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The creatures of the underworld running our country must think the public is awfully stupid. You are expected to take at face value the claim that “Joe Biden” is actually up for re-election. Could it be more obvious that he’s pretending? (Just as he’s been pretending to serve as CEO of our government.) Meanwhile, we are not supposed to notice that the entities behind him are scrambling to dismantle, demolish, and asset-strip what remains of the USA in body and spirit. But enough of us are noticing to make it a problem for them.
First, who are these entities? They are exactly who you think they are. What you see around you is not just a complex system (Western Civ) unwinding and breaking apart — though that is part of the story. It is also the appearance of a controlled demolition by desperate, frightened, and crazy people who want to be the ones left standing when the demolition is complete. The catch is, they are pretending, too. They are control-freaks who cannot keep things under control.
This power underworld is a coalition of large public and private organizations, here and out there in the world, and the folks in charge of them, and they are all out of control, too, pretending that their operations are coherent and efficacious. For instance, the vast consortium of intelligence agencies in our country, the CIA, DIA, ad nauseam, their multitudinous spin-offs, and their international partners (e.g., MI6, Mossad, the World Health Organization). If you want to see how they actually work, watch the Coen Brothers’ movie Burn After Reading. You will see a bustle of perfectly hapless, frantic, and insanely self-destructive activity performed by clueless clowns in nice business suits.
There is also the matrix of banking, including the international regulatory agencies such as the IMF, the World Bank, the Fed, the European Central Bank, and the banks themselves. And the bankers — Powell, LeGarde, Dimon, et. al — and the money managers, Fink, Soros, and their nefarious activities. They are all pretending to be in charge of a money system so burdened with fakery and legerdemain that it’s in the process of flying up the cosmic wazoo and vanishing, leaving Western Civ, functionally, broke.
My guess is that the nominal leader of this underworld in the USA — more like a master-of-ceremonies than an actual director — is Barack Obama. He has been running “Joe Biden” since the 2020 coup against Mr. Trump. The Clintons wanted to be in the mix somewhere, but it appears they’ve lost the fight for dominance — what with Bill in a perpetual doghouse and Hillary wearing that “loser” sign plastered on her back. For now, “Joe B” is a place-holder for the Party of Chaos. Who else have they got? Gavin Newsom? I’m sure. Hair and teeth only get you so far. Just wait until they roll the footage of San Francisco. Kamala Harris? Discussion unnecessary. Elizabeth Warren? (Grandma Oatmeal, we call her.) A bunch of governors no one has ever heard of? For now, they’ll just try ignoring RFK, Jr., since he wants to turn the Democratic Party upside-down and inside-out while rinsing it with Drano.
Who will they slot in when “Joe B” gets the hook? Michelle Obama, of course. Seems ridiculous, I know. (Actually, it’s completely ridiculous.) But our country has become so marinated in recycled products, celebrities, and narratives that Mr. Barack Obama (and cohorts) might just be bold enough to try it. Michelle is just another product at this point, like a can of Bud Lite, or a Hostess Ho-Ho, and that’s how they will try to sell her. The public’s collective mind has been successfully disordered to the degree that unreality no longer registers. If they pull this off, it will be Mr. Obama’s fourth term — and the coup-de-grace for the nation.
I don’t think the public will stand for it, but the condition of our country is so grave now that the actual contest underway is not between political personalities but between economic collapse and civil war. In the latter race there will be a winner and a runner up, and it looks like the economic collapse is already well advanced. Inflation is crushing the middle-class and business activity of every kind — except maybe drug trafficking — is falling into a coma.
Meanwhile, the escapades of the “Joe Biden” crime family inch towards critical mass. It’s another sign of the public’s disordered collective mind that so much evidence of grotesque criminality could already stand revealed before them without anyone in authority (hint: the heads of the DOJ and FBI) feeling the pressure of public opinion to act. Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray have foolishly made themselves accessories in all that crime by working to cover it up. Everyone knows it and that is arguably the most demoralizing of all the manifold failures ongoing. Real justice is AWOL.
You’re aware, no doubt, of the situation on the Mexican border. Just days from now many tens of thousands of people from foreign lands waiting there will be ushered illegally across the Rio Grande by agents of the US State Department working with a whole bunch of NGOs and the United Nations to enable that rush to the entrance. The inflow will continue indefinitely. The operation has got the blessing of the “Joe Biden” regime, and everybody knows that, too. My guess is that’s what will set off a new civil war: when citizens of the border states eventually take up arms against this invasion, and our government tries to stop them from defending their own country.
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Is it really Michelle, or “Big Mike” in disguise? They need to get a drag queen or trannie into higher levels of government as soon as possible.
Also, how many more banks are destined to fail? Only time will tell.
What would be more apropos in our upside down world of trans worship than to place one in the White House? They could repaint the white privilege house in rainbow colors.
Yeah, since Sam Brinson shot himself in the foot 😛
Tractorguy
Yes but he looked stunning in that sweet little spaghetti strap cocktail dress.
I’d shave him, put him on a leash and make him walk on all fours….behind me…ummm maybe not behind..?
You mean Stunning & Brave.
Brinson- that should be a lesson in high-level security clearances, and what they are worth.
I have already learned that those “background checks” potential employers like to do, because it makes them feel important, are a waste of money.
Brinson was stalking women to steal their clothing, and posting himself wearing the stuff, on social media, and they had no way of connecting him to those crimes.
All the small & regional banks will fail – by design – to usher in CBDC. Then it’s really over.
Bail-in’s, expiry of allotted pixels to stimulate spending when needed & and the coup de grace – when you misbehave, your pixels will be frozen. Wait for it.
A CBDC needs a functioning grid and that grid is one Stuxnet attack away from complete collapse.
Good point Nickel – grid-down may be in the very near future.
Ted Koppel in his 2015 book Lights Out forecast a 90% chance of grid failure in 10 years. (Of course I thought we had a 90-% chance of complete financial failure in 2007). I have some candles and my garden is producing but I am not looking forward to a summer without AC in Alabama, maybe collapse could wait until the fall?
There was already a dress rehearsal for the grid collapse, in NYC.
For some reason TPTB dawdled in getting the power back on in the very areas where it was most desperately needed.
Thy also told lies about why the power went out in the first place.
As far as I know, no one ever paid a penalty for causing harm to millions of people.
Maybe it’s not collapse. Maybe it’s various regions of the grid / economy evaporating away.
Or another Carrington event.
You ask if the vote for Biden was from knowledgeable people, I say he’ll no. There are many brain dead people and that’s how the democrats like them. Look what they are doing to our schools, they are dumbing everyone down so when they throw out utter nonsense, their people are too dumb to know that what they say is pure propaganda. Look how many people in the western blue states still wear masks because they still think they will die from covid. We need a big change, and when we do put in a republican president, I don’t want any rhinos left in congress. When trump was in office, trump spent 1/2 his time fighting the rhinos and the other 1/2 fighting the demtards. Rhinos need to leave too
pulpier,
The people in the eastern blue states still wear masks outside while they are alone.
The lack of critical thinking amongst members of the general public is just beyond my comprehension.
Pulpier, I agree with you in regards to what NEEDS to happen but I can tell you that what you have posited will NEVER happen. The Government is too far gone and no Republican is ever going to have the support to do what you are suggesting. It is a fantasy, nothing more.
I think about that possibility everyday. I carry small bullion in my car should I have to buy/rent a horse.
The highways are an absolute travesty, they once were the envy of the world. It’s a new game now, “dodge the craters”!
When I was growing up in Montana, there was NO Daytime Speed Limit (“reasonable and prudent”, so stated). The curves were graded so, at 125-135mph you stayed in your track. I had a Jaguar XJ-12, 160mph speedo. Quite the sled, MEoooww vanity plates. I had her up to 145 but lost my nerve, the world goes by quick enough @145.
I remember reading the speed limit signs on the NYS Thruway, back when I was first old enough to read signs and understand what they were.
You haven’t lived until you have barreled down the highway, free as a bird, in the wayback of a station wagon.
It had no seatbelts. Neither did the front and back seats.
The windshield would break just like a regular window. None of that safety stuff.
I got pulled over for speeding in Montana about 1991.
Officer gave me a ticket which only served as a warning.
Cost me 5 bucks.
Beryl & Wadewaters, The Official State of Mt. 1972 speed limit was “Reasonable and Prudent for conditions”.
In 1972 as part of the Fed. Highway appropriations bill, the feds made the speed limit on fed highways 55mph. The State of Montana did not comply. In response, the feds held the Montana Highway funds hostage (multi-bazillions $).
Montana then made the speed limit 55 but it was not a “moving violation” it was “waste of a natural resource”. Because it was not a “MV” it was non-reportable and the fee was $5 payable on the spot. Because it was non-reportable, the insurance companies were not notified and the fee was not a “fine”.
So Wade, you must have been within the parameters of “Reasonable and Prudent”.
The 25 year highway appropriations bill lapsed in 1997 and the speed limit reverted to what it was in 1972. The Legislature was not in session and didn’t warrant it an emergency so, no “Special Session” was called.
I bought a 1997 Ford Probe GTS 24VDOHC w/ all of the goodies.
Many a sunny summer day that year I pegged that speedo @140mph. The Highway Patrol would give a brief flash of the Blue and Reds but would not pursue. The car was brand new and the road condition was perfect, well within “Reasonable and Prudent”.
Beryl My mom always bought Buick station wagons, I can’t remember what the model name was but they had the side of the roof skylights, a whomping V8 and seatbelts were an option we never chose. It could comfortably seat 9 because in the “way back” another seat could be brought up or otherwise you could put 792 bags of groceries there. It was spacious. We drove that barge from Montana to Miami Fla. and back. Gas was .25 cents.
I remember skipping rocks off the pavement in front of the house, one skip went errant and bounced off of the back window of the wagon.. uh oh.. I went over and touched the mark it had left and the whole window collapsed into the little cubes we call “safety glass”. The days of “plate glass” in cars was over.
“Safety Glass” didn’t always work, a school chum went off the “high side” on McDonald Pass. When the ambulance got there, they found my friend hanging by his face from the windshield. The glass had “given” just enough to open some fissures which closed back on the skin of his face. Gruesome scarring but he survived.
Ah, youth! You haven’t l ived until you’ve raced a couple of Indians in a T-bird thru the mountain roads in Utah at 110 mph. In an Alfa Romeo.
@badberries
I have a 1974 Kawasaki 900 I bought new in 1974. Back then a new freeway was built between Corona, Ca and Escondido. I think it was the 215.
I had it all to myself on day (no other cars!).
I got the Kawy up to 150 mph. I wass going so fast that the 70 mph speed limit signs were going by like a picket fence.
I couldn’t even take my eyes of the road to look at my speedometer except once to see that I clocked 150 mph.
Thrilling. But I’d never do it again because the roads are trash, the bike is old, and I’ve already tried to die twice on the bike.
So, I’m living on borrowed time now, at 78.
South Africa has already been warned to prepare for the collapse of their national grid.
Just more White racism. Why don’t they leave them alone?
Jackson, MS can’t keep its water system running. No connection of course.
Comcast’s “upgrading its network” resulted in my being “marooned” offine most of the day (plus wasting the best part of the morning on the horn with Comcast).
My planned day was kind of ruined.
More to the point, though, I missed an important Zoom meeting where the number of participants had political implications.
Couldn’t do any banking or find anything out.
Couldn’t read this column!
Couldn’t do nothin!
Library closed until 1 pm, so no help there.
A little taste of what happens to the “wired” society when the wires go down.
While “the people” are offline all kinds of things could happen.
Like, bank accounts could be cleared out.
War could start.
Lots of things could happen . . .
Many will reply to that, “Who do you want me to vote for?” My EBT or whatever is important to me.
There is some sort of mass denial going on. There will eventually be a brand new social psychology medical term to apply to the phenomena. Either that or I’m gaslighting myself terribly…
Mass denial of life and its imperatives, yes.
Refineryism.
That’s gaslighting on a massive scale.
Burning off the methane in the fracking fields lights up the sky for miles around.
But they’re really worried about your stove and cow farts.
@megabeth: you win the “Coffee thru the nose” award for today.
Lost on that one.
Oh, wait… Refineryism. 0_0
Miss Demeanor,
There is mass denial going on. Not to mention mass delusion.
We know people who live in the western suburbs of Chicago. They are selling their house and tell me it’s under contract. They are moving to Evanston, IL. I looked it up. They are cutting the distance between themselves and Chicago IN HALF.
What do you say to people like that? Well let me tell you, you say absolutely nothing. Maybe congrats on your new house.
I’m “beginning” to seriously dislike Chicago.
Mass denial or mass confusion? Most people sense things are not right in our once great Nation. Most people can see it on the TV screen and other places surrounding them. Most people don’t know what the hell to do about it. So even if we aware of the problems, what do we do about it?
Send a letter to a Congressional Representative? Yeah, right. That dude or dudette represents 750,000 people. My big ass they are going to respond with a personal hand signed letter and consider the concerns of one constituent. I live in Utah, in the Rocky Mountains, does Mitt Romney give a fart about anybody in Utah? No way.
Vote? We all know our votes are useless. Even if the votes were counted appropriately and tabulated fairly they still control who the candidates ultimately will be. We are always give the choice between a steaming pile of horse shit or a steaming pile of cow shit. Both piles of shit stink and bring flies. We always have to choose which one stinks less. That’s a great way to choose a “leader.”
We use high school like popularity contests to select a “leader.” Anyone can be a leader. A teacher can win office and once they win the popularity contest we treat that idiot like they suddenly endowed with knowledge from on high and become experts on everything from road engineering to economic development. We give idiots power and then expect them to know about everything. Who are the stupid ones here? Us. Not them. Us.
Vote for a Republican? Republicans are useless and spineless. They are the verbal opposition to the Democrats only so the Democrats can keep up their game of pilfering the treasury. Every fucking time the Republicans take power they always manage to avoid doing the things they promised us they’d do if we’d only vote for them. Yeah Republicans have done good by us, really good (note sarcasm).
Vote independent? What the hell is an independent? These schmucks still vote either Democrat or Republican. 3rd and 4th parties never get ANY traction, never get any attention. Nothing. Oh yeah, being an independent isn’t going to change anything. It’s just a title to make someone feel better about themselves because they aren’t part of the two party system. That’s all an independent voter is.
Do we pick up our guns and storm the State Capitals and Federal Buildings? We then end up rotting in prison without charges, without trials, just like the J-6 people whose only crime was entering a the peoples’ capital when the capital police opened the door. Besides, is my .22 caliber assault rifle really going to anything against an M-1 Abrams tank or an Apache helicopter?
Claim our Constitutional rights? NOW THAT’S A FUNNY ONE! Constitution? What Constitution. It’s nothing more than an old smelly piece of butt fodder now.
I think the majority of Americans are not as stupid as we think. They, like me, just don’t know what the hell to do about it anymore. There is no path out of here. Collaspe and rebuild is the only solution.
Always keep the last round in your hand gun’s chamber for yourself. When the SHTF use it. Twill be better than being eaten alive by gangs of starving cannibals.
Quite so. Fight the invaders of our country? Look what they did to the January 6th protestors. The Crazies are in complete control. There will be no fighting the illegal immigrants. In terms of the New Order – they are the desirables and we are the deplorables. Thus they are legal and we are barely legal, barely tolerated.
I wonder if RFK Jr. has any inkling at all about the truth behind those protests?
He’s reminding me of Elon Musk, taking on a task that is turning out to be much more that they envisioned when they started.
Jr. may find that he’s gonna need a bigger boat.
I’ve always believed the sadistic and relentless prosecution of the 1/6 protestors was primarily to serve as a warning to anyone who got it into their head to protest or put up the slightest resistance.
A lot of speculation has swirled around the firing of Tucker Carlson but my personal hunch is it was his airing of the tapes of that day that showed this really was a mostly peaceful protest. Remember, it was on only one night and gone.
More cheap labor and future Democrats will be welcomed in the next few weeks and anyone who has ideas of being a vigilante will join 1/6 protestors behind bars.
In my humble opinion, we will have no choice but to fight the illegals. Many commentators have noticed that most of the “illegals” are military aged men. Now, why would that be, and why would they be welcomed so graciously by our leftist administration. Some say for more Demoncrap voters, but that would be far down the road. No, the only thing that makes sense is they will form, with antifa and blm, the internal army Hussein Obama talked about during his first term as being as well armed and trained as our own military, an army like the brown shirts in Nazi Germany. China/cartel Joe and the Demoncraps are pushing so hard for gun registration and banning for a reason. You have to wonder if the cartels have paid the Bidens and other Demoncraps to turn over control of our southern border, since only corruption would account for this deliberate non-enforcement of our laws against illegal invasions, whether one or millions as now.
Almost, but still 180 degrees wrong: The Brownshirts were the patriotic militia fighting the globalists and their antifa goons. After 13 years, 25,000 casualties and over 300 deaths, they triumphed.
The difference? The Central Government was weak. “Ours” is strong. Otherwise, the same thing would happen with probably the same outcome.
Jarek. “There will be no fighting the illegal ‘immigrant invaders’ “. The last several months have seen the rapid accumulation of migrants in the miles surrounding the US entry points. Waiting. Many on the way are carrying diseases we haven’t seen here in a very long time. Many females are pregnant and need healthcare. Many are fighting age males (Chinese for example, well fed , fit and with attitude). Migrants from over 140 nations so far identified. Waiting. Some Latin and South Am nations are selectively allowing prisoners (read gang members) many of whom need further initiation killing and dismembering events to remain members and /or rise in the ranks. (MS-13 is but ONE of many in the queue to enter our homeland. Waiting. Many of these foreign nationals will be escorted to the US interior. Bus / plane /private transport by those awaiting their arrival. Arms caches, training and local leadership await the opportunity to deploy. Waiting. The present Federal “leadership” is coordinating this invasion. Many financial sources pub and private. NGO’s, the list is long and the plans are years in the making. Waiting. Civil unrest (easy to pick the sources), chaos, power grid failures, bio-weapon releases, economic collapse, loss of banking system confidence. Breakdown of local civil authority? 911 calls unanswered. LEO’s protecting their own families. Conditions ripe for many factors to cross- coordinate. Civil war? Waiting. All vectors of impact eventually lead to kinetic force. Then we who are prepared will have to bring the fight. Arming/prepping/waiting.
“There will be no fighting the illegal ‘immigrant invaders’ “. The last several months have seen the rapid accumulation of migrants in the miles surrounding the US entry points. Waiting. Many on the way are carrying diseases we haven’t seen here in a very long time. Many females are pregnant and need healthcare. Many are fighting age males (Chinese for example, well fed , fit and with attitude). Migrants from over 140 nations so far identified. Waiting. Some Latin and South Am nations are selectively allowing prisoners (read gang members) many of whom need further initiation killing and dismembering events to remain members and /or rise in the ranks. (MS-13 is but ONE of many in the queue to enter our homeland. Waiting. Many of these foreign nationals will be escorted to the US interior. Bus / plane /private transport by those awaiting their arrival. Arms caches, training and local leadership await the opportunity to deploy. Waiting. The present Federal “leadership” is coordinating this invasion. Many financial sources pub and private. NGO’s, the list is long and the plans are years in the making. Waiting. Civil unrest (easy to pick the sources), chaos, power grid failures, bio-weapon releases, economic collapse, loss of banking system confidence. Breakdown of local civil authority? 911 calls unanswered. LEO’s protecting their own families. Conditions ripe for many factors to cross- coordinate. Civil war? Waiting. All vectors of impact eventually lead to kinetic force. Then we who are prepared will have to bring the fight. Arming/prepping/waiting.
Save a round for an elected representative.
Canker,
The majority of Americans are absolutely as stupid as we think. Majority, as in at least 50,1%. Yes they are. Others know that something is wrong, but aren’t sure what to do.
Voting is a bare minimum. And if the system is too detestable to bear, then move on to other things. Almost everything that can be done can be categorized by that brilliantly denominated website known as gold, goats, ‘n guns. I love that phrase. I would add things like, move to a red state and get a little acreage, even a half an acre is ok. And quit supporting the matrix. If you’re pissed about Bud LIght’s ad campaign, quit buying Bud Light beer. I have a list of companies I will not support. It seems that most people here follow a template like this. Most have physical, dare I say old-fashioned, skills in which most city dwellers are completely deficient.
Having read many of your posts, you are not only on the right track, but trail blazing for others. Keep it up.
@cankerpuss
You got that all right.
Cankerpuss – here’s what won’t change anything – talking about it.
I’d like to think that most on this forum are smart enough to figure that out.
If we can’t figure that out, we’re just as fucked up as the mind hive groupthink delusional woketopians – just different subject matter.
Keep talking.
My time (as a prepper) is precious but JHK deserves my tiempo.
I wish Walter B wud still broadcast his wisdom and see a lot less of phony Beryl of Iraq Oil. KEEP up ur wise and erudite comments but PLS. change ur name from “cankerpuss” to ur real name unless U r a coward like 90% who fail to identify themselves here BUT have lotsa comments without identity. (90% of the commentators here are losers but at least U r a erudite one)..
My time (as a prepper) is precious but JHK deserves my tiempo.
I wish Walter B wud still broadcast his wisdom and see a lot less of phony Beryl of Iraq Oil. KEEP up ur wise and erudite comments but PLS. change ur name from “cankerpuss” to ur real name unless U r a coward like 90% who fail to identify themselves here BUT have lotsa comments without identity. (90% of the commentators here are losers but at least U r a erudite one)..
Everything you said is spot on. The only thing I would add are those “independent ” voices of the alt right who continually call on everyone to rise up and take back America from the safety of their ad-supported studios. They are part of the problem as well. There will be nothing left to take back.
God has sent the “Operation of Error”, St. Paul wrote about it in Thessalonians. People will be deceived and believe lying. It is breathtaking. People just look at you blankly when you explain facts and logic. We are in End Times.
Its clearly Big Mike.
Ridicule is one of the most powerful tactics we have still available to us when it comes to pushing back on our rulers. Big Mike is a narcissistic homely woman. No need to make cheap remarks about her looks. Just go for mental demolition by calling her a man. Who knows, she may well be.
Her phiz has always reminded me of Aunt Esther’s, on Sanford & Son.
She looks like the Grinch from Dr. Suess.
Jarek pointed that out quite some time ago.
Really, I always thought Congresswoman Maxine Waters exuded that “Aunt Esther” ambience.
Michelle Obama is a woman. A somewhat masculine woman but a woman none the less.
Denial is not a river in Egypt,,,
The younger of her 2 daughters looks exactly like her. The older got her looks from Barak.
They either found a look alike woman to surrogate for her or she got preggers gave & birth.
Sorry but trannie pretend women neither get pregnant nor give birth
Somebody with Michele’s figure issues was not all that likely to want to have pictures of herself looking even worse due to pregnancy, as keepsakes.
Personally, I think they look more like this couple…..
//commonsensenation.net/sashas-and-malias-real-parents/
Big Mike/Hair-gel Newsome 2024
“It’s a No-Brainer!”
Ha! True dat.
That seems to be the ticket alright.
It aligns globalist overlords, the commie/woke crowd, feminists, Obama worshipers, and the significant resources (financial and technical) of California. MSM will fawn and kowtow like never before.
Anyone in opposition is a racist, misogynist, homophobe, and clearly a Nazi.
Last week I wanted to post a reminder about the end of Glass-Steagall and Brooksley Born.
I couldn’t remember her name and spent a few hours trying to find her.
Finally I discovered the “Frontline” special about her: “Final Warning”.
The way she was treated by Rubin, Summers and others was a real tell about how corrupt our government had become. She was the head of the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) and she drew up a new policy to regulate the out of control derivatives market.
Their damn heads exploded.
Please take some time to watch this documentary.
And never forget the name Brooksley Born!
Born was right.
And they shoved her under the bus.
That is kind of like “eliminating with extreme prejudice” a witness for the prosecution.
What a great name. Maybe she was the little girl from the novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
In the fight between the Real and pretend, guess who always wins?
Who on this website said “Mother nature [and thus reality] always bats last”?
Who?
Mary always says that – someone very far from Nature indeed.
Greetings,
Several months back, I began warning people that I knew in the 9 to 5 class that their retirements were in grave danger and that they should take the money and run while such things were still possible. Naturally, not a single person that I know followed this advice.
I didn’t tell them to do this while high or drunk (or both) but in the most logical manner possible, with footnotes, graphs, charts, and a leaked video from the FDIC where they joke about the upcoming collapse.
Those people are awfully silent now the same way that the 4x boosted are awfully silent.
Right Nickel – just proves that even though there is no cure for stupid, it can be stunned – as in silent.
Are the 4x boosted awfully silent? Aw, what gives?
Maybe because they are all really sick and barely hanging on or dying due to their vaxx status? But just think, it could have been SOOOO much worse for them if they hadn’t gotten that vaccine.
The Federal Gubmint is finally quietly doing away with the “vaccine mandate” they put in place back in 2021. Remember when Joey B said to the American public that he was sick and tired of the Covid situation, and now that there is a vaccine he was saying that everyone needs to go out to do their part and get the shot.
It was a pandemic of the unvaccinated! lol
I just learned of another person, a relative of a family friend, who was having some minor health issues and went to the doctor.
Wouldn’t you know, stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
I can’t imagine the American people ever collectively realizing they were screwed by the COVID authorities.
But if they did, that would be an event…
Pancreatic cancer is almost always undiagnosed until it’s stage 3 or 4. Simple fact and unlikely to be the vaccine.
Straw Man Non Sequitur, meet Mike.
Won’t take that meeting.
What was non sequitur about that?
Please, also describe this phantom Straw Man while you’re at it.
cowbell81,
I also think a portion of the vaxxinated are also occupied with coping with the loss of loved ones who died as well as caring for injured family members.
Some families were split in two over this issue, but a lot of times families were very much en sync. So even if a vaxxinated person was not themselves killed or injured, they are likelier to have family members who were than an unvaxxinated person.
The Market Ticker guy has revised his estimates. He’s been pretty close with his predictions this whole time:
“Early in 2022 I said that from the data I had available I expected about 3 percent, or one in 33, of the people who took the shots to get seriously screwed in some form — meaning permanent impairment or worse.
Unfortunately that appears to be a lower boundary at this point, and from the continuing data it now appears the real number is closer to five percent rather than three.”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=248694
BTW a newly discovered side effect is that you may go blind:
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1654225666961801220?s=20
“they should take the money and run ”
Problem is run where? where do you put all this cash? Nobody really owns anything in this country. Land, you’d better pay the taxes or else. If your property is not paying for itself where do you get the money to pay? Sure you can barter but I don’t think the city/town is taking eggs in trade. They tax my land, my house , my car, my labor. etc. etc.
According to Martin Armstrong we have at least 5 years with the USA dollar- maybe 10- it will never be less than .60- there is no alternative, not even close- when war hits all bets are off- Europe was ash during ww2 and all cash flowed to USA-it will happen again- crypt toes are total trash- gold/silver …they make decent insurance but subject to theft – who knows what works-my bet is our two ranches with unlimited water- a good supporting tribe.. ugh- been hearing this end of world nuke crap for 65 years plus- the bibile humps can go choke on their bibles… whackos
Ah, here we go again, the guy with the land and unlimited water lecturing the rest of us to go out and buy a ranch with unlimited water because you know, in American today, ranches are dirt cheap and no state controls any of the fresh water reserves. Thanks happiface, that is excellent advice. I’m going to go guy my ranch this afternoon with my hyperinflated paper money. Very nice.
@stelo: yeah, exactly. My boyfriend can retire anytime he wants to now, and he doesn’t know what to do. If he puts it in the bank, at best, it will be frittered away by inflation, at worst, lost completely. Put it in metals, then how do you pay for groceries and rent? Buy some land and a house? What do you do when they decide to hike the taxes 2-3X? Even if you grow all your food and raise sheep to spin the wool, you still NEED money. I can understand taxing commercial properties, but having to pay taxes on the place you live in is outrageous.
“Buy some land and a house? What do you do when they decide to hike the taxes 2-3X?”
Cactus,
It is the best of a myriad of poor choices. I am better situated than most (In ALL respects other than age) and I do not expect to survive a serious upheaval. You?
You have my sympathy.
@ Cactus Girl:
Nobody knows the future; you just make the best guess you can from among suboptimal choices.
He might as well buy a house and some land, since he has to live somewhere. This should be done an eye to self-sufficiency, among other things–such as distance from major cities, a good community, low taxes, no county codes, no minorities, plus a number of other things that are personal preferences. This would include how close you want to be to family and friends.
I think everyone should have some metals, if at all possible. Everyone should also have available cash. (I think everyone should have a small stash of cash at home.) I think people should have a few guns and a good supply of ammo. A lot of people put some of their cash into I Bonds.
You can’t really beat inflation, but you can invest in stuff that diminishes the pain.
Lots things could happen. The dollar could become worthless. There’s nothing you can do about that.
Your boyfriend needs to just do what he can and remain as detached as possible towards “things” and “outcomes.”
Maybe they can all join Zelensky in his London bolt hole?
He just went to Finland and as of last night he flew out “destination unknown”.
After the Kremlin drone strike I don’t think Zelensky will be out and about Kiev much more.
I don’t think he was out and about Kiev too much in the first place.
Yeah, and remember when he and “Joe Biden” supposedly went for a stroll around Kiev and the air raid sirens went off (for the first time in months, according to residents), and the Secret Service didn’t grab Biden and drag him to a shelter? Instead, they both just kept walking around looking brave?
That was awesome.
I took some cash out of the bank and bought a 1 year CD at 4.5% because I want my friendly banker to have to admit, “Yea, we screwed you big time.” I will hear nothing from Vanguard….
I took some cash out of the bank and bought a 1 year CD at 4.5% …
Tie up your money for a year so you can’t touch it (without a large penalty)? I don’t think so. A lot can change in a year — by then your bank may have a permanent lock on the door. You can wait, fingers crossed, for the federal misgovernment to make you whole again after it’s finished bailing out the big big big banks (not necessarily yours).
How to preserve whatever wealth you have accumulated? Is a puzzlement. But at least best to keep it liquid, and I don’t mean buying Bud Light.
Ameritrade is being bought or has already been bought by Schwab. My Ameritrade brokerage account is being transitioned to Schwab May 26 -30. My funds and stock positions are inaccessible during this time. I don’t like this at all; 2 of the 5 days are weekend, but the other 3 are business days with an open stock market.
I cannot imagine tying money up for a year at any interest rate currently available.
Sorry, its financial advice that nobody asked for and it’s worth exactly what you paid for it.
I think Ameritrade was bought by Schwab some time ago.
Ameritrade had already swallowed Scott Trade. Just when I had figured out how to use the latter’s platform!
It does seem like a long time to “migrate” the accounts.
Why not leave them where they are and just put a different logo on the top?
I don’t know about CDs, but if you put money in T-bills or I-Bonds, and the US government defaults on these, as Tickerguy once observed, you have much bigger problems than just money.
The “penalty” is 3 months interest and it can be withdrawn with the same “rules” that cash in a checking account has. Be clear that there are limits on withdrawals. If I want to buy a used car for $7000 and I go to my bank and say give me cash for my deal, they will ask me to request it for 2-3 days later. Ask your bank what your withdrawal limits are.
My point is that I want an actual person to accuse of fraud that knows it’s true. From a practical standpoint the little people will eat what’s served.
@ RocketDoc:
Yeah. There’s no use in sweating this stuff you can’t do anything about. If CDs tie up your money, then don’t put any more into them that you expect to need for the duration.
Take the money and run where? If I remove my 401K the Feds take 30% of it and I lose another 20% to early withdrawal penalties. So what do I do? Take the hit and go buy gold? Then what? Put the gold in a hole in the ground? What good is gold when there is no food to buy? What good is gold when the Government comes and confiscates it like FDR did?
No, I don’t know what to do with my money. I really don’t know what to do with it. I guess I am one of those stupid people who have no cure because I don’t know what to do with anything anymore.
So, give me some advice. What do I do with my money? Don’t just tell me I am an idiot, give me some advice. Buy gold? Buy land? Buy a couple of cars? Move to El Salvador? What do the stupid people do with their money?
“So, give me some advice.”
CP,
Rural living, at whatever level you can afford, is the beginning.
…As remote and secluded as possible.
@elysianfield: Yeah? What are you gonna do when you fall and break your hip?
Remote isn’t all good. I read a book by a guy who survived the collapse in Argentina. He said gangs would drive out into the countryside and invade farmsteads. They’d rape the women and torture the men until they told them where the money/food/etc was. Then they’d kill them.
“elysianfield: Yeah? What are you gonna do when you fall and break your hip?”
Cactus,
…Probably die.
@elysian: you still have to pay taxes. Still need fuel for your car. Still need money to repair your “off-grid” solar system—look at what happened to JHK. Cost him thousands to fix his solar system when it died. Still need money for a doctor and medical insurance. Yeah, you can eat healthy and exercise, but accidents happen. I was walking my dogs a few years ago and tripped over a small rock sticking up. Fell and broke my foot in half. I’ve got 6 screws holding it together now. You know what that cost? Close to $70,000. TG I had inurance. That’s a lot of eggs.
Cactus,
I didn’t suggest that it was a panacea for all events, just the ones we can see coming. Your other qualifiers are handled, successfully or not. Paying taxes? Fuel? Doctors? You still cling to the shreds of civilization in a scenario where there might not be any to find.
…You read a book? Excellent!
“They’d rape the women and torture the men until they told them where the money/food/etc was. Then they’d kill them.”
Of course they will. Do you think you have a better solution than “staying away from crowds?” Perhaps, in a suburban area, they will not do likewise? It is not that issues will occur, but rather that those conveniently located will be first.
Please give CP a brief description of your potential solutions…I stand ready to be amazed….
Cactus Girl – $70K was not what it cost. That’s what they charged you (your insurance company). Think. There is a difference.
In a Crisis, the power will be out and you won’t be able to get money from the ATM either.
@ Cactus Girl:
There are hazards everywhere you go. If you live in the city, you could have a car wreck–or get car-jacked, burglarized, or whatever. If you live in a more rural area, you will find that there are people living there–who have lived there comfortably for generations–who are untroubled by whether they might trip while walking their dog, fall off the back of the pick-up truck, or get snake-bit while foraging for wild mushrooms.
We’re mortal, and we might as well get comfortable with this fact. Best to decide how you want to live, rather than fretting about how you might die. You will (die) anyway.
Geeze, what a terrible problem. Consider the alternative, a single mom working in a shitty job with two teen agers. Find her, give her some of your excess.
The basic formula is and has always been:
Beans, Lead and Gold.
Having said that, there are extreme options at either end of the scale.
Ranging from doing nothing to burying stuff in the backyard.
It is a tough decision, I’ve been moving cash out of banks into gold for the past few months. Also buying useful “stuff”. Even stocking up on things which store long term is paying better than leaving it in the bank.
For a good analysis of the banking problem, lookup Ed Dowd and his discussion of Hold to Maturity accounting and insolvency.
For an extremely technical review try “Monetary Tightening and U.S. Bank Fragility in 2023”
It’s a global problem which is completely out of control.
Yirgach,
Gold.
An honest question…suppose the time comes when that gold round or bar must be sold for necessities. What do you see as the mechanism of the transaction during times of serious unrest?
And the answer is: Barter.
Which means always have physical on hand.
Always have 1/10 oz eagles on hand.
Always have Mr. Colt on hand.
Although I should add it depends on how bad it gets.
If it’s still acceptable, a good amount of cash is good.
If we get to hyperinflation (Weimar wheel barrow mode) then it’s time for physical gold in various denominations.
At some point in the process fiat WILL be replaced by metal.
Always has been, always will be.
Barter is good, but the $200+ token used to buy 5 lbs of squash demands some sort of…change? In what form?
Seems very cumbersome.
Elysian,
It is cumbersome. That is why having a variety of things with which to negotiate/barter is a good idea. Don’t just have gold, have silver, have paper US currency, US minted coinage, and the usual variety of barterable goods. Not to mention having skills that can be bartered, remember WMBH?
Barter is an art form and its one I have never been taught.
@elysianfield
Haha!!
I don’t pay for a bag of potatoes with a $100 bill, do you?
That was funny! Thanks
Have US constitutional silver on hand.
The more dimes the better.
Change you can believe in!
elysianfield
Gold is a worthless metal. Any value it may have is due to the mental delusion of people who believe there is always another fool who will exchange something of utility for it. No different than fiat currency. At least with Weimar bills and USD after the collapse, you can always use them to start a fire to warm yourself.
Barter items have to have use value and come in small enough denominations that they can be traded in daily use. Like cigarettes in prisons. When you are trying to barter for salt what would you rather have, a bar of gold or 10,000 rounds of .222 amo that fits the rifles that everybody owns?
Land
In order to provide security, Land must be defensible, far enough from a big city that the desperate hordes will starve before they get there, have a year round climate and soil that will support your animals, garden and family. And be outside of the nuclear fallout zone.Upstate New York, northern Idaho, Oregon, California hill country—- I don’t think so. Panama highlands, Colombia, SE Alaska — maybe.
Silver is your answer, after sufficient gold to protect yourself. Assuming gold goes to $5000, which many have predicted, or even $10,000 predicted by many as well, then how to barter, or purchase, what you need. Silver would likely be $100 per ounce at those prices, while even 1/10 ounce gold would be $500 or $1000, too large for most purchases, but silver would meet your needs. As for the government confiscating gold, I am afraid that would bring about the civil war James is warning about, since everyone can and would see that the government caused any disaster that occurs. Unlike during Roosevelt’s move, there is absolutely no trust in government, and we also have the benefit of knowing the fraud perpetrated in the confiscation when they repriced the gold to $40 per ounce from $26 after the theft.
The problem of cumbersome barter with gold is always true, it just matters on what you are bartering for. If it’s your life or a pass out of a hellhole, then gold is your choice. If it’s day to day living, then US silver or 90% junk silver US coins are better as others have said.
The big thing is to stick with universally accepted trade items.
I appreciate commercial “rounds” but only as a collector. They have no use in a situation where no one trusts anything other than a a US Mint product.
@ Yirgach:
Yeah. Stocking up on things like coffee, meat, and canned goods over the past few months has probably saved me about 30% on many items. In two or three months, I’ll probably look back on what I bought last weekend and realize I got it at a 30% discount.
If it all goes to hell nobody will bother paying property taxes.
Buy rural property with open land to garden. Get the hell out of the urban killing fields.
Build a cabin. Drill a well with a hand pump.
Get some guns for protection and hunting and learn how to use them.
Stock up on food and supplies.
Don’t be a puss, Learn to survive and die trying if it comes to that.
…Yeah, what Frank said….
Sorta looking fwd to the killing fields tbh.
In all seriousness, men are meant to war, and that’s that.
War is what men do. How else are they to determine who gets the most desirable females? If they are lucky and smart they develop rituals that enable them to not kill each other along the way.
Women produce children and protect them with their very lives.
A society that is incapable of telling men from women is not long for this world.
Buy land.
@ MaryQueen:
While anyone who has any money at all is perplexed about what to do with it–mainly to avoid losing it to inflation over time, Cactus Girl’s boyfriend strikes me as an odd duck. After all, hanging onto money and (preferably) growing it is a tale as old as money itself.
My assumption is that everyone who has to work for a living ardently desires to do something else. One of the main gripes I have heard in the workplace over the years is, “If I weren’t forced to sit here all day doing busy-work, I could be [fill in the blank].” Bottom line: They all wanted to be doing something useful and productive, as opposed to bullshit.
So it surprises me that Cactus Girl’s boyfriend does not have a long list of things he wants to do with his money. I am probably biased, but it seems to me that if someone doesn’t want to buy a house and land, it is because they really don’t want to strive for self-sufficiency, and that this is because it doesn’t interest them. This might be because they don’t want to get their hands dirty or be inconvenienced. You can see why they might not want to deliver goat kids at 1:00 am in January, when it’s zero outside, or why they’re not really keen on re-plumbing the drain lines.
I guess what puzzles me is why he doesn’t already know what he wants to do–and has wanted to do for years or decades. (The investment part is just bullshit. There’s nothing you can do but what you can do. So shut up and do it. It’s just a math problem–and a fairly simple one.)
What’s the guy’s passion? Does he want to breed daylilies, build racing cars, take up dirt-biking, become a deacon in his church, bake bread, open a pub, brew beer, or maybe even have kids?
There are some questions that have an answer, and some that don’t.
You 100% sound like all the people I know that refuse to listen. Excuses excuses excuses.
Take the money before it is all 100% gone and use it to increase the odds in your favor. What you need to do depends on where you live but hard assets and barter items never hurt. As for me, I do what the wealthy have done for all of recorded history and have put what wealth I have into 3 things – land, PMs, and art.
Now, instead of art, you could put that cash into high-quality weapons (which is like having art) or high-quality musical instruments, or high-quality tools.
None of that guarantees your survival but having something today is better than having nothing three months from now.
@ NickelthroweR:
Yes, my comment above boils down to what you said: Excuses, excuses.
Might consider for the short run (over the next year or so) investing in short-term treasury bills ( for example, 6 month T-bills now paying around 5%–shorter duration Treasuries a little less.
Such a move keeps you liquid and flexible and such yields help minimize some of the damage from ongoing inflation.
You can set-up your own account at Treasury Direct and purchase these instruments yourself.
This strategy is one reason huge amounts of cash are now leaving the banking system–the understandable search for the highest yields in a continuing inflationary environment.
Yes!. TDirect is excellent. Bought iBonds at 6.48% in 2021. Bought 8 week TBills at 4.556% in 2023.
Max purchases are $10K/person, $20K/filing jointly, 10K/business, any portion of your IRS refund. Adds up to well over $30K annually depending on your situation.
There are restrictions on iBonds which affect liquidity.
Worth looking into as part of the balance to preserve wealth.
Do not trust the banks!
“Do not trust the banks!”
Also for CDs?
A regional bank is offering a 5-month CD at 4.5% APY .
Based on solvency there seems to be emerging hierarchys of financial trust. While there might be a good chance that your local bank is insolvent, there is Zero chance that the US treasury has the same problem.
Reason being that the UST owns the printing press and while your account at the local bank is not insured for more than $250K, and you will loose all of anything over that amount, your TBill will ALWAYS be paid back in full, even though the $$ maybe 1/10th of what it was worth when you “earned” it.
Behold the power of Fiat!
Actually, many savings banks have additional deposit insurance.
Banks with this insurance (such as mine) guarantee that all deposits are insured (above the FDIC limit of $250,000).
I don’t have an account at Rockland, which is currently offering the 5-month 4.25% CD.
@islander
The main difference between a 5 month CD at your savings local bank and a short term 8 week TBill from Treasury Direct is liquidity. They both pay the same interest and can be rolled over at end of term, but the terms are shorter.
A good place to look at bank ratings is the Weiss ratings site.
XX://weissratings.com/
Thanks for that site.
Both of the (local) banks where I have accounts are rated B+.
It looks as though many of the A+, A, and A- banks are in flyover couintry!
That’s the position into which we’ve been put by our elected representatives. I’m in that dilemma myself. Your comment about metals is right on, in addition to the very real possibility, given that we are under a quasi-Marxist oligarchy that makes up its own rules, now, and not a representative republic, that they could simply outlaw precious metals for the hoi polloi, or being able to sell it to a reputable place might become problematic; but if we go digital, and I think we will probably in Joe’s second term because he’s already signed the executive order for it, and I think the democrat party’s been saving the really nasty stuff for Joe’s second term, because you know the lemmings will vote for him again, don’t you? That’s what obummer did.
Go to a red state and find a young family that are struggling to make their homestead work for them. Make sure they are a hard working couple with good skills preferably with heavy equipment skills, driving, maintaining. He should be ambitious and a good problem solver. She an energetic home maker, mother and wife. They home school their children. They’re honest and energetic. They just need a hand with no strings attached. Adopt them and listen to their ideas about how to take advantage of opportunities in delivering services to mines, forestry, ranchers what ever primary resource based industries are in their area. Help finance his equipment purchases. Help with the chores while he’s away driving his truck or operating the equipment. Give them the benefit of your experience, time and money. There are such young couples out there. They are the future, both the country’s and possibly yours.
I really thought at the end of that story you were going to say, “And then when the apocalypse comes, you can off them and keep the homestead and all the stuff, and feel less bad about it.”
I agree with Jim’s assessment of the border situation and the trigger that might finally set off CW2, and I’m actually surprised that people in border states haven’t done this already.
Part 2 of the trigger events would be the action to protect children. The incomprehensible evil that is manifesting itself in the mutilation of body and mind of our children is going to send many over the edge. Here’s a report that toddlers are now being given “gender affirming care”.
httpX://dailycaller.com/2023/05/04/report-transgender-toddlers-receiving-treatments-north-carolina-universities/
Once all hell breaks loose, I would not want to be a groomer tranny advocating for Drag Queen Story Hour. That’s for sure.
We keep being told to ignore that, by Republicans!
They tell us it is just a smokescreen. Maybe they should look up what a smokescreen is, and they’d understand that of course Drag Queen Story Hour is a smokescreen, that’s what we have been trying to tell them.
You fight the people behind the smoke, and you fight the people out in the open, and you fight on all fronts.
Two fronts. One legal, peaceful, and out in the open. The other, the opposite. Sin Fein and the IRA.
All real dissent now illegal in Ireland. Replacement level immigration from Africa under way.
There’s no voting their way out of this – that should be clear at this point. If one of the little Nationalist parties becomes successful, it will just be banned like Vlams Blok in Belgium or the Golden Dawn in Greece. So the question becomes: Do they have the manhood that their Grandfathers had? There is no other question.
A lot of comments on the motives and seriousness behind this flag.
https://twitter.com/JeffSharlet/status/1654226106147393548?s=20
What the symbolism? The grave?
It is unusual to see a black-and-white photograph these days.
What does the flag really look like?
Republicans are part of it. There are plenty of Woke conservatives. They are all playing into the same indoctrinations, just on different levels.
Not to mention the “unaccompanied minors” who vanish once they cross the Río Grande. In some form, they might be getting used, then shot. I don’t hear many people advocating for these children, either, although one of the first things Trump did after inauguration was to sign an executive order proscribing human trafficking.
Yeah, cuz that’s the real issue. Their children, not us.
The conditioning is so extreme that it might be a genetic defect, that White Americans are particularly predilected to: we are losing our country — it’s totally done unless there’s a civil war and we take it back — and someone is concerned about the children of the people who are replacing us?
Otoh, it’s prolly a good angle to take for normies who would like to oppose replacement level immivasion, but lack the vocabulary and or the cajones, to do it for their own dammed selves, and need the justification of looking out for other people’s brown children.
Please note: no brown children were harmed in the production of this post.
She has East Asian nieces. In other words, people who are less related to her than a random White person on the street.
After accepting such a situation, a person is incapable of even the most basic clarity ever again.
What “gender affirming” medical care can they give to a toddler?
Coochie coochie coo, I now declare you a non-binary infant. You can choose your own gender on a whim as you see fit…
Sterilization and mind-fuckery, apparently.
Drugs.
Wake me up when the shootin’ starts.
It already has.
Especially if you visit downtown Chicago, or Baltimore, or NYC, or Minneapolis, etc, etc, etc…..
No, no, that’s just normal black on black warfare. Saturday night type pistols, etc. Real shooting involves automatic rifles, C-4, and greater sabotage of rail, airplanes and shipyards.
Also the grid goes down one transformer at a time.
Best comment I ever read about Michelle Obama was by Christopher Hitchens. Speaking about her thesis at Yale he said ‘her thesis cannot be read, because it is written in no known language’.
Was it written in the same language as the Voynich manuscript?
httpsXX://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
The thesis should be available in the public domain – I wonder what the topic pertained to? I am surprised that Big Mike was smart enough to even be admitted to Yale.
Ben Stein said that she has the reading and speaking skills of an eight grader.
That’s right in line with your average voter, then.
It was Princeton (same diff) and she wasn’t smart enough. Her older brother played basketball well enough.
Tucker promised to read a bit of it on the air, but he never got around to it.
She’s still fuming about the time an old White lady asked her to get something for her from the top shelf at the supermarket. It’s like she thought she was a slave or somethin’!
I am surprised that Big Mike was smart enough to even be admitted to Yale.
She was smart enough to be born in the racial category the ruling class discriminates in favor of.
SteveK9,
Didn’t someone prominent also make a similar comment about (Dr.) Jill Biden’s thesis?? I want to say it was Tucker, but now I can’t remember. I do remember reading that after they had read the thesis, they described it as riddled with typos and incomplete sentences. A real mess.
Q would not be able to read it without alcohol for sustenance!
Q would not be able to read it without alcohol for sustenance! – mrs_saj
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I’ll try to make a point to read it. Can I get it via Google? How long is it?
I haven’t read it, so I have no idea. I just thought it might give you a migraine as it is said to be sloppily written.
I just thought it might give you a migraine as it is said to be sloppily written. – mrs_saj
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I was able to Google only a portion (25 pages on my PC monitor) of the thesis. Those pages did not get to the meat of the thesis where certain current and former Black Princeton students (Michelle’s “respondents”) responded to a questionaire concerning their pre-Princeton, Princeton, and post-Princeton life experiences.
What I read with my hyper-critical eye was better than I had been led to expect. My complaints are just what you would expect from me, pedantic minutiae.
Chap 1, pg 1 contained this: “the ideologies they hold with respects to race relations…” Later on she uses the same plural form of the word. I believe respect is more correct.
In MO’s favor, when speaking of Black and White individuals she capitalized both black and white. At the time of its writing (1985) the NYT would not have capitalized either word. It is only recently (the last 2-3 years) that the Times changed their style book wherein Blacks (as a people) got a capital B but whites retained a lower case w. The times published a thorough explanation/rationale for the change. I disagreed with their rationale and said so on this blog. When speaking of ethnic groups I capitalize both Blacks and Whites.
MO seems to favor the yoose of the word “utilize” rather than “use.” I found it four times. Young people writing theses seem to be drawn to longer words which they imagine make them appear more erudite, or should I say “smarter.”
A sentence contained an unnecessary space both before and after a comma. “At the same time , however…” I immediately thought of Kesa Anna.
Only once did I find an incorrect possessive. She wrote about “respondents’s attitudes.” Making a plural noun possessive can be tricky.
She dropped off a letter s from “officials” making it singular in error.
She wrote “effected” instead of “affected.” I will estimate that the English speaking world gets effect vs affect wrong half the time.
The thesis is not even close to being great literature, nor was it intended as such. As one commenter described it, it was “turgid.”
If you need to get a good night’s sleep but suffer from insomnia I would recommend you read Michelle Obama’s college thesis.
If anyone can provide a link to the complete thesis I’d appreciate it.
@Q
Complete thesis:
XX://obamaprincetonthesis.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/1985_michelle_obama_princeton_thesis.pdf
SteveK9 — I remember reading that comment. I forget what her thesis is supposed to be about.
Michele is a woman — an angry, entitled, sulky one but a girl. I loved her speech at the Democratic convention where she’s complaining about being invisible. If only! If Congress passes a law for reparations she’ll be the first in line no matter how much money they’ve got.
Yeah, a very divisive and powerful woman at that.
I’m a big fan of Morgan Freeman and his approach to ending racism:
He says he finds Black History Month “ridiculous.”
“You’re going to relegate my history to a month?” asks Freeman. “I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history,” he says, noting that there are no white or Jewish history months.
How can we get rid of racism?
“Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man,” Freeman says to Wallace. “And I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman. You wouldn’t say, ‘Well, I know this white guy named Mike Wallace.’ You know what I’m sayin’?”
XXps://www.cbsnews.com/news/morgan-freeman-defies-labels-14-12-2005/
Mike Wallace to an interviewer:
I’m not White. I’m Jewish.
JHK Admin,
There’s a typo in the first sentence. though should be thought
I figured you’d want it fixed.
Haha, good job, you beat Q to the punch! He is going to be jealous of you.
Cowbell,
Lol. I take no pride in it. I just wanted Jim to see it before the links that go out to other newsfeeds were up. It’ll be on citizenfreepress some time today, etc.
I will leave the red marker corrections to Q.
Has Q ever made an actual correction to anyone’s writing?
Anyways, for Jim, for what it is worth:
“LeGard” should be “Lagarde.”
Ha ha.
The typo I found was not from Jim’s writing. It was probably a cut and paste of the quote that typically precedes his essay.
No, Lagarde should be Retarda.
Q has helped me, but I grant that much of the time his corrections are specious and obnoxious.
Anyways, for Jim, for what it is worth: – NO
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People are roughly evenly divided on saying Anyways vs Anyway.
I am firmly in the singular Anyway camp.
I don’t think it’s a matter of right or wrong, it’s just one of those things that offends my ear.
Another useless contribution from Q, Master of Language.
Ditto for beside vs besides as in that’s beside the point. I prefer beside. Besides is like fingernails on a blackboard.
Being the master wordsmith you are, you surely would have noted that the usage in your two examples are different?
Just kidding. Of course you didn’t notice.
*is
Before this turd pipes up and avoids the question.
“Anyways” stood out.
Definitely non-U!
What’s next: “Irregardless”?
Another Master of Language joins the Qster?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anyways
LOL.
NO:
Yep, “US, informal”
What I said.
M-W Unabridged:
“any·ways adverb \ ?e-n?-?w?z
\
1a archaic : in any manner or respect : anywise
b dialectal : to any degree at all
2 chiefly dialectal : in any case”
“any·way adverb \ ?e-n?-?w?
\
1 : in any way whatever : anywise
2 : at all events : in any case : anyhow “
In other words, it is correct.
Which is why Q, having nothing to correct (not that he could) mused about what he prefers–even though no one asked or gives a shit.
Sad.
Yep, correct like “ain’t” is correct!
Since that first sentence is a quote from Deep South SR I figure Jim did a copy and paste and thus the error was Deep South’s. If so maybe Jim was right in leaving their error un corrected.
BTW yesterday Jarek spelled the same word incorrectly… left the final t off the word thought. I should have kept track how many times Jar has made the same or similar errors. But who gives a shit? We all knew what he meant, right?
I noticed that too. I wish there was an edit function. But the thought itself it the most important thing. For you, the form is – and that’s weird.
The edit function is to take time to read what you are going to publish before ‘SUBMIT COMMENT”.
These are comments on a blog. Get over it.
MaryQueen: “These are comments on a blog. Get over it.”
Right. If it’s a blog comment, okay to be subliterate. Who needs that grammer ‘n’ spelling stuff, know what I mean?
Some people think/type faster than others.
Yeah, I actually don’t need it. I am fine with people commenting in a colloquial manner. If I don’t like it or understand it, I scroll on by usually.
Correcting everyone is fucked up.
“The edit function is the time to take time […]”
If you consider this to be a well-written clause, then perhaps you would benefit from an edit function.
Your ellipsis is both formatted and used incorrectly; next, you forgot to include the “of” after “kept track”; and, finally, you left out the comma between “Deep South” and “I” (randomly inserting”SR”) as well as after “If so.”
Who is SR, by the way? Bueller?
As so often, in your attempted correction, you have made more errors yourself than the original poster.
You have made so many errors as to make yourself a laughing stock.
Q, Master of Language.
“But who gives a shit? ”
Finally, some Q-sense!
Stick with it, Q!
And don’t forget the vocative comma!
“Stick with it, Q!” means
Stick with “But who gives a shit?”
No one, that’s who.
Many language discussions are interesting.
Typos are not.
What you see around you is not just a complex system (Western Civ) unwinding and breaking apart — though that is part of the story. It is also the appearance of a controlled demolition by desperate, frightened, and crazy people who want to be the ones left standing when the demolition is complete. The catch is, they are pretending, too. They are control-freaks who cannot keep things under control.
Profound. And Jibes 100% with WEF and their Digital plans. That is one of the joys going forward – watching the plans of these people blow up in their ugly mutts.
Thanks, Jim, for today’s blog. Well said.
The crisis at the border is pretty bad. El Paso is in a state of emergency.
Locally, I had already been seeing a plethora of crime and the arrestees are 90% latino and mostly non-citizens. So even up here in Idaho, we’re already getting fallout from illegal invasion & gang activity (which here appear to be connected most of the time).
Of course each and every one of these special people merit free services from the government, while I see some of my neighbors fall into hard times from inflation and beg for work on NextDoor.
The hard times are here and they are gonna get worse, sadly.
There is no doubt Obama & his deep state cronies are running the US show, but this is global, sad to say. The US is not alone in its collapse.
A hotel near here, a big national chain, is housing for free 100s or maybe 1000s of mexicans etc, who are all “fresh off the boat” and with respect to their, cough cough, human dignity, these are low rent immigrant refugee invaders, even by the standards of low rent immigrant refugees.
Not that there’s anything wrong with short people, but just to make the point: the women all look like they just came out of the poverty jungle village and are hardly five feet tall, no exag.
Every one of these, is getting LOADS of assistance. So many of the programs they are eligible for, and receive, are things the native citizens, have never even heard of, and never will.
Just an observation, but all the people set up to be coddled by our government as special is probably going to backfire – on those getting the special treatment. Sure, right now everyone’s annoyed. But when push comes to shove, do you imagine that the trannies or the border jumpers are going to have the upper hand? Not bloody likely.
This is a color revolution, and its end goal is civil war at best and civil unrest at the very least. It has been designed and funded by Soros (easy to trace), the deep state including the Obama cabal.
It’s about to get ugly.
But but but, those trannies and illegal aliens are special people. White privilege needs to be checked at the door and we need to celebrate this diversity.
Remember when there was a movement to redesign the classic American Flag, replacing the red, white and blue with a new variety of colors and designs to represent the diversity of the American people? Yeah, that concept fell flat like a lead Chinese air balloon.
We have been in it for a while.
I’m never good with timing.
I am OK with movements (as in “we are in Movement 4, the Crisis stage, of the 4th Turning”) and I am OK with inflection points.
For example, whoever survives the inflection point “Midnight in the 4th Turning,” he or she will find the rest is a low key movement of resolution of the crisis and rebirth. After that, One can be optimistic on the journey out…
The times seem to call for great courage, great ideals and probably sacrifice. I’m sure Irving and Howe said it best.
I tried posting this same subject on an MSN story and the hate that flowed was somethign to behld.
I felt like I had thrown holy water on a bunch of demons.
😀
They do hiss and screech like demons when confronted with truth, don’t they?
What topic? Prospect of a kinetic civil war?
Keep hearing this, Mary Queen. Nothing happens. It just keeps pressing on.
They have us where they want us. The only representation we have, the Republican Party, is largely compromised, being dependent on the same source of funding as the Democrats.
The system of peaceful political change left to us by the founders no longer works. Or rather, it no longer works the way it was intended. I believe they foresaw this, and thus the comment about the tree of liberty needing to be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Sadly, you now have an American population largely dog-trained to respond to certain stimuli and ignore others.
We aren’t at the point where weak people are given the heave-ho, because they are no longer of use to the PTB.
That’s coming.
Why are they letting all these Mexicans in here?
Just because it’s Cinco de Mayo?
I’m pretty sure the date was planned, actually. The cabal likes to do things that way.
You are right! I didn’t make the connection.
And the US is pushing Ukraine to attack Russia on Victory Day,
May 9th, because our rulers are obsessed with numerology, and special dates.
Ukraine is balking, but they have no choice. Their owners insist.
That is why I think the US will get directly involved.
Ukraine already attacked Russia, if you believe the reports.
They lit up the spire on the Kremlin or someplace, on the off chance that Putin might have been up there.
Russia claims it was the US, because it was. Our government calls that ludicrous, but it is ludicrous in the sense that it was ludicrous that we would do that and claim it was Ukraine.
I think it was a major provocation, designed to either get Russia to respond OR for the US to set off a nuclear device in Kiev, blame it on Russia, and then enter the war.
Did you see the report by the NY Times that the US is installing nuclear sensor devices in Ukraine, which are designed to monitor for radiation and to BLAME IT ON RUSSIA?
They are flat-out telling us that they have rigged sensors to finger Russia, and they are installing them.
If there’s a gun in the first act, it will go off by the final act.
””The United States is wiring Ukraine with sensors that can detect?? bursts of radiation from a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb and can confirm the identity of the attacker,” the Times report says. The goal, according to the report, is for US officials to be made immediately aware of if a radioactive weapon detonates inside Ukraine, and to be able to identify Russian forces as the culprit.”
Long article, but this is part of it.
://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-5123-massive-missile-strikes
Ha! The president of Chechnya agrees with me.
Ramzan Kadyrov: “The attack on the Kremlin is nothing but a provocation to force an escalation-a favorite technique of modern hybrid warfare and Western generals, the results of which are advantageous to the provocateurs themselves.
The chain of statements and veiled media blasts that followed was intended to stir ambitions and push the Russian Supreme Commander-in-Chief to carry out brutal retaliation in Ukraine, such as carpet bombing of cities. This would then be used for a media campaign focusing on civilian casualties, and the Nazis in Kiev would be considered victims.
I admire Vladimir Vladimirovich’s restraint and wisdom in not giving in to this cowardly provocation. But the organizers of this attack will have to answer for it, no matter where on Earth they are. Not today, not tomorrow, but those involved will suffer just punishment. It is too early for that now. Soon, because justice in the world community today is buried under the interests of the aggressor country, the only one of its kind in the world, which for years has bent the independent institutions, interests and rights of other countries.
One of the tasks of today’s Russia and its allies is to rebuild the world institutions of justice so that they become impartial and independent again. This is bound to happen, and eventually unipolarism and the puppet status of entire countries will end. This is when there will be an all-out demand from every participant, author and organizer.
That is why today’s provocation will not change the scenario of the planned course of the special military operation. Yes, it is an attack on the President, and thus on the state and, consequently, on all the people of the Russian Federation. But it should not affect our plans and interests. Retaliation, of course, will come. And it will be surgical and precise.”
Yes, as long as they care what the Satanists and their dupes think, then they are subject to being played.
Vladimir Vladimirovich does not let his buttons get pushed.
Retaliation will come at a time and place that suits Russia/the Kremlin/VV.
That may be under the deep blue sea, where the RF Navy challenges the US Navy in all dimensions.
There’s a lot more going on than we can see from the worm’s-eye view.
Ordered by the dangerous psychopaths running our government who also ordered our military to take out the Nordstream pipeline. They keep poking the bear, either thinking they an handle the bear, or really looking for a major war involving nukes. What better way to reduce the population? Problem is, the woke military, minus our Special Ops, are unlikely to prevail in any major war, and we will suffer the consequences while the cretins causing it reside in their taxpayer bunkers at Greenbriar and other secretive locations, only emerging to acknowledge their new masters whom they have served so well. Treason and sedition are no longer recognized.
Another astute observation. Yes, they are huge on special dates. Especially when they can really shove it into the peoples’ face.
Despicable.
@paula d, If the US does get involved, the whole “dust up” will be over so fast we won’t know it… except for the mushrooms.
As long as they bring plenty of tequila and mescal to the table. They can mow my lawn with the battery powered lawn equipment (since all gas engines are getting outlawed), and they can make me one of those breakfast burritos that “Dr.” Jill Biden was talking about in that speech last year.
They should only allow the trim and beautiful Mexican ladies to enter America for possible citizenship. That might boost the morale of straight white American males everywhere!
What happened to the white women?
While women everywhere are transitioning to a woke agenda that involves removing their breasts, ovaries, etc. They have no interest in the traditional female gender role they have played in civilization for thousands of years. If a cute Mexican girl is an actual female that has conservative values, wants a family, a good man in her life, etc. then I would take her any day over the White woman.
In spite of some possibly delicate personal hygiene issues, the Amish and Mennonite women are Hale and Hardy, willing to “throw their shoulders” into the task at hand.
Unfortunately, none of them are genetically further apart than 2nd cousins. The Elders are aware of this situation and have been addressing it; within their beliefs, but it’s tricky.
Every summer they have a benefit auction of produce, baked goods, antiques, plants, small livestock..etc. to raise money for the “special needs” children.
The auction is the “Premier” social event for those of “marrying age” (16-17).
It’s really a very fun, successful and interesting time. Crowds of 400+ all dressed in their best.
I’m 6’3″, I can do a head count without a ladder…. lol.
Men seem to think if they were to join the Amish they would get a wife who looks like Kelly McGillis and knows how to bake pies.
I remember reading, in the National Lampoon I think it was, that Mexican people are genetically programed with pockets of fat that explode when they turn thirty.
Beryl, Goddamned man, ‘cepting our host, I thought I was the last surviving Nat Lamp reader. Chris Miller, P.J. O’Rourke et al, those boys and girls wrote some seriously funny shit, the Highschool yearbook was classic.
Didja ever read any Tom Robbins? -Another Roadside Attraction, -Even Cowgirls get the Blues? funny times.
White women are making more money on average than White men now. So given that women won’t marry down, they often can’t find husbands.
The difference just isn’t part of popular consciousness, but it is most profound. A successful man would be willing to marry a sales girl or waitress. A successful woman would almost never do that same with the male equivalent.
Many women are freezing their eggs now, trying to gain time so they can meet “Mr Right”. They are unlikely to succeed. They became the men they now seek and now must bide alone, their eggs remaining frozen until they pass.
Hmm. There’s a white woman at work who f-cks around with me a lot. Just not physically.
Anyway, exploding Mexican women sounds scary.
Beryl, I loved Nat Lamp! I still have the graphic novelization of Animal House. A few years ago I donated all our old Mad Magazines to the university’s extensive comic collection. People come from all over to access the collection and study it.
Yes, but after you knock six or eight puppies outta her, that “trim and beautiful” turns into reality. (one who knows…).
That’s the reason a lot of young women don’t want to have children.
They’ve seen it happen, with good intentions, two people fall in love, get married, and have kids, only to see everything fall apart in a short amount of time.
They both suffer from the aftereffects like fighting over child support, but he moves on in the dating pool at the same level of physical attractiveness, while her figure is ruined.
But not the same level of financial attractiveness, right?
Not always. Some women come back from it alright.
Badberries no I didn’t read the Robbins.
I think the Lampoon and Mad Magazine were my undoing.
That HS yearbook- a little before my time, but much of what they had in there held true when I got to school.
Weren’t the girls in gym class playing volleyball wearing water wings, in the shallow end of the pool?
How far we came, and know we’ve gone backwards from no real “sports” for girls to no sports for girl only.
Beryl of oyl, Yep and the chicks were 99.9% Height Weight proportionate.
Hell, today they spend most of their time on the only parts of their body that doesn’t get fat; their hair and nails. I say screw the hair and nails, gimme a six pack abs and an ass smaller than mine and I’ll get rich for her or die trying.
It’s interesting that a battle between Mexican & French troops in 1862 outside Mexico City is commemorated in the US, but the Battles of Shiloh & Antietam, also fought in 1862, are largely forgot about.
Easy, Battles of Shiloh and Antietam represented “racism” so they must be shoved down the memory hole. But millions in reparations on the other hand….
No past, no memory, no identity, no future.
We toured Shiloh. My great grandfather would have been there, but he came down with typhoid.
I have heard that Cinco de Mayo is not a big deal in Mexico proper, just in the US.
Like St. Patrick’s Day, just an excuse to get drunk and party.
Dingus Day is another one.
Never heard of that before, but sounds like a holiday I could get behind.
If you like pierogi and polka. Also beer of course.
It’s Spring and lawns need tending?
Why are they letting all these Mexicans in here?
Just because it’s Cinco de Mayo?
Yes, and what’s left of the United States is the free-shit army’s piñata.
Why are they letting all these Mexicans in here?
Because the fourth was with them.
wow.
Hammer, meet nail.
“Tens of thousands of illegals ushered across the border …”
Where will they all go, what will they do? Even self appointed Sanctuary Cities like Chicago & NY are full up and claim they can’t take in any more. Hundreds of thousands, millions of unassimilated non citizens roaming around the country with no money and no place to go seems like a recipe for disaster.
My yard is entirely fenced, I have a shotgun, and will sit on my front porch all day to keep the vermin at bay. I suggest that many readers here prepare to do likewise.
Molon labe.
Sounds like fun.
Cowbell81, copy that, 3 sides of the backyard are fenced with a multistory canopy with the lowest story (first 15 feet) being a type of Thorn Forest ( every time I go in there I come out bleeding.), then Pit Cherries, Old Growth Red and White Oak. It’s private.
We have a menagerie of furred and feathered that call us “home”, 7 foxes, 2 adults and 5 kits under the garden shed last year. Just because you don’t see them, doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
I’m retired, I spend a lot of night time on the patio, reading, smoking and listening to the world. There are many dramas playing out as we sleep.
Drove across the interstate at night, all night til sunrise- it shocked me how many semi trucks were rolling- Smokey and Bandit would be proud…major drama all night long
My times of night driving are pretty well done, the occasional scoot to the smoke shop and then to the safety of my nest.
I used to regularly drive non-stop to Mazatlan from Montana and back. Those days are definitely gone. But yeah I saw all kinds of strange shit at night. I was driving down the highway and …. SHIT!! was that a horse??
There are also some strange sights to be seen in the city at night. Late one night in the 70s, probably around 3:00 am, when my roommate and I were tripping on acid in NYC, we decided to go for a walk from West 75th to East 57th Street. Our objective was to walk down and look at the Crown Jewels of Austria in Bergdorf’s window.
The most notable incident was that, somewhere south of West 72nd, we heard the sound of African drums. We couldn’t tell where they were coming from, but a block or two ahead of us two nearly naked black men were approaching. They were wearing loincloths and carrying spears. We crossed the street.
When we got down to West 57th, where there used to be a 12-foot-tall orange nine, marking Nine West 57th, we saw a man on crutches with a bandaged leg emerge from behind the nine. Then we noticed that, for several blocks, there were about two big, heavy-set men per block on each side of the street, walking slowly in circles. This scared us. Who were these guys? What were they doing here at this time of the night? (Later, I realized that they were security guards.) That was when we decided to hail a cab and go home.
When the cab arrived at our apartment building, there was a homeless man sitting on the steps, moving a pile of newspapers from one stack to another and back again. By this time, we were pretty scared and fled past him into the safety of the apartment building.
So…. A youthful indiscretion that turned out okay.
Anthea, The “tripping on acid” brought a time travel chuckle. For my “work-study” position at the U. I got assigned to the mycology lab, had access to the catalogs of spore-prints and an autoclave. Nothing beats cultivating from spore, every type of Psilocybin in the world.
That was the first time I realized that every living thing has its’ own luminescence, like neon! That football field isn’t really flat, it undulates. That Frisbee doesn’t reach your hand, your hand reaches the Frisbee.
There was a saying c.1969, “free your mind and your ass will follow”.
A boma or thorn hedge for protection. The Black Africans do this too. It will help. I don’t know if the foxes will….
Jarek The four-legged vermin aren’t really a problem, the deer eat the flowers, not a problem.
My concerns lay mostly with the two-legged vermin, if they can get through that thorn forest without getting shredded, they’re smarter than I.
As an added bonus, the thorn tips break off and two days later, sepsis! In the absence of effective treatment (anti-bios) Gangrene.
Wasn’t a Texan man recently arrested for murder for shooting an illegal on his property?
No that was Arizona.
In Cleveland, Texas last week an illegal alien shot 4 of his illegal alien neighbors (shot 5 but one had a green card).
Actually she’s correct, but it was a few months ago.
Paula D,
Yes, though it is in Arizona. He fired a warning shot and didn’t know he had killed anyone until the next day. Every concealed carry class I’ve ever sat through taught that you never fire a warning shot. You shoot to kill or you don’t shoot at all.
The rancher called border control while the trespassers were on his land. He called again the next day after he’d found the body.
That was probably his mistake. Still trusting the system, I guess.
The Woke tried to make this county a sanctuary county, but an illegal alien had slaughtered an entire family in a small town in the county, and the rest of the town showed up at the meeting to protest.
The motion failed.
New York City wanted to be a sanctuary city, but I don’t think anybody understood what sanctuary mens or where the idea came from, and they seem surprised that when you harbor criminals the crime rate goes up.
Since New York went out of its way to destroy the concept that the interior of a church is not sacrosanct, that the government can even dictate that you cannot use the bathroom because they said so, because an emergency trumps the Bill of Rights, the whole idea of sanctuary is dead dead dead.
The government i merely picking and choosing who may violate our laws according to their individual whims, which is also known as corruption.
They should all go to prison fot their roles. You too Michael Bloomberg.
And every illegal immigrant is a criminal who belongs behind barbed wire until deportation.
It’s them or us. At the Federal level, it’s already decided. The whole thing is the Cloward-Piven strategy on steroids. Overwhelm the system until it collapses. Assume emergency powers to deal with the permanent emergency. After the long emergency? Well who even remembers at that point? Just some old White people talking about bill of rights.
All planned and being executed to perfection, while the Republicans sit silently.in the face of derision and scorn from the MSM if they dare raise the issue. These illegals, now numbering over 7 million and climbing, are the new brown shirts (pun intended) for the Demoncraps. Make no mistake, they are entitled because of their coming role in suppressing American citizens, who count for nothing anymore, thus the increasing drive to disarm us.
The antifa were the militia of the Weimar Republic. The brownshirts fought and defeated them.
See the work of Andy Ngo if you doubt me.
They’ll try again.
Minnesota has gone down along with much of the east and west coast states.
Until, of course, it begins to affect them in earnest. Then things will get interesting.
It would seem those military troops are not being sent to protect the border but instead to protect those illegally entering the US from those trying to stop there.
I’ve thought the same thing; US troops going to the border to escort in illegals at the behest of Majorkas. Also their mission to protect incoming illegals from Border Patrol and the Texas National Guard.
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My husband invited a liberal friend and neighbor of ours over this morning to help move the gas grill out of the garage and onto the deck. The grill is one year new and I can’t lift half of it anymore like I used to be able to do with the prior grill.
The friend is from Serbia and came to the US when he was 16. His wife is an American born Caucasian woman with a surname that is Australian. She is further left than he is. They are both vaxxed and they vaxxed their ten year old son.
Anyway, he owns a trucking business. They just bought a second house, a lake house, last year. His wife quit her paralegal job last year. Did I mention that he has a $1 million mortgage on his primary house? I’ve been a realtor for 25 years and I know how to look these things up. He’s also a member at the local country club.
The friend, my husband, and I ended up talking current events out on the back deck this morning. He told us his business is off, way off. He has been burning through savings since April of 2022. He is very concerned about the cost of diesel, his largest business expense. This includes the taxes on diesel, which varies by state. He is also following commentary about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. My husband has been in oil and gas for 30 years and was answering questions for him. The SPR is not a years’ long supply of oil. It has maybe 60 days worth of supply, maybe less depending on how depleted the SPR is allowed to get. The math on this simple. My husband also reminded him about the administration’s policies that impact US oil and gas production. Our friend thinks the economy is tanking and is going to get much worse. He thinks of his company as a leading indicator.
I told our friend the US met the technical definition of a recession since July of 2022 even though the media won’t admit it. They don’t want to hurt Biden in the polls any more than he has already done to himself. Maersk, the global container shipping company just put out a note this morning that business is off and we should expect things to get bumpy. This will affect our friend’s business. I told him this and he knew all about Maersk.
He just got back from San Francisco a few days ago. He said it’s an absolute hell hole.
Our friend cannot connect the dots. We told him it is up to him what he thinks is happening and what he should do. We told him to rethink his voting in 2024 in national and local elections. He can’t admit to us he might have to make a u-turn politically. He knows we are conservative to the point of libertarian. He knows we live debt free. We told him we were selling all our rental houses because of the eviction moratorium and when Powell was promising to raise rates more than a year ago. Our friend cannot or will not connect the dots from policy to outcome.
It’s disheartening. He’s not dumb.
He’s culted and has his identity wrapped up in it.
Sad.
I’ve always considered debt as modern slavery especially after my 1st new spanking new car in Sunnyvale was repo’ed in 84.
I was a know-it-all Silicon valley Engineer, you see… -_-
Amman,
The more I thought I knew in years past, the more wrong I was. I can see that now. At least I am well aware that my “Things You Don’t Know that You Don’t Know list is growing at this point in my life.
Car repo’s are skyrocketing. It’s on par with the Great Recession. One of the busiest businesses around right now are car reposession companies. Maybe my friend should repurpose his idled trucks and transport repo’d vehicles.
We don’t know things that don’t immediately affect us, when we have more pressing issues that affect our families.
I have always tried, when I learned something counter to a lot of what was being sold out in the mainstream, to pass along that knowledge when I learned of someone, usually a younger person, facing a similar situation.
A young friend of mine once told me his mother was about to buy a new car.
I gave him a few pointers to pass along, as I had just recently researched the matter from top to bottom.
Later on, he told me, “they tried to sell her rustproofing”. He was kind of amazed.
That’s why people drink Brandy when recalling their hapless and youthful ways.
Still, it’s hard to picture you unwise, Mrs. Saj.
Debt is quite useful when used properly.
I would be significantly poorer without the aid of debt.
Yes, it cuts both ways. Debt used productively is a good thing. Debt used for hedonistic consumption is not.
Yep.
True but handling debt requires brains and discipline. I’m debt free, asset rich, enjoy high liquidity and all thanks to my Progenitors
and to Providence. Of course, there is a sacrifice.
“The borrower is the servant [ slave ] of the lender”. But nobody hears…
But if you could not borrow, there are many things you could and would not have. And some of those things might give you the freedom to be free from debt at a later date, but far more independent and financially secure.
Debt is what you make of it. Don’t agree to conditions you don’t like and don’t borrow unless it will benefit you.
Mrs_saj, I know too many people like your neighbor, many of them in my suburban family. Some of them are still spending as if they had money (rather than credit) and proceeding as if they were living in 1955. They’re not stupid people, but they’re determinedly blind to everything they don’t wish to see. Their pockets aren’t empty (yet) and they’re neither hungry nor cold. I’m afraid that’s what it would take to awaken them, after which they would blame Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, husband and I live in a small, rural place where people are generally poor but don’t carry anything like the load of debt my suburban relatives do. Our neighbors could become moderately worse off than they are, but couldn’t experience a sudden, devastating crash of the kind that awaits my relatives; they don’t operate on that level. There has never been a worse time to be in debt, and it astonishes me that people are not only unaware but eager to dig themselves in deeper.
We already have an epidemic of mental illness. There are profound shocks awaiting the unwary, and they’re absolutely without the strength of character and mental stability to survive them.
Student loan debt will remain nearly the only debt that cannot be discharged through bankruptcy.
Beryl,
I’ll add IRS tax debt to your list.
On my daily encounters w/the public, I see some signs that are worrying, people are exasperated and losing their patience.
Walmart and everybody else is getting clobbered by the shoplifting. They’re closing some “un-profitable” locations, first ChiCongo then Minneanoplace soon, “Hometown USA”.
Top-off your pantry, some stuff ain’t going to be available…at any price.
Someone mentioned to me that there were protests when Walmart went in Chicago, and now protests when they are leaving.
Oprah already cut her ties to Chicago. She still seems to support the same people and policies that drove her out though.
BB it’s not simple shoplifting that is driving 4 Walmart stores out of Chicago; no, stores are being looted for everything they have, trashed in the middle of the day by rampaging mobs running out the door with carts full of merchandise. THE STORES ARE TRASHED BEYOND REPAIR. Cops don’t come. Customers are assaulted and robbed in the parking lots, employees are attacked & beaten inside stores. Cars are stolen. By any measure it is not possible to do business inside the Hood.
Backrow, Yesterday I was in a large supermarket, looking to top-off the liquor cabinet.
There was a couple of mid-twenties, dark chocolate male, butterscotch female, “casing” the place, deciding on which top shelf Tequila they wanted.
I asked the female which Tequila she liked the most, at the sound of my voice the male bolted, she remained. She pointed to a bottle of rotgut bottom shelf shit, the $10 for a 1.75L kind. I said it was an interesting choice.
Apparently I had disturbed her mojo and she took off to find her guy.
It was kinda funny because for my entire life I’ve been plagued by my looks, the standard big white guy who must be a cop, customs, narc, taxman…take your pick. All I have to do is say something and they scatter like bunnies.
Our friend cannot connect the dots
that is explained in your first line.
malthuss,
Yes, with my words, “liberal friend”. I’m afraid I got carried away with my story, lol.
It’s disheartening. NO ITS WONDERFUL, HE IS YR ENEMY.
He’s not dumb. WRONG AGAIN. He was good at getting to USA n riding its gravy train.
mrs.sag —
The truth will hit when even more banks go belly up. I tried to copy a chart of regional banks and their drop in value and here’s a sample: PacWest Bank – 56% all the way down to Southern First at -13% with 17 banks in between. Taxpayers subsidize, then big banks buy them for pennies on the dollar. As soon as they’re all absorbed, they will dictate exactly how we spend our money — what’s left of it.
Your trucking friend could be a clone of a lot of people I know and I used to be one of them. It took the second term of Obama to finally see what that it was all b.s. Nothing was ever going to be done about the banking fiasco, cleaning up the medical system or anything else. When Maxine Waters got away with the lie that a border patrol officer was “whipping men like slaves” and none of the MSM called her out for it (they were horses’ reins and now horses are banned) any shreds of hope were gone. No lie is too petty or ridiculous to be trotted out.
SW,
I agree. Sheila Bair (former chair of the FDIC during the Great Recession) was on cnbc the day after Pac West’s stock price tumbled. She was talking about a bank’s deposits are safe regardless of the stock price. I’m not sure this is entirely true. First, depositors can have above the FDIC insurance limit held by the bank, which could be a problem. Secondly the stock price can effect a company’s rating from the ratings agencies, which will affect cost of capital. Third, there are usually debt covenants and these can be effected if the company’s equity plummets. I didn’t really agree with her interview and she definitely could be lying. I don’t trust the experts anymore.
Wouldn’t it be interesting to find out our congress critters and other various government officials are all liquidating their stock portfolios, especially their bank stocks, while they tell us in a soothing voice that everything is fine?
Nothing was ever going to be done about the fiascos you mentioned. And nothing will ever be done about covid hoax or the vaxx fraud. Dr. Rochelle Walensky announced her retirement from the CDC today because I guess it’s a good time to scamper off. Nothing will be done.
I’m sure a lucrative position awaits Rochelle at a pharmaceutical company and she will always tearfully say she was just doing her job. Leaving out, of course, her job was lying thru her teeth.
Remember Enron and how the top management siphoned off millions while freezing the stock of their employees? I doubt much has changed.
mrs_saj It’s just “normalcy bias” it’s a disorder that cannot be altered until the afflicted are forced or opt to leave the constraints of the box in which they live.
Eventually, something shitty happens and should they survive it, many finally have an Epiphany, that everything is an illusion and the only thing real is love.
IS THIS TRUE?
Both Morgenthau and Eisenhower subscribed to the premise of the book “Germany Must Perish” by author Theodore Kaufman.
This vile tome advocated the destruction of everything German, from art, culture, technical prowess, production and engineering and other German abilities. Kaufman’s book advocated total genocide of the German people including forced sterilization and outright mass-murder.
Most people are unaware of Eisenhower’s “German death camps” in which ordinary German soldiers were interred after the summation of WW2. Conditions were extremely harsh. Food and shelter were not provided despite Red Cross food parcels being readily available.
These men were interred in open-air concentration camps (pens) without basic facilities, totally different than the labor camps run by Germany during the war. Any attempts to provide food to the captives by outsiders was met with summary execution.
Eisenhower denied these captives Geneva Convention protections by refusing to define them as “prisoners of war” (POWs), instead defining them as “disarmed enemy combatants” in violation of Geneva Convention protocols regarding the treatment of captured enemy “prisoners of war”.
General George Patton had other ideas. He protested Eisenhower’s harsh, illegal treatment of German captives and saw the Germans as “good people” (which put him on the “outs” with Eisenhower) that should have been used to push the Soviets out of both western and eastern Europe. German troops could have been used to facilitate the “push” but Patton was countermanded by both Morgenthau and Eisenhower.
Patton lost his life, not in a car accident, but in a hospital where he was taken for “observation”. He was (probably) murdered a few days later.
A lot of German POWs were interred in camps in northern Wisconsin and other labor industries throughout the state. I seem to recall there was a big hemp growing and production industry that was run entirely by German POWs.
Many of them, by choice, were not repatriated to Germany. Especially if they had skills.
I knew a man (RIP Fritz u. Emma) who got captured by the USSR, he spent 7 years digging the subway tunnels under Mockba. He was repatriated in 1950, five years after the “cessation of hostilities”, the “War” never really ended, elsewise why are we still occupying FRG?
The “collective defense” of NATO is Horse shit.
My God! I hope that is not true.
It’s the part of history that you don’t learn in school.
Go to Unz.com & begin to learn the history that you don’t learn in school.
World War Two was us fighting for the International Bankers against the Man who tried to stop them. As he said, My spirit shall rise from the grave and the world will know I was right.
POW ’45
Xwww.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vw4WPRkeOg&ab_channel=BritishPath%C3%A9
Yes, I read about this in a couple of books, how it was Eisenhower’s policy of starving German POWs, and some of our troops who were used as guards were threatened with being shot if they tried to sneak food to them. One of them, Martin Brecht, could speak German, and was used as a translator. We have a lot of blood on our hands from WWII as well.
‘My guess is that’s what will set off a new civil war…’
What a tragedy that it is coming to this. While it is clear that orthodox methods to right the ship are tantamount to wasted time and effort, it is nevertheless a profound disappointment.
Notwithstanding the societal malaise that allowed this train wreck to get as far as it has, I truly doubt that when it comes to ‘civil’ strife, that we shall sit idly by.
We wish for peace and above all to be left alone to live our lives as we see fit. We believe in robust debate, but not rioting and unrest to achieve our ends. We frequently disagree on some issues with our neighbors, but do not seek punitive measures against them based on our differences. Therein is the problem as the left is not hindered by such ‘rules’ and values. Indeed, they have hijacked them vis-a-vis Saul Alinsky to rain hell fire upon their ‘enemies’.
Once the sh*t hits the fan, I believe we’ll see the emergence of a sleeping giant that will throw off the constraints – if one is to put ones life on the line, then the outcome had sure be worthwhile. When absolutely necessary, men will revert to their primordial instincts to protect their lives and the lives of their families.
Vietnam, gulf war 1 and 2 – attacks on Syria, Libya, all of South America, etc. were you been? NATO USA has invaded over 250 countries, killing millions for no other reason than just to kill people/
I think there are usually resources of some sort involved.
The US invaded Honduras over bananas, FFS.
interred?
summation?
If so, Patriots will blow the power grids and attempt to isolate the cities. Everyone will hate them with a passion, even many who thought they agreed with them.
The Illegals are used to privation, and will be useful in hunting down such people. They will be lauded on the NEWS once the power comes back on. USA! USA! USA!
Seth Riches killer?
Now that’s a name I have not heard for a long, long time.
Amazing how many massive crimes have been committed in full view of the public and covered up by our politicians over the past decade or two.
even many who thought they agreed with them. – Jar
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Congrats on the spelling of the bolded word.
No, it’s really spelled thot. Spelling should be phonetic.
Where I come from, if spelling were phonetic, it would be thawt.
I guess now that the news broke that people have jobs (i.e. job growth of 253,000; Black unemployment at record low) that is somehow tied to the drop in gold to $2000 an ounce and silver back to $25/ounce.
Don’t know how these issues correlate to pricing, but it all seems like a scam to me.
That last sentence really hit home w/ hard cognitive dissonance: “and our government tries to stop them from defending our own country” !!!
“and Hillary wearing that “loser” sign plastered on her back”.
The first time I heard Hillary label people like me as “deplorable”, (when actually I’m cute as a button..) I thought to meself, how does that Hag look in a mirror without breaking it?
I’m okay w/ “deplorable”.
She’s the worst of women; the “Undesirable” Hag.
Apparently old Slick Willie fell for her, but that is not saying much. He seemed to molest anything that moved. What a match though, you have to wonder what their early courtship was like.
Someone who attended an event featuring Hillary in Troy, New York, back when she was First Lady, told me that Hillary was actually very pretty in person.
Anyway, you look at pictures from her wedding day and she was the better-looking of the two.
Two good looking parents don’t make a Chelsea.
Google a picture of Dorothy Rodham as a young woman.
I think her daddy is Webb Hubbell.
://blackbag.gawker.com/is-this-chelsea-clintons-real-father-1780376180
Bill isn’t Chelsea’s dad.
Chelsea looks more like pasty-face Bill than like Hillary, IMHO.
She was attractive as a young woman.
And she was intelligent—no denying that.
Some men like intelligent women/girls.
They both were.
That’s why it’s too bad, for the country, that they have become what they have become.
Brilliant insights, as usual.
Agree completely with your conclusion.
“…hardcore accelerationist collapsitarian…” ~ Deep South SR on Twitter, via JHK
I have yet to read your article, Jim, but I love that part/description. 😀
They alter the meaning of words. We make up new ones. Hah!
We’ll see how USA fares in the next year or two.
Anyway, there’s ‘flyover country’ to flee to if no one wants to fight.
And maybe the new immigrants can show some of the locals, poor and privileged alike, how farming , etc., is done.
Set up some raised bed community gardens/plots along California’s nouveau skid-rows, in between the tents, with chickens running around all over the city.
We might even see a trickle up here in Canada.
…And cows and goats roaming around downtown Los Angeles.
…With special milking stations set up in the business districts.
They had a big garden in Watts, I think it was.
The city moved in and destroyed it.
.kqed.org/bayareabites/3519/the-garden-movie-the-life-death-of-a-community-garden-in-los-angeles
FYI, you can’t have chickens or goats in a garden. Chickens scratch up seedlings and goats trample whatever they don’t eat.
Ya, I doubt they can have cows and goats roaming around downtown Los Angeles either. Silliness aside, point taken and understood.
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“The city moved in and destroyed it.” ~ Paula D
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We’ll see how long that lasts.
Rat-A-Licious
BTW, at night I notice a lot more when visiting my garden plots… spiders, centipedes, millipedes, beetles, earthworms, raccoons, deer and, last summer, a rat in someone else’s plot up in their corn-stalks eating the kernels.
I got close enough that if I had some kind of net, like for catching insects or fish, it could have easily been caught and in another time and place, skinned, gutted, cooked over a fire and devoured.
When my mom was a kid, her mom traded a plot of LA land for a horse, because that is the poor businesswoman she was.
Anyway, at the time they lived in North Hollywood and they walked the horse home. I’m pretty sure the horse lived in LA at the time.
Even when I was a kid, there were horses kept all around the suburbs I lived in.
People who don’t understand how overpopulation ruins things are idiots.
I thought Donald Trump was going to pull us out of all this. Meanwhile, check out Jimbo’s cellphone interview w/ RFK Jr.
If you want to know what PDJT did for us, or attempted, look at a list of the documents reversing those things, that were put in front of Joe for his signature just as soon as he was sworn in.
“You are expected to take at face value the claim that “Joe Biden” is actually up for re-election. Could it be more obvious that he’s pretending?” ~ JHK
I only got to that part of your article so far, Jim, but repeat after me:
The emperor has no clothes… The emperor has no clothes… The emperor has no clothes!… 😀
Osborne Cox did nothing wrong.
Sending 1500 US troops to the border to help facilitate a foreign invasion of the nation they have have sworn to protect with their lives.
How humiliating following orders to betray your country.
Yeah, remember when Trump wanted to send the military to our border to protect it, and there was a HUGE uproar that he was racist and that is not the job of the troops.
Now apparently this is perfectly only for Slow Joe Brandon to do, because they are welcoming in future democrat voters. Nothing to see here, move along folks!
” Nothing to see here, move along folks!” ~ cowbell81
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Except immigrants.
I
f the border is permeable one way, maybe it’s permeable the other way too.
So maybe we can see lots of farming setting up and more relatively-local trade and immigrants teaching locals how to do actual stuff beyond sliding their fingers across digital device screens.
Sure, sudden and pronounced immigrations can be tough, but maybe in the medium-run it will work out better than it might otherwise.
We’re all going sit around in a circle and sing Kumbaya together.
Z is a fool.
Z may be a fool but Malthuss is an SLPC plant
“Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars. At the onset of the 20th century, the United States shaped or installed governments in many countries around the world, including neighbors Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.” ~ Wikipedia
May 7, 2023 at 6:07 am
The southern border illegals probably get a year or two of free rent and Snap food assistance. They are here to vote DEMOCRAT, genius! Spare us the “gosh, it won’t be that bad” bullshit..
More likely the new 5th column for the Demoncraps on he order of the brown shirts, or storm troopers, of Nazi Germany. They do have a purpose, and it is not to teach Americans to farm, etc. That is a ridiculous opinion as the true purpose is much more sinister.
Gotta luv the attitude…
You guys can wallow in your echo-chambers and maybe via your sockpuppets all you want but foolishness sometimes misses opportunities when it notices nothing but what it wants to.
Spending too much time online incessantly babbling about ‘nothing’ should likely help in that regard, with one thumb up your arse and another in your sock.
He did send them for a few weeks, just like Obama did. The strung some barbed wire and helped process the “illegals” (obviously they are legal if they’re being let in).
Some of the Left are frothing at the mouth about Biden “militarizing” the border! As if the function of the military isn’t to defend the borders. We have no Department of Defense but only Offense! And that’s the way the Party of Peace (both of ’em) likes it.
If the military can’t defend our borders, what on Earth are they for; and why re we sending money to Ukraine if not for them to defend their border militarily?
No border = no country = Somalia, the Ukraine…
I can guarantee most of them have no concept of that.
When I heard that Bloomberg was predicting that the evil Russkies were going to blow up the underseas cable that moves all financial information from the US to Europe and back, a little lightbulb came on.
It’s been a long time, but I remember Catherine Austin Fitts talking about something stored in the Murrah federal building in OK City that was blown up in the “white terrorist” bombing in 1996.
A financial crisis was averted when the records were destroyed.
I tried to look it up to find out what it was, but all I got was a bunch of “debunking” of the Whitewater crime.
I think it was something else, but I can’t remember.
I did find out that Merrick Garland was the lawyer in charge of “investigating” the crime. That is interesting.
And Building 7 in the WTC destruction was said to have held a whole lot of financial records also, including bonds from the raping of Russia that were to come due in 2001.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was another underseas bombing blamed on Russia, destroying a whole lot of records, and leading to the US joining in the upcoming Spring Offensive they have been pushing so hard.
Everyone knows there is no way that Ukraine can take Russia or their land, but the Nuland/ Sullivan/ Blinken contingent of crooks in the government really, really want their hands on a depopulated Ukraine and a destroyed Russia.
All of them were involved in the coup of 2014.
Problems of the financial crash and the debt due solved, plus a whole new source of oil to keep the fiends in their private jets.
Don’t be surprised if that cable is destroyed.
Paula there are literally hundreds of undersea cables. Just in 2020 36 new lines were put down. I don’t think the Russkies can get them all. Perhaps the USA will have to join in the fun. Can you say Nordstream?
emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2019/12/28/submarine-cables-still-dominate-transoceanic-data-transmission
The first undersea cables were laid down by people from up near you, Egremont I believe, sometime in the late 1850s. I could be off on the date.
A few years ago some of those original cables were dug up off Cape Cod.
I bet those cables were made out of some high-quality copper. Would have loved to get my hands on that for scrap value. That beats stripping out a Tesla charging station any day!
Hmm. I wonder which one Bloomberg was talking about.
Yeah, I didn’t really think the Russians would do it. I just know that the US will blame it on them.
Like Northstream, as you say.
I still think they’ll go for the one, or more, that control financial transactions.
That was a reply to stelmo.
And there was something very suspicious about the exact location of the greatest Pentagon damage on 9/11.
Right now I can’t recall what it was, but probably had to do with the missing trillions Rumsfeld had mentioned a couple of days before.
The auditors working on the missing trillions were targeted. I think most of them were killed.
Someone needs to check out that Weingarten woman’s bank accounts.
It would be funny, if it weren’t so appalling and tragic- she keeps lying on social media, and Twitter keeps adding ‘context’ PROVINg she’s lying.
Then she tells more lies like some filthy skel (which she is) trying to prove that the context is wrong, and she gets caught again.
To think that this woman was somehow handed absolute power over millions of American children.
She was dictating policy to the CDC.
Link?
I hate that bitch with a passion.
Here is one such link.
https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1654457067371937795?s=20
BTW I just learned that Weingarten’s partner in Crime, Rochelle Rochelle, is deserting her post:
…And
@CDCDirector
is out. No successor named and a super-tepid goodbye from Uncle Joe.
Sounds more like fired to me, but what do I know?
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1654543670404689920?s=20
Thanks
I think it may have been someone at this site, long ago, who pointed out that Barack Obama rose suspiciously fast for and outsider, in the world of corrupt Chicago politics.
When Bill Clinton complained that he was the kind of guy who use to get the politicians’ coffee, he wasn’t being rayciss, he was stating a fact.
You pay your dues, you start fetching coffee or holding someone’s coat.
If you are part of a political dynasty, you skip ahead, but a nobody like Barry Soetero doesn’t get to do that without someone really big behind him.
the kind of guy who use to get the politicians’ coffee – B of O
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S/b used to although I prefer yoose to
Typo.
I prefer usta in conversation.
Beryl, whoda thunk that we coulda been makin’ up hole new sentences.
There usta been rules but nope.
That’s Dope!!
I talked about the 2004 senatorial race, when a good looking and intelligent white man had his sealed divorce records opened and the details of his divorce splattered all over the media.
Personally, I didn’t think it was all that shocking, but the Mighty Wurlitzer told me it was, 24/7.
And then the Republicans made the handsome smart white guy quit the race and they put up a batshit crazy ugly black man from another state as their candidate.
Obama won, with that kind of “opposition”.
And then he gave a speech at the 2004 Dem. convention, and the Mighty Wurlitzer told us it was the Most Amazing Speech Ever, and then they told us that Americans were so impressed by the speech that they clamored for him to be the next president.
I still have not heard the speech, but I have my doubts it was that impressive.
I have no doubts who actually wanted him to be the president, though.
It was impressive in that this young African could speak well, according to the media.
They couldn’t believe their luck.
BTW I am positive that I heard some in the media referencing that he was born in Kenya, and then going on to suggest that he should run for president anyway.
It wasn’t the speech that was noteworthy, it was the delivery.
B.O. is a natural, charismatic speecha-fyer. For a good, long time I thought he was in league with the common man.
The “tell” for me was watching him drink a tall glass of Flint, Mi. municipal water I mean, chugging it down and letting loose a sigh of deep satisfaction.
Anybody else see that video too? See what I’m doing?… re-writing history! Maybe there’s a job for me in MSM?
I was never impressed with his delivery. He reminded me of William Shatner with his halting dramatic speech, even with cue cards. Without them, he is even worse.
I didn’t actually see that one they swoon over, though.
Maybe that was one time he did well.
O.B. started to piss me off the night the White House had “an important announcement” 9:00 O’clock came and went, 10: O’clock came and went, at about 10:30 somebody stole Brother Barry’s fire and leaked that O.b. Laden had been dispatched.
I remember saying to the Mrs., “that guy doesn’t give a rats ass about the time he just wasted”, millions of hours nationwide waiting and he doesn’t have the grace to apologize.
It’s a personality disorder named Narcissism.
And the story was total bullshit, to boot.
I remember I went to work the day they announced it and my friend came up and said “I’ve been around you too long, Paula.
When they said they killed him and then threw his body in the ocean, I said ‘That don’t sound right’.
By the end of the week, however, they had told 4 different versions and everyone but me had picked on they liked to believe.
I remained stubbornly resistant to each version.
Well, of course he had someone really big behind him. There’s no other way he could have gotten to the presidency as fast as he did, even with being a “clean, articulate black man.” Same thing with Bill Clinton, though, and George Bush Jr. I read an interesting article many years ago around the time of George Bush’s first election on a site called Exegesis where there was an article discussing his selection for the presidency, that referenced an article written in 1997 that predicted he would be picked to be the next president and why. That’s when I realized that our presidents are selected, not elected.
Beryl,
That could have been me.
I have speculated on how Obama rose through the super-corrupt Chicago Dem Party. He was “mentored” by the Pritzkers, specifically Penny Pritzker.
For details on the underworld-upperworld combo meisters the Pritzkers, see Gus Russo, Supermob and The Outfit. I think it is The Outfit that contains an appendix of enormous Pritzker real estate holdings in California, Nevada (Las Vegas), and elsewhere. They were tied in not only with the Kosher Nostra but also with David Bazalon***, who steered a lot of the property that was stolen from Japanese Americans and German Americans into the hands of the Pritzkers and other Kosher Nostra families.
So, that is who spotted Obama early on, 99% sure paid for his speedy/seedy rise, and he repaid the favor when he was elected by appointing Penny Pritzker his secretary of commerce.
Another Pritzker is the trans activist James/Jennifer Pritzker.
httpX://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-money-behind-the-transgender-movement/
***”. . . In 1947, Assistant Attorney General David L. Bazelon took over as head of the Office of Alien Property Custodian.[23][24] He remained in this post until he received a recess appointment from President Harry S. Truman on October 21, 1949, to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[25] Before he was seated on the bench, Harold L. Ickes, a key figure in the Roosevelt administration, indicated that Bazelon’s activities as head of the Office of Alien Property Custodian warranted a Senate investigation but predicted none would be forthcoming.[26] . . . ”
httpX://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Office_of_Alien_Property_Custodian
Bazalon, too, was a master of the underworld to upperworld game. All of this daughters are now mainstream players and no one talks about the crimes of the father, whose respectability is not questioned—nor of the Pritzkers, who (per Russo), so richly benefited from Bazalon’s pivotal position in the “distribution” of assets stolen from US citizens. .
httpX://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bazelon
Obama’s grandfather was supposedly a furniture salesman who, for some reason, was photographed greeting the first shipment of African students picked to go to US schools and be groomed as US puppets in their home countries.
Obama’s grandmother worked for a bank in Hawaii known for its CIA ties.
Obama’s mother followed her Indonesian husband when he was called back to Indonesia to participate in the purging and murder of 1,000,000 suspected communists in 65. Obama was there also, as a boy, and went to school with the sons of generals who also participated in the genocide.
Then Obama’s mother worked for the Ford Foundation in various targeted countries, I think including Pakistan.
Maybe the Pritzers didn’t spot him, maybe they were assigned to mentor and fund him.
One way or another he ended up in Chicago.
I copyedited a book long ago that made it clear that someone was paying for Obama very early on. That is, when he was first running for office in Illinois someone was paying for flags, posters, media trucks, etc., the whole rigmarole that people need campaign funds to pay for.
Also probably paid for crowds to show up at BO’s speeches and create “spontaneous” political excitement and something to report.
Yes, good point. Why would someone from Hawaii and Kansas move to Chicago to be groomed?
He had no ties there.
Paula,
I think it is pretty well established that Obama was “mentored” by Penny Pritzker.
Understood. I’m just asking who assigned him to her.
Early records are clear: He was a foreign student. His later birth certificate was a bad forgery – them mocking us again.
“The world may appear a mundane place, but in fact it is filled with a variety of enigmatic and mysterious ores. Haruki Murakami
Too many of you try to reduce the complexity of the world to a conspiracy theory or two. It’s not that. The world is a gift full of treasure if you have the insight to see it. Blaming our fate on other people’s chicanery is fool’s gold. We’re not left or right. We’re workers who do better when we bargain collectively than when we allow our would-be masters to divide us.
Yeah just lie back and accept alien invasion. Look up at the ceiling and think of England. Did not the poet say, He who knows only England knows not England? So the aliens will help us love what used to be our own country even more.
As Elrond said to his daughter, take your love for Aragorn into the undying land where it will be forever green. She replied, But only as a memory.
ElRond hasn’t been trolling here in ages…
Jarek To the “upside”, my belief is that a lot of the “un-registered guests” streaming across the imaginary line btw USA & USMex are Christians.
They hold many of the same values that USA was founded upon and are in concurrence with the 11 commandments.
(the 11th commandment is a secret known only to me and God and God ain’t tellin’.. but, I will, for a price..).
a) Christians have often fought each other. Men fight, birds drink.
b) The conversion of savages to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.
G.B Shaw
I have little doubt that the many of the gangsters go to mass, and confession. They have much to confess – like cutting off people’s faces and stiching them on to basketballs.
Sounds like the Aztecs, right? The old Religions is always trying to come back. The Church itself suppressed a Mexican cult of “St Death” a few years ago.
When I look at those crowds of migrants, I don’t see any “Capos”. What I do see are faces of ordinary folks looking for a reason to have hope.
There are a lot of young “bucks” in the crowds and they bear watching, maybe a kick in the crotch followed up with “welcome to the United States, behave yourself”?
But the women and kids are not any problem. The women don’t let the kids run rampant and related or not, if they see somebody acting out, they chastise that individual in public.
IMHO, those are the people we are lacking in our society, those who would call bullshit on trashing stores, harassing strangers, destroying private property.
Thus we diverge. A Nation is one People. Google the etymology of the word. The Founders never considered Blacks or Indians to be potential Americans. It was to be Us, all Us. By Us, for Us.
As the Irish phrase says, For ourselves, ourselves alone.
The Irish phrase, Sinn Fein
What we have now is just a “country” or political/geographical zone. A polygot, mulitethnic, little empire. A whole lot of nuthin’. The mystic chords of memory have all been cut.
Such a fiction or imitation of the real nation can and will be merged with the North American Union and the latter with the larger Global order.
Speaking of Big Mike Michelle Obama:
Michelle Obama’s juice drink deal puts wealth above health of children, some critics say
httpsXX://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/michelle-obama-s-juice-drink-deal-puts-wealth-above-health-of-children-some-critics-say/ar-AA1aM59y
Former first lady Michelle Obama’s newly-announced kids’ juice drink venture has come under scrutiny by some critics who say the beverage is secretly loaded with sugar and additives, and that Obama is putting her own bottom line above the well-being of children.
“We’re hoping not to just provide healthy and delicious drinks and snacks for kids, but to jumpstart a race to the top that will transform the entire food industry,” Obama wrote in a PLEZi Nutrition press release announcing the launch. “Because let’s face it, even after everything we accomplished during the White House years, it is still simply too hard for kids to grow up healthy.”
PLEZi Nutrition is rolling out its first product, a fruit juice for kids, in four flavors that it says contains 75% less sugar than average leading 100% fruit juices.
On “Jesse Watters Primetime,” host Jesse Watters quipped that with her husband out of his power perch in the White House, it is “her time to shine,” but that her kids drinks may not be as healthy as advertised.
He read additives from the label of Obama’s new product, reporting it contains citric acid, ascorbic acid, sodium citrate, and magnesium citrate:
“You know what drink tastes really refreshing and doesn’t have any of that? Oh, yeah – water. But water doesn’t make you richer than your husband,” he said.
“As a parent, I am begging Michelle Obama — this might not fund the new house in Martha’s Vineyard, but please, for the sake of children, speak clearly: Kids should not be eating sugar and not be drinking sugar.”
Means said sugar is a provably addictive substance that negatively affects juvenile health – adding that Obama is in a similar position as Dr. Anthony Fauci was when he instructed Americans to submit to the coronavirus vaccine injection, because of his public stature.
Michele Obama dropped her “Let’s Move” campaign to fight childhood obesity, in order to get involved in school lunches.
This was right after Jamie Oliver was starting to have success in his campaign to improve school lunch programs and comat obesity by having schools serve more real food.
Obama had a background working for Big Agra, purveyors of that starchy and heavily processed stuff that fits the government nutrition guidelines to a T.
If you look closely at what Michele’s idea of a “healthy” lunch consists of, you will see what I mean.
For some reason, whenever people hear school lunches, they conflate the topic in their minds with free lunches, and start complaining that it’s the parents’ responsibility to make a child’s lunch.
High schools that I know of have always had cafeterias.
During the Obama regime the Obamas paid a fortune to put in an organic garden but wouldn’t you know the soil was full of lead and other toxic compounds!
They could never get the garden certified organic.
Around the same time the biggest loser show did some promo with the obama non-organic garden where the contestants were allowed access to this garden of bliss.
Turns out during the Bill Clinton era they decided to use recycled toilet to plants water that was only partially cleaned up.
There you have it folks the obamas fed sewage tainted food full of lead and God only knows what to a bunch of fatties and on national teevee no less.
npr.org/2016/10/06/496894618/michelle-obamas-kitchen-garden-will-keep-blooming-even-after-she-leaves
motherjones.com/politics/2009/06/did-sludge-lace-obamas-veggie-garden-lead/
And the obamas continue to shovel shit at the people of these United States in the form of old crypt keeper Joe.
Sugar is poison.
Next product to boycott: Mars and their Skittles candy:
Skittles is celebrating Pride Month by dropping its signature rainbow design and using its packaging to celebrate the work of artists within the LGBTQ+ community.
The candy’s annual Pride packs will go on sale ahead of June, which is designated as Pride Month in the U.S. and other countries.
For each package of the specially designed Skittles Pride Pack sold, Skittles’ parent company Mars will donate $1 (up to $100,000 total) to GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
Skittles partnered with five prominent artists who designed the special packaging in honor of Pride Month. The company said each artist’s package tells “a visual story of Pride.”
Each package will also feature a scannable QR code which will direct to a dedicated Pride page on Skittles’ website where people can read more about each artist.
“As part of Mars Wrigley’s commitment to inspire moments of everyday happiness, SKITTLES is honored to once again celebrate, uplift, and provide visibility to the LGBTQ+ community,” said Gabrielle Wesley, Chief Marketing Officer, Mars Wrigley North America. “This year, our artist partners are using their pack designs to tell stories of LGBTQ+ experiences – stories that have the power to create community, reveal identity and generate empathy.”
Officials for Mars say there are more plans in the works for Pride Month, featuring more partnerships and collaborations with LGBTQ organizations and creators.
The Skittles Pride Packs are available at retailers nationwide through mid-July. This is the fourth year Skittles has celebrated Pride Month with specially designed packages.
httpsXX://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/skittles-ditches-rainbow-packaging-to-highlight-lgbtq-artists-for-pride-month/ar-AA1aMNRE
Where is this LGBTQ community located? They never say.
Somewhere over the rainbow.
Good one.
Jack Daniels has partnered with Tranny Inc too. Alas Jack, we hardly knew ye.
Gives a whole new meaning to “Gentleman Jack”.
Zing…
And there, there overhead, there, there, hung over
Those thousands of white faces, those dazed eyes,
There in the starless dark, the poise, the hover,
There with vast wings across the cancelled skies,
There in the sudden blackness, the black pall
Of nothing, nothing, nothing — nothing at all.
Archibald MacLeish
Okay, here’s what I think.
The US is being dismantled in every possible way–ways that I don’t think I need to enAnumerate.
I think we are headed for something nearly identical to the collapse of the USSR, which will be immediately followed by the seizure or sell-off of most of our resources to persons identical to the “oligarchs” who bought (on the cheap) or seized the resources of the former USSR. In other words, basically gangsters. (I’ll bet they have already cut deals with our more prominent politicians, to obtain things like farmland, forests, and mineral rights.)
In fact, my guess would be that is exactly what happened during the final days of the USSR. Politicians made deals with bankers and opportunistic gangsters to sell out (or sell off) the country. And the politicians were rewarded by generous kick-backs.
The Bidens and some others provide examples in real time.
So…. Some years from now, we can expect the president of our country to make a speech in which he refers to the US as “the former USA–as I have read that Gorbachev, in a public speech, referred to the USSR as “the former USSR.” Then the vultures will swoop in, and our “leaders” will sell off all our assets at bagain-basement prices.
I think that’s what we’re being set up for and that, for the most part, it’s all pre-arranged–just as I suspect it was all pre-arranged in Russia, years before the collapse. I’ll bet that deals (and deeds and titles) have already been inked.
What I would expect to follow would pretty much what happened in the USSR after 1991, except it will be quite a bit worse here, for a variety of reasons.
Yeah, there’s a spoiler to that scenario, though, and that’s the asteroid Apophis, forecast by NASA to hit the Pacific in April 2029. There is an asteroid, called a star, that falls to earth that is named Wormwood, prophesied in Revelation, about halfway into the tribulation. This asteroid poisons the waters and destroys a third of shipping.
I’ve mentioned this here before, but Chernobyl translates as “wormwood.” Or at least as one of several species of wormwood.
“……………tens of thousands of people………….will be ushered illegally across the Rio Grande by agents of the US State Department…………..The inflow will continue indefinitely.”
Just like the April 22, 1889 land rush in slow motion.
Exhilaration coursed through veins. Hearts were ablaze with the thrill of the chase.
50,000 land-hungry settlers eagerly anticipated their signal. All racing to stake claims on what they hoped would be new homesteads .
Then as now. Looking for a new life is a criminal activity.
Kdog is saying that the illegals are just as American as we are. Cue in John Lennon’s “Imagine”.
They never change. It’s mind virus, our own home grown form of Communism. Just like Libertarianism and Feminism. They cannot be allowed in any America 2.0. They are simply too addictive and take too many minds, never giving them back.
If these people could make life better they would have made the places they come from livable.
It’s just like liberals fleeing the places they destroyed to more conservative areas. Both the liberals and the illegals are going to destroy their newfound homes, much like a plague of locusts.
Here’s a novel thought: every citizen that has one of those “Hate Has No Home Here” signs in their front yard should be mandated by the government to take in a family of illegals. This is the humane thing to do, right? And our government loves mandates, so I say go for it.
This is far too simple a statement.
Come on, now.
Do you have any idea what the western powers did to Central and South America? No???
All of the western hemisphere, save the Caribbean Islands, is America.
NA
CA
SA
Most “Americans” are unaware that calling themselves American is rather ironic (it does not confer the individuality they perhaps intended)
Nah, gringo works better.
And all of the Earth is considered the Earth, unless you are on the Moon. Is it therefore ironic that we call ourselves Earthlings?
There is such a thing as borders, and we as American citizens have the right to choose who to confer said citizenship rights upon.
And what if a country called its citizens Earthlings and complained when other Earthlings started showing up.
You would think them stupid, unless you’re like Cowbell, and are totally oblivious of your stupidity.
Edge shaves with a pink lady razor (Gillette) to prove that all is one. No male or female. Black or White. Citizen or Alien. All ONE. A giant Amoeba!
But does Edge also use Edge brand shaving cream? Or does he opt for Pure Silk Raspberry Mist in the pink can?
I shave with a straight blade Jarek
This country’s name is the United States of America.
That’s why we call ourselves American.
If South America was the United States of South America, and central America was the United States of Central America, and Canada was the United Canadian States of North America…then you’d have a point.
But you don’t.
“Los Estados Unidos de Mexico” exists.
Speaking of RFK Jr., I see he has managed to come out against illegal immigration.
Old habits die hard, and he had to, he just HAD TO (I can’t do italics) display a little bleeding heart liberalism when he talked about th factors that might make someone cross our borders illegally, i.e,. our government causing problems in the places where they live.
While it is a fact that yes our government does do that, the only women I personally know and know of who came here for that “better life” managed to do so following the rules, and they didn’t drag their children across with them, they got established and sent for them later.
The people poised to barge in are criminals and mostly grown men and I don’t care about them or their better life nor should my government, except to make sure our government stays out of their home countries.
Consider that JFKs buddy is the one who opened the floodgate in 1965.
Now a kennedy is against illegals.
Consider Teddy said ‘the 65 law will bring in 5000’.
Pray tell, what kind of politician would come out against Federal Taxation? ?
Uh-oh, Bob Jun’r is already reverting to type. He’s in safety mode, putting down illegal immigration without a word about the tsunami of legal immigration that is the real national death sentence.
Beryl,
Italics are easy.
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Immediately preceding the words you want italicized you type:
less than sign small letter i greater than sign (no spaces in between) THIS TURNS THE ITALICS ON.
immediately following the words you want italicized you type:
less than sign / small letter i greater than sign (no spaces in between) THIS TURNS THE ITALICS OFF.
———————————————–
That is a forward slash before the second use of small letter i.
Try it out on an old essay, to look at your results more privately. It’s called HTML code.
Bold works the same way. Instead of small letter i, you use small letter b.
Doesn’t work on my computer….
Could this eventually be implemented un the USA?
Kenya eyes 3% tax on crypto, NFTs to boost revenue
As Kenya explores ways to shore up its finances and increase government revenue, lawmakers in the country are looking to tax cryptocurrency and nonfungible token (NFT) transactions as a potential source of income according to a newly introduced bill to the Kenyan parliament.
Received by the national assembly on May 4, the Finance Bill 2023 is looking to amend the Income Tax Act by inserting a section that establishes “a tax to be known as digital asset tax” that “shall be payable by a person on income derived from the transfer or exchange of digital assets.”
Based on the text of the bill, the owner of the platform or the person who facilitates any exchange or transfer of a digital asset will be responsible for collecting the appropriate tax and submitting it to the Commissioner.
“A person who is required to deduct the digital asset tax shall, within twenty-four hours after making the deduction, remit the amount so deducted to the Commissioner together with a return of the amount of the payment, the amount of tax deducted, and other such information the Commissioner may require,” the bill reads. “The rate of tax in respect of digital asset tax shall be three percent of the transfer or exchange value of the digital asset.”
Non-residents who own a platform on which Kenyans conduct digital asset exchanges will be required to “register under the simplified tax regime.”
A digital asset is defined as anything of value that is not tangible, including “cryptocurrencies, token code, number held in digital form and generated through cryptographic means or otherwise, by whatever name called, providing a digital representation of value exchanged with or without consideration that can be transferred, stored or exchanged electronically.”
The definition also included non-fungible tokens (NFTs), “or any other token of a similar nature.”
The income derived from the transfer or exchange of a digital asset will be determined by “the gross fair market value consideration received or receivable at the point of exchange or transfer of a digital asset.”
Highlighting the changing landscape of the global employment market, the bill also looks to impose a tax on “digital content monetization,” applying a 15% tax on content creators who are paid to promote various products and services online. This includes activities such as sponsorships, affiliate marketing, paid subscriptions, licensing content, crowdfunding and merchandise sales.
Anything to suck more money from the public is possible in this country, now.
Amazon went for a few years with no sales tax on purchases. Not now.
All day yesterday I greeted everyone I met, “May the forth be with you.” (pain) and now it is, only to my certain friends, “May the fifth be with you”. After all the sadness of JHK’s doom writing and the doom remarks, let there be a little humor though I admit the above is very little. Life should be a balance, be prepared, be ready, be kind, and just live in this wonderful world we have. Squirrels and foxes and birds and blossoms. Look around for good things to be thankful for and (if you are lucky like me) you will find them.
Indeed, I always “plead the Fifth”.
That stupid May the 4th be with you thing was quite the meme yesterday. Never heard of it before. Chalk it up to our real life Idiocracy.
Lyndy33,
There’s a good job waiting for you at a greeting card company.
Hmmm…
“Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray have foolishly made themselves accessories in all that crime by working to cover it up.”
This would not be the first time.
What makes this statement revelatory is that it confirms that many of us forgot about the same crimes from the same characters.
Garland’s were memory-holed on 09/11.
Terrence Yeakey was suicided.
As was Trentadue
Andreas Strossmeier was escorted from the US by the CIA.
Off to a kibbutz, of all places, some say.
And Timmy McVeigh was convicted, declined appeal, not autopsied, and cremated in record time.
Thanks to ole Merrick.
The only “witness” to his machinations was placed in witness protection and disappeared.
And so did this crime disappear from the minds and memories of most Americans.
I had no idea how many places Garland had popped up previously.
Explains a lot.
Can you imagine if Garland had been put on the Supreme Court. I shudder with the thought.
As if it could be any worse than it is at present.
You prefer the current grifters, like Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh & (even) Roberts?
You forgot a few there, Mike.
Says a leftist loon
Alito and Thomas were for the Court taking Trump’s case on the stolen election. They’re solid. The others are either weak (Trump’s two picks) or in the Camp of the Enemy with you.
Clarence Thomas is an impressive man. Don’t care for the rest.
Mike Sherman is not a man.
These responses are very interesting.
“jgalt” insults with a throwaway and nothing to actually offer.
Jarek, unsurprisingly, finds two whom he THINKS would be Trump supporters, the rest he calls ‘weak’.
Night Owl is impressed by Thomas, the (by far) most corrupt judge in recent history.
Night Owl, do you actually NOT see anything compromising in Thomas’s behavior, or is it a case of “he might be corrupt, but he’s MY kind of judge [therefore all good!]”?
@NightOwl
What’s with you and that nasty streak? Do you never resist the urge to sling shit or do you reserve that liberating activity to your time on the interwebz?
JohnAZ,
I was just going to type that and then I thought, “Wait, on the Supreme Court he just gets to vote yea or nay. Even if he gets it wrong every time, he can just be considered a far left justice. Out in the world, he can do an infinite amount of harm in his various roles.
We might have been better off with him on the bench with other eight robed ones.
We’ll never know.
But I do have to acknowledge that after Garland’s nomination by Obama failed in 2016, the next nominee was Trump’s Gorsuch. That is a pretty big swing from Garland to Gorsuch!
Nobody thought anything of it, either, as I recall. Another interesting thing I thought of from around that time: If the Branch Davidians had been black, would Waco have happened?
Well, you answered your own question.
The objective was to infiltrate and destroy “white nationalist” groups.
White nationalist being any group of people who are white, traditionalist, and arereluctant to embrace multi-culturalism.
Granted, there are some extremists with an ideology built on hatred, but they are a rare minority.
Garland hasn’t stopped. His FBI was trying to infiltrate and destroy Latin Mass Catholic Churches.
Imagine a goy AG intent on destroying a certain religious/ethnic group who refuses to assimilate?
Refuses to intermarry.
Refuses open borders.
Refuses me before thee.
We want universality.
They want special treatment, and they have a name for you if you call them out in their manipulative bullshit.
So you’re a White Nationalist – like the Founding Fathers? If not, why not. Show your work.
See the news link for vomit-inducing pictures:
httpsXX://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-harris-mark-cinco-de-mayo-with-quesadilla-churros/ar-AA1aNuzY
President Joe Biden celebrated Cinco de Mayo on Friday by stepping out for a quesadilla and tacos at a Washington food hall. His unannounced visit prompted one onlooker to remark, “This is the most D.C. thing that’s ever happened to me.”
President Joe Biden celebrated Cinco de Mayo on Friday by stepping out for a quesadilla and tacos at a Washington food hall. His unannounced visit prompted one onlooker to remark, “This is the most D.C. thing that’s ever happened to me.”
It doesn’t matter who runs for the Democratic party, though Bobby2 is sort of inspiring. Americans are sick of the lying grifting party that has overstayed its invitation to cure the ills of the nation. Especially with that grifter of a president. It will be a ‘rout’. Maybe DeSantis, but keep a close eye on Kevin Roberts. Tucker didn’t go hunting with the Heritage Foundation for nothin’. A proposal likely offered. No better way to get a candidate national attention than with a guy like Tucker in your wheelhouse…
Of course RFK Jr’s candidacy has brought with it many explanations.
One, is that he will serve as the cuck (normally reserved for Bernie and his stoner gimmee-something young voters).
As the cuck, RFK’s role is to bring the anti-war and anti-vax centrists into the tent, but only to push them into the booth for the DNC’s candidate.
I find this theory very unlikely.
Now RFK Jr. is certainly old left when it comes to two things: firearms and the environment, but he is not radical left, and his platform demonstrates how radical left today’s DNC is with it’s full embrace of empire, war, autocrats, government decrees, and curtailments of freedoms.
Same thing said in 2020, but the Demoncraps managed to steal elections, including the Presidency, all across the country. The means to steal is still in place in most jurisdictions, and few are attacking that problem. Arizona is a good example of the steal, with Katie Hobbs, a true buffoon, elected by fraud, fighting Kari Lake in court, and Kari just might pull this one out. I hope and pray you are correct, and the Demoncraps are beaten badly, hopefully destroyed as a party.
Ha! Go figure!
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a safety warning against the use of some recalled at-home COVID-19 tests.
The FDA says SD Biosensor Inc. Pilot COVID-19 at-home tests, which are distributed by Roche Diagnostics, have been recalled over concerns of bacterial contamination in the liquid solution that comes in the test kits. The FDA is urging both consumers and health care providers to stop using the affected tests.
According to the FDA, direct contact with the contaminated liquid could pose a safety concern such as possible skin irritation or bacterial infection. The contamination could also affect the performance of the test, including potentially false results, the FDA says.
Around 500,000 of the recalled tests were distributed to CVS Health, and around 16,000 went to Amazon. The FDA and Roche Diagnostics are working together to determine how many were sold to consumers.
The FDA also urges people to watch for signs of bacterial infection, such as fever, discharge, red eyes or other potential symptoms. If signs emerge, get medical attention.
Cowbell
How could this happen, we have foolproof controls on our processes?
Hmm, have we heard this before about a lab in Wuhan?
I was shocked when it was announced that another lab was in Sudan. What the heck are the “scientists” doing, sampling Mother Nature everywhere to find better ways to kill each other?
Q. Shtik – we may have both been late on the wager concerning “Joe Biden”:
httpX://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A6b4B_RBsQU&pp=ygUGTWF5IDE5
Q. Shtik – we may have both been late on the wager concerning “Joe Biden”: – messi
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Not sure what you’re getting at here. The youtube link had something to do with difficulties people have pooping. I don’t see the connection to some wager you and I made.
Please explain in plain English.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=A6b4B_RBsQU&pp=ygUGTWF5IDE5
Bad link I guess.
Very nice. What a great weapon: one of the best writers of this era focused on the real issues.
Let’s hope Bobby Jr and Trump are paying attention. Imagine if they could channel this level of fire and brimstone.
Forget apolgizing, hedging or any other favorite political balancing technique. The ship is on fire, is in fact sinking, and it’s time to get real about solutions.
It’s actually way too late for solutions now, but its certainly time for laying blame for how we got into this mess in the first place and eliminating the bad actors who were and are at the root of it. Then it’s time for the messy breakup. There’s no coming back from this. False hope is worse than no hope at all.
Re “t’s actually way too late for solutions now, but its certainly time for laying blame for how we got into this mess in the first place and eliminating the bad actors who were and are at the root of it. ”
I had just started to watch this amazing video (below) when “the world” disappeared.
Disconnected from the internet all day owing to Comcast screw-up (upgrade, that is; affecting people in Mass and Maryland).
I am at the library.
httpX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mK-FMY1374
“Stunning Short History — of Why the World Has Gone Mad”
It is all here and a lot that I didn’t know. The history of the Rockefellers’ plan to gain control of the world. How they hired Kissinger from Harvard, pushed Klaus Schwab under his nose, etc. And all the steps, how it developed from there. There focused on health and climate as the two issues that would give them the arguments to declare global emergencies. They are now doing that all the time. It has become rhetorically axiomatic that we are in a global climate emergency.
Please make time to watch this.
New (to me) factoid: The timing of Greta Thunberg’s arrival on the Maritzia ( maybe named for Maurice Strong?). Per the Swedish PhD of the Pharos Foundation, Nordegang (I think) who put this video and the story together, the vessel was paid for by Prince Albert of Monaco.
Nordegang highlights the agreement between the UN and the WEF in June 2019.
He also states that the head of Russia’s Sperbank is a trustee of the WEF
He also states that the Pharos Foundation has at their site a total list of all the global leaders and global apprentices connected with the 457 global hubs. This list would be interesting to see. I’ll check it out when I get home (with the “hot spot” that the library has lent to me—a new experience—hope it works!.
So, yeah, we need to get rid of the “bad actors,” and they are all featured in the video. We need to start calling out anyone with a WEF connection and tell them to get out of our public life.
And why the USA? Because they can do pretty much what they want here. Like the Mafia when they left Italy, where to go? Where we can get away with anything we want.
The WEF wants global control. Their main opponent is the US, so they are destroying us, not destroying, just making us subordinate.
Boy are they gonna be surprised when the US is surpassed by BRICS++ and the WEF is second fiddle to those folks.
Yep. The US was always their easiest way in. Easily subverted democracy and all that.
“The WEF wants global control. Their main opponent is the US, so they are destroying us, not destroying, just making us subordinate.”
John, have a look at this from the perspective of equity and equitable.
Would you agree that the West, and the US in particular, has been the primary beneficiary of the existing format for life? Wouldn’t this explain why the “WEF” thinks that the US should be the first to sacrifice?
I don’t see the US leadership as being an opponent, but quite the opposite, where “Joe Biden” has taken the lead and is fully on-board with the Build Back Better/Great Reset/2030 agendas.
Early on, at the G7 there was the pr “we’re back” and we will see where we are at in a year. My read was that “we’re back” meant that the Build Back Better/Great Reset/2030 agendas were back on (after Trump had basically torpedoed them), and “we will see where we are at in a year” meant that the agenda would be implemented, but it would have to be stealth for a year to see if it could gain traction, before getting more aggressive and coming out in the open with it.
I think that the WEF plan can easily integrate within Xi’s plan, and it remains to be seen which side everyone is on. I think that Kerry has sold-out the US population, and push come to shove, that “Joe Biden” will not hesitate to take a back seat to Xi.
Here is a webpage at the Swedish Pharos Foundation with links to all of the WEF’s Global Leaders of Tomorrow and Young Global Leaders “classes.”
The database is organized by year/”class.”
httpX://blog.jacobnordangard.se/wef-ygl-list/
httpX://maloneinstitute.org/wef
The WEF’s “strategic partners” are listed here:
httpX://www.weforum.org/communities/strategic-partnership-b5337725-fac7-4f8a-9a4f-c89072b96a0d
All of these unelected elites should be eliminated from public life.
Also, King Charles, while we are at it.
Per Alex Thomson, at UK Column, the oath of allegiance to King Charles has been changed so that he can be King of Everything, not just the English. Some have decided NOT to swear allegiance to him. He is a WEF cutout.
It’s beyond me that anyone would declare allegiance to this ghoul. I didn’t watch any of his shameful coronation and nor did millions of my compatriots (not just Scottish). I had to pay for it, though, even though he has a fortune of £600,000,000).
The military police were out in force, clamping down on the ‘Not My King’ protesters. Reading comments on MSN articles, quite a lot of the public approve their heavy-handed tactics. The country is truly split, but Charles wasn’t popular even before the WEF came to the fore.
Thanks for the links, islander – will copy-paste them for later.
The promotion is that “all nations must participate”.
Do you have an opinion if Xi is in or out? How about Putin? How about the other BRICS members?
“Do you have an opinion if Xi is in or out? How about Putin? How about the other BRICS members?”
Is that question directed toward me?
If so, the answer is: I don’t know. I don’t think so, but Putin and Xi are sophisticated stratgists, and I expect that they both (their govts) have a number of plans A, B, and C. I am quite sure that both leaders are patriots.
I have written to my friend in Moscow to ask him whether he thinks Putin/Russia is on board with the?WEF or not.
Speculation on my part is that Putin realizes that Russia is positioned for growth, and he did not want to saddle his population with the WEF agenda, and he also realizes that the WEF plans to muscle any nation that does not participate with the WEF/2030 agenda into compliance. This thinking would also justify his actions in regard to Ukraine.
As for Xi, like you, I speculate that he is keeping his options open, although any plan he chooses, he won’t settle for any position but the top. I speculate that the WEF option is still open because of the warm welcome that he put on for Macron.
As for the other BRICS members, my thoughts are that they have decided to throw-in with whatever Xi does, also thinking in terms that their countries are positioned for the coming growth cycle, and China’s belt and road will benefit them greatly.
What does your friend in Moscow foresee for the future? Who does he think has the upper hand in Ukraine? Does he think that Putin’s actions regarding Ukraine have been justified?
So far I have not had an answer from him re Putin/WEF.
I am quite sure he completely backs Putin’s position on the Ukraine.
Anyone who (like my friend and to a certain extent like me) has followed the role of Ukraine in creating various types of problems for Russia since BEFORE the Maidan—going back for decades—understands why Russi finally had to put a stop to the political abscess suppurating (sp?) on its European border and the genocide of Russian speakers in the Donbass.
My friend does agree with me that the Neocons have wrecked the USA. It is clear that they are trying to wreck Russia. He also congratulates ME on Victory Day!!
Remember, Ukraine was already assessed to be the most corrupt country in Europe (or was it the world??) well before the Maidan.
Re “Stunning Short History — of Why the World Has Gone Mad”—the history recounted there—I wonder what the link was between Kissinger and Schwab?
Rockefeller chose Kissinger to take charge of setting up the proto-WEF entity under the Harvard umbrella. Then, it looks as though Kissinger chose Schwab to actually head up the new entity and pull it together.
My question:
Vy did zey choose zeese guy Schwab?
Ver ze fuch did zey find heem. ?
I would love it for someone to do a document search that would reveal all of the communications between Rockefeller, Kissinger, and Schwab at the founding of the WEF precursor org.
Schwab was not a diplomat, not an economist, not a historian, not an academic, not a politician, not part of any kind of public administration.
He was an engineer heading up an engineering firm with international connections, some of them decidedly “interesting,” such as with South Africa and its nuclear program. He was in the same business as his father.
Why would they choose someone like him? What did he bring to the project?
Did he have connections to Israel’s nuke program?
Why was he chosen? Did Kissinger and Rockefeller choose him, or did someone else actually choose him?
Was he a good candidate precisely because of his family’s association with the Nazi regime and its attempts to develop an atomic bomb? So, a kind of camo? Who are his bosses?
Perhaps this will provide you with a few additional pieces to the puzzle:
Special Report: The World’s Most Powerful Secret Societies: Who’s Really Running the World?
outsiderclub.com/report/the-worlds-most-powerful-secret-societies-whos-really-running-the-world/1063
“Pretend to the End”
Pretending to do something instead of actually doing it is something every kid learns early in their young lives. Because pretending takes little to no effort and ‘doing’ requires… effort. And kids hate that.
And the next lesson kids learn early is to lie. Because, the truth is hard. The truth carries consequences. And people will do almost anything to avoid consequences.
And then these same kids grow up and take high positions in Government and Corporate America and the Medical Mafia. While still lying and pretending. And making big decisions for all the rest of us.
“Who will they slot in when ‘Joe B’ gets the hook? Michelle Obama, of course.”
The last gasps of air for America before drowning in a full Sea of Wokeness.
“You’re aware, no doubt of the situation on the Mexican border.”
Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone! A celebration of victory over foreign control and influence.
It’s too bad that America has no such victories to celebrate these days over foreign control and influence… ‘foreign’ meaning in full-flower of that word. Anything foreign to what America was supposed to be and stand for.
Of course, we could always ‘Pretend!’ that everything is great. A return to the bliss of our childhood and the avoidance of truth and consequence that brings such pleasure.
Truth or Consequences is not just a town in Southern New Mexico. But very soon, that might be the only evidence of it left standing.
Been to T or C a few times. Nice little burg back in the day. Probably gone all narco since, though.
How about Roswell, NM? I hear there are “aliens” there. Also, Las Vegas, NM always got rather confusing.
Roswell’s pretty much a nothing burger. A few clip joints downtown cashing on the alien stuff, and not much else.
Las Vegas is pretty quiet too. Not much going on there at all, although if you take the back roads from there to Taos and Angel Fire the scenery is pretty spectacular, especially in the fall. Other than that, pretty much just a way station for the traffic headed north for CO.
Where did Pat Garret & Billy the Kid shoot it out? Was that in Los Vegas NM?
Nah, that was in Ft. Sumner, not real far from Las Vegas, and just up the road from where I used to live and went to school in Portales, NM. Really nice little quiet town in the middle of nowhere. That’s what I love about rural NM. If you can’t stand crowds of people, this is the place to live. Boring as hell, which is just the way people around here like it. I think I’ll likely buy a place cheap in a little town like that if I ever get around to retiring. The wind whistling across the open prairie is an acquired taste, but once you have it…
To add, my step dad, my mom, and my uncle came to visit me once each (separately) while I lived in Portales, and they were all disappointed as hell that I’d chosen to live in such an out of the way place. That was when I knew it was absolutely perfect. Any place my relatives couldn’t stand was exactly the kind of place I wanted to be.
There is always a percentage of people in America who refuse to believe that New Mexico is within the United States. Geography is not taught any more because no one knows how or cares to read a map anymore and there is no Woke or racial angle to play up to with geography.
Plus, borders don’t matter any more according to the false-gods-among-us so why bother teaching that stuff.
But Truth or Consequences? Yikes. That name probably has to go, too. Don’t want to give the youth of Nation something to get triggered over or confused about maybe wanting themselves.
The city changed its name from Hot Springs[7] to Truth or Consequences as the result of a radio show contest. In March 1950, Ralph Edwards, the host of the popular NBC Radio quiz show Truth or Consequences, announced that he would air the program on its 10th anniversary from the first town that renamed itself after the show; Hot Springs officially changed its name on March 31, 1950, and the program was broadcast from there the following evening. Edwards visited the town during the first weekend of May for the next 50 years. This event became known as Fiesta and eventually included a beauty contest, a parade, and a stage show. The city still celebrates Fiesta each year during the first weekend of May. The parade generally features local dignitaries, last year’s Miss Fiesta pageant queen, and the winner of Hatch Chile Queen pageant. Fiesta also features a dance in Ralph Edwards Park.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_Consequences,_New_Mexico
There is always occasional talk around ‘T or C’ to change the name back to Hot Springs. Probably something the Wokesters today would be in favor of until they find some divisive angle to play off with the name Hot Springs, too. Or perhaps pushing an unintended sexual implication to further confuse our youth.
But as for Hatch Chile? Damn, damn good. No question.
If you have ever resided on the eastern seaboard you have probably met a few people who claim to be descendants of Mayflower pilgrims (religious nutjob outcasts) or King’s Grant/Charter landowners (indentured servants).
Most Americans do not want to admit that their forebears were cheap labor.
Mar-machine cannon fodder.
Indian-land expansion tomahawk fodder.
Sweatshop fodder.
Steel plant.factory fodder.
Bodies to fuel the greed and expansion machine.
Mayorkas’ ostensibly Romanian family was rejected and forced to go to Cuba. America wasn’t hiring communists.
Perhaps he harbors some antipathy.
Yeah Romanian in the same sense Kerry is Irish or Hungarian.
You don’t believe the family legend?
They spun a globe and a finger magically landed on “Kerry”
You need to play the same game
Start taking their names.
Ralph Lauren won’t care
Trotsky’s real name was Lev Bronstein. A lot of them did this so the Russian people wouldn’t know the real nature of the Revolution, namely a Jewish takeover.
When I was growing up in the US, everyone claimed they had Native American heritage.
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Haha, Night Owl.. I went to my local county courthouse and got a copy of my Great Grandma’s marriage certificate, which stated that “my great Grandmother” married “a half breed off the reservation”. I haven’t nailed down the exact reservation, since there were a number of settlements around the area, but in the reference section of our library there was an actual book, stating my Great Great Grandfather (the official Postman for the county) married an Indian woman. I understand from my grandmother that, my great grandfather had a drinking problem.
The story goes on and on, but I have documentation that I have Native American heritage.
Well your case is a rare one–you actually appear to have said heritage!
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@ Night Owl:
Yes, that was a common claim when I was growing up. I am pretty sure that this claim was often used as a cover for their having African-American heritage, if they were a little on the dusky side.
One of my childhood friend’s father claimed to be Cherokee (or maybe is was half Cherokee). In fact, everyone called him “Chief,” instead of his real name. I didn’t even know he had another name until I was in my late teens. The family frequently visited sites of importance to Native Americans, to encourage the children to “carry on their traditions.”
Anyway, later in life my childhood friend had DNA testing done and discovered that she had no Native American heritage at all–but quite bit of Moroccon.
I wonder if “Chief” knew his actual heritage, or if his family had also imposed on him in this regard?
Every Indian I knew in the military we called Chief. One guy in my basic training company was a Sioux Indian from SDakota who told me he broke into a jewelry store and the judge gave him a choice: join the Navy or go to jail. Then I had a buddy from Maine, a Penobscot Indian whose father really was a Chief; I went to his house one time and you can imagine my disappointment when I I found he lived in a regular suburban split level and his dad — the Chief — worked in the Bath shipyard and spent most of his free time drinking Ballentine Ale by the case. That’s about the time I started drinking Ballentine.
Ballentine makes you an Indian, a real American!
Edge,
I’m pretty sure my forebears were cheap labor. That’s not so hard to say!
My people of descent (Slovaks) have essentially been the throw rug of Europe since the beginning. Boots wiped off on them by all the neighbors as they came or left.
Good beer and cabbage/dumplings, though.
Rochelle is leaving.
Let’s watch to see on what golden pillow here red-tape patched bureaucratic parachute lands.
“Francesca Donato, MEP announced at the recent international Covid Summit that the European Court of Auditors expressly recommends a review of the clauses in the Vaccine contracts that shield Big Pharma from liability for the injured.
If they are successful this will be groundbreaking and lead the way for all countries to force Big Pharma to foot the bill not the taxpayer.”
https://twitter.com/SaiKate108/status/1654414515059167232?cxt=HHwWgMDQlY3P1PUtAAAA
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I don’t see how they can make phony claims about their product and still be shielded from liability.
That shield was based on the fact that the good the product could do outweighed the potential harm, and their product does not do what they said it would.
Also they may have altered the scientific defini
tion of a vaccine, but how many successful lawsuits were based on a totally different LEGAL definition?
Are all those decisions retroactively voided, because someone claimed the power to alter a definition of a term?
I think not.
Maybe the people who told those lies have to be held personally liable.
The pharmacos have to date not only tried to hide the trial and contract language for 75 years, they have also redacted nearly all relevant text in the contract documents that they have released (at the EU level).
The reality is that they have no legal footing. They had hoped to use a corrupt legal system and stonewalling to get away with the genocide.
I think we are nearing the point where the cat will be fully out of the bag. The problem is that the damage is done on a population level, and it is unclear who is going to have the power to hold the criminals accountable.
This scenario was also outlined in the Rockefeller Institute wargame scenaro “Lockstep.
A parallel society is all that is going to work IMO, unless some kind of miracle happens at political level (also involving control of the military) in most Western countries.
Beryl
“I don’t see how they can make phony claims about their product and still be shielded from liability.”
Sasha Latypova argues that, because the ‘vaccines’ aren’t legally a medication (approved by the FDA) but a ‘countermeasure’ instigated by the Department of Defense (which does not even require approval by the FDA, making the trials, such as they were, merely theatre) the companies are not liable in any way.
In the (failed) lawsuit by the whistleblower Brooke Jackson, Pfizer actually claimed that they were not guilty of fraud because they had committed fraud on the orders of the government.
Karen Kingston disagrees with this point of view and thinks they can still be legally pursued, but the point is moot as it is de facto impossible to get legal satisfaction if the legal system itself is owned.
I think Night Owl is right about parallel systems. It is unfortunate that many of us have no way of being part of such systems because our family situation makes it impossible. We can’t all even go to places where you can grow your own food, for instance. And, beyond that, even if you grow your own food, you can’t stop ‘them’ spraying you and your ground with whatever they want, as they are actively doing already. Graphene oxide has been found in water following chemical spraying from planes. It it’s in the water, it’s in the veggies and in the livestock.
And they will try to remove people from non-urban areas by taxing them out of existence and making their homes ‘technically uninhabitable’ for various non-compliance reasons. That will even happen in cities like mine. Fifty percent of households in Edinburgh live in Victorian (or Georgian) tenement buildings. These are completely un-retrofittable in terms of net-zero building regulations so the PTB will eventually declare them uninhabitable and stop supplying water, gas and electricity to them. And they will have no re-sale value.
Good points. With that in mind, in terms of politics being able to make any kind of difference, I could still see local elections and politicians having strong impact.
If local councils, state governments, etc., refuse to implement the policies being demanded by from on high, this could be quite beneficial.
There’s an interesting video on UKC, with Brian Gerrish interviewing a guy who’s part of a network fighting against the council’s 20-minute-city plans in a town of about 30k people (rather than a city) in Norfolk.
ukcolumn.org/video/20-minute-neighbourhoods-bob-seys-and-thetford-residents-hold-their-councillors-to-account
More people are waking up to the 15/20-minute city power grab, some of whom possibly didn’t pick up on the covid scam. Not enough people yet, unfortunately, but the protest movements are growing.
“when citizens of the border states eventually take up arms against this invasion, and our government tries to stop them from defending their own country.”
Yep. It’s just a replay of the “civil rights” movement. The federal jackboots will be sent in to subdue/threaten/kill the local citizens who are trying to repel an alien, revolutionary force who is destroying their town.
Oh, and just like Saint Rosa’s little stunt on the bus, new “American heroes” will be minted with phony incidents or created out of whole cloth.
Great essay this morning, Jim! This particularly struck me:
“They are control-freaks who cannot keep things under control.”
This is what has struck me in recent years. I don’t know if it’s a trait that was always widespread but just didn’t have much potential outlet, or if I somehow failed to notice. But the extent to which so many people now want to control what others say, do, feel, and even think, is beyond anything I could have imagined. I guess I’m naive, but I never thought that anyone would want to compel others’ speech, or pursue them even into the privacy of their own minds.
It seems to enrage these people that, while they can force others to “affirm” and declare allegiance for fear of losing their jobs, they can’t figure out how to expose, to get at and punish, the evil, unaffirming, disobedient thoughts they just know are roiling around inside that most private of spaces. I suspect they realize that, even as you’re kowtowing to them and saying what you’re told to say, inside you’re thinking THESE PEOPLE ARE FREAKS! AARRRGGHHH, COOOOTIES! And they’d be right about that.
It’s why they’ve invented microagressions, attempting to find the flimsiest evidence of the contempt and disgust they just know is in there, cackling away like Kamala Harris.
The folks anticipating crossing are similar to the liberals going to red zones. The common denominator is gimme. They want the government to give them success. No mention of earning it. Their inability to compete ruins the area where they come from and will ruin the area where they are going. Biden has sowed the seeds of the destruction of the US by his border policy.
A huge difference exists between now and former immigrant surges. People in the past were aggressive in their attempts to make a new life, entrepenuership was a mainstay. Not today, these folks want Biden to take care of them, the promise of the American dream to them is to find a nanny state. Their lassitude is why they could not compete where they came from.
What happens to the folks that have a little ambition and find out that America is not the economic paradise that Soros minions told them it would be. Hint: it is not legal and they kill people.
The “gimmie” types are everywhere, John.
The reality is that whether legal or illegal, the makeup of the individuals coming over the border varies.
@ Night Owl:
Yes, they’re everywhere. Everyone who is a government employee/retiree is merely a collector of high-end welfare–as are those who you might call “quasi” government employees, whose incomes depend on various government-conferred monopolies/subsidies. These groups probably comprise about 50% of the working or retired population of the US.
Nearly 20% of the US workforce is employed by government, at one level or another.
the makeup of the individuals coming over the border varies.
can you prove that there is so much variance in so much of the new ones? they are from 100? 200? nations but if non white n christian do not want to assimilate, imo. that is a generalization.
Your question is a straw man (very common on CFN).
Your supposition is that they are all the same. That can’t be true, and you did not substantiate this claim (nor would you or anyone be able to, simply based on its nature).
Listening to the Five wondering why Biden is not going to debate anyone, even Dems.
C’mon, folks, are you stupid? Biden’s Mob controls this country right now, Uniparty is in place. Even with a GOP House, he is in control, as we will see with the debt ceiling crisis.
Biden is a dictator, NOW. He expects to do and will whatever he wants, and so far he is getting away with it.
Can you imagine Xi, Un or Putin debating political opponents? Same mentality!!
Biden doesn’t control anything.
The people who have all the dirt on the Biden Family control everything.
Epstein Island was only one honeypot.
They also have Biden’s Ukraine receipts
You think that old senile schmuck doesn’t want to retire?
One last favor
Or else
Wonder how many young coozes Ol’ SloJo plumbed on his Epstein forays? Can you imagine having to blow that old corpse?
Nah. Just a marionette.
He hid in the basement the first time ’round, too.
The Lenin Left, the politicians, and the pharmaceutical companies have zero Integrity.
Chris Martenson defines “Integrity” as the mental ability to consider new information objectively, and to adjust or alter one’s conclusion(s) based upon the new information.
Why does Chris Martenson ascribe this definition to the word Integrity?
Doesn’t Integrity mean just being Honest and acting in Good Faith, and putting down the lid when you flush so that it doesn’t spray everywhere, and not urinating in the big sink in the back of the kitchen of the fast food fried chicken restaurant where they mix the cole slaw?
” the mental ability to consider new information objectively” is part of honesty.
But, is the Inability to absorb and to consider new dissonant information and then adjust one’s conclusion(s) because of Dishonesty, or because of Mind Fuckery and/or “The Mind Virus”?
One has to assess the new information, of course.
I think I have a pretty good BS detector, but just not watching TV helps a lot!
OTOH, if one could not entertain, assess, and process new info, one would never experience any evolution of one’s thinking, would one.
would one. – Islander
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would one?
Q, what IS your problem with plain English?
Give it an effin’ rest.
Q, what IS your problem with plain English? – Islander
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You asked the question, “would one.” That requires a question mark.
“You asked the question, “would one.” That requires a question mark.”
No, it doesn’t.
I chose to put a period.
Find something else to do.
If the “Vaccines” engender blood clots, then wouldn’t this suggest that hypertension is now ubiquitous?
If Obama runs Joe Biden, then who runs Obama?
Obama’s ancestors in Kenya were the Muslim slave traders doing the A-Rab slave trade, which pre-dated the Portuguese/ European slave trade by 1,000 years. The first black American President is the descendant of African Slavers…Go figure….
David Livingstone dealt with the A-Rab slave traders during his trek through Africa while boning tall, lithe, attractive, finely featured and proportioned East African girls. Big Mike’s, Michelle’s ancestors obviously came from West Africa, rather than East Africa.
Hypertension is another gift that just keeps on giving – for big pharma anyway. Daily drug until you die for the primary affliction, with a whole host of secondary afflictions (revenue streams) to boot. Not to mention the mental conditioning aspect of being on prescription drugs (in addition to vaxxines) from an early age until the day you croak. Win, win all the way down, until they get rid of us all. They’re raising us as farm animals for the slaughter.
Didn’t “They” lower the threshold for hypertension in 2017, which immediately resulted in a dramatic 50% increase in the number of people deemed to have “High Blood Pressure”?
A huge sudden windfall in big Pharma profits while nothing else had changed?
They did the same thing for diabetes with their infamous “A1C” test. I’ve been marginally high at 5.8-6.0 for all of my life and it’s never been a problem. My blood sugar management is just fine, as affirmed by many, many, many anxious finger tip prick tests a few years back, after getting all spun up about it due my doctor’s incessant preaching. Before meal, after meal, before exercise, after exercise, all day long I was bleeding myself to find the times when my blood sugar was skyrocketing. But it wasn’t. Unless I drank a Coke or something, which I almost never do, my blood sugar was staying right down in the 90-120 range, going as high as 140-150 for an hour or two after a carb heavy meal, throughout the day without any outrageous spikes. And yet… the dreaded A1C remained stubbornly constant.
At any rate, first they started classifying me as pre-diabetic, then they dropped the prefix and now I’m supposedly diabetic. I finally just gave up the fight and said what the hell. Call me what you will, but I’m not taking any drugs for it, just as I refuse statins for my alleged grossly high cholesterol levels. And guess what, a recent heart test battery after a weird SVT event (they’re fairly common, and for most not a concern) revealed my cardiovascular system to be in tip top health. That news actually irritated by Primary Care guy, as he was just sure bad test results were going to wipe that smug smile off my face.
Last time I saw him he seemed resigned and defeated, since he also knows that I’m a loud and proud anti-vaxxer now too, which is good. I’ve finally got the upper hand on that little prick, and I intend to keep him there from now on.
Same situation. They keep wanting me to make money for the system by putting me on drugs.
Also pre-diabetic all of my life. One doctor told me that blood sugar shouldn’t go up after you eat sugar. That doesn’t make too much sense, does it?
I do crave sugar more than most. Some kind of inborn imbalance perhaps. But it’s normal for me, and I do try to keep it within bounds and eat good food too.
“Not to mention the mental conditioning aspect of being on prescription drugs (in addition to vaxxines)….”
What exactly do you mean?
Some people really seem to believe in “The Numbers” promulgated by the Pharmaceutical industrial Complex? They seem to be literally hypnotized by the numbers, like ringing the bell for Pavlov’s dogs….
You nailed it exactly with that last ‘graph, Puck. We have become a world of knaves who are hypnotized by manipulated statistics that we don’t actually understand at all. Lies, damn lies, and statistics…
Ghana might be worth visiting?
Ghana is relatively peaceful and the chocolate is good.
The Ghananese seem friendly.
Forget about South Africa. South Africa is totally Fucked….
Zimbabwe is probably totally Fucked because of all of the racist, anti-White brainwashing left over from the Robert Mugabe years. Mugabe had is personal bodyguards trained in North Korea in Koreas Tae Kwon Do.
Maybe, Botswana? Lots of Hippos in Botswana….
You probably want to go somewhere where the people can’t afford “Smart Phones”?
Whataya ghana do? Buttswana is a possibility with all those hippo butts.
A traffic stop on Interstate 75 (I-75) in Florida’s Hernando County resulted in multiple drug charges against two California women, one of whom had allegedly recently undergone a Brazilian butt lift (BBL).
Passenger Toy Phaphon, 46, who was found lying on her stomach, was allegedly heading to Tampa from Atlanta for a follow-up appointment for a recent BBL surgery.
75 lbs. of marijuana found.
Does Brazil do the best butts? Why are we behind in this?
You really should know, what with your obsession with derrieres and all.
All the better to twerk with????
Ugh.
Soros & his bosses run Obama.
There is no pleasing the Woke Jacobins, esp. the Trans branch.
No matter how the SF leadership caves to the nutjobs, it’s not enough.
There is still seething hatred directed at them, after all their bowing and scraping to do the wokies’ bidding.
This woman is so angry she uses her time to speak by screaming (after of course after unleashing a boatload of hatred – because “be nice” only works one way):
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-hate-you-trans-activist-shrieks-at-san-francisco-board-of-supervisors/ar-AA1aKZ8I
Lenin was a Big Admirer of the French Revolution.
So I guess the screamer is a guy wanting to be a woman?
Maybe he thinks screaming is typical “feminine” behavior?
Or is it a woman wanting to be a man?
Didn’t we used to call very flouncy gay guys screamers in the not-so-distant past?
No, it’s a handmaiden (my name for women who support the trans agenda, especially to the point where they go completely off the rails like this one).
Islander’s question is good: You like gays, but what’s the line? Are flamers ok? What if they dress a bit fem? Is that going over the line?
You call women who support the Patriarchy, handmaids too. Any woman who supports men is a tranny lover, right? And any man who supports men’s rights is a tranny!
So wacky! It’s like the Island of Dr Moreau. Only women are people. The male animals who want to become people want to become women – because only women are people.
I’m not interested in your wacky ramblings, Jar.