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Left: The Fall of Kabul, 2021 — Right: The Fall of Saigon, 1975


“If American Airlines were in charge, they would’ve blamed all the cancellations on weather and then given everyone’s checked luggage to the Taliban.”
– Sean Davis, Editor, The Federalist, on the action in the Kabul airport.


I guess we had to find out the hard way that Afghanistan is not like Nebraska. Let others be cruel about it (and there’s plenty of that right now, elsewhere). The last ostensible hegemon who tried occupying the place before us was the Soviet Union, which discovered painfully that Afghanistan was not much like its Kemerovo Oblast, either, and shortly after it withdrew its troops in 1989, the Soviet Union commenced to collapse — which prompts one to wonder: How much is the USA of 2021 like the Soviet Union of those years?

Well, we’ve become an ossified, administrative nomenklatura of Deep State flunkies as the Soviets were, and lately we’re just as lawless as they used to be, constitution-wise — e.g., the abolition of property rights via the CDC’s rent moratorium… the prolonged jailing in solitary confinement of January 6 political prisoners… the introduction of internal “passports.” The USA is running on fumes economically as the Soviets were. Our dominant party leadership has aged into an embarrassing gerontocracy. Is it our turn to collapse?

Kind of looks like it. The days ahead are liable to be a rough ride. Surely China has taken the measure of our Woke military and is weighing the seizure of Taiwan in our moment of signal weakness. No more computer chips for you, Uncle Sam! Do we come to Taiwan’s defense with guns blazing, or perhaps nukes? And what if that doesn’t work out so well? I’ll tell you what: a major geopolitical reordering of things, leaving us… where? Unable to enforce our will around the world as has been the case for eighty years. Floundering. Friendless. Broke. Broken!

Of course, the domestic situation in our land has not been so fraught and overwrought since 1861. Everything is politicized, which is to say: used as a truncheon to beat-up adversaries and, let’s face it, mostly in the sense of Left against Right. This is especially true for the Covid-19 soap opera, which more and more pits the sanctimoniously vaccinated “progressives” against the recalcitrant conservative no-vax free-choicers — that is, coercive government trying to force supposedly free citizens to accept a pretty dubious experimental medical treatment.

Since when did the American Left become so pro-tyranny, and how’d that even happen? I have friends and relatives — I’m sure you do, too — who knocked themselves out in the 1960s protesting against the war, the government, the FBI, and the CIA… who fought in the streets for free speech and raged against official propaganda — and today they can’t get enough of coercing, punishing, brain-washing, and cancelling their fellow citizens. They’re going so far now as to engineer their vicious narrative to brand their opponents as “domestic terrorists.” Think that’s going to work?

I doubt it. And the fall of Afghanistan is sure to spark a resentful reaction among the many ex-soldiers who paid a heavy price pulling tours of duty in that hapless venture over twenty years. There’s a lot of them out there in Red America, and they were already pissed-off about the pernicious nonsense being jammed down their throats by the minions of Wokesterism: the race-and-gender hustles, the off-the-charts rise of violent crime, the wide-open border, the off-shoring of jobs, the Covid lockdowns and wrecking of small business, the MMT experiment launching inflation, and the new pussification of the armed forces they served and suffered in. They’ve laid rather low through years of this, just watching the scene in wonder and nausea, but you may see them turn more active now. And consider: they’ve been well-trained in weaponry and tactics.

Unsettling discoveries are in the offing going forward. The Wall Street Journal lately detected signs of life in the John Durham investigation, reporting that matters have gone to a grand jury. That means crimes are being prosecuted. We may soon become reacquainted with names that almost slipped down the memory-hole — the likes of Bruce Ohr, Glenn Simpson, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, Pete Strzok… who else…?  This may also lead to a catastrophic discrediting of the mainstream news media — who were fully in on the RussiaGate con — to the degree that some companies end up utterly wrecked and with many careers washed up.

Hard information about what actually went down in the 2020 election is also coming out, and not to the credit of the ruling regime that purportedly triumphed in that contest. Some of that info may redound to the issue of China’s involvement in our affairs, and beyond mere election meddling to the wholesale buying-off of the US political class. The pathetic thing is we already know several very prominent figures on-the-take from China, including Eric Swalwell, Dianne Feinstein, and most conspicuously, Hunter Biden (and family), but the ranks of the known-to-be bought-off could swell dramatically.

Finally, there’s the fate of President “Joe Biden.” As Kabul falls this morning, he remains in his Camp David gopher hole. Observers conjecture that he’s had a few “bad days” lately, meaning he is not presentable. There is a rising clamor, even among his own partisans, for him to come out and say something, anything… for Gawdsake… just do more than pretend to be the leader of the free world! It could be curtains for Ol’ White Joe… resignation-time. Never before has a US president faced such a daunting loss of legitimacy, and hardly just on account of Afghanistan. And then consider who’s next-in-line for that position. (Did you shudder?)

Sometimes, Vlad Lenin observed, events take decades, and sometimes years happen in weeks. This looks like one of those times for the USA. Heads will soon be spinning like the little girl’s in The Exorcist, releasing a pea-soup spewage of shocking revelation. The old narratives will fall apart before our eyes. Minds will have to get right. Prepare for a whole lot of strange days rolling out.


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1,379 Responses to “Strange Days Ahead”

  1. jim e August 16, 2021 at 9:56 am #

    Historians of the future, pan-frying ‘possum cutlets over their campfires, will marvel at the potency of their ancestors’ prayers. jhk

    • ASHAMED August 16, 2021 at 12:03 pm #

      I hear ya, Jim, but they’re so very much better roasted than pan-fried. Just my opinion.

      • jim e August 16, 2021 at 2:20 pm #

        A pistol shot at five o’clock
        The bells of heaven ring
        Tell me what you done it for
        No I won’t tell you a thing
        Yesterday I begged you
        Before I hit the ground
        All I leave behind me
        Is only what I found
        If you can abide it
        Let the hurdy gurdy play
        Stranger ones have come by here
        Before they flew away
        I will not condemn you
        Nor yet would I deny
        I would ask the same of you
        But failing, will not die
        Take up your china doll
        It’s only fractured
        And a little nervous from the fall

    • abbybwood August 19, 2021 at 4:37 pm #

      Had to alert everyone about this travesty happening in California.

      Two women caught on camera stealing recall ballots at an apartment complex with master key:

      https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/democrat-women-steal-california-recall-ballots-caught-on-video/

      I hope these women are caught quickly and are imprisoned for many years.

  2. Pete August 16, 2021 at 10:02 am #

    The Taliban won with faith and patience.

    America doesn’t do these wars to HELP ANYONE BUT THE 1% – and we always leave things way more screwed up than when we got there, but we ALWAYS LEAVE.

    Ya know who else promises to stick by your side, then runs when faced with a God fearing determined opponent?

    • shotho August 16, 2021 at 10:12 am #

      and just maybe we need to learn that our version of God needs to be feared as well.

    • rainmaker August 16, 2021 at 10:14 am #

      The 1% made money on the Afghan debacle. 2.2 billion dollars? or was it 2.2 trillion dollars spent on the Afghan campaign? Who knows anymore? The American dollar is trending towards worthlessness anyway.

      • Hereward the Woke August 16, 2021 at 10:29 am #

        Dick Cheney and George Bush are remarkably quiet this morning, aren’t they?

        • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 10:32 am #

          Cheney’s daughter named Trump/Biden as the responsible party.

          There is no Trump/Biden.

          • rainmaker August 16, 2021 at 10:39 am #

            Dickhead Cheney was involved in getting us into the Afghan caper. Who is Liz Cheney trying to kid?

          • lizharmon August 16, 2021 at 11:19 am #

            Cheney’s daughter is gonna get primaried in Wyoming. Make book on that.

          • hmuller August 16, 2021 at 11:22 am #

            Someone could remake The Wizard of Oz with the Cheney family.
            Dick Cheney who has no heart
            Mary Cheney who has no dick (but really wants one)
            Liz Cheney who has no decency

        • Tate August 16, 2021 at 10:56 am #

          Biden made a boo-boo when he told the Taliban ‘you can have it.’ We could have held on there for decades with a mixture of steel & swagger. Yes it would cost additional trillions but that’s the price you pay for aspiring to be the world hegemon. Is Biden saying more than he meant when he said we give up?

          Otoh, blue team vs red team war games show we really can’t defend Taiwan Our tattered prestige is on the line so when Taiwan falls, as it probably will, the dollar plummets since our supposed ‘muscle’ is all that holds up the value of the dollar.

          • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 12:17 pm #

            Yeah, Biden really f#kkd up good this time. At this point there is no worming his way out of it. Remember last May, in Europe, when Biden exclaimed “America is back.”, and Don Lemon said “Its good having adults in charge once again?”

            Brh

          • Tate August 16, 2021 at 12:30 pm #

            The invert Lemon wouldn’t recognize an adult if he got his silly smug face smacked silly by one.

          • zappalives August 16, 2021 at 4:59 pm #

            We no longer deserve to be the defender of the “free world” !

            Nor should the USD be the reserve currency.

            We deserve hard times………..most Mericans deserve nothing more……………

          • Tate August 16, 2021 at 5:37 pm #

            Deserve? ‘Deserve’s’ got nothing to do with it. I suppose you’ll tell me next that we’re not on the “Right Side of History,” rofl.

          • zappalives August 16, 2021 at 8:15 pm #

            Look it up in the dictionary,idiot.

          • Tate August 16, 2021 at 9:11 pm #

            Ooooh, snappy comeback.

        • debt August 16, 2021 at 2:04 pm #

          If you think Cheney gives a rat’s ass about Afghanistan…..

          then you don’t know Dick!

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 9:23 am #

          Dead Eye Dick got his millions. What does he care?

      • Bilejones@hotmail.com August 16, 2021 at 1:35 pm #

        The majority of the $Trillion(s?) “targeted” for Afghanistan landed, as planned, in the shiny new MiniMcMansions of Contractors in Northern Virginia.

        • Pete August 18, 2021 at 10:11 am #

          Maybe a couple of places in Delaware too…

    • thirdcoastlegend August 16, 2021 at 10:24 am #

      All the Taliban needed were some AKs, RPGs, faith, and time.

      No nukes, F-15s, lockdowns, masks, toxic jabs, CRT, or trannies, necessary.

      • ASHAMED August 16, 2021 at 10:26 am #

        You can’t kill an idea with bullets and bombs.

        • Dr_Wellington_Yueh August 16, 2021 at 2:54 pm #

          You could say that bullets’n’bombs put evolutionary pressure on a viral idea.

        • benr August 16, 2021 at 7:10 pm #

          You sure can if you KILL everyone whoever even heard the idea.

      • Ron Anselmo August 16, 2021 at 10:52 am #

        Right TCL – the way it’ll be here – asymmetric – pockets of long term resistance – weapons, faith & time…

        • messianicdruid August 16, 2021 at 11:20 am #

          “I guess we had to find out the hard way that Afghanistan is not like Nebraska.”

          Nebraska can change.

          • ASHAMED August 16, 2021 at 12:09 pm #

            Awesome catch, Druid! Way to pick it! 😉

          • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 6:01 pm #

            It will change – for the worse.

      • hortonz August 16, 2021 at 11:34 am #

        The invasion of Afghanistan was another of those ideas that seemed like a good idea at the time but turned into a clusterfuck later. Kind of like globalization, multiculturalism and gain of function research. Now our Woke leaders are telling us that it’s okay because a kinder, gentler version of the Taliban will be in charge.

        • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 12:13 pm #

          That’s not immediately apparent, as they are already executing women in sports arenas again, first caning them, then shooting them in the head.

        • Islander August 16, 2021 at 6:08 pm #

          Hortonz,

          No, it was never a good idea, and that was abundantly apparent at the time.

          • Socrates-Detroit August 16, 2021 at 9:38 pm #

            Right on Islander.

            It was NEVER a good idea.

            If we accept the view that 15 of 19 hijackers were Saudi, WHY did the US invade Afghanistan in the first place?

            The Soviet Union, a much tougher government, with a more brutal army, was unable to subjugate this country.

            It was, as others noted here, a great way for the a$$holes who run this country to build the McMansions in northern Virginia.

            JHK contends that “suburbia is the greatest misallocation of resources”. I don’t dispute that. It’s like a fat person overeating junk food.

            But the military-industrial complex is like a cancer, a bi-partisan cancer, that greased the skids for big wasteful government that has not worked in general (Democrats support defense spending in return for GOP supporting their social spending, from the 1960s to the 1980s). Big defense and big government spending require an elastic currency.

            The elastic currency facilitated Americans’ living beyond their, beyond OUR means (in total). And that facilitated suburbia.

            Delusion is wonderful.

            I knew this would be rerun of Vietnam. I knew it would unravel faster than what we were told. I figured the Taliban would be in Kabul by October, not now.

            To the extent that this generation of Americans might be jolted into reality and into questioning what the elites tell us, this could be a good thing.

            But I won’t hold my breath on that, and neither should you. This is not the 1960s. The average American adult in the 1960s, white AND black, rich, middle class, AND poor, was much more savvy and sociopolitically (if there is such a word) intelligent than today’s nominally better-educated, more highly-degreed Americans. And many more ordinary people were involved and active politically.

            Afghanistan. What a waste. While the deaths of 4000 American troops is sad and tragic, and the tens of thousands of vets who developed emotional problems or physical handicaps, I also think of all the countless thousands more Afghan civilians, non-combatants, who died for nothing. That is even more tragic. I also think of the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted on this idiotic, bloody endeavor.

            What a waste.

      • AngryFarmer August 16, 2021 at 5:38 pm #

        I get where you’re going, but…

        Don’t give the boy-raping, smack-growing creeps of Taliban any credit.
        They did nothing.
        They hid for 20 years, and took the occasional potshot.

        It’s rather like…gardening.

        You tame a patch of land and call it a “garden”.

        As long as you get out there every day, pull weeds, apply mulch and prune dead branches, it stays a garden.

        But once you get bored, and stop putting on the work, the weeds come back. Within a few months, your garden is reclaimed, and is as if it never existed.
        No one is impressed by the valor of the weeds. They just do as weeds do.

        Uncle Sam got a new hobby. Let’s hope it’s cheaper.

        • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 6:02 pm #

          They’re against boy rape as was Mohammad.

          • Uncle Bob August 16, 2021 at 6:52 pm #

            Tell that to Lawrence of Arabia. They cornholed him good!

          • AngryFarmer August 16, 2021 at 8:00 pm #

            Bunk.

            I was there.

            Mr. Pashtun loves him some boy dancin’.

            The Koran is more full of loopholes than the US tax code.

            It’s a gutter religion, founded by a caravan raider who also happened to be a chomo.

            One of history’s greatest tragedies is the fact that the medieval Christian kingdoms couldn’t get their act together and wipe it out.

            Deus vult, if you knowwhuddimean…

          • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 12:13 am #

            Well these cultures have old problems that Islam never succeeded in eradicating. You’re supposed to only rape girls apparently, as war booty. Not Muslimahs of course.

            It is a gutter religion in some respects. Are you saying the Taliban are hypocrites in this regard? That they still go for boys as well?

          • Richard August 17, 2021 at 10:35 pm #

            Nope, those eyeshadow wearing hena-bearded turds like nothing more than a little man-boy love. I was almost charged with murder by the f’ing JAGs after I solved one of those problems.

          • Pete August 18, 2021 at 10:23 am #

            As if Christianity has somehow transcended the lower base instincts of humans.

            Perhaps humans are just gutter creatures.

            Tell me how people in the west are more civilized, more altruistic, more honest and sincere then those you call goat fuckers.

            Have you been paying attention to civil society here in good old wholesome America?

            Talk about glass houses.

            You were there. I believe it. I believe you saw some human beings, being human. Leave it behind, be better yourself.

            Judge a Muslim’s behavior by Islam, not Islam by the behavior of Muslims. Shouldn’t we judge Christianity the same way? Seems like they have a pedophilia problem too.

    • Bilejones@hotmail.com August 16, 2021 at 11:46 am #

      I find it astonishing that they are talking about shipping the Afghan Translators and similar to “safety” in the US.

      America is not short of people who’ll sell their country out for a couple of bucks, we don’t need any more.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 12:25 pm #

        I’ve heard that we’ve already taken in two translators for every soldier, over the years.

      • Amman August 18, 2021 at 6:36 pm #

        Do tell.

    • Bilejones@hotmail.com August 16, 2021 at 2:03 pm #

      And it’s hard not to laugh at this:

      ” the power transition in Afghanistan is even more smooth than presidential transition in the US.”

      https://www.unz.com/aanglin/china-notes-that-transfer-of-power-in-afghanistan-was-smoother-than-in-united-states/

    • AngryFarmer August 16, 2021 at 7:47 pm #

      Guess that’s sort of the point.

      Why “promise to stick by their side” in the first place.

      The entire Afghan civilization is made up of chomo heroin makers.

      Let ’em twist.

      Of course, we had to do something after 9/11, I suppose.

      That should have been what the Israelis refer to as “mowing the lawn” – bomb some infrastructure, kill the leaders, then LEAVE. Purely and explicitly punitive.
      We get into trouble when we try to play hero.

      Let’s stop.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 9:31 pm #

        9/11 was an inside job. What did Afghanistan have to do with it?

        Nada. Bupkiss.

        • AngryFarmer August 17, 2021 at 11:55 am #

          Sorry, not buying it.

          Too complicated, too uncertain to yield controllable results, and too many mouths to keep shut.

          As grandpa always said, the scariest thing about the world is that it is exactly what it appears to be.

          • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 6:15 pm #

            LMAO! Imagine being this blind.

          • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 10:47 pm #

            Paging Dr. O.G. Paging Dr. O.G.

            LOL

          • Ron Anselmo August 18, 2021 at 12:13 am #

            AF –

            Did grandpa ever see multiple laws of physics being broken?

            In other words, did he ever see an apple ascend from the ground to a tree?

            If so, would he claim that was exactly what it appeared to be?

            A gravity defying apple?

            Do tell.

          • Uncle Abraham August 18, 2021 at 9:51 am #

            You are correct.

        • abbybwood August 17, 2021 at 1:46 pm #

          But…but…Mary!

          Within an hour of the second WTF collapsing, Ehud Barack was on CNN announcing that OBL was the mastermind!

          Who needs a freakin’ investigation?!

          Done and done.

          • abbybwood August 17, 2021 at 1:47 pm #

            I mean WTC!

          • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 6:16 pm #

            And 20 minutes before the towers fell, the BBC announced it. Oopsy.

            My favorite touch was Attah’s passport, found in one piece. AHA! This must be the dude who did it!

            The second, that WTC7 fell out of empathy for the other 2.

          • Pete August 18, 2021 at 10:29 am #

            I think WTF fits perfectly…

            it’s exactly what I thought when they found the passport that fluttered down to the street.

    • Troy Skaggs August 17, 2021 at 11:06 am #

      I spent a little time there in 2011. My overwhelming gut feeling was that the whole ordeal was a about money vs. democracy, human rights and nation building (the big P.R. covers for “American” economic and political hegemony?) and that the locals (“host nation?”) were waiting for us to leave. Ten years to the Afghanistan psyche is a different concept than ten years in the fractured late stage American circus scene. Life will go on in Afghanistan as fluidly as it went on before 2001. I’m not so sure about the “U.S.” I’m inclined to believe that time is the ultimate adjudicator and comedian.
      The Afghans are a tough people steeped in the physical reality of daily survival. That in and of itself is an affront to the progressive dream/nigtmare…and Malala wept.

  3. hmuller August 16, 2021 at 10:06 am #

    We will know we’ve truly fallen as a nation when we see websites filled with American women in sexy poses trolling for Russian husbands.

    • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 10:46 am #

      Not Chinese? I know its visually ridiculous, but that’s the reality.

      • Ishabaka August 16, 2021 at 11:02 am #

        I wonder exactly how many Chinese men are seeking 200lb+ tattooed women.

        • patrickd August 16, 2021 at 3:29 pm #

          Ishabaka, that would be 200lb+, tatooed, with a non-stop mouth, hostility, and ignorance that defies belief.

        • Uncle Bob August 16, 2021 at 6:55 pm #

          LMAO!! Truth!

        • Q. Shtik August 16, 2021 at 10:16 pm #

          200lb+ tattooed women. – Isha

          ==========

          It’s probably a throwback to the era in which I grew up but I have always been turned off by any woman who would get herself inked, regardless of weight.

          The Swim Club I belong to is heavily related to Rutgers U. All members have some connection to RU. Professors, employees, alumna. Just yesterday I was contemptuously eyeballing a 55-60 year old woman with greying hair and she had a big non-descript splotch of tattoo the size of a saucer on her thigh. No idea what it was. Does her Mom know she’s got this thing?

      • Tate August 16, 2021 at 11:03 am #

        Did you catch the story about that “Chinese-American ” Manhattan brain surgeon who divorced his sweetheart-of-Sigma-Chi bride when he found out she was a high-class hooker? Maybe he would have found it acceptable except she continued to ply her trade after their marriage. The reality is seven inches beats four inches every time.

        • Ishabaka August 16, 2021 at 11:16 am #

          Ok – but she’s not 200+ pounds and has no tattoos. Not your typical American Girl Next Door.

          • Tate August 16, 2021 at 11:23 am #

            I was replying to Yohannon. But even the 200 pounder’s passport won’t be worth shit after all is said & done.

        • hmuller August 16, 2021 at 11:29 am #

          For a brain surgeon he doesn’t sound too smart.

          “Why is my wife constantly getting phone calls , then spending the night somewhere else? Well, Duh!

          Maybe she claimed to be one of those all night real estate agents.

        • elysianfield August 16, 2021 at 11:47 am #

          “The reality is seven inches beats four inches every time.”

          Tate,
          A closely held belief among men..but only correct if you are measuring the thickness of a wallet.

          Kesa might comment.

          • benr August 16, 2021 at 7:14 pm #

            Further its more about girth and stamina than length anyway.

            A fat bank account also helps.

        • abbybwood August 17, 2021 at 1:49 pm #

          I like the one about the diversity trainer hired by Jack Dorsey who told an Asian employee, “Just wear sunglasses and no one will know you are Asian.”

  4. SouthernYankee August 16, 2021 at 10:09 am #

    Some Heads Are Gonna Roll – Judas Priest

    You can look to the left and look to the right
    But you will live in danger tonite
    When the enemy comes he will never be heard
    He’ll blow your mind and not say a word
    Blinding lights-flashing colors
    Sleepless nights
    If the man with the power
    Can’t keep it under control

    Some heads are gonna roll
    Some heads are gonna roll
    Some heads are gonna roll
    Some heads are gonna roll
    The power-mad freaks who are
    Ruling the earth
    Will show little they think you’re worth
    With animal lust they’ll devour your life
    And slice your word to bits like a knife
    One last day burning hell fire
    You’re blown away
    If the man with the power
    Can’t keep it under control

    Some heads are gonna roll
    Some heads are gonna roll
    Some heads are gonna roll
    Some heads are gonna roll
    Know what it’s like
    When you’re taken for granted
    There goes your life
    It’s so underhanded
    If the man with the power
    Can’t keep it under control

    Some heads are gonna roll
    Some heads are gonna roll
    Some heads are gonna roll
    Oh-no!
    Some Heads are gonna roll
    Oh-no! (Some heads are gonna roll)

    Alas, they will not be able to keep it under control. So, who’s head is gonna roll? Too bad but that’s how things roll when the pendulum swings.

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 11:35 am #

      Life ain’t fair.

      • SouthernYankee August 16, 2021 at 12:20 pm #

        Nor should it be MQ. But at least it’s reality and not Woke.

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 6:17 pm #

          Agree!

  5. cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 10:10 am #

    “Which prompts one to wonder: How much is the USA of 2021 like the Soviet Union of those years?”

    Good comparison indeed. There are so many similarities, it is strikingly amazing. It sure is funny how history seems to repeat itself in similar fashion.

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    • Hereward the Woke August 16, 2021 at 10:31 am #

      Looks like the Russkies did a Finland Station in reverse. In 1917, the Germans injected Lenin into Russia to forment Revolution. In 1989/90, they sent him Westward to wreak his havoc. I wonder what copies of Fukiyama’s The End of History sell for these days?

      • Q. Shtik August 16, 2021 at 10:22 pm #

        In 1917, the Germans injected Lenin into Russia to forment Revolution. – Hereward

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        Pop Quiz: Who can be first to identify what is wrong with this sentence?

        • Ron Anselmo August 16, 2021 at 10:45 pm #

          First!

          Edit: Forment should be foment.

          • Q. Shtik August 16, 2021 at 11:09 pm #

            Good job Ron!

          • Q. Shtik August 16, 2021 at 11:50 pm #

            I wasn’t expecting this much enthusiasm for my quiz.

          • Ron Anselmo August 17, 2021 at 11:11 am #

            Q – go easy on Hereward – he’s bright & articulate – obviously a simple typo, and I just had a little fun at his expense – all in good fun.

    • outsider August 16, 2021 at 10:58 am #

      Except that the gerontocracy ruling the US is older than theirs was. Long time General Secretary Brezhnev died at 76 after years of declining health. Then came Andropov was died at 69 after serving 15 months, followed by Chernenko who died at 73 after a mere 13 months. By the time a younger man, Gorbachev, was given the position all was lost. The was Biden (78) is deteriorating before our eyes, I doubt if he’ll last as long as Chernenko.

      • outsider August 16, 2021 at 11:12 am #

        After Andropov I meant to write “who.”
        Before Biden I meant to write “way.”
        Sorry, my finger dexterity and proof reading skills aren’t what they used to be.

        • Ron Anselmo August 16, 2021 at 11:21 am #

          Age related?

        • Q. Shtik August 16, 2021 at 10:24 pm #

          Sorry, my finger dexterity and proof reading skills aren’t what they used to be. – outsider

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

          We noticed.

      • cbeard August 16, 2021 at 12:42 pm #

        Judging by the way the media seems to be turning on him concerning the Afghan pull out, he may be on the way out soon. I guess dubya will never pay his dues for not pulling out as soon as 911 was avenged. Hell, they may start over and invade them again.

  6. amb August 16, 2021 at 10:12 am #

    The fitting descriptions that come to my mind regarding the US government, are… corrupt, incompetent, clueless, ignorant, evil, destructive, pathetic, mechanistic, soul-less.

    A nightmare, horror show, soap opera, sit-com, catastrophe, tragedy, porn film, snuff film, violent orgy, all rolled up into one gigantic steaming ball of chaos.

    The USA died a long time ago.

    • SW August 16, 2021 at 10:14 am #

      You left out stupid. And perhaps illiterate.

    • hmuller August 16, 2021 at 10:29 am #

      The globalist run Deep State and Mainstream News Media are finally seen in their true light. Their increasingly desperate, hysterical, and shrill commands to vaccinate the hold-outs hardly stems from loving concern. All who are not brainwashed with wokism can see that.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 10:38 am #

        Yes, about those “vaccines”-

        “SO WE’RE ALL CLEAR ON THIS: we have NO data showing a third shot reduces infections, transmissions, hospitalizations, or deaths. NONE. Israel is trying a pure Hail Mary (oh the irony). BAN ME FOR SAYING IT IF YOU LIKE, CENSORS, DOESN’T MAKE IT LESS TRUE.”

        https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1426941584445263874?s=20

        • Night Owl August 16, 2021 at 11:13 am #

          The third shot will boost the spike cell count again, wreaking more havoc on the blood vessels and internal organs, and further compromising the immune system as we near the colder months.

          Get ready, kids.

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 11:40 am #

            They can’t hide this many vaccine injuries forever. So we’re in for a shit time, but at the end of it, when the unvaxxed are fine and the vaxxed are not, they can’t keep telling everyone the unvaxxed are making everyone else sick. Of course, they’ll try.

            Also, I am seeing indications that they are exaggerating (as usual) the number of people actually vaccinated. It appears that half or more than half are not.

          • Night Owl August 16, 2021 at 11:44 am #

            Oh, definitely.

            That has been par for the course for the media since Trump became president. The numbers are usually inflated or reduced by about 20-25%, depending on the outcome the narrative calls for.

          • hmuller August 16, 2021 at 11:46 am #

            Mary, they count the vaxxed like they count Biden votes.

          • BuckeyeDoug August 16, 2021 at 11:55 am #

            So far I’ve avoided the jab(s), but for the first time I’m actually thinking about it. I’m hearing anecdotes that >90% of the COVID hospital patients are the unvaxxed like me. My brother works for a very large hospital system in the south and they are saying >95% of the serious cases are not vaccinated. I’m seen similar stories across the country this weekend. Someone is not telling the truth.

          • Night Owl August 16, 2021 at 12:01 pm #

            The Ghoul returns.

          • thirdcoastlegend August 16, 2021 at 12:58 pm #

            I think I’m ready.

            Is it wrong to daydream about all the cool cars and houses that may come available?

            Asking for a friend…

          • Amman August 16, 2021 at 1:54 pm #

            The spike protein count?

          • ThorsHammer August 16, 2021 at 4:14 pm #

            Mary Q

            If you want something closer to actual reporting of “vaccine” side effects don’t bother with the American VAERS statistics. They are statistics from a voluntary reporting system in which the carrot is heavily balanced toward non-reporting, and then filtered through the CDC to produce whatever number Pharma needs for it’s current propaganda campaign.

            Look instead at the European Endura Vigilance database. It includes all 32 EU members, many of which have distinctly different heath bureaucracies. Some of those may be every bit as corrupt as that of the USA,, but when you combine them all the likelihood that the the end number is simply pulled out of some corporation’s golden asshole is much lower.

            At last report the number of adverse events directly attributable to COVID vaccinations is more than two million, with the death count above 21,000.

            No, you won’t find that information in any “free” American news media or censored internet source. That would be bad for the agenda of Control and the bottom line of the Drug Pushers.

          • Islander August 16, 2021 at 6:23 pm #

            Buckeye Dog,

            If you are in good health, just hang in.

            If you should get the coof, get treatment early.

            Then you will be FULLY PROTECTED against further mutants.

            Take vitamins C, D, and zinc and quercetin daily.

            Eat a healthy diet. Get exercise.

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 9:35 pm #

            @BuckEyeDoug please get your jab like a good little sheeple.

          • Redneck Liberal August 16, 2021 at 10:53 pm #

            (Yawn). Here’s information with CONTEXT

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

          • Amman August 18, 2021 at 6:42 pm #

            I am in denial – at least a part of me. While I wont take the shot, I am astounded at some of the things being projected into the future by what are otherwise normal everyday people – experts and armchair commentators. If even 10 percent of what they say comes true, I think the world will see a war.

      • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 12:45 pm #

        One of the reasons the MSM sounds so hysterical is that they are losing viewers in a quite significant manner. Last week, CNN had fewer than a million viewers, How can you propagandize when no one watches you? I suspect their loss of significance is fatal. As they fade away into obscurity, many independent news sites, such as Steve Bannon and Stew Peters, are gaining viewers.

        • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 9:36 pm #

          Yep. The independent media is winning. Who wants to watch those freaks with so much make-up on you could scrape it off and fill a peanut butter jar? And their robotic bizarre delivery. People want to hear real people and real emotions and real discussion.

          Their day is over. The genie is out of the bottle.

        • Amman August 18, 2021 at 6:44 pm #

          The Long Emergency should bust up everything. if CNN goes, well then, yeah!

    • Ron Anselmo August 16, 2021 at 10:32 am #

      “…gigantic steaming ball of chaos.” ~ amb

      Ordo Ab Chao

      Question is, who’ll be providing the order?

      • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 10:54 am #

        The Private Sector of course. As Rand says, They who have the right to do whatever they want to on their own property and in their own business – and it’s all their property and business now.

        Thus the absurdity of Red America raving about the Government while what they hold sacrosanct is actually the Governing body. They all believe in it. Who doesn’t admire and envy those who have “worked hard and gotten ahead”? Who doesn’t want to rise? The Left too, for all their bullshit idealism. For the Greens, snow capped mountains take the place of Cap-Stoned Pyramids, with the tops often lost in the clouds. So they climb, like moths to a flame. They find themselves talking about biomass and cutting down forests for green energy. Wait, weren’t forest supposed to be good?

        • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 11:46 am #

          “Thus the absurdity of Red America raving about the Government while what they hold sacrosanct is actually the Governing body.” THANK YOU.

          I just do not understand this at all. They all crow about ‘big gubmint’ intrusion and control, but they are fine when corporations do it. And oblivious to the fact that corporations control our government. See: Silicon valley & ALEC.

          The left are just as hypocritical with their pretend dislike of corporate power. They embrace it just as much if not more than Red America. Just look at the pop culture that reflects their mores.

      • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 1:59 pm #

        Ron, I’m with Janos & Mary here: private armies for the rich, gang rule for the many, except in cohesive areas capable of mounting some kind of communal defense. The terrifying advances in robotics and drones are also to be considered: much control, much profit.

        Probably the ultimate reason the whole BLM was let it happen. Demonize the police, wipe out most of the taxpayer supported civil servant, member of the community officer, to usher in rent-a-cops and robots.

        BTW, notice there’s not a single “racist incident” in the media, where a blameless, saintly comm member was shot down by “bigoted cops” for a while? Was at least one high profile case a week during Trump. I wonder what that means…

        • Ron Anselmo August 16, 2021 at 8:02 pm #

          Rulo – I think you, Janos & Mary are right, and the three you mention, private armies, gangs & communal defense all exist, but will come out of the shadows so to speak and crystalize further.

          Large scale private security firms like XE (fka Blackwater), and many smaller private security firms already out there – mostly composed of ex-military – many ex-special forces personnel. A huge jump in pay scale – protecting athletes, celebrities & the well-heeled.

          Anecdotal – an old friend, an 82nd Airborne Ranger left the military shortly after 9/11, and became an armed undercover “Air Marshall” that were part of the new security protocol on commercial airlines. Not much later, he was recruited by Blackwater, and went to oversee an Afghani ridgeline @ $250K/year.

          Gang networks (Bloods, Crips, MS13,Aryan Brotherhood) & biker “club” networks (Pagans, Warlords, Hell’s Angels, Banditos, Outlaws) have been around forever – even since the days of Ward & June Cleaver, all control the narcotics trade, prostitution, debt collection & other criminal enterprises.

          Unlike most, I’ve spent some late nights in the mean streets, when and where these networks operate – not wholesome, but rich in experience, that I wouldn’t trade.

          Communal defense – seems many “volunteer militias” have formed recently – more wholesome objective – just community security.

          Underground alliances & turfs already exist, but I think things will become more localized – more tribal. There’ll still be need for leaders, negotiators, merchants & muscle.

          I agree on the demonization of the “conventional” police forces, to undermine them and usher in a different form of law enforcement.

          Currently sworn to uphold the law – the Supreme Law – may have new meaning. If the Supreme Law continues to be shredded, the upheld laws will be those of the local “leaders” – not a pleasant thought.

          Maybe the racist incidents aren’t happening anymore? Maybe the Joe & Ho Show really has accomplished something. Not. Interesting observation on your part.

          • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 9:03 pm #

            Ron, I also used to hang w a guy, back down South, every time he came back from overseas. Several tours in Afghanistan, then quit and became a contractor, for one of the large firms. Traveled all over the world, mostly oil field security but also things like the World Cup in Brazil, politicians in Europe. Was making a mint. Mentioned his folks near where I am now, I need to go through my papers and find them one of these days.

            At first I thought the Harley thing is just a clever marketing scheme, dentists on weekends riding their expensive hogs & showing off all their branded, made in China paraphernalia, vests, shirts, and whatnot… skivvies too, I’m sure. Most are like that, but I’ve found out there’s some real bad seeds there too; be careful around them. Better yet, don’t be around them at all.

            I’m sure you have some stories about those underworld nights, looking forward to hearing them sometime.

    • C.O.Jones August 16, 2021 at 10:35 am #

      I don’t see phone gazing ‘merkins doing anything about the poop show that is the national situation except watching it escalate.

      I admire JHK for using the term pussification. It applies not only to the military but to the general population as well.

      We are screwed and anybody who dares say so is a terrorist.

      I wish I was wrong.

      • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 10:56 am #

        A la Jair Bolsanaro of Brazil on Covid: Stop being a pussy.

        • Ron Anselmo August 16, 2021 at 11:06 am #

          Yep, you have to love Bolsanaro – the “Trump of the Tropics”.

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 11:47 am #

            Hahahaha!

          • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 2:04 pm #

            Ron, mixed feelings here. Yeah, much to admire in the man, politically. Environmentally, though, and with a solid argument I admit (let’s make Brazil great again kind of thing), he’s opened the last of the Amazon to burning, to be replaced by soybeans & cattle. Soil erosion follows, desertification. It’s a complicated debate, but you know where I am in regards to respecting Nature, or what’s left of Her (yeah, goddess Gaia makes a lot more sense to me than angry gods Yahveh or Allah).

          • Ron Anselmo August 16, 2021 at 5:06 pm #

            Rulo – always a pleasure, hope all’s proceeding apace on the N FL farm. Look forward to seeing you – maybe mid to later fall.

            Agreed on Bolsanaro – I like his nationalist bent and fearless approach to things, but also agree with you 100% on his eco policies – not sound, is an understatement.

            And yes, I know where you are on Nature, and admire you greatly for that.

          • Soul Forensics August 16, 2021 at 5:40 pm #

            rulo,

            Brazil rainforest destruction has been off-the-charts since the 80s. Not to let Bolsinaro off the hook, of course.

          • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 8:11 pm #

            Ron, it will be a pleasure to meet you. We’re neighbors. You’re certainly welcome here anytime.

            Soul, I know. Very sad to see the last of it fading away quick.

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 9:41 pm #

            The destruction of the rain forest is one of those things that just sadden me so greatly I can’t hardly think about it.

      • O.G. Hawkins August 16, 2021 at 11:02 am #

        Pussification indeed.

        Very few people born after JKF Day grew into adults. Most cling to their psychological blanky and line-up for their vax jabs. Most are old, Big children.

        Nanny State.

        • Tate August 16, 2021 at 11:12 am #

          Many of them became Reagan Republicans. They saw that nothing bad happened after the disastrous sixties, so they conclude that nothing bad will ever happen. But there’s a lot of ruin in a nation.

        • Q. Shtik August 16, 2021 at 10:29 pm #

          Very few people born after JKF Day grew into adults. – OG

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          I’m unfamiliar, what is JKF Day? Ohhh, wait a min…you meant… neh ver mind.

      • JackStraw August 16, 2021 at 12:49 pm #

        I went to my local bagel shop this morning and there were 4 boys working there. They all had man-buns and looked totally pussified.

        Screwed? You’re not even remotely wrong.

        • cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 5:07 pm #

          What ever happened to the Schwarzenegger that chided against the “girly men”???

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 9:42 pm #

            He’s now crying about masks and jabs.

        • Q. Shtik August 16, 2021 at 10:33 pm #

          They all had man-buns – JackStraw

          ========

          Oh God, don’t get me started on man-buns. They’re worse than tatts on women.

  7. SW August 16, 2021 at 10:12 am #

    Last week I heard on the news that the US government in Afghanistan told Americans to GET OUT NOW. The day Biden announced we were leaving for good, if they had had any sense at all, they should have started shredding documents and loading up the planes. They’ve known for 20 years the Taliban were smarter and faster than they were.

    This is a quote from the Koran — “actions begun in anger end in shame”.

    • rainmaker August 16, 2021 at 10:27 am #

      SW – I don’t believe that “anger” had anything to do with the calculations that the “American Empire” used to try to take over Afghanistan. Sure, the MMS whipped up the emotions of the American people, and used 9/11 to justify invading Afghanistan, but anyone with a capability for reason could see that the “reasons” to invade Afghanistan were just a cover for the real reasons to go there. I think it had more to do with China, and pipelines, and trading routes. Besides those reasons, when has whatever regime running the USA ever turned down an opportunity to enrich the 1% with financing, military contracts and various other business that comes with a nice little military exercise?

      • rainmaker August 16, 2021 at 10:28 am #

        sorry, MSM..edit

      • hmuller August 16, 2021 at 10:31 am #

        Don’t forget the poppy fields.

        • O.G. Hawkins August 16, 2021 at 11:10 am #

          BINGO!

        • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 12:56 pm #

          Oh, no! What is the CIA going to do to replace that funding source?

          • ThorsHammer August 16, 2021 at 4:35 pm #

            Fentanyl

            Heroin is so old school— being derived from an actual plant that requires cultivation and harvesting. It was time for the CIA to phase out their traditional source of jingle money from protecting the Afghan poppy fields anyway.

            I’m not sure that collecting their traditional 10% from the Zetas and Sinola Cartel will be quite as easy as it was from the “democratically” elected leaders in Afghanistan though—-.

      • Hereward the Woke August 16, 2021 at 10:33 am #

        Yep. The line of thought, “16 out of 19 of the 911 bombers were Saudis. Let’s invade Afghanistan!” was never going to win a logic competition, was it? If we had a genuine media, they’d be hammering on Dick Cheney’s door this morning.

        • cbeard August 16, 2021 at 12:52 pm #

          Yep. The line of thought, “16 out of 19 of the 911 bombers were Saudis. Let’s invade Afghanistan!” LOL, It’s twue, it’s twue, it’s weawy, weawy twue.

      • SouthernYankee August 16, 2021 at 10:33 am #

        Follow the money. Always.

        • SW August 16, 2021 at 10:42 am #

          rainmaker — I agree there were plenty of financial/self-enrichment motives behind the invasion. But the reason given to the American people was “you’re either with us or against us” (I’m not saying I agreed) and the attitude “somebody’s going to pay for attacking us” and “we’re gonna whip their ass” was the constant drumbeat on the media.

          • rainmaker August 16, 2021 at 11:07 am #

            SW – you are right about the “you’re either with us or against us”. The problem that the MSM has now, is that too many Americans are now realizing how we were played for fools by the corporate mouthpieces. Classic Pogo quote – “We have met the enemy, and he is us!”

          • SouthernYankee August 16, 2021 at 11:12 am #

            Yes, of course those were the reasons sold to the people. After all, who is going to sanction such an action like invading a foreign country when the true motive is actually private profit. It’s always been like that. Even the Federal Reserve system was started for the ostensible purpose of “price stability and maximum sustainable employment.”

            On the surface they sound like solemn and noble motives but these were just political concessions to enable the Fed’s owners to achieve their true purpose: maximum sustainable profits via a monopoly over issuance of the nation’s currency which is the very root of all the rot and decay in the world right now.

          • abbybwood August 16, 2021 at 12:07 pm #

            Prior to any real investigation.

            The hijacker of the flight that hit WTC 2….his passport was found a few blocks up the street in Manhattan with hardly a singe on it.

            Had Colombo been leading the investigation that whole ground zero area would have been a crime scene for a year. At least until all the molten steel had stopped burning! (“Duh…what molten steel??!)

            Instead the evidence was quickly hauled off and shipped to China!

            Now I see that if you question the “official story” of 9/11 or if you question the Covid mask, lockdown or vax mandates or if you question any elections as fraudulent, you are looked at as a “domestic terrorist”. All of this from the DHS:

            https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/nbc-news-department-of-homeland-security-opposing-covid-19-measures-or-believing-elections-can-have-fraud-now-considered-terrorism/

          • SW August 16, 2021 at 1:53 pm #

            abby wood — I was watching Peter Jennings when he said the passport had been found. It made no sense to me then or now. And almost instantly Osama Bin Laden was tagged as the culprit. I read — and don’t know if this is true or not — that the Tailban offered to hand him over to the US if given evidence that he was the mastermind behind the attacks.

            When the compound at Waco was burned to the ground with the people inside, the site was razed 3 days later and all evidence destroyed with it.

      • JohnAZ August 16, 2021 at 10:58 am #

        I believe you are right. Keep an eye on China’s reaction to this debacle. Afghanistan controls the middle of Asia, trade routes will utilize its area. Think what we needed a presence in Afghanistan for? MIC needed the money flow, of course. But what other things do we need the country for. How many tech heavy resources do they have that both Russia and the US deemed necessary to stabilize the country? How scared should the American consumer be of the cutoff of products due to geopolitics? We are already seeing oil, cars, food impacts of China’s manipulations and it is going to be much worse. How the heck is the GND going to get going with diminished resources to make all those EV vehicles, let alone the batteries to store electricity from all the new plants that cannot be built because of resource shortages.

        All this is no longer in the future, it is happening day to day.

        I believe some divine intervention is involved here, how could we have so thoroughly installed such a gang of thieves and incompetent leaders as we have for the past forty years? The last 7 months seems to be climax of the Deep State pillaging of the American dream. How could such a combination of incompetence been put together, such a group of nincompoops in the senior cabinet, and the two worst “president, VP” combination ever.

        Jimmy Carter is still alive to see his legacy improved to no longer be the worst administration in US modern history.

        • rainmaker August 16, 2021 at 11:11 am #

          JAZ – there will soon not be an economy that will support electric cars for all. The future is going to be on foot. Or maybe a few bicycles. The energy crisis is starting to really gain traction.

          • JohnAZ August 16, 2021 at 11:26 am #

            Yup!

          • JohnAZ August 16, 2021 at 11:27 am #

            That economy is here now.

          • Paul August 16, 2021 at 1:03 pm #

            Most realistic post of the day. “Growth” stopped a long time ago. Buses and other forms of mass transit can work well.

        • abbybwood August 16, 2021 at 12:10 pm #

          It is interesting how Putin has said, “We have no problem with this transfer of power to the Taliban. Our embassy is fine and we are sitting tight.”

        • neurodoc August 17, 2021 at 10:14 am #

          JohnAZ;
          I finally had time to locate the info we discussed several weeks back regarding the issue of location of vaccinate following injection into the deltoid. Interestingly, the japanese require location data for their fda type group to approve a vax. Here is a video with a Canadian researcher talking about the issue that unlike other actual vaccines, the mRNA therapy results in 75% of the injectate (and S1 glycoportein) leaving the ‘vax’ site and entering every other part of the body. FYI

          https://rumble.com/vlako1-they-never-knew-the-spike-protein-was-a-toxin.html

    • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 2:06 pm #

      SW, that’s a good quote. Rings true to me.

      • SW August 17, 2021 at 11:01 am #

        I’ve seen the truth of this too many times over my lifetime. Not that there aren’t times when anger is a rational response to an unjust situation but it has to be channeled with self-control and reason or it really can end in shame.

  8. dr gonzo August 16, 2021 at 10:18 am #

    Floundering. Friendless. Broke. Broken!

    Spooky. The similarities to the last days of the CCCP are more than I can bear.

    Thanks for this.

    • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 2:11 pm #

      Yeah, agreed. Our 4 riders. Well said, Mr K.

      The differences I see are that the old USSR had zero capacity to obtain hard currency. Which can be conjured up with a magic screen here… still. Not for long, methinks, as the only real backing the US dollar has is our might and muscle.

      The infrastructure is also much better here than late 80’s soviet bloc, and despite inflation and shortages, walking into a Target affords the average Joe a richer variety of convenience, luxury and piles of everything from everywhere than ancient kings had.

      Again, who knows for how long. Take advantage now, stock up on socks and razor blades.

  9. SouthernYankee August 16, 2021 at 10:19 am #

    What are worthless and wicked people like?
    They are constant liars,
    signaling their deceit with a wink of the eye,
    a nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of fingers.
    Their perverted hearts plot evil,
    and they constantly stir up trouble.
    But they will be destroyed suddenly,
    broken in an instant beyond all hope of healing.

    – Proverbs 6:12-15

    • Pete August 16, 2021 at 10:26 am #

      Amen.

    • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 10:59 am #

      The Koran speaks of a civilization in Arabia that was given to mercantilism and war. It disappeared in a great sand storm that last a day, a night, and another day.

      • SouthernYankee August 16, 2021 at 11:20 am #

        The Atlantis of the Desert? I did not know that Yohannon. Thx.

  10. Walter B August 16, 2021 at 10:25 am #

    As a young man just out of the Army myself, I watched the original event first hand with great angst. Seeing it totally duplicated today I am stunned by the way the media is going out of it’s way to jam this one into old wounds that never healed and to what effect? America is certainly being called out as backstabbing scum that invades your country, steals all your good shit, and leaves you behind to pay the price for supporting us.

    If this does not turn the entire planet against us and pave the way for the Chinese “good guys” to come to the world’s rescue, then nothing will. Personally I think we have just been set up to get the Bargain Basement Backdoor Special. The year, the Fall will surely take on another less pleasant play out I think.

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    • Ron Anselmo August 16, 2021 at 10:57 am #

      Nice to see you back Walter.

      • Walter B August 16, 2021 at 11:07 am #

        Thank you. I got tired of being slammed and the massive amount of corruption I have been fighting in the governing business was wearing me out. Giving up was the only option since the general public not only accents corruption, but embraces it as a way of doing business. I cannot wait for my term to expire on 31 Dec 21.

        • thirdcoastlegend August 16, 2021 at 1:03 pm #

          If there is that much corruption and apathy at your level, imagine how bad things are at the top…

          • Walter B August 16, 2021 at 8:41 pm #

            It boggles the mind.

        • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 1:25 pm #

          I’m so sorry. It’s a pity, because I think we are going to be in desperate need of people like you on a more local level in the near future.

          • Walter B August 16, 2021 at 8:42 pm #

            I often think of Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged” as I go about the business of governing and even just in daily life. If only John Galt was not fiction….

    • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 2:13 pm #

      Walter, well said! Welcome back, looking forward to your well reasoned posts.

      • Walter B August 16, 2021 at 8:44 pm #

        I never stopped reading Jim’s blog and as a few weeks went by it became absolutely clear that this place was the only place I could go to find accurate reporting of facts. Thanks Jim.

    • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 4:39 pm #

      Good to hear from you Walter.

      With your executive experience you’ll be able to speak with even more authority than you did before. Welcome back.

      • Walter B August 16, 2021 at 8:49 pm #

        Indeed BRH, as acting Township administrator for 18 months, it quickly became apparent that so much of the yearly mandated BS was comprised was the filling out of complicated forms that no one would ever read, and repetitive “training” of staff in Blood Born Pathogens, CPR, and the use of fire extinguishers. Like your municipal clerk is going to turn EMT for fun!

        Thank you for the welcome, just in time for FALL!

    • Daddyotis August 16, 2021 at 6:08 pm #

      Walter: Let me add my affirmation to the rest, that I’m very happy to see you back and posting again. I always used to scan the CFN comments for yours, as they offered very clever insight and common sense (in the non-bastardized frame of the phrase). Please do stay.

      • Walter B August 16, 2021 at 8:51 pm #

        Thank you Daddyotis, your kind words mean a lot after 18 months of hardcore abuse on Farcebook, where there are no rules and psychotic assholes can make up and spew anything that their demented minds dream up. If I could only get my fingers wrapped around the neck of Herr Zuckerberg…….

        • SpeedyBB August 17, 2021 at 5:39 pm #

          There there now, Walter old bean. We must all feel compassion for poor Mister SugarMountain, as Congress-critters said bad things to him and he was clearly stricken by their unkind observations.

          FB does its best to weed out hate-posts and fake news and now I have to stop typing because my fingers can’t stop cynically laughing.

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          • Walter B August 17, 2021 at 6:03 pm #

            Indeed Farcebook has probably been THE biggest factor in the decay and collapse of our society. In my township my political enemies set up a page called “Bethlehem Township Politics & Government” that should Really be called “Walter B should be dragged into the street and gang raped”. They post the most ridiculous slander and personal attacks and Farcebook won’t do anything about it. It’s like the National Inquirer on steroids.

            The only saving grace is that there are almost NO people that like or reply to any of the posts, like “Bethlehem Township is bankrupt” or ” Walt B had a residency question 22 years ago”. Their way around it is to create alternate characters so they can talk to themselves and pretend someone cares. Although there is no way of knowing what effect it may have, something must be gained by the advantage of blind accusation. If you throw a ball of shit at someone’s head and hit them, surely it leaves a shitstain.

  11. ASHAMED August 16, 2021 at 10:25 am #

    Thanks, Mr K!

    “and beyond mere election meddling to the wholesale buying-off of the US political class.”

    Don’t blame Joe. He’s only the puppet. One of many, probably thousands of them.

    Bought and wholly owned by GloboCap, every single one. So is it really surprising, after GloboCap merged with wokesterism, that we get this military and humanitarian debacle? I think not. You get what you pay for.

    • C.O.Jones August 16, 2021 at 10:41 am #

      It’s quite a commentary on our idiocracy that a debilitated shell of a man can be foisted off on us as leader of the free world.

      The powers that be are laughing hysterically every time he soils himself at the microphone.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 12:47 pm #

        You bet they are.

    • rainmaker August 16, 2021 at 10:46 am #

      The creed of the American military- ‘We’re making the world a safer place for McDonalds!”

      • World War Zeke August 16, 2021 at 5:57 pm #

        I find their cluster bomblettes and white phosphor very tasty.

    • messianicdruid August 16, 2021 at 11:39 am #

      “You get what you pay for.”

      Nope. Americans have been paying and paying and paying for the world to be a happy, secure place for at least a century.

      “You don’t get what you don’t pay for.” Victor Carson

      • messianicdruid August 16, 2021 at 12:58 pm #

        amb will explain some the true costs [ that we diligently avoided ] further down.

        • messianicdruid August 16, 2021 at 1:32 pm #

          cavepainter as well.

    • Walter B August 16, 2021 at 8:56 pm #

      Yes Jerkoff Joe cannot be held accountable for he knows not what he does. In actuality, I blame myself for the current state of decrepitude in our national leadership. Yes, it’s all my fault.

      A few years ago, I was taking care of my Alzheimer’s ridden Mother along with my brother one morning while I was visiting. It was around election time and as we worked to take care of her morning ablutions I turned to my brother and said, “You know Eric, it’s really sad, because even Mom, in her current state of illness, could be elected president if she won the popularity contest”.

      The room must have been tapped because here we are…..

  12. Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 10:26 am #

    VP Harris cannot be bothered, she is too busy with Haiti.

    What. in Haiti, can be improved upon by her focussing her attention on it?

    The usual helpers will help with or without her approval.

    • SouthernYankee August 16, 2021 at 10:31 am #

      Nothing in Haiti can be improved by her meddling. But it gives the media something (anything for Gawd’s sake!) to fashion the impression that she cares (oooooooohhhh!), that she is compassionate, etc…

      Not my VP, and not my President. They are mere squatters.

      • Ishabaka August 16, 2021 at 11:09 am #

        “she is compassionate, etc…” Joe Biden may be a senile grifter, but Kamala Harris is a psychopath. I realized that when I saw her try to gut Joe over his ancient vote on bussing, in the primaries. You may not like Joe, but if there is one thing he is not, that’s a racist. Back when he voted for, every liberal in America thought bussing would help Black children. The fact that it did not could not have been foreseen. Kamala knew all that – and I knew then that she would say and do anything to get power.

        • SouthernYankee August 16, 2021 at 11:28 am #

          I don’t agree that “not being a racist” is meaningful any longer for someone to include on their mora/political resume. It’s about as obsolete as including on an actual resume that one is proficient in Windows 95 or knows how to use e-mail. Big deal.

        • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 12:49 pm #

          Joe is a serial liar and a narcissist/sociopath/psychopath himself.

          Ever see him when he was younger?

          They are two peas in a pod. He’s just senile and ineffectual now.

        • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 12:31 am #

          He’s a well known race realist from way back – what you would call a racist. Called Blacks “super predators” – which they are compared to other races – and helped pass legislation to curb their reign of terror.

      • JohnAZ August 16, 2021 at 1:28 pm #

        Remember who reacted to the last Haiti earthquake.

        Clinton and Bush, they were hailed as heroes, until it was found out that the actual received aid was nickels on the dollar.

        • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 1:54 pm #

          Chelsea got a high-end wedding out of it. It was really top drawer.

      • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 1:51 pm #

        The upper echelons of women in the Democratic party recently had a meeting regarding how to rehabilitate the Harris image. Perhaps compassion towards Haiti will do the trick, but I doubt it. We have concerns that are closer to home, like the border crisis she owns. She isn’t up to the job and is not that great as an actress. She’s a weak sister and viewed even more unfavorably than Biden. If her political life survives to 2024, and they correct the election fraud in key states by then, and the dead can’t rise to vote for her, they’ll have to replace her.

        Biden hasn’t made an appearance regarding the Afghanistan debacle yet. Apparently, he isn’t presentable at the present time and it will take several days to prepare him. I understand they have abandoned US citizens there. Imagine the optics when they began to execute them publicly. Pelosi is praising him and blaming the whole thing on Trump.

        • SW August 16, 2021 at 1:58 pm #

          Kamala IMO was chosen strictly b/c she was black (sort of) and a woman. Her unsavory history and record in California was kept off the mainstream news, just like Hunter’s laptop.

          What can Biden say? They’re trying very hard to figure out a way to blame Trump but Democrats really are the ones who own Afghanistan. Trump wanted to withdraw and the generals fought him very publicly.

    • ASHAMED August 16, 2021 at 10:34 am #

      The VP is getting to the “roots” of the problem, I hope — 10 miles underground, where she belongs!

      • thirdcoastlegend August 16, 2021 at 11:09 am #

        The VP has a track record of rooting for personal gain.

        It is known.

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:37 am #

      Maybe she’ll bring the Clinton Foundation back in to build some houses. LOL.

      Last time, they built only 6 and tried to leave with 30 children… and got busted.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 10:44 am #

        Oh but Laura Silsby was trying to get the proper approvals to bring those children she already took from their parents into the DR, when she was busted.

        The DR knew nothing about it, but it was all on the up-and-up, sure it was.

        • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 12:50 pm #

          Do you know after she was busted out of the joint by the Clintons, she was handsomely rewarded? She sits on the Amber Alert board now. Not kidding.

          • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 12:32 am #

            Just as the fallen Church puts Homosexual Predators in charge of investigations on sexual abuse by Homosexual Predators.

    • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 11:56 am #

      Wait a minute. Heels Up is in Haiti?

      Isn’t that Clinton Territory?

      • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 12:31 pm #

        No, she’s “focused on” it.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 12:50 pm #

        Esp. the kids.

    • abbybwood August 16, 2021 at 12:16 pm #

      She is probably working with Bill and Hill and Chelsea and “The Clinton Foundation” to go into Haiti to “help”.

      Only this time they will probably be greeted with pitchforks and rope.

      • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 1:45 pm #

        There’s almost $15 billion missing from money raised about 10 years ago for the hurricane, and another $35 billion unaccounted for from the period 1990-2010.

        Haitians are worse off than they’ve ever been.

  13. Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 10:28 am #

    This kind of chaos has Obama’s fingerprints all over it.

    Who else has such a fervent desire to see America brought low?

    • Hereward the Woke August 16, 2021 at 10:35 am #

      Partially agree, Beryl. The sheer malignancy of the Dems’ recent actions have Obama’s finger prints all over it. He hates America and everything he does aims to destroy it. However, he’s also lazy, rather stupid and incompetent, so maybe there are other greater minds behind him.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:38 am #

        He works for the Rockerfeller/Rothschilds like every other puppet.

        • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 10:45 am #

          Yes, he’s the puppet running the dummy.

          • ASHAMED August 16, 2021 at 11:29 am #

            As of 10:30 am Biden is still hidin’. Must be GloboCap are engaging in fierce bidding to author the lies Joe will spew later on.

        • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 11:01 am #

          Thank you, Mary. That’s never to be forgotten. People take figures like Soros in isolation. That’s the way they want it. He takes the blame, not them.

      • malthuss August 16, 2021 at 10:47 am #

        Why does he hate? USA and Whites made him rich….He may be a billionaire.

        • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 11:05 am #

          Someone like him, abandoned by both parents, I can’t say that made him evil but it certainly helped warp him.

          He doesn’t have any problem palling around with white billionaires, I’ve noticed.

          • malthuss August 16, 2021 at 11:17 am #

            I think the commie from Chicago is his dad.

            They both have facial moles in the same place.

          • rainmaker August 16, 2021 at 11:37 am #

            Barry’s mother was a sexual adventuress.

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 12:52 pm #

            He was groomed by the CIA.

            The man has no soul, they remove it to make perfect puppets.

          • Q. Shtik August 16, 2021 at 9:44 pm #

            doesn’t have any problem palling around – Beryl

            =========

            Oh my God, please!

    • JohnAZ August 16, 2021 at 1:30 pm #

      Hey, how about turning Haiti into a 21st century Liberia?

      • Ishabaka August 16, 2021 at 6:53 pm #

        Charles Taylor is still around – put him in the Presidential Palace in Port au Prince.

  14. redrock August 16, 2021 at 10:29 am #

    Fat, stupid, over educated, elitist. Know anyone in these categories? They will determine the future of the country. Common sense, not so much.

  15. amb August 16, 2021 at 10:30 am #

    Our Founding Fathers created the most optimal government structure to date for a nation-state. Yet, what they didn’t understand, and what is still not understood to this day, is how to prevent a delicate creation such as this to withstand infiltration from destructive forces.

    The lack of understanding of the human mind and of human behavior, and the basic principles of life and existence, has always been our downfall throughout history.

    (Philosophy, religion, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, psycho-analysis, et al have ALL failed in solving this. Anyone who argues this point or offers justifications, explanations, or hope and faith in these subjects is a fool.)

    Anything created will eventually be destroyed until we solve this great conundrum that has plagued us since the beginning of civilization.

    Solve this, solve everything.

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    • Hardrock August 16, 2021 at 10:54 am #

      I think it all comes down to greed.

      • amb August 16, 2021 at 11:02 am #

        Greed is superficial. It exists because of the flaws in the human mind and lack of education on the true principles of life.

        • amb August 16, 2021 at 11:05 am #

          Immorality, and poor decisions that do not benefit the survival of self and others, are both superficial. Have to go deeper. Man has not gotten even ONE INCH deep into himself, the human mind, and how to live. Want evidence? Just look at our history.

          • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 2:18 pm #

            amb, I agree with you in general, the system was indeed superb. But greed wasn’t nipped in the bud, and it has grown out of control. It explains many bad decisions for the nation, but good for greed.

            Also, no planning for how to keep the system self-sufficient and self-contained. And sort of small and limited. The Roman Republic was replaced by the Empire, larger, mightier, global. The same happened to us.

        • O.G. Hawkins August 16, 2021 at 11:24 am #

          Greed is 1 of the 7 Deadly Sins. We must all do our Best to overcome each and every 1.

          Of course, we are mortal and constantly fail. Some more than others.

          ——

          Greed is often pure evil in the sense that it will deploy 1 or more of the other 6 to profit.

          • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 11:38 am #

            I’ve increasingly come to the realization that the 10th commandment is vastly underrated but perhaps the most helpful.

            To me personally, anyway.

          • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 2:22 pm #

            OG, I thought it was a good idea to open your truvinyl for a meeting place if this page goes poof.

            I hope you can activate that, although the capacity exists to limit access to anyhing on the internet, no matter where it’s hosted… as China has abundantly proven. So it’s a coin toss. Maybe they leave you alone if they deem your page insignificant. That would be good. Make it low profile, maybe? Like just a forum to discuss rock albums or something? Then we can use code. Trump can be “ozzy”, Biden “alice cooper” and so on.

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 9:50 pm #

            I’m also happy to build an alternative blog, where anyone can post. Just let me know if youse guys are interested.

          • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 12:55 am #

            Get in good with the Chinese and they’ll protect you. How do you think Anglin is still on the mainstream internet? Of course you can’t say anything bad about China any more.

    • abbybwood August 16, 2021 at 12:20 pm #

      How to stop corruption, fraud and lying?

      Maybe Durham’s Grand Jury will lead the way?

      • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 2:25 pm #

        Maybe the elves will fix my rototiller…

        • Ron Anselmo August 16, 2021 at 5:14 pm #

          Keep the faith, stranger things have happened…(than elves fixing your rototiller, I mean…beauty…)

        • AngryFarmer August 17, 2021 at 12:43 pm #

          Meh.

          It’s probably a dirty carb or bad gas.

          It’s ALWAYS a dirty carb or bad gas.

          Save the elves for baking cookies and killing orcs.

    • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 1:58 pm #

      Entropy. It is built into everything and unavoidable.

    • Uncle Abraham August 18, 2021 at 3:23 pm #

      Jesus Christ, the Son of God, God in the flesh, is the Antidote to the destroyer (man-Satan) and is decidedly not religious sectarianism – the domain of Satan.

  16. Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 10:31 am #

    I think we will become acquainted with names we have never heard before, like Sally from the typing pool and Fred the guy who changes the cartridges on the printer.

    Maybe the janitor who dumped the wastebasket with the shredded confidential documents in it.

    • Hereward the Woke August 16, 2021 at 10:36 am #

      I don’t know why people are so bitter about Russiagate. We got Clinesmith, didn’t we?

  17. MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:35 am #

    Good morning! Another excellent article, James. Thank you.

    “Sometimes, Vlad Lenin observed, events take decades, and sometimes years happen in weeks. This looks like one of those times for the USA.”

    Very apt quote, and I tend to agree. It feels like history in the making is moving at lightning speed. What a rollercoaster ride we’re on.

    The entire piece articulates so perfectly where we are. My favorite paragraph is the one about how insanely authoritarian the left has become, leaving people like me who have stuck to my beliefs and stances against censorship and for our rights in the dust. What the new wokie progressives don’t understand is they have lost at least half if not more of their tribe, and the more extremist they get, the smaller their ranks are.

    Anecdotal, but on Facebook, I have a LOT of friends who, like me, have been anti-war activists, stood for equality, supported LGB when they strove for equal rights, and are vehemently anti-corporatist rule and anti-censorship for citizens and journalists.

    They have kept their stances, or even moved slightly more centrist, in response to the loony wokies with their pro-pedophilia, pro-garbage pop culture, anti-free speech, trans agenda, CRT, cancel-culture, pro-intel agencies craziness. And there are a LOT of them. I’d say it’s the majority of my crew. We seem to be an invisible minority now, but we have been open minded enough to start to see possibilities in alliances with other more independent-minded citizens, or even moderate conservatives.

    I think that the loony wokies are actually becoming the fringe, and the rest of us are just normal folks, then there are the fringer rightwingers who are extreme on their end of the political spectrum. But I think the vast majority of us are now starting to become more willing to ‘work with others’ as it were.

    I would see that as a good thing. The PTB want us divided but some of their tactics are backfiring in a big way.

    • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 11:05 am #

      LGB has always been pro-pedophilia, secretly. Gay marriage? Satan is the Ape of God. Letting them adopt children? Madness. That’s supporting imbalance and destruction.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 9:54 pm #

        I believe that homosexuals are born that way, and I know a lot of them, and ironically, most of them are more conservative re: family than anyone else I know. Maybe they feel they have something to prove? I don’t know. Throughout history, homosexuals have made up 4%-10% of any population. Seems like they are naturally supposed to exist.

        In any case, I disagree: The vast majority of pedophiles are straight. Sorry to break it to you.

        Homosexuals should have never let trannies hitch their wagon to their cause.

        • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 12:58 am #

          You have to go into percentages in order to be meaningful since the vast majority of people are straight.

          Many Gays admit that they were turned by abuse from an older Gay.

    • abbybwood August 16, 2021 at 12:29 pm #

      The Orange County Register just called for Newsom’s recall and endorsed Larry Elder for governor!

      Larry said his first act as governor would be to stop mask mandates, vax mandates, lockdowns and vax passports.

      Already Newsom is whining because Democrats are being complacent about the recall election and the Republicans and Independents are mobilized. Supposedly he has Pelosi and Carmelita coming here to campaign for him. Do it!!! Great idea to have two of the most polarizing political figures of today here to “support” you!

      He should also get the teachers union reps to go door-knocking for him!

      Ha!

      • SW August 16, 2021 at 2:30 pm #

        If there’s a God then Newsom and his hair gel will be thrown out of office. And if there’s a really, really powerful God, he’ll take Nancy and Diane with him.

        • hmuller August 16, 2021 at 4:26 pm #

          Is that hair gel flammable? Just askin’.

        • Uncle Abraham August 18, 2021 at 3:30 pm #

          Who do you think created destroyers like Nancy and Diane to chastise us for our complacency with evil?

      • hmuller August 16, 2021 at 4:25 pm #

        Yea abbywood,
        Maybe gruesome Newsom can show us his love of the underdog by holding a “homeless sidewalk poop-athon”. Or maybe his Antifa buddies can do an encore performance by burning down a few city blocks.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 9:55 pm #

        OC is full of libertarians and Republicans, but it is also a HUGE population. So, onward. This is good news.

    • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 2:19 pm #

      The children are being sexualized. Here is a short video of little kids at play that is so shocking I don’t know what to make of it.

      https://www.bitchute.com/video/gDuD5Tvs5XQi/

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 9:56 pm #

        It’s horrible. They are being groomed, and preyed upon, and their parents help! And so do schools. Disgusting.

        • draupnir August 17, 2021 at 12:02 am #

          I don’t know how kids that age would even know about such behavior. Was it a video of that rap song that they saw on TV? I can’t believe they ever witnessed such a thing in their homes.

      • MaryQueen August 20, 2021 at 9:40 am #

        The video is blocked, BTW.

    • Redneck Liberal August 16, 2021 at 8:05 pm #

      Amusing perspective:

      “I think that the loony wokies are actually becoming the fringe, and the rest of us are just normal folks, then there are the fringer rightwingers who are extreme on their end of the political spectrum.

      See, *I* think YOU are a “fringer rightwinger” and YOU think *I* am a “loony wokie”. I know you’re wrong, and agree that perhaps I may be wrong too. What’s your most succinct definition of each term?

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 9:58 pm #

        LOL, that you think I’m a far righty.

        You’re stupid. You have no political compass.

        For instance, you think I am a Qanoner even though I have said many times I think Trump was controlled opposition.

        You don’t pay attention to what people say, and you are brainwashed into the blue cult. Therefore, your opinions are akin to a pile of donkey diarrhea.

        • benr August 17, 2021 at 9:39 am #

          Now wait a minute Donkey poo is at least use full as fertilizer!

          • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 6:21 pm #

            LOL, true.

        • Redneck Liberal August 18, 2021 at 7:28 pm #

          You, like many other disappointed QAnon dickwads, have abandoned Trump, so that means absolutely nothing.

          The rest of your beliefs are just batshit crazy.

          • MaryQueen August 20, 2021 at 9:43 am #

            1) Never voted for Trump
            2) Never read/shared any Qanon stuff
            3) You’re still trying desperately to cling to your made-up narrative

            That’s pretty much the MO of a wokie libtard, yeah.

  18. Ron Anselmo August 16, 2021 at 10:37 am #

    It’d be good to be long opium. Afghanistan provides 80% of the world supply. Not happening under the Taliban. Just when we could use more mind-numbing opiates.

    • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 10:48 am #

      We have plenty of fentanyl. It’s a little trickier, is all.

      • MaryQueen August 20, 2021 at 9:43 am #

        Kills faster, that’s for sure.

    • redrock August 16, 2021 at 11:15 am #

      Oh no.

    • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 2:29 pm #

      Evil stuff. I have not been averse to a bit of exploring with the aid of substances, but stayed well away from opiates, natural or synthetic. I’ve seen enough of my generation go crazy and die from that shit. You commune with the mushroom once a year in a full moon is one thing; you need the next dimebag to breathe and exist, whole other game.

      20 yrs of rich crops really padded the black $ budget, eh. Russia and Europe are flooded with the stuff. Has never been any cheaper. That may change. Or not. The Talibs may realize they have a cash cow in their hands and not be so puritan this time.

      • Ron Anselmo August 16, 2021 at 6:07 pm #

        Rulo – I think the Taliban is against cultivation on religious grounds. When we arrived in the early 2000’s, they had driven production down to 185 metric tons, and then under the watchful eye of US military, production increased to 6200 metric tons in very short order.

        Part of Dubya & Cheney’s rap was the Taliban was using drug money to fund terrorism, but probably just a convenient lie at the time. Now when we got there – likely black ops money, I think.

        • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 7:45 pm #

          Yep. That’s what I’m saying. There was a comment here on last thread I think, about this Marine saying “the first year we burned the crops, by the second we were guarding them”. Production really shot up under US & NATO rule, much of it ended in Europe, Russia, even here through the cartels.

          The $ from that, who knows. Black ops. Paying off warlords and tribal leaders. Those are the most likely scenarios.

          • benr August 17, 2021 at 9:41 am #

            Just remember there is a legitimate market for opium.

          • SW August 17, 2021 at 11:05 am #

            Remember Karzai? Our puppet for a long time and his brother was the biggest drug dealer in the country. I wonder if he knows Hunter?

    • hmuller August 16, 2021 at 4:31 pm #

      You got me to thinking, Ron Anselmo. Can the labs create opiates as good as anything coming out of Afghanistan? Maybe the drug dealing arm of the globalist cabal decided it no longer needs the Afghani poppy fields

      • pranah August 16, 2021 at 4:40 pm #

        My thoughts exactly, hmuller. Who needs poppy fields when you can have Fentanyl?

      • Ron Anselmo August 16, 2021 at 6:17 pm #

        H – hadn’t considered that angle, but you’re on to something there, I think. We’ve, the globalist cabal, been working on lots of other lab created, “gain-of-function” stuff.

        Why not drugs? At their core, every Rx is just a synthetic knock-off of a natural occurring substance anyhow – now the labs are just giving them more oomph…

      • Ishabaka August 16, 2021 at 6:57 pm #

        Fentanyl comes from a lab, not a poppy. So does oxycodone. That’s why they’re called “opiods” instead of “opiates”.

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 9:59 pm #

      Opium production was at an all time low in 2001 in Afghanistan. Now it’s at an all time high. Interesting, eh?

  19. edpell August 16, 2021 at 10:37 am #

    The second to last sentence needs some help.

  20. JohnAZ August 16, 2021 at 10:39 am #

    The US is closest to the pre-Civil War times. Political division is more powerful that Constitutional unity.

    Things dividing us are more powerful than things holding us together.

    Look at what holds people’s together. Common purpose is first and foremost. The American Dream, that if you work smart and hard, you can have a good life United this country since its inception. It is so powerful that it pulled millions of immigrants from around the world. The other common purpose is wag the dog, WAR. As a young person, so-o-o many years ago, I remember wondering why each generation has had to fight a war in this country. Every twenty years a new enemy is invented and we have to go fight them. Having a common enemy has been a PTB weapon for millennia.

    Both of these unifies are wasting away. The country is not unifying under common purpose, there is no common purpose. The only thing I see resembling common purpose is the drive to destroy America by the progressive Left. The country is dominated by have – have not debates as it grinds itself apart. Our in power political party is noted for using divide and conquer techniques together and maintain power. They also are noted for increasing indigent immigration to the point that the very necessary balance between haves and have not to maintain an adequate amount of wealth in the country to support the social contract no longer exists. Our PTB, whether wealthy individuals or corporations are deserting the ship, just like Russia oligarchy did in 1990s.

    War, we have not had a substantial one in almost 50 years. These little Middle East wars have been so sanitary, a few thousand killed as opposed to Viet Nam where 58000 guys and gals were killed in ten years or even DDay where 4000 were killed in a day. These punks running these political groups today do not deserve the sacrifice these veterans put out for them generations ago.

    So the predictions are the dissolution of America. I just hope a piece of it will exist to continue on the truly American ideals of individual control and responsibility, entrepenueurism, real capitalism, not corporate cronyism, and legitimate border control to protect the European nature of its philosophy and stop the stupidification effects of the browning of America.

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    • abbybwood August 16, 2021 at 12:43 pm #

      Here is the hypocrisy of the left that is blowing my mind:

      They are trying to force me to get vaxxed, cutting me off from shopping and restaurants unless I comply, threatening to not allow me to fly or travel Interstate.

      Yet illegal aliens are being invited into the country and are being flown to American cities hither and yon with no mandatory jabs.

      And US tax dollars are financing all of it.

      • JackStraw August 16, 2021 at 1:02 pm #

        If I don’t get vaxed by October, I lose my job. Even though I had covid, and am far more protected than the vaxed, it makes no difference to these psychopaths. Science has no part in this brave new world.

        Also, they recently gave the largest raises to the lowest paid. It didn’t even matter if you were the most highly rated employee on staff. The lazy idiots got the big raises all in the name of equity.

        • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 2:33 pm #

          The inoculation destroys any natural immunity you have, and is proving ineffective, so you might want to contemplate what other purpose it might serve before you take it. Perhaps you could go down to your state employment department and file a claim for hostile work environment, then make them fire you. You will then be automatically granted unemployment, and the state must provide you with the resources to pursue your claim. Such claims take an average of four years to adjudicate.

          • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 4:51 pm #

            Oh, make sure you document everything.

        • Q. Shtik August 16, 2021 at 9:50 pm #

          Also, they recently gave the largest raises to the lowest paid. – JackStraw

          ===========

          Probably you are saying the largest raises percentagewise, not in actual dollars and cents.

        • MaryQueen August 20, 2021 at 9:46 am #

          There are things you can do to fight it.

          http://www.thehealthyamerican.org

          Peggy Hall has done the research. What they are doing is illegal.

      • Redneck Liberal August 16, 2021 at 8:12 pm #

        “Yet illegal aliens are being invited into the country and are being flown to American cities hither and yon with no mandatory jabs.

        I’d like to see some actual evidence of this, rather than random unreferenced claims like yours.

        • benr August 17, 2021 at 9:43 am #

          I know its tough for you but just actually look at who is popping up around you.
          Do you get out at all?

        • SW August 17, 2021 at 11:08 am #

          There was a segment on the NBC nightly news last week of an interview with a very young couple with a small child. Of course it was in translation but the three of them were going to be flown to Miami. No word if they had family there, or a job offered — just flown to Miami.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 9:59 pm #

        They want double think to replace logic.

        It will only work in the short term.

      • AngryFarmer August 17, 2021 at 2:03 pm #

        Just remember:

        Asking for ID to vote us very, very racist, and if you disagree you are lit-uh-rully Hitler.

        But demanding ID in order to eat is just fine…and if you disagree, you are lit-er-ully Hitler.

    • messianicdruid August 16, 2021 at 1:03 pm #

      “So the predictions are the dissolution of America.”

      America will survive the United States. 

  21. Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 10:42 am #

    How did it happen? The Left won. It’s easy to be self righteous about freedom and rights when you’re on the outside. Then, as Alinsky said, you try and make your opponent live up to their principles.

    It’s been hard for the Left to accept this. When Mick Jagger was knighted, his bandmate was outraged saying, These are the people who used to bust us for smoking pot. The Outlaw ethos is very seductive and often ridiculous, as per the Antifa. The Left won a long time ago.

    They quietly cancelled the anti-war movement some years ago. Nobody seemed to notice or care. So what are their principles? Or were their former principles even sincerely held?

    • malthuss August 16, 2021 at 10:45 am #

      and he was a stone alone? the others were not knighted?

      try TO make your opponent live up to their principle

      • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 11:07 am #

        Keith rejected it, If memory serves. He was the one enraged at Mick’s acceptance.

        • malthuss August 16, 2021 at 11:18 am #

          Keiths dad was a socialist?

          • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 11:28 am #

            Huh? Wtf?

    • MaryQueen August 20, 2021 at 9:48 am #

      Jagger has always had zero principles.

  22. teddyboy46 August 16, 2021 at 10:45 am #

    I would like to point out under the risk of censure. that America invaded Afghanistan 20 years ago. Why wouldn’t they want us out?

    • SW August 16, 2021 at 2:19 pm #

      Of course they wanted us out and patiently, persistently GOT us out. Ditto the Vietnamese. When will we learn to respect other countries right to exist without our interference? If the Afghan people hated the Taliban then it was up to them to get rid of them. Ditto Iraq and Saddam Hussein.

      We supported the Northern Alliance and members of this group were involved in open pediphile rings called bacha bazi. We looked the other way and excused it as “part of their culture” — even when practiced on our bases. One of the reasons the Tailban gained power was they opposed this practice as did many Afghans.

  23. Wizard of the Saddle August 16, 2021 at 10:47 am #

    I noticed that all of the rats are abandoning the sinking ship this morning…..Bloomberg, CNN, MSNBC, the NYT, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Maureen Dowd, etc., all blasting Biden. Jen Psaki has never been confronted by a hostile press, so she fled the WH and took a one week vacation, leaving her hapless woke black female Deputy Press Secretary to face the lions.

    • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 10:52 am #

      That has to be truly unprecedented. That’s an overused word, but has a press secretary ever abandoned their post like that before?

      I don’t blame her, I’m sure she was being amply rewarded for lying with a straight face on a daily basis, but there could be no incentive great enough to make her stay and take that beating.

      • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 2:38 pm #

        Sorry, but it’s funny. Many of those women appear to be not up to the job they are tasked with.

        • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:02 pm #

          Men, either.

    • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 4:59 pm #

      Biden, Harris, and Psaki are all notably absent, the cowards. Apparently, they have flown Biden back in. Perhaps they’ve got him cleaned up and drugged up already. They have little choice but to present him soon. I have my doubts whether Psaki will ever return. I suspect she will resign to spend more time with her family, effective when her paid time off is used up.

  24. Wizard of the Saddle August 16, 2021 at 10:48 am #

    I suspect that the Democrat powers that be are conspiring this morning to invoke the 25th Amendment to try to remove Biden from office due to mental incapacity. Watch for it. The idea will at least be floated this week as a trial balloon. It is becoming increasingly clear to everyone that he is incapable of governing and that it is having disastrous consequences for the country. Trump said yesterday that Biden should resign from the office he never won legitimately to begin with. Damn straight.

    • Night Owl August 16, 2021 at 10:53 am #

      He was incapable from the start, which is why they hid him in a basement and stole the election.

      Rest assured that his butt has been wiped, however.

    • amb August 16, 2021 at 10:55 am #

      Wasn’t the plan to have Kamala take over as Pres? Well, here it is. A done deal. America died a long time ago.

      • Night Owl August 16, 2021 at 11:03 am #

        I think the goal was to stop Trump at all costs.

        It does not matter whether Joe Joe or Heels Up plays the role of the marionette.

        Kamala will open up new joke material. Never did I think we would have a president who was part of Montel Williams’s harem.

        Montel got it on with the pair that night.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mdxF39eTwU

        Now that is presidential.

        • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 11:09 am #

          Then Montel should be President, not her. Why can’t we have a real Black president? Like in Idiocracy, the movie?

          • Night Owl August 16, 2021 at 11:18 am #

            Yes. I demand President Camacho.

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:03 pm #

            Or if a whitey is still allowed, why not Buffalo man?

          • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 1:01 am #

            They’re terrified of the Qanon Shaman.

        • abbybwood August 16, 2021 at 12:47 pm #

          I have a nightgown that looks exactly like her dress.

      • SouthernYankee August 16, 2021 at 11:44 am #

        Hey AMB, whenever I need to be reminded of a hopeful, positive vision for the future of America I’ll make sure I don’t ask you. What is wrong with people? Did you think this was going to be easy? Don’t you know that your words have power?

        I for one am betting on an American Revival despite the coming destruction. If anyone really loves and appreciates this country then don’t be so damn quick to throw in the towel! It wasn’t handed to our Founding Fathers and it won’t just be handed back to us. So man up or shut up!

  25. Wizard of the Saddle August 16, 2021 at 10:48 am #

    There is scarcely a Democrat to be found this morning who is willing to vigorously defend Joe Biden. Nancy Pelosi tried to yesterday and was universally hooted down and excoriated for claiming absurdly that Biden had shown “wisdom” in handling Afghanistan.

    Man, WTF did they pour into her coffee yesterday? Must have been Everclear.

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  26. Wizard of the Saddle August 16, 2021 at 10:49 am #

    The airport scenes this morning are pretty heart wrenching. Those people are wild with fear……like trapped animals about to die. Afghans falling off of U.S. Air Force transport planes to their deaths this morning. Awful…..

    Biden is a complete and total disaster and should be removed from office.

    • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 10:54 am #

      So should Kamala, for not stepping up in his absence.

      • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 11:11 am #

        She is very uncomfortable in her position. She knows she doesn’t belong there, unconsciously if not consciously. After all, Man (and that includes Wo-Man) is an iceberg, with most of the psyche below the water line.

        • JohnAZ August 16, 2021 at 11:22 am #

          Good analogy with the iceberg.

          However, who is in the top part above water.

          Academia? The present group of ??? That are running the country right now are proof that hiring college profs does not get the job done.

          Businessmen? Just tried that, he was crucified.

          Deep Staters? Uh huh!!

          So who do we pick as competent leaders?

          ????

          • tractorguy August 16, 2021 at 11:42 am #

            We can’t, because we’re never given that option. TPTB control the nomination process, so we are only allowed to choose among the candidates that they approve. It’s just like Communist Russia — they had ‘elections’, the populace got to pick between two communists. Look back at our candidates for president/VP over the last thirty years or so. Every time the choices are worse. We are being played.

          • rainmaker August 16, 2021 at 11:50 am #

            Personally – I don’t need “A Leader”.

          • abbybwood August 16, 2021 at 12:50 pm #

            Maybe Joe the Plumber would work out?

            Common sense and following the Constitution.

        • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 1:59 pm #

          The Ho is very familiar with uncomfortable positions. They made possible her political career and $30/day ice cream habit.

      • JohnAZ August 16, 2021 at 11:13 am #

        Remember that senior DNC folks have been meeting recently to try to figure out what to do about Harris’ non performance. WTF? Two incompetents in the line of succession, including Biden, and now who is next? A totally incompetent, possible demented Speaker of the House. Good Lord, we are screwed no matter what happens.

        I remember reading long ago that the worst possible choices for executive power were legislative people. All they do is waffle on issues instead of taking stands. Think about Biden, whose entire belief systems of his Senate days has disappeared under progressive pressure. And Harris, state attorney for California after rising under suspicious means. She clobbered minorities for drugs and then got elected to the Senate. Her biggest claim to fame was the idiocy of the Kavanaugh hearings. She could not even get her own crazy states support during the primaries and had to drop out.

        • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 1:02 pm #

          Who will come to the rescue of the Democratic Party in this, their hour of greatest need? Who has the brains, the brawn, and the vision to build the country, and the Party, back better? Who is the most beloved statesperson of this, or any other time? Who came, saw, and cackled?

          I’m bettin’ my money on the pantsuited nag. Sing Fat Lady, sing.

          • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 2:45 pm #

            I think both Biden and Harris will go. Pelosi is stepping down, possibly to make room for a more acceptable Speaker to step into the shoes of that dynamic duo.

          • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 3:40 pm #

            The Speaker of the Whorehouse only falls up into the top slot if POTATUS and HOTUS both get bumped off at about the same time. When a vacancy opens up for VP (Biden gets lost and the Ho moves up, or the Ho resigns to focus on her porn career) the Pres. gets to choose whatever it wants for VP – no interference from those silly “voters”. That’s how we got Jerry “No Helmet” Ford as prez and Nelson “I’m keepin’ my dimes” Rockefeller as VP – number 1 and 2 positions and neither elected.

      • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 11:52 am #

        Yes, where is Heels Up?

        Both Heels up and Sleepy Joe seemed to have gone to ground. Who’s in Charge?

        • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 12:02 pm #

          Al Haig os dead.

          • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 12:03 pm #

            Is dead.

          • Ron Anselmo August 16, 2021 at 11:46 pm #

            Right, so he can’t be in charge, but it leaves the question unanswered.

        • abbybwood August 16, 2021 at 12:51 pm #

          Ummm..Susan Rice??

        • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 2:46 pm #

          No, Who’s on second. What’s in charge.

    • cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 11:04 am #

      Someone should loosely string Biden and Koonala to the back of an airplane aloft so we can see them fall to the hard, cold earth!

      • abbybwood August 16, 2021 at 12:54 pm #

        If I were a cartoonist I would do a picture of a helicopter flying out of Kabul with Joe and Kamala and Nancy all hanging on to the landing rungs with an American flag in Joe’s teeth.

      • Q. Shtik August 16, 2021 at 9:54 pm #

        Someone should loosely string Biden and Koonala to the back of an airplane – cowbell

        =========

        Hahaha, that’s harsh!

    • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 11:25 am #

      As should the loathsome General Mark Milly.

      • AngryFarmer August 17, 2021 at 2:09 pm #

        Aw, lay off poor Milly-Vanilli.

        He only lip synchs

    • JackStraw August 16, 2021 at 1:10 pm #

      Look at the desperation as Afghanis try to get on planes at the airport.

      https://rumble.com/vl7y8l-scenes-at-kabul-airport.html

      • World War Zeke August 16, 2021 at 6:04 pm #

        As with the Kurds, Pox Romana green forces collaborators may receive an unpleasant debriefing by new management.

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:05 pm #

      That’s the price people pay for getting sucked in by The Great Satan (aka American Military Might and Regime Changers).

  27. Richard August 16, 2021 at 10:51 am #

    Thank you again Mr. K for your great words and for giving me what feels like a small oasis of sanity.

    I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in July 2000. I’ll be retiring from active duty next summer. About half of my career has been served in support of OEF operations including 2 years in Afghanistan working civil affairs with ISAF/NATO. We did a little bit of good while I was there but it always just spitting in wind. I lost people there and was hurt physically and otherwise. The sense of despair and anger among vets about how the last six months have transpired is indescribable. I and many others have lost complete faith that there is anyone resembling an adult at the helm any longer.

    • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 10:57 am #

      Whoever is behind this must know that not everyone who is enraged and appalled by this is necessarily a Trump supporter or Republican.

      They clearly don’t care.

    • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 11:13 am #

      It was always going to end like this. As Biden said, another five years wouldn’t change a thing. Or fifty – assuming we have it.

      • Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 11:20 am #

        IDK, we could’ve left without equipping the incoming army.

        • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 11:27 am #

          No, that was for the army of the Afghan Republic – which was completely fictitious. I mean both of them. Tucker said, that of the 300,000 supposed troops, many of them were just on paper. The funding for them, pocketed.

          • Pete August 16, 2021 at 12:20 pm #

            Yo, we never stay. We always leave. It’s always a grift, and numbers of locals is a multiplier for $$$. The big skim is always on, and the big guy rotates.

            Wash, Rinse, Repeat.

            Patience is a strategy.

            Take the man’s money, smile and nod, he’ll be gone shortly.

          • World War Zeke August 16, 2021 at 6:08 pm #

            Maybe they can tradesies with ISIS for US parts and ammo. Or just buy direct from MIC.

          • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 6:13 pm #

            One of his underlings asked Ho Chi Minh, Should we ask the Chinese to come in and help us?

            Ho replied, You fool. The last time they were here they stayed 900 years. We’ll have the Americans out in 20.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:07 pm #

        Exactly.

      • AngryFarmer August 18, 2021 at 12:53 am #

        Not sure what the big deal is.

        After all, we’ve been in Germany and Japan for nearly 80 years, and nobody complains about that.

    • JohnAZ August 16, 2021 at 11:15 am #

      I wonder how many of these losers in the Democratic hierarchy right now are veterans? No wonder they do not understand any allegiance to the principles of this country.

      • Ron Anselmo August 16, 2021 at 12:02 pm #

        Excellent point John.

    • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 2:35 pm #

      Richard, spot on. I can only imagine the frustration of those, like you, who had real skin in the game. I’m in the peanut gallery, and pissed. Angry probably doesn’t begin to describe what veterans feel right now.

      • Richard August 16, 2021 at 6:57 pm #

        Thanks Rulo. It’s almost embarrassing to say now but up until very recently I didn’t understand the intense bitterness of some Vietnam Vets I have known. I always thought, “Hey man, you did your job, took care of those around you the best you could have, and exercised the influence you had to carry out the mission and do the right thing. F>ck the guys in suits directing it, keep your head high”.
        Now I just keep seeing the faces, American, Afgan, the NATO cats. I was led by good men trying to the right thing. We were never trying to tell anyone else what to do or how to think. We worked really hard to give people who had nothing a little bit of self determination. Things like digging a village well or getting some breeding livestock to them. And we fought and bled to get there and do it.

        • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 7:40 pm #

          I hear you. It may be that an outsider cannot really make a difference that’s long lasting in primitive, tribal societies. Yes, they’ll take whatever you have to offer, be grateful for it, but others will resent it, even retaliate.

          Remember Apocalypse Now? Or Conrad’s Heart of Darkness? When Kurtz describes the pile of little arms chopped off from children who had gotten a vaccine from the invaders? He says that he could win a war with just a division of those men. The Talib just did, didn’t they. Took them a long time, but they were determined and murderous enough to erase whatever positive actions good men like you contributed to the country. Just because you were the invader.

          You were caught between a rock and a hard place. Ancient tribal allegiances and the fucking suits.

          • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 9:47 pm #

            A good man ceases to be a good man when he attempts to force his goodness upon others.

            (One of those obvious-sounding generalities that I generally so despise…) But… Walk uninvited into a strangers house and start lecturing the man-of-the-house on how he should treat his wife and kids… Maybe shoot him if he doesn’t seem to be listening. How’s that gonna work out?

            The US, the Ahmaud Arbery of countries…

          • Richard August 17, 2021 at 9:55 pm #

            I totally understand and agree with most of what you’ve had to say- My only quibble with our moral position is that 60-70% of the Talibs that I experienced were NOT local. They were not Afghans. Arabs and Persians. A good percentage of the actual shooters were 12 – 15 year old Afghan boys paid 20 bucks by a Talib to climb up the ridge and taken shots at us with an old Soviet mosin-nagant bolt action. It’s not going to stop after we left and I care about the people I met there -and hopefully helped.

          • Ron Anselmo August 19, 2021 at 12:09 am #

            @ Blackbird

            “A good man ceases to be a good man when he attempts to force his goodness upon others.” ~ Blackbird

            Well-stated sir, and profound.

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:06 pm #

      You should learn that forced regime change never works. It’s a fool’s errand. And look at all the suffering it’s caused everyone involved.

  28. oilie August 16, 2021 at 11:03 am #

    John Durham may eventually prosecute some low level FBI folks with about the same effect as the charges against Kevin Clinesmith. He got off with probation after altering documents that the FISA court used to justify surveillance of Carter Page. There won’t be any thunder and lightning from Durham. All that we will hear is the sound of a door quietly closing.

    • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 2:35 pm #

      Agree, and hope both you and I are wrong.

  29. mitchellc August 16, 2021 at 11:13 am #

    Jim continues to play his designated role as popular entertainer, exciting and diverting the restless masses with promises of future resolutions.

    But in order to understand the intentional design of this important and exalted position, we need to dial the way back machine to the very start of the agrarian age.

    It is at this point where see field workers actually begin to diminish in size. This is due to tribal leaders eliminating potential competition within the warrior class, and encouraging/rewarding the smaller/weaker more docile & manageable to have large families.

    And thus we have the very beginnings of class/caste distinctions that continue to this day. But one can only rule through shear force and terror alone. No, there must be an element of hope to perhaps give small solice and satisfaction to the disaffected.

    Now, this isn’t to say that major events don’t transcend the daily drudge. After all, that’s the major reason for the endless wars and conflicts; to provide necessary distraction.

    So this is where Jim and the extensive political media come into play. Keep the domestic discord going with a pinch if foreign threat is the recipe used for millenia.

    But does anyone ever notice that power never changes? If you’re reading and reacting to essays such as Jim’s, that simply means you can trace back your class lineage to the very beginnings of settled civilization.

    • gustafson.robert.22 August 16, 2021 at 12:17 pm #

      this is a pretty good comment.

      the two poles of history, 1) intensive-agricultural, class-based civilization, and 2) egalitarian, minimally (“light”) agricultural hunting/gathering low-impact tribal organization… these 2 poles need resolution

      the balance needs to return toward #2 at the expense of #1

      • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 6:24 pm #

        The Polynesians looked egalitarian with the Chief feasting with everyone, even commoners. But if one of the latter accidently touched the Chief’s head, he would be clubbed to death.

        Then there were the wandering workers who could be made into long pig with amazingly little ceremony.

      • Q. Shtik August 16, 2021 at 9:58 pm #

        the balance needs to return toward #2 at the expense of #1 – gustaf

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

        So you’re saying, more poop, less piss?

    • JackStraw August 16, 2021 at 1:17 pm #

      “This is due to tribal leaders eliminating potential competition within the warrior class, and encouraging/rewarding the smaller/weaker more docile & manageable to have large families..”. – This may be one of the dumbest quotes that I’ve ever come across.

      Wars are never fought for distraction and power changes all the time.

      Put the bong down and stop watching old Noam Chomsky videos.

      • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 6:26 pm #

        And no drinking the bong water. If you’re thirsty, pretend the tap water is a glacier fed alpine stream and partake of that.

    • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 2:39 pm #

      Mitchell & gustafson, agree with you to a certain point. However, in the presence of a 10% heavily armed despots, well supplied and dug in their fortresses, an “egalitarian, low impact” majority’s only future is as serfs.

      I agree with the egalitarian and low impact parts, but refuse to be a serf.

      • draupnir August 16, 2021 at 2:57 pm #

        If you are an American citizen, you’ve been a serf since the income tax was instituted. Remember, a free man owns his person and the fruits of his labor. A serf owns his person, with certain rules applying. The fruits of his labor belong, in part, to his lord in exchange for certain benefits (usually something approaching or even exceeding 30%). A slave owns neither his person nor the fruits of his labor. We are now approaching the condition of servitude called slavery. We’re probably going to miss being serfs.

    • Uncle Abraham August 19, 2021 at 9:46 am #

      It’s clear you’ve never been a farmer, Mitchell, or a field hand.

  30. cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 11:16 am #

    If the Afghan citizenry is not ready and willing to take up arms and defend their own country, then what is the point? The USA cannot prop up puppet governments for all of eternity. We need to get out of the worldwide policing game and at least start to try and look after our own turf here at home. I know, I know…..like this will ever be the case given everything going on at the Homefront, but one can hope. I take a strict isolationist stance and think we should just hunker down and enjoy our final years and let the rest of the world simply fall apart however it wants.

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    • JohnAZ August 16, 2021 at 11:24 am #

      A good question. I will add, why do we always take the contrarian position, trying to change the majority position?

    • cbeard August 17, 2021 at 1:15 pm #

      Yes nationalism 100%.

    • Richard August 17, 2021 at 9:33 pm #

      I don’t disagree but people should take a look at the Afgan National military’s causality numbers before they judge too much. 1000s per month. They did fight, they just lost.

  31. Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 11:17 am #

    The mask pushers won’t give up. They want to see just how far they can take it.

    No removing your mask to take a drink.
    https://twitter.com/RealCarlVernon/status/1427258988610138118?s=20

    • Night Owl August 16, 2021 at 11:21 am #

      Hahahahahahahahaha!

      Utter mental illness.

      BTW, Australia is the Schwab model. What is happening in Australia is what they have in store for all of us, if they can do it.

    • cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 11:28 am #

      Then how come he can give his asinine dictates without wearing a mask??? Someone is clearly lacking on the common sense and logic scale. These people need to be deposed!

      • Night Owl August 16, 2021 at 11:46 am #

        On the plus side, the fact that they have reached this level of utter insanity tells me they know they are about to hit the wall.

        I fully expect this fall to be an orgy of unrestrained nuttery against all who resist. They have to cross the rubicon.

        • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 9:26 pm #

          I expect this winter to be the crossing of the Rubicon. Grid down – hacked by Russia-loving white supremacists. Fuel deliveries interrupted. Astronomical gas and electricity prices. Water lines broken. People so far in debt that they can’t get the electricity turned on or resume propane deliveries.

          So far in debt that there’s no solution but to surrender your pathetic assets to BIS, and be relocated to a cube farm – we got cable!

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:10 pm #

            Same. I have a pantry stuffed with food and supplies.

          • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 3:01 am #

            Same here. Basement full of food, 300L of reverse osmosis water, and we have access to a well. Only thing I still want to do is get some solar panels put in on the garage roof for emergency electricity.

            Never in my life thought I would even consider any of this stuff, yet here we are.

          • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 7:56 pm #

            I got a Berkey water system. Filters last for 2 years, and you could put river water in there and it would filter everything out.

          • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 2:48 pm #

            Ah, good call on the grid.

            I had forgotten about Cyber Polygon.

          • Blackbird August 19, 2021 at 5:52 pm #

            Not to worry Owl – Cyber Polygon hasn’t forgotten about you.

            Like Lazarus, the resurrected net will be an emaciated, odiferous wraith. This time next year we may be meeting in Mr. K’s backyard, encouraging him to talk for a few minutes so that we can discuss what he said – as well a a lot of things he didn’t say – for the next few days.

    • Tate August 16, 2021 at 11:44 am #

      No worries. A vacuum-release straw sewn into the mask will solve that problem.

      • abbybwood August 16, 2021 at 1:06 pm #

        On with the pub crawls!

        Who wouldn’t be drinking alcohol through all of this totalitarianism?

        • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 1:47 pm #

          Drinking through the filter not only sieves out the gall stones pissed into your Budweiser by contented factory workers, the alcohol-saturated cloth provides a difficult substrate for bacterial colonization.

          Want silver linings? Get ya some dark clouds.

          • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 4:31 pm #

            “Beer, the answer to all of life’s problems, and the cause of them.”-Homer Simpson.

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:12 pm #

            I got my wine stash.

    • thirdcoastlegend August 16, 2021 at 1:08 pm #

      I always knew Aussies were a bunch of fake blowhards.

      • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 9:30 pm #

        Not me. I always liked Australia and Australians – especially once I spent some time there. (Same with you Canucks. Could a country ask for better neighbors?) But good people stand calmly in orderly lines as they wait to board the cattle cars.

  32. Cavepainter August 16, 2021 at 11:20 am #

    The “pussification” began with the end of the draft, the Boy Scouts and all other institutional ceremony honoring responsible male role in society. Today, even the term “gentleman” is given denigrating connotation. Within my family is a 14 year old male whose mother is pathologically misandrist; the poor kid is embarrassed by how puberty is resulting in hair growing on his legs and his voice deepening — signals in prior generations that awakened pride.

    • Lets talk about the Boy Scouts.

      No, really.

      • Cavepainter August 16, 2021 at 12:03 pm #

        Or what constitutes gentlemanly behavior. Or, for that matter what constitutes citizen responsibility. Among all else mentioned or inferred, I find it disquieting at how persistent seems implicit in comments posted here the quip “Do your own thing”, as though the founding documents of our nation hadn’t established principles of government whereby self-interest was incorporate in citizen responsibility. Social contract, shell I say?

        • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 6:29 pm #

          We need a Bill of Responsibilities. Every man is part of the militia with regular training. No militia, no citizenship, no exceptions – or very few.

          • Redneck Liberal August 16, 2021 at 8:36 pm #

            Sounds a lot like “Every man is part of the solution. No vaccine, no citizenship, no exceptions”. Is this a case of sauce for the goose?

          • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 1:03 am #

            No, that’s you. Health is a private affair. Have some respect for human dignity.

      • AngryFarmer August 17, 2021 at 8:33 pm #

        Yeah, let’s.

        The proto-woke screamed at them for not allowing homos.

        When they complied, they were finally destroyed for being full-up with child-molestors.

        Pretty much sums up what traditional Americans are facing…

        Defy and die.

        Or…

        Comply and die.

        Ah, freedom if choice.

  33. elysianfield August 16, 2021 at 11:40 am #

    ” Do we come to Taiwan’s defense with guns blazing, or perhaps nukes? And what if that doesn’t work out so well”

    Mr. Kunstler,
    The solution to the defense of Taiwan is a simple one, and relatively inexpensive.

    Deliver Medium Range Ballistic Missiles, nuclear tipped, to the Taiwanese, Japanese, and South Koreans…a few dozen each should do the trick. All three countries are relatively stable, and will eventually develop their own programs, if time allows, to thwart Chinese hegemony.

    History has shown (India/Pakistan, China/India, US/Russia) that a balance of power has remarkable success in keeping neighbors at arm’s length…they are more inclined to talk things out rather than invade.

    Avoiding Nuclear Proliferation is a great concept, when you have the luxury of doing so.

    I am prepared to defend this concept.

    • Tate August 16, 2021 at 11:47 am #

      Except that would be considered an act of war to the Chinese. The U.S. govt conceded decades ago that Taiwan is part of China.

      • elysianfield August 16, 2021 at 6:08 pm #

        “Except that would be considered an act of war to the Chinese. The U.S. govt conceded decades ago that Taiwan is part of China.”

        Tate,
        You are correct. However, since both the Chinese and the US have nuclear arsenals, there would be “heated discussions”, maybe some sabre rattling, maybe even a move against our diplomats…however, the Chinese would not then invade Taiwan.

        • Tate August 17, 2021 at 10:20 am #

          Ely, I can imagine General Buck Turgidson saying those very lines.

    • abbybwood August 16, 2021 at 1:09 pm #

      I am pretty sure South Korea already has nukes.

      My best friend was stationed there in the Army in the late sixties and he told me it was common knowledge among the troops.

    • SpeedyBB August 17, 2021 at 7:06 am #

      Well, delivering medium-range nukes to the Taiwan regime would even things out, considering how the Clinton administration approved the export to the PRC of high-tech machine tools useful in bashing metal for ICBMs.

      I just came across a very interesting and credible story of how the store was given away for beads and trinkets to the ever-patient Oriental adversary:

      https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-bill-clinton-and-american-financiers

      “It’s treason!” “No, it’s business.”

  34. BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 11:45 am #

    At the Pentagon, despite the debacle in Kabul, the weekly BLM/CRT seminar will proceed as planned, led this week by General Milley himself. To the Joint Chiefs: attendance is mandatory!

    Message from Secretary of Defense Austin:

    Attention Military Personnel!

    Soldiers, Sailors and Marines currently in transition from male to female, and vice versa, treatment at Walter Reed will go on as scheduled. We will not allow events on the other side of the world to hinder us from our sacred mission to be welcoming, inclusive, and respectful of LBGQT rights. Your transition is of the upmost importance to the security and future of the United States.

    -end message

    Apparently, in Kabul, the public beheadings have begun.

    Br

    • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 2:41 pm #

      Heckler, I assume that is comedy?

  35. stelmosfire August 16, 2021 at 11:47 am #

    Just a comment about the two pics at the column opening. 46 years later and the warhorse CH-47 still pulling grunt duty. Introduced in ’62, nearly 60 years ago. Of course it’s been improved over the years but basically the same bird. The B-52’s are still doing the heavy bomb lifting for the USAF and they were designed 70 years ago. That is some good old American slide rule engineering there. I figure the Big Ugly Fat Fuckers will be dropping some shit on on those pesky Taliban.fellas soon.

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    • stelmosfire August 16, 2021 at 11:58 am #

      Forgot to add that these aircraft were probably designed by old white guys so they’ve gotta’ go. They’re racis, doncha know. All future contracts will be awarded to Fat lesbians or dickless males with purple hair,nose rings, and degrees in Social justice and diversity.

      • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 2:45 pm #

        stelmosfire, good observation. Top of the line machines, not a lot of gizmos, still in service decades later. They do what they need to do efficiently and reliably, no need to “improve” on that.

        May I add Hueys. Used extensively for mosquito control here in FL. And many other roles.

        A10s were a bit more advanced, but still relatively simple and tremendously effective. I think they have been retired?

        • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 3:28 pm #

          The Michigan ANG is still flying the A-10, at treetop level, between Selfridge Field and Camp Grayling. When the pilots smile I can count the fillings in their teeth. As a cheap, effective, low-tech aircraft specifically designed for close air support, it is of course being phased out in favor of the remarkable, amazing, outrageously expensive, can’t-even-get-off-the-ground wonderbird the F-35. Obviously Bobby Macnamara wasn’t the only super genius who could make our military both unaffordable and ineffective at the same time.

          • stelmosfire August 16, 2021 at 5:07 pm #

            BB, wasn’t it you that mentioned a while back that you were building a Warthog a piece at a time?

          • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 7:23 pm #

            Yeah, it’s a trend, replace or “improve” what doesn’t need either as it performs well.

            Building a real warthog? I remember you saying something about it, but assumed you were talking about a scale model.

            The only personal airforce I can think of would be an ultralight in the garage and a box of molotov cocktails. But anyone could blow you out of the sky w buckshot… I don’t think those ultralights fly very high.

          • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 7:36 pm #

            Elmo, yeah, that sounds like something I’d say, although I think it was more of a suggestion than an actual plan of action. The problem is they keep dropping the same part. Hard to build an A-10 with nothing but bombs.

          • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 7:47 pm #

            Rulo, everyone seems to remember me threatening to build an A-10 in the garage, but all the poignant observations and spot-on prognostications? “Huh?” Oh well…

            My model building days ended abruptly with my acquisition of a driver’s license. Got a Tamaya 8-wheeled armored car still in the box up in the attic. Had a great diorama planned, “Polish Corridor”, but intimidation at the scale of the effort needed – I was going to have to build – and then carefully destroy – all the brick buildings, burnt rafters, blown out doors and windows, rubble in the street – led to a major case of procrastination.

          • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 8:24 pm #

            BB, I do like & remember many of your poignant observations. I also enjoy your wit and sense of humor, like the line about the observations itself. There’s irony and mischief is most of what you write. Keep it coming.

            I built that 8 wheeler but not in Poland, in Afrika Korps yellow. I also gave up on the hobby, in my case around the time I got laid for the first time. The car ritual of passage wasn’t that big where I grew up, your first roll in the hay was. Sometimes I miss it, but I have enough of a hobby fixing things, planting things, and my fingers have gotten like fat sausages due to years of manual labor. Try to put together a Tamiya w sausage fingers…

            Dioramas are a lot of fun. I remember a company specializing in diorama stuff, incl bricks, lampposts, church altars.

          • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 8:33 pm #

            Also “When the pilots smile I can count the fillings in their teeth”… reminds me of Israeli Apaches on the way to bomb Lebanon a few miles away, flying really low above the beach where other volunteers & myself used to go after laboring in the fields for a little R&R. One could see the the guys’ faces, sometimes they gave us a thumbs up as we raised the bottle of cheap, bad Israeli vodka to toast them.

          • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 9:06 pm #

            I spent the summer and fall of 2010 patrolling the Gulf Coast in anticipation of the amphibious invasion of oil from Deepwater Horizon. Thursdays and Fridays we had a front row seat as the Blue Angels did their thing over the water. I’d occasionally toss the pilots a proper Navy salute, not because I support their mission (making the looting of distant nations safe for international finance), but because they – simple primates like myself – seemed to enjoy it. However, when the bars of Pensacola were stuffed with uniforms, I took my cowboys to the seedy underbelly to avoid a “reportable incident”.

        • Jo-G August 16, 2021 at 6:07 pm #

          I occasionally see A-10s flying around here in the ROK. Don’t know the nationality of the crews.

    • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 11:58 am #

      Do they fly those from the Airbase near you?

      • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 11:59 am #

        Westover?

        • stelmosfire August 16, 2021 at 1:04 pm #

          Westover is a heavy air lift base with C-5 Galaxies. They are much bigger than the C17s flying out of Afghanistan They redid the runways at Westover a few years back. The concrete is 30″ thick. The C17s can use much less infrastructure. The .Globemasters fly into Kabul loaded with military for security and fly out overloaded with panicked Afganis. They should be flying in Pelosi and thousands of purple haired fatties from Northampton to carry rainbow flags and lecture the Taliban on womens rights. The Taliban would be more afraid of these screaming freaks than a division of kickass Marines with a full combat load.

          • Tate August 16, 2021 at 1:38 pm #

            Yeehaw!

            Nancy sends a message:

            AUGUST 14, 2021 PRESS RELEASE
            San Francisco — Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the situation in Afghanistan:

            “The President is to be commended for the clarity of purpose of his statement on Afghanistan and the actions he has taken.

            “The Taliban must know that the world is watching its actions. We are deeply concerned about reports regarding the Taliban’s brutal treatment of all Afghans, especially women and girls. The U.S., the international community and the Afghan government must do everything we can to protect women and girls from inhumane treatment by the Taliban.

            “Any political settlement that the Afghans pursue to avert bloodshed must include having women at the table. The fate of women and girls in Afghanistan is critical to the future of Afghanistan. As we strive to assist women, we must recognize that their voices are important, and all must listen to them for solutions, respectful of their culture. There is bipartisan support to assist the women and girls of Afghanistan. One of the successes of U.S.- NATO cooperation in Afghanistan was the progress made by women and girls. We must all continue to work together to ensure that is not eroded.

            “Once again, I want to acknowledge the clarity of purpose of President Biden’s statement and the wisdom of his actions. Congress shares the President’s concern for Afghans who have assisted U.S. efforts in country, and we passed Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) legislation to provide for their relocation on a strong, bipartisan basis.

            “Most of all, we join the President in acknowledging the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform and their families.”

          • Troy Skaggs August 17, 2021 at 2:53 pm #

            Is Malala weeping for the girls of Afghanistan this week or simply relieved with the material excess that being the politicized, pre-fabricated poster child for GloboCap brings. I’d like to believe she’s a good girl in the service of bad intentions.
            C’mon Malala, what do you really think?

  36. cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 11:52 am #

    This picture absolutely says it all: “Mr. Biden, “President”, please just stay alone in this room watching your cartoons while we take care of things. Thank you.”

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-to-return-to-white-house-to-deliver-remarks-on-afghanistan/ar-AANnFI9?ocid=msedgntp&fullscreen=true#image=2

    • stelmosfire August 16, 2021 at 12:00 pm #

      It’s hard to tell from the picture. Does he even have pants on or is he just relaxing in a pair of soiled Depends.

  37. Beryl of Oyl August 16, 2021 at 11:52 am #

    On the subject of that pretty dubious medical experiment, I’d be remiss if I didn’t link to the Ticker Guy, who hates being right again-

    “A reasonable hypothesis (but not proved) is that the vaccines are in fact potentiating viral replication via ADE-type effects, specifically given the paper I pointed to yesterday. That is the act of encouraging or even forcing medical workers to take the jabs is leading to higher viral loads and thus greater infectiousness — that is, greater risk to patients rather than less.”

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=243270

    • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 11:59 am #

      Sniffles again? You just need another boost. Every one is a knock.

  38. Billy Hill August 16, 2021 at 12:06 pm #

    From Col Patrick Lang’s site… There will be hungry contractors looking for another war to feed on.

    “I think you are going to see a lot of anger directed at Biden and his team from the Deep State and the army of public and private companies that have been feeding at Uncle Sam’s porky pig trough. The total collapse of U.S. policy in Afghanistan means the multi-billion dollar contractor feeding frenzy is over. And I am not talking only about companies engaged in military support/security services. Other likely candidates for the budgetary chopping block as the flood of U.S. assistance shrivels to a trickle (if that) are so-called humanitarian organizations working with women and orphans in Afghanistan. I would not be surprised to learn that the U.S. Government was funding programs to support homosexual and transgender rights in Afghanistan. Yeah, I’m sure the Taliban will be keen on keeping that boondoggle going.

    There was a working assumption among the Washington Deep Staters that despite the drawdown in U.S. military personnel, the need for military and intelligence contractors would continue. Take a look at this piece from last May by New York Magazine:

    Triple Canopy is hiring armed guards at Bagram to provide security for remaining U.S. personnel at four sites across the country.
    Raytheon Technologies is posting for logistics and intelligence analyst positions in Bagram.
    CACI and BAE Systems both posted jobs for signals intelligence specialists for an estimated term of 12 months.
    SOSi posted openings for intelligence analysts for yearlong deployments, where “the work environment could require 100 percent of time spent outdoors.”
    PAE, Inc., who scored nearly a billion dollars’ worth of contracts with the Pentagon over four years, is hiring for a contract for the State Department.
    Fluor Corporation is hiring for technicians, working for both the U.S. and the private sector.
    Louis Berger, who built and maintains the country’s largest power plant, inside Bagram, is posting more than 20 new positions at the base.

    I suspect the earnings expectations for most, if not all, of these companies is swirling down the toilet or burning in the document destruction barrel as our “official” American residents scamper to the Kabul International Airport to await the “save-my-ass-from-the-Taliban” flight.

    Trump’s plans to close down the contractor welfare program in Afghanistan is one of the reasons so many in the national security and defense sectors were rooting for Biden. They truly expected that the Biden team would reverse Trump’s decision to draw down the military effort. Big mistake. Slow Joe Biden apparently fell into a deep slumber this week and no one in his posse felt the need to wake him up and put together some sort of action plan.”

    • Night Owl August 16, 2021 at 12:13 pm #

      No worries, Western governments are in the early stages of organizing an assault on their own citizens.

      Covid and election-results denial are now acts of terror in the US of A.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 2:17 pm #

        And no one seems concerned about that. The problem is that now there are millions of ‘terrorists’ running around. Probably more than half the country.

        How’s that gonna work for ol’ Jo Jo Magoo?

        • rainmaker August 16, 2021 at 2:37 pm #

          I haven’t had the jab. Now Homeland Security says I’m an enemy of the state.

          • Night Owl August 16, 2021 at 6:07 pm #

            All normal.

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:29 pm #

            Yes, all normal. Just ask RL.

  39. MiddlePeninsula August 16, 2021 at 12:08 pm #

    I guess American Airlines had a rough few days. Late in July, I was on a flight to American Airlines flight to Charlotte. Pulling the plane out from the gate, they damaged the nose cone where lots of delicate equipment resides. What a CF! That caused me to miss all my connecting flights. I said “F – this”. I drove home from the airport, packed a bag and drove down to Mobile.

    Now, I get to be a guest of American Airlines again in late October. I had to use up my travel credits. After that, I am going to stick to the east coast. Flying is the absolute pits these days.

    • cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 12:18 pm #

      I wouldn’t fly even if they paid me. Best to be totally independent and drive everywhere you need to go. There is nowhere I would ever need to go outside of the Lower 48. Did I mention that I am an isolationist?

      • abbybwood August 16, 2021 at 1:32 pm #

        Hope you are jabbed in order to enjoy all that Interstate Happy Motoring.

        The Biden administration is in active talks to ban all Interstate travel unless you have a vax passport.

        Of course if you happen to be an illegal alien with no jab you will be FREE to move about state to state.

      • messianicdruid August 16, 2021 at 1:39 pm #

        Get a mule [ unlicensed ].

    • Jo-G August 16, 2021 at 6:16 pm #

      Someone here just had a nightmare experience with American Airlines screwing everything up on a flight. It took 5 days and 3 flights to make what they advertised as a single non-stop. Began the flight as a dedicated anti-racists mouth off, returned seeming ready to join the KKK if PyeongTaek had a a chapter. Didn’t get the whole racial breakdown of the story but it seemed that white guys were enablers of American Airlines dysfunction. The victim doesn’t want to return to the U. S. “Now I know why everyone wants to extend their tours here.”

  40. BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 12:26 pm #

    Question is, when the US embassy was evacuated in Kabul, and flags were lowered, were the LBGQT and BLM flags handed with care and sanctity, and treated with all the respect that they deserve?

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    • cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 12:33 pm #

      Yes, of course, and they will be bringing them back to the White House so they can be used for Biden’s regular posterior wiping ceremony.

      • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 8:49 pm #

        That’s what the Constitution and Declaration of Independence are for…

  41. So, the Boy Scouts of America filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on the heels of an astounding judgment against it on behalf of a class of some 60,000 plaintiffs who were apparently victimized by the organization.

    I contend the Boy Scouts should be abolished, but my friend says no. He contends they do good work, providing the exemplary experiences that lead one to be good stewards of the land, etc, yada yada. I contend the Boy Scouts should be abolished, as this theory that the Boy Scouts somehow construct Good Men has always been a crock of shit.

    It was one thing for the Church(es) to be absolved of a similar liability. After all, they have dubious special protections, as outlined in that stupid and worthless rough draft: the Constitution, which was a compromise between true intellectuals like Jefferson, and dullards, the whole crowd of which no one remembers one name, as they were all a bunch of turds. Compromise was struck, and compromises always suck.

    In any event, the Boy Scouts of America is a corporation. My question is simply this: exactly WHAT does a corporation have to do to get its charter revoked? If organized child molestation on the scale of half a century with 60,000 victims doesn’t qualify, what does?

    My argument, in the end, is about “pussification”. “Pussification,” for me, is a couple million supporters of the BSA, with their framed certificates of their Eagle Scout diplomas or whatever, standing up murmuring their support and hope for a continuation of the myth that the Boy scouts ever did anything for kids, nature, or the country. Where is the Final Badge, the badge that says, “I abolished this piece of shit and I am proud of it”?

    What should the BSA, could the BSA, have been? Maybe a club for the lower class to imitate the landed gentry they should have aspired to be- a certification in the gentlemanly arts. Little business suits, classes in sales and marketing: courses delivering a real estate license would have left them in much better shape for the economy we’ve created, instead of camping about like homeless people, making nuisance fires in the back-country, the image of which is marketed everywhere as the “wilderness experience”.

    Ironically, we know who all the Eagle Scouts were, since they are all so proud of the accolade they list it on the LinkedIn resume even after attaining the C-suite. And in the end maybe that is what the Boy Scouts is all about: credentials. The supporters of the organization are all successful adults who want to rescue some nostalgic prestige.

    There is another organization which does not have quite the same taint: the Girl Scouts, who, at last check, was accepting boys. Will they take up the challenge against rampant pussification? It seems possible. What could the hidden liabilities be there? Perhaps decades of selling a credulous public their hyper-fattening “Girl Scout Cookies”? How did vending junk food become the signature activity of the country’s largest organization for girls? There was nothing “Thin” about those mint cookies, loaded with toxic hydrogenated fat. The whole thing was organized grime.

    • JohnAZ August 16, 2021 at 2:04 pm #

      The Boy Scouts, first in Britain, was founded by Lord Baden Powell. His incentive was the pussification of English boys , leaving them incapable of being good soldiers for the next war. Boy Scouts was an attempt by male dominants to get the boys away from female dominated activities and to learn outdoor skills. It was an attempt to defeminize males and make men out of them.

      Unfortunately, the need for the principles of scouting have never been more necessary than right now. Scouting has taken on another identity now that much of America is urban, the gang. What is the difference between a Boy Scout troop and a gang in a city? The difference is what is presented to the members. I would definitely want my son to be exposed to The Scout oath, law and motto than the crime structure of the gangs.

      I do agree that the scouts allowing LBGTQ ethics into its organization is an abomination. For that and the child rape accusations the Boy Scouts of America should be abolished.

      Already, the Mormon Church is developing a new Boy Scouts organization. Let us see what that is about.

      • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 6:37 pm #

        It’s pussy shit without martial arts and weapons training. One bisexual (who never dated men) waitress told me that the Boy Scout banquet she worked at, all the Scoutmasters seemed to be closeted Gays.

        • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 8:44 pm #

          You must eat very slowly to get that deep into a conversation with a waitress. I’m guessing you were trying to eat Asian food with chopsticks… Or did this conversation take place at Hooters? Some of those Hooters girls will extract your whole life story before you get the check. Others will pour their life story out to you.

          • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 1:06 am #

            No, just somebody I knew. On friendly terms if not a friend per se.

    • rainmaker August 16, 2021 at 2:41 pm #

      Girl Scout cookies are the worst kind of crap. I forbid my husband from bringing any of that fake food garbage home.

      • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 4:26 pm #

        Even thin mints?

        • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 8:46 pm #

          Of course not Thin Mints. Some things in this world, but not many, are without sin. I’m pretty sure Thin Mints are one of those things.

    • Cavepainter August 16, 2021 at 3:08 pm #

      Uh huh, name me the formal body or organization that doesn’t attract exploiters and opportunist proportionate to power accruing within. Uh, should I refer you to the Leftist Utopians? Meanwhile, does health of society require behavioral models, especially for juveniles?

    • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 4:34 pm #

      I understand that Thin Mints are thin, but that I won’t be if I can’t control my intake. I’ll take that risk.

      Meanwhile, if the Girl Scouts continue to liberalize their enlistment criteria, I may just join up.

      “Gee Blackbird, you set a record for cookie sales and you haven’t even left the office!”

    • Night Owl August 16, 2021 at 6:05 pm #

      My experience as a scout was good.

      Perhaps you have been consuming too much Colbert and Trevor Noah.

      Points for no focus-grouped snark, however.

      Lib.

  42. Cavepainter August 16, 2021 at 12:49 pm #

    Some of you my age might remember those traveling road show 3-day presentations (“seminars”) at military installations which outlined what was expected societally following a nuclear exchange — cold war era — and what would be the military’s responsibility. The military would be the only command structure remaining, so would necessarily take on the role of maintaining any semblance of civil order. The picture drawn was ugly; the 32% of any demographic which has no impulse restraint restraint except that imposed by peer or agency enforcement pressure would immediately go “pirate”, to plunder and rape. Get the picture?

    • cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 12:55 pm #

      Now a days, if they (China, North Korea, etc.) nuke our inner cities they will actually be doing us a favor. Getting rid of the undesirable under belly of society, crime ridden plagues that feast on the unsuspecting, homeless camps, etc. I say come and take care of business already!

      • Cavepainter August 16, 2021 at 12:57 pm #

        Well certainly our military would be busy cross-dressing.

        • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 1:36 pm #

          Disguising themselves as Bazi Boys no doubt.

      • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 6:39 pm #

        This was supposed to be the job of Planned Parenthood. It was Margaret Sanger’s dream.

    • abbybwood August 16, 2021 at 1:43 pm #

      Reminds me of Robert Scheer’s book “With Enough Shovels” pertaining to Reagan saying we would all be safe in a nuclear war if we would just dig a big hole and get in it.

      • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 6:40 pm #

        A good Fallout Shelter is a joy forever.

  43. cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 1:06 pm #

    “Sources close to Biden have said he is undeterred, and will not allow the human disaster in Afghanistan to dampen spirits as he announces his chosen Monday ice cream flavor.”

    https://babylonbee.com/news/breaking-biden-to-hold-special-press-conference-today-to-announce-what-ice-cream-flavor-hes-eating/

  44. Ed Haskell August 16, 2021 at 1:07 pm #

    Quick thoughts…

    Colossal Screwup

    Biden has really fucked things up in Afghanistan. He and Benedict Arnold have a lot in common.

    Our side is very, very capable of an orderly, safe withdrawal and power transition. What has happened is grossly egregious.

    The raping, pillaging, murdering and maiming by Taliban against the Afghans will go unchecked.

    America’s leadership is vacuous.

    • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 1:33 pm #

      “He (Biden) and Benedict Arnold have a lot in common.” Let’s see, two arms, two legs, aviator glasses…

      Who led an army through the Maine wilderness and nearly took Quebec? (And how might that have affected the war?)

      Who saved the American Experiment not once but twice (Valcour Island, ’76; Saratoga, ’77) – the second time by ignoring the direct order of his commanding general.

      Who was censured for “stealing” winter clothing from the enemy to keep his troops from freezing?

      Who was censured for not stealing form the enemy, but instead partying with them?

      Who joined the enemy and torched his hometown?

      It’s the last one that really ties them together.

    • Billy Hill August 16, 2021 at 1:46 pm #

      I think Biden was just the last guy to get a ride on the bus before it went over the cliff. But since it was on his watch, he owns it. And yes, maybe a planned orderly withdrawal could have been conceived and executed. We will never know. it will be amusing to watch the finger-pointing and CYA invade the commentariat. It has already begun with the CIA claiming they knew what would happen but nobody at State or in the Whitehouse was listening.

      Certain Russian commentators find no relation between the Soviet orderly withdrawal from Afghanistan (the existing Afghan government remained in power for what, three more years?) and the subsequent Soviet collapse. One wonders whether this time it’s different — whether the indispensable hegemon will simply collapse, like an aging condo tower in Miami Beach. All the warning signs are there as if chunks of concrete falling into pools of water in the underground garage: bitterly divided populace, corruption and incompetence at the highest levels, distrust of institutions, and the sobering realization that Vladimir has superior weaponry and not only is not going to take any more shit, but wants nothing to do with our disintegrating civilization.

      • SW August 16, 2021 at 4:49 pm #

        I watched Biden’s address, rambling, disingenuous, and sadly unable to say “Trump” only once and not find a way to pin the disaster on him. Since he and the rest of the bunglers knew the deadline was May 1st & there were 2,500 troops in the country, why not get a move on and get everyone out?

        Only the most fervent koolaid drinkers can ignore this colossal screwup that’s on full display for the world. This may be our Suez moment.

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:31 pm #

      I think Biden was punked.

  45. wm5135 August 16, 2021 at 1:18 pm #

    “The old narratives will fall apart before our eyes.” JHK

    and for those who labored tirelessly to keep the narratives stitched together?

    This may also lead to a catastrophic discrediting of the media (and the populace) — who were fully in on the con (some in deceitful support and some in deceitful denial) — to the degree that many end up utterly wrecked and with many lives and families washed up, mere flotsam and jetsam on the beach of injustice.(poetic license)

    That Smell Van Zant-Collins 1977 -(just audible in the background)

    That was your pension fund seen falling from the Hercules leaving Kabul

    “Since when did the American Left become so pro-tyranny?”

    Since they wrestled the reins of corporate wealth away from the American Right

    and for those who labored tirelessly to keep the narratives stitched together?

    “One little problem that confronts you
    Got a monkey on your back
    Just one more fix, Lord, might do the trick
    One hell of a price for you to get your kicks (Hell yeah)” That Smell

    Do you think Charon will object and refuse passage or will Virgil prevail once again?
    Look out! The gates of Circles 7, 8 and 9 can be heard opening!

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  46. Gonga Din August 16, 2021 at 1:27 pm #

    Well, on the other hand, the problem of identifying the location of enemy combatants has disappeared, and a concentrated offensive would be quite effective at this time. At least destroy equipment and bases, and any commandeered military equipment. Don’t wait until they get S-400 systems.

  47. Tate August 16, 2021 at 1:32 pm #

    America Last: Biden Will Not Prioritize Americans Over Afghans in Afghanistan Evacuation

    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/16/biden-americans-afghanistan-evacuation/

    I have to admit they’re being consistent. If Biden & the rest of that filth can claim any body who gets across our border is an instant citizen, then why should our passport-holders deserve any special consideration when boarding a plane at Kabul airport? But like all Wokesters, they’re not thinking this through. What’s the message that’s sending to anyone thinking about joining the U.S. military or diplomatic corps in the future? It inevitably leads to the complete ninnification of those ranks from here forward. Hahahaha. As if it hasn’t already.

    • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 6:46 pm #

      We’re so beaten down now that the monstrous seems normal. But it IS monstrous and abnormal.

  48. MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 1:33 pm #

    “Afghanistan, it’s where empires go to fail.” – Paul Romano

    Here’s today’s piece on it by Glenn Greenwald:

    ““The Taliban regime is coming to an end,” announced President George W. Bush at the National Museum of Women in the Arts on December 12, 2001 — almost twenty years ago today. Five months later, Bush vowed: “In the United States of America, the terrorists have chosen a foe unlike they have faced before. . . . We will stay until the mission is done.” Four years after that, in August of 2006, Bush announced: “Al Qaeda and the Taliban lost a coveted base in Afghanistan and they know they will never reclaim it when democracy succeeds. . . . The days of the Taliban are over. The future of Afghanistan belongs to the people of Afghanistan.”

    For two decades, the message Americans heard from their political and military leaders about the country’s longest war was the same. America is winning. The Taliban is on the verge of permanent obliteration. The U.S. is fortifying the Afghan security forces, which are close to being able to stand on their own and defend the government and the country.

    Just five weeks ago, on July 8, President Biden stood in the East Room of the White House and insisted that a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was not inevitable because, while their willingness to do so might be in doubt, “the Afghan government and leadership . . . clearly have the capacity to sustain the government in place.” Biden then vehemently denied the accuracy of a reporter’s assertion that “your own intelligence community has assessed that the Afghan government will likely collapse.” Biden snapped: “That is not true. They did not — they didn’t — did not reach that conclusion.”

    Read the whole thing here:

    https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-us-government-lied-for-two-decades

    • Tate August 16, 2021 at 1:52 pm #

      It’s clear that the dumbest president we ever had was Bush junior, even dumber than Obama.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 2:20 pm #

        Yeah he was a mental midget to be sure.

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 2:20 pm #

      Also, Paul Romano’s coverage on this is really good as well.

      https://youtu.be/xkntz3BuybU

    • Night Owl August 16, 2021 at 2:58 pm #

      Come on now, never misunderestimate strategery.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 3:06 pm #

        I still use that word – lol.

        The one thing I liked about Bush was that he made up words. I do that, too.

        However, I would not do so on the fly on national TV.

        • Night Owl August 16, 2021 at 3:57 pm #

          🙂

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 4:55 pm #

            “Peance, Freeance” is my fav tho

          • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 6:48 pm #

            It’s not Jim Crow, it’s Jim Eagle.

    • Jo-G August 16, 2021 at 6:23 pm #

      Bush should have begun the withdrawal after his “Mission Accomplished” landing on that Aircraft Carrier- even if the event was about Iraq. Obama should have begun the withdrawal after the Seals got Osama Bin Laden….. just end it on a high.

  49. Amman August 16, 2021 at 1:48 pm #

    Musique pour Le Mis-en-Scene.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2frAPi1Pv8&ab_channel=RockArtMichal

  50. Hardrock August 16, 2021 at 2:00 pm #

    If I were China, I would be talking to Russia and arranging a simultaneous invasion of South Korea, Taiwan, and Ukraine.

    The US is a wounded animal and NO ONE has the will to confront any aggressor.

    Saigon, Kabul,…..Washington?????? When will we see Joe, Kamala, and Nancy boarding the helicopter to get out of DC.

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    • Pete August 16, 2021 at 2:03 pm #

      I’ve been shaking my fist vigorously at Washington D.C.

    • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 2:05 pm #

      Where would they go?

      Maybe Martha’s Vineyard, Lefty Elitist Paradise.

    • SouthernYankee August 16, 2021 at 2:09 pm #

      Just as soon as the America’s “insurgents” storm the Capitol Hardrock. LOL

    • cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 2:31 pm #

      Precisely. If I was any foreign power I would be acting immediately to take over any border lands that I had been eyeing up in recent memory. The time is currently ripe for some unchecked aggression. One certainly cannot blame them for that, since the US would have done the same exact thing in its nation building era. To all leaders out there willing to stand up and rightfully take what you perceive is yours, I salute you!

    • Billy Hill August 16, 2021 at 3:19 pm #

      Russia doesn’t want Ukraine. Nobody wants Ukraine. It’s a hopeless case.

      China will assume political control over Taiwan. Just a question of when. The Chinese are patient and have no interest destroying infrastructure and industry with which they are deeply intertwined.

      South Korea? The food is too good. Nobody is stupid enough to mess that up.

      • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 4:23 pm #

        Exactly. Not every country embraces the US smash-and-grab ethos. Taiwan will do business with China because they have to. By doing business they will be reabsorbed, gradually and painlessly enough that they can pretend it isn’t happening.

        Nobody wants the Ukrainians, but the land itself, is another story. I hear China is buying up the dark and bloody ground.

      • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 6:50 pm #

        The Nazis showed neat German villages and contrasted them with Ukrainian hovels in a row. If Germans went to Ukraine, things would neaten up. It’s not the soil, it’s the people that are different. The state of the inner man as Clarence Mangan put it.

        • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 6:55 pm #

          And Ukrainians wanted to believe the Germans showed up to free them too. In 1914 Kaisers Army showed up and treated Ukranian peasants fairly.

        • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 8:06 pm #

          I’m sure there were neat Ukrainian villages and nasty German hovels too…

          The Germans did go to the Ukraine. Things got really messy. Treating the Ukrainians like dogs to be whipped, rather than as attack dogs, was I think, one of Hitler’s many big mistakes. Hard to find anyone who hates Russians more than a Ukie.

          The soil of the Ukraine is said to be exceptionally fertile. All dirt is not created equal.

  51. JoshuaThompson August 16, 2021 at 2:01 pm #

    Forty-seven years after Saigon fell, and we have learned nothing. Backing a corrupt autocrat unpopular with the people while he steals the money we send, expecting him to improve the country and reduce corruption, training a military that just wants a paycheck with no commitment to the leader or the country or each other, wholesale destruction of the population while kidding ourselves that we are winning their hearts and minds. Meanwhile, the opposition quietly takes over the countryside and rapidly takes over the country when it is ready.

    How about prohibiting Yale and Harvard guys from running for office. They really have shown themselves to be idiots, proving their manhood and the female equivalent by sending other people’s children to die and be maimed, spouting the latest Manhattan barroom jargon instead of thinking clearly.

    • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 2:04 pm #

      Rumsfeld was Princeton graduate.

    • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 2:05 pm #

      I think we learned at least one thing: Don’t draft the kids and you can go to war anywhere for as long as you want and no one will complain.

      • Hardrock August 16, 2021 at 2:16 pm #

        Spot on!!!

        I just missed Vietnam and now that I’m too old***, I think we should reinstate the draft, return to Congressional responsibility for Declarations of War, and demand that every member of Congress have a relative on the front lines when they do declare.

        ***Seriously…..this would correct a lot of excesses.

        • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 3:10 pm #

          Yup, bring back the draft. No exemptions, boys, girls, neither, both – everybody in the pool. Watch how quickly we become homebodies.

          Not that I think there is any chance of this happening. At this point, we have all the volition and opportunity for change that a bullet has while spiraling down the barrel.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 4:05 pm #

        Bingo!

      • Jo-G August 16, 2021 at 6:26 pm #

        Yes. The young Korean men complain about their required 18 months service here but at least they all have a common experience. When asked what they needed if we had to have a non-combatant evacuation the Korean office workers said “Just leave us rifles and ammo.”

        • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 6:52 pm #

          What, no saferooms where you can get hugs, have a good cry with your girlfriend (he, she), and mess around with Play-do?

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 7:44 pm #

            LOL!

  52. SouthernYankee August 16, 2021 at 2:06 pm #

    In response to Tate’s post which was this:

    Yeehaw!

    Nancy sends a message:

    AUGUST 14, 2021 PRESS RELEASE
    San Francisco — Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement on the situation in Afghanistan:

    “The President is to be commended for the clarity of purpose of his statement on Afghanistan and the actions he has taken.

    “The Taliban must know that the world is watching its actions. We are deeply concerned about reports regarding the Taliban’s brutal treatment of all Afghans, especially women and girls. The U.S., the international community and the Afghan government must do everything we can to protect women and girls from inhumane treatment by the Taliban.

    “Any political settlement that the Afghans pursue to avert bloodshed must include having women at the table. The fate of women and girls in Afghanistan is critical to the future of Afghanistan. As we strive to assist women, we must recognize that their voices are important, and all must listen to them for solutions, respectful of their culture. There is bipartisan support to assist the women and girls of Afghanistan. One of the successes of U.S.- NATO cooperation in Afghanistan was the progress made by women and girls. We must all continue to work together to ensure that is not eroded.

    “Once again, I want to acknowledge the clarity of purpose of President Biden’s statement and the wisdom of his actions. Congress shares the President’s concern for Afghans who have assisted U.S. efforts in country, and we passed Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) legislation to provide for their relocation on a strong, bipartisan basis.

    “Most of all, we join the President in acknowledging the sacrifices of our men and women in uniform and their families.”

    I don’t know where to begin laughing. At the naïveté? At the cultural hubris (Nan, do you really think the Taliban care about your opinion about blah, blah, blah). At the relentless political posturing void of ANY honesty, at her delusion of not being self deluded?

    After her insipid display of fecklessness the Taliban’s savagery is actually refreshing. At least it’s honest. God almighty how I despise politico-speak!

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 2:23 pm #

      The Dem leadership are a nauseating bunch, alright. Imagine being someone who takes them seriously.

      • cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 2:35 pm #

        Yes, I am sure the Taliban is just quaking in the head scarfs as they listen to Pelosi make her decrees on their local television networks. I am sure they will follow through with and respect all of the demands that she makes, given that she is such a highly respected leader on the world stage.

        Speaking of highly respected leaders, where does our current Sec’y of State Blinken and former Sec’y John Kerry stand on all of this?

        • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 6:46 pm #

          Well, John Kerry, Climate Czar, has gone on record stating our two biggest adversaries are Climate Change and White Supremacists; that’s what General Milley has the Armed Forces focused upon, fully supported by Secy. Austin, the CIA, Heels Up Harris, and the Big Guy himself.

    • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 10:21 pm #

      They won’t be mandating vaccines. I wonder if they will accept immigrants? It’s going one of the very few free places left, at least in those terms. Alberta and Afghanistan – and trying getting into Alberta!

      Maybe they’ll start a Taliban Party here too….

    • michael August 17, 2021 at 7:16 am #

      Does she understand that the Taliban now ARE the Afghan government:

      “the Afghan government must do everything we can to protect women and girls from inhumane treatment by the Taliban.”

      Apparently not.

  53. BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 2:25 pm #

    What, you mean the Taliban isn’t down with the New Feminist Agenda?

    How about the LBGQT agenda? Will there be Tranny story hour for the little ones at Kabul Public Library? (Assuming there is a Kabul Public Library)

    Brh

    • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 10:33 pm #

      Women yearn for submission. Horseface Arden is always putting on the veil for one reason or another. Swedish female politicians are always willing to put it in on and bow down as well. They are too proud to submit to us, (their own men), but not too proud to submit to alien men.
      An aversion that has been assiduously cultivated in popular entertainment, media, and academia – every since they were old enough to watch such things. All of their lives in other words.

      Instead they endeavor to train us. And once trained to sit down when we pee, they lose all interest in us. They no longer hate us, and no longer have even the ghost of attraction to us. Swedish women now go to Latin America to find husbands. Or take in the local Muslim talent as their men are very well trained in not being men.

      • BackRowHeckler August 17, 2021 at 9:15 am #

        Yeah I did read about Swedish women travelling to Brazil and Argentina looking for suitable husbands, their own Swedish men, historically former Vikings, having been thoroughly cucked and feminized.

        Brh

  54. Goodwalkspoiled August 16, 2021 at 2:28 pm #

    Joe B. is Bernie Lomax. It’s Weekend at Bernie’s once more. They won’t let Old Joe go. If he has a pulse, they’ll suit him up and take still photos. Even if he’s brain dead. A perfect coup d’etat with the ideal puppet now in place. They won’t let the inconvenience of reality get in the way.

  55. MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 2:28 pm #

    OK so 20 years of ‘getting rid of the Taliban’ proves to be a bust.

    Let’s move on. The Afghanistan fiasco is over.

    Meanwhile, we still have to deal with the implementation of the Great Reset, including digitalizing our money, and vax passes. You should know that this will lead to implanted chips, which are in use elsewhere. Big Pharma Industrial Complex MUST be fed. So boosters, etc. will be forced on us, unless we stand up now and refuse.

    Jo Jo Magoo is trying to pass laws making it a terrorist crime to question the covid19 hoax or the rigged election.

    These should be what we focus upon and resist.

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  56. debt August 16, 2021 at 2:32 pm #

    No one likes us-I don’t know why
    We may not be perfect, but heaven knows we try
    But all around, even our old friends put us down
    Let’s drop the big one and see what happens

    We give them money-but are they grateful?
    No, they’re spiteful and they’re hateful
    They don’t respect us-so let’s surprise them
    We’ll drop the big one and pulverize them

    Asia’s crowded and Europe’s too old
    Africa is far too hot
    And Canada’s too cold
    South America stole our name
    Let’s drop the big one
    There’ll be no one left to blame us

    We’ll save Australia
    Don’t wanna hurt no kangaroo
    We’ll build an All American amusement park there
    They got surfin’, too

    Boom goes London and boom Paris
    More room for you and more room for me
    And every city the whole world round
    Will just be another American town
    Oh, how peaceful it will be
    We’ll set everybody free
    You’ll wear a Japanese kimono babe
    And there’ll be Italian shoes for me

    They all hate us anyhow
    So let’s drop the big one now
    Let’s drop the big one now

    – R. Newman

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 3:08 pm #

      The quintessential American song.

  57. BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 2:32 pm #

    The world was shocked when Taliban blew up an ancient Buddha monument back in the 80s, ha! In the monument wrecking Dept. Taliban got nothing with American lefty BLM/Antifa shock troops.

    • cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 2:43 pm #

      I am sure if they were here in the US blowing up monuments to the CSA they would be hailed as national heroes.

    • Tate August 16, 2021 at 8:30 pm #

      They even removed a 70 ton rock from the U of Wisconsin campus just because somebody once called it ‘niggerhead’ rock.

      • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 10:25 pm #

        There were a lot of niggerhead rocks. This one wasn’t one of them apparently. Somebody associated with the University referred to it that way in a journal generations ago. Just like a Japanese Olympic official made a racial joke decades ago as a kid. In other words, now they’re canceling rocks.

        • Tate August 17, 2021 at 10:24 am #

          They used to call the hummocks that form across the tundra north of the tree-line “niggerheads.”

  58. Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 2:49 pm #

    https://i0.wp.com/www.dailyhindnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/1599089495_410_The-True-Story-of-the-Horrific-Tuskegee-Syphilis-Study-and.gif?resize=678%2C435&ssl=1

    Doubt is good. Skepticism is your friend. This man would have benefited from a questioning attitude when the US gov’t approached him in Tuskegee. Trust governments, media and corporations at your own risk! A 20 yr imperial adventure is ending in Afghanistan. Thousands of American soldiers dead, tens of thousands of civilians, trillions of $, a booming heroin trade, a narrative full of holes. “Osama was working for us, but he wasn’t when he organized 911 from a cave”. Iraq, thousands of soldiers, over a million civilians dead, the NYT screamed “yellowcake, WMD!”, and we followed like lemmings. They told us a lone nut killed JFK and another nut killed that nut, and that’s that. Nothing to see here. The Spanish sank the “Maine”. Epstein killed himself. Move along.

    I have an honest philosophical question: why would I trust politicians, the media or big pharma? I ask it for myself, and also for the man in the photo, long dead. Give me one good reason. Answer me this too: why are we being urged to participate in an unprecedented genetic manipulation experiment over a disease that, as per the CDC’s own statistics, has a survival rate of 99.7%? Thousands of medical doctors, and Nobel-caliber scientists have expressed grave doubts about this, but you wouldn’t know it if you watch TV, read mainstream media, or get your news from FB, Google, Twitter, YouTube. Millions are taking to the streets worldwide, France, Australia, determined to resist the global police state, the rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem to be born, as Yeats warned us. But you wouldn’t know that either.

    “The blood-dimmed tide is loosed”, what could that be? A relatively innocuous virus, strengthened by waves of injections that make it more lethal as they compromise the species’ natural immune systems? While making big pharma unprecedented profits from “booster shots” that clearly are not only useless against this virus, but make it stronger, thus clamoring for further shots? A way for the powerful to manage the descent? We’re running out of everything: topsoils, fisheries, fossil fuels, rare minerals, pure water, after all. Virus or no, that’s a fact.

    TV watchers have all the answers, but I prefer my questions.

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 3:21 pm #

      “A relatively innocuous virus, strengthened by waves of injections that make it more lethal as they compromise the species’ natural immune systems?”

      That is certainly what it looks like. I remain unconvinced that any covid19 virus even exists. Seems to me they just rebranded death.

      • Night Owl August 16, 2021 at 6:02 pm #

        Until it is isolated, it does not exist.

        Why did Christian Drosten have to use a computer model to create his modified PCR test? You know, that useless test?

        Why is it simply assumed that the virus is real? Why do people (even here) just accept the premise?

        Are they dumb?

        • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 7:16 pm #

          I’m not accepting or rejecting anything. I don’t know enough to do either. I’m just putting into words what I think could be a thought model of what’s going on. That the vaccines (shots, injections, whatever you wanna call them) ARE the variants, meaning the shots make a virus that supposedly exists (but you say it hasn’t been really isolated, so that’s open to argument) more and more powerful.

          I’m a farmer and save for some notions about soil chemistry, seed saving and animal husbandry, my science is very poor.

          You’re saying “the virus doesn’t exist”. OK. I guess new thought is required and I’ll do it. But many here, not vaxxers, people like you & me, seem to say there is in fact a virus, albeit not terribly effective (the 99+ survival rate I included in my post)

          • cbeard August 18, 2021 at 1:06 pm #

            I looked up a link that I got off this site, I think. Go to the U.S. patent office and look up patent number 7279327, which to me proves the virus is man made and in fact does exist.

        • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 7:41 pm #

          Looks like Ireland has fallen (see Sean’s post below).

          And Germany ain’t lookin’ too good.

          I don’t know why people can’t see it?

          Insane.

          Not you, Rulo. Good comment, but we have to get past the virus being a thing, whether it exists or not.

        • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 7:43 pm #

          I meant to ask you, N.O. there was some guy in either the 1s or 2d panel in the 4 part one you posted the other day. And he was saying that the virus had been isolated. Which is odd, and seems to counter what most of the scientists & other specialists have been putting forward. I believe he was a German scientist.

          • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 4:21 pm #

            Dunno. That goes against everything the big guns have said, and goes against what the Ausschuss has been saying.

  59. stelmosfire August 16, 2021 at 2:51 pm #

    I have it on good authority that Slo’ Joe pulled the plug on Afghanistan when he found out that Afghani ice cream was made with goats milk.

    OH THE HUMANITY!

  60. Roundball Shaman August 16, 2021 at 2:51 pm #

    “…there’s the fate of President ‘Joe Biden.’ As Kabul falls this morning… There is a rising clamor, even among his own partisans, for him to come out and say something, anything… for Gawdsake…”

    ‘My fellow… my fellow uh… (what?)… oh yeah, My Fellow Americans. I’m your Senator, Joe Bide… (what NOW?)… oh, sorry… I’m your PRESIDENT… Joe… Joe uh… oh crap! Let’s just leave it at Joe.

    I’m extremely saddened at the loss of Vietnam. It was a tragic… (for God sake, WHAT?) OK! Afghanistan or Lemonade Stand or whatever that damn place is called. I’m very saddened for that. But it’s NOT MY FAULT. Hell, I don’t even know what day it is half the time so DON’T BLAME ME.

    It’s that Republican guy’s fault, Nixon. HE got us into Pakistan… (what’s that?) I said Pakistan! Alright, make that Afghanistan. It’s Nixon’s…. (I’m getting sick of this! What is your problem? Huh? What’d I say? Nixon, right?… Trump? Who’s HE? He’s the guy I ran against? I thought I was running against Obama… Trump, huh? That guy with the hair, right? See, I do remember a few things. What? Oh yeah, back to the ‘I’m Sorry’ stuff…

    Yes My Fellow Americans, I’m sorry. I’m sorry for losing America. We fought long and hard there, but we just couldn’t get it done. We poured everything into our effort to free America… I mean Pakistan… from the bad guys but Nixon screwed thing up so bad there wasn’t much I could do.

    Was that OK? Good, I’m getting tired up here. Anybody got a Lemonade?’

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    • cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 2:56 pm #

      Yeah, and don’t forget a shout out to his old friend and constant companion Corn Pop!

  61. stelmosfire August 16, 2021 at 3:01 pm #

    Look on the bright side. All these Afghani translators we will be bringing to the USA.and setting them up with all the bennies. At least they know our language.. Unlike the illegals streaming over the southern border. They can’t be bothered to learn English.

    • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 4:21 pm #

      In Hartford news this morning, do gooder organizations are imploring citizens to open their homes to these hapless Afghan refugees; problem is, a few weeks ago, they did the same thing for Central American border refugees being shipped to New England from Texas. They all need places to live, but we have a housing shortage here already. I think many of them will end up at these seedy motels off the interstate north and south of Hartford. (Which are usually reserved for homeless families, and people whose apartment buildings burned down, which happens frequently, and have nowhere else to go.) Afghan refugees will find those motels as dangerous and grimy as Kabul.

      Brh

      • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 8:27 pm #

        Homeless Americans, and particularly their children, “will find those motels as dangerous and grimy as Kabul.” Lock up your sons – your daughters will probably be ok, unless Pakis start moving in…

        Ok, I’m a terrible person for saying what I say. And yet, there are some even worse, for doing what I say.

      • Chippenhook August 16, 2021 at 8:53 pm #

        Given events of the past couple years, it is no longer so far fetched anymore that people will be ordered to take in refugees,be they American refugees from some as yet undefined disaster, or foreign refugees from disasters abroad or as a simple consequence of open borders.

        • Tate August 16, 2021 at 9:44 pm #

          Wouldn’t the Third Amendment prohibit that? A close reading would say they’re not ‘soldiers.’ I would argue otherwise.

          Not that anything on that piece of parchment matters anymore.

        • stelmosfire August 17, 2021 at 10:24 am #

          I’ll take a couple young un’s with strong backs. Maybe even a matronly type with good cooking skills. Shit I can start a mini plantation. Wait a minute hasn’t that been done before?

    • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 8:28 pm #

      Maybe they can bring the call center industry back to the US? Take that Mumbai!

  62. cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 3:07 pm #

    Good, I hope that none of those snot nosed brats take the time to talk to me or get to know me, just leave me alone and stay off my lawn!

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/americans-are-creating-their-own-vaccine-mandates-by-cutting-ties-with-the-unvaccinated/ar-AANo5mr?ocid=msedgntp

    • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 4:12 pm #

      About 50% of the country is unvaccinated, so one half is cutting ties with the other half? That doesn’t make for a happy family circle.

  63. MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 3:31 pm #

    With regard to the photo, a friend wrote:

    “I read that the US Embassy in Kabul has 25 acres, including helipads. They don’t need to land on the roof to pick up passengers. If you notice, that photo is not of a helicopter landing on the roof, it is going over the roof. Some photographer just waited for the right shot.

    So why is the Mighty Wurlitzer pushing that photo so much? Hmm, they have to have some reason.

    Sick as it seems, it appears that the US public is blood-thirsty enough to mourn the stopping of the killing fields of Afghanistan. As we said on our radio show, it is the height of arrogant entitlement to believe that the US has the right to control other countries, but the phrase “BIden lost Afghanistan” seems to be trending.”

    • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 4:14 pm #

      If I had been the photographer, I’d have taken that shot too, just to draw the parallel. But why is the Ministry of Truth making that comparison for us? Maybe to say, “Yup, it’s really all over now”? Which of course means that it’s not over…

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 4:23 pm #

        Me as well, totally iconic photo. Works either way, for me.

  64. cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 3:42 pm #

    Biden has the opposite effect of the Midas Touch, everything he touches turns to poo. He is an old Grandpaw padding through the bowels of the White House, wearing nothing but a bathrobe and slippers, with a blank look in his eyes and constant confusion upon his face.

  65. cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 3:50 pm #

    Hmmm, very interesting points about that picture I linked to earlier above. Is it possible this picture is not even current and Biden is still in hiding ala Weekend at Bernie’s?

    With these clocks being set wrong it is no wonder his diplomatic channels are a mess – he is always late for the appointed meetings!

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/london-and-moscow-clocks-in-joe-biden-photo-sparks-confusion/ar-AANnrgg?ocid=msedgntp

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    • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 4:09 pm #

      The not-so-hidden message is: “It’s too late for Russia”.

      Been about 700 years since Russians have been intimidated by someone who can’t do math.

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 4:20 pm #

      Are you referring to my comment about the helicopter? That’s for James’ photo, up top.

  66. Sean Coleman August 16, 2021 at 4:11 pm #

    Excellent interview here by John Waters, Ireland’s finest:

    https://odysee.com/@AnomicAge:b/AA_Waters_121:a?r=2QSgeJG3T5LvhW6nH1trmZvK87irVN2K

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 4:23 pm #

      That is the most annoying intro I’ve ever heard on a video – lol. Thanks, will watch now. I hadn’t heard of John Age before.

      🙂

      • cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 4:35 pm #

        Did anyone else notice that all the book titles in the background are backwards as if in a mirror image? What gives here??? Strange…

        • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 7:36 pm #

          It’s just the the way their zoom/camera is set up.

      • Sean Coleman August 17, 2021 at 3:33 am #

        I usually skip intros, and endings, but often listen to certain passages more than once.

    • Soul Forensics August 16, 2021 at 9:23 pm #

      John Waters on Springsteen (paraphrasing):

      Every one of Springsteen’s characters is blue-collar, and would’ve voted for Trump. They would’ve been deplorables now. Yet Springsteen continuously excoriates Trump.

      Me: Springsteen’s putative sympathy for the working man was just a schtick. As soon as he could sit on a few million, he left Jersey for Hollywood.

      Someone said he attended one of his concerts — front row, off to the side. As he was being introduced, Springsteen, waiting in the wings, doused his head in cold water and shook it about, intimating, when he came on, that it was sweat. The sweat of a hard-workin’ man, just like his audience, I’m sure.

      That said, Trump blundered by trying to use Springsteen’s “Born In The USA” as his rally intro. And he obviously didn’t realize that the lyrics are ironical.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:42 pm #

        Yeah those were some good realizations right there.

    • Sean Coleman August 17, 2021 at 3:20 am #

      This is how Waters sums up what he is getting at. I think it may be a direct quote from the interview.

      Quote
      “Have our revolutions all been contrived? Were what we long thought of as breaks towards idealism and freedom-seeking merely illusions that caused us to let our guard down? Were those initial decades — centuries — of freedom simply a ruse to lull the people into a false sense of complacency, so that in a matter of months, the essence of their lives could be taken away? The evidence of something we have incorrectly understood mounts and mounts.
      We have arrived at another revolutionary moment, when the skills and creative resources of the people are about to be plundered by the elites, thus denying the people the dividend of what might have been their liberation from the alleged drudgery of work.

      There is a war against humanity, conducted by a tiny rump of renegade humans.

      The former forces and institutions charged with upholding and guarding our democracies have gone over to the other side. The artists have become puppets of the Combine. Media and pop culture celebrities are on the side of the people’s manifest enemies. Journalism, once society’s watchdog, has become a criminal profession.

      Already we can hear the drumbeats reverberating under our feet.

      Can the trance be dissolved before it is too late? What might that take? Is the moment of truth upon us?” End Quote

      I never ever believed in this “break for freedom” and I spent my years at school, university and thereafter arguing about it. I hardly met anyone who agreed with me.

      • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 10:09 am #

        Thanks for the transcript of that part of the interview. Very powerful. John Water has a way with words. I also really felt his sense of shock; even those of us who have watched this coming for 20 years still feel that.

        I can see why so many remain in denial, but that will be our undoing.

  67. cowbell81 August 16, 2021 at 4:26 pm #

    Well, Biden made it all very clear in his address. Afghanistan is the “Graveyard of Empires”. Someone please place a nice big marble headstone in their desert with the “United States of America” engraved on it. Glad to see that another wasted military excursion has come to a close, after the loss of countless lives and millions of dollars. Good luck Afghanistan, you will certainly need it. Every man, woman, and child for themselves.

    • World War Zeke August 16, 2021 at 6:18 pm #

      I hope the Taliban doesn’t expect Osama bin Laden’s body back. We misplaced it with the USN concierge.

      • Tate August 16, 2021 at 9:37 pm #

        Wait, didn’t we give him a proper burial at sea in accord with age-old Islamic custom?

        • cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 10:00 am #

          Yes, he is one with the fishes now.

    • michael August 17, 2021 at 7:13 am #

      Millions of millions of dollars.

      • edpell August 17, 2021 at 8:54 pm #

        Four trillion dollars

  68. zappalives August 16, 2021 at 4:33 pm #

    Only rebellion/revolt/insurrection/civil war 2.0 saves whats left of this once great republic.

    A house cleaning is long overdue !

    The central bankers-power mad billionaires and their bought and paid for lackeys in the dem/repub uni-party have to go………..and I mean ended !

    There is no other way now !

  69. tom clark August 16, 2021 at 5:10 pm #

    Went back and re-read Richard Heinberg’s The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, which I first read 10 (15?) years ago. Alas, not much has changed. Woops, granddaughter just involved in a (hopefully minor) car accident…gotta run.

  70. Htruth August 16, 2021 at 5:32 pm #

    George W.Bush 2001: https://americanyellowvest.wpcomstaging.com/2021/08/15/bushs-womens-liberation-movement-in-afghanistan-fails/

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    • BackRowHeckler August 16, 2021 at 6:37 pm #

      Heels Up Harris announced that her biggest concern in Haiti and Afghanistan is “brown and black girls”. This is the VP of the United States, who will soon be engaged in a game of existential chess with Putin and Xi, looking at the Big Picture.

      • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 8:14 pm #

        Hilarious.

        • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 10:38 pm #

          Everything is about her. An eternal vagina monologue.

          • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:42 pm #

            Zing!

  71. snagglepuss August 16, 2021 at 7:07 pm #

    Those two photos are quite something. I wonder when we ( I’m talking about the western democracies here, not just the US) will stop trying to export our values and so called democracy to the world. All done under the guise of a not so hidden agenda that usually involves ‘oil’, but now it might include other ‘essentials’, such as semi conductor plants like the ones that exist almost exclusively in Taiwan. These places where people like the Taliban exist, where honor killings are perfectly acceptable if your daughter falls in love with someone from another ‘caste’, etc. Why these attempts to ‘bring western values’ to places in the world who really aren’t terribly interested in them and in fact hold them in contempt?
    What’s the real solution? Next time they reach out perhaps just give them all a bottle of whiskey and a knife. Sounds harsh, but we have our own problems to solve, don’t we? Guess I’m mean….

  72. Billy Hill August 16, 2021 at 7:11 pm #

    HEY — somehow Afghanistan has removed Obama’s birthday bash over-the-top excess from the news cycle.

    How Freakin’ Convenient!

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 8:14 pm #

      It always happens!

  73. WilbursHuman August 16, 2021 at 7:52 pm #

    Since No One else has addressed this in the comments………….

    If We have to send in 7000 troops to get everyone else out………..

    How The FUQ, are we going to get them out…….?????????

    Or are we going to Say, MIA, Like we did to the ones we left behind….

    IN South East Asia………..

    This Shit…………
    IS Not going to End Well !!!!!!

    • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 8:14 pm #

      It’s pretty simple. We send in a relief force 50% larger than the force we are trying to extricate: 7,500 to bust out 5,000; 12,000 to bust out the 7,500; etc. Figure out how long each round of evacuation takes ( a week? two?) and you can figure out the exact date on which the entire US population will have been transferred to Afghanistan. We ain’t leavin’ we’re all coming over!

    • Dr_Wellington_Yueh August 17, 2021 at 2:19 am #

      I know an old lady who swallowed a fly…

  74. zappalives August 16, 2021 at 8:31 pm #

    Im gonna miss the two main products out of Afghanistan………..opium and rubble.

    • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:43 pm #

      Gotsta have my rubble.

      • cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 10:03 am #

        Makes good backfill for all of those new roads we are going to pave under the infrastructure bill touted by Biden.

      • stelmosfire August 17, 2021 at 10:32 am #

        Betty Rubble was my favorite. She was to Wilma as Maryanne was to Ginger.

  75. tucsonspur August 16, 2021 at 8:34 pm #

    What really gets me is watching those ads to help wounded warriors, many out of Afghanistan. Guys with no arms or legs or both, hobbling around with artificial limbs, some guys left with a horrendous burn scar instead of a face, trying their best to still have a fulfilling, happy life.

    Medals to the wife who sticks by her 25 year old husband with no legs and only one arm. Maybe no you know what.

    Vietnam was worse, but this is still pretty bad.

    Churchill said it a long time ago regarding Afghan tribesmen;
    ‘Civilization is face to face with militant Mohammedism’

    He also said, ‘That religion, which above all others was founded and propagated by the sword…..stimulates a wild and merciless fanaticism’.

    From Kipling’s ‘The Young British Soldier’;

    ‘When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains
    And the women come out to cut up what remains
    Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
    An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier

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    • Tate August 16, 2021 at 9:28 pm #

      Islam weaponizes testosterone into a religion. But testosterone & estrogen must live together in harmony for any kind of decent existence. That has always been the Western way of life formed at the cold fringes of the known world. The muslims organized slave-raiding parties as far as Ireland. Our alabaster women were highly prized by the heathen, they would even brave the North Atlantic to collect them (which isn’t normative for them to brave anything.) Now that we’ve organized the mass importation of the bastards, a place like Sweden has become the rape capital of Europe.

      • tucsonspur August 16, 2021 at 9:45 pm #

        Pity the women and young girls at the end of the Taliban tube. The bastards, the slime, know that white is prime.

        • MaryQueen August 16, 2021 at 10:44 pm #

          Well, maybe women will prefer burkas to seeing their toddlers blown to bit by American soldiers. Just a guess.

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 6:26 pm #

          And I’m sure women will appreciate not having their wedding parties bombed, also.

      • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 11:34 pm #

        “Islam weaponizes testosterone into a religion” That’s an interesting observation. Never thought of it that way, but it makes sense.

  76. Pucker August 16, 2021 at 9:36 pm #

    Did you listen to any of Mike Lindell’s Symposium? Apparently, it was quite good. It seems that the evidence of election fraud is overwhelming. It doesn’t look that there’s going to be any accountability absent what we ourselves bring to the table? Trump and Q Anon and God won’t save us. The Elites will just progressively Jab us into brain damaged vegetables. No good outcomes. The future is probably not one of consumption and lying on the beach wearing diapers and drinking ice old beer with a young Asian peasant girl rubbing suntan lotion on our old wrinkled skin and sagging tits? The Barbarians are inside the gates, and the Elites are taking the Gold out the underground tunnels.

  77. Pucker August 16, 2021 at 9:48 pm #

    Kabul Hooters is evacuating its personnel.

    That’s a Business Model that I could never get my head around.

    Would you get drunk in a dark, somber nightclub drinking high balls while reminiscing about an old lost girlfriend while watching a girl completely covered in a sheet pole dancing on stage?

    • tucsonspur August 16, 2021 at 9:57 pm #

      LOL!!

    • Blackbird August 16, 2021 at 10:14 pm #

      There’s a Hooters in Manama, Bahrain. No women – so don’t expect to see Caspar the Friendly Stripper spinning over your head in a Muslim Hooters. You recognize your mistake about the time you get your first and only beer – and of course you can’t walk out into the street with your beer. I don’t know what happens in there. First time chugging a Heineken.

      • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 11:09 pm #

        See, that’s a funny vignette that will be remembered. Caspar the friendly stripper… you recognize your mistake… one can picture the cavernous dark interior, the bad eurotrash pop, the local grifters and good ol boys in shiny suits, the eyes, still blind from the blinding sun scanning the room, the realization of an error of judgement, “where the hell are all the women?”, “why is that sheik so attentive to that boy who looks 13?”, the hasty exit, the blinding sun again. You don’t want to know what happens in there, you want to forget it. Yet, hundreds of years later, you recall the story in CFN, and the whole sordid affair is redeemed, justified, it even glows a bit as you recall how you felt, who you were, hundreds of years ago.

        So, about that warthog… is it coming along well?

        • Blackbird August 17, 2021 at 10:31 am #

          Uh huh…

          My tool bench is crowded with misplaced tools in anticipation of one of those flying piggies dropping some parts. They seem to be pretty well built – no wonder they’re being phased out.

          • stelmosfire August 17, 2021 at 10:38 am #

            That titanium bathtub the pilot sits in is to die for! Keeps ya from being shot in the ass from small arms when yer flyin’ at 100 ft.

          • Blackbird August 17, 2021 at 12:02 pm #

            My shower stall needs to be replaced and one of those titanium bathtubs would be just the ticket. And a 30 mm Gatling gun? Who wouldn’t want to find one of those just layin’ around in the state forest? Not that I have any use for it, but guns like that seem to attract a purpose.

  78. Pucker August 16, 2021 at 10:09 pm #

    The Americans are enamored with the body building exercise machines?

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

    The nincompoop American feminists got a bunch of money to train 250 Afghan women as “Judges” thinking that they could leverage the women as a tool to govern Afghan society. This is a favorite ploy of the Comm…unists….

    I think that in the Afghan mental universe that the only “Judge” is All….ah? That is probably extremely sacrilegious?

    Do you remember that Afghan bloke “Najibullah” that the Soviets put into power? Whatever happened to him?

    The South Vietnamese soldier in that famous photo blowing the brains out of that grimacing Viet Cong irregular soldier ended up running a pizza joint in Washington, DC.

    • Tate August 16, 2021 at 10:57 pm #

      That South Vietnamese “soldier” was a general officer. Weird but true. Imagine General Milley doing that in high heels.

      • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 1:25 am #

        I’ve seen memes of thoroughly modern Milley with purple hair. Why does he do it?

  79. Redneck Liberal August 16, 2021 at 10:18 pm #

    Just to get things clear fr y’all:

    “Mary Trump, the niece of Donald Trump, came out with a phenomenal article in the New Republic yesterday and psychoanalyzed a lot about her uncle. One of the things Mary wrote about was the origin of the “big lie” conspiracy theory and she affirmed what many of us already knew — that Trump lied about the election being rigged to protect his shallow ego. Mary said about the “big lie” and the January 6th insurrection: “For the first time in our nation’s history there had not been a peaceful transfer of power, because my uncle, who could not accept his resounding defeat and the humiliation that came with it, had attempted to inspire a coup.” Trump had to tell everyone that he won the 2020 election to shield the fact he was embarrassed to have lost to Joe Biden. What followed were endless election challenges, Rudy Giuliani and other cronies touring the country, and ultimately the Capitol takeover on January 6th. A significant portion of the US population will now think whenever they lose an election it’s because the other side stole it and Donald Trump is chiefly to blame for that.

    • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 10:42 pm #

      As Trump said, she’s a terrible person. As is his sister, the former judge. Envious cunts.

    • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 10:52 pm #

      y’all, but you could turn it around and say that it was the establishment that couldn’t accept Trump’s victory in ’16 (without any fraud suspicion or allegations) and spent the next 4 yrs trying everything in the book to remove him, in other words, a coup.

      Plenty of fraud suspicion and allegations in the ’20 election. JHK is hopeful facts will come to light somehow, I’m not so sure. Seems like a fait accompli now.

      Mary Trump… who cares. Not relevant. She doesn’t like her uncle, boo boo, so what. Everybody has problem relatives. Ever heard of one Hunter Biden? Isn’t there a better story for the New Republic there than a whiny niece with no evidence or substance other than “my uncle is a meanie”?

      • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 3:32 am #

        Another powerful argument from RL.

        Now do Malik Obama.

        LOL.

        Not a brain cell to be found in that noggin.

    • Tate August 16, 2021 at 11:02 pm #

      Well, she’s a registered psychologist so she must be right, LOL.

      • Rulo Deschamps August 16, 2021 at 11:27 pm #

        Tate, a “she” registered psychologist is, along with recluse spiders, grown men in tights and pink hair, a dog upchucking something rotten he’s eaten, rap music or a stiff corpse propped against a wall, sufficient reason to leave a room and run away, in my book.

        • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 1:22 am #

          Why Rulo, you’re a Man! Even if an enemy….

  80. Pucker August 16, 2021 at 10:29 pm #

    It might be alright if the Christians today were very fierce and eager to die like the early Christians (and the Mus…Lims) rather than like today just waiting for God/ Q Anon/ Trump to save us?

    In lieu of feckless modern Christianity, maybe Whiskey will do the trick and give people backbone?

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    • Yohannon August 16, 2021 at 10:44 pm #

      Dutch courage. It’s not as good as God, Puck. Get right with God. Then you can fight like the Devil!

  81. tom clark August 16, 2021 at 10:57 pm #

    Mike Lindell may be the cat’s meow, but his “My Pillow” ain’t worth shit.

    As with hurricanes, we now resort to the Greek alphabet to name covid variants. Epsilon is next and it’s bound to be a humdinger.

    Gnite Kim.

  82. tom clark August 16, 2021 at 11:02 pm #

    Who names forest fires? Inquiring minds want to know.

    • Q. Shtik August 16, 2021 at 11:35 pm #

      Arsonists.

    • SoftStarLight August 17, 2021 at 2:51 am #

      A fire is like a snow flake tom. Every fire is different and unique, like each snow flake is different and unique.

  83. Q. Shtik August 16, 2021 at 11:34 pm #

    @ Green Alba

    I’m going to guess that you are either ill or simply sick of this comment section but still alive and monitoring. Every now and then I get disgusted and disappear for 6 mos. Let us know.

    You are one of the most logical thinkers here.

    I also miss the Scot/Brit slang.

    • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 1:12 am #

      She came back and told us she was very sick a few weeks ago. When did Peter get vaxed btw?

      • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 3:30 am #

        Indeed. She also was having panic attacks related to the kernels of truth she seems to have accepted.

        So much for logic. Then again, Q plays editor and can’t edit.

        Life goes on.

        • Blackbird August 17, 2021 at 12:22 pm #

          Some people just can’t seem to see the humor in the rise of a genocidal, psychopathic, kleptocratic world government – and the certain, painful, immiserated death that they promise one and all. I have a bit of sympathy for them – those who do not want to acknowledge the tiger behind the door. Some are nice people who don’t want to see family and friends murdered, and the world in which they worked so hard to build a home, sold for a pot of beans.

          I hope Alba recovers and is allowed to live out her life, surrounded by healthy friends and family, in the well-ordered world I suspect she spent her life building. But no matter how I roll the bones, I don’t see that future coming up.

      • Q. Shtik August 17, 2021 at 6:51 pm #

        She came back and told us she was very sick a few weeks ago – Yo

        ==========

        What kind of sick, Covid or something else?

        Peter got both shots in Jan 2021 while in a med’l facility in FL shortly before we retrieved him. He said he didn’t have any adverse reactions. Very fortunate for him since he is the very essence of co-morbidities.

    • tucsonspur August 17, 2021 at 1:32 am #

      I wish her the best. Get well soon, GA.

      • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 10:48 am #

        I do as well. God bless you, GreenAlba.

        May you realize that God is loving but that He is also demanding. Choose Right or be damned to Hell.

        It is not for us to bitch about the Rules. Our souls were thrust into this game and we must play to the Best of our ability knowing that it is a test here in the fleeting before eternity.

  84. gustafson.robert.22 August 17, 2021 at 12:29 am #

    Yo wrote: “The Polynesians looked egalitarian with the Chief feasting with everyone, even commoners. But if one of the latter accidently touched the Chief’s head, he would be clubbed to death.
    Then there were the wandering workers who could be made into long pig with amazingly little ceremony.”

    This is representative of typical lack of nuance from a complex-civilization paradigm-er viewing primitive tribal societies. The common theme: “tribal societies are not ‘nobler’; they’re just as hierarchical, cruel, dog-eat-dog as complex civilization, if not more.”

    The nuance missed is this. Yes, tribal man has all the same motivators, desires, brutishness as civilizational man… of course… but the structure of tribal society is the evolutionarily desireable framework for human motivations, desires and brutishness (no negative connotation). Tribal social structure (economics) mitigates brutishness by allowing expression of brutishness in daily interactions with environment rather than in the repressed-rage interpersonal expression of brutishness common in civilizations.

    Civilizations, by seeking to escape brutishness of human life, actually inflame it. Evolved primitive tribal social structure is the antidote, the better fit.

    • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 1:19 am #

      With the environment? A commoner is the “environment”? You must have an advanced degree to be able to swill, swallow, and spew such abject bullshit.

      Let’s inject some reason: Hunter Gatherers kill fewer people because they have less capacity to kill, both technologically and because there are fewer of them as both potential perps and vics.

      If you were an anthropologist, you would try human flesh if given the opportunity as some (or at least one) have done. Another one got involved gaily with a Pygmy Chief. I’m not saying you would do that or not do that. I don’t know!

      • gustafson.robert.22 August 17, 2021 at 1:28 am #

        typical

        • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 1:35 am #

          Fight, don’t run. Don’t get negative. As the Book of the Law says, As brothers, fight ye.

          • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 1:36 am #

            There was little chance of you parrying that powerful thrust, but you could at least not throw down your rapier and stalk out of the room.

          • gustafson.robert.22 August 17, 2021 at 2:54 am #

            yoho, too often your “powerful thrusts” are only those in the sense of an online poster’s throwaway belligerence… shallow misdirection, posturing for posturing’s sake, ungrounded assumptions and attitude substituted for content. You’re very “internet-y”

      • gustafson.robert.22 August 17, 2021 at 3:19 am #

        “Let’s inject some reason: Hunter Gatherers kill fewer people because they have less capacity to kill, both technologically and because there are fewer of them as both potential perps and vics.”

        you’ve missed the point. “Inflamed brutishness” of civilizations is not about numbers of deaths, it’s about …qualities …of deaths, and lives.

        in the simplest sense, civilizations seek to avoid death, while primitive man lives in a state of more healthy acceptance. Not embracing death (some kind of “satanism”), but not running from it, as civilizational man, on the whole (collectively, not necessarily individually) will

        • roccofire August 17, 2021 at 6:22 am #

          Not embracing death, but as the Stoics say”
          “Memento mori” is Latin for: “remember you will die.” … The basic idea of this philosophy is that if people remember their inescapable deaths, they will lead more sober lives, live in the present, and take advantage of opportunities rather than postpone them ’til “tomorrow.” All of which are mostly good thing

          Western culture needs to embrace of these ideas again, and read Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Zeno and modern ones like Ryan Holiday, Massimo Pigliucci
          He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive.—Seneca.
          Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.—Seneca.

          • BackRowHeckler August 17, 2021 at 8:59 am #

            Momento mori is inscribed on many of the colonial era gravestones round here. In our village cemetery, which dates back to the 1650s, the entrance gate has Momento mori in wrought iron atop of it.

            I had always wondered what the significance was.

        • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 12:06 pm #

          You’re talking spirituality now, Gustaf. Healthy Civilizations have it as these posters indicate. And of course Primitives invariably have it, being so close to Nature, that machine of death, they look for something beyond and better.

    • tucsonspur August 17, 2021 at 1:53 am #

      ‘but the structure of tribal society is the evolutionarily desireable framework for human motivations, desires and brutishness (no negative connotation)’.

      Can you explain that? Clarify a bit?

      Are the Taliban an example of evolved, primitive, tribal structure?

      ‘Civilizations, by seeking to escape brutishness of human life, actually inflame it.’

      On the surface this seems quite asinine, but I can clearly see the brutality in dealing with modern life. The brutality of endless ease, cozy comfort, government support, self driving cars, and everything on demand.

      • gustafson.robert.22 August 17, 2021 at 2:37 am #

        Taliban are the wreckage of a fallen complex civilization partly trying to undo that civilization’s errors, while also still being stuck themselves in the civilizational paradigm. This philosophical schism manifests in magical thinking, religious obsessiveness.

        A primitive-style tribal society is… new guinean highlanders, amazonian tribes, australian aborigines, african pygmies in the congo, swedish reindeer herders, mongolian nomads…

        Civilizations…in the sense of complex resource-use ponzi schemes we have come to call the “major civilizations of recorded history” (including Maya, Inca etc), absolutely do inflame human brutishness once the scheme plays out…and, because the end is always inherent in the process, they also inflame it during the civilization’s growth and prime as well, only it’s disguiaed by an exterior of success.

      • gustafson.robert.22 August 17, 2021 at 9:00 am #

        ” ‘but the structure of tribal society is the evolutionarily desireable framework for human motivations, desires and brutishness (no negative connotation)’.

        Can you explain that? Clarify a bit? ”

        I think difficult to fully support this in a short post, but the basic idea is that the daily activities of hunting/gathering in small groups, living low-tech “hand-to-mouth” are the evolved and most satisfying outlets for human capabilities.

        That the confusions and excesses of complex civilizations are the result of human energies that have become divorced from their natural (best evolved) outlets.

        An anthropologist wrote something like: “primitive tribe members are less obsessed with sex because they’re more obsessed and occupied with food.”

        That’s the principle.

    • Blackbird August 17, 2021 at 10:42 am #

      GusBob as Homo habilis:
      “Hey guys, let’s get down and walk on all fours. I don’t like where this bipedalism is taking us.”

      Not that I disagree about “civilization” increasing the complexity and abstraction of life, but at what point do you stop “progress”, and how? The Australian aborigines and the Amish (one suspender or two?) provide a couple of examples.

      • gustafson.robert.22 August 17, 2021 at 11:08 am #

        It’s a good question, when does “progress” turn the corner to devolution? What is actual progress, and not just some short-lived flash-in-the-pan? Where is the sweet-spot; how do you measure actual progress?

        I would say the best indicator of “progress-overstepping-itself” might be population-growth rates (too high)… and one of the primary symptoms of human “progress” that is actually devolution is… intensive agriculture… multi-acre, monoculture fields.

        that might have been something like a turning point.

        • gustafson.robert.22 August 17, 2021 at 12:36 pm #

          for the record, opposable thumbs and bipedalism please me, and i’m pro fire

          …intensive agriculture and petroleum tech without some kind of hyper-enlightened, and probably completely unrealistic system of severe and permanent moderation… not so much

          • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 1:58 pm #

            You’re also pro the word “internety”. You are devolving nicely.

          • gustafson.robert.22 August 17, 2021 at 4:16 pm #

            sound like Q Shtick

      • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 12:10 pm #

        I’ve heard the Tasmanians forgot how to use fire. So they were more evolved than the Abos according to Gustaph. And no doubt they shivered more too and had more digestive problems.

        Our technology caused us to evolve further. Perhaps thru genetic engineering we can reverse the process, giving up our opposable thumbs. It would make Gus happy….

        • Blackbird August 17, 2021 at 12:43 pm #

          And the Aborigines forgot how to build boats – although at some time in the shadowy past they used them to cross the Wallace Line. I do not condone tossing knowledge out the window. Just because you have a gun doesn’t mean you have to shoot somebody.

          If we want to draw a line in the evolutionary sand, how about this one: greed.

          Daniel to Pharaoh: “Plan for the future – then use your foresight to rob those who didn’t have time to think about tomorrow.”

          Industrial Agriculture? Greed.

          I think the Amish got the inflection point almost perfectly: electricity and hydrocarbons. And yet they beat their horses, their wives, and their kids, (this according to Mennonite kin). And how many return home from Rumspringa without tears in their eyes, knowing there is no other world for them but the one they tentatively tried to escape from?

          Get hung up on lies and the truth is gonna hurt – once it finds you.

          • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 1:16 pm #

            Did you watch the Amish Mafia? One of their biggest enemies were the “Black Bumper Mennonites”. To leave the bumper silver colored was too ostentatious.

          • gustafson.robert.22 August 17, 2021 at 1:17 pm #

            greed works…

            it’s not about throwing knowledge or tech out. It’s about acknowledging certain tech’s problem roles historically and fixing, but fixing can mean vast scaleback, perhaps almost to nothing.

            Maybe the Australian aborigines just didnt want to go anywhere, and maybe the amish are a bit psychotic because they spend 14 hrs a day staring at 40 acres of nothing but corn plants..

            possibilities

          • Blackbird August 17, 2021 at 5:30 pm #

            Amish Mafia? Torn between that and Jackass I turn the TV off. (Just kidding, I don’t have a TV.)

            GusBob, those monocultures you see are mainly the work of atheists. The Amish – around here anyway – have to feed themselves so they grow a variety of crops. Rather skilled plant breeders too.

          • gustafson.robert.22 August 17, 2021 at 6:30 pm #

            to be honest, growing all your food amish style is intensive, high-impact agriculture, and nearly monoculture. i guarantee those 40 acres of corn are there for the animals…or monoculture hay. Amish agriculture is not my ideal, and neither is their high birthrate.

  85. Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 1:34 am #

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/growing-currants-gooseberries-illegal-maine-113100808.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink

    They carry a fungus which kill the White Pines. It’s all so interconnected. One cannot trouble a flower without influencing a star. One good man wanted all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare to be in America. Like flies to wanton boys, the gods kill us for their sport.

    Because we are wanton children who want what we want without rhyme or reason.

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    • tucsonspur August 17, 2021 at 2:12 am #

      It’s all very interesting. One of the highest forms of complicated, network architecture with all of its bugs.

      Objects are programmable just as life is now. Life wants no control.

    • SoftStarLight August 17, 2021 at 2:42 am #

      And yet rhyme and reason are the mediums through which all the interconnections are made possible. And at the same time rhyme and reason are rules. And therefore you can still have antioxidizing berries that won’t kill the White Pines. But you simply have to follow the rules.

      • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 12:13 pm #

        What rule in this case? Cranberries perhaps?

        • SoftStarLight August 17, 2021 at 12:35 pm #

          Well in this particular instance the rule is to source your berries very locally. Those which already have a place, a rhyme and a reason, in the natural ecological web. Yes, American cranberries would be perfect!

        • Blackbird August 17, 2021 at 12:53 pm #

          Blueberries. They appreciate the acidic soil provided by conifers. And I appreciate the yumminess provided by blueberries. The circle of life.

          I like gooseberries – so underrated and overlooked – but I like white pines better – so majestic once they rise above the canopy of lesser trees. See them towering above the maple and birch and you know Nature has almost regained lost ground. With white pine you can build ships, forts, and conquer the world (not that I’d recommend that) – picking up some gooseberries (or other currants) on the way out for a tasty treat.

          • Islander August 17, 2021 at 5:49 pm #

            I think only the black currants are outlawed.

            At least, I had not heard that either red currants or gooseberries are hosts of the fungus.

            Here is some info from Ohio:
            https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/HYG-3205

            I used to love the black currant juice in Germany in those cardboard containers. Lindavia? Something like that.

            Never had seen it here. Super-delicious.

    • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 9:47 am #

      Because we are wanton children who want what we want without rhyme or reason.

      May God bless us with Strength, Wisdom and Understanding. Amen.

    • stelmosfire August 17, 2021 at 10:53 am #

      “One good man wanted all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare to be in America”
      That asshole should have been hung for bringing the starlings here. They’re noisy, messy, and buttfuck ugly. They are the MS-13 of the bird world. Travel in gangs .I hate them with a passion.

      • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 12:14 pm #

        And you kill them with your bb scatter gun?

      • Blackbird August 17, 2021 at 1:01 pm #

        Kill ’em all. (And I say this as a fellow traveller.) Not a “good man”, just a man.

        Drives me crazy (I know, short ride) that the local agricultural extension service recommends, almost exclusively, exotic trees – even when natives would fill the particular niche more effectively.

    • Q. Shtik August 17, 2021 at 3:52 pm #

      One cannot trouble a flower without influencing a star. – Yo

      =========

      This is a new version of the old butterfly flapping its wings thing… which I totally agree with.

      • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 4:41 pm #

        We need two things from you:

        Peter’s vaccination date (approximate)

        Info on his relationship with Hitlerism. Disciple of Commander Rockwell perhaps?

        • Q. Shtik August 17, 2021 at 9:17 pm #

          We need two things from you: – Yo

          Who is we and why? – Q.

          Peter’s vaccination date – Yo

          Why? We have his Vax card; I’ll look up the 2 dates. – Q.

          Info on his relationship with Hitlerism. – Yo

          Peter thinks of himself as a historian, especially concerning WW2. – Q.

          Disciple of Commander Rockwell perhaps? – Yo

          I doubt Peter would know “Commander Rockwell” from 3rd base. – Q.

          • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 12:19 am #

            We being the royal We that Allah uses, his Caliphs, and Kings in general. We contain multitudes after all. Why? We wonder if his sudden and rapid descent may be related.

      • Epicur August 17, 2021 at 10:00 pm #

        “This is a new version of the old butterfly flapping its wings thing…”

        It’s the old version.

        “‘When to the new eyes of thee
        All things by immortal power,
        Near or far,
        Hiddenly
        To each other linkèd are,
        That thou canst not stir a flower
        Without troubling of a star;” – Francis Thompson

  86. KesaAnna August 17, 2021 at 2:24 am #

    ” “The reality is seven inches beats four inches every time.”

    Tate,
    A closely held belief among men..but only correct if you are measuring the thickness of a wallet.

    Kesa might comment.”

    Yes , and the effort will be futile I reckon.

    As I have said before ( ? ) I don’t believe a whooping 90% of what I hear about the sexes , or about sex,

    Like — Women are inately maternal.

    Suuure , in an era when birth control is pretty easily available to any 12 year old at the nearest drug store , we have had 30 million abortions ( compared to the Nazis extermination of Jews which was a mere 6 million ) because women are sooo maternal.

    ( Speaking of Nazis — women were consistently 51 to 54 % of the voting strength of the Nazi Party , 1930 – 1934. )

    No , I would say that a maternal person is a person who makes up their mind to be maternal.

    DNA or pre – dispositions have jack shit to do with it.

    All men are latent rapists —

    Granted , it is anecdotal , and unscientific , that having been said , my experience was that at least one – third of all prostitution clientele wind up as prostitution clientele BECAUSE they are anything but rapists.

    That is ; ” Nice guys finish last. ”

    It’s the nice guys who wind up patronizing hookers.

    It’s the sharks and serial killers getting the prom queens.

    Granted , I suppose that’s a gross generalization.

    — but , it seems to me , not one iota more so than the pronouncements you hear to the contrary being put out as Gospel truth.

    Women are sexually neuter —

    I suppose you can somehow convince yourself that the ENTIRE prostitution buiseness is an exercise in human trafficking , and nothing but.

    And , likewise , though women are clearly the star of the show in two – thirds of all porn , you can somehow convince yourself that the ENTIRE porn industry is an exercise in human trafficking .

    But then ……

    What about Vogue and Cosmopolitan ? People Magazine and Rolling Stone ?

    What about Madonna , Lady Gaga , Kim Kardashian ?

    Are they all helpless , hapless victims of a predatory system ?

    Call me crazy , or call me evil ,

    ’cause I DON”T FUCKING BELIEVE THAT.

    Tranny’s —

    I got two brief quips on that subject ;

    Women ; You have dressing like a man since 1975. So what the fuck are you bitching about ?

    Men ; Why not pick on , instead of suck up to , all those Butch women around you instead ?

    You would rather pick on a walking caricature and stereotype instead ?

    And so on , and so on , and so on.

    Like I said , about 90% of what I hear about the sexes and about sex strikes me as shear bullshit.

    Speaking of tattoo’s —- I don’t like them either.

    Indeed , I don’t even have pierced ears.

    How I dressed for clients was how , generally , you would dress if you were going to work in a bank , or to work in a school.

    As a practical matter , the wholesome , upscale , conservative look is very effective.

    Lots of guys when they opened the door to a woman dressed like a bank cashier or their 6th grade school teacher , they creamed their jeans right then.

    Mission accomplished , and you haven’t even cleared your throat yet. Lol.

    Also , as a practical matter , dressing that way only tends to draw positive – type attention.

    After all ; The idea is to make money , not go to jail.

    You aren’t going to make any money sitting in the can.

    You don’t want THAT KIND of attention.

    People DO judge things based on the appearances of things , even despite their own better judgement / experience.

    So it is amazing the shit you can get away with , and the questioning looks you do NOT get , if you are dressed like a school teacher.

    Oh , finally —

    Is wallet size more important than dick size ?

    Is that even a serious question ?

    I don’t think it is even necessary to get into a womans skin , a mans skin , or anyone elses skin , to answer that question.

    Both sexes , and as a general , sweeping cultural truism , judge a lot of things on the basis of wallet size.

    Joe Biden and Jack Kennedy routinely get away with / got away with shit that plentty of poor people are doing hard time in prison for .

    And not only do they not go to jail , but people actually bend over backwards making excuses for them.

    Women will forgive or excuse a lot of things in a rich man that they won’t excuse in a poor man.

    But the same is true of men as well.

    I suppose that’s why my pronouncements on the sexes and sex are so unsatifying ; people want concrete , definitive answers , good guys and bad guys , condemnation for somebody , and validation for somebody.

    But I offer none of that.

    Like that Line in Apocalypse Now ; ” The shit is stacked so high you need a helicopter to rise above it ” .

    That’s pretty much my line too.

    • Tate August 17, 2021 at 9:35 am #

      To use a crude analogy, alcohol can also be denatured. You could still drink it if you don’t denature it a lot, but it would still do you at least a little harm. If you denature it a lot it will do you a lot of harm. Men & women are “encouraged” by society toward an ideal male or female role, which is for the overall good of society. All successful societies have done this. Ours has veered away from this tried-&-true model. It remains to be seen whether it will continue to be successful but my bet is that it won’t.

    • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 12:57 pm #

      Here’s the big sister you never had but shoulda. As she says, transactional thinking by women dooms them from ever having a real or happy relationship with a man. Give or get. It’s that simple.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IURUje32jFw

      It’s said that the Sacred Prostitutes of old Babylon would retire and then become good wives. Could it be true – because they saw themselves as serving the Goddess by offering themselves to men? Thus their hearts were never corrupted by the “get” philosophy?

  87. KesaAnna August 17, 2021 at 3:04 am #

    For me personally Afghanistan has lately been a never ending source of what , for lack of a better term , I must call GOOD NEWS.

    The Group of Soviet Forces Germany was the largest deployment of Soviet troops outside of Russia itself.

    Indeed , even at the height of the Soviet – Afghan war , Soviet Forces in East Germany STILL dwarfed the numbers of Soviets in Afghanistan.

    I grew up virtually surrounded by Soviet troops.

    And you know that no love is deeper or greater than first love , than the love of a five year old.

    I remember the very day the Soviet Army intervened in Afghanistan to prop up the Communist regime ,

    though , granted , it is an easy date to remember ;

    December 25th , 1979.

    It really sucked to see my boys go down to defeat there .

    — Especially when we were being told ( BY WESTERN PROPAGANDA NO LESS ! )

    that we were winning.

    It’s funny sometimes how being the bad guy actually works.

    It seems to me that if I was really all that bad , then my advice to Americans would have been , ” Invading and occupying Afghanistan is a great idea ! ”

    But , believe it or not , as much as I hate the United States Government , I told Americans that it was a very bad or crazy idea.

    Indeed , I predicted ( making no claims of psychic powers ) that you would lose.

    So , yeah , briefly , gratifying news to me.

    • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 12:18 pm #

      I thought you loved German troops. Now you love Soviet ones? You are promiscuous indeed.

      No true German was ever a Soviet….

  88. Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 3:26 am #

    Israel:

    “95% of the severe patients are vaccinated”.
    “85-90% of the hospitalizations are in Fully vaccinated people.”
    “We are opening more and more COVID wards.”
    “The effectiveness of the vaccine is waning/fading out”

    https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1427329588456304647

    Big laffs for point 4, ofc, as it was never effective for anything except ADE, which explains this spike in the middle of summer.

    • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 9:50 am #

      Of course the MSM are reporting the opposite to further muddy the waters, saying it’s mostly the unvaxxed getting sick.

      • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 10:38 am #

        They say it like parrots on MSM. “This is an epedemic of the unvaccinated” while Mika almost bursts in to tears asking that people BEG their unjabbed friends and family to SUBMIT.

        The 3rd shot is a kill shot. If not your body, for sure your soul.

        The double-dosed need decide to take the 3rd shot with TONS of information available to indicate that that is a Really Bad idea.

        They must SUBMIT.

        • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 11:28 am #

          The road to heaven is steep and narrow and fraught with danger.

      • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 4:19 pm #

        Just confirms the rule: whatever they claim, the opposite is true.

    • Tate August 17, 2021 at 10:00 am #

      Has it been for profits or something ‘more’ insidious? Even now a part of me doesn’t want to believe the latter. But it won’t matter what I believe. What will matter is what most resisters come to believe. Clarification will arrive as this thing unfolds into the Fall & Winter months. Opposition will either taper off or a new class of ‘regretters’ will emerge. Already I see that happening. These are interesting times.

  89. KesaAnna August 17, 2021 at 5:18 am #

    ” Taliban are the wreckage of a fallen complex civilization partly trying to undo that civilization’s errors, while also still being stuck themselves in the civilizational paradigm. This philosophical schism manifests in magical thinking, religious obsessiveness. ”

    Pretty much every source I have looked at — EXCEPT Western mainstream media — says the Taliban is financed to the hilt by the Pakistan Army / sometime – military government of Pakistan.

    I don’t suppose anyone would describe the Pakistani military as a religious institution ?

    Likewise , previously the Mujaheddin was financed to the hilt by the CIA / US Government .

    Again , how many folks would describe the CIA or the US government in general as a religious institution ?

    On the other hand , I have often said myself that the greatest religious cranks I encounter routinely are people calling themselves secular humanists or atheists.

    So I would say that whatever may or may not have been true of previous eras ,

    in this era , ” religious ” should always be in quotation marks.

    ” in the simplest sense, civilizations seek to avoid death, ”

    In the simplest sense I would say that some propagandists are better than other propagandists.

    Or , to put it another way , there is the argument that there are things worse than killing people that you can do to people.

    With that idea in mind , the logic that anything goes so long as you don’t kill people might be particularly fiendish.

    Or that the worst evil is not the blatant evil , but the anesthetized and or prettified evil.

    Or , to put it another way , there are actually damn good reasons why some kids hate school ,

    damn good reasons why old folks don’t want to go to nursing homes even when it has become obvious that they can no longer live independently.

    There are damn good reasons why some homeless people avoid homeless shelters like the plague.

    There are damn good reasons why peoples gut reaction is fear when they see the blue light in the rear view mirror ,

    even when they aren’t doing 80 mph in a 35 mph zone , even when they aren’t wanted for murder.

    And I think it could be fairly said in all these cases that the reason is because society is not as reasonable and restrained as advertised.

    Much less is it as loving as advertised.

    • KesaAnna August 17, 2021 at 5:23 am #

      Not criticizing what you wrote necessarily.

      I haven’t studied your writings remotely with enough thoroughness for that.

      Just random observations on particular points.

  90. KesaAnna August 17, 2021 at 5:32 am #

    ” in the simplest sense, civilizations seek to avoid death, ”

    Another random observation on that point ;

    It seems to me that Western societies like the US , UK , France , etc ,

    long before they started off-shoring their industrial base ,

    They started off – shoring their violence.

    Like , for example , I think it is no coincidence that all five of the United Nations peranent security council members are also in the top ten of the worlds arms dealers / arms manufacturers.

    Like , for example , I think European gun – crime statistics are a case of cooked books in at least one aspect.

    Like , maybe asking how many gun crimes were committed in Western Europe last year is asking the wrong question.

    Maybe the right question would be how many gun – crimes were committed in places other than Western Europe , with Western European made / and / or sold weapons ?

    And , maybe if you asked that question , the picture you would get of Western Europe would be a hell of a lot more violent ?

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    • gustafson.robert.22 August 17, 2021 at 9:27 am #

      i love your posts and observations, the complexity and artistry you share here.

      I think my assessment of the Taliban reflects my general opinion that a primary motivator running through much of the muslim world, both its purportedly “secular” and “religious” elements, is “religious” in this sense: there is a deep desire for a return to the glory of their civilizational prime… and since it’s not practically possible, the desire is often channeled into mystical, magical, religious modes of thinking and acting. Simple, but I suspect accurate.

  91. Mike G August 17, 2021 at 5:33 am #

    the social contract has been sht on, all that is left is tyranny.

  92. Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 7:54 am #

    “New Zealand to enter nationwide lockdown after detecting 1st local case for 170 days: ‘Do not talk to your neighbors.'”

    Watch Gollum read it live here:

    https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1427562820552601600

    • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 7:56 am #

      Watch Eddie Munster tell Australians that a mask is required while drinking:

      https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1427291891381506048

      I wonder how that tastes?

      • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 9:46 am #

        Agent Po is probably thrilled with mommy horseface keeping him safe – lol.

        • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 11:32 am #

          mommy horseface

          Hahaha!

    • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 9:24 am #

      1 case.

      That’s not even an infection, much less a death.

      They are really toying with us now, to see just how little it takes to spook us.

      • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 9:39 am #

        That’s not even an infection, much less a death.

        And, mostly lkely, that “case” was nothing more than a PCR test false-positive result.

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 9:47 am #

          ‘zactly. In the video, she says that passing someone on the street can make you sick.

          It’s amazing that New Zealanders and Aussies put up with this absolute bullshit.

          • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 10:23 am #

            Sheeple gonna sheep. Red USA will be mankind’s Last Stand Hill.

  93. friartuck August 17, 2021 at 8:17 am #

    “And the fall of Afghanistan is sure to spark a resentful reaction among the many ex-soldiers who paid a heavy price pulling tours of duty in that hapless venture over twenty years. There’s a lot of them out there in Red America, and they were already pissed-off about the pernicious nonsense being jammed down their throats by the minions of Wokesterism: the race-and-gender hustles, the off-the-charts rise of violent crime, the wide-open border, the off-shoring of jobs, the Covid lockdowns and wrecking of small business, the MMT experiment launching inflation, and the new pussification of the armed forces they served and suffered in. They’ve laid rather low through years of this, just watching the scene in wonder and nausea, but you may see them turn more active now. And consider: they’ve been well-trained in weaponry and tactics.”

    Sounds like “wishful” thinking.

    Best get off the “sauce” or whatever else your’re tok’n…cause ain’t nobody gonna do your fight’n for ya. No one.

    • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 9:37 am #

      cause ain’t nobody gonna do your fight’n for ya. No one.

      Unless, of course, you are Israel.

      • Tate August 17, 2021 at 10:04 am #

        Ouch.

  94. friartuck August 17, 2021 at 8:23 am #

    One good thing about gett’n kicked out of Afghannnystan…the thugs in DC can focus even more on crush’n the WHITE middle class “christian” goyim who were graciously dubbed the “deplorables” by the old wicked bitch of the west, Hillary. They are, after all, the REAL enemy. Kinda like the KULAGS who met their fate at the hands of the BOLSHEVIKS who were funded in large part by Schiff & Friends.

    • SoftStarLight August 17, 2021 at 10:14 am #

      I agree with this assessment. The DHS has made it clear that anyone who questions the 2020 election or the government’s covid response is an outright domestic terrorist and enemy of the state. Some like Mike Adams at Natural News say that they plan to initiate a false flag “terrorist attack” in the next 90 days. They will immediately blame it on and pin it to “domestic antigovernment extremists” and will use it as a pretext to for once and all erase the Constitution. They already have massive concentration camps and plastic coffins ready to go. They also plan to use all of the migrants and refugees as foot soldiers since they would be more than willing to point guns at and shoot Americans so that they can then take their homes and possessions as bounty for their service to the rulers.

  95. BackRowHeckler August 17, 2021 at 9:29 am #

    Phew, Haiti is a disaster, over 1000 dead.

    Yet the local news is soft peddling the disaster with stories about a batch of puppies found in the rubble.

    Usually when calamity strikes Haiti the ‘International Community’, led by the Clintons, spring into action, but not so much this time. The reason could be the $13 billion raised ten years ago after a hurricane struck, money ostensibly to be used to build hundreds of houses for Haitians. Well, 6 houses eventually got built, and the $13 billion is largely unaccounted for. Even perpetual do gooders who ordinarily would donate sums for Earthquake Relief are not total dupes, apparently. Perhaps Bono from U2 can organize a money raising concert if he’s still in that business. (maybe he can revive his “kill the Boer” chant)

    And a tropical storm is headed Haiti’s way, should arrive before the weekend.

    Brh

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    • cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 10:18 am #

      You would think that with that kind of money being invested on their small island, they would be rife with beautiful new condo towers, pristine roadways, and a high tech sanitary sewer system. Still looks third world to me, so really, where did all the money go but into the pockets of The Clinton Klan.

      • JohnAZ August 17, 2021 at 12:29 pm #

        Yeah, no kidding. You would think that rebuilding there after one debacle, they would have built back a little more earthquake proof.

        Nah!

    • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 10:19 am #

      Billy Clinton was fleecing $13,000,000,000 off the misery of Haitians while going halfers on a time-share on Epstein’s Ped Island with Billy Gates.

      Pizza Gate is not a hoax.

      • Tate August 17, 2021 at 2:10 pm #

        One of my son’s friends was obsessed with Pizza Gate. I told him, ‘Of course it’s true, but powerful elites are working right now to suppress everything you have ever learned or will learn about Pizza Gate. Be content to know it’s true. You will never find out anything more about it.’

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 6:42 pm #

          Agree, there’s nothing we can do until we get visual proof.

          • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 8:55 pm #

            Everyone will get what they deserve.

    • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 12:08 pm #

      CL also got caught trying to steal kids. For what, I wonder? Most were not orphans.

      • JohnAZ August 17, 2021 at 12:31 pm #

        How do you think the world powers are financing the leverage required to keep the debt Ponzi scheme going? They are so blatant about it today,

        Open those borders!

      • Blackbird August 17, 2021 at 1:07 pm #

        Laura Silsby? Not to worry – SOS Hildebeast got her outa the DR and in charge of the Amber Network.

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 6:43 pm #

          You bet. Keep that supply comin’.

  96. MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 17, 2021 at 9:49 am #

    Biden is now cementing his place in history as looking even weaker than Jimmy Carter did in 1979 when the Iranians took him for a joyride.

    I do not enjoy the concept of violence, but I must admit that the feeling (illusion?) that our “leaders” know how to kick ass has always been kind of a nice security blanket.

    To misquote Walter Sobchak, “And yet, the president is a fucking dunce.”

    • Tate August 17, 2021 at 10:15 am #

      That quote could be applied to any president since Bush senior. He was merely evil. The rest have been both evil AND stupid. Sigh. The Boomer generation.

    • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 10:15 am #

      History is written by the victors.

    • JohnAZ August 17, 2021 at 12:26 pm #

      I remember when they invaded Afghanistan from the north after the 9/11 debacle that they did so in a half assed manner. Remember Mohammed Omar, the big war chief. We never went after him, he was allowed to “keep” SW Afghanistan. Just like VietNam and Korea, half assed military action. For some reason we seems to think we can make friends with our enemies.

      Our government sucks as a world power.

  97. O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 10:14 am #

    Sources: US to recommend COVID vaccine boosters at 8 months
    By ZEKE MILLER for AP | August 17, 2021 GMT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health experts are expected to recommend COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all Americans, regardless of age, eight months after they received their second dose of the shot, to ensure lasting protection against the coronavirus as the delta variant spreads across the country.

    Federal health officials have been actively looking at whether extra shots for the vaccinated would be needed as early as this fall, reviewing case numbers in the U.S. as well as the situation in other countries such as Israel, where preliminary studies suggest the vaccine’s protection against serious illness dropped among those vaccinated in January.

    https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-21cd829d358e9b50b16515025dab2008

    Blue skies
    Smiling at me
    Nothing but blue skies
    Do I see

    • JohnAZ August 17, 2021 at 12:03 pm #

      Kmart blue light special

      Get your Covid shot and get your flu shot at 50% off.

      Yeah, I know Kmart is gone!

      • JohnAZ August 17, 2021 at 12:16 pm #

        I will get my booster when they do a comparison of the Covid to the senior flu shot on VAERs. So far, I have had very little initial effects to the Pfizer. I would like to know if the current surge among vaxxed folks is the result of having their immune systems falling to the point it is non protective. With data, not made up BS.

        Why doesn’t the pro or the anti folks produce pictorial of biopsies to show there claims. MaryQ, you may be right, no one can find anything to support their claims.

        Examples: if S proteins hang around or even continue to propagate after 2-3 weeks, take their picture as they cause clots.

        Heck, take a picture of s proteins causing clots.

        Assess the variability of mRNA and s proteins getting into the bloodstream.

        Take pictures of repeated Covid infection, both after vaxx, and Covid exposure itself to find out why reinfection is happening.

        We are getting little support from science, no wonder no one really knows what is going on. If you threw conjecture out, there would be very little data to assess anything with.

        • JohnAZ August 17, 2021 at 12:18 pm #

          One of the reasons I believe that Covid is another Biden boondoggle is because so little data is being pursued. On either side. Dems want politics instead of rationality.

          • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 12:44 pm #

            Think about it, JAZ. They have no data and want to jab you a 3rd time because it doesn’t work very Good (if at all).

            You can’t equate that to “You people being shut-out by Big Tech and ignored by MSM seem to rely too much on anecdotes.”

            “Hmmm … Now who would do someting like that? Let’s pull our thinking-caps on and … Let’s see … Jabbing billions with an, at Best, useless bio-agent … Who would do such a thing …?”
            – The Church Lady

        • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 12:25 pm #

          Regular medical testing doesn’t pick up the damage until it is too late. The spikes are very small but they can cause very big clots. A very small hole can sink a very big ship.

    • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 12:15 pm #

      Just saw a video on Telegram where three 12 year olds collapsed after getting the jab.

      • JohnAZ August 17, 2021 at 12:20 pm #

        Where is the other part, how many 12 y/o have gotten the shot.

        Did they die? I saw boot camp sailors fainting from getting shots. BFD.

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 1:40 pm #

          No idea. Saw them passed out on the floor. Another video without enough context. That’s the problem with citizen journalism!

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 7:31 pm #

          2 in comas:

          https://twitter.com/Ireland2020/status/1427738655024635912

          Other tragedies in some of the responses.

      • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 2:11 pm #

        And their Neanderthal parents would have them all do it again, no doubt.

        That seems to be the recurring theme.

        • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 2:27 pm #

          They are being deceived. They goof on their “sacrifice” while they Really sell their soul for empty promises of “normal” in True sacrifice.

          • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 4:18 pm #

            Seems to be the last stop on the virtue signal express.

            The final signal.

          • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 5:09 pm #

            Yes it does.

            Thanks, NO. I never thought of it in quite those terms before but you are bang-on.

            The pinnacle in Wokesterdom will be the taking of the Mark. The ultimate sacrifice.

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 7:31 pm #

          Check this out, 2 in comas. I bet their parents would ‘do it all again.’

          https://twitter.com/Ireland2020/status/1427738655024635912

          • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 2:57 pm #

            It’s just surreal.

  98. cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 10:20 am #

    “After years of a push to digitise databases in the country, and introduce digital identity cards and biometrics for voting, activists warn these technologies can be used to target and attack vulnerable groups.”

    We have a lot to learn from this lesson here in America. All you need to do is substitute the Taliban for the US Gov’t and you have a similar situation occurring in a location near you!

    https://news.trust.org/item/20210817111442-4d73x

  99. timgenx August 17, 2021 at 10:46 am #

    The Soviet Union collapse was more of an economical one than political. The government side worked more or less functionally but the economy was in the toilet. That is because almost the whole economy was geared towards heavy metal war industry, producing tanks, submarines and planes nobody needed but at the same time very little consumer goods.

    Already in the 80’s USSR barely survived by making all kinds of deals with the western governments. Selling oil especially but the cheap oil made things even more difficult.

    East Germany was selling weapons to African countries. All kinds of more or less secret deals with West Germany. Drug company trials. More and more was possible behind the curtains as the 80’s progressed. To keep the ossified, outdated and wasteful communistic economy somehow afloat. But it was all for nothing.

    USA today instead has a pretty good economy going on and a solid production base but most of the upper echelons of federal government are totally corrupted, dysfunctional and ossified.

    It could be that one or two federal governmental overreaches will collapse the system. Then the 50 states find themselves picking up the pieces and doing things more or less as semi-independent countries.

    • cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 11:19 am #

      I still don’t know how the USA has “such a good economy going” as you claim. Like the USSR we really do not manufacture much of anything in the way of consumer goods for our citizenry.

      I think most of what we had going for a good economy centered around the service industry, which is now running on fumes since COIVD had shut everything down for months on end.

      I think we will be faced with the ultimate double whammy here in the States, a collapse of both the economical and political structures. Both are on very shifty foundations, using much smoke and mirrors.

      • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 11:22 am #

        One day they will pull the pin on the stock market. Then the fiat, worthless US$.

        • JohnAZ August 17, 2021 at 11:52 am #

          The stock market will continue going up at look as someone is continuing to print money and ignore debt. The guys that will send us into the deflation spiral are the creditors for the debt. All the debt, personal debt is nearly as high as the federal debt.

          Figure out who and when the creditors are going to want their money, and you can pinpoint the day of the collapse. That is exactly what Michael Burrey did in the Big Short.

          Until then, the market will just follow the funny money going into circulation as people try to find somewhere to get profit. Each dollar will be worth less.

          • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 12:33 pm #

            JAZ,

            2008, Hank Paulson,* Weinerboy Geitner, et al was merely a step in their plan.

            You are speaking like there is no All-seeing Pyramid Capstone while, in Reality, there is.

            They will pull the pin on the stock market at a tume of their choosing. They will then pull the pin on the fiat, worthless US$.

            You always understand your position in the pyramid but you refuse to look up and see what is running us all.

            The stock market will continue going up and up while they keep giving trillions to the crooked bankers, yes. Then they will pull the pin. TruStory

            All wars are bankers’ wars.
            – Michael Riviero

            ——–

            *While I have often heard Hank Paulson referred to as “a bald-headed chicken-fucker,” I can neither confirm nor disprove Mr Paulson’s alleged lust for poultry.

          • Q. Shtik August 17, 2021 at 3:22 pm #

            The stock market will continue going up – JAZ

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

            Perhaps, but today it’s ‘taking a shellacking.’ (I wonder what the origin of that phrase is.)

      • JohnAZ August 17, 2021 at 11:53 am #

        Good assessment!

        • JohnAZ August 17, 2021 at 11:53 am #

          To cowbell

      • BackRowHeckler August 17, 2021 at 12:58 pm #

        “Like the USSR we really do not manufacture much of anything in the way of consumer goods for our citizenry.”.

        That’s a good point, Cowbell. It got me thinking, within living memory, in this Valley, pocket knives, nuts and bolts, axes, plows, machetes, felt and other fabrics, kitchen utensils, paper and envelopes, handtools, gunpowder and construction blasting material, and nails, were manufactured, all gone now. What’s left in the State is jet engine, helicopter and submarine manufacturing for the DoD. Don’t get me wrong, companies like Electric Boat, Sikorskey and P&W aircraft provide good jobs and contribute to the national defense, but it speaks to your point that consumer goods are not being mfg here anymore, just weaponry.

        • WilbursHuman August 17, 2021 at 4:37 pm #

          Ever wonder why they called NY state the “Empire State” ???

          The Largest Steel mill in the world……..
          The largest Flour mill in the world…………
          The Two Largest, steam locomotive factories
          In the world……. (American Locomotive works, Schenectady and Dunkirk)

          Not to even mention the agricultural production..

          All gone today.

      • WilbursHuman August 17, 2021 at 4:50 pm #

        And the the USSR……….
        (Before the sanctions on Russia a few yrs ago

        Like us, Imported a Major amount of their food……

        They are at 98% food efficiency at last count……..
        Spending huge amounts of money to produce their own food source..

        last I read, we Import around 80%………..
        It was stated way back in the 80’s that we imported 70%……

        And if anyone doubts this…………….
        Just what do we grow besides…………………….
        Roundup ready, corn and soybeans

        All the orange and grapefruit groves I hauled out of in the late 70’s in Florida, (1000’s upon 1000’s of acres……..)
        There are houses there now………..

        Lancaster PA, $45000 an acre for some of the most productive land in the world……
        All houses now, cause you can’t farm for that kind of money…

        No grains in reserve, No Milk products in reserve (Powder and cheese)
        We are screwed.

        • Islander August 17, 2021 at 5:58 pm #

          “All the orange and grapefruit groves I hauled out of in the late 70’s in Florida, (1000’s upon 1000’s of acres……..)
          There are houses there now………..”

          And the whole Santa Clara Valley.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_Valley

          Now wall-to-wall houses.

  100. liber8tor August 17, 2021 at 12:00 pm #

    The POTUS is not lucid and Kamala is MIA. If the election were held tomorrow, Biden would win again.

    GOP has done nothing to fix voting the machines and Dems are busy trying to figure out if they are male or female.

    The worst part is inflation. I can’t believe the price of ammo these days…?

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    • stelmosfire August 17, 2021 at 2:39 pm #

      The price of ammo is half of what it was 8-10 months ago although it is still twice what it was in 2019. Price is dropping weekly. Tons of supply too.

      • BackRowHeckler August 17, 2021 at 4:19 pm #

        Is .45/70 available?

        • stelmosfire August 17, 2021 at 8:53 pm #

          Sure it is but that shit ain’t cheap. Here’s just one outfit. They even ship to communist Massachusetts

          https://www.midwayusa.com/45-70-government/br?cid=22388

          • WilbursHuman August 17, 2021 at 9:59 pm #

            They even got what I need……..

            (7.62x54r)

            Love my old Mosin Nagent, paid $89. for it, yrs ago…….

            Just got to remember to extend the bayonet or it shoots off to one side….. Figure that one out ??????

            Heavy old piece of Iron !!!!!

        • WilbursHuman August 17, 2021 at 9:52 pm #

          Now there is a man right after my own heart (As to say)

          Ain’t nothing hardly any better in the world then a………..
          “Kickin Like An Army Mule” 45-70, unless of coarse…

          It was a long distance, .45-120……….

          Good choice mister!!!!!

  101. Tate August 17, 2021 at 12:03 pm #

    Kabullshit

    by Colin Liddell

    How much did the Afghan War cost?

    “When you add up the cost of Defense and State Department funds sunk into Operations Enduring Freedom and Resolute Support, then throw in the cost of caring for the conflicts’ veterans and the interest on the money borrowed to cover it all, you’re looking at over $2 trillion, according to a report released Friday.”

    I estimate that’s about around $7000 per U.S. citizen…

    Of course, a lot of people also died, but we won’t go into that. So, what was it all about?

    The “prole feed” version of why we were in Afghanistan for TWENTY YEARS!!!! was (1) to fight terrorism, (2) improve women’s education and opportunities, and (3) create a nice cosy environment for Afghan’s LGBTQ+ population.

    If you believed any of those “Kabullshit” reasons for even five seconds then you were sadly duped. In fact you can be absolutely sure that certain globalist scumbags were pissing themselves laughing at your gullibility…

    No, the real reason Western countries poured trillions of dollars into this failed enterprise was because there were real potential benefits to our power elites — at least in the early days. But what were they?

    One obvious reason was, of course, not even connected to Afghanistan, but to an entirely different country in the Middle East…

    Yes, having U.S. bases in Afghanistan was a geopolitical move against Iran, either to serve Saudi Arabia, Israel, or the petrodollar, and probably all three. With the pull-out from Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran looks a little less surrounded than it was…

    What other clear, concise reasons, then, did the West have for wasting the first two decades of the 21st century in a Third World shit hole?

    Well, I guess, opium production is worth taking a look at…

    Yup, that’s right. The Taliban, when they were first in power, were quite effective at stamping out the  opium trade. But once the West installed a puppet government, production shot up. 

    I’m not going to say that was deliberate U.S. policy, because the idea of the American government spending $2 trillion+ just to increase dope production in Central Asia looks retarded. But who knows? In my view, it’s much more a case of farmers turning to a surefire cash crop as a way of surviving the chaos unleashed by Western occupation and Taliban resistance. Also, as part of this picture, there’s plenty of evidence of Afghan government people being tied up in the opium trade and the West turning a blind eye.

    But other economic factors are far more important.

    Did you know that Afghanistan is sitting on a treasure trove of minerals? No, I didn’t either until I looked. The media was too busy telling me about how wonderful it was that young girls were being encouraged to burn their hijabs by feminist teachers flown in from the West. 

    Here’s an optimistic report on this mineral wealth from 2014:

    “Despite being one of the poorest nations in the world, Afghanistan may be sitting on one of the richest troves of minerals in the world, valued at nearly $1 trillion, scientists say.

    Afghanistan, a country nearly the size of Texas, is loaded with minerals deposited by the violent collision of the Indian subcontinent with Asia. The U.S. Geological Survey began inspecting what mineral resources Afghanistan had after U.S.-led forces drove the Taliban from power in the country in 2004.

    In 2006, U.S. researchers flew airborne missions to conduct magnetic, gravity and hyperspectral surveys over Afghanistan.

    The aerial surveys determined that Afghanistan may hold 60 million tons of copper, 2.2 billion tons of iron ore, 1.4 million tons of rare earth elements such as lanthanum, cerium and neodymium, and lodes of aluminum, gold, silver, zinc, mercury and lithium. For instance, the Khanneshin carbonatite deposit in Afghanistan’s Helmand province is valued at $89 billion, full as it is with rare earth elements.”

    But minerals are hard to get out. The real riches lie just beyond Afghanistan, with Afghanistan merely serving as a stepping stone to get at them. 

    To the North of Afghanistan lies Turkmenistan, which has almost as much natural gas as the United States. As a remote, landlocked country, surrounded by greedy neighbours, however, it has very few easy routes to offload this precious resource. 

    Back in the early days of the occupation, the plan was to pacify the country and then build a nice, long pipeline through Afghanistan, linking Turkmenistan to Pakistan, India, and the Indian Ocean. 

    Yeh, I know, in hindsight it looks pretty stupid**, and Pakistan is far from being a reliable ally. But in the early Zeroes, it must have seemed almost a possibility. So, what went wrong? 

    Well, quite simply, the US had a rival, namely China, which decided, as part of its Belt and Road Strategy, to build its own faster pipeline linking Turkmenistan to China’s vast industrial hinterland. By 2009, Turkmeni natural gas was flowing all the way to Shanghai.

    That was the real death knell for Western involvement in Afghanistan, greatly lowering the incentives to stay there year after year.

    After 2009, Western involvement increasingly became a question of saving face and protecting political reputations, while also forlornly hoping that the Afghans would turn their backs on the Taliban.

    The writing was clearly on the wall, but the Obama Administration thought it was worth a couple more rolls of the dice. That is what led to the pointless troop surges of 2009 and 2010:

    Once that failed, it was merely a case of hanging on to pass the poisoned chalice of defeat to someone else. Finally, in the last few days, it ended up on Joe Biden’s lips. Suck it up, Joe! You’re the fall guy for decades of failure.

    ** [Yes it was pretty stupid. Overall, a good geopolitical analysis by Liddell, but he glosses over the stupidity aspect. The question remains not satisfactorily explained, Why? Keep in mind, there is ALWAYS a Dialectic. Remember how the official narrative shifted about the reasons for staying in Afghanistan, all part of the War on Terror, just as the official narrative shifted about so many other controversial issues, the latest being Covid, CRT, the Great Replacement. This is how we know there is a Dialectic in play, the shifting narratives. When one rationale fails, there is always another waiting in the wings, often contradicting the previous narrative. When I call it a Dialectic, what I mean is that there are ‘influencers’ always at work behind the scenes who desire nothing less than the complete destruction of Western civilization. If you want more information on this topic, go to James Lindsay’s New Discourses channel on Youtube. He is incredibly long-winded & boring & furthermore, a ‘librul’ but he isn’t wrong about the final goal of the followers of Marcuse et al.]

    • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 12:24 pm #

      I’m not going to say that was deliberate U.S. policy, because the idea of the American government spending $2 trillion+ just to increase dope production in Central Asia looks retarded.

      He does not understand how things work. He thinks that the US Gov’t is trying its Best for the American people! He does not understand that the House of Bush ended up with much of that $2 trillion+ while also reaping yet many more billions with 2 more decades of the West “turning a blind eye” to Afghan heroin Satanically destroying the very Western social fabric.

      Here at CFN, we are a peculiar little island in a Sea of Madness.

      • SoftStarLight August 17, 2021 at 12:37 pm #

        Oh, I’m super ok with living on an island. Just not a desert island. Temperate with lots and lots of trees and beautiful shores would be ideal.

      • Tate August 17, 2021 at 12:56 pm #

        I don’t get how you’re reading anything about him thinking that the US govt is trying its best for the American people.

        • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 12:59 pm #

          He’s some kind of Neo-Con, isn’t he? We used to call him Liddel Man…..

          • Tate August 17, 2021 at 1:40 pm #

            I don’t know, I doubt it though based on what website I picked up the article from, LOL.

        • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 2:53 pm #

          He thinks that “spending” $2 trillion would be “retarded.” He would be correct if their motive was to benefit the US tax-payers.

          If, on the other hand, TPTB were looting the US Treasury clean before pulling the pin on the US tax-payers, MIC-snarfing $2 trillion to run their profitable heroin & Big Pen industries is a no-brainer.

          • Tate August 17, 2021 at 3:43 pm #

            Point taken. I still think there are multiple threads, one being that which I point out at the bottom. For sure no one is looking out for the interests of the American people. We have to take that for granted, it’s been like this for my whole life at least. See National Security Act of 1947.

    • Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 12:30 pm #

      And of course there is always the giant War Industry if all other lobbies fail. This one seldom does. We have to protect America and support our boys!

  102. Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 1:12 pm #

    https://dailystormer.su/%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d%f0%9f%98%9d/

    Good videos of the Taliban. Taliban guys riding bumper cars in an amusement park. Trying to use gym equipment (they’re weak as kittens), on a inferior trampoline, laughing at a very concerned female journalist about having women in government, etc. These guys are loveable! They’ve earned their fun after years of living in caves and seeing their comrades blown to pieces. Would you deny them? It’s their country…..

    • Tate August 17, 2021 at 2:01 pm #

      Tragic. All those “women & girls” who bought into the Hopium. Some of the girls might get let off easy, but the women won’t, those who have accumulated a history anyway.

  103. cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 1:32 pm #

    I wonder if you can get any cheap vacation packages to Afghanistan these days? Now might be a good time to get one’s foot in the door and on the ground floor of a new and budding world government in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Think about the opportunities! I bet the people at Rand McNally are scrambling to update all those maps and world atlases.

  104. cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 1:38 pm #

    This brings to mind a good idea. I used to suck my thumb as a toddler. Given these dire times, bringing back the habit might help to soothe me, and get me past these crazy mask wearing requirements.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/mom-says-a-southwest-flight-attendant-told-her-to-glue-a-mask-to-her-crying-2-year-old-daughter-s-face/ar-AANqoop?ocid=msedgntp

    • SoftStarLight August 17, 2021 at 2:50 pm #

      I would have told the flight attendant sure let’s do that after we finish stapling your mask to your face. Decency and following rules are no excuse for accepting child abuse

    • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 2:57 pm #

      They have transitioned decent people into cowering morons.

    • Q. Shtik August 17, 2021 at 3:06 pm #

      Jesus, that’s 56 years ago. He would have been 25 and she 12.

      • cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 3:16 pm #

        Isn’t there a statue of limitations against such claims? I mean, this just seems to be getting preposterous. How can you even defend yourself against such an accusation? It is essentially “he said-she said”.

        No wonder the birth rate in our society is down: guys don’t want to take the risk of having fun anymore because it may come back to haunt you (in more ways than one).

        • Q. Shtik August 17, 2021 at 5:30 pm #

          Isn’t there a statue of limitations against… – cowbell

          ==========

          Yes, cow, in fact there are two of them. One is made of brass and the other marble.

    • BackRowHeckler August 17, 2021 at 3:31 pm #

      This 68 yo lady found out Dylan’s net worth is about $350 million, wants a chunk of it.

      Dylan has been sued before, he’ll take it in stride. Anyway, in ’65, wasn’t he nailing Edy Sedgwick, one of Andy Warhol’s glam girls from the storied Sedgwick family, of Stockbridge, Mass.

  105. Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 2:09 pm #

    So, another story of an injured Quaxxine taker. This one got Bell’s Palsy, and, naturally, she says she would do it again.

    https://twitter.com/maybe60794885/status/1427001061135556610

    These people cannot be helped.

    • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 2:27 pm #

      3 dragged out at once from Quaxxine site.

      https://twitter.com/PRobesss/status/1426073049758060546

      All normal.

    • SoftStarLight August 17, 2021 at 2:59 pm #

      I can only assume this is from literally generations of very deep brainwashing layered with layer upon layer of psychological, emotional, and spiritual manipulation and abuse. I note that she is fully convinced that taking the vaxx is something we must do to see people again. The consistent brainwashing worked in this particular case fabulously. Very sad

      • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 4:02 pm #

        Feels over reals. It is a defining characteristic of the wokesters.

    • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 6:52 pm #

      And commenters agree with her – lmfao.

      Yeah having a paralyzed face is better than getting the flu.

      Fucking nuts.

  106. Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 2:14 pm #

    Republicucks want to bring in countless Afghan refugees. This is something that both parties can agree to. It will bring us “together”.

  107. Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 2:16 pm #

    One of the Afghan Fremen in 2003: Americans have all the watches. We have all the time.

  108. Grace August 17, 2021 at 2:27 pm #

    Ok, here’s my main question and concern. From everything I understand, Kamala Harris is NOT ELIGIBLE to be President (or VP for that matter) because she is not a ‘natural born citizen’ (raised in Canada, btw). So if Biden is removed by the 25th amendment, and then an initiative is conveniently launched by high-ranking Dems to remove Harris, JUST WHO is waiting in the wings to ascend to the global stage?

    Michelle? Hillary?

    If Kamala is deemed ineligible, then who gets to nominate the next in line?

    • SoftStarLight August 17, 2021 at 2:39 pm #

      Nancy Pelosi

      • cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 3:18 pm #

        Yep, good ol’ Nancy P is next in line of succession to take the throne of our hallowed government.

        • megaculpa August 17, 2021 at 3:58 pm #

          Another demented president waiting in the wings.

    • JohnAZ August 17, 2021 at 4:14 pm #

      The reason that that stipulation was put on the office of the president was to ensure he/she would be allegiant to the USA alone, “a native son”.

      Right now most of the Democratic Party are anti- USA, so that did not work.

    • Paul August 18, 2021 at 2:52 pm #

      Not so fast! Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California in 1964, which makes here absolutely eligible to serve as President of the United States.
      If you want to send her back to Canada, you’re going to have to find a legal way to do that.

  109. Sean Coleman August 17, 2021 at 2:43 pm #

    Another interesting Ausschuss a few days ago, this time with Ernst Wolff, a financial expert, making another appearance. He has been looking deeper into the World Economic Forum, started in 1971 by Schwab at a mere 33 years of age, with little experience, after a year-long spell at Harvard under Kissinger. He assembled 31(?) business leaders from almost as many countries.

    The Young Global Leader programme was started in 1992. It included:
    Tony Blair
    Gordon Brown
    Nicolas Sarkozy
    Angela Merkel
    Manuel Barosso
    Aznar (Spain)

    The Berlin Wall fell in 89, reunification 91 and the following year Merkel was in the YGL programme. (There are now 1,300 YGLs). Kohl in the late 90s used to refer to her as ‘mein Madchen’ and she was clearly his designated successor: form the East and a woman, aren’t we progressive? Kohl first met the last E German premier (forgot his name) alongside Schwab in Davos.

    4 German health ministers were YGLs, inlcuiding Andrea whatsername, a Green who then became a lobbyist for Pharma. Another, Hans whatshisname, was born in Vietnam and became the first Asian minsiter in Germany. When his career dipped he was taken on in the WEF under Schwab, who commented (parapharsing) “We
    had been watching him for some time and decided that he was right for us.”

    You have to actually take the initiative and apply to joint the programme.

    I believe our homosexual, half-Indian former (and future) Taoiseach here in Ireland, Leo Varadkar, is a YGL. He fits the profile of young, inexperienced, obedient (‘gefugig’), pliable politicians whose opinions change with the fashion. Others are the Green leader in Germany (and hopeful for premier I beleive) Annalena (aain forgot surname), Jacinta Arden in NZ, Sebastian Kurz in Austrai.

    More later.

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    • Sean Coleman August 17, 2021 at 2:45 pm #

      Blimey! I forgot to mention Macron.

      Now it becomes clearer how they are all acting in concert in this ‘Covid’ scam.

      • BackRowHeckler August 17, 2021 at 3:21 pm #

        Good News!

        Pete Buttgieg and his husband Chasten, have announced they are Moms!

        “We have been trying to grow our family.”, said Chasten. “Now our dream has come true”.

        Amidst the debacle in Afghanistan, and the threat of Climate Change, a ray of light.

        • cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 3:24 pm #

          Haha! That kind will grow up in a two Mommy household and probably make a very nice drone for the next era of whatever passes for government in our country’s future.

          Note, no mention of what bringing this extra child into the world will do for the “climate change” catastrophe.

        • Billy Hill August 17, 2021 at 8:10 pm #

          We presume Chasten is resting peacefully in the hospital after how many hours of labor?

      • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 3:59 pm #

        Yes, I have mentioned the Young Leaders program many times.

        They put people in key positions over decades.

        Merkel was also a WEF Young Leader.

        This is much more organized than many realize.

        • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 4:01 pm #

          And again for posterity.

          The WEF is the nexus of the Covid Hoax and associated vaxx pass and coming global ID.

          They write about this stuff openly, but most are too lazy to read any of it.

        • Sean Coleman August 17, 2021 at 5:38 pm #

          Yes, you have written about it. I find that many things just wash over me if I do not fully understand, but then you keep hearing the same information from different people and in different ways, and then it just breaks through and you see things differently.

          Eg how big business is left-wing, how the US supported the Bolsheviks, why companies can even make over the top ‘right-on’ advertisements which can only turn customers off because they know they have to be seen to support ‘ethical capitalism’ or be starved of credit for ever more, or worse.

          • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 2:26 am #

            I understand what you mean, and it is a lot to take in.

            Even here, half of CFN still believes Schwab is a Bond villain, a movie character of virtually on consequence.

            The WEF is behind everything we are experiencing today, and the WEF is a massive network of banks, corporations, and govenrment. The biggest union of the public and private spehres in history.

            Their puppets in media, government, and elsewhere were talking about the Great Reset right before the “virus” even hit.

            And now it is in full swing. Soon, people are going to realize that ID2020 is very real as well.

      • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 4:00 pm #

        “It’s a Big club and you ain’t in it.”

        • cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 4:39 pm #

          As a youngster in high school I participated in the NYLF forum for law by travelling to D.C. Does that count?

          • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 4:56 pm #

            You lucky dog! Yes, you are in.

            Please remember us little CFNers while you eat beef and enjoy underground high-speed rail travel.

    • Q. Shtik August 17, 2021 at 2:59 pm #

      to joint the programme. – Sean C

      ===========

      Is this some sort of reference to marijuana? I gave up rolling a couple years ago and now am a pipe person and/or a consumer of “edibles.”

      • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 4:52 pm #

        I take pipe hits too. with most weed over 20% THC, I find that 1 hit is plenty.

    • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 4:47 pm #

      This says it all.

      This whole thing has been planned for decades.

      Thanks, Sean.

    • Sean Coleman August 17, 2021 at 5:20 pm #

      Back briefly? What else to add?

      The trustees of the WEF include
      Queen Raina(?) of Jordan – filler
      Christine Lagarde
      and

      wait for it
      ….
      Larry Fink of the multi-trillion dollar asset holder Blackrock. The man who practically owns everything according to Matthew Jonhson. Blackrock appoint the American govt not the other way round. And it is clear they do the same everywhere else as well and that they (and their ilk) have been at this for a very long time. Johnson in a great podcast about Blackrock, along with the interrelated and interowned Vanguard and Statestream, mentions a German politician who was appointed to Blackrock when it seemed he had a good chance of becoming Chancellor. All are for sle and the media do not see a thing.

      Norman Lamont, Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer a few years ago, joined Blackrock on retirement, after discovering (with delight) that he had a Jewish grandmother.

      As I recall, Johnson saw the only hope in this final-stage-of-monopoly in bickering among the leaders of this empire. Vanguard feature many of the old ‘blue-blooded’ American elites but Johnson suspects that most of these are only figureheads. (Where did I hear that JP Morgan turned out only to have owned a small fraction of his alleged fortune? Talking of which, the story is that he was tipped off to cancel his trip on the Titanic where the two(?) bankers who had opposed the Jekyll Island/ Fed deal went down with the ship. Reminds me of Larry Silverstien and his sudden appointment somewhere else on the morning his office went up in smoke.) Johnson says that any conflict at the top will probably be resolved via ehtnic solidarity.

      I was just listening to David Irving talking about Churchill. Looks like ‘Focus’ picked him out in 1936 as a the best man to make speeches against Hitler. They gave him 50k in Sterling, a fortune nowadays. Irving says he had written a strongly anti-semitic article in 1920, which was now forgotten. It seems he has much in common with our present chosen nonentities. I am also reminded of Hitchens praising Jeremy Corbyn because at least he was old-fashioned and had a personality of his own (even if his policies were atrocious) in contrast to the faceless Blairite clones. I also understand his continued references to ‘Anthony’ Blair as “the Blair Creature’, a man created and moulded by others. Reiner Fuilmich says they all have in common a willingness to oppose their own people to the bitter end.

      It is all quite disgusting and they can barely be bothered to try and conceal it any more.

      Wolff said the WEF is the most important of various networks, including the Bank of International Settlement and the Trilateral Commission. The latter figures in commentary I have heard recently about the kidnapping and murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro in 1978. Two men on motorbikes were at the scene when he was kidnapped: American/ CIA involvement. I think the Trilateral Commission had just been set up(?). The wicked Left Wnig murderers, or at least some of them, got safe passage to S. America. Attempts to get hold of them were blocked.

      In the light of all this is it any surprise that the election was so blatantly stolen last year?

      These puppet politicians are devious, dishonest, wicked and very, very stupid. They make me sick, all of them.

      Oh yea, Wolff and co. also discussed ‘controlled opposition’. The only YGL amongst those whom Wolff looked at their biographies (all of them slight and anonymous) was a German-born critic of the ‘regime’ in the London School of Economics. Another is Gregor Hackmark, the director of change.org in Germany. The Fischer girl said she had come across Hackmark once, before ‘Covid’, when she organized a petitoin on change.org and it turned out that nobody could actually vote online (it had been tampered with) and the corresponding Facebook page just disappeared. Wolff says they are very well organized and cover all the angles with intelligence. It was agreed that it would look suspicious if the insanity of recent years (and notso recent I would assume) went unopposed.

      Do you know, I hate them all with a passion and the fools who wilfully turn a blind eye and give them the benefit of the doubt. And the woke dummies who keep trolling here and elsewhere as if it were all just a game.

      Fueilmich and the others say it is genocide. John Waters in his latest inerview says the cannot be dismissed. He wakes up every morning hoping it was all just a bad dream and he is now trying to work out the nature of the trance which most people are walking around in. This is the same fantasy world I have been on about here over the past few years. I used to discount the possibility that it was consciously organized and directed but I no longer do.

      WEF no longer carry the list of YGLs on their website.

      • Islander August 18, 2021 at 11:47 pm #

        Sean, Who is Matthew Johnson?

        Is he connected with Blackrock?

        I just watched this, video by Johnn Titus:

        Larry and Carsten’s Excellent Pandemic.

        58 mins. Very important.

        At ca. 3:14 Larry Fink explains why bankers and the financiers prefer totalitarianism.

        Titus explains “Going Direct” (cf. also Catherine Austin Fitts).

        I must say Titus’s explanations, and warnings, make more sense than anything else I have seen as to the “purpose” of “Pandemic” (the event).

    • Islander August 17, 2021 at 6:48 pm #

      Sean,
      Very interesting info.

      I read a Wiki piece on Schwab —I was trying to find out something about his family history. Not much there. He appears to be German Swiss. His father was a Swiss businessman. Not much info about him. The entry does mention his founding the European Economic Forum i 1971. Then there is a jump until 1987.

      Then I went to the Wiki page for the World Ec. Forum. There is a fair amount of info there. I am quite sure I saw there the Harvard and MIT connections to Schwab and the formation of the WEF.
      Now I don’t see that info.
      +++++

      I also started wondering who coined the term “great reset”?
      I wondered whether the person who did so was familiar with German, and the term “Gleichschaltung.” Obviously, Schwab is perfectly familiar with that term.

      Parsing the meaning of “Gleichschaltung,”
      “schalten” means to switch.
      Our most obvious association with “switch” is a “switch” that turns an electrical device on and off.

      However, “switch” also means to change–to change suddenly, one thing for another. Not a gradual but a sudden change. It also means to exchange one thing for another (switch out something for another, replace it). A reset button is a form of switch.

      Here is some etymological info regarding “switch” (schalten):

      “The meaning “a change from one to another, a reversal, an exchange, a substitution” is first recorded 1920; extended form switcheroo is by 1933.

      . . .The meaning “turn (off or on) with a switch device” is first recorded 1853 of trains on tracks, 1881 of electricity, 1932 of radio or (later) television. Sense of “shift, divert” is from 1860. Meaning “to change one thing for another” is recorded from 1919. . . .””

      All of those meanings help explain the term “Gleichschaltung” (switch to sameness”) coined by the Nazis for the program of totalitarian “coordination” (Gleichschaltung) executed quickly and effectively after the seizure of power in March 1933.

      I think it is plausible that whoever came up with the phrase “great reset” was familiar with the German term “Gleichschaltung.”

      I have long thought, like CJ Hopkins, that the covid op is Gleichschaltung V. 2.0.

      Now I wonder whether this is even signaled by the term “great reset.”

      Is this term Schwab’s invention?

      • Sean Coleman August 18, 2021 at 4:06 pm #

        Matthew Johnson said Schwab isJewish but I could not find evidence for this online. Wolff said the other daoy that claims that his wife was a member of the Rothschild family were false because this was a different woman altogether. Google searches often suggest “Klaus Scwab Nazi”.

        I mentioned recently that I read somewhere that he was in a nearby synagogue meeting with a rabbi when the WTC was struck. (Relying on memory.) And I mentioned just above that JP Morgan and Lucky Larry missed the Titanic and WTC disasters (or so it is reported) by sudden changes to their schedules.

        So in response to your post I had a quick look to see if I could find the synagogue story. (60 seconds on my old, slow computer is the equivalent of another man’s 15 seconds.) I found this interesting 2016 article by Schwab.

        Quote
        Klaus Schwab
        September 10, 2016

        Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
        On September 10 2001 my wife and I arrived in New York as I was to receive the Candlelight award from then-UN-Secretary-General Kofi Annan. That night we had a very inspiring conversation with Annan and many members and partners of the World Economic Forum.

        That next morning, September 11, I was planning to attend a meeting with newspaper editors directly across from the twin towers. For sheer coincidence, the meeting was rescheduled and I was on my way to the Upper East Side instead.

        What happened next I still find hard to grasp. On my way to the meeting, my taxi driver said “something” had happened in Lower Manhattan. The radio broadcaster cried out that a plane had hit (the second) twin tower. It wasn’t until a woman entered our meeting and told us what was happening, however, that we realized the full extent of the terrorist attacks. It was devastating.”
        End Quote

        “For sheer coincidence, the meeting was rescheduled and I was on my way to the Upper East Side instead.”

        Funny that. I suppose it was his guardian angel.

        https://finance.yahoo.com/news/world-biggest-leaders-learned-9-133512311.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHWSmIiQfWBxpgT_d4hxKK1haKgcSSF9qwJFayHuUtVXSvJD6dMqW-zib_2_l6xWNo0FPNN4R9esKSwYZc6gdRzUFkYoVHXUUw9O7_6JsCwneXLfYwKN-2YhVsQ-Scmn2FfYRTaN8B2N5A2wGK7aCjFAIdTOahBytnoyK41TI7TD

        • Islander August 18, 2021 at 8:38 pm #

          8:38 p.m.

          Getting error message 522 on Corona Ausschuss.

  110. Q. Shtik August 17, 2021 at 2:45 pm #

    I have been unable to keep up with all the comments on this thread so what I am about to mention may have already been discussed to death… viz:

    For all the characterizing on this forum of Joe Biden as a blithering idiot I thought he did a damn good job yesterday delivering a rather long speech. I was astonished that he could read from a monitor that well, not even taking a momentary break to sip some water, and to use body English that matched the words he was speaking.

    Be assured though, I am neither pro-Biden nor pro-Trump. Just sayin’.

    • cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 3:22 pm #

      I would have to agree with you. I was watching and listening to the address live and waiting with baited breath to see him make one of those epic faux pas.

      Unfortunately, we were not treated to anything that afternoon. His handlers must have programmed him well and ensured all tweaks and updates were properly made.

      • BackRowHeckler August 17, 2021 at 4:10 pm #

        He got one of his meth/steroid injections from staff physician Dr Feelgood; Biden appears lifelike and lucid, a simulation of still being sentient is created. Don’t let it fool you.

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 4:44 pm #

          I bet he has Lewy Body dementia. Unlike Alzheimers’ which is a slow decline, the sufferer has times of clarity and times of dementia, it goes more like a roller coaster. So they can be lucid for hours or days and then lapse into the senility. But this is just a guess. I’m sure they also do drug him up.

    • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 4:38 pm #

      You would think that.

    • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 4:41 pm #

      Sad when we are impressed if a pres can get through a speech without fucking up.

      • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 5:08 pm #

        Even sadder when we feel the need to compliment a prolific pedophile, grifter, and criminal for a speech in which he nearly fell asleep before sprinting away from the press gaggle.

        But the low of IQ are gonna low IQ.

        • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 8:39 pm #

          “My butt’s been wiped!”
          – US President Joseph R. Biden

  111. tom clark August 17, 2021 at 3:48 pm #

    Remember, Trump initiated the Afghanistan withdrawal. He had the where-with-all to understand that this was a 20-year shithole not worth pumping more American lives and money to. Biden just dropped the hammer, and of course he gets both the credit and the blame. Meanwhile, nary a mention of Trump’s role in all this by MSM.

    How quickly we humans, doomed to a short life on a 5 billion year-old planet, forget. History “The Trickster” (JHK) at work.

    The picture of Afghanis hanging on to a US airplane taxiing down a runway (if indeed it wasn’t photoshopped) captured one of the greatest moments of human desperation of all time. Apparently we aren’t very good teachers or Afghanis aren’t very good listeners. I suspect it’s a bit of both. Sorry, CFN, but my vote goes with the Taliban. With apologies to all who served in Afghanistan and those who gave their lives, we got our asses kicked. “They” (whoever “they” are) showed remarkable patience and struck while the iron was hot. May they enjoy the fruits of their labor in this hellhole for many years to come.

    Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we have a lot of ‘splainin to do (JHK).
    I’m listening…are you?

    • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 4:42 pm #

      I guess you missed the part where POTATUS claimed that the Taliban would never be able to take over, then they did in a week.

      • Islander August 17, 2021 at 6:59 pm #

        Not to let Biden off the hook, but he did the right thing to pull the plug on the Afghan War.

        Surely it was the responsibility of the military to manage the strategic retreat out of Af.

        I didn’t see the vid, but I saw some quotes from the speech in the NYT. According to them, he did say “The buck stops here.”

        I was surprised at how reasonable the speech sounded, given a totally unreasonable and untenable situation. Namely, what else was he gonna say? But at least he did say that.

        I think the in-=country military plus contractors etc pulled the wool over the eyes of the DC guys. They were all making money off this thing.

        You can read Pepe Escobar’s day-by-day account and also analysis of what really happened at the Unz Review. Looks like some kind of compromise is being hammered out as week speak, so to speak.

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 7:35 pm #

          He didn’t though. Trump did.

          Biden doesn’t ‘do’ anything. He’s a senile puppet.

          • Islander August 17, 2021 at 8:15 pm #

            “He” chose a date to “pull” the war.
            “He” made a speech.

            Without going into the puppet business. (I am not stupid!)

            I think I qualified my statement adequately!

            I put quos around “he” since I guess.

            Satisfied now? ((;-))

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 7:38 pm #

          And, might I add, Jo Jo Magoo wanted to continue bombing wedding parties until September 11, just so he could crow about the 20 year anniversary.

          The Taliban forced his hand, by the accounts I’m reading/seeing.

          It is a disaster, and he looks like a fucking imbecile.

    • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 6:09 pm #

      Tom will be the 1st to admit that he’s none too bright.

      Rightly so.

  112. megaculpa August 17, 2021 at 3:53 pm #

    I do shudder at who’s next in line after Biden collapses. Talk about “pussification” of the armed forces. Imagine that silly feline as commander in chief.

    • megaculpa August 17, 2021 at 3:55 pm #

      And with respect to Afghanistan — and the US — I will say only this: People get the kind of country they are willing to fight for. Nothing more, nothing less.

      • JohnAZ August 17, 2021 at 4:07 pm #

        Good statement. Afghanistan has always been a feudal society run by war lords. Why did the Russians and the US feel they were going to turn it into a unified nation? Next?

        • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 4:13 pm #

          They didn’t, JAZ. You keep thinking that TPTB are stupid, incompetitent morons with Good motives.

          TPTB are brilliant evil fucks with Bad motives. TruStory

          The House of Bush made billions running MIC to run heroin to feed Big Pen. Vertically integrated Satan.

        • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 4:29 pm #

          American hubris and greed seem to be limitless.

          • JohnAZ August 17, 2021 at 7:03 pm #

            Hmmm! Is it the American people or the American government, the Deep State. Like Canada, OG, do you Western Canadians agree with what Trudeau is doing? I feel DC truly represents about 1/10th of the interests of the country, the East Coast. If you look at the area in Northern Virginia and southern Maryland, the Deep State has created an enclave around itself.

            I really believe the Deep State is spending 90% of its time right now defending itself from the people. As Jefferson said, when a government becomes abusive to its people, it is the responsibility of those people to remove that government. Trump tried to represent the people outside DC, as did Reagan, Carter. Reagan was wise enough to keep the DS at bay during his first term, otherwise the DS crushed them all.

            Instead of being a service organization to the people, the US government has turned into a monster, following the same pathways of many dictatorships before it.

          • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 8:19 pm #

            Western Canadians are irrelevant while Trudeau does what he is told. Canada does what it is told.

            TPTB look disorganized and are spending 90% of their time defending themselves from the people.

            They are not.

            They are brilliant evil fucks implementing Global Totalitarianism “full-steam ahead!”

          • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 5:01 am #

            OG,

            Also worth noting is that Trudeau has already ordered “booster shots” through 2023.

            He just mentioned this the other day.

  113. O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 4:09 pm #

    George Bush, former first lady issue statement on Afghanistan with message to US troops, veterans

    The war in Afghanistan began under Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks

    “This is a mistake,” Bush said. “They’re just going to be left behind to be slaughtered by these very brutal people, and it breaks my heart.”

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/george-bush-former-first-lady-issue-statement-on-afghanistan-with-message-to-us-troops-veterans

    I think that you, sir, should go fuck yourself.

    Pretty sure.

    • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 4:29 pm #

      He should have kept his stupid maw shut.

    • Islander August 17, 2021 at 7:07 pm #

      The columnists in teh NYT were all predicting a bloodbath and then basing the rest of their prognoses for the future on their bloodbath predictions. Almost with glee, it seemed. Also major predictions for waves of asylum seekers, murder/rapes of women, etc.

      I do hope the Taliban disappoint them. Not only to spare the Afghan people more horrors, but also as an Eff You to Western pundits who refuse to cop to the US role in “destroying” Libya, Lebanon, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan (and don’t even mention Syria!!). Demands are being made for the USA to take in at least 180,000 people and their families who worked with the Americans. In other words, they are already stating demands on American communities that had nothing to do with launching this (or any) war.

      Furthermore, the doomsayers and Schadenfreudists can *wait* for this human rights catastrophe to develop. Plus they are also ghoulishly predicting that Afg. will become a center for jihadist worldwide and soon will make inroads into Pakistan and will get control of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.

      Uh, I forget—who installed nuclear weapons in Pakistan??

      • Islander August 17, 2021 at 7:08 pm #

        Sorry that was supposed to be “can’t *wait* for . . .”

  114. MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 4:16 pm #

    In the Tradition of U.S. Puppets, When They Finally Get Kicked Out, They Steal as Much of the Country’s Treasure as They Can

    “True to Form, Last Sunday the U.S. Puppet President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, Fled Kabul with Four Luxury Vehicles and a Helicopter Stuffed So Full of Cash That a Huge Pile of It Could Not Fit and Had to Be Left on the Tarmac.

    46 years earlier, U.S. client Nguyen Van Thieu tried to smuggle $73 million worth of gold bullion out of South Vietnam after its liberation by the communists.

    These two men symbolize the corruption and greed that lies at the core of the U.S. empire.”

    https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/08/17/in-the-tradition-of-u-s-puppets-when-they-finally-get-kicked-out-they-steal-as-much-of-the-countrys-treasure-as-they-can/

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    • cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 4:49 pm #

      Geez, that is incredible! Is the cash he left behind on the tarmac even a currently valued form of currency?

      “Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special representative on Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov earlier expressed hope that Ghani and other fleeing officials would not take all the money from the state budget—which would be difficult to recoup.”

      Couldn’t the new Afghan warlords just declare the old currency devalued and issue a new form of monetary policy? This would solve their problem in one fell swoop.

      Wonder what happened to the money left behind on the tarmac? I would have grabbed some of it! Lost or abandoned property is always up for grabs!

      • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 6:02 pm #

        I’m sure some other greedy assholes got it.

        Ghani’s name is mud now though for pulling that stunt.

        He’s finished.

      • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 6:05 pm #

        I am confident that the currency was US$. Pretty sure.

    • SpeedyBB August 19, 2021 at 6:44 am #

      Well Your Mijesty MaryQueen, scooting with the loot is a noble tradition indeed – in the hallowed tradition of President Fulgencio Batista, who saw in late 1959 that, well, his time of eminence was drawing to an end.

      (From the web):

      “Legend has it that when Fidel Castro’s revolution drove Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista from the island in 1959, he didn’t leave empty-handed. Batista is said to have looted the national treasury, loading gold onto four B-26s, which headed for Tampa as Batista himself fled to the Dominican Republic.

      “Only three planes landed in Tampa.

      “The fourth, stories say, carried its load to a watery grave in the Gulf of Mexico.”

      Now my fellow CFNlings, I ask thee one and all: what are the chances that once out of sight and radar range of the island, the Captain of that B-26 turned and winked at the rest of the crew – all old familiars – and said “Any of you fellas have urgent business in Tampa? What say you we just drop below the radar and scoot over to my uncle’s place in Panama City? He’s a major shareholder in a paper mill there and even has his own private landing strip. We divvy up the bullion and split up.

      I’ll ditch the aircraft in the gulf, and parachute down to Uncle’s fishing boat.”

      Everybody looks thoughtful. No one says a word. Hands gently move down to their waists and rest on revolvers, in case anyone thinks following Batista is more cricket.

      “What say ya, hombres? I’ll get on the radio and send out a distress signal. Then we put on our vanishing cream.”

  115. Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 4:37 pm #

    Pepper spraying and brutally arresting 12-year-old girls now.

    https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1427572343157710872

    But yeah, Biden, yadda yadda.

  116. Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 5:03 pm #

    https://www.amren.com/news/2021/08/leftist-filmmaker-michael-moore-celebrates-decline-in-white-people/

    Lard Ass lives in a community that is 97% White.

    • Night Owl August 17, 2021 at 5:06 pm #

      Yes, but the beauty of it all is that he is that which he hates: a racist.

      Just as Anitfa are fascists, and New Normals are anti-science.

      Nature is cruel.

      • cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 5:16 pm #

        Some of the comments in the thread to that article are simply classic.

        One of my favorites in response to spit roasting Moore over a beach fire:

        “There is no way they would be able to collect all liquid adipose, it would flood multiple counties.”

        • Tate August 17, 2021 at 6:19 pm #

          Extremely obese people ALWAYS have serious mental issues. A small minority of them can prosper despite their mental illness. MM found his niche as a provocateur & for decades he’s been riding that “gravy train” (no pun intended)… yeah right

          • gustafson.robert.22 August 17, 2021 at 6:37 pm #

            for that one brief moment when planet of the humans came out, m moore redeemed himself for me, then went back to his usual emotive, unfocused pulp

          • benr August 18, 2021 at 9:01 am #

            @tate

            Its been my experience fat people have low self esteem and have suffered abuse in one form or another.
            To be honest as humans in this modern day who does not have some pretty extreme mental issues?

            Look around you we are five deep in nuts and weirdos.

          • Tate August 18, 2021 at 10:25 am #

            benr, I agree with you about the low self-esteem, it must come from somewhere but my point stands, whenever you see a morbidly obese person, it’s a red flag that something’s not right upstairs.

  117. cowbell81 August 17, 2021 at 5:24 pm #

    “Chicago police warn residents of more violent robberies suspected of being committed by teenagers”

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/chicago-police-warn-residents-of-more-violent-robberies-suspected-of-being-committed-by-teenagers/ar-AANqM1l?ocid=msedgntp

    Or you know, you could just carry a gun to defend yourself when this situation arises.

    Notice how the article suspiciously omits any reference to racial make-up of the alleged perpetrators.

    • BackRowHeckler August 17, 2021 at 7:50 pm #

      In the past few days we’ve has a spate of stabbings in different cities, 2 of them fatal.

      Proof positive that Gun Control measures in Ct are paying off.

    • hmuller August 18, 2021 at 10:27 am #

      Yes indeed. The perpetrators must be those “right wing proud boys” the liberals and media keep telling us are such a big danger.

  118. Yohannon August 17, 2021 at 5:30 pm #

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/vaccine-expert-said-she-mailed-114730946.html

    Covidian tyrant claims that someone sent her a muzzle in the mail as a threat. It is now clear that she sent it to herself.

    • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 5:34 pm #

      I absolutely love it that she got caught. I hope she’s removed from her post. I bet she received a lot of coof cash for that little stunt.

      • Q. Shtik August 18, 2021 at 1:57 pm #

        I bet she received a lot of coof cash for that little stunt. – MQ

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

        I never saw or heard that word before. I imagined it was slang for vagina but, no, turns out it is chiefly Scottish slang for ‘a stupid fellow, a dolt, a lout.’

    • O.G. Hawkins August 17, 2021 at 6:01 pm #

      The Jewish teenager caught red-handed spray-painting swastikas on his synogue.

      • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 7:14 pm #

        Then this woman blames ‘Republicans’ who sent an email saying how disgusting it is she wants to jab kids. I agree with the ‘Republican.’

  119. MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 7:13 pm #

    Higher COVID Rate Found In Counties With Higher Vaccination Rate

    https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/07/27/covid-vaccination-rate-california-counties/

    Same as in Iceland, same as in Israel.

    Listen to the dopes blame ‘the variant’.

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    • Islander August 17, 2021 at 7:23 pm #

      Blondie does emphasize that the jabbed can transmit the virus, also to other jabbed.

      So they have now brought back the “protect” others meme with the new “wear a mask” guidance.

      It was California Beach Boy doc who stated categorically that these stats from highly jabbed CA counties does NOT mean that the jabs do not work.

      Although to me it sure looks like that is pretty much what it means . . .

      • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 7:33 pm #

        Covid19 infections began when the jabs began. How fucking stupid are people?

      • benr August 18, 2021 at 8:58 am #

        I know plenty of people got sick with covid after the shot.
        I know no one who has got covid that has not taken the shot.
        The building I work in has 15 cases and all of them got the shot.
        Best part, as an IT guy I have had exposure to EVERY single one of them. Not even a sniffle!
        Yes I have been tested three times now nothing and NO I was not the infection vector.
        Must be my immune system from surfing in San Diego’s filthy ocean.
        I rarely ever get sick but when I do look out!

        I walked up on one of the guys and he looked infected the entire time I was talking to him I thought this guy does not look right.
        Red eyes I mean like 10 bong loads and half a fifth of jack deep red eyes. Look haggard, grey skinned but also flush with what turned out to be a low grade fever. Two days later the guy called me to get his remote desktop working because he had the crud and so it went like that for around two weeks it got to the point I did not want to wander up and talk to people if I could avoid it.

  120. BackRowHeckler August 17, 2021 at 9:45 pm #

    Where did President Ghani flee too? It’s not real clear. One article stated he took off in a helicopter, another, he hastily departed in a caravan of Mercedes Benz’s. One fact that’s agreed upon is that he had seabags full of cash, I’m assuming American cash.

    My guess is Pakistan as his destination. However, I wouldn’t rule out Saudi Arabia, which is where Idi Amin landed after he rather abruptly absconded from Uganda, also carrying plenty of cash. I’m sure President Ghani will be laying low for the time being.

    Brh

    • Q. Shtik August 17, 2021 at 10:10 pm #

      in a caravan of Mercedes Benz’s. – BRH

      =========

      The plural of Benz is Benzes. I had to look it up to make sure.

    • KesaAnna August 17, 2021 at 10:31 pm #

      I can’t vouch for this guy ,

      MAYBE he was a real asshole , and./ or a gangster ??

      BUT , he stayed in Kabul , until the Taliban dragged him out and hung him from a lamp post.

      Like the Drill Sergeant in ” Full Metal Jacket ” said ,

      ” He’s ignorant and silly , but he’s got guts , and guts is enough ! ”

      Amen.

      Or , Blessings and Peace be upon him.

      Dr. Najibullah was one of the few leaders of the 20th Century that I even tepidly liked.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkxtQZUQk44

  121. KesaAnna August 17, 2021 at 10:11 pm #

    ” I thought you loved German troops. Now you love Soviet ones? You are promiscuous indeed.

    No true German was ever a Soviet…. ”

    Lol , time for some knit – picking. 😀

    Alfred Rosenberg was not a German. He was a Baltic – states expatriate.

    ( By the way , I think he was absolutely right , and Hitler was absolutely wrong ; Germany should have invaded Russia as a liberator
    Maybe we would have lost the war anyway ? But turning the invasion of Russia into the mother of all dick – measuring contests was a plain stupid move. We couldn’t possibly win with that shit. )

    ( By the way , too , while it’s not like I knew the guy or anything , the jokes about Alfred Rosenberg rub me the wrong way. I think he was actually one of the shrewder and more astute of the Nazis. Yet another case of people perceiving crack – brained pie – in – the – sky extremist idealists as sober realists , and perceiving sober realists as wishy – washy bimbos. )

    As for Hitler himself ?

    Well , I suppose today pan – German nationalism is as common as cornflakes ? So ubiquitous that people don’t even notice it ?

    But , IN HITLER’S OWN TIME , there were still plenty of folks around who saw a distinct difference between Prussians and Hessian’s , Hanoverian’s and Bavarians.

    And people to whom Hitler was NOT German , and never would be German.

    Among these might have been Hitler’s own father , for example ?

    Alois Hitler basically came from nothing , the bastard child of a toilet – scrubber.

    But he made his fortune , and rose to surprisingly high status , given his origin , in the Austro – Hungarian Empire.

    Indeed , he was a career official , a kind of policeman , of that very regime.

    So while I’m guessing , my guess is Alois Hitler would have been appalled at the extremity of Adolf Hitler’s pan – German Nationalism.

    In vulgar terms , ” Fuck those Northern , Lutheran trash. Austria ! Now , and Forever ! ”

    In that context at least , Hitler himself was no German.

    Frankly , I more than tepidly , or in passing , sympathize with that context myself.

    As I have said repeatedly , I am no fan of centralization , bowdlerization , and Empire.

    I see a — albeit loose and vague — parallel between German and American history in all of that. .

    That is ;

    We went from Prussians , Hessians , Bavarians , Wesphalians , and Saxons —

    — to Germany ( Whatever the fuck that is )

    — to …………nothing.

    And in the case on the other side of the Atlantic ;

    You went from South Carolinian’s and Virginians , New England Puritans and Cajuns , New Yorkers and Georgians —

    — to Americans ( Whatever the fuck that is )

    — to nothing.

    And in both cases , it didn’t take a thousand years either !

    So , yeah , in my view a United Germany looks like a SHITTY FUCKING idea.

    And the United States looks like a SHITTY FUCKING idea.

    In both cases , I hope you enjoyed your barely one hundred years of playing king of the hill ?

    Lol.

    Anyway , to continue in that vein —

    Actually I think my point of view was hardly a commonplace one in East Germany ?

    But , as children are given to be , I was quite the black – and – white extremist when I was seven years old.

    In those days I hated West Germany , and I hated West Germans.

    Why ?

    In my view they were nothing but contemptible American / British / Zionist puppets.

    Traitors .

    Cowards.

    Lick – Spittles .

    Door mats.

    Granted , today I would throw in a large number of caveats .

    Still , BASICALLY , I STILL feel that way.

    But wasn’t East Germany just a Russian puppet ??

    Yes .

    But , again , we are back to splitting – hairs I think.

    🙂

    For example ,

    I venture to say that some boob in Nebraska , who can’t tell a Red from a Radish , and wouldn’t recognize National Socialism without the swastika clue .

    Would , never the less , recognize this ;

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

    As a German military parade.

    ( By the way , can you imagine what a ” treat ” it is to be labeled a Nazi by some bozo who never even fucking heard of the Socialist Unity Party ?

    Much less little tidbits like Angela Davis and Martin Luther King were awarded — and accepted — The Order of Karl Marx , the East German equivalent of the Order of Lenin ?

    Ah ! Such , such have been the joys of my life !

    Lol. )

    I’m not even even going to bother to show you a West German military parade , though ,

    not least because I cannot tolerate ten seconds of that bullshit .

    ” What the fuck is this American , British , Hollywood Mickey Mouse capitalist imperialist horse shit ?! ”

    And I want to throw up !

    If that is German , then they can keep it , and the Devil help them with it.

    But , yeah , East Germany was a Russian puppet.

    So it goes.

    As a final aside , I can’t say I understand why folks look down their noses so much on prostitution ,

    given that , ” Politics makes strange bedfellows ”

    Indeed !

    In an average political day , how many beds does your average politico climb into and out of before breakfast ?

    A number , I venture , as to make your typical Crack Whore Street – walker look discriminating to a fault in comparison.

    • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 12:14 am #

      Fairly argued. But if you get that small, you won’t be able to defend yourself against those that don’t. It’s the old problem, why Greece partly fell to Persia, and then completely to Macedonia, and then fully and forever, to Rome.

      Hannibal thought that Rome was the same – just a bunch of Italian City States who would cheer him as he freed them from Rome. Very bad intelligence, evidently.

    • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 11:07 pm #

      Kill me with a jab so I don’t have to die from a cold virus. LOL.

    • KesaAnna August 17, 2021 at 11:14 pm #

      I’m gonna guess that the headline is sufficient.

      — And , sorry , but I see nothing strange in it.

      The usual tough love crap.

      The usual , ” I have to be cruel , in order to be kind ” – crap.

      The usual , ” I’m gonna do you a favor and put a gun to your head. ”

      The usual ;

      You are entitled to your opinion.

      And I am entitled to force you to suck my dick . ( And you won’t even get paid for it , either , because , after all , unpaid volunteer labor builds character ! )

      Actually , there is something about it all that strikes me as a bit strange.

      It seems to me tht always being Mr. Right , and my shit don’t stink ,

      would be a bit like gorging on Halloween candy 365 days a year.

      It seems to me it would be less trouble , and more pleasant generally , just to play the ordinary asshole once in awhile who isn’t entitled to any moral high ground.

      The guy is a physician , after all , isn’t he ?

      So , in other words , half the town is already shamelessly kissing his ass anyway.

      Jeez , ever heard the phrase , ” Enough is enough ” pal ?

      Oh well.

      But that’s my screwy take on things , I suppose.

      • KesaAnna August 17, 2021 at 11:24 pm #

        * The usual tough love crap.

        — From a person who has never even sent you a 50 cent Christmas card , and wouldn’t.

        — From a person who can’t say what your favorite color is , and wouldn’t fucking care to know , either.

        But ,

        sure ,

        ” Love ”

        Uh huh.

        I can’t resist adding.

    • MaryQueen August 17, 2021 at 11:27 pm #

      That’s not a doctor, that’s a WEF puppet bought with covid19 $$.

      • KesaAnna August 17, 2021 at 11:44 pm #

        Well , to be fair ( ? )

        I celebrated my 55th birthday this year , and I honestly cannot remember a single occasion in my entire life when the soldiers said ,

        ” Give us LESS money / power / status ! ”

        Or I honestly cannot remember a single occasion in my entire life when the CIA / police / intelligence apparatus said ,

        ” Give us LESS money / power / status ! ”

        — Or school teachers.

        — Or social workers

        Or tree – huggers , animal lovers , clergy.

        — the list never ends.

        THAT is why I believe NONE of it , AS DEFAULT.

        IF anyone EVER DID say ,

        ” Give us LESS money / power / status ! ”

        I honestly think that I might think twice ?

        Otherwise , same shit , different day and decade , different continent , different label.

        Hoo hum and yawn.

      • jim e August 17, 2021 at 11:44 pm #

        Beautiful Ladies I agree.

        “unpaid volunteer labor builds character ! ”

        I say i this way, “All Labor Profits, but not always with lucre.

    • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 6:28 am #

      It is all about your health, you see.

      Unless you have not received the frankenshot.

      Then treatment is denied.

      Healthcare, kids.

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 9:05 am #

        “Healthcare”

        It truly needs irony quotes around it from now on.

        Like “President Biden” or “The Science.”

      • cowbell81 August 18, 2021 at 10:06 am #

        Doesn’t the “doctor” go against his Hippocratic oath when he so blatantly refuses to provide medical treatment to patients that would actually need it? Someone should file a claim against him with the AMA to have his license suspended or revoked!

        • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 11:13 am #

          There are no rules these days, Cowbell.

          Even constitutions are changable at the drop of a hat. Here in Germany our “Infektionsschutzgesetz” supercedes all other laws for example, meaning the Federal Republic isn’t. We are in full blown tyranny.

  122. KesaAnna August 18, 2021 at 12:00 am #

    I somehow left out union people.

    These days if I want to get warm and fuzzy about unions I have to watch the movie Matewan. 🙁

    Blue collar workers making 20 dollars an hour , when the norm is 8.

    And with pension plans , when anywhere else in the blue collar landscape pensions are a rumor from long ago.

    And what do they do ?

    Bitch that THEY are getting screwed !

    Meanwhile , point out to them that those folks over at Burger King are really getting fucked , and what’s the reaction ?

    They don’t give a fuck , obviously.

    Like I said , to cheer up I gotta watch Matewan.

  123. Proton August 18, 2021 at 12:26 am #

    The logic is inescapable, it even escaped Crazy Joe’s gums, why would American soldiers do the fighting in Afghanistan that Afghan men weren’t willing to do themselves?

    But that reasoning works in other places too, places that should have no trouble whatever raising capable armies to defend themselves and should in no way be depending on American manhood and money.

    Does this argue for a smaller US military? You bet it does. Does it argue for the closure of foreign US bases and repatriation of US forces? That too. Does it mean the world outside the US getting its shit together and Americans not sticking their noses in? Especially that.

    Does it mean the Chinese filling the space left by the US and trying to be the Big Boss? Oh yes. And will it also mean China bankrupting itself trying to run the world the way the US did and the UK too? Just watch, like night follows day.

    An ironclad rule of history as unbendable as any you’ll find in physics; nobody learns from history and nobody ever will.

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    • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 4:51 am #

      When President Trump tried to close US bases in Germany, the UK and Turkey, there was hell to pay — from Dems, Republicans, and from the host countries themselves. When push comes to shove nobody wants the closure of US foreign bases.

      Brh

      • Proton August 18, 2021 at 7:45 pm #

        Nobody wants the closure especially if they have an interest in their staying open. Money? Could it be?

    • messianicdruid August 18, 2021 at 9:36 am #

      Proton said, “An ironclad rule of history as unbendable as any you’ll find in physics; nobody learns from history and nobody ever will.”

      ReElect Nobody !

      • Proton August 18, 2021 at 7:42 pm #

        Re-electing nobody has the virtue of never having been tried.

  124. Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 12:36 am #

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oNlmA6EiwY

    Patriot Nurse – live – Prayer vigil for detained Christians scheduled to be executed by the Taliban. And for all Americans now trapped behind enemy lines, all but abandoned by their government.

    • Redneck Liberal August 18, 2021 at 4:11 am #

      It strikes me that some of the same people currently expressing concern over the fate of Afghanistan’s women and girls work quite happily with Saudi Arabia, which has its own repressive government, and have voted against reauthorizing our own Violence Against Women Act. Some of the same people worrying about the slowness of our evacuation of our Afghan allies voted just last month against providing more visas for them, and others seemed to worry very little about our utter abandonment of our Kurdish allies when we withdrew from northern Syria in 2019. And those worrying about democracy in Afghanistan seem to be largely unconcerned about protecting voting rights here at home.

      Most notably to me, some of the same people who are now focusing on keeping troops in Afghanistan to protect Americans seem uninterested in stopping the spread of a disease that has already killed more than 620,000 of us and that is, once again, raging.

      • SoftStarLight August 18, 2021 at 4:28 am #

        The uniparty speaks. How convenient

      • benr August 18, 2021 at 8:30 am #

        You were 100% on target till you veered off into the sewer of covid nonsense.
        The narrative is 620k but there was enough people talking about someone they knew dying of something else and it being called a covid death.
        I now know of four who died of something else and it was called covid. It was all about the hospital getting the covid extra money and not the truth.

        • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 9:09 am #

          Covidiot cultists work it into every narrative, I notice. LOL, there’s no fixing a brain crawling with prions.

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 9:11 am #

        How stupid does one have to be to think they can stop a virus? Or wage a ‘war on terror’?

        BTW, 9K if that died from the SARS-2 so called covid virus. According to the CDC.

        • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 9:11 am #

          P.S. What’s ‘raging’ is stupidity and vaccine injuries.

    • SoftStarLight August 18, 2021 at 4:24 am #

      And not to be outdone, the uniparty immediately signaled very publicly that the first and most pressing concern out of all of this was resettling hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees into the United States. Brian Kemp in Georgia for one said basically that doing so was vital and necessary. Of course no real reasons were given and nobody expects truth from him anyway. But there are other governors and officials saying the exact same things too. And yet. There may be 40,000 or more Americans still stranded in Afghanistan. There very well may be some real horror stories in the coming days from there, if there isn’t a total news blackout. Either way. It is undeniably very clear now that the controlling factions within the US government entirely despise American citizens and view us as expendible. They don’t even countenance pretenses anymore of “representation” or a functioning social contract.

      • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 4:41 am #

        Wait a minute SSL. 40,000 Americans stranded in Afghanistan? I thought it was just a handful left in Kabul, and they are being evacuated at this very moment.

        Most American citizens got out of Europe in 1914 and 1939. Some were caught in the Philippines in 1942 by the Japanese, and were put in camps. Many did not survive. If indeed your figure is correct it would constitute a disaster really unprecedented in US history.

        Brh

        • SoftStarLight August 18, 2021 at 4:51 am #

          Allegedly the 40k estimate is on the high side but truly no one knows. Some are saying its around 10,000. I would say that its highly possible this goes from international embarassment to something far worse very quickly. I expect the US media to hide and censor any and all info that will be damning for the regime but there have been some surprises so we shall see.

          • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 5:19 am #

            Well, the Dem propaganda machine at CNN is already weaving into the narrative White Supremacy, racism, Covid, Climate Change and US Imperialism. And of course Donald Trump, at whose feet, ultimately, where fault lies, not only in Afghanistan, but everywhere.

        • benr August 18, 2021 at 8:38 am #

          Contractors for every trooper there are like 10 people behind the scenes.
          Much of the security was also done by well paid contractors.
          I was actually looking at that gig as well, seen some jobs paid 250k tax free.
          The only thing that stopped me I hate that culture and the 30% fecal matter hanging in the very air you breath.
          I know some guys came back said you could taste the shit in the air.
          Same can be said of say Tijuana you can smell it hanging in the air when the wind is blowing up from the south.
          Shit, beans, and smoke.
          Used to surf a lot down in Imperial beach but the water quality is horrible from all the industrial run off and sewage coming out of Mexico.

          • 100th Avatar August 18, 2021 at 12:20 pm #

            You smelled and tasted the mierda in Imperial Beach.

            The sewage ran freely. The old water rights law.
            Right into the estuaries and seasonal swamplands in around the Tijuana River.

            So, the US built a sewage treatment plant.
            But that wasn’t stopping the Tijuana Brown Trout from migrating north.

            Especially after monsoon season in late february and early march.

            All the run-off from the colonias that make up greater TJ. Non-plumbed hovels and corrugated shacks on every hillside and valley south of the frontera.
            Whoosh… right down the slopes, into the streams, the river, and the Ocean at Imperial Beach.

            But that is where retired fatheads live and surf. Other military types not too far from the coronado peninsula.

            They never were bright people.

          • 100th Avatar August 18, 2021 at 12:24 pm #

            “jar-heads” not fatheads, but spell-check may be on to something.

            “in and around”

      • cbeard August 19, 2021 at 6:28 pm #

        Unless the next election in Georgia is rigged as was the last. Kemp is in his last term in office. Raffensperger also.

    • Hereward the Woke August 18, 2021 at 12:11 pm #

      Prayer vigils don’t have a good track record of success.

  125. chola3 August 18, 2021 at 2:12 am #

    For the first time I am envious of both Afghans ans (some) Amerikans.

    Here I am a male in Malaysia needing to put on my burqa to go out, while these people are free and open-carry on top of it.

    My wife wouldn’t mind moving to Afghanistan for a while right now but unless you are double-jabbed, can’t even cross the district.

    Yesterday, the skrew was further tightened: auto shops to have only double-jabbed customers.

    Just started a vegetable farm with the last of my money (1acre, about a quarter planted) and barely surviving. Hope the 15 year old car doesn’t give problems.

    I hope to hold out until December but if selling vegetables are also controlled, I will get the jab.

    Compulsory education here. So, once school opens have to keep my 9 yr old hidden inside the house in school house.

    I hope the vaxx stuff is resolved this year either way. Biggest fear for me is ADE.

    I wonder how Night Owl in Germany is doing.

    • SoftStarLight August 18, 2021 at 4:41 am #

      Sorry to hear of your quandry and hope all goes well. It sure does seem like there is plenty of tyranny to go around. It’s not entirely clear who will be better off than the other after the dust settles. Whenever that is. Here is a recent study on the the vaxxes and ADE that you might find interesting/helpful.

      https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00392-3/fulltext

    • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 6:00 am #

      What’s Sleepy Joe going to do when Taliban starts ransoming off American captives — at public auctions?

      • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 6:25 am #

        They will probably have 25thed him and the McMedia will cover for his replacement, claiming that such stories are “conspiracy theories,” while refusing to air any footage.

        Much as they do with the global protests against the real issue at hand, vaccine passports and the global ID.

        • chola3 August 18, 2021 at 6:44 am #

          how is your vaxx situation?

          • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 9:18 am #

            The latest is that STIKO (which is the standing committee on vaccnation) gave in to political pressure (after refusing for months) and has now approved vaccination for kids 12 and up.

            The Green party, ofc, took the show of weakness to call for kids 5 and up to get the frankenshot.

            The EU has a law that no one can be forced *or coerced* to take the shot, but they are coercing their hearts out anyways.

            Currently, when the “Inzidenzwert” (the case count) goes over 35, those who have not taken the shot are banned from entering any facility outside of grocery stores. They discussed including grocery stores, but they backed off. Naturally, the case count has just gone above 35, or so they claim.

            Like everywhere, they are using incrementalization, or the frog-in-pot method to force the public into a corner. I have no doubt they will push farther. See Australia.

            There are many here who see what is going on, but many others are completely taken by the warm fuzzy and Green propaganda that the WEF network has adopted.

            These are dark days, and if we don’t openly resist, society is done. The chains are going on.

      • Hereward the Woke August 18, 2021 at 11:00 am #

        BRH: What will Biden do?
        1. Blame Trump
        2. Try and get Trump’s tax returns and fleece him to pay the ransoms
        3. Offer to pay the ransoms 4 years after the hostages were executed
        4. Blame Trump
        5. Blame White Supremists

  126. benr August 18, 2021 at 8:24 am #

    Speaking of strange days ahead this one takes the cake.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/you-can-now-get-paid-1-500-to-smoke-weed-for-a-month/ar-AANsc6E?ocid=msedgntp

    • Blackbird August 18, 2021 at 9:34 pm #

      “…up to five people…”

      What kind of study is that? Sounds like a scam by David Rhodes (owner of Flower and Freedom) to put some cash in his stoner buddies’ pockets now that their Pandemonium Unemployability Assurance is about to go up in smoke.

      But yeah, I’ll apply anyway…

  127. benr August 18, 2021 at 9:28 am #

    The truth is Biden/Harris fumbled this they knew it was coming and did nothing to prepare for it.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-cia-analyst-contradicts-msnbc-hosts-to-slam-bold-faced-lie-in-biden-s-afghanistan-speech/ar-AANqqPZ?ocid=msedgntp

    Of course Uncle sniffy is going to blame Trump what else ca he do?
    He certainly can’t admit that he simply is not up to the job they put him into and to be honest I doubt the man was ever up to the task even in his “prime”.
    Presidents have huge shoes to fill and I doubt any living human is capable of filling those shoes. The failures are very much across the board ad Washington needs an enema and new blood put into the roles.

    • hmuller August 18, 2021 at 10:13 am #

      “According to Psaki, there are currently about 11,000 “self-identified” US citizens remaining in Afghanistan, although she acknowledged that may not account for all Americans still in the country.”

      I googled the above a few minutes ago.

      I would characterize an evacuation that leaves behind 11,000 Americans in Taliban controlled Afghanistan as PISS POOR PLANNING. Am I too harsh on old Joe? How much planning can an Alzheimer’s patient handle? About as much as his staff it seems

      Too little, too late, Sleepy Joe! Maybe his team thought “Denial” alone could prevent that country’s fall.

      At least we can earn some money in years to come selling spare parts for the untold billions in American military equipment now in Taliban hands.

      Meanwhile, we have General Milley skipping down Pentagon corridors singing about diversity.
      ” I am the model of a modern major general,
      I promote vaccines, drag queens, & racial theories most ephemeral”

      Sorry, these trying times bring out the worst in me – the Gilbert and Sullivan in me.

      • elysianfield August 18, 2021 at 10:36 am #

        ” I am the model of a modern major general,
        I promote vaccines, drag queens, & racial theories most ephemeral”

        “hmuller,
        Excellent!

        • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 12:23 pm #

          Excelsior!

      • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 12:21 pm #

        Dan Bongino show just now: A journalist he respects is saying that British special forces are going throughout the city getting British and Irish people out. Our special forces are being forbidden from doing so and are “incandescent” with rage.

        What can one say? Isn’t this the perfect time to stop obeying in order to do the right thing?

        • benr August 18, 2021 at 1:46 pm #

          Yes we had another incident involving contractors and CIA looking for misplaced surface to air missiles.
          Do you remember how a certain ambassador was burned out and drug through the streets?
          I believe his last name was Stevens.
          A special ops team attempted to rescue him and was left hanging and flapping in the wind.

      • ASHAMED August 20, 2021 at 8:52 am #

        The worst?!?

        G&S are the best!!!

    • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 11:35 am #

      Glad this dude gave that asswipe Brian Williams an earful.

      This was a disaster from start to finish, based on a lie that Biden supported.

      Invading a country because some alleged fugitive is allegedly hidden there? And people bought it?

      SMDH.

  128. chola3 August 18, 2021 at 9:49 am #

    Night Owl:

    I am basing my hope on Archdruid Greer’s prediction that the situation, especially ADE, might unravel in a few months.

    For some reasons, Malaysia and Singapore has been the target of Pfizer. We have had sinovac early but it is phased out. Now it is just Pfizer, AZ, JJ.

    I am a lone Tamil family in a Malay village. The ethnic group here is the least racist or religious bigots.

    Unfortunately the state records a 60% vaxx rate. Still, no one in the village had asked me my vaxx status.

    4 of the 14 states, mainly malay-dominant, are holding out at 30-36% rate. probably 10% being fake vaxx. So, obviously there is resistance.

    Even Johor (bordering Singapore) is only 45% vaxxed, likely Tamil and Chinese autamatons.

    It is hard to put up a fight if people were to believe the narrative and consider you infectious and an automatic threat to their family. Easier to be a Jew in occupied Holland.

    So, keeping low, and hoping a significant number in the village are also resisting.

    Failing that, the next line of defence is of course to put myself on the line so I can sell my vegetables.

    Something big going on and I feel a frenzy in the last month. In a way, it is fun being in an important junction of history.

    I pray for all of us who resist. Sure many will fall to the jab. In Islam (not my favourite religion), there is this about facing tyranny:

    Resist physically if you can. If not, then verbally. Worst case, resist in your heart. Never rationalise.

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    • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 11:09 am #

      Thanks for your posts, Cholo. It is very interesting to here from someone in your part of the world, and your English is very good. My thoughts and prayers go out to all freedom loving people resisting this descent into tyranny.

      I have a feeling we will win in the end, but I don’t have any idea how long that is going to take.

      • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 11:09 am #

        Chola. Sorry about that.

        • Q. Shtik August 18, 2021 at 4:04 pm #

          Chola. Sorry about that. – NO

          ==========

          Why did you bother to correct the spelling of this name and even to apologize? Spelling doesn’t matter and I thought you don’t really look over your posts.

          You’re busted!

          • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 5:48 pm #

            Your first sentence should be recast as the syntax is awkward. Also, you need a comma after “matter.”

            You hack.

      • Q. Shtik August 18, 2021 at 1:12 pm #

        Thanks for your posts, Cholo (sic) It is very interesting to here (sic) from someone in your part of the world – N Owl

        =========

        The above is from the editing expert of Germany.

        • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 2:55 pm #

          I don’t really look over my posts, because we are on an Internet forum.

          But I have corrected enough of your comically poor attempted corrections that I am surprised you even show your handle around here, you fucking hack.

          • Q. Shtik August 18, 2021 at 3:55 pm #

            I don’t really look over my posts, because we are on an Internet forum. – NO

            =========

            What has being on an Internet forum got to do with it?

          • Q. Shtik August 18, 2021 at 4:24 pm #

            I don’t really look over my posts, – NO

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

            This means that you really DO look over your posts but you do a half-assed job of it. Otherwise you would leave out the word really as in “I don’t look over my posts.” See the difference?

            Why do I waste my breath on people like you? It’s a mystery.

          • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 5:07 pm #

            I skim them. Why would I proofread a post on the Internet?

            You are angry because you have no talent for writing or editing copy.

            And it is hilarious.

          • Soul Forensics August 18, 2021 at 10:55 pm #

            “What has being on an Internet forum got to do with it?” –QShtik

            Everything.

            If you can’t see the difference between crafting multiple thoughtful yet hurried posts that will be read once in order to detect meaning, and taking a lot more time and effort to craft a grammatically pristine paragraph or chapter in (for instance) an academic venue, then it just shows that your hall monitor routine is a frustrated, impotent, and bizarre attempt to try to impress your linguistic betters.

            In other words, not only are you an ungrateful bastard, you’re churlish to boot.

    • Islander August 18, 2021 at 12:15 pm #

      Chola, thanks for your post.

      I sympathize with your situation: feeling the pressure and sensing some weird frenzy behind it all. I think many of us are registering this increased anxiety. I know I am. I wake up in the middle of the night with a stone in my stomach. I think: This is not healthy.

      And you and everyone also has personal decisions to make in the middle of this. About other things besides vaxx. But every decision is now being affected by the vaxx pressure. It is a form of psychological torture.

      You are right; we are witnesses to history—but at the same time we seem to be in the dark as to the actual forces driving this madness.

      Good luck with your vegetable business.

      What types of vegetables do you grow there?

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 8:11 pm #

        I have NEVER had trouble sleeping, but the past 3 nights I wake up a 4-5 a.m. and can’t get back to sleep.

        I have spray-on magnesium which helps. I may have to break into the melatonin soon.

      • chola3 August 18, 2021 at 8:53 pm #

        chilli, water spinach, spinach, brinjal/eggplant, okra.

        New at this. Used to drive taxi in Kuala Lumpur.

        I will post my short experience later in case any city guy wants to go and try it.

    • ThorsHammer August 19, 2021 at 5:03 pm #

      Chola3
      The path of least resistance is to find someone to bribe who will leave you alone in a room with a loaded mRNA needle that you can flush down the sink and they can certify that you are “fully vaccinated.”. I’ve always found that countries like Mexico where a good honest bribe is normal business practice are much more honest than countries like the USA where only the Overlords are allowed to use the practice, and ordinary citizens may find them doing jail time.

      ps: Since the Pfizer/Maderna genetic modification shots are not vaccines according to any legal definition of the term, the :fully vaccinated are not vaccinated at all. May they experience the full spike protein experience. Try to use that defense against the irrational brainwashed followers—–.

      • ThorsHammer August 19, 2021 at 5:04 pm #

        “themselves”

  129. O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 10:46 am #

    I try to follow the goings-on of the Covids closely but I am missing a key piece to the current situation:

    1) Everyone now admits that PCR tests are useless at identifying Covid
    2) PCR testing will cease because it is useless
    3) People keep getting tested*
    4) With what?

    *benr above claims 3 negative tests himself

    • SoftStarLight August 18, 2021 at 10:58 am #

      I heard that the covid test thingy has a carcinogen in it that basically gets implanted in you when they perform the “test”. I don’t know if that is true but its out there.

      • Islander August 18, 2021 at 11:58 am #

        Yes, I have seen some videos with magnified images of the tips of the swabs that show that
        1. they have little spiky fibers behind (unlike, say, a cotton swab/tip)
        and they leave these behind in your nose and this increases discomfort of the test, and
        2. There seemed to be little dark squiggly fibers that respond to a magnet . . . graphene?

        WHY do they have to shove this thing so far up your nose, into your brain?

        • O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 12:43 pm #

          Because they are Satanic and we must submit. Satan wants your soul but can only have it if you agree.

          • SoftStarLight August 18, 2021 at 1:33 pm #

            I’m not going to agree but I think it will probably result in temporal suffering. But that is nothing compared to eternity which I know you speak too often. So it will be worth it in that sense

        • SoftStarLight August 18, 2021 at 1:31 pm #

          Ok so that is the graphene oxide also in the test kits? I have never been tested for covid and I don’t plan on it. It is really crazy because once you can’t even fully trust your doctors then there isn’t much else in terms of believing anything about society at all. Like all of society just seems to be one big scam at every level.

          • benr August 19, 2021 at 9:40 am #

            To be honest I never trusted doctors.
            They try to hawk to many vaccines and pills.
            Want your flu shot every time I go in.
            My response is always no thanks had my fill of shots in the military to include useless Anthrax shots.
            I will get the tetanus shot and that is about it.
            I’m at the point it does not surprise me if every shot being produced now also has mRNA snuck into it.

    • Disaffected August 18, 2021 at 11:12 am #

      Everyone now admits that PCR tests are useless at identifying Covid

      Somebody needs to inform “the nation’s premier scientific institution” then, cause they’re going full speed ahead with the nonsense. Every two weeks for those nasty anti-vaxxers for the foreseeable future, with strict disciplinary warnings for non-compliance. I even got a post appointment notice “reminder” email this time, and to no surprise at all, was greeted at the test site with TWO new warning signs that ALL activities within the open garage where the test takes place are monitored by electronic video surveillance.

      I laugh at them because I l know it has to piss them off seeing my face every two weeks, meaning that I tested negative two weeks before, as you fall out of the rotation and into god only knows what protocol if you test positive. Been tested at least a dozen times now, but I don’t bother keeping count. Little do they know, they’re only strengthening my and our resolve with all this bullshit. Because SCIENCE!

      • O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 12:55 pm #

        God bless you, sir!

      • ThorsHammer August 19, 2021 at 5:31 pm #

        The CDC released their mia culpa admitting that the PCR test was useless for medical diagnosis on a Friday afternoon three weeks ago after all the MSR “journalists” were on their way to the golf course. Standard practice in the land of the free press. Not that the “investigative journalists” would dare publish such a thing without first getting permission from their editors and the editors checking with Pharma for approval.

        I and many others have been writing about this for over a year. Only now is it seeping through the censorship nets.

        If the PCR test is useless, why is the CDC still approving it until December 31, 2021? And why do I have to produce a negative PCR before boarding a plane when any positive result will be 97% probability of a false reading? And then ride in the plane with the “fully vaxed” who have helped the original Wuhan Virus to mutate into new variants that are more infectious and end run around the original “vaccine” shots? And who transmit the new Delta and Lamba variants at the same or higher rate as the un-vaxed?

        Insanity rules!

        Revolution now.

    • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 12:27 pm #

      Yeah, who is actually going in and getting tested now? Are these numbers all people who went to the hospital with symptoms? Work related testing? Or are they just pulling these numbers out of their ass?

      • O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 12:53 pm #

        Probably all of the above.

        The tests get graphine into the unjabbed – complete with their submission.

        Then they can get whatever result they want.

        “Run that guy at 28 iterations. We want him working. Run her at 44 iterations. She yacks too much. She’ll be on a ventilator soon.”

        • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 1:08 pm #

          That guy Og, give him a hundred wacks, I mean cycles.

          • O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 1:22 pm #

            It is a True joy exercising our Free Speech while we still got it.

            Thank you very much yet again, Mr K!

            You are correct, Yoho. If they ever get one of those evil graphene sticks up my nose:

            1) It will be sans my submission (i.e. literally held down) and
            2) Yes, 100 PCR iterations for me. I will be the most positive test yet.

            I think of Daniel’s night in the lion’s den and pray that God protects us.

  130. Islander August 18, 2021 at 11:54 am #

    Interesting update from the Taliban (translated) on their plans here:

    https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en.125cc7a1-611d0c2e-01a600e5-74722d776562/https/cont.ws/@Colonel-Cassad/2063845

    “The Taliban in Kabul gave the first official press conference on behalf of the new Afghan authorities. In addition to reading out statements, the Taliban also answered questions from journalists.

    The main speaker was Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
    According to him, Mullah Baradar, who is to become the president of Afghanistan, has already arrived in the country.

    1. Women will be able to receive education up to the university level.
    2. Women will have the right to work.
    3. The Taliban will ask all women to wear headscarves, and the burqa will not be required.
    4. The Islamic Emirate does not threaten anyone and is not going to be hostile to anyone. Revenge is not the Taliban’s way.
    5. The leaders of the Islamic Emirate have ordered a general pardon. The Taliban ends its enmity with all those who opposed it in Afghanistan.
    6. The Taliban is proud to be the force that was able to liberate Afghanistan from foreign occupation after 20 years of struggle.
    7. The security of foreign embassies and international organizations is a priority for the Taliban. The Taliban’s special security forces will provide perimeter protection for both those departing from Afghanistan and those staying behind.
    8. A strong, inclusive (!) Islamic government will be formed in Afghanistan.
    9. The Taliban is not going to attack American citizens at the airport in Kabul. None of the American citizens or citizens of other countries will be harmed.
    10. Foreign media will be able to continue working in Afghanistan. The opportunity to criticize the activities of the Taliban Government and make public statements about its work will be preserved.
    11. Freedom of speech in Afghanistan must be consistent with Islamic values. The media should work for the unity of the nation, so that all Afghans live peacefully, like brothers.
    12. Civil servants should continue to work for the benefit of the State and society. The general amnesty also applies to them.
    13. And again about women. All women’s rights will be guaranteed within the limits of Islamic law. The Taliban considers women a key part of society, but they must abide by the norms of Islam.
    14. The Taliban will not pursue Afghan translators who worked with the occupation regime. They will not be harassed or attacked out of revenge. There is no need for them to leave Afghanistan.
    15. The Taliban assures, including the United States, that the territory of Afghanistan will not be used to attack other countries.
    16. All Afghan military personnel who worked directly with the occupation forces will also receive an amnesty.
    17. The Taliban wants the recognition of the international community, which should not be afraid of the Taliban. The Taliban does not pose a threat to other countries and it is ready to discuss all possible problems in relations within the framework of bilateral or multilateral negotiations to resolve problems.
    18. The Ghani government was weak and deceived the Afghans. It didn’t keep its promises and ran away.
    19. The Taliban will ensure the safety of the people of Kabul and prevent looting, looting, theft and other crimes.
    20. A Taliban spokesman boasted that the Taliban took over all of Afghanistan in 11 days.
    21. Regarding the violence during the war, the Taliban states that it was not out of revenge, but they had no choice, since there was a war. Now is a different time, so the approaches will be different.
    22. The Taliban promises to change Afghanistan very soon. This will be a positive change, because every Afghan wants to have a better life. The Taliban will take serious steps to improve Afghanistan’s economy with the help of other countries.
    22. The Taliban has very good relations with Pakistan, Russia and China. But the Taliban has no allies and is not part of any military-political bloc.
    23. From the Taliban’s point of view, the Afghan War is officially over. The Taliban wants war to be a thing of the past, and Afghanistan to cease to be a battlefield for Afghans and foreign powers.
    24. The Taliban has extensive experience in various fields that will help in the process of changing Afghanistan for the better.
    25. The Taliban aims to ensure that the Government of Afghanistan is open to the people and includes representatives of various groups.
    26. The Taliban says they will not allow Afghanistan to become a safe haven for international terrorists (a thick reference to ISIS).

    Those present at the press conference note that the Taliban were not so sure about the answers to 2 questions-regarding women journalists and the situation with drug production in Afghanistan, although they stated that women’s work will be carried out within the framework of Sharia law, and they intend to stop drug production.”

    The Western press *want* a bloodpath in Afg. That would at least give them a pathetic bottom-line “we told you so”

    If there is no bloodbath and things go smoothly then it places a much bigger question mark over the whole endeavour, rightly or wrongly.

    • Islander August 18, 2021 at 11:55 am #

      Starting at “The Western Press” that is me, not the quoted material.

    • Disaffected August 18, 2021 at 12:00 pm #

      They could hardly do any worse than the US and its stooges in charge. Taliban’s just another word for boogeyman, which is all you ever hear from the American press these days. We have nothing to fear except the lies, and the lying liars who tell them, who seem to be everywhere these days.

    • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 1:11 pm #

      And Obama likes it when America looks bad – but does the increased contempt for his puppet, Biden, help him with the Plan?

  131. 100th Avatar August 18, 2021 at 12:06 pm #

    Are people genuinely angered by the US leaving Afghanistan?

    No, of course not.

    The US cannot win wars. It cannot nation-build. The US military is the most expensive losing operation the planet has ever witnessed.
    That is if you judge winning by vanquishing an enemy and creating a sympathetic, vassal, or allied regime
    Fail
    Fail
    Fail

    If you judge the US MIC by its ability to funnel public funds into private hands, it is the most successful wealth transferring apparatus the planet has ever witnessed.

    Not many are honest with themselves.

    They are envious that the Afghanis took their nation back.

    While they angrily thumb-type locked-down and suffering rations euphemized as “shortages” under a senile, derived, and despotic uniparty tyranny.

    Is that not right Lindsey, old dear friend of Joe?

    • cowbell81 August 18, 2021 at 12:13 pm #

      Sounds like a fair summary and assessment to me! I totally agree that the MIC has been wildly successful at funneling money from public funds into private hands. Would certainly love to be a CEO getting free grift from the taxpayer troughs.

      • O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 12:22 pm #

        Would certainly love to be a CEO getting free grift from the taxpayer troughs.

        That’s the problem. We would be Better off if you were disgusted and repulsed by that.

        • cowbell81 August 18, 2021 at 12:27 pm #

          It is disgusting and wrong, although my comment was really just tongue in cheek. The entire complex needs to be broken down and I don’t see any other way around doing this short of dividing the USA into smaller regional parts.

          It is kind of like watching a morbidly fat girl eat a delicious looking ice cream cone on a hot summer’s day. You are repulsed by the sight of this, but at the same time you certainly would love to have some of that ice cream for yourself.

          • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 12:44 pm #

            But would you like to share it with her? Or with Michael Moore as it dripped down to become one with the adipose?

    • Islander August 18, 2021 at 12:22 pm #

      “The US military is the most expensive losing operation the planet has ever witnessed.”

      And definitely not “green”!!
      Military orgs produce a huge percentage of the destructive impacts of all kinds on planet Earth.

      Pollution, habitat destruction, toxics in the air and water, plastics everywhere, etc etc.

      No-brainer, obviously.

      But a lot of our “green” leaders expect citizens to take “green” action in their personal and professional lives, and never mention the military when they are spouting about their green agendas.
      Meanwhile there are whole agencies and ministries devoted to destroying planet Earth.

      “How much carbon emissions does the US military produce?
      Our military uses almost 21 billion liters of fuel every year, more than the carbon emissions of Denmark, according to grist.org. According to Newsweek, in 2017 the military emitted more than 25,000 kilotons of carbon dioxide by burning fuels.

      “Is the US military the biggest polluter?
      In 2017, the Pentagon’s total greenhouse gas emissions were greater than the greenhouse gas emissions of Sweden, Denmark, and Portugal. Indeed, the largest industrial military in the history of the world is also among the biggest polluters. The U.S. operates more than 800 military installations around the world.May 4, 2020”

      • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 3:31 pm #

        DoD uses about 500,000 bpd, 300,000 bpd when not much is going on. It’s all about the oil, which is what drove the Germans into Soviet Russia, and caused the Japanese to rampage across Asia.

        In WW2, out of the 7 billion barrels of oil used by the allies 1939-1945, 6.5 billion of that oil came from the Continental US, from Texas, California, Oklahoma, Pennsy and Ohio.

        That’s how important oil production is, and these Pols in the Biden administration who claim ‘we will end the use of fossil fuels’, have their heads stuck up their ass.

      • benr August 18, 2021 at 5:16 pm #

        Carbon emissions are a joke its all about nuclear contamination.

    • O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 12:26 pm #

      It is ridiculous. “The Policeman of the World” can’t even Police Portland, Oregon.

      The Department of Defence switched to Offence a long, long time ago.

      Not only is the DoD a fantastic cash boondoggle ror the MIC, what they don’t pocket directly is deployed for their other ventures – like oil & heroin.

    • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 1:13 pm #

      Hello Darkness, my old friend.

    • benr August 18, 2021 at 1:39 pm #

      Its not that the US military can’t win wars its that they are not ALLOWED to do so.
      No other military is hamstrung by rules of engagement that are so ridiculous.

      • O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 3:27 pm #

        What? How did ridiculous rules of engagement hamstring the US military for these past 20 years? What? You couldn’t nuke ’em?

        From the MSM PoV, it should be blamed on an impossible mission. Ain’t nobody gonna turn Afghanistan into anything other than what it has always been. Everybody knows that.

        From a Reality PoV, the mission was a resounding success as the US military facilitated the House of Bush’s Global Heroin Industry for 2 more decades and they have now wrapped-up this successful operation as Global depop w/ Totalitarianism is about to destroy Heroin demand.

        • benr August 18, 2021 at 5:15 pm #

          What are the rules of engagement?
          Look it up its public knowledge unless you just want to play dumb.

      • chola3 August 18, 2021 at 9:11 pm #

        I remember the Indian army say that as they packed up from Sri Lanka.

        Heck, they still say that in Kashmir.

        I am sure some soviets said that in Afghanistan too.

        Come to think of it: if the germans killed every able – bodied men they came across in Russia, maybe they could have won that war.

        Nuke them. Just nuke them baby.
        or
        just vaxx them all and let god sort it out.

  132. O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 12:17 pm #

    Biden administration to offer COVID-19 booster shot for Americans starting Sept. 20
    Courtney Subramanian, USA TODAY

    WASHINGTON – The Biden administration on Wednesday unveiled plans to begin offering COVID-19 booster shots this fall for Americans who received the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, eight months after they become fully vaccinated, as cases of the delta variant continue to spread across the country.

    ——-

    They are moving at record speed now. In the span of a few weeks, the 3rd jab has gone from unlikely, to available to the immu-compromised, to maybe everyone to everyone.

    VaxxPass same idea but longer time frame.

    Totalitarianism is the “New Normal.”

    ——-

    Interestingly, Sept. 20 is the date of the hastily-called Canadian Federal Election. There is speculation among Canadian anti-vaxxers that PM Justin Trudeau is up to no Good with this election call as he secures and solidifies a “Legal” mandate for 5 more years of him at the Canadian helm.

    —–

    Five Years

    Pushing through the market square
    So many mothers sighing
    News had just come over
    We have five years left to cry in

    News guy wept and told us
    Earth was Really dying
    He cried so much his face was wet
    Then I knew he was not lying

    I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
    Saw boys, toys, electric eyes and TVs
    My brain hurt like a warehouse
    It had no room to spare
    I had cram so many things to store
    Everything in there

    And all the fat/skinny people
    And all the tall/short people
    And all the nobody people
    And all the somebody people
    I never I’d need so many people

    A girl my age went off her head
    She had two tiny children
    If the black hadn’t pulled her
    I think she would have killed them

    A soldier with a broken arm
    Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
    A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
    And the queer threw up at the sight of that

    I think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
    Drinking milkshakes cold and long
    Smiling and waving and looking so fine
    Don’t think you knew you were in this song

    And it was cold
    And it rained
    And I felt like an actor
    And I thought of Ma
    And I wanted to get back there

    Your face
    Your race
    The way that you talk
    Well, I kiss you
    You’re beautiful
    I want you to walk

    We got five years
    Stuck on my eyes
    Five years
    What a surprise
    We’ve got five years
    My brain hurts alot
    Five years
    And that’s all we’ve got

    – David Bowie

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/afmh0bms3kt7in9/FiveYears.mp4?dl=0

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    • Islander August 18, 2021 at 12:38 pm #

      NYT very weasley, with unsourced and undocumented assertions by “officials”:

      Since Americans first began
      rolling up their sleeves for corona-
      virus vaccines, health officials
      have said that those who are im-
      munized are very unlikely to be-
      come infected, or to suffer serious
      illness or death. But preliminary
      data from seven states hint that
      the arrival of the Delta variant in
      July may have altered the calcu-
      lus.
      Breakthrough infections in vac-
      cinated people accounted for at
      least one in five newly diagnosed
      cases in six of these states and
      higher percentages of total hospi-
      talizations and deaths than had
      been previously observed in all of
      them, according to figures gath-
      ered by The New York Times.
      The absolute numbers remain
      very low, however, and there is lit-
      tle doubt that the vaccines remain
      powerfully protective. This con-
      tinues to be “a pandemic of the un-
      vaccinated,” as federal health offi-
      cials have often said.
      Still, the rise indicates a change
      in how vaccinated Americans
      might regard their risks.
      “Remember when the early
      vaccine studies came out, it was
      like nobody gets hospitalized, no-
      body dies,” said Dr. Robert
      Wachter, chairman of the depart-
      ment of medicine at the Univer-
      sity of California, San Francisco.
      “That clearly is not true.”
      The figures lend support to the
      view, widely held by officials in the
      Biden administration, that some
      Americans may benefit from
      booster shots in the coming
      months. Federal officials plan to
      authorize additional shots as
      early as mid-September, although
      it is not clear who will receive
      them.
      “If the chances of a break-
      through infection have gone up
      considerably, and I think the evi- . . . [stops here]
      Rethinking the Risks as the Cases
      Climb for Vaccinated Americans
      By APOORVA MANDAVILLI

      • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 1:55 pm #

        A poem via the lawnmower method.

      • Disaffected August 18, 2021 at 3:17 pm #

        “Powerfully protective,” yet so inadequate it already needs a “booster.” A “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” except for the fact that there’s no evidence that there’s actually a “pandemic” at all, never mind a “vaccine” that treats it, or the fact that the unvaxxed seem to be doing just fine. Orwell smiles knowingly as he watches over this master class in Newspeak and simply replies, “I told you so!”

        I wonder two things: Have the banned 1984 yet, and if they haven’t, would it even matter at this point?

        Go long Big Pharma!

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 4:39 pm #

        This article is retarded.

        A pandemic of the unvaxxed. Except more vaxxed than unvaxxed are sick.

        LMFAO!

      • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 5:34 pm #

        Classic.

        Takes me back to the height of the McMedia’s TrumpHitler (TM) coverage of Trump.

        There were some top threads with Redneck Liberal and co. posting “proof” of all kinds of nefarious doings.

        The proof typically amounted to claims from individuals identified as “an official familiar with the president’s thinking.”

        Good times.

        • Redneck Liberal August 19, 2021 at 3:45 am #

          I started commenting here only a few months back. Say what you like to that -you’re a self-confessed truth denier anyway.

          • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 4:31 am #

            You have been called out by half of the forum over the past few months, Maj.

            Everyone knows.

            The comedic height of your history here was attempting to pose as a D-list YouTube celebrity.

            LOL.

          • benr August 19, 2021 at 9:43 am #

            Why do you lie so much?
            Your name got banned several times Jim moves on and allows people to come back.
            To my knowledge he tolerates returnees until they become a pest.

    • Islander August 18, 2021 at 5:20 pm #

      This is a very interesting look at the agreement between the Trump administration and the Taliban back in 2020, and then at “what went wrong” with the actual pullout.

      By Cynthia Chung. I have found her to be a very smart analyst.

      https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/08/17/afghanistan-whatever-future-brings-one-thing-for-sure-britain-and-us-should-stay-out/

    • malthuss August 18, 2021 at 7:26 pm #

      50 years later.

      old dildo dave

  133. Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 12:42 pm #

    https://dailystormer.su/taliban-the-sheer-competence-of-these-lads/

    The Barbarian is always coming. Anytime society grows corrupt and/or effete, with the masculine sphere weakened, hobbled, or denigrated. Pray you that the Barbarians come from within your own culture and race as with Afghanistan. The adjustment and retribution will be much less than otherwise.

    Our whole way of life is wrong. Surely you’ve watched men take office jobs and become faggots before your very eyes? Or if not that then blue collar slaves of one form or another?

    • rube-i-con August 18, 2021 at 1:20 pm #

      what happens when you give in to women~s hysteria – laughable women ~generals~ and women ~special forces~ who can only fight 3 weeks a month

      • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 1:28 pm #

        Well these guys have been very dedicated part timers for decades. They do a bit of fighting, then go home for a few weeks to harvest or plant, or make a baby – then go out again. The dark of the moon was one of their favorite times. They know the land and the seasons.

        I assume a lot of them are independent, but God help the employer who got in the way of this cycle. There must have been some kind of understanding to avoid unpleasantness.

        And then some of them must have been pros, funded from Pakistan, etc. Or maybe many of them were.

        I agree about the women. Besides the practical stuff (important of course), their presence destroys the espirit de corps.

        • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 3:02 pm #

          Well, roughly 90% of Hate Crimes turn out to be hoaxes; the other 10% is Homey beating the sh#t out of some elderly Asian lady on the streets of NYC, San Fran, or Seattle.

          Video exist to prove it.

  134. Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 12:48 pm #

    https://dailystormer.su/tennessee-pro-vaxxer-bulldog-tried-to-muzzle-herself-in-a-false-flag-hate-crime/

    She’s a real bulldog. Maybe that could be her scold’s bridle when the Day of the Empire comes. In the meantime, won’t Vice magazine or someone make her an offer to put it on for a picture?

    • O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 1:12 pm #

      Hahaha. Perfect, Yoho.

      Photo op.

    • SoftStarLight August 18, 2021 at 1:21 pm #

      Lol, well now that the Taliban are here and are the competent ones I guess it won’t be too long before those muzzles are a thing. I’ve personally taken it as an omen to be more wise in my speech when I am able to speak. Or type.

      • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 1:36 pm #

        Well we already have the hijab or “maask” (as Fauci pronounces it).

        All the terrible things you type – do you eat with those fingers?

        • SoftStarLight August 18, 2021 at 1:51 pm #

          LOL you are something else! I’ll have you know that I do pray before eating and in that prayer I always ask for forgiveness. 🙂

          • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 2:00 pm #

            We all have fallen short of the Glory of God. I’m sure that if your sins show up more it’s only because they are so few, like a few black marks on a white page.

        • chola3 August 18, 2021 at 8:24 pm #

          we have burqa, not hijab. Unless you have a different helmet type mask in your place.

      • O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 1:47 pm #

        “Let your Freak flag fly!”

        They can censore me (and will) but I double-down on my Free Speech while I still have it.

        • SoftStarLight August 18, 2021 at 1:56 pm #

          Yeah I am definitely worried about when that shutdown of speech is going to happen like across the board. So now is the time to speak our minds for sure. Oh and I wanted to say thank you for the encouragement at the end of the last thread. It’s good to be reminded that in the end all things will work out according to God’s will.

          • O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 3:13 pm #

            It would be very easy to succumb to fear and despair Right now, SSL, but we all know that you are Better than that.

            Matthew 5

            3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
            4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
            5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
            6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
            7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
            8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
            9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
            10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
            11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
            12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.”

          • Amman August 18, 2021 at 6:48 pm #

            These days Taliban is advising Facebook on free speech. We need our sense of humor for this.

    • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 4:10 pm #

      Covid Death Cult members seem to have a lot of narcissists among their numbers.

  135. BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 12:59 pm #

    Yup, thousands of Americans trapped in Kabul …

    TRAPPED LIKE RATS!

    • chola3 August 18, 2021 at 9:34 pm #

      I see close Russian involvement.

      The soviets told the Indians in 1971 that they have 2 weeks to wrap up East Pakistan once war starts. Thus it happened.

      Whatever the US plan, there was a possibility that the plan could be:
      Taliban and the Kabul regime/govt will slog it out, Then with Kabul begging, and the savagery of the Taliban splashed in the media, the shining amerikan knight will return for the rescue.

      An year of planning so they can wrap it up in 2 weeks. That is the way i see it. Doubt any harm will come to the trapped ones.

      On the other hand, the refugee game will start. Lots of money there. (about $10k per “refugee” to some PMC whitey’s pocket):
      Daily offerings of Taliban brutality towards locals to soften up the western populace.

  136. Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 1:20 pm #

    Asked About “Freedom of Speech,” Taliban Spokesperson Tells Journalist to Ask Facebook About That
    Andrew Anglin August 18, 2021

    Apparently, the Taliban post thanking /pol/ for identifying a thot in need of patrolling was not a one-off, and they are indeed long-time lurkers. They are tapped in on all of the issues.

    During a press conference on Tuesday, a Taliban spokesman was asked if their new government would honor “free speech.”

    He replied: “This question should be asked of those people who are claiming to be promoters of free speech, who do not allow publication of all information. Indeed, I can ask that Facebook company. This question should be asked to them.”

    How utterly ruthless of this man. People have noted that this time around, the Taliban was not dragging mangled corpses from the back of their Toyotas. However, watching this reply was much more brutal than watching a mangled corpse flop around at the end of a rope dragged by a Toyota.

    The Taliban has never claimed to promote free speech. They’ve claimed to promote Sharia Law, which is what they do promote. The West, on the other hand, goes around talking about how they promote free speech, while literally everything they disagree with is censored.

    Leftists make bizarre Libertarian arguments in support of censorship, claiming that “private companies” (they’re not private companies) are allowed to do anything to anyone – including organize together to strip people of their guaranteed rights. Now, the White House is admitting to actively being involved in directing the censorship.

    The First Amendment of the US Constitution is very straightforward.

    There is nothing there that says “but a coalition of private companies can organize together to target individuals for silencing, at the behest of the White House.”

    The contracts, tax incentives and infrastructure plans that the US Government signs with Facebook, Google, etc. amount to “laws abridging freedom of speech.”

    But you shouldn’t need that level of detail to understand that regardless of the mechanism, the effect is the same: huge swaths of the population is banned from expressing their opinion freely. From the position of a person who is blocked from freely speaking, it doesn’t matter if there is some load of mangled libertarian gibberish justifying his being silenced. In terms of practical reality, a person can either speak freely or he cannot, and in Western countries, a person cannot speak freely.

    The same promise in the US Constitution is in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the basis of the globalist democracy order.

    And yet in Europe, there are laws against various forms of speech (now including informational speech with regards the alleged virus and the vaxx).

    These are the stated values of the Western order, which they do not even pretend to uphold.

    The Taliban is very straightforward: their system is Sharia Law. That is the promise they are making to the population – that they will uphold the traditional Sunni doctrine of Sharia.

    Therefore, they are not obligated to uphold freedom of speech. They have a completely different social contract.

    So then the West comes in and says “will you agree to uphold a part of our social contract that we ourselves refuse to uphold?”

    This is far beyond “ridiculous.” This is a farce.

    The Taliban are serious people.

    The people who run our countries are not even remotely serious.

    They barely even pretend to be serious.

    Yoho: One difference though: the UN documents go on at great length and specificity about our many, many right. And then, negates them all with one statement to the effect that they can be abrogated if convenience or safety so dictates. Thus they aren’t really rights at all.

    Our Rights as described (not granted) under the Bill of Rights are absolute and cannot be taken from us. But of course, they are taking them from us nonetheless. The Bill of Rights isn’t going to defend itself after all. Nor is God, nor Nature. That’s our job.

    • cowbell81 August 18, 2021 at 1:32 pm #

      We don’t seem to have “rights” any longer, only “privileges”. And then we grovel with thanks to the gov’t when they hand out these “privileges” like cherished gifts.

      Much like the theft they conduct when taking income taxes, then when we get that stimulus check in the mail or a tax refund we are all “thankful” for Uncle Sam’s largesse. What a joke, it was ours to begin with all along!

      In terms of Covid, kind of like stripping away our “right” to peaceably assemble, then granting us the “privilege” to assemble when we show proof of vaxx status, wear a mask, etc.

      And we should be happy about this? It is all a joke. It is pure tyranny. We should be able to do whatever we darn well please without the government over stepping their bounds and controlling every facet of our daily lives!

      Liberty reigns when the government fears its people. Tyranny reigns when the people fear their government.

      • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 1:41 pm #

        And to disregard it completely when the Antifa or BLM are swarming because “racism” is the most dangerous plague of all.

        Early Capitalism enabled the American Way of Life. Middle capitalism chipped away at it. Late or corporate capitalism ends it – unless we end them. They are the de facto Government now, hiding behind their paid stooges. Of course the high level Politicians may or may not be real Players in the hidden order.

      • SoftStarLight August 18, 2021 at 1:44 pm #

        Yep and in NYC De Blasio is saying that the vaxx “unlocks” your rights. So apparently rights are locked up in a special place until you meet whatever requirements they think are appropriate for you before your rights can be “issued” to you. And apparently a lot of people are totally down with it and will support it all the way. And when I say rights I just mean like if you want to walk into a grocery store you know.

        • Disaffected August 18, 2021 at 2:53 pm #

          All of this vaxx bullshit will signal either the end of the union altogether (hopefully – it’s rotten to the core!) or its complete transformation into the head rats’ nest for the new GloboHomo Empire they plan to roll out. It’s telling that so many people still can’t see what’s clearly unfolding before their very eyes. I hope the kids today are “girding their proverbial loins” as Jim likes to say, because this battle will be fought in the coming years, no matter how it turns out.

          • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 5:38 pm #

            TBH, even here, I still wait for a real, honest rundown of who is behind the Covid Hoax and why this is all happening.

            Herr Schwab recently announced that since GloboCap’s facial ID scanners are having trouble with all of the masks, we may need to be zapped with lasers developed by the Pentagon, in order to ID us via our heart rhythms.

          • Redneck Liberal August 19, 2021 at 3:48 am #

            Yeah, I’d love to see that too. Your posts are inconclusive. Where’s someone with sufficient “authority” for you, Narc Troll?

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 3:44 pm #

        Well said.

    • chola3 August 18, 2021 at 8:45 pm #

      Duke of Normandy had a right to the crown after he defeated the English.

      The immigrants at your southern border had been given privileges to cross it.

      Today’s Pastun has his rights enshrined by the AK47 he AND his fellow villagers hold.

      What exactly is this “right” we office fauna sitting in our cubicles are supposed to have?

      Only good thing is some politicians in some of your states are letting you have some freedom.

  137. Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 2:12 pm #

    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/heres-why-some-lgbtq-youth-are-embracing-non-binary-pronoun-it-its-223331366.html

    I hadn’t heard about this even though it’s not new. As in, It applies the lotion….

    I can’t see how being compared to an inanimate object can be good for human consciousness. We’re going to have to apply the hose sooner or later.

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    • cowbell81 August 18, 2021 at 2:27 pm #

      None of the article makes any sense to me. If “they” like being treated so much like an inanimate object then “they” should be perfectly happy when I make sexist and derogatory remarks. Furthermore, “they” should consider relocating to Japan or Afghanistan where people are treated much more as objects than as living breathing human beings.

    • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 2:55 pm #

      Has anybody on this board ever used, or heard anybody use, pronouns when referring to themselves, or to someone else? Probably not. And if you did encounter it, in real life, you’d probably think “how preposterous this sounds, this ridiculous ‘he, him’ or whatnot used after a name. Further, you might think anyone employing such a tactic is a self important douche, immersed up to their ears in the Freak Show, someone not meant to be taken seriously.

      “My name Piper Daydream, douche, douchebag”, Got it?

      Brh

      • benr August 19, 2021 at 10:11 am #

        Yes sadly I have a niece who is going down that path.
        Her boyfriend for lack of a better word wears dresses.
        Not sure during sex who gets behind whom she is actually more masculine than this fool.
        She is a buff feminine type think dancer but not butch.
        He has the muscle tone of a slug not sure what she sees in him.

        Her mom came out queer after having three kids and just married her obnoxious girlfriend.
        Love my cousin and her kids but I can do without her now partner.

      • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 6:33 pm #

        I came across an ex-colleague online (now in Australia) named as Bryan P***** (he, him). He’s married with kids. I thought he was having a laugh, but his work blurb was perfectly serious so I don’t think he was. Never seen it anywhere else. I think we still have fewer weirdos than you guys. 🙂

    • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 3:17 pm #

      I remember the days when it was an insult to call a person an ‘it’.

      But we are now in the day of the Broken Person. The more broken you are, the more social credit you rack up.

  138. BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 3:14 pm #

    Check out NYPost video from yesterday showing distinguished Club Member attacking hapless white dude at an ATM

    WITH A HATCHET!

    In NYC!

    That’s kind of a new one, takes you back to the Indian Wars when tomahawks were deployed for scalping. You might think scalping is a thing of the past, but you might be wrong. The practice has been revived, apparently, on the streets of Manhattan

    THE MOST CIVILIZED PLACE ON EARTH!

    Looks like the White Eyes is still alive, but IMHO, once scalped, you stay scalped for the rest of your lives. How do you recover from it? And it wasn’t even a robbery; once this ‘Urban Warrior’ finished chopping this poor suckers skull he dropped the hatchet (tomahawk) and walked away.

    Phew, what a bloody mess.

    Brh

    • Disaffected August 18, 2021 at 3:20 pm #

      Style points for originality. And really now, isn’t that what being a modern day vigilante is all about?

    • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 3:32 pm #

      Wow, I watched it.

      “Horrifying new surveillance video shows the moment a 51-year-old man was brutally attacked by a hatchet-wielding maniac while at a lower Manhattan ATM.”

      Funny how suddenly the men’s race doesn’t seem to matter, eh? Just got overlooked?

      • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 5:48 pm #

        It could have just as easily been the other way around, right? With a White attacking a Black with a hatchet? Or at you starting to awaken….

        • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 7:40 pm #

          If you mean am I now a practicing racist, nope.

          • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 11:33 pm #

            So you think Whites and Blacks commit crimes at the same rate? Well that’s simply crazy and wrong. Subconsciously you know that I bet, but you are defending your conditioning, as people do.

            If you were really up for a debate, I’d formally challenge you by asking you to define your term (racist). But last time I made a formal challenge, you run away screaming.

    • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 5:49 pm #

      It’s probably beyond the purview of Hair Club for Men, but surely cosmetic surgery can do something.

  139. BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 3:18 pm #

    Kind of makes you want to belt out a rendition of ‘New York, New York’,

    If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

    • cowbell81 August 18, 2021 at 3:31 pm #

      “New York, New York, you can take it and shove it in the air…”

      Was at a farm auction a few months ago. Purposely bought up any old implements that I thought could be used for weapons/self defense in the future. Sledge hammers, scythes, sickles, pitch forks, etc. All good American made implements that would be perfect for hand-to-hand combat.

      Most people overlooked these items are useless old rusty tools, but where they see garbage I see other potential.

      • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 3:50 pm #

        That’s good thinking Cowbell. I buy that kind of hardware myself when I run across it.

        Another poster here goes by the name Stelmose picks up a lot of old tools and machinery, refurbishes some and puts it to work, also sells some. In this old part of the US hand tools and farm implements are readily available at flea markets, garage sales, house clean outs etc.

        This goes back a few years but when I was a kid at my friends house across the street there was a locked barn his father told us to stay away from. So of course we wondered why so we ended up tunneling in, found an intact Blacksmith shop probably from the 19th century. Everything was as how they left it probably 75 years before. That’s where we also found a crate of WW2 German potato masher grenades, which we hid for awhile, then finally told my friend’s father about them. No big deal. We had a resident State Trooper then, he just came and picked them up, thanked us for turning them in.

        • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 5:45 pm #

          One German guy was found with a WW2 Tank in his basement along with lots of Nazi memorabilia. I believe he had to give up his tank – which is wrong on so many levels.

          • malthuss August 18, 2021 at 8:08 pm #

            I knew a nut with a basement of machine guns [I like to collect them]. He went to prison.

          • benr August 19, 2021 at 10:16 am #

            I got the chance to meet Steppenwolf as a kid he had tons of wwII nazi memorabilia and weaponry.
            I was pretty young but he seemed a bit off.

        • stelmosfire August 18, 2021 at 7:35 pm #

          BRH, a couple weekends ago I was walking my daughters dog( I watch him when she is at work). Anyway lo and behold what do I find but a Husqvarna chainsaw with a thrown chain on the tree belt with some other stuff. Good compression so I know it will run. A little piece up the road the dog pulls me into the woods a bit. As I come out some guy says. “Can I help you?” (His property I guess.) I say, “no I’m just walking the dog.” He looks at me funny and says” What’s with the chainsaw?” I said ” Oh this? It’s for bears.” I figure he never saw any body walkin’ their dog with a chainsaw before. Anyway the saw is up and running . It’s a keeper.

          • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 8:38 pm #

            Husquavarnas are good, especially older ones.

  140. cowbell81 August 18, 2021 at 3:41 pm #

    This is too funny, the fact that they are sending him to “bias training”. LOL, I would hardly be able to attend with a straight face.

    Jack has been suspended indefinitely from Tigers broadcasts and will be undergoing bias training to educate him on the impact of his comments and how he can be a positive influence in a diverse community.

    Morris’ comment happened after his fellow sportscaster asked during the Aug. 17 game, “now what do you do with Shohei Otani?” as Otani was coming up to bat.

    “Be very, very careful,” Morris replied, in what sounded like a mockery of a Japanese accent.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/detroit-tigers-broadcaster-jack-morris-suspended-indefinitely-after-racist-joke-about-shohei-ohtani/ar-AANtdsE?ocid=msedgntp

    • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 3:47 pm #

      LMAO, wow.

      The Wokies came after him, huh?

      Hilarious.

    • Soul Forensics August 18, 2021 at 10:18 pm #

      Yet it’s A OK, even encouraged, when Rick Wilson mocks Trump supporters with a White cracker accent while Don Lemon fills his pants with laughter.

      Thass the rules today, sho nuff!

  141. cowbell81 August 18, 2021 at 3:42 pm #

    Further evidence that Madison, WI is a complete lost cause:

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/wisconsin-sheriff-s-progressive-jail-reform-involves-calling-inmates-residents/ar-AANtaTk?ocid=msedgntp

    Wisconsin sheriff’s ‘progressive’ jail reform involves calling inmates ‘residents’

    Another change was seen on the Dane County Sheriff’s Office website, which now describes the department as “the largest peace officer agency in Dane County,” replacing the old language that said it was “the largest law enforcement organization in Dane County.”

  142. cowbell81 August 18, 2021 at 4:02 pm #

    New York is in a fugue state, complete and utter confusion:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9904797/Backlash-erupts-rollout-vaccine-passport-checks-gets-way-NYC-restaurants.html

    ‘This rule does not allow for exemptions, period. Not for religious reasons, because religion is stupid, worshiping Bill de Blasio is our new state religion,’ said the Fox News’ host.

    ‘And not for medical reasons, because Bill de Blasio is now your doctor and he’ll decide what is necessary.’

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    • cowbell81 August 18, 2021 at 4:14 pm #

      From the above article:

      When asked about criticism from business owners who describe the mandate as discriminatory, de Blasio said: ‘I disagree with that.’

      ‘The reason I also want to say it’s not discrimination, this is about protecting people,’ he said.

      ‘In our society for generations, we’ve done all sorts of things to protect people. We have driver’s licenses.’

      CB: Yes, but you know, we can also have poll taxes to protect ourselves from stupid voters. And some people are scared at the sight of a minority or person with weird hair color or lots of tattoos, so businesses should be allowed to restrict them for the safety and comfort of their other customers. You can twist things however you want to these days.

    • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 5:41 pm #

      They are the WEF’s Australian mirror test bed in the States.

      The CDC document talking about the camps has been circulating. Australia is building them as we speak (on the .gov website).

      Can’t be long until Warren Wilhelm gives the green light.

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 7:57 pm #

        CA is as well. Those seem to be their test states. Both perfect, because full of liberals who lost their minds over Trump. So, easily indoctrinated and controlled.

        And, CA is running out of water on top of it.

        • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 8:40 pm #

          Running out of water, but plenty of fire.

      • Redneck Liberal August 19, 2021 at 3:53 am #

        Catastrophizing much? Managed Isolation & Quarantine facilities are currently run (pretty poorly) in inner city hotels. No wonder the virus is ripping Australia to shreds. It would be irresponsible not to have a dedicated system to manage arrivals.

  143. Sean Coleman August 18, 2021 at 4:12 pm #

    I was talking to an education inspector today and the virus came up in conversation. I like to bring it up. I asked him what he thought the mortality figures were for the vaccine in Europe.

    “Have a guess.”

    “About ten.”

    “According to the European Medicines Agency it is over 5,200.”

    I sent him a link to the document and asked him to check for me that I was not hallucinating.

    That total (as of 14 July) probably contains a few deaths which were not caused by the vaccine but were just coincidental. It also, and much more probably, does not contain a hell of a lot more deaths that were never reported, for one reason or another.

    I have asked the same question to a number of people and none of them had the faintest idea.

    Why would that be then?

    • Sean Coleman August 18, 2021 at 4:22 pm #

      Here is another question.

      Is it mass murder or just a callous disregard for human life?

      I still choose the latter but I would not dismiss the former out of hand.

      Yes, I know. I am so naive.

      I think “In Callous Disregard” is the name of Dr Andrew Wakefield’s book about his being struck off by the GMC. His research is routinely described as one of the biggest scientific frauds in history. In fact, when the Lancet retracted the paper it was merely a “retraction of interpretation”. I think that is the phrase. In other words, there was nothing wrong with the research, it was just that the government did not like the conclusions he drew from it.

      • cowbell81 August 18, 2021 at 4:26 pm #

        The powers that be simply don’t care. The ends more than justify the means in this vaccine situation, and in this case the ends all point toward the hefty profits that Big Pharma is pulling in.

        • Night Owl August 18, 2021 at 5:42 pm #

          No, cow. It is much, much more than that.

      • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 5:52 pm #

        Why separate them? Callous disregard for human life easily leads to murder or mass murder. We’re in the way of their Utopia.

        • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 5:54 pm #

          mindset + motive = action

      • Islander August 18, 2021 at 8:22 pm #

        Excellent article by Alistaire Crooke at Strategic Culture in which he discusses among other things the disconnects in the narratives that are being dished up.
        I am a fan of Crooke.

        https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2021/08/16/a-long-hot-angry-summer/

        “The exclusionary ideology is being turned-in upon itself. Turned-in, within western societies, and not just outwards, towards the West’s foreign adversaries. Now, it is key segments of domestic society that are being morally shamed and exiled from full participation in their societies.

        Is something ‘big’ coming? It feels as if it might possibly be so. There are serious problems brewing in western societies and the élites are becoming distinctly antsy. We can observe this in the way that the Establishment both are trying to preserve narrative in respect to the virus (‘all must be vaccinated’), whilst – simultaneously – acting to change it, by blaming any narrative deficiency on the Delta variant. Sir Andrew Pollard, a professor of paediatric infection and immunity at the University of Oxford, says flatly that achieving herd immunity is “not a possibility” – now that the Delta variant is circulating. Effectively he is saying that the vaccine cannot do what was promised: i.e. bring about herd immunity; yet the professor continues to urge everyone to be vaccinated, anyway. And, too, a senior SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) adviser to the UK government, states baldly that Covid lockdowns can no longer be justified.

        In short, their narrative is pointing in every which way. CDC Director Walensky stated last week that the vaccine does not prevent Covid infection, nor does it stop the vaccinated person from transmitting the Covid infection, including the Delta variant; the data shows an equally distributed infection rate, regardless of vaccination status, which is admitted by Director Walensky. As such, it is an admission that undercuts the entire argument for compulsory vaccines. According to the Director, the only benefit from the vaccine now is presumably that it might reduce the severity of symptoms.

        If a vaccinated and non-vaccinated person have the same capacity to carry, shed and transmit the virus – with or without symptoms – then what difference does a vaccination passport or vaccination ID make? According to the CDC, both the vaxxed and non-vaxxed person walking into a restaurant, store, group, venue or workplace present the exact same risk to other people there, so how does the presentation of proof of vaccine make the difference?

        nfections (again narratively attributed to Delta variant) are spiking: Israel, is a case in point. It is the most highly vaccinated major society (and, according to leading Israeli commentator, Nadav Eyal, supposedly received “higher quality” Pfizer vaccines than the UK), and yet is experiencing a dramatic rise in new cases — severe cases jumping by 70% within just one week. The number of serious cases has increased about 10 times since the beginning of July: 90% of serious cases are people over 50; but also 95% of people over 50 are vaccinated.

        The Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, warns that cases may quadruple within three weeks, and that authorities are preparing for new lockdowns (even though lockdowns have proven to be ineffective against stopping the virus). Most Israelis have taken the Pfizer mRNA vaccine.

        Again blatant contradictions in the established narrative are striking: Are lockdowns justified, or are they not? Antony Fauci has said that the recent surge in infections is a “pandemic of the unvaccinated”; and that 99% of deaths were amongst the unvaccinated. But that’s just a lie. The CDC’s own data indicate that it is 15% of fatalities that had not been vaccinated.

        Not surprisingly, the public are becoming deeply distrustful of claims on ‘science’.

        What is going on? Well, we are no scientist. However, it was in the spring of 2021, that word began to trickle out that the messenger RNA vaccines had a serious problem with ADE (antibody-dependent enhancement). Once the initial protection from vaccines wore off (a process which took a few months), people who had been vaccinated were much more likely to get seriously ill from repeat exposure to Covid, than people who had not.

        In effect, if this is right, the US and European governments have a self-inflicted disaster on their hands. So, the narrative unsurprisingly took another twist: It was no longer enough to vaccinate 70% of the population (for ‘herd immunity’). No, now everyone, including those with natural immunity, without exception, had to be vaccinated. If everyone gets the vaccine, after all, it is easier to claim that what is happening is a nasty new variant, rather than vaccine-driven ADE, since nobody would be able to point an unvaccinated control group that is proving to be noticeably less vulnerable.

        Some Covid vaccines introduce mRNA (messenger RNA) into muscle cells. These (erstwhile, healthy) cells are thus directed through the action of this synthetic DNA to manufacture synthetic spike proteins that constitute the virus’ main weapon of attack. This is a form of gene therapy. Should those cells create an immune response against the protein (which they themselves helped create), it would in theory, prevent the virus from infecting the body. The reality seems to be, however, that problems with the cardiovascular system, bleeding and clotting, are all associated with the Covid spike protein, which instead of remaining in the muscle tissue is circulating throughout the cardio-vascular system.

        Some scientists say there is clear-cut evidence that the vaccines make the cells in our arm muscles manufacture spike proteins, which then get into the blood circulation, and that this spike protein, on its own, is almost entirely responsible for the damage to the cardiovascular system. Other scientists disagree.

        The core problem, one researcher has observed, are microscopic clots in his patients’ tiniest capillaries. He said: “blood clots are occurring at a capillary level. This has never before been seen. This is not a rare disease. This is an absolutely new phenomenon”. Most importantly, Dr Hoffe emphasized these micro-clots are too small to show up on CT scans, MRI, and other conventional tests, and can only be detected using the D-dimer blood test: “And so, we understand in the end, that the reason why the lungs fail, is not because the virus is there. It is because micro blood clots are there…”.

        Complicated stuff! The point here is that ‘breakthrough infections’ are spiking with increasing frequency – and likely, the higher the percentage of the population in that region that is vaccinated with mRNA, the worse they will be. Variants, of course, will be blamed. And the mainstream media will try to say the variants are all the fault of the unvaccinated, even though matters cannot be so easily reduced to a Manichaean pro, or anti, vaxx meme.

        Why then, are the élites so ‘sticky’ in staying with their explicitly contradictory narrative? Clearly, they fear a popular backlash if it turns out that some vaccines are health damaging. The deeper reason however, is that the élite class in the US and Europe is locked into a deadly, domestic exchange of smart narrative ‘missiles’. Rational argument or strategy is ‘out’. Anyone who pops his head out from the ‘narrative trench’ will be zapped. Boycotting, shaming and de-platforming work, and are today’s ‘go-to’ tools.

        What is different today is that this exclusionary ideology is being turned-in upon itself. Turned-in, within western societies, and not just outwards, towards the West’s foreign adversaries. Now, it is key segments of domestic society (and not just foreign leaders) that are being morally shamed and exiled from full participation in their societies – and threatened with sanctions – which if implemented – could destroy their livelihood.

        Primarily, it is the ‘unvaxxed’ who are deemed morally inadequate, but the scope of the new moral ideology extends more widely, and includes those who fail to embrace the green agenda and LBGTQ rights – uncritically. Establishment media insist these politically self-serving narratives on vaccination, the climate ‘emergency’ and LBGTQ rights, represent the new ‘dividing line’, defining majority over minority.

        Why is sustaining ‘the dividing line’ more important than getting the policy approach to this virus straight? Most of the élite know that Covid is not the threat that their propaganda implies; but the narrative gives them an opportunity to apply power through “moral judgment”, and so they lie – and they continue to lie about the data, until they think the lie will be accepted as reality.

        The ‘underside’ to this noble lie approach is not just about protecting narrative — rather it affords the ‘majority’ the chance to feel pious and superior to those they are determined to harm.

        A lingering epidemic, combined with deep job losses, a prolonged recession, and an unprecedented debt burden, will inevitably create social tensions that likely will turn into a political backlash — a long hot, angry summer. The implosion of trust in leadership, and fear of social upheaval however can implant a more profound pathology. It can produce the spiritual state that Emile Durkheim called ‘anomie’; a feeling of being disconnected from society; a conviction that the world around one is illegitimate and corrupt; that you are invisible: a ‘number’; a helpless object of hostile repression, imposed by ‘the system’ — a feeling that nobody is to be trusted.

        Yet this is not an end to it. The Establishment, with the whiff of desperation hanging about it, has reacted to its vaccine plight through shifting its thrust to a different flank of the cultural-warfare front: Moral ideology is being notched higher. Code Red of the climate ‘emergency’ has been launched, promising truly fearful consequences should new energy use restrictions and ‘lockdowns’ be not accepted by the public. The Washington Post made the subtext clear: Nationalism and Trumpist populism cannot be tolerated in the confrontation with a global climate emergency. The message is replete with tones of moral superiority, and piety.

        These then, are the ‘street’ flash points; but what about the élite flash points? What if they become yet more desperate as their Re-set plans tank; their economies sink; their supply-lines are disrupted; shortages spread; and inflation soars? Will they ‘Go Big’, and trigger a new Lehman Brothers moment?

        Is this the time for them to pivot away from the existing commercial banking system to a fully Central Bank-ing system centred on Central Bank issued digital currencies – and with Pay-Apps fulfilling most of the functions of the former commercial banks? Is this the way to secure the oligarchs? It is much easier to foreclose on possible bankruptcies and financial crises when the CB controls a digital currency: It determines if the depositor may draw on his or her wallet, or not; it can block, or even deduct, from it; and can allow or disallow expenditure from it, with a digital flip of a switch.

        Will that work, or might it cause an intolerable backlash? Is this then, the moment for a diversion? Is Iran approaching nuclear threshold status (it may already have it)? Is Russia threatening Ukraine; is China readying to invade Taiwan? There is a smorgasbord of diversionary possibilities already prepared in the narrative kitchen that can be easily run up, in case of diversionary need.”

    • Sean Coleman August 18, 2021 at 4:32 pm #

      A Harvard study from 2010 reported that less than one percent of vaccine injuries are reported. I think the main reason was that doctors did not know there is a reporting system and the second is that it takes up too much time. For fatalities, however, I would be inclined to think that more than one death in a hundred is reported, if only because it is harder to ignore, being so, well, final. My guess is that doctors might not suspect a connection between a patient keeling over and the jab he got that morning. Perhaps too there is a financial incentive to go easy on the old reporting. No, they might have lost the plot but doctors would never step that low. I hope. So I think I would multiply the 5.2k by five.

      So murder or negligence?

      Oscar Wilde might have put it like this: ‘To lose one patient, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose 25,000 looks like carelessness.”

      • Islander August 18, 2021 at 5:35 pm #

        I someone got a jab at Walmart and then they keel over that night, the doc might not connect that the person even got the jab.

        I’ve always thought this Walmart /CVS jab regime was a bit weird.
        Like, getting a jab from your favorite dealer. These jabbers are not medically trained. they have no idea of anyone medical history. Etc.

        Today the whole Metro section of the Boston Globe was devoted to Getting EVeryone Jabbed. The headline was “The Last Best Shot.” Implying apres no shot, the deluge, I suppose.

        Huge graph graphic showing 17,000+ deaths in Mass from Covid, and then a tiny black thing showing 124 deaths of those vaccinated since July 17.

        There are three large colored circles containing messages:

        1. “The variants are coming back again, and I see that those who are fully vaccinated have a greater chance of not being affected so much.” Pretty lame IMO.

        2. “Don’t listen to what your manager or your sister or your friend is saying. Do your research and really look up the facts.” Duh—Maybe your sister did her research and looked up “the facts.”

        3. “School’s coming around, and they’re gonna require the shot. Plus you never know when you might have to travel or go somewhere.” The not-so-veiled threat.

        The rest of the text was full of the usual bullshit, including, I think in itals (I looked at the paper in the library and took a photocopy of the three circled messages), the battle cry slogan “pandemic of unvaccinated.”

        Here is the page:
        https://apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/2021/08/the-last-best-shot/

        The paper is all in on vaccines: The editorial:
        “The Vaccine Could Save Us If We Let It.”

        Just incredible, the propaganda, guilt tripping, craziness around this.

        • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 5:55 pm #

          All this should show up on the overall death chart – unlike poor covid.

        • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 7:32 pm #

          I don’t know if it’s legit or not but someone posted anonymously from a Fortune 500 company saying that the PTB are freaking out about the low vaxx numbers and if employees stand up against the jabs they are done for.

          But I’ve always thought that was all that is needed, people to fucking stop allowing the steamroller to roll over us.

        • malthuss August 18, 2021 at 8:03 pm #

          I someone IF someone

          meanwhile, in the last few days I heard of 2 men who almost died after the jab.
          Both got serious blood clots.

          One pals dad, anothers son. scary.

  144. BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 4:31 pm #

    A few years back a woman I worked with told me she was cleaning out her barn, said I could come over and take what I wanted. The property dated back to the 1770s. One thing I found was the rusted head of a heavy fireman’s axe with a barely discernable logo engraved in it. I brought it home and began working on it, removing the rust with wire brushes, steel wool and oil. I got it looking pretty good in about an hour, at which time I could read the engraving

    Underhill Edged Tool Company
    Boston, Mass

    A little research told me Underhill Edge Tool operated in Nashua, New Hampshire and Boston, Mass. 1852-1890.

    I put more work into that axe, got it buffed out so it looked almost like it just came out of the factory, bought a nice new handle for it at the local hardware store, now I got myself a new/old Fireman’s Axe.

    • cowbell81 August 18, 2021 at 4:37 pm #

      Very nice find! You were certainly in the right place at the right time. And to think that most people would simply back up a dumpster and fill it up, or send something like this to the scrap yard. Many modern day Americans are just so ignorant and wasteful, it boggles my mind.

    • malthuss August 18, 2021 at 8:04 pm #

      firefighter. you are not PC.

      see my comment above, about vax.

  145. cowbell81 August 18, 2021 at 5:15 pm #

    Don’t see how this is legal, wouldn’t be surprised if the US just turns around and says “the gold now belongs to us”. Further reason why everyone should be scared of keeping money in a Federally controlled US Bank.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/taliban-can-t-touch-afghanistan-s-gold-stored-away-in-the-us/ar-AANt0eh?ocid=msedgntp

    • Chippenhook August 18, 2021 at 6:13 pm #

      Odds are the gold isn’t even there. Remember some years back the Germans wanted their gold back? They were told it would take years and years to ship it which made no sense whatsoever and then it suddenly went quiet and then nothing more was said. My guess is behind the scenes they were told it wasn’t physically there anymore and best everyone just make believe. This is why going back to a gold standard wouldn’t be anything more than a feel good exercise as every country would simply claim they have reserves that they don’t have.

      • O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 6:23 pm #

        Earth has been looted clean. They will Legally own everything and the survivor proles will be soma Happy.

      • SpeedyBB August 19, 2021 at 3:34 pm #

        Fascinating and revealing story, Chippenhook, and I attempted to follow it as far as I could, when it was “news”.

        First the Germans concluded the the Russkies were not going to send an attack wave of tanks toward Western Europe (no more USSR), so the Deutsche Bundesbank had no need to store their gold bullion overseas.

        They paid a visit to the Bank of New York, who pouted and said ‘No, it’s not convenient for us to return your gold at the moment.’

        BDR (probably a bit startled): ‘Can we at least take a look at it?’

        ‘No, that’s not possible either, Fritz. We’re busy. Beat it.’

        After a lot of back-and-forth the nervous Germans were allowed a peek at part of their bullion.

        At some point several years on, some (or all) of their gold reserve was shipped across the Atlantic to the rather-anxious-by-now Bundesbank. Surprise: the ingots were not the same ones that had been sent for safekeeping to Uncle Sam. They were therefore obliged to melt the lot down and cast it again to make sure there was no ((ahh)) “misunderstanding”.

        Then there is the matter of the USA’s own reserves, Auric. Over the years Congress has on numerous occasions made a timid request to get an inventory of what’s resting in the vaults at Fort Knox. Ixnay on Fort Knox comes back the answer. Not possible.

        I suspect, as you intimate, that the metal is stashed away safely in a repository of the Middle Kingdom.

        BONUS: Those with a memory of such news may recall that in the early 1980s (if I’m not mistaken) European central banks were raising such a fuss about having to store all this bulky old metal. “Gold? Is this the Middle Ages? What’s the point of it? Gold is useless in today’s financial systems. It costs us good money to handle, inventory and store it. How can we unload the obsolete stuff?”

        Curiously enough you hear that song no longer.

  146. Chippenhook August 18, 2021 at 5:43 pm #

    I wasn’t able to copy it, but in summary form, the editorial in my local paper today said that Vermonters should be embarrassed that we are too white. The article was in reaction to the release of the 2020 census data.

    Yes, we’re supposed to be embarrassed. VT going from 1% black in 2010 to 1.4% black in 2020 and Hispanics going from 1.5% in 2010 to 2.4% in 2020 apparently wasn’t enough diversity shift for them. They don’t tell us what it is they don’t like about white people nor what benefits would be derived from more diversity. Perhaps they assume that answer is so obvious that it doesn’t need saying. I don’t know what that answer is but then maybe that’s just me.

    They as well don’t say what % black and Hispanic they think we should have. Is there a national quota that Imissed? Is it in Pelosi’s big budget bill somewhere?

    • Islander August 18, 2021 at 6:05 pm #

      Per the Dems there is a new voting rights act in the wings, ready to be rolled out by Pelosi.

    • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 6:47 pm #

      LMAO! Wow. Just, wow.

    • stelmosfire August 18, 2021 at 7:55 pm #

      Chippenhook,that’s a huge demographic shift. The black population increased 40 % and the Hispanics increased 60%. in only ten years. Yikes!

      • malthuss August 18, 2021 at 8:06 pm #

        And in USA, OVER LAST 100 YEARS, whats the change in yellows and browns, as a percent?

      • Chippenhook August 18, 2021 at 8:13 pm #

        Percentage-wise it was a huge shift, but the editor of the newspaper seems to have wanted a huge change in real numbers, though as I noted he didn’t say what % of blacks and Hispanics he thinks would be appropriate. Or why he wants Vermont to be less white.

    • malthuss August 18, 2021 at 8:05 pm #

      and when murders happen, who dunnit?
      Blacks?

      • Chippenhook August 18, 2021 at 8:15 pm #

        Just going by the photos in the media associated with certain crimes, or the names, it does seem to not be in proportion to the actual demographics.

  147. Amman August 18, 2021 at 6:33 pm #

    STRANGE DAYS AHEAD? Hello?

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      It’s already strange enough for my taste.

  148. MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 6:46 pm #

    AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS SELLS OUT TO ROCKEFELLERS, TRILATERALISTS, AND BIG TECH

    “On May 1st, 2021, Americans for Public Trust leaked email correspondences between the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, these emails revealed how the bureaucracy of this teachers’ union was lobbying the CDC to roll back its school reopening guidelines.

    Pumping the brakes on the return to in-person learning, the AFT emails successfully petitioned the CDC to add “language” recommending that schools continue to provide “telework” and “virtual teaching opportunities” as alternatives to face-to-face education. The AFT also requested that the Center for Disease Control add a coronavirus “variant closing metric” that would renege on the CDC’s greenlight for in-person instruction “at any level of community [COVID] transmission.” By prioritizing “telework” and “virtual teaching,” while seeking to reinstate COVID lockdown measures in the event of new coronavirus variants, the lobbying efforts of the AFT basically pressured the CDC into relegating schools to prolonged virtual “distance learning” that is outsourced to private ed-tech corporations.

    To put it bluntly, the AFT has been attempting to sway the CDC to ratchet up COVID restrictions that perpetuate public education’s reliance on Big Tech company privatization. These companies have been raking in record profits by selling ed-tech products to schools during lockdown. In turn, just after their email exchanges with the CDC, the AFT and the National Education Association co-authored Learning Beyond COVID-19: A Vision for Thriving in Public Education, which calls for increased access to “devices needed for online learning” along with increased access to “virtual” tutoring.

    Why would the American Federation of Teachers go against “following the science” by lobbying the CDC to backpedal its relaxation of school health and safety protocols? Why would the AFT defy CDC experts by opposing school re-openings in favor of extending COVID restrictions that prop open the floodgates for the ed-tech industry to advance its privatization of public education through “remote” e-learning contracts? Why do this when mainstream medical journals, such as the Lancet, have published data which finds that “[c]hildren and young people remain at low risk of COVID-19 mortality”? What is the point when there is mounting evidence that in-person schoolhouse learning does not result in rising community transmission rates of COVID-19?

    These questions are even more perplexing when considering the increase in adolescent suicides resulting from depression caused by social isolation from school lockdowns that sequester students from their classmates. At the same time, peer isolation from school lockdown is harming the cognitive, social, and emotional development of students who are in the crucial stages of learning the fundamentals of how to communicate by reading facial expressions, body language, and other social cues which are indispensable to in-person human interaction. Not to mention there is copious data showing that face-to-face classroom instruction has far more benefits for student learning than virtual “distance learning” through a computer screen.

    So the question remains, with all these reasons for students to go back to brick-and-mortar classrooms, why didn’t the AFT “follow the science” by going along with the CDC’s school reopening recommendations? What motivated AFT bureaucrats to stump for corporate-technocratic distance learning by petitioning the CDC to tighten the screws on its COVID mitigation protocols for schools?”

    Read the rest, here:

    https://walls-work.org/american-federation-of-teachers-sells-out-to-rockefellers-trilateralists-and-big-tech/

  149. tucsonspur August 18, 2021 at 6:54 pm #

    I hate self driving cars. Saw an ad with some dufus behind the wheel with his arms folded across his chest, staring straight ahead and looking ever so pleased. Aren’t cars already self driving enough with automatic transmissions and cruise control?

    This guy might as well have been a piece of luggage. What’s the attraction? Maybe some will get a thrill out of doing the wild thing in the back?

    Could a self driving car ever be a ‘pussy wagon’?

    What a bore. Gimme four on the floor till there ain’t no more! And gimme that 409, or GTO, or little deuce coup any day of the week. Let the lake pipes roar!

    • O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 7:20 pm #

      “Doing the wild thing” and “pussy wagon.” Hahaha. Grade 11 in 1981. Good fun in a very different time.

      • tucsonspur August 18, 2021 at 8:01 pm #

        Yes, these days I often find escape down memory lane and earlier stages.

    • gustafson.robert.22 August 18, 2021 at 7:34 pm #

      every time there’s a single-vehicle tesla crash, an angel gets its wings

      • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 8:39 pm #

        And the Indians hunted the North American megafauna to extinction.

        • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 11:25 am #

          There is evidence that the megafauna were removed by a meteor strike in North America. Along with many of the original peoples here. A big piece of human history is missing also.

          Here is a wild straw man for climate change in the past. What if the Earth is like a giant billiard ball and when it is struck by extraterrestrial stuff, it changes very slightly in orbit. We do know it does not change much. 65 million years ago, the climate had to have made a huge change, probably cooler, that favored the metabolisms of warm blooded animals, mammals and feathered raptor dinosaurs. An age of big beaked grounded birds followed the hit. Along with a huge uptick in mammal numbers and diversity. Birds, mammals, small reptiles give us the world we have today sculpted by climate change.

    • SpeedyBB August 19, 2021 at 3:42 pm #

      Fun story down Texas way, Tucsonspur.

      Some woman bought her a nice motorhome and found that it had something called “Cruise Control” on it. Wow, the vehicle can drive all by itself. So she got up to speed, set the Cruise Control and went back to the kitchen to tidy up and watch her fave soap opera.

      When the vehicle, whose intelligence was sadly not up to the job, drifted off the road and turned turtle, the angry woman gor lawyered up and sued the manufacturer, claiming she had been taken in by deceptive labeling.

      Almost too hard to believe. Almost.

  150. malthuss August 18, 2021 at 7:28 pm #

    Biden-Camel will bring Taliban sleeper cells in, and will do it gladly.

    • tucsonspur August 18, 2021 at 8:04 pm #

      Obama will be pleased with the Caliphate resurgence.

    • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 10:07 pm #

      The plan is to evacuate the whole Afghan population, 30 million, and bring them to Texas, Florida and Utah.

      Even the 80,000 Taliban fighters are welcome.

  151. MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 7:47 pm #

    Trump blurts out another truthism.

    This is the one of the few things I enjoyed about him being in office.

    https://thepalmierireport.com/looks-like-a-money-making-operation-trump-speaks-out-on-pfizer-booster-shots/

    • Redneck Liberal August 19, 2021 at 3:57 am #

      Well, he’d know. But wait! Isn’t he now deemed to be a Globalist Stooge (or something)? A bit of consistency, please, Ms. Vogt.

  152. Proton August 18, 2021 at 8:15 pm #

    Our intellectual class are witless conformists, each standing with the
    others behind shield walls of incomprehension, none willing to break formation for fear of giving up their spot.

    Apparently that’s how it has to be in these modern authoritarian times, starting on campus, social media being the informant and sometimes enforcer, wrecker of life and reputation. And if not some Silicon Valley geek or algo then a colleague, rival or frenemy outing you and ousting you.

    What does right or wrong matter, not just in the moral sense. But rather, have we got our facts right? Or wrong? Do we have a sniff, do we know wtf we’re doing? Or not?

    What did we see for 20 years with this Afghanistan debacle? People keeping their mouth shut, going along, nobody with power or influence willing to speak up, none willing to dissent, being one of the boys the be-all-and-end-all, each instead going over the cliff with the phalanx.

    “Going over the cliff” meant figuratively, but if they keep screwing up as massively as this, then literally…

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    • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 8:26 pm #

      I love your first sentence. Witness that first hand in colleges across the nation. Bunch of spineless nitwits with fancy degrees and no common sense.

      • Proton August 18, 2021 at 8:29 pm #

        It is a horrifying thing.

    • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 8:45 pm #

      Does any organization NOT get like this?

      https://www.space.com/19476-space-shuttle-columbia-disaster-oversight.html

      People become afraid to speak out because boat rocking causes problems and no one wants problems! And they cost money that isn’t available or that is earmarked for other things. So say nothing and hope the disaster strikes on someone else’s watch or with someone else’s project – ideally after you’ve retired and/or cashed out.

  153. MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 8:16 pm #

    I told my union rep at my college that there’s no way I will allow them to test me, and that I am not getting vaccinated. I do have an exemption letter from my physician. But, I wasn’t planning on going back there in person anyway. So I did it to make sure they know that there are some of us who aren’t buying into their bullshit. I also asked if the District was equipped to compensate anyone they harm with vaccines. Lots of sputtering in response.

    In any case, I am pretty sure my last day there is in October, the deadline where the online people are being forced back on campus. Just in time for flu season. LMAO.

    • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 8:24 pm #

      Fauci just now with Lester Holt: The booster will enhance the flagging immunity 10 or 20 fold (old fashioned way of saying times).

      Wowser. As if you need all that. Sounds like a perfect set up for ADE.

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 8:27 pm #

        I guess they are doubling down on vaccine injuries.

        I don’t know how long they can get away with trying to hide that jabbed people are the ones who are getting infected and injured and dead.

        • Blackbird August 18, 2021 at 9:55 pm #

          “I don’t know how long…”

          Forever.

      • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 2:41 am #

        Translation : The booster is a degrader that will further degrade the immune system by about 10 or 20 fold.

    • Proton August 18, 2021 at 8:27 pm #

      What about that exemption letter? Won’t it count for anything?

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 8:29 pm #

        Yes, but then they want to force mask & test.

        I can tell my coworkers who have already gone into the office are already annoyed at ‘mask on/mask off’ protocols. LOL.

        I’m looking for another job/jobs. All online (which I can do).

        They can go to hell. And after I leave I will be sending a big ol’ manifesto to the board of trustees. Probably anonymously, with all the info from my 1.5 years of research as well as the laws showing their liability and war crimes.

      • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 8:31 pm #

        I’m gonna cash in my pension, too. I have zero trust that pensions won’t be robbed next.

        • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 8:45 pm #

          Make sure you don’t incur any penalties, Mary.

          • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 9:42 pm #

            You mean tax penalties? There will be. No way around it. Rather get what I can now than nothing later when they raise our taxes 50%

            If you mean, penalties for causing a stir, no, I won’t cause a stir ’til I withdraw.

          • BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 10:04 pm #

            Mary I meant tax and early withdrawal penalties. They can be steep if you’re not careful. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to talk to a trustworthy financial person before you act.

        • Redneck Liberal August 19, 2021 at 4:00 am #

          Buying crypto, or silver bullion?

          • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 9:47 am #

            Remember that the scum are in charge that make the rules.

            Bottom line is that The Dem Mob will do what then can to steal money from the haves and redistribute to the have nots. I would not feel safe about any capital reservoir and it will be our job to stay one step in front of the thieves.

        • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 9:51 am #

          If your pension is funded, you are fortunate. Most are not. Bankruptcies and dimes on the dollars payoffs are in the future. Many states and their state pensions are already bankrupt.

    • cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 9:55 am #

      Good luck later this fall with your anticipated departure! Keep us up to date on how that all goes. Hopefully you can put that Board in their place. Take everything you have coming to you and don’t leave anything behind for them to feast upon after you are gone.

  154. Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 8:35 pm #

    Critical Race Theory Aims To Murder The Souls Of White Children

    CRT aims to annihilate the souls of white people, to morally paralyze them via a protracted process of induced guilt, shame, embarrassment, and extortion.

    By Jason Hill
    AUGUST 13, 2021

    A friend of mine told me a true apocryphal story. He is an old-fashioned “liberal” and a strong advocate of public education.

    The Covid-19 lockdowns left him additional time to inconspicuously sit in on his sixth-grade son’s online classes. One afternoon, he observed an assignment in an English class in which all the white students were required to place their arms beside a brown paper bag.

    The teacher, a white woman, asked if they noticed a difference in color between their skin and the brown paper bag. The white students verbally assented. The teacher then asked if the color of the bag looked close to the skin color of some classmates who identify as black.

    The teacher then announced: “If your skin color is different from the color of the paper bag, then you are part of an American problem known as ‘systemic racism’ that does irreparable harm to all black and brown people. Further, if you identify as white, you enjoy something called ‘white privilege,’ which means you are practicing racism every day without knowing it.” The teacher then went on to ask the class if they had ever heard the term “reparations.”

    Out of some sense of visceral paternal protection, my friend slammed down his son’s computer and told him to go to his room. He told me that he stood there, shaking with incredulity.

    This Is Called Murdering Someone’s Soul
    I told him his son was being held hostage by a new national philosophy called critical race theory, a moral eugenics program. His son was being re-socialized to be an enemy of his family, himself, and the state. The murder of his son’s soul was taking place before his eyes.

    At age 12, this young man had committed no egregious harm against any black person, yet he was being taught to feel that he was the cause of all harms inflicted on black people. His son, I said, would grow to feel resentment towards blacks and self-hatred.

    By the power of his whiteness, he could cause much harm yet also alleviate blacks’ misery and suffering. He would be made to feel like a monster for holding that power. Simultaneously, he would be made to feel like the Devil for not exercising this power to rectify every asymmetry between blacks and whites regardless of whether the disparities were caused by racism.

    It would not be enough for him to not be a racist. He would have to prove that he was also an “anti-racist.” This child’s curriculum would continue to include a phalanx of progressive nihilists who would call for the annihilation of “whiteness,” which his mind would come to understand as the annihilation of all white people, including himself.

    I told my friend his son ran the risk of not only becoming a racist, but a self-hating white supremacist. He could come to believe that becoming a white supremacist would be his only default position from which to protect his life from this assault.

    Whatever You Call This, It’s Evil
    Many practitioners of critical race theory would like us to believe they are not part of the moral eugenics programs suffusing the learning domains from K-12 to universities. Yet the calls to abolish “whiteness,” expurgate courses of all European thinkers, and the attacks against free speech are part of their agenda.

    They call for equity, which means equality of outcomes plus reparations; inclusion, which is restricted speech banning anything some find offensive; and diversity, which is a violation of individual identity and enforced intellectual conformity. “Cultural competence” and “relevance” means catering to stereotypes of identity groups that results in a blank check to inform people they are not “culturally aware” and that they must modify their behavior. They believe dissent is proof of racial bigotry.

    This is a form of mass indoctrination. These are the strategies to indoctrinate people into critical race theory (CRT).

    Critical Race Theory Is Scaring People Stiff
    I taught CRT as a graduate student while pursuing my Ph.D. more than 25 years ago. I can say confidently that, like any idea pathogen, CRT has morphed several mutant variants.

    People from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo promulgate a variant of CRT. They insist people of European descent make society racist for their own benefit. They insist racism is systemic, and that it is present even if no one is racist. They claim all disparities in group outcomes are due to racist systems.

    The application of all these iterations of CRT has a lot of people scared. A former vice president at JP Morgan told me his company had given millions of dollars to Black Lives Matter, which spouts CRT language to bolster its claims, so that when the massacres come, the people in charge there hope they’ll be the last to be shredded—or, at best, they might obtain a point of entry to negotiate for their lives.

    I cannot walk anywhere in several cities in any American neighborhood without seeing a BLM poster etched in store windows. I’m hard pressed to believe that folks who run such enterprises really support the radically pro-Marxist socialist-communist axis of BLM.

    Americans are experiencing real fear and intimidation. It is a fear that a war is brewing. When the mobs return to again loot and burn down our cities and wage an economic insurrection inside our republic, some folks hope they can escape the carnage with bribes.

    Nuclear-Weaponizing Shame
    The goals of CRT are to annihilate the souls of white people, to morally paralyze them via a protracted process of induced guilt, shame, embarrassment, and extortion. The call to abolish “whiteness,” a staple now of “whiteness studies,” CRT, and all social justice programs in our schools, is a euphemistic moniker—a death metaphor with a wide berth.

    CRT promotes its death agenda by handing your soul over to any race pimp and hustler who uses his body and feelings arguments against the pigmentation of your own skin. It is a racial extinction plan. It is the Final Solution of people who recused themselves from a significant portion of humanity, making themselves into misanthropes.

    Our new national philosophy deploys moral relativism and the suppression of dissent by criminalizing reason and logic as proper adjudicators of truth claims. To hate yourself for being white, even if such an ascriptive identity might mean nothing to you personally, is, in the end, to get you to dehumanize your life.

    If they can accuse young white children of “spirit murdering” black children, as is a popular canard of CRT, then children will end up thinking that their values and thinking, none of which can be redistributed, are the products of their original sin. not their virtues.

    The End Goal of This Is Collectivist Tyranny
    They whose souls are being nationalized right now in our institutions will be the manufacturers of socialism-communism. Racially scapegoated and expected to atone for every social and economic disparity between themselves and blacks, they will be convinced communism is the grand elixir for all the maladies they and their ancestors inflicted upon a competitor race.

    Until people realize that CRT is an extinction doctrine with the sole goal of stripping every white person of every defense they have to protect their self-esteem, agency, and free will, they will be prey for every American hating, Marxist-loving social ballast masquerading as an agent of change for the good.

    A sixth grader can feel self-doubt when told such things because of the lack of an emergent identity that can track his successes in the world against forces that would seek to obliterate it. That child’s self-esteem can be destroyed by telling him that, by a process of chemical predestination, he genetically harbors the seeds of an oppressor. He is the carrier of a genetic pathogen—whiteness.

    This whiteness is deterministic, and destructive of others’ agency. He must “democratize” his natural and cultivated talents that others do not possess. He must at some point see merit as a con game his ancestors built to keep blacks outside the domain of universal inclusion.

    Is it any wonder that I, as a college professor of 24 years, observe students enter college convinced that the universe is stacked against them, and that college life a useless holding pen that will further suck whatever joy and vitality for life they might once have possessed when they knew who they were before the nefarious CRT left told them who they had to be?

    These children suffer from the trauma of being subjected to social eugenics that encourage them to feel hatred for themselves based on the color of their skin. This is our republic. And these are our children, regardless of color.

    It’s time to rescue them from the soul killers obsessed with remaking them into clones for the creation of an America few of us want to live in. The world they desire can be won. It is up to us to slay the dragons and re-gift the children their beautiful souls.

    Yoho: Thank you, sir. One doesn’t expect such decency from Professors on this issue, especially Black ones. And no one, not even Tucker or Anglin, has told it so straight, simultaneously both blunt and elegant. You have the gift of expression to a very high degree.

    The existence of this man changes nothing in terms of social dynamics and the need to separate. But one must acknowledge moral greatness wherever one finds it and the Truth, no matter what the color of the speaker or writer. A Racist (one who prefers his own) need not be a bigot.

    His friend was monitoring his son’s cyber class: One of the silver linings of the Covid scam along with lots of people getting to work at home. What is the rationale of companies having to vaccinate at distance workers?

    • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 10:10 pm #

      Have you read/seen Shelby Steele, John McWhorter or Coleman Hughes? They are similar. And all black men.

      • Yohannon August 18, 2021 at 11:26 pm #

        You’re still worshiping. Sad!

        • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 9:34 am #

          No. I like their takes on (and criticisms of) CRT.

          You just posted one black man’s opinion so how is that any different?

          Weird.

          “Worshipping” – lol.

          • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 11:22 am #

            I was praising the intelligence and virtue of a Man. You’re like, Of course he’s smart, he’s Black.

            If you had lived around them, as I have, you’d know how dangerous they are. If you had gone to school with them (as I have), you’d know how dumb they tend to be. You’ve lived a very sheltered life.

            But yes, considering his the general tenor of his race, he does stand head and shoulders above the mass.

            Shelby Steele used to be alright, but then went over to the dark side, admitting Black were horrible, but saying they merely copied the White slave owners who were like that.

    • Soul Forensics August 18, 2021 at 11:09 pm #

      The mis-education cult started with the brainwashing of university students, then went backwards to high school and now elementary school. Inroads being made for White kindergarteners. Day care is next, where morbidly obese Black wimmens will browbeat their innocent White charges with impunity. After that, instead of the infant’s pure gaze of love into mother’s eyes, reciprocated in loving connection for millennia, guilted White mom will instead hold up a picture of a Black being lynched by a fat White sheriff. Similar pictures to be rotated to keep baby’s interest. Baby’s hands will be slapped when he or she interacts without shame with another White toddler. After that? Just popped out of the womb, White baby will be greeted in the hospital by a rousing chorus of the Black National Anthem on booming speakers.

      • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 9:35 am #

        Hahahahaha!

        Funny, but probably too close to the truth for comfort.

  155. O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 8:40 pm #

    ENRAGED MOTHER SAYS THE PFIZER VACCINE KILLED HER DAUGHTER IN 5 HRS & OTHER REPORTS OF RAPID DEATH

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/SmkHIDZFRCGL/

    “Don’t take the shot. They are killing us! They killed her!”

    • MaryQueen August 18, 2021 at 9:44 pm #

      How many have to die??? At least this mom didn’t say ‘it was worth it’.

    • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 2:37 am #

      Yes, that is what it is looking like.

      Consider the following in this context:

      These companies have no liability clauses in their contracts with state authorities.

      And on the subject of shedding, the German government changed the constitution here about a month ago to make it impossible to take legal action against the state for the shedding of microorganisms from vaxxers.

      Stay away from the shot and those who have taken it.

  156. BackRowHeckler August 18, 2021 at 9:20 pm #

    Taliban is walking around the streets of Kabul toting M4s, the standard US infantry weapon, an upgrade from their customary Kalashnikovs.

    Taliban has captured tons of state of the art US ordinance, weaponry and equipment, including apparently stinger missiles, tanks, attack helicopters and artillery. Expect those goodies to be sold on the international black market for some quick cash now that Yellin has frozen any Afghan assets in US banks. Taliban will be needing the money.

    ISIS will be buying altho ISIS and Taliban are not exactly bosom buddies. China and Iran will be interested in getting their hands on some of the more sophisticated weaponry and gear, eager to tear it down to see what make’s it tick.

    Brh

    • O.G. Hawkins August 18, 2021 at 9:23 pm #

      eager to tear it down to see what make’s it tick.

      Inside they will find: Made in China.

    • elysianfield August 19, 2021 at 11:31 am #

      “equipment, including apparently stinger missiles…”

      BRH,
      Coming to an airport near you!

  157. Q. Shtik August 18, 2021 at 10:25 pm #

    Last week I asked why the big fire in northern California is called the “Dixie” fire but no one answered. So now I’m asking again.

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    • bigbill August 19, 2021 at 1:50 am #

      “Last week I asked why the big fire in northern California is called the “Dixie” fire…”

      It is named after the road where it started (in the Feather River Canyon near Cresta Dam on July 13, 2021).

      • Q. Shtik August 19, 2021 at 12:12 pm #

        It is named after the road where it started – bigbill

        ==========

        Thanks for the info bill. I will ignore the smartass replies that followed yours. (Question: should I have used an apostrophe in yours? If yes, I’m sure I’ll hear from Night Owl)

        • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 2:33 pm #

          Why would you hear from me? I only correct your shitty attempted corrections.

          Only one of us has been booted from this site for such sad behavior, and it ain’t me.

    • Redneck Liberal August 19, 2021 at 4:03 am #

      Ask Irish Siri:
      ‘ fer feck’s sake, have yeh not heard o’ Google, ya lazy bastard!”

    • stelmosfire August 19, 2021 at 6:35 am #

      All knowing Google tells me the fire is named after Nurse Dixie from the “Emergency” TV show because it is hotter than Julie London who played the character and is best known for her song “Cry me a River”

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXg6UB9Qk0o

  158. KesaAnna August 18, 2021 at 10:40 pm #

    ” Is it any wonder that I, as a college professor of 24 years, observe students enter college convinced that the universe is stacked against them, and that college life a useless holding pen that will further suck whatever joy and vitality for life they might once have possessed ”

    As I recall , Andrew Carnegie got his first rent – paying , grocery bill – paying job at the age of …… 12.

    ( And as far as I know , he never thought of , or imagined himself as , the horribly exploited victim of some Pedo conspiracy.

    ” Poor me ! I didn’t have a childhood ! ” Pfft. )

    I’m no fan of Abraham Lincoln , but even the Devil should be given his just due.

    Abraham Lincoln , a lawyer , NEVER SET FOOT in a law school.

    Indeed, if I remember correctly , as far as formal , institutional education in general goes , the only schooling he ever received was THREE OR FOUR YEARS in one of those dreadful elementary , log cabin , one – room schools.

    Scores and scores of jobs , essentially THE SAME jobs , now require some formal schooling framework , or work credential , which 50 years ago were managed just fine by people who weren’t even high school graduates.

    JHK has called institutional education a racket.

    I doubt he would go as far as I do,

    but it appears in many ways to me to be only a variation on the sweat shop.

    The story is that the system exists to help the child , and serve the interest of the child.

    But more and more it looks to me , and quite blatantly too , that the child’s interest is merely being used as a pretext to create another feeding trough for others.

    The child isn’t really there to learn to read , write , and do arithmetic.

    The child is there because the college graduates who work there would rather not work at Burger King.

    No one ever suggests that prison guards and prisons are there for the sake of the inmates —-

    — Opps , there have been occasions when people did suggest precisely that.

  159. KesaAnna August 18, 2021 at 10:48 pm #

    Hey , believe it or not , I am NOT against kiddies learning about Aristotle and Xenophon ,

    or learning how to fix an air conditioner.

    But I AM saying YOUR childs education is YOUR business.

    This idea that the state , or your anonymous neighbor , lies awake at night fretting over your childs future ability to pay the bills ,

    is either pseudo – religious bullshit. ( But calling itself ” secular ” )

    Or a sinister kind of dishonesty.

    • Soul Forensics August 18, 2021 at 11:24 pm #

      D.H. Lawrence had all this down 90 years ago. Kids should go to school to learn the three Rs, and to learn how to interact with other strangers, mostly other kids, with respect and occasional conflict.

      After high school (at most), most of them should enroll in a trade or, if the desire or competence is lacking, to grab whatever unskilled job they can.

      Even if they’re in the minority who are intellectually gifted, there’s no harm in waiting five or ten years to seek further education. Knock around for a while, have some rip-roaring misadventures, or study history and law when there’s down-time at the factory.

      Universities used to be extremely difficult to get into, just like Rinzai Zen monasteries. The curriculum and marking were strict, and of course there were no allowances made for lower IQ non-Whites.

      I’m old enough to remember university as a mostly positive experience, with race and women’s issues being only a whisper, and certainly not pushed by any prof, dean, or administrator.

      Nowadays? I’d avoid universities almost as much as hospitals.

      • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 9:39 am #

        Well said, both of you.

        Universities are a racket.

        • cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 10:16 am #

          I regret having wasted so many years and oodles of dollars on degrees that have never come in handy except to allegedly set me apart from my competition and serve as a talking point when applying for jobs.

          My undergrad years were free and fun, doing what I wanted, learning about the world and socializing at the same time. If there was a return policy for grad school I would visit the customer service counter instantly.

          If I was a college aged student nowadays, given everything going on in this world, I would certainly rethink what to do, but then again hindsight is 20/20.

          Certainly glad that it turned out I never had children, as I would feel terrible bringing them into this hell-scape. There was a time that I wanted the traditional family, but I just never met the right person, and now time has moved too far along in my life that any want or need for that is simply a part of my past. I get along fine by myself the way it is.

          • Blackbird August 19, 2021 at 6:32 pm #

            Grad school…

            Having attended a consulting firm that sells advanced degrees, I should have 2 PhD’s for all the money I spent. Instead I have a student loan debt that is, at this point, ~66% interest and fees. And I didn’t even get a t-shirt!

      • Blackbird August 19, 2021 at 6:27 pm #

        I don’t agree that waiting five or ten years to further one’s education is a good idea. Knowledge unravels if it is not used – math is a great example of that.

        Brainiac graduates at the top of his high school class, spends the next five years landscaping, cooking up hash oil, running cars, then decides to go back to school. Brainiac will have to redo two years of math, will have missed out on the scholarships that are only available to recent high school graduates, and will have to attend school part-time while working. Not a recipe for success – especially when it comes to grad school.

        I do agree that universities should have higher entrance requirements than they currently do. Based on my experience, about 90% of the kids in college shouldn’t be there, their ignorance and lack of preparation dilutes the educational value of the experience for those that should be there. I passed Calculus I with a B. I now know how to build a pen of maximum area for my pitbull using my trailer as one side of the pen – but that’s about it. Of the 36 “students” that started the class, 18 were left by finals week, and only 3 others passed the class (with C’s). A teacher that couldn’t teach and a class that was unprepared – to be charitable – to learn.

        And I really agree that “higher education” – or for that matter, any “education” at all that is provided by the state – is a thing of the past. Teach your kids yourself – or ask your smart friend to do so. If you’re too dumb to teach your kids, then do us all a favor and don’t have kids. (Not directed at you Soul, you should probably have more than 2 kids.)

  160. KesaAnna August 19, 2021 at 12:02 am #

    ” …and to learn how to interact with other strangers, mostly other kids, with respect and occasional conflict. ”

    I reckon they could learn that just as well loitering in a bowling alley.

    In the bad old days 60 ( ? ) to 90% of the population NEVER went to ANY school EVER.

    But then —

    well , at that point you get two different narratives concerning the bad old days .

    Both of which strike me as rather flatly contradictory ;

    — We need socialized education because society used to be a strait – jacket tyranny of control , because people were ignorant and bigoted.

    Or —

    We need socialized education because society used to be a veritable jungle of chaos . There wasn’t nearly enough control !

    Apparently Robert E. Lee , and George III , and Attila the Hun , were all runaway permissive Libertines .

    Who knew ?!

  161. Proton August 19, 2021 at 12:46 am #

    It’s hard to overstate the magnitude of this Afghanistan disaster. It’s been said many times on this blog and others, that the managerial technocracy – that for decades presumed to rule on the basis of superior education and credentials and competence- foisted one epic fuck-up after another, this being just one more in a long list.

    And so far our supposed betters maintained their privilege and position. But this mess has a different feel to it, like the world changed and a page in history turned the day the Taliban strolled into Kabul.

    Why does it feel this way? A writer on another site thinks it’s the sheer disorganization of the US withdrawal, the complete chaos. All the resources poured into the American military and State Department and this is what happens? They couldn’t do any better?

    Thousands of American citizens, thousands more Afghani translators/helpers that have been trying for years to get out, all of them stranded with the US impotent, its massive military and civil service bureaucracy with its legions of workers unable to cope.

    Contrast the Soviet withdrawal in 1989 and its orderly columns which looked a model of efficiency in comparison to this fiasco. This after 20 years and all those many billions? A handful of illiterate turbaned farmers in sandals did this?

    What does it mean? Maybe this, it means that for the people that purported to be our superiors the disgrace and discrediting is complete, their right to rule based on merit and ability a complete lie. For decades they’ve been but empty suits, a parasitic over-class governing by intimidation and bluff and bluster, self-enrichment their only motive.

    So, what follows? That’s the hard part. History can be instructive in these matters but every place is different as is each succeeding era. So we can talk about “regime change” but regimes don’t change according to pre-set trajectories and time-lines. There’s talk about societal “resets” pushed on us by individuals on high, and I think the time is nigh for exactly that, but I think the re-set won’t be one determined by a few magnificently wealthy men in opulent quarters.

    The Afghanistan debacle may be the precipitating incident for a cascade that follows but I don’t think that Washington will be at the center of it. As in Afghanistan, the US government and America’s governing elite will be bystanders, overwhelmed by events. And they will find something out as did previous regimes in other countries, that people have power if other people listen and obey. But without that, there’s no power.

    • bigbill August 19, 2021 at 2:08 am #

      President Trump legitimized the Taliban. He and Pompeo negotiated with terrorists. He gave the Taliban an end date. All they had to do was wait it out.

      President Biden honored Trump’s agreement with the Taliban.

      Three Presidents (Bush, Obama, Trump) stayed in Afghanistan. Trump said he wanted out, but in four years he did not get ‘er done.

      Biden tried to tell Obama to get out. Obama did not get ‘er done. Now Biden has carried out Trump’s exit plan, after Trump negotiated with the enemy and gave the enemy a fixed date. Dumb thing to do.

      • Redneck Liberal August 19, 2021 at 4:07 am #

        Pre Nov 2020, there was a steady chorus around here PRAISING Trump for his withdrawal plan and “Afghanistan Peace Deal” Turned out to be another bullshit grift. If he hadn’t lost so badly on Nov 3rd, he’d be wearing the turds being flung at Biden right now, and that Greek Chorus of CFNers would be defending his “brave decision” ha.

        • Slugoon August 19, 2021 at 4:51 am #

          That cabbage-brained prick owns it. Where’s his diversity hire, Kamala? MIA it seems. Such fun!

    • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 11:30 am #

      Lara Logan was on with Tucker last night and is apparently something of an expert on this, having lived there and studied it as well. She said they get all their funding from Pakistan, much like Hezbollah is an arm of Iran. But we don’t fund Iran, whereas we do fund Pakistan’s military. So we are fighting ourselves again, basically. Like when we used to fund Russia so they could supply the North Vietmanese.

      She said we could stop this at any time, even now, but defunding Pakistan. And she said that the many of the common Afghans understand the situation, basically. This is what the Global Elite have chosen. The question is why.

      • Proton August 19, 2021 at 8:07 pm #

        Why? Follow the money and you’ll find out cui bono. And then you’ll understand why.

  162. Tate August 19, 2021 at 2:04 am #

    Interview with Dr. Dan Stock on his concerns about ADE, explains Th1 response vs Th2 response, boosting vitamin D3 intake…

    also unavailability of 25-hydroxy vitamin D. Anybody who tries to compound it will be hit with huge fines. Go to 36:00 minute mark.

    https://www.bitchute.com/video/cT1o1hYwld1O/

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  163. bigbill August 19, 2021 at 2:15 am #

    Dan Stock is a quack who describes himself as a “functional family medicine physician,” which per him “means [he] is specially trained in immunology and inflammation regulation.”

    Firstly, this isn’t even how most sources define functional medicine. The Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine defines functional medicine as”

    a personalized, systems-oriented model that empowers patients and practitioners to achieve the highest expression of health by working in collaboration to address the underlying causes of disease.

    Most GPs do this. The last five I’ve had did. Dan Stock is not a virologist, not an immunologist, not an epidemiologist. But he is good at spreading misinformation. He is the virus and his quackery has gone viral. Good business model, though.

    • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 2:29 am #

      No problem, Carghoul.

      Robert Malone (inventor of MRNA tech.), Mike Yeadon (ex-Pfizer VP and Lead Scientist), and Wolfgang Wodarg (the lung doctor who brought down the Swine Flu swindel), say the same thing.

      I wonder if idiots like you ever have any other cards to play?

      LOL.

      • KesaAnna August 19, 2021 at 4:04 am #

        Well ….

        *sigh ^

        That’s why I roll my eyes when people say things like , ” fair trial “.

        You walk into this room that looks oddly like the sanctuary of a church.

        Except that while God might be mentioned in passing or something , it’s pretty fucking obvious that nothing but Homo Sapiens are calling any shots in this place.

        There’s a guy sitting behind something which looks oddly like an altar ,

        combined with something which looks oddly like a throne.

        The man in question might be a woman instead.

        Presumably Monarchism and Feudalism are big no – no’s now.

        But it still looks like a throne.

        And apparently progress means now that girls , too , can become those tyrannical kings we don’t have.

        Anyway , the guy sitting behind the altar – thingie on the throne thingie is a graduate of some august school of law where the tuition alone is an oil tankers – worth of money.

        Nine times out of ten —- don’t let the Che Guevara pretensions fool you —

        his father before him was a judge too , and his father before him , too.

        ( Come to think of it though , Che Guevara himself was not born in any tar – paper shack. But never mind. )

        So there’s this other guy — also the graduate of an august law school .

        The guy will tell you he is a self – made man.

        It so happens , though , that you happen to be from the same neighborhood as him , and went to school with him.

        And you know for a fact that he came into a 50 or 500,000 dollar inheritance.

        MAYBE that came in handy ??

        BUT he NEVER seems to mention the inheritance.

        Isn’t that odd ?

        Also , he’s a strict law and order type.

        — Except that you again know via these informal sources that his mother is a coke fiend .

        ( And note that she can apparently actually afford a coke habit . )

        But that , ” The rules are the rules ! ” never seems to touch his mother.

        Anyway , there is a third law school graduate ;

        Presumably your advocate , presumably your agent.

        — Except he plays golf with the other two guys.

        Not only that ; His daughter is married to the son of one of the other lawyer guys.

        All of that strikes me as disconcertingly promiscuous.

        But what do I know ?

        To continue —

        There is another guy there in a really funny , elaborate , costume.

        He is also a graduate of some august college.

        ( Actually it was a junior college . An 2 year associates degree. But , never mind. )

        There’s this other person there who looks something like a secretary .

        Another college graduate.

        ( Actually it was a junior college . A 2 year associates degree. But , never mind. )

        She will make out to be self – made too.

        But it so happens you went to school with her too , and she was strait – Cheerleader Mafia .

        There might be a few other college – types.

        Social Sciences mostly.

        Social Sciences ?

        If you can read —

        — and it helps if you are familiar with things like Cliff Notes

        — even if you are in a coma , you can probably manage it.

        But ; Merit is the thing !

        So never mind.

        And that pretty much wraps it up.

        What about truth , justice , guilt or innocence ?

        What about it ?

        You are pretty much already fucked pal.

        Get a clue ; The American Revolution never happened.

        This is Aristocracy .

        And you are not.

        OK , there might be this thing called a jury.

        But a whooping 90% of cases — out of MILLIONS of cases —

        never see a jury.

        Even people who are officially mentally retarded figure out that first day what the real score here is.

        The real math here is not whether you are going to get fucked or not ,

        but only how hard are you going to be fucked.

        So it is all , and only , about damage control , hopefully.

        ” All men are created equal ” ?

        And no more titles of nobility ?

        It sure looks to me like that plain isn’t true.

      • Redneck Liberal August 19, 2021 at 4:11 am #

        Yeadon. Ha.

        https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-health-coronavirus-idUSL2N2N72CS

        • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 4:58 am #

          Yes, ex-vice president and lead scientist in vaccine research for the company whose poison you injected into your veins.

          LOL.

          • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 9:46 am #

            He actually posts Reuters ‘fact check’, lol.

          • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 11:36 am #

            But it says “fact check” right on it, Mary.

            How could it be anything other than the facts within?

      • malthuss August 19, 2021 at 1:07 pm #

        ghoul.
        car guiles at in again?

    • Soul Forensics August 19, 2021 at 4:21 am #

      “a personalized, systems-oriented model that empowers patients and practitioners to achieve the highest expression of health by working in collaboration to address the underlying causes of disease.

      Most GPs do this.”

      AHHHAHAHAHA!!!!

      OHHOHOHOHO!!

      Yeah, them docs are real miracle workers during your 7-minute-max mandated visit.

    • Tate August 19, 2021 at 10:58 am #

      All’s I know is that his advice on vitamin D3 intake is spot on. It agrees with my experience completely. I take between 6K & 8K iu daily & my 25 hydroxy D blood levels test consistently around his levels. Which are optimum levels according to the best medical advice. I don’t get sick except for a suspiciously tenacious cold the whole family came down with around March of 2020. Hmmm, what was that all about…

      Incidentally, my brother tested at low levels & his primary prescribed exactly what Dr. Stock mentioned: a short regimen (a week? Stock says 3 days) at 50,000 i.u. per day to bring his levels up to optimum range. The liver apparently has this ability for a short while to metabolize this load in otherwise healthy patients. Stock mentions vitamin K as mitigating possible long-term calcification but K is cheap & available. Most MDs don’t know anything about this, mine didn’t. I don’t have any medical training but I will trust Stock over Fauci & the other charlatans who are directly leading to the death of perhaps millions.

      • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 11:44 am #

        Squares up with my experience, Tate. I was deficient and had lots of issues. I took 10 IUs a day for 6 months, then dialed it down to 8 and then 6 and have been sick once over the course of about 2 years.

        Prior to that I was constantly sick. I am now as fit as I was when 20.

        • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 11:44 am #

          “10k IUs”

          • Soul Forensics August 19, 2021 at 2:20 pm #

            Excellent.

            Also, don’t forget about the source, the sun. Northern hemisphere now, we should be out and about (hmm, wonder why TPTB want us all covering our faces, and inside?). Just 20 mins in sun between 10 am-3 pm, with back/torso exposed (more mass than arms/legs) gets you more than 2K IUs. An hour floods your system with it.

            And don’t forget cloudy days. You can still get half the effect.

            But you can’t market sunshine. And VitD3 is dirt cheap.

  164. Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 4:24 am #

    In France the big hypermarkets are now barring non-frankenshoters from purchasing food.

    This account is full of videos of New Normal Stormtroopers blocking them from entering stores:

    https://twitter.com/EnModeMacaron

    • Slugoon August 19, 2021 at 4:48 am #

      I’m starting to think Britain is relatively sane. Nobody gives a shit here any more. Most people have ditched masks, shops aren’t asking for them, people aren’t talking about the former-hysterics (except in a negative way) and while most people I know have taken their frankenshots, they couldn’t care less that I haven’t and more interestingly, they will not be going for their boosters. Fool me once…

      • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 4:56 am #

        Wait until the fall. The strategy of the criminal class is to apply pressure, release, and then apply more pressure.

        This is far from over. Here in Germany, they just increased restrictions again, and they just went into effect.

        Plenty here were also walking around smiling mid-summer, thinking that things were going back to normal. Many midwits were walking around maskless outdoors for the first time in several months, as they were given permission to do so from the State.

        As of last week however, the intelligent can no longer enter most establishments without providing a test that we have to pay for, as the rules for the fall have taken effect.

        • Slugoon August 19, 2021 at 7:04 am #

          Have faith, Owl. The Germans have form over this kind of thing but I’ve got a stirring that the Brits may eventually fight back. I’m sensing no mood here for reversion to masks or lockdowns and they’re going to have a hard time convincing people to do so based on the current data.

          The French QR code system is falling over and eating establishments are refusing to enforce the COVID pass or are finding creative ways around it.

          Vaccines are making no appreciable difference, they are quickly losing whatever short-term efficacy they had and if they were annoyed about the number of frankenshot refuseniks first time around they’re going to be sorely disappointed when trying to hawk a booster subscription service because most vaccinated people I know aren’t going down that road.

          What then? Are the double vaxxed going to face more restrictions than the triple vaxxed. What about the fourth and fifth shotters?

          People are slowly beginning to see that the reality before them does not match the official narrative. I saw it by April last year but I think a few more are seeing it too.

          • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 7:12 am #

            I like your attitude, Slug. I do believe, deep down, that we will stop the attempted tyranny, but as my wife recently remarked: “It’s either going to be a year or two or 28.”

            I don’t know if I can cope with the latter.

          • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 9:08 am #

            Do you get annual flu shots? If you do , it is to keep flu variants at bay. And it is a guessing game.

            Can you see an annual coronavirus vaccine for delta, then lambda, etc as time goes on?

          • Slugoon August 19, 2021 at 9:41 am #

            I’ve never had a flu injection, JAZ, as I consider myself relatively young and fit. (Things are different here.) My immune system deals handily with such things, as evidently most people’s does for the crud, whatever the variant.

            And just like any other year, if I feel shitty or I’ve got obvious symptoms of something I don’t go to work and I don’t go around coughing and spluttering in public places.

            If this whole drama collapses down to voluntary annual shots to go with the influenza shot for the elderly or whoever wants one then that’s fine. They can make it monthly for all I care and peddle it to anybody who wants to live their life at the end of a needle in fear of whichever variant may lurk around the corner.

            Does this seem like a likely outcome though, a gentle fade to black, given the behaviour of the authorities these past eighteen months?

          • Slugoon August 19, 2021 at 10:28 am #

            Owl, some generations have to dedicate a great part of their lives and endure much sacrifice to do what they think is right. I don’t think it will come to that but if it does then we do it for the future generation.

            The other thing is this. Maybe they can and will enforce a full blown tyranny and maybe they’ll get this shit in your arm and mine one day. They’ll never vaccinate our minds though so it won’t stop an organised resistance from forming against whatever sinister plans take hold.

          • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 11:35 am #

            The long term goal is to vaccinate our minds to make it impossible for us to think critically at all. See Aldous Huxley writing generations ago.

          • Slugoon August 19, 2021 at 1:20 pm #

            Then all we can do is throw our own small spanner in their works.

      • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 9:48 am #

        You’re in a ‘release’ period, as NO says.

        Squeeze, release, is the type of torture/manipulation they are applying.

        Make no mistake, what’s happening in France and Australia will be attempted everywhere.

        • Slugoon August 19, 2021 at 10:23 am #

          I don’t think it’s going to wash here.

          You have a special kind of crazy over in the USA and the continental Europeans have a streak too (epitomised by the freaks that populate Brussels and Strasbourg). I mean, masking toddlers, WTF?

          I am surprised at the Australians but then again I don’t know much about them outside of Home & Away so perhaps they always were a bunch of cowards.

          We’re not out of the woods yet, I know, but I’m sensing a shift in the mood here and if they try all that again, or worse, I think the pushback will start coming from places they don’t expect.

          • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 11:37 am #

            Don’t put on aires, You gave up your guns with hardly a murmur.

          • Islander August 19, 2021 at 11:58 am #

            Slugoon,
            They are definitely squeezing in the USA.
            Fearmongering and jab marketing and threats (carrots and whips) blaring from the front page of every newspaper.

            And so unctuous “reporting” on how trusted others can sit down with “holdouts” and explain why it is so important for htem to be jabbed. But the explanations provided are BS! LIke, “there is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

            I admit that when I see this full-court press and everyone once again masked up, it is veryunnerving. In fact, I would say scary.

            Dinner with visiting famliiy this evening. Most are vaxxed up despite being all in for organic food, raising own chickens, etc.

            I am going to stay mum but if challenged will simply say:

            “Etiam si omnes—ego non.”

          • Slugoon August 19, 2021 at 1:17 pm #

            Well, Yoho, they’re not doing much good in their cases. When are you loading up to stop the state-sponsored child abuse?

            I’ve never owned a gun so have given nothing up but even without their guns I don’t think the Brits are propagating the insanity like you are.

            Islander, I had to DuckDuck that quote but yes, quite. I get the feeling that the difference between the USA and Britain is that when you tell people you’re not vaxxed here nobody seems to care unlike in the USA where it’s a grave sin under your new religion.

          • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 1:57 pm #

            Picked up a couple of encouraging facts in recent UK Column reports …

            In France vaxxed and unvaxxed protesting the vaxx passes together – not polarising as in the US. And in Italy people were burning their vaxx passes in the street in solidarity.

          • Slugoon August 19, 2021 at 2:25 pm #

            It’s an interesting point, GA, and one that crossed my mind recently: getting vaccinated doesn’t automatically mean that person is on board with vax pass. How many were forced or coerced into it for a start and are angry?

            What’s more, now that boosters are being pushed, increasing numbers of the ‘double’ vaccinated may find themselves discriminated against.

            This is why I’m beginning to see hope that the more they turn the screw the more hearts and minds they stand to lose.

          • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 2:50 pm #

            Well indeed Slugoon. I was never on board with passes – also naively thought, when I got my first vaxx, that it would just be an over-55s thing or thereabouts.

            I don’t have a vaxx pass and wasn’t offered one, although I know there’s an online nhs record.

            Don’t know what I’ll do if push comes to shove and I can’t get groceries. Maybe I’ll be gone by then. 🙁

            I would genuinely rather die than get a booster.

            OG is right. The first time we were duped – I was unnerved because my husband was regularly seeing patients and I thought he’d eventually bring it home (and I’m apparently ‘coded’ as immunosuppressed).

            If I get covid in the autumn I’d rather go out on my own clock than take anything from them. Have had flu vaccine since 65 but wouldn’t even let them near me with that. Although I don’t relish the thought of gasping for air.

            Very worried that hubby might take it though. He’s been taking the flu vaxx for years cos of his work.

          • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 2:59 pm #

            Only found out about my ‘coding’ from a creepy letter from nhs Scotland telling me that 12-17 year olds in my household or seeing me regularly could now get vaccinated – to protect me presumably. How sick is that, trying to implicate me in their plans to jab kids?

          • Slugoon August 19, 2021 at 3:29 pm #

            also naively thought, when I got my first vaxx, that it would just be an over-55s thing or thereabouts

            Yes but that’s what they started off saying, only the elderly and vulnerable needed vaccinating, and the initial data supported that approach, so why would you have suspected anything different?

            The situation we’re in now of course, coercing young children, is a world apart from that, but the goalposts have moved many times since then and you are now rightly concerned that something isn’t right.

            I don’t see how you can be angry at yourself for anything.

            If they ban us from supermarkets I’ll sent you some food parcels, my wife will go in and get it (at least until triple-jab becomes the standard). Hope you like tinned soup.

          • Blackbird August 19, 2021 at 9:13 pm #

            Hi Alba, glad to see you back. I’ll refrain from attempting to offer any encouragement since the best I can do is, “die laughing” or “take a few of them with you when you go”. You sound better than you did last time you stopped by.

  165. jim e August 19, 2021 at 4:30 am #

    I have a new slogan.

    I do not work for vaccinated people.

  166. jim e August 19, 2021 at 4:35 am #

    Von Braun also served as a spokesman for three Walt Disney television programs

    • jim e August 19, 2021 at 4:42 am #

      vexed v vaxed… Oh so close.

  167. Redneck Liberal August 19, 2021 at 4:39 am #

    Here’s why you anti-faxers aren’t taken seriously.

    Three presenters at a San Diego school board meeting, showing how fucking loony-toons they are. Runs from Minute 1:00 to 4:30.

    https://youtu.be/_EHJfdeaxuI

    Feedback -please!

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    • jim e August 19, 2021 at 4:44 am #

      Credentials please… “oh brother where art thou?’

      • jim e August 19, 2021 at 4:51 am #

        Vexed = Vaxed?

        • jim e August 19, 2021 at 4:55 am #

          hep me lord

          • jim e August 19, 2021 at 5:09 am #

            RL, you might be ready for your third shot.

          • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 6:34 am #

            She’s in the program now. A new shot every 8 months or so. What did the midwits think all of those extra lines were for on their new digital vaxx cards?

            LOL.

          • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 11:44 am #

            Prepare for your third shot – stop bathing.

    • Slugoon August 19, 2021 at 4:44 am #

      You don’t have to be anti-fax to have legitimate doubts about indiscriminate mass vaccination that is based on politics not clinical need.

      A major British study has just concluded that double-vaxxed Britons are just as likely to spread Delta (rebranded flu) as the un-vaxxed. Blows the whole “do it to protect others” argument out of the water.

      I’m about to update my graphs and stats from the UK and will post in due course. Keep your eyes peeled, Liberal!

      • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 5:00 am #

        Someone should tell old Maj that fax machines are dead in most parts of the world.

        Imagine having to live with that brain.

        • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 9:52 am #

          Poor sugar tits doesn’t seem to tire from being the laughingstock of the comments section.

      • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 9:02 am #

        Slugoon

        Again

        Delta is too fast, IMHO. Everyone has gotten mini colds where is last for just 2-3 days and goes away. The recognized time for the immune system to react to a new antigen is 5-7 days before symptoms subside.

        Now plug a variant in that is 2-5 times faster invading and starting up that Alpha. The first five days are symptomatic and infective. Then the immune system kicks in.

        The vaccines are over sold. After an initial flush of antibodies, the immune system subsides back to monitor mode and like any cold or flu takes 3-5 days to kick the immune system into high gear. The effect is to remove the novel virus ability to invade deeply.

        Two things, if you have a cold or flu feeling, stay home, stay away from people, wash your hands, stay 6 feet away in crowds, and yes during the infective stage, if you cannot stay separated, wear a mask to slow droplet transmission. Treat it like any other cold or flu.

        Second, these medical jerks need to treat the over inflammation that hospitalizes folks and develop antivirals to stop overflow of virus development.

        “It is just the flu”. At this delta stage, that is true. I will use lessons learned to try to avoid any virus and knock them down.

        • O.G. Hawkins August 19, 2021 at 9:50 am #

          Second, these medical jerks need to treat the over inflammation that hospitalizes folks and develop antivirals to stop overflow of virus development.

          Like HCQ & Ivermectin?

          • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 11:09 am #

            Yup, when I was working they were giving antivirals for bad flu cases, like acyclovir, never heard anything about that.

        • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 11:42 am #

          Surely you see how the third shot that ramps up immunity to the max is a death shot? An engine that is so powerful that it tears itself apart. And the timing! Just in time for flu season. Coincidence?

          West African Blacks have the most explosive power – and are also the shortest lived people. Coincidence?

          • O.G. Hawkins August 19, 2021 at 11:57 am #

            And the 3rd shot is Truly submission.

            Jab 1 & Jab 2 were panicky dupings.

            Booster shot* is after the panic.

            Reflection. Research.

            Or lack thereof.

            *I find it fascinating watching Nazism 2.0. The first 2 were “jabs.” Innocent. Like “a peck on the cheek.” A “taste.”

            Now it is “Booster Shot.” Hard-core.

            Now she puts the kid away
            And she’s gonna get a hit
            She hates her life
            And what she’s done to it

            Keep on rockin’ in the Free World!
            Keep on rockin’ in the Free World!

    • O.G. Hawkins August 19, 2021 at 10:21 am #

      Here’s why you anti-faxers aren’t taken seriously.

      Here’s why you are a moron, RL.

      That is called, “Propaganda.” It is used in conjunction with tribal shaming to “rally the troops” of conformity.

      Colbert’s studio audiance CHEERED the news of Pfizer and Moderna booster shots coming soon, for Goodness sake!

      We are not taken seriously because the majority of people are complete fucking dumb-asses. TruStory

      ——-

      PDFs are Better than fax.

    • Tate August 19, 2021 at 1:06 pm #

      RL, I have to admit that that was pretty funny, parts of it at least. I don’t watch Coal-Bear, he’s an establishment mouthpiece. A pretty valuable one too, judging by how he made the cut at Martha’s Vineyard for Barry’s birthday bash.

      People are always going to choose sides, there’s just as many nuts on yours as ours. But I understand, you’re not interested in serious debate. You’re not a serious person or you wouldn’t have tried to pass for a popular YouTuber.

    • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 5:30 pm #

      Colbert is unwatchable.

  168. Slugoon August 19, 2021 at 4:39 am #

    GreenAlba, if you’re looking in and able, give us a sign. Hope all is well. Yours, Brexit nemesis south of the border.

    • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 8:29 am #

      Thanks, Slugoon. Thanks also to my well wishers up thread and on a previous thread (also to brh for his incredibly kind invitation). I am fully aware of how undeserving I am of your (plural) kind consideration.

      So I am still here, but all is not well, personally …

      Two things I did get right, although they pale into insignificance compared to what I got wrong.

      1. Brexit was/is not the opposite of globalism (although I might still have voted for it, given a rerun and hindsight).

      2. Regardless of the supposed benefits of subsidiarity, the SNP were always borderline fascistic. I was right to detest them.

      Sturgeon is pure evil. Cannot wait to vaxx children and wants to make emergency covid powers permanent.

      May post more fully later. Have had a couple of surreal experiences when speaking out. Laptop won’t let me in (Lenovo permanent circle of doom…) and it’s mighty annoying by comparison typing on an iPad mini. 🙁

      • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 9:10 am #

        GA

        Good to hear from you. BTW, have you had the privilege of watching “Outlander”. Wonderful portrayal of Scotland.

        • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 9:32 am #

          Thanks JohnAZ. No I didn’t see Outlander!

          • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 11:06 am #

            Wonderful portrayal of 1740s Scotland.

          • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 11:57 am #

            In the lovely (and palindromic) village of Glenelg in Ross-shire (opposite Skye) where I’ve spent many a pleasant holiday, there are the remains of the Bernera barracks built to fight the Jacobites, at the end of General Wade’s Old Military Road across Mam Ratagan.

            https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6327445

            Very atmospheric.

            The village can also claim the fairly impressive remains of two Pictish brochs. So a bit of 2000-year-old history, as well as 18th century.

            https://www.scotlandinfo.eu/glenelg-the-most-stunning-route-to-skye/

            One of my favourite places.

          • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 12:07 pm #

            Also has the last manual turntable ferry in the world.

            https://sobt.co.uk/glenelg-skye-ferry/

          • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 1:00 pm #

            The lead male character of the series was a Jacobite, he survives Culloden. It is his story with his wife, who is transported from the 20th Century, the Outlander.

          • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 1:00 pm #

            Binge worthy.

      • benr August 19, 2021 at 9:25 am #

        @ga

        Its not your hardware but your operating system.

        Download and install fedora live dvd.

        You boot off the dvd or usb drive and circumvent Windows.
        The how to page.

        https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD

        The download page.
        https://getfedora.org/

        Its fast and functional.

        • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 9:31 am #

          Thanks benr. I’m not very techy but I’ll look into that.

          • benr August 19, 2021 at 10:04 am #

            Three things you can do to help.
            Download and install ccleaner and run it to clear out the tracking cookies. Also run the registry cleaner the windows equivalent to a lint trap.

            Hit control alt delete task manager and look at cpu, memory and most of all disk usage. I suspect you have the old school platter hard drive and with windows 10 they just get hammered.

            Make sure you are not running a trojan or two have some decent antivirus running and up to date.

            Last reload your operating system saving your files and settings sometimes key files get corrupt.

            The simplest way to reinstall Windows 10 is through Windows itself. Click ‘Start > Settings > Update & security > Recovery’ and then choose ‘Get started’ under ‘Reset this PC’. A full reinstall wipes your entire drive, so select ‘Remove everything’ to ensure a clean reinstall is performed.

          • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 10:22 am #

            Thanks bent. Think I might let Sg daughter look at this now she’s home!

            I can’t get past the sign-in. It recognises my password and shows my name but then it’s just the circle of doom.

          • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 6:42 pm #

            Sorry benr – just noticed the ‘bent’!

            The iPad is way worse for autocorrecting!

      • O.G. Hawkins August 19, 2021 at 9:45 am #

        Have had a couple of surreal experiences when speaking out.

        It is Good to hear that you are speaking Truth, GA. You sought Truth. You found Truth. And now you speak Truth.

        Well done!

        God bless.

        • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 10:09 am #

          Thank you, OG. Sadly I achieved nothing, which i guess is fair enough given how long it took to convince me.

          An old student friend in a WhatsApp group mentioned she was off to Spain but would come back when it was her turn for the booster. I wished her well on her trip but said no booster for me as I’ve learned too much since I unfortunately took the vaxx. Added a bit about France turning totalitarian (one friend is in Paris) plus a few other things in that vein, including the censorship.

          So, the Paris friend then wished the travelling friend well and congratulated our fourth member on future grannyhood next March. But NO-ONE even acknowledged my post, let alone answered it. So I guess they think I’ve lost the plot.

          Other time was at GP centre, where I presume I am now known as a total fruitloop, although they’re being very kind, the way one is with fruitloop patients…

          People have asked why doctors aren’t speaking out. I think I can safely say most of them haven’t the faintest clue and just do what they’re told.

          • O.G. Hawkins August 19, 2021 at 10:57 am #

            Sadly I achieved nothing

            Telling The Truth against incredible odds is Glorius in and of itself.

            You are like Saul/Paul. You are blessed.

          • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 12:00 pm #

            It’s the new Religion. And you are now a heretic.

          • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 12:37 pm #

            We have discussed the under education of kids today. Won’t that affect the level of competence of the profession.

            Tired of cookbook doctors.

            About the vaxx, not enough known about the effects of this technology on the broad spectrum of people.

            New input.

            Many of the former vaccines, dengue fever, measles had formalin in their processing. That is formaldehyde, a known big time allergen. It is used as a preservative. I know PEG is used in the Covid vaccine. Same function, same results? Article I read said that so far, no ADE with Covid. It did happen with the initial measles and Dengue fever vaccines, shutting them down.

          • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 12:42 pm #

            Debating vaccines? If allergic to formaldehyde, and lots of people are, I would consider it a contraindication.

          • Slugoon August 19, 2021 at 2:07 pm #

            Alba, thanks for sharing your candid shift in position regarding vaccines but saddened that regret should be causing you any anxiety. Firstly, you’re still here alive and kicking aren’t you? Secondly, was it not a perfectly rational and reasonable thing to do if you considered yourself part of a vulnerable group? Isn’t that still the case?

            My folks are ‘doubled’. So is my wife. None of them are entertaining the boosters so you are in good company.

            It’s sad if you are losing friends over a booster but if people are willing to sever friendship over that then I don’t think the problem lies with you. I certainly don’t want those kinds of people in my life.

            Reading between the lines I wonder if you and hubby differ in your opinions of the Covid? My wife was in my ear the other night as she heard about a 40-something man dying of it. I calmly explained that statistically there is more chance of me dying in a car accident and that they could shove the jab up their arses. She’s still talking to me so I consider that well handled!

            All the best.

          • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 6:05 pm #

            Yes definitely a difference of opinion. I’ve been sending him links but I think he ignores most of them. Just can’t go there.

            Tonight I said if he took the booster I’d have to move out for a month (cos of the shedding). He said ‘well I have to deal with science’ (as opposed the CTs I’m reading that are making me ill). So, a gulf!

            Don’t want to fall out as he’s been patient and is doing all the cooking (he always did more than me!) while I’ve been feeling unwell.

            It’s a lonely place to be though.

          • Slugoon August 20, 2021 at 5:22 am #

            So you think the shedding is a thing? That’s quite an extreme shift of position. I honestly don’t think you need to move to such an extreme to make the case against mass vaccination or challenge the vax pass thing. (Is it the actual vaccine that bothers you or the use of it as a Trojan horse for something else?)

            A rational and logical presentation of simple facts and statistics should be enough. The reality of Covid, when put into context with official data in the public domain, ought to convince anybody that the reaction to it has been one of sheer lunacy.

      • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 11:51 am #

        Yes, you were right about BoJo and Brexit not being nationalistic, but of course you were firmly against nationalism in any case, both practically (Britain can’t feed itself) and morally (refugees!).

        The SNP is completely globalist, wanting even more immigrants and/or refugees than previous policy. Like the Irish, they seem to want to outdo the English in the race to oblivion.

        • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 12:34 pm #

          I am not a supporter of endless refugees, as I’ve said before. And the uk hasn’t fed itself since the 18th century!

          I just think it’s more sensible to get your food from France (22 miles away) than the other side of the world, all things being equal. Common Market mark II would have been fine.

          Perhaps the Aussies will start lacing their meat exports with something nasty …

          • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 12:55 pm #

            I read about the big four of the empire forming up an economic bloc, England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. To counter the US and China. And the EU.

            History shows that the increase of bureaucracy in government decreases its efficacy.

            JIT inventory control with the pipeline full makes the distances irrelevant.

            Sidebar. If JIT is in place, and the pipeline was maintained full, one of JHKs predictions may come true. Sailing ships, clipper ships may become important again. When oil becomes scarcer and choices need to be made, significant changes may occur.

          • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 5:58 pm #

            Well you may well be right about Britain not be able to feed itself, I don’t know. And I assume you ARE right about it not doing so for centuries. My point would be: Maybe it should try. But also, it’s fine if it can’t. There has been an enormous amount of trade for centuries and millenia between nations. Globalists try to make it as if we’ve been isolated. In other words, they create a false either/or with themselves as the rescuers come to free us from our sterile isolation and deprivation.

      • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 12:01 pm #

        I hope you are well, GA.

        • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 12:27 pm #

          Thanks Mary. I’ve no idea what my prospects are – I’m a bit of a catastrophist by nature, unfortunately. Have just got some beta blockers as a temp solution (maybe) to the crippling anxiety and nausea, so we’ll see. Off to west coast for a week on Saturday and didn’t want to spend it lying in bed.

          Just having a few weeks of peace from it to sort out the house would be nice!

          Anecdotally, school friend in a WhatsApp group mostly in England- one who lost her best friend to covid – vaxxed around the time I was, as same age, and had a heart attack out of the blue a few weeks ago. Took the helimed team 8 shocks to bring her back. So that hasn’t helped.

          • Disaffected August 19, 2021 at 4:16 pm #

            Beta blockers are your friend! Don’t know how I ever lived without them!

          • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 5:23 pm #

            Very sorry to hear that about your friend, and the anxiety.

            I hope you have upped your vitamin D. That seems to be the big one for preventing and healing. I have read that most of the people who catch any virus are vitamin D deficient.

            And C is a huge one, too.

          • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 5:57 pm #

            Yes, I’ve been taking C (with zinc) for over a year, along with D (4000 iu). Thinking of doubling the vit D through the autumn.

            None of it will help with the spike proteins, though, if what they’re saying is true.

          • Disaffected August 19, 2021 at 8:03 pm #

            GA,

            Rx: Make your peace with having been vaxxed and move on. No point in worrying about it anymore or justifying it like the idiot JAZ. Forget about it altogether to the degree that you can and quit worrying about it. That’s your main problem. Then take reasonable precautionary measures nutrition-wise (DON’T take too much Vit D, no more than 10K IU/day) and then get outside and EXERCISE vigorously! Do this RELIGIOUSLY DAILY and try to both pass on and absorb the positive vibe of those that you meet while doing so. You’ll be fine within 30 days.

  169. tucsonspur August 19, 2021 at 5:12 am #

    For RL, reminds me of this guy:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9DO26O6dIg

  170. Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 6:33 am #

    For those with the skills:

    Left-wing German politician from Hamburg congratulates Taliban for every German soldier they have “eliminated”

    This quote is the best:

    „Das afghanische Volk hat seine Freiheit und Souveränität zurück und kann sich in stabilen Verhältnissen nun endlich an den Aufbau der Wirtschaft machen.“

    https://www.tichyseinblick.de/daili-es-sentials/linke-politiker-bundeswehr-soldaten-tote-afghanistan/

    They want to tear it all down.

    • BackRowHeckler August 19, 2021 at 6:51 am #

      How does a statement like that go over in Germany, Owl?

      Just ignored? Some outrage? Was that left wing Pol censored, or was he feted as saying something profound?

    • Islander August 19, 2021 at 1:12 pm #

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      • Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 2:38 pm #

        I actually don’t care with Tichys. They are one of the few mainstreamish sites doing actual journalism in Germany.

        Most of the Lügenpresse here are financed by the Rundfunkbeitrag, which is truly tyrannical.

  171. BackRowHeckler August 19, 2021 at 6:41 am #

    When I said to my nephew, who did two 9 month tours in Afghanistan, “It looks like a Taliban guy got your M-4”, he replied “Yeah, but I’m hearing they don’t have much .223/5.56 ammo to use in them.”

    Those FNs and Colts will be circulating inside Afghanistan for the next 100 years, just like British Lee Enfield Mark I .303s from 1915 are still turning up. As far as ammo goes, factories in India, China and Russia churn out plenty of it. It won’t take long to make it’s way to Kabul.

    Brh

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    • stelmosfire August 19, 2021 at 8:46 am #

      I would wager that the Afghani Army had millions or billions of 5.56 on hand. The Taliban own all that stuff now. They don’t need much ammo anyway. One shot, one kill, to the back of the head to anyone who disagrees with their beliefs.

    • benr August 19, 2021 at 9:18 am #

      Some guns were made to last forever and some were made to last through a couple of firefights.
      A decade from now many of those new sparkly guns will need parts the afghans are not able to reproduce.

      • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 9:30 am #

        By then, the Chinese will have re equipped them, or Russia or Iranor

        Gasp, the USA.

  172. MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 10:33 am #

    Mark Dice is at it again – with his ‘man on the street’ opinions.

    This one’s about January 6th. Hilarious.

    https://youtu.be/-_OT3ucI39g

    • SoftStarLight August 19, 2021 at 11:47 am #

      Thank you! This is so awesome lol. The scooby doo surfer dude represents my thoughts exactly about “our leaders”. They are aliens. And there is something going on in Antarctica because no one can go there but “our leaders” and popes and stuff go there. So what is up with that?

      • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 11:56 am #

        My brother thinks that they found the ruins of an alien civilization. Obviously such a thing would have profound psychological, political, and theological implications and would add to world chaos. And of course, the Elite feel no need to share things with us in any case. They may pretend that it’s for our own good, but they love knowing and us not knowing. Of course they are right about a lot of people not being able to handle it.

        • SoftStarLight August 19, 2021 at 12:05 pm #

          I believe its true too. I just wish that the whole people can’t handle it thing wasn’t a thing. You know what I mean. Like, I want to know what is really going on. It will not, well, I say it won’t, but I think I am strong enough to handle the truth. And a lot of people who comment here for instance are intelligent and I think would be ok knowing the truth of this. And in a certain sense the masses will accept whatever they are told to some degree. Just think of the covid lies that the masses have believed. But then I guess there are things I am not thinking of and who knows, maybe it would make a lot of people go crazy in some way I am not thinking of.

          • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 12:32 pm #

            Well for example, it’s said that we are made in God’s image. What if these beings said the same thing, but weren’t human in form? Many people interpret that, perhaps unconsciously, as something physical, at least partly. And of course Christ did take on a human body and glorified it. But perhaps He could have taken on their form and done the same. And perhaps He did?

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 19, 2021 at 1:58 pm #

            https://tinyurl.com/3897n3py

            Something like this?

          • SpeedyBB August 20, 2021 at 12:02 am #

            Limitations are apparently programmed in, SSL, that literally impede humans from “…believing their lying eyes” or accepting any other such input that confounds fundamental assumptions.

            An example of such cognitive dissonance was the scene in one of Douglas Adams’ (?) books where an alien craft buzzed a crowded football stadium during a game and no one “saw” it. The sensory input was unacceptable.

            There is also “seeing” as in the reportage of Carlos Castaneda, which is described literally.

            In terms of getting an establishment fundamentalist to accept such a reality I always found the case of Dr. John. E. Mack most compelling. As a tenured Professor of Psychology at Harvard and author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of T.E. Lawrence he was about as “Establishment” a figure as you could imagine.

            His pal Budd Hopkins introduced him to purported abductees. Mack began his interviews with them as mentally-impaired patients. How he got turned around by the experience, as reported in “Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens” (1994) was sensational enough for a vigilante gang of his fellow Harvard academics to do their damnedest to give him the boot.

            Fundamentalist scientists and academics are the last people whose judgment is trustworthy regarding the sort of phenomenon you allude to. They have too much at stake to admit that it’s all Phlogiston and mirrors. Mack found out the hard way (he kept his job though).

    • cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 12:26 pm #

      Hmm, Mark Dice seems like an interesting character. Never heard of him before. These man on the street interviews are always telling, and it is good and sad at the same time to see the level of ignorance of our common man, particularly as it relates to January 6th.

      • Q. Shtik August 19, 2021 at 1:53 pm #

        Mark Dice seems like an interesting character. – cowbell

        ===========

        Every time someone does a ‘man on the street’ bit, whether it is Mark Dice, Jay Leno or who/whom ever, the result is always the same… the common man is oblivious to what is happening.

        In a similar vein, many years ago, I got a big laugh when a California history teacher told about the day he began to expound to his high school students about WW2. He told them how the United States fought against Japan in the Pacific in the early 1940s. He said there was a general astonishment and disbelief among the students that the U.S. and Japan had been arch enemies. The punch line to the teacher’s tale came when one student raised his hand and asked “who won?” LMAO!

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 19, 2021 at 2:00 pm #

          You’d be surprised at how many kids don’t know who we fought the Vietnam war with…

          • O.G. Hawkins August 19, 2021 at 9:33 pm #

            Americans call it The Vietnam War.

            The Vietnamese call it The American War.

  173. malthuss August 19, 2021 at 10:36 am #

    From Breitbart [where I am banned from posting],

    I never thought I would think this but university educated women are the worst and the younger the dumber they have become.
    They compromise 80% of Education, Healthcare, Public Administration, Psychology, English, Performing Arts, Foreign Languages and Communications. While only 20% of Engineering and Computer Science.
    Basically 80% are taking a full load of indoctrination instead of becoming educated.

    BIDENS OPEN BORDERS>

    Third-world immigrants are pouring into the US in the greatest migration in human history. Ill-educated, unskilled, impoverished, illiterate, unable to speak English, susceptible to crime and drugs, they represent an overwhelming liability for American taxpayers that will change America in the worst way.

    B_Tiffin • 14 minutes ago
    Mass invasion.
    2005 quote from Senator Obama: “We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.”
    “It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years,” said President Bill Clinton during a Jan. 24, 1995, remarks.
    “Illegal immigration is wrong,” said Sen. Charles Schumer June 24, 2009.

    Nancy Pelosi on Illegal Immigrants in 2008: “We certainly don’t want any more coming in”

    Diane Feinstein 1993 video: “The day when America can be the welfare system for Mexico is gone. We simply can’t afford it. And I think you’ve seen the figures to state and local governments of what the cost is. It’s over $2billion in California alone.” “the people who should be here are those that come legally..

    illegal’s are being shipped to our military bases all over the country where they are being “prepped” for release into our communities. You won’t see this in the fake news media. As Chris Plante says – the greatest power of media is their ability to hide news.

    • SoftStarLight August 19, 2021 at 11:36 am #

      Oh thank you for providing additional evidence for my hypothesis! 🙂 So again we can see how the regime is completely illegitimate. There are literally thousands of American citizens in Afghanistan whom are “government” has made clear they have no intent on helping. Yet. So many “elected leaders” have made it very clear that the only important thing now is ensuring that millions of Afghan nationals can get here because they are deserving of it. Therefore why should any individual actually born in this country give any legitimacy to this foreign occupation? Clearly all of the people you quote are liars and responsible for so much death and destruction.

      • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 12:02 pm #

        Biden walked it back yesterday, saying that we will stay until all Americans are out.

        • SoftStarLight August 19, 2021 at 12:07 pm #

          Oh ok. But we are still very unhappy that they immediately started talking about refugees and bringing them here before they ever even secured all of the Americans aren’t we?

          • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 12:28 pm #

            Indeed we are!

          • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 19, 2021 at 12:31 pm #

            I for one do not want the USA to be more like Afghanistan. No offense to the people born there. But I happen to like the place I was born, and see nothing wrong with that.

            Obviously the refugee situation is already a disaster. It will only get much worse for a while and help is needed….but whatever happened to taking care of your own first?

            Like they say on planes, if there’s an emergency you should put your own oxygen mask on before assisting others in need of help putting theirs on.

            Otherwise there’s more potential for no one to be assisted.

          • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 12:36 pm #

            The Caucasians of North Africa are just as dangerous as Blacks. And if anything, the Afghans are more ferocious still. They will bring massive amounts of violent crime and rape wherever they settle.

          • cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 12:40 pm #

            As reported by Yoha: “They will bring massive amounts of violent crime and rape wherever they settle.”

            Coming to a city near you! At least here is a good response made against Biden’s actions:

            https://www.wispolitics.com/2021/u-s-rep-tiffany-statement-on-biden-administration-plans-to-send-afghan-nationals-to-fort-mccoy-in-wisconsin/

          • Islander August 19, 2021 at 5:34 pm #

            SSL, Me too.
            Also, they are assuming that there will be a bloodbath there. But will there? Is there evidence of that?

            Per MSNBC private gtroups are chartering planes to “save the women of Afghanistan.” Of course I don’t wnat any harm to come to any Afghani woman. At thes ame tim, the USA used the women of Afghanistan to justify an invasion, bloody occupation, regime change . . . Now it seems they are being used again for a high-profile action that looks like partly PR against the Taliban before they have even done anything.
            Formed a government, etc. outside the purview of the US government’s plans.

            Here is the latest from Pepe Escobar:
            https://www.unz.com/pescobar/how-russia-china-are-stage-managing-the-taliban/

            “The contrast could not be starker with those rambling pressers at the Taliban embassy in Islamabad after 9/11 and before the start of the American bombing – proving this is an entirely new political animal.”

            Are the Americans in Kabut actually talking to the Taliban to ensure the safety of Afghan cooperators? What about getting a UN team in there to help out with the humanitarian issues?

            Or are they and the US press making a lot of assumptions and using Afghan interpreters etc and also Afghan women for a few more “points” against the Taliban?

  174. benr August 19, 2021 at 10:36 am #

    The saying we get the leaders and government we deserve never rings more true than right now but God it sure hurts.

    https://www.marklevinshow.com/2021/08/18/august-18-2021/

    It sucks to be right sometimes.
    Biden is a joke, harris is a joke and Pelosi is nuts.

    • SoftStarLight August 19, 2021 at 11:29 am #

      I tend to view the three imposters mentioned as illegitimate occupiers within a hostile occupying regime that is post constitutional, and therefore completely criminal and illegitimate.

  175. Islander August 19, 2021 at 11:47 am #

    Strange Days Are Here.

    Letter in the local paper:

    “Unvaccinated Should Not Call for Help”

    To the Editor:
    If you refuse to get vaccinated for whatever wrong reason, and get COVID, please do not call the hospital. Unlike you, they really do belive in science.
    Rather, call Lenny at Chapman Funeral Hme, and make an appointment.

    My comment:

    “Why Isn’t This Hate Speech?”
    We’ll see whether the comment posts.
    I have no idea whether the letter writer works at the hospital.

    • SoftStarLight August 19, 2021 at 11:59 am #

      Actually I have seen lots of anecdotal evidence that hospitals are intentionally killing people for covid dollars. See lots of comments on different sites of people saying avoid hospital stays right now at all costs if you want to live. Whoever wrote that letter to the editor should be accused of being a murderer. At least in theory right. Obviously they don’t want people to receive medical treatment if they aren’t vaxxed so what else is that? It’s more than past time to fight fire with white hot super fire.

      • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 1:31 pm #

        I saw so many nurses doing videos crying because they were watching people being drugged and killed on ventilators. If they came in and tested negative for covid19, within a day they tested positive then were hooked up on ventilators and killed.

        The hospitals get $39K per ‘covid’ death.

        • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 19, 2021 at 1:43 pm #

          I’ve heard that as well. But I don’t recall ever hearing where in the hell that $39k comes from?

          • O.G. Hawkins August 19, 2021 at 2:24 pm #

            US Congress & Senate. Ultimately US Fed.

          • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 5:12 pm #

            They’ve thrown TRILLIONS of dollars out there to keep this scam going. That’s only a small part of it.

    • cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 12:03 pm #

      Reads like hate speech to me. This would be akin to someone telling minorities living in the inner core ghettos not to call for help when they are a crime victim. After all, they chose to live in said ghetto and there are always other alternatives.

      Trust me, if I get sick with anything I will not be calling the hospital. I would rather eke it out alone in the comfort of my own home knowing that the medical elite will not be profiting off my illness.

      • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 1:29 pm #

        You bet.

        They put people on ventilators to kill them, they get $39K per.

        Erin Olzewski exposed this in April or May of 2020.

        It’s become standard operating procedure. I watched a video by a woman who has a podcast/channel, and her hubs had to go into the hospital with pneumonia. If she and her daughters hadn’t fought with the staff and nurses and demanded what they wanted treatment-wise, he’d be dead. Because the staff did what they demanded, he was out in 2 days, and on the mend.

        They had him treated with intervenous Vitamin C.

        She said the first thing a “nurse Ratched” did was try to smother him with a mask and she wasn’t having it. They treated them crappy because they are not vaxxed, on top of everything else.

      • Dr_Wellington_Yueh August 19, 2021 at 2:32 pm #

        The Saker just told half his readership they can go die in a cardboard box. Not exactly effective marketing…

        • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 2:45 pm #

          The Saker is a covid death culter? That seems odd for someone who ‘gets’ 9/11

          • Disaffected August 19, 2021 at 3:31 pm #

            Oh yeah! Mention Covid and hoax in the same breath and get banned immediately.

            No idea what got into him. Says we’re all a “cult.”

          • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 5:11 pm #

            They got to his brain.

            Does he have TDS too?

          • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 5:11 pm #

            THe people who invested a year and a half buying into all this can’t just let it go – so they double down, it would appear.

    • gustafson.robert.22 August 19, 2021 at 12:18 pm #

      “Hello, is this chapman’s funeral home?”
      “Yes, this is Lenny.”
      “You got any space?”
      “No sorry… booked with hospital ventilator victims right now”

      • cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 12:27 pm #

        Haha, good one!

      • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 1:26 pm #

        LMAO!

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 19, 2021 at 12:18 pm #

      Islander, I’ve heard similar offhand comments from a few long-time close friends.

      It takes me aback, because at least several in that group of friends definitely know my status on that issue, so they likely all are aware, as for some reason many people can’t stop talking about their vax status and asking others about theirs.

      But writing something like that in the newspaper is about as stupid as it gets. Throw-away comment among friends after a few beers or whatever is one thing…putting it in writing on public display ought to be easily prosecutable.

      But it won’t. At least not until more people realize how mindless, heartless and condescending that kind of thought really is, and that they are the ones doing it to others. But with the current “bent reality” smokescreen riding the global airwaves from pocket to big screen, a change from the growing culture of close-minded narcissism is unlikely.

      For a good while, at least.

    • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 1:24 pm #

      This theory that the unvaxxed are killing people really is only believed by those who are already psychotic and deranged. It is amazing to me how many psychotics there are.

      But this bit of manipulation sure did out them.

    • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 1:33 pm #

      Not a very original comment, either. I’m seeing the same thing plastered all over Twitter.

      All it tells me is that the person writing it is 1) ignorant; and 2) probably a psycho.

    • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 1:33 pm #

      Also, note the “I believe in science” talking point – hahahahaa. So stupid.

      Science isn’t a ‘belief’.

      • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 19, 2021 at 1:41 pm #

        It is now.

        • O.G. Hawkins August 19, 2021 at 2:20 pm #

          Sad but True.

        • Blackbird August 19, 2021 at 9:30 pm #

          In which case it’s no longer science, just belief.

      • cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 2:48 pm #

        How about believing in “New Age Science”, horoscopes, and astrology?

        • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 2:52 pm #

          I don’t really care one way or the other until they command us to ‘believe’ in it.

  176. O.G. Hawkins August 19, 2021 at 12:22 pm #

    Vaccine Deaths Pile Up Without Media Coverage

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/vaccine-deaths-pile-up-without-media-coverage/5753419

    They keep justifying this by saying that only a small statistical fraction of the vaccinated die and compare this to the over 600,000 COVID deaths that the experimental vaccines supposedly could have prevented.  Here is the truth.  Vaccine induced deaths cannot be prevented.  They result from the deficiencies of the vaccines.

    On the other hand, COVID deaths have always been highly preventable, say 85 percent or more, because since March 2020 we have known that several cheap, safe and FDA approved generics cure COVID and also can be used to prevent the infection.  Plus, many of those official COVID deaths were probably for people dying from other causes; they died with COVID, not from it.

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  177. Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 12:23 pm #

    https://sputniknews.com/uk/202108171083639427-scottish-government-seeks-to-make-beneficial-emergency-covid-19-powers-permanent/

    Well gee, Nicola (a woman!), maybe people welcomed these measures because they made the mistake of believing you people that there was a real emergency. That’s different than wanting them to continue.

    But alas, some will always keep believing, and alack, some will welcome their chains, finding them more comforting than freedom. Natural slaves.

    Anglin: “This is how the West dies”.

    • GreenAlba August 19, 2021 at 12:57 pm #

      Like I said, she’s vile. And evil.

      One SMP recently said that absolutely nothing happens in government that doesn’t come from Nicola’s desk. She wants to be queen …

      • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 1:06 pm #

        21st century. Bonny Prince Charles Stuart.

  178. MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 19, 2021 at 1:36 pm #

    RL – Is this you?

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1428392823221637120

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 19, 2021 at 1:40 pm #

      Either way, thus begins the predicted (and clearly fake) drumming up of support against “redneck domestic extremists” by hatching coordinated “event” plans and getting stupid people to do them (or FBI employees, as is likely in this case).

      • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 2:50 pm #

        Oh, jinx (see below).

    • BackRowHeckler August 19, 2021 at 2:16 pm #

      Redneck domestic extremists?

      Right now in Chicago a distinguished Club Member is on metro buses randomly attacking riders with a claw hammer and a steak knife. A claw hammer, for krissake.

      Apparently Homey, in all his resourcefulness, has found another use for the claw hammer besides driving and pulling nails. And that steak knife he is wielding isn’t to carve up New York Strip, it’s to carve you up, riding the bus home after a hard days work.

      What’s the condition of the dude attacked with a hatchet in lower Manhattan yesterday?

      Brh

    • cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 2:44 pm #

      It make you wonder….we haven’t heard from him in a while!

      • cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 2:45 pm #

        It makes you wonder….we haven’t heard from him in a while!
        (in response to above regarding whether Redneck Liberal is behind the latest and greatest red herring in the news)

    • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 2:49 pm #

      Looks like the false flag we’ve been promised. Right on cue. White southern accented dude, fits the ‘domestic terrorism’ profile.

      • Redneck Liberal August 21, 2021 at 5:38 am #

        Sure. It couldn’t possibly be a deranged, deluded fool who’s swallowed all the same bullshit YOU have, could it. No…it’s a plot/’false flag’/FBI-driven scam. Of course it is. It MUST be.

  179. messianicdruid August 19, 2021 at 2:20 pm #

    Yohannon said, “The Caucasians of North Africa are just as dangerous as Blacks.”

    Are these the real caucasians [ originally from the Caucasus ] or those who were called caucasians only because they were travelling through that area to “the Isles” and “the wilderness” by those they met further on?

    Don’t you think being “dangerous” is rather subjective?

    • SoftStarLight August 19, 2021 at 3:39 pm #

      It’s actually one of the most objective things available for us to know. You forgot. But he remembered. You don’t remember how millions of us were their slaves? Trapped there. Being that you are well read I suspect that you can recall it. And two. Is your cousin you? Are you your cousin?

      • messianicdruid August 19, 2021 at 3:59 pm #

        Knowing danger is objective? Or knowing history is objective?

        Dangerous to who. I’m not dangerous to my cousins.

    • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 6:18 pm #

      Look, let’s talk about what’s really bothering you: The Spider People from Orion are also made in God’s image – image not being a physical thing but rather something pertaining to spiritual likeness.

      The Caucasians are our poor relations. We are the Whites, or Northern Caucasians. They are the Southern ones.

      • messianicdruid August 19, 2021 at 7:14 pm #

        You seem to always assume something is bothering me. I’m trying to figure out who you are talking about.

        Does southern caucasians, northern Africans, etc. mean Egyptians?

        How does looking at someone’s appearance give you insight into their spirituality?

        • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 11:27 pm #

          Egypt is in North Africa. The races are different in temperment. Your Old Testament is all about the struggles of one people to survive in a hostile world. I find myself always having to remind you of what your purport to believe.

          • messianicdruid August 19, 2021 at 11:59 pm #

            “Whosoever will may come and take of the water of life freely.”

            The only people who are offended by God saving everyone are those who believe that they did something to earn it.

            “God be gracious to us and bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us that Thy way may be known on the earth, Thy salvation among all nations [ goyim ]. Let the people praise Thee, O God; let all the peoples praise Thee; Let the nations [ all ] be glad and sing for joy, for Thou wilt judge the peoples with uprightness, and guide the nations on the earth.”

  180. 100th Avatar August 19, 2021 at 2:41 pm #

    How are those Experian vaccine passports working out?

    In Illinois?

    Social credit all right

    Bwah..
    Bwaha…
    Bwahahaaaaaaaa!

    • 100th Avatar August 19, 2021 at 3:02 pm #

      “In order to access their vaccination records via the portal, Illinois residents have to go through a one-time verification process through Experian.

      As part of this process, IDPH said anyone who has placed a freeze on their credit will need to unfreeze it with Experian and wait 24 hours before completing the process. Those who previously had their credit frozen can re-freeze it afterwards by contacting Experian, IDPH said.

      After registering with the site, IDPH said individuals can see their own record in the Illinois Comprehensive Automated Immunization Registry Exchange, otherwise known as I-CARE”

      • Disaffected August 19, 2021 at 3:08 pm #

        Vaxx status tracked through the financial credit system. What could go wrong? The tightening of the noose proceeds apace while the sheep bleat “please, please protect us!”

        I think the relevant question now is not how can people be so stupid; but with so many people like this in our midst, how IN THE FUCK did we EVER make it this far?

        • cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 3:12 pm #

          Time to simply cook up that delicious mutton stew and sock some away for the upcoming Thanksgiving festivities.

        • 100th Avatar August 19, 2021 at 3:14 pm #

          How can they be so stupid?

          Look right here.
          The posts.

          The same moronic racist mopes on their red herring hunts.

          Distracted.

          I’m fairly certain they are bots here for the redirect.

        • Islander August 19, 2021 at 5:53 pm #

          The “Going Direct” financial plan is explained by both Catherine Austin Fitts (Corona Ausschuss) and John Titus.
          I had never heard of Titus.

          I thought his video on this was brilliant:
          “Larry and Carsten’s Excellent Pandemic.’ Do a search for that title and you will get multiple hits.

          the middle gets a bit eye-glazing with charts that track the “retail money circuit” and the “wholesale money circuitl” Although they do make his case, also concerning the timing of all this.

          Long story short, the latter are planning to take over the former—that is “go direct,” wth the Fed intervening *directly* to put money in people’s hands, into the stock marketc, etc., and then of course totally control all expenditures. Kind of like controling access to the vaxx records described.

          At ca. 3:13 you can hear Larry Fink of Blackrock expound on why he and other financial types prefer totalitarian systems to democracy, and Carsten “Fatty” explain how the goal is indeed to get control of individuals’ retail payments: know what they are and have approval/disapproval power over them.

          after the longish charts section, general commentary starts up again at ca. 40:00. Must-see, IMHO.

          Titus has a slight speech impairment, but just ignore that. What he has to say is really crucial. He calls the covid op “Pandemic,” i.e., an orchestrated event. Bottom line: “Pandemic” is actually a monetary event.

          I recall quite clearly what the Fed and Blackrock were doing back in the fall of 2019. I think Michael Hudson wrote about it. But this bombshell of financial news was buried in the viral avalanche. Classic case of misdirection of attention.

          “Pandemic” th eproduction has so many moving parts and subplots. Per Titus Big Pharma profits take a second row to the “real” front-row play (althought hidden in the background), which is “Going Direct.”—destroying the “retail money circuit” and replacing it with the “whole money circuit” via the replacement of cash with CBDC—Central Bank Digital Currency. Direct to your digital wallet from TPTB.

      • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 3:35 pm #

        But but but that’s tinfoil hat, 100th.

        There is no vaxx pass coming! It’s all in your imagination.

        • Disaffected August 19, 2021 at 4:19 pm #

          It’ll be here before the new year chimes in. “For our own good,” of course!

          • Disaffected August 19, 2021 at 4:27 pm #

            Forgot to add, there’s going to be a MAJOR false flag event coming up here shortly. I have a strong gut feeling that it will be either an actual assassination of Biden (could also be faked) or an attempt. Blame will of course, true to form, be instantly assessed and “appropriate” measures taken, after which pretty much anything and everything will be on the table, both domestically and internationally. I still believe the Afghan pullout is part of a larger con. Don’t know the specific play, but I’m sure there’s more going on there than meets the eye. Too far out of character for the MIC to just give up on one of their treasured forever wars like that.

          • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 4:58 pm #

            How about, the pull out of Afghanistan causes the return of so-called Muslim extremist terrorist attacks?

            I thought they were gonna blame white Republicans, but either works well for them.

          • Disaffected August 19, 2021 at 7:41 pm #

            You’re barking up the right tree there MQ, but specifics are impossible to predict ahead of time. In general, something that serves as a casus belli for the next great move on the board.

  181. Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 2:52 pm #

    If anyone finds out exactly what the context is in this video, please share here:

    https://twitter.com/Partisangirl/status/1428278715532726273

    Girl is ripped from her father’s arms as she screams. Looks like forced vaxxing.

    Australia is currently vaxxing kids without parental permission, and a number of people are trying to track down what this video shows.

    Thx.

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    • cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 3:02 pm #

      So what, children go back to school and instead of field trips they will have a 1/2 vaxx day? Sounds like something that could be implemented. During morning homeroom everyone can get the jab from a buxom nurse in a candy striper uniform. Sounds like fun to me!

      There is probably something in the fine print of all school registration materials that states parents are granting implied consent for schools to administer the vaxx to all pupils.

  182. Night Owl August 19, 2021 at 2:58 pm #

    CHECK IT:

    “Australian Minister Victor Dominello diagnosed with Bell’s palsy after viewers spot drooping eye in NSW press conference.”

    https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1428351482844246026

    Safe and effective.

    • cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 3:08 pm #

      Wow, that looks weird in the video. Maybe he is some kind of alien cyborg and his internal wiring is starting to malfunction?

    • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 3:37 pm #

      LMAO at the comments. The death cult has to spin and spin to justify this shit.

      That’s def Bell’s Palsy look at his mouth.

      The commenters: “Oh, that’s nothing, it goes away in a day or two.”

      Um, nope. My friend hasn’t recovered, and she got the jab like 4 months ago. And she got BP after just 1 jab.

      • cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 3:45 pm #

        Lol: “The 5th shot should fix that.”

        Man oh man, well at least he won’t get a bad case of the Covid flu, although just getting the vaxx will not completely eliminate this possibility. I am sure this is all worth it in the end.

        I am sure that Big Pharma can cook up some kind of treatment for his newfound BP condition.

        • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 5:01 pm #

          Just paralyze the other half of his face with botox or something to even it out.

      • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 8:15 pm #

        I looked up Bell’s Palsy and vaccines today after reading these.

        Bell’s Palsy is associated with many vaccines including Hep B and influenza, with the data from VAERs.

        • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 10:21 pm #

          In that article, they don’t mention he was jabbed. And they say the main cause of Bell’s Palsy is “It’s believed viral infections are the main cause of the paralysis.” This is patently false.

        • SpeedyBB August 19, 2021 at 11:15 pm #

          I got Bell’s Palsy once, in 1972, as I was concluding the editing of THE MASTER OF IMAGES, my first feature-length film. Woke up one morning and half my face was sagging, and would not react to muscle input.

          I had been working super-hard, under lots of stress (typical motion picture “Hurry-up-and-wait” environment) and I thought I’d had a stroke.

          Bell’s Palsy went away in a couple of weeks. No medication but plenty of straining the nerves to get the face working again. All the frets and wrinkles went out: left side of face was smooth if droopy.

          In the meantime I had to prop up my cheek and left side of my mouth so I could eat properly and not have food dribbling out the side.

          It was only an annoying experience, after an initial fright (stroke at 31?)

          I never put myself under such stress again, even while road racing motorcycles. This has been another signal as to why to avoid mRNA concoctions.

          The story keeps shifting, excuse me “evolving”:
          https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/93830

    • stelmosfire August 19, 2021 at 4:51 pm #

      No Problem, The “Science” has it covered. They’ll just grow him a new eyeball. They’re already working on a brain for President Scarecrow. Match this up with a cool machine and whaddaya got? Scary, that’s what ya got. TEOTWAWKI

      https://www.newscientist.com/article/2287207-tiny-human-brain-grown-in-lab-has-eye-like-structures-that-see-light/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk&t=2s

    • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 8:20 pm #

      Look how they lie in the article:

      “It’s believed viral infections are the main cause of the paralysis.”

      Uhhhh nope. It’s from vaccines. And they don’t mention he’s jabbed.

  183. cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 3:52 pm #

    Recently issued press release headline: “Pfizer warns a third booster shot may be needed for those who haven’t died yet.”

    • Disaffected August 19, 2021 at 4:07 pm #

      LOL! Love it! Sadly, how many CovidCultists would read that without a trace of irony.

  184. cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 5:03 pm #

    I am so sick of these trite statements, such as found in the following article: “No one is safe until everyone is safe.”

    I guess we will all remain forever unsafe. I mean seriously, 100% safety is a statistical improbability!!!

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/unconscionable-biden-s-plan-for-booster-shots-raises-moral-questions-experts-say/ar-AANt9DG?ocid=msedgntp

  185. tom clark August 19, 2021 at 5:07 pm #

    Hey CFN. Take a break from your covid rantings and ravings and give a listen to Jimbo’s podcast w/ Dmitry Orlov. Orlov is one bright mother fucker and Jim does his best to milk him for all he’s worth, as only Jim can. Orlov’s evaluation of Trump is priceless. Hey Jimbo…thanks for knowing how to ask the “right questions” of a worthy interviewee.

    • cowbell81 August 19, 2021 at 5:30 pm #

      Spot on about our cultural collapse at the 16 minute mark! Couldn’t agree more.

    • 100th Avatar August 19, 2021 at 5:50 pm #

      There was some patronizing in that repartee.
      Particularly when he was critiquing the citizenry that cannot dress or form a sentence. The kind of stuff JHK once did.

      His take on Trump, an egomaniacal showman was hardly original.

      He’s absolutely correct on the hubris and how all the knuckle-draggers buy into the “shining city on a hill” “murica” “greatest place on Earth” baloney.

      Funny how murica sends those suckers first to die in places like Afghanistan

      • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 7:46 pm #

        He’s right that our social collapse has already happened.

        This trans agenda shit, the celebration of narcissicism, the CRT garbage, etc.

    • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 7:17 pm #

      Thanks for the head’s up. Listening now.

      • Disaffected August 19, 2021 at 7:36 pm #

        Likewise. Used to be an Orlov subscriber, but he got a bit too smug without adding much new knowledge for my tastes.

        He’s also part of the effete educated class, whether he wants to claim it or not. Nothing necessarily wrong with that within reason, but it definitely comes through in his writing, especially when he strays from his areas of expertise.

        I continue to listen to the so-called “alternative experts” like Orlov to keep me abreast of things the MSM certainly won’t, but I no longer take everything they say at face value if it doesn’t match my personal observations and reason. Same goes for Saker and JHK for that matter too.

        • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 7:43 pm #

          He does have a smug air.

        • Blackbird August 19, 2021 at 9:43 pm #

          If I only listened to (or read) people with whom I’m in complete agreement, I’d never learn anything – but I’d have a lot more free time.

    • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 7:44 pm #

      I like how he is describing what a laughingstock the US is now.

      Sad but true.

  186. bigbill August 19, 2021 at 5:40 pm #

    “Robert Malone (inventor of MRNA tech)”

    Actually, I would give the credit to a woman, a Hungarian immigrant: Kati Kariko.

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    • JohnAZ August 19, 2021 at 8:09 pm #

      I read a story on Malone today where Kariko was portrayed as a competitor for him. To the point that he is very resentful.

      Ego, ego, ego!

  187. bigbill August 19, 2021 at 5:59 pm #

    HOURS-LONG INCIDENT:
    A Grover, North Carolina man, Floyd Roy Roseberry, is in custody following an hours-long standoff over a potential explosive device in the black pickup truck he drove onto the sidewalk.

    TWO SECONDS-LONG INCIDENT:
    A young 12 year old boy, Tamir Rice, is playing in a park … A video shows the police car is still in the process of stopping when the young boy is shot. The entire incident happened in less than two seconds..

    Why would one person be negotiated with for hours, while another is shot in less than two seconds?

    • Yohannon August 19, 2021 at 6:21 pm #

      Because Tamir was threatening them directly with his look alike toy gun. Try and keep up.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 19, 2021 at 7:36 pm #

      He also said in a live stream online that the only way the bomb would go off is if someone shot at him through the window.

      Guessing Tamir didn’t pre-broadcast a contingency like that (even if Roseberry’s claim was perhaps complete BS).

      And as Yohannon mentioned, he wasn’t actively directing a weapon at them. Just claiming to be driving one.

      He also was probably FBI.

      So there are your answer(s), bill.

      Either way, this story was complete fabricated horseshit.

      • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 7:46 pm #

        I agree. One of the weaker FFs.

        • Dr_Wellington_Yueh August 20, 2021 at 12:25 am #

          Seems like they called tech support in India and asked them for a good fake ‘redneck’ name.

    • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 7:40 pm #

      Isn’t a bomb a lot bigger of a deal? You have to treat that situation much differently.

    • MrMangoOnMyShoulder August 19, 2021 at 8:59 pm #

      Why would one person be negotiated with for hours, while another is shot in less than two seconds?

      You piss me off with this, bill.

      Gee, I wonder what you want someone to say. It’s a damn mystery to me. Not obvious at all.

      I also wonder why hundreds of people are still in solitary confinement indefinitely for trespassing into the Capitol building unarmed in January, yes, with some incidences of brief violence, when tens of thousands of others were slapped on the wrist and let go for looting and then burning down local businesses (cuz why not?) and large portions of cities around the country last summer (including affordable housing complexes under construction), lighting mattresses on fire in dumpsters rolled into streets in residential neighborhoods, placed underneath massive eighty year-old trees next to innocent families’ homes and blocking fire departments from accessing the locations.

      Your way of thinking is dumb.

      • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 9:04 pm #

        Agree.

  188. benr August 19, 2021 at 8:12 pm #

    The tenants of mass formation.
    How a complete crook is supported while another is excoriated for even the slightest deviation from what is considered normal or acceptable behavior.

    Excellent break down of how people accept what they normally consider unacceptable.

    https://www.noagendashow.net/listen/1373?t=37:05

  189. MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 8:44 pm #

    Cory Morningstar is one of the best investigative journalists working today. Great interview:

    https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2021/08/19/cory-morningstar-this-isnt-about-health-its-about-resetting-the-whole-global-economy/

    • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 9:20 pm #

      NO CASES. FEW DEATHS.

      And new lockdowns.

      Wakey wakey, dupes.

    • Night Owl August 20, 2021 at 5:54 am #

      Yes. I follow her, too. She has seen through pretty much every aspect of this fraud.

      The level of detail is impressive.

  190. KesaAnna August 19, 2021 at 9:09 pm #

    ” I’m not going to say that was deliberate U.S. policy, because the idea of the American government spending $2 trillion+ just to increase dope production in Central Asia looks retarded. ”

    It does look retarded .

    Never the less , I am obliged to assert it.

    The war on Drugs is a hoax.

    The State is the drug dealer.

    ” he glosses over the stupidity aspect. ”

    Ah ! Another opportunity to trot out one of my favorite rules of thumb ;

    If you assume that the average denizen of Country Club Row is any sharper than the average plumber or waitress ,

    then you really , badly , need to pull your head out of your ass.

    • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 10:17 pm #

      It’s all about the Benjamins, baby!

  191. KesaAnna August 19, 2021 at 9:23 pm #

    ” The Spider People from Orion are also made in God’s image – image not being a physical thing but rather something pertaining to spiritual likeness. ”

    — Yohannon

    I have thought pretty much that very thing myself.

    Also , they say there will be eating and drinking in Heaven.

    And they say that the Lion will lie down with the Lamb.

    Maybe , ” the Lion will lie down with the Lamb ” is merely a figure of speech ?

    Or , maybe , it is literal ?

    If these things ,

    then I think it not a stretch to think there will also be dogs and cats , turtles and trees , mosquitoes and cockroaches.

    If every tear will be dried from every eye , then perhaps “mosquitoe ” will be a word with no negative connotation.

    In this life some people already — albeit rather weird people , keep as pets spiders as big as kittens.

    So perhaps in Heaven people will have cockroach farms , like ant farms ,

    or pet cockroaches the size of Saint Bernard’s , and no one will think anything of it either ?

    • MaryQueen August 19, 2021 at 10:11 pm #

      The picture you paint is starting to resemble the bar scene in the first Star Wars – lol.

    • benr August 19, 2021 at 10:28 pm #

      People keep hissing roaches now here on earth as pets.

    • SoftStarLight August 20, 2021 at 3:02 am #

      The more I consider this notion I’m beginning to think maybe it’s good not to know things. Like can we just kinda forget about that whole oh I want to know it all part. And to think he has the foresight to see like maybe you don’t really want to know about these alien spider people to begin with. The lion and the lamb however, being familiar examples of the predator and prey, are symbols imo in the biblical context you mention. There will be new heavens AND a new earth. And there will be no more death so there will be no more prey and no more predator. And so the lion will lie down with the lamb.

  192. jim e August 20, 2021 at 1:10 am #

    Ran in to an ex Governor of our our state tonight.I thanked him for taking the rap.

  193. jim e August 20, 2021 at 1:24 am #

    Ran in to an Ex-Governnor of the illustrious State of Alabama tonight. Don is doing well. I told him that I was sorry he took the wrap. Mr. Don Siegelman could teach a class on election fraud.
    Roll Tide Roll

    • jim e August 20, 2021 at 1:26 am #

      sweet home alabama roll tide roll

      • jim e August 20, 2021 at 1:31 am #

        I Predict That CAM NEWTON will beat Brady in week four at foxborough stadium.

        • jim e August 20, 2021 at 1:35 am #

          any takers?

          • Disaffected August 20, 2021 at 6:44 am #

            I predict CAM NEWTON will be a free agent again as soon as Mr Bill tells him he’ll be riding the pine behind Mac Jones this year. His arm is a wet noodle these days.

  194. SpeedyBB August 20, 2021 at 1:51 am #

    I was sent a very professional, well-presented video that should resound and raise questions (if not doubts) about the mRNA in any open-minded person. Kids to teenagers most likely, as they tend to be harder to indoctrinate than adults with a paycheck, family and mortgage to worry about.

    https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fvideopress.com%2Fv%2Fp8r7ebpy%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR14nf5gaWiqJWHfzu31M7WiMxJsDb7efBHVZOUwoqyGA-0tq16NHiiz9_Q&h=AT3cXYDLnWSQLkAAfsbAKOW4cg61vQsjtCYGAunMKn51-N467ZT4iPX7J48k-RKFvy1-H8aUvTOfhnbZE_cCeUVNH0pmmnxOkETULzMA_ZbAUAUp12KQnKS9C33TapD0GQ&__tn__=-UK-R&c%5B0%5D=AT3YGxlx1ptZvuHImMY-fHGS3xvpZl0nKAebusDQkIw2wgvEDw6qxc-nE1FXT6Oxc326vAS3IAZG9kWzfKX6W3miehPwQHHoYn3pwQJdWqFz_cd819CyNevkle0GQSnLeavE

    • Night Owl August 20, 2021 at 5:01 am #

      That video is really good. I am ususally skeptical of videos that employ this style, but it was quite detailed and did very well to break down the multiple layers of fraud involved in the Corona Hoax in a very digestable way.

      • Night Owl August 20, 2021 at 5:04 am #

        Also that clip from the CDC session was something I had never seen before. Talk about corrupt.

    • Disaffected August 20, 2021 at 6:42 am #

      Great stuff! Won’t be seeing that video on TV anytime soon.

    • MaryQueen August 20, 2021 at 9:17 am #

      Thanks, Speedy.

      Here’s a much shorter URL to get to it directly, w/out having to go through FB:

      https://videopress.com/v/p8r7ebpy

  195. KesaAnna August 20, 2021 at 3:47 am #

    ” Is it mass murder or just a callous disregard for human life? ”

    — Sean Coleman.

    Neither of the two I think.

    I think the human mind has an infinite capacity for rationalization and self – justification.

    Like , for example , commonly at 8 AM it’s a necessary evil , and the obstacle or opponent is unfortunately collateral damage.

    But by 5 PM of the same day the necessary evil has morphed into a moral stand , and a bystander has been re – defined as the very Prince of Darkness himself.

    ” How do you sleep at night ? ” seems to me something of a stupid question .

    A person can always easily enough re – write the narrative in their own head so that there is no reason to second – guess themself ,

    and / or no reason to feel bad about themself.

    I would say that only people who have a conscience lie awake at night or pace the floors at the wee hours.

    — But I won’t , because I don’t think it is that simple either.

    In that case , for example , you see in our own time rather prominently where expressions of remorse or conscience translate into a privileged status , and / or it pays off in the ole bank account.

    Like , if a person says ” I’m sorry . I’m an evil person , and did evil things —- now send me to work at Burger King for the rest of my life. ”

    Maybe you can relax.

    But if a person says , ” I’m sorry . I’m an evil person , and did evil things —- now give me a book deal and movie rights. ”

    Maybe you should wonder.

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  196. BackRowHeckler August 20, 2021 at 7:57 am #

    All that gold and silver the Spanish Conquistadors looted from the Aztec, Inca and Mayan empires, and mined at Petosi in Bolivia, and in Mexico c1510-1830 … ever wondered what happened to it?

    Comrade Stalin to the Spanish Republic, 1937: “Comrades, the fascist thieves have designs on your gold reserves, ship it to the USSR for safe Proletarian keeping.”

    Caravans of trucks loaded with gold and silver rolled east, where it was loaded onto ships in the French port of Marseilles, which steamed thru the Med thru the Dardanelles, into the Black sea, and ports of Crimea.

    That’s the last anybody ever saw or heard about the Spanish gold reserves.

    Brh

  197. BackRowHeckler August 20, 2021 at 8:02 am #

    “Possession is 9/10s of the law”- Comrade Stalin

  198. MaryQueen August 20, 2021 at 9:14 am #

    When they tell us what they are doing, perhaps we should believe them. The “internet of bodies”?

    “Recent technological advancements have ushered in a new era of the “internet of bodies” (IoB), with an unprecedented number of connected devices and sensors being affixed to or even implanted and ingested into the human body.

    The IoB generates tremendous amounts of biometric and human behavioral data. This is, in turn, fuelling the transformation of health research and industry, as well as other aspects of social life, such as the adoption of IoB in work settings, or the provision of new options for entertainment – all with remarkable data-driven innovations and social benefits.

    Yet the IoB also raises new challenges for data governance that concern not only individual privacy and autonomy but also new risks of discrimination and bias in employment, education, finance, access to health insurance and other important areas for the distribution of social resources.”

    https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-internet-of-bodies-is-here-tackling-new-challenges-of-technology-governance

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  200. Htruth August 27, 2021 at 10:27 pm #

    Send in the AMERICAN TALIBAN!!!! https://americanyellowvest.wpcomstaging.com/2021/08/28/american-taliban/

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