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How might we account for the strange melding of neuroticism and dishonesty that has gripped America’s thinking class since the ascent of Donald Trump as an epically reviled figurehead on our ship of state? It all seems to come down to shame and failure.
There is, for instance, the failure of America’s leading economic viziers to arrest the collapse of the middle class — and with it, the disintegration of families — that more than anything produced the 2016 election result. What is a bigger emergency: the destruction of all those towns, cities, and lives in flyover-land, or the S & P stock index going down twenty points?
The choice made by the “experts” the past ten years is obvious: pump the financial markets at all costs by using dishonest policy interventions which they are smart enough to know will eventually blow up the banking system. They did it to preserve their reputations long enough to retire out of their jobs. The trouble is that the damage is now so extreme that when the time comes for them to apologize it will not be enough. They will lose their freedom and perhaps their heads.
The neuroticism and dishonesty is exactly what turned two of this country’s most sacred and noble endeavors, higher education and medicine, into disgraceful rackets. Sunday night, CBS 60 Minutes covered both bases in their lead story about how the NYU medical school recently declared its program tuition-free. This great triumph was due to an enormous cash gift from one of the founders of the Home Depot company, billionaire Ken Langone. Nowhere in the broadcast did CBS raise the question as to how the cost of a degree became so outrageous in the first place. Or how Mr. Langone made his fortune by putting every local hardware store in America out of business, which enabled him to capture the annual incomes of ten thousand small business owners and their employees. NYU’s grand gesture is just a way to paper over the shame of the University executives’ role in the college loan racket that may destroy countless lives.
Neuroticism and shame is what drives identity politics with all its weird ritual persecutions and punishments. It was the thinking class that led the civil rights campaign of the 1960s. Here we are fifty years later with dozens of ruined cities, failed public school systems, and prisons stuffed with black men way out of proportion to their actual demographic in the general population (nationally 37 percent versus 13 percent). In California, it’s 29 percent while only 6 percent of the state’s male residents are African American. The favored narrative of the thinking class says that the high incarceration rate is due to unfair application of drug laws for relatively minor offenses, especially being caught holding weed.
Okay, marijuana has been legal in California for several years now. Has that altered the statistics? I guess we’ll find out soon. Is there another explanation? Perhaps disproportionate bad behavior of other kinds: assault, robbery, murder? Perhaps the result of government policies engineered by the thinking class to promote single-parent households with no fathers present for three generations now?
After all this time and all the evidence of how pernicious this condition is, why is there no debate about it? Why is the thinking class so dishonest about the most ruinous ingredient in everyday public schooling: bad behavior, violence, and constant classroom disruption. The thinking classes must be ashamed and appalled by all this, since it appears to contradict all the mighty efforts made to uplift the black underclass. And so what was the most notable response? The Obama Department of Education directed school districts to stop suspending and disciplining black kids who behaved badly because it looked bad, and that policy is still in place. How’s that working out?
The latest appeal among the thinking class to remedy these otherwise intractable and embarrassing problems is the panacea of reparations for the descendants of slaves. Of course, the money spent on social services the past half-century, if simply distributed as cash, would have made every African American a millionaire. Personally, I can’t imagine a worse way of ginning up racial animosity across America to the breaking point than these proposed reparations. We will surely hear more about this in the long slog to the 2020 elections, and it will only make the USA look more insane to the rest of the world.
The thinking class’s position on both legal and illegal immigration is possibly even more cynical — because they surely know how dishonest it is, even through the fog of self-deception. Last week California’s attorney general Xavier Becerra proposed that illegal immigration be decriminalized. Surprisingly, nobody laughed at this extraordinary exercise in casuistry. Meanwhile, the state slides into hopeless insolvency, squalor, and chaos — a reminder that people don’t necessary get what they expect, but rather what they deserve.
RussiaGate, of course, has been the most acute locus of neurotic dishonesty across this land the past two years. The primary information organs of the thinking class — The New York Times, The WashPo, CNN, MSNBC — have not only omitted to apologize for the dangerous hysteria they knowingly propagated, but they persist in supporting the matrix of fantasies at all costs in what must now be seen as a hopeless attempt to preserve their reputations and perhaps even their livelihoods. The repudiation of this nonsense by chief inquisitor Robert Mueller could not be more absolute, even if he was compelled by reality against his own wishes and instincts to do it. And now, what avenue will all this diseased animus of the thinking class go down in its destructive, shame-fueled frenzy to justify itself?
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“And now, what avenue will all this diseased animus of the thinking class go down in its destructive, shame-fueled frenzy to justify itself?”
I have a guess: print money to save the environment.
“Print money to save the environment” — LOL. On the one hand, if only it were that easy. On the other, don’t give the people in charge any ideas. That sounds like a suggestion they would like.
As for what you quoted from our host about “this diseased animus,” that reminds me that a lot of people were talking plague and ebola last week, including me. That inspired me to write more about disease this week, both about the 2018-2019 flu season and the measles outbreaks in the U.S. Not the illnesses our host is talking about today or what his readers where talking about last week, but diseases nonetheless.
Look up Candida Auris.
Scary, and being kept out of the news.
My wife already did yesterday and, wow, were the results scary! I then looked it up today and they were even worse! Talk about a pathogen that has become the hot newsworthy topic!
Yes, a really horrible fungus making its way around the world, and which antibiotics cannot destory.
Technical correction: antibiotics are not used for fungal infections. Antifungal agents are. Overuse of antibiotics jeads to resistance of bacteria, another problem completely. Fungal infections of significance in humans are rare, as they usually only affect someone who is very sick from something else and has a compromised immune system. Bacterial infections can occur in anyone, including healthy persons. Resistant bacteria are actually a much bigger threat to the general population, and their numbers are growing rapidly.
Thanks, NN, I just did. Crikey.
But rhys12, it hasn’t been kept out of the New York Times, so here you are:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/health/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR2MCr02ltjW2c19LgdFEjOStUjy0k_fw89-nHTszzacYYGwA5pIXRWzVmo
Among other points, admittedly extremely scary:
“Some scientists cite evidence that rampant use of fungicides on crops is contributing to the surge in drug-resistant fungi infecting humans.”
Homo sap does it again…
First they came for the antibiotics; then they came for the antifungals…
Time was, chicken was a treat for Sundays. Now it’s stuffed with gawd knows what so the poor little ****er can sometimes hardly walk on its little legs so we can have it any time we want. And for the price of a beer, if it’s really low end (chlorinated so you can raise it in sardine fashion and it ends up pecked bald, then play football with it during the factory break, spray it in Mr Muscle and no-one will ever know when it’s covered in shite and served in a cardboard bucket with chips. Sorry, fries.
Progress eh…
There used to be a sitcom here when I was a kid, set in a garment factory and called ‘Never mind the quality – feel the width’.
So apt so often.
The destruction of the US middle-class has not been an unintended
side effect of our ruling™ class, but a feature, from their POV.
Go long guillotines.
It is happening in Europe, too. Here in Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen), a 120 sq. m. house in a decent neighborhood with infrastructure can’t be had for less than EUR 500,000 unless major work is needed.
In my middle-class/mc+ neighborhood, housing prices are set to jump by 22% by 2020. For a 120 sq. m. house, that will translate to about 100k in ONE year. In other parts of the country the jump is predicted to be as high as 28%.
Insanity.
Speak of the devil…
Man Arrested For Hunting Rats Along Interstate 90
Written by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on April 8, 2019 1:41 pm
Seattle police arrested a man in a greenbelt near Interstate 90 on Sunday after he reportedly pointed a realistic-looking airsoft rifle into traffic while hunting for rats.
Around 12:45 PM, a motorist called 911 and reported seeing the man with the rifle in an encampment between I-90 and Judge Charles M. Stokes overlook.
Officers arrived and found the 41-year-old man in the encampment–which is regularly visited by the city’s Navigation Team–and took him into custody. The man told police he was using the airsoft rifle to “shoot rats” in the encampment.
Police booked the man into the King County Jail for the unlawful use of a weapon in a public place.
https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2019/04/08/man-arrested-for-hunting-rats-along-interstate-90/
“And now, what avenue will all this diseased animus of the thinking class go down….?”
It will go down the same avenue as always, it will promise a better life to the lowest denominator in order to gain power.
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Thinking Class?
Off with their heads! *sarcasm*
I won’t be so Pollyannish to say we really ever had one but we pretended we had a meritocracy once. Now we don’t even pretend. The idea of having to earn your stuff is as dead as a dinosaur. As pernicious as that fact is the almost thinking class thought that was all they had to do, think. Some kind of mental telepathic unionization where having to act and follow through went on strike.
That’s an interesting thought Dog, that the thinking class only had to think in order to get paid. Was this nation not built by a working class that found that if it worked it could provide a value to the society as a whole and thereby be compensated for their labors? Seems that way to me. If you want other people to give things, like income to you, then you have to provide something of value to them to earn it, no? So now this thinking class has decided that what it has of value for the rest of us is to think for us? Are they so wise and we so stupid that we actually are now forced to pay for others to think for us? Well if we are then we deserve what we get and if we are not, then we all had better start doing some real serious thinking on our own, don’t you agree?
By and large, people hate to think and if you try and make them they will hate you with a passion. The damnable aspect is that this often applies to people with high IQ’s who simply refuse to use their gift outside of their profession or hobby – like the inane and obsessive type analysis done by football and baseball fanatics.
Democracy is a joke – and it proponents are dangerous fools or cynical usurpers. Why do you think the Founding Fathers hated it so much?
Every person I run into on the campaign trail who doesn’t know who they voted for last because they hit the R or the D line vote button, or that they voted for who their friend, neighbor, or spouse told them to vote for drives the fact home that your statement is correct. And there are A LOT of these people trust me.
It boggles my mind that so many people vote for whomever their parents did (political party) or whomever they did when they were younger without recognizing that stuff changes and they need to be flexible and change with it. I think a lot of Democratic voters vote this way as they refuse to recognize the direction the Democrats have been heading in for a long time. Thus we have people voting for the likes of Rep Omar who really hates them(such as all the Jews who voted for her). Crazy……..
Mt Gal,
I’ve seen that same thing in my family. My mom was raised by her mom who remembered FDR and the new deal fondly. My mom is a baby boomer and came of age during the Vietnam war era. I get why she became a democrat. What I don’t get is why she refuses to acknowledge the reality that the party has shifted and no longer is the party of the people that may have once been.
“It boggles my mind that so many people vote for whomever their parents did…”
We were saved from that because, throughout their entire married life, my mother voted Tory and my father voted Labour, so they went out together at each election, cancelled out each other’s vote, and went home again to put the kettle on for a nice cup of tea – the solution to everything over here!
>>> Why do you think the Founding Fathers hated it so much?
They hardly hated it, since they explicitly included democratic elements in the Constitution. What they hated was tyranny. Of kings, majorities, minorities, etc.
Elements, yes. But not Democracy itself per se. A Republic is not a Democracy even if it has democratic elements.
You’re using the term “democracy” here in a very narrow and specific way, perhaps to denote an Athenian-style democracy?
Of course the Founders didn’t want that; Athenian democracy failed spectacularly.
What would be a true democracy? That everything is voted upon at all times? If the police want to arrest me, I can demand a vote instead?
Democracy is an essential ingredient of all free nations, as it’s the only component that adds legitimacy to political rule. Much like seasoning, however, you can’t add too much. The trick is getting the right balance.
Do you realize that in parliamentary democracies, the people don’t even directly vote for their leaders? They vote for reps who in turn form coalitions that in turn elect a leader. From my perspective, there’s not enough democracy in that arrangement. But it seems to work for them.
Exscotticus
Not jumping on this for an argument – you make some interesting and valid points. No system is perfect.
And, given the (thankfully small) number of commenters on here who’d like to regress to a situation where half the population can’t vote based on their lack of dangly bits, even when they pay taxes, it’s interesting that the Athenian system, which practised just that, still failed.
Moving on… I think the choice of parliamentary against presidential systems is pretty much a matter of taste. You don’t like parliamentary; I don’t like presidential – tomahto, tomayto…
The parliamentary system doesn’t lend itself to demagoguery as the presidential system does – I’d stick with it just on that basis. Imagine a president who says he’ll accept the vote – but only if he wins. Well, you don’t have to imagine it, in fact.
But yes, the parliamentary system relies on having good leaders, but it stands and falls by a number of other things too, depending on the system. And while your system is stymied (or given safety mechanisms, depending on your view) by having presidents of one party working with/against a House dominated by another, we have the first-past-the-post-system which denies a chunk of the electorate any real representation (in Scotland we have PR for the Scottish Parliament, which has its own advantages and disadvantages, although we vote for Westminster MPs by FPTP)).
As for ‘what would be a true democracy?’, then I think the Brexit fiasco is an excellent illustration of what happens when you take a representative democracy and go for the plebiscite approach just when it suits you. Chaos. Unlimited.
“They vote for reps who in turn form coalitions that in turn elect a leader. “
That tends to happen more in systems with PR, rather than FPTP electoral systems. Again, it has advantages and disadvantages. Less ‘strong’ government but more negotiation and compromise. Again, a matter of taste.
I know that if I vote for my local sitting MP (Scottish Labour and and currently part of a small island of SLP MPs in an ocean of Scots Nats), I’m also voting potentially for Jeremy Corbyn, in whom I have no confidence whatsoever. Dilemma.
But I think your second last para states the situation perfectly and is to both our tastes.
Re the Athenian system, I added the bit about taxes in retrospect and didn’t change the structure of the sentence, so it doesn’t apply to the Athenian ladies!
To be fair, your system isn’t immune to demagoguery. Churchhill, for example, was well-known for playing the public off against his political rivals. And any leader is capable of buffoonery—no matter how they were installed.
One advantage to your system is that there’s less political paralysis, as coalitions are normal and necessary. Opponents work together and compromise. Third party alternatives thrive. That means more choice for voters.
Whereas we lack party choice, I’d say we have more choice overall. We get to directly elect House and Senate reps, for example. You don’t directly elect reps for your House of Lords.
This makes for interesting dynamics, as we can (and do!) elect reps that have opposing policy. This seemingly schizophrenic behavior only makes sense when you understand that our system is built upon a profound mistrust of government. And I simply can’t resist: We have you to thank for that.
I would like to add that having an explicit right to free speech (1A) and an explicit right to meaningful self-defense (2A) seems better than the “common law” approach taken by parliamentary-style democracies. Our individual freedom-from-government-intrusion rights have held up better over time.
I’m particularly distressed by hate speech laws that are increasingly making it unlawful to offend state-favored minorities. Consider this article and this one.
“One advantage to your system is that there’s less political paralysis, as coalitions are normal and necessary. Opponents work together and compromise. Third party alternatives thrive. That means more choice for voters.”
I think you may be thinking more of Germany or Scandinavia (some or all) who have PR-based systems and are used to coalitions as standard practice. They rarely happen here. In recent times (a few decades ago) there was the Lib-Lab pact and more recently the Tory-Lib coalition. The jury is still out.
(We have the same issue with the two main parties. The smaller parties lose out enormously because of the ‘wasted vote’ theory. Hence a long fight by some for PR, which the two main parties naturally won’t countenance.)
The current situation is different. May threw away her parliamentary majority by calling an unnecessary election in order to get moral advantage for a hard Brexit and having it entirely backfire on her, because most people didn’t remotely want that.
However, while that left the Tories with a minority government, they still formed the government. All they have is a ‘Confidence and Supply’ arrangement with the DUP, whereby we (UK taxpayers) gave them £1 billion and they were to back the government in parliamentary votes. Hmmm… didn’t really work out in the one that mattered. Don’t know if we’ll get any of our money back. But it’s not a formal coalition and they got no ministerial posts. Thank god.
“And I simply can’t resist: We have you to thank for that.”
You’re very welcome.
Honestly, what confuses Americans most about your system is the royal aspects. We understand that there are very good reasons for keeping things as is, but is it fair to say that the only real political powers left to the monarchy (that’s actually routinely used) is the power to be informed of goings-on, and the power to pardon?
It’s ironic that the less political they are, the more popular they are, which ensures their political status.
“Honestly, what confuses Americans most about your system is the royal aspects. ”
Consider me equally confused. The monarchy is an anachronism that only survived because it turned itself some considerable time ago into some kind of figurehead aristocratic Waltons (didn’t work out well in the end, that bit, given their divorce rate) patronisingly inspiring the nation, to avoid going the way of the Romanovs.
I don’t wish them any harm personally, but I wish they’d just fade away. They bring in a few tourist pounds but they cost a whole lot too. And they keep an aristocratic ethos going in people’s heads that they should have long ago grown out of.
I’m afraid the people who most loudly support them – and who will not let them go – are the flagwaving Brexiters. Queen and Country.
What can I say? I’m just glad I’m so far north. It’s embarrassing.
I didn’t mean to shame. Trump’s far from perfect, but I won’t apologize for him. Nor do I feel embarrased as an American. After all, he wasn’t elected for his diplomatic skills, or to be a moral compass for the universe. I’m more embarrased over our recent misadventures with legalized torture.
Anyway, all nations have their cultural peccadillos. Makes things more interesting.
Greetings Walter —
I would opine that in the past (of the USA) the “thinking class” actually used to turn out mental product that was anchored in reality and which could be used as blueprints for economic endeavor, political renewal, basic research, etc.
The crew that pretends to be our “thinking class” today are mostly a pack of brainwashed wannabe operators who prefer shortcuts to getting the job done correctly. That ain’t worth paying for!
Cheers
Agree? It really isn’t a matter of agreement when the evidence is front and center in JHKs screed today.
Something about some banksters losing their heads? Cosmic accountability for payments due exceeding accounts made up from thin air! Consider all the software flashing screens everywhere.
How much of it is doing work and how much is only the masterbation of thought? The common belief is no longer that rivers flow to the sea. The common belief is they now flow uphill!
” the masterbation of thought…”
That spelling only works as the pun in Psycho, K-Dog 🙂
What meritocracy there was began to rapidly dissolve during the tech bubble of the 1990’s, accompanied by the expansion of stock-marketers like Charles Schwab who advertised stock trading to schlepp in the country, not real investors. Everyone heard stories of someone buying Dell at $1.00 and selling it at $100. The idea of money for nothing replaced the concept of earning money. Ditto Real Estate. Ditto the expansion of personal injury attorneys who could get you millions if only you had some minor misfortune you could blame on someone else. Everyone wants to find any gimmick that will be the equivalent of winning the Powerball, and acquiring a lot of money with absolutely no effort. I’m afraid short of SHTF, there is no going backwards from the multiple critical dysfunctions in US society.
We think. They sweat.
Very good article!
I agree, but the last section needs to wait until the Report is released. Plus, it might be more than interesting to see the tax returns. Plus, you forget Trump is a NYC crooked RE scam artist who has no business being president. Sure, the drum pounding Deep State narrative feels good, but the din covers up the absolute crime of orange doofus as leader. Yes, the Country needs to feel shame for electing such a monster. There will be a lot of abologizing to do. For decades. If, we survive it.
Speaking of education and crooked institutions, what about Trumps grades and assorted school records including Fred donations?
I think the only hope left is an economic collapse in the next 18 months. The longer this farce continues the worse the ending.
Horns of a dilemma!
Why should he release his tax returns for public view? No law exists that says he has to. I understand he’s been audited every year since 1985, if anything criminal had been found he would have been prosecuted a long time ago.
‘Russia Collusion’ proved to be a hoax, and this whole ‘tax return’ grift is an attempt to cook up another hoax. Why should the President participate in it? No, he’s clearly saying F-you to the trolls and midgets trying to get at his tax records.
Brh
When a group has no answers or ideas, it resorts to hoaxes. Period!
Obama came out and told the Progressives that they are creating a circular firing squad and ensuring a Trump victory.
The leader of the firing squad will be Howard Schultz. He is the one Democrat that can beat Trump. Why? Because he is like Trump, Street smart, self made, anti Deep State.
>>> “Why should he release his tax returns for public view?”
Uh, to prove he isn’t a crook like all the presidents since Eisenhower have done and that he promised he would? Promises don’t mean much to the alternative fact crowd, do they? Mexico will pay for the wall. What freaking rubes!
Did your parents never ask you a simple question?
If all your friends jump off a bridge to their deaths why should you?
Donald is no lemming and not realizing his tax returns is another huge troll bonus for him.
He won’t release them just to drive people like you more nuts.
The Donald better at trolling the trolls than you.
Correct. He is no doubt a crook, but far less dangerous than the Satanic Scum who want to take him down.
Both sides are destroying America. And actually, both sides agree about open borders. The Left is just honest about this, while the so called conservatives are not.
>>> Uh, to prove he isn’t a crook
In the USA, the prosecution has the burden of proof—not the defendant. There’s no legal basis for releasing tax returns to the public. Not even for the deceased.
Beyond legality, Trump has nothing to gain by releasing his tax records; his supporters don’t care, and his detractors are clearly just looking for dirt.
>>> Promises don’t mean much to the alternative fact crowd, do they?
Please link to your post complaining that Obama didn’t keep his promise to close Gitmo year after year for eight years. Yeah—thought so. Now go take your TDS pills…
Ex,
Precisely. That is why the law allows certain individuals to access ANYONE’s tax return including his Orangeness. For once, we agree, imagine that.
EX,
>>> “Please link to your post complaining that Obama didn’t keep his promise to close Gitmo year after year for eight years. Yeah—thought so. Now go take your TDS pills…”
Nice try. No TDS pills needed. It’s tough to close a prison when a Republican controlled senate/congress won’t give you the authority to move the prisoners into US Federal custody, isn’t it.
“Barack Obama’s efforts to fulfil his promise of closing the Guantánamo Bay detention centre before he leaves office were dealt a significant blow on Tuesday as the Senate passed legislation preventing the administration from relocating prisoners to the United States.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which has the primary purpose of setting the US Defense Department budget, passed the Senate by an overwhelming majority of 91-3 in a faster-than-usual passage through Congress, designed in part to frustrate White House plans to announce a new Guantánamo closure strategy.”
Did you see it was 91 to 3? A bit difficult with obstinate senators. LOL.
>>> It’s tough to close a prison when a Republican controlled senate/congress won’t give you the authority to move the prisoners into US Federal custody, isn’t it.
Oh is that right? Just like it’s hard to build a wall when a Democratically controlled House won’t pay for it?
Gitmo is a military base. Obama was the undisputed Commander and Chief of the military. Yes—he could have closed Gitmo. And as head of the Executive, he doesn’t need authority to move prisoners into US Federal custody. He could have challenged any law saying otherwise as usurping the Executive branch. He could have fought it in court—just as Trump is fighting (and largely winning) in court for his rights.
The NDAA? LOL—Obama signed that bill into law. The NDAA wouldn’t exist WITHOUT Obama.
Also, the idea that these prisoners had to be transfered to stand trial is false. Obama could have ordered the JAGs to try them all on the base right then and there. See that empty tent? Now it’s a courtroom. Done.
>>> “Did your parents never ask you a simple question?
If all your friends jump off a bridge to their deaths why should you?”
No, they did not ever suggest my friends might or were planning to jump off bridges, why would they do that???
>>> “Donald is no lemming and not realizing [sic] his tax returns is another huge troll bonus for him.”
True enough ben, he’s not a lemming… he’s a run of the mill TAX CHEAT and has already paid many fines because of his misrepresentations on paying his taxes. His sister just resigned her federal judgeship to avoid ethics issues with her role in the family tax fraud.
Nice leader, and role model you’ve chosen to hitch your wagon to, as it were. A tax cheat and a RACIST. Nice!
Because he has accepted Russian financial aid in the past. He is now president. He appears to be very interested in siding with Russia. In Helsinki he believed the Russian leader over his own intelligence agencies and admitted it on the world stage. We need to know if Putin has some hold over him and that will be in his financial records and tax returns. For example, if a Russian bank gave him a 2% loan on $400 million when most banks would charge 6 or 8 % on the same loan. That’s the difference between $8 million and $32 million to service that loan annually. And since we know Trump keeps goats on his golf courses to take the farm animal tax deduction, we know he would do anything to avoid paying taxes. Thus he would claim that $8 million as a business expense and he would be CAUGHT!!!!!!!!
Why shouldn’t I believe Putin over an admitted Communist like Brennan, Obama’s CIA head. The deep state intelligence aristocracy is all New World Order, Globalist, evil, lying, Satanic filth! In my opinion.
That sounds like rambling nonsense; it certainly proves nothing.
My goodness the desperation is showing.
Have you not figured it out even now?
Donald is two steps ahead of all you deranged dirty masses and the idiocracy you follow and listen to.
“And since we know Trump keeps goats on his golf courses to take the farm animal tax deduction, we know he would do anything to avoid paying taxes. Thus he would claim that $8 million as a business expense and he would be CAUGHT!!!!!!!!”
Wolfie,
We ought to have the Bastard audited…oh, wait….
Trump apologists are the lowest form of fungi.
I’m a fun guy!
And what does that make you since you appear to be a apologist and supporter of the Democrat party?
A party that easily is the most corrupt self serving party to ever attempt to destroy our great country.
Trump is bad but still better than any serving current Democrat and most of the republicans as well.
Our current two party system is a puss oozing sore and blight upon the American people.
Seriously time for a third party adventure catering in common sense tried and true governance minus the egos, race baiting and pc nonsense.
Maddow had one return and broke down on air when there was nothing noteworthy to report other than the confirmation that Trump made some 150 million that year (despite McResister insistence that he is broke).
More interesting though would be if Paulo could supply us with concrete evidence of all of the criminal activity that Trump is supposedly involved in.
You are nuts. Read your own venom.
In your desire to “get Trump”, you have advocated destroying the economic lives of millions of Americans.
Trump will win. He will win on the theme:
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
YES
Apparently Al Sharpton — the new Dem ‘Kingmaker’ — whose ass all the Dem pres candidates were sucking last weekend — is in arrears in his income tax about $5 million.
Lets see his tax records first.
Brh
Let’s see Obamas school records and real B/C if they can even find it.
The one they showed the world was so fake the cold case posse ripped it apart and of course the TDS media refused to look at it instead resorted to screaming tin foil hat crowd.
Now look dip forward eight years and the tin foil hat crowd is engaged in huge fraud, conspiracy and nonsense.
My my what a shame.
BRH,
I have been following Al Sharpton’s trajectory since he first surfaced with the Tawana Brawley farce. His ignorance is breathtaking…makes Maxine Waters seem a Mensa candidate by comparison.
Yes, after all this, does the idea that Obama isn’t really an American Citizen really so hard to believe? That’s small compared to the frauds they’ve already gotten away with.
“Apparently Al Sharpton — the new Dem ‘Kingmaker’ — whose ass all the Dem pres candidates were sucking last weekend — is in arrears in his income tax about $5 million.”
Many years ago as a young teacher, I met a woman who was “rev Al’s” Social studies teacher. She told me that he was just as much as a race hustler in high school as he was in later life.
No, we’re pretty much the same.
“rev Al’s” Social studies teacher. She told me that he was just as much as a race hustler in high school as he was in later life. – Jig
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Well, at least he’s been able to keep the weight off.
Very interesting indeed. The country needs to feel shame for electing such a monster. Yet I do not see anything in your comment to indicate what the Elite should feel shame for. Your focus on Trump is not surprising but nevertheless strange. You are begging for the economic collapse so that it will presumably unseat Trump? Do you think about him immediately upon waking up and right before drifting off to sleep?
Paulo,
I’d like to know what crime the “orange doofus leader” has had covered up. And frankly, the one percent and Congress and the Democrats are the ones who need to feel ashamed for what they’re doing to their citizenry and their nation. And they are the ones who should be apologizing. The MSM certainly needs to apologize to the nation.
As I recall Obama’s school records, papers, travels he made, were all sealed. I don’t recall any Democrat screaming to see them.
I’m perfectly sick and tired of the Democrats’ sour grapes attitude. Allow Trump to be the President and quit fighting him on every little thing he wants to do. The crisis at the border is a great example of what the Democrats are doing as they allow more and more illegals to flood our country at a time when resources are becoming scarce. I used to be a Democrat. Worked on dozens and dozens campaigns. I left the Party. I don’t even recognize it anymore. A bunch of sore losers who use actions which could be considered sedition and treason to try to get rid of a duly elected president. Bah.
You nailed it both parties are bad but right now the Democrats are just rotten to the core.
Linda,
You have imbibed deeply of the hogwash flavored kool-aid. Listen to yourself. A nice honorable loyal, leader you’ve hooked up with. No problem with pu$$y grabbing, eh? Bah, indeed.
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan issued a report in the 1980’s which predicted what would happen to the black family if we continued in the policy of creating dependency on the federal government through entitlement programs; namely, that the mother would no longer need a man around to get in her way and provide a masculine guidance for their children. And, that is exactly what happened, taking along a lot of white families as well. In my opinion, Moynihan would have made a great president, perhaps the greatest. The Clinton machine killed him off in short order.
Masculine guidance has been redefined as poisonous. Please don’t shoot the messenger or kick the dog.
Yet the lack of masculine guidance is acknowledge as the main cause of the problems in the Black community.
Okey, JHK thinkers, make up your minds.
I can see it directly in my own circle of friends.
This with two parents in the houses have children that have done better and seem more stable, adjusted and on a defined direction in life.
Those households in every case but one where It was just one working parent have kids in the mid twenties and twisting in the wind drinking, drugs, partying, work minimum wage jobs if at all and generally not doing well.
There is no way around it one working parent raising kids is just to damn difficult now a days it takes two.
I believe that Moynihan issued his well known paper in 1965. At the time the black illegitimacy rate was “only” 25% but he warned of where this was heading.
Yes, they could have done better, but remember, the Black American IQ would still be an average of 85. And their testosterone rate would still be the highest of any race. In other words, they would still be producing the classic criminal type in numbers out of all proportion to their actual population.
I doubt that the negroid race is any more stupid or sexualized than others, but let’s assume it’s true. That does not necessarily mean that they will become countercultural or anti-social. When I was growing up in the South, lo those many years ago, black families were very intact and their children were very well behaved.
Whites and Blacks are so different that they cannot find common cause with us for the most part. Even the talented tenth who can function very well in White Society almost invariably side with their dysfunctional brethren.
From another angle: They have not and will not forgive us for what we did. Imagine you cheated on your spouse, got caught, and begged forgiveness. They say Yes, but only verbally. They never really forgive you. Blacks haven’t even said, “Yes”. They’re not going to forgive us, shotho. Divorce is the only viable option – unless you want to choose the misery of ethnomasochism.
It doesn’t take a high IQ to form a stable and loving family unit. Obviously, in order to successfully parent one needs a certain level of intelligence. We shouldn’t be facilitating the bearing of children by those unable to adequately work to support and parent them; we do this by our endless aid payments in which we encourage single motherhood and .men producing offspring they will never be around to parent or support.
“…marijuana has been legal in California for several years now.”
Actually, just since January 1 of 2018.
Aren’t there more people than jobs for them to do? Isn’t that one of the the big issues going forward?
Getting a medical card was no big deal. Been that way for years.
Are you kidding? In Canada it takes 9 years post secondary and a brutal residency. Plus, there are a limited number of university spaces open. I wouldn’t want to do it.
I might be mistaken, but I think that K-Dog was referring to a California medical card to purchase marijuana…
Yes
Right, and the forces of AI and toxic capitalism are exacerbating the situation.
So what do we do?
Bring in a million new non-skilled workers a year to aggravate the situation in another way.
Toxic Capitalism is when the motivation of profit overwhelms the motivation of people. This is a mental illness infecting the business community of the country and getting worse.
The source?
Higher education and the give away MBA programs
No, no! We re-elect his Orangeness and he’ll rescue us all!!! Simpletons.
If I referred to Obama as “his Brown-ness” or “his Mulatto-hood”, would that be racist, jdhines? Well, clean up your own anti-ginger racism!
According to the rules of political correctness, one is not permitted to racially deride one’s own group, lest that encourage a free-for-all. For example, once the “N” word is out of the bag, everyone feels free to join in the fun (and before you know it) you’ve hurt Donna Brazile’s feelings.
And what’s more; has anyone ever caught the GGG with an empty can of spray tan? Once again, it’s character assassination by speculation.
Yes, it would, because it refers to his race. His Orangeness, on the other hand, is not racist, because it refers to something your GGG does to his-self, namely colorings of all manner applied to skin and hair. Let’s keep our terms straight, shall we?
I am impressed with your evolution re Capitalism. Motivation for profit has resulted in innovation and improvement. But the unfettered motivation for profit also has a destructive side that must be regulated by a government that has the national interest at heart.
Has anyone looked into just how terrible those jobs being offered at the dispensaries pay?
URBNLeaf is advertising on indeed for positions that are just at minimum wage while having stacks of cash even their IT position tops out at 70k and they want a full fledged sysadmin with all the certs and skills.
That’s the whole purpose of machines: to replace people. There have been more people than jobs for over a century. That’s the way the Big Boys like it. Keeps the wages low. Now that they can get rid of people entirely, think they won’t do it? Amazon workers need to go the bathroom. Robots don’t. A McDonald’s manager (Black female) strangled her pregnant White employee who kept needing to go the bathroom. Needless to this wouldn’t happen if you had robots working. The two workers can go die out on the street for all Management cares.
depopulation.
Are you poor? You mentioned shopping at a thrift store.
Do you see the chemtrails? Look up, its not a bird, its not a plane, its not a contrail.
There have been more people than jobs for over a century.
Nelson Rockefeller wanted women to go to work. So why the–
There have been more people than jobs for over a century?
Ummm….just to set the record straight – a McDonalds’s manager was attacked by a customer over ketchup…it was a Taco Bell manager choked a pregnant employee.
Duh duh duh duh duuuhh… I’m lovin’ it.
Or how Mr. Langone made his fortune by putting every local hardware store in America out of business, which enabled him to capture the annual incomes of ten thousand small business owners and their employees…
I remember that pre-BigBox era as if in a dream! It seems so remote now and I question if it ever really existed at all, like something out of a William Faulkner novel.
The same has happened to mom & pop pharmacies, office supply stores, travel agencies, local 5 & 10 stores, haberdasher’s, etc. etc. But that’s good old fashioned Right Wing capitalism for you. Offshore those jobs to make sure CEOs live like Nero and the military gets full funding.
Right wing capitalism?
Those businesses you mention, what happens to them in nations that adapt left wing socialism? Do they thrive? Are small main street businesses thriving in Venezuela right now? In Cuba? In SAfrica?
Brh
Yes, they thrive.
Norway, Sweden, Denmark are all doing pretty well compared to us. Have you been to socialist Germany lately? They actually have an infrastructure and public health system that isn’t of the third world! They also have good, union factory jobs making all manner of domestic and export products and plenty of trade schools to boot. It beats digging coal, pumping earl, flipping burgers, working in telemarketing and, it even beats getting whacked on Oxycontin or Horse too.
You should try getting off the Oxy, brh, it might really help.
I love it when dems mention Sweden. Last I checked their version of the neo Nazi party had gained power over the country after open border policies and a strong social welfare system led to an influx of Islamic refugees. The outcome? Lots of crime by Muslims against whites. I’m not saying all of this to defend a racist world view. I say it only to observe factually that the road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions.
Very rarely do I agree with Jdhines, but here I do.
One of the symptoms of toxic capitalism is the breakdown on Main Street. People have pride in their place in a community and the community shows it. MainStreet is the middle class of the country, and its breakdown is causing the income inequality that is tearing the country apart.
Problem solving should be aimed at eliminating the negative aspects of capitalism and maintaining its entrepreneurial spirit.
And the last thing that should be done is giving the parasites in DC any more economic power by encouraging socialism.
JohnAZ,
I am glad that we have found some common ground. There is probably more common ground than either of us know. Thanks for being honest.
Comparing tiny, dense countries where the population all live within a few hours of driving to each other, with the US, with it’s exceptionally large land mass, is simply not valid when speaking of infrastructure.
Also, those nations are clearly on a suicidal path, as they have allowed mass immigration of people who are doing everything they can to not assimilate, and eventually take over their hosts. Those who look to these countries as something to emulate need to have their head checked.
Oxy? Dude, I can hear the bong bubbling away as you type.
The Scandinavian countries are on a path to extinction due to unchecked immigration. Great economic systems, national infrastructure, and social programs cannot survive disunity and the loss of trust. Immigration results in disunity and the loss of trust.
Making any comparison to Germans or Germany does not really work out fairly jd, because the Germans and their mentality and work ethics are very different from any I am aware of,. I know firsthand fom my Father and Grandfathers before me. Generalizing of course, the German people like to work and look at their work afterwards. Give them a place to live, some forests and open spaces to peruse from time to time, and a few beers a day and they are happy. If you have not read the Arms of Krupp you should for it gives a great insight into the people from as far back as the Roman emperors. Yes if you piss them off, watch out and they are far too stringent about following orders, but they are workers and savers and those qualities will always build very sound social structures.
Jack,
>>> “Comparing tiny, dense countries where the population all live within a few hours of driving to each other, with the US, with it’s exceptionally large land mass, is simply not valid when speaking of infrastructure.”
That’s a fair point and I agree with it. That’s why I think this sucker has to be busted-up into more manageable parts.
Let the Hard Right have their religious white nation state with no taxes, no abortions and guns for everyone. Why not? They can farm, go wild pig hunting, look for ginseng (aka “sang”) in the hills, farm, make moonshine, ride scooters, go muddin, whatever-the-hell they wanna do, just stay the f@$k out of the blue states.
“Let the Hard Right have their religious white nation state with no taxes, no abortions and guns for everyone. Why not? They can farm, go wild pig hunting, look for ginseng (aka “sang”) in the hills, farm, make moonshine, ride scooters, go muddin, whatever-the-hell they wanna do, just stay the f@$k out of the blue states.”
Speaking as someone who just “got the f@$k out of a blue state”, I am continually astounded at the number of people from the Northeast who have moved here. We constantly meet people from NY, NJ, CT , and the theme is always the same – ” We left because the taxes are too high”
I live in Germany. We have a mixed economy, quite similar to the US. The major differences for us plebes are more humane state mandated employer regulations on vacation time, Elternzeit, Mutterschutz, etc, as well as a healthcare option for those who don’t meet the income level for private insurance.
Otherwise, life here is nearly identical. You need a good job if you want any of the “perks” of a middle class + lifestyle. Otherwise you live off Hartz IV and live in a 65 qm apartment in a highrise that looks like it belongs behind the Iron Curtain.
You talk big, but are clueless.
“I am glad that we have found some common ground. There is probably more common ground than either of us know. Thanks for being honest.”
JD, if you shut your yap and listened for a change you’d find out that there is lots to agree on.
He got you BRH. It’s sad that you let someone like hines do that to you, but he’s right on this and you’re wrong. Culture means going against the stream of lower human desire. Of course, Big Business wants everything their own way. The damnable question is, Why do people like you let them off the hook?
I mean if you can’t understand what I say about the the Apex of the Triangle and the high Middle of Fascism, then at the very least you have to understand the necessity of the low middle, or Socialistic midpoint between Capitalism and Socialism. You’re simply off in neverland with Jacko if you can’t do that much. Look, watch some of your Westerns – the ones about Big Ranchers driving little guys out of business. Or the Railroad doing the same. You’re the righteous gunfighter who wanders into town. Which side do you shoot for?
Which side do you shoot for? – JS
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Um, the Big Ranchers and the Railroad? 😉
All kidding aside Janos, your Luddite answer to this problem (and Walmart, Home Depot, etc) just doesn’t cut it.
And your status quo is no longer viable. So the very human thing is to double down on what is not working anymore as Jared Diamond points out. That’s what your’e doing here. Human, all too human….
Until thing have to change it’s necessary that they do not. No stiches in time allowed. The logic of tragedy from the pop mind of Q das, servant of the servants of the golems of the Masters.
The one with the biggest tits.
I suspect it has less to do with your hate for Das CAPITOL and more to do with the rise of online services.
Most of them mom and pop stores couldn’t figure out or afford how to make the switch from just brick and mortar to servicing peoples needs on the internet.
Face facts an full fledged IT shop running servers and staffed is fricking expensive, time consuming AND well beyond most mom and pop stores to stand up.
Walter,
>>> “Making any comparison to Germans or Germany does not really work out fairly jd, because the Germans and their mentality and work ethics are very different from any I am aware of.”
You are no doubt correct about our German forebears Walt, they were/are a special people, but also capable of some pretty nasty business, but I must confess my admiration and fondness for those great ancestors (mainly Prussian in my case).
So in other words, they have to be replaced and/or bred out of existence by nice Browns and Blacks who never do anything wrong, right?
What comes after will be so different, so much lower than what came before that it won’t deserve to be called German, European, or Western.
Ah Janos, but at least those who rule will be able to rest peacefully knowing that the masses shall never bother them again.
Janos,
Now you know I don’t want anything bad to happen to our noble, white brethren. As I have previously stated, they have many positive, endearing characteristics. I think the phrase, “To whom much is given much is required” applies here.
In other words, they must fairly and firmly help ALL peoples raise themselves up. Isn’t that what Christianity requires? I am not all that religious, but I think many of the spiritual teaching are very worthwhile to society in general.
No, they should not be replaced or bred out of existence. Moreover, I don’t think it’s even possible given the numbers. I think you might misunderstand me Janos, but I may be wrong.
You are correct in your assertion that those to whom much is given, much is expected jd, and no, we have not done the best job of sharing and caring at least IMHO. Giving does not mean cash hand outs however for giving can take many forms and many that are more worthwhile than money which can be siphoned off by those at the top (HRC). A question that I have never seen sufficiently answered myself is what to do and how to handle those who just take, who give nothing even when they can do something, and why our society refuses to address the problem. The Romans had no difficulty dealing with them, why can’t we come up with a solution that is a lot less violent and a lot more functional?
One gives out of one’s surplus and not at the expense of one’s own. Giving our daughters and our nations is a bridge far too far as a Black Cardinal recently said. Whites have every right to their own nations.
Here’s a good one for you JD. Maybe consider it the next time you are bashing people for not agreeing with you.
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
And another
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”
Janos
“So in other words, they have to be replaced and/or bred out of existence by nice Browns and Blacks who never do anything wrong, right?”
You use so many straw men in your responses, you’re a serious fire hazard.
In other words…
>>> “Whites have every right to their own nations.”
Then have them, who’s stopping you? You could buy a little island somewhere, or, I don’t know, several thousand acres in South America, something like that….
That is Bezos and Zuck for you.
Both leftist, globalist, anti White monsters.
Reparations should have been made immediately after the Civil War. I suspect that was one of the many reasons Lincoln was murdered. It could have been done quite easily at the time because the West was still wide open. You could have gotten them out of the south, settled them out west, gave them some money to get started, checked on them a few years later. Perhaps started a trade school where they could have went and learned carpentry or blacksmithing or running a shop or grocery. Functional citizenry is the key. To think we have made a business out of incarcerating them is sickening after what we did to them. That is what should be done now too. Trade schools and universities where blacks can go free and learn how to make a living. When they complete their studies given them a grubstake. Sure you’ll have poor whites up in arms. So we should have a similar program for them. Go to school free. when you finish a degree in engineering or law or business you get a grubstake too. Keep in mind when you raise the poor into consumers your market gets bigger. A lot bigger. So it’s not charity so much as an investment into growing the consumer base.
Send cash!
This is a good idea that should have been implemented with emancipation. It is far too late now. Black culture has embraced the welfare state completely. Concepts like work ethic, land ownership, and personal responsibility have been denigrated as too white, undesirable, and entirely unnecessary. Fixing this would require a commitment our country is no longer capable of.
I wonder if seawolf and jdhines, our resident liberal utopians, have ever dealt with the lower one third of the black population?
Many blacks have entered the American middle class through their hard work. But there is a certain portion of blacks (and whites,too) who cannot achieve great heights. Let’s face it. They are handicapped by low IQ’s, poor work ethic, poor communication skills, near illiteracy, bad ethical and moral values, inability to postpone gratification, inability to practice sane money management, even inability to control emotional behavior. The list goes on.
They are the same person.
You promised to keep that our “little secret,” 100th A! Come on now, play fair.
First off, you have to motivate the young Black folks to want to do the higher economic activities you suggest. Black success comes from good nuclear families. Gangs and the current urban environment destroy the family. Good families, good visions and good education are the keys to stop the “Black syndrome”.
All three of these needs are currently unaddressed by a government that really wants to keep Bllacks in their place.
The first step of the Black community to solve their social issues will be to repudiate the Democratic Party and their socialist goals.
And then compete.
It is already started.
“First off, you have to motivate the young Black folks”
…Hunger is a great motivator….
I like the idea of reparations seawolf, and I think I have a way to fund it that won’t cost us a cent. If all of us that descended from central Europeans sue Rome for reparations of our own we could get more than enough to share with the descendants of former American slaves. The Holy Roman Empire, which still exists today in the form of the Vatican, has more than enough cash and a hu8ge burden of debt on its back for enslaving all of our ancient ancestors, doesn’t it?
My grandpappy wuz a slave too!
And what of someone who lost a relative who fought for the North
during USAs civil war? Do they deserve repps from the South?
Well the modern system, at least after WWII, has been that only the winners pay. Perhaps that is because the defeated are so thoroughly looted that they no longer have anything left to give, but since the South is now recovered, why not? In fact I think that the Fed should just print up a few million for all of us and hand it out on the street corners. It worked for the big banks, didn’t’ it?
What a thorough deception and shame on you for touting it. Yet within your arguments are kernels of truth. Blacks and Whites will ultimately be unable to live within the same country and society. Interestingly enough, Blacks will press the issue to the forefront before Whites. Blacks should be given their own separate country. Seed money to help with setup may not be unreasonable too. I doubt that any Black country will prosper but give them what they want and be done with it. Then we can start building a White country. A country which will naturally become as close to paradise as you can get on planet Earth.
You are the Plato to my Socrates; the Darth Vader to my Obi Wan Kenobi. The Time is coming, nay it has come, when you will no longer orbit Me but rather become a Sun in your own right – like great Jupiter may some day do. Then we will orbit it each other and the planets will have to realign themselves to suit Us if they know what’s good for them.
I was Pilgrim in an earlier life. Obi called me Unificer after Lorenzo climbed the mountain. We Patriots knew Comey wore a ballcap.
Context is everything, 17 explained it weeks later, statements made are general, no prohibition on opinion.
How beautiful your words are. And once I fully realize my potential I will be a Star rather than the soft glow of one. That one that is in me that you can see. Thank you.
The glow will still be enjoyed by those far away. Those near to you will have to deal with the Light. As the Theological Germanica says, The same Light that warms the Elect burns the Damned. It’s their resistance that causes it to be felt as heat….
I thought that was the idea behind Liberia.
They say that President Lincoln was going to repatriate all of the Blacks in the US to Liberia but his assassination changed everything politically and thus the full repatriation never happened. If he really loved the Union and wanted the country completely bound together then I think he would have wanted to finish what was started in Liberia.
NO period end of story none of my family had any slaves nor engaged in it in anyway.
You want reparations the DNC should pay for it after all it was the Democrat party that fought against freeing slaves!
While we are at it I can trace one side of my family to the land bridge since my Grandmother was Cherokee so where is my reparations for the murder , land theft and enslavement of my people!
The trail of tears still echo’s through time as a horrible misdeed and the almost destruction of an entire people!
Instead of cash I just want anyone who is a democrat to return to where their ancestors came from and leave the rest of us alone with their mind numbing addled ridiculous brain washed nonsense!
Seawolf you have 30 days to remove yourself sell all your junk and leave the country!
Do you see how ridiculous all this is just how far will the dunce patrol take this before we the people push back and demand a return to sanity?
$10 trillion in welfare swag since 1965.
Reparations: Paid in Full.
Brh
Are there any other nations out there that hand out Welfare, food stamps, Medicaid and cellphones for free? I don’t think so, but I may be wrong.
A grubstake. Sure, like they want to go digging in the soil to find grubs to eat. What a racist. They prefer to eat at McDonald’s. What next? Telling them to go back to Africa and eat dirt – like they actually do over there and even in the Deep South some say?
“Trade schools and universities where blacks can go free and learn how to make a living.”
Sorry, SW, I just spent the last 32 years as an Inner city Vocational HS teacher in the largest school district in America, and it’s not going to happen. You can throw as much money as you want at it- They’re not interested.
You can throw as much money as you want at it- They’re not interested. – Jig
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This is a true story…no hyperbole.
I know a shop teacher (Paul) at New Brunswick HS (population 79% Hispanic, 20% Black, 0% White, 1% Other). When a school year begins in Sept about 50% of his “students” know how to use a ruler. His goal is to have all of them know how to use a ruler by June. He counts the year a success if 98% learn how.
I seem to recall that freed slaves wee given forty acres and a mule.
Actually they welched on that deal but then again not to many treaties were actually complied with by our government of old.
I stand corrected. Thanks benr.
GREEN ALBA,
It particularly appealed to me because i had a colleague who used to spend a fortune going to deepak chopra sessions in the us and even got a bit of paper (at considerable cost) claiming she could now ‘teach’ deepak-y things
Depak, or Deep Pockets as he is called, is in the nicest part of So Cal, Del Mar, if I recall.
I read how he met Maharishi and maybe had an insight, into power and money.
–BOOKS SENT TO AFRICA– WERNER, HE did similar via EST in the 1970s with his ‘Hunger Project’.
EST-Landmark, WERNER HANS ERHARD (BORN JOHN PAUL (((ROSENBERG))).
HECKLER, JANOS, SOFT STARLITE,
https://www.amazon.com/Outrageous-Betrayal-Story-Werner-Erhard/dp/0312092962
Malth, I always knew these BS eastern religions and movements, scamming mostly clueless upper middleclass whites who had their heads up their ass, with their Swamis, Messiahs and promises of redemption, were a f-kkin grift.
I thank God I grew up like I did, from extremely humble beginnings, in a small town, me and my brothers spending our young years wandering the surrounding woodlands with our .22 rifles, fishing in the local rivers and streams. I think it innurred me to all that bullshit that was around even then.
Brh
But BRH, its now they are into charity scams.
Before Jack-Werner started in LGAT [group awareness trainings]
he was a door to door salesman, if I recall.
The book I linked to is a great read.
https://cultnews.com/2004/04/the-hunger-project-attempts-to-purge-criticism-and-history-from-the-internet/
I thank God I grew up like I did, from extremely humble beginnings, in a small town, me and my brothers spending our young years wandering the surrounding woodlands with our .22 rifles, fishing in the local rivers and streams. I think it innurred me to all that bullshit that was around even then. – BRH
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Ditto for me…….. minus the .22 rifles.
” wandering the surrounding woodlands with our .22 rifles, fishing in the local rivers and streams”
Funny way to catch a fish, but each to their own 🙂
Does anyone ring fish where you live? Old Texas boys used to do that after the wars.
Cheers
I’m trying to find out what that means, montsegur, google-wise, but I’m getting fish rings (jewellery!) and nonsense, so I remain unenlightened. I don’t know anything much about fishing. My ex (French) used to fish for brown trout in the late evening, once it was dark, with Vache qui rit processed cheese as bait. Weird but it worked. Everyone in the village used it for trout.
The nearest I found is this:
http://www.angusmacleodarchive.org.uk/view/index.php?path=%2F8.+The+Fishing+Industry+in+Lewis+and+Scotland%2F5.+Fishing+Gear+and+Techniques%2F2.+Ring-net+Fishing.pdf
But it’s ring-net fishing. Is that the same thing?
I’m assuming you don’t just mean a big net on the end of a pole!
I’m a prole, not a ‘paysanne’, alas 🙂 .
Sorry GreenAlba, I knew you would be at a disadvantage trying to understand what I was on about.
After the Second World War (and other wars), there were a fair amount of tactical telephones to be had at surplus stores.
These took two D-cell batteries and connected to each other with twisted-pair wire.
In Texas (and other locales no doubt), the old boys would place the wire in the water, and crank the telephone to generate a ringing signal — “ringing the fish”.
The current from such stunned the fish and they would float on the water and be easily scooped into nets.
I expect more than a few poor families had fish on the table regularly as a result. The practice was, of course, illegal, and wildlife officers kept a watch for it.
Cheers
BTW, I liked that bit about baiting the hooks with The Laughing Cow. ‘Course, maybe that only works with French fish!
Cheers
Ah, right, thanks Montsegur. I’ve heard of that – illegal here too of course in its variations!
As is ‘tickling trout’, something else people did to get supper without attracting the notice of gamekeepers or authorities. Seems to have been popular during the depression.
Ya never heard the term, shooting fish in a barrel?
Whats the title of the book that you wanted someone to read?
Nothing is more holy than killing animals and eating them. As Thoreau said, our distant descendants will view us as we view of cannibalistic ancestors.
Some of the best Americans, people like Emerson and Thoreau, revered the East.You are “batting” 0.00 today.
New book out about ‘Thoreau and Emerson’. Apparently they were on friendly terms. Book getting good reviews.
Brh
I heard they were sometimes joined by Alexander Graham Bell. The 3 amigos used to enjoy electrocuting fish in Walden Pond with Bell’s invention. And oh boy, were they surprised one day to discover you could also talk across long distances with it.
Unfortunately these type of opportunists are everywhere. They are like branches of a great tree. They seem to be in so many places and yet they all go back to the same source. Greed. And what is worse than misguiding people spiritually for profit? Christ said, “It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.” (Luke 17:2)
malthuss
I like this sentence from Charlatan Chopra’s Rational-Wiki entry:
“Deepak Chopra comes from a long line of (pseudo)-Hindu spiritualists making money off of gullible Americans, but he is one of the first to successfully merge Eastern ayurvedic woo with Western quantum woo and sell it to a mainstream US audience.
SInce I applaud their appraisal, I reluctantly forgive them for ‘off of’.
Without wishing to be mean, I found it rather ironic that the co-founder of the Chopra Centre succumbed to cancer. But evidence isn’t really a thing in such circles.
Separately, malthuss, I feel I should ignore future posts of yours that lower the tone on here with (((that)) childish and unpleasant nonsense. I know it’s clubby and everything and feels really ‘edgy’ and whatnot, but you could be your own man and rise above it.
I seem to have chopped one of Gregor’s legs off. Oops. Hope he’s not crawling in circles. (That may be too cryptic if you missed my response on the last thread.)
Check out the fake charity–The Hunger Project.
Jack – Werner made out like a mega bandit and fled to Switzerland.
The book about him is, shall I say, interesting.
and on a separate note, I am so use to bad English I didnt even notice the gaff [off of] until you pointed that out.
I am so use to bad English – Malth
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No Malth, you are so used to bad English. I hope that doesn’t set our host off on me.
When you aren’t around, Malth tries to be the grammar police in your stead, believe it or not.
I reluctantly forgive them for ‘off of’. – GA quoting somebody
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I hate that expression too. Similarly I hate when someone without a proper home is said to be living out of their car. I would think there would be much greater protection from the elements if they lived in their car.
The one that drives me up the wall is ‘for free’, which unfortunately came to us from over your way.
People actually used to be capable of saying ‘you can get one free at the desk’.
Free of charge.
For free? Really?
But, as they say, language evolves. And sometimes it evolves into mush 🙂 .
Worse things happen at sea… And a heart of gold is more valuable than a silver tongue.
Just occurred to me that no-one says BOGOFF, just BOGOF (or maybe that’s just here) So there’s hope!
Although it does make a more robust acronym.
We just say BOGO: but one get one
There will never be a more ridiculous evolution than the Webster’s folks deciding to include “ginormous.”
Ah, thanks Farmer Joe.
BOGOF has a certain vulgar ring to in in the UK, since ‘bog off’ is also slang for ‘piss off’ etc. As you’d probably worked out!
My user name is a Dr. Strangelove reference, my initials being one of the 17576 three letter permutations that would not call off Doomsday. I try to live as if my actions will have an effect on the macro scale, but in all probability they won’t. I can’t save the world, only myself. People look at preppers and say there was no disaster, your efforts are foolish. A smart person will realize that our current incarnation of civilization is terminally ill. If we’re wrong on how many more months it has to live, it isn’t proof that it’s death isn’t inevitable. The longer it keeps chugging, the more time we have to brace for when it does finally fail.
More horns of a dilemma!
“My user name is a Dr. Strangelove reference”
MDL,
Obscure, but nice….
JHK: “It was the thinking class that led the civil rights campaign of the 1960s.”
This is clearly false. The civil rights campaign of the 1960s was conceived and driven by African Americans themselves. It was met with resistance on both ends of the political spectrum. The reactionary right met it with active, violent resistance (the Bull Connnors of the world). Resistance from the Kennedy administration’s “best and brightest” and the progressive left was more passive, but nonetheless real.
Soon after being arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. was visited by eight white members of the clergy who admonished him for his supposedly “unwise and untimely” support for racial equality. This prompted King to respond angrily: “I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.”
Kunstler goes on to comment about mass incarceration, the drug war, and the black underclass. There’s too much else in there to unpack quickly, but this at least is a basic mistake of fact that Kunstler can’t really be excused for getting wrong.
Equality before the Law is all anyone is owed. Any other kind is a coercive agenda. Letting people off because they are “different” exposes it.
The role of churches can’t be ignored or what what MLK’s profession?
Seriously there were such things once, churches, and when MLK was shot churches from the Atlantic to the Pacific put millions of people on marches in big cities and little towns hardly so big to be noticed when flying over them.
Every Main Street in America had white faces marching in support of MLK. It was impressive shit and it calmed everyone’s asses down. Because of it violence did not grip the land. It was not an impulsive reaction at all. It was the result of deep commitment.
Sometimes this earth is a very good place.
I have a dream becomes we have a nightmare on main street.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6894071/Two-men-wield-giant-machetes-square-shoppers-Newcastle-city-centre.html
Holy Shit!
What a dystopic 3rd world crapole GB is turning into.
Yes, guns are banned, but what about machetes, and vats of acid that are thrown into people’s faces on the streets of Londontown?
Consider that, CFNers, vats of skin eating acid, in London, a practice brought in from C Asia.
Is the West dead?
Brh
brh
Could you post a photo of one of these ‘vats’ of which you speak? So that I can ‘consider’ it?
Vat or pint, does that matter, if one has ones face seared?
Green Alba is nailing me on semantics.
A Scottish edition of Q?
Brh
Only because you said it already on a previous thread, brh, and I said nothing. A vat, though!
The fad (which it unfortunately is, in the way that copycat crimes are a thing these days) is hideous. It seems to be mostly done by young men stealing mopeds from vulnerable delivery workers – disabling the moped driver to make a quick getaway with the moped.
However, I did explain to you some time ago that while the acid-throwing thing is more common in e.g. India, where it’s often used to ‘punish’, for example, a woman who doesn’t want to marry you or who just doesn’t want to go out with you any more, it existed in the underbelly of Victorian London, among the entirely white, principally because it was cheap and easy to obtain.
You have already responded in ‘oh quelle horreur, what kind of country is that you live in?’ fashion on this point, brh, so you don’t need to do that bit again about the Victorians. I imagine the numbers of people involved were extremely tiny. And we didn’t hang people from trees so much, as they did in er…some other countries, so you know…swings and roundabouts.
“What a dystopic 3rd world crapole GB is turning into.”
You really should visit, brh. If you can cope with the Muslim-infested horrors of continental Europe, as you will later this year, you really could manage it. I do hope you get home unscathed, though!
The UK is a lot less scary than Hartford, CT, from what I hear 🙂 . Quiet as the grave outside my window tonight (and every other night, bar some occasional partying students letting some music leak from their windows into the street) and I’m only a stone’s throw from the city centre. Yep, I’ll stick with GB, thanks.
Which asian infiltrator saw fit to buy 100kgs of the stuff off Alibaba not realizing 100g would do the job?
“Which asian infiltrator saw fit to buy 100kgs of the stuff off Alibaba not realizing 100g would do the job?”
Don’t know, Snacks. Asians make up 6% of the perpetrators of acid attacks, so it’s probably not the most relevant issue.
Six percent of the acid attacks in the UK (or London), that is.
An honest mistake, Lil Debbie. They meant to purchase one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Lubes-Natural-Water-Based-Lubricant/dp/B005MR3IVO?th=1
I mean, who among us hasn’t?
Brits like to call Americans violent, but out of all the Western countries I have visited or lived in, the UK is just as bad, if not worse.
London remains the only city I have visited where on a Saturday night at just 7 p.m., there must have been 15 different bloodied up locals laying in a heap outside of 7-8 various pubs we passed.
Scotland wasn’t much better. Still remember some drunken pub urchin trying to start a fight as I merely walked by carrying my 2-year old son.
swings and roundabouts. – Greenie
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When children play at the park, their time on the swings for unexpected reasons may be curtailed so they are allowed extra time on the roundabouts. So what they lost on the swings they gained on the roundabouts.
English English is such a rich language!
Nightowl
“London remains the only city I have visited where on a Saturday night at just 7 p.m., there must have been 15 different bloodied up locals laying in a heap outside of 7-8 various pubs we passed.”
If you were in the UK they were ‘lying’, not ‘laying’. Hens lay in the UK 🙂 .
But perhaps I’m misunderstanding and they were doing a bit of communal incubating!
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/United-Kingdom/United-States/Crime/Violent-crime
Murder rates generally four times the number in the UK.
But yes, drunken louts outside pubs are a pain. Never had to witness any in person in my entire life, thankfully – only seen them on telly.
Green,
Thanks for pointing out my typo. I’d mention your inability to use a comma correctly, but that might be perceived as petty and in no way related to the fact that the UK is a violent surveillance state built on hustling. 🙂
Nightowl
“Thanks for pointing out my typo.”
It never occurred to me that it was a typo. It seems to be standard US usage – I see it often on here. Bob Dylan seemed partial to its use as well, when addressing the odd lady friend in song. Or perhaps he was addressing a pet hen and anxious for eggs for breakfast 🙂 .
I’m happy with my comma in that sentence. I could have added another, but I try not to overdo it. English isn’t as pedantic as German in the matter. I used to be proficient in German comma use, but have lost the habit, along with the vocabulary. I even use the Oxford comma now, which I didn’t like in the past but now find to be useful. Although I still don’t use a comma routinely before the last item in a list, as American English does.
‘… the fact that the UK is a violent surveillance state built on hustling. ?”
I guess (acquired Americanism) if you say it’s a fact, then it’s a fact…
That superfluous question mark is entirely clumsy finger syndrome.
And I wouldn’t have picked you up on a typo. I try not to do that unless there is some humour involved. I was just having some tomahto/tomayto fun.
After all, I let Janos away all the time with writing ‘lead’ when he means ‘led’.
See what I did there? 🙂
Young fools of whom some know better now. If Black had revolted, they would have been crushed. It might have been the best. Let the boil be lanced. It’s bigger now, much bigger, including the Brown masses. And the People behind the last go where never really punished. Bill Ayers still stalks the Halls of Power, does he not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbRqSasivMk
I suspect Bill Ayers works for the same people now that he served back then. Their agenda is patient, long-term, and adjustable.
The problem is still the same as always. You State MLK was upset by the lack of motivation of the White middle class. Again we hear a Black leader wanting someone to hand stuff to the Blacks. Gimme culture stems from such rhetoric and the leaders just give license to it.
Blacks need to go get what they want, not wait for some bureaucrat to hand It to them.
The number one and two enemies of the rise of Blacks in this country are Democrat gimme artists and the illegal immigration they are promoting. Both are aimed at Black jugulars..
Waiting to hear Elrond “unpack” the rest of it. Calling Ta-nehisi Coates.
If you’ve read Ta-nehisi Coates, Tate, then you don’t need me. Maybe you should try reading again?
During the course of my entire life Blacks have been favored via what is called “Affirmative Action”. And the fact that all traditional media favors and promotes Black culture and music as sacrosanct and inevitable. So – I could care less about Black civil rights. They do not have civil rights. They have special rights and preference in all areas of American life. What other group of people gets away with not having to be accountable for anything in life?
Well said. They already got their reparations. Where’s ours? Vote Yang.
Andrew “Print Money” Yang? Lol you crack me up, Janos
The Federal Reserve prints money all day long. Why should Wall Street and corporations get bailouts while ordinary people drown?
They shouldn’t. This won’t end well the way things are going.I know that. I’m just not pro-coup de grace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbRqSasivMk
Wow poor thing. And how racist! Clearly, from the before and after photos one can only assume she “became” a Black woman so that she could gain lots of weight and not feel guilty about it.
SSL : “What other group of people gets away with not having to be accountable for anything in life?”
The rich of course. Mostly white, and mostly male.
Like Jussie Smollett?
Jussie Smollett appears to be a malign moron and deserves censure, but he’s not in the ‘mostly’ sub-category of the rich, which remains white and male, is he? Like the Masters of the Universe, none of whom have yet gone to jail. Well, the Barings Bank guy did over here, but that was for what he did to Barings, not for anything he did to the country or the financial system.
Alex Jones might be (he of the convenient psychosis) but I don’t know how rich he is.
I hate to break this to you, but the largest beneficiary of affirmative action has been white women. Fact.
@Elrond, so it’s your contention that the “thinking class” doesn’t include blacks? Because that’s what your logic requires for JHK to be wrong.
The Communists (lead by the Tribe) organized and funded the Black revolt against America – even as they did in fallen South Africa.
They can’t help themselves. It’s like asking a Ferengi to ignore the free Federation credits conjured from the holodeck.
That is an incredibly, astonishingly accurate definition of Federal Reserves Notes. +17
Bolsheviks started Communism. Its a collectivist mentality.
Thanks for the post about the woman killed at McDs..I hope the family of hers got mega millions.
Interesting that you know South Africa is controlled by the communist ANC most Americans can’t or won’t make that connection.
The South African bush wars were a lost cause when Hollywood helped over throw the white minority in favor of the communist majority.
Flash forward thirty years and SA has now codified into law the right to evict under pain of death white farmers who fail to comply.
Ah they did not learn from Rhodesia!
Mean while the whites in SA are being rounded up much like Nazi Germany for the easy culling.
The ANC in South Africa are the elite of the Xhosa tribe. Could a coalition of Whites and Zulus overthrow them – if a powerful propaganda campaign shamed the Global Elite to stay out of it?
@Janos
I think a better idea is for western countries to give refuge status to SA that are willing to get out and return to Europe or North America.
“SA has now codified into law the right to evict under pain of death white farmers who fail to comply.”
Could you link to that actual article of law, please, benr. I’m interested, especially in the ‘pain of death’ bit. Thanks.
I’ve tried to find it, but all I got was something about euthanasia in SA.
benr: “SA has now codified into law the right to evict under pain of death white farmers who fail to comply” and
“Mean while the whites in SA are being rounded up much like Nazi Germany for the easy culling.
Utter bullshit.
It’s OK, Majella. Benr is going to provide a genuine link to the article of law from an official government source.
Soon.
Really soon.
@majella Prove me wrong miss utter bullshit oh you can’t and you know why you can’t because I know people from South Africa that have fled the violence and reverse racism!
Julias Malema wants to murder anyone that fights back and since his chilling speech people have been murdered and their wives and children raped and murdered.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5443599/White-South-African-farmers-removed-land.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/03/jacob-zuma-calls-confiscation-white-land-without-compensation/
Or of reading the truth is to difficult for you there is a nice podcast for you.
https://play.acast.com/s/americanconservativeuniversitypodcast/show-2072-white-farmers-slaughtered-in-south-africa-or-lauren-southern-and-stefan-molyneux
Of course the google brigade has attempted to scrub the data you know to keep people from learning the truth but it is happening and the vote was a landslide and the Constitution is amended!
Just like leftist turds are de-platforming people with views and politics on the right. Just because you don’t know its happening does not mean its not true. How does that affect your world view now?
People in South Africa are being herded into ghettos and we ALL know what eventually happens after that!
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-south-africa-trust-me-white-are-doing-fine/
“White supremacists think farmers here are getting slaughtered. The truth is, life in this country isn’t much different than it was under apartheid.”
“My neighbors said the notion was bonkers. But when I suggested there was a role for white South Africans to speak up and challenge Trump’s notion that whites were being persecuted in South Africa, they demurred. “Why should I even counter something so crazy?” one of them wrote. Crazy is as crazy does, and when countering a lie requires you to speak sentences such as “No, we are not yet being made to wear identifying garments, like the Jews wore in 1938,” you just don’t even go there.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-45336840
“[Katie Hopkins’] comments reflect the growing influence of South Africa’s conservative Afrikaner groups who are conducting global lobbying campaigns to support their message that white farmers are being targeted and killed, that the government is seizing their land, they are being discriminated against by affirmative action programmes and that their language is being sidelined.”
“Between April 2016 and March 2017, 74 people – of all races – were murdered on farms in South Africa, according to police figures, compared to more than 19,000 murders nationwide in the same period.
The BBC has found that there is no reliable data to suggest farmers are at greater risk of being murdered than the average South African.
“On the land question, the government has not yet seized any farms but says it will change the constitution to allow it to expropriate land without compensation, hence the intense lobbying by those linked to farmers.
“The government says this is needed to reverse the forced eviction of black farmers under white minority rule.
Now, I don’t think the forced evictions are a good idea. I’d rather they just left them be to carry on farming and found other ways of improving matters. And I don’t think it will end well for the country as a whole.
But it’s not really my business because I’m not a descendant of any of the black farmers who were forcibly evicted by the white colonialists. Without compensation and with much more likelihood of that ‘on pain of death’ thing happening in all sorts of circumstances.
Your issue has an interesting parallel with a point Janos has made on many occasions, benr, so I’d be interested to hear what you think.
Janos thinks that if an illegal immigrant establishes themselves in the US and their children end up having legal status, that that’s not right and they shouldn’t get to retain any benefit gained by their parents’ illegal entry.
What do you think, benr, with regard to the white colonialists not exactly entering the country and taking over by invitation? How should both sets of children be treated – the same? Differently?
Me, I’m for peace and reconciliation in most circumstances, when that’s possible. But I wouldn’t presume to tell you the children of your illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay, whatever I think about the matter personally. What do you reckon, benr? Compensation? No compensation? Especially if they’ve started up a successful business, for example.
@greenalba
To be frank most people don’t understand that three hundred+ years ago there was no one really living in that part of Africa. The Boers moved in and developed the region then fought the british empire to a stand still.
With their prosperity came the people from North to south.
Much harder to build up and maintain something then it is to come in strip the wealth and let it go to ruin again.
Zimbabwe aka Rhodesia anyone?
“Much harder to build up and maintain something then it is to come in strip the wealth and let it go to ruin again.”
I quite agree. Like I said, I’d rather they left them be to farm. But I don’t think crying wolf with dishonest propaganda is the way to go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51BaJpFdpfY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcNtdHOPfMM
Lauren Southern did interviews with white farmers in South Africa. Here are two links where you can hear the heart-wrenching stories for yourself.
Hope Jim lets the links through.
@greenalba
I did not post the propaganda you did.
BBC is not even close to honest when it comes to what is happening in SA.
Not by a country mile and it is sad that you don’t understand this and actually think you are correct in this discussion.
As I have said I know people who lived it and escaped.
I know people who still have people “living it” trying to escape.
SA has become hell on earth for everyone involved and far worse if you lack melatonin.
It’s not just the BBC, though, is it, benr?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_farm_attacks
Seems the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) and AgriSA confirm the figures, which suggest the number of farm murders has consistently declined. And that, while there are more white farmers, black farm labourers are more likely to be killed.
None of which means SA isn’t a horrendously violent country. But the narrative that white farmers are being disproportionately killed because they’re white does not seem to be upheld by verifiable facts. If the farming organisations themselves don’t agree it’s happening, I’ll go with that – for now.
And the UK has lots of white South Africans, mostly in London, I believe – they don’t tend to be farmers, though, but rather young people and business people who’ve come for all sorts of reasons. But any who feel threatened *because they’re white* are welcome as far as I’m concerned. They would go through the same asylum process as I presume you’d approve for any other asylum seeker.
Shame & failure may be behind it all but what explains the current moonbat behavior of the so-called “thinking class” (or what Eric Hoffer called the non-creative element among the Men of Words) is Power plain & simple. Everyone has this sense of doom that this sucker is going down hard. & thus everyone wants to be in his or her own sweet spot where they will survive the upheaval & subsequent collapse. Naked power without regard to morality or the common good is the only way to get there at this point.
Ironic it is. Mortality has sparked the contemplation of morality in many a man. No Nietzsche about that fact. That fact even gets this dog going and it is a fact not reserved for the thinking stratosphere.
But you claim society in our coming death throes won’t rhyme in a collective way! Where do you get your info?
Let me just say it explains the craziness of our politics & leave it at that. Dishonesty has to accompany the power politics because most people — probably 95% — are non-thinking automatons, at least about the larger issues. They can only respond to the most superficial of messages. So if you can eliminate honest debate, you’ve pretty much won the game.
Preschool education and better schooling for all. This is the best we can do in a racist society to help remedy the damage of slavery now.
Pay for it by cutting the Pentagon budget by 10% and free drug possession incarcerates. That should free up about $100 billion per year.
What society/country is not racist? Name one please.
Preschool where they teach the kids about Transgenderism? Have Trannies come in and read “Heather Has Two Mommies”? Better school where Blacks are automatically passed and their bad behavior winked at?
More of the same in other words, the only change being in the downward direction.
The Last Official Act of Government: Loot the Nation.
Yes, the Elites are very busy on this mission.
Can a Government Corporation own all other corporations?
Yes. Not necessarily literally. But if the corporations act in ways that undermine the country then the government should stop them IMO.
I don’t disagree. The problem I see is the question of who justifies what is and what is not in the country’s best interest. Talk about opening the door to insanity.
Jim,
>>> “The repudiation of this nonsense by chief inquisitor Robert Mueller could not be more absolute, even if he was compelled by reality against his own wishes and instincts to do it. And now, what avenue will all this diseased animus of the thinking class go down in its destructive, shame-fueled frenzy to justify itself?”
It could easily be much more absolute! Release the full report with appendices!
Repudiation of this nonsense? Your pronouncement is premature, seeing as no one has yet seen this almost 400 page report. You are putting a lot of faith in the edict of an openly political and opportunistic partisan hack, to wit AG Barr. You also neglected to mention that some on RM’s team are now voicing opposition to the AG’s “summation” or “non-summation.”
If the report and its conclusions are such nonsense, then why is Trump et al fighting its release tooth, claw and nail? Same question applies to GGG’s tax returns.
We can safely say, that ANY investigation that results in “criminal charges against 37 defendants – including six Trump associates” is not nonsense. You’re a fine wordsmith, but spinning is spinning, no matter how eloquent the printed words.
I cannot fathom your participation and reason for perpetuating this GGG folk hero narrative. You never struck me as a Far Right kind of dude, but I have clearly missed something. I have always picked-up on your annomiosity of ghetto culture and latino immigration, which to a certain extent, I can agree with. However, your total acceptance of the Right Wing culture of the overweight, under educated, blue-collar, tattooed, clown clothes wearing, gun owning, pickem-up truck driving or Harley riding, flag waving, set is baffling. After all, they are not exactly friendly to those of the Jewish faith.
Would you care to enlighten us Jim? As a former member of the thinking class, we’d all be interested why you decided to throw in with the RW GGG sycophants after all these years as a full fledged member of the intelligentsia.
You haven’t gotten yourself tattooed have you? Taken to wearing baseball jerseys and flat brimmed baseball caps, along with oversized “clamdigger” pants? No tooling around in a pickem-up truck replete with gun rack? Tell us it ain’t so Jim! Please.
“You never struck me as a Far Right kind of dude, but I have clearly missed something.”
A confession or an understatement?
A confession that I have clearly missed something non-trivial concerning our host, JHK.
jdhines, you are living proof that JHK uses the term “the thinking class” facetiously.
“It could easily be much more absolute! Release the full report with appendices!
Repudiation of this nonsense? Your pronouncement is premature, seeing as no one has yet seen this almost 400 page report. You are putting a lot of faith in the edict of an openly political and opportunistic partisan hack, to wit AG Barr. You also neglected to mention that some on RM’s team are now voicing opposition to the AG’s “summation” or “non-summation.””
Wow, the farce is strong with this one.
JD, I’m sure it will be released in time, after anything that might be compromising from a legal our intelligence perspective is dealt with.
“However, your total acceptance of the Right Wing culture of the overweight, under educated, blue-collar, tattooed, clown clothes wearing, gun owning, pickem-up truck driving or Harley riding, flag waving, set is baffling. After all, they are not exactly friendly to those of the Jewish faith.”
Please tell me what EXACTLY is so wrong with being blue collar, responsible gun ownership, driving a pick up, and being patriotic? Your xenophobia is astounding, JD.
Hey, I can certainly understand that sentiment, JD. It irks me to no end when highly educated, well intentioned, easily led rubes tell me that electing a crooked liar will better all of our lots in life as well. I’m sick of paying their taxes and I’m sick of every year having my business undermined by a socialist system which only serves to empower the rich. You want progress? Edumacate yourself.
Farmer,
Well, pray tell, how do you like them tariffs? Maybe not you personally, but a lot of your farmer brethren are beating on the debtors prison doors and will be let in soon. Five and six generations of farms will be lost because of your hero, GGG.
How do ya like them apples? But y’all love your GGG and his wall that Old Mexico will pay for, don’t ya? This stuff can be made up… and y’all actually buy it hook line and sinker. Talk about hogwash loving rubes, jeez o’ pete!
“Five and six generations of farms will be lost because of your hero, GGG. ”
It would be helpful to us out here in Central Standard Tribe if you would provide a connection to he who presides in the office of another to the corps that have or are buying up all the farmland.
What is killing me and everyone I talk to about it is taxes, jd.
TAXES
Get that through your thick skull.
Farmer,
So you saved big-time with GGG’s corporate, wealthy 1% tax break with the few crumbs going to working stiffs and small business? Come on Farmer Joe, you are getting hornswoggled by GGG and the rich Republicans. You just like the anti-immigrant hogwash he and his ilk pedal.
Who works in your fields by the way? It wouldn’t be latinos would it? Be honest Joe, at least do that. Sorry that my skull is rather thick.
JD, I don’t pay an income tax because I pay so much in state and local taxes that it all gets written off.
Who works in my fields? Me. Occasionally I will hire a licenced contractor to do work that is being my skill level. And sometimes I hire neighborhood kids to help me with menial projects. All of them get paid well.
The only people hornswoggling me are democrats, jd. I live in a one party state.
JD, do you think I’m too stupid to know what problems I am facing in life?
>>> Five and six generations of farms will be lost because of your hero, GGG.
Um, you’re about five or six generations too late. Family farms have been vanishing for decades for a variety of reasons—none of which have anything to do with Trump.
Corporations took over farming a long time ago. Family farms simply can’t compete—just like Mom&Pop stores can’t compete with Walmart.
The other issue with family farms is the obvious problem of keeping the business in the family when the children aren’t interested.
Ex, you’re right there has been a corporate take over in the agricultural sector in the USA. It happened under Nixon.
>>> “Um, you’re about five or six generations too late. Family farms have been vanishing for decades for a variety of reasons—none of which have anything to do with Trump.”
Wrong yet again, Ex. Trump has a lot to do with tariffs and why don’t you ask the soybean farmers how they like them “beans?”
Also, ask the farmers that are facing bankruptcy due to depressed Trump tariff prices, how they like the family business going under. Yeah, I thought so, LOL.
You are very much like political hack AG Barr… you’ll do and say anything to protect your precious Orange GGG. Nice nutcase leader you’ve got there… maybe your kids will grow up to be just like him… wouldn’t that nice!
JD, you’re not engaging with reality. You need to see a doctor.
Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. Clearly, you will never change course, no matter how much truth is thrown at your thick skull.
Keep watching Rachel. She’ll keep your hatred on course.
Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. – JackStraw
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Jack, you left out two very important words from your quote of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The line begins A foolish consistency…
The more things change, eh? The Spiral goes over that which it has gone over before. Hopefully on higher ground, or is this merely a Two Dimensional one? The Yellow Brick Road to Ozone’s house, to meet the little Man behind the curtain who has no real Gold just the Greenbacks you worship.
You totally lost me with ^this^ one…….
But while we’re chatting, let’s clear up a loose end from yesterday. I simply wrote “sic.” You wrote “why sic?” Well, I thought it couldn’t be plainer……… but apparently not. 400 hundred is not the same as 400.
I was referring to the Asoka Olympics relative to that phrase. You two used to go on and on about it. As Krishna said to Arjuna, We have lived many lives. I remember them all. You do not.
After I blasted you, I realized what you were talking about. Yes, a redundancy on my part. And I did ask, so you weren’t being your usual pain in the ass by offering correction unasked, so my apologies.
Now it’s your turn to admit my role in your Awakening to Racial Consciousness, howsoever dim it may be.
I was referring to the Asoka Olympics relative to that phrase – Janos
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I don’t think so. I think you were talking (in round numbers) how long blacks had/have been in this country.
Thank you for the correction. I wrote it a little too quickly.
Two years of liberal hogwash, 500 people interviewed, thousands of interviews by a group comprised of Democratic lackeys, grand jury involvement and the combination could not find one thing that the Trump group did to collude with Russia.
However, side B of the record is about to play as the Democratic collusion with Russia is about to emerge. The next two years should be fun.
It’s time to move past Trump and your hatred for the right side of the political spectrum. You need a growth spurt. You need to be pushed above and beyond left/right. There are glimmers of light in there and I know it is totally possible. Just remember, the boogey man doesn’t care about politics really. He just uses politics to get what he wants.
Central Standard Tribe [tm] will own the middle three hundred miles between south chihuahua to northern sasquatch haven. a new mountain range in which we will own the passes. Don’t be particulate.
>>> You never struck me as a Far Right kind of dude, but I have clearly missed something.
You have. Or do you believe that JHK’s GGG moniker is something the far right uses to describe Trump?
You’re so rabidly partisan and anti-Trump that you can’t see beyond it to a discussion of poor policy irrespective of ideology.
>>> “Or do you believe that JHK’s GGG moniker is something the far right uses to describe Trump?”
As of late, our host has taken to referring to his Orangeness as Mr. Trump, if you can imagine. Jim always claims he is no fan of GGG, just trying to set straight the wrongs committed against this honest, gentle soul (said with sincerity).
Please excuse me for puking, but I know and you know, because EVERYBODY knows, the DJT is a shit, pure and simple. He is a cheater, a liar, a narcissist and all the rest, but you all are well aware of that. You just choose to look the other way and defend the crazy, sick, pussy grabbing creep.
You know, it says a lot more about who you people are than it says about Trump. He’s a shit and he knows he is. You people cover for a shit and become shit, but you know better. Well, enjoy the nutcase while you can, as his type never lasts long in office.
Small, little, shitty men never prosper in the end, but you know that. Enjoy your little bit of time in the sun, as soon it’s back to the shadows where you belong with the whole lot of you.
Did you see how Mussolini’s granddaughter was so outraged at the treatment of her grandfather by artist Jim Carrey? Not many people came to his defense, did they? It’ll be the same with his Orangeness going down as the loonest, chaotic, misguided, unhinged president in history. Keep tuned into your BS Fox Noise and keep lapping the drivel up. You deserve it.
Whoa! Now that’s the kind of rant one expects from the unhinged Left. Points for staying true to form!
Trump wasn’t elected for his virtuousity; he was elected for his leadership—his policies.
Where is this mythical virtuous philosopher poet-President you seem to feel is the norm? Pussy grabbing? You mean like when the Left’s hero—JFK—was pussy grabbing before, during, and after Jackie’s pregnancies? Or do you mean Clinton’s sexscapades in the Oval Office? Please link to where you expressed moral outrage over these leaders. No link? Thought so.
Keep drinking the hogwash flavored kool-aid EX as you love it. Trump a leader now that is funny! He is pathetic and his sycophants are more pathetic. Terribly misguided. Enjoy your loser, nutcase while you can. LOL!
Do you have an argument that isn’t just name calling?
No, what I mean is unwelcome, intrusive advances by a rich, uncouth and vulgar creep. JFK never had any problem attracting hotties. As for Clinton, I don’t believe he was reaching up unwilling ladies skirts or grouping them as has been alleged by GGG. He himself said, but then he lies, as you know…
“I’m automatically attracted to beautiful women — I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything,” he said in the 2005 conversation. “Grab ’em by the pussy.”
I suppose since it’s the great Orange GGG you wouldn’t mind if he “felt up your wife or daughter, eh?” I would mind bigly, no matter who did it. No passes because your a white, rich, famous, right wing arsehole, unlike the “passes” you guys hand out.
Farmer, Are GGG own words enough of an argument for you or is that still name calling. He’s your pervert, enjoy him while you can and keep your wives and daughters away from those wandering, tiny, little hands of his. He can’t help himself, remember…
Jesus, what a mess you rubes have wrought. Can you understand why folks don’t want dipshits voting?
I know you hate reading and research, JD. Your mind’s made up and facts don’t matter. Consider this:
“Bill Clinton, not unlike other president who preceded him, was a reputed philanderer before and during his stay at the White House. The person remarkably absent from Trump’s pre-debate press conference and debate performance was Monica Lewinsky. She became sexually involved with Clinton in 1995 as a 22-year-old White House intern; in 1996, while working at the Pentagon, she revealed her sordid tale to a co-worker, Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded the conversations and gave the tapes to Kenneth Starr, the Independent Counsel investigating Clinton regarding unrelated matters. Pressed on his relation with Lewinsky, Clinton infamously claimed, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”
One of Clinton’s earliest reported incidents of sexual abuse involved Juanita Broaddrick who claimed that, in 1978 while manager of an Arkansas nursing home, he raped her in a hotel room. However, she later signed a sworn affidavit that read in part:
During the 1992 Presidential campaign there were unfounded rumors and stories circulated that Mr. Clinton had made unwelcome sexual advances toward me in the late seventies. Newspaper and tabloid reporters hounded me and my family, seeking corroboration of these tales. I repeatedly denied the allegations and requested that my family’s privacy be respected. These allegations are untrue and I had hoped that they would no longer haunt me, or cause further disruption to my family.
In 1992, as Clinton was running for president, Jennifer Flowers, an Arkansas state employee and cabaret singer, publicly stated that she had had a 12-year relationship with him. Bill and Hillary Clinton appeared on 60 Minutes following the Super Bowl to rebut Flowers’ claims only to be undercut by Flowers who played a secretly-recorded tapes of incriminating phone calls she had with Clinton. According to The Washington Post, Clinton “reportedly acknowledged” the affair with Flowers in a 1998 deposition regarding a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by Paula Jones.
In 1994, Jones, an Arkansas state worker, accused Clinton of making an unwanted sexual advance. Clinton ultimately made an out-of-court payment of $850,000 to settle with Jones without admitting guilt.
In 1998, Kathleen Willey appeared on 60 Minutes and said that in 1993 she was a Clinton supporter and a volunteer at the White House. She claimed that when she met the president to ask for a paid position, he made unwanted sexual advances on her, including kissing her, groping her breast and placing her hand on his genitals; Clinton denied her allegations in a deposition relating to the Jones case.
Three other and — less know — incidents of Clinton’s reputed misogynistic encounters with women have come to light. Eileen Wellstone, a 19-year old Oxford student, filed a sexual assault complaint against Clinton in 1969; in 1991, Connie Hamzy claimed that Clinton, the then-Arkansas governor, had propositioned her in 1984; and Cristy Zercher, a flight attendant on Clinton’s campaign plane during his 1992 presidential run, claims that he groped her on the jet.
Sadly, the claims long raised regarding Bill Clinton’s sexual conduct seem not so dissimilar to the charges by women coming out almost daily about Trump’s sexual mistreatment.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/20/was-bill-clinton-the-most-sexist-president/
Here’s another Jesus quote for your education in Christianity:
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
The brain has a right and left too. Perhaps you’re ignoring half of reality there, big guy?
The right, fixed, rigid, authoritarian, scary, intolerant side? Let me see….. uh, no, I don’t think so at all, but thanks for the guidance.
Loud, obnoxious, arrogant…jdhines you fit the stereotype of ‘Ugly American.’
Relax Farmer joe JD is simply trolling you.
No one is really as patently stupid as that one appears to be.
Well maybe one of them is.
Ben,
Not trolling at all. Just trying to help a poor lost rube come out of the ether and stop being made a fool of by the Republican Far Right. I am merely trying to be of service.
Allow me to let you in on a little secret. While the Dems are not your friends, the Repubs sure as hell aren’t your friends either. Maybe y’all should wise and layoff the Kool Aid.
The Dems and Repubs are part of the same “Uniparty” and neither has your best interests at heart. They both want power and bigger government. The Ds favor social programs and the Rs favor the military and the wealthy, so unless you are worth $25 mil and above, the Rs are not your safest bet (ceteris paribus).
At least with the Ds, the stock market does better and the wealth is spread around a bit and the wealthy pay more of the fair share in taxes. The Ds are far from ideal, but compared to the GOP, they are golden. Please wake up.
Please I live in Southern California and know full well the Socialist crap your peddling!
I also am keenly aware that neither party is entirely friendly but from my vantage point the Dems are conducting a fire sale and have been for thirty years.
We get rapid insolvency and crime from them in short order.
In California the roads are falling apart illegal aliens running amok never held to the same laws as we the blood blags those of us to be squeezed when more money is needed for some insane social program. I have traveled all over South America, Europe and Africa and seen what they are living with and want none of it.
In short the DEMOCRATS are doing to us what has been to Argentina and now Venezuela…No thanks life is tough enough.
I see through what you are peddling and wonder what sock puppet you work for!
I also wonder if jd is a sock puppet.
Here in Washington state we have the most regressive tax policies in the nation. I know regressive is too big of a word for you to understand, and you don’t like books so won’t look it up. Regressive means the poor pay a high percentage of their income in taxes and the rich pay a small percentage. Sure you can argue that it’s all going to social spending. Unfortunately that money is used flagrantly (unwisely, big words, I know). Then they insist on more tax revenue from those who can not afford to pay. Where is the social justice in that, JD? Tell me how that makes sense and why I should be in support of it, PLEASE!!!
No Ben, I know that you prefer, Right Wing Crap don’t you? Well, belly up to the trough as they are serving up plenty of hogwash for ya. Enjoy it while it’s flowing, eat your fill…..
Once again his feeble mind, incapable of formatting a reasonable, fact based response, resorted to expelling drivel.
For G_d’s Sake Farmer Joe, you make me sound like GGG. That is a too harsh, don’t ya think? Nobody is that arrogant, loud and obnoxious, except of course, His Orangeness. Really, that is too much, yeah.
You’re the pot calling the kettle black.
My mom, the family therapist with a master’s degree in psychology, is fond of saying,
“We hate in others the things we hate about ourselves that we don’t want to acknowledge.”
I sincerely hope that helps you, JD.
Thanks, but it doesn’t help me… I’ll be helped with the arsehole you rubes saddled this country with is out of office. That will help me cupcake.
JD, I’m not just saying this to be a jerk. I seriously think you have a psychological disorder. Narcissism, maybe. You should talk to a specialist.
I didn’t vote for him. Stop calling me names,
>>> “JD, I’m not just saying this to be a jerk. I seriously think you have a psychological disorder. Narcissism, maybe. You should talk to a specialist.”
Thanks, I’ll take that under advisement.
>>> “I didn’t vote for him. Stop calling me names”
You are a GGG supporter, that is bad enough and thus deserving of names, rube. Besides your hero, Orange one is really good with name calling… I thought y’all liked the name game, no?
See a doctor.
So as another poster noted, Daniel Patrick Moynihan created quite a stir back in 1965 when he issued his famous treatise on the worrisome state of the black family in the US. From what I’ve learned, the US government then made all the wrong moves in response to this.
The illegitimacy rate in blacks is now somewhere around 80% in the US which is just staggering. Most black kids are growing up without dads in their lives. The results of this are pretty clear. It’s not cool to say this of course but kids need their moms and their dads and do best in 2 parent families.
The US government, by creating AFDC and al the other benefit programs did their level best to ensure that black families were headed by women and no men were present.
Really dishonest people who use statistics in order to mislead like to say that more white kids than black kids live in single parent family homes except that blacks are only 13% of the US population. The same thing applies to receiving other government benefits.
So now for generations we’ve been busing black kids to white schools and using affirmative action to get them into colleges but to what result?
In NYC theyr’e going nuts as the top exam schools such as Stuyvesant are now heavily Asian and only a handful of blacks get accepted. Exams are racial bias free but they all “know” this is racist. The mayor’s idea is to “fix” this by accepting the top students from different Junior High Schools which would mean that even if students didn’t have the grades or preparation to attend and do well they would still get accepted. This would then make everyone(except for all the now rejected high scoring Asian kids) feel better as the schools will have the “correct” percentage of blacks and Hispanics. How they will do if they lack the ability or know-how to actually do the work required of them at a school like Stuyvesant isn’t clear but I’m pretty sure it won’t end well.
So what’s the answer? I’m pretty sure it’s not more handouts, in the form of “reparations” as Beto suggests(can we say pandering to get the black vote anyone?). I don’t think the answer is more affirmative action or lowering standards for blacks. I guess I must be a racist or something but I do believe that personal responsibility, providing a stable family structure, getting married before having babies and being able to support the babies one has is a must. Raising kids to care about education, use proper English and stay away from crime and drugs is another biggie in my book. But I’m hopelessly old-fashioned.
I think that as liberals clearly have lower levels of expectations for blacks which is why they always want to “help them” and lower the standards for them, they are the real racists.
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Exams are racial bias free but they all “know” this is racist.
CLASSIC SPIN BY THE ‘DOCTORS.’
The country is too hopelessly divided and controlled by deceptive narratives to have the outcomes that you wish to see unfold as such. A multicultural nation cannot and will not survive.
Correct. There is no answer. IQ is largely genetic and Blacks just don’t have it. Just as East Asians seldom have the size and muscle for pro-sports. Whites are in the middle, but closer to the East Asians, thank God. Primitive White Women are attracted to macho Black Men. Thus they make their choice and they and their offspring are Other who will be utterly othered when Our time comes.
Just as East Asians just don’t have the size and muscle for pro-sports–even with steroids..but chemistry is advancing.
I read the tale of a guy at the Os..he wondered what women were doing poolside for a women’s swim tournament.
As he got closer, he saw they were women, on pills. East Germans..one gal said she had been growing a mustache
so she stopped what her coach called ‘vitamins.’
But Janos. Jews test out as having the highest IQ’s of any group. You still obviously hate Jews. What’s the deal?
There’s more to life than IQ. Just as you folks don’t automatically like Whites who have high IQ – not if they don’t support your Agenda and Israel.
“There’s more to life than IQ.”
And yet, so often there doesn’t seem to be when you weaponise it yourself. Endlessly.
Sometimes, in order to solve the most complex problem, one has to pull the simplest (in the sense of not too entangled) thread.
The critical problem here is the crisis of the scientific method, and the simplest thread is English 101 course in American colleges, or rather, that the American intelligentsia really supported Hillary Clinton, and the Russian intelligentsia has so far resisted and a pro-Clinton station Echo of Moscow has very few listeners.
This was the result of the fact that in Russia we got what the trick was back in 1982 and despite the geopolitical catastrophe, which entered its final stage around this time, the immune system of the society still managed to activate.
The Multiple-Choice test system is part of the brainwashing system, which leads to the political crisis of Hillary-Adolf.
But in Russia, it still did not work because of the fact that it operated in the USA since 1947, and no one noticed anything until it gave a full effect in 2015.
By the way, something sobering is starting to happen in America, and one of the political commentators (by the way, the radical anti-Trump commentator) said that the reason for the victory of Donald Trump is that under the wise leadership of Hillary Clinton the Democratic Party lost its social base and turned into a party of Beyonce and Barbara Streisand.
To the point that one of the most popular Democratic leaders Bernie Sanders is not even a member of the Democratic Party.
Did you notice how Hillary all the time says that Trump is supported by dark, uneducated people? And there is a certain truth in this, despite the fact that Trump is supported by almost all Nobel America, except for Nobel Prize in literature.
The fact is that university students from the mid-80s in the first year, when their thinking has not yet been formed, are exposed to a powerful ideological influence on English 101 lessons.
The main lure of this influence (or if you prefer this hook) is the introduction of yesterday’s schoolchildren from the American heartland to a complete ideological poison about their belonging to a special caste, first as Americans, then as educated Americans, then as members of all kinds of student fraternities, and then …
Well, then the claw principle begins to work – one claw stuck, the whole bird perish.
Ok, the whole bird is gone, and by the end of the college they will turn into a kind of zombie, unable to resist the Clinton propaganda, forcing people to vote for a frank criminal, compared to which even Catherine de Medici looks like a “white queen”.
“The problems change, but fundamentally the qualities needed to face them in the average citizen are the same. Our…highly complex…civilization has produced problems. We need to face these problems and…exercise all our ingenuity in trying to devise some effective solution, but the only way in which that solution can be applied is the old way of bringing honesty, courage, and commonsense to bear upon it.”….Theodore Roosevelt, October 25, 1905.
There is nothing new under the Sun.
Elrond you’re over generalizing again. Something all Canadians do. (Yes, that was irony). Some “white moderates” may not have supported King, but a lot of white liberals did.
I was born in 1955 and my political awareness began around election night 1960 when the bastards pre-empted my evening cartoons. I also remember wondering how my parents could belong to a church led by a loud, scary, black man. We were Lutherans and I thought Martin Luther King was our founder.
Look in newspapers, history books, etc There were a lot of the kind of people some disdainfully called “New York Jews’ at his side.
If you have not already done so, click on EH’s name and visit whatever it is that it takes you to. It will answer many questions and give a greater understanding on what it is we are dealing with here.
I’m a few years younger than you are, hmuller, so my experience came when Ronald Reagan was shot. News coverage pre-empted the broadcast of It’s the Easter Bunny, Charlie Brown or some such, and I was very disappointed. The struggle is real.
Anyway, my point was not to generalize but to point out specifically how JHK misattributes the agency behind the civil rights movement. It was not something cooked up by the “thinking classes”, but very much a case of African Americans stepping up and demanding their full birthright as American citizens. Many who supported them were squishy in their support, while a few were more serious, but it was a broad-based popular movement where African-Americans themselves were in the driver’s seat.
The “thinking classes” don’t come into the story until quite a bit later, namely post-Reagan when the Democratic party consciously decided to abandon its traditional support of working people. That’s when the Dems took up identity politics and appropriated the imagery, but not the substance, of the civil rights movement. They did this to cover the fact that they were no longer in the business of looking after the interests of ordinary Americans more generally.
The 2016 election was when that strategy totally ran out of gas. It remains to be seen whether the Dems will return to their roots, led by the obvious candidate Bernie Sanders, or if they’re so determined to double down on failure that they hand Trump a second term.
What I cannot seem to understand is that having read through your own blog, it would seem to me that you cannot stand our host, his writings, or any of us that stand by him. Ok, you are entitled. Why you have been coming here for so long and bashing it all is beyond me. I understand that just because when I find a place distasteful I avoid it and leave quietly it does not mean that everyone has to do the same. But I always question the agenda of individuals that seem to get their jollies from demeaning others. To me at least, it indicates a dark unsettled pathos. But that’s just me.
Elrond is a preacher of sorts with moral causes to support and purvey. Like all of us really. He therefore has no reason to stay in spaces of believers. It is his duty to minister to unbelievers.
As in Elrond’s Witnesses?
Exactly! Coming to a blog near you :-).
Were there not many urban and trend-setting Whites and Jews that seeded and supported the Black Civil Rights movement? It has become a special rights movement by the way.
>>> It remains to be seen whether the Dems will return to their roots
Does it remain to be seen? Do you see any evidence that Dems are pivoting away from identity politics?
Bernie Sanders is the Original Socialist™ (before the likes of AOC). But the Dems of yore were not socialists. Nor were they progressives. They were classical liberals. They were not attempting to create equality-of-outcome irrespective of circumstance or merit. And when they fought for rights, it was always EQUAL rights. Not INSERT-YOUR-IDENTITY rights, which are really privileges that go beyond equal rights.
Dems will return to their roots, led by the obvious candidate Bernie Sanders, – Elrond
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Haha, yes, by all means, the Dems should run Bernie. He turns 79 two months before the election and will be set up perfectly to have a stroke on Monday before election Tuesday.
Martin Luther King is worshiped as a God by White America. But still it not enough for Elrond! The only way we can satisfy his kind and the Black radicals is to Disappear and Die.
The Western Palestinians?
“The choice made by the “experts” the past ten years is obvious: pump the financial markets at all costs by using dishonest policy interventions which they are smart enough to know will eventually blow up the banking system.”
Not just ten years. The ante was the New Deal, the big raise was The Great Society, and when Nixon closed the gold window we were all in. Anything since then has been like spinning the helm on the Titanic after the collision with the iceberg was inevitable.
“They did it to preserve their reputations long enough to retire out of their jobs.”
Exactly.
“The trouble is that the damage is now so extreme that when the time comes for them to apologize it will not be enough. They will lose their freedom and perhaps their heads.”
It’s called holding the bag, but most of them deserve it – if they get it.
Whether its the “thinking class” or the “working class”… they both suck.
I fear the oligarchs, and I fear the proles.
America is one big rotten orchard, with a few good apples scattered around across the different socioeconomic strata.
Wise you are.
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As we used to say when we were 10.
“The primary information organs of the thinking class — The New York Times, The WashPo, CNN, MSNBC ”
If this is true Jim, and we have replaced our own primary information organ (our own mental abilities) then we are doomed. One of your primary messages here has always been to cast off these worthless rags and think for ourselves and I applaud you for that wisdom. Americans had better start thinking again or be forever lost.
The neuroticism and dishonesty of our “higher education and medicine systems” and their decay into the disgraceful rackets that they have become says it all so well, at least for those of us that have been around long enough to have witnessed it first hand. I do not know what it was like in other places but here in the late 1970’s, there were more insurance salesmen and security guards with teaching degrees than you could shake a stick at. The disconnect between our “educational” process and the needs of the workplace was big then, but has only gotten bigger today and at such a cost, oi!
Of course the medical folks had an even bigger motivator using the fear of death to enrich themselves, but they have added so many tools through technology to their bag of tricks that bilking the general public out of their paychecks now child’s play.
The bad news is that in the end it is all Trump’s fault, apparently. The good news is that whoever or whatever replaces him shall bring hope and change, right? Yeah, that’s the ticket, hope and change, oh boy.
The USA needs to embrace the “nationalist” trend and disunite into smaller and more manageable states, and dare I say, nations.
Not nationalism per se, but decentralized governance. The federal government has become a menace by its ineffectual mediation alone. A popularity contest out on the margin issue tightropes and out of touch with the many and varied needs of a very un-united populace.
One class of supposed high-priests all ordained in the same echo chambers of universities, cities, and socioeconomic class (at least culturally if not monetarily) cannot dictate let alone speak for everyone.
Some of us want borders, want religion, want guns, want trans-bathrooms, want sanctuary states, want an elite ruling class, want localism, want grassroots, want authenticity, want environmentalism, want less capitalism, want less war, want, want, want.. many different things.
The only thing uniting this sh*thole is acrimony.
Interestingly, that “Regionalism” where every community gets Delphi Tactic-ed into voting for Agenda 2030, is what our Owners want too. Sustainably.
Quite right. I think it will have to come to that. Divide the place up and let people live the way they want. Way too much acrimony and I don’t see it getting any better. We should have let the South go when they wanted to back in the 1800’s.
The Union was preserved, but look at the cost. At a minimum, we need a Blue America and a Red ‘Merca and never the twain shall meet, ‘cept for a little trading maybe.
THANK YOU! You should have let us go. But no, that was not enough for you that you destroyed us. You had to occupy and take over as well. Where are my reparations?
Now, if you would like to trade we can talk.
Don’t you love the line-drawing-game?
You also commented a few threads back that you were more impressed by a nation that was made up of people related by blood. Is this the case? Because I know at one point you said you did not believe that race was any issue that needed to be considered. You seem to be settled that separate countries are better when it comes to social issues/politics. Do you feel the same way about race?
Quite possibly SSL, I’d have to think about that a bit more. But is it possible, practical? I don’t really know.
Well the question was directed at Avatar but I am glad you noticed it and took it to heart. You should search your soul on this question. It is very possible. It is our duty to make it practical. Consider it and meditate on it. Don’t think of it as zero-sum. We like diversity. But we also believe all things have a place in the web of life, and in the world.
For G_d’s Sake Farmer Joe, you make me sound like GGG. That is a too harsh, don’t ya think? Nobody is that arrogant, loud and obnoxious, except of course, His Orangeness. Really, that is too much, yeah.
SSL, Sorry for responding for our friend Avatar, but I’ll take your second comment under advisement.
PS I don’t know how Farmer Joe’s response ended up below. We’ll have to take it up with JHK’s IT department I suppose.
Sufficient unto the day is the *bs* thereof.
My favorite Jesus line, lol. Love the amendment.
Regarding unity in the country, I saw where Motel 6 is forced to pay 16 million to the state of Washington for giving ICE information about motel guests that led to them being arrested for being here illegally.
Whoa! Don’t federal laws overtake state laws? Why isn’t Trump’s Attorney General reading the riot act to Washington state. It seems like a caffe latte Fort Sumter here in true NW style, and if unchallenged, this will show a further, gradual unraveling of national unity and control.
As it is, there is only a third of Americans who relate to the old state in any way…those whites and a smattering of minorities who people the small towns, join the military, do the sports thing.
It’s obvious the deep state wants to destroy patriotism and the concept of citizenship. As someone said, to them, patriotism is a pathology.
Same with all those little local shops and stores now gone or nearly extinct. They are the enemy, as JHK showed in Home From Nowhere.
As for JDHines comments on how great socialism is in Europe, he has a point, but remember so much of the social peace there is kept by paying off segments of the population to go along with leftist programs. The real problem will be when, say the hordes of muslims and other invaders start to strain the social budgets, and eventually, you can’t keep bribing people. When they demand more then their share of the pie, things will become extreme, unless Europe does the Jean Respail route and just die.
Elrond Hubbard remarks how the Civil Rights movement was formed by blacks, but remember, the head of the NAACP for almost most of its inception was a Jew. This only came to an end recently. Not to bang an antisemitic drum here, but that is the fact. A coalition of types got black civil rights going, and the tension in the liberal community is that blacks want everybody out except them, and they, as well as the Democrats and progressives, are openly anti-white. Whether you like it or not, a race war is simmering…more a microwave then an open fire.
To recall what George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party said, ‘a National Socialist cares about his race. A conservative cares about his money.’
So much of the ‘conservative’ leadership cares about their own little mansion and nothing else, and JHK noted this mentality in the creation of the mansion class and these estates and exclusive suburbs, remarking how much of American social thought has been on escaping citizenship and instead opting for an isolated existence.
Norman Podhoretz recalled how, as a Jew, he was expected to support blacks and see them as equals, but as a child, they always brutalized him in school, stole, were rude, and yet nothing was done about their behavior. And with so much of the progressive worldview now official policy (of the deep state), nonwhites understand they have a fool’s license to do as they please.
It’s interesting how Trump is very pro-Israel, yet many Jews detest him, and I wonder how that will end.
And Trump, for all his faults (which I’m more then willing to overlook), is more acceptable then a snake like Romney or Jeb Bush.
When I was involved with the left, I noted a strange affinity leftist radicals and extremely wealthy corporate types had with each other, and how both despise the bourgeoise.
meargen, you raise many intriguing ideas.
Meargen, You reminded me of a disturbing one hour documentary I saw on YouTube entitled “Seattle is Dying”. It shows how homeless people (drug addled and mentally ill) are allowed to camp out wherever they want by a “liberal” city government. This is making life very unpleasant for those who pay the taxes and do the work which makes a civilization function. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi70WWBlw
USA in 1970–how many hobos?
Now USA has homeless, in the millions.
Great post. Well yes, someone funded the Communists. I mean propaganda aside, peasants with pitchforks and workers with hammers get nowhere against Secret Police backed by the Army. Thus the special relationship. Ditto the French Revolution, funded from England via the Masonic brotherhoods.
The Jews are disunited about Trump but largely united about Israel and their ongoing special status anywhere and everywhere. It will continue until non-Jews refuse to countenance it anymore.
I wish you would learn to differentiate between Israelites and Judahites. Saxons need not be Benjamites.
A fascination theological theory, but it doesn’t square with much of secular knowledge. Whites were in Europe long before any such migration of Israelites. But I admit many of the old Worthies believes some variant of this, since it was taught by the early Monk Scholars.
But you don’t seem to think we have many rights because of it. Rather that we should just be servants of those dark races. I make a big distinction between serving from a position of Strength and being a fucking mule used and beaten by savages.
We didn’t get the distinction when we were Masters of the World and we still don’t get it now. And I don’t think you get it either. We were always reacting against Whites who were comfortable being exploiters and we still are.
But those who worry too much about others will lose the battle for Life. I mean if we cared all that much, we could have never taken North and South America from the Indians. This “little” fact doesn’t interest you – so I don’t trust you because it’s the distinction between Life and Death.
@ meargen
It’s very interesting(and scary) to observe how many US Jews demonize Trump who has been the most supportive US President in a while now of Israel. Remains to be seen how it will continue to play out but so far so good. US liberal Jews fall all over themselves to support Democrats and Progressives who are really antisemitic. So many Jews voted for and continue to support Rep Omar; insane.
And US Jews continue to support blacks who have turned on them in recent decades.The NYT doesn’t like to focus on this but much of the violence being directed against Jews in NYC is by blacks. This is not even debatable as they have been caught on video, seen by many eyewitnesses etc.Young black guys brutally beating up innocent Orthodox Jews just walking down the street. But they prefer to cast Trump supporters and MAGA hat wearers as the anti-Semites and the stupid Jewish liberals go along with this farce.
meargen: “Not to bang an antisemitic drum here…”
… Pah-rump-a-pum-pum…
Where art thou ‘Ol Scratch? We need you to weigh in on these weight matters!
JDH
“…America’s thinking class …” Surely you jest! Perhaps the Camouflage Class?
America’s Chattering Classes chatter as they’re told. The real thinking class remain lurking anonymously behind the scenes for the last century and like vandals looking for a really nice house to trash, thinks up schemes like this:
//youtu.be/1FRZ3Igh7jU?t=1331
At 22:11 they start to get to the control grid the real thinking class is planning. People will be issued currency at the beginning of the month. If you ran out, tough. If you had extra, currency expired. No savings or investment possible. If you complain or object to your rulers, they cancel your currency at best … and don’t mention the camps or furnaces at worst. The ChiCom Social Credit Beta Testing is well under way, having been almost 50 years in the making.
As much as I admire Mr. Kunstler, he’s drinking the Media Owners’ KoolAid. He’s confusing Chatterers for Thinkers, while discreetly ignoring the real thinkers behind the curtain pulling the levers of the Great and Powerful Oz. Those “Technocratic” Pretend Pscientific Phrauds trying to demolish the existing order and replace it with their Utopia – a Truly New Evil Empire that – if they were really “thinking” – they know cannot possibly be worth living in. So horrific that even the Yello Journo Hearst had to disavow it in the 30’s.
The middle class and flyover destruction? That’s a feature, not a bug. Like literally EVERY other so called “side effect” he wrote about. Things are going exactly as planned. Central Rothschild Banking can only profit by strip mining a country to exhaustion, discarding the husk, moving on to the next, and calling it “Sustainable.” A quarter billion murdered by their own “Men Pretending To Be A Government”s in the Twentieth Century of Death? “Here. Hold my beer.” Technocracy can do 10x as much good in the 21st Century! Sustainably.
And they probably think they can still use their cell phones and drive their Tesla’s in the wreckage. Where’s my ROFLMAO smiley? Camouflage.
IMO one of Mr. Kunstler’s best essays ever.
I won’t comment further on the post, except to call out CBS’ atrocious Scott Pelley on his ruining over the inauguration day coverage, where he even had the audacity to cut away from what the viewer’s tuned in to see, and do an interview between himself and some alleged Russia expert.
Really. Based on nothing at all, but a Trumped-up investigation, the origin of which any real newsman could have discovered were hinky inside of 15 minutes.
Or maybe I should have said 60 Minutes.
It’s good to see that Lara Logan is finally acknowledging what her own network did to her.
The same network that let Les Moonves steal away into the night pretty quietly.
They were seeing Boris and Natasha under every bed, but they couldn’t see the rot from the top down in their own bailiwick?
Once she was assaulted in Egypt, the media seemed to have no use for her anymore. A shame for she was pretty good at what she did.
Anderson Cooper was wandering around that day like it was Woodstock. He’s lucky he didn’t get raped too – merely wacked in the head. An absolutely ridiculous person at best. At worst, he gloated about how his ancestor was killed by his slave. Gays are outside all traditions of family and Nation for the most part. Honorable exceptions exist of course.
He conveniently “outed” himself when the reports came out that he was going to be sacked on account of dismal ratings, and likability (natch)
On a happier note, Don Lemon’s getting married.
Dude popped the question last weekend and Don said yes, without reservation.
Its gonna be a fab wedding, the theme colors lavender and pink.
Brh
test . the Digger blog sent me here?
The Diggers were an interesting and under reported part of the 60’s.
The Kali Flower commune in San Fran.
The question is . . .
Why does the human species so despise its own?
because they have the mental capability to judge
I believe you’ve hit the nail on the head, Avatar. The whole business of judging others, an attitude that came into fashion with the formulation of Mosaic Law. One was guilty even for what one thought; evil, bad.
Before that it was a simple matter, Hammurabi decreed that if someone’s action caused you to lose an eye then you were free to poke out one of his . . . but not more. Let’s not be greedy, now.
One expected and took measures to allow for human stupidity. It was no big deal. You certainly were not going to waste your life hating folks for their proclivities. You just made them pay for it.
Ah, religion! They who taught us self-hate.
Because people naturally gravitate to those more like themselves and keep away from those who are most unlike themselves.
Reparations for slavery would have been easier done when the country was solvent. But should not the lineup first include that harm done to indentured servants and their seven year sentences to all kinds of hell. They were soon followed by native Americans whose history with us is awash in tears. Slaves were a valuable asset and thus protected while ‘Injuns’ were savages bothering us on ‘our rightful lands’. Which the Supremes ruled in 1832 they had no title to because the weren’t Christians. So the survivors of the Indian Wars were off to the concentration camps called Reservations where they languish to this day.
Good point. If we go down this road and want to be honest there will be no end to who could potentially deserve reparations. And we are just one country!
I don’t know Robert, doing it now might help to bring on the only solution possible – collapse!
So why are you still here on stolen ground? Do you really regret our Conquest? If so, you are a liar or a hypocrite. We won and we owe everything we have – including our very existence – to the Conquest and the godly and godlike Conquerors. Praise them and offer oblations to them. And then if you are praying man, pray for their souls.
See what I mean? You’re about as Christian as Genghis Khan.
And you are not Christian at all. You should pluck the log from your eye before you attempt to pull splinters from others’ eyes.
No logic there at all, SSL, but then you’re not obliged to show any in your line of belief 🙂 .
I’m not pretending to be Christian, that would be Janos. He’s the one who needs to show evidence. I think you call it ‘witnessing’ on the evangelical wing.
But in my daily life I’m willing to bet I’m way more ‘Christian’ than he is.
That is a common notion that I hear from agnostics and atheists. The idea that just because you hold religious beliefs you are not obliged to logic and rationality. For me this is somewhat true because logic and rationality are not always supreme in my own opinion. However, faith is logical and rational as well. In fact, if you were to follow what Janos teaches you would see that after all it is very logical and rational. Janos believes in taking care of his People and Tribe before other peoples and tribes. This is very biblical. This includes preserving lands that have come into their possession and honoring those who have sacrificed so much for us. Just a spattering of some relevant verses on the whole matter.
Exodus 15:3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name
Deuteronomy 1:21 See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you; go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you. Do not fear or be dismayed.
Psalm 149:6-9 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand, To execute vengeance on the nations And punishment on the peoples, To bind their kings with chains And their nobles with fetters of iron. To execute on them the judgment written; This is an honor for all His godly ones. Praise the LORD!
Someone knows their Bible – and someone else doesn’t. Someone else: Did I ever say the New Testament could stand alone? Or which mainstream Church ever said that? That they merely use it to now to worship the Jews is a sad testament to their degradation. They used it identify AS Israel. Big difference, eh?
I guess I was too busy listening to the good Samaritan.
Regarding your bloodthirsty, self-serving quotes – repulsive.
I’ll stick with reason, humanity and humility, thanks.
Thanks you for your faux humility in admitting you don’t know what you’re talking about anent Christianity.
I’ve read plenty of the bible in my time, Janos, and attended church for decades longer than SSL has even been alive.
You both seem to forget the bloodthirsty, self-serving stuff in the Old Testament was written by human tribes for human tribes. It’s not a complicated concept. Projection. God is made in the image of man, and hence does not embody only man’s best features.
don’t know what you’re talking about anent Christianity. – Janos
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How could I have forgotten anent. It goes into the compendium without need of further discussion or approval.
SSL, you did a great job of quoting the old testament, I’m not picking on you for that, but I do have to side with Alba in this discussion. There was a time when I wanted to be a youth pastor and I spent a lot of time taking college level courses on the bible. My understanding is that Jesus came to undo a lot of the abuses of religion that the Jews were engaging in. How many times did he call the religious leaders of his time hypocrites? What did he say to the rich young ruler, go hoard your stuff and defend it? No! He said sell your possessions and give the money to the poor and follow me. The reason Jesus was betrayed is because he, in the eyes of the Jews, sought to undo them. So when Alba says that Janos is as Christian as Genghis Khan, I have to agree on some level. At the very least it’s fair to say that his beliefs are based on the old testament and not on the new one.
Farmer Joe, for your consideration…
Matthew 5:17-19 (Jesus said)
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
My own opinion is that the Old and New Testaments must be taken together as an unfolding revelation. You are correct in saying that Jesus’ message was the undoing of the Pharisees. And yes he did address the importance of charity and the renunciation of materialism. But this in no way abrogates the principals of national defense and preservation that were revealed in the Old Testament.
That’s fair, and a good point about not undoing the law, but fulfilling it. I don’t have a retort.
“…the money spent on social services the past half-century, if simply distributed as cash, would have made every African American a millionaire. ”
Its almost as if Mr. Kunstler is coming around to acknowledge the economic logic of UBI…
A dollar ultimately represents a unit of labor.
After UBI, what will it represent?
Brh
A payoff to not revolt?
The same done by the machines for our benefit. A social credit. If it is NOT paid, then what Walter said.
The “you didn’t build that all by yourself” line of thought is absolutely correct and extremely fruitful. Folks like you who disparage it, do so at the cost of your own ultimate ruin. And folks like Rush and Hannity who encourage you to do so, are False Prophets in this.
And No, this is not an argument for absolute equality or communism. That would not be Justice – but neither is letting the masses die in the cold on the streets you see. Midpoints, BRH, if you can’t see the Apex, you have to see the Midpoint. And if you can’t see it of your own accord, we’ll make you bow to it nonetheless. Both Capitalism and Communism are the War of All against All. Isn’t this a better way?
A carbon credit
Much of this true of his followers as well.
“He is rapidly declining,” Lee, the group’s president, said of Trump in an interview. “His rallies have been increasingly less coherent, with greater signs of paranoid responses, increasing attraction to violence, increasing espousal of conspiracy theories. A few weeks ago, there was the ‘Tim Apple’ episode, and the other day he referred to Venezuela as a company, while recently he confused his father’s birthplace with his grandfather’s.
“His mistakes are growing more and more bizarre,” Lee said. “If we match the pattern of his deterioration against pathology, what disease states look like, we can say he is not well.
“Continually we have been seeing that his erratic thoughts and behavior are more consistent with mental pathology than strategy. Now we are seeing a pattern of cognitive decline.”
Whos Lee?
And whats he president of?
Brh
They seem to be upping whatever they put in his diet Coke.
Psshh, Clinton was the come back kid… Trump is the bounce back guy
How do account for the neuroticism and dishonesty that gripped America’s – cough – thinking classes?
Firstly, they’re above all convinced of their superior intellect. But, if they’re so damn smart, how is it possible that Trump won the election?
Well, yes, that’s obvious, Hillary didn’t lose. And, if she did lose then Trump cheated; the Russians put Trump over the top.
See, there was a conspiracy between the Russians and the Trump camp to um, do something, somehow. Fake news from Russian media outlets they say. And Russian hacking that exposed the truth of how the Democratic Party apparatus actively worked for Hillary and against Bernie.
But there was no conspiracy sayeth the patron saint of prosecutorial probity. And Facebook sez that the Russians spent paltry amounts on facebook ads. And twitter similarly testified as to the insignificant smattering of tweets from Russian sources compared to the daily deluge.
And at least four guys, William Binnney among them, said that there was no hack of DNC servers, rather the download of emails was an inside job, done by means of a handheld device. Oh, and the FBI never got their mitts on said DNC servers to do a proper investigation.
Given all this stuff – losing an unloseable election, justifying the loss via accusations of criminality and treason that, as it turned out after a two year investigation, had no basis in fact – if you were one of the – cough – thinking class, you’d be neurotic too. You’d be exhibiting signs of hysteria, phobia, OCD, depression…
It’s what happens when collective self-image – in this case of competence, moral superiority, social superiority, intellectual superiority, being forever the cool kid – runs aground on the shoals of reality which suddenly reveal they’re not so smart, so cool, so superior.
Volodya, check, people with high opinions of themselves don’t like being made to look like fools … especially by those they despise as being beneath them.
Cheers
It’s always 1968 for these folks you see. Doin’ the Time Warp. And heroes like Woodward and Bernstein are in the end revealed to be nothing but smarmy punks. As are all Leftist Boomer riff raff.
It’s always 1968 for these folks you see. – Janos
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This is another of those little phrases you like to use. You used it exactly 20 mins earlier at 3:16. It’s very preachy and highly annoying. It’s right up there with obviously, thus, for the most part and of course. I think I’m going to start a compendium and ask that others provide suggestions on what should be included.
I know you envision yourself at a pulpit or a lectern.
Or a throne. The Priest told us yesterday that Jewish Elders would sit when they gave a Teaching. He then went on to pervert the story of Christ and the woman caught in adultery. The Rabbis helped his professor to understand it, you see. Who is the voyeur who saw her? Who is the accuser? Where is the lover? Ungrounded accusations bring the penalty being sought (death) on those who falsely accuse. Thus Christ was writing something to this effect in the sand on the ground. Frightened, the elders left.
Christianity says she WAS guilty. And He wrote the sins of the Elders in the sand. Ashamed, they dropped their stone and left. Then Christ said, You are forgiven. Go your way and Sin No More. The priest ignored that part. The moral is that Divine Compassion can trump the Law, at least at times. And that we should show this, at least in some things such as this.
The whole principle of exegesis here is wrong. The Old Testament is to be explained by the New (Christ’s coming), not the New by the Old. Do we seek to understand Christianity by listening to those who say Christ was a liar, blasphemer, a sorcerer, and a deciever – namely the Rabbis? Instead of believing the Church Fathers? Father Dumb forgot that Christ said, Beware the Leaven (teachings) of the Pharisees.
The legal points they brought up are interesting and valid of course. But that doesn’t give people the right to change the focus or the Word of Christ.
to understand it, you see
are interesting and valid of course. – Janos
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Not to be cowed by the likes of me, Janos doubles down.
That is a great idea! The court should include someone recording all of the words of the King. You should start this compendium immediately as you take note of all of his words. Pay attention and listen to all of the beautiful words, poems, sermons and lectures. Perhaps the light in you will grow brighter :-).
ok if there’s annoying words or phrases, here’s some that are synonymous with those causing offense, maybe just for the sake of variety
of course: naturally, clearly
obviously: evidently, plainly
thus: consequently, accordingly
for the most part: mainly, generally
I read that Steven King detests adverbs and, I believe, has written entire novels free of adverbs.
Why does King hate adverbs?
Why does King hate adverbs? – Vol
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Google the question and many articles will appear however even when I read them I still don’t understand.
Hello James,
Well Spring finally crept-in on cats paws over the weekend down here at the confluence of the Anacostia & Potomac. Now we can watch the FARM Industrial Complex implode from the tsunami of ice/hail/snow/rain liberated by warmer weather.
Meanwhile, your shots at the father-murdering social policies of the demonic-marxist-feminist-gulag are music to my ears. I was warning these bitchez in the ‘soviet of washington’ 30 years ago that their family genocide would end badly – and it is at an accelerating rate that compels ‘real-thinking’ folks to evacuate to the fly-over states to avoid the collapse and potential blood-bath.
When I first visited LA in 1977 a friend took me on a drive through the fruit & nut tree groves in the NW San Fernando Valley. On one corner we stopped for a snack at the gas station and noted a large government-style complex in construction across the street. Several of the blue-collar crew were in the store and when we asked about the huge, quite outta place monolith they said it was a police station.
Out here in the sticks we asked – yeah they responded – the “CA Dept. of Social & Health Services” will build apartment blocks out here for welfare moms, so they have to be ready.
Never forgot that exchange and here we are +40 years later . . .
Carry on til you are carrion.
PFO
The gal downstairs had her baby [or fist baby] at age 14.
Her man boy worked in an eatery.
They were scum [I have to be honest].
40 years ago is 2.5 generations to these people.
And the NYT is running an article on egg-freezing for women in their mid-30’s and up who just haven’t gotten around to having kids yet. These are well-educated career focused women who have the ability to fork out the insane amounts of money for this process which may or may not ever result in their being able to have their own genetic children. At the same time low IQ sorts are popping out babies right and left and we, the taxpayer, are supporting them. What does this bode for our collective IQ when they are the ones having the babies?
>>> Now we are seeing a pattern of cognitive decline.
Who could have imagined that all this deterioration, decline, erraticism, and pathology could result in so much good policy and success?!
Shortly after Trump took office, Lee edited a book called, “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump”.
So he was pitching this two years ago—yet another lefty unhappy with the 2016 election result, and trying to justify a coup using 25A.
You want to talk about deterioration, decline, erraticism, and pathology? Go watch shaking palsied Pelosi. Notice he didn’t write a book about her…
Your question kind of proves the point made earlier doesn’t it?
The cognitive deficiencies of his followers (to put it mildly) a feature that accompanies him.
The cognitive deficiencies of Trump’s detractors are such that they don’t realize that my question was rhetorical and facetious.
You dodged so I will ask again: Where’s Lee’s concern regarding stumbling, mumbling, shaking, incoherent, addled, palsied Pelosi? She’s Speaker and #3 in line. Where’s the concern? Oh—right—she’s a lefty liberal so no cause for concern.
Don’t even try to make this medical when we all know it’s political.
You dumbass right armpitters. Always avoid what hits you in the block head by trying to frame the question around some other irrelevant matter. Next you’ll shift the question to queen Elizabeth or some other female who isn’t president of the United States and if all else fails you’ll bring up some other irrelevant matter.
Simple fact is the one person with a finger of the red button requires someone close at all times to keep the drool off his tie.
>>> Simple fact is the one person with a finger of the red button
Dude, 2016 is calling and they want their failed scare tactic back.
Two years later and I’m still not seeing the predicted mushroom clouds.
What I am seeing is Pelosi speaking affectionately about MS-13 gang members and demanding open borders. It’s pretty clear who needs the psych eval…
NYU’s grand gesture is just a way to paper over the shame of the University executives’ role in the college loan racket that may destroy countless lives. –JHK
Jim,
Have to wonder if that won’t be overtaken by the emergence of TLE.
Can’t help but think the speed with which TLE fully manifests will be increased by the increasing disconnection from reality evident in our society.
Cheers
when is TLE? when?
If I’m not mistaken, TLE already started.
Energy consumption continues to rise. Production is rolling over.
I think we’re past the peak. Case in point, see the cover of the New York Times: carbon capture pilot plants… Occidental will use the co2 to force more oil & gas out of spent wells.
“I think we’re past the peak. Case in point, see the cover of the New York Times: carbon capture pilot plants… Occidental will use the co2 to force more oil & gas out of spent wells.”
SnakPak,
I’ve also read of a plant in Canada that captures the CO2 and stores it in a sawdust-like state…it can be used to make liquid fuel for Jet Aircraft, vehicles, etc. The article further stated that they now have the cost of recovery down to a bit under $100 per ton.
Let’s consider that the mass of humans on this planet expel 2.2 BILLIONS of tons of CO2 per day through respiration. Why, that would allow us to be carbon neutral in our breathing for a modest 220 Billion dollars a day…or a Trillion dollars a week with generous rounding…or approximately the GDP of the whole earth every year, considering a 7 day week….
Correction;
Humans actually expel over 15 Billion pounds of CO2 per day through respiration…
Thank God….this makes the problem much more manageable.
I do think we are over the TLE event horizon, in that, we can no longer avoid some degree of crash.
However, I do believe that momentum, will continue its maintenance of the appearance of a status quo for a period of time that will astound many.
Then some event or another will “trigger” a reckoning where denial is no longer possible.
There are many candidates for said event:
– A strong hurricane devastates a part of the South and there is nothing besides lip service for relief and recovery
– Same type of event but flooding in the upper Midwest
– Same for a large quake on the West coast
– China just takes the Philippines or even Hawaii and the US cannot even mount a defense
– Total collapse of the global financial markets
– Collapse of a major second or third world government- too many candidates to list
All likely to be cap stoned by a limited nuclear exchange and followed by widespread chaos as the former global powers are forced to retreat into a smaller world.
And most importantly to us as humans- lot’s and lot’s or tyranny with a large chance for ethnic purges and scapegoating.
My guess is that we are still a decade or two at most out from such dramatic events but the time will pass quickly and barring something major like an alien arrival nothing can help us now. Probably already too late even for the deployment of a radical new energy source. High EROEI is not useful, if the current systems are too exhausted for deployment.
Till then enjoy the bread and circus- no real reason to point fingers and worry about blame now. Other worries will occupy us all soon enough.
The United States can do plenty to help itself and help other nations.
I think there is some confusion of my contention; The Long Emergency is here- Peak Oil production may or may not be- and may or may not be an insurmountable problem.
But one thing is for sure, it doesn’t seem likely that people will be able to simply waste as much energy as they waste every day driving their cars.
In any case its difficult to see the United States moving forward and facing the challenge with leadership at all levels denying and/or pretending CO2 is not a problem, and by extension, our lifestyle, hence, the requirement to seek other arrangements for daily life at any rate.
“The United States can do plenty to help itself and help other nations.”
What do you think the odds of that happening are?
It really depends on how the winning candidate in 2020 frames the mission of the United States.
If the mission is framed with a purpose toward saving the world through vigorous and innovative foreign policy, then there is a good chance. If the mission and mandate slides toward establishment status quo, then we just kick the can to 2024, where a similar contest will occur except with more dire and compelling stakes…
I disagree.
We can make fuel oil out of algae using salt water from the ocean and sewage as fertilizer in large tanks all around the desert southwest.
Nothing more is needed beyond large pressing machines to squish out the bio-diesel gold and good old sunshine. Dump what remains back in the vat and start over this is about once a week in full summer and two or so week cycle in the winter.
Add in switch grass NOT CORN for ethanol and more silicon wafers to collect the suns rays.
Much can be accomplished if only we are willing to work towards it.
Luckily, our leaders realize that could happen are doing everything possible to prevent it. Shareholders need protection.
So I was at another one of those ‘Easter Ham Shoots’ at a gun club in rural Ct on Sunday, good group of members and locals attending, mostly blue collar guys (most of whom were apparently doing pretty well because there were some expensive shotguns extant, as well as nice trucks in the parking lot) A group of firemen from a nearby city showed up; I got talking to this fireman, a big dude, about 6 ft 300 lbs, wearing a MAGA hat. I mentioned to him he was risking assault wearing that hat and a few days ago an elderly Jewish man in San Francisco was attacked on the street for wearing one. He looked at me and pulled back his coat, revealing one of those Colt model 1911s, the Colt .45, in a leather holster, saying “let ’em try”. It occurred to me, this is how it might start, lefties indulging in what they consider bullying street theater, but bullying the wrong guy, one not well versed in intersectional PC platitudes and the game that’s being played, but takes the threat seriously.
Brh
Gawd, your good old boys.
Hows crime in the nutty state [or nut meg state]?
In the urban areas its getting worse. Out here not bad until members of the ‘community’ come out to steal cars and break into houses.
Brh
fire PERSONS are not suppose to be obese.
A mere technicality, my friend.
Yeah, he pulled off his MAGA hat to reveal a Yamulke – classic Schmaltz which America eats up. Is that why the Leftist got her comeuppance in this case? I mean if she had just assaulted a regular old White guy wearing one…..
Thus the case is ruined in terms of general applicability. The “eaters of Schmaltz” never get points like this. They’ll happily go off the East Africa to fight for the Gay Disco if somehow you can get the Blue and White flag involved somehow along with the Masonic Red, White, and Blue.
Vlad, some of your posts seem like theyre lifted from Code Pink, or the BDS site. Strange company you keep.
Brh
Yup, you flunk. You think his Yamulke is a sign of incredible holiness even beyond his MAGA hat. You miss the point and that is the point.
She knocked the MAGA hat off his head because she hated the hat and she thought she could get away with because he was just an old White guy, Whites being a despised race, men being the despised gender, and old as in not able to defend himself perhaps. She could not see the Yarmulke. That has nothing to do with what she did. It should not have been brought up as it has no relevance – but ever do they thrust themselves into the Center. And ever do you accept it.
Dude I didn’t even know he was wearing a Yarmaluke. It was relevant because she was berating the old guy as a racist. Every subject you seem to have to weave in your miserable anti semitism, which calls into question everything you say.
brh
You didn’t know? Very well, I will regrade you once you answer the question up thread: If you are Shane, which side do you shoot fer?
Just saw a great “new” (few years old now) Western called, Bone Tomahawk.
‘Bone Tomahawk’, looks good, gotta get it.
‘Cowboys and Aliens’, with Harrison Ford was another film with mixes genres, western and sci fi.
there’s a 60s film — I can’t remember the name of it — a western set in Mexico where suddenly dinosaurs appear.
the weather here is so consistently miserable (like today, sky looks like it been dredged up fro the bottom of the North Atlantic) not much to do but stay inside and watch movies.
brh
he pulled off his MAGA hat to reveal a Yamulke – Janos
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You spelled it wrong but close enough. There are several different spellings but your’s is not one of them. In any case these beanies are no big deal where I live. Every other male is wearing one here, especially on Saturdays.
Q: You spelled it wrong but close enough. There are several different spellings but your’s [sic] is not one of them.
“Your’s”? Is that a contraction for “your is”? It is not correct English usage. “Yours” is already a possessive pronoun and does not require an apostrophe.
“Yours” is already a possessive pronoun and does not require an apostrophe. – krugperson
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OK, so it’s like its. Possessive but no apostrophe. Thanks for pointing that out.
BTW, did you read Krugman’s op-ed in today’s NYT? He really trashed Herman Cain. I’m sure I know more about the operations of the Fed than Cain and I don’t know shit.
This got people upset because he was an OLD guy just sitting in Starbucks minding his own business when this freak with a mohawk went crazy on him. She then started trying to recruit people via social media to cause him harm. It has zilch to do with his wearing a kippah. Not exactly sure why you have to view everything through the lens of Jew-hate.
I’m asking why the media made a big deal about it, genius.
Because of how outrageous she was doing this to some old dude just sitting there minding his own business in Starbucks. It had nothing to do with his being Jewish; she woudn’t have known that. It had to do with her targeting him for wearing a MAGA hat and her self-righteous belief that of course she was correct doing so and of course everyone would join her in vilifying this guy. She could/would have done the same thing to anyone she didn’t figure was packing and would just shoot her.
@ Janos
And thanks for recognizing I’m a “genius”. I’m one of them high IQ Jew sorts you love so much! 😉
Yes, if you all would only use your IQ for the good of all, then we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Or are you going to vote for Bernie, “Whites don’t know what it means to be poor” Sanders? What a bigot.
And btw, that’s an average. There’s no reason to believe your smart people are any smarter than our smart people. Test question as in check your own heart: If Whites really got into improving themselves a la eugenics, would you be all for that or incredibly and insanely against it as Jews were before?
So again, why did the JEWISH OWNED media make it into a thing? I think you know….
Firemen can be 300 lbs?
Not in the past, when they applied. Physical fitness tests
had to be passed.
…and, surely, regularly thereafter…like in the rest of the
Western world?
Hey, it was only a guess by BRH – if the guy was 6’3″ & 280 lbs, he’d have a BMI of 35, which is only mildly obese (especially by American standards).
Even ‘The Donald’ is only marginally obese at 31, if 6’3″ & 249 lbs is to be believed. What else has he said that’s accurate or even has a glancing relationship with the truth? Nothing, so I’m guessing this is BS too.
I think it’s high time that everyone get over the quaint and thoroughly nostalgic notion of walking into town (can’t) down Main Street (doesn’t exist) and into the 5 and dime, ye olde book shop, ACE Hardware franchise, or RadioShack (inefficient).
It’s quite frankly cheaper, more efficient, and less time constraining to shop from a centralized source via a “smart device”. The idea of wasting TIME to go shopping is anathema to me, walking, riding a bike, or driving a car is plain wasteful.
The reality is that we have to drive to Walmartians or Target or Petcorp to get our junk. We don’t have villages and we are to busy to spend our free time going on a shopping stroll in the “village” only to lament that we should have used Amazon as that the 3 places we visited don’t have what we want. It’s simply not my duty to keep antiquated small businesses in business.
You’re being sarcastic. But plenty of the “thinking classes” on the talk shows say essentially the same thing with a straight face.
No, I’m not.
The idea of consuming more time to consume, to buy stuff, is bizarre.
In days of yore, people went into the village, then the shopping mall, then the strip-mall, and finally the parking lot campus stuffed with big-box retailers and a Charbucks.
Stupid.
Give me a phone, with a few apps, I have the 2 day delivery patience (now, threes same day, 2-hour, and 1 hour), and I can get exactly what I want at a better price and with a lot less time devoted to looking for it.
Besides, the trend in small business has been restaurants and brewpubs and other social consumption establishments.
People, rightly, would rather dine and drink than shop in a social setting.
Because, let’s face it, the revered “civic space” is in all reality the consumption space.
People leave home to consume:
-entertainment (plays, concerts, sports)
-food
-coffee
-drinks, nightlife
and less and less to go to:
-Hallmark
-Woolworth’s
-Sweater Barn
-Hobbytown
“Give me a phone, with a few apps, I have the 2 day delivery patience (now, threes same day, 2-hour, and 1 hour), and I can get exactly what I want at a better price and with a lot less time devoted to looking for it.”
What you describe is a civilization completely dependent on the system continuing to function as it has for the last 50 years.
Good luck.
What are you going to do when electricity is gone?
When the air is toxic?
When the land boils?
When the next plague arrives?
Let me tell you what.
You’re going to try and continue on, and that’s what we do everyday in the place where we exist, I call it “this moment”.
If it isn’t a world worth living in then don’t.
Nobody is holding a gun to your head, but you always can.
But if you turn it around & look at the millions of lost jobs because of your insistence on convenience, then it becomes a bit of a problem in its own right, more than a little inconvenient for those unemployed & underemployed wage earners.
It’s called progress.
Just as I don’t care about the travails of loggers and coal miners.
Move. Get skills. Learn to code.
Or the warehouse order-pickers… or the milkman or the meter-reader or the fishmonger or the chimneysweep oe he lamplighter.
Seriously.
Again, as always, too many people shouldn’t be an excuse to live in the past.
Move on.
“Move on.”
It’s not about moving on, it’s about where we are going. At 72 yo I don’t worry about it, but younger people had better be concerned and making plans because we are headed 90 mph down a dead-end hill and the chain on the bicycle’s broke.
That’s all well & good, but we’re dealing with serious issues in the here & now, not some abstract econometric model. Not everybody can learn to code. And of those who can, what about their jobs? From what I hear, they’re seriously at risk as well now that Drumpf wants even more low-wage H-1Bs approvals, a complete turnabout from what he campaigned on.
Our current economic models are not going to endure. Neither is our current political system. I’ve become convinced that conventional electoral politics isn’t going to solve anything. What did JFK say about peaceful change vs. violent change? But if you feel you’re positioned to take advantage of the current stasis, go for it, I won’t criticize you for it. You have to look out for yourself, especially in the current environment. In fact, there are almost no other options. Just realize, it’s not going to last.
I was responding to Avatar’s ‘move on’ comment.
I’m afraid people of your mindset have simply lost the plot.
Once upon a time there was a really convenient land-bridge, flocks of passenger pigeons, bountiful cod, slave labor, and no real borders.
You adjust when you come to that missing land-bridge.
I will adjust when there isn’t an app for that, or if I need to recalibrate my time and $ savings.
It is not my insistence on convenience.
Not at all.
It’s on my measure of a commodity: time.
Market forces.
I highly prize my time, more so than having to employ a shopkeep and a quaint mode of trade.
No thanks. I reward the business that gives me value for my time and for my $.
You may yearn for days of tilling the back 40 and trading turnips for dental caps, but I don’t.
You say it’s coming, but that’s a deceit, a hope.
I live in the here and now, because that’s where I am at, and here and now a nice Mercedes Amazon van is streetside and a nice gentleman is walking to my door with birdseed, dishwasher pods, a new USB charging cable, and a pair of sandals.
I just saved hours traipsing around town, burning gallons of gas, and about $18.
Amazon started in a small house selling books and I’m rewarding that small business.
So you’re a consumer. So am I, but I don’t glory in it or identify as one. That would be ridiculous. It would appear ridiculous & it would merit scorn by anyone not communicating through anonymous means but face-to-face. You don’t think ‘social capital’ is being or has been destroyed by the growing isolation? What you approve of on an individual level is completely rational. On a group level, destructive. John Calhoun would have tagged you as one of the ‘beautiful ones.’
Yet in places like Portland and Cambridge, Leftists sometimes create wonderful Main Streets, albeit a bit high end and hoity toity. Still their commitment to small scale Capitalism cannot be doubted even if a bit narrow.
Oh, is that where you get your Lulu’s Lemon leggings after a salad at Wholepaycheck?
Because, they are the only people with discretionary income, what stroll-in shopping (small business owners LOL) lives on: impulse buying
Terrific post today, Jim!
“Let’s be absolutelyclear, America is an oil company with an army.”
—GeorgeCarlin
What George failed to mention is that America has a really BIG army with an $800 billion/year budget, spread all over the world with 800+ bases in 100+ countries that we know of. They are on high alert and on-the-ready to slap the dung out of any country that decides to trade oil or any other commodity in a medium of exchange other than the fiat dollar.
Beware Venezula, the “thinking class” wants your crude and they will use their lying Wurlitzer (the MSM) to get the ball rolling, just like they used that Kuwaiti’s diplomats teenage daughter’s lies (great actress BTW) about Iraqi soldiers removing babies from incubators and using bayonets to get public opinion supportive of Operation Desert Storm. In 2003, the thinking class Wurltzer convinced us, the gullible American public, that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Today, the Wurlitzer is spreading the lie that the Iranian military is a terrorist organization. That’s kind of like the pot calling the kettle black, isn’t it?
Truth tellers, like Dick Gregory, Bill Hicks,Lenny Bruce and George Carlin are really missed. Why are (uncomprimised) comedians usually the only ones who tell the truth in our society? Whenever the “thinking Class” decides to tell us the truth, it will be the first time!
On the contrary, the US Arny is small, fewer than 500,000 active duty soldiers.
Compare that to China’s 3 million, or NKorea’s 5 million.
The US army today is about the same size as it was in 1865.
Brh
I believe George meant the sum total of all military forces. Adding in the Navy, with all the high-tech ships and Trident subs with their MIRV’s and the Air Force with their hypersonic jet fighters, spy satellites and drones along with the Marines, results in no shortage of firepower. With the increased use of private military contractors and covert intelligence operations the US is still a formidable destructive force and very capable of throwing their weight around.
And yet, despite all that, we’ve punted in Venezuela, on our own doorstep, and in the past few weeks elements of the Chinese PLA have showed up, as well as the Russian army.
Is that a better outcome?
Brh
You lose, Zio. No White American blood is going to get spilled in this one.
$. trillions. Nukes. etc.
Yes but,
343,000 Army Reserve
107,000 Air force Reserve
Also a printing press for those Hessian mercenaries
>>> What George failed to mention is that America has a really BIG army with an $800 billion/year budget, spread all over the world with 800+ bases in 100+ countries that we know of. They are on high alert and on-the-ready to slap the dung out of any country
And yet we can’t even stop illiterate destitute immigrants from invading. Don’t think that our enemies haven’t noticed…
… and haven’t been on the winning side of an armed conflict since ’45.
War-mongerers and really poor at it.
Don’t be silly.
We have not been at war. If we had been willing to wage war with the ruthlessness that we did in WWII we would have laid waste to the planet and stood over it like Collossus.
The population does not now have the stomach for it (nor do I). I had an uncle who was a navigator in a B-24 over Europe. On return he spoke with tears about how the plane would descend “on the deck” coming back from Germany, and the gunners would shoot at any living thing.
War is Hell. If we ever wage it again, it will be Hell again.
And yet, bloggers and infowar-type idiots call for an AMERICAN civil war, as if it’s some video game. This is dangerous talk beyond all logic and reason. These people obviously have no conception whatsoever what such a cataclysm would entail.
Khrushchev and Kennedy knew, as they both fought in WW II – Khrushchev was a commander in the horrific Battle of Stalingrad, where a MILLION people died – and it was this first-hand experience that led them to an out of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Khrushchev’s note to Kennedy, at the height of the crisis, included the chilling lines “….I don’t have to tell you what war brings, sowing death and destruction in towns and villages as it marches across the countryside…” Today, Trump would pull the trigger, partly because he simply does not have a clue what he’d be unleashing, mainly because he’s a brain-damaged psychopath.
The opening salvos of the coming war against Iran have now been fired. Iran has responded by declaring all American military personnel as terrorists. Now we only have to wait for the provoked incident with Iran to set things off. Better start building that bomb shelter, because Russia and China are not going to stand by while the U.S. attacks their ally.
American Civil War: ends 159 years ago today with Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Va.
Brh
Islander 800: Your mention of the Khrushchev / Kennedy communications in late 1962 also brought to mind the Russian leader’s plea for an urgent resolution, as he pointed out that once things spin out of control any actions or orders of politicians become irrelevant, as the ‘spasm war’ (as Herman Kahn chillingly termed it) shifts into gear and gets going.
Several points.
1. The country is now ungovernable.
2. We hate each other.
3. We are addicted to a variety of things: sex, drugs, booze, agendas.
4. White males are the enemy yet they are the warriors, law enforcement, skilled segment.
5. We are vulnerable to technology failures.
6. None of the above are fixable.
7. The debris hurtled by so fast that the New York Times editorial page seemed to run out of synonyms for disgust, revulsion and abuse. — Michael Duffy et al., Time, 5 Mar. 2001
Point 2.
Let me hasten to remind everyone that familiarity breeds contempt. Social media breeds familiarity. Too much. Ergo, mucho contempt.
Anonymity is freedom. Like cash over the card. Like an avatar over an identity.
AvatarBaby, your succinct statement that ‘Anonymity is freedom’ brought to mind the late sad sack genius William Burroughs… the gray man… walk down the street and a minute later nobody can describe you, except to say that someone moved by…
A creature of the 1960s, and one who eventually had to leave the USA as a political exile (Landslide Lyndon had more B-52s, napalm and grand juries at his disposal) I discovered this phenomenon long before info technology enabled monsters like the NSA to track us step by step.
I can assure you that in the Third World businesses are eagerly championing ‘the cashless society’, ‘AI consumer prediction’, ‘facial & gait recognition’ and other fancy post-modern gew-gaws… that will obviously eventually fly back into their faces when the computers assure the forces of the law that you are indeed the fleeing criminal they have been hunting, even when your blood type and DNA and fingerprints on register all dispute it.
The allure of technology is just too great. Privacy is a fading memory. Individual latitude is more and more constricted, which is going to happen anyway in a planet of so many hungry aimless primates rattling about.
They already smile ironically when highlighting the term ‘freedom’.
Most people now don’t know what freedom is.
Future souls won’t even appreciate the concept.
Like a foreign word that can’t be sufficiently translated.
Lost.
I have lived before it all.
Before it all died.
I am appreciative of that lost time.
Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
These have never been “fixable”, it’s just that the current population crowding (not just density, but crowding of different ethnic groups) combined with raw numbers of humans makes for a more volatile, reactive setting.
Nature will work it out.
Reading my previous, let me be clear, I am under no delusion that Nature is either determined or interested in arriving at some sort of stasis. IMO, there is no Telos.
The Dance is all there is.
“6. None of the above are fixable.”
RB,
I would suggest that #4 ain’t broke….
A brief summary of current political news
In full compliance with the political history of arts, the most pressing political news of the last month is the appearance of the “Deutschland” video of the Rammstein group and the reaction to this video of certain circles of American and Canadian Jewry, directly connected with Maidan, which elevated Petro Poroshenko into the chair of President of Ukraine.
After this, it is natural to proceed to the elections in Ukraine, in which, in full accordance with the statement of President Poroshenko that he has only one opponent – Vladimir Putin, and any vote not for Poroshenko is a vote for Vladimir Putin, 83% of the votes were received by the Russian President.
Agree that after such a result in the first round, the second round is no longer needed, or rather, the second term of the Jack Potroshenko is not needed at all.
And it is quite remarkable that the second round begins with the battle of the wonderful actor Vladimir Zelensky with the shadow of Jack Potroshenko in front of the mirror of the Ukrainian revolution of shittiness.
The main problem of Brexit is Theresa May at the post of British Prime Minister.
All the British, interested in politics, remember how before the referendum, she fought against Brexit, and after the referendum she became responsible for its fulfillment. And now the majority of the British are convinced that she is a spy for the European Union and wants to conclude an agreement with it so that no one else would think of leaving the Fourth Reich.
That is, to the maximum not beneficial for Britain. Naturally whatever proposal she put forward would not be accepted by society, and even members of parliament vote against.
So now the question about the Brexit is the question of Theresa May’s resignation. In theory, she should resign and negotiations with the European Union were held anew, and if the European Union refuses, then the above suspicions will be confirmed, and how the British will react to this no one can predict.
Brexit is connected with the Great Trump Revolution in the most direct way, and in some sense they represent a single process in the united Anglo-Saxon world, and this process unites Anglo-Saxon world and opposes it to the rest of the world, although it is a typical manifestation of the general crisis of capitalism.
The European Union is also involved in it, but due to the peculiarities of the national culture, it flows somewhat differently.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, a scientific theory called Marxism, developed by a German Jew in the London Library, provided methods of saving capitalism from itself. It was from this box that Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, and Lyndon Johnson extracted their tools. But the most important thing is that it was from there that the true father of the Great Society, John Maynard Keynes, drew his tools.
During the Cold War, Marxism was declared an ideological weapon, since it offered not only ways to save capitalism from itself, but also a shovel for its grave, and Anglo-Saxon capitalism was left without the remedies needed to save it from itself.
This is the essence of the conflict that put the United States and good old England to the brink of civil war, and this diagnosis was formulated by Hillary Clinton, who undoubtedly personally led the attacks on one of the best journalists supporting Trump Tucker Carson.
And Trump himself, commenting on the crisis in Venezuela, unexpectedly let it slip and it became clear that he was specifically re-reading both Marx and Lenin, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that it was Marxism where Trump extracted his plan “Make America Great Again”.
But why be surprised if the main organizer of the Great October Socialist Revolution came to Russia from the United States, and the main strategist of the Trump administration, Steve Bannon, frankly calls himself a Leninist and compares the battle that is now taking place in the US with the Battle of Stalingrad.
Thus, in the United States, the classic war between the Red and Black world projects is coming to the fore and more recently Blacks have suffered a series of serious defeats.
In particular, the statement by the US Attorney General Barr on the conclusion of the investigation by Mueller, if doesn’t absolve Trump completely against all the charges, certainly removes this Damocles sword, which for two years hung over his head and which the Clintonoids used as a weapon against him, claiming that his fall is inevitable and in general, that the thread on which this sword hangs, they can cut at any time.
Meanwhile, Trump, taught by bitter experience, went on the offensive right off the bat, and those Republicans who over the past two years have passed through the Clintonoid terror aimed at Trump’s supporters demand that the activities of those who fabricated evidence of Trump’s guilt be investigated, started with Special Prosecutor Mueller.
Moreover, Trump himself, along with them, claims that the crimes they committed are an attempt at a coup d’état and high treason, for which the US relies on an electric chair. And today, the former chairman of the Congressional Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunez, must hand over eight cases of these crimes to the Attorney General, and a number of Republican congressmen are demanding the resignation of the Chairman of Congress Committee for intelligence Schiff and the appointment of a second special prosecutor to investigate those who have appointed the first.
And the Democrats are fighting defensive battles, intending to demand Mueller transfers to them of all materials of his investigation, not just their summary by Attorney General Barr, as well as Trump’s tax returns for the 6 years preceding his election as US President. Moreover, the legal basis for this agenda could be an impeachment case, which now has almost no chance of passing through the Senate.
There is no doubt that Venezuela is the answer of Russia to Maidan and Ukraine Über Alles, which makes you look at the Monroe Doctrine with some humor: it was originally introduced to counteract the penetration of the Russian Empire into the American continents, but at least back then it had a rational grain, because at the same time, this doctrine proclaimed US non-interference in European affairs.
Now the United States is not only interfering in European affairs, not only running around in the backyard of Russia, but already climbing into the bedroom without taking off dirty boots.
In this situation, recalling the Monroe Doctrine as applied to Venezuela can only be a joke of humor, and therefore no invasion of the American Special Forces into the territory of Venezuela has occurred. And not only because there is a rather powerful Russian-Cuban troops grouping gathered there, but also because Donald Trump understands that the anti-Venezuela campaign of Rubio, Pens and the European Union that joined them was not really against Maduro, but against him.
And he knocked off their weapons, stating during the appeal to the American people that the cause of all the ills of the Venezuelan people, from which only the American army can save them, is not Maduro, but the socialism he is introducing.
And now the Rubio, Pens and the European Union can, of course, organize some fairly bloody provocation on the border with Venezuela, but after three months the continuation of the operation will require a vote in Congress and supporters of socialism will vote against it.
And after Vietnam, not a single army commander in the United States will begin a military operation in the jungle with such a tight time limit.
American society quite possibly is cured of Vietnam Syndrome, but not the American Army.
If we consider that it was with this formulation that Trump split the US Democratic Party, it turns out that this time he beat Hillary Clinton, playing by her rules. And the boorish form he chose to remind Russia about the Monroe Doctrine most likely indicates that backstage negotiations with Russia are going very well – if it were not so, Trump would be wary of making such statements.
In any case, this is how Trump’s negotiations with Kim Jong-un went.
It doesn’t have to pass the Senate. All we need is to see the tax returns and the report. We can put the rest together ourselves. Even Trumptards can get 2+2. We’ll spot them a “Rhymes with door.” Start impeachment if you need to. Some scholars are suggesting that you do.
t’s just exhausting…
Conspiracy theorists have to work SO HARD to ‘uncover connections’ that in reality don’t exist outside the fevered minds of the CTers.
And when the mind is so fevered, one can come to believe the most absurd things and state them as fact, to wit:
“…one of the best journalists supporting Trump Tucker Carson.”
Aside from the misspelling of the name, the lack of punctuation leaves the reader having to read twice for meaning.
And then, there are simply incorrect statements presented as fact:
“…that the cause of all the ills of the Venezuelan people, from which only the American army can save them, is not Maduro, but the socialism he is introducing.”
Where to start on this pile of steaming inaccuracies??
Firstly, Maduro is the inheritor of the socialist system introduced – successfully – by Hugo Chavez, from 1999 to 2013, not its ‘introducer’.
Chavez’s extremely popular government was a constitutional triumph in representative democracy, and it successfully overturned the financial strangelhold of the foul capitalist elite (huh! I guess he was like Trump presented himself to be in 2015/16, only Chavez meant it and succeeded, whereas Trump was just playing the long con).
The current troubles are driven by those very elites that lost their control over the vast majority of the population back in 1998 when Chavez was elected (by an impressive majority of 56.3% – what would an American politician give for a popular majority vote of that size!?!). Subsequent elections showed a high of 80% after the constitutional reforms, and in the next 5 Chavez elections , low of 54%.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-election-ballots/factbox-hugo-chavezs-record-in-venezuelan-elections-idUSBRE89702320121008
The Maduro problem is largely manufactured by the MSM at the behest of corporate interests (particularly oil – huh! who’d have thunk that?).
The 2018 election result was boycotted by most of the opposition parties, so their own supporters had no one to vote FOR, hence a majority among voters of 67% for Maduro.
His actions since his first election in 2013 have all been in line with the Constitution – if anyone actually gives a shit about how badly Venezuela & Maduro is being misrepresented in the MSM, go here:
http://constitutionnet.org/country/constitutional-history-venezuela
And the idea that ‘socialism’ is the cause of all these troubles is not only simplistic but wrong. The causes of the current crisis are complex and many but among them one must cite the most obvious two:
1) the collapse in oil prices since 2015;
2) the US Sanctions being progressively imposed since 2006 and now choking off income to the government, which undermines its social programmes ( https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/IF10715.pdf )
Behind the scenes, there’s is a high probability (given historical precedence!) of covert support for the protestor groups, including money & weapons.
It’s the same old story – the USA simply cannot abide a socialist government (aside for the nice white ones in Europe, which are tolerated through clenched teeth).
So, it is compelled to interfere as much as possible to discredit that legitimate government (viz. Iran in 1951 when oil was to be nationalized) and either install a puppet government that will be beholden to the US (Guaido this time, a representative of the corporates), or watch as another Failed State is born.
Jeez! Tortured and uninformed commentary like Fincalns’ is of little use to intelligent discourse.
Or yes Socialism and all it’s failings!
Mismanagement and outright theft by the ruling elite in Venezuela.
Nice try your screed is nonsense.
Yeah, right…You’re one of the sad deluded Trumptards, so there goes YOUR credibility.
If my ‘screed’ is ‘nonsense’, it’s because – as usual – right-wing jerks don’t like the FACTS to get in the way of their misguided narrative.
Oh, and this is rich:
‘Mismanagement and outright theft by the ruling elite in [insert country here]”
The US ruling elite (you know, Trump’s buddies & W’s ‘base’)
is equally as guilty of this charge.
“The repudiation of this nonsense by chief inquisitor Robert Mueller could not be more absolute, even if he was compelled by reality against his own wishes and instincts to do it.”
Oh, come on now, Jim. After reading a minimal summary of his full report by an obviously NOT disinterested A.J., you come to the conclusion that Trump’s innocence “could not be more absolute”? I gave you more credit for honesty than that.
Multiple security agencies have concluded that Russia definitely DID interfere in the 2016 campaign in favor of Trump, and that Trump’s “people” were more than happy to see what they had to offer. Do you believe there is a great conspiracy among these agencies to take down Trump? Or were they just doing their jobs, following their oath to uphold the constitution – something Trump repudiates on an almost daily basis?
I say, let’s wait until we see the contents of the FULL report, not some laughable 4-page summary by a hard-core loyalist of “The Man-child”.
The fabled ’17 security agencies,’ LOL?
Come one we all know Putin was angry at Hillary for her messing with his elections and the Ukraine bit it’s out there for the TDS people to look up.
You can hate on Trump for being obnoxious and knowing how to troll you but the Russia Russia Russia nonsense at least directly involving Trump is BS.
Now if you want to see collusion all one need do is look at Obama mr flexible after the election and the Hildabeast herself.
Pimp Mack betrays her Master.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/allison-mack-pleads-guilty-nxivm-sex-cult-case-171731640.html
Humility on the part of Women is so beautiful because so rare. But in this case, it’s probably just to save her neck. Perhaps the noble thing would have been to go down with him, but who knows? Maybe with much help she was able to finally See him as he is and herself as his loathsome girl friday.
Females almost without exception feel entitled AS. It’s their narcissistic nature. The entitlement party has their vote locked up. When you add that to all the other entitled elements who’re able to cast a ballot, you have to conclude that the foreordained complete looting of the American commonweal has about run its course, right on schedule, the 19th amendment’s centennary being a year & 1/2 away.
Our debts are growing exponentially, while our revenues are not. There’s only one outcome possible in that scenario. What a shocker! Funny how people can be blind to something so obvious.
Women should never have been given the vote. What’s fair have to do with it?
“It’s their narcissistic nature.”
Hate to burst your bubble, Tate, but the evidence shows men are more narcissistic than women, in the general population*. Not by much, thankfully. Among celebs it’s the opposite.
So multiple grains of salt with the rest too, thanks.
*Ref. The Narcissism Epidemic. Twenge and Campbell.
What evidence?
Check it out in the book, seawolf – I provided you with a reference. The book has gone to a charity shop, so I don’t have it. It wasn’t primarily about the narcissism of men v. women, it was about the increase in narcissism among young people (which has causes, and includes things like thinking they’re the bees knees knowledge-wise when they know very little, because everyone around them has spent years telling them how clever they are), but you need context and background. And they provided a reference for their assertion that narcissism rates (not full-blown NPD, just general everyday narcissism, going by various criteria used by psychologists) are slightly higher among males in the general population.
Narcissism isn’t just about looking in the mirror and wanting nice clothes. You need to broaden your perspective. People who use lying and manipulation to get what they want may also be narcissists, especially if they qualify on other counts. Think sex. Or climbing the greasy pole.
That’s your European male, feminized beyond redemption, I’m afraid, by the matriarchy that now rules your lands. He has been indoctrinated that his biologically-determined dominant role in society has been superseded by the new arrangements. unfortunately. Compare that to American males who resist the mind-f&cking to some extent & still retain some of the cardinal virtues, such as regarding honesty & being genuine as of signal importance. It’s okay to dress somewhat like a slob here, in loose comfortable practical clothing. Only the hipsters in the East Coast cities have adopted the grooming habits of the European & many if not most of them are borderline homos.
European males (including your typical British dandy) are only concerned about their grooming, hair gel, wearing tight suit jackets, an abundance of jewelry, form-fitting shirts & trousers, & expensive italian footwear, even if they are noticeably overweight. It’s quite comical to see them bursting out of their seams.
If I went to Europe & wanted to “blend in”, I would have to buy a completely new wardrobe, learn how to use tableware like a Frenchie (I already do but that’s because I’m left-handed), learn to stand uncomfortably close to strangers, hold my ciggie like a European, keep my mouth shut & claim I was a Canadian if pressed, & above all, become overly concerned about my skin tone, & also become an expert in the various cologne selections, which I never use at present, only deodorant. But I don’t want to go to Europe & ‘blend in’ or if so only to the minimum extent possible to prevent becoming a ‘mark.’
“That’s your European male, feminized beyond redemption, I’m afraid, by the matriarchy that now rules your lands. “
Here, hold my sauvignon, Tate…
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Thanks, I’ll take it back now.
Twenge and Campbell aren’t British psychologists – the data they used and the lab experiments they did were all AMERICAN.
Here, hold my glass again (I’ll chuckle quietly this time).
You’re funny, Tate, I’ll give you that. Butthurt and funny.
And, like seawolf, you don’t seem to know what narcissism covers. But that’s OK, I’ll make an exception.
And the slightly higher male rate (not just on the coasts – in AMERICA) refers to the background rate which pertains generally, not to the more recent increases.
“It’s okay to dress somewhat like a slob here, in loose comfortable practical clothing. “
It’s OK here too, Tate. Sorry to burst your bubble again. I’ve never come across any ‘British Dandies’, not having met arch-Brexy Jacob Rees-Mogg, for example, but I don’t live in Westminster or Mayfair. so y’know… And neither do most people. I’ve lived in France too for years. Noticeably overweight? Really?
Do you live in a flat above Central Casting, by any chance?
One thing we do (as do Europeans generally) less than you folks is that (mostly male?) clown wear thing that JHK has so often lamented. That’s a real US thing.
But I know you don’t go around like that either, personally. And, regarding the pretty, shiny people, people in metropolitan areas are more fashion conscious everywhere, not just in Europe.
You need to visit a few bar et tabac-type establishments in French villages (and there are a LOT of French villages) and small towns – and their equivalent in the rest of Europe.
You’d find the variety of clothing and the variation in ‘showiness’ is the same the world over. It takes all sorts to make a country. Live and let live.
And men who go on about their masculinity, in contrast to some other [insert dismissive epithet here] types are just a different type of peacock. And equally to be avoided.
Well, they turn bitter when they get old. At least, if they have a dash of realism in their makeup, they do, when they look in the mirror at the faded glory. Women’s narcissism is all about their appearance & what it entitles them to. Men are narcissistic in a different way. As they say, women are born, men are made. A man’s narcissism is about his achievement, something that can’t be taken away with age.
That’s why they don’t get upset, alarmed, bitter, or in denial when they hit the old age barrier. Their narcissism, with some exceptions — actors & such — was never about their appearance. Except for European men in their tailored clothing.
European men in their tailored clothing? You watch too many films, Tate. When I worked in France, some of the men came to work in the summer in shorts. And they were engineering consultants. In the 1970s.
As for the rest, you project too much. I’m sorry if Mrs T is bitter when she looks in the mirror, and especially sorry if you’ve made her feel that way. My sisters in law are perfectly happy and not at all neurotic, but then they’re married to my brothers, who had the example of my dad. Who was not at all like you in his consideration of women and most especially his own wife.
And those of us who did our own achieving by our own hard work and own our own homes are able to make our own decisions. Nobody’s taking away my home, my pension or my achievements, thanks very much.
“A man’s narcissism is about his achievement, “
No it isn’t. You don’t seem to have any idea what narcissism is. People who are proud of their achievements are not narcissists. People who lie and manipulate other people because they don’t see them as having any importance compared to themselves are likely to be narcissists. As are people who always put their own interests first.
And the rates of narcissism remain slightly higher in men. Nothing to do with laudable achievements at all. Sorry.
What a load of self-absorbed bollocks, Tate.
Green Alba, I’ll hold your sb!
Mrs. T is one in a thousand. That’s why I married her. I never remark on her appearance as we are realistic about all things. She is two years younger than I am so no, obviously she doesn’t look like she did when I married her 35 years ago. I’m not talking about Mrs. T, I’m talking about your run-of-the-mill Majella.
It seems to me that narcissism has to do mostly with appearance & self-centeredness slash entitlement based on that. Refer back to the original Narcissus legend.
And yes, I’m aware that Narcissus was a male. That’s what makes the story all the more poignant. Even men can be subject to Narcissism (considered as a mental disability). But it’s mostly women. How can it not be? Men are attracted to women primarily on their physical appearance; women to men much less so. Do you really need a scientific study to understand this, lol?
Tate
“Mrs. T is one in a thousand.”
Well yes, Tate, she’d need to be 🙂 .
I’m talking about your run-of-the-mill Majella.
Not presumptuous at all, are you, Tate? And how old are you – 12?
It seems to me that narcissism has to do mostly with appearance & self-centeredness slash entitlement based on that.
Sorry, but I’m not really concerned with what it ‘seems’ to you and making the word fit your prejudices. I was discussing a book on narcissism by two qualified psychologists, who don’t have to limit themselves to what it seems to some angry old guy with a gripe about uppity women.
If you want to take them up on their criteria, please feel free. It’s not my argument.
So you can LOL all you like – it makes no difference to me.
But thank you for the compliment anyway, since you think that men are primarily attracted to women for what they look like. My husband’s actually a bit over two years younger than me and I didn’t meet him till I was 48, but I’m holding up very well, thanks.
Must be the climate. Less prun-i-fascent, perhaps. 🙂
And I don’t need to worry about what’s in the mirror anyway, remember. Got my own house and my own pension, thanks. Never had or needed any sense of entitlement based on anything but my own work. I was married before. He was three years older than me. I earned more than him, so didn’t need any entitlements there either. Oh dear.
I was pretty OK-looking too as a young’un, but it never occurred to me at any point that I was ‘entitled’ to anything because of it. Must have been the way I was brought up – you know, just encouraged to work hard and get on with things. Looking in the mirror and thinking about your looks was the very last thing my parents encouraged – they were pretty religious so had less superficial values than that.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90310927/why-so-many-incompetent-men-become-leaders
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201503/which-is-the-more-narcissistic-sex
http://time.com/3734329/narcissism-men-women/
“ Research has long suggested that if you’re looking for someone who’s preening, strutting, self-absorbed, arrogant, exhibitionistic, conceited, insensitive and entitled, you’ll find more of them in the boys’ camp than you will in the girls’. So it comes as, well, almost no news at all that a new study — hold your applause till the end, please — found exactly that!
Sorry 🙂
This author, Susan Krauss, wrote an obviously agenda-driven article. Sorry, not convincing, Toots.
You don’t have to limit yourself to one article, Cutie Pie. There is no shortage.
Hence the new article being a meta-analysis of dozens of previous studies.
Sorry, chum. Your prejudices remain your own.
My prejudices are the New Reality (reincarnation of the Old Reality). Sorry if it bursts your bubble, Toots.
Among celebs it’s the opposite.[does it matter?]
Celebs have to be grandiose, yes? [needing attention, grand entrances, story topping].
Narcissism is but one step beyond that.
Well listen, we all know the truth. Men prefer narcissistic women to some degree whether they like to admit it or not. I mean anyone who is not narcissistic at all is not going to worry about being the bomb everyday. And most men prefer a woman whose figure and appearance is on point. So it’s men’s’ fault anyway lol ;-). Now shut up so I can get back to gazing at my beautiful face in the mirror :-).
“Among celebs it’s the opposite.[does it matter?]”
No, it doesn’t particularly. I just included it out of honesty since that was the proviso mentioned in the book. Since I wasn’t having a go at men, just pointing out that Tate’s perception seemed to be flawed. The difference isn’t huge anyway, but one shouldn’t let people just slosh their prejudices all over the place and say nothing. There’s enough misogyny on here on a good day.
I suppose it’s of interest if someone’s opinion of ‘women’ is overly influenced by the obvious exhibitionists of Slebland. Nobody notices the quiet, unassuming people – of either sex – by definition.
In fact, the Campbell half of the author team actually pointed that out in another book of his that I read. I don’t remember its title and it was pretty lightweight, but he wrote a book specifically in response to the fact that many of his female students would listen to descriptions of narcissistic behaviour in men in dating or relationship situations and say ‘goodness, I’ve met so many men like that – why is that?’.
He would explain to them that this was to be expected on the dating scene in cities in particular, partly because (a) narcissistic men gravitate to cities where they can meet lots of women and will not so easily gain the reputation of a love rat because of the anonymity, so women in cities will come across more of the ‘wham, bang, thank you ma’am’ types there, and (b) because a lot of the nice guys are just shy and are at home with a beer doing something nerdy or just watching TV, so the perceived personality balance is skewed.
Just reporting what the guy wrote…
the evidence shows men are more narcissistic than women – GreenAlba
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The definition of narcissism has expanded over the years to cover a lot more than the original story of Narcissus staring into the mirror-like pool at his beautiful reflection. I reject all that OTHER stuff and stick with the obsession of certain people staring into mirrors… or at their reflection in plate glass windows on Main Street.
So, the question is: who looks at themselves in the mirror more, men or women? For the moment let’s forget about who spends more time getting dolled up in the bathroom mirror every morning (the answer is so obvious as to require no proof) and lets turn to the ultimate test. It is the mirror on the flip side of your car’s sun visor. A scientific study I’m sure could be developed to prove or refute my contention… namely that of all the times a sun visor mirror is used to look at one’s self it will be women 90-99 times out of 100. You would have to be insane or a liar to believe otherwise.
How about those crazy fireMEN , Marlin? Maybe this is how it ends up. Q driving and you riding shotgun, er machine gun!
https://www.junipergallery.com/galleryview.php?targetnode=5724&height=1275&width=1800&targetttl=Law%20and%20Order&picurl=SHORPY_26816u1.jpg
Love those Indian Motorcycles, Rip.
Made right near you in Springfield.
brh
Jared and Ivanka’s boy Stephen Miller is cleaning the cabinet left and right.
The Golem serves his many masters. Gleefully and totally unaware.
The hawks have roosted.
The Neocon Golem of Madness.
It’s called wiping your ass.
Jared’s Dad (the criminal) is always on speaker phone. He’s probably running the country more than anyone.
Wow, taking it back to the essence.
Dedicated to YOU, too.
http://www.got-truth.com/docs/Dedicated%20to%20you%20too.pdf
#oathkeepers
Q.
5 cabinet posts now have “Acting” heads. 1/3 of them down, 2/3’s to go and only 2 years. I think he can do it. President Queeg is beginning to crack. I heard he wanted to shut down El Paso. The guy is scared shitless of Beto O’Rourke. It wouldn’t even be close. Beto would wipe the floor with Trump. It’s funny every loutish Republican within miles of the 2016 election including Trump came out because all of them knew Hillary was beatable with even a decently run campaign. Today the same thing is happening on the Democratic side. It’s a race to the bottom. Any Democrat except Hillary would have beaten Trump. I bet Barnie Fag could have come out of retirement and would have kicked his ass.
How much time do you occupy in Trump’s mind?
He in your’s?
See, he’s a born winner, and well, as we all can attest, you take the L.
Everyday.
Perdedor.
100th Avatar: “He in your’s [sic] ? … Perdedor”
La palabra “yours” en inglés es un pronombre posesivo. El apostrophe no se necesita.
Know its not
By that logic, Hillary Clinton is the grand prize winner. See how well your logic holds up? And for how long? Like a toupee in a typhoon.
Peak oil is here.
This month the number of electric cars sold in Norway exceeded the number of regular cars.
White nations must follow.
White nations?
Norway?
How many cars did they sell total?
About an even dozen?
I was recently reading electric cars don’t work very well in cold weather, in fact their efficiency drops with each degree on the thermometer.
If what you say is true the Norwegian govt has to be offering incentives and rebates. Why else would anybody buy one of those pieces of sh-t in a nation that produces oil for export?
brh
You’re right, Marlin. I don’t know if they’re pieces of junk, but they don’t work very well, so maybe, bottom line, they are. The issue is the battery. If they ever can develop an efficient, powerful and workable electric storage device, then electric car sales might take off.
Batteries can be insulated and warmed with grid power when a vehicle is parked. Batteries work better warm. It is basic physics regardless of chemistry. A class of go carts used for racing uses lead acid batteries. Racers warm their batteries before a race.
That’s where climate change comes in. Electric cars are designed to take advantage of the rise in temperatures, which will make their batteries more efficient than ever. Who said that global warming isn’t beneficial?
Dunno. Some farmer fella in Bangladesh? Or Guatemala? Or Queensland? Or the Somerset Levels? Or, or, or…
Or the transport department in Melbourne when the heat melted the tarmac, sank the tram rails and blew the electric grid? Or the people who had to run into the sea (Greece and Oz) to escape the flames?
But I’m sure the farmer in B’desh will be reassured when his electric car arrives 🙂 .
I didn’t mention Fort McMurray. Too cruelly ironic.
No to warm or they begin to fail as well.
Electric cars rely on the batteries for heat in cold climates which is a HUGE battery drain. Get stuck in a traffic jam at 0 degrees for a few hours and plan on either freezing to death or running out of juice. Ditto trying to keep your wind shied defrosted while fighting through a 3 hour driving snowstorm. The same applies to the AC, HUGE battery drain, Stuck in traffic for three hours in Dallas? roll the windows down or suffer heat stroke.
That’s the beauty of it. Electric cars do not work very well in cold countries. Norway doesn’t care. They can make it work. They’re leaving billions of barrels of oil in the ground. Norway has the biggest wealth fund in the world, as big as the Saudis, funded with oil money. They have huge taxes on gasoline making it $10 a gallon. This is enlightened people.
IOW, electric motors are good for golf carts and bumper cars at the local amusement park, not much else.
I give Tesla another year or two before it goes the way of the way of Lorean. The company doesn’t look too stable, and neither does Elon Musk.
Brh
A DeLorean was an underpowered piece of shit whose only real value was in a movie. He only made 9,000 of them, and sold even less. Teslas are rocket ships that leave Porsches in the dust and costs less to fuel than a Smart Car. Comparing the 2 is insulting to shit and Shinola. Idiots like you have been giving Tesla another year or two for the last ten years.
I agree with you but from a different perspective I believe one of the larger established companies will buy them out to steal their technologies.
Up here in ice cold Saskatchewan, everybody plugs their rigs in during the night time. Block heaters are non optional.
Similarly, the plugin electric cars… Running chemical reaction produces heat. Of course these are parked in garages so have additional insulation.
The Norgies have an extensive and orderly highway system and have used their fossil fuel endowment on charging stations.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_Norway
“The person who created the media coverage and who drove the issue of the caravans has been President Trump,” Tonatiuh Guillen, the head of Mexico’s National Migration Institute, said on local radio last week.
Lets stop and think about this everybody regardless of who you are. Here are some points I came up with.
1) Seems to me the news media is doing a shock and awe bit about the southern border being overrun by small children and mothers. Who is behind all the faux fear? Trump is. No wall too tall though thirty feet will do.
2) Anybody broke mofo who has ever laid tile cut grass or hung drywall or even thinks they can would naturally hop on top of a train and ride el norte!
3)This would cause confusion at the border, Trump gets what he wants and the hotel industry has some new workers to keep wages down because not all will get shipped out. Rule of law being asylum, some will get it. As Trump planned.
4)If you were a billionaire and could live anywhere you want would you want cheap workers in your businesses?
5)There is no art of the deal, only the art of the steal. Trump mastered being outrageous in his twenties. He played the pied piper even then. Trump learned that by being outrageous he could put people in denial and once they were there they became putty in his hands.
Trump is playing everybody, he has to be enjoying himself, a lot!
The children and mothers are used by the MSM to elicit sorrow and sympathy so that the public is more willing to just say “open the border”. The truth is most illegal crossers were men, but now since our asylum laws favor those who claim they have children or family groups, everyone is bringing a child or two or three to bolster their asylum claims.
Your correct, get ready for hundreds of millions of people to migrate here. We have proven we have no control of our borders and the most insane immigration laws on the planet so we are doomed to suffer a human tsunami and it is already here. Get ready for greatly accelerated environmental destruction with all of these newcomers demanding first world lives.
Your myopic focus on Trump is funny. Yes he is a GIANT DISAPPOINTMENT to those who voted for him because of the promises he made on immigration and the Wall. However, the entire Elite – Democrats and Republicans personally benefit from the immigration disaster. So do many regular business people and even churches. And then we have the whole segment of the population who prefer strangers to their own fellow citizens because they feel like it is their moral duty. So blaming it on Trump is a bit silly. Yes he has proven he LIED about it. Now he is a regular politician just like the rest. Instead of focusing on him I want to move on to a real solution for the border crisis which is very real.
The children and mothers are used by the MSM to elicit sorrow and sympathy –not from me..like the ‘drown’ middle eastern child..
remember that?
The children and mothers are used by the MSM to elicit sorrow and sympathy FROM WOMEN N CHILDREN who dont know how fragile our system is.
SSL—Yes, Trump has so far failed in trying to stop the illegals. I do not believe this is for lack of trying. We have had government shutdowns, border shutdowns and he just can’t seem to do it. He even declared a National Emergency and of course that is being fought as well.
Did you hear that Gavin Newsom (Governor CA) went to El Salvador? He wanted to “see” why they were migrating and see if he could do something about it. Wow. Really. Shouldn’t he be busy tackling problems in CA? I am guessing he is just planting seeds so he can run for POTUS in 2024.
The border crisis is definitely for real and it is very scary indeed.
Well Congress has certainly not done him any favors and they have totally ignored their responsibility to ensure the borders are funded and enforced. That is undeniable. And they all should be held to account. But the Executive branch has full authority basically when it comes to the border so from everything I understand Trump does not need to worry about these judges. He can simply close the border and call the military down there but that isn’t going to happen I’m afraid. I did see another post about Gavin Newsom going to El Salvador. That is ridiculous! But you are right. Maybe he thinks it will increase his visibility. Another opportunist.
K-Dog I have only one objection to this post:
“As Trump planned.”
You’re kidding, right? I suspect his highest level planning is deciding between KFC & McDs.
Well, at least you’re not Chris Davis.
His $167 million contract not withstanding, he hasn’t gotten a hit since last September. Its gotta be embarrasing. And only 6500 fans showed up at the Orioles game last night.
Baxck in the 1970s some pro or former pro athlete wrote
a book about ‘the circuc of pro sports’–bread and circuses.
I’m sure the people on this blog would want to know if their oncologist owned a mortuary. Or if their financial advisor had $200,000 in student loan debt and was in arrears. Or if their dentist was a paranoid schizophrenic with sadistic tendencies. Or if their son’s teacher was a convicted pedarest. Or if their accountant was a tax cheat. But Trumptards would have us believe it is wrong, nay it is evil, that we should want to know if these things are true about are freakin president. Do you see how far out of touch they are. It’s out where the buses don’t run. It’s where the streets have no name. It’s where the rainbow ends. 1024 La La Land, Aurora Borealis, Milky Way.
I wonder if the rod hammer had won would you be so interested in investigating the large stacks of dead bodies in her past, shady deals involving the Russians, slimy charity deals and many others.
I suspect you’d merely be claiming it was a coincidence blown out of proportion by tin foil hatters. And not the clearest example of sedition against a sitting president in the history of our former republic.
What are you talking about? The left wing never does anything wrong and is morally and ethically superior in all respects. You should repent of the error in your ways :-).
To me it is a pox on both their houses. Pick an authoritarian socialist. Not my favorite game.
You mean an authoritarian Marxist?
uncle engles, uncle karl neither works for me.
But the fact they originally called it scientific socialism always makes me smile 😉
IMO the word socialism is unfortunately co-opted by communists and is thus mostly misunderstood to represent something it is not. Sort of like Antifa calling Republicans fascists. The mixing and matching of meaning has most people confused.
Oh and you forgot they are really goodly at science err I mean collaborative consensus which is the real science…
We need some degree of socialism and as long we were a republic it was not out of control. Not popular but it was never the intent to have everyone vote. One should have paid taxes, own land, served or have some sort of skin in the game.
The trouble comes in mixing socialism and democracy when the couch class discovers they can vote themselves other peoples money.
It’s also not helpful when sleazy politicians discover it is easier to buy votes than develop good policies and lead.
None of it matters now as we are over the cliff, falling and still enjoying the ride. Soon the sudden stop will be a bitch though.
There are frequent conversations here regarding the right to vote and the limitation of that right similar to what you have suggested. Some have suggested not only the requirement of meeting certain criteria to gain the right to vote, but also requiring voters to pass a test or series of tests. A Republic with a restricted set of very invested and informed voters and civil servants would prevent the couch class from getting to the national wallet. When and if government is kept efficient, accountable and transparent socialism is possible.
“A Republic with a restricted set of very invested and informed voters…”
So the very invested who shaft the working classes get the vote and the flyover folks without a job because they’ve been shafted don’t? What could possibly go wrong?
“The trouble comes in mixing socialism and democracy when the couch class discovers they can vote themselves other peoples money.”
Really? the ‘couch class’?
Does that include some guy in Michigan who’s been laid off from the latest Carrier plan shut-down and the only work he can find is a zero-hour contract working at a local Wendy’s where he’s paid $4-bucks-fuck-all per hour and might get 15 hours per week, but he can’t get ANOTHER job because it would also be a zero-hour contract at the Mickey D’s next door, and when he gets conflicting shifts offered, one of them fires him anyway, and he’s topping up his income from some pathetically low state welfare assistance that treats him like a criminal every time they put him through the wringer again to prove his continuing eligibility?
That guy? He’s sold his couch a couple of months back.
Majella, that made me laugh. Sorry but your emotional outburst is exactly why we have the nation we have at the moment. My thoughts, which would be clear to a reasoned person, would allow anyone with a job to vote.
But keep emoting all over the corpse of the nation. It is going so well.
>>> I’m sure the people on this blog would want to know if…
So now you’re advocating for the complete dissolution of the right to privacy? Well at least that makes your pathological fixation on Trump’s tax returns more consistent.
Although certainly not consistent with the Constitution.
As you are someone who denies that the moon landings happened, I think what’s really going on here is that you can’t believe Trump is a billionaire. You actually want to see all those zeros. Maybe you don’t believe so many will fit in the little boxes on the forms?
And just like the birthers, you won’t believe the documents even if you see them.
I guess we’re on the “Slow Ride” to Trump’s stooges. First we get the mere sycophants, the ones that realized early he would probably win, and jumped on board. Then he disparages those people to the point where they are completely marginalized and fires them. Then he trots out the ones he really wants. Ass kissing Barr. Ass muncher Mulvaney. Stephen Miller babysitting the migrant children. Now I don’t know about you, but when I picture a pedarest, he looks exactly like Stephen Miller.That’s why we’re “Acting” from here on out. When he fires everyone who is left? Trumptards.
So Uncle Joe is not a pederast?
Don’t remind him about Uncle Joe’s tapes, it’s a touchy subject.
You could offer him you neck SoFarRight and then we could find out if Uncle Joe is:
Homo.
You simply can’t handle opinions different from your own. It’s really pathetic. You should work to improve yourself. I am so glad that I can handle divergent opinions with grace, charm, ease, and a dazzling smile. But then again, I mean we all know what dogs do. Gross.
Don’t worry I have no intention of smelling your butt.
Hey, k-dog, do you dress up in a $2000 dog costume like that pathetic fellow over in England who was in the news? How long have you had this delusion?
Dude it appears you have some mental health issues.
Do you think of anything else other than the president?
Its pathological.
No offense intended.
Brh
I think some of the mere sycophants might get enough bonus money for a new pair of pants if fey can induce someone to violate United States Code Title 18, Section 871. Nobody is softfarright in the way its being played here.
I am glad you love me so. Maybe one day I will let you in the house. If I am ever impressed with your behavior. But for now I prefer you stay outside in the dog house.
Oh yes I love you so HotFarRight;
But I’m afraid the house you’d let me into has 10 x 10 bare concrete walls, 24/7 florescent lighting, and the room you would have me in is thirty feet below ground. A federal big house and I’m not barking about FHA financing.
You really are pretty far out there in orbit sometimes :-). You give me power that I simply do not have. But! If I did have a say so, I wouldn’t let them put you under ground in 24/7 florescent lighting. Now that is cruel and unusual punishment.
Trump is so chickenshit. He cuts off foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador but the country who is helping the migrants cross is Mexico. Will he cut aid to Mexico? No. Will he make them pay for the wall? No. Because Mexico is a big boy and Trump only picks on the little boys. Telephone Twitter tough guy.
And Mexico should pay big time!!!!! Thank you for noticing and taking this cause up. You are right to hold his feet to the fire on this. We needs pesos for the Wall now!!!!
I would modify V’s idea and annex the Baja, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahiula, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipus and put it all under new management. Send talent instead of cash.
Your hatred of Trump surpasses all reason. Many more would consider what you say if you weren’t so nasty, vitriolic and sarcastic about it, rather than skip over your posts as soon as they see the word Trump, as I mostly do.
More top Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials are leaving the Trump administration, two senior administration officials said Monday, increasing the leadership vacuum at DHS as Washington grapples with the news of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation.
Perhaps she did not want to continue influencing the American People behind their back or I just need a pleasant thought.
Honeslty I believe the man is going to have a stroke.
TDS is afflicting him bigly.
He should absolutely cut aid to Mexico.
2018 US aid in total (both military & civilian) by country:
Afghanistan (gotta clean up your own shit I guess) – $5.730 billion
Irag (ditto) – $3.711 billion
Israel (gotta keep the donor class happy I guess) – $3.191 billion.
Mexico not on that list, therefore not a recipient of official US aid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid
I guess the flow of cash from US drug users to the cartels that eventually trickles down – at least the paltry amount that is not laundered by US banks (Wachovia et al.) could be considered ‘aid’. Good luck stopping THAT particular train…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs
Well when your wrong your wrong.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/26/us-aid-320-million-mexico-wall-trump-specialists-backfire/97103024/
For anyone confused. I am not seawolf. Sometimes it seems that way but it is not of my doing. I was the first dog, but many followed after me. So many I can’t count them all.
KGog
Have you seen ‘Seattle is Dying’?
That was a typo, KDog.
I found it and I’ll watch it tonight. I’ll post my reaction on the main thread. A quick comment is that the number of homeless increases but Seattle has had a homeless population for decades. The weather here is a lot better for being homeless than most of the country and we are a port city. In other words we are a magnet.
I see that under a new interpretation of the emoluments clause by the DoJ, foreign governments would be able to spend money at Trump’s hotels and other properties without falling afoul of the government’s prohibition against bribing our leaders. Only a real cynic would suggest that there was anything wrong with that, right?
Well, after all, how much can you spend in one night in the Presidential suite? Let’s make it a solid week.
Half a million? Even if it were that much, it would seem a much better value than hearing Bill Clinton bloviate for an hour.
And now, what avenue will all this diseased animus of the thinking class go down in its destructive, shame-fueled frenzy to justify itself? – JHK
Good question. If past behavior is a good predictor of future behavior, just look at recent history.
Like, for instance, the aftermath of the 2008 crack-up. Wall Street stood astride Himalayas of fraud and yet they got a get out of jail card. Too big to jail? That’s what they claimed.
Utter bullshit, yet I’m truly in awe. You think this was merely some facile justification for prosecutorial inaction? Well, it was that, but in the annals of going big or going home, this wasn’t merely BIG, this was a moon-shot.
Or, to take another example, the Comey gambit. “No criminal intent” said Comey. And he said it with a straight face. Astounding.
Yet Comey managed it, and, with three short words, he swept under the rug Clinton’s monumental disregard for the law.
Well, Comey’s gone and so is Eric Holder. But they didn’t come out of nowhere. There’s a lot more like them crawling in the Washington wood-work, with their kind of background.
People ask what you get with higher education. You just saw it. This is what’s on offer, with some work you can develop a casual self-assurance that you wear like your favorite pair of jeans, an ease with word-play that facilitates argument in complete disregard for real-world consequence, an effortless facility in subverting logic and common sense. I mean, this is what we got with Holder and Comey, word-plucking at its finest, masterpieces of brevity: Too big to jail. No criminal intent.
This is what we can expect with the thinking class. How will they justify themselves? They won’t try. In this last three years, in their efforts to undermine two presidential campaigns of people they saw as unfit, in their subsequent efforts to overthrow a sitting president, more than a handful of their own class were guilty of setting hideous precedents, and of the most heinous crimes against democracy. And so the thinking class will provide legal escape hatches with the same kind of slippery illogic and defiance of the law that we saw before. Does anyone think that people like Brennan or Hillary will ever see the inside of a jail cell? Raise your hands.
Because at bottom, it’s defiance at work, defiance of people they see as inferior to themselves, and that would be you and me ie if you’re reading this site, you’re not one of them. No, they use the surveillance apparatus they’ve set up to defend their interests, to listen in on what the likes of you and me say.
But, like I’ve said a multitude of times, they greatly over-estimate themselves. Trump won. Hillary lost. And every step of the way the thinking class made itself look ridiculous.
I don’t believe any of them will ever be prosecuted for anything. They are above the law and they bend the law to fit their needs. The single focus on Trumps’ alleged crimes is exactly what the media and the Elite want. That way the rabid leftists will hold the nation hostage with their paranoia and the Elite continue to loot and pillage the country and the world with nothing said or reported. And its just Trump this Trump that Trump this.
Yes, a stalemate suits them just fine as they are above both Parties. And meanwhile they change America forever with open borders, and loot, loot, loot.
Hillary alone could take down the whole System if she was prosecuted. And Trump called Epstein, “a great guy” and may have been to Orgy island once or twice. Bill was there many times. Perhaps Hillary on occasion as well.
Ilhan Omer/David Duke 2020 would be best. Yang/Kobach would at least be something.
As Queen Anne said, Trump had another chance to prove he was serious by appointing Kobach the other day. He failed to do so.
“Ilhan Omwr/David Duke 2020 would be best”. — Janos
Best for what?
Brh
Not for you Zionists obviously, but rather the Real America. Whites are now a Slave Race (check your own functioning) and we need to ally with Free People in order to free ourselves. Maybe it will rub off – or we’ll become their slaves. In any case, nothing is worse than being ruled by these genocidal maniacs.
Free people? Illhan Omar? Free people?
i mentioned Code Pink earlier. The similarity is the same hatred of Israel, only difference is Code Pink is active in trying to harm Israeli interests and openly sides with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
I don’t see you lining up with those groups but maybe Im wrong.
brh
It’s true. We are already living in captivity. And the ptb are not concerned about our collective future. We have to learn how to free ourselves of this slave mentality. Or we will remain in bondage. In situations like this you often find unlikely allies. See Brh, Whites live in many countries but have no real homelands anymore. I know you know how dire the situation is. You see the changes in your neck of the woods. It’s not going to get better for us unless we stick together and begin acting as a group again.
NXIVM guilt coming to the surface. The biggies will follow:
Allison Mack, the actress who is best known for her role as the friend of young Superman in the TV series, Smallville, has pleaded guilty to charges of sex trafficking in the NXIVM scandal. She joins Nancy Salzman (Clare Bronfman’s sister) and Nancy’s daughter, Lauren in pleading guilty.
Her sentencing is scheduled for September 11.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/smallville-actress-allison-mack-pleads-guilty-nxivm-case-1200169
With jury selection beginning in the federal case against a cult-like upstate New York group, TV actress Allison Mack pleaded guilty Monday to charges she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for the group’s spiritual leader.
Mack, 36, wept as she admitted her crimes and apologized to the women who prosecutors say were exploited by Keith Raniere and the purported self-help group called NXIVM.
“I believed Keith Raniere’s intentions were to help people … and I was wrong,” Mack told a judge in federal court in Brooklyn as she pleaded guilty to racketeering charges.
Mack is best known for her role as a young Superman’s close friend on the series Smallville.
After months of reflection since her arrest, Mack said, “I know I can and will be a better person.” Her sentencing is set for Sept. 11.
The plea means Mack will avoid going to trial with Raniere, wealthy heiress Clare Bronfman and another member of Raniere’s inner circle, Kathy Russell. All have pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing.
Last month, Nancy Salzman decided to plead guilty.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/NXIVM-President-Nancy-Salzman-to-plead-guilty-13682707.php
Then Nancy’s daughter, Lauren Salzman pleaded guilty as well.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nxivm-member-admits-to-enslaving-woman-in-a-locked-room-for-2-years
This makes it nearly impossible for Keith Raniere and Clare Bronfman to win their cases as heads of NXIVM. They are currently pleading not guilty.
This case has connections to Jeff Epstein, whose Pedo Island used to be a favorite hangout for both Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as other politicians and corporation CEO’s. As this case puts testimonies on the court record, watch for other cases coming out of this one. I believe that this single case will unravel a huge problem of human trafficking, much of which is tied to the Clinton Foundation.
Special investigator, John Huber, has been investigating the Clinton Foundation for the Department of Justice ever since November 2017. The NXIVM case is first major case stemming from Huber’s investigation.
Wow.
Lot of interesting detail there MDruid.
Good diggin.
One thing I might add is that the Feds get a guilty plea in 98% of their cases. Resistance is futile.
brh
Thanks. few here want to discuss the power brokers [I refuse
to think of them as elite] pedophilia, sex trafficking, etc.
Pizzagate is irrefutable, if one studies JPs 550? emails.
they seem to need a lot of ‘pizza for an hour’–so he didnt need a fix.
CP–cheese pizza or child porn?
Madeline, last seen with 3 guys who look like JP, his brother and Weiner. And the media, including Fox is complicit in the attempted cover up.
Its all thru movies and cartoons, in code. One childs cartoon even has the kid kidnapped and the ball has the
adrenochrome molecule on it.,
STILL IN THE TORTURE CHAMBER, as JP emailed.
I believe you. I am ok with not using the term “Elites” to describe the powers that be. You’re right. Why should the wicked be called elite. What should they be called? NWO? Illuminati? Criminals?
“CP–cheese pizza or child porn?”
Conspiracy porn?
Wow I hope you are right about this. I have been wondering what John Huber is even doing and investigating. How exactly does the NXIVM case fit into Huber’s investigation? Are some of the cult members Clinton Foundation people?
I heard Trump was talking to a crowd full of Jews and he said “The country’s full. No more room. Go back. GET OUT! The country’s full, turn around and go home. Sorry. We can’t take you.” They applauded. JEWS!!!!!! TDS even affects Jews I guess. They were probably all direct descendants of the Jews that started “Jews for Hitler” clubs. It’s in their blood as Janos likes to say.
Trump is in Israel’s pocket. Obviously. Watch the news: he just gave them the Golan Heights. Don’t use me to bolster your delusions.
He didn’t “give them” the Golan Heights. Israel won it fair and square back in 1967 when it was attacked by Syria which held it then. Jews have long lived in that area; lots of ancient remains of synagogues etc in the Golan. And if you’d ever spent any time there you’d understand why it’s NEVER going back to Syria or the madmen who run it. Trump just acknowledged reality.
Obviously you’d be fine with living somewhere that is constantly under attack from enemies that hold the high ground and use it to shell the farms and cities below. Israel does’t happen to agree with you. Tough.
Fine. We took America from the Indians in the same way. So shut up about that forever. Whites are the Native Americans since we created this country. They were just living here. We didn’t take over their towns like you people did to the Palestinians, since what little they had didn’t interest us, at least up here in North America.
Actually Janos, the Jews lived in the land now called Israel first. Revisionist history tries to forget this. Just like it tries to create an entity known as “Palestinians” that never actually existed until recently. And since you obviously favor “returning” the land to the Arabs, you should likewise be in favor of returning the US to the Native Americans.
No, we’re keeping It just like you’re keeping Palestine. Remember, I can argue with the best of you, the Wandering Who. Read it, subtitled, The Invention of the Jews.
You don’t even believe all that stuff anyway, right? Right? So don’t piss don’t my leg and tell me it’s raining.
And Whites may have been here before the Indians. In any case, possession is nine tenths of the Law, right? As you said, (or did I say it first), you won it fair and square.
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I know. I couldn’t make sense of it either.
Rubbish. I tell you that if the USA suddenly was besieged with Israeli immigrants I’d want to take ’em all. I like cultures that respect knowledge and personal refinement.
” I tell you that if the USA suddenly was besieged with Israeli immigrants I’d want to take ’em all”
Therian,
Sure…what could possibly go wrong?
#Palestine
Yeah, refined – like the SPLC calling everyone racists or the ADL defaming everyone.
The month Trump took office there were 20,000 people seeking asylum. Granted that was in the middle of winter. This month there will be 100,000 people at the border. The reason? Migrants believe that the strident rhetoric coming from Trump indicate that things may get harder in the future and they’d better make their move to America now. So Trump has in essence created a problem where none existed before. At the very least he has made a minor problem into a YUGE problem. That kind of thinking is sure to make America great again. So no wall, people are streaming in at greater and greater numbers and Trump can’t stop it and is making it worse with his obsession with brown people coming to America. God this must be heaven.
It was never minor try living in San Diego or any southern border town.
I concur.
“God this must be heaven.”
You can’t just march into heaven, either.
You’re so American your eyes are probably red, white and blue.
you are blue and see red.
see red wolf.
What is wrong with that?
He’s probably hungover.
Yea, what’s wrong with that?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YOn2tiiIhp4
Well, all that and plain old ingenuity.
Beyond cottage industry, this is now a sort of international commerce. Like the export of crude oil for the import of more liquid assets, it now has a life of its own. As a species pf status quo, the institution of immigration has grown to become beyond question.
At the border, presentation is 9/10ths of the Law.
What is happening was enabled by the economic policies put into place because they seemed like a good idea at the time. It is still supposedly putting dividends in your pocket, just read the Wall St. Journal
So now you are upset because there is no wall and people are streaming through? Wow seriously lol? You are late for April Fools Day!
I heard similar such story on NPR. Now, Trump gets blamed for illegals. Unbelievable word smithing and manipulation.
NYC declares emergency over measles outbreak, mandates vaccinations
Officials say anti-vaxxers are fueling the outbreak by spreading “fake science.”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/nyc-declares-emergency-over-measles-outbreak-mandates-vaccinations/
“New York City officials declared a public health emergency Tuesday in parts of the Williamsburg neighborhood, where a measles outbreak has run rampant in an Orthodox Jewish community since last October—largely among unvaccinated children.
“As part of the emergency declaration, any unvaccinated people living in affected zip codes who may have been exposed to the highly contagious viral illness will now be required to receive the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine or prove immunity. Violators could face a fine of $1,000, officials said.
“So far, there have been 285 cases of measles in the outbreak, 246 of which were in children. Most of the children were unvaccinated or partially vaccinated. The cases led to 21 hospitalizations, including five admissions to intensive care units.
“New York City is just one of seven locations around the country currently experiencing a measles outbreak. The other locations include areas of Washington state and Michigan, Butte County and Santa Cruz County in California, Rockland County in New York, and Ocean County in New Jersey. Since the start of the year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tallied 465 measles cases in 19 states. That tally from just over three months in 2019 exceeds the total number of cases from all of 2018, which was 372.”
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Sounds like the unthinking class is making its own contribution.
If they had not been caught lying all along about many things, it would be easier to trust that they have our best interests in mind. So, put the blame where it belongs. That’s what I think.
Just another reason to demand illegal/legal immigrants adhere to the vaccines and or be tested before entry is allowed!
They are tipping the herd immunity scale the wrong way.
Of course to say so risks the idiots of the world screaming racism! no it is much easier to demand we all get shots instead.
But who are they really fooling since many of the diseases had all but been stamped out in the United States.
benr
I don’t think there’s anything unreasonable in demanding that people either have paperwork proving vaccination or are vaccinated at the border if they wish to enter your country for whatever reason. Or indeed accept a period of quarantine (in decent conditions). We oblige people to do that with their pets, for goodness’ sake.
I hitch-hiked to Tunisia in the 70s and got all my vaccinations before I left home. On our arrival back in Marseille we all had to queue to have our papers checked as there had been a cholera outbreak in Tunisia while we were there.
In addition to the European holidaymakers on the boat, there were large numbers of Tunisian workers returning to France after their annual break home. Being students travelling on a shoestring, we were on the budget deck with the Tunisian workers and not on the top deck with the holidaymakers.
The only racism in evidence was that the Marseille authorities shunted my friend and me directly to the front of the long queue to have our papers checked because we were European. It was embarrassing.
I’m obviously not expecting that refugees will have paperwork – so offer them vaccinations at the border if that’s what you want to do. It can’t add that much more to the costs of incarcerating people in holding accommodation.
Yeah just add the mercury though.
How very Christian of you, Janos.
How about close the border completely and turn all refugees back? Then you have no worries about vaccinations, incarceration, accommodations, etc. It would be very Christian for the refugees’ countries of origin to take care of their own citizenries but that will never be discussed. Only the Christian obligation of the host countries to take in all refugees who show up. Another snow job.
“Another snow job.”
“The true goal of immunization
In the recent propaganda campaign, designed to use a measles outbreak as an example of what happens when parents don’t vaccinate their children, commentators have stated that, prior to the “epidemic,” measles cases in the area had shrunk to zero—as if eliminating the disease were a proper goal of vaccination.
This is bluster and nonsense. At one time, before the obsession to give shots took hold, parents would take their children to the home of a child who had come down with measles, so these kids could catch the illness and be done with it.
Zero reported measles cases is no sign that all is well. Vaccines can and do cause other very serious disease problems, and because the symptoms don’t resemble measles, other names are given to these conditions, and no connection is made to the effects of vaccines.
The true goal of immunization has nothing to do with vaccination. It has to do with strengthening a child’s immune system so he/she can stage an acute and full inflammatory response when illness occurs, after which the child gains lifelong immunity from measles, mumps, chickenpox, and the like.
A child with a weak immune system will become ill from a number of causes, regardless of vaccinations. One of these major causes is poor nutrition. No vaccine can cure that. Good clean food can.
But these simple facts are ignored as “conspiracy theory” by doctors. If a mainstream doctor gives any credence to the idea of making the immune system stronger, he’ll deny this reduces or eliminates the need for vaccination.
Of course, the medical attacks leveled at “anti-vaxxers” are, at the highest level, nothing more than an insistence that chemical drugs and vaccines must continue to sell. These power players are quite aware that a sensible and natural approach to healthcare does, as a matter of course, vastly reduce the interest in their products.
When it comes to fundamental politics, the medical cartel has, for a hundred years—backed by government and huge media operations-been engaged in the process of holding the planet hostage to chemical treatments. This is an example of why the Founders never permitted government to engage in commercial operations.
The result would be enforced monopoly.”
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/
SSL
” Only the Christian obligation of the host countries to take in all refugees who show up. Another snow job.”
I didn’t say you had any obligation to take them in on a permanent basis – that’s your business. I merely commented on Janos’ suggestion of spiking vaccinations to do them harm. Not Christian. Not Christian at all. Even in fun.
Even an agnostic like me wouldn’t do something like that. Moral conscience we call it.
That’s an interesting line of thought, SoftStarLight. If I were a Christian, I would have Matthew 7:1-5 in mind right now.
Seems to me Jesus made it clear what his followers’ priorities should be: Get yourself right before you start “taking the other guy’s inventory”, as they say in the 12-step groups. So, immunize first, then grouse — quite straightforward, really.
Thank you Elrond. I appreciate the admonition. How does this fit in with protecting the border from those who wish to enter illegally? Walls have protected cities and countries from intruders for centuries. There are many references to the importance of walls in the Bible, including when God imparted on Nehemiah to rebuild the walls around Jerusalem.
“the unthinking class…”
One couple in my family are both doctors. When I asked them the slightest of questions about current safety of vaccinations for my six month old boy, the answer I got was one of robotic programming. “Just do it. Do it all.” Then one of them sent me a cartoon “informational brochure” answering all the questions an “anti-vaxxer” could ask. The illustrations dripped with condescension. It was probably not meant to be…but it was insulting to say the least, as I’m quite sure I had read more on both sides of the topic than either of them had. (Which of course begs the question of why the hell I asked their opinion in the first place, I know, I know…). Needless to say, they read and instantly internalize the NYT daily.
As much as I respect what they do, their thinking is firmly stuck in whatever they were told in school and whatever they’re told now by their industry peers. I fail to see how they should be considered the “thinking class”, given that type of “thinking”, when I must be clearly developmentally stunted for having the gall to consider questioning something. I figure when Walmart is offering something for free and throwing in a gas card for you to do it…one just might want to think twice before doing it.
Either way, my boy is up to date with his CDC recommended shots, but that doesn’t mean I’m necessarily proud of that. I just consider it one of life’s uncomfortable decisions that *might* cause more harm than good if circumstances play out the wrong way. Which makes it one of many such decisions in our lives…but that doesn’t mean my decision is one of “unthought”.
“the answer I got was one of robotic programming. “Just do it. Do it all.” ”
There’s a lot of assumption in there. You don’t mention that they are the ones who see the sick children who haven’t had the vaccinations and, in some cases, the distraught parents of the few who have died.
And they are taught about risk and know what the relative risks are. Watching a child with whooping cough can be incredibly distressing. And the disease can be fatal in a small child.
By coincidence I was out with some ex-colleagues last week (I work in medical publishing, which doesn’t give me expertise in anything medical, but I do see more material) and one person there has a wife who is a Cambridge-educated mathematician who works in public health statistics. She doesn’t work for the pharmaceutical industry, she works for the public health authorities. A whole lot of detailed work goes into the compiling of statistics to serve both the medical profession and the public. It’s not just about pharma companies pushing their products.
But you could try the NHS public information sites – they’re informative, in plain English, not accompanied by patronising cartoons, and are as likely to be unbiased as anything else you’re going to find!
But I’ve seen exactly the same thing on American sites, so the information is there, without the cartoons 🙂 .
Never did I say that I was an anti-vaxxer, just that I asked a few simple questions. For example, “Can my tiny infant really handle the number of vaccinations recommended within the first few months?” and “Is mercury in the vaccinations a thing of the past?”.
Asked these of our first pediatrician. Literally didn’t challenge him, just asked these few questions. He became standoffish and said Google isn’t the best place to find information, and printed out some pamphlets.
I’m not saying it’s wrong, I’m saying the stigma attached to even asking about details (“Just want to confirm there’s no mercury in this anymore?”) makes you Jenny McCarthy and shunned as less than intelligent.
They aren’t hospital clinicians, btw. One is a psychiatrist, the other is a physics PhD. They dont’ see anyone with whooping cough. But having a son born with a life-threatening condition – one that was thankfully rectified by the doctors and nurses there within minutes – made me concerned for his every ounce of welfare when they wanted to immediately start a large regimen of shots. Which I did agree to.
My comment was based on the term “unthinking class”. I think, therefore I question. Don’t know many doctors of anything that question what they were taught. That said, many perform miracles daily, and I’m eternally thankful. Just don’t know if they’re supposed to be right about everything else as a result.
And I do appreciate the comment. Just have a sore spot for people (including friends of mine) that assume no one can know something about a subject unless their degree specifically states it. Our host here possesses a degree in theater, yet his thought processes have led him to study ecology, finance and politics…my point is I don’t think his thoughts should be automatically less credible because there isn’t a specific degree to back it up. Some people would say otherwise, and those are the people I complain about.
Such is my cautious view of scientists and their knowledge. Told something, say something. Book says exist, then exist. Questioning is supposed to be the whole bit, I thought…
Everything has to come from the Top, from accredited sources via the BBC for Alba. What isn’t accredited is wrong. The Establishment is always right until they aren’t and they are forced to change. Then they switch their message and their acolytes are supposed to forget about the previous message a la Orwell. She is adept at this. They MUST be right so she can be, you see.
MrMangoOnMyShoulder
I didn’t mean to suggest in any way that you were an anti-vaxxer – it didn’t come across that you were. Nor was I suggesting that you had no right to ask the questions. I’d ask them too if I were worried about my child.
All I meant was that you might be misjudging the manner of their response as ‘robotic’ when it might be due to years of watching the results of people not vaccinating their children. Only ‘might’, since I didn’t know what area they work in.
My husband is a doctor too – I tried to avoid mentioning that, since it’s not relevant to the point, although I do hear a huge amount of information and discussions (doctors’ discussion boards are lively places). Many doctors are disillusioned. My husband would tell you a lot of modern medicine is a waste of time – and more than half the people he sees (he doesn’t work in a GP surgery, but does out-of-hours GP sessions, based in a hospital – in it but not of it, as it were) shouldn’t be there as they’re just wasting everyone’s time and money). But the one thing pretty much all doctors agree on is that vaccinations are one of the most significant developments – if not the greatest development EVER to have come from the practice of medicine.
None of which means that people whose children have some condition, temporary or otherwise, that means caution is advised in terms of vaccinations, shouldn’t use their judgement and get the best information they can. That goes without saying. If the vast majority of children, who are healthy, are vaccinated, herd immunity can carry the vulnerable ones. I know you know all this, I’m not trying to be patronising, just stating my position in case you misunderstood it.
And I was agreeing with you about the patronising cartoons!
FFS, Janos, give it a rest if you have nothing sensible to say.
The adults are having a conversation.
If it doesn’t make your delicate ears turn red, I had to make a decision when HRT time came up. I read up on it myself, weighed up the pros and cons, and made up my own mind on what was best for me.
I didn’t even ask a doctor – not even the one I wasn’t quite married to at the time – and I don’t recall the BBC saying anything about it. But plenty of other sources – many and varied – had views on the matter, which was useful. As were the statistics.
Knowledge in the medical fields grows and shifts the direction of treatments and methods all the time. My children are up to date on all of their vaccinations as well. It doesn’t mean that I don’t have concerns about potential consequences but in this case all you can do is take in as much information as possible and make the decisions you think are best for them. I happen to love our pediatrician too. But again with knowledge growing all of the time and changing one never knows for sure what will be in just a few short years from now. Its sort of like the whole chemtrail thing. Clearly they exist. But we are adamantly told there is nothing to be concerned about and everything will be just fine by the conventional sources. But not only is it scary to think what may be in vaccines. What do you think they may be putting into food and the tap water?
My question is, what’s the big deal if a few are unvaccinated?
Your kid has been, so it shouldn’t effect him, right? Isn’t the purpose of being vaccinated to keep your kid from getting sick. If he gets sick from being near someone unvaccinated, then the vaccine doesn’t work.
“My question is, what’s the big deal if a few are unvaccinated?”
My answer is that the number has to be very small for herd immunity to work. When you get groups of misinformed people making the percentage go below a critical mass, especially if they’re in the same geographical location, e.g. all spreading misinformation at the school gate, you get trouble.
And that can affect a child whose parents would dearly love to get him/her vaccinated, but can’t because of an underlying condition from which the healthy children of the misinformed parents don’t suffer.
“Your kid has been, so it shouldn’t effect him, right? Isn’t the purpose of being vaccinated to keep your kid from getting sick. If he gets sick from being near someone unvaccinated, then the vaccine doesn’t work.””
You’re the ostentatious Christian, messianicdruid, so I shouldn’t have to explain to you that people can be concerned about children that don’t live in their house and aren’t vaccinated like yours.
‘I’m all right, Jack’ wasn’t a thing spread from the pulpit when I was a partaker.
SSL
“But not only is it scary to think what may be in vaccines. What do you think they may be putting into food and the tap water?
Well, you can see a list of what they put in vaccines here, together with an explanation of why those substances are there:
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/vaccine-decision/index.html
You can accept it or you can listen to someone like the er…’psychotic’ Alex Jones. You choose.
And if you were in the EU you’d find that food producers are legally obliged to list ingredients on food packaging. I’m sure it’s the same over your way, but I don’t know. Of course that’s a food safety mechanism that we in the UK are possibly about to lose.
“Its sort of like the whole chemtrail thing.”
Lots of things are sort of like the whole chemtrail thing, unfortunately. Whatever floats your boat.
“Clearly they exist.
Clearly 🙂
“And I was agreeing with you about the patronising cartoons!”
Alba, understood. Was complaining more about the mindset of my family members who actually thought it was a good idea to send me that as a response. Like they thought I would find it funny. It would be one thing if I went on some tirade calling them out or saying it’s all bullshit…but I just wanted to ask a few more people their opinions before letting loose the needles of war on my boy.
As for our discussion, we’re all good.
Thanks Alba for intentionally looking over what I said. I know I can access lists of ingredients of things whether its on a product label or online. My point is what chemicals/ingredients have been put in things and aren’t disclosed. Are do you believe something like that is totally impossible and the experts have us all covered?
SSL
Suggest some chemicals and some products where you have some inklings of evidence that it’s happening and we can look at it. I just don’t see the point in making totally nebulous accusations about ‘them’ all the time. I’m not denying anything – I’m just asking for somewhere to start, otherwise you’re not talking about anything other than a generalised paranoia.
Which doesn’t mean etc. etc. 🙂
End of Excitement
It seems that the bifurcation point of History has ended, when I barely had time to read the news, and now the History will follow a well-established track.
Of course, it is possible that Hillary Clinton will gather her strength, arrange another coup in US, or “Regime Change” in Russia, but I believe these events in the near future seem extremely unlikely.
And to do this I need to follow a lot of news links, on the basis of which I can now describe the character of this track, which History will follow and finish those series of posts that I did not have time to finish, but which are extremely important for understanding and illuminating that track.
First of all, we are talking about a series of posts in which Venezuela is the center of world politics, which allows us not only to understand the difference between the Cold War and the threat of a hot war, but also to realize how in the Russian-American confrontation at the beginning of the 21st century, reflected the confrontation between York and Lancaster in medieval England of the 15th century.
At the same time, following the events, I wrote another series of posts about Bushes, the Great Schism and World War of the Roses, in which I described how in the fight of Union of Trump with the Bush clan for the US Department of Justice seized by the Clintonoids the medieval Rose War was reflected in another aspect – as the struggle of quasi-Christian England against the anti-Christian dynasty of Valois, which provoked the War of the Roses to destroy the Plantagenet dynasty.
And in the last post of this series, I showed that clan 41 and 43 of the US presidents is a conscious attempt to connect the two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty that still exist, while promising that after another post about Venezuela, that is, the post that you are reading now, I will write another post that will combine both of these series and allow them to finish.
Very imaginative! An historical novel, no less.
In the dark ages, when I was in High School, I remember being told that the purpose of the SAT and other such entry tests was to make sure that a prospective student could do well in the demanding university environment, and would have a good chance of doing well in the world after graduating with an advanced degree.
No one seems to be asking, “How did the cheating girls and boys do at University?” and, “How did they do at life?”
I suspect they did just fine on both counts. Which means that;
A) SATs and other such tests do not predict success at higher learning.
B) The tests are just a way to screen out undesirables.
C) The parents who bribed their kiddies’ way in were right to do so, are likely just the small fish that Kahlil Gibran’s legal nets were designed to catch, and should have all charges dropped.
or more to the point,
D) Don’t waste money sending the kiddies to school. Better to spend your money forging the degree and bribing their way into a career. They will do fine….
I think D) is nonsense. What is it with the pervasive devaluation of a good education? Even my highly anti-intellectual parents respected a good education and wanted their kids to get one. The economic facts are that a college degreed person has an OVERWHELMING edge over high school grads in getting jobs, especially good-paying jobs.
Your cynicism doesn’t stand up to examination.
Uh oh. Font changed.Test.
Did you get banned :-)?
Re: Reparations, how will they differentiate between blacks like Rachel Jeantel whose ancestors in Haiti were slaves but not American slaves?
Free Bill Cosby!
“It was the thinking class that led the civil rights campaign of the 1960s. Here we are fifty years later with dozens of ruined cities, failed public school systems, and prisons stuffed with black men way out of proportion to their actual demographic in the general population (nationally 37 percent versus 13 percent). In California, it’s 29 percent while only 6 percent of the state’s male residents are African American. ”
Free Bill Cosby!
You’ll never hear Dr. Cosby talk’n ‘bout no Jive Reparations.
The whole Reparations “Thang” is so Jive….
Should I try to bust Dr. Cosby out of prison, like in that 1970’s Charles Bronson movie in which Charles Bronson kicks ass and lands a helicopter in the prison yard?
My fantasy is to procure an old WWII army surplus Sherman tank and then ram it through the fence of the Phoenix Correctional Facility and then machine gun all of the overweight middle-aged white prison guards who look like Homer Simpson.
BUST HIM OUT! BUST HIM OUT! BUST HIM OUT! BUST HIM OUT!
“Fantasies” like that are sad. Very sad.
You’ve never wanted to ram a tank or a big 18 wheeler truck into something? Another fun toy would be a recoiless rifle like the US Marines used on the “Cong” during the Battle of Hui” in “NAM”.
Pucker, why don’t you just indulge your man-crush on Mr Cosby by asking him if he’d like you to visit? You could bake him a nice cake with a file in it. And take him a poster of Rita Hayworth.
I’ve written to Dr. Cosby twice, but no response. This is understandable since his first priority for visitors must be the middle aged white Ho’s smuggling OxyContin pills to him in their underwear so that Cosby can pay off his prison bodyguards?
“I’ve written to Dr. Cosby twice, but no response.”
Then he’s heartless, Pucker. Find someone else who can love you like you deserve 🙂 .
Because you’re worth it…
A judge again rules against Trump, this time on his detention policies, continuing their obstruction that began a couple of years ago with the blocking of the ban on certain immigrants.
Gavin Newsom goes to El Salvador and tells its people that the US is not Donald Trump and offers an alternative to his “demoralizing” rhetoric. Look for more MS-13 infiltrators. They’ll have sanctuary in California and other states and cities.
Gory Booger and many others continue to, how to say it, mouth, flap their gums, spew shit, or regurgitate the same words that are driving some people to near madness; “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” It’s become CirCirhosis of the brain.
Don’t get me started on Beto, the booty gig guy, and the rest of that sorry Leftist clan.
With our borders remaining insecure, look for the signs to start sprouting around the nation:
Danger: Unstable Structure
Danger: Possible Collapse
Danger: This Property Condemned
Did Netanyahu make it? Trump and Kushner will make sure he gets over. Kushner with his dark diplomacy and closing the WH log books. The Qatar blockade. A truly privileged, high and mighty fuck, who got Christie dumped and by doing so made the Trump transition much more difficult.
Both he and bibi must go. Prison would be nice.
A river runs through it.
http://www.got-truth.com/docs/A%20river%20runs%20through%20it.pdf
#oathkeepers
Q.
Trump is saying Obama caged the children. He stopped it. That’s why the wave of migrants are coming this way. They’re coming likes it’s a picnic because Trump stopped the caging. What are you Trumptards saying now? He said he’d stop illegal immigration. Now he’s saying he’s the cause. Didn’t Alice Cooper write a song about this something like “No More Mr. Tough Guy.” Jesus this guy doesn’t know what he’s saying. Our President Queeg moment is coming. You can feel it can’t you Trumptards? He’s falling apart.
Did Bathhouse Barry need hotdogs or a hot dog stand in Hawaii?
huh..their words, NOT mine. Those are in the emails.
If Barry caged kiddies, it was for another reason.
Rumor has it Bathouse Soetoro liked middle aged white men.
And who’s spreading these vile rumors? Patented Clintonoids-Reptiloids!
IFTHEY HAD WEED, BLOW OR CASH.
The other word is he likes trannies.
I think you feel something…come come admit it Trump makes you have a shiver down your leg and a thrill in your belly.
Dude, you need counselling.
Or a hobby.
who give an f?
Yeah, maybe he needs to take up target practice as a hobby. You could teach him and do a bit of counseling too. Your sign could read, Manchurian Counseling.
Great weekly post, Jim. The Left, in America, is really in ruins. They have no real platform so their overriding hobby is to feverishly look for smoking guns to oust Mr. Trump.
The “thinking class” is totally dishonest about issues of race and ethnicity. I remember living in northern California when East Palo Alto, a city of 29,000 people, had 49 murders. When EPA was taken over by Hispanics, the murders dropped from 49 to 6. Yet the mere citation of facts like this are deemed “racism”.
And that’s the proverbial “bottom line” of social relations in the USA i.e., you cannot quote hard facts without your quotation being deemed an act of incivility. This has to stop …. NOW.
All murders simply moved out to Oaktown.
Today’s “thinking class” is yesterday’s “deep state”… I don’t buy any of it
These are sloppy terminologies that invite idle speculation.
What speculation is that?
“All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder… THE PROPAGANDIST’S PURPOSE IS TO MAKE ONE SET OF PEOPLE FORGET THAT CERTAIN OTHER SETS OF PEOPLE ARE HUMAN.”
ALDOUS HUXLEY
100,000 is the number of border crossers for March.
One hundred thousand…
Hard to believe this nation is so stupid. This invasion is the evidence that there will be no wall.
By the end of year, one million refugees will be in country. Trump’s 2019 election issue. Forget all those other problems like carbon and foreign policy.
This is where religion goes in for the kill. Import Catholics. Assert the rights of fetuses. Dems elected.
Like dominoes, after our democracy was stolen so long ago… 2nd amendment, Roe v. Wade, a pro-capital population policy, Citizens United …
>>> This invasion is the evidence that there will be no wall.
Huh? So the flu epidemic of 1918 with millions of cases was evidence that there would be no vaccine?
The epidemic encouraged the vaccine, which arrived in 1933. And the invasion of illegal immigrants is a catalyst for the wall, which is being built right now.
>>> Trump’s 2019 election issue.
You mean 2020 but I agree: the election is shaping up to be another open borders do-over. Thank you, Dems!
Dems BALONEY. You have not been paying attention! Trump made up a faux crisis that is resulting in a real crisis. We figured it out.
Trump Wrong on Mexico’s Migrant Apprehensions
That is one example of many. The fact is America has not had an open southern border but a surge in crossings has been noted. Because Trump brings attention to the border a whole lot of people with nothing left to lose are heading north.
Piso destruido en Baton Rouge, esperando un tren
Cuando me siento casi tan descolorida como mis jeans
Bobby pisó un diésel antes de llover.
Y nos montó todo el camino en Nueva Orleans
Saqué mi arpón de mi pañuelo rojo sucio
Suena suave mientras Bobby cantaba el blues.
Parabrisas limpia parabrisas tiempo
Estoy sosteniendo la mano de Bobby en la mía.
Cantamos cada canción que el conductor sabía
Libertad es solo una palabra más para que nada se pierda.
Nada, no es nada, cariño, si no es gratis
Y sentirse bien fue fácil, Señor, cuando cantaba el blues
Sabes que sentirte bien fue suficiente para mí
Lo suficientemente bueno para mí y mi Bobby McGee
Libertad es solo una palabra más para que nada se pierda.
Quite so. All his posturing that just made it worse. People became afraid that it would close and this was their last chance. Plus the Left organized the caravans to spite him and force the issue.
It’s like pointing a weapon: you have to be willing to use it. He wasn’t and isn’t and now it’s taken away from him and used on us.
The caravans started well before he said he would close the border. More will probably be formed. Back then it wasn’t Crisis time, it was Wall time. His opponents wouldn’t give him the wall.
‘We’ were all happy to jump on the wall bandwagon a couple of years ago weren’t we, and the border was a crisis then, wasn’t it? Although my preference was, and still is, a military presence.
Don’t tell me there’s not a crisis at the border when an immigrant can simply walk across and request asylum.
This crisis was not created by Trump, but by the weak will of Congress and the Judicial system.
Watch about ten-fifteen minutes of Tucker tonight, he makes things pretty clear, especially on my preference, the military.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIDODwppdTI
Thank you!!! Congress and the judicial system needs to be held accountable for this, including and up to treason charges in my opinion. Why can’t our military protect our border? Who runs this country? Clearly not Americans who are interested in preserving the historical America that we love. Tucker has become an important voice on these matters. Look for them to tighten the noose around him. They have already started that.
>>> You have not been paying attention! Trump made up a faux crisis that is resulting in a real crisis.
What a short memory you have. What we’re experiencing now is a repeat of what we experienced in 2014 under Obama—right down to the children in “cages”. He called it a crisis, too. And it was. Or do you think that tens of thousands of unaccompanied children crossing the border is normal and proper? Please link to where you denounced Obama at the time. No link? Thought so.
The difference between Obama in 2014 and Trump in 2019 is that Trump isn’t encouraging more of the same with talk of DACA and other amnesty arrangements. The difference is that Trump wants to close the loopholes and is building a physical wall. Obama tried the “virtual” wall that is advocated by dems. It didn’t work. Imagine that? A “wall” that isn’t really a wall doesn’t actually work like a wall.
Rightism, leftism… lets be honest, these are dishonest labels. Its been remarked that today’s leftism is Eisenhower Republicanism.
The label “Leftist” is a tool created by partisans to divide the population and consolidate their base.
Rightism doesn’t have the same ring but brings to mind a sort of sentimental idiot with obnoxious antisocial behaviors. At any rate, I’m sure you’re all fine people.
Which one is more likely to pick up the dinner tab?
Daily Mail:
Five whistleblowing workers at the only NHS transgender clinic in Britain have quit over fears children as young as three are going through unnecessary gender reassignment treatment.
The clinicians from the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) clinic based in London and Leeds left over concerns children were being incorrectly diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
It was feared some gay children struggling with their sexual identity are being incorrectly diagnosed as transgender.
Specialists also worried that some of the youngsters were being referred and pressured into having gender change treatment after suffering homophobic bullying.
Referrals to the clinic risen in recent years, with 94 in 2010, rising to 2,519 by last year, with the youngest patient aged just three.
One of the clinicians told The Times: ‘I felt for the last two years what kept me in the job was the sense there was a huge number of children in danger.
‘I was there to protect children from being damaged.’
Experts fear the treatments are being given without exploring the underlying reason for the children’s confusion over their sexuality.
An Oxford professor said the treatments were ‘unregulated live experiments on children’ with some diagnosis not supported by any evidence.
Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre of Evidence-based Medicine at Oxford University, told The Times: ‘Given paucity of evidence, the off-label use of drugs [for outcomes not covered by the medicine’s licence] in gender dysphoria treatment largely means an unregulated live experiment on children.’
In February doctors at the gender identity clinic warned young patients could be exposed to ‘long-term damage’ due to lobby groups and ‘pushy parents’.
A report by former staff governor David Bell, said some children ‘take up a trans identity as a solution’ to ‘multiple problems such as historic child abuse in the family, bereavement, homophobia, and a very significant incidence of autism spectrum disorder’.
The Bell report said many children questioning their identity may have ‘learnt through online resources [or] coaching from from parents or peers exactly what to say in order to get the results they want’.
JS: In the Matter of Britain, Tragedy ans Social Collapse are accelerating. It’s well past the sweat and tears stage – only blood will make this Right.
I’m pretty sure Foghorn Leghorn was a capon. Yet no worries, it worked for him OK. He was always smiling and the small stutter from it seems to have been a small price to pay for having the nards chopped off. As Leghorn would say:
“I say I say, that, I say boy, that, that dog’s busier than a centipede at a toe countin’ contest”
“I say I say, that, I say boy, that, that dog’s busier than a centipede at a toe countin’ contest”
* A capon is a castrated rooster.
Crikey, Janos, what took you so long? Are your information networks not feeding you properly? I read that days ago. Good that they’re looking into it. And if kids are wanting to change gender because of homophobic bullying, I’m sure you’ll put a few dollars in the tin to help educate the homophobes in behaving in a civilised and empathetic manner.
Or their parents, if that’s where their homophobia is coming from. I mean, YOU wouldn’t want to be responsible for causing a child to change its gender because of your homophobia, would you? How would you live with that?
“JS: In the Matter of Britain, Tragedy ans Social Collapse are accelerating. It’s well past the sweat and tears stage – only blood will make this Right.”
Yeah, there’s nothing helps a difficult situation like adding a rabid nutter into the equation.
Nutters with rabies, very bad!
Most of the time school counselors and teachers don’t even inform parents when their children express these feelings in the classroom setting. And often times once a child begins to talk about feelings of gender dysphoria there is a very quick rush to begin hormone therapy and initiate discussions of gender reassignment surgery. This is all being done without much thought for the long term consequences of such therapy and surgery. Children are often times being used as experiments it is true. And soon the LGBTQ agenda will be thoroughly embedded within the culture and society and any questioning or dissension will result in jail time and the loss of social and economic viability for dissenters. This is the way Marxists roll. And there is no way to vote out of it because they will implement their agenda through courts and unelected bureaucracies.
I’m still keeping a sharp eye out for a drag queen, a tranny, a fem boy and so on, haven’t spotted one yet here in the woodsy ‘burbs, in the city where I work, or out in the country where I shoot and fish.
I mentioned before we had one tranny in town, in the 90s, dude was found on the side of the road in E Hartford with his throat slit, to this date an unsolved murder but suspected to be a ‘date gone bad’.
The truth is is this whole ‘tranny’ grift is a red herring, trannys and drag queens at most being about .005% of the population; fact is this lefty freak show so tiny as to be irrelevant.
Brh
The left has co-opted this very tiny percentage of the population for a much greater purpose. The whole ultimate goal of this agenda is to destroy the nuclear family. Once the nuclear family is destroyed there will be no other organizing force in peoples’ lives except the State. Marxists require total state control over all aspects of life from cradle to grave. They can’t achieve this as long as there are functional family units that raise their children outside of the total influence of the state and its propaganda. Just like all other minorities, trans people are just tools to use and exploit for a time. Just like gays, some of them realize this and want nothing to do with it. And then there are others who think this is totally a cause of them and for them and they couldn’t be more mistaken.
BRH,
What gives me a bit of pause about this whole bunch o’ nuthin’ is the RIGHT-wing anxiety and intense focus on “these people”.
Similar to Trump hysteria on “the other side”, I just have to shake my head about all the [intentionally] misguided concern.
…Almost warm enough to go fishin’, I’d say. My buddy’s already dipped a line…
Well, Oz, at some point somebody made it a political issue.
I suppose responding to it makes me reactionary and the best thing to do is ignore it altogether.
I usually wait til mid May to head upriver, crowd has cleared out by then, weather is warmer, and water level has somewhat subsided by then. Still plenty of trout left in May.
Brh
Wrong ozone! It is a big deal and Brh is right to acknowledge it. The intent is to change our society altogether and it is working spectacularly. There are times when you can’t just sit on the sidelines you know. I am happy it is warming up for you and you will be able to go fishing soon. But in the meanwhile not everything is just something to be dismissed. Even when someone you think has nothing worth saying is speaking or typing in this case :-). I can still ponder the future of our society while dealing with the issues of the day. And I am more than certain that you can too.
Yet *another* trying to make a sumpthin’ out of a nuthin’!
My, my — I smell the intentionality of a fake reactionary. Ain’t that strange…
Okay, I’ll say it: Division betwixt us “little people” benefits only one specific group and allows them to continue their shenanigans under the cover of the ensuing kerfuffle they’ve *engineered*. There’s a reason I give certain donnybrooks a wide and suspicious berth. I’d rather focus on the motives for these than waste my time and energy chasing ghosts and false prophets.
Well I would hope you can shed light on their motives because from here it does appear to be an attempt to completely remake society if you consider what is being included in school curriculums. We’re talking kindergarten too. And I can imagine the ptb benefiting from this remade society. But that is my opinion. Maybe they want to remake society and as you say keep us distracted in the ensuing tumult so they can do their nefarious deeds while no one is looking. A two-fer. It’s just a thought…
Where do school counselors and teachers get the right to deal with gender dysphoria SoftFarRight?
Personally I’m very glad the lesbian bitch English teacher I had in elementary school third grade who spent all her time teaching her girls did not get her way and neuter this dog. She stuck all her boys in the back row and ignored us. I don’t know how the stories of the other boys turned out, we were all pretty much on our own. She claimed I could not learn to read.
She overplayed her lie and I got assigned to special-ed. I remember a quizzical look on a young graduate student that was assigned to assess my skill level my first hour in the pit with the others. This led to quiet adult discussion out in the hallway of the intense kind.
Six weeks after that I was returned to the bitches class reading three grade levels ahead of an average third grader. Back to sitting in the back row but at least the cunt would let me read a book while I had to sit there and do nothing with the rest of the boys. Since I could at least read I avoided trouble. My classmates were not so lucky. They made any noise and they got hammered.
They did not know what to do with me but this time it was not for being too slow. It was for being too fast. I had been shown how to use a color coded programmed learning thingamajig which taught reading somehow and I had eaten it up. Ripped through to purple in no time. All I needed was vocabulary after that. A Sci-fi novel a day provided it great alacrity.
Schools in charge of gender issues. Not a good idea. In fact, it is actually a really shitty idea. Beyond shitty.
K-Dog, sounds to me like you did not like this teacher. I, too, had a cartoonish lesbian teacher (gym) in elementary school. But she was a good one…and a stereotype to the core.
She didn’t talk about it, and certainly didn’t try to teach kids about her lifestyle. I’m terrified of what I’ll encounter when I send my toddler to school eventually. I have a feeling I’ll be “that guy” at the PTA meetings. Huh. Actually now I’m kind of looking forward to that.
They have taken it upon themselves to take up gender dysphoria but they really shouldn’t have that right. the Human Rights Campaign, an organization that aggressively pushes the LGBTQ agenda is leading the charge and many school administrators and teachers across the country are jumping right in without questions.
https://www.hrc.org/resources/schools-in-transition-a-guide-for-supporting-transgender-students-in-k-12-s
This is not to say that kids that are really going through this should not have the right to be treated fairly like any other child. But this shouldn’t be an area where activists control all of the outcomes. How awful of you to have gone through that kind of treatment in school. And this is exactly the problem. They should have put you in an accelerated program or school. Not sure if that was even an option for you? But it sounds like you needed to be in advanced courses. And that teacher should have been fired for discrimination but I suppose its too late now.
K-Dog,
Interestingly, I had that same color-coded program. I was also consistently “purple” as well. I couldn’t help it; I was a compulsive reader in love with the concept of nuances of meaning contained in the written word. From an early age, I read any damn thing I wanted and ignored suggestions of “appropriate for my age group”. Just kept a dictionary handy, and when I couldn’t understand the words of the definition, I’d look those up too. Pretty simple.
K-Dog
“Schools in charge of gender issues. Not a good idea. In fact, it is actually a really shitty idea. “
I agree it shouldn’t be up to the school to do anything other than pass on information to the parents about any issue the child has at school, e.g. if they’ve mentioned something pertinent that they haven’t told their parents. They shouldn’t have anything to do with what happens after that, unless they have evidence the parents are mistreating the child.
BUT schools are held to account for ignoring bullying, so they are absolutely entitled to insist on respectful behaviour from pupils towards their classmates. Obviously bullying will always happen but it’s not OK to ignore it. Schools have a duty of care.
“BUT schools are held to account for ignoring bullying, so they are absolutely entitled to insist on respectful behaviour from pupils towards their classmates”
I may have misunderstood your point…but there’s certainly a big difference between addressing bullying and asking kids as part of their classwork to chart their preferred gender on a scale of 1-10 though…
MrMangoOnMyShoulder
I didn’t propose the questionnaire activity or anything like it. I’m simply talking about the homophobic bullying that was cited in the article – or another one describing the same thing – as being one of the causes of children wanting to change gender.
And if homophobic bullying is happening in the school, the school, having a duty of care, is absolutely entitled to teach all the children that it’s not OK. Not just entitled to, but obliged to. That’s nothing to do with a pro-anything curriculum, other than a pro-civility and pro-respect one.
GreenAlba, I missed the linked article. My error.
I’ve just been reading a lot of stories lately that blow my mind when it comes to what the “curriculum” is for kids as young as five…I don’t believe they need direction on gender at that age, which is what I seized on from K-Dog’s comment.
My consternation is with those that feel children should explore their gender “fluidity” as a matter of course, instead of coming to such a discovery on their own, naturally. Most don’t find the need to question it, after all. Certainly, homophobic bullying is unacceptable. But, like all bullying, it will happen, and should be dealt with as it happens.
Also, anyone else ever wonder what the deal is with this term “homophobic”? It is routinely misused. It implies fear. If someone dislikes LGBT folks, it means they’re probably just a dick. Not that they’re afraid of them. Anyway, just spitballing here.
MrMango
“My consternation is with those that feel children should explore their gender “fluidity” as a matter of course, instead of coming to such a discovery on their own, naturally.”
I totally agree. I think what goes on in school at a young age should be limited to (a) making it clear that respect for your classmates is expected, whether or not you think they seem a bit different from you, and (b) listening to children who proactively talk to you about their concerns and passing those concerns discreetly on to the parents. Although teachers do need to be vigilant for signs of children with potential problems – that’s part of their job – but that’s not the same as feeding them leading questions.
I haven’t seen the detail of actual curricula in these matters, which is why I hesitate to comment on them. When I was on holiday recently I saw a rainbow thingy inside the window of a school we drove past. That’s it. I don’t find that offensive. I think the accompanying slogan here is ‘no-one excluded’ or something like that. Fine with me.
My grandson is six and I’m certain he hasn’t been burdened with anything yet that he doesn’t need to know. He’s just put a sign up on his bedroom door saying ‘no girls alowd (sic)’ so he’s at that age. Nothing to do with alternative tendencies! I pretended to be put out and he said it was OK for ‘ladies’!
Digressing slightly, on the topic of ‘exploration’, I get equally fed up with pornography aficionados talking about ‘exploring their sexuality’, when all they mean is looking for something novel and possibly shocking to mitigate the effects of tolerance (in the physiological/psychological sense).
I mean, do what you want, but don’t use silly language about it, as if it was something esoteric you were doing!
“It is routinely misused. It implies fear. ”
I take your point. Not sure what word would do the trick, though, to be specific enough. The dictionary definition of ‘phobic’ mentions ‘fear or aversion’. But the bullying is acting on the aversion.
Can’t think of anything accurate without using a long paraphrase.
Alba,
The link below is from Washington state…I don’t live there, but my brother does. If you wanted to check out what I’m talking about, it lists the planned rollout by grade:
Gender Identity
Much of the wording/teaching is rather generic and non-offensive in nature, but third graders being taught that they can choose their gender seems a little aggressive to me.
Anyway, in case you’re bored.
MrMango
Just had a quick look and it does look like overkill at the very least. I thought the high school stuff looked fair enough, and an appropriate age.
For primary school children (11/12 here), I think it’s all too much too soon, so I pretty much agree with you.
It’s difficult to comment on the children who do have identity problems. I have seen some young ones on TV – maybe aged 9 or 10, not sure – who were very calm and self-possessed, but very clear and eloquent about the fact that they’d always felt themselves to be a different gender.
What can I say? I have no experience of it personally. Troubled children shouldn’t be afraid of speaking to their parents (I don’t mean troubled following input from school, just their own spontaneous feelings). I certainly couldn’t have talked to mine about anything like that – I shudder at the thought even now! That’s not right either.
I was also in the purple. it didn’t offer much status among my peers. TBH, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t mean much.
SSL
“Most of the time school counselors and teachers don’t even inform parents when their children express these feelings in the classroom setting. And often times once a child begins to talk about feelings of gender dysphoria there is a very quick rush to begin hormone therapy and initiate discussions of gender reassignment surgery. ”
Are you telling me children are sent for hormone therapy without the parents being involved? Because that’s what you seem to be saying.
You seem to have been a fly on the wall in a whole lot of places. Amazing.
No I am not telling you that. What I said is that these therapies and surgeries are being aggressively pushed basically as soon as child mentions a feeling of dysphoria, and yes sometimes one of the parents at least is not involved. It’s called reading Alba. It allows you to be a fly on the wall in a whole lot of places. I thought you knew that though?
Your first sentence is utterly unclear and doesn’t say what you are now suggesting it meant to say, i.e. that you’re not claiming there are cases where neither parent is told but that sometimes only one parent is told. I’d have thought the difference was utterly critical.
It’s called writing clearly, SSL, and I thought you knew about that too.
Although I’m not at all clear why that would be the fault of the teacher or counsellor. I’ve been a teacher, as you know. You don’t normally expect to have to have two separate conversations with two separate parents in order to ‘inform the parents’. If the parent you inform doesn’t pass the information on to the other parent that is one hundred percent not your issue. You very deliberately suggested it was: . ‘counselors and teachers don’t even inform…’..
You didn’t say one of the parents is not involved – you said the parents were not informed, so perhaps you could limit your criticisms of the teachers/counsellors to things they’ve actually done wrong.
Messed up italics in the last para.
Mr. Mango–
Awful article to read about the school system.
That is child abuse. Wrecking children’s minds from Day One. It is grooming behavior.
It is grooming behavior. And it is occurring often times without parental knowledge and consent. Even in the most “progressive” states. Yes Alba it is happening.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/18/california-parents-outraged-after-children-in-middle-school-attend-lgbt-fair
SSL, will you please stop moving the goalposts within an exchange, as if I’d denied something I didn’t even mention. I specifically picked up only on your suggestion that teachers and counsellors were not telling parents about their children expressing ‘these feelings’ in the classroom setting, which I think is sorted out.
I’ve never heard of LGBT fairs. I take a dim view of children being taken anywhere without their parents’ permission, while they’re in the care of teachers. It couldn’t happen here, as far as I’m aware, since you need signed parental permission even to take them on a picnic in the park or to visit the city farm.
I’m glad you don’t live in California.
When I was 17 and only a year before leaving school for university, our English teacher had to get signed permission from our parents just to see a theatre performance of flippin’ Lysistrata. In the evening.
Not a bit of non-conformist sexuality anywhere, if you ignore the tree trunk frottage. Arborality?
SSL – you’re such a Greek Chorus. Do you have any original ideas?
“Looking into it” – now that should send chills down the spine of any decent person. I’m reminded of Alexandra’s (the other Englisher) admitting that pensioners freezing to death in their homes was, “an issue”. Jesus. In other words, you all are good with it. But some unbalanced woman on the train lamenting the death of her nation, then all hell breaks out cuz you’re not good with it.
A parallel being as the bureaucratic mind is the same wherever you go: In Cologne (I believe), Muslim thugs were hanging around the Train Station, harassing, assaulting, robbing and raping people. The Police admitted it was “an issue” but claimed not to have the manpower to deal with it. So German patriots decided to go out and deal with it themselves. And yes, some had crew cuts and wore boots good for stomping. They made a good beginning before the Police magically found the manpower and showed up in force to stop the Good Guys who had the Scum on the run.
The Bureaucrat is a toady to those above Her, and a Tyrant to those below. The Feminine Gender produces an enormous number of these type people. Big Sister. Mommy! Seawolf’s Dream of Nancy and Hillary. They, their bosses, and their enables and adorers are the Enemies of Western Civilization.
Janos. Get help. Really.
Weak, Alba, very weak. A tacit admission of de facto defeat. You have been bested – Again!
There are some diatribes, Janos, that shouldn’t be dignified with the effort of a response, lest the writer be deluded into thinking they’ve actually said something.
Yeah, a “diatribe” being any set of words which tells the truth about you.
Janos, who or what would you like to blame cases of fuel poverty on? I’m curious. Inadequate pensions generally? Poverty among older women who relied on their husband’s pension? Lack of social care? Do you even know who provides most social care, in human terms? Poor housing quality? Inadequate building regulations?
Who do you blame them on in your own country?
There’s going to be a lot more of it about or have you not read The Long Emergency? I may not escape, depending on how long I live and how things pan out, which should make you happy. I’ll be very happy to have made you very happy as I croak my last, with icicles on my lips.
Pay reparations to all Chinese people in the US….because of the “Chinese Exclusion Act”, anti-miscegenation Laws, the railroads, and those stupid pigeon English fortune cookies.
Eart to Pucker. What is the matter with you? You pay reparations every time you Ebay.
Earth to Pucker.
Or spend a dollar at Walmart. (while you can). Reparations have actually been paid in full. Now they are going to eat us. I fear it is my fate. They have a recipe for me.
Yep, don’t be straying at night – K-Dawg – I’ve heard they have dawg patrols looking out for peripatetic pets.
This Music will be Eternal, if you do not Change the Battery
As you can see the opposite is true, since the battery in this case is Theresa May
The European Union wants to offer UK a signed check without a inscribed amount, just so the chief superintendent of Brexit as prime minister of Great Britain remained a staunch opponent of Brexit and part-time spy for the European Union.
Tusk offered to give Britain a postponement with an open date, so that it will end only when both parties sign an agreement.
https://news.sky.com/story/theresa-may-facing-prospect-of-longer-brexit-delay-at-eu-summit-11689263
Theresa May dances:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGtOT1tIAwg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbCDFNRA-Wo
P.S. Russian Channel 1 now quotes yours truly:
For example, today, in connection with the Monroe Doctrine, Solovyev said that the USA in Ukraine had climbed into the bedroom without taking its boots off.
Burning churches in Louisiana. The Trump Madness is beginning. Do you think a man like Donald Trump, who never gave a rat’s ass about anything but himself, a man who took property away from a little old lady to build a parking lot for limo’s, a man who cheated with the Russian to win an election, is going to lose his sad and disgraceful mind without lighting the whole world on fire? And those dutiful, obedient Republicans, all eager to see an old white man rule with an iron fist, will go along well because their voters want them to and to keep power they’ll do anything, even end the world as we know it. What a pathetic bunch of losers.
I think you need a vacation sweetie. You are allowing the “old white man” to consume your every thought and post. I worry about your anxiety levels. It isn’t good for you to be so stressed. What is going on today has been building for a long time. Yes it does feel like the end of the world. And it is for sure the end of a world. It has all been planned. But to think that your nemesis is somehow the only one to blame for this dying world that you are lamenting is short sighted. You need to consider all who are benefiting from this situation. One point to consider. How much money has the DNC fund raised off of Trump alone? What are they doing with that money?
Trump seems to be the perfect catchall bogeyman to absorb all the confusion of half the population. He’s clearly not worth presidential respect, but everyone still upset about the Great H losing can see absolutely no positive in him, and so be it. I find him amusing…not “funny”, mind you…just amusing to watch, like a donkey trying to walk a tightrope.
I understand peoples’ need to vilify one person…but after seeing the world view of many friends and family change so much since 2016, I have to wonder if it’s a good thing or a bad thing (for them).
I think our society has reached the point where we realize that there are different Americas running parallel to each other and we may ultimately not all be able to live together in one peaceful society.
I understand what you’re saying, I just don’t think it’s as serious as all that. We take politics seriously for some damn reason. Sure…”making a difference” n’ stuff. On a local level, I agree wholeheartedly. I just find it hard to believe we’ll see the likes of national civil war over virtue signaling and hurt feelings. Then again…one might argue the first schism was based on just those things. Huh. I’ll have to rethink that, perhaps.
I used to think it all mattered to the highest extent…then I read the volumes of Mark Twain. People have been saying the same things about our government since the printing press. That gave me some comfort, and also made me care a lot less about each and every “scandalous development” from our “leaders”. They are (excepting the rare special individual) no more than we are, except they have the podium. Why get so invested in what we have essentially no control over? Life is short. Why make it seem so long?
I guess I would say because in the end it is Life and Death. If you care about historical America. We have individuals who are making decisions that impact every aspect of our lives and they are ill-equipped to do so and are often times hired help of entities and organizations whose goal is to either destroy the historical America or completely dismantle and transform it. I totally understand your viewpoint and some days I feel the same. But you must know that those who are benefiting from the strife and rapid changes will not rest or take a break and they have not. And thus they have been triumphant to this point. They count on the mass of people remaining ignorant and apathetic. That is why anyone who starts to understand and has energy to fight is quickly sidelined and marginalized.
“But you must know that those who are benefiting from the strife and rapid changes will not rest or take a break and they have not.”
Ain’t that the damn truth.
I don’t mean to take a nihilistic approach to viewing my potential role in the world…but I know enough about myself to accept that I tend to lean pessimist. Generations of influence and lack of financial concern grants some people nothing but time to scheme and stack more chips. I don’t have that kind of spare time, so I have to accept certain truths and move forward.
Good thing bad thing for them or anybody!
Get past the Hillary thing. Blue hairs talk of her when they forget what else to talk about but she is as irrelevant as a canary at a cat show.
All the rules were broken with Trump. My god, America let him have rallies where new LED lighting was used of the most intense kind! Consequently:
1) Trump was exposed to light.
2) Trump got soaking wet under his suit at his rallies. He would scream and sweat and the blue suit covering his blubber with its choking red tie cause him to drip with overheat.
3) Trump would be allowed to snack after the rallies and it was way past midnight when he did so.
America now reaps what it has sown. All the rules were broken.
You misread my writings as you do everything else. My keyboard is like a heavy bag. I punch on it and I am relieved of my daily stresses. They float away like butterflies on a breeze. Tiny keystrokes, but imbued with power, the power of the individual transmitter. Then all of you keyboard counselors can feel smug prescribing rest and relaxation when I’m stoned immaculate, out here, above it all, observing, commenting, detached like a bad retina, but involved like a Price is Right contestant.
I’m impressed.
So who’s burning churches? In almost every case it turns out to be a member if the congregation, triggered by malice, personal grievance or mental illness. Its a close cousin of ‘hate crimes’, which 99% of the time is a hoax.
Brh
What do you mean who?
Who’s the main anti-Christian force in America? Who wanted to force all Christian churches to perform a Rite of Marriage between homosexual couples?
It’s not that it loves homosexuals, it just hates Christianity.
If the Bible prohibited keeping fish in aquariums, it would require all churches to float tropical fishes on Altars!
As Jussie Smollett demonstrated, things are not always as they seem.
Times of Israel: With almost all votes in, Netanyahu-led right wins decisively
https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-most-votes-in-netanyahu-gantz-tied-at-35-but-likud-led-bloc-set-for-win/
And so does Entente Cordiale of Putin’s Russia, Trump’s America and Netanyahu’s Israel.
Hip hip hooray!
In the last seven days nearly 8,000 illegal immigrants have been released into the country by DHS. Native born Americans will continue to see their political representation slip away as the electorate is forever shifted to a third world base that will be very compliant with an authoritarian Marxist ruling class. Nothing apparently can stop this from happening. Especially when at least half of the native born population enthusiastically embraces the others while rejecting their own brothers and sisters. Queen Ann was right. It really is Adios America.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/09/dhs-releases-nearly-eight-thousand-border-crossers-illegal-aliens-in-one-week/
Where are they being released to? Where do they go?
Immigrant support networks… they are literally all over the place.
And most already have families and friends here so they simply fan out across the entire nation and rejoin there quickly growing clans and communities. As I have said before they are literally everywhere. In the smallest villages and biggest cities and there numbers increase hourly.
A question.
Watching the lineup of political idiots this morning and a question popped into my head.
Why is it that the opinions of all the talking heads is identical? Not a single bit of division of opinion. Myself, I have a mixture of feelings that lead to one conclusion, that the Deep State is destroying America in every way they can. I do believe in Medicare for all, because there are no other alternatives that are viable. Healthcare is not a competitive marketplace and because of that needs central regulation to avoid runaway toxic capitalism. The collusion between the medical and pharmaceutical industries is well documented and the extreme example is the pain relief crisis. Medicare for all because Medicare is a fairly well run organization that provides a starting point. If one hundred percent of the electorate wants guaranteed healthcare, healthcare is a right, then so be it. But understand, all of us will pay for it. I believe that we are changing the planet, because of the force of increasing beyond capacity population. Any other solution, except trying to level off or reduce the impact of our numbers is meaningless. AOC is right on the coming effects of AGW but she does not have a clue how to really fix it. Her solutions will cure the core problem all right, reduce the population, the hard way.
Anyway, back to my original question. Why do the talking heads have exactly the same opinions on everything? Why are the opinions the same twenty minutes after an occurrence?
Who are the groups that are controlling the minds of our leaders so completely? These are the real enemies of the republic! It is hard to believe that every Democrat believes the baloney being generated by their leadership, whoever they are, currently. Same with the GOP idiots. Shoot, I every agree with GA, Seawolf and JD once in a while.
The divergence of opinion being caused by the central opinion creators is ripping the country apart. Trump is an excuse. Obamacare is an excuse. GND is an excuse. The border is an excuse. These are real problems that the central powers that be do not want solved. Without the discord they cause, they lose the levers of power they control us with.
Small minds are made busy arguing about small issues created by the Big Boys and Girls. Large minds should be working on how to get rid of the manipulators tearing America apart.
Time will tell.
By the way, realize the Deep State makes its business the dissolution of the country. They are the enemy, not Trump, not AOC, not Barr, the Deep State. Watching the cast of characters working, there are only a few who recognize this fact. I hope they can stop being small minded and can destroy the enemy. Dems and GOP both!
I hope that someday, when each of our individual journeys in this world comes to its end…we get that answer. And I hope it makes us laugh.
Clearly we are not in on the gag.
I do know that the talking heads have “talking points” meetings before each broadcast day, and they are supposed to steer conversations with guests as smoothly as possible to the “suggested” talking points from their higher-ups.
I read the New York Times… I don’t have these problems.
I’m too busy absorbing intelligent commentary, in depth reportage, and nuanced profiles.
John, there is still time to buy today’s New York Times… Only $3. You remember paying for information, don’t you? I mean, without the ads interrupting the wax dummies reading of the teleprompter? It’s a whole ‘nother world.
Best, Li’l Debbie
I enjoy reading the NYT as much as the next guy, but I fail to see how it presents a different point of view from the talking heads he was talking about. Same thing, just presented well with proper grammar in writing.
The NY Ragtimes spews the same shit that they all do Mr. Mango, Spongedebbie doesn’t really soak it up, he just works for the circulation department. It is done to counter our host’s disgust with the worthless Old Rag. Get a used copy and burn it or flop it onto a puddle of dog pee. There’s its true value.
the worthless Old Rag. – Walter
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I disagree Walter. I’ve been getting and reading the NYT 7 days per week for the past 2 or 3 decades and it is an excellent paper …………. except for one thing: their shameless left-wing editorial slant. I can’t think of even one of their op-ed writers I would describe as right-wing.
Granularity and nuance are lost in translation, and other quantifiable benefits are avail to physical readership.
The qualitative and quantitative differences in cognitive information processing between reading a physical newspaper and listening to a linear news network broadcast are significant and can be found in the scientific literature.
I know this intuitively because my hippocampus is beefed up like Peak Arnold in the 1980s from reading the daily New York Times print edition.
For everyone else, these scientific studies may or may not convince those with shrivelled frontal lobes traumatized by paroxysms induced by the degenerate habit of watching television news… the damage may be permanent.
The qualitative and quantitative differences in cognitive information processing between reading a physical newspaper and listening to a linear news network broadcast are significant and can be found in the scientific literature. – Snak Pack
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This is so true. Reading beats listening on many levels. This is true even of audio books vs the traditional print versions. What I like best is simultaneously reading and listening to a book, particularly when the audio reader is a professional and is expert at doing accents. Read and listen to anything written by Charles Dickens, for example. I like to see the words so I can look up any I’m unfamiliar with.
Even in terms of reading, the evidence shows that content read from printed books and journals is more effectively absorbed than if it’s read from a screen.
“I like to see the words so I can look up any I’m unfamiliar with.”
I hate to say it but the Kindle’s great for that as you just need to touch the word.
I hate to say it but the Kindle’s great for that as you just need to touch the word. – Greenie
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Well, even here I just put the cursor on a word, double click to highlight it, then right click and I can select from various options one of which is to get a dictionary definition (including a spoken pronunciation). Don’t know where I’d be without it. Maybe it is a feature of the Chrome browser I use or maybe all browsers have a same or similar feature, I don’t know. The tech-savvy among us, like K-Dog, would know for sure.
Thanks for that, Q. I’ve always just opened a new tab so you’ve saved me some seconds of typing as I didn’t know you could do that!
An observation:
The levers of power ‘they’ control us with are not controlled by them. Any perceived control is a total illusion. Money is the power. Money is the fuel which animates the affairs of men. Small minds can think they control levers which existed before they were born and that would be called madness were minds not so small.
You think small minds are busy arguing about small issues so naturally you think the dialectic provides a balance. And expecting that of the dialectic is not wrong for the dialectic does balance. It balances with you.
But sadly it is not a good feeling to find out that the smartest man in the room, or the sharpest blade in the drawer, is you.
It doublesucks because now; being the sharp blade you are; you know you can’t avoid responsibility any more.
It’s a conceit to believe that control is beyond reach, determined by money alone. But responsibility is, indeed, the key.
“These are real problems that the central powers that be do not want solved. Without the discord they cause, they lose the levers of power they control us with.”
Now this is good.
“Groom the Altai mountains to the Pacific Coast, logging is ravaging Russia’s vast forests, leaving behind swathes of scarred earth studded with dying stumps.
The culprit, to many Russians, is clear: China.” A4, New York Times.
“Artyom Lukin, professor of international studies at the Far Eastern Federal University of Vladivostok, noted that government corruption, criminality, and the lack of economic development in Siberia and the Far East have made the crisis worse.
‘In many areas of the Russian Far East and Siberia, there are few other ways to make money, or to make a living, than stripping natural resources of the vast surrounding forest.'”
Just imagine CNN devoting the time for dictating a full page New York Times article… It is to laugh. Television news is for plebes who don’t know and don’t want to know what’s really going on in the world.
The Chinese have a different mindset. The Chinese are people of intensive development, to them extensive development is categorically contraindicated for purely internal reasons.
All these legends about the conquest of Siberia by China are simply Kissinger’s lies, which worked only because after Khrushchev in Russia, complete morons came to power, who, even unlike the Bolsheviks and Stalinist functionaries, didn’t understand and didn’t want to understand anything.
China’s stripping forests in countries around the world…. Pristine rain forests… Boreal forests… Private, state owned… It doesn’t matter.
And those raw materials are consumed and exported as plywood and furniture.
And while they’ve increased their imports by an order of magnitude since 1998, they’ve instituted strict protections for domestic forests, and restrictions on logging within China.
And why should they?
Russia sells logging rights at the astonishing price of mere $2/hectare ($0.80/ac.)
Also, 411.75 ppm is the current atmospheric CO2 Level, an increase YoY from 408.32 ppm.
Yes but I’m sure the Left will blame it all on Trump.
Do we need another chorus of “Blame da left”?
Is enthusiasm for Trumpo lagging?
Maybe the 1 million annual permanent residents expected this year? The chain migration revving up? 100k per month on the border? H1 visas?
Mucho dinero at the maralago, amigo.
Meanwhile we’re all set up to deliver F35s to Turkey and are giving $1.3 billion to Al-sisi this year. Both of them are turning around and buying Russian arms. What a conundrum. Putin’s cash hordes are growing in Moscow, funds the IMF can’t squeeze. With friends like these…
Don’t forget that Egypt was busted for buying North Korean arms in violation of UN sanctions a few years back. So the fact that they’re now buying Russian arms is no doubt characterized by the State Department as an improvement.
For some of you who liked my comments, there is an extended discussion of class and race, as well as Europe’s dilemma on the website Downwithjugears.blogspot.com, The Obama Cult Gets Weirder
and Weirder, Oct. 29, 2008. This is also the NW Front website.
Also, a discussion on nationalism and the historical inaccuracies of ‘diversity’ was discussed in Benjamin Schwartz’s The Diversity Myth in Atlantic Monthly, May 1995.
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A ways back I wondered, given the fertile imagination of the “thinking classes” in creating new distractions, what could top tranny washrooms? It was a truly inspired idea and I had to give the Obama administration top marks for that one, and I am still admiring as it kept the pot boiling for months. All the while progressives did self-congratulatory superiority dances while hapless Republicans sputtered.
I mean, who saw THAT coming? I sure didn’t. I suppose it had a genesis and a fermentation period in the court system, but the Democrats latched onto it and exploited it brilliantly. You have to laugh, as a means of diverting attention from issues of material need, whether it’s steady, decent paying work or health care or higher education, trannie shitters was the ticket, something entirely new, and arguably a better issue than abortion or evolution or classroom prayer, all of which were getting a wee bit stale.
Well, maybe I under-estimated the Democrats. Because now it’s reparations. This has been kicking around for a while, with nobody really taking it seriously. But it’s gathering steam. They had the Russia Collusion thing for three years but with the Mueller Report putting a spike in it, they’d have to come up with something else.
Again, this is brilliant, it gives campus snowflakes another issue over which to virtue-signal, the Democrats can stand tall and berate Republicans over their convenient amnesia over historic wrongs. But most of all it misdirects most masterfully. The Koch Bros and the Davos class must be laughing their asses off.
Does this top trannie washrooms? It might, but care need be taken as now we could be talking real money and in the handbook of American Victimology, you’ve got an ever expanding list of aggrieved groups. It’s fine if the issue is about small numbers of people like transexuals, because that problem involved relatively trivial sums and it was all grandstanding anyways. But now we’re talking about tens of millions of people, not only of Blacks but also Amerindians, all of whose ancestors suffered grievous harm.
As we all know, or should know, Democrats are screamingly full of shit, they do not give a flying fuck about Blacks nor Indians nor Gays nor social justice, nor economic justice, nor justice of any other sort. What Democrats and progressives and SJWs of all stripes are all about is themselves, their own pleasure, their own money and career prospects and that of their kids. So this reparations thing could get tricky because if it costs money the question inevitably becomes who pays for it? And it’s not a stretch to say that the Democrat-progressive-SJW cohort is not about to pay one thin dime out of their own pockets. This has yet a ways to go so we won’t know whether they’re more full of shit over reparations or climate change.
So, who pays for it? They talk up reparations, they create expectations, and once that cat is out of the bag, how do you get it back in? This COULD blow up in their faces and maybe they’ll have to start walking it back or maybe they’ll conjure up yet another distraction to make people forget about reparations. I wonder what they’ll come up with. A war maybe?
Only way it works is for paying into the “reparations fund” to be voluntary. Kinda like paying extra on your power bill to “promote development of new green technology.”
Which could work, if everyone that feels they somehow owe a debt on someone else’s centuries-old sins (or, even possibly their actual ancestors in some cases) decides to pony up from their own pockets. In a small number of cases where families actually have slave-owning history, this rights the wrong. In most cases, it would be virtue signalling to the extreme, but help some very awkwardly deluded folks sleep better at night.
Best part would be when no one actually pays in.
Either way, it will never happen, and I think you’re right, volodya, it’s a brilliant distraction.
Did you come up with this idea of a voluntary fund? If so, hats off, of all the alternatives, that one is the ONLY one with a hope in hell, that is, if they’re serious.
Then of course, there’s the devil lurking most mischievously in the details, of how to distribute the money, who administers the fund etc.
While I’m sure the idea has been had by many others, of whom I’ve not yet spoken to, yep, that one came from my noggin. [bow]
Feel free to use it as you please.
“Then of course, there’s the devil lurking most mischievously in the details, of how to distribute the money, who administers the fund etc.”
They’d spend more trying to decide how it’s done than is actually distributed.
Kool cigarretes
40 ouncers
Weed
Stolen 9mm ers
Spinner rims
Sneakers (the best)
… next thing you know the money is gone, all hell breaks loose.
Brh
Candace Own is the only person speaking on behalf of Whites on Capital Hill. Will our Candace not say one word in defense of Brenton Tarrant, the High Elven Warrior of Valinor who crossed the depths of time, space, and dimensionality to save a suffering White Humanity?
Could she be a White who has been surgically altered to look like a Black? A secret weapon from our labs in Antarctica?
Gandhi said secrecy is a form of violence. Perhaps. But what of those who make secrecy necessary? Isn’t that violence as well? Aren’t they the ones who began the fight? And obviously, replacing a native population with immigrants is genocide, and thus violence on a mass scale.
And obviously, replacing a native population with immigrants is genocide, and thus violence on a mass scale. – Janos
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Yes, of course, obviously…and thus…
She is invested in us since she is in a relationship with a White Man and is politically conservative and appreciative of the Real America. Our crisis is bringing us into alliance with interesting characters. But so it must be. At least they are willing to speak and fight for us. Which can’t be said for at least half of us. A shame and a crime.
Oh really? Didn’t know that. Maybe we can make her an honorary Aryan and offer her asylum.
Oh now I get it: you hate the very process of thinking: using inductive logic, coming to a conclusion, and then extending that conclusion to a Principle if offers the chance to explain or coordinate facts, and using it via deductive logic in other cases.
You just want to believe in what you already believe in, perhaps whatever the N.Y Slimes tell you to believe in. They are your Authority, your Brain, your de facto God.
Oh now I get it: you hate the very process of thinking: using inductive logic, – Janos
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No, not really. It’s the preachyness of your tone that bothers me… like you’re Demosthenes or somethin.’ You could drop the “you see” bit for starters.
No, you hate following the logic I present. You prefer your whims and your own timing. You refused to follow my logic anent race, until finally you investigated on your own. Now you refuse to admit my part in your partial awakening. Your whims again. I refuse to worship your frailty, Q. My style will continue as is. You can skip over it if you like.
You can skip over it if you like.- Janos
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I wouldn’t think of skipping over your comments. They are among the most clever on this board.
I think what is really telling is how much breath and spit is wasted by Trumptards. Let’s take a look.
Lock her up! Nope
Repeal and replace! Nope
Build that wall! Nope
Whose gonna pay for that wall? Mexico Nope
Finish that wall. Nope
While they’re yelling and screaming I’m sure they believed it. And when many people yell and scream at the same time, it is high volume. In the end they’re all just screaming idiots.
“While they’re yelling and screaming I’m sure they believed it.”
Joe Sixpack…maybe.
Repub lawmakers/pundits? Of course not. They know virtually nothing gets done despite the endless rhetoric. Their jobs depend on it.
You can try to reach him but he has been unreachable for a few days now. He is in the midst of a terrible rage spiral. He hasn’t been the same since the summary of the Mueller report came out.
Ah, thanks for the heads up.
Russia sells logging rights at the astonishing price of mere $2/hectare ($0.80/ac.) == Snack Pack
Hey, Snack Pack, could you send me the names and phone numbers of Russian governors – obvious traitors – who do that?
I have exactly the place in FSB where I could forward this information.
Good column today by Holman Jenkins in the WSJ about Tesla and electric cars in general, upshot is, they cost more to manufacture than they can be sold for. Tesla relies on tax rebates to bolster sales but those rebates are coming to an end.
“Bloomberg news recently celebrated the fact that one third of new cars in Norway were electric. Unmentioned was the litany of handouts that made the electric car a no brainer for many Norwegians, from giant tax breaks to free parking and even free charging”.
“The kicker is that Norway can afford its electric car habit partly because its one of the worlds biggest oil exporters … the world is ruthlessly exporting an electric car industry that is a hothouse flower and will need massive and continuing subsidies from buyers and users of gasoline powered cars.”
I might add, in Europe, in Paris and Malmo and Nice, where muzzies in their street aktions like to torch cars by the thousands and watch them burn, how flammable are these electric cars? That’s also a question that needs answering.
Brh
The WSJ loves the oil and gas industries and cannot abide by any abridgement of the energy subsidy model, status quo.
Some may not be able to appreciate the dire consequences of adding CO2 to the atmosphere, but the Norwegians do. Ditto that for NOx, O3, and PM2.5. Whats all that stuff? Cancer causing crap that the WSJ would pretend is just OK for kids and the elderly to breathe. Intelligent Norwegians again, differ. Quality of life improves and degrades by degree and decree.
Take any city, and try and imagine how you could reduce the pollutant load. First, you replace cars with electric. Then you replace roads with pedestrian only zones.
Yes, you have to subsidize the competition for Petroleum- because obviously Petroleum is the most subsidized industry on the planet (for all the external costs the future generations will have to bear.) Actually I am unsure about that- agriculture or mining could be even more subsidized.
Meanwhile the NYT reports that Audi and BMW colluded with VW to install emissions-defeating devices and software in their so-called “clean diesel”. They distributed their cancer-causing cars all over the world, but especially in Europe. This irritates the Norwegians… but not the WSJ, because for the WSJ, damages to the little guy are just profits being made.
As for France, they are home free from fossil fuels excepting nuclear power.
Closer to home I am considering the Tesla technology to anchor a carbon-free power plant. Solar panels are down to $1/watt installed. I live near a school that now has 400+ panels.
At $1/watt capacity, the barrier to achieving a real carbon neutrality is becoming practical.
The final move is capping the wellheads and putting executives and politicans on trial. We aren’t there yet, but you, too can live in the future. Learn how to operate a bicycle now so you can be in good condition for riding the transportation of the future.
“Intelligent Norwegians, again, differ” — Snacks
Haha, that’s why Norway is producing 2 million barrels of oil per day.
Brh
Norway is the 15th largest producer and distributor of oil in the world. Their economy depends upon black gold.
Wrong. Norway’s economy does not run on oil. Their gasoline cost $10 a gallon. They have a trillion dollar wealth fund that they funnel all the profits from oil so that their citizens can have a nice retirement. That is the way to run a country. America’s economy runs on oil and war and they don’t give a damn about people or their retirement. Remember you have to pay into Social Security. No tickie, no laundry.
Muzzies and Africans are pouring into Norway to get a piece of tha action.
Brh
Sorry seawolf Norway relies on oil and gas production for 17% of its GDP. I didn’t mention anything about how they use the revenue. Being a small, homogenous White nation up until the migrations it comes as no surprise that they managed to create a real social safety net. But the importance of oil in their economy is just a fact.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-economy-of-norway.html
Yep Brh. They made a big mistake letting the migrants in just like us. And we’ll all pay a price.
If their economy depended on black gold, that money would be spent immediately. Your premise is flawed whether you admit it or not.
“I might add, in Europe, in Paris and Malmo and Nice, where muzzies in their street aktions like to torch cars…”
Why didn’t you mention the Gilet Jaunes, brh? Are those car burnings OK?
What the hell is that?
Muzzies like to burn cars in Paris, Nice, Grenoble etc, its that simple. Sometimes they have a grievance, sometimes its on a holiday like New Years, sometimes just for fun.
I was just wondering if the fine western technology in electric cars burns up as good as gasolene powered cars? Mustafa in Nice would like to know too.
Brh
Brh!!!!! You were supposed to answer by saying that when Muslims burn cars and when Yellow Vests burn cars its all for the same reasons – context be damned. You see, all things must be equal so that nothing is greater than and nothing is less than. One is no different than two and two is the same as ten.
Burning cars is either OK or it isn’t, SSL, in expressing grievances. Do try to use some logic.
I haven’t forgotten your estimable opinion that the gilets jaunes were very likely to be Muslims pretending to be ‘real French people’. You could take over from the ‘psychotic’ Alex.
Do feel free to provide a list of contexts where burning cars is acceptable, advisable, sensible, excusable etc. etc.
You could start by distributing it to the car owners.
Unbelievable.
Oh Alba you should really use the logic you so adamantly demand when you read my posts. Never once did I say burning cars is acceptable, excusable or advisable. Nope not once. But in your attempt to smear me you missed that I was calling you out for your relativism. Muslims burning cars in European cities appears to be a routine thing. And as Brh suggested, it doesn’t appear that any reason is needed. Spontaneous acts of barbarism? Who knows. You won’t find out since even the police avoid their “neighborhoods”. Versus the Yellow Vests who have burned cars in very specific protests against a tyranical government that takes its orders from the Globalist EU Masters of the Loserverse.
“And as Brh suggested, it doesn’t appear that any reason is needed. Spontaneous acts of barbarism? Who knows.”
Certainly not you, SSL. Have you bothered to find out?
“Versus the Yellow Vests who have burned cars in very specific protests against a tyranical government that takes its orders from the Globalist EU Masters of the Loserverse.”
God Almighty. And they talk about school activists.
Whose ****ing cars did they burn – the ones belonging to the masters of the universe? You are precious, really.
The protests are so ‘specific’ that articles have been written on the huge variety of things they’re protesting against.
Don’t get me wrong, SSL. I don’t like Macron and I fully appreciate the frustration of French working people. After all, I know a lot more of them than you do. That means I know a few of their foibles too. In other contexts you’d call them socialists, which is amusing to me.
I just don’t admire the car burning thing. And I don’t even have a car. Come to that, I don’t even like seeing historical paving stones being dug up, if that’s what they are. The EU didn’t put them there.
And I don’t like the CRS either, just for balance, if they’re attacking peaceful protesters – even very angry peaceful protesters – or engaging in any kind of out-of-proportion reaction. I saw the film – it was shocking.
And take me back to that first moment, when you looked at the gilets jaunes and your first thought was that they must most likely be Muslims pretending to be ‘real’ French people, rather than thinking they must be French people justifiably frustrated with the Masters of the Universe…
Dying to know how your fickle thought processes work.
I know French people well (and I really like them, warts and all) so it never occurred to me to think it was anyone pretending to be anything.
“Nope not once. But in your attempt to smear me you missed that I was calling you out for your relativism.”
I think you’ll find you’re calling me out on my lack of relativism.
Alba remember how we talked about the whole making a mountain out of a mole hill thingy? Weeell…That reference about the possibility that the Yellow Vests may have been Muslim imposters was like one sentence I typed back to outsider I think it was when he posed the question could it be possible. And I responded that it wouldn’t surprise me if it were the case or could be the case or something to that effect. And that was like the end of that. So if you want to make me Millenial Milie over that very passing comment than I am totally ok because you are taking poetic license with it. And again that was way back when the Yellow Vests first hit the electron waves and air waves and all of that.
Well the think is, SSL, regarding mountains and molehills, I didn’t ask you to jump in on my question to brh, so if you jump into a ‘conversation’ with ‘One is no different than two and two is the same as ten, you’re asking for a rational exposé of your bluster. Sorry.
Burning cars does environmental damage that pisses me off. They burned cars and did massive damage in May 1968 too. Against capitalism and consumerism. And American imperialism. And hypocritical values and all sorts of things. It gets complicated, this car thing, deciding which car burnings are OK and which aren’t.
So I prefer to stick with two being only the same as two except in extremis.
And re your old comment, I was just interested in the way your mind worked. Instantaneous prejudices are telling. And as you mention, it was a while ago, so we were still learning 🙂 .
Also it was the conversation that made me quit for several months because of its poisonous, unthinking prejudice, so it sticks in my mind.
*thing* That made me sound like a cockney…
Here, let the beautiful Lana explain it to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=645&v=2acM80rsiHk
What is good for Whites in their own Countries, is Good. And what isn’t, isn’t. And thus, obviously keeping White countries White is the best thing of all.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/03/jared-kushner-expand-legal-immigration-1249950
“More than 1 million immigrants are allowed into the United States each year on a permanent basis but only a fraction — 140,000 — come through employment categories. The rest are relatives, refugees or immigrants from countries with low rates of immigration to the United States. These numbers don’t include immigrants allowed entry for temporary or seasonal work.
By comparison, federal officials estimate they apprehended 100,000 immigrants crossing the border illegally in March. Many of them end up being released because of overwhelming numbers at processing and holding centers. About 12 million immigrants are estimated to be in the United States illegally now.”
Front page of the Times today describes the work force at Mar-a-Lago: “Romanians serve dinner in lavish banquet halls. South Africans tend to guests in the Spa. Britons bake elegant pastries. Most are young workers hired over the winter ‘high season’ in a gated community… they dress in trim uniforms and are chauffeured by van over a bridge to the luxury compound six miles away in Palm Beach.”
This pattern doesn’t hold for the golf course, though. “Not offered apartments, they (are)… picked up by Trump contractors from groups of undocumented laborers from the side of the road; hired through staffing companies that assume responsibility for checking their immigrant visas…. ”
It goes on to describe a cottage industry in Florida, of staffing agencies increasingly used by businesses to shield them from liability for hiring decisions.
Taken all together, I have to say the situation is worse than I imagined, in every dimension. The anti-Trump media will flog him as a hypocrite which will be effective as hypocrisy has already been given a pass in public discourse, generally. Experts will be trotted out to explain how all this immigration is good, moral, ethical, and making America Great. The bottom like is
America? What is that? The mass of territory that was referred to as the United States is now called For Sale Despite Owner.
“The anti-Trump media will flog him as a hypocrite which will be effective as hypocrisy has already been given a pass in public discourse, generally.”
Kind of a contradiction there, presuming typo…either way I can’t imagine it will be effective in any way, as Trump just shrugs and ignores every time his mistakes are pointed out. Hate to say it, but it’s actually proven an amazingly effective tactic. As long as someone in power doesn’t care what people think of their moral character, they can disappear virtually any situation. New doors are now open for future “leaders” who have the stones to take it on the chin and ignore detractors, no matter how obvious their documented hypocrisies.
Certainly not saying that’s a good thing…just a powerful tool when used properly. Trump uses it like a third grade remedial schoolyard bully. Could be horrible if the wrong (read “smarter”) person assumed that role playing by the same rules. History says, “Yep.” But it’s pretty obvious Trump isn’t that guy. He’s just some schlong.
They named a beer (ale?) after this guy:
“Arrogant Bastard”
Vicky Ward in “Kushner,Inc.” exposes this guy (along with Ivanka) for what he really is.
The Trump organization would seem to not have any issues with the EEOC. “Employee Rights. Employees have a right to: Not be harassed or discriminated against (treated less favorably) because of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, disability, age (40 or older) or genetic information (including family medical history).”
The golf ‘niggas’ and staffing agencies are just another part of the American Scheme. Fake and Feint, slip through the loopholes, fatten the bankrolls or go on the dole, just don’t pay the toll, but charge the FEE. (Fuck Everybody Else).
Elegant British pastry? Please. Why not Italian, French, or Austrian? I guess Trump is a Tuna without good taste. IOW, he’s Ostentasteless.
“Ostentasteless” I outdid myself. A genuine spur original. All the talking heads will want to grab it. You heard it here first. On CFN.
Forgive me, but I’ve just been highly praised. Said I nailed Trump to a T.
Seawolf will love it.
““Ostentasteless” I outdid myself. ”
You certainly did, tucsonspur. For that you deserve a ride in the golden elevator of ostentastelessness.
Many thanks, I think?
I was all set to praise you on that portmanteau, but then I checked the interwebz, and it’s been used for decades.
So what, it’s original to me. Never saw it before. But it’s your duty to make sure no one is plagiarizing. I understand. Originality is in such short supply here, one finds it hard to accept when one sees it.
Have you seen it before? I’ll bet no.
I hadn’t seen it either,TS, so I wasn’t being sarky!
Didn’t mean to imply that you didn’t come up with it independently. Merely that you can’t claim to be the first. That’s the problem with this world; there are so many people; everything you can think of has likely already been thought by someone else at sometime.
Where do the current crop of 2020 presidential candidates fit into the prognostication of the book “The Fourth Turning”? What about Beto O’Rourke who seemingly tans his skin and has adopted the Mexican pet name “Beto” ( derivative of Alberto) in order to pander to the Mexicans in Texas?
Beto went from 3rd rate punk band singer and skate board rider to Texas Congressman talk’n Mexican Jive, right?
Yeah, and he and that hand jive got to go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIozjNOgrm8
What was Plato’s “Theory of the Forms”? Didn’t Plato say that the reason that dildo’s are existentially possible is because there exists in the cosmos the perfect ideal pattern of the dildo, i.e., the perfect Form of the dildo?
The ancient Greeks would have believed that the perfect Form of Government would be a Republic, and that a Republic can only exist on the basic of moral courage, i.e., intellectual honesty and good faith in discourse and debate, right?
I recall that on a previous ClusterFuck blog entry that some 74 year old bloke posted a comment who said that he was not a “Saggy Old Fart” and that he has a “toned” muscular Hollywood “Swimmer’s Body”?
Can this bloke recommend any good exercise books? Thank you
“Can this bloke recommend any good exercise”
Puck,
Run through the Ghetto…at night…wearing a sheet. Good cardio….
Why does this exercise regime only work at night?
Puck,
Because at night you will encounter that which goes “bump”….
What about this new California exercise, wellness craze?
“Marijuana is slowly shedding its image as a drug used by munchy-crazed potheads and becoming a medicine for people suffering from chronic pain and even a ‘wellness’ product believed to enhance healthy living. In California though, people are using placing cannabis-based products inside their bums and vaginas to enhance sex or tackle soreness caused by medical conditions.”
Alexander the Great’s Mom slept with poisonous snakes, so I guess that sleeping with Weed is not too weird?
Anything goes….
Yeah, well when ‘medical’ marijuana was being debated at our state capital, we learned from proponents that it was a cure for every disease known to man.
Now ‘recreational’ marijuana is about to become legal; at the same time I heard today there’s a move afoot to ban tobacco, which I doubt will happen because we need the swag cigarretes thru taxes to keep the welfare state going and pay out $325,000 per year pensions to our union betters.
Brh
Under the Pennsylvania statute that Dr. Cosby was convicted under, the presence of Weed in either the woman’s bum hole or pussy would vitiate Consent and could constitute Aggravated Indecent Assault. Be careful….
It is not marijuana, it is called cannabis. CANNABIS. Marijuana is a pejorative term bestowed on this wonderful plant by William Randolph Hearst, asshole that he was. It is that mighty plant spoken of in the Bible.
“…tackle soreness caused by medical conditions.”
Tackle….
The New York Times capitulates… Let me rephrase: states the obvious
“For years, both political parties have tried — and failed — to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, mindful that someday the government would reach a breaking point.
That moment has arrived. The country is now unable to provide either the necessary humanitarian relief for desperate migrants or even basic controls on the number and nature of who is entering the United States.”
We need the third party candidate Donald Trump never was.
Jay Leno had an episode on his youtube channel about the Baker electric car. Said it was all the rage with women because it was clean and quiet. Henry Ford’s wife owned one, made the rounds with it. Drove for 4 or 5 hours on one charge, 80 miles. He said soon we’ll have 1,000 mile range batteries. Only poor dirty people will still be using petrol cars because electric cars are far cheaper to own in the long run now, and in 5 years in the short run too. Trump has America hanging on to its past. Coal. “Windmills make funny sounds. Wheeeeee” He sounds like that pig on the Geico commercial yelling out the SUV window. Pretty soon an EV SUV will cost as much as a petrol SUV, be just as luxurious, and last 10 times longer and cost half as much in operating costs. But Trumptards will still be espousing the virtues of petrol and coal. They live in the past. They want to keep America in the past. Racist. Dirty coal and petrol. Guns out the ass. Building walls and caging children. What’s next, killing Mexicans and forming them into soylent green.
“Pretty soon an EV SUV will cost as much as a petrol SUV, be just as luxurious, and last 10 times longer and cost half as much in operating costs. ”
That’s what people believe about their spit-shined car in the driveway, today. It is the height of luxury, it will last forever, and it is not costing them much once its paid for. It won’t last through the coming carbon taxes and fees.
The future is a Tesla, Audi, GM or Mercedes Plug-in electric car, but you don’t drive it much. Its plugged into your house’s grid-tied solar array.
For actual transportation you summon another car with your smartphone. If you’re disabled, an electric wheelchair rides on and off. Electric bikes will almost be as common as regular bicycles. Electric motorcycles will prevail.
Gasoline and Diesel use will be restricted. Price controls, most likely.
Laws will be passed to force people to drive more efficient cars instead of pesky regulations that never worked on the auto companies themselves. Instead, you’ll get a ticket for driving a vehicle not used for its purpose; a pickup truck will have to be hauling loads, or a sedan will have to be carrying 2 or more people. Lawbreaking behavior will be self-limiting because of the difficulty of obtaining fuel, which is priced differently depending on use type.
Your identity will become a key which determines market prices of all things, and this will become a basis for renewed calls for privacy.
In light of the coming frequent storms, droughts, and fires, the events that will cause worldwide alarm, visceral public reaction will compel deeply personal changes in behavior.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Larry Paige and Sergey Brin and Bill Gates and even, Steve Jobs had a plan long ago.
That plan is the automated car.
Vector in the car, the storms, the green movement, and a solar economy is born.
Kunstler predicted this, that we would go all out to preserve driving culture, adapting to the environment we find ourselves in. That leaves people with a stranded asset- the old fossil-fuel powered vehicle. Isn’t it funny that with depreciation it will become worthless the exact moment it becomes impractical?
The wrenching adjustments to a world with less available energy will be playing out throughout every corner of the society. Still, it won’t seem much different and probably, a good deal better.
And there will be belly-achers talking about the sanctified good old days and how great they were.. and fully believing it.
Meanwhile you’ll be humming along, saved from medical bankruptcy by single payer, poverty by a universal income, and participating more positively in the world without leaving a toxic cloud in your wake.
People will begin to realize how simply wrong the fossil fueled way of life was. It will reinvigorate government missions like the EPA, to shift to actively diminishing harmful activity in every phase of American life. No longer will this nation accept containers full of toxic materials.
For the purposes of energy, petroleum will become a militarily and politically controlled substance. The green movement will bend governments toward ending domestic policies harmful to the environment or inimical to climate stability.
These “Migrant crises” will be chased back into the regions from which they sprang. A fully realized war system will be brought to bear on groups like Salvatrucha, MS-13, and Zeta cartels. Southern Command will effectively control airspace from Nicaragua to the Mexican border from its base in Honduras.
Mexico will join the United States and Canada in modernizing its government. Instead of political friction, the bonds between these nations will become even stronger.
Its all coming up, guys. So make sure you have sold your fossil fuel vehicle by 2020 at the latest. Be ready to vote for the candidate that appeals to you the most on Youtube. He’ll have a funny name, and he’s asian, but somehow white and undeniably American .
Most of your thesis is true. But I have reservations about autonomous driving. I mean I like the idea, but the execution will be messy. I don’t know but I would say more jobs depend on driving than anything else. Cabs, buses, planes, semis, dump trucks, delivery trucks etc etc etc. These people will not go gently into their good night. And the logistics are mind numbing. Just last week someone screwed a program all to hell by laying playing cards in the road or something. If you have a couple of fatal accidents… I don’t know. It’s sketchy at best at this point. I suspect the level 4 full autonomous will just keep getting pushed back. My guess is 2030 or so. It’s like going to the moon. We didn’t have the technology back in the 1960’s, we don’t have it now, and we won’t have it for at least 100 years if not more. Not until we figure out a way of getting to space without carrying the fuel on the ship i.e. wireless power where the spaceship is sent its fuel. Tesla technology is the key. Legend has it he had wireless electric cars back in the 1900’s.
How do we know they didn’t have advanced technologies ten thousand years ago before the pole shift destroyed most of the planets and plunged the remaining survivors into the Stone Age?
Looks like I’m not alone:
Ford CEO Jim Hackett scaled back hopes about the company’s plans for self-driving cars this week, admitting that the first vehicles will have limits. “We overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles,” said Hackett, who once headed the company’s autonomous vehicle division, at a Detroit Economic Club event on Tuesday. While Ford still plans on launching its self-driving car fleet in 2021, Hackett added that “its applications will be narrow, what we call geo-fenced, because the problem is so complex.”
Hackett’s announcement comes nearly six months after its CEO of autonomous vehicles, Sherif Markaby, detailed plans for the company’s self-driving car service in a Medium post. The company has invested over $4 billion in the technology’s development through 2023, including over $1 billion in Argo AI, an artificial intelligence company that is creating a virtual driver system. Ford is currently testing its self-driving vehicles in Miami, Washington, D.C. and Detroit.
Following years of hype and billions of dollars in investment, some other companies are admitting that expectations for self-driving cars were perhaps too high. Uber predicted earlier this week that its own fleet of autonomous cars would have a long wait until they finally hit the road. Waymo launched its self-driving taxi service late last year, but hasn’t opened it to the general public or expanded it beyond a few geo-fenced areas in Phoenix, Arizona.
Even though Hackett walked back immediate hopes for autonomous vehicles, he made it clear that he believed in the technology’s potential. “When we bring this thing to market, it’s going to be really powerful,” Hackett added.
How do the Russian cosmonauts jack off in outer space? If you shot it into outer space, then the jizz would keep accelerating indefinitely, right? You’d, in a way, achieve immortality, like the builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza, Egyptian Pharoah, Khufu, right?
This could be something that most people, including people in the inner cities, can actually do, and it would be something that might bring them self-respect and dignity in their otherwise diminished lives?
>>> would keep accelerating indefinitely, right?
Negative, Sir. It would move with constant velocity—not constant acceleration. Unless of course it is acted upon by external forces. It could, for example, get a gravity assist from a planet.
>>> You’d, in a way, achieve immortality
Cosmic radiation would break down the DNA in short order. You’d have to protect it somehow. The costs would add up.
Your scientific analysis may be pissing in my punch bowl?
The point is that Reparations are a form of Jerking Off, and there may be better, more fruitful ways to Jerk Off?
Oh I got your point all right. But no need to introduce scientific inaccuracies in its conveyance.
Walt Whitman you’re not.
Kirsten Gillibrand let slip what the CDC and EPA and industry have been sitting on pending official reports.
In Portsmouth on March 15, she said, ““I think we have to ban the entire class of chemicals because they will be determined … as carcinogens,”
She has “…called for the Environmental Protection Agency to treat PFAS as a class of chemicals and “designate the whole class as carcinogens.”
“If the EPA turns a blind eye and is unwilling to do the right thing, then you’ll have at least two more years when nothing is done. It’s one of the reasons why we must defeat President Trump,” Gillibrand said to the crowd of about 100 people at the city library. “He is a toxic president to America, that is a fact. He does not care.”
Gillibrand pointed to a comment she said Trump made this week about his intention to reduce all Clean Water Act standards.
“It’s unbelievable how ignorant, if not ignorant, how hateful he is,” she said.”
Kirsten Gillibrand is sticking up for the health of everyone on the planet. Everyone, that is, except those who just bought a Teflon(tm) Stain resistant treatment, upsold by their carpet cleaning contractor.
The shareholders of DuPont, as well. The rest of American and international industries have been edging out of the market and potential liability at least since 2010. In other parts of the world, news that pollution kills and it might be in their best interests to control these substances has not arrived.
That moment of realization might come as the scientific evidence is revealed soon which implicates these compounds as cause of cancer, at lower exposures previously regarded to be safe, and will identify hazards in the immediate environment to health and safety.
I can’t think of another class of compounds with an array of application across the entire swath of consumer goods and industrial products, aside from plastics, that are as ubiquitous and currently filling a role that other materials cannot.
Virtually all waterproofing of synthetic fabrics- whether membrane or coating- is toxic, is releasing particles into its environment, and must be treated as toxic waste and disposed of.
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Americans will be asked to put their fancy Patagonia winter jacket, GoreTex shoes, and other articles in a doubled up garbage bag, sealed with tape, and thrown in the garbage.
On one hand, clothing retailers are loathe to possible lawsuits, liability, and bad press. On the other hand, they can use the opportunity to sell more clothes, so…
Other sectors of the economy will have to go back to the drawing board, each bitching and moaning about their special cases. We lived without these compounds up to around 1950, so, I don’t anticipate it being that much of a problem.
All the major chemical manufacturers will join Western industrial leadership to embark on the optimistic journey toward global regulation and enforcement. Meanwhile the gangster polluting nations of the world will resist collaboration while giving the UN a hand-job under the table, setting up unilateral bold action by President Octavio-Cortez in 2026, wiping out the last redoubts of its manufacture, with miniature drone warheads dropped from low Earth orbit.
Chemicals, condoms, conundrums…..intimate environments, global environments, worldwide worry….
Some say it’s useless to give a fuck…..others differ:
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/move-trojans-condoms-appeal-crunchy-women/story?id=22656541
Video part was lost. Sorry.
“In a recent promotion online, L Condoms shows a romantic “good man” in a forest luring women with his social consciousness.”
YOU FORGOT CRISIS.
Kirsten Gillibrand, a fine and scientific mind.
How many times have you walked into a new home or entered a new car and said, “It smells so new”. They were actually selling scenters for cars that smelled “new”.
You are smelling the toxins you are mentioning. Luckily the scent, therefore the out gassing declines with time.
JohnAZ
I read a decade or two ago that when you buy new carpets or furniture (not just upholstered – even plain ‘wood’) you would be advised to turn up the heating to its maximum, open all the windows and go and stay somewhere else for two weeks.
Only really possible for people in burglar-proof, high storey flats, I suppose.
Do you remember the sofa burn thing from a decade ago?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1022376/At-1-000-people-suffer-horrific-burns-toxic-leather-sofas.html
The Fourth Turning….
How’s Beto gonna save us?
What is the historical role of the “Dill Weed”?
Don’t know if it’s true but Wiki says GM takes a loss of $8000-$9000 for every BOLT electric car they sell. Sounds like quite a business model for a company that was saved from bankruptcy 10 years ago with my tax dollars and is again laying off thousands. Also if you buy a BOLT the feds will give you substantial tax credits. YIPPEE! What really frosts my ass is the charging stations showing up around here. They are right at the front door where the handicapped spots are. If your so fucking green how about you walk a little? Not only that but I assumed that you had to pay to charge your EV, but NOOOO! the charging stations are FREE! I have seen a total of two cars there and they are always the same two cars. I get to pay higher electric rates for this freebie. Thank you sir can I have another?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Bolt
Mr. K has warned against the tendency toward techno-narcissism. All actions have consequences and reactions too. Good actions can have bad consequences. And the road to hell is paved with good intentions they say.
Hate to say it Rip, but it looks like EV is just another grift, in a long line of grifts.
How many more can we take, before the whole thing goes down?
Brh
We can’t take no more Brh. The ship is taking on too much water and we need more than buckets to get the water out!
Trump is quite a bucket.
Then grab him, dip him in the water and start helping us get the water out of the ship!!! I know you will enjoy that task :-).
He’s already full of shit.
Then throw him overboard. Hope you aren’t upset. Hillary was too so she was tossed.
They arrested Julian Assange. The persecution of truth tellers continues and the liars are running the investigations. It is an inquisition.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called Assange’s arrest a blow to democracy.
The hand of “democracy” squeezes the throat of freedom.
https://www.facebook.com/maria.zakharova.167
Ask yourself who benefits.
There has been information circulating (e.g., The HiIl) for some time that Comey intervened to nix an immunity deal.
The McResist cockroaches are in full panic at the news on Barr and Spygate and Assange is quickly arrested after 7 years.
It ain’t over.
I heard that Comey had it out for Assange too. It looks like Barr may just give the resistance all the evidence that they want in short order. That would be a dream at least. And allegedly the whole spying operation on the Trump Campaign was run right out of the Obama Whitehouse. Hopefully we will know soon…
Just read that the house was ready to pass a tax bill that would have allowed the IRS to set up a free tax filing service on it’s website, which was opposed by HR Block, and others. Yup, it was ready to be passed, but luckily John Lewis (D-Georgia), stepped in and was able to persuade the other Democrats to take it out of the bill. He said that would be taken care of later. Just goes to show that the Republicans aren’t the only ones on the take, there’s plenty of room at the trough for Democrats as well, proving once again that we have the best Congress that money can buy.
You are slowly making your way up the hill to the Apex. I am so excited!!!!!! Left/right it’s all a con job and we have all been misled for so long. Congress doesn’t work for us at all. They won’t give us a Wall, they won’t give us a free tax filing service via the IRS, they won’t do anything for US. They take our money and they do for them and theirs.
Gun bluing has gone the way of the dodo. Why? Because the disgusting leftover is highly toxic and consequently very expensive to dispose of. Damn EPA. Doing its job. Can’t wait for Trump to pine for the return of gun bluing. “I love guns that are blued. The rich, mirror finish allows me to view my perfect profile if I want to.” Gun manufacturers have gone to what’s called black oxide finish, which is another way of doing the same thing, making the metal rust on the surface and that surface prevents further rust of the metal underneath. This is called progress. Electric cars are cleaner, more efficient, more durable, more controllable, more everything except on the low end of the scale, not less expensive, but they soon will be. Why does everyone defend petrol cars. They are dirty. They break all the time. No one factors in repairs when they assess total cost of ownership. It’s like when a millenial says he made $50 grand on his house. I ask him did you factor in your maintenance, improvements, your property taxes, the interest to service the loan. Then he does the “new math” and finds out he’s underwater. I tell him “What you think the banks are stupid?”
Really? About a year ago I had a Winchester model 1892, manufactured in 1924, reblued. It came out beautiful, and the shop that did the job didn’t say anything about going out of business. I know for a fact it is still in business, happily reblueing guns.
Brh
You’re probably talking about Precison Bluing. They are one of a handful of shops still doing it. No major manufacturer of guns does bluing anymore. They are happily not bluing anymore.
Progress can definitely happen. But the idea that improvements always mean progress is a deception. Progress for some is never progress for all.
Seawolf, electric cars may run cleaner but their battery manufacture is anything but, Child labor for cobalt, essential for your beloved electric cars.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cobalt-children-mining-democratic-republic-congo-cbs-news-investigation/
I worked in the oil patch and I never saw any children drilling.
Also as far as durability all stuff wears out and your batteries are guaranteed to fail with an expected life of ten years just about the time the warranty expires. Is ten years for a car supposed to be it’s lifetime? My trucks are 17 and 23 years old and have only ever needed basic replacement items and routine maintenance. And contrary to what you believe electricity is not free no matter how you get it.
Wait a minute Stelmose.
Are you saying, right here and now, that electricity isn’t free in the Pioneer Valley?
Brh
And Im no physicist, but it seems to me, if you have a 3000 lb car, and you want to move it from point A to point B at say, 40 mph, whether you use a gas powered motor or an electric powered motor, it would take the same amount of energy to get the job done.
Look, there’s a reason the electric car project was abandoned around 1920. It occurs to me we’ll be hearing about electric automobiles — with a handful actually being built to keep the fantasy alive — to the end of time, much like ‘High Speed Rail’.
Brh
Conventional gasoline vehicles only convert about 17%–21% of the energy stored in gasoline to power at the wheels.” An electric motor typically is between 85% and 90% efficient. … The Tesla uses 320 Wh/mile of energy (85 kWh/265 miles). The gas powered car uses 940 Wh/mile of energy (33 kWh/35 miles).
How about this for an idea?
If a corporation becomes so large that they can influence the politics of the country with boycotts, social media, or sales restrictions, it is time for the anti-trust actions to be used to break them up into smaller groups and forced to compete. A solid way to stop the control of the big corporations over us.
Teddy Roosevelt did this to the Gilded age barons in 1906. JD Rockefeller lost a lot of political control, but became richer with the breakup of Standard Oil. His wealth is still in cahoots with the globalists and very political.
Oil is a strategic commodity. It is required to wage war. Goggle, Apple, amazon, Netflix, Facebook… not so much.
LOL seriously?? Google, Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Netflix………they wage an information and deception war every single second of every single day. They are in the business of censorship and cooperating with the power brokers of the world. They are waging war right now deleting, deplatforming and demonetizing dissenting voices.
And Congress pretends to care by summoning CEOs to hearings and berating them. But no legislation to rein them in.
There is a war for your mind and information waged by big tech SSL is 100% correct AS IS THE GUY WHO COINED THE PHRASE.
In the modern age it sure seems like “to wage war” is equivalent to “to self-destruct”.
“War” is a purely decorative display.. hell it already is. Lets make it official.
@JohnAZ, this is a no-brainer. A decade back, “too big to fail” entered the public parlance. We thought maybe Obama would set things right. Instead, he did his part to keep the status quo, and to privatize profits and socialize losses.
Any corporation that’s too big to fail needs to be broken up.
War is hell.
At Ceasars triumph, Vercingetorix was marched through the Eternal City, then strangled at the Tullianum.
I like the story of his Vercingetorix’s men who at least in a movie spirited his body from the place of execution in the middle of the night to bury it with dignity in the woods. Likely at great risk. Before his execution I think Vercingetorix had been in prison for seven years.
Obama got Osama and the golden puffball will also be taking a triumph. Unearned riches if ever there were.
* I have to explain that the link is to donate to Wikileaks. Otherwise it could change to something else. How do I know? Experience, I have been here as long as Assange was in the embassy and right now all sorts of wonky things could happen.
Bubble bubble toil and trouble. The ‘experience’ I mention in passing, was recent.
I posted a video.
http://chasingthesquirrel.com/
Uh oh
CNN Superstar and presidential candidate — and noted Trump hater — Michael Avsnati — going down.
Indictments being levied today.
Brh
Payback’s a bitch.
Looks like the Corleone family is taking care of business.
And your favorite is Barzini?
Hey KDog, is Seattle stilll called ‘Emerald City’?
Brh
Actually, Corleone and Barzini is a good illustration of the theory of Colored Projects.
Judging by their attitude to drug trade, Corleones are the White Mafia clan, and Barzini are the Black.
In general, Italian Mafia reminds the Masonic lodge, just not as powerful as to make it into Big Politics.
There are 250 million petrol cars on the road. The average American spends $1500 on fuel every year. Electric fuel is 1/3 the cost of petrol. That’s a savings of $250 billion a year, year after year. In 10 years an extra $2.5 TRILLION saved. Auto repair is another $500 per car per year. That’s another $125 billion a year and $1.25 TRILLION a decade. In a hundred years that’s $37.5 trillion dollars saved, enough to pay off the national debt.
enough to pay off the national debt
And who told you that anybody is planning to pay it? Are you nuts?
In 10 years an extra $2.5 TRILLION saved. In a hundred years that’s $37.5 trillion dollars saved – seawolf
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I would NEVER try to extrapolate anything more than 5 years. Your figures for 10 years out are basically a guess even though by use of simple arithmetic you can make a very logical case. And 100 years out is just plain ridiculous. I have fairly extensive experience as a financial analyst for a large defense contractor in forecasting wage rates and the future cost of various materials important to our products.
By now every commenter on this blog is well acquainted with the Yogi-ism about how hard it is to forecast anything, especially in the future, so I won’t mention it. 😉
I finally got back to responding to Alba’s last comment which you can read above. After I wrote it I started wondering if Majella is female or a totally wokester male. Could be either.
How about a progressive troll?
Travelling isn’t so bad these days, if you’re on a fun flight like this:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/allegedly-drunk-woman-twerks-flashes-fellow-passengers-spirit-airlines-flight-new-jersey-011038693.html
Would AOC do this, after a few belts? She got da blood.
Seawolf-
Enquiring minds want to know how you plan to make up the shortfall from putting all cars on the electric grid verses gas or diesel.
How are you going to make the electricity where are all these people going to plug their cars in? What about the homeless people that don’t have a home to plug their car into.
What about cross country travel!
What do you plan on doing with all those dirty batteries at end of life?
Where are all the rare earth minerals going to come from?
there is already a good run up on lithium costs as a result. you know the same lithium some people need to take to stay semi-sane.
What greenie leftist never figure into the grand schemes are the laws of unintended consequences or murphys law.
I’m not a techno-narcissist, benr, so I’m not look for a fantasy future with an electric unicorn for everyone. I dealt with the problem at individual level by getting rid of my car about 18 years ago. Not everyone can. But a heck of a lot of people who live in places like where I live could perfectly well and they don’t.
And one reason I’d like to see more electric cars, if not one for everybody, was reflected in an item I saw on the news last night where a city school had installed a long rack on the school wall, in front of the playground, to accommodate the children’s inhalers, because so many of them had them. They’d done what they could – grown a high hedge between them and the road, because that helps a bit. But it’s not good enough. Little children shouldn’t have to pay with their health for petrolheads. Or dieselheads, whatever.
They were primary school children, and very well versed in the physiology of their condition. Look out for some ‘class actions’, maybe, in future!
Thanks for the nod up above, GA.
Oh my not another “just think of the children” screed”.
Every power hungry totalitarian starts off with that nonsense.
Again making electricity is dirty period end of story.
Your not stopping pollution just channeling it into someone else’s backyard but in the end it’s still your back yard because the world is round! As a child of the 70’s in Los Angeles we had severe smog days where it hurt to breath.
Now you can’t even smog a rat to death with modern day cars.
I have a friend that caught a rat and decided to run a hose straight to the cage put the rat cage and all in a box taped it up and cut a hole on the other side started the car and walked away. In a half hour he came back to an awake wet and pretty angry rat. Moral of the story co2 and water vapor with trace amounts of other stuff is a pretty clean combustion process.
How about the California additive mtbe they demanded we put in our summer blend turns out that was a huge boondoggle as it leaked out and a cup could pollute a million gallons of water oops!
Corrupted most of the Santa Monica water shed. Sorry about that folks! Idiots demand and the rest of us suffer. Here’s a thought want to quit polluting go live in a cave quit eating pooping and peeing and most of all quit breathing you are a gross emitter.
For another point how about the pollution of fire retardant in clothes couches and carpets!
Indoors can be every bit as polluted and worse than sitting on a freeway at rush hour!
You can’t make this shit up!
You good liberals are trying to kill us with all your do good isms
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/05/20/toxic-flame-retardants.aspx
For the one good thing you people do you screw us with 100 other bad things!
Mean while you like to blame your strawman of the day without looking at all the other things slowly killing us.
So you missed my post at April 11, 2019 at 12:18 pm #?
Why am I not surprised?
Moron.
Carefully put the cushion in a black garbage bag, and roll shut.
Then double bag with another bag and then duct-tape the thing shut.
Place in municipal garbage bin
benr
You really are a piece of work, aren’t you? Power-hungry totalitarian? I’m a retired person writing on a blog. I don’t want to come anywhere near your precious car. Poison as many kids as you want.
Don’t insult people by suggesting they don’t know electricity can be dirty to make. I’d still rather it wasn’t made next to a primary school, sorry. Kids get more of the exhaust fumes because they’re shorter. Amazing but true. And their lungs are more vulnerable than adults’ lungs because they’re still developing.
No reason in the world why you should give a fuck.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2131067-diesel-fumes-lead-to-thousands-more-deaths-than-thought/
Electric, gas, who gives a rat’s ass! Without population control you can dicker till doomsday, doesn’t matter on any significant scale.
People will eventually demand that we eat the Earth. Then defecate ’till doom.
I’ll take the muscle cars, rat rods, those pin up gals next to the classic wheels of the forties and fifties, burgers, cokes, and fries, white line fever, Commander Cody’s “Hot Rod Lincoln”, “American Graffiti”, the whole American package.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYyfRUWM2f0
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/pin-up-girls-and-cars?sort=mostpopular&mediatype=photography&phrase=pin%20up%20girls%20and%20cars&license=rf,rm&page=1&recency=anydate&suppressfamilycorrection=true
Besides, Grass, Volts, or Ass just doesn’t sound right!
I think that liberating Assange is still beyond Trump’s capabilities, unfortunately.
Lycurgus adopted a system opposed to all of these alike [referring to pederasty]. Given that some one, himself being all that a man ought to be, should in admiration of a boy’s soul endeavour to discover in him a true friend without reproach, and to consort with him — this was a relationship which Lycurgus commended, and indeed regarded as the noblest type of bringing up. But if, as was evident, it was not an attachment to the soul, but a yearning merely towards the body, he stamped this thing as foul and horrible; and with this result, to the credit of Lycurgus be it said, that in Lacedaemon the relationship of lover and beloved is like that of parent and child or brother and brother where carnal appetite is in abeyance. (Constituion of the Lacedemonians, II, 13-14)
Then there’s this passage in Plutarch as well:
Affectionate regard for boys of good character was permissible, but embracing them was held to be disgraceful, on the ground that the affection was for the body and not for the mind. Any man against whom complaint was made of any disgraceful embracing was deprived of all civic rights for life. (Moralia, The Ancient Customs of the Spartans, 7)
JS: Brilliant Athens and its allies were very pro-pedophile, while Sparta and its allies were straight. Thus like the Romans, they reflect the contradictions we have in America today. The Liberals are more brilliant but hopelessly decadent. While the Reds, Bloods, and Spartans are unimaginative yet sound. This is interpreted as “stupid” by the Blues. The final war between utterly exhausted both, leaving wide open for Roman Conquest. We can expect something similar here perhaps.
From former Pope Benedict yesterday:
“Among the freedoms that the Revolution of 1968 sought to fight for was this all-out sexual freedom, one which no longer conceded any norms,” Benedict writes in a lengthy treatise released Wednesday in his native Germany. “Pedophilia was then also diagnosed as allowed and appropriate.” Wow!
James Bretzke, a theology professor at Marquette University, calls the pedophilia claim puzzling, saying pedophilia has never been accepted by “anyone anywhere close to the cultural mainstream.”
Here’s the full article:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/04/11/pope-benedict-church-abuse-crisis-tied-to-homosexuality/3433465002/
Nowhere does it go into discussion of the body or the mind. It’s understandable that some would summarily dismiss any physical involvement as totally outrageous, regardless of any higher ‘soulful’ yearning. And yet to some others, it would seem that if there were spiritual depth to the yearning, the situation would not be so deplorable. But how to get around the fact that it’s still debauchery, albeit on a somewhat higher moral plane? Oh, but the plane is too high for low debauchery!, he cries.
Interesting that the Spartans are called unimaginative. The divide is deep enough, but the ‘armies’ still far from real fight.
Socrates was a pedarest. They killed him for it.
He was also an Athenian.
He admitted desire in that direction, but apparently abstained. In any case, he was a married man with children. Even the perverse Athenians rejected the very idea of a “gay” man as shameful. We have gone further down this rabbit hole than they ever did.
And he was killed for it? No. For questioning the Greek religion and thus being a bad influence on Athenian youth. Nothing to do with sex. Remember, being attracted to youths would have been fine in Athens.
They kill you for questioning the Greek religion and thus being a bad influence on the youth. I’d be scared of picking my nose there. Off with his finger!
Seawolf77: The average American spends $1500 on fuel every year. Electric fuel is 1/3 the cost of petrol.
If you install solar roof shingles on your house, wouldn’t your house then fuel your car… for much less than 1/3 the cost of petrol?
Just a thought. Maybe when the cost of solar collectors comes down and when the cost of electric vehicles comes down, it will be a different ball game. For now it all seems prohibitive cost-wise, a long-term investment when none of us is sure about the long-term.
Have you looked at the actual pollutants that are created with them solar panels?
Makes the Silicon valley water and three eyed fish look yummy.
Again one form of pollution verses another which is actually worse for everyone?
While we are at it who calls gas petrol other than a brit.
Belgians?
The combustion of natural gas produces CO2 and H2O. That is what we exhale when we breathe. About as clean as it gets. GE Power Systems, Seimens, Mitsubishi all sell nat gas burning gas turbines that generate 300-400 megawatts-5 of them you get a Hoover Dam. Their combined cycle efficiencies are 60% and getting higher. We have gobs of natural gas. China’s middle class will all have solar panels on their houses. They will all drive electric cars. They will have no fuel bill, no power bill. All that money to flow back into their economy. Meanwhile, Americans will still be coughing all the way to the poorhouse where they’ll die of emphysema. Thanks to Trump and the Republicans and their Trumptards, it’ll never change.
“While we are at it who calls gas petrol other than a brit.”
All the other Brits. Plus all the Australians. Plus all the New Zealanders.
So it seems you’re the odd ones out. But that’s OK. We’re not as presumptuous as you so we don’t mind what you call yours.
Oh, and South Africa too – I just checked. So you really are a bit of an anomaly. But you didn’t have a clue that you were – how very American. Well, a certain type of American anyway.
In South Africa, petrol is what they soak tires in before they pull them over the heads of white farmers and set them afire in night raids on isolated ranchers and their families.
Brh
Its called necklacing, a charming procedure. Bono from U2 was down with it, but somehow was unable to work it in with his “kill the Boer” chants in Jo’burg.
Brh
What is that supposed to mean…a certain type of American?
Means we’re stupid and bigotted, not wise and ‘welcoming’, — and attuned globally — like people in GB and western Europe.
Brh
brh
See above and don’t be silly. But the thing is there’s this thing called the interwebz where you can look up ‘what do they call gas/petrol in [country of choice]? that saves you saying presumptuous silly things on a blog. It’s not hard.
Best to put ‘petrol’ in your question, rather than ‘gas’, though, to save time and confusion for the interwebz fairies, because gas has other meanings that everyone, including Americans, use.
https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/04/11/the-origin-of-gasoline/
The use of the word ‘petrol’ by contrast with ‘gasoline’, has nothing to do with trade names and is simply short for ‘refined petroleum’.
Glad to be of help.
And you’ve got Canada on your side too, so no need to feel too semantically isolated. Maybe more of them know about ‘petrol’, though.
“What is that supposed to mean…a certain type of American?”
Speaks for itself. Look at his question. Who but a brit etc.etc., because he thinks the fact that petrol is called ‘gas’ in the US means anyone anywhere who doesn’t call it what America calls it is weird, not that the US is ‘different’ for calling it ‘gas’.
You wouldn’t have asked that question, SSL, because you’re the type of American that doesn’t think like that. I presume.
And the thing is, SSL, I added ‘a certain type of American so as not to include everyone in it, because I know you’re not all like that.
You might want to think about that when you’re using terms like ‘European’ or ‘Muslim’ or ‘Left’.
For all I know benr might be one of a kind. How good would that be? I mean, I’m willing to bet you would care, if your boys were at a primary school right next to a busy road, with a traffic junction that made the cars stop, idle and start all day long while the kids are playing outside. And the thing is, they’ve found that the pollution (specifically the pollution from the cars, not pollution from the carpets and upholstered furniture the schools don’t have) gets inside the buildings and can be worse inside.
My grandson is at a school like that. It’s right next to the nursery that he went to from the age of three, when his lungs were even less developed. But I didn’t wait till I had a grandson to care about the problem anyway. Because I’m not that type of British person.
And his mum and dad don’t have a car either. Neither of them could afford either a car or driving lessons. But they still get to breathe the air. Because it’s shared, socialist style.
Or as benr would put it, ‘totalitarian’ style.
Yeah it doesn’t matter to me whether one says gas or petrol :-).
Arrest of Julian Assange….
US society now has tot…Ali…Tatian overtones: People buy into the ludicrous MSM, but reject and even hate legitimate journalism, like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Julian Assange, etc., often because banal emotional schadenfreude. They literally identify with their oppressors, like the slaves described in the “Autobiography of Frederick Douglass”. It’s insane…
Just look at the situation with human-driven cars: 95+% of the time they sit there doing nothing but depreciating while taking up space: 6 parking spaces are created for each car in the old civic design handbooks. Even when they are not there they create a vacuum that cannot be filled by anything else, creating a space “no one cares about.”
Gas cars: The unburnt gasoline/oil mix from piston ring-blow-by is solvating the bearing-lubricating engine oil, where the surfactants are trying mightily to halt this process but are quickly overwhelmed. As the gaskets swell and shrink with the rapid temperature differentials, pinhole leaks occur and molecule by molecule dirty engine oil seeps constantly- slower when the engine is stopped, increasingly when its pressurized, the Van der Waal forces relentlessly forcing each oil molecule to frog hop its neighbor, standing on their shoulders, like idiots, waiting for a minimal amount of force driven by the car’s suspension to leap off into the environment.
Imagine all the functions of cars in the life of a city: the cars that deliver the mail, the kids, the commuters, etc. An autonomous car society would require much fewer cars because instead of having each of them utilized 5% of the time, they will be used 95% of the time, collecting all the functionality of multiple, disparate trips in a continuous use model.
Instead of these worthless fine art displays we call cars, wasting 85% of the primary energy of making them work, the autonomous car grid will service the same functions for a whole lot less.
How many autonomous cars a society would need is debatable. The conversion factor doesn’t exist but I’d estimate it to be less than 25% of the size of the current fleet.
The cost savings would be enormous. Quality of life would increase dramatically. Pollution would instantly recede. Noise levels would drop 10 or 20 dB.
Why is the Bolt manufactured at a loss? Don’t be fooled. None of these companies wants to make the next Betamax. Only startups with piles of cash to burn have been making big strides in actual product. But they are all invested. The Bolt is a good example of a product bridge from prototype to practice.
Believe me, the car is dead, it just doesn’t know it yet. Vector all the future events in and the timeline points straight to it. The drag of corporate interference in its ascension is falling away as all these companies are becoming assured of a place in this economy. Just look at the unprecedented amount of cross-branded efforts. Cars long ago ceased to be a single-origin consumer product. Now they are licensing, branding, and patent platforms. The history of networking in auto manufacturing reveals collusion on a scale that Mueller would blush at. They have all worked against it until they see the actual physical barrier approaching- Peak Oil- now they are all positioned to compete to survive in the arena of the autonomous car.
These vehicles will have pedigrees like, the “Mistubishi-Ford-Volvo-Google-Facebook” EV-02… It will deliver for the USPS, Amazon and WalMart…
The big loser will be advertising, because there will be no reason to compete for the end user- their customers will be Logistics and Travel providers, who are, in turn, going to be constantly tossed into the internet’s market of mass consumer offerings. You’ll log on, and get best-price and schedule much like you schedule flights today.
The vehicles themselves will probably stratify into high and low-end models, but the models that won’t be designed to carry humans are the hardest to imagine. The rest will be highly optimized toward use type and environment.
Autobuses in the midwest will deploy as lightweight carriages filled with windows during balmy summer days. During the monsoon season in Oklahoma they will be deployed with hermetic seals and even tracks for pushing mud and debris out of the way.
They’ll alight with twinkly lights and pick up Bill and Melinda Gates, or a come as a low-slung singlet, a pill shaped pod. Amazon and Walmart will comprise a majority of vehicle miles on the road and in the sky. Little drones will be dropping dental floss in people’s yards and the roads will be permanently occupied with a box truck, going somewhere, for some reason. Everyone will eventually just tune them out and stop seeing them, unless some madman is driving one. That will be unnerving. Who is this idiot and what is he going to do?
You’ll get on, be greeted, told when to get on another, which will nearly always be on time, in case the system finds it necessary to connect you with another car on another route for reasons you can’t fathom. It won’t be an inconvenience at all. The car will slow, you’ll get out, there will be cars everywhere moving around but you’ll have no fear since they are 100% safe around people.
Your connecting car will be calling your name, and you’ll see the blinking light, you’ll climb on, and within minutes arrive at your destination, and it will drop you off and leave. You have no depreciation, no need to buy insurance, mess around with registrations..
Everyone’s life will get better.
In 2017, 80 million cars were sold worldwide.
Marv on cars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aATh0-TUMaI
All this arguing about electric vs. gas cars. Remember airplanes, buses, trains, ships all run on oil.
By the year 2100, there will be little recoverable oil. That is coming and a certainty. Transportation will be totally different by then. Electric? Maybe. How the heck are we going to generate enough electrical energy to power up 330+million vehicles by then. The advantage of oil is the amount of chemical energy that is stored in a relatively non-volatile liquid. Real time solar energy is not adequate to get tithe job done. Advocates of renewable energy only just do not understand or do not want to understand that the substitution of real time solar for fossil fuel is impossible without changing the lifestyle of everybody. The Yellow Jackets in France are relating to an increase in price, what if they just couldn’t get the oil.
Again, in fifty years, it is a moot point about fossil fuels, they have a limited lifespan. A solution for transportation, plastics, fertilizer, medicines, farm equipment, will need to be made available. And the way our political system works, it will all be last minute emergency based solutions.
The real problem of GND is that it has no real solutions. It is a group of ideological pipe dreams that will do little to solve the problem of Peak Oil or AGW.
The real solutions are so painful that they are politically impossible until we have no choices.
TLE said the closest we could possibly get is to power everything with electricity generated with nuclear energy and powering hydrogen fuel usage with the energy of the nuclear fuel. Many problems associated with this concept will have to be worked out.
And how are we going to get folks to develop all this technology when the stupidification of America continues from the Left.
Oh, I forgot. We will just buy it from the Chinese.
Along with the required lithium and other rare earths required to fire up the renewable pipedream.
We are at the threshold of a top dog fight. China is pushing EV’s hard. America is insisting on continuing the current paradigm. The wealth that is consumed in transportation is the difference. China knows this. Electing Trump played right into their hands. He will push fossil fuels. He thinks he can win with tariffs. It’s peanuts and aircraft carriers. Clinton would have at least attempted to push green energy in a sea of fossil fuels. Trump is firmly stuck in the past and the numbers are against him. The facts are against him. He cannot win this fight. It is as sure as the tides. China will satisfy their transportation needs with a fraction of the wealth it takes to satisfy ours’. Year after year that number adds up.
benr: Have you looked at the actual pollutants that are created with them solar panels?
No. But I was talking about solar shingles, not solar panels. There are also actual pollutants created in non-renewable energy production, like the costly negative impacts of coal: heavy carbon pollution, strip mining, and mountaintop removal.
Anyway, there is going to be less and less demand for carbon-based fuels. They will stay in the ground as demand for cheaper renewable sources increases. Even solar panel projects can deliver energy at half the cost of coal.
$0.06 … global coal prices per kilowatt-hour (kWh)
$0.05 … fossil fuel steam per kWh
$0.03 … small scale natural gas per kWh
$0.029 … commercial solar (PV) per kWh
https://www.zmescience.com/science/dubai-solar-cheap-55116/
Prices for solar power installations globally are falling and only relatively recently (early 2017) has the United States begun to catch up. The USA will probably remain behind the rest of the world in production of renewable energy, given the advances in the rest of the world that are not happening here. What is the motivation when we have a president who is convinced all that clean energy talk is not necessary… AGW is fake news, a Chinese hoax, he says.
People say that since electric cars don’t work as well in winter lands they should be scrapped. Here’s an idea. Invent a portable heater that runs on propane that hooks onto the HVAC system of a Tesla. That way we can use fossil fuels for what they’re good for, generating heat, and we can use electricity for what it’s good for, moving a large vehicle at high efficiency. Internal combustion engines are 20% efficient. 80% of the energy is wasted. It’s like a coal plant. 20% efficient. 80% of the energy is wasted. Nat gas plants are 60% efficient and electric cars are 90% efficient. Next question.
seawolf77: People say that since electric cars don’t work as well in winter lands they should be scrapped.
That is just a temporary bump in the EV road. Eventually batteries will keep themselves warm, discharging some of its energy to warm itself when it’s cold.
“…scientists are working on solid state batteries that don’t have liquid inside and won’t be so sensitive. But they’re still at the lab stage, so figure five to 10 years before you get to see one in your garage. But by adding some smarts, researchers are figuring out how to make EVs as predictable and drama free as possible to own…”
https://www.wired.com/story/electric-cars-cold-weather-tips/
Pkrugman and Seawolf
Fact checked both posts, good job!
Next problems are:
1. Building enough electricity capability for 330 million cars using renewables. In addition to the increases in non transportation electrical needs.
2. Developing an airplane that runs on electricity.
3. Making an electric car that gets 500 miles on a charge for $20000, so that everyone can afford one. Elon Musk is having a little trouble with this one.
4. Acquiring battery technology that will store electrical energy to fill in nightly and windless times.
5. Acquiring sources of rare earths and lithium to produce 330 million new electric cars, plus support increases in battery needs for other uses, such as computers.
Now a curse upon the tweeting class as Trumpy the Clown channels Butterfly McQueen (Steve’s wet-nurse): Whoa now, jes’ you wait a bless-ed minute he-ah, I don’ know nuthin’ ’bout no Wikileaks… it’s not my deal.
Why, my lovely pinheaded friends, you ain’t seen SHIT yet. Just you wait; hang around long enough and you’ll get just what you’ve asked for! Iz gon’ be a dang klus’erfuk fo’ de AGES; I swan!
Ahhh, the curse of the dark magiks of intertubedness. Ooooo, skeery! Leakin’ o’ the Wiki’s…….. a tradition of the fabled Emerald Isle:
https://youtu.be/6NCKNnJrvOY
And please, tell us whatever happened to the hair here? The head getting bigly from too many burgers, or the hair getting less ample (from too many burgers)?
Behold! The Burger-meister!
Lol lovely pinheaded friends. It’s amazing how quickly the Establishment is swooping down on Assange. The information this man has could destroy them all. So they are panicked. More proof they are shutting down and taking out anyone who exposes them or speaks out or out of line.
Yep, and your ‘King for life’, with his son in waiting to take over (remember that?) didn’t even wait for the cock to crow three times.
WIth friends like that (I luuuuurve Wikileaks…) poor Julian sure doesn’t need any enemies, does he?
The one friend in a position to do something.
Had he have actually lived up to his promises he could have been a king for life. But it wasn’t meant to be. Do you remember after the election how Trump said he didn’t want to do anything to hurt the Clintons? Something tells me that some friends always stick together. Thus possibly this is why Trump seems scared? Assange could sink the swamp for good and that means they all go down. Maybe just maybe…..
Just saw an amply endowed lady walking toward the stage spraying her throat with Chloroseptc.
…..and then they came for me
Yep, that’s how it happens. However, I believe we’ve apologized profusely in advance.
Didn’t the whole wikipdia affair go down way back when George Bush was president?
BRH,
Perhaps, but it’s more likely a mis-underestimating of the encyclopedia thingy. (Don’t ask me which edition/addition it were/were’nt.)
Ok I thought that’s where everything was dumped. My mistake.
Trump backing off Wikileaks like a belly button turnaround. WHOA!!!! “What’s that smell! Can’t you smell that smell? The smell of rotten pussy surrounds you!”
Everything Julian Assange Is Accused of, Explained: <== Rolling Stone
Sumthin funny bout Trump not knowin bout Wiki. Sumthin real funny.
So I go down the streets,
Down to my good friend’s house
I said “Look man I’m outdoors you know,
Can I stay with you maybe a couple days?”
He said “Uh, let me go and ask my wife”
He come out of the house,
I could see it in his face
I know that was no
He said “I don’t know man, ah she kinda funny, you know”
I said “I know, everybody funny, now you funny too”
But Julian doesn’t get No Bourbon No Scotch and No Beer. He might be finding pussy kind of hard to come by too. Trump should care bout that. Trump’s so heartless.
He prevented the coronation of Queen Hillary and now she wants his head on a platter. And for that matter all of her friends do too. The entire swamp indeed! So he will be cut to pieces or he will bring them all down while fighting for his life. Where this goes no one knows.
“Any prosecution by the United States of Mr. Assange for Wikileaks’ publishing operations would be unprecedented and unconstitutional, and would open the door to criminal investigations of other news organizations. Moreover, prosecuting a foreign publisher for violating U.S. secrecy laws would set an especially dangerous precedent for U.S. journalists, who routinely violate foreign secrecy laws to deliver information vital to the public’s interest.”
Ben Wizner – from the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.
You speak of Hillary but that’s a false trail since she a dried up leaf waiting to blow away. No, this is the action of the HarshFarRight!
From a high tower they have the power.
Your “Bad to the Bone”.
Hmmm so you seem to think it is ok to brush aside the crimes of the Clintons. Perhaps this apparent leftist bias is as harsh as the rightwing bias you say is SoFarRight? You don’t imagine that the entire edifice is corrupt though? Whether they present themselves as left or rightwingers. Yes from a high tower they have power. But their power is also very distributed and deliberately placed. And it seems to me that officials from both wings are excited to see Assange go down.
Hi SSL, did you see Mark Steyn tonight? Love the guy.
Here he is on Assange:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8f1GVumAyQ
Poor Assange looks like some frightened old Jew being dragged off by the Nazis, about 4 min. in.
Hey tusconspur! I didn’t see the show when it aired but yes I do think Mark Steyn is great. Poor guy!!! What a travesty. It looks like the Deep State is closing in for the kill. But if he starts talking I think the Deep State is going to be in trouble. At least they will be exposed more than they have been to this point. So he may not be extradited. I guess we will find out.
“Can’t we just drone this guy?”
— Cankles
Yep I remember that!
What does Trump have to do with Assange? The whole Wikileaks drama went down long before Trump was even running for President.
Or is it that everything that happens in the world somehow involves — and is the fault of — Trump.
About a dozen years ago everything was George Bush’s fault, remember that?
Brh
We know that, brh. Trump is simply being called into question for his volte-face regarding Wikileaks, which is fully illustrated in the clip Ozone posted yesterday at 10.11pm.
Consistency? Honesty? Perhaps they are of no consequence. Maybe anything goes and nothing matters. Ask Assange what he thinks, maybe.
And that is a fair question to ask. Trump loved WikiLeaks because of all of the DNC emails being released during the 2016 campaign. Now he doesn’t know anything about WikiLeaks? Potentially something much bigger is happening?
I find it quite frightening, SSL, that someone can say something so blatantly (during the campaign) then deny it so disingenuously the way he did, like a child who’s still got the jam he didn’t eat round his mouth.
Not frightening so much that he can say it, but that it’ll be yesterday’s news within no time – or tomorrow’s fish and chip wrapping, as we say here (from when it really was and not that long ago – although they didn’t go directly on the newspaper!).
Has Mr. Comey spoken to Mr. Assange’s “intent”? Did Mr. Assange believe telling the truth was a crime?
“Only poor dirty people will still be using petrol..”
“all you deranged dirty masses and the idiocracy you follow and listen to.”
Underestimating your opponent is not the key to succes gentlemen.
“gentlemen” – meritocratic sphincter
Actually it is preferable to be underestimated.
That’s what wm5135 said 🙂
Has Mr. Comey spoken to Mr. Assange’s “intent”? – wm5135
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Jesus, how I hate that locution! How the hell did speaking about ever morph into speaking to?