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939 Responses to “Sometimes Things Turn”

  1. 450.org June 10, 2019 at 10:06 am #

    Polls are propaganda. Polls are manipulative. They’re meant to maipulate perception and shape perspective. Honest, objective journalism should never reference polls. Polls are not information to support a point unless your point is that polls are manipulating propaganda.

    Check out this article from The Nation published prior to the 2016 presidential campaign. Was this blubbering buffoon, this apocryphal apparatchik, forced to eat his words and wear the hair shirt for the entirety of Donald Trump’s tenure as POTUS? If not, why not? Where is the accountability for such ribald rubbish?

    When I see polls about Trump’s approval ratings, I laugh and spit at the television or the radio and tell it/them to fuck off. You should to if you have half a brain or even quarter of a brain. Same goes for the polls showing Biden as the most popular Democratic candidate. These polls are not meant to inform you, they’re meant to persuade or dissuade you. They’re meant to shape your perception. They’re meant to make you misperceive our reality. Ignore them and spurn & repudiate those who report on them, and we’ll all be better off.

    Are Hillary Clinton’s Strong Poll Numbers Misleading?

    So for all the hand-wringing over the polls, maybe the best way to predict the results in November is not to discount the polls. Instead, maybe we should rely less on the pundits who say the polls could be wrong, and more on the polls themselves, which have been pretty accurate about Trump’s support so far this election season. Of course things could change in the next 90 days, but the polls right now are clear: Our next president is Hillary Clinton.

      • hmuller June 10, 2019 at 10:50 am #

        My polls show the Dems in 2020 will go down to the most resounding defeat since the Afghan Olympic Women’s Swim Team all drowned in their burqa’s.

        • DrTomSchmidt June 10, 2019 at 11:11 am #

          Trump hasn’t done much for Michigan, PA, or Wisconsin, and those three critical defections from the D column helped put him over the top. Take away the 46 electoral votes from those three and Trump loses.

          Where will he gain votes to offset that?

          • Tate June 10, 2019 at 11:19 am #

            Trump doesn’t have to win. All it takes is for the Dems to lose which it looks like they are trying to do. Of course, if the economy implodes between now & the election, then let’s recalculate the odds.

        • gonetohell June 10, 2019 at 5:12 pm #

          Stop taking polls at the family reunion.

      • shotho June 10, 2019 at 11:08 am #

        And this statement reflects the point that the author of this blog seemed to be making. We are now so non-responsive to reality that we think propaganda, a la polls, is now what really matters. We’ve lost the way that made America dominant (whether or not it should have ever been is another question) and its not to be found again; at least, not in that configuration.
        I like that Kunstler does mention that the world is not necessarily ending (we don’t have any real say in that), but that the future is now cloudy. My own belief is that the two world wars of the twentieth century was the coup de grace for Western civilization, regardless of who is supposed to have won. There is no undoing of the incredible damage from those events and I don’t mean only material damage. There seems nothing for westerners to believe now except buy and possess. Those values do not a civilization make.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 12:56 pm #

          After the WW2, the new Elite started calling White Americans, Nazis even though we helped them defeat the Nazis. So obviously we lost every bit as much as the Nazis did. After the death of Kennedy, these efforts intensified. Now Whites are third class citizens behind every non-White who enters America legally or illegally.

          • shotho June 10, 2019 at 1:27 pm #

            Whites are still in charge of most of the levers of power in the West, but, yes, that is changing. It’s what our host is calling a turn. There has never been any certainty that whites would permanently dominate the world.
            Agreed that the death of JFK was symbolic of the death of more than one man.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 6:23 pm #

            But it is guaranteed that we will disappear if things don’t change. Our Ruling Class has simply no loyalty to us at all – and thus do they wrong us. And we always hate those whom we have wronged so they hate us as well, a hatred commensurate with their total betrayal of us.

            Needless to say they don’t represent us in any way, shape, or form. Trump pretended to and then betrayed us.

        • SpeedyBB June 11, 2019 at 6:35 pm #

          shotho states: ‘…My own belief is that the two world wars of the twentieth century was the coup de grace for Western civilization, regardless of who is supposed to have won…

          Now that’s a very intriguing and thought-provoking supposition. This type of statement is one reason why the Comments section of Jim Kunstler’s twice-weekly blog is so insightful, and worth reading.

          You’ve got me to a-thinking. Rare stimulus.

      • chipshot June 10, 2019 at 3:29 pm #

        Think you’re on the money, 450. I don’t believe for a second Biden is ahead of Bernie.

        If the DNC and msm stay neutral, Bernie will be our next president.

        • Majella June 10, 2019 at 7:07 pm #

          Agreed. 450 is correct – modern day ‘polls’ are manipulative, and lucrative for those in the business.

          Social polling on any useable scale only arose once the telephone provided mass communication. Initially, they were reflective of actual reality at any given time, the demise of the ubiquitous telephone landline has thrown them all to hell, along with the cynicism of the populace at large that means many will simply lie for the fun of it.

        • Uncle Bob June 10, 2019 at 10:46 pm #

          If any of the 24 (and counting) mental midgets who comprise the field of Dem presidential candidates win, that will end America, either as the AOC’s of the world swarm over Washington as the victorious communists swarmed over the Winter Palace when the Romanovs were deposed or in a full-blown civil war that will make the fun times of the 1860s look like an ice cream social. I didn’t support Trump in 2016, but I basically have to now because the alternative is beyond horrifying. “But free shit! The crazy bastard from Vermont promises to give us everything — money, medical care, education, an end to any environmental threats, total equality — paradise! Who wouldn’t want that?” Who indeed — except maybe Venezuelans, Chinese, Vietnamese and former residents of the Soviet bloc who have endured other “paradises.” He careful what you wish for, in other words, because you might get it, and lose your ass in the process.

          • chipshot June 11, 2019 at 8:52 am #

            Foxist alert!
            Uncle Bob has been brainwashed by the Murdoch agenda.

            You know, ideas like we can’t afford Med for All or tuition-free higher ed, or an infra-stucture building jobs program or a transition to greener energy, but $800,000,000,000 for the Pentagon every year, no problem.

          • benr June 11, 2019 at 10:13 am #

            @chipshot

            Tell me were in our system of government it says everyone should have free (to them) medical, college or this catch all phrase of green energy?

            Talk about group think and brainwashed idiocy.
            Do you have ANY concept of what it takes to pay for all that crap and like it or not the military does provide a return on investment. Do you thin you wave a pixy dust wand and poof the money to pay for all that crap magically appears?
            Ever hear of the Weimar Republic sunshine?
            You might actually want to put a little Fox in your life or Mark Levin, Andrew Wilcow, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Alex Jones, Glenn Beck, G Gordon Liddy, Actually just about anyone but who you have been subverted by.

          • chipshot June 11, 2019 at 1:08 pm #

            Hard pass, benr. Obvious by your reply how toxic those sources are.

          • benr June 11, 2019 at 2:25 pm #

            @chipshot

            ROTFLOL
            You utter toxic and want all the freebies talk about toxic you have been absorbing the sewer pipe of ideas.

          • Majella June 11, 2019 at 6:56 pm #

            Uncle Bob

            Hey, don’t give up! Trump is a joke president and will again still be a joke candidate in Nov 2020 – if he makes it that far.

            You seem to have succumbed to all the BS the right constantly trots out about the progressive agenda being all about ‘free shit’ and ‘rainbows & unicorns’, and then flip to Venezuela as the ‘See? ??? I told ya” exemplar.

            Use your logic. Look at countries where they don’t suffer this tribalism-driven rabidity and just get on with it, where the wealth of society is more fairly distributed. You know, like the US between 1933 and 1980, the ‘Golden Years’ so longed for by the reversionary conservatives.

          • EvelynV June 11, 2019 at 8:16 pm #

            Compared to now most of all that used to be virtually free. A broken arm didn’t cost a year of pay, college was vastly more affordable. Movie actresses didn’t make $100,000,000 for making a single film.

            The money to pay for everything exists but it exists in the pockets of a very few people.

          • benr June 11, 2019 at 8:43 pm #

            Why does everyone wanting free crap under the banner of Socialism always not think things through?

            Why do you think Health care has become so ridiculous?

            Answer:
            Lawyers
            Regulations
            Government got involved.
            Education got so expensive….Why?
            Once again government got involved.
            Now ask yourself what is government actually good at?
            Waste…check!
            Taxing us into oblivion…Check
            Not much else and yet your answer is more government?

            Let me ask a question if you have splinter is the answer to give yourself another splinter?
            Or maybe just smash your thumb with hammer so you forget the annoyance of the splinter.

            Amazing.

            Yea the Donald is a poor choice the Democrats are even worse choices and Bernie who got booted from a hippie commune and never worked a real job in his life is your answer?

            Bernie is a moron.

          • benr June 11, 2019 at 8:45 pm #

            @majella

            So tell us which country that you want the US to be like.
            No wait how about you just move there and leave the rest of us in peace.
            See how easy that is?

          • Majella June 12, 2019 at 6:10 pm #

            benr

            I’m not a Brit, but I’m also not American, though I’ve lived here for over 20 years, and currently in Northern California for some time (married to an American).

            Don’t worry – you’ll get your wish before long. Once my Other Half retires, we’re certainly off to my homeland (sooner, especially if the Clown President gets re-elected), a South Seas Paradise, where education & healthcare is tax-payer funded and the top rate of income tax is less than the US (at 33%).

            In the meantime, and even afterward, I have as much a right to observe and comment on world affairs as anyone else here, regardless of whether you like it or not. And don’t kid yourself, the rest of the planet is keenly & legitimately interested in what the US President does, like a drunk uncle at Thanksgiving, stumbling into furniture & spewing hateful & almost incomprehensible word salad at everyone regardless.

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 7:20 am #

            benr

            “Why do you think Health care has become so ridiculous?

            Answer:
            Lawyers
            Regulations
            Government got involved.”

            The UK government got involved in healthcare in 1948 by creating the NHS. Prior to that poor people didn’t get healthcare – they just died a lot sooner than less poor people and left families bereft. (The poorest still die sooner than wealthy people but not nearly as early as they did then.)

            Our system is underfunded. It manages on about 9 percent of GDP, while yours costs twice that because it has to feed layers of parasites, like insurance companies, in addition to paying for actual healthcare. And, as you’d expect, its health outcomes are not remotely proportional to the extra cost it bleeds from the population.

            The NHS is also in a position to negotiate prices directly with pharma companies (something that will be outlawed in the even of a a trade deal with the US post Brexit).

            But our system isn’t ‘free’. It’s taxpayer funded and free at the point of use. The system is currently being bled dry by a huge transfer of wealth from the public to the private realm (as has been the direction of travel for decades) through PFI/PPP contracts which are an absolute scam for the enrichment of private equity funds. And the NHS has been softened up for privatisation for years – and not for the good of the people. Majella could tell you that too because she watched the video I posted (a film made by doctors), which I presume you didn’t.

            There are other European countries that manage a balance of the two systems.

            The system Majella describes in NZ sounds pretty good to me. Nobody else puts up with what the US puts up with in terms of healthcare. All in the name of ideology.

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 8:12 am #

            in the *event*…

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 8:14 am #

            benr

            “and like it or not the military does provide a return on investment. ”

            Are you measuring that in barrels, out of interest?

          • benr June 14, 2019 at 9:15 am #

            @ga
            In barrels that is one measure or global stability and regional stability, jobs, research and development.
            Plus it gives the anti-America hate the military crowd something to whine about rather pay people to man a post then their couch waiting for a welfare check.

    • Tate June 10, 2019 at 10:29 am #

      Lol. All you had to do was read the first sentence to know that “Jon Wiener,” author of that article, was then & probably still is, clueless.

      “Political science tells us that…” & then goes on to conflate polysci with statistical sampling. Actually, they’re two separate subjects, Jon.

      No, don’t expect any hair-shirt wearing by Jon & the jolly journo’s at The Nation.

    • This is a dumb analysis. For one thing, the contest was very close. Second, polling is a science (subset of statistics). These pros will apply scientific methodology to improve accuracy.

      • 450.org June 10, 2019 at 2:28 pm #

        This is a dumb analysis. For one thing, the contest was very close. Second, polling is a science (subset of statistics). These pros will apply scientific methodology to improve accuracy.

        Donald Trump agrees with you.

        Trump Loves Record Poll Numbers — Including Ones He’s Apparently Made Up

      • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 3:45 pm #

        I’ll bet you still believe in the tooth fairy, don’t you, Lil’ Snacker?

    • TraffickingInDivinity June 10, 2019 at 5:29 pm #

      Polls are total BS – Trump and Brexit are proof of that. They are meant to change elections, not predict them.

    • Anon1970 June 10, 2019 at 8:11 pm #

      Many people no longer take calls from people or phone numbers they don’t recognize, including pollsters.

      I do remember Davy Crockett and Duvid Crockett, the Yiddish recorded version made popular by Mickey Katz, who was the father of actor Joel Grey.

      For millions of Americans, the US in the 1950’s was not exactly the land of milk and honey. Schools that catered to black children were separate and inferior. In 1953, President Eisenhower signed an executive order that called for the firing of gay Federal employees. I just learned about this particular order yesterday from CBS Sunday Morning. You can read about it here: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-lavender-scare-how-the-federal-government-purged-gay-employees/

      Some 65 years later, I am enjoying a much higher standard of living than I did in the 1950’s.

    • EvelynV June 12, 2019 at 10:43 am #

      I agree polls are faulty gauges of political reality if precision is what you are after. Ditto for their accuracy as well. Nevertheless if such a contemptible candidate as Hillary was able to nevertheless manage to win the popular vote as polls suggested, what chance does the golden cockatoo have when polls suggest he will lose by a landslide?

      My hope and expectation is that once the primaries begin Biden will be weeded out and someone with wide appeal with the young generation will come to the fore.

      After that Trump begins to give serious consideration to what kind of deals he can make to escape prosecution for all of his non-presidential criminal activity that he will be forced to deal with when the scepter is taken away.

  2. 450.org June 10, 2019 at 10:12 am #

    Another case in point. There are so many. If you search long enough, and trust me you won’t have to search long, you can find a poll to support your misperception so ubiquitous they are.

    Trump is Popping in the Polls

    • EvelynV June 12, 2019 at 10:49 am #

      If that kaka website is what you are forced to base your case on it just shows how desperate you are.

      • EvelynV June 12, 2019 at 10:52 am #

        Quinnipiac University Poll. June 6-10, 2019. N=1,214 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.5.

        “If the election for president were being held today, and the candidates were [see below] the Democrat and Donald Trump the Republican, for whom would you vote?”

        Donald
        Trump (R) Joe
        Biden (D) Someone
        else (vol.) Wouldn’t
        vote (vol.) Unsure/
        No answer
        % % % % %

        6/6-10/19

        40 53 1 2 4

        Donald
        Trump (R) Bernie
        Sanders (D) Someone
        else (vol.) Wouldn’t
        vote (vol.) Unsure/
        No answer
        % % % % %

        6/6-10/19

        42 51 1 2 4

        Donald
        Trump (R) Elizabeth
        Warren (D) Someone
        else (vol.) Wouldn’t
        vote (vol.) Unsure/
        No answer
        % % % % %

        6/6-10/19

        42 49 1 3 5

        Donald
        Trump (R) Kamala
        Harris (D) Someone
        else (vol.) Wouldn’t
        vote (vol.) Unsure/
        No answer
        % % % % %

        6/6-10/19

        41 49 1 2 6

        Donald
        Trump (R) Pete
        Buttigieg (D) Someone
        else (vol.) Wouldn’t
        vote (vol.) Unsure/
        No answer
        % % % % %

        6/6-10/19

        42 47 1 3 7

        Donald
        Trump (R) Cory
        Booker (D) Someone
        else (vol.) Wouldn’t
        vote (vol.) Unsure/
        No answer
        % % % % %

        6/6-10/19

        42 47 1 3 7

        NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll. May 31-June 4, 2019. N=783 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 5.

        “Thinking about the 2020 election, do you definitely plan to vote for Donald Trump for reelection as president or do you definitely plan to vote against him?”

        Definitely
        for Trump Definitely
        against him Unsure
        % % %

        5/31 – 6/4/19

        36 51 13

        4/24-29/19

        33 54 12

        3/25-27/19

        35 54 11

        1/10-13/19

        30 57 13

        Monmouth University Poll. May 16-20, 2019. N=719 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.7.

        “Looking ahead to the 2020 election for president, do you think that Donald Trump should be reelected, or do you think that it is time to have someone else in office?”

        Should be
        reelected Time for
        someone else Unsure
        % % %

        5/16-20/19

        37 60 4

        3/1-4/19

        38 57 5

        1/25-27/19

        38 57 5

        11/9-12/18

        37 58 4

        Quinnipiac University Poll. May 16-20, 2019. N=1,078 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.7.

        “In the 2020 general election for president, if Donald Trump is the Republican candidate, would you definitely vote for him, consider voting for him, or would you definitely not vote for him?”

        Definitely
        vote for Consider
        voting for Definitely
        not vote for Unsure/
        No answer
        % % % %

        5/16-20/19

        31 12 54 3

        4/26-29/19

        33 13 52 2

        3/21-25/19

        30 13 53 3

        Fox News Poll conducted by Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R). May 11-14, 2019. N=1,008 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.

        “If the 2020 presidential election were held today, would you definitely vote to reelect Donald Trump, probably vote to reelect Trump, probably vote for someone else, or definitely vote for someone else?”

        Definitely/
        Probably vote
        to reelect
        Trump Probably/
        Definitely vote
        for someone
        else Too soon
        to say
        (vol.) Wouldn’t
        vote (vol.) Unsure
        % % % % %

        5/11-14/19

        38 54 5 2 2

        12/9-11/18

        38 55 5 1 2

        1/21-23/18

        35 56 8 1 1

        4/23-25/17

        36 55 5 – 3

        “If the 2020 presidential election were held today, how would you vote if the candidates were Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump?” If unsure: “Well, which way do you lean?” Options rotated

        Donald
        Trump (R) Joe
        Biden (D) Other
        (vol.) Wouldn’t
        vote (vol.) Unsure
        % % % % %

        5/11-14/19

        38 49 5 3 5

        3/17-20/19

        40 47 4 3 5

        “How would you vote if the candidates were Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump?” If unsure: “Well, which way do you lean?” Options rotated

        Donald
        Trump (R) Bernie
        Sanders (D) Other
        (vol.) Wouldn’t
        vote (vol.) Unsure
        % % % % %

        5/11-14/19

        41 46 5 3 5

        3/17-20/19

        41 44 6 3 5

        “How would you vote if the candidates were Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump?” If unsure: “Well, which way do you lean?” Options rotated

        Donald
        Trump (R) Kamala
        Harris (D) Other
        (vol.) Wouldn’t
        vote (vol.) Unsure
        % % % % %

        5/11-14/19

        41 41 7 4 8

        3/17-20/19

        41 39 7 4 9

        “How would you vote if the candidates were Democrat Elizabeth Warren and Republican Donald Trump?” If unsure: “Well, which way do you lean?” Options rotated

        Donald
        Trump (R) Elizabeth
        Warren (D) Other
        (vol.) Wouldn’t
        vote (vol.) Unsure
        % % % % %

        5/11-14/19

        41 43 6 4 6

        3/17-20/19

        42 40 7 4 8

        “How would you vote if the candidates were Democrat Pete Buttigieg and Republican Donald Trump?” If unsure: “Well, which way do you lean?” Options rotated

        Donald
        Trump (R) Pete
        Buttigieg (D) Other
        (vol.) Wouldn’t
        vote (vol.) Unsure
        % % % % %

        5/11-14/19

        41 40 7 4 8

        CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. April 25-28, 2019. Registered voters nationwide.

        “If Bernie Sanders were the Democratic Party’s candidate and Donald Trump were the Republican Party’s candidate, for whom would you be more likely to vote?” N=456; margin of error ± 5.6

        Donald
        Trump (R) Bernie
        Sanders (D) Other
        (vol.) Neither
        (vol.) Unsure/
        Refused
        % % % % %

        4/25-28/19

        44 50 0 4 2

        “If Joe Biden were the Democratic Party’s candidate and Donald Trump were the Republican Party’s candidate, for whom would you be more likely to vote?” N=470; margin of error ± 5.5

        Donald
        Trump (R) Joe
        Biden (D) Other
        (vol.) Neither
        (vol.) Unsure/
        Refused
        % % % % %

        4/25-28/19

        45 51 – 1 2

        “If Pete Buttigieg were the Democratic Party’s candidate and Donald Trump were the Republican Party’s candidate, for whom would you be more likely to vote?” N=439; margin of error ± 5.7

        Donald
        Trump (R) Pete
        Buttigieg (D) Other
        (vol.) Neither
        (vol.) Unsure/
        Refused
        % % % % %

        4/25-28/19

        44 47 1 2 6

        “If Kamala Harris were the Democratic Party’s candidate and Donald Trump were the Republican Party’s candidate, for whom would you be more likely to vote?” N=453; margin of error ± 5.5

        Donald
        Trump (R) Kamala
        Harris (D) Other
        (vol.) Neither
        (vol.) Unsure/
        Refused
        % % % % %

        4/25-28/19

        45 49 0 3 3

        “If Elizabeth Warren were the Democratic Party’s candidate and Donald Trump were the Republican Party’s candidate, for whom would you be more likely to vote?” N=452; margin of error ± 5.6

        Donald
        Trump (R) Elizabeth
        Warren (D) Other
        (vol.) Neither
        (vol.) Unsure/
        Refused
        % % % % %

        4/25-28/19

        48 47 0 2 3

        “If Beto O’Rourke were the Democratic Party’s candidate and Donald Trump were the Republican Party’s candidate, for whom would you be more likely to vote?” N=469; margin of error ± 5.5

        Donald
        Trump (R) Beto
        O’Rourke (D) Other
        (vol.) Neither
        (vol.) Unsure/
        Refused
        % % % % %

        4/25-28/19

        42 52 – 2 4

        ABC News/Washington Post Poll. April 22-25, 2019. N=865 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 4.

        “Assuming Trump is the Republican candidate for president in 2020, would you definitely vote for him, would you consider voting for him, or would you definitely not vote for him?”

        Definitely
        for Trump Consider
        Trump Definitely
        not Trump Unsure
        % % % %

        4/22-25/19

        30 14 52 3

        1/21-24/19

        28 14 56 1

        Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service Battleground Poll conducted by the Tarrance Group (R) and Lake Research Partners (D). March 31-April 4, 2019. N=1,000 likely voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.1.

        “Now thinking ahead to the election for president that will be held in November 2020, do you think Donald Trump has performed his job as president well enough to deserve reelection, or do you think it’s time to give a new person a chance?”

        Trump
        deserves
        reelection Time to give
        new person
        a chance Unsure
        % % %

        3/31 – 4/4/19

        38 57 5

        Suffolk University/USA Today Poll. March 13-17, 2019. N=1,000 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.

        “If the 2020 presidential election were held today, would you vote for President Trump, the Democratic nominee, or a third party candidate?”

        President
        Trump Democratic
        nominee Third party
        candidate Unsure Refused
        % % % % %

        3/13-17/19

        39 36 11 14 1

        NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll conducted by Hart Research Associates (D) and Public Opinion Strategies (R). Feb. 24-27, 2019. N=720 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.7.

        “Looking ahead to the next election for president, if Donald Trump runs for reelection as the Republican candidate, will you definitely vote for Trump in that election, probably vote for Trump, probably vote for the Democratic candidate, or definitely vote for the Democratic candidate?”

        2/24-27/19 12/9-12/18 12/13-15/17
        % % %

        Definitely Trump

        27 23 18

        Probably Trump

        14 15 18

        Probably Democrat

        15 13 14

        Definitely Democrat

        33 39 38

        Someone else (vol.)

        2 2 n/a

        Depends (vol.)

        5 3 4

        Neither (vol.)

        1 2 3

        Unsure

        3 3 5

        Wason Center for Public Policy Survey Research Lab at Christopher Newport University. Feb. 3-17, 2019. N=1,001 likely voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.2.

        “If the 2020 presidential election were held today, would you vote for the incumbent president, Republican Donald Trump, or for the Democrat running against him?”

        Trump Democrat Someone
        else (vol.) Unsure/
        Refused
        % % % %

        2/3-17/19

        37 48 5 9

        “And if instead the choices were the incumbent president, Republican Donald Trump, the Democratic Party’s nominee, or a candidate running on an independent ticket, for whom would you vote?”

        Trump Democrat Independent
        candidate Someone
        else (vol.) Unsure/
        Refused
        % % % % %

        2/3-17/19

        34 32 16 1 17

        CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. Jan. 30-Feb. 2, 2019. N=1,011 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.8.

        “I’m going to read you the names of a few people who are running or may run for president in 2020. For each one, please tell me whether you would be very likely, somewhat likely, not too likely, or not likely at all to support them if they decide to run in 2020. …”

        Very/Some-
        what likely Not too/Not
        at all likely Unsure/
        Refused
        % % %

        “Former vice president Joe Biden”

        1/30 – 2/2/19

        50 47 4

        “President Donald Trump”

        1/30 – 2/2/19

        41 58 1

        “Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders”

        1/30 – 2/2/19

        41 54 5

        “California Senator Kamala Harris”

        1/30 – 2/2/19

        38 51 11

        “Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren”

        1/30 – 2/2/19

        36 56 8

        “New Jersey Senator Cory Booker”

        1/30 – 2/2/19

        29 55 15

        “Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke”

        1/30 – 2/2/19

        29 56 15

        “Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg”

        1/30 – 2/2/19

        27 65 8

        “New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand”

        1/30 – 2/2/19

        22 63 16

        “Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown”

        1/30 – 2/2/19

        21 55 24

        “Businessman Howard Schultz”

        1/30 – 2/2/19

        20 66 14

        Fox News Poll conducted by Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R). Dec. 9-11, 2018. N=1,006 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.

        “Just your best guess: As of today, do you think Donald Trump will be reelected president in 2020, or not?”

        Think he
        will be Don’t think
        he will be Unsure
        % % %

        12/9-11/18

        39 52 9

        CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. Dec. 6-9, 2018. N=1,015 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.8.

        “As you may have heard, Donald Trump has decided to run for reelection. Please just give me your best guess: Do you think he will win the presidential election in 2020, or do you think he will lose?”

        Think he
        will win Think he
        will lose Unsure/
        Refused
        % % %

        12/6-9/18

        43 51 6

        10/4-7/18

        46 47 7

        3/22-25/18

        40 54 6

        Grinnell College National Poll conducted by Selzer & Co. Nov. 24-27, 2018. N=828 likely voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.4.

        “If a vote for president of the United States were held today, would you definitely vote to reelect President Trump, consider someone else, or definitely vote to elect someone else, or would you not vote?”

        Definitely
        Trump Consider
        someone else Definitely
        someone else Would
        not vote Unsure
        % % % % %

        11/24-27/18

        35 17 45 1 3

        8/29 – 9/2/18

        36 17 43 – 3

        Gallup Poll. Oct. 15-28, 2018. N=902 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 4.

        “Please tell me whether you think each of the following political office-holders deserves to be reelected, or not. … How about President Trump?”

        Deserves to
        be reelected Does not
        deserve Unsure
        % % %

        10/15-28/18

        41 56 3

        4/9-15/18

        37 59 3

        CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. Jan. 14-15 & 17-18, 2018. N=913 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.8.

        “I know it’s a long way off, but thinking about the election for president that will happen in 2020, if [see below] were the Democratic Party’s candidate and Donald Trump were the Republican Party’s candidate, who would you be more likely to vote for: [see below]?” If unsure: “As of today, do you lean more toward [see below]?”

        Donald
        Trump (R) Bernie
        Sanders (D) Other
        (vol.) Neither
        (vol.) Unsure/
        Refused
        % % % % %

        1/14-15, 17-18/18

        42 55 1 2 1

        Donald
        Trump (R) Oprah
        Winfrey (D) Other
        (vol.) Neither
        (vol.) Unsure/
        Refused
        % % % % %

        1/14-15, 17-18/18

        42 51 2 3 1

        Donald
        Trump (R) Joe
        Biden (D) Other
        (vol.) Neither
        (vol.) Unsure/
        Refused
        % % % % %

        1/14-15, 17-18/18

        40 57 1 1 1

        Quinnipiac University Poll. Jan. 12-16, 2018. N=1,212 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.4.

        “Would you be inclined to vote to reelect Donald Trump as president, or not?”

        Inclined Not
        inclined Unsure/
        No answer
        % % %

        1/12-16/18

        34 62 3

        “If the presidential election were being held today, and the candidates were Oprah Winfrey the Democrat and Donald Trump the Republican, for whom would you vote?”

        Donald
        Trump (R) Oprah
        Winfrey (D) Neither
        (vol.) Someone
        else (vol.) Unsure/
        No answer
        % % % % %

        1/12-16/18

        39 52 4 2 4

        NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll. Jan. 8-10, 2018. N=1,092 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.

        “Do you want Oprah Winfrey to run for president in 2020, or not?”

        Want
        her to run Don’t want
        her to run Unsure
        % % %

        ALL

        33 56 11

        Democrats

        47 40 13

        Republicans

        15 77 7

        Independents

        32 56 12

        “If the 2020 election for president were held today, whom would you support if the candidates are Oprah Winfrey, the Democrat, and Donald Trump, the Republican?”

        Donald
        Trump (R) Oprah
        Winfrey (D) Unsure
        % % %

        ALL

        39 50 11

        Democrats

        4 91 6

        Republicans

        85 8 6

        Independents

        37 46 17

        CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. Nov. 2-5, 2017. N=1,021 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.6.

        “Please tell me whether you think each of the following political officeholders deserves to be reelected or not. … How about Donald Trump?”

        Deserves to
        be reelected Does not Unsure/
        Refused
        % % %

        11/2-5/17

        33 63 4

        Democrats

        4 94 2

        Independents

        30 64 6

        Republicans

        80 17 3

        9/17-20/17

        33 61 6

        Democrats

        7 91 1

        Independents

        28 64 8

        Republicans

        76 18 6

        Among registered voters:

        11/2-5/17

        35 62 4

        9/17-20/17

        35 59 6

        Quinnipiac University Poll. March 2-6, 2017. N=1,283 registered voters nationwide. Margin of error ± 2.7.

        “Do you want Oprah Winfrey to run for president in the 2020 election, or not?”

        Want
        her to run Don’t want
        her to run Unsure/
        No answer
        % % %

        ALL

        21 69 10

        Republicans

        11 82 7

        Democrats

        32 56 11

        Independents

        19 70 11

  3. Neon Vincent June 10, 2019 at 10:14 am #

    “America performed splendidly in World War Two, rescuing Europe and Asia from manifest evil” – That reminds me that last Thursday was the 75th Anniversary of D-Day. Time to reflect on when the U.S. was at the peak of its power and used it for good.

    “[T]he slow, demoralizing dismantling of the very industry that made the 20th century America’s moment in history” — Andrew Yang thinks universal basic income is the solution to automation and deindustrialization. That’s a science-fiction solution to a science-fiction problem. Of course, that assumes that business as usual will continue, not an assumption most of the readers of this blog share.

    • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 10:35 am #

      The US was primarily patient and played its cards right. If there had been no Russian front there would have been no allied landing and things would have turned out very differently indeed. The US and UK were using the Russians right from the start, as Stalin was always viewed as a far greater threat than Hitler. Fortunately for them, Hitler was just dumb and egotistical enough to play along.

    • Tate June 10, 2019 at 10:46 am #

      Count me among the “most hardened cynics” among the Boomers. There will always be a diehard remnant however of the “most credulous fantasists” although the mood is certainly swinging toward a general cynicism. We approach the elephant at our hazard because sometimes it’s just better to remain ignorant.

      Many of the myths really die hard. How many here question, for example, that shining moment in our history: the Greatest Generation, our role & motives in World War II? I don’t question that Hitler had to be defeated once events came to a head, just the recasting of this conflict as some great moral crusade. That came much later, the historical recasting, if you weren’t aware.

      • elysianfield June 10, 2019 at 4:46 pm #

        “Many of the myths really die hard. How many here question, for example, that shining moment in our history: the Greatest Generation,”

        Tate,
        They were the Greatest Generation” because they sucked up their angst and self interests, were sent to war and did as they were told…and like the Russians and the Germans, they did it well….

        • Tate June 10, 2019 at 5:52 pm #

          You’re right. It’s a convenient placeholder but the ordinary men (& women) who served were dupes of those who engineered the conflict. I didn’t mean to denigrate their effort.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 5:39 am #

            3.5 million remaining European Jews were grateful for them being ‘duped’.

            You are shameless. Believing you’ll be called to account one day for your words, actions and the younger, more innocent minds you infect makes you even more so.

          • Tate June 11, 2019 at 10:22 am #

            Oh, I have no delusions about the power I’m up against in ‘infecting young innocent minds.’ It’s probably a fool’s errand. I’m probably putting myself at serious risk (within this lifetime, not the next) by voicing any skeptism of certain received ‘truths’ that you & other of the good-thinkers (or NPCs, take your pick) blindly adhere to.

          • Tate June 11, 2019 at 10:24 am #

            *skepticism”. Yeah.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 10:31 am #

            Tate. He’s listening.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 10:32 am #

            And He saw it all, didn’t He? Careful.

          • Tate June 11, 2019 at 2:23 pm #

            And by ‘denigrate’ I wasn’t referring to negroes (polite Southerners used to say ‘nigra’ instead of ‘negro.’) They’ve been duped where they’re most susceptible by their own kind like Mad Maxine & the ever-present powers that pull her strings.

          • Elrond Hubbard June 13, 2019 at 11:26 am #

            Tate: given that you’re clearly hinting at Holocaust denial, you’re certainly putting yourself at risk of getting banned by JHK.

            He’s generally committed to freedom of speech, but on this matter he drops the banhammer without a second thought.

          • Tate June 13, 2019 at 3:36 pm #

            I can’t speak for JHK. I think your program needs an update though. If you haven’t been aware, just look around going back, oh I don’t know, months. Maybe he’s curious too. Just a theory. It’s not denial to question the details of a narrative.

      • Elrond Hubbard June 12, 2019 at 11:58 am #

        Tate: “Count me among the ‘most hardened cynics’ among the Boomers.”

        Here’s an excellent quote I came across recently. “The cynic … created nothing, he made nothing. His role was to undo — or rather to attempt to undo, for he did not succeed in his purpose. The cynic, a parasite of civilisation, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail. What would become of the cynic among a savage people where everyone, naturally and quite seriously, fulfils what the cynic farcically considers to be his personal role?” — José Ortega y Gasset

        I like that a lot. It puts my own feelings about the prevailing discourse on this blog into plain words. People should be putting a quarter of the effort they expend in jawing about doom into preserving what’s good in the present order instead.

        • Tate June 12, 2019 at 2:27 pm #

          “What would become of the cynic among a savage people where everyone, naturally and quite seriously, fulfils what the cynic farcically considers to be his personal role?”

          The more germane question is what would become of that savage people. But you could ask the same question substituting most of the roles that exist in a civilized society but which are unknown in a savage one.

          For example,

          “What would become of the securities analyst among a savage people where everyone, naturally and quite seriously, fulfils what the securities analyst farcically considers to be his personal role?”

          • Elrond Hubbard June 13, 2019 at 11:28 am #

            Your point? I am strongly pro-civilization — just ask elysianfield. I don’t know what this riposte of yours is supposed to accomplish.

          • Tate June 13, 2019 at 3:48 pm #

            Wasn’t the first cynic (“dog” in Greek) Diogenes, the fella who went around Athens with a lamp in broad daylight claiming he was looking for an honest man? He was called a ‘cynic’ because he slept with dogs in a barrel in the agora. Sounds like an early Huckleberry Finn, or even an early ‘Nature Boy’ (q.v.)

            Now that I think about it, it seems that the phrase ‘hardened cynic’ is an oxymoron. A true cynic cannot be hardened.

          • Tate June 13, 2019 at 3:59 pm #

            The reason being, if this isn’t obvious, is that he would end up questioning his own cynicism.

          • Tate June 13, 2019 at 4:19 pm #

            And I guess to answer your question more directly, there are no cynics in a savage society. There can’t be. Think about it. A cynical philosopher, basically a ‘layabout’, only emerges at a certain level of societal development, requiring existence beyond the subsistence level.

        • elysianfield June 13, 2019 at 12:21 pm #

          Elrond,
          Well…a cynic in a classical sense is a person who does not believe in empathy, and/or seeks his own personal benefit at the expense of others.

          The term is miss-used to denote a person who views the world in a negative light….

          I, myself, feel intensely empathetic, but do not allow my judgment of reality to be skewed by emotional input. I do not consider myself, or Tate, or Janos, to be a cynic.

          Do we observe the world in a positive light? Not so much…. Do we have good reason? Yes, as do you.

          • Tate June 13, 2019 at 3:56 pm #

            “Well…a cynic in a classical sense is a person who does not believe in empathy, and/or seeks his own personal benefit at the expense of others.”

            I don’t know that that’s true, though, ef. That’s not how I think of cynicism, in the classical sense. The second part, about seeking his own personal benefit, definitely isn’t part of the definition. But the term has acquired something of a negative connotation as someone who never sees anything in a positive light, which isn’t fair.

    • K-Dog June 10, 2019 at 10:47 am #

      We all know Trump used it. He had to bitch about Nasty Nancy with American Headstones in the background. The idiot planned it that way figuring he deserved respect by osmosis or heat transfer or association or something. Trump knows parlor tricks. Trump is like a troll who comments before he reads an article to try and always be first. Men under those headstones knew about something Trump never will. Those men knew about sacrifice. Like a dog lifting a leg on a mailbox. Trump showed no respect.

      • benr June 10, 2019 at 10:58 am #

        You might have something there KDOG but he also reminds me of a dog that wants attention even negative attention so it defecates on the floor to get Dad’s attention.
        Any attention is better than being ignored and forgotten.

        • K-Dog June 10, 2019 at 11:12 am #

          Ok dad, and a big woof to you. That is a very deep thought. One could even say that appears to be the state of things.

        • shotho June 10, 2019 at 11:12 am #

          How exactly is the president of the United States “ignored and forgotten”?

          • benr June 10, 2019 at 12:18 pm #

            Look at the news cycles as soon as Trump is not at the top of the heap he says or does something on Twitter to rile the lamestream media.

            “good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.”
            ? Donald J. Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal

          • Majella June 10, 2019 at 7:31 pm #

            As Oscar Wilde so perspicaciously observed,

            “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is NOT being talked about.”

      • JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 11:12 am #

        Ya! Ya! Ya!

        In the words of all children, “who started it”. Why is it that Trump is always criticized after counter-punching a contentious statement by the opposition, especially when 90% of them are lies.

        You are obviously a believer in the BS put out by the MSM and lying DNC.

        How much respect did Pelosi show Trump with her declaration of prison? But that is okay, right? Because she is a Democrat.

        BS, it goes both ways. Hypocrites!

        • benr June 10, 2019 at 12:22 pm #

          That has been the status quo for as long as I can remember Democrats attack and Republicans take it until the Donald showed up now even the most milk toast of REPUBLICANS suddenly has found some semblance of a spine even Mitch McConnel.
          When John McCain took his dirt nap even Mitch started fighting back.
          Weird huh?

        • Majella June 10, 2019 at 7:36 pm #

          Oh? Here’s some ‘whaddabout’ism – who stirred hordes of supporters to chant ‘Lock her Up!’ Not a lot of due process there.

          ANd what Pelosi actually said was that, after due process, she wanted to see him in prison. I’m with her. And, unreliable polls notwithstanding, I’m with a significant majority on that too.

          So, quit being a frigging ‘white-wing’ snowflake.

          However, I’m impressed that you went with ‘90% of them are lies’ rather than the usual response of the rabid Trump-dumpster that EVERYTHING he says is freaking gospel.

        • EvelynV June 12, 2019 at 11:38 am #

          More than he deserves but roughly the same amount of respect his former attorney who knows more about him and his criminal activities has for him.

          Keep trying JohnAZ, sooner or later you might have something worthwhile to contribute here.

    • Elrond Hubbard June 10, 2019 at 10:49 am #

      When the U.S. was at the peak of its power and used it for good, the Allies were nonetheless performing mass bombings of civilians. In the case of Dresden, they achieved a firestorm that incinerated people where they stood. This is to say nothing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The men tried at Nuremberg were acquitted if they were charged with actions that happened to resemble those of the Allies. “The record on which we judge these defendants”, it was said, “is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well.” So when the U.S. was at the peak of its power, it sometimes used that power for good, and sometimes in other ways. We should judge things as they are, not how we’d like to see them.

      Neon Vincent: “That’s a science-fiction solution to a science-fiction problem.”

      But these are science-fiction days. And I mean that seriously. Ordinary fiction is made-up stories about made-up people. In science fiction (and fantasy), you also get to make up the world the stories happen in. To do that requires a leap of the imagination, to the idea that a world different from the one you know is even possible. That leap happened to our civilization generations past, and it’s a permanent part of our consciousness now. We are the heirs of H.G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback as much as Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. (Note to JHK: World Made By Hand 100% qualifies as science fiction, whether you intended it as genre fiction or not. Change doesn’t always have to be in ways we’d like.)

      Back in Shakespeare’s day, public spectacles of cruelty like bear-baiting and public executions were commonplace. But that was around the same time the printing press was invented, and literacy began to become widespread. The novel was invented and became popular, and it became normal for people to start consuming narratives of other people’s interior lives, both for information and entertainment. Over time, the result was an expansion of people’s circle of empathy and a gathering unwillingness to inflict wanton cruelty. Executions never stopped, but people began to find them shameful and feel they should be done out of sight. The guillotine, believe it or not, was actually part of a movement against cruel and unusual punishment, and toward reform of penal practices along rational lines.

      In short, change in technology can result in a change in consciousness, and things never really go back the way they used to be. Whatever else happens, the things we leave behind will be an unending reminder to our descendants of the kind of world that, manifestly, can exist. It’ll be up to them what they do with their own conditions.

      Unless we nuke everything, of course. So, fingers crossed.

      • benr June 10, 2019 at 11:02 am #

        War is war people die and honestly people that don’t deserve to die. There is no sane way to fight a war because the act of war is a last ditch effort to make the enemy give up.
        There should never have been a police action which started with the Korean war nothing but weasel wording.
        War is war fight it to win or don’t bother either way the innocents suffer.

        • JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 11:20 am #

          War is legalized murder! Robert Mitchum’s character, a newspaper correspondent, In Anzio spent the movie trying to figure out why people fought wars.

          His conclusion was chilling

          They fight wars because they love it. They love the upwelling of emotions when firing and being fired at. People have invented so many reasons to fight, it must be inherent to our genes.

          Do not blame politics, or religion, they are excuses to go to war.

          • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 11:35 am #

            So there is never anything legitimate to fight about or for?

          • Elrond Hubbard June 10, 2019 at 11:36 am #

            When he was a war correspondent in the former Yugoslavia, Chris Hedges was talking to one of the fighters about what they thought they were fighting for. They said to him: “War is a force that gives us meaning.” Hedges made that the title of his book.

            Meaning is a dangerous thing. People hunger for it. If you don’t afford them good and constructive meanings for their lives, they’ll create nasty and hateful ones rather than go without.

          • Exscotticus June 10, 2019 at 6:10 pm #

            >>> War is legalized murder!

            Self-defense is not murder. A nation defending itself and thus unwillingly engaging in “war” is not committing mass murder.

      • Tate June 10, 2019 at 11:04 am #

        So we’re living in a fantasy science-fiction inspired world? Could that explain financial bubbles, an emergent phenomenon that began about the same time as the beginnings of the scientific revolution? The first of these was the so-called Tulipomania in Holland.

        • Elrond Hubbard June 10, 2019 at 11:39 am #

          To me, it’s more like industry and science fiction co-evolved with one another. Each one being part of what made the other possible, they traded influences back and forth in an ongoing dialogue.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 1:03 pm #

        More – as the people ran for the lake to escape the flames, fighter bombers flew low and strafed them. These murderers deserved to swing but instead they were made into heroes.

        Just filthy Germans? Actually there were many Allied POWs in Dresden too – but the New World Order doesn’t care about its own people either, that should be clear by now. Remember the Liberty!

        • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 10:40 am #

          Your heros invented the verb ‘coventrieren’ for what they did to Coventry and other cities before Dresden. Dresden was payback. Inexcusable in its intensity (Bomber Harris was a bit of a psycho) but payback.

          You never mention Coventry – why is that?

          And if Herr Lebensraum had stayed in his own back yard none of it would have happened at all.

          The people murdered in the camps were civilians too.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 10:42 am #

            *heroes…*

      • michael June 10, 2019 at 7:20 pm #

        “The record on which we judge these defendants”, it was said, “is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well.”

        An idea such as this is now incomprehensible to most.

  4. syxiomar June 10, 2019 at 10:18 am #

    Jim,
    Beautifully written, expresses the joy and sorrow of living through this time with you. Always appreciate your insight and love of language. Keep up the good work, buddy.

    • Paulo June 10, 2019 at 11:32 am #

      Thanks for the article. Wonderful. It’s nice to see a few comments beyond the usual Deep States, rah rah Trumpers, and Hillary bad/me mad. Yes, the Clintons are bad, no bankers were jailed by Obama, and Obama sold Boeing 737max overseas and removed FAA oversights. And Trump ___________ , well. the list is still being written and too long to fit in a book let alone a comment section.

      My 2 cents as this unfolds: (and it is unfolding rather quickly)
      get rid of your debts
      take care of your health
      move to somewhere liveable
      make a few preps (the list is insanely long and personal)
      develop community relationships
      don’t believe in political explanation (any), or solutions
      live each day deliberately

      etc etc etc

      • elysianfield June 10, 2019 at 4:50 pm #

        Take care of your health…don’t get old.

      • Nightowl June 11, 2019 at 2:03 pm #

        If you had something noteworthy on Trump, you would have mentioned it.

        Classic. “Yeah, there’s just too much to list.”

        • Majella June 11, 2019 at 7:05 pm #

          Lists of crimes, misdemeanors & just downright blithering idiocy of the Insane Clown President has been written in so many other places, let alone on other posts on this blog, that it doesn’t bear repeating anymore.

          Anyway, it would be out-of-date by the end of the day.

          • Nightowl June 14, 2019 at 3:28 am #

            By all means, list these crimes and provide concrete evidence.

  5. PeteAtomic June 10, 2019 at 10:21 am #

    Hi Jim, thanks for this, buddy.

    I think this particular blog post has so much to say in its sad thoughtfulness and introspection. I really like the imagery of playing with the plastic soldiers out in the garden while dad is leaving for work in the new car and his nice suit. I grew up much later then you, but my upbringing was luckily filled with that same types of memories. It really is sad– its the destruction of a lifeway that did have an enormous stability & promise involved in it.

    Furthermore, the Left’s dismissal of those previous decades as illegitimate because “it was all racist” is the failed message in the anemic political response of the vanishing of post-WWII America. The political establishment can not “make America great again”, so instead, the democrats (in particular)– argue that none of the years post-WWII mattered. I think that argument is as dangerous as it is insane.
    I hope I’m writing all this down correctly so its understandable.

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    • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 10:28 am #

      We had about ten good years after the war, if you count the insanely uptight and hysterical 1950’s, before it all went to shit again. By that time the globalist imperialists had firmly taken over and everything began to go to shit again. The insane nuclear cold war was bound to ruin both major parties involved in it, and in that respect, the USSR actually came out ahead by folding their hand first and getting on with things. The US on the other hand, came completely unhinged in the aftermath, leading up to today. Hegemonic Fever will do that to you.

      • PeteAtomic June 10, 2019 at 10:34 am #

        yeah, bud you are right. I guess I’m addressing a more personal and individual level. Not as much a macro political level.

        The threat of Soviet destruction was there, I remember too doing the ole ‘get under your desk’ routine LOL! cuz of nukes. There was an Order to it all, however, growing up. There was a concrete sense of reality, I suppose is what I’m trying to write here. This occurred in politics, in economics, and society as a whole. The nation was much more hegemonic demographically & culturally, as well.

        Now all of that appears to be fading pretty quick– and the people out there who are cheering the destruction of the old way shouldn’t be too excited about what they wanna create. It seems to be some model of Venezuala-styled socialism mixed with Anything Goes cultural relativism. I don’t think its gonna work out.

        • Epicur June 10, 2019 at 10:58 am #

          “I don’t think its gonna work out.”

          Kind of like trying to make chicken salad out of chickens#!t.

          • PeteAtomic June 10, 2019 at 11:36 am #

            great analogy! nice

      • FincaInTheMountains June 10, 2019 at 10:40 am #

        Hegemonic Fever AND Hillary Clinton will do that to you…

        • PeteAtomic June 10, 2019 at 10:41 am #

          “Hegemonic Fever AND Hillary Clinton will do that to you…”

          ha ha ha
          oh boy

        • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 11:14 am #

          Part and parcel, Ol’ Finc, but that’s good anyway!

      • DrTomSchmidt June 10, 2019 at 11:16 am #

        By 1970, the USA had hit peak conventional oil production. Did the Globalists have anything to do with that, or was it geophysics? Did peak conventional oil have anything to do with the collapse of the 50s economy?

      • Tate June 10, 2019 at 11:27 am #

        The “insanely uptight & hysterical 1950’s?”

        What are you talking about? The Venona papers & documents uncovered from the Soviet archives show it was far from hysteria.

        • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 3:25 pm #

          I was referring to over here, with the McCarthy Great Red Scare Inquisition and all that.

          • Tate June 10, 2019 at 5:54 pm #

            That’s what I was referring to.

      • JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 11:28 am #

        It is difficult to admit that the wars, recessions, bad times are all caused by one institution, our illustrious Federal government, to protect the PTB. It is also noticeable that good times seem to stem from the people. Taking power from the Feds seems to improve our lot in life.

        Remember that when you favor government control.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 1:06 pm #

        But the USSR was our ally! Stalin was a Saint – Uncle Joe!

  6. Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 10:22 am #

    Absolutely beautiful piece this morning, Jim! As a fellow baby boomer (’57), I can attest to and share in the memories, feelings, and impressions shared here. We are indeed at a historical turning point for the US, and almost certainly for mankind as well. The allure of unleashing financialized industrialism based on exploiting the burning of millions of years of fossil fuels proved to be irresistible, and having sown the wind of all that wonder, we’re now reaping the whirlwind of its inevitable backside results. The only question remaining now is whether or not mankind – and indeed, most of the remaining current species – will remain “going concerns,” to borrow a term from the pin head bean counters. Personally, I have serious doubts.

    • PeteAtomic June 10, 2019 at 10:27 am #

      “The only question remaining now is whether or not mankind – and indeed, most of the remaining current species – will remain “going concerns,” to borrow a term from the pin head bean counters. Personally, I have serious doubts.”

      ha ha

      here I’m trying to put a positive spin on the apocalypse and you gotta come along and shit all over it.

      thanks, buddy! 😉

      i’m teasing u

      • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 10:29 am #

        LOL! No problemo, I’m just a died in the wool truth teller.

    • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 10:42 am #

      We will be returning to a medieval style of existence as Mr. K said last week, if we are lucky. As it is already our economy is becoming neo-Feudal with an extravagantly wealthy, very tiny aristocracy and the rest being part of the peasant masses. This is reflected in everything from the economy to the 2016 electoral map. Whether the environment can survive the incessant destruction reaped by cancerous growth? That does remain to be seen.

      • DrTomSchmidt June 10, 2019 at 11:18 am #

        In feudalism, serfs had obligations to their lords, and the lords had obligations to their serfs, enforced by Church and State.

        Feudalism would be an improvement over the current situation.

        • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 11:27 am #

          I agree with you. We are however missing at this time the agreement upon reciprocal obligations of the aristocracy and peasantry. And our society certainly rejects any influence of the “Church”. So quite a bit of change must happen in order to get us there. I am actually hopeful and not cynical. Once things get really really hard people will be malleable. Much of the problem now in addition to outright disagreement is inertia because there isn’t widespread famine yet.

          • Elrond Hubbard June 10, 2019 at 2:28 pm #

            SoftStarLight: A society that took for granted the relationship between aristocracy and peasantry is just what the U.S. founding fathers rejected. They dismissed the idea that there should be different rules for different people, and proposed instead that all are created equal and should be subject to equal treatment regardless of status. This founding principle has been your country’s guiding light ever since.

            It’s not that I expect you to change your mind, but your position is fundamentally un-American in addition to being totalitarian. And I think that fact is something you should have to wear in public. Expect me to keep reminding you of it.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 6:26 pm #

            Our system has failed Elrond. I mean aren’t you the one who is always telling us that? And in order to create equality, you desire to make Whites third class citizens here and everywhere they live. The form of Serfdom you desire for us is along the lines of South Africa, I think. She’s talking about a system where the higher and lower class share the same culture and race.

          • Exscotticus June 10, 2019 at 7:35 pm #

            >>> subject to equal treatment regardless of status

            Equal before the law—yes. But somewhere along the line, the Left got confused and thought it meant equality of outcome. And now they push wealth redistribution policies in a vain attempt to create literal wealth equality.

            And after that? What other aspects of the human condition will the Left try to equalize? Will models be disfigured to make the rest of us feel better about ourselves? Or perhaps the SJWs have more ambitions plans to equalize all life forms. After all, oysters have rights!

          • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 12:24 am #

            Well mark me and shun me then if that’s what you think is best Elrond but it won’t change what’s true. You can’t hide from it even when you silence us. He’s right. Our system has failed us. The American experiment was a beautiful thing. Hearing stories of the “good ole days” both here and IRL makes me mad about how things are now and what happened and how we were betrayed. And we is White America. I can’t help that it displeases you. And you can tell me there is equality until the cows come home but I am telling you there isn’t. Each person is unique and each person does not receive the same treatment by the law nor by society. That’s because we all have different places in society. But to maximize how we work together means that we need sameness and trust. And so the aristocrats and peasants most definitely need to be of the same race and bound by the same culture.

          • Exscotticus June 11, 2019 at 10:12 am #

            >>> That’s because we all have different places in society.

            Societies will always value some roles more than others. “Healers” for example are valued more than “cleaners”. But it is not for any society to tell you your place in it. Beware of any political system that seems to support the idea that it can.

          • Elrond Hubbard June 11, 2019 at 11:24 am #

            Hmm, several comments. I’ll take them in order.

            Eyesore McGee: I’m not the one who’s always talking about a failed (or failing) system; you must be thinking of JHK. There’s a difference between being apprehensive about system failure, versus half-jonesing for it the way he and so many others around here do. There’s quite a bit about the system we have today that’s worth preserving, in that it affords at least a fairly decent standard of living to hundreds of millions or even billions of people. So what I want is for the system to do well in that respect, and also to become a better system. I point out failures where I see them, but all in all I think my own attitude is quite a bit more constructive than what is the norm around here.

            Exscotticus: You’re arguing against a straw man. No one begrudges people advantages that they worked to achieve for themselves. When Bernie Sanders’ most recent book did well, he was widely derided on social media because the book made him a millionaire, but that’s bogus. He gets to keep the proceeds of his own work because of course he does. And he will pay taxes on it, because of course he should, because he benefits from being part of the wider society.

            The issue isn’t people having money, it’s (a) people appropriating the value of other people’s work and (b) people accumulating so much money they’re able to leverage that into power over the system itself, making it serve them at other people’s expense. There are good reasons to believe that widespread wealth inequality makes everyone (including the wealthy) more fearful, more unhealthy, less satisfied with their lives, and that it even endangers the system. A more economically equal system will be better, not only because it better reflects the real value of what people contribute (as opposed to the minimum they can be coerced into accepting), but because equality itself is good for people.

            SoftStarLight: You write, “each person does not receive the same treatment by the law nor by society… because we all have different places in society”. This neatly reverses cause and effect, like saying our ears and noses are where they are so as to hold up our eyeglasses. Regardless, like Eyesore you’re an openly professed totalitarian and I see no reason to debate you. I simply speak for the record.

          • Exscotticus June 11, 2019 at 2:45 pm #

            >>> No one begrudges people advantages that they worked to achieve for themselves.

            Socialists do indeed! The mere act of being wealthy is enough to raise their ire. Show me any socialist nation’s tax code that has one tax rate for “wealth you achieved yourself” and another for “wealth you did not achieve yourself”.

            >>> [The issue is] people appropriating the value of other people’s work

            Huh? If you agree to work for Jeff Bezos at a certain salary, how is he “appropriating” your work? He’s paying you for your labor–a contract you freely entered into.

            You seem to think that you have a right to Jeff Bezos ideas, wealth, and all that it creates. Jeff took the RISKS with his MONEY. Anything that comes out of that is HIS—not YOURS. What you get is the salary you agreed to.

          • Majella June 11, 2019 at 7:11 pm #

            @ Elrond

            That was very succinctly and eloquently put, Elrond. However, Exscotticus didn’t actually READ it, going by his rabid response.

          • Exscotticus June 11, 2019 at 8:54 pm #

            @Majella, not only did I read it—I quoted it. Maybe YOU didn’t read it.

            Socialists aren’t merely asking for an inheritance tax (which already exists, and which taxes wealth yet again, as that wealth was already taxed multiple times by multiple sovereign taxable authorities).

            Socialists are arguing for an ownership stake in all corporations. And that’s fine. The problem is: they don’t want to pay for it.

            You can take an ownership stake in any publically traded corporation right now by purchasing stock. Or you can be a bond owner, and have a corporation in your debt.

            But that’s not what the Left is arguing for. What they’re suggesting is that “the workers” should have an ownership stake in anything their labor touches. They’re not investing any wealth. They’re not taking any financial risks. They’re simply salaried employees doing the job for which they were contractually hired.

            Clearly, this “I work it I own it” socialist position would severely discourage wealthy people from investing. The idea doesn’t even work with things that are already public from day one. Do you think you have ownership of your city’s public buses? Try to sell your stake in them. Go to City Hall and say, “I’m moving to another area, and would like to cash out all my positions on all the public stuff for which I am part owner.” Please record the response and share it!

            Do you think the cleaning crew at Fort Knox should get an ownership stake in the gold because they mixed their labor with this enterprise when they emptied the waste baskets?

            All socialist ideas involve stealing wealth one way or another. And just what do the wealthy do under such systems? They pack and leave and take their wealth with them. Then what? Take your pick: USSR, Mao’s China, Venezuela, etc.

          • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 1:25 am #

            Wow Elrond. You say I am an open totalitarian so you see no reason to debate me. That seems a bit intolerant of you. More like grandstanding. My contention that eveyone has a place in society is unacceptable why? It seems to be logical and realistic. I didn’t suggest people deserve to be treated differently. Simply that they are and have been and that fact is related to where people are within the social hierarchy. Our whole point is that a homogenous society wouuld stand a much better chance of resolving these class imbalances. A common purpose and shared vision would also help alleviate class tensions.

          • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 1:45 am #

            Exscotticus I agree with you that individuals must be allowed the freedom to find their place in society rather than being assigned to a specific role or path by society. Creativity and innovation are good things. But moderation is good in all things too. So the desires of the individual must be reconciled with the desires of the collective. The two don’t always have to be at odds.

          • Exscotticus June 12, 2019 at 10:08 am #

            >>> So the desires of the individual must be reconciled with the desires of the collective.

            I would say the desires of the individual must be reconciled with the needs of the collective. That is we have laws. But the onus—the burden of proof—should always be upon the collective to explain why an individual’s liberty should be curtailed. We don’t want a tyranny of the majority. That is why we have a Constitution with a Bill of Rights.

          • Elrond Hubbard June 12, 2019 at 10:28 am #

            Exscotticus: “The mere act of being wealthy is enough to raise [socialists’] ire.”

            Not really. What raises ire is (a) getting rich by soaking up other people’s contributions – I’ll describe this below – and (b) the unwarranted political power that comes with having unchecked money power.

            Ex: “If you agree to work for Jeff Bezos at a certain salary, how is he “appropriating” your work? He’s paying you for your labor–a contract you freely entered into.”

            The starting wage for an associate at an Amazon fulfillment center is $11 an hour, average $13. Keep in mind how far $11 an hour will get you in the good ole USA as we discuss the following. If Jeff Bezos employs me at $X an hour, he does so for his benefit, not mine. The work I’m doing for him isn’t worth $X, it’s worth $X+Y dollars, where Jeff Bezos keeps the $Y. The beauty is that the $Y doesn’t show up in the accounting, yet it’s obviously there since there’s no way on god’s earth my shitty $11 job would exist without it. Jeff Bezos, and pretty much all of capitalism, works on this basis of alienating workers from the value they themselves create.

            What Jeff Bezos wants is to keep $X as low as possible and $Y as high as possible. That’s why Amazon fulfillment centers are such infamous sweatshops, where workers are tracked continuously (i.e. subjected to totalitarian surveillance, don’t kid yourself), break times are minimal, and the company notoriously prefers calling ambulances to treat exhausted employees versus, say, turning up the air conditioning. Only the latter costs money which Jeff Bezos would like for himself, thankyouverymuch.

            Multiply all this umpteen times over and you have Jeff Bezos, the plutocrat’s plutocrat. Multiply times everything else and you have capitalism. All this is what I mean by getting rich soaking up other people’s contributions. You can despise Karl Marx all you want. But he absolutely nailed this — it can’t be coherently contradicted. It can only be defended through special pleading and propaganda, justifying pharaonic lucre on the one hand, and people working themselves into the hospital in exchange for a pittance on the other.

          • Elrond Hubbard June 12, 2019 at 10:48 am #

            Here’s an addendum, so I don’t run on too long at once.

            Exscotticus: “You seem to think that you have a right to Jeff Bezos ideas, wealth, and all that it creates. Jeff took the RISKS with his MONEY.”

            Oh my GOD, he took RISKS with his MONEY? What a HERO! Except, for whose benefit was he risking his money? People call soldiers heroes because they risk their lives and bodies for their country. But what Jeff Bezos was risking was money. And what he was risking his money for is, more money. For himself. So, yay?

            Ex: “Anything that comes out of that is HIS—not YOURS. What you get is the salary you agreed to.”

            This is exactly my $X+$Y proposition from above, except with pop eyes and foaming at the mouth. To the contrary, you and Jeff Bezos both seem to think that Jeff Bezos has a right to the value of my work. That is, part of that value: the difference between the actual, full value of the work versus what scraps Lord Jeff deigns to leave on the table. That difference goes into Lord Jeff’ pocket; it’s where all capitalist profits come from. You’ve got some nerve proclaiming that as Jeff Bezo’s due and proper, when I was the one who created the value by doing work.

            This is why the labour movement is vital: bargaining power. Without workers’ solidarity, the individual worker doesn’t have a choice, i.e. there literally is no actual bargain between worker and employer. Workers accept work at the going rate, or they accept destitution. And don’t give me bootstrap arguments about this. There’s no such thing as a society of freebooting entrepreneurs above the pure subsistence level. Anything better than that requires cooperation and coordination between individuals. And that means people going to a workplace and doing work.

            The labour movement allows for that cooperation and coordination to take place on terms that are not purely tyrannical, which is what Jeff Bezos benefits from and which you are defending so vociferously. What would be better still would be worker ownership. People want to own where they live, after all, and not pay rent. so why not own where they work as well? Everyone who works should have a share of ownership in their workplace, meaning they keep the full value of the work they do. Of course the Jeff Bezoses of the world will squawk. No one expects them to do otherwise; they simply need to be brought to heel.

          • Exscotticus June 12, 2019 at 11:01 am #

            >>> The work I’m doing for him isn’t worth $X, it’s worth $X+Y dollars, where Jeff Bezos keeps the $Y.

            Says who? What authority determines the value of your labor? Some central planning committee of socialists sitting in a Star Chamber somewhere? No thanks.

            In all of human history, the best mechanism we’ve come up with to determine the value of things is a free market. Every nation that tries to set prices fails, as it immediately spawns a black market.

            Do you think rocket scientists should be paid a lot? Perhaps. Depends on whether or not you need one. Depends on how many you have. That’s the beauty of the free market. There isn’t much intrinsic value in anything; it all depends on supply and demand. In this regard, free markets are more responsive to the needs of the many, of society, of the collective, of the people, than anything socialists have ever come up with.

            If you don’t think Jeff Bezos is a guy who achieved wealth on his own merits, then no one qualifies. He did not inherit wealth. He started Amazon in his garage. Amazon was successful long before it went public (and made lots of other people wealthy).

            No doubt the wealthy people you’ll give a free pass to are the ones who embrace and promote socialist ideals. George Soros, perhaps? Tell us, Elrond. Give us examples of wealthy people that pass your “achieved wealth on their own merits” test.

          • Exscotticus June 12, 2019 at 11:13 am #

            >>> Everyone who works should have a share of ownership in their workplace,

            Well in that case, I’m off to Fort Knox to be a janitor. Can’t wait for my share of the gold.

            You socialists have a very inflated idea of the value of your labor. It’s ironic because, at the same time, you demand that millions of cheap labor immigrants be allowed to flood our markets, raising the costs of living while simultaneously lowering the value of your labor even more.

          • Majella June 13, 2019 at 9:23 pm #

            Ex: “All socialist ideas involve stealing wealth one way or another. And just what do the wealthy do under such systems? They pack and leave and take their wealth with them. Then what? Take your pick: USSR, Mao’s China, Venezuela, etc.”

            There you go again with entirely unjustified claims.

            Is wealth not ‘stolen’ in the capitalist system? Tax is the commonality between socialist & capitalist systems. I guess you’d like a ZERO tax regime…and look forward to hearing how it would work.

            On average in the Western community extracts around 28% of GDP by way of taxes
            (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenue_to_GDP_ratio).

            Interestingly, the US stands at 27.1% while the evil demonic Venezuela is 25%. How do you explain this anomaly?

            The rich pack up and leave? I don’t think you know how this works, do you…the uber-rich life everywhere and nowhere, as global citizens, paying if not NOTHING, then the least possible in taxes. The vast majority of their wealth is sequestered offshore.

            Your passionate defense of Jeff Bezos is quite disturbing though. Amazon pays zilch in corporate income taxes, and while he personally is paid a salary by Amazon of $81,000 which will be subject to withholding, I’m guessing he pays Sweet Fanny Adams in effect.

            I read somewhere that there’s a weird phenomenon that exists only in the US – most everyone expects to get rich, sooner or later, they’re just not there yet…and as a result, they defend the wealthy and their dodgy tax games in order to preserve tehir own future right to play.

            Sad, really…does this explain your defense of one of the richest plutocrats of the 21st century who pays minimum wages, works his people like slaves, will eventually replace tehm all with robots, is destroying communities across the country (he’ll eventually take Walmart out and that’ll be the end of employment in Buttfuck, Arkansas) and pays nothing in taxes? Good luck with that.

          • Exscotticus June 13, 2019 at 11:44 pm #

            >>> I guess you’d like a ZERO tax regime

            As a matter of fact, when the USA first took its place among the sovereign nations of the world, there was no income tax. And when income tax was first enacted, it was around 1% for the stupid wealthy only. Now, even POOR people are required to pay income tax…

            According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, the lowest-income quintile — those making less than $19,000 a year — pay almost 11 percent of their income in state and local taxes

            >>> Interestingly, the US stands at 27.1% while the evil demonic Venezuela is 25%. How do you explain this anomaly?

            Easy. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world. The fact that socialism can’t make a nation work that’s literally sitting on a pile of free wealth is the ultimate testament to its failure. Venezuela doesn’t have to steal wealth from others as it’s endowed with wealth courtesy of time, dead things, and the sun. But that wasn’t good enough! And so its socialist leaders stole wealth, regardless.

            >>> The rich pack up and leave? I don’t think you know how this works

            Show me any wealthy people or corporations investing in Venezuela.

            >>> Amazon pays zilch in corporate income taxes

            Straw man. I’m against corporate welfare. And it has nothing to do with capitalism. But feel free to quote Adam Smith and prove me wrong. You’ve read Adam Smith, yes? Or was it all just hate-whitey courses? And how’s your Latin, btw? What? They don’t teach Latin at the universities anymore? So sad for you. So much money spent on your worthless liberal brainwashing education…

            >>> one of the richest plutocrats of the 21st century who pays minimum wages, works his people like slaves,

            Salaries at Amazon.com Inc range from an average of $58,578 to $147,825 a year.

            58k is the median salary for a FAMILY in the USA. So if you have a husband and wife working for Amazon, they’re making TWICE the national average.

            Maybe get your facts and talking points from someone other than job-killer AOC?

      • PeteAtomic June 10, 2019 at 11:30 am #

        So what is your weapon of choice gonna be, SSL??
        crossbow, longsword, or mace? 🙂

        • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 11:34 am #

          Gee if I had to choose from those I would pick the crossbow. If I don’t like you why would I want to get close lol ;-).

          • PeteAtomic June 10, 2019 at 11:43 am #

            good point.

            I’m gonna wield a samurai sword and some nunchucks. yeah yeah its a little Walking Dead, but it’s the end of the world, who gives a fuck

            a fun mental exercise is to imagine what some of the posters on the blog would have IRL…

            Janos with some kind of big, Germanic weapon like a battleaxe…of course Green Alba would have to have a claymore.. Scratch would have a trident in one hand and a net in the other (total Spartacus style), and Elrond would have something dainty & kinda feminine.. maybe like a stiletto knife 🙂

          • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 11:51 am #

            Wow a straight up Ninja that is so frickin cool! I wish I felt brave enough for that. That is funny to think about. I can’t picture Elrond with any weapon. He will probably have a scepter though that he will point with when he is angry.

          • Elrond Hubbard June 10, 2019 at 12:38 pm #

            “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the wrath of a gentle man.” — Patrick Rothfuss

            I’m a man of peace, SoftStarLight. I restrain myself because violence is terrible. So if things ever get so bad that I feel it necessary to take up violence, watch yourself, because that will mean I have abandoned all restraint.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 1:09 pm #

            Actual violence is an art, Elrond. You can’t just pick up a weapon and be any good at it. You will be a Mandarin of the New Order, just as you are now, whatever that Order happens to be.

          • PeteAtomic June 10, 2019 at 4:08 pm #

            “He will probably have a scepter though that he will point with when he is angry.”

            OMG! hilarious!!

            🙂
            🙂

          • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 12:32 am #

            Thank you for letting me know Elrond. I wasn’t trying to provoke you. It was just a silly joke and some innocent fun.

          • EvelynV June 12, 2019 at 11:48 am #

            PeteAtomic

            I’ll take the bow and arrows with Comanche training everytime.

      • JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 11:38 am #

        The problem with the Medieval idea is that all labor was animal or human driven. So there was lots to do for the serfs.

        Not so much now as we continue the insane drive towards AI, and labor reducing everywhere.

        One of the huge political questions of the 21st century will be, what to do with all the extra people.

        In Medieval Times, the Black Death took care of the problem.

        Watch the west coast.

        • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 11:44 am #

          Well presumably that is why the current Elite are so interested in massive depopulation.

          • Majella June 10, 2019 at 7:52 pm #

            *sigh*

            “the current elite” – who do you actually mean? Please define a little

            ‘so interested in massive depopulation” – on what basis can you make such a claim? Please provide at least some pittance of evidence…

          • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 12:45 am #

            Wall Street/K Street/Hollywood/Chamber of Commerce/Big Business/Big Pharma/The Bureaucratic Deep State/Congress/The Pentagon……the list goes on I am sure.

            And as far as the depopulation agenda goes, one small pittance of evidence is the Georgia Guidestones.

  7. PeteAtomic June 10, 2019 at 10:25 am #

    I think if you grew up in this time you ought to count yourself as being a winner of a cosmic lottery, and be grateful.

    I also argue that things are changing, and we have an opportunity to create a positive future for ourselves & our children– however different this future will be from our current time. We ought to embrace the changes and make them our own– so the change is acceptable & not frightening or gets out of hand. Maybe that will be one of the greatest challenges.

    • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 10:41 am #

      It definitely had its moments. I remember so well the popular zeitgeist of the 60’s – even with all the cultural turmoil of the time – as compared to now. It’s just impossible to convey to the young’ns now who weren’t there. But I suppose it’s that way for every generation. I heard similar stories from my mother and grandmother, even though their childhoods growing up in the Great Plains states were much, much tougher by any reasonable measure.

      • PeteAtomic June 10, 2019 at 10:50 am #

        “I heard similar stories from my mother and grandmother, even though their childhoods growing up in the Great Plains states were much, much tougher by any reasonable measure.”

        yep, same here. I still live in Northern MN and yes the winters can be tough, but we do have great gas powered snow blowers! So, I can’t complain.

        • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 11:11 am #

          Grandmother lived in a one room house in the middle of NE up to the early ’60s. Cold water from an outdoor well pump and elimination via 2 hole outhouse, complete with an adjacent corncob pile. Wood burning stove in the “kitchen” for heat, cooking, and warming an occasional bath water. Baths in a big tin tub, which was also used for scalding chickens to enable plucking at slaughter. Hard to imagine now, but I don’t think she was ever as happy after moving into their modern house, which was no palace either.

          • Mountain gal June 10, 2019 at 11:57 am #

            For the most part “stuff” doesn’t make anyone happy.

  8. Epicur June 10, 2019 at 10:26 am #

    “The question begging this haunted country now is: what do we become? And can we find any grace in it?”

    The grace to be found is in accepting our limits. We will not accept them until Nature drives us to rock bottom in the coming winnowing of the population.

    Only when we stop pointing fingers of blame and bargaining for irrational solutions will we get there.

    • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 10:43 am #

      All true, but much easier said than done. Exponential growth economies like ours require exponential contraction/pain to return to a lower equilibrium.

      • Epicur June 10, 2019 at 10:46 am #

        Definitely will not be easy. I doubt that even the majority of survivors will find that kind of peace.

        “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
        ? Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowd

        • benr June 10, 2019 at 1:22 pm #

          I would change that go mad as in lemmings right off the cliff but yea that is a pretty true statement.

      • JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 11:48 am #

        The Great Depression is a good example of your statement.

        One big difference now though, there is no reserve to bounce back with as we have destroyed our ability to respond.

        Can you imagine FDR telling England and Russia that we have no steel making ability, or aluminum.

        But if you need info, we have Google and if you want to talk we have Facebook, or if you need a package delivered from China, we have Amazon or Walmart.

        A wonderful adjustment to our situation might be a well placed nuke right on top of Silicon Valley.

    • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 10:49 am #

      It doesn’t have to be this way. Meaning we wouldn’t necessarily have to wait until Nature drives us to the rock bottom. But people are unwilling and incapable of coming to any consensus. No doubt it is due to the balkanization of our society in general and it is something we are not going to ever get back with the current composition of the country. So, short of a totalitarian approach nothing will likely work and it will continue to be a war of all against all.

      • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 10:58 am #

        Practically speaking, it does have to be this way, just as it did at every point along the way up. We could have turned our backs on all this madness, say, after the collapse of the Soviet block in ’91. And at that point there was still a smidgen of a chance that we could have turned things around with a somewhat reduced amount of pain. To forsake industrialism now is to sign the certain death warrants of billions and the continued huge profits for a select few, and that is never going to happen. Granted, we’ll end up in the same pickle eventually either way, but then we’ll at least be able to blame the results on seemingly exogenous factors out of our control. That’s how societies have always collapsed and we will be no different. By doubling down on the very factors that will lead to our demise right up to the bitter end.

        • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 11:08 am #

          Well we don’t have to forsake industrialism but we could begin to power down in areas that make sense. There is no reason that we have to follow the same historical path of other nations before us but that is apparently the collective choice that will be made. In that sense I do understand your cynicism. I don’t think that blame will be seen as exogenous though. The population as ignorant at large as it may seem is aware to varying degrees of the destruction being reaped upon the human and natural environments. And most people are aware of the control held by the Elite. Though the Elite may be different for different people. So in short I am not sure if we can safely say that this is going to go according to the way it has gone so many times before.

        • ozone June 10, 2019 at 11:44 am #

          Ol’ Scratch,
          Just to further your point, the phrase, “Too late!” springs instantly to mind.
          United Technologies just made a deal to purchase Raytheon. Now what do you suppose their vision for the future might be? …And let’s not forget how many politicians they can buy on the cheap to make their products desirable and eminently necessary.

        • JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 11:50 am #

          Well stated!

          Destroy what you are good at. I think that borders on insanity!

    • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 1:13 pm #

      We’ll never know a moments peace until we become a People again. And that means jettisoning the minority detrius – all of them. Impossible? In the short and medium term, barring catastrophe, Yes. So No, we will find no grace in anything.

      • Majella June 10, 2019 at 7:59 pm #

        Have you watched the recent Season 4 of “Designated Survivor”?

        You & SSL would have paroxysms of joy at the underlying plot, of the ‘Elites’.

      • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 12:56 am #

        Yes, we can’t have peace until we are one People again. To receive Grace is truly a blessing and no one can be sure of the hour in which it will come. So there is always hope. Even when all seems lost.

        • Majella June 11, 2019 at 7:16 pm #

          So, you & Janos would LOVE this plot…an evil corporatist who’s made his money in Big Pharma hatches a plot to deploy a virus that is responsive only to the level of melanin in the host. SO, white people are immune while brown and all shades darker are. But the twist is that it doesn’t kill them – it causes sterility so they’re the last generation. All that’s left afterward will be white folk. Bliss!

          • Majella June 11, 2019 at 7:17 pm #

            “…are infected”

          • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 1:58 am #

            I have no interest whatsoever in the dreams of some genocidal maniac. I simply want White people to have intact homelands. The plot of the story is too conventional. White genocide is real however and the more likely scenario in reality.

  9. benr June 10, 2019 at 10:32 am #

    Ah yes the Sunday night airing of The Wonderful world of Disney.
    I remember well having all of five channels to watch and what a great night of T.V. that was.
    Now we have 1,000 channels to watch and the selection still seems a bit short and never as exciting as that single Sunday night airing.
    Funny how I can still sit down and watch Davy Crocket, I love Lucy, Gilligan’s Island and F troop and still enjoy it.
    It sort of takes me away from todays modern problems with the woka-saraus tds insanity.
    It’s odd that politics has always been a nasty business and the other side is the enemy syndrome but with Social media and the instant access to all that is part of the got to have it now generation I really do miss the decorum of the average person.
    This shit here has to stop.
    Warning language and severe derangement.

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/tds-on-steroids-leftist-thug-parks-car-in-the-middle-of-the-street-to-attack-trump-supporters-in-la/

    • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 10:48 am #

      We have a local over the air channel the reruns all the oldies. Great stuff! The dramas, mostly westerns or late 50’s era crime dramas, are all simple morality plays in 4 acts, while the sitcoms are all family oriented and morality tinged as well. Quite refreshing!

      • Majella June 10, 2019 at 8:00 pm #

        “We have a local over the air channel the reruns all the oldies. ” or, if you don’t, youtube!

    • San Jose June 10, 2019 at 10:49 am #

      I fondly remember watching Sunday night television. Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom and The Wonderful World of Disney.

      Jen in San Jose

      • K-Dog June 10, 2019 at 10:58 am #

        I think you might like next years new TV series.

        Instead of viewing the dining experiences of real wild animals you will be able to see the actual beatings and murders of real indigenous people.

        The opening episode is rumored to be about land thieves displacing natives from the land as the last vestiges of Amazon rain forest are destroyed.

        At the beginning of every episode Trump will introduce a modern dictator and show off a gift they have given him. Then he will explain how that dictator is helping to make America Great.

        Then you can watch your mayhem. Just like in the old days.

        • K-Dog June 10, 2019 at 11:00 am #

          Naturally Jair Bolsonaro will be first interviewed.

          • Elrond Hubbard June 10, 2019 at 2:45 pm #

            A propos: have you heard the news today, oh boy? Somebody seems to have leaked a trove of documents out of the Brazilian government proving what was already pretty obvious: that a group of insiders conspired to frame former president Lula and thrown him in jail, to prevent him running for re-election (which he likely would have won).

            HOW AND WHY THE INTERCEPT IS REPORTING ON A VAST TROVE OF MATERIALS ABOUT BRAZIL’S OPERATION CAR WASH AND JUSTICE MINISTER SERGIO MORO

            How and Why The Intercept is Reporting on a Vast Trove of Materials About Brazil’s Operation Car Wash and Justice Minister Sergio MORO

            https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-archive-operation-car-wash/

            Exclusive: Brazil’s Top Prosecutors Who Indicted Lula Schemed in Secret Messages to Prevent His Party From Winning 2018 Election

            https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-car-wash-prosecutors-workers-party-lula/

            Exclusive: Leaked Chats Between Brazilian Judge and Prosecutor Who Imprisoned Lula Reveal Prohibited Collaboration and Doubts Over Evidence

            https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/brazil-lula-operation-car-wash-sergio-moro/

            It all sounds like such fun reading. Who doesn’t love to see a vulgar authoritarian shitbag get exposed?

        • K-Dog June 10, 2019 at 1:02 pm #

          Like Omaha’s Wild Kingdom where every episode showed a different way to eat Bambi, the new series will also take every opportunity to illustrate the cycles of nature.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 1:15 pm #

          Even as Whites are savaged in every major city in the Western World by Minorities. Attention, care, and compassion are limited resources. You have chosen and chosen wrongly on what to focus on.

      • benr June 10, 2019 at 11:08 am #

        As Jim Fowler tries to subdue the now enraged anaconda it slowly constricts him into a puddle of jelly.
        Kids don’t try this at home.
        Yep remember well the antics of Jim Fowler and Marlin Perkins there was another animal centric series on as well wild kingdom!
        That music is in my head now.
        Memories are funny the music popped in my head but the name of the show took a bit.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 1:17 pm #

          I remember Jim! Yeah, great stuff. And remember Marlin’s smooth segues from animal mayhem to the perils of every day life and the need for insurance?

          Whatever happened to this dynamic duo after the show ended? Probably not much.

      • Mountain gal June 10, 2019 at 11:44 am #

        Oh yes. And Flipper, my absolute favorite 😉 although that wasn’t on Sunday night. What an innocent time that was.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 1:20 pm #

          Just got another flash: Jacques Cousteau. One of his men making out with an octopus at twenty thousand leagues under the sea. In his heavy frenified English Jacque explained the ecstasy that both were experiencing.

          In her series, the OA, Brit Marling had an Octopus named “Old Night” as one of the characters in season two. I don’t think it was real though, not like Jacques…..

          • Mountain gal June 10, 2019 at 10:57 pm #

            That must have been on past my bedtime!

    • DrTomSchmidt June 10, 2019 at 11:22 am #

      Might I offer this counter to television nostalgia?

      https://livinginliminality.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/gin.pdf

      That’s one of the greatest articles I’ve ever read. I suspect the mass communication system is permanently broken, and that’s a good thing. I doubt the social media internet will survive much longer, though.

      • Elrond Hubbard June 10, 2019 at 4:08 pm #

        Interesting, DrTom. From now on, maybe this will be my go-to answer when exasperated reactionaries demand to know why I carry on posting here: I have to do something with all the time I’m not spending on watching TV.

    • elysianfield June 10, 2019 at 7:34 pm #

      “F troop”

      …Larry Storch was a God….

    • Majella June 10, 2019 at 8:04 pm #

      benr, for some reason, based on comments you made regarding your dad a few weeks back, I had the impression you were much younger but it sounds like you’re knocking on 60, right?

      Like Scratch, I’m a ’57 model (like my dad’s old Chevvy Belair!)

      • benr June 10, 2019 at 11:09 pm #

        going on 51 but I was an old soul preferring abbot and Costello and danny kay movies over all the stuff my class mates liked.

  10. K-Dog June 10, 2019 at 10:33 am #

    Nature abhors a vacuum. It could be the century of the cockroaches. But not from NTE (I like to to add an ‘H’) but from stupidity.

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    • K-Dog June 10, 2019 at 11:03 am #

      I put this here only because I have to be next to Mary Tyler Moore.

      • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 11:18 am #

        Good GAWD did she ever age badly!

        • elysianfield June 10, 2019 at 7:37 pm #

          Really? Have you gotten a look at Marilou Henner lately?

  11. 450.org June 10, 2019 at 10:38 am #

    I’m watching Mary Tyler Moore again and loving it. Lou Grant is one of my favorite characters. Hell, I love them all, including Ted. Such great messaging.

    “You’re gonna make it afterall.”

    Love Is All Around

    • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 10:49 am #

      Truly great show!

      • venuspluto67 June 10, 2019 at 10:58 am #

        The last television show I had any desire to watch on a regular basis was “Desperate Housewives”, and even that was a step way, way down from the last era of classic television that ended in the late seventies/ early eighties. And DH became unwatchable after that sudden, jarring “jump five years into the future” thing they pulled halfway through the series.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 1:23 pm #

      What about Rhoda? Mary was so WASPY. Jews are real!

      • 450.org June 10, 2019 at 2:30 pm #

        It was supposed to be a show about Jewish Rhoda but the writers knew that wouldn’t go over too well, so they made Milquetoast Mary the main character and Rhoda her frumpy, fat Jewish sidekick.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 6:05 pm #

          I meant to say Maude. Was Rhoda her daughter? So reeeall! Not like that uptight, stiff necked Mary. Even Marlo (That Girl!) is better than Mary because she was ethnic, not some lumpen generic White.

          • Majella June 10, 2019 at 8:09 pm #

            Janos: “… lumpen generic White”…but surely that describes the vast majority of your tribe, Janos? What makes them so ‘worthy’?

          • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 11:27 pm #

            Because they’re Us. We are the Whites therefore We come first. We matter more. This is what every healthy people believe about themselves. As Tom Jefferson said, Survival is the first morality. Think the paragons of supposed virtue, the self chosen, think differently?

          • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 11:28 pm #

            Maj has outed herself as the Other…..

          • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 1:05 am #

            This explains a lot. Now the apparent eagerness to sow division comes into a much clearer perspective.

          • S M Tenneshaw June 11, 2019 at 9:15 am #

            Otto and SSL can dry up and blow away. The dissension is coming from their side of the fence.

            From the Internet Movie Database site comes these facts about a current sitcom, The Goldbergs:

            ///////////////////////////////////////////////
            https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2712740/?ref_=nv_sr_5?ref_=nv_sr_5

            This ABC show takes place in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania in the 1980s and follows the lives of a family named The Goldbergs.

            Wendi McLendon-Covey Beverly Goldberg
            Sean Giambrone … Adam Goldberg
            Troy Gentile … Barry Goldberg
            Hayley Orrantia … Erica Goldberg

            ///////////////////////////////////////////////

            Get the point?

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 10:46 am #

            “As Tom Jefferson said, Survival is the first morality. ”

            Not what Jesus said though, eh?

          • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 12:44 pm #

            Troy Gentile – now there’s a real name if ever there were. Much like John Kerry. And it’s just one show. One show. And no one ever claimed all actors were secret Jews – just a lot of them. Or some of them. Why would they even bother to hide it at this point since their people control the whole thing and have for a very long time?

          • Majella June 11, 2019 at 7:20 pm #

            “..the Other.”. Huh?

          • Majella June 11, 2019 at 7:24 pm #

            SSL – “…the apparent eagerness to sow division…”

            Yes, that’s sure A1 Totalitarian thinking right there, Jean.

            I challenge you on your childish statements and ask for a justification for some of the truly bizarre claims you make, and this is ‘sowing division’.

            You’re always good for a laugh, at least.

  12. malthuss June 10, 2019 at 10:40 am #

    Let the good times roll.

    • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 10:59 am #

      Laissez les bon temps roulez

  13. malthuss June 10, 2019 at 10:43 am #

    ‘Everything else in America seemed to work as advertised’

    then what happened?
    Well change was underway.
    Federal reserve and federal income tax. 1913
    World war soon after.

    Then the jews [yes the jews] opened the flood gates. Look at who was behind Ted and LBJ. 1965.

    • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 10:53 am #

      Hey, I saw your post last night and you said you would explain what happened to me. I think I already know but I will let you tell me. I am not upset or anything :-).

      • malthuss June 10, 2019 at 2:02 pm #

        my comment was not meant for you but the man you were quoting.

        • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 1:09 am #

          That’s what I figured and sorry for misunderstanding.

  14. venuspluto67 June 10, 2019 at 10:52 am #

    I think it’s worth pointing out that the peak of the idyllic age of which you speak could be placed at about 1961. That’s when world population reached three billion after reaching two billion in about 1931 after reaching its first billion in about 1751. In 1961, we were in serious danger of running out of food to feed all three billion of those hungry mouths.

    So we applied industrial science and technology to our agricultural endeavors as intensely as possible, creating the so-called Green Revolution. The descriptor “green” might make one think it was something good for the ecological health of the planet, when in fact it was the extreme, exact opposite.

    And you will notice that after 1961 is when we started adding another billion people reliably and predictably every 12-14 years. We are now on track to have a world population of eight billion in 2026. If it occurs to you that quality of life in this world, even in the good old USA, has slipped considerably since we were at a mere three billion people, you would be right in thinking this is not a coincidence. Providing for so very many people impacts the environment and general quality of life. If the status quo hasn’t started falling apart in earnest by the time we hit that eight billion, I’m pretty sure it will then.

    • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 10:59 am #

      It’s 7.6B now, so I’ll be surprised if we don’t exceed 8B before that.

      • K-Dog June 10, 2019 at 11:04 am #

        Can you add caverns that fast?

        • K-Dog June 10, 2019 at 11:07 am #

          Not that it matters, you would not mind a bit of overcrowding. That would fit in with the plan.

        • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 11:19 am #

          Lots of help down here, so no problem. And of course they work 24/7 too. No rest for the weary and the damned!

          • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 11:24 am #

            And certainly no rest for the wicked huh Devil lol ;-)?

    • benr June 10, 2019 at 11:11 am #

      When do we reach the mark of Gideon tipping point like in Star Trek?
      Have we hit it already in parts of the world?

    • Mountain gal June 10, 2019 at 11:54 am #

      It boggles my mind how much the world’s population has grown just in my lifetime. I think we are indeed crowded and stressing the planet’s resources. And of course, there is absolutely no way to feed or provide for these numbers without fossil fuels.

      • malthuss June 10, 2019 at 2:04 pm #

        many are poor now.
        I read about Egypt. Population has tripled and the sorry tales told, yet we take more of them in.

      • stelmosfire June 10, 2019 at 4:35 pm #

        An interesting graphic. Start watching at about the 4 minute mark. Truly frightening.It reminds me of a petri dish
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE

    • JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 11:56 am #

      Maybe we should pay attention to Peak food and Peak water as well as Peak oil. Hard to eat or drink oil!

  15. Robert White June 10, 2019 at 10:57 am #

    America is likely to become thermonuclear ground zero after decades of threatening world powers that are not American.
    The entire USA economy is far too indebted to create growth in CPI and commercial & residential MBS used to be the primary source of growth since the 80s & Reagan’s Urinate on my leg & tell me it’s raining Trickledown Economics was instituted.

    Manufacturing defines a healthy economic sovereign but America offshored manufacturing because the Wall Street executives at the time mistakenly thought that they could turn China into the manufacturing base of the world if they pegged China’s growth to the petro-dollar and held them in bondage to Central Bank Interest Rates & USD world reserve currency status.

    Unfortunately, since the 08-Lehman Moment China has realized the flaw in the ointment of American global power relations with respect to their manufacturing sector and the fact that it is the only manufacturing sector that can possibly provide for the world demands for manufactured goods.

    American administrators literally bet the farm on the structural moves that took place during the Reagan Revolution only to find decades down the road that American manufacturing had been misallocated to a foreign sovereign.

    In brief, America & Americans writ large will become a defunct nation that has been relegated to third world status as a once powerful manufacturing base of the Western empire of Capitalism.

    Today, Capitalism is known to be largely a mythology in light of a lack of free markets and global trade wars that are ushering in the obverse of what was once known to be free market Capitalism. Today, we are all being poised to accept the violent end game of hot war given that trade wars are not abating or being ameliorated by diplomatic means. In sum, adversarial business perspectives held by competing sovereign nations will not reach resolve through diplomatic channels as the competing nations are all vying for supremacy & world reserve currency status.

    The sovereign with the greatest potential to provide the world with manufactured goods is going to hold the new world reserve currency status as a requirement for free market growth is based upon a healthy manufacturing base that is capable of meeting demands of nations with the goods and not promises of future earnings.

    Wall Street micromanagers destroyed the USA from the inside out on their quest for yield since 1980.

    Hopefully, Wall Street will become ground zero for the hot war nukes that are most assuredly on the way given trade war environs.

    RW

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    • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 11:01 am #

      Agreed. I’ve always felt that those nukes would come out before we ever give up the ghost peacefully.

      • michael June 10, 2019 at 7:33 pm #

        Out a nuke near a nuke plant and Chernobyl² is at hand.

    • Epicur June 10, 2019 at 11:45 am #

      Ironically, mankind may depend on bioweapons to save the world from nuclear war.

      While I expect some of the minor players to launch nukes as the Pax Americana winds down, it may be that the consequences of a full-scale exchange are dire enough to stay the major power’s hands. At least I don’t think that is a futile hope.

    • JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 12:02 pm #

      Robert

      Correct in every statement.

      However, the Great stupidity started with Deep State and Wall Streeters thinking that they could force China to think and react as we do. So the cowardly presidents just kowtowed to China thinking that they would change.

      Ha! Who did the changing, us!

      Now we have Trump in there trying to regain our position with China.

      It is too late,

    • elysianfield June 10, 2019 at 7:41 pm #

      “, Wall Street will become ground zero for the hot war nukes ”

      …But what of Dannyboy/Thwack?

      • ozone June 10, 2019 at 9:21 pm #

        …or me? (Not that you’d much care anyway.) I ain’t going anywhere; “The Road” is a grueling and futile fantasy. It’s scavenger food for the likes of me, as there’s little to nothing I can do about living/dying in an irradiated hot zone. I might have at least a slim-to-none chance with marauders, but “the big bad nuk-u-lar weapon”? ….Pah! Buh-bye now; much too close to the assholes that profit from that ultimate stupidity… and, you betcha, they’ll be on the short list.

        • elysianfield June 13, 2019 at 12:23 pm #

          Ozone,
          Sorry, I did not know you were a Manhattanite…to coin a phrase.

  16. jerrydylan June 10, 2019 at 11:03 am #

    The interesting thing no one talks about is the future impact rising costs of low wage jobs. I am guessing this is true in most populated regions of the USA. I’m a salesman for for a Commercial Janitorial company, we clean big buildings, schools, courts, municipal buildings etc…in Virginia.We cannot find decent workers south of $13 per hour. I’m talking about people who are responsible enough to actually work, to complete a simple and consistent series of tasks not at break neck pace. We have to submit all prospects to background checks and there are people who pass them but not as many as one would like. We stay away from violent felonies or recent non-violent felonies. So far when we bids hire costs most clients are receptive to why as their facilities have been mishandled in accepting low ball bids. The judges don’t seem to want to change clothes in a filthy bathroom.

    • benr June 10, 2019 at 11:16 am #

      Indeed finding decent people is now a very tough sell.
      Consider being in the IT industry and having to pass a background check as well as a drug test.
      Sadly in sunny Southern California most people now pass the drug test which disqualifies them for the job.

    • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 11:17 am #

      Quality over quantity. That would be awesome if our entire society could really incorporate that into daily life. And not allowing non-violent felons back into the working world is ridiculous and counter-productive. There is a such thing as work release. But we really don’t invest in people so it makes sense that it is not a widespread practice and that our justice system actually creates hardened criminals.

  17. FincaInTheMountains June 10, 2019 at 11:12 am #

    In continuation of the previous post: Galloping across Europe and Latin America and some New York rumors
    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/going-where-exactly/#comment-421648

    The opening of the border between Venezuela with Colombia made me pay attention to the outright joy of the Queen Elizabeth in connection with the arrival of Trump.

    Now I will not tell you the course of my thoughts, I will only note that it is associated with the “Chronicles of Captain Blood”, which describe very important details of the emergence of the Morgan-Stanley banking group, which has a direct bearing on the struggle of World Projects, but the Queen rejoiced at Trump’s arrival so openly that it was possible to understand the reasons for this joy even without Morgan-Stanley.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Blood_(novel)

    First of all, before he arrived, Trump talked so much about Brexit without an agreement and about a possible Anglo-American economic union against the EU, that her joy could not mean that she disapproves of these plans, and this is not far from the conclusion that it’s Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council made Cameron to initiate a Brexit referendum, and Donald Trump won the elections in 2016 not without the intervention of the Englishwoman.

    And I’m not talking about the Big Bargain – just look at the list of those who came to the funeral of George H. W. Bush.

    But the Germanophiles don’t care – they have their own program, or rather the ordnung, and they, like robots, will not part ways from the program, despite the sad example of Ukraine.

    Actually, I came to these conclusions in 2015, when General Breedlove planned the start of large-scale NATO maneuvers on the border with Russia on June 22, and the BBC released this film, which is called World War III: Inside the War Room:

    https://vimeo.com/154370371

    And after Trump’s State visit, this film can be considered an unofficial position of the United Kingdom and the British Commonwealth, in which the United States is an associate member.

    It’s even hard for me to imagine how much money was spent in US and Russia by the European Union in order to degrade this film, but for those who don’t have time to watch, I’ll briefly remind you that its essence is that the policy pursued by General Breedlove and Theresa May will lead to the destruction of Britain and the United States, and even a hint is made that EU spies and its useful idiots control NATO and the US, and this NATO no longer protects the UK and the US, but tries to expose the Anglo-Saxon world to Russia’s nuclear blow – that is to provoke a war between the allies who defeated the Nazi Germany.

    • GreenAlba June 10, 2019 at 11:39 am #

      I don’t know what you’re on, Finca, but I’m beginning to regret a lifetime of never trying any of it!

      “…made me pay attention to the outright joy of the Queen Elizabeth in connection with the arrival of Trump.”

      From Landsend to John O’Groats, we were as one in that, Finca. 🙂 🙂

      And from north of the border, although we didn’t get to see him here, we stood as a man and sang, as to ‘Bonnie Chairlie’..

      Bonnie Donald’s noo awa’,
      Safely ower the friendly main;
      Mony a heart will break in twa’,
      Should he ne’er come back again.

      Will ye no come back again?
      Will ye no come back again?
      Better lo’ed ye canna be,
      Will ye no come back again?

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

      • FincaInTheMountains June 10, 2019 at 11:48 am #

        I always love when they start asking what shit I am on – means I hit the pain point!

        • GreenAlba June 10, 2019 at 11:50 am #

          I’m afraid you only hit the giggle point, Finca. But laughter’s the best medicine, so you’ve probably done something for my BP to mitigate the effects of sitting here instead of taking the dog out again!

          • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 12:03 pm #

            It’s the 190 proof grain alcohol bong water that does the trick, GA! I’ve warned him about it many times, but Ol’ Finc just loves to live dangerously!

          • benr June 10, 2019 at 12:31 pm #

            Take the dog out I just got 4,000 steps in up and down hills in the 90 degree heat!
            Hurray 90 degrees at 9:00 am.

          • GreenAlba June 10, 2019 at 1:28 pm #

            benr

            “Take the dog out I just got 4,000 steps in up and down hills in the 90 degree heat! Hurray 90 degrees at 9:00 am.”

            My nightmare – I am fashioned for my environment. Here it’s been lovely but maybe 16 degrees (Celsius). I think that’s about 60 in old money. With a pleasant breeze – or perhaps because of the pleasant breeze.

            I was in Paris for work the hottest weekend of that year (2003?) that all the old folks died of heatstroke and heat exhaustion while their families were away on holiday. 14,000 people died of causes attributable to the heatwave, just in France (35,000 in Europe).

            Getting off the plane at 9.30 at night was like walking into an oven – over 38/100 degrees.

            On the way back the pilot said ‘we’re just coming over Scotland. There’s a light wind and the temperature is a cool 16 degrees – and I just thought ‘yes!!!’.

            They were baking in London and the south coast of course. Nothing like city pavements in the scorching heat to make you lose the will to live – well me, anyway.

            But I will take the dog out again, even if it’s not up hill and down dale 🙂 .

          • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 2:22 pm #

            When is Terry leaving office again? Once out, you three Golden Girls, (Theresa May, JK Rowling, and Green Alba) can go clubbing again, all dressed in Nazi regalia.

          • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 3:19 pm #

            Once out, you three Golden Girls, (Theresa May, JK Rowling, and Green Alba) can go clubbing again, all dressed in Nazi regalia.

            Now that thar’s funny, I don’t care who you are!

          • GreenAlba June 10, 2019 at 7:49 pm #

            “Once out, you three Golden Girls…”

            Beware the dangling participle, Janos – it can lead to foolish sentences…

            I suspect young Joanne is the only one of us who’s ever been clubbing, but she’d at least have more in common with me than either of us would with the Maybot. And she fits in better round my way – we even crossed paths in front of the café on my corner.

            The ex-LINO would look distinctly out of place here.

          • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 10:36 am #

            No offense there GA, it’s just that the imagery that Janos conjured up there struck me as funny.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 10:56 am #

            Funnily enough, Scratch, my three old student housemates with whom I catch up periodically in our various corners of the world (well, Europe) refer to ourselves as exactly that from time to time. I coined it first. Although we don’t go clubbing, obviously. Prosecco under the parasol is more our thing for a treat than grab-a-granny nights at the local meat market 🙂 .

            I had a senior moment a few years ago and bought the entire box set of the GGs – had only seen a dozen episodes at the time.

            I didn’t get very far, but it’s still there for ‘some day’.

            My god, though, those clothes and hairstyles… What were people thinking in the 80s?!

          • Nightowl June 11, 2019 at 5:58 pm #

            Uh, where is the dangling participle? Problematic comma placement in one spot, but it would appear the subject rightly comes after the participal phrase.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 7:29 pm #

            Nightowl

            “When is Terry leaving office again? Once out, you three Golden Girls “etc.etc.

            ‘Once out’ (of office) refers to ‘Terry’ (Theresa May).

            ‘You three Golden Girls’ is the subject, not ‘Terry’.

            Hence the dangling.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 7:49 pm #

            Easily fixed.

            Once [she is] out, you three GGs…

          • Nightowl June 14, 2019 at 3:55 am #

            GA,

            I didn’t see the preceding question.

    • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 11:58 am #

      Breedlove was a curious case. He came onto Cannon AFB on short notice as a Lt Col in the late 90’s, leapfrogging another guy on base who had already been scheduled to get the Ops Group Commander slot. He was physically unimpressive even then, rather short, stocky, and already balding as a Lt Col, he certainly didn’t look the part of a fast track fighter pilot. Pretty decent guy, but rather aloof. Always seemed to have something else on his mind. I remember him coming around to the Fighter Squadrons for periodic dog and pony shows, where the Squadron Commander would be fawning all over him and telling him all the great shit we were doing, but he was just totally indifferent to it. Did a shorter than normal stint as Ops Commander and had a Wing King job in ROK lined up before he left. Real fast tracker, he rode the express elevator all the way to the top. I learned afterward that the USAF officer corps is basically a large fraternal organization, so all the promotion decisions are made behind the scenes, with key high ranking generals being able to designate the haves from the have nots very early on in their careers. Not sure exactly who Breedlove’s patron saint was, but he clearly had serious traction from a very early point in his career. A side note, he was also related to Craig Breedlove, the 5 time land speed record holder, so maybe that figured into it somehow as well.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Breedlove
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_M._Breedlove

      • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 1:31 pm #

        I think Malthus says they’re controlled by the Satanists, with orgies and rituals determining who advances.

        • malthuss June 10, 2019 at 2:06 pm #

          Id guess. I talked to someone who knew one of Wasserman Shultzs employees.
          The pols in DC are drugged at parties and photographed, with underage companions.

          The Satanic stuff I know less about as its even more under wraps.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 2:24 pm #

        Breedlove. What a sinister name. Straight rhymes with Hate. A name a Gay Nazi would adopt, aping and mocking at the same time.

        • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 3:17 pm #

          Nice tie in with Strangelove as well. Maybe it was an inside joke?

  18. EvelynV June 10, 2019 at 11:13 am #

    Funny how throughout so much pining about television shows when in fact television was the beginning of the end. Television is what accelerated the onslaught of the end.

    • benr June 10, 2019 at 11:20 am #

      I would disagree with you I think Radio was the start t.v. sped it up and smart phones was like kicking the after burner.
      Consider back in this age most people watched an hour or two of T.V here and there they were not addicted to it.
      Most of what I see is that people are disconnected from reality and have way to much free time on their hands.
      So what do they do wander around bumbling with smart phones in their hands watching puppies and kitties all day.
      Driving and watching, walking and watching, working and watching.
      Screen time is through the roof.
      Even acts like we are doing NOW posting here to much time taken from walking, working or living.
      In fact I am going for a walk around the block right now!

      • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 11:21 am #

        Walking is good for you. You should at least be taking 10,000 steps every day.

        • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 11:26 am #

          I go by time. Much easier to keep track of.

          • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 11:31 am #

            Ok well the last gadget you will get before the world as we know ends is a smart watch. Just a simple one that tracks your basics including foot steps. I am already putting together my Christmas gift list. Will the Devil accept a gift for Christmas?

          • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 12:15 pm #

            The Devil is not above accepting gratuities.

          • benr June 10, 2019 at 1:32 pm #

            You can get a mechanical pedometer for under a buck if you look around.

          • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 1:16 am #

            Um hello you can’t give the Devil a rinky dink pedometer when he knows smart watches exist ;-).

      • capt spaulding June 10, 2019 at 11:49 am #

        Benr, technology causes everything to move at an ever faster rate, including even more technology. You are right as far as that after burner, and at some point, things will just spin out of control. Think overpopulation, along with climate change, depletion of resources, and on and on, being accelerated at an ever greater speed, and feeding on itself to the point of flying apart.

      • Mountain gal June 10, 2019 at 11:51 am #

        Right. We didn’t watch a lot of TV. It was pretty much restricted to a few shows aimed at kids and we all watched the same shows and listened to the same music so there was this commonality that I don’t think exists today.We didn’t have a gazillion TV channels, video games or phones to entertain us. We mostly played outside, even in the city.

        • benr June 10, 2019 at 12:37 pm #

          I have often and loudly told the women in my family that all the unreality T.V. is built on showing people how to not interact with each other.
          Back biting, sniping and just plain nastiness.

        • michael June 10, 2019 at 7:40 pm #

          The TV is the location of the human behavioral sink.
          Whosoever still owns a TV today does not understand what is going on.

          • Mountain gal June 10, 2019 at 11:05 pm #

            Haven’t owned a TV since my son was little and I got it so he could watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers. I haven’t watched TV since I was a kid. Probably why I can still think!

    • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 11:20 am #

      Interesting post Evelyn. Mass marketing and subliminal messaging destroyed the American mind. Now there are multiple avenues to achieve this same end.

    • K-Dog June 10, 2019 at 11:23 am #

      And it is not quite finished.

    • beantownbill. June 10, 2019 at 11:23 am #

      In a sense that is true, but I’ve always considered that it was moral decay that has led us to where we are now.

      • SoftStarLight June 10, 2019 at 11:29 am #

        Yes, moral decay is certainly and most definitely part of the equation.

      • malthuss June 10, 2019 at 2:07 pm #

        The decline did not arise in a vacuum. What caused it?

        • michael June 10, 2019 at 7:54 pm #

          Corporation induced consumer culture. A drive toward increased convenience, shelter from cold, heat, any type of exertion.
          Intellectual laziness (computer simulation instead of reasoning).

          The rise of the image. Appearance over substance. Increasing isolation from nature and physical reality. Increased speed.
          Dismantling of value and belief systems with no believable alternatives.

          The spread of tools, prefabricated templates, professional looking shells allowing incompetents to create empty works which on superficial inspection look convincing
          (say most of what business consultants produce).

          Unchecked growth everywhere. Thousands to tens of thousands of pages (which nobody can read) for every minor operation.

          The growth of garbage – physical, spiritual and intellectual.

          There is no end to corrosive developments but we need to stop somewhere.

          • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 1:20 am #

            This is a great list. I would add however the loss of national and cultural identity. The loss of a majority White Christian America. This explains much in terms of the loss of traditional values and belief systems as well.

    • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 11:25 am #

      Very true. My grandmother was a very late adopter, and that’s exactly what she said at the time. She was right, but family demand eventually won out. By the time she died 25 years later it was the only company she had, as family had long since died or dispersed, driven by the demands of the new corporate economy.

    • JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 12:08 pm #

      Television, the perfect propaganda tool.

      Goebbels would have loved TV.

      24/7 MSM sure does.

  19. beantownbill. June 10, 2019 at 11:17 am #

    Very poignant post, Jim. For me, the ‘50’s weren’t the best of times, but I do remember how relatively uncomplicated life was. Whatever happened, happened, and that was the end of it. No worries about the future. In my memories, the Zeitgeist was benign. The only negative was the Russians – they could nuke us out of existence. Yeah, I went through the hide-under-the-desk drills in the school basement, but that seemed like a game, not an existential threat, despite the rise of Godzilla as a symbol of nuclear paranoia.

    What we have come to is the result of techno-evolution, for better or worse. We do live in interesting times.

    • malthuss June 10, 2019 at 2:08 pm #

      Less TV no internet. less gadgets.

  20. DrTomSchmidt June 10, 2019 at 11:35 am #

    “In a mere hundred years we’ve journeyed from George Gershwin’s tender nocturne at the center of his Rhapsody to the clanking, thrash-metal morbidity of Megadeath and beyond.”

    In Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs argued that you could hear the death of a culture first in its music. Mahler’s death in 1911 was the last gasp of tonal music. I think the killing of Glenn Miller in a wartime accident was the death of Big Band, the last universal music that adults and children both appreciated.

    After that, rock n roll literally represented the Devil’s music, with each generation of children hearing “turn that noise DOWN” from their parents, separating parents from children. Megadeth sounds to Kunstler’s ears like Acid Rock sounded to his parents, I’ll bet.

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    • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 1:49 pm #

      Rock is dead for the most part now. The Soundtrack to the final destruction is Rap.

      • JackStraw June 10, 2019 at 7:38 pm #

        Perfect description. Rap should have faded out after a year or two, but the demise of civilization required it.

      • Mountain gal June 10, 2019 at 11:09 pm #

        If music is a reflection of the time it was produced in then I’d say there is such a huge difference between the times that produced Dylan, the Beatles, Joan Baez,James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel etc. versus rap “music”. Music from the 60’s and 70’s was full of hope and thoughtful. Rap seems to me to just be full of hate, misogyny, and evil.

      • Nightowl June 14, 2019 at 3:59 am #

        Mainstream rock, yes. Plenty of good bands doing independent music.

    • malthuss June 10, 2019 at 2:10 pm #

      MegaDETH.

      I actually met someone who was in that band.
      Mustain is a bad guy and was a satanist.

      ‘Rap is the kali yuga soundtrack’–Lord Janos.

      • benr June 10, 2019 at 4:47 pm #

        Understanding the heavy metal of the early 80’s most of them played up the Satanic aspects even Ozzy did and lets get real Ozzy ain’t much of a devil worshipper now. Sorry Ol Scratch no live renditions of faeries wear boots, lukes wall or paranoid when he takes his dirt nap.
        Well Dave claims to be a born again Christian and listening to his music doesn’t make me want to dispute his claim.
        His older stuff was pretty good.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Mustaine

        Countdown to extinction I physically wore the cd-rom out I played it some much while in Uncle Sam’s Canoe club.

        He is more conservative in his views then most in hollyweird or the music industry and he claims if he was President he would build a wall and let no one in.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 11:32 pm #

          His Satanism was probably just a theraputic distancing from dead and dying forms. I’m not a Black Sabbath scholar, but some of his songs like “The Ancient Warrior” were life affirming and overtly pagan – not Satanic.

          • benr June 11, 2019 at 10:19 am #

            People don’t understand the difference I fear.
            I have an uncle who is a pagan fairly famous and bat shit crazy when you listen to him.

  21. FincaInTheMountains June 10, 2019 at 11:36 am #

    Television is what accelerated the onslaught of the end

    Oh, crap!

    After the World War II you allowed the Nazi money and, more importantly, the Nazi ideology to penetrate the very soul of American society.

    And now, when it finally came to a standoff between the Nazi, pro-Reich Deep State and Constitutionally elected US President, you are looking for culprit anywhere, but where it actually resides.

    • benr June 10, 2019 at 12:40 pm #

      Don’t forget the NAZI scientists and projects.
      Operation paperclip.

    • EvelynV June 10, 2019 at 1:26 pm #

      In last Friday’s comment section I expressed thoughts about WWII that were largely driven by having read Churchill’s 6 volume series he wrote about is management of WW2. I’ve have been a big fan of Winston ever since.

      Now I come upon this and am thinking I’ve been suckered (once again).

      The Lies About World War II
      PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS • MAY 13, 2019 • 3,800 WORDS

      ?
      In the aftermath of a war, history cannot be written. The losing side has no one to speak for it. Historians on the winning side are constrained by years of war propaganda that demonized the enemy while obscuring the crimes of the righteous victors. People want to enjoy and feel good about their victory, not learn that their side was responsible for the war or that the war could have been avoided except for the hidden agendas of their own leaders. Historians are also constrained by the unavailability of information. To hide mistakes, corruption, and crimes, governments lock up documents for decades. Memoirs of participants are not yet written. Diaries are lost or withheld from fear of retribution. It is expensive and time consuming to locate witnesses, especially those on the losing side, and to convince them to answer questions. Any account that challenges the “happy account” requires a great deal of confirmation from official documents, interviews, letters, diaries, and memoirs, and even that won’t be enough. For the history of World War II in Europe, these documents can be spread from New Zealand and Australia across Canada and the US through Great Britain and Europe and into Russia. A historian on the track of the truth faces long years of strenuous investigation and development of the acumen to judge and assimilate the evidence he uncovers into a truthful picture of what transpired. The truth is always immensely different from the victor’s war propaganda.
      As I reported recently, Harry Elmer Barnes was the first American historian to provide a history of the first world war that was based on primary sources. His truthful account differed so substantially from the war propaganda that he was called every name in the book. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/05/09/the-lies-that-form-our-consciousness-and-false-historical-awareness/
      Truth is seldom welcomed. David Irving, without any doubt the best historian of the European part of World War II, learned at his great expense that challenging myths does not go unpunished. Nevertheless, Irving persevered. If you want to escape from the lies about World War II that still direct our disastrous course, you only need to study two books by David Irving: Hitler’s War and the first volume of his Churchill biography, Churchill’s War: The Struggle for Power .
      ?
      Irving is the historian who spent decades tracking down diaries, survivors, and demanding release of official documents. He is the historian who found the Rommel diary and Goebbles’ diaries, the historian who gained entry into the Soviet archives, and so on. He is familiar with more actual facts about the second world war than the rest of the historians combined. The famous British military historian, Sir John Keegan, wrote in the Times Literary Supplement: “Two books stand out from the vast literature of the Second World War: Chester Wilmot’s The Struggle for Europe, published in 1952, and David Irving’s Hitler’s War.

      Despite many such accolades, today Irving is demonized and has to publish his own books.

      I will avoid the story of how this came to be, but, yes, you guessed it, it was the Zionists. You simply cannot say anything that alters their propagandistic picture of history.

      In what follows, I am going to present what is my impression from reading these two magisterial works. Irving himself is very scant on opinions. He only provides the facts from official documents, recorded intercepts, diaries, letters and interviews.
      ?
      World War II was Churchill’s War, not Hitler’s war. Irving provides documented facts from which the reader cannot avoid this conclusion. Churchill got his war, for which he longed, because of the Versailles Treaty that stripped Germany of German territory and unjustly and irresponsibly imposed humiliation on Germany.

      Hitler and Nationalist Socialist Germany (Nazi stands for National Socialist German Workers’ Party) are the most demonized entities in history. Any person who finds any good in Hitler or Germany is instantly demonized. The person becomes an outcast regardless of the facts. Irving is very much aware of this. Every time his factual account of Hitler starts to display a person too much different from the demonized image, Irving throws in some negative language about Hitler.

      Similarly for Winston Churchill. Every time Irving’s factual account displays a person quite different from the worshiped icon, Irving throws in some appreciative language.

      This is what a historian has to do to survive telling the truth.
      To be clear, in what follows, I am merely reporting what seems to me to be the conclusion from the documented facts presented in these two works of scholarship. I am merely reporting what I understand Irving’s research to have established. You read the books and arrive at your own conclusion.

      World War II was initiated by the British and French declaration of war on Germany, not by a surprise blitzkrieg from Germany. The utter rout and collapse of the British and French armies was the result of Britain declaring a war for which Britain was unprepared to fight and of the foolish French trapped by a treaty with the British, who quickly deserted their French ally, leaving France at Germany’s mercy.
      Germany’s mercy was substantial. Hitler left a large part of France and the French colonies unoccupied and secure from war under a semi-independent government under Petain. For his service in protecting a semblance of French independence, Petain was sentenced to death by Charles de Gaulle after the war for collaboration with Germany, an unjust charge.
      In Britain, Churchill was out of power. He figured a war would put him back in power. No Britisher could match Churchill’s rhetoric and orations. Or determination. Churchill desired power, and he wanted to reproduce the amazing military feats of his distinguished ancestor, the Duke of Marlborough, whose biography Churchill was writing and who defeated after years of military struggle France’s powerful Sun King, Louis XIV, the ruler of Europe.
      ?
      In contrast to the British aristocrat, Hitler was a man of the people. He acted for the German people. The Versailles Treaty had dismembered Germany. Parts of Germany were confiscated and given to France, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. As Germany had not actually lost the war, being the occupiers of foreign territory when Germany agreed to a deceptive armistice, the loss of approximately 7 million German people to Poland and Czechoslovakia, where Germans were abused, was not considered a fair outcome.
      Hitler’s program was to put Germany back together again. He succeeded without war until it came to Poland. Hitler’s demands were fair and realistic, but Churchill, financed by the Focus Group with Jewish money, put such pressure on British prime minister Chamberlain that Chamberlain intervened in the Polish-German negotiations and issued a British guarantee to the Polish military dictatorship should Poland refuse to release German territory and populations.

      The British had no way of making good on the guarantee, but the Polish military dictatorship lacked the intelligence to realize that. Consequently, the Polish Dictatorship refused Germany’s request.
      From this mistake of Chamberlain and the stupid Polish dictatorship, came the Ribbentrop/Molotov agreement that Germany and the Soviet Union would split Poland between themselves. When Hitler attacked Poland, Britain and the hapless French declared war on Germany because of the unenforceable British guarantee. But the British and French were careful not to declare war on the Soviet Union for occupying the eastern half of Poland.

      Thus Britain was responsible for World War II, first by stupidly interfering in German/Polish negotiations, and second by declaring war on Germany.

      Churchill was focused on war with Germany, which he intended for years preceding the war. But Hitler didn’t want any war with Britain or with France, and never intended to invade Britain. The invasion threat was a chimera conjured up by Churchill to unite England behind him. Hitler expressed his view that the British Empire was essential for order in the world, and that in its absence Europeans would lose their world supremacy. After Germany’s rout of the French and British armies, Hitler offered an extraordinarily generous peace to Britain. He said he wanted nothing from Britain but the return of Germany’s colonies. He committed the German military to the defense of the British Empire, and said he would reconstitute both Polish and Czech states and leave them to their own discretion. He told his associates that defeat of the British Empire would do nothing for Germany and everything for Bolshevik Russia and Japan.

      Winston Churchill kept Hitler’s peace offers as secret as he could and succeeded in his efforts to block any peace. Churchill wanted war, largely it appears, for his own glory. Franklin Delano Roosevelt slyly encouraged Churchill in his war but without making any commitment in Britain’s behalf. Roosevelt knew that the war would achieve his own aim of bankrupting Britain and destroying the British Empire, and that the US dollar would inherit the powerful position from the British pound of being the world’s reserve currency. Once Churchill had trapped Britain in a war she could not win on her own, FDR began doling out bits of aid in exchange for extremely high prices—for example, 60 outdated and largely useless US destroyers for British naval bases in the Atlantic. FDR delayed Lend-Lease until desperate Britain had turned over $22,000 million of British gold plus $42 million in gold Britain had in South Africa. Then began the forced sell-off of British overseas investments. For example, the British-owned Viscose Company, which was worth $125 million in 1940 dollars, had no debts and held $40 million in government bonds, was sold to the House of Morgan for $37 million. It was such an act of thievery that the British eventually got about two-thirds of the company’s value to hand over to Washington in payment for war munitions. American aid was also “conditional on Britain dismantling the system of Imperial preference anchored in the Ottawa agreement of 1932.” For Cordell Hull, American aid was “a knife to open that oyster shell, the Empire.” Churchill saw it coming, but he was too far in to do anything but plead with FDR: It would be wrong, Churchill wrote to Roosevelt, if “Great Britain were to be divested of all saleable assets so that after the victory was won with our blood, civilization saved, and the time gained for the United States to be fully armed against all eventualities, we should stand stripped to the bone.”

      A long essay could be written about how Roosevelt stripped Britain of her assets and world power. Irving writes that in an era of gangster statesmen, Churchill was not in Roosevelt’s league. The survival of the British Empire was not a priority for FDR. He regarded Churchill as a pushover—unreliable and drunk most of the time. Irving reports that FDR’s policy was to pay out just enough to give Churchill “the kind of support a rope gives a hanging man.” Roosevelt pursued “his subversion of the Empire throughout the war.” Eventually Churchill realized that Washington was at war with Britain more fiercely than was Hitler. The great irony was that Hitler had offered Churchill peace and the survival of the Empire. When it was too late, Churchill came to Hitler’s conclusion that the conflict with Germany was a “most unnecessary” war. Pat Buchanan sees it that way also. https://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Hitler-Unnecessary-War-Britain/dp/0307405168/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Pat+Buchanan&qid=1557709100&s=books&sr=1-3
      ?
      Hitler forbade the bombing of civilian areas of British cities. It was Churchill who initiated this war crime, later emulated by the Americans. Churchill kept the British bombing of German civilians secret from the British people and worked to prevent Red Cross monitoring of air raids so no one would learn he was bombing civilian residential areas, not war production. The purpose of Churchill’s bombing—first incendiary bombs to set everything afire and then high explosives to prevent firefighters from controlling the blazes—was to provoke a German attack on London, which Churchill reckoned would bind the British people to him and create sympathy in the US for Britain that would help Churchill pull America into the war. One British raid murdered 50,000 people in Hamburg, and a subsequent attack on Hamburg netted 40,000 civilian deaths. Churchill also ordered that poison gas be added to the firebombing of German civilian residential areas and that Rome be bombed into ashes. The British Air Force refused both orders. At the very end of the war the British and Americans destroyed the beautiful baroque city of Dresden, burning and suffocating 100,000 people in the attack. After months of firebombing attacks on Germany, including Berlin, Hitler gave in to his generals and replied in kind. Churchill succeeded. The story became “the London Blitz,” not the British blitz of Germany.
      Like Hitler in Germany, Churchill took over the direction of the war. He functioned more as a dictator who ignored the armed services than as a prime minister advised by the country’s military leaders. Both leaders might have been correct in their assessment of their commanding officers, but Hitler was a much better war strategist than Churchill, for whom nothing ever worked. To Churchill’s WW I Gallipoli misadventure was now added the introduction of British troops into Norway, Greece, Crete, Syria—all ridiculous decisions and failures—and the Dakar fiasco. Churchill also turned on the French, destroying the French fleet and lives of 1,600 French sailors because of his personal fear, unfounded, that Hitler would violate his treaty with the French and seize the fleet. Any one of these Churchillian mishaps could have resulted in a no confidence vote, but with Chamberlain and Halifax out of the way there was no alternative leadership. Indeed, the lack of leadership is the reason neither the cabinet nor the military could stand up to Churchill, a person of iron determination.
      Hitler also was a person of iron determination, and he wore out both himself and Germany with his determination. He never wanted war with England and France. This was Churchill’s doing, not Hitler’s. Like Churchill, who had the British people behind him, Hitler had the German people behind him, because he stood for Germany and had reconstructed Germany from the rape and ruin of the Versailles Treaty. But Hitler, not an aristocrat like Churchill, but of low and ordinary origins, never had the loyalty of many of the aristocratic Prussian military officers, those with “von” before their name. He was afflicted with traitors in the Abwehr, his military intelligence, including its director, Adm. Canaris. On the Russian front in the final year, Hitler was betrayed by generals who opened avenues for the Russians into undefended Berlin.

      Hitler’s worst mistakes were his alliance with Italy and his decision to invade Russia. He was also mistaken to let the British go at Dunkirk. He let them go because he did not want to ruin the chance for ending the war by humiliating the British by the loss of their entire army. But with Churchill there was no chance for peace. By not destroying the British army, Hitler boosted Churchill who turned the evacuation into British heroics that sustained the willingness to fight on.
      It is unclear why Hitler invaded Russia. One possible reason is poor or intentionally deceptive information from the Abwehr on Russian military capability. Hitler later said to his associates that he never would have invaded if he had known of the enormous size of the Russian army and the extraordinary capability of the Soviets to produce tanks and aircraft. Some historians have concluded that the reason Hitler invaded Russia was that he concluded that the British would not agree to end the war because they expected Russia to enter the war on Britain’s side. Therefore, Hitler decided to foreclose that possibility by conquering Russia. A Russian has written that Hitler attacked because Stalin was preparing to attack Germany. Stalin did have considerable forces far forward, but It would make more sense for Stalin to wait until the West devoured itself in mutual bloodletting, step in afterwards and scoop it all up if he wanted. Or perhaps Stalin was positioning to occupy part of Eastern Europe in order to put more buffer between the Soviet Union and Germany.

      Whatever the reason for the invasion, what defeated Hitler was the earliest Russian winter in 30 years. It stopped everything in its tracks before the well planned and succeeding encirclement could be completed. The harsh winter that immobilized the Germans gave Stalin time to recover.

      Because of Hitler’s alliance with Mussolini, who lacked an effective fighting force, resources needed on the Russian front were twice drained off in order to rescue Italy. Because of Mussolini’s misadventures, Hitler had to drain troops, tanks, and air planes from the Russian invasion to rescue Italy in Greece and North Africa and to occupy Crete. Hitler made this mistake out of loyalty to Mussolini. Later in the war when Russian counterattacks were pushing the Germans out of Russia, Hitler had to divert precious military resources to rescue Mussolini from arrest and to occupy Italy to prevent her surrender. Germany simply lacked the manpower and military resources to fight on a 1,000 mile front in Russia, and also in Greece and North Africa, occupy part of France, and man defenses against a US/British invasion of Normandy and Italy.
      The German Army was a magnificent fighting force, but it was overwhelmed by too many fronts, too little equipment, and careless communications. The Germans never caught on despite much evidence that the British could read their encryption. Thus, efforts to supply Rommel in North Africa were prevented by the British navy.
      Irving never directly addresses in either book the Holocaust. He does document the massacre of many Jews, but the picture that emerges from the factual evidence is that the holocaust of Jewish people was different from the official Zionist story.

      No German plans, or orders from Hitler, or from Himmler or anyone else have ever been found for an organized holocaust by gas and cremation of Jews. This is extraordinary as such a massive use of resources and transportation would have required massive organization, budgets and resources. What documents do show is Hitler’s plan to relocate European Jews to Madagascar after the war’s end. With the early success of the Russian invasion, this plan was changed to sending the European Jews to the Jewish Bolsheviks in the eastern part of Russia that Hitler was going to leave to Stalin. There are documented orders given by Hitler preventing massacres of Jews. Hitler said over and over that “the Jewish problem” would be settled after the war.
      ?
      It seems that most of the massacres of Jews were committed by German political administrators of occupied territories in the east to whom Jews from Germany and France were sent for relocation. Instead of dealing with the inconvenience, some of the administrators lined them up and shot them into open trenches. Other Jews fell victim to the anger of Russian villagers who had long suffered under Jewish Bolshevik administrators.

      The “death camps” were in fact work camps. Auschwitz, for example, today a Holocaust museum, was the site of Germany’s essential artificial rubber factory. Germany was desperate for a work force. A significant percentage of German war production labor had been released to the Army to fill the holes in German lines on the Russian front. War production sites, such as Auschwitz, had as a work force refugees displaced from their homes by war, Jews to be deported after war’s end, and anyone else who could be forced into work. Germany desperately needed whatever work force it could get.
      Every camp had crematoriums. Their purpose was not to exterminate populations but to dispose of deaths from the scourge of typhus, natural deaths, and other diseases. Refugees were from all over, and they brought diseases and germs with them. The horrific photos of masses of skeleton-like dead bodies that are said to be evidence of organized extermination of Jews are in fact camp inmates who died from typhus and starvation in the last days of the war when Germany was disorganized and devoid of medicines and food for labor camps. The great noble Western victors themselves bombed the labor camps and contributed to the deaths of inmates.

      The two books on which I have reported total 1,663 pages, and there are two more volumes of the Churchill biography. This massive, documented historical information seemed likely to pass into the Memory Hole as it is inconsistent with both the self-righteousness of the West and the human capital of court historians. The facts are too costly to be known. But historians have started adding to their own accounts the information uncovered by Irving. It takes a brave historian to praise him, but they can cite him and plagiarize him.
      It is amazing how much power Zionists have gotten from the Holocaust. Norman Finkelstein calls it The Holocaust Industry. There is ample evidence that Jews along with many others suffered, but Zionists insist that it was an unique experience limited to Jews.
      ?
      In his Introduction to Hitler’s War Irving reports that despite the widespread sales of his book, the initial praise from accomplished historians and the fact that the book was required reading at military academies from Sandhurst to West Point, “I have had my home smashed into by thugs, my family terrorized, my name smeared, my printers [publishers] firebombed, and myself arrested and deported by tiny, democratic Austria—an illegal act, their courts decided, for which the ministerial culprits were punished; at the behest of disaffected academics and influential citizens [Zionists], in subsequent years, I was deported from Canada (in 1992), and refused entry to Australia, New Zealand, Italy, South Africa and other civilized countries around he world. Internationally affiliated groups circulated letters to librarians, pleading for this book to be taken off their shelves.”
      So much for free thought and truth in the Western world. Nothing is so little regarded in the West as free thought, free expression, and truth. In the West explanations are controlled in order to advance the agendas of the ruling interest groups. As David Irving has learned, woe to anyone who gets in the way.

      • benr June 10, 2019 at 1:33 pm #

        Careful next you will be listening to Alex Jones!
        Then the imperial conditioning will kick in and make you question your own sanity.

        • EvelynV June 10, 2019 at 1:51 pm #

          I’m already questioning it.

          BTW – if you only watched 2 hours a day of TV that was pretty good. The Mickey Mouse club and two westerns wasn’t a whole lot of TV. Bonanza and Ed Sullivan ate up two hours on their own. That would mean no Rifleman, Bounty Hunter, Gunsmoke, Groucho Marx, Lucy, Paladin, Range Rider, Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, Your Are There, Craft sumpin, sumpin hour, Carol Burnett, Cecil and Beanie, Gene Autry, Lassie, Sky King, Rin Tin Tin, Walter Cronkite, Disney World, Topper, etc, etc

          • benr June 10, 2019 at 4:48 pm #

            Perish the thought of listening to viewpoints that don’t line up with exactly your own now.
            I mean God Forbid you grow in wisdom and knowledge.
            >=)

      • Tate June 10, 2019 at 3:00 pm #

        Wow, Evie, what kind of ‘wokeness’ is this? The wrong kind, so say our Masters.

      • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 3:14 pm #

        I’ve read that column previously as well. Quite provocative. Something fishy was definitely going on behind the scenes that western history books have conveniently omitted.

      • GreenAlba June 10, 2019 at 7:32 pm #

        EvelynV

        It’s quite useful to have a summary of all the ‘arguments’ used by Holocaust deniers, so here’s a link to one compiled by Deborah Lipstadt:

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/deniers_01.shtml

        Make of it what you will. There are many others – holocaust denial and its rebuttals are well documented.

        You may well ask why you should trust the BBC or Deborah Lipstadt – see here details of her successful defence after being sued for libel by David Irving for referring to lies he has told about the holocaust:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_v_Penguin_Books_Ltd

        But you’d presumably need to ask yourself also why you choose to believe David Irving.

        Likewise there is information in Wikipedia about the use of Zyklon B, including evidence that it was purchased for the specific purpose of murdering the inmates of the death camps. If you choose to believe it was bought for a bit of light kitchen gardening to keep the workers busy while their laundry was being fumigated in the oven blocks, then that’s up to you.

        • EvelynV June 11, 2019 at 1:40 am #

          Yikes! I didn’t realize watching the film would be a 9 hour commitment. I’m sorry I got myself into this, I have no regard for holocaust deniers.

          I think I was blind sided by the fact the article was written by Paul Craig Roberts who I’ve often thought had sensible things to say on other matters.

          What the article says about Churchill doesn’t necessarily go hand in hand with holocaust denialism and as I said, that was what disturbed me the most.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 8:44 am #

            It’s OK, Evelyn, you don’t have to watch it all – it was just a suggestion to help put paid to the vile stuff about oven blocks being built as laundry facilities.

            Some people on here would benefit, though.

            Just discovered it’s all on YouTube.

            https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shoah+full+movie

        • Luhrenloup June 11, 2019 at 1:59 pm #

          victimhood is nothing to brag about.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 7:16 pm #

            Industrial-scale murder is something it is not decent to deny.

          • Luhrenloup June 12, 2019 at 12:49 pm #

            I don’t agree Alba. One shouldn’t deny it, but it needs a short shelf life. The holocaust, slavery, etc have become the fables of our times. Hitler and the actions of the 3rd Reich pale in comparison to what has happened since. What about the shock and awe Iraqis were subjected to, the horror of the ongoing mideast wars, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia? Families escaping the horrors on foot for hundreds of miles, drownings at sea. Think of the suffering being imposed on the Venezuelans. One could fill pages of these atrocities. What do you think of Hillary’s crack about the horrific death that befell Gaddafi? Is that not Hitlerian?
            The trope of antisemitism has become a go-to accusation for anything the Israelis object to. The only thing the Israeli have yet to do to the Palestinians is to order them to wear a crescent moon and star armbands.
            Similarly with American Blacks who pathetically cling to the idea they are owed something for what happened to them 200 years ago. I say, stand in line the list of grievances on diverse peoples since then have greatly multiplied.
            “I am a victim” cripples those who wear its badge. We see their distasteful pandering for what it is and lose respect.

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 8:56 am #

            “I don’t agree Alba. One shouldn’t deny it, but it needs a short shelf life. ”

            Its shelf life should last as long as people deny it for their own political ends. It was the first literally industrial genocide and therefore holds a special place in the folk memory. That will fade after current generations are gone, and that will make it even easier for people like those on this site would like to have future generations believe it didn’t happen in the way that we know it did.

            I criticise Israel all I want to – it doesn’t interfere with my opposition to anti-semitism, as they are not the same thing. Some Israeli influences would have you believe that they are. And we make a mistake if we think everyone in Israel shares the same monolithic opinions about everything.

            And you miss the point. I am not crippled because I am not saying ‘I am a victim’. I am standing up for the truth as it relates to other people who were victims. Because I respect the truth as well as the memory of the victims – victims who are among many victims – I totally agree. And I know why they want to pretend it didn’t happen, because that affects their political aims now.

            But so far no one is telling me that slavery didn’t happen, or that the suffering of the Libyans, Venezuelans, Afghans, Syrians or Somalis didn’t happen and isn’t continuing to happen.

            If they do I will intervene as I have done for the Jews. I’m sorry if that offends you.

          • Luhrenloup June 13, 2019 at 12:50 pm #

            Victimhood is nothing to brag about and its sister, virtue signalling is the ultimate empty gesture of preening moral superiority.

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 8:27 pm #

            Luhrenloup

            “Victimhood is nothing to brag about and its sister, virtue signalling is the ultimate empty gesture of preening moral superiority.”

            Victimhood isn’t anything to brag about, I quite agree. I always feel a bit sad when people have no actual argument so are reduced to accusing people of virtue signalling.

            It’s not about me or moral superiority but if it makes you feel morally superior to say that, go for it.

            The reason lies and denial need to be confronted on here is not because it makes the slightest difference to the deniers or as an empty gesture, but because there are others – mostly younger – reading who fall for this stuff and then fall for the propaganda outlets elsewhere who promote it – for a reason, not because they just like arguing.

            It’s not about victimhood – it’s about opposing liars who manipulate the truth for their own current purposes.

            But it’s OK. I get that you want holocaust deniers to be able to deny with impunity – we should all just let them and say nothing. I don’t know why, but that’s your business.

      • GreenAlba June 10, 2019 at 8:04 pm #

        And I would highly recommend this:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoah_(film)

        I have it at home. I’d be interested to re-read your thoughts after watching it, if you get the opportunity. It’s probably available from libraries, although £25 isn’t all that much for the nine hours of film, resulting from 11 years of work, and based on 350 hours of raw footage.

        I’ve welcome Janos and Tate to watch it in my house, without respite for 9 hours. I’d keep them supplied with tea and biscuits, while I made sure they didn’t miss anything.

        • GreenAlba June 10, 2019 at 8:05 pm #

          *I’d* welcome…

        • Majella June 10, 2019 at 9:13 pm #

          Tea & biccies, please, but could I bring a wee bottle o’ Laphroaig to sweeten the tea, Alba?

          (And, perhaps you should explain that your ‘biscuits’ means ‘cookies’, not scones)

          • Tate June 11, 2019 at 1:21 am #

            I won’t be there to partake of her tea & biscuits, nor your froggie. Shoah is parasitic propaganda but she doesn’t have a clue. See, that’s just what parasites do.

          • EvelynV June 11, 2019 at 1:42 am #

            If you are out of Laphroaig just substitute a shot of Listerine, they taste closely the same enough no one would notice.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 5:12 am #

            Majella

            Yep, scones are scones, and ‘bis-cuit’, like ‘bis-cotti’, just means ‘baked twice’, like the way you’d make ‘cantucci/cantuccini’, which are the same thing.

            https://thechiappas.com/recipes/cantuccini-biscotti-recipe/

            The best ones I ever tasted (just from the corner shop when it was owned by a Scots-Italian, before he sold it, were made with orange essence instead of almonds. Aaaahhhh… I never got round to making them (they weren’t cheap to buy) even though I bought the orange essence.

            I’ll try them out if you visit, though 🙂 . And there will be scones.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 5:26 am #

            Of course you won’t. You don’t have the guts to sit through nine hours of real people telling their real stories. Your god might prod your conscience and that would never do.

            And it’s not me you have to justify yourself to, Tate. You’re the one whose belief system tells you you’ll be asked hard questions when you ‘pass on’.

            Good luck with that. You really don’t want to get it all wrong, do you?

          • Tate June 11, 2019 at 10:31 am #

            The synagogue of Satan that sacrificed hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of its own blood into the industrial war machine? What upstanding fellows!

          • Majella June 12, 2019 at 6:51 pm #

            EvelynV:

            “If you are out of Laphroaig just substitute a shot of Listerine, they taste closely the same enough no one would notice.”

            LOL!!! I get the meaning but have to argue that it’s a matter of taste. Many don’t like the ‘smokey bacon’ effect of all that peat. Besides, Listerine has a lower alcohol content (28%), so Laphroaig (48%) is a more efficient mouth wash (plus you don’t have to spit it out!)

            But for the fussy, perhaps you’d prefer a light crisp Islay, like a Bowmore or McLelland, with a hint of dried seaweed & salt on the nose?

          • Majella June 12, 2019 at 6:56 pm #

            Tate:

            That Unz Review – hmmm…it proudly claims to express ‘controversial perspectives largely excluded from the American Mainstream Media”.

            There’s a good reason for that. Enjoy your echo chamber – no wonder you’re so angry all the time.

          • Tate June 12, 2019 at 8:26 pm #

            I’m not angry…

            YOU FUCKIN’ CUNT!!!!

        • EvelynV June 11, 2019 at 1:21 am #

          GreenAlba

          I didn’t realize until after finishing the article then googling David Irving that he was a holocaust denier.

          I was mostly taken by his assertions that WC fostered war with Hitler. I would prefer to think otherwise having gone on record many times among friends expressing my opinion WC is the greatest leader of any nation in modern times.

          It sounded bogus to me that Hitler would be unaware of what was happening to the Jewish population but these days I’m being forced to accept that nothing is outside the realm of possibility.

          I haven’t checked out your recommended film yet but I will. Thanks.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 5:17 am #

            Even if Churchill had ‘fostered the war with Hitler’, were we all to let him murder the Jews of Europe and do nothing?

            BTW, living in Vichy was no picnic either if you were Jewish – Pétain had them rounded up and sent to concentration camps too. His own fellow citizens. He fought bravely at Verdun, but he was a Nazi collaborator and was treated as such.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 5:30 am #

            Vichy France, that is – the regime, not the town.

          • Tate June 11, 2019 at 10:35 am #

            Oh, I see, that’s why we went to war against Hitler.

            Not.

            Study your history, if you can find an accurate version of it in your scepter’d isle.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 11:05 am #

            I didn’t say it was, Tate. But it was a very good reason to and if we hadn’t gone to war when we did it would still have become apparent to all and sundry what was happening eventually.

            Your fellow countrymen were sickened by what they found.

            Less strong stomachs than you, clearly, despite your bravery.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 11:51 am #

            *their* bravery. Obviously.

          • Tate June 11, 2019 at 12:07 pm #

            “Your fellow countrymen were sickened by what they found.”

            All those piles of bodies they continually show being bulldozed were from malnutrition (see PCR’s article posted by EvelynV above as to why), & typhus (ran out of Zyklon B to delouse).

            Still photos from Andersonville showed the same conditions. Lincoln instituted the policy of refusing to exchange parolees, one early method of total warfare, so the Confederates had to keep them without the means to do so. They knew what they were doing. I’m sure Churchill studied his methods.

          • Tate June 11, 2019 at 12:09 pm #

            And I’m not brave. My Dad & his brothers, one who lost his life at St. Lo, they were brave.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 12:52 pm #

            Since the subject has come up and you are asking forbidden questions: Google Judea declares was on Germany. They did – about seven years before the outbreak of military action. Economic war that is. Why did Germans boycott Jewish shops? That’s why. Because at some point the international boycott was tightened or really began to hurt the Nation.

            Your search will lead you to images of newspaper headlines. But you weren’t taught that, were you? You are supposed to believe the Germans just boycotted Jewish shops out of pure malice and not in response to a crushing economic assault.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 1:49 pm #

            I know you’re not, Tate. That’s why I corrected my typo.

            Although you may indeed be brave for all I know. Nobody’s all bad 🙂 .

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 1:52 pm #

            Janos

            “You are supposed to believe the Germans just boycotted Jewish shops out of pure malice and not in response to a crushing economic assault.”

            Boycotting shops is anyone’s right. But I’ve never heard Kristallnacht’ described that way before. Casts it in a whole new light.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 1:58 pm #

            Tate

            “All those piles of bodies they continually show being bulldozed were from malnutrition…”

            I was referring to the living human stick insects.

            “(ran out of Zyklon B to delouse).”

            Like I said, shameless. And you are getting confused.

            Gas — ovens. Zyklon B —- showers. Showers that were sealed up. But had peep holes.

            They’ve certainly done a good job on you.

            But He won’t like it. It’s not too late to repent.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 2:03 pm #

            Sorry: coal —- ovens; Zyklon B — showers.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 2:06 pm #

            Janos

            “The Anti-Nazi Boycott of 1933 was a Jewish led international boycott of German products in response to violence and harassment by members of Hitler’s Nazi Party against Jewsfollowing his appointment as Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933.”

          • Tate June 11, 2019 at 2:37 pm #

            There are too many holes in the narrative for anyone who cares to actually look at the evidence. But few will venture down that rabbit-hole. Obviously, a lot of Jews died — from overwork, neglect, mistreatment, even executions. War is a nasty business, & they were involved as always as partisans.

            \I don’t even deny that higher-ups had something nasty in mind at the Swansee conference if you study the minutes. Don’t bother with the dramatic re-creations. That is fiction.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 7:13 pm #

            “Obviously, a lot of Jews died — from overwork, neglect, mistreatment, even executions. War is a nasty business, & they were involved as always as partisans.”

            ‘even executions’?

            Give it a rest, Goebbels, it’s tedious. You should be ashamed of yourself.

            “I don’t even deny that higher-ups had something nasty in mind at the Swansee conference”

            Swansea. Love it.

            I expect they had a male voice choir too and a brass band from the local colliery.

          • Tate June 11, 2019 at 9:30 pm #

            Methinks the old gal spent too much time in the ‘Content Development’ dodge.

          • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 7:02 am #

            Goodness, Tate, leave the bottom of the barrel for someone else to scrape.

            If you think ‘content development’ for a medical publisher is the same as ‘content development’ for a PR firm, I guess that doesn’t really surprise me. I mean what would you know?

            Doctors, nurses, midwives, and their counterparts in the relevant teaching institutions have day jobs. We make sure what they do in what would otherwise be their ‘free time’ or time with their families, for the benefit of those who follow them into their professions, is put together and presented in a way that aids learning.

            And leaving aside main authors and editors who get royalties, many of those who contribute get nothing more than a copy of the book for their pains. If they were all to get an honorarium commensurate with the effort they put into their labours (in their ‘spare time’) the generations aspiring to follow them wouldn’t be able to afford the books.

            There’s a small part of the world out there you fail to appreciate. I just help them make sure that what they contribute is in a state to be as useful as it can be to the people for whom it’s intended and that others involved in illustration and design for their work do what they are briefed to do. And for £20/hour, before tax, £16 after. Such can be the lofty rewards of a degree.

            But I get that you are desperate, Tate, so feel free to witter while you scrape.

          • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 7:47 am #

            None of which gives me anything like the nobility of the sons of the soil, BTW, Tate. But there are worse things to be doing, while the possibility remains to earn an honest crust.

            Like spending your life looking for reasons to hate whole groups of people.

          • Tate June 12, 2019 at 8:32 pm #

            H*te, the “H” word.

            Rhymes with Tate.

            Shameless!

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 9:06 am #

            I don’t care which words you hate, Tate. Your lexical preferences are not a big deal to me. But you can have ‘despise’ if you prefer.

            You used the argumentum ad hominem’ in referring to the way I earn my living (on which topic you have shown yourself, in addition, to be totally clueless – you can’t even get your insults right), when you ran out of any kind of genuine argument.

            That says what it says, clearly and simply.

          • Tate June 13, 2019 at 4:28 pm #

            Gee, I think this is kind of a glaring instance of the pot calling the kettle black regarding the ad hominem thing. I mean, really, are you not self-aware of how you respond to my comments?

          • Tate June 13, 2019 at 6:46 pm #

            Speaking of human stick insects, do you know what amoebic dysentery does to a person? My Dad contracted it during the war, he dropped from 165 to less than 100 lbs. He looked like a walking skeleton, I’ve seen the pictures. For a time, he didn’t think he was going to make it.

            It’s funny how, going by the newsreel footage, some of the concentration camp prisoners when liberated, looked like that but others looked healthy with no weight loss. So what explains that disparity if there was an diabolical systematic effort to wipe them all out? Intestinal diseases such as typhoid fever or dysentery are out of the question, I suppose, according to you.

      • Majella June 10, 2019 at 9:08 pm #

        EvelynV

        Fascinating.

        There’s one passage though that leaves me confused:

        “After months of firebombing attacks on Germany, including Berlin, Hitler gave in to his generals and replied in kind. Churchill succeeded. The story became “the London Blitz,” not the British blitz of Germany.”

        Admittedly, I’m using ‘conventional’ sources, but I can find only 1 reference of British bombing (Berlin August 25, 1940, 3 weeks after German blitz bombings of Birmingham & Hull), but especially I can find no records of fire-bombings, before the Battle for Britain (July – October 1940) and the London Blitz proper, which started on Sept 7 1940 and lasted 57 nights of consecutive bombing raids on civilian London.

        Serious & regular British bombing didn’t start till late in 1941, and in mid-1942 the USA joined in.

        So, I call BS on that point, which ipso facto calls any other assertions into question.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air_operations_during_the_Battle_of_Europe

  22. TPTB-USA June 10, 2019 at 11:51 am #

    “For America, everything was on the move. Love and power were in the air.

    The idea that this was the American century stuck. The 1920s were a kind of hormonal rush of wonders and amazements. Radio, movies, airplanes, giant industries, electric power in farm houses, the dizzying rush of progress …”

    Replace the word America with China, and I suspect that is how the youth in China view their situation today.

    https://www.scmp.com/video/china/2116697/whats-life-chinas-young-people-really-desire

    Then consider which nations population will be best equipped to win the rat race.

    • lbs June 10, 2019 at 12:45 pm #

      Good point and of course China is far better prepared to embrace the future because they are not infected by the fundamentalist religion of malignant wokesterism.

      • TPTB-USA June 10, 2019 at 10:43 pm #

        Hi lbs,

        Do you see any viable cure for “malignant wokesterism”, or do you just think human nature is going to have to play-out?

  23. I didn’t experience the 1950s.

    I was a soul waiting in queue to be attached to a human chloroplast, to face my personal Omaha Beach: almost certain abortion. Thankfully, God’s plan was fulfilled, and now here we are.

    One thing has said the test of time, though. The New York Times. The press production line still runs 24 hours a day. The hot ink drying on the crisp white sheets… The union man breaking a sweat… The news man, on the phone, checking facts…

    Who turned their back on the past, the hard fought victories? Who exchanged the cool breeze for hot air? The column inch for the style sheet? The written word for the talking head?

    The New York Times reported today on the ailing democracies of Asia and Africa (China’s Hong Kong possession, Russia, Khazakstan, Sudan), profiled the 15 year old black kid who somehow enlisted in the Marines and was killed by a sapper in in Vietnam, the strange candidacy of Mike Gravel, who read the Pentagon Papers on the floor of the Senate, and analyzed the current presidential candidate field.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 2:04 pm #

      Every ejac is an Omaha Beach, Deb. These days most hit the rubber or bathroom floor. Thus the passing of the Great Race as Madison Grant said.

  24. wm5135 June 10, 2019 at 12:02 pm #

    “that assumes that business as usual will continue, not an assumption most of the readers of this blog share.” Neon Vincent

    NV we are touching a different part of the elephant. The most common assumption i observe is – the same as always only different – this is often phrased, it will be different this time. Amid all of the potentially accurate forecasts presented here, right at the apex of every scenareo the prognosticator finds himself safe and secure in an exclusive and profitable market based community.

    Most folks just have never been hurt physically to the point their survival was assured but years of slow recupperation was at hand. Many virtues can be won or lost in such a path. One thing you will learn about first hand is compassion and the lack thereof. A person who has won any degree of success along that path will have knowledge and strength apart from the more fortunate.

    There is more than an abundance of our fellow citizens who have and are bearing the brunt of an open assualt on their beings. Before the day is over there will be countless sophisticated calls to exclude those who are in possesion of the knowledge, strength and determination to achieve a positive outcome.

    Will compassion arrive before the pain? Maybe to arrive born by grace.

    Thank you Mr. K – lyrical prose – i sat on Fess’s lap with cap.

  25. Rhisiart Gwilym June 10, 2019 at 12:06 pm #

    What do you become, Jim? You’ve already answered that question with sharp insight in your WMBH series. That, and JMGreer’s futurist musings, together, give a pretty good idea of what NAmerica will look like before too long – if you’re dead lucky.

    Oh, and about this: “America performed splendidly in World War Two, rescuing Europe and Asia from manifest evil.” And Russia destroying the Wehrmacht, and they and China losing approximately 40 million dead in driving out the Nazis and the Japanese…? They were just part-time stretcher-bearers, perhaps, to USuk’s glorious all-conquering heroism?

    I believe that you in US and we in uk, combined, lost less than a million dead, didn’t we? That tells a somewhat different story, doesn’t it? But perhaps you’re lumping the – nominally – Communist belligerents in with the Nazis, as all being “manifest evil” – ?

    If so, that’s a historical narrative that’s bound to be revised eventually. Already happening, in fact.

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    • JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 12:20 pm #

      Remember one thing different about the US in both world wars.

      Unlike Russia, China and England, we were not fighting for our territory.

      We were fighting to protect others.

      • FincaInTheMountains June 10, 2019 at 1:22 pm #

        … and to expand the zone of dollar circulation…

        • Ol' Scratch June 10, 2019 at 3:37 pm #

          MOSTLY that. NO ONE ever truly fights for others. That’s always just a ruse to get us into the shit.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 2:07 pm #

      But the fact is that Capitalism and Communism were allied against the Fascism and National Socialism – philosophies of Nationalism. And the Fact is that they still are. Who funds Antifa? Or the mass migrations of non-Whites into Europe and the United States? The Banker Elite do.

  26. 100th Avatar June 10, 2019 at 12:14 pm #

    Lol! Megadeth?! A cheesy metal band from 80’s and 90’s that at least played instruments.

    Look into “Truffle Butter” song, and then try and complain about Megadeth…

    “The earth starts to rumble
    World powers fall
    A’warring for the heavens
    A peaceful man stands tall
    Tall, tall
    Just like the Pied Piper
    Led rats through the streets
    We dance like marionettes
    Swaying to the symphony

    … of destruction”

    • benr June 10, 2019 at 1:35 pm #

      Megadeath is actually pretty talented and very political.
      Not as huge as Metallica but should have been.

      • 100th Avatar June 10, 2019 at 4:23 pm #

        Killing for religion
        Something I don’t understand
        Fools like me, who cross the sea
        And come to foreign lands
        Ask the sheep, for their beliefs
        Do you kill on God’s command?

        • benr June 10, 2019 at 6:18 pm #

          I prefer I kind of out grew Megadeath but never this band which was purely a Southern California phenonium. The singer is very famous and hates his former band now.

          Johnny was bad, even as a child
          Everybody could tell
          Everyone said, “If you don’t get straight, you’ll surely go to hell”
          But Johnny didn’t care
          He was an outlaw by the time that he was ten years old
          He didn’t wanna do what he was told
          Just a prankster, a juvenile gangster
          His teachers didn’t understand
          They kicked him out of school
          At a tender early age
          Just because he didn’t want to learn things
          Had other interests
          He liked to burn things
          The lady down the block
          She had a radio that Johnny wanted, oh, so bad
          So he took it the first chance he had
          And then he shot her in the leg
          But this is what she said:

          He’s only a lad
          You really can’t blame him
          Only a lad
          Society made him
          Only a lad
          He’s our responsibility
          Oh, oh, oh oh oh
          Only a lad
          He really couldn’t help it
          Only a lad
          He didn’t want to do it
          Only a lad
          He’s underprivileged and abused
          Perhaps a little bit confused
          Oh, oh, oh, oh oh oh
          Whoa whoa whoa
          Oh, whoa whoa whoa

  27. Ishabaka June 10, 2019 at 12:15 pm #

    I read today the social justice warriors have taken over the knitting world, and if you want to post your knitting tips or patterns online, and you are white, mandatory self-flagellation for your white privilege is demanded. I think that shows we have a turning indeed.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 2:09 pm #

      I’ve heard that too. Conservative knitters are savaged. How weird is that? No doubt more and more of the leftist women are without vaginas and feel left out – thus the term “front hole” was coined to make them feel better or something.

      • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 1:41 am #

        LOL you are so inappropriate in such a good way.

        • Tate June 11, 2019 at 10:45 am #

          Hoo boy. I hope they don’t ‘penetrate’ needlepoint. Mrs. Tate will be grumpy.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 12:54 pm #

          Tanks. Front hole is a particularly grotesque example of the corruption of our culture via transgender ideology.

    • Mountain gal June 10, 2019 at 11:14 pm #

      What? Explain this. I don’t knit(well managed to knit a scarf once) but how does whiteness involve knitting? Or how is social justice linked to knitting? I’m confused.

        • Tate June 11, 2019 at 10:55 am #

          Wow, people are just getting tired of all these ‘conversations,’ which are really just disguised lectures scolding Whites for their supposed sins, primarily for the sin of being White.

          • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 2:07 am #

            Yes the lectures are very tiring indeed. You would think some of these agitators were getting paid based on how often and how numerous these “conversations” are. Progressives are great at organizing and networking so it would come as no shock.

  28. JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 12:16 pm #

    Today is so different than 50 years ago.

    TV is a big part of it as well as it’s close relative, video games.

    Today’s folks have such a short attention span. Why?

    Watch TV, everything any more are divided into short skits, thirty second plot bits. Why? So we can watch the commercials.

    Watch a video game. The shooters move from place to place in short “episodes”.

    No wonder kids cannot sit through a two hour movie or read a book.

    Even Facebook and Twitter are short segmented.

    • benr June 10, 2019 at 12:41 pm #

      I once read that the scenes used to take a minute or two to change now they are 30 second or lose attention.

  29. Luhrenloup June 10, 2019 at 12:25 pm #

    Very good post, Jim.

  30. tucsonspur June 10, 2019 at 12:25 pm #

    “The 1920s were a kind of hormonal rush of wonders and amazements. Radio, movies, airplanes, giant industries, electric power in farm houses, the dizzying rush of progress…..”

    All of this given expression by the energetic Charleston dance. Some didn’t consider it “poetry with arms and legs”, and it was banned from many dance halls, considered indecent and too provocative. Yes, sometimes things sure do turn.

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

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    • BackRowHeckler June 10, 2019 at 9:54 pm #

      Nice video, TS.

      Those flappers were really hoofing. Was that filmed in a Speakeasy? I expected Scott and Zelda to walk in any moment with Harry Crosby and Caresse, their expensive Flivver parked out front.

      If you’re blue and don’t know where to go
      Why don’t you go where fashion sits

      Puttin on the Ritz

      Dressed up like a millionaire trooper
      Tryin hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)

      Downtown
      Uptown
      Get you kicks
      At the Ritz
      Dine and Wine
      But not til nine

      The time is right for us tonight
      We can move to the rhythm
      We can move
      Puttin on the Ritz

      brh

  31. lbs June 10, 2019 at 12:36 pm #

    Interesting to apply the term “deep state” to the high ranking bureaucrats who brought us the Vietnam War.

    It does seem that today’s deep state (Comey, Brennan, Clapper, the Democrats, the neocons, the media) are in fact direct evolutionary descendants from those who brought us the Vietnam War and other heavy-handed policies of the mid-late 20th century.

    • FincaInTheMountains June 10, 2019 at 1:29 pm #

      Deep State is the part of American bureaucracy working for the Fourth Reich.

      After all, what else could explain their tireless labour of destroying their own country by destroying the educational and health care systems, flooding the country with illegal immigrants and illicit drugs?

      • JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 2:56 pm #

        How about a total lust for power.

        A lust so huge that they become traitors to their own Constitution.

    • JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 3:01 pm #

      Just plain old Deep Staters who believe that we are dolts and they must instruct us on what is right and wrong.

      Send them to Russia or China where their autocratic format fits right in.

      • FincaInTheMountains June 10, 2019 at 4:20 pm #

        And sly Europeans, remembering Berlin in 1945 and Paris in 1812, watching with pleasure how stupid Yankees poking a stick into the bear’s den.

  32. FincaInTheMountains June 10, 2019 at 1:01 pm #

    you only hit the giggle point, Finca

    Green Alba, giggle your soul off:

    The most dangerous moment was June 22, 2015, when General Breedlove pointedly focused rather significant forces on Russia’s borders, ostensibly for exercises to repel Russian aggression.

    Moreover, the NATO intercept system of the Russian retaliatory strike on the basis of SM-3 missiles and radars in Poland and Romania was already in place, while Russia still had neither tested Calibr, nor Iskander-M, nor Buyan-M, neither modernized Tu-160, nor group of repaired and modernized nuclear submarines: K-266 Oryol, K-44 Ryazan, K-114 Tula, K-419 Kuzbass, K -335 “Cheetah”, B-336 “Pskov”, as well as the BS-64 “Moscow Region” (K-64) which, after modernization, is the head sub of the Status-6 and together with “Losharik” can take the obligation to cause unacceptable damage to the enemy, who decides on a sudden nuclear attack on Russia.

    It is enough to recall the island of La Palma and the Cumbre Vieja volcano off the coast of West Africa, which, even without Status-6, can explode at any time and slide to great depths.

    And this will inevitably cause mega-tsunami, which will drown all of England and most of Scotland, as well as all of Western Europe and the entire East coast of the United States, up to Philadelphia.

    And this threat saves Russia from the need to compensate for the progress in the strength of the first US disarming strike, by a tenfold increase in the retaliatory strike – tactics which led the USSR to defeat in the Cold War.

    • GreenAlba June 10, 2019 at 2:06 pm #

      “And this will inevitably cause mega-tsunami, which will drown all of England and most of Scotland, as well as all of Western Europe and the entire East coast of the United States, up to Philadelphia.”

      Not as far as Scotland, apparently, Finca, although it won’t make much difference if all our supply lines are cut and half of England is drowned.

      But I was referring to the British parts of your story, with (as ever) the Queen, Trump and the Privy Council. 🙂

      • FincaInTheMountains June 10, 2019 at 2:15 pm #

        Of course, the special English humor!

        When the Constitutional Monarchy is when you have a Monarch, but do not have a Constitution.

        • GreenAlba June 10, 2019 at 7:36 pm #

          We do have a body of law that serves as a constitution, FInca, but you are right that it is about time it was collated into a single written Constitution. There are increasing calls for it – recent events have made it more necessary.

        • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 6:48 am #

          And let’s hope Cumbre Vieja and Yellowstone don’t pop at the same time in a double whammy.

        • Tate June 11, 2019 at 10:58 am #

          If the Brits write a constitution now, it will live up to Eric Blair’s worst nightmare. Mao would approve of it, however, I’m sure.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 11:07 am #

            We’ll drop you a note when the time comes, Herr T, and give entirely due consideration to your suggestions.

  33. BackRowHeckler June 10, 2019 at 1:26 pm #

    Well, at least one state in the union has plenty of swag. California has just voted to grant welfare and free medical bennies to illegals age 26 and under. California apparently is running budget surpluses to be this generous with non citizens. The bill will run in the billions but what the hell, Cal has money to burn.

    Brh

    • FincaInTheMountains June 10, 2019 at 1:33 pm #

      They’ll just destroy the health care for everybody, except for the super-rich.

    • benr June 10, 2019 at 1:37 pm #

      Try trillions.
      As a citizen of California I am very close to not paying state taxes anymore in protest.
      My vote is always over ruled by the courts if it wins or by the progressives bent on destroying a once great state.

      • BackRowHeckler June 10, 2019 at 2:09 pm #

        A few monthe ago Gov Newsom announced to the world all were welcome, you just had to get here by nook or by crook, legally or illegally, it didn’t matter. Thru out the 3rd world 2 billion sets of ears were listening, and its onward to the Golden State. Its only right, now that they are begining to arrive, invited and honored guests, they be given free medical care and a nice welfare check.

        Brh

        • malthuss June 10, 2019 at 2:14 pm #

          Research the murder of the Bologna family, on Thanksgiving.
          GN has blood on his hands.

          • BackRowHeckler June 10, 2019 at 2:33 pm #

            I hope I answered your question about Warren Kimbro, Malth.

            I was trying to remember what I talked with him about, I know it wasn’t politics. Probably just mundane stuff going on around campus at the time.

            I wanted to ask you, in LA, back in the day, did you run across SoCal musicians like Graham Parsons, the Byrds, New Riders of the Purple Sage? (Driving home the other morning I heard ‘Lonesome LA Cowboy’, I thought ‘there’s Malthus, one last cowboy amongst 3 million libs)

            Brh

        • benr June 10, 2019 at 4:56 pm #

          There are reports of illegal aliens getting across the border and asking our BICE agents where their checks are for making it here.
          You can’t make this insanity up.
          Gavin Newsome should be recalled and put on trial.
          Hate that prick even more than moonbeam greasy used car salesmen is all I see and hear every time he excretes the verbal diarrhea he spews forth when he speaks.
          He has no right to promise anyone our tax money and yet here he is taxes through the roof State government almost in default and this douche is promising people something for nothing.

          • Tate June 11, 2019 at 11:02 am #

            What’s the solution? Is there a solution?

          • benr June 11, 2019 at 2:31 pm #

            The same solution seems to happen over and over given enough time, insanity and problems.

  34. Don June 10, 2019 at 2:17 pm #

    Play this rendition of Gershwin playing Rhapsody in Blue and you will gain a deeper meaning of Jim’s essay.

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

  35. Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 2:19 pm #

    Anne Coulter, Vdare.com

    Apparently, we must also be bombarded with fictional “documentaries” and TV series re-telling the left’s Central Park Rape fantasy. Instead of an evidence-based approach to determining guilt, today we rely on story-tellin’ to get at the truth.

    Thus, according to lore, in 1989, five black and brown choirboys were framed by a racist New York Police force and a racist district attorney’s office for the attack on the Central Park jogger.

    Unfortunately for the choirboys, the two juries that pronounced them guilty were not allowed to consider fictional movies, but were stuck with the now-discredited facts-and-evidence method. So it’s been a long, hard slog, getting the fable to be accepted as Truth. It’s probably going to take a few more movies.

    This week, the “oral tradition” of the Central Park wilding as told in the debut of Ava DuVernay’s Netflix series, “When They See Us,” forced the chief sorcerer—er, prosecutor—Linda Fairstein to resign from the boards of three charities and Vassar College. As one of the convicted, then “exonerated,” rapists said, “Even if it’s 30 years later, she has to pay for her crime.”

    The actual evidence against the convicted rapists was, and remains, overwhelming, as I have described repeatedly in columns and in my book, Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America. Evidently, I will be forced to continue restating the facts periodically, in some third-world version of Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence.

    In our new country, nonsense like “objectivity” and “written documentation” are mere tricks, chicanery, hocus-pocus, used against “communities of color”—as Schools Chancellor Carranza explained—in order “to win victories for white people.”

    JS: The Elite are moving very fast now to consolidate their victory and to make any counter-attack impossible. Thus they aim to criminalize any and all dissent and make it impossible to the extent they can by deplatforming. And in place of the facts or historical truth, they inject lies and fantasies about Non-White achievements and White villainy against Non-White Saints and Geniuses.

    Another group of Blacks has now to been awarded sanctity. The police who worked on the case are utterly disgusted. And the jogger herself, who didn’t remember anything and who has always been a voice of reason, doesn’t agree with adulation either. She said that she was told that her injuries indicated more than just one person was involved, even if the others didn’t join in the rape.

    I believe that some of these Scottsboro boys have been involved in other crimes as well.

    Students of the future will read that the first person to walk on the moon was a Black Women named Neela Armstrong.

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    • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 2:26 pm #

      The complete Coulter article:

      https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2019/06/09/coulter-on-folk-tales-the-third-worlding-of-the-west/

      • Majella June 10, 2019 at 9:23 pm #

        Coulter is a right-wing shill who is raking it in, playing on the hearts & minds of the Everything-Is-A-Conspiracy Set.

        I hope you didn’t fork out actually fiat money for her book, Janos.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 11:36 pm #

          Yeah, and probably a XENOPHOBE too like Ozzie said the other day.

          Xeno is the dark god of the Scientologists. Could Oz be one of those? When I knew him he was into contacting UFOs at night. I used to see him out in his yard doing morse code with a powerful flashlight.

          • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 1:49 am #

            Very interesting.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 12:58 pm #

            From the Wiki anent Xenu:

            Xenu (/?zi?nu?/),[1][2][3] also called Xemu, was, according to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, the dictator of the “Galactic Confederacy” who 75 million years ago brought billions[4][5] of his people to Earth (then known as “Teegeeack”) in DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes, and killed them with hydrogen bombs. Official Scientology scriptures hold that the thetans (immortal spirits) of these aliens adhere to humans, causing spiritual harm.[1][6]

            These events are known within Scientology as “Incident II”,[7] and the traumatic memories associated with them as “The Wall of Fire” or “R6 implant”. The narrative of Xenu is part of Scientologist teachings about extraterrestrial civilizations and alien interventions in earthly events, collectively described as “space opera” by Hubbard. Hubbard detailed the story in Operating Thetan level III (OT III) in 1967, warning that the “R6 implant” (past trauma)[8] was “calculated to kill (by pneumonia, etc.) anyone who attempts to solve it”.[8][9][10]

            Within the Church of Scientology, the Xenu story is part of the church’s secret “Advanced Technology”,[7] considered a sacred and esoteric teaching,[11] which is normally only revealed to members who have completed a lengthy sequence of courses costing large amounts of money.[12] The church avoids mention of Xenu in public statements and has gone to considerable effort to maintain the story’s confidentiality, including legal action on the grounds of copyright and trade secrecy.[13] Officials of the Church of Scientology widely deny or try to hide the Xenu story.[14][15] Despite this, much material on Xenu has leaked to the public via court documents, copies of Hubbard’s notes, and the Internet.[14] In commentary on the impact of the Xenu text, academic scholars have discussed and analyzed the writings by Hubbard and their place within Scientology within the contexts of science fiction,[16] UFO religions,[17] Gnosticism[18][19] and creation myths.[11]

            JS: Who wants to be a Scientologist? Hands!

          • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 2:15 am #

            Very strange. It’s interesting that you have to literally pay to play in the Church of Scientology. In most other religions one has to pay with sacrifice and virtue in order to get anywhere.

        • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 1:47 am #

          I am sure you are all in for the retelling of our history. Certainly you don’t accept America as it was founded.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 1:01 pm #

            I tempted her and she fell. I waved aroud their meme about how boring Whites are and she couldn’t resist affirming it. They think they are special and we are nothing. I feel we are special and they are extraneous.

          • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 3:58 pm #

            Yes very clever of you! And she fell right into the trap.

            I’m very thankful for you.

          • Majella June 11, 2019 at 7:42 pm #

            Janos:
            “I tempted her and she fell. I waved aroud their meme about how boring Whites are and she couldn’t resist affirming it.”

            SSL:
            “Yes very clever of you! And she fell right into the trap. I’m very thankful for you.”

            Please… Self-congratulatory bullshit coupled with sycophantic dick-sucking.

          • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 2:21 am #

            You always find a way to sully that which is beautiful. You are truly an unclean comment squatter. And you wouldn’t know what devotion or love was if either one of them slapped your face. How dare you!

          • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 10:47 am #

            SSL

            “You always find a way to sully that which is beautiful. “

            You responded on a previous thread, in a positively approving and encouraging manner, to a comment which described numbers of your fellow humans, who came into the world with no more volition or choice in the destination of their arrival than you or your sons, as ‘human waste’.

            Not even the slightest quizzical raising of eyebrows from someone – an endlessly proselytising Christian, no less – with two young children of her own.

            And yet you worry about a metaphor with slightly bawdy connotations which probably 50% of your countrymen wouldn’t have the slightest hesitation in using online or elsewhere.

            Maybe your scale of values is a bit skewed?

          • Elrond Hubbard June 13, 2019 at 12:03 pm #

            SoftStarLight: “Certainly you don’t accept America as it was founded.”

            It’s always interesting to hear right-wing chuds opine about the founding of the USA. They serve the useful function of making the unspoken explicit — turning subtext into text. For example, Eyesore once ranted about the damage that ‘one throwaway line’, referring to all men are created equal, has done to the United States. When in fact, this ‘throwaway line’ is the founding creed of the USA and has found great favour around the world, though not everywhere, for hundreds of years since.

            When chuds talk about how America was founded, as I say, they’re not referring to the text but the subtext. In 1776, the USA was a machine for stripping wealth and land from other people: from native Americans by genocide, from Mexico by war (in Canada they failed, to my great benefit), and from Africans by kidnapping and enslavement. This machinery has softened in the time since, mostly because it succeeded in its aims, and turned those aims outwards to other spots on the globe. But nowadays, the extreme right looks back with fondness on those old, taken-for-granted ways and would reinstitute them at home once again if possible. This is what SSL means by ‘America as it was founded’ — not the nation of laws envisioned by the founders, but the nation of rape and pillage that constituted the actual facts on the ground.

  36. 450.org June 10, 2019 at 3:38 pm #

    The permafrost contains three times the CO2 that’s been released into the atmosphere by humans since the dawn of the industrial age. If it’s unlocked and released, and it’s being released as we type & discuss, it’s game over as in civilization as we knew and know it is no more. Sure, some human life may survive when it’s all said and done, but the humans will resemble the moronic, brutish humans in the Planet of the Apes.

    Alright, Who Let It Rip?

    • 450.org June 10, 2019 at 3:47 pm #

      A well-appreciated Russian perspective. Notice him smoking the cigarette.

      Siberia: The Melting Permafrost

    • JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 8:07 pm #

      Also methane is locked in there which is 36x more heat retentive than CO2.

      A real threat is at the bottom of the oceans where large amounts of methane are trapped in large pools by the cold and pressure. A warming ocean may release these pools.

      If the polar ice cap melts at the NP, the lock ice has on the ambient temperature of the northern hemisphere will be gone. No one knows, no one what is going to happen.

  37. Matt Cardin June 10, 2019 at 3:49 pm #

    What a pensive post. I appreciate not just the ideas but the elegiac tone and the use of Gershwin and his famous tune as a framing device. I’ve been reading your work for 15 years, JHK, including this blog, but this is the first time I’ve been moved to comment. We are indeed a “haunted country,” and we are indeed living through a cultural-historical moment that calls out for authentic answers to the two questions you articulate. Thank you for continuing to direct attention this way.

    • benr June 10, 2019 at 4:58 pm #

      Welcome to the comments section may you post in good health and spirits!

  38. oirfideach June 10, 2019 at 5:30 pm #

    Ah, Mr. Kunstler, we are all getting old. Case it point – it is “Megadeth”. Kind of like my father talking about Lead Zeppelins!

  39. BuckP June 10, 2019 at 5:50 pm #

    Brilliant essay today, as usual, Jim!

    Joke: If you lock three economists in a basement they won’t worry about starving, because they know their grumbling bellies will soon cause sandwiches to appear. (Courtesy of Chris Martenson)

    We Boomers have lived in and helped create the Age of Magical Thinking. Where more is better and to be comfortable and powerful in the present is more important than the future conditions we leave our progeny. Maybe it was Walt Disney’s fault! Why worry about resource depletion, population growth, the environment,etc, when you can just print paper currency to get what you want and force the world to use it by pointing a big gun at their head or through bribery, specifically giving them weapons.

    Per the St. Louis Fed, all US sectors, debt securities and liabilities, were at $2 trillion in Q1-1973; in Q4-2018, this liability had increased to $73 trillion. For the next twenty years to resemble the last twenty, estimates are that his debt will have to triple. Welcome to the exponential function!

    “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”

    ~ Dr. Albert Bartlett, former Physics Professor, University of Colorado

    Exponential Growth or Entropy? Which one will get us first is an even bet!

    • benr June 10, 2019 at 6:24 pm #

      Estimates point at a 1.4 quadrillion in toxic derivatives!
      That is what will send us all skidding off the rails into the trash heap.

      • BackRowHeckler June 10, 2019 at 6:36 pm #

        Yet, and yet, 15000 sq ft McMansions being built here and in surrounding towns.

        Who is buying these monstrosities I don’t know.

        What’s particularly egregious is that historic estates are being bought and broken up, and historic houses dating back to the 18th century knocked down, to build these giant places.

        Brh

        • Tate June 11, 2019 at 11:07 am #

          How are the hedge funds doing these days? Have the hedge fund hustlers moved on to some new hustle?

          • benr June 11, 2019 at 2:32 pm #

            Always good until the credit swaps stop and someone gets left holding the bag with all the toxic assets.

    • JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 7:56 pm #

      Ha! And then a miracle happens.

      If you line up 100 economists in a straight line, they will all be pointing in a different direction.

      I am 71, I hope entropy gets me first, I do not envy succeeding generations.

  40. 100th Avatar June 10, 2019 at 6:05 pm #

    I always think of Manhattan when I hear that tune. And my favorite quote:

    “… he’s a genius, she’s a genius, wow, you know a lot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something”

    Everyone here can agree to that.

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    • BuckP June 10, 2019 at 6:23 pm #

      100th Avatar

      Now, that’s downright funny!

      Reminds of the saying: God created the simple to confuse the wise!

      • 100th Avatar June 11, 2019 at 12:02 pm #

        A few years back, United Airlines coopted it for a pre-flight presentation. You know, during that uncomfortable portion of a flight with cabin full of fumes, old people taking too long to stow overheads, when you’re squirming in your seat, rooting through your carry-on looking for your book, or headphones.. when somebody at the wrong seat thinks your in their seat… all those splendid associations for this rather unfortunate ditty.

  41. Pucker June 10, 2019 at 7:05 pm #

    Where we are headed….

    “While few of today’s professors of the humanities are able to articulate grounds for protest, I would think the humanities of old would be able to muster a powerful argument against this tendency. Its warning would be simple, recalling its oldest lessons: at the end of the path of liberation lies enslavement. Such liberation from all obstacles is finally illusory, for two simple reasons: human appetite is insatiable and the world is limited. For both of these reasons, we cannot be truly free in the modern sense. We can never attain satiation, and will be eternally driven by our desires rather than satisfied by their attainment. And in our pursuit of the satisfaction of our limitless desires, we will very quickly exhaust the planet. Our destiny, should we enter fully down this path toward our complete liberation, is one in which we will be more governed by necessity than ever before. We will be governed not by our own capacity for self-rule but rather by circumstance, particularly the circumstances resulting from scarcity, devastation, and chaos.”

    Patrick J. Deneen
    Why Liberalism Failed

  42. Pucker June 10, 2019 at 7:29 pm #

    I don’t think that legalized Weed will help? Somewhere along the line we fucked up and redefined “Freedom” to mean doing whatever one wants to do rather than Virtue and self-restraint, and Culture necessary for self-rule. The jig may be up for the 500 year experiment of Liberalism?

    “LIBERALISM has failed because liberalism has succeeded. As it becomes fully itself, it generates endemic pathologies more rapidly and pervasively than it is able to produce Band-aids and veils to cover them. The result is the systemic rolling blackouts in electoral politics, governance, and economics, the loss of confidence and even belief in legitimacy among the citizenry, that accumulate not as separable and discrete problems to be solved within the liberal frame but as deeply interconnected crises of legitimacy and a portent of liberalism’s end times. The narrowing of our political horizons has rendered us incapable of considering that what we face today is not a set of discrete problems solvable by liberal tools but a systemic challenge arising from pervasive invisible ideology. The problem is not in just one program or application but in the operating system itself. It is almost impossible for us to conceive that we are in the midst of a legitimation crisis in which our deepest systemic assumptions are subject to dissolution. The “Noble Lie” of liberalism is shattering because it continues to be believed and defended by those who benefit from it, while it is increasingly seen as a lie, and not an especially noble one, by the new servant class that liberalism has produced. Discontent is growing among those who are told by their leaders that their policies will benefit them, even as liberalism remains an article of ardent faith among those who ought to be best positioned to comprehend its true nature. But liberalism’s apologists regard pervasive discontent, political dysfunction, economic inequality, civic disconnection, and populist rejection as accidental problems disconnected from systemic causes, because their self-deception is generated by enormous reservoirs of self-interest in the maintenance of the present system. This divide will only widen, the crises will become more pronounced, the political duct tape and economic spray paint will increasingly fail to keep the house standing. The end of liberalism is in sight. This denouement might take one of two forms. In the first instance, one can envision the perpetuation of a political system called “liberalism” that, becoming fully itself, operates in forms opposite to its purported claims about liberty, equality, justice, and opportunity. Contemporary liberalism will increasingly resort to imposing the liberal order by fiat—especially in the form of the administrative state run by a small minority who increasingly disdain democracy. End runs around democratic and populist discontent have become the norm, and backstopping the liberal order is the ever more visible power of a massive “deep state,” with extensive powers of surveillance, legal mandate, police power, and administrative control. These methods will continue to be deployed despite liberalism’s claim to rest on consent and popular support. Such a conclusion is paradoxical, not unlike Tocqueville’s conclusion in Democracy in America, in which he envisions democracy culminating in a new form of despotism. But the instabilities that surely would accompany this outcome suggest a second possible denouement—the end of liberalism and its replacement by another regime. Most people envisioning such scenarios rightly warn of the likely viciousness of any successor regime, and close to hand are the examples of the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of fascism, and Russia’s brief flirtation with liberalism before the imposition of communism. While these brutal and failed examples suggest that such possibilities are unlikely to generate widespread enthusiasm even in a postliberal age, some form of populist nationalist authoritarianism or military autocracy seems altogether plausible as an answer to the anger and fear of a postliberal citizenry.“

    Patrick J. Deneen
    Why Liberalism Failed

  43. What is the receipt of a life?

    He had

    1 day in the sun

    1,650 days in traffic

    Twenty years slept away,

    Seventy-five years to get it right.

    By Forty Three,

    Twenty Six journals

    Sixty thousand in mortgage and family obligations

    One hundred, thirty eight Diastolic: Hyper tense

    And then,

    Four Men,

    Two with knives,

    One killed Them all.

    One hundred days behind now,

    Twenty-five minutes stationary bike cardio every day

    Sleep is fitful, unpleasant

    Dull the pain, concentrate

    Fifty years to get this right.

    Oil $250 and rising

    100 degrees in the shade

    the dust, the helicopters

    “Get grandpa in the chappa!”

    Grandpa gets himself into the chopper.

    Bionic legs click-whir

    Give thanks to St. Elon

    One hundred fifty years, new skins:

    New bones, new fingers

    Yet Americans are still “Smart phoning”

    As we evolve into data

    2020 Joe Biden for President. This message was approved by Joe Biden for President, LLV

    • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 1:58 am #

      Please tell me you’re not really doing this.

    • RocketDoc June 13, 2019 at 12:06 am #

      A Word on Statistics
      BY WIS?AWA SZYMBORSKA
      Out of every hundred people

      those who always know better:
      fifty-two.

      Unsure of every step:
      almost all the rest.

      Ready to help,
      if it doesn’t take long:
      forty-nine.

      Always good,
      because they cannot be otherwise:
      four—well, maybe five.

      Able to admire without envy:
      eighteen.

      Led to error
      by youth (which passes):
      sixty, plus or minus.

      Those not to be messed with:
      forty and four.

      Living in constant fear
      of someone or something:
      seventy-seven.

      Capable of happiness:
      twenty-some-odd at most.

      Harmless alone,
      turning savage in crowds:
      more than half, for sure.

      Cruel
      when forced by circumstances:
      it’s better not to know,
      not even approximately.

      Wise in hindsight:
      not many more
      than wise in foresight.

      Getting nothing out of life except things:
      thirty
      (though I would like to be wrong).

      Doubled over in pain
      and without a flashlight in the dark:
      eighty-three, sooner or later.

      Those who are just:
      quite a few at thirty-five.

      But if it takes effort to understand:
      three.

      Worthy of empathy:
      ninety-nine.

      Mortal:
      one hundred out of one hundred—
      a figure that has never varied yet.

  44. JohnAZ June 10, 2019 at 8:11 pm #

    Just watched the 2020 Dems criticizing Trump’s deal with Mexico re, the border and tariffs. One thing was missing from all the invective

    Any Democrat ideas of what to do about the problem. Idiots!

    • Slugoon June 11, 2019 at 5:36 am #

      It’s exactly the same here in the UK. Rarely will a politician do anything other than bitch and swipe at the opposition at every opportunity.

      We’re currently suffering the beauty pageant of a Conservative party leadership race. Merely days in and all we’ve heard is the usual platitudes, same old tripe, nothing new, nothing learned.

      Since Brexit is hamstrung I’m half-hoping that Labour wins a GE. If we’re going to fuck the country we may as well do it in style.

      • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 6:34 am #

        It’s still going to be Boris, Slugoon!*

        Are you enjoying the parade of ‘I smoked or snorted xyz when I was young when I was a student/journalist/young and foolish. I made a mistake. But I don’t think the answer is to change the law – it’s to recognise your mistakes and learn from them’?

        All snorting the right words now – they’re a hoot. But apparently the membership in the shires who will make the final decision are about (very loosely) 75% male, geriatric, wealthy and pro-‘no deal’, so, yes, Boris. The 25% of ladies will vote for him too. They won’t fancy Gove (literally!). AND Boris is promising tax cuts for people on over £50K just to seal the deal.

        But please, don’t wish Jeremy on us. I can’t. I just can’t…

        I don’t care if I’m wrong, though. It’s all just entertainment at this point. Rory Stewart’s quite decent (he did the opium pipe in Afghanistan so marks for originality!) but he won’t get a look in.

        I think we’re safe from Matt Handjob/Matt the App, Dominic Raab and her from the Women’s Institute. 🙂

      • Slugoon June 11, 2019 at 7:16 am #

        Hehe, I am enjoying the bits I’ve seen but have missed most of it since I’ve been working the past four days. My personal highlight so far comes from Matt the App (that made me laugh btw):

        “I offer an emotionally-charged platform to improve lives that is rooted, rooted in objective fact.”

        Total bobbins.

        I can only imagine all the drug admissions are an attempt to replicate B-Rabbit’s strategy in 8 Mile: get in there first. They must be aware that it’s going to be a very dirty fight, sad to say.

        As male and pro-‘no deal’ you might suppose I’d be a Boris supporter but I don’t care (not that I’m a member anyway). I’d certainly value the entertainment but Brexit is no longer up to any leader of the Conservative party (save for scrapping it) so it makes no odds.

        At least we can laugh about it together.

        • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 7:33 am #

          That quote from Matt the App is a peach. I wonder if he wrote it himself – he looks like someone who still gets Mum and Dad to help with his school projects.

          Emotionally charged, eh. That makes me wonder if there’s a solution for sustainable transport after all – get your car emotionally charged here and it will run for a full day. Makes a change from hot air I suppose, although they share some chemical properties, possibly!

          I don’t think I’d want to stand on an emotionally charged platform – not without rubber soles anyway 🙂 .

          • BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 9:47 am #

            Interesting exchange between GA and Slugoon.

            Its almost as if you speak a different language over there.

            Brh

  45. beantownbill. June 10, 2019 at 8:15 pm #

    @EvelynV:

    Check out David Irving on Wikipedia. I need not say anything more.

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    • Tate June 11, 2019 at 11:20 am #

      Wikipedia lol.

      • Majella June 11, 2019 at 7:50 pm #

        Tate:
        Are you so LOST in your false narrative/conspiracy rabbit hole that you trust NO source of information aside from the nut-job right-wing cabal, selling you ‘brain power’ snake oil, ‘doomsday kits’, and God with an AR15?

        And ‘publish’ this sort of horse-shit and call it ‘news’?

        https://www.infowars.com/exclusive-roger-stone-breaks-his-silence-plus-more-africans-arrive-in-texas-from-ebola-ravaged-congo/

        • benr June 11, 2019 at 8:53 pm #

          @majella

          I hate to break it to you but the infowars site is correct more often then not.
          When he is wrong he is very wrong but that’s what happens when you fill in the blanks with no data.
          INFOTAINMENT after all but he is still better than MSNBC or Cnn.

        • Tate June 11, 2019 at 9:43 pm #

          I like Ol’ Alex. We thought he was just a harmless goof, but the proof he’s more than that is the level of fear he’s engendered within Wokesterdom.

          Infowars is now relegated to page 3 in a Goober search.

          • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 10:32 am #

            This Alex? Psychotic Alex?

            https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/30/us/alex-jones-psychosis-sandy-hook/index.html

          • Tate June 12, 2019 at 5:39 pm #

            Notice they tolerated his ravings as long as he confined himself to safe topics such as Sandy Hook, crisis actors & such lunacy. They found him a useful tool to discredit the right in that respect.

            They would have kept him around, until he began to touch on topics relating to Israel… That’s when they knew they had to pull the plug. And that’s the only reason he’s been deplatformed.

          • Majella June 12, 2019 at 7:08 pm #

            Tate

            Yeah, the ‘gay frogs’ meme was a doozy.

  46. neon sky June 10, 2019 at 8:17 pm #

    I consider this one of JHK’s best pieces yet. Clear and to the point. Thank you for it.

    Believe me, it’s very difficult at this moment to give anybody credit for anything because some fucking scumbag human came into my yard this morning while I was gone for a short while and stole something I had mistakenly not locked up. We’re talking multi thousand dollar felony theft. And I live in a safe town with one of the lowest crime rates in the state. I don’t feel safe now. Here’s wishing you burn in hell, thief, and soon.

    You think this is something, on an ocean coast hike yesterday I watched a status signaling hiker put his Rolex watch down on a rock and almost immediately a wave rolled in and took it way. It was something to behold. That was an extremely expensive screwup. It was not insured. It was your classic Murphy’s Law situation. Just like the theft in my yard today, completely avoidable.

    Don’t mind me, I’m venting, and thoroughly pissed off.

    • tucsonspur June 10, 2019 at 8:38 pm #

      Decades ago, in NYC, had an entire small apt. on York Ave., a “good” upper East Side neighborhood, cleaned out except for the heavy furniture.

      Life’s a bitch then you die.

      It’s coyote. He’s always waiting. Coyote always waits.

      Loves mistakes.

  47. Slugoon June 10, 2019 at 9:27 pm #

    An enchanting post, James, with some tender introspection. For some reason I was reminded of the scene in Mulholland Drive where the opera singer collapses but the vocals play on.

    I was just driving home from work listening to a ‘plant extinction expert’ on late-night radio. Apparently his research showed a five-hundred fold increase in the terminal loss of plant species during the previous 250 years.

    Chapter 6: The Anthropocene. Who knows what we become. It’ll be an interesting study for the alien anthropologists.

  48. gustafus June 10, 2019 at 9:53 pm #

    In 1956 we paid after we pumped- I could wander across the town and fields with my dog Shep.

    Mailboxes were unlocked, and dad worked days , mom wa the Welcome Wagon Lady –

    WE WERE ALL THE SAME AMERICANS

    We were white – a community.

    Children weren’t weeds, and there were not yet ghettos of hardened mommas and dirtbag dads.

    WHITE and Black have the same general connotation in every language.

    Purity, hope and godliness

    And dark, devilish demonic

    How could every language assign these qualities yet we are told to ignore them.

    Rap on

    • Janos Skorenzy June 10, 2019 at 11:42 pm #

      And Rap is almost Rape or put the e in the middle and you get Reap. The Reaper is coming for America. We sowed the wind and now reap the whirlwind. And we learned nothing from Black slavery as we have brought in an even more dangerous people, namely the Mestizos of Mexico and Central America.

      Is coming? He has arrived and his Scythe is already cutting down young White Americans via the drug crisis and suicide.

      • Tate June 11, 2019 at 2:23 am #

        Why should I care if he’s cutting down young White Americans? I’m a hateful old White coot who didn’t get enough a’ that tight ass booty when I was a young ‘un. I say, “Screw ’em!”

        • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 9:23 am #

          LOL ok. Sounds like you need an attitude adjustment you old White coot :-).

    • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 9:33 am #

      “…And dark, devilish demonic
      How could every language assign these qualities yet we are told to ignore them.”

      I have to say it’s very generous of you, Gus, to hand over your share of the oil and coal, to preserve your purity. The less scrupulous have asked me to thank you. Enjoy getting the groceries with Shep 2.0 or 3.0 or…

      Hope he doesn’t have any devilish, demonic patches.

      • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 9:43 am #

        If he does you can take him for his daily ‘exorcise’ or just try some hair dye?

        Our greyhound is almost totally of the devilish and demonic palette.

        Tripped over her once in the dark and cracked a rib. Gave me the Dark Satanic Chills.

      • malthuss June 11, 2019 at 2:08 pm #

        Like Lord Janos, you now post riddles. Inside Jokes.

        • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 6:59 pm #

          Where’s the riddle? I’m sure you can cope with a couple of puns.

        • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 7:02 pm #

          Mr G said he abhors all things black because they have devilish and demonic connotations in all cultures. So we wouldn’t want him going near coal or oil, would we? Best he walks from now on and that will keep him warm too.

  49. Pucker June 10, 2019 at 11:24 pm #

    Isn’t Beto the Congressman from El Paso?

    “James and his kids are a dramatic example of the pain I found in the world of Hunts Points and Portsmouths. It was a pain I found in every town I visited, from Buffalo to New Haven to Cleveland to Selma to El Paso to Amarillo. In each of these places, there’s a sense of having been left behind, of being forgotten—or, even worse, of being mocked and stigmatized by the members of the world who are moving on and up with the GDP.”

    Chris Arnade
    Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

  50. auburn June 11, 2019 at 12:10 am #

    Good essay today, Jim, though the 50s were horrific if you were Black, female, or queer.

    With regard to heavy metal music, it has been a medium for social justice messaging. The heavy metal fan base is mostly white and mostly male. They may not realize it, but many of those heavy metal headbanger anthems were screaming for economic justice, human rights, and demilitarization.

    For example, the band’s name you cite in today’s essay is not Megadeath, it is Megadeth, a term used by nuclear strategists to stand for 1 million deaths.

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    • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 12:44 am #

      Nonsense. Many women would give their eye teeth to be able to stay home with their kids now.

    • Pucker June 11, 2019 at 1:25 am #

      “Part of moving toward a postliberal age is recognizing that while liberalism’s initial appeal was premised upon laudatory aspirations, its successes have often been based on a disfigurement of those aspirations. Its defenders often point to the liberation of women from conditions of inequality as a significant example of liberalism’s success, and regard any critique of liberalism as a proposal to thrust women back into preliberal bondage. Yet the main practical achievement of this liberation of women has been to move many of them into the workforce of market capitalism, a condition that traditionalists like Wendell Berry as well as Marxist political theorists like Nancy Fraser regard as a highly dubious form of liberation. 1 All but forgotten are arguments, such as those made in the early Republic, that liberty consists of independence from the arbitrariness not only of a king but of an employer. Today we consider the paramount sign of the liberation of women to be their growing emancipation from their biology, which frees them to serve a different, disembodied body—“ corporate” America—and participate in an economic order that effectively obviates any actual political liberty. Liberalism posits that freeing women from the household is tantamount to liberation, but it effectively puts women and men alike into a far more encompassing bondage.“

      Patrick J. Deneen
      Why Liberalism Failed

      • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 10:33 am #

        Yet the main practical achievement of this liberation of women has been to move many of them into the workforce of market capitalism, a condition that traditionalists like Wendell Berry as well as Marxist political theorists like Nancy Fraser regard as a highly dubious form of liberation. 1 All but forgotten are arguments, such as those made in the early Republic, that liberty consists of independence from the arbitrariness not only of a king but of an employer.

        EXACTLY!!! And in so doing, enlarge and dilute the total workforce so that EVERYBODY – men and women alike – make less money and find their employment in general more at risk than they otherwise would. Women have been “liberated” to have their labor subjugated to the tyranny of the market place in the same way that men have always been. And their kids pay for it on the back end, as their parents are now distracted and/or MIA altogether. A lose-lose proposition all the way around.

    • EvelynV June 11, 2019 at 1:52 am #

      50’s also not so great if you had tooth decay, a heart attack, cancer or a shitty job that was dangerous and oppressive.

    • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 2:08 am #

      And what is so great about today? Aren’t we still a horrible and racist society? That is what the multitudes of privileged and fragile SJWs remind us of on a minute by minute basis at least.

      • Majella June 11, 2019 at 7:59 pm #

        I’m getting right riled about the use of SJW to mean something it doesn’t.

        When your cohort uses “SJW” you intend it as an insult and you are referring to the crazies who get on Twitter and denounce EVERYTHING they don’t agree with. These people are internet trolls and nothing more.

        The REAL Social Justice Warriors can be seen every day, in courtrooms all over the US fighting, for justice for poor and dispossessed citizens who are their wits’ end; they can be seen working in not-for-profits supplying needed support and sustenance for the homeless and destitute.

        And they don’t seek your approval. They seek social justice and will fight for anyone who needs assistance regardless of race or creed. Even a down-and-out white supremacist will get what she needs, Jean.

        • benr June 11, 2019 at 8:54 pm #

          That is what it used to mean not anymore.

          • Majella June 11, 2019 at 9:17 pm #

            No, Ben, it does STILL means that…unfortunately the term has been hijacked by the fuming right as a convenient label for the voice of the rabid far left internet trolling community…the people that JHK et al quite rightly despise for their ridiculous identity politics and toxic ‘STFU’ attitude assumed when they hear or read something they don’t like.

            …you know, these guys!

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgKnKBdpnKc&t=27s

            So, maybe we need to find a non-triggering term for those in our communities who do good from a generous heart, without ‘virtue-signaling’ or seeking some form of recognition. However, it would be more just to call those currently labeled as ‘SJWs’ with a term more accurate to their reality. ANy ideas?

          • benr June 12, 2019 at 1:02 pm #

            @majella

            I believe we have actually found some common ground.
            The problem is language evolves or in some cases devolves.

        • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 2:24 am #

          Prove it.

          • Majella June 12, 2019 at 7:12 pm #

            Res ipsa loquitur, SSL.

            Anyway, benr seems to agree – is that proof enough for you?

  51. Tate June 11, 2019 at 2:04 am #

    “Billy Bunter is indeed one of the great comic characters of English literature… today his stories have something that his creator & early readers could never have foreseen: a thrill of the forbidden. The stories are very politically incorrect. Bunter is a myopic, morbidly obese schoolboy who is mocked for his greed, dishonesty, selfishness, stupidity & sloth.” — Tobias Langdon

    Sample from a Billy Bunter story:
    “At that moment Nugent opened the cupboard to lift out the cake. There was no cake to be lifted out… ‘Bunter, you podgy pirate!’ exclaimed Harry Wharton… ‘Where’s that cake?’… ‘How should I know? I never even looked into the cupboard, & I never saw any cake when I looked in, either—‘… ‘I-I-I say, you fellows, it wasn’t me,’ yelled Bunter. ‘I-I expect you put it somewhere else. It wasn’t there when I ate it — I mean, when I didn’t eat it…’ whoooop! whoooop! Yarooooh!”

    Since Bunter is stupid, he typically implicates himself in his denials. The British newspaper the Guardian supposedly exists on a far higher intellectual & literary plane than Charles Hamilton’s Billy Bunter stories. But its pages are full of unintentionally Bunteresque-like self-exposure. In May 2019 it ran an indignant story about Black criminals being deported to Jamaica. Its Bunteresque headline reads: ‘Things are so bad even the [Jamaican] police are scared’: deportees live in fear in Jamaica.’

    “The Guardian knows that its good-thinking readers will not draw any heretical conclusions from that self-accusing headline. Instead, they will feel anger & dismay that vulnerable Blacks are being deported from the magic dirt of Britain to the tragic dirt of Jamaica. However, I’m a bad thinker, so I’ll point out the obvious… it’s inevitable that Jamaican immigrants & their descendants will be over-represented as violent criminals in Britain.”

    Well, they’re not Polish, or Canadian, or Belgian, or Swiss, are they? They’re Jamaican after all, despite the inevitability of their being declared thoroughly British by the media.

    “Obviously, the Black criminals don’t like [their deportation]. They want to return to the still mostly White nation of Britain, where life is much less dangerous & there are lots of Whites to prey on. The Guardian carefully avoids the question of precisely what crimes the Black deportees have committed & instead tugs at its readers’ heart-strings with claims about their suffering: ”

    Many complain about having to go into hiding for fear of their lives. They’re dismayed that guns are carried openly on the streets of Kingston. Gunfire is constantly heard at all hours of the night from the gang battles. One criminal desperately misses his children in the UK. Of course, men from Black countries are notorious for fathering numerous out-of-wedlock children & then declining to provide for them. This is a pattern seen across Africa; It’s hard-wired, lads & laddies. See r/K Selection Theory.

    There is the notorious case of the Mary-Ann Leneghan rape, torture & murder at the hands of a Black gang led by one “Adrian Thomas, son of a feckless Black called Tony Thomas, who expressed his contrition at being a ‘fringe father’ to his string of illegitimate children.”

    “Fortunately, a small number [ed.: but unfortunate that the number is not larger] of Jamaican criminals have been deported to their own nation to live among their own kind. And the supposedly feminist & pro-LGBTQ+ Guardian wants those [rapey] criminals back in Britain to carry on where they left off… Billy Bunter was an innocent joke. The Guardian is a sick joke. And the joke gets even sicker when it comes to a politician whom the Guardian helped put into power back in 1997. While he was in office, Tony Blair appointed a Jewish immigration minister, Barbara Roche, to preside over unprecedented levels of immigration from the Third World.” Huge numbers of Blacks, Muslims & other non -Whites are still pouring in.

    Meanwhile, Blair, having become very wealthy after leaving office, is in the Guardian’s spotlight again. The newspaper is hosting an event, “The new populism: In conversation with Tony Blair.” He’s going to explain why White voters across the Western world are abandoning the old parties & turning to populist “extremists” LOL like Matteo Salvini & Nigel Farage. But the publicity for the event contained some Bunteresque self-accusation:

    “One ticket per person & tickets are strictly non-transferable. Government issued photo proof of ID must be shown & must match the name on the ticket. If you cannot provide this proof you will be refused entry…” yada yada ‘strict security arrangements security checks’ yada yada. “Attendees will be informed of the venue during the weekend prior to the event.”

    “Large numbers of people want to kill Tony Blair, you see, because he has been central to the mass slaughter & nation-wrecking of hugely expensive wars undertaken by neo-conservatives on behalf of Israel.”… Wait! What?… Yep, those people who seriously want to kill him, YOU SEE, are not the native British, much as they might have some justification, but the very same Muslim immigrants whom he & Barbara Roche, ironically, are responsible for bringing into Britain from their devastated Middle Eastern homelands.

    “IOW, it’s not Salvini or Farage who are extremists, but Blair & other shabbos goyim. Populism is a rational response to the behaviour of politicians like Blair… I hope that Tony Blair, Barbara Roche & other traitorous or goyophobic politicians will go on trial one day for their crimes against the White British.”

    Remember, it was Enoch Powell who said in his mischaracterized [by the British press corps, of course] “Rivers of Blood” speech that it was
    “[t]he supreme function of statesmanship… to provide against preventable evils.’ Tony Blair, clearly no statesman.

    “The White nation of Britain was once entertained by stories about the fictional schoolboy Billy Bunter, who stole cakes & made fatuous excuses. Nowadays Britain is appalled by stories about real schoolboys who hack people with machetes, stab them with knives, & spray them with acid. Meanwhile, fatuous excuses are made by politicians & police chiefs. As I’ve pointed out before, we live in a ‘Land of Lies.’ But the lies will not last for ever. Nor will the liars.”

    The foregoing excerpted & heavily plagiarized from a very recent article by Tobias Langdon. There’s much more at the link. — Tate

    • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 9:36 am #

      Interesting post. I am more and more convinced that if it were not for White people, Black people would have possibly exterminated themselves at this point or at least greatly reduced their overall numbers due to the inherently violent culture that they appear to typically embrace. We truly are subsidizing our own demise and these White neoconservatives and neoliberals have gotten away with their betrayal of us. The lies will definitely not last for ever. A day of Decision is at hand.

      • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 10:01 am #

        “Interesting post. I am more and more convinced that if it were not for White people, Black people would have possibly exterminated themselves at this point or at least greatly reduced their overall numbers due to the inherently violent culture that they appear to typically embrace. “

        That would be hilarious were it not so morally repulsive and sick.

        The African population had reached 25 million by 1850. It might have been twice that if 12 million of the youngest and fittest hadn’t been removed as slaves by those kind, benign white people with their gentle non-violent culture.

        Talking of violent cultures, have you ever tried getting through your day with leg irons? Give it a go. We could give you a matching necklace. You might start a new trend – don’t worry about the naysayers accusing you of cultural appropriation. You’re the good people, remember – your motives are pure. Tell them you just want to walk a mile in their shoes. Well, not shoes exactly…

        • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 10:23 am #

          Ah and I see you are prepared to lie your way through the entire slave trade story. Yes, stupid White people decided to participate in it. However, I suppose you are unprepared to discuss the fact that Black tribal chieftains willingly sold their people to Arab Muslim and European Jewish slave traders who then sold their “goods” to White Europeans and Americans. And what is morally repulsive and sick to me is your constant denial of facts and reality. Black culture to a large extent is nothing but gangland thug culture. But will you ever acknowledge this? Absolutely not. In fact YOU are the denier!

          • malthuss June 11, 2019 at 10:34 am #

            I wonder if s/he is paid to be here.

          • malthuss June 11, 2019 at 10:42 am #

            Black tribal chieftains willingly sold their people ..

            Id guess.. Black tribal chieftains willingly sold their enemies people to mid eastern and white slavers.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 11:25 am #

            SSL

            I could write your replies myself. I predicted that one too – almost said in my post what it would be.

            I didn’t deny any of those things, Angry Lady, if you change the ‘to a large extent’ to something more realistic in terms of the proportions. I just wanted to put you right about the inherent benign non-violence of people lacking in melanin.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 11:27 am #

            “I wonder if s/he is paid to be here.”

            You do, don’t you, malthuss, quite often? It’s kinda your answer to everything.

            Haven’t you got some theories to be reading up on, like people being abused in the basements of Pizza parlours that don’t have basements?

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 11:30 am #

            And you forget, SSL, that is was me who introduced you (to your whooping delight) to the book ‘White Cargo’ about the riff-raff swept out of the streets and bars of old England and shipped off to indentured slavery chez vous.

            Those low-melanin lowlifes can be bastards to their own as well. I expect you think that’s even worse. Aristos and peasants, eh, same culture.

          • Tate June 11, 2019 at 12:15 pm #

            ‘White Cargo’ wasn’t some deep dark secret.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 1:19 pm #

            I didn’t say it was, Tate, but SSL hadn’t heard of it and it was relevant to the conversation.

            Try not to behave like a 12–year-old.

          • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 3:10 pm #

            So is this your roundabout way Alba of recognizing that Blacks, Arabs and Jews were integral to the slave trade? Please point out where I said White people were perfect in all of this. And while I haven’t read or heard of White Cargo before I did know about White indentured servants and the way they were treated in the same period of time. And your right and I never suggested differently. White people like any other race can be nasty to one another. For example, the Black on Black violence in Chicago. But that doesn’t take away from the point that more often than not people of the same race and culture but from different classes can find more similarities and get along with one another.

          • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 3:12 pm #

            Yes malthuss you are correct. I should have said that at least I have read that Black chieftains would sell enemy tribes into slavery. But I thought I also heard that some chieftains actually sold there own people too.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 6:57 pm #

            SSL

            “So is this your roundabout way Alba of recognizing that Blacks, Arabs and Jews were integral to the slave trade?”

            I never said anything about Jews but you know perfectly well that I’m aware of Arabs and Africans participating in slavery.

            We’ve had this discussion before – everyone knows about the Barbary pirates – I told you they once lifted an entire Irish coastal village and left no-one.

            So give it a rest with the ’roundabout way’ nonsense, thanks.

            “But that doesn’t take away from the point that more often than not people of the same race and culture but from different classes can find more similarities and get along with one another.”

            In the light of (a) the example of poor whites being sent to America as indentured slaves, (b) Highland lairds kicking the crofters off their land to make way for sheep, (c) any situation you care to name where the treatment of the peasantry by their betters led to violent revolution and (d) any number of historic labour disputes where ordinary working men were basically murdered by the owner class for daring to demand humane treatment etc. etc. I find your ‘point’ a bit pointless.

          • Majella June 11, 2019 at 9:32 pm #

            Geez, SSL – weren’t you just the other day saying how valuable GA’s knowledge & experience would be after a collapse?

            Yet here you are, accusing her, virtually, of intellectual dishonesty…which is rich considering it’s coming from you,

  52. tucsonspur June 11, 2019 at 3:03 am #

    What I saw and heard tonight on the Laura Ingraham show is beyond astounding. The number of illegals being apprehended each month recently is going well over the six figure mark. Bad enough.

    Now I hear that in the last two weeks we had 500 or more Africans from the Congo being settled in San Antonio. A city official reached out for help, to Portland, Maine in one case, and Portland said no.

    According to Laura, more will be coming, and Dan Patrick, the Lt. Governor of Texas says the drug cartels are behind it. Really. Has to be more than that, a cartel much more insidious and treacherous than that. People From everywhere are being dumped in US cities anywhere. Often without notification.

    We know what’s happening in California with Gavin Gruesome. Health care for illegals, etc., as the state swims in homelessness, drowns in high taxes, and floats in its own cesspool.

    Patrick Henry:

    Speaking of George III, he stated that, “Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third — .” At that point he was interrupted by cries of “Treason!” from delegates who easily recognized the reference to assassinated leaders. Henry paused briefly, then calmly finished his sentence: “…may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.”

    As it looks now, it will have to be blood to stop this madness. It’s going to far. Only Red Blood and White Heat will save us now.

    Let the Left say the words of Patrick Henry, and let us make more than the most of it.

    • FincaInTheMountains June 11, 2019 at 6:19 am #

      Dems by continuing to deny Trump the money necessary to harden US border with Mexico, will essentially have to admit that either they are really sabotaging the US government, or that they are on the pay of a drug cartels, bringing heroin and illegals into the US through the unprotected border with Mexico.

      But the most interesting thing is that Trump went all in and was going to use the money of the drug cartel El Chapo for building the wall, and El Chapo is rumored to be Hillary Clinton’s front man for opium-running operation – that is, Bastinda’s personal money.

      Trump was also going to use the money allocated to building a high-speed railway in California, from the 12th district of which the representative is Nancy Pelosi. This money was allocated to California a few years ago, but was never used for its intended purpose, and now Trump is demanding their return.

      https://finance.yahoo.com/video/trump-demands-california-return-high-221006512.html

      • BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 9:52 am #

        No way to prove it, but the cartels I believe are so powerful that they do have influence in the highest reaches of our govt.

        Brh

        • FincaInTheMountains June 11, 2019 at 10:07 am #

          I wouldn’t be surprised if John Durham will find a way.

          They got sloppy and drunk on seemingly complete impunity, they probably left a track a mile wide.

        • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 10:26 am #

          No way to prove it, but the cartels I believe are so powerful that they do have influence in the highest reaches of our govt.

          I’d be absolutely sure of that! I have no doubt whatsoever that the cartels work hand in hand with the DEA and law enforcement on both sides of the border. Busts that get made are almost certainly mutually agreed upon ahead of time and mostly for show, with renegades to the system getting fingered and shut down preemptively. Nothing as big as the drug trade is without rampant corruption on both sides of the fence. Same goes for the refugee flow as well. I guarantee you!

          • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 10:29 am #

            Makes sense to me.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 1:13 pm #

          Cartels? Don’t get it wrong – are they paying someone to do this or is someone paying THEM to do it. The Latter. Now the question becomes WHO.

          • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 3:04 pm #

            Good points! I think we both know who.

    • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 9:43 am #

      There is no way to vote ourselves out of this. We have tried everything and seemingly our desires and lives mean nothing to those in power. The time of peace is passing away and days of darkness are coming. The hordes will continue their trespass until they are shown that this land is sacred to us. And we will have to remember the sacrifice that our ancestors made to bring us here and give us this inheritance.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 1:14 pm #

        Word as in Logos as in Truth.

  53. KL Cooke June 11, 2019 at 3:53 am #

    Good piece, Jim.

  54. Pucker June 11, 2019 at 4:02 am #

    What do you think about the storybook romance of Beauty and Heavy?

    “She left her first pimp, the one who brought her. He didn’t treat her right, beat her badly, and started cheating on her. Over the following years she kept falling in love and kept being disappointed. All of her boyfriends did drugs, and all, like her, were homeless. They all also pimped her and some beat her, but that didn’t stop her; she kept hoping and dreaming that eventually one would work out. Beauty wanted nothing more than to be in love. She wanted her version of the white picket fence, the only version she really knew, the only version that she felt was available to her. “Heavy and I are tight. He used to be just my friend, and now it’s all intimate and he wants to get married. That shit is tempting. I mean, he got disability. I don’t know if I should marry Heavy. I mean, he has been good to me. He gave me my own cell phone, he took me to Coney Island; none of my men ever took me to Coney Island. But marriage is a huge step. That is serious shit, taking a name. Maybe we should enter a domestic partnership first. I mean, every girl wants to live in a house with a decent man and have kids.” It didn’t matter that the house was a homeless shelter or under a bridge. What mattered was that they were together. “My friends Livy and Will are in a shelter at 125th . . . . They have a tarp space under the Bruckner they willing to share. They invited me to join, but I don’t want to go disrupting their situation. Livy got it good, because Will is an upright man; he ain’t pimping her. That nigger gets up and hustles.” She kept getting arrested, and when she did, she ended up spending months in Rikers. She quickly took to it, falling into the structure it provided and taking pride in the work they gave her, and then falling in love with another inmate.“

    Chris Arnade
    Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

  55. Pucker June 11, 2019 at 4:19 am #

    Dystopia

    “Inside the Bakersfield McDonald’s, the fear, the trauma, and the lack of education are all present—as are the drugs. But in the context of McDonald’s, the fear isn’t palpable, expressed instead as a resignation to being on the outside. In the McDonald’s, there is a battle over the ice and soda machine. There are always people in McDonald’s who come in, maybe with an old cup, or grab a cup from the garbage, and fill it up for free. Most McDonald’s employees ignore it as the cost of doing business. Now with the heat spiking higher, with this McDonald’s being a social services clinic and a restaurant, there is an open battle between the shift manager and the people trying to get free ice and soda. It also seems to be a particular concern of the afternoon manager. There is a switch behind the counter that turns the soda fountains on and off, and the afternoon manager is quick to use it, frustrating the various people who run in, fill up a container, and then run out. As the day goes on, the game gets more involved, with people trying different strategies, different methods of deception, and the manager becoming more frustrated. Some people come in and claim they’ve always been there; others use it in stealth and sit quietly until a moment opens up. Others use speed. Others are blunter. One guy, shirtless and riding a stripped-down ten-speed, waits outside until he sees the machine turned on for a large family, then runs quickly inside with a massive dirty container that looks as though it is from a construction site and starts filling it, the ice loudly hitting the metal bottom. The manager comes running out from the back, waving his hand, threatening to call the police. The shirtless man just looks at him, finishes filling up the container, a process that takes about five minutes, and then walks out. While the game goes on, families sit and chat, paying no mind to any of it. At another table a man sits quietly staring at a newspaper, sipping his soda. He is here pretty much every day, all day. He comes early, buys a soda or coffee, grabs a paper from another table, or from the garbage, and sits with it opened in front of him. We exchange glances at the battle for ice. Sometimes we both start laughing at the same time when someone pulls off a particularly audacious move that angers the manager, and eventually we start talking. In response to my question about whether he’s homeless, he says, “You could say that. I have the auto shop I work in. I also sleep in it at night, after it is closed up. So I guess so.”

    Chris Arnade
    Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

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  56. Pucker June 11, 2019 at 5:29 am #

    Prostitute drug addict with 8 kids…

    “While we talk, the controlled chaos of the McDonald’s swirls around us. The fight over the ice machine continues. Black Jesus throws his hand up every ten minutes in his salute. The woman with the swept-back gray hair continues to stare at her “Joy to the World” Christmas card. Outside, a cluster of homeless—most of whom I now recognize—pester each person entering for money. When she is composed again, I ask her another question, even though I know the answer: “Why so many kids?” “I didn’t mean to have so many, but sometimes I get pregnant.” “People gonna read that and think you need to stop having babies,” I tell her. “Them people need to walk a mile in my shoes. I got nothing but my family. That is all I got. That and my habit.”

    Chris Arnade
    Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

    • Majella June 11, 2019 at 9:40 pm #

      Hey, Pucker

      Thanks for that. I just bought it…

  57. FincaInTheMountains June 11, 2019 at 6:42 am #

    PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: David Irving, without any doubt the best historian of the European part of World War II.

    So, PCR is calling on us to revise the moral lessons of the WWII.

    How interesting!

    Paul Craig Roberts is a pretty smart man – after all he was one of the main architects of “Reaganomics” policy – it is hard to consider him to be just a useful idiot for the Fourth Reich – got to be their paid shill!

    • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 10:57 am #

      PCR’s pretty damn smart, but more than that, he’s pretty damn observant and independent enough to trust his instincts and resist being influenced by the crowd. Pretty damn rare attributes.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 1:19 pm #

      Yes, part of the old guard that has been shouldered aside. A White Intellectual who has said, Non Serviam.

      I don’t agree with his economics of course. Nazi Economics were far superior and actually worked. That’s why Germany had to be destroyed before other countries followed and threw out the International Bankers too.

  58. wwg1wga June 11, 2019 at 8:56 am #

    You KNOW where you’re going!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnU6Sx9mgEU&list=PLl55Zh3U2VW7YD-JKHT0vYIk1ZCrK7c4-&index=8

    #oathkeepers

    Q.

    • Majella June 11, 2019 at 9:42 pm #

      Brilliant.

  59. kimmasad01 June 11, 2019 at 9:01 am #

    With all that you mention here Mr. Kunstler, perhaps the most damaging to the American psyche and her glory is the exposure of all religions as a major fraud, a money racket and a centuries-long safe haven/playground for secret sexual deviancy and other deviant, psychopathic criminal activity.

    • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 9:50 am #

      In some sense yes. But, as if deviant, psychopathic, criminal behavior hasn’t become mainstream and acceptable for the most part in society today. Plus there has always been deviants and psychopaths no matter what form of society or organization is considered. It’s called human nature. Human nature is basically wretched and animalistic without an experience of redemption. Thus the false notion that our society can exist without a religious system. Sure it can, but the religious system will be replaced by something else. So for instance, today since we have rejected traditional religion altogether, the new religion of our society is “Progressivism” and Political Correctness. And you better adhere to it or you will face serious consequences. And if they get away with it the consequences will become most severe.

      • Majella June 11, 2019 at 9:51 pm #

        “But, as if deviant, psychopathic, criminal behavior hasn’t become mainstream and acceptable for the most part in society today”

        We still live a society of laws, SSL. What is legally ‘deviant’ or criminal is still clearly defined (though enforcement is another matter).

        It just happens that many standard natural human behaviors which were once considered legally ‘deviant’ are no longer so considered – like homosexuality, for example.

        Religiously-driven snowflakes like you apparently don’t accept these changes in societal values and cannot help but see it as a ‘loss’. Too bad.

    • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 10:17 am #

      Sexual deviancy seems to be a common theme throughout our culture now, regardless of “religion.” But of course we all know that our real religion these days is worship of the triumvirate god of money, power, and social status, (all three are usually intertwined into one) so I guess that explains everything, as money, power, and social status are the top three aphrodisiacs out there.

      • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 10:28 am #

        I agree with you and would add one additional item which I know detracts from your very relevant trinity of evil. And that is selfishness. Selfishness could be wrapped up into money, power, and social status. As you say they are intertwined. But the extreme selfishness today and unhinged individualism seems to stand out as an important theme in today’s self indulgent religion of materialism.

        • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 10:45 am #

          Yeah, selfishness – personal exaltation – is really at the core of it all, isn’t it? Strictly prohibited by ALL the major religions as well, other than the one we actually worship, that is.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 1:50 pm #

          And that selfishness leads to sexual deviancy in a variety of ways, including of course passively – that is to say, if a person is abused as a child. Not his or her fault, but the damage is real and they will pass it on in turn unless they are resilient and virtuous enough to refrain and thus stop the wheel of karma.

  60. BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 9:03 am #

    Driving home this morning, BBC tuned in on the radio (a trustworthy source of information, a little biased, yes, but believable) At 3:05 am, in their ‘Newsmax’ segment, presenter said over 100,000 migrants crossing the US — Mexico border each month, not only from C America, but from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East as well.

    100,000!

    Brh

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    • malthuss June 11, 2019 at 10:38 am #

      why?
      EBT?
      Sec8?
      why USA?

  61. BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 9:18 am #

    Apparently, these human waves are unstoppable, and like Visigoths engulfing Rome in the 6th century, nothing can be done.

    Not to be provocative, but why not funnel these migrants up into California? Big Pols like Pelosi and Newsom have announced many times in public all are welcome, the entire 3rd world is welcome to live in the State of California, ‘human bundles of joy’ Pelosi calls them. It seems that would be an answer instead of releasing hordes of illegal aliens into the rest of the US, some of whom have to be criminals, others carrying infectious diseases.

    Brh

    • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 10:01 am #

      Something can definitely be done about it. But that’s just it. Those in power don’t want anything done about it. And the rest of the country is attempting to live lives, often disconnected from what is going on in the larger society not realizing that society as we know it has basically reached the end of the road. Of course, there are a growing number of people waking up to this. We can’t shy away from being provocative. After all, its being quiet and passive that got us to this cliff edge of extinction. Traitors are traitors. When we come back into power being a traitor will actually mean something. We will be unable to tolerate the presence of traitors among us. Unlike in today’s cowardly and disgustingly spiritless culture.

      • Tate June 11, 2019 at 11:46 am #

        And all Trump does is tweet. tweet. tweet. He’s the President! for crying out loud. He could stop it, if he was really what he claims to be, but his son-in-law won’t allow him to really do anything.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 1:51 pm #

          Thus he is President Donald J Kushner and his daughter is his mommy.

        • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 3:20 pm #

          I know! I can’t even describe how disappointing it has been to see him fold so completely. I have to admit that I never expected it.

    • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 10:11 am #

      Not to be provocative, but why not funnel these migrants up into California?

      Honestly, best idea I’ve heard yet. Although, there’s very little to stop them from spreading to the wind after that.

      • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 10:18 am #

        We could wall off California? Or surround the entire state with an army.

        • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 10:42 am #

          Just another border to defend. We could chip and track the little bastards, but then that would just start a whole de-chipping industry to get around it. In the end, it’s really tough to keep people out if they really, really want to be here. Especially when the so-called “authorities” are working both sides of the fence.

          • K-Dog June 11, 2019 at 11:37 am #

            Mud hut, no food, no money, no electricity, no running water and no rule of law.

            Or cleaning toilets 10 hours a day at eight an hour.

            In your place I’m sure people would kill each other (if they were not already dead) for a cool sip of ice water. You really do know how determined people can be!

          • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 1:53 pm #

            Start making examples of some of them. The rest would get the message. But it is not to be. America is over I’m afraid, barring a miracle.

          • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 3:30 pm #

            I have a hard time believing all of the migrants come from mud huts. How do they get the thousands of dollars needed to pay off the traffickers? I mean I know they get money from relatives already here but jeeze peeze. It’s hard to believe that they are all completely destitute. I am more than certain that some of them are and were stuffed in trunks, etc. Plenty of migrants are hurt and killed in this process too. Where is the huge concern about that? If we had that big beautiful Wall that would keep most out. And yes, if you trespass a national border there maybe should be consequences. It is true as Janos says. I know it sounds harsh and it is. Life is harsh. But a few examples would stop thousands no doubt. And between a Wall and Consequences I think we could get it mostly under control IMHO.

          • Majella June 11, 2019 at 9:54 pm #

            Yes, Scratch, and it would be the ever-alert entrepreneurial American who’d cash in on it.

    • JohnAZ June 11, 2019 at 11:38 am #

      It took the barbarians 200 years to finally sack Rome. There was very little left of classical Rome by then.

      Rome’s demise was caused by rotten politics, period. Just like this country. Most of their northern army was comprised of barbarians, Rome’s equivalent of appeasement. Appeasement, control by cowards.

      I believe the root cause of both situations, Rome and the US is a decline in self identity and self pride. Half of the US population and body politic want the USA destroyed. And they do not have a clue what to replace it with.

      • BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 11:51 am #

        Good point on your last sentence the JAZ.

        If this place goes down who knows what would replace it.

        Its a good bet it’d be worse than what we have now.

        Brh

      • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 1:57 pm #

        And yet you deny White Nationalism and set up Idols to take its place – as if Culture can replace Race. But in fact, the former is the expression of the latter by and large. Pride? Did you people say anything when MLK was put above the Presidents? Or even now as Blacks are put above Whites? Or now when Conservatives fall over themselves to praise Gays?

        Once money becomes the be all and end all, the Culture is over. Healthy Pride and Borders get in the way of Business you see.

      • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 3:32 pm #

        It’s true John. You are going to eventually have to accept that we are either a White country or not. America isn’t just an economic and cultural idea. And to the extent that it is it will disappear in due time.

      • Slugoon June 11, 2019 at 8:38 pm #

        “…a decline in self identity and self pride. Half of the US population and body politic want the USA destroyed.”

        An astute observation, JohnAZ. I think this is reflected in the Remain/Leave split over here. I don’t believe either ‘side’ wants to destroy the UK, and both are largely acting in good faith, but we are presented with two deeply entrenched, drastically different and mutually exclusive world views. Throw in the utter obsession with race, gender and multiculturalism and you realise that a common identity is not common at all.

        I’m possibly too old for conscription but I often wonder, if I was called up to serve Queen & Country, who would I be fighting for? The charlatans in Westminster? A bunch of preaching parasitic Royals? The gobshites wearing those stupid blue EU hats? Siobhan Prigent? Politely declining, thanks.

        • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 9:56 am #

          I think that makes you a conscientious objector, Slugoon.

          It’s the Land Army for you, then. Dig for Britain!

          Calling Her Maj a gobshite, though – you could be banged up the Tower of London for that 🙂 .

          https://southendnewsnetwork.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/FullSizeRender-6.jpg

          • Slugoon June 12, 2019 at 11:34 am #

            Man alive! She even borrowed one of Angela’s power suits.

            They’re sure going to miss those bumper CAP subsidy payments.

          • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 1:15 pm #

            She’s not wearing black trousers!

            And we’re going to miss having a healthy, thriving farming sector.

            But I agree with you about CAP for agribusiness and agri-royalty 🙂 . I’m happy to support our ‘real farmers’ against the hormone-boosted, chlorinated chicken brigade, though.

  62. GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 10:14 am #

    A few good, spirited public hangings is what you need, SSL. The spiritual folks used to love those.

    • BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 10:22 am #

      Who would get hung?

      • FincaInTheMountains June 11, 2019 at 10:43 am #

        Probably should follow the example of English King Henry the VIII, who hung quite a number of Cistercian monks high and short for provoking the civil war in English society – the War of the Roses.

        By the way, the monks were working under the direction of continental Valois dynasty – don’t you find that amazing?

        It is not going to be hard to figure out who are the analogue of Cistercian Order is in the modern Anglo-Saxon world on both sides of Atlantic.

      • malthuss June 11, 2019 at 10:55 am #

        You asked about celebrities. singers.
        I knew an old Jewish man who had dated Janis Joplin [she was an unhappy gal] and been a photographer to famous musicians.

        He said ‘in the 60s the photographers of bands did photojournalism, David Garr and others were the guys.
        Then ‘closet fag’ [his term] Jann Wenner hired Annie Lebowitz
        [one Jew helps another] and it became vogue to have singers in Vogue Magazine type photos.

        He said Jann would have a woman put Jann in handcuffs in the closet.

        ..Then Jann came out of the closet.

        • BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 11:04 am #

          Interesting, Malthus.

          Say what you want about Wenner, Rolling Stone lasted 50 years — a pretty good run by any account — and was pretty influential in its day.

          Brh

          • malthuss June 11, 2019 at 2:20 pm #

            I also have spoken to folks who knew Arthur Lee…he was weird…flushed his drugs in the toilet and then hoped to find them in the sewer..or something like that.
            Keith emerson set a friend of mines mattress on fire, while in bed w a hooker..killed himself due to his carpal syndrome and inability to play at top form.

            Bobby Womack, Billy Preston.Richard manuel…. Yikes.

          • malthuss June 11, 2019 at 2:21 pm #

            rolling stone magazine argues
            ‘rs’ has been almost single-minded in its dedication to the eradication of the white race of human beings, and as their more infamous, deliberate hoaxes have shown, they’ll stop at nothing to achieve their aims.
            that is to say, they’re pretty much like the rest of the ‘controlled media’–only more so. the less attention we give them the better. except perhaps to call them out now and then as mr kersey does here.

            rolling stone magazine argues rebuilding of notre dame cathedral shouldn’t reflect france’s white/catholic history, but its multicultural (muslim) future

      • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 11:35 am #

        brh

        “Who would get hung?’

        A tribunal led by SSL and Janos would decide. I was just trying to be helpful.

        • FincaInTheMountains June 11, 2019 at 11:51 am #

          Americans already have a tribunal. It’s called John Durham prosecutorial office – I heard it’s pretty darn big.

          • Majella June 11, 2019 at 9:59 pm #

            We’ll see.

        • Majella June 11, 2019 at 9:59 pm #

          Yep – a concern I’ve expressed previously…

        • Tate June 12, 2019 at 8:35 pm #

          Hanged, not hung.

          Only men are hung, both men & women are hanged.

          They once hanged a sheep for witchcraft.

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 9:24 am #

            I was being polite and not pointing out the (common) error.

            In Hartlepool they reputedly hanged a monkey as a French spy during the Napoleonic wars.

    • K-Dog June 11, 2019 at 11:40 am #

      I think she needs to go into the kitchen next time she is out on the town and has a great meal. Walk right into the kitchen and say to everyone there; ‘Thank you very much wherever the fuck you are from.

      • Tate June 11, 2019 at 11:52 am #

        Then they could thank her for paying the taxes to support their welfare scams. Mutual thanks all around.

        • K-Dog June 11, 2019 at 11:57 am #

          Do welfare scammers still drive Cadillacs or have they gone Japanese?

          • 450.org June 11, 2019 at 12:32 pm #

            They drive Teslas now. They’re very concerned with the environment and climate change.

        • auburn June 11, 2019 at 1:30 pm #

          If immigrants are scamming welfare, they wouldn’t be working in the kitchen. If they are working in the kitchen, then they are paying taxes. In whole numbers (not percentages), there are more whites on welfare than immigrants. For specific welfare programs, such as cash assistance and housing, native citizen households are using more of these benefits than immigrant households.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 2:00 pm #

            No, they do both. They’re impressive like that – at least the Hispanics are. Way above the Blacks as well as the Whites I’m afraid.

          • malthuss June 11, 2019 at 2:15 pm #

            JS–do not be afraid and do not praise the so called Latins.

          • Tate June 11, 2019 at 2:46 pm #

            “In whole numbers (not percentages), there are more whites on welfare than immigrants.”

            Hah! You think we’re innumerate? Duh, yeah, it’s because at the moment at least Whites are still the majority. But what happens when that ceases to be? Someday the money runs out, slick.

          • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 3:38 pm #

            Duh! Whites are still the majority in the US so yeah they are the majority of welfare recipients. I suppose that will be until Whites are no longer the majority. Wow that is math I can do too!

          • benr June 11, 2019 at 4:34 pm #

            Auburn do you believe what you have posted and who told you this?

            If they are here illegally then how are they paying taxes they DON’T have a Social Security number! If the employer is withholding taxes it is not going anywhere but to the employer. Are they using the real id system if so then they are not illegal!
            If they do have a Social security number then they stole it from someone else which causes someone else a whole lot of pain! My brother in law had that happen to him and it left him with a nasty tax mess and identity problem. He actually wound up homeless and penniless as a result he was already on the margins and lived his last years living in a van in Sylmar working at a park cleaning up bathrooms. He never got it cleared up all the way and no one would rent to him. He actually died in his van at the ripe old age of 55. I firmly believe that was the final straw that sent him over the edge.

            If they are paid cash under the table they are still not paying taxes.

            They do how ever get wic and welfare which you don’t need a social security card for!
            They will even take the very easily fraudulently received Matrícula Consular card which is used to commit all sorts of fraud! There is not real checking or verifying to see if you are who you say you are and some of these people have dozens of them.

            Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime!

      • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 3:36 pm #

        LOL now that made me smile.

  63. SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 10:17 am #

    One reason the invasion is allowed to continue is that there is too much money to be made on both sides of the border. A small example is provided below. And also another reason why Mammon worship must be totally eradicated once and for all.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/study-smugglers-earned-as-much-as-2-3-billion-helping-migrants-cross-border-in-2017/

    • malthuss June 11, 2019 at 2:10 pm #

      IT IS NOT ABOUT MONEY, that is the #1 goal is to destroy nations and the White race.
      then depopulation.

      • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 3:41 pm #

        Not even a little about money? I do believe that they do want to destroy the White race and nations and then depopulate the entire planet like you say. Maybe they have reached the point where they have so much that money isn’t all that matters anymore though.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 6:18 pm #

        The two viewpoints are easily rectified or brought into congruence. For the Republican types it’s about money. For the Chamber of Commerce – same thing but getting more customers as opposed to cheap labor. For the Democrats, it’s about votes and power. But above both are the people who started the whole thing. They don’t need the money and they already had the power. For them it’s about ending Western Civilization and the White Race.

        • Majella June 11, 2019 at 10:03 pm #

          “…ending Western Civilisation & the White Race.” What’s ‘their’ pay-off from such a drastic outcome?

          • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 2:32 am #

            Their payoff is White extinction. Its not drastic to them. They have wanted this all along and they will move on to new hosts once we are gone. At least that is what they think.

          • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 6:40 am #

            The White Race is the last stumbling block in the way of the Globalists’ complete domination. In that sense, it’s still about money and power (there’s no such thing as “enough”), but that comes later.

          • malthuss June 12, 2019 at 10:34 am #

            GG
            Georgia Guidestones

            CFR openly stated population goals.

            If you read JHK–resource wars, That means people, mouths.
            less mouths to feed.

          • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 10:48 am #

            The Guidestones would have ideally called for humans choosing to voluntarily(/i) limit our numbers before we entered into extreme overshoot, which we have obviously not done. Now it’s going to have to go down the hard way. It won’t be pleasant.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 12, 2019 at 1:26 pm #

            Revenge. “Amalek” must be wiped out according to the Rabbis. No loss since “Esau” isn’t human anyway (only the Jews are). And simultaneously a gifted people who stand in the way of their global dominance stand in the way no longer.

            Crazy? Uh huh. Only a few fanatics believe it? Jared Kushner does and his sect has bridged the gap between ghetto and corporate boardroom. And he’s far from the only one. Remember Susan Sontag’s “Whites are the cancer of humanity”?

            And of course their allies, the Mason, are on board too. These White Traitors have always been taught to disown their brothers for the sake of power. Ditto the Satanists – and really anyone who wants wealth and power before all else.

          • Tate June 12, 2019 at 9:17 pm #

            The Christian Zionists are their willing dupes…

            but dangerous ones as they seek to immanentize the Eschaton.

        • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 6:37 am #

          The two viewpoints are easily rectified or brought into congruence.

          Winner winner, chicken dinner!

  64. JohnAZ June 11, 2019 at 11:30 am #

    Kimme

    Religion is not the problem, people are. Religion gives us the definition of “ good”, in a world where the prevailing currents are evil.
    God gave human beings to power of choice, freedom from instinct control, and our reaction for a few thousand years has been atrocious.

    Religion is another excuse for mankind to practice self-destruction. The credo presented by religion has nothing to do with it.

    Christ presented us with a credo for the formation of his one church. Mankind has created many religions out of one to raise hell.

    Do not blame religion, blame human kind. Man without a morality base is no more than an animal.

    • malthuss June 11, 2019 at 2:14 pm #

      people are subjects of their own nature.

  65. 450.org June 11, 2019 at 11:32 am #

    More fracking & plastics production and building the wall will not mitigate the effects of climate change.

    The most important topic and concern right now, immediately, is addressing the root of the issue and the root is growth and the fact our way of life is predicated on it.

    Climate Change Red Lines Closer Than Expected, Says New Report

    According to the policy paper, “Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach” by the Australia-based Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, the risks of climate change are actually much worse than imagined. The paper says that the current climate crisis is “much larger and more complex than any humans have ever dealt with before.”

    The report said the existential risk to civilization, which poses permanent large negative consequences to humanity, may never be undone. It can either annihilate intelligent life or permanently curtail its potential. “An existential threat may also exist for many peoples and regions at a significantly lower level of warming,” it said.

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    • JohnAZ June 11, 2019 at 11:43 am #

      I believe it.

      The problem is people will not change. If the red lines are that close, it is too late.

      Rather than trying to change the world, someone better start figuring out how to adjust to it.

      So political, bitch, bitch, bitch and no action.

    • K-Dog June 11, 2019 at 11:50 am #

      So the mainstream is catching up with me.

      Why read the report (I have), when you can watch the video!

      Go to my web page and on the right side below the globe and the Extinction Rebellion banner click on the:

      The Australian Situation

      The link takes you to the video.

      You get to my web page by clicking on my name. My name in green, strait across from the chow.

      or click here:

      http://chasingthesquirrel.com/

      • K-Dog June 11, 2019 at 11:56 am #

        The video is not very long. But the report itself is not a hard read either and is only ten pages long. Truth often being succinct.

      • Tate June 11, 2019 at 11:57 am #

        Your website is kinda creepy. If you go there lads & laddies, you will find your location spotted on his globe, & as the globe turns, you realize you are the only one there in the entire world!

        • K-Dog June 11, 2019 at 12:00 pm #

          I’m sure they appreciate your warning.

        • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 12:20 pm #

          I thought it was quite cool seeing Edinburgh flashing up there as if it mattered, in the scheme of things, for a moment.

          And someone else in Europe was on one time, along with someone in the mid-West.

          I didn’t think ‘creepy’ – I thought ‘solidarity’. I guess it’s a mindset.

          • K-Dog June 11, 2019 at 12:48 pm #

            Thank you GA. If you had something to hide seeing Edinburgh flashing with a little yellow dot might be creepy but, you being no creep see it for what it is.

            Hello Edinburgh!

            Last night was very cool. I saw a dot flashing way up north and I had to click on the ‘Chew Toy’ button to see what was up there. If I do that the city prints at the bottom of the screen for that page if the visitor is not hiding their junk.

            Hello Murmansk!

            For the ultra paranoids out there. All I’m doing is using public info the like any website could. The cool part is it actually is ‘my’ globe and the info is not going anywhere else like it would be everywhere else.

            And as far as people having info like where on earth you are, (oooh scary), people who really matter and who you should worry abut; it is game over. They already have your data.

          • GreenAlba June 11, 2019 at 12:56 pm #

            You’re welcome K-Dog. I think it would be cool to have such a globe on CFN!

          • BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 1:35 pm #

            Murmansk,

            That might have been Finca.

            Brh

          • BackRowHeckler June 12, 2019 at 12:02 am #

            I like that flashing dot.

            You put a lot of work into that site of yours, KDog, that’s obvious.

            Its coming along nicely, you should be proud of it.

            brh

        • Majella June 11, 2019 at 10:07 pm #

          Yes…WEIRD indeed.

      • BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 12:19 pm #

        Speaking of Australia, lot of mutton and lamb chops showing up suddenly in local grocery stores, packages stamped ‘Product of Australia’. I mean cases of it, and its cheap.

        Brh

        • 450.org June 11, 2019 at 12:30 pm #

          Be careful, Australia is experiencing an epidemic of Mad Lamb Disease right now, so these mutton & lamb chops could be the result of unloading tainted lamb on unsuspecting American deplorable lambs. No doubt Trump’s FDA czar would let it right through so long as Australia let Fuckface von Clownstick build Trump casinos & golf courses in Sydney & Melbourne.

          • BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 2:05 pm #

            Oh yeah, everything is about Trump.

            Trump lives in your head, apparently..

            Brh

          • Majella June 11, 2019 at 10:09 pm #

            “Fuckface von Clownstick” – Jon Stewart, a Legend…

  66. wwg1wga June 11, 2019 at 11:56 am #

    There’s a lot of badness in the world Danny!
    http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Theres%20a%20lot%20of%20badness%20in%20the%20world.pdf

    #oathkeepers

    Q.

    • malthuss June 12, 2019 at 10:36 am #

      Dan, the NYC Jewish poster?

      • Tate June 12, 2019 at 9:28 pm #

        Dannyboy, I remember him. No, probably Danny from the Shining.

  67. meargen June 11, 2019 at 12:33 pm #

    In the 1920’s, Americans were starting to see themselves as a new force, and Thornton WIlder wrote a novel called The Woman of Andros, where he showed the Greek gods decide to abandon Europe and put all their hopes of higher civilization in America.

    The American optimism was pretty high at this point, as well as American literature. You had Wilder, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Lewis, Wharton, etc., and now, where are we in the arts? Well, where is anyone in the arts? They seem to have died about thirty years ago, and in this part we seem to resemble the Hellenistic period, where Greek culture was spread but also diluted, and the quarreling democracies replaced with king-like states eventually gobbled up by Rome.

    A lot of the destruction…the physical destruction…wasn’t caused by barbarians but the Romans, especially Justinian and Theodorus, when they attempted to bring Italy back into the (eastern) empire instead of leaving well enough alone. The war was very destructive and wrecked any kind of stable system in Italy.
    Some older Romans actually preferred the barbarians at this point.

    Think of comparing a bunch of Muslims and Africans littering and degrading Paris to the civilized ‘allies’ fire bombing Dresden.

    Does anyone even know of Wilder anymore? Except for perhaps Our Town. He actually was quite learned and yet it seems our American culture…one we’d built up up to the 1900’s (as JHK noted in Home From Nowhere) outwardly in the City Beautiful movement, seems to have melted into corporate towers, movies and TV by the fifties.

    I disagree with denouncing the fifties. They were a good time intellectually, as more people went to college, book reading and clubs rose, and there was a stronger appreciation and spreading of high culture…much of it arrested by the 60’s chaos, although I think the 50’s-60’s were a strong period of confidence, affluence, and culture. It was the 70’s when the real slump hit with a BOOM!

    I grew up in the fifties, and although as a child, I recall it as stable and ordered…remember I was in a small town in Missouri. My family life seemed to copy the nation. A happy, united fifties, then in the 60’s my parents divorced and things cracked up, there was real dysfunction in the 70’s, and in the 80’s we kind of put ourselves back together.

    As for the ‘repression’ then. B.S. It was a very free society. McCarthy? He was extreme, but there were a number of communist agents in America, as it came out when the KGB files were opened after the USSR collapsed. Sorry if some screenwriters in Hollywood suffered, but most of them were Stalinists in the thirties, happy to support Uncle Joe killing millions. As Paul Johnson observed, much of the McCarthy period was an example of what the communists did (and do) to enemies when they get into power.

    The film Hail Caesar! has a wonderful satiric look at 50’s Hollywood, especially showing a bunch pf prissy screenwriters who kidnap a star and call themselves ‘The Future, one looking very Bauhaus.

    • K-Dog June 11, 2019 at 12:59 pm #

      Is this AI?

    • BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 1:30 pm #

      Thats correct Meargen.

      McCarthys shenanigans led to a few communists sent to jail for a short time, and a few careers spoiled.

      Soviet repression and show trials — to which many of these Hollywood leftists owed their allegiance — led to the extermination of 30 million human beings. Its hardly comparable.

      Brh

    • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 3:01 pm #

      Hail Ceasar! was pretty decent. Who would have ever guessed that comedy would be Clooney’s strongest suit? Pitt’s pretty good at it too on occasion (see Snatch).

    • Tate June 11, 2019 at 3:02 pm #

      Ole Scratch will deny it but the 50s were the best of times in America. And the “hysteria” (as he calls it) was as you say later found to be completely justified. If Henry Wallace hadn’t been replaced by Harry Truman on the Demo ticket, then Harry Dexter White, a later confirmed Bolshevik, & a small clique of others, would have had virtual control of the government at the highest levels when Wallace became President after the death of Roosevelt. We came within a few months of that happening.

      • Tate June 11, 2019 at 3:15 pm #

        Omigod! Three Harrys. Co-inkidink? I think not.

      • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 3:28 pm #

        Looks like you’ve been drinking the Kool Aid there, Tate. Henry Wallace was our last genuine alternative to our current mess. The Dems – already the war part even way back then – were scared shitless of him. Rightfully so. He would have upset their whole MICC alliance apple cart, at least until they murdered him as well. He might well have taken a bullet then so Kennedy didn’t have to later. We’ll never know. Instead, we got the weasel Truman, a spineless little cocksucker who was nothing more than a puppet for the MICC. And the rest, as they say, is history…

      • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 6:28 pm #

        If you want to sling mud at Harry Dexter Wright, here’s some genuine muck worth slinging:

        He was the senior American official at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference that established the postwar economic order. He dominated the conference and imposed his vision of post-war financial institutions over the objections of John Maynard Keynes, the British representative. At Bretton Woods, White was a major architect of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White

        Definitely no communist/socialist agenda here. Quite the opposite.

      • Tate June 11, 2019 at 6:39 pm #

        Haha. I was just about to reply. Yes, Harry Dexter White was a totally dominating personality according to all accounts. But Henry Wallace would have stood up to him. Right. He was of the Tribe. Was he a Bolshevik first & a Jew second or a Jew first & a Bolshevik second? Need we ask?

        • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 6:34 am #

          Yes. The pecking order is firmly established in the minds of the true believers from birth. White served them well.

  68. 450.org June 11, 2019 at 12:40 pm #

    “Who would get hung?”

    If We get a vote, I vote we start with this psychopathic, blue-eyed devil.

    • 450.org June 11, 2019 at 12:52 pm #

      AT&T has broken the law by willy nilly dropping people’s contracts. I know because they did it to me. We had a 24 month contract and 14 months into it they decided to not honor it any longer and started charging me higher rates for Direct TV. When I called, every month for 8 months straight, they said my contract ended and I showed them proof it did not but they didn’t and don’t care. The proof was, it indicated when my contract ended right on the face of my bill. I would show customer service this and they couldn’t comprehend or wouldn’t because their CEO told them to engage in this illegal activity. You can’t sue because they force you into arbitration when you agree to the contract and arbitration means they win. They are crooks, plain & simple. Kleptocrats who have no business shaking their finger at Russia. They can do whatever they want to customers since they’re a monopoly. You are powerless against them. The DOJ and the FBI are on THER side. They are the new & improved Soviet, American style.

      The Days of Getting a Cheaper Cable Bill by Threatening to Leave May Be Over

      At the same conference, AT&T Inc. CEO Randall Stephenson said his company, which owns the satellite provider DirecTV, is “cleaning up the customer base” by letting go of subscribers who insist on keeping promotional prices when their contracts expire.

      Pay-TV providers are making up for the lost revenue by charging everyone more. When subscribers cancel cable TV, they no longer get a discount for bundling TV with internet. When Optimum customers around the New York area cancel TV service, they also typically upgrade to faster — more expensive — internet, Altice USA CEO Dexter Goei said last month.

      As customers drop pay TV, cable companies will actually see their profit margins widen, Moffett said. That’s because much of their pay-TV revenue goes right to channel owners, like Walt Disney Co. and its ESPN network, in the form of subscriber fees. Fueled by expensive sports rights, those fees are even rising faster than cable TV bills, hurting profits for companies like DirecTV and Comcast. Selling high-speed internet is far more profitable.

  69. BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 1:23 pm #

    Newsom knows what resources are available to the State of California, he’s the governor for Chrissake. When he invites the 3rd world in, like he did in his inauguration speech, we must assume he has enough in the larder to take care of all comers, presumably about 4 billion poverty stricken, desperate human beings if all of them across the globe decide pull up stakes and make the trek to the promised land. I say take him at his word, open up the border south of San Diego. 100,000 per month crossing into the US now, when the word gets out that could easily increase to 1 million per month until the end of time.

    Brh

    • 450.org June 11, 2019 at 1:30 pm #

      Aren’t you in Connecticut? What do you care about California? Seriously, conservatives are absurdly hyper-focused on California. Why? What makes California so special? Because your prized conservative pundits, millionaires all of them, told you to be concerned with California?

      • BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 1:32 pm #

        Cal leads the way.7

        • auburn June 11, 2019 at 1:51 pm #

          Gavin welcomes immigrants because he knows immigrants have skills and want to work… and they work hard. Immigrants are a net benefit and Gavin knows that. California will come out ahead.

          • BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 2:02 pm #

            About 100 million are on their way.

            Thats a big net benefit, and cal should come out far ahead.

            Brh

          • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 2:06 pm #

            Mexico moves northward. And if Mexico is so good, why are they so eager to escape it?

            So much for a good society. We are supposed to compete with desperate peasants. This is the hopeless well of ignorance that auburn represents. The glut of labor drives down wages so the rich get richer and the poor don’t get richer. Blue collar wages have been stagnant for decades. Reagonomics is a lie.

          • malthuss June 11, 2019 at 2:11 pm #

            shithead

          • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 3:45 pm #

            Perhaps you profit from the invasion? What is your investment in this status quo? Do you host migrants in your home and how many? Do you cover all of their costs?

      • benr June 11, 2019 at 2:40 pm #

        I’m in California and we don’t want them!
        Our streets are falling apart, homeless population is going through the roof!
        The gas is still almost $4 a gallon same with diesel.
        A gallon of Milk is $4-8 bucks if you want the toxic crap or the higher end stuff and an Avocado is 2 for $5.
        Rent starts at $1500 for a studio and goes up.
        Minimum wage has been increased but no one else actually gets a raise or a merit increase we don’t need any more laborers, gardeners or fry cooks.
        We need less people to ease the pressure on housing, food and transportation.

        • Walter B June 11, 2019 at 2:46 pm #

          Don’t worry about the less people part benr because I am getting the disquieting feeling that the government has a plan to deliver that and it will probably not be nice.

          • benr June 11, 2019 at 3:39 pm #

            My wife and I are looking at a move very soon way to much of our income disappears in the form of taxes and basic living costs.

            A friend retired from San Diego PD as a sergeant just told me his sort of new Toyota truck not the Tundra cost him $550 dollars to register this year.
            It was almost three hundred when he bought it two years ago and this ridiculous state raised it again as the vehicle ages.
            Insane.

            Walter I’m moving into the house next door to you!

          • Walter B June 11, 2019 at 4:52 pm #

            You may still be able to since the small ponderosa type home is for sale although there is a contract pending. The cost is a little over $3000K and the taxes are a little over $6K a year and you would be most welcome.

          • Walter B June 11, 2019 at 4:59 pm #

            The ponderosa home next to mine that is.

          • Majella June 11, 2019 at 10:16 pm #

            Walter – not $3000K, I’m guessing? $3 million seems a little out there…

        • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 3:48 pm #

          Oh but the experts say that we need all of these hardworking and integral people here to do all the heavy lifting because we are incapable. Quality of life, costs of living, environmental protection, wages, infrastructure? Now your just one of those right-wing nut jobs aren’t you!

        • Exscotticus June 11, 2019 at 5:52 pm #

          >>> We need less people to ease the pressure on housing, food and transportation.

          Someone said “less”, the grammarians thought they said “fewer”, and the politicians thought they said “more”.

  70. auburn June 11, 2019 at 1:47 pm #

    Sometimes things turn. Reince Priebus was just sworn into the Navy by Vice President Pence. To serve as a Navy Officer, you must be at least 19 years and not more than 42 years. Reince Priebus is 47 years old and now he is illegally feeding at the federal trough. Scams and rackets are everywhere! The military sets the record for waste, fraud, and abuse.

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    • 450.org June 11, 2019 at 2:16 pm #

      What kind of name is that anyway? Reince? Priebus? Reince Priebus? Come on, that name is a put on, isn’t it? That can’t be this cock gobbler’s real name, can it? How could he have been the head of the Republican party at one time with a name like that? WTF? Couldn’t they find a John Wayne/Marlboro Man type to fill that role instead of this effeminate, fragile panty waist?

    • BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 2:16 pm #

      Wow! Little Jane, that’s earth shattering news!

      Maybe esteemed Congressman Nadler can add that to the Orders of Impeachment.

      Brh

  71. 450.org June 11, 2019 at 2:08 pm #

    Is this pic of Trump for real or has it been photoshopped?

    Ted Baxter Meets The Queen

    If the pic is for real and not photoshopped, what in thee fuck? What is that Trump’s wearing? A tux? No way. A fancy straight jacket? Maybe. If so, good choice. It’s fitting even if it doesn’t fit and it clearly doesn’t.

    • Majella June 11, 2019 at 10:18 pm #

      LOL…it’s real alright. As real as the dismayed looks on the faces of the three Brits in there.

  72. Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 2:43 pm #

    Just watched another great old 1980’s CBS TV show while working out at lunch, Heat of the Night, with Carroll O’Connor.

    Sheriff (O’Connor) to deputy after shooting gun out of big ol’ fat white cracker’s hands as he’s bending over to retrieve the gun: “Don’t just stand there, put a bullet in that big fat ass.” Classic!

  73. Walter B June 11, 2019 at 2:44 pm #

    Getting a late start here Jim because of family business, but I have to chime in here to say that your post includes the most descriptive moving writing I have seen from you yet. I’d say that it is a shame that is appears to be turned for the worse, but I have to admit, I had a helluva good ride while it lasted.

    Oh and BTW for anyone who cares, we pulled off a landslide victory in last week’s primary against an entrenched incumbent and barring the deaths of any of the three of us, our Township is going to have a new Mayor (a committeeman appointed to act as Mayor that is) in yours truly, and a heckuva lot less corrupt insiders on the various boards and positions starting in January. In fact there will be a new and a moral majority. A shame it cannot be done at any higher level……

    • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 2:56 pm #

      Congrats Ol’ Walt! Give ’em hell, and don’t let the bastards grind you down!

      • Walter B June 11, 2019 at 4:56 pm #

        There certainly were getting to me my friend, but the landslide victory not decimated them but boosted our moral to treetop levels. Starting in January the remaining Two Stooges will be minimalized to the point that they will curse their own Mothers for birthing them. Tallyho!

        • BackRowHeckler June 11, 2019 at 10:21 pm #

          Congratulations are in order, my friend.

          Hats off to the man in the arena, fighting the good fight.

          “I stand at armageddon, battling for the Lord” — Teddy Roosevelt

          brh

          • Walter B June 11, 2019 at 10:52 pm #

            Thank you BRH and funny you should say that. I have been trying to read the Free Citizen for quite a while now but am having great difficulties doing it. As I read the things that TR said and did, I am so appalled at the fact that America has not only gone so far off the track that he lays out, but that if he were alive today he would probably be incarcerated. I do however love his attitude and beliefs. Teddy Roosevelt was the first person I wrote a biography on back in grade school. He was one heckuva man.

    • SoftStarLight June 11, 2019 at 3:49 pm #

      Very interesting Walter. No doubt your township will be much better off. Good for you and for them!!!!

    • Tate June 11, 2019 at 7:12 pm #

      We have to take it back one Township at a time.

      Congratulations!

      • Walter B June 11, 2019 at 7:37 pm #

        Well spoken Tate. we have to start at the foundation, not at the top of the chimney.

  74. FincaInTheMountains June 11, 2019 at 4:47 pm #

    Yeah, baby, yeah…

    …destroying their own country by destroying the educational and health care systems, flooding the country with illegal immigrants and illicit drugs, conspiring to overthrow the Constitutionally elected president, and, while doing it all, setting up their compatriots for a nuclear annihilation by a former Cold War adversary, definitely sounds like a hanging offense to me.

    Yeah, baby, yeah…

    Give it to her, Semyon, right under the rib
    But don’t break your blade on that cold-stone heart
    Of that cold-stone bitch

    From Russian criminal folklore

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOZNFxCO3Zs

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    Everybody on, we’re leaving soon!

    Sea level is rising: Buy an American Airlines ticket now to secure your amnesty on Jan. 6th, 2021.

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    • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 6:35 pm #

      Ol’ Joe is so fucked. Barely even coherent anymore, watching him speak is even more embarrassing than watching Trump. If the stupid-assed Dems nominate him I’ll know for sure the fix is in for Trump. Four more years, baby! Bring on the wrecking crews!

      • PeteAtomic June 11, 2019 at 10:32 pm #

        Oh lord.

        If the dems run Joe Biden they may just as well give up now LOL. The guy looks like a mannequin and he’s just as smart as one.

        • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 6:30 am #

          So far, they seem to be serious about it. Absolutely incredible! Like I said, it’s so far out there that you have to wonder if it’s not contrived to hand the election to Trump again, as in both parties have been instructed to continue the shit show in service of a higher agenda.

  76. 450.org June 11, 2019 at 6:01 pm #

    Speaking of the Mary Tyler Moore show, Trump is Ted Baxter, or, I should say, a malevolent version of the benign, benevolent Ted Baxter. Both Ted & Donald are narcissists and both are as dumb as a box of rocks but Ted is harmless and kept in check and in his place by those around him. Not so with Donald Trump. He’s barely kept in check and he’s not harmless by any means. He has a mean spirit where Ted Baxter doesn’t.

    I guess Kellyanne Blueberry Conway is Trump’s Mary Richards and Stephen Miller is his Murray Slaughter. Who’s Trump’s Lou Grant though? Any ideas?

    This is the POTUS. Ted Baxter’s evil twin has the nuclear codes and is a perfect reflection of the character of America in the 21st century.

    Trump Said Some Seriously Weird Things About Climate During His 90-Minute Chat With Prince Charles

    However, Trump pushed back against suggestions that the US should be taking more responsibility to tackle the climate crisis, and appeared to confuse climate change with water purity.

    “I did mention a couple of things, I did say, ‘Well, the United States right now has among the cleanest climates there are based on all statistics.’ And it’s even getting better,” he told Morgan.

    “We want the best water, the cleanest water. It’s crystal clean, has to be crystal clean clear.”

    He then went on to blame other countries for not doing their bit.

    “China, India, Russia, many other nations, they have not very good air, not very good water, and the sense of pollution [and] cleanliness. If you go to certain cities – I’m not going to name cities, but I can – if you go to certain cities you can’t even breathe. And now that air is going up.

    “So if we have it clean, in terms of a planet, we’re talking about a very small distance between China and the US and other countries.”

    “They don’t do the responsibility,” said Trump, who pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate mitigation, the only nation on Earth to reject it.

    • FincaInTheMountains June 11, 2019 at 6:16 pm #

      Trump Said Some Seriously Weird Things About Climate During His 90-Minute Chat With Prince Charles

      You don’t know what weird is.

      Wait till I manage to get to Charles and what he’s gonna hear from me!

      • 450.org June 11, 2019 at 6:21 pm #

        Charles is a weirdo too, no doubt. I would have liked to see Donald & Charles playing polo together with the Queen and Melania cheering them on from the sidelines as they’re carried off in stretchers. Or, is Trump, like Dubya, afraid of horses?

        • FincaInTheMountains June 11, 2019 at 6:24 pm #

          I doubt it – him being of MacLeod clan after all.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 6:32 pm #

      “We have the cleanest climate”. Or the other day, I believe in climate change, but both ways.

      Koosh 2020!

    • Ol' Scratch June 11, 2019 at 6:37 pm #

      Pretty good comparison (Trump to Baxter). Although, in Ted’s defense, he did have the capability and good sense to actually be embarrassed when he seriously fucked up. Trump apparently never inherited that gene.

    • Tate June 11, 2019 at 7:03 pm #

      That’s just Trumptalk. Harmless & designed to confuse. Who knows if Charles understood any of it? It was almost certainly pre-vetted by Jared.

    • Majella June 11, 2019 at 10:22 pm #

      Nothing like a direct quote to see just how mind-numbingly, blitheringly STUPID he is…

  77. Janos Skorenzy June 11, 2019 at 6:34 pm #

    Why They Hate Us by Frank Roman

    “Western man towers over the rest of the world in ways so large as to be almost inexpressible. It’s Western exploration, science, and conquest that have revealed the world to itself. Other races feel like subjects of Western power long after colonialism, imperialism, and slavery have disappeared.

    The charge of racism puzzles whites who feel not hostility, but only baffled good will, because they don’t grasp what it really means: humiliation. The white man presents an image of superiority even when he isn’t conscious of it.

    And, superiority excites envy.

    Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.”

    –Joseph Sobran, April 1997

    Thomas Jefferson warned us that, while the African slaves would need to be freed, that once emancipation had occurred they would need their own country separate from ours if we expected to be equally free.

    “Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people [blacks] are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.” –Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821. ME 1:72

    Likewise, John Jay understood that homogeneity rather than diversity was both a blessing and a prerequisite for social cohesion:

    “I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people–a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.

    This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.” — John Jay, Federalist #2

    • Tate June 11, 2019 at 11:15 pm #

      Colin Flaherty talks about how people are always coming up with, “The youths need more things to do, they don’t have anything to do, we need communitay programs, things to occupy their time.” But they’ve got plenty to do.

      “You see, White people, we’re just not that into you.”

      “How often after they’ve targeted some poor White victims, beaten them up, stolen their money, cellphones, are heard laughing as they run off?”

      THIS IS WHAT THEY DO.

      • Tate June 11, 2019 at 11:38 pm #

        He calls them “the fellas & their lovely ladies.”

    • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 9:49 am #

      Yes, another example of how we totally forgot who we are and thus have no concept of how other races see us. As we have said before, many of us don’t even realize we are actually a people and a race at all. It’s breathtaking to think of how our forefathers felt about this country and then to see what is going on today. It is a total and complete disconnect that is hard to even understand.

  78. Pucker June 11, 2019 at 7:16 pm #

    What-the-Hell is a “Jungle Asian”?

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h9VJ8TSkyCk

    What are the odds that they had to bring in the high IQ East Asians in order to push the High Tech information economy? In a high IQ economy, what are Beauty and Heavy going to do? How is Beauty going to support her 8 illegitimate kids and her drug habit?

    “All I got is my kids and my habit?”
    – Beauty at the McDonalds in Bakersfield, California

    Chris Arnade
    Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

  79. Pucker June 11, 2019 at 7:28 pm #

    Chris Arnade says that one reason that many of the American underclass do drugs and hang out at McDonalds is that these activities “provide a sense of community.” Holy Fuck’n Shit!

    Chris Arnade
    Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

    • 450.org June 11, 2019 at 8:57 pm #

      We want the best Big Macs, the cleanest Big Macs. They’re crystal clean, have to be crystal clean clear.

  80. Tate June 11, 2019 at 9:00 pm #

    Immigration quotas should be based on how much the host country has ruined other countries

    By Suketu Mehta, NY Times opinion, June 7, 2019

    — Mr. Mehta is the author of “This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto” and teaches journalism at New York University.

    There is a lot of debate these days about whether the United States owes its African-American citizens reparations for slavery. It does. But there is a far bigger bill that the United States and Europe have run up: what they owe to other countries for their colonial adventures, for the wars they imposed on them, for the inequality they have built into the world order, for the excess carbon they have dumped into the atmosphere.

    The creditor countries aren’t seriously suggesting that the West send sacks of gold bullion every year to India or Nigeria. Their people are asking for fairness: for the borders of the rich countries to be opened to goods and people, to Indian textiles as well as Nigerian doctors. In seeking to move, they are asking for immigration as reparations.

    Today, a quarter of a billion people are migrants. They are moving because the rich countries have stolen the future of the poor countries. Whether it is Iraqis and Syrians fleeing the effects of illegal American wars, or Africans seeking to work for their former European colonial masters, or Guatemalans and Hondurans trying to get into the country that peddles them guns and buys their drugs: They are coming here because we [?] were there.

    Before you ask them to respect our borders, ask yourself: Has the West ever respected anyone’s borders?

    … Immigration quotas should be based on how much the host country has ruined other countries. Britain should have quotas for Indians and Nigerians; France for Malians and Tunisians; Belgium for very large numbers of Congolese.

    And when they come, they should be allowed to bring their families and stay — unlike the “guest workers” who were enticed to build up the postwar labor force of the colonizers and then asked to leave when their masters were done exploiting them.

    The Dominican Republic, where the United States propped up the dictator Rafael Trujillo for three decades, should be high on the American preference list. So should Iraq, upon which we imposed a war that resulted in 600,000 deaths. Justice now demands that we let in 600,000 Iraqis: for each death we caused there, someone should get a chance at a new life here.

    Some 12 million Africans were enslaved and carried across the Atlantic by European powers. Should not 12 million people from Africa be allowed to live in the countries enriched by the toil of their ancestors? Both will be better off: the African still suffering from what slavery has done to his country, and the host country that will again benefit from African labor, but this time without enormous pain and for a fair wage.

    Just as there is a carbon tax on polluting industries, there should be a “migration tax” on the nations who got rich while emitting greenhouse gases. The United States is responsible for one-third of the excess carbon in the atmosphere; Europe, another one-quarter. A hundred million refugees fleeing hurricanes and droughts will have to be resettled by the end of the century. The United States should take a third, and Europe another quarter.

    A huge bill would come to the West, but it is one it should look forward to paying…

    Migrants are 3 percent of the world’s population but contribute 9 percent of its gross domestic product. Their taxes prop up the pension systems of the wealthy nations, which are not making enough babies of their own.
    If you want to help the poorest people in the world, the fastest way to do so is to ease barriers to migration…

    There are no serious arguments that demonstrate long-term economic damage to countries that accept immigrants, even in large numbers. During the age of mass migration, a quarter of Europe moved to the United States, which went on to replace Europe at the pinnacle of wealth and power…

    What is good immigration policy for the United States is separate from what is just and moral for the peoples whose destiny America, past and present, has affected. It might make economic sense for the United States to let in more skilled Indians and fewer unskilled Latinos, but America owes them more, and it should open its doors more to its southern neighbors.

    History is what has happened and can never un-happen; history is happening right now. Attention needs to be paid. So does the bill.

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    • Exscotticus June 11, 2019 at 10:28 pm #

      This is actually tame by NYT standards.

      Lots of fake news stats arguing that poor people who can’t even afford to feed their own children are somehow the economic engines of the world. Assuming that’s true, then why on earth would we steal these wealth generators from their native lands? We don’t need the wealth as much as these impoverished nations do. So if we accept this screed’s logic, we would be morally wrong to culturally appropriate these refugees—these titans of industry and commerce—by allowing them in. Please take all your illegal immigrants back. Let them generate wealth for you. You’re welcome.

      • K-Dog June 11, 2019 at 11:59 pm #

        Suketu Mehta is crazy. All anybody ever deserves is a fair shake and everybody does.

        And. WTF The granddaddies of all Africans were here and went back to Africa or what? This guy lives in a dream?

        “Should not 12 million people from Africa be allowed to live in the countries enriched by the toil of their ancestors?

        This kind of writing gets a prize? If so I deserve five.

        About this critter:

        Suketu Mehta was born in India, to Gujarati parents and raised in Mumbai until his family moved to New York in 1977. He has attended New York University and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

        Suketu has won the O. Henry Prize, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for fiction. Mehta’s work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper’s, Time, and Newsweek, and has been featured on NPR’s Fresh Air and All Things Considered.

        Mehta is a citizen of the global empire specifically Extremistan who spends a good amount of time being a sit-izen. He obviously does not know where the buck stops though he has plenty of them. Mehta is one of the elite who never believe in borders. They fly over them. I have to go hunt down something else this fool has written just to see if I can get more pissed off or not.

        • K-Dog June 12, 2019 at 12:17 am #

          I am back.

          Suketu Mehta believes two things:

          1) The United States is a criminal enterprise which has stolen the worlds riches and that migrants therefore have a claim on the United States.

          2) Refer to rule 1.

          I don’t know what else he believes nor do I care. I do think he is the exact opposite of what he claims to be. That is my opinion.

          • K-Dog June 12, 2019 at 12:31 am #

            He writes a novel ‘Maximum City’ which describes Mumbi as a shithole. I conclude his desire must be to bring the familiar to America.

            A man who has made his money through a scam is more respected than a man who has made his money through hard work because the ethic of Bombay is quick upward mobility and a scam is a shortcut. Anyone can work hard and make money. What’s to admire about that? But a well-executed scam? Now there’s a thing of beauty! <– Suketu Mehta

            And if Mehta had his way he would tax you to fly the rest of the world in.

        • malthuss June 12, 2019 at 12:21 am #

          Thanks pups.

        • Exscotticus June 12, 2019 at 10:41 am #

          >>> All anybody ever deserves is a fair shake

          I agree. But here’s the catch: it can’t be at the expense of others. The Left’s idea of a “fair shake” is to steal it from someone else.

          Note the double standard throughout Mehta’s screed. When it comes to immigrants, any bad result is attributed to historical injustice, while any good result is due to their intrinsic merit.

          For example, the nations that comprise West Africa have been free of colonialism for well over 50 years. And what have they done with their world? It’s about as close to anarchy as you can get. But Mehta certainly wouldn’t blame any of this on those who actually rule there, or the citizenry who support these rulers. No—it’s the fault of the evil colonialists or whatever. Meanwhile, if West Africa managed to invent cold fusion, would Mehta be praising colonialism for this outcome? Of course not.

          After all these years, despite rising literacy rates and standards of living—all due to the trappings of colonialism—the only thing these impoverished breeder culture nations have to offer is a surplus pool of cheap starving labor. That’s not on us; that’s on them. No former colonial power is responsible for the irresponsible breeding habits of immigrants.

          • Janos Skorenzy June 12, 2019 at 1:53 pm #

            And if one guy ends up owning a whole industry and wants to shake down the entire Nation nothing could be more fair, right? Cuz it’s all about winning and always making more, other people be damned. And the nation be damned.

            You can’t enter the same river twice. And the river can’t be entered by the same person twice for the same reason. The streaming is ALL! Individual rights can’t be absolute because individuality isn’t absolute. A good relative truth that protects against worse abuses is all.

          • Exscotticus June 12, 2019 at 4:39 pm #

            >>> And if one guy ends up owning a whole industry and wants to shake down the entire Nation

            That’s called a monopoly or trust. We have antitrust laws. Too bad they’re rarely used.

            You can find many posts where I argue that Obama should have broken up the “too big to fail” banks.

    • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 9:45 am #

      An open manifesto of conquest basically. A bloodless conquest that nonetheless appears to be working right on time. I love how colonialism done by Whites was so evil and loathsome. Yet Brown and Blacks can openly discuss colonizing formerly White countries and their form of colonialism is considered holy and sacred. And this goes essentially unchallenged. The craziness really cannot be described with words. It’s beyond insanity.

  81. Tate June 11, 2019 at 11:34 pm #

    Great interview with Bill Binney. 45 min. if you have the time.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0iVPAEgU_M

  82. Tate June 11, 2019 at 11:56 pm #

    Seems the Koch Bros are teaming up with George Soros, the ADL, & representatives from Big Tech to fight online extremism.

    On July 17, the After Charlottesville Project will host its 2nd summit in San Francisco.

    “Founded in the aftermath of the deadly 2017 white supremacist attacks in Virginia, the conference brings together political and business leaders to discuss solutions for curbing political terrorism. While last year’s gathering in Missouri involved grassroots and city response initiatives, the focus of this year’s summit will involve the “private tech sector” and “best practices on the fight against hate and extremism online,” according to the event’s press release.”

    Meanwhile, Trump is too stupid to realize all of his followers are being methodically silenced. The Oligarchs are not going to let 2016 happen again if they can help it. All dissident opinion will eventually be relegated to the unindexed web (“dark web”) & search engines will not yield anything the PTB don’t want you to see. Section 230, not sure how it’s going to help.

    • malthuss June 12, 2019 at 12:22 am #

      The Koch brothers, Rush Limbos buddies.

      • K-Dog June 12, 2019 at 12:33 am #

        Would not be teeming up with Soros.

        • K-Dog June 12, 2019 at 12:36 am #

          Oopps I am wrong.


          Communities Overcoming Extremism: The After Charlottesville Project is supported in part by financial contributions from ADL, Charles Koch Institute, Fetzer Institute, Ford Foundation, The Kresge Foundation, Lowell and Eileen Aptman and the Soros Fund Charitable Foundation.

          • malthuss June 12, 2019 at 10:56 am #

            MONEY makes strange bedfellows.
            Power, politics, money.

    • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 6:26 am #

      “Fight online extremism.”

      AKA censorship. Can these Koch assholes possibly die soon enough?

    • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 9:39 am #

      Well that is very interesting actually. Trump is aware of the censorship taking place on really all social media platforms but has yet to do much about it. I did hear something about Twitter and maybe Facebook being investigated for anti-trust violations. I don’t know if I heard that right but I am wondering if it is just too little too late. It is clear who the real authoritarians and mandarins are and they don’t inhabit the right of the political spectrum. And to the extent that they do they have no power. Its all Communists and Leftists doing the censoring at this point and it has alot of public support including from many of the posters on this board.

  83. wwg1wga June 12, 2019 at 12:14 am #

    Damnit! It’s NOT a WALL!!
    http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Damnit%20its%20not%20a%20wall.pdf

    #oathkeepers

    Q.

  84. auburn June 12, 2019 at 1:01 am #

    Maybe esteemed Congressman Nadler can add that to the Orders of Impeachment. –brh

    brh, you have the right idea. Pence has also committed high crimes. The impeachment of both Trump and Pence will elevate President Nancy Pelosi to the Presidency.

  85. toktomi June 12, 2019 at 1:01 am #

    Damn, James, what’s with the nostalgic stroll down memory lane?

    Whatever good there was back then existed in the hearts and the deeds of the masses, same as today. But then even as now the good was slathered over by the evil in charge. The whole damn thing has been a lie from the start, and I’m talking about from the very beginning.

    You’re writing like you’re not expecting a human dieoff in the near future. hmmm

    Finally, what’s with all these same ol’ halfwits still yammering on about their petty racial, political, and religious opinions? Don’t they ever learn a new tune or better yet, shut the fuck up?

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    • Slugoon June 12, 2019 at 2:09 am #

      “…petty racial, political, and religious opinions?”

      They’ll be far from trivial in the event of a die-off.

      • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 9:34 am #

        I know silly right. Only old, comfortable White people and dumb inexperienced White kids who have been protected from life by helicopter parents talk this way. Meaning race, culture, religion – identity basically, are made out to be such non-important things. Not even worth discussion or consideration at all. Despite the fact that non-White races and cultures take their identities and collective futures much more seriously. And yes, when the collapse comes, groups with very strong bonds and a sense of collective purpose will be better able to survive while individuals and loosely connected groups will be slowly erased by the harshness of the collapse itself. Human nature remains the same….people never seem to learn ANYTHING from history.

        • toktomi June 12, 2019 at 7:37 pm #

          @SoftStarLight

          Your composition suggests strongly that you’ve never been in combat. “Strong bonds”, yes, they seem to be at the essence of basic survival.

          I would suggest to you, however, that there is one primal bond that trumps all others; it is the mutual dependence for survival itself.

          Personally, I couldn’t give two shits about what hole you’re working, the pastel of your pigments, how many gods possess your nights, what candidate whirs your whistle, what color your flag waves, and anything else that powers your outboard. If you’ve got my back, we’re good – no, we’re better than good; we’re family.

          • SoftStarLight June 13, 2019 at 10:03 am #

            You have an interesting way of communicating. I understand what you mean. When push comes to shove the will and desire to survive (a natural human instinct) transcends other instincts that may not be totally relevant to having enough food to survive the day or fighting off an immediate attack. You are expecting a collapse or chaos to happen very soon I see. I do too. In some ways I have been waiting for it for a while. Not happily or anything but just seeing where things are going it appears the path leads to a dark place. In that dark place it would be good to know that someone has your back no matter what. A lot of people won’t be able to count on that. So it sounds like you are a step ahead.

      • toktomi June 12, 2019 at 7:24 pm #

        I totally agree.

        But then, the same can be said for breathing. Would you suggest that we should now get all fitful and silly about that too?

  86. Majella June 12, 2019 at 4:34 am #

    SHOUT OUT TO WALTER B:

    Hey Walter

    You once scribed yourself as a Kennedy Democrat. It’s clear you’re now rightly angry & frustrated by current policy (if you could call it that…)

    I’d be interested in your views on the candidacy of Andrew Yang, having just watched a number of interviews and a local (WMUR, not my locality) Town Hall.

    Besides the controversial UBI, his ideas on term limits on SCOTUUS Appointments is a most interesting perspective.

    I don’t know about you, but I get he’s no ‘socialist’ but he has truly empathic views on how to treat EVERYONE in society.

    Your thoughts?
    .

    • Majella June 12, 2019 at 4:35 am #

      ‘…DEscribed’ of course…

  87. Chris at Fernglade Farm June 12, 2019 at 5:26 am #

    Hi Jim,

    Thanks for the excellent metaphor in your essay.

    You know, I reckon the song is intoxicating. I mean it provides comfort and ease, and stuff (whatever that is). But along with all that, as the economic and environmental costs build up behind it, and resources and energy become ever more scarce, well what can’t be sustained, won’t be sustained. And then what will things look like? 😉

    Thanks also for mentioning electricity supply in rural areas. People forget that it is only a historically recent thing.

    Do we continue to get drunk listening to the siren call?

    Cheers

    Chris

  88. FincaInTheMountains June 12, 2019 at 6:00 am #

    Immigration quotas should be based on how much the host country has ruined other countries

    This is all exercise in semantics by the people who at the time of Socrates were called Sophists, later Gnostics, and now Democrats.

    So they maintain that rather helping other nations to build their own functioning State in the place of their natural habitat, you should destroy your own country by depriving it of resources necessary for normal functioning – sort of the way the Clintons destroyed Haiti to flood US with Haitian refugees.

    • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 6:23 am #

      I don’t think it precludes anything, you old goat. It just assumes that the US would never help other nations build their own functioning state, which is demonstrably true. The US is only interested in building client states that can be looted in service of the Globalists/Zionists now in charge of the US. And I hate to break it to you, but your despised HRC is not the only one that supports that idea.

      • FincaInTheMountains June 12, 2019 at 6:53 am #

        I am talking about the historical precedent – the Marshall plan.

      • FincaInTheMountains June 12, 2019 at 6:55 am #

        And by the way, I am the Orthodox Zionist – you know that, right?

        • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 9:07 am #

          I thought you were Jewish though.

        • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 10:09 am #

          Orthodox Zionist

          What in the hell is that?

          • Janos Skorenzy June 12, 2019 at 1:35 pm #

            A Russian Orthodox version of Pat Robertson. But of course Pat really believes the nonsense he spouts and Finc doesn’t.

          • Ol' Scratch June 13, 2019 at 6:50 am #

            I thought Russian Orthodox was Christian. I guess I missed out on the Jew/Christian crossover ramp. Is that a thing now, where you can choose what you like from both like a smorgasbord, or something?

    • FincaInTheMountains June 12, 2019 at 7:57 am #

      And of course I am against those on this site who wants to turn the United States of America into the Holy Roman Empire of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Nation.

      • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 9:13 am #

        Hmmmm so it sounds like you are against America as originally founded. Not so much the Holy Roman Empire part as Catholics were not necessarily part of the original founding. But definitely your opposition to a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Nation reveals that you are against at least what America originally was.

        So then let me ask you. That nation has basically been destroyed and I don’t see how it ever returns at this point. Perhaps maybe a smaller territory will be held one day by WASPY peoples after the nation collapses. But you can’t really believe what you are saying can you? You really believe somehow that the US is going to become a Catholic Empire dominated by WASPS? What about the burgeoning Brown hordes that are literally darkening the land like giant clouds of locusts would?”

        • Janos Skorenzy June 12, 2019 at 1:49 pm #

          You’re being rational again.

  89. FincaInTheMountains June 12, 2019 at 7:10 am #

    I want to remind those who laughed at me 5 years ago, when I said that Western Europe is a traditional enemy of Russia, and America is a friend.

    Everyone was counting on squeezing American balls along with Europe. And I already then said that Germany is just pretending to be all white and fluffy, but she herself incites her people in the USA toward rebellion.

    And when America elected a president who wanted to improve relations with Russia, she acted with America as a rebellious colony.

    And now Trump is monetizing his and American grievances against Europe and the requirement to increase payments to NATO’s common pot are reparations demanded by Trump for participating in an attempted coup of Hillary Clinton.

    • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 9:16 am #

      Well this is interesting too. Germany is like the US. A nation in decline and overrun by unassimilable foreigners. But somehow you believe Germany is some major player on the world stage. I just don’t get where all of this comes from. And now that I have learned that Russia’s Putin is ok with a multicultural society I don’t think Russia is going to last long either.

      • FincaInTheMountains June 12, 2019 at 10:04 am #

        Ever since becoming a member of the Mongol Golden Horde, Russia lasted for thousand of years as a multinational, multicultural society and with God’s help, will last thousand years more.

  90. BackRowHeckler June 12, 2019 at 9:42 am #

    ‘BP Charts Record US Oil, Gas Output’

    Takeouts …

    “Worldwide energy demand for energy grew 2.9% in 2018, its fastest rate since 2010.”

    “In the US, energy consumption rose br 3.5%, with oil at 20.5 million bpd and a total of 817 billion cm of gas consumed diring the year.”

    “Renewable energy accounted for around 4% of the global energy mix in 2018, greatly overshadowed by fossil fuels at 85% …”

    Bar chart shows coal use lessened in North America and Europe, largely replaced by natural gas, but growing in Asia and the Pacific region.

    WSJ 6/12/19

    BRH

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    • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 9:52 am #

      In other words, we continue to destroy the environment with fury and fire and the consumerist mentality is simply growing worldwide. No one at all is really serious about reducing pollution or energy use but the talking points are so attractive and make everyone feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

      • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 10:07 am #

        Nice summation! I thing you’re got it! The so-called Green Revolution is just another marketing scam to continue with BAU.

        • SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 10:11 am #

          Ah, the Green Revolution is a big fat Green Scam then. Gosh they are so good at scamming on everything!

          • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 10:42 am #

            It’s a very attractive mirage for the naive and idealistic, but the numbers just don’t work out for it ever being remotely capable of replacing an oil-based economy. But, as we’re seeing currently, it will definitely bump sales in the meantime.

    • Chris at Fernglade Farm June 13, 2019 at 4:40 am #

      HI BRH,

      The replacement of coal by natural gas is hardly a surprise. Natural gas power stations can come online far quicker than a coal fired power station, which frankly can’t be easily switched on and off and so must run continuously.

      The economics of the introduction of renewable sources to the grid, such as wind a solar necessitate that natural gas be used. You don’t have to be Einstein to recognise that the sun don’t shine at night, and often the wind doesn’t blow and that is when gas has to be brought online.

      Coal on the other hand has to run continuously whether the wind is blowing or the sun is shining – and the operators have to make money even when there is no demand for their supply.

      It is not a complicated story.

      Chris

  91. wwg1wga June 12, 2019 at 9:52 am #

    Reverence.
    http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Reverence.pdf

    #oathkeepers #QArmy #WWG1GWA

    Q.

  92. stelmosfire June 12, 2019 at 9:53 am #

    Since the discussion about old TV shows earlier I thought I’d mention this. I heard a talking head on the tube quoting the the theme song from another great old show. Pretty funny.
    “There’s Uncle Joe, he’s a movin’ kind of slow at the junction,
    Petticoat Junction.”

    • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 10:05 am #

      I satirized that show (a childhood favorite) a few weeks back. Uncle Joe (along with Sam Drucker and Haney, of course) would of be portrayed as dirty old lech these days, while the three girls would be sassy young tarts, shaking their wares on social media, rolling their eyes at the cornpone nature of their fellow Shady Resters, and espousing assorted wokester messages to the audience weekly.

      • BackRowHeckler June 12, 2019 at 10:19 am #

        That wokester message, its gotta fade out pretty soon.

        People are sick of being hammered with it, and the amount of scorn and ridicule it gets grows daily.

        Brh

        • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 10:39 am #

          Question is, what kind of whack-a-doodle BS do they come up with next?

  93. SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 9:57 am #

    It’s not just knitting. It’s in everything we do. We must understand how wicked we are at all points of the day. Every minute and every second. And ironically, an all White space these days means a space in which Whites must go to denigrate and humiliate themselves. Is it any surprise we are at the brink of extinction?

    https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2019/06/11/yoga-instructor-teaches-class-aimed-undoing-whiteness/

  94. SoftStarLight June 12, 2019 at 10:09 am #

    Child trafficking in the name of the invasion. Remember the big dust up about children being held in cages by ICE? It was all over the media when it appeared it could hurt Trump politically but now not much is mentioned about it. I am surprised we don’t hear about the child trafficking every day from the oh so concerned media. But then maybe it doesn’t matter as long as the invasion continues unabated.

    https://www.oann.com/ms-13-gang-member-uses-child-with-chickenpox-to-try-to-enter-u-s/

    • BackRowHeckler June 12, 2019 at 10:21 am #

      Don’t be surprised to find out many Big Media Honchos are in on it, for their own nefarious reasons.

      Brh

  95. BackRowHeckler June 12, 2019 at 10:31 am #

    Well, Joe Biden stated yesterday he has a plan to totally replace fossil fuels with renewables by 2050. If the data I posted above is any indication, he has a ways to go. For renewables to go from 4% of energy to 100% in 3 decades is going to take some doing. Do you think he really believes it, or its just a line he threw out there in a campaign speech? Joe will not be around 30 years from now, so he himself will never find out

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    • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 10:36 am #

      That’s a very easy bullshit claim for him to make since he won’t be alive to see it, no matter which way it goes. Perhaps he should put skin in the game by committing all of his familial assets to the cause if it fails. Joe has always been a two bit shill. Nice to see that he hasn’t changed his colors at this late date.

    • Exscotticus June 12, 2019 at 11:41 am #

      It’s theoretically possible. Solar power’s your best bet. The earth gets as much energy in two peak solar hours as all humans use in a year. Unfortunately, most of it radiates off into space. The trick is capturing that energy and storing some of it for evening use. The problem is that solar power requires lots of land and doesn’t work well at high latitudes. You’d probably have to cover ten percent of the world with PV panels. The real problem is what to do with the billions of additional souls slated to join the human race in the not-so-distant future. Take your pick: land for power and food, or land for all those new immigrants!

      Focusing on “renewables” while ignoring the overpopulation crisis (or even admitting we have one) is putting the proverbial carriage before the horse. Reduce populations and many of these environmental issues and concerns go away.

      • BackRowHeckler June 12, 2019 at 12:21 pm #

        Estmated US population, 2050, 400 million. China and India headed to 1.5 bullion each.

        The reason I am cynical, Ex, is I don’t think any govt in the world is going to reduce energy usage or ‘carbon emmissions, and switch to renewables, if it even remotely means mass unemployment, starvation, lower living standards, or political instability withins its own borders. It would be suicide.

        To enforce reduced energy usage, it would take a repressive international governing body with a brutal police force not answerable to anything or anybody save the ‘Climate Change’ mandate. I don’t see that happening. Snacks idea of nuking coal fired power plants in Russia and China probably won’t work either.

        Brh

        • malthuss June 12, 2019 at 12:53 pm #

          Some think India will be first land with 2 billion, in 30? years?

          DE POPULATION–War, poisoning people. whatever.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 12, 2019 at 1:38 pm #

          We need to entice as many of these people here as possible. Beat these bastards by depopulating their so called countries. Ever hear of human wave tactics? Give each of them a spear and do banzai charges. You like? I know you do….

        • Exscotticus June 12, 2019 at 9:16 pm #

          >>> Snacks idea of nuking coal fired power plants in Russia and China probably won’t work either.

          Not to worry…

          At current levels of production, China has 30 years worth of reserves.

          That problem fixes itself assuming no new coal deposit discoveries.

          Anyway, I agree that governments are unlikely to mitigate either energy usage or growth. It’s going to be war or plague or drought or famine that gets the job done. China is the only nation that has any real experience at mitigating growth (not counting crazy genocidal examples like Pol Pot’s Cambodia). In the USA, China’s one-child policy was long considered a human rights violation and a means to asylum.

      • elysianfield June 12, 2019 at 10:50 pm #

        “The real problem is what to do with the billions of additional souls slated to join the human race in the not-so-distant future.”

        …Teach them to code, goddamnit!

  96. 450.org June 12, 2019 at 10:43 am #

    Remember the big dust up about children being held in cages by ICE? It was all over the media when it appeared it could hurt Trump politically but now not much is mentioned about it. I am surprised we don’t hear about the child trafficking every day from the oh so concerned media. But then maybe it doesn’t matter as long as the invasion continues unabated.

    America’s farmers are the ultimate traitors and, to boot, they’re sex trafficking pimps and Trump is giving them hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to be unproductive and engage in sex trafficking rather than feed the country.

    Of course, if any of these poor women had an abortion, SSL & Co. would be right there to arrest them, cowardly bullies that they are. You want a real fight? Take it to the farmers, then, maybe then, you’ll earn a bit of my respect. Otherwise, you’re a bunch of pathetic cowards.

    Sex Slaves on the Farm

    The vast majority of the country’s estimated 3 million farmworkers were born outside the U.S. Like Janet, most of them came to America in search of opportunity and, also like Janet, are being steadily ground down by a system working against them. Few suburban supermarket shoppers know that federal labor laws exclude farmworkers from certain rights most Americans take for granted, such as overtime pay, days off and collective bargaining. State by state, advocates have tried to change that, but Big Agriculture usually manages to thwart the efforts.

    Seasonal crop farm laborers typically live in barracks for a few months at a time. At year-round livestock farms, workers live in cheap houses or trailers. “The average citizen wouldn’t see them,” Renan Salgado of the Worker Justice Center of New York says about where the workers live. “They are set up to be invisible.” Because of their undocumented status, workers rarely leave the farms, relying instead on supervisors and middlemen to deliver everything from groceries to medical aid to women.

    The scene is a volatile mix, ripe for violence. “People are just bored, and they’re lonely,” says Gonzalo Martinez de Vedia, also of the Worker Justice Center. “You have an entire population that is sitting at home for an entire season. Single men. There’s a lot of drinking, substance abuse.”

    Workers tend to take out that frustration on female visitors. What happens on the farms, says Cohen, is rape. “I think there’s a perception that when…you pay to have sex with someone, that means that you pay for the right to do whatever you want with that woman,” she says. “The violence that our clients have experienced at the hands of their buyers is really shocking.”

    • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 11:05 am #

      Like Janet, most of them came to America in search of opportunity and, also like Janet, are being steadily ground down by a system working against them.

      What!?! Our Lil’ J-Bot was a farmworker sex slave? That explains a lot, actually.

    • BackRowHeckler June 12, 2019 at 11:11 am #

      WSJ had a series of articles about this exact situation a few years back, focusing on farm workers in Central Florida, many of them illegal, and treated almost as if they were slaves.

      I doubt if anything has changed since then.

      Bth

      • 450.org June 12, 2019 at 11:21 am #

        I’m all for sending Janet and all of the illegal farm workers back home so long as SSL and her ilk take their place on the farms and in the factories for the same wages and living conditions and rights. After five years of this hard labor, we can release SSL & her ilk from their bondage if, and only if, they offer a full & sincere apology to those they scapegoated versus taking the fight to the source.

        Oh, and I want to see Hannity & Limbaugh working the fields too with the same attendant pay, working conditions and rights current farm workers enjoy. I would pay big money to see that, in fact. I would subscribe to a live feed where all day long I could watch Limbaugh & Hannity grinding away in the fields. They’d lose some serious weight, that’s for sure, and it would be akin to sewing a zipper on their smug mugs or carving out their voice boxes with the big knife.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 12, 2019 at 1:40 pm #

          Don’t forget making them stand on stools with funny hats and signs. Maoism 101.

          The big knife? Sounds Muslim. Innovation!

          • elysianfield June 12, 2019 at 10:55 pm #

            “The big knife? Sounds Muslim. Innovation!”

            Janos,
            RT, the Russian news channel, has reported that in Britain’s prisons, Muslim prisoners are threatening non-Muslim prisoners to convert, or else.

            God is Great!

  97. malthuss June 12, 2019 at 10:58 am #

    I found this—
    Learn to say no even if it means being rude.

    1. Build up good habits.
    2. Train yourself to not give f what people think.
    Act like you want and ignore rules.

    3. Talk only when you have to or want to (talk to friends, family…
    and ignore people who you dont want to talk to and when they complain ignore them even more.

    4. Learn to be comfortable being alone.
    5. Act like you want and ignore rules.
    6. Push your comfort zone. somehow

    • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 3:07 pm #

      Great advice in general!

  98. 450.org June 12, 2019 at 11:06 am #

    For renewables to go from 4% of energy to 100% in 3 decades is going to take some doing.

    It’s doable to predominantly replace fossil fuels, but it will never happen and it still doesn’t address the root of the matter which is growth. Civilization is a heat engine that’s devouring the planet. Once the planet is sufficiently heated to capacity and sufficiently consumed, it’s game over for civilization and we’ve reached that point.

    Radical contraction to a steady state of equilibrium with the biosphere is the only way out of the corner we’re in. The transition could be fueled by thorium reactors which are quite efficient & safe and don’t melt down and produce very little waste unlike America’s antiquated nuclear reactors.

    China’s Research Into Thorium Will Have Implications for Nuclear Energy In the United States

    The US still relies on second-generation light-water, solid-fuel reactors that operate, on average, at more than 90 percent capacity. Georgia-based Southern Company and South Carolina-based Scana Corp. are building third-generation light-water reactors that are more efficient and even safer.

    Thorium is most suited to run in fourth-generation molten salt reactors, which operate at lower pressures and which many consider to be fail-proof. Such reactors must reach high level temperatures to melt a salt solid. That liquid and fuel mixture is then used as a coolant in the fuel cycle.

    “All fourth generation reactors make much less waste and run at higher temperatures,” says John Kutsch, executive director of the Thorium Energy Alliance in Chicago, who previously spoke with this writer. “But the similarity ends there. Inherently, thorium is much more abundant and easier to handle.”

    The US, however, will find it difficult to transition to thorium because of its cold-war decision to invest in uranium fuels, which could be more easily enriched to make nuclear bombs. Even if there is a breakthrough in thorium technology, it would be too costly to retrofit America’s existing nuclear energy infrastructure. The supply chain is now fully stocked and includes everything from uranium suppliers to reactor designers.

    The reality is that solid fuel reactors using uranium are now supplying 19 percent of this country’s electric generation. Molten salt reactors that use thorium will not replace them. But the thorium technology still has place in the mix, as evidenced by the international research now occurring. China is furthest along and if it succeeds, the science will be applied elsewhere.

    • FincaInTheMountains June 12, 2019 at 11:35 am #

      Most of information you find on thorium reactors, including the one above, is simply a diversion to obscure the matter.

      The main problem of thorium (or U238) reactors is that they do not have a critical mass and to initiate a nuclear fission reaction you need to apply an external source of high-energy neutrons – for which you do need a compact linear accelerator.

      • 450.org June 12, 2019 at 12:41 pm #

        Bull.

        • 450.org June 12, 2019 at 1:23 pm #

          As I said, it’s never going to happen because the vested interests won’t let it happen, but it would bridge the gap until we contract sufficiently to a steady state of existence that’s in harmony with the planet that gave us life. This cannot and will not be done by Wall Street. It’s not a growth opportunity and it’s not a conventional investment. It is a figurative investment in the future of our species and would allow us to wean off fossil fuels while contracting our planetary footprint to a level that’s in harmony with our host — the planet.

          This reactor can run on many nuclear fuels to include Thorium. It can even use spent fuel rods from the antiquated, inefficient, wasteful, overly-complex highly pressurized water reactors America & Russia use.

          Fast-Spectrum Molten-Salt Reactor

  99. FincaInTheMountains June 12, 2019 at 11:19 am #

    Orthodox Zionist
    What in the hell is that?
    == Ol’ Scratch

    Orthodox, or Political Zionism is a movement to build a national Jewish state in the historic homeland of the Jews – in Palestine.

    Political Zionism arose in the 19th century in response to the outbreak in France of racial anti-Semitism (the Dreyfus case), that is, hatred of people of Jewish origin who had no relation to Judaism.

    And the copyright on this hatred – racial anti-Semitism – belongs to the “holy” Bernard of Clairvaux, who voiced it in letters to the sovereigns of Europe, urging them not to recognize Roman Pope Anacletus II on the grounds that he was the grandson of one of the richest Jewish bankers of the time, who was baptized on the wave of the mass conversion of French Jews to Christianity on the eve of the Great Schism.

    And the US Democratic Party, which has long been considered the “Jewish” party, unmasked itself and its Nazi mug of the Jerusalem mufti and his faithful disciple Adolf Hitler climbed out of it.

    Suffice it to say that the New York Times published an anti-Semitic caricature worthy of Dr. Goebbels, and then, apologizing in response to a wave of indignation, immediately, I would even say pointedly, printed another one.

    https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2019/04/adsadasdsadsd-1-e1556383284568.png

    • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 3:06 pm #

      Then WHY, pray tell, aren’t you living in Israel, aka “The Holy Land”(TM).

  100. volodya June 12, 2019 at 11:34 am #

    JHK asks “can we find any grace in it?”

    “Grace” by what definition? Hmm… let’s see, what’s out there… “grace” in the sense of Big G’s favor? Seems to me if that the US was ever so esteemed by any deity, any goodwill bestowed has been long pissed away.

    So what else… “grace” meaning elegance, finesse, poise? Um, no.

    “Grace” in the way of good manners or decorum? Let’s don’t be ridiculous.

    So can we find any grace in it? No. And not that it’s any consolation, but if Americans can find no grace to be scraped out of a cosmic account opened by some deity or other, then neither is there any for foreigners in the Western experiment in organizing societal and economic affairs.

    If “grace” by its other definitions don’t apply to Americans, then neither do they apply to the sneering French who’ve got precious little left but fashion and culinary frivolities and neither to the Italian mamma’s boy who’s still dining out on the glories of the Renaissance hundreds of years past, and neither to the moribund German who can’t put a hideous history behind him.

    The USA isn’t guaranteed a good outcome because it’s “exceptional” or indispensable. If it was ever anything “exceptional” it was only because of the endowment granted by about four thousand years of civilizational development from the Old World. And the USA wasn’t always the USA. For much of its history it was a precarious string of colonies perched on the Atlantic coast taking its behavioral cues from the Mother Country who itself learned from countries around it and from its Norman and Saxon forebears and the Greek and Roman and Israelite.

    In short, if the SS United States of America is sinking, it won’t be the only one hitting the bottom. The whole of the inter-linked western world is on its way down. The USA is a major part of it, but only a part. Judging by the ludicrous antics in Washington, and those in various European capitols, it appears that the purported leaders are the least aware of the events afoot and least able to steer the course.

    So, will it be a “controlled demolition”? Neo-liberalism, with its built-in political trap-doors and economic booby-traps, was destined for failure from its inception. The fine people of the UK got it right, they sensed its unworkability and showed the way by voting for the partial dismantling of that neo-liberal disposition we call the EU. We’ll see how it goes. The process may give pointers as to how to manage, or alternatively, how to utterly and completely fuck things up. What a lot of folks are saying is that Theresa May, a Remainer, tried to deliver Brexit without an actual exit. We’ll see if May’s successor does any better.

    But May’s EU counterparts across the English Channel aren’t any smarter as they show us day-in and day-out. You’ve seen Macron’s preposterous cocksureness, the appalling insults he’s inflicted on his own distressed populace, the broad, superb grin. As if he has a clue. The Junckers and Merkels and their ilk are no better. They look across the pond and smile their tight little contemptuous smiles, decrying “populism” and racism and stupidity, not realizing that the tidal forces engulfing the US have bugger all to do with racism and stupidity but have got the same sources as those undermining the European order.

    It’s unlikely that it all goes down the shitter in one big crapasm. Re-localization they call it. But that’s the way it has to go.

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    • FincaInTheMountains June 12, 2019 at 11:39 am #

      Macron’s preposterous cocksureness

      As always, you are absolutely right and the question of denuclearization of Fourth Reich (France) is now overshadows the question of denuclearization of North Korea.

    • Slugoon June 12, 2019 at 12:28 pm #

      Nice post, volodya.

      I think Theresa May’s problem whether she believed in Brexit or not, and I suspect she didn’t, was trying to find a compromise between binary positions. The Withdrawal Agreement failed because it satisfied nobody. It was worse than keeping the status quo. Brexit in name only.

      But moving on from that, Joseph Tainter in his epic ‘The Collapse of Complex Societies’ thought that no individual nation could now collapse because the world is full of interlinked, complex societies. They would either be absorbed by a neighbour or larger state, supported economically by a dominant power or international financing agency, or the population made to pay for whatever costs were needed to continue complexity, however detrimental the marginal return.

      He also posits that voluntary economic undevelopment is unlikely given the close link between economic and military power.

      I suspect he’s right and that the hard laws of physics will ultimately shape the future. Who was it said that only a crisis, whether real or perceived, produces real change? I’d substitute ‘crisis’ with ‘physical hardship’.

      • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 1:02 pm #

        Slugoon

        “They would either be absorbed by a neighbour or larger state…”

        Over on Dmitry Orlov’s site yesterday or so, there’s an article where he refers to ‘America and its subsidiary, Britain’.

        I think he has a point, in terms of the way our ‘deep states’ if you like, and our financial elites, have been in cahoots for decades. And I’m not happy about becoming even more subsidiary. At least in the EU we were a more-than-equal member, with hard-won perks. (Note I use the past tense already – I cannot be described as a ‘remainer’ now if I do not support cancellation of Brexit, which I don’t.)

        I’m curious to know if the same people who don’t like May’s deal because we’d continue to align our regulations with the EU to make trading with our obvious partners (our near neighbours) easier are similarly worried about surrendering our sovereignty in such matters to the nation to which Orlov sees us as a subsidiary.

        It’s the increase in our subsidiarity that worries me most, as well as the idiocy of pursuing not Volodya’s ‘re-localization’, but a new ‘Global Britain’ hoping to expand trade with countries as far away as possible (and as far away from our more civilised regulations as possible).

        Even Janos said the other day that if you believe in The Long Emergency you have to take distances into account.

        We’re building a third runway at Heathrow to enable our coming global expansion. And the village and part of another village to be destroyed in that process would probably not be amused by the idea that they are taking part in a ‘re-localization’ process.

        Which they are of course, but one foisted on them by people who have nothing to do with their locality other than their wish to land planes on it.

        • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 1:38 pm #

          “No matter that a less complex, less energy intensive and more localized future is what’s in the cards”

          See? Volodya agrees with me about the insanity of expanding trade to the Americas and the Far East at this time of all times!!

          I guess it’s too late for the people of Harmondsworth:

          https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/08/heathrows-third-runway-plan-will-destroy-my-home-friendships-and-leave-me-a-refugee-in-my-own-country-7613484/

          As Justine says:

          “I wouldn’t scream and shout, I wouldn’t have the energy left to do that, but being driven out of my home would take away almost everything I have worked for, which no financial compensation can ever replace, and, what for? A runway that may be used for a few decades until the oil runs out?

          Quite, Justine. There are nearer places to trade with. And your house wouldn’t need to be flattened. I guess they think you’re the metropolitan elite.

          • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 2:00 pm #

            I was talking to my brother-in-law in Dublin a couple of nights ago. We were discussing the hit that the Irish economy is going to take from its larger neighbour’s decision.

            He says Irish farmers are now looking to make up for lost trade across the Irish Sea by boosting trade with…CHINA!!

            Re-localisation eh, what a great idea.

            It seems the Chinese don’t like the traditional way Irish farming produce is marketed – the family farm and happy cows in lush green fields. They mistrust small farms and prefer food from massive factories where they think food safety standards are higher.

            The world is gone mad.

          • BackRowHeckler June 12, 2019 at 2:26 pm #

            Chinese investors have bought up many of the vineyards in the Champaigne region in France. Acquiring farmland in Ireland seems to be the next natural step.

            China is buying assets all over the world. I posted a few weeks ago about their presence in Jamaica, filling in wetlands, cutting down forests and pouring concrete.

            If there is any country on earth that could care less about the environment and the natural world, it is Communist China.

            Brh

          • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 3:08 pm #

            brh

            Whatever the truth about that (and I don’t think they do care nothing for the environment – they’re trying to pursue conflicting imperatives, like other countries and they know that their own economy won’t survive the destruction of their own environment) it doesn’t negate my point.

            Increasing trade with people on the other side of the world at this juncture makes no sense.

            I agree that they’re buying up assets all over the world.

            Another problem with such activities is the lack of transparency. Sometimes it’s impossible to see who actually owns assets because of the layers of financial obfuscation.

          • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 3:12 pm #

            And the best way to keep those Irish farms from being put up for sale is not to sabotage the Irish agricultural sector, which we’re just about to do, along with our own.

            People who see everything in black and white are not helpful. The law of unintended consequences is going to apply to Brexit (which I’m perfectly resigned to, per se, as much as to any other cause that seems so worthy.

          • BackRowHeckler June 12, 2019 at 4:38 pm #

            GA, you are in Scotland, your brother in law is in Ireland, you have friends in England … do you think in terms you’re all the same people — British — or separate by where in the British Islands you live? For example, Malthus and Benr live 3000 miles from me but with common language, common European ancestry, citizenship and culture there’s a bond that exists where they could just show up here and feel at home. Is it that way where you are?

            Also, in your part of Scotland, how is the trout fishing? Are the streams and rivers clean and pollution free? We have a nearby river — the Housatonic — able to support trout but because of industry in the late 19th century releasing PCBs, trout nor any other fish can be eaten. Fisheries scientists say the river will be tainted with PCBs forever.

            Brh

          • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 7:44 pm #

            brh

            It’s all basically the same country to me, with smaller countries within it. You get to the ‘border’ and there’s no border – it’s just a sign on the verge of the road that says ‘Welcome to England’ or ‘Welcome to Scotland’. That’s it. We all speak the same language (mostly – people who speak Gaelic or Welsh as a first language aren’t that numerous), but there is a big variation in dialects, even within England. Being any of the three smaller countries is obviously like being in bed with an elephant, but what can you do? 🙂

            My brother-in-law is different (like my husband) as they’re from Ireland, not Northern Ireland, so not part of the UK, but there are lots of Irish people here too and they have the same rights as us if they reside in the UK, for historical reasons, i.e. they can vote, and drive with their Irish driving licences. My husband doesn’t have British nationality. He won’t have to apply for residency (as my French ex. now will post Brexit) because we have a longstanding relationship with Ireland that predates the EU/CM.

            Irish people have a strong affinity with the Scots anyway – we all have to live with that elephant – no offence to Slugoon!

            I’m not knowledgeable about fishing, I’m afraid. My husband used to fish in Ireland but he hasn’t fished for years, although he still has his rod somewhere.

            So I had to look on Google and given I spent little time on it I’ll just give you what came up on trout fishing, which suggests there’s plenty all over the place and an interesting article on some issues with salmon fishing in a nationalist newspaper I’m not familiar with.

            There’s lots of farmed salmon around the coast in Scotland (and in some of the sea lochs) which is causing massive problems in terms of lice, which are then infecting wild stock – it’s mentioned in the article (as this ‘disgusting industry’, I think!). But there’s some general background in the article too about salmon fishing in Scotland.

            http://www.trout-salmon-fishing.com/trout-wheretofish-scotland.htm

            https://www.thenational.scot/news/17601542.the-scottish-government-is-selling-salmon-down-the-river/

          • TPTB-USA June 12, 2019 at 7:52 pm #

            BRH- “If there is any country on earth that could care less about the environment and the natural world, it is Communist China.”

            You can’t fault China. They are just gaming the system like everyone else, and they know a fire sale when they see one.

            GA- “It seems the Chinese don’t like the traditional way Irish farming produce is marketed – the family farm and happy cows in lush green fields. They mistrust small farms and prefer food from massive factories where they think food safety standards are higher.”

            Perhaps they just have a vision, and are intent on representing (and feeding) their future flock?

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE
            (stelmosfire posted this link above)

          • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 8:20 pm #

            TPTB-USA

            Thanks – I watched that video already – scary stuff, although I’m familiar with the trajectory anyway, but it’s certainly daunting when portrayed graphically like that.

            I think it was the general population they were talking about rather than TPTB, who didn’t fancy artisanal food, but I’m not sure – we were just chatting.

            Ironic anyway, given previous food safety scandals like the adulterated baby formula and suchlike (for which people were executed, if I recall).

            Digressing slightly, it’s all heating up in Hong Kong now too – that’s scary as well.

          • TPTB-USA June 14, 2019 at 9:53 am #

            GreenAlba- “Digressing slightly, it’s all heating up in Hong Kong now too – that’s scary as well.”

            I am under the impression that there is not the conflict between people in Asia like there is in the US.

            The 21:30 segment appears typical (I suspect conditioning may be a factor, and I would be interested in seeing otherwise).
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUHDAfD0Z-Q

            And when there is a crisis, I suspect the Asian people will be able to unite for the betterment of all, whereas it is difficult to envision unity among the citizens in the US, given the polarization.

            My sense is that the sentiment in your neck of the woods may be more like the citizens in the US than in Asia. Is that a fair assessment?

            I find some of Armstrong’s take interesting.

            What Happens When the Financial Capital of the World Moves?
            https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/ecm-armstrongeconomics101/what-happens-when-the-financial-capital-of-the-world-moves/

        • Slugoon June 12, 2019 at 4:26 pm #

          GA,

          Regarding the opponents of the WA, I do not see why sovereignty should be demanded by, or surrendered to, any non-EU country merely by way of having a trade agreement. I respect Dmitry Orlov but just because he sees us as a subsidiary of the USA doesn’t mean we are. I don’t think we are. Contrast: the EU is openly hostile to the Nation State and unquestionably requires the ceding of ever-more competencies as the price of trade.

          I believe the EU has become an impediment to trade, not the facilitator of it. It is they who are threatening punitive import tariffs post-Brexit, it is they who are forcing Irish farmers to look elsewhere, it is they who are establishing a hard border in Ireland. I mean, who is going to actually establish and enforce that border? You’re not going to. I’m not. Nigel Farage is not. The only people who will make sure that happens are the petulant autocrats in Brussels, gleefully aided and abetted by Leo Varadkar.

          Returning to the question of trade with far-flung lands I completely agree that Brexit shouldn’t be about shunning Europe in favour of some fantasy economic wonderland with The Rest of the World. European countries are logistically and qualitatively our best trading partners. That’s what the Common Market was before it was superseded by the ‘EU’.

          More specifically concerning environmental issues, I am also against the third runway at LHR (despite it being the industry I work in) as well as HS2 for all the reasons you mentioned. I believe strongly in localism but I haven’t squared how we will get there successfully in view of Tainter’s observation that it’s unlikely to be achieved voluntarily.

          • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 8:08 pm #

            Slugoon

            Well I’m fair delighted that we have your last two paragraphs in common! I think HS2 is an appalling waste of money and a ridiculous vanity project. And I love trains.

            Re “I do not see why sovereignty should be demanded by, or surrendered to, any non-EU country merely by way of having a trade agreement.” I don’t see why it should be demanded either but both Trump and his representatives have made it quite clear that it will be.

            They want agriculture to be a big part of the deal and they insist that we must lower our environmental, animal welfare, and food safety standards to accommodate theirs. And they are not going to let us away with anything less than the demands they are making to the EU – that their companies will be able to sue our supposedly sovereign government if we pass legislation that risks – just risks – affecting their bottom line.

            I am positively incensed by this coming from a foreign country we’re not even in an organisation with like the EU. I don’t understand how Brexiters, given their views on sovereignty, can countenance it.

            And the EU has made it clear that if we lower our standards to kowtow to the US, we won’t be able to trade agricultural produce with them. So we have to choose.

            I’ll leave the Irish border for another time, but even leaving aside normal trade issues, it will be interesting to see if EU migrants will just be able to move from the EU (Ireland) to the non-EU (NI) at will because there’s no border! I think ‘no border’ is for the birds, but I hope I’m wrong.

          • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 8:22 pm #

            Also, we have traitors in the matter like Jacob Rees-Mogg – he of the ‘if the regulations are good enough for India, why are they not good enough for the UK?’

          • Slugoon June 13, 2019 at 2:27 am #

            Then we don’t lower our standards and we don’t get into bed with the Americans. If they want our farm produce enough then those demands will disappear. If not, well, they’re not that bothered about what we’ve got to offer, are they? Same goes for anything we export.

            I am certainly with you on maintaining our relatively high food standards but let’s not forget the disastrous environmental consequences of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy nor the Common Agricultural Policy itself whose price controls, subsidies and market intervention caused oversupply, artificially high food prices, restricted and harmed competition from non-EU producers, rewarded large agribusiness farmers far more than small-scale farmers despite a greater need for local production and led to the indiscriminate use of pesticides and fertilisers to chase subsidies.

            You seem like a pragmatist where I am a contrarian, and maybe you’re right, but I see the EU as a racket in its purest form: a solution to a non-existent problem. They erect barriers to trade then take them down again provided you hand over some sovereignty and a huge wad of cash. Pure racketeering.

            Dismantle the whole thing then let the nation states trade again using their Comparative Advantage. Short term pain, possibly, but everything will find its place and I’ll be able to get a cheap Greek holiday again when they devalue the Drachma! 😉

          • Slugoon June 13, 2019 at 2:28 am #

            Oh, and the Irish border. Surely you just move it to the border of Ireland itself? The EU won’t like it but that’s their problem.

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 6:19 am #

            Slugoon

            I’m a pragmatist but I have my principles! And the lowering of standards to suit the US is something that offends both them and my idea of sovereignty.

            I think you’ve got the problem the wrong way round though:

            Then we don’t lower our standards and we don’t get into bed with the Americans. If they want our farm produce enough then those demands will disappear. If not, well, they’re not that bothered about what we’ve got to offer, are they? Same goes for anything we export.

            They don’t want our farm produce! That’s not the way it works – it’s about who’s more desperate to sell theirs. And that will be us, post-Brexit. And their giant McHealthcare companies want a big piece of the NHS, to boot.

            We’re getting Boris – he’s have to shag the Duchess of Cambridge to avoid being elected by the doting membership – and even then… And Boris would sell his granny – to the US or anyone else – for personal ambition. AND trade deals are being negotiated by Liam Fox – or to give him his full title, the disgraced former defence secretary, Dr Liam Fox. And they’re being negotiated in secret. Where’s your democracy now?

            We’ve been ‘in bed with the Americans’ for a long time. We got out of bed eagerly to follow them to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Our secret services er…’co-operate’. Big boy, little boy, although little boy taught big boy before hanging on to his coat tails.

            At least Harold Wilson kept us out of the quagmire of Vietnam. But little boy has £2 trillion of debt and finds principles more and more difficult to budget for. Talking of which, we want a trade deal with China too (big boy, little boy), but they’re pissing off the citizens of Hong Kong and contravening the treaty they signed with us in 1997 that was supposed to preserve the status quo for 50 years. Trade deal or principles? As if we had any choice anyway.

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 6:21 am #

            Slugoon

            “Oh, and the Irish border. Surely you just move it to the border of Ireland itself? The EU won’t like it but that’s their problem.”

            That’s what the EU proposed. It’s the DUP that won’t have any of it, because it jeopardises the integrity of the United Kingdom with regard to Northern Ireland.

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 6:34 am #

            To have the border in the Irish Sea (a sensible idea in many ways) means NI staying in a customs union with the EU.

            It paves the way for a united Ireland. Fine with me, but not yet with Snarlene and her party or those who vote for them. It will come in time, because of the relative birth rates between the two communities, but it’ll be a while yet. And there may be blood. Again.

            Maybe more people in the unionist and half-hearted unionist communities will start to see their future with Ireland, not that all of Ireland wants to inherit the fun and games that go on in NI.

            rUK is looking more like a possibility every day, especially since (to my chagrin) I see Nicola getting her way next time, thanks to Brexit. And she wants Scotland to go back in the EU but – very very significantly – we won’t get the exemptions we were never sufficiently grateful for in the UK, so it will mean the euro and Schengen and all that goes with them.

            Oh what a tangled web we weave…

          • Slugoon June 13, 2019 at 8:31 am #

            Damn your pragmatism, GA! Well, if the scales balance towards a buyer’s market as you say and they don’t want our farm produce, and neither do the Europeans due to the spiteful taxes imposed, then the industry will just have to be scaled back. The transition could be managed by continuing to provide tapered CAP payments (that is our money to begin with) from the saving in EU contributions for as long as it takes but I doubt it would be that severe if we were actually prepared to engage in a bit of brinkmanship.

            Regarding the Irish border: “It’s the DUP that won’t have any of it, because it jeopardises the integrity of the United Kingdom with regard to Northern Ireland.”

            You are more in tune with the mood and realities in Ireland so I will concede that I am being naive, flippant and probably wrong but I’ve got two opinions on that.

            (1) Tough titties. They either want a united Ireland in which case accept that you’re going to be treated slightly differently to the UK for reasons that we don’t exactly need to go to war over, or they don’t in which case accept that you’re getting a customs border.

            (2) Don’t enforce any border and make it the EU’s problem to implement a solution that is acceptable to them. Free movement of people isn’t an issue since somebody arriving in Dublin who waltzes over the border will be received as any non-EU national would be today. Free movement of goods – if Brexit happened tonight and an unrestricted flow of goods between the EU and the UK began tomorrow via Ireland, so what? It would be an economy burgeoning with deregulation! It’s the EU that would be bothered, make them solve it. That’s what the two-year transition period was supposed to be for.

            Shagging the Duchess of Cambridge. Now, there’s a thought. (You’re going to hate me for that, I know!) Better than Nicola. I don’t know why she would want any exemptions for an independent Scotland though. Surely she’s all in for the European ideal. Can’t be half-in half-out, surely?

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 10:04 am #

            Slugoon

            Starting from the end, which is nearer!

            “Better than Nicola. I don’t know why she would want any exemptions for an independent Scotland though. Surely she’s all in for the European ideal. Can’t be half-in half-out, surely?”

            Yeah, that’s Nicola. It’s not me. I’m happy that we have the exemptions that we have. They’re a big reason why our membership was such a good bargain in non-monetary terms. And it’s why we’re not totally ‘in’. We never were. But we pragmatists (who still have principles) are always overruled by the ideologues.

            I don’t even want Queen Nicola in an independent Scotland. And I’m likely to end up with Queen Nicola in an independent Scotland AND the euro AND Schengen. And all thanks to England – ta muchly 🙂 .

            Re the Irish border and (1), the thing is that there isn’t one ‘they’, which is the essence of the Irish problem. James VI & I planted a bunch of one lot of ‘theys’ among the existing ‘theys’ and ‘they’ have different aspirations.

            The DUP want the border with Ireland. Most people around the border (pragmatists again…) don’t want it. They’re used to going back and forward sometimes multiple times a day for business. The occasional farmer has a farm which straddles the border – think what that would do for your bookkeeping!!

            But I agree – don’t create the border, and handcuff and gag Snarlene and lock her in a cupboard for a few years.

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 10:20 am #

            And re ‘subsidiarity’, Slugoon, there are a few people on here too who would back Dmitry Orlov in describing the UK as America’s underling.

            A bunch of the Brexit leaders are ideological Atlanticists, which is their specific reason for hating the EU. Check out Liam Fox’s defunct ‘Atlantic Bridge’ and dark money, then tell me you trust him not to sell us down the river to corporate US interests.

            https://dangerousglobe.com/reports/brexit-the-atlantic-bridge-a-nice-business-to-do-people-with/

            And in lighter mode: 🙂

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1efOs0BsE0g

            Someone else posted this on here earlier.

          • Slugoon June 13, 2019 at 11:15 am #

            Thank you for letting me down gently 🙂 And thanks for the YouTube link, an amusing satire. Poor Julian.

            Are you saying you want to stick with the result of the first (indy) referendum then? (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

            I waded through The Atlantic Bridge piece. So much going on behind closed doors for a simpleton like me. I can only argue with one of the final quotes: “Brexit? A total sham dreamt up by the most extreme right wing bastards out there, and they have been planning it for years.”

            I have to say my negative opinions of the EU have been formed entirely from observation and personal conviction but obviously plenty of powerful people have other reasons. I was surprised to see George Osborne’s name in there.

            P.S. I looked up ‘subsidiarity’. It concerns a central authority performing only the tasks that can’t be done at a more local level. In a way it’s opposite to being a subsidiary of something else. I’ve learned something.

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 11:38 am #

            Slugoon

            “Are you saying you want to stick with the result of the first (indy) referendum then? (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)”

            No problem. I’m not denying their right to a Neverendum – I am just concerned that emotion and not reason will win the day. Results of emotional decisions are not always good. And I fully admit that that’s because of my anti-nationalist bias. Others will be happy. Till the bills have to be paid, presumably, and we have to take the euro, if we do. Not your problem now that you’ve dumped Brexit on us though!

            And I have always said that the rights of wrongs of Brexit per se are not the same as the very different motivations of the people who voted for it – and specifically between the motivations of those who voted for it and those who planned it from the top (Fox, Hannan, Raab, Rees-Mogg etc.) Their interests are clearly not the same.

            You only need to look at my arguments against Brexit. They’re not exactly standard – I didn’t hear the environment or oil depletion mentioned once in the campaign, and even Parliament is only catching up now on the implications of a trade deal with the US which was my worry from the start because I’d been following and supporting the anti-TTIP campaign.

            Liam Fox’s motives don’t cast any aspersions on yours.

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 11:43 am #

            And the reason Indyref2 is justified is because the situation has genuinely changed since 2014. Also because Scotland was specifically promised by David Cameron at the time that voting against independence was the best way to safeguard our membership of the EU, since the EU wasn’t at all interested, despite its sympathies, in taking in an independent Scotland, because of the implications for the Spanish Catalans.

            Now it seems they’re more than happy to take us, with conditions, i.e. without the exemptions and with the Euro.

            So it will be harder to fight the Nats next time around.

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 11:45 am #

            “You only need to look at my arguments against Brexit. They’re not exactly standard’ {me}

            My arguments aren’t even about Brexit per se – they’re about the unintended (but predictable) consequences of Brexit really.

      • volodya June 12, 2019 at 1:27 pm #

        I agree, “crisis” is the wrong term for it. It won’t come down to one jump off the cliff as we’ve so far seen a multi-decade degradation albeit with periodic Wall Street freak-outs and Fed and Treasury coordinated rescues. And we’ve seen international agencies try to prop up countries that hit debt walls.

        Like you said, the hard laws of physics will sort things out. You can’t expend more energy or calories in the planting than you extract from the harvest or you will starve. It may sound trite but I think it comes down to that. Adding complexity and the attendant caloric expenditures in the hope of ameliorating a shortage of calories won’t end well.

        As far as the Brexit debacle goes, wealthy people get listened to regardless of their irrationality. Their interests predominate. They’ll line up platoons of “intellectuals”, you know – cough – “experts” to buttress their case. What they want, what they’ve been after forever, are safe zones for money and its owners. The ordinary Joe will experience the economy like he experiences the weather, something out of his control, and especially something out of the reach of elected legislatures that have their hands tied by international treaty obligations. Look at the world, the EU included, and this is what it’s all about, and the hell with sustainability and economic or financial workability. Any initiative to dismantle these arrangements will run up against these same interests.

        No matter that a less complex, less energy intensive and more localized future is what’s in the cards, the short term takes precedence over the long. But then physics has its say.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 12, 2019 at 1:43 pm #

      Salvini is the hope of Italy and the rest of Europe as well (if only by example) if he continues to rise. You hate him of course since you aren’t for Free White Peoples in their own Nations. But who cares?

      Ave Salvini!

      • Slugoon June 12, 2019 at 5:30 pm #

        Janos,

        Not only that but his zero tolerance stance on immigration boats led to a significant drop in sea deaths yet the NGOs still cried bloody murder, which points to the fact that saving lives isn’t their primary goal.

        When we used to send the deportees back they went to Italy every single time, being their point of entry into the EU. There hasn’t been a single one for at least two years now.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 12, 2019 at 6:35 pm #

          Good point. Their hypocrisy is always a valuable angle to hammer away at. Of course more will die if they stay in Africa than if the invasion was allowed to continue. In other words? This angle is limited. The main point is what’s GOOD FOR US. Why? Because we matter and they don’t, not here anyway. A ha’penny in the box for the missions once a week and our moral debt is paid. Even that was enough to cause over-population down there.

          The Kabbalistic Three Pillars is valuable here. Both the Pillar of Mercy and the Pillar of Severity are imbalanced by definition in isolation from the other. A secular Christianized Social Gospel is the Pillar of Mercy on steroids and can only lead to tragedy. There is no way it wasn’t ever not going to do so. Of course the Enemy saw it and weaponized it to speed up the process, but disaster was coming sooner or later anyway. Only the Middle Pillar of Wisdom can save us now, but first we need to levy the Pillar of Severity as a way to rebalance and avoid driving off the left land and off the cliff.

          • Slugoon June 13, 2019 at 3:03 am #

            “…more will die if they stay in Africa than if the invasion was allowed to continue.”

            I’m not even sure if that’s true. How many billions have been sent to Africa since Geldof’s shindig in the 80s? Nothing has changed as far as I can tell. Most of it went on guns not grain. I think they’ll be permanently on the edge of starvation regardless of how many people emigrate.

            Anyway, I’m taking a screenshot of this. My first interaction with the mighty Janos!

      • Slugoon June 12, 2019 at 5:57 pm #

        Sorry, I should say *I* haven’t seen one for at least two years now.

    • TPTB-USA June 13, 2019 at 11:41 am #

      volodya- “What a lot of folks are saying is that Theresa May, a Remainer, tried to deliver Brexit without an actual exit. ”

      Perhaps some can extract a chuckle out of this one:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=yGL-XJPuCuo

      • volodya June 13, 2019 at 12:39 pm #

        Hilarious.

  101. Elrond Hubbard June 12, 2019 at 11:47 am #

    Graduation gone bad: Salutatorians rip their Detroit charter school

    Zainab Altalaqani, 18, and Tuhfa Kasem, 17, of Detroit were both named salutatorian at Universal Academy. They used their graduation ceremony speeches to blast their school.

    https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2019/06/10/salutatorians-criticize-charter-school-graduation/1381474001/

    “Two top students at a Detroit charter school used their graduation ceremony speeches to blast their new alma mater for what they said was an inferior education and a culture of secrecy.

    “The pair accused Universal Academy on Detroit’s west side of churning substitute teachers through their classrooms, backing out of promised benefits, firing teachers who advocated for kids and silencing students and parents who speak out.

    “CEO Nawal Hamadeh ordered the microphone silenced during the second speech but by then, the point had been made, said Tuhfa Kasem, 17, whose speech was cut short.

    “‘She asked for me to be escorted out but the parents had my back,’ Kasem said. ‘The cops came in. The parents were like “you’re not going to touch her.”‘ …

    “Kasem’s speech followed a shorter speech by Zainab Altalaqani, a co-salutatorian and friend. The girls accuse the school of using long-term substitute teachers and other means to save money at the expense of the education of the children.

    “They point to the 2016 firing of eight teachers at the school as an example of not caring about kids. …

    “The school caters to a student population that includes many immigrant children, including those from Yemen and Iraq, who need additional help learning English.”

    Note to reactionaries: Sub-standard education is not going to help integrate new arrivals. Kinda the reverse.

    • Exscotticus June 12, 2019 at 12:08 pm #

      >>> Note to reactionaries: Sub-standard education is not going to help integrate new arrivals. Kinda the reverse.

      Note to revolutionaries: Using a ceremony as your own personal bully pulpit is in poor taste. Do you attend funerals so that you can criticize the deceased, too? Learn some fucking manners maybe? Any “new arrivals” that can’t accept our cultural norms shouldn’t be here.

      • Elrond Hubbard June 12, 2019 at 4:27 pm #

        Heh. Unclear on the ‘revolutionary’ concept, are we?

      • Majella June 12, 2019 at 8:20 pm #

        Exscotticus:

        “Using a ceremony as your own personal bully pulpit is in poor taste”

        Come on! These were “Salutatorians” who get to say whatever they like. By your rules, they would have had to drivel mealy-mouthed, dishonest platitudes. Real inspiring…

        I gather that this is one of those BS “chartered” academies, where the public education dollar is given to a ‘business’ whereupon they, not unsurprisingly, seek to squeeze every last dollar of profit that the Owners can while meeting the minimum requirements for continued funding.

        There are so many examples of inspiring and successful public schools in the US where that public option has not been jettisoned.

        https://www.pinterest.nz/lfapins/public-school-success-stories/

        • Exscotticus June 13, 2019 at 12:30 am #

          >>> Come on! These were “Salutatorians” who get to say whatever they like

          Right. Because if these students had decided to abuse the privilege by promoting Trump or trashing Lefties, you’d be all for it, yes? That’s your story? Uh huh…

          • Elrond Hubbard June 13, 2019 at 1:21 pm #

            And your story is that you would have been equally indignant either way? Because what it’s about is decorum.

          • Majella June 13, 2019 at 6:52 pm #

            ” Because if these students had decided to abuse the privilege by promoting Trump or trashing Lefties, you’d be all for it, yes? That’s your story? Uh huh…”

            That’s right, Exscotticus, because I’m not a hypocritical ass.

            I said they “…get to say whatever they like” because the 1st Amendment says so, doesn’t it? Or are you one of the “Cherry-picker Constitutionalists” ?

          • Exscotticus June 13, 2019 at 9:21 pm #

            >>> because the 1st Amendment says so, doesn’t it?

            No it doesn’t. 1A places limits on governments—not on private charter schools. And it doesn’t give you the right to yell fire in a crowded theater when there’s no fire, either.

          • Elrond Hubbard June 14, 2019 at 9:47 am #

            There are lots of reasons to privatize public facilities, not only schools. Large corporations taking the opportunity to scoop out taxpayer money and line the pockets of people like Betsy DeVos is one. Creating spaces where private power eclipses people’s constitutionally guaranteed rights is another. To the promoters of charter schools, both of these are features, not bugs. And Ex clearly considers the latter to be a welcome feature as well.

          • Exscotticus June 14, 2019 at 10:22 am #

            >>> There are lots of reasons to privatize public facilities

            My argument was never against the message—only the manner in which it was delivered. NFL players who “take a knee” in protest have a valid message as well. And they should similarly not be communicating it on the job. People turn on NFL to watch football—not to view a select group of multi-million-dollar players virtue-signal their SJW creds.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 12, 2019 at 1:47 pm #

      Are you blaming Whites for this? Sub Standard is probably all their capable of. What they want? A madrassa.

      Maybe it was inferior. Haven’t we told you the system is overwhelmed? And isn’t that what you wanted a la Cloward Piven? Yet you want to blame us – just like they do. Fuck both of you.

      • GreenAlba June 12, 2019 at 3:22 pm #

        “Sub Standard is probably all their capable of. ”

        Ah, the sweet smell of irony on a damp evening…

    • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 3:58 pm #

      That’s what happens when the schools screw up and actually teach their kids to think for themselves. Good stuff!

  102. Elrond Hubbard June 12, 2019 at 11:50 am #

    Jury can’t decide on charges against Arizona border activist

    https://www.apnews.com/2fe6f48dc23c4a6887a6620a100aeba1

    “TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A U.S. jury could not reach a verdict Tuesday against a border activist charged with conspiracy to transport and harbor migrants in a trial that humanitarian aid groups said would have wide implications on their work.

    “Defense attorneys argued that Scott Daniel Warren, a 36-year-old college geography instructor, was simply being kind by providing two migrants with water, food and lodging when he was arrested in early 2018. He faced up to 20 years in prison.

    “But prosecutors maintained the men were not in distress and Warren conspired to transport and harbor them at a property used for providing aid to migrants in an Arizona town near the U.S.-Mexico border.

    “The case played out as humanitarian groups say they are coming under increasing scrutiny under President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies.

    “Outside the courthouse, Warren thanked his supporters and criticized the government’s efforts to crack down on the number of immigrants coming to the U.S.”

    Who thinks there’ll be a retrial? Taking all bets! (No, not really.)

  103. 450.org June 12, 2019 at 12:40 pm #

    If that kaka website is what you are forced to base your case on it just shows how desperate you are.

    I don’t have a case, but I do have an opinion and my opinion is based on logical reasoning.

    What is the point of reporting polls to the public by the media?

    It’s clear to me the point is to persuade people to think and act a certain way — the way the media’s sponsors want you to think & behave. They use basic human psychology to accomplish this. Humans are social animals who don’t want to be left behind or left out. Polls play on that most basic, visceral condition. They tell the social animal what the pack is thinking and how it’s behaving, regardless of whether that is accurate or not, and the social animal, in order to fit in and belong, thinks and acts the same way as the majority of the pack in order not to be left behind and/or be ostracized.

    No thank you, I’ll make up my own mind and, regardless of the accuracy of such polls that ARE NOT scientific by any means, what the general public thinks and feels about the issue at hand or about any particular candidate doesn’t mean jack shit to me and it shouldn’t to you either if you have any sense of objectivity & independence.

  104. FincaInTheMountains June 12, 2019 at 2:18 pm #

    Manufacturing defines a healthy economic sovereign but America offshored manufacturing because the Wall Street executives at the time mistakenly thought that they could turn China into the manufacturing base of the world if they pegged China’s growth to the petro-dollar and held them in bondage to Central Bank Interest Rates & USD world reserve currency status. == Robert White

    Despite the obviousness of the utility of the industry and not such obviousness of the usefulness of the global financial system, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that industrial capitalism does not need people.

    People interfere with capitalism in general, but especially people interfere specifically with industrial capitalism: they futilely devour resources and multiply without taking into account the needs of production.

    But financial capitalism found a way to generate jobs almost unlimitedly, without stopping the machine of civilization driven by lust, hunger and despair.

    This allowed financial capitalism to put off the main task of capitalism in general – the destruction of unnecessary labor, which actually predetermined the alliance in the Second World War between financial capitalism and Stalinism, which tried to rely on labor.

    • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 3:04 pm #

      Thing is, without the people, in the form of consumers, there’s no need for capitalism whatsoever. Capitalism is a closed loop system, people producing things, which they then buy/consume and presumably derive some sort of utility. Somewhere along the line a few people get richer – preferably in reasonable proportion – and a few people get to pull up the rear. All allegedly based on their “skill and savvy in the marketplace,” which as we all know, ALWAYS assigns such judgments fairly and equitably. [Can a devil get a FUCKING AMEN!!! here?] The accounting boys and politicians, born shills to big business that they are, have of course been instructed to ignore the externalities of the production process, the better for them to be fobbed off on the public commons, where blame is difficult to assign at best long after the fact.

      Capitalism’s evil spawn, financialism, is basically just so much fun with numbers, invented by bored egg heads – usually of a certain ethnic persuasion – with too much time on their hands and a morbid fascination with world domination. It goes by many names – Ponzi scheme and pyramid scheme are my two favorites – but it relies on people’s inborn inability to understand how pernicious the exponential function can be when applied by people with inside knowledge against people who don’t. The whole scheme works well enough all right, right up until the end game – collapse – arrives at least, and then it’s anyone’s guess how it will all work out. But lucky for us, WE’RE ALL ABOUT TO FIND OUT!!!

      • FincaInTheMountains June 12, 2019 at 4:35 pm #

        Thing is, without the people, in the form of consumers, there’s no need for capitalism whatsoever

        That’s because you are not seeing thing from the point of view of the Color World Projects.

        Why the “perfecti” need consumers for? To waste valuable resources?

        Just wait a few years when robots will replace 99% of the workforce in manufacturing – and that’s optimistic estimate. Than they’ll really want to eliminate extra “profane” for lack of utility.

        We’ll be lucky to be eliminated “humanely” through the use of opioids. Zyklon B is most probable option.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B

        And by the way, I DO NOT APPRECIATE YOUR DIRTY HINTS on “egg heads – usually of a certain ethnic persuasion”.

        That’s a NAZI persuasion in you speaking!

        • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 6:16 pm #

          I do realize that there’s a higher viewpoint of all this, whether you call it Colored Projects or just plain old Globalist Zionism. Can’t help referring to Zionists as what they are, whether you call that Nazi-ism or just plain old common sense-ism. By the way, you of course already know that Zionism encompasses far more than just Jews, although it’s their whole philosophy/religion/what have you that’s been put to use in service of the cause. If I were a Jew, and I know of many who have, I’d be speaking out LOUDLY against the Zionist crowd that cowers in their midst. The whole antisemitism shtick/shield that they hide behind is getting a little long in the tooth after all these many years, and a whole lot of people have gotten a peek behind the curtain at what they’re up to and are at long last getting pretty damn fed up with it. “God’s chosen” my ass!

      • TPTB-USA June 12, 2019 at 7:20 pm #

        AMEN!!! and well said.

        Is that the accumulation of knowledge you have gleaned from years of dissecting your customers, or are those original thoughts that have permeated your mind in all your spare time?

        • Ol' Scratch June 13, 2019 at 6:44 am #

          A combination of both. I work with quite a few “stiff pricks” who bring the point home personally, but I’ve always been fascinated by the subject. I did my undergrad graduation paper back in the early nauts on US debt collapse, knowing full well that if I didn’t drink myself to death first, I would be alive to see how it all turned out. Now, less than twenty years later, I’m seeing it all play out first hand, and filled out my knowledge of the whos and whys in addition to the hows in the meantime.

          • TPTB-USA June 13, 2019 at 12:58 pm #

            If you were King, would you have any experiments you’d like to try on the herd in an attempt to rectify the issues associated with US debt collapse?

            BTW, how did you get into your current occupation? Did the previous owner anticipate the die-off and subsequent death of business after the rush was over, and figured he better get out while the getting was good? Or, did he loose faith in mankind when he saw crafty financialism wizards try to out fox him and steal his business? Or, …?

  105. Janos Skorenzy June 12, 2019 at 2:29 pm #

    Ten Points for Conservatives by Frank Roman

    1. Pieces of paper did not create the West. People did. To be more specific, European Whites created Western civilization, which the rest of the world now benefits from.

    2. Appeasing the left, using their terms and narratives and buzzwords against people to your right will never make them, the left, like you or convert them to your own right, that you attack, to your conservative cuckery.

    3. Your beloved “Set of ideas” and Government structure you like so much will be voted out between 2030/2050. 1 million left wing, “legal” third worlders come from south of the border each year, plus illegals and “refugees”. Between 2030/2050 the majority of Americans will be central Americans, and they will transform America into a central American style, socialist country.

    4. The constitution was designed for a specific people and doesn’t magically enforce itself. In fact, it is now on life support.

    5. A noble loser is still a loser. You can see them everyday on allegedly conservative social media sites, but especially in the fully corrupted Republican party you hold allegiance to. Sean Hannity won’t save you.

    6. You will never convince non-Whites to give up their racial consciousness because they are born and raised to be tribal. And they wont give it up after Whites become a minority.

    7. Whites will not become a protected minority, even if White’s, statistically, are a minority in America ( see #6).

    8. Every race, except for Whites, has aggressive lobbying groups to give only their race more power in the corporate world and in Government. The internet isn’t lying about this.

    9. You missed the canary in the coal mine: They were Zimbabwe and South Africa. If you have the stomach, search and look at what happened to their minority White populations.

    10. It is now mandatory that you care about the future of your own people. STOP caring about the opinions of cultural Marxists, anti-Whites, democrats and other enemies who hate you for not hating yourself, and begin taking steps now to extend and protect the future of your own White children — unless you’re too selfish and self serving to have any.

    These ‘Race 101’ ideas confirm two basic laws of the Natural world:

    Demography is life.

    And / or…

    Demography is death.

    JS: For John Az. A good man who has been misled his entire life. May he awaken now towards the end.

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    • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 3:18 pm #

      Thing is, JS, and I keep coming back to this, white elites, and to a certain extent whites of all classes, have essentially done this to themselves by importing cheap labor for the economic benefits in the first place. And to top it all off, now of course, the MICC is waging war the world over for the express purpose of creating refugee hordes, who then oblige them by swarming our borders. All of the points above are indeed correct, but in the end, who do we blame for this state of affairs? The minorities who are merely making the best of a bad situation (initially, at least) for them, or the white traitors among us who chose personal profits over national and racial integrity? Better question: what’s to be done about it now at this late date?

      • Slugoon June 12, 2019 at 6:05 pm #

        Yep entirely self-inflicted with little blame to be placed at anyone else’s door. Post-colonial guilt or an evolutionary anomaly? I just can’t rationalise it.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 12, 2019 at 6:23 pm #

          The Christian guilt complex didn’t go away because people fell away from the faith. It secularized into social gospel. And then our Enemies saw an opportunity and weaponized the guilt complex against us. And since they owned the media, their campaign has been amazingly successful. And of course the Class Tyrants saw a way to exchange class conflict for racial conflict – taking the attention away from them onto to Whites as a whole. Ambitious politicians savaged their own People as a way to show they were righteous and down with the Cause as well. Ditto Institutions – ultimately all of them including the Corporations.

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 11:56 am #

            “The Christian guilt complex didn’t go away because people fell away from the faith. It secularized into social gospel. ”

            Christian guilt originated in human society anyway, so it was just completing the circle and going back to where it started, without the middle (bogey)man it had created.

      • volodya June 13, 2019 at 1:10 pm #

        You blame the white traitors because they are all white. You follow the money and that’s where the money leads. But it’s not just a few oligarchs to blame. They got academic cover from the economics profession, and from the foreign policy elite, and from media allies. Maybe you can think of a few more.

        It’s not just importing cheap labor, it’s offshoring factories to take advantage of cheap labor overseas and south of the border

        What’s to be done? There’s many millions of people in the US that came either legally or illegally. How do you get them out? I say you can’t. But you can stop the inflow.

        And those factories are not coming back. They are under de-facto foreign control whether or not the Tim Cooks of the world want to believe it or not. But the financial stresses built into the global system of production and consumption will bring it down. What temporarily is propping up the system is a monetary regime of interest rate suppression in order to facilitate more and more debt to keep production and consumption going.

        It may sound trite but the only way forward is to pay the Chinese worker to buy what he manufactures and to pay the American worker to manufacture what he buys.

    • Exscotticus June 13, 2019 at 12:24 am #

      I’ll take a brown libertarian over a white socialist any day.

      Race doesn’t matter; values matter. Find your kindred spirits wherever they are and whatever race they happen to be.

      • Slugoon June 13, 2019 at 6:14 am #

        I agree but is this attitude reciprocated outside of Europe and N. America? Some day you may just have to pick a side.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 13, 2019 at 1:25 pm #

          And that day is yesterday.

      • Janos Skorenzy June 13, 2019 at 1:28 pm #

        Flail and fail. The Ideology of Death or one of them at least. Get ready to be a peasant for your Chinese Masters or a Dhimmi in Global Islam.

        The Brown Libertarians are still loyal to their own people, you fool. Ditto the Jewish ones. They don’t have your Nordic obsession with being sincere, you see.

  106. volodya June 12, 2019 at 2:56 pm #

    Montsegur, if you’re out there, about your reply last week: I remember that discussion we had not long ago. I just looked it up, March 24, 2019 in Jim’s Coercion Meets its Match posting of March 22, 2019.

    You made mention of wehrmacht decision making loops being well inside that of allied armies thus giving the Germans huge advantages.

    Fascinating thing about decision making loops, nowadays as you say, political decision-making machinery is always steps behind the discussion happening on social media. They used to have bought and paid for outlets feeding people the line of the day and they could fool a lot of the people a good deal of the time. But people now compare notes on forums such as this one. We say things like “did you just see what I just saw?” If even two people agree on what the government insists with all its might didn’t happen, it’s not just the two commenters in a private sewing circle, many others read the commentary. Government authority goes down the drain at a far faster clip than previous generations.

    If governments can’t keep up, people will take matters into their own hands. We’ve seen this before.

  107. Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 3:31 pm #

    The old coot’s finally gone around the bend:

    “.@JoeBiden in Ottumwa, Iowa: “I promise you if I’m elected president, you’re going to see the single most important thing that changes America — we’re going to cure cancer.”

    https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/06/200pm-water-cooler-6-12-2019.html

    Memo to Ol’ Joe: Strict 5:00 PM Happy Hour rules are now in effect with a two drink limit for you! And keep your hands to yourself, you Ol’ Dirty Bastard!

    • Tate June 12, 2019 at 3:41 pm #

      No more hair-smelling interludes with the female staffers.

  108. Tate June 12, 2019 at 3:46 pm #

    Sarah Silverman, “comedianne” exploded in twittering outrage after learning that VP Mike Pence confirmed that the Gay Pride flag would not be flying at 4 U.S. embassies that had requested permission to do so:

    Dear @VP you are a hate mongering, fear based weasel & your biggest irony is that if there was hell, you’d 100% be going there. I hope you go 2 prison 4 crimes against humanity re: the lgbt community, women’s rights & the babies u rip from the arms of parents seeking our help”

    Projection much?

    • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 4:02 pm #

      Didn’t realize they had their own flag now too. I wonder if they’re considering seceding? Nevada or Utah might be nice.

    • BackRowHeckler June 12, 2019 at 4:08 pm #

      Wait a minute. Are you saying homosexuals have their own flag? What’s it represent? A swath of territory? A way of life? A state of mind? A new nation? I’ve heard the word ‘Pride’ a lot in the past few weeks, but there has to be a heap of angst mixed in with this so called ‘Pride’. At any rate, what is there to be proud of?

      Brh

      • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 6:06 pm #

        I think it’s that rainbow thingy.

      • malthuss June 12, 2019 at 6:35 pm #

        the late 19th century releasing PCBs,

        You meant 20th century..PCBS were not in 1800s.

        • BackRowHeckler June 12, 2019 at 6:53 pm #

          My mistake Malth.

          It was the GE plant in Pittsfield.

          Brh

          • malthuss June 13, 2019 at 12:27 pm #

            El Ay, or beach areas are festooned? with banners–
            PC stuff like –black women count..

            I forget the exact slogans.
            I may force myself to memorize some and share.
            Sickening…this stuff costs money.

      • elysianfield June 12, 2019 at 11:05 pm #

        “Wait a minute. Are you saying homosexuals have their own flag?”

        BRH,
        The real question is how many divisions they have….

        …Probably a butt-load….

        • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 6:44 am #

          EF

          The persistence of this kind of nonsense is why gay pride is a thing in the first place, when we should all just be able to get on with our lives without people talking about their flippin’ sexuality at all.

          And as I’ve suggested before, the ‘butt’ jokes are so ridiculously passé anyway given the current obsession of heterosexual men with anal sex.

          I once read that about 20% of gay men don’t even like anal sex.

          And the other stuff that they do is expected by almost all heterosexual men too.

          So maybe people should try growing up.

          • elysianfield June 13, 2019 at 12:29 pm #

            “So maybe people should try growing up.”

            Alba,
            Where humor is concerned, many men, myself included (apparently) are victims of arrested development.

            Many, many men….

        • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 8:04 am #

          If you can cope…

          https://www.good.is/articles/gay-sex-is-not-anal-sex

          “By contrast, only 36 percent of men reporting receiving anal sex and 34 percent of men reporting giving it. ”

          Compare that 34% with the number of heterosexual men, maybe…(leaving aside what they choose to watch on Pornhub).

          But the thing about a lot of heterosexual men is that they’ve never moved beyond enjoying the kind of innuendo they enjoyed when they were 14. And they’ve never lost the insecurities they had in the school changing room either. And so it goes…

          • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 8:07 am #

            With apologies for the unintended and overworn pun, obviously.

    • Janos Skorenzy June 12, 2019 at 6:25 pm #

      I suppose that means all but four embassies are flying the jolly (gay) roger? Total fail on all levels. Does everyone now realize the desperate need for a Straight Pride Movement – one to be infiltrated if not created by White Nationalists?

      • Janos Skorenzy June 12, 2019 at 6:26 pm #

        William Burroughs like pirates cuz many of them were into Queerism. BRH has been studying all this so ask him if you don’t believe me.

        • Ol' Scratch June 12, 2019 at 6:45 pm #

          I suppose that means all but four embassies are flying the jolly (gay) roger?

          LOL! I can only imagine the symbolism they’d employ on that flag.

        • BackRowHeckler June 12, 2019 at 7:38 pm #

          Nah that’s a myth, Janos.

          Homosexuality amongst pirates (Golden Age of Piracy 1655-1725) was about the same as in general population, 2.5% — 3%. Sodomy was not looked on kindly amongst some crews and could get you tossed overboard.

          Brh

          • elysianfield June 13, 2019 at 12:34 pm #

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-1BVhTAfTI

          • malthuss June 13, 2019 at 12:48 pm #

            Like the the guy who died on Ascension Island, long ago.
            They found his notes.
            White people have turned the place into a parrot dise.

  109. auburn June 12, 2019 at 5:24 pm #

    While the Bill of Rights protects us from the tyranny of an oppressive government, many in the establishment would like the American people to submit to the tyranny of oligarchs, multinational corporations, Wall Street banks, and billionaires.

    In 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed an economic bill of rights, because he knew that there cannot be true freedom without economic security. He was not able to enact it before his death. Seventy-five years later, that job falls to us.

    That is why Bernie Sanders is proposing we complete the unfinished work of FDR and the Democratic Party by putting forth a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights. These rights include:

    Quality health care

    A complete education

    A good job that pays a living wage

    Affordable housing

    A secure retirement

    A clean environment

    • BackRowHeckler June 12, 2019 at 6:28 pm #

      Breadline Bernie got a lot of plans to build a new Utopia, but pushing 80 not much time to carry them out..

      I’d like to see Breadline down in Caracas, living his convictions, manning the ramparts, battling enemies of The Revolution, reliving the Glory Days of Havana back in ’59 and those unforgettable halcyon days of Paris ’68.

      POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

      RIGHT ON!

      fist in the air!

      Brh

    • BackRowHeckler June 12, 2019 at 6:35 pm #

      Also, Little Jane, that list of rights sounds familiar.

      Its pretty close to what Gov Newsom has promised every illegal who successfully eludes ICE and makes it into Cal home free.

      Brh

      • benr June 13, 2019 at 9:32 am #

        Yea on our dime and not his how dare he!
        He should be recalled and caned.

  110. FincaInTheMountains June 12, 2019 at 5:37 pm #

    This is a holiday with tears in the eyes!

    In fact, this is my holiday, since I honor the memory of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, whose election on May 29, 1990 as Chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet, allowed Russia to jump out of the collapsing building of the USSR, as the Americans say, “in one piece.”

    And two weeks later, on June 12, 1990, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic thereby declared its sovereignty, adopting the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the RSFSR and introducing the priority of Russian laws over all-Union legislation.

    And if this had not happened, the USSR would have collapsed in accordance with the plan, or rather, the task of Gorbachev, after all the autonomous republics were equated to the Union republics and the RSFSR would be transformed from a federation into a confederation.

    That is, after the completion of the Novogarevo process, the map of Russia would look like this:

    https://img2.freepng.ru/20180810/gsr/kisspng-republics-of-russia-republics-of-the-soviet-union-all-posts-of-subreddit-imagesofrussia-5b6d4f7dd63436.6449924615338904298774.jpg

    Do you like it?

    But I think that the disintegration process would not stop there, and the “world community” would point out the inconsistency of the territorial coherence of Russia with the Kremlin’s geopolitical claims, for example, that trains from Moscow to Vladivostok have to cross the state border of independent Tatarstan.

    And what in this case the map of Russia would looked like, well, let’s say in 2000, I do not presume to predict. But on the other hand, I confidently argue that Al-Qaida would have seized power in Tatarstan and against their background Shamil Basayev would have seemed like a sweet, intelligent person, and the total population of all the territories that now belong to the Russian Federation would not exceed 65-70 million.

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    • Ol' Scratch June 13, 2019 at 6:36 am #

      You might be the only person in the history of the world to celebrate the memory of this drunken, oligarch ass-kissing, buffoon, Ol’ Finc! Proof once again that alcohol infused THC is one helluva drug!

      • FincaInTheMountains June 13, 2019 at 12:42 pm #

        What else could you expect from the spawn of infernal force – I am telling you that as a certified specialist in horns and hooves.

  111. malthuss June 12, 2019 at 6:45 pm #

    I got this

    douglas leftwich

    How are you doing?

    I need an urgent favor. I’m suppose to get a Gamestop gift card for my Nephew, It his birthday but i can’t do this now because I’m currently traveling and i tried purchasing online but unfortunately no luck with that. Can you get it from any store around you? I’ll pay back as soon as i am back. Kindly let me know if you can handle this.

    Thanks,
    Doug

  112. Pucker June 12, 2019 at 7:59 pm #

    I read that under the campaign rules that candidates get to pocket the money left over from their campaigns. I recall that shortly after his 2016 run that Bernie Sanders and his wife bought a $650,000 house in Vermont. Bernie has already come out and said that he’ll support Biden, which is a complete abrogation of everything that Bernie claims that he stands for. “You gotta be very cynical.”

    https://secure.actblue.com/donate/beto-email-button-20190612

    • Pucker June 12, 2019 at 8:32 pm #

      “Beto for Everyone”….

      It’s not possible to be “for everyone” since people have different interests, right? Shallow….

  113. Pucker June 12, 2019 at 9:41 pm #

    Some people assert that the period of the 1950’s was a “Hell” for some marginalized groups of people.

    But isn’t a bit of a non sequitur?

    After all, wouldn’t a place filled with beautiful, happy, contented people be a “Hell” for the physically and mentally disfigured?

    • Pucker June 12, 2019 at 10:11 pm #

      Deneen says that “Diversity” and “Globalism” are euphemisms for “Anticulture”.

      Since culture is a set of norms and traditions handed down largely through the family, then why would anyone get married and have kids in an environment that is Anticulture?

      Patrick J. Deneen
      Why Liberalism Failed

      • benr June 13, 2019 at 9:30 am #

        The answer is many are not by choice or fate.
        I suspect that is why the new push on the streets is also telling the kids the new cool is queer.
        How many gay couples will go on to have kids I see some but not many.
        Worse I see many couples trying and failing which is sad.

        • benr June 13, 2019 at 9:51 am #

          That should have been worse I see many straight couples trying and failing sad. The trying is fun the failing is sad.

        • Janos Skorenzy June 13, 2019 at 1:33 pm #

          Imagine having two Gay Dads. Double trouble. At the back of their minds most probably intend to initiate the boy into the lifestyle. Maybe they should be forbidden from adopting boys. Of course if we could do that we could also forbid them from marrying and adopting at all.

          Likewise, if we had the power to regulate minorities, we’d also have the power to make them leave a la Jefferson, Lincoln, et al.

          • Tate June 13, 2019 at 7:09 pm #

            You don’t hear that phrase “at the back of (their/my/your/his/her) mind” much anymore. But people are basically good, aren’t they? Man’s sinful / fallen nature is an absurd idea, right?

  114. Pucker June 12, 2019 at 11:49 pm #

    Chris Arnade would only give people less than $10 bucks because he knew that if they asked for $10 bucks that they wanted it to buy drugs as that was the market price of a “hit”. If they asked for $10 bucks at a McDonalds, he demurred and offered to buy them a burger instead. Arnade said that even when they asked for less than $10 bucks he suspected that they probably used the money to buy drugs anyway.

    “You gotta be cynical.”

    Chris Arnade
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  115. auburn June 13, 2019 at 4:06 am #

    Trump wants to win so badly in 2020 that he just made an offer to every foreign spy agency and American enemy, saying if they have dirt that can help him win, he is listening. North Korea, China, Russia, Iran, it doesn’t matter to Trump, he is ready to accept information from foreign spies. “Russia, if you’re listening” all over again. And he says he doesn’t need to let the FBI know. Treason is an impeachable offense. Trump is a clear national security threat, as reported by FoxNews, Washington Times, ABC, and CNN.

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    • BackRowHeckler June 13, 2019 at 8:00 am #

      Little Jane, Pkrugman, Asoka et al

      You were saying the same thing 3 years ago

      Think of something new, keep it fresh, invent some other slanders, lest you get kicked off this board for the 10th time (for boring everybody) by Jim.

      Brh

    • benr June 13, 2019 at 9:25 am #

      Well I will give you one thing a persistence in half truths or out right lies.
      You might just be the biggest idiot here.

      • Majella June 13, 2019 at 7:01 pm #

        He said it ON TV, benr. Then and yesterday.

        • benr June 13, 2019 at 8:13 pm #

          Said what he would listen to intel from foreign agencies and report it to the FBI?
          That is not treason and the douchebag saying it is an idiot if he doesn’t know that.
          How ever attempting a soft coup and failing is treason.

          What about hiring a foreign intelligence agency to drum up fake intel, illegally wiretap private citizens using known flawed intel, or use the IRS against their opponents.
          Drone under age Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki an American citizens to death without due process or start an off the books war in Syria and lybia and laugh about it?
          We came we saw he died! Arming Syrian rebels tied to the JV team!

  116. Ol' Scratch June 13, 2019 at 6:32 am #

    Trump continues to disappoint, focusing on high cost trivial shit to boost his ego, rather than getting down to the business we put him there for.

    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclusive-trump-unveils-patriotic-paint-job-air-force/story?id=63676678

    Memo to GGG: How about flying in any one of the many generic unmarked aircraft the USAF already has in the inventory? Why would you want a bullseye painted on an aircraft with POTUS and his staff of lackeys and bootlickers onboard anyway? Shades of imperialist Nazi Fourth Reich grandeur, anyone?

  117. BackRowHeckler June 13, 2019 at 8:47 am #

    GA, to pick up an earlier thread …

    Nice detailed answer about national and local identity in GB. You really put a lot of thought into it. Thankyou.

    Interesting about Salmon farms in Scotland and the environmental problems that have ensued. A progam is currently running on PBS about salmon farms in Norway, and they’re are experiencing the same trouble there to the extent the govt has had to step in and try to sort it out. Back in the day salmon was rare here — I don’t ever remember having it (we had plenty of trout from the Farmington River in our backyard, literally) but now salmon is available at the local grocery store for as little as $5.99 per pound. It must be the farmed salmon.

    Brh

    • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 10:50 am #

      You’re welcome, brh. I don’t know if I’m more Scottish than British. I’m equally happy with both. I am totally at home where I am but I could be very happy and almost equally at home in some of the lovely parts of England. I don’t know Wales so well although I’ve visited.

      Re the rarety of salmon, it used to be really expensive here before salmon farming and was considered a major treat. I never had fresh salmon as a child – we got John West’s out of a tin in sandwiches or with salad! Salmon farming has changed all that but the environmental cost is enormous.

      My husband told me a couple of times that there used to be so much salmon in the rivers centuries ago that the peasants had a low-level revolt in some places because they were sick of the sight of it and wanted meat!

      • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 11:22 am #

        And John West’s was only for Sunday tea 🙂 .

      • Janos Skorenzy June 13, 2019 at 1:38 pm #

        My Dad (and others as well) said the Welsh are bizarrely secretive even within their own families and ferociously ethnocentric, the latter no doubt due to the endless war against the Anglo-Saxon invaders.

        Stay out of Wales, budgie. I’m not sure exactly what budgie means or if it is even a word, but it sounds right. Sounds have meanings apart from language per se. But ancient languages took this into account and were built along such mantric lines.

        • Tate June 13, 2019 at 7:15 pm #

          Is it true the Welsh are gifted with Second Sight? Or at least many of them.

          The only Welshman I ever knew was anything but secretive. He was always telling tales behind people’s backs. But then some claimed he was Gay.

        • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 8:03 pm #

          Wales has some incredibly beautiful places and the people are friendly (and the accent delightful). I’ll be back. I do love a Welsh male voice choir too.

    • GreenAlba June 13, 2019 at 11:02 am #

      We once brought smoked salmon back from Ireland – just what was on sale at the airport but it was wild salmon and had a totally different texture from the farmed stuff, which is soft because the salmon don’t have to do any work.

      I once saw the salmon leaping at Banchory in Aberdeenshire, some of them trying over and over while the heron waited patiently for the exhausted ones. It was really impressive. Same falls as here, but there were more salmon as it was 45 years ago:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmzxsfCpE5s

      You obviously have more extensive wildlife so it’s probably less impressive for you! I got some good photos at the time – some of the salmon were pretty big.

  118. Pucker June 13, 2019 at 9:07 am #

    A lot of drug use in the US now even in rural small towns. Sheriff Taylor and Barnie Fife confronting a heroin and Crystal Meth epidemic in Mayberry. Aint Bee’s giving blokes from Mount Pilot blow jobs to earn cash to buy smack.

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  119. Pucker June 13, 2019 at 9:40 am #

    Pride….

    The Culture has been hollowed out by the Anticulture.

  120. BackRowHeckler June 13, 2019 at 10:28 am #

    Ok. Who torpedoed the oil tankers in the Straits of Hormuz?

    Now what we have is hundreds of thousands of gallons of perfectly good crude sunk to the bottom of the sea.

    This could be one of those Black Swan events so often mentioned on this board a few years ago.

    Let’s see what happens now. Just yesterday WSJ ran an article stating there’s an oil glut worldwide and price going to $40 per barrel.

    Brh

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    • Elrond Hubbard June 13, 2019 at 11:20 am #

      You mean this little kerfuffle?

      Damage inflicted on oil tankers in Gulf of Oman fuels security fears
      1 vessel ‘on fire and adrift,’ marine intelligence company says

      https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/tankers-gulf-oman-hormuz-1.5173404

      “Two oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz were reportedly attacked on Thursday, an assault that left one ablaze and adrift as sailors were evacuated from both vessels, amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran.

      “The navy and the ship’s owners offered no immediate explanation on what weapon may have caused the damage to the MT Front Altair and the Kokuka Courageous in the Gulf of Oman off the coast of Iran, though all believed the ships had been targeted in an attack.

      “Benchmark Brent crude spiked at one point by as much four per cent in trading following the reported attack, to over $62 US a barrel, highlighting how crucial the area remains to global energy supplies. A third of all oil traded by sea passes through the strait, which is the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.”

      It’s nothing, it’ll blow over. What are you worried about? No stakes at all.

      Also, I’m looking forward to seeing supercuts on YouTube of news anchors trying to pronounce “Kokuka Courageous” over and over.

      • K-Dog June 13, 2019 at 12:03 pm #

        The registration of both tankers has been checked and they were registered under the flag of a false country.

        No perpetrators visible using an ineffective weapon against two targets carrying cargo with low environmental impact. Is this a dream. Space weapons?

        This is worse than the FBI gunning down that unarmed friend of the Tsaranaev brother in the middle of the night in Florida as they did.

        Just goes to show ‘Anything Goes and Nothing Matters’.

        When the CIA does not even bother to make a false flag look real anymore decline goes exponential. Buckle your seat belts.

        This totally deserves a Hunter Thompson quote.

        In a closed society where everybodys’ guilty; the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thrives. the only final sin is stupidity.

        Good thing Hunter bought the farm before he could see that his final sin will not even purchase outrage.

        • Elrond Hubbard June 13, 2019 at 1:18 pm #

          K-Dog, flags of convenience are hardly a novelty in the maritime world. Regulatory arbitrage and all that.

          Not that I’d put it past the likes of John Bolton to manufacture a Gulf of Tonkin pretext for his bomb-everything agenda, but let’s get more evidence.

          • K-Dog June 13, 2019 at 2:39 pm #

            The Bolton Bomba. Delivered by porpoise with a purpose.

          • BackRowHeckler June 13, 2019 at 8:19 pm #

            Elrond

            Is Canada with us?

            Or are you casting your lot with Iran this time around?

            Brh

          • Elrond Hubbard June 14, 2019 at 9:35 am #

            BRH: We sat out the Iraq war, which turned out to be an awesome choice on our part. Won’t speak for the gov’t, but I’ve got fingers crossed for a repeat.

        • Ol' Scratch June 14, 2019 at 6:28 am #

          Great post, Dawg!

      • James Hansen June 13, 2019 at 1:31 pm #

        Almost certainly a false flag operation. Who stands to lose or gain the most? I believe this is another Gulf of Tonkin or USS Liberty incident .

        This has real potential to be a life changing event for millions of people just like 9/11 was.

        If Russia or China gets involved then you can change it to billions of people.

        • Ol' Scratch June 14, 2019 at 6:27 am #

          We might get a chance to find out if Putin was bullshitting about all those advanced technology weapons. I just hope he’s got some targeted for Pompeo’s, Bolton’s, and Trump’s assholes? If we get overwhelmed by a sudden biblical flood of shit, we’ll know they’ve been hit.

  121. 450.org June 13, 2019 at 11:46 am #

    …. amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran….

    What a joke. Anyone with half a brain or even one eighth of a brain knows Iran wouldn’t attack its bread & butter; Oil.

    A better bet is, Trump & Pompeo planned it as their very own Gulf of Tonkin incident.

    They’ll get two birds with one stone. High oil prices which will make Vlad very happy indeed and a pretext to get their war on with Iran which will make the weapons manufacturers & the military with its bloated budget very happy indeed.

    • K-Dog June 13, 2019 at 12:11 pm #

      No torpedo tracks in a pond where even fish have to get permission to pass US Navy ships.

      Or:

      Revenge of Osama. You thought he was dead in his white sheet when he went down to feed the fishes. But no. Osama has gone fish himself and with the power of Allah fights the white devil even now. Aquaman style.

      • 450.org June 13, 2019 at 12:40 pm #

        Haha! I know, right?

        OBL is Aqua Man with a turban.

    • Majella June 13, 2019 at 7:11 pm #

      450:
      “A better bet is, Trump & Pompeo planned it as their very own Gulf of Tonkin incident.”

      You can delete the “Trump” reference…he’s so stupid Pompeo & Bolton wouldn’t have bothered drawing the necessary diagrams to explain it to him. They’d have just gone ahead regardless.

      • BackRowHeckler June 13, 2019 at 8:16 pm #

        Sounds like you got it all figured out already, Majella.

  122. wwg1wga June 13, 2019 at 11:51 am #

    Gulf of Tonkin Redux??
    http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Gulf%20of%20Tonkin%20Redux.pdf

    #oathkeepers #Qarmy #WWG1WGA

    Q.

  123. FincaInTheMountains June 13, 2019 at 12:13 pm #

    The Gulf War has begun!

    Several tankers in the Gulf of Oman were attacked by torpedoes, one of the tankers sank, the crew rescued by the Iranian Navy. The price of oil jumped by 4%, and the ruble is not growing yet! And we know who is to blame!

    Merry Song how Russia is to blame for EVERYTHING:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvwM3QSYlns

    Who’s stuffing the American ballot boxes – no, it’s not the Democrats, it’s of course, the long-reaching hand of Kremlin!

    • FincaInTheMountains June 13, 2019 at 12:19 pm #

      And I do need to confess, the Dead Sea was also killed by the Russians!!

    • Ol' Scratch June 13, 2019 at 1:00 pm #

      No, this one will be blamed on the Iranians first. THEN the Russians, because… well… RUSSIANS!

      • James Hansen June 13, 2019 at 3:58 pm #

        The tanker attack mystery has been solved, Pompeo just announced that Iran did it. We launch in one hour.

        • James Hansen June 13, 2019 at 5:37 pm #

          It is a slam dunk, they just found some Iranian passports floating near the tankers.

          • Ol' Scratch June 14, 2019 at 6:23 am #

            LOL! These guys REALLY need to write a new script, don’t they? 9-11’s basically been in reruns now for what, 18 years?

    • benr June 14, 2019 at 9:35 am #

      Interesting considering the military base has been running training sorties for jets for over a week.
      Been very noisy starting around 1600 to almost 2300.
      Love that sound of full military thrust applied to an f-18 sounds like victory.

      https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Military-Planes-MCAS-Miramar-Readiness-Exercise-2019-Elephant-Walk-505203551.html

  124. malthuss June 13, 2019 at 12:24 pm #

    Qstick, I found this at UNZ.com
    is this your Johnny?
    Johnny Rico says:
    May 20, 2019 at 10:17 am GMT
    @Ron Unz

    Ron,

    How many people on this thread have actually read ‘Operation Pike’ by Osborn?

  125. volodya June 13, 2019 at 12:32 pm #

    “What do we become?”

    That presupposes future existence. Will there even be a “we”? Peoples have disappeared from the historical record. Some got subsumed by incoming conquerors (think of mainland Europe’s Celts), a lot of conquerors were subsumed by those they conquered (like England’s Normans or Italy’s Lombards), some were chased to the margins (think North America’s Indians or, if you want to go further back, Europe’s original sapiens hunters). There’s an abundance of examples.

    American elites smugly assume they have a future. They think they’re immovable, all-powerful, indispensable and exceptional. But graveyards are full of such elites. You could point to Russia’s and France’s aristocracies or the Roman or Byzantine or Ottoman as illustrations. The clueless blundering about of Washington and Wall Street sez to me that if they have a future, it will be short. The question is what takes their place.

    The US is afflicted with a multitude of conditions, some of which are life threatening, some of which have deep roots, like two founding ethnicities that hate each other fervently, that went to the mattresses in 1861 and have been at daggers-drawn in a Cold War since the shooting stopped. The US also suffers from the aforementioned cretinous ruling class that does its best to exacerbate this divide, with states founded in the aftermath of the Civil War lining up with one or the other war-time antagonist.

    What Trump’s election points to is the successor to the Confederacy and its allied states, ie the Deplorables, having had quite enough of elite depredations of the past few decades, economic and otherwise. The Republican Party, which in recent decades represented these Deplorables, foisted an absurd ideology of wrack and ruin for the ordinary citizen, cloaking it as patriotic Americanism until Trump said bullshit to all that. Bye-bye Republican Party.

    The Democrats were all for the same thing but hid their policies for the rich with pieties of a different sort. And you no doubt noticed that Hillary lost despite having the money of the oligarch and the favor of the Deep State and that Trump won with the hostility of both impeding him.

    This doesn’t bode well for either the oligarch or the Deep State or the Democrats. American elites may think it’s great sport to inflame historic divides. Maybe they think the Deplorables never noticed the extent of elite theft and incompetence and misrule. Maybe they think what’s behind Trump’s win is just racist bozo-ism. All this would be a big mistake.

    In short, that Mason Dixon line is starting to look like a future international boundary. National splits are seldom pretty and given that Americans are armed to the teeth with an efflorescence of militia groups I doubt it will be peaceful. Whoever is running the show now should enjoy their tenure while it lasts.

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    • Janos Skorenzy June 13, 2019 at 1:41 pm #

      Even now the Mahdi is building his army that will plant the Jolly Roger, the Black Flag of Jihad, in the land of Palestine.

  126. Ol' Scratch June 13, 2019 at 12:58 pm #

    Looks like oil producers needed a price hike to stay in the black, so the MICC dutifully came to their rescue with another false flag event. Cue the Iran vilification machine and howls of outrage from every two bit pol and pundit in Ol’ DC. Nothing like a good summertime war to stir things up in a pre-election year.

    https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-video-oil-tanker-gulf-of-oman-flames-attack-2019-6

    • volodya June 13, 2019 at 1:13 pm #

      The first casualty of war is truth.

    • Ol' Scratch June 13, 2019 at 6:26 pm #

      And right on cue the fat-assed corpulent blowhard Mike Pompeo “weighs in” on the situation:

      “This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication.”

      Umm Mike, you forgot to mention the US, Israel, or any number of their covert assets in the region that specialize in these sorts of pranks. Oh, yeah, we don’t talk about those do we, because the American Sheeple believe everything that comes out of your fat mouth like it’s pearls from heaven (wink wink, nod nod).

      Scratch: Looks like the US war criminal list is about to grow a little longer. Add Trump as well, whether he knows about any of this nefarious bullshit or not, for hiring Pompeo and Bolton and the rest of their wrecking crew in the first place. This is going to end VERY badly.

      More Scratch: Where will the yellow streak shave tail Dems stand on all this? Oh that’s right, right next to their alleged “nemesis” Trump, standing ever so resolutely in pools of their own piss. What a fucking country!

      https://www.foxnews.com/world/highly-likely-iran-responsible-oil-tanker-attack-gulf-oman-defense

  127. auburn June 13, 2019 at 2:27 pm #

    Justin Amash is going to make a presidential run as a Libertarian. But Amash cannot get more than 15% of the Republican vote, drawn from the Never Trump crowd. Amash will lose.

  128. FincaInTheMountains June 13, 2019 at 3:42 pm #

    About Everything or Schizophrenia Mows Down our Ranks

    A number of Democrats in the House of Representatives are demanding that President Trump be impeached, and the objections of their party members that the Senate will surely block this so-called “impeachment”, they angrily reject as analogous to refuse to travel to Zanzibar on the basis of the claims of many specialists that the Earth is flat.

    Yes, and the title of this article is “To impeach Trump immediately, without worrying too much about Vice President Pence – he’s already in our pocket!”

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/impeach-trump-don-apos-t-080002846.html

    The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reported that illicit drugs illegally confiscated from Ivan Golunov were returned to their rightful owner after the two generals were fired.

    The American press in Britain reported that both supertankers in the Gulf of Oman were hit by a single torpedo, and the 5th US Navy Fleet stated that the Iranian Navy had prevented the evacuating of oil from the tankers by irresponsible attempts to rescue the crew members.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/two-tankers-hit-by-torpedo-in-gulf-of-oman-attacks-amid-us-iran-tensions-092335024.html

    Putin met with the heads of “Roskachestvo”, “Rospechat” and Defense Minister Shoigu to resolve the issue of using social networks to destabilize Russian society, and after a fruitful discussion, the parties agreed that the issue of the park and Okroshka should be resolved as soon as possible.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okroshka

    Stanford University professor Leonard Susskind proved that the physical world will no longer contradict quantum mechanics if we in writing abandon the law of causality, and tortured Hawking with appropriate mathematics and requests to sign his book in blood so much, that the great British scientist admitted his defeat in the famous dispute about the God’s particle, which is still hiding its spin from the Swiss authorities.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Hole_War

  129. Dumbedup June 13, 2019 at 3:53 pm #

    The “American economic miracle” or whatever you call it was a period in history. It passed like others before it and since. It’s time to move on to something else. It ain’t coming back – hat or no hat.

    But let’s clear up a few things.

    First, the “economic miracle” ended when it did not because it was exhausted or burned out but because of greed. One of the reasons for the Great Depression was because of the accumulation of wealth and power in too few hands. Sounds familiar doesn’t it. One of the founders of the “economic miracle” was Henry Ford. He is famously quoted as saying, “we must pay our workers enough to buy the products they make.” Others saw that differently. They see it differently now too. That is why so many jobs left the US for countries with slave wages.

    Second, the Vietnam War ended because America was sick of it. The protests worked and Democracy worked. Pure and simple. The voters blamed LBJ and the Democrats (LBJ knew it so he did not run again.) resulting in Humphrey vs Nixon. Just like the man currently occupying Pennsylvania Ave neither could be elected dog catcher at any other time in our history.

    Third, there was a “deep state” as far back as 1796 and certainly by then end of John Adams’ single term as President. None of this is new. What is new is that all of these competing forces and the concomitant lies and bullshit are now fueled by technology. What then took days, weeks or months can now be accomplished and known by a billion people in hours or even minutes.

    If you read about the election of 1800 one of the conclusions reached by many historians is that within a year of taking office Thomas Jefferson could not be distinguished from a Federalist. That does not even touch on the forces at work during the Adams’ Presidency and his disagreements with Hamilton and others who worked to undermine his Presidency. The “Deep State” forces in this era just had the names of people rather than agencies or bureaus.

    • FincaInTheMountains June 13, 2019 at 3:58 pm #

      Oh, gimme a break, Dumbedup!

      The American “economic miracle” ended exactly when the zone of dollar circulation was extended to a planetary scale, and unless you find green little men and convince them to accept dollars in exchange for their miracle juices, we have to look to a new ways of economic expansion.

  130. Bruceweb June 13, 2019 at 6:24 pm #

    Hey Jim, you say America is not going Socialist, It’s going Medieval.

    Considering what life is like in many Socialist countries, is there

    really that great a difference?

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    • wwg1wga June 13, 2019 at 6:41 pm #

      May I retort?
      In medieval society, the landowners are well-armed and well-stocked with sustainable weapons, agriculture, and tribal organization, serving as an effective deterrent to adventure seeking illegal invaders.

      #oathkeepers #Qarmy #WWG1WGA

      Q.

  131. Pucker June 13, 2019 at 6:42 pm #

    One segue into discussions with underclass blacks and whites available to Chris Arnade was that they all wanted Chris Arnade to take their picture so that they “would become famous.” They all want to be famous. They all want to be a “Hero”. They’re very selfish. My idea is to take one of the better film school courses and learn the film making software and then drive around the US to make a movie.

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    Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

  132. Pucker June 13, 2019 at 6:53 pm #

    Are you going to the big “Black Women’s Expo” this weekend down at Sugar’s strip club in Nashville? You could do Sugar’s and the “The Grand Ole Oprey”? Owen Benjamin says that the mean IQ of black females in the US is 78. That can’t be true…. Some black women, like Condoleeza Rice and Michelle Obama, are Outstanding.

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nashvilles-black-womens-expo-2nd-year-tickets-48739891327?aff=erellivmlt

    • Pucker June 13, 2019 at 7:13 pm #

      How-the-Fuck can a person become an “Entrepreneur” if she/he has an IQ of 78?

      Becoming a transgender is not going to help….

      • Pucker June 13, 2019 at 7:17 pm #

        Wasn’t Oprah recently on TV and the Internet trying to sell IQ-boosting supplements?

        • Pucker June 13, 2019 at 7:25 pm #

          What are Oprah, and her big buddy, Bill Gates, really trying to say here?

          “Bill Gates credits his ability to function and maintained focused on such a high level to a certain set of “smart drugs” that enhance cognitive brain function and neural connectivity, while strengthening the prefrontal cortex and boosting memory and recall.
          In an interview with Oprah, Bill Gates said that his brain is sharper than ever, more clear and focused and he credits a large part to using IQ Plus. ”

          • BackRowHeckler June 13, 2019 at 8:10 pm #

            Dude, I think you forgot it was 4 black women from the projects who came up with the complex math that allowed for the successful NASA moonshot in 1969.

            That was a secret — fostered by rascism no doubt — that was kept for 50 years.

            Brh

      • elysianfield June 13, 2019 at 9:04 pm #

        “How-the-Fuck can a person become an “Entrepreneur” if she/he has an IQ of 78? ”

        Puck,
        There are only two rules to remember;

        1) Buy Low,

        2) Sell High.

        • FincaInTheMountains June 13, 2019 at 11:23 pm #

          See, I told you, making money is the most boring thing in the world.

    • malthuss June 13, 2019 at 7:20 pm #

      I wonder if there will be a Cardi B impersonator there?
      She gets a million a nite as a rapper.

      Condoleeza Rice and Michelle Obama, are Outstanding. –surely you jest.
      Michelle ‘thesis’ was 4th grade level.

      Fascinating write up at UNZ.com about NYC high school dilemma..too many smart yellows.

      Nationally, less than 600 kids a year get 1600, or 0.03%. Of those who applied to Harvard, 3,400 got perfect math score, 2,700 got perfect verbal score. Here are my best estimates:
      SAT score : IQ
      1000 : 85
      1100 : 95
      1200 : 105
      1300 : 115
      1400 : 125

      1500 : 140
      1600 : 155+
      But in reality, I think the math score is a much better indication of IQ than the overall score, so here’s my estimate by math score:
      Math score : IQ
      400: 80
      500: 90
      600: 105
      650: 115
      700: 125
      750: 135
      800: 150+

  133. malthuss June 13, 2019 at 7:27 pm #

    Chinese people are already the Treasurer and Controller of our largest State, 40-million-person California.

    CA Treasurers have included Dem Fiona Ma (just elected), Dem John Chiang (2015-19), and republican Matt Fung (1995-99).

    CA Controller (chief financial officer since 2015 is Betty Yee, in her second term. Before her, the controller was John chiang for two terms (2007-2015).

    A part-Chinese man, Gary Locke, was governor of Washington state, I think for two terms.

    Perhaps we could say that Chinese as a group lack population concentration and don’t have much political power / influence outside California and a couple other West Coast enclaves.

    • BackRowHeckler June 13, 2019 at 8:04 pm #

      The new CT attorney general, Willizm Tong, is Chinese, his main platform was to crush the remaining gun manufacturers in the state. He’s been successful because Stag Arms announced last week they are leaving, and I’ve heard Colt is moving operations to Florida.

      In everything this guy says you can detect a deep and abiding hatred for whitey.

      Brh

    • benr June 14, 2019 at 9:29 am #

      Not yet but they are taking over large areas of San Diego and Las Vegas as well as Los Angeles.

    • James Hansen June 14, 2019 at 10:27 am #

      Better than that, crystal clear HD photos taken by the government , indisputable proof!

      I posted at 9:11 AM middle of the thread.

  134. BackRowHeckler June 13, 2019 at 8:41 pm #

    Alex Jones says torpedoing of the 2 oil tankers was a false flag attack.

    Sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor 1898

    Sinking of the Louisitania 1916

    Pearl Harbor 1941

    Assault on the Pusan Peninsula, Korea 1950

    Gulf of Tonkin incident 1964

    911 twin tower and Pentagon assaults 2001

    Sandy Hook massacre Newtown, Ct 2012

    All false flag attacks!!!

    (according to a conspiratorial way of thinking)

    Brh

    • FincaInTheMountains June 13, 2019 at 9:40 pm #

      On board of one of the tanker, “Front Altair”, were 11 Russians, 11 Filipinos and one citizen of Georgia. Later, the press service of the Russian Trade Union of Seafarers reported that 12 Russian sailors had been evacuated from the tanker. However, the Russian embassy in Tehran still reported 11 rescued Russians, who, according to the diplomatic mission, were not injured.

      Why should the Iranians blow the Russian tanker under the Norwegian flag, partially loaded with cargo for Syria, and moreover, in its own escort zone?

      • BackRowHeckler June 13, 2019 at 10:37 pm #

        Iran has 3 armed forces, the Revolutionary Guard, the Kuds Force and the Iranian national army; not to mention a regular navy and a revolutionary guard navy; maybe one of these distinguished military organizations is acting independenly.

        Its never good when a country has a regular army and a political army. You should know that finca. Russia had the Red Army, but it also had NKVD formations to do the dirty work. Let us not forget the SS in Germany, which grew to rival the German Army before it was all over.

        Brh

        • FincaInTheMountains June 13, 2019 at 11:19 pm #

          You need to start getting out of your head political dogmas of the world, that no longer exists.

          • K-Dog June 14, 2019 at 2:29 am #

            Some dogma should be taken seriously.

    • K-Dog June 14, 2019 at 12:02 am #

      You forgot the Boston bombing. Deliberate use of a weaponized crazy counts.

    • GreenAlba June 14, 2019 at 5:46 am #

      brh

      “Sandy Hook massacre Newtown, Ct 2012”

      He doesn’t claim that any more – he blames his earlier accusations in the matter on ‘an episode of psychosis’ and has apologised to the parents who lost children in the massacre for the distress he caused them.

      https://www.foxnews.com/us/alex-jones-blames-conspiracy-claims-on-psychosis

      I picked Fox, just in case 🙂 .

      • BackRowHeckler June 14, 2019 at 6:28 am #

        I didn’t know any of the families directly, GA, Newtown being about 40 miles SW of here. But this is a small state, and a relative of one of the dead kids who was a spokesman for the family lived in this town. Jones wasn’t the only one who claimed the whole thing was staged, it started right away from many sources.

        I wasn’t surprised. The twin tower collapse happened on prime time TV and some people claimed it never happened, it was staged, or again, a false flag operation. (Which to Jim’s credit he never tolerated on this blog)

        Brh

        • GreenAlba June 14, 2019 at 8:14 am #

          I know, brh, it’s sad that things have got to the stage where there are knee-jerk reactions to almost anything. It’s like the boy who cried ‘wolf’ – when there are real false flag or staged events, their false-flag nature will get less credibility.

          It’s the same with the polarisation of bi-partisan politics – a good policy idea gets instantly dismissed because the wrong party proposed it.

        • James Hansen June 14, 2019 at 9:19 am #

          I guess you missed my post in the last tread where I proved that 9/11 was absolutely done by the Bush administration, The only person that commented on it was Ol’ Scratch.

          • malthuss June 14, 2019 at 10:06 am #

            Bush–Neo Cohens? Dancing Israelis?

  135. K-Dog June 13, 2019 at 11:58 pm #

    The cargo on one tanker was naphtha the other had methanol. The next one could be laughing gas but that would not be funny.

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  136. auburn June 14, 2019 at 1:42 am #

    One day after President Donald Trump told ABC News? that he would accept dirt on his opponents in the 2020 election from another country, such as Russia or China, the FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub made the law clear:

    “Let me make something 100% clear to the American public and anyone running for public office: It is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election.

    “This is not a novel concept,” she added.

    The chair posted the memo on Twitter, along with an expression of disbelief.

    “I would not have thought that I needed to say this,” she tweeted.

    Trump’s criminal behavior includes any information received from Norway, the example Trump gave.

    Dirt. Soliciting and acceptance of…. is another article to add to the articles of Trump’s impeachment for his criminal lawlessness. The FEC warning is direct and clear.

    • SoftStarLight June 14, 2019 at 2:02 am #

      Why the myopic focus on Trump? The Clintons, the Obamas, the McConnells, Diane Feinstein, etc., etc., have been bought and paid for by foreigners. Most politicians aren’t working for you and never were. How do civil servants become millionaires? Insider trading, bribes? But its understandable that you cling to the quaint notion that “the system” actually dispenses justice. Either that or the misdirection is intentional.

      • auburn June 14, 2019 at 2:26 am #

        Hillary Clinton, the Obamas, the McConnells, Diane Feinstein, etc. are not President. DJT is President. They are irrelevant.

        DJT swore an oath as President to protect and defend USA values. What DJT does is violate our country’s values daily.

        • BackRowHeckler June 14, 2019 at 4:45 am #

          You mean he’s not flying the ‘Pride’ flag atop the US Capitol?

          Brh

        • benr June 14, 2019 at 9:23 am #

          What President Trump has not done is the following.

          What about second amendment infringement in the form of VA regulations disarming veterans, EPA regulations attacking lead and ammunition, ATF regulations attacking gun manufacturers and dealers, and regulations aimed at broadening the definition of mental health in order to disqualify more Americans of their Second Amendment rights?

          Defying a Federal Court Order by refusing to halt the unconstitutional implementation of the “Patient Healthcare and Affordable Care Act of 2010, popularly known as “ObamaCare”, in violation of U.S. Constitution Article II, Section 3, and Article III, Sections 1 & 2

          Defying a Federal Court Order by refusing to grant lawful deep water drilling permits, in violation of U.S. Constitution Article II, Section 3, and Article III, Sections 1 & 2;

          Executive Branch creation and implementation of regulations asserting unconstitutional force of Federal law on matters explicitly rejected by or contrary to the will and intent of Congress, specifically the EPA implementation of Cap and Trade, in violation of U.S. Constitution Article I, Section 1 and Section 8

          Refusing to secure the American borders from illegal alien invasion, allowing illegal immigration, international criminal incursion, and terrorist cadre penetration, in violation of U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section 3 and Article IV, Section 4

          Executive Branch malfeasance and impeding the administration of justice by preventing the U.S. Department of Justice from investigating crimes committed for the direct benefit of the President by presidential associates including: voter intimidation at the hands of the New Black Panthers and ACORN election fraud, in violation of U.S. Constitution Article II, Section 3, and U.S. Criminal Code Section 135, (Comp. St. § 10305)

          Adhering to the enemies of the United States, giving them aid and comfort, as witnessed by consorting with, supporting and installing to powerful Federal positions persons who in writing, word and deed have called for and promoted the overthrow of America’s constitutionally guaranteed Republican form of government, and the overthrow of the United States Constitution; including but not limited to William Ayers, Bernadette Dohrn, Cass Sunstein, John Holdren, Van Jones, Dalia Mogahed, Harold Koh, and Eric Holder, in violation of U.S. Constitution, Article III, Section IV and U.S. Penal Code, Section 2385

          Yea so much for the no drama Obama regime.

  137. auburn June 14, 2019 at 2:02 am #

    Trump said there was nothing wrong with accepting intelligence from foreign entities. He dismissed the act as “oppo research.”

    “I think you might want to listen,” Trump said, when asked what he would do if a foreigner reached out to him with election information. “I think there’s nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country, Norway, [and said], ‘We have information on your opponent.’ Oh, I think I’d want to hear it.”

    FEC Chair Ellen Weintraub said that “electoral intervention from foreign governments” has been unacceptable for as long as the United States has been a country. Quoting a 1787 letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, Weintraub said the Founding Fathers had already “sounded the alarm about ‘foreign Interference, Intrigue and Influence.’”

    Weintraub didn’t name any politicians or presidents on Thursday but she did warn about the consequences of interacting with a foreign national during an election.

    “Anyone who solicits or accepts foreign assistance risks being on the wrong end of a federal investigation,” she said.

    • SoftStarLight June 14, 2019 at 2:08 am #

      Didn’t seem to be much of a problem for Hillary. Since she can get away with it why do you expect anyone other than “progressives” to care. I don’t care at all. There are many problems in the world. Most importantly, there are many problems in Anytown USA. If DJT is on the brain 24/7 its time to change the channel.

      • auburn June 14, 2019 at 2:31 am #

        Yes, there are many problems in Anytown USA, and Trump promised “I alone can fix it” “I will drain the swamp” “I will build a big beautiful 30 foot high concrete wall and Mexico will pay for it.” blah blah blah

        Trump is the problem.

        The House has passed 200 bills addressing the problems of Anytown USA. Trump manages McConnell. McConnell refuses to vote on the House bills to help Anytown USA.

        Trump promises to veto anything the House and Senate vote on.

        Trump is the problem.

        • benr June 14, 2019 at 9:21 am #

          Actually people like you are the problem.
          No faith and constant evil.

    • benr June 14, 2019 at 9:27 am #

      EXCEPT HILLARY CLINTON who is guilty of that and far more.
      OOPS I guess the AI is not up to snuff with parsing reality from predisposed canned and scripted if you were attacks and look at the illegality of then taking false data to start wire tapping private citizens!

  138. SoftStarLight June 14, 2019 at 2:23 am #

    US Central Command….A war with Iran is not in our strategic interest, nor in the best interest of the international community….

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-13/us-claims-smoking-gun-video-evidence-irans-navy-handling-mine-tanker-hull

    Maybe good news for a moment? I wonder if Central Command will ever believe that the sealing off of the southern border is in our strategic interest?

    • auburn June 14, 2019 at 2:32 am #

      Very good news! We would lose a war with the Iran/Russia/China alliance.

  139. Pucker June 14, 2019 at 2:25 am #

    Pride….

    “Much of the back row of America, both white and black, is humiliated. The good jobs they could get straight out of high school and gave the stability of a lifelong career have left. The churches providing them a place in the world have been cast as irrational, backward, and lacking. The communities that provided pride are dying, and into this vacuum have come drugs. Their entire worldview is collapsing, and then they are told this is their own fault: they suck at school and are dumb, not focused enough, not disciplined enough. It is a wholesale rejection that cuts to the core. It isn’t just about them; it is about their friends, family, congregation, union, and all they know. Whole towns and neighborhoods have been forgotten and destroyed, and when they point this out, they are told they should just get up and move (as if anyone can do that) and if they don’t, then they are clearly lazy, weak, and unmotivated. Everyone wants to feel like a valued member of something larger than themselves. The current status quo doesn’t do that for most of America, because it only understands value in economic forms of meaning. In that world it is all about getting credentials, primarily those gained by education.“

    Chris Arnade
    Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

  140. FincaInTheMountains June 14, 2019 at 8:29 am #

    World War of the Roses in the Persian Gulf and its Surroundings

    I want to re-post the writing of Andrey Soyustov regarding the incident in Persian Gulf, but I still want to ask the most important question that the author asks to some extent, and immediately throws it into the basket:

    So what did Donald Trump want to tell Hassan Rouhani or even Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Shinzo Abe was needed for that?

    And does it imply two other questions that answer the first most important question a little?

    “And isn’t it about this message that the hit was made and does Trump already know who exactly struck this blow?”

    Andrey Soyustov, Tanker War:

    Trump flies to Tokyo. He flies without Bolton, who had managed to fail more of the areas he supervises, than all previous generations of Boltons together.

    Apparently, in Tokyo, Trump agrees on the mediation of Japan in resolving the American-Iranian conflict, which from a magic wand in the hands of Donald has already managed to turn into a weighty bob.

    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is sent to Iran on a visit with mediation powers.

    The Washington hawks, the Saudis and Israel follow all this mess with gastronomic interest.

    Then there two tankers emerge, on which, according to a subsequent statement by the Japanese Ministry of Commerce, there was a cargo “associated with Japan.”

    Tanker Number One: Kokuka Courageous, registered in Panama and owned by a Japanese shipping company. The tanker transported methanol from Saudi Arabia to Singapore.

    Tanker Number Two: Front Altair. It is owned by the Norwegian company Frontline and is flying the flag of the Marshall Islands. The tanker went with a cargo of petrochemical raw materials from the UAE to Taiwan.

    June 13 in the Gulf of Oman – fuck-tibiduck! – Suddenly explosions and fires occur on both tankers. The media, choking from delight, reported that the tankers were subjected to a torpedo attack and one of the tankers had already managed to sink.

    Ship-owners, being taken aback, say that on the ships, of course, there were high-powered fuck-tibiducks, but there were no torpedoes. What happened – a complete fuck-tibiduck, but about the torpedoes, none of the crew members said anything.

    As well as about the mines. As well as in general about some kind of attack. Just suddenly there was a fucking tibiduck with the accompanying pyro effect.

    By the way, none of the tankers sank.

    “It sank, it did! From torpedoes and mines! We can see better!” – chant the media and look at the States. States with an unkind squint look at Iran. The media, too, is beginning to look at Iran with an unkind squint, tentatively, in view of haste and irresponsibility, a couple of times with an unkind squint looking at the Saudis.

    But the Saudis with all of Riyadh immediately make the Big Surprised Eyes of the Hereditary Innocent Virgin and the media quickly run to look at Tehran with an unkind squint. It was not at all difficult to do, since all along the way someone carefully arranged English-language posters on which “Tehran is over there!” was written with an American accent.

    In the meantime, the Iranians are saving the crew of the burning “Norwegian”, including the Russians who were part of it. Americans at full steam, too, rush to save everyone, but they are accelerating in such a way that three times the entire destroyer rushes past the burning “Norwegian” …

    In general, Yankees don’t have time to save anyone. Out of despair, they rush to save the Japanese crew, on board of which there were not any Russians. Here is a coincidence for you!

    At the same time, the Yankees also saw on board a burning Japanese tanker a whole bunch of unexploded magnetic mines of characteristic national-Iranian shape. It is noteworthy that apart from the crew of the American destroyer, no one else noticed this bunch…

    Further reaction:

    – The Japanese government (in the air) – “Oh, fuck!”
    – Abe (to US) – “Full banzai! Fuck ya!”
    – US (to Tehran) – “Yes, yes, they flew off their reels!”
    – Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (alaverdi) – “Fuck? You fuckers are fucked yourself in the head! Sorry … We have serious concerns about this incident, which suspiciously coincided with a visit to Tehran by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.”
    – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia (meekly) – “Is it time for us to express a serious concern?”
    – All (in chorus) – “YES!!! YES!!!”

    Russian Foreign Ministry expresses. The audience applauded. Tankers are festively burning. The price of oil runs up. Having waited for it to climb into the attic, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation rushes into the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation and, from an excess of feelings, arranges hot nude dancing right on the desks.

    Iran feels like a star that is in shock.

    US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: “The United States believes that Iran is responsible for attacks on tankers in the Gulf of Oman!” According to Pompeo, this opinion is based “on intelligence(?!) data, weapons used, the level of knowledge required for such an operation, recent similar attacks on ships and the fact that no proxy group in the region has such a level of training operations “.

    Iran – “But what the fuck?? …”

    US – “By no means!”

    Trump mournfully tweets: “I am very grateful to Prime Minister (Japan Shinzo) Abe for going to Iran and meeting with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but I personally think that it’s too early to even think about making a deal. ”

    Behind the curtain of the Oval Office, Bolton pulls kosher bourbon from the bottle, meaningfully winks at himself with both eyes and to the tune of “Sexbomb, sexbomb, you’re my sexbomb” singing “Deep State, Deep State! ..”

    Did I miss anything?

    Oh yes. Expired term of the Iranian nuclear ultimatum.

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  141. malthuss June 14, 2019 at 10:00 am #

    This is worse than the FBI gunning down that unarmed friend of the Tsaranaev brother in the middle of the night in Florida as they did.

    I think the guy that was killed was a killer, from what I read.

    • ZrCrypDiK June 25, 2019 at 2:33 am #

      ” This was the time of my childhood, along with my fellow travelers, the Baby Boomers. What a time to come into this world!”

      OMfG the McCarthy era? Musta been a nice inbred white racists *RETARD* thang.

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