who wear them are being attacked by both antifa and TERFS, united at last.

    Clicking on is taking the red pill.

    • anmariwakaranai January 18, 2022 at 12:37 am #

      The real deal with the map is the educated, (blue), vs uneducated, (red), and non white! A BLUE bath. unreal

      • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 12:43 pm #

        Women, “the (mis)educated” and minorities are all allies. They all vote blue. They are all enemies of the real America. In a few traditional states like Idaho, women are still on the straight and narrow. But the incomers like Mary mean to change that.

        Minorities all vote blue and by themselves would turn America, Democrat (Communist). Hispanics may be changing. Will it be enough in time? Doubtful. And any special pandering to them by the Republicans will just utterly disgust the already alienated Whites. If they were wise and they really wanted to save America, they would focus on the Whites and let the Hispanics who have seen the light join us.

        But very few Republicans are wise and/or want to save America.

        • anmariwakaranai January 18, 2022 at 3:33 pm #

          Jar, the maps say the edumacated are the poison.

          Plus non whites

          • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 8:01 pm #

            That’s what I said. And women. You missed that. Maybe cuz you are one?

    • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 10:59 am #

      Are you drunk?

      • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 11:16 am #

        Typical female response. Drunk men are the root of all evil.

        I was raised in a typical suburban setting. Hidden in the society was the fact that just as many women were PM drunks as were the men. Too bad they never learned to do it together.

        Addiction is a sign of the times for American society, alcohol, marijuana and drug usage prevails as real life pursuits are destroyed.

        Men and Women!

        • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 6:48 pm #

          That sure is a lot to read into my comment. I asked because his comment makes no sense.

          Where have I claimed that women don’t drink?

          You’re whacked in the head this week, JAZ.

  58. 100th Avatar January 17, 2022 at 10:34 pm #

    “It’s a fact that more-educated folks are most susceptible to mass delusion, and the reason will surprise you.”

    I believe it is because of 20+ years, spanning well into adulthood, of being told what to think.

    Told what to think
    Tested on it.
    Diploma mill sheepskin to prove it

    Just pass and get the diploma
    $

    Now there are real scientists and physicists who have to think for themselves

    But they don’t give a shit about this nonsense, do they?

  59. Jarek January 17, 2022 at 10:50 pm #

    The Watchmen. The Comedian answers, What happened to the American Dream.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pjvrxoo9Gw

  60. jim e January 17, 2022 at 11:39 pm #

    Correct me because I know that I am wrong but…
    Mr KUNSTLER… DID IT NOT GO SOMETHING LIKE…

    as they were riding the mule one reminisced about his Uncles Ford delearship…. WMBH?

  61. debt January 18, 2022 at 12:31 am #

    Are you PUREBLOODED?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE

  62. roccofire January 18, 2022 at 12:39 am #

    This old liberal once again is stunned, yes Russell Brand on youtube now has more evidence that the covid did come from the lab, and more biologists are claiming it looked manmade. Incredible the corruption of our systems is so disheartening. I know JHK has always claimed this, but more outside folks and groups who are “liberal” are stating these dark truths. That’s it, I am going out to buy a lottery ticket.

    • Night Owl January 18, 2022 at 3:26 am #

      Something came from a lab, because the phony PCR test was developed by Christian Drosten in Germany with a computer model of segments of what was said to be the virus.

      Since it has never been shown to have been isolated and purified, and since the PCR test cannot detect “cases,” there is still no hard evidence that Covid-19 is anything other than manipulated statistics.

      And now that we have hard evidence of manipulated statistics, I would say the answer has more or less prevented itsefl.

      Either way, this is the greatest hoax in human history, the aim of which is to usher in the digital ID and currency — full control for the DAVOS/bankster crowd.

      • Night Owl January 18, 2022 at 3:26 am #

        “presented itself”

      • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 12:36 pm #

        Totally agree.

        I’ve gotten beyond weary of talking about covid19 ‘cases’ which don’t exist, etc.

      • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 12:56 pm #

        Yet some scientists on our side believe there something new there.

        I agree it can easily become a major distraction from the main agenda of social control. On the other hand, so can denying its reality.

        They obviously got over on us with fraud by and large. So I stand with the German school for the most part. But there is room for doubt on the reality of the covid in and of itself.

    • Islander January 18, 2022 at 7:21 pm #

      “Russell Brand on youtube now has more evidence that the covid did come from the lab, and more biologists are claiming it looked manmade. ”

      Do you have a link for that?

      I did a few searches but was unable to find.

      TIA (thanks in advance)

  63. SoftStarLight January 18, 2022 at 3:24 am #

    There is a lot of ominous stuff happening right now. I noticed a tiny billboard today. A picture of a young woman probably early twenties. “Gone too soon.” and “We’ll see you on the other side” stayed with me. Could have been anything wasn’t clear but it was the first time seeing anything like that in that particular location. Almost missed it altogether at first it was in such an almost hidden out of the way spot honestly. Lot’s of 30 and 40 yr olds in the obits. And now there is new talk about the human mad cow disease scenarios possibly becoming reality because of the spike protein. Where is it all going? I guess this all may be why voting rights are suddenly as urgent as they were in 1955 or something like that, and yes also why the border security of Ukraine is like way more important than dealing with an essentially uncontrolled explosion in violent crime in our own cities. It’s their show so they can change the channel whenever they want and so many don’t think twice. Brilliant.

  64. Night Owl January 18, 2022 at 3:45 am #

    “Australia deported the only healthy Tennis Player in the #AusOpen
    I wonder what Novak Djokovic is thinking right now as he watches the 4th player drop out of the Australian Open with chest pains!”

    https://twitter.com/johnpecco1/status/1483179850148073474?cxt=HHwWhMC-oeWNqJUpAAAA

    This could be the biggest clot-shot cult PR campaign disaster to date.

    • tucsonspur January 18, 2022 at 4:57 am #

      Shameless putz.

      • Night Owl January 18, 2022 at 5:52 am #

        Only one of us regrets poisoning themselves.

        🙂

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 18, 2022 at 6:21 am #

        what is your explanation for the chest-pain epidemic, tuscon?

        do we need a myocarditis vaccine maybe

        • Night Owl January 18, 2022 at 7:28 am #

          Ball kid down.

        • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 11:55 am #

          First off, it would be nice to know for certain that the vaxx is the culprit.

          Second, what is the mechanism, people are dying from the vaxx but from the virus too.

          All I hear is continuous mumbo jumbo about problems after the vaxx with no real explanation.

          My number one question that needs R&D, why athletes, why tennis and Soccer. Why not NFL and NBA?

          Did the vaxx designers make a process that discriminates against these two sports? Uh huh!

          • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 12:00 pm #

            The evidence being presented says that an inordinate % of these sport participants get myocarditis.

            Do they have increased numbers of blood pressure control ACE2 receptors in their blood vessels, do they just have more blood vessels in their hearts to have the stamina they need? Do they have more blood vessels in their shoulder muscles that would complicate the jab?

            Heard any good discoveries about Covid recently? I thought not.

          • gustafson.robert.22 January 18, 2022 at 12:28 pm #

            “First off, it would be nice to know for certain that the vaxx is the culprit.”

            a covid “doubting thomas”

          • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 12:42 pm #

            Wait, you’re back in the covid death cult again? I thought you had progressed past that.

          • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 12:51 pm #

            Yeah you’re regressing. The spikes are very dangerous and the vax if far more systematic in its production of them than the virus. That’s all you need to know. If you want to know more, fine. But don’t lose the basics.

            If someone forgets addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, they’re going to have a really hart time with algebra. Or if they lose algebra when they try calculus, they’re going to fail at calculus.

          • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 2:10 pm #

            Same old anti vaxx BS, no real answers, just name calling and BS.

            I ask real questions, there are no answers.

            Believe what you want, so will I. My mind is open and waiting for answers which I agree I may never get.

            Yours are hide bound and based on conjecture and opinions that have no more substantiation than the opposing side.

            You say you have never seen a virus isolated? Then I guess all the people in 2020, before the vaxx, died or got sick in their imagination.

            One simple question again?

            What is different about tennis or soccer players that allows them to react to the vaxx with myocarditis? Maybe all athletes? Or even all young men, why them?

          • Night Owl January 18, 2022 at 6:29 pm #

            “You say you have never seen a virus isolated? Then I guess all the people in 2020, before the vaxx, died or got sick in their imagination.”

            Do you ever look up anything after getting a response.?Have you looked up excess mortality for that period?

            Now use your brain and combine that with what we know about the fudged statistics (false attribution between with/from Covid, etc.), the useless PCR test, etc.

            I know you can do it, John.

          • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 6:47 pm #

            We’ve given you the answers probably 100s of times now.

            You’re a broken record.

            Don’t ask me any more questions, because you don’t listen to the answers.

          • Paula D January 18, 2022 at 8:42 pm #

            Young men are dying in football and basketball also.
            Males are more likely than females to develop myocarditis, we already know that.
            The only reason we may know more about soccer players is that our media is more censored than the media in other countries.
            https://www.bitchute.com/video/t85nXTirxzJN/?fbclid=IwAR1AkDJyuXrjI2FPZG-70V0rjPloIWNuMTUg_kohOfam_63Pghis2hF-l5s

          • Paula D January 18, 2022 at 8:44 pm #

            Also why would a nurse believe them when they said they thought that they could inject a liquid into the deltoid and it would stay there?
            Did you ever in your entire nursing career hear anything as stupid as that?
            Did you ever in your nursing career inject a liquid into a muscle and expect it to stay there? Or under the skin even?
            That is some bullshit they are slinging. Reject it as such.

      • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 12:47 pm #

        Maybe the Satanists couldn’t resist and gave bit Tennis stars a really bad batch. It must give them huge enjoyment to watch their victims deny anything is going on and to defend them.

        Tusc, you’re amazing. Don’t ever change.

        • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 12:57 pm #

          big not bit

      • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 12:48 pm #

        Don’t be a bitter Betty. Just stop jabbing yourself.

  65. Night Owl January 18, 2022 at 3:58 am #

    In France it appears they are using actors to push Covid fear porn. Here they got caught red-handed:

    https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1483062846078529540?cxt=HHwWiMC5gaHz8pQpAAAA

    An improvement on the German media I guess, who as previously shown, used mannequins to fill hospital beds to drive the lie about overrun hospitals.

    • Disaffected January 18, 2022 at 8:22 am #

      Credit for effort, I guess. Hey, they don’t call it The Big Lie for nuthin’.

    • GreenAlba January 18, 2022 at 9:00 am #

      And guess what he’s saying. ‘I’m so sorry I didn’t take the vaccine’.

      Like 98% of the sick in the ICU, apparently. Sorry, in all three ICUs.

      • GreenAlba January 18, 2022 at 9:06 am #

        Our resident troll should try to get in on the gig. Probably more fun than getting squashed like a bug on here day after day. He’d get to dress up, and he’d still get to repeat the same thing over and over.

        I wish I’d taken the vaccine …

        If only I’d taken the vaccine …

        I’d give anything to have taken the vaccine …

        C’mon troll. Easy lines to learn.

        • GreenAlba January 18, 2022 at 9:08 am #

          And sometimes you get to play an ICU consultant saying how angry you are at the non-vaxxed.

          Too funny.

          • Night Owl January 18, 2022 at 10:36 am #

            Don’t give him ideas. He takes up enough space with his limited repertoire as it is.

          • GreenAlba January 18, 2022 at 8:28 pm #

            Only three comments in total yesterday and today. I think he’s gone for an early chardonnay.

        • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 11:31 am #

          Many stories being published of people that were anti-vaxxers getting a serious dose of the crud and “wishing” they had gotten the jab.

          Here is the conundrum of the whole damn virus vaxx situation.

          Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. These folks were just as insistent about not wanting the vaxx as anyone here. Until their juvenile, “It will never get me”, attitude changes as they get the crud.

          The real problem is, there is no defense to a good transmitted dose of virus. Someone who says that they have never had a virus is a superman or a liar.

          When mission impossible exists, everyone, both sides start pulling stuff out of their butts.

          There is no solution to Covid, take all the supplements you want, someone blows snot into your face with a virus load in it, you are going to get it. THAT is the realization these people have when they talk the way they do.

          Problem is, they are directing folks toward a “solution” that may be worse than the problem.

          • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 1:04 pm #

            One thing John: Aristotle said, never demand more precision from a subject than the subject itself affords. Biology is never going to be as exact as physics and physics is never going to be math.

            Science studies what is on the physical plane. As to why it is, or why it works the way it does, that’s a whole different question, closer to Philosophy or even Theology.

            Why does the heart beat? It’s a mystery. The mystics will talk about the life force and Theologians about soul, a share of God’s life.

          • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 1:08 pm #

            Actually No, John. An Enemy attacking a town is one thing. The same Enemy attacking a fortress is something very different. Build up your defenses, your immune system. Make you body a fortress. Fortify yourself! Become Fortinbrass.

          • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 2:00 pm #

            And you still will come down with something if it is there in sufficient numbers. These folks that thought they were impervious to the bug, weren’t. Just like you.

          • GreenAlba January 18, 2022 at 2:02 pm #

            And get some ivermectin.

          • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 2:18 pm #

            GA

            You are right. If Ivermectin works for some people it is worth a try, it has little problems associated with it. I believe that most of the problems that are causing the jerks to discredit it are probably misuse problems.

            Why antivirals rather than vaxx are discredited almost immediately is either a mystery or the biggest con job in history.

            Antivirals are the answer.

            Unless viruses are just a figment of our imagination.

          • GreenAlba January 18, 2022 at 6:25 pm #

            “Many stories being published of people that were anti-vaxxers getting a serious dose of the crud and “wishing” they had gotten the jab.”

            No stories of people having heart attacks and saying, as they drop to the floor, ”I wish I hadn’t taken the jab’. It’s all in the timing.

          • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 6:45 pm #

            Can you link to any of those stories? I think that’s bullshit.

          • Paula D January 18, 2022 at 8:49 pm #

            I find it suspicious that prominent anti-vax people seem targeted. That way the media can celebrate their deaths and all the covidiots dance in glee.
            Either they are being given the virus in some other way than having a sick person sneeze in their face, or they are being poisoned with a drug that causes multi-organ failure and the media just tells us it is covid.
            Kill the kidneys and it doesn’t take long before you can’t breathe.
            Pro tip: That is how we know that Osama BinLaden wasn’t living in Pakistan for 11 years. He was on dialysis in 2001. The dialysis goes….so does the patient.

          • GreenAlba January 18, 2022 at 8:52 pm #

            John

            Night Owl linked to a Twitter story of ‘Karim’ a crisis actor photographed in three separate French hospitals saying he wished he’d taken the ‘vaccine’. I wonder how many more hospitals he was in.

            I agree there are stories every day on the msn page when I open a new tab on my laptop. They’re all saying the same thing. How do you know they’re not all Karims? The desperation is oozing off the page. Get more people vaxxed before even more find out what’s going on.

            It really upset me to see a story (true or not) that said the unvaxxed in Quebec were flooding to centres for their first ‘vaccination’ because of the tax on the unvaxxed.

            That’s worse than people selling a kidney to buy food. You can live a long time with one kidney.

            I live with the knowledge that these people will some day be able to take my home, which is all I have.

          • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 9:56 pm #

            Good points, all. And let’s add, that the ones supposedly claiming they wished they’d gotten vaxxed can’t be verified.

            BUT you can verify each and every claim on social media of a vaxx injury or death. Because all of them include all their information, their real names, etc. and many of them are fighting in law suits or for medical attention.

            BIG difference.

          • GreenAlba January 19, 2022 at 6:58 am #

            Another one today, Mary.

            https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/football/former-bournemouth-star-jamie-vincent-dies-aged-46/ar-AASV8qJ?ocid=msedgntp

            Yesterday there was another young woman. They’re generally lower-rung celebs I’ve never heard of. Imagine how many ordinary people are going the same way and nobody’s noticing?

            They’ve stopped even saying ‘no reason for death given’. They just say nothing. How stupid are people really?

            My very clever triple-jabbed big bro and his triple-jabbed wife came down with covid yesterday.

    • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 12:49 pm #

      They used mannequins here, too. In fact, during this entire so-called pandemic, I’ve not seen any footage from the inside of any hospital showing overflowing conditions.

      And that’s extra funny because before covid19, most hospitals were overrun 3/4 of the year.

    • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 12:59 pm #

      They should film themselves injecting the dummies, not even trying to hide that they are dummies. The Covidians would see nothing wrong or funny about this. Maybe a few would awaken….

  66. a kullervo January 18, 2022 at 6:34 am #

    Greetings,

    To be enthralled by one’s own life is the average fate.
    To either despise or cherish others’ life is the exception.
    Those who despise the life of others now have the upper hand.
    Fight ’em, if you must.
    In time, your party will regain the upper hand.
    And then, lose it again…

    We’re all patina in the making.
    (Some will never recognize this.)

    One should deal with thoughts as a lapidary do with precious stones: before exposing them, a meticulous and well planned cutting must be executed, until their most exquisite form is attained. Even then, most thoughts will never be more than an ersatz.

    Radical acceptance: there is no free will, only God’s will.

    • SoftStarLight January 18, 2022 at 11:21 am #

      If there is no free will then there is no point in developing a relationship with God, right?

      • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 11:48 am #

        Right!

        God gave us free will with a promise not to challenge it. If God pre ordained everything, we would be in the Garden of Eden.

        Or extinct.

        • messianicdruid January 18, 2022 at 11:38 pm #

          “If God pre ordained everything, we would be in the Garden of Eden.”

          Preordained is the idea that is keeping you from seeing it. Since God knows the choices you will make your *training* is preordained. He works all things [ even your myopic so-called choices ] in the Plan to bring each of us into the image of Christ.

          The battle is won, stop rebelling & join the flow.

          https://godskingdom.org/studies/tracts/gods-promise-to-you

      • a kullervo January 18, 2022 at 12:31 pm #

        Only if you are stuck with the “God” concept as it is sold by the Abrahamic religions. There are other ways to look at and understand The Creator’s presence in the created.

        Thank you for your comment.

        Radical acceptance: God is neither heaven’s janitor nor hell’s gatekeeper; The Creator doesn’t serve the creatures, the creatures are servants of God.

        • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 1:12 pm #

          People are not punished for their sins, they are punished by their sins. The same light that the Blessed enjoy is the agony of hell to the unrepentant.

          • anmariwakaranai January 18, 2022 at 3:04 pm #

            Good one j

          • Anthea January 18, 2022 at 11:00 pm #

            @ Jarek:

            That’s what Alan Watts said in “Behold the Spirit.” Sounds like it’s probably true, but I’ve never been able to work it out in my mind.

      • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 1:14 pm #

        You want to travel on a big river. You make the effort to row out at past the reeds and the shallows. Once you are out in the middle the current can take you. Make effort to be worthy of grace. And then wait for it.

  67. got___truth January 18, 2022 at 10:14 am #

    The non-philanthropic elite. smug in their $177 million dollar Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard enclaves, shall experience the wrath of the slighted pitchfork and torch class, as the elites’ properties are summarily looted and torched, with the former guardian class joining in the festivities.

    The elite cannot neutralize the enraged commoners faster than they are entering the foray.

    I am NOT advocating it.

    Encouraging ALL to maneuver away from it, and devote ALL Time and Energy in building OUT the localized New, with sustainable, regenerative food, water, and energy supply chains.

    GODSPEED!!

    http://got-truth.com/images/cpf1.jpg

    • SoftStarLight January 18, 2022 at 11:19 am #

      Yes, it would be nice to be part of community that was deliberately moving in that direction.

      • gustafson.robert.22 January 18, 2022 at 12:26 pm #

        if peak-oil awareness became more widespread now, these communities would spring up everywhere, begin to solve their own problems

        many would fail by being too ahead of the curve, and adopting too many false assumptions

        but i dont see the harm

    • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 1:16 pm #

      Gangs of cops will be some of the most dangerous people of all. They’ll come to confiscate stores, saying its for the common good.

      • got___truth January 18, 2022 at 1:41 pm #

        …..”A Clockwork Orange” redux.

  68. JTinMD January 18, 2022 at 10:39 am #

    Been waiting impatiently for Dave Collum’s Year in Review, Part 3. Still missing. So, I checked out his Twitter via the Internet. Check out the link. I hope I didn’t screw it up.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/TannerBoyle15/status/1483256832789401600?cxt=HHwWgMCq0eKOy5UpAAAA

    • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 4:41 pm #

      You did good!

  69. mitchellc January 18, 2022 at 10:56 am #

    Jarek: the point I was trying to make was that like a drug dealer pushing the first free hits, the offer of a republic vs monarchy always had a catch.

    And that is the commoners we’re never going to have actual control. It was always in the cards to dilute effective voting power. They just never bothered to tell anyone, because after all, that’s the essence of the con.

    So when you go on and on about women, minorities, national socialism, etc, we get it; you’re right. But what you’re not realizing is that if society and economy weren’t going to be destroyed via democracy, then you would have remained a serf anyway.

    Get it? I hope you do, because the constant negative complaining is tedious.

    • gustafson.robert.22 January 18, 2022 at 11:07 am #

      as soon as you exceed the natural carrying-capacity of the land, everyone is a serf, from king to beggar

      everyone becomes enslaved to a doomed system, a cursed child of the bubble

  70. mitchellc January 18, 2022 at 11:07 am #

    OK boys & girls gather around to hear my covid story.

    All day Sat I was feeling tired, but had no symptoms. That evening after dinner, I developed a fever, which came on pretty strong, and broke around 11.

    I slept through the night, and then spent all day Sun napping on the couch. I has dinner, but was still feeling pretty tired so went back to bed.

    When I awoke Mon, I could tell it was all over. 36 hrs laid out, with not much energy to do anything but slouch around and sleep.

    I’m pretty active, so a good tell is whether I have enough strength/desire to go for a run, play a round of golf, etc. I could have Mon, but was still feeling a bit weak.

    Now it’s Tues, and it’s like I wasn’t even sick. Im ready to get out and do whatever I want. What’s weird is that I never developed any significant respiratory issues, which makes it different from a cold.

    • SoftStarLight January 18, 2022 at 11:10 am #

      I’m sure if anyone has a differing opinion from yours they will be shot

    • mitchellc January 18, 2022 at 11:14 am #

      In the interest of full disclosure I should mention I’m convinced I had the original version in Feb 2019. We had just got back from NYC and had attended a personalized chef presentation served communal style.

      That one did develop respiratory congestion, but not any worse than colds I’ve had in the past. 15 months later, May 2020, I think I must have had whatever variant was going around. That one was feverish and achy, but never stopped me from staying active on our house remodel project.

      So there it is. Oh, I’ve never been tested. I refuse to participate in some marketing scam by accepting newly invented labels for what used be called “getting sick”.

      • MaryQueen January 18, 2022 at 1:03 pm #

        Covid is a made-up disease created with marketing and branding, and sold to you by WHO and WEF

        • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 1:39 pm #

          McCullough and others believe something was actually made, thus his protocols on how to deal with it. Of course a lot of the protocols would be good for anyone with a cold or flu. So that they work is no proof that the person in question has covid. But the existence or non-existence of covid per se, is another question. Maybe It did exist, but not longer.

          • malthuss January 18, 2022 at 5:40 pm #

            Wu flu, a synthetic flu, to kill you.

      • Islander January 18, 2022 at 1:39 pm #

        Probably this time around you just had some other bug.

        I know, there is much more drama surrounding covid, but only the jabbed get to make covid encores for the peanut gallery.

        Purebloods, just one.

        • Jarek January 18, 2022 at 1:40 pm #

          Yeah, let the poor fools have something for their trouble, and boy are they in trouble.

        • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 1:53 pm #

          Remember when we all got something during the winter, flu, a cold? We did not know what it was, flu or cold as virus reaction could be either or a hybrid of both.

          Rules of the road were, Tylenol for fever, never aspirin, esp kids, decongestants , and wait it out. Do not bother the doctors with viruses, there was nothing they could do anyway.

          Then the flu shot. It helped out some seasons, not so much others.

          We tried to prevent them, supplements, fresh air, wash hands, keep warm.

          Colds still happened, lots of colds.

          Omicron is probably just another, earlier COVID’s being novel and causing immune overresponse. It does attack lower in the lungs and other organs in susceptible people.

          It is not the end of the world. It is real!

    • mitchellc January 18, 2022 at 11:16 am #

      One last observation: it’s hard to really grasp the totality of our current situation from just getting sick.

      It’s obvious it’s just a vehicle for the real agenda.

      • JohnAZ January 18, 2022 at 11:41 am #

        I remember having 24 hour flus and colds forever. They show up, you feel like crap, then they are gone overnight.

        Hmmm, could it be that these very under reported cases were viruses like omicron covid that for most folks never take hold and the immune system reaction in killing them in 24 hours is the fever etc that we feel?