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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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Historians of the future, pan-frying ‘possum cutlets over their campfires, will marvel at the potency of their ancestors’ prayers. jhk
I hear ya, Jim, but they’re so very much better roasted than pan-fried. Just my opinion.
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
Read it, hear it, imagine it…doesn’t matter. Gives me goosebumps.
China Doll by the Grateful Dead.
https://archive.org/details/gd1969-08-16.sbd.dfinney.6103.shnf/GD69-08-16T03.SHN
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.
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?
and just maybe we need to learn that our version of God needs to be feared as well.
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.
Dick Cheney and George Bush are remarkably quiet this morning, aren’t they?
Cheney’s daughter named Trump/Biden as the responsible party.
There is no Trump/Biden.
Dickhead Cheney was involved in getting us into the Afghan caper. Who is Liz Cheney trying to kid?
Cheney’s daughter is gonna get primaried in Wyoming. Make book on that.
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
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.
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
The invert Lemon wouldn’t recognize an adult if he got his silly smug face smacked silly by one.
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……………
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.
Look it up in the dictionary,idiot.
Ooooh, snappy comeback.
If you think Cheney gives a rat’s ass about Afghanistan…..
then you don’t know Dick!
Dead Eye Dick got his millions. What does he care?
The majority of the $Trillion(s?) “targeted” for Afghanistan landed, as planned, in the shiny new MiniMcMansions of Contractors in Northern Virginia.
Maybe a couple of places in Delaware too…
All the Taliban needed were some AKs, RPGs, faith, and time.
No nukes, F-15s, lockdowns, masks, toxic jabs, CRT, or trannies, necessary.
You can’t kill an idea with bullets and bombs.
You could say that bullets’n’bombs put evolutionary pressure on a viral idea.
You sure can if you KILL everyone whoever even heard the idea.
Right TCL – the way it’ll be here – asymmetric – pockets of long term resistance – weapons, faith & time…
“I guess we had to find out the hard way that Afghanistan is not like Nebraska.”
Nebraska can change.
Awesome catch, Druid! Way to pick it! 😉
It will change – for the worse.
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.
That’s not immediately apparent, as they are already executing women in sports arenas again, first caning them, then shooting them in the head.
Hortonz,
No, it was never a good idea, and that was abundantly apparent at the time.
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.
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.
They’re against boy rape as was Mohammad.
Tell that to Lawrence of Arabia. They cornholed him good!
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…
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?
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.
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.
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.
I’ve heard that we’ve already taken in two translators for every soldier, over the years.
Do tell.
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/
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.
9/11 was an inside job. What did Afghanistan have to do with it?
Nada. Bupkiss.
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.
LMAO! Imagine being this blind.
Paging Dr. O.G. Paging Dr. O.G.
LOL
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.
You are correct.
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.
I mean WTC!
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.
I think WTF fits perfectly…
it’s exactly what I thought when they found the passport that fluttered down to the street.
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.
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.
Not Chinese? I know its visually ridiculous, but that’s the reality.
I wonder exactly how many Chinese men are seeking 200lb+ tattooed women.
Ishabaka, that would be 200lb+, tatooed, with a non-stop mouth, hostility, and ignorance that defies belief.
LMAO!! Truth!
200lb+ tattooed women. – Isha
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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?
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.
Ok – but she’s not 200+ pounds and has no tattoos. Not your typical American Girl Next Door.
I was replying to Yohannon. But even the 200 pounder’s passport won’t be worth shit after all is said & done.
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.
I was wrong, he’s a Korean-American. Same small wedding tackle. Nothing wrong with that but it’s a fact Asian men are least attractive to Caucasian females.
https://nypost.com/2021/07/26/nyc-surgeon-beauty-queen-wife-settle-divorce-amid-hooker-allegations/
Asian men tend to treat their women as inferiors without rights. This may also be a factor in repelling American women.
“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.
Further its more about girth and stamina than length anyway.
A fat bank account also helps.
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.”
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.
Life ain’t fair.
Nor should it be MQ. But at least it’s reality and not Woke.
Agree!
“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.
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?
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?
First!
Edit: Forment should be foment.
Good job Ron!
I wasn’t expecting this much enthusiasm for my quiz.
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.
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.
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.
Age related?
Sorry, my finger dexterity and proof reading skills aren’t what they used to be. – outsider
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We noticed.
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.
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.
You left out stupid. And perhaps illiterate.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Mary, they count the vaxxed like they count Biden votes.
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.
The Ghoul returns.
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…
The spike protein count?
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.
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.
@BuckEyeDoug please get your jab like a good little sheeple.
(Yawn). Here’s information with CONTEXT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewCoYGBhbUk
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.
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.
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.
The Long Emergency should bust up everything. if CNN goes, well then, yeah!
“…gigantic steaming ball of chaos.” ~ amb
Ordo Ab Chao
Question is, who’ll be providing the order?
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?
“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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
A la Jair Bolsanaro of Brazil on Covid: Stop being a pussy.
Yep, you have to love Bolsanaro – the “Trump of the Tropics”.
Hahahaha!
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).
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.
rulo,
Brazil rainforest destruction has been off-the-charts since the 80s. Not to let Bolsinaro off the hook, of course.
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.
The destruction of the rain forest is one of those things that just sadden me so greatly I can’t hardly think about it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What ever happened to the Schwarzenegger that chided against the “girly men”???
He’s now crying about masks and jabs.
They all had man-buns – JackStraw
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Oh God, don’t get me started on man-buns. They’re worse than tatts on women.
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”.
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?
sorry, MSM..edit
Don’t forget the poppy fields.
BINGO!
Oh, no! What is the CIA going to do to replace that funding source?
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—-.
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.
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.
Follow the money. Always.
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.
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!”
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.
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/
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.
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.
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.
Yup!
That economy is here now.
Most realistic post of the day. “Growth” stopped a long time ago. Buses and other forms of mass transit can work well.
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.”
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
SW, that’s a good quote. Rings true to me.
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.
Floundering. Friendless. Broke. Broken!
Spooky. The similarities to the last days of the CCCP are more than I can bear.
Thanks for this.
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.
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
Amen.
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.
The Atlantis of the Desert? I did not know that Yohannon. Thx.
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.
Nice to see you back Walter.
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.
If there is that much corruption and apathy at your level, imagine how bad things are at the top…
It boggles the mind.
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.
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….
Walter, well said! Welcome back, looking forward to your well reasoned posts.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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…….
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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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.
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.
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.
You bet they are.
The creed of the American military- ‘We’re making the world a safer place for McDonalds!”
I find their cluster bomblettes and white phosphor very tasty.
“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
amb will explain some the true costs [ that we diligently avoided ] further down.
cavepainter as well.
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…..
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chelsea got a high-end wedding out of it. It was really top drawer.
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.
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.
The VP is getting to the “roots” of the problem, I hope — 10 miles underground, where she belongs!
The VP has a track record of rooting for personal gain.
It is known.
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.
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.
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.
Just as the fallen Church puts Homosexual Predators in charge of investigations on sexual abuse by Homosexual Predators.
Wait a minute. Heels Up is in Haiti?
Isn’t that Clinton Territory?
No, she’s “focused on” it.
Esp. the kids.
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.
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.
This kind of chaos has Obama’s fingerprints all over it.
Who else has such a fervent desire to see America brought low?
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.
He works for the Rockerfeller/Rothschilds like every other puppet.
Yes, he’s the puppet running the dummy.
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.
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.
Why does he hate? USA and Whites made him rich….He may be a billionaire.
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.
I think the commie from Chicago is his dad.
They both have facial moles in the same place.
Barry’s mother was a sexual adventuress.
He was groomed by the CIA.
The man has no soul, they remove it to make perfect puppets.
doesn’t have any problem palling around – Beryl
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Oh my God, please!
Hey, how about turning Haiti into a 21st century Liberia?
Charles Taylor is still around – put him in the Presidential Palace in Port au Prince.
Fat, stupid, over educated, elitist. Know anyone in these categories? They will determine the future of the country. Common sense, not so much.
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.
I think it all comes down to greed.
Greed is superficial. It exists because of the flaws in the human mind and lack of education on the true principles of life.
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.
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.
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.
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Greed is often pure evil in the sense that it will deploy 1 or more of the other 6 to profit.
I’ve increasingly come to the realization that the 10th commandment is vastly underrated but perhaps the most helpful.
To me personally, anyway.
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.
I’m also happy to build an alternative blog, where anyone can post. Just let me know if youse guys are interested.
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.
How to stop corruption, fraud and lying?
Maybe Durham’s Grand Jury will lead the way?
Maybe the elves will fix my rototiller…
Keep the faith, stranger things have happened…(than elves fixing your rototiller, I mean…beauty…)
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.
Entropy. It is built into everything and unavoidable.
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.
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.
I don’t know why people are so bitter about Russiagate. We got Clinesmith, didn’t we?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Is that hair gel flammable? Just askin’.
Who do you think created destroyers like Nancy and Diane to chastise us for our complacency with evil?
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.
OC is full of libertarians and Republicans, but it is also a HUGE population. So, onward. This is good news.
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/
It’s horrible. They are being groomed, and preyed upon, and their parents help! And so do schools. Disgusting.
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.
The video is blocked, BTW.
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?
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.
Now wait a minute Donkey poo is at least use full as fertilizer!
LOL, true.
You, like many other disappointed QAnon dickwads, have abandoned Trump, so that means absolutely nothing.
The rest of your beliefs are just batshit crazy.
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.
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.
We have plenty of fentanyl. It’s a little trickier, is all.
Kills faster, that’s for sure.
Oh no.
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.
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.
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.
Just remember there is a legitimate market for opium.
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?
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
My thoughts exactly, hmuller. Who needs poppy fields when you can have Fentanyl?
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…
Fentanyl comes from a lab, not a poppy. So does oxycodone. That’s why they’re called “opiods” instead of “opiates”.
Opium production was at an all time low in 2001 in Afghanistan. Now it’s at an all time high. Interesting, eh?
The second to last sentence needs some help.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oh, make sure you document everything.
Also, they recently gave the largest raises to the lowest paid. – JackStraw
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Probably you are saying the largest raises percentagewise, not in actual dollars and cents.
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.
“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.
I know its tough for you but just actually look at who is popping up around you.
Do you get out at all?
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.
They want double think to replace logic.
It will only work in the short term.
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.
“So the predictions are the dissolution of America.”
America will survive the United States.
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?
and he was a stone alone? the others were not knighted?
try TO make your opponent live up to their principle
Keith rejected it, If memory serves. He was the one enraged at Mick’s acceptance.
Keiths dad was a socialist?
Huh? Wtf?
Jagger has always had zero principles.
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?
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.
This is the story I remember reading about:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/the-only-solution-is-for-america-and-europe-to-import-lots-more-afghans-and-not-be-prejudiced-against-their-vibrantly-diverse-culture/
These pedophiles were protected by our government.
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.
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.
Sorry, but it’s funny. Many of those women appear to be not up to the job they are tasked with.
Men, either.
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.
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.
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.
Wasn’t the plan to have Kamala take over as Pres? Well, here it is. A done deal. America died a long time ago.
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.
Then Montel should be President, not her. Why can’t we have a real Black president? Like in Idiocracy, the movie?
Yes. I demand President Camacho.
Or if a whitey is still allowed, why not Buffalo man?
They’re terrified of the Qanon Shaman.
I have a nightgown that looks exactly like her dress.
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!
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.
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.
So should Kamala, for not stepping up in his absence.
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.
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?
????
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.
Personally – I don’t need “A Leader”.
Maybe Joe the Plumber would work out?
Common sense and following the Constitution.
The Ho is very familiar with uncomfortable positions. They made possible her political career and $30/day ice cream habit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, where is Heels Up?
Both Heels up and Sleepy Joe seemed to have gone to ground. Who’s in Charge?
Al Haig os dead.
Is dead.
Right, so he can’t be in charge, but it leaves the question unanswered.
Ummm..Susan Rice??
No, Who’s on second. What’s in charge.
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!
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.
Someone should loosely string Biden and Koonala to the back of an airplane – cowbell
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Hahaha, that’s harsh!
As should the loathsome General Mark Milly.
Aw, lay off poor Milly-Vanilli.
He only lip synchs
Look at the desperation as Afghanis try to get on planes at the airport.
https://rumble.com/vl7y8l-scenes-at-kabul-airport.html
As with the Kurds, Pox Romana green forces collaborators may receive an unpleasant debriefing by new management.
That’s the price people pay for getting sucked in by The Great Satan (aka American Military Might and Regime Changers).
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.
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.
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.
IDK, we could’ve left without equipping the incoming army.
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.
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.
Maybe they can tradesies with ISIS for US parts and ammo. Or just buy direct from MIC.
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.
Exactly.
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.
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.
Excellent point John.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
@ 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.
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.
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.
Agree, and hope both you and I are wrong.
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.
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
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.
the balance needs to return toward #2 at the expense of #1 – gustaf
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So you’re saying, more poop, less piss?
“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.
And no drinking the bong water. If you’re thirsty, pretend the tap water is a glacier fed alpine stream and partake of that.
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.
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.
It’s clear you’ve never been a farmer, Mitchell, or a field hand.
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.
A good question. I will add, why do we always take the contrarian position, trying to change the majority position?
Yes nationalism 100%.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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!
Same. I have a pantry stuffed with food and supplies.
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.
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.
Ah, good call on the grid.
I had forgotten about Cyber Polygon.
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.
No worries. A vacuum-release straw sewn into the mask will solve that problem.
On with the pub crawls!
Who wouldn’t be drinking alcohol through all of this totalitarianism?
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.
“Beer, the answer to all of life’s problems, and the cause of them.”-Homer Simpson.
I got my wine stash.
I always knew Aussies were a bunch of fake blowhards.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
No, that’s you. Health is a private affair. Have some respect for human dignity.
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.
” 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.
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.
“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.
Ely, I can imagine General Buck Turgidson saying those very lines.
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.
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.”
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
Heckler, I assume that is comedy?
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.
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.
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?
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.
BB, wasn’t it you that mentioned a while back that you were building a Warthog a piece at a time?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
I occasionally see A-10s flying around here in the ROK. Don’t know the nationality of the crews.
Do they fly those from the Airbase near you?
Westover?
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.
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.”
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?
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
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.
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
Sniffles again? You just need another boost. Every one is a knock.
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.”
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.
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?
I haven’t had the jab. Now Homeland Security says I’m an enemy of the state.
All normal.
Yes, all normal. Just ask RL.
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.
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?
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.
Get a mule [ unlicensed ].
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.”
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?
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.
That’s what the Constitution and Declaration of Independence are for…
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.
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.
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.
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.
No, just somebody I knew. On friendly terms if not a friend per se.
Girl Scout cookies are the worst kind of crap. I forbid my husband from bringing any of that fake food garbage home.
Even thin mints?
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.
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?
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!”
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.
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?
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!
Well certainly our military would be busy cross-dressing.
Disguising themselves as Bazi Boys no doubt.
This was supposed to be the job of Planned Parenthood. It was Margaret Sanger’s dream.
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.
A good Fallout Shelter is a joy forever.
“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/
“Sources close to Biden…” Ben and Jerry.
Hahahahaa! I love BB. This one also cracked me up:
https://babylonbee.com/news/people-hang-happy-birthday-obama-banners-over-front-door-to-ward-off-covid
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.
“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.
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.
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.
I think Biden was punked.
“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!
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.
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.
We’re so beaten down now that the monstrous seems normal. But it IS monstrous and abnormal.
“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
It’s clear that the dumbest president we ever had was Bush junior, even dumber than Obama.
Yeah he was a mental midget to be sure.
Also, Paul Romano’s coverage on this is really good as well.
https://youtu.be/xkntz3BuybU
Come on now, never misunderestimate strategery.
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.
🙂
“Peance, Freeance” is my fav tho
It’s not Jim Crow, it’s Jim Eagle.
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.
Musique pour Le Mis-en-Scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2frAPi1Pv8&ab_channel=RockArtMichal
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.
I’ve been shaking my fist vigorously at Washington D.C.
Where would they go?
Maybe Martha’s Vineyard, Lefty Elitist Paradise.
Just as soon as the America’s “insurgents” storm the Capitol Hardrock. LOL
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!
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.
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.
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.
And Ukrainians wanted to believe the Germans showed up to free them too. In 1914 Kaisers Army showed up and treated Ukranian peasants fairly.
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.
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.
Rumsfeld was Princeton graduate.
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.
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.
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.
Bingo!
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.”
What, no saferooms where you can get hugs, have a good cry with your girlfriend (he, she), and mess around with Play-do?
LOL!
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!
The Dem leadership are a nauseating bunch, alright. Imagine being someone who takes them seriously.
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?
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.
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….
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
The quintessential American song.
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.
I am sure if they were here in the US blowing up monuments to the CSA they would be hailed as national heroes.
They even removed a 70 ton rock from the U of Wisconsin campus just because somebody once called it ‘niggerhead’ rock.
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.
They used to call the hummocks that form across the tundra north of the tree-line “niggerheads.”
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.
“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.
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?
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)
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.
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.
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.
Dunno. That goes against everything the big guns have said, and goes against what the Ausschuss has been saying.
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!
Goat milk is actually pretty good stuff:
https://www.laclarefamilycreamery.com/
Used to drink a lot of it in the Caribbean, had to douse it with chocolate syrup to get it down.
“…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?’
Yeah, and don’t forget a shout out to his old friend and constant companion Corn Pop!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
Maybe they can bring the call center industry back to the US? Take that Mumbai!
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
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.
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.”
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…
Me as well, totally iconic photo. Works either way, for me.
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.
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
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.
Are you referring to my comment about the helicopter? That’s for James’ photo, up top.
No, this is the picture of Pappy Joe that I linked to sitting forlornly at his desk all by his lonesome, looking like he is watching cartoons as he plays with his oatmeal.
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
It’s too bad we don’t have Tekapo around to set us all straight on this calamity.
Perhaps Tucsonspur can fill in, or Redneck Liberal (Maj)?
Step up to the plate, kids.
Hahahaha! That’s perfect.
And when this all blew up he hid out for the weekend. Prob in his jammies.
Excellent interview here by John Waters, Ireland’s finest:
https://odysee.com/@AnomicAge:b/AA_Waters_121:a?r=2QSgeJG3T5LvhW6nH1trmZvK87irVN2K
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.
🙂
Did anyone else notice that all the book titles in the background are backwards as if in a mirror image? What gives here??? Strange…
It’s just the the way their zoom/camera is set up.
I usually skip intros, and endings, but often listen to certain passages more than once.
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.
Yeah those were some good realizations right there.
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.
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.
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.
I hope the Taliban doesn’t expect Osama bin Laden’s body back. We misplaced it with the USN concierge.
Wait, didn’t we give him a proper burial at sea in accord with age-old Islamic custom?
Yes, he is one with the fishes now.
Millions of millions of dollars.
Four trillion dollars
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 !
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.
George W.Bush 2001: https://americanyellowvest.wpcomstaging.com/2021/08/15/bushs-womens-liberation-movement-in-afghanistan-fails/
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.
Hilarious.
Everything is about her. An eternal vagina monologue.
Zing!
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….
HEY — somehow Afghanistan has removed Obama’s birthday bash over-the-top excess from the news cycle.
How Freakin’ Convenient!
It always happens!
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 !!!!!!
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!
I know an old lady who swallowed a fly…
Well-played.
Im gonna miss the two main products out of Afghanistan………..opium and rubble.
Gotsta have my rubble.
Makes good backfill for all of those new roads we are going to pave under the infrastructure bill touted by Biden.
Betty Rubble was my favorite. She was to Wilma as Maryanne was to Ginger.
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
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.
Pity the women and young girls at the end of the Taliban tube. The bastards, the slime, know that white is prime.
Well, maybe women will prefer burkas to seeing their toddlers blown to bit by American soldiers. Just a guess.
And I’m sure women will appreciate not having their wedding parties bombed, also.
“Islam weaponizes testosterone into a religion” That’s an interesting observation. Never thought of it that way, but it makes sense.
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.
Tucker will call them bad guys and say, ‘somebody has to step up’. That
Asian gal might be willing to take the jab of virility?
“Apparently…”…”It seems that the evidence…is overwhelming”
There are other opinions – including “We were handed a turd”:
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/mike-lindell-cyber-symposium-voter-fraud-election-expert-south-dakota-2021-8
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?
LOL!!
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.
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?
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.
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.
A link
https://www.historicalconquest.com/single-post/2018/07/26/The-Titanium-Bathtub-Cockpit
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.
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.
That South Vietnamese “soldier” was a general officer. Weird but true. Imagine General Milley doing that in high heels.
I’ve seen memes of thoroughly modern Milley with purple hair. Why does he do it?
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.“
As Trump said, she’s a terrible person. As is his sister, the former judge. Envious cunts.
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”?
Another powerful argument from RL.
Now do Malik Obama.
LOL.
Not a brain cell to be found in that noggin.
Well, she’s a registered psychologist so she must be right, LOL.
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.
Why Rulo, you’re a Man! Even if an enemy….
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?
Dutch courage. It’s not as good as God, Puck. Get right with God. Then you can fight like the Devil!
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.
Who names forest fires? Inquiring minds want to know.
Arsonists.
A fire is like a snow flake tom. Every fire is different and unique, like each snow flake is different and unique.
@ 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.
She came back and told us she was very sick a few weeks ago. When did Peter get vaxed btw?
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.
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.
She came back and told us she was very sick a few weeks ago – Yo
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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.
I wish her the best. Get well soon, GA.
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.
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.
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!
typical
Fight, don’t run. Don’t get negative. As the Book of the Law says, As brothers, fight ye.
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.
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”
“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
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.
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.
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.